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BEDFORD PA., FBIBAT, SEPT. 15, 1865.
UNION STATE TICKET. ~
rOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
Gen. JOHN F. HABTRANFT, Montgomery.
TOR SURVEYOR GENERAL,
col. JACOB M. CAMPBELL, of Cambria.
UNION COUNTY NOMINATIONS.
FOR TUB LEGISLATURE,
Hon. D. B. ARHNTKOSO, of Bedford eo.
Uen. MONKS A. RONS, of Mneret eo.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
J. T. KEAOY, Esq., of Bedford.
ASSOCJATS JUDGE,
t apt. ADAM WEAVER LING. Bloody Run.
TREASURER,
( apt.; SIMON BHKEBHOOF, Bedford.
COUSTT SURVEYOR,
DAN lEE SAMS, Weet Providence.
JURY COMMISSIONER,
WILLIAM KIRK, St. (lair.
COMMISSIONER,
HENRY J. BKVNF.R. Cumberland Valley.
rOOR DIRECTORS,
JOHN S. MF.TRH K. Syr., M.Wood berry.
I.EONARB RITNER, 2 yrs., Juniata.
AUDITOR,
JAMES ALLISON, Napier.
CORONER.
Capt. AMOS ROBINETT, Southampton
SOLDIERS READ.
We must say, that laying aside all political
prejudices we are opposed to theprLctpleofal
lowing men to vote, out of the State on any
pretext whatever. We believe in the doctrines
of our earliest statesmen: that a standing ar
my is dangerous to a renubHc. AND FUR
THER BELIEVE THAT GIVING SOL
DIERS THE POWER TO VOTE ONLY
DOUBLES THE DANGER.— Gazette
Jan. 22, 1864. .
*16,000.
ISP" Tax-payers of Bedford county recol
lect that the Democratic party has run the
political machinery of Bedford county for
the last ten years, and they have run it into
debt to the tune of SIXTEEN THOU
SAND DOLLARS. Thongh annual set
tlements are made, and the result published,
we, a few weeks ago, were tbe first to give
you light upon the subject Pause before
you cast your votes to continue such a party
in power.
ASSESS THE SOLDIERS ! ASSESS THE
CIVILIANS I!
See that the soldiers in tbe field and
those at home are assessed at once. The
election takes place on the 10th day of
October and you cannot be ready for it at
too early a moment See to it that every
Union voter is properly assessed before it
is too late!
THE TWO TICKETS.
Of course it will not be expected of us, in
a single review of the candidates placed in
nomination before the people, by both par
ties, to enter into a minute analysis of tbe
peculiarities of each individual, but only to
make a general resume and toucli upon the
salient characteristics of a few. In this
broad and liberal sense, we naturally turn
first to the action of the two great conven
tions which recently met at our State Capi
xol, for the purpose of putting in nomina
tion candidates to be supported by the peo
ple at the coming October Election. The
men thus submitted to the ehoiee and judg
ment of the people have become common
property, and as we are at liberty to discuss
the principles embodied in the respective
platforms, so are we permitted to examine
the character and scrutinize the merits of
the different standard bearers selected for
the contest. It wotdd seem that the pseu
do-Democratic Convention instinctively fol
lowed the example set by the Union men,
and adopted as their choice, two persons
who had served in the present war, and to
exhibit their purblind, servile imitation qf
their opponents, in a degree almost border
ing on the ridiculous, selected men from the
same counties, and one of them from the
same Regiment. So far our enemies had
succeeded in making out a prim a facie case.
Bnt when the candid observer of the last
four years' events, began to reflect upon the
conduct of the men composing this organi
zation during the entire period of the war,
of the countenance given by them to seces
sion, their declaration that coercion was un
constitutional, their resistance to the draft,
their denunciation of the war, and their
wholesale abuse of the soldiers, the defend
ers of their country, denominating them
"hired Hessians," "cut throats," and other
opprobrious epithets, we say when all this
was seen, the hypocritical action of these
demagogical charlatans vanished like gossa
mer, and this ill-fated ideal creation fell still
-1 'orn upon the country. Not only was the
expedient of chosing soldiers of doubtful
propriety, but the particular selection was
in itself fataL Let us see. CoL Davis
fashioned after his prototype Jeff. Davis,
and whom many;f "nWiIM demmv
racy of Berks and Schuyllall counties believe
to be the arch-conspirator of the Rebellion,
left tbe service because his insatiate ambi
tion was not gratified by the War Depart
ment, and ever since that time has been en
gaged in the dissemination of Copperhead
literature in the eastern part of our State,
being the editor of a rank, foul-mouthed or
gan which opposed the extension of the
right of suffrage to the soldier and has nev
er ceased to vilfify the government. On the
other hand the Union party present the
name of a true and tried veteran, Miy. Gen.
JohnF. Hartranft, whose praises fill the
mouth of the nation, and the splendor of
whose deeds will shine brightly on the page
of history. But it was not our intention to
dwell upon the persons named above, but to
draw a hasty sketch of a few of those
named in connection with the county offices.
The Democracy of our county, in their ea
ger greed for the spoils, and impelled by the
clamor of impatient office-seekers, held their
nominating Convention previous to that of
the Union party, and, as before intimated,
they prooeed by instinct alone, they were un.
able !n this instahce to pattern after us. They
therefore very naturally failed to place sol
diers upon their ticket, save two, neither of
whom served a full year in the war, hat be
stowed their favours to old hangers-on of the
party, whose sole recommendation is their
fe, the "loa- \and fishes."
The Union men, true to thoir and
their professions, very appropriate reoog
nized the claims of our brave be jjpUby des
ignating no less than six of tknJwDS worthy
of their support at the ensuing election. And '
who are these men? First we have Hon. i
D. B. Armstrong for the Legislature, who
entered the service as a private and by his
gallantry was promoted to a Lieutenancy.
So badly were beaten in the
last campaign, that their friends dared not
i name them again, in that connection, but in
their extremity undertook the hopeless ex
periment of sending two ex-Know-Nothings
to the Legislature. But they will fail again,
notwithstanding all their "work of labor and
of love."
For District Attorney we have flung to
the breeze the name of John T. Keagy, a
gallant soldier, who was severely wounded
at the battle of Fair Oaks. He deserves
the support of every comrade in arms thro'-
out the County. His competitor has filled
the office for three years, with what success
we leave for those acquainted with the facts
to judge. If one speech in three years, the
writing of half dozen colnms of doggerel for
a fifth class newspaper, and unblushing hes
itation in the trial of a great cause, are re
commendations to popular favor, we com
mend him to the generous sympathy of his
blind adherents. Of Capt. Adam Weaver
ling, we have already expressed our views
in another article. If his opponent, lured
by the prospect of advancement, is willing
' to sacrifice his manhood and his better feel
ings, we are content.
Against Captain Simon Dickerhoof, no
word of detraction can be said. He served
his country long and well, and never quailed
beneath the murderous fire of treason's co
horts. The gallant men of the noble 138 th,
who for three long years followed, with him
the lurid gleam of the flaming war path, and
beheld many a brother mingle his patriot
blood with the ensanguined field, will not
forget, their old commander. But what
shall we say of him who dreaded the con
scription worse than a devouring angel, and
who in deep tribulation concluded rather to
suffer the relentless pangs of the hemor
rhoids induced by a free use of a stomachic
purgative known as aloes, than to en
counter the leaden hail of the enemy. Poor
man! he can never obtain a pension, for he
was not wounded in the line of his duty.
Space forbids us to canvass further this sub
ject, but we may at no distant day advert to
it again.
"WHY PERSECUTEST THOU ME?"
We had intended to leave the case of the
Reeds to the judicial tribunals where it be-1
longs without another word of comment, but
the course of the Gazette renders that im
possible. The arrest of Mengel Reed for
treason, and his probable trial before the
U. S. District Court leaves the subject free
from embarrassment on his account, at least.
The Gazette vainly seeks to excite sympathy
for the accused by raising the cry of perse
cution. Mr. Cessna is persecuting him, for
sooth ! Did Mr. Cessna advise the wretch
ed young man to abandon his home, and
desert his neighbors at the time their very
hearthstones were threatened with invasion?
Is Mr. Cessna to be blamed Wne bo,
perverted and deluded by the teachings of
Copperheads, committed the highest crime
known to the laws of his country? On the
contrary, had he heeded the warnings and
listened to the patriotic counsels of Mr.
Cessna, his situation to-day would be far
different.
But the Gazette says he went into the
rebel army unwillingly. That is just what
a jury of his countrymen will investigate and
| determine. The truth is the Copperheads
of this community were wild in their sympa
thy for the rebel cause. They mourned at
our victories, and exulted at rebel triumphs;
they prophesied and prayed for the fina
success of the enemies of the Union. This
young man went into the Confederate army
because his friends taught him to believe
the cause was just, and he is less guilty than
they. But he and they now seek by a mis
erable falsehood to evade the consequences
of his act
Mr. Cessna needs no defense for his part
in this matter. He is abundantly able to
take care of himself. He simply represents
the insulted majesty of the law. It is a
mockery to say that either the general gov
ernment or the commonwealth can be repre
sented by the present District Attorney.
He possesses neither the ability nor the dis
position to discharge bis duty towards his
country in the premises. It is notorious
that he is now and has always been a rebel
sympathizer, and his passions and prejudi
ces alike influence him. Instead of joining
in this ridiculous clamor about persecution,
the friends of good order, of peace, of law,
of Union, will thank Mr. Cessna for his con
duct Instead of abusing him, they will do
justice to the manly spirit which prompts
him to the discharge of his duty to his ooun
try in this case, without fear, fevor, or hope
of reward. The Copperheads are rancorous
against him because he possesses courage,
ability and patriotism, qualities whieh they
A FAIR OF DAVISES.
The Democracy claim that Davis, their
candidate for Auditor General, was in the
Mexican war. So was the other Davis who
is now awaiting trial for treason. True the
Democratic candidate went forth and fought
against rebellion for a while, but at the
same time had a paper published at home
opposing the war, and returned home him
[ self to take charge of it before the close of
the war and to oppose with all his power the
causa for which he had been fighting.
V, hat are the principles of the man who de
nounces the cause in which he himself is
fighting. Has be any principles? He is
just the man to stand upon the platform of
a party, whose name is indissolubly associ
ated with treason, rebellion and civil war
under whose ascendency rebellion was con
ceived, matured, and ripened, by whose
chiefs it was directed, by whose politicians
it was excused, defended and declared tri.
umphant, whose organs, orators and con
ventions to-day uphold, defend and justify
the false and pernicious theories from which
rebellion sprung.
Iffi- The soldiers are very anxious to get
a peep at those Copperhead badges worn
by the candidate for District Attorney and
the editor of the Gazette. Give us a chance
to put them on exibition, and oblige those
whom you love so much. Don't keep the
soldiers in suspense. Put 'em out t
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JEff. DAVIS is suffering with erysipelas
and carbuncles on his leg. He is now per
mitted to write to his wife
TREASON.
The Gazette mocks at the arrest of Men
gel Reed for treason. The very thought of
it seems to afford the editor infinite menv
ment. Perhaps there is some other word in
his vocabulary that will more fittingly define
the deed. Perhaps the editor can invent
some 'euphonism, some soft and candied
phrase that will be more pleasing to the ears
of his Copperhead readers. For our part,
for want of a term that will more nearly
describe this last act, this duplicate crime
against state and nation, we shall call it
treason, most foul, black and damnable.
Taking all these circumstances together the
annals of this war will be searched in vain
for a deed of equal turpitude. There may
be palliation for a Southern man ; for this
individual there is no excuse. At the very
time when his own state was invaded; in
the hour of public gloom and dismay, when
his neighbors awaited in dread the coming
of the foe; when the rough riders of Jenk
ins were within a days march of his town,
he stole away and joined the enemy, and
was caught with arms in his hands, stained
perhaps with the blood of his fellow coun
trymen, on the field of Gettysburg.
This is the charge, and there is a cloud
of witnesses to make it good, for within the
lines of the enemy at McConnellsburg the
young man made no concealment of his pur
poses. Even the rebel General was shock
ed at this manifestation of turpitude, and
advised him and his comrade to go home.
The latter never denied that he volunteered.
This deed may be called merely a youth
ful escapade, the "spree" of an inconsider
ate, hot-headed youth. It exhibited a mal
ice altogether too deliberate and cool to ad
mit of that excuse. Besides, the times are
too stern and* real to allow such fooling.
While thousands, of our bravest youth gave
up their lives for their country on the field of
battle, it will not do to say that this young
man joined the enemy merely for a frolic.
To do so, would be to belittle them and the
sacred cause for which they died. It would
even belittle him; but we are not concerned
about that
The truth is, this young man simply redu
ced to practice the traitorous teachings of
his Copperhead friends. The poison they
daily voided on the streets of Bedford pro
duced its legitimate effects. We believe the
charges against him are true, and if convic
ted, we hope he will be punished in away
that will make him a warning to perfidious
traitors for all time to come. The case is
not one for pardon.
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF THE BARN
BURNER.
For the purpose of reminding our Copper
head friends of the fact that men burned
the barns of Union men in this county be
cause they sustained the Government, we
print the following notice, verbatim , which
was prepared by the Copperheads of St.
Clair and Napier, and stuck up on a tree
near Jerry Gordon's barn to warn officers
| uf the Government ugainmt doing their duty:
Notice
to all the inhabitants of this Commonwealth
that the people will not submit to this Con
script ana those that take it on themselves
enroll may Look out as the People will en
roll them with Cold Lead this war must be
stopt and some other plan taken this Ad
ministration must extend the Right of Suf
frage to Every State and Man and then Ev
ery Body will fight and not until then now
the man that nas the Least Nigger and
Wool in him will say the least about this
Notice and will obey it the most Yours Tru
ly and Sincerely
It will be remembered that Jerry Gor
don's barn was burned, and whilst thus
burning this notice was pulled from a tree
and read by the astonished inhabitants.
Mr. Gordon had been appointed enrolling
officer a few days previous and the Copper
heads under the darkness of night sought
to intimidate him by burning his barn.
These fellows have changed since then.
They demanded that "This (Lincoln's) ad
ministration must extend the right of suf
frage to every State and man and then EVE
RY BODY WILL FIGHT." Now they ap
pear to think that the right of suffrage
should not be extended to every man. Re
collect that the men who burned these barns
are to a man Copperheads to-day! How
can any soldier affiliate with such men?
REPUDIATION OF THE NATIONAL
DEBT,
The first speaker who addressed the Cop
perhead meeting on last Monday night a
week ago,;declared that he was in favor of
the repudiation of the national debt This
is the true position of the Copperhead par
ty. This fellow was slightly in advance of
the rest of the speakers, but beyond ques
tion he expressed the sentiments of the
party. The Southern States will unques.
tionably, oppose the payment of the public
debt, and for the purpose of securing an alli
ance with the dominant Southern-party, the
Ooppovhoads will do anything. Yes, after
they succeed they tviU not only repudiate the
national debt BUT WILL REPEAL THE PEN
SION LAWS AND ASSUME THE PAYMENT
OF THE SOUTHERN DEBT. Pen
sioners and bond-holders can you vote the
I Copperhead ticket?
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS.
Much a# the Democracy may profess love
for the soldiers, loyalty and devotion to the
country, and a desire to accept the condi
tion of things left by the rebellion, they
are continually, by their action, giving the
lie to their profession. They plead for Jeff.
Davis, they call the trial and execution of
assassins, murder, they demand that the
states lately in rebellion shall be permitted
to return to Congress and take part in the
Government of the country in such way
and manner as they shall choose. That
rebels, traitors, murderers, and assassins
shall be permitted to go free, or to be tried
by a oourt and jury of their companions in
crime. Nay they even cling to their old
leaders, who blushed not, to the last hours of
the rebellion, to plead its cause or justify its
crime. Thus the Philadelphia Ledger says:
"Vallandigh&m is engineering the Demo
cratic party in Ohio. The leaders of the
Ohio Democracy seem determined to kill the
party, and they could not put the power into
the hands of anv man who can so successful
ly aocompliah that purpose as Vallaudiir
ham. The rebuke he got at the last Gu
bernatorial election ought to have been a
lesson to the party and to him. The people
who have just put down rebellion are not
prepared to accept its known advocates as
their future leaders."
NO SUBJUGATION BUT SEP VRA
TION.
The Copperhead candidate for District
Attorney, John Palmer, in a speech at St.
Clairsville, on the occasion of a presentation
of a flag by the Copperheads of Bedford
Borough to the Barnburners of of St Clair
township, on the 23d of April, 1864, gave
utterance to the following sentiments which
we dip from a report., by a reverend gentle
man, in the Bedford INQUIRER under date
of April 29, of the same year, and as the
report was never contradicted, we give it as
it then appeared :
Among the many things said, he adverted
to Long s secession speech in Congress,
a few weeks ago. He said he endorsed the
speech, and Mr. Long's position; and would
also say, rather than to have the South sub
jugated, he would go in for separation.
Soldiers and war Democrats, can you vote
for the man who was opposed to subjugation
and in favor of separation ? We think not
WHAT BECAME OF THE PRE
MIUMS T
There was a considerable amount of gold,
silver and demand notes paid into the coun
ty treasury during the first two years of the
rebellion, and it was there,when there was a
considerable premium on Ihetn. What was
done with the premium ? We know it was
sold. We find no account in th* treasurers
report Why is it ? Let us have an ac
count of its appropriation. When people
are crying about taxes let us know where
the money goes.
BOUNTY CHECKS I
The Commissioners pay sir per cent on
these checks from the 16th f November,
1863, when does the interest stop? We
have seen these checks paid vithout endors
ing the amount of interest paid the payee
upon the back of the draft, or noting the
date of payment. How does the iTeasurer
know to what date to compute the interest?
The Copperheads have so long filled their
pockets from the Treasury that it is time
that we were looking after these things.
Come let us know whether there ain't a nice
swindle in this matter of interest?
B®The Gazette appears to think it an
awful thing that $24,000 bounty was given
by Bedford county to raise soldiers to fill a
quota while Middle Woodberry, South
Woodberry, Colerain, and Broad Top each
paid almost that amount. Yea, if we be
lieve the editor's statement he paid the
one twenty-fourth part of that sum to avoid
the draft himself. Soldiers, what do you
think of the party that raises an ado over
the paltry fifty dollars bounty paid your fam
iles while you were risking your lives?
Shame! shame!!
iSf We notice by the last Gazette that
the Skedaddlers, Skulkers, Bounty Jump
ers, Barnburners and Copperheads generally
are going to hold a Mass Meeting at Schells
burg on to-morrow. What a beautiful mess
there will be in attendance. We wish some
of our friends would send us a list of Ske
daddlers on hand for publication. We will
waffer m new hat that they cannot organize
their meeting without drawing heavily upon
the above classes.
Mengel Reed, who was arrested immedi
ately after his discharge, for treason, on the
oath of a brother of Croupe, and carried to
Pittsburgh, has returned io Bedford, hav
ing been released. — Rolidaysburg Stand
ard.
Not exactly released, friend Traugb. He
was returned here in cxsfc dy of the Deputy
Marshal to give testimony in case of his
brother. He was lodged in jail and the
sheriff's receipt taken for him until the 21st
inst., when he will have a preliminary hear
ing at Pittsburgh.
Soldiers remember that every man
on the Copperhead ticket voted to disfran
chise you. One, the candidate for District
Attorney, sported a Copperhead badge.
Can you vote for them ? Answer at the
ballot box.
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REMEMBER, Soldiers, that every ballot
cast against your right to vote was deposited
by Democrats. And remember, also, that
every ticket against the Amendment was
printed in a Democratic printing-office.
QUEER CONSISTENCY.
The New York Evening Post of Sept. Ist
thus sums up the inconsistencies of the
Democratic Convention in New Jersey.
The application can be made in the same
words to the Democratic Platform adopted
at Harrisburg.
The New Jersey convention, to which we
referred yesterday, passed some sixteen res
olutions, in which they condemned the war,
but praised the soldiers who carried it on ;
condemned the administration, but approv
ed the poliey of the President, who is the
head of the administration ; denounced the
increase of the national debt, and proposed
to add several hundred millions to the
amount of that debt; maintained the nation
al honor and faith and advised the taxing of
the national bonds; sorted the rights of
the states alone to decide the question of
suffrage, and yet tried to make that question
an issue of general or federal politics.
Truly the blindness, and infatuation of
the men, who can swallow as gospel such a
bundle of contradictions as Democratic
platforms are made up of now a days, is past
all hope of redemption, until a new, more
intelligent and less credulous generation
shall be reared up to take their places.
INCREASE OF CRlME.—There never was
a time in the history of this country when
so many crimes were daily chronicled as at
the present time. No one can read the dai
ly papers without being shocked with the sad
details there presented. Crime no longer
conceals itself under the darkness of night,
but stalks forth with bold front under, the
blazing light of day.— Delaware County
Republican.
We are not in the least surprised, nor
"shocked, ' and who should be ? when such
eminent moralists as Mr. WALTER will pub
lish justificatory articles of the highest
crime in the decalogue. We allude to a cor
respondence from this place on the Crouse
murder. If moralists will publish justifica
tions of crime, they certainly ought not to
be "shocked ' when crime strides on.
• J^. n , e ? r0 mass m eeting was recently held
in Alabama. About 2,000 former slaves
were present Gen. Fisk told them they
should have justioe and fhirplay, but other
wise they must "work out their own salva
tion.
IN the Alabama Legislature, a project to
pension the surviving maimed soldiers of
the State who served in the Confederate
army will be submitted.
OUR LEGISLATIVE TICKET.
The Union men of Fulton county held
their County Nominating Convention on
Monday of last week, the 4th instant, and
among other resolutions unanimously adop
ted was the following:
Resolved, That the course of our State
Senator, Hon. George W. Householder, and
our late Representatives, Messrs. Ross and
Armstrong, meets our entire approval; and
we herebv renominate for Members of As
sembly Moses A. Ross, Esq., of Somerset
and Lieut. David B. Armstrong, of Beiford,
and waive, so far as Fulton county is con
cerned, a Legislative Conference.
The Union Convention of Bedford and
Somerset counties having unanimously de
clared in favor of the nomination of Messrs.
Ross and Armstrong this action of the Con
vention in Fulton county, renders the nomi
nation of these gentlemen complete without
the formality of holding a district conference.
All that now remains to be done, is to pro
cure a good turn-out of the Union men of
the district at the polls, and we will return
these faithful representatives to Harrisburg,
with such an emphatic majority as will mark
our approbation of their former services.—
Somerset Herald and Whjg.
REDUCTION OF THE STATE DEBT.
Gov. Ourtin has issued a proclamation
announcing the extinguishment of $745,811
26 of the debt of Pennsylvania. This is a
heavier reduction than has ever before been
made in a single year. It is most creditable
to the administration, especially as it was
made during a period when the expenses of
the State were unusually heavy. On the
Ist of December, 1864, the debt of Pennsyl
vania $39,379,603; but the State held bonds
of the Pennsylvania and Erie Railroad Com
panies to the amount of $10,300,000, so that
the actual debt was but $29,079,603. _ De
duet from this the amount just extinguished
and we have the present actual debt of the
State only $28,333,792. It is probable that
next year the reduction will be a full million,
and the following years still more. — Berks oc
Schuylkill Journal. __
PARTY NAMES IN THE SOUTH.
A Richmond correspondent says that the
old party names of "Whig" and' Demo
crat' 1 are being revived in the South with
very significant meaning. When a man says
there that he is a Democrat he is at once
understood to have been a traitor and still a
secessionist at heart; when the name Whig
is applied the person to whom it is applied
is undt rstood to be a Unionist, who resisted
secession. The Whig party of the South
always was a Union party, while the Demo
cratic leaders there plotted for thirty years
to destroy the Union, and finally succeeded
in plunging the country into a terrible war.
The name should be buried with the great
crimes it inaugurated.— Berks & Schuylkill
Journal. r -
Democratic Platforms,
The so-called Democratic platforms
abound with earnest professions of regard
for "State rights" and denunciations of mil
itary commissions. The practical meaning
of the first of these declarations, as applied
to the present position of national affairs, is
that they wish the slave States to be permit
ted to re-establish slavery under some new
name, so that the negroes may be as much
oppressed hereafter as before the war; and
of" th% second, that they wish swindling con
tractors, conspirators, and the wretches who
condemned our unfortunate prisoners to the
fatal tortures of Andersonvifle and Libby to
escape unwhipt of justice. They heap con
demnation ujwn the men who rescued the
nation from traitorous attacks, and reserve
an aoundance of sympathy for Secessionists
who commenced "the war. They delight
in prating of the Constitution as an instru
ment that incidentally confers certain sacred
privileges upon all its faithful citizens, and
for the enforcement of a class that they
think might shield Jefferson Davis or Wirz
they make a loud outcry, but they are full
of virtuous indignation against the men
whose patriotic exertions saved the Consti
tution as a whole for the benefit of a great
people, and rescued the Government from a
fearful and gigantic assault.
HARD ON DEMOCRACY. —Harper's Week
ly, which was one of the strongest defenders
of democracy before the Rebellion, speaks
thus harshly but truthfully of the corrupt
thing. It says, "The national prestige of
the Democratic name is gone. The name of
Democracy is indissolubly associated with
treason, rebellion, and civil war. Under
Democratic ascendency the conspiracy was
conceived and matured. Under a Demo
cratic Administration it ripened. By Demo
cratic chiefs it was directed. By Democratic
politicians it was defended and excused. By
a Democratic Convention it was declared
triumphant. By Democratic organs and
orators, as far as they dare, the theories from
which the rebellion sprung are still justified.
The Democratic party has forced its best
men from its ranks. It has prostituted a
noble name to the basest purpose. _ At some
time that name may become again respec
table, but for the present. American people
have had quite enough of ' the Democracy.''
—Berks a-Schuylku! Journal.
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SENATOR SHERMAN, of Ohio, made a
speech last week, at Ravenna. As to the
Democratic cry for the taxation of U. S.
Bonds, the Senator (who is Chairman of the
Senate's Finance Committee )said that such a
tax cannot be laid upon the bonds by States
and municipalities without reversing the
often reaffirmed decisions of the Supreme
Court, and affecting the Constitutional pow
er of tne Government to borrow money on
the credit of the United States. He regards
the proviso in the loan laws exempting the
bonas from State and municipal taxation, as
no more than a notification to the holders'of
their legal rights, and that no such tax could
have been levied by States, even had the
Siroviso not been inserted. In this opinion,
ollow the decisions of the Supreme Court,
and the reasoning of Chief Justice Marshall.
—Berks & Schuylkill Journal.
IT SHOULD not be forgotten that the
Democracy of the North is now, as it has al
ways been, the fast friend and faithful ally
of Human Slavery. It would re-establish
Slavery to-morrow ; if it could, and make it
a national institution. Is the proof asked
for? We cite the fact that not a single
Democratic Convention in a Northern State
has approved the Constitutional Amend
ment abolishing Slavery, and we cite also
the fact that the only three loyal States—
Delaware, New Jersey and Kentucky—
which have positively refused to ratify that
Amendment, are governed by Democrats.
Put the Northern Democracy and their
Southern friends in possession of the Feder
al Government, ana Slavery would be re
established right off.— Johnstown Tribune.
The Rights of Colored Men in Virginia.
The Alexandria (Ya.) Journal says:—"ln
the County Court of this county, recently,
it was decided, in accordance with the Bth
section of the of Bights, that colored
men are entitled, in all capital or criminal
prosecutions, to a trial by jury. The 6th
section of the Bill of Rights gives to colored
men the right to vote and reads as follows:
"That all elections ought to be free, and
that all men giving sufficient evidence of
common interest with and attachment to the
community have the right of suffrage, and
cannot be taxed or deprived of their proper
ty for public use without their own consent
or that of their representatives so elected, nor
bound by any law to which they have not in
like manner assented for the public good.
Oil. NEWS.
The present amount of daily production
)f the Venango Oil Region, we should esti
mate at not less than 8,000 barrels. In
May, 1862. the daily production was 5.717
barrels. At tjate present rate of striking
good wells, another month or so will find a
with a daily production of prooably not lew
than 10,000 barrels.— Oil City Reguter.
The rithole & Oil City railroad is prog
reasing finely. Between four and five hun
dred hands areengagad on it, and a consid
erable distance is already finished and ready
for the iron. The road will be finished from
the United States well to the mouth oi
Pithoie, a distance of six miles, in ninety
days from its commencement.
A new well was struck on Tarr Farm thif
week. It is about three rods east of Clark
& Summer's office. It is pumping from
seventy-five to one hundred barrels and im
proving. It is called the Palmer well. The
well known as the Hickory well, adjoining
the Palmer well, which has produced no oi
for the last ten months, revived and is now
pumping seventy-five barrels, and increas
ing rapidly.— Titusvillc Herald.
We learn that a good vein of oil was struck
in Lyon. Shorb & Co's. well on Brush Run.
This will prove cheerful news to those whe
have secured oil sites on that stream and en
courage others to commence boring imme
diately.— Clarion Banner.
Hilgers Petroleum Recorder has the fol
lowing information in regard to new oil
strikes: \ ,
On Wednesday last another one hundred
and fifty barrel well was struck on Benne
hoff run. This is the seventh flowing we I
on the same run, all belonging to the Benne
koff Run Petroleum Company of New York.
The total product of all tnese wells exceeds
eleven hundred barrels per day.
The new well on the Egbert farm is now
yielding from sixty to seventy barrels pei
day, and improving.
The new well on the Stowell farm, having
been retubed, is now flowing about one hun
dred barrels per day.
A well has been struck on Sugar creek, o:
the middle branch, two miles above Coop
erstown, which yields twenty barrels per daj
of the best lubricating oil, and is constantly
increasing, this well is called the Colone
Castle well, named after its principal owner
is down five hundred and ninety feet, and be
cause of the density of oil, and favorable lo
cality for shipment of its product, entitles ii
to be classed among the best wells in th<
"Petroleum Valley?'
A dispatch from the Shaffer farm state:
that a well owned by the Renssalaer Oi
Company of Troy, Situated on Hemlock
run, near Bull run, commenced pumpinj
with a good show of oil, and with favorabh
indications of its terminating in a flowim
well.
Last Tuesday the Engineer Well No. 1
on the Rickets farm, Cherry Run, struck ;
fine vein of oil and gas at a depth of fiv<
hundred and fifty feet.
FROM THE KANAWHA OIL REGION.
On last Tuesday morning a strike wa.
made on Burning Spring Run by Ruff A
Harled, of Westmoreland county. Pa. Thi
is a flowing well, and it is believed, will provi
equal to the celebrated Lewellen well. Whei
it commenced to flow, the yield of one hou;
was estimated at fifty barrels. On Saturda;
morning oil was also struck in a well oi
French Creek and Newell's Run Mininj
Company, and yields twenty barrels per day
Mansfield & Co., of Steubenvill, hav
struck a vein of oil. at their borings on Thir
teen mile creek, Putnam county, West Vir
ginia. This well continues to flow one hun
dred barrels per day. Harney & Co., hav
also been successful in striking a fine vein
on Eighteen mile crook, name cpuntry.
Measures are now on foot to establish ai
oil exchange at Parkersburg.
OFFICIAL FRAUDS.
Ohio State Treasurer a Defaulter—He
is Arrested, and his Office Declarei
Vacant—Movements of the Europeai
Capitalists.
CINCINNATI, September 12. —G. Volne;
Dorsey. Treasurer of the State, was arrestet
last night at Columbus, on a warrant issuei
by Governor Anderson, charged with bread
of trust and embezzlement. Mr. Dorse;
gave bail in the sum of $600,000. the:
amount fixed by law. The warrant charge:
him with ]oaniogsso,oooto a banking hous<
at Columbus.
The Governer has issued a prodamatioi
declairing the office of Treasurer of the Stat<
vacant. The delegation of European capita
lists arrived here last night. A grand Dan
quet is to be given this evening.
FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
NEW YORK, September 12. —ABeaufor
(N. C.) letter ©f September 9, states tha
not a single house can be had in Newbern
and warns Northerners, who intended emi
grating there to be prepared accordingly.
The lack of mechanics, sawmills, and buil
ding, materials, combined with the refusa
of property holders who have been identifiec
with the Rebellion to sell any of the thou
sands of acres of timber land within sight oi
Newbern, prevent any progress in building
by enterprising persons; and itis proposed
that mass metings be held at Newbern, Beau
fort and Washington, todemand the enforce
mentof the Confiscation act, if thisproscrip
tive policy is not abandoned.
A Chamber of Commerce is about beinf
organized in Newbern.
A Raleigh letter of September 8, says th<
colored people will hold a State Conventior
on the 29th of September, and have invitet
ex-Secretary Chase, Horace Greeley, Benja
min Butler, Henry Wilson, C. Summer, G
Smith, Thaddeus Stevens, and others to bt
present The Convention will consider th<
propriety of asking for the elective franchiw
which they enjoyed prior to 1830.
The Great Indian Council.
FORT SMITH, Arkansas, September 10.—
The Indian Council was yesterday oocupiec
in reading the stipulations to be imposed
by the Government upon all treaties in th<
Southwest.
These stipulations propose a grand con
federation of all the tribes into one, the ua
tional territory of which shall be the present
Indian Territory, and such other as the
Government may decide upon. The tribe.-
now in Kansas to be removed south.
The southwestern tribes will be expected
to compel the Indians of the plains to ob
serve their treaties. The Indians now hert
say they understand they were called to meet
the late rebel tribes and renew friendly re
lations with them, and not to make new
treaties, which they say they are unwilling
and unauthorized to do. The loyal tribes are
now here, and the others are expected soon.
FORT SMITH, September 11. —Replies
were made to-day by the delegations present
to the propositions presented to them on
Saturday. All speak favorably of the poli
cy of the Government, and appear anxious
to renew friendly relations with it, and many
of them promise their aid in bringing the
hostile Indians of the plains to terms.
A message arrived to-day from the coun
cil in session at Armstrong's Academy, by the
Cherokees and Choctaws, stating that their
delegates will arrive on Friday.
THE people of South Carolina are actively
engaged in the adoption of preliminary meas
ares to secure a full representation in the
State Convention to assemble next month.
The Union basis of reconstruction is the most
popular.
A CONVENTION of colored people is to as
semble at Raliegh. N. C., to consider the con
dition and prospects of the race under the
new order of things.
ROBERT E. LEE has consented to accept the
Presidency of Washington College, which,
next to William and Mary, is the oldest insti
tution of learning in Virginia.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Pacific Railroad is completed 50 miles
from Sacramento, making the entire distance
constructed since January, 24 miles. Four
thousand laborers are employed, and the num
ber is being constantly increased.
An immense coal field has been discovered
at Redwood Falls, 20 miles from Fort Ridley.
Minn.
Gen. Grant has written a letter to Assistant
Secretary Dana, deprecating the assaults be
ing made on Gen. Hunter, and indorsing his
West Virginia Campaign.
A lady in Philadelphia was thrown violent
ly backward out of a buggy, ana would doubt
less have been killed, had not her waterfall
protected her head from the concussion with
the pavement.
A beautiful and accomplished young lady,
daughter of James McGregor, Esq., Presi
dent of the State Bank in Boston, was pistol
firing at a target in New-Hampton, when a
pistol in the hands of a companion was acci
dentally discharged, the bullet entering her
brain. She exclaimed, "Oh. God!" and fell
a corpse.
A lady in Malta, HL, while npon a load of
hay with a pitchfork in her hands, was
thrown off, striking upon the tines of the
fork in such away that one of them passed
through her body, the end coming- out at
her back. She was alive a week after the ac
cident.
A box was shipped from Fortress Monroe,
August 2-5, to New-York. It was said to con
tain tools, but was found, upon reaching New
York, to contain a corpse.
Large fields of cotton are growing in Cali
fornia. The State offers a bounty of $3,000
for the first 100 acres of cotton —also $3,000
for the first 100 bales of 300 pounds each.
Over SIOO,OOO is donated by the State for the
encouragement of agriculture, in the raising
of various products.
The niinois State Agricultural Fair com
menced at Chicago on the 4th inst. The
New England Agricultural Fair opened at
Concord, New Hampshire, on the sth.
Wirz has furnished his counsel with docu
mentary evidence to prove that in establish
ing the dead line in the prison pen he acted in
accordance with orders.
At Winona, Wisconsin, Gen. Grant deliv
ered what is supposed to be his longest speech
on record, containing 53 words.
Horace Greeley is to deliver the annual ad
dress at the Minnessota State Fair, at Minne
apolis, the last week in September. His sub
ject will probably be "The Eradication of
Weeds."
The evidence against Wirz of Sergeant Bos
ton Corbett, who shot Booth, will be rejected
by the Court, on the ground that Corbett is a
monomaniac on the subject of Rebel cruel
ties.
In Idaho Territory greenbacks are taken
I for gold dust at par.
I The records of the Andersonville prison,
which were secured, have recently mysteri
| onsly disappeared, and a quartermasters
Clerk is now under arrest on suspicion of
knowing what has become of them.
At Wilson's Gulch, Idaho Territory, a nug
get of gold was found which is valued at more
than $2,000.
Snow fell at the White Mountains last
week.
In Idaho Territory, near Pricklv Pear City,
more or less gold is found in every stream,
dry gulch and bar throughout the country.
There are now in existence 1,457 oil com
panies, with a total capital of $869,584,000.
In 1860 the amount of beer sold in the Uni
ted States was 8,000,000 barrels. In 1864
the quantity used had increased to 24,000,000
barrels, or nearly a barrels apiece for every
body.
In a Chicago Street car, a pale but pretty
young woman gave up her seat to a one-legged
soldier, who proved to be her husband, long
mourned as dead.
A young lady recently died in a few hours
after witnessing a butcher killing a lamb.
Gov. Henry, of Washington Territory, who
was lost on the Brother Jonathan, was an in
timate friend of President Lincoln and Mrs.
Lincoln, who were married at his house.
A California Sculptor has nearly completed
a colossal statue of President Lincoln. It is
nine feet in height, and stands on a pedestal
ten feet in height.
A lady and daughter, while driving in Mich
igan, recently, were attacked by bees, and
stung so severely that the daughter died. The
horse also died in three or four hours.
There are in the oil regions a class of meu
called oil smellers, who for $lO indicate the
place for boring.
Gen. Swift, who died recently, was the first
cadet ever appointed to West Point. He en
tered the Academy it 1802.
Col. Parker, Gen. Grant's Chief of staff, is
a pure Seneca Indian, and grandson of the
celebrated chief Red Jacket.
In Connecticut, under the existing laws,
no dog can have an existence, legally, unless
he is regularly registered; and wears a collar
with his proper number marked upon it.
A lady in Massachusetts, while in a fit of
mental derangement, shot dead her husband,
daughter and herself.
They have had a Blight frost in some por
tions of Michigan.
The receipts of internal revenue by the
Treasury Department for August were $34,-
000,000.
The receipts of the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad will this year foot up to about $15,-
000,000, between $5,000,000 and $6,000 000
of which is clear profit.
It is said that Gen. Butler is to be associa
ted with the Attorney-General as a public
prosecutor of Jeff. Davis.
The vicinity of Lewiston, Maine, is infest
ed with gipsies.
The regular army is rapidly filling up with
meu who have already served as volunteers.
The National debt is $2,757,689,571, on
which the yearly interest is $138,031,620.
The debt has been increased only $295,000
since the 81st of July last.
The hostility of Catholic priests to the or
ganization of the Fenians is very marked, and
the Papal influence at Rome has been and is
still to be directed against this body.
The next Convention of the Protestant E
piscopal Church will meet in Philadelphia <>n
the 4th of October. The meeting will be one
of the most important in the history of the
church. An effort will be made to introduce
a new canon, intended to allow the clergy
more liberal relations with those of other de
nominations. The return of delegates from
the Southern dioceses will be another and still
more important feature.
Frauds of army officers, perpetrated by
forging descriptive lists, signatures to passes
and other military papers, have just been de
veloped in Baltimore.