BEPtOKI). PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 38, IMS. >ATIO.\AL UNION REPUBLICAN TICKET. for president, t;en. l/LYSSEN S. GRANT. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, Hun. SCHUYLER COtFAX. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. AT labgk: (J MADISON COATBS, rf Philadelphia, •fiiOS. M. MARSHALL, of Pittsburgh. tu,tric. nutria,. I W H. Barnes, Parcel Snow, *>" W* J VouofK, H- R.W.WAoxßilui 3 R HARO Wn.ntT, 15. Chas. H. Miu.ee, 4 (} W HILI, '*• OBOBSE W. EI.DES, 5 Watsov P M'OiLt, 17. J'HS STKWABT, 7* Jit BuxunrssT, IT A. G. OI HSTKAD, - 7 Kkaxk C It EATON, 19. Jaxes Sill, S. ISAAC EUIEBT. 20. H. C. Johxsox, 9 Mobris HOOI-KR, 31. J. K. Ewi.no, 10 DAvII- M. Hand, 22- **■ P"*"'. 11. Wn. Davis, 23- A. W CuAwroßn, 12. TV W. Kbtoucx, 24. J. S. RITAS. STATE TICKET. auditor general: * Gen. JOHN F. HARTRANFT, OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. SURVEYOR GENERAL: GEN. JACOB M. CAMPBELL, OF CAMBRIA COUNTY. DISTRICT TICKET, CONGRESS : Ho.v. JOHN CESSNA. (Subject to the decision "I the District Conference) ADDITIONAL LAW JUDGE : COL. D. WATSON ROWE. (Snb.'ect to the decision of the District Conference) LEGISLATIVE : LIEUT. J. H. LONGENECKEIt. C?liject to the decision of tho District Conference) COUNTY TICKET. COMMISSIONER : CO!-. LEWIS A. MAY, ofColerain. POOR DIRECTOR: JOSIAII M. LKHMAN. of Coledalc bor. AUDITOR : JACOB EVANS, of Londonderry. CORONER: CHARLES L. BUCK, of S. Woodbeny. SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY. The Democracy of Mobile, Louisiana, held a meeting, a few days ago which was ad dressed by John Forsyth and (fen. Cullen M. Battle. Their speeches give a pretty clear idea of what they understand by the mod eru term Democracy, :uid what construction they put upon that pliable piece of lolitical mechanism called the New York platform. Let those who have lost friends on Southern battle-fields, or the maimed and crippled sol dier who has cause each day to remember with pain and sorrow the bloody battle-fields of the rebellion, read Forsyth's Democratic eulogy on grey-backs! It runs as follows: I am to be followed by a gentleman and a soldier whose name is a "household word" wherever the remembrance of sou thern valor lives. To you of Mobile he is especially dear, because it was under his leadership and banner that the gallantyoutb, the flower of our city, marched to "glory and the grave." On many a bloodj' field did he maintain the honor of American manhood. * * * General C. M. Battle nobly did his part in the fields of the South, when a holy libation of blood and valor was poured out to' the common renown. At Seven Pines, at Chan ceilorsville, Winchester, Gettysburg, Fisher's fliil and on scores of fields he led nis brave Alabamians where glory was to be won and his grey coat and flashing sword were ever found nearest the flashing of the guns. i orsyth forgets to tell us that to the man whom he thus eulogises we arc in part in debted for the heritage of widows and or phans that fill the land, and that he and such Democrats or rebels as he and Gen. Battle now propose to repudiate the national debt and send these widows pensionless to beg their bread from door to door; he forgets to holdup this side of the picture of rebel chivalry; but let us not forget it. And what has this General Battle to say fi>r himself? Hear him and then consider what is likely to be tbe fruits of victory for such a Democracy: No language can express the emotions that swell my bosom. Profoundly do I thank vou for this flattering reception. To the Young Men's Democratic Club I am indebted for this high honor. ******* * I have come to meet those comrades so tried and so trne. I desired to thank them for the glorious past, to counsel with them of the threatening future, and to abjure them by every consideration that can move a pa triot s heart and fire a hero's spirit to pursue such a course of action as will demonstrate to all mankind that the spirit of liberty still survives: that here in this beautiful city of the Gult honor s empire is firm pillared as the eternal hills. Comrades, brothers, year after year you bore the Confederate flag through hre and tempest, and upon more than two hundred battle fields covered it with vic tory. \ our imperishable glories are intrench ed in the impregnable fortress of the past, and no power can dim their effulgence. Hate malignity and tyranny are impotent to trans form patriots into traitors and heroes into slaves. lou my comrades, and yon alone, can obliterate the glorious record. Will you do it, or shall it remain a perpetual heritage to your children? YV hat though yonr flag went down bathed in woman's consecrating tears ana baptized in the best blood of the nation? Ihis is still your native land. * * * * * * * Oh. she is dearer, a thousand times dearer, than she was in ber strength and her glory. lcr fortitude in the midst of her desolation rus attracted the admiration of the world, and now the great democratic party of the Union throws oi er her a banner inscribed with the principles oi constitutional liberty for which she fought, aud I am here to night to ask you to come up to her altar, and let us again pledge to her our lives, our fortune and our sacred honor. The democratic party offers the moat honorable terms. It endorses principles for which you battled—not because it was t_,e principles upon which the confed eracy was founded—but the confederacy adop ted them because they were promulgated by the fathers of American independence and were vindicated by the war of the Revolution. ****** Not only does it declare in favor of that constitution so dear to you but it most sol emnly declares that all these acts of recon struction, so totally destructive of your rights B0 repugnant to every honorable feeling, unconstitutional, null and void. * * * * f nr u'', ! ° t,s,aß ' £ y°a to endorse the platform, you have pll'° ratSß lte principles for which to minnort sJ ccml " nded - * you the chamnifnr°r nr and . B ! ir . for they are which vonder well their speeches. They are the only true exposi tions of the copj>erhead platform. Look again! See how the flag and the President with the army are to be on their side the next time. Mark well the omiuous threat, "If we triumph at the polls," if Seymour and Blair are elected, "the irreg ular and revolutionary governments must give way. Read the whole sentence as dis played in capitals. What a line rebel pro gramme. The President, the army, the national flag, are all to take up the lost cause. Congress, the Senate, the represen tatives of the nation, the will of the people, are all to be ignored and defied. If the people will not submit they arc told they must fire upon the national ensign. They who suppressed rebellion, crushed treason and preserved the national liberty are to be put in the false light of rebels. For this purpose you are asked to vote for Seymour and Blair. How well the whole programme comports with the suggestion of Blair's letter "that it will be the duty of the Democratic President if elected to subvert the Southern governments as now organized according to 1 the laws of Congress, and if need be he'must use the Army and Navy in the work." American citizens! Freemen, you who wore the blue, you whose fathers, brothers and sons sleep on southern battle-fields, how can you, how dare you, stand idle and per mit this infamous programme to be carried out? Vote the ticket no man can, in whose veins nms one drop of patriotic blood or j. whose heart ever thrilled at the cfy of free dom. But more is required of you. Such bold, and presumptuous treason must be fought unto death. When such infamous plans are laid for surrendering the strong holds of liberty into the hands Of traitors, no man must be idle. The welfare and the safety of the country demands of every one active, earnest, faithful work. To work then without delay. As you honor the sainted dead, as you love the living, as you arc proud of the past and hnjwful of ihe future of your country and as you prize her glorious liberty t cork! icork ! work! The issue is PEACE or WAR. Grant and Colfax will give us PEACE, security and prosj>erity. Seymour and Blair threaten us with ANAR CHY and BLOODY CIVIL WAR. BEWARE OF COI'PER IIEAD FALSE HOOD. Copperhcadism makes but small preten sions to even ordinary morality, but false statements arc made so confidently *and presumptuously that the unwary are con strained to believe them without examina tion. In their present desperate straits even their most prominent leaders are stooping to deliberate misrepresentation and falsehood. Horatio Seymour in a recent speech asserted that "it will cost this year more than $150,000,000, to maintain an army to keep the South in subjugation. '' He well knew, at the very moment he made this assertion, that the whole expense for the year just closed as shown bv the official records was less than $40,000,000, and that this included, the military Government of the unreconstructed states. Ileconstruction expenses, the Freedman's Bureau and the guarding of the Texas frontier against In dian and Mexican raids. In a speech made by Seymour at the Cooper Institute, New iork on the 25th of June and published in last week's Gazette he asserts that the cost of the Government from July 1, 1865 to July 1, 1868 was $820,390,208. Yet he very well knew that this estimate covered hundreds of millions of dollars expended in paying off and mustering out the soldiers of our armies during 1865, and that other hundreds of millions were since expended in paying bounties to the soldiers. These facts are all ignored in order that a charge of extravagance may bo trumped up against the republican party and that the truth may be perverted or hidden,.in order to make political capital. In the same speech he trumps up a similar false charge against the Navy Department and compares it with the expenses of the navy department during four years of peace under Buchanan, to make out a case of Re publican extravagance. Can it be possible that he thought to deceive the people by uch a trick. Every one knows the enor mous difference between the naval expenses in time of war and in time of peace, yet this aspirant to Presidential honors hopes to make the people believe that the increas ed oost in time of war is the result of Re publican extravagance, when every one knows it is the result of Democratic treason and rebellion Verily Seymour already shows signs of insanity. Again he asserts in the same speech, falsely and with the most unblushing impudence, that the present tariff policy of the govern ment has swept our commerce from the ; seas. This is a direct stab at the vital in terests of Pennsylvania, while the malicious falsifier well knows that the loss of our com merce is only one more Of the disastrous results of the late Democratic rebellion to which he himself rendered all the aid ttnd comfort in his power. Let not the people be deceived by such specious falsehoods. They are scattered broad cast over the land and are iu the mouth of every pot house politician. They can all be refuted by aDy one who has the least knowledge of the his tory of the past seven or eight years. Al most every charge of taxes, debt, extrava gance &c., trumped up by these falsifiers can be shown to be the legitimate result of the rebellion brought on by Democratic dough-facedness, perpetuated through four long years by Copperhead aid and sympathy and now attempted to be renewed by Cop perhead candidates. Point them to their own shameful record as a refutation of their falsehoods and to the history of our glor ious achievements as a rebuke of their treason. CAN DO NO BETTER. The Pittsburgh l'ost , the leading Demo cratic paper of Western Pennsylvania said, on the 28th of June 1867: What better thing can we do in case of General Grant's nomination by the Repub lican party than to vote for him for the Pres idency? Our aim should be to strengthen him as much as possible independent of party and to elect him as the President of the people. If unanimously so much the better. "We solemnly believe that if the people generally of the United States can come to gether with real unanimity on General Grant, in regard to the Presidency it will be the hap piest thing for our country that could possi bly occur. The future good effects ot this course are almost incalculable. We earnestly ask our Democratic friends everywhere to consider this subject carefully." Yes, consider this subject carefully, hon est Democrats. You can do no better thing than to vote for General Grant for the Presidency. Make him the President of the people and the questions of the war and the rebellion will be forever settled. Let Democrats carefully consider this most im portant matter. Grant will doubtless be elected by a very large majority, by Repub lican votes alone. But its moral effect will be as nothing compared with what it would be if Democrats and Republicans were to join in elevating him to the Presidential chair and thereby making it the emphatic voice oftho nation, and not of a mere party, proclaiming that the issues of the war are settled and the reconstruction of the States affirmed, and that the exciting and danger ous questions settled by the unanimous voice of the people shall be no more opened or revived to distract our people and en - danger our liberty. The moral effect of such a course, by the honest and patriotic portion of the Democratic party, would be almost magical. It would at once give per manent peace and security throughont the South, to b# followed quickly by prosperity and plenty. It would at once settle tbe currency question, for greenbacks would rise to a par with gold and our government bonds would command a premium in the money markets of the world. The labor problems of the day would thereby he solv ed. The peace and security of the country being securred we would at once enter upon a career of unprecedented prosperity. <>n the other hand the election of Seymour and Blair would be the signal for a new war, with the President arrayed against Congress and the people. The terrible results of the anarchy and civil war that would thus be inaugurated afresh in behalf of the "Lost Cause" of the rebellion, we will not under take to portray. But one thing is assured. It would be even worse than the late rebel lion, for it would devastate the whole coun try instead of only a part. Democrats con sider. Take the advice of the Post and make the peace and prosperity of your country secure. Ignore party ties, defy party leaders, and do the work of patriots by elevating him to the Presidential chair, who so gallantly and triumphantly led our armies to victory and our nation to Peace. ANSWER THEM. When a copperhead talks about the great burthen of taxes under which the people groan, toil him that they are the heritage of a Democratic rebellion. They arc the price of American Liberty paid to redeem it from the parricidal hands of such Democrats as Jeff. Davis and Robert E. Lee. When he talks of the $4000,000,000 of debt, rolled up as he declares by a Republican adminis tration, give him the same answer; and don't forget to add that copperhead aid and sym pathy made necessary a double expenditure of blood and treasure in saving the life of the nation and the liberties of the people. Tell him also that a Republican administra tion in spite of Andy Johnson and his cop perhead allies has already paid off $1500,- 000,000 of that debt and is annually paying hundreds of millions more, although the Southern States as yet have been able to pay nothing, because of obstructions laid in the way of reconstruction by Andy Johnson and the whole copperhead party. Tell bim also that, while so rapidly paying off the na tional debt, a Republican administration, or rather a Republican Congress, has al ready removed mofe than one half of the direct taxes that it was found necessary to lay during the war. Tell him too that those taxes have been removed from the necessa ricsof life, which the poor man must buy, and laid upon incomes and luxuries, for the niort part, so as to protect the poor and lay the burden upon the rich who are able to pay it. The Republican party is the poor man's friend. Grant is the candidate of the party of Law and Order, Liberty and Peaoe. CJO TO WORK. Words of cheer cnuie to ua from every section of the country. If we ore vigilant Grant and Colfax will be triumphantly elec ted. But we must not allow a false securi ty to lure us into idleness and indifference. Idleness may lose us all. Our enemies are active, stealthy and unscrupulous. They will leave no tricks of fiaud or deception untried. Wc must be prepared to meet tbem at every point. See every lukewarm Republican and stir him up to the dangers that threaten us. Show every reasonable and honest Democrat the yawning gulf of auarchy and civil war into which his un scrupulous party leaders are endeavoring to lead the country. See that your neighbor is well supplied with papers from which he can learn the importance of the impending contest Circulate the INSURER for the campaign. Get your neighbor to take it. If he won't subscribe for it send it to him yourself. If you cant afford to send it to him send us his name and address, and we will see that he is supplied. Be active and vigilant. Keep a sharp lookout for tricks and frauds. See that every Union man is assessed in good time. Ilemember that the State election in October will have an im portant influence on the Presidential con test. Remember also that two gallant sol diers are our candidates on the State ticket and that they have not only acquitted them selves creditably on the field of battle but also in the respective offices which they now fill, and for which they are candidates for re-election. To work then with a will and never cease till the polls close on the 3d of November and Grant and Colfax will be elected by so triumphant a majority that, rebels and oopperheads will forever afttr be consigned to a well merited oblivion. AT Harrisburg, the capital town of our Commonwealth, in a leading Democratic diinking saloon, frequented by the chiefs of that party, hang in handsome frames the portraits of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Beaureguard, Buck nor, Bragg, and, to crown all, of Wilkes Booth. This is in no cut-throat hole, but a room where the gentlemen and leaders ofthe local Democracy meet for social and business intercourse. It is almost impossible to conceive of any more studied insult or affront to the people of Pennsylvania. In Kentucky and Tennessee thousands of graves are filled with Penosyl vanians shot down by the impressed soldiers of these very men Bragg and Buckner; liee and Davis are the two men finally responsi ble for the atrocities of Andersonville and Libby, and Booth is a name of execration not only to every loyal but to every honest utan. It is distasteful to speak of such matters as these or to narrate such incidents, but it is becoming every hour more and more a duty. From all parts of the country the evidence thickens that the leaders of the Lost Cause are the adopted wards of the Democracy. Not their ignorant, unwashed, unthinking masses, but their best men, such as they are, systematically pay respect to and cherish the memory of the nation's foes, even be tbey felons, fllostility to the country is the only passport to the friend ship and fellowship of that organization which has stolen the name of an oncchonor ed party.— The Press. C.AKI'ET HAGGKKS has lately become a favorite term with copperheads to signify Northern men who have gone South. These men go South for the purpose of set tling and'becoming a part of the permanent population, and wilt do a goodwork in rg or ganizing the labor system of that section of the country and as such the term carpet baggers is rather an honor than otherwise. There was a class of carpet-baggers during the war, however, who traveled carpet bag in hand on a bee-lino for Canada and to whom the term as then applied was by no means complimentary. It is these same draft-sneaks who now most delight to apply to an honorable class of men, as a disgrace ful epithet, the term which derived ail of dishonor that attaches to it from their own dastardly, cowardly conduct in the hour of their danger. REPUBLICANS, the time is short, much work remains to be done. Organize at onee and see that all prelimenary work is promptly done. Eternal vigilance is ever the price of liberty. Our cause is good but it will not triumph without labor and effort. Success can only be the reward of diligent and faithful work. See thatTnion men are assessed. See that such as are lukewarm or indifferent are arc U9ed to the importance of the issue. Make every honest effort in your power. Diligent work will make suc cess assured, indolence may cost us not only an ignominious defeat but a new civil war. "THERE should be the greatest vigilance along the whole line," said Grant to Ord, when victory was al>out to perch upon our banners at Vick&burg. If we would conquer rebellion at the polls, in November next, wc must join the Grant and Colfax forces, and do our share of picket duty. A VIRGINIA CONSERVATIVE FOR GRANT. Judge Alexander Hives, of Virginia, who, in the following letter, gives his support to General Grant, is oue of the most eminent lawyers of I irginia, a native of the Htato, and hiis heretofore l)cen regarded as a Con servative : "HOT SPRINGS. August 15, 1868. "Dear Sir —Your letter of the 14th instant, inviting me to participate in a meeting proposed to be called Grant and Colfax in Richmond, has been forwarded to mo at this health. I shall not, therefore, be able to attend it. I feel the liveliest interest in the success of this ticket, as involving the prosperity and peace of the country; but I do not feel at liberty to depart from that proper reserve which has always been prac ticed by the members of tnc judiciary in this State by taking a part in the public and exciting discussions of this campaign. "Most respectfully, your obedient ser vant. „ "ALEX. RIVES. 'To 1,. Edwin Dudly. "Chairman Central Committe, &c." THE FREETOWN'S BURIAL'.— The Ten nessee correspondent of the New York Times says: "Almost every dollur spent by the bureau has been so much invested in the peace and prosperity of the South. W here there might have been a bloody, prolonged conflict of races, there is now a rooted conciliation which will deepen and strengthen as the fu ture great results of the bureau's work is at tested in the intelligence and manliuuss of the coming generation. The Democracy have reason to complain because the bureau lias made giant strides in the great work of educating and elevating the great laboring class of the South. Such a result would be lie its oft repeated prophecies and disap point its fondest hopes. That class of South ern people who share their prejudices and hopes have like reason to complain. The Southern press may respond to such wishes ami pander to such prejudices by misrepre senting the workings and the efforts of the rreedmen's Bureau, but the great result at tained refutes their chargus. POLITICAL ITEMS. The federal office holders in New York refuse to be bled by the supporters of Sey mour and Blair, and as a consequence the Democracy are indignant, threatening all who refuse with the vengeance of Andy Johnson. TIIE President is resolved to "swing round a circle," but bow large it is to be, uo one in authority has yst announced. He will make certain speeches, swallow the platform as a necromancer swallows butcher knives, and endorse Seymoure and Blair, for all of which services he will be reqnited in away hereaf ter to be diversed by the Democratic leaders. A POLITICAL const of the Boston Corn Ex change has been made, with the following result: Of two hundred and forty-seven members, one hnndred and eighty-three favor the election of Grant, thirty-three Seymour, fifteen are doubtful, three would not vote, and three were not in town. Tnc Philadelphia Age is quoted assaying that in one ward in Pniladelphia, one hun dred thousand Germans have come out for Seymour and Blair. This is not the same, but the same kind of a story, as that about the "ten thousand cats," which were finally squeezed down into "our old cat and another one." THE Buffalo Express says: "When s Dem ocratic crowd gathers at Troy and other points in the interior of the State, they shout for Seymour, Blair, and Hoffman. This looks as if the Sachems of Tammany had the machinery all arranged for their man for Governor. They have a Bismarck in Tam many." IT is stated, with an appearance of author ity, that Chief Justice Chase will vote for Grant and Colfax, and that he regards him self as ill used by the Democratic leaders, who, by making him believe that they were going to nominate him, got from him various committals and then let him slide.—N. T. Sun. TENEMENT houses have already been leased in Philadelphia for election purposes by cer tain prominent Democrats. Under the guise of boarding bouses, these dens will be crowded with electors of Democratic morals and social tastes, herded and corralled like mules, to be | trotted out on the second Tuesday in October. . j This is practical Democracy. WE begin to understand why it is that the Democracy dovote so much of their attention to Gen. Butler. Grant said in one ef his re ports that Butler was "bottled up," and the Democrats "go for" anything that is "bottled up." THE landlord of a hotel in New Kochelle has nailed to the front of his building a large placard containing pictures of the Tammany candidates and the inscription—"Seymour and Blair. Democrats arouse!" A gentle man riding by, a few mornings ago, was struck with the ludicrousness and decided propriety of the exortation to Democrats to "arouse," as directly under it were two of the 'unterrified" dead drunk. THE Yicksburg Times findsßlair just suited to its rebel tastes. It says: "Objection is made down this way to the endorsement of the Blair letter, by z, few timid people, on the score of prudence, and yet it was this indenti cal letter of frank Blair to his friend Col. Brodheadthat secured the Missouri hero the nomination for Vice President. We want just such ammunition ax Frank Blair uses." THE Meridian ;Miss) Mercury (Blair and Seymour) of the 21st says.- "With the skull and cross-bones of the 'lost cause" before us, we will swear that this is a white man's Gov ernment. We must make the negro under stand we are the men we were when we held him in abject bondage, and make him feel that when forbearance ceases to be a virtue, he has aroused a Power that will control him or destroy him." THE President is represented as displeased with the hasty announcement in Democratic papers to the effect that he intends to support Seymour and Blair —indeed this feeling of annoyance is so great that prominent Demo, crats in Washington city assert that they would not be surprised at a positive break on his part with the Democrats. One of the latter class most intimate with Mr. Johnson, and one of his own warm defenders, asserted on Tuesday the President was not incliued to do the Democrats any good and conld not be depended on for any party aid whatever. THE Democratic papers of Connecticut are raving over a new "Radical outrage," viz: the circulation of the Irish Republic among the Irish voters of the State. What business has anybody to circulate any but Democratic papers among the Irishmen? What business have Irishmen to read any other papers? SOME of the Democrats in the New York Fourth District are moving to throw over board the Hon. JohnMorrissey, their present member of Congress. No charge is made against him of unfaithfulness to the Demo cracy. He has always voted right in Con gress, and has done everything that the Rep resentative of the Fourth District ought to do. His offence is that he bets on the election of Grant and Colfax. THE Chicago Post says it was a lucky stroke tor Hendricks that he failed to be nominated for the Presidency. He is a candidate for Governor of Indiana, and one Waterloo de feat ig sufficient for one campaign. Hen dricks will come out of a storm—drooping, cold, and sad. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, writting from St. Louis, says; The old rebel lion spirit of 1861 is cropping out in many ! parts of this State, and there will be lively times and not a little, bloodshed before the campaing is over, Frank Blair's letter, and the teachings of Wade Hampton, Governor Wise, Robert Toombs, and their allies, are having their legitimate effect", and cannot result but in tumult and conflict. A PROMINENT Democrat o( Burlington, lowa, and recently a member of the Common Council of that city, but oow in California, writes to his friends in Bnrlington that California will go for Grant by 25,000 majori ty. The Hawk Eye says that other letters received from old residents, now on the Pacific coast, say that both California and Oregon are sure for Grant THE New York Herald goes back on its new political affiliations. Its advocacy of Grant and denunciation of Seymour was short lived; yet it doubtless accomplished Mr. Ben nett's purpose, which it is fair to infer was a pecuniary one. The Herald, it seems, was only coquetting with Tammany and trying to make the Democracy see that its virtuous in fluence was worth purchasing. Mr. August Belmont having been to see Mr. Bennett, the Herald now comes valiantly to the support of Mr. Seymour, whom it scored so deeply but a few days ago. O.VB of the best replies we have noticed in the canvass is that of the Hon. John A. Bingham, of Ohio, who, while speaking at a Republican meeting in Bangor, Maine, was iasulted by a Copperhead who cried out, "How about Mrs. Surrott?" Mr. Bingham instantly responded. How about her? Go and consult the records of the court that tried and convicted ber. Go and ask General Hancock, who issued the order for her execu tion in spite of a writ of habeas corpus which had been served upon him;'and, if you are still unsatisfied, go and ask that apostate President, Andrew Johnson, why he refused a pardon after a petition had been sent him signed by every member but one of the court who tried her, and drawn np in the handwri ting of the man you seek to insult. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. THK proposition that the President disband 1 the colored troops on duty a Washington, will not be sustained, because the President has no authority to do so. THE treaty between the L'nited States and China, recently ratified by the Senate, has been transmitted to the Chinese Government for approval. THE State of Missouri has received $30,000 from United States Treasurer Spinner, the last of which was due her by the federal gov eminent. IT is represented in Washington correspon dence that the President and Mr. Seward are not agreed as to the proper instructions to be given to the new Minister to Mexico. GEK. GTAST has not telegraphed that be would be in Waishingtion on the fifth ot Sep tember. When last heard from he was at Galena, where be expected to stay nearly the whole month of September. AN seronaut named Light made an ascen sion from Harrisburg on Wednesday afternoon and came down with a rush about ten o'clock in the evening, twenty miles north of that city. No one was injured. A FORTNIGHT ago the New York Express said the Herald, was fast going to the devil. The Commercial Advertiser of Saturday says that "the Herald has at last fetched up in the Democratic camp." How soon the prophecy of the Express came true! IN the Vaie of Blackrnoor, in the West of England, (he farmers hare beeu feeding their cattle on hay for several weeks past, there being no grass, owing to the drontb. THE King of Prussia now appears seldom in public without being accompanied by a very handsome colored hoy, whom Gerhard ltohifs, the celebrated traveler, brought with him from Abyssinia, and placed under the protection of His Majesty. The King says he thinks the boy is exceed.ngly talented, and he will give him an excellent education. REV. J. D. FULTON, writing on board the City of Baltimore says : "I have heard that good wine could not cross the ocean I never knew the reason before. It is drank up. Never did I see more wine drinking than on this ship at sea, we have bad but one person intoxicated." THE new Sovereign of Servia is a very or dinary looking boy. He was, up to a very recent time, at a private school in Paris, where all the other boys disliked bim BO in tensely that none of them would Bpeak with him. The teacher now advertises his school as "the institution where his royal highness the Prince of Servia was educated. A POPCLAB clergyman at Troy, who mar ried a couple the other day "in a most beau tiful and impressive manner," received, after the service, an envelope, supposed to enclose the usual fee. On opening it, after their de parture, he found its contents were simply a bill of fare. HUHOART is about to celebrate its thous andth anniversary as a kingdom, and various propositions of commemoration have been made, but it is most probable that a general meeting of the jurisdictions of the kingdom will be convened in Vienna shortly, when a programme will be arranged. ADVICES from St. Petersburgh state that immense tracts of peat and marshy land are on fire in various parts of Rnssia. Fears are even entertained for the safety of St. Peters burg, as it is built on a deposit of peat. The smoke and smell that invade the city at night and morning are annoying and especially painful for the eyes. GEN. SHERMAS has issued a General Order inaugurating, in part, that system of Military Government over the Indian tribes which is so much better adapted to their wants, and is likely to prove so much more efficient for their protection and the payment of their an nuities, than any system heretofore tried. NEW efforts are being made to obtain pardon for I>r. Mudd, one of the assassination conspirators, now at the Dry Tortugas. The petition addressed to the President lias been extensively circulated through Maryland, by physicians of that State, praying for Dr. Mudd's release from confinement. It is to be presented to Mr, Johnson by Hon. Stephenson Archer, of Maryland. THE new bridge over the Susquehanna be tween Columbia and Wrightsville has been commenced and several spans are already in their places. The bridge will be of iron, and will be completed as soon as possible. The work was suspended for about a week after the burning of the Pennsylvania railroad bridge at Roekville, the workmen being need ed here. THE declaration of Governor Warmouth that within the last month and a half at least one hundred and fifty murders have been committed within the country parishes of Louisiana, is fully confirmed by letters pub lished, received from responsible men throughout the State. THE Secretary of the Ution Congressional Republican Committee is in receipt of a large number of letters from different State North and Sooth, giving an account of the progress and prospects of the Presidential campaign. They are from leading and well-informed polilicans, and express great hope of the success of the Republican ticket at the Octo ber electious, ss well as at the Presidential election in November. In nearly all the States organizations for tbe campaign are complete, -and the people are being thorough ly aroused by speeches and the circulation of documents. OF the one-and-a-half million dollars ap propriated by Congress at its last session for clearing the public rivers and harbors, a very large proportion, under tbe direction of Major General A. W. Humphreys, Chief of the Engineer Corps of the United States, goes to the improvement of the South. For improv ing the navigation of the Mississippi $350,000 are given: for the Tennessee, $100,000; to the Louisville and Portland Canal, $100,000; and the proportion holds good through the smaller items. ABOUT five hundred dollars in gold and sil ver coin was last week found concealed in the dwelling house of John Rhoads, in Elizabeth town, Lancaster county. Mr. Rhoad's wife died several weeks ago, and it is supposed that she had this treasure put away without the knowledge of her husband. Mr. and Mrs. R., who lived very economically, were a very aged couple, and owned a small farm close by Elizabeth town. tars. R. received the proceeds front the sale of milk Bnd but ter, and doubtless "sunk" a portion regularly to provide against the contingency of "a rainy day." THE Mobile Register nays that Forrest and Wade Hampton were the lions of the Demo cratic Convention, and of New York, and that they were dined and wined as never con quering heroes were before. It adds that so far from advising these gentlemen and Ad miral Semmes "not to appear in public as the advocates of Seymour and Blair, if we had our way we would put them in the field of cam paign in the North, and let them speak, and canvass, and utter the boldest truths that they feel, from every stump in the North and West." Several weeks ago we begged the Democrats not to overlook these old cam paigners, but to invite them to speak in the North. It would be refreshing to hear Toombs, Cobb and Wade Hampton utter some of the "bold truths" they have spoken in South Carolina and Georgia, and which fail to reach the Democratic ear in the North, owing to the timidity of Democratic journals, which recoil at these utterances. CONBEHVATIVK SUPPORT OK GEN. GRANT. Letter ofllon. J. -S.Carlile to the Haiti more American. MESSRS. EDITORS I— My attention has | Been called to tho pablicati'iu in your paper of my letter to Genera! Kelly, and some surprise expressed at its contents. 1 have, for considerations personal to myself, de layed any publication of my reasons for tbe conclusions to which I have arrived. 1 uow can only hint at a few. I have never been, in the strict sense of the word, a party tnan. My chief object in public life has been the maintenance of the IJnion uud'-T the Constitution. The Hnionof the States and the rights of the States, as secured by the Constitution, has been my motto, and to the preservation of that IJnion and the maintenance of those rights have all my efforts as a public man as well as a private citizen been directed. I have long been of the opinion, and still believe, that partisan polities have been and still are the bane of the Republic. With the death of Andrew Jackson the Democratic party ceased to be guided by principle, ami gradually became sectional ized. Tic declaration of Jackson—"The Federal Union, it must and fchall be prc- I served"—was discarded, and a Southern Confederacy openiy advocated and threat ened. Sectionalism assumed the phase of, and was substituted far, patriotism. Regarding as I always have my party obligations as of less binding force than the obligations 1 owe to my country, I have often subjecfod niysclf to the charge of in consistency. _To occupy such a position is no light or trifling matter. It requires much more moral courage to subject oneself to such a charge, and to the denunciations and detraction that always attend it, than at first may be supposed necessary. The action of the Secession Convention in Virginia, and the results that followed iin mediately upon the adoption of the or dinance of secession, exhibited a fearful want of moral courage. I believed then, and still believe, that if a ' dozen members of that Convention from as many different sections of the State had taken the course, and labored as I did, the State.could have been saved lrom the ter rible effects of secession. As it was, my section alone was saved, and is now a State in the Union. In that trying hour 1 adhered to my motto, and as I was the first in the Virginia Convention to openly and boldly denouuee the heresy of secession, so was I the first in Congress to denounce the policy of Congress that was subsequently adopted, when it was foreshadowed by a Senator who has since gone to "that bourne from whence no traveller returns." My remarks upon that occasion are reported in the Globe of the I6th December. 1861. My opposition to Radicalism is well ! known. That I would have saved the Union party from it, if it had been in my power, is also well known. So great was my op position to the ultraism of Congressional legislation, and so sincere my convictions, that rather than abate the one or surrender the other I gave up my place in the Senate and for a time lost the confidence of my Union friends. I bad hoped and expected iliat the action of the New York Convention would have entitled its nominees to the support of Conservative Union men. Had its members pledged themselves to the maintenance of the right of local self-govern ment in the Status, as secured by the Con stitution. and nominated as their Presiden tial eaudidate a man of undoubted Unionism. ; who believed in the right of the Govern j meat to protect itself and enforce its lawful ! authority, I should have voted for its nom i inees. This was not done. On the contrary, ! it is my opinion that Hendricks wa- defeated I because he is not a believer in the right of ! secession. The war record of Hancock de- I feated him. Mr. Yallandingham's patriot ' ism nominated Seymour and crushed the aspirations of the Chief Justice. The friends j of "the lost cause" triumphed over the i Unionism of the Convention, and the strife ! of the battle-field is to be renewed, to be flight out at tbe ballot box. As much as I jain opposed to tbe Radical legislation of the last six years, I am more opposed to disunion. So long as we are one people vicious legis lation may be corrected, even constitutional amendments may be abolished,^and consti tutional, liberty preserved; but once divided into separate States, under different Govern ments, liberty ami prosperity, peace and good government are lost forever. Grant will receive no support from Secessionists or ! their sympathizers: they are all to be fouhd in the ranks of the party supporting Mr. | Seymour. The conservatism of Republican . ism nominated Grant. The radicalism ol ; Democracy nominated Seymour. I If the Supreme Court nhall decide, as the ! Democracy hold it will decide next winter. : the reconstruction legislation of Congress ■ unconstitutional, it will doubtless be for tbe i reason among others that the State has the ; right, free from Congressional interference ! or Executive dictation, to form for itself its ■ own Constitution, provided it be republican jin form, if this be so, the Governments \ created by tbe Constitutions of the seceded i States, under the laws of Congress, are j nullities and have no legal existence; the ; Governments created under Kxeoutive dic i tation must share the same fate, and these : States will be remitted back to tbe Govern ! uients created by the Constitutions adopted i by each after the passage of their several ! ordinances of secession and tbe repudiation j of their allegiance to the Constitution of the , 1 uited States. Ln this situation, with an Executive who thinks, with the late I'resi j dent Buchanan, that the Government of the United States cannot use force against the people ot a seceded State to compel obedi ence to its lawful authority, will not disunion be a laet accomplished, and will not the war have been fought in vain? It is not possible, iu the limits allowed by the press to com munications of this sort, to do more than briefly refer to a few considerations that ha\ e brought my mind to the conclusion to which I have arrived. I may have occasion, before the election, to enter fully upon the vindica tion of my proposed action. This, if done, I shall do before the people who have heretofore honored me with their confidence. JNO. S. CAEUI.E. Mississippi Uantlits. The Memphis Avalanche states that a re cent preliminary trial at Senatobia, .Missis sippi, developed what had long been sur mined, namely, that ever since the close of the war a thoroughly disciplined band of horse thieves have been actively at work in North Mississippi, often extending their operations to aojaeent States. They have a captain, a first Lieutenant and second in command, and regular runners, who had their routes of travel, like the celebrated Murrellites, who were the terror of the Southwest forty or fifty years ago. The captain ofthisbandis named Cage I'hilopot, a middle-aged man of stout build, and coarse features, shrewd and roguish looking. His followers are men ol low instincts, some of whom hid from conscription during the war and lived by pillaging theit neighbors. The war. being over, they came from their dens in the thickets and swamps, and migrated to fields where they wore not so well known. A number settled in De Soto county, near Senatobia. They put in little crops, and appeared to make a precarious living by tilling the soil and working about as day laborers. Over ago they began operations as horse thieves. Suspi cions were long directed to them but they were too wary for a long time to be caught. They knew their crowd and trusted nobody else. But at last they admitted one member too many, who revealed their opera tions to the authorities, and all the gang but two or three have been captured. A SUDDEN CHANGE OF SCENERY. —The scenery on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains presents a striking con trast to that UJHMI the western side. Cross ing the Sierras from California, the charac ter of the scenery and mountains suddenly changes. The forests, says a correspondent, disapjiear as if by niacin, and grass gives place to sage brush. Tbe landscape wears a sallow, unwholesome look, as if a sud den blast had blown from the Valley of Death and blighted and withered everything. No more soft verdure, no more noble* pirn s, no more health inspiring breezes. Some of the geological phenomena of the valley arc strange beyond description The rocks have the appearance of masses of lava thrown up out of the earth. In some instances they rise in columaatod masses hundreds of feet ; high, shutting out the view and contract- J ing the valley to a gorgo a few hundred j yards wide. _ Again they recede in gentle i slopes, until the valley broadens into an ! undulating plain. A CotrETtr SHOOTING AFFAIR - A „ tinman just in from Cheyenne tell* STORY:: , SITTING in FLU, JVLOU mg with a friend named Sumner ,wY man, -AME not known, came u , K- F.J 2SR.CS ycm. you're seduced MY wifi.: In, pimp to kill yon." aD d suiting , action to the word, shot him in th,. d IF part between the shoulder and neck. Hut' IK Tr dTL :\ bU U ¥ A a " d remarUl that he d live to have a hand i„ the littl, came. I bejra thousand pardon- " his assailant. ; ' I mistook YOU for anott ' RR ! AN SUMNER returned his pistol TO ITIE other WHS arrested but at S ucr s instance discharged. HE' SAID it W mistake, and he shouldn't appear agaitw h.M As good luck would have it. the I :I |l neither broke a lione NOR cut an arterv. . ninner is attending to hisbuaiuess a u- Altogeiher, wc regard the above 3 , ~T ' l rich incident. DEMOCRATIC NE.NTORS.-TBA ~ Mobile Rpruter*ay: "On the steamer Mist which eft on 1 oesday n.gbt, there went UD to Camden. to he ready for the frav. a b ra J drum, two small drutm and two fifes. I the use of the colored Democratic Club nf >\ llcox county. The colored people of that county are all awase to the issues of the day A large club is already formed. Simi lar cfobs should be formed in every county and the people should see that M'U-i.- and banners are provided for them. "' The Southern Democracy do not mean to fail, if they can secure the negro vote. Tin v re fast dropping their prejudices. PERRY'S VICTOR V. -The fifty-fifth anni versary of the Perry victoft will bo ted at Put iu Iay, by the following O-; I-• FCR Parsons. Surgeon, and the only living <■ missioned officer of the flag ship Lavrrtrs" Stephen Champlin, Commander of the Ariel, who fired the first and last gun I N the memorable battle, now of Buffalo .V W York; John Norris. of the Caledonia, now of Petersburg, Kentucky, and 1. H\' T. Talliaferro, of theSomers.nnw of (.'inf.N riati. Others are expected to be pre- at. All the survivors of the war of folk' and 1813 are cordially and earnestly requested to participate. GEN. HAM.ECK, when he heard of the nomination of Seymour and Blair, said: 1 It may do for some, but it won't for me No I nion General who ever smelled pow der will go for Seymour and Blair iUiMdUttwous, HUNTINGDON A BROADTOP RAILROAD . On ami after Wednesday, May 13, 1868, p . senger Trains will arrive and depart a? foli a. Xpress .Mail. STATIONS X[IR ,.. M P.M. A. M. BN>NRGB A.M. P.M. 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