BKOFOKII PA., FMBAY, OCT. lfi. IB6S. > ATKAt OIO> REPI BLICAN TICKET. for president, tiea. I'tYSSES S. GRANT. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, HOB. SCHUYLER COLFAX. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. at labiie: <l. MADISON CO \TKS. of Philadelphia, TIIOS. M. MARSHALL, of Pittsburgh. • Dittricto. ... 1 W 11. Barnes, 13- Samuel Rnorr, 2 W J. PoLL<*k, 11. R. W. Wagomsellkr 3. Rich abb Wildrt, 15. Chss. 11. Miller, . <} w. HILL, 18. Qkobo* W. Elder, 5. Watson P. M'Gill, 17. JOHN Stewart, 7 J. H. Beincbi rst, IS. Jacob Gratus, 7. Frank C. llooton, I'J- James Sill, 8. Isaa. E.hf.rt, 20. H. C. Johnson, 9 Morris Hoopes, 21. J. K.Kwisc, 10 David M. Rank, 22. Wm. Frew, 11. Wm. Davis, 23. A. W. Crawford, 12. W. W. Ketcbi M, 24. J. S. RI tas. UNION THUNDER! Great Republican Victories. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indi ana. and Nebraska All Republican by Large Majorities. Our Congressman, Judge ami As sembhjmen all EJeeted by hand some majorities. Election ol' Graiif V Colfax assured! No official returns have yet been received ami we are only able to give estimated ma jorities. Pennsylvania is put down as safe for 15.000 Republican majority, Ohio 30,000. Indiana 12,000, and Ne braska 3,000! Official returns wiil make some changes ami some of the majorities may be smaller ana otlwrs larger, rear rnr general result will not be materially changed. An immense fraudulent copperhead vote has been polled in this State. Many of the voters have been imported from New York and Maryland. These will not be on hand at the Presiden tial election so that our majority then will be largely increased. In our Congressional, Judicial and Legis lative districts, the Copperheads have l>ollcd a large fraudulent vote wherever they have had the majority of the election boards. The whole gain in this county and even more, is in all probability made up of carpet baggers from Maryland, illegal naturaliza tions and other fraudulent voters of various kinds. Adams county in this Congressional District was L.gcly colonized in the hope of carrying the Copperhead Congressman. No corruption, fraud, bribery or trickery has been left untried by the Copperhead leaders <d the district, but all their efforts have failed. CONNECTICUT! The latest returns from Connecticut, giv ing the official vote of a!J but three districts, indicate a Republican majority of about 1 OUR TIIOI SAND. Last spring the floppier I leads carried the State by 1764 of a ' majority, our gain therefore is about 6000 in an aggregate vote of from 85,000 to 90,- t)00 votes. The first telegrams last week retried about ten thousand of a gain, but six thousand will answer all practical purpo ses just as well. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana follow suit. HONEST JOHN. The latest telegraphic news as we go to press reports Hod. JOHN COVODE as having carried the 21st Congressional Dis trict, after a desperate contest, by twenty five of a majority. I cnnsylvania Supreme Court. Cm'l I r ' US l Jo(lpe Sharswood, in , he r ulc on Colonel Snowden 1 a° * ra !"fe' eßt naturalization certificates. Judge Sharswood, this, morn ing, delivered his opinion at great length, na?ufetfon. tWC ' Ve certificatc s of Ife exonerates 1 rothonotary Snowden and o J rAl heW r T ' s cheering news ne ,1 6 P fc am" 18 ! were Jarful of hay "ttSwiC' MK.Mi.lt. .lout "euth ol Howell Cobb. Friday lat "of of Georgia died on nuc atthe Flflh Ave " clee'tioDs in E)nn^'i^^k7~ Thc town show a decided reaction" °r D JIoDd!| i' laßt publicans since last thefa for the Democrats m.? J? g ' 18 use ' css these local election ,l !i! r , e is nothing in the sentimeS of',h hil '^ ey od1 >' refiect 'luestions without reLa^i P . eop • apon local i these little popular sentiment upon tu the hour. The great Itenni3 r lgs 9 ea of fourteen hundredTn tL is especially significant. Altogether wera .° thla re suJt in Connecticut as THAT SAME OLD COON! ' , r T'''• • ;-v'" 3 V r' : ' ''• : V-'". ■ 1 ■■ ' ;; ' J .. ■■ ' : "THAT ROOSTER'S EYES IS SOT.'' Gettysburg Repeated! The Johnnies routed horse, foot and dragoon! Glory! Glory! Glory! State Ticket !i !v 0 ' na j' ,li k v! Cessna's Record > indicated! Rowe the Coi>s uj> Salt River! Redford County cone to the Dogs. Grants election a settled lact! Where's your Chicken. Meyers! AN EMPHATIC PROTEST. The Supreme Court Xaturalizatwns—They are Declared JUegal—An Important Let ter from Judge Read—A Death Slow to Democratic Frauds. The HOD. John M. Read, Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, lias written the following letter, which speaks for itself, and which will be read with deep interest at the present time : PHILADELPHIA, October 7, 1868, No. 1119 Chestnut street.—My Dear Brother: —ln the early part of the week ending on the 20th of September last I heard casually that the number of naturalizations in Nisi Prius was very large, and on Saturday I was informed that some persons were arrested ; for naturalization frauds in that court. This arrested my attention, and I wrote a note to : iny brother Sharswood, who was holding the ■ court, suggesting certain regulations which were adopted by the courts of New York, giving facilities to any citizen to know who was naturalized on the preceding day, his residence and the name and residence of his voucher, or witness. The suggestion was only partially adopted. Oo Monday, the 28tb, it was stated to me that seven hundred and twenty persons had been naturalized on that day, and that there was strong suspicion of fraud. That evening I wrote and had delivered to the Prothono tary a note requesting him to give me the number naturalized on each day in Septem ber, including the 28th. The next morning I called on brother Sliarswood, and finding his views were so different from mine, I wrote him a letter, which was delivered to him before one o'clock on that day, a copy of which is annexed to this note, marked (A I. Complaints being made that all access to the naturalization papers or records was re fused to respectable citizens, on the nextday (having received fiom the Prothonotary the list I had asked for) 1 wrote another note to my brother Sbarswoud, a copy of which is annexed (marked B). In the proceeding before Alderman Beitler Loionel onowden testified "his duty was to attach his name to the papers when brought to him by the tipstaves ol the court, and he admitted that his uame might possibly be at tached to them without their having been sworn to." The Crier of the Nisi Prius said: "I or Mr. Scbell swear the petitiouers or vouchers, but do not mark the papers so that we can reeoguize them; I have ad ministered within the last ten days from two to four thousand oaths." One of the persons naturalized, named Huninger, swore: "I was in the rebel army from 1862 to 1865; Schnitzel asked me how long I bad been in the country, and I told him; he asked me if I had any citizen paper, and I said no, and he said I could get it without much cost; we went to Nos. 495 and 497 N. Third street, to a Democratic committee; he put his name to a paper aud paid ten cents, and got a ticket. We then came to the j court; Schnitzel also swore to George Minnich; he said taking au oatb was noth ing; at Leckfeldt's ho said, "I can swear fifty times for a glass of beer.' " Another naturalized person, Darned Mul lock, said: "I am forty-two years old; have been at Leckfeldt's fourteen days; I came therefrom New York; a man named Sny der swore I resided here over one year immediately before I made the application, I never s*w him before, nor have I seen him since." Colonel Snowden could not recognize any Ipt the men. It is clear, then, that the whole practical part of naturalization is in trusted to two tipstaves, who, on Monday, 2>th of September, made seven hundred and twenty citizens. During the September Nisi Prius six thousand and eighteen persons were naturalized, of whom two thousand eight hundred aud seventy-two were naturalized during the last week. See paper appended markc-d (C). The opportunities for fraud are, therefore, vastly multiplied by this practice of light ning speed in creating citizens, many of whom understand English very imperfectly. Ihe natural! consequence is, that frauds are committed m the process of naturalization, and papers are afloat which are believed to be forgeries, but are so well executed that the J rothonotary cannot say positively that it is not his own name. It is therefore clearly the duty of the Pro thonotary to ferret out these frauds by every means in his power, and by giving free ac cess to all respectable citizens to examine the naturalization records and papers, in order to assist in their detection. The Pro thonotary of the highest tribunal in the .Mate should not avail himself of any techni cal objection, but throw the whole open to a searching examination. Nothing else will satisfy the community. Applications directly and indirectly were made to me to interfere personally, which I of course declined to do, having no power to control in any way the Judge regularly as signed to hold the Court of Nisi Prius. I however thought it proper, under all the circumstances, to telegraph Judge Agnew, and Judge Williams, who was attending his sick wife in the interior of New York, to come to Philadelphia, which they did. Judge w arrived on Saturday and Judge \V tlltams on Sunday morning; but we did not meet until Monday. After a careful examination of the acts of Assembly ,we were unable to discover any authority to convene a special session of the Supreme Court. The court in banc having risen in July last, without an order of af journment, its next meeting, as prescribed bylaw, will be at Pittsburg, on the third Monday of the month. The judges have been regularly assigned for September and October, we of course had no right to interfere with them. Judge VV illiams not having taken the oath of office for reasons which when made known will be perfectly satisfactory to the community, bis op'hion is not (like Judge Agnew and my self) an opinion of a full judge of the court. We all three regard the practice of natural ization pursued iu the nisi prim , however old or by whatever judges sanctioned, an contrary to the plain words of the acts of Congress, and is therefore illegal. Naturalization is a judicial act, and the examination of the applicant and his witness or voucher should lie conducted by the Judge himself. This was the practice of Judge Agnew when a President Judge, and is the uniform practice of the District Court of Allegheny county. ; Thin will be the opinion of a majority of the Judges of the Supreme Court whenever I Judge Williams takes the oath of office, i I should not have intruded upon you my opinions, or those of Judges Agnew and Williams, were it not necessary that they should be known to you and Brother Sbars wentd, and through you to the community. lou will oblige very greatly by having this read in open court. I am, very truly, y°nr, T T 'John M. READ. Jo lion. James Thompson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. j ,1, No. 1119 CHESTNUT STREET, I'HILADEL TUIA, Sept. 29, 1868. My Dear Brother: Since our conversation this morning I have learned that in the Court of Quarter Ses sions the naturalizations since September 17, ISGS, are about 824; each petition is ap proved and signed by the Judge, and every day. before the office closes, each paper is folded, indorsed and handed to a clerk for index. Of these 824 a number came from the Democratic Committee. Court of Common*Pleas—Naturalizations September 1, ,00. Tho Judge signs every paper. District Court—Naturalizations since Sep tember 1,000, of which 100 were from the DemocraticComuiittee.TheJudge himselfin terrogatcs each applicant and the voucher, aDd many are rejected. ! information is public, not ptivate. I have requested our Prothouotary to inform me how many have in this momh (exclusive of yesterday) been naturalized, and how ni: ,'p y wer . e naturalized yesterday. Ihe information has not been given me and I am, therefore, obliged to rely upon common report which gives the naturaliza tions of yesterday at 720,, and before at 4000, making a total 4720. A single day, therefore, outnumbers the whole naturalization in two courts, and nearly equals them in a third. My own opinion is that the duty is im posed on the Judge of personal examina tion, and that the practice ot the District Court seems to be the nearest approach to a proper execution of the acts of Congress. I am, very truly yours, IT JOHN M. READ. Hon. George obarswood, Supreme Court. (B.) MY DEAR Brother: I hope and tiust every facility will be given to respectable citizens to examine "and take memoranda of the naturalization papers in our court. I un derstand this is the practice in every other • court in the country. The public have a deep interest in know ; ing whom the courts are daily making vo ters, and they are entitled to the knowledge. Every other body concerned in giving quali fications to citizens to entitle them to vote is obliged to do it openly and to make it public. llow much greater then is the duty im posed upon a judicial tribunal, the highest in the State, which is creating citizens, to et all its proceedings be known to 411 its fel low citizens. In New York every citizen can know the names and residences, and the name of the witness of all persons naturalized the pre ceding day in all the courts of the city. The number naturalized and the number re jected by the court upon examination are given. Ihese matters are all published daily jn certainly one, if not more of the public jour nals of that city. J In a republic form of government all ju dicial proceedings, particularly the creation of citizens , should be made known to the community, and this cannot be done if the oourt will not do it, nor allow any person access to its records in order to do it. I am, very truly yours, JOHN M. READ. September 30, 1868. No. 1119 Chestnut street, Hon. George Sharswood, Supreme Court (G) Naturalization in Supreme Court, 1868 : September 14 69 September 26 464 " 15 39 " 28 720 : " 16 4* " 29 518 " 17 102 " 30 428 " 18 110 October 1 476 " 19 191 " 2 484 " 21 395 " 3 254 " 22 381 2 415 Total 601S 2 497 Naturalization du -2 434' ring last week...2872 Naturalization during the same period in— Quarter Sessions i 1400 Common Pleas : 857 District Court 781 Total 3098 HOW COPPERHEAD VOTES ARE MADE. NEW YORK, Oct. 12.— Tin Tribune this evening issues ihe following extra. The facts are obtained from the Police Head quarters, and can lie depended upon; New York city is beiug fast emptied of her roughs to day. Last evening and to day their uglv countenances have been seen congregating around the Camden and Ara boy Railroad depot at the foot of Courtlaodt street, all bound for Philadelphia. These roughs and bullies are the "repea ters,' who intend to swell the Democratic vote in Philadelphia to-morrow, providing they are not apprehended. The police are well aware of their iutention, but are power less to prevent their departure. They have been recruited in almost every ward in the city, and each delegation is headed by a prominent "striker, " who is to receive the lion s share of the funds. There are less by one hundred and fifty Emigrant Runners in the First ward to-day; they call be easily recognized in acrowd. Most of them wear rough pilot-cloth coats, with blue and red flannel shirts, and glaze caps. . fhe "Pudding Gang" from the Swamp, in the Fourth ward, have deserted their haunts, most of them having left in the early train. They have round bullet heads, their hair beiug cut moderately close and combed behind their ears. fhe West Broadway ratiger.s from the ruth ward were wild with delight last night previous to their departure by the Washing ton train; it is sot known under whose gu spices they travel. It is supposed they toot possession of the train. The old Dead Rabbit crowd from the rive Points, and Mulberry street, and from the Sixth Ward, started by tho Aiuboy boat at an early hour this moraine. The old "\\ hite Ghost Runuers" from the I'entli ward have deserted Broome street to earn a square meal of victuals. Much fasting has made the in ravenous, and it will take a plucky Pliiladelphian, with plenty of nerve, to dare challenge them. They went by the way of the Erie Railroad to Great Bend and will reach Philadelphia by a cir cuitous route. A number of them will es cape detection by going this route. By far the largest crowd is the silver fin-; gered gentry that congregate around tho St. ('loud, right under Captain Mills very nose. They expect to "work" many au exciting crowd, beside voting earlv and often. Very few of them are basking in the sunshine on Broadway this afternoon. They all dress with good taste, being very partial to blue eloth walking coats and black pants. Last, but not least, were 150 Metropolitan ban dits, under the notorious Dick Crocker, ail well armed and spoiling for a fight. They hail from the Twenty-first ward. Full 5000 of the most hardened despera does of this city are now in Philadelphia. RESIGNATION OF CHIEF JUSTICE STRONG. Appointment of Hairy IF. William?. HAKRISBURG, Sept. 30. —The following correspondence will explain itself: I'on.ANN.Tin A. Sept. 28.— T0 Ih's Ex eellency , (lot. Ocary: Dear Sir—Accom panying this you will receive my resignation of my office of Judge of the Supreme Court. 1 am constrained to resign, not by any disrel ish for the duties of the Court or for its as ! soeiations, but by a sense of duty to my fain ily, for whom I ought to make some better provisions than I can make in my present ; situation. W hen retiring from the bench, permit me to Bay I feel the deepest interest in the Court, and to express a desire that my successor may be a man in all respects tit for the situation. Such a mart I think you will find in the Hon. Ilenry W. Williams, now a Judge of the District Court at Pittsburgh. Ho was the Republican candidate last fall, i and, in my judgment, no better man can be found. _ 1 earnestly commend to you, and urge his appointment. It is very desirable that the vacancy he filled, so that your ap pointee may join the court when it convenes i at Pittsburgh on the 19th of October next. ! tuu very respectfully and truly yours, W. STRONG, i PENNSYLVANIA EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, Sept. Hi, 1868. — Hon. IFni. Strong: Dear iSir: I have the honor to acknowledge the ! receipt of your letter of the 27 th iivtant, tendering your resignation as judge of the Supreme Court. After careful considera tion, 1 feel myself constrained to accent it. sincerly regretting that the Commonwealth at this important juueture should lie deprived °f. the eminent bearing, integrity and pa- i triotisni with which you have so long adorn ed the Bench. Most respectfully, JOHN W. GEARY. PENNSYLVANIA EXECUTIVE CHAMBER. Ilaxrisburgh, Sept. 30, 1868 — Hon. Henri/ \ W. Williams, Pittsburg. —l hereby tender j you the appointment or Judge of the Su nmmc Court of Pennsylvania, vice Hon. William Strong, resigned. Will you accept? JOHN W. GEARY. TIIE SEYMOUR COUNTERFEIT MONEY.— One of the Seymour counterfeit bills, which we noticed before, having been sent to Gen eral Spinner, the United States Treasurer, at Washington, to ascertain whether it was not a violation of the law establishing the national currency, he referred the matter to Solicitor Jordan of the Treasury Depart ment, whose opinion is. that all such imita tions, for whatever purpose issued, are clearly violations of the law, and all parlies concerned in the issuing or traffieiug in them are liable to fine and imprisonment for so doing. Information has been reoeiv-1 ed that large quantities of this bogus stuff have been passed off upon the negroes of ■ the South, who are assured that it will be as good as any money if Seymour shall be 1' elected. i GENERAL GRANT. After the fall of Vicksburg, General F. P. Blair marie a speech at St. Louis, in i which he said: "You will permit me, I know, comiDg j back from Y icksburg—the scene of our re- j cent conquest —to say what ought to be said, and what not dwells in the heart of every 1 officer and soldier in Grant's army, that to ' Major General Ulysses 8. Grant, is due the great achievements which have been per formed by his army. And when any am. hitiotu and vainglorious chieftain comes back and attempts to claim for himself the great deeds which have immortalized, and ought to immortalize, General Grant, the whole army of Grant, the whole army en \ gaged in that expedition, wiil repel the idea; and we will proclaim everywhere that the leading spirit, the great chief and leader of the expedition, was General Grant. We claim for ourselves only that we sought with cordiality and cheerfulness, with such cour age as we possessed, with such endurance as we were endowed with, to carry out his plans; and we did so successfully." The "vainglorious chieftain" that Blair referred to was General John A. McCler- ! nand, now the head and front of the De mocracy of Illinois. Soon after Lee's surrender, April 11, ' 1865, _ the New York IForfd, now distin guishing itseif by personal abuse of General Grant, said: "General Grant's last brilliant campaign sets the final seal upon his reputation. It i stamps him as the superior of his able an tagonist as well as of al! the commanders who have served with or under him in the great couipaign of the last year. It is not j necessary to sacrifice any part of their well | earned reputations to his. Sheridan and Sherman deserve all that has ever been said in their praise; but there has never been a time since Grant was made Lieuteuant Gen eral, when anybody but Sherman, on our side, could have been classed with him. Since Sherman's bold march through Geor gia, and his capture of Savannah and Charleston, there have been many who, in , their strong admiration of his great achieve ments, inclined to rank him as the greater General of the two. That judgement, we take it, is now reversed by the court of final 1 appeal; not by dwarfing the reputation of Sherman, which suffers no just abatement, I hut by the expansion into grander propor tions of that of Grant." The same article of the B'orM contained the following: General Grant's history should teach us to discriminate better than we Americans are apt to do between glitter and solid worth. Our proneness to run after dema gogues and spouters may find a wholesome corrective in the study of such a wholeseme character as his. The qualities by which great things are accomplished are here seen to have one necessary connection with showy and superficial accomplishments. YVhen the mass of men look upon such a character they may learn a truer respectfor themselves and each other. They are taught by it that i high qualities and great abilities are consis tent with the simplicity of taste, contempt tor parade, and plainness of manners with which direct and earnest men have a strong uatura sympathy. Ulysses Grant, the tan tier, Llysses Grant, the unsuccessful appli- ' cant for the nost of City Surveyor of St. Louis, Ulyssns Grant, the driver into that city of his two-horse team, with a load of wood to tell, had within hint every manly quality which will cause the name of Lieu tenant General Grant to live forever in his tory. His career is a lesson in practical democracy. It is a quiet satire on the dandy ism. the puppyism and the shallows of affec tation of our fashionable exquisites, as well as upon the swagger of our plausible glib i tougued demagogues." i SOUTHERN IDEA OF THE CONSTITUTION. —The massacre at Camilla seems to have whetted rather than satiated the appetite of the Southern Conservatives for blood. The Columbus Sun hopes that "at the next collision sure and speedy vengeance may seek and find the white leaders rather than their ignoraDt and deluded dupes." The Charleston Mercury expresses a desire, in the event of another such an affair, to be able "to chronicle that every white man has been slain." The Southern Opinon, gener alizing its remarks, Camilla massacre as a text, asserts that if Grant is elected "the disciplined cohorts of the South must be marshaled once more, and the issue will be, shall the white or black man rule in the South. YVhen it comes," continues the ! Opinion, "to the last arguement reposed in the musket's muzzle and the bayonet's j point, where will the negro be?" This is ! the ferocious snirit that breathes through all the organs of Blair Democracy in the South. Labor must be subjected to capital, the freed men bound hand and foot and deliver ed up to the tender mercies of their former i masters, and the white men who have stood up declaring for the eouality of all men he fore the law are to be slaughtered, right and left. That is the Southern idea of support ing the Constitution and preserving a repub lican form of government. R AMERICANS IN JAPAN.— Letters from Ycddo state that the Japanese Gevernment has appointed Henry W. Grinnell. late a Lieutenant in the United States navy, to an important position in the navy of the Mi kado. The title conferred is that of Inspec tor General of the Japanese navy, and the salary named is $15,000 per annum. This appointment gives power to arrange school ships, build dockyards, &c., all to be model ed and regulated in accordance with the most approved foreign system. It is cal culated that, out of more than one hundred steamers now owned by the Japanesi prin ces, at least thirty can be relied upon for active service in the new establishment. It is also reported that a similar post in the army has been offered to General Paul Frank, late acting United States Counsi at Cobe (Hiogo). POLITICS IN SUNDAY SCHOOL.—'I he Winterset (Iowa) Madisonian tells a good story on one of the school districts of that county, where the Democracy ,n ' ? ascendant. The people concluded it would be a good thing to establish a Sunday School ' and had a meeting tor that Purpose Lvery thing went on smoothly until the ° purchasing a library came up. One thought they had better buy ot the Baptist Publica tion Society, another of the Methodist, and so on. until finally a Republics suggested as it was a Uniou School, they „hou!d buy of the Union Publication Society. An old, Democrat immediately arose and saidl he thought it a great pity that now a days they must bring politics even into the Sunday School. For his pari he didnt want any Union books !
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