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DEMOCRATIC XOMI.T 1TIOSS.
Foil FEFSIDENT :
HOX HORATIO SKYMOUJt,
OF NEW YORK.
XIt VICE PRESIDENT :
GEN. FRANK P. BLAIR,
OF MISSOURI.
rott aupitor geskiiai. :
HON. CHARLES K. HOYLE,
Of Fait It County.
FOB SPRVKYOR GFNKRAI. :
CEX. WELLINGTON II. EST,
Of Columbia County.
roa coxess :
COL. JOHN V. LINTON, Juhr.stown.
TCtt ltEI'RE.-rjATIV- :
Capt. J Oil N PORTER, Washington Tp.
for i-ROTFfoxoTAnY .
Capt. J. K.IIITC. Johnstown.
roa II?TRICT ATTORSEY :
F. P. TIERS EY, E--q.. Ebensburg.
r, r commissi o.v sr. :
MAURICE M.N AM A HA. .T..hnstown.
por rooB norsc pikectoh :
CHRISTIAN SNYDER, Jackton Tp.
FOR AEXjITOB:
JAMES NULL, Allegheny Tp.
row srEVtTuis :
HENRY SCAN LAN, CarroIIiown.
JoSEi'il M'DoNAia, Eq., oilers bim
ifclf in our paper to-day as an independent
candidate for District Attorney, and we
fet.rpuie that his true friends everywhere
will regret the step which he himself
cannot have decided upon without deep
tbnme and painful remorse. Having ta t
ken the step, however, he mutt abide by j
the defeat and political dishonor which I
awaits him, for when too lata to remedy
th mistake he will discover that the
party which has honored mid sustained
him in days gone by, will now turn from
Lim in houett indignation at his political
recrcur.cy and unfaithfulness at a tinio
when duty more than ever demands that
ell Democrats should be faithful and firm
support of right principles tind" carrcct j
measures.
DeuiU eC Cx-Govscymuur.
Ex-Gororw Thomas II. Scvmourdied
fit l.Ls rciidetico in Hartford, Conn., on
Thursday evenirg last. He was educa
ted nt the Middletown Military Institute,
tt-jJ:,1 1 Kaw, and piT.cticed the prifes?ion ;
was Representative in Congre?s from
Conre?icLt fr.m lu 13 to 1813. In
IS So bo went to Mexico n3 a m:ijor in a
Itv Ejig'aiiu rcime.it, and w:?s promoted
to a colonelcy. In ISOi) ho was elected
Govntrr of Connecticut, and was re
i Icctcd three times; was minister to Rus
sia Jjriig I'iercc's Administration. He
was n prominent member of tho Masonic
fraternity at the time of Lis death. He
was eixty-one years of ago.
TAX I.4YC:iS, REI!
If erer ihe burden of our national debt
is to be removed it will be by the most
rigid economy, and yet Radical extrava
gance is multiplying the dollars of our
debt at a most fearful rate.
We propose to glance at a fer of the
expenditures of the Rnrap Congress, nnd
contract them with former years. The
pc-li have a right to knovr where their
raxen go, and it shall not be our fault if
thcy are not fully informed on this sub
ject. Iu 18C1, tha last year of the war,
whrn tht expanses wouiu be tx
jvcted to reach tha highest figure.
Uij stationary Will for (jongrvfs
amounted to
In 1S68, when there is profound
peace, the Stationery amounts to
433.C00
61 0&0
Increase in fotir years Radical rule.
or much more than doublo.
We next select from Miscellaneous
Document No. 31, 2 J Session, 40th Con
gress :
Amounts received by N. Q. Ord
' way, Serjeant-at-Arms, as per
Clerk's Report. Jin. 1st, 16C9."
foot up the comfortable sum cf $33,169.13
We plain country folks would be at a
lo?3 to know how such n bill couhl be
made up, were the items not furnished
officially by Congress Uself.
The mileage of the Sergant-at-Arms
is ten cents per mile, and this includes
travelling expenses and all other chasges.
Your Sheriff gels only Jour cents a mile.
We do not complain of this the law
gWcs it.
But Scrgeant-at-Arms Ordway has ren
dered a bill for his year's travelling, at
203,403 miles ; or, taking the earth to be
24,000 miles itr circumference, this man
has travelled a distance equal to eight
trips around the earth, and 16,403 on the
ninth round !
Ia addition to this are these if ems :
Horse car tickets. $ 6C.84
Horse aud carriage and street rail
way tickets for the year ending
Jimaary 1st, 1868, , 016.84
J973.68
During the mmo time the boarding of
fcrt man and his assistants are charged
again the country at eight dollars per
day an amount greater than ia charged
at the costlist hotels in our eastern chief.
One night in congress there was no q ic
. rum present, and a call of Ihe house was
-Ordered, The doorkeepers brought in the
itrafgEng member. Our friend, Hoa. A.
A. Barker, the then member from this
district, happened to be absent from his
scat The charge of the Sergeant-at-Arms
for this evening's work was the
soup nome of five dollars for ertch member,
or $577,20 in all, including 222 miles of
mileage, when the whole distance 'ravelled
could not have been five miles, it being all
done in Washington city, and mostly in
the Capital.
We have neither time nor space to go
into a derail of these wholesale stealings
of the people's money. A record of them
would fill i 're volume
Instance the
item of 2,730 penknives, costing ;, 020,
which would give each member of Con
press 15 penknives at over $2 apiece
Now we do not charge, nor do we suppose,
tiiat our member of Congress got the-e fif
teen penknives but if he didn't somebody
did.
The same authority established the fact
that the House expenses for the year lSGo
increased over iViat of 1804, 8128,231 ;
18CG increased over ISfU, S10S.80S ;
18C7 increased over 18Ci, 148,-151, and
18fi8 increased over 1881, $371,923
No wonder that twelve hundred thous
and dollars a year wrung, from the hard j
hand of labor, does not suffice to pay the
interest on our national debt, but that
under Rnd.e rule it goes on increasing j
and multiplying. Let the people apply
the corrective at the polls.
Important Correspondence.
Want of time prevents any comment
upon the following correspondence, which
has been handed to U3 for publication,
but it tells its cwn story so plainly that
we are sure all our readeis can draw their
own conclusions without any aid from us
TiiRASirur Department,
Seorwl Auditor's Ofrioe, Aug. 31, 1868
j!
Dear Matt I have been thinking of
writing to you, fjr some time pnst. in order
to ascertain your precise "slatun'' in regard
to the selection of a Conrt-sntun in your
district. I know your influence iu the North
of Cambtid, and I also know that you and i
Sheriff 1) act, in conceit. If I were a i
candidate I would spare no effort to secure j
your combined influence. j
Am I asking too much in requesting you !
to write to nie in that same Id spirit of j
confidence which, in times gore by, mutually j
animated U4 in ourpoliticalintercour.se. You .
know me to ba the frit u 1 cf Mr. Morrt-11. I '
could u t be otherwise. I am free to s?ay '
that 1 would be most happy if you could give '
him your support. There does not exist the j
shadow of a doubt cf his election, but as the
local interest of Cambria county ib so inti- j
uiatcl3' connected with that election, it is to j
be hoped that the vute wiil give proof of an j
appreciation f that inU-re.-t. j
lri me have y..ur vi" freely and unre- j
served!y. You know that you cin write t j
me in perfect confidence. 8 j
I will write you more at length when I hear
from 3'f'U. Direct yr-ur letter to me in Second j
Auditor's 02i e. Washington. D. C. My j
warmest rec.-irds to Durbin when you see ;
him. Your old fiend, !
Tn .mas A. Maguihe. j
j
CiiESSON, Ta., Sept. 5, 1S03- !
Ii:ar loll lour letter ot the olst tilt, is
before me, and I give it all the weight which
the letter of an old fiiend is entitled to,
more especially as it emanates fiom the
-Traniry Department, Second Auditor's
Ginee,'' at Washington.
You desire to know my "('5'"in regard
to the selection of a Congressman in your
district." J can tell you that in a word, and
I thought you knew me well enough to
know it. I am a Democrat from sincere,
conscientious convic'i .n. I never doubted
for a moment that ths Democratic party
was the only organization to which the des
tinies of this great country couhl be safely
confided, and never were n;y convictions on
that 8'ibjct so strong as they are in the
present fearful condition of our country.
I am for Col. Johk V. Linton for Con
gress and opposed to Mr. Morrell. Person
ally. I believe Mr. Morrelt to be a clever
man. I have nought to urge against him.
He has already been in Congress, more than
a year and I ju'Ige him by his acts and
votes. lie is in favor of negrj supremacy
I am not. He is in favor cf military gov
ernment at the South I am in favor of
peace and union. He voted t degrade and
destroy the President of the United States,
whom Le helped to elect, and whom he
called you and me traitors for opposiuj
four years ago I was and am opposed to
impeachment. He is opposed to tho suc
cess of the Democratic party I am iu favor
of it.
You are candid eDough to let me know
your "glutus.-' You say, "you know me to
be the frivnd of Mr. Morr.ll. I could not
be otherwise."
I am sorry for you. It is deplorable that
a man of your mind thould place himself in
a position in which he cannot exercise his
best judgment. Fortunately for myself, I
am under no personal obligations to either
candidate, and can take an impartial view
of them and their principles, which you ad
mit 3 ou cannot do. And I am sure in your
bonester moments ycu must regret that by
accepting uplacc under Mr. Morrell you have
prevented yourself from supjorting Col.
Linton, a man who, in addition to the rec
titude of his principles, adds the the great
est purity of character a man who has
grown up amongst us and knows our wants
a man who bared bis bosom in the hour
cf his country's need, and bears on his pers
on enduring marks of bravery a man who
is morally, at least, the equal of Mr. Mor
rell, and mentally far his superior a man
who has the advantage cf Mr. Morrell in
every qualification except thos3 of wealth
and power.
I shall present your "warmest regards"
(Oh. how warm they are ! ) to Sheriff Dur
bin, and you can rest assured that fie will
lie found where I am, and where you were
in better days. Your former friend,
M. M. Adams.
. .The Radicals are not quite so jubi
lant over the Vermont election as they
were a day or two ago. Later and more
definite returns reduce their majority con
siderably below the fir.t reports, while they
show a vast increase in the Democratic
vote. The same ratio of increase will
givo every important Northern State to
tho Democrats.
. . A western newspaper reports that the
corn in Iowa has grown so fall this sum
mer that a man oh horseback cannot reach
the tasida of the stalks.
Sulpher Springs Correspondence.
Gen. Rosecrans' Letter to Gen. Lee.
rtfcrLY OF GEX. LEE AND OTHER DISTIN
GCISMKD eOCTHEIiXEKS.
The following correspondence fully ex
plains the purpose of Gen. Rosecrans' late
visit to the Virginia White Sulphur
Spiings, in relation to which there has
hern so much idle newspaper gossip.
The correspondence exhibits in a very
clear liiiht the sentiments and disposition
of the intelligence of the South, and ought
to act ns an antidote to the poisonous
j si.,in,; rg 4)f the Radical press, which con-
tinu illv misrepresents Jnd falsifies them.
GENERAL EOSECRAKS 1 GENERAL LEB.
White Sulphur Spri gs, W. V., Aug.
26. 18o8. General: Full of solicitude for
the future of our country; I come with my
heart in my haud to learn the condition,
withes and intentions of the people of the
Southern States especially to ascertain the
sentiment of that body of brave, energetic
and self-sacrificing men who, after sustaining
the Confederacy for four years, laid down
their aims and swore allegiance to the Gov
ernment of the Utdted States; wnose trusted
and bi loved leader you have been.
I see that interpreting "States' rights" to
conflict with national unity has produced a
violent rca .tion against ihcin, which is drift
ing us towards consolidation ; and also that
so great a country as ours even new is, cer
tainly is to be, nii:st have State governments
io attend to local details, or go farther and
fare worse.
p. is plain to us at the West and North
that the continuance of semi-anarchy, such
ts has existeil for tho last three years in ten
States cf our Union, largely increas. the
danger of centralism, swells our rational
expenditures, diminishes our productions
and our revenues, inspires doubts of onr
political and financial stability, depre-.i ttes
the value cf our national bonds and currency,
and places the credit of the richest below
that of the poorest nation in Christendom.
We know that our currencj' must bj de
preciated so long a? our bonds are below
par ; and that therefore the v.vt business
and emmerce of the country must suffer the
terrible evil of a fluctuating btandard of
value until we can remedy the evil condition
of thms at the South. We also see other
mischief quite possible, if not probable, to
arise ; such as from a failure of crops, a heal
insurrection, and many other unforeseen
contingencies which may still more depreci
ate cur credit ar.d currency, provoke dis
content and disorder am mz our people, and
bring demagogical agitation, revolution,
repudiation, aud a thousand unnamed evils
and villauies upon us. We know that the
interests of the people of the South are for
law and order, and that tl.ey must share our
fate of good and ill.
I lieli-ve- every one, I know, who re
flects, believes that if the people of the
Southern States could bo at peace, and their
energy aud good will heartily applied to re
pair the wastes of war, reorganize their
business, set the freedmen peacefully, pros
perously and contentedly at work, ir.vite
capital, enterprise aud labor from elsewhere
to cotne freely amongst them, they would
i
i
soon rebuild their ruined fortunes, multiply
manyfotd the value of their lands, establish
public confidence in our political ttability,
bring our government bonds to a premium,
our currenc3" to a gold standard, and assure
for themselves and the whole nation a most
happy and prosperous future.
Seeing this, and how all just interests
concur in the woik, I s-6k the cfiiceis and
soldiers who fought for the Union ask
every thinking man of the great West and
North a.-ks why it cannot be dot e ?
We are told b3' thoe who have controlled
the government for tha last four years that
the people of the South will not do it that
if ever done at all. it must be dene by the
poor, simple, uneducated, landless freedmen
and the few whites who, against the public
opir.ion and fentitmnt of the intelligent
white pec'ple, are willing to attempt to lead
and m;ke thir living off of these ignorant,
inexperienced colored people; mostly men
who mu-t be needy adventurers, or without
any of those attributes on which reliance for
good guidance or government can be 1 1 iced.
We are told that this kind of government
must be continued at the South until six or
eight millions of intelligent, energetic white
people give in to it or move out of the coun
try Now, I think the Union army thinks,
and people of the North and West, I dare
say, believe there must be, or there ought
to L, a shorter or a surer way to get good
government for all at the South.
Wc know that they who organized and
sustained the Southern Confederacy for four
years, against gigantic efforts, ought to be
able to give peace, law, order and protection
to the whole people of the South.
The3T have the interest aod the power to
employ, protect, educate and elevate the
poor freedmen, and to restore themselves
and our country to all the blessings of which
I have just spoken. The question we want
answered is, are they willing to do it?
I came down to find out what the people
of the South think of this, and to ask you
what the officers and soldiers who served in
the Confederate army, and the leadirg peo
ple who sustained it, think of these things.
I come to ask more. I want to psk -ou.
in whose purity and patriotism j hee ex
press unqualified coifider.ce, and as man3
good men as you can conveniently consult,
to say what you thiuk of it, and also, what
you are willing to do about it.
I want a written expression of views that
caa be followed by a concurrence of action.
I want to know if you and the gentlemen
who will join in that written expression are
willing to pledge the people of the South to
a chivalrous and magnanimous devotion to
restoring peace aud prosperity to cur com
mon country. I want to carry that pledge
high abeve the level of party politics, to the
late officers and soldiers of the Union army,
and the people of the North and West, and
to ask them to consider it, and to take the
necessary action, confident that it will meet
with a response ao warm, so generous and
confiding that we shall 6eo iu its sunshine
the rainbow of peace in our political sky,
now black with clouds and impending storm.
I know you are a representative man, in
reverence and regard for the Union, the
Constitution and the warfare of the country,
and that what you would say would be en
dorsed by nine tenths of the whole people
of the South, but I 6hould like to have the
signatures of all the representative Southern
men here who concur in your views, and ex
pressions of their concurrence from the prin
cipal officers and representative men through
out the South, when they can be procured.
This concurrence of opinions and wills, all
tending to peace, order and stability, will
assure our Union soldiers and business men,
who want substantial and solid peace, and
cause them to rise above the level of party
po'itics, and take such steps to meet yours
as will insure a lasting peace, with all its
countless blessings.
Very truly, your friend.
(Signed) W. S. Rosecranr
General It. E. Lee, White Sulphur Springs,
,'Wcat Virginia.
rkply cf okskhai, i.f.e.
White Sulpucr Spkisgs, Wkst Virgin
ia, Aug. 12G, 18tS8. General : T have had
tho honor to receive your letter of this date,
and, in accordance with your suggestion, I
have conferred with a number of gentlemen
from the South, ia whose judgment I have
coiifi-led, aDd who ora well af qua:ntea with
the public sentiment rf their respective
States. They ha voikindly consented to unite
with me inVeplying to your communication,
and their names will be found with my own
i appended to this answer.
vvith this fxplai.ati n we proceed to Rive
you a catidid statement of what we believe
to he the sentiment of the S-'tithe. n peop'e
iu rt pird to the uij ct to which you rfer
Whatever opinions nav have Drevailed in
the past in regard to African s'averv. or the
right of a State to secede from the Union, we
believe we exrre-s the almost unanimous
, .i e i ii
judgment of the Southern pecide when we
i , .i , .i . , ?, ' ,
declare that thev consider that those ques-
tions were decided by the war. and that it is
their intention in good faith to abide bv that
decision. At the close of the
oe wcly me oomn-
em people laid down their arms and nought
to resume their former relations with the
United iStates Government.
Through their State Convention, they
abolbhed slavery' and annulled their ordi
nance ot Recession, and they returned to
their peaceful pursuits with a sincere pur
pose to fulfill all their dines under the Con-
stitutior. of the United States, which they
had sworn to sunnort. If their action in
these particulars had been met in a spirit of
frankness aud cordiality, we believe that ere
this old irritations would l ave passed away,
and the wounds inflicted l.3' the war would
hive. leen in a sreat measure hal-M. As
r i r i .u ' ? r .u c .!
far as we are advised, the people cf the South
,....-..,: r.:...i!.. r,...i; ..
entertain no unfriendly feeling toward Ihe
Government of the united States, but tbey
complain that their rights under the Gnsti
tution are withheld from them in the adniin-t.-tration
thereof.
The idea that the Southern people are
u . .-.. n . : '
lii'Mi.i: w loc iir"iue. huh whuu ouuress I
. . , . i
mem i it were n tn-ir power to no so, is
entirely unfounded. 1 hey have grown up
in our m:dst. and we have been accustomed ,
from childhood to look upon them with kind
ness. The change in the relations of the two
races has wrought no change iu our feelings
toward them. They still constitute the im
portant part of our laboring population.
Without their lalor the lands of the South
would be comparatively unpioductive.
Without the employment which Southern j
! agriculture affords they wou'.d be destitute
oi me means oi suosibtfr.ee, ana uccome puu ,
I Pendent on public bounty. .
j e.f-intertst even if there were no higher '
; motives would then fore prompt the white? j
of the South to ext. nd to the negroes care
and protection. 1 he important fact that the !
two races are, under extstuig circumbtances, :
i nei.e-.Miry to ertcu oiner, is firiioudoy occuui-
ing apparent to both ; and we believe that
but for influences exerted to stir up the pas
sions of the negries. the relations of the two
races would soon adjust themselves on a batio
of mutual kindness and advantage-
It is true that the people of the South, to
gether with the people of the North and
Weft, arp, for obvious reasons. oppcseJ to
any system of la ws which would place the j
, r " i- -- .. .... ......v. v.. j
i me nero race, dji ims opposition springs
I from no fhng of enmity, but from a deep- ,
j M-a.en couv.ci ou ai precu-. ioe m-groes
ficatiors w hich arc nect s.-ary to make them
c .
sat,- ftepoMtones oi poiiticai power. lney I
would inevitably become the victims of dem- ; tWl,ilia Convention in June. 1S65.
agognes, who, for se.fish purposes, would . , , ... . . . v
mislead them to the serious injury of the! And the editor of that journal says Ji
puh'ic. tonally :
The great want of the South is peace. The I We have the evidence that Colfax was iu
people earnes
estly de-ire tranquility and tho j
cf the Ui-iou. They deprecate j
restoration
disorder and excitement, as the most strious
obstacle to their prosperit'.
They ask a ret o.atiou of their rights undar
the Cnstituti.)ii. Thej"desire relief from op
pressive misrule. Above fell, they would
appeal t: their counts-men for the ' re-esMb-lishment
in the Southern States of that
which has justly been regarded as the birth
right of every American the right of self
government. Establish these on a firm basis,
and we can safe!3 promise on behalf of tho
Southern people that they will faithfully obey
the Constitution and laws of the United
States, treat the negro with kindness and
humanity, and fulfil every duty incumbent
on peaceful citizens loyal to the Constitution
of tlK-ir county.
We believe the above contains a succinct
reply to the general topics embraced in your
letter, and we venture to say, on behalf of
the Southern people, and of the officers and
soldiers of the late. Confederate Army, that
they will concur in all the scutiments which
we have expressed.
Appreciating tho patriotic motives which
have prompted your letter, and teciprocating
j-our expressions of kind regard, we have the
honor to be, very resr ectfuliy and truly,
R. E. Lee, Virginia.
G. T. Beauregard, Louisiana.
Alexander II. Stephens, Georgia.
Alexander II. II. Stuart, Virgiuia.
C. M. Conrad, Louisiana.
Sinton Stephens, Georgia.
A. T. Caperton. West Virginia.
John Echols, Virginia.
F. S. Stockdale, Texas.
F. W. Pickens, South Carolina.
Win. J. Robinson, Virginia.
Josrph R. Anderson, Virginia.
Willian F. Turner, West Virgiuia.
C. II. Subee, South Car. lina.
E. Fontaine, Virginia.
John Letcher, Virginia.
P. C. Adams, Mississippi.
W. J. Green, North Carolina.
Lewis E. Hanie, Virginia.
P. W. Daniels, Jr.. Virginia.
W. T. Sutherlin, Virgiuia.
A. B. James, Louisiana.
Toulant B( auregard. Texts.
M. O. II. Nort n. L misiaua.
T. I. B ame. Georgia.
II. T. Russell, Georgia.
Samuel J. Douglass. Florida.
Jeremiah Morton, Virginia.
John B. Baldwin, Virginia.
George W. Boiling. Virginia.
Theodore F. Omway, Virginia.
James Lyons, Virginia.
To General W. S. Rosecrans, Minister to
Mexico, White Sulphur Springs. Virgiuia.
In 1861, Colonel IL S. Grant wrote to
a friend : I am a Democrat ; every man
in my regiment is a Democrat, and when
I shall be convinced that this war has for
its object any other than what I have
mentioned, or the government designs
using its soldiers to execute the purposes
of the abolitionist?, I pledge you my hon
or as a soldier that I will carry ray sword
on the other side and cast my lot with the
Southern people." The soldiers were used
to execute the purposes of the abolitionists,
and the Radical party aro doin? their bid
ding at the present time ''outside of the
Constitution," yet General Grant has
broken his pledge of honor as a soldier, is
the candidate of that party for tho Presi
dency, and lias no policy to put in oppo
sition to that of Congress. Is such a man
worthy of support ?
Ta CoJr.tx u ftoovr Nothing t
The Examiner and other Radical news
paiers are endeavoring to cover up the
know-nothing record of Schuyler Colfax.
, Ttmt thcy a5t)atnea of w! fa
' , . , . . -
,-T,""cu ,r signmcant indication.
Tliey quote a speech which M. Colfax !
delivered imraediattiy after hid arrival t
his home a short time since, as conclusive
evidence that their candidate for Vice
President never was a member of the in
fatuous know-nothing organfzation. We
j have read that speech, and we are fully
i convinced that it is a disingenuous trick.
I gt-ttcn up t deceive. It is a lie in terms
if not in cx;ict words. Mr. Colfax says :
r,,. . ,, ,t 7
lonhrr. Know that there hag not been an
; ,. , , ,:, , . , " T ,
i elecnn Jvr the past Iteelce yrart that I Itar
i ,,,-, tf . ... , , , , ,,
TclrLl l " wf " cl,eejM'
t 'L?i?t ?" .'' t?"ed,Jr 'l?'1
r -.i i?
I hat is his defensa. Mark now the)
trick there is in it. "V the just t-ilce
yean"' is the time he fixes, duiins which I
he has nut refused to vote for forei mers or '
i Catholic?. Twelve years' That take
os back , f, f f jg-g T
. , , , lc-- . . I
j ntluJe 1 Sol and 18oo, the years when
I know-nothingtsm was most ratnnnnt. nor !
; 'he summer of 185G. His denial is only
as to time, and the limit is put in so as to
save Lim from leirg shown to have ut- I
I tered a barefaced falsehood. It is disin-
1 zenuous, uncandid and unmanlr. and
i - , uiamj, woo
: Stamps ;iir. LOilax ns n m:in larltinr in
. n ...
piincijj.e anu honor. A correspondent of
the N. Y. Freeman's Journal, spcuking of
this matter says :
ilr. Colrnx well keew that tLe newspa- I
pers of June, 1855, would .how, and many j
li.n..,-, ,, :,.... .... . . v
'"- ran imiiiv, iua ne was an t
active vr..luMnt member of the Know- j
X,.rhiog National O.uncil. which met, in I
strrt, .i..,. ;,. PLjiad-tr.!.;, .-.. i .
of Jun, It was well kn.wn, at the 1
i time, that only the most trusted of the secret j
; order gained admission to that Council ; that j
for several days, nothing was pub'kly j
i known of its proceedings, or who wen dele- j
j gati.o to it. A Philade'phia correspondent j
wicte: "A lariie number of trent einen of:
tvt-., ..,;..,.... y"ro OB,i ,i, ..i ;mnr.
sion rms t ;lie that tll " intimate ac-
inuintancescf the mysterious; and ubiquitous '.
,s;lm. About the 1 1th June, the orgu.iza- :
.-, was vled by the eiecVion of tbe .
ofQcerSt atJ)1 a (i,ramittee on a Platform wa. 1
aun,.UI(0.i. TLc second nania on that Com "
miltct: Was "Colfix, of Indian." Ti.c er- '
. t-t i thflt .Mp r. !.. th :
j member of Congress elect, wants a platform
! to huit Northern Indiana' The n..jurity
' overruled Mr. Colfax, and reputed a pJat
: form that did rot suit Northern Indiuafe
j Mr. Colfax and the uiinority of theCottia.il
; tee made a minority report, which being
' rtjected, he aid othtrs eub.-equently aban
doned the American party, ae they then
in)ft t ) .ro.r. t-r. j . uti uvVunt tf K-i v.w
of the Slavery question J went oi and joined
rl,e raoicai anotitionists, ami nominateJ
i'r,n, Ti.i. ;. y. r.'fv'c tr,, rr.
;,,,t ftn(eru,r to .thl, ,,aiit twelve years." f
will he, or Ids friends, tow (1-ny that in
iqj.u Jift Wjs a.ratnj ixdow .Morning f ask
George D. Prentice, of the LcaUtille Jmr-
nar wil(, was with t. Qlfax in the Phi)-
the "Know Nothing" party, and in the de- j
giees, "away up," in that iefamous coo-j
spiracy. nnd that ho only diliered trotn it
when "Sam" the slang pbrase for ail that
was prescriptive did not accept the adjunct
and become Sambo.
Our correspondent, whose letter is on the
fin.t page, may be right. But, cur casual
impression is that tha 3-ear he refer to is
185C, and not 1855. At the place, and mo
ment we write, we canuot verify this. Rut
we are certain of the fact that Gdfax was
one of the leading Know-Nothings at the
Convention.
This fixes it that he war a Ivnew-Nothing !
They did not their work negligently. Tbey
put their oicn seal on their doings.
Our own honest conclusion in that Colfax
is a sworn brother of the nowNothing cr
ffaniz-ilion, and that, while trying to fool one
other Frenchman, he is hostile to Catholics,
and plaj-s the hypocrite when he pretends to
be their friends.
That the convention alluded to was
held in Philadelphia, and that Colfax was
a prominent member of it is matter of
political record. It cannot be denied.-:
I low dipicabl'3 then must the Radical
candidate for Vico President seem in the
eyes of all honest men, when he stands
before the world, guilty of framing such a
sneaking falsehood as that by which he
attempted to eecape the deserved odium of
having been a leader in the infamous and
prescriptive Know-Nothing party. The
truth i Mr. Colfax is a professional politi
cian, and a tricky and dishonest one at
I that. He has boxed the political com-
pass, and has borne jn turn all tbe aliases
i by which the opposition to the Iemocratic
party has been distinguished, from ihe
days, of Whiggery down lo the present
! time. That he was a Know-Nothing
i there can be no doubt. Tiie proof is be
i yond controversy, and his quibbling
I speech at South Rend can only damage
! him by showing how little regard he has
! for truth, and making it plain to the peo
j pie what a contemptible political trickster
lis is. Lancaster InteWjenct r.
now Do You LiukIt! I o order to
givo the honest men who are blindly fal
lowing the lead of tbe Radicirls, f5c4 oi
the doings of the carpet-baggeri in the
South, we give the following extract from
a hr-.-anguo of a Mastnchusetta negro,
named Elliott, now a member o tbe
South Carolina Legislature. Tke speech
was delivered at a Radical meefinj heI4
at Sumter, on tho 24th n't , at which
speeches containing scnticn l equally as
incendiary in their character were de
livered by two other colored members of
the Legislature, both from Massachusetts,
and one of them a pretended preacher.
Speaking of the Democrats, Elliott eaid :
"Let me tell you, the best th'ng you can
do i-j to kill them, and when you bury thena,
I want you to bury tLem with their lacee
downwards, and so deep that whoa the arch
angel's trumpet shall blow and all the dead
arise, they won't rise to l.ast"ndjwither
God' creation, but will go on. down, down,
down."
Farmers, mechanies, working men,
fioso of you who are supporting the Radi
.cal party, how do you like such oo-labor-
e.-s ! Can anything good come out of
incendiary language like this ?
Political and Xew Item.
. .The Toledo WtzJc predicts a decline
in (he price of wheat nnd flour, and advises
farmers not tn hold their crops for a rise.
..An Indian burial grTund was lately
dog up on tho Little Red river, Arkansas.
The skeletons found there nre of great size,
some uf them tiht feet in lergth.
. . Fourt-ien thousand people in the Red
river country, north cf the Minnesota, are
in danger of starvation, grasstropperM hav
ing made nlinoH a clean sweep of their j
crops. J
..Archbishop Kenrick, of St. LouU, i: i
is said, hss in?trutted the Catholic clergv 1
of his archdiocese lu denounce planchette, ';
and warns Catholics that if thev do no: i
desist from its use, after reasonable ad-
monition, they will be excotnmucicared
from the chun h.
..During the eight years of Radical j
rnle they have stolen money enough to
pay all the actual expenses and three
limes tne lionpt and ieeitunate expenses
cf the lute war. And they are Making
tlio privilege oi Mealing tor lour years
more. AH the iidicntiona are that the j
people are not willing.
. .The Radical Revenue Commissioner j
Rollins, who, like Stanton, re fu to re- j
sign a position he is unfit to fill, has been
arrested for inspiring with other Ritdical t
thieves to defraud the Government. His i
political friends f.re trying ;o make light j
of the matter. That is the way they treat
all such transactions. t
..The late Q'leen of .M.s.Tasasear tvns!
buried in a silver coffin worth $30,000,
and- a box of coin, which it took fifteen
men to carry, was buried with her. The
mourning rrq iire? all her subjects to sh ive
their heads and go barefoot for ninety day?.
Tber must kls leep on the grouni nnd
do no work for that tim1.
..A lady named White, living two
tnilfS from Spring Hill, Maury county,
Tenn , one day last week, gave birth to
four mala children, weighing in ljn ngsre
gnte twenty-three pounds, and wl formed
and healthv. She has been married about
three years, ha? a child now fifteen months ;
old, which weighed two hundred and nine
poinn.Is two wpeks ago.
. .The largest planing machine in fh
Ui-itv-d States, if not in lh world, it
utated, has just ben coai'pleted tit the
Ckirercment workJn.p in Charlestown,
blirt. It tun U en several yettrs in build-ina-.
It will piano a mass of iron forty
fi-e't ia kith, twenty foet in width, and
twetrty U-9t in bright. One of tbe bod
pieces weighs over forty tons.
. . I'inchbaek, the negro SS- nator of
Loubdnna who recently declared that if
the negroes were not r Mowed to h.ve
their own way, 3 thousand torehts would
be Rpftl!"i! to the City of New O. letm.
recvived his trainir in the woikhoi se. '
In 13C2 he wae rieI and sentenced to ')
that u-stiUfIoQ for two years. A noting i
champion for the Radical theory. '-Let
..On Sitordav night a horrid murder i
was committed in Sharrrslurg, Ant ghenv'
, , i I
county. Th U ttm wae i,hot through
the hentt while sitting in his own house
by an onknown man. Two Germans,
named Christ, lioch and Ana t I-ernon.
were arrested next morning
on suspicion
The victim
of
coromitting
the deed.
leave", a wife and grown up family.
That miserable milk-sop Geary has j
been making speeches out in the western j
part of the .State, in which he abuses bet
ter nnd abler soldiers than himself, becnuse
they support Seymour and lV.air. Geary
cannot speak ten consecutive sentences of
grammatical English to save his life. He
is an ignorant, malignant and conceited
ass, nnd bis own party are ashamed of him
wherever he goes. They bad better tie
him up.
. .Notwithstanding the rainy weather
ten thousand poople assembled in New
York on Monday afternoon to witness the
great match Iwtweei tho champion clubs,
Atbletic and Atlantic First inning?,
Athletic 2 ; Atlantic nothing. Second
inning", Athletic nothing ; Atlantic 4.
Third irnings, Athletic 4 ; Atlantic '2
Fourth inning?, Athletic 2 ; Atlantic
nothing. Fifth inning?. Athletic 1; At
lantic 2. Sixth innings. Athletic 14;
Atlantic 8. Seventh innings. Athletic 9;
Atlanta? nothing; Eighth innings. Athlet
ic 5 ; Atlantic 1. Total. Athletic S7 t
Atlantic 13. The battin- of the Athletic
on the sixth, seventh and eighth innings
was tremendous, and said to be the best
ever witnessed in any previous match in '
tue country
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NEW FIRM, NEWBUILDINGS, tic.
HAVING purchased the well known EB
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Glare, auJ lebuilt aud enlarge! it almost en
tire'y, beside refitiing it with new machinery,
the i-ubscfibcrs a:e now prepared to furnish
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THRESHING MACHINES. MILL GEAR
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and PLOUGH CASTINGS, and in fact al
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Foundry. Job Work ot" all kind attended to
promptly and done cheaply.
The special attention of Farmers is invited
to two newly patented PLOUGHS which we
p08OM tbe sole riiit to manufacture and sell
11 tLis eounty, enc which are admitted to be
tb beat ever introduced to the public.
-believing ourselves capable of performing
eny wotk iu our line in the moot satisfactory
U-.iT.er, and knowing tht we can do work at
lower paiccs toon have been charged in this
oominurJty heretofore we confidently hope that
we will be found worthy of liberal patronage.
F.-ur reductions made to wholesale dealers.
t3TThe highest pi ices paid in cash for old
metal, or castings given io exchange.
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-septemoer next :
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Eating House -Geo. Heuser and A. Krause,
3d ward, Johnstown Bor.; John Belzaer, Con.
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Quarfc John C rouse, 3d ward. Johnstown.
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