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Satukday Moumsg, : : Jci.y 1, 1871.
Wb publish I liis week the first address of
tlie Drnxcratic State Committee. It is from
the able ami caustic pen of Judge Jkreiiiaii
S. Black, aud is a masterly production.
Lie gees etraight for his object, audjjjin his
Own peculiar style, arid never fails to hit ii
It if? refreshing to read such plain fin J vigor
ous Saxon.
Is reference to tho cancer curing propen
sities of the Cundurango tree, about which
we published a lengthy article last week,
wo lay before our readers a circular which
has just been published by the Department
cf State. Although tho first supply of the
wood has been exhausted, tho government
will very soon receive a large amount of it.
when its merits will be fully tested :
The State Department has reeeired a large
number of letters from parties in different
parts of the country asking to be supplied with
some of the Cundurauso, the recently discov
ered cancer remedy, brought to the attention
of the government by the Ecuadorian minister.
The applicants nre answered by circulars, as
follows: Sir "J n compliance with your wishes
I enclose a copy of correspondence which has
p;ised between this deparfmenf , the minister
of Ecuador, credited to the United States, an!
the minister of the United States at Quito,
relative to the discovery of a vegetable called
Cunderargo. The limited supply of plant with
which this department was furnished ha.- been
exhausted." It is said by Dr. Bliss, of this
city, who has charge of the experiment, that
the remedy has been successful in all cases in
which it has been administer? J.
Tite Ohio Radical Convention met last
week and nominated Col. Edward F. Noyes
for Governor. After the return of the San
Domingo Comtni.-sioner3, Ren Wade, who
was one of the illustrious trio, was put for
ward as the Grant candidate for Governor
of that State. Benjamin published a letter,
in which he aid, like Barkis, that he was
willing. A fhort time afterwards, fearing
the unseaworthiness cf the Grant t-bip, he
declined to take passage in her. Very late
ly, however, he relented, and returning to
his first love, said again that he was willing
and would accept the nomination. The
votes cast for him in the convention wade too
lightly iu the balance to do Benjimin any
good. Indeed, we think that more votes
were cast for that ubiquitous individual.
Scattering, than for Wade. Neither did the
convention endorse the San Domingo swin
lie, nor did It re-nominate Grant. Tho
Democrats expected the Bucke3e Radicals to
re-enact the dodge so successfully played
by Peter C. Shannon in the Radical conven
tion of the State and had strong hopes it
would have been done. As it is, the Ohio
Radicalshave unceremoniously buried Wado,
San Domingo and Grant in one common
political grave. iSic transit.
Tlie M:tt!i IleNQlution.
Whilo all tho Democratic papers In the
State, without a Eingle exception, recognize
tho eminent fitness of the nominees of the
Harrisburg convention, and give them an en
thusiastic support, opposition has been man
ifested in certain quarters to what is known
ns tho nintli resolution of tho platform.
That resolution is in tho following words:
Resolved, That we recngniz-j the binding
obligation of all the provisions of the Consti
tution of the United States as they now exist,
and we deprecate the discussion of issues
which have been settled in the manner and by
the authority constitutionally appointed.
Although much might be said about the
inexictand bnngling phraseology of the con
cluding portion of the resolution, against
which wc enter our protest, the substance
of the resolution meets our approval. One
would suppose from the excited tone and
temper of thoio who find fault with it, that
th'.3 resolution was the peculiar offspring cf
the Ilarrisburg convention, whereas in point
of fact precisely tho same sentiment was
embodied iu tho platform of the Virginia
conservatives two years ago, and on which
they defeated the Radical party and elected
Governor Walker. It has, therefore, a re.
spectablo parentage.
In the address to the people of the United
States by tba Democratic members cf Con
gress at the close of tho last ses-ion, some
weeks before the Ilarrisburg convention, the
ull scopd aud meaning of tho ninth resolu
tion were expressed and urged upon the
Democracy of the Union Lr their acceptance.
They deemed it wiso policy, aud so thought
tho Ilarrisburg convention. Since then the
position assumed by the Democratic Con
gressional Address has been endorsed by the
Democracy of Ohio, Tenucssec, Wisconsint
California, New Mexico, aud Maine, and will
eventually become the acknowledged rule of
action of the Democratic party everywhere,
unless it should be stricken with judicial
blindness.
The nitnh resolution, while it does not en
dorse the fifteenth ameudmeut, recognizes
its binding force, and that negro suffrage is
a doad issue. It simply acquiesces in it as
ft fixed political fact, without sanctioning
the bate and fraudulent means resorted to
by the Radical party to procure its ratifica
tion. Politics, like misery, make a man ac
quainted with strange bedfellows, and one
is often compelled to acquiesce in that to
which he is bitterly opposed. All democrats
for example, acquiesce in the legal tender act,
and will do 60 until it is repealed aud yet
there is not a Democrat from Maine to Ore-,
gon who believes that Congress had any
authority under the constitution to enact it.
What do the enemies of tho ninth resolu
tion expect to accomplish by a continued
agitation of the question of negro suffrage?
Will that mode of warfare, as tho two par
tie? now stand in Congress and are likely to
stand for somo years in the Senate at least,
strike the fifteenth amendment from tho
constitution and take the ballot from the
negro? No! Why then agitate the ques
tion and make it a party issue in the next
Presidential campaign ? To d0 eo is just
slut Horton od other Radical loaders con-
fidently expected, and what they boastingly
predicted the Democracy would do. That
course wotdd inevitably defeat ns in 1872,
and tho refusal of the Democratic party to
be caught in tho web woven "for it by the
Radical ppidcr lias dissipated all the bright
dreams cf a Radical victory, based on the
insane folly of its opponents. By Ignoring
the fifteenth as well as tho other two amend
ments from the next Presidential contest,
the Democracy will place that struggle pro
Ciselyjwhere the Radicals did net expect and
do not desire it on tho sins of Grant's weak,
unsatisfactory, despised and corrupt admin
istration. Living issues press upon ns and demand
our serious reflection and energetic action.
Let the dead past bury its own d?ad. Dj
not. as the gifted Yailandighnm said, tie the
Democratic party to a corpse. If that par
ty, by a united and vigorous effort, cannot
strike down the consolidated despotism which
is purely overshadowing what of constitu
tional liberty is left if it cannot conquer
and drive from power tho present adminis
tration by assailing it at its innumerable de
fenceless points that result, in our judg
ment, cannot be brought about either by the
discussion or agitation of negro suffrage.
Jolm Scott's Committee.
The committee appointed by Congress, of
which John Scott is the chairman, to inves
tigate so-called Southern outrages, is rapidly ,
coming to grief. Its unsatisfactory perform
anca h;i3 not come up to the Ligh-soundicg
tono of the manifesto. At Washington it
has come to be regarded as a miserable fail
are. This result was predicted at the ont
eet, and if the committee had made a per
sonal visit to the alleged insurrectionary
districts in the South and taken tho testi
mony of respectable and competent wit
nesses on tho spot, instead of sitting at
Washington, the true state of affairs could
have been perfectly ascertained and its dis
comfiture would thereby have been tho more
complete. Of coue some evidence has been
procured from interested and untrustworthy
sources, which at first sight would appear
to answer the foregone purposes of the com
mittee, but wheh the truth has been elicited
theso damaging statements are found in
somo instances to bo greatly exaggerated and
in others wholly invented. A studious ef
fort has been made by tho majority of the
committee to prove the existence of the "Ku
Klux Klan" in Alabama and that grievous
and atrocious outrages have been commit
ted by its masked adherents on peaceable
and including citizen?. The attempt has
proved abortive, the evi.Ionco of thoso most
likely to know establishing the fact that
the people of Alabama are obedient to the
law and that there exists in that State am
plo security to life and property. On yes
terday week, IIou. Richard BusteeJ, former
ly of New York, who was appointed Judge
of the United States District Court of that
State by President Lincoln, was examined
by the committee. The following ia a con
densed report of his testimony, and u di
rect aud to the point :
Washington, June 23. lion. Richard Bus
teed, Uuited Scute District Judge of Alabama,
was examined to-day. In reply to a fjuestion
by tiie chairman, he said he had been told con
fidentially a year and a half ago by a citizen
of Uiiiitsviile tint there was a Ku L'iix organ
ization in the northern part of the State. Llis
informant, however, did not tell him the ob
ject, nor did he know from auy other source.
Jle believed now there was no such organiza
tion iu that State. Ilaving been asked whether
there was any danger to perion or property,
ho rey lied, these were as safe as in any other
State in the Ui.ion. Since the administration
of Goverrnr Limlsnv, and the retirement of
Governor William II. Smith, public quiet and
tranquility were essentially preserved. As to
the character of the persons holding subordin
ate official positions under the State constitu
lion, he said it was geuerally notoriously bad
both as to inelligenee and honesty, lie had
been in the State since 183, having previously
been appointed judge by President Lincoln.
There hd been no obstruction to the adminis
tration of his oflice or the laws of the land,
except in one instance, when the Republican
Auditor of the State disobeyed the injunction
of the court, for which he was fined and im-p.-iaoned.
The greatest respect was paid to
the judicial authority by lawyers, senators, and
jurors, and all other parties. With regard to
the feeiing or the people toward the general
government, he thought it was to obey the
laws, however obnoxious they were, although
there was a deep-seated conviction that they
were not equally impartial. Ilaving been ques
tioned as to the testimony of the Rev. Mr.
Lakiu, parts ot which were read to him, he
said it was entirely uutrue. Lnkin had repre
sented that thirty three indictments had been
found in Custeed's court for violation of the
Civil Rights bill, and had been tried, but the
truth was that only one indictment bad been
found, and that had not yet been tried. On
ex parte inquiry it appeared to be a serious
case. Lakiu is a man wha is apt to m-tkc wild
statements without acurate basis. He had al
ways charged the jury to obey the laws, how
ever distasteful, as it was within the power of
Congress to enact them, and that it was for
the best interest of the community to respect
thent
The testimony of other residents of the
State, men of acknowledged integrity and
veracity, who have appeared before the
committee, is to the same purpose. But if
any additional evidence were wanting to
prove the shameless falsity of the charges
of wide spread violence against person and
property in the South, including Alabama,
it is conclusively supplied by the editor of
the Daily State Journal, the organ of the
Republican party in Alabama, published at
Montgomery ,who, in his paper of June 2Sd,
thus speaks of tho aspect of affairs in that
Stato. Such a statement, coming from bo
responsible a source, ought to silence the
malicious slanders of the political dema
gogues who originated John Scott' elec
tioneering committee.
"We have lived in this Sute for more than
a quarter of a century, and have never felt in
secure in person or property on account of po
litical opinions. We are sincere in our Repub
licanism, and we feel safe because we love our
people and honestly believe that we nre pursu
ing a course that vil I redound to their peace,
happiness and prosperity. Those men who
call themselves Republicans and who are con
tinually Irvine: to get into oflice, 6tlrrinff up dis
order and strife, and poisoning the minds of
voters in secret uens at miduiglit, where honest
in en ai.d sincere Republicans are plotted
agaiu.-.t simply because thoy are honeat and
sincere, and have social standing in the com
munity, may feel unsafe. We endorse no such
libel upon the whole people of our State.
Radical vultures, Ku Ktux office seekers of
every party, are doing us more harm as a peo
ple thaw all the libels ever written. We be
lieve that every honest roaa is safe in Ala
bama, no matUr what his politics arc"
To lUe Z'eoiJle cT I'cansylvanla.
Afltlrews of tHc IJciiioorafic fSJaic Cen
tral Committee.
The Executive Committee of tho Demo
cracy of this State, to whom the following
address was referred by the recent State Con
vention, now present to you the same as em
bodying some of the reasons which actuate
and control the organization they represent.
We here solemnly renew our often repeat
ed declaration of fidelity to the great princi
ples upon which our party has acted from
the time cf its first organization. Our ulti
mate objects are those of our fathers when
they adopted the federal constitution, viz:
"To form a more perfect union, to establish
justice, to insure domestic tranquility, to
promote the general welfare, to provide for
tho common defens?, and secure the blessings
of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."
We sincerely believe that the government of
the United States, administered as it was in
former days, with a direct view to the ad
vancement of these principles, would (Jo for
us and for our children all that any people
can reasonably desire from the political sys
tem under which they live. We are equally
sure, that, if not carried out in the spirit of
those by whom it was framed, it must be
come a curse instead of a blessing. Situated
as we are.obedier.ee to the fundamental law
means not only the hoceit performance of
sworn obligations, but freedom, peace, and
prosperity to all classes cf the people. On
the other hand, the usurpation of interdicted
or undulegated power is not only a crime in
itself, but the fruitful uareut cf other crimes,
and will had, as it has already led, to in
definite misgovemment. corruption, and
tyranny, subverting all liberty, and render
ing the lights of all men insecure.
When we speak of the federal constitu
tion. We mean tha whole instrument, with
all its amendments, and acknowledge tho
equal obligation of every part. Several of
those amendments were carried by brute
force, and by frauds upon the public will so
glaring as to take from their authors all
claims upon our respect. But wa cannot
deny that ibey have actually become- a part
of the constitution ; nor can we avoid that
fact, or get behind it, by showing the corrupt
miscondact of the men who at that time
controlled Congress and mastered the State
Legislatures. Whosoever swears to support
the constitution must perform nil that is '"in
the bond." Any change which experience
and reason shall prove to be desirable m3t
be made in the prescribed way, and uot by
revolutionary or disorderly means.
No candid person will deny that the
leading men in power at Washington have
been unfaithful to their duties. They have
broken the pledges they made to the people,
and, in reckless disregard of their oaths,
they have violated the plainest provisions of
the constitution. They have deprived the
States of their sacred right of self-government
in matters rurelv local, and disarmed
them of the pow
er to enforce their own i
ws for the preservation of order within
their own boundaries ; they have pas-ed
bills of pain3 and penalties operating ou
millions at once without regard to the guilt
or innocence of the parties ; they have
trampled on all the securities of life, liberty
and property ; treated the halcas corpus
law with contempt, and denied the right of
trial by jury ; they have sent out swarms
of their hireling agents with, instructions to
kidnap, impriaon, and kill free citiaeus for
political of fences, without judicial accusa
tion, without warrant, and without lsgal
trial. They have not only trodden on the
great principles embodied in the original
constitutian as it came from the hands of its
framcrs, but eveu the amendments, which
they themselves interpolated, have been
broken without remotsa whenever it suited
their interests. In dafianco of the XHIth.
they have doomed many persons to the
worst kind of "slavery or involuntary ser
vitude" in the public prisons, without the
protence of any "crime whereof the party
was legally convicted in the face of
the XlVth, they have abridged the "equal
rights" of whole masses of white citizens;
without the least respect for the right of
universal suffrage, guaranteed by the XVth,
they have interfered both forcibly and frauds
ulently to prevent fair elections, and to set
them aside after they were held.
These outrages upon justice, liberty and
law have been perpetrated, not during the
conflict of a civil war not in the moments
of. wild passion, or heated excitement but
in cold blood, upon deliberate reflection in a
time of profound peace, in full view of the
consequences and their authors have fol
lowed out this line of policy, step by step,
with a peisisteuey which shows their fixed
determination for the future, as in the past,
to be bound by no oath, aud hld by no
promise.
Tho two last and most important of their
anti-constitutional measures show more dis
tinctly than others their settled design to
ttranglo the liberties of the uation.and take
perpetual power into their own hands. The
force bill authorizes the President, not only
to invade the States at bis pleasure, but by
declaring martial law, to subvert all gov
ernment. exct?pt what consists of his mere
will. Under the election law his cannon is
planted directly against the freedom of
State elections. Already the bayonets of
the executive have gleamed aiound the poll
ing places of tha people in the city of New
York and Philadelphia. Who can mistake
the meaning of these preparations for the
next Presidential election ? Who doubts
that warning and rebuke are needed now to
prevent the administration from carrying out
its purpose by force? If the warning be
not given by the people, or fail of its prop
er effect, can we hope for peace ? It seems
to ua an error to suppose the American peo
ple tamo enough to be kicked under the
yoke of a despotism, or iguorant enough to
be juggled out of the great inheritance of
free government which their fathers left
tfcem.
We complain of onr present rulers for
lawless usurpation of power. Power uot
delegated is always abused. In this as in
other cases, usurpation has been accompa
nied and followed by corruption. Frauds
without number, and almost without limit,
have been committed.on tho public. Men
of the worst character for common honesty
are permitted to occupy the highest places.
Of tho money collected from the people, and
not stolen before it reaches tho Treasury, a
large portion is squandered by Congress on
party favorites, or corrupt rings, and on
base combinations of public plnnderers.
The enormous extent to which this financial
corruption has been carried will become
manifest to any one who compares the ex
penditures of the government during the
six years which preceded and the six- years
which followed the civil war. Both were
periods of peace, and there can be no ex
cuse for mora than a small increase corres
ponding to the ra.io in which the popula
tion has advanced. But where the ordinary
expenditnTos for the fiscl year ending June
1. 1870, exclusive of Indian annuities, pen
sions and interest on the public debt, were
$14S,CC9,922.43. for the year ending June
1, 1SG0, the expenditures for the same pur
poses were but $55,918,183.72. Hers is
shown the difference betweeu the ordinary
cost of carrying on our government when
its agents aro honest and the cost of the
same thing when its agents are so destitute
as to disregard all legal
in tbn heantv and freshness tbey contribute
to produce;" the secure tranquility of a
regal establishment may sometimes be a
compensation for the burden it imposes;
but a rotten republic i3 at once the mot
costly, the most oppressive, and the most
unsteady of all political structures.
To support the extravagant corruption
of au administration like the present, and
at the same time pay the pensions and the
interest ou the debt, would require heavy
taxation at best. But the party in power
has contrived to make the taxes doubly
burdensome by thsir mode of levying aud
collectingjthem. Great gangs of unnecessary
officers are supported aud fattened out oi
them. They are in many cases imposed,
cot with any view to the supply of the
public treasury, b.ut solely to operate as
bouuties fur the benefit cf individuals and
private corporations. While the mouth of
labor is thus robbed of the bread it earns,
the fortunes of mononolists and ringmasters
are hideously swelled, and their rapacity
inflamed for still further aggression upon
the rights of the industrious masses. The
necessity of revenue reform is admitted on
all hands, and by none more fretdy than by
candid supporters of the so called Republi
can party in Congress, but the majority is
so completely controlled by private interests
that considerations of public duty have no
influence upon them.
No people can be wholly enslaved so lor g
as they havo the protection of an independ
ent "and upright judiciary. The Radical
party, feeling this, havo tried by all means
fair and foul, to make the federal judiciary
an instrument to aid them in their crusade
against the law of the land. They have
filled the inferior courts, especially in tho
South, with their most unscrupulous parti
sans. Again and again have they con
structed aud re-constructcd tho Supreme
Court somatimes by reducing, and sotne
titues by increasing the nnmber of judges
always with a view to make a majority
which could be relied on to indorse their
anti-constitutional legislation. When the
judgments of that august tribunal curtained
the ancient principles of liberty and justice,
its authority was denounced, disobeyed and
contemned. They have interposed in a
pending crfo with legislative decrees to tak
away the jutisdiction of the court, and pre
vent it lrom protecting a citizen whose
plainest right they desired to invade. We
solemnly trust that they have not yt-t snc
cecded, and will never succeed in bending the
court of last resort to their foal purposes.
There so-called recou? truction laws arc
a series of experiments fur the reduction of
tha Southern States to the lowest eondriion
of political slaverv, hoping thereby to make
them instruments fjr the enslavement of
every other section. To this cud they have
net only refused them a representation iu
Gjugress, but forced them t bo misrepre
sented by persons who carno there to get
oppressive laws enacted against them. They
have steadily struggled to make tho State
governments the tools cf their partisau
tyranny. Wherever they have fully fucn
ceeded thy have debauched the adminis
tration of justice, disregarded the popular
will, and produced the most frightful dis
orders. Scalawags, carpel baggers, and the
most ignorant cf the negro population, wel
ter together in one mass of moral putrefac-
tion, scourging the respectable and peaceful
citizens with their dishonest exactions,
These outrages are opanly justified, and their
encouragement declared to bo necessary for
the good of the radical party. The foremost
members of Congress have avowed their de
termination to legislate upon them with
reference to the chances it may give them of j
carrying future elections. In other word,
the worst wrongs and the mosi shameful
violations of common justice are committed
in order that a certain combination cf poli
ticians already in power may continue to
rule us for their pleasure, aud plunder us
for their profit.
Of Giiuc-ral Grant we desire to spssk with
the respect that is due to tho chief magis
trate of the nation and a s ldier of great repu
tation. But it is painlullv manifest that ha is
not fit for h i place. He has never made
tho slightest efforts to preserve, protect, or
defend the constitution. On the contrary
be has given to its enemies in Congress all
the aid and comfort he could, and he has
assumed, without scruple, powers which
kings are careful not to exercise and which
no republican ruler can hold without moral
offence to popular liberty. Instead of guard
ing the public treasury he has encouraged
the corrupt extravagance of Cur.gress, and
6ome of the worst fbs have had their or
igin in the rings which immediately sur
rounded him. Before and about the time
of his election his enconsisteot expressions
showed that he had no convictions (perhaps
no knowledge) upon public affairs. He
avowed openly in writing, over his own
camo that he had no policy, that is to say
no opinions or sentiments which would con
trol his choice of measure. But leading aud
ambitious men of the Republican party pro
posed to him a policy which would serve
their interests at the expense of equal rights
and they accompanied their suggestions with
offers of enormous presents in money, lands,
houses and goods far exceeding iu value the
annual salary, which tho people agreed to
pay him for an impartial aud just adminis
tration of their government. Lie accepted
the presents, adopted the policy and appoint
ed the donors to ofiice.
It will surely be admitted that all Amer
ican citizens who believe these facts to be
true are bound by the sacred obligations of
patriotism, honor and conscience to oppose
this state of things and by opposing end it
if possible. The person interested in pre
venting a change will ask how, to what ex
tent, aud by what means we propose to
make reforms 1 The question is a fair one
and we will answer it briefly. It will be
the duty of the Democratic party, and, to the
extent of our authority, origiually or delega
ted, we hereby pledge ourselves and oifr as
sociates, so far as in us lies
1. To put the ship of State once again on
her constitutional track and hold her bead
firmly to that course.
2. To protect individual citizens of all
parties, clnaes and creeds in the enjoyment
of life, libe'ty. property, reputation and the
pursuit of their lawful business, by an im
partial administration of justice in the ordi
nary and establiaed courts.
'3. To preserve the powers of the general
government in their whole constitutional
vigor ns our sole defence against foreign ag
gression, the safest bond of union between
different sections of tho country and the only
sure promise of general prosperity.
4. To maintaiu, unimpaired, the reserved
rights of the States, not only because they
are guaranteed by the federal Constitution,
but because tba State alone can safely be
trusted with the management of their own
local concerns.
6. To reduce the expenditures of tho gov
ernment by confining its appropriations to
legitimate objects, by a rigid system of ac
countability and economy and' by abolishing
much of the unnecessary and pernicious ma
chinery with which it is ucrw oucucabered.
r.f moral minchde
limitation upon their own authority. 1 nc- j - f,,rcirn rm 'rts
A free, unperverted representative gov- by a Jteni of -
ernment is simple in its machinery, eaiy ittl "dome l ic ,ro d ,
maintained, and -dispenses its biesnngs like be just J - c.- ntry. nU
.. ,W of Heaven, unseen and unfUt, save the property at,ti busmcsj . t,'"'
G. To moderate tne u iruer.s ot ii- p-v.
i at
onri.O.inir soma while it impover.i.rn
aud notopea to the frauds now habitually
practiced.
7. To preserve thej publla crcuit by the
prompt payment of tha public obligation.
8. To consecrate the public lands to the
use of the landless people who need it by a
o.-er aLinli will secure sufficiency to all
and stop at once the Ions system ol s-.viou.cs
by which so many millions of ac have
bran aiven awav to these who have already
n-.r.rn than en0U2h
These are some of the duties which lie be-
fore the peoule if they dosire to se
their
government administered witn a decent re
spect for the constitution of their fathers or
withrtolcrable honesty in financial matters.
We havo no test of orthodoxy no d:.ja
bilities for, nor discriminations againrt f-r-m.r
ni-ilitiral antagonists. Wc cannot s;ul
do not obioct to bygone differences, jjrovi
auw j O
ded the citizens bo truly and faithfully devo
ted now
to the interests and institutions of
the whole country aud ad the inhabitants
thereof.
Our object is not revolutionary, but res
toration, not irjury to our opponents, but
an assertion of our own rights and thoso of
our fellow-citizens.
By order of the Democratic State Execu
tive Committee.
William A. Wallace.
Chairman.
CaptalJJ James Cooper.
Tho following sketch of the Democratic
catiidate for Surveyor-Ger.e ral is fuller, than
any we have seen bafore. It is taken from
the Lawrence county Democrat, ad will be
read with interest:
Captain James Harvey Cooper was born
in Ross township. Al'egheny county, Pa.,
Slarch 5. 1840. He lost his parents when
quite voting, and removed to Lawrence
county "iu 1853. He attended tho common
schools until he received as good an educa
tion as could be obtained by such means.
lie then engaged in mercantile purmits with
his brother in Mount Jackstm. At the break
ing out of the rebellion he uu!,e?it itingly
made up his mind tc enlist, his love of conn
try overcoming the persuasions of It's frieuds
and his prospects in busii:ei. He was elect
ed orderly-sergeant of the Meruit Jackson
Guards, which afterwards became known as
Battery B. of the urt 1'ennsylvauia Arm
W7 hut mure freouentlv taking his ov
name Cooper's Battery. To write of what
he did durb.g his term of enlistment, woclJ
only be to re-write the hintory of that gal
lant organization of men. He was an active
participant in the battles of Dt"ainsviHe,
MrW.irvil!p Gaines' Mill. New Market t
X Roads, Maivern Hills. Gainesville, Second
Buli Run. Chantilly, S-.-uth Mountain, An-
fetam, r rodenclisourg, fcccna Liianceii.rs
vllle, Gettysburg, Maine Run, Rapi.'.an
River, Wikien ess, Lnure! Hill. Sputtsyiva
nia.Court House, North Anna River, and in
front of Petersburg from thy middle of June,
HC.4. until the S:h of August, when, after
hftvincr served fir rvrr three rborlths more
than the time for which be enlisted, he was
honorably discharged. Before leavii g, all
the effects of the regiment serving with tho
Army of tho Potomac, signed a petition to
the Governor for his appointment as Colonel
of the regiment. It received very strong
endorsements fre-m General Wain wright,
commanding the Artillery Brigade, General
Hunt. Chief of Artillery of the Army tf the
Potomac, and Geu. Meade. This petition
he never presented. Gov. Curtiu after wards
in conversation with a mutnl friend, regret
ted that Captain Cooper had not presented it,
as he said it would have been a pleasure to
l.im to promote ro gallant an officer. The
Governor commissioned him Major without
any solicitation. We feel safu in asserting
that no man in the army wa-5 more esteemed
by his brother cflicers, for thfse noble and
manly qualities which make the true gentle
man, than was Cnptain Gxper. His reputa
tion as a soldier was without a blot. lie was
the special favorite of that other gallant sol
dier. General John F. Reynolds. Words can
scarcely convey to the reader the high esti
mation in which he was held by ail those
with whom he came in contact. At the first
battle of Fredericksburg, when Battery B
stood immovable the only opposition ou the
left of the line to the enemy marching to the
river in the rear of the army General Rey
nolds said, "Captain Cooper is one of the
bravest and coolest men under fire I ever
saw." His name is known all over the
State. As to integrity cf character, he is
known si.fficiently well to our readers gener
ally to make it unnecessary f r us to say any
more than that his straightforward, cpen,
frank disposition is only equalled by his
modesty and unassuming yet easy manners.
His kindly beaming ej-e is the index to a no
ble, benevolent heart, and the casual ac
qnaintance is won to fast friendship. His
business qualifications are of a high order,
and the oflice of Surveyor General could be
placed in no better bands. lie is also a self
made man, and a representative of the labor
ing men of the country, having for the past
four jears worked day after day on a saw
mill, where with coat off, he was laboring to
regain his business, fortunes, unfortunately
but completely sacrificed while battling for
his country. In thi too he shows the true
spirit of the gentleman, adverse circumstan
ces being powerless and in vain to discouraga
ami defeat him iu business life.
For all these and many "other reasons,
hundreds of voters throughout the State,
without regard to party, will cast their bal
lots for Captain Cooper. The Democracy in
placing onr favorite on the ticket, expect a
good report from Lawrence county at the
next election, and we aro assured she will
do her duty. Let ns all go to work now,
and take a native pride in one who so nobly
sustained the reputation of onr county in the
"times that tried men?8 souls."
General McCandless, tho candidate for
Auditor-General, is a favorite in Philadelphia
and tho eastern part of thoState, and to
gether, McCandless and Cvoper make one of
the strongest and be6t tickets the Democracy
has ever selected.
The wonderful ice cave in Dccorah,
Winnesheik county, Io., is a vcrtcal fissure
in the face of the cliff of Trenton limestone
that forms a part of the bank of the Upper
Iowa river. It is about on hundred feet
deep in all its windings, is from two to eight
feet rn width, and varies still more in height.
Ia the winter the cave is free from ice, but
Dpon the approach of hot weather the ice
begins to accumulate, and solid, bard, and
dry cakes encrust the sides and bottom of
the cave. When the weather is hottest the
cave its most abundantly stored with ice.
A man named William Berger, late a
resident of York, but formerly of Collumbia,
Lancaster county, and a brakemau on the
Peonsylvanea railroad, met with a fearfully
sudden death on Saturday last about noon,
ia the yard at Philadelphia. He was engag
ed in coupling cars and was jammed in be
tween two of them, tho one striking Liai oa
tho back, the other iu the abdomen, crush
ing the bicath right out of hiax.
i nri..iimT Him wnue it inmovei .t.utro ..i...
roliiicu! a:wl Xc-.vs Items.
co-.v in I.c!il;;h county recently ave
biitli to a l.r.me.-s calf.
i:!,r,rti from all Darti'of t-i
state ot
Kausas repre-eiit an abundant wheat harvest.
The Democrats of California have re
nominated Governor llaight. Tho election
takes place io August.
A negro named Ishel was lynched by a
mob at Sprit.gfL'id, Missouri, for'committhi
a rape on 11 rs. Christian of that city.
" Dr. Buliis. Republican nominee for
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa, was thrown
i ,.nt r.f a Miikv at Dacotah, on the ZS.-X. auu
j 6l,it;lined 5ujuljCij fU,p0acJ to be fatal,
'1qu i,;nday of last week, an employ e-i
f , t t,:o:..,, j ,:..r shons. ustmed
- t' iiiit; if. i-.-.iw -. i
i Irwin. stiuiK
a K.-ftr. H'.uk! by mvr.
the bond with an iron tar,
inflicting fatal
Fred D. Grant, the Pie.-identV on. grad
uated at West Point la;t week. His ram.
inu in his class of 41 was ts f Hows : Gen
eral standing 37 ; general discipline 41 the
first .".aa behind.
Three hundred and neventy-eig!it u
man coins anil urns Lave recently been dug
- 1 . m I..! .nrr In llif
Wcrr I) ..mkian. Nero. Trsun.
and their succs-ors.
A.Calit'tirnia man requested his wife in a
ball-room to hold the baby of another man's
wifs while he danced with the baby's ni..ther
but the didn't hold it. Some wives are
too disobedient to put up with.
Thev sav President Grant is ai.-atu oi i
r nly one'thirig. and that is a Y. ung Men's j
Christian Ascciatiou. They follow him up j
ana sing Ji'l liuixire.i at. una -
dreads to go any place at all now.
A black tn'aV.e has appeared in Rittcrs
Vill, Lehigh ounty, measuring between
twenty-five ?.:id thirty fe-et in length, with a
s-t'.ve pipe thickness. An organized cffrit
ii being made to capture the monster.
Some Kentucky women, a few nights
ago, went to the house of one Sho!to;i Den
nis, took him from his bed and beat him
with ISO striies. explaining that they thus
misused him because Le had violently ill J
j treated bis wife.
At Mount Murrl?, Wisconsin, on T n lay,
the 223. two young ladies, named Carrie
Olson, aged fifteen'. at.d Susan Caul, aged
fourteen, while Lathins, were drowoed.
George Tracy, who att cm pied to rcue tne j
iris, wr-s also drowned.
Few persons know ho'.v homely
a s'"
nilioance .tl:o nat
"Tuiltries" has. The
iito on which tho pahco was erected had J
bren used f-r making tile? .'trench ttiitc)
h?r.ce upon the building cf the Etmcture it j
n was called the Tuih-ries.
a he experiment cf towitg canal uouis
by means of a road steamer, which travels
svh.njr she tow-path, has been tried on the
EriuV'unal. It was found that one machine
would draw throe boats fully baded at the
rate of thrr miles pf-r hour.
While Governor Scott of S.mth Carolina
was at Washington the r.tgro Lieutenant
Governor and ot.e cr two others, fixed up a
little game for callinc: the Lf gi.-latuic- togeth
er and impeaching bun. lis unexpected
arrival at borne save 1 his bacm.
South Joggins, Xova Scotia, ha? its
fccientific mvstorv, which the r.ative pundits
I are fee at
hUg their heads over with f'ight
j bop
nf solution. It is nothing less than a
f,:sil human foot, which a gentleman . !
an cbservirg turn of mind recently dug cut
of a sandsfor.e rck.
An ititrt'irent young e'erk iu a mu'-ic
store at R vhester. X. Y.. spent an i.ila nio
rr.ent iu fron of a five hundred dollar mir
ror by writing his name across the centre
with his diamond ring. If anybody wants
a nica young man in s store they can get
this one. as he is wo lctgfr connected with
that establishment.
Joanna Marin Perkemars. who recently
die Ion board a train bound f...r California,
was the diti2htcr cf a celebrated Antwerp
physican. She was thirty-one ytHrs oi l.
rich and eccentric. Aside from the diamonds
ar.d jewelry frrnd on her person, shel.al
twtlve thousand dollars in money and a pat
ent cf uobiMty on her mother's si le.
A young woman aged about 20 yeK?,
name unknown. wa3 murdered at an carlv
hour on Saturday morning.
near Chr.se'
Station, on the Philadelphia and Baltimore
Railroad, by a party cf men who ciAini to
have mi'trsken her for a man circled iu wo
men's clothes who had been prowling about
that neighborhood for somo time past.
In Edinburgh a new musical inFtnment
is exhibited. It is a keyed instrument of
six octaves., resembling a harmouicum in
torm tut d. Herein in inechnmsm. lot-sounds
are produced by the friction of' wooden ham
mers against a revolving cylinder of wood
sot in motion by the feet. The tones pro
duced are said to be sweet and vailed.
George W. Richardson, the Radical So
licitor of Coosa countj'. Alabama, blindfold
ed, gagged and whipped two iittle r.egro
girls, and threatened them witn death if
they should ever tell who committed tlie out
rasre. He was trying to manufacture a Ku
Klux outrage to serve as the basis for fnr
thcr persecution of Southern Democrats.
But. fortunately, ho was detected, aud his
design posed by a negro.
A man in Portland, Maine, claims that
air can be compressed in a reservoir to an
extent dauble the power of the engine that
compresses, and has invented a governor
which is said to control the pressure to com
pletely as the governor cf a steam engine,
lie affirms that pipes can be extended loan
almost indefinite length, as by a irop!e in
vention he has overcome tin obstacle cf fric
tion which previous experimente a havo fouad
so diflicnlt to deal with.
A Florida journal says that while rt lady
of Jacksonville was dressing a fish recently,
preparatory to cooking, she discovered, em
bedded in its flesh, a small stone, resembling
?lass, aud nearly the size of a Northern
white bran. The stone resembles a diamond,
cuts glass freely, and is very transparent
and refractive. Should this prove to be a
diamond, its valne is estimated at four or
five thousand dollars, should it be otherwise,
tho ttono in at least valuable to mount as
an ornament. The lady has already been
ofJcred one hundred dollars for it.
A Battlk is Couea The American
Furces Victor ions. The following dispatch
was received at the Navy Department,
Washington, on Wednesday afternoon :
Corea, June 28. To the Secretary cf
the Navy : The Corcans not apologizing
for their treacherous attack on the 10th, 1
landed on Kaugnoe. and teok and destroyed
the lower fort and munitions. Oa the 11th
took another fort, and then stormed and
captured their stronghold.
'Five forts were taken. Their troops
were reported at 1 1 ,000. There was des
perate h.ud-to hand fighting in the citadel.
The ordnanca was destroyed, and four hun
dred and eighty-one pieces, princpally small
brass pieces; small arms were very many ;
tifty flags were, also taken. There were
counted 213 dead Coreans around the citadel.
"Our killed were three. The gallant
LieutenantiMcKce, who was first inside tho
citadel, was killed by a bullet and spear.
Marine Dennis IIanrohu ami landsman Setb
Allen wcro killed. Onr nine wounded are
all out of daDger and doing well. -
"John Uodgeus-."
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JSlieriiTs U:!ieo, KUenburi-
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HEIMFIS SALE V-r virtuo cfs
writ of Vr-.t.l. 7-"rj)"..i. i--
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Conrt of Common VI,-.- if C
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wit : All t in' riirhr. lit it- nmi ii.t. ri-i
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lausAVharton. of. i:i ar-al tu a pi.-ee
land situate in Cleari'eld to'wti--;'''.
foiipty. nrij'iinit'ir lands of liaii'1
war.l "llo.rK aiul heirs of Jo'nr. I ei y
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intr tlnrtv-r.ve aeres. more or le--
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Hero's of which tir -learel
liuvii-i-" '
iTociol :s s'aal! loir Jwfiiinr iio'.: ' ;l ; ' ,. "
bio rtnl a water saw-mill taow n i'o.o i '-"
vy of DaM Suiti.n. T,i1 n ia '
to be lie sold at tlie suit of S. !. lor;.o.t"- ,
W". jj. liOiXACivl '
Sbc-riil's OCiee, Uovasbur, June i.o
A DMIXI ST nTvTO I I"S SA 1 1 1
virtue of an order of tho Or: .
of Cambri i county, tl.o muV-rs:sr:H '1 -r
t o I'ii bile Sale on tlie prenuses. on ' 'y'v
1.-71, thololiowin.rr.-.ile-tateof !' : ' .
H. Kvans, Into ot Cambria tow: -:'! .
seizor), to wit : A r-'riuin lot of srroun'l
in ("'imliri i ..r.'.;ti ...1 i. a i ir eiaiise
laiaii Kvan-v, Jc.Lin Kvans ami John y
contaiitinr about nine acres more or
Ti:i:v-ilnf tn.!f i..uh on t-onfti 't'ir
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JAM KS M V Ki; As!ris:ui?tu,r"
Ebensburif J uno 17, Is", l.-ot.
A UDITOK S NOTICE ,
T:ta! f Josrrn V.or- ' ;js ;
Tho tindo-rsitrnc-'l AuiiittM-. ai'iM"-rU' J'; -t
Orphane Conit to distribute mi:'V 0( ,:
lian.ls of .James liose mid .laeob IS. Mil-'. lX
tors of Joseph Rose, liivM, lien by l'ThV,s In
to nil partie interest etl in sai-1 Ksw'e.
.tin (.iluVk K"l ot ..'rliiek. I'. V-
for
nrrnavLr.!' ..t(,Mi,lin, IA I I. .lilt!.1- '1 l
,1 a!'
point tnelU, wiicn hiki wnere ao I" , , lairi".
ested must prr-r-eut t iu ir t iaims er be -
from coming iu ou said fund. . ,.for.
C. V. KAL , A""-'
Johnstown, Juno V?, l71.-Cit.
J I CENSE NOTICE. The M
J- nppli'3Tions for I.ieenso will be ir.a.
Arirsiinent C "iirt, Jitlv titti, 1-71.
Matllu w I:nan. tiallitui t p.. r ""
Wiijlaw ltiebards. .laekson twp.. 1;' . '
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