ASSESS-
THE CIHBBI1. FREtisiJailliliSiill
CQEN3BURC, PA.,
Friday Morning, - November 1, 1S72.
Bs&ocraUc bfiMicaa Halicd" Ticket.
tor mtsiDEST:
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0 A'cto York.
for tick phesident:
13. GllATZ I3HOWN,
ififwouri.
ELECTOUS.
Edgar Onwnn.
eorKe W. Skinner,
Scldia Marvin,
tf. Gross Fry,
John 8. Miller,
Thomas J. Burger,
Ptephen D. Anderson,
John MofTet,
George H. norrcl),
Edward Nicklesou,
Isaiah B. lloupt,
Samuel A. Dyer,
Jesse G. Haw ley,
Hiram B. Swarr.
GeorKe
Bernard Rellly,
John Knecht,
Frederick W. Gnnster,
David loirrnlitrs,
J a met McKniiflit,
Henry Welch,
Henry J. Stnhle,
Robert W. Christy.
William F. J,orim,
William A. Galbruith,
Frederick M. Kobinsuti,
John K. Wilson,
Philip U. Stephenson,
John T. Bard,
W. Miller.
Thkhb is but one Democratic Electoral
'Ticket in the field in this State, that which
is printed at the head of thus paper. It
is composed of the leading and represent
ative men of the State. The only choice
of the people of Pennsylvania is between
this ticket and that pledged to the re-election
of Grant. "Where is the true and
earnest Democrat who will fail to go to
the polls and cast his vote for the Demo
cratic Electoral Ticket ?
Ocn Democratic friends, notwithstand
ing the overwhelming defeat we sustained
at the October election, produced through
bribery, fraudulent voting, false returns,
etc., should determine, every man of them,
to vote at next Tuesday's election. Vot
ing is not only a privilege, but it is a duty,
and Democrats are always ready and wil
ling to do their duty. Let them also show"
to tho opposition that, although defeated,
they are not demoralized.
JJTub importance of a few votes has re
ceived a new and striking illustration in
the Ninth Congressional District of Indi
ana, where it seems the vote for Shanks
(Ilep.) was 4,506, and for NefT (Dem.) 4,
501 Shanks' majority, 5 ! That was al
most as close work as once occurred in
laasachusetts when Marcus Morton was
elected Governor by one majority. Such
incidents should servo to impress upon
every citizen the importance of exercising
the right of suffrage. Let no man think it
is unimportant whether he votes. One
State may decide the result of the Presi
dential election, and ono vote may deter
mine to which candidate tho electoral vote
of that State shall be given.
TiTE following is among the many obser
vations which show that this State may
yet bo carried for Greeley and Brown.
The Neva Y&rk Worltl of Monday says :
The Ilarrishurg I'uirlot shows that there
were in some forty counties out of thosixty
eix in Pennsylvania thirty odd thousand
Iemocrats who failed to vote at the recent
election In that State. Even with the por
tentous frauds practised in Philadelphia, the
lladical majority was hut 35,000 ; and as tho
Bame amount of money lavished in October
cannot bo spent in November the adminis
tration, even with the Federal Treasury
behind it, bavinc too many calls elso where
for that it amounts to demonstration that
the State can be carried against Grant by the
polling of the Democratic vote withheld
upon the 8th inst. Even allowing that half
of Hartranft's alleged majority of 3.1,000
was genuine, the polling of a full Demo
cratic vote next month can carry the State
by 12,000 majority. Let it be done, and that
it may be done let every Democrat iu the
Keystone State vote.
Before- the next number of tho Freeman
is printed the Presidential contest will
have been decided. "We trust that every
Democrat in Cambria county will consider
it his sacred duty to go to the polls on next
Tnosday, and, by voting for Horace Gree
ley, enter his protest against tho present
lawless and corrupt administration. "What
if we are defeated in this State in Novem
ber, aa we were in October, by fraud and
villainy! Let every true and fearless Dem
ocrat show by his vote that he is still un
conquered, and tliat he will never give up
the good fight. .As wo said last week, the
Radicals of this county boast that they
will carry Cambria for Grant. We gavo
the able and accomplished Buckalew a
clear majority of 707 over the corrupt tool
of tho Cameron Iting. Shall that majority
be rovorsed next Tuesday ? It is for the
nnbought Democracy of this sterling coun
ty to nay. Democrats of Cambria, once
more to the front 1 Do your duty, and
Laving again fearlessly informed it, lot
the consequences to the future of the coun
try rest where they will properly belong.
-
no. "William F. Johxstox, ex-Govcr-nor
of Pennsylvania, died in Pittsburgh
on Saturday afternoon of dropsy, after an
illness of about three months. His death
though sudden to tho public, was not unex
pected to his personal friends. Mr. Johnston
was elcctod Governor of Te n-ylvania
in 1S48 to fill the vacancy canned by the
death of Governor Shunk. His majority
was the smallest any candidate ever re
ceived for tho Governorship in this State,
being only 802 votes in a total of over three
hundred thousand. Iu 18ol, just previous
to tho expiration of his term, he M as again
tho Whig candidate for Governor, but was
defeated by William LMgler by a majority
of 8,4G5. After tho fo-mation of tho no
publican party Mr. Johnston became con
nected wilt that organization, but he fol
lowed tho fortunes of Andrew Johnston,
from whom he had, just previous to the
celobrated Wigman Convention of I860,
received the anointment of Collector of
Customs for the port of Philadelphia. Ho
took a very prominent part in the Wigwam
Convention, to which he had Wen appoint
ed a delegate at large from Pennsylvania.
On retiring from the Custom House he dis- I
appeared from public view until the recent !
eloction, when he was one f the opposi-!
tion candidates for Congress in tho Twou-ry-third
district of this Stale, receiving 7,
000 votes.
a bill pas-I providing for the appointing of
fl (4millSloii 1,7 I'ju'ii iiic .wi ..oiiui;, i,i mr
Auditors and Poor-House Director?, and
bring to light the vast volume of frauds per- :
jM-trated on the taxpayers of our county lor
many years bark. Johnstown Tribune.
We also confidently hope that Samuel
Henry will comply with the imperative
demand of the Tribune. When Samuel
Henry prepares the bill suggested by Geo.
T. Swank, we hope it will not be as self
stultifing as Henry's bill was at the last
f cssion in reference to tho collection of
taxes in Cambria county. We request
Samuel Henry, when he has prepared the
bill referred to by the Tribune, and when
Henry is sure that it is all right and that
it can be letally executed, that ho will see
to it that George T. Swank's name is in
wrted in the bill as one of the contempla
ted commission. Swank has been blow
ing his horn for two years about frauds in
the Commissioners' office and in the Poor
House Directors' management of that in
stitution. Here is his glorious opportuni
ty, and we hope, for his own reputation as
the leading radical editor in Cambria
county, that, unlike Othello's, his occupa
tion is not gone. If Henry passes Swanks
bill, then we demand that Swauk and not
Henry shall make the charges good by
competent proof. The County Commis
sioners court and invito the investigation.
George T. Swauk, who has been tho
head and front of this of ending, is and has
been after an oflice in th";s county ever
since he was removed by the Supreme
Court from the position of Clerk of the Dis
trict Court of Cambria county. Now let
his friend, Samuel Henry, in Swank's pro
posed act only provide that Swank shall be
one of the commission to investigate tho
alleged fraud, and let Henry make it sure
in his bill, if lie can, that Swank shall be
well paid. If that is only done, then
"everything will be lovely and the goose
will hang high."
We calmly await the dreadful results of
the bill to be passed by Samuel Henry at
the suggestion of so pure aud honest a.
politician as the editor of tho Johnstown
Tribune. If Samuel Henry cannot pre
pare a bill for the contemplated purpose.
then let him call to his aid his particular
counsellor and friend, George T. Swauk,
the editor of the Johnstown Tribune.
Hon. Anthony Anna has failed as yet to
come to time with a reply to our question
why he refused to sign tho Auditors" annual
report hist winter. Perhaps some of his
friends will make answer for him. Johns
town Tribune.
When will the Tribune cease harping on
this matter? The samo reference to An
thony Anna has apjearcd in that paper so
frequently that it no longer attracts the
slightest attention, and unless the editor of
tho Tribune has sent a copy of his paper
regularly to Mr. Anna, we doubt whether
that gentleman is aware of tho extreme
anxiety of that paper on thesubject. What
business has the Tribune with the reasons
which induced Anthony Anna to withhold
his signature from the report of the Audi
tors' last winters on the accounts of the
Poor House Directors? We do not our
selves know what were his reasons, but,
from our knowledge of his character, we
are convinced that they were entirely sat
isfactory 'to himself. Mr. Anna has not
seen projier to make them public, nor was
it at any time necessary that he should do
so. The Auditors' Report was published
and was and still is open to examination,
and if thero was anything flagrantly wrong
or dishonest in it, why does not tho Tri
bune expose it? Mr. Anna's reasons are
with himself, and whatever they were he
will not, we thinV, gratify the curiosity so
frequently manifested by the editor of the
Tribu ne on this subject. Wo had supposed
that the ro-eleclion of John Bloch as one
of the Directors of the Poor and of Antho
ny Anna as County Commissioner would
have quieted the uneasiucss of the Tribune
but it seems that wo were sadly mistaken.
That paper appears to have Anthony Anna
and the Poor House accounts ou the brain,
and we suppose that time only will effect a
cure. Until then its readers will have to
bear with the best grace possible its fre
quent rcfomwA tsitJiis t.hrftAd-Iuira sulject.
Democratic State Commitee Rooms,
Philadelphia, October 2o, 1872. In obe
dience to instructions from the state com
mittee, as set forth in the following reso
olution : "That the chairman of the state
central committee be authorized to appoint
a committee to investigate all alleged frauds
committed in October, and to prosecute
upon reasonable aud probablo cause," I
have appointed the following named gen
tlemen, who will respectively take notice
of their soloction. Those residing outside
of the city of Philadelphia will at once
enter into correspondence with Hon. Rich
ard Vaux, chairman, 250 Walnut street,
Philadelphia : Hon. Richard Vaux, chair
man ; John O. James, esq., Philadelphia;
J. Binaldo Sank, esq., Philadelphia; Hen
ry S. H age rt, esq., Philadelphia; George
11. Bcrrell, esq., Philadelphia; Hon. II. B.
Wright, Luzorne; Hon. John D. Stiles,
Lehigh ; Daniel Nioiuan, esq., Northamp
ton ; Will iam D. Moore, esq., Allegheny ;
Joseph L. Laro, esq., Allegheny ; E. B.
Dougherty, esq., Beaver ; 11. L. Muench,
esq., Dauphin ; William II. Witte, esq.,
Montgomery; Henry Carpenter, esq., Lan
caster ; II. .1. Hendlcr, esq., Schuylkill;
John B. Bratton, esq., Cumberland ; Jos.
Hemphill, esq., Chestor; Nathan C. James,
esq., Bucks ; William S. Black, esq., Law
rence ; 1). W. Hutchinson, esq., Erie, and
Ii. 15. Brown, esq., Clarion.
Tho chairman (Mr. Vaux) is herewith
empowered to add to the number of said
committee whenever he shall deem the samo
expedient.
Samuel J. Randall, Chairman.
Tins from the Huntingdon Globe: "A
fellow by tho name of Swank, editor of
tho Johnstown Tribune, pays Greeley 'is
an old wLite coated fraud.' That opinion
of Swank will no doubt completely des
troy Greeley's prospects in Cambria, and
secure for Swank tho position of segar
hghter to President Giant."
The Liberals in Council.
The ;! of Tortlm-lnsr t!:e Thdit-A Patri
otic Address - ltrad, louder and Act.
To theLihekai. Hei'i-hi.icaxsofPess-stlvaxia
: Whatever causes have pro
duced the disastrous results of the October
election in Pennsylvania, the liberal repub
licans owe it to their sincere convictions
and to their truly representative and emi
nent candidates, to give earnest battle for
the triumph of both in the November con
test. The men who have braved power and
all the appliances of modem political ven
geance to restore republicanism, and the
nation to self government, to integrity in
public administration, and to peace, will
not falter in the struggle because the ex
hausting effect of discipline and authority
haveachic veda temnorarv nnd doubtful vic
tory. Whether wholly the result of fraud j
a .1... - . e t . , . . -1. i .
vii noi, me success oi vvctouer is so suimeu
with debauchery of the ballot that the peo
ple are taught in more unmistakable tones
than ever before the impertative necessity
of a new departure in their political policy
if they would preserve tlieir free institu
tions. With a polluted ballot, and iioliti-
ical power enforcing subserviency to its
will, submission by tho citizen is a crime
against liberty and law.
The liberal republican movement was not
a mere expedient for a national contest..
It was called into existence by the encroach
ments of authority upon the dearest prero
gatives of the people. When the honest
criticism of sincere and eminent republi
can statesmen invoked administration re
sentment ; when to question the fitness of
subordinate officers, or to expose corrup
tion, and demand integrity in official trust,
made those who fought the battles of the
Ieople aliens and strangers to administra
tive favor ; when to resist the usurpation
of legislative powers by the executive, was
to invite the promotion of superservieeable
senators, and the degradation of the Sum
ners and Trumbulls of the party; and when
to declare for free and honest government
in the southern states, was to provoke an
administration demand for a new era of
sectional hate, many devoted republicans
were compelled to choose between faithless
and unmanly submission, or such indepen
peut political action as would warn the
country of the dangers which threaten it,
A bloody struggle of four years' duration
for the unity of the states left us the usual
legacies of protracted war. Tho extreme
arbitrary power necessary in seasons of
grave public jeril not only lingered after
the union had leen saved by the heroism
of the people, but had steadily made new
demands upon a reluctaut but too often
obedient congress. To-day, with peace and
civil authority supreme wherever the citi
zens exercise their just powers without offi
cial or military restraint, ours has ceased
to be a "government of the jieople, by the
people and for the people," and we must
declare that the chief obstacle to success
ful government and law is the dangerous
centralizing tendencies of administrative
authority.
Our country would le at variance with
all similar history of other nations, if cor
ruption, and its innumerable kindred pub
lic wrongs, had not entrenched themselves
in power, while a patriotic people struggled
for the safety of their government. It has
boldly seized the absolute control of oliti
cal organizations in a number of states,
and is enabled to make ambition obedient
to its exacting demands.. It has, also, un
der color of law, made debauchery and
fraud a part of the regular machinery of
elect Urns, by w hich it insolently defies the
popular will, and gives open immunity to
organize crime.
In a contest so unequal it is not surpris
ing that here iu Pennsylvania, the chief
citadel of iervertod authority, we have lost
the first battle of this great conllict. If it
has been won by fraud, or by corruption,
or by the assaults of power, or by all com
bined, as it undoubtedly has been, the ne
cessity of the liberal movement is com
pletely vindicated, and the necessity for its
perfected organization and more deter
mined efforts for the future must challenge
the judgment of every patriotic citizen.
Its mission of national, state and munici
pal regeneration is one that no temporary
defeat can overthrow, and no combination
of political elements can avert its early de
cisive trium ph. 1 1 is the cause of free gov
ernment, the cause of honest administra
tion, the cause of the people, the cause of
peace, and to doubt its success would bo to
doubt the oaduring attributes of freedom.
We must battle now, and battle ever, for
victory, for it is within our reach. If we
shall fail to-day, let our ranks be uubroken
and strengthened to-morrow; and as surely
as right must triumph ovor wrong, so sure
ly will we bear our cause to success. Our
platform has extorted the uncqualified ap
proval of all parties, and our candidates
most fitlv ronrcsent thcnrinciulcsso frank
ly and patriotically declared. Horace Gree
ley taught tho country tho lessons of Cin
cinnati when popular prejudice and sec
tional passion resisted the peace and union
for which we had made countless sacrifices,
and now, whether he or his compepitor
shall administer the government, his wise
and liberal statesmanship will be confessed
aa tlio wiiutrjr drmnoa woa o 1, n t ,-orl
of war to national reconciliation. Of his
eminent abilities, his sincere devotion to
the whole ieoplc, his blameless integrity,
his honest resject for the popular will and
his antagonism to all usurpations by exec
utive authority wo need not speak. His
opinions are unconcealed and known to all,
and his patriotism and fidelity need no vin
dication in any section of his country or of
the civilized woild. With such a man to
administer the government, none but those
who fear the crucibile of honest authority
could have reason for alarm. Earnestly
devoted to the interest of industry and le
gitimate trade in all their varied channels,
and struggling, as he ever did and ever
will, for the prosperity and harmony of
every section, uis election to the Presidency
would be the crowning triumph of peace.
Liberals ofT'enusylvania 1 This cause is
worthy of your noblest efforts. Let our
ranks be closed up, and let every liberal
vote be polled in November next. If all
who sincerely desire its triumph shall do
their duty, a regenerated nation will be
our reward.
By order of the liberal republican state
committee.
A. K. M'Cltjue, Chairman, Philad'a.
Wm. II. Ruddiman, Philadelphia.
Lambert Thomas, Philadelphia.
Henry L. Wallace, Philadelphia.
George Wylie, Philadelphia.
Robert Morris, Philadelphia.
James Kino, Allegheny.
Thomas M. Marshall, Allegheny.
G. Stengle, Allegheny.
J. Di'tton Steele, Montgomery.
Geo roe W. Stout, Northampton.
E. II. Rauch, Lancaster.
Daniel Lalbfus, Carbon.
George H. Irvin, Dauphin.
Gordon F. Mason, Bradford.
Thomas J. Jordan, Lycoming:
Isaac Benson, Potter.
H. B. Row, Clearfield.
Jacob R. Busser, York.
William Lewis, Huntingdon.
James Pilixw, Butler.
Wm. Stewart, Mercer.
Joshua Douglass, Crawford.
Wm. J. Giilingham, Philadelphia.
Henry L. Cake, Philadelphia.
H. Tiedeman, Philadelphia.
E. T. Chase, Philadelphia.
G. W. Riddle, Allegheny.
N. Raieor, Allegheny.
Fuanklin Taylok, Chester.
M. C. Boy eh, Montgomery.
J. George Skltzei, Berks.
N. Ellmakkk, Lancaster.
E. J. Moore, Lehigh.
George C'okay, Luzerne.
J. C. Dej-KZKSNF, Wayne.
J. B. Eaki Cameron.
Charles IIoweu, Snyder.
D. t. Dunham, Blair.
John S. Grayhill, Juniata.
R. W. Downey, Greene.
David Barclay, Armstrong.
L. D. Davis, Venango,
M. B. Lowry, Erie.
F. A. Shcgaut, Warren.
Philadelphia, October 23, 1S72.
Oct Out the Vote.
The Democratic and Liberal State Com
mittees of Indiana recently met at Indian
apolis and resolved to prosecute the pend
ing canvass with renewed pluck and ener
gy and determination. The chief ellbrt
will be to bring up such lagging Demo
crats as endangered the result by remain
ing from the polls in October, and so ap
pealing to their better instincts that a
great cause shall not be put in jeopardy
through party prejudice or personal whim.
Let the Democrats of Pennsylvania stick a
pin just here and go and do likewise.
Lariiard Democrats remained from the
polls iu this State at the late elections iu
sufficient numbers to suffer Mr. Bucka- i
lew and the ticket to be defeated. That
lact is now cieariy demonstrated. 11 a lull
Democratic vote had leen jolled, all the
cheating of tho "Ring," gigantic as it was,
would not have saved Hartranft and Allen.
They would have been beaten by more than
ten thousand. The official returned ma
jority for Hartranft is 3.1,(527. When tho
whole number of Democratic votes cast at
the election of the year, is compared with
the total of 18G8,it isjshownthat 4U,04;jDem
ocrats failed to joll their ballots at a time
when the honor and integrity of tho State,
the peace and perpetuity of the republic arc
trembling in the balance. This caused the
defeat. Philadelphia was short 16,002 in
her Democratic vote ; Schuylkill, 1,024 ;
York, 1,120; Montgomery, 9:G ; Indiana
324; Fayette, 440; Columbia, 409; Ches
ter, 610 ; Bucks, 751; Berks, S50; Adams,
410, and other counties in various propor
tions. Lu forty counties, the Democratic
vote fell elow that cakt in 1803. "In the
remaining twenty-six counties," says the
Ilarrisburg falt-tot, "the live per cent, na
tural increase wa fully polled, and in a few
instances was exceeded'. In some of tho
counties there was a heavy Liberal vote,
but iu the oil and coal regio.. " and in Alle
gheny and Philadelphia, the .'atural in
crease must be greater than five .r cent.
Taking the things into consideration- we
must allow for a Liberal vot of at les.
12,000, which supplies the place of as many
more Democratic absentees, and for an in
crease over and above the natural increase
of rive per cent, already estimated, of about
5,000 in the oil and coal regions and the
great cities, and thus we account for 17,000
additional Democratic absentees scattered
throughout the State, including the conn
tics in which the natural increase of live
per cent, was apparently polled, We,
therefore, have an aggregate of 49,04'J
Democrats absent from the polls at the late
election."
When these facts are clearly understood
they answer the question constantly asked
by Democrats, what is to be done now?
Too many look upon the result of the late
contest as closing all avenues through which
the Democrats aud Liberals of this State
can approach a victory in November, and
either throw down their arms, or indulge
in mournful and dispiriting croakings over
the future. "It is of no use to vote," "our
votes will not be counted," "there is too
much money in tho State," are current
phrases in the mouths of certain parties.
It was because Democrats did not vote on
the second Tuesdavof October that wo are
iu the present condition, that Hartranft is
elected and Cameron triumphant. Had
they voted, Cameron would have been beat
en, and also his State ticket. Had they
voted, all of them, they could not have
been counted out. That would have been
an impossibility. Because there has been
and is money in the State Treasury for the
purpose of debauching voters, that is no
reason why Democrats should absent them
selves from the jk11s. On the contrary, it
is the best possible reason why they should
muster iu their strength, not a man ab
sent, and crush a party which will employ
money as one of the agencies to debauch
the ballot-box and crush out tho rights of
freemen in this State.
These reasons are insufficient. They do
not constitute a platform on which a Dem
ocrat can safely stand, especially at this
crisis in the fate of his party anil country.
He is bound to vote, by all considerations
of principles and policy. All Democrats
agree that General Graut should be defeat
ed. Ho will be if this Stato casts it vote
for the opposing candidate. That vote can
be so cast by every Democrat in the State
going to the polls at the Presidential elec
tion. Figures, which cannot lie, prove
this position in a clear, incontestible man
ner. The point is apparent to every man
who will look at tho evidence presented as
to the numbers of stragglers from the lino
at the last election. The mission of tho
party then, at the present time, is, "to got
out the vote." If that is done, the Demo
cratic electoi-al ticket will bo chosen in Penn
sylvania, and Grant defeated. To do this,
every Iemocrat must put his shoulder to
the wheel. The "Old Guard" need no
urging. .They will move upon tho enemy's
line at the appointed time. But the tardy,
the lukewarm, the hesitating must be ap
pealed to in this matter in an earnest
manner. This is no time for Democrats
to hold back in tho traces. It needs press
ing forward into the collar to move the car
of success in this State. Our allies, the
Liberals, are solid, energetic, determined.
They will poll their vote to a man. The
responsibility for success or defeat thus
rests upon the Democrats of Pennsylvania.
They can elect Grant, and perpetuate the
present infamous government. They can
defeat General Grant, and restore the gov
ernment to the hands of honest agents.
Democrats of Pennsylvania meet your duty
like intelligent, patriotic men I Go to the
polls at the coining election, every man of
you, cast the whole strength of the party,
and the work is done. Pennsylvania de
mands this at your hands, and so do the
Democrats of the nation. Skulk this duty,
and both the party and the State are dis
graced. The Age.
The hope that we had seen tho worst of
the horse epidemic, says the New York
World of Tuesday, has proved delusive, as
yesterday showed a decided and alarming
increase of the disease. Tho gravest in
convenience is being felt in business cir
cles, and the various car companies are
compelled to withdraw their carriages to
Mich an extent as to seriously impede all
travel. The evil has already reached such
a height that the Aldermen yesterday
passed a resolution authorizing tho various
companies to propel the cars by dummy
engines. Other cities aro even worse oft".
In Norwich, Conn., scarcely a hoi so is to
be seen, tho teams leing drawn by men
and oxen. In South Boston tho horse-cars
are also drawn by men, while Rochester
has fallen back upon running the fire-engines
by hand. The disease is spreading
everywhere. Philadelphia, Buffalo, Pat
erson, N. J., B'mghamton, Providence, R.
I., Oswego, Albany, Watertown, Bangor,
Me., and many other places, aro adding
their notes to the prevailing cry of distress.
James Anthony l-'wurfe.
This distinguished historian is now in !
this country, and is delivering a course of :
lectures on British rule in Ireland. He of
course views the matter from an English
stand-point, and justifies all the wrongs I
which for centuries England has inflicted j
on the people of the Emerald Isle. It will
be hard for Mr. Froude, able and talented
though he is, to bring the great body of
the American people to his way of thinking
upon this subject. Our people believe in
the right of local self-government, and they
believe if this principle was applied to Ire- j
land to-day it would prove a benefit to r.ng- :
land as well as to the Irish people. Thero j
is no one who desires to see Ireland set up i
as an independent kingdom or a republic. !
No necessity for that now exists. But she
should havi the right, through, a home
parliament, to enact her own local laws.
We believe that this right accorded to Ire
laud would make her the most loyal por
tion of the British empire. In this way
England could bind Ireland to her for all
time to come. When Mr. Froude tells an
American andience that England's course
toward Ireland in the past has been actu
ated by political necessity, he flies in the
face of history. There never yet existed
any necessity for the prescriptive course
by England towards the Catholics of Ire
land. Mr. Froude must know that at one
time in the history of Ireland, and it was
not in what modern writers style the "dark
ages either, a price was ottered by the
laws made by an English parliament for
the government of Ireland, uou th bead
of Catholic priests. This too, when, as
now, the grcatlnnly of the Irish people were
devout Catholics. When Henry VIII. cut
loose from the Roman Catholic Church,
followed by the great lxdy of the English
bishops and clergy, all Ireland, herbishop'-,
her clergy and people stood by the old faith,
and they have clung to it from that day to
this. For this they have suffered ages of
persecution. The apostate king nsed all
his power to destroy Catholicism in Ireland,
and subsequent sovereigns and Parliaments
of England have done the same. Can this
system of wrong and oppression be justi
fied upon the plea of political necessity ?
There are many other questions which it
might be pertinent to ak in relation to
English rule in Ireland. If that rule is
beneficial to Ireland, as Mr. Froude would
have s think, why is it that for hundreds
of years the Irish, who are proverbial for
their ardent love of their native soil, have
left the land of their forefathers in multi
tudes? What was U that in olden times
sent the O'Donnells exiles into Spain?
What was it that drove the brave and chi
valrous Sarsfield, with thoasandsof follow
ers, to seek serviow under a French king?
What policy is it that has in our day driv
en from old Ireland the thousands upon
thi ""sands who have sought refuge on our
shore Wc answer English injustice
and misrule. That is the lesson wo have
learned by study of the history of Eng
land and Ireh. i both. It is lesson that
has sunk deep h. our heart, and a lesson
that we can never uu. ?rn. The arguments
which Mr. Froude useJ aro no doubt pow
erful aud convincing. kL w great his
torian and a deep thinker. "ut he is by
no means tho first man of his "lass who
has used his great ability to defenu "rong,
We lielieve firmly and religiously U. fhe
political doctrine that every people unci.. '
tho sun should have the right of local self
government. We are not among those
who indulge in a wild dream of Ireland's
absolute independence of England. Tho
countries perhajis aro too near together to
be separated. This'much, however, we do
claim, and that is so far as tho home rule
of Ireland is concerned, let tho Irish ieo
ple govern themselves through representa
tives chosen by themselves. She could at
the same time be held in her position as a
member of the great British empire, her
eople ever ready and willing at all times
to do her part in upholding the mighty fab
ric. Whi'e England permits her colonies
all around the globe to make their own
laws through their home legislatures, she
Icrsists in refusing this privilege to the
Irish. We live in the faith that the time
is not far distant when England's policy
toward Ireland will undergo a change for
tho better. It never would however if the
opinions of such men as Mr. Froude pre
vail. He will find that he has a difficult
task to perform to change the current of
American sympathy in regard to Ireland
and the Irish people. England's injustice
and tyranny is closing and tho day of free
dom breaking. Tho policy of England is
becoming more lilteral. There is a dispo
sition on tho part of the English people,
aud on the part of some of her most en
lightened statesmen, to break through old
customs and traditions, to apply remedies
to existing evils, aud to set aside old abuses.
In fact the spirit of liberty is asserting its
sway over tho Anglo-Saxon mind. litu
ville Courier.
There was a meeting of the Democratic
State Committee, reinforced by prominent
Democrats from all portions of the Com
monwealth, at the Merchants' Hotel, Phil
adelphia, on Friday laat. The Aye says
that the attendance was very large, and
the best feeling prevailed. Statements
were made as to the condition of the party,
and a determination manifested to fight
every inch of ground at tho November
election with courago and zeal. A resolu
tion was passed, instructing tho Chairman
of the State Committee to urge upon the
various county committees tho duty of ex
tra exertions, in order to get a full vote to
the polls on the 5th of Novemler. Tho
Chairman of several of the committees were
present, and announced that the work of
organization had already commenced and
would bo pushed on with all possible in
dustry. Speeches wore made by Hon.
Richard Vaux, Judge Woodward, Hon.
Heister Clvmer, Robert E. Moneghan,
Esq., Hon. William H. Witte, H. G. Smith,
editor of tho Lancaster Intelligencer, Chan.
D. Manley, John Miller and others, and the
meeting cannot fail to have a good effect in
stimulating the party to renewed exertions
in the cause of the pending canvass.
Among the features of the meeting was
the passage of a resolution endorsing the
action of Mr. Randall, the Chairman of the
State Committee, and returning the thanks
of tho party in the State to him for his
labors in the canvass.
Cowards and traitors desert to the ene
my at the time an army is repulsed. But
brave men face tho foe, and fight tho
harder. All who arc Democrats from prin
ciple, will now show their manliness, and
their fealty will be rewarded in the future.
Those who either skulk behind or openly
go over to the enemy on ibis occasion, are
making a record for themselves that they
will regret hereafter. How many Demo
crats afterwards cursed the day they con
sented to join the Know Nothings? So it
will lxj with all who now identify then -selves
with Grant and the Cameron I i lg.
On Friday last, a young girl was ap
proaching the railroad track near Milliron's
store, in Brady's Bend, and was carrying
two buckets of water. The locomotive
was coming down the valley at tho timo,
when the girl stoppod to let it pass In-fore
crossing. A man standing by told the
girl she was afraid to cross tho track lo
foro the locomotive, when instantly at tho
banter she started, but had not taken two
steps when the engine came thundering
along, striking and crushing her almost to
atoms, port ions of her body being gnthered
up with a shovel.
News ami J'olitiral Items.
Patrick Henry's youngest son lately
died in Charlotte, Va. :
The population of Kansas has quad
rupled in M;vin years. !
Colored recruits for Grant a.e fl.Krking
into Michigan from Canada.
Hendricks is the lirst demoeraic gov
ernor elected in Indiana since lSo'J. i
A Kansas lady lately obtained a di- j
voire from and was married to her husband
all in a week. '
A Wisconsin tornado recently blew
down 200,000,000 feet of pine, and killed
40 yoke of oxen. !
Nine divorced husbands arc in one bus- I
iness house in New York, two of whom are
memliers of the firm.
The Louisville Exjiosition contains a
lock of hair six feet long, eut from the '
head of a Swiss jx-asant girl. '
A Republican at Sharon, Pa., won on !
the elections $3,000 in cash, eleven suits ;
of clothes, and two hundred kegs of nails, j
A vote for Horace Greeley is a vote in '
favor of amnesty, fraternity, peace, and
good will among the people of all sections
of the country.
At a recent funeral in Georgetown,
California, a mn fainted and tumbled
headlong into the open grave, dying in a
few minutes after getting out.
Indiana is excited over tho birth of a
pig with a countenance as much like a
Christian as any other inhabitant of tho
town in which its parents live.
A New Albany (Ind.) man is blessed
with fifteen daughters, and he is looking i
around for fifteen likely young men to j
bless each of them with a wife.
William Craiij, a negro who committed
rapo on Mrs. Lottie Dayton, a white woman
seventy-two years old, in Cumberland, Md.,
has been sentenced to be hanged.
General Loouiis, who was leader of
the Michigan Loouiis war battery, lately
died at the insane asylum at ashmgton,
and was buried in the Potter's field.
A Washington boy that defies classifi
cation has a white neck and body, a mu
latto face, and black ears ; all surmounted
with a crown of pivre white nappy wool.
A couple were married in Michigan,
lately, the brido lieing aged BO and tho
grviom f7. Neither had been married be
fore, and they had known each other for
forty years.
Mrs. Horace Greeley, after a lingering
and severe illness, died on Wednesday
morning at an early hour. Her husband
was at her side, where he has be n a watch
fid attendant.
A fearful hurricane swept through the
province of Syracuse, iu Sicily, ou Sunday
last, blowing down several houses, aud it
is rcjiortcd that thirty-two persona were
buried in the ruins.
A letter from St. John says the itato
crop of Newfoundland is to a great extent
destroyed by blight, and that the cod fish
ery will certainly not bo nre than two
thirds of last year's.
Some San Francisco lorksinitlu- have
innocently incurred a severe penalty by
making keys to post-office boxes at the re
quest of owner. The otfertee i pumstefc
ble by ten years' imprisonment.
Tho New Jersey I reU 'Aeitung, ense of
the staun chest Grant organs, publisled in
German, lias exhibited its wisdom aud
sound common sense by hauling down the
Grant and Wilson flag, on Saturday ikturu-
iig.
All sorts of extraordinary occurrriJors
are constantly transpiring in Georgia.
Tho law "t story is to the ttcct that a tur
tle's heaa, "hich had lieeu cut if for sev
eral days, bU : duck's neck and killed th
fowl.
A North CaroL "dan, aged within four
years of a century, i. mder indictment for
killing his wife, a few ars his junior, and
the extenuating plea offe d is that ho was
rendered insanely jealous v? her flirting
with other young fellows.
In Indiana tho so-called ''si -fMght-oat
Democratic" ticket received liv. votes.
Tho total voto was 377,0:H). The i.
'cial
majority for Hendricks is 1, 14S. Mou.'i
called Hendricks "a minority Governor,'
but he has 1,000 majority over all !
A dispatch from Matamoras states
that the steamer Guatamala, of the Pana
ma and Acapulca line, was wrecked on
the bar of Savala Ghaipas ou tho 13th inst.,
and twenty-three lives lost. Those saved
aro at Tchuantepeo awaiting transporta
tion Mr. John C. Logan, employed at a saw
mill at Williamsport, recently shouldered
nineteen boards, measuring 003 feet, and
carried them to a boat which was being
loaded near tho mill. Another employee
of the same firm intends to compete as a
champion lifter.
An Auburn convict, having been re
leased after a three years' service, sought
out the widow of a former acquaintance,
known before his sentence, and paid her
a small sum of money ho had borrowed of
her husband while the latter and himself
were at work together in Eltnira.
The flue of a steam boiler in a ship
yard at Norfolk, Va., collapsed on Satur
day. Two men were killed Peter Evans,
the colored engineer in charge, and Peter
Tynes, who was passing in tho street at
tiic time. The watchman and several
other employes in the ship yard were badly
injured.
An ordinance for the regulation of the
liquor traffic iu tho town of Sterling, 111.,
provides that if the windows or doors of
drinking saloons shall bo obscured by
means of screens, paint or other devices to
conceal what is going on within, the pro
prietors shall bo liable to a fine of from five
to twenty dollars.
Molly Strong, of Newton, Michigan,
dug a well forty feet deep, last summer,
and received $130 from hor father there
for. She received numerous offers of mar
riage from young farmers just after her job
was completed, but refused them all, de
claring sho would marry no man who want
ed her jufct because she could work.
A man named William Thomas was
killed in Cincinnati on Thursday by a boy
altout fifteen years old. Thomas was
whipping his wife, who tied to the house
of a neighboring woman. Tho latter ex
postulated, when Thomas commenced beat
ing her, and her son coming in, shot him
with a revolver, killing him instantly.
Troops have been applied for by th
liOuisiana Radicals, to help them carry
tho election. We are becoming so famil
iarized to bayonets at the polls in the
South, that if Grant is elected we may ex
pect tho same sort of electioneering in tho
North in 1870. It will bo a queer mode of
celebrat ing the Centennial of tho Declara
tion of Indcicudonce.
A terrible accident occurred in Ilor
nellsville, Lycoming county, last week. A
little son of Ronald Cameron, aged four
years, living on Centre street, had a quan
tity of jiepperiuint oil, and in tho absence of
its mother poured a small quantity of it on
the stove. Tho oil immediately took lire,
and the child was so burned before assist
ance reached it, that it died, after suffer
ing terribly for eighteen hours.
All who participated in tho editorial
excursion to Erie, hist June, and out on the
Lake in the splendid steamer "Chiua,"
will learn, w ith regret, tho loss of that ves
sel, which burned to tho water's edge, and
sunk, a few days ago. No lives, fortun
ately, were lost. A singular fatality seems
tojliave befallen many of tho places pat
ronized by the excursionists. First, Uio
-Abbott House," Titusville, was destroy
ed by fire, then the "Reed House," Erie,
followed, and now tho "China" has een
similarly visited by the destroying element.
lion. Ulysses Meronr
preme Jude in I'm,, '
intend to resign his s, ui j.,
after counting of the , ,
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ie ii'f iim iivai i :i li: ft
election will be tln..v. ;,
: f'.v,;-:'
Kcnreseiitatives K... ;.. 'i
event with Judge M.-n-:;' ' f '"
the Pennsylvania dele ,.;.,. " ''".'i;
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We learn from tin- V, ,.i V
ot that the publication ,. t;it '' ,'; -;
port and testimony to ii.,. .i,' ' ""'",r
heart, will cost the , , "., A ,
Thousi:i:ds of copies"!,! ' '
waste pa-er, the report 1,;IV '! '' ' '
answer the intendtd j.u: '
loads of these documents v.t :, . -days
ago from the IW.,;;;, v "'"t'1";V,''1.
D street, where they wen- i i i,' V ;
as to h; shij.jK.-d to the r ur;: '
It has been stated as ;i f .
Grant organs of the count, v' tj; .
sequence of the late elect ioA i i. ' ' '
vauia, Ohio and Indiana. tU- ; ''
publican headquarters at v, ,": "
have been closud. C..1. Alex n, Io nian
of the committee, j uhl: !. . T
denying the absurd statenivr.t
nouncing that the rooms w j; j' 't
open "until the g d work 'w'"'
have been accomplished in Khvf',"'
next President. Horace GrceW "
A fearful balloon aeeii,-'t ha-.
at Dekalb, Illinois, on Satunhv ' '"
aeronaut had his balloon rea.iV t7"
when, before he had entered" th.-
broke loose and flew upward. A-.
roje caught around the leg of a
McMann, and carried him up t., a ')
about one hundred feet. 1!(! ma,;
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when the balloon had reached i d 3- c
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deliberately jumped out, and v.i,V ' 1
uj dead. ' "' ,
An inmate of the county h,, ; , r
count', Indiana, known as I ).;-., h
seventy-two years old. who w:t, ,V J
some ten days ago, all search f .h.V
i ig unsuccessful until Sunday i.-' i, t
what was left of him Mas foil rid iuV
joining hog pasture, where it is '
he laid down from exhaustion ai u " 1
erally eaten up by hogs, nothiu- -.'." '
nig of his body hut the skull u't-
bones of the lower extremities. Vc'
lueniincu t.y his boots arid i.r'...r
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"A MAN" IS K VOWV Iiv -mr- f ' I
rvEEPS. I come from IVnusrlvi '1
am sorry to say it just now. A'
I come from Pennsylvania. It kjj-
a Governor by 3T,,QH) majoritv. Wj, Jtii
what is litis Governor? A rnan vi, j
Auditor-General of the State. c-.tiimV-'Di
if not actively engaged in. tho roU.;--ck
the Statu Treasury, and tho 'f vo
bonds of the sinking fund f.r .ur.. Z
g.Tmbh'ng. Wfo and what K this Go-
nor, and how is he elected ? Hj.j. jxa
.TC, oi nt-Mi-;vrra wun men seni:,; esi
their time in over State Priso-i. .YdVoi
what is this Govrmor over nl,.,m t:.e
ministration ni?li3!s are rej .ioii" tJUt
his a"i,000? Oh of a cell of the- -PenftcTitiary
at Cnwry Hill, fr. eii
the strijies of a convict, cmies ;a . foi
friend and convict to sav. "1 eiiil rse ;coi
nan," and before the word- are h
his lips Gen. Grant steps to the fr:;du
says: "I desire the election of this a:
The two pillars of support that have t-to
Pp inr the place of Governor of IVx.f de
nia this man, are a State's c-.:iri,i ,r . fe
one hand and the President of the
States on fhe other, f Apjl;.je.
may well ..y w ith aH humihtr. i w
one's mouth in tho dust, "".; c : C5
Rej.ublic V Applause. .l;--.Virh
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