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Sot Moll or MI 11117114XX11 COMM,
SOLI. Gtolol 'KARIM:Mb.
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The Members of the Democratic Coun
ty Committee are requested to meet at
the hotel of Samuel Wolf, in Gettysburg,
oti SATURDAY, the 10th of AUGUST
meat, at 1 o'clock, P. "M.
W. A. Dr'CAN, Chalr'n.
July 28,1867.
allr.l Aftellbobt we ideal! lose Peaseayrrit.
tala Obi imext oletaloo. I do net VIM& we
bac. albillosin roe owns* to the titans to
sift, mod *row oat the lepablleso
llifweacttb, while tbo anpublleso portion of
War Lesaillatare he. been No apeolx. sew..
lrlowsly and abannfolly oorrupt, that all
'be Mown people to ate state are Molinari.
MM and illigusted."— Thad. &crew
INIPPrmn all sections of the State we
have the most favorable reports, and the
promisee* grand Democratic triumph
la Pennsylvania has not been so bright
he years as it is at present. The ,Demo
emtic masses are convinced that a full
poll of their vote will elect Judge Shars
-wood, and they are resolved to bring out
every vote. Nothing but shameful and
eriminat, apathy among ourselves can
,defeat us. With close and effective or
ganization In each election district we
!must win a great victory.
eirThe Radfcala in Lnnmater cbunty
are quarreling, and will not "be quiet"
at old Thad's. bidding. 'The Intel!igen
• . eer of Tuesday, says "it is openly an
itousoced that two Radical tickets will be
put is the field this fall." Courage,
white alien! The "negro equality" mu
chlae will buret up yet.
11116 the Radicals of California, having
Whet out among themselves, have nom
inated two distinct state tickets. Oo it,
**mho! Co it, Dinah! This "war of
We factions" promises to, be a warm one,
mod will uo doubt result in the Democ
racy sweeping the "Ciolden,State."
VirEVety little while the newspaper
organs of Negroism indulge in funer
al sermons over what Is supposed to be
the dead body of the Democratic party.
The late elections i ihrougliout the North
prove It to be a 'Very - "lively corpse."
Are not the Itadicals afraid of its ghost?
Prßeflecting Republicans are begin
-111,14 to think seriously in regerd to the
dual results of the system of military
despotism which has - been established
over the South. The prospect - is by no
roams a plesssarPt one to them, even
viheo - seen :through the mist and pre
judice of party. •
ldrEtenator Yates, who was Serenaded
In Washington the other evening, said
*hat "the Republican party has declared
Oat- equal suttrage shall exist in the
District of Columbia and the Southern
~.15tates, and now they must do for the
_North as they have done for the South
mind Impose aufltage upon every State."
That's the word I "Impose it." Well,
if the people stand such imposition they
will disierve lt„that't all!
orbit costs forty millions per annum
to keep up the federal army hi the South
for the purpose of Africanizing the gov
!rumen' of that portion of our country.
Thad. &evens arid Co. may be luxu
aisle to - some people, but they are expen
sive ones.
The National I elligencer contin
' rt that Sh ridan is to be re
. -moved f 11 he Com and of the Fifth
unitary do rtmeut Goo • be officer
- to succeed him- been decided upon.
Irrespective of Sheridan isoldler-like
, despatches, and his gross tnis onduct In
publishing them, tliere are "gr .t public
-considerations," we are told, which call
\ for bliremoval without unnecessary de
. lay.-'
lirSebnyler Colfax, In Isla late 'Wash-
ington speech, when speaking about the
Radical plans for carrying the elections
3n the south, said, "The present cam
paign 4,,but a continuation of the war."
Of course, he and the other Radical lead
- believe ' , the war is not over, for
on no other,
,grounit could they keep up
prejudice and hate among the sections,
toed themselves in office. Place and mu
'try are at the bottom of the "patriotism"
of a good many Congress people. "
-Col. Ward H. Lemon, ohce Abra
kkam Lincoln's law partner, and later
marshal of the District of Columbia by
Lincoln's appointment, was recently ap
pointed consul general at Havana -by
President Johnson, but . the Rump re
jected him. le this the respect due to
the friends of the "second Washington ?"`•
14'1%6 Constitutional Convention of
'Michigan has ,parse 4, in committee of
the whole, an article containing the prin.
ciple of negro suffrage, without debate or
amotion to' amend being made. But
five or six Democrats attended the con
:ventlen, and they did not, care to 'dis
cuss or oppose the article, as they were
utterly powerless, and knew that the
Daidleals were determined on foieing it
thredgh. ' These strides in favor of no
, vs eiputUty b 3 the'rich and prominent
411.i.licals should open the eyes of , all
'whits laboring men. There is more
liniscittelio the movement than 'Many of
Shwa sew seem to see.
)'There is a split among the sadl•
..ealsofVlrgliia-13otai leading one wing
fed Aaitatent the other, the latter linee
ling the stain body of the negroes to back
tint.
. This *lack baslnesi roust yet dieguet
every decent white man--and then down
will go all the demagogues, North and
South, woo are now upholding, beeauaa
; %big ars making swag/ lay, it.
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serro the platform adopted by the
late Radical State Convention, we find
Vie following resolution :
o ,lilesolstert, That title convent!: n,
king gee the Republicans of Pennsil
wan liarniervedly endorse the Recoe.
a meeeuroe of the Thirty-ninth
madiirvnieth coagreases, as based upon
piety." die., ie.
• libeinadlioals of Pennitylvaaia mations
aNtuttism4 wad van ti devubil
nanisaa •
, WRY IT WAS LETT 0171. '
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Among the more oat-spoken of the 'Met platform lira which lien ry W.
mongrel papers In this State, there seems Williams, the Mongrel candidate fur So
to be quite a dlspallition to end fault Prelate indge, is ranning,illed=hin to'
with the prttnadiaga of theieState Cone reoderlfis decisions—not 111 ' dame'
ventlon, forhot incesrpontting the negro, with - kW; not in accordance with Jostles, i
I suffrage plank in their platform. In ex- not In accordance with right, but In "har-
planation of why It was left out, the, mons/ teitli the political opinions" of hie,
, Villnge Record, a leading mongrel Jour-: party. In plain words, eonstitution, law
nal, publishettot West Chester, says : I and justice are to be *et aside, and the I
1 "The subject was thoroughly discussed I wilt and wishes of a set of as villainous.;
Iby the committee on resolutions, the fanatics as ever disgraced the earth, sub- i
member of the committee from Bucks stituted In their stead. No matter what
county making an argument In favor of .
the facts in the case are; no matter what'
! the adoption of such a resolution. The I
expediency of this action, however, was 1 the laws require; no matter what Jus- '
decidedly opposed by some of the (tele- 1 tice demands.( his decisions are to be
gates - from the interior, who thought I regulated bythe "political opinions" of 1
TTheir constituents were not yet rtite pre-1
fa face the
music. u
was
suggcs _ i those who elected him. And such "po- 1
test that the subject would at any rate be i litical °platoon!" Great Heavens, what;
tided upon by Congress
amendments
soon as the a farce Will condi; of justice become, If 1
pending co tistitution si aendments , candidates who are pledged to render ,
would be ratified, and that the Staten I their decisions on such a basis, should
themselves would be relieved of the re
sponsibilities of fixing the qualifications 1 SUCCI. I
of citizenship in this respect. Thus it 'And yet, infamous as the Intention is, I
I
came about that the euttrage plank was thire is a design in it, even more tufa-
omitted from our State platorin."
Here is a very honest and candid con
-1 Mous. It is a well known fact that the
fession, andnlte too that should open thn Mongrel majority in Congress will pass
tan act regulating the right of aniftage in
eyes of thethOnsande of white men who
the different States of the North, us they
have heretofore been voting with utin
have in the provinms of the South. This ,
grelism, but have so often asserted ; at
will be done in order to force negro auf- I
they will no longer vote fur that Party
(rage upon the-States where they know)
1
, when they are convinced that il i fSvore
that object cannot be attained by leaving
negro suffrage. It is not bees se they
it to a vote of the people. And as this is ,
.'because they would keep th ballot out
are not in favor of negroes voting, not 1
a q u estion regulated and controlled by ;
e
t
771'f his hand, and prese;ve th,isuperiorityhe State Constitutions alone, it will be I
of the white man, that their platform brought' before the Supreme Court of .
i saysnothing about It, but/for the simple i each of the States for final decision. And '
reason that they fear,' ' the mas'cs of; if the Judges are to decide according to
: their Tarty are not yet/quite prepared to the Constitution and law, there can be
race the, music I Not4et prepared to ac- no other decision than that it is a viola
knowledge Sambo / es. their equal;. not Lion of the rights of the States, and that
"yet prepared to giv€ Culfee the reigns of negroes cannot be made voters by an act 1
Government; no // yet prepared to march of Congress. But if the decision is to be /
"
arm ip arm to the ballot box with these rendered in accordance with the polio- 1
!sweet scented "American citizens of Af- cal opinions'? the party in power, then
I !icon descent.'"will negroes he given the elective frau-
And yet, knowing, feel- will
anti the right of deciding as towho
I jority of their own party, together with
ieg and aeknowledging that even a ma
shall and who shall not vote, be taken
'
the hundreds of thousands of noble Dem-
froth the people and the States. It
ocrate throughout the State, are bitterly is paving the way for this decision, that
opposed to this infamous and degrading title pledge is atinduistered to their can- 1
eoctrine, they have the effrontery to ex- didate. It is preparing the public mind I
press the desire that Congress will "re-; for this net of usurpation and outrage.
lieve the State of tixingthe qualitleatione llt is laying the corner stone of negro
of its citizens ;" or, in tither words, tercel suffrage in Pennsylvania, and just as :
t negro suffrage upon us, in opposition to
i surd as Henry W. Williams is elected to i
the Supreme Bench, just so sure will his I
the wishes of. three-fourths of our white
voters. ft is to accomplish this thatj
decisions be In accordance with the "po- 1
j their candidate for Supreme Judge is 1 ! n Meal opinnionsand " of
fns party, in favor
the
of
pledged to make his decisions in aceor- I negro voopposition to
dance with the "wishes of those elec- I express provisions of the Constitution of
Iting him." And If the white men of' our State.—Democratic IValchman.
Pennsylvania feel that they "are not
ready to face the music . ," and march
arm In arm to the polls with an ignorant
and degraded -rice, they must vote for
those who will oppose any inteference
by Congress, with our laws regulating
the "qualifications of citizens." Wil
liams has pledged himself to decide
that Congress has the right to make ne--
groes voters In Pennsylvania in opposi
tion to the wise es of pur people. Sitars
wood will decide that it is'a question
that the white men of our State alone
can settle.,
XirThe New York Trtbunr, in an ar
ticle on "The Pennsylvania Canvass,"
thus puts the steel into the address of the
Radical State Central Committee, and
those papers which are conducting the
campaign on the Pres," principle:
We cannot endorse the address of the Re
publican State Com mi ttee,in which Judge
Sharswood is attacked %vitt, more zeal than
discretion. Ile is thbootioced as A° ora
tor of a States rights celebration, °' held in
the dark...agea of 1834, as if an act of 30
years ago could have vital meaning now.
The very toasts offered by others at the
dinner in 1834 are quoted to show that
Judge Sharswood is not fit for tho office
of Chief Justice, and the editorials of
obscure Democratic papers are copied in
capital letters, as proof of his sympathywith the reb ellion.: The case of Bode
against Trott, in which Judge Sitars
wood decided against the constitutional
power of Congress to make paper money,
is also advanced as an argument against
his election—a purely legal decision,
which, whether rightor wrong, was made
solely upon Judge_ Sharswood's under
standing of the law.
We submit that this is not the way in
which Pennsylvania should elect her
chief judicat officers. Such a canvass
should be conducted on the highest
ground possible in party rivalry, and
especial care should be taken not to drag
in the dirt the ermine of justice.. The
formal decisions of eminent judges upon
the points of law ought not to be bandied
"about in appeals to popular passion.
The purify and honor of the judiciary
are more than a party triumph. if the
decisions of a court are to be the subject
of party strife, and -debated in stump
speeches, we may bid farewell Loan in
dependent and fearless judiciary. Hold
the judge accountable to a political party
for his. construction of the law, and we
inevitably tempt him to sacrifice his
Integrity; to become that meanest of all
creatures—a sworn minister of justice,
obedient to the dictates of politicians.
It lw precisely this tendency which we
fear the Republican State Committee of
Pennsylvania unconsciously encourage,
and we would bid them take warning
by the wretched and degraded reputation
of . the judiciary of this city, in which
the courts have become the mere tools of
political claim.
(hronide, the Radical evening
organ of Pittsburgh, is after the Radical
State Committee with a sharp stick. It
quotes the following paragraph from the
address lately Issued by that committee:
"The Democratic party, with Judge
Shit:taws:4 for its lekder, and with Free
Trade, State Rights and Secession on its
banner, is again marshaling its hosts,
and now summoning us to the field of
political Combat on these same issues."
And protesting agninst such stupid lying,
candidly remarks:
It is Insulting to the intelligence of the
people of Pennsylvania to say that in
this judicial contest the Democratic par
ty ha' secession inscribed on its banner.
We warmly support Judge Williatns in
this content, but we will not even by
silence ltond our indorsement to so utter
ly shameful and unwarranted a charge
as the out above quoted. It is a sign of
bad party demoralization when such
means are adopted to achieve success. It
is utterly wrung and utterly unnecessary.
Seth things recoil against the men who
practice them, and cloud even an honest
cause with suspicion. Whatever may
have been the views of Judge Sharswood
thirty-glace years ago, it is both absurd
and criminal to say that the right of se
cession wilLbe an issue in the approach
ing election. The Republican party can
go into a canvass upon its own merits
and upon actual issues, without com
promising itself by these shabby devices,
and we trust no respectable journal in
the party will lend itself to such a style
of warfare. It is a veritable Mexican
business.
NT During bbs briefstay in Harrisburg,
Gen. Grentwas the guest of ex-Governor
Porter. The • Potrikor 4, Mien nip his
Wart was a very quiet. ene.
A 111111111' nuriumoris ra.r.oes„ AN••-
!!?Ina late number of the Lynchburg
Virginian, we find the following
A friend who has been residing on the
peninsula for some months past, informs
us that there are about 28,000 negroes be
tween Williamaburg and Hampton—a
distance of thirty-six miles. These peo
ple are anstained _with rations furnished
, by the government, nt a cost of $60.05)
- monthly, while five eom patties of cavalry
are required to patrol the country to
prevent depredations. Every efibrt has
been made to induce a portion of them
to remove to Florida, the officers of the
government offering them flee transpor
tation. There is a standing offer of this
nature_ made by veneral Armstrong, of
the Freedmen's Bureau, to convey the
men with their latrines, to any point
I they may select,_witit the view of etigag
ing in useful labor. Butt they have per
sistently refused every offer of the kind
and rejected every overture made lo get
them employment. Under the provi
sions of the civil rights bill it is Impossi
ble to do anything contrary to their
! wishes, and so they remain huddled
4 within this limited area anti are a heavy
tax upon the government. Some of them
have taken- to highway robbery, and,
but for the presence of a large cavalry
4 force, a residence in that country would
i be intolerable. How long, we wonder,
4 will the people submit to this enormous
tax to support such i lie and .worthless
pete of the Black Republican party?
Verily! Radicalism is a dear experi
; meta, taxing the patience and pockets
I of the people to a degree unprecedented
in the history of any country.
These facts speak for themselves ; seven
hundred and twenty thotisaud dollars
Ltaken every year from our heavily-taxed
!people to support in idleness twenty-
Hightr thousand negroets who will not
/ accept work when offered. And, if the
'people sustain the Radical policy, how
many more thousand idle negroes in the
Southern States will they be compelled
to maintain, to furnish Radical voters?
Kir The Radicals justify the military
acts with reference to the South, on the
ground that they are necessary to insure
public tranquility and good order in that
section. But the Albany Argus truth
fully declares "that they do not give us
order, nor enforce tranquility," and con
tinues:
Armed mobs take possession of the ci
ties, and the midtary, insteadof prevent
ing them, only hold inquests on outrages
already committed. There is a peculiar
form of crime rife in the South that wilt
provoke terrible vengeance—the outrages
of black men upon feeble white women.
It was the picture of the helplesss Eng
lish girl in thg, hands of the lustful Se
poy, that infihnted England to such
height of vengeance as was manifested
in blowing the prisoneis from- the
mouths of cannon. Human nature is
the same here, and revolts at the Ides of
such crime. Let us have law—let us
have even military domination—let us
have some barrier to this flood of vio
lence and crime, or. day of terrible rep
risal will come.
True, every
_word. Radical - editors
and orators should "heed and be wise."
fifir"Order reigns In Warsaw." The
Radicals, having sueceded in disfranchi
sing the great bulk of the white citizens
of Tennessee, and In putting ballots into
the hands of a numerous horde of negro
voters, have carried the State. Brown
low's majority over Etheridge is esti
mated at thirty thousand. All the Rad
ical Congressmen have been elected, and
everything passed MT charmingly. In
the presence of the, negro militia and of
Federal bayonets the election was as
quiet and as one-sided as it used to be in
Maryland in the days of Schenck and
Bradford.
Gen. Groans Polilicts.—The Washing
ton correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger says:
"it is stated In some of the newspapers
that Genera/ Grant was heretofore& Dem
ocrat.. A member of Congress informs
me that in a conversation with him last
week, the General said he hail been a
Whig whilst that party was in existence,
and that the only Democrat lie ever vot
ed for was Buchanan, but that he never
was a politician and rarely voted at all."
110 - General Sickles has removed the
police of the town of Sumter, South Car-
Una, foralleged maltreatment of negroee,
and has appointed two negroee and one
white luau So fill the placer so va
cated.
VATb,
The Germans are opining! Carl Help.
ter. editor of the Roston Pioneer, tkit
nwilit ultra Radical paper In the countryi
- cut loose from these-called "Bepubil- '
cpu" party. The Pittsburg Volkabtatt,.
an Influential Radical daily, says that
the German "Republicans" must form
an alliance with the Democracy. The
lowa German Republican papers Late
similar ground, and Carl iichurz himself,
recommend. in the tit. Loofa Waitfiche
Post, that the German Radicals vote for
the Democratic candidates for legislative
and municipal offices. The Germans
left their Vaterland to seek a land of
Liberty, and they will never assist in
establishing a worse Wan Austrian ty
ranny in America.
=::=3
fiserThe Clinton Democrat, In speak
ing of the Democratic party in this State
at the' present time, says: "Let it pro-1
ceed at once to arraign Radicalism before
the bar of public opinion as guilty of
high crimes and misdemeanors against
the natural and lawful rights of a people
whose 'liberties it has sacrificed upon
the altar of a false and spurious philan
thropy, and whose Constitution, in the;
flippant language of Stevens, is 'old and
shattered' and. 'sticks in the kidneys of
some Senators, troubling them at night.'
Cramped by taxation and plundered by
hordes of : hungry vampires—the tax
gatherers lot Rumpdom—with no pros
pect
of an Improvement in their conel-;
Lion, the people are beginning to think.
That in •tracing cause to effect they will
become undeceived and dispel the halluc'
cination that has held them within Its
spell for the past six years, there can be
no doubt. Be it the duty of the Demo
cratic public, and especailly the Demo
cratic press, to assist them to a right con;
elusion."
Si/Erin a late conversation with the re
porter of the New York Herald, Thad
deus Stevens remarked : "I fear we shall
lose Pennsylvania this next election. I
do not think we have earnestness enough
in the State to unite and draw out the
Republican strength, while the Repub
lican portion of our Legislature has been
so openly, notoriously, and shamefully
corrupt, that all the honest people in the
State are disgusted. This corruption
will certainly beat us here next election,
unless we draw out the Republican
strength by getting up a furor or excite,
ment on impeachment. Peary, too,
hurts us very much. He is an unhappy
failure, and his nomination was an unfor
tunate thing for his party." This is a
fair and truthful picture of the present
condition of the Radical party in this
State. They have followed expediency
so long that the whole organization is
honey-combed with fraud, corruption
and venality. In order to cover the ul
cers which are eating away the Radical
party, Mr. Stevens recommends "a furor
or excitement on impeachment," and the
Press is bellowing about the greenback
decisions of Judge Sharswood. Rut
these devices will not succeed. - The pea- .
ple are tired and disgusted with the open,
notorious and shameful corruption of the
,party in power, and they will act in such
a manner at the polls as to fulfil the pro
phecy of Mr. Stevens.—Age.
IferWe know thousands or thoughtful
and sagacious Republicans will vote for
George Sharswood In preference to
Henry W. Williams. They will do so
because they know that in the hands of
Judge Sherwood all their rights and all
their interests will be perfectly secure.'
The very decision ' which Republican
newspapers aro parading against him
will be a powerful argument in his favor.
If the bondholders do not desire repudi
ation they will vote for George Shars
wood.l--Lancualer Intelligencer.
lakilchuyler Colfax said in his speech
at Washington city a few days. ago,
when 'speaking of the Reconstruction
acts—" The President vetoed them on the
explicit ground that they gave the mili
tary cizmunanders supreme and absolute
power over the people of the late rebel
lious States. Congress accepted his con—
struction of the acts, and repassed them
over his veto." Mr. Colfax is Speaker of•
the House of Representatives, endue such
took an oath to support the Constitution
of the United 'States. That same Con
stitutiOn declares that the military shall
be subordinate to the civil power. How,
then, can the declaration, that he and,
his party have passed a law that makes
the military commanders supreme and
absolute over "the late rebellious States."
be reconciled with his oath of office? Is
there such a thing as political perjury ?—
Doylestown Democrat.
PiEr - No man who looks at any of the
paper currency issued by the Govern
ment of the United States can fail to see
that it is not receivable for all debts.—
Duties on imports cannot be paid in
"Greenbacks." The United States Gov
ernment will not receive them in dis
charge of such liabilities, but compels
the Importer to sell his "greenback" pa
per and buy gold with which to satisfy
its claim upon him. Does not the de
cision of Judge Sharswood rest on es
sound principles of law as this enforced
demand of the Government?
Radicali of New Jffsey held
a negro suffrage convention afTreuton,
on the 23d, attended by about 400 dele
gates. The speeches and resolutions en
dorsed equal suffrage to the black man,
and some of the speakers called upon
Congress to Invade the State and enfran
chise the negro. As this, movement did
not meet the views of the Radical State
'Committee, it resigned in a lump. A
resolution nominating Grant for Presi
dent in 1889 was laid on the table.
Why can't the Radicals of Pennsylva
nia be as honest as those of New Jersey
and announce and stand by their senti
ments?
filiri3heridan must consider It his ett- i
pedal mission to prove to the people
what an egregious blunder Congress
made in endowing a set of military rat
traps with absolute power in the South.
Ifis last outrage is the removal of the
New Orleans Board of Aldermen and
Vie appointment of negroei in their
place.
thae since s gentleman died
in the town of X, who during his We re
fused to believe la another world. Two
or three weeks after his demise, his wife
received through s medium, acentalinii
cation which read as follows: "Dear
wife, T now believe. Pleasto sendm. my
thin clothes."
-4
A negro in Biondinrille: Hy:, en
ticed 11 young 061167,4i0ns the* holm a 0
committed violence upon her person.
Sire was ao much abused that ahe has
lance died from her Injuries:
A Mobile "lady ofcolor" was recent
ly awarded 115,00 u damages by a Radical
jury for expulsion from a street car. 4.
white lady under the same el reumstancee,
could not have recovered live cents.
The Mongrels- of New Jersey held a
State Convention, at Trenton, on the 23d
ult., and declared In favor of negro suf
frage.
—Stickly, a Waterloo veteran, now 77
years old, still lives in England, and has
had three wives and ten children to each
wife.
There Is a boy In Minnesota twelve
years old, whose legs are only ten inches
long and without tams.
A pulpit prodigy, named Jiansey,
who is said to rival Spurgeon In elo
quence and command of language, is as
tonishing the people and making• many
converts in Southwestern Virginia.
• New Brunswick papers tell of a fam
ily numbering seven individuals, all of
whom are mad.
• Augustus Homan way Is the riohest
titan In New England, his estate being
valued at $.5,000,000.
- Gold mining is creating some ex
citement in Ohio and South Carolina.
Jacksonville, Florida, Is rioting In
ivalermelons at ten cents and peaches by
the cartload. • ,
• Immense deposits of tin ore have
been discovered in Missouri, not far from
Pilot Kn'ob. One lode is five or six hun
-1 dred feet wide. The surface ore Yields
from 3 to 15 per cent.
One Col. Schumaker has just died
in the lunatic asylum, who Is reported
' to have first discovered coal in this State
111 . 1811. , The people had no faith in his
discovery, and after losing a large for
tune he spent the last twenty-one years
i of his life in the asylum.
The happiest man In this world is
, the man with just wealth enough to
I keep him comfortable, and just children
enough to keep him Industrious.
1 A Philadelphia boy of tell years died,
the other day, from eating sorrel ("sour
grass.") It may be well to know that
1 the active principle of sorrel is oxalic
: deadly poison.
ii is said to be a fad that the centre
e State of Kansas, one hundred
of 1 1
,mile west of Fort Riley, Is just about
r the centre of the 'United States; and
that three-fifths of our national territory
lies west of the Mississippi.
In Terre Haute a gentleman had
both his arms blown off while celebra
ting the 4th of July.
A man In Rutland, Vt., was cured
of deafness by a stroke of lightning.
The Adventists in a town in Maine
are preaching the Immediate destruction
of the world, and at the same time are
erecting a place of worship substantial
enough to last a hundred years.
A lady of 35 married a man of 94 in
Chicago last week, in consideration of
$lO,OOO which he promised to leave her.
Mike Hubble, aged eighty-tlve
years, who, lives in the southern part of
Madison county Mo., lately was present
ed by his wife with twins.
Dayton, Ohio, boasts'of more hand
soing "teams" than any other city of its
size in the country.
A boy nine yeatsof age, the son of
Andrew Jackson, of Centre, Hill, N. J.,
fell dead while his father was chastising
him on Saturday evening week.
WHAT . GERRIT SMITH SAT%
Gerrit Smith was an Abolition leader
a'rnost as far back as we can remember
—and'he is that yet. But he differs from
the bulk of the Radical party in this—
lie is honest. lin a recent letter, he
makes the following manly declaration :
"We made a bargain with the South,
however we may now be tempted to de
ny it or to break it. Our generals, in
the terms of the surrender of the South
ern armies, recognized this bargain—
this bargain that we should treat each
other, not as traitors under constitutional
law, but as belligerents under the law of
war. The Supreme Court of the United
States unanimously held that that was
the bargain. Alas! the ineffable mean
ness, the revolting infamy of our break
ing this bargain now, when we have it
in our power to break it! Alas, what a
poor use is this to which to put the pow
er of victory ! How It dims the glory
and reduces the value of victory! The
shame of defeat i 4 as nothing compared
with' the shame of abusing the power of
success." .
W6.The Radical State Convention of
South Carolina. at its-recent meeting,
adopted a resolution demanding that the
negroes shall be represented by one of
their own race on the next Presidential
ticket of that party—whether as Presi
dent or Vice President is hot stated.
This is a cold bath to the Radicals of
Pennsylvania, who were afraid to put
even a mild negro-suffrage resolution in
their State platform. But, Sendai In the
lead or at the wheel, they will have to
go in the wagon when Stevens and Sum
ner start the team.
IltirThe last Radical Connecticut Leg
islature spent $4OO in whisky for its mem
bers. The present Legislature has a
committee investigating the matter.—
This shows that the political change in'
that State is likely to expose tile not
"grand moral Plea" doings of the Red
cals. A similar change in Pennsylvania
and in Congress would result with equal
benefit to the people of this State and
nation.
/bTSatrap Sheridan has removed Gov
ernor Throckmorton, of Texas, and ap
pointed E. M. Pease in his place. It is
high time that Sheridan be removed.
The military Mayor of Mobile has
removed twenty white men from the po
lice of that city and appointed twenty
negroes to fill their places• Five of the
latter have since been brought before the
Mayor for sleeping on their posts.
ler When . Sherman was In command
in Kentucky he was serenaded by a regi
mental band, and made a speech in an
swer to and made it as follows:
"What the devil are you officers doing
here, making this infernal noise? You
ought to be in your quarters teaching
your soldiers to quit burning rails and
making soldiers of them. I want no
more of this d—d noise about here."
medicine equals Coe'e Dyspep
tic Cute, for Dyspepsia, IndlgemtiFiud
OpepBlli,
Conrilipailon, Fev p
er and Ague, Sick sag-Eleven tipatlon, deaths from cholera occur- I -
Headache, and all disease than proceed
grit is old that the Tank
from a disordered orate of the SWAM& red id NeMPhki, Tenney**, ow WO : 14 W WWI 14411,0 ordeatb, iThlt off
and Bowels. All druggholnkeep lr. week. with his jack-knife and gut w •
cilmribriag, • '
TOWN AND VOitT e Y AFFAIRS.
CONIXEIOCIDstacr \Viiitit.—This Is Com
meticeonent week. On Tuesday (to-mor
row) afternoon, Rev. Sir. Spreeber will
deliver the Holman Leettire on the
Augsburg Confession; In the evening,
Rev. J. G. Butler will address the Al
umni of the Seminary. On Wednesday
morning, Junior Exhibition; afternoon,
Rev. Dr. Scies's address to the College
Societies, lot thelavitatlon of the l'lren
akosnilans ;) evening, Rev. V. L. Con
rad'e address io the Abram, of the Col
lege. Thursday morning, Commence
ment; In the afternoon, laying Corner
Stone of Stevens Hall, with address by
Hon. H. Russell Thayer.
GERMAN Pie Nic.—The Pie Nle at
Wolf s Spring, on Wednesday, wasquite
a success. The number In attendance
was large, running well up in the hun
dreds in the afternoon. Our German
friends—old and young, men, women
and children—enjoyed themselves finely,
and regretted the shortness of the day.
The principal amusement was dancing,
which was kept up with much spirit un
til the clohe of the Pie Nic. Truly, it is
pleasant to spend an occasional day In
the woods.
SATHIATH &nom, Pie Nic.—The an
nual Pic Nic of the German Reformed
Sabbath School came off at Spangler's
Springs on Friday, A number of the
families connected with the congrega
tion participated, thus making the num
ber on the ground unusually large.
The day was of course pleasantly spent.
Pic Nrc.—A mammoth Pie Ste will
come off in the grove of Mr. Franois Cun
ningham, in Freedom township, on Sat
urday next, (Auebst 10th)—free to all
who feel disposed to unite In It. The
Gettysburg Brass Band will be present.
fir The Good Templars'- will have a
Pic Sic at Spangler's Springs to-morrow.
Pie Nic will be held near East
Berlin next .Saturday. Messrs. Dellune,
Kuhn and Trestle are "the managers.
FFSTIVAT.S.—Thv Festivals for the ben
efit of the Methodist ,Church at Peters
burg, on Friday and Saturday evenings
week, were largely attended. The ta
bles were crowded from au early hour
until eleven o'clock, realizing a hand
some sum, but exactly bow much we
arc not advised.
AcclnENT.—We regret to learn that
Mr. George George, of this place, whilst
tu4sisting In hauling hay on the farm of
Henry Herbst, al few days ago, fell from
the wagon and broke one of his ribs.
ANOTHER Acemr.sr.—We 'recorded,
some weeks ago, an aveident which be
fell Mr. A. Marshall, of Straban town
ship—his falling from a cherry tree and
breaking his jaw bone. Anothi.r nerd
dent, of a pal nftil nature also, has since
happened in the, Mine family. A son of
Mr. M's. tell from a horse, and broke an
arm. Misheal aid was at once had, and
the boy is doing well. -
Ana[ Ihunt.EN.—On the 2oth ult., Jesse
W. A. Leas; aged about ten year 4; (son
of Jesse Leas, of Latimoro
and
WAS thrown from u horse, and broke an
arm at the elbow.
ACCIDENT.—Miss Aniatida Mummert,
neut . New Oxford, received some severe
bruises, a few days atr.o, in falling from a
horse, rake, oceabionett_ by the frighten
lug of the horse. We are glad to learn
that her injuries are not of a serious,tia
ture.
SUDDEN' DEATH.—A few weeks ago, a
son of Andrew Smith, near klimaugh
town, died very suddenly. At five
o'eloi•It in the evening he was in his usu
al health, and at nine was ar corpse.
Two physicians were in attendance, who
did everything possible for the sufferer,
but without• avail. It is said that they
pronounced the disease cholera.
iiirOur Press builder:4 write us, under
date of New 'York, August I
"Your Press will be shipped to-morrow
or next day, at farthe.t. ,We regret dint
we have been obliged to tresptels so much
on your patience, but trust the Press will
please you so well as to make amends."
BANN PRESIDEN'P.-Dr. Jacob Hay,
Sr., has) been elected !'resident of the
York Blink, In place of Henry Welsh,
Esq., who resigned the position to accept
the Revenue Assessorship. lir. Welsh
made a first-class President, as Dr. Flay
no doubt will.
NEW COUNTEBTEIT.—A new eounter
felt "greenback?' has made Its appear
ance. It is a fair imitation of the gen
uine, except that the words "United
- States" are somewhat blurred.
THE COLrMEIA BRIDOE.—The Colum
bia Spy learns that the contractor for the
re-building of the Columbia Bridge has
been directed to commence operations
early in August.
iiirThe farm of the late Daniel New
man, In Franklin, tqwnsilip, has been
purchased by Leal Minter-36 scree, at
$2.5 05 per sore.
THE Innaw Dorton, desiring - to lo
cate himself within the reach of tho ma
ny wlio need his professional services,
has engaged rooms at the house of Mr.
Frederick Snider, on the Emmittsburg
road, two miles below Harney, at Cross
roads leading from Taneytown to the
Two Taverns, firMounkloy township,
Adams county, Pa., where he will re
main from Wednesday, August 7, until
Monday. August 12.
The Doctor has had a large run of
practice here, which will doubtless con
tinue when he returns. It
iliirAttention is directed to the ad ver
tisement of Dr. Grove'e Magnetic 9 Salve
and Plaster, in another column. This
article has been used by persons in this-
town and vicinity for 'some years, and
given great satisfaction. The proprietor
having engaged in lie more extensive
manufacture, is now enabled to offer It
for sale to the entire public,
•
THE ONLY GOLD MEDAL which was
awarded at the Paris Exposition for the
best Sewing Machine, was received by
EUas Howe, Ir., for hie world-renowned
"Howe Sewing Machine," as will be seen
by an 410 441 Report, In another Mown.
111101teto: Rdi,trt Cheied r aid krlfe,
Of Philadelphia, MfM . Mary E. Itsupt—
sister of Herman Haupt, Esq., formerly
of thin town—and two other Philadel
phians, with two citizens of New Eng
land, were drowned by the capnising "of
a boat, In Bar Harbor, on the coast of
Maine, on Wednesday week. Mr. Chaise
wow an }.:pineopal minister In the north
wentern section of the city, and was
highly esteemed. Miss Haupt was
known to many of our people. Her late
residence was Philadelphia, where sho
conducted a Female Seminary; near
West Penn Square, with Miss Mary
Tazewell, who was drowned at the same
time. Herman Haupt sailed for Europe
a day or two before the lamentable oe4
currence.
A BRAYS Won/tn.-GA short time eine°,
a Wan with an axe made an attempt to
force his way into the' house of Me. Cleo.
Bowman, living about two miles South
of this piece. Mr. B. had occasion to
be absent on the night mentioned, and,
about teu o'clock Mrs. Bowman hearing
some unusual noise in'the lower part of
the house, and upon getting up discover
ed a man with an axe In his hand, en- ,
deavoring to force his way into the house:
She ached a loaded gun a n d tired at the
villain, which caused him to drop his
axe and flee. It is not known whether
the shot took effect or not. Ho hid al
most (greeted an entrance when disavver
ed by Mrs. B.—//onocer Whew
FIY POLIO' READ LocALs,--An ohl
"local," who ought to know all about.
things pertaining to his department, map.;
the people read items of local interest for
reasons as opposite as man and wife. A
reads about a fight because he was there,
and saw it; fl. because he wasn't there
and didn't ; C, because be heard about
it; I), because he hadn't; while those
who had n hand In It, want to know
how much of truth concerning them Ulu
editor has deemed compittable in Its ut
terance with a continuation of his own
earthly career. The consciousness, too,
that hundreds of others are simultane
ously perusing the same article, and that
-it is therefore a subjett of common
thought and vonversation, doubtless adds
to the zest with Which ordinary reader,
eagerly devour articles that) otherwko
would have but u dull perusal or no pc
rustyl at all.
Smystsr, axon of non.
D. M. 'Aulyscr, IN attached to the Pacitlo
Railroad Survey Inv,
gIIANFFEIeS NlivriiaLrxity AT lIANo
vEtt, is the plaeeotii have your Pictures
taken. None better, none cheaper.—
Money refunded if not satisfaCtory. •
a ir The testimony lit becu (.1°4(41, 31,
the lawyers are speatilakt, in ilia Surrutt.
trial.
-
WlllO .11111:1111)=1.£1) Ong KO MILERS ?
The responsibility or hltvi lux the nime
prisoners to die in tbe prison-pens of 11.
south is nt hest fixing itself whet'. it pro
perly belongs, viz:: on the shoulder+ of
Linvoln, Stanton & Co, who refu,ed to
exehange, or even to reeeive them.
Celt. IL (MM. Ow 4 . 3: rebut Porund,,,jon
er fAr the exehamre of pri.omers, has ro
te!) a letter to tin' Wa.shincton Intelh
geneer, saying that in ltiti-tilie rebel au
thorities olii.red to ile:i%er up 15,091 sit k
and Wounded Union soldiers without
e 9 t, And 110 Sity.4 he can provo
this l,y the evidenee of Uttion officers.
The truth of this matter has long been
suspected by thinking. men. It was tiro
policy of our government to keep,our suf
fering soldiers In the Southern prison
peng, "to weaken the rebels by eating out
their substanee." If the relatives and
friends of the Anderson vine victims
(mulatto* to uphold the Itadienl tenders
who connived at this. wiektsint.ss, they
deserve to be haunted forever by
the ghosts of those %%horn the Ittetieal
government doomed toe lingering death.
—3'oric Gazette.
TUE "L4B Y. 7
Two young white girls were'shoeklng
ly assaulted by rents Waynesboro', Geor
gia, negroes. . The girls will not snrvivo.
A negro villain committed a rape upon
two girls aged eight, and t e n y ea r s , hurt
Nunday, N. Y., a few days - ago.
A shock big tragedy occurred in Union
City, Obiou county, Tennessee, on Mon 7
day week. A negro man broke jail iii
that town on the preeeding Friday ' and
repairing to the-residence of an aged anal
highly respeetable widow lady, mom d
Chatman, outraged her person, and then
tied. Two sons of the injured woman
followed the wretch to Hickman, Ky.,
arrested him, and (sling him back to
the scene of the outrage, shot him dead.
A negro in Bio,inlinville, Ky., enticed
a young girl from the house and commit.
ted violenee upon her person. She %tot
so much shined that she has Mace died
from her injuries.
A North Carolina negm woman eta
off her husband's head so that she might
marry a white Man.
• J. H. Ilipkins, Bureau Superintendent
of Ciallatin, Tenn., has been indicted by
the grand jury of Sumner county for
an attempted rape on the person of tt
young girl only fourteen yeArs of age.
John Wilson, a negro living near War
wick, Md. was arrested on Thursday, '
the 2501 uft, by Constable Loveless, and
taken before Justice Hunter, charge with
an assault with Went to omutnit n rape
on the person of a white girl aged about
15 years, named Crissey Bowman.
The "dear Lambs" stand much in need
of a Democratic shepherd.
Kentucky Xrgroes Won't let Radicals
Mt on Juries.—A negro boy, who former
ly belonged to the Hon. Jbhn D. Young ,
hired himself to a Radical ex-collector of
the United "States revenues. The negro
worked faithfully in compliance with his
contract, but his Radical employer failed
to keep faith with the honest negro, Will
! refused to pay the stipulated wages. No
doubt the Itadleal thought his services
In liberating the negroes in Kentucky,
las a fair legal set oil' against negro labor
in his corn field; but the negro thought
otherwise, and brought snit for what was
due him. The ex-tsillector demanded
a jury, which was summoned. There
happened to be three Radicals upon the
panel, but the negro having lost faith it
the honor (dills liberators, manifesteq,
decided repugnance to having his else
tried by them. Ho instructed his attor
ney to strike thorn oft; as he didn't want
no "mean Radical on his jury." Thu
three Radicals were accordingly dis
charged from the jury. The case was
tried by what the negro said were "hon
est men," and the negro got judgment
for his bebt;
The negroes of Kentucky are begin
ning to rind out who are their best
bulletin.
A Wise Lieueenant.—On the Fourtb of
July a number of folks at Richmond
gut up a little plc-nic, and during the
heat of the day the Declaration of Inde
pendence wax read, which a Federal
Lieutenant, who was present, mistook
for a treasonable harangue. He had
the whole party arrested—but judge hie
astonishment when he found that he Aad
m i s t a k # a the Declaration of Indepen
dence for a treasonable speech against his
commander and the Rump Gbnpress