t it star & Sattiati. Friday, Seip. 17, 1869 Advertisers asdotberststrill bear la oiled that the regular etrea• tatted of tasasTAlli AND saintenri.” Is unwell larger Mau 4bat et way oche, peps. published to the Oinisty t betas. read weekly by mot less Slums 11,000 versions. MTATE FOR . GOVERNOR URN. JOHN' W. GEARY JUDGE, OF BUPRFmv COURT HoN. HENRY W. WILLIAMS COVNi'lf TICKET ASSOCIATE ITIDOE,? ROBERT G. HARPER, Gettysburg ASSEMBLY, Col. JOHN WOLFORD, York Springs SHERIFF, SAMUEL WOLF, Oxford towinhip REGISTER AND RECORDER, JACOB BUSHEY, Franklin township CLERK OF "THE COURTS, EDEN NORRIS, Straban township TREASIIIIMEt, SAMUEL HERBST, Gettysburg CODITTY COMMISSIONER, SAMUEL OVERHOLTZER, Reading tp DIRECTOR OF THE POOR, ADAM C. MIISBMkUN, Hamiltonbait tp AUDITOR, WILLIAM C. SCOTT, Freedom township CORONOR, Dr. AGIDEOUS ICOEL,Mountplessant tp MAINE ZI.IEIOIIO N The first 'important State election that has occurred since Gen. Grant's Administration came into power took place in Maine on Monday last. The candidates for Governor were Joshua L. Chamberlain, Republican ; Franklin Smith, Democrat; N. G. Hitehborn, Prohibition. Governor Chamberlain was re-elected. The temperance peo ple run a ticket of their own in order to test the positive strength of their party in the State, and succeeded in somewhat dividing the Republican vote. A Legislature was also elected, which is undoubtedly Republican, and will ratify the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitu tion. It will also elect a United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the recent - death of Hon. Wm. Pitt Fessenden., The two most prominsnt Republican candidates for the position at present are Speaker James G. Blaine and Governor Chamberlain. DR. DILL insists that he was called away from Harrisburg by business en• gagements when the vote was taken on the.bill to increase the salaries of mem bers to $l5OO. The Dr. found it con venient to be absent freqnently.during the session. One Thousand Dollars was pretty good pay for three months nominal service in legislative life, with the liberty of spending one-lialf the time at home, and roaming about/ the country on free passes—to say nothing of the weightier attractions always to be found by "knowing ones" in and around the lobby. We are not surpris ed that the Dt. desires to be sent back to Harrisburg. It was evidently to him a goodly land, flowing with milk and honey. But this dodge of "neces sary absence" pending the vote on the $l5OO bill, is a weak defence. Legisla• five "dodgers" are always neccessarily absent. But then, it is a customary thing at Harrisburg for members, hon• estly absent, op important votes, to have their names recorded after their return, provided they, can satisfy the House that they didn't mean to "dodge." The Dr's name doein't ap pear on the record, and he must not complain now that is he held to the record of his own making. ALDERMAN MCMULLEN—the noted leader of Democratic rowdies in Phila- . delphia—in the meeting of the Board of Aldermen, last week, gave notice that the Registry Law would be disre garded in his ward, (the famous 4th,) and any attempt to send officers there to supervise the election would result in Riot and Murder! The 4th Ward is the "Sodom" of Philadelphia, the home of the bruisers, thugs, and re peaters, who, under McMuLlen's ma nipulation, do the dirty work of their party-leaders—stuff the ballot•boaes— vote on dead men's names—and prac tice nameless frauds and outrages at elections. McMullen ran the Demo cratic State Convention, and largely aided in- Packer's nomination. The threatfor Riot and Murder was made by McMullen, in his official capacity In the Board of Aldermen. It was not an idle threat—he knows his men, and means what he says. If law-abiding Democrats ere willing to train under such leaders let them vote for Packer Co. THERE will be four separate tickets or slips to be voted at the coming Octo ber election. One ticket headed "Ju diciary," for Judge of Supreme Court ; one headed "State," for Governor ; one headed "County," for Senator, Repre sentative and ail county officers, and one headed "Town s p" (or" Borough, " as the case may be,) for Justice of the Peace, Boards of Election, Supervi sors, etc. Our friends in the different boroughs and townships had better ar range to have their tickets for town ship or borough officers printed, the same as the other tickets. SOLDIERS of Pennsylvania, while you were on the field fighting through the gloomy struggle of the war; Mr. Pershing, of Cambria, was safely hous ed at Harrisburg in the Assent!)ly, steadily and consistently voting against you and the Country. Your pay, your honor, your flag, the credit of the na tion, enlistments, and the draft to re cruit your shattered ranks, all suffered at the hands of Attorney C. L. Persh ing, of Cambria. At that time pia had to fight for the protsetion of that man, his property juid family, but you need not vote for him now. JOHN W. GEARY was born in a "log cabin," near Mt. Pleasant, in West moreland county, in 1819. He is now in his fiftieth year, vigorous, hale and active. Asa Packer, was born in ConnOcti cut, In 1805, and is now in h ie 04111 year, feeble, avaricious, and gouty. WHILE Gov. Geary was refusing to be the instrumentef the slave-driven and border ruffians in Kansas, and was nobly standing up there for freedom, Mr. Packer was in Congress, humbly and servilely following the lead of Toombs, Wigfall and other fire-eaters, in their plans to hand over all our free territory to theslavery interests. "Pzacizaro Aw " potrrwitix keeps "pegging away" at the Polio debt. He knoehed off a five ands halt million chip In August, when way body expected he would barely ho/d hie own. Fifty millions reduction is pretty good for the pet cis months of On. Gi t ures administ. GUN. GEART.-11114 PitfITION 11 HISTORY. In reading It Sherman s Arch to the Sea," says the Titusville :Aterald. the following allusions to tbe Sle t lil*n candidate for Governor are w he.of note. The writer beingl New Yorilier, and correspondent o t tbe /reread, A o -. not well be suspecte of partiality to a Pennsylvanian, and particularly to one of Gen. Geary's political connec tions. Speaking of Gen, Logan, he says: ,* , "There are men who are soldiers by in triiiraikos! Itottut owist , cisary,,too, was a civilian general, and won fame and repu tation upon field after 'fieldupon the bloody crest of Lookout ilicmtaiti, upon the rugged . cliffs of Mill Creek—through every battle that many a trained West Point veteran should feel proud of. Of civilian soldiers he and Logan stand amid the foremost." Again, in one of the skirmishes— more properly battlee-,-around Dallas and Allatoona, the rebels, made tierce attacks on Gen. Williams' diSision, which was barely able to hold its posi tion , the ammunition being nearly ex helloed and the troops wavering, when "Geary's White Star. Division" formed hr three lines, and advanced to the sup port. Geary reserved his fire until close upon the enemy, and then'poured a deadly volley into them, which made them waver. At Ketlesaw and Lost Mountain, during three days' fighting, "we cap tured a large- number of prisoners, in all about twolbousand. Geary, in his assault, captured about one-half of these." In the last battle, before Atlanta was surrendered, "the first of Hood's desperate assaults, for which he paid dearly," Geary took a prominent and active part. When• at the close of Sherman's matchless "march to the sea," he had invested Savannah, he intimated to his comanders that the first of them to enter the city shotild be made its mili tary governor. Hardee was summon— ed to surrender the city,but the braggart answered that he had plenty, of sup- plies and men, and ebuld hold oat as long as he chose. Only three nights after he sneaked away. Geary, always wide awake, suspecting the movement, ordered his division • under arms and advanced his pickets. Pushing on further without opposition, crawling through the abattis and floundering through dikes and ditches, he scaled the first line of works and found it de serted. Here he was met by the mayor and citizens, who formally surrendered the city. As he had fairly earned, he received, as promised by Sherman, the governorship of Savannah. The writ er her takes occasion to speak of our gubernatorial candidate's ability as an executive officer: "General Geary has had great experience both as a soldier and an executive officer. In his former character his name has been prominent before the country. In the lat ter I mean to treat him now'. "He was long the alcaede of San Francis co, and subsequently mayor. His first ad ministration as Governor of Kansas in troublesome times helped much to tranquil ize, the disaffected•' there. He has firm •=•niinistrative abilities, is a man of great force of character and resolution, and of a kind, accessible disposition. He patiently listens to the complaints and entreaties of all, but administers justice with a firm, impartial hand. "His government of Savannah gave great satisfaction ; when Gen. Sherman was about commencing his compaign through Carolina, a deputation of the most respects We citizens waited on hint, requesting him to leave Gem Geary in command of the city; Gen. Sherman could not well spate so active an officer from the field, and there fore declined. "General Geary and the officess of his staff will be long and kindly remembered in Savannah for his upright administration and 'courteous behavior to nil parties. "He did all in his power to encourage the citizens to establish friendly relations to wards the Federal Governmerk, and to make them feel that their interests were reciprocal." Such testimony from a source, not only disinterested but rather more like ly to be prejudiced against a Pennsyl vania soldier ,of Republican proclivi- ties, speaks volumes in favor of Gen eral GEARY. It was given after the close of the war, when no further mil itary honors could be bestowed upon its subject, and before General GEARY was spoken of for Governor of Penn sylvania—a position to which the people have elevated him once, and will elevate him again. GEARY AND OVR NTATE DEBT While everybody is delighted with the financial out-look at Washington, let us look at home, and note how closely the economy of GEARY resem bles the economy of GRANT. Hon. H. BUCHER SWOPE, at a Republican meet ing in Bellefonte, Centre county, on the evening of the 25th, made this tell ing point: "He showed that for a period of thirty years—from 1829 to ;1855—with the excep, lion of three Gubernatorial term, the Dem ocratic party held the Executive power of the State, and with the exception of three or four years, perhaps, entire control of the Legislative branch of the State government. During this period, he said, Including the light debt contraved prevhnuly under Democratic Administrations. the State was saddled with a debt of $40,000,000, and a State tax of three mills on real estate, pro ducing annuallyabout $1,800,000, was lev ied in 1844 to pay the interest. This was purely Democratic policy. That party is fairly chargeable with the $ 40 , 000 ,0 0 0 Ilehr and the $1,8011,000 tax. And this is not all They are responsible for the war of the rebellion ; and, being responsible for the war, they are responsible for its cousequen ces, among which we may reckon $5,000,- 000 extraordinary expenses, which the State was obliged to incur, to enable her lo act her part In the war, and subsequently a sum which will pro bably reach $10,000,000, to lionise, feed, clothe, and educate the or phan children of brave soldiers and adieus who perished in combat, or died of disease or exposure in the service of their country. With these $l5, 000,000 the Democracy are, therefore, chargeable, their expenditure be ing the legitimate result of the rebellion, and the rebellion being the legitimate fruit of Democratic doctrine. Carrying out these ideas, and _this same train of thought, Mr. Swope went on to show that by the close of Gov. Geary's adthinistration the regular State debt will have been re duced fully tcn millions, and the war debt, and for soldiers' orphans' education expen sed about eight millions, and there will remain in the State Treasury railroad bonds of the Pennsylvania company, or guaran teed by it, some twelve millions mum.— To make it clear, said Mr. Swope, let us re capitulate. And to sntatantiate his posi tion he stated the cast Dm a:ollons e suite debt, created by is $40, 000.000 War debt, created by Dem ' 5,000,000 soldiers' orphans' created by Democrats Total Paid oft by 'km yrate Itepaalj. can rule .. itallensd . *********** ***** ^ /4000,000 Debt Irovidled foe-- mess The'B sako emocratic — party by the act of April 29, 1864, had fattened upon the real estate of the tax-pryers a State tax from which about $1,8u0,000 annually was realized.— This was repealed by the Republican Ad ministration of February 2i, 1866. 'he thirty years' policy of the Democratic party may be summed up in fighlitig corporations and taxing the massei of the people. The Republiams have rerital ed we tax inson'the masses of thepat, and put It upon the great oorporat that have grown up. Rallrossis, and manufacturing corporations now tay the taxes which sustain the Susie Go v rn meat. - WHO CAN TELL ?--Am hieker has been in the State Legislature and the National Pompom Tbopeopielle airs to luso* what baL did fn Vtiter Of tittle positbmito bens& the , *Maki or nation, or to• distiniptisti himself as si atatestnanilo as4tr - enlitlii'llith to On; mos of Goverfior of puliftiolitinl4. Who osn ?