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BUCHANAN, DENTIST, No. 228 Hill Street, HUNTECGDON, PA July 3,'i2. DR. F. 0. ALLEMAN canbe eon suited at his office, at all hours, Mapleton, Pa. [march6,72. CALDWELL, Attorney -at -Law, D•No. 111, 3d street. Office formerly occupied by Messrs. Woods t Williamson. [apl2,'7l. DR. A. B. BRUMBAUGH,offers his professional services to the community. Office, No. 523 Washington street, one door cast of the Catholio Parsonage. Dan. 4,11. "fi -4 . J. GREENE, Dentist. Office re -1-:4• moved to Leister'e new building, Rill street JTvltingdon. Dan.4,'7l. a_ L. BABE, Dentist, office in S. T. A-A • Brown's new building, No. 520, Hill St., Huntingdon, Pa. [spl2,'7l. KGLAZIER, Notary Public, corner • of Washington and Smith streets, Hun tingdon, Pa. [jan.l2'7l. AC. MADDEN, Attorney-ai r Law. • Mee, No. —, Hill street, Huntingdon, Pa. [ap.19,'71. FRANKLIN SCHOCK, Attorney r, • at-Law, HUNTINGDON, PA. june26,'72-Gm, JSYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at • Law, Huntingdon, Pa, Office, Hill street, hive doors west of Smith. [jan.4'7l. :1" R. PATTON, Druggist and Apoth cfi • ecary, opposite the Exchange Hotel, Hun ingdon, Pa. Prescriptions accurately compounded. Pure Liquors for Medicinal purposes. [n0v.23,10. T HALL MUSSER, Attorney-at-Law, • No. 319 Hill et., Huntingdon, Pa. Dan. 4,11. R. DIIRBORROW, Attorney-at t., • Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will prentice in the several Courts of Huntingdon county. Particular attention given to the settlement of estates of deco dents. Offioe in he Tonnalt Building. Ifeb.l,'7l W. MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law J • and General Claim Agent, Huntingdon, Pa., Soldiers' claims against the Government for back pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attend ed to with great care and promptness. Office on Hill street. Lian.4,ll. Tr ALLEN LOVELL, Attorney-at . • Law, Huntingdon Pa. Special attention given to COLLECTIONS of all kinds ; to the settle ment of Estates Le.; and all other Legal Business prosecuted withfidelity and dispatch. "Bs Office in room lately occupied by R. Milton Spoor, Esq. [jan.4,ll. APES ZENTMYER, Attorney-at- Law, Huntingdon, Pa., vrill attend promptly to all legal business. Moo in Cunningham's new building. [jan.4,'7l. 1010 M. & M. S. LYTLE, Attorneys -A- • at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend to all kinds of legal business entrusted to their care. Office on the south side of Hill street, fourth door west of Smith. Dan. 4,11. RA. ORBISON, Attorney-at-Law, • Office, 321 Hill street, Huntingdon. Pa. [taay3l,ll. JOHN SCOTT. S. T. BROWN. J. 3i. BAILEY SCOTT, BROWN & BAILEY, At torneys-st-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Pensions, and all claims of soldiers and soldiers' heirs against the Government will be promptly prosecuted. Offioe on Hill street. Dan. 4,11. TW. MYTON, Attorney-at-Law, Hun • tingdon, Pa. Office with J. Sewell Stewart, Esq. Dan.4;7l. WI LIAM A. FLEMING, Attorney -all-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention given to collections, and all other I3gal business attended to with care and promptness. Office, No. 229, Hill street. [ap19,71. Hotels, MORRISON HOUSE, OPPOSITE PENNSYLVAEIA R. R. DEPOT HUNTINGDON, PA J. H. CLOVER, Prop. April 5, 1871-Iy. WASHINGTON HOTEL, S. S. BOWDON, Prop'r. Corner of Pitt & Juliana Sts.,Bedford, Pa. mayi. EXCHANGE HOTEL, Huntingdon, P. JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor. January 4, 1871. Miscellaneous COLYER & GRAHAM, PAINTERS• Shop No. 750 Hill Street, (2d dooi r from S. H. Henry & Huntingdon Pa. will do all kind of painting cheaper than any firm in town. Give them a call-before applying elsewhere. lmay6m. `ISAAC TAYLOR k CO., MANUFAC TITRE. OP Hemlock, Pine: and Oak Bill Tim ber and Shingles, Osceola, Clearfield county, Pa. They make a specialty of furnishing to order all kinds of HEMLOCK AND BILL TIMBER. Orders taken and any information given by M. LOGAN, at his office, over the Union Bank, Huntingdon, Pa. Jan.24,1872-6mo. A. BECK, Fashionable Barber R• and Hairdresser, Hill street, opposite the Franklin House. All kind. of Tonics as Pomades kept on hand and for sale. [ap19,71-6m - -..,....-.,-.. ,;,-:.":"" • ' '75-. -m....- , -. t'''' . ft - 1 - t• - i ~ I , ;4,... ---; ,ffi,.. e) - t1 - ~..--; :;‘,- .:71 -,, : r.- ~... -..-, Zif, t.,=- , ' ' --. r 1 . J ir .s. -.OE - .; ^- vit .. al 64 - - zi . 1 on ~ z..„ ....,. .N .3 , rill.: l'i -.„ s , ~. v . . e „ „.. ...: . 4. _.? 1 , . i.-, ~..;. :,..::: 1 4- - r: ' e** ,- - ...1 .- ,a,.. ; it Miscellaneous 1872. J. A. NASh, CARPETS !! CARPETS !! CARPETS!! SPRING STOCK. AT LOWEST PRIG'ES ! • JAMES A. BROWN 4 constantly receiving at his 2u-te CARPET STORE HUNTINGDON, PA., 5251 Hill Street. 3 i 2$ 36 1 00 65 1 65 80 00 100 Beautiful Patterns of Carpets, fresh from the ooms of the manufacturers. His stock comprises BRUSSELS, INGRAINS, VENITIAN, WOOL DUTCH, COTTAGE, HEMP, LIST and RAG CARPETS CARPET CHAIN, COCOA AND CANTON MATTINGS, FLOOR, STAIR AND TABLE OIL CLOTHS, and a large Block of WALL PAPER, Window Shades and Fixtures, Drugget, Velvet Rugs, Door Mats, Extra Carpet Thread and Bind ing. I make a specialty of furnishing Churches and Lodges at City Prices, and invite Furnishing Committees to call and see goods made expressly for their purposes. Buyers will save money and be better suited by going to the regular Carpet and Oil Cloth Store, far any of the above goods. I defy competition in prices and variety of beautiful patterns. I have also the Agency for the Orignal HOWE SEWING MACHINE, IMPROVED, so well known as the best Family Machine in the world Call at the CARPET STORE and eee them. Feb. 14,1872. W. BUCHANAN J. N. BUCHANAN. BUCHANAN & SON. 509 HILL STREET, HUNTINGDON, PA We have the the largest, cheapest and best as. sortment of COOKING- STOVES West of Philadelphia. We constantly keep on Land SPEARS', CALORIFIC, EXCELSIOR, OLIVE BRANCH, PENN,• MORNING LIGHT, COTTAGE, STAR, and the REGULATOR. EVERY STOVE WARRANTED! WOOD and WILLOW WARE, JAPANESE WARE, TIN AND PAINTED WARE, TOLEDO PUMPS, ETC., ETC., ETC. ETC. Persons going to housekeeping can get every thing they need, from a clothes pin to a cooking stove. ROOFING, SPOUTING JOB WORK done at short notice. Give us a call and we feel satisfied you cm* save money. I 0 april. THE MERCHANT TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT, at .TIALL, opposite First National 1 Is now fully prepared to Bank Huntingdon, Pa., J make up suits which for NEATNESS, D UIIABILIT Yawl CHEAPNESS cannot be equaled in this county. Having just received my SPRING and SUMMER stock of CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, VESTING, ETC., I ask everybody to call and be convinced of the fact that the most complete Merchant Tailoring establishment is carried on at Oak Hall. Also Ready-made clothing, for Men, Youths and Boys. Gents Furnishing Goode, NOTIONS, GLOVES, ETC., ETC., I invite all to call and examine my stock of READY MADE GOODS; they aro of the best qualities and of all grades and patterns, and I will be able to please all with ing anything in my line. lmaytf. B. F. DOUGLASS. GRAND DEPOT FOR NEW GOODS D. P. GWIN INFORMS THE PUBLIC THAT HE HAS JUST OPENED A SPLENDID STOOK OF NEW GOODS CAN'T BE BEAT IN CHEAPNESS AND QUALITY, CALL AND SEE. Jan. 4. '7l FRESH ARRIVAL OF SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS at the Cheap Store of BENJAMLN JACOBS, Corner of the Diamond, in Saxton's Building I have just received a large stook of Ladies' ele gant Dress Goode, Gentlemene' Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats and Caps of all kinds, in end less variety, for ladies, gentlemen, misses and children. CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, , GROCERIES, Coffee, Teas of all kinds, best and common Syrups, Spices, de. Tobacco and Sugars, wholesale and retail. These goods will be sold as cheap, if not cheaper, than any other house in town. "Quick sales and small profits," is my motto. , Thankful for past patronage, I respectfully soli. sit a continuance of the same. LR. NORTON, .1.4. PIANOS, For the celebrated JEWETT & GOODMAN ORGAN, 118 Smithfield Street, Opposite New City Hall, (Send for Illustrated Catalogue.) June 26, 1872-3 m. 1872. No, I wont—thar, now so ! And it ain't nothin', no, And thar's nary to tell that you folks yer don't know ' And it's "Belle, tell us do?" and it's "Belle is it • true? And "Wot's this yer yarn of the Major and you r Tilt I'm sick of it all—so I am, but I s'pose That is nothin' to you—Well, then listen ! yer goes : • It was after fight, and around us all night There was poain' and shodtin' a powerful sight And the niggers had fled, and Chlo' was abed, And Pinky and :Billy were hid in the shed ; And I ran out at daybreak and nothin' was nigh But the growlin' of cannon low down in the sky. And I saw not a thing tis I ran to the spring, But a itplintered (eine rail and a broken-down swing; And a bird said "Kerebee!" as it sat on a tree, As if it was lonesome and glad to ace ins ; And I filled up my pail and was risin' to go, When up comes its Major a canterin' slow. When he raw ine he drew in his reins, and then threw On the gate-post his bridle, and—what does he do But come down where I sat; and ho lifted his hat, And he says—well thar ain't any need to tell that— 'Twas some foolishness, sure, but it 'mounted to this, That he asked for a drink, and he wanted—a kiss, Then I said (I was mad.) "For the water, my lad, You're too big and must stoop ; for a kiss, it's as bad— You ain't near big enough." And I turned in a huff, When the Major he laid his white hand on my •cub, Ana he says, '•You're a trump! Take my pistol don't fear ! Dot shoot the next man that insults you, my dear. Then ho stooped to the pool, very quiet and cool, Leaf in' me pith that pistol stuck there like a fool, When thar flashed on my sight, a quick glimmer JAMES A. DROWN. of light From the top of the little stone fence on the right, And I knew it 'twos a rifle, and hack of it. all Rosa the face of that bush-whacker, Cherokee Hail ! Then I felt in my dread that the moment the head Of the Major was lifted, the Major was dead; And I stood still and white, but Lord! gale, in spite Of my care, that darned pistol went off in my fright! Went off—true as gospel! and strangest of all It actooally injured that Cherokee Ilall. That's all—now go long. Yes, some folks thinks it's wrong, And thar's some wants to know to what site I be• long: But I says, '•Served him right!" and Igo all my might, In love or in war, for a fair, stand-up fight; And as for the Major—sho! gals, don't you know That—Lord!—thar's his step in the garden below. I can see that day. White cumuli were heaped over the wood tops, but the middle sky was blue and clear. Though I was dozing on a saloon step, this day of beauty got even through my wavering sight. Per haps I sat there an hour, perhaps an age, in which the blinks I got wore the recur ring days. It suddenly occurred to me that such a long continuance of fine weather ought to be enjoyed more actively. But the world whirls, as everybody knows. I mumbled a number of jokes on nature as I staggered abroad. After a tiresome journey, I came upon an alley and a group of boys travel ing through a game of marbles on their knees like penitents stumping through Jerusalem. And in their midst was Billy. Billy was a noble looking boy. I paused and tried to get into position to look at him. I felt a maudlin pride in Billy. He had Nora's blue eyes. (Blessed Nora ! She was gone where she couldn't be cursed any more, poor little broken-hearted thing.) As Billy photographed himself in my eyes, his bright hair blowing, his lusty fingers gouging a pit for his marble, the contrast between what he and I were born to be and what we were, struck me like a bullet. HOSIERY, ETC., ETC. _____ I had tried to reform. 0, yes. And every failure was a link in my chain. I was utterly given over to the snakes and furies. Now, here was Bill walking in my va grant steps—a vicious Arab in beautiful Cacansian guise. "Say, Bill," begged one of the tribe, casting a covetous eye on his industrious jaws, "let me chew your wax awhile." "There! you can take it and keep it; I don't want it no more." While I stood in drunken dolor against the fence, the group whirled up suddenly into a maelstrom, the centre to which they were all sucked was a steadfast rock with churning fists and a yellow top. "Bill !" I shouted in fury; "come here, you young scoundrel !" Hearing my voice over the broil, he dashed through the boys and came, crying, bloody and ruffled. "What are you fighting about ?" I ask ed, standing in tremulous judgment over him. THAT "I can't tell you, father," he answered, bravely. What ! Even the boy despised and dared me, I lifted my hand and felt that I could kill him. "Take that, then, and that, you little wretch ! I'll show you how to be a bully and turn against your own father !" My muscular hand brought a frightful blood gush eut of his bruised face. I thought he should feel that his father was a solid man in one respect, if the rest of my body was a mass of moist wretchedness. The boy, the boy. I groan when I re member it. D. P. GWIN. "Oh, don't, father," he begged, wring ing his dirty little hands. "Oh, father, please don't strike me, and I'll tell you all about it. The boys said you was a drunk en old bloat, and I'll fight anybody that calls you that, father; I will if you killme for it." I sat prone down upon the ground. That was the hardest blow I ever had. "Get up," father," said Billy, casting a look of bloody and warlike glance behind him, "and I'll help you along." I took hold of him, but a weakness not born of rum kept ma at his cracked, stub by little feet. There was no one in the world who cared whether I rose or went on down but him. He cared. I put my arms around the boy and cried against him. No more drunken, glazing repentance for me. Every tear was bard as a pearl with resolution. The good Christ appeared that instant in His love and long suffering, through the boy, as plainly as He appear ed to the dying Sir Launfal through the leper. When on earth He was always going about picking. up the abominable, and since He left the earth He sends for them by messengers they cannot help knowing. Men should respect in me that spark which the boy respected. I would show him what a grand, overmastering thing is that soul which the God of glory values. "Don't cry, father," requested Billy, while he ceased not to paint bloody sun Dealer lit AND STATE AGENT PITTSBURGH, PA: gitt cuoto' ~~►u~. The Idyl Battle Hollow (War of the rebellion, 1101.) Ely *erg-Uglier, THE BOY. HUNTINGDON, PA., AUGUST 14, 1872. rise on his face. Better than a sunrise was that little face to me His eyes look ed blue and snore heaven-like than thesky. "Do you love your father ?" I asked, holding to him like a woman. "Yes,. sir ; I'll lick anybody that calls you names," the bright, tender firmaments in his face gushing with another shower. A horizontal hail of mud and pebbles hit us while he was speaking. Billy rear ed up like a charger snuffing the battle .afar off. But I made him retreat from the enemy's lines. When the boy and I:were laid at night in a low tavern, which was our only home, I asked with my face turned from him: "Billy, will you help your father to try once more?" 1.1/son which he jumped up and pumped my arm with all the vigor and familiarity that the street had put in him. "Yes, sir-ce ! I will that, you bet !" vowed Billy. A few minutes after he subsided I heard his soft breath going in and, out the doors of his lips in regular cadences. While he slept and started up to fight his skirmishes over, I flogged my weak brain to work and plan. When I •look back at that wretch in soiled tavern sheets •glaring into the dark ness with watery eyes my legs tremble un der me, though they have One stoutly these many years. It was such a very straight path up from that place, and•l come so near falling time after time. The next day I got work on the railroad. From thegutter I could not go directly back to the bar, since drunkenness is one of the vices which is not tolerated in law yers. It was hard to shovel dirt in the hot sun. I sat down half fainting. A good natured Patrick came e slowly with a bottle and bade me "whist at it," which I put forth the will to do—like a wild beast —when Billy swooped down from a pass ing freight and squared himself before that Irishman, while the very tatters at his elbow bristled with wrath. "Look here, now," threatened he, send ing the bottle over the track, "if you get my father to driakin' again I'll kick you." After I had delved awhile Billy had a new suit, a set of books and school privil eges. Then a situation as copyist was opened to me. The boy and I fell into the habit of striking hands and going to church on a Sunday. Some of my old friends began to notice me. Oh, I tell you, it makes a man's heart swell like a green bulb to have an honest hand come seekino. his. Finally I got into practice. Sometimes the thirst came on me, and I stormed up and down in my office, and twisted little locks of hair as if the curse hung to the roots of that. Once I locked•the door and threw out the key and was a prisoner till my associates came. Passing a saloon, one evil time, the clinking of glasses and the breath of mine enemy penetrated my senses. That saloon door sucked me just half way in, when I was shocked through my coat-skirts and quite knocked into the street. "Here, father," pleaded Billy, charging me with a second jerk, "come out of this, come out of this; we're going to make men Of ourselves, father." "Yes, men, Billy," I subscribed. So I did not run into the side track - because I had such a faithful tender. Coming up socially, often does much for a man morally. Causes multiplied, and I seemed to grow with my trust. The boy and I had smart lodgings up town. He rose in school. I was so proud orhim. I've heard how women love their chil dren with close, peculiar devotion. I think I must have loved him with a mother's love. There is no other way of expressing how near the boy was to me. When he came from school and met me on the streets he was often carrying the satchel of a smooth-haired, dark-eyed girl, to ',whom he would exclaim, as he loyally touched his cap, "That's my father !" with such a proud accent that the blood leaped in my veins. Oh, my good fellow, it is a glorious day for you when your child is proud of you We live altogether now—Billy, his dark-haired Nora, the little rowdies and I —in a house with no end of verandas and vines. The respectable handle of Judge is set to my name, but Billy's children, who give the echo to his former street training, stand in no more awe of it than they do of the venerable Roman handle to my countenance. We tumble like wild colts on the grass. But they have no idea that their ancestor ever lay in a lower bed. Blessed be enduring love ! I think often I may be in my dotage, for quiet matron Nora often looks up from her baby in surprise at my walking the veranda and maundering in a sort of ec stacy: "The boy ! the boy." Bin Campaigu. LETTER FROM SPEAKER BLAINE Sumner Co-operating with Jeff. Davis Greeley Leaguing with Tammany. WASHINGTON, August 2.—The follow ing letter was handed to Senator Sumner to-day : AUGUSTA, ME., July 31,1872. Hon. Charles Sumner, United States Senator—Dear Sir : Your letter, publish ed in the papers of this morning, will create profound pain and regret among your former political friends throughout New England. Your power to injure Gen. Grant was exhausted in your remarkable speech in the Senate. Your power to in jure yourself was not fully exercised until you announced open alliance with South ern secessionists in their efforts to destroy the Republican party of the nation. I have bat recently read with much in terest the circumstantial and minute ac count given by you, in the fourth volume of House works, of the manner in which you were struck down in the Senate cham ber, in 1856, for defending the rights of the negro. The Democratic party through out the South, and, according to your own showing, to some extent in the North also, approved of that assault upon you. Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, openly announced his approval of it in the Senate, and Jefferson Davis, four months after its ocourrence, wrote a letter to South Carolina in ful -1 some eulogy of Brooks of having so nearly taken your life. It is safe to say every man in the South who rejoiced over the attempt to murder you was afterward found in the rebel conspiracy to murder the na tion. It is still safer to say that every one of them who survives is to-day your fellow-laborer in support of Horace Greeley. In 1856 he would indeed have been a rash prophet who predicted your fast alliance sixteen years after with Messrs. Toombs and Davis in their efforts to reinstate their own party in power. In all the startling mutations of American politics nothing so marvelous has ever occurred as the fellow ship of Robert Toombs, Jefferson Davis and Charles Sumner in a joint effort to drive the Republican party from power and hand over tha government to the prac tical control of those who so recently sought to destroy it, It is of no avail fur you to take refuge behind the Republican record of Horace Greeley. Conceding, for the sake of ar gument, as I do not in fact believe, that Horace Greeley would remain firm in his Republican principles, he would be pow erless against the Congress that would come into power with him in the event of his election. We have had a recent and stri king illustration, in the case of Andrew Johnson, of the inability of the President to enforce a policy, or even a measure, against the will of Congress. What more power would there be in Horace Greeley to enforce.the Republican policy against a Democratic Congress than there was in Andrew Johnson to enforce the Democratic policy against a Republican Congress ? And besides, Horace Greeley has already, in his letter of acceptance , taken ground practically against the Republican doctrine, so often enforced by yourself, of the duty of the National Government to secure the rights of every citizen to the protection of life, person and property. In Mr. Greeley's letter of accepting the Cincinnati nomina tion he pleases every Ku-Klux villain in the South by repeating the Democratic cant about loyal self-government, and in veighing in good rebel parlance against centralization, and finally declaring that there shall be no federal subversion of the internal policy of the several Slates and municipalities, but that each shall be left free to enforce the rights and promote the well-being of its inhabitants by such mesas as the judgment of its own people shall prescribe. The meaning of all this, in plain English, is that no matter how the colored citizens of the South may be abused, wronged and oppressed, Congress shall not interfere for their protection, but leave them to tender mercies of local self government administered by white rebels. Do you, as a friend to the colored man, ap prove this position of Mr. Greeley ? You cannot forget, Mr. Sumner, how of ten during the late session of Congress you conferred with ma in regard to the possibility of having your civil rights bill passed by the House. It was introduced by your personal friend, Mr. Hooper, and nothing prevented its passage by the House except the rancorous and factious hostility of the Democratic members. If I have correctly examined the Globe, Democratic members on seventeen different occasions resisted the passage of the civil rights bill by the parliamentary process known as "filibustering." They would not even al low it to come to a vote. Two intelligent colored members from South Carolina, Elliot and Rainey, begged of the Demo cratic side of the house to merely allow the civil rigths bill to be voted on, and they were answered with a denial so abso lute that it amounted to a scornful jeer of the rights of the colored man. And now Y9,3And your voice and influence to the re-election of these Democratic members, who are co-oprating with you in support of Mr. Greeley. Do you nct know, Mr. Sumner, and will you not, as a candid man, acknowl edge that with these men in power in Con gress the rights of the colored men are absolutely sacrificed, so far as these rights depend on federal legislation ? Still fur ther, the rights of colored men in this country are secured, if secured at all, by the great constitutional amendments, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth. To give these amendments full scope and ef fect legislation by Congress is imperative ly required, as you have so often and so eloquently demonstrated. But the Dem ocratic party are on record in a most con spicuous manner against any legislation on the subject, and it was only in the month of February last that my colleague, Mr. Peters, offered a resolution in the House of Representatives, affirming the validity of the constitutional amendments, and of such reasonable legislation of Congress as may be necessary to make them in their letter and spirit most effectual. This.res elution, very mild and guarded as you will see, was adopted by 124 yeas to 58 nays. Only eight of the yeas were Demo crats. All the nays were Democrats. The resolution of Mr. Peters was followed, a week later, by one offered by Mr. Steven son, of Ohio, as follows : "Resolved, That we recognize as valid and binding all existing laws passed by Congress for the enforcement of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments of the Constitution of the United States, and for the protect ion of citizens in their, rights under the Constitution as amended." On the vote upon this resolution there were 107 yeas to G 5 nays. All the yeas were Republicans, and they are unanimous in support of General Grant. All the nays were Democrats, who are note equally unan imous in support of Mi.. Greeley. . . It is idle to affirm, as some Democrats did in the resolution offered by Mr. Brooks, of New York, that "these amendments are valid parts of the Constitution," so long as the same men, on the same day, voted that the provisions of these amendments should not be enforced by Congressional legislation. The amendments are but. sounding brass and tinkling cymbals to the colored man until Congress makes them effective and practical. Nay, more. If the rights of the colored man are to be left to the legislation of the Southern States without congressional in tervention, he would under a Democratic administration be deprived of the right of suffrage in less than two years, and he would be very lucky if he escaped some form of chattel slavery or peonage. And in proof of this danger I might quote vol umes of wisdom and warning from the speeches of Charles Sumner. When, therefore, you point out to a colored man that their rights will be safe in the bands of the Democratic party, you delude and mislead them. Ido not say wilfully, but none the less really. The small handful of Republicans, compared with the whole mass, who unite with yourself, and Mr. Greeley, in going over to the Democratic party, cannot leaven that lump of political unsoundness, even if you preserve your own original principles intact. The administration of Mr. Greeley, therefore, should he be elected, will be in whole and in detail a Democratic adminis tration, and you would be compelled to go with the current, or repent and turn back, when too late to amend the evil yon had done. Your argument that• Hoface Greeley does not become a Democrat by receiving Democratic votes,,illustrating it by an an alogy of your own election to the Senate, is hardly pertinent. The point is not what Mr. Greeley will become personally, but what will be the complexion of the great legislative branch of the. Government, with all its vast and controlling power. You know very well, Mr. Sumner, that if Mr. Greeley is elected President, Congress is handed over to the control of the party who have persistently denied the rights of the black man. What course you will pursue toward the colored man is of small consequence, after you have transferred the power of the government to his cue _ 'The colored men of this country are not as a class enlightened, but they have wonderful instincts, and when they read your letter they will know that a great crisis arises in their fate. You have de serted them ! Charles Sumner, co-opera ting with Jefferson Davis, is not the same Charles Sumner they have hitherto idoli zed, any more than Horace Greeley, cheer ed to the echo in Tammany Hall, is the same Horace Greeley whom Republicans have hitherto trusted. The black men of this country will never be ungrateful for what you have done for theui in the past, nor in the bitterness of their hearts will they ever forget that, heated and blinded by personal hatred of one man, you turn ed your back on the millions before whom in past years you have stood as a shield and bulwark of defense. Very respectfully, your obedient servant. JAMES G. BLAINE. GEN. DIX DECLARES FOR GRANT. His Reasons for Opposing Greeley, WESTHAMPTON, July 27, 1872. DEAR SIR : Your letter of the 13th inst., asking my aid to procure a speaker for a Greeley meeting at Hancock, was sent to me while I was in New England, and I have been unable until now to acknowledge its reception. Ido not understand on what ground you considered yourself authorized to address such a request to me. If you had been familiar with the course of my public life, and equally so with Mr. Greeley's, you could not have supposed me capable of 'advocating his election to the office of President of the United States without imputing to me an utter abandon ment of all political principle. I am op posed to Mr. Greeley : 1. Because I believe him to be as " unstable as water," perpetually floundering (to carry out the Scriptural figure) amid the surges of opinion, and deficient in all the requisites essential to a firm, steady, and consistent administration of the Gov ernment. 2. BCCallee he has usually been found amonge the most extreme ultraists on the great questions of political and social duty, which have been broaght under public., discussion during the last quarter of a century. " '" ' ' " • 3. &Anse ho has been the advocate (and in this instance persistently), of that most unjust and un equal commercial system, which is destroying our mercantile and shipping interests and heaping up enormous accumulations of wealth in the hands of the protected classes to the oppression and impov erishment of all others. 4. Because he is associated, in relations more or less intimate, with some of the chief plunderers of the City of New York, justly warranting the appre hension that through his complicity or his facile disposition, the same system of fraud and corrup tion which has disgraced the Municipal govern ment of this city may be carried to more infamous extremes in the admiuistration of the Federal Government; and, 5. Because in the darkest hour of the country's peril, when a traitorous combination had been form ed to overthrow the Government, he openly coun seled the cowardly policy of non-rosistance, and an acquiescence in the dissolution of the Union when ever the cotton States should make up their minds to go. - - The coalition, which has been formed to promote his election, is one of the most extraordinary in the history of parties, in respect both to the discordant elements it embraces and the surrender of principles it involves. The Cincinnati Convention, called to bring before the people important measures of reform, nominated him, greatly to the surprise of the whole country, know ing him, in regard to one of those measures, to be an implacable opponent—nominated him, too, against the wishes and judgment of the chief promoters of the movement, who accepted him either with an avowed or an ill-concealed disgust, which would be far more creditable to their feelings if the act of acceptance were not latterly ir reconcilable with their principles. The Democratic Convention at Baltimore in dorsed and commended him to the support of their party—not as the exponent of any principles they have professed or any measures they have advocated, but as a known and bitter opponent of both—the man who, perhaps, of all others, has been the most malignant assailant of the Democ racy, impeaching its integrity, traducing its motives and vilifying its character. The adoption ofsuch a man as their candidate for the chief Magistracy of the Union is the most conspicuous abandonment of po litical principles known to party contests. It remains to be seen whether the greatbody of the Democratic voters, and the true friends of reform, can be made parties to this unscrupulous coalition between political leaders. That Gen. Grant has committed mistakes his most sincere friends admit. But if his errors had peen four-fold more numerous, he would, in my opinion, be a much safer Chief Magistrate than Mr. Greeley. He has, in that capacity, done much for which he deserves the thanks of the country. Above all, he has kept it at peace, notwith standing the efforts of sensation journals and popularity-seeking politicians to pro voke hostilities with Spain on the question of Cuba, and with Great Britain on the Alabama Claims and the fisheries. If, regardless of these titles to the approval of his fellow citizens, and of his invaluable services during the late civil war, they should set him aside for Mr. Greeley; if the latter, a mere erratic politician, untried in any important public trust, should be ele vated to the Chief Magistracy of the Union —a Union which would not now exist if his counsels had been followed—and if the man who, of all others, has done the most to preserve it should be discarded for a suc cessor so ill qualified and so unscrupulously nominated and sustained, the example would be most deplorable in its influence on all high motives to political action, and justify the most painful forebodings as to the future. lam respectfully yours, JOHN. A. Dix.. A. B. Cornwell, Esq. Hancock, N. Y. _ Voting for the Piebald Candidate, The Fort Dodge 21essenger has been looking over the list of backbone Greeley men, and publishes it as follows : "Jeff. Davis says vote for Greeley ; the pirate Raphael Semmes says vote for Gree ley; the butcher and cold-blooded mur derer, N. B. Forrest, says vote for Gree ley; the thieving rebel Beauregard says vote for Greeley; the guerrilla Jeff. Thomp son says vote for Greeley. Every rebel General, Colonel. Major, Captain and Lieutenant, with few - exceptions, says vote for Greeley. Noyes, the free lover, says vote for Greeley. Every cowardly, stay at-home, fire-in-the-rear Copperhead of the North says vote for Greeley. Every Mor mon in Utah says vote for Greeley. Gree ley Republicans, how do you like your company Recollect you cannot train with skunks without carrying . away more or lass of the stench." The Two Candidates When General Hartranft was fighting. the battles of his country and carrying ou? starry banner victoriously forward over its foes, Mr. Buckalew, seated in fat offices and luxuriating on velvet cushions, was busy hatching schemes, not only to prevent the extension of suffrage, but to take it away from those already qualified by the laws of the land to vote. When troops were to be mustered into service or when their pay was to be increased, the aristo cratic Buckalew lent no voice in their fa vor. His vote was hostile to every war Measure, and his counsel was uniformly against the country. The activities of the man seem only to have been stirred when the anti-draft confederacy of Fishing Creek called upon him as a counselor and adjutant. While John F. Hartranft, as Auditor General, was busy defending the honor of the State from attacks by greedy swindlers, while he was elevating our credit, and in sisting upon economy in the expenditures of public money, Mr. Buckalew was enga ged as chairman of the committee in the M'Clure-Gray contest, in hoisting into power a corrupt Democratic Senator, at an expense to the taxpayers of the State of $26,066 11. As chairman of that committee he had a casting voice in all its deliberations, and absolute control of its conclusions, so that he is directly responsible for thisshameful extravagance. Had the motive been wor thy, there might have been some excuse for him, bift the expenditure was wholly in the interest of a Democratic c.ibal, which had determined on securing a majority, at whatever cost. Honest men incline to the belief that the above mentioned contest need not have cost more than $6,000 or $8.009. Yet he recommended the payment of nearly $20,- 000 above the amount actually needed to carry on the investigation. If the three Republicans on that committee gave sanc tion to this swindle they were equally guil ty with Mr. Buckalew and his three Dem ocratic conspirators and deserve censure.— But as in all such cases the majority must assume the responsibility, we here arraign the spokesman of that majority, and the man who had it in his power to defeat all extravagant outlays, for virtually filching from th treasury the sum of $20,000. This man is the candidate of the Demo cratic party for the highest office in the gift of the people of Pennsylvania, and his admirers are continually prating about his wonderful honesty, his unimpeachable in tegrity, has abhorrence of political corrup tion, and his desire to "inaugurate an economical administration in political af fairs" in the Commonwealth. Has he shown himself to be such a man ? On the contrary, has he not shown himself to be unworthy of honest support ? After understanding his action in this committee business, the decision cannot be withheld that he is not fit to be entrusted with the highest interest in the State.— Lancaster Daily Examiner. Campaign Mottoes by Greeley "Grant and his policy deserves the very highest credit."—Horace Greeley. "The people of the United States know General Grant—have known all about him since Donebon and Vicksburg ; they do not know his slanderers and do not care to know them."—Horace Greeley. "While asserting the right of every Re publican to his untrammeled choice 'of a candidate for next President until a nomin ation is made. I venture to suggest that General Grant will be far better qualified for that momentous trust in 1872 than he was in 1868."—Horace Greeley. "We are led by him who first taught our enemies to conquer in the West, and subsequently in the East also. Richmond would not come to us until we sent Grant after it, and then it had to come. He has never yet been defeated and never will be. Ht will be as great and successful on the field of polities as oa that of arms."—Hor ace Greeley. "A Democratic national triumph means a restoration to power of those who deserted their seats in Congress and their places un der the last Democratic President to plunge the country into the Red sea of secession and rebellion. Though yon paint an inch thick, to this complexion you must come at last. The brain, the heart, the soul of the present Democratic party is the rebel ele ment at the South, with its northern allies and sympathizers."—llorace Greeley. Yes; Gen. Grant has failed to gratify some eager aspirations, and has thereby in curred some intense hatreds. These do not and will not fail, and his Administration will prove at least equally vital. We shall hear lamentation after lamentation over his failures from those whose wish is father to the thought; but the American people let them pass unheeded. Their strong arm bore him triumphantly through the war and into the White House and they still uphold and sustain him ; they never failed and never will.—Horace Greeley. Buokalew on Hartranft, Shortly after the selection of General Hartranft as the candidate for Governor, by the Harrisburg Convention, a reliable citizen of our own county met with Mr. Buckalew when the conversation naturally turned upon the nomination. In the course of the brief interview • Mr. Bucka lew, took occasion to speak in the highest terms of Gen. Hartranft, saying that he knew him well, both as a public officer and as a man—that as Auditor General he had showed himself a most faithful, upright, efficient and accommodating officer, and would make an excellent Governor. This was said by Mr. Buckalew before he was or even expected to be, nominated as the opposing candidate, when he had no mo tive to give any other than a candid opin ion. For this reason, as an indorsement of the honesty and capacity of Gen. Hart ranft, it is all the stronger. Those Dem ocrats, therefore, who charge our candi date with dishonesty ought to bear in mind that his integrity is vouched for by Mr. Buckalew himself— Washington Re porter. That Bitter Pill. The Atlanta Constitution thinks it is about time for the Democratic supporters of the Tammany candidate to cease the statement that taking the piebald candi date is a "bitter pill." and that he is the "choice of evils." The Columbus, (Ga.) Sun responds that the painful declarations complained of are but the echo of many Greeleyite papers at this time, and says : "We give it to our readers to prove that when we have taken the first step from principle and entered the labyrinths of crooked and rotten policy we are soon hopelessly lost. We may struggle, but we struggle in vain to recover the way from which we have originally departed." NO. 32 Emiglvo' ato. Letter from Illinois. PRINCETON, June 20, 1872, EDITOR On THE JOURNAL.-We left New Ulna on the morning of June 14th, and arrived here on the evening of the next day. We came through lowa on the Central Illinois Railroad, by way of Dubuque and Mendota. Dubuque is the largest, and most business town that we passed on this route. It is a very pretty town, is situated on the Mississippi river. The main business part of the town is built. on a level with the river, while the over-looking bluffs are occupied by elegant residences with tastefully arranged grounds and walks. Popu lation 18,000. Princeton is the capitol of Bureau county ; has a population of 4,000. It was first settled by a colony from New England. Blocks of fine business houses, and large stores attest the commercial prosperity of the town. There are many beautiful private residences here with yards and pleasure grounds attached, decorated with flowers and ornamental trees that certainly exhibit a great deal of taste and refinement, while their churches and school houses are a credit to the county, and might be a subject of just pride to the citizens. Their high school building cost $600,00; it is a beautiful structure, with some ten acres of pleasure grounds very tastefully enclosed, and decorated with trees and flowers. The court house is also a very fine building.. cost ing $40,000 rith yard thickly set with silver maple trees. They bare eleven churches, a number of them fine buildings, all manifesting the taste and refinement of the citizens. We hope there are many good 'christians here as well as churches. Some years ago the old settlers of Bur :au county formed a society called the "Old Set tlers' Society." We had the pleasure to-eay, attending one of these meetings. The object of which, (as we learned), is to keep in mem ory the difficulties of pioneer life, and to ren der to those old veterans the respect due them for the trials and dangers they had to endure in first settling the country. The meeting was attended by soma 800 poi sons, a number of the old settlers were pres ent, many of them with heads as white as snow. Mr. John Dixon was introduced to the meeting, as one of the oldest living, of the old setlers, 88 years of age. The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Boyd, (the first settlers in Bureau county), on this occasion presented Mr. Boyd, with a gold beaded cane, and Mrs. Boyd with a splendid silver service, through respect, and in commemoration of the .58th anniversary of their marriage. The articles were presented in an able speech by Gen. T. J. Henderson. Among other things, ho said : "Venerable couple What thoughts must agitate your minds on an occasion like this. In looking back over your long and eventful lives, how many memories of the years that have fled since you were united in marriage, must be to-day thrilling your hearts with emotions too deep for utter ance. You were both born in the very infan cy of this now proud republic. At the time of your marriage, fifty-eight years ago, we had made but little progress as a nation. Fifty two years ago when you landed in Illinois, it had just been admitted as a State into the Union, and in all that part df the State north of Springfield, there was scarcely a white in habitant, other than Indian traders or trap pers," and again: "It is right and proper for . us to honor these old pioneers, who have oc cupied the outposts of civilization and prog ress. They '.lvelsorne the heat and burden of the day. They have 'subdued the wilder ness and made it to bloom like a rose.' And we must not, we cannot forget them." He said, "he loved the memories of pioneer life, the old-fashioned, simple ways and manners of our fathers and mothers. It is a sweet memory to me—the old sun-bonnet, the linsey woolsey dress, the checkered apron, which our mothers and sweethearts—God bless them— used to wear. I love to think of the generous hospitality, of the warm friendship, the old fashioned visits of those early days, when our mothers took their knitting along and stopped all day." The old gentleman in return made 801310 interesting remarks. Spoke of his early marriage, and said he had no coat to get mar ried in, or money to pay the preacher,and had to borrow a coat for the occasion, and the money to pay the preacher his fee. Referring to his wife, he said "he would not have mar ried so soon, but Betsy was pretty good look ing, and he feared if he didn't marry her, some one would gobble her up." Said it just took him seventy-two days to reach the Sangamon river from New York. Another old gentleman said when he came to Bureau county, there were only two white families in Chicago, and when lie commenced building his cabin, he had to ride twenty miles without a saddle tc borrow an axe. Several poems were compo sed for the occasion and sung bythe choir, and a number of pieces of music were discoursed by the Princeton Cornet Band. This meeting was very interesting to us, as we learned some facts about pioneer life that we could not have gotten in any other way. M. Letter from Indiana , LOGANSPORT, Ind., Aug. 1, 1872. EDITOR JOURNAL:—Upon a peninsula between the Wabash and Eel rivers is located thefiour ishing city of Logansport, numbering 12,000 inhabitants, the county seat of Cass, whose soil is scarcely surpassed for fertility by any county in the State, abounding in springs and brooks, and furnished with an abundant sup ply of hydraulic power. A very large portion of the soil of this county is rich alluvial or cotton lands. Eel riper unites with the Wa bash at this place. It is one of the best mill streams in the West. The once famous Wa bash and Erie Canal, the great chain of com munication uniting and commingling the wat ers of Lake Erie and the Gulf of Mexico, passes through this place. There are five different railroads here—the Toledo, Wabash and West ern ; Toledo, Louisville and Burlington ; Chi cago, Cincinnati ; and the Columbus. The three latter named aro owned, since last fall, by the Pennsylvania Central. It is but a short time since the entire Wabash Valley wag a vast wilderness; since the Indian hunter roamed through these primeval forests undis turbed by the presence of the pale face. Now that all-pervailing spirit of modern enterprise has waived over the mighty forest her magic wand, and beautiful villages, towns and cities appear, with cultivated farms, teeming with as industrious, intelligent population, enjoying all the advantages of canals, railroads and turn pikes, in the full tide of successful operation. The earliest white settlement in Cass county was in 1828. One hundred and twenty-four years later Vincennes on the lower Wabash was settled by French soldiers of Louis XIV, who, in 1702, came here from Canada.— In the peace concluded between France and England in 1763, this region of country came into the possession of the English, but in the Revolutionary War the descendants of France took part with the Americans. For their loyalty, Congress confirmed them in their titles to their homes. The Indian agency was removed from Ft. Wayne. (which is 72 miles east of Logansport,) to this place by General Tipton, in 1826 or 1827, and settlements soon followed. In 1830 the county contained 1,162 and in 1870, 24,193 inhabitants. Logansport at this time contains more people than the entire county contained in 1850, and the cause of its prosperity is found in its manufactur ing industries. Not to speak of others a sin gle Railroad disburses here upwards of forty thousand dollarsl month to its employees. There are here large and commodious Cotton, Tobacco, and Spoke Factories, Oil, Planing and Flour mills, all of which do a flourishing business, and thereby materially aid in build ing up, and improving the city, which is des tined, at no distant day, to rate second to but one, if any, in the State. But, Mr. Editor, I will not now go into detail about the pros perity or natural advantages of our city or State, but desire to inform the many readers of your valuable paper in the romantic and good old county of fluntingdp, what a sen sation the nomination of "Honest Old Horace" is creating in our midst. Cass county has usually gone Democratic by about 300 major ity, but judging from the enthusiasm at the many large Grant and Wilson meetings I have attended since here, and the want of it at the Greeley and Brown meetings, it seems evident that the Democrats find great difficul ty in trying to swallow "Honest Greeley" and many declare the pill is too bitter, and to them too odious to digest, with all the sugar coating that the advocats of the adora ble can pile on. Yours, &C., BARTON'.
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