CARLISLE, PA.,
Thurtnlny Mornlnsr. May 24,1K(K1.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HIESTER OLYMER,
OF HKRKS COI'NTV.
DEMOCRATIC’ PEATI'ORM.
1. Thu States, whereof the people wore Intel.' m
rebellion, an; Integral parts of the Union., ami art
entitled to representation h> fongresi” ll "
duly elected, who hear true faith to the I oust no
tion and laws,and In order to vindicate I lie
that taxation without representation is Ij ran i',
such representatives should he loillnt llh admlt
lt2 The faith of the llepuhlle Is pledged to the
payment of the National debt, and Congress
Should pass till laws necessary for that purpose
3 XVc owe obedience to the Constitution id t u
rnltedSlntestlnrludlng the amendment prohibit
ing slavery) and under Its provisions will accord
to those emancipated all their rich is of poison
11 4? KoltSInle has the exclusive right to regu
late the Qiiallllcation of Its own electors.
The white race alone Is entitled to tile control
of the government of the Republic, and we are
unwilling to grant to negroes the right lo t ole.
fi The hold enunciation of the principles ot the
Constitution and the policy of restorat on con
tained In the recent annul message and t-ii ed
men's Bureau veto message of President John
son entitles him to the eonlldenee and support of
all who respect the Constitution and love their
' The'nut lon owes lo the brave men of onr
armies and navy a debt of lasting gratitmle for
thoir heroic services In defence of the Conslitu
ilon and the Union; and while we cherish with ft
lender direction the memories of the fallen, wo
pledge to their widows and orphans the nation s
care and protection. . . ..
8. AVe urge upon Congress the duly ot equaliz
ing the bounties of our soldiers and sailors.
Union, Restoration and Constitu
tional Libert}!
THE OJ(ICASIAN!
A Democratic Campaign Paper
Oovotcd to tlm In.ton.HtH ol' White T-.al»>r
and the PrPsci’Viiliou of the "While
Jvlsxn’rf Govonmu'iut
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Volunteer olllee, f<jr the (.'nmptu^n,
COJIMEXC’INW JILT «, IHOO,
uurl continuing until the returns of the October
Election are received,
Tiik Caucasian will contain SIXTEEN Col.
I 'M NS of racy original anti selected Pnlilicol Rom
inp, and will be the chotprat nn«l bv*l Campaign
Paper In the Stale. The dissemination of tnif
among the masses Is vitally essential to Drum
cnitie success In tin* corning Campaign; and w
call upon our friends everywhere to assist our ef-
forts in gi\ lug tin* Caucasian a wide circulatior
NVe have put the price down to the lowest possi
tile figure. In order to enable every one to take
the paper, and we trust our Democratic friends
will manifest a similar liberality. Each number
will be
EtIBELLISm i) WITH POUTB.VITS
of distinguished Individuals, and cuts Ulusiraliv
of the political history of the times.
Thk Caitxsian will oppose tin* fun»tiea!*ma<
ness of the Dlsunlonlsts in and out of Congre
and will advocate the speedy restoration of the
Union and the cause of < 'onstlUinonal Liberty
7*o this end it will vigorously sustain the Kecon*
Htruetlon policy of Amhikw Johnson, and w
devote all Us energies to secure the election
IIiKSTKH CI,YMKit, and tlie trluinpli of Democracy
ovory whore.
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IiItATTI IX A KENNEDY
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li is lime the Democrats mid Conserva
tives ofthe various towns mul townships
in this eonnty were organizing. Let
them, without further delay, get up Cl.v
-.u it it Clubs in every section. Every town
ship, every town should have its Club.
These Clubs, if properly conducted, w
have a most beneficial influence. Wo
hope to see the enterprising and active
men ot the party all over the country go
to work at once. We must have an ac
tive, vigorous campaign. We desire to
tight the Thai). Stevens disuuiouists as
they never were fought before. We are
now satisfied that Hiesteu Ci.vmer is lo
be our next Governor, hut we want to
see him elected by a majority that will
silence treason for all time‘to come. —
Democrats! Conservatives! —he up and
doing. The how of promise is to he seen
in the political horizon, 'Die President,
notwithstanding he is a liepuhlican in
politics, is exceedingly anxious for the
election of Ci.v.iieh. The same may be
said of Generals G KANT, Sherman, Sher
idan, Crawford, and indeed all the
prominent officers of our army, who
fought for the Union and not for negro
equality. Without exception they con
cur with the President in his views, and
are bitterly hostile to the disunionists
wlm, unfortunately for our country, have
a majority in Congress. Up, then, men
of all parties who are opposed lo the dis
union negro-equality schemes of Stevens,
Satan & Co. Get up Clubs, we repeal,
all over the comity ; circulate Democrat
ic documents and Democratic papers
broadcast; and, our word for it,old Moth
er Cumberland will give 1,000 majority
for Hfester Ci.ymf.ii on the 9th of Octo
ber. Charge, Democrats, charge, mid
route the bold bad men who dare to men
ace the honor and prosperity of the coun
try.
Ni:ano Suffrage koh the Tkkkito
kies. —Tiie House, on Hominy, passed a
bill to amend the organic acts of the Ter
ritories of Nebraska, Colorado, Dacota,
Montana, Washington, Idaho, Arizona,
Utah and New Mexico, the ninth section
of which provides:
That within the Territories aforesaid there
Khali be no denial of the elective franchise to cil
s/.ens of the United States beeau.se of race or col
or, and ail persons Khali be equal before the law.
And all acts or parts of acts, either of Congress or
of the legislative assemblies of the Territories
aforesaid, inconsistent with the provisions of this
act, arc hereby declared null and void.
Tire bill was passed by a strict party
vote. The Democrats resisted itofcourse,
but were not strong enough to defeat it.
The-Republicans by their votes on this
measure stand committed in favor of nc
gro suffrage.
Al) VICK to the Pbksiobnt.—Tiie New
York JJrrahl strongly advises the Presi
dent, if lie would carry out his policy to
a successful issue, to remove (lie radicals
from the Cabinet, and from all other po
sitions in his gift. It says:
“The time has come when lie ought to strike.
Tiie people will udmlve hi n coimngu as they now
do luH patriotism, and the reaction which is now
sotting in will bring an overwhelming majority
at the next elections to ids support. Delay will
look like weakness and be dangerous. Decision
and firmness will save Ids Administration and
the country.”
THE rBEF.DJtEX'S ISfIIK.VI
morals Stekdman and Fui.i.erton—
both distinguished officers, ami both Re
publicans in politics until that party
broke ground for disunion and treason—
these two oiVteors were directed by Mr.
.Stanton, Secretary of War, to make a
tour of several of the Southern States, to
investigate into ami report upon the
workings and doings of tiro Kreedmon’s
Bureau. They were particularly direct
ed to east behind them all feeling, and to
report facts and fads only, without color
or Idas. They entered upon their du-
>s at once, and proceeded to visit sever-
Southern States, whore the working of
lie Freedmen’s Bureau was in full oper-
Aftor a laborious, patient and
novough investigation, they made their
Report. We should like to publish the
Report entire, but it is too extended for
our columns. Wo may, however, as the
political campaign progresses, lay before
our readers extracts from it. .'Suffice it to
say, tlic exposures brought to light by
this Report are really frightfdl. The vil
lains connected with the Bureau as its
officers or agents, have been guilty of ev
ery conceivable crime, from murder and
at ion
rape, to potty larceny. The po.or blacks
arc nearly worked to death by those dev
ils wearing tiro form of humanity, and
•oeeive for pay the Government rations
:hat were intended for the indigent and
helpless. Nearly every officer connected
with the Bureau has seized large tracts
of land, and is engaged in the production
of rice, cotton, tobacco, lumber, turpen-
tine, tar, Ac. They require the negroes
to work for them at starvation prices, and
compel them to receive Government ra
tions at exorbitant charges, for wages.—
Tlie blacks have been whipped unmer
cifully, tortured, and even murdered for
the most trifling offense. Never in the
worst days of slavery were such attroci-
ies heard of. Indeed these Norther
isters have committed crimes agains
the poor defenceless blacks which no
Southern master or overseer would have
dared be guilty of. The Report states
that the blacks implored Generals Steep
max and Fn.i.KUTO.v to have the Bureau
abolished. They say they never had it
so hard before, and never were thus abu
sed by their former masters. They, with
one voice, ask to lie let alone. They do
not wisli to become voters, lint they do
want to work for themselves and thus
supply the wants of their families. They
have no confidence in the officers of tlie
Bureau, and look upon them as heartless
deceivers, swindlers and cheats. They
want them away, so that they can go to
work for their old masters, at liberal wa-
The I'Teedmen's Bureau, then, it is ev
ident to all, was organized and is kept up
for the express purpose of enabling a set
of New Knglami Yankees to speculate on
the labor of the poor blacks, who are now
enjoying the inestimable boon of free
oni,” as Semneu would say. We are
cginniiig lo think that Thau, Stevens
was not far from the truth when he said
in a recent speech, that ” shivery still ex
ists in the Southern States." The slave. 1
—that portion of them who can work-
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have merely been transferred from Soul
eru to Northern masters, who are wor
ing them harder than they ever worke
before, and giving them no pay except rr
lions at exorbitant charges, and these ra
tions are stolen from the Government. No
wonder, all New England howled when
President Johnson .strangled the bill ex
tending tlie ‘‘powers" mid enlarging the
“inlluence" of the Kreedmcn’s Bureau.
C'lirlMf, }\-un
No wonder ho lias been denounced ever
since by every rascal of Ids party. In
run the present Bureau costs the Govern
ment some twenty-two millions dollars
a year; under (lie vetoed bill it would
have cost, it was estimated, a hundred
milieus a year! What a “ traitor" is An
drew Johnson for putting Ids foot upon
this darlingsehemeofthe “loyal thieves.’
How lie did spoil their calculations.
In our next we will give our readers i
few extracts from the report of t,enerais
Steed.man and Eui.i.ehton. Wo have
already published extracts from Gen.
Grant's “ observations in the South."
Dot our readers peruse these exposures,
and we think they will agree witli us
when we pronounce the ollleers connect
ed with the Ercedmen’s Bureau the most
unprincipled and heartless set of rascals
that ever went unhung.
At the head of those columns will he
found the prospectus of the “Caucasi
an," a Democratic Campaign paper, to he
issued from this otlice and to be devoted
to Hie interests of white labor and the
preservation of the white man’s govern-
ment. We desire to say to our Demo
era tie friends that we are going to eon
siderable expense in this new enterprise
and Hint to place the “Caucasian'
within tlie reach of every man who cai
fetid, we have put the subscription price
down to the lowest possible figure. Tlie
success of the enterprise depends upon
the interest taken in it by the party whose
principles it Will advocate. We think it
will not admit of doubt that if two or
three thousand copies of this, paper arc
scattered broadcast weekly among tile
people of Cumberland County, it wil
bring about a change of several bundle
votes in our favor at the next election.-
The circulation of Democratic Newspa
papers among the masses is the most ef
fectual method to swell our ranks, and we
call upon tlio leading Democrats in this
and the adjoining counties to see that
every Democrat in their several town
ships is supplied with this little oninpaigi:
paper. There are hundreds of voters ii
tin's county who do not take any paperir
ail ; and it will be a criminal neglect i
they are not at once supplied, when they
can bo supplied at such a trilling cost. —
We are gratified to learn that our friends
arc organizing clubs in nearly every town
ship in (lie county; and every one of
tiio.se clubs can surely aflonl to subscribe
for fifty or one hundred copies of the
“ Caucasian'” for grntions distribu
tion, Wo submit these facts to our
mocratic friends, ft is for them to say,
whether we shall be sustained. We in-
tend to do our part by making the “ Cat
Cakian” ono of tiie spiciest and mos
efllcient campaign papers over issued ii
Ibis Stale. Whether it will have the ehvu
lation which ils merits and the ini
parlance of (he coming contest deni
for it, will depend solely upon the Do
cracy of Cumberland and the adjoining
Counties.
•Startling Exposures.
IVH.I. lot: MO IT 7
THE EATE BEPIIIIUCAX PAKTT
The Republican party is dead, licyui
curat in pace. Its dying struggles were
distressingly spasmodic. Drs. Silmneb,
Stevens and Forney, were assidious in
their attentions upon the dying monster,
and one after another administered ne
gro-equality and anti-Union pills, in the
hope that a change for the bettor would
be the result. But no—the burly heap of
corruption continued to grow worse, and
so unpleasant and revolting was its ap
pearance that every honest man felt a
strong inclination to give it a kick, and
thus help it on to its dissolution. First
the President of the United States ran
against it, and, without apology, gave it a
hearty punch in the ribs, which so sick
ened it, that it omitted from its capacious
maw about, a ton of pickings and green
backs that it had stolen from Uncle Sam,
and swallowed to prevent detection. —
Then Senators Cowan, Dooeittee, and
others who had befriended it before they
discovered its true character, clubbed it
over (lie head most unmercifully. Again,
dl tire members of the President’s cabi
ict, with Seward at their head, as
saulted this beast of Disunion, kicking
uid cuffing it, and laughing at the pain
they caused it. Finally Secretary St.vn
ton tired a whole volley of shot and shell
into its fostering hide, and this finished
it. It tottered, and with a groan against
the Union (if our fathers, turned up the
dirty whites of its eyes, and fell into the
arms of its Weeping nurses.
Thus died that monster of sin and ini
quity, the Republican-disunion party.—
We cannot and will not say that all Us
friends were calculating peculators, ’ but
we can say, with truth, that all pecula
tors were its friends. The mourners at
its deatli wore those who had betrayed
every man and party that had ever trust
ed them, and now that their political
power is gone, they/ctV likeoutcasts, and
look like- men who had accumulated
wealth by bartering tlie life-blood of their
countrymen, and sporting with the tears
of widows and orphans.
ANOTHER VETO.
Andrew Johnson has-again entitled
himself to the thanks of his fellow citi
zens. He has returned the Colorado bill
to the Senate without his approval, thus
preventing the consummation of a piece
of unblushing villiany by which a bogus
State, containing almost but2o,ooo or 30,-
000 inhabitants was to be admitted to the
Union and placed upon a par with New
York and Pennsylvania. The reasons
given by the President for his veto are
clear, cogent and unanswerable, and tlie
most striking of all of them is the idea that
eleven States, with many millions of
white population, are excluded from rep
resentation, while the trilling population
of 30,000, in some other latitude, shall
have a power in one branch of Congress
equal to a State having 3,000,000 of white
leoplo.
The reason for thus hurrying Colorado
nto the Union—with hut one fourth the
number of inhabitants required for repre
sentation in the lower House of Congress,
was to secure two radical Senators and a
radical Representative, to vote against the
President’s policy of restoration. This
bill was hut another addition to the long
catalogue of outrages perpetrated upon
the American people by those radical
Rumpers, to retain power in their hands;
and President Johnson deserves the hast-
ig gratitude of his fellow citizens for his
last effort to stem tho title of absolutism
which is sweeping over the country and
•submerging all the old landmarks of our
political system. Every day anti hour
must strengthen the faith of tho people in
the wisdom, patriotism anil unswerving
firmness of their chief magistrate.
AKOLITION PHILANTHROPY
The following bit of information «
tears in a Boston paper, which wo co;
or the benefit of our Abolition philn
liropists
“John n.-vvrs, an overseer in the Knglti Cotton
Mills in Taunton, Massachusetts, has been lined
leu dollars anti costs, and held to ball tu one
hundred dollars to keep the peace, for Hogging a
female operative, twelve years old, with a piece
of belt doubled, i >nu o( the girl’s eyes was seri
ously Injured.
This, remarks the Af/r, is not news from
Georgia or Mississippi. It is not an item
invented by one or the roving correspon
dents of the Tribune to illustrate the bru
tality of the .Southern heart. It has no
place, our word for it, in Mr.
scrap book. As long as John Davis
wields his “double belt” in the sacred
vicinity of the “hub,” and coniines his
assaults and batteries to little white girls,
the Senate of the United Slates will be
■spared the tedious classic parallel's with
which the Senator from Massachusetts
would illustrate his cruelty if he lived in
Georgia and punched the heads of young
freedmen. The Tributu gets no letters
from Taunton. There is no prying scrib-
bler to “ molest the ancient solitary rei;
of the whip in that sweet village
groans of the young operatives as the
long resounding lash of the “ boss” de
scends on their backs, fail to find any
echo among the benevolent ladies of
•strong minds and sharp features who are
writing catechisms for the Carolina blacks,
and the lank and long haired philanthro
pists who refuse to be comforted because
their negro brethren have no votes.
BST - Thirteen of the most prominent
anil respectable Democrats of the town of
Somerset, 11 desirous,” as they'say, "of
having a Democratic candidate for Con
gress who can be relied upon when ques
tions involving fundamental principles
arise,” publish a card in the Somerset
, Democrat , presenting the name of J. Mc-
Dowol Sharpe, Esq., of Franklin, to the
Democrats of the district as a suitable
candidate and urging the Democrats of
Somerset county to send delegates who
are favorable to ids nomination. The
Democrat endorses the movement, and
very justly pronounces Mr. Bharpe “one
of the ablest lawyers in the State, a relia
ble Democrat and an honest and influen
tial man.” The friends and acquaintan
ces of Mr. Sharpe, over this entire State,
would rejoice to see him brought out for
Congress. Mo stronger or more popular
candidate could be found in the Sixteenth
district; nor is there another who would
make a more high-toned, consistent and
able representative. His impregnable
logic and thrilling eloquence would be
quite a treat in tlie Halls o.f Congress in
these degenerate days.
Wkndei.e Phiemi’K, theold Abolition
ist and repndiator of the National debt, is
likely to be sent to Congress from Massa
chusetts,
GREAT REPUBLICAN DEMONSTRATION
The President Sustained.
The largest political demonstration that
\s been held in Philadelphia for the last
two years, assembled at the Academy of
Music, on Saturday evening last. It was
participated in by Republicans alone,
Democrats remaining aloof ns spectators.
They were not dis-Uuion Republicans,
however, of the Sumner-Stevens school,
but Union men, who sustain the Presi
dent’s policy. The immense ediflee, the
report says, was crowed to overflowing,
and thousands were outside, unable to
gain admittance. The occasion for the
meeting was lire inauguration of the “Na
tional Union Johnson Club.” Col. Jo
seph R. Flanigan, editor of the aVcics,
the old Republican organ, was Chairman
of the Committee on Arrangements ; and
on his motion, Gen. Henrv .Simons was
called to the chair. .Speeches were made
by Senators Doolittle, of Wisconsin,
Cowan of Pa., and Norton of Minnesota.
The enthusiasm was unbounded ; the dis
unionists were handled without gloves,
and the President's policy endorsed with
a yell of applause. During his speech,
Mr. Cowan, by authority, stated that the
Cabinet oftho President was aunit. They
all yield a hearty support to Mr. John
son's policy, and none more heartily than
.Secretary Stanton. He said that he
spoke by authority too, when he stated
■ that Generals Ghant, Sherman, Meade,
Hancock, Crawford, Sheridan and
Coulter are with the President heartily
ami openly. The officers of the navy,
said Mr, Cowan, “ are with the President
to a man.” “ What officer)) are against
the President ?" a.%kcd Mr. Cowan.
“ Ben. Butler,Sekiel, Scuure !” (deaf-
ening groans and hisses.”)
This meeting is an indication of what
maw ho the result of the vote of Philadel
phia on the 9th of October. That city
will be redeemed, and disunionista will
be put down by an indignant people. —
Steady, all along the lino, Democrats and
Conservatives. The day ofourdelivorancc
is at hand.
g-A" When Andrew Johnson first be- ‘
came President, the Disunionista declared j
that for some wise and good purpose Prov
ideiioo had removed his predecessor, and ;
called h m totheLxecutive chair. Since,
however, his course has not proven to be :
in consonance with their blood-thirsty,
plundering anticipations. Andrew John-'
son is only President by accident. As a
sample of the many speeches and sermons
which were delivered throughout the
country, on the death of Abraham Lin
coln, in which the radicals modestly
claimed exclusive proprietorship in every
Providential occurrence, we quote a few
sentences from a sermon preached by one
Rev. Crane, in Hartford. It reads strange
ly in the light of subsequent events. The
Rev. gentlemen said:
“ Hut it Is possible, it Is even more limn possible
Hint Just these qualities unfitted him for tho final
settlement at tlusconliict. There was danger that
lie would subordinate his executive functions to
ills personal sympathies; that he would forget
that and had ptaml the sword of n'MlllUi ve ill-slice in
his hands to !w used; that lie would feel that the
traitors had sull'erod enough already, and needed
no fnrt iter punishment; that he would even par
don Itavis and Stephens, and Johnson and Lee,
if they should come Into his power. Ho was urn
ting In that direction, and most of us were drif
ting with him. * * • If he was In danger of this
mistake, then Ids work was done, and therefore
God translated him, having so nobly done, to glo
ry, lint Andrew Johnson, a man of nerve, has
find his heart under tho Iron heclof this rebellion.
He uppreeiales treason. His sense of justice js
paramount to his louder sensibilities. Ho holds
a double-edged and keen-edged sword, which
reaches to the southermost point of Florida.—
Therefore I believe that God raised him up to
brine this rebellion to the consummation of just,
retribution. It is not private revenge that he
will wreak but the vengeance of Hod, whoso an
nointed minister hols. And so God has given
him to the nation when the. nation needed him.—
And we will lift our reverent eyes to heaven to
day,and ga/.lng through our tears, say, Ihou
doesi all things well.’ * •• * -the nation Mill
understand ere long that the dark Providence of
last F’riday night was a merciful Providence.—
Andrew Johnson is the Joshua - whom God has
appointed to consummate the work which our
dead Moses so nobly commenced.
Xow it is rather a remarkable fact that
in all the “ loyal” pulpits of the land
there is to-tlny scarcely a single prayer of
fered up in behalf of tills Joshua who
was to load'the nation to its land of prom
ise. As soon as Andrew Johnson showed
to the world that lie was no blood-hound,
the ‘'loyal” preachers quit praying for
him. They refuse to take anything in
their sacred hands which lias not the
smell of blood on it. What a gloriously
consistent record (hey are making for
, themselves!
B®* The New York Times , a loyal pa
per, says “ the ago of bastilcs and guillo
tines has passed, but there is a disposi
tion in Congress as infatuated as that
which caused France to weep tears of
blood. The majority of the House of
Representatives has invested a Commit
tee of Fifteen with powers which, under
the guhlance of a jacobin chairman, are
becoming as odious as any triumvirate
created by despotism." An irresponsible
committee of malignant fanatics govern
Congress and the country, and the Radi
cal organs are laboring to perpetuate their
power. Can wise legislation be expected
at the hands of such demagogues?
The New York Times says of the
production of the Reconstruction Commit
tee :
*' Asu plan ot pmnilcullon and reconstruction,
the whole thing is worse than u burlosrinc. It
might he styled a farce, were the country not in
tho midst of a very serious drama. Its proper
designation would be “ a plan to prolong Indeti
nltcly the exclusion of the South from Congress,
by imposing conditions to which the Southern
people never will submit.'’ This being the obvi
ous scope and tendency of the proposition, we
are hound lo assume that it clearly rcllects the
settled purpose of the committee."
And thereupon, Mr. Kaymond, of the
Times, voted for it.
FitKK Stkecii. —The Chicago Tribune speaks of
President Johnson ns “ this boggar-on-horsebnek
President."
If a Democratic paper had used such
language when Lincoln was kicking up
his heels and uttering jokes in the Presi
dential chair, the " little boll at Seward’s
rigid hand” would have stopped at once.
Free speech was not tolerated until after
ho was “ Providentially” taken to heav
en from Ford’s theatre, so that now, with
“a man of Ood’schoice” in thechairthese
ranting disunionists may talk and write
without fear.
Tin-; 'Washington correspondent of the
Detroit Free Frees says that lugersoll,
Disunionist, of Illinois, was drunk when
lie made his abusive speech on President
Johnson. AATiat an immensity of black
guardism poor whiskey has to father!
Henrv AY aud Beecher compares the
Disunionists in Congress to monkeys in a
coeoanut tree—pelting the President at a
safe distance. That’s hard on (be mon
kies.
On, what a howl is going up from Dis
union throats as the Government flesh
pots vanish from their sight and clutch
es!
THE SINGLE ISSUE
The question is every day narrowing
■itself down to the support of the President
or Congress. Those who desire negro suf
frage, admire Stevens and I>orney, deny
the Southern States the right of represen
tation whilst they are paying taxes and.
boiiig legislated for, and who think Con
gressright in accomplishing the disunion
of on r great con federncy by keeping South
ern States out of the Union, are for Geary
for Governor. Those who are for Presi
dent Johnson's wise reconstruction pol
icy— w ho think that the Southern States
neverwereout oftheUnion, because they
had no right to go out—that now, since
peace is restored, and loyal men elected
and sent to Congress from these States,
when they have taken the proper' oath,
should be admitted and participate in the
legislation which concerns their people—
and the people of every State should de
cide for itself as to negro suffrage, and not
Congress—are friends of President John
son, and will vote for Hiester Olymer for
Governor. There is really ho issue about
Republicanism or Democracy. It is the
simple question of support of tile Presi
dent or Congress.. Mr. Clymer represents
the one, and Geary the other. Does the
conservative Abolitionist or Republican
say “how can 1 vote for a Democrat ■?” In
reply we say, as we said above, that the
interests at stake are too momentous to
talk about party names. It is the time for
patriotism and devotion to the country.
Besides, let us say this—if you vote to sus
tain the President, you vote for Clymeii,
who, nt present a Democrat, was once a
Whig. If you vote for Congress, you vote
for Geary, who claims and boasts that he
has been a “ life long Democrat,” Does
that suit you better ? If then your choice
is for one of two “Democrats,” surely, if
you favor tho President’s policy, and are
devoted to the country, the path of duty is
clear.
Thankful fob Small Favous. —The
Radicals or Disunionists are getting to
be very thankful for very small favors.
They burn powder and make much noise
over carrying Connecticut,by a few hun
dred votes, when, as the figures furnished
by the Sacramento Union, show Lincoln
had 17,000 majority in 1804, and Bucking
ham, the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor, something over. 11,000 in 1805.
This is something to he very jubilant over,
to bo sure. If they run their machine
at that rate in Connecticut, for another
year, their flags will have need of deep
mourning for the next election. There
must have been a terrible contest in the
State this year, and the query is, where
did the 13,000 more votes polled this year
than last, come from? We fearour friends
in Connecticut are the victims of a big
swindle. But anyhow, they have made
a glorious fight, and may congratulate
themselves thatanotherbattlebrings them
victory. The total vote this year is 87,-
332, that of last was only 73,717.
Connecticut. —It is reported that three
Republican members of the Connecticut
State Senate have voted against going into
joint convention for the purpose of elect
ing a United States Senator in place of
Mr. Foster. Their votes give the opposi
tion a majority, and if adhered to will pre
vent an election by the present Legisla
ture. The report creates considerable ex
citement among the radical members of
Congress, who charge thatExeoutive in
fluence is nr work in that quarter. The
better impression is that it is an effort on
file part of Senator Foster’s friends to
secure his re-election, or else defeat his
competitor.
Tun disunionists are terribly annoyed
at the course pursued by Senator Cowan.
Why do they put such men into position ?
There is Johnson, Cowan, Doowttmo,
Dixon, Seward, Wei-les, and a host of
others, in and out of tho Cabinet and
Congress who are all the same. Notwith
standing their anger at these men, they
now are supporting a man for Governor,
who, less than a year ago declared him
self a “ Democrat without prefix or affix.”
The Democrats do not want Geary be
cause ho is not fit for Governor, and be
cause, like a weather-cook, he always
shapes himself to the wind, without much
regard to principle.
Government Losses by Government
Speculators. —Some of the New York
papers have a dispatch from Washington
stating that the Government will lose
heavily by the operations of speculators
in cotton at Memphis, Tenu. Last sum
mer §400,000 in Government funds were
placed in the hands of a certain party,
which were used up in the purchase of
cotton. Tho cotton was sent forth for
sale, and before the Government realized
anything at all from tho transaction, the
consignees failed and the Government
lost the whole amount. —principal as well
as prospective profits.
The Case of Mb. Davis. —It is report
ed upon good authority, says the Wash
ington correspondent of the New York
Times , that the judiciary committee have
come to the conclusion that the evidence
produced before them does not warrant
the charge that Jefferson Davis is guilty
of complicity in the assassination of Mr.
Lincoln.
How to Determine Where AVatbh
is. —At a recent meeting of the American
Farmer’s club, a member related his ex
perience in this matter as follows :
An Irishman in his employment, in
order to ascertain where he ought to dig
to obtain water soonest, got a stone and
buried it over night in the ground, next
to the hardpan. In the morning he found
it quite moist, but not sufficiently to suit
tiis fancy. Next night he tried it in an-,,
other spot and it was found very wet on
the following morning.” “ There,” said
Patrick, “ you will find water not many
feet deep, and plenty of it.” Sureenough,
in a few days digging, Patrick confirmed
his prediction ; notwithstanding the jeers
of the workmen, finding a vein which
filled the welltooverilowing, and render
ed it exceedingly difficult to bail out the
water so as to stone it. The philosophy
of the operation seems to be that, as great
evaporation takes place from the surface'
of the earth during the night, the water
rises up from the depths below to supply
the loss, and accumulates in the vicinity
of the stone, often quite a puddle.
A notice has been issued from the
Comptroller of the Currency to the note
holders of the Venango National Bank, of
Franklin, Pa. and the Merchants National
Bank, of Washington, D. G., to forward
the bills of these institutions to the Treas
ury for redemption.
Gov. Swann, of,Maryland, in a letter
announces himself a supporter of Presi
dent Johnson and his policy,
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Tlio Colorado Nwlmlle-A I'tttflo Bit of Bn<U*
T i«iTvri\nii\**OW Thnd’s. t'ominlUccH oflii
vo»(TanU«ii-- a W u ergcs 11 o n to tbo People of
rnrlUlc-’Tlio BcnCfffldPH Coming KncU-
Swnmi nnd Stanton on (lie Stool ol Jtcncnl
imcc-Anollicr Radical Relent.
Washington, May 21,1806.
Micssus. Entrons. —For once tlic Radicals have
been utterly silenced nnd confounded. Tbo mes
sage of tbo President, returning to tbo Senate,
with bis objections, tbe bill erecting Colorado
into a State, which was sent in last week, so com
pletely exposes tbo scandalous character of this
particular Radical scheme for perpetuating pow
er in their own party, that no reply to It Is found
possible. In tbo Senate tbe massage was put
aside with deliberate Insolence. Hut the failure
of this nefarious attempt to foist a spurious Com
monwealth upon the Union for tbo sake of get
ting three more Radical votes into Congress does
not make the attempt itself less nefarious, nor
ought It to be suffered to pass out of men’s mem
ories without leaving there Its lesson of the reck
less and unprincipled temper of those who con
ceived it, carried it successfullj’ through both
Houses, nnd, but for the courage and the patriot
ism of the President, would have consummated
it by welcoming the representatives of a fabrica
ted Stale to the halls from which they shameless
ly exclude the constitutional delegates of eight
millions of free-born Americans. Bad as it is,
this latest assault of the Radicals upon what they
themselves denominate the “life of the nation”
is no worse than scores of other acts done by
them In the past, tending all In one direction. It
has been defeated, happily for us nil, by the
President; and I ask every honest man, who still
hesitates between the policy ofthe Presldentand
that of the President’s enemies in the Senate and
the House, to contrast this veto message of An
drew Johnson, boldly defending principles es
sential to our national existence, with the atti
tude of the men who have been crushed by that
message Into a silence which Is the most eloquent
confession that could possibly be made of their
conscious guilt in the transaction thus brought to
nothing.
The scone which transpired In the House of
Representatives, on Monday Inst, strikingly il
lustrated the arrogance with which long abuse of
power has inspired the radicals. Mr. Chanler, of
Now York, introduced a resolution endorsing the
policy of President Johnson. There was nothing
in the resolution disrespectful to the House. It
simply asserted. “ that the independent, patriot
ic and constitutional course of the President of
the United States, in seeking to protect by the
veto power the rights of the people of the United
States against the wicked and revolutionary acts of a
few malignant and mischievous men meets with the
approval of this House, and deserves the cordial
support of all loyal citizens of the United States.”
Now, whatever may bo thought of tin; expediency
of uttering such a resolution, there can be no
doubt that Mr. Chanler as a representative ol
the people, had a perfect right to embody those
sentiments in his resolution ; and he was entitled '
to a respectful hearing. But the radicals found '
the truth in this resolution too unwholesome to
be endorsed. The valorous Sclicnck (once the
terror of Baltimore nurseries, and now a deputy
whipper-in under Thad Stevens,) was on his feet
in an instant, and presented the following reso
lution: fCtwofral, “ That the Hon. John W. Chan
ter, a Representative from the Seventh District
of Now York, by presenting this day a resolution
to be considered by this House in the following
terms (quoting the first resolution,) has thereby
attempted a gross insult to the House, and Is
hereby censured therefor.” The resolution was
adopted by a strict party vote. Of course, every
one who voted for it, must have belonged to the
“wicked and revolutionary” party, made up of
"malignant and mischievous men,” else they
would not have regarded the resolution as a
“ hit” at themselves. Strange to say, during the
same day’s proceedings, Thad Stevens denounced
his political opponents on the floor as “hissing
copperheads and this direct insult to the mi
nority, instead of calling down the censure of the
“ loyal” upon him who uttered It, was greeted
with laughter and applause from his adherents
on the floor, and overwhelming and vmvebuked
demonstrations of applause from the negroes in
the galleries. It is no “insult to the House” to
load the minority with the vilest epithets in de
bate, but an honest expression of opinion byn
Democratic representative, couched in respectful
language, must bring upon his devoted head the
heaviest judgment, except expulsion, which the
Intolerant radicals could impose upon their Dem
ocratic colleagues. It Is a wonder they were con
tent to stop where they did. They have already
expelled Democrats on grounds as slight ns those
on which they have rebuked Mr. Chanler; ami
they will doubtless continue the policy of re
moving their opponents out of'sight, instead ol
answering their arguments.
The chief of the star chamber having brought
forth the “prodigious amendment” after live
months parturition on the part of the notorious
Committee of fifteen, has, it appears, turned his
attention to minor matters in the South. He
proposes now to appoint Congressional commit
tees to proceed, in grand costume of high state
ofllcers, to investigate the cause of riots, rows,
street lights, and other local disturbances in the
South. He has required the House to appoint a
committee to go to Memphis and investigate the
recent riots there. This Is the beginning of a new ;
order of duties for the House of Representatives. ,
Next it will despatch a committee to Norfolk to
investigate the riot there, in which a white
woman and others were shot. Then the Dccring
murder in Philadelphia will necessarily need
Congressional investigation, and,after that, I hep
leave to suggest to your worthy “town fathers’
that old Thad. bo requested to send a Congres
i sional Committee to Carlisle, to ferret out the
perpetrators of the Arcs and robberies which Just
1 now are contributing so much to the interest ol
your local columns.
The Radical cause Is growing weaker day by
? clay. The defection of GovernorSwann, of Mary
land, has caused the greatest consternation
amongst the Hampers. “'What’s the use,” say
1 they, “in electing a fellow who won't stand to his
? colors?” “Who knows but that d—d Cieury may
} go back on us Just, as Johnson and Cowan and
. Stanton andSwaim have done?” said a Pennsyl
vania ofllee-holdor, in my hearing, the othci
' day. Yes, who does know; for hasn't your fellow
i citizen Geary been " a life long Democrat!”
F The worst blow of all, however, is the defection
. of Secretary Stanton. He is undoubtedly with
. the President and against the radicals. In fact
he claims to he the author of President Johnson’s
* “plan,” and though having almost totally re
t /rained from public speaking since he has held
| his present position, I know that he has avowed
his willingness to take the stump in favor of the
President's reconstruction policy. He was to
have been serenaded on Friday night, but the
. inclcmenoyof the weather prevented it. The ser
enade will take place some evening during the
present week, when “the divine Stanton” will
* give his old radical associates particular thunder,
t The radicals have met with another blow from
» an unexpected quarter. There is treason in the
camp in Connecticut. Three radical Senators
‘ have refused to go into an election for Senatoi
r to fill the place of Senator Foster. They are
. playing the same game in Connecticut that Sco
vel did in New Jersey, and they will doubtless
play it with equal success. Andrew Johnson,
t mark my word, will yet prove to much for the
whole radical crow. Caucasian.
POLITICAL.
—The indications are that the House will oust
another Democrat—Dawson of Pennsylvania—
from a contested seat.
—Prcslclent'Johnstm lias vetoed the bill for the
admission of Colorado. He has signed the Habeas
Corpus BUI.
—The cities of Washington and Georgetown arc
In commotion over the bill introduced In Con
gress taking away their charters.
—The President has directed that Raphael
Scmmcs he prevented from exercising the func
tions of Probate Judge at Mobile while he re
mains unpardoned.
—A meeting to endorse Congress was hold In
Baltimore last week. Speeches wore made by
Senators Nye and Cresswell, and Representatives
Thomas and MTvee, and a letter from Speaker
Colfax was read.
—A large meeting of the friends of President
Johnson was held at Cumberland, Maryland, on
Saturday evening. Addresses were delivered by
Hon. Montgomery Blair and Captain Frank
Gallagher of Baltimore.-
—ln Madison, 'Wisconsin, the radicals to test
the negro equality, ran a neyro for mayor, and we
call attention to the fact that he received no less
than 300 votes. As, however, he failed to receive
the election, we are satisfied that conservative
principles are gaining rapidly.
—Gen. Dick. Coulter of Westmoreland County,
who was a Lieut, under Geary while u Col. In
Mexico, is spoken of as the Johnson candidate
for Governor in this State. Coulter, we believe
is a brave man, and a life long Republican, but
says ho can’t support a coward and renegade like
I Geary.
GENERAL JfETVs.
—A Grand procession of Odd p cll
place In Rending, Pa., on the 2aiof
—A Richmond paper says there Is
of emigration of blacks from that °
ward. ,ll f i.
—TJie Presbyterian Assemblies, 01d
New School, met at St. Louis on Ti lu
—A numerous body of Mormon ct ,7 >r '
expected to arrive at New York l n p
tho summer, en route for Sait Lake
—A now steam wagon for common
Just been tried at Quincy, in,,
with fair promise of success. ’
—There Is a man in Cincinnati .
income of $30,000 who eleven years ago 1 41
monkey In the street for a living. M li ‘<
—The Brooklyn Fenians have at
large defalcation In their funds,alula 1
hony treasury Is said to be reduced do '
—lnformation lias been received at pT"
Rhode Island,of the death of the
George Burgess, D, D.. Bishop of Maine
—lt has been ascertained that the gov.
will lose between $200,000 and $3OO 000 bvi?’’
ure of Culver, Penn & Co., the Xew Yo t
ers.
—The number of tons of coal shlppcj,
Pennsylvania mines last week was Utar* 01
ing tho corresponding week in Ifjy, p,,-'
only reached 28.002 tuns.
—March reports sliow a slight lucres.
amount of sickness among the nogug, 1
South over that of tho previous menu,? 1 :
pox Is gathering ground in the Carolina,.,
Louisiana.
—All tho participants In the great Ad ltt ,
press robbery have been arreslcd
agency of Pinkerton's National Police s, 4
York. *
—Tho Harvard University crew havechallt
the Yale University crow to row a sli-ouJ* 1
at Worcester, on the 27th of July neitjm'f
challenge has been accepted, ■ ’ H
—An attempt was made to burn J( , I
on the 12th. Incendiary fires were J
places, and several buildings were bumwJ
the scheme was frustrated by the flrenjJ
police.
—The President lias Issued an order
the arrest of all ofllcers of the
reau interested, directly or Indirectly, in thecsJ
vatlon of farms in the Southern States.
—St. Pauls Church, In Clovland, Ohio, mi ij
ccntly entered by burglars, and theveslryroM
of its contents. Not nn article was left,and J
depredators regaled tchmselves by emptying J
vessel containing the sacramental wine.
—The Galveston (Texas) iVc«w reports tlmitbel
is anything but good feeling existing
the federal and negro troops now in that &I
and that it would require but a slight occumtl
to create a serious collision between the two, I
—Probst, the murderer, is said to have gabJ
20 pounds since his imprisonment—a fact, n\
and exchange, which is gatlfying, ns it will J
dor the prompt dislocat ion of his nock un
certain when he Is hung. I
—Hon. Francis W. Kellog, Collector of fa ten!
Revenue at Mobile, says the negroes hi Alabin]
are working well, and that Ibe cotton crop:]
that .State this year will he abouUhree-lourtlud
large ns that of 1800. The negroes arc recclvjJ
good wages, and the most perfect harmony«.
ists between them and the planters.
—The Florence (Alabama) Journal reports th
while negro troops were passing by rail fiit-yk]
haved in a most outrageous manner, firing p I
and exhibiting other barbarous conduct. fcl
Oswald King, while standing at her rtoor.nl
shot In the hand and arm.
•A newspaper correspondent, who hastrat
over several hundred miles in Pennsylmia,K
Delaware and Maryland, reports that, excepting. B
perhaps, one field In twenty-live, wheal Is In iS'
lino condition. V
—A schoolmistsess in Vermont had occasion*
trounce a large and violent pupil, and the Ms I
of the injured youth sued her for unnecessary* I
verity. A jury could not bo found to try to I
cause, for the reason that every man proposcdril
a juror had formed an opinion that “thotojj
wasn’t licked half enough.” The citizens ol to]
place have given the teaoher a set of spoons on-1 1
abuttor-knlfe in testimony of her gallant ad I
meritous conduct hi the encounter, and a matri
monial inducement to thobridimonlane youth.
PERSONAL
—Mrs. Jefferson Davis Is on a visit lo Norfolk,]
as the guest of Mrs. F. A. Leonard. I
—Major General McClellan Is reported
gaged on a history of his campaigns. I
—Attorney-General Speed has returned from I
Kentucky, where ho has been spending some
tune for the benefit of his health.
—John G. Whittier, the Poet, has declined to
run for Congress in Massachusetts, as Mr. Alloy)
successor.
—An order Ims been issued for the released I
parole, of the Hon. W. M. Gwin, heretofore con-1
lined In que'of the Forts below Ncw-Orlwins. I
—The property of ex-Governor Aiken, of Scull I
Carloina, has been restored to him on the recoin-1
mendatlon of General Sickles. I
—The Grand Jury of the United Slates Court at I
Norfol Ic, on Thursday, returned a true bill againsi |
Jell', Davis for treason. |
—lt Is understood that Secretary Seward to I
gone lo visit Santa Ana, via Aburn, N. Y., all
which point he is expected to make a speech la
defense of the President’s policy.
—The surgeon at Fortress Monroe has made* |
special report of the health of Jefferson Davit,
urging less rigid confinement, If the prisoner'*
recovery is desired.
—The body of the lamented Preston King, laic
Collector of Customs for the port of New York,
was found floating In the Atlantic basin early
on Monday morning, mid indonti/led beyond
doubt.
—General .Steadman and Fullerton, in tlielm?* I
port of affairs In Virginia and North j
censure (lie conduct of the Frccchnena Bureau I
agents in those States, and recommend tlieit I
removal. I
—L'ol. Dan Rice subscribed $lOO to the stock of
the Keystone Normal School,at Kutztowii.on
tin* occasion of his visit to that borough with hi*
great Menagerie and Circus.
—The. health of General Cass Is decidedly belter
at present than for some time past. All reporb
of his great danger or of his brain being affected
are untrue.
—Two lads —one fourteen and the other seven
years ot age, sous of Mr, James Harman, of El*
inira, New York—went in search of sweet Slcolj
root in the woods near that city a few days ago
By mistake they dug up and ate a quantity o
Indiatl poke, or white helicbor, a virulcntpoison,
from the effect of which they died la ft shod
time.
—lt is rumored that lion. Edward Cooper,
member of Congress elect from Tennessee, m
now acting as private Secretary to the President
will before long wed Mrs, Stover, the widowed
(laughter of the President.
—lt is stated that Mrs. Lincoln Is about to P ur *
chase a residence in Chicago for the sum of v t
000, and that Robert Lincoln is about to bo u
mitted to the bar, and to enter upon the p* acl
of ills profession In that city. ,
—General James Lohgstrcet, Ifttc of the Con
crate army, was recently In San Antonio TeJ‘•
The most remarkable circumstance conncc
with his visit was a serenade tendered to hi® •
the bund of theFonrth United States Cavalry
—Gen. G. T. Beauregard, president of the M
Orleans, Great Northern rail road accompnakd >
Gen. Wilt Adams and Mr. Schwartz, director*■ »>
the road, were passengers on the Steamer Sco
which left New York on Wednesday for Liv
pool. These gentlemen were appointed eo
misoners to Europe for the purpose of attend n
to the Interests of the road there. . fi
—Two of the most prominent men in Lincou
cabinet—Hon. Edward Bates, and Hon. "° n
goihery Biair—are now acting with the B eul
cracy and against the disunion radicals.
—The death warrant of Antoine Probst,
murderer of the Deerlug family, was received
the HherKTUvst week. The execution Is fixed
Friday, June 8. Probst received the announ
ment with as much unconcern as he exhi
on the trial, or during the passage of sentence.
—James Parton,tho book-writer says, of J* l
Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald: t
bad no friends at the start, he has had none s u »
lie has none now. The whole of his power
writer consists in his detetcion of tho e '
things that are good and the falsehood In t 1 .
that are true, and of tho ridiculous In thing*
are important. . e( j
. —This is the latest version of the
scene of Stonewall Jackson: “A few monlC ,Q r .
before he died, he cried out in his delirium,
dor A. P. Hill to prepare for action ! pa* s 0 .
ftmtry to tlio front rapidly! tell MnJ. Btotf-d,
then stopped, leaving the sentence unflnis
Presently, a smile of ineffable sweetness s P r
Itself over ids pale face, and lie said quietly,
with nn expression as If of relief, ‘Let us e
over tho river, and rest under the shade o_
trees: and then, without pain, or the * •
gle, his spirit passed from earth to the Gtx
gave it.* 1
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