Jimwwii W flluwte.
«ablisle, pa.,
Tlmrsday Morning,,Sopt. 27, 1800.
FQfl GOVERNOR,
HIESTER OLY-MER,
OV BERKS COUNTY
Democratic C6nuty Tioltct.
POU CONGIVESS,
Hoh. a. J. GLOSSBRENNEU, of York Co,
FOR ASSEMBLY,
PHILIP LONG, of Ncwburg,
FOB ASSOCIATE JUDGES,
HUGH STUART, of South Middleton,
THOS. P. BLAIR, of Shlppensburg.
FOB riIOTIIONOTAUY,
Capt. mp. BRINULE, of Middlesex.
FOR CIW».
SAMUEL BIXIKK
fob
MoJ. JACOB DORSHEIMKB*
\K AND RECOKDKU,
\R, of West Pcmisboro',
FOR COMMISSIONER,
MnJ. M. G. HALE, of Southampton,
FOR DIRECTOR OF POOR,
JOHN PAUL, of Monroe.
FOR AUDITOR,
Cnpt. P. G. McCOY, of Newton,
Election, Tuesday. October 9,1806.
JP BA CB AND VNION!
CLYMEH
AND THE CONSTITUTION 5
GRAND DEMOCRATIC
Citizens’ and Soldiers’
MASS MEETING!-!
A Grand Mass Meeting of the friends of John*
son, Clymer and the Constitution will bo held
IN CARLISLE.
6u Saturday, October 6th, 1866,
ALL who approve the wise and statesmanlike
policy of President Johnson, and wish to see
the Constitution' and the Union preserved in
tholr integrity; ALL who are opposed to Negro
Suffrage and Negro Equality, who are unwilling
to have Negro Legislators, Negro Judges and
Negro Jurors in Pennsylvania; ALL who believe
is entitled lo representation In the per
sons of men loyal to the Constitution and Laws;
ALL who endorse 'the Declaration of Principles
of the National Union Convention recently as
sembled in Philadelphia, and who favor the elec
tion of nicster Clymcr, the only Gubernato
rial Candidate who represents those principles;
AND £LL those Brave Men who perilled life
and Ihtfb In defense of the Government, and who
intend to vote us they fought—for the Union and
the Constitution, and not for the Negrro—are in
vited to attend.
The following distinguished gentlemen have
been Invited and are expected to address the
meeting:
HON. HIKSTEIt CXYHER,
Hun. Edgar Cowan, Ex-Gov. Wm. Bigler,
Hon. lieverdy Johnson, Ex-Oov. IF. F. Johnson,
Hon. Chas. It. Buckatew, Ex-Gov. Wm. F. Packer,
Hon. IT. B. WiHght, Hon. J. S. Black,
Hon. C. W. Carrigan,
Ifajor-Oen. John A. Dix , of New York,
“ H. W. Slocum, “
“ B. H. Bomscau, Of Kentucky,
“ Jos. B. Slecdman, of Ohio,
“ F. P. Blair, of Missouri,
“ Theodoi'c Itunyon, ot New Jersey,
Brig. Gen. Wm. McCandlcss, of Philadelphia,
*' IF. W. H. Davis, of Doylestown,
“ J. B. Sweilzcr, of Pittsburg.
4KB- Excursion TlcKols will bo issued on the
Cumberland Valley and all connecting Railroads.
Come as the waves come when navies are stran-
ded,
Come ns the winds come when forests are rended
Come In your might from the hills and valleys
ewid strike terror Into the hearts of the enemies
of Constitutional .Liberty.
W. KENNEDY,
Chairman Bern. Standing Cbm,
ISAIAH H. GRAHAM,
Chairman Soldiers’ Standing Com.
DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS.
The Democratic Standing Committee, at Us
meeting on the Ist Inst., decided upon holding u
series of meetings at the times and places mou
ioned:
SHEPHERDSTOWN, THURSDAY, HEP'!'. 27.
LEESBURG,
PLAINFIELD, FRIDAY,
MECHANICSBURG, SATURDAY,
PINE SCHOOL HOUSE,
NEW KINGSTON, MONDAY,
NEWBURG, TUESDAY,
CHURCHTOWN,
PALMSTOWN,
LEIDIQ'S TAVERN,
SPORTING HILL, THURSDAY,
BHIPPENSBURG, FRIDAY,
CENTHEVILLE,
CARLISLE, SATURDAY, OCT. ». A GBJSKJ)
MASS MEETING.
WEDNESDAY,
' JS-All these meetings will he held nt early
oamlle-llglit.
fir A fine BAND OK MUSIC has been engaged
for. the campaign, and will enliven the proceed
ings at each of the meetings.
O"The following named gentlemen will be pre
sent and address the meetings announced: Hon.
Samuel Hepburn, Gen. Q. W. liowman, Wm, H.
Miller, Esq.,,Col, Wm. M. Penrose, W. ,T. Shearer,
Esq., Hon. It, J. Hnldeman, H. Ncwsham, Esq.,
John P. Rhoads, Esq., S. Hepburn, Jr., Esq., M, c.
Herman, Ksq., J. W. D. Ulllelon, Es<i„ C. E. Ma
glanghlln, Esq., E. E. lieltzhoover, Esq., S. K.
Donavln, Esq., W. Penn Lloyd, Ksq., John C. Gra
ham, Esq., George Zinn, Esq., M. Williams, Ksq.,
W. U. Butler, Esq., Col. James Chestnut, aud
other able Speakers.
The citizens of Cumberland County, with
out distinction of party, who endorse the Resto
ration Policy of president JOHNSON as opposed
to the fanatical madness of the disunion majority
in Congress; who are opposed to the doctrines of
Negro Suffrage and Negro Equality advocated by
John W. Gbarv, and his supporters, Stevens,
JkntVßT aud Kkllet ; and who favor the election
omtHESTER CLYMER to the Gubernatorial
Chair of Pennsylvania, are cordially invited to
attend these meetings.
W. KENNEDY,
Chairmen Dem. &ctndtnr/ Com,
'lf. B. Butler, Sac’s/.
VICTORY I
The knell of radicalism has sounded. —
There is a great ground-swell sweeping
over this State which will carry every
thing in its resistless course. Our oppo
nents who have so boastfully claimed the
victory in advance, even in Cumberland
county, are given over to despondency.—
The braggarts have,ceased their clamor,
the smiling and smirking enthusiasts
have taken to themselves long faces ; the
secret conclaves are melancholly to be
hold; “ Ichabod” is written all over the
radical organization of Cumberland coun
ty, and of the State. From all quarters
of the State come encouraging news for
the Democracy. There is dissension and
division in all the radical strongholds.—
Philadelphia, Lancaster and Allegheny
will lose thousands to the radical cause.
While Berks and Montgomery and North
ampton and Lehigh and Westmoreland
and Cumberland will exceed their Demo
cratic majorities of 1863 and 1804. There
Is victory ahead of us—certain, trium
phant victory—all that is necessary is the
courage and energy to march forward
and meet it. One and all then to their
posts, and a glorious triumph will await
ijs, so surely as the sun rises on the sec
ond Tuesday Qf October,
The raclicnliclisunionk'-te are very lluich
troubled because pf the position occupied
by Gen. Grant. Hj.s reticence ou polit
ical questions, after all their fulsome ad
ulation, isq, damper upon their feelings
and hopes, it is well known that the
General, in common with all the mem
bers of his family and all army officers
who have a record worth mentioning, is
warmly in favor of the restoration policy
which was commenced by President Lin
coln and is being carried out by Presi
dent Johnson. His every act and con
versation prove that lie occupies this po
sition. Ho is no politician, however,
and studiously, and very properly, re
frains from political discussions. He de
sires the success of the Pres dent’s policy,
because he considers it wise and patriotic,
and calculated to unite the country and
bring pence and happiness to the whole
people.
But the radicals arc restless, and are de
termined to place Gen. Grant in a false
position. Notwithstanding his protests
to the contrary,' they are attempting to
make it appear Unit the hero of the wal
ls going about the country whispering
on every occasion that is offered.
Tlieir last effort to place Gen. Grant in
this position, is as unblushing as it is
mean and contemptible. The Chicago
Republican, one of the most infamous
papers in the United States —a paper pub
lished by a protege of Horace Gueely,
and which openly and without reserve,
even to the in
termarriage of whites and blacks—this
shameless disunion sheet has hatched up
a story which purports to emanate from
its reporter who accompanied the Presi
dential party during its late western ex
cursion, to the effect that Gen. Grant
confided certain-political opinions to this
little whiffet of a reporter, which if true,
would stamp the General as a miserable
dissembler, occupying the position of
spy and eavesdropper in the Presidential
household. This protended conversation
between Gen. Grant and the reporter of
the Chicago Republican, represents the
General to have remarked that he did
not wish to “identify himself with any po
litical party;” “that,” in his opinion, “ar
my officers should not interfere in poli
tics;” that “ the army was not a place
for a politician,” Ac.
So far, the story, looks plausible. But
the reporter goes on to say that immedi
ately after the General had thus express
ed himself, he proceeded to discuss poli
tics and politicians at some length, and
in the dignified style of the radical slang
whangers of the day. He, (the General,)
is made to say that he had “ been much
annoyed at the use which had been made
of his name by John Hogan and others,
who, had presumed to state that h
(Grant) was politically with the Presi
dent;” that he “ felt that it was an insult
to any loyal man to ask him to vote for
any candidate who was not loyal in 1861.”
t^TKR,
of
“ For Southern men he could make allowances
and he could ride through the South and get out
on n platform and shake hands in friendship with
such men us Lee, Johnston or Forrest, because,
though they had been almost educated into se
cession, they were now truly honest and loyal
in their adherence to the Union, and were seek
ing to strengthen it. But he did not feel in that
way towards Northern men who had once been
disloyal, and neither desired to associate with
them nor have them for his friends. No such
men should have his support, nor ought they to
be supported by Mr. Johnson’s friends through
out the NorlhornStates. lie particularly instan
ced, as a specimen of this objectionable class of
men, HiosterClymer. the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania, saying that to ask
any soldier fovote for such a man, oral one time
known disloyalty, againstanother who hud serv
ed four years in the Union army, with credit to
himself and henellt to his country, was a gross
insult," Ac.
Now, wo feel justified in pronouncing
the above one of the most unmitigated
falsehoods ever conceived in the prolific
brain of a radical newsmonger. It isa lie
from the whole cloth, and the writer of
it deserves to have his oars cropped. To
thus represent Gen. Grant, as attempt
ing to insult and malign the candidate of
a great party for Governor, after he had
said he was “ no politician,” is an outrage
that even the Chicago Republican should
he ashamed to countenance. Evidently
the story was intended for the political
market of Pennsylvania. It was intend
ed io injure the prospects of Hiesteb
Clymbr and prop up the disunion can
didate, no-prefix Geary. Had Gen.
Grant a vote in Pennsylvania, Hiestkr
Clymer would yet that vote. We speak
with acknowledge of the fact when we
make this assertion. Gen. Grant and
all the Grants are with the President,
and desire the success of the President’s
friends ; those friends, the President him
self lias said, are the men who sustain
his policy. No man in our State is re
ceived with more cordiality by Gen.
Grant than is Pliester Clymer. This
wc know to he the fact. To attempt to
make it appear that Grant stigmatized
Mr. Clymer as a 11 disloyal man,” is, we
repeat, a lie as infamous as the heart was
wicked that concocted it. Grant is a
gentleman, and never uses this kind of
language toward any man. Notwith
standing the contempt he feels for Ste
yens, and Sumner and Wade and their
fellow-conspirators, ho does not even
speak disrespectfully of than. Should
they, however, go on with their threats
of violence, and got up another war,
Grant will very speedily convince them
on what side of the question he will be
found. He stands to-day side by side
with the President, and will put these
Northern traitors down in as short order
as he did Southern rebels. Mark it.
“ 29.
OCT. 1,
“ 2.
“ 5.
This tried veteran—the oldest officer in
the American army—a man who bears
scars on his person from wounds received
in the war of 1812—the “ Ney” of the
Mexican war—this old patriot was tem
porary Chairman of the Cleveland Sol
diers’ Convention—a Con
vention numbering some 5,000 braves.
On taking the chair Gen. Wool made a
speech. This speech we publish in to
day’s Volunteer, and we ask our leaders
—and particularly our Republican read
ers—to peruse it carefully. After doing
so, if they continue to support the cause
of the Radical-disunionists, it will be evi
dence that they care more for party than
they do for their country. Read it, one
and all, and ponder well the words of the
old war-horse.
In a day or two we will commence
printing the Democratic tickets. As this
is a heavy and expensive job, we hope
the Democratic candidates will come for
ward at once and pay their proportion of
the expense, and also make arrangements
for the distribution of the tickets in the
various towns and townships.
uen, ami Politics.
OLD GENERAL WOOL.
TICKETS I
IN' INFAMOUS S*VJNt>LE.
(The greatest swindle that ever was at
tempted to be played off on an honest
people, was the meeting of the so-called
“ Southern loyalists,” that recently as
sembled in Philadelphia. Forney and
other desperate political gamblers tried
to make it appear that this meeting,
which adopted resolutions nskmg for ne
gro-suffrage and negro-equality, was
composed of Southern gentlemen. The
proceedings of the mongrel assemblage
gave the lie to this assertion, for it is not
to bo supposed that Southern men would
ask for their own debasement, or peti
tion to Thad Stevens for permission to
be considered the equals of the emancipa
ted negroes they formerly owned. • No,
no—the fraud was too glaring—too trans
parent to deceive even the most ignorant.
It now appears that ninety-nine of eve
ry hundred of the men composing the
mulatto Convention, were New England
men—bummers, suttlers, chaplains, and
pedlors of ginger-bread and candies in
the rear of the army during its march
through the Southern States. Some of
them had been members of Beast But
ler’s baud of “loyal thieves” at New
Orleans, and others had been attached to
Banks’ Red river cotton-stealing expedi
tion. ' These were the' “ Southern loyal
ists” who met in Philadelphia, and asked
for negro-suffrage ; these wore the crea
tures who shouted themselves hoarse
when “ no-preflx Geary” of this State,
and Fred Douglass, the negro, of Mas
sachusetts, were invited to occupy seats
in that part of the platform that had been
cushioned and decorated with flags for
the accommodation of “distinguished
men.” These- were the men \yho huz
zaed when the unblushing and unsexed
Annie E. Dickinson embraced the ne
gro Douglass before the whole audience,
and who cheered lustily when that wick
ed villain, Brownlow of Tenn., remark
ed in his speech that lie “ would rather
occupy hell in company with negroes
than heaven in company with disloyal
men.” Aye, these were the men who
dared to meet in Philadelphia, and to
pass resolutions endorsing the rump Con
gress, negro-suffrage and equality. What
a farce —what unmitigated impudence
and scoundrelism ! One of the delegates
to that Convention is already in the pen
itentiary, and if justice could be meeted
out to them, two-thirds of the whole con
cern would be in the same fix.
THE SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS* CONVEN-
TION AT CLEVELAND
Must have been a grand old affair. Near
ly al 1 the distinguished officers of the army
and navy were there in person or wrote
letters to the Convention. Thank God !
the army and natty are riyhl. Let tire
Radical disunionists take heed ; they may
go to far! That old incorrigible .scoundrel
and brute “ Governor” Bkownlow, of
Tenn., informed theiate mulatto-disunion
Convention at Philadelxjhia, that he in
tended to arm and organize into regi
ments, the negroes of his State, and then
hiss them on to violence. He said ho
wanted another war. He would assist he
said to organize and equip an immense
army, two-thirds of it to be composed of
“ glorious blacks.” He would divide this
army into three parts or divisions. Di
vision No. 1, would take the lead into the
South "and do the killing;” division No.
2, would be provided with turpentine,
camphene and pitch, “ and do the burn
ing;” and division No. 3, would be pro
vided with surveyors instruments, and
“survey and divide the lands equally
among the loyal colored men.” Such is
Bhowni.ow’s programme for exterminat
ing the men, women and children of the
South. Could an Incarnate fiend devise
a more complete plan ? And yet those
attrociousand wicked sentiments, uttered
by the wretch Bbowndow In the Phila
delphia mulatto Convention, were cheer
ed and applauded to the echo!
But, in commencing this article we did
not intend to speak particularly of
Brownlow and the Convention of trai
tors and Government swindlers that met
in Philadelphia a couple weeks since.—
We were speaking of the Soldiers and
Sailors Cleveland Convention. A corres
pondent writing from the Convention on
the first day of its session, says:
Among the brave men in attendance, I may
mention such old war horses as Major General
John i£. Wool, the hero of three wars; Mnj. Gen
eral Gordon Granger, Grant’s right hand leader
in Tennessee; Major General Thomas L. Criten
den, Major General Lovell H. Rosseau, Major
General A. MoD. McCook, who commanded the
left wing of the army of General Rosocrans; Maj.
Gen. Hobson, who chased the rebel General John
Morgan from Ohio; Major General Geo. A. Cus
tar, the “Ney”of the Army of the Potomac; Maj
or General Thomas iSwing, Major General Denver,
Major General Stoedman, Maj. General Heath
Major General Meredith, Generals Monroe, Nelf,
McGroartv (one of the Fenian leaders), Eslo, O.
Dowd, Parkhurst, Loomis, Morgan L. and Kilby
Smith, Parsons, Brown, Roberts, Slack, Rogers
Kise, Hamilton, Mott, Heckman, Penrose. Ward,
and thousands of line and stall'olllcers, privates,
Ac. •
It was a grand sight to sec these battle-scarred
veterans enter the immense pavilion erected for
the Convention. As Wool, McCook, Custar, llos
seau. and the more noted of the Generals enter
ed, cheer after cheer, with waving of handker
chiefs and tumultuous yells, were given.
GENERAL THOMAS EWING,
We publish to-day an abstract of the
speech delivered by Major-General Thom
asEwinq, jr., at the Soldiers and Sailors
Convention at Cleveland. Gen. Ewing
is and always lias been a decided Repub
lican in politics. He is a son of the
Hon. Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, a man
known to the whole country as an oppo
nent of the Democratic party, and the
confidential friend of the late President
Lincoln. Gen. Ewino, we repeat, has
been a Republican ever since the organi
zation of that party, but lie is no disun
ion ist. Having taken an active part to
put down the rebellion, he considers the
Union restored. Of course, like all other
distinguished officers of the array and na
vy, he is with President Johnson heart
ily, and just as heartily against the Radi
cal disunionists. Let our Republican
friends give ear to the words of the son of
Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, the old Repub
lican war-horse who had the confidence
of Mr. Lincoln. Truly, the “ earth
quake” spoken of by Thad. Stevens, is
coming. Stand from under, all who have
no desire to bo hurt!
REAR AU.VIRAL FARRAOUT
wrote a letter to the Soldiers’ and Sailors’
Convention, at Cleveland, endorsing its
objects. He says Andrew Johnson is
right, and the Radicals wrong. Like
Grant, he wants peace, and insists'that
the Union has been restored. He depre
cates the insane and treasonable plottings
of the Radicals, and calls upon his coun
trymen to put down the men who dare to
strike ten stars from the American flag.
Freemen I—can1 —can you, will you disregard
he words of Farragut ?
ASItMUN SPEAKS!
At the great Democratic and Conser
vative meeting held in the city of New
York, on the 17th inst. —a meeting num
bering, it is stated, one hundred thous
and —tlio following letter from
George Ashmen, of Massachusetts, was
read. Mr. Ashmen, it will be remem
bered, was President of the first Nation
al Convention that nominated Abraham
Lincoln, atChicago, in 18G0. Ho is with
President Johnson, heart and soul. —
Hon. Henry J. Raymond, the author of
the address and resolutions at the Balti
more National Convention, that re-nom
inated Mr. Lincoln for the Presidency,
was at the meeting, and made a power
ful speech in defence of President John
son and his policy. The fact is, all the
sincere friends of Lincoln are with Pres
ident Johnson in his efforts to rescue the
country from the sacrilegious hands of
the infidels who are attempting to strand
the ship of State -
Read the letter of. Mr. Ashmun, the
great friend of Mr; Lincoln, and then,
people of Pennsylvania, ask yourselves
the question, “who will w T e follow—AsH
mun, the pure patriot, or Stevens, the
author of the Buckshot war ?” Here is
Ashmen’s letter:
LETTER OF lION. GEOROE ASIIMUN, OF MASS.
Springfield, Mass., September 10.
Gentlemen: Concurring, as I most heartily
do, in the purposes of your proposed meeting in
New York, on the 17th of this month, I am nev
ertheless compelled to say, in reply to your invi
tation to be present, that my engagements will
not allow me to comply with your request.
You propose “ to respond to the action of the
Union Convention at Philadelphia,” and lam
sure that New York will return a most hearty re
sponse In affirmation and approbation of that ac
tion. The honor of New York, as well as the in
telligence of its people, and Its interests in a re
stored integrity or our Union, all combine to
give assurance of such a result, both at your pre
liminary popular gatherings, and at the final
adjustment at the elections which are to follow.
I am glad to see this assurance strengthened by
the united, earnest action of gentlemen all over
your Stale, as well.as on ‘your committee, who
have heretofore been widely separated upon by
gone party issues, which the march of time and
events has trampled oat of sight and out ol exis
tence. And this assurance is not weakened by
the fact that the path along which you propose
to tread is illuminated by the great heart and
great intellect of a son of your own State, who
lias done and suffered more than'any living man
for the cause of human rights and constitutional
government, and whose successful labors in keep
ing tho peace of the world, at a time when the
b:.d passions of some of our own people, and the
worse tendencies of foreign governments, seem
ed ready to plunge us into a general conflagra
tion, gives him the highest title to beckon us on
ward • where he leads it Is safe at least to follow.
And it would bo shameful, indeed, if now hts
own State, should falter and fail for lack of faith
in his fidelity ! I will not believe it. And sure
ly in New York the name of Mr, Seward should
boa protection, if any were needed, against the
foul imputations upon the motives of tho Presi
dent of tho United States in his efforts for an Im
mediate and safe restorat ion of the Union of the
Stales.
I k iow Mr. Johnsou well. He Is honest, saga
cious, true, anil firm, and all such imputations
upon his motives are most unjust. I know too,
that, ho la faithfully following the same line of
generous and far-seeing policy which guided Mr.
Lincoln up to the hour of his death, and I can
not bo brought to doubt either its expediency or
its justice. Certainly no higher or holler motive
for action, In a public servant, can bo suggested,
than that of a desire for the immediate restora
tion to friendly relations of those parts of our
country Which have been alienated. The war,
followed by a solid and lasting peace, may, after
all, prove a blessing. But a hollow truce, out of
which tlery passions and unscrupulous personal
ambitions seek to make profitable harvest, can
not bo anything but a curse. Restoration, upon
the basis of mutual interests and mutual honor,
promises everything which an honest heart can
desire; and the resolutions of the Union Conven
tion at Philadelphia, solemnly made and acce
ded to by Southern representatives of high per
sonal character and position, give us all the
“guarantees for the future” which can be asked
or wanted. Vengeance, hatred, heart-burnings
and 111 blood can be stimulated by high-sound
ing words of crimination and savage threats ol a
re-opened war; but if wo desire a restored com
merce between the alienated Stales, a restored
credit for our national currency, restored pros-'
perity to the Industry of every part of our great
country and a renewed and Increased power to
present ap undivided and unbroken front upon
national questions toward the rest of the world,
let us at once, without hesitation or reluctance,
extend to the Southerh State* the most precious
political right of a Constitutional Government—
the right of representation, and-thus make our
Union “ Now and forever, one and Indivisible,”
The issue, and the only issue for trial by the
people to-day, is as to this right of xepreseuta
tlon. Other questions are started by aarolt par
tisan managers who seek to distract attention
from the great and vital one. But all others
should be subordinated to this one of representa
tion Shall the Southern States bo treated by us
as conquerors would deal with conquered territo
ry, or should they bo recognized os States of the
Union, with equal and unquestioned rights of
representation in Congress?. In other words,
shall we have Union or disunion 7 Let that issue
bo kept broadly and fully ih the public mind,
and we may safely await the final judgment of
the people. The passions of the hour inay, and
undoubtedly will, in some parts of our country
have sway for a while; but the final judgment
will be against faction and for the Union.
Respectfully yours,
George Ashmun.
Messrs. Blatchford and others, Committee,
&c., «tc.
GEN. FREMONT,
The Republican candidate for Presi
dent in 185 G, and who, during the rebel
lion was the idol of the Republicans, is a
strenuous friend of Andrew Johnson,
and endorses his policy in toto. He was
a delegate to the monster Soldiers and
Sailors Convention that assembled at
Cleveland, Ohio, on the 17th inst.—a Con
vention composed ofthe very flower of
the army and navy, and embracing in its
list of delegates nearly every man of note
belonging to either branch. Fremont,
wo say, was there, to assist to save the
Union from the clutches of the infernal
disunionists and arrant traitors who now
menace it. Friends of Fremont ! fall
into line, and help save the Union.
HON. EDGAR CO IVAN.
we !UI thorized to state that the Hon.
Edo abco wan, Republican United States
Senator, will positively attend and address
the Grand Conservative Mass Meeting,
to be held in Carlisle on Saturday, October
Gth. This eloquent champion forthe Con
stitution and the patriotic policy of the
President, will not fall to attract a vast
assemblage, and impart an additional im
petus to tire meeting.
ASSESSMENTS.
<S atuiclay Sept. 29 th is the last day on
which Assessments can be made. We
hope our friends will attend to this im
portant matter in every district in the
county. Not a single vote should be left
unassessed.
BST The Herald says that Maj. Hai,e,
the Democratic candidate for County
Commissioner, “ was never in a fight in
hig life.” If this be true, then he is on a
par with several 11 Generals” of our counr
ty that we could name. But the “ boys
in blue” who were members of Hale’s
regiment Kapure us that the Major
did participate in several battles, and ac
ted bravely. We therefore prefer to be
lieve the “boys in blue” to the unsupport
ed assertion of the writer for the Herald,
who never saw a live rebel in his life. Ma
jor Hale's record is at least as good as that
of the editor of the Herald ; and it was
sufficiently good, last year, to cause the
leaders of the Republican party to ask him
to be a candidate for Assembly on their
ticket.
BST The writer for the Herald affects
to believe that the Volunteer has assailed
him personally.. This is not true, and
when ho makes that assertion he wilful
ly misrepresents us. We are not in the
habit of making personal assaults upon
any one except in self-defense None
but blackguards Indulge in this kind of
argument, and no blackguard can induce
us to imitate him.
SOME VETERANS.
The Chairman of the Democratic Stand
ing Committee owes an apology to the
Soldiers of Perry county. ■He was labor
ing under the erroneous impression that
Lewis Potter, Esq., of Bloomfield, had
been a soldier in the army of the Union,
and tlie aforesaid Lewis was invited to
take part in the parade of the “ Boys in
Blue,” at the coming Democratic Mass
Meeting. It seems, however, that Mr.
Potter was not only never in the army,
not only never shouldered a musket In
defense of the Union, but actually was
drafted and bought himself clear of gov
ernment service by payment of three
hundred dollars. It is not at all strange
that the real Soldiers of Perry county
should feel indignant at being classed
with such “veterans” as Potter; and
we have to say that the insult was entire
ly unpremeditated, as the Chairman of
the Committee was misinformed in re
gard to the facts.
The Herald informs us that “ Mr. Pot
ter qlaims, and justly too, that /oig - .yews
of honorable and arduous service in the
field should exempt him from such In
sults, and he points to his clear record as
a shield against any insinuation that, he
can he cajoled Into desertion to the sideof
the traitors.” Now the truth is that Pot
ter’s “ four years of honorable and ar
duous service” and his “clear record”
amount to about as much as the military
“services” and the “record” of Mr. J.
M. Weakley, the editor, and Mr. A. K,
Rheem, the proprietor of the Herald —
and that is just nothing at all; It Is fit
ting that the Herald should allude in such
feeling terms to the “ honorable and ar
duous services” and the “ clear record”
of the heroic Potter, for they are “ vet
erans" of like standing with himself.—
He was drafted and paid his commuta
tion, and so did they. They all belonged
to the “ last man and last dollar” party ;
they were alike willing to shed the last
drop of somebody else’s blood and to pay
their last dollar to keep out of the ar
my. How indignant such stay-at-home
veterans as these must have felt, when
asked to join the men who did the fight
ing in standing by the Union, in de
fense of which these veteran home-guards
were too cowardly to take up arms. Vet
eran Potter, veteran Weakley and
veteran Rheem, an illustrious trio of bat
tle scared (not scarred) heroes! Hereaf
ter let Don Quixote and Sanoho Panza
take back seats, while some new Cervan
tes commits to immortality the match
less valor of these “ gallant Union sol
diers.”
The Perry Democrat , after announcing
that “ Ijßwts Potter never was a soldier
in any capacity, and never was near a
field of battle,” thinks that “ the boys in
blue in this county will doubtless be grat
ified to learn that they have * a compan
ion in arms' they knew not of before the
j Herald referred to Potter's clear record
as a soldier.” In regard for his “ honora
ble and arduous services,” we are told,
“ the loyal people of Perry county have
honored Mr. Potter with a prominent
place on the Union ticket,'' Such being the
case, it is evident that 44 the loyal people of
Perry county” have the highest appreci
ation of “ honorable services” and 44 clear
recordsand we advise the gentlemen
of the Herald to emigrate thither imme
diately, for their military “services” and
“ records” are rather below par in this
community.
THE PAYMENT OF BOUNTIES.
Your Attention, While Soldlcrn I
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer —good Republican
authority—in his letter dated September
20, says:
“ There Is no prospect of the Immediate pay
ment of the bounties authorized by Congress at
the late session. It Is estimated Umt about forty
thousand claims areon file, with the number still
Increasing at the rate of four or live hundred per
day.”
White soldiers, read the. above, and as
you do so call to mind the/dc< that the
rump Congress, in July last, voted the
black soldier $3OO for extra bounty, and
appropriated the money to pay for it. —
The negro soldiers—some of whom had
not been in the army six months, and
but few of them had oven witnessed a
battle, received in cash their S3OO. The
same Congress voted seven millions of
dollars to support the Freedman’s Bureau,
and appropriated the money to pay this
demand. The same Congress voted the
white veterans who had served three
years in the army $lOO extra bounty, but
failed to appropriate any money to pay
it!' Now we are told by the Republicans
that “ there is no prospect of the immedi
ate payment of the bounties authorized
by Congress at the last session.” There
is no money in the treasury to, pay the
white troops; it has all been gobbled up
by the colored soldiers and the Freed
man’s Bureau! “ That’s what's the mat
ter.” Don’t you see, gentlemen white
soldiers, that it is a calamity just now not
to have been born with a black skin?
Geary is for Congress and the negro—
he says so. Clymer is for the President
and the white soldier.
MORE SCREWS LOOSE!
The Northampton County Journal, a
very able , and well-known Republican
paper, hits abandoned Geary; and taken
his name from its mast-head. After read
ing the proceedings of the all-wool-torch
and-turpentine-Convention recently held
in Philadelphia—a Convention made up
of impudent blacks and women in bree
ches—the editor is satisfied that negro
equality is the object that Geary and his
party has in view. He revolts at the
idea,takes down the name of Geary, and
runs up the glorious name of Clymer,
“ the white man’s candidate.”
Another I—The Juniata Republican,
published at Mifflintown, Pa., has taken
down Geary’s name from its mas-thead.
Another indication of a change in public
sentiment.
fl®“Gen. Geary, in one of his late
characteristic speeches, said he “ expec
ted the opposition of skulkers and those
chicken-hearted gentlemen who had paid
$3OO to buy themselves clear of military
duty!” Mercy, on us, general!—don’t be
quite so severe, quite so personal, on our
neighbors of the Herald.
The Laboring Man earns his dol
lar a day, by hard work. With this he
supports himself, his wife- and' children.
A Republican Congress does not think of
voting money to support in idleness the
Laboring Men of the country as It. does
to vote millions of dollars to support lazy
negroes! You are white, they are black}
HOW THE TICKETS AR£ TO BE VOTED.
Ucail This Carefully
The Legislate! e, last winter, passed :i
law which changes the manner of voting.
All State officers voted for will be voted
on one slip, labelled “State;” all county
officers and members of Congress, Sena
tors, and members of the Legislature vo
ted for,- will be voted oil another slip, la
belled “County;” and all Judges of
Courts voted for, will be voted on still
unotherslip, labelled “ Judiciary;” which
divides the ticket, at the present election
into slips, Alltickeis shouldbercady
cut, folded and tied, before election-day.
Let Democrats attend to this everywhere,
and see that all the ticket is included in
their ballot. The ticket will be printed
as follows :
STATE,
Governor ,
Hicster Clymer
COUNTY.
Congress,
A. .T. Glossbrenner,
Assembly,
Philip Long.
Prothonotary,
John P. Brindle.
Clerk and Recorder,
Samuel Bixler
Register,
Jacob Dorsheimer
Commissioner,
M. G. Hale.
Director of Poor,
John Paul.
Auditor,
P. G. McCoy.
JUDICIARY.
Associate Judges,
Hugh Stuart,
Thos. P. Blair.
The ticket'must bo cut apart at each
of the wide spaces, with the words
“State,”- “County,” and “Judiciary”
folded out.
(Icn. <3milt I>on’t Train in a I>lHiinion Con-
VClltlOll.
General Grant has sent the following
short and plain letter to the managers of
the so-called Soldiers’ Disuniou.Conven
tion which assembled at Pittsburg on the
25th, for the purpose of aiding in Geary’s
election. The letter needs no comment.
Bead it: ‘
Headquarters Armies of tiie-U. S., \
Washington, Sept. 18, 10G0. /
To Edwin. M. Dudley, Chairman Executive Com
mittee Soldiers' and Sailors' Union: Sir —Gen. Grant
directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your in
vitation to be present at a National Convention
of Soldiers and Sailors, to bo held at Pittsburg,
Pa., Sept, 21tli, 180 G, for political purposes. Ho
instructs me to say that it is contrary to bis hab
its and to his convictions of duty to attend politi
cal meetings of any character whatsoever, and
that lie secs with regret the action of any officer
of the array talcing a conspicuous part in the po
litical dlssensious of the day.
I am. sir, very respectfully, your obedient ser
vant,
Adam Badeau,
Colonel and A. D. c.
General Grant does not train in thesame
crowd with Butler, Banks and those who
have been active in getting up the bogus
Soldiers’ Convention. The President says
he rises above party, and Grant intimates
the same thing. They are both in the
same line.
JSQ?“ The Lancaster Intelligencer truly
declares that the Radical party always
legislates in favor of the rich and against
the poor, and continues: 11 There is scarce
ly a city in the land where the laboring
white man has not felt the iron rod of
their tyranny. They have thrown ob
stacles in the way of his voting every
where. A favorite mode of assault upon
this class has been the shortening of the
hours for keeping open the polls and the
closing of them early in the evening. At
the last session of the Pennsylvania Leg
islature the Radicals passed a law com
pelling the polls in Lancaster to be closed
at six instead of seven o’clock. Hereto
fore very many of the laboring men voted
after their day’s work was done, and thus
lost neither time nor wages.” The same
law was made applicable to Philadelphia,
with a hope of preventing the poor men
from voting there. The Radical doctrine is,
give the ballot to the negro—take it from
the poor white man.
' If our recollection is correct during the whole
time Mr. Bratton controlled the Vohtnlcci' alone,
another Democratic Journal was published here
which circulated more widely and had a better
patronage than his paper.— Herald.
“If our recollection is correct,” the
above is an intentional falsehood. The
Volunteer always had, as it has now,' a
much larger circulation than any paper
in Cumberland county. Every man hav
ing a knowledge of the Carlisle papers,
can testify to this. As to “ patronage,”
we venture to say the Volunteer has, for
the last twenty years, enjoyed a larger
paying patronage than any paper in the
Valley.
CSTGen. Eogers, of Arkansas,'one of
the “ loyal Southerners” in the Geary all
wool Convention, whishes it understood,
through the New York Herald , that he
withdraws from that mixed gathering
of shiftless, ambitious blacks and women
in breeches.” He says that he has gone
with that body even farther than his own
views could justify, and he “washes his
hands, from this time forth, of all its pro
ceedings.” Too much wool for the Gen
eral.
“ The Negro Bears the Palm.”—
The Rump Congress voted NEGRO
SOLDIERS who served TWO YEARS
THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS
BOUNTY.
The Rump Congress voted WHITE
SOLDIERS who had served THREE
YEARS, ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
BOUNTY.
fiSj-The Saddler earns his dollara day,
by hard work. With this he supports
himself, his wife and children. A Re
publican Congress does not think of vo
ting money to support in idleness the
Saddlers of the country as it does to vote
millions of dollars to support lazy negroes!
You are white, they are black.
I.ITXI.l: MONTANA.
The election in Montana Territory, on
the 14th iust., resulted in the election of
the Democratic candidates by a majority
of over 2,000. Good for Montana—the
“ground swell” is coming.
B@“J. A. H. Buchanan, otie of the
most prominent lawyers of Greene coun
ty, and for several years the leading Re
publican orator of that county, is now la
boring earnestly for Clyiner and the re
construction policy of the President.
The Itnlu Storms In
lion of ItnllromlM, Brl,I B c^ C g~^
ClxciNiVAX'ri, Sept; 20.—The ml,
coiUimios, and, with the excentu"
Lit le Miami and MarietM 0
natti every railroad leading
city has been damaged to suoh n „ M l‘-
as to in terrupt the runningof tmii ei| «s
Indianapolis and Cincinnati?, H
lost three bridges, but the nmst I?
one. over the great Miami
coped. Tiro Hamilton and D™, S
Atlantic and Great Western rn
terrupted at Elk creek. The nl .%
Michigan road has lost three hri.i
Indiana Central hak lost thr
Combndge city and
Chicago and Great Easteim rS f h
aged between Richmond and n,i H “»•
to what exten tis not known >n flso ' l 5
were withdrawn on both ends nf i •
yesterday. The Columbus, Phi 'S
dmnapo is road lost its greit brSft
cpia, and a portion of the Ohio and S'
issippi railroad bridge over the , !
ama is down. rca >!{
Unprecedented freshets are rpn„s,
all sides. The White rive," 11 *-;
higher yesterday at ludiananolh “
1847. The White Water rivw bp?
71 feet higher than in 1847 Tt W
cdrn-flelds along the bottom’s of L g ?
Miami have suffered considerably
water being over the tops of the Si?
cornstalks. Scores of miles of fairS, s
boon carried off. The Scioto n 'ftr
bus, overflowed its banks, ilS 1
■the whole valley west of the rS'I
north of the national road. Jr.l!,, !®'
ies have been driven from theirlim
compelled to seek shelter in til,, “
part of their dwellings. ■ e
A dispatch from Dayton says (| le in
ama and its tributaries are term) & .
higher than in 1848. Tire loS'f
Dayton is submerged. , The
M’Pherhonville, across the river sWf«
under water. 1 tfl
Three men were drowned at Pinna u i
the bridge by tU ° falling ti “ be " ''
Headvimil, Pa., Sent. 20-Tho d®.
age by heavy rains in Ohio, to the ilk
tic and Great Western railroad, has bet.
repaired, and the trains are runulnei
usual to-day. 6
LOCAL ITEMS
A NBW “ STBAJIBB”—PiBHMAy'j p,.
BADE.— The splendid new Steamorp
chased by the Good Will Hose timupanj
of this place, 'from the Gould, Jiacliit
Company, of Newark N. J., arrived j
Saturday last. In the afternoon the fir,
men turned out in a body to receive ii-
A procession was formed, at South H*
over and Pom fret streets, embracing it
members of the Good Will, Empire, Cue
bcrland and Union lire Companies, will
their .respective apparatuses, which pr
eceded through the different streets, (St
Wm. M. Penrose acted as Chief Jlarshil'
assisted by J. W. Ogilby, of the (W
Will, Jas. Sterrett, of the. Empire, Jfe
tin Kuhn, of the Cumberland, ami tier
Sbeafer, of the Union. The Good Wii
was preceded by the. Garrison Hand nil
the Union by tbe Carlisle Band. Tin
Steamer was drawn by four beauliiil
black horses, and both engine and lioim
were subjects of universal admiralh
along tho route of the procession. Ail#
the parade had concluded, a trial of lln
engine was made in the public sipm,
and subsequently at the Letort Spring.-
The engine threw one stream two hit
dred and thirty four feet. We understal
that according to the contract it, was li
throw one stream two hundred and ectk
ty five feet, or, six streams at the sm
time. Including five hundred feet of tin
the engine is to cost the company ®
It is a beautiful machine, and we trust!
may come up to the representationsinß
gard to it. If it works well, it will pm
a valuable acquisition to the fire depart
meut of Carlisle.
Beautiful Peaches.—We are indeM
ed to our Democratic friend, Mr. Cinch
Shriner, of Silver Spring township, foil
basket of his very large and beaulifc
cling peaches. For size and beauty Ilf!
excelled anything in the peach linen
have seen this season.
Superior Grapes. —We are indeUd
to our friend, Mr. David Miller, of It*
Green Hill Fr.yyt Farm, (Middlesextom
ship,) for a basket of his superior Coe
cord grapes. The Concord is a justly cel
ebrated grape—large, luscious and bca
tiful. Mr. M. has for sale Concord grap
vinos at the following rates— single vim
50 cents; one dozen, §5; one hundred, iS
one thousand, $2OO. Mr. M. does #
propagate his vines in hot beds, as b*
often the case with nurserymen. AP
plants are in the open air, and are hut!
and healthy.
The Carlisle Club.— Gen. Bowiu
addressed a large meeting of the Cite®
and Soldiers! Democratic Club of CnrlfcA
on Monday evening. He spoke for W
hours in a most conclusive and aigf
mentive style, proving the consistency
President Johnson’s course with his po
fessions, and showing that negro suite?
was not only an issue but the real issue
the campaign. Gen. Bowmnu was
quontly and loudly applauded, an
speech was one of ills best efforts.
A Grand Rally ,in South Mim
ton. —There was a,grnnd rally °f t,ie
mocraey of South Middleton at IteP
Hotel, in Papenown, on Monday e' ell
last. It was one of the largest am
enthusiastic meetings ever j]
vicinity. Addresses were delivered j
C. Herman, J. W. D. Gillelen,
Bratton, Jno. C. Graham, W. .
and John Cornman Esqrs., of Can
Frankford Aroused. -There
large and enthusiastic meeting o
moeraoy of Frankford township, *
servill.e, on Wednesday evening, • ,
inst. Notwithstanding the incitin' I ',
the weather, the crowd stood tbeirg
for over two hours. The C “ rl !®*! oUIg eJ
Baud was in attendance and u
some of its best music. Address
delivered by H. Newsham, J
lelen, Wm. B. Butler, and Jno..
ham, Esqrs., of Carlisle.
The Mountain on Fire !—£“ rnl
trial Meeting. —The Democracy 0 . |p,
“Burnt District” in Dickinson * o ' . )lUi i.
held one of the largest and mos B geC tioii
astic meetings ever held in tha ®
Henry Murray acted as Preside" >
Wm. Mundorff, as vice Pr ® slde ” e ' et iiJ!
David Zeigler as Secretary. The -
was addressed by M. C. Heron" 1 ' d
D. Gilleien and Wm. B. Butl , e „ p
Carlisle. The people of the 1 _ s (j ol
trict” are alive to the great in
the country. There is not a» _ a fatbd
did not send a son, a hus.baud, 0 Jfi
to the late war for the Union. jjil
evidence of their patriotism, bjr _ 3 #ol
ihg to the country’s call for 1 qje'
they are still found battling f° r
stltution and the union.