ta-ttatilei ***to". WrapixEinkx, sEpt 20, 1865 . . . . Fr The printing presses shall be free to every . person who turiertattes to examine the pro ceedings of the legislature, or any branch of government .and no law alma ever be. made to restrain the right thereof.' The free commu nication of thought and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of men• and every citzen may f r eely speak, write and print on any sub ject; being responsible for, the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions' for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of offi cers, or men in publiccopselties,. or where the matter published is proper for imblic informa tion, the, S rattk thereof trksy be given in evi- DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET FOR AUDITOR GENERAL COL W. W. 11. DAVIS, or Bucks County. FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL: Col. JOHN P. LINTON, of Cambria Co Meeting of the Democratic County Committee. The Democratic County Committee of Lancaster County will meet in the City of Lancaster, at the Hall of the Young Men's Democratic Association on WEDNES DAY, SEPTEMBER 20th, at 4 o'clock, P. M. A punctual attendance of all the members of the Committee is most urgently solicited, as business of the utmost importance will he present for their consid eration. R. R. TSHUDY, ChairmarP, A. J. STEnsasfAN, Secretary. Mass - Meeting As will be seen by an adverriaement in another column, our. ,:a.udidate for Auditor General, tim gallant soldier, Colonel W. W. H. Dgyis, will speak at Fulton Hall on Wednesday evening next, the 20thinst., the day of the meet ing of the Democratic County Conven tion. This meeting will be held to ratify the nominations made, and will be the formal opening of the campaign. Let our friends from the country make arrangements to be present on that oc casion.. That there will be an immense gathering of the Democracy and of the conservative citizens of old Lancaster, we have no doubt. Returned soldiers are especially invited to be present. Let them turn out cc masse, and hear what one of the bravest of their comrades has to say upon the important issues of the day. Colonel JOHN P. LINTom, candidate for Surveyor General, will also, proba bly, be here to address the meeting. Local organization All that is needed to enable the De mocracy to secure a complete triumph in the coming election is such efficient local organization as will ensure a full vote. This work must be done by wards and townships, and there is not a mo ment to be lost if we would insure suc cess. A grand triumph, such as will cheer the hearts of all true lovers of their country, is within our grasp. A little diligence and activity will as suredly give us a great victory. Only let the full Democratic vote be polled, and our majority in the State will be large and gratifying. Surely there are sufficient incentives to induce every Democrat to do his share of work cheer fully and efficiently. Let county and township committees go to work vigor ously and at once. The crisis admits of no delay, and demands untiring and unceasing exertion. Let lists of voters be prepared; have every Democratic voter assessed ; let clubs be formed ana weekly meetings be held in every elec tion district. Go to work in earnest, and, so surely as the second Tuesday of October comes, so surely shall we win a great victory over the fag end of4New England Abolitionism in Pennsylvania. If we are beaten it will be our own fault. With due diligence and proper activity our success is assured. Go to work, then. Let every man labor for the good cause as he never did before. Let us close up the ranks and march forward to victory. What is needed, all that is needed, to insure our triumph, is completeand efficient local organization. We carried the State last fall at the Oc tober election by a majority of at least seven thousand. We can do much bet ter at the coming election. Never had any party greater incentives to exer tion. Let there be one grand rally, then, and such local organization as will ensure a full vote, and we shall triumph most gloriously. Democrats of Lancaster county, are You doing all you can to ensure success? Remember there Is, no time to be lost. Which Shall Prevail Among other questions which will be greatly influenced by the result of the coming election in this Stateis that of the policy which shall prevail in the treat ment of the Southern States. If the Republican candidates shall be elected their triumph will justly be regarded as an endorsement of the extreme radical policy in Pennsylvania. Thaddeus Stevens will, in such case, go to Washington emboldened to take issue with President Johnson upon his plan of Restoration. A majority may then be readily found in that body prepared to act upon the plan advocated by Chase, Stevens, Sum ner, Wilson and their cohort of distruc tionists. The restoration of the Unoin will be indefflintely delayed, in order that the silly experiments of these po litical empirics may have a trial. Ve believe a large majority of the voters of this State are in favor of the wise and judicious policy of President Johnson. It is the duty of every one who is so, to vote against the platform put forward by the Republican party of this State. That document embodies in it the theories of Thad. Stevens, and is in open and irreconcilable opposition to the plan of restoration adopted by the President. It is for the people to. say which of these theories shall prevail. The popular voice of Pennsylvania should be heard speaking in behalf of the Constitution and of the right. No man who is not prepared to indorse all the mad theories of Thad. Stevens and his , radical allies can conscientiously vote the Republican-ticket this Fall. Important to Aliens Desiring to be Naturalized By the 21st section of au act of Con gress, approved July 7, 1862, it is pro vided that any alien of the age of 21 years and upward, who has enlisted or shalt enlist in the armies of the United States, either the regular or volunteer forces, and has been or shall be here after honorably discharged, may be ad mitted to become a citizen of the United States, upon his petition, without any previous declaration of his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and that he shall not be required to prove mom than one year's residence within the United States previous to his application to become such citizen. In addition to proof of residence and good moral character, it is required that the court admitting such alien shall be sat isfied by competent proof, that the alien has been honorably discharged from the service of the United States. This act materially alters previous laws, but does not in any manner do away with the necessity of procuring regular naturali zation papers. WHAT the country owes Edwin M. Stanton.—Bu f falo Express. Consult the thirteen thousand head boards fu the graveyard at Anderson vine: The 'lmportance of Sustaining" Country Newspapers. The great agency of the Democratic party and its chief lever or paver has been an unfettered newspaper.press.— 1 . 3 y means of this it has moulded public opinion, educated the Minds or the masses, impressed upon the people -a conviction of the correctness of its poli tical principles and secured their tri-• umph. That agency is as pOtent to-day as ever it was in the past. During a reign of terror, when Democratic news papers were suppressed by the rude hand of arbitrary power, and denied cir culation through the mails; when irre sponsible mobs gutted democratic news paper offices and threatened personal violence to editors, the democratic press still spoke out boldly, freely and fear lessly. Abuses of power, usurpations of authority, violations of the Con.stitution and the laws, unwise or injudicious public measures were all condemned as they deserved to be. The democratic press refused to be muzzled, and gave forth no uncertain sound. In this struggle for right the local press was distinguished for boldness and for ability. It was so in every loyal State, and not less so in Pennsylvania than elsewhere. During the war the burthens imposed upon the editors of democratic country newspapers were greater than at any former period. Ma terials were exorbitantly high, while the ordinary resources of profit were con stantly being contracted. A spirit of persecution and proscription prevailed extensively. Republican merchants and business men withdrew their ad vertising patronage ; in some instances the use of the mails was denied, and in very many postmasters were found ready to delay the transmission and the delivery of papers. There is not a Dem ocratic editor in this State, who, dur ing the past four years has not had the announcement frequently made by a subscriber: " You might as well stop sending my paper, as I do not get it one half the time." This got to be a stereo typed complaint. Yet the papers were regularly mailed, and there could have been no failure in delivery by due course of mail if there had not been gross mis conduct on the part of postmasters.— Still, in spite of all discouragements the local press of the State did its duty and its whole duty. Has it been sustained as it should have been? We put the question to the Democracy of Pennsylvania. Has the local press of the State met with that liberal patronage and full and generous support which it has deserved. We fear there is not a single county in the State which can give an affirmative response. In this respect we believe the Democracy do not do their whole duty. The local Democratic press is entirely dependent upon the individual members of the party for support, and its maintenance is a positive duty, which rests proportionately upon each individual Democrat. No Democrat has a right to ignore this plain, impera tive duty. If he believes that the best interests of the country will be sub served by a permanent triumph of the great principles of the Democratic party, he is in duty bound to sustain the agency by which, more than by all others combined, the triumph of those principles is to be assured. It is abso lutely necessary that a generous and hearty support be afforded to the local press. In itself it i utri nsi cal ly, deserves it. We do not know a Democratic county paper in the State which is not worth more than the price demanded for it. Yet many, through want of thought on the part of Democrats, and through their failure to recognize their duty, are not support ed as they should be. It is time there was a complete reform in this matter. Democrats must support their county papers with greater liberality than they have heretofore dune. In looking over our countryexchanges we find them all doing battle most gal lantly for the cause of the right. They are doing work which can be done by no other agency. In every county in the State the local political contests are matters of decided importance. If these are well managed, a full vote; which will tell powerfully on the result in the State, is secured. In this important work the most efficient agent is the local press. This must be sustalped liberally. Let this great lever of power be everywhere strengthened. Any man calling himself a Democrat ought to be ashamed to admit that he does not take his county paper, or that he does not pay for it in advance. Stevens's Speech the Republican Nat The speech of Thaddeus Stevens may be properly regarded as a full explana tory commentary upon the Republican platform otthisState. The distinctive feature of the ylatform is its opposition to Presidentjohnson's policy of resto ration, and'its bold avowal of the radi cal revolutionary theory of Reconstruc tion, with wholesale confiscation, as ad vocated by Mr. Stevens. It is nothing more nor less than a string of resolu tions announcing as the basis.of Repub lican belief in this State the crude theo ries and the absurd dogmas of the Con gressman from this district. It was made to suit the Hon. Thaddeus Stev ens, framed no doubt at his dictation, and worded to suit his peculiar views. His late speech, which has elicited un favorable comment from all quarters, and which is repudiated even by Forney's Press, is nothing more than an amplification of the Re publican platform. Every objectionable feature in that speech is to be found in the platform. Yet, while Republican newspapers, such as the Philadelphia Press and the N. Y. Tribune, are taking exception to the speech, we hear no condemnation of the platform which embodies and boldly sets out precisely the same doctrines. How is this? Will Forney's Press please explain how it can condenin the confiscation policy of Mr. Stevens, as announced in Lis speech while it supports a platform embodying as its distinctive feature the self-same doctrines? There is not a single objec tionable feature in Stevens' speech which is not to be found in the platform. Consistency is a jewel; but, such con sistency passes our comprehension. It is, however, of a piece with other acts of the Republican party. A more in consistent political organization never had existence. Does the Express Advocate Negro Suf frage and Negro Citizenship ? Will the Express be good enough to tell us what' it means by the following sentence, which we find in the leading editorial of last Monday's issue? Unless the loyal people of the country shall force upon the South the acceptance of the Constitutionalamendmentabolish• ing slavery, and the adoption of some uniform rule of suffrage and citizenship, the blood of a million patriots will have been spilled in vain, and the sacrifices of the present generation will have to be re peated by those that are to come. Does it mean negro suffrage and negro citizenship? That would be the plain inference. But we will give our neigh bor a chance to explain. What does it mean? We want a categorical answer, and no dodging. THE following inscription in granite upon the barn of Col. A. K. McClure, is rather mixed : "Burnt by order of McCausland, July 30, 1884. Rebuilt A. D. 1885." Is it the rebuilt barn that was burnt, or the burnt barn that is re built? —lllinois furnished 256,257 troops for the war. A Model Senatorial Candidate Last winter a year Col. A. K. Mc Clure had a senatorial district made of Franklin and Adams counties. It was universally I?elievedthahad carved it out especiiilly for his own benefit. But, after serving in the House last winter, he concluded that there was no possible show for the election of any Republican from the new district, and he so announced in his paper, conceding thus publicly that the next Senator would be a Democrat from Franklin, either J. M. Sharpe, Esq., or C. M.Dun can, who is now running on the Demo cratic ticket. This public notice, thus openly served on all aspirants in Mr. McClure's party, at once crushed out all budding hopes of senatorial honors in the breast of every sensible and decent Republican. Franklin county was clearly entitled to the nomination, but no one could be found foolish enough to set himself up to be sacrificed. The party then looked to Adams. Even here no decent man could be found ready to run merely for the fun of being beaten. It seemed for a considerable time as if no candidate could be got anywhere in the district. At length, however, one D. McCou aughy, of Gettysburg, announced his willingness to be made a scape-goat for the sins of the party. He is a fellow of overweening vanity, who loves to see his name in print, and who would be willing to die almost any ,time, if he could afterwards be allowed to return to earth to read the words of lying flattery placed upon his tomb stone by the marble cutter. The au liouncement that he is a candidate for the office of State Senator, though sure to be most soundly beaten, is calculated to gratify his narrow intellect immense ly. The selection of such a man shows how hard his party were put to it to find any one to fill out the ticket. But he has a record; one which would effectually damn any political aspirant, and make him an object of scorn and con tempt in the eyes of decent men. A poor poltroon, a miserable white-livered coward, he howled for war and thirsted for blood while he took precious good care to keep his own worthless carcass out of all danger. Like others of his kidney lie was always on the watch to gratify his hatred of all who differed with him by being more honest, more manly, or more respectable than him self. There was one man whom he especially hated, and whom he had it in his heart to ruin, provided it could be done without danger to himself. H. J. Stahle, the editor of the Coo/pito., a sound Democratic paper, was the es pecial object of McConaughy's aversion. How to wreak his malice was his daily and nightly study. Like a bloated spider, full of venom and :spite, he sat in his lair watching the move ments of his destined victim.— Mr. Stable's life was pure and his walk and conversation free from blame. MeConaughy was 'ready to burst with misated malice, but, could_ not see how it was to be safely gratified. At length csune the invasion of Lee and the battle of Gettysburg. There was the tramp of hostile armies through the streets of that quiet country town ; the fierce strife of battle ; the close eontest between fiercely contending foes. All was confusion, excitement and alarm. This was MeConaughy's opportunity. He did not shoot his opponent down from a place of concealment, and let the inference be made that he was slain by a wandering bullet fforn the battle. That would have required some physical pluck. Still his vengeance must be glutted ; and while the battle raged his mind was a prey to the con tending emotions of cowardice and revenge. A plan was at last hit upon, which he hoped would effectually dispose of him whom he hated without a cause. Having seen Mr. Stahle upon the street during the very thickest of the strife, when bullets were flying in every direction, and when wounded men were scattered through the streets, he concocted a diabolical scheme worthy of such a wretch. Without having a single particle of proof to back up his assertion, he made information at head quarters that Mr. Stable had been conveying intelligence to the enemy_ Whether it was made under the for mality of an oath we know not, nor is it material, for the man who would so basely belie a neighbor would add to his base act the crime of perjury, if need be. On this charge Mr. Stable was ar rested and thrown into Fort McHenry D. McCouaughy had his triumph, and gloated over his work with fiendish glee. But his triumph was very short-lived. Mr. Stable soon proved to the- satisfaction of those in au thority that, so far from being on the street as a bearer of news to ,the enemy, he was there on an errand of mercy. He had kindly taken up two of our wounded soldiers and conveyed them into his house, and, when seen by his enemy risking Ins life on the street, hewas searching for a surgeon to attend to their wounds. Of course he was at once honorably discharged, and allowed to return to the bosom of his afflicted family. Great was the surprise and bit ter the chagrin of McConaughy when he saw his victim thus speedily released from the net in which he had encom pased him. This act illustrates the character of the man who is the Aboli tion candidate for State Senator in the district composed of Franklin and Ad ams. Verily the nomination wOnt a begging; and was seized upon by a wretch whose reputation at home is so poor that he hopes to add to it even by the overwhelming defeat which is sure to be his. Importance of a Full Vote We would especially impress upon the mind of every Democrat in the State the acknowledged and admitted fact, that all that is needed to insure a glorious triumph for the Democracy at the coming election is the polling of our full rote. Let this be done and our ma jority will be sufficiently large to crush out of existence in this State that mon grel political organization which derives all its vitality from its close connection with the fanatics and radicals of New England. There are some eighteen hundred election districts in this State, or very nearly that many. The absence of three Democratic voters in each of these would be a loss to us of fire thousand four hun dred votes. Think of that. Let every Democrat who reads this think of it, and then let him resolve to see to it that every vote is polled. Get out the vote and we cannot be beaten. A Negro Delegate Speaking of the Massachusetts Ssate Convention, the New York Tribune says: A large number of eminent men are delegates; among them Gov. Andrew, Gen. Butler, Wendell Phillips, ex-Gov. I3outwell, the Rev. L. A. Grimes, the colored clergyman of Boston. That is truly a nice assortment of worthies, such a batch of delegates as could not be got together in any other State except Massachusetts. Any Con vention which would admit Ben. Butler as a delegate ought to be perfectly will ing to admit any negro who might ap ply. If the negro preacher Grimes is not ashamed to sit in a convention with Beast Butler, he must have butlittle re gard for the cleanliness of his clerical robes. Truly they are a nice party, those Abolitionists of Massachusetts. General Grant will be in Quincy, Illi nois°, to.saorrOw. Negro Suffrage a Leading Issue. The : public utterances of the recog pzed leaders of any political party are' , • perly regarded as,"authoritative ex positions of the poligtail 'cree3l of :the organizatiart . . When t leading newspa pers, and thepitominent public spartiters of a party, announce a certain doctrine,' and advocate adoption, - it is only proper to regard the policy avowed as part of the party faith. There is no other test which can be applied. Judging the Republican party by this fair rule, no man of ordinary intelli gence can fall to see that it is firmly pledged to do away with every distinc tion between the white and the black races in this country. Its leading news papers, and its most prominent public speakers, are all pledged to do their best to secure to the negro perfect political equality with the white man. Every New England State, except Connecti cut, allows negroes to vote, and a vote is to be had there this fall in order to change the Constitution of that State in this particular. The New York Tribune earnestly appeals to the Republicans of Connecticut not to allow the negro suf frage amendment to be defeated. It says: " It would be an easy settlement of this great issue if a New England State could be found willing to deny justice to the negro. Connecticut would be the answer throughout the South. ' Can you,' they might justly say, can you force upon us what you decline your selves to do? Can you expect from the cotton and sugar States what Connecti cut refuses? If you have arguments address them to your own Yankees— send your missionaries to New Eng land.' The practical effect of 4. defeat in Connecticut would be to postpone this great victory ; it isnot in the power of any defeat to end the struggle. Ac the same time we beseech our friends not to make that struggle harder." The " great victory " here spoken of is the triumph of the doctrine of negro equality. That is now the leading doc trine of the leaders of the Republican party. And the leaders are pledged not to rest until they secure its triumph. Charles Sumner made a speech the other day, on being appointed President of the Massachusetts State Convention, in which he said : Neither the rebellion nor slavery is yet ended. The rebellion has been dis armed, but that is all. Slavery has been abolished in name ; but that is all. As there is still a quasi rebellion so is there still a quasislavery. The work of liberation is not yet completed. Nor can it be completed until the equal rights of every person once claimed as a slave are placed under the safeguard of irreversible guaran tees. It is not enough to strike down the master; you must also lift up the slave. It is not enough to declare that slavery is abolished. The whole black code, which is the supple ment of slavery, must give place to that eluality Wore the taw which is the very essence of liberty. Continuing its jurisdiction, Congress must supervise and fix the conditions of order, so that the national security and national faith shall not suffer. Here is a sacred obligation which cannot be postponed. All these guarantees should br completed and crowned by ctn amend nt of the I imstitution of the United ,Stales, etipecially providing that rc after there ,hall be no (I/nil - II of the elec tive franchise or any t.celewion of any kind on account of color or race, but all persons shed( he egual before the law. That is the platform and the avowed creed of the Republican party. In the recent State conventions of no less than six States they have boldly inserted a plank declaring in favor of negro suf frage and negro equality. In Ohio and Pennsylvaria, and in sonic other States, they simply decline to say anything for or against it. But this refusal to con demn the doctrine is equivalent to an endorsement, and so it must be regarded. In this State at their County Conven tions in a number of prominent counties, the Republican party has boldly de clared in favor of " negro suffrage ;" while fully one-half the Republican newspapers of the State advocate the doctrine. The Patriot and Union makes up the following list of those which have come out thus openly on., the ques tion: Press, Philadelphia city. 2 Gazette, Pittsburg, Allegheny Co 3 Commercial, " 4 Di.qpatch, 5 Telegruph, Harrisburg, Dauphin county. 6 kramincr, Lancaster, Lancaster co. 7 Record, _Reading, Berks county. ti Democrat, Kittanning, Armstrong county. 9 Alleghenian, Ebensburg, Cambria county. 10 R(portcr, Towanda, Bradford co. 11 Dispatch, Mercer, Mercer county. 13 o«zette, Sunbury, Northumber land county. 13 American, Danville, Montour co. 14 Herald, Norristown, Montgomery county. 15 Herald & Whig, Somerset, Somer set county. 16 Western Adeocale, Green county. 17 Tribune, Johnstown, Cambria co. is lirporter it Tribune, Washington county. Li Miner..s' Journal, l'ottsville, Schuyl kill county. 20 Village _Record, West Chester, Chester county. 21 American Republican, Chester co. 22 Republican, Montrose, Susque hanna county. 23 Northern Pennsylvanian, Susque hanna county. 24 Register, Hollidaysburg, Blair co. 24 Republican, York, York county. We might go on accumulating testi mony and adding evidence to prove how universally the doctrine of negro suffrage and negro equality is endorsed by the Republican party, but surely what we have given ought to be suffici ent to convince any candid man. The party is pledged not to cease to labor for the accomplishment of this diabolical purpose. It is useless to attempt to shift the re sponsibility temporarily by declaring, as some Republican papers in this State are doing, that the question is not at is sue in Pennsylvania in the present po litical campaign. The issue has been made, madesquarely and unequivocally by the refusal of the Republican State Convention to condemn the odious doc trine. If they are not in favor of it, why did they not say so ? A triumph of the Republican party in Pennsylvania this fall will be justly regarded as a full endorsement of the doctrine of negro equality, and it will be so claimed openly after the election. Let every white man who is unwilling to degrade himself to the level of the negro remember this when he goes to the pollg, Hvery vote cast for Hartranft and Canipben will be a vote tomake the negro the equal of the white man. Where they Stand Messrs. liartran ft and Campbell stand upon a platform which takes the ground that the war has been a failure and that the SOut4ern States are out of the Union ; Messrs. Hartranft and Campbell stand upon a platform that is in favor of con fiscating the Southern lands for the use of the negroes ; Messrs. Hartranft and Campbell stand ugon a platform which is opposed to the taxation of Government securities, and consequently.in favor of taxing the poor for the benefit of the rich; Messrs. Hartranft and Campbell stand upon a platform which declares for a high protective tariff for the benefit of manufacturers at the expense of the consumer—a tariff to make the rich richer and the poor poorer ; Messrs. Hartranft and Campbell stand upon a platform which is designed as the entering wedge to secure votes for ne groes in all the Southern States and in Pennsylvania; and Messrs. Hartranft and Campbell stand upon a platform which is directly op posed to the "mild and generous method of reconstruction" now being success fulty carried out by President Johnson. Can any Voter of Pennsylvania cast a ballot for these gentlemen while upon a platform opposed to the poor man's rights, to a white man's government, and to the Federal authorities who are successfully engaged in restoring the Union? Most certainly not!—Patriot and Union. The Deitoeracy of Allegheny County. .„The t ,Democracy of Allegheny county '1 that of Lancaster are sadly in the inlnority, but ever ready to make a gal• hukt:fght. The County, Convenyon Whleh-met to nominate - a 14:a ticket :Was very full. The proceedings were entirely harmonious and the assemblage enthusiastic. The following extract NVe take from the local colUmns of the PoZI : The nominations were then made, all of them by acclamation. District Attorney: Major James A Lowrie. • County `Controller: Major Sohn 41. Cassell, late of the sth •Pennsylvania Cavalry. Treasurer: Dr. James Kerr, late Sur geon of 62d (Co!.- Sam. Black's) Regi ment. State Senator: Col. George H. Hays, of the Bth Reserves. Assembly Capt. Andrew Large, of Mifflin township, late 62d Regiment. Major Thomas Gibson, of Pine town ship, 14th Penna. Cavalry. Private Henry M'Curry, of Birming ham, 62d Regiment. . . Private George Ewalt, of Richland, 139th Regiment. Private Francis McClure, of the 102 d Regiment. Ilajor James F. Ryan, 63d Pennsyl vania Regiment. County Commissioner: Private John Connor, 62d Penna. Vols. County Surveyor: For this office Cap tain E. D. G. Heastings, late of the 102 d regiment, and an eminently practical and experienced man, was chosen. Director of the Poor: This wound up the nominations, and Private Samuel ➢Lorton, of the Ist Pennsylvania caval ry received it. All of the nominations were made unanimously, and it will be observed that the entire ticket is composed of sol diers, and that there is a very fair sprinkling of privatesoldiers among the nominees. After the recess the Committee on Res olutions reported the following, which were adopted with great unanimity: The Democratic party of Allegheny county, in Delegate Convention assem bled, do hereby resolve : Ist. That the platform of resolutions adopted by the recent Democratic State Convention receivesourhearty approval and support, applying, as it does, to the present dangerous emergency of our Union (an emergency recognized by the Federal Executive, and regarded by him as created within the Republican party,) those great and sufficient con stitutional truths and measures es tablished by the founders of our govern ment, and steadily maintained by the Democratic party for the common con servation of the Union and the Consti tution, which we hold to be now and forever one and inseparable. Second, That the late Republican Convention of this county having made the broad declaration of policy to guar-, antee, by Federal constitutional enact ment, the elective franchise to persons of color, we accept the issue, with Presi dent Johnson, here taken by the Re publican party, and do emphatically declare that we believe the white to be the superior race of this continent; that we are hostile to inaugurating a new era based on negro suffrage and political equality with the white, that this gov ernment was founded by white men alone, who, in the engrafted language of the framers of the Constitution, ordain ed and established it " to ourselves and our posterity;" and we appeal to our fellow citizens, overall(' above questions of mere temporary issue, to declare with us by their ballots that the white race must, govern America. 3d. That President Johnson, in his declared views of reconstruction, shall receive our. cordial and enthusiastic co- operation. -1111. Thatour army and navy in nobly lighting for the preservation and integ rity of the Union, haveseeureditsgrand blessings for generations of the future, entitling them to our warmesegratitude, and, to all time, their heroic deeds will emblazon and beautify the pages of our country's history. sth. That (len. W. \V. H. Davis, and Col. John P. Linton, our State nomi nees, are worthy standard-bearers in a glorious cause, and as they have stood by their country's flag in many a well fought- held, so we will rally to their support in the:great contest of October next. Resolved, That Western Pennsyl vania, under a just assignment of po litical honors, is entitled to indicate the next Governor of our State; and that the interests of the people of this part of the Commonwealth would be promoted, and their pride and their affections alike gratified in the nomination of George W. Cass for that office. We are glad here to record our confidence in his po litical purity, and our high sense of his private excellence, and to ask our fellow Democrats throughout the Common wealth to confirm our choice. After which the Convention adjourned in harmony. "Loyal" Pennsylvanians at Washington. A few days since the telegraph an nounced the fact that the "loyal Penn sylvanians" at Washington had been holding meetings in reference to the coming election. It was announced that they wet e all coming home to vote. The railroads were to carry them for half fare. The Washington Constitu tional Union thus happily hits off these fellows : There are a number of " stay-at homes," holding public positions in this capital, hailing from the Keystone State, who advertise themselves as "loyal Pennsylvanians." This is not only re freshing but rich, rare, and racy. These poor devils, whose Sl2OO per year just manages to keep them from asking alms, sticking themselVes up as something more holy than'the holy. Their knees are even now shaking with the fear that others may call themselves more "loyal" than they, and oust them from their picayune positions, and for the purpose of holding their places they herald themselves as the pinks of loyalty. A little over a year ago, the enemy knocked at the gates of this city for entrance, which so frightened these " loyal Penn sylvanians," that the report of a mus ket now keels them over with fear. We saw no " loyal Pennsylvanians " in the trenches, at that time, but the " boys in blue," from the Sixth corps. They were the " loyal Pennsylvanians "—getting their 511; per month instead of 5110, like these bogus " loyalists." About the amount of the matter is, the " loyalty " of these chaps is only skin deep, and they are in consequence, not to be trusted. There are thousands of sol diers now out of business, who are com petent to fill any clerkship in the gift of the heads of the different Bureaus, and they should be appointed at once in place of these " loyal " electioneering soldiers, who fight with paper bullets. We would like to ask these "loyal Pennsylvanians," whether they are for the Administration or for Chase and his Jacobins '."l' They cannot serve two mas ters at the same time. A Negro Kills a White Man On the evening of the al inst., says a dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, a negro soldier in an altercation with a white man at Cairo, 111., whom he alleges struck him, drew his bayonet, and pur suing his assailant, who fled in the presence of the weapon, caught up with him in a house near by the scene of the dispute, where he knocked him down and literally transfixed him to the floor with it, killing him almost instantly. The murderer was arrested and lodged in prison. Theaffair originated with the negro, who very insolently jostled the man, whose remonstrance provoked him to murder. Set this negro, whose hands are red with a white man's blood, at liberty and give him the ballot. "Amid the gal lantry, the patriotism, the heroism of the war, the negro bears the palm," the Abolitionists declare, therefore, he is entitled to the utmost consideration at. the hands of his friends. He killed an innocent white man. Was it a blow for freedom ? THE following is the resolution voted down by the Republican State Conven tion of Minnesota: Resoltvi, That we recognize in the civil and military acts of Andrew John son, as they stand out before the world during the darkest period of the nation's trial, the fearless patriot, the able states man, the honest man ; and that we pledge to his wise and patriotic meas ures for the restoration of the UniOn our cordial support. —The troops that have been garrisoning Mississippi are assembling at Vicksburg, preparatory to going North. Reply of Judge - Holt to Hr. Blair—Letters from General Stott and Preston King. The Philadelphia Press of Thursday publishes Judge Holt's reply to the charges made by Montgomery Blair, in his speech at Clarksville, Mary- Judge Holt says: affirm.most solemnly that I never made, or was in any manner a party to, "an armistice with the rebel secre tary." I never signed, or was in any way a party to an "agreement that no act of war would take place on the part of the United States during Mr. Buchan an's term ;" nor do I believe that any such agreement with Davis, or with anybody else, signed by the Secretary of the Navy, was authorized by Mr. Buchanan, or ever existed. I assert most positively, that there never was a day during the period referred to, when the President was not perfectly free to perform his duty, and his whole duty, in defense of the forts and other property of the United States, and to open fire from the forts whenever in his judgment their safety demanded it. Having made this full denial, I call, and I think the country will unite with me in e.alling on Mr. Blair to produce that' agreement," that "armistice with the rebel secretary," or offer some satis factory evidence that it exists, or has existed. CORRESPONDENCE WITH GEN. SCOTT. Mr. Blair, continuing his line of ac cusation, says: " It was in deference to him (Secre tary Seward) that General Scott recom mended the surrender of Fort Sumter, because the giuneral, during the previous administration, had wished to reinforce it, and had been refused permission to do so by Mr. Holt then Secretary of War." The following correspondence will show the groundlessness of this accusa tion : • - - POINT, N. Y. , Sept. 4, 1:455 Hon. Jo.vph Holt, DEAR SIR: In reply to your inquiry, it gives me great pleasure to say that during the last two or three months of Mr. Bu chapati's Administration, that is, from the moment (December 30) that you became Secretary of War, being myself then in Washington as General-in-Chief of the army, and daily in official communication with you, I found you a steady and efficient opponent of secessionism, and prompt, as far as permitted, in common with the Hon. Mr. Stanton, appointed Attorney General nine days before, and the Hon. Mr. Dix, made Secretary of the Treasury about Jan uary 12, in doing everything in your power to preserve and vindicate our happy Union. With great esteem, yours truly, WINFIELD SCOTT. ==l But Mr. Blair further says of me Simultaneously with his refusal to per mit succors to Sumter, and his armistice with the rebel secretary, he refused his sanction to a bill introduced into the Senate by Mr. L'reston King to authorize the Union men in the South to organize them selves under the authority of the United States, refusing thus to allow them to de fend themselves. Having no remembrance whatever of the subject matter of this charge, I addressed a note to the lion. Preston King , asking what had been my action in regard to it, to which he replied us follows: N Ew YORK, September 4, 1865. lion. ,Joseph Holt: DEAR Si It : Your letter of September 1 is received. Mr. Blair drafted a bill which he desired should be considered in the Senate. I deemed your opinion respecting its pro visions essential, and I submitted the lull to you. You read it, and we conversed re specting it. You did not think well of the bill, and I did nothing further respecting it. Yours, respectfully, PRESTON K !NO. IMI=C! Yet again Mr. (fair says of we: lie had, while Post inasi cr-t ;etieral,',written and pub lixho,l a letter dated :mit of November, is6o, List ryin g the rebellion, and he then makes extracts from this letter with a view of sup porting the interpretation thus given to it. The sul,Mined correspondence i!; submitted as disposing of one branch of this charge: WAsittx,aoN, September S, Ist3s. ('of. 7100 : DEAR Sin: The I lon. Montgomery Blair, in a speech recently delivered by him at Clarksville, Maryland, when referring to myself, used this language: "l le had, while Postnee.ter-fieneral, written and published a letter dated Goth of November, 1860, justi fying the rebellion." Mr. Blair then makes extracts frour this letter, which was a strict ly private and confidential one, and was published wholly without my authority or k now ledge. That it was thus surreptitious ly published WaS made known at the time to uuuty of my personal friends—yourself included—and I have reason to suppose that this fact was subsequently communi cated by you—then occupying a responsible position in the Postoffice Department—to l‘lr. Blair, then Postmaster tleneral. would thank you to state whether you made such a conummication to him, and, if so, under what circumstances. Very respectfully, your obt., servant, J. Hour W. 1,111 NO TON CITY, Sept. 9, Istirr. T the Ron. .1. 'Jolt.- " DEARSIR: I have a distinct recollection that on the publication of the letter refer red to in your note of the Bth instant, I had incidentally a conversation with you on the subject, in which you told me that the letter was a private one addressed in reply to a clergyman of Pittsburg, Pa., and was pub lished without your consent or his. You at the same time expressed to me Your strong wish that every pretext should be removed by the people of the North for the rebellious spirit then manifesting itself among South ern politicians. Afterwards, when the pub lication of that letter was mentioned in my presence, I generally took occasion to state what I knew about it; and it being made the subject of conversation one day in the Postniaster-Ueneral's room, between Mr, lilair and two or three others, when I was present, 1 explained the circumstances of publication, and was therefore surprised when recently I observed in the Clarksville speech of Mr. Blair a statement that the letter was published by you. I am, respectfully, your obedient servant, THOS. P. TnoTT. A Triumph of Negro Suffrage The Cleveland Leader, the leading Republican newspaper of Northern Ohio, speaking of the result of the Maine election, says: " This triumph is a triumph for negro suffrage. This was the only question in issue before the people of Maine. The Democracy acknowledged the abolition of slavery and endorsed the policy of President, Johnson. The Union men made the campaign openly and fairly on the principle that the ballot should 'be granted to all freemen everywhere. Of course there were some timorous gentlemen in Maine, as well as in Ohio, who were terrified at the idea of going before the people upon the issue, and predicted all manner of ruin to the party ! What has been the result? The people of Maine have endorsed the principle of negro suffrage, and en dorsed it, too, by a majority much greater than was given to the Union party at the previous election." Should Pennsylvania be carried by the Abolitionists this fall the triumph' will be claimed as a triumph of negro suffrage, and the Cleveland Leader and other Abolition newspapers will so ex ultingly announce it. Are the conserva tive masses of this State prepared to make such a record for Pennsylvania? If they are not, they must rally as one man to the support of the white man's ticket. Every vote cast for Hartranft and Campbell will be very properly claimelli by the Abolitionists as a vote in favor of negro suffrage and negro equality. Let every voter who is op posed to degrading his own race to the negro remember this. Another Gigantic Swindle. _ . . Another swindle of the heaviest pro portions is being discovered and ex posed ; that of the Union Pacific Rail way, to which Congress guarranteed millions of bonds. The company ,way to get so much money in bonds, on the completion of certain sections of the road. They were completed in this wise —we quote from the N. Y. World : " The Pacific railroad bill required that the road constructed shall be "first class." That which the government is now asked to accept is said to be hardly a fifth-rate road, and that it lacks near ly all the appurtenances for being one at all. In general character, it beats the famous Ramshorn road, of Michigan, all hollow. The grades are what engi neers humorously style " undulating '" that is, they follow the surface. The curves are short and frequent, and Ho garth's " waving lines' are nothing compared to them. Within a few weeks after the commissioners visited it, all bridges on the line gave way and went on a voyage down the river. It remains to be seen whether the government, this time, is going to allow itself to be im posed upon and mulcted, and the same old story of inefficiency, to say nothing worse, repeated." This is the way " the commerce of Europe, Asia and Africa" is to be car ried across "the continent," under the wise provisions of Abolition legislation. Negro Suffrage Amendment In Connec- Address of the DemOrratle State Central Committee To o.6,Z:teeters of Connecticut: YOu are - called on the first. Monday of October next, to vote upon the proposed amendment to the Constitution of this State, changing an important feature in the ancient policy of the State, and in troducing a new praetice, designed for the advantage of a political faction, and not for the welfare and advancement of the commonwealth. It is proposed to strike the word "white" from that clause of the Constitution regulating the qualifications of electors. The object of the projectors of this change is to admit to the elective franchise, the Indians, negroes, mulattoes, etc., that have been excluded by the wise policy of our fath ers. Our ancestors came here from Eu rope, and formed a government for them selves. They did not admit the Indians to a participation in its privileges and benefits. In course of time, the African was brought here a slave. He was re. garded as of a distinct and inferior race, and was held to service by the purest men of the time. At length Connecti cut determined to discontinue involutary servitude, but not with aview of raising the negro and Indians to citizenship. They looked with disfavor upon any thing tending to break down the bar rier between the races. One of our ablest judges has decided that a negro was not and could not be a " citizen ;" he was not a part of the governing race. About fifty years ago, a few of the towns took advantage of the absence of State law prohibiting it, and admitted a few negroes to citizenship. The Legislature promptly put an end to the practice, and the Constitutional Conven tion adopted a clause making it a part of the fundamental law of the State that CONNECTICUT IS GOVERNED I3Y WHITE MEN. The people have been asked two or three times tochange the Constitution in thisparticular, but have refused by, decisive majorities. Now they are again called upon to tamper with the elective franchise—the bul wark of American liberty—in a man ner that has proved fatal to overy coun try where it has beep tried. Look at Mexico and the South American Re publics. is their history to he admired or coveted ? The effect of placing the different races upon an equality has been social admixture and the production of an un stable population. Mexico has bled from successive revolutions, till now a foreign despot has placed his heel upon her. In the States further South, revo lution follows revolution so rapidly as to confuse the mind. We shall not improve our voting pop ulation by the enfranchisement of In dians and negroes, but on the contrary introduce au element of discord and de moralization. Wherever the negro has been relieved of the control and direc tion of the white man, he has not only not shown the equality or superiority claimed for him, but it is yet a question whether he will not relapse into the de graded barbarism from which he has never risen except in immediate contact with and under the control and instruc tion of the white race. The new voters must be made eligi ble to office and social equality, or their elevation to citizenship will be the merest mockery. Is it desirable to do so? Are we ready to put into the field a party distinguished by colorand blood from the rest of the people, and strong enough to act as a balance of power, giving their support to the one that will bow the lowest before them, and bid the highest for their votes! It is said we should make " intelli gence, and not color, the standard of suffrage," and that to make color as well as intelligence the standard is un just. The argument is specious and untenable. The present standard is in several respects quite as arbitrary as in color. We do not permit young men a day younger than 21 years to vote, how ever intelligently and completely edu cated. Nor do we permit females the privilege, of any age or degree of intel ligence. The exclusion of the colored man and Indian, is therefore no special hardship, and cannot be regarded as unjust, unless the other cases mentioned are to be placed in the same category. The rule existing has been established as the result of the experience of many generations, sound policy having settled as just and expedient the exclusion of females, minors, and the inferior races. They are considered as adequately rep resented by the adult white men of the Statb. It is necessary to have a fixed rule—to draw the lines at some well defined points, and it is impossible to devise better than those already estab lished—age, sex and race. The claim for the extension of the elective franchise to Indians, negroes, &c., on the score of "justice," is based on the fact that a few regiments of ne groes were organized and served during the latter part of the late civil war. I f we admit for the sake of argument, the extravagant claims put forward regard ing the prowess and achievements of these troops, they do not furnish a claim upon the State for the privilege asked—not by them, but by partisans who hope to use them for their own sel fish purposes. The argument, if good for anything, can include only those who actually served in the army. The negro soldier did not earn additional privileges for all his relations and friends—all who happen to be ,of the same race and color. No such claim is advanced in behalf of the white soldier. Why not as reasonably insist that a white soldier, by military service, has earned citizenship for his minor brothers, friends, and female relations? There was no understanding on the part of the negro soldiers when they en listed. By the importunity of the men who now set up this claim for them, they were admitted into the army, and were promised certain pay and bounties from the Federal and State Govern ments. They have received what was promised them for their services, and it is preposterous to say that they are en titled to additional remuneration. They have as good a claim for an additional amount of pay in money, as for an in crease of political privileges on account of their services. The white soldiers do not ask or expect anything more than they were promised at the outset, and nobody claims it in their behalf. Wherein is it " unjust" to treat the black and white soldiers alike? Have the services of the negro soldiers been so pre-eminently valuable to the coun try—have they shown such a superiority of valor, patriotism and endurance as to entitle them to be singled out for es pecial favor? It is claimed that because a few thou sand colored men have been induced to enter the army, therefore all colored men, including the ignorant- and de graded plantation negroes of the South, should be at once admitted to the ballot box. And the decision of Connecticut will have an important bearing upon the question in other States. The men who are urging this innovation here are clamoring for the adoption of measures by the President and Congress to force the Southern States to admit their late slaves to the electivefranchise. By their help it is hoped to control those States in opposition to the wishes of the intel ligent and educated people thereof.— The example of Connecticut, if she yields to this clamor, is to be used to help on the scheme for the regulation of the Southern States. The whole movement is in the interest of a faction, and is urged without regard to the wel fare of the black man or the country at large. We quota sentence in point from a Republican journal: " If we [the Republican party] desire success next Spring, or in the next Con gressional or Presidential campaigns, it will be well to take care that we do not throw away from fifteen hundred to two thousand votes by sheer apathy and negligence." All the talk about `J-pstice to the •negro," " wise policy,"&c., becomes transparent in the light shed by the above extract. It is for " success in the next Congressional or Presidential elec tions," that they are seeking to debauch the elective franchise. This is the bribe held out to men of their own party who revolt at the idea of breaking down the barriers established by the Almighty between the two races. They are urged to disregard their scru ples, because "success" may thus be se cured. Are the honest men of the Re publican party to be bought so cheaply ? Are they ready to discard their convic tions of right for so despicable an object? Are their chances of future success so desperate that they must resort to such means—musttamper with the very foun tain of liberty to obtain it? We cannot believe that the hundreds of indepen dent Republicans who have declared their determination to vote against this demagogical scheme will be induced to stultify themselves by a suggestion which assumes their utter disregard of every consideration but the tempOrary success of their party. Fellow-citizens; We do not ask you to take, from the colored men or. any of the privileges they haVe heretofore enjoyed in the State. We would put no new hardship upon them —ive would secure the protection 'of our laws and the benefits of our institutions. We would have them treated with kind ness and civility, and not made to answer for the unfortunate champicZti ship of their unscrupulous and am bitious "friends." Instead of thrusting them forward as the butt for ridicule, contempt and violence, we would permit them to dwell among us undisturbed by the clamors of political excitement, and free from the burdens attendant upon citizenship. We would do " jus tice " by treating them with no greater partiality than the other classes of pop ulation that have always been excluded from the ballot box. The black man doesn't ask for the privileges attempted to be thrust upon him. He is content to enjoy the blessings and protection of government, without being called upon to share its burdens. It is from no feel ings of kindness to the negro that these demagogues would thus drag him into the arena of politics. The sentiment of hostility toward him will beaggravated by this clamor in his behalf, and instead of increasing his welfare and happiness will bring upon him the fate of the red man. The friends of this measure claim to be confident of success; but their ap peals to the baser feelings of their party prove their trepidation, and we know from actual observation that it only re quires.a full vote of those opposed to the scheme to insure its overwhelming de feat. The soldiers who have lately re turned from the army are almost to a man strenuously opposed to it—and they have had as good an opportunity as the stay-at-home wire-pullers to judge whether the negro soldiers have earned promotion for their whole race. We only ask that there shall be a full vote on this question—confident that the good people of Connecticut will settle it as it ought to be settled. JAMES GALLA (1:1- . 11.:R . , Chairman Gnats Buzzing, Around Cot. W. W. H. Davis, and are Crushed—The Colonel Is Tempted to Shoot at Sonic Very Small Game—But Ile Brings it Down. DOYLESTOWN, PA., Sept. 16, 1865, EDITORS OF THE AGE • My attention has been called to the following article, published in the Press, of your city, of the 15th inst., viz : The I Fa rrisburg Telegraph says: Col. W. W.. 11. Davis, the Copperhead candidate for Auditor General, has now resumed full charge Mlle Doylestown Democrat, a news paper which he has owned for many years, and which heretofore and now sympathizes with the rebels. The peculiar force of the Democrat, since Col. Davis has returned to preside over its columns; consists in assert ing that the rebels have not been whipped ; that they should be received back to the Union with all their rights restored ; that slavery is not and can never be abolished, and that, in justice to the rebels, the debt which they incurred in struggling for their "rights" is as legal as the debt which was piled on the people by the national authori ties while waging a crusade on the ptiople of the South ; and if the national debt is to be paid, so also must the debts of the Sout hern States be liquidated. Mendacity cannot go beyond this.— All that is printed above is a stupendous LIE, from beginning to end. I never thought, uttered, or advocated such sen timents, nor were they ever published in the Democrat. In a late issue of the Harrisburg Telegraph that paper also charges me with opposing the amend went to the Constitution giving soldiers the right to vote. This is as base a LIE as the other. At the time of the elec tion I was at Danville, suffering from a severe wound, but made it my business to go to Doylestown to vote, and voted for the amendment. The Bucks Coun ty Intelligencer of the 4th of August, 1564, said : " Cleneral John Davis, of Southampton, and his son, Col. W. W. 11. Davis, both voted openly for the amendment." The Doylestown Deim )(Tat did not oppose the amendment. The Bucks County Lite/Nile/co., the Republican organ of this county, is the only news paper in Bucks, to my knowledge, that everopposed the right of soldiers to vote, The following article is from that paper of November 12, 1861, viz: The State law of Pennsylvania, providing for the holding of elections in military en campments, though doubtless enacted with good motives, has been productive of great evil and contention. Until the October election, there had never been an opportu nity of testing its operations. Voting was then carried on inmost of the Pennsylvania regiments at the seat of war, or encamped elsewhere at a distance from home. in many cases the votes were honestly received and counted and the result properly certi fied and returned to the legal authorities. In others, and particularly in the regiments partly or wholly formed in Philadelphia, the elections were conducted in a most shameful and rascally manner. Some of the regimental returns show hundreds of votes for candidates on yue ticket, while those of opposite politics regeive few or none. As the result In the city itself was doubtful and the candidates were likely to be-elected or defeated by the army vote, there were strong inducements offered for corrupt pol iticians to practice their villainous arts. It now seems probable that title difficulties thus raised will have to be settled by the courts, at the ett,:i or great labor and much time. We hope the Legislature W..tl prevent such. EVIL in future by the '1 VITAL ABOLI TION OF Ei,ECTIONS IN CAMP. I cannot account for the malignant hostility of the editor of the Harrisburg Tdcgraph toward me, except because my grandfather was one of the soldiers that captured the Hessians at Trenton in 1776. Mr. Bergner is very loth to for— get old grievances. W. W. H. DAVIS Two Preachers in Chicago Visit the. Theatre, and are Arrested as Pick-- pockets. The Chicago 771/leB of the Bth inst.. says: Last evening at the museum, during. the performance of " Speed the Plough," a gentleman in the audience announced to the attendants that he had been rob bed of $5OO. The detectives were put: on the scent, and began eyeing inquisi tively every countenance in the theatre, At length Mr. C. M. Edwards, superin tendent of the museum, discovered a couple of "gay and festive pals," with eye-glasses and canes, twirling their moustaches in the utmost fashionable abandon, and apparently with much experience in the business. His quick eye discovered that the hair was un naturally long, and that it sat rather too jauntily on the face to be the result of nature. He therefore informed the detectives, and the two fellows were " pulled " and taken into a private room. On searching them, what was the horror of the officers to find beneath the gay whiskers and flashing aireaiipins two clergymen, who had dis guised themselves for •the purpose of indulging in a little " unlawful and un holy amusement." One of them had oil an enormous false moustache, and was fixed up in themost recherchestyle, regardless of expense. The other wore a thin mark over the lower part of his face, which completely disguised his features. Papers of a theological char acter were found on their persons, but this was unnecessary, as they made a full confession, and begged to be dis charged ; saying that they only desired to see what the theatre was like, in order that they might teach their re spective flocks to shun such evil places. One of these theatrical clergymen speeds his Sabbaths in preaching to a Chicago audience; the other (and, thank heaven, Chicago has not to father them both) is a minister from the country, who has left his flock for a few days to visit the State Fair—and the Theatre. The Freedmen Around Washington. General Howard has been devoting most of his time for three or four days past, in investigating the condition of the freedmen in and around Washing ington .T here are, probably, fifteen thous and of this class in the city and vicinity. They are not fed at government ex pense, but a supervising eye is kept on them by the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau. Of course, when General Howard goes among them, the freed men endeavor to show in the most at tractive manner—so that the great hearted official goes away with the belief that the Government pets are getting on swimmingly. The young females of the settlement appear in fine linen ; and it would require closer in vestigation than any moral gentleman would be willing to make to discover their means of procuring the good clothes. Muscular black men, whose statements to the bureau that they have employment are utterly untrue, are, growing fat and spending money in .a manner astounding to all who omit reading the records of the police court. Petty crime and licentiousness among the freedmen of both sexes are fearfully on the increase in this city, as is shown by the daily police reports. The pets are succeeding admirably in pulling the wool over the eyes of their working friends. .
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