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NVOI*DAY, SEPT. ` e, 1865
" Thir imintingpreases shalt be free_ thliverr
person• who tendertaltes to extenthe the - Pro
ceedings of the legislature, or any. ; branch of
government; tend no law shall eveibe
to restrain the righ t thereat The free *admit
nication of tho ugh t and opinions is one of the
invaluable righ of;_ and every citizen
may fr eely speak, Write arid print on any sub
ject ; being responsible for the abase of that ,
liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of
papers investigating the official conduct of
CCM, or Merlin preb .capacities, or where the
matter published is proper for public informa
tion, the truth thereof may be given In evi
dence." • .
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL -
COI: •W. W. IL DAVIS, of Boat County.
FOB SURVEYOR GENEE4I,
Col. JOHN P. LINTON, of Cambria Co.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET
ASSEMBLY.
Capt. DANIEL HERR, Columbia,
Lieut. J. S. ROATH, East Donegal,
Lieut. GEORGE P. DEICHLER, City,
Lt. C. A. LICHTENT Fr A FLER, Warwick
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
COL F. S. PYFER,
COTINTT TREASURER.
Capt. J. MILLER RAUB, Providence
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
JOHN HESS, Conestoga.
PRISON INSPECTORS.
Private JAMES HENRY, Columbia,
WM. CARPENTER, Lancaster Twp
DIRECTORS OF THE POOR.
Lieut. LEWIS ZEO.HER, City,
GEORGE G. BRUSH, Manor,
GEORGE H. PICKEL, Bert, (I.year.)
COUNTY SURVEYOR
JOHN B. ERB, Warwick.
AUDITOR.
J. W. SHAEFFER, West Donegal
Meeting of the Democratic State Central
, Committee.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COM. ROOMS, I
PRILA.DELPHLA, Sept. 19, 1865. J
A meeting of the Democratic State Cen
tral Committee will he held at the St.
Charles Hotel, Pittsburg, on SATCRD.&Y,
the 3Gth day of September, 1865, at 2 P. H.
Punctual attendande is requested.
W3l. A. WALLACE,
Chairman State Central Committee
To the People of Pennsylvania
DEMOCRATIC S PH TATE CENTRAL
lA, CO3l. ROOMS,
ILADELPH S ept. 19, 196 a.
You are upon the eve of a most important
election.
136th -political organizations have an
nounced their platforms, and presented
their candidates for your suffrages.
The Democratic party distinctly affirms
its support of the policy of reconstruction
adopted by President Johnson, and an
nounces its opposition to negro suffrage and
negro equality,
Upon these, the real issues of the canvass,
the Republican platform is ambiguous, its
candidates are mute, its central authority
is silent.
We believe that it is your right to know
their sentiments, and that they who seek
your support should be frank in the ex
pression of their opinions.
Can you sustain the President by voting
for those who refuse to endorse his policy?
Will you hazard the superiority of your
race by voting for those who are unwilling
to proclaim their belief in the inferiority of
the negro ?
DEMOCRATS OF PENNSYLVANIA!
Press home upon your antagonists the
vital issues of the campaign.
Through the press and on the rostrum, in
the field and in the workshop, demand that
they shall answer.
Are you for or against President John
son's policy of reconstruction?
Are you for or against negro suffrage and
negro equality?
By order of the Democratic State Central
Committee. WILLIAM A. WALLACE,
Our County Ticket
Our county ticket is composed of ex
cellent men and true. The claims of
the citizen soldiery have been fully re
cognized. Eight of the candidates have
served their country faithfully on the
tented field.
For the Assembly we have Captain
Daniel Herr, Lieut. Jacob S. Roath,
Lieut. George P. Deichler and Lieut.
Charles H. Lichtenthaler.
Captain Herr was connected for about
eighteen months with the cavalry ser
vice. He assisted in organizing and
making the same the efficient body
which it was during the last two years
of the war. 11l health compelled him
to leave the service.
Lieut. Roath joined the late Col.
Welsh's regiment, the 45th, as a private,
and rose step by step to the position he
occupied when the war closed. He was
a brave, gallant, intelligent and effi
cient officer, and enjoys the respect and
esteem of all who know him.
Lieut. Deichler served from the begin
ning to the end of the war, and ,like Lieut.
Roath, rose from the ranks, having en
listed as a private. He was an officer in
the 69th P. V., and was a member of
Gen. Smith's staff. During the war he
was wounded three times. At the at
tack on Fort Steadman in March last be
was so severely wounded that his life
was desPaired of until a few weeks ago.
He is still suffering from this wound.
No young man from this city made
himself a better reputation as a brave
and intrepid soldier. He is one of the
few survivors of the famous Irish Bri
gade.
Lieut. Lichtenthaler was a brave
and efficient cavalry officer, and partic
ipated in numerous engagements and
skirmishes. He is one of the affable
and gentlemanly hosts of the Litiz
Springs Hotel, with which he has been
connected for over a year past. He is a
young gentleman of education, and
would make a most excellent legislator.
Our candidate for District Attorney,
the brave and gallant Pyfer, is well and
favorably known all over the country.
He first served in the three months
service, then raised a company for the
- 77th, and was afterwards, for meritori
ous conduct, promoted to the Lieutenant
Colonelcy of that regiment. At the
battle of Chickamauga he was taken
prisoner, and was confined in Libby
Prison, at Richmond, for eight months.
He was compelled to leave the service
last spring on account of broken and
shattered health.
The candidate for County Treasurer
is Capt. J. Miller Raub, late of the 122 d
Regiment, P. V. He participated in the
battle of Chancellorville, and made him
self a lasting reputation for gallantry
and bravery in that terrific battle. He
is a gentleman of intelligence and ex
cellent business qualifications, just such
an one as should hold the keys of the
County Treasury.
One of the candidates for Prison In
spector, is Private James Henry, of Co
lumbia, who we understand served his
country all through the late war. We
have not the pleasure of his acquain
tance, and are unable to state to what
regiment - he belonged.
Lieut. Lewis Zecher heads the list for
Directors of the Poor. He enlisted as a
private in the 79th, was made Sergeant
Major, and afterwards promoted to the
Quartermastership of the Regiment,
which responsible position he held all
through the war. He stood high among
, his brother officers and comrades, and is
a young man well fitted to fill any posi
tion in which he may be placed.
The other candidates on the ticket are
all well-known, intelligent and highly
respected. citizens, and it would be an
honor and credit to the county if they
wereehosen to fill the positions for which
they have -been nominated. We may
take occasion to refer to them individu
ally hereafter.
But If w 0 Weekß Remain.
Dernocrats i ef-Lancaster countyrbßt
two short weeks remain in Which to
Prepare for tbOximiiigpalitical'eat4est.
Are you working with • tat aealwhiah
becomes men who, .now arid feel that
great interests are at stake 'he
ent is no ualariportaitt sting*. ~lj_pan'
the result of the'faiit coming "eleo#ibii in
Pennsylvania much,depends. A Demo
cratic triumph in this State will sound
the death knell Of radicalism through
out the nation. The Keystone State is
just now the pivot:upon which popular
sentiment will_ turn. The eyes of, the
_
whole countryare fixed upon_ us. Every
where all true conservative men are
earnestly praying and hoping fOr an old
fashioned democratic triumph in Penn
sylvania. Shall it be achieved? It Is
for the working men of the Party to say.
The victory we desire is within our
grasp. Proper energy and activity will
ensure it to us beyond a peradventure.
We cannot be defeated in the present
contest,except by our ownapathy. A full
Democratic vote is sure to secure us a
majority of thousands. Go to work
then to get out the vote! See to it that
not a man whowillvote the white man's
ticket is left at home ! Work, as be
conies men who desire the triumph of
the right should work, and a glorious
victory will assuredly crown your ef
forts.
Yankee Preachers Again on the War
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher opened
the political campaign in the State of
New York, on last Sunday night, by
making a stump speech from his pulpit
in Plymouth Church in favor of the
Republican candidates. A good part of
his harangue was devoted to the lead
ing theOry of his political friends, negro
suffrage. He claimed suffrage as a right
of the negro, although he might ask it
even on other grounds. He was for uni-
versal suffrage, and would give a vote to
every man that lands on our shores. At
the same time, he believed that . the four
millions of Africans now here could be
better trusted with the ballot than the
Irishmen and foreigners that swarm
here from the old countries. He be
lieved, too, that in withholding thebal-
lot from women we are not acting up to
the spirit of American free institutions.
She should have every civil right that
belongs to the man.
Speaking of negro suffrage, again,
Mr. Beecher said: "God abdicates, and
is false to his attributes, if there is peace
before you settle, that question of right."
He continued to speak of the duty on
the part of the strong to protect the
weak. One of three things must hap
pen to the freedmen—their masters
must take care of them, or we must
take care of them, or they must take
care of themselves. The voice of the
people, speaking as the voice of God,
has decided that their old masters shall
take care of them no longer; and it is
our duty to give them all the rights of
citizenship, that they may be able to
take care of themselves.
The utterances of Beecher, and of the
fangical religious bodies of the North,
are the watchwords of the real leaders
of the Republican party. They only
seem to be a little in advance of the
main body of that organization, because
they speak out more boldly. It is only
a few days since the New York State
Congregational Association n adopted,
among other resolutions, one which de
clares that all distinction of color or
race in the apportionment of civil privi
leges and political franchises should be
swept away, and that the negro ought
to be fully recognized as the equal of
the white man, both in his right to vote
and in regard to his testimony before
the Courts.
Chairman
Similar resolutions, some of them de
cidedly more offensive in tone than the
above, have been adopted by several
Conferences of the Methodist Church,
and by other religious bodies. The
Yankee preachers, and their imitators,
are again on the war path. If the white
men of Pennsylvania would save them
selves from being degraded to a level
with the negro, they mustput their feet
down firmly at once. If the Republican
party triumphs in the coming election
in this State, the triumph will be hailed
as an endorsement of the doctrine of
negro suffrage, for the very good reason
that it is covertly endorsed by the plat
form. Let every white man who has
any pride of race about him remember
this when he goes to the polls to deposit
his vote.
" Straws Show," do
The Chicago Tribune, the leading
Republican paper of the West—says
that " Andrew Johnson's Mississippi
policy, if carried out, will disgrace the
Republican party morally and over
throw it politically." It also speaks
most contemptuously of " the Tennessee
Democrat now in the Presidential
chair."
The above sentiments are identical
with those entertained by Stevens,
Sumner, 'Wilson, Chase, Greeley, and
all the °the"' leading spirits of the Abo
lition or Republican party; and yet, in
some of their State Conventions recent
ly held, they endeavor to draw the wool
over the eyes of their deluded followers
by damning President Jlohnson with
faint praise, and what is still more sur
prising, many of these poor, ignorant
souls delight in being gulled. They
will get their eyes opened when too late
to recede from the brink of ruin towards
which they are being rapidly driven by
their unprincipled and traitorous lead
ers.
Not a Word About Frauds
One astounding and very noticeable
thing in these days is the entire silence
of the Republican press upon the sub
ject of the enormous frauds that have
been constantly occurring in the differ
ent departments of the Government.
An exchange says the immense frauds
that have been perpetrated in the sev
eral departments of the Government by
employees have astounded the tax
payers, but have bad no visible effect
upon the radicals. Scarcely have we
heard a word from them on the sub
ject. Their journals have been silent,
not having sufficient honesty to con
demn what they know is wrong. We
hear of no courts-martial being ordered
to try Government defaulters, but we
certainly would hear of the speedy or
ganization of one if some misguided
soldier should run away with an offi
cer's horse, or a small portion of the
funds taken from the paymaster's chest.
When a quartermaster, a revenue col;
lector, or any other employee of con
siderable prominence in the party, ab
sconds, leaving the Government his
creditor to a fabulous amount, mum is
the word. Rather than expose the de
linquent, the Abolitionists tax the peo
ple an amount sufficient to meet the
amount abstracted from the United
States Treasury. The great object had
in view by radicalism will not permit
questions of ft aud, peculation, taxation,
finance, or civil liberty to interfere with
its speedy accomplishment. It is too
vital to the welfare of the party, and,
therefore, those things must be kept
secret and not divulged on any account.
Attend to the Assessment.
_Remember that Friday is the last day
when any voter can be legally assessed.
The time is short, and the probabilities
are that up to this hour there are num
bers who have neglected to attend to
this essential matter. We again urge
our friends to see to it that every:Demo
crat is duly assessed before Frida,y night.
John Cessna's Address.
That windy and wordy little reneode,
John Cessna, Chairman of the Republi
kita4t, Clip,,ral 'Co lola*
hingthtlyritten ittnd forrl t h
diks ohlmost iiiie • blejength... If
iti seen in full . * fore t Ahe ilectioniby
,TOple'dit the ru st districts It muirbe
ilicubited in iiiinphliV form. It -will
take up twice or three times the number
of columns devoted to reading matter
by the country newspapers, and can
not possibly be - crowded in - by most of
them before the electik. Even the
Harrisburg TilegsaA, the organ of the
party at the State Caidtal, is fain to
content'itself with publishing extracts
not amounting to more than one-third
of this voluminous document. We won
der whether its author has the vanity to
suppose that many people will ever be
found with patience enough to wade
through the • almost interminable
amount of twaddle he has written ? If
he has he will be much mistaken. Most
of the newspapers of the Republican
party will content themselves with
publishing a few of the more scurrilous
portions of this pretentious address, and
the greater part of it will never be seen
by the people.
We are glad that we can assure all
concerned that they will lose nothing
by failing to see a full copy of this docu
ment. It is not in any way remarkable
for ability. On the question of restor
ing the seceded States to the Union, it
is in full sympathy with the radicals,
being but a repetition of the absurd dog
mas announced by Thaddeus Steven
in his Lancaster speech. Unless he had
deserted the Republican State platform,
which he helped to make, Mr. Cessna
could not take any other position than
one of direct and positive hostility to
the reconstruction policy of President
Johnson. Following that platform he
naturally falls into a labored defense of
all the absurd theories of Thad. Stevens.
On the negrosuffragequestion the lit-
tie trimmer has not a single honest
word to say. The doctrine having been
covertly endorsed by the State Conven
tion, he, as Chairman of the Republi
can State Central Committee, did not
dare to repudiate it, nor does he, either
by word or implication. This is most
significant, and should not be lost sight
of.
The above points are all that demand
notice from us. All the balance of this
wordy document is made up of false
statements, and of such scurrilous abuse
of the Democratic party as is to be ex
pected from a:low-bred, vulgar fellow of
John Cessna's antecedents and charac
ter. It is one of the most undignified
public documents ever put forth, and
will be regarded as an unworthy pro
duction by all decent men in the party
of which John Cessna is at once a
neophyte and a would-be leader.
How Long Will Pennsylvania Consent to
be a Dependency of New England?
Beyond doubt Pennsylvania is a great
State; big enough and intelligent
enough to have an opinion and a pub
lic policy of her own. Yet she has been,
for a number of years past, but a mere
political dependency of New England,
a hanger-on to the dirty skirts of
Yankee fanaticism. A set of unprinci
pled political sharpers have bandaged
the eyes of poor, old, patient, Dutch
Pennsylvania; laid burthens upon her
willing back, and led her about as a
sort of pack-horse for the peddling of
' Yankee political wares, which are as
shameful a cheat as were the wooden
nutmegs of Connecticut manufacture.
Under such treatment Pennsylvania
has been as patient and as uncomplain
ing as ever was any beast of burthen.
She has seemed completely to have lost
all spirit, every vestige of au indepen
dent will; and to be perfectly satisfied'
to be made a dependency of Yankee
land ; a mere beast of burthen for her
newly found Yankee masters.
How much longer does Pennsylvania
intend to be content to remain a mere
dependency upon New England? Is it
not high time that there was an end of
this Yankee rule? The Republican
party of this State has never had any
vitality except that derived from its
connection with the radical fanatics of
New England. It has been but a sort
of wriggling tail end to the political
monster whose head and heart have
been enclosed within the rocky barriers
of original Yankee land. Its triumphs
have not been the triumph of Pennsyl
vania ideas or Pennsylvania policy ; but
the triumph of Yankee ideas and Yan
kee politicians, of the Sumners' and
S,Vilsons' of Massachusetts. With itthe
masses of Pennsylvania have never
really been in sympathy. They have
been misled and wheedled into voting
for a party which has degraded and dis
graced the State. It is high time there
was an end of this Yankee Republican
party and of all its misdoings in Penn
sylvania. We believe the people of this
State will throw off the degrading yoke
at the coming election. If they do not,
they will show that they are destitute
of proper self-respect and of all State
pride.
WHEN General Slocum heard of his
nomination by the Democrats of New
York as their candidate for Secretary of
State, he promptly resigned his position
in the army.
Brigadier General Hartrauft, the Re
publican nominee for Auditor General
in this State, has not resigned. He is
still drawing his pay at the rate of
53,600 per annum, while he is stump
ing the State against the restoration
policy of the President, and in favor of
negro equality.
Will the people make a note of this?
It shows the difference between the De
mocratic idea of duty and the Republi
can idea of the same thing.
The Pioneer State
Massachusetts has been the pioneer
State in the Abolition movement from
the commencement of the agitation.
She is Still recognized as the leader of
the column. Henry Ward Beecher's
paper, the Independent, thus compli
ments her on her position :
"Massachusetts, as usual, leads the
column. She not only preaches, but
practices. While other States are de
bating whether they shall give their
colored fellow-citizens the right of suf
frage, and yet others are doing all they
can to shun this right, she admits them
without remark to positions and honor.
Two MEN OF COLOR sat in the State Re
publican Convention at Worcester last
week—a lawyer and a minister. The
minister was made one of the Vice Pres
idents. Let Connecticut not foolishly
resist the incoming sentiment, but en
dorse it heartily, by repealing her un
brotherly law, and New York get ahead
of Massachusetts by putting Frederick
Douglas on her State ticket, on his way
to the seat in Congress that he shall yet
occupy. Then she will be worthy of
her motto, "Excelsior," and surpass
her Eastern rival in thesegood works."
The difference between the Indepen
dent and the Abolitionists of Pennsyl
vania is rather nominal than real. The
editor of that journalspeaksoutplainly,
while here the issue is only shirked. It
is not repudiated. The State platform
has not one word to say against it,
neither has John Cessna in his inter
minable address. The radicals of Mas
sachusetts and of Pennsylvania are
brothers. A triumph of the Republican
party:of this State in the coming elec
tion would be justly claimed as a tri
umph of the most radical ideas of that
revolutionary organization. Every vote
.cast for Hartranft and Campbell will be
counted as a vote in favor of negro suf
•frage and negro equality. Let every
voter remember this whett be goes to
the polls.
The New, York Republican State Woven
41on Declares in Favor of Negro Sur
raW.
Itiani.Repttblicans to-this State still
ainy that Weir party - le pledged te the
adious tinctrine of negro suffrage. They
have tire audaelty to-do so, notiiith
atandh4 the „fact that the theory:has
,been endorsed by a majority of the State
Conventions recently held by their
party, while it has not been repudiated
by:a single one. They persist in the lie
to shield their party from odium in spite
of the fact that negro
,suffrag , e is openly
advocated by a large majority of Re
publican newspapers, and not condemn
ed by any of them. Had anything been
wanting to give the lie to the words of
all who deny thatthe Republican party
is unequivocally committed 4i the
odious doctrine, That want has been
supplied by the action of the Republi
can State - Convention of New York. It
has pronounced itself as opposed to re
ceiving the revolted States back into the
Union except upon condition of there
granting the right of suffrage to the
negroes.
Resolution 5 contains the negro hid
den in the fence, and with all the wool
possible shaved off
Resolved, That while we regard the
national sovereignty over all the sub
jects committed to it by the Constitu
tion of the United States as having been
confirmed and established by the recent
war, we regard the several States in the
Union as having jurisdiction over all
local and domestic affairs, expressly re
served to them by the same constitu
tional authority ; and that whenever it
'shall be deemed compatible with the
public safety to restore to the States
lately in rebellion the renewed exercise
of those rights, we trust it will be done
in the faith and on the basis that they
will be exercised in a spirit of equal and
impartial justice, and with a view to the
elevation and perpetuation of the full
rights of citizenship of all their people,
inasmuch as these are principles which
constitute the basis of our Republican
institutions.
This is tolerable straddling; but the
attempt to carry water on both should
ers, to look one way and walk another,
to talk this and mean that, all at once,
can't succeed. It isn't in human nature.
The resolution might have been divided
into several parts, and read thus:
Resolved, That the States have con
trol over all matters not committed to
the Federal Government by the Consti
tubon, but resolved that we won't give
it to them.
Resolvtd, That the States lately in
rebellion shall have their rights restored
whenever we please, if they will agree
to vote the Republican ticket.
Resolved, That we are in favor of ele
sating the negro to the full rights of
citizenship, and that we hope the right
to vote will be considered by our long
haired radicals as a right of citizenship,
but that our short-haired conservatives
will inwardly chuckle. to remember
that the Supreme Court has decided
negroes not to be citizens.
Any one of these would have been in
telligible and clear, but to juggle with
langu'ige and mix them all up into one
mess is worthy of the party "founded
on great moral ideas."
CAI3INET OFFICERS used to attend to
the administration of the affairs of their
respective Departments, and the ablest
of them generally found this as much
as they could do. But Parson Harlan,
of lowa, the present Secretary of the
Interior, is so very much abler than any
of his predecessors, that, in addition to
the discharge of the duties of his office,
he can find time to interfere in the State
elections. From the Washington cor- .
respondence of the Baltimore Sun, under
date of the 19th inst., we learn that—
" At a meeting of the Pennsylvanians
last evening, to arrange to go hOine at
the• ensuing election, a letter was read
from Secretary Harlan, stating that all
desiring to vote would be granted leave
of absence. It is also stated that trans
portation at reduced rates would be fur
nished."
"All desiring to vote " means, as a
matter of course, all desiring to vote the
Abolition ticket. As President Johnson
is supposed to be desirous of narrowing
instead of widening whatever breach
there may be between him and the
Democracy of the North, it might be
well for any of our prominent Pennsyl
vania Democrats who may have access
to his person, to inquire of him how far
Secretary Harlan's impudent inter
ference in our pending election has his
sanction. It would do no harm to ex
tend the inquiry so far as to ascertain, if
that be possible, whether "transporta
tion at reduced rates" means transpor
tation at-governnient expense, as this is
a matter of some importance to tax
payers.
Superiority of Southern Negroes
We have heard much of the tendency
of slavery to degrade the negro, and
have been told constantly of the eleva
tion to come with freedom. All this
seems, however, to have been suddenly
exploded. It appears to be now uni
versally admitted by the abolitionists
themselves that the negro slaves of the
South are infinitely superior in every
respect to free negroes of the North.
John Sampson the negro Editor of the
Cincinnati Colored Citizen, ;who pos
sesses the useful faculty of combining
business with pleasure, has lately been
advertising his business and collecting
subscriptions for his paper in North
Carolina at the same time. At a meet-•
ing held a short time since he said:—
" The colored people of the South.
were infinitely superior in good inten
tions and general politeness and courtes,
to those of the North, and as an illustra •
tion he gave the audience an anecdote
of two school exhibitions he attended ,
one in Mississippi and one in Indiana .
He visited, in his canvassing tour fo: r
subscriptions to his paper, both of these
States, and being requested to attend it
Mississippi a colored school, he was de -
lighted to observe the respect and atten -
tion that he met with from the scholars ,
and the " yes sir" and " no sir" of thei r
replies to questions. He asked one o f
the boys what he wanted to be when h. 5
became a man, and his answer was in •
stantaneous : I intend to be a lawyer ,
sir." Another asked the same ques
tion, preferred to be a "doctor ;" whil
another replied, under the influence o f
extraordinary ambition, " he wanted I')
be the President of the United States.'
In Indiana it was a different feeling tha t
moved the urchins, and their answers,.
although betraying more practicable no
tions, yet showed a less elevated state of
thought, and in their manner of reply,
(invariably omitting the "sir,") denoted!
inferiority of intellect and condition."
How completely that gives the lie to.
all the assertions of the life-long aboli
tionists. The question now to be de
cided is this. Is the superiority of th e
Southern negroes the result of slaver.,r,
and the inferiority of_ the free negroes
of the North the legitimate result of a
freedom for which they are unfitted ?
Will some philanthropist of the negro
loving school please explain?
WE ABE DISPOSED TO BELIEVE that
the Earthquake which-startled the good
people'of this city and neighborhood om
Sunday last, was no earthquake at all,
but only the howl set up by the Stevens
abolitionists (headed by the whole pack
of Bloodhounds of Zion) when they read
the following telegram from Washing
ton:
" Capt. E. J. Scranton, United States
colored volunteers, has been dismissed
the service for miscegenation and max
rying a disreputable colored woman in
Gen. Gilmoie's department."
If a buck nigger is "a Haan and a
brother," we would like to know wheth
er a nigger wench is not a woman and a
sister? And if she is, we would like to
know whether the Stevensmenhaven't
a right to raise a young earthquake (or
rival it by a howl of rage) when one of
their brothers is dismissed the service
for marrying the "sister?"
-Why Wm He Hot Promoted.
- :_:,l l Pe have recently obtained possession
hf record highly honoring our candi
date lir Auditor General, Colonel
H. Davis. It apio . 3trilthat a
=ember of the friends of Colonel Davis
presented his name to the Wiu Depwt.:
went
_for promotion, and accompanied
their recinumendation of the bravesol
dier with an array of testimony as to his
capacity' and conduct as an officer, of
which any man might be proud. The
application was in vain, - however, for
waa not ' Colonel Davis a Democrat?
His long, faithful and efficient service,
his blood shed in the cause, and maimed
body, all were counted as naught, while
such men as Schenck, Banks, &c., were
raised to the " stars." N'imporfe !
The Democracy of Pennsylvania now
present him to the people for promotion
—and to the people we present some of
the testimonials that accompanied the
fruitless application in his behalf to the
War Department. Read !
SILAS CASEY, Brigadier General of
Volunteers, says:
"Colonel W. W. H. Davis, 104th Regi
ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, was under
my command for about nine months, dur
ing a major part of which period he was in
command of a brigade, which he brought
to a state of discipline and efficiency. In
command of his regiment on the 31st of
May, MA at the battle of ' Seven Pinto' he
with his men behaved in the most gallant
manner."
T. SEYMOUR, Brigadier General of
Volunteers, says:
" Colonel Davis served with credit during
the Mexican war; he was one of the first to
step forward in this. As Colonel he has
constantly commanded a brigade, and in
Some of the hardest fought actions of the
war. He has everywhere not only acquit
ted himself with credit, but has acquired
the name of a thoroughly capable and effici
ent brigade commander, and theconfidence
of all with whom he has served."
J. N. PALMER, Brigadier-General of
Volunteers, says
"I have served in the same division with.
Col. Davis anclknow him to bean attentive,
intelligent and zealous commander. His
regiment was one of the best drilled and
best disciplined voltanteer regiments in the
' Army of the Potomac.'"
'ALFRED H. TERRY, Brigadier Gener
al commanding, says, under date of No
vember 29, 1863:
" Colonel Davis has commanded a brigade
almost without interruption since the au
tumn of 1861. He commanded a brigade
of my division during the movement on-
James Island in July last, and during a.
considerable portion of the operations on
this (Morris) Island. He has rendered very
efficient and valuable services and proved
himself a most capable and faithful officer."
S. C. HUNT, Brigadier General of Vol
unteers, says:
" I take pleasure in bearing witness from
my own personal observation to the steady
endurance and gallantry which were dis
played by his regiment under his example
and guidance during the Peninsular cam
paign, and especially at the battle of the
"Seven Pines." Col. Davis' regiment was
drawn up in the advance of Casey's divis
ion, and sustained the first shock of the
overwhelming rebel force."
JOHN PECK, Major General, says:
"Colonel W. W. H. Davis, 104th Regi
ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, served with
his regiment for some months in my divi
sion on the Peninsula. He is a brave and
accomplished soldier."
ORRIS S. FERRY, Brigadier General,
says, (May 12. 1863):
" Colonel Davis received a military edu
cation ; served with credit in the line and
on the staff in the Mexican war; raised a
company, afterwards a regiment and a six
gun battery at the beginning of the present
war; organized the brigade now command
ed by him in November, 1861, and has been
in command of the same ever since, with
the exception of a few months. He has
been twice wounded in action, and every
where has deported himself as a brave
skillful, energetic commander."
R. SAXTON, Brigadier General Volun
teers, writes January 7th, 1864:
"It gives me pleasure.to hear witness to
the fidelity and efficiency of Col. Davis as
an officer. He served for several months
under my command in the capacity of Brig
adier General to my entire satisfaction.
E. D. KEYES, Major General, writes :
"Col. Davis served in the Fourth corps,
under my command, a considerable time on
the Peninsula. I had ample opportunity
to observe his conduct, which at all times
was that - of a brave, energetic and attentive
officer. Moreover, Col. Davis is a gentle
man of high character and intelligence."
Major-General Q. A. GILLMORE, under
date of November 26, 1863, expressed offici
ally his high appreciation of the zeal, intel
ligence and efficiency which had marked
the conduct and service of Col. Davis du
ring the operations against the defenses of
Charleston; and subsequently, on the 26th
of February, 1894' , made an official recom
mendation of Colonel Davis for promotion
to the Brevet of Brigadier General, "for
meritorious service and conspicuous execu
tive ability." Upon the back of a copy of
this official paper, under date of April 30,
1864, the same distinguished officer made
the following endorsement :
" Colonel W. W. H. Davis, 101 th Penn
sylvania volunteers, is an officer of rare
executive and administrative ability as a
commander, and in every way merits the
promotion which I have asked for him.—
His conduct during the time he has served
under my command as a brigade and post
commander, has been uniformly commen
datory." Q. A. GILLMORE,
Major General.
President Johnson Swears!
The New York Anti-Slavery Standard
of Saturday last, in its leading article,
headed " White Reconstruction ?" re
ports President JOHNSON as having
said :
_
" This is a white man's country, and
by God, while I am President it shall
be a white man's Government." And
then exclaims, " It is in such words—
inhuman and atheistic words—that
Andrew Johnson, within a few days,
has announced his convictions and
policy. They were spoken to Governor
Fletcher of Missouri. * * * * * *
The announcement of his purpose is but
the reaching of the point whither he has
been tending since the first fatal steps
of his administration—the North Caro-
ling proclamation."
That President Johnson should have
the hardihood to assert that this is a
white man's country is shocking, in
deed, to the nerves of the radicals ; but,
for him to have sworn a solemn oath,
that while he is President this shall be
a white man's Government is, in their
estimation, unmitigated Copperhead
ism, if not downright treason. No
wonder the Anti-Slavery Standard is
sorely exercised. We apprehend the
radicalg will find Andrew Johnson a
most impracticable character. Relying
upon the muses for support he will not
heed their howling, but will pursue the
even tenor of his way. Meantime it is
the duty of every conservative voter in
this State to do his best to set the seal
of condemnation upon the radical plat
form of the Republican party.
ONE SINGLE ISSUE is before the North
ern people for their judgment and de
cision in the fall elections. That issue
is simple, clear and unmistakable. Shall
President Johnson's policy and plan for
the immediate restoration of the Union
succeed or not? It is the question of
Union or practical Disunion. The Dem
ocratic party say Union ; the Radicals
-in the opposition—old foes with new
faces—say Disunion. The pivot of all
our politics is this. Otherquestions are
important, but this is chief. President
Johnson and the Democratic party de
sire to restore the old order of things—
the Union, local self-government, and
the authority of civil law at once. The
Radicals wish to perpetuate social dis
order and military domination, for the
sake of wreaking their passions and
their hate upon the Southern people,
and for the sake of accomplishing a so
cial revolution which shall put into
their hands permanently the political
power, Hopeless of retaining by the
votes of white men the power which
they have abused, they desire to dis
franchise Southern whites and enfran
chise Southern blacks, and to become
themselves the negroes' new masters.
THOSE having relatives buried in the
South, whom they wish to have brought
home, should remember that all appli
cations for transportAtion to and from
Virginia, for the removal of the dead
bodies, of Pennsylvania soldiers for bur
ial within this State, should be address
ed to Col. Charles F. Gregg, Chief of
Transportation, Harrisburg, Pa.
!tie Prospect
Our exchanges from all parts of the
Sbge bring us most cheering news of
their-prospects in the coming election.
Everywhere the Peincieratic-party is
alive to .its, duty, and ready and eager
for the coming contest. ', .Take the fol
lowing item from a Schiiirlkill paper as
a sample. The Advocate says;
During the past few weeks we had an
opportunity of conversing freely with
Democrats from all portions of the coun
ty, who were in attendance atcourt, and
we are gratified to learn that our breth
ren in the country are fully inspired
with zeal, vigilance and industry, which
are necessary to secure success at the
polls. We heard it frequently remark
ed that Old Democratic Schuylkill never
looked better 11:y the good old cause—
that all the townships give signs of im
provement on the vote of last fall—that
our strong holds: are vieing with each
other in the good fight—that the most
timid of our friends have-grown bold—
and that the idle have become untiring,
and the sleepy have grown vigilant.—
Right gallantly have the Democracy
began the work—right gallantly will
they prosecute it to a successful issue.
The same tone of energy and confident
resolve prevails throughout the State.
In the meantime our enemies are de
spondent, and full of well-grounded
fears. Their ranks are broken andtheir
hosts dispirited. Nothing but our own
neglect to do our whole duty can pre
vent our triumphing gloriously. Let
every Democrat do his work faithfully
and all will be well.
The Soldiers at Rome—Their Influence.
During the past summer nearly a mil
lion men have'returned to their homes
from the army. They are the most pa
triotic men in the community. The
soldier, wherever you see him, is the
one man in twenty .who was ready to
give his life for his country, and.went
out to do it. He is the one who laid
aside all his ordinary pursuits, while
the others thought about it; and his
patriotic sacrifices and endeavors, his
trials, his triumphs, have only made
him ove the country still more, and he
comes home a more earnest patriot than
he was when he went.
These men care but little for the quib
bles of the politicians or the terrible
wordy wrath of the radicals. Nigger
suffrage does not vex their souls. They
were willing that Sambo should have a
chance to be shot, and will, perhaps,
not stand in the way of his securing an
equivalent privilege. But there is one
point on which they are positive, and
that is the support of the Administra
tion. They went for Old Abe through
and through, and now they go with
equal completeness for Andy Johnson
as the whole-hearted representative man
of the people. His blunt directness, his
obvious purpose to be just to all, his
resolute adherence to the spirit of the
constitution against all the clamor and
quibble of the political cliques—all these
take hold of the soldiers' heart as did
the similar characteristics of his great
predecessor, and they all go home Joh
nson men to the core.
There is thus spread over every part
of the North an immense unbought,
unpaid, spontaneous influence in sup
port of the President. The soldiers
affect greatly the communities in which
they live, especially in the rural dis
tricts. They have been out and seen
the world and the war, and they become
the centres of little circles that uncon
sciously ado! t their views. Their in
fluence on the result of our elections
will be obvious ; and the politicians al
ready forsee this, and bid wisely for it
in the nomination of military men for
all offices. But the influence of the sol
dier will go further than this. It will
originate such a full and hearty support
of the President as will carry his re
construction policy through without
jar or jolt. It will put the radical party
out of existence—and thus the soldiers
who saved the country will be a main
influence in his settlement. —New York
Herald.
An Incident at the White House.
'Special Despatch to The Press.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 1865.
On Thursday last, an unusual and
quite romantic incident occurred at the
White House among the squad of par
don-seekers there. The suppliants were
waiting around as your correspondent
D. D. described a few days ago, and
among others were two persons, a close
ly-veiled young lady and a gentleman
somewhat bronzed, (a rebel soldier once,
quite likely,) with a heavy beard and a
careful dress. They had not paid any
attention to each other during the hour
or two they had been so near, and would
not have done so for all coming time
had it not been for the usher. He came
with a document, and in a sharp tone
called out the name superscribed on its
envelope. It was a prominent one
once in Georgia, and was familiar to
most of the ears upon which its
tones fell. The k• gentleman, with an
air of pleasure, stepped forward to take
it, when the lady, with a little scream,
pressed forward and clasped him tightly
in her arms. He at first seemed sur
prised by such an unwonted proceeding,
but when she several times excitedly
asked " Don'tyou know Jessie ?" "You
can't have forgotten me in such a short
time," and removed the veil to show a
fresh, piquant, pretty face. Recogni
tion was instant, and with the one
word "-sister," he was quite as demon
strative as she had been before. " Why,
Jessie, what are you doing here?" he
asked, "I am here for father; he is
very sick," she said, with a little elision
of the "r," and a sob. "But he wants
to die, if he has to die, a citizen of the
Union again."
The young man seemed affected, but
in the new found joy of meeting a sister
long logt, the cloud that time did hot
darken his heart. A few moments after
she also received the grant of her appli
cation.
It seems that the young man went
out eagerly in the war as major of a Con
federate regiment. He has taken prison
er in a skirmish justafter Bull Run, and
spent two years in a Northern prison.
Returning to service, the cause of the
" Confederacy" needed all the men for
support it -could obtain and he was
forced to stay in the ranks. Letters he
had - sent home failed to reach, and he,
despairing of finding his family after the
march of Sherman over the State, came
North to see after a friend. This good
work done he returned to Washington to
look after his pardon. All this time his
family gave him up as dead, and, saving
his sister, who met him so strangely,
think so yet 9
The End of the Colchester Case.
The N. Y. Herald publishes the de
cision of Judge Hall in the Colchester
case with the following comments :
It will be seen that, as we predicted,
Judge Hall sustains the verdict of the
jury against Colchester, and upon the
very grounds foreshadowed in the
Herald. If Colchester's lawyers had
taken our advice they would have saved
their client the additional expense of
this appeal. The learned judge regards
spiritualism in a very practical light.—
He asks why Colchester did not enrich
himself, if he possessed such super
natural powers, instead of pandering to
the credulity of the public by juggling
seances. He calls attention to the fact
that, with all their boasted knowledge,
the spiritualists did not and could not
discover the assassins of President Lin
coln. Finally, he is astonished, as we
were, that none of the spirits interfered
to help Colchester during his trial, when
a single manifestation in the court room
would have brought him off triumph
antly and established the reality of
spiritualism beyond a doubt. Judge
Hall's opinion is very readable, and we
commend it to the public generally and
our friend ex-Judge Edmonds in par
ticular. Spiritualism is now jugglery
by solemn judicial decision.
THE Wisconsin Democrats have just
met in convention, and, like the Dem
ocrats of New York and other states, in
dorse President Johnson's plan for an
immediate restoration of the Union.
The Wisconsin Republicans, like their
fellows throughout the North, oppose
President Johnson's plan, ajid want to
keep the South from the Union till she
has agreed to do several things which
we have no right to force her to agree
to, and which all look to partisan policy
and not to political justice—in other
words, to a perpetuation of the Republi
can misrule in Congress.
THE Union county Republican Con
vention declared that "the abrovktion
of all special laws against, men orany
race or color should be guaranteed by
constitutional provision."'
"Nickels."
An exchange paper imticingoo fact
that during the months of'-May,
July and August, 5,500,000 one cent
pieoea were coined at the United States
MIDI' in Philadelphia,',Saya .where are
they? We answer, last becoming a
nuisance. and more intolerable to be
borne th;in the ten andtwenty-five cent
notes. They-are now - rolled -in paper
bundles of 25 and 50. and' dealt out in
change in market, and by small dealers
generally. When they were really de
sirable as change they were hoarded
away, when the mint labored to the ex
tent of its ability, coining five to six
millions per month to supply the de
mand in circulation, which, so long as
they commanded'a premium, and an
inferior currency supplied their place,
was very much like the effort to fill a
bottomless tub. The paper currency is
now more nearly on a par with specie, -
and the depreciated small coins are of
less valuelhan thepaper, consequently,
in accordance with an invariable rule in
a contest between two currencies of un
equal value, that which is cheapest will
circulate to the almost entire 'exclusion
of that which is dearer. As cent pieces
are more numerous than ever before, we
suppose in a little while as paper and
specie more nearly come together, we
shall feel their nuisance more than ever
Cholera in Italy
A Naples letter says: "The news
rom the small town of San Severo is
quite lamentable. The last bulletin
mentions 122 cases of cholera and 54 '
deaths. All the wealthy families have
fled with one exception, and this latter
has lost three members out of five.
The state of prostration of the unfortu
nate population is indescribable. The
syndic and the government authorities,
who are displaying an admirable firm
ness and devotedness, are asking for
medical assistance and aid from the oth
er towns. To give an idea of the state
of the poorer classes of this locality I
have but to mention that the syndic has
just ordered to be sent away 3,000 pigs,
who were living in thehomesof the low
er classes pell-mellwith the inhabitants.
Naples is acting very generously in
these painful circumstances; on all sides
subscriptions are being opened. Doc
tors have left to the number of 20 and 35
emigreslfrom Venice and Rome and have
offered. themselves as attendants and
been accepted. Turin is sending ice,
and Naples lemons by thousands. This
ut burst of public charity merits the
reatest eulogiunis.
Getting Seared
Every Republican exchange we pick
up, speaks despondingly of the approach
ing election. The Harrisburg Tele
graph, proposes to sink negro suffrage,
and in its issue of the 21st, says
"'Whatever differences of opinion
may exist among the individual mem
bers of the party on the question of col
ored suffrage, they must be reserved,
and not allowed to interfere with the
greater issue of universal freedom, which
is at stake. Our opinions on the sub-
ject of the enfranchisement of the negro
are well known. We believe that- jus
tice, sound policy, and the guarantees
of the Declaration, alike demand that
the ballot should be the symbol of free
dom, and co-extensive with it; but in
the present imperilled condition of the
country, we think there are other ques
tions more pressing than that."
The "other questions more pressing"
are simply—the spoils!
The Philadelphia Bulletin complains
that "there is very little interest evinced
in the conduct of the present cam
paign." Just wait until election night,
and the Democracy will give you prin
cipal and intere - st both.—Pittsburg Post.
A. Man Gored to Death by an Elk
From the Ottawa (Ill.) .1 3 1aindealer Sept. 26.]
It becomes our duty to record a most
lamentable occurrence at Judge Caton's
park, Dear this city, on Saturday last.
Three`men from Ottawa—Marvin W.
Dimock and a brother on a visit from
Connecticut, and Mr. Edward Drew, at
whose house the former two were stop
ping, took a walk to the north bluff,
and arriving at the north end of
Judge Caton's park, concluded to enter
and look at the deer, elk, etc. They
climbed the fence, and approaching a
group, in the centre of which stood two
large elk, looked at them some minutes,
then started toward the fence to climb out
As they walked away, however, the elk
followed them, and when still some dis
tance from the fence, the larger of the
two made demonstrations as if to attack
the party. Mr. Drew, and Mr. D. of
Connecticut, took refuge in a tree, while
Marvin Dimock remained on the
ground. The elk made a pass at him,
but he dodged around the tree several
times avoiding him until he fell. Mr.
Drew, and the other Dimock then came
out of the tree to his rescue. They
fought the elk some minutes, when Mr.
D. of Connecticut, seemed to faint
away, and Mr. Drew, for safety lifted
him again into the tree. The other Mr.
D., who still lay on the ground, up to •
this untouched, also seemed from fright
or excitement to have lost his conscious
ness, and Mr. Drew maintained his
struggle with the elk alone, until the
latter, seeing Mr. Dimock on the
ground, made a furious plunge at him,
dealing him frightful blows on the body.
Mr. Drew then started for help, the
other elk which had thus far merely
played the spectator, following him and
making frequentattempts to strike him
as he hurried along. He reached the
house of Judge Dickey, who, seizing
some pitchforks and other implements,
hurried to the rescue. They found the
elk, standing over Mr. Dimock, and had
a fearful fight before they drove him
away. Mr. D. of Connecticut, was then
brought down out of the tree (again
fully recovered from his fainting fit);
and Marvin D. taken up, placed in a
buggy, and brought to town. He was
still conscious at times, and though
badly, it was thought not fatally injur
ed, until placed on a bed, when he sank
away immediately, and in ten minutes
was a corpse.
He was one of our oldest citizens, and
highly respected by all who knew him.
His wife was on a visit East at the time,
and of course the melancholy news must
be to her a crushing blow.
The Money Stolen by the St. Albans
Raiders
The New York Herald says
A correspondent at St. Albans, Ver
mont, ina communication which he has
sent ne t - contradicts a report which has
been generally circulated, to the effect
that the banks of that place have had
refunded to them by the Canadian au
thorities all the money stolen from tnem
on the 19th of last October by the rebel
raide'rs. He says that the total amount
stolen was over two hundred and ten
thousand dollars, and that of this only
ninety thousand dollars have been re
turned by the Canadians. It is said that
Secretary Seward has made a demand
on the British government for the resti
tution of the remainder, on the ground
that before the raid took place some of
the Canadian officials were hware that
it was contemplated, and Unit they w
aisted the scoundrels in making their
escape, and threw all possibl obstacles
in the way of their arrest and punish
ment. Our correspondent complains of
the bad faith generally of the Canadian
government in the matter..
A MAN who has been cultivating tea,
as an experiment, since 1860, writes to
the Savannah Herald that most of his
plants grow finely, that his tea is of
good quality, and the plants will do
quite as well in Georgia, as in their
native country. The plants require no
culture after the third year. If well
taken care of, by that time they will be
large enough to commence the manu
facture of tea from them. The yield to
the acre is from three to four hundred
pounds, and the plants produce good
crops for eighteen or twenty years. The
growth of tea is not affected by dry or
wet weather, or by storms, and insects
will not molest the plants.
Agricultural Fairs
The New York Tribune says :
The recurrence of so many profitable
fairs throughout the country is a sign of
the returning health and usefulness of
peace. In half a dozen fairs the receipts
have averaged not less than $lO 000 or
Illinois
muchand in New York and
much more. The start given to manu
facture promises much benefit to both
East and West, as we note establish
ment of wool factories in Illinois, and
large wool sales, amounting to 2,000,000
pounds, in Boston. We welcome the
reappearance of Horse Fairs' they do
good to the owner and to the horse,
when they are not mere races. If some
thing be done for-the humbler brute—
the mule, for instancer---it might lead to
a wider science and amore common hu
manity in the treatment of animals.
• —.A. man, mimed Tones, who was the
rebel Assistant Secretary of War, has beep .
arrested alid placed in the Old CapitOl.
prairlutdupw;
?.fiOCEF... DINGS OF, ~pzatoc.R#T:lo._
Cpurrry CoNvEtvriox.—inCtlie absence of
R. R. Tshtaly, Esq.; Chairman of the County
Committee, A. J, Steinman, Esq., Secretary
of the County Committee, called the. CA:mi
vention to order. General Wm. Patton, of
Columbia, was chosen President. On taking
the chair he said :
Gentlemen of the amvention : I thankyou
forth° partiality you have shown in choosing
me to preside over the deliberations of this
Convention. We meet under more favors-
ble auspices than we have for four years.
When we last met a reign of terror pre
vailed. Democratic citizens were immured
in prisons without warrant or form of law.
Now peace prevails; our gallant soldiers
are at home, where they can exercise the
right of suffrage untrammeled. We have,
too, a President whose policy of reconstruc
tion we can fully endorse. On that im
portant subject he is with us and we are
with him. [Applause.] You are met here
to-day to put in nomination a county ticket
to be voted for at the coming election. I
know your work will be well and wisely
done, and„l hope you will willingly recog
nize the claims of our citizen soldiery. They
deserve and should receive honor and en
couragement. Ge'ntlemen, again thanking
you for the honor conferred upon me, I pro
nounce this Convention ready to proceed to
business.
The following named gentlemen were
then chosen
VICE PRESIDENTS.
Edward McElroy, Marietta.
C. J. Nourse, Columbia.
Col. H. M. Brenneman, Elizabetht'n.
R. P. Spencer, Strasburg Boro.
H. Galen, Mantic.
David Grove, Donegal.
John M. Weller, West Hempfield.
- Win. Dungan, Eden.
John L. Lightner, Leacock.
Chas. Lafferty, Paradise.
H. S. Kerns, Salisbury.
Geo. Duchman, East Earl.
The following named gentlemen were
chosen
SECRETARIES. •
H. G. Smith, Esq., City.
B. F. Martin, Lampeter.
J. H. Hegener, Jr., City.
Edwin Garret, Bart.
The list of Townships and Wards was
ailed and the following delegates found to
be in attendance, with proper credentials
LIST OF DELEGATES.
Bart—Josiah Byers, Edwin Garrett, John
1. Taggart, George S. Boone, John D.
Laverty.
Brecknock—J.:G.Bowman, Henry Rupp,
David I‘lcColm, Michael Witmer, H. E.
Shirai).
Cairmirvon—Wm. Yohn, L. H Bean,
David Run, Martin Ringwalt, George Ax.
Clay—Wm. F. Moyer, John Demmy,
Joseph Kline, Samuel'Enek, Curtis Miller.
Conestoga—S. S. Welsh, John AI
John lles.;
Colerain—Uriah Swisher, Jeremiah P
Swisher, Benjamin F. Ferguson.
Columbia—North Ward—Jos. M. Watts,
George Young, Jr., Peter S.
McTague, John K. Eberlein, t
J. C. Bucher.
—Gen. William Patton, Charles
J. bourse, Jacob F. Shroder,
Benjamin Herr, Geo. Tile.
Donegal West—Christian autz, Chris
tian :Haar, Matthias Shenk, Philip Old
_ . .
weiler, Joseph C. Brinser.
Donegal East—William Sailor, T. J.
Albright, Lieut. J. S. Roath, David Grove,
George Keudig.
Dru more—John Hastings, Sam. B. Moore.
Wm. J. McPherson, Wm. McCombs, Alex.
Linton.
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Elizabeth—Joseph S. Keener, Benjamin
Breitigam, T. Masterson.
Elizabethtown Bor.—H. Tyler Shultz,
Col. H. M. Breneman, 11. A. Wade, John
Shaeffer, William H. Wagoner.
Ephrata—D. Rhine Hertz, P. Martin
Heitler, Martin S. Keller, Dr. J. M. Groff,
Emanuel Mohler.
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Earl—Wm. LT. Custer, David Besore, A.
G. Smoker, John C. Martin, W. Detrich.
Earl East—George Duchman, Isaac W
Stauffer, Jacob Bixler, Wm. Newpher, E
Sutton Hammond.
Eden—Wm. Dungan, William Kunkle
Isaac Montgomery, Dr. D. Hess, Andrew
Fulton—J. H. Clendenin, W. F. Jenkins,
Wm. H. McCardel, Joseph Smedly, Jr.,
Washington Whitaker.
Heniptield East.—Col. David Ringwal t
Simon Minnich, Henry Hoffman, Jacob
Foltz, Abraham Sheirich.
Hempfield West—Levi Rhoads,
John M.
Weller, Ephraim Boys, Joseph Hoover,
John Y. Musser.
City—N. W. Ward—Col. F. S. Pyfer, Dr.
Samuel Parker, A. J. Steinman,
H. G. Smith, Geo. W. Brown.
" —N. E. Ward—SanmelH. Reynolds,
A. Z. Ringwalt, John Rose, H. B.
Swarr, Jacob It. Everts.
" —S. W. Ward—Wm. Wilson, Henry
Long, Hugh Corcoran, Henry
Schaum, Philip Fitzpatrick.
" —S. E. Ward—J. H. Hegener, Jr.,
Davis Hitch, Jr. Hugh Dougherty,
James B. Wilhelm, Sam'l Shroad.
Lancaster Twp.—P. E. Lightner, A. E.
Carpenter, Benjamin Huber, Henry Wil
helm, Samuel Potts.
Leacock Upper—John Sigle, Dr. Isaac C.
Weidler, Daniel A. Beck.
Leacoek—John L. Lightner, Joel H.
Sharp, John Royer, Jr., Phares M. Eaby,
Isaac L. Dunlap.
Lampeter East—Christian Erb, John
Harsh, Marshall Lucans, J. L. Martin, J.
B. Martin.
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Little Britain—Wm. Have, Jr., James S.
Patterson, John P. Hays, Edward C. Swift,
E. M. Zell.
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Marietta —E. F. McElroy, John Crull. F.
K. Curran, Jos. Clinton, Lewis Leader.
Martic—W. N. Gibson, H. Galen, F.
Moss, A. Walton, Sr., R. Soulsby.
Manor—Frederick R. Leonard, George
G. Brush, Abraham Peters, Frederick
Sener.
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Manbeim Bor.—Nathan Worley, Benja
min Donavan, A. J. Eby,'NA. L. Krum,
Henry D. Miller.
Manheim twp.—Benjamin Workman, Ed
ward Kauffman, John Hoffman.
Mount Joy Bor.—A. B. Culp, L. M. Hoff
man, Albert Gast, John B. Shelly, Henry
Shaffner. _
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Mount Joy twp.—Abraham Sheaffer,
Sam. Masterson, Jac. Hiestand, Jonathan
Nichols, Jacob S. Baker.
Paradise—Amos Rockey, George Yonder
smith, Peter Niedich, George L. Eckert,
Charles Laverty.
Penn—James McMullen, Em'). Keener,
Hiram H. Hull, Jacob Eberly, W. W. Bus-
Ser.
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Providence—Abrm. Dennis, David Har
lan, Benjamin Huber, Christian Breneman,
Albert N. Rutter.
Raphb—Michael Ober, Samuel Baker,
Michael Baker, Joseph Detweiler, Moses
Ober.
Salisbury—H. S. Kerns, Thomas W.
Henderson, Daniel Ault, Dr. John Wallace,
John Mason.
Strasburg—Barnett Reynolds, Samuel H.
Wiker,
Franklin Clark, Philip Miller,
Jacob Spindler.
Sedsbury—Malon Fox, J. D. Harrar,
George Rigg.
Strasburg Bor.—James Clark, Samuel P.
Bower, R. P. Spencer, B. B. Gonder, Wm.
Black.
Warwick—Wm. Kemper, Wash. Kryder,
Sam. E. Keller, tirias Schaeffer, Christian
Mohn.
On motion of Hon. Nathan Worley, the
Convention then proceeded to nominate
candidates for Legislature,
Hon. Nathan Worley was named, but
promptly declined, stating that while he -
sas always ready to serve in any position
where he might be placed by the Democra
cy of Lancaster county, he thought he
could now best serve them by declining.
He had no doubt others would readily be
found whose nomination would add strength
to the party and increase our vote in the
county.
The following named gentlemen were
then put in nomination as candidates for
the Legislature:
IMET2I2
Lieut. Y. S. Roatb, East Donegal; Capt
Daniel Herr, Columbia; Lieut. George P.
Deichler, City; Milton B. Seldomridge,
Leacock; Lieut. Charles H. Lichtenthaler,
Litiz; George G. Brush, Manor.
On motion, Col. F. S. Pyfer was nomina
ted for District Attofney by acclamation.
COUNTY TR.tA,STJREB
Captain J, Miller Raub, of Providence,
was nominated for County Treasurer by
acelAmation
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
The following names were put in nomina
lion for the office of County Commissioner :
John Hess, of Conestoga ; Samuel Pat
terson, City.
The following gentlemen were then nom
inated for
PRISON INSPECTORS
James Henry, Columbia; William Car
penter, City.
The following gentlemen were nominated
for _ .
DIRECTORS OF THE POOR
Lieut. Lewis Zecher, City ; George G.
Brush, Manor; John L. Martin, E. Lam
peter.
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The following names were then put in
nomination for the office of
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
John B. Erb, Warwick; Wm. N. Gibson,
Martin.
AUDITOR.
J. W. Shaffer, of West Donegal, was nom
inated for Auditor by acclamation.
Milton B. Seldomridge and George G.
Brush having, declined to be candidates for
the Legislature, on motion, Lieut. J. S.
Routh, Capt. Dardel Herr, Lieut. George P.
Deiehler and Lieut. Charles' A. Liehteri—
lhaler were nominated by maw:natio.