Xanautta gtdellimar. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1867 FOR JUI GE OF SUPREME COURT: Min. GEORGE SHIRSWOOD, of POIIa. The Weekly Intellleeneer for the Cain• paign. Last year, about this period, we offered to seild the WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE% dung the political camps ign, *.o any address for the sum of FIFTY CENTS. The result was that we had about a thousand new names on our list within two weeks, many of whom became permanent subscribers. We now make a similar offer. THE WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER will be sent singly, or to clubs, to any address, from Wednesday, July 3d. until Wednesday, October 9th inclusive, for the merely nomi nal sum of FIFTY CENTS. • ° This puts within the reach of all one of the best and most widely known Democratic newspapers in the country. Let each of our readers make an effort to extend our circu lation. By so doing they will help forward the good cause. A little effort on the part of each will accomplish much in the aggregate To,you who are just now reading this we make a personal appeal. See your neigh bors and make up a club at once. You can get five, or ten, or more subscribers in an hour or so. Gun we rely upon you to do that much for us? We are sure we can pfi- Our numerous exchanges will great ly oblige us by making an editorial note of the above Shall We Win? Shall we win in the pending politi cal contest? Democrats of Pennsylva nia, shall we win a great and crowning victory at the election in October? Shall we elect Judge Shatswood and crush out radicalism in the good old Key stone State? We can do it. We have the power. A full poll of our vote will secure the desired result beyond a per adventure. There is not a Republican in the State who doubts it. Many of them already give up the contest. We have heard very intelligent men among them concede that we would carry the State of Pennsylvania this fall. Shall we do so? What say you reader? Are you ready to do your full share of the great work? We can win, but we can not win without proper eilbrt. There must be a perfect organization of the Democratic party in every election district in the State—no half way work, but a com plete aid systematic organization, such as will bring every vote to the poll. Thousands of honest Republicans are ready to turn in with us. They must be properly approached, and every in fluence must be brought to bear upon them. Democratic newspapers must be largely circulated ; your local paper first, and others afterwards. There must be public meetings and addresses by the hest speakers who can be pro cured, and there will be when the time comes; but the great bulk of the work must he done through other and more quiet agencies. Organization is what is needed—close, perfect, and effective organization in every election district. With that we shall wipe out the Radi cal majority in Pennsylva . dia and make it certain that the electoral vote of the State will be cast On the right side in the coming Presidential contest. We can give Judge Sharswood at least twenty thousand majority. Shall we do it? What say you reader? Coming Back During the war, through various in fluences, not a few Democrats were induced to abandon the great political organization with whin they had al ways acted, and to vote with the Re publican party. Few leading men (lid so except under the influence of purely selfish motives, but they influenced a proportion of the honest masses. Most of the renegade leaders are still among the most dishonest and malignant radicals of the country, but the rank and file, those who were mistaken but conscientious, are rapidly leaving the Radical ranks and returning with re newed devotion and zeal to the fold of the Democratic party. They have had their eyes effectually opened, and have voted with the corrupt and revolution my leaders of the Republican party for the last time. We know numbers of such meu. We meet them daily, and their devotion to the great principles of the Democratic party is warmer, if possible, and more firmly established, than before they were induced to desert it. We welcome them back with open arms. In the present campaign, and in future contests, they will be found doing their whole duty with an earnest zeal that will tell for good upon the best interests of the nation. The School Election We publish else where the returns of the election held in this city on Friday for School Directors, showing au aver age majority of GOO for the Democratic ticket. In clew of the comparatively small vote cast, this is a very gratifying result. It is another indication of the rapid decline of Radical strength among us since the passage of the Military Despotism and Negro Suffrage Law. Two or three years ago au election was held here for School Directors Under almost precisely similar ciri)u instances, Quit in a vote of about the same number as that polled yesterday, the Democratic majority was but about 190. And we are convinced that at no time before within the last six years could the De mocracy of this city have secured a majority of more than 200 at such an election. Last night a prominent Radical poli tician announced that this was the last time that such a proceeding should fake place here, and that the next Legisla ture would take us in hand. No doubt that this will be the case if the next Legislature should be radical. In that event it will doubtless either r',"on struct the city of Lancaster, so as to secure a "decisive and trustwor thy Republican majority," or it will deprive the people of the choice of their own School Directors, and vest the appointment of those officers in sonic Republican Board. And such a Legislature would also prob ably deprive the people of the elec thin of their City Officers, and transfer the municipal government to some such commissions as those which prevail 111 the City of New York. But we have an abiding faith that the .next Legislature of Pennsylvania will not be Radical. On the issues made by the Republicans of Monarchy, Negro Suffrage, and Prohibition, we expect the Democracy to gain hroughout the Commonwealth as they have done in the City of Lancaster. The October election will decide the complexion of the coming Legislature, and we believe that its complexion will be white, The present indications point to a majority of at least 750 for Judge Shars , wood in Lancaster city. And if the Fortieth Congress should be as indus trious for evil iu the month of July as it was Ac the month of March, we shall hope to ewoll his majority to 1,000. BEN. WADE having got sober has ta ken to explaining Ws aggrarian speech. He declares he did V.ot mean what he said. Any excuse is generally deemed Getter than none at all. The New Bointy Bill. We are to be blessed with another session of Congress in July. The fiat has gone forth, the notes of preparation are heard, and in a few days • the per petual Fortieth "Congiiss , ,will resume its operations. Tne peopWknow . what this session will do towards forging chains for the South, towards elevating the negro and degrading the white, but they can scarcely anticipate the schemes that will be adopted to deplete the Fed eral treaiury. Gen. Sickles demands more money to defray the expenses of his kingdom in the Carolinas ; all the satraps complain that past appropria tions are too scant to support their royalty; the army is stripped of officers to register negroes and manipulate the Bureau in the South, and partizan cor morants clamor for contracts in the war with the Indians on the Plains. How deep will be the responses to these de mands upon the Treasury we know not; out we do know that there is another claim set up for public money, unjust, unequal and enormous, that will be satisfied, because members of Congress believe that its payment will make votes for their party. The claim to which we refer is the Bounty Bill that passed the House of Representatives at its last session. This Bill appropriates a Bounty of $3OO to every soldier who served through the war, and who has not received or is not entitled to receive that amount of State or local bounty. As almost every Penn sylvania or Eastern soldier has received or is entitled to $3OO of State or local bounty, it follows that the benefit of this Bill will enure almost exclusively to Western soldiers. • If it passes, the people of the Middle and Eastern States, after having been taxed to pay the bouaties of their own soldiers, will be taxed again to contribute to the bounties of Western soldiers. Then shall we be taxed twice for the same purpose ; and the most grinding of all the burdens of the war will be proven useless, as they have not relieved us from the obligations they were im posed to discharge. We robbed our selves to pay bounties, in the belief that IDA so doing we cancelled our debt and duty on this score; and now we find ourselves no better off than those who never assumed or paid a farthing of bounty tax. And the money we paid to our neighbors who enlisted in the service is deducted from their claim on the nation's gratitude, in order that Western soldiers may thrust their arms deeper into the public Treasury, and take out more money, because there will be fewer to satisfy! It is computed that this Bill will in volve the expenditure of $300,000,000. The little savings of two years of peace, increased by the pendency of war taxes, will thus be swept out of the Treasury by a single dash of the pen. Those of our people who for two years past have virtually served as the tenantsand hire lings of a Governthent which has con fiscated all their earnings by taxation, must awake to the bitter consciousness that their severe and protracted service has not diminished their burthens a particle. But what if the massps suffer and the pressure of our colossal debt should grind untold generations? The Republican party needs votes; these are cheap at $3OO apiece, and as they probably would avail nothing in the Middle States, they must be secured in the West. With the West thud cor rupted by a largess from the National Treasury and the South controlled by bayonets and negroes, the Republicans are confident that they can carry the next Presidential election and perpetu ate their power. To accomplish this much desired object, they would gladly not only sacrilice all the property of the country, but the country itself. Tile Radical Candidate for Supreme Judge. The Radicals of Pennsylvania have the most wonderful admiration for ren egade Democrats and imported Yan kees. Whenever they do especial honor to any man it may be safely predicted that he belongs to one or the other of these classes. John Scott, who presided over the Radical State Convention, belongs to the first class, and Henry W. Williams, the candidate for Supreme Judge, to the second. Mr. Williams is an original Connecticut Yan kee. He is said to be a fair law yer, and has been an associate judge in the court of Allegheny county; but he is almost unknown either to the bar or the people of this State. He is said not to he popular in his own sec tion, and it is sure that Judge Shars wood, with his great abilities and high character, which have made him known to every voter in Pennsylvania, will have greatly the advantage in the contest. He cannot be beaten except by the most criminal apathy on our part. With a full poll of their vote the Democracy will certainly sweep this State by a large majority. Why Congress Meets The real reason for the assembling of Congress in extra session is to vote away more money to carry on the campaign among the negroes in the South. It is only since Sickles has written to Wash ington, stating that he could not get along in the Carolinas without more money than was appropriated for the whole South, that it became certain that a majority of the Radicals would be present in July. The more money is expended the greater the chances for theil friends to enrich themselves by stealing. In the meantime the masses of the North are taxed until they are little better than slaves, but what do those who assume to be their masters care for that? The negroes must all be trotted to the polls'with Radical tickets in their paws, no matter how many millions it may cost. Philadelphia Bigotry President Johnson on his returu from Boston passed through Philadelphia without stopping. That city is ruled by a set of small winded fanatics who are doing all they can to destroy its commerce and trade. After the liberal and unwise action of the City Councils a meeting of merchants and 1114;f1 was held, and a cordial invitation was extended to the Presi der, t, ask. ing h i m to accept of a reception on 1,4, leturn. I t r:aelied him too late t o be heeded. 'Hie reception of the President in Bosodi and throughout New England y. enthusiastic. Philadelphia :done a continu ance of that mean y v,hirl, Is in juring her so [noel,. 41••• • 11911. WM. P. .1471111 h One of the men who wade Li, mark in the last Legislature wa VJtu. P. Jenks, the Democratic rem . e.eoiative from Clarion county. lie i., a very able lawyer and at once assumed the posi tion of a leader in the House. lioneta, pure in public and private life, :Lod gifted above most men, he wa.s admired and respected by all. We are glad to see that he has been renominated. The Waynesburg Messenger. The lVayncsburg Messenger, the or gan of the Democracy of Greene county, comes to us this week enlarged and in an entire and handsome new dress. It Is a good paper, and deserves the liberal support it receives. SHERIDAN has agreed to extend the time for registration in Louisiana, and it is thought it will be carried on in ac cordance with the opinion of the At torney General, A Preacher's Idea of Political Morality. The Temperance Union, whibh sol emnly resolved to support no man for office unless he first pledged himiielf to do all in his power to secure the speedy enactment' of a stringent prohibitory liquor law, was - addressed .by several preachers, some of whom conducted their 'discoursiiin a Christian manner,' while others, we are sorry to say, did not. One man, Rev. John Cromlish (we name him in order that there may be no mistake as to whom we refer) seemed to have no faith in the efficacy of moral agencies. The natural in ference would be that he has found his pulpit ministrations to be al most utterly unproductive of good. We should not be surprised if such had been the case with him for several years past at least. From the manner in which he championed the preaching of politics, and advocated the turning of the sacred desk into a stand point from which to make stump speeches, we take it he has not advo cated the cause of the Gospel with half the zeal he displayed in the service of a political party. It is a notorious fact that during the anti-slavery excitement many Northern clergymen most basely prostituted their pulpits. When the war came not a few of them almost ceased to present the cause of religion to the consideration of their hearers, and from Sabbath to Sabbath no sound was heard in their churches except such as was calculated to stir up strife and bitterness. Under their evil min istrations the cause of Christ languished, and while they were parading their stock of cheap loyalty (so-called), sin ners were allowed to go to hell uncheck ed and unwarned. What cared they if the devil did assert almost supreme sway? Their hearers, the few who still went to listen to these blatant clerical demagogues, thirsted not for words of Christian charity, not for the teachings of the divine Messenger of Peace, but for such satanic jargon as would minis ter to their malignant natures. And they got it—got it often in terms as bitter as any imp hot from hell could have coined. But we did not commence with the intention of reading a lecture to politi cal preachers in general, or to any one of them iu particular. We have, how ever, a word or two to say in regard to certain sweeping false assertions made by Rev. John Uromlish. In the speech he made before the Temperance Union he declared, unequivocally and in the broadest and most insulting terms, that the Democratic party was au " immoral party." The words used by him, as we took them down from his lips, were : "There have only been two parties in this country; one the party of morality the other the part• of immorality. The one de fended the institution of slavery, tile other opposed it." We will not say Mr. Cromlish know ingly uttered a deliberate lie as well as a base and unjustifiable slander. That would not be exactly courteous, and we try to be courteous always, even if we are thereby occasionally constrained to refrain from speaking the whole truth. We will say, however, that we can not imagine how any man of ordinary sense, with the least kuowledgeof the history of political parties, could make such an assertion. It is welt known that up to the time of the nomination of Mr. Lin coln neither of the great political parties of the country had ever arrayed itself against slavery as it existed under the protection of the Constitution. All parties of all sections declined to inter fere with its existence in the South, ex cept the small body of original aboli tionists; and with them neither the Whig nor the Democratic party ever affiliated. Henry Clay was defeated by the abolition vote in the State of New York when he run against James K. Polk. Had he received the five thousand votes cast in that State for the Abolition candidate Birney, he would have been elected. At succeed ing elections both the Whig and the Democratic parties, in their national platforms, pledged themselves to pro tect the people of the South in the quiet enjoyment of their system of domestic slavery. Even the Republican Conven tion which nominated Abraham Lin coln at Chicago, declared that party did not desire to interfere with slavery where it already existed. What be comes of Mr. Cromlish's statements in view of these facts, with which every school boy is familiar? The truth is, and Mr. Cromlish could not help know ing it, that until alter the commence ment of the war, neither of the great political part es of this country had ever arrayed itself against slavery. But if we look at his sweeping and insulting assertion in a general light it will appear even more glaringly false. What claim has the Republican party to be called "the party of morality ?" It sprung into existence as the offspring of the dark lantern know-nothing lodges, in which men were sworn to assail Catholics and foreign born citi zens, and taught togoont into the world with a deliberate lie on their lips, denying that they belonged to the in famous order. Was that moral? True it is that many protestant clergymen soiled their sacred robes by dragging them in this filthiest pool of political mire, but did even that make the party moral? Could their presence in know nothing lodges justify those they met there in the habitual utterance of de liberate and wilful falsehoods? This despicable and immoral party, constituting as it did the great bulk of the Republican organization, only yielded up its peculiarly obnoxious and anti-American doctrines in the Chicago Convention at the bidding of the red republican infidel Carl Schurz, who told the leaders there assembled that unless the dogmas of Know-Nothingisin were abandoned the votes of three hundred thousand Germans of his school would be lost to them. Here was beautiful material for the construction of a great moral party. A set of deliberate liars, a whole political party pledged and sworn to the habitual utterance of falsehoods for the purpose of securing political power through the basest means, dis. cards the dogmas all its members had solemnly sworn to support, at the bid ding of a blatant infidel of the:most ob noxious school. Such was the origin of the political organization the Rev. Mr. Cromlish parades as " the moral party" of the country. It is true, as we have already inti mated that the Know-Nothing party numbered in its ranks not a few protest ant preachers. But did they make either it or the Republican party moral? Did not their association with a set of debased politicians rather demoralize has,, very clergymen ? Let the records of the last five years answer. How oihqi has the country been startled by tm, announcement of the detection or political preachers in the grossest and most revolting crimes, culmi nating. within a few days past in .111IWILId of beastliness of Rev. Se reim Howe? Many as have been these alarming and shocking exposures of hit ttiontliv itlllong American clergy men within the last few years, we can not mill to mind 1110111 than a single case in which the culprit wits 1191 a loud mouthed political ranter, a base creature who first prostituted his pulpit to the preaching of polities, beforeselling him self to the devil. That first step once taken, all the rest seemed to follow in natural order. We do not think an in— stance can be cited in Pennsylvania, where any preacher who had not intro. "duced politics into his pulpit was constrained to apply for a change, of venue to enable him to escape from a prosecution for fornication and bas tardy. Can so much be said for - all of those who have done so?We conscien tiously believe that the church •of God has suffered greatly - in consequence a the introduction of politics intothe pit, as advocated the other day by Messrs. Cromlish and Thompson, and we are equally sure that the clergy who have been engaged in the work have lowered themselves, even in the estima tion of those who have applauded them for such prostitution of a calling which should be sacred. What claims has the Republican party to be called "The Moral Party of the Country." It is beyond a question the most grasping and corrupt political or ganization which ever cursed any nation. Even its fanatic zeal for the destruction of slavery, and its seemingly earnest advocacy of negro equality, has been but a sham and a cheat; a subter fuge through which its leaders hoped to gain and maintain their hold on power for the purpose of plunder ing the public treasury. Every where the Republican leaders favor the enforcement of negro suffrage and negro equality upon the people of the South, because they know they must forever remain in a pitiful minority there, if white men are allowed to exercise con trol. In Ohio, in New York, in New England, in all the North Western States they endorse negro, suffrage by plain outspoken resolutions. In Penn sylvania they still try to frame equivo cal resolves, which may or may not mean negro suffrage and negro equality in this State, as may suit them best to interpret. It is notorious that the leaders of the Republican party are little else than a band of bold and unblushing rcbbers, So gross and open was their thieving, that at the end of the first year of the war a prominent Republican member of Congress, one honest among many base and venal, boldly declared in his seat in the House, that more money had been already stolen from the public treasury than had been expended during all the years of Mr. Buchanan's admin istration. And this statement was not only never disproved, it was not even con tradicted. It is safe to estimate that one fourth of the enormous sum of the National debt, which now hangs like au incubus upon the industry of the country, was stolen and misappropria ted by thieving officials. The slime of fraud and the taint of theft has contaminated every legislative Lody of which the Republicans have had control. Congressmen, a majority of the Radicals both in the Senate and the House, are known to be purchasa ble. They have been repeatedly bought up by rich monopolists of New England. What our State Legislature has been since the Republicans have had a ma jority in it is known to all men. Its base ness is perhaps without a complete par allel, but it is only a sample of the mo rality of that party which is so much lauded by Rev. Mr. Cromlish and politi cal preachers like him. Throughout its existence the Demo cratic party has discouraged all such in famous courses, and at no time have its leaders been dishonest or purchasable. The moment any oye elevated to posi tion by it was accused of acting a fraudulent part, or taking a bribe in his official capacity, that moment his power and his influence with the masses of the Democracy was destroyed forever. We could cite the cases of several men in this State, once prominent and popu lar Democratic politicians, who were instantly killed politically by the dis covery that they had acted no worse than the majority of Republican politician s habitually do. Yet, with such facts staring him in the face, this man Crom lish had the impudence to stand up and insult the whole body of the Demo cratic party by denouncing it as im moral. Out upon such a scurvy fellow! Look at the leaders of what Mr. Crom lish is pleased to call "the party of great moral ideas." Simon Cameron is a fair type of its statesmen, and John W. Forney of its journalists. The one commencing life by plundering the In dians, has reached his present posi tion by openly buying a seat in the United States Senate; the other deserting to the ranks of the Re publican party with the declaration that he intended "to make money out of his politics," is now clerk to the United States Sgnate, owns two news papers, both daily, and openly main tains two domestic establishments in the very moral city of Philadelphia. Of such men as these is this "party of great moral ideas" made up. From a longer rule of such a corrupt, thieving, infidel crew, may a kind Providence soon de liver this much affected nation; To that end, brethren, let us alp pray ! Death of lion. Charles Denison , Hon. Charles Denison, member of Congress from the Twelfth District of Pennsylvania, (lied at his residence in Wilkesbarre on the 27th inst., after a lingering illness. Mr. Denison was born in Wyoming Valley in 1818, grad uated at Dickinson College in 1839, adopted and practiced the profession of law, was elected a Representative to the Thirty-eighth Congress, and re-elected to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Con gresses. Mr. Denison . ' was a perfectly honest man, of a life so pure and gentle that none knew him but to love him. He was a useful, attentive and practical member of Congress, and filled his posi tion in a manner which gave him the confidence and respect of all with whom he was associated. Don't Like It The EapicsB does not like the manner in which the election for School Direc tors was conducted. Of course not. The Radical plan of conducting elections now is to disfranchise a majority of white men, and to employ a huge crowd of barbarian and brutal negroes to take possession of the polls. Only at elec tions conducted in that way are any Radical victories gained of late. Of course the Express is not pleased with an election at which white men voted as they have been accustomed to do herertofore. A Fizzle On the night after the adjournment of the Radical State Convention they tried to raise a ratification meeting in the Court House at Williamsport The affair had been duly announced, but it seems the people utterly failed to respond. "Alligator" John Covode, with other "big guns," were on hand to do the talking, but the benches were empty. After waiting an hour or so "Honest John" announced to the half score present that the meeting "would be held some other time," and left in deep disgust. That is an evi dence of the present unpopularity of the party which has lorded it over this country almost to its destruction. What It Costs. The campaign among the negroes of the South, which is being carried on so vigorously by the Radicals at the pub lic expense is costing more than it did to carry on the entire machinery of the Government under any Democratic President. How do the toiling and tax burthened white men of the North like that? How much longer will they en dure it? A Foolish' Temperane,e Convention. _Whatever may be thought of the .morals of the score and seven advocates -of a prohibitory liquor law who_assem bled in the Court House Tuesday last, we are very sure that the manners of some of the orators present stand sadly in need of mending. Scarcely one of them rose to speak without Insulting the whole body of the Deitincratic party. They were disposed to put the cause of prohibition entirely under the shelter ing wings of the Republican party. To that perhaps we have no right to object. If they spoke ex cathedra, by authority of the Republican party of Pennsyl vania, it is all right we presume. They are correct in their conjectures that as a party the Democracy of this State do not favor the passage of a prohibitory liquor law. The judgment of the wisest and most thoughtful men in the country is against all such enactments. They have been tried, and have been found to be a source not of good but of evil. Laws which make it a crime tb sell a glass of beer or;cider can never be enforced in any community. They will be constantly evaded. It is a notorious fact that drunkenness has never yet been les sened by stringent enactments prohib iting the sale of intoxicating liquors. So long as the temperance cause is kept aloof from politics, so long it is enabled to accomplish great and lasting good. The moment it enters the political arena it loses its hold upon the confi dence of the people and begins to de cline. Under a system of popular elec tions it must necessarily be made subservient to the selfish interests of one party or the other, as soon as it begins to interfere in political affairs. Thus one-half the people are arrayed against it, and its power for good is necessarily circumscribed. We warn the friends of the temper ance reform that they are making a great and fatal mistake. We have seen with delight the increased activity dis played by the various temperance or ganizations of this State, and have noticed with sincere pleasure that many were being reclaimed from evil ways by the influence of that moral suasion which is ever the great lever in all such reforms. The attempt to drag the tem perance question into the political arena can not fail to retard the good work now going on. Honest temperance men will not consent to be made mere tools to further the political advancement of ambitious aspirants. Yet, such they must become if the proposed course is pursued. The debate upon the resolutions of Mr. Black shows plainly that he, and those who acted with him, expect to gain their end through the agency of the Republican party. In flattering that political organization some of the speakers were led to refer to the whole body of the Democratic party in terms which could not be regarded as other wise than most iusultirn,. Is the work of the temperance men to be con fined to one political party? Ale all who join any of the various temperance organizations expected to abandon the political principles which they believe to be best calculated to enhance all the great interests of this nation? So we would infer from'the debate which we publish elsewhere. We would most respectfully inform the gentlemen who are making such calculations that they are greatly mistaken. No Democrat will adhere to any organiza tion which avows such a policy. Demo crats have not been tried in the severe school of bitter persecution in vain. By them the political principles of their party are regarded as most sacred. Through their triumph alone do they expect to see the liberties of the people preserved, and our form of free govern ment transmitted to posterity. They are earnest believers in the great truths which underlie the time honored po litical organization with which they are proud to be associated. Neither by bribes nor flatteries, nor by any raising of false issues can they be turned aside from the discharge of the high political duties set before them. They are firm as adamant, a tried band of brothers which cannot be broken. By this merging of all the various tem perance organizations in the Republican party, that really noble and worthy cause will suffer irretrievable injury. That is sure to be the result of such ill advised action and such distempered debate as that of yesterday. The Re publican party can gain nothing by it, the Democratic party can lose nothing but the cause of temperance will be affected, and that most disastrously. Jet There be an End to the Republic. the objection urged by the New York imes to a July session of Congress is that it will injure trade aud commerce. The ob jection rests on utterly mistaken grounds. Commerce needs nothing so much as secu rity, and capital cares very little what may be the form of government so long as it is stable and not liable to change.—Harris burg Telegraph. The above item from the central organ of the Republican party of Pennsylva nia, is very significant. The announce• ment that "capital cares very little what may be the form of government, so long as it is stable and not liable to change," tells a startling story. The shoddyites, the rich manufacturers, the kings of the moneyed world would be willing to seethe Republic destroyed if thereby they might be benefitted. Wel come a despotism like that of Russia, if under such a form of government a privileged class may be fostered to live at ease d the bard earnings of the toil ing millions. That is what the Tele graph means if it means anything. What do the masses think of that kind of Republicanism ? Radical Victory The Harrisburg Telegraph announces with quite a flourish of trumpets, that the Republicans at Hilton Head, South Carolina, have just succeeded in elect ing a Justice cif the Peace. That is a Radical triumph, a thing that only oc curs of late where white men are dis franchised while negroes do the voting. PHILADELPHIA cannot maintain a line of Steamers ; cannot receive the President of the United States ; and can not afford to celebrate the nation's birth day. Patriotic and liberal city. The Perry County Democrat This excellent Democratic paper has been enlarged and otherwise improved. Its editor, Mr. Magee, is a talented gen tleman, and we are glad to see that his paper is well sustained. The Gettysburg Swindle We notice that a few of our exchangeg which were foolish enough to insert the advertisement sent out by the Gettys burg Asylum Lottery Swindle, are still publishing it. We hope they may get paid. That's all. THERE is no Maine Law and no State Constable In Geim any ; yet a letter from Leipsig says that in that city of ninety thousand inhabitants, the arrests for drunkenness average less than eleven hundred a year, while in Boston, with almost twice the population, the arrests last year were kurteen thousand six hundred. They have a Maine Law, and State Constable to enforce it, in Boston ! The Clinton Democrat One of the ablest and best conducted newspapers in Pennsylvania is the Clinton Democrat, published at Lock Haven. It comes to us this week great ly enlarged and otherwise improved. We are glad to notice this substantial evidence of its prosperity. It deserves it all, ' A Chance for Jeff. Davis. There is a chance for Jeff. Davis to become the pet of the entire Radical faction. He may, within one month, convert himself from an outcast . and an object of abuseinto the favorite of every "loyal" blatherskite. In the country. All he need do is. to write a letter, a lit tle stronger than thakof General Long street, endorsing the Republican party, lauding the Congressional plan for pre venting a restoration of the Union, and favoring negro suffrage and negro equality. The telegraph would spread his words with the rapidity of light ning; they would be copied with ap proving comments by every Republican newspaper, and quoted by every Repub lican orator ; his unconditional pardon would be instantly demanded ; a house would be presented to him by the Union League of Philadelphia; and we are not sure that he would not be made the Radical candidate for President by ac clamation. If we were disposed to ad vise him to imitate the,servility of Re publican politicians we d would urge him to try that dodge. He would wake up the next morning to find all his bitterest enemies his most obsequious flatterers. Let him think of it! Morrow B. Lowry The Senate of Pennsylvania seems likely to be bored with Morrow B. Lowry three mortal years longer. In spite of the active and bitter opposition of the Republican newspapers of Craw ford, he has carried 'that county and made his renomination a certainty. He has promised to widen and deepen their canals, to drain Grinnell's swamp, to dig down hills and fill up hollows at the cost of the State Treasury ; and if it had been demanded of him, we have no doubt but he would have engaged to dye and crisp his hair and cut off his ruffles, in order to secure a renomination. It appears by the following item which we clip from the Pittsburg Commercial of yesterday, that in addition to all the forgoing, he intends to make a new county for the special benefit of the oleaginous town of Titusville : In a speech from the balcony of the United States Hotel, in Titusville, on Thursday evening last, M. B. Lowry pledged himself in favor of a new county, and declared that if nominated and elected Senator he would pass a new county bill at Harrisburg. Is it pos.ible Mr. Lowry can have such power ful influence in the next Legislature? We presume he meant only to say he would exert his influence for a new county. The Maine Radicals The Radicals of Maine have renomi nated Gov. Chamberlain. Among the resolutions passed by the Convention we find the following: Resolved, That permanent peace can be secured to the nation only by a firm adher ence to the self-evident truths that all men aro created equal. Resolved, That political powers being the inherent right of the citizen, impartial suf frage should be the uniform law of all the States, secured either by the authority al ready possessed by Congress or by the amendment of the Constitution of the 'United States. Resolved, Thu' the recent legislation of Congress provi og for the restoration of the latejliebel .Ltes to their proper rela tions in the Union is characterized by jus tice and sound statesmanship ; and receives the hearty support of the loyal citizens of Maine. Away down in Maine Republicans speak out in meeting. They are not afraid to say what the principles of the party are. The {fork to be Done by Congress. The Pittsburg Commercial, the lead ing Republican newspaper in Western Pennsylvania, thus foreshadows what will be done at the July session of Con gress: "The confiscation plan said to be most popular among Republican Congressmen, and which will come up during the July session, is the following: First.—Abolish all the existing Slate Governments in the South. Second—Seize all lands to which a valid title can't be shown, and sell the same under patent to pay for the recon struction and help to pay the war debt. Third—Make the military power supreme for six months, or until a Constitution is adopted and a republican form of govern ment guaranteed to suit the views of Con gress. Fourth—To proceed to the impeach ment of the President at once. The con servatives will oppose the latter measure strenuously, but it is understood that they will not attempt to stay the other measures which are virtually a compromise with Ste vens and Sumner." If the programme thus laid down is to be carried out the session will not be a short oue, and the country will be plunged into difficulties to which those surrounding us at present are light in deed. The revolutionists will stop at nothing they may deem necessary to ensure to them a continuance of the power they have shamefully misused. If the outrages proposed in the above summary are not all consummated it will be because they have some slight dread of public opinion left. Democratic Judges Judge Ludlow, of Philadelphia, is a Democrat, and. has been on the bench for some years. By limitation his term of office would expire this fall, but the members of the Philadelphia bar, with out respect to party, have united in recommending him as a candidate for re-election. The Ledger and even For ney's Press commend this action, and no candidate is likely to be presented in opposition to him. A similar compli ment was paid to Judge Sharswood during the war. What high evidence of his entire fitness for a place on the bench of the Supreme Court could be adduced. That he will be triumphant ly elected no one who is well posted doubts. RonErtl' J. 'WALKER, himself a zeal ous supporter of the war, in his argu_ ment before the Supreme Court on the military bill, thus characterised it: " I have gone through Egypt, Syria, Turkey in Asia end Turkey in Europe, and th.usands ~1 miles through Russia, and there was no such despotism in Africa, or Asia, or Turkey, or Russia, as that which was established by these acts. They all had courts of some description, and allowed a hearing and opportunity of defence. The sword was not the only arbiter ; but here an act of Congress swept ten States out of existence. lettuce(' them to a worse than territorial bondage, and subjected every one of them—ten millions of people, of all ages, sexes and colors—to the despotic will of a military commander. The Radicals affected to sneer at this description of their pet measure, when it was first uttered. Now they insist that it is exactly what Mr. Walkersaid it was, and they clamor for a meeting of Congress to give it that effect! Somerset County The Democracy of Somerset county held their county convention on Mon• day last. Hiram Findlay, Esq., of Elklick, w•as nominated for the Legis lature; Cassimer Cramer, of Middle creek, for Treasurer, Isaac Miller, of Summit. for Commissioner, and Lieut. Lepley, of Larimer, for Auditor. Address by Judge Lowrie On Tuesday evening last ex-Chief Justice Lowrie delifered the annual ad dress before the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College in Carlisle. His subject was " Liberty" and the Volun teer says his address was one of great power and eloquence. It will be pub lished in pamphlet form. The Sheriff Alter Fremont,. The leaders of the God and Morality party do not seem to get along stnooth ly. The Sheriff is after the great " path finder" who was the guest of Old Thad a few days since. A radical cotempora ry says : " The sheriff of St. Louis has seized about one hundred and twenty tons of railroad iron belonging to John C. Fremont, destined for the use of the Atlantic and Pacific Rail road. The writ was in favor of the German Savings Bank, which had loaned the coin pany some six thousand dollars, and had not been able to get pay when the money became due, The Radical Platform The following are the resolutions adopted by the Radical State Convention: The Republicans of Pennsylvania appeal ing again to the people, take pleasure in recalling the repeated occasions in which the voters of the Commonwealth have sus tained and ratified their candidates and principles, and strongly impressed with the importance of the issues involved in the en suing election, mako this declaration of their opinions and principles : First. That, in the name of the nation saved from treason, we demand security against its repetition by exacting from the vanquished such guarantees as will make treason so odious as to be forever impossi ble. Second. That, as in the past we cordially justified the administration of Abraham Lincoln in all necessary acts for the sup pressing of rebellion, we record it as our judgment that the administration of An drew Johnson has been chiefly faithless. because it has failed to try to gather up and fix in the organic and statute law the great principles which the war has settled, and without whose adoption as the rule of action peace is but a delusion and a snare. Third. That, in the completion of the task of reconstruction, so firmly as to be perpet ual, it is indispensable that traitors beaten in the field shall not find a sanctuary in the courts ; that the laws shall not be tortured to justify or palliate the crimes of which the country's enemies have been guilty, and that the law of war shall be so distinctly declared by the courts that no disturbing and paralyzing doubts may ever be raised, as in 1861, affecting the essential rights of the Government or personal duties of citizens. Fourth. That this convention, speaking for the Republicans of Pennsylvania, un reservedly endorses the reconstruction measures of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses as a basis upon sound principles, essentially just and wise, and promise an early legal and permanent restoration of the rebel States to their share in the gov ernment of the Union; that we denounce and condemn the efforts of President John son, through his pliant Attorney General and a majority of his Cabinet, to evade these law, by interfering to obstruct and prevent their enforcement in the spirit in which they were passed, and that we call upon Congress, soon to meet, promptly to dispose of this new nullification. Fifth, That the thanks of the loyal met! of this Commonwealth are hereby tendered to Major General Sheridan and Major Gen eral Sickles for their publicly-declared un willingness to be made instrumental in the startling and truthful words of the former, " in opening, under the Presidential decla ration, a broad, macadamized way for per jury and fraud to travel on," in pursuit of the coveted reposession of political power in the rebel States; anti that this convention confidently expects that General Grant will vindicate his past record by cordially sus taining them in their patriotic efforts to ex ecute the law. .S'ixt/t. That President Johnson further merits our condemnation for his reckless pardon and attempted restoration to politi cal rights of many of the chief conspirators against the Union, and that especially his persistent efforts to compel the release of Jefferson Davis without question for his crimes were a reproach to the administra tion of justice and an insult to the whole loyal people of the nation. Seventh. Thal warned by past misfor tunes, we It-k that the Supreme Court of the State be placed in harmony with the political opinions of the majority of the people, to the end that the court may never again, by unjust decisions, seek to set aside lows vital to the nation, nor imperil the safety of the public securities, nor impair the operation of the bounty, pension and tax laws, which were required for the pub lic defense; nor in any way thwart meas • ures which were essential to the public protection; but that, on the other baud, it may become and remain a tit and faithful interpreter of the liberal spirit of the age, a bulwark of public faith, and an impartial and fearless exponent of the equal rights of man. Eighth. That protection being a cardinal feature of the Republican creed, we trust that such legislation will be secured, at the earliest possible period, as well afford ade quate protection to American industry. Ninth.—That, in conformity with the pledges given last fall by both candidates for Governor, we now demand the enact ment of a free railroad law, by which the enterprise of our people may bestimulated, and the resources of the Commonwealth developed. Tenth. That in Governor John W. Geary wo recognize an honest and courageous public servant, who, in the chair of State, is adding freshness to the laurels gallantly won iu war. Eleventh, That the gratitude of the people to the soldiers and sailors, whose bravery met and overthrew the slaveholders' rebel lion, should have repealed and emphatic expression; and that we heartily disapprove of and condemn the course of the Secretary of the Treasury in postponing and ignoring the just claims of our brave defenders upon the bounty of the Government, awarded to them by the National Congress. Twelfth. That in the Hon. Henry W. Wil liams, of Allegheny county, we present to fife people of Pennsylvania an eminent jurist; one in every way well qualified for the responible duties of the office of Jude of the Supreme Court; able as a lawyer; impartial, prompt, and thorough as a judge ; holiest, upright, without suspicion as a man, and loyal and unwavering in his devotion to the cause of his country. Gen. Sherman and the Indians Gen. Sherman has just issued a compre hensive order for regulating military oper ations against the Indians, applicable to the States and Territories embraced in the mili tary division under his command. He is willing to accept the services of mounted forces, raised by the States and Territories, when any emergency arises, which, in the judgement of the Department Commander, makes it necessary to employ (hem; but he requires that, in such an event, the men shall be mustered in according to the laws of Congress now existing, , and that they shall act in connection with the regular troops. This provision, in effect, discoun tenances and forbids all indeiamdent mili tary action on the part of a State or a Ter ritory against the Indians; but the order recommends that the civil authorities should have small armed companies pre pared at all times to pursue and hunt down the small horse-thieving bands of Indians who, by dispersing, man age to avoid the military forces. But in those cases, when captures are made, the Indians, whether belonging to a reser vation or not, are to be proceeded against according to law. With regard to Indians actually residing on a reservation, or re stricting themselves to territory guaranteed to them by treaty, the order commands the military, and notifies the civil authorities, that those treaty rights are the supreme law of the land, and must be respected. These are the main points in the order, which has been conceived in an eminently humane spirit, honorable to Gen. Sherman alike as a man and a military commander. Henceforth the Indians are uotto be treated as wild beasts, to tie mercilessly hunted down by bands of white men scarcely less savage than their victims. Their treaty rights are to be respected, and they are to be taught the lesson they have never yet properly learned : that the power that can smite the marauder is able and willing to protect in the enjoyment of all their rights the peaceable and well behaved. It is only by following such a policy as that set forth in this order of Gen. Sherman's that any rational hope can be entertained of bringing to an end the Indian wars in which the United States have been perpet ually embroiled.—N. I'. Tribune. The Muster-Rolls of the . Confederate Army. The New York Tribune publishes an ab stract, from documents which fell into the hands of the United States at the downfall of the Confederacy, of the returns of all the Confederate armies, from their organization in the summer of 1061 down to the am - ingot' 1005. It appears from theseducuments that the number of Confederate troops at the east and the west was throughout nearly equal, and that. with the exception of Sep tember, 1063, when Longstreet, with his corps, was sent from Virginia to Tennessee, no considerable body of soldiers was ever transferred from one army to the other. The greatest number on the Confederate mus ter-rolls at any one time was 550,000, and this was when every mule from 17 to 50 was enrolled in the army. The greatest number present for duty at any one time in the whole Confederacy, and that for only a brief period, was 300,000. There were not three periods of a month when they had 250,000. At only three periods did the Army of Northern Virginia, under Lee, number 100,000 men fit for duty. In October, 1861, when .McClellan con fronted Johnston at Manassas, the actual force of Johnston was less than 40,000, and in December, only 54,000. When, in April, 1862, McClellan landed on the Peninsula, Magruder had 15,000 men ; and when McClellan assailed Yorktown the Confed erates had on the whole Peninsula less than 50,000 men. When he reached the Chicha hominy the Confederates had at Richmond but 47,000, increased at the close of May to about 60,00 effectives. On the 26th of June. when Lee began his movement against McClellan, the Confederates numbered a little more than 100,000 effective men.— When, after the battle of Gettysburg, Meade reached the Rappahannock, Lee had 41,000 men. The Confederacy was at its highest point of military efficiency in the early summer of 1863, when the movement into Pennsylvania was commenced. Every able bodied man, except those in the workshops and civil departments, was enrolled ; seven out of ten were actaally present, and six out of ten were " present for duty." When the Confederate army, in April, 1865, with drew from Petersburg, it is supposed not to have numbered, all told, 25,000. As A TONIC/ AND APPETIZER, nothing can equal the effect of Dr. H. Anders' lodine Water. Unlike all stimulants its effect is permanent, building up the body, and giv ing strength and vitality to all parts of the system. In old and chronic cases it may be used with almost a certainty of success.— Communicated. News Henn. • • A fire at Toledo, 0., yesterday, destroyed $28,000 worth of property. Fifty Mormon missionaries have arrived at St. Louis, on their way to Europe. The latest official news from Creje, re ceived in Washington, does not confirm the reported victories of Omar Pasha. Several deaths from cholera are reported in Memphis and Louisville. The trial of the May rioters begins in Richmond, Va., to-day. Madame Juarez has left Washington, to return to Mesico. On leaving Paris, the Czar of Rnsstagave 1,000,000 francs for the poor of that city. Two men were killed by a railroad acci dent near Elmira, New York, yesterday. Tom Thumb and wife, Commodore Nult and Minnie Warren, arrived from Europe on the steamer lowa, The recent rains are reported to have in jured the crops in Maryland. It is feared they have also caused injury to the crops in this State The steamer Eagle, from New York to Havana, on Wednesday, had but sixteen passengers. The yellow fever reports were the cause. The suppression of the sale and firing of crackers on the ensuing Fourth is warmly urged by the press of several of the principal cities, and in some of them the prohibition has been decreed In Baltimore, yesterday, Francis Hart, a printer shot Columbus Fenchell, restaurant keeper, on the street. Fenchell died in half an hour. Jealousy was the cause of tho murder. An Austrian, representing himself as an officer of Maximilian, has passed through Galveston, and reports that Maximilian has been pardoned on condition of leaving the country. The customs receipts at New York, Bos ton, Philadelphia and Baltimore, from the 15th to the 22d inst., were iN'2,725,889. The receipts at New Orleans, front the Bth to the 15th, were $48,696. The steamer F. W. Brooke was robbed and burned at St. Louis recently, and the captain and crew are charged with a con spiracy to rob and burn her, for the pur pose of obtaining the insurance money. Near Somerville, N. J., on Saturday, a boy twelve years of age, was murdered by a luau named Vanarsdale. The boy, a son of An drew Beard, was sent to call Vanarsdale to breakfast, when the latter cut the boy's throat. Vanarsdale is under arrest. In consequence of the per capita tax at New York having been increased to three dollars, ship owners are preparing to land emigrants elsewhere, and with that vkew have sent agents to the Eastern States to provide for the exigencies of the case. A very cheering feature in this season's business in California is the enormous yield of wool received from the southern counties. Tulare alone is set down for 00,000 pounds, worth to the producers not less than $llO,- 000. Fresno, Merced and Stanislaus are also becoming lure wool producers. The United States are getting on poorly in prosecuting claims before the British Courts, which invariably decides against us, whether we are plaintiffs or defendants; and what is worse, Judah P. Benjamin, who conducts the cases agninstus, is petted, while our counsel trre snubbed. Despatches from Washington say it is pretty certain that there will be a quorum of Congressmen present on Wednesday, provided the Democrats do not absent t hem selve. Any Democratic member who would aid in making up a quorum at this time would deserve to be characterized as a fool or Worse. Gettysburg has come to consider the bat tle there a gond thing, or in the language of a local hotel keeper, "the battle turned out well for Gettysburg. Ilack drivin' and hotel keepin' are a bit more encouragin'. It was difficult to see what Providence set us atween two tires for, but on look in' into our cash accounts we understand it all." The Register of Vital Statistics notes the fact that the deaths in New York last week were fewer than in any similar period since IS6O, the total number beingSo less than the average in any corresponding ‘ week in the last fourteen years. The first three weeks of June usually give the lowest mortality in the year. Ile again urges 'boring)) surface drainage and the improvement of sewers for the prevention of epidemics, The London correspondent of the Phila delphia Inquirer says: It is announced that Mr. James Gordon Bonnet t, Jr., designs starting a daily paper in London. lilts has a fortune superior to that of the Marquis of Westminster, and willing to sink a good portion of it, he 'nay, perhaps, succeed ; but that nobleman, with his $5,000 a day income, failed tc, keep his newspaper in existence more than three months, and the Pull Mull Uazette was not able to stand alone until its proprietors had sunk about .4100,000. A lady arrived at :ISt. Louis Hotel the other day. At a favorable moment she induced a young man to visit her room, when she closed and locked the door. Thereupon she offered him a hundred dol lars and large promises of more if he would marry her. The young man was 'disin clined, being otherwiseengaged. The next day she gave birth to a child, which died At the lust accounts the mother was doing well—but no one knows who she is, and thereby she keeps her secret well. No one should wish to rob her of it. Fort Wallace, Kansas, was attacked by several hundred Indians on the 26th ult., and out of its garrison of 10 men, four were killed and four mortally wounded. The Indians were repulsed with a loss of twenty killed, Fort Wallace is on Pond Creek and is about 200 miles from the present terminus of the Eastern division of the Union Pacific Railroad. There is a report from Fort llarker that Gen. Custer, with usrtumll force of cavalry, has been overpowered by Indians, and that the General has been killed. The Marquis of Hastings, who was gen erally supposed to have been ruined by his losses on the Derby, astonished every body on the settling day by appearing at Tatter sall's at an early hour with a thousand hundred-pound bank bills, new and crisp front the Bank of England. lie was be friended in his strait by Mr. Bass, M. I'. for Derby, whose name has become famous the world over in connection with bitter beer. Whether the Marquis will get any benefit front what ought to be a salutary lesson to him is doubted by his friends ; but he Is ungrateful if he does not instantly add a beer barrel to the family arms. Crops In the West A writer in the Chicago Tribune, who claims to have traveled much in the West, asserts—contrary to nearly everybody else —that iulimns, Missouri and lowa, the prospect of even an average crop of corn is poor indeed. In Missouri, he says, the prospect is better: but on the whole, he thinks the great staple of the \Vest the corn crop, this year, cannot by any lair calcula tion be set down at more than one-half to two-thirds of the usual yield, and the chances are that it will biLuen less. The wheat, he says, looks betit.ti and if rust, weevil, grasshoppers, or anything else don't prevent, there will be a tolerable yield. Tho potato crop is assailed by the bug, and the writer sees nothing to rejoice over in tho prospect. But the hay Is heavy and fine, and the fruit crop of every description un equaled. This is the first croak, concerti ng the crop prospect, we have heard. Not Accepted Secretary Stanton ham written to General Sickles declining to grant his request to be relieved from command of the Carolinas. It will be remembered that General Sickles sent his request to the Secretary of War. General Grant has replied to Sheridan's lust letter, but refused to give a reply for publication until the return of President Johnson. It is not known but by a few what there, ply was. It is stated on good authority, however, that ho merely ordered General Sheridan to act as usual until the return of the President, when definite orders will be given. Wilkes Booth and the President The Judiciary Committee recently sent down to Nashville u confidential person to ascertain the relations that existed between J. Wilkes Booth and President Johnson when both were in Nashville, during the latter part of the war. After interrogating many prominent men of both parties, nothing further was discovered than that Booth, and the then military governor of Tennessee had no connection with eac , a other whatever. Apropos of this, a Nas'n ville paper says: "Strange to relate, (len. Grant, who knew that Booth was a rank rebel, and had refused to take the oath, gave him a pass to go to New Orleans in the early part 01 1.%.1, writing and signing the docu ment himself." Southern Voters There were In 1860, 50,510 white voters in Louisiana. Thirty•eight thousand colored voters have thus far been registered under the Military Act. It is computed that the total will amount to forty thousand, all of whom will vote the Republican ticket in the State. Notwithstanding this, the New Orleans Republican (Radical) states that if alltbe white voters in the State are registered, " as they may be trader Mr.Stanbery's deci sion," they can vote down a Convention by five thousand majority. The Mobile Timex (Conservative) "regrets to see a growing sentiment in Mississippi against the hold ing of a Convention," and warns the people that if , they yield to it there will be a "new period of anxiety and uncertainty." An Indiscretion Only The statement of the elopement or the Radical ',preacher MERRILL, of North Ad ams, Mass., with Miss HOUGHTON,, a gir of sixteen, is denied by his friends, who claim that the Reverend's offence was "in discretion, not crime," They ask for "a suspension of public opinion." On this point the Boston Post says: " An eloping clergyman, who decoyed away a young girl, asks for a suspension of public opinion. Public opinion would be, very glad to see him suspended,'
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