Pura toter
WEDNESDAY, SEPT'R 25, 1867
FOR JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT:
Ron. GEoRGE SHARBWOOD, of Phila.
County Committee Meeting..
The Democratic County Committee of Lan
caster County will meet at the Democratin
Club Rooms, in the City of Lancaster, on SAT
URDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1867, at 11 o'clock A.
A full attendance J. is requested.
Ai. STEIN SEAN, Chairman.
B. J. MCGIIANN, Secretary.
The Democratic County Convention.
As the WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER goes
to press on Tuesday evening we can not
publish the ticket this week, or lay be
fore the readers of our Weekly the pro
ceedings of the Convention. We can,
however, assure them in advance that a
full ticket, composed of sound Demo
crats, will be nominated. Let all our
friends go to work to perfect the organ_
ization and to bring out every vote, and
all will be well, at least so far as the
State is concerned.
THE Radicals charge that the Demo
cratic party is wedded to past issues.
Will some of their fellows tell us what
new issue they offer for consideration
other than that of negro equality?
0 -
'DIE Radicals of the Last Legisla
ture eagerly voted themselves and their
clerks $3OO a piece extra pay, and re
fused to continue to pay the few sur
viving veterans of the war of 1812 the
meagre pittance of $lO a year. Let the
sohliers remember that.
.18E - Hour's attempt to shield from
punishment the Lieutenant who install
ed a prostitute in a respectable hotel in
Mississippi by aid of the soldiers under
his command, is of a piece with other
acts of which he has been guilty. What
a beartiful specimen of the Radical of
ficial I is, to be sure.
A Southern paper thinks that, while
they have the yellow fever down there
we have the black vomit in the North:
It instances California, Maine and Mon
tana as evidences of the spread of the
disease. We imagine there will be
something of the sante kind the matter
with Pennsylvania ou the Bth of Octo
ber.
Teti; Radicals have had a very fierce
fight in Erie county over the nomina
tion of a State Senator. Lowry was
too much for Iris opponents. The Con
vention pjesented a scene of great con
fusion, and intense bitterness was dis
played. The opponents of Lowry swear
they will vote for the Democratic can
didate.
THE ;lb' , /, ;hilly, a rabid German
Radical paper of N?w York, is so dis
couraged by the political reaction as to
assert that " the Radical party, having
accomplished everything it was organ
ized fir, is now pining away for want of
new ir, , LIVS. " Lel us give the finishing
stroke lo the corrupt concern by rolling
up a huge Democratic majority in Penn
sylvania on the sill of October.
.lusTicE has abandon
ed the bench and has betaken himself
to Ohio. Ile goes to help on the Itadi
eal canvass in that :-ztate. Even there
the pi aspect is that there will be a grand
revolution. 'l'ie only question
in Pennsylvania is, will the Democratic
vole I s ' hilly I.lletl^ it is, our ma
jority will lie perfectly overwhelming.
x is said to be preparing a new
lecture ,HI " Across the Continent." It
is to commence in California, have a
" breathing spell" in Montana, and ter
minates in Maine, ending witli very
brief reflections as to the distance from
the latter state to the White House at
Washington, and how to get there. In
ISils it will be issued in a very small
book hound in black sheep.
Ql•Eltv.—Will the Radical members
of the Lump 'ongress prevent the
newly elected Democratic representa
tives of California from taking their
seats 'ongres4, until they appoint a
committee to inquire whether that
Slate has a Repuldicau form of govern
ment? 'they did that in the case of
Maryland and Kentucky. Why should
they not do so in regard to California?
To I: Examiner says, the
effect or the admission of the negroes to
testify has been to convert all white
men into liars and perjurers. So sure
as a white man brings a charge against
a negro, ball' a dozen other negroes are
always ready to swear him out of the
scrape. Some negroes make a business
of this thing, and are always hanging
about the Miiyor's office, ready to give
any testimony desired at a moment's
notice.
Tit r. Armstrong ferpubficmicharges
that time is a whiskey league mostly
composed or Democrats, which meets
in secret, end is organized for political
purposes. That is a lie. But it is true
that there is a league of another charac
ter in this county, composed mostly of
ltadicals, which is being used as, a po
litical machine to swell the vole for
Judge Williams and certain of the
candidates on the Radical county
ticket.
THE New York Tr/bum . is alarmed at
the political reaction, and candidly ad
mits that the Democrats will be almost
sure to elect the next President if they
carry Pennsylvania at the cooling elec
tion. Do you hear that Democrats of
the Old Keystone State? Here is an
incentive to exertion. Let not a single
vote be left unpolled on the second Tues
day of October.
Oen. Lyle, the Democratic candidate
for Sheriff of Philadelphia, who march
ed wilh his regiment to the defence of
Washington at the first call for troops
and served until the close of the war,
participating in all the battles of the
Army of the Potomac, is now denounced
by the Pr( 88 us a "rebel sympathizer."
Forney made a fortune by the rebellion,
and this is his opinion of the men
who helped to crush it.
THE Radical leaders of the Itepubli•
can party have staked the existence of
their organization upon the single issue
of negro equality. They forced it upon
the people of the South at the point of
the bayonet, because they knew that
without subjecting the Southern States
to negro domination, their rule would
be ended as soon as the Union was re
stored. Having thus made negro equal
ity the rule in the Southern States, they
must of necessity extend it to every
other State. They can not expect to
Maintain the system in the South if it
should be repudiated in the North.
Hence the resolve to pass a sweeping
COngressional enactment, which Judge
Williams is pledged to enforce.
The Gears Liquor Law
The Republican Mayor of Philadel
phca is the father of the infamous Liquor
Law of the State. It was offered in the
Senate by Bigham, Republican, from
Allegheny county. Iwas passed in
that body by a strict party vote—every
Democrat voting against it, and all, save
'one Republican, voting in its favor, It
was swindled through the Republican
House of Representatives, and it was
signed by a Republican Governor. It
may, therefore, be set down as a fresh
plank in the Republican platform to be
voted on this fall.
Freemen of Pennsylvania
Are you in favor of repudiating the
Constitution of the United States, and
governing one-third of the country out
side of its fundamental law?
Do you wish to make the National
Legislature omnipotent, and clothe
Congress with imperial power?
Do you desire to cripple the National
Executive, and deprive him of the
power of removing his own Cabinet?
Do you sanction the transfer of the
appointing power from the President to
the Senate of thy United States, so that
the scoundrels whom the Senate has
forced into the revenue service of the
country, may remain there for life?
Do you approve of Military Despotism
at the South, and the erection of Five
Monarchies in Republican America?
DO you thank (as did Congress) ty
rants for subverting elective govern
ments, enacting and repealing laws by
autocratic power, and resisting the
judicial process of the United States?
Do you concede to Congress the right
to regulate the elective franchise in the
States, so as to disfranchise and en
franchise whom it pleases, and thereby
perpetuate its own power and appoint
s successors?
Do you sanction Negro Suffrage at
the South, and Negro Supremacy in the
Union?
Are you prepared to admit African
Senators and Representatives into the
Congress of the United States?
Will you agree to have your votes
killed by the ballots of plantation ne
groes, and your Representatives neu
tralized by colored Representatives from
e South?
Will you consent to have the Senators
from Pennsylvania balanced by the
Senators of Carolina negroes?
Do you want the President of the
United States impeached and removed
from office, because he has left the
Republican party?
Are you in favor Of squandering Fif-
teen Millions per annum of your hard
earnings, through the Freedmen's Bu
reau, upon the lazy uegroes of the
South?
Are you willing to waste millious of
public money iu registering negroes for
suffrage?
Do you sanction the infamous ex
ravagance'and corruptions of \Vash-
iugton and Harrisburg?
If you are prepared to answer these
questions in the affirmative, rote the
Radicalliclort. But if you respond in
the negative, VOTE THE DEmoun.vric
TICKET, and follow the banner of
SHABliwoon to victory.
A Republican Mass Meeting
The Radicals of Lancaster county have
been so busy quarreling over the rejec
tion of the Crawford county system, that
they have found neither time nor in
clination to indulge in their imposing
annual parade of big wagons, fat horses,
multitudinous buggies, and allthe pump
and circumstances with which they
have been accustomed to marshal their
forces. They have only held one mass
meeting in the county. That came oil'
at Christiana on Saturday, and was a
joint unit: between the counties of
Chester and Lancaster. The attendance
is said to have been large, and the
Ea:press gives up no less than five solid
columns to a report of the proceedings.
The speakers were all of the truly loyal
complexion, and all their utterances
were of the must radically loyal charac
ter. John _Brown and Abraham Lincoln
were canonized as twin martyrs, and
by their sacred ashes the advance guard
of the Republican party swore neither
to stop nor stay until the great work of
political regeneration was fully cum-
Aeted.,,
The speeches or the negroes at Chris-
tiaua were not more extravagant or
foolish than are the leading editorials of
Republican newspapers, :Lint the
speeches or Republican orators. 'file
same topics were discussed in about the
saute style. The Constitution of the
United States was sneered at; the
restoration of the Union was declared
to be a consideration secondary to the
enfranchisement of the negroes; the
war was regarded as having accom
plished nothing, unless negro equality
should speedily become the law of the
land; the government of Pennsylvania
was denounced as anti-Republican; Con
gress was urged to assert its supremacy
by the speedy enfranchisement of the ne
groes in thisand other i'.‘iortliWn States;
the Democratic party was dAunced as
the enemy of progress; conli..cation of
the lands of the South was demanded;
President Johnson was abused in just
such terms as are constantly employed
by white members of the black Repub
lican party ; and when themale negroes
had all bawled themselves hoarse in a
reiteration of the doctrines of the party,
a lady of dark complexion awl crinkly
hair, done up in fashionable style, (we
are always polite to the ladies, and to
call a Republican oratress a negru wench
would be Hat treason,) was introdOced,
and proved, according to the .I....rprf ss,
to he the trump caul of the occasion.
We advise all our friends to read the
accoun tof the Ilrst and wily I tepublican
LIMNS meeting held In title county, as it
appears In the Express.
One 11113 for Your Country
The working wen of Pittriburgi have
formed a party of their own and have
put a lull county ticket, in- Hui field.--
'llicy are working for it with a will, and
they propose to lithe a full holiday on
the second Tuesday or October, so as to
see that a full vote is polled. Would it
not be well for Democrats throughout
the State to do that. We Lhrow out the
suggestion for their consideration.—
Surely the issues involved iu the present
campaign are of stalicient importance
to demand the active labor of more than
a single day from every true lover oh' his
country. ‘Vhat say you then to making
election day, not exactly a holiday, but
a day of hard work for the right?
The Moral rower of a Great Victory.
If it were absolutely certain that
Judge Sh arswood would be elected by a
handsome majority we should be none
the less persistent in urging every
Democratic voter in the county to go to
the polls. There is a vast deal of moral
power in large majorities. - What is
needed just now is an overwhelming
popular verdict against the infamous
and destructive policy of the radical
revolutionists. They claim that the
people endorse their acts. Do they?
Do the masses of Pen nsy 1 van ia approve
of the open violation of the Constitu
tion, of the destruction of Slates of the
old Union and the erection of a set of
negro republics in their stead ? Are
they prepared to endorse military des
potism, the shameless corruption
which prevails everywhere, the propo
sition to force negro equality upon us
by Congressional enactments,' the im
mense and almost unmeasured waste
of the pdblic money? know they
are not, and we are confident that they
will say so on the Sth of October. But,
they should speak in thunder tones. We
want no meagre majority. Let every
man resolve that he will leave no effort
unemployed to increase the vote and
we will acchieve a victory which will
be clothed with immense moral power.
Just such a triumph Is possible. Proper
organization and active exertion will
give it to us. Then let us all work with
all our might.
THE majority for the new Constitu
tion in Maryland is about 26,000.
Things to be Remembered when Yon go
:to Vote
When you go to vote; remember that
the'Union is not restored. '
When you go to vote, remember that
all the blood shed and all the treasure
e.xpended in the war have failed to pur
chase peace.
When you go to vote, remember that
the Union might have been restored
and that peace might now prevail, but
for the opposition of the leaders of the
Republican party. -
When you go to vote, remember that
the Constitution is being continually
violated and constantly sneered at.
When you go to vote, remember that
Thad. Stevens openly declares that
Congress is acting "outside of the Con
stitution."
When you go to vote, remember that
negro republics have been set up on the
ruins of eleven of the States of the Union.
When you go to vote, remember that
white men have been repeatedly de
posed by military satraps to Make room
for negro officials.
When you go to vote, remember that
a negro has already been made a Judge
in New Orleans.
When you go to vote, remember that
negroes fill the jury boxes in the South.
When you go to vote, remember that
negro Congressmen and negro Senators
from the South are shortly expected to
legislate for Pennsylvania.
When you go to vote, remember that
the wasted and oppressed South, once
the richest section of our country, is kept
impoverished by the policy of Congress.
When you go to vote, remember that
your taxes are thereby vastly increased.
When you go to vote, remember that
while you are thus ground to the earth
by oppressive taxation that the holders
of U. S. Bonds do not pay one penny.
When you go to vote, remember that
the leaders of the Republican party de
clare that the government of Pennysyl
vania is not Republican in form.
When you go to vote, remember that
Senator Sumner openly boasts that the
negro will be made your equal by an
act to be passed at the next session of
Congress.
When you go to vote, remember that
the Republican papers of this State
openly endorse that proposition.
When you go to vote, remember that
a Republican triumph in Pennsylvania
will be regarded as a popular endorse
ment of Sumner's plan.
When you go to vote, remember that
Henry W. Williams is pledged to en
force such an enactment.
When you go to vote, remember that
the Republican party of this State
openly and shamelessly repudiated a
solemn contract to pay the interest of
the State debt in coin.
When you go to vote, remember that
Judge Sharswood has decided that a
contract to pay a debt " in coin " Is
binding and should be enforced.
When you go to vote, remember that
Judge Williams has endorsed the re
pudiation of the contract to pay the
State debt in coin, and also the repudi
ation of the Allegheny County bonds.
When you go to vote, remember that
Congress is corrupt beyond all precedent,
and that many millions of the money
wrung from your toil is being stolen by
that body and their minions.
When you go to vote, remember that
the Legislature of this State has been
little better than a den of thieves under
Radical rule.
When you go to vote, remember thu
it is folly to expect economy and reform
until there is a complete change of ad-
MIMIIIBMI
- When you go to vote, remember that
every vote east for the Radical candi
dates is a direct vote for a continuance
of all the abuses under which the ua-
lion is so sorely oppressed.
Be sure and vote, and be sure that you
keep the condition of the country in
view when you deposit your ballot.
Vote for a change!
Vote for reform !
Vote for lower taxes !
Vote against negro equality!
Vote for economy in Congress and the
State Legislature !
Vote against committing this nation
to the combined rule of the Puritan and
the negro !
Vote early !
Vote the Democratic ticket !
See that your neighbor votes, and that
lie votes right !
Let there be one grand rally of the
thoughtful voters, and the rule of the
Radical revolutionists will be ended in
Pennsylvania.
We append two specimen bricks from
the Radical Legislation of last winter,
viz :
Act of April 17W, 1567, section A:
All persons [thusi licensed, CIOSO
Or Shut up their bar or place of sale, at or
before the hour of twelve every night, and
not open the sante until sunrise next day,
and on Sundays shall not open them at all,
but keep them shut until Atonday at sun•
rise,
Act of 'Alareli 2'2d, 1867, section :t:
No license to keep an eating house, beer
house or restaurant, under the provisions
of the second section of this not, shall be
granted io any incorporated city for a loss
stun than tiny dollars, nor elsewhere for a
less stint than twenty dollars.
These acts were passed by a Radical
Legislature and approved by a Radical
Governor. They are parts of the system
of Radical legislation whien prevails
from Maine to Minnesota. Two mem
bers of the Legislature that enacted
these laws, Messrs. Armstrong and
Steacy, have been nominated upon the
Radical ticket of this county for re
\ election.
Such of our citizens as condemn these
la , s will doubtless vote against Messrs.
Armstrong mkt Steaey. lint their fruit•
less opposition to the ponderous parti
zan majority of the county will only
excite the derision of the Radical lead
ers. Indeed the latter seem to invite
opposition to the candidates named, in
the hope that it will divert their oppo
nents from the only course which will
make their influence felt.
The election of the Bth of October
affects both State and county. The
Radical party is equally interested in
both, and most anxious about the result
iu the State. The legislation referred
to extends over the whole Common
weafth. Then let its opponents apply
a remedy as broad as the disease, and
strike at the vitals of the Radical party
by voting the Democratic State ticket.
If they do this, there will be no Radical
sneers at their impotent revenge.
There is but one way to stop such
legislation, and that is, to show, through
the ballot box, that it will ruin the
Party which adopta it. The opponents
of the obnoxious laws can best accom
plish this by voting the whole Demo
cratic ticket.
Change In the Mode of voting
As the law of the State stands two
tickets, or slips, must be voted at the
corning election, the one to be labeled
outside "Judiciary," and to contain
the name of the candidate for Judge of
the Supreme Court and other Judges
of Courts ; the other to be labeled
"County," and to contain the name of
all other olflcers who will be voted for
this fall.
TILE Press asks why the Democrats
did not nominate soldiers for office dur
ing the war? The question is easily
answered. Such soldiers as Demoerats
nominate were in the field during the
war, and were not candidates ; and as
for the parlor soldiers they all went over
to the Black Republicans.
The Twin Relic.
Slavery, which as a relic of barbarism
was so disagreeable to the finesensibili
ties of the members of the Republican
party, having been abolished and re
moved from the field of political agita
tion, that organization is now engaged
in making a desperate raid upon what
they are pleased to style its twin relic.;
namely, the use of intoxicating drinks.
Emboldened by their successful attack
upon the one "relic," they feel confi
dent that they will not fail in their on
slaught upon the other; not indeed that
they care anything for the "temper
ance" of which they prate so much, as
is evidenced by the notorious intemper
ance of many of the chief advocates of
the cause in our own county ; but then
they think it is a good and plausible
doctrine upon which to go before the
people and secure political power. Dur
ing the session of the Legislature last
winter these temperance men succeeded
in having enacted a very stringent
liquor law, which was approved by
Hans Geary, and under which keepers
of public houses are now suffering.
Now, intemperance is doubtless a
very great evil ; but it is an evil which
the Democratic party has always held
could not be cured by legislation, and
experience has shown that their views
are correct. Stringent prohibitory liquor
laws are in force in some of the New
England States, which yet do not cause
any noticeable diminution in the con
sumption of liquor therein ; they do,
however, have the effect of rendering
the vending of liquor surreptitious,
making it dangerous for the seller, and
thereby increasing the cost to the con
sumer. But we all know that increase
of cost has very little effect in producing
a diminution of the consumption of
this luxury ; for, quite as much of it
is used now as was used before the war,
when its price was so much less.
No; all sumptuary laws are bad, and
so the Democracy have always held.
You cannot prescribe to a man, by
legislation, how much he shall eat, or
how much lie shall drink, or where
withal he shall be clothed, although
many men are intemperate in all these
things. Intoxicating liquors are often
necessarily used medicinally ; and even
when they are not absolutely necessary,
they are, when used in moderation,
harmless and even beneficial. Every
man must judge for himself and be a
law unto himself in regulating his ap
petite for drink ; and it is as unwise as
it is useless to attempt to prohibit his
indulgence by legislation.
Upon this temperance question the De-
mocracy have always occupied a consist
ent and unvarying position. They have
always believed that that government
was best which governed least; in other
words that every man and every com-
munity should be permitted, as fur as
possible, to regulate their own ninths
according to their own judgment. The
Republican party has always acted upon
a different principle, and as though
they believed that nobody's business
was his owu, but that it was their
special mission on earth to stick their
nose into every hole and smell out every
stink. This was what got us into this
last war; the Republican party iu the
Northern States not being able to keep
their hands oil' the slavery question in
the Southern States, notwithstanding
it was manifestly none of their busi
ness.
Now they have taken up the temper
ance question, and in our county have
nominated as two of their candidates
for the Legislature, I‘Lessrs. Steacy
and Armstrong, old members, who
voted last year for the liquor law we
now have inflicted on us. Of course,
this nomination of two temperance
men for the Legislature has created
great excitement among the tavern
keepers and anti-temperance men iu
the Republican rank and file, and they
want to defeat their election.
Gentlemen, we must confess that we
have but little sympathy with you in
your affliction ; you have travelled With
this Republican party, and have sup
ported it in its meddlesome, proscriptive
and brutal policy ; and it is not until
it is attempting to gore your ox, that
your eyes are opened to the iniquity of
its principles. We have no consolation to
give; we can only say to you that if
Messrs. Armstrong and Steacy are re
elected, we can not pity you much, be
cause it is but:the returning of the bitter
chalice to your lips, which you for the
last few years have been offering to those
of others.
On Wednesday next, however, we
will nominate a full Democratic ticket,
including of course, candidates for the
Legislature. We will put on our ticket
none but approved Democrats, aud be
ing such you can rely upon it, that they
will be opposed to prohibitory legisla
tion upon the liquor question, simply
because such legislation would not be
in accordance with the Democratic
creed. If there are any men upon our
ticket whom you desire to vote for, we
shall be happy to have you do so, re
garding it as an evidence of your return
ning reason.
But thus far and no farther can we
extend to you any assistance in your
tribulation.
Let it be remembered, that no Repub•
lican newspitper in this State has dared
to deny that Congress is expected to
enforce negro equality upon Pennsyl
vania by a sweeping enactment.
Let it be remembered, that no Re
publican newspaper in Pennsylvania
has dared to deny that Judge Williams
Is pledged to decide such an act of Con
gress to be bindinis upon this State.
Let it be remembered, that on these
great questions the whole Republican
press Is either silent, or• that it speaks
only to endorse these daring and detes
table schemes.
The Working Men's Party
The working men of Allegheny coun
ty have organized a Working Men's
Party, and put a full county ticket in
the field. They have an able organ in
the Eccning Adrocalc, are holding meet
ings which are largely attended, and
seem to he confident of success. Their
candidates and their speakers come from
the ranks of the working men, and the
arguments put forward by their orators
are calculated lo have great weight with
the toiling masses. While they dis
avow all connection with either the
Democratic yr the Republican parties,
the utterances of their speakers are nat
urally in opposition to very many of the
crude political theories and the corrupt
class legislation of the Radicals, who
have contrived to bind such heavy bur
thens upon the toiling white men of the
North, while they seem to be constant
ly running over with sympathy for the
negro.
The Working Men trged to Endorse
Negro Equality.
In a three column letter to the Press,
Forney urges the white working men
of Pennsylvania to endorse negro suf
frage and negro equality by voting for
Judge Williams. He concludes as fol
lows: •
Let the Republican mechanic and work
ingman, who are constantly sought to be
deceived, weigh all these considerations
carefully ; and If they do, they will I think,
come to the conclusion that if It was right
to crush the rebellion, to overthrow Illavery,
and arm the freedmen for the sake of pro
serving free institutions, it is also right that
there should be no political distinctions
among any of the children of our great
Republic.
Can the working men see that?
Impeachment.
It is quite fresh in all our memories
that when the Presidentremoved Stan
ton, the man who almost sacrificed the
'Union in order to sacrifice McClellan,
who refused to exchange prisoners with
the rebels lest he should have to trade
able bodied Confederates for the suffer
ing Union "skeletons" that thronged
the prisons of the South, and who man
aged to keep the expenses of his de
partment on a war footing in time of
peace; and when the President also re
moved Sheridan and Sickles, who dis
played such skill In elevating the ne
groes and degrading the :whites of the
South, and aping the pranks of royalty
in general as to receive the formal
thanks of Congress for their services,
that there went up a prolonged and
universal howl from the Radical press
and demagogues of the country for the
impeachment and removal of the man
who thus dared to thwart the purposes
of imperial Congress. Forney's Press
went so far as to number the days that
must elapse before Congress could pun
ish the officer who ventured to temper
the tyranny it had inflicted on the pros
trate South, and it was the opinion of
every one that the assembling of Con
gress would be speedily followed by the
removal of the President and the pro
motion of the Radical President of the
Senate to his place.
Then came the elections in California
and Maine, and the roar of the Radicals
subsided into intimatibns that the more
prudent members of Congress were
averse to extreme measures, that im
peachment might possibly not be in
sisted upon, and that perhaps Andrew
Johnson might be permitted to serve
out the remainder of his term. The
Radicals are now holding their breath
for the elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio
and New York, and upon the result of
those elections will depend theabandou
meut or prosecution of the scheme of
impeachment, which lies next their
hearts, but which, with the people of
the great central States against them,
they dare not attempt to execute. The
project of impeachment is not yet
abandoned, but depends upon. the im
plied sanction or condemnation of the
people of the North as it may be ex
pressed in the approaching elections.
If the Radicals should carry the
Middle States by respectable majorities
the clamor for impeachment will be
renewed and become irresistible, Presi
dent Johnson will be deposed for no
other offences than fidelity to the Con
stitution and opposition to the party
that elected him, alit a precedent will
be established that will place Congress
above the Constitution, and put all
future Presidents under the feet of
Congress.
At this juncture the voice of Penn
sylvania will be most potential, for i
will probably be echoed by New York
New Jersey, and other States. A fear
ful responsibility therefore rests upon
you, men of Pennsylvania. You will
decide whether a patriotic President of
the United States shall be wantonly
and wickedly impeached and deposed,
in order to prolong he power and
patronage of a corrup and insolent
party. Will such a precedent comport
with the safety of the Republic? Must
it be confessed that the Constitution
has established no sufficient barriers
against the usurpations of an ambitious
and unscrupulous Congress? After the
people have elected a Congress, do the
members of that Congress become mas
ters and the people slaves? Has no
other officer chosen by the people any
rights that Congress is bound to re
spect? Will the trade, business interests
and material prosperity of the country
iudure the shock of a forcible subver
sion of the Constitution? How will it
affect the national credit, the national
currency, and the confidence of other
nations in the stability of our govern
ment? These are a few of the questions
it is your duty to ponder and decide
and with distinct reference to them
should your ballots be cast on the
Eighth of October. The success of the
Radicals on that day would bring con
fusion and revolution; the success of
the Democracy will ensure peace and
tranquility to the country.
The Record
The record of the Democratic party
of Pennsylvania is perfectly sound on
the payment of all public and private
obligations. It never countenanced
repudiation as the Radical leaders have
done. Its candidate for Supreme Judge
decides that a contract to pay a debt in
coin, must be complied with. If more
proof is needed, it is to be found in the
following resolution, which is part of
the platform unanimously adopted in
State Convention:
llesolved, That the faith of the Republic
is pledged to the payment or the National
Debt, nod that Congress should pass all
laws necessary for that purpose,
The Democratic party never goes
hack on any of its pledges. 'rhe people
know that.
Intent:eta Colored Voters
The telegraph informs us that several
hundred negroes were turned away
from the polls in Richmond, because
they had forgotten the names they gave
In when applying for registration.
WI at a comment on the damierous
y of admitting the negrous of the
South to the ballot-box: Our Republican
Institutions have been committed to the
keeping of ignorant barbarians who do
not, even k now their own 1111.111128. Verily
we have reached about the lowest pos
sible depth of political degradation.
A Negro .lollgt
Among tAiu felegrains to the Associa
ted Press we find Ow following:
NEw otti,mkr:ti, Sept. IS.—A negro .1 tifige
presided this morning; tin• tin, first iiwuo on
the twitch or the First DiAriel itetioriter's
Uollrl, in this city.
The good time predicted by the Radi
cals is coming rapidly, coining sure
"soh." How long will it be until we
shall have negro Congressmen, negro
Governors and a negro President ur Vice
President' At the present rate of our
advance, not long "sub."
GENERAL GRANT, in accordance with
the features of his general plan since
assuming the direction of the War De
partment, of reducing expenses, has
issued an order to the various military
districts, requiring that " district com
manders will co-operate with the com
missioners of the Freedmen's Bureau
in reducing the number of employees
and volunteers still retained in service,
by giving details of officers and enlisted
Men of the army to take their places."
Another State Given to the Negroes
The vote of Mississippi, under the
Radical negro suffrage registry law, is
nearly completed, and stands as fol-
lows
Whites.
Indians
The remaining counties will no doubt
increase the majority for the negroes.
They will have the power under,the
majority rule, therefore, to elect a negro
Governor, State officers, a negro ma
jority in the Legislature, with negro
Congressmen and United States Sena
tors.
A MASSACHUSETTS Yankee, the cap
tale of a company in a negro regiment
has been dismissed from the service for
stealing the property of the United
States, Belling it and appropriating the
proceeds to his own use.
John W. Forney, after bidding the
negroes of Washington good-bye with a
tear in each hypocritical eye, ate a
farewell dinner with nis employees in
Philadelphia, and being toasted and
flattered to his heart's content, took his
departure for Europe. "My two news
payers, both daily," gave a graphic
sketch of the wild grief of the negroes
at parting with him, and a full report
of all the flattering speeches made by
the editors, the reporters, the composi
tors, the pressmen and the newsboys
of the Press. It was a very wet season.
After puffing a London hotel to the
extent of his bill; getting Dan. Dough
erty to write a letter from the tomb of
Shakespeare, to which the signature J.
W. F. was duly appended ; doing Paris
up by gaslight through the week and
by sunlight on Sunday ; betting slight
ly on rouge et noire at Baden-Baden,
and trying to attract some attention at
different points from decent people, but
utterly failing to do so; Forney, (there
is hut one of the name,) returned to
Philadelphia.
Having looked in on his dull domes-
tic establishment down town, and spent
one night in the lively one up town, he
hastened to Washington. Having con
sulted with the Clerk of the House as
to the proper margin of plunder to be
arranged for stationary contracts during
the coming session of Congress, he
straightway plunged a stolen pen into
a stolen inkstand, and indicted on stolen
paper an " Occasional letter." It was
tierce, furious and frantically fanatical.
He had "heard the news from Maine,
good news and true;" but he liked it
not. The Democratic thunder peals
from California and Montana made him
shake like some guilty wretch who sees
his doom approaching. The prospect
in Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio,
was not calculated to soothe him. With
California two Congressmen and a
United States Senator were lost. There
were signs of a coming political deluge.
He saw and understood them. Hence
his raving fury. He uttered his stale
curses against the man whose friendship
and pecuniary assistance kept him from
ruin and utter bankruptcy, fell to
abusing Andrew Johnson and Judge
Black " without rhyme or reason," and
fumed, fretted and ranted through a
column of ill-natured bombast and fus
tiara.
The tone of the Philadelphia I'rc , B
s a sure indication that Forney regards
he contest in Pennsylvania and other
Northern States as hopeless. He sees
and knows that they will speedily re
pudiate the corrupt and revolutionary
party which is ready to ruin the country
for the spoils of otlice. But, with the
desperation of a reckless political gam
bler, he resolves that the game shall be
won by rascality and cheatery, if it can
not be fairly. He surveys the ground,
and, while there is every evidence
that his party will be utterly
annihilated, r is his hopes of a con
tinued op portu ..ty to plunder the trees
ury on the negro vote of the Southern
States. He telegraiihs exultingly
that the whites of that section are in a
hopeless minority, and that by theii
votes the Senate will be kept un
changed for years,
What a pleasant prospect that is to be
sure. Plow much it is calculated to re.
joicc the white Republicans of Penn
sylvania, to be told that they are to be
ruled by representatives of the negroes
of the South for years to come. Of
course it will inspire them to continue
to vote the Radical ocl:et. Surely they
will not revolt. They are a patient set,
and loyal—oh ! very loyal !
flans Geary Makes an Ass of Himself
Hans Geary should be haltered and
tied up. He is not fit to run at large.
All the people of Pennsylvania are in
terested in the public conduct of the
Governor of the State, and all must feel
ashamed of the silly antics of the Ares•
cut foolish incumbent. The Radicals
kept him pretty well gagged when he
was a candidate. After he had made
one or two ridiculous attempts at speak
ing, Caineron put a bridle in his mouth,
and the braying ass was trotted about
iu highly embellished soldier trap
') ngs, in hopes he might be taken
for a genuine military lion. Of
late he seems to have no one
to take care of him, and, being left
without a keeper, he has taken to roam
ing through
.the country, with the ass'
ears uncovered, and a bray which still
more unmistakably betrays the species
to which he belongs.
At the Hans Graf Association in this
county, every sensible Republican was
completely disgusted with him. At
Antietam on Thursday he succeeded in
surpassing all his former eflbrts. A pro
gramme had been arranged for the
solemn occasion, with theproper number
of speakers. There were many Gover
nors of States, and oilier distinguished
men present who were not expected to
speak. Geary had, however, fixed up
a harangue and was bound to get it MK
Whether lie had certain parties in
structed to interrupt the exercises by
calling Nleary, Geary," we cannot posi
tively say, but there is good reason to
believe that such was the case. He
wanted to be hoard in the midst of the
dedicatory proceedings, but was finally
Induced to postpone his remarks until
the regular order of exercises had been
gone through with. Then he rose and
spoke his piece. lie commenced as
follows:
L'ITI7.IiNS: After all you have
heard toolay, I had supposed you would
want nothing !Imre. The programme open •
ad and emiellided with prayer. Those who
have waited must eallit. In at the last hour.
!tut. my friend., we still have IL I,IIWI. in
Ihn Ime.irts ori h., people. Atptatised When
you coma to Pennsylvania we lit everybody
speak WC want to hear. 'Thanks to Almighty
(lod fir his preservation and care of the
country, we have no gag. [Applause.] We
have no programmes for this purpose.
Renewed applause.] \Vo have nu gag on
our programme.
We venture to say there never was a
inure disgraceful exhibition of silly self
importance and disgusting egotism.
What would be thought of a private in
dividual who would insist upon inter
rupting the order of a funeral, or of a
church dedication by making a ram
bling and senseless speech. The police
would make short work with him If
Ilans Geary has any friends left in his
party they should take him in hand at
once. Heneeds to be muzzled, Cameron,
having got all out of him that he want
ed, has thrown him aside, as he would
a squeezed lemon. We hope some ot.e
will take charge of him. Frank Jor
dan is a man of some little sense, and,
as Secretary of State, it is his duty
to see to this mutter. Let Hans be
tied up and kept at home. If lie must
speak, let him explode inside the Good
Templar lodge,to which he belongs, once
or twice a week. That might keep him
from bursting, and, the proeeedingS
being covered with the - veil of secrecy,
the country would not be disgusted nor
the State of Pennsylvania put to shame.
By all means let him be gagged, and a
programme be laid down for him, in
which there shall be no , speaking, but
only the dumb show for which he is
fitted.
John Cessna on Negro Suffrage.
John Cessna openly declared in the
streets of Bedford a few days since that
Congress would certainly fasten negro
suffrage upon Pennsylvania next win
ter. John is perfectly posted on the
Radical programme, and he speaks cx
cathedra. if Conservative Republi
cans will not believe us we refer them
to such men of their party as Bill Kelly,
of Philadelphia, and John Cessna, of
fledford.
,The illOt Method.
The Philadelphla Ledgcr has several
times, in its money articles, condemned
the mischievous course of the Republi
can politicians in this State, who insist
upon dragging the public securities into
the political avenue. The constant
charges made by them that the Dem
ocratic party of this State favors repu
diation in any form are wholly untrue.
In the most solemn manner, by public
resolutions in our State Conventions,
we have recognized the obligLion of
paying every dollar of the public debt,
and have called upon Congress to pass
all laws necessary to the accomplish
ment of that end. The Democratic
party never violates its pledges. It can
safely appeal to history for confirmation
of that assertion. It has always op
posed repudiation in every shape and
form. Since the war began it has made
an honorable record for itself on this
very question. When a Republican
Legislature proposed to repudiate an
express contract to pay the interest on
our State debt "in coin," every Demo
cratic Senator, and every Democratic
member of the Lower House, except
one, voted against repudiaticu. The
holders of U. S. bonds in Pennsylvania
cannot help but see that their securities
rest upon a basis not one whit more
firm. The same plea that was used by
the Republicans to justify partials re
pudiation in the case of the State bonds
will apply to all United State securities.
No contract to pay "in coin" could be
more explicate than the one which the
dominant party so boldly and reckless
ly repudiated.
But we only intended to call atteu-
tion to the sensible views of the Ledger.
That paper holds that the Republican
politicians are endangering the value of
our securities and impairing the credit
of the Government, by their sweeping
and utterly false charges that the Demo
cratic party favors repudiation. They
are familiarizing the minds of the peo
ple with the idea, and thus doint - great
damage. A time may come in the his
tory of this country, and that before
long, when in the midst of financial
distress the masses may be ready to
grasp at anything which promises to
bring relief from the heavy pressure of
taxation. Then all the energies of the
best men of both parties will be required
to prevent repudiation.
We agree with the Ledger that this
is a question upon which their ought to
be no.political issue raised, and that the
agitation of it in the political arena can
only result in harm. The Democratic
party of this State stands pledged to the
payment of the public debt; and our
candidate for Supreme Judge has de
cided that a contract to pay a debt " iit
coin " can not be legally discharged by
a tender of paper money. The assaults
of the Radicals have compelled us to
show up their record ; and while we
admit the impolicy of agitating the
question, we can not allow the people
to forget that the Republican party of
this State did repudiate a portion of the
State debt, and that their candidate Is
said to have favorc 1 the repudiation of
the Allegheny County Railroad bonds.
The right method of dealing with this
question of partial or total repudiation
would be, as the Irdgcr sensibly sug
gests, to avoid making any political
issue upon it. In that way it can be
effectually killed.
The Approach lug; Political Callum
=ZS=
Our Cincinnati and Cleveland corres
pondence, published on Thursday ; our
correspondence from Pennsylvania,
published a few days ago, as well as
that which we are receiving daily from
other parts of the North and West, all
show that a great and widespread re•
action has commenced against the dom
inant radical party. The people, who
gave the Republicans their votes and
support, during the war and since, did
8o for quite a different object from that
which the party is now pursuing. That
party was placed in power, first, to
prosecute the war for the Union to a
successful issue, and, second, to har
monize and restore the country, as it
promised to do, upon the basis of thecon
stitutional amendment. When it went
beyond this and created a military des
potism over the South ; when it at
tempted to subvert the constitution, or
rather to ignortlit altogether, its leaders
boldly declaring the country ill 11 state
of revolution, and when its object to
establish negro supremacy and a negro
balance of power became apparent, the
people saw they had been cheated.
Had the members of the present Con
gress, when candidates, gone before
the people with such a revolutionary
programme, they would have been
defeated. They have !played a confi
dence game upon the public, and, act
ing as the masters rather than the ser
vants of the people, have defied the
sentimentof tle country. This infamous
conduct has produced its fruit. The
public, mind is becoming enlightened
and a general reaction has set In.
The radical press, though evidently
much alarmed, attempts to explain
away the true cause of the Republican
losses In Mal ne,#nd California; but that
is a hopeless task. Every one knows
the cause is general ; that local issues
have had little to do with It, and that
It lies in the dissatisfaction of people
generally with the negro supremacy
policy of the radicals. It Is found, In
fact, in the common sense and patriot—
ism of the mass of the people revolting
against the faithlessness and destructive
measures of Congress. But our corre
spondence shows beyond doubt that an
extraordinary reaction is going on In
all the great Central States and in the
West. The general Issue as regards
negro suffrage and negro supremacy Is
the same everywhere—the same in
Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and
the other States, and the same
as entered into the elections In
California and Maine. these latter
States, however, the contest was tame
compared with what it will be, from all
appearances, in the elections to come off'
during the next two months. There Is
another important question looming u'
prontiOntly in the canva=s, particularly
in Oil and other parts of the West, and
that is the financial question. This
threatens to prove as disastrous to the
radicals us their nigger worshipping
policy. The Chase radical policy for
perpetuating a moneyed oligarchy anti
despotism is viewed with as much dis
favor in the \Vest, among all parties,
as negro supremacy. The muss of the
Republicans, as well as the Democrats,
are bitterly opposed to theliational bank
monopoly, to contraction of the cur
rency, to the bondholders being exempt
front taxation, and to all the other meas
ures of Chase, Jay Cooke, McCulloch
and their friends in favor of a moneyed
oligarchy. The industrious classes—the
farmers, laborers, mechanics and trades
men—see ruin staring them in the face
if this wretched financial system be
perpetuated. They see that an enor
mous debt will be fastened upon them,
their labor taxed beyond forbearance,
their means of paying their taxes and
debts greatly reduced, and the prospect
of universal bankruptcy; and all to
favor the national bank monopoly, the
bondholders and capitalists. Looking
at the rapid growth of public opinion in
opposition to the Radical financial
policy, there Is reason to believe the
party will be defeated in the West on
this issue alone. The whole tenor of
our correspondence indicates such u
result.
But the main question occupying the
public mind at present is that or negro
suffrage and a negro balance of power
in the republic. The prospect of the
whole South being govecned by the
ignorant and uncivilized negroes, of
these benighted blacks holding the
balance of political power iu the repub
lic, of taking their seats In Congress,
and of dominating over the people of
our own superior race, with the degra
dation and ruin that must follow—these
are the thoughts so repulsive to the
mass of the Northern people. It is this
fearful prospect, brought before us by
radical rule, that has created arevuision
in the public mind, and that will surely
overwhelm the party that has brought
the country to such a deplorable con
dition.
The questions at issue are new ; old
party dogmas and . platforms have be
come obsolete. The masses of the
people which have voted on both sides
.
are now coming together as the great
constitutional party. They are disgusted h
with the disorganizing and revolution
ary conduct of the Radicals, and 'with
the infamous attempt to Africanize the
republic by creating a negro balance of
power. That is the real state of things ;
and if we mistake not the signs of the
times the Radicals will be defeated in
the great Central States, as well as in
the West, at the coming elections. The
moderate and conservative republicans
should throw off their destructive lead
ers and unite with others to form the
great constitutional party of the future.
—N. Y. .licrald.
Antietam and Gettysburg
The New York World, commenting
upon the dedication of the Cemetery at
Antietam, clearly shows that both that
destructive battle, and the still more
bloody one at Gettysburg, were the re
sult of the hatred of Stanton to McClel
lan, and the selection of utterly incom-.
petent men to fill the position from
which he was removed on account of
political reasons and mean. jealousy.—
The World says :
It was in consequence of setting up
General Pope as a rival to General McClel
lan in Virginia, that those great disasters
befell our troops tinder the command of
Pope, which enabled the victorious rebels to
cross the Potomac in full force, and com
pelled the frightened authorities to reinstate
General McClellan in command to save the
national capital. It was by the great
victory of Ant iota it that he broke the
strength of General Lee, anti compelled
him to slink away in the night and recross
the Potomac. As stain as the Washington
authorities were thus relieved front their
terror, political jealousy of Gen. McClellan
revived in all its venom. With the laurels
of a recent victory thick upon his brow, this
able commander, the idol and admiration
of his soldiers, was driven front the
army mver to return. A succession
of terrible reverse, the direct con
sequence of Ms removal, enabled the
rebels to recover inore than that/ had lost in
heir first invasion, to semi etinsfernation
hrough the whole North by its repetition,
old to give occasion for the hardly•contes-
ted field of Gettysburg, on which more
depended than on lily other battle of the
war. Had General McClellan been proper
ly supported, there would have been no
second Bull Run, and consequently no
Antietam. Ilad General McClellan 'been
continued in command after his victory in
Antietam, there would have been no Fred
ericksburg, no Chancel',ascii le, and cons,
fluently no Gettysburg, Antietam tad
i:ettysburg, were fought to repair hideous
disasters, to recover lost ground, to repel in
vasions which ill'elltllo possible only by the
profligate and unhallowed 111 ismanagement
of the authorities at Washington. Monu
ments on those great historic spots are
commendable and becoming us tributes by
a grateful country to the memory of the
brave citizens who there fell in its defence;
hut what is the relation of those monuments
to the scores of thousands of lqually bravo
citizens who•o blood cries from the ground
against imbecility and blundering.
in the vast slaughter-pens on the soil of
Virginia? If their lives, sacrificed in vain,
had been spared, there would have been 11,1
occasion for these great cemeteries eu
Northern soil.
"And the angel wild unto ins,
And I said, What shall I writer
When I listory asks Arithmetic to be liar
she Will dictate this HUM ht
addition: Not Ili/Wil the numbers who fell
in the disastrous Virginia battles under
Pope; beneath this place the number who
Were uselessly' sacrificed in Burnside's
sloughtor-pun'at Frotiorlokohurg ; thou thu
enormous losses under Hooker at Clutitrel
lorsville; then the heroic multitudes who fell
In the two robot invasions ; add up the fear
ful Hum, and the amounttvtll be tie hideous
cost In human life of Stanton's iniustlro to
ieneral
Stoney and Armstrong
The Examincr does not endorse
Messrs. Steacy and Armstrong. On the
contrary it speaks of them us follow:
In this connection we may add that to the
astonishment and regret of all well-wishers
of the party, its harmony and success,
Messrs. Armstrong and Swery were re
nominated. The agency .which brought
this result about should he known to the
people. It Ie 11,1 simply the vonibined pcwor
of Thuggery and its special organ, the
la
rjairw•. and the temperance organization
Mei La honest Organ, the LI/pre:N. Those
two secret organizations consolidated their
vote Mel influence, and thus secured the
nomination of Armstrong and Steacy over
Evans and Sumtny, the next two highest
candidates, by front 1:12 to .2 votes. I low
this combination was effecter! we do not
profess to know, nor do we cure to know;
but at the same time it was Seek nn " as
tortilier" that the public has scarcely re
covered from it yet. That Utility not result
in injury to the party we sincerely hope.
But while wishing their triumph, we can
not give Up our cenvir,liou that they are
unfortunate nominations ; unfortunate be
muse they have not the confidence of the
people, and again unfortunate because the
temperance cause was drugged into the
political an nit le nettle them.
IN the Radical stronghold of Alle
gheny county, the Republicans are us
badly divided as they are here. The
Pittsburg l'ost says :
"Many Republicans in this County will
vote the Democratic ticket in its entirety.
(niters twill vote for a ticket made up or
names on both the Radical and Democratic
tickets. The Democratic candidates, cape.
eially for Assembly, are so manifestly supm
riur to their opponents, that we cannot sou
how imy goo.] eit izen, in view or past occur
renees. at I larrishurg, can be prevailtal on
to vote against them. The Lodger, which
occupies /In independent position In politics,
strongly advises Republicans to vote for
Messrs. Sellers and McKee, in place ot
SMith and Beck ert, whom it denounces 1.1
unlit for legislative position. Wu find this
feeling to be extremely prevalent with the
moderate men of (he Republican party."
High Tariffs
Senator Grimes has published a letter
In which he reiterates his declaration to
the chairman of the State Central Com
mittee of lowa us follows :
"In that letter I del express the opinion
which I now reiterate, that when the ques•
lion shall be fairly presented to the people
or this Stale, they will be found overwhelm
ingly—the Republican party will be round
overwhelmingly—against an Increase of The
present thrill, which is the highest evi.
known In n civilized country. I cannot
believe that the Intelligent people or lowa
lire quite willing to di strOy Ili it 114VP/1110
Trait Imports by a prohibitory Ittrilf (and
that is whet the advocates or the new tariff
avowedly sought la , t winter), only In Im
pose neve r HMI additional taxes upon their
own domestic products to supply lho do
tleiency."
lowa is the strongest Republican State
in the West, being largely settled front
Massachusetts; a circumstance which
renders Mr. Grimes' declaration more
emphatic."
The New York Herald, after "bury
ing the Democracy beyond hope of re
surtection" fora hundred times within
the past live years, has discovered rea
son to believe In the resurrection. In
its issue Of Wednesday that paper pre.
(hots that they will carry Pennsylvania
and New York. John Minor Botts, too,
has been a good deal bothered with the
persistent vitality of this party. He
peevishly dismisses the subject with the
assertion that the Delnocratic party has
as many lives as a eat. It is all a very
simple matter, gentlemen. Mr. Bryant
told it all in a certain verse of his which,
it seems to us, we must have somewhere
seen quoted, beginning:
- Truth crushed to earth, &e.
—Hartford Times.
California Eleeillon—ilalglit's 111 a). 8000
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20.—Returns of (ho
Into election from all but ono county show
a majority for Haight over Gorham and
Fay of 7,021, in a total vote of nlmuL 52,000.
The full official account may increase
Haight's majority 1,000, and the total voto
of Sti,ooo, which is over 10.000 less than the
total vote at the last general election.—
Haight's vote will be about 3,000 more than
McClellan's. Gorham and Fay's about 20,-
000 leSst than Lincoln's. Jones, Radical
candidate for Lieutenant Governor, leads
Gorham in the thirty-four counties 3,200
votes. The ret urns of the Congressional
vote show a majority for Ax tell (Democrat)
in the First Deariet of 1.300 ; Higby (Radi
cal), Second District, 1,0:11 ; Johnson (Dem
ocrat), Third District, 1,017.
Mlyn DWI NE ever nppeared with stronger
vouchers for Its general and substantial I.4X
eellenco than the Peruvian Syrup. Invalids,
especially those suffering from dyspepsia or
debility, should send to J. I'. Dinsmore, 31)
Dey street, Now York, fur it pamphlet (soot
free), concerning this remarkable remedy.
—Communicated.
A horrible murder occurred recently in
England. A little girl was killed by a blow
upon the head, and then dismembered, cut
p, d Isom bowel led and generally dissected,
and buried about in several places. Tho
murderer is supposed to be a young man
about 2.S years of age.
The territory recently ceded to the United
States by Russia, according to a military
order issued by General Halleck, is to form
part of the Department of California, and
is to be called the military District of Alaska.
Two companies of troops aro assigned as
the garrison at Sitka, and they will take
with them a field battery and one year's
supply of ordnance stores.