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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1867.
Prepare for the Presidential Campaign
The Intelllgeneer for 1808.
On the first of January next, wo will
greatly enlarge the WEEKLY INTELLIGEN
OER, making it a nine column paper. It
will then be the largest Democratic Journal
published in Pennsylvania.
As we publish an evening daily paper,
we possess facilities for making up a first
class Weekly Journal, superior to those of
any other Demobratio office in Pennsylva
nia. With the proposed enlargement we
shall be able to give a very large amount,
and a very great variety of reading matter;
and we confidently anticipate a largely in
creased circulation.
Our subscription price is already low,
but, us a special inducement, we now offer
to furnish the WEEKLY INTELLIOENCEB
to new subscrthers, from this time until Jan
uary Ist, 1869, for two dollars.
We hope every reader ol the INTELLIOEN
OM will exert himself to increase our sub
scription list. The all importatit.campaign
of 1868 is already open. It will be the most
exciting contest the country has ever wit
nossod, and the most potent agency to be
employed is the Democratic press. It is
the bounden duty of every Democrat to
help us tight this great' battle Lot every
ono of our readers do his utmost to increase
our circulation.
The Elections
We publish to-day the official result
of the recent election in this State,
showing Judge Sharswood's majority
to be 022. Also the complexion of the
Legislature, in which the Democracy
make very large gains.
In Ohio full returns from the State,
all but eight counties being official,
show that Gen. Rutherford B. Hayes,
the Republican candidate for Governor.
has a majority of 2,853 over Judge Thur
man. The returns of the Ohio election
show an Increased vote as compared
with last year, and indicate that the
vote at the recent election was the
largest ever polled in that State. The
Cincinnati CI azette, says that this large
vote was not anticipated, and that at
least 59,000 more ballots were cast than
at the Governor's election in 1865.
In lowa, official returns from seven
teen counties show a fulling off of 674
in the total vote, and of 2,620 In the
Republican vote, whilst the Democrats
gain 1,915 votes. There are ninety-nine
counties in lowa, and returns, official
and unofficial, from seventy•two of
them, give Merrill, Republican, a ma
jority of 25,724 fur Governor, as com
pared with 35,412 Republican majority
in those counties at the election last
year.
In Indiana no State officers and no
members of the Legislature were elect
ed, the contest being oil ordinary county
offices alone. The Democratic gains
were large.
In Montana the election for Delegate
to Congress is officially reported to have
resulted in 6,004 votes for Cavanaugh,
Democrat, and 1,896 for Sanders, Ile
publican, a Democratic majority of
1,105.
In California the judicial election
which took place on the 17th instan
resulted in another Democratic victory.
The tide of •success is with us every
h
Its Mission Ended.
The mission of the Republican party
it.; ended. The war is over, and all men
of sense are anxious to see the country
restored to peace and prosperity. The
passions engendered by a tierce strife of
years are being rapidly soothed into
rest, and kindly feelings are Caking the
place of hatred in all use American
hearts. The people are calmly scruti
nizing the pollueul situation. They see
, the Republican party fully committed
to the doctrine of negro equality. It can
not and dare not abandon its favorite
theory. With the surrender of that one
idea the whole scheme of reconstruct'
011 which the leaders of the party have
staked the very existence of their party
would full to the ground, tumbling the
entice structure into ruins. There are
whispers of moderation, and a few tali;
with hated breath of a change of policy.
It is too late. The Republican party
dug its grave when it attempted to
establish its power on the rotten props
of negro republics in the South. The
American people will tolerate no such
thing They have spoken loudly in the
recent elections, and there will be no
end of the great reaction now going on,
until the corrupt, extravagant and
fanatical Radicals who lead the Repub
lican party are all hurled from power.
They cannot abandon the platform they
have laid down, and on that even Gen
eral Grunt would be defeated,
Treating Negroes Impolitely.
The Radical newspapers of this Slate
are making a terrible howl, because cer
tain, not very flattering, likenesses of
negraes appear iu country papers of hie
Democratic pursuasion, and on what
are called "Salt River tickets." We
hope these champions of the African
race will keep cool. The Democracy
cherish no animosity toward the negro
race. They are willing to guarantee to
every one of them perfect and complete
protection in every Hula, of person and
property, to make them fully equal
to whites In these important respects
under the taws of every State in the
Union. But we do intend to insist that
the negro shall not vote in any State
unless the white peoic. of such State
chose to confer upon that privilege;
that he shall not be fore d into the jur.
box, uniese the ‘viiltes consent; that tie
shall not be elevated to office over the
heads of white men, 104 Is cow dolitt lu
the South ; that he shall not be granted
especial privileges In railroad ears, as Is
now the ease In this State. There is no
danger that the negro will beabu4ed by
the Denim:racy when they curve into
power. Ile will only he politely asked
to step out or tile political arena, and to
stay out of it until such time as the
white people of the different States
shall agree to admit, him to the ballot
box and the other privileges for will
the RadlealS have set up a claim In his
behalf. And that time will be long In
coming unleps we aro greatly allstal« , n.
The election In Ohio Healed that quell
UOll l'or at luryt twenty yeare to eOlllO
Tin•: Radicals of Philadelphia are
making an attempt to treat the election
in that city as if it had not been held.
Without the slightest grounds for so
doing they are engaged in an attempt
to throw out the votes of several strong
Diinmratic districts. We sometime'.
think there will be need for a second
Buck Shot War berm" we get things
fairly settled. Let the Radicals take
Care tiny do not provoke it.
T E thew York Times says there are
practiced reasons why uegroes should
vote in the South which do not apply
to Ohio. The only practical reasons of
the Mild we know are the necessities of
the Radical party. They can only hope
to maintain their hold on power by set
ting up a negro empire on the ruins of
the Southern States, and that can only
be done at Lhe most enormous cost to
the people of the North.
CALVIN T. HuLnAlto, the Radical
nominee for Controller of the State of
New York, has declined to be a condi
date. No doubt he is wise in this, as
the Round Table honestly admits that
the Democracy will sweep the State at
the coming election.
An Attempt to :Make Slaves of White
For years past the bloated capitalists
belonging to the Radical Republican
party have assumed to control the votes
'of those who were in their employ. An
nually, as elections have occurred, they
have issued their orders, with the air of
a master dictating to his slaves, and
poor men have been forced to vote
against their conviction, or to lose their
situations at a time of year when labor
la scarce and difficult to obtain. They
have established a system of espionage,
and have set pimps and spies to watch
the laboring man as he went to the polls
to discharge the duty of a freeman. We
have had many instances of that kind
in Lancaster county, and from time to
time our attention has been called to
these constantly recurring outrages.
Only a day or two since we published
the certificate of two respectable men,
stating that they had been discharged
from the Farnum Cotton Mill of this
city for voting the Democratic ticket.
This morning another comes to us with
a similar complaint.
If there 1y one duty which every
American citizen should be permitted
to discharge freely and without intimi
dation, It is the sacred obligation to vote
according to the dictates of his own
conscience. To deprive a citizen of that
inalienable and Inestimable right is to
subject him to the most galling and de
grading species of tyranny. No man
with a spark of the spirit of a freeman
in his breast would consent to be thus
controlled. He who could be so influ
cooed would thereby -show himself to
be unlit to exercise this, the highest
and moat precious prerogative of Amer•
lean citizenship. He who would attempt
to browbeat any laboring man into
voting against his political convictions
by threatening to discharge him from
employment, is actuated by a base dis
regard of all the nearest and dearest
rights of the citizen. At the ballot box
every voter is on a perfect equality. The
rights and privileges of the humblest
are equal in all respects to those of the
very highest. The secret ballot has
been provided to protect the poor. It
should be a perfect shield to them. No
man has a right to know how another
votes, unless he chooses to vote an open
ticket; and the proscriptive capitalist
who would set a spy to watch his em
ployees, deserves the contempt of all
honest and right thinking men.
There is a way to deal with that class
of people. The Democracy have it in
their power to protect the laboring men of
their party, and they should not hesitate
to do so. The method is simple and
easy. Hereafter let no Democrat buy a
single dollar's worth of any one who at•
tempts thus to interfere with the sacred
rights of the citizen. Let them make
this all inexorable law, never to be de-
parted from under any circumstances,
and there will be an end to this species
of mean spirited and rascally tyranny.
Generat Grant Nominated by the Radi
cals or Lancaster County on the
Platform of Universal Negro Suffrage.
The Radical County Committee as
sembled in this city Monday, and we
find the following report of the proceed
ings in the Erprcss, of Monday eve
ning:
ine,ting of the Republican County
Committ.., of Lancaster county was held
in this city to-day, at which the following
preamble and resolutions were adopted:
Wit ERBAS, The llon. E. 13 \\ash borne,
of Illinois,. hits declared that General C. S.
Grant " believes there is no protection or
safety to the colored people and the loyal
white people in the rebel States, except
througn impartial suffrage. The recon
struction acts having recognized the entire
equality of all American citizens in the
States badly in rc hel lino, he believes that
consistency, as well us impartial justice,
demands t .at there should be no distinction
against. any class of persons in any of the
States."
And, NVlatres, he has also declared that
Gen. Grant's " sympathies, Ms convictions
find hi hopes are 71011', Hs they ctifito,ys hare
been, with the great patriotic and loyal peo
ple that carried the country through the
lie is in favor mut upholding the 111/nor
and cretin of the 1111111111 U government, and
holds that all tffir.bligations u. tua be dis
chnrged in conformity to the terms on
which they were contracted. Ile thinks
ttucre should Ito exercised by Congress and
by all depart melds of the government, a
more rigid and searching economy in the
expenditures of the public money, turd
wheret er he has had control he has struck
mull every useless expense and reformed
every abuse." Therefore,
Eesoired, That we, the Union Republican
County Committee of Lancaster county,
having full faith and confidence in the Re
publicanism of General U. S. Grunt, re
commend his nomination as the next Re
publican candidate for President of the
rutted Suites, and lieu eby pledge to him the
curd iul, earnest support of the Republican
party of Lancaster county.
Rosoleed, That a copy of these resolutions
be fitrwarded to lien. Grant, by the officers
of this committee.
No other business seems to have been
done by the Counnittee, and we are
therefore at liberty to infer that the
sole object of the meeting was to con
sider anti pass the above resolutions.—
They were offered by John A. Hiestand,
Esq., of the Examiner, and passed with
out opposition.
We do not know how General Grant
will receive this expression of opinion
from the home of Thaddeus Stevens.—
By it he is given to understand that he
isonly to reeei ve thesupport of the Rad
icals on condition of his fully endorsing
not only the establishment of negro
States in the South, but the most entire
equality of the two races in every State
in the Union. If General Grant con
sents to be the nominee of the Radicals,
anti 'they run him as their candidate,
there can be no doubt about the position
he will occupy. lie will be fully and
completely committed to the most ex
treme noctrines of that party. An at
tempt may Ire made to gull the people
by die adoption of a platform which
will be capable of two Interpretations,
but we do not think any man, can be
found at this lute day stupid enough to be
deceived by such transparent trickery.
Should General Grant permit himself
to be made the pliant tool of the corrupt
politicians of the Radical party, he will
at once line the respect of the people to
a great extent. Instead of being a very
strong vantlidate, he would under such
circumstances be a very weak one, and
would certainly be beaten. In the
el/Ming Presidential election no man
can be carried through On military rep•
utation alone. 'rile people know and
feel that there Is too much at stake to
allow their votes to be controlled by
mere personal eonsiderations. Measures,
not men, will be the rallying cry of the
successful party In the coming contest.
A Coward's Fate.
Old Thad has written another letter
In which he sap :
as I am, I truer this occasion to
thank gad for oar late (bleat. The hepub
licuns bare been aet , bll a cowardly part, and
have Inet a coward's fate."
What will the leaders in Pennsyl
vania do about It? Will they come up
to Mr. Stevens' standard, or will they
stilt act the part of cowards, and be
beaten next year, as they deserve to
be? It is a question which will require
careful consideration at their hands.
Frauds In Registration.
Perfectly reliable reports from the
different Southern States continue to
confirm the statement that the most
gigantic frauds are being perpetrated in
the registration of the negroes. Not
only le the number registered evidently
out of all proportion to the negro popu
lation, but multitudes of negro boys are
registered, and many have been regis
tered twice or thrice in different wards
in the cities and in neighboring dis
tricts to the country. This is part of
the systematic effort which is being
made to turn all the Southern States
over to the domination of the negroes.
The Dirty of Congress
We know no name which would so
appropriately describe the political or
ganization which stands opposed to us
as "The Party of Congress." In the
tecent campaign in this and other States
the Republican newspapers and orators
all took especial pains to identify them
selves with Congress. They incessantly
repeated the declaration that the only
live issue was the endorsement of the
acts of Congress since the close of the
rebellion. That body was lauded to the
skies, and the measures it Lad adopted
were all most unequivocally endorsed.
What these acts have been the people
know. They have seen what is appro
priately styled "The Rump" setting at
naught the Constitution, refusing to
permit a restoration of the Union, set
ting up a negro empire on the ruins of
he States recently in rebellion, estab
Ishing a military despotism to subject
he white race to the domination of the
ignorant and barbarian blacks, spend
ing all the vast sums wrung from the
sweat and toil of the North to manipu
late the votes.of the late slaves, ruining
the industry of the entire South by the
most unwise policy, crippling trade by
cutting off one-half the resources of the
country, destroying commerce by the
most unwise legislation, fanning the
flames of hatred between the two sec
tions of a common country, usurping
the powers rightfully belonging to the
Executive, interfering with the Su-
preme Court of the United States,
and with all the courts of one-half of
the country, expending many millions
of the peoples' money in the most reck
less schemes, plundering the public
treasury so as to increase the enor
mous and crushing public debt, pre
venting a return to specie payment,
keeping prices of everything up to an
exhorbitant figure, and doing other
wrong acts innumerable to preventthe
power from passing out of their hands.
Every one of these acts was fully en
dorsed by the Republican party in every
State where elections have been held.
The people have so understood it. And
it is against the Republican party, as
"The Party of Congress," that theover
whelming popular verdict has been ten
dered. The masses are tired of it. They
see how it is ruining the country and
preventing the return of peace and
prosperity, and the elections of this
year are but the mutterings which pre
cede the great storm of popular indhz
nation which will sweep over the whole
country next fall. The people have
decided that they will no longer be
ruled by such men as Thad Stevens,
Charles Sumner and their followers in
Congress. Revolutions like this one
never go backward.
The Liquor Law
The stringent' liquor' law passed at
the last session of our Legislature has
remained a dead letter on the statute
book. In no single instance has an
attempt been made to enforce it, not
withstanding it has been openly vio
lated in almost every tavern and bar
room in the State. This shows that the
people of Pennsylvania are not pre•
pared to countenance the fanatical ideas
of -New England Puritanism. The truth
is all such legislation has proved to be
utterly abortive whenever tried. It is
vain to attempt to enforce sumptuary
laws in this country. Every such effort
has been a failure, A nd the only result
has been to impair that regard for law
which should be constantly cherished
in the minds and hearts of the people.
There is every reason to believe that
the evils of intemperance have only
been intensified by the unwise attempts
thus made to control it. No respectable
liquor dealer objects to a stringent
license law; but they have a rigut to
feel aggrieved at tin enactment which
brands every man in the business as a
felon. We presume the law will be re
pealed at the coming session of the
Legislature, and we hope a wise and ju
dicious license law may be substituted
in place of the justly obnoxious one
which now stands as a dead letter on
the statute book of the State.
The begklature
The official returns from Ihdiana and
Westmoreland counties show that R.
H. McCrmick . , Democrat, is elected to
the I,,einhly from that district. That
is a gain, and will make the State Legis
lature stand as follows •
Republicans
I)einoerati...
Republican majority
Dorsi,
Republican
Duntocritts..
Republican majority
Last year the Radical majority in the
Senate was 9, and in the House 28
making a majority ou joint ballot of
36. This year that is reduced to 13—a
gain of :23. That is doing gloriously
under the infamous apportionment.
WENDELL PHILLIPS is very much
exercised over the recent elections. lie
has issued, through the columns of the
Anti .S'larery ~S7anclard, a manifesto to
his Republican followers, in which he
denounces the people of Ohio as 'selfish,'
and says Pennsylvania is "always in
the market." " What shall we do?"
exclaims this madman, and he answers
himself by laying down a programme
for the Jacobins, the principal features
of which are thus expressed : " Im
peach the traitor of the White House."
"Hang out the banner of impartial
suffrage." "Throttle the President."
"'Peach men to forget Ohio and Penn
sylvania In the blaze of a fiercer onset."
Such Is the banquet lo which [lie RAM
cal leader Invites tie people!
'1'111.; Harrisburg Telegraph IM abusing
the Radicals of Lancaster county for
not doing better at the bite election,
and it pitches Into Old Thad quite
sharply. Bergner insists that. Bill Kel
Icy and ti etlld COM tnoner are much to
blame for the defeat of the party. It
thinks their speeches contributed great
ly to the recent, disaster. All that comes
with very bud grace from a newspaper
which openly advocated the enforce
ment of negro suffrage upon all the
States by act of Congress. Bergner
always was disposed to sneak out of any
responsibility for which he was liable.
He cannot lay claim to any greater
moderation than belongs to Thad.
Stevens or Bill Kelley. His master,
Simon Came . .ron, is us fully committed
to negro equality as any one can be.
IT is said that a certain well-known
New York showman has made an oiler
to purchase the entire lot of Mrs. Lin•
c dn's wardrobe, Jewelry, etc., at her
own valuation, on the single condition
that she throw in the letters which she
Is said to have In her possession from
the donors, and which she has threat
ened to publish. The Radicals are ter
ribly alarmed lest Mrs. Lincoln shouli
accept the oiler. Such a revelation
would be wade as would astonish the
country if they should be published;
but we rather expect the showman al
luded to would use them to black mall
the authors. He might make a hand
some speculation in that way.
HAD there been congressional eleo•
Lions this month the democrats would
have gained nine Congressmen in Ohio
and five in Pennsylvania, according to
the reported majoritles.in the districts,
and in spite of the infamous manner in
which the Radicals have gerrymander.
ed both these states,
The Radical Governor of Ohio Elected by
Negro Totes.
There is no doubt that a very large
number of negro votes were openly cast
for the Radical Governor of Ohio, in
direct violation of the Constitution and
the laws of the State.
The Fayette county Register says :
Twenty-three negro votes were polled in
this town on Tuesday, notwithstanding
the protestations of white men, and we are
glad, we rejoice to say, that through this
NEGRO V OTE, which never before was
polled in this township, the men who were
instrumental in bringing it to the polls,
have been " hoisted with their own petard;"
and the white men of the township have re
buked the advocates of negro. suffrage and
cast their ballots against the amendment
and the men in their midst who advocated
this monstrosity.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, comment
ing on the above, says :
What transpired there, took place all over
the State. Not less than 600 negro votes,
we are assured, were cast in Greene county
alone, in defiance of the law. They were
taken In Cleveland in considerable num
bers, and largely in the Western Reserve.
Some even were taken in Cincinnati. If
General Hayes is elected, he probably owes
it to this fraudulent negro vote. Our Dem
ocratic friends owe it to themselves to ob
tain v list ot' all these negro voters, and if
they amount, in magnitude, to Hayes' ma
jority, the election should be contested, and
the Governor's office given to Judge Thur
man. •
A letter from Xenia to the New Lis
bon Patriot, says :
" I have often heard that full•blooded ue
groes voted here, and I stopped to see if that
wns the case. I have been around the polls
inostall day, and haveseen full-blooded, jet
black, thick-lipped niggers go up and put
their vote in, and not be challenged. I was
told the reason why they were notchalleng
ed was, that it dare not be done. There has
been from two to three hundred niggers
around the polls all day. It was impossi
ble for u white man to get there."
That paper adds:
Frank Johnson, a colored brother, voted
in Salem last Tuesday. Ile is not half
white, and the Trustees who received his
vote ought to know it as well as anybody.
If men of the color of Frank are permitted
to vote, there is no use in the constitutional
amendment. Where Trustees determine
to do wrong, there is no remedy against
them. The good sense of the people must
regulate their conduct, find when they do
what they know is not right, the conse
quences must !allow.
The Mount Vernon Banner has the
following account of the doings in that
city:
Five negroes were taken to the polls in
the Fourth ward in this city, by their Abo
lition friends, on Tuesday, and their votes
there received, in opposition to the earnest
protest of the Democratic challengers. Ne
groes voted in every part of !he State where
their sympathizing whit friends had con
trol of the ballot box.
We make the following extract from
the Stubenville Herald :
It is estimated that at least 3,000 negroes
voted the Radical ticket in Ohio last Tues
day. Their names have been taken down
and returned to the proper authority.
the next Legislature of Ohio, which is con
ceded by all parties will be Democratic,
only does its duty, these negro votes will be
excluded from the total result, by that body
in counting the result for State officers in
the different counties. We have no doubt
but that that body will also pass a law that
will hereafter prevent negroes from voting
in Ohio, they will make the penalty so se•
were to receive negro votes that Judges of
elections, who may have easy consciences,
will not venture hereafter in the experi
ment of receiving negro votes. Three thou
sand negroes voting in Ohio, or any number
of then' doing so, is not only a disgrace to
the officer who received their votes, but
also to the great State, whose purity of the
ballot box these officers were sworn to
protect.
The Cleveland /Nab/dr:a/c/ declares
that :
In the City of Cleveland in the first, sec
ond, third, fourth, and sixth wards full
blooded negrocs voted against the protests
and challenges of Democrats. In fact, no
attention was paid to law, and the votes of
negroes were received with smiles and jests
by the judges. Wn have a Democratic Leg
islature now, and it should pass a stringent
law which will forever prevent a repetition
of such shameful and deliberate outrages
us were perpetrated in this city on Tuesday
last. We intend to refer to' this matter
again, and give -once Picts that will make
the cheeks of some men tingle with shame.
What do the people of Pennsylvania
think of such conduct'."rhe election
for the present year is over, but the in
famous Radicals will lie appealing to
them for their votes a year hence. Let
them remember these things, and not
suffer themselves to be hoodwinked
and blindfolded by any specious proni
ises which will be made on the eve of
the Presidential election.
THE members of the Maryland t-ynod
of the English Lutheran Church called
on Ueu. Grant a day or two ago, and on
one of theta saying, "when we come
to see you again, General, we hope to
find you in a larger and whiter resi
dence than this," he replied, "I have
no deire for any higher position, or
any increase of power or duties."
Many Radicals are eagerly desirous of
capturing General Grant, and making
him the candidate of their party. If
he is wise, he will not permit himself
to be put in any such position. Not
even the name and prestige of Grant
could preserve that party from defeat at
the coming Presidential election. The
campaign will be fought on great prin
ciples, and no man who permits him
self to be made the representative of
the policy of the present corrupt and
fanatical Congress, can hope to be
elected.
BOSTON gossip appears to have settled
it, among themselves at least, that the
separation between Senator Sumner and
his new wife is wider than the ocean
that rolls between them. They say
the case resembles that of Judah P. Ben
jamin, whose wife took early refuge iu
Europe, greatly to the "talk" of New
Orleans, some years ago. That is rather
an ugly joke on Sumner, coming as it
does from a Radical source. A crack
brained fool mentally and an impotent
creature physically is the idOl of the
Yankee Radicals.
LOUISIANA this fall has given 11 Union
or Republican majority of forty thousand,
and Alabama of eighty thousand. Did the
Itsimblican press the country indulge In
. 1,)1,-0111es etas, nur poliltry
II (( 101,1)ably
eillpsu those ui the Dellloersts,—Furdie,V.3
Pre.lB.
They did not, for the reason that
nothing would have appropriately li
lustt•uted their triumph except the pie•
Lure of a negro with his foot on the neck
of a white man. It was a victory of
such a questionable character, and so
meanly won, that they were ashamed
to crow over it.
MIsSISsIPPI and Arkansas, on the first
Tuesday in November, when their North
ern sisters are holding their elections, will
vote for or against it convontion to bring
heir Status buck into the Union, With the
black Union vole already registered, there
in no doubt of our victory.—Fornr If Prom
Of course. Where uegroes alone do
the voting there is great probability of
a triumph for the radical disunioulsts
of Congress, but, thank God, none at
all where white men vote.
Tin,: Democracy of Pittsburg had a
grand torchlight procession on Saturday
night in honor of the late victories, and
Judge Thurman, of Ohio, the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor, made an
able and eloquent speech to the largest
political gathering ever assembled in
that city. During the progress of the
meeting some Radical rowdies threw
brickbats into the crowd, and two or
three persons were struck. One of the
rascals was caught and justly punished.
The day when Democratic meetings can
be assailed with impunity has passed
away.
&MAYO 11 WELCH, of Georgetown, D.
C., has resigned, in consequence of
charges of embezzlement preferred
against him whilst acting as tax cone°.
tor. Welch was elected last spring by
the negroes and Rads.
WE notice that the Republican orators
tbroughout the country have a great
deal to say of the late lamented Lincoln,
but not a word of his widow. Why
their dlierimination?
OFFICIAL VOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA
GOVERNOR. SUP. NUDGE
i l 1 2 g 4
COUNTIES. p 4 P ,
s g 5
.4 1 §
I I P' ' a
Adams 2910 3126 2829 2437
Allegheny 20511 12795 9994 16333
Armstrong 3758 3078 2934 3235
Beaver 3310 2385 2278 2818
Bedford - 2391 '2835 2844 2305
Berke 7121 13288 11912 6117
Blair 8520 2768 2390 3113
Bradford 7134 3091 2638 5846
Bucks 6805 7399 6910 6224
Butler 3544 3061 2662 2939
Cambria 2643 3295 3030 2068
Cameron 374 303 300 358
Carbon 1906 2339 2124 1687
Centre 3094 3565 3473 2790
Chester 8500 6221 5853 7751
Clarion 1776 2813 2603 1410
Clearfield 1650 2786 2740 1477
Clinton 1754 2337 2228 1602
Columbia . 19135 3583 3453 1696
Crawford 6714 4969 4018 5400
Cumberland 4030 4567 4231 3451
Dauphin 5691 4301 3847 5247
Delaware 3647 2262 2148 3207
Elk 376 916 751 286
Erie 7237 3957 3428 5504
Fayette 3569 4359 3859 3184
Forest 100 76 319 289
Franklin 4299 4106 3962 3773
Fulton. 775 1055 1019 709
Greene 1699 3230 2753 1343
Huntingdon 3248 2239 2238 3009
Indiana 4458 2109 1867, 3608
Jefferson 2015 1912 1851; 1806
Juniata 1516 1814 1 16651 1368
Lancaster . 14592 8592 7475 12799
Lawrence . 3560 1410 1281 2833
Lebanon 4194 2696 2501 3625
Lehigh 4159 5731 5141 3514
Luzerne 8733 123871 10404 7985
Lycoming.. 3871 4448' 4357 3004
M'Kean 877 714 545 705
Mercer 4416 3757 3414 3935
Mifflin - 1725 1835 1769: 1565
Monroe 705 2699 . 2339 j 543
Montgomery 7286 8342 76831 6586
Montour . 1130 1523 1 1383 1006
Northampton 3859 68701 5979: 3027
Northumberland. 3361 3529 3469 3623
Perry 2581 2495 2292 2427
Philadelphia 54205 48817 52073 49587
Pike ~.. 360 1084 901 235
Potter 1346 620 451 1131
Schuylkill 8793 10514 5380 7256
Snyder .1792 1326 1199 1630
Somerset 3062 1759 1540 2736
Sullivan 436 701 1 653. 421
Susquellannu....... 4429 2951 2000 3947
Tioga 4791 162.5 1425 4090
Union 1991 1287 1200 1673
Veuango 4409 3402 1 2610 3040
Warren 2687 1372 1459 2131
Washington 4977 4712 45131 4615
Wayne 2357 2883 2586 1 2320
Westmoreland.... 3046 6113 5615 4212
Wyoming 1408 1490 1474 1337
York 1 589' 8780, 7071 -1545
Majority
The Vote In Pennsylvania-1 he Demo
erats Carry Eleven Congressional ills
tricts.
While the absence of any excitement
elsewhere than in Philadelphia was the
cause of a very small vote being polled,
nevertheless the reaction was sufficiently
marked to cause a loss to the Radicals of
five Congressional districts now represent
ed by Republicans, and '.to reduce the
majorities in three or four other districts to
mere nominal numbers. It will be observed
that two of the districts gained by the Dem
ocrats are exceedingly close—one giving
only fifteen majority andthe other only
one. The following is the vote:
THIRD DISTRICT
Republican majority in
Democratic majority in 1867
FIFTH DISTRICT
Republican majority in 1866..
Democratic majority in Ma..
TENTH DISTRICT
Republican majority in 1566..
Democratic majority in 1567..
MIXTEENTII nisTairr
Republican majority in 1866....
Democratic majority in 1867
•
Republican majority in Melt
Democratic majority in 1867
The last named (Twenty-first District)
now represented by lion. John Covode.
This and the Tenth District were formerly
Democratic, but were gained by the Remit)
licans last year.
RECAPITULATION.
Districts curried by the Republicans in
180 t; IS
Districts curried by Democrats in 18titi...
Districts carried by Republicans in 1567. Pt
Districts carried by Democrats in 1.437... 11
Democratic gain
—N. Y. Herald.
A New York Republican Snubs the Com
The Radicals of New York seem to
be having a hard time of it, and there
is no possibility of their escaping au
inevitable and overwhelming defeat.
The state Central Committee has been
making a levy on all oll9ce•holders for
money, but they do not seem to be
meeting with much success. One J.
F. 'Wilson, of Chautauqua county, re
pudiates their bill, and another, Mr. IV.
F. Bement, of Alleghany, responds to
the levy in the following unmistakable
manner:
I acted with the Republican party in ar-
resting the spread of slavery and e'll'ecting
its entire abolition. I was proud also to
devote my eneruies to carry on the war fur
the Union and Constitution; but the sharp
ing of the government with the illiterate
emancipated biacks, the establishment of a
military despotism over one-third of the
Union, and by arbitrary military power
serrating the government of Slates from
white men and forcing it into the hands of
semi-barbarians, and taxing the laborers
of the North to uphold it in the amount uC
two hundred millions of dollars per year, is
an entertainment to which I had not been
invited. I therefore cannot comply with
your request.
Tax mirjority ofJudge Sharswood is less
than one thousand votes. And yet it is a
fact universally conceded that owing to his
high character as a lawyer and a Man ; to
sterling integrity and ability us a Judge he
received at least live times that number of
Republican votes.—lnquircr.
Here is an admission by one of the
Republican papers of this city that all
the abuse which was heaped upon
Judge Sharswood by the Radicals was
utterly false. They now compliment
him very highly. Let the readers of
such journals remember how they lied
during the recent contest. The Demo
cratic press of the State neither abused
nor misrepresented Judge Willimus,and
they have no occasion to take back a
single word of what they said.
THE Radicals of this State are trying
hard to break the force of their defeat
by claiming that it was entirely owing
to a falling Win Ihrir vific. This stay
ut•hotne dodge Is all old oily with that
party. The opponents of tho Democ
racy have always made It a selpe gout
to bear their short comings. The truth
is the result In this State and Ohio is
owing first to actual changes, and
secondly to a deep sense of dissatisfac
tion which will manifest itself in still
greater changes next year. There Is
ample encouragement for the Democ
racy In this very thing. With the full
vote they can carry both Pennsylvania
and Ohio next. year wore easily than
they did In the recent election.
FOR:s;ENS Prem seems to be utterly
reckless since the recent elections. It
lies with a recklessness surpassing all
its former well-known disregird of the
truth. Speaking of the Maryland elec
tion it says :
There is not a man upon the Democratic
ticket who at any period of the war was
suspected of loyalty.
That base falsehood Is uttered with a
full knowledge that one of the princi
pal nominees for a State office was n
Colonel of a regiment in the Union
army who did gallant service through
out the war.
The Trial of Surratt
A dispatch from Washington says that
"John H. Surratt will be kept in jail till
after Congress meets, when application will
be made for the enactment of a law to
transfer him to some adjoining State for
trial, or to authorize a jury to be drawn
from some loyal State to try him hero, as
it is impossible to obtain an impartial, un
prejudiced jury In Washington."
Of course everybody knows that means
that a jury. is to be packed to convict
him, regardless of the law and the facts
in the case.
THE Democracy of Reading and Har
risburg had grand torchlight processions
and illuminations in those cities on Sat-
urday night. Ali over the State there
have been similar rejoicings oyer our
viotory,
The Radical Fraud at Fort Delawarel
John W. Geary is either a rascal or an
ass: He can take just whichever horn
of the dilemma suits him best. Either
he deliberately meditated the perpetra
tion of a rascally fraud in regard to the
votes of the United States soldiers at
Fort Delaware, or he can not under
stand the plainest provisions of a law.
The following correspondence will speak
for itself without any further comment
from us:
WAR DEPARTMENT, Oct. 15, 1867.
William L. Hirst, Esq., 211; South Sixth
street, Philadelphia:
In reply to your letter of October 12, re
ceived yesterday, General Grant directs me
to send you the following copy of a telegram
just received from the commanding officer
at Fort Delaware :
FORT DELAWARE, Oct. 14, 1867.
General E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant
I was in Philadelphia when the election
occurred here. Colonel Howard, who was
in command, reports that a citizen pre
sented himself here with a commission
from Governor Geary, under the seal of
Pennsylvania, appointing him to take the
votes of Pennsylvania soldiers at this post.
Colonel Howard told him that he was under
the impression that such an election was
not legal. But as the man had a commis
sion from Governor Geary, he allowed him
to take the votes. I add, on my own au
thority, that I have ascertained that a large
proportion of the men voting had no vote
in the State under any circumstances. It is
said only thirty•three (33) votes were polled,
while over a hundred (100) were returned.
No officers were concerned one way or
other in this election ,
(Signed,)
C. H. MORGAN,
Major Fourth Artillery,
Brevet Brigudier•Gen. Commending
D. Townsend,
Assistant Adjutant General.
How the Election was Carried in Ala
bama.
The N. V. Herald has full details
from its special correspondent in Ala
bama, in regard to the manner in which
the recent election in Alabama was con
ducted. It says editorially :
" Equal rights" in Alabama evidently
means that tln is to be no room in that
State for white men it' the niggers can keep
it. For this election the niggers were or
ganized by Loyal League machinery. They
came to the polls in military array, every
particular voter being subject to punish
ment at the order of his captain if he should
be guilty of any delinquency. His ticket
was placed in his hand by the captain, and
of course, the greatest delinquency would
have been to have voted any other. And in
this manner the newly made citizens
availed themselves of "a freeman's proud
est privilege." The voter got the ticket
from his captain, the captain had it from
the colonel, and he front the general, mai
the general iu his turn, of course, had it
from the owners and managers in Wash-
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ington of the grand plan to secure political
supremacy. No plan ever before devised
for securing majorities can compare with
this in situplicity and certainty.
The Right Kind of a Democrat
A Democrat of Ohio came all the way
from Chili, in South America, to vote
at the recent election. That is the right
kind of a Democrat. He deserves to be
held up as a modfl, and his patriotic zeal
should be imitated by every one of the
sluggards who allowed themselves to be
kept away from the polls at the recent
elections.
AN Ohio Democrat gut even with a
Radical, who :s feebly crowing over
the - meagre n. ; ority for Governor, by
in forming him twit they could have that
officer, as nearly his whole business
was to pardon inn out of the peniten•
tiary, and that the Radicals had much
more need of his services than the
Democrats. The Governor of Ohio has
no veto, and in gaining the Legislature,
the Democracy have gained nearly
every thing worth having in the Bud:-
eye State.
ECIMI
THERE is not a State in the whole
North, where, if he chooses, the Presi
dent's and is not stronger than all the
laws and the Constitution. He may
arrest any man, impri6on without
charges, refuse trial, hold him indefi
nitely ; in a word, discharge him with
out reasons given. * .T An act be
stowing upon him the Dictatorship
would confer no more real powers than
he legally possesses. Do we object?
No. It is useless to talk, therefore, of
being restrained by our laws, our insti
tutions, our Constitution.—.N. Y. Ade
pcnrlcnt, Aug. 21, 18132.
Jr was agreed (in 1659) that, burying
former enmities in oblivion, all efforts
should be made for the overthrow of
the RUMP, so they called the Parlia
ment in allusion to that part of the ani
mal body.—Hunte.
IF it were not a bad habit to moot
cases on the supposed ruin of the CON
STITUTION, 1 should be free to de
clare, that if it must perish, I would
rather, by far, see it resolved into any
other form than lost in that austere and
insolent domination.—Burkc.
Tiff: Negroes of Bahia are numerous,
and tile finest in the Brazils.'
I have never heard a negro speak to
another in a quiet, subdued way. Why
should' they, indeed ? They newer obtain
the sober sense of manhood ; they are a
mere set of noisy, overgrown children.
—Missionary Jolliney in .South ArllCriC(l,
Catholic World, New York, Sept. 1867,
p. 808.
Thus you see, that the cause of the
Ethiopian's blacknesse is the curse and
naturall infection of blood, and not the
distemperature of the climate—Hoek-
Simon Cameron was recently robbed
of his spoons. The speculator entered
about noon without breaking door or
lock, as if to show there is still (sonic)
honor among thieves.
THE New Albany (Indiana) Court
lately granted a divorce to a man named
Banks, on the ground that his wife was
a victim to klopemania—an irresistible
desire to steal. Why not call it Radi
calism
Novel 3101 hod of Escaping' from Prison
Joseph Worthington, who was confined
in the Franklin county jail, awaiting trial
for the larceny of carpet front the German
Reformed Church in Chanthersburg, es•
coped a few evenings since. As usual, the
prisoners were allowed the privilege of the
jail-yard in the afternoon, and Worthing
ton by .111111,111,•aIN .I,taltied Or (.16th
111.Z. aladt• a "Paddy," wl.iru la. placed
11. hol In 1!1 , c , • 11. I n 111 , , , Vr iill.o ivhun
Illo[ • hi , t:l.l,oallary round
tool: the c,ll 14/1W what he sup
n, he Worthington In h td. Worthlng•
ion, 'losses yr, haul remained outside, ami
during the night he used on Iron staple
taken front a cellar door, to punch holes In
the mortar of the stone wall surrounding
the yard. Into these holes ho drove pieces
of wood, and managed to reach the top of
the wall. A piece of hose found In the ye: d
enabled him to p.t. , 4 down outside, and he
hue not been heard of slio'e.
A dispatch says that the sentence Impost
ed upon Assistant Engineer Ueorgo N.
Say war, by a courtmartial at Portsmouth,
N. 11., hue been approved by Secretary
Welles. 'rho charge against Mr. Sawyer
woe that of using language disrespectful to
the President of the Milled States. It ap
pears that he and two or three other officers
on duty at the Portsmouth yard, were one
day talkin, and they finally got into a
pollticul discussion. Congress wile de
nounced as an Unconmiltutionn I body, guilty
of usurpation and of the enactment of om
itted and tyrannical laws. In the heat of
argument, Mr. Sawyer responded by saying
that Congress would fail of its duty unless
It impeached the President. This remark
was reported by the other officers to the
Secretary of the Navy, who made haste to
have Mr. Sawyer court !mutinied. Ile was
found guilty and sentenced to be repriman
ded by the Secretary, and to be suspended
from duty for one year on half pay.
John Mitchel, in the New Yetrk Citizen,
says: "A friend has sent us a copy of a let
ter written by Mr. Roger A. Pryor to the
Richmond Whig, and asks us to ;eproduce
it. We should do so with pleasure, as It is
well written, like everything else penned
by Mr Pryor, but we protest that we can
not Lind anything in it. Mr. P. advises'his
friends at the South to ' accept the situa
tion ;' (a tiresome phrase)—well, they do
already accept the situation ; they aredoing
nothing that we know of to reverse the
Judgment of the war; what does Mr. Pryor
want ?"
Sentence of a Court-Martial Remitted.
An order was received at Buffalo on
Thursday from General Grant, remitting
the sentence of the court•martial in the case
of United States soldiers of Battery M, 4th
artillery, whose arrest and sentence have
already been reported, for participating in
a Fenian procession on the 17th of July
last. Gen. Urant states in the order that
the remitting of the sentence is done by or•
der of the President.
Butlerlsm at Harrisburg
Disrespect to the President
John Mitchel on Pryor
The Consequence of Ferro Ascendency
In the Routh.
We begin to realize the evils in this coun
try which all other countries have experi
enced where the colored or inferior race
have acquired power. Insurrections, con
flicts between the races, revolutions, and
decline in material prosperity, ending in
the destruction of constitutional government
and the establishment of despotism, aro the
inevitable results of placing the balance of
political power in the hands of the ignorant
masses of an Inferior race. Universal
equality is a fine thing in theory, and
might be practicable if nature had =Wean
the races of mankind equal. But it has not
done so. Physiology, history and all ex
perience show there is great difference in
the intellectual and moral character of the
races, and, consequently, in their capacity
for self government. Yet we are endeavor
ing to form an equality, against the laws of
nature, between the lowest and the highest
types of mankind—between the negro and
the Caucasian races—between a people who
have never shown themselves capable of
government or even of emerging from bar
barism unaided by a civilized people and
the most civilized race. What monstrous
. _
folly ! What an absurd experiment! What
a dangerous policy!
History teaches by example, it is said,
but not to the Radicals of this country, nor
to the Radical revolutionists of any country.
Fanatics are never taught. They have but
one idea. Theory, with them, usurps the
place of reason and ignores the lessons of
experience. The lufortnaton we are receiv-
tug from the South, andparticularly from
our Virginia correspondence, shows that
the negroes are becoming, under the lead of
unprincipled white demagogues, revolu
tionary and brutal. In Eastern Virginia
there was, the other day, a serious mettle,
among the negroes to hold possession of the
lands on which they had squatted. They
trifled themselves to resist tho agents of
the Freedmen's Bureau and the rightful
owners from taking possession of these
lands. At another place, near Norfolk, the
negro squatters refused to evacuate the
property they took unlawful possession of.
Some three hundred of them were
armed for resistance, and one of them,
in a speech to the government agents,
said they did not care a fig whether
the President had pardoned the owner
of the estate or not; that the recon
struction acts of Congress did not recognize
pardons by the President; that this property
was theirs now, and that they were deter
mined to hold on to it iu defiance of all
opposition. lle said "the Indians were
driven off these lands by the whites, and
that they (the blacks) would now take them
from the whites." "We have suffered
enough," he exclaimed ; " now let the white
man suffer The days when the white man
could say, ' Come here, John, and black my
boots,' are passed. The times have changed,
and now the time will come when I can say
to the white man, ' Come here, John, and
black my boots,' and he will have to come."
Receiving frequent applause from his audi
once, he warmed up and declared that " he
would never be satisfied Limit the white
.. .
man be forced to serve the black man, that
the whites must be driven away trout the
lands or must remain as servants, and that
neither secesh nor Yankee should drive
them (the negroes) off the land."
Such is only a specimen of the harangues
itt\
and co ersations of the negroes in this and
other pi is of the South. These ignorant
and deli[ ed people have been excited to the
point of re istance and insurrection by the
teachings of Radical emissaries in I heSouth.
Hunnicutt, who ought to have been arrest
ed for his incendiary language a few days
ago, not only told them to arm, but went
so far as to tell them to take the torch in
their hands. The speech delivered by this
revolutionary incendiary at Richmond on
last Monday night, together with the
speeches of other white and negro orators,
were full of the same sort of mischief.
Truly, these wretched demagogues are tiring
the negro heart, or, rather, the negro pas
sions, for a terrible purpose. Negro supro
inaey is determined on by the radicals, or,
failing in that, the ruin of the South. In
this the Southern radicals are aided and
encouraged by the radical party of the
North. They are resolved to maintain their
political power in the republic through the
ignorant blacks, though the white people of
the North may defeat them at the polls.
Since the late elections they avow their
main reliance to be on this negro balance of
power. Even the Times, the lesser organ
of the radicals in this city, which pretends
to be conservative, declares it as necessary
now to secure this negro balance of power.
Let insurrection come, let a war of races
take place, let the South perish, rather than
lose political power and the spoils of the
trovernment, is the cry of this infamous
party.
Si. Domingo, with all its horrors; Ja
maica, with all its desolation; the South
American republics, with their everlasting
revolutions—all the result of elevating an
interior race to hold the balance of political
power• -afford no instruction to our Radical
revolutionists. They will destroy the coun
try rather than give up an impracticable
theory or the power they hold. This is the
prospect before us, and unless the people
of the North loudly demand the suppres
sion of these modern Jacobins we shall cer
tainly be involved in terrible scenes of
bloodshed, a vast military establishment,
enormous expenses, a deficient Treasury,
and the risk of a military dictatorship.—N.
Y. Herald.
Forney is going down. Ile is one of those
ephemeral insects which perish with the
first touch of the trust. Like the gaudy
flies that flourish, with splendid wings,
during the summer, and feed and fatten on
carrion while the sunshine lasts, but which
drop dead as soon as the clouds of winter
coma, he is fast sinking into a torpid and
moribund state. His Sunday Pre.ss is dead.
Its last issue appears to day. The thing
has been a failure from the beginning, and
the late elections have done tbr It completely.
The late of the Sunday edition of the Press
is but a portent of the doom that awaits
" ?ny duo papers, both daily." Poor For
ney !! He has run through the whole
gamut of political, and and journalistic, and
personal terpit ode and Mistily, and there
is nothing left for him but enti)reed retire•
ment into dishonorable obscurity. It will
not be long before the Senate will kick him
out of the Clerkship he holds in its service,
and then he will be reduced to live in dis
grace on the handsome fortune he has
managed to lay up by such means us would
make a fuot•pad blush for his integrity.—
Sunday Mercury.
Talk With the President
The Washington National Republican
gives what purports to be the substance of
a conversation with the President on the
recent elections. The report says:
"The President's attention was called to
an analysis of the recent election in Ohio,
where two great parties presented each its
ticket. The people looked at them both
discriminately, and took the soldier stand
ard bearer (h ayen) of the Republican party
—thus seemingly rebuking the Democrats
for nominating a Vallandigham man like
Thurtmin, instead of a soldier, and accepted
and elebted the Legislature of the Deino•
cratic and Conservative party, and to pre
vent the re•election of u Radical like Mr.
Wade,ithus repudiating the two extremes
n politics, and then, at the same election,
they buried the diwurblng question of
negro equality beneath a majority of 50,000
votes. The President listened to this state
ment, and said:
"'lt is a remarkable fact. It is the logic
of events. It is the true lesson of the elec
tion. And what makes the fact still more
remarkable is that this wonderful discrim
ination was made by the people themselves
at the polls, and that these extraordinary re.
sults were obtained In the face of mlsrepre•
said idiot], that were constantly made In the
pruvi end tip,m I liestunim and furthet more,
that the Government of the State was in the
hands of the Radicals, and the treasure of
their wealthy men was poured out like
water to aid them in currying the State.
Tho people have conquered in spite of theidi
appliances, and have pointed out the right
way for others, disregarding the two dan
gerous extremes, and taking_ the sale, high,
conservative ground as lai ddown in t he
August • Philadelphia Convention of hill
upon the Constitution, for the preservation
of the States, and in favor of pure loyalty
and a united and free country.'''
"The President said that the thousand
and one reports set afloat about what ho
was about to do In reorganizing his Cabinet
avers unauthorized and untrue. Whatever
ho did in that direction would be thenubject
of careful thought and tor the best interests
of the public good so fur as It was in his
power to reach such a result."
The Wee In Italy—Hy ('able
FLORENcE, Oct. M.—The situation
ot' Italy toward Route Is still embarrassing
and critical. The Italian troops on duty on
the frontier line, under the terms of the
September Convention, have been rein
forced, and the officers acting under the
King are making increased efforts for the
satisfactory discharge of their instructions.
All Italy remains excited In a remark
able manner at the threat of French inter
vention, as reported from Paris, and the
actual war preparations which are being
carried on at Toulon by order of Napoleon.
Reports have been received in this city
from Rome, dated yesterday (Friday) even•
ing, which state that a fierce battle took
place between the revolutionary invaders
and the Papal troops the previous after
noon, in which the soldiers of the Pope re
took the town of Veroli—the Garibuldian
force sustaining a heavy loss.
Affray at Plcken■ Court Home, Routh
Carolina
The Charleston Courier of Thursday says :
"A private letter from Pendleton states
that a serious outbreak had Just occurred at
Pickens Court House, South Carolina. The
particulars us narrated are those: A meet
ing of the Colored League Association had
been disturbed by the interference of a
man while in a state of intoxication. The
meeting of the League was adjourned, and
its members proceeded to the place where
bad assembled a debating society of young
gentlemen of the town, and in an infuriated
manner attacked them. In the melee a
resident of Pickens, a Mr. Hunnicutt. was
killed. A military force from Anderson
had been ordered up to the scene of disturb•
unee."
News Items.
Theta is said to be a growing opposition
o a State Convention in North Carolina.
Last week's internal revenue receipts
amounted to $1,883,000.
The house of General Fiske, in St. Louis,
was robbed of 82000 worth of faces, jewelry,
&c., a few day since.
Three men and ahoy werokilled, and sev
eral boys were injured, by an explosion on
the steam launch Albemarle, at Annapolis,
on Saturday.
The Charleston (S. C.) Mercury says that
there has not been u case of yellow fever In
that city this year. On the contrary the
city has been remarkably healthy. -
General Schofield has loft Richmond for
Washington. It Is said he and the other
district - commanders have been called to
confer with the President.
Bills to enable colored men to sit on Juries,
and repealing the stay and exemption laws
in labor sults, have boon introduced in the
Tennessee Legislature.
A new well was struck on Saturday last
on the S. A. Woods tract of the Thomas
Woods farm. It is situated within a few
rods of the flowing well.
A new well was struck last week on lease
No. 2 of the Bennihoff farm, and on Satur
day last It was producing at the , rate of fifty
barrels per day.
Uovernor Brownlow's majority, us offici
ally counted in the Tennessee Legislature
yesterday, is 51,844. Ho is to be inaugu
rated today.
The Congressional Committee on the Ken.
tucky elections aro taking testimony in
Louisville. The Committee will next go to
Covington.
A. woman was put In the station house at.
Providence, It. 1., a few days suiee, for
drunkenness, who had on a shawl worth
$75.
The yellow fever In New Orleans has been
particularly severe on the editors of that
city, having attacked fourteen of ;hem.
Only one died, however.
The Comanche Italians In New Mexico
recently attacked and killed quite❑ number
of Navajo Indians, for tmlspassiug on
ground claimed by them.
A voliv,nt ion of the Christian churches
I Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia, will
o hold in Pittsburg from the 22d to the 24th
this month inclusive.
The largest ox in America has just died
in Manchester, New I lampshire. Hu was
seven years old, and weighed live thousand
pounds—two tons and a half.
Seven men were Injured, three perhaps
mortally, by a premature blast explosion
in a quarry near Fair Haven, Vt., on Thurs
day evening.
A giraffe, owned by a Ni t% Craven, which
bus peen for some time on exhibilion at
_ -
Medina, died at Seville, Ohio, a huw days
ago. The owner had been offered, and re
fused, $3,000 for the animal
On tho sth Instant, 431 . 10d0s of Indians
wore itssombled at Medicine Lodge Creak
to attend the Peace Council, and •I'2l lodges
were on the way thither. The Cheyennes
are said to be now desirous of peace.
A poor seamstress in New York, who
makes pantaloons for eight cents a pair,
was kicked out of doors it few days ago by
her brutal employer because she refused to
take twenty-tive cents fin' four pairs.
Captain George W. Alexander, at one
time in command of Castle Thunder prison
in Richmond, Vu., and who fled to England
when the war terminated, is said td be a
common sailor In an East India vessel sail
ing from Liverpool.
The yellow fever, it SOlfillS, is It respecter
of persons. It has been remarked in Now
Orleans that not one of sixty workmen em
ployed in laying pavement there, and work
ing all day amid the fumes of tar, has
caught the yellow fever.
Both parties to the great walking match
from Portland to Chicago, have deposited
the final instalment of $9lO. It is found that
the distance is twenty-six miles greater than
was supposed, but Weston agrees to add
that to the previous twelve hundred if he
can start'on the 29th inst.
In scanning; our exchanges for election
returns we trot in a Radical paper, amid
the overwhelming news from Pennsylva
nia, Ohio and Indiana, that the Itatticals
have carried I hinbury, Conn., by one hun
dred majority. "Small favors thankfully
received:"
An individual in Wllllllilliel/11, Who is
supposed to ho posted in Treasury matters,
avers that it is his belief that the spurious
counterfeit seven thirty bonds were 111111111-
factured inside the Treasury building by
means of duplicate Impressions in lead of
the original plates.
Ilecla has been taking a smoke. The
brass of which the instruments of a yacht
more than two hundred miles distant were
composed was discolored, and the Inhabit
ants of Iteikuvik, a hundred miles from
Ilecla, were nearly suffocated by the sul
phurous fumes.
It would really scent that the ancients lid
surpass their descendants in the perfection
of their arts. A tiro and burglar proof safe,
which bus been subjected to a volcanic
eruption, has been discovered among the
ruins of Pompeii, its contents uninjured.
It very much resembles MI/110111 Mlles.
Jeff. Davis, who has been living lately at
the Rossin House, Toronto, is now in Saint
Catharines, which is nearer the Niagara
than the tither city. Davis, therefore, ap
pears to be approaching the United States,
and is probably going slowly to stand his
long deferred trial fur treason.
Lately the workmen employed In eXCIINII-
Iing a court yard to the Lycee Napoleon, In
Parts, came upon a hoard of nearly one
thousand Roman coitus, all gold, In perfect
order and preservation, and belonging to
the reigns of Nero, Vltellius, Vespasion,
Titus, Trojan, and others, Emperors down
to 2UO A. D.
An affray ,:ccurred between four boys,
near Sellersville, N. J., on Saturday even
ing, in which one of them, named James
Spencer, eighto.m years of ago, shot at the
others whit a tom loaded with duck shot,
wounding two of them seriously. Spencer
acted very eo , oly, and remained at his
mother's house 1112111 lie WIN captured on
Sunday.
The petition Ca. n eommandery or
knights 1 . 1,11111i:1r 1111(1 Appendant Orders,
to be stationed in Erie, has been approved
by the tlraml Commander of the Grand
Commandery of the State or Pennsylvania.
Thu new Commando] y will lie known as
Mount Olivet Cominandery No. 10, and
will be constituted by the officers of the
Urand Commandery come time during the
present month.
The quality of California wheat is une
qualled, During the growth of the kernel,
no ruin, not even a dew, moistens it. It can
be transported around the globe without
injury. In England its nse is fast becom
ing a necessity. Mixed, half and half, with
the damp, turgid wheat of the British Isles,
it furnishes a bread and ly superior to the
heuyy, unpalatable loaves made of purely
English grain.
Hunnicutt and his Radical adherents had
a speech-making ratification ineetipg in
Richmond, in which Hunnicutt, Judge Un
derwood, two nee,roos and an Irishman
were confirmed as nominees of the party
for the convention. Speeches were made
that out•Badicalled even Hunnicutt. An
irreconcilable split in the party has oc
curred, and there will probably be three
separate tickets nominated by the various
divisions.
Charles L. Raymond, a stock dealer, be
longing to Clayton, Adams county, I 111110 IN.
Was met In St. Louis by two sharpers, on
the Olive street cars, Wednesday evening,
who held nut inducements to hum to pur
elitist. stock. Producing a bottle ofwhlsk y
th,.y asked him to drink. Ilerunplled
I.' ...MO 11111,41 , 11.1,111.4, liquor tieing drug
ged. 110 was subserviently relieved oe
000 In greenbacks, papers valued
at $l,OOO. No clue us y. tln t he rubbers.
'Hie II untlngilim Monitor says that lion.
of Hollidaysburg, declared
in a speech delivered ul a radical meeting
In that place, previous to lie election, that
" when Llie war was r.'rr and hu looked
buck and saw the duilit.•rs WI, had cacn (aid,
the very halrs on him io seed on end."
This, ton, In lace of the lull that the old
dunce wore a wig, and /um nothrtr/ a natural
hair on his head fo r ten years.
Immediately after the closing of the Purls
Exposition (31st exhibitors lire M.
quired to puck up and remove their pi o
ductm. All articles riot so removed by the
30th of November will be transferred by
authority to the public stores at Paris, at
the risk and expense of the exhibitors. Pro
ducts or articles tint removed from the
Public stores by the 110th of June, 1518, will
be sold et Public sale, and the net prot clods
applied to charities. Such are the necessary
regulations 02 the French Commission.
Santa Anna writes from his prison house
In Mexico to a relative on Staten Island
that he has no apprehensions for his life at
the hands of his countrymen. lie says he
expects they will officially decree his
banishment from Mexican soil, but he is
pretty well assured they will neither hurt
a hair of his head nor deprive him of a
dollar's worth of his property. He thinks
he will be able to rejoin his friends in the
United States before Christmas day. Santa
Anon Is much more hopeful as to his fate,
it must be added, than are many of his
friends here.
Tho Boston Post's Washington correspon
dentsays: "An attachment has been issued
for Gen. Baker to bring him again before
the Judiciary Committee, and it is said he
Is now under arrest. The General will be
required to explain many of his statements,
which are in direct conflict, concerning
President Johnson. It is understood that
no member of the Committee gives the
slightest credence to anything Baker has
said unless substantiated by other testi
mony.
An ex-Union officer of high standing,
lately from Galveston, gives figures which
show the ravages of the yellow fever to be
unprecedented. At the time of General
Griffin's funeral, of the twenty-seven officers
uud four hundred and thlrty.seven men on
the rolls of the battalions stationed there
only four officers and twentyfour men
could be obtained for escort duty. The fa
tality among old vitizens has been Tory
great, some thus carried off having lived
through seventeen seasons of epidemic.