gattatottr intalligtttcer.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 80, 1867
Prepare for the Presidential Campaign
The futonlicence! for 1868
On the first of January next, wo will
greatly enlarge the WEEKLY INTELLMEN
CIER, 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 t►first
class Weekly Journal, Superior to those of
any other Democratic 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 pric6 is already low,
but, as a special inducement, webuow offer
to furnish the WEEKLY INTELLICIENCER
to new subscribers, from this time until Jan
nary let, 1809, for Iwo dollars.
We hope every reader of the lyrnm.iugx
can will exert himself to increase our sob
scription list. The all important campaign
of 1868 is already open. IL will be the most
exciting contest the country has ever wit
nesseil, and the most potent agency to:be
employed is the Democratic press. It is
the bounden duty of every Democrat to
help us fight this great battle Let every
one of our renders do his utmost to increase
our circulation.
AN exulting Western Democrat says:
" The Ohio Democracy have Chased
one Presidential aspirant off the track
and have Waded into another terribly ;
and they both have been or will be
pretty well Vallandighammered."
COM ETE official returns show the
Ohio Legislature to stand thus: SPLlate,
is Republicans and 19 Democrats;
1-lousecl9 ltelJuMicans and .1O Demo
crate; showing Se Ve 11 De MOerat e Ma
jor i ty on joint ballot.
Till; Tennessee Legislature has passed
law making it a criminal offence to
make any distinction between negroes
and while people in public conveyances.
With the Radicals everywhere the ne
gru is the chief oldeut of concern. •
A 1, ‘1)1' remarked that, after reading
of the proceedings of Mrs. Lincoln in
the mat ter of her wardrobe and jewelry,
she thought that even the Democrats
would• not deny that the husband of
such a wiuntin was " Our Martyr Pres
ident."
OF the sixty Radicals elecle 1 to the
Virginia Convention twenty-five are
negroes; a majority or them very ig
norant, and some of them notorious
criminals. That is a fair specimen of
the sort of 11epuhlican government fur
which the. Radicals are so loudly clam-
A _Radical candidate for re-election to
die State Senate in New York has been
vrre:Th .1 and held to bail to answer a
charge ,>l taking ',vibes last winter.—
now II II It:uncut members of the
tiizetutte of this State would be outsideof
the Peeitentiary if they hail their just
(1( , Nc k•
EVERY few days the papers announce
a small addition to the Conscience Fund.
The penitent thievesarc all insignificant
rascals. The fellows who stole by
thousands and tens of thousands-are not
troulili•il with iiny qualms of conscience,
Their lime for repentance has not come
ye L.
One of the citizens of Itichinond, who
was ordered to leave I y th e ne ro Vigi
lence Committee, had committed no
greater crime than speaking disrespeet
ftilly of llutinicutt. Snell is the negro
idea llf iil 2 erty and law. IL is modeled
after the standard of loyalty which pre
ailed during the war.
hiquircr devotes nearly a coin in II
of small type to us in its last issue. The
style is so obscure and the English so
bad that we cannot, tell whether it
would he proper to doll' our hat in re
turn' for a compliment, or to be riled. at
an attack. Won't tho editor be good
enough to take a (id Lllllll of his I,m,
issue hr explain what he meant in his
last?
A It A 'I Ai. spread eagle orator, who
recently addressed a meeting in New
York Stale, W:1111.01 Wings to ily to every
vlllage :old hamlet in this broad land,
there to the story of Andrew John
ti,ll's !Wilily to the Republican party.
Ile however, rather suddenly,
when a haughty boy in the audience
snug' out : "Dry up, you old fool; you'd
be shot for a goose before you llew a
iiENT JOHNStiN has in his Isis
session a letter written to him by John
\V. Forney, reeinniending the appoint
ment a young man named Ringwalt
as his private secretary, and denounui tig
ex-Vie , President Hamlin in strong
terms. 1. k dated a short time after
the, assa—ination of Mr. Lincoln, and
endorses .\lr. Johnson's course at that,
time ri ry earnestly. The President
threaten, to make it public if he finds
it necessary to refer to Mr. Forney again.
eler , :ook of the Illaolzglotn
11.owillow the United states Senalt
will not necessarily cause a vacancy in
the lihilairnatorial office of Tennessee.
4.8r0W 1111)10 in lends 10 continue as CroV
erlim• Until the coininenceinent of the
tern' for which he has been elected Sen
ator on the 4111 of March, 1869, when,
according to the terms of the bogus
'Tennessee constitution, he will be suc
ceeded by De Witt Clinton, ['resident
of the Slate Senate, who is likewise a
Radical.
THE morals of the city of Indianapo
lis are unite progressive. The editor of
a prominent Radical paper seduced a
respectable youlig lady, procured an
abortion mid nearly killed her; then
fearing the veogettuce of her brother,
he hired a bully for ;.,tdo to "put him
out of the way." The ruffian, after eel
ti $4OO of the amount, made the mat
ter and it is said that the rase
will be presented to the C‘rand Jury.
As the jury are all bitter Radicals, it is
supposed that the matter will be hushed
up.
'Put: N.•w York 110 -cad in annolinc
lug the fact that handbills have been
found lying about the streets of _Rich
mond, olrering a reward for the assassi
nation of liuuuicutt and Underwood,
says it is generally believed that they
were gotten up by the Radicals them
selves, as an excuse for the organization
of the Negro Vigilance Committee
which has been ordering white men to
leave the city for speaking disrespect
fully of Hunnicutt and company. That
is the toast reasonable explanation of
the story.
The Illinois ,Slott Rey/slc• says that
an old man, standing on the street in
Springfield the other day, addressing a
crowd on the subject of politics, said,
when• asked what he thought of the
negro, that he thought the " nigger
a big thing.'' He said he had lived
to see the nigger break up the old Whig
party, to which he belonged, had seen
him divide and distract the Democratic
party, had seen him cause a terrible
civil war, had seen him break up the
white man's Union, and had recently
seen him cause the defeat of the Re
publican party In Pennsylvania and
Ohio, and hoped to live to see him de•
feat, ruin and annihilate the Radicals
iu the Preeldential election next year.
Our Triumph---• Our Future.
The recent elections have no narrow
significance. Thestartlingchangeswere
not made on any slight grounds. The
great political revolution which has
swept over the country is no mereparty
victory. It rises above all such narrow
considerations. To effect the great re-.
suit men of all parties contributed. Mul
titudes of honest Republicans laid aside
the prejudices of the past, and actuated
by conscientious convictions, voted for
the candidates of the Democratic party.
This they did of their own free will,
knowing in their hearts that they were
acting the part of intelligent freemen.
We rejoice at the result. It shows that
the American people can be fully trusted
hi decide on great political principles.
It proves that the masses cannot be
long induced to follow any party which
advocates a policy destructive either to
liberty or to the great material interests
of the nation.
But we must be permitted to give
especial praise to the unterrified and
unconquerable Democratic party. ;Al
most from the creation of the Republic '
down to the election of Abraham Lin
coln, it ruled the nation. We challenge
any one to point to a single great pub
lic measure that obtained the sanction
of the people, and became a recognized
part of our public policy, which had not
its origin in the brains of Democratic
statesmen, its advocacy from the lips of
Democratic orators, and a popular en
dorsement by the voles of the Demo
cratic masses. The warlike trio midis of
the Republic ; our conquests and peace
able acquisition of territory; the rapid
and wonderful spread of our borders; the
constant and astonishing multipli
cation of States; the ever advancing
march of our civilization ; the magical
growth of our material prosperity; the
increased and constantly increasing
culture of the mu-,es; the spread of our
commerce ; the gigantic growto of our
manufactures; and, in short, the won
derful and nnexam pled advancement
of the United States in all the elements
of national greatness were due to the
wise and comprehensive statesmanship
of the leaders of the Democratic party.
They controlled and guided the nation.
Led by them its advanct: was the won
der of the world.
With the defeat of the Democratic
party, and the election of a President
on a purely sectional platform, all the
misfortunes which had been foretold US
sure to result from such a disaster fell
upon the nation. During the terrible
and exhausting war which followed, the
armies of the Union were largely wade
up of recruits front the masses of the
Democraticparty,wh ile a preponderance
of those who lud them to victory were
men of Democratic antecedents. _During
the struggle the Democratic party was
true to the nation, It not only gave
up multitudes of its best and braves
to the, slaughter, but it still adhere(
with tenacious firmness to tne grea
principles of constitutional liberty fo
which it had always contended. It de
nounced, as was its duty to do, every
wanton violation of the Constitution,
every unnecessary interference with the
reserved rights of the States, every ou
rage on the liberties of the indAvidui
citizen. in the heat of passion, during
the mad excitement of unbridled
license, it Mund itseif bravely but
still fearles,ly in a minorit
in almost every Northern State. Man
a mercenary follower left its ranks, and
even men whom it had delighted to
honor basely betrayed it, for considera
tions not more reputable Limn those
which actuated Judas Iscariot. Still it
never quailed. With a devotion to im
mut•thle principles that could neither
kwon• variableness our a shadow of
turning, it clung to the pure faith 01 the
fathers of the Republic, determined to
rescue the work or their hands from im
pending ruin or perish in tile attempt.
•I'he world has never witnessed a more
heroic struggle than that made by the
Dennteracy of the North during the last
s e ven y e ars. No political organization
except one l'ounded on the rock uf• im
mutable political truth could ever have
withstood the assaults made upon the
Democratic party during that period.
It never despaired, not. even in the
darkest hour. knowing that the very
existence of the Republic depended
upon the ultimate triumph of the great
principles it advocated, it bore defeat
without despairing and battled man
fully awl hopefully against error.
The hour of triumph seemed long in
coming. Some few grow weary, and
here and there a despairing straggler
folded his hands tditi refused to make
another churl. L'ut for such our ma
jority for Judge Snarswood might, have
been thirty thousand; for there have
been no di SVl'Leni from our ranks for
several years past. The Democratic
masses have been true as steel.
- We ask all Omservativeaml thought
ful Republicans to examine the claims
of this great and eminently national
party. It is especially and distinctively
waiono/. It knows no North, no stouth,
no East, 110 ‘;' , :tSi. It never did, exept
during the war, and it never will in fu
ture, so long as the people of the South
abide by the terms given to Lee by
Grant. With broad national views on
every great question, it steps boldly
forward from the stand point of its
recent great vietories, contide„pt of
achieving a complete and triumphant
success at the coming Presidential
election. It cordially welcomes to
its ranks the thousands of honest
and true hearted Ilepublicans w•ho
acted with it in the recent elec
tions. It honors them as conscientious
and patriotic citizens; and it will hail
as brethren the multitudes who will
hell; to swell its still greater triumph,
now SO near at hand.
The Two Forney's
Animals of the lower grades propa
gate their spceies with remarkable
polity :1114 extraordinary fecundity.
There are t 0 John W. Forneys. They
have both been to Format and L o th
filled " nty 'Ave papers, befit daily" with
very silly twaddle. The younger was
so entirely incompetent however, that
the wanaging editor at home stopped
publishing the trash he sent, after wast
ing a few coluta tis on him. Both For
neys have got back Irmo their trip, and
fattier and son are again figuring in
Print. The younger is ostensibly the
Managing editor of the Piss. His last
encounter %Novi with Mr. Sitniugton, the
Manager of the Associated Press News
Agency. .1. W. F. Jr., undertook to
dictate to Mr. Simington what lie
should scud in the shape of news; and
showed himself to be ignorant, ill-bred
and ungentlemanly. Mr. Simington
takes him up sharply and gives him
such a sound lashing as will do him
good, if he has sense enough to be ad-
Jnonished. We have rarely seen any
one cut a sorrier figure than Forney
/i/i125 does in this encounter.
A LmosT daily we see the same articles
which appear as editorials in the Ex
pr exx dai milar duty in other papers.
The date settles the iluestion of author
ship, and we arc rcininded how , easy a
thing it is for sonic people to get up a
column or a hair POiCM/1/ of editorial.
Only yesterday we raw a long article
which appeared a: mixinal editorial in
the Express copied into tire liarrisburg
Telegraph and credited to the koctring
bulletin. The Exprenn editor wienin LU
think literary theft no mime, and we
presume a majority of his readers are
ignorant of his want of honet,ly,
The Election to he 'treated as if it had
Not Been Held.
For some years past the Radicals have
been in the habit of treating elections
as if they had not been held. The peo
ple of New Jersey elected a United
States Senator, elected him legally ,and
constitutionally ; but he was turned it
of his seat by the most barefaced and
rascally piece of villainy ever perpe,
trated in any deliberative body. For a
partisan purpose, men bolding the high
office of Senators of the United States
violated •their oaths of office and dis
graced the nation by such an exhibition
of baseness as was never before witness
ed. Quite a large number of Demo
crats, who were undoubtedly legally
elected by very decided majorities, have
been turned out of the lower House of
Congress to make room for Radical con
testants who had not a shadow of right
on their side. In fact, all that was neces
sary when an election was at all close,
was for the defeated Radical to put in
his claim. it was certain to be allowed,
and the case decided in his favor.
In our State Legislature similar out
rages have been repeatedly perpetrated.
At least one Senator now occupies the
seat which a Democrat was legally
elected to fill. In the lower House
Democrats who were unquestionably
elected by the people have been turned
out year after year to make room for
defeated Radicals.
There is good reason to believe that
Radical State officers have held posi
tions in this State since the breaking
out of the rebellion who were not legally
elected. The most gigantic and un
blushing frauds were perpetrated during
the war, and there seenied to be no
mode of redress open to au outraged
people. Wrongs bf the most grievous
character were quietly borne by the
people, because a resort to stern and
efficient means of redress would then
have been attended with a complication
of difficulties not to be lightly encoun
tered.
The official returns, announcing the
election of Judge Sharswood, have
scarcely been made public, until we find
the Radicals threatening to treat this
election as they have done others. The
Harrisburg Telegraph, the organ of that
notoriously corrupt and unprincipled
political adventurer Simon Cameron,
boldly announces that the Legislature
will make an eithrt to count Judge
Sharswood out, and to force the defeat
ed Cameronian candidate Williams into
a seat on the Bench of the Supreme
Court.
We do not need many words to tell
the Democracy of Pennsylvania what
would be their duty should such an
outrage be attempted. They feel that
the Buie for submission to such wrongs
has gone by. They are ready to assert
their rights. They will insist that no
man whom they have elect, d shall be
cheated out of his position. There must
be no more treating elections as if they
had not been held. An attempt at -
thing of the sort would be good cause for
the inauguration of a second Buck Shot
war. Let the Radicals remember that
the day when they can connnit such
crimes with impunity has passed away.
If they are wise they will not attempt
any such outrages as were perpetrated
by them during the last six years. We
give them fair warning that the Democ
racy of Pennsylvania will not submit
to be cheated out of any of the fruits
of their victory.
1 he LOW
Everybody in Pen usyivan ia knows
what "The Lobby is. We have been
much cursed by this institution ever
since the Radicals obtained control of
our State Legislmure. The corruption
at Harrisburg has become proverbial.
Honesty has been a discount for
several years, :Ind a majority ()I' the
Republican members of each House are
knowu to have been always and ca,ily
purchasable: That the saute condition
of affairs exists among the Radicals iu
Congress is an unquestioned fact. There
"The Lobby" now rules, and the same
kind of open and shameless corruption
prevails which has disgraced this State.
The Harrisburg Mei/tic/ph, the central
organ of the itepublicau party of Penn
sylvania, says:
The business is lkicoming a regular
bore, swindle and disgrace to all who do
business with either the Executive or Legis
lative branches of the Government at Wash
ington. Things have come to such It con
dition that it is next to impossible to have
the least. iinportant business transacted with
the Departments without first hiring one of
the suckers called lobbyists. Legislation,
by so n, sort of hectic pens, is controlled
by these creatures, who block up every qv
elute to And what is humiliat•
ing is die fact that most of these men are
ignorant and a bandone.l in character, who
could not influi•nee a transaction
in commercial or manufacturing circles in
volying a dollar. Yet these lobbyists can
control business of all kinds before the
I overnment. They frequently enlarge or
dee] ease appropriations, as their interests
may demand. It is time that the press of
all parties call attention to this mist dis
graceful influence, that the people may be
able to devise the way to destroy it.
We agree with the Telegraph. •It is
indeed high time for the press of all
parties to call especial attention to this
thing. We have been doing our best
in that way for a long time past. The
entire Democratic press of the North
have openly and fearlessly exposed the
corruptness and the mercenary charac
ter of thegang of public plunderers who
make up the Radical majority in Con
gress ; and the result. is seen iu the
recent elections. The people are speak
ing. They cannot be gulled any longer.
They have resolved to effect a change.
It is coining very fast, Next spring
will bring the full fruition of the great
popular revolution which has been in
augurated, anti will
see to it Li i.it t ken, is a speedy cod of
the rule of dishonest Radicals in and
out of Congress. The lobiiy business
can only be broken up by a defeat of
the party which have fostered it.
A Sensible Lett fl
In another column will be found a
very sensible letter from a prinuioeut
Republican of this county. It first
peered in the Jiiprr.>•s, where the readers
of that paper were no doubt much sur
prised to find so candid a statement of
the blundering and plundering of
the Republican party. The writer
touches a cord in his • letter to
which a ready response will be
found in Lancaster county. The peo
ple of this community are slow to
change. They cling to old parties and
old political associations with great te
nacity. But the letter which we pub
lish shows that honest men, even among
the Republicans of Lancaster county,
are beginning seriously to consider the
condition of the country. We com
mend the letter of S. to all our readeis
as very sensible. He tells the Radical
leaders plain truths in rather unpala
table terms ; and though- still acting
with the party, does so only under pro
test. He is.one of the most prominent
Republicans iu the county.
THE polls in Richmond were not
only kept operia third day contrary to
law, but the voting was continued the
last day until midnight. In the dark
ness any and every negro who chose to
approach the polls was allowed to de
posit a Radical ticket. Thus Hannicutt,
Underwood, a renegade Irishman and
two negroes were elected. Throughout
the State the two races voted almost
unanimously against each other. Not
one negro in a hundred voted the Con
servative ticket. About the same pro
portion of whites voted with the ne
groes.
The Election in Virginia.
They have• had an election in Old
Virginia, not an election conducted as
such important affairs should be in a
Republic, but on the new patent plan
of the Radicals. First, a very large
proportion of the whites were disfran
chised, and then all the negroes who
could be found in actual existence were
registered as legal voters, and a heavy
per centage of fictitious George Wash
ingtons, Thomas Jeffersons,James Mad
isons, and other popular names, were .
added to the lists, to be used as a reserve
force, and with their clothes changed
to be voted twice in the same district,
or, without a change of clothing, half
a dozen times in different wards of the
cities. The. Radical tickets were print
ed on colored paper, (as was appro
priate,) and any negro approaching the
polls with a white ticket in his hand
had it taken from his fingers, and one
of the loyal yellow cast substituted in
its place. If he persisted in a desire to
vote a Conservative ticket, or was sus•
pected of doing so, he was threatened,
arid set upon with cries of " kill him !
kill him!" It was with some difficulty
that the military forces in Richmond
prevented the black followers of Hunni
cutt and Underwood from murdering
such men in the streets. In that city
the election was to be kept open two
days, but, the second day's poll showing
a white majority, the election was con
tinued a third day, to enable the Radi•
cats to bring in a sufficient reserve force
of negroes from the surrounding country
districts to change the result.
These are all facts. They can neither
be explained away nor denied. It is
thus that u Radical victory has been
gained in Old Virginia. The whites
voted the Conservative ticket almost to
a man, but by negro votes, thus control!-
. ed,the l-itate has been carried, and a mon
grel convention composed of part whites
and part negroes will sit to revise the
Constitution.
We ask Northern men of all parties
to look at this spectacle. We beseech
them to consider it seriously. How
long can our Republican institutions
continue to exis. if the party in posses
sion of the reins of Government is al
lowed to employ such means to continue
its rule? The pretended election which
converted the French Republic into an
Empire, atid placed Louis Napoleon ou
a throne, was free and respectable com
pared to this saturnalia of negro despots
in Virginia. The recent election in
Mexico, where no oue dared to vote,
unless he voted the ticket settled by the
military authorities, was decent and
dignified in comparison. How long
will it take the masses of the so-called
Republican party in Pennsylvania and
elsewhere to see that their liberties,
their material interests—all the things
they hold dear and sacred in life are di
rectly imperiled by the infamous course
of the Radicals in Congress" A triumph
for these ined at•the coining Presiden
tial election would be the greatest pos-
Bible Ali .tster whieh could lwfal thi.
nation. We believe the honest men o
all parties Uegin to see that very clearly
THE most marked feature in Forney's
Prom is the stull' which daily appears
over his signature of " Occasional."
These letters from 'Washington may
properly be regarded as indicating the
animus of the Radical Senators to whom
Forney is clerk. Just now they are
very extreme in their utterances. H
Forney is to be believed, there is to be
no shirking 9r the negro, no modifica
tion of the Mont advanced ideas on the
question of negro rule in the South, and
negro equality in the North. The lead
ers of the Republican party e very
plauily that there i nothing else which
can save that organ izat on from a speedy.
annihilation. _North and South the
leaders are all of (111 C mind in regard to
that. In his last "Occasional" letter,
Forney gives copious extracts from
communications received by the Re
publican Congressional Committee ;nun
white Radicals in the Sduth. One of
these writing' from Vi:ginia says:
The unit/ loyal C.,111,111. in Virgiraii are
the einiinei; slave, and a few while
Rejnthlicau unit I luit'yi,c it would be far
preferable hp let the Southern States go,
and e,talllkli fur themselves a separategov
ernnu in, than to allow thew lobe l,nit rolled
the whites.
• The late election showed how very
few while 174 publicalis are to be found
in Virginia. The whites voted almost
unanimously against the negro State
convention. In some counties not a
single white vote was ca-t in its favor;
in others only two or threei in none
more titan a very few scattering votes.
The negroes were a unit in favor of the
convention and the whites a unit agi.i net
it. But does this prove that the ignor
ant negroes are the only loyal element
there? Does it prove that it would be
preferable to dissolve the Union, which
cost so much blood and treasure, rather
than to permit the intelligent white
men of Virginia to control the po
litical affairs of that great State ?
That is the conclusion at which
Forney arrives; but we think it will
be long before lie gels the people of
the North to endorse any such doc
trine. The Radicals have dug the grave
of the Republican party. It is even now
struLgling in the pangs of political dis
solution. It cannot abandon the mad
scheme of negro domination; and that
is a millstone around its neck Which
will inevitably sink it to perdition. It
may make one gigl'ititic struggle at the
coming Presidential election; but its
fate is sealed in advance. It cannot
sac: eed without en fu rcing negro superi
mil\ in the Soio and to•;sro
iu ; North ; ••an.. o m•: the
whites of either section to sanction
either of those things. How then can
it live?
What Fred. Douglass Demands
Fred. Douglass is the pet of the Radi
cals. They point to him as an exempli
cation of the entire fitness of the negro
to take part iu politics. He is unques
tionably the most callable negro this
continent has ever produced. On last
Tuesday night, this model Ethiopian
made a speech at Newark, New Jersey,
in which he exhibited the c j ipacity
of the best of his race for self
government. He called upon a Con
gress in which ten States are not
represented and in which the most of
the twenty odd States that are repre
sented refuse a ballot to the negro, to
force negro suffrage upon North and
South by Federal law, alike upon the
unrepresented ten and the represented
twenty odd. He advocated an abolition
of the veto power and of the pardoning
power which are conferred by the Con
stitution upon the , Executive, because
the last of seventeen Presidents has
not wielded tnem to his mind. He
would abolish the Vice Presidency for
the very reason that the framers of the
Government designed the office, and
would transfer all the powers of the
Government to Congress, to be exer
cised by that body In the most irrespon
sible and arbitrary manner.
If such be a specimen of the political
sagacity and statesmanship of the most
intelligent negro in the country, what
would become of our republican insti
tutions should the balance of power be
given into the hands of the more ig
norant of his race? That is a serious
question, and it demands the earnest
consideration of every thoughtful citi
zen. The leaders of the Republican
Party are with him in sentiment.
Excusing Negro Criminals.
For the last twenty years certain
newspapers in the North have made it
a point to publish the most extravagant
stories in regard to the treatment of
negroes in the South. They have not
only exaggerated oevtirreitues in the
grossest manner, .; :.;ort inc . facts until
they could uo 10. ger be recognized,
but: when material for feeding the pas
sions of th , :ir readers grew scarce they
deliberately invented falsehoods. Many
a picture of cruelty which appeared in
Abolition journals was a lie manufac
tured out of the whole cloth, with not
even a fragment of truth on which to
rest.
During the war this thing was- kept
up on the most gigantic scale, and
Northern newspaper c Jrrespondents
continually taxed their ingenuity to in
vent exciting stories with which to
stir up the bitter passions of their
readers. Since the conclusion of the
strife the same system has been employ
ed. The New York Tribune, Forney's
Press and of her papers of that class have
constantly exaggerated every little diffi
culty between the whites and the blacks
of the South, habitually laying all the
blame on the former, and invariably in
venting excuses for the latter, even
when the negroes were unquestionably
in the wrung.
This ha; been done with the deliber
ate purpose of bolstering up the infamous
attempt to destroy ten States of the
Union for the purpose of erecting a
Negro Empire on • their ruins. No
doubt many honest people have im
plicitly believed the majority of the
improbable stories which were cir
culated throughout almost the entire
Republican newspaper press of the
country. The Democratic press has re
peatedly exposed many of these lies,
but, acting with a deliberate intention
to deceive, Republican journals have
almost invariably refused to make any
retraction. At, best truth (- travels but
slowly on foot, while lies fly with wing
ed rapidity.
Within a few days past the country
has had another instance of the brazen
faced mendacity of Radical newspapers,
A few nights since a baud of negroes
who had organized themselves into a
military company, were parading
through the streets of Baltimore, when
they deliberately fired a number of
shots into a crowd of whites, killing
one man and wounding others. No
paper in that city, not even the organs
of the bitter and unrelenting Radicals
of Maryland, dared to charge that any
provocation had been given, and the
commander of the negroes testified at
the coroner's inquest that he " heard no
noise and Ivitnessed no inlet:fel-G.l'ce pre
cious to MG./Iring."
Vet with these facts all before them,
newspapers, such as the New York
Tribune and Forney's two dailies, are
found exculpating the black murderers
and villifying and abusing the white
population of Baltimore. When the
organs of the Republican party descend
to such depths of infainy to bolster up
their mad scheme of negro suffrage, it
is high time that all decent white men
should abandon au organization which
lives only by uttering lies from day to
day, with the deliberate intention of
deceiving and beguiling the honestaud
unsuspecting masses. We shall have
this outrageous system of lying con
stantly kept up from this time until
after the Presidential election. It will
constitute a large portion of the Radical
thunder in the next campaign.
Bill Kelley Nominates Grant
The Radical politicians of Pennsyl
vania, being :mum alarmed by their
late defeat, and fearing that they may,
very speedily he compelled to betake
themselves to honest industry, instead
of hanging like leeches on the public
treasury, have taken to nominating
General Grant for President by a sort of
universal acclamation. Jack Hiestand
leads the NN in Lancaster county, and
Bill Ktdley follows suit in Philadelphia.
We puklished Jack's platform. Kel
ley's is like unto it. Ile made a speech
on the occasion. in which lie declared
that Grullt was fully and completely in
favor of universal negro equality. We
do not beheve General Grant will per
mit hit,,,cdf to be made the tool of such
miserable demagogues. If he should,
lie still unquestionably tarnish his fame
and foi fed the respect and confidence of
a large majority of the American peo
ple. No 1 , , n he elected President
on the now being laid down
for Gene, a Grant. 'Whoever may be
the nomim.e of the extreme Radicals
will be beaten.
Increased Vote In Ohio
The New York Timrs remarks that
the " reaction" in Ohio is more decided
than it seemed to he at first. The vote
at the late election in that State, instead
of being light, turns out to have been
the heaviest ever cast. In the counties
thus far officially heard from there is au
increase of about sixty thousand over
the votle two years ago, of which the
Democrats gain forty and the Republi
cans twenty thousand. The Tinics is of
the opinion.tnat the theory that the Re
publicans stayed at home will not
answer, but they have evidently in a
good many cases voted the other way,
whilst of the new voters who have come
into the field within the last two years,
the Democrats have got more than their
equal are.
A More Radical Basis Demanded
Forney, the United States Senate's
Secr,•;ary, says the Republicans of Penn
sylvan a, though beaten, are not d is-
I r. organ ire on a
nu,r;• -i-. A ',lore rolieal
! What can be more radical than
the present party basis? Military des
potism, debt and taxation, negro equality
at the North and negro domination at
the South, special privileges fora few at
the expense of the many ; the Consti
tution ignored, the Executive and the
Supreme Curt considered as unworthy
of regard, the will of Congress proclaim
ed to be the supreme law, and venality
and corruption permeating every branch
of the pubic service—is that basis not
radical enough ?
PRIVATE Miles O'lleiley, editor of the
New York Citizcit suggests that Mrs.
Lincoln take up each present she re
ceived while in the White House, state
from whom it was received, and label it
with a memorandum of the probable
profits in place, or of some shoddy con
tract, or permit to buy cotton, which the
presenter must have noted. Miles thinks
in this manner it would be found that
the value of Mrs. Lincoln's influence to
the gentleman who presented her with
a carriage and a pair of horses—certainly
not costing over two thousand dollars,
all told—must have been in the vicinity
of at least four hundred thousand dol
lars; and very likely a similar exhibit
might show that every shawl, and dress,
and article of jewelry in her collection
must have been paid for (finally by the
country) at the most extravagant rate."
WHEN Brooks, a much smaller man
than Sumner, caned him, the Boston
pet did not attempt to resent it; but
went to Europe to have the Duchess of
Sutherland. and other abolition dames,
bathe his bruised cranium and heal his
wounded honor. When a German
Baron grew sweet on Mrs. Sumner, the
brave Senator did not challenge him ;
but wrote a letter to Bismarck, reflect
ing on his wife's honor and requesting
the recall of the offender. Such Is the
honor of the Radical leader of the
Senate.
A Negro Vigilance Committee in Bich-
The negroes of Richmond have begun
the war of races. They have formed a
Vigilance Committee, and are ordering
white men to leave the city. On Satur
day morning M. W. A. Monroe received
the following threatening letter:
RICHMOND, Ve., Oct. 25, 1867.
We, the colored people of the city of Rich
mond, having formed a vigilance commit
tee, warn you to leave the city in forty
eight hours after receiving this notice. We
are aware of your hostile feelings towards
Mr. Hunnicutt and his political party. -If
your family choose to go with you they can
do so, or they can remain ; we will not in
terfore with them. If you do not heed this
warning, you will have to abide by the
consequences. Atter you have spoken of
Mr. Hunnicutt as you have, we are fully
determined that you shall leave the city at
the expiration of the time given you.
By order of the committee.
T. B. G., Secretary. .
Similar letters were received by other
persons. The parties thus singled out
for vengeance by Hunnicutt's barba
rians are said to have discharged Rad
ical negroes from their employ since the
election. What security for life or prop
erty can there be in a community in
which negroes thus take the laws into
their hands?
Grant Not Seeking a Nomination
The editor of the Atlanta New Era
had an interview with Gen. Grant on
Saturday, in which he said :
That he was not a politician, and had
never taken any interest in politics, in fact
he had never voted since 1858, when ho
voted for Buchanan for President. He
further said he was not seeking a nomina
tion tor the Presidency, and belonged to no
party, and no man bed a right to speak filr
him. The S etthern editor is of the opinion
from Grant's conversation that the General
will not accept a nomination for the Prsi
dency front either the radical Republicans
nr radical Democrats, but might be induced
to run as a conservative.
The best thing that could be done for
Gen. Grunt would be for politicians of
all parties to let him alone. His position
is such that the Radicals would find
him to be a weak candidate if they got
him. The people will vote for measures
and not fur wen in the coming Presi
dential contest.
Sample Specimens
Mecklcu burg, county, Virginia, the
Radicals succeeded in electing two suit•
able candidates. A correspondent of
the Richmond Enquirer says :
Their nominees were
. John Watson s •
gro) and Sanford Dodge, a inau (!) with a
white skin. The furwer, I am informed,
on the best authority, was a notorious thief
in times of slavery, itnd was sold no less
than five tones. fie can neither read nor
write. The latter came (I believe) from the
North, is en ex-minister of the gospel, (but
still continues to preach,) and was ill the
employment of John Morris as whiskey
rectifier before his distillery was seized by
the government for swindling, and himself
lodged-in jail.
Such are the men who will almost cer
tainly represent (God save the mark!) this
county in the coming Convention.
These are, we have no doubt, fair
average samples of the Virginia radicals.
In Mecklenburg county not a single
white vote was cast fur these vagabonds
or in favor of the Convention. In Fan
quier county o: three whites voted
the Radical tic:. t. So it was elsewhere
in the State.
Stanton's Opinion of Lincoln
Radical newspapers have been raising
a de'il of a row during the last four or
five years Is-cause somebody called the
late lamented a "gorilla." The appel
lation has linally been traced to its true
source, and the author of the opprobrious
epithet turns out to he that woman
murderer and starver of our prisoners,
ex-Secretary Stanton. Shortly after the
inauguration of Mr. Linc'oln, Stanton
and some others in Washington were
talking about the great kihg of the
baboon tribe, and the effort , which
were being made to secure a live speci
men, when Le exclaimed, referring to
`the then President, "Why g , to Africa
for a gorilla, when we have the original
among us.'"fhis was said at the time
when Stanton was assuring the South
erners in Washington that he was with
them heart and soul in the secession
movement. This model patriot, being
made Secretary of War, and given an
ample chance to plunder, became the
-most intensely loyal creature living,
and professedly a devoted admirer of
the man whom he had stigmatized as
"a gorilla."
THE birthplace of Washington is a
Poland, in which, at the mouth of
United States cannon, is kept up the
farce of a free government. White men
are disfranchised. N - egroes vote tickets
printed on colored paper, at the dicta
tion of a few selfish and low-born white
demagogues. No negro could vote any
other ticket, except at the peril of his
life. The negro barbarians all voted
one way. They rule Old Virginia. And,
this is all that Radicalism, with unlim
ited powers, has been able to effect.
WHEN California went against the
Radicals they declared their defeat was
owing to side issues and the corruption
of their candidates. They were tumul
tuous in the prediction that they would
carry the State by their old majorities
at the coming Judicial election. That
has come and gone, and the result is an•
otherglorious Democratic victory. What
becomes of the side issue excuse? The
Radicals will have abundant occasion to
remember their oft repeated assertion
that revolutions never go backward.
The West Virxhila Election
The result of the election in \Vest Vir
ginia, On Thursday last, for members o f
the Legislature, is yet uncertain. TheDem_
ocratic gain in (thin Counts . , including
Wheeling, is nearly Gte. The Wheeling
Connarreiai of Friday
• I [WWI t'lc tire, trel , , 010 eir
vati, 11 . 1;
county :ti::, the Dernociatte line, and
k.h•rt, emir, ti: ket; makes
li..avy gain, ; :qarion elects a Itadical, but
De11101•1,t10 gain of :25fr;
wipe, out the entire liadi.,al vote and elects
a eteau Democratic ticket ; Jeflerson SPOUTS
to he on the same track ; Harrison county
is Radical by a greatly reduced majority
Hancock county shows a Democratic gain
of Si, and Wood county of 251.
If the news front tile other portions of the
State should be as favorable to the Demo
crats as those above enumerated, the elec
tion of West Virginia will eclipse the Ohio
election. In our State some counties were
so manipulated by the registration that
there were not voters enough left to fill the
county offices. in the rich old county of
Hardy there were but sixty-eiyht voters
regktered ! The same scale of disfranchise
ment prevail.' in good old Hampshire,
n'Li:•h used to cowain ,ottie twenty-two
hundred voter , . 11% the registration she
was eurtiiileil "0 about one hyt,lred (171(1
sixty thrrie. The people are tired of seeing
a portion of their feliow-citizens disfran
chised without law. They believe that those
who are compelled to support the Govern
ment should have some voice in the affairs
of the Government.
• The Wheeling Register (Dem.) of Satur
day says :
Returns front Thursday's elections leave
the general result uncertain. In Marshall
our gains reach 1100, but the success of our
ticket is in doubt. In the Second Sena
torial district 13urley (Rad.) has a majority
of about 300 in Marshall and Marion coun
ties over Clemens, (hem.,) with Wetzel to
hear front. Wetzel's majority has usually
ranged from four to live hundred Demo.
cratic. The election of Clemens will be a
Democratic gain. Wirt county has gone
Democratic. This is something new in our
experience, and Mr. Stewart, the delegate
elect from Wirt, is a gain for the Democ
racy. The result in Brooke county is as
gratifying as it is unexpected. We elect a
member to the House of Delegates from
that county, with a gain uporet,e general
vote of 125.
The Election In lowa
The returns from lowa indicate that a
larger popular vote was polled this year
than at any previous election. From the
reported majorities in the various counties,
about one half 01 them being official, it ap
pears that the vote for Governor was, for
Merrill, R., 96,963, and for Mason, D., 62,976,
a Republican majority of 23,987. Last year
the Republican majority was 35,412. The
total vote this year is 149,939, last year it
was 147,042,
A Candid Republican
The following letter 'from a candid and
prominent Lancaster county Republican
appeared in the Express a day or two since:
A Democratic journal, in commenting on
the recent election, says: " The Republican
element of the country has stepped aside to
rebuke its leaders."
With this view, a defeat is often a bless
ing. A party long in power must not forget
that all its acts are open to the criticisms of
its opponents; and a defeat in elections of
local importance should lead to reform
within the party. Reform must take place
or the noble principles for which we have
been battling will be sacrificed. Our prin
ciples are right, but our extravagance, and
faithless execution of the laws, are wrong,
and will be used as steps by the Dem
ocrats for rising into power. Ex
travagance is the great sin of Repub
licanism. The war seems to have blind
ed our Congress that they cannot ap
preciate money. Before the war $70,000,000
was considered a large sum for the annual
expenses of the Government. We charged
Buchanan's administration justly with ex
travagance, when the expenditure reached
$80,000,000. The war has been over nearly
two years, and the expenses are enormous.
The interest on the public debt is about
$130,000,000 and not much in excess of the
dunes recei‘ed on imports. Yet we are re
quired to raise by taxation over $300,000,000
per annum, and that too without materially
edeele'' ' . the principal of the debt. This
is grinding down the industry of the
people too fast, and will not be sustained at
the polls, unless it can be shown to be un
avoidable. Has Congress economized the
funds, with a view of reducing taxes? No.
It has passed a Bounty Bill to bestow away
a few hundred ; it has burnt part
of the debt costing no interest, and issued
bonds in place bearing six per cent., iii
gold ; it has organized an army of excise
°ulcers at a heave expense, but failed ut•
- er:v in enforcing the revenue laws, strictly
and' impartially, and lost hundreds of mil
boos to the Treasury which hmi actually
gene onto the pockets of its own officers and
the dishonest persons engaged ill defraud
ing the revenue, who, to inatty cases, joint
ly combined to enrich themselves with the
Intmey due :he nation. The Government
has fatted to enforce the law, so as to realize
the revenue where it NVIIS due. To Bins
Irate iha, i. Will Only refer to one article,
although others might be referred to, in like
manner:
In ISW ninety millions of gallons of
whiskey were distilled. Under the present
tax this would realize to the Government
;;;160,000,000 annually, much more than
enough to pay the interest on the whole
debt, and a sun' larger than the expenses
of the Goverhinent should ever be in time
of peace. Last year 14,000,000 gallons of
whiskey paid.i he tax, but we think we earl
safely assert that 4(1,000,000 gallons were
distilled, which would nut lie half Its Much
as the annual product in 161;0, before there
was any tax on it. Why did the Govern
ment not collect this tax? Simply because
it either lacked efficiency , or the will. Ms
tillers when detected were allowed to settle
with money—they paid a penalty of $5,000,
and made $20,000 by the operation. Getting
all so easily, with an excess of $1,,,000 profit.
or rather stealing , : in their pockets, they, of
course, repeated the transaction. Others
felt encouraged by the very terms of settle
ment to "go :toil do likewise, - to cheat
tiny or a hundred thousand, ai,d settle
with the Government for ten or twenty .
thousand. In fact, the GONWl'llitient officers
proffered a ffiibe for cheating and many
of the excise officers participated in the
profits with the illicit distillers, lied the
Government enforced the penalty of the
law in every case before it, and confined
the convicts in the penitentiary, instead of
settling fur money, the frauds would not
have been long continued. Fifty millions
of dollars, at least, would have been saved
annually. Honest distillers then would
have 11,:d equal chnneo in the business
As it is, all honest men in the business were
compelled to stop, and swindlers only could
make it profitable. The Government al
luwed to go on even when whiskey
in open market sold for half the amount of
tax on a gallon. The market quotations of
whiskey• at f„ , 1;a16!„. 1.70, designated contra
band, were published daily for many
months, and the gotta rnment could see it
as well as others. Sill' the illicit traffic
continues to die disgust and regret of all
well-disposed, honest tax payers.
IL is truf , that once in a while the etcise
f 'Meet's inake a raid on contraband
cliquy the beer mash fu the gutters,
and capture the stills and a few I,arrels of
whiskey. But this will not suppress the
business. They will start elsewhere what
paid s., well before. Nothing short of in
variably imprisoning ht the penitentiary
will or can suppress it, but that will. That
would soon teach the perpetrators of fraud
that it is just as criminal to cheat the goV
erninent as an It would soon
create a respect and neurone,. lie the law,
Which it Sadly needs.
The excise laws strictly enforced, would
yield otter tt:100,00o,u(la More annually to the
govertinieril, and enable it to reduce the
tax e s to a till specific article , , and to dis
band one ballot the ;event], officers, Who
grow fat 00 the hid usL ify of the people, and
many of whom, as Ili , government well
knows, grow tlui , lay rich, not by their
salaries, but by the tetupfing tip)
flf tell accepted from !atri, in complicity in
d4raUding the revenue.
If IL Hypll C.Ul4re-S means 1.0 1,-
1111611 power, tt :tillst see to these things.
It i: not the niggetr .nty 11:.x1 will sat isly
and a reductimi taxmt. They want tt
have the laNys vt,oremay and impartially ,
enforced, that taxi at in:ly t,a ju , t, in catlse
Let Congress see that $100,01)(1,000 more
are realized from the enforcement of the re
venue laws—that no further grant, in made
fur bounties, or railroads—that no ,alaries
be increased, but reduced—that no non -
interest bearing. debt be exchanged for
interest bearing—that no more tax lie
levied Oil the peopl“ than what is necessMd
lf required, vithout reducing the principal
of the debt; and by these reformations show
that it can safely reduce the taxes one half
and then it can ask the people to sustain ;
in office, on a platform that will have a tell
ing effect at the ballot boxes.
on the other hand if it tvbl thsregart
everything hut the niui,ter, a.: e. the laws It
be violated with imputin y, yxtravagynce
go on, taxes increasing, the r evt nue wasted
the legal tender notes contraetetl, the got°,
interest increased, then, by Llwst, 11142111i5,
will direetiy help our political opponent.
into power, and the voice lrom the polls wil
come, " Weighed in the balance and fount
wanting." S.,
A tireat Democratic Victory in Valli
BA urimortE, (Jet. 23:—The municipal and
judicial election pas , ecl oil very quietly to
dat•. The entire Denlia•ratie ticket, for
Mayor, both branches of toy Couticils and
judges, was elected. The vote for Nlayor is
lollows:
Itobert T. Banks, (Dem.)...
Andrew \V. Duluth, (Rep.)
13.~t.1'tvoxr, t )ct.23.—The vote for Judges
of the (01111 I Appeals to-day was as tol
lows : Ballot , Dom.), ; Stockbridge
(Republican:, 4,795; Bartol's majority, 13,-
705. For Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court—Parker Scott (Dem.,, 15,219 ; John
R. Kenly Republican), Scott's ma
jority, 13,37:;. The Democratic majorities
for Associate .J udges are all over 13,000. The
largest Republican vote was for John
King, for Associate Judge, -1,020.
==!
The yincennes Sun of the lath says: " At
the recent election in this Stan., the Demo
crats gained on the majorities of last year
1- , V .il 1 .r - 1•1r ,,
Spunc, I . to/i I ~, S , ,
Wayne limo; N nox
I len ry 700 , Orange
Elkhart 1601 Newton
Morgan 4501)earb0rn.....
Bartholomew 400 Noble
Putnam
White..
Clinton.
I 'thou
150
100
200
700,
150
0wen.....
Carrot....
1 au cock
Howard.
Miami...
.Johnson 300
NI on tg , nrwry 20()
Martin 140
Jasper...
Warrick
Porter...
.1110 stark
.160 I
PcKalb.
Franklin
Posey SI II I
TIMM it will be seen, that in 3.5 counties
the Democrats have gained 11,61.0 on the
vote of IHtiti, when I ruder ( A bo.) was eleut •
ed by 11,200. The same average gaini, in
the edutiiii , not reported would give the
Demi•crais the state by ;Wont 1.1,000. I,et
us determine to win it.
The complete official returns of the Vote
in Ohio have been received. The number
of votes cast exceeds any former period, as
the Billowing comparison shows:
1567-114"ye5...
1866—slit i
Ml—Lincoln
243,66tilTlacrn3an
.2.56,302 j Democrat
:2115,151, .11cClellau
Two Congressional districts give Demo
cratic and tune give Republican majorities.
The two districts of Hamilton county show
less Republican loss than any other in the
State. havoc carries torty-two and Thur
man forty-four counties, and two are tied.
The Western Reservesaved the Republican
State ticket..
Thu aggretzate vote for past ysars was as
follows: In 1663, 476,233; in 15774, 470,722
in 1865, 417,000; in 1866, 469,908; in 1567,
484,287.
Put these Side by Side
" Wherever there is ignorance, there is
peril to the cause of good government, and
to the institutions of the country," says the
New York Tibune. The same paper speak
ing of the Southern freedmen, says they
have " next to no education, no property,
no social position and not enough land, in
the aggregate, to afford each of them a de
cent grave." And the Tribune insists, in
the most positive terms, that ten States of
the Union shall be placed under the control
of these persons, who have "next to no
education " and " no social position," whe n
the very existence of ignorance, not its
universal prevalence among the people, is
a peril to the cause of good government.—
Inconsis' eney is a pleasant thing, at times,
but the Tribune is ludicrous.—Detroit Free
.Press,
The Total Tote of Ohlo—fxtraordlnary
Gala.
The hope which the Itepqblicans have
cherished since the election, that they were
beaten on a light vote, and that thousands
of their men simply stayed at home, Is dis
pelled by the full official returns now coin
ing in. The total vote of the State is enor
mous, being thousands more than were
given even at a Presidential or Congres
sional election. All the people were out,
and voted after the most elaborate presen
tation ever witnessed in the State. Tho
figures will, probably, when the counties
are all in, stand, in round numbers, thus :
Hayes (Rep.) • 24 2,10)
Thermo, •
(1) , 01.) 240,1100
Totel vote 452500
Hayes' ruejorlty 7,501
Last year,
on Secretary of State, the *g
lowing was the vote '
Smith (Rep.,..... ,
LeFevre (Dem.)
Total vole 469.000
Republican majority
At the last Governor's election, in 1865,
vow was as follows
Cox ......
Morgan (Dem.)
Tobil vote •
Republican majority
It will, therefore, be seen that since last
year the Republican vote has tiMen off
14,000, while the Democratic vote has in
creased 30,000. Since the last GovermWs
election the Democratic vote has increased
the enormous number of nearly or quite
311,000 votes. The Republicans, theretore,
have been beaten not by their voters ab
senting themselves from the election, hut
because 11,000 of their ntimber, having
bore no convinced that the Republican
policy on the negro and on the bonds was
wrote,dcsorted their standard, and voted
direct:y the Democratic ticket, •vhich they
had hitherm opposed. This of itself mad,
a change in the State of 25,000 votes, or
I aim thirds of the Republican Majority of
In 4 year The reinainder or the 'mange
WAS 111;140 up or the yiiiim.:lllo4l-IWW enters
—what I.!lll,Ait unanimously ranged them
selves at the Democratic 'Omlanut ,
Euvoccr.
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ir e stop Ie ober 21) '.n'rr-p,nuleuro or [lit
Net York Expless
A puldj , uuut St/111111111,i 111.t,11100 , ,,
pub
lie that 100 private antics rnuuunnd a IMb
liCity which it would he an affectation o r
the press not to notion' it. Ilene,' 151)01
von the follOWthg:—N.! Iwo years ago the
long known bachelor, Charles Sumner, la -
Caine a Benediek. A highly educated, salt
in many respects an iiceomplished man, of
good manners and butter appearanee, ua
tUrally 0111)11gh, he aloud high toomig the
ladies of Boston, slid he had uo ilitlieulty
winning thu hand of 11 widow (trout 0110 Id
the F. F. Of Reston), who sacrificed no in
classiderable jointure in marrying hint.
The honeynnilill had :ill the apparent
charm that honeymoons usually Inure,
when Mrs. Sumner went with her
husband to Washington, and now Seen,:
Among the accomplished 111,.11
composing the Diplomatic Corps in
Washingtoil thus 11:11'1,11 Iluhtein, of Prus
sia, whom the Prussi,in I(ing lonl attached
to the Prussian Legation there, "to spy nut
the land." Naturally enough ho courted
the acquaintance of yleirles Sumner, the
chairman or the COhlillitiem. 4,11 Foreign
Affairs in the Senate, who, lit a dinner party,
introduced his wife 1,, I n 11 1-011, 'mil who
was placed beside her at dinner. An ac
quaintance ensued, and a friendship fol
lowed, such as naturally and honorably
spring up between the saxes with kindred
tastes and aspirations. The Baron attended
to the lady in matinees and soirees, and in
other public places, a n d occasionally es
corted her limn the Senate, where both Ion!
been to hear the Senator speak. NI r. Sum
ner, becomingdispleased with this acquain
tanceship—it Cllllllot be properly called
intimacy—wrote a letter to Baron holstein,
in which, while complaining of it, report
says he insinuated something not honorable
to the wife. The Baron wrote hack a letter,
In which, 111 said ther e
110 C/11.1!..1 , ,,r oirenve whutever—he Ind heel'
polite In Wad/1111e, 11S h.' team 1,1 Hitter ladies
of similar accomplishments, and nothing
had ever happened which propriety or good
taste forbade. But if the Senator was not
satisfied with that, Ile was ready to give
him any such satisfaction as a man of honor
demanded.
...wr..-11,111111•11co was the ht•gioniit4
mud told of ptiri first ; but Mr. StUnner. re
port stivs, ti e •u I)l2e:tine eta,' to his wile, and
the bury and the Baron Lee:11111i 1110 re re
served in then• intercourse. Then r.
Stunner, as chairniart of our Committee or
Foreign Affairs, wrote to the Prussian >I i !l
ister orForeign Allairs, the distinguislird
liisribirelt, that it'll,- Nvould re -
Call tilt. ISarou he (Summer) would be ult
Ths adroit blismitrek yielded to the
potential position of the Aniericati clutirtinin
a Foreign Alt - airs, and the ISiiron Wlt3 re
calk(' to Merlin.
Mrs. Sumner next became acquainted
with this correspondence, and, 111:Iturnlly
enough, was indignant beyond all power of
description. 1 ler indignation natural'
rested upon that part of the correspondetn,
it was alieged, touched her honor.
The end of :di this is, Mrs. Stunner has gone
her way to Europe—their common eshtb•
lisionent in Washington being given up,
:Ind aunt liar is t a I:en by the Senator for tho
winter.
'There is -mile scandal :Moat beyond all
this, ridatinLi both to the Senator and the
lin\ - -such ns may be expected from curly
denim/neat., in such n marringii attair—but
the basis of the reports iti Bustin is such us
1 send you. What I have written is in
wiry body's mouth, and it may possibly
Liu erroneous iii sinus .)f the details, but in
satistance pruliabiy correct. I send it to
you fur ptilitieni sin because what, it any
here had bolter al 1111.0 be
sitlght 1./ , il.ll I Ile tfingteVker the tie -
snniti
that till, it ttg more out .r a lea
faots.
and ill% Timely Discovery
Yesterday corning, about ten o'clock, a
conspiracy :11111 , 1114 the prisoners confined at
the Tombs, which, had it remained ascend.
f o r two hours more , Wolllll !MVO re:11111.,I,
1111111)11htediy, in tilt 11 , Or the
warden furl s , mei his deputies, and
the escape matt 11 cells of a com
plete. horde of Illiirib•n•r,, robbers, forgers,
burglars, ete. The facis niter a
full investigation, and alter the confession
of some of the conspirators, prove to be as
follows: Eight despernie characters con
lined in the prison—nainely, Hobert Shaw,
James (funnier, I leery Maisden, Joseph
Smith, Thos. Whitcomb, Michael Weaver,
George NVilson and William Cooper, had
formed a deep plot, by means of conversing
through the drain pipes, from cell to cell,
to elicit an opening of one of the cell doors,
when the inmates were to walk out at a
given tune, when with the means of four
skeleton keys they would unbolt as many
locks as they would lit, and supply those
thus released With Jimmies, files, bars, and
knives with.which to liberate the other
prisoners, and cut their way through the
outer doors, quickly making way with
whoever dared to intercept them. (((course
the conspirators were obliged to have help
from outside, and it was obtained in the
following manner. One of the prisoners
!tamed \\iii Vet', being a locksmith by trade,
took an imprint of tlei lock on his cell door,
and one clay when visited by a friend, gave
it to him with instructions to have four keys
made to fit it. The keys were made, and
soon they were taken to the pris.
over by the same mon, who stole
it ticket of admission to the prison.
The same person also furnished the other
tools used by theconspiraturs. Their plans
all biting perfected, the time for action Was
set doW I•ir Friday morning last, when Ibe
wolid 'le in ' , llly r•itt.
I.lii 'l' •1141,1'i.g ,d •c 111111 - 114., ,n lanl 4.
.1 . 11i..y 1.111(4110 strike at 1114• viiimititi4l hnu r,
and the 111110 'VII,
111r011c of 11,
1.1 ollicers hoyi ever. Join-Mtn
owl by auuw means liad 1114 s114p1 1 •1.114
itriill4,l umt•li Mat li , ,icii rinined upon
(Lich
I 1• ,,e, • 1 th, di:evverynt the t,nu i 4 on the
irerSllll, of the prl,uner-, and desp4 , lol.•
and perhaps bloody stritv,gl.• ea.y Ihu. 1 , :.•
vented. The leaders in this plot by mil,'
of .Juch!e llogan, have liiiW been consigned
to the inner cells, where they will remain
until removed by due process of law.—N.
Y. IFerld, ()clot": r 22.
Arrested for Lareeny—A Sad (an.
A young woman, the daughter of a re
spectable and wealthy citizen residing near
Norristown, Pa., was arrested in this city,
Mw days ago, on the charge of stealing
clothing and jewelry in Philadelphia. She
had come to Wilmington, some Jays before
her arrest, to visit in u family of her ne
quaintance. It is stated, however, that
during a former visit here she had been de
tected in the larceny' of some money from a
lady in a neighboring bons° to that where
she was staying. She restored the money,
but the parties at once wrote to her father,
who replied sorrowfully thanking them for
their kindness, but stating that all his ef
forts to reclaim his unfortunate daughter
had been of no avail, and he now left her in
the hands of the Lord.
rpon the present visit she came to an
other house, but the cool reception of her
hitherto friends could not be disguised, and
she took boarding at a hotel, where she was
staying, when arrested for larcenies in
Pluhorelphia. 11 is said the stolen goods
were found in her trunk, and identified.
When about to leave she had no shawl of
her own, and 'one of these that had been
stolen Was lent to her for the ride to Phila
delphia.
This is truly a sad story. We carefully
withhold names, for the sake of those al
ready sufficiently suffering, though inno
cent of their daughter's anti sister's mis
deeds. The father is an old man, with
unblemished reputation, standing high in
the Presbyterian church in his neighbor •
hood. The daughter was a fine looking and
brilliant girl, whose love for show and dis
play probably led her into wrong doing.
Washington (Del.) Cotantercka.
IF you feel debilitated and "worn out,"
and want something to tone up the system,
instead of using stimulants, take Dr. H.
Anders' lodine Water, a most powerful
vitalizing agent and restorative. It per
meates the entire system t and its greet is
permanent.—Communicated.