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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1868
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DOIIIIICNIZIC and Conservative Soldiers
and Sailors' County Convention.
. .
The Democratic and Conservative Soldiers'
and Sailors' of Lancaster county will assemble
In Lancaster city, in the Democratic Club
Rooms, on SATURDAY, the 27th day of JUNE
next, at 11 o'clock, A. M., for the purpose of
electing delegates to attend the Soldiers' and
Sailors' National Convention to be held in the
City, of Now York on the 4th of JULY next.
FRED. S. PYFER,
Chairman Executive Committee of Democratic
and Conservative Soldiers' and Sailors' of
Lancaster county,
Veterans to the Front.
Veterans to the front! That is the
cry of the thousands of Conservative
Soldiers who will gather as the repre
sentatives of a mighty host in New
York on Independence Day. In that
city on the glorious 4th will be assem
bled, not the unscathed colonels, the
brevet-brlgadlers who never saw a bat
tle, the corpulent commissaries, the puf
fy paymasters, the sleek sutlers and the
horde of political schemers who followed
the armies of the Union and gorged
themselves with plunder ; but the bat
tle-scarred veterans who were the first
to volunteer and the last to be mustered
out. There will be gathered, not the
holiday soldiers who composed the con
vention at Chicago—not such military
humbugs as Carl Soh urn ; but the heroes
of the East and the West, the men who
breasted the shock of battle on the Ten
nessee and the Potomac, those who
fought with Franklin, Hancock and
McClellan, and those who marched with
Sherman to the sea. There too will be
those who led in the murderous assaults
under Grant, the men who obeyed him
then with the unquestioning alacrity of
true soldiers, but who scorn to follow
him now when, at the bidding of a set
of radical fanatics ho has voluntarily
sacrificed every principle which once
made him seem to be worthy of admire.
tion.
The Soldiers' Convention of July,
186 R, will be a convention of real soldiers.
To it will be heard the voice of the men
who first uttered the call to arms when
patriotism summoned true men to the
field of battle. That convention will
speak the voice of the citizen soldiery
of the republic, of the men who are now
as ready to fight for the restoration of
the Union and the preservation of the
Constitution, as in sterner days they
were to defend them sword in hand.
There will be gathered those who haye
solemnly resolved that they will never
surrender to Northern fanatics the lib
erty and the laws which they rescued
from Southern secessionists.
In that Con,ventlon Pennsylvania
will be fully represented. Already a
number of the Congressional districts of
the State have chosen their delegates.
As will be seen by a call elsewhere, the
Conservative soldiers of Lancaster coun
ty are called to assemble in this city on
the 27th inst. We hope to see every
township aud ward represented.
What the Chase Movement Means
While we regard it as beyond the
range of possibility that Chief Justice
Chase should be made the nominee of
the Democratic party for President, we
are not surprised at the commotion
Ivhich the mere mention of his name
In that connection excites in the Radi
cal ranks. When such a man as Chief
Justice Chase openly takes his stand on
a platform of his own framing which
approaches so near to the creed of the
Democratic party that some Democrats
cannot readily see wherein it differs
from it, the spectacle is calculated to
excite the Republican party in no ordi
nary manner. Haviuggone to such ex
tremes as virtually to drive out of their
ranks the best and wisest men who ever
belonged to the party, it is no wonder
there is trouble in their household. The
leaders feel convinced that the people
will follow them no further, and yet they
dare not retreat. The disaffection of such
men as Chase is a death blow to them, and
is so recognized, because It is sure that
thousands of honest men in private life
will falter when he and such as he stop
short and refuse to go further with the
party in its career of destructive fanati
cism and unparalleled corruption. The
Chase movement will not make him
the nominee of the Democratic party,
but it shows how prevalent is the con
viction among Conservative Republi
cans that the election of Grant as the
tool of the Radicals would be a national
calamity. The Chase movement means
that Grant will be overwhelmingly
beaten.
Removal of the National Capital.
Not content with all the revolutionary
and• extravagant acts of which they
have already been guilty, the Radicals
are now engaged in a systematic attempt
to remove the National Capital to some
point in the Mississippi Valley. The
capitol building at Washington is just
being finished, and it, together with the
other public buildings, has cost an enor
mous sum of money. The Radicals de
sire to abandon these and to begin the
erection of others elsewhere. Logan has
introduced a resolution into the lower
House to that effect, and we presume
this will become part of the platform of
the party. Any scheme which promises
a lavish expenditure of public money
with a good chance to steal, is sure to
be warmly supported by them.
Grant on Negro Suffrage
Before Grant consented to become the
dumb tool of a set of unprincipled po.
litical adventurers like Forney and
Washburne, ho was outspoken on the
great questions of the day. He declared
to Senator Doolittle that the troubles
between the whites and blacks in the
South was " in direct consequence of the
unwise atte2npt to force negro suffrage in
the Southern States;" and freely ex
pressed his belief that it " wouldeventu
ally lead to a war between the two races
there." His consent to run on the Phi•
cago platform after that is an evidence
of entire want of principle. Such a man
is evidently unlit to be trusted.
A Proper Uandldato
The Radicals have nominated a full
blooded negro as their candidate for the
Virginia State Senator in the Alexan•
drla district. They are determined that
the candidate and the platform shall be
consistent with • each other. The
district is composed of the counties of
.Alexandria, Fairfax, and Loudoun,
There ought to have been at least one
negro on the Radical Ticket.
THE Washington Chronicle "believes
that a majority of the men who have
remained in the United States army, or
have enlisted since the advent of peace,"
are favorahle to the "conservatives."
The "party" may not, therefore, show
much favor .to the " rank and file,"
whatever they may do for the officers.
REVEUDY JoHisTSON, the newly ap.
pointed lifinister to England it is said
go to that country with full author
ity to adjust the Alabama claims. His
appointment is very favorably received
by 44 4 E4%118k press.
THE Li. 'A.lN ; dABTkii , vkikElltLY - INTELLIGENCTER, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11;1868.
Frauds at the Washington Election.
Congress imposed universal suffrage
upon theLpee*ofoe District of .Co-.
lumbla, including iffidliT,pauPrs
negroes. Th‘registry yiw was nenclu,
sive as to thS right of suffrage, and
every one who . was perinitted to'be,eir;
rolled was allowed to vote. Last year
large numbers of U. S. Soldiers voted,
and no objection was made. Just be
fore the recent Municipal Election in
Washington, the Radicals, fearing that
the white soldiers would not vote the
negro" tlcket4 rafted a question as to
their right to vote at all. It was not
authoritatively decided; but the radi
cal election officers took occasion to
mark every ballot which was cast by a
white soldier ; and when it was ascer
tained that by a count of all the votes
in the boxes the Conservatives had I
elected their Mayor and a majority of
the City Councils, the ballot boxes were
re-opened by the officers and the votes
cast by the soldiers, or such of them as
were cast for the Conservative candi
dates were deliberately thrown out, and
a Radical majority thus manufactured.
The facts as we have stated them, were
brought out in a debate in the U. S.
Senate. Here is a fair exhibition of the
way in which Radical majorities are
manufactured, and the thing was no
doubt carried in the army during the
war, as it has been in the South since
the negroes have been enfranchised.
Let the people determine at the coming
election whether they are willing lon
ger to entrust their liberties and all
their interests to the keepingof such a
party.
The Tax Bill.
That the Radical majority in Con
gress is utterly ignorant of correct
financial principles does not admit of
a doubt. It has been abundantly
proven by their bungling action in
reference to all such matters. For
some days past the members have had
under consideration a new tax bill,
reported by the Committee of Ways
and Means of the House. So crude
and misshapen a concern was it
found to be that in less than a week
two hundred and fifty amendments
were tacked on to it; and .now the
whole subject has been indefinitely
postponed. This is an open confession
on the part of the Radicals in Con
gress that they are utterly Incapable of
devising any means whereby the people
may be relieved from the burthens
which are pressing so heavily upon
them. Foremost among those who
voted to postpone and adjourn were
Wasliburne an d other fuglers of General
Grant. They desire to get loose, in order
that they may by their bellowings on
the stump, raise a little clamor to break
the death-like stillness with which the
nomination of Grant has been re
ceived. Let the masses question these
loose-tongued fellows in regard to the
Tax bill, whenever they appear on the
stump. There may be some tinkering
with the tax on whiskey and tobacco
before the adjournment, but all hope of
passing any comprehensive and Judie
ions tax bill has been abondoned.
Flayed Out.
Some Radical papers are making a
terrible outcry because there is an ex
rebel general or two among the South
ern delegates to the Democratic National
Convention. Who represented the
Southern States in the Chicago Con
vention? The only man who made a
figure from that section was Governor
Brown, of Georgia, who was an origi
nal, leading, fire-eating secessionist.
There were also subordinate ex-rebels,
one of whom was recognized by a Union
soldier as a notorious bush-whacking
guerrilla from Arkansas, and the rest of
the gang were carpet-bag advetiturers
from the North interspersed with a fair
sprinkling of plantation negroes, just
enough to give a thoroughly loyal com
plexion to the mongrel body. The
white people of the entire South will be
represented at New York by gentlemen
of the highest character and the most
distinguished ability, who will present
au entirely different aspect from the
motley crew which gathered at Chicago.
The Radicals would do well to avoid a
comparison. After their admission of
Governor Brown and other ex-rebels to
the Convention which nominated Grant,
we should think the stale old cry of
rebel ought to be considered completely
" Played out."
Making Negroes Voters by Act or co
gross.
A law on lithe statute book of Ohio
having been construed to mean that any
one having more white than black blood
in his veins was to be regarded as white,
and so entitled to vote, the Radicals of
that State last fall voted negroes of every
description in their strong districts, the
election officers holding that they could
not determine the extent of the admix
tura of blood. The Legislature passed a
law regulating the matter, and declaring
that no person with a visible admixture
of African blood should be entitled to
the elective franchise. Now Congress
has taken the matter up and a bill is
before that body declaring the law passed
by a Democratic Legislature to be void,
though it is in direct accordance with
the Constitution of the State. Here is
another specimen of the way in which
Radicalism Is advancing to the control
of the right of suffrage in all the States.
If Congress has a right to interfere thus
in Ohlo,whatis to hinder it from making
voters of all the uegroes in Pennsylva
nia ?
Grant In Favor of Negro Rule
When General Hancock had removed
some of the Aldermen and other city
officers of New Orleans, because their
misconduct was intolerable, General
Grant ordered them to be restored. A
majority of those removed were utterly
incompetent negroes, and to keep those
ignorant blacks in power over white
men was esteemed desirable by the ex
treme men of the party whose tool
Grant had consented to become. So
he obeyed their mandate in that spirit
of submission which has sine.) led him
to declare that he will have no policy
or will of his own, if elected President.
That the people will ever consent to see
such a man made the Chief Magistrate
of this Nation, we cannot believe.
The Florida Constitution
The negro constitution of Florida is
so outrageous in its provisions that It
was openly assailed by several Radicals
in Congress when the Oinnibus bill was
under consideration. It creates some
800 State Officers, whose salaries will
amount to thesum of $BOO,OOO, and many
of them are to be appointed by the Gov
ernor. The State is impoverished and
the people would be oppressed beyond
endurance to raise such a sum. Yet
this abomination was put through in
the Omnibus along with the rest of the
bogus State Constitutions, despite the
protest of the more decent Radicals.
Libel Salt.
The Pittsburg Evening Mail has been
sued for libel by a disreputable female
adventurer named Mrs. L. C. Trimble.
It says :
The developments will be sworn to by
competent witnesses, and we would advise
several of our respectable citizens to emi
grate into the country until the c.sse trans
pires. We will bring suit against Mrs.
Trimble for keeping a disorderly and dis
reputable house and the hearing will take
place to-morrow afternoon at the office of
Alderman John A. Strain. The prompter
has rung up the curtain, and as tho actors
are ready let the one be given and the play
proceed.
Libel suits seem to be getting to be
quite the order of the day in this State.
People whose characters have been bad
are making a rush into the courts with
the forlorn hope ofhaving them bettered.
If they were wise they would submit to
the rebukes which are administered to
them by the press, and thus avoid more
complete exposure. •
After the Fenlane
It is said that General Grant has sent
officers to Rouse's Point and Ogdens
burg, N. Y., to search for Fenian arms
which are reported,to be stored at those
places.
AmlersOnville—Grattl Ilernsaf - t0 Ex;
change Prisoners.
The horrible scaerings to 'which
i on prisoners Were etibjectUillat AqE
derionville and other Sc.Uitheriijiriscias
dating the last year of the ulir have
excited the,most Intense hullinati*,
The rebels always claimecl - that they
were ready and willing to exchange
man for man, and' as held more
prisoners than they, if a proper system
of exchange had been kept up, the
thousands of our brave soldiers who
perished most miserably might have
been alive and well to-day. Who
was responsible for: this: -refusal to ex-,
change prisoners, and for the consequent
horrors of Anderscinville? That is a
question which naturally recurs to every
one on the instant. It can be readily
answered. In the ranks of the Union
army there was only one man with a
sufficient lack of humanity to be the
author of so murderous a policy, and
thatman was General U. S. Grant.
The evidence against him is drawn
from official Radical sources, and 'it is
overwhelmingly convincing.
In DeCember of 1863 Gen. B. F. But
ler was appointed Commissioner of Ex
change, and by March, 1884, he had ef
fected a basis of exchange with the Con
federate: Government, man for man.
He • tilts iletalls further proceeding in
thp mattir . -
Mr. Ould left on the 31st of March, with
the understanding that I would get au
thority and information from my Govern
ment, by which all disputed points possible
could be adjusted, and would then confer
with him. farther, either meeting him at
City Point or elsewhere for that purpose.
In-the meantime the exchanges of sick and
wounded and special exchanges should
go on. •
Lieutonant-General Grant visited Fort
ress Monroe on the Ist of April, being the
first time I ever met him.
To him the state of the negotiations as
to exchange wore verbally communicated,
and most empatic verbal directions were re
ceived from the Lieutenant-General not to
lake any step by which another able-bodied
man should be exchanged until further orders
front hint.
On the 14th of April Butler received
a telegram from General Grant at
Washington, stating that the whole
subject of exchange of prisoners had
been referred to him, as follows:
WASHINGTON, 11 P.M.. April 14, 1864.
MAJOR•GENERAL BUTLER: Your report
respecting negotiations with Commissioner
Ould for the exchange of prisoners of war
has been referred to me for my orders.
Until examined by me, and my orders
thereon are received by you, decline all
further negotiations.
U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant• General.
Six days later, after General Grant
had examined,' he yenta long telegram
to Butler stating :that he had been em
powered to give such instructions as I
may deem proper,' and he gave instruc
tions of which Butler says:
Of course these instructions, in the then
state of negotiations, rendered any further
exchange - impossible and retaliation use
less.
Butler says he then made an effort to
have the sick and wounded excepted,
so that they might be exchanged, and
he received the following telegram In
reply:
WASHINGTON, 0.30 P. M., April 30 1 18.04.
MAJOR-GENERAL B. F. BUTLER : Receive
all the sick and wounded the Confederate
authorities send you, but send no more in
exchange.
U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant General.
Upon this extraordinary 'instruction'
Butler remarks as follows:
To obtain delivery of even sick and
wounded prisoners without any return
would be a somewhat difficult operation,
MVO that the enemy, by giving us our
wounded aurek in their hands, we retain
ing all the re el sick and wounded in ours,
burdened )3 ith the care and cost of all
the sick and Wounded of both sides—an
operation of which it is difficult to see the
strategic value and only to be defended be
cause of itshumanity in rescuing our
wounded from the destitution andsuffering
permitted to them by the Confederates.
In August the Confederate Commis
sioner renewed his offer of March, man
for man, and again Butler was, as it
appears, disposed to accede, but again
General Grant interposed and in a tele
gram sent to Butler, August 18, 1864,
said :
On the subject of exchange, I differ from
General Hitchcock ; it is hard on our men
held in Southern prisons not to exchange
them, but it is humanity to those left in the
ranks to light our battles. Every man re
leased on parole or otherwise becomes an
active soldier against us at once, either di
rectly or indirectly. If we commence a
system of exchange which liberates all pri
soners taken we will have to light on until
the whole South is exterminated. If we
hold those caught, they amount to no more
than dead men. At this particular time, to
release all rebel prisoners North, would in
sure Sherman's defeat, and would com
promise our safety here.
U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant General.
The reckless manner in which Gen.
Grant threw away the lives of his men
in battle was his distinguishing charac
teristic. It is admitted on all sides that
he frequently sacrificed many who
might have been saved without lessen
ing his chances of success. Such reck
lessness is not excusable in a General,
but it is palliated to some extent, by the
reflection that it is done in the heat of
battle, when the temptation upon the
commander is very strong.
General Grant's conduct in regard to
the exchange of prisoners is another
and entirely different matter. His action
in that was dictated by a deliberate
disregard of the life of those over whose
fate he had complete control. He
showed himself not only reckless of life
on the battle-field, but, mote horrible
still, deaf to the, cries of bitter anguish
which came up from the prison-pens of
the South. There can be no plea of hot
blood to palliate this exhibition of cold
hearted brutality; nor can it be said
with any show of truth that there was
danger to be apprehended from contin
uing the exchange upon the terms
agreed upon between Messrs. Ould and
Butler. Without any proper excuse
General Grant put an end to the ex
change of prisoners, and left thousands
of brave men to perish amid all the
horrors of Andersonville. Let that be
steadily kept in mind during the can
vas, and let every man remember it
when he comes to cast his vote.
Continuation or the Freedmen's Bureau
The Radicals proclaimed that the
Freedmen's Bureau was to be dispensed
with as soon as the Southern States
were admitted to the Union. By the
Omnibus Bill seven of the ten of them
have been declared to be fully recon
structed. Yet the Freedmen's Bureau,
with its thousands of 'mercenary min
ions, is to be continued. Congress has
so decreed ; and if Grant should be elec
ted we may expect to be saddled with
an expenditure of from twenty to fifty
millions a year to keep it going for an
indefinite period of time to come. The
taxpayers of the United States may
rest assured that they will be burthen
ed to support a horde of white adventu
rers and lazy negroes so long as the
Radicals continue in power. The only
way to *get rid of the Freedmen's Bu
reau and similar expensive and utterly
useless concerns is to defeat Grant and
to elect Democrats to Congress. No one
but the verriest simpleton can fail to
see that.
Virginia Bankrupt
The negroes and carpet-bag adven
turers who sat at Richmond to frame a
Negro Supremacy Constitution for that
proud old State emptied the Treasury
and nothing is left to pay the interest
which is now due on the State bonds.
Poor as the people of Virginia are,
they would not have failed to meet all
their obligations if the State Treasury
had not been robbed by the mongrel
crew who made up what was denomi
nated a Constitutional Convention.
MR. HAZLEIIIIRST has accepted the
nomination for District Attorney of
Philadelphia, and the battle inside the
Radical ranks between him and Bill
Mann will be a fierce one. As the whole
'Republican ticket will be defeated irt
Philadelphia, they can afford to fight it
out without any great loss.
GRANT says he will have no policy,
if elected. " Polley "in State matters
means " prudent conduct, dlsbretion
and skill in publio affairs." No one
would for a moment suspect Hiram of
aspiring to anything of the kind* It le
out of his line and beyond his comm..
hension.
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who, impeachment being over, found
themselves somewhat at aloes for topics
about which to write. We find, how
ever, in yesterdays New -York World,
a leading editorial, seriously naming.
Judge Chasiiiii'ofeburiellthe chief Op,
posing candidate to Mr. Pendleton in the
alizof Arifelti
was evidently written as a "feeler," in
behalf of the Chief Justice.
It seems to us meet wonderful that
any . trust*orthy 'Democratic Journal
should delude itself for a moment with
the idea that the Democracy in Con
vention assembled will seriously enter
tain a proposition to make Judge Chase
their candidate. He will b 3 a bold man
who will even suggest his name to the
Convention; and this, because Judge
Chase is not a Democrat. The Democ
racy have never yet selected as their
candidate for the Chief Magistracy, a
man whose record as a Democrat was
not life long, consistent and unwary
ing ; and they will not begin to do it
now. Having pursued this course, they
have always escaped being Tylerized'
—a fate which constantly befalls the op
position. When the Democracy fight
a battle, they want to be thoroughly
satisfied that if they win, they will gain
a substantial / victory for their Princi
ples, and not merely the shade of one.
They want to know that the fruits of
their victory will not turn to ashes on
their lips.
We have the highest personal admi
ration and respect for Judge Chase.
But he fs not with us and cannot be our
candidate. One great issue in the pre
sent contest is the negro•sufirage ques
tion. Judge Chase has made a record
strongly in favor of negro suffrage, and
the Democratic party is unutterably
opposed to it.
Judge Chase might receive the sup
port of a good many Conservative
Republicans, but his nomination would
chill the ardor of the Democratic hosts,
even if it did not produce a division
in the ranks of the party. The New
York World is mistaken; if it does not
intentionally misrepresent, when It
suggests that Judge Chase will be the
most prominent opponent of Mr. Pen
dleton. From present appearances, the
chief competitors will be Pendleton,
Hancock and Hendricks, with the
chances in favor of one of the two last
named.
Alleghany County Democratic Conven
The Alleghany County Democratic
Conventioa met the other day, and
after consultation adjourned over until
the middle of July. The Radical pa
pers profess to regard that as a confes
sion of weakness. If they will remem
ber how a Democrat was chosen Mayor
of that extremely Radical city at the
last municipal election, they may get a
view of this movement which will not
prove so encouraging. The labor party
in Pittsburg is a strong and compact or
ganization, and the probabilitiels are
that it will act with the Democracy in
the coming elections as it has done be•
fore. Laboring men everywhere feel
that their beat interests demand that
they should cut loose from the Radicals,
Our opponents are welcome to all the
encouragement they can get out of
Senator Wallace's speech and the ad
journment of the Alleghany County
Convention. When the vote comes to
be counted this fall they will be fully
enlightened.
The _Evening Mail, the organ of the
Workingmen's Party, says:
The adjournment of the Democratic
County Convention without making nomi
nations, has developed a considerable
amount of strategy upon the part of the
managers of the old organization in this
county, that should cause Negloy, the
Radical candidate for Congress to look
doss to the field or he may yet be out gen
eraled. All the opposing elements aro
fraternizing and ere many weeks an effect
ive coalition may be looked fur that will be
able to bring into the field fourteen thou
sand votes.
Are You Going to the Democratic Na
*tonal Convention ?
That is a question which we hear one
Democrat asking another every day,
find from the number of affirmative re
plies which are made, we take it that
the Democracy of Lancaster city and
county will send quite a delegation. A
number of Democrats from the rural
districts have urged the propriety of
going in a body, accompanied by a band
of music. That would be well if the
idea could be carried out, and it can be
with a little management. The extra
expense to each man if one hundred go,
and we expect a good many more will
do so, would be comparatively trifling.
We have been requested to call atten
tion to the matter, and-are prepared to
hear suggestions in regard to it. All
who approve of the suggestion, should
let us hear from them at once, as there
is no time to be lost if the arrangement
for going to the Convention in a body
is to be made.
Butler County Democratic Nominations
The Democracy of Butler county are
alive and actively at work under the
lead of Uncle Jacob Zeigler. The nom
inating Convention held on the 9th inst.,
was largely attended. A series of sound
and ringing resolutions was adopted,
and the following nominations made :
Robert M'Kee, Dr. Stephen Bredin and
John Bulford were chosen Congressional
Conferees with Lewis Z. Mitchell, Esq., as
the choice of that county for the Congres
sional nomination. Senatorial and Assem
bly Conferees were also appointed and H.
J. Berg wee nominated for State Senator ;
Abraham Moyer for Assembly; Samuel
Brown, Commissioner; Wm. P. Tucker,
Auditor; John Q. A. Sullivan, District At
torney, Wm. Humphrey, Surveyor.
Exactly So
The State Guard says
Libel snits seem to bo a favorite pastime
with the people of Lancaster city, nearly
all the papers published there enduring
share of such petty annoyances. The In
telligence,' has lately had its hands full of
such affairs, but it is a good sign of the
moral independence of a Journalist who is
assailed in this way, because under the
present framing of our libel laws, they are
nothing more than a refuge for rogues at
tempting to fly from a Just castigation of
the press.
We laor e to live to see the day in this
State when no editor will be put in jeop
ardy for speaking the truth. The Old
Star Chamber law which prevents the
truth from being given in evidence as a
defense against a prosecution for libel,
is a remnant of a tyrannical age, and
utterly out of place under a republican
form of Government. Let the press
of the State unite in demanding a
change in the law- It is in truth only
a refuge for rogues.
Tax Payers, Look at This.
A special telegram to Forney's Press
reads as follows:
WASHINCTON, June 11
The Secretary of War sent to the House
to-day an estimate by the Paymaster Gener
al of deficiencies of appropriations required
for reconstruction purposes. An estimate
of necessary expenses was sent to the House
Committee on the 14th of December, as fol
lows: First district $350 , 000; second dis
trict, $199,080,25; third district, $97,18299;
fourth district, $383,822; fifth district, $521,-
879.88 Appropriations were made January
31, as follows: First distriet, $50,000; second
district, $110,183.74; third district, $97,000;
fourth district, $51)0,000; fifth district, $250,-
000. On May 19th an appropriation of
$87,701.55 was made for the third district.
The balance unappropriated is now applied
for.
From the above the tax payers may
get some slight idea of what its costs to
enrol negroes and drive the barbarian
voters to the polls to elect a setof worth
loss carpet-bag adventurels .and scaly
wags to office. All the money comes
out ot the pockets of the laboring white
men of the country. . The negroes pay
no tax and the rich bondholders are ex
empt. How- long will the masses of the
Republican party sustain the faction of
Rad icarbffice holders which admits that
its only hope of success is Ih keeping
'up military despotism and negro supre
macy in the South at the expense of the
tolling white men of the North? Grant
lithe candidate of this faction for the
Presidency. The tax payers must vote
them down, if they would have relief.
netruellono3nEraan and Cli
Tie New York Weed; in its • 1
• ay of the o f •
for the Preside •
, . .
e admission of the. lithe Sta
der the bastard Co tntio fo
aem by Congrttio,
nof suffrage Ik those tates at
of the'sphere of national politics. This
would be true, if the system of Con.
gressional reconstruction were legiti
mate and constitutional. But the
Democsacy have ..censtantly . , (Paved
ahoViilve%
lutiomFy, and denounced the negro
governineri eefsblielied y by Congress
as sheer nsurpations. The Democracy
hold that the genuine State govern
ments of the South were subverted by
an arbitrary exercise of lawless power.
Thus believing, "neither consistency nor'
regard for• State .rights will require the
Democratic party to recognize the spurt-,
ous State organizations as possessing the
control of suffrage or any other function
of government. It is a gross perversion
of the doctrine of State rights to main
tain that Congress may tramp out a
State government, set up another in its
place, go through the form of admitting
the latter to the Union, and thereby in
vest the new government with the attri •
-
butes of sovereignty: To admit this
would surrender every idea of state
rights. When the spurious State goy
ernments are wiped out, and the legiti
mate State governments restored, the
Democracy will cheerfully accord to the
latter every power consistent with the
Federal Constitution. But they will
not concede the authority of Congress
to usurp power and make power perpet
uate itself.
If we mistake not the temper of the
Democracy, they are "enlisted for the
war" against the whole scheme of Con
gressional reconstruction and its conse
quences. Of this compound of abomi
nations, embracing white disfran
chisement, negro supremacy, swinish
suffrage, oaths to accept the equality of
races, &c., &c., they speak but one pur
pose, Delenda eel Carthago. They
neither regard nor fear the contrivances
of Congress to shelter its usurpations
from the judgment of the people. If on
the issue tendered by the Radical Con
vention at Chicago, which will assuredly
be accepted by the Democratic Conven
tion at New York, THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE condemn the Congressional
State Governments, the same people
will execute their sentence. Packed
Congresses and Military Dictators will
avail nothing to stay the blow or save
the victims. We have not yet reached
the stage of history in which Congress
can at once trample on the Constitution
and defy the people.
It is to the feeling of the Northern
people ou this very subject that the
Democratic party is mainly indebted
for its recent astonishing successes. The
passage of the first Reconstruction Act
of Congress changed the political cur
rents of the country. Prom the date of
its enactment, the Democracy, almost
obliterated but six months before, en
tered upon a career of victory, which
has continued until now. We unhesi
tatingly say to the Democratic National
Convention, In Hoc Signo Vinees. The
people have determined to extirpate
these mongrel State Governments.
They will no more tolerate negro su
premacy in the South than in the North.
They will no more permit Southern
negroes to make laws for Northern
whites than Northern negroes. They
perfectly understand that the Repre
sentatives of Southern negroes in Con
, grass will rule the North as well as the
South, and are resolved that this shall
not be.
To give up this issue would surrender
the contest ; for the masses of the De
mocracy have it so closely at heart, that
Orley care for comparatively little else.
On this issue Judge Chase has been
their consistent and life-long opponent,
and they will not follow him through a
crisis which he and his friends have
brought upon the country. Offensive
as Gen. Grant is to the Democratic
masses, Chief Justice Chase is not less
so, and success with the latter would be
no better than defeat. We can tell the
World that the appetite of the Demo
cracy for office is not keen enough to
induce them to support an enemy to
their principles, merely because he
might detach a few votes from the op
posing candidate. And we can also in
form that Journal that its present sup
port of Judge Chase and attempt to
ignore the suffrage question, will prove
as miserable and disgracefula failure as
its advocacy of Negro Suffrage in the
North, after the fall elections of 1860.
A Pictorial Campaign Paper
Messrs. Bretton & Kennedy, of the
Carlisle Volunteer, will resume the pub
lication of The Caucasian, an illustrated
Democratic campaign paper, on July 10,
1868, to continue until the Presidential
election. Each number will be embel
lished with portraits of distinguished
Democratic statesmen and humorous
cuts illustrative of the political history of
the times. This featdre made the Cauca
siana decided success in 1866. Terms :
(cash in advance) Single Copies, 50
cents ; Ten Copies, $4.50 ; Twenty Cop
ies, $8; Thirty Copies, $10.50; Fifty
Copies, $l5 ; One 'Hundred Copies, $25.
All clubs must be sent to one address.
Orders should be sent at once.
A working Man's Opinion.
While the Radicals of Detroit were
firing a salute in ratification of the nom
ination of, General Grant, a working
man was heard to exclaim :
" Finn vortit GUNS ! " you can't fool me
any longer. I voted your ticket until it
takes three dollars to buy what I used to
get for seventy-live cents ; and now think
it's about time for a change."
There are thousands of working men
in every State who feel just so. They
have voted the Radical ticket for the
last time. They want "a changc,"and
they aro bound to have it. No amount
of clap-trap about Grant's military re
cord can blind them to the fact that he
is the mean dumb tool of the most des
perate men in the Radical party. The
working men won't touch him.
TALKING of Grant resigning his mili
tary position the Cairo Democrat ex
claims :—" Grant resign ! No, indeed,
he won't resign! Why should he?
He may not be elected. Should he
resign
.and then be defeated, a pretty
pickle he'd be in, truly. He'd take to
drink! He'd
resign, now mark it ?"
A NUMBER of leading Republicans in
Boston propose to give a public dinner
to Senator Fessenden, as an endorse
ment of bis integrity and independence
in voting against the conviction of the
President. Governor Bullock will pre
side, and Jas. Russell Lowell, ex-Gov
ernor Washburn, President Hill of
Harvard College, and other prominent
Republicantowill be present.
AT A. late dinner in North Carolina,
there sat down to a table three ea-Gov
ernors, an ex-Justice of the Supreme
Court, two ex-Members of Congress, and
some other men of honorable distinction
in their State, and the only person in
the room who could vote or hold office
was the negro who waited on the table.
Such is reconstruction.
Grant's Letter.
When Grant undertook to get up that
letter of acceptance, which is reported
by some Radical Jackanapes to have
been dashed off' without thought in ten
minutes, he eyidently took as a model
the following stanza of Hosea Bigelow,
written in reference to him weeks be
fore the Chicago Convention :
Ez to my principles,/ glory
In hevin' nothin' o' the sort;
I lint aliad, I sant a Tory;
I'm jest a candidate, In short
Thetis fair an' square an' perpendlcler,
But, of the Public cares a fig •
To hev me any ti - • ng in particler,
Wy, I'm a Icip , ,,v?' perl•vrlg.
What an acvmodatirig " figure
head" the great smoker is, to be sine.
The Conclusion Of the Chicago Conven
t-11011=-4 grand /Med Banquet—The
ALIkIJ te and..
,_D Hobcpb
-mum . •
~4_11. 10 •of. the nee) delegate
taMoor theVhicaltoConvOtion.
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one m ed t tature okthaeinTair.i.
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Foriik,l4di to /Wee took;
occasion to pay these sable Radicals a
very high compliment. He gave a full
account of all the incidents attendant
upon the nomination of Grant and Col
fax, but forgot to portray the grand clos
ing sepne,SlaBheonalsted in &banquet
giVen at the celebritea eating house of
anegr named Ambrose. Here the dele
gates to the Convention ' white and black,
sat down together in the same room,
at iheeametab/e,and eat out of the same
dishes and drank . front the same bot
tles. For the benefit of any of our Rad
cal friends who may be skeptical about
this matter we reproduce the report of
the Chicago Republican, which, since
the tribune took to excusing the Sen
ators who voted against impeachment,
is regarded as the most reliable Radical
paper in that city. Here is the Re
publican's account of the grand banquet
which took place the evening after
Grant and Colfax were nominated by
the combined votes of white and black
delegates. Said the Republican :
"It devolved upon William Ambrose,the
celebrated caterer, to close up the Conven
tion work with that proper eclat which it
deserved, consequently his fine and very
fashionable restaurant on Clark street was
the scene last evening of such a time es is
seldom witnessed in this or any other city.
From top to bottom of his huge five story
establishment streamed forth a blaze of
light, while inside the scene was such as
one canseldom look upon. Imagine if you
can the appearance of such a place when
several hundred people, WHITE AND
BLACK, WERE 'SEATED AT ONE
TABLE, the room lighted up by four mag
nificent chandeliers, almost one hundred
gas lights in number. To say that 'the ta
bles fairly groaned beneath the weight of
the good things,' would not answer in this
case. Ambrose fairly outdid himself, and
' that is almost praise enough: Judge
Thomas Nelson, of Indiana, tate Minister
to Chill, presided over the golDdly throng,
filling; that, responsible position with re
markable ease and grace. Before hostili
ties were commenced on the eatables, ex-
Governor Lane, of Indiana, was called
upon for a speech. Ho very kindly con
sented, and in a few well-chosen words,
made a pleasing and certainly able address.
After supper Messrs. Sweet, Fredericks,
Brandissi and Carter, the celebrated quar
tette of the great Arlington M I nstrelscfavor
ed the company with that charming ballad,
" Come where ray love lies dreaming," for
which they were loudly applauded, but an
engagement at the Sherman House pre
vented them from responding to the enco7 c.
Speeches were made by Judge Nelson,
MR. LANGSTON OF OfIIO, THE REV.
JAMES LYNCH, OF MISSISSIPPI, and
others. At a late hour the invited guests
took their leave, all expressing themselves
as highly delighted with the banquet, and
the skill and goodtaste displayed by Mr.
Ambrose."
The Mr. Langaton of Ohio, who fol-
lowed Judge Nelson, is the notorious
negro orator from Oberlin, and Rev.
James Lynch of Mississippi is a darkey
preacher. At this grand banquet the
present leaders of the Republican party
gave proof to the world of the sincerity
of their professions in favor of negro
equality. There cheek by jowl the white
Radical sat with his black compeer, and
to the rattle of knives and forks and
the clink of champaign glasses, the
bonds of complete union between the
two classes were solemnly ratified.—
When Democratic journals have
charged the Radicals with being in
favor of social as well as political equal
ity between the two races, they have
empatically denied it. What answer
will they now make, after this grand
banquet scene at the conclusion of the
Convention which nominated Grant
and Colfax? Here the leaders of the
party hobnobbed with negroes in the
most social manner, thus giving to the
world the very beat evidence of what
are their real views and the ultimate
and inevitable tendencies of their doc
trines. Let no one attempt to deny,
after this exhibition, that the Radical
leaders are in favor of putting the two
races on a perfect social and political
equality.
Negro Suffrage to be made General by
Act or Congress.
There can be no doubt that the Radi
cals intend to make negro suffrage the
law in every State by Congressional en
actment, if they succeed in electing
Grant and maintaining their power in
Congress. Senators Sherman, Yates
and others, have just made speeches
defining the position of the party on
the subject. We subjoin an extract
from the speech of Yates :
After speakiAg generally of the views
expressed by various Senators in recent
debates on the subject, he asserted that
every man who has voted for the imposition
of conditions upon Alabama and Colorado
in regard to the right of suffrage, has com
mitted himself to the doctrine that Congress
has the right to control that question in all
the States. He argued that Congress had
supreme power over the question of suffrage
in the States. Ho claimed that this is the
only doctrine by which they could make
equal rights all over the Union, and remove
the question out of the arena of politics.
He argued that by the provision of the
Constitution for the choice of Representa
tives every two years by the people the
States are prevented from saying that a
portion of the people shall not take part.
Suppose a State should disfranchise all Ger
mans, would it not be the duty of Congress
to restore them to their equal rights? Or
if Utah should exclude all but Mormons;
Connecticut, all but Congregationalists;
Maryland, all but Catholics, would it not
be the duty of Congress to intervene? Why
not then prevent the exclusion of the blacks?
The negro being now emancipated, was en
titled to equal rights, the , same as every
citizen. He admitted the truth of the doc
trine of the Chicago platform, that the ques
tion of suffrage belongs to the States; but it
was so subject to theConstitution,which says
that Congress shall guarantee to every
State a republican form of government, and
no government could be republican in form
which denies equality of rights to any
citf
zen. He had been asked whether Illinois
or New York had a republican form of
government. In answer to this inquiry he
would say that the argument that any gov
ernment is republican which deprives any
considerable portion of its citizens of the
right to vote is unworthy of a child ten
years old. What is the duty of the Repub
lican Party on this question? Will it stand
back appalled? Will it joirwthe States
Rights Party on the other side of the Hall?
Ho had to say to Senators and Representa
tives, to all the members of the Republican
party, that this question must be met. They
could not bury their heads in the Band. No
question of tariff or finance could obscure
it. No glare of military glory overshadows
it—not even the mighty name of General
Grant. Our opponents will meet us on
every stump, and ask us what we are going
to do—whether we are for universal suffrage
everywhere? Timid counsels must not pre
vail. Five millions of redeemed slaves ask
us what we will do. If his fellow-members
of the Republican Party refused to meet
this question, he could tell them what
would be the result in Illinois. The Re
publican Party would be beaten by 75,000
majority. He would settle this question by
a bill of ten lines, merely providing that
suffrage shall be universal throughout all
the States. This the people would joyfully
accept, and the Republican Party would
triumph most gloriously in November
next. He asked, Has it come to this that
the Republican Party will draw diviffMg
lines between the North and the South•by
establishing universal suffrage in one part
of the Union and not in the other? It was
this that lost us our gallant Senator in Ohio,
Mr. Wade. Our opponents there said we
granted suffrage to the millions of ignorant
negroes in the South, and would not give it
to the hundreds of intelligent negroes in
the North. Some say leave it to the States,
to a constitutional amendment; but that
would not do. Kentucky would not do it
in fifty years. Maryland would not do it
in fifty years; then let Congress by one
sublime act do It. The Republican Party
cannot stand still. If it stands still it dies.
It must move on.
WITH a white registered majority of
14,269, the Congressional Districts in
Virginia have been so gerrymandered
by the late bogus convention in that
State as to give five out of eight to the
negroes. The Radical State ticket is:
Governor—Brlgadier•Genaral
gin's.
Lieutenant-Governor—Tames Clements,
Dist. Col.
FOR CONGRESS.
First Dlstrlet.--A. S. Ayer, Maine.
Second platrict—l. H. Chandler, biases
chusette.
Third District—C. H. Porter, New York.
■Fourth District—Lewis C. Thayer, New
York.
Fifth District—G. G. Curtis, New York
Seventh District—Chas. Whittlesey, Con
neettent.
At large—Aaron M. Crane, COnnectient..
And these fellows are expected to
come in as. Virginia Congressmen
GRANT has something of a match in
Desborongh, the butcher•general of
Cromwell's time, who "knew the four
hoofs.of a- clean-going nag better than
all the books of Moses." Similarly,
Grant lovesatrotter and hates the Jews.
•
Matched? •
The Ejectment-Of 'liftman From His
- •
1 *Wows' the fact that,
thOtacobin majOil the House of
ReitreseV in s 414tdeplived General
Geoi l 3V. ,V(.4.10, of his seat in
that body, an; it to the man .
Morgan beataithoielection , Mr. Delano.
Morgan had 271 majority on the face of
the returns, and Delano's contest was
worse than a farce. The pretexts for
this outrage show its rascality. Pike
township gave 140 majority for General
Morgan. It was thrown out in Congress
not because there was any fraud in the
ilotbe,
but because one of the judges of
the electiob was alleged to be incompe
tent, under the laws of Ohio, having
been alleged to be deserter from the
draft in 1884. It was proved that the
judge was not a deserter from the draft,
but on the contrary, had furnished his
substitute under the law. But, never
theless, this township was deducted
from Morgan's vote. In Blue Rock
township, on the contrary, which gave
117 majority for Delano, the; greatest
rascality was practiced. It is thus stated
by an exchange:
"rho off' •zrs of election were all political
friends of Mr. Delano and that gross frauds,
irregularities and violence were committed.
A large body of adventurers were intro
daced, under pretext of seeking for petro
leum, who voted for Delano, and then dis
appeared after the election. It is also in
evidence that the judges refused to admin
ister to these imported and fabricated voters
the necessary oath;' that tho challenges
were not regarded; and that threats and
assaults were used to prevent Democrats
from voting. But this unfair conduct does
not stop here, and we have another striking
illustration at hand of how ready these
sham sticklers for law are to prevent,evade,
and falsify it to advance their own interests.
The laws of Ohio require—
" That each township In the several coun
ties shall compose an election district, un
less such township is now, or shall here
after be, divided by law into more districts
than one; the election to be held at such
place in each township or district as the
trustees in each township shall direct ; and
each ward of any city that is or may be
divided into wards, shall compose an elec
tion district; the elections therein to be
held at such places as the members of the
city council for their respective wards shall
direct; and in all elections holden under
this act they shall servo as judges, and per
form the duties required of township trus
tees in like cases.
'These statutes go on to define the manner
of holding elections in townships and cities,
and the penalties for voting outside the des
ignated limits of one or the other. And
they provide that elections for Representa
tives to Congress shall bo held in the same
manner.
The city of Mount Vernon, In Clinton
township, is governed by the foregoing law.
But it is shown, by undisputed proof, that
no election took placein that city according
to the obligations of the statute and the net
of incorporation. There was an election
hold by the trustees of Clinton Township,
neither of whom was a councilman or offi
cers of the city, as is expressly required by
law. Tho votes of the city and the town
ship wore thus all thr.own promiscuously
together, so that no discrimination could be
made. The polls wero closed between
twelve and one o'clock, contrary to law,
by which arbitrary and unlawful act me•
ebonies and laboring men wero excluded
from their• rightful privilege; and ono of
the judgesof election refused to administer
the oath to various persons properly chal
lenged.
Yet the vote of Mount Vernon, giving
Delano 371 majority, was counted,while
Pike township, which gave Morgan 140
majority, was thrown out. In this
manner Morgan was expelled, and
Delano placed in his stead. Comment
is useless.
Soldiers Groan for Grant
The Montgomery, Alabama, Adverb•
scr, of June sth, contained the follow
ing paragraph:
"We are requested by the soldiers on
duty at this place to state that at the nigger
carpet-bag and scallawag meeting held at
the Capitol on Saturday night, the soldiers
gave three groans for Grant, three cheers
for McClellan, and three cheers for Andrew
Johnson. They were given by the soldiers
with a hearty good will and rolled from the
Capitol to the Artesian Basin. Wo are also
requested by these soldiers to state that any
assertion contrary to this is a base false
hood. The soldiers say they are white men
and have no love for carpet-baggers and
scallawags."
Now, mark the sequel! On June sth
one 0. L. Shepherd, who signs himself
" Colonel and Brevet Brigadier Gener
al,". Issued an order In which both the
Advertiser and the soldiers are severely
censured. This Shepperd seems to re
gard with horror the action of those
white soldiers who gave expression of
their sentiments at a negro political
meeting. He characterbies It as insub
ordination, &c. Has he heard of Grant's
active efforts to bring about the convic
tion of his superior officer, President
Johnson, the Commander-in• Chief of
the Army of the United States? Which
was worse, for the soldiers to groalyfor
Grant, or, for Grant to work to secure
the removal of the President - by im
proper means? We think the private
soldiers of the United States army,
when off duty, are entitled not only to
attend political meetings, but to ex
press their opinions, if they see fit ; and
we must commend the good sense of
these brave men in expressirig their
disgust at the insane policy which puts
the white men of the South under the
domination of a horde of degraded ne
groes, led by a gang of dishonest and
disreputable white adventurers. It Is
not to be expected that any soldier with
a spark of pride in his own race, could
honor General Grant since he has con
sented to be the representative and
upholder of enforced negro supremacy.
He has by his own act forfeited all
claims t 6 the respect of white men,
whether soldiers or civilians.
Radical Nominations In Philadelphia
A Split In the Party.
Yesterday the Radical Nominating
Conventions were held in Philadelphia,
and the following city and county offi
cers were nominated:
For Mayor Gen. Hector Tyndale; City
Solicitor—Thos. J. Worrell; Controller—
Samuel P. Hancock; Commissioner—Maj.
McCuen ; Prothonotary Capt. Richard
Donegan; District Attorney—William B.
Mann. Sixty-four bolting members of the
District Attorney Convention nominated
Isaac Hazlehurst in opposition to Mann.
The Congressional nominations were : Ist
District—Benjamin L. Berry; 2d—Charles
O'Neill ; 3d—Leonard Myers; 4th—William
D. Kelley. All renominations, except Mr.
Berry. In the Judicial Convention, J. L.
Clark Hare was nominated for President
Judge of the District Court, and It Russell
Thayer for Associated Judge.
The contest between Wm. B. Mann
and his opponents in the Radical party
promises to be kept up with great bit
terness. Every Republican paper in
the city, except Forney's Press, opposes
Mr. Mann, and he will have a rough
time of it. This split is regarded as
sure to result in the election of the
Democratic candidate for District At
torney by a very large majority. That
the Democracy will do as well in Phila
delphia this fall as they did last year
seems to be admitted by all parties.
Littleness of John W. Geary.
The Harrisburg Patriot says
The United States Senate did itself credit
and set a good example to those Radical
gentlemen who delight in doing it honor,
when it adjourned in respect to the memory
of the deceased Ex-Prosident. Attorney
General Brewster, also, behaved like a man,
in his address before the Supreme Court,
upon the receipt of the news of Mr. Bu
chanan's death. And this fact leads us to
the inquiry, why did not Governor Geary
take some public notice of the decease of
his former friend, the President who made
him deputy census-taker for several town
ships in Westmoreland county?
The Patriot very properly suggests
that common decency would have im.
pelled Governor Geary to show the
usual mark of respect by ordering the
departments to be closed on the day of
the funeral. By his conduct he only
gave to the world another evidence of
his littleness of soul and his ignorance
of the ordinary proprieties of private
and public life. Nothing better was to
be expected of him, however. He is
destitute of all that constitutes the gen
tlemen, and could not be expected to
know what was reattirnd of him.
THE Buffalo Express—Radical—as-
eerie that there are so many children in
Indiana named after Schuyler Colfax,
that all the stonecutters in the State
keep grave stones on hand carved,
"Sacred to the memory of Schuyler
Colfax —4- 7 ," ready to insert the
patronymic in the blank space when the
order is given after the funeral. There
will be no necessity for the blank space
after next November, for, then Colfax
himself will be politically defunct,
TalfeTIDE OF
,VICTOBY
.1 ! OREGON.
TweetSur lltaturus—Desteetratle Majority
4611011.‘LailtentlItOtetiver
eerat *Morley let the Legislature
Eleven as Jelin Mallet.
, ,
Asi , Fgaltoteco JOne 18.—A. despatch
fp:it:apnoea cepotta,thckmajority for Smith
Democrat; for Congress, between twelve to
thirteen hundred. The official count in the
counties next to Idaho give unexpectedly
large Democratic majority:
The total vote of the State is nearly twen
ty.two thousand, being the largest over
polled in the State.
The Senate will stand twelve Democrats
to ten Radicals, and the Asimnbly twenty
eight Democrats to nineteen Radicals.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
run Ileturns from the ILaigt Election—
Demorrato carry* mNor.
Ity of the Distrlets.
• CrtaumstrroU, June 14.—Oomplete re
turns from thirty-one districts of South
Carolina, indicate that the Radicals have
csrrled fifteen and the Democrats sixteen
districts.
ILLINOIS
Another Demooratie Gain—Election at
Mound City.
By. Louts, June 13.—The election at
Mound City, Illinois, yesterday, resulted
in the election of the entire Democratic
ticket, the gain being about 100.
The above dispatches all toll the same
story. It really looks as if the Radicals
would not carry a State in the Union, not
even negroized South Carolina.
The Commlaslonersblp of Internal Rev.
enne—Str. Rollin's Resignation An
other Reply of the Secretary of the
Treasury.
The following, in addition to the corres
pondence which has already taken place
between Commissioner Rollins and the
Secretary of the Treasury, concerning the
recent letter of resignation of the former,
was sent' on Saturday to Mr. Rollins by
Secretary McCulloch, endorsed upon the
resignation, which was, for the second time,
returned to its writer:
"This communication is partial, because
It attributes the present deranged condition
of the internal revenue service to the re
movals and appointments made by the
President, while It must be clear to the
mind of the commissioner that this demor
alization is attributable in part to the an
tagonism between the executive and legis
lative branches of the government, which
has prevented harmony of action between
them in regard to appointments and to the
tenure-of-office act, but mainly to the high
duties upon distilled liquors, tobacco, fie.,
which have created an irresistible tempta
tion to fraud on the part of revenue officers,
as well as on the part of manufacturers,
:Delors-and others.
"It is incorrect in that it alleges that the
numerous recommendations of the corn
missionor for removals of assessors and
collectors, 'oven for the grossest miscon
duct, had been almost always disregarded;
while the truth is that in all eases in which
recommendations for removals were ac
companied by evidence of incompetency or
misconduct on the part of the officers, the
recommendations were promptly respond
ed to by the President.
"It is unjust and disrespectful to the
President, because the records of the bureau
show that the falling off of the revenue in
the districts in which removals were made
by the President in 1800 was not compara
tively greater than in the districts in which
no changes took place—that, in fact, the
revenues of the llscal year ending Juno 30,
1807, during which the removals wore made,
were entirely satisfactory, coming up very
closely to the liberal estimates of the depart
-1 ment, while the demoralization of the ser
vice and the decline of the revenues have
chiefly occurred during the pretient fiscal
year, long after the officers removed by the
President had boon reinstated, or others
whose nominations had been approved by
the Senate, had taken the places. of the ap•
I pointees of the Presidant. It was for these
I reasons and no other at the communica
i tion could not be received and was returned
j to the commissioner. The return of it is
I also Justified by the fact that copies of it
were sent to the press before it was handed
to the secretary. It must therefore have
been intended for the public rather than
for the tiles of the department.
"Hunt' McCutiocn,
"Secretary of the Treasury.
I "Treasury Department, June 13, 1808."
A " Loll" Delegate—He lx Recognized
by n Wisconsin Soldier as a Rebel
The Stevens Point Pinery relates tho fol
lowing interesting personal Incident that oc
curred during tho sitting of the Chicago
Convention :
Among the " loil " delegates to the late
Chicago Convention was a red hot one from
Arkansas, between whom and Hon. James
S. Young, of this city, a recognition took
place, as surprising on ono side as it was
disagreeable on the other. Mr. Young saw
and recognized the ardent " boa" delegate
as a former notable guerilla bushwhacker,
who Mr. Young had assisted in capturing
in Arkansas during the war. The following
conversation took place between them:
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Delegate (pompously)—Yes, sir, I am one
of the loyal delegates to tho National Re
publican Convention.
Young—l thought I know you. I saw
you during the war.
Delegate (alarmed)—Where?
Young—When I was in the Union army
you were a rebel prisoner of war; I helped
to take you.
The hypocritical advocate of " loil " negro
equality stood dumb with amazement for a
moment, and then broke through the crowd
like a quarter horse, for refuge among his
Radical confreres where the test of loyalty
is lip service and negro equality.
Could a more striking case be presented
than this of Republican inconsistency. Mr.
Young passed through n long and honora
ble service in the Union army, and is called
a copperhead because ho votes against mili
tary rule and nigger suffrage. While this
rebel bushwhacker, who fought us, and
now for the sake of office and spoils, Joins
the Radicals and shouts for negro equality,
Is called not only loyal, but la a delegate to
the Radical Convention.
Vice la humbug
The German Press and the Chicago Nom
Inottonc
The Chicago nominations and platform
don't seem to elicit much enthusiasm from
the German Radical press. Indeed, some
of the latter plumply repudiate the candi
dates, while others repudiate the platform.
Thus, the Boston Pionier, edited by Karl
Heinzen, it leading German Radical, says:
" The Convention in Chicago closed its
work on May 20. On its side, or rather as
its guide or guardian, sat the Convention
of the G. A. R., which, with its resolutions
and nominations, advanced it. That it
nominated General Grant was a matter of
course. And who brought forth this name
when the Republican Convention was to
commence nominating? Why, General Lo
gan, Commander:in-Chief of the G. A. R.
—this " unpolitical benevolent association"
—and, of course, the candidate of the G. A.
R's was made the unanimous nominee of
the Republican party. But, as far as re
gards the platform, the best part of the res
olutions of the G. A. R. concerning equality
in the North as well as the South was ig
nored.
"In the Vice Presidency, they wore not
so unanimous to place by the side of the
unprincipled cigar-and-men's-life-destroy
er a sour.d and radical•mlnded man like
Wade; they could not risk to nominate the
scare-crow Wilson, who worked restless
for the honor. Ho was also considered im
practicable; and, therefore, the offenseless
and winding Colfax was selected. •
"Grant and Colfax are, therefore, the
saviors of the party and the country. On
the reception of the congratulations, the lat
ter, at least, answered by pointing to the
platform and the objects of the party; the
former, however, only pointed to his past
record as security that he would do his duty
[Mr. Johnson does the same] and has not a
word for the principles."
We quote again from another German
paper, the Zukunjt, the organ of the North
American Turnerbund:
"The smoking, whisky. drinking, Know
nothing, epaulet carrying Grant is nomi
nated for the Presidency, and the with all
factions of the Republican party coqneting
Speaker Colfax is nominated for the Vice
Presidency. We will not hero consider
whether the ticket is a "strong" one, for,
in the first place, the question is of but lit
tle interest to us and, secondly, cannotbe answered with any certainty till after
the Democratic National Convention. The
only question for the consideration of the
Radicals is, can you vote the ticket put up
at Chicago or not? We answer this ques
tion in the negative."
Tho Icwa Tribune, n German paper pub
lished in Burlington, in that State, goes the
candidates, but repudiates the platform. It
says:
We are in a position similar to that of
Horace Greeley sixteen years ego. Wo ac
cept the candidates and spit upon the Plat
form. a ° a The author of the same—
most horrible fabrication of the kind we
have ever seen—would do bettor to hang
himself on the next tree."
Admission or Arkansas.
The following is the bill for the ad
mission of Arkansas as it passed the two
houses of Congress. Of course the Pres
ident will veto it, but is almost cer
tain to be finally put through by a two
third vote:
Whereas the people of Arkansas, as in
pursuance of the provisions of an act entit
led " an act for the more efficient govern
ment of the rebel States," passed March 2,
1867, and the nets supplementary thereto,
have framed and adopted a constitution of
State government which is. republican in
form, and the Legislature of said State has
duly ratified the amendment to the consti
tution of the tinned States proposed by the
XXXIXth Congress, and known as article
14; therefore be it enactod, dec., that the
State of Arkansas Is entitled and admitted
to representation in Congress as one of the
States of the Union upon the following fan •
damental condition; That the. constitution
of Arkansas shall never.be so amended or
changed as to deprive any citizen or chiliad'
citizens in the United States of the right to
vote who are entitled to vote by the consti
tution herein recognized, except as , a pun
ishment for such crimes as are now felonies
at eommon law, whereof they shall have
been duly convicted, under laws equally
applicable to all the Inhabitants of said
State; provided, that any alteration of said
constitution, prospective in its effect, may
be made in regard to time and place of res
idence of the voters.
Butler eels thiublbed.
It is said that during the examination of
Mr. Ransom Van ;Vidkenburg, before But
ler's inquisition that Batter asked the wit
ness what ho had been doing In Washing
ton no long ? To which the latter replied,
"None of your business, air." The exami
nation of this witness was further continued,
and the iiirpress publishes the following
report thereof:
Mr. Butler asked : What became of the
money that Mr. Woolley left in his room
on the centre table?
Answer—l have it in my pocket.
Butler—Will you produce it and the en
velope containing the other papers?
Answer—l will produce the money, but
the papers you shall not have.
The money was then laid on the table,
amounting to $17,100, in seventeen ono
thousand dollarnotes, and Small bills Mak
log the ono hundred dollars.
Immediately after 'Butler received the
money ho ordered the witness out of the
room, but he declined to leave, giving as a
reason that he (witness) was responsible for
the money, and he could not leave It in his
(Butler's) hands. Butler Insisted on the
witness leaving the room, but the gentle
man refused, without be could take the
money with him. At last, B. was forced to
succumb, and the money was counted in
the custodian's presence.
Butler counted the money, the clerk of
the committee taking the numbers of the
notes.
After the counting Butler looking side
ways, said to the witness: I tnd, air. here
sixteen thousand one hundred dollars.
. .
Witness—Mr. Butler ,:if you will take the
trouble to look under that pleat of paper
near you, I think youwlll find a one thous
and dollar note, which I have no doubt was
placed there through mistake.
General Logan rising from the sofa said :
Yee, Butler, I see one corner of It sticking
out.
Butler—Oh, yos; I did not notice it be
fore.
Ilex°lotion of Itempeet to sz•Peeuldeut
8110111111110.
At a regular meeting of the Central Demo
cratic Club of Luzern° county, held at
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Tuesday evening,
Juno 2d, 1888, Geo. B. Kulp, Esq., offeri3d
resolution requesting the President to ap
point a committee of seven to draft resolu
tions expressive of the sense of the Club on
the death of the late ex-President Bu •
chuoun. The Chair appointed as such com
mittee, Messrs. Kulp, Hill, Reese, Bell,
Brown, Fairchild and Condit. The reso•
lutions were presented, read end approved,
as follows :
WIIItIIEAS, The President of the United
States holds the highest position that can be
reached or bo aspired to by human ambi
tion—and Whereas, that respect and that
honor which belongs to his exalted office,
follow Min when retiracy succeeds to pub
lic life ; and Whereas, it is wise to cherish
the memory of the illustrious dead, that the
living may be guided and stimulated by Its
lessons—Be It therefore
Resolved, That the "Central Democratic
Club of Lucerne county," affected by a deep
sense of public Borrow at the announcement
of tho death of James Buchanan, late Pres
!dent of the United States, in testimonial of
its respect for his memory, drape its flag in
mourning for the period of thirty days.
.Resolved, That a Committee of five be ap
pointed to carry the following rosolutione
into offset.
Resolved. That a copy of the above reso
lutions bo published In tho democratic
papers of the county and the Lancaster In•
tellifiencer.
The President, E. B. Collings, Esq„ ap•
pointed Messrs. Miner, Randall, Kulp, Bell
and Taylor, a committee in accordance with
the above resolution.
E. B. COLLINCIS, President.
Cleo. N. RsictiAnn, Secretary.
An Entleo Congreinatton Poisoned nt n
==l
A letter to the Chicago Tribune: dated ut
Naperville, 111., Juno 10th, says:
"Never before in the history of Naperville
was such an excitement created as on last
it
Sunday evening, when it wasro d that
the ontlro congregation of tb hard
Church, who were celebrating . feast,
bad been poisoned by eating in spar
ed In a copper kettle and allowed to remain
there until the metal had become oxydized.
Nearly every ono in the village bad a friend
or a rotative in attendance, and consequent
ly thorn was a general rush for the church
in question. Upon entering the building
the scene which met their gaze verified the
reports. In different portions of the church
were the sufferers, some sitting up, others
lying down, the latter twisting themselves
into all aorta of positions, rolling around the
floor, and all apparently suffering the most
excruciating pain.
"Medical assistance was at once sum
moned, but, as it was very limited, consid
erable time elapsed before all could bo at
tended to. The stomach pump was brought
into requisition and those who gave evi
dence.of suffering the most were considera
bly relieved by Its use. It was found upon
actual count that no less than ono hundred
and thirty were more or loss affected, the
major portion, however, but slightly, they
having partaken of but a small quantity of
the food. About twenty wore found to be
in a dangerous condition. These were re
moved to their homes,- and ovary attention
paid them, and before morning many of
them were out of danger. Those who were
but slightly affected, with some little midst
ance, got home, and In a short time were
entirely recovered.
"It seems that the members were cele
brating a love feast. On Saturday lust
quautlty.of meat was cooked In a copper
kettle. About one-half of It was eaten that
day and the remainder allowed to remain
in tho kettle until Sunday, on account of
there being no other place to keen it. Home
of the sufferers did not recover for two or
three days, but now all aro pronounced out
of danger."
Too Full for Uttorouco
The Philadelphia Evening Herald Biqa
It is a remarkable and most noteworthy
fact that we have not heard a single. husza
for Grant since his nomination ; nor do we
believe that any other person in the city
has. It is possible that at the ratification
meeting something approximating to a
cheer may have been board; but oven this
is doubtful. Tho Radical party is full of en
thusiasm for Grant; so full, indeed, that it
reminds us of the glutton, who, having
gulphed down an enormous dinner, was
called upon for a speech. Ho declined by
laying his hand gracefully upon his" bread
basket" andsaying: "Gentlemen, excuse
me ; I am too full for utterance."
Cattle Disease in Illinois.
Tho Indianapolis Journat,.spoaking of
affairs In Tippacanoo county, that Stale,
says:
A terrible and fatal epidemic has broken
out among the cows In the northeastern
part of this county, and they are dying oil
very rapidly. About ono-third of the oowe
In the neighborhood of the Wild Cat and
north of the city have died within ton days
past, and several have died in tho city
proper. The disease is rapid in its effects—
the animals being apparently well In the
morning, and before night are dead, in
many Instances dropping down by the
roadside, within an hour or two after milk
ing. The first symptom noticeable Is a
stiffening of the limbs and an inability to
walk, after which death speedily ensues.
After death the body swells very rapidly
and becomes very offensive, a green, sick
ening-stnelling fluid oozing from the mouth
-and nostrils. The same disease Is also
thinning out the stock in several parts of
Illinois. Numerous examinations have
been made but they throw no light upon
the cause of the disease, and up to this time
no remedy has been discovered.
A Nice Swindle Exposed
Through the exertions of Mr. Fred. Dep
pro, special agent of the Post.otllce Depart
ment, Mr. A. B. Reed, of the Paymaster-
General's office, was arrested on the charge
of sending out circulars to postmasters and
others throughout the country, soliciting,
on behalf of the " National Managing Com
mittee," five dollars from each person to
whom they were addressed to enable theui
to retain their positlomi. Already more
than twenty money letters have been re
ceived in response, which are retained by
the department. Others, it Is charged, were
got out of the lock box by Reed before his
arrest. Re assorts his innocence, and says
he is the agent of another person. Letters
have been found in his trunk by Mr. Dap
pro, which, it is alleged, show his (Reed's)
connection with the affair. Reed is held for
a hearing on Monday.
A Grand Soldiers' Convention
The Convention of Conservative Soldier.'
and Sailors', which will bo hold in New
York on the 4th of July, promises to be a
magnificent demonstration, Thu N. Y.
World says
The Cooper Institute has been secured for
the National Soldiers' and Sailors' Conven
tion of July 4, and among the distinguished
gentlemen to be present are Major-General
Wm. B. Franklin, Major-General F. P.
Blair, Jr., Major-General Gordon Granger,
Major-General Tom Ewing, Major• General
Hancock, and others of equal eminence.—
General Franklin is expected to preside.
General Ewing will head from Ohio alone
500 genuine veterans, and hundreds of real
soldiers from all parts of the land aro corn
ing to rally again for personal rights and
the Union of the States. The demonstration
will be without precedent, and the contrast
It will exhibit to the sutlers' side-show at
Chicago will do much to relieve our mili
tary and naval services.from the odium
which that crowd of plaoe-hunters and
bummers wore calculated to cast upon
them.
Conclave of Hulabta Templar.
SonarvioN, June 10.—The annual Con
clave of the Knights Templar of this State
was held here to.day, the attendant* being
large. Officers were elected this morning.
A grand procession will be formed this af
ternoon at two o'clock, and an oration wit
be delivered by General R. Biddle Roberte.
of Pittaburg,_and the officers installed at
H
Washington all.
Several hundred Sir Knights, represent
ing most of the oommanderies of the State,
paraded this afternoon, after which the fol
lowing grand officers were eaeoted for tht
current year, and were publicly installed
John Heller, Champ Grand Oommander
James H. Hopkins, D,G. Commander; Wit
liam B. McWeown G. Generalhahno; COS(
Howell, G. Captain General ; ' Rev. T..J
Elect Good,.G. Prolate' Abram 4111041.
Senior Wadon ; Fitz James 'l:4lu
niorWie pat; A. 0; ;
Alfred C9lgb, G. Recorder.