Igantoter gutelligenca.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2,. 1868
DEMOORATIC NATIONAL TICKET !
pgicsiDlGNT
HON. HORATIO SEYMOUR
OF NEW YORK
14'0R VICICP RESIDENT
GEN. FRANK P. BLAIR, Jr.,
W MISSOURI,
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
GEN. FRANK P. BLAIR, Jr., of Missouri
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL:
CHARLES E. BOYLE, of Motto county
FORIiIIRVEYOR GENERAL:
Can: WELLINGTON 11. ENT, otrUolumbla co
County Committee Sleeting.
The Demovratic County t 01111131 tee 1%111
meet at the Democratic Club Room, Centre
i , quare, In the city of Lana:CAM, On WEDNES
DAY, SEPTEMBER 16th, 1868, at 11 o'clora A.
Al. The punctual attendance °revery member
PirequeNte.d. it. it. TsuliDY. Chairman,
11 .1. Mc:Jam:Al, Secretal y.
Heeling of t Ile!Pemocralle State Central
113=1
Tim Democratic tote Coati al Committee
will meet at the Bolton Ilnuse, Harrisburg, on
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th, 181.18, nt 8 P. M.
A. full attendance la desired.
WM• A. WALLACE,
Chairman.
TO THE DEMOCRACY ot"rmic CITY
AND COUNTY OF LANCA.NTEIL.
In parrot:Luce of authority granted to the un
derni4ued by action of the Cott uty Committee,
et Its recent me •Ling of August. 15Lh, the Delos
gate Elections) ordered to be held on HATCJH•
DAY, hsEPTENIBER sth, are hereby postponed '
until SATURDAY, the 1111 du, of SEPTEM•
and the Demucratic County Convention,
ordered to asseinhie on WEDNESDAY, SEP
TE:ABEit 91h, Is postponed until WEDNES
DAY, the 2kt day of SEPI'ENI HER, IShIS, when
It will meet at 11 o'clock, A. M., at Fultau 11111,
in the City of Lancaster, for the purpose of
nominating a ticket to be supported at the
enNillug October eleetion, composed of tile fol
lowing officers:
A Member of Congo sm.
Four M. inhere of Mouse of Heprcl cu i lives.
Associate .fudge.
iligtrict. Attorney.
O it) County Commissioner.
Two Direene it of the Pour.
'lwo Prison I nsp cturs.
One Auditor.
The township committees ale requested to
give early notice hn the h• respeeti to districts
of the thou and place lt meeting tor the elec
Oct , of delegates.
10 order• of the Democratic County Com
mittee. It. it, TSHLTDY,
H. J. McC.l a.% COLOrnian.
motocuvric MEETIMIS
lion.S.4.Cmc will atlctro. the Democracy
oi Lam:utter In the Court Ilot,ut cut Friday
-optem her ISt h.
A Situ. Meeting of Weet llempllehl and a I
townahlias wl.I he held at Erhe.
;:alurd ly after-
noun, t-eptember V.:111. lion, 1. C. II lehter,
It. Iteynultl'a, Earl., and ..thera will add revs t hr
meeting.
'rho Democrat la Clnb of Lit tin Britain town•
uhip will on odd rcaced uu Tuurmhlyeveulnw
Mtt, S pt ru - cr :Id, I), li U, titulth and Ono
Nauman, I hrla. 'Pun in. Ming will he 1,11.1 at
(Jaa 11111. i ii. Dummy.,, y oreurrn,i a ding tpwri
hlllps ore ouruwilly remicsted to attend. All
UM)+, without ro:apact In pally, IttO Invlt. d It)
A 1111111$ mOOl 1k .4 ,11 1 110 Democracy or Provl.
ileum] luwUNl+lp will bu 110111 Ikt 11 lultury (.1 wve
1l ulul , 011 ht. 111,y, b, plemb. 12111.
ll.pyt 111110 1 .1. W. F. 0011 A. t,
11111 ttiltlrom 1110 [Heel lug,
There will Pe u p tic 111. slug 111111 Democratic
'twitting at Clortioovlile 011 t`llllll,ll.ly.Septern .
her 111th. Cleo. Nlllllllllll, El U. smith,
I nd °thorn, %vill addl. , . the lece.l
Circulate Political Truth
The campaign draws to it close. The
work which Is to be done must be done
quickly. In no way can so much good
be effeuted as by the sysleinatlc circula
tion of sound and reliable Democratic
newspapers. The INTEbbluENclut is
unsurpassed by any Journal In the
State. Spread It among all who will
rend It. TITEWEEKIN INTELLICIENCER
furninlica to clulm pre or more
until oiler the Pre,identiul election unit
cEsTs.
No further recluellon lu pried will be
mule. 'Men forwniLl ut once the names
:0f much permens ns you desire to have
the pipet• ment to,
The emmli 1111101 net:employ the oiler,
Addret o4 Of the POinocrittle htato C
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To THE PEOPLE Or 1' ENNSY N IA:
The Itadicals re-produce the stale slan
ders of the prist, and try to ignore the grave
questions of the present.
They prate of their loyalty end make it
the excuse for their corruption, their ex
travagance and their misrule.
They imagine that you have slept during
three y eirrs of their iniquitous misgovern
meet, and dint you will forget that taxation
oppresses you, that yl.ur e , inimerce lam
gulshoi, and that your blrAllless is broken
They have proven themselves powerful
to destroy and powerless to restore.
Their only po!ley In hole, ninl upon this
they unit a new ',taw el' power, forgetful
that n thinking and priletiett , people require
them to 1111SWer
Why is the national debt greater now
than when Lre suite, l e. , nod why does
It still increase?
What has become of the fifteen hut tired
millions of dollars they have wrong Iron)
the comforts and necessities of the people
since Jime,
Why are moth then one hundred mil
lions of dollars annually wasted on the un
reeenstructeriSouth, and why Ix it not made
to yield un as much, to relieve Its front tax
ation, and aid in paying oar debt?
Why is the white man made the Inferior
of the negro In every Southern Mole?
Why Is ono rouse of Mull totally exempt
from taxation whilxt all Min-rx groan be
neath the load they should add in bearing?
Why shall the 5 20 bonds he paid In gold
when by the exprexa terms of the contract,
they were made payable in legal. tender
notes?
Why is the Constitution violated and the
In:duo not l'esLOted, Cud Why are our ro
sounoti wasted, nod the peop.e oppressed,
the clot of living trebled, mud Our trade
destroyed ?
DEMOCRATS OF PENNSYLVA NIA :
AnOII II THE PEOI'LE,
Organize a speaking eunva.. in every lo
cality. Go into the strongholds of Radi
calism, and
Direct your urguments to reason and not
to the pusetone. Confine them to the living
Issues of the present and of the Immediate
PURRUE THE ENEMY
Our grund old State moves steadily but
surely into her true place In the Democratic
line.
From every eeetlon comes the glad news
of a defiant and united Democracy, and o f
a torpid and dispirited foe.
Organization, energy and united effort
will bring you a glorious victory.
ATCOURE THE PEOPEE. TEACH TEE PEOPLE
P0R5137 , ; THE ENEMY
By order of the Democratic State Corn
mth9e. WM. A. WALLACE,
• , Chair'man
the people would know how the
pUbliO%rnony has been squandered uu•
die-Unica' rule, it is abßolutely neoee•
airy to chooses Democratic Legislature.
' Why .a Change PlPre9ol'
The National delit-la:nowc,4 , WentTzsix
hundred millioni?Of dfffiaral Lee War
rendered on the 9111 day off4rll, 1865;
the National Obi on thik 4ay,4vas
twenty-three hiindred and4ixty.:Sevenr
millions.
In three years of peace the debt has
increased two hundred and thirty-three
millions.
The people have paid into the Treas
ury in those three years, fifteen hundred
and twenty millions. In 1865, $561,572,-
000; in 1866, $490,634,000, ,and in 1867,
$471,700,000.
The official statements show that in
the last two months the debt has
increased $13,258,593.
All of this money came from the
earnings of the people, and should have
been applied to paying the debt; for it
is a mortgage upon all of our property,
and encumbers and oppresses us in our
business.
Every article that enters into our
daily use and consumption is taxed to
raise this money. The poor man's tea
pays twenty-five cents in gold; his
sugar, four cents ; his coffee, five cents;
the leather out of which his shoes are
made, the matches with which lielights
his fire, the shovel, the pick, the plow
' and the harrow, all bear their share of
these taxes, and all these increase the
, cost of living.
I This system of taxation is more
severe on the poor than the rich —for
the necessities of a man (and not his
property) are taxed, so that a poor man
with a family of six, pays three times
as much tax as the rich man with a
family of Iwo.
In the year ending June 30, 1868, four
hundred and seventy millions of dollars
were taken from the comforts and no.
cessities of the daily lives of the people,
and wore put into tho Treasury of the
• nation.
There are thirty millions of people In
the Union, and this is more than four
teen dollars for each man, woman and
child.
This is mainly paid in buying what
we cat, drink and wear.
About eight days work are now re
quired from the laboring man to buy a
barrel of flour, while in 1800 four days
work would buy as good a one. One
day's work now will only buy five
pounds of coffee, while in 1860 it would
buy twelve pounds.
The farmer, the mechanic and the
merchant, find their profits all spent in
the increased cost of living; in the large
taxes imposed for State, county, muni•
cipal and city purposes; in the in
. _ . .
creased cost of tools, of clothing, of
labor hired, and of taxes upon income,
and they have nothing left.
Increase of the debt means Increased
hours of labor, increased taxes, and in-
creased priViltiOng to the mass of the
through which they had hoped to carry
people. It. They forced negro suffrage upon
The R"die"idh"c w"stcd ll""r """ the Southern States against the earnest
and ought to be turned out.
protest of every Democrat in the coon
The reconstruction of the South, with try.
It only exists now by force of the
the negro above the white man, prevents
unconstitutional acts of the Radical
prosperity there. The enormous taxes
Congress. Ws galling to the white men
we pay go to maintain the army and
the South. They do not desire its
the Freedmen's Bureau in the South for
continuance, and would be glad to re
this purpose. Instead of us paying over
turn to the old and safe rule of the Con
-100 millions each year to do this, the
stitution, which guarantees every State
South ought to be put to work to earn
the right of deciding who shall exercise
200 millions to help us to pay the debt
the elective franchise. But, while the
and the taxes.
negro continues to be a voter, the Dem
-7 akc away the army and the Bureau
aerate of the South will do their best to
and glee the white man as. good a chance
control his ballot. This they have a
as the negro, and it will be done.
perfect right to do, and the Radicals
They cannot buy our iron, cotton and
dare not murmur if by negro ballots the
woolen manufactures as long as we per-
Electoral votes of the Southern States
shit in keeping them poor. Put them
should be east for Seymour and Blair.
to work to develop their resources, and
We do not wonder that there is a wail
allow them to aid in governing them
of lamentation throughout the Radical
selves, and we will relieve ourselves
camp. It must be hard indeed, in this
from a grevious burthen. the hour of their falling fortunes, to see
Th ', le .[ "e " l"ave , /mt" , w „ neg , " ," "Pc , even the negroes deserting their ranks
the witerr net ma d ougnE Oe t urne d 51111 we cannot pity them. They
out. deserve to be beaten with tile weapons
The exemption of Bonds from taxation they provided to be used against the
Is unjust and oppressive. The poor Democratic party.
man who owns a house and lot, has nn
right to be taxed to protect the property
and educate the children of the rich
man, who pays none, because his
property Is all In United States
.Bonds.
The Radicals made thin Ryden?, and
thfend il, and t hey ought to be turned out. !
A greenback dollar is now worth
about sixty•elght cents In gold. There
are sixteen hundred millions of 15-20
Bonds, which the Bondholders want
paid In gold, but which the law
promised to pay in greenbacks. We
uow pay them one hundred and thirty
millions In gold interest every year,
and we find this n grevious load. The
debt bearing gold interest has increased
sixty-seven and a half millions in the
last two months. This has added four
millions to our burthens. If the princi
pal of the 5.20,4 be paid In gold, it will
add eight hundred millions of dollars,
to the value of the elaim they make,
and this terrible debt will crush time en
ergies of the people, They paid green
backs for the Bonds at fifty cents ou the
dollar, and the contract was they were
to take the same In pay.
The Rad 'cats are for paying the
Bondholder in ()old, and ought to he
turned out.
Reduce the enormous, useless and
corrupt expenses of the government,
and thus dispense with taxation and
leave the money with the people. Pay
the debt/ as rapidly us possible; re
move the curse of negroism in the
South, and let the white MIIII govern
himself and help us pay our debt; tax
the people equally and reduce taxation;
reduce the amount of interest we must
pay by paying part of the debt in
greenbacks; restore the Union and
obey the Constitution. Pursue title
policy and business will brighten, our
national troubles will be over, our credit
will be at par, and a specie currency re
established.
The Radicals eel'''.r to do this and
ought to be turned out.
The debt oust be paid, but we must
commence to pay It now or it will
never be paid ; the people in power
have learned to be extravagant, and
cannot quit it if they wished to ; a
change will reduce taxation and ensure
the payment of the debt.
Let 118 go for a change and Moo the
Radicals out.
Attention, Democrats
A number of Democratic meetings are
advertised to be held in different parts
of the county. Let there be a full at
tendance at them. Co yourself, and be
sure to take as many of your Republican
neighbors with you as you can induce
to go. Let us move upon the enemies
works from all points ! Every thing
gives assurance of a glorious and crown•
dig victory. Then, forward, along the
whole line !
liar See notices of meetings at head
of We column.
Poiitteni Meetings
.The Chairman of the State Central
Committee, Hon. Wm. A. Wallace, ree
commends that meetings be speedily
appointed at convenient points fur the
assembling of the people of a number of
townships. We think the idea an ex•
celient one. Such meetings will attract
to them numbers of thinking Republi
cans, and, there being less show and
parade than at County mass Meetings,
the speakers will be attentively listened
to. We hope to see a number of such
meetings in thisicounty, and we have
the assurance Of Mr. Wallace that he
will furnish one or more effective for.
eign speakers for such occasions. Let
the proposition be considered
and the most available pbints selected.
The •meetings should be so arranged
that at least one speech. can be made
before dinner, and two or more, in the
afternoon. Such gatherings, if properly
conducted, must prove. very effective.
Let the leading men or the different
districts take the matter in hand.
Ry f
1
lomentatton over the Ingratitude 'Ape t , ,, , cartAgews Dewitt! . t hpj il dj* 1.,, ,
6-2 , y- ... Negre: , .; -,; ,/. 1 - : .., gi 4 , ? ,. ; ).,., romp ' . s t . ,'
!: inil&zpreBB ii much exercised about '' Wc4itkeit fat Schutz mole ami.
the negro vote of the South. It pub - .tiomphile a &Ouse otthe pgcy 'go! thi ' 1
iiihes)nore thank a coltnrOof extracts ItepOlican party in:his speSchlit4F'nl
rot! -
fnatenthernneWsp.aperi,lnterspersed , ton !Ellin' . the other tight..ss can be
with editorial remarks of its own, to framid by ' ingenious sophistry and
show that the Democrats of the South ' plausible rhetoric. He is recognized as
are using the negroes, whom the Radi
-1 one of the most thoughtful and argu
cals haveimade voters, to defeat Grant
, mentative Radical orators in the coup
and Colfax. It candidly admits that I try, and is so heralded by his political
the blacks are likely to vote with their 1 friends wherever ; he goes . - Ile Is a de
old masters, in spite of the agents of the liberate speaker, co ol' and collected' in
Freedmen's Bureau, the, efforts of the his manner,, and evidently a practised.
Northbrir adventurers who are so appro.' . logielan. We ilave eeldom listened to
priately styled: " carpet! baggers," and any one more capable of making the
the few mean native whites who have worse appear the better reason. That
consented to make 03MII1011 cause with 1 he made the very best speech poesible
the negroes against their own race. 1 out of the material before him we can-
This is truly a lamentable state of didly admit ; but we do not believe it
affairs, and we do not wonder that the possible that the intelligent Republi-
Express is fast losing faith in Sambo. can in his audience could have failed to
Everybody knows that the Radicals of ! detect the great weakness of his labor-
Congress never would have enfran- I ered defense of the Radical policy. We
chised the blacks of the South if they 1 cans not review . hisspeech in detail, but
had not believed they could control must content ourselves with calling at
their votes. The whole reconstruction ! tention to a few of the many fallacies
scheme was framed and patched up 'in which it abounded.
from time to time, for the express pur- 1 Geri Shurz argued that the Southern.
, pose of ensuring a continuance of ! States were fairly outside of the Union
.Radical rule throughout the country. when the war ended, and that their
At first the negroes seemed ready to ' people bud no rights which we were
Obey every mandate of Radical poll. , bound to respect. This assertion he
ticians. But no one who knew the I undertook to prove by a reproduction of
character of the race needed to be told extracts from the law which has been
that the whites of the South could con- laid down for the government of the
trol the votes of the negroes with the conduct of foreign nations in wars with
greatest ease whenever they saw fit to 1 each other ; all the time ignoring the
attempt to do so, • fact that the rebellion was a contest be-
The election in Mississippi, at which i tween parties in the same government,
the negro majoritywent to the polls in living under a written Constitution,
compliance with the request of the which was obligatory alike upon the vic•
white minority, and voted down the tore and the vanquished. He carefully
constitution which was framed for the avoided any allusion to the continued
express purpose of giving all political and perpetually repeated declarations
power to the blacks, was a startling rev- of his party, that the sole object of the
elation to Northern Radicals. It dash- war was the preservation of the integrity
ed all their cherished hopes to the earth. of the Union, and the maintenance of
Negro Supremacy in the South was
the supremacy of the Constitution; and
shown to be the most unsubstantial po•
litical fabric that ever had an origin in
the brains of unpracticable fanatics.—
From that hour the leaders of the Re
publican party began to regard the ne
groes, whose loyalty and sagacity they
had extolled so highly, as a set of de
,Jaded barbarians. Many of them now
believe, what the Democratic party has
always asserted and maintained, that
the negroes are unfit-to be entrusted
with political power.
The E.rprcBs does not deny the right
of Southern Democrats to make politl,
cal capital out of the negro vote, but
It is much humiliated to see that the
Southern States are likely to be carried
for Seymour and Blair by the negro
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votes which were regarded as certain to
be cabt for Orant and Colfax. The re•
tribution is a righteous one. The Rad
cals deserve to be defeated in the coming
t
Presidential election by t
Facts air the People.
The value of nil U. S. property before
the war was $1,000,000,000, Since then
In the Northern States It has Increased '
In value, and In the Southern States
diminished. The productive inthotry
of the country Is usually estimated at
per cent, upon the whole value of the
country, which would make $100,000,.
000 a year the productive interest of the
country. The amount of taxes draw❑
from the people which reached the pub
lic Treasury In 1800, was 5559,000,000
In 141iT It was 100,0n0,00n, and Mr. Wells
the Special Revenue Commissioner, has
made a statement in which he says that
for the past year, 1807, ending on the
l t .luly, there were ii:400,000,000 of
money drawn front the people by way
of taxation, which went Into the Treas•
ury. Here then Is a system of annual
taxation far beyond the annual Income
from the productive Industry of the
country.
Vast as this tax Is, according to Free
man Clarke, Republican, and Commis
-9 loner Wells, Radical, not one half the
taxes assessed reach the Treasury, which
Is n double injustice to the People; first,
lu the wrong done to the honest tax•
payer, and, • secondly, In the reduction
of revenue through un unjust admluls•
(ration of law,
During Mr. Polk's administration we
had war with Mexico, and had trans
ported armies and munitions of war to
that country. The whole expense du
ring these four years was only $OO,OOO,
000, while during the present year, and
the three or four years past, the expen
ses have been about $120,000,000, sothat
it cost $30,000,000 more for these Radl.
cads to run the department in a single
year In the time of peace, than for four
years during a foreign war under a
Democrati^dmlnistration.
In 0 eat Britain the property le valued
at double ours, their debt also; yet they
expend fur all purposes $289,000,000, In
cluding Interest upon their debt, mid
we expend $400,000,000, We expend
about $100,000,000 more yearly than
Great Britain. Their army of 200,000
men, four times larger than ours, cost
less money.
Is it not high time we had a change?
C. M. Duncan, Esq
C. M. Duncan, Esq., has been notni
nated for Senator in the Adams and
Franklin District. Mr. Duncan was
fairly elected three years ago, but was
turned out of his seat by the Radical
majority. How this was done may be
judged, when it is known that a promi•
nent Radical Senator afterwards said,
in a fit of passion, speaking of Mc-
Conaughy, to whom Mr. Duncan's seat
had been awarded, " I perjured myself
to glee that d—d scoundrel his mat."
Mr. Duncan is a gentleman of fine abll-
Ries, a good speaker and au excellent
business man. He will be elected by
such a majority that the Radicals will
not dare to unseat him.
lion. F. M. Kimmel,
Hon. F. M. Kimmell is the Demo
cratic nominee for Congress in the lath
district. Ho is one of the ablest and
most effective stump speakers in the
State. We suppose he will challenge
John Cessna to stump the district with
him. Should Cessna accept there will
be warm work during the canvass. The
district is very close, but Judge Kim
mell ought to be elected, if the campaign
is vigorously conducted.
The Vermint Election
The election lu Vermont was quiet,
and a special despatch leads us to be
lieve the Democracy have made a good
fight, and reduced the Radical majority
of last year.
WHAT. bas become of the "soldier
choirs" which were to sing Grant and
Colfax into office? Have the "boys in
blue" refused to train in such associa•
time? Hereabouts we do not hear
even a shout for Grant, much less a song
in his praise. The only excitement is
the quarrel of the different factions
over the spoils of county offices.
that it was not waged for subjugation or
conquest. The two fighting " loafers"
whom he introduced as an illustra
Lion, the stronger one of whom con
tinued to pound the weaker, until ho
made him submit to just such terms as
he chose to dictate, was a fitting repre
sentation of the idea upon which the
Radicals have been acting ever since
they repudiated the terms accorded to
the defeated rebels by General Grant,
and sanctioned and approved by Presi
dent Lincoln. He could not have chosen
au illustration more perfectly fitted to
give a clear idea of the lawlessness and
the brutality of the policy he was en
deavoring to defend,
His attempted defence of the estab•
llshment of negro supremacy in the
South was weak in the extreme, being
only propped up by his appeal to preju
dices against the white people of that
le very agency
section. He said not one word about
the employment of a standing army, at
a vast expense to keep those bastard
governments from falling to the ground,
and when he alluded to the disfran•
chisement of the whites, lie was guilty
of deliberate misrepresentation, unless
he was more Ignorant than we take him
to be. The records show that with all the
negroes converted Into voters, the reg
istered vote of the South was less than
the vote polled before the war, when
none but white men were voters. Gen-
Schurz could not be ignorant of the fact
that his party so manipulated the vote
of the Southern States as to ensure that
the negroes would have complete con
trol, if they voted as they were expected
to do. When he undertook to ridicule
the idea that three million negroes could
control nine million whites, he neglected
to state that the nine million whites in
cluded the population of Kentucky,
West Virginia, Maryland and Missouri.
He left the ignorant portion of his aud
ience under the impression that he was
speaking of the so called reconstructed
States alone. Such was his method of
dealing with every point on which he
touched. He concealed half the truth,
glossed over all the rough features of
his subject, and by skillful sophistry
made the worst acts of his party seem
excusable to the thoughtless and the
Ignorant, but not to those who read and
reflected.
In dealing with the financial question
lie was unfair from beginning to end.
His statements were not, correct, and his
deductions were fallacious. When he
represented the government as a bank.
rapt, begging for favors, he did not put
those who took advantage of its neces•
sides in a light to entitle them to any
special sympathy. When lie spoke of
the law creating the. 5.20 bonds, he took
fur granted, without attempt at an argu
meut, that the terms of the act positive
ly required them to be paid in gold.
Auy other plan he denounced as rem'.
illation. He assailed Pendleton and
other Democrats, but had not a word to
say in regard to the views of Thaddeus
Stevens, Senator Sherman and other
distinguished Republicans, who,having
helped to frame the law and being
fitualllar with all the provisions, hold as
firmly as Mr. Pendleton does, that these
ri.2o bonds are payable after four years
In the "lawful or paper money of the
country." It will take more than the
loose sophistries of Mr. Carl Shurz to
convince a majority even of those who
have acted with the Republican party
that there is no option left with the gov
ernment in this important matter.
In treating of the proposed payment
of the debt he, grossly misrepresented
the Democratic platform, declaring that
it called for the immediate payment of
the whole debt. Any intelligent Re
publican In the audience must have de
tected the utter falsity of that state
ment. The wording of the third res
olution is, "payment of the public debt
of the United Stales as rapidly as prac
licabic," a very different thing from
payment at once, in greenbacks, of the
entire amount. Neither Mr. Pendleton
nor any other Democrat proposes to
flood ate country with irredeemable
paper currency. The Democracy know
too well the evils of depreciation of the
currency, and they only proposed to
pay as fast as it can be done without
unsettling values.
The views of Mr. Pendleton have
been too often expressed for Mr.
Schurz to be ignorant of them. He
proposes to substitute legal tenders
for the bank currency now in exis
tence, thus saving eighteen millions
of a bonus now annually given to
the national banks, and to pay off the
13.20 s to the extent of the three hundred
MIIIIOEII3 now in their hands. Beyond
this Mr. Pendleton and all other Dem
ocrats intend to feel their way with cau
tion. They will pay the debt as speed
ily as possible, but they rely principally
upon doing so by reducing the expenses
of the government, and by applying
every available dollar to lifting from the
shoulders of the masses the heavy bur
then which Mr. Schurz and those who
think with him propose to continue for
an indefinite period, if not forever.
Gen. Schurz in denouncing the pro
position to tax government bonds drew
a sort of fancy. picture, which was as
unsubstantial as the baseless fabric of a
vision. He forgot to tell his audience
that a majority of Republicans in the
Lower House of Congress deliberately
voted to do the very thing he so much
deprecated.
If the speech of General Carl Schurz
at Fulton Hall is to be taken as the best
defense that can he made for the Re
publican party, then are its fortunes
desperate indeed, and Grant will be the
worst beaten candidate this country has
seen for many a year.
GALUBITA. GROW says that if Sey
mour and Blair shall be elected there
will be "war." Do Grow and his
friends mean to make the war? Or do
they want to scare such of their own
party as are disposed to vote for the
Democratic candidates? "Go sloti , ,"
Mr. Grow. Stop this kind of talk. You
are not carrying on a Reno speculation.
f
s it Alt
'• , alures Abuse pi Se o
• , •" 0 LI? .. K. Mcelnii - iii it'
VlEWaillziall the other ni_t ipf-• oh
= • - 4Algtit.to be . ashamed. was rittoirly
, -niiiiortby of him, and ev htsW:ib
ilgtu2i:frierids were open zO their ''' Mk
alone of disappointment and disgust.
Not foramoment did he attempt to argue
any of the great questions now agitating
the nation. His harangue was a tisane
of misrepresentations from beginning to
end, abusive
He - spent some fifteen minutes in an
attempt-to describe what Governor Sey
mour was doing about the 4th of July,
1883. According to his statement, Gov
ernor Seymour was then busy in oppos
ing the , prosecution of the war, and
encouraging the rioters of New" York
city to kill negroes and Union soldiers.
Col. McClure seemed to haVe no recol
lection of the fact that Governor Bey-!
mour was Just then engaged in equip
ping and forwarding the militia of New
York to defend Pennsylvania. Yet he
could not have been ignorant of the fact.
If he had never read the grateful de.
spatches of Lincoln and Stanton, vol
untarily thanking Governor Seymour
for his invaluable aid at that time, he
had other means of knowing what was
( transpiring.
About the 4th of July, 1863, Col. A.
McClure was fleeing in wild terror
from his home at Chambersburg, down
the Cumberland Valley. Ile took his
departure by way of an unfrequented
road known as Rutherford's lane, leav
ing his wife and family to the tender
mercies of the advancing rebels. On
his way east he met the troops who
were being hurried forward to the de
fence of our State by Gov. Seymour,
and then, for the first time did his terror
begin to abate. How he then blessed
the man whom he so foully abused the
other night is well known. We were
astonished at his forgetfulness, and his
utter want of gratitude for past favors.
If there is a man In Pennsylvania who
ought to speak well of Gov. Seymour,
who is in honor bound to bear testi
mony to his loyalty and patriotic ser
vices in 1863 and throughout the war,
that man is A K. McClure, who in his
wild and disordered flight from home,
did not feel safe until he met the New
York troops, who were marching to the
protection of the defenseless ones he
had left behind him.
The Whisky Frauds
It will be seen from the report of the
examination of the U. S. Assessor in
Berks county on a charge of defrauding
the Government, made before Commis
sioner Smith at Philadelphia, which we
publish in another column, that the
doings of the " whisky ring " in our
neighboring county are being brought
to light. The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, Rollins, is charged with being
cognizant of the fraud, thus confirming
the conviction which has been generally
entertained, that he has all alongknown
of the doings of these whisky rings in
all the Revenue districts, and has re
ceived a percentage of the spoils from
each of them. It was difficultortherwise
to account for the perfect safety with
which the transactions of the ring have
I been conducted, and the absolute im
munity its members enjoyed in the
I perpetration of the most barefaced
I frauds.
During the past year affidavits and
communications were poured into the
office of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue in Washington from all parts
of the country, testifying to numberless
instances in which the Government was
defrauded out of its tax and implica
ting the Revenue officers in the exe
cution of the fraud; but no atten
tion was ever paid to them by the I
Commissioner. Even reports made
to the Department by Detectives I
and officers who were not in the ring
were disregarded, and the reporting
officers generally very soon found their
services were no longer required. How
was it that some Distillers could run
their Distilleries and grow rich while
others laid idle? How was it that
whiskey could be bought for $1.90 toff
$l.OO per gallon from Distillers in the
ring, when the tax was $2.00 per gal. and
that they could guarantee to, their cus
tomers perfect safety in the transaction?
Everybody who kept his eyes open
knew of these things, except we are
asked to believe the officers of the Rev
enue, whose duty it was to know them
before any one else. We are glad that
these transactions are at last being un
earthed, and we are of the opinion that
it will turn out that Berke county is
not the only county iu this State where
these Whiskey Rings safely prosecuted
their fraudulent schemes, by reason of
their connection with the officers of
the government. Let the guilty stand
from under.
Shall Extravagance and Corruption
Continue?
Should General Grant be elected
President the corruption and extrava
gance which now prevails would not
only continue unchecked but would be
indefinitely Increased. Hu is in the
hands of the most unscrupulous and
reckless political scamps in the Repub
lican party. The thieves and corrup•
tionists would flock to Washington as
buzzards flock to a decaying carcas,
upon his inauguration. The Forneys
and Washburnes, who are the keepers
and chief fuglemeu of the no•polley
candidate, would have things all their
own way. The extravagance of Con
gress would be unchecked. They would
say with truth that the people had sanc
tioned their course.
If we are to have economical admin
istration of the government, a lighten
ing of the burtheu of taxation which is
now crushing the life out of the masses,
a reduction of the army and navy to a
peace standard, self supporting govern•
ments in the Southern States, the
abolition of that infamous political en
gine the Freedmen's Bureau, an al pll
cation of the revenue to the payment of
the debt, and the inauguration of such
a policy as will drive the army of
thieves away from the publlC treasury,
we must have a change of rulers.
If the people desire to see a perfect
carnival of extravagance, fraud and
corruption, let them vote for Grant.
If they want an honest administra
tion, low taxes payment of the public
debt, and prosperous, peaceful times,
they must vote for Seymour and Blair.
Grant is the Mere tool of the most
degraded and desperate men in the
Radical party, and Colfax is intimately
connected with all the outrageous cor
ruption of a Congress which Is rotten to
the core.
If the people are not fools they will
vote to protect themselves, and not to
encourage a continuance of the carnival
of open fraud, unblushing rascality and
unparall'elled corruption which prevails
under Radical rule.
Another Increase of the Public Debt.
The forthcoming statement of the
public debt for the month of August
will show another increase; and that
too in spite of the fact that the receipts
from customs during, the month were
extraordinarily large. The importations
for the fall trade come in during Au
gust.
How much longer do the taxpayers
intend to keep a party lu power which
squanders over four hundred millions a
year, while the national debt continues
to increase from month to month?—
Will the bondholders still vote the
Radical ticket? If they do the day is
not far distant when their cherished
securities will be absolutely worthless.
No nation can long maintain its credit,
when, with every interest taxed as in
this country, the public debt continues
to increase,instead of being diminished.
Lot the monopolists remember that.
THE Radical State Senate of Louisi
ana has just ousted a white member
and put a negro in his seat. That is a
specimen of the policy which will be
pursued, if flrant should he elected.
• ten Slit Own. Of Brutal
A IT Soldleievpon 14w
t2r.-
UM* p * a reinarkable
tret* from RobertOil* the Oinfedev
Ate tiwitfor excilfnge Orpilioners
durinethe Wei. In that letter Mr. Ould
Welded to prominent - Union Generals
for the truth of the statements made by
him, to the effect that the Federal au
thorities at Washington were responsi
ble for the failuretOexchange prisoners,
and for the consequent suffering which
was the direct _result. The facts set
forth by Mr. Ould, have not been suc
cessfully
u contradicted. No Republican
paper that we have seen has attempted.
to disprove them, but, on the contrary,
all of them have contented themselves
with denouncing Mr. Ould as arebal, as
if the mere fact of his having fought on
that side could annul existing and In
disputable facts.
The statement of Mr. Ould fastens
the responsibility for not exchanging
prisoners upon General Grant. It
might seem hard to some, to hold the
Radical candidate for president convict
ed of so serious charge upon rebel testi
mony alone. But there are other wit
nesses, and one in particular,.whose:/oy
ally no Republican can dispute. Gen.
Butler was intimately associated with
Mr.Ould in negotiations for the exchange
of prisoners, and he was perfectly cog
nizant of all the facts in connection
with the matter. If he corroborates
the statements of Mr. Ould no one can
well question their truthfulness. Has
he done so? Let us see.
On the 28th day of January 1865,
General Butler made a speech at Low
ell, Massachusetts, in which he ex
pressed his opinion of General Grant
quite freely. Grant was not then dream
ed of as a Radical candidate for the
Presidency, and Butler had no idea that
he would be called upon to support him.
So he spoke of him with unbiased free
dom and truthfulness. In that speech
he fastened upon General Grant the
imputation of brutal indifference
to the fate of the Union sol
diers' who were deliberately left to
starve and die in Andersonville and
other Southern prisons. Butler dis
tinctly stated then and there that he
had agreed with Commissioner Ould for
the exchange of all our white soldiers
against an equal number of the rebel
prisoners in our hands, leaving the ex
change of negroes to be considered in a
separate and subsequent arrangement.
This he said would have left 'a balance
of fifteen thousand rebel prisoners in
our possession, and only about five hun
dred negro prisoners in the hands of
the rebels. When the negotiations had
reached this stage General Butler was
brought to a sudden halt. What fol
lowed was so remarkable, and fraught
with such painful interest, that the ac
' count must be given In General Butler's
own words:
I reported the points of egreement be
tween myself and the rebel agent to the
Secretary of War, and asked for power to
adjust the other questions of difference, so
as to have the question of enslaving negro
soldiers stand alone, to be dealt with by
i myself; and that the whole power of the
United States should be exerted to do jus•
I tire to those who had fought the battles of
the country, and been captured in its ser
f vice. The whole subject was referred by the
, Secretary of War to the Lieutenant-General
commanding, who telegraphed to me on the
114th of April, 1864, in substance : " Break off
all negotiations on the subject of exchange till
further orders." And, therefore, all nego•
flattens were broken off, save that n special
exchange of sick and wounded on either
side went on. On the 20th of April I received
another telegram of General Grant, ordering
" not another man to be given to the rebels."
To that I answered, on the same day:
"Lieutenant-General Grant's instructions
I shall bo implicitly obeyed. I assume that
you do not mean to stop the special exchange
of the sickland wounded now going on' To
I this I received a reply in substance: "Do
not give the rebels a single able bodied
man." From that hour, so long as I re
mained in the department, exchanges of
prisoners stopped under that order, because
I could not give the rebels any of their able
bodied men in exchange. By sending the
sick and wounded forward, however, some
twelve thousand of our Buffering soldiers
were relieved, being upwards of eight thou
sand (8,000) more than we gave the rebels. In
August lust Mr. Ould, fi nding negotiations
wino broken oil, and that no exchanges
wore made, wrote to General Hitchcock,
the commissioner nt Washington, that the
rebels were ready to exchange man for
man, all the prisoners held by them, its I
had proposed in December. Under the in
structions of the Lieutenant General, 'wrote
to Mr. Quid a letter, which has been publish
ed, saying • "Do you mean to give up all
your action, and revoke alt your laws about
black men employed as soldiers?" These
questions were therein argued justly, as I
think, not diplomattcally, but obtrusively
and demonstratively, not for the purpose of
furthering exchange of prisoners, but for the
purpose of preventing and slopping the
exchange and furnishing a ground on
which ire could fairly stand. I am
now at liberty to state these facts,
because they appear in the corres
pondence on the subject of exchange now
on the public fl ies of Congress, futnished
by the War Department upon resolution. I
am not at liberty to state my opinions as to
the correctness and propriety of this course
of action of the Lieutenant General in rela
tion to exchanges, because, as it is not
proper to utter a word of condemnation of
tiny net of my superiors ' I may not even
applaud whore I think them right, lost, not
applauding in other instances, such nets as
I may mention would Imply censure, I
only desire that the responsibility of stop
ping exchanges of prisoners, he It wise
or unwise, should rest upon the
Lieutenant-General commanding, and
not upon me. I have carried the
weight qf so grave a matter for nine months,
mid now propose, as the facts aro laid be
fore Congress and the country, not to carry
any longer any more of it than belongs to
me. Since I wrote my farewell address to
the Army of the James, I have received
letters from the far West saying, "Why do
you claim that you have not uselessly sacri
ficed the lives or your men, when you have
loft thousands of our brothers and eons to
starve and rot in Southern prisons." In
nnswer to all such appeals I am allowed
only to repeat I have not uselessly sacri
ficed the lives of the soldiers of the'Union ;
their blood does not stain my garments.—
This is not criticism upon the acts or any
but only the enunciation of a fact, in
explanation of which the responsibilities
of my position will not allow me to say
more.
Who will dare to say, iu view of this
scathing exposure, that General Grant
was not responsible for the horrors
which befel the brave men who were
doomed by his order to languish in
Southern prisons, through many long
months, at a time when the blockade
prevented the Confederates from ob
taining medical stores, and when the
operations of our armies had so crippled
their railroad corn municatlousthat it was
Impossible for them to suhly their own
troops with a sufficiency of food. By
orders from Grant and Stanton the food
which the people of the North would
willingly have supplied to our prison.
are, was not permitted to be forwarded.
These transactions are a horrible blot
on the character of General Grant, and
not all the sophistry of Radical news•
papers a❑d stump speakers, can clear
him of the charge of brutal cruelty to
the Union soldiers who were left to
languish for want of food and medicine
at Andersonville and elsewhere.
According to Butler's own account, he
lent the resources of his lawyerillte
cunning in writing a piece of chicanery
deliberately planned for the purpose of
placing the whole subject in a false
light. Gen. Grant, •with deliberate
cruelty had determined to let.the Union
prisoners starve and die, rather than
consent to the exchange of an equal
number of rebels, and Butler at the
time tried to cover up the infamous
transactions from the view of the peo
ple. Re afterwards made someamends
by confessing his own rascality and un
covering the brutality of Grant.
What have the apollgiete of Grant to
say to the evidence of that pattern of
loyalty B. F. Butler?
And what have the friends and the
survivors of those whose sad Pate is so
much maimed to say to the cold-blooded
cruelty of the Radical candidate for
President?
To•DAY Vermont holds her :anus
election. State officers and members o
Congress are to be chosen. The candi
dates for Governor are John G. Page
Radical, the present Executive, and J
L. Edwards, Democrat. Page's maJori
ty over Edwards last year was 20,184
The candidates for Congress are :
DULL Republican. Democratic. Bop. ma). 'B5.
L.Charlea W. Willard.- —.Jolla Cato 7,582
2. Luke P. Poland .. . ... .......Cbes M. Chase-6,989
3. Worthington O. Bra I th. Waldo lirlghamb,al4
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, me Deserter Div. V.
The Auditor 'General's °Mee as It h.
• The Attorney Geneinl'Of the state l . --..-______ ,
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Igartrouft averse the rireasary.
has authorized the publication of the How
following' letier:_ -•----
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STATE OP PENNSYLVANIA, I
(Oral= OrT/1/11 -
SECRETARY OF THE GOHMONWHALTII, i
TT*um - sutra% Pa., Aug. 25, 1868. 1 We have shown, in a previous article,
JAMES F. BATHURST, Esq., Sheriff of Min- i that the expenses of the Auditor General's
dington county: office, for clerk hire, etc., under General I
DEAR. Etra—Yours of yesterday is duly I Hartranft's managements, are upwards of
received inquiring my opinion of your duty '
as to inserting the law in relation to desert- S6,NO per annum, over and above those of
era in your election proclamation. The de- the same department under former admin
cision of the Supreme Court, to which you istrations. We will now prove from Gen.
refer, decided the law unconstitutional so
Hartranft's last annual report, that, during
far as relates to deserters who have never
been tried by court martial, but leaves the 1867, he authorized the payment of nearly
law in full force to such as have been tried. ten"thousand dollars to special commitees of
Inasmuch, therefore, as the eighth section
the Legislature, contrary to the provisions of
of the act of fourth of June, 1866, is impera
tive on the sheriff, and the law is in force the law. We quote from the Appropriation
as to the one class of deserters, I conceive Bill for 1867:
it to be your duty to include it In your Sec. 61. That the State Treasurer is hero
proclamation. by authorized to pay the necessary expert-
Most respectfully, sea, including clerk hire, of AO select coin-
Your obedient servant, mittees appointed by the House and Senate,
F. JORDAN. at the present session, upon accounts to be
It will be seen that Mr. Jordan fully certified by the respective chairmen and
recognizes the binding force of the de- approved by theA e u a d i t , t e cfi n r r G e e a n a aal; enthat
0181011 of the Supreme Court, so far as it shall be dollars per day, and ° .T ] cler;t e s s ,
relates to all who have heretofore been five dollars per day, for every day actually
denied the right to vote on the charge
of desertion, except such as were " tried shal l rruil l ,olrs d ;ecall i on usual
not be
authorize the payment of any witnesses not
by Court Martial." Of course, "tried
regularly subpcenaed before the committee,
by Court Martial" and acquitted, can or the payment of any sum of money to
disfranchise no one. So, under the in- o a
r n any r a c amy b e a ,
x • of
easeth the c
a o
a m a m r
a ii t a e g a
e fmi t l er ds S t e h r e vica
terpretation of the Radical Attorney Journment of Legislature.
r l o t hi ~ . ri i t i e l d l ic!, ern that t n h
General, no one can now be denied the I ' t ) . of a . n e K s P e e ll e m i a " ci r f
right to vote on a charge of desertion, money to any MOLT . ; of e
the committee for
unless it is proven that he was " tried I his services," and that payments of expen
by Court Martial" for desertion, and , sea of
Treasurer,committees were n to h lxi nu
n made a
o b
accounts
the
;ta t for
convicted. This reduces the class to so such expenses had be enthe re
small a number that it will amount to spective chairmen of such committees,
nothing. Still under the order of the 1 N " andow tu al irtg v t e l t i l e biZ.AL., r lu.i Auditor
General's(7c G en eral."
a a t .;
t '
Attorney General, the Sheriffs of the for 1867, (pages 112, 113, 114,) and we tlnd
1 different counties will continue to in- tr n t, o notwitt l istandeg the express prhlbl
tpaoid
out
f u tti to e
rn a o w n „L r e a
o s
1 1 ' special e o c r ial 9 L 6 Litt w ee as s,
elude the law of June, 1866, in their
proclamations., not for expenses, buffer services. Thus:
The law was oppressive because it I To members of the Committee to
Inquire and report the amount of
deprived many soldiers of the right to property exempt from taxation to
vote who had been wrongfully reported the Commonwealth, $1,89:1 00
as deserters ; it was unconstitutional in
in T v
eosille a lbe a r h s a o r f
a t h a c a , f :c c i? - s i a n r il i t i t , e i a a
a t 0 ..
that it allowed men to be disfranchised 1 tion in freight, g
without proof that they had deserted. To members of Committee to
e in a lui o re ve h r ito u t.h e e
p ri i i tv n e ur
gst o r f ee s ts teaT .f
The decision of the Supreme Court is a
righteous one, and Mr. Jordan fully Philadelphia,
recognizes its binding force upon all To members of Committee to
Election officers. They will act in RC- investigate charges of dlscrimina-
I tion made by Pennsylvania rail
cordance with it, and refuse the vote of road,
no one until it is proven that he was , To members of Committee to
duly convicted of desertion by a Court aindelpquire into the business in Phil.
hla,
Martial. To members of Committee to
investigate fast freight transporta
tion company,
To chairman of Committee to
investigate certain charges in ref
erence to the passage of the Alle
gheny county license law,
Is Grant A Drunkard?
On the authority of some obscure
Radical paper in the West, the Express
charges that General Blair was intoxi
cated some time in August. This is said
to have occurred at a private house. The
N. Ir. San, and other Republican Jour
nals of standing and respectability have
denied all such reports in reference to
the Democratic candidate for Vice Pres
ident. They assert that he is a tetotnier.
But, how is it with Grant? We have
never made any charge of drunkenness
against him except upon the very best
Radical authority, and for the benefit
of that very consistent temperance pa
per, the Express, we are now tempted
to quote a fe a• of the proofs
New York Tribune, April 8, 18(15,
"Mack's" Washington letter in which he
reports President Johnson as saying that
Grant had been In the Executive mansion
"so drunk that he could not stand."
Anli•Slaverj Standard, April 11, IS6S, in
which Wendell Phillips charges Grant with
drunkenness.
Independent, (Theodore Tilton's paper),
January 3', 1808, Tilton's own telegram
from Washington, stating that Grant was
"occasionally seen fuddled in the street."
Wendell Phillips' speech in a convention
held at Boston, May 28th and 29th, 1868:
"Imagine a Republican candidate for the
Presidency--the most popular man in
America—who cannot stand up before a
glass of liquor without falling down."
Col. Donau, of the Missouri Vindicator, a
gentleman of whom a cotemporary re
marks that "he never told a lie," asserts
positively that "Gen. Grant, on his recent
visit to St. Joseph, Missouri, was so drunk
as to require two gentlemen to support
him, and was utterly unable to address the
people."
These are all the aathorltles we can
lay our hands on at the present moment.
They are good and strong, however, and
undisputably and radically loyal. The
Ezpress, and all other temperance ad
vocates can obtain the most Indisputa
ble proofs of Grant's habitual drunken
ness by applying to officers of the Army
who are intimately acquainted with
him, or to any person who is in the
habit of seeing him often at Washington
or elsewhere.
A "No Policy" President.
Gen. Grant declares that he will have
no policy of his own if elected. That
is a distinct avowal on his part that he
intends to commit the government to
the unrestrained control of the Radicals
in Congress. He voluntarily pledges
himself not to interfere with them.
There will be no vetoes of any measures
they may favor. Unconstitutional laws
without number may be passed, and the
wildest and most impracticable schemes
which fanaticism can devise will be ap
proved. Gen. Grant has so declared in
plain terms. Is such a man fit for the
office of President? Will the rights of
the people and the Interests of the na
tion be safe in his hands?
Radical Row In Dauphin County.
The Retireels are Indulging in a nice
quarrel among themselves In Dauphin
county. A meeting was held in the
upper end of the county on Saturday
and resolution's denouncing "the ring"
who had set up the county ticket were
adopted. The following resolution is a
specimen of the series
WITEREAS, We, the citizens of the Upper
End, have been grossly misrepresented
and indignantly insulted by a clique of
pusillanimous political hacks—who, Judas
like, have gone and sold the party for a
price; and connived at the explicit instruc.
tons of the loyal Republicans in this corn
munit therefore, we have unanimously
Resolver , hat we do hereby denounce
the course pu sued in the Republican Coo
vention of th s county, by n party of meon
and despicable tricksters, who would bar
ter their own souls for a little filthy lucre,
and we dti censure and look with the ut
most contempt upon them for betraying
the faith and cot,ildonce reposed In them
by every true Republican voter.
That Is very plain talk, but we have
no doubt the pusillanimous political
hacks" are just as mean as the "citizens
of the Upper End" declare them to be.
"Let us have peace," as Grant says.
Who Are Loyal In Tennessee ?
The Radicals of Tennessee, under
Brownlow, have been preparing to arm
the negroes of that State so as to carry
the coming election by force of arms.
It Is now said that United States troops
will be sent there to keep the peace.
This has caused great commotlon In the
Radical camp. Those who are styled
rebels desire the presence of Fcderal
soldiers, and It is the Radicals who fear
them. The announcement that United
States troops were coming was greeted
with cheers at what was called a "rebel"
meeting at Nashville. Who are loyal
now in Tennessee? Is it those who
cheer the coming of Union soldiers or
those who dread it? The Radicals fear
that even Tennessee may be carried for
Seymour if a fair election is held, and
they dare not trust to the supervision of
Federal soldiers. That is the secret of
the matter.
Our Export of Gold
Since the let day of January last we
have shipped from New York sixty
four millions of specie, and this rapid
drain of gold has sent it up to $1.60,
raising the prices of ail commodities in
proportion. European capitalists now
hold' not less than seven hundred mil
lion dollars of our bonds, purchased for
about half what they call for, and on
these they are drawing twice as much
Interest in gold as is paid on English or
other European bonds. Is it strange
that the price of gold goes up steadily in
this country under the system of finance
adopted by Congress? Is it not high
time some other system was adopted?
Let the people vote for • a speedy pay
ment of the debt, and a return to the
good old Democratic times.
GOVERNOR GEARY has Issued a Writ
of Election to fill the unexpired term of
Thaddeus Stevens. This will give the
people of Lancaster county the oppor
tunity of voting for two Congressional
candidates at the October election.
EIM=
=MEE
Committees Contrary to Low
$9,504 25
How much more was paid to witnesses
"not regularly subp.,oned," and to clerks
for time during which they were not actu
ally employed, we do not know, but when
nearly $lO,OOO of the people's money is thus
deliberately given away, In defiance of the
law, is scarcely to be presumed that oth
er isbursements were made with greater
scrupulousness? The question arises, Is
General Hartranft, in view of these facts, the I
proper num to till the office of AuditorGen
oral? Can Elio people of Pennsylvania af
ford to endorse so reckless, may we not '
with truth say, so corrupt an administra
lion of ono of the principal departments of '
the State Government? Gen. Hartranft is
a candidate for re-election. He must ex
plain how lie came to endorse the cortill-
Cates by which this largo sum of money
was unlawfully taken out of the Treasury.
If ho cannot explain this matter to the Poo
pie, how can he ask their endorsement at
the ballot-box?
•. • •
The section of the Appropriation 811 l of
1867, above quoted, was inserted In that bill,.
on motion of Hon. C. E. Boyle, the Demo
cratic candidate for Auditor General, who
was a member of the Legislature in 1867.
This makes the contrast between the two
candidates still more striking.
By next season the railroad through
Davenport, lowa, will be completed from
Elections held this Year. Desmoines to Council Bluffs.
The State elections held so far, this The Cleveland and Pittsburg road earned
$12,500 more for tho first two weeks In Au
year, have resulted as follows : gust than It did last year.
Cincinnati pays nearly a million dollars
in salaries to its 1,175 employees, from
mayor down to sower-cleaners.
Soldiers of the French provincial garri
sons aro in many places now assisting in
getting In the harvest.
Sporadic cases of Aslastlc cholera continue
to bo reported in New England towns.
Jas. M. Doane, tailor, died of cholera In
New Bedford last Sun day.i
A Cincinnati paper says a woman In
that city is looking for her husband whom
she has lost after three days of married
bliss, and whose name she has forgotten.
Henry Keep, a wealthy Now York capi
talist, has purchased a site on Fifth avenue,
on which ho proposes to erect ti mngnificent
gallery of art, to bo presented to the city.
Helena, Arkansas, is exhibiting line
white sowing silk, made from cocoons
ruined in Phillips county, in that Slate. It
is said to be brilliant, soft and tough.
The manufacture of Madeira wino Is
aboutl,ooo casks annually, while nolllo'2oo,-
000 casks of what purports to he Madeira
I wino aro sold every year.
The Lyle Monument, in Philadelphia,
will be finished by the 2.71 h of November,
when it is proposed to have a grand display
of the tiro department.
Tho Buffalo Commercial denies that ex-
President Fillmore sutlers from the gout.
lie walks briskly, and without the aid of
a cone.
Three men have been arrested at Buffalo
having in their possession $11,005 In gold,
certificates, alleged to have been stolen from
Bon. Robert J. Walker.
The Clroenboro (N. C.) Patriot estimates
the peach trade of that country the present
season at $20,000. Tho peaches are very
line, and the usual price is $1 per bushel.
Four ex-governors of Minnesota walked
abreast down Third street, St. Paul the
other day ; viz t Governor Sibley, Ramsey,
Gorman and Miller.
Jeremiah Carhart, the inventor of the
melodeon, died a few days since in New
York, leaving II fortune after enduring
adverse eircuinstances for many ye a 's.
Hon. Henry M. Watts, Minister' Mimi
potentior, to Austria, accoinpanled by his
family, left In the steamship China on
Wed Headily.
" The McClellan Legion," of New York
Is now working for Seymour and Blair.
The members propose to give Gen. McClel
lan a dinner on his arrival in Now York..
Colonel E. IL Durfee, of Leavenworth,
Kansas, has presented to the comMission
ors of the Now York Central Park a fine
specimen of the American black bear.
It is stated at the Treasury Department,
that no counterfeit MOS have been present
ed since December last, and It is thought
that any now counterfeit would he Imme
diately detected.
A shark, ten or twelve feet long, appeared
In Baltimore harbor on Tuesday, swimming
close to the wharves. A baited hook was
set for him, but he would not bite, and soon
disappeared.
The petition to the President of the Mary
land physicians for Dr. Mudd's roloaso from
the Dry Tortugas, is to be presented to the
Executive by lion. Stevenson Archer, of
Maryland.
Ono of the numerous loiter writers to the
London Press on the sermon question,
speaks of tbe preaching hots accustomed to
hear as "the veriest platitudes wrapped up
In the utmost obscurity of verbosity."
In a quarter of a century, says the Boston
Transcript, Gorman literature will come
Into full appreciation, and the study will
bo bestowed upon that language that lies
hitherto been given to the more superficial
French.
Majorities. l'otes.
Connecticut, Democratic— 1,700 0
Oregon, Democratic 1,000 11
Kentucky, Democratic 00,000 11
Nebraska, Democratic 1,000 3
Total 93,700' 20
Rhode Island, Itupubllean. 0,000 4
Democratic maj. thus far... 88,700 10
That looks about as favorable as we
could expect or desire. That the tide is
still rising we believe every succeeding
election will show. In November will
come the great popular deluge which
will drown out Radicalism completely,
and forever.
Kentucky Election
The official returns from Kentucky
show a majority of over 80,000. As an
evidence of the wiping out of Radical
ism look at the votes of a few of the
counties :
67C1M118011..
C01171t1C.5. Dem. Rep.
Owtm 2,250 13
flondcrion
Union
Fulton...
llancoel
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE
The Public Debt Inereneett Ovei 8150,
000,000 Since the CIONO of the Woe I
The following is the official statement
of the public debt made by Secretary
McCulloch on the 31st ult., as compared
with his official statement on the 31st
of March, 1805, at the close of the war :
July 711, 18 , 4,...
Much al, IHtli
InCrCLLEC 6130,370,100 33
Such Is the effect of three years of
Radical rule In time of peace!
What a Neutral Says
The Round Table, a very ably con•
ducted literary Journal printed la New
York, neutral I❑ politics professedly,
but In reality having strong Republi
can tendencies, at the time of Gov. Sey
mour's nomination for the Presidency,
predicted the defeat of the Democratic
party. It has since had occasion to
change that view, and now says:
" Wo have become persuaded that there
is a powerful undercurrent of popular dis
satisfaction with the Radical rule and Radi•
cal measures, which is gaining rather than
losing strength with the passage of time,
and that, cosequently, the chances, which
at present wo estimate as nearlyeven, may
incline In November, in a victorious degree,
to the Democratic side. :,' : 0 Front
present indications we are led to believe
that the three groat States of Now York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio will throw them
selves into the scale for Seymour and Blair,
and should they do so, not all the hosts of
New England, backed ns they may be by
the West and South, by voters black or
white, constitutional or unconstitutional,
will avail to prevent the Republican forces
from kicking the beam."
The Nession For Noptember
Special Despatch to the Now York Times.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26, 1868.
The pros uud cons of tho September ses
sion question aro eagerly discussed by poli
ticians of every stripe. The advocates of a
meeting at that time are nearly always
Southern Radicals, who fear that they can
not carry their States without assistance In
the way of a repeal of the law prohibiting
the organization and arming the militia.
They say that the order Issued to-day from
the War Department Instructing military
commanders In the South as to their power
of interference in case of political or other
disturbance is a nullity, so far as practical ,
results are concerned. They argue that the '
mere presence of troops, without authority
to act, as contemplated in the order, unless
appealed to by thecivil authorities, will not
weigh a hair's influence against the incli
nation of the Democrats to interfere with
the election. They further argue, after the
Marshal, Sheriff, or other civil authority In
the locality of a political disturbance, has
taken cognizance of it, the delay necessary
to the issue of a civil writ and obtaining
military assistance, will give any party, so
Inclined plenty of time to complete their
design of controlling the polls. Many cf
them are extreme enough to say that the
order will result In the loss of the South
to Grant and Colfax. On the other
hand it le argued that the assembling
of Congress in September will take
from the canvass, both North and South,
two. thirds of the ablest and most directly
interested speakers in the Republican
ranks; again, if Congress should meet and
pass such a bill as is demanded, the veto
which would undoubtedly follow, and the
time consumed in perfecting It, would pre
vent the possibility of its becoming a law
until October, when it will be too late to
organize and equip the militia in the South.
On the whole, it fs conceded that the ad
journment to meet at as late a day as the
21st of September was a great mistake, and
may be attended with fatal results to the
' country, •
The meaning of the above is that the
Radicals despair of. electing Grant by a
fair vote, but that they are afraid to call
an extra session of Congress in Septem
ber, test that might only make matters
worse. They are in a desperate condi
tion truly. ' .
A distiller. in Philadelphia having ..re
celved a license under the new tax law,
eight rectifying establishments in the im
mediate vicinity had to close up Weans°
they were within six hundred feet - of the
distillery.
Newt MOIL
Mrs. Stowe Is engaged on a new novel.
Napoloon:wertra a 1100 Panama.
&glare parasols are making their appear
ance.
Pierre Soule is said to have inherited a
largo fortune.
A velocipede race by the Hardens took
place recently on Boston Common.
if. 10,000 were won by a young Bostonian
in a Havana lottery a flaw days since.
Major Pauline Cushman is managing a
theatre et Yonkers.
Mark i fJemon, the editor of Punch, is
about to play the part of Pctialaff.
Queen Victoria has thirteen grandchil
dren, and the cry is still they come.
Foxes are devouring whole flocks of
Turkeys in Freedom, N. H.
Victor Hugo predicts a revolution in
France if Napoleon lives two years longer.
The culture of silk has become an import
ant interest In California.
Snow fell on the summit of Mount An
thony at Bennington, Vermont, last week.
The Boston papers style the peanut von
dere of that city " a permanent nuisance."
Hon. Henry J. Raymond has arrived In
Now York from Europe.
Senator Nye, of Nevada, has gone to Eu
rope.
Syracuse has built a skating rink, seating
5,000 at a cost of 835,000.
London has determined to license organ
grinders.
American tourists in Europe will soon be
flocking home in largo crowds.
Sweet potatoes are now shipped In largo
quantities from Somerset county, Md.
Coasting vessels aro said to be very scarce
at Norfolk, Va.
Mr. Horace Greeley has invested $5,000 in
a garden farm In Cuunecticut.
Wine of the present year's vintage was
I drank on the 25t12 of July in Bavaria.
• Hungary is about to celebrate he thou
' sandth anniversary as a kingdom.
Queen Victoria's traveling suite compris
' es thirty persons.
Professor Agasslz has gone to the Rocky
Mountains.
At last accounts Gottschalk was giving
concerts at Buenos Ayres.
Chief Justice Chase Is visiting Senator
Sprague, in Providense, R. I.
i A "spicy" life of the Menkon is announ
i ced.
Minnesota has more wild fruit this year
than some of the old States have of cultlyn
ted fruit.
Ono of the finest plantations ou the Ar
kansas river Recently sold for five cents per
acre.
Win. H. King, proprietor of the New 1 ' 125 C." Or
leans Times, died on Thursday, after a long
According to a Louisville despatch the
cattle disease is largely increasing in Indi
ana and Illinois.
Mr. Skea, the youny Californian who Is
to marry Ada Webb, the actress, has an
Income 01'53,000 a month.
We import more buttons than books, and
export more fire arms than any other man
ufacture of Iron or atoll.
Out of four hundred and fifty soldiers
stationed at Sacktt's Harbor, only nine ale
in favor of Grant fur President.
A negro tired into a car tilled with pas
sengers near Raleigh, North Carolina, Rho
other day, but fortunately hit no out).
In Utica, Now York, ten children were
lying dead, one day recently front eating
' unripe fruit.
Southern planters aro much pleased with
the result of ramie planting, which is stated
to be a success.
Hon. Wm. Mungeu has been nominated
for reelection to Congress by the democrats
of the Fifth Ohio district.
A fine obelisk was erected on Wendoedny
over the grave of the poet Fitz Greene Mil
, leek, In Guilford, Conn.
John Morrissey denies that he is belting
against Seymour and Blair. Ile says Ito
cordially supports their election.
Nasby says of the late Mrs. Monken that
"she leaves several widowers to divide the
grief between them."
Hoe. Go. Tooling, one of the attendants
of the Chinese Embassy, is a devout Catli-
Electoral
1,500 30
1,403 50
0,780 122
• 2
2.0,8 ,523 00 ,534,150 57
,005 077 31
Mindlui.of hie lobs in the desiructlon of
the Winter Garden In New York, Mr. Ed
win Booth will have a lire-proor room In
his new theatre In which to keep his dra
matic wardrobe.
The railroad time-tables between Now
York and Washington will be changed on
the Uth of September, and the running time
between the two cities bo reduced to eight
hours and a half.
Jason Rogers, who has for years been at
the head of what Is claimed to he the largest
railroad engine manufactory in the world,
at Patterson, Now Jersey, died ou Wednes
day, leaving a largo fortune.
The funeral of Ada Isaacs Idenken, in
Paris, was not well attended. A. few actors
and several of the female attendants at the
theatre whore the deceased had been en
gaged were present, but not one actress.
A letter from Lucerne says Queen Victo
ria occupies her time in Switzerland in
making excursions on the lake and in the
gorges of the Rougloch. A steamer has
been placed at her service by the municipal
council.
Mr. Elliott, the painter, It is said has loft
to his family a property worth 880,000.
During the summer ho painted no fowor
than ten portrait°. The first two (those of
Commodoro Vanderbilt and wife) yielded
him but PO each, but for tho others ho re
oeived an aggregate of 87,500.
Miss Maggie Mitchell is about commence
log an engagement at Wood's new theatre,
New York, In the new play of " Lorle"
translated and adapted for her by Mr. J.l'3.
Rosewald, of the Holliday Street Theatre,
In this city. Her great [meccas, " Fanchon,"
was translated for her by the loader of the
orchestra in a New Orleans theatre.
The tunnelling of the Alps goes on slow
ly but regularly ; 27,507 feet have been out
already, and a distance of 12,582 feet remain
to be finished. The work accomplished
last year was 5080 feet, and about the same
will be made in 18438. It Is estimated that
about two and a half years will be required
to finish the tunnel. From May Ito June
1. 177 feet were drilled from the Swiss side,
and 200 feet from the Italian side.
CoNcono, N. H., Sept. I.—The Supreme
Judicial Court has decided the act in 'rela
tion to the naturalization of aliens, passed
at the last session of the Legislature to be
issued
a
and the Governor has
proclamation to that effect. This 9060
naturalization in the police courtioamilter
ulates natutally the testimony in cues. -
From Coneora•