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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10, 1868.
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET 1
HON. HORATIO SEYMOUR,
OF NEW YORK
NUR vicir. i-Iticsti) 11:N 'l'
GEN. FRANK P. BLAIR, Jr.,
OR MISSOURI,
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL
CLUBLEI3 E. BOYLE, of Fayette county
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL:
40D.WELLINGTON 11. ENT, of Columbia co
TO THE DEMOCRACY OF THE CITY
AND COUNTY OF LANCASTER.
In pursuance of authority granted to the un
dersigned by action of the County Committee,
at its recent meeting of August 15th, the Delo.
gate Elections ordered to be held on SATUB.
DAY, SEPTEMBER sth, aro hereby postponed
until SATURDAY, the 19th day of SEPTEM
BER, and the Democratic County Convention,
ordered to assemble on WEDNESDAY, SEP
TEMBER 9th, is postponed until WEDNES
DAY, the lid day of SEPTEMBER, 1968, when
it will - meet at 11 o'clock, A. Si., at Fulton Hall,
in the City of Lancaster, for the purpose of
nominating a ticket to be supported at the
ending October election, composed of the fol
lowing officers:
A Member of Congress.
Four Members of House of I tepresenl al I Mi.
Associate judge.
District Attorney.
Ono County Commissioner.
Two Directors of the Poor,
Two Prison Inspectors.
One Auditor.
Tne township committees ace requested to
give early notice in their respect I so districts
of the time and place of meeting for I lie elev.
Lieu of delegates.
B.) order of the Democratic County Com
mittee. ii. R. TSHUDY,
MCCittAiiri, Chairman.
DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS.
Lancaster, Monday evening, Sept. 21st.
Lancaster, Thursday evening, Oct. let.
Willianistown, at Danner's 1 I (Aid, Titealey
evening, Sept. 22d.
Lancaster, Monday evening, Sept. gal It,
Reinhold Station, Saturday afternoon, Oct o
loiter 10th,
Circulato Political Truth
The campaign draws to a close. The
work which is to be done must be clone
quickly. Iu no way can so much good
be effected as by the systematic circula
tion of sound and reliable Democratic
newspapers. The INTnLLInI•:N(Eit is
unsurpassed by any journal in the
State. Spread it among all who will
read it. THE WEEKIN INTELLI ENTER
will be furnished to clubs of fire or more
until after the Presidential election FOR
THIRTY CENTS.
No further reduction in price will ho
made. Then forward at once the names
of such persons as you desire to have
the paper sent to.
The cash must accompany the order.
Attend to the Assessments
Let the important matter of assess
ments be properly and promptly at
tended to. Some votes arc lost yearly
in almost every district by neglect of
this important matter. Let each man
see to it that he is assessed, and let no
Democratic vote be lost at the October
election from failure to be assessed. Re
member that the October election is the
great battle.
Democratic Meetings
We understand it is the intention to
hold a number of large meetings in the
county, under the supervision of the
Democratic County Committee, That
we regard as an admirable movement.
Such meetings will prove vastly more
effective in the aggregate than a single
big mass meeting in Lancaster city.
These meetings are to be appointed at
convenient points for the assembling of
a number of townships, and it is expect
ed that the Democracy will turn out to
them in full force, and that they will
induce as many of their Republican
neighbors to accompany them as possi
ble. Three large meetings have already
been appointed which will be included
in the programme of the County Com
mittee.
On Tuesday, Sept. a grand Mass
Meeting will be held at K irkwood, Col
erain township.
On Wednesday, Sept. a similar
meeting will be held in a grove near the
public house of John H. Sit iles, jr.
On Oct. :Id a grand Mass Meting will
he held at Ephrata.
Speakers from abroad, and the best
speakers in Lancaster have been engaged
for these meetings.
Let these meetings lie made complete
successes. Let every township within
reach of them be fully represented by
organized delegations.
Tile Milne Election
The returns from the Maine election
show that the Radicals have carried the
State by a majority of some eighteen
thousand. In 1530 they had a majority
of 27,000, They lose nearly 10,000 this
year as compared with that vote. Last
year the liquor question was made a
direct issue, and many Republicans
staid at home, while numbers voted the
Democratic state ticket. That law has
been partially repealed and was not on
issue in the present contest. For the
past eight years the Radical majority in
Maine has averaged over 20,000. The
Democracy have no reason to be dis
heartened by yesterdays work. The
result is fully as favorable as we antici
pated. The gain made by us indicates
a strength that will enable us to control
the great belt of Middle and Western
States at the.coming elections.
IT WAS on the lith of April, 1865, that
General Lee accepted the terms of sur
render proposed by General Grant.—
Over three years have elapsed since the
Army of Northern Virginia laid down
their arms; yet the expenses of the
United States ( lovernment In that time
have averaged over 5.500,000,000 per an
num. In that time SIXTEEN HUNDRED
MILLIONS have been wrung from the
industry of the people to meet not only
the necessities of the war and the inter
est on the public debt, but the extrava
gant expenditures of men who have
squandered the people's money in mad
schemes of reconstruction, the mainte
nance of Idle hordes of negroes and of
supernumerary army officers, a count
less crowd of useless officials, and on
their own wanton seif.indulgence.—
Never in an era of peace was so much
money raised by taxation amongst a free
people, to be so wasted and mis-applied.
• " LET US ITAVE PEACE," not by pro
voking antagonism between the races,
inverting the order of society by put
ting those on top whom nature has as
signed to the bottom, and sinking those
at the bottom whom culture, lineage,
and acquirements make them destined
rulers. The negro race has not yet de
monstrated 'Wright to self-government,
much less established its qualifications
to make laws for those of Caucasion
Keep . It Belbre the People.
Keep it before the people, that Stan
ton estimated the expenses of the War
Department at only $88,0p0,000 a year.
Keep it before the people, that the
official figures show that the actual cost
of the army since the war ended has
been $610,000,000.
Keep it before the people, that they
aro paying over $200,000,000 a year for
the support of a huge standing army,
in time of profound peace.
Keep it before the people, that this
vast and costly army which is em•
ployed almost exclusively in propping
up bastard negro governments in the
South.
Keep it before the people, that a few
naked Indians are overrunning our
frontier, murdering citizens and chil
dren and ravishing white women at
will, while the army is employed main
taining the supremacy of the negroes
over the whites of the South.
Keep it before the people, that Gen
eral Grant deliberately lied to President
Johnson, for the purpose of retaining
Stanton In charge of the War Depart
ment, when he must have known how
the country was being deceived as to
the amount of money expended.
Keep it before the people, that such a
man is utterly unfit to be trusted with
the high responsibilities of President of
the United States.
Kecp it before thr, people, that these
$61.0,000,000 for the army have been
wrung from the toil and sweat of the
laboring classes.
Keep it Wore the people, that no
change can be expected if Grant should
be elected.
Keep' t before the people, that the Chi
cago platform pledges the Republican
party to a continuance of military
domination and negro rule in the South,
at an expense of $200,000,000 a year.
Keep it before the people, that only by
turning the Radicals out of power can
it ever beascertaiued to what extent the
treasury has been plundered.
Keep it before the people, that no in
vestigation into the prevailing frauds
and corruptions can be had while the
Radicals rule supreme.
Keep it before the people, that every
vote cast for Grant is a vote to sanction
the expenditure of over $200,000,000 a
year to prop up negro rule In the South.
Keep it before the people, that the
election of Grant will be rightly claim
ed as an endorsement of all the uncon
stitutional acts, all the frauds, all the
corruption, and all the extravagance of
the Radicals.
Keep it b, fore the people of Penn
,v,v/rania, that QII the Second Tuesday of
October, the great battle will be fought
which is to decide the Presidential con
test.
THE PROOF
ivii AT TILE ARMY COS I'S
L(ON Al "THESE FIUU RES
The Philadelphia Ledger has a high
reputation for honesty. The people of
Pennsylvania know that it would not
publish any false statement In reference
to the expenditures by the Government.
Its figures can always be Implicitly re
lied upon as being perfectly correct.
Its issue of to-day contains the fei
lowing despatch from 'Washington:
SECRETARY STANTON IN HIS RE
PORT OF DECEMBER, lEM, GAVE AS
TUE COST OF"rHE WAR DEPART
MENT FOR THE PEACE ORGANIZA
TION THE SUM OF THIRTY-THREE
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. FROM OF
FICIAL RECORDS IT IS SHOWN THAT
THE WAR DEPARTMENT IN THE
ERR YEARS SINCE THE CLOSE OF
THE WAR HAS COST SIX HUNDRED
AND TEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS,
at MORE THAN SIX TIMES TILE ES
TIMATE OF MR. STANTON.
That is at the rate of over two hunclrcci
millions a oar.
Stanton deliberately lied about the
cost of the army.
_Radical newspapers and :dump speak•
ers deliberately lie about it every day.
They do this to deceive the people.
(Inuit is Stanton's candidate.
Grant lied to President Johnson, to
keep Stanton in the War Department.
`Grant must have known that the peo
ple were being deceived in reference to
the cost of the army.
Is such a man fit to be made Presi
dent?
The Democratic editors and speakers
have been charged with exaggeration
when they asserted that the army was
costing one hundred and fifty millions
a year.
The figures show that their estimate
was fifty millions short of the actual
What is this vast and expensive army
doing?
Are not a few naked Indians roving
at will all over the far west, scalping
men, murdering innocent children and
ravishing white women?
Where is this army which has cost
six hundrrd and (eat million dollars in
time of Peace, and what is it doing?
Does any one need to ask
Does not every voter know it was em
ployed in propping up negro state gov
ernments in the South
This is the Idnd of peace we are to
have under Grant.
How do you like it, Reader?
Will you vote for it?
......
Itartranft on the Stump
llenernl Hartran ft, the Radical can
didate for Auditor I leneral, Pais taken
the stump in a fit of despair. He sees
that he has not a ghost of a chance to
be reelected. I lis appearance Is said to
be wild and haggard, and many of his
hearers are impressed with the idea that
he is haunted by the ghost of the limo.
coat woman whom he hanged. His
speeches are incoherent ravings about
rebels and copperheads. He has not a
word to say as to how he came to pay
Illyus over seven hundred dollars for
services never rendered; how he came
to pay Andy Armstrong three hundred
and twelve dollars mileage ; how
lie came to pay out thousands of
dollars to special committees of the
legislature, in direct violation of
He has not attempted to explain how it
conies that during the three years of his
term the Auditor Cieneral's office has
cost the people tuu 01 thousand dollars
.acre than it did during the term of
his Democratic predecessor.
If General Hartranft should come to
Lancaster we hope he will devote his
time to an explanation of these things.
The cry of rebel and copperhead will
not cover up corruption and malfeas
ance in office. It will not insure lion
eety in the Auditor lleneral's ollice. Let
the people demand an explanation from
General Hartranft wherever he goes,
and let him render an account of his
stewardship.
"LET I'S HAVE PEACE," says the
Radical candidate; but what prospect is
there for peace in a country where the
leading citizens are disfranchised, and
the most ignorant classes are put in the
lead. The road to order and good gov
ernment lies in putting those in charge
of public affairs who are qualified by
culture and experience properly to
exercise the functions of government.
Let us have pea,pe, but the way to peace
is not to seek to control State govern
ments at Washington City, but to Ipave
the people of each state free to manage
their local matters in their own way,
and not under Congressional dictation.
"LET US HAVE. PEACE." The way to
insure ft is by the election of Seymour
and Blair, for that will be a guaranty
that the Federal Government will cease
its ViCiOUB intermeddling with State af
fairs, will confine itself to the functions
prescribed for it in the Constitution,
and restore each State to the manage.
ment of its main domestic policy.
TrIE Texas Convention Is about to
wind up and go home. Spent $100,000;
been 85 days in session, and done noth.
in g save hatch "outrages" too gross even
for Radical consumption. Reconstruc
tion is a failure.
ilirEm - A - Ntr - As - Trrrivenn -
Four Yeare More
Are the Democracy thoroughlYawalie
to the great importance of the pending
Presidential contest? Its result will
certainly determine the fate of our
Country for four years more, perhaps
forever. It will decide whether we.
shall have four years more of Radical
Revolutionary Rule. It will decide
whether we shall have four years more
of Government outside of the Constitu
tion of the United States. It will decide
whether we shall have four years more
of Radical Extravagance, Corruption
and Profligacy, It will decide whether
we shall make four years' more advance
towards Consolidation and Despotism.
It will decide whether we shall make
four years' more progress towards Na
tional Bankruptcy.
Review the past three years and ob
serve the rapid strides we have made
upon the road to ruin. The whole
structure of our Government has been
changed, and its powers are concentra
ted in the hands of a Congressional
Oligarchy. Congress remains in per
petual session, not only to make laws,
but to superintend the administration
of the Government, and overawe the
Courts of Justice. Congress claims the
omnipotence of a British Parliament,
and legislating confessedly outside of
the Constitution, defies the attempts of
the President and Supreme Court to
resist its usurpations. It impeaches the
President and gags the Court. It
grasps the official patronage of the Ex
ecutive to strengthen its power. It
legislates States out of the Union, ex
cludes their lawfully chosen Senators
and Representatives, revolutionizes
their governments, changes their con
stituencies, and subjects them to the
rule of a degraded and barbarous race,
for the avowed purpose of securing
other Senators and Representativeswho
will assist to maintain its usurpations.
It has wasted One Thousand Millions
of money in schemes to perpetuate its
rule. It scorns the interests of the peo•
pie, and boasts that it legislates for the
maintenance of a party. It avows its
intention to uphold and fortify its
measures against the Will of the Peo
ple, as that Will may be expressed at a
Presidential Election.
The Country cannot endure four years
more of Revolutionary Misrule. It
would subvert our institutions and beg
gar our people. Yet the blindness of
party zeal induces many worthy citizens
to sustain the schemes of this Radical
Congress. They even support a candi
date for the Presidency who admits that
he will become the tool of Sumner,
Wade and Butler. As these citizens
refuse to be convinced, they must be
beaten at the polls. That they will be
beaten Is unquestionable, but their de
feat must be made thorough and over
whelming. They must be taught that
no strength of party organization, no
pretences of loyalty and no availabili
ty of candidates, will avert the crushing
defeat in store for those who deliberate
ly uproot the foundations of the Re
public. 'to this end, Democrats, you
should work without ceasing. Work
for your Country, because you are pa
' triots. Work for your party, because
the aim of you• party is the salvation
of your Country.
The truly useful citizen is he who adds
to the sum total of the nation's products
something of real value. Such contri
bution may be of material or immater
ial character. The poet who enriches
the literature of a people with verse
which elevates the tone of public senti
ment, or with songs which inspire pa
triotism and kindle courage is a public
benefactor. So,. too, is he who in any
field of mental efibrt ministers to the
needs of the people and the intellectual
demands of his day and generation.—
The painter adds both to the enjoyment
and the wealth of a nation, and all who
deal in the arts which adorn life are to
be regarded as among the most useful
members of society. It is difficult in
these days to tell where to place the di
viding line between the mechanic arts
and other pursuits. This is the age of
inventions, and we employ machinery
for the furtherance of almost every pro
cess. Science has joined hands with
labor and has elevated and ennobled
toil.
In this country honest labor has al
ways been regarded as honorable by all
intelligent people. None but a few fools
and upstarts have presumed to look
down upon mechanics. They have not
suffered social proscription on account
of the character of their employment.
Ou the contrary many of our most bon
oredcitizens have sprung from the ranks
of the toiling masses.
The mechanics of this country, as a
class, are highly in,telligent. They are
great readers, and the best patrons of
newspapers and periodical literature.
Ou all the great questions of the .day,
and on whatever pertains to their pur
suits they keep fully posted. Every
trade has its own journal, conducted
with especial reference tolls wants, and
most of these display decided ability.
The parade of the American Mechan
ics in this city was calculated to give
our people a correct estimate of that im
portant class. A finer looking body of
men was never:seen together iu the city
of Lancaster. 'they were nollonly admir
able specimens of the physical manhood
of American workingmen, but there
were very apany faces which indicated
a high order of intelligence and refined
culture. The demonstration was one of
which the mechanics of Pennsylvania
have reason to be justly proud.
The Democratic Plan of Taxation
Under the above caption the Express
gets up an editorial in which it attempts
to produce the impression that the
Democrats will levy a heavy tax on real
estate, when they come into power.
The silly twaddle which it employs is
meant to counteract the effect which
the unequal method of taxation em
ployed by the Radicals is having upon
the in Inds of the people. Under the tax
laws of Congress nearly the entire
weight of taxation falls upon the farmers,
the mechanics and the producing
classes.
The bondholders are exempted, and
the rich manufacturers and other tno•
nopolists manage to shift the whole
weight of the burthen of taxation upon
the consumers. They are the farmers,
mechanics and laboring men. It is to
protect these classes that the Democratic
party has always striven, and for their
benefit it demands equality of taxation.
The fight is one of the people against
monopOlies. The Express knows that,
and tries to blind the farmers of Lan•
caster county to the real issue. Some
few of them were Ignorant enough to
believe the cock and bull story about
the coming of the Maryland militia, if
Shorewood should be elected; but we do
not think any of them are silly enough
to credit such stufr,as the editorial in the
Express to which we have alluded.. If
they are, we pity them.
The Chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee announces a
series of Mass Meetings to be held
throughout the State. Hoh. George H.
Pendleton, Hon. J. R. Doolittle, Hon.
S. S. Cox, Hon. Montgomery Blair,
Hon. Wm. Bigler, Hon. Hiester Cly
mer, Col. J. K. Kerr, and Hon. Richard
Vaux, are among the speakers who are
posted for speeches at different points.
Other announcements will be made
from time to time. The contest will
deepen in Interest with the passage of
each day between this and the October
election, and no effort will be spared to
increase the majority which our candi
dates for State officers are sure to re
ceive.
THE Georgia State Senate is prepar
ing to following the example of the
Ktouse jn oustimg the negro m9mbers.
Why the Radicals Cu Rot dire as Peiltol
The Radicals pritend to desire peaoik
They quete.theWOrdewldchWatihburn'
put in the mouth of Greif, andery "let
vs have peace." That is exactly what
the nation needs; rind bow to secure
permanent and lasting peace between,
all 'sections of our country, is the great'
problem now presented for the consid
eration of the American people.
The Radicals have tried their plan,
and it has proved an utter failure. If
their own papers are to be believed there
is no prospect of peace in the South.
The attempt to force the white people
of that section to submit to be governed
by.those who were their slaves has nat
urally excited tierce antagonism. No
people fit to be free would ever yield to
such an outrage without murmuring.
The people of Pennsylvania would not
quietly consent to have the negro made
a voter In this State by act of Congress,
much less a ruler. Any attempt of the
kind would lead to scenes of vio
lence at the polls ' and elsewhere.
Should Congress attempt to give
the control of the State to the ne•
groes and certain whites by disfran
chising other white men, a resort toi
arms would be made at once, and bloody
scenes would be enacted in every part
of the Commonwealth. Never would
such an infamous act of Congress
be quietly submitted to. The strife
would continue until the act was re
pealed, or military force made supreme
over the law and the Constitution of the
State. There could be no peace in Penn
sylvaula, if Congress should attempt to
treat its people as the South has been
treated, until those whose rights should
be outraged were reduced to complete
subjection by armed force. And after
such a conquest, the party in power
would not dare to withdraw their troops
for a moment. If they did, the old
quarrel would be renewed, and blood
would flow afresh.
Does any man doubt that such would
be the inevitable result of an attempt to
set up in this State such a government
as has been forced upon the people of
the South ? Is there any one who will
deny the right to resist such an outrage
even to the death ? Is there even a
Radical who will argue that it would be
the duty, even of a majority, to subinit
to so open and notorious a violation of
the Constitution of the United States, of
the Constitution of our State, and of the
inalienable rights of the people?
If, then, we would be thus ready to
resist the same rule to which our own
race have been subjected in the South,
how can we expect the people of that
section to submit quietly ?
Is not the love of liberty as strong in
their hearts as it is in ours? Are they
not just as sensitive to outrage? Does
not oppression gall them just as keenly?
The Radicals propose to continue their
course toward the people of the South.
The platform on which Grant takes his
stand pledges the Republican party to
the maintenance of negro supremacy in
all the States which seceded.
How is this result to be obtained? It
has been clearly proven that the negro
governments can not stand alone. Al
' ready they have been shown to be the
most miserable abortions. How then,
we ask, are they to be maintained?
Does any one need to be told? Does
not the last statement of the Secretary
of the Treasuary answer the question?
Did not the army cost nearly twelve
millions in August? Is it not almost
exclusively employed in the South to
prop up the bastard negro State govern
ments? Let General Sherman, who has
been closely besieged in a Western fort
by a few half naked savages, answer.
Let the record of horrible outrages by
small bands of Indians answer.
The white men of the South, the ex
rebels, have conducted themselves with
wonderful moderation. There has been
no organized opposition to the infamous
acts of Congress. They have submitted
quietly to the establishment of negro
rule. They have combatted military
despotism only by peaceful means. In
Alabama they defeated the negro State
Constitution by influencing the negroes
to absent themselves from the polls.
Elsewhere they are controlling the
blacks by kindness. If they were left
free to manage their own state affairs
the country would be blessed by a re
turn to profound peace. The only ob•
steele to such a consummation is the
wicked and extravagant policy of the
Radicals, by which a standing army is
kept in the South to prop up that most
odious and unnatural thing, the su
premacy of the negro over the white
race.
The Mechanics
The Campaign
There can be no peace while the Rad
ical policy prevails. The first great
need of this nation is the adoption Of
a wiser and more generous method of
treating the people of the South. Our
interests are identical with theirs.—
Whatever affects them injuriously re
acts upon us. If the South suffers un
der bad government, the North must
suffer with her. There is no one so
blind as not to see that.
The Democrats propose to permit the
people of the Southern States to con
trol their domestic affairs as the people
of the Northern States do. The Radi
cals are pledged to maintain the su
premacy of the negro in ten States by
force of arms. No sensible man can
fall to see the difference between the
two opposing policies. From the Demo
cratic theory peace springsup as a natural
outgrowth. The Radicaltheory necessi
tates the constant employment of mili
tary force, and must keep up a chronic
condition of war, so long as it continues.
Every man who really desires true and
lasting peace will vote for Seymour and
Blair. Their election will secure it.
The election of Grant will perpetuate
the strife, and will tend to precipitate a
war of races.
Robbing the State Treasury
"Honest" Andy Armstrong has not
yet explained how Illyus managed to
draw over seven hundred dollars from
the State Treasury for services which he
never rendered.
Neither has Andy explained by what
route he traveled to Harrisburg, so as to
be able to claim the $306 mileage which
was paid to him last winter.
Elisha W. Davis, the Radical Speaker
of the House, has not explained his
connection with these little matters.
Adjutant General Hartran ft, has giVen
no satisfactory account of his gross vio
lation of Official duty in certifying to
these and other false accounts, by which
the State Treasury has been plundered.
The $306 to Armstrong, and the's7l2 to
Illyus arc mere trifles compared to cer
tain other transaction.
If the people want this system of
robbery to go on, let them vote for
Hartranft and elect Radicals to the State
Legislature.
Berke County
The Democracy of Berke county are
more fully united this time than they
have been for years. The following
ticket has been nominated with extra-
ordinary unanimity:
Congress—J. Lawrence Getz.
Assembly—H. S. Hottenstelu, Henry
Brobst, Richmond L. Jones.
Sheriff—William B. Albright,
District Attorney—E. H. Shearer.
County Surveyor—Daniel Zacharias.
County Commissioner—Wm. S. Young.
Director of Poor—Daniel B. Lori&
Auditor—Peter S. Albright.
Delegates were chosen to represent
the county in the next State Conven
tion and unanimously instructed to sup
port Hon. Mester Clymer for Governor.
Our energetic friend, Daniel Ermen
trent, Esq., was 'chosen Chairman of
the Democratic County Committee, and
we notice that he is out in a stirring ap
peal to the Derriocraey of the county.
Look out for thunder from Old Berks In
October.
THE Georgia State Senate,. by a vote
of 24 to 11, "has declared the colored Son
atbis inellglblego seats.
Negro Supremacy.
At F ultont Hall Ciirl Shurz ridiculed.
the idea that three 1181
wild govern nine millions of 'whites in
the South. If the figures were barrect
his ridicule might apply. But the South
does not contain nin e millions of whites,
unless you include the people of Dela
ware! Maryland, West Virginia, Ken
.
tuoky, Tennessee and Missouri. These
States embrace more than half the
white population of what was formerly
called the South. They have nothing
to do with the question of Congresilenal
Reconstruction.
Gen. Shnrz took no account of the
fact that a large proportion of the South
ern whites are disfranchised. All of
these who.ever made oath, in any offl
oial capacity, to support the Constitu
tion of the United States, and after
wards participated in the rebellion, are
excluded from the ballot box. But the
Radicals have themselves furnished a
test of the relative numbers of the two
races that are permitted to vote. This
is the system of Registration provided
by Congress. The Registry for the
Constitutional Elections showed an ag
gregate majority of Severity Thousand
Colored voters in the excluded States,
and clear Negro majorities in seven of
tbose ten States.
It will Lot answor for the Radicals to
contend that the whites refused to reg
ister to any large extent. The elections
were warmly and earnestly contested.
Every thing of value to the white in
habitants, liberty, property and form of
government, depended upon the result.
They made every effort to succeed; and
it is probable that quite as many negroes
failed to register from ignorance as
•whites from obstinacy. Since this
Registry, the number of white voters in
several of the States has been still farther
reduced by Negro Equality Test Oaths
and other contrivances to secure Negro
Supremacy.
But Carl Shurz has not carefully
studied the sentiment of Northern hos
tility to Negro Suffrage. It applies less
to the degree of the evil than to the evil
itself. The people of the North will not
tolerate Negro Suffrage in Ohio or
Michigan, where the number of negroes
would scarcely be felt, or in Minnesota
or Kansas, where au African is almost
a curiosity. They will not permit ne
groes, be they few or many, to assist in
ruling whites. They understand that
whatever elevates the negro to the level
of the white, also reduces the white to
the level of the negro. They likewise
appreciate the fact that officers chosen
through the ballot box aro at once the
servants and rulers of the people, and
the people do not wish to be governed
by servants of negroca. The whites of
the North are too proud to submit to the
rule of officials who must work their
way into place by courting the support
of colored voters. They will not bow
to those who cringe to au inferior race.
They will have none of this unclean
thing, neither little nor much. They
will no more tolerate ono thousand ne
gro voters than a million, and General
Shure's arithmetic will not relieve his
party from the odium of Negro Su
premacy.
Shurz and Sherman
John Sherman, who represents the
Republicans of Ohio In the United States
Senate, follows Carl Shurz in our city
as an expounder of the Radical creed
set forth In the Chicago platform. Those
who heard Shurz will remember that
the leading feature of his speech was a
labored argument to prove that the faith
and the honor of the nation were alike
pledged to the payment of all the U. S.
bonds, the 5 20s included, in gold.
That is a subject upon which the Chi
cago platform is two faced. It seems
that it can be interpreted to mean either
greenbacks or gold. At all events we
find that Shurz and Sherman hold dia
metrically opposite views on this im
portant question. In an elaborately
prepared speech, delivered in Ohio a
few days since, Mr. Sherman announced
his belief as follows:
May not the United States pay this debt
In lawful money, such as the law compels
all other creditors to take ? or must it be in
gold or silver coin ? Now, this depends upon
the contract between the parties. When a
nation deals with a party, and stipulates to
pay money, the presumption is that the
money to be paid is that kind of money
recognized among nations, unless some
other money is stipulated for in the con
tract. Now, when we come to look at the
law, which is the essential part of the con
tract, we find a provision that a kind of
money defined in thatnt and called lawful
money, shall be a lawful tender, in payment
of all debt, public and private, except the
interest of the public debt, which must be
paid in coin. Now, I have reasoned about
this matter very often, in public and private
discussion. I have made and answered col
lateral arguments in speeches and reports
but my mind always conies back to this con
clusion: that, under the law, the contract
between the creditor and the United States
was that the creditor should loan the United
States lawful money, or paper money—that
the United States would pay the interest at
six per cent. in coin ; and that the United
States might, at the end of the five years,
return to the creditor his principal sum in
the same money loaned to the Government,
or might postpone this for twenty years.
That is the doctrine which Mr. Schurz
denounced as Repudiation, and it will
be seen that Mr. Sherman's enunciation
of it is as strong as any statement of the
same view ever put forth by George H.
Pendleton, or any other Democratic
authority.
We call the attention of those who
will assemble to hear Mr. Sherman to
his position on the bond question. Let
them mark well with what tongue he
speaks here in Lancaster. If he has
one voice for the West and another for
the East, honest men will be able to tell
how far the party which he replesents
is to be trusted.
He is a distinguished member of the
Senate, holding the position of Chair
man of the Financial Committee. That
he understands the meaning of the law
creating the 5-20 bonds we cannot doubt.
That he expressed correctly the true in
tent of the act in his Ohio speech we
consider certain.
The Express on the Debt
The Express makes light of the huge
increase of the public debt during Au
gust, and attempts to shoulder the re
sponsibility upon the President and the
Secretary of the Treasury. Its readers
cannot be so stupid as to be gulled by
such stuff. They must all know that
not one dollar can be expended except
by Congressional appropriation. The
Express claims that it will be time
enough to Mild the Republican party
accountable after Grant is elected. That
would be locking the stable door after
the horse was stolen. The Radicals
have had supreme power for years past.
They have controlled the President
and every department of the gov
ernment most completely, by means
of their two-third majority in
Congress. They are, therefore, respon
sible for every act which has been
passed, and for every dollar which has
been expended. The enormous increase
of the national debt, which must bring
the nation to bankruptcy if not speedi
ly checked, is the legitimate result of
this legislation.
Let the people, and especially the
readers of the Express, remember that
the army alone cost about twelve mil
lions of dollars In August. Let them
remember, MN:that this huge standing
army is 'only used to, prop up negro rule
Iri the South, while men are murdered
and women ravished with Impunity all
along the frontier by a few half naked
Indians. That Is one cause of the In
crease of debt; and there are others like
it.
IN consequence principally of the pay
ment of money for Alaska, and the large
issue of bonds to the Pacific Railroad, the
Public Debt has been 'increased during the
past mbnth $12,000,000.—N. Y. Tribune.
That is a fair speclinen of Radical
duplicity. The report of the Secretary
of the Treasury shows that the army
which Is kept in the South cost more
during ;August than Alaska and the
Pacific Railroad combined. Yet the
Tribune tries to conceal' the fact from
the people.
Torture of Wlteenes.
liee'the days of the Spanish Ingui
anke6Whio4 106 a isgSOY of stersialin .
AMY, the torture of witnesses has been'
denotmed ghristiani - as utterly.
Inhuman and; atrocious. Intelligent
despogems have united with constitu
tional governments in discarding the
abominable practice. But it has been
reserved for free and enlightened Amer
lea, in this nineteenth century, by Gov
ernment authority to revive a system
which has earned the universal execra
tion of mankind. It was not enough to
torture and murder an innocent woman
falsely accused of conepiraoy against
Mr. Lincoln, but our military satraps
must needs take the farther step of sub
jecting to torture persons not accused of
crime, for the purpose of extracting in
' formation to inculpate others.
It will be remembered that a worth
less scoundrel named Ashburn, a mem
ber of the bogus Constitutional Conven
tion of Georgia, was murdered in a
ne
gro bagnio in that state, in the early
part of the present year. Gen. Meade
organized a Military Commission to try
those who might be accused of the
crime, and has just made a Report of
the names in which his subordinates
endeavored to procure evidence for the
case. This report narrates the follow
ing facts:
To discover whether two colored men,
Wells and Stapler, were in posession of in
formation material to the case the officer
says the detectives thought proper to oper
ate somewhat upon their feelings. This ope
ration upon the feelings consisted in lather
ing their heads preparatory to shaving
them,blindfolding the prisoners and placing
them in a casement of the fort. There the
bandage was taken off, and before the
prisoner's view there stood a soldier to lire
off a cannon, which was pointed at the ac
cused. Whilst these threatening operations
were going on, the detectives endeavored to
force the prisoners to make some disclosures
about the murder but in vain, for they pro
tested that they knew nothing of the killing.
They were then placed in sweat boxes, de
scribed as a closet in the walls of the fort, a
l , Ltt o l r e wider eos.
g tha w n it t i e n p t r i i ) r ee ner' body, the
inches a of his
breast, and the only air admitted being
through a few auger holes in the door. Here
they were left in the belief that they were
to be kept there thirty days, unless they
should disclose important facts. They were
allowed to remain here thirty-three hours
during which time they wore nearly suffo
cated, and again questioned, but with no
success.
Now, we ask our readers, Republicans
as well as Democrats, whether they can
read this statement without a blush of
shame and indignation. Not for all the
laurels of Gettysburg would we wear
the stain this transaction has left upon
the reputation of the satrap who gives
it his implied sanction. It stamps him
at once a brute, a tyrant and a fool. For
none but a fool would suppose that evi
dence extorted by the fears and suffer
ings here described would prove of any
real value In ascertaining the truth of
the case.
It was for the arrest and conviction of
the murderers of this same Ashburn
that Gen. Meade offered n reward of
Forty Thousand Dollars. This sum was
forty times larger than necessary to
stimulate honest exertions for the de
tection of the criminals. But it was
just the kind of reward to tempt un
principled men to commit perjury, in
order to secure the enormous amount
that would accrue to them upon the
conviction of either guilty or innocent
men. The reward was about as rational
a means of obtaining reliable evidence
as the torture.
If this is the military way of prepar
ing a case for trial, it forms a most ap
propriate introduction to the kind of
trial which generally takes place before
a Military Commission. And if this is
the way in which Radical Generals ad
minister law and justice in the oppress
ed South, we should fervently implore
the Almighty to deliver the country,
North and South, from the rule of any
General, who might derive his notions
of government from the views which
prevail in the Regular Army.
Another Radical Lie
There is apparently no end to the
gross falsehoods which the Radicals are
circulating in their desperate endeavor
to uphold their sinking cause,and every
one of them no utterly stupid, that it is
only among men of the meanest intel—
ligence that they can have any effect.
The last roorback which we have heard
of, is a declaration which they are in
dustriously making to the United States
Pensioners, that in case of the election
of Seymour and Blair, the payment of
ail pensions will immediately be stopped.
It Is needless to say that nearly all of
the class' who are receiving the bounty
of the government, are too intelligent
to give credence to this astonishing lie,
as they know theirpeusions are far more
apt to be jeopardized by the success of
the Republican party, which, when it
extravagantly undertakes to pay gold
to bondholders, may have some trouble
in raising enough money to pay even
greenbacks to pensioners. David G.
Steacy, of Bart, and others who are cir
culating this story, will not find one
pensioner in a thousand credulous
enough to believe this silly story. The
Democratic platform pledges the nation
to tho full payment of all that is due to
those who fought the Country's battles.
A Damaging Speech
Seldom has any speaker produced a
more unfavorable impression than John
Sherman did In Lancaster. Many Dem
ocrats and intelligent Republicans were
present to hear what a Senator of the
great State of Ohio would have to say on
the questions now agitating the minds
of the people. Senator Sherman has
had the reputation of being an able
man. That opinion no longer prevails
in Lancaster. His speech here on
Thursday night dispelled that illusion
entirely. We have beard several very
intelligent Republicans declare that
ey. in manners nor in matter did
Mr. -- B . herruan's; speech rise above the
level of a mere violent and vulgar par
tisan harangue. It was regarded by
thenpas unworthy of the occasion, and
the impression seems to prevail gener
ally that it damaged the cause which it
was intended to benefit.
We have our own method of account
ing for the character of Sherman's
speech. It proved not that John Sher
man could not make a decent speech,
but that such a thing was impossible
under the circumstances. No man can
sustain the position of the Radical party
by logical arguments. That Mr. Sher
man knows and feels. Like every Rad
ical who takes the stump in these days
he is forced to deal almost exclusively
in Invective, misstatements and vulgar
abuse of his opponents. If he had under
taken to speak the truth he would have
been forced to condemn the party with
which he is acting. The Radicals have
no refuge except lies and foullanguage.
That is the reason why there is neither
logic, nor argument in their speeches.
Stenllng at n Dead Congressman's Fa
neral. -
Honorable Phillip Johnson, a member of
the 39th Congress, died in Washington, and
his body was sent home to Easton, Penn
sylvania, at Government expense. The
Radical Congress appropriated $2,775 to pay
the Sergeant at-Arms and undertaker's bill
Among the items we find these:
Eighteen white silk sashes 8254 00
Eight black silk F asb es 96 00
Three hundred and ten pairs kid gloves. 763 00
Two hundred black scarfs ...... ....... ...-..- 300 00
I , llnety.one hacks 553 00
Fare and expenses on the way 481 00
Milesge, &c 131 00
All this will be found in the official re
cords of Congress of 1867 and 18685
Tax payers will remember that when a
dead Congressman is sent home, none but
a committee of half-dozen go along. But
here we have 310 pairs of kid. gloves ; 91
heel* 100 scarfs, etc., charged to the peo
ple and paid. It is only paralleled by the
fellow who stole the coppers off a dead ne
groe's eyes.
Cox,. J. J. CONNOR has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats in the
Schuylkill and Lebanon District in this
State.
Wealthy men at the West are investing
their money in immense farms. Commo
dore Wm. F. Davidson, of St. Paul, has
just bought seventeen thousand acres of
land in Redwood county,lidinnesota, which
he proposes to devote to the cultivation of
wheat:
1770 Aii l4 2"
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ANOTHER EUOLE NOTE FROM THE
WEST!
Colorado Rebukes Reereant.lNew 'Eng
land I
A Sign from Illinois
DENVER, Sept. 11.—All over our Terri
tory the Democratic blast has swept. She
gives greeting to Oregon, her sister in the
wilds.
Mr. Belden, candidate for delegate to
Congress, has been triumphantly elected.
The Radicals were nowhere.
Colorado returns herself all right. She
has won a magnificent Democratic victory.
She follows the lead of the live and mov
ing Democracy: G. W. PEnsixs,
Chairman Democratic Cen'l Committee.
ILLINOIS
Aierox_, Sept. 12.-On Tuesday we achieved
a splendid Democratic victory and great
gains. The State looks well. Look out for
squalls that will tumble the Radicals about
like bundles of straw.
Appalling Calamity—Frightful Earth
quake in Chill, Fern and Ecuador.
The Greatest Upheaval since the De
struction of Lisbon—Twenty Cities Es
timated to have been Swallowed Up—
Three Hundred !Millions' Worth of
Property Destroyed.
By Telegraph to The Press.
Naw YORE, Sept. 12.—The steamship
Guiding Star, from Aspinwall, brings the
following Intelligence :
On the 13th ult., a terrible earthquake
visited the cities along the coast of Peru
and Ecuador, whereby thirty-two thousand
lives were lost, and property valued at $300,-
000,000 was destroyed. A rumbling sound
preceded the earthquake, and the sea was
terribly agitated, and flooded the land for a
great distance.
Arequipa, a city of thirty-fivo thousand
inhabitants, has passed away, scarcely a
vestige of it being left. Only 400 lives were
lost there. Arica, a town of 12,000 inhabi
tants, was also destroyed, not a house being
left standing. In this town 500 persons per
ished. A tidal wave, forty feet high, rolled
with terrific force on shore, carrying ships
further on land than was ever before known
The United States storeship Fredonia cap
sized, and all on board were lost. She had
on board naval stores valued at $1,300,000.
She was rolled over, and smashed to atoms.
The United States steamer Wateree was
carried half a mile inland, left high and
dry, but only one sailor was drowned.
Owing to her great distance from the sea,
she can never be got afloat again.
The Peruvian corvette America was also
carried ashore, and 33 of her crew were
drowned. The American merchantman
Rosa Rivera, the Euclish ship Chancellor,
and the French bark Eduardo wore also
lost.
- -
The towns of Iquique, Moquegua, Locam
bia, and Plsagua were all utterly destroyed.
Over GOO people perished at Iquique, The
Americans lost heavily, and nearly all are
totally ruined. The towns of Ibarra, San
Pablo, Atuntaqui, and Imutad aro in ruins.
Where the town of Coaticachi formotly
stood is now a lake. The people of these
towns were almost entirely destroyed. The
towns of Poncho, Puellaro, and Cachiquajo
were also destroyed. The dead bodies aro
so numerous that the survivors have been
forced to flee from the stench of the putre
fying bodies.
HAVANA, Sep. 12.—Advices have been re
ceived announcing that Peru and Ecuador
have been visited with a most terrible
earthquake. The shocks occured on the 10th
of August, and lasted only five minutes,
but in that time over 2.5,000 people perished
and 30,000 were made homeless. The cities
of Arequipa, Iquique, Chala, and Chincha
were entirely destroyed. The lose of proper
ty between Tacon and Arica is estimated at
$14,000,000. The United States steamer
Kearsarge is rendering assistance to the
sufferers.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—Letters from Lime
give additional details of the earthquake
and its effects. The shocks commenced at
5.30 P. M., on the thirteenth of August, ex
tending from Bolivia to the southern parts of
Chili on the coast and over 100 mile3inland.
The towns and cities mentioned in the dis
patches of last night wore literally ruined,
all the buildings not distroyed being so
badly injured as to require demolition for
prudential reasons. All the nubile build•
logs in Arica were destroyed,lricluding the
custom house which contains over $4,000,000
of goods, all of which were lost.
The losses of the Fredonia and landing of
the Wateree aro described as follows:
They were both at anchor in the harbor
of Arica, near each other. After the first
shock had occurred on land, and which
created great consternation on both vessels,
Dr. Dubois, the surgeon, and the paymaster
of the Fredonia, took a boat and went on
shore to inquire for the welfare of some
friends, and to offer the services of the ship.
In a few moments after leaving the vessel a
great upheaving of the waters in the bay
commenced, and the Fredonia, parting her
chains, was dashed about at the mercy of
the sea, and finally was dashbd to pieces on
a reef. Nothing of the vessel was saved,
and her officers and crew, twenty-seven in
number, were all lost ; also Mrs. Dyer, wife
of the lieutenant commanding.
The officers' names were ; Lieut. B. Dyer ;
D. Organ, master; J. G. Cromwell, purser;
S. Lunt, secretary to the commander. The
vessel had nearly $2,000,000 worth of naval
stores on board, all of which were totally
lost.
The following are the names of those who
were aboard the Fredonia at the time she
was destroyed, all of whom wore lost :
Oliver Cromwell, J. M. Hunt, Rudolph
Bergstecke, Nicholas Schravesand, George
Bender, Charles White, Sylvester Huggins,
August Muller, Simon Juane, John Lam
back, John Smith, William Krou, Henry
Hazenburg, William Peterson, Richard
Murray, Charles Haderborn, Jacob King,
Peter Johnson, Henry Johnson, (the latter
were brothers) Henry Voss, Henry Sillen,
Hans Holm, Charles Shoemaker, John
Hickeys, and Benjamin Dyer and his wife.
The names of those who weresaved, they
being fortunately on shore at the time of
the disaster, were : George W. Doty, W. N.
Williams, F. L. Dubois, Charles Levine,
and August Jansen.
The Wateree was more securely anchor
ed, but dragged her anchors, and the great
tidal wave swept her 450 yards inland,
about two miles north of the ruined town.
She now lies between two hillocks of sand,
very slightly injured, and it will be utterly
impossible to extricate her. Admiral Tur
ner is only hopeful of saving her battery
and stores. Only one sailor was washed
overboard and drowned. This vessel was
a side-wheel steamer of fourteen guns, con
structed of iron, and was 974 tons. She was
built at Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1803, was
launched on the 12th of August of that
year, and ranked third rate. She:sailed for
the Pacific Ocean April 8,1804, and has been
attached to the United States squadron in
these waters ever since. Only ono of her
crew has been lost. The following is a list
of her officers, all of whom are well: James
H. Gillis, commander; M. L. Johnson,
lieutenant commander; Ezra Leonard,
acting volunteer lieutenant; Samuel Bel
den and Alfred Weston, acting masters; 0,
White and John Braun, acting ensigns;
John Mack, mate; George F. Winslow,
passed assistant surgeon; R. L. Billings,
paymaster; James P. Sprague, first assis
tant engineer ; Robert B. Hine, second as
sistant engineer; Boyce Wilson, acting
second assistant engineer, and J. Wyckc ff
Lyons, acting third assistant engineer.
Lieut. Johnson, of the Wateree, was
ashore at the time, and while carrying his
wife in his arms to some place of safety she
was struck by a portion of a falling build
ing, and instantly killed.
The Peruvian corvette American shared
the same fate as the Wateree, but lost throe
officers and thirty men. Commander Gillis,
of the Wateree, after the disaster, together
with Dr. Winslow and Dr. Dubois, of the
Fredonia, were of great service to the in
habitants, dividing their provisions among
the suffering Inhabitants, and the physi
cians saving many lives by their medical
and magical skill.
A letter from Arica, dated August 22,
says two other vessels, the brig Chancellor
and bark Eduardo, are also high and dry,
the former losing eight men. The scene
beggars description. Rails, cars, machin
ery, gun carriages ' household furniture,
barrels, dead animals,and mutilated
corpses are lying about in confusion. The
city of Arica numbered 7,000 inhabitants,
and its multitudes stand helplessly beg
gared on the beach. Three hundred lives
were lost in this city.. A. conflagration
burned nearly all that was not demolished
by the earthquake, and a drunken rabble
robbed and despoiled what remained.
Heavy cannon were carried up from the
island battery, and now Ito buried in the
sand far from the shore.
At Lima there was not much damage
done, although the shocks lasted about four
minutes, creating the utmost consternation,
all the inhabitants flying to the open plaza
where they besought protection from the
Almighty.
Admiral Turner, with the frigate Pow
hatan, left Lima with a full cargo of provis
ions, and had arrived at Arica to succor the
American Seamen there, and the inhab
itants also. She will also save the effects of
the Wateree. The Kearsage had alsoreached
Arica, from Coquimbo, with provisions. A
French man-of-war also left Lima to aid the
Inhabitants at Arica and otherplacea on the
coast, who are starving. • • .
Mr. Hovey, the American minister at
Lima, was energetically aiding, to the ex
tent of his power, in alleviating the distress.
The merchants and citizens of ,Lima are
contributing by thousands of dollars to
equip and load vessels with clothing, pro
visions, etc., and the government is most
g i e erf i r t i r c e tt a l s ly en ult a hr i .11 b l y telzi e ea t tsg i o bl all e
ca eviate .
trophe. -.
'The Congress of Pert/ has unanimously
passed a resolution giving the President
unlimited power to succor the inhabitants
of the southern coast, and the President haa
issued a proclamation, and the Archbishop'
a pastoral letter, calling upon Peruvians for
liberal contributions, which have been nobly
responded to, over $1,000,000 having been
raised. The business houses of Lima hav
ing connections on the coast have suffered
immensely, one house, that of Gibbs Jr, Son,
losing overl,ooo,ooo.
Nearly all the towns and yillagetin the
mineral provinces of, Hannon wore destroy.
ed and reduced to hopeless mine.
The cities of Puno and Cuzco wore not
damaged.
• The port of Mollend ,o where were stored
tho motoristl for building Mr. Moist.' rail
way, was oomplotely destroyed ; nearly all
tho tools, rails, and provisions being ruined
by tho earthquako and the succoodrng tidal
wave.
At Callao the sea burst over tho llno of
houses sk.irting the shore at 101', M., on Oho
lath, completoly gutting them of their can
ton% Tho panic was extreme. Several
vessels collided, but no damage was then
dono, nearly all putting to son. Next night
a Aro broke out, and flfty-seyon houses in
the business
_portion of - the city wero do.
stroyod, entailing a loss of $1 , 6 ,000. No
lives wore lost hero.
The Chincha Islands felt the rtheituake
and wave, but no serious damage was done
here, so far as known. The cities of Ica
and risco al so suffere d severely,forty houses
being overthrown, and twelve lives lost at
the former place. Nearly all the peoplo of
Callao have fled to Lima.
The steamship Santiago, bound from Cal
lao to Valparaiso, put into tho port of Chain,
where, on the 13th, she was seized by the
great wave. Her chains parted, and the
ship was carried out to sea ; but In a low
moments the wave returned towards' the
shore, bringing the ship with it, aud, carry
ing her with all her passengers safely over
a high cliff, landed her wifely inside In the
channel.
The port of Chala was completely cov
ered by water. At Caldern the wave and
earthquake completely destroyed every
thing, the former dwellings being loft a
heap of rubbish, and no traces of streets to
be seen. The inhabitants fled to the moun
tains, hot many were drowned or killed.
Thirty-seven dead bodies had been cis
covered at the last advices.
. .
At Iquique the shock lasted over four
minutes, after which the wave came and
destroyed about three-quarters of the city,
many lives, nearly all tho provisions, anti
the condensing machinery which supplied
the people with drinking water. Provisions
and water have been sent there from Val
paraiso. One German house at Iquique
lost over $lOO,OOO worth of provisions. Here
over 000 people wore drowned.
At Arequipa the earthquake commenced
a few minutes after 5 Y. M., and in live
minutes nearly every house in the city was
levelled to the ground. The tower of Santa
Catalina Church was the only thing left
standing, and it will have to bo pulled
down. Nearly all the Inmates of the
prisons and hospitals perished in the de
struction of those buildings, The shocks
occurred at Intervals, nearly ono hundred
having occurrec in three days. The city Is
a mass of ruins. The river has changed,
and Mount Misti is actually throwing out
lava, smoke, and quantities of mud. The
river emits a sulphurous odor, and rocks
and earth are constantly falling from the
mountain crater. No one dares to go where
the city was, and the survivors aro living
in tents on the bank of the river Pasteur
pata. Hundreds of persons were killed by
the falling houses while the earthquake oc
curred.
From Guayaquil, under date of August
27, we have brief accounts of the earthquake
in Ecuador. In the city of Guayaquil, but
little damage was done. The towns of
Ibarra, the province of Itnbabura, San
Pablo, and Atuntaqui, aro in ruins. The
entire population of these towns, and of
Otovalo amounting to 30,000 souls, have
perished.
At Quito, tho earthquake commenced at
1.20 A. M., on August 10, and continued at
intervals of a few hours, up to the last dates
on August 10.
All the churches, public buildings, and
private dwellings are already in ruins, and
the people are living in tents in the great
squares.
The towns adjoining Quito, named Porn
cho, Puollaro, and Cachiguanjo have almost
entirely disappeared, with their inbabiteuts,
the few left alive being obliged to lice to
escape the pestilence arising from the mitre
fying bodies.
The farms of Venial° and Sat. Antonio
also disappeared.
The number of deaths in the city of Quito
is not yet known, but a largo proportion of
the wealthy inhabltents had died front pes
tilence or disaster.
A Valparaiso letter, of August 10, says
advices received there from Talcuubauo
slate that at it I'. M., on August 1-1, three
shocks were felt, the second of which raised
an immense wave, which swept. away fully
one-half of the town, and rendered the oth
er half uninhabitable.
At Tome the seine thing occurred, but
being higher up but littledamage was done.
The port of Constitution suffered from the
wave,
but was not much damaged. Several
small vessels were stranded, and five men
drowned.
The town of Concepcion was also much
damaged. Cobija, the Mejillones Islands,
Pisaqua, and ell the elites and towns in
fact from Cape Francisco, in Ecuador, to
the Magellan Straits, suffered more or less
from the terrible visitations.
One report states that an American bark,
laden with guano, name unknown, was
swallowed up completely in the harbor of
Arica, and nothing more was seen of her.
Terror, hunger, and desolation reign
where Arica once was.
The town of Moquega, nine leagues from
Arequipa, was destroyed.
Tacquin, in the same neighborhood, lost
sixty houses and 150 lives, mostly children
who were returning from school. The town
of Chejia was swept away, and only twenty
out of 500 inhabitants escaped. The earth
was opened in several places on the plains
and pampas, and water has appeared in
some places. In some places hot water has
poured forth from the chasms. All the habi
tations at Tilo were destroyed, and twenty
lives were lost. Three vessels with their
crews were also lost. All the nitrate works
at Iquique were destroyed, as well as those
in Its suburbs,
entailing great loss. Among
those killed at Iquique west he British con
sul, Billinghurst.
The American bark Condor was lost at
Megillones, but the crow were saved.
The losses at Iquique were over V0,000,-
000.
At the Chinelaa Islands there was first a
hurricane, next an earthquake, and then a
tidal wave. Several English vessels were
damaged and a Prussian bark wee wrecked.
Four hundred tons of silver ore, with all
the extensive works of the Peruvian Min
eral Company, owned ita London, were com
pletely swept away at Iquique.
The towns of Canota, Chancaz, Caparra,
Chartra, Cabecera, and other smaller places
were also destroyed. The port of Los
Loomas has been united to the islands in
the bay of Callon by the action of the earth
quake. Over 300,000 persons aro without
shelter or bread. Commissions are being
formed, the ladies are making clothes, and
the government of Peru is straining its ut
most to alleviate the distress.
South Western Virginia
This heading will naturally call to the
minds of many of our readers, many mem
ories of the past, and many inchlontsof the
present. This was in part the West Augus
ta of Washington. The inspirations of
glorious traditions' have their effect In
moulding and framing the characters of
men ; and when wo think of this nud look
upon the map of our country, and see that
it Is interspersed with our own Alleghenies
and trace also the Blue Ridge, wo can but
feel that we should consign to oblivion the
asperities of the last few years, and ,recog
nice the fact that the citizens of this lo
cality must have in as high perfection, all
the ennobling qualities which characterize
the votary of freedom as the citizens of any
other portion of the country. From its pe
culiar advantages and resources, it Is des•
tined to be ono of the richest sections of
that county, with its salt mills in Smythe,
so strong that salt will not dissolve in the
native brine, and so inexhaustible that they
could supply this continent with salt; with
its mines of gypsum that have been
bored nearly GOO feet through a pure ar
ticle; with its recently discovered mines
of Bargtes, now an especial object of the
attention of our late citizen, H. H. Knot
well, who has formed an association with
citizens of Smythe county, and is now the
President of an incorporated mining com
pany, its mines of lead, zinc and iron; its
splendid waterpower; its native blue grass;
its mild winters and delightful summers,
with all these native advantages and the
advantages of a railroad and a M'Adams
road, what o theatre it must be for the en
terprize of our Lancaster young men whose
business habits and experience so well fit
them for successfully carrying on the pur
suits of agriculture and grazing in a coun
try, affording many direct and inciden
tal advantages. The truth of this descrip
tion can bo ascertained by reference to Col.
H. A. Hambright, U. S. A., of this place,
who is now located at Marlon. Our
attention has been invited to this by the ad
vertisement of the sale of a farm of 350 acres
in Smythe county, Va., on October 24th.
which is printed in another column of this
issue, and in which the commissioner refers
all enquires to Col. H. A. Hambright for
information.
We are rejoiced to hear of the popularity
of the gallant Col. liambright ut his pres
ent station, and do not doubt that he will
cheerfully answer any letters of inquiry in
regard to the resources and condition of
southwestern Virginia, which may bo ad
dressed to him by any citizen of this
county.
Privileged Climes
The Cincinnati Enquirer sums up the fol
jowing as comprising some of the privi
leged classes under tho present Radical
dispensation:-1. The bondholder. Ho is
exempted from all State and local taxation.
He receives his interest on his bonds in
gold, while everybody else bas to take his
in legal-tenders. 2. The Southern negro,
who has a Freedmen's Bureau to look atter
his interests, and to feed and clothe him if
bp don't choose to work. 3. The New Eng
land manufacturer, who receives an im
mense bonus In the shape of protection to
his fabrics, all of which comes out of the
pockets of the laboring classes, who aro
compelled to buy them. 4. The railroad mo
nopolists to whom Congress has granted
tracts of land large enough for empirettout of
which they can build their roads and have
a great deal to spare I A few favored men
have thus voted to thorn, free,pf expense, a
great railroad: :6; The Congressmen and
legislators who sustain these privileged
classes in their rascalities upon the people,
and who are made partners on that account
in the robberies. 6. The immense arm of
officeholders who live Upon the uncle y
an
drippings of the Treasury.. It it a party
opposed to the •DentoCracy which,: b" the
act of its leaders, has brought into being
these privileged' classes, and upon which
they mainly rely for their • continued exis
tence. It is no wonder that, with such ini
manse interests fastened: upon the body-'
politic, and drawing its: heart's blood; the;
country has ceased to ildnilsb; audits re
sources stabling dried up.
gond itztaigenet,
GRAND STATE PARADE •
or HIS
ORDER OP AMERICAN ➢IECIIANICS.
Various Triules Represented.
An fitments° Numb*, of Numbers of the
Order nud lipecintorn Prenesil.
OVER 6.000 MEN IN LINE.
THE Parade of the Order of United
American Mechanics on Friday was one
of the grandest displays of tho kind over
witnessed in our oily, rho day was very
favorablo for the demonstration; tho ono•
ning previous showed some Indications of
bad weather, but tho morning dawned
bright and pleasant and all things tended
to render the occasion one of unusual inter
est, both to the participants and to those
who wero spectators. At a very early hour
largo numbers of persons from the sur
rounding country arrived in the city and
soon ailed our hotels, their vehicles of all
descriptions lining the streets for a long dis
tance on each side of the way. The present
busy season of seeding wheat did not ap
pear In any manner to prevent our sturdy
farmers with their wives end sweethearts
from making yesterday a holliday, and at
as early nn hour as 9 o'clock wo noticed
some who had come over 20 miles for the
solo pUrpose of witnessing tholtnposing and
beautiful demonstration which was about
to take place.
The mechanic and laborer, in most in
stances, ceased their toll and neatly attired
awaited the grand event which was about
to transpire.
Great numbers of strangers from the
neighboring cities of Philadelphia, Harris
burg, Rending, and Wilmington were pres
ent, some of whom wore members of the
Order of Mebhanics, and others who wcr
not members of the Association but merely
came as spectators, availing themselves of
the cheap rates of fare to visit the line old
city of Lancaster. Some of these persona
arrived the evening previous and a great
number of them during the night. One
man informed us that ho was from tho State
of Ohio and had taken this time tovisit some
of the cities East, making it a point to he
in Lancaster on the day of the great parade,
the fume of which had excited the curiosity
of our Buckeye friends, who desired to have
nt least ono representative present from
their populous county to witness it.
'rho public schools of our city gave the
children a holiday and they seemed to en
joy it in the happiest manner possible•—
Gaily arrayed in the becoming dress of
childhood from early morning until late in
the evening their brightsmiling faces were
seen at the windows and doors of our prl•
vale residenceS, there oyes sparkling with
pleasure and excitement. as they listened
to the beautiful and inspiring mush; dis•
coursed by the many bands which were
during the whole forenoon marching to and
fro in our streets escorting the dillbrent
Councils from the depot to the quarters
provided for them at the hotels of our city.
Later In the morning the different Conn
oils from the county commenced arriving
in the city, and the long trains of carriages
and trade wagons filing through some of
our main streets scented almost intermina
ble, and caused the spectator to wonder
bow or where so many persons could pos
sibly obtain accommodations. Very soon
the pedestrian was compelled to take the
streets in order to go from one point to an
other, it being impossible to make one's
way through the dense mass of persons
crowding the pavements.
In Centre Square, as Is usual an all such
occasions, the vendors of Patent ISlediclues,
blacking, &c., did a thriving business and
addressed, with nil the persuasive eloquence
of their profession large crowds of amused
spectators. The Indian Doctor, In particu
lar, by his peculiar dress and unique ap
pearance, attracted a largo crowd, much to
his profit, and we trust, to their advantage,
as he represented his medicines to be a
panacea for " All the ills that flesh is heir
to."
Along tho pavements were tables muted
with cakes and candles displayed In tempt
ing profusion, while hero and there a huge
lump of Ice and glasses of mild lemonade
tantalized tho thirsty spectators; litho boys
with big voices hero and thorn announced
themselves an the vendors of party badges
and displayed in the greatest profnsion
these indicators of political opinion.
The different special trains continued to
arrive In this city during the whole fore
noon crowded with Councils and spectators
all accompanied with music and banners,
wreathes of beautiful flowers etc., making
a grand display and clearly demonstrating
to the most casual observer,
that the
Order of United American Mechanics
Is not merely grout in numbers, but
also groat in having as native momborm
some of our hest and most skillful lllCClifill
ice, men who by their practical exemplifi
cation of the beautiful motto "Honesty,
Industry and Sobriety," constitute the most
energetic and useful citizens of our coun
try.
The Chief Marshal and olds at 1 o'clock
proceeded to form the vitriol's Councils In
the line of procession, in accordance with
the General Orders previously Issued. '1'11(0
following wore the
ARRANOEMENTS OF PARADE.
The headquarters of the Committee wore
at Sprenger's Now Hall, over the Eagle
Saloon, North Queen street.
The different Divisions commenced form
ing at 1 o'clock P. M. as follows:
First Division on East Orange street,
right resting on Shlppen, facing west. Sec
ond Division on Shippen Street, right rest
ing on Orange, facing north. Third Divis-
ion on Shippen street, right resting on
Orange, facing south. Fourth Division on
Limo street, right resting on Orange, facing
north. Fifth Division on Lime street, right
resting on Orange, facing south. Sixth
Division on Duke street, right resting on
Orange, facing north. Moved
marching
to the Division streets Moved as follows :
The First Division marched up East King
street to Plum, down Plum to Orange and
down Orange to Shippen.
Tho Second, Fourth and Sixth Divisions
moved along East King street.
The Third and Fifth Divisions moved
along Chestnut street.
ORDER OF PROCESSION.
The column moved at 2 o'clock, P. M., In
sections of four In the following order:
Chief Marahai.
David Miles, of No. 8.
Aids.
John Triesler, of No. 8.
Wm. Dlxoy, of No. 52.
E. D. Routh, of No. 72.
Elias Eaby, of No. 150.
First Diviaon.
Marshal—William Feaster, of No. 25.
Aids—W. A. Swords, of No. 14, and M
S. Bower, of No. 106.
Committee of Arrangements.
State Committee.
D. Rhine Hertz, of No. 116.
Jns. N. Calely, of No. 15.
Wm. M. Shultz, of No. 159.
John Server, of No. 52.
D. A. Bolt, of No. 148.
John Kr!der, of No. 44.
A Inn. Godehalk, of No. 112.
Wm. G. Row, of No. 88.
J. Kohler Snyder , of No. S.
Beck's Colebratod Brasii Band of Phila.
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State Council of Pennsylvania, precceilisi
by a beautiful silk flag.
The Officers of the National Council.
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Largo wagon drawn by four horses on which
wore displayed :the live great inventions,
represented by a miniature steam lire en
gine, telegraph instrument, printing press,
mowing machine and a reaper.
Drum Corps.
Sister Councils from oilier States.
The State Council of Now Jersey, 43 men,
W. D. Middleton, Marehnl.
A Delegation from Camden Council N 0.7
The Excelsior Band of Wilmington, Del
aware.
A. Delegation from Delaware, 00 men,
James C. Pears9n, Marshal; Wilmington
Council No. 4 was represented In this dole
gallon.
Then came n buroucho containing the
Orator of the Day—Col. John K. Zellem, of
Pennsylvania Connell, No. 106, and several
officers of distinction In the Order.
Second Division.
Marshal—Richard P. Andress, of No, 9
Aids—'Jerry Hornkolth, of No. 5; Banjo
min P. Howard, of No. 1.
Enterprise Council, No. 2, numbering 25
men, Charles Magill, Marshal. This coun
cil had a handsome silk banner, having II
bright blue ground in front with u beauti
ful painting of a sailor and mechanic clasp
lng hands across an anvil, above which was
the motto of the order "Honesty, Industry
and Sobriety," and below the name and
number of the council. The revere() Ado
wag red, and born the date of institution in
gilt,—" Instituted September 17th, 1845."
Drum Corps.
Resolution Council No. 4, numbering CO
men, G. L. Whitman, Marshal, preceded
also by a handsome silk banner, on the
front:side of which was the figure ore fine
ly developed mechanic, (a blacksmith rest
ing at his anvil,) representing the bone and
sinew of the country, with the motto of the
order above, and the name and number of
the council below the painting. On the re
verse side was the figure of a youth mount
ing a bill and bearing a flag, representing
tlltesolution" with the date of institution
inscribed thereon.
Fire Zouavo Band of Philadelphia.
Washington Council No. 6, numbering
100 men, Eli G. Sellers, Marshal, preceded
by an elegant banner, on tho front aide of
which was a very fine largo painting of a
statue of Washington with a group of stars
above the head and two female figures on
either side of it, ono of which represented
the Goddess of Liberty, and the other that
of Virtue, bearing the motto of the order
above, and the name and the number of the
council below. On the reverse side was an
other figure of Washington in military cos
tume and on horseback, above which were
the words "Presented by the ladles of Phil
adelphia," and below the words"To Wash
ington Council No. 5, 0. U. A. M." This
banner was made of rich satin, surrounded
with a drapery of the stars and- stripes in
red, white and blue silk, with.heavy fringe
below, and a gilt eagle on the top from
whose beak was suspended the drapery.
A wagon splendidly decorated and drawn
by 13 grey horses, followed this Council,
and contained 13 young ladies clad in white,
each representing a State in which, the
Order existed, viz: New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Dolaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Car l
cane, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Pennsylvania Connell No. 6, numbering
80 men,Wm. H. Moore, Marshal, preceded
by two handsome and large flags. -
A Representative of the Order, on horse
back, in full Continental costume. .
The Jefferson Cornet Band of Philadel
phia.:
Conestoga Council, No. 8, of thle' al a lt
numbering. Boo men, Capt.' Sam'l