WEDNESDAY, JL[LY 14. 1869. . Tie Bcglstry law. We publish elsewhere a clear and ac curate synopsis of the decision of the Supreme Court, declaring the Registry Law passed by the last Legislature to be constitutional. The Supreme Court of this State is now composed of three Republican and two Democratic Judges. One of the Republican members is the man who was defeated by the people of Pennsylvania when he ran against Geo. Sharswood, two years ago. He owes hia present position to John W. Geary, having been appointedto fill a vacancy. , As he is himßelf again a candidate it was supposed by many that he would have the decency to decline to sit in , judgment upon a case in which he has ( a direct personal interest. That is the , course which has heretofore been uni versally our fudges. In . Pennsylvania no Judge sits on the trial of a cause in which he has any inter est or in which has been concerned , as counsel before his election. All such cases are put aside to be tried before some neighboring Judge, who is called in for that special purpose. But when Geary appointed “Williams, he no doubt knew his man. Henry W. Wil liams is a Yankee, with all the ingrain ed peculiarities of his class about him; and it was, perhaps, too much to expect him to be governed by that nice sense of honor and scrupulous conscientious ness which has always distinguished the Judiciary of Pennsylvania. Both heand Cleary had,or imagined they had, some interest in securing the enforce ment of the Registry Law. It was passed with a view to aiding Geary and Wil liams in the pending political cam paign ; and we have no doubt it was well understood, if not made part of the bargain, when Williams was ap- j pointed to the Supreme Bench, that he j should use his position to further the | interests of the Radical party in every | possible way. How ready he is to do j any work of that kind which comes to j hand, his joining in the discussion and ; decision of the Registry Law shows. Unless we greatly mistake the tem- ' per of the people of Pennsylvania, they I will rebuke both Geary and Williams ! for their conduct in this matter. About nothing are the people of this great State more sensitive than they are in regard to the conduct of the judiciary. They have been accustomed to see the Scales of Justice kept perfectly balanc- j ed, aud have had reason heretofore to be proud of the upright and high toned character of Pennsylvania Judges. The spectacle presented by the Yankee Williams, as lie sat in deliberation tip on a cause in which he had a direct personal interest was one which the honest masses of this common-wealth are not accustomed to, and heAvill find that he lias lost many votes by the de cision which lie supposed lie was ren- 1 dering in his own favor. In speaking of this decision, as we have done, we huve purposely abstained from all harsh epithets, aud have re pressed that indignation aud disgust which the conduct of Judge Williams is naturally calculated to excite. This cumbrous, cosily, and illy drawn Reg. istry Law must now be regarded by the people as law until it is repealed. It will be enforced this fall, and the labor ing man will liml himself publicly pla carded as the servant of his employer, while every naturalized citizen will be subjected loan iusulling surveillance. The aet will not, however, accomplish the purpose which its framers intend ed. It will not reduce the Demo cratic vote. Democrats will take es pecial pains to see that they are not cheated out of their right to vote, and this attempt to harass them will only ensure a full vote of our party strength. We are inclined to think we ought to thunk the Radical legislature for the law, arid to be pleased at the partisan decision of Williams and his brethren. The attempt to enforce it will beget dis gust and dissatisfaction in the Republi can parly,'while a sense of indignation will auimate the Democracy, and fill them with energy ami determination. The speedy repeal of the law will follow the defeat of Geary aud'Williams, which is sure to come with, the dawning of the second Tuesday of October. lolin M. Cooper, Kmj John M. Cooper, Esq , has retired | from the With'/ Spirit, and announces I that, he has finally abandoned the news- ! paper business. Mr. Cooper lms been al- I most constantly an inmate of u printing oilice for over thirty-two years, and for more than two-thirds of that time an edi tor. lie founded the Valley Spirit twen ty-three years ago, and during nearly the whole of that time it has been under bis control, holding a high position not in Franklin county alone, but, being wide ly known as a leading Pennsylvania newspaper. Mr. Cooper was always a vigorous and forcible writer, aud always publisbcdalive newspaper. We learned •to know his worth as a man aud fully to appreciate his ability as an editor while he was associated with us in the establishment and conduct of the Daily Intelligencer. He retires from the cares of editorial life to engage in pursuits less vexatious, ami we are glad to know that he does - not g'o out of the profession empty handed. Messrs. Aug. Duncan aud Win. S. tflenger, who for sometime pasthavebeen associated with Mr. Coop, er in the YalUy Spirit, will continue ilspublieation. They are both gentlemeu of tine übility and well fitted for the position they hold. Under their control the paper will fully maintain its high character. TjiKgenuine correspondence between Grant and Boric on the occasion of the latter’s resignation has at last beeu pub lished. Borie tells Ulysses that he thought when he first accepted the oflice that his health would not permit him to continue in it long, but assures him that he feels great confidence “in tiie harmonious aud successful progress of the administration under your able, honest, ami glorious lead.” To that outburst of llattery Ulysses replies; in a similar strain of admiration, of which the following will serve as a specimen : 1 need not nsstueyi-u how much I regiot the severance el rur ollieUl connection, n<-r how coiiti.li'i.t I am tfiut the high esteem I have always felt for you, increased with * further tuquail.lance, will continue while acriuaiutainH' ias’s. Grant and Borie would both have done Weil if they had suppressed the genuine correspondenceaud allowed the public to believe the letters which the press correspondents manufactured to be genuine. Don’t Want Anjmore. The Radicals don’t want anymore such victories as that in Virginia until after October. Grant’s Cabinet decides to postpone the Mississippi and Texas elections. Do they suppose the people will fail to see through such a dodge? Covode has started for Washington to get Grant to do something for the Radical cause in this State. He thinks Geary’s chances for a re election very doubtful indeed, and will demand that Pennsylvania be given an appointment in Lbe Cabinet. We wait to see what Ulyssee will do for the two rogues who •run the Republican parly in this State. Simon Cameron is now at Washing •ton endeavoring to have the Middle town Bank declared a Government Re pository. began bis career in public life by palming off notes of that bank upon unsuspecting Winnebago Indians. Hence his title of the Winne bago Chief. Tam of the Philadelphia Dodger, with their families, comprising about 1500 persons, were treated to an excursion trip to Atlantic City on Mon day, by the proprietor, Mr.-Childs. THE LAJSTCAISTEH WEEKLY INTELLIGENT CEE, WEDNESDAY, JTO/y 14, 1869. The Victory In Virginia, The rejoicings of theDembcracy of the North over the terrible and overwhelm ing defeat of Radicalism in Virginia is wormwood and gall to the fanatics of that party. They try to break the force of this crippling “blotf by. calling atten tion to the fact that the new State Con stitution establishes negro suffrage, that negroes participated in the election, and that In some districts the Conservatives supported negro candidates for. the State Legislature. ;They ask tauntingly whether we consider this a Democratic victory ? Without abating one jot of our grati fication at the result, we frankly answer that we do not regard the result in Vir ginia as a distinctive Democratic vic tory. It is, however, a triumph of moderation over fanaticism, of intelli gence over ignorance, of good judgment over blind prejudice, of the white prop erty holders of the State over degraded negroes and the carpet-baggers and scalywags who led the bulk of them where they listed. It brings the State of Virginia back into the Union with out giving it over tied hand and foot to a set of rapacions political harpies who went forth from the North hun gering and thirsting for the spoils of office. It kills off and consigns to final political interment such mean spirited and mercenary white Virgin ians as were willing to join Yankee jackals in preying upon the carcasß of their once proud and glorious native State. It breaks up and utterly destroys the oath-bound Union Leagues by means of which the ignorant and super stitiousnegroes were controlled. Ittakes away the disabilities which a Radical Congress imposed upon thousands of the best citizens of the “Old Dominion,” and clears the way for a fair and equita ble reorganization of the political forces of the State. It converts the Four i teenth Amendment to the Constitu j tion of the United States into a I monument of Republican folly. — i The necessities of the campaign com ! pelled the Wells faction to abandon the ’ policy of disfranchisement, aud the I overwhelming defeat of the obnoxious ; articles of the Constitution must make clear to the dullest Radical in the North | the unpopularity, the injustice and the I practical impossibility of disfranchising 1 citizens for their participation in the late civil war. Such are some of the substantial fruits of the victory in Virginia. Its moral effect will be felt throughout the w hole country. Its bearings upon the future politics of the nation can scarcely be overestimated. It gives promise of speedy aud lasting peace between the two sections, aud cements the bonds of Union. It removes from the political arena the chief cause of bitterness, and ensures us against a continuance of the appeals to sectional auimosities upon which the Radical party has lived. It makes the way clear tourational contest for the next Presidency, in which the people of all the States will again parti cipate on equal footing. It is, in short, the most important and promising political event of our day. As such all rejoice over it heartily and truly; aud the more so because we see all about us evidences that aeu&iWe Republicans are ready to rejoice with us. They see in this Virginia election an assurance of the downfall of the bigoted and sectional party with which they have heretofore acted, and they 1 arc not norry for it. Though w f e do not claim the result in Virginia as techni cally a Democratic victory, we are glad ! to know that it possesses the valuable ; properties of such a triumph; and we : hail it as the harbinger of glorious i aud sweepiug Democratic success, both : in the near ami the far off future. In rejoicing over theresult in Virginia, we do not abate one jot or title of our opposition to negro suffrage. Our an tagonism thereto is founded, not upon any nairow minded hatred of the negro, but, upon the firm conviction that a large majority of the race are unfit to exercise the right of suffrage iutelli -1 gently. The patent fact that a majority of the Southern negroes will vote the Democratic ticket hereafter does not cause us to look upon negro suffrage ' with favor. We knew from the first I that such would be the case, but we still persistently opposed it. We ap prehend danger to our free institutions from the introduction of such a mass of ignorant voters iuto the body politic ; and, while our convictions on that sub ject remain unchanged, we must stand in firm antagonism to it. We further object to the method by which the Radicals have attempted to force Negro Suffrage upon the States. The Fifteenth Amendment takes from the people of the several States the right to control and regulate the elective fran chise in their own way, a right reserved to the States aud the people respectively from the foundation of the government. It gives to Congress authority which that body ought not to possess, aud paves the way for future abuses of power. Because Southern Democrats have beeu forced to accept Negro Suf frage at the poiutof the bayonet, that is no reason why we of Pennsylvania should approve and endorse it. The people of this State have beeu denied ; the right to express their opinion ou the subject. Bat they intend to be heard. Iu the coming election the action of the Radical Legislature wiil come up for approval or condemnation, and the re sult in Pennsylvania wilibeasweepiug audan uncquivocalDemncratic victory. The Virginia Election The utter rout of the Radicals in Vir ginia is a political event of the very first magnitude. It is a long stride toward a real and permanent restoration of the Uuion. In the OKI Dominion, military rule must now speedily give place to civil government, and the result of the election insures that the destinies of the State for the future will be entrusted to the educated white population. The impecunious carpel baggers who have gone down there, with no other object in view than thy obtaining of ofiiee through the agency of negro votes, will soon be seen sneaking back to the ob scurity from which they emerged. The hold of the Union League upon the negroes will bt completely broken, and the kindliest feelings will soon spring up between them and the landholders. Tuesday’s battle decided the contest between native white Virginians and the combined forces of the carpet bag gers, scalywags, and negroes. Iu spite of all the aid that could be rendered by Congress aud the Federal Government, the Radical forces were ulteily routed. Walker, the Governor elect, is a man of property, intelligence aud honor; and he will make a fair aud just ruler. The legislature elected is largely Conserva tive, and that will secure the passage of equitable and judicious laws, and the election of two statesmen to the U. S. Senate. Virginia, which gave the death blow to Know Nolhingism when she elected Henry A. Wise, has indicted a mortal wound upon Radicalism. The Ohio Democracy The Democracy of Ohio have put for ward the following very strong ticket: For Governor, General W. S. Rose crans ; for Lieutenant Governor, T. G, Godfred ; for Judge of the Supreme Court, W. J. Gilmore ; for State Treas urer, Stephen Buhryr; for Attorney General, Colonel J. M. Connell. General Itosecrans is very popular in the West, and he will pollan im mense vote. That he will be ejected there can bs no doubt. Let us Imitate the wisdomof Ohio i>^nominat ing Hancock by acclamation.. „ Grant's negro postmaster at Macon, Georgia, has been urrested for stealing greenbacks. The money was found on the person of a woman not Jus wife. — What an adept at immitatiug his white brethren (hat black Radical must be. A Pair of Bascals, Andrew G. Curtin was never noted for .over-scrupulousness in political matters. He was always ready to use his official position to aid his party. But, in so doing, he took care not to commit gross and, palpable outrages. He very properly deemed that such conduct would only damage himself and his party. Geary is too Btupid a fool, too much of an ignoramus, too great a bungler to cover up his rascality. He has not intellect enough to manage the most ordinary intrigue without ex posing himself to public ridicule.— When a contest arose fn regard to who was elected Congressman in the Six teenth District of this State, Curtin did not attempt to override the law. He decided impartially, and sent the con testants before the proper tribunal to have the matter decided by the House. Not bo did Geary -act in the case of Foster and Covode. He allowed him self to be put upon record as a shameless knave, and exposed himself to the Bcorn of all honest men. In sending a private letter to the Clerk of the House with the broad seal of the Commonwealth at tached to it, he wrote himself down an ass and proved himself to be ready to perpetrate aDy petty piece of villainy which might besuggested to him. Mc- Pherson showed himself to be more honest than Geary when he decided to throw aside as worthless the supple mentary proclamation of Geary, which Covode hoped would insure his beiug put upon the roll of members ; and the Republican majority of the Committee on Elections had too much regard to public opinion to join Geary, and Cessna aud Covode in tlicir attempt to perpe trate an open aud indefensible outrage. The conspiracy which was formed for the sake of iusuring Covode’s admission to Congress was most rascally in all its steps. First Covode got oue of his tools, ft return Judge from Indiana county, to perjure himself, in order to lay the ground work forGoary’s willing participation in the scheme of rascality. Had Mr. McPherson been as corrupt and as regardless of law as were Geary and Covode, the latter would have been put upou the rolls, appointed on the com mittees, and made to all intents and purposes a member of Congress. As it is, Gen. Foster has thus far been kept out of the seat to which he was unques tionably fairly chosen. What the hold is which Covode haß upon Geary is not known ; but it is not doubted that reasons which have never been made public induced the selection of the Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. Geary must have known that the appointment of Covode would damage hia chances of election ; but he did not dare to refuse his demand for the position. We have no doubt but that a tale of further rascality would be unfolded if the public could be made fully aware of the causes which enabled Covode to dictate his own appointment. Covode had his own private reasons for wishing to be made Chairman of the Radical State Central Committee, and for certain controlling reasons not yet made public Geary did not dare to dis appoint him. They are a pair of precious rascals. Thai Irish Keiiubllcan Convention We heard much talk about the Irish Republican Convention at Chicago be fore it assembled, but have heard pre cious little of it since. It was the most complete and ridiculous failure that this country ever witnessed. Pennsylvania was represented by thkke delegates. They were all from 'Philadelphia. One of them is an attacheofForney’s Pi-css, a native of Somerset county, this State, and of Scotch extraction. Another is a full blooded Scotchman, also engaged on a Radical newspaper. The third has a name Irish enough to be genuine. Many States were not represented at all, while others were as poorly repre sented as Pennsylvania. A series-of re solutions were adopted endorsing negro equality, and thanking Sumner and the Michigan aristocrat, Chandler, who has just gone abroad with a full set of liver ied servants, for their efforts in behalf of the down trodden Irish. Free Trade was condemned and a high protective tariff advocated. Grant was patted on the back in such a manner as to lead to the conclusion that the whole thing was the dodge of a few designing fel lows who hope.to receive offices under the pretense that they represent a re spectable minority of Irishmen. The! '• Lehigh and Northampton--Josiuh Cole, vliolfe concern was contemptibly small,, S- UerUs-Dr. 11. M. Nagle, no instruo ami unimportant in everv respect. The lions. Irish do not and caimot'afflliate with tn »j Wm-M -the Republican party. They have not to.-Carbon. Monroe, Pike and Wayne forgotten how, under the lead of the Capt. C. H. Drake, by Monroe, no instruct very men who now coutrolthat organ "Tp' B nidronl, Knsquelwnmi, and Wyo ization, race uud their religion | ming— D D PAYiti. were assailed only a little while ago. ' io J-p 1 „ Ij ,! I j' r ' ;r,: ' ;_Tll, "’ ri ' 1 Fl “"' i,JslrlK ' lod New churches have arisen in greater | "pJm t„ wl , M'K, an, and Clinton splendor on the ruins of those which were destroyed by the vandal bauds of sacrilegious persecutors, but the old spirit of Kuow-Xothingism still lives. It crops out continually in Radical edi torials and speeches, and is only parti ally repressed for the sake of expedi ency. The Irish are quick of discern ment. Tlu-y can and do see through the artifices of the little knot of adveuturers who seek to make profit out of such farces as the so called Na tional Republican Irish Convention. A single jaunting car would carry all the Irishmen in Pennsylvania who took any stock in the bogu3 concern, aud then it would not be crowded Henry W. Williams, Esq., the third rate lawyer who was repudiated by the people of Pennsylvania wheu he was a candidate for Judge of the Su preme Court two years ago, has written a letter stating that lie is willing to take the chauces of another defeat. Geary has not yet signified in writing wheth er he will stand the nomination for Governor or not. He is probably wait iug to sec W’ho will be his opponent. If the Democratic nominee should be either Hancock, Cass or Packer, Geary will feel like declining to run. He is said to despair of being elected. Tin-: Woman Suffrage people are holding a Convention at Buffalo, and propose to meet cn masse at Saratoga some time during this month. The strong-minded members of the sex are making a deal of fuss and noise, but the bulk of the females of our country seem to be indifferent or positively hostile to the movement. The recent election in the M. E. (’hurches of the country show conclusively that unmarried ladies hesi tate to vote, either because they do not desire to bo considered of age, or for some other good aud potent reason. In the English Parliament debate on the Alabama claims has been indefinite ly postponed, aud the London papers express the hope that the time is not far distant when their consideration cau be renewed witfi a better feeling be tween the two countries. We hope bo too. It is said that Grant was not pleased with the dispatch sent to him by tbe Chairman of the State Executive Com mittee of the Radical party in Virginia. The suggestion that he had auy policy was the offensive portion of the mes sage. Forney informs the public, over his signature of “Occasional,” that lie spent the 4th in going round to the negro churches aud picnics in Washington,— It is evident that the fellow has found his level at last. There is one of Grant's relatione who does not consider himself suffi ciently well provided. That is his brother-in-law Lewis Dent. He is about to run for Governorof Mississippi on a .Conservative Republican ticket. The Herdic Act Unconstitutional, One of the moat disgraceful acta of the last infamously corrupt Legislature of Pennsylvania was the passage of a bill destroyingtheXXlXth Judicial District of the State. A-Badical Legislature, only the year before, had passed an act making the great and growing county of Lycoming an independent Judicial District; and Governor Geary not only approved the bill but appointed Samuel Bentley, Esq., of Williamsport, Judge. Last fall James Gamble was elected by the people. This'did not suit Mr. Peter Herdic, a v.ery rich Radical, who has much business in the courts of Lycom ing county, and he determined to have the new Judicial district abolished. Herdic is an old lobbyist, and he has learned all about running special legis lation through corrupt Legislatures within the past ten years. Within for ty-eight hours after he appeared at the State Capitol, a bill was rushed through both houses, without beiDg printed, and without giving the conscientious mi nority a chance to look at its provisions. In order to prevent an exposure of the contemplated outrage, the Senator from the Lycoming district was decoyed to Philadelphia by a lyiDg telegram, and during his absence, on the night of the 15th of March, the bill was hurriedly put through both branches of the Legisla ture, by a process known to the iuiitated. Geary spent the whole of last winter in buying up delegates to the State Convention, and was always ready to aid the “roosters” and “pinchers” In any rascally scheme they might have on hand, provided they were ready to ensurethattbe delegates from their sev eral districts would vote for his renomin ation. When Peter Herdic went to Harrisburg to have his iniquitous bill put through, he earned in one pocket money to buy up the legislative “ riDg,” and in the other letters assuring Geary that he would receive the support of Lycoming county if he signed the bill. The Governor was as ready to accept his share of the bribe as was any “ rooster” of the Legislature. He sat in the Executive Chamber waiting for Herdic to come to him with the document; but the rascality failing to be completely perfected by midnight, he was at last forced to retire to his mansion without endorsing the pro jected piece of villainy. He did sign the bill early the next morning, how ever, without taking time to read it, much less to ask the opinion of his legal adviser in regard to it. Upon the return of the Lycoming Senator, the rascality which had been perpetrated upon his constituents was exposed, and the Senate promptly repealed its action. The thieves of the House stood firm, however, and the Herdic bill remained a law. This law came up before the Supreme Court of the State at its presentsession, and a decision has just been rendered declaring it to be unconstitutional. The Judges were unanimous in their views, even Williams not dariDg to sustain Geary, whose connection with this most iufamous piece of legislation is enough to damn him forever in the eyes of all honest men. It is no jwon der there was so much opposition to Geary’s renominatiou. When it is re membered how he secured the dele gates who went to Philadelphia in structed for him, we cannot think it strange that thousands of decent Re publicans are ready to help defeat him. The National Union League, of which Geary is President, held a meet ing at New York yesterday. Great wailing over the result of the Virginia election was indulged iu, and measures were taken “to aid the cause” in Mis sissippi and Texas. Geary telegraphed that he was unable to attend. The Committee adjourned to meet in Phila delphia the first week in August, when Geary will be present, and, amid much tribulation, the League will prepare for the defeat which awaits their President. I.Jsl of Deloarutc.H to the DeniocrntieNtnte Convention. We publish the list of delegates to the Democratic State Convention as we have received them up. to the time of'going to SKNATOiUAI, DISTRICTS. Philadelphia—lst district, Francis De vitt ; 2. Albert Lawrence; 3. Lewis C. Cas sidy ; 4. Thomas A. M’Devitt, no instruc tions. o. Chester, Delaware and Montgomery— (j. B. Houpt, I*}’ Delaware, instructed for lien. M’Candles-*. 6. Bucks—Paul Applebach, no inslruc tions. M. Lycoming, Union anti Snyder—R. P. Allen, no instructions. 15. Northumberland, Montour, Columbia and Sullivan —lion. U. Budiulew. pi. Dauphin and Lebanon - Jno. Snavely. 17. Lancaster —Dr. Henry Carpenter and It. K. Tslnidy, instructed lor Hancock. IS. York and Cumberland—A. C. Itam sey, no instructions. 1!'. Adams and franklin—John R. Orr, no instructions. 20. Somerset, Bedford and Fulton—lion. A. 11. Co Wroth. 21. Blair, Huntingdon, Centre, Mifilin, Juniata and Perry—R. Bruce Petnkiu aud O. A. Traugh, instructed for Cass. 22. Cambria, Indiana and Jefferson-John Hastings. (Indiana dissenting.) 23. Ch-ariield, Cameron, (.Marion, Forest and Klk—W. \Y. Barr, by Clarion, no in strueiion.s. 24. Westmoreland, Fayette and Greene— T. B. Searight, no instructions. 25. Allegheny—James 11. Hopkins, W. H. Meckling, instructions for Cass. 20. Washington and Beaver—Wm. Swan by Washington, instructions for Cass. *27.—Lawrence, Butler and Armstrong— Gilpbin. 2S. Mercer, Venango and Warren— Satn'l 11. Flumer, instructed for James K. Kerr. 29. Crawford and Erie—T. W. Grayson, no instructions. KI: PRESK N T A TIV K DJST It ICTS. Philadelphia—lst district, Alex. Dia mond ; 2. Robert S. Lis’er; 3. Win. M’ Mullen; 4. Win. P. Campbell; 5. Mich Sullivan; 0. Rich. Water; 7 George W. Hays; 8. Jacob Spellman ; 9. John H. Platt.; 10. Wm. ll.. Sutton; 11. J. D. Dun gan ; 12. Godfrey Mei/.gar; 13. Davis Ma honey ; 14. Henry Curry ; 15. Stewart Fields; 10. John M'ConnelJ; 17. Joseph Campbell; IS. Thomas Delahanty, no in structions Adams —Joseph R Sborb, no instruc tions. Allegheny—Wm. 11. M’Geo, James Ir win, C. P. Whiston, Dr. Hays, G. L. B. Fetterman, John Mackin, instructions for Cuss. Armstrong—(contested.) Berks—John S. Schroeder, Levi Wolfs berger, W. N. Potteiger, no instructions Bucks—Silas 11. Beans, A. J. Hibbs, no instructions. Bradford uud Sullivan—Delos Roekwoll, M. S.!Wnrner,sinstruetions for Packer. Blair—J. F. Campbell, no instructions. Cambria—F. A. Shoemaker, no instruc tions.} Carbon and Monroe—R. S.Staples, Centre—C. T. Alexander, instructions for Clymer. Clarion and Jefferson—D. C. Gillespie, no instructions. Clearfield, Forest and Elk—W. W. Ma son, no instructions. ( Clinton, Cameron and M’Keun— Chester— R E. Monaghan, John Twad dell and J. M. Jones, no instructions. Crawford—J. G.(Burlingbam, Thomas D. Nash, no instructions. Columbia and Montour—Jesse C. Am merman, no instructions. Cumberland— John H- Cresswell. Dauphin—H. S. Wilson,,Dr. Lewis Heck, instructions for Cass. Delaware—Col, W. C. Talley, instructions for M’Candless. Erie—Wm. A. Galbraith, Amos Heath. FuyetU—A. E. Wilson, instructions for Cass. Greeue—Cbas. A. Black, no instructions. Huntingdon, Mifilin and Juniata—John S. Miller, P. S. Greenleaf, instructed for Cass. ludiuna aud Westmoreland—James C. Anderson, Dr. J. M. Stevenson, aud Joseph M. Thompson, instructions for Cass. Lancaster—B. J. M’Graun, Charles Lav erty, R. H. Brubaker and Samuel M. Knox—instructed for Hancock. Lebanon—Charles Rodearmel. Lehigh—J. F. Newbart, P. H. Gross, no instructions. Lycoming, Union aod Snyder— Q. P. Lore, of Lycoming; Major John Cpm miugs by Snyder, J. W Knight, noinstruc tiona. Luzerne —Hon. D. L. Chapin, W. H. Stanton, E. C. Wasser, instructions for Packer. Mercer, Lawrence and Butler—W* S, Black, M. C. Trout, 9, T. Kennedy* Samuel Marshall. Montgomery—J. C. Smith, Gep. Lower. Northampton—C. M. Knansfi, Joseph Kleckner, no instructions. Northumberland—H. M’Cormick, ho iu atructions. Perry and Franklin—C. C. Brant, B. F. Winger, instructed by Perry for Cass. Schuylkill—F. W. Hughes, H. J. Hand ler, J. P. Coolihan, no instructions. Somerset, Fulton and Bedford—Geo. A. Smith, instructions for Cass, Jacob-Reed. Susquehanna and Wyoming—Thomas Oaterhout and C. M. Gere. Tiagoand Potter—Two, Venango and Warren—*Hon. A. Plumer, Wm. M’Nair, no instructions. Washington and Beaver—S. B. Wilson, Hon. Wm. Hopkinß] J-. D. Braden, instruc tions for Cass. Wayne and Pike—L. H. Westbrook, no instructions. York —Col. Levi Maisb, Dr. John Ahl, no instructions. •Since deceased. THE STATE CONVENTION* Delegates Gathering Rapidly. Good Feeling and Promise of Entire Harmony. Hancock Up and Still Rising. Harbisbubo, Jaly 12. Delegates to the State Convention are ar riving rapidly. There promises to be an immense crowd of outsiders present. The interest felt in this Convention seems to excel anything in the way of political assemblages that has been witnessed in this State for years. The Democracy are confi dent and determined to win. An advance guard from Philadelphia is here already, and numbers of them are enthusiastic in support of Hancock. This is rather unex pected, as two organized bodies from that city are coming, one in the interest of Cass> and the other in that of Packer. The popularity of Hancock is contagious, and the voice of the people as heard in the streets is unmistakably forhim. Since the Democracy of Pennsylvania have been for years in the minority the simple problem to be solved by the Convention is how to overcome the majority which has been steadily rolled up against us. That is the question which every delegate seems to be studying, uud all agree that Hancock would unquestionably bo elected, while the chances of the other candidates, though re garded as good, are uot considered to be equal, to that of the gallunt and gifted sol dier. Geary’s unquestioned personal weak ness must give any Democratic candidate more than an even chance with him, but it is not doubted by the most sugacious men of both parties that the nomination of Han cock would not only utterly annihilate the usual Radical majority but roll up au im mense figure on the other side. It would stir the so frequently defeated but undis mayed Democracy like an electric shock, and would infuse the mightiest energy in their indomitable ranks. Hancock’s services to the country huve been so brilliant, his antecedents and sur roundings of such a character, that thous ands of disgusted members of the Radical party yould vote for him without forfeiture of consistency or pride, and would cross us by a bridge to the enthusiastic and rejuve nated Democracy, who would receive them with the embrace of fraternity. Many of the delegates and others who are here, regard the Domination from a broad nuttoual.aud not a narrow local standpoint. Ia New York, Ohio, the far West, and the South, the Democracy are awaiting the namiug of Hancock with the liveliest hope that it will be associated with that of Rose crans in this campaign. His name and fame belong to the nation, while the repu tation, high as it is, of the other excellent geutlemen, must be conceded to be merely local. Hancock’s nomination would, there fore, fill the Democracy of the Union with unwonted joy, wliilo any other might de- : press, because it would chill the anticipa ions which are now so deeply cherished. The opposition to Hancock has assumed no other shape than the oft-repeated decla ration that he wiii not accept. This objec tion is tully met by the positive assurances of thoso who are his best friends, and who are best informed thut lie will :not hesitate to become the leader of the Pennsylvania j Democracy of this State. He has had no : opportunity, if he did not possess too much ' modesty, to decline a. nomination that has ; not yet beeu tendered. Tbo assurances of • those who are most intimate with bis views , are held sufficient by all who really desire : his nomination. Now and then, Hancock’s 1 pretended connection with Mrs. Surratt’s execution is suggested, but it causes little regard. An enthusiastic friend of IJanccck says that ho will agree to haul from one end of the State to the other, all the Democrats the i General will lose on that account. I can 1 only write cf opinions and speculations to night. To-morrow trains will bring a vast representation of the Democracy of the Slate,aud then there will bo further and. more definite developments. While the show , ing for Hancock may be light at first, on . account ol the system ofiastruction, yet bis strength will grow ever}’ hour, if his friends faithfully adhere. That he may be nomi nated is the ardent hopo this hourjof mil lions of Democrats, Besides yours trul}’, H. G. S. Tlie.Slckles Bnsiues.n, The IFor/d defends its recent exposo of the character of Mr. Minister Sickles from ; the charge of “malignity,” nnd it shows also that s- •me of the better class of Repub lican journals—the Nation, for instance—is endorsing all it said. Says the editor : “There is a malignity, and there i 3 anin | dignation. It was tho latter that we felt I and expressed. Privatecitizeu Sickles is a | disgrace to himself. Major-Gen. Sicklos is ; a disgrace to the U. S. Army. But Minis ter Sickles is a disgrace to all the people of . the couutry which sends him, and an insult ! to all the people of the country to which bo ■is sent. In this capacity, all citizens of his j country are involved in bis infamy, and we i meant to give notice, and we mean to give , notice, and there are some citizens who do : not intend tamely to partake that infamy. ’ We mean to prevent the elevation of other . Sickleses to uny post where they in any I way officially represent the hundreds of j thousands of readers whose sentiments in ! this matter we know we speak. And we ; hereby’ give notice that we shall serve every such scoundrel as we have served Sickles, ! with a view to the suppression of Sickleses I and the purging of politics.” ; The JlisslsslpplantlTexus Election Post poned. Washington, July 9, 1809. After their interview with President Grant this morniug, the Mississippi dele gation were confident that the election would be ordered to take place in their State ou or before the 15th oi September, when the cotton picking season begins. They were assured by tbe President that the election should be perfectly impartial and that every man should be allowed to vote to suit himself, unawed by tli© military, ~ and further, that at each election precinct there should be one judge taken from each of the con tending parties. It appears that during the Cabinet meeting subsequently held at the White House to day, thut Secretary Bout well, backed by Mr. Cresswell, insisted that the elections in both Mississippi and Texas •should be postponed until after the fall elections in Pennsylvania and Ohio, lest tbe result in the Southern States might be the same as in Virginia, which would seri ously afiect the elections in Pennsylvania and Ohio. After a protracted discussion of the sub ject in Cabinet, tbe President finally yield ed to the pressure, and fixed the fourth Tuesday in November next for holding the electiou in Mississippi. The election in Texas will probably be ordered at the same time, just six days before tbe assemblageof Congress. President Grant expressed the opinion that both Mississippi and Texas would go conservative by majorities quite as large us that given for Walker iu Vir ginia. The Army oi (the Potomac. At the receDt meeting of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, General Meade, who was received with great enthusiasm and prolonged cheering, made a brief but warm defence of the Army of the Potomac. Gen eral Meade claimed that impartial history w’ould yet do justice to the deedsand merits of the Army of the Potomac. The rebellion, he asserted, could never have been put down but for that army. In it bad occur red fifty per cent, of the deaths and wounds which occurred during the war, and where the men die and are wounded that, said General Meade, is the army where the work is done. In alluding to the subject of Gov ernment interference by telegraph with military operations, he asserted that all his tory proved that where a General’s opera tions were carried on near the Government and controlled thereby, they wore ineffect ual and failures. This, he contended,' had been the great hindrance ip the want of spe-r cess of the Army of the Potomac.— Ledger. The Virginia Election. Riohaion d, July 12.—The official election returns so far show that the blaqks voted closer to their registered strength than the whites, and the less intelligent blacks, who had been under the belief during the can vass that if the Walker ticket succeeded their rights would be taken away from them, and who were assured by Wells (in a speech the day before the election) that a victory for Walker would be no victory, aa the election would baye to be held over again, are not generally disposod to accept the situation. Yesterday afternoon a Walker negro was set upon by a colored mob, and had to be rescued by the whites. VIRGINIA RECONSTRUCTED l!! ROUT OF THE RADICALS! Carpet-Baxters Leaving; for Yankee While Hen Rale In the Old Dominion I No Negro Dynasty There! “ Sic Semper Tyrannlst” Richmond, July 6 —Scattering returns from all parts of the State show a decided majority for the anti-Radical or Conserva tive State tickot, headed by Walker for Gov ernor. The Conservative candidates for Legislature have been chosen in many dis tricts heretofore strongly Radical. The blacks in many of the districts voted against Wells, the Radical candidate for Governor. The whites turned out for the first time since the close of the war, and voted almost solid for Walker. Norfolk, July 6-10 P. M.—This city gives a majority for Walker, Conservative, for Governor. Portsmouth also gives a majority for Walker, and elects a Conserv ative Legislative ticket. Danville, July 6.—Danville district elects two Conservative and one Radical member of the Legislature. Reports from the neighboring townships and villages show a falling off of Republican votes and an increase of Conservative. Richmond, Va., July 6—lo P. M.—The State, as far as heard from, has gone for Walker for Governor. The Conservatives will have a majority in the Legislature. Washington, July 6 -Midnight.—A gen tleman jast arrived from the Piedmont re gion, Va., fromCharlottsvilleto Alexandria brings the following intelligence: Anti Radical majority in Charloltsville, .200. — Last year the majority was 200 the other way. Orange county has gone Anti-Radical by about 200 majority. Last year this county gave upwards of 200 majority. Culpepper county gives about 300 Anti- Radical majority. Last year this county gave 60 Anti-Radical majority. The Radical ticket is defeated in Prince ■William and Fairfax. Alexandria gives from 375 to 400 anti- Radical majority. Throughout the Pied mont region more blacks voted the Walker ticket than whites the Wells ticket, and many blacks abstained from voting. Near ly the entire white population went to the polls. The vote against the Constitution was very small. The two clauses submitted to a separate vote will be defeated by a large vote Richmond, Va., July 7—l A. M.—The State has gone for the Walker ticket by 20,000 majority. The Walker partv has swept the State by an overwhelming and unlooked for majority. It is not doubted that the Constitution is adopted, with the proscriptive clauses stricken out. From every section, county and precinct heard from, the Walker Legislative ticket has been elected, and the majority in that body is estimated at probably twenty-five. This city gives Walkerand the moderate Legislature ticket 250 majority. Smythe county, iu the southwest, gives Walker 1000 majority; Augusta 3000, and Albemarle 3000. Thirty per cent, of the negroes not voting in the latter county. Priuco George goes for Wells by a large majority. The Walker candidate for the Senate, however, is believed to be elected in that county aud Chesterfield. Culpeppergives Walker a haudsome ma jority, Chesterfield, with a large negro majority, is supposed to have gone for Walker. Pittsylvania shows a large Conservative guiti; one hundred negroes voting for Walkerand only three whites for Wells. Bedford has gone for Walker. The Good Sewn From the Old Dominion Continued—'The .Mongrel Bfegro Radi cals Overwhelmingly Defeated—-Wal- ter's Majority Estimated at Forty Thousand. Richmond, July 7.—Up to seven o’clock to-day, despatches received here show that Walker carries the State by 40,000 majority, and the Legislature by 40 on joint ballot. The following Walkercundidates for Con gress are certainly elected : McKenzie, Seventh District; Milne, Sixth District; Gib son. Eighth District; Ridgeway, Filth Dis trict; and Segar, Congressman at large. The following Wells Congressmen are elected : Ftatte, Second District; Porter, Third District, and Norton (colored) First District. All the telegrams of this morning give overwhelming gains for Walker, so large as to divest the result of tbo interest of doubt. Tho Walker men aro assembled in the streets in great crowds, cheering over the returns. Later— The following despatch was sent this morning by the Chairmun of the Walk er StatS Executive Committee to President Grant: Richmond, July 7, 1569. Mr. President Ou behalf of the State Executive Committee of the Walker party, I congratulate you upon the triumph of your policy in Virginia. The gratitude of the people for your liberality is greatly enlivened by the overwhelming majority by which that policy prevails. R. F. Daniel. To His Excelleucy U. S. Grunt, Presf dent of the United States. Walker's] majority in the State is esti mated, by additional returns this morning, at 40,000. Both branches of the Legislature are undoubtedly carried by the Walker men. This district elects eleven Walker men to tlie Legislature. The returns up set the calculations of the Wells men, based upon the vote by color,someofthe blackest counties having given large m -Monties for Walker. Fortress Monroe, July 7 —The elec tion in this vicinity passed off quietly. The returns from Elizabeth City county give Wells 1,205 majority; Warwick county about 120. Harris, colored candidate for Lieutenant-Governor on the Wells ticket, falls behind in the two counties some thirty votes. Kich.mo.nd, July 7.—Evening.—The Slate, according to the latest returns to-night, has gone by nearly forty thousand for Walker, and there is a Walker majority of fifty on joint ballot in ihe Legislature. The Walker people elect all the Congressmen except three, who are Platt, Porter and Norton (colored). This complete disaster to the Wells’ ticket results from, first, the unre liability of the negro vote, which in the country districts has gone lurgely for Walker, and second, because of the failure of their calculations in smue of the counties bordering on Tennessee and North Caroli na, where the white votes for that ticket were chiefly expected. In that quarter, the counties that were expected to give hin five hundred majority went against him by a thousand. Several Walker colored men have been elected to the Legislature. The Walker majority in forty-two coun ties is 27,000. Ail of Wells’ strong counties are heard from. Those to hear from will nearly double Walker’s majority. The city to-night presents an appearance of Fourth of July night, with fireworks and crowds cheering along the streets. Alexandria, July 7. —Alexandria city and county gives a Radical majority of 200. Seaton, colored, close. White is elected to the Legislature. Snowdon and Taylor, Conservatives, aro elected to the Senate. McKenzie’s majority for Burgess is esti mated at from 4,000 to 5,000. Reception or t oionel Walker at Rleli. fnou<l—A Holiday and Great Rejoldtig —Speech of the Governor Elect. Richmond, July B.—Gilbert C. Walker arrived here at 11 o’clock this morning from Norfolk. The day was made a holiday for his reception, and when the cars arrived about five thousand people had congregated at the depot. A committee, composed about equally of the most prominent white und colored citizens, was at the cars to receive him, but the populace rushed in, and, seiz ing Walker, carried him on their shoulders to a coach ornamented with the national and State flags. The procession, which was nearly a mile long, marched through the principal streets. Many of the coaches, of which there were hundreds in line,were covered with national flags, and on the bandwagon was a trans parency representing a white and colored man shaking hands. The streets were blocked with people following the, proces sion, and at least 20,000 were out. On reach ing the house of Colonel James R. Branch, the Conservative candidate killed by the calamity on Friday last, the procession passed in silence and with uncovered heads, Upou reaching the hotel Governor Walker appeared between the national and State flags held by representatives ef the two races, and after a few minutes of deaf ening cheers made a briefspeeeh as follows: My Fellow Citizens —l am too much ex hausted by the labors of the campaign, by the loss of sleep and by the reception of re turns, to make you a speech appropriate to this occasion. The election returns which have poured in from every section of the State speak a language too plain to bo mis understood. They bring tidings of a victory such as never crowned the efforts of a politi cal party in any previous campaign in the history of this grand old commonwealth. I told you fellow citizens, from these stops a week ago, that we were bound to triumph, and I pictured to you the begira of the mot ley crew of carpet baggers from Virginia. I saw one upon his mule just now with his carpet-bag duly labelled. (Laughter and cheers.) I accept this grand ovation to day, not as a complirdent to ruyself personally, but ns the presentation of a great idea ; and what is that idea, fellow citizens? It Is nothing less than the redemption, the disenthrallment and regeneration of Virginia. (Loud cheers) During this canvass, fellow-citizens, I have traversed all the great sections of the State and have everywhere discussed frankly and without reserve the great issues which divided the parties battling for supremacy in Virginia. I have everywhere told the people the prin ciples which would guide me if elected. I nave nothing to take back, to change or modify—no, not one jot or tittle. I am noyr as J have ever beeD, for equal and exact justice to all men, without regard toraeeor color. (Applause, long and continued.) Let us not, my fellow-citizens, in this hour of triumph and supreme joy, forget that chiefestpf Christian virtues, charity. Let ug bear no ill will or resentment to that poor, misguided raoe, which has been de luded and misled by designing and un- Erincipled men. (Cries of “Good, good.”) iet us do in the future what we haye in a measure done in the past, and what is dic tated by an enlightened Christianity. Let us educate this people until they rise m the 3caje of humanity to that position where they can intelligently exer cise the rights of freemen. When you shall have done this, and when they can appre ciate and comprehend these rights to their fall extent, we shall never again in Virginia have to pass through suoh a struggle as that whioh has Just closed- No more will igno anoe be arrayed against intelligence and or ganized pauperism against property, but all, without regard to race or color, will Btrive together in generous rivalry for the com mon good of our glorious old mother. [Pro longs applause.] Fellow citizens, I con gratulate you this day that, notwithstand ing the unblushing slanders and falsehoods which have been propagated aud circulated throughout the land, that yon and I stand shoulder to shoulder with the President of the United State for the emancipation of the white race in the South. [“Three cheers for Grant,” which were given with hearty good will.] I have everywhere done honor to the President Why not you do so to day? [Cries of “Yes, yes.” and loud cheers.] We are indebted to the personal efforts of the President to-day that the n i a ?? c^ea have been stricken from the limbs of thirty thousand white Virginians. [Wild cheering.] lam bo full of jov and good feeling towards aU men that I fear I shall, fellow citizens, weary yon, for out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketb. [Cries of “Go on.”] You have offered up upon the Altar of your State and country your cherished prejudices of birth and ed ucation, and though you have not been called on to sacrifice any principle, you have done that which required more of ef fort on your part. You have made conces sions unparalleled in history, I think you will be blessed for doing this, and my prayer is, fellow citizens, that you will be. You have redeemed Virginia. The wildest imagination cannot picture a career more glorious than now opens before her. But Virginia is just about to start upon a new career, glittering like the momingstar, full of life and glory. Herim mense resources will be developed, her great lines of improvements pushed forward to completion, and a tide of emigration will pour from every quarter into her borders. Then she will become, as she has hitherto been, the brightest star in the galaxy of States. Again I congratulate you upon the victory we have achieved, the peaceable victory, and I tell you that cur opponents as .well as ourselves will reap rich fruits. In the wise providence of the Almighty the rain falls alike upon the just and the un just. Yes, the deluded race—and I am thankful for it—which constitutes the bulk of the opposing party, will reap tho benefits ns well as you and I. I thank you once more from the bottom of my heart, fellow citizens, for this demonstration. In Rome’s palmiest days her most honored citizens were not the recipients of an oration more fraught with meaning, for the result of our victory will extend far into the future, and your children aud mine wilt bless tho sac rifices by which in our line of duty that victory has been achieved. Richmond, July ;B.—Additional returns received to night show that Walker’s ma jority will probably be 50,000. In many of the white counties west of the mountains, where Walker gets 300,0 r 400, Wells gets only 3 or 4 votes. * f General Cauby, in conversation to-day with a Republican member-elect of tbe Legislature, said ho was much pleased at the good order of the election, and thought, from the reportaof bis officers, that it had been, as far as heard from, us fair an elec tion as could be held in any State of the Union. Governor Walker leaves for New York to-night, aud Governor Wells leaves lor tho same pluce to-morrow, to visit a son there. The excitement of the election has not yet subsided, and tho city is bright with fire works to-night. Ibe Ohio Democratic State Convention • —Genera! Rosecruus Nominated lor Governor. Columbus, July 7.-The Democratic Stale Convention met to-day at 10 A. M., in the Opera House. The usual committees were appointed, ami the Convention took a recess till 2P. M. Tbe indications at e that Judge Runney will be the nominee for Governor. The Convention met at two o’clock, aDd organized with Hon. P. Van Trump as President. The following ticket was nom inated : For Governor, General W. S. Rosecrans, ou the second ballot; ‘for Lieu tenaut Governor, T. G. Godfred; for Judge of the Supreme Court, W. J. Gilmore: lor Treasurer of the State, Stephen Buhrer; for Attorney General, Colonel J. M. Connell. The following resolutions were adopted : Resolved, That the exemption irorn tax of over §2,500,000 government bonds and securities is unjust to the people, audought not to be tolerated, and that we are opposed to any appropriation for the payment of tho interest on the public bonds until they are made subject to taxation. Resolved, That the claims of the bond holders that the bonds which were bought with greenbacks, and the principal of which is by law payable in currency/fchould nev ertheless be paid in gold, is unjust and ex tortionate, and if persisted in will inevi tably force upon the people the question of repudiation. Resolved, That we denounce the high pro tective tariff, which was designed only in the interests of the New England manufac turers; that said tariffis also, by its enor mous impositions on salt, sugar, tea, coffee and the necessaries of life, unendurable and oppressive, especially upon the people of tho West, and that we demand Its repeal and the substitution of another, based upon revenue principles alone and upon the closest possible approximation to absolute t ree trade. Resolved, That tho Democratic party of the United States has always been pre eminently friendly to the rights and inter ests of. the laboring man; that it is in favor of a limited number of hours in all manufacturing workshops, the hours dicta ted by the physical and mental well being of the laborer; that it favors tbe most liberal laws in regard to household and homestead exemption from sale and exe tion; thut it is also in favor of liberal grants of land from the public domain to actual settlers, without any cost, and is opposed to the donation of them to swind ling railroad corporations, and that it is generally friendly to a system of meas ures advocated by the labor and industrial congresses, and we pledge the Democratic party, if restored to power, to exercise its influence in giving them practical applica tion. Resolved, That the attacks of Governors Hays and Lee upon the doings of tho late General Assembly are false in fact, ma licious in spirit, and unworthy of gentle men occupying their elevated position*. Resolved, That the late General Assembly were called upon to make largo and extra ordinary appropriations, and to meet a de ficiency of over $500,000 of the preceding Republican Legislature, which, together with the extra compensation puid to the members under the law passed by tho Re publican Legislature, were provided for without any increase to the Slate levy, uud the appropriations in tho aggregate are much less than those of the preceeding Republican Legislature, without abstract ing $BOO,OOO from the relief fund for the maimed and disabled soldiers and their families. Resolved, That we hereby return our thanks to the Fifty-eighth General Assem bly for their economical expenditures iu tbe administration of the State government, and the exposure of the wholesale frauds iu the erection of State buildings, whereby the people were swindled out of half a million of dollars by the negligence of the Republi can State officials. Resolved, That it is the right of euch State to decide for itself who shall possess the elective franchise within it, that the attempt to regulate suffrage in Ohio by rneaßs of the so-called Fifteenth Constitutional amend ment is subversive of the principles of the Federal Constitution. Resolved, That the policy and legislation of the Radical party directly tend to do stroy all the reserved rights of the States, aod convert the republic into a consolidated despotism. That whether such despotism be exercised by an Emperor, a President or a Congress, the result would be fatal to liberty and good government. Resolved, That we denounce the National Banking system as one of the worst out growths of the bonded debt, which unnec essarily increases the burden of the people thirty millions annually, and that we de mand its immediate repeal. Resolved, That the trial aud sentence to death of of Texas by military com missioners, not in the military or naval ser vice, when the civil courts were in unob structed exercise of their functions in that State, and in time of profound peace, and the approval of that sentence by President Grant, are violations of the most sacred rights of American citizens, and deserve and should receive the earnest condemna tion of every lover of iiberty and constitu tional government. Resolved, That the numerous palpable and high-handed usurpatibns of the party in power, their many public and private acts of tyranny, trampling under foot the civil law, and the guarantees of the Consti tution, their continuing to deprive sovereign States of representation in Congress, und to govern said Stateo by military rule, show them to be a party of despotism and un worthy the confidence aud support of a free people. Resolved, That we extend the right band of fellowship and recognize a brother in a common cause; all conservative men, not heretofore Democrats, who will unite with us in rescuing the government from the un worthy hands into which it has fallen, we pledge the united and cordialsupportof the 250,000 Democrats in Ohio, whom we repre sent to the ticket nominated by this Con vention, and presented by us to the suffrage of the people of Ohio. A Huge Wheat Field. A gentleman who passed through Roan oke county a few daysslnce informs us that he saw on Tuesday on the Dropmore farm, near Salem, the most magnificent sight he ever beheld. This was a siugle field oi seven hundred acres In extent, on which the most beautiful wheat was growing, its purple and golden heads waving in the wind, and ever presenting now aspects of kaleidosco pic beauty. In this single field one reaper and eighteen cradles were operating, ana the ripe grain was falling fast and far before the sharp touch of these shining blades. The proprietors, Messrs. Chapman and Green, were endeavoring to cut one hundred acres per day, which gives some idea of the power of their machines. Our informant stales that the entire,, area of seven hundred acres was thick "with the finest wbeathe ever saw. —Lynchburg ( Va ,) Republican. A petition for a habeas corpus fiom Cob Yerger, now on trial for murder before a military commission in Mississippi, has been presented to Chief Justice Chase, and the Chief Justice will give the application a hearing in Washington to morrow. The Attorney General has been notified, and will be present. WESTWARD NC. 10. Portland, Oregon, June 25tli, 1869. ** At the West,” would perhaps be a more appropriate heading for this letter, but in asmuch as I have started In with that cap tion for this series, I shall adhere to it for the present, and proceed to give you a pic ture of “ Portland.” And in order to make this description as truthful and interesting as possible shall call to my aid such statis tical information as comes within my reach in printed form, adding sufficiently of my own impressions to preserve the identity of originality throughout. The stranger on nearing this city by steamer, cannot help being favorably im pressed with its general appearance. Sit uate on a gently rising ground, some of the buildings touching the water’s edge of the broad, quiet Willamette, with extensive and permanent wharfage, large ware houses, factories, machine shops, hotels stores and shops, everything bearing the stamp of progress and enterprize, we can hardly realize that we are nearing a city of but a few years growth. The feeling of agreeable disappointment and pleasing surprise is heightened and intensified how ever as we make our entree into the city itself. There is no braucb of trade unrep resented here. Every comfort, every con venience, every advantage of the larger cities of the East, is happily commingled. First and Front streets are the Broadway and Chestnut streets of Portland. Buildings which would be no discredit to Fifth Ave. itself, rear their palatial proportions along their sides. Every commodity imaginable is found in tbeir well-filled, beautifully proportioned rooms. Portland is a fait accompli. It is no town on paper. About;two miles of substantially finished Nicholson pavemeut make either a walk or a drive au infinite pleasure. Well planked and broad sido walks extend over the entire city, gas lamps stand upon every corner, water mains run under every street, and that water U pure, fresh aud limpid, brought from the adjacent stream. Two beautiful parks or ” publiesquares ” giveevidenee of the taste aud liberality of tbeir founders, aud will,; when once the trees aud shrubbery shall 1 have attained full development, be the most inviting resorts of her citizens. The Court House, situate upon a rise in the city, is a specimen of architectural beauty rarely fouud in our larger town*, and most per fectly adapted to the purpose for which it bus been erected, while at the sumo time it forms one of Lin* most prominent features ot the place, it is scarcely neces sary to add that the population is enter prising and respectable, as a whole, while at the same time it contains utnnng its numbers, every Imaginable grade ot so eiety from the lowest to the highest. Cue novel feature, and the most striking to a 'stranger, is the Chinese element visible on every hand. Chinamou are as thick us Pharouh’s Ileus. Wherever the eve turns it will rest upon a Chinaman. A long tail ed, almond-eyed, eotfee colored, live, but barely living, Chinumeu. And when we begin to read some of the sigus along the | streets, we almost imagine ourselves in the ; Celestial Empire. Here Mr. “Tung Wa’’ ; tells the pusser-bv thut he does washing, ironiug and polishing. Then* Hop Sing does ditto. Here again “ Katn Wuh” re minds you of the same calling, aud thoro Mr. “Long Luck Chung” informs you that he sells tea, and there again “ Wa Ko,” tells you the sume story, while the equally symphonious names “ Loong Siting, ’’ “ "’ ir >g Hing,” “ Hop Kee,” “Hong .Song, 1 ' “Tung Wa” and “Katn Wuh” display Choir cards of invitation on every hand, in the etlort to attract the attention of passers" by, and ?o on ad infinitum throughout the entire city, you will find Chinaman a barm, less, dirty, idolatrous, degraded set, fit only to become voters about as intelligent as the Southern negro. But leaving John China man (that’s the name every mother’s son of them is hailed by,) let us lurn onco more to tho City of Portland. Among her public and more prominent buildings, which servo to give her all the appearances of a first-class town, I will give the dimensions of a few which will serve as an index to the whole. First and foremost is tho now book building, situate on the corner of Ist and Slurk streets. This beautiful edifice is 50 by 100 feet, brick base aud Oregon iron front. Tho side on Stark street has 66 irou pilasters projecting from the face of the building from 3 to 10 inches, so handsomely arranged as to light j and shade as to give it a most pleasing and symetrical appearance. The front is cor respondingly adorned by 25 pilasters, with Corinthian and lluted caps and doric buses* Next to this in magnitude of construction design and finish, is the four-story building of Mr. White, on the corner of Front and Morrison streets, which is 24 by 73 feet, be ing divided into threo stores, each 18 feet high from floor to ceiling. All tho doors and windows are of large plate glass, while all the exterior as well us the iuterior fin ish, is in strict keeping of elegunce of stylo and finish throughout. Twenty more simi lar buildings might bo named, but theso are deemed sufficient to convey au idea of tho taste displayed by capitalists in tho erection of substantial ornaments to make Portland a pretty city. The importance of tho place can perhaps be more readily seen when I stale that her exports during 1868 amounted to very neurly $3,000,0UU, employ ing mue steamships aud thirty-five sailing vessels. The importance will however be greatly euhanced after the completion of her new government buildings, for which an appropriation was made during thy last session of Congress, and the work upon which will be commenced this season. To convey an idea of tho agricultural wealth of Oregon I will state that there were shipped during the past year from this poit alone : Hour, 12,660 bbls, wheat, 7-1,603 bus ami oats, 73,196 sacks u( 100 lbs each. Oregon is also nolod for its excellent fruit, the apple being the most important pro duction, and of which 39,501 bushels were sent from this place during the same period. Portland con also boast of tho best Hotel accommodations to be found on the coast of tho Pacific, and any ono contemplating an extended stay here, had better not bring much clothing with him, ns ho will surely find, after alittlo time, that ho must either have them expanded, or get new ones Human nature cannot resist the tempta tion to out too much, and most lavishly do our “Mino Hosts,” spread out their “cornu copias” of plenty, thus tempting weak hu man nature to ovtrindulgeuce. Fourteen Hotels vie with eucb other to do tho best or their guests, and this makes it difficult to discriminate; yet,ns a matter of informa tion, I may us well montion even at the risk of being charged with insidious par tiality that tho “Cosmopolitan” is tho host houso in the city, It will do an Eastern man good to witness the excitement among tho hotel men on the arivul of u steamer ! Nearly every one of tho first class houses have their "Stage” with fine fast horses tbeir drivers, runners, and agonts, and even long before the boat touches the wharf, you are greeted by the cries of “Cosmopolitan !'■ • ‘NewColumbian!” “Exchange !”“West ern !” Ac., &*., “Free Coach I” “Ride up!” and*kindred.appeals from u Babel of voices, while cards came Hying thick and fast, as snow Hakes, towards and on deck of the yessel. It is an exciting scene und ono that would do credit to Court land stroet, New York, or Walnut street, Philadelphia, and yet this is only n town of 15 years’ growth and 15,000 inhabitants. Other trades are equully well represented, aud embrace among their number every imaginable branch found inany full growu city in the United States. East Portland, on Ibo opposite bank of the Willamette, is tbo Camden [of Oregon, and must in time become an important place, owing to the fact that it will be, for some time to come, at least, the maiu ter minus of the Oregon and California Rail road, which is now iu slow process of con struction. Besides this eastern line of rail road there is also projected another line on this, the western bank of the river, which may at some distant day perhaps be car ried to completion. W bile I do not advise any one to leave a good homo or business in the East, I will yet state for general information that me chanics, such as carpenters, bricklayers* dec., can earn lrom four to six dollars per day during the summer season, while labor ing men, who have no/rade, find it rather difficult to compete with John Chinamen, and all such had better Dot seek a home here unless they possess some means to back them when the worst does come. An Odd Fellows’ Hall is beiDg erected which will be nearly if not quite as large and improv ing a 9 the Hall on the corner of Sixth and Haines street, Philadelphia, and will add another feature of beauty to the already handsome place. Now streets are being opened in all directions, extending the city limits; new buildings of ornamental design and large size are going up all over the town. Streets are named, and numbered in sooh a manner “that he who runs may read,” and And his way without difficulty. In short, I repeat, Portland is a real, bona-fide, live town and bound to become a great centre of trade and commerce, and if I have given her a little more attention than might be deemed ne cessary I may bo pardoned when I tell you that it is the first place I have visited since I left Lancaster which comos up to my ideas of what I would choose if I sought a new home. My next move shall bo a tour up the Willamette Valley (said to he ono of the finest on tho Continent) and of which you may have a description at some future day. . Traveler. REPUBLICAN OPINION OF GRANT. I fleet of Ills Policy la Pennsylvania. That able Republican journal, tho N. Y. Sun, publishes tho following most signifi cant editorial: Wtint;docH ho Think oMt Now 1 When the gallant Col. M’Clure held his celebrated interview with Gen. Grant in February last, he begged the Generul not to put into the Cabinet, which bo wns then about to organize, any such mau us Mr. Adulpho Borie, for the reason that politi cians of that stamp “could not vitalize n party.” To this the General replied with ouo of tho humorous sayings which bo sometimes has at his command. Wo don’t now remember what ho said, but lie was thought at the timo to have got immensely the advantage of M’Clure. Since then Borie has been lifted into the Cabinet anti has been hoisted out again, to give place to a Jerseymun jiißt os littlo known and just as insignificant as bo was ; ami now wo read in tho papers that John Covodo and Simon Cameron are in Wash ington to implore Gen. Grant, as M’Cluro did in February, to put somebody into tho Cabinet whose appointment will vitalize the polities of Pennsylvania, and save the Republicans from tiio defeat with which they fell that they aro threatened in Octo ber. Whether Gen. Grant still thinks his wit of I'ebruury to lmvo been good wit, and the appointment of the amiable Bot ie— with his gill of five thousand dollar* to wurd Gen. Grant’s house—to have been a bril liant appointment, ho would probably rather not state at present. Whatever may now be done, it is most probable that tlie Kepuhlicaus will be beaten in Pennsylvania, and beaten, let us say, mainly beeause Gen. Grant has pro\ed himself unequal to the work he has under taken to do. To change the Cubiuel now, aud appoint the ablest and most unobjec tionable citizen of that Stale in tho place of Mr. Fish, Mr. Hoar, Mr. Creswell, or Mr. Robeson, would not mend the matter much lor the moment. Neither would it do much good, so far as the votes of the Pennsylvu niuus in October are concerned, lor the President at once to throw overboard the crew of his relations and cronies, the Caseys, the Dents, tho Hudsons, the Fords, and the re*t of them, for whose benefit he lias treated the public service as a sort of captured merchantman, on whose At cargo lie would have his favorites grow rich and lustv. It would probably also be useless, tor t lie pur pose of this Pennsylvania election, to re • verse tip* fatal policy toward the Cubans, which has pul this great country into the sad and revolting position of a spy und a policeman of Spanish despotism, laboring for the perpetuation ofsluverv in Cuba. All these acts of tho President are bad, very had; they ought to be changed without delay ; but to change them will not change the political tendencies of Pennsylvania in time for tiiis election. Noil her will it restore Gen. Grant to tho place in the public esteem which he occupied before his muuguration. Errors may be corrected, but they cannot bo forgotten. Confidence once forfeited cannot bo lully restored. We have repeatedly commented on the extraordinary want of discretion shown by General Grant in the composition of his Cabinet. How in* should have been guilty of such miraculous lack of wisdom ii is dif ficult to imagine. It is just as tf he had chosen obscure non-commissioned officers lor the command of army corps and armies during the war, leaving tho Shermans, Thomases, Sheridans in idle inaction. Tho only rostilt ot such a course with an army would he dVfeut; und Gen. Grant will yet come to understand, if he lives a year or two longer, that as much common sense is ne -1 cossary in tho government of a country as 1 in the command of troops, j He learns this indispensable lesson very I slowly, howi'ver. Tins last astonishing ap , poiutmentof Robeson shows that he still j supposes that lie can treely indulge the lovi • ty of his own whim in the selection of hb | ministers. This is a dangerous delusion, like several others that possess him, and control his judgment. We tell him in all kindness and earnestness, that he is walk ing on the verge of a precipice, and that his ruin and that of his party will be black, sudden, and beyond reniody, if he does not J speedily arouse himself to the realities around him. A free government can old}' bo curried on with the hourly support of the peoplo. Will Gen. Grant never leurn what it Is to be President ? It is evideut that he has not begun to apprehend the nature of 1 the responsibilities that rest upon him. Let us hope that he will open his mind to the admonition of theso experienced men of Pennsylvania, and perceive, however dim ly, what great opportunities his frivolity has wasted. Let him too, if lie would uvoid a greater evil than the loss of tho approach ing elections, make baste to retrace his ill advised steps, and as far as possible to re pair the faults ho has committed. An Old Man attack* (1 by Three ItnlllaiiH and nearly .Murdered. At No. 41 Nortli Seventh street, Philadel phia, within but one door of the Theatre Comique, and surrounded on all shies by business places, is situated an old building, which is snmo forty feet hack of the main street und which would la* ncarouly noticed by the passer-by. In this antiquated struc ture lives, and has lived fur eighty yours, an elderly gentleman, Thomas Crumley. He is a bachelor and for many year* has dwelt in this habitation alone. lie was visited by but few people, and they wore his relatives and a few tenants of pro perties of which he was the possessor, lie whs reputed to be wealthy, and many considered that, liko all men of his nature, ho kept his wealth around him. Every chance was offered those who hail a dispo sition HO to do to have broken into Ins dwelling in thy night, and have nibbed him of all the moneys and valuables ho had about him, without even causing an ularm, nod it is the wonder of tho neighborhood that such had not, at least, been attempted for years back. But, as if Providence was in ft, it was reserved for such an attack to be made upon him. and that right at a timo when tho thoroughfare on winch his place fronted was most crowded with pedestrians. Yesterday morning Mr. (’romley was waited upon by three men, who desired to rent some property of him. The old gen tleman answered their queries, and they left apparently perfectly satisfied. How ever, at hull'past six o’clock last evening they returned, and one of them entered the rear room where he was silling examining a lot of papers. On the table also rested au old gold tune piece. The oilier two nui tinued up the side yard, going towards the hydrant, us Mr. Crumley thought, to get u drink of water. The ouo who came iulu tho dwelling questioned him a little then pulled out a bar of iron ami smoio him across tho forehead twice in quick succession. Mr. Crumley cried murder at the top of his voice. Tho fellow continued his blows, and the old gmtlemun continued his shrieks. Evidently ularmed, the would-be mur derer picked up tho wuteh uml ran out of the place, closely followed by bis compan ions. Several of the neighbors hearing his cries run over, but notin time to capture tho villains, who made good their escape. A physician was immediately summoned, but Mr. Cromloy’s wounds, though severe, were tound to be not dangerous. Ills in juries were attended to and he was Imme diately taken to the residence of a sister on Buttonwood street. The detectives were informed of this bold outrage uml given a description of the scoundrels. Tho only reason assigned for this attack is that the rufiians calculated that they could silence Mr. (’romley with a blow, ami then secure the money and valuables which he is alleged to have carried nbout him. —Philadelphia Post. Another Oceau Mystery. The steamship United Kingdom, us most of our readers aro now aware, sailed from the port of New York for Glasgow on the 19tb of April lust. She had a fuir cargo on board, and a goodly number of passengers. On the 20ib, the day after she sailed, she was spokou soino ono hundred aud fifty miles from Sandy Hook. It is supposed by Homo that sbo was seen on May 4, about five hundred miles from Now York. This Is nil wo know of tho U nited Kingdom since she lust left her harbor in tbeso waters. It is now a long time since April Hi. April is gone; May and June have followed, and now wo huve entered upon July; but tho fate of tho United Kingdom is still un known. That she has perished with all on board it is now reasonable to conclude ; but from what cause, or in what circumstances, we are left to eonjecturo. On the 2dlh of April, -six days ufior tho United Kingdom sailed, tho City of Paris arrived in ibis port nnd reported icebergs and heavy galea in tho neighborhood of Capo Race. It is possible that tho Unitod Kingdom perished urn id these gales, aud from collision with un iceberg. It is hard to give up lope, but we are not left uny foundation on which longer to lean. Like the Hibernia, of paiulul memory, tho United Kingdom has no doubt gone down; but, uniike the Hibernia, has, in all proba bility, carried with her her entire living freight. It is in fact another terrible sea tragedy—all the more terrible, in truth, thut no ouo has survived to tell tho tale.—Scot tish, Amcncan Journal. lufnn(lcidc|ln Berks County. Reading, July 9.—Two cases of Infanti cide have come to light in this county with in tho past two days. The first occurred in this city. Tho body of a newly born raulo iufant was discovered yesterduy morning iu tho cesspool of tho premises on Ninth and,Chorry streets, where It had evidently laid for three weeks. Testimony Was pro duced before the Coroner to-duy of persons who had heard tho child cry on the night of its birth. The mother has been arrested and committed for a hearing. Tho other happened in Omeluuueo town ship, near Leosport. Tho body of a malo child, apparently four or five weeks old, was found yesterday morning by a little girl flouting in Muideu creek, with a gasfi in Its neck below the ear. Tho district at torney und Detective Lyon proceeded to the spot this afternoon to investigate the affair, and it Is reported have discovered and ar rested the unnatural mother.
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