WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1869. DEMOCBATIC BTATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR: :hod. ASA PACKBB, or Carton county. FOR JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT* Hon. CTBFS I. PERSHING, of Cambria co. MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COMMITTEE. The Democratic County Committee will meet on MONDAY, the 30th day of AU GUST, at 11 o’clock, A. M., at the Demo cratic Club Rooms in the City ot Lancaster, fir the purpose of organization. R. R. TSHUDY, Chairman. B. Ji McGrann, Secretary. Tiie Headquarters of the Democratic State Central Committee have been established at the Booms of the Demo cratic Association, corner of Ninth and Arch streets, Philadelphia. The new Chairman has entered upon the cam paign with vigor, and with the bright est hopes of success. The Political Prospect. The Democracy of Pennsylvania have it in their power to redeem the State at the coming gubernatorial election. — Very many of the beet Republicans, were bitterly opposed to the renomina tiou'of Geary. They had scrutinized his course as-Governor, and were deep ly disgusted wiih him. Iliß empty vanity, his conceited ignorance, his blundering stupidity, his want of truth fulness, and his utter lack of honesty, as displayed iu his complete subservi ency to the infamous Legislative ring, turned many of the more honest, in telligent and conscientious members of bis own party against him. Quite a number of Radical newspapers openly assailed him and predicted his certain defeat, if he should ha renominated. Hut, the voice of the honest and disin terested men of the party failed to be heard, and the warnings of its most sa gaeious politicians were unheeded. — Geary packed the tfLate (’(invention by securing tiie active supports of all the corrupt legislators ami lobby men \vlio assembled at the State Capitol during his term of olliee. l:Ie was from the be ginning the willing and tuple tool of the legislative ring, and of the crowd of greedy cornmrants who hovered around the Stale Capitol. lie was always ready to append his signature to the multi tude of infamous hills which they put through the Legislature. In some in stances he acted iu defiance of the ad vice of Attorney (ieneral Brewster, and in others, (as tho Identic act and bills of similar character,) he hastened to append his ollleial signature without consultation with his chosen, legal ad viser. Tiie “ring” could not aflbnl to lose such a valuable friend as Geary* and ho they packed the State Convention with their paid tools ami hired pimp*. A nomination made under such cir cumstances could not fail to be unpop ular, and it Is not surprising that numbers of active and iniluenllal Re publicans throughout the State should declare their determination to vote against Geary. He will not receive the united support of his own party. The borrowed plumes of military glory, iu which iie was paraded during the canvass of lMiii, have been stripped from him. Tiie newspaper story about that wonderful battle at Look Out Mountain lias been completely exploded, aud the buckram hero of a fabled battle among iietitious clouds is left to stem the cur rent of popular obloquy without those adventitious aids which elevated him to a position he has shown himself utterly unfit to liil. Tu Hie present contest Geary Is running, not on his newspaper record as a soldier, but upon the record he made for himself as Governor of Pennsylvania ; and that is so complete ly unsatisfactory and disgraceful, as to render him a very weak candidate. He can bo beaten ; aud we believe he will be. But, tho Democracy of the Keystone State must not suppose they'are going to win without a vigorous utul well-di rected effort. Tho corrupt men who have made fortunes out ofolllce will not yield the advantageous position they occupy without a desperulo struggle. The legislative ring and all the horde of jobbing politicians will do their best to elect fhelr tool ami confederate, John W. Geary. They can afford to spend money liberally, and they will do so. The registry law will he converted inlo a means olYiieating citizens out of their voles wherever it can he done, ami at tempts of (hut kind will la* made wher ever the* Radicals have full control of tho matter. Thu law dispensing with spring elections, ami ‘.browing them over to the fall was purposely put, through with the hope that the multi- i plication of candidates would bring out the full Radical vole. MV dun not r> h/ itjxri) th< (ipnlliji ifoi/r njijji/)u ulr lit (hr roinhii/ i !> rUnu. With a fid! poll of the Democratic vote of the Stale, we regard the election of Packer and Pershing as absolutely certain. W'i" /hr full rotr hr pollrd f Thai js the one important question. The Dcmecracy of l lie wards ami town ships must answer it. It can only he done by prompt and etticient organiza tion in each election district. Thotime which is left, for work is brief. Only seven weeks remain in which to ac complish all t hut is to he done. Delay in organization will prove fatal. What is to he done must he done quickly (tinl Ihrrr in ni ur/i In hr firriiiuji/ishrd. A full uinl accurate lint of nil the Democratic voters in each election dis trict must hi* made a( once, and cure- Ailly compared with the registration hank which in him# up at the polling place. That in a work of absolute neres ally in districts where the Radicals have control of the hoard of registrars. It will not do to trust to their honesty. Thu unconstitutional registration law was passed to enable cheating to he car ried on, iuul it will he done, unless ex traordinary precautions ari\ taken to prevent it. There arc iu;nty persona entitUdto naturalisation papers who must he promptly attended to. They must he duly register'd as well as naturalized. The great med of tin* hour is the prompt organization of a Democratic club or committee in each election dis trict, which will see to it that not a vote is lost or left at home, that can, by any possibility, he legally polled for Packer and Pershing. A fullpolloj the. Democratic rote mi// insure, ft r/forious victor//. To si cure (hat is llie great work set lie fore the members of the purly.— Let active cllcrls in each election dis trict lie begun at once, and vigorously prosecuted, and the second Tuesday of October will sec Radicalism dually buried in Pennsylvania and throughout the Union, With proper organization uud vigor ous effort on the part of Die Democracy victory is sure. We can only lose the coming election by our own apathy.— Less than five votes in each electhm district will overcome the Radical ma jority of last fall. Let every Democrat remember that, ami let organization and .work be the order of the day from the present hour, until the descending sun of the second Tuesday of October curries.down with it into eternal dark ness the corruption and the rascality of Radicalism in Pennsylvania, Till-: Brook ly n Union thus locates the President and various members of his Cabinet, at the present time : The Presi- dent, Western Pennsylvania ; the Vice President, California; Che Secretary of Btate, New York ; the Secretary of the Treasury, Groton, Mass.; the Secretary of the Navy, the Tallapoosa; the At torney-General, Concord, Mass.; the poatrnußter General, Washington; the Secretary of the .Interior, Ohio; the Commissioner of Xutern&l Revenue, Sharon, N. Y. These men must have roving commissions. I ?£n?TXT-g-CABTEI R WEEKLY UsTTEHUGKEnSTOEB, 'WEDNESDAY, A.UGTJST 25. 1869. Grant’* Surrender to the Radicals. General Grant TaU sorrepdSred most ignomlnlouily and disgracefully to the : extreme Radicals. He has oonsented , to adopt their vlndlotive. and selfish policy against the great bulk of the white people of the South. 1“ en " oouraglng and sanctioning the ment of the Iron-clad test oath in V - glnlahehas not only given the s his own report of the condition o South after the war. and reversed h s decision in the case of Loulalana but he has broken the word he plighted to the people of Virginia at the eommence mentof the recent canvass in that State. He has shown a Jack of truthfulness and a disregard of honor which must render him perfectly contemptible in the eyes of every honest and high minded Republican in the North. Grant not only has no policy of his own, but he lacks the sturdy manhood which frequently makes even dull men respected. He is fast becoming a mere tool in the hands of a set of desperate political sharpers, whose only aim is to enrich themselves by the spoils of office which they expected to gather in the Southern States by the aid of negro voteß* To enable a few greedy adven turers to foist thefflßelves into paying positions which they are unfit to fill, he violates his plighted promises, and deliberately agrees to do all in his pow er to impede the restoration of several Southern States to their proper places in the Union. He thus strikes a severe blow at the material interests of the nation, and foments political animosi ties of the most bitter character. Even Horace Greeley is compelled to protest earnestly against the outrageous conduct of the man he helped to make President. Mr. Grant may defeat the will of a large majority of the people of Virginia, as expressed iu an election admitted to be fair; ho may ousttbe legally chosen members of the State Legislature ; may give tlieir seats to de feated carpet-baggers and scallywags, and may thus enable one of his brothers in-law aud some other adventurer to obtaiu uulawful admittance to the United States Senate; but his actiou will only recoil with terrible force upon the Republican party. Such outra geous conduct, suchashamelesß exhibi* tiou of a disregard of ofticial duty, such a proatitution of tho powers of the Ex ecutive to base partisan purposes will only serve to alarm thousands of con scientious, patriotic and law-abiding Republicans in the North. A tempor ary triumph for Radicals of the baser sort in one or two Southern States will break the power of the party In Penn sylvania, Ohio, Indiana aud otlwr Northern States. The dishonesty and the stupidity of Grant will not only bring him into contempt with the peo ple—it will lead to a speedy destruction of the party which elected him. The time when such things could be ex cused has passed away, we hope forever. When Horace Greeley openly de nounces the course which Grant lias bceu induced to pursue in regard to Virginia, many thousands of honest Re publicans will stop to think aud will begin to act independently. The Coal Strikes. The troubles in same districts of our coal regions still continue, and there seems to be little prospect of effecting any speedy adjustment of them upon a permanent basis. Tiie miners hold out stoutly for such a regulation of prices as will give them an opportunity to make a decent living by a fair day’s work. Tiie operators declare that they cannot afford to accede to the demands of the miners, and so the quarrel goes on, while consumers pay the penalty iu greatly increased prices. There ought to be no irreconcilable controversies between cupitul and labor. Working men do not generally demand more than a fair price for th&ir labor, and it is certain that they very seldom get more. Here tofore capital has proved stronger than labor, and few strikes have been pro ductive of much permanent benefit to those engaged iu them. Two of the Radical newspapers of Philadelphia have tuken to abusing the coal miners iu the bitterest and coarsest terms. The result is that even the Welsh aud Eng lish are turning against the Republican party. a The truth is that John W. Geary is largely responsible for the high prices , that we ure now paying for coal. When j tho public work*, the canals and other I internal improvements belonging to the , State were sold, a part of the agreement j was u stipulation that the rates of toll ! should never be increased beyond neer- 1 tain moderate figure. That stipulation prevented tiie canals from bringing any thing like as high a price as they would nave commanded if 110 such restriction in favor of the masses had been in serted. When Geary came into power he speedily became the corrupt tool of the legislative ring, aud the thieves who made money by repealing the re striction upon tolls found him ready and willing to act with them. The re sult was a heavily increased rate of toll on the canals, a removal of competition with the railroad companies which bought them, and a large consequent increase in the price of fuel. Let every householder remember, when lie pays an enormous price for his winter coal, that John W. Geary Is largely respon sible tharpfor. He could have inter posed his veto to protect the consumer, but he did not. He is the tool of the legislative ring aud the friend of cor rupt and exacting monopolists. Grunt In Harrisburg, General (Irani’s appearance in, Har risburg created no excitement. He wus permitted to go quietly to Simon Cam eron’s residence ami to leave the city the next morning almost unnoticed.— The' Patriot does not think ho Is ‘swing ing around tbo circle’ Just for fun. it says he is looking up a man to take charge of the Treasury Department, in place of JJouLwell. Nut only has Judge Dent fallen out with the Massachusetts financier, but Mrs. Grant is said to be exceedingly hostile to him. Tbo pres sure for his removal Is more than Ulys ses can stand, If current rumors are to be credited. Bo lie is represented to be going about the country lu rather a disconsolate manner, like Diogenes with his lamp, looking for an honest man. Diogenes did not find what he sought, ills said, though lie traversed tiiu streets with a shining lump in Ills hand ul noon day. Grant In all proba bility lias heard Thud. Stevens’ decla ration that “Simon Cumeron would not steal a red hot stove,” ami so went to his house in seaich of ah honest Sec retary of the Treasury. If tho Patriot is not misinformed there is a strong probability that Simon’s son, J. Don, Cameron,. Esq., will be offered Bout well’s place before long. CoYodc’s Letter to Brewster. The Philadelphia Post, when It pub lished Covode’s letter to Attorney Gen eral Brewster, requesting him to resign, took care to state that it did not print the letter as it was written. The editor of the Erie Observer has been favored with a slcht of the original document, and it reads, “lUeratiin, punctuatim ct spellatim precisely as follows: coutiNeut I hotel July The 30 ’O9 hem benjlman brooster aflur con Sultashun With our perlltikal Ahs oaheats Whu ar Anknhua Forr ibo elekshum uv our MewtabaL fr End i utn aatlafld tht ure Rczig Nashun Azz aturuE gonrl wll Goo A Loaug wu too heel xiztiog Dia Cenahnoa i rito Thiafrankle luyoo lieu Oauz i no U deair tu cekuur tht Ree zult this kunkloozhun UazNoitbin arrivd At hazotilleu But huz bin awo Thurrized 13y the guvoruß hymn aeltT Yurz troolne JON KOVOAD charo Man stnet cen Tral Komm mite. Wil Kur Nel forne pleas kur rect beloar Printingg az i Amm Nott moach OlTa riter. Jk 0 mao k p a d*ant Let fane Kopur, Had c ml rhln. Hot Weather anfi the Sommer Besorts. frbe Jester Is hot; fearfully and out rageonsly hot. . The summer hitherto has bjjein behavipg itself decently, and the stay-at-homes hart been having a comfortable time of It, Taut the weather has apparently got tired of its good be havior and has turned upon ns in a fierce fit of fiery wrath. We trust that It is but a temporary ebullition of anger and that the Clerk will have mercy on us and cool it down to at least 9.0°. If burnt offerings can propitiate it, surely enough of these are now being offered up, to answer as a sacrifice for the greatest amount of sin ; and if the Bun should continue to pour down its ardent rays upon us for a week as it has for the past two days, we will, every one of ns, be burned to a crisp and nobody will have energy even to note the state of the thermometer— about the only occupation in which our people are now 1 engaged. That instru ment is said to register about 100°, but that must be when placed in the ice box, for everybody knows that it is far hotter than that in the shadiest shade. One isgreatly tempted to leave for the seaside or the mountains ; not that we really expect to be any cooler there than at home, but simply because of a restlessness which prompts us to go in a vain search for a cooler place. There is nothing more certain than that one can always he more comfortable at home than away from it, especially than at a fashionable watering place. For there you are put up In an attic in a small room, beside which a cell in our county prison would appear spacious ; aud even this you.are not allowed to occupy alone, for the -land lord liaviDg a hotel iD tend ed to accom modate say 300 guests, deliberately makes up his mind tliathe will put 700 in it, and he does it. He piles his guests op top of one another in the little rooms and counts the extra 400 he gets intohis house without the ability to accommo date them, as all clear profit; for they don’t eost any more rent or clerk hire, or furniture or servants, and only take a few additional bushels of corn and po tatoes, a fewTiiore oxen and sheep, aud a few barrels more of fioqr. If they can’t all get into the dining room at once, a second table will be set. If they can't all get into the cubby holes of bed rooms, a hundred ojr two extra can be laid out on the parlor and hall floors, aud can wush at the pump in the morn* ing. For these privileges you pay twenty five dollars a week and any number of extras. You pay so much more for rent of a bathing closet; so much more for taking care of bathing clothes ; another charge for porterage ; another for om nibus ; another for corkuge ; another to get into the ball room ; fees to waiters ; and extravagant charges innumerable such fur inbtunce as twenty-five cents to the barbel for your duily shave. 11l fact there is a regular conspiracy by the proprietors of summer resorts to fleece their guests, aud any pretext is joyfully seized hold of which will enable them to do it short of downright, outright robbery. If anybody steals your : your boots, your money or your vloHhs ; they are not responsible. Olil'bpl : stealing is tho game at the Seusi/te or the Springs and it is no more reasona ble to object to its pinctice iu the or dinary style of the pick-pocket than it is to take exception to its practice in the peculiar style of the landlords. The seared consciences of these gen tlemen ask no other excuse for their extortion than is fuuud iu their openly announced principleof actiou that “the season is short and we must make the most of it.” And the way they do it is to study how to charge the highest pos sible price aud furnish tiie least possible amount of accommodation for it. The seaside is very pleasant in the summer by the gifts which nature has given it —the invigorating sea air and sea bath ing ; but these benefits ure largely offset by the annoyances which man has con nected with them. So also the moun tain side and mineral spring resorts get from God alone the attractions which render them desirable abiding places during such weather as that "which now' afllictß us. Moral : ,If you go away in the sum mer from home aud desire to enjoy uual loyed the natural advantages of the sea or the mountains, take your tent with you aud avoid the landlords. The Working Men’s Platform, The platform adopted by the Con gress of Laboring Men, in Philadel phia, and which we publish else where, is on the whole, a good one. It opposes the National Banking System in toto; demands that the legal tender money should be made a legal tender in the payment of all debts, public and private, and convertible at the option of the holder into government bonds, bearing interest at the rate of three per cent, per annum, with privilege to the holder to reconvert the bonds into mo ney or the money into bonds at pleasure; opposes the payment of interest on bonds bought with greenbacks, in gold, in sists upon Hie bonds being taxed, has a clause agaiust land monopoly, which is a little too agrarian; reooguizes the right of women to perform skilled la boron equal terms with meu; favors the encouragement of education; de mauds the creation of tyi Executive De partment of the Government at Wash ington, to be denominated the Depart ment of Labor; urges strongly the universal adoption of the eight hour system; asks the same chartered rights and privileges for Labor Associations that are grunted to associated capital, and winds up by urging a lull restora tion of civil ami political rights to every American citizen, except such an have been convicted of felony. The work ingman will find all this substantially in tho Democratic plutforms, which have been adopted from time lo time. Gram’s Troullng Exploits. He who violates tho game law of a State is ranked In the estimation of all sporting men with pot hunters and poachers. There is a sense of honor among all gentlemen which enforces them to obey the provisions wisely mudCfor protecting game of every de scription. Offenders are promptly pros ecuted, not from any interested or ma licious motives, but because the greedy fellows who will hunt uud fish out of season arc justly regarded us outlaws. Grunt and his party who weut trout'ng In one of our mouutalu streams the other day, could not have been Iguo raut of Iheluw which forbids the taking of the speckled monarchs of tho brook after tho first of August, yet they de liberately violated the law, and thus reudered themselves liable lo prosecu tiou and punishment. The New York Herald correspondent Lulls us thatGraut himself caught over two dozen trout, and Graut, Jr., a baker’s dozen. At five dollars a piece the President is lia ble to a smart little due for his violation of the game laws of Pennsylvania. Let no one say this is a mere trifle. — The examples set by the President in thus breaking the law, is calculated not only to encourage pot hunting out of season, but it weakens the regard for all lay’s among the very class which is constantly seeking excuses for violating them. Tins general cry in this Statu is give us a change of rulers. Any change must bo for the better. We have had our All of taxation, of rottenness, fraud and corruption. We have given the Radical party a fair trial. Por eight long, weary years we have permitted it to control our affairs at the discretion of its leaders, and what have been the re sults ? A State whose industrial inter ests are parylized, whose people are taxed to the topmost notch, and whose varied products are cbeapoued by un wise legislation. Well may the tax payers exclaim any change must be for the better. Who Balsed (he Price of Goal? The Express objeotato our statement that Governor Geary Is to a consider able extent responsible for-the high price -of coal, and it challenges ns to point to any law passed under bis ad ministration calculated to produce that effect. It defies us to prove the asser tion we made, and we proceed to do so with pleasure. We thhik even the editor of the Ex* press will not deny that the item of transportation enters largely iDto the price of bo bulky a commodity as coal. The canals, which were built by the State of Pennsylvania,for a longtime continued to furnish very cheap carriage for all articles of prime necessity. The flour, the meat, and the fuel of the masses were carried atlow rates because the Legislature purposely arranged for a low rate of tolls upon the canals be longing to the Commonwealth, When those once valuable and useful public improvements were sold an express pro vision was incorporated in the bills of sale, providing that the rates of toll should not be increased beyond what had been charged by the State. This stipulation was made to protect the peo ple from extortion. It was considered at the time a decided incumbrance upon the sale of the caDals, and the price paid for them was some millions of dollars less than would have been received if no such restriction bad existed. The object of those who wisely Incorporated the restriction was to protect the masses from' the high prices which grasping monopolies always exact when they have the power. This saving clause in favor of the people should never have been repealed, and it was not un til Geary, the corrupt tool of the ring aud the pliaut friend of soulless corpo ration^came into power that the wroDg was perpetrated, In 1805 a bill was passed by a Radical Legislature relieving the railroad com panies which had bought up the canals from what they regarded as an incum brance upon them, but Governor Curtin who hadeomelittleregard for the rights aud the vanU of the people vetoed it. His veto message may be found upon the “House Journal,’' page 11, of 1806. When Geary came into power the at tempt to repeal this saving clause in favor of the people was renewed, apd with complete success, by the passage of laws which Geary approved, under which these canal companies have treb led their tolls, thus adding directly not only to the price of coal but to the cost of every article transported ou the canal, by raising the canal tolls, the rail road companies have beeu relieved from this competition and have rates of freight in a corresponding de gree. Now who Ims raised the price of coal ? Let Geary aud his satellite of the Exprcw answer. Who has parted with tho solemn guaranty of the people’s rights, worth to them millions of dollars, for the benefit of canal ai/d railroad corporations? Will the (governor ami his friends answer? Geary the immaculate, the foe of corporations, overriding a veto of his predecessor, who, while a friend of the people, we behove never claimed to be the foe of corporations, yet had tHe nerve and honesty to do what he thought to be right. It is time there should be an end of Lhis twaddle about Geary standing up against cor- porations aud for the people. A man who, by a dash of the pen, transfers millions from the pockets of the peo ple into the cotters of canal and rail road companies, should blush to appear as the champion of the people’s rights. Let every boatman as.he empties his wallet to pay the increased toll; let every farmer who pays double and treble for the use of the cauals; hit every consumer who pays an increased price for all tho necessaries of life transported on canals aud railroads ad- jacent to them, remember that it is the money of the people that Geary has put Into the pockets of corporations. lu view of these facts, we close with the same question with which we began, Who has rained the price of coal ? T|tc Treasury King. So numerous are the corrupt aud thieving rings which have been formed inside of the Republican party of Penn sylvania, that it Is almost impossible to keep count of them. Beginning at the lowest round in Lancaster county it is charged by Republicans themselves that the Coroner has a little ring, the Prison Inspector one of formidable di mensions, the Commissioners a circle which steals thousaudsof dollars annu ally, aud so on through the rounds of officials. Then there is the Thug ring, the Whiskey ring, and other temporary aud permanent combinations among the Radical politicians all alike rascally and corrupt, if Republicans themselves are to bo believed. The State has been ruled by rings for several years past, ami it seems that nothing can be done by our opponents except through the agency of these ras cally organizations. The Legislative ring of last winter is not dead, neither is it Bleeping. Its experienced leaders are ull coming buck, and Geary, who was renominated by them, isstruggling to be re elected. But there is one other ring which is just now exhibiting wonderful vitality, •That is (lie Treasury King, The Radicals have forsomcyeaiH past so manipulated the funds of the State as to have always In the hands of the State Treasurer be tween oue and two millions of dollars. That immense amount of money, In stead of being promptly applied to the Ihjuldutlon of tho State Debt, as In all honesty It ought to be, is distributed throughout the Commonwealth as u corruption fund. Favorite banks, the proprietors of which have Influence enough to control tho nomination of members of the Legislature, are chosen as depositories of the public money. The State Treasurer makes a magnffleeut fortune out of the rate of interest paid on the Immense sums under his control, and tho pot banks get funds which they loan out to the people at from ten to twenty-five per cent, discount. It la a grand swindling game from beginning to end. Tho taxpayers are compelled to pay tho Interest on a million or more of debt while that sum Is manipulated for the beueflt of the State Treasurer and his favorite bankers. The rate of interest on the State debt has been Increased under Geary’s administration from five to six per cent, and that at the present rate the amount annually lost to the tax payers by keeping a million of dollars In the pet banks of the State Treasurer Is sixty thousand dollars. Of course the Btate Treasurer can af ford to pay very liberally for such val uable privileges, and it is not at all strange that be should be found figur ing in the nomination of members of the Legislature for Lancaster county. The Yolkesfreund of tho 18th exposes a portion of the scheme which is now beiug carried out by the leaders of its own party in this county. It says: “llicrc In Something llotlcn Id Den* How corrupt the professed managers of the Republican party In our county have become, is shown by tbe determined pflort which is being made to procure the nomi nation for State Senators of two gentlemen, partners in different private banking houses in this city, over our last Senutor, Hon. E, BUllngfelt. It is well known that at thela6t session of the Legislature, Senator Bflllngfelt pro posed a law, that the surplus funds in the State Treasury should from time to time be applied to the redemption of tbe State debt, but it is not so well known that these sur plus funds are regulurly deposited by the Stale Treasurer, at a smuli rate of interest, with dill'erent private bankers, who realize a handsome profit by banking upon them, and that among these fortunate custodians of the public moneys ore the bauks repre sented by the two gentlemen first alluded to. Of course they are anxious to be nomi nated so that they may retain their deposits of State moneys, and the present State Treasurer is naturally anxious to pocket the interest. There is no remedy but for the taxpayers to turn out on Saturday, August 28th, and repudiate these men, who are Republicans only to fill theirown pockets. joflge Bent’s Letter to Secretary Boat well, a Judge Dent is becomlDgwarmetLup by the hostility exhlbltedjby the. A dministration towards the nationalße publican party of the South. 0 The judge is not particularly ambl-' tloos to be made Governor of Mississippi, but he Is ambitious to serve the people of that State, and he Intends, therefore, to do everything in biß power to accom plish bis own nomination and election, -He holds Boutwell and Cr ess well ly responsible for the tergiversation of of his presidential brother-in-law on the subject of Southern politics, and therer fore pitches into them without gloves. He* has prepared the following long let ter to Secretary Boutwell, and intends to address another one to Postmaster General Cresswell, couched in still stronger terms. In his proposed Cress well letter Judge Dent will reveal the rebel antecedents of the Postmaster General, and explain why it was that Cresswell was a rebel in the commence ment of the war, and afterwards turned over to the Union aide, becoming one of the most bitter of Radicals and persecu tors. The following is Dent’s letter to Boutwell: Washington, D. C., August 17,15G9. Hon. Geobob s. Boutwell. Secretary of tho Treasury J I shall make little apology for asking your attention to my letter, and less for the nature of its contents. You were the first to deny the political orthodoxy of myself and friends, and by the rules of the forum lam permitted to make my defence. You area public officer, and your acta are, there fore, legitimate subjects, of criticism. We are both aspirants lor place, with some dif ference as to probable resalts. You aim for ihe next Presidency, with every assur ance of success, except in tho opinion of the people, while I seek an humble place, with my hopes in disastrous eclipse, except in the judgment of Mississippi. So in the probable results of the future wehothstaud adyerse to the judgment of the coqqtpy.— As to the ineaqs of success you are un grateful and utterly unscrupulous. Your organ, the New York m the Bame breath ridicules and denies the capacity of your master and dwells with emphasis upon your peculiar fitness lor bis office. Your excellent tool, Mr. Tulloek, became so reckless in the manipulations of your department in the exclusive iuierost of your apibitioq and so diligent In file disregard of.; the washes of the President and tfiepoqntry that to saye yourself from the explaniitiou demanded by an indignant public it was found convenient to transfer his scandalous activity to another place, where his talents might be exerted with more effect and less ! uotoriety. Virginia,'fVpnessee, Mississippi | and Texap, uot to mention anything so | humble aa myself, are obslructious in your \ way, because through President Grant’s I intervention in removing the proscriptive | clauses in their constitutions, these tastes are brought into the Union and to his'sup port. Now, this is opposed to yonr plans ; for what President Grant gels in the next election dearly Mr. Boutwell will not got, and therefore have you Uenouucod the con servaiive Republicans who are for Grunt that you may obtain tho proscriptive Re publicans \yljo are for Boutwell. J?y some strange, dexterous management qnd ocpu(t political strategy you have so worked upon the confidence of tho President ns to cuaso him to nourish the club which is to break his own head by joining you in abominable denunciations orthe conservative Republi cans, a party created by bis magnanimity aud triumphant throughbis encouragement. In this your purpose is twofold Todesiroy the national republican party and Grunt in the South, and reconstruct from its shattered fragments a Boutwell party, with no Rich mond In the field to strike for your crown ; but if you cannot succeed in this scheme of desperate enterprise you menu to ruin, a resultfroqi preseut appearances much more likely to be reached. Your official inter vention in favor of Wells, lor instance, gave 39,1)00 majority to Walker, uud your loiter to Stokes gave Seuter in Tennesseo a veto of 70,000. The same causes operating in Mississippi and Texas will overwhelm you with discomfituro. Tho Iron-clad oath su perndded to these resultsof your Incompar able folly, und the alternation Is complete, landing all these reconstructed States into the arms of the democracy. • Bat the con sequence of your folly does not stop with Hus calamity. Ohio and Pennsylvania will decide their political status In Uctober, and iho North will echo tho condemnation of tiie South, yopr astonished ears convincing you there is sfiil left enough of the incom patible virtue of the republic to rebuke you for this wanton repression of our most sa cred right tho elective franchise. But still you will not desist from your iusaue policy until every prop that supports our party is stricken av/uy pud tue whole gruud superstructure tumbles about our ears in hopeless ruin. When you were elected Secretary of the Treasury and unanimously confirmed by a Senate of every shade of political oplnlou, did you not take an oath to administer your office im partially for the honest purposes of its crea tion, tho collection of the revenue uud con trol of the finances ? Is not that office the property of the nation and yourself for a time only clothed with a little brief authori ty ? Now, bow do you explain your per version of Its ‘legitimate) uses into an* in strument of punishment und oppressii.n to compel an election of obnoxious rulers over the people of those States V How does this conduct comport with your oath? Do you call this a great moral idea—for it appears, sir, you are one of the party of great moral ideas? and aguiu, sir, by what authority do you decide upou my political orthodoxy ? Who constituted you the infalllblo pope of Republicanism? Who authorized you to launch the anathemas of our purty? Again, sir, you are only a part of the administra tion, uot the whole of it,though your friends believe tbatu monomania on that subject possesses you, aud that you verily believe yotirseli theStaie. Yours respectfully, Louis Dent. He venue Officers A New York journal has the follow ing very appropriate aud just comments upon the arbitrary manner in which our U. *S. Revenue officials perform their duties aud upou their proneness lo lord it over the uufortunate tax payer. We are compelled to pay the taxes as sessed agaiust us whether we justly owe theuj or not, or have cur business In terrupted and our stores closed up. An Instance of this occurred here the other day : Reigart's wine store being com : pelled Lo pay a licenca of $2OO as rec tifiers, although they do not rectify a drop of i .pnr; they were Iu addition asked to .»\uur that they did rectify, but they flatly refused to commit perju ry, even though they could not refine to subnet to the robbery. The Ui"ment a gentleman becomes un of ficer (l , tilltlOH 1) under lUIh republican gov ernment if ours, lie seems to think that it is bis duly to oppress the people to the greatest i M' ui in Ijlh power, and thereby render the t> } vermnont which ho represents detestable In the Inst degree. He soenis lo forget, Unit in this country the people are superior to the government, and ull ids ef forts to render them Inferior, and this form from the highest to the lowest officer paid by ihupcopto, from tho highest in Wash ington to Uie lowest in u counuy township (with a lew houorubleexcoplioDs) they seem to be actuated but by one sentiment, viz: to make tbe oltizen pay us much in the shape of taxation as they possibly cun, no matter whether legal or Illegal, If they cun only twist the reading of the law, ho aH to give it uu appeurauce of Jegulity. They will olteu by threats extort payment of wbut they should know lo be wrong, morely saying that you cun protest and recover, out pay you muHtl But when will you recover? and if you do not pay, they Hay. they have power to stop your business, which means ruin, and It you answer that such is hot tho luw, the answer is, such are our in structions from Washington ! Such law, imd arbitrary measures could not exist even in Russia, without creating trouble, aud in Englund which we consider loss free than ourselves, the officer who would uot In this manner would get himself Into trouble! Their only idea hore seoma to bo that because some do cheat tho govern ment, all do, or would if they could, and certainly they take the best means lo drive all to wunt to, for they havo no right to draw any suoh conclusions uud they ouly make the government odious by so doing. Now they seem to wish to make every thing as disagreeuble und onorous as possi ble, uud everything tends to (he oppression of the honest dealer, who wishes to pay his Just taxes, whilst the dishonest dealer goes scot free. A public officer In this country should remember that it is just as much of a crime agaiust the people to knowingly take 100 much tax from the citizen as It is to accept a bribe and take too little for tho Govern ment 1! Newspaper Sold. The Columbia Spy has been sold to the Thugs for $7,000. The paper was owned by several gentlemen in Colum bia, from whom it was leased by its late conductor, Rambo, Christ. Kauff man and the other proprietors got tired of not only getting small returns for their investments, but of having insult added to injury in the irritating Cir cumstance that their paper w&9 run to suit Sam Shoch and Squire Evans; so they have sold out. The Spy will now; change its tune, and Its heretofore lively strains will be changed to solemn airs arranged to suit tbe Dead Marches of Thuggery. Probable Independence or Cnba. Paris, Aug. 21.— La Fi ance of to-day save Cuba la lost to Spain, and the easiest thing Spain can do is to take advantage of the present situation. Madrid, Aug. 22.—1 t is asserted on reli able authority, that tbe preliminaries of a treaty for the cession of Cuba have been signed. firosrCdfraptlon Charged Tpon Radical i.VY. BauoH., ( , Columbia Sjfy ofyeaterday con-.' taliißXrenjirbable letter, charging the. JjMl&leditorsjof this city with the teost 1 shameleaajprostltutlon of them relves ;and. their papers to the basest purposes. We make the following ex tract : It Is almostto ha regretted that the Bo - publican majority in Lancaster county is so large, ftf out of ft originates all our trouble with the cliques, rings and political ohif- Tonlers fh&f diigrafe iKe Republican party. Tfiinga’bare cdmetOTsncti a pass, that with some honorable exceptions, the Repub lican-papers the city are no longer the channels of correct Information to the peo file,‘ or the, fair exponents of truth to en igbten their readers ak to the operations and condnot of our county officials, our re presentatives and our elections, for the edi tors have become worse than mere political speoulators.and haveorganized themselves iuto rival rings, or cliques, some of them un der oath,each oue seeking the control of our county politics, either by a monopoly of the offices for themselves respectively, or for candidates who will bay their support either by the corrupt emoluments of office, or such fraudulent operations as will pay, or by a posting up of the solid cash. These men hold high carnival at the approach of our annual elections, always calculating upon a rich harvest, for the fact has-been realized, thatno candidate, however worthy or much bia elevation may be desired by the people, can hope for a nomination without first securing by tangible and solid argu ments, the good will and aid of one or all of them. The people may talk and com- | plain ae they will, the nomination and elec tion of officers and representatives has be come a fixed professional business with certain men and rings in our city, each ring contending for the supremacy, apd each ring ready to sell out or to unite with the i other, uud with all the rings, whenever ; necessary to effect the nomination of any one who subscribes to their terms, or to unite and defeat and destroy his prospects on his failing to comply with their demands, tbna virtually controlling and ignoring the choice of the people, and forcing upon them at times, men who are notoriously corrupt,, dishonest, aud unworthy of pub.Rq confi dence. The questiqn is never asked by either ‘i? hhfiqnpst, is fie capable;’ but will he puy, and how miich—will bo Join the ring, and how many votes can ho control ? They make themselves a unit ngamst the people who buy their papers and give them patronage, and thus by triok and our money they strengthen themselves to rob ua of our rights and we aro compelled in effect to pay them fureheutiug and fraudu lently forestalling us. As H proof cf their success, look at thp’ir iqaguifieotH houses, ; their bloatofi incomes and bodies, aud ask, arc ’these the legitimate profits of honest business effort,and whence.have they come if not by their successful ramifications of corrupt tergiversation. Nor aro their op erations confined to Lancaster conDty 1 alone. They unite with politicians aud | tricksters outside of tho county, and by their scheming arrangements stipulate lor j iho election to Congress and to our Legislu | lure, nieu who are to perform lh« double | duty of carrying out the will of others us VY*dl as ihul of their constituents, und be come makeshifts for tho political strength and iuieresU of other parties, thus, In fact, selling our members and making them mere tools in the hands of strangers. Is the Legislature to meet, is a State Treasurer or u tJnited State* Sequ tor to be elected, or any other importp.nt matter to be brought up, you can see theso greedy men like buzzards flocking to Har risburg,' to prowl aud lobby around, to aid in any and everything, no mutter what, if it will but put u'loney Into their pockets.— They hedge up the uvepuesoi either House, hauar the hotels, form cliques aud rings with and without members, use the pasters and folders, lie uud cheat, deceive tho un wary, threaten aud manipulate the mem bers, corrupt all that aro corruptible, that they may futten oil their thrift, and unfor tunately too often do we hear of their success, when they ciuarrel' übout their plunder. Too often urb ibey aided l»y the anxiety of candidates and members, who sacrificed honor aud truth fur an election, because the example of others in office, has assured them that official corruption is pardonable when possible und urufilable, us stealing was in Sparta, under the rogues’ proverb, "he is a fooli-htit will not mukc money when be cun,” Honest Andy Armstrong Aguiu Honest (?) Andy Armstrong, having deemed it necessary to make further explanations in regard to that little bill of extra mileage, published another un satisfactory letter in the Express a few evenings since. He did not deny that he pocketed the stamps, he only chal lenged any one to 9how evidence there of from the official records at Harris burg. The Columbia 'py hauls him over the coals as follows ; For short memory, cool impudence and down-right lying, Andy Armstrong car ries the palm. In Iho Daily Express' of the 17lh lust., a year's.trlbiilation, and but a few days before the primary election, honest Audy again attempts u vindication of his mileage awiudle, aud bruuehes oil' iuto abuse of ourselves aud others fur ex posing his rascality. Iu the Daily of the early part of July, ISOS, we explicitly charged him with being iu collusion with llyus in robbing the Stnto Treasury out of some $712. In the Daily Spy of July 30th, 180 S, Mr. A. attempted in a lame manner to explain the transaction, and thus refers to his over charge for mileages "The distance from my place to Harrisburg is 3d miles, and by ulo so returned ut both Sessions, und if any meddlesome ]>crson chooses to ttfix the figure 0 for scljish purposes, aud you gulp it, 1 can’t help it.” It will thus bo seen that he vlrfunlly ad mits receiving the extra mileage, but dis claims being the author of the swindle. We have never doubted but tho Journal of the House showed tbo correct mileage, ike. No man, or sol of muu, would be verdant enough to place on record dimming uvi deuce of their ahame. Wo now ask you to stale whether or not, you did not draw from tho State Treasury, during the Session, the Bum of 5-100, und at tho close of it $730, and when you presented your voucher for the sane, did not (he 7 h-ensurer oaliyour atten tion to the fad that you were getting some $9O more than your colleagues, and did you uot reply that it was alt right, and pocket ihe money without couuung the same, and hurry away. You cannot dodge and wrig gle out of the matter by referring to the Journal. State tho gross amount of money you received, uud wo will furnish you in corroboration a true copy of the same us taken from the bookH of the Treasurer. We had no disposition to open up this matter as it was with thestealingof others of whom wo have referred to ut vurioua times. As you tire ugain a candidate for office, it was wiso iu you calling public aUomiuy to your rascality. Perhaps, as you have your hand in, you can explain, why, boloro the Legislature met two serious ago, you perambulated the State nccivg the members elect, utid urging them to voto for your candidate for Speaker, at the same time staling that yuu would pay per head as much or more than the Davis men. Again were you made tho custodian of a sum of money furnished by tbu Calllo King to buy votes for what was known as tho *' Ualtle’Hlll.” Explicit an swers to tho above will bo required by the voters at this time to tho end that ih**y nan vote hitelllgenlly. Tiikuk la u volco of walllug beard from Yankee sohoolmarma of the tioutli. Hambo baa proved ungrateful, and refuses to pay for the tuition of his offspring, lie promised, but “goes back” on his word. Ouo Indignant fragment of the Plymouth rock telJsher piteous tale iu the Macon TcUyrajih, which is, that after a Northern society agreed to pay her salary, her board was to be paid by the parents who sent their children to school, but that they failed to do so, and that site would have* been turned out of doors by her laudlady had she not paid her board herself. She says the negroes are profuse in words, make any amount of line promises, but never thluk oif fulfilling them. This is terrible, aud Georgia should be 11 recon structed,” especially the negroes, who refuse bacon and slap-jacks to Yankee sohoolraartns. Virginia K.'ccllon. General Cuuby hius published ibo official returns of the late election in Virginia, on the adoption of the Constitution, from which it uppears that tbo whole number of voters registered was 209,884, viz: Whiles, 149,781 ; Colored, 120,103. The number of voteß actually cast was, Whiles, 123,144; Colored, 97,205. Total, 222,349. The vote for the Constitution (expurgat'd) was Against (he Constitution 9,130 Majority for ttjo Constitution... 201,4-iy The vote for CJause 4, Sec. l, Ait. m ofihe Constitution, which disfranchises nil who as officers had sworn to support tho Consti tution of the UmtedHtates, and subsequent ly aided the Robelliou, was 84,410 Agalntt same clause 124,3M> Majority against - 39,1)50 The vote lor dec. 7, Art. in, which required of ficers to take t'O lron-clndoath (that they had never aided 1 Be Rebellion) before enter ing upon their official duties, was KJ.458 Against sumo section, 121,3 0 Majority against 4‘),0J2 The number of [electors registered who did not vote, was, Whiles, 24,037; Colored, 22,898. Total, 47.535. John Mitchell, the ‘‘lrish patriot,” has eued General Dix for arbitrarily ar resting him and confining him In prison during the war. The warrant was issu ed by Judge McCane, and the Ex-Am bassador was promptly arrested and brought Into court. It is to bo hoped the case will be pushed to a speedy trial, and that a righteous verdict may settle It for all time that no American citizen can be unlawfully arrested and thrown into pr}son»by a military satrap with impunity. Corruption ofProminontftadlcals, StjWemontt or iho BlsOi tlflioi. Compote '* it, <te. I * The Columbia Spy seettiffxtetennioed to expose fulljr the festering corruption of the Republican party.' of Lancaster county. We findthefollowlugremark able letter in its columns: . Lancaster, August 17,1569. Mr. Raalbo:—As you have been pleased to publish my letter of yesterday, for which I thank yon, I now proceed to-fuifil my promise, aod givo some further details of the operations of those political chiffoniers, whom I have already described, aud the bargains made last year between the high contracting parties in and out of Lancaster county, who have undertaken to control our politics and our elections. During the long and protracted Illness of Mr. Stevens, the question of a successor in case of his death, was frequently discussed, and many citizens in and out bf Lancaster were mentioned, bat none more frequently than that of the now Honorable O. Dick ey, .who had been his student and whose father had beeo his intimate friend.. Connected, however, with his name was the apprehension of defeat, because it was understood that General Cameron, who had some influence here, hAd opeuly and publicly asserted that Mr. Dickey should never succeed the Old Commoner Tf he could help it. After Mr. Stevens’ death Mr. Dickey, J. P. Wickersham, Elwood Griest, A. Herr Smith, T. E. Franklin, and others, were announced publicly, or spoken of as candidates; but the issue seemed mainly to be between Messrs. Dickey and Griest. People knowing of General Cameron’s threatening opposition Lo Mr. Dicked, ex pected to see some manifestation, but strange to say, it was very soon announced, that Gen. Cameron was not opposed to, but in favor or Mr. Dickey’s election; but why bis opposition was withdrawn was mere conjecture, until it was announced that Dr. H. E. Muhlenbnrg, » friend and relative of Gen. Cameron, was to succeed Wm. B. Wiley as Collector, throush the influence of Mr. Dickey when eleoted to Cougrees, and that Dr. Mublenburg had Mr. Dickey's wriUcj} pledge to that effect in his pocket. While these things were in progress and only a few days before the primary election in 18GS, Mr. George Brubaker then a candi date for District Attorney, a aworn Thug and personal friend of ElwOod Griest, and bis partner in the Inquirer newspaper, for a certain consideration basely betrayed Uim, suddenly withdrew his opposition to Mr. Dickey whom he had before opposed, and forced Mr. Griest to withdraw- fi-om tho con test, which ho did, after fiistpnvafch/bar gaining with a rival candidate for the sum of $B4OO cash, as a remuneration for his ex penses, goofi will, wounded honor and dis appointment. Of course by this arrange ment Mr. Dickoy’s opposition to Mr. Bru baker’s election as District Attorney was withdrawn, and his support yielded him, although before that, bo was ro i peatedly heard loudly to declare with voluminous oatha, that he tvould never ; support a Thug for an office, or any . mau nominated by Thugs. Iu eonsideru i tiouof which as a further covenant in this j agreement, Mr. R. W. Bhouk, a brother-in- I law of Mr. Dickey, was To bo elected this | year to the lataie Seuate in coDuectiou with Mr, John M.StehmuD, the pet candidate of Mr. Brubafier aud the Whiaky Ring. Thia part of ihe bargain is (o bo carfieu out ou | iho 28l1i of August, by nominating Mr. j Stehman and Mr. Shenk, bankers aud 1 favorites of the State Treasurer, who will i no doubt secure their votes for his re-elec- j lion, by giving to tho Bauk to which each I 1 belong, in violation of law, a goodly j t aiuouut of the public funds ou deposit, ilho hue not already done so. It now remaius ] far the good houest Republicans to ratify t this very nice bargain. This arrangement ! carries with It iho sanction and influence of : General Cameron u'honoivoions Mr. Dickey, \ as well as of tho State Treasurer, who i has cieolared that Senator BilliugfeU | must be defeated, because he had the hou j esty, the shrewdness, aud th« daring to: ! show to ihe peuplo of that Slate, what im- ] | nroper uses tuny bo mude of ihe public i fuuds t*,ud Ihe great propriety of upplylng ; them to the extinguishment of the State : debt whenever possible, and saying inter j est, instead of having two million of dollars in the Treasury, when the Treasurer giyeß bail only to the amount of eighty thousand dollars. Part aud parcel of this arrange ment was also that of electing a Vnuod Stales Senator and a Slate Treasurer, which was largely ennpqd ;ulo by Mr. Brubukor, who professed to havo for sale or barter, u certuiu number of votes among the mem bers of Lancaster county, with that con venient amphibious non-descript, John A. Hiestand, who i« Thug or Ami-Thug uo cording to pny, accompanied by our uou Don, who it is said, to reduce matters to a certainly, furnished to a certain corruptiuu ist of Luncaater couuty, a check Jar lou thonsuud dollars, which to the great grief of Mr. Brubaker, was so uufairly divided, that he did not get his share, of which he sorely coinpluios to this day. Mr. Hiestand, oue of our office cormor ants, was to receive the Marshalship of the Eastern District us his share of the spoils for his services in this honest arrangement, by which State Treasurer Irwin was so fin otreiubniously kicked out of office, and ulso lor his able defense iu the Examiner of the Whisky Ring, aud of Mr. Dickey, uud se curing to him the friendship and influence of that notable pair of worthies Jacob Krey bill and B. M. Stauffer, General Managers of iho Whiskey Ring, who aided Mr. Dick ey’s nomination to Congress, and who with other whisky dealers, are now so blaluut for the nomination of Messrs. Stebman aud Shenk. Mr. Dickey aud Mr Cameron, in return fur these great services of Air. Hies i land, were to secure to him the support of I our United States Scuutors and our mem- I hers of Congress In his application for the olllce of Marshal, which Iney faithfully did, and were handsomely snubbed by tbePres ident who refused him the appointment : after two very determined efforts, thus vir tually declaring to them, that when they \ represented Mr. Hiestaud os usuitable man for the office he did not bellevo them uud that they lied. Mr. Dickey Is uot yet ro . leased from his share of the contract, ns he ! is still bouud to have Mr. Ilieutaud appotnl ( ed to some office, lest be lose tho support of [ the i-’xamt'uer, aud the intrigue of tho editor j iu Ins next effort for Congress. I From all these facts it requires no exlru ! ordinary discernment to see why Mr. | Dickey so frequently visits Mr. Brubaker's office und lurries so long us to wear out the patience of some oilier equally houest poll ' ticiuus, who like to form coulitious with tho 1 King of political Thuggery, and who gel i tired of silting on tho anxious bench in [ front of the Great Man’s Offioe. As a Cou | gressnnm must be elected in 1870, uo ouo can bo so dumb as not to know that Air. Dickey is.now arranging fur his re-election, and for that purpose endeavors to soouro the Thugs through George Brubaker, the Cameron influence through Dr.Muhlcnbtirg < aud his old friends through the Examiner, with something for the qew Postmaster to do, at the same time acting ns well for tho defeat of Messrs. Billingfelt nnd-Warfel, in gratitude to the first who supported him for I Congress last year, and revenge upon the lust who was not sufficiently compliant iu the settlement ol'certulu whiskey eases, by which Mr. Dickey, no doubt, realized hand somely as Attorney, U'not as u member of Congress. And hero, in conclusion, the Im portant question may be asked, how far it i may bo legitimate or proper for a member 1 of Congress to use bis official influence in seconding bis acts as Attorney in settling eases of Iruud upon tliu Government? Pendleton's Letter of Acceptance. Cincinnati, August 15,18(39. K. f l ', Hiity/tum, If, H, Undue, David url/cll, A. ii. ham-uy amt K. V, llu.kjlchl, Qjiiunlttc v Uknti.kmkn—l hnvo received, by the hands of tho Chairman, your loiter notify ing mo Ibrimilly of my nomination by the Do mourn lio Stuto Ceulral Committee, mm candidate lur tho office of Governor, to sup ply the vacancy citusod by the dcellnaliuii of General Ronecruns. I repeat to you what I Mild to ibo Committee by telegraph—(hut If It was their unanimous opinion, notwith standing my views and wishes, tbul I ought to accept tho nomination, I would consider the 1r re quest as au Imperative commund in make tbo canvass, aud I would do so to tho best of my übilily. I presume it is well knnwu to ull who take un interest in these mutters, that I did not desire this nomination. I appreciated fully its importance ; I recognized the dig nity of the high office; I believed your nominee woulubo elected ; but 1113’ health, Impaired by an aocldout, my occupation, and my plan of llfo for tbo present, com binod to prevent my desiring it. Tho muninuliou of Genoral Hosectuns commanded my cordial und zouloua sup port. When ho deeliuod, becuusu ho hud removed from tho .Statu, I.wus anxious for the nomination of a wlso and accomplished goulleinun, an eminent jurlst.and stiffen tnun—Judge Ranney, or of a gallant and patriotic soldier, General McCook, or one of the other distinguished gentlemen who had been voted ferin the Convontion ; but when they all declined, aud tbeCommiiteo will) unanimity, and with their concurrence, tendered mo tho nomination, uud with great urgency, claimed my services, I felt that I bad no alternative but to accede to their wishes. I lelt that my personal con venlence must be held for nothing in the presence of the demand of that great and patriotic party which has bo often and so siguully houoied me with its confidence. In this spirit 1 accepted the nomination, and will do whatever I, iu truth aud honor, may to secure the election. I will not now discuss the questions which divide parties. In due time I trust to bo bo far recoved as to be able to take part In the groat debate. Governor Hayes, in his speech at Wil mington, forgot to allude to the Fifteenth Amendment and bis vjews on that import ant question. In discussing ibefiuances, bo said. ‘‘We are in tho midst of profound peace, yet mon ey is scarce aud business Is depressed.”— He might have added that employment is difficult to be obtained 5 thnt labor is badly rewarded ; that industrial pursuits are nil hampered ; that enterprising men engaged in business are standing on tbo very verge of bankruptcy—that Interest is enormously high—that the tariff is most oppressive— that the internal taxation is most unequal, unjust and onerous—tbut dead capital is ex empted. and active capital and labor are weighed down—aud warming with the picture, he might also have Buld that for eight years the Republican party bad been in absolute possession of the government; that a, Secre tary of the Treasury' has now con trol of the money market of the country, and that he uses bis power only still fur*, ther to contract the currency, to increase' the “hard limes, and to.buy over-due bonds at one hundred'and twenty dollars which by law be is entitled to pay at par, thereby taking twenty dollars for evory hundred from the tax payer and sivlns ft tattle bondholder. The farmer, the mer chant the manufacturer wIU ask why tb ese thlngajare so. What is the cause? What la tharemedy ? They are important ques tions this fall. .They touch us all* Demo crats and Republicans alike. They rise a *>ove the domain of mere partisan politics, and should be considered with the calmest reason, and purest motives and the best Judgment. In this spirit! shall discuss them so soon as I am able to take part with my friends in the activity of the canvass—of Uio -result in October we need have no fear. I am, respectfully, Georcie H. Pendleton. CAPE HAT. EDITORIAL SOTES. Being in Philadelphia the other day, with the thermometer away up In the nineties, we concluded to run down to Capo May and take a dip in the cool waves of the ocean. A few notes of what wo saw will not be devoid of interest to our readers. That is not a more caprice of fashion which sends so many thousands of people to the springs or the seaside during the heat of summer. As a nation we are a set of hard workers, and successful and professional men among us greatly feel the need of proper relaxation. Many who can very well afford it do not tako a holiday them selves or give one to their families during the entire year. Long accustomed to follow the tread mill ro'und of some engrossing oc cupation, they have grown insensible alike to tbq charms of nature and the pleasures of more extended social intercoure. Still many thousands do annually go out from our cities and town 9 to find plcasuro and renewed health umoug the mountains, at the springs, or by the soundiug sou. It is true that many indulge in undue extrava gance at watering places, aud spend their time itf a round of dissipation and folly which is neither conducive to intellectual nor physical improvement, but a largo pro portion of those who. go are not led into any improper excesses. At wateriug places, as elsewhere, seusible people act iu a sensible manner. Miss Flora McFlimsey is uo more a fair representative of American maidens than are the softest of the spoonles who llutter nrouud her specimens of the man hood of onr day. To ono vain creature, whoso life is bound up in dress and show, hero are a doieu pure, intelligent utul wo manly yo'.iug ladies to be Mind at our fashionable summer resort*. Theptopor tion of tirst-cluas young men pitHenl umy be less, because in our omiitrv u largo number of those who fill important stations iu business circles and professional life have to depend upon their own resources for sue - cess iu life, uod in the first years of muu hood, when societyibus the greatest charms for all, they are compelled to stick closely to their desks or o til cos. But wo did not start to write an essay, only to make a Mv brief notes of a day spent at Cape May. Cape Island Is within rnsy roach of a largo section of couutry. A few hours ride, over admirably constructed aud well conducted railroads will lake any oiliten of Pennsyl vania to what is acknowledged to !*> tho boat aud safest place for sea bathing ulong the Atlantic coast. The ride through the sfimls uf Jer-icy is a little dusty during very dry weather, but the trip is made I'iont Philadelphia iu two hours and a half, in comfortable cars. Tho West Jersey road is well managed, and accidents upon it are very raro occurrences. The scenery along the mute is not the finest, but to one who has not passed over this road before it is far from being devoid of interest. There is much unimproved and sterile looking couutry. Jl.ero tho eye rests upon wide HtretcVcs of auiuly soil covered with scrub by bushes aud a dense growth of ferns; there broad muthlty meadows lie level to tbo sky, while, ’‘Through lilies nml through cat tails creep Tbo oouy creeku by ilUeu mad>.< deep. Yonder iho stream* expand Into shallow ponds of dark water, tho edges of which are fringed by a mingled mass of vegetation, prominent among which wo seo tho heavy waxliko fuilugo of magnolia shrubs, the beautiful leaves of which uro very pleasant to look upon, oven after uU tho dowers which breathed so rich u perfume in May ure withered and (load. Tlioro nro, however, evidences of an awakening and uctlvt* apirit of improvement all along tho routd. Tho corn springs rank and green from what looks to bu perfectly Imr reu, wbilo sand, while vegetables and fruits of oyery description grow luxuriantly. Tho spirit of improvement has been awak ened, and " We sea It) where the bean-vino opos Its pods above tho C'uutelopcs, Ami nu Uio sweet potat'.u Mils; ll murmurs in the lilts of raalzo, And where the striped hellers uraz3 Alon? the brinks of brackish bays. And by tUo wlllu-v-planted rills. ’ Town aud villages are springing up at different points where ull looked desolate only a little while ugo, and the landscape is rendered pleasing by tho fnquonl appear* auco of handsome aud tasteful cottages. Tho rldo from Philadelphia to Capo Muy Is far from being devoid of Interest to tboso who have oyea tu see. (’ape Muy aspires to bo called u city, aud in summer lime at lcusl, it has some claims to the title. It bus a Mayor, a Jail, and Towu Council, Police and oilier ad juncts of civilization. True it is that most of its population is merely migrutory, us shifting as tho sands on the sea shore, and that fur nino months of tho 3 ear it is al most a deserted village. Itut, during “ tho season” it is full ol life and busilu. Itsup porti a daily paper called tho Wave, edited by J. Truvis tiuigg, E>q., and nourishes in nil tbe gorgeousuess of glittering fushiou. There are numbers of very handsome private cottages in the place, some of them embowered among a profusion of ever greens und dowering shrubboiy. lie who owna one of these quiet retreats, and can afford to spend a couple of months or more herewith his fumilj*, is fortunate indeed. Tho mnjotity of people are of course con tent to bo made comfortable at some one of the numerous line hotels. Tho new Stock ton House is n very elegunt and capacious structure. It was built by tbo railroad company and Is not surpassed in its ap pliances by any watering place establish ment in the county. It has not paid tho present soason, but will no doubt do so in future. Thoro are numerous other ostub mentH as ellgiblo and quite as comfortable. Hotels depend greatly for success upon tho qualifications of Ihnso who have tho management of thorn. Them Is much meuning In the slang phntzo, “lie Is a good fellow, but ho can’t keep a hotel.” To “run” a first-class establishment on tho American principle of lintel keeping re quires n combination of tub-nts of a raro order. He who would succeod must show military precision in tho ordering of his army of servants, while lie meets his guests will) unvurylng Hinilos and unrufiled po liteness of manner. Ho must remember faces which lie has seen but once, and he able to recall tho multitudes of names re corded from time to time on his register.— 110 must bo very liberal In providing for nil tho wauts of an exuding public, and mothodically corroct und economical in tho management of his vurled hiulness irans catious, Mod of Iho class we have attempt ed to describe uro rure, but they muko for tunes. Mr. Geo. Dolton, proprietor of lh« Dolton House at Harrisburg, nnd part pro prietor and solo munugor of the Colum bia House at Capo May, la one of those rare men of whom It can bo truthfully Bald “he 1h a good fellow and cun keep a hotel.” He keeps two of the best and most popular es tablishments In the country. Tho Bolton House at Harrisburg Is unsurpassed, while tbe Columbia Is admitted to buve done the best business upon Cupe Island during the present season. That baa been greatly owing to tbe personal popularity of Mr.Bolton,and thero lu no doubt that tbe prosperity of the establishment will continue unabated while ho retains control of it. He makes his guests feel perfectly at homo, and those who put up with him nro not only sure to return, but, as they do so, they recoil the lines of tbe poet who said : The traveller along life's wear}' way must often sigh. To think he has found his warmest welcome at an Inn. Tbe Columbia House occupies the most ellgiblo location on the Island, has the handsomest grounds, and is In all Da de partments as admirably arranged as It is well conducted. Harry Denison, the popu lar clerk of the establishment, is a moat efficient atd do camp- Of coarse sea-bathing Is tho chief attrac tion at Cape May- Tho beach is very safe and tho surf exceedingly fine. The gulf stream, which sweeps by at no very great dlstunco from land, warms up tho water to a temporature that is decidedly more agree able than that eDjoyed further north. A “buff” bath atdayllghtis n luxury which but fewenjoy,but which those who hpveonoe tried It would not willingly forogof Singly and in pairs tho hardy fellows come and doffing their clothing quickly plunge naked Into the surf. The shook of the 0001 waves makes them fairly aloud, but It Is a cry of exultation* and delight rather than an expression of discomfort- Each breaker which dashes against the body thrills tha.system like an electric shock, and the sensation la Infinitely supe rior to that ejoyod in a suit of flannel at midday. Eloven o’clock is tho fashionable hour for bathing, and ao punctually are the rnlea of etiquette observed thut thousands of people emerge simultaneously as It woro from tho multitudo of dressiug houses and make a rush all at once for the boiling surf. TUo beach, which wus almost deserted a mo ment before, is Immediately covered for more than half a mile with a dense crowd of human beings, young and old, malo and female, tall and short, slim and stout, ull dressed in tlannel drawers and sucks or shirts. Tho costumes differ llulo in muko and only vary in color. Straw huts are worn by all, and men aud women aro not to bo distinguished from each other, except by closo inspection. What a commotion thoro is. As each rudo breaker dashes shoreward a simultaneous shout goes up from voices as various as there are different throats, nud tho hoarse shouts and laughter of men and the shrill screams of startled and excited women and children rise above the roar of tbo wavos and drowu the mur murs of old ocean. Venus no doubt lookod wonderfully beautiful as sbo rose fnsh from tbo waves aud rode triumphantly to Cyprus in npink lipped aboil drawu by the light wiuged zephyrs, IJut, she was not dressed in gar ments of red tlanuol. Sho might have won tho hearts of the gods even in such u costume, but wo can not say with tiuth that it is well euloulutod to display modem female beaut}’ to advuutage. There aro tnauy very fat women to bo seen oil the beach, and the clinging garments, pressed closely to the body by tho waves, reveal too distinctly a superabundance of ciiurms. Nor do the undeveloped lean kind show off to advantage. Tho angles uro clearly do - lined, and impudent maseulineeyes search in vain for the swelling busts which rise and fall with tho voluptuous swell of cun ingly contrived machinery as tin* fnir butter Hies of fashion Hit airily through the nuri/.y dance in u uvM ordered ball room. Stiil there are not :r few ladies among tho crowd who can hiatal tho severe test of an ocean bith Wo saw a bruiu-tty with eyes that looked us if they could pieiee tho very depths of the sea itself, and long dark locks spi oading like a upon the waves, which scorned to caress her voluptuous form with a loving and pa:;- siunulu embriH'o. She ventured far out, ami fearlessly “ wantoned with the waves ’ ’a very queen upon tho sou.” Close by llontod three blomlo beauties whh uicks while us tlie creamy foam that kissed their delicate lips, and eyes blue as tin* Jeep blue sea beyond. 110 who would seo the crowd aright at ouo ot our fashionable sea-side resorts, ought to take c. swim uhuig UlO outer circle of bathors, aud u promenade through tho erowu- that insist upon taking, a bath of half sand and half water nearer shore, lie who does that will see much to amuse ami interest him. After the hath comes luuch and n sherry, cobbler ; then u uup; thou diuner, with all sorts of sail water dohoucios; then a drive along the beach 1 Holton put his fine team at our command); ihoti tea; then u stroll by the sea; thou a hop at which the fat ladies aro compressed into im-ro volup tuous lulliuss, and the angular forms of tho thin ones all rounded out luto the per fection of physical development; then a long refreshing night's sleep, lulled and soothed by tho delightful murmur of the* myriad-voiced waves of old ocean.—- All days aro said to be much alike at watering places, but wo think any one could spend weeks of such weather ns wo aro now having at Capo May without wearying of its pleasures, or wishing to be back in crowded and dusty cities, where humanity swelters and pines for u breath of fresh cool air. “The season,” which is [list ut Its height!], does not end before tho unddlo of Heplum* her, and tbo hot weather wo aro now hav ing will drivu many buck to tho seaside who wflre temptod to leave by Iho unrea sonably cool weather that prevailed during a largo part of July. There is no danger of Capo May hoiug left to solitude while tho present weather lusts. 11. o. h, Greeley on tlio Virginia Election. The proposition to lurn the legally elected members of the Virginia Legis lature out of their seats, and to iuatall in their stead the defeated Radicals, is do gross and utterly Inexcusable an outrage that Horace Greeley Is con strained to protest against it in the most decided terms. He concludes an able editorial In the Now York Tribune as follows: Virginia hits hold an election by virluool an uct of tbo preseut Congress, which ex prossly authorized the President to submit tier new Constitution to 11 popular vote, with such exceptions or In such purceis as be should deem proper. Uun. Urunt thereupon excepted from tho body of Iho instrument l hose sections or clauses which provided foi tho conilnued disfranchisement and exclu sion from office of all who bad taken a prominent purl in the great Rebellion. He was urged to excopt also the section pro vidlng for an apportionment of tbo Stuto into Townships ; but ho decided—wu think wisely —thut this was not u vitul matter, while disirauchisemeut wus, and bo should submit the Constitution accordlugly. The result was the adoption of tho rest of the Constitution by nearly 200,000 majority, while tbo proscriptlvo provisions wero re jected by over Forty Thousand. Tho opponents of Proscription of course carried the State, electing Governor, Legis lature, ike. Their State ticket wusorlgiuaily nominated by Republicans, und was en titled ‘ True Republican,” but was sup ported by ull tbo “ Conservatives,” us well as by many Republicans, white and bluek. Probably, its 120,000 votes woro cast by 2d-,- OUO Republicans and 100,000 Conservatives, whilo 100,000 Republican voles were polled, against it. A short timo before* the election, when it had become evident that the Walker com bination must triumph, it was whispered about that (>en. Canby, commanding in Virginia, would-imposo tho “iron-elud" oath on all who should bo chosen to tin* Logisluturu; and, on inquiry, tills wjih found to bo true. Tho " Conservatives ” thereupon consulted and decided that they could not ckungo their candidates at so Into jin hour—that they must vote lliolr tickets ns they had nominated them, and trust thsl If Proscription was decidedly voted down at tlio polls, Con. Candy's purpose, thus condemned by the voters, would somehow bo overruled. Ho they went on with tpeh cunvuss and chose a Fargo minority of the Legislature, ati of them eligible to office under tho XlYih Amendment of tho Fed oral Constitution, hut a good part of whom oannoL take tlio “iron-elud” oath. It is now given out that tho result will soon bo officially announced, the now Leg islature thereupon summoned to meet, iU<> “Iron-clad” oath administered, all who cannot luko It excluded from seats, and their dofeuted antagonists Installed iu their sluud. In other words, tho Georgia blunder U to bu reptMited In Virginia, with merely a cliango of parties. The nut profit ol tlm operation is to he the choico of two Wvllh Republicans to thu U. W. Huimlo, Wo piatOMt against this programme a-, involving perfidy, Iniquity, and u mo*t stupendous blunder. The only purly that can be banned by it is (us In Georgia) that which conceived und executes it. Wo have au overwhelming Republican majority in tho Sonata, so that there Is not even the poor, rascally excuse of necessity for per petrating it. It Is calculated to ulienutu llio Walker Republicans permanently from llu- NuLlonal party und give to Democrats such an advuntugo ovorywhoro us tho Georgia blunder guvo us last Full. It Is u resort prompteiF by the mortification of defeat; out tho Republicans of tho wholo country cannot afford to sacrifice themselves on tho altar of Wells’ discomfiture. No doubt, a cunning lawyer can make out a case in favor of the proposed proscrlp • tlon, as he cuu In favor of almost unyibbig; hut we all know tbut the Government Ju-t constituted in Virginia is no proper seuso prbvislonal, such as was contemplated in the Reconstruction acts where thoy pro scribe tho “iron clad” oalh. It Isereuted by the largest voto ever polled in tho Htate, though Homo thousands of the leading “Conservatives” were denied the Right ot Suffrage because of the aid they gave to the Rebellion. The voters wore Just those whom Congress has soen IU to make such ; the issues were well canvassed und under stood; the election was peaceful, and the result is unquestioned. Congress author ized and the President directed tho sepuruto submission ; and tho people had a fair right to presume thnt, since they were ex pressly required to decido whether they would or would not have Proscription for Rebellion's sake perpetuated, their decision was to bo respected, at least so far us re gards their own domestic government. To overrule that decision at tho outset, und thus force the choice of Senators obnoxious to tbe ascertained majority, will bo a crime and blunder at war with the very corner stouo of Republicanism. Keats In HallrontL Car* Tho New York Sun asks, “why should not the purchoso of a ticket entitle thepur chasor to a specified seat in a specified rail roud car, instead of being merely a per mission to join in a general scramble with u thousand rivals? In tho case of a lady traveling alone, such n measure vtould bo an immense relief. Now she may enter u car and pass from one end of It to the other, looking in vain for the accommodation to which her ticket entitles her, unless bouio chivalrous mon gives up his place In her favor. Parties, too, whose mutual society is expected to form nine-tenths of the pleas • uro of a trip, ore frequently separated, aud their comfort entirely destroyed. All this would be avoided by numbering the seats in cars, and assigning one to each ticket. Which Company will be the first to inau* gurate this muon needed reform?”
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