Stowtitit ftuteUigtm WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 8, 1869. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR: Hon. ASA PACKER, of Carton county. FOR JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT:; Hon. CYRirS I. PERSHING, of Cambria co. TO THE TVEMOCBACY OP THE CITY AND COCSTT OF IjANCANTFB. Iu accordance with the resolution of the County Committee, adopted at their meeting on Monday, August 30th, you are hereby re quested to assemble in the several Wards of the City, and Boroughs and Townships of the County, on SATURDAY, THE Uth DAY OF SEPTEMBER, next, then and there to elect flve delegates to represent Bald ward, borough or township in County Convention to be held on WEDNESDAY, THE 15TH DAY OF SEP TEMBER, next, at 11 o’clock, A. M., at Fulton Hall, in the City of Lancaster, for the purpose of nominating a ticket to be supported at the ensuing October election, composed of tbe following officers: Two candidates for State Senate. Four candidates for Assembly. One candidate for Sheriff. One candidate for Register. One candidate for Prothonotary. One candidate for Clerk of Quarter Sessions One candidate for Orphans' Court. One candidate for Treasurer. Oue candidate for County Commissioner. Two candidates for Directors e f the Poor. Two candidates for Prison Ibspectors. One candidate for Coroner. One candidate for Auditor. The Waid, Township and Borough Commit tees are alsoxe quested to give early notice, In their respect lvedlstrlcls, of the time and place of meeting fer the election of delegates. By order, Of tho Democratic County Com mittee. ’ R* R- THHUDY, Chairman. B. J. McORANN. Secretary. Township Elections, \Ve hope the Democracy of the rural districts will keep the township elec tions iu mind. Let prudence and cau tion be exercised in regard to settling tickets. Let it be seen to that no ele ment of weakness or discord iB intro duced by this agency. Let the very best aud strougest mon be named where we have a majority, aud all prudence be displayed where wo are in the minority. There is no reason for haste in settling the township tickets. In most of the rural districts of this county it would be jusL as well to wait until the Radi* cals have made their selections. Ten days will be time enough to have tbe tickets printed aud properly circulated. Tbe County Committee can not be ex pected to take charge of tho printing aud circulation of the township tickets. That must be attended to by the Town ship Committees. Orders for tickets can be forwarded to us by mail, and they can be sent out in that way if de sired, though it would be safer for some one to come with the copy and take the tickets home with him. „ Attend to tlie Registration, The absence of a voter’s name from the registration list does not necessarily deprive any man of the right to vote. The fourth section of the law defines the manner in which 11011-registered citizens may prove their right to vote. The claimant, whose name is not on the assessor’s list, must make allidavit that lie is a citizen of the State under the meaning of the Constitution, and that he has paid a State or (kiunty tax within twoyoars. That-done, he must produce a witness to prove that lie has resided iu the election district ten days previous to tho election. If a naturalized citizen he must state in his affidavit when aud where he was horn, by what court he was naturalized, and must produce his naturalization papers. The voter be tween twenty-one and twenty-two years of age must make allidavit as to age and residence. No oue who cau comply with these requirements of the fourth section of the law can he deprived of a vote, even though his name is not found on the registration lists. But, to avoid any dilliculties, and to iusure a full poll of the vote, it is important that the name of every voter be put upon the list. Let this he done at once, aud then let a vigorous ellbrt be luade on election day to get out the entire Democratic vote in Ihe State, and Packer aud Pershing will he elected by asweeping majority. All the signs of the times point to a glorious victory, and we can only be benten by inexcusable apathy iu our own ranks. <;csirj\s roslilon on the Temperance Question. Wheu Sharswood was running for Judge of the Supreme Court aga'mat the narrow-winded partisan who is now up again for the same office, John \V. Geary came to Lancaster and made a speech, it was so poor aspeech, such a jumble of nonsense expressed in bar barous English, that every Republican in the Court House hung his head in shame. The most remarkable feature of the rambling and disjointed dis course was his attempt to set himself right on the liquor question. He re minded us very much of the orator out West, who found himself in a similar ticklish position. “ Gentlemen,” said lie, uftth* buying given his views on the “ Constitution ” the “Monroe Doc trine” and such like topics, “Gentle men,” and he put his hand ‘on the region of his heart, “ the.-e are my sen timents, the sentiments of an honest man—aye an honest politician ; but, gentlemen, aud fellow-citizens, if they don’t suit you, they can easily be alter ed.” In the same vein, Geary, who had joined the Good Templars a few months before, uud sworn to use all his influ ence to secure the speedy passage of a prohibitory liquor law, honey fugled the liquor loving Radicals of Lancaster county. Jlis long wiuded speech might easily have been boiled down to read us follows : “ Gentlemen, I am a member of the Good Templars; 1 have pledged myself to them in favor of a prohibitory liquor law, but gentle men,’ ami In-re we fancy we see him making oneol his moat graceful bows, “if it is necessary \ can pledge myself to the Anti-Temperance men equally as well. Let us huvo harmony in our rutiKs, and not differ about trifles.” We see Geary is advertised to speak at several points in the State, and we have no doubt he will repeat iu substance the speech lie made in Lancaster during the Sharswood campaign. Verily Jobu CovodeMescribed him perfectly when lie said, “Geary is the hnmhuggedest Governor Pennsylvania ever had.” The Kadicn! County Committee. At the meeting of the Rudicul County Committee the Statesman from Adams towu was effectually laid out. In spite of the earnest appeals or the Express, and its prediction that the defeat of Mr. liilliugfelt would lead directly to the destruction of the Crawford County Sys tem, A. J. Kauffman was elected perma nent Chairman of the County Commit tee by a vote of 39 to 22. Mr. Billingfelt fearing the result, desired to nominate in his place another man, not a member of the committee; but the majority feel ing sure of the result, declined to depart from established usage. The ring which the Express has been fight ing is not dead. The result in the County Committee proves that it is still alive and kicking vigorously against that precious humbug,'the Crawford County system. Senator Wallace’s Speech, We publish to-day a very vigorous speech made at Ifellcfonto by Henator William A. Wallace. It is a full state ment of the issues involved In the pres ent important canvass. Every honest man, without respect to party, should read it. Hand your paper to your Re publican neighbor, when you are (lone with it, and ask him to read It. He can not deny the truth of the damag*ng charges brought against tho Radical leaders in this State by Mr. Wallace. Gkn, Grant, as his foolish old father relates, once rode in a circus. He trav els so much at this time that he might take the management of a traveling circus without putting himself at allout of.tho way. ASTER WBIEiKI/g: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1869. Tne Old Members. The Express la jubilant over the de feat of “the old members.” It devotes almost a column of editorial space to a ptean of rejoicing over the rejection by the people of Hopklps, Gatchell, Sum my and Peters. We admit that the rascality and corruption of the last Leg islature furnished abundant reason for the repudiation of nearly every Badical member of that body. B ut i scarcely any worse than several which preceded it. There has not been a ses sion of the Legislature since Geary was made Governor in which a crowd o extra pasters and folders has not been employed, and in which paying private legislation has not received almost ex clusive attention from the members. The swollen condition of the volumes containing adscript of the lawß passed shows how improper legislation has in creased. There has been no check put upon it by John W. Geary. He has rarely exercised the veto power, which was given him to protect the people. The most objectionable bills have been sure to receive his sanction. He has been recognized as and pro tector of the Legislative Ring. Such men as Peter Herdic have found him ready to co-operate with them in any piece' of rascality they might devise. | 1 He has not had a word to Bay against 1 the employment of extra pasters and folders. He made bargains with the most corrupt men about Harrisburg,and freely bartered his influence as Gover nor to secure delegates to the State Convention. Long before that body assembled enough of the tools of the Legislative Ring had been chosen to insure a packed majority in favor of his renomination.. The more sagacious and independent Republican- newspapers of the State ! protested in vain against such an out rage upon the people. The tools of the roosters” and “ pinchers” had a ma jority however, and they werebentupon having their candidate settled. Even the Express warned the Republican par ty that defeat was probable, if not inevi table, in case Geary should be nated. It knew that he was involved in the corruption which has prevailed at Harrisburg. Why then does it not con demn him as it has condemned “the old members” from this county ? Geary is much more to blame for the corruption which has prevailed at Harrisburg since he was Governor than any member of the Legislature. He has been hand in glove with the thieves, and has profited by their rascality. He avowed that he was very poor when he left the array. At the end of the second year of his gubernatorial term, he of fered to pay thirty-four thousand dol lars cash for a farm. Where did ho get the money? His salary is only five thousand dollars a year, and it must cost even an economical Governor al most that much to live in proper style. We cannot see how the Express can support Geary while itrejoices over the defeat of “the old members.” Their crimes are small indeed compared with those of the Governor. He has been the shield and support of the legislative thieves. lie could have broken up the “ring” by a few strokes of his pen. lie refused tointerfere,andgave the “roost ers” and “pinchers” the fullest license, if the Express wants to be considered honest let it denounce Geary as it de nounces men who are innocent in com parison with him. The Assessments Upon the ltadical Can- The Radical Couuty Committee lias resolved not to run -the political ma chine without money. The members are intrusted with the disbursement of •the funds raised, and it seems that, they are determined to make those who want offices pay full value for them. At the meeting held on Monday the following assessments were laid upon the different candidates: Sheriff. Register Protbonotary Two Senators, each S3'.;U Four Assemblymen, each SiIXJ,. Clerk of Quarter Hesslons “ *• Orphans’ Court Treasurer Two Directors of Poor, each 375 “ Prison Inspectors Commiesouer. Coroner Auditor Total corruption fund No one will pretend to claim that such an enormous sum of money is needed to elect the Radical local ticket in this county. The candidates are to be bled to prop up the failing fortunes of that miserable tool of the corrupt legislative ring, John W. Geary. It is solely for his benefit that the money assessed upon the different candidates is to be wrung from them. It has already cost each one of them a large amount to secure the nomination under the expensive Crawford County Sys tem, and there will be many other drains on their purses during the cam paign. With this bold robbery of the County Committee, and other heavy expenses past and to come, it will puzzle some of them to make a cent out of the offices they have almost secured. We would advise them to repudiate the claim of the Committee. They are sure to be elected, and we have no doubt they would each be able to apply the money demanded of them more judiciously than the Committee will do. They would at least have the satisfaction of knowing where their money went, and how it was expended. All the cash that can he raised by this kind of open rob bery will not save Geary. He is doomed to defeat. Let the Radical candidates save their money. Geary as an American Mechanic. Among other secret.societiesto which Geary has sought admissipn is the Order of Americau Mechanics. What right a man who never did an honest day’s work since he came of age has in such an association is more than we can tell. Geary has been a political bum mer and offic!e-beggar all his life. He has subsisted as a place-hunting mendi caut from the time he was a clerk upon the Old Portage Railroad until now. What branch of mechanics he represents it would certainly be very hard to con jecture. Yet he is a sworn member of the American Mechanics; an Order which not only excludes every foreign born citizen from its ranks, but which is pledged to discriminate against all such men in their effort to make a liv ing by any mechanical baseuess. Geary no doubt expected to make some votes by joining this association, and it is pos sible he may do so; but how can auy foreign born mechanic vote for him. He is pledged to discriminate against them in every possible way. Let them remember that when they go to the polls. Death of a Rudleal Paper. The Columbia Daily Spy is defunct. It died of luaultlon. The new proprie tors of the concernfound it could notbe kept alive, except by levying contribu tions upon certain charitable Radicals of Columbia; so they wisely let it die. We shall miss it, as it was rather a val uable source of local information. If it had lived through the campaign it would have had the honor of expiring with the buckram hero, John W. Geary. It departed from political life a month or so in advance of him. Peace to its ashes. On the Rampage. The newly elected Chairman of the Radical County Committee Is on the rampage. He threatens to carry things with a high hand. Hearing that some of the candidates were Indisposed to pay up the heavy assessment laid upon them, he swore by his long yellow lockß and his short tawny beard, that he would not have the names of the re cusants put upon tho ticket until they came down with the stamps. Slaves, learn to know and obey your master, Will Ton pike Warning ? . Will you take warning, Republicans of every State/t£at the ratification of the XVth j_mendvientis yet desperately contested and {ndoubtf— fTribune. i • „ 4 i)emocrats, Conservatives, friends ofi'tate Rights and free citizenship, that the. proposed Fifteenth Amendment is a denial of the right of the States to regulate their own internal affairs, and a direct inter ference with the Federal Constitution ? Will you not remember that Btep by step the advocates of centralized power sap and undermine*first the social free dom of Municipalities, then of Coun- ties, then of larger Communities, then of States and Colonies ? Will you not recall the period when Rome destroyed Freedom in her Colonies, by taking from the people in those Colonies that State autonomy which guaranteed free dom to the people, and how, jußt in pro portion as the central power was in creased, individual and local power was destroyed, until the Colonies fell first, and then Rome herself, like the pillars of Sampson, upon the headß of the peo ple? The Federal Government, backed by the purse and the sword, now de mands control of Popular Suffrage in all the States. To that end it has at tempted, and generally with success, to subsidize all political State organ ization. To that end it denies long promised freedom to Virginia, and refuses to respect an election author ized by Congress and the President. To that end it interferes by military force with civil rights in Virginia, Mis- sissippi, Texas, and other free States. To that end it has given the ballot to 750,000 negroes, and taken it from half as many white men. To that end a great army is placed Over the States to control elections. To that end a mil. tary General, ambitious to .place him self in theU. S. Senate, denies the writ of'habeas corpus. To that end General Canby, of Virginia, also ambitious of political promotion, undertakes, and in opposition to his own. previous decis ions, to decide who shall and who shall not constitute the Legislature of a State which he governs by the sword. To that end independent judges and other civil officers are removed from office in Mississippi, to make room for the crea tures and satraps of a military officer, backed by the word and power of the President. To that end U. S. Marines are called into service in New York city to resist, by the threat of their presence, and by blood if need be, a decision of the Supreme Court. To that end, also, the U. S. Supreme Court is overawed aud deterred by Congress from making prompt and just decisions in behalf of constitutional liberty. All these facts are familiar to heading men, and painful to thinking and pa triotic men, no matter to what party they belong. The proposed adoption of of the Fifteenth Constitutional Amend ment is an encouragement to continue such outrages. Already the people have endured, pitied aud almost embraced these evils. "We counsel them, then, as they respect the memory of their fath ers, and as they wish well to their chil dren, to rise as one man aud resist further innovations upon Slate Kights, Constitutional Liberty, and true Dem ocratic Xtepublicau Government. The people of Pennsylvania have the opportunity aud the power to repeal the fraudulent endorsement of negro suf frage which was effected by John W. Geary andthe most corrupt Legislature that ever assembled in this Common wealth. If those who are opposed to ne gro suffrage will go to the polls in Octo ber and vote with the independence of freemen, casting aside for once the trammelsof party, aDemocraticLeg Ma ture can be elected to support that pure patriot, Asa Packer. It can be done with the right sort of an effort, in spite of the infamous gerrymander of the State. The Fifteenth Amendment In Doubt, The New York Tribune has raised the cry that the fifteenth amendment is in doubt, and that very Radical journal, the Philadelphia Post , says : g.mou 6UU.00 MW. 10 GOO.OO •100.' 0 250.0 J ¥5O 00 250.00 150.00 150.00 100.00 40.00 10.00 Iu Ohio nud elsewhere the Democracy will wage a most desperate war upon the adoption of this most wise and just meas ure. They are sanguine that they eau defeat it, and will leave no stone unturned to accomplish that end. Impartial Suffrage is to-day iu doubt—in great doubt—and well may The Tribune raise a cry of alarm. We are glad to hear these papers tell ing the truth at last. For months the whole Radical press of the country has been insisting that the adoption of the fifteenth amendment, and the forcing of the negro suffrage upon an unwil ling people was a foregone conclusion. We have asserted from the inception of this infamous measure, that the people had the power to defeat it in spite of bayonets at the South, and the rascally frauds which were engineered by Geary and other men of like character in the North. Let the white men of Pennsyl vania remember that much depends upon the coming election in this State. Geary sent a special message to the last Legislature urging the Radical majori ty to make haste to fasten negro suf frage upon this State by the adoption of the proposed amendment. Petitions signed by thousands of Conservative Republicans, as well as by multitudes of Democrats, were poured into the legislative chambers, praying that the question might be submitted to a vote of the people. The Democratic mem bers voted as a unit to allow the white men of Pennsylvania to pass upon this grave question, but, under the orders of Geary, all such reasonable and proper suggestions were voted down, and the amendment was endorsed. For this surrenderor the rights of the State and the people Geary must be held account able at the polls. Let every white man remember that his vote will tell for or against negro suffrage in October. .8a,700.00 The Temperance rarty. As will he seen by the report which we publish elsewhere, the National Temperance Convention at Chicago, determined to form a new political party. The platform' adopted will be considered as binding upon all the sub ordinate secret orders- throughout the country, and we may expect to see an active campaign made in this Htate next year by the prohibitionists. They will concentrate all their power to elect members of the Htate Legislature and Congressmen. Some time since James Black, Esq., the President of the Chi cago Convention, announced in the Court House of this city that John W. Geary was the choice of the Temper ance men of Pennsylvania for Gover nor. There is no doubt that Geary joined the Good Templars for the pur pose of securing the votes of the Tem perance men, just as he has joined every secret society that would admit him.— It remains to be seen how much be will gain by such a course. By the terms of the pledge he took when join ing the Good Templars he is solemnly bound to favor the passage of a prohib itory liquor law, and the new temper ance pArty will make a desperate effort next year to elect a Legislature pledged to pass one. It is said, on what cannot be considered doubtful authority, that the two candidates for Senator in this county gave pledges to the temperance men that they would act with them if elected, and that several of the candi dates for Assembly dkl the same thing. The day is not far distant when we shall have a battle on the subject of prohibition in Pennsylvania. Hon. J. A. Royce, of Cincinnati, heretofore a prominent Radical, In a communicaton to the Cincinnati En giurcr, says: ”1 have severed myself irom the Republican party, because it is an organized hypocrisy, a shuffling dissimulation, a fraud, a delusion, and a snare, a combination of grasping fan atics, fattening on the vitals of, wealth distributors of the country.” It is evident that Mr. Royce, during his con nection with the Radical party, kept his eyes about him. California. The news from California gro wb bet** ter and bettejr. The defeat of Radical* ism .is overwhelming. Gov. Haight estimates that the legislature will be three-fourths Democratic. Counties which have bean steadfastly Republi can heretofore, have been swept by the Democracy. The Radicals endorsed the infamous fifteenth amendment, and made their campaign upon it. The re sult shows what would be the fate of negro suffrage in nearly every State, if the people were allowed to vote upon it. Since the negroes of the South have turned against the carpet-baggers the fifteenth amendment has comparative* ly few friends even among the Radicals. The people will not be sorry to see it defeated, os it now seems almost certain to be, in spite of the force work of Con gress in the South and such frauds as that engineered by Geary in Pennsyl vania. Let the white men of this State put their mark upon the super-serviceable tool who now occupies the Gubernatorial chair. But for his truckling message in favor of negro suffrage the Radicals of the Legislature would have hesitated to ratify the proposed amendment, by which the sacred right of the people of Pennsylvania to regulate the elective franchise for themselves was tamely and basely surrendered. Geary, more than any other man in the Commonwealth, is responsible for the refusal of the Leg islature to submit this great question to a vote of the people. He willingly and unhesitatingly surrendered the most valued audimportant right of the State. The man who so acts is unfit to be Governor of a great State like Penn sylvania. Let the white men of the Keystone State settle with him on the second Tuesday of October. Geary, the Chier of the Ring, < The Express comes to the defense of < Governor Geary with half a column of glittering generalities and baseless as sertion. It boldly avows that he was an enemy to the infamous corruption that prevailed in the Legislatures which assembled during his term of office; but it utterly fails to substantiate its claim by a single particle of proof. Let it show, if it can, the evidence that Geary was not the tool of the legislative ring ; letitproduee a single veto message based upon such ground as the Democratic Governor of New York took last winter. Governor Hoffman found the same in famous system which has made our Legislature a bye-word and a reproach in full play when he was inaugurated. He did not tamper with it and encour age it as Geary did. He promptly vetoed one improper aot after another, giving his reasons for so doing in mes sages which exposed the rascality of the Legislature. The result was the kill ing off of multitudes of improper bills before they passed either house. The “roosters” and “pinchers” found no such obstacle in Geary. He not only signed the appropriation bills, paying a crowd of fellows like Illyus every year, but he was ready, with pen in hand, to attach his signature to every corrupt piece of legislation that the thieves put through. He sat up nearly all night to sign the unconstitutional and outrage ous Herdic act. We charge it upon him that ho sold himself out to the ring to secure a reuominatiou, and that very fact, so well known to many Republi cans, created strong opposition to him. The Convention was so well packed, however, that he could not be beaten there, aud the only remedy left is to defeat him at the polls. We have no ' doubt that will ho done. The people ! will not consent to vote for the man . uuder whose protecting care the legis ; lative ring carried on its rascality un * rebuked anti unrestrained. The Temperance Ticket. We find the following in. the last issue of the Examiner : Tho following appeared in the advertis ing columns of the Express of Friday, Au gust 271 h : TEMPERANCE MEN IN THE FIELD. The organi/.titiou of Good Templars have ssued the following: Christiana, Aug. 24, 18GD. Dear Sir: Tho Executive Committee, appointed by the late County District Con vention of Good Templars, held an ad journed meeting at Lancaster, on Monday, August 2Ud, and unanimously adopted the enclosed ticket, to be supported at the pri mary election, on Saturday, August 28th, THOSE FOR SENATE AND ASSEMBLY BEING FLEDGED FOR A PROHIBITORY LIQUOR law, subject to the will of the people of the seyoral districts, and those named for other offices being unexceptional men of excel lent character and worthy of our confidence and support. It is highly important that EVERY TEMPERANCE VOTE BE CONCENTRA TED UPON THE LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES. K. K. KUSH, 4 Cbairman. Jas. L. Ali.en, Secretary. The Legislators recommeuded as pledg ed are us follows: SENATE. ESAIAS BILLINGFELT, JOHN B. WARFEL. HOUSE. THOMAS A. CLARK, HENRY M. ENGLE, Dr. E. B. HERR. We have no comments to make, except to say that the truth or genuineness of the circular has not been questioned, and we publish it as a mutter ot record, which may not be uninteresting wheu tho law proposed shall be enacted. It is asserted by leading and knowing Republicans, that the secret lodges of the Temperance men in this county were fully united, and that they acted in concert, voting as a body, not only for Heuators aud Assemblymen, but for other officers. At a meeting of the head men of the organization, held some time ago. it was resolved not to form a regular and distinctive temperance party iu Pennsylvania at present, but the order was issued for the different lodges to unite upon such local candi dates as might be willing to pledge themselves in favor of a prohibitory law. That the secret organizations had much to do with settling the Radical ticket iu this county, isopeuly charged by the Republican leaders, and we have no doubt about the truth of the allega tions. Fraudulent Voting In the City. On Monday we were informed by a prominent Republican that every ward in the city had cast more votes for the Radical candidates on Saturday than Grant received, and we published hiß statement. The Express, thereupon, made a loud blow, accusing us of inten tionally falsifying. Since the full re turns have been published, yte have examined them carefully, fol lowing is the result: In the First Ward Graut received 295 votes, and the different candidates for Sheriff a combined BO3. In the Third Ward Grant had 223 votes and the candidates for Sheriff 240. In the Fifth Ward, Brubaker’s, where the polls were closed twenty minutes before the time on Saturday, the vote for Sheriff was even 150, while Grant only polled 121. In the Sixth Ward Grant’s vote was 195, the vote for Sheriff 201. In the Seventh Ward Grant’s vote was 138, the vote on Sheriff IGO. In this Ward the election on Saturday was held in an unlicensed beer house, and there are some nine indictments now pending against the proprietor. The temperance men didn’t run that she bang. In the Eighth Ward Grant’s vote was',l33, the vote on Saturday 140. In the Ninth Ward Grant hAdover 200 and the candidates for sheriff 207. Thus it will be seen that our inform ant was very nearly right. In every ward, except two, more votes were re corded on Saturday than Grant bad.— Does any one pretend to say such a re-' suit was honestly obtained ? We have yet to see tbe first man who does so. It is a notorious fact that boys were voted that Republicans went from one ward to another repeating votes for their fa vorite candidates, and that not a few loose Democrats deposited tiokets whioh they never meant to support at the gen eral election. That there were several hundred fraudulent voteß cast In this city on Saturday afternoon many know ing Republicans freely admit, and none who are posted attempt to deny it. Tiro Stories Told by Geary. Previous to. his renomlnatlou was freely and openly denounced-by several' leading Badieal papers of this State, as a man utterly wantirigjln ve racity. He Is an empty, boasting, vain,' conceited and garrulous Gascon. Dur ing the rebellion he kept an unscrupu lous Bohemian on his Staff, and the | sole business of the fellow was to man ufacture exaggerated reports of the prowess of his Chief, and to have the stories he coined duly inserted in the Philadelphia Inquirer and one or two other sensational newspapers. On one occasion a report was; published of a fight which never occurred, in which Geary was represented as performing the most prodigious and valorous ex ploits. 'Whether Geary dictated the lying reports which were given curren cy through the instrumentality of his Bohemian subordinate, or whether the Bohemian ingeniously invented them and then read them over to his chief we cannot say ; but certain it is that Geary still is given to telling the most ridiculously improbable Btories of his martial deeds. Two of his yams have been given currency during the present campaign by certain Badieal newspapers. The sheets which publish them must have unbounded confidence in the ignorance and credulity of their readers. In the Columbia Daily Spy, of July 28th, appeared a story which the writer declared he got from Geary’s own lips. We give it as it was told: It appears that Gens. Geary and Hooker were riding together one day just before the capture of the Mountain, in full view of it, bristling as it was with rebel infantry and artillery, when Gen. G. remarked, 1 Hooker,’ (their relations were of that inti mate character that titles between them were always dispensed with,) ‘ Hooker, I have a plan by which I ean take Lookout Mountain.’ ’ What is it, Geary ? ’ asked Gen. H. ’No man. Hooker,’ replied Gen. G., ‘ can know my plan of attack until I get an order to take the mountain. Give me the order and then I will let you know my plan, but not till then.’ Gen. Hooker, as big eus- tom was when in deep thought, held bis head in an inclined position, as if closely examining the quality of the hair in his chargers mane, and so the two rode side by side for more than a mile, when Gen. 11. suddenly looked up and said. By G—d Geary, I believe you are the man to take Lookout Mountain —I give you the order. You will move your division upon it to morrow morniDg at daybreak. Now tell me your plan of attack,’ Gen. G. then de tailed the modus operandi to his superior officer, when Hooker,delighted,exclaimed, ‘You bit the nail on the head, Geary—The Mountain is ours!’ The next morning, Gen. Geary fought the battle of Lookout mountain above the clouds, aud all know the grand result. If all that had happened, as Geary asserts it did, how comeß it that in the official report of the battle of Lookout Mountain the celebrated “battle above the clouds” is not even mentioned? How comes it that Mr. Dana, of the N. Y. Sun, who was present when the re ported “battle above the clouds” took plape, declares the report of it which appeared in the newspapers to be a piece of reportorial fiction, and nothing more? How oomea it that Mr. Lana, who was Assistant Secretary of War at the time he witnessed the capture of Lookout Mountain, never mentions the nameof Geary in the true account of the affair which lie gave some time since in his paper? The truth is Geary’s Bohe main got up a cock and bull story about the affair, which was accepted as true until its utter falsity was exposed. There is not one man in a hundred so stupidly credulous as to believe the story told by Geary which we publish above. That he is in the habit of re tailing such extravagant yarns is well known. There la another of these marvelous fictions which he gets off that is even more ridiculous than the above. It is his description of the death of Stone, wall Jackson. According to Geary, a rebel deserter, who was standing guard within ear-shot of where the greatrebel division leader was dying, witnessed a scene, which he afterwards detailed to our Governor. According to Geary’s version of this deserter’s story, the great Confederate chieftain suddenly roused himself when almost at the last gasp and summoning General Longstreet, addressed him thus in the most solemn andlmpressiye tones: “General Longstreet,did you observe that tall imposing form seated on a black horse, in the thickest of the fight, as we did bat tle.” Quoth General Longstreet: “I did, indeed, my dear General.” “That man so valiant was General Geary,” exolaimed Stonewall. Mark me, beware of him 1 Avoid him 1 He is the banc of the Confed eracy Longstreet, beware ofGeary!" Wo do not know a better battle-cry for the people of Pennsylvania than the conclusion of that silly and ridiculously absurd story. “Beware'of Geary” should be the watchword of every hon est and truth-loving voter when he goes to the polls. The California Election, The good news from California is full of significance. The people of that new and great State Bay, No, most emphati cally, to the Fifteenth Amendment. They are not ready to give up control of the elective franchise, but with true manhood and honest State pride, have determined to hold on to the sacred boon bequeathed to them by the foun ders of the Republic. Let the people of Pennsylvania take example by the people of California. Let the voice of this Commonwealth be recorded against the fraudulent action of the last Radi cal Legislature, which refused to sub mit negro suffrage to a voto of the people. Let Geary, the miserable ren egade Democrat, who led in the move ment, be signally and overwhelmingly defeated. Let the-'white men of Penn* sylvania respond to their brethren in California. now They Love the Soldiers, The stay-at-home Radicals of Berks county, the fellows who never shoul dered a musket or smelt gunpowder, the thrifty patriots who made money while the soldiers were shedding their blood, the old political bummers who are ever on the make, gobbled up every particle of Federal patronage which Grant had to bestow. Not a crumb fell to the lot of any soldier; but at the County Convention, where the mere empty honor of being defeated was to be given out, soldiers were nominated for nearly every county office. If there was a Radical majority of 8,000 in old Berks, instead of a Democratic majority of that size, the soldiers would no doubt have fared as they did in the distribu tion of Federal offices. Such is the love of these loyal Radicals for the boys in blue. Such of the Boldiersof Old Berks as have voted the Radical ticket are , naturally indignant at the way in which they have been treated. Judge James Black. The ABSociate Press reports announce our townsman James Black Esq., tho President of the National Temperance Convention, as Judge Black. “Far off cows have long horns,” and our amiable and philanthropic fellow citizen h&B quite an Imposingpresence and a magis terial air; but we are able to assert au thoritatively that the only Judicial posi tion he ever occupied was that of Judge of election at one of the polling places in thlß city, ike is a lawyer by profes sion and has a fine run of pension busi ness, whioh he conducts with charac teristic shrewdness. A Radical newspaper heads an edi torial ”Go to Work.” The people are working and have been for years—work ing to make money to pay their enor mous taxes—working to pay the gold Interest olalmed and exacted by the bondholder—working for the scanty food and clothes of their wives and lit tle ones, while the bondholders and their families dress in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. Ah! it is all work with the poor now, and all play with the bondholder. The appro&ohlng death of Secretary Rawlins Interrupted Grant in his round of pleasure, and he has left Saratoga for Washington. How Inconsiderate a thing it is for Rawlins to die.at Such a time. John Geary and the Soldiers or the War, '_.v vOnJ Saturday,'-July 15th, 1548-,' and Bhortljj after the-relum of the Fayette county volunteers from tlie war with Mexico, they .held aiieeting in Con nellsville, at which.the following pre amble and resolutions were unani mously adopted: WgEREAfI, Tho discharge and arrival home of the remaining members of the Fayette Volunteers has again placed them In the position of citizens of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania, and enabled them to speak and assert their rights, they now embrace this occasion, the first opportunity since their return, to express their deep and ABIDING INDIGNATION of the conduct of JOHN W. GEARY, since he was elected to the command of the 2d Penn’a. Regi ment at the city of Mexico. The said John W. Geary procured his election by a mere plurality of votes, by FALSEHOOD and DECEPTION—whiIe be was promising to give Company H the privilege of electing their own officers, according to the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, he, the said Geary, bargained with others tor votes, promising and giving appointment in said Company H, to men from other companies who might answer his peculiar purposes. The law of Congress of the 13th May, 1546, calling for Volunteers for the war with Mexico, has this provision: Sec. s.—And be it further enacted, that the said Volunteers so offering their services shall be accepted by the President, in Com panies, battalions, squadrons and regi ments. whose officers shall be appointed in the manner prescribed by law in the several States and Territories, to which 6uoh com panies, battalions, squadrons and regiments shall respectively belong.” The said Geary, while he availed himself ! of this law to get himself into a high office, 1 rofused the same right to Company H which i legally and properly belonged to them. Therefore, Resolved, That we the remaining mem bers of the Fayette County Volunteers, view the conduct of the said John W. Geary to wards Company H as an OUTRAGE upon their just rights, as secured to them by the laws of Pennsylvania as well as the laws of Congress. The whole course aud conduct of the said Geary being INCONSISTENT WITH THE CHARACTER OF A GEN TLEMAN OR MAN OF HONOR—it was treating us as a set of men who did not know their rights, and who could not ap preciate them—it was CORRUPT aud MERCENARY in all its beariugs, charac teristic of a LOW AND GROVELING CyEtEATURE, hunting and peeking popu larity for courage and patriotism THAT HE NEVER EARNED, by bargaining with suple tools and mercenaries, one of whom at least was a notorious blackleg. arrest and trial of Ist Sergt. Jon 1 ?? A.” Cummings, by a Court Martial, for daring to assort his rights and those of the company, was A BASE AND COWARDLY EXERCISE OF USURPED AUTHORITY ON THE PART OF THE SAID JOHN W. GEARY—after he, the said Geary, had SURREPTITIOUSLY SUPPRESSED the order of the Adjt. Gen* eraloi'this State, (issued by a direction of Governor Shuuk) directing him to fill all vacancies in the 2d Regiment of Pennsyl vania Volunteers, by election—taking ad vantage of his STOLEN authority to cover up his WORSE than BASE MOTIVES, and to injure the hard earned lame of a bravo and gallant officer. On ipotiou of Deter A. Johns, it was Resolved, That ail tho harm wo wish Col. Geary IS THAT HIS DISGRACE MAY FOLLOW HIM THROUGH ALL THE LANrCS ANI) AVEN V ICS OF LIFE, AND THAT HE MAY NEVER DIE OH GET OLD, At the time the above resolutions were passed, Gen. Geary was acting with the Democratic party, and the Fayette county Volunteers were nearly qll Democrats. So that his conduct must have been outrageous, to thus call down upon his head the condemnation, not only of his companions in arms, but of his political associates also. Geary is now the Radical candidate for Gov ernor. Is he fit for it ? Will not a man who betrays and outrages his soldiers upon the battle-field, betray and out rage the State in the Gubernatorial chair? And has honotalready done it? Itead the above over again and reflect carefully, before you agree to entrust the executive duties of the State to such a man as John W. Geary. A Deserved KehuUe We take the following from the Kb ensburg Allcghanian, the leading Radi cal paper of the county in which the Democratic Candidate for Supremo Judge resides: “ We observe with pain that the Philadel phia a host of imitators,are busi ly engaged, day by day and week by week, in the d irty work of attempting to blacken the personal and professional character of Hon. C. L. Pershing, the Democratic nom inee for Supreme Judge. “County Squire,” Pershing and not Pershing, ’’ “a lawyer of no learning and no ability,” “a country lout"—these are somo of the epithets thrown at Mr. Pershing. We though the day for this species of political warfare was gone. Mr. Pershing is a man ot undoubted ability as a lawyer, has made a mark high upon the record as a politician, and is withal a Christian gentlemafi. Wo believe our or gans will do infinitely better service lor our party by attacking Mr. Pershing’s political principles than Mr. Pershing as an individual. The rebuke contaiued in above paragraph is well deserved. The Radi cal papers of this State have been en gaged in making the most disreputable assaults upon Mr. PershiDg. In order to accomplish the purpose they have been compelled to resort to low billings gate and to downright lying. Air. Per shing is perfectly unassailable except through the medium of deliberate mis representation and gross falsehood. Senator Morton, of Indiana, on Thursday, in a speech at Pittsburg,un. dertook to characterize the platforms of the two parties. Said he : The Democratic and the Republican plat forms, taken together, resemble a double mile-post—that part of the miio-post that looks buckward tells you wbero you came from, and how far yon have gone. That is the Democratic party. The other side of thelmile-post is the Republican. That looks forward, and tells you how far you have to RO. Thus he euded his speech, aud did not tell his hearers where the Radical platform was to take them. This omis sion is, however, supplied by what the veteran Scotch author, Thos. Carlyle, said to a correspondent of the New York Tribune, who tried to get from him a compliment to Radical “ progress.” Carlyle said: “ As sure as the Lord reigns, you aro rushing down to hell with desperate veloci ty. The scum of the world has got posses sion of your country, and nothing can save you from the devil’s clutches, Not, per haps,” cried ho, raising his voice to its shrillest notes, “ a hell burning with ma terial lire and brimstone, but the wide wil toring liery chaos of corruption in high places, and the misrule of the people,” When Geary visited Gettysburg the other day, he spread himself over the battle-field from Rig Round Top to Culp’s Hill, and endeavored to impress upon visitors the startling information that with his right arm he saved the battle and the cause at three different points, on the three several days of the fight, bu t t had his pin feathers taken from him when the real soldiers came to mark the positions of the several commands. It turned out that the pea cock Geary was left very little ground, and that well-sheltered. Ho became disgusted and left town twenty-four hours earlier than he intended. Geary was under General Slocum on the occa sion of the “onpleasantness,” and Slo cum was at the reunion. The National Debt. The “ World” noticing the jubila tions of the Radical journals over the reduction of the public debt last month, by some five millions, and that the country is asked to admire President Grant and his Secretary of the Treasury for so auspicious a result, asks—as well it may— “ What haye they done, JuriDg the month of August.to entitle them to thiß shallow and fulsome praise? They have been journey ing and junketing, attending dauces and olambakes, horse-races and monster musi cal festivals; flitting from place to place on pleasure excursions, leaving the govern ment to be run by clerks and subordinates; the President and the whole Cabinet being absent from Washington, and as free from care as the gayest butterflies of fashion that flirt and talk nonsense on the corridors of the watering-place hotels. If the amount of the debt is lessened, small thanks to our jaunting, loafing President and finance minister, who have contributed no more to this result than they have to the unwonted abundance of the August peach otop.” The Southerners don’t care whether the Fifteenth Amendment is carried or not. They had negro suffrage forced upon them under the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments. The white men of the North and West are the most interested in the fifteenth amend ment-—not the white men of the South THE J CAJLIFOBNIA Trlnmph of. Hie Democracy. Tlio Fifteentli Amendment Doomed. San Francisco, Sept. I.—Notwithstand ing that business has been generally sus pended in the city to-day, the vote is unu sually light. The reports from the interior are favorable to the Democracy, Frank M’Coppin, Democrat, is elected Mayor by about 1,000 majority. A portion of the independent municipal ticket is elect ed. The returns torn the interior of the State are meagre, but the indications are that the Democrats have secured a majori ty of the next Legislature. In San Fran cisco the day was as quiet as Sunday, and there was but little interest manifested in the election. SECOND DESPATCH. San Francisco, Sept. 2, a. M.—The Democratic local tickets throughout the State are generally elected by decided Democratic majorities. The next Legisla ture will render an emphatic verdict against the fifteenth amendment. San Francisco returns a full Democratic-legislative delega tion. The vote of the city was light. About 36,000 names were on the register, and less than 22,000 votes were polled. The count of the straight tickets for Mayor last night gave M’Coppin, Democratic, nearly 1.400 majority. But the oonnt of the scratched , tiokets at 8 o’clock this evening shows that I Selby, Independent, is about 125 ahead, I with a prospect of an increased majority. Dispatch from Governor Haight—The . Democratic Vlctory.in California. San Francisco, Sept. 6.—We have gain ed an overwhelming Democratic victory in California. Three-fourths of the Legisla ture is Democratic. H. H. Haight. San Francisco, Sept. 6.—At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors, Major McCop pin and the other defeated Democratic can didates, demanded a recount of the entire vote of the ciiy, and county of San Franciß co, and brought charges of fraud against the commission appointed to couut the vote. Clean DcmoeraticlSwcep of the Terrlto tory ol' fl 3'omlng. Cheyenne, Sept. 3.—The election yester day passed off quietly. The entire county Democratic ticket is elected. Hon. Si F. Nuckolls, Democrat, is elected to Congress. He is a New Yorker, who came lo this Territory in 1567, and is a leading merchant of Cheyenue. FKOH VIRGINIA. Opinion of Attorney-General Hoar—llls Decision Relative to the Tent Oath and the Feraous Elected I'udor the Mew Con stitution, Richmond, Sept. 4. —The following is Attorney General Hoar’s opinion, received this morning by General Canby : Attorney General's Office, Aug. 23, ISG9.—To the Hon. John A. Rawlins, Sec retary of War—Sir:—l have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of July 27, 18(59, in which you request my opiuion upon sp much of the questions sub mitted in the letter of tfce commanding general of the First military district, datou the 10Lh iqst., 'and accompanying papers, copies of which a,re enclosed, as refers to the legal qualifications of officers to be elected unqer the proposed constitution of the State of Virginia, and especially upon the question whether persons elected to office.m such State, under said constitution, I are required by the supplemental recon struction act of July 19, ISG7, to take aud [ subscribe to tho oath prescribed or referred I to in section nino of said act beforo puteriug | upon the duties of their respective offices. Tho latter question is the ouly one indicated with such distinctness as.to onablo mo to bo fully satislied that its purport is appre hended, and I therefore oonflne my answer to that. ISy the statute of April 10, lsi>9, tho registered voters of Virginia were author ized to vote on the question of the adoption of a constitution for the State, and at the same lime to elect officers under it,,subject to tho approval ol Congress. The vote has been taken in pursuance of the provisions of the act aud the election held, and some parts of the constitution submitted have boen adopted by the people and others re jected. Tho parts of tho proposed constitu tion thus adopted, if they shall be approved by Congress, will bo the constitution of Virginia under which all its officers will be required to act, and the qualifications ag well as the duties of those officers \vill bo determined by it, When Virginia is re stored to its prqper relations to the country as a State of the Union, its officers and leg islature will be such as the Constitution of the State provides, deriving their powers from that instrument, and it will clearly not bo in the province of Congress to im pospiany requirements of additional quali licatious;- upon them different from those which under the Constitution of tho United States may be required in all the States. If, therefore, any tests were to be imposed upon mombers of the legislature, not pro vided by the Constitution of Virginia, or any re&trictiou imposed upon the people of the State in their choice of officers not rec ognized by it, and not made applicable UDdor the legitimate powers of Congress to all the States, the legislature aud odloers would uot, in my opinion, be tho legisla ture aud officers of Virginia under tho Con stitution. Ido not soe that Congress can undertake to furnish the State with a suit able legislature to start with or to exercise any control over its composition which could not bo exercised over subsequent leg islatures. I am, therefore, of the opiuion that the oath preset ibed by the statute of 18G2 and by the statute of July 19, 1867, chapter 30, section 9, required to be taken by all persons elected or appointed to office in said military districts, under any so called State or municipal authority, is not to be required of the officers of the State of Virginia or members of the legislature elected under the new constitution! It does not seem to me that the provisions of tl}is ninth section, which are applicable to the 1 governmeut of the State under military authority, were intended to apply to the legislature and officers under whom the State is to be restored to its proper relations to the Union, and by whom the govern ment of the State is to be administered after its restoration. This, opinion is strongly oonlirmed by a reference to the second sec tion of the same act, which authorizes the commander of any district named in the act to Buspend or remove from office or from the performance of offleiaipowers any officer or person holding or exercising or professing to hold or exercise any civil or military office or duty in said district under any power, election, appointment, or au thority derived from, or granted by, nr claimed under any so called State, or the government thereof, and to detail a compe tent officer or soldier of the army to per form such duties. It would be impossible to Buppose that OoDgress oould intend that a legislature under the constitution of a State could have its members appointed by detail trom soldiers of the army. The only reasonable conclusion seems to me to be that it was not intended that any such legislature should be allowed to exist aud act uutil reconstructed and completed, except for the limited and qualified pur poses requisite to reconstruction. But, on the other hand, I fully ooncur with the view of the General commanding in Virginia, that, under tho reconstruction acts of Con gress, no officer or legislature is competent or should be permitted to exercise any of the functions or power of his office within that State, except so far a« these acts them selves provide, without taking the oath above quoted. The act of April 10, 1860, requires tho legislature to meet at a time which It designates—that is, to meet im plies that it is to come together for some purpose. I it is required under the previous law to '•net upon the question of adopting the four teenth amendment to the Constitution of : the United States before the admission of the State to representation in Congress. I am of opinion, therefore, that it may come together, organize and act upon that amend ment, but that until Congress shall have approved the Constitution and tho notion under it, and shall have restored the State to its proper place in the Union by recog nizing its form of government as republi can, and admitting it to representation, the legislature is not entitled and would not, without violation of law, be allowed to transact any business, pass any oct or re solve, or undertake to assume any other function of a legislature, if the test outh has not been required of its members under the new constitution, and that no officer elected under tho constitution can ooter upon the duties of his office without tak ing the oath while military government continues. Very respectfully, E. R. Hoar, Attorney General. Restricting the Right of Naturalization. The disposition of the Radicals to re strict the right of naturalization, and to throw obstacles in the way of white for eigners who desire to become American citizens cannot be disguised. It is con tinually cropping out, Wendell Phil lips, th§ great Radical, has just fulmin ated a decree in the following terms: Instead of five years, we would have seven years required, before a foreigner can vote here. The New England system of lists of voters must be adopted everywhere. A foreigner’s name must be entered on these lists when ho has resided here six years, entitling him to vote a year later, unless challenged in the meanwhile. The decision allowing him to have his name registered may be contested any time with in three years after such registry. The old leaven of KnownothiDgism Is still actively at work in the Republi can party, and its effects are only tem porarily concealed and restrained. The Memphis Avalanche pronounces definitely for Emerson Etheridge for Senator, gives as a reason why that, if Andrew Johnson is ohosen, “ straight way Massachusetts will transfer, as Bhe has threatened, Beast Butler from the House of Representatives to the Senate Chamber; and the hall consecrated by the eloquence of Clay, Calhoun, and Webster will become the theatre of the most disgraceful broils. With Andrew Johnson and Beast Butler In Congress, 1 the public mind would be at once lashed nto fury. The people, now quiet and anxious to secure permanent tranquili ty, would soon find themselves in a state of fermentation. THE ÜBEAT BWWPT.P, now the People oro cheated. Republicans and Democrats ilitco tlie * Victims. Names of the Betrayers. A solemn and formal promise was made by the Radical leaders, in the Chicago Plat* form of lost year, to their followers and the people of the United States. It was a pledge that in all the loyal States, the question of suffrage should remain under the control of the people. We quote from the Platform, word for word, as follows: “ The guaranty by Congress of equal suffrage to all loyal men at the south, was demanded by every consideration of public safety, of gratitude and of Justice.and must be maintain* ed ; while the question of suffrage fn alt the loyal Stoics properly belongs! to the people of those Stales. On the faith of this solemn avowal, a ma jority of the people of the United States vot ed for L Gen, Grant, and on this formal as surance the Radicals were permitted to retain the ascendancy In Congress and the State Legislatures. Thousands and thous ands voted for Grant and the Radical can didates for Congress and the Legislature, | who would not have touched them If they 1 had not been persuaded Dy this deliberate promise in the Chicago Platform that the Suffrage question would be allowed to re main in the bands of the people. Mark, now, how the confiding voters wore be trayed ! No sooner bad Congress assembled after the Presidential election, than the Radical leaders rushed through that body the meas ure known as the Fifteenth 1 Amendment, and sent it iu hot haste to the Legislatures then in session, with a view to its Immedi ate ratification! This indecent hurry was intended to steal a march on the people, and if possible, to Hank them, by making the Amendment a part of the Constitution by consent of three-fourths of the Legisla tures, before the people could vote on it, or elect new Legislatures wilh the Amend ment an issue. GOV. JOHN W. GEARY was an actor in this shameful Intrigue, and on the very day on which he received the Amendment from the hands of Congres, ho sent it to the Legislature with the following message recommending its prompt ratifica tion : “Executive CuAMn&R, \ i “ HARKisnUKO.) March 8, iSoD.J I “ To the Senate and Souse of Rejmesentativos of i the i ominonwealth of Pennsylvania : • Gentlemen I have the honor to transmit, for the consideration of the Genoral Assembly, , a duly attested copy of a concurrent resolution i of tho Senate and House or Representatives of j the United States of America, entitled * A re- j solution proposlmjnu Ameiiilineuioi tho Con aillutlou of tho United Slates,' this clay re- 1 ceived from ihe stale l)ep irtmoni, Woshlug tou,D. t\ “i cordially approve Ibis action of tho National Congress, aud unhtsltaimgh* recom mend the prompt ratltli-nt lon of the «am« by the Legislature. Jull.N W. UEAKY." Remonstrances against iho ratification of tho Amendment poured in upun live Legis lature, signed uy ( lens of ihuu.-qnds o{ Citi zens, many of* whom belonged to the Radi cal party, but they wen* leci-iwd by the Radical Senators uud Representatives with contempt aud derision. Resolutions were offered tu both Houses, to postpone uction ou tho Amendment until next your, and to submit tho question at the October elec tion, They were voted down by the Radical side. On March 11, resolution to ratify the Amendment passed the State Semite by tho following vote: Yeas—-Messrs. HUUugfelt, Brown (Mercer), Coleman, Connell, Krrett, Fisher, Oraharu, Heuszey, Kerr, Lowry, Olmsted, Osiethoul, Kobisou,"Mllnson, Stutsman, Taylor, While and Worthington—l& All t advents. Nays—Misers. Beck, Brown Buiuylt, Davis, Uuueati, Jr.cksnu, Llnderman, M’CandlCss, M'lnUro, Miller, Nagle, Kuudall, Searight, Turner aud Wallace —la. Alt Demo crats. Sco Legislative Record fur ISG9, page -*»SI. On March li>, D'j'J, the sumo resolution passed the House by tho following vote: Yeas—Messrs. Adnire, Ames, Beatty, Brown (Uuut'gX Buffington, Bunn, Burrltt, Chamber lain, Oiuret), Clark {Wurreu's Cloud, Davis (PliLa.), Lmucau, Edwards, Fuy, Gatohell, Hamilton, ilclliiiaii, lierr, Herrold, Hot!inau, Hoßgale, Hong, Hopkins, Humphreys, Hun ter, Jackson, Kerr, Kltokuer, Lecdoiu, Leslie, Lungoueeker, Marshall, Martin, Meredith, Milter, Myers, Nicholson, Niles, Painter, Peters, Philips, ilea, Robb, Hobtaou (Blair), Robison (Mercer), Stephens, Blokes, Hlrauabau, BLraug, Hubers, Bumiuy, Taylor, Vankirk, Walker, Webb. Weller, Westlake, Wilson, and Clark, speaker— IC. All Ripnbh ca ns. Nays—Messrs, Beans, Heard, Uossard, Breen, Brobdt, Browu (Clurioiij, Lorutnau, Ciellr., Dailey, Davis (U Kean), Dill, Esebbach, Fogel, Gonna ie, Uoltenstelu, Uundt, Jones, Josephs, Ka«o, M Cullough, M'UiunLs, M’Kluslry. M.’- Mlller, Meek, Mullen, Nelson, Nice, O'Neill, Place, Pluyforfi, Porter (York), Rogers, Hcott, Bedgewick, Hhlvely, BLoul aud Westler— US. All Denioorats, Sue Legislative Record for 1 SiVJ, page 817. Was there ever so treacherous, bold anti Bhamolul a violation of its pledges to tho people oommiuod by any political parly ? Alter obtuining tho election of their candi date for President, their candidates for Congress aud Uiyir candidates for Legisla ture, ou the deliberate and solemn assur ance that “ tho question of suffrage iu ull tho loyal States properly belongs to ihe people of tboseJStates.” the Radicul leaders ; in Congress, the Radical Governor Geary and the Radical State Legislature, conspire together to deprive tho people of Pennsyl vania of all power over this question of sutfrago. which they have solemnly declar ed “ belongs lo tho Bui ns if to glory in their infamy, the Radical politi cians assembled iu State Convention in Philadelphia ou tho ~Sd of June last, re nominated John W. Geary for Governor, and placed him on a platforpi containing the following endorsement of his and their attempted fraud : Resolved, That we wholly, approve tho prin ciples and policy of the uumlulstration of General Grant, and we bearilly endorse every ’sentiment contained In blslnangural adilrosb, and especially do we hereby ratify unit approve Urn late amendment to the lonsliluiion of Un: Chi led states proj/Oicd by Lonrrrcss known <u the fif teenth Amenament. Such is tho insult offered to the men who were betrayed by the framers ol the Chicago , Platform. .Deliberately cheated by their leaders, they are now asked toeudorse and sustain by their votes the fraud perpetrated upon them. JOHN W. GEARY and tho RADICAL NOMINEES FOR THE LEG ISLATUHE are tho representatives of this Fifteenth Amendment swindle ; their cn pledges confront them like accusing spirits ; their efforts to stifle the voice of the people rise* up in judgmeotagainsl thorn, their very boldness in asking the people whom they have deceived to sustain them, condemns them as lost to every Ronse of decency or honor. LET US VOTE DOWN TH ES E UN P> LUS HI NO PL EDG K BREAKERS!—Bedford (Jazcttc. islug In Spite orUoutwell, Tbo Debt lncrol The Secretary oT-Hlm ashamed t«? think, as wel after bo many purchases of United States bonds ut twenty-live pur cent, premium, he cannot show n decrease in the national debt without resorting to fraud ; a fruud which none of his predecessor* dared bo guilty ol'. Mr. McCullough in making his statements invariably included the bonds oi the Pacific Hallroiul as a part of the bonded debt, and on the Ist of January, IS6B, reported the total of the public dobt, less cusLi in tho Treasury, at $2,5£V>3MbU.- 67. Mr. Boutwell, to make the impression that he is rapidly paying oil the debt, us the Radical organs delight in representing him to be doing, annonnced on tbo Ist of July, IB6o,that the debt of tho United States, less cash in tho Treasury, was s2,4Bl,;j<><i,. 720 21). Taking Boutwell’s report unfl com paring it with that of McCullough, the de crease is oertainly startling, aud if true, would bo gratifying; but Boutwell unfor tunately omitted to add as u most import nut item ol his account, tho Pacific railroad bonds issued and outstanding July 1, 1809, which amounted to $<>0,800,320, aud mnkes the debt absolutely nineteen million more than it was at tbo corresponding date of the previous year, when Mr. McCullough in cluded the Pucilic ruilroud bondH in his statement. Comparing thorn, tho actual debt as it stood at tho sumo dale iu the two years referred to,wo have tho national debt, bearing coin interest, iu July, 1868, at, July, iB6O, ut Increase, As it nover wan intended that the public dobt should bo paid at a premium, the more Mr. Uoutwell pays It nt the market price and not at par, the more ho luoruuses it, for every one thousand dollars of indebtedness becomes twelve hundred and fifty dollars, and every million becomes one million two hundred and fifty thousand. Wo should like our Radical financiers to study.out this problem, and explain to the people how it is that the more the Secretary of the Treas ury pays, on the Radical system, the more ho owes. The problem of squaring the cir cle is not more intrioate and difficult. The singular coincidences which in Wall street have preceded aud attended, but principally preoeded, Mr. Bout well’s sales of gold aud purchases of bouds, have led to the very natural inference, which no ono seems in a condition to deny, that the Secretary of the Treasury deems it necessary to the public interests that certain brokers shall be informed in advance of those proposed sales and purchases. One thiog cannot be denied, that a certain broker, and some times more than one, invariably precede the Government a day or so in selling gold or buying bonds, and wo need not Buy, al ways make heavy profits in the transaction. If these gentlemen, however, are on such intimate terms with Boutwell that he fur nishes them with information that enables them to make immense profits, of course he has no share in them. — Thila. Evening Herald. Horrible Slossacre lu Bpnln. A Madrid letter says there is a great ex citement In Spain over the recent executlbn of nine men near Barcelona, by Lieut. Col. Cosalis. Eight of the executed pereous were Carllsts, and tbo ninth was a game keeper, and they were all shot without uny form o! trial. The officer who directed the executions hud been promoted by the gov ernment for the part he had taken, thus verifying the reoent statement of Gen. Prim that the government would be cruel, if need be, in putting down rebellion. Tbo Fall Trade In New Torn The New York correspondent of tho Philadelphia Ledger t writes on Tuesday t *' General trade is exhibiting greater ac tivity. The auction rooms are well attend ed, and though buyors aro operating with unusual caution, the importers aud jobbers have no special oauso of oomplalut. West ern dealers are here in large numbora. but as a general thing their means aro limited, The South ore better off, thanks to the heavy cotton crop, but as yot they are only purchasing from hand to mouth, Nevt week, however, \b expected to be a l\vv*y one all round,” Bobeson Bivalllav Cleopatra; f Shakespeare, describing the manner In which Cleopatra asoended tho rlveirOyd nns, bent upon captivating Mark Antony, says: “The barge the satin, llkea burnished throne. Burnt on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with themt the oars _ rwi were sliver, which to the tone of flutes kept stroke, and made The water whlchlhey beat to follow faster. As .amorous of tnelr strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description. Bb. did lie In-.her pavllllon (oioth of sold, of tlssne', O’erplcturlng that Venus where we see’ The fancy outwork Nature: on eaoh side her Stood pretty dimpled boys llkesmllingCupids With divers ooiored ians,twnose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool. And what they undid, did. Her gentlewoman, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her ’l the eyes And made their bends adorning*. At the helm A seeming mermaid steers; the silken taoklos Swell with the touohes of those flower-sott hands That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strong Invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs.” Our worthy Secretary of the Navy would not probably, even dressed in the same oos tumo, compare in point of personal beauty with the famous Egyptian Qaeen ; bat iu fitting up the Tallapoosa for his summer pleasure tour he seems to have been bent upon rivalling the splendor of her barge, so far as the difference between a modern sea* going steamer and an ancient smooth-water galley,and the general discrepancy,between ancient and modern manners would permit. Gold is at too high a premium for him to lavish it on tho exterior of hla aqnatio throne, but interiorly be has given full play to his luxurious tastes. Gorgeous Turkey carpets on the cabin floor, rich upholstered chairs and sofas, sumptuous table furni ture, and downy beds and pillows surround him; and though, instead ofsmillog Cupids, a grinning negro steward draws the cham pagne corks, und the smoke of fragant Ha vanas is the only perfume that spreads from bis vessel, it must bo confessed that for a plain American citizen he has doue pretty well. As he sits under his awning on the hurricane deck, while ninety men i paid by the nution labor at propelling him | over the bounding waves, his heart (or per : hups his stomach) must swell within hint, | and his attendant Nereides —Porter and i Borio— must be in ecstacies at tho magnlfl , cent display they are making ut tho publio 1 expense.— X. 1\ Sun. flow the Expenses of the State Govern uieut linvu Increased Under Uenrji Tax payers of Pennsylvania, look at the diUeronce. The cost of the State prlutiug for 1800, the last your of Democratic rule li\ Pennsylvania, whs $30,6-11. This is the* amount os tuken from tho reports of the Atulitui General for that yoar. The oust of the State printing for 1868, as given by tho same authority, was $l3-1,968, or $104,327 more than it was in 1860. Is any inuu siuv pie enough to think that this dld'eronco ouw be accounted for without exposing the most Yilttinous system of corruption and favorit ism ? Anil yet tho tax payc;& are called i upon to grant those who tkns rob them of a uew lease of power. WUI they dolt? But again; The expenses of tho State government for the years 1863, 18G4, and. 1863, were as follows 1863. 186^. 1865. $44<;,45G . 000,021 iuu,oia. This, it will be remembered, waa during the wnr, under Governor Curtin, wheu the expenses were necessarily in oxoesaof llmea of peace, and during part of which time gold, was ut a premium of-Oft and 250, For three years sine© tho war, under thin administration of Uov. Geary, they wero w for tlio year ending Doc. I, $GGa,UOi> Dec. 1, ISO 7 802,H7ti Dkc. 1, IStiH litre we liud that the ordiuury expenses, of iho Commonwealth for the yunr 1808 v when gohl wan ranging from 130 to 140, wits. S2IS,MS more than they wore in ISO-L, wheat | gold was at 250 and everything inflated lu j tho same proportion. Hero aro facts ami ! tigures which cannot fail to striko the Uou j est ami tolling tax payor with stunning I ellect. Can our Radical friends explain I thoiu away?— Jlai-risburg I’alrioL Interesting to ourForeUgn-bcuruCltlcpna -lLc Ijiivn oCNntarnlisMlou. Tho Londou correspondent of tho Phila delphia Inquirer writes* “Tbo commissioners appointed by tho British government to examine and report upon the naturalization laws and tbo in ternational questions growing therofrom, having tinisbed their labors, and the action of Parliament thereon being deferred to some future session, we havo just been favored with a manifesto on tbo subject in advance, by no less a personage thau Chief Justice Cockburn. Thoro can be little doubt that this document has been prepared und puhl ished at the instonco of tho government,, ; and that the object is, by appending to lb the name of the most prominent man on the judicial bench to prepare the public mind for the legislation that is to ensue hereafter. “That the laws of different nations aro in>, direct oonilict respecting this whole Butypct has long been a matter of complaint, stnd It ia to the credit of tho United States govern ment that it was tbo first to point out the evil and to insist upon its remedy. It is freely admitted here that British action, could have been indefinitely deferred if the question bad not been raised at Washing ton in such a manner that its consideration, can no longer bo neglected. “Tbo commissioners it appears have not beou unanimous In the decisions at which they have arrived, so that two reports will l>e laid before Parliament. The principal point, however, was disposed of without u dissenting voice, xnd tho whole force of tho voice of the commission Is in favor of the, repeal of (he present law so far that tho nv»i-. urulization ofa British subject in anv Joj;- eign country, involving tho duty of giance to the foreign government, Shall ipso facto, terminate British citizenship* This will put an end to the chief source of international difficulty. An individual will no longor be in tbo ridiculous position of being liable to compulsory military service of two countries, and to be treated as a traitor, if taken prisoner, by whicbover country he serves against. “On the status of a child at its birth the. commissioners fouud the most difficulty,, aud it iu here that their reports will be lb conflict. The common law of United Slates mnkes all children born within tho domin ions citizens, and there is a special statute making the children of American cltlzuna born outside the territory also citizens, if the parents have roaided within and this whether Ibe parents are cUw zens by birth or became so by the act of naturalization. On tho other band, Uxp. British common law makes every ct>V*d whether of nativo or foreign parents ( born within British dominions, a British subject, while a special statute provides a child born übroad of a British-horn father, or whose paternal grandfather was Brltiah born, shall be held to bo a British subject.” feels Knights or the <|otll in ad Adtelr of Honor—£ko Bloodshed. WniTK Sulpitur Sprinos, Va., Wept. 2.—A difficulty having arisen here between U. U. Washington and W. W. Glenn, of tho Baltimore Gazette, growing out of u letter written by tbo former to a Virginia paper, which wus construed as containing olien sive allusions, tho parlies proceeded to tho held this morning with a view to a hoslilo meeting. - The mutter, was, however, ad justed. The text of the adjustment is said to be that the challenge of Washington and tho opilhetaof Ulenu are withdrawn, Wash ington disavowing the intention of Baying unytblug offensive In his original letter. Another dispatch says Louis Conrad, of Louisiana, acted us second for Glenn, and Colonel Pickett, of Kentucky, for Wash ington, in consequent*) of au oplthot used by Glenn touching oertaiu language used in one of Washington’s letters to the Dis patch, mentioning tho Indies of Baltimore at the Peabody bull in comparison with the ladloa of Virginia ns to taste in dross. Ex- Mayor Barrel, of Washington, acted os ono of the mediators. .$2,055,371,800 . 2.107,931,31/1 The A'ltUbnrg and ConnellavtOa Mall- The operations for the past year on the sixty-one miles of this road, eastwardly from Pittsburg, ovor which trains aro now running, have been exceedingly gratifying. The exhibit made at a late meeting of tho board of directors shows an lnoreaHO of thirty per oent. of tonnago as oompared with the preocdlng year. Some Idea of the busi ness tho road is already doing may be bad from the fact that the amount of ooal aud coko hauled over it was not less than three hundred thousand tons, and the total amount of raw material fur manufacturing purposes, excluding coke, taken to Pitts burg, wus not less than five hundred thou sand tons. What the road is destine# to do when the rich mineral and agricultural re gions through which it will pass are opened up and developed, can scarcely be estima ted—Cumberland Alleghanian. A’Lndy With a Phosphorescent Foot. A lady of Boston claims that a few nights since, upon retiring to rest, the gas being out and the room qalte dark, her attention was directed to her foot, which was illu minated by a light, which, upon examina tion, was found to be phosphorescent, and proceeded from the upper side of the fourth toe of the right foot. Upon rubbing it with the band the IJgbt increased sad fol lowed up the foot, the fumes filling the room with a disagreeable odor. This lasted some time, when the foot was immersed In a basin of water, hoping to quench tho light, but to no purpoee, for it continued beneath the surfsoe of the water, tho rumea rising above. The foot was taken out and wiped dry, but the light still re mained. A Beoond immersion of the foot followed, aud soap was applied—with tho same result. No more experiments were tried, and aftoratime It gradually fhded and disappeared. The timeooouplea by the Ebenomeua was about three-quarters of itn our. Tho lady’s husband substantiate* the above. A Colored Mon Well Provided lee We omitted last woek to atat* that » l » Saunders, tlio oolored man wfco v* thiß olty a ihort llaioaliKA *•» w**?* pointed apodal aovut of partmeuU Ilia salary N vetfvWM three dollara a day .'t 1 ' duya, which make* f!* uum, aud in ftvj SKHtsasss? lIMMEI
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