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WEDNESDAY, BEPT. 22, 1869.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR
lion. ASA PACKER, or carton county.
yOB JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT!
non. CYRUS I. PERSHING, of Cambria co.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
For Stoic Senate:
MICHAEL MALONE, City.
WM, H, EAGLE, Marietta,
For Assembly:
JOSEPH M. WATT*?, Columbia.
JOHN KOBB, Conoy.
GEORGE F. SHULTZ, Salisbury.
JACOB H. BAKER, Mount Joy Twp.
For Sheriff:
CHARLES GROVE, Columbia.
For Register of Will*:
B. BOONE, Bart.
For ProUionotary:
A. G. KILLIAN, Epbrata.
For Clerk of Qiutrter Sessions :
THEODORE WHITAKER, Fulton.
For Clerk of Orphans' Court:
CHARLES J. RHOADS, Indlantovrn.
For Treasurer:
tf. W. SWISHER, Little Britain.
For Commissioner:]
EMANUEL BHOBER, City.
Tor Directors of the Poor:
JOHN L. LIGHTNER. Leacock.
JOHN M. MILLER, Woat Lampeter.
For Prison Inspectors Jr
GEORGE PIERCE, Mount Joy twp.
JOHN SIGLE, Upper Leacock.
For Auditor:
WILLIAM McCO.VSEY, City?
For Coroner :
IIENRY M. GEITER, City.
Rooms of tbo Democratic County Com-
The Chairman of the Democratic
County Committee has opened rooms
in Centre Square, where he or the Sec
retary will always be found until the
campaign closes. Democrats visiting
the city are requested to call when they
come to town. By doing bo they can
aid the Chairman in communicating
with the leaders of the different dis
tricts.
Naturalization.
Bet the naturalization of such for
eigners as are entitled to become citi
zens be promptly attended to. As will
be seen by a card which appears else
where proper steps have been taken by
the Chairamu of the Democratic County
Committee in regard to this Important
matter. Persons desiring to bo natu
ralized will be attended to by calling
upon some one of the attorneys therein
mentioned. Let not a vote be lost which
can be secured.
Our Countj Comentlon
.Sixty-one out of the sixty-five Klee
tion Districts of Lancaster county were
represented in the Democratic County
Convention which settled the local tick
et that now stands at the bead of our
columns. AVlien it is remembered that
the Democracy of this county are only
able to offer their nominees for local
ollices the honor of being defeated in a
good cause, so full a representation of
the party at a nominating convention,
may properly be regarded as a very
hopeful indication. It shows how
strong is the hold of principle upon the
Democratic masses.
Though hopelessly in the minority,
the Democracy of Lancaster county
battle as bravely for the truth and the
right as if they expected to reap the
spoils of office. Our organization is
not held together by “ the cohesive
' power of public pluudor,” as the Badi
<i cal parly la. The nine thousand D*m
ocratic voters of Lancaster county go
to tbo polls to voto for men who re
present certain great and immutablo
principles of government, upon the tri
umph of which the welfare of the State
and oi the nation depend. In such a
cause they are content to labor without
the hope or expectations of auy pecu
niary reward. Such unaelilsh dovotion
to the right is sure to triumph In tho
oud, and tho day of victory la now at
hand.
In the present gubernatorial contest
the people of Pouusylvauiu will not bo
controlled by passlou, but by the coun
sels.of reason and true patriotism. John
W. Geary lias been weighed in the bal
' ances and found wanting. The people
of this great commonwealth will not
re-elect the corrupt ami imbecile tool
of the thieving legislative riug. Aud
to the glorious triumph, which tiie
Democrucy of the Old Knystoue will
s 'nHbievo on the seeoud Tuesday of Oc
tober, the faithful aud devoted nine
thousand Democrats of Lancaster coun
ty will contribute largely. The full
representation in the County Conven
tion gives assurance thut they are alive
to the importance of thjs present strug
gle, and that they intend to do their
whole duty ini October.
Our \)unty Ticket
The County 'Tir:kH t saukd by the
Democracy of-Lancaster county ought
to be elected ; and it would be, if the
people could be induced to lay abide
partisuu prejudice and to act from a
pure sense of public duty. It is a good
ticket in every beu. u o of the word.
From the* candidates for Senate down
to Coroner, the nominees are men of
intelligence who can answer to the
Jacksonian test ofdionesty and capa
bility. We repeat it, the local ticket
which stands at the head of our columns
' ought to be elected. Such a result
would bo a blessing to the taxpayers of
j Lancaster couuty, us it would effectually
break up the thieving rings which have
controlled the Coimnissioner’s Office,
the Couuty Treasury, the Prison and
other institutions. Let us hope a ma
jority of the people of Lancaster coun
ty will have sense enough to know what
is for their own interests, and to do it
for once, in spite of party prejudice.
The Polls to be Kept Open Pour Days
In Texas.
The Radicals got along swimmingly in
the South where they kept the polls open
for a week and furnished ambulances to
transport negroes from one election dis
trict to a dozen others. When elections
begun and ended the same day, defeats,
like tbaj in Virginia, befel the carpet
baggers, and they were utterly routed.
In view of the upprouching election In
Texas the old system has been revived,
and orders have been issued to keep the
polls open four days. The same thing
will no doubt be done in Mississippi. Is
ltnot time for honestßepublicans in the
North to sot the seal of popular condem
nation on such transparent and dis
graceful rascality ? Let them Bpeak out
at the October elections.
Speech of Ueo. H. Pendleton
We publish to-day thespeech of Hon,
George H. Pendleton. It is largely de
voted to a discussion of linanclul ques
tions), and contulus much that is equally
as applicable to the canvassln Pennsyl
vania as to that in Ohio. Jt is a speech
for the laboring men and the tux-payers
toreud, and worthy of the widest cir
culation.
Col. W. 11. Knglc.
Governor Geury has appointed Col.
W. H. Kaglo of tills county a delegate
to the Groat Southern Commercial Con
vention. Col. Eagle islurgely engaged
in tl\o lumber trade us a manufacturer
and dealer, and is conversant wllh all
the details of that Important interest.
No Otter man could have been selected
to represent that branch of Pennsylva
nia Industry in the corning Convention.
He 1s a geutleman of decided inteill
'gence uod due address, and will fill the
position with diguity and ability.
The Deserter Law.
As will be seen by the Sheriff's Pro
clamation the deserter law Is omit
ted. It wns decided to be unconstitu
tional by tbo Supreme Court, and of
course is nowa dead letter on the statute
books. We callattentlon to Ibis matter
lest an attempt might be made to enforce
au obsolete law by some election offi
cors.
Why the Resolution, ItororW* Economy,
ana Reform was Defeated In the Radi'
cal State Convention.
Let the people of, Pennsylvania re
member that a resolution pledging the
Republican party of this State in favor
of economy and reform in the State
government was voted down by the
convention which renominated John
W. Geary. It would be bard to under
stand the motives which led to such
action did we not Snow the material of
which that convention was composed.
A majority of the delegates were the
paid tools of the legislative ring.-
They had been deliberately selected
by the “roosters" and “pinchers
who appointed the army of extra pas
ters and folders, and forced the payment
of them In spite of the "protista of the
Democrats and a few honest Republi
can members of the House and the
Senate. The scoundrels who dealt in
special legislation and disgraced the
State by their infamous display of bri
bery and corruption, were all for Geary.
They had found him willing td obey
their dictates on all occasions, and they
wanted their pliant tool continued in
office. But they did not want any reso
lutions pledging the Republican party
to retrenchment and reform. The pas
sage of Buch a resolution would not only
have been a condemnation of their past
course of conduct, but it would have
pledged Geary to oppose maDy of the
rascally Bchemes of the ring. They
knew he would be all right in the
future, as he has been in the past, If
no such resolution was put through.
So they hilled it.
No Republican can deny the truth of
the charge we have made, and many
of the more honest among them freely
admitit. Prominent Radical newspa
pers openly asserted, on the very eve
of the convention, thut Geary was the
representative of the legislative thieves,
and that he was put forward as their
candidate. Not one of them has sluce
taken back the accusations then made.
They stand unretracteil, umlenied, and
undeniable.
Let the liouest voters of the Repub
lican party remember how aud why it
wns that the resolution in favor of
economy ami reform came to be defeat
ed in their State t'ouvention. Let them
remember, when they go to vote, that
Davis nud Strang, the lenders of the
ring in the east ami the west are going
back to Harrisburg, and that a majo
rity of their corrupt satellites have also
been renominated.
Let them remember that Geary lias
acted as the willing tool of the legisla
tive thieves ; that ho has always been
reaily to sign their bills ; that he has
never lifted up his voice in condemna
tion of them ; that he has not exercised
the veto power against ; aud that
in the speeches he is now making
throughout the State he openly con
fesses that he cltn do nothing to check
tue rascality which prevails at Harris
burg.
That a thorough reform in the man
agement of our State allairs is impera
tively demanded all men admit, —
Thousands of honest Republicans de
mand retrenchment aud reform in our
State Government. They know that
the Governorof the State has the power
to check the corruption which prevails,
aud they will.not vote for the tool and
nominee of the Riug. They will take
pleasure in helping us to defeat John
W. Geary. Let that fact nerve the
Democracy to the most vigorous efforts
in behalf of the honest anil pure men
who compose our State ticket. Packer
nml Pershing will be elected by an
overwhelming majority if a full Dem
ocratic vote Is polled.
The Lesson orihe Kcfcnt Elections.
The result of all the recent elections
is decidedly uucouragiug to tho De
mocracy. First enmo the overwhelm
ing defeat of the carpet-baggers in Vir
ginia aud Tennessee; then Califor
uln rolled up an overwhelming ma
jority against negro suffrage; and a
fowduysufter Vermont and Muiuo re
sponded by great Demoorutlc gain's.
The administration of Chant has failed
to satisfy the people; they are dis
gusted with his “ swing armiml the
| circle” as a dead head and au adver
tisement for taverns. The vitality
j which distinguished tho .Republican
I party is lost. The people of the North
i arc no longer to he iulluenced by iu-
I Ihunirmtory appeals to their worst pas
' slons. They are beginning, to heed the
i dictates of reason ; and the result is
1 seen in recent elections, even in those
hold In New Ragland.
! Tho signs of the times all point to a
1 magnificent Democratic triumph Id
Pennsylvania. If we do not win a
great victory in October we shall have
no one to blunm hut ourselves. Noth
ing lift the i:io.-t criminal neglect of
duty cm prevent, the election of Pucker
ami Per.-.hing. With a full poll of our
vote victory is absolutely sure. Let
that be kept always in remembrance,
let it be constantly impressed upon the
minds of the Democratic masses’—let
the watchward and rallying cry be, a
Jullv()tr in a certain victory, And let
proper meaus tie taken at once to bring
.out the full vote in every election dis
' ! trict.
Negro Suffrage the Issue.
The Radical leaders of Lancaster
county regard negro suffrage as the
greatest possible politienl boon, and
consider that it is the grand mission of
their party to bring it about. They said
so in the resolutions which were adopt*
ed at the meeting held iu Duke street
on Wednesday night. The ldst of the
series reads as follows :
Resolvctl, That animnted by tbo past glo
rious history of the Union Republican par
ty, and 6.?/ the work that will remain undone
until the final adoption of the fifteenth amend
ment, we raise our biirmer bearing tbo in
Hcription of “Gen. John W. Genry, Henry
W. Williams, and tbo wholo County Tick
, et.”
They ' thus make negro suffrnge in
this State the issue in the pr4sent cam
paign, and put forward their candidates
as the champions thereof. Let the
white men of Laucastercity and county
make a note of this fact; Let them re
member that JohnW. Geary forced the
ratification of the odious Fifteeuth
Amendment by sending in a message
which unequivocally committed his
administration to negro suffrage. There
are many honest Republicans who re
gard the notion of the legislature as a
gross outrage. Let ullsuch mark Geary,
who was largely responsible ibr It.
Tkk editor of the Jlellefonle Watch*
man has built a now and handsome
printing office right ou the banks of a
fine trout stream, which runs through
the town. He says ho expects to write
editorials with one band and to llsh for
trout with the other. He can’t do it. —
We ho.ve tried both occupations, and
either one Is us much us any man cun
attend tout once. If Meek attempts it
ho will speedily find both his editorial
and his trout lines iu an inextricable
tangle. Ho is a smart fellow but not
smart enough to carry out Ills latest
boast. What a lucky elmp lie Is though.
The very thought of having an edito
rial room looking down Into a clear,
bright trout stream, Is enough to make
us envy lum.
Jr Judge Williams was In no way
connected with the repudiation move
ment in Allegheny county, let him say
so. He can explain hlspositloniu such
a manner os to satisfy the people, who
hold the evidences of indebtedness is
sued by the authorities Of Allegheny
county. Wo urgo Judge Williams to
give us light upon the question now ag
itating the community—wlmt was his
position with' reference to Allegheny
“ repudiation ?”
$5O reward will be paid for a lock of
hair from the head of the Radical poli
tician who did not deny during last
year's campaign that it was the inten
tion of his party to establish negro
suffrage in Pennsylvania without the
consent of the people.
Calumny.
Itlooks&s if a systematic effort was
made to listen upon the public, mind a .
conylctioq that theliorriWe calamity at j
Avondale'was the work of an lncendia
ry, and not the natural,result of the
reckless mismanagement ofthe owners
of the mine. There seems to be two
motives for such misrepresentation,
each alike base and selfish. The own
ers of the miDe know that the fire orig
inated from the furnace. They know
that the entrance to the mine ought
never to have been constructed with an
inflammatory wooden flue, and that it
was criminal in the highest degree to
leave it for a day in the condition in
which it was at the time of the acci
dent* They know that it was hardly
less than murder to put men in such a
mine, and they want to have it believ
ed that the fire originated in edme way
quite beyond their control. Hence the
reports in regard to incendiarism which
have been set afloat. At the Coro
ner’s investigation the Attornies of
the company were present, and they
Beemed to act as a restraint upon a free
expression of opinion by some of the
’witnesses. Oue miner, after having
shown some fear of offending the own
ers, at last spoke up with passionate
energy, and directing Elb eyes to the
counsel of the corporation, said :
1 “We miners intend to prove hero who is
i responsible for this system. We intend to
. prove that it is wrong, wrong to send men
to work in such mines, and that we have
5 known it for long years; but we must work
f or sturve ; the miners stand
on this question, aud wo mean to use this
' occasion to prove it.”
The reporter of tkeNew York J/cr«W,
who gives ah accouut of this incident,
says:
” These words drew forth a burst cf ap
plause that very plainly ohgwed the feeling
of tho minors. Should the companies suc
ceed in proving that the tiro was the work
of an incendiary they may claim there is no
positive) danger in the present one shaft
system, and that no foresight could prevent
tho calamity of Avondale. A strong public
opinion, it is to bo hoped, will UUrogurd this
plea and take up tho cause of the poor miner,
win), whatever bo his faults, has shown
throughout this affliction traits of a high
aud heroic character.
Rut the miners themselves have
spoken out In emphatic terms ns a body,
protesting in earnest aud manly terms
against this foul rumor. At a meeting
of tho Miners’ Union, held at Wilkes
barreon the l.‘Uh Inst., the following
was prepared for publication :
Tlu» despatches which are being constant
ly transmitted from Scranton in relatiou to
the Avondale disaster are in many instances
entirely unUumded in fact. That tho tire
which occurred ut tho mine was tho work
of an incendiary no one behoves. It is otto
of the subterfuges resorted to by the Dela
ware, Lackawaua and Western Railroad
Company to turn tho mind of tho public
from tho real responsibility resting upon
the company. Tito reporters who furnish
principally the particulars taken before the
jury ofluquest on Saturday last, have, in
many instances, suppressed tho testimony
material to ibo miuors and published that
favorable to the company. The object cau
only be conjectured. Tbo company is pow
erful i tho minors are weak. Simple justice
is the demand of many citizens.
That is as modest as it is truthful. No
oue but some evil-miuded person will
breathe tho foul rumor which has gone
abroad after reading that simple and
manly protest. *
But, tho report that this great calam-
ity was caused by an incendiary has
been circulated for purposes more base
thau any which could actuate tho own
ers of the mine. Prominent Radical
newspapers have not hesitated to insin
uate that Irish miners deliberately set
fire to the wooden flue In order to de
stroy the Wolshmeu who were working
in the Avondale mine. A more outrage
ous calumny was never breathed against
an honorable and high-minded rac*.
The Irish are not assassins. Tlioy flght
out their quarrels in open daylight aud
on tho spot where tho provocation is
given. They are less given to harboring
malice secretly than any other ruce of
people on earth. Tho Insinuations of
Rudlcal newspapers, which are being
circulated for political effect, must re
coil with terrible force upon the party
which makes them. It Is a system of
partisan warfare which must prove dis
astrous to tho Republican party, deary
can muke no votes by such means, The
whole body of the miners, Welsh as
well as Irish, will feel themselves iu;
suited and outraged by the circulation
of tills base and baseless calumny. It was
sfarled immediately after Geary visited
the scene of the disaster, and that might
lead to the belief that ho waß the first to
suggest the outrugeoua lie, ami the cur
rency given to it by Radical newspapers
wouldstrengthen thesupposition. That
lie and liis supporters are capable of any
rascality is shown by this most disgrace
ful attempt to make political capital by
casting most horrible aspersions upon
the whole body of Irish miners. It is
by all odds the most disgraceful act ever
committed by any set of politicians. It
shows up the unparalleled meanness of
the Radical newspapers which support
Geary, and is an evidence that they be
lieve he cau not bo elected. Nothing
but the madness of despair would in
duce any man to engage in such a
method of political warfare.
SUHztnan,
I’uthcr Abraham pays the following
compliment to a Radical candidate for
State Senator:
The Republican Conferetißjof llie Senato
rial District composed of the counties of
Hertford, Somerset and Fulton, have nomi
nated the celebrated “rooster,” Alexander
Siuizniau, for ru-olection. The gentlemen
representing Hertford county finding that
(lie thing was “sot up,” withdrew from the
Conference, aud in justification of their
course, publish a card to their constituents.
As the district is a close one, we shall doubt
less lose a Seualor mi I ess Mr. S. gives way
to a new candidate.
Our Radical neighbor is right in Us
estimate of Stutzm an and of his chances.
His opponent, Hiram Findley, Esq., is
an honest, au able aud a popular man.
He will run Stutzinan close iu Somer
set, aud Ledford and Fulton will do all
that Is necessary to finish up this Radi
cal representative of the corrupt legis
lative ring which nominated Geary and
managed to have a majority of its mem
bers put up for re-election. The legis
lative ring did not win in Lancaster
couuty, but nearly everywhere else in
the State it is still triumphant aud de
flaut. The only way to kill It is to de
feat Geary uud such men as Stutzman.
We do not see how Father Abraham
can condemn Stutzman whlleit contin
ues to support Geary, who is the great
er, the meaner, and the more corrupt
“ rooster” of the two.
Dent and the moderate Radicals will
put Mississippi on the same track with
Virginia aud Tennessee, at the coming
election. In view of nil the surround
ings of the contest, the Democratic
State* Executive Committee have re
solved officially that “ It is Inexpedient
to hold a Democratic Convention, or to
place a Democratic ticket in nomina
tion—and that the true luturesta of the
people will be consulted by supporting
and electing the candidates of the na
tional Republican party,” The Dent
ticket, therefore, will receive the undi
vided support of nil In Mississippi, who
arc opposed to the intermeddling mili
tary despotism which now exists there.
The utmost good feeling prevails
throughout Mississippi, aud the can
vuhs now fairly opened promises to be
as cheerful aud orderly as it will be ani
mated. Of the result there is littlo
: doubt. The Dent ticket will be elected
by a majority which will ring the knell
of carpet-baggism in that State.”
The Bouthern Commercial Convention.
Governor Geary has appointed Col.
Thomas A. Scott, Gen. Geo. W. Cass,
Gen. J. K. Moorhead, Hon. Richard J.
Haldeman, Col, William Phillips, Hen
ry M’Cormiek, Esq., Hon, G. Dawson
Coleman, Hon. Stanley Woodward, Ed
ward F. Gay, Esq., and Hon. Hendrick
B. Wright, delegates from Pennsylva
nia to the Southern Commercial Con
vention, to be held at Louisville, Ken
tucky, on the 12th of October next.
VlU'ftnptßerigßf f
Wendell PhiUlppls theleadeij.of the
Republican party, the bold pioneer who
goefl ahead tvith bis axe and blazes the
pathway of progress through a wilder
ness of political absurdities. Where he
leads the mas 3 of the party follows.
Sometimes there are protestations, and
occasionally weaker members fall out
by the way; but the bulk of the party
has heretofore followed him as Implic
itly as unthinking sheep follow th
bell-wether of the flock. „ Phillips' is
now assailing Grant very bitterly. He
denounces him as “aßeaaide lounger, a
tavern advertisement,” and applies
other choice epithets to His Excellency.
He calls upon him to resign the position
he has shown himself unfit to fill and
says:
“Rational recreation in itself is good and
sometimes very important. If he absolute
ly needs, and is likely to continue to need
so much, he ought in the present condition
of affairs , to resign, that the country may
have, what it vexy much needs, a President
in fact as well as in name. No thoughtful
observer of the tendency of affairs during
the past six months, but feels that the pilot
less drifting of this summer has been
towards dangers with which a littlo later it
will be most difficult to grapple.”
We do not think Grant will obey the
command of Phillips. He has found
the Presidency to be a very profitable
birth, and is doing all he can to make
it as pleasant to himself as possible.
Lounging about first-class hotels, where
all his wants are attended to without
oost to him, just suits Ulysses. He will
read the invective of Phillips with a
cigar In his teeth, and order up a cock
tall or a fresh bottle of champagne with
perfect complacency and an unruffled
temper. His hide is too thick to be
pierced by such shafts, and he has no
sense either of propriety or shame.
What will the Radicals do ? Will they
unite with Phillips in his demand for a
resignation ? We guess not. With the
most of them a desire for office is the
controlling idea, and so long os Giant
can make and unmake revenue collect-
ors and paymasters, the great bulk of
the Radicals will fawn upon him and
swear his tavern tricks are most becom*
ing to a President. Phillips can not
arouse a sense of virtue or a spirit of
Indignation iu his party at present. Let
him wait until GrantVterm of office is
about to expire, aud then, if there is no
chanoo of his re-nomination, hia ap
peals to the mercenary creatures who
lead the Republican party may have
some effect—but not until theu will his
words be heeded.
Tho Philadelphia Ticket.
Tho change made in the local Demo
cratic ticket of Philadelphia has struck
terror to tho hearts of the Radicals of
that city. Korney’s Tress quakes and
trembles. Iu piteous accentsitcalls for
a reform iu the Radical ticket. It de
mands that the worthless nominees for
county officers aud the old roosters who
are on tho legislative ticket shall resign.
That not one of them will do, and
“Lish” Davis, Hopkins, Ashtoti, and
the rest poiut to Geary and Williamsi
when anyone talks to them about with
drawing. They say, very truthfully,
that Geary was the head and front of
the legislative ring at Harrisburg, the
biggest rooster in the coop. If there is
to be any reform in the Radical ticket
it must begin at the top. Geary and
Williams, belug both riug candidates,
must withnraw first if Davis & Go. are
expected to follow suit. The Philadel
phia Ledger speaks in the most eulo
gistic terms of the new Democratic
ticket, aud it is universally conceded
that every man on It will be triumph
autly elected ami that Paolcor ami
Pershlug will run ahead of the city
ticket.
The Know-Xotlitng Parly Revived.
Tho Kuow-Nothlng party lias been
revived with its proscriptive creed, its
oaths, its passwords, its grips, its signs,
Us dark lanterns and all tho abomina
tions which distinguished it aud made
it detestable. A Boston correspondent
of the Now York Tribune says:
“ Tho Native American partv is being re
vived iu this Slate, or at least an organiza
tion to which only American-born cltizeus
are admitted bus been formed. Tho Boston
society, or lodge, or whatever it ts callod.
huM already several hundred members, and
branches are being formed nil over theStato.
Many prominent men whose names mem
bers cannot disclose, havo joiued, and the
movement is fast becoming very popular.
None but citizens born in ibis country are
received, as above stated, uud tho only duty
Imposed is that members shall vote for
none but gentleman wbo first saw the light
of day in America."
That is the same political monster
which tho Democracy killed once on a
time. It had Us origin iu New. En
gland, and its revival in Massachusetts
is the signul fur a new crusade upon
foreign-born citizens. The old virus
still lurks iu the Republican party, and
the battle against the infamous heresies
of this political monstrosity will have
to be fought over agalu. Forwarned is
forearmed. Let naturalized citizens re
member tho lonuerstruggle. The Dem
ocratic party is the champion of their
rights to-day, as it was in the past. To
it, aud only to it, can they look for se
curity in their rights under tho govern
ment of their adoption. Tho naturalized
cltlzeu who votes the Radical ticket
arms his enemies with power which
will be used to crush him. The revival
of Know-Nothlngism In Massachusetts
is the prelude to its revival throughout
the country. c»
.Be it remembered that Geary made
indecent haste to »rgo the ratification
of the Fifteeuth Amendment, by which
negro suffrage Is to be forced upon the
people of Pennsylvania against their
will. Without his interference the
Legislature would no doubt have suffer
ed the question to be referred to the
ballot-box for an expression of popular
opinion, llis message committed the
Republican party of the State to the in
famous scheme by which the right of
the people of this State to regulate the
elective franchise is to be transferred to
Congress. Let this reckless aud faith
less executive be rebuked at the coming
election for his base surrender of the
dearest right of Ihe people, and of tbo
most valuable and necessary power of
the State. Let the white men of Penn
sylvania administer to Geary deserved
chastisement iu the shape of such an
overwhelming defeat as he deserves.
It beems to be impossible for the Rad
icals to get up a respectable meeting this
fall. Close upon the heels of the ridicu
lous failure In this city comes the news
that a proposed Mass Meeting In Phila
delphia has been indefinitely postponed.
The renson assigned is sickness in the
family of Senator Mortou, of Indiana.
Are there no other speakers in the coun
try? Where are all the Radicals who
represent this State In Congress? Could
not some of them be got to blow a little?
The truth is the Radicals feit that tho
affair was going to be a ridiculous fail
ure. That Is the reason It was post*
poned.
The latest Radical lie about Judge
Packer iB to tho effect that ho went to
Europo during tho rebellion. Now we
don't know tlmt thero Is anything in
the Constitution preventing him or any
other man going to Europe at any time,
but we do know that Asa Packer, the
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, was never outside of the
United States from the beginning until
the close of the war, What next?
Hans Geaky has been attending a
horse race In Reading. He showed his
six feet of coarse flesh and his skillfully
dyed whiskers on the Judges’ stand,land
talked horse in a hoarse voice. Nobody
seemed to pay much attention to the
“humbuggedost Governor,” and the
more decent Radicals shunned him as
if they were ashamed to be seen speak
ing to him. It Is safe to say that no
man ever held any high office in Penn
ey lvanla who is so universally disregard
ed and so generally despised as Geary, 1
A Kew Democratic Ticket.ln PliUa^elpWt:
The Philadelphia Democrats Bave atf
last removed thfe only stumbling block'
which stood in the way of success. An
entire new local ticket has been formed,
all the old candidates voluntarily resign
ing, and men of the highest character
have been nominated for the various
l offices. The Age says:
In obedience to pnblio demand, aud by
authority vested in them by the party, the
Democratic City Executive Committee
have nominated a new ticket and present
Hto the public fc» taelr approval and sup
port The gentlemen selected are worthy
the entire confidence of the people. They
are eminently qualified for the discharge of
such duties as will be imposed upon them,
are upright worthy men In all the walks of
social and bnsiness life, and intimately
identified with the growth, progress and de
velopments of the city. The selections, are
as follows: City Treasurer, Colonel W.C.
Patterson; City Commissioner, Major John
R. Coxe; Recorder of Deeds, G. Bren
ner: Protbonotary of the District Court,
W. J. Jackson; Clerk of the Court of Quar
ter Sessions, D. W. Sellers, and Coroner, J.
M.. Reichard. This is a tioket which
command success. The masses demanded
a good nomination. The Democratic party
bas responded by naming citizens for each
position against whom no be
made. Tne nomination sought them, not
they the positions. They are'not offlce
seeaers, but business men who are willing
i o accept position and place, at this time, in
order to stop the wild' tide of corruption
which threatens to overwhelm the best in
terests of the city. All of thorn are well
known in the community, and will receive
the support of hundreds of men, who,
heretofore have acted with the opposition.
With such standard-bearers, the Democrat
ic party must win in the coming fight. New
life, vigor and animation have been infased
into the organization, and the column will
now move on the enemy with solid ranks
and a determination to conquer. The. past
ia now past. To the future the eyes of all
true Democrats must be turned. In that
future lies the field of action. Such a tioket
as the one dow in the field will sweep tue
olty by ten thousand majority. It will
totally demoralize the Radical party. They
can make no inroads upon such a move
ment. The people will contrast the men on
the Democratic ticket with each agents and
tools of the “Ring” as HousenMD, Hopkins
aud Ashton, anu the result will bo disas
trous to the latter.
I The Morning Post, tho ablest Radi- 1
l cal paper published in Philadelphia,
I speaks of the new Democratic local
I ticket in terms of such unqualified
I praise that we are almost inclined to
j believe it intends to support it in pre»
1 ference to the corrupt set of candidates
| who were set up by the rowdies and
j roughs of the Republican party. The
I Post says;
j It is a good ticket—that must be said for
1 It; a vast improvement upon that which
lit replaces. John G. Brenner is a respect-
I able merchant, a member of the firm of
Handy, Brenner ct Co., Hardwnro Mer-
I chants in Fifth street, above Market.—
Washington J. Jackson is a Flour Mer
! chant, doing business at 702 South Second
street. Colonel W. C. Patterson is a well
known citizen, the owner of the bonded
warehouses recently destroyed at the great
i whiskey fire. Major John R. Coxe served
1 in the war with a good reputation, we be
lieve, though wo do not rernem-
I bor nls military record. He is a poace
offering to the soldiers. D. W. Sellers is an
I attorney-at-law, and one of the counsel for
the. respondents in the contested election
; case. Jos. M. Reicbard is tho President of
tne German Hospital. To turn Rom this
ticket to the old one reminds us of Ham
let’s words, “Look here upon this picture,
and on this,” with all the suggestive com
parison that follows. Here, certainly, wc
may frankly say. ia a ticket for which re
spectable Democrats may yote without
stings of conscience, and even if they are
beaten muy feel that they have not voted
u vain.
That multitudes of decent Republi
cans in Philadelphia will not only vote
for Packer and Pershing, but for the
whole Democratic local ticket Is now
certain. The effect of this movement
will be to stimulate the Democracy of
the entire State to renewed exertions,
and to impel them forward to the glori
ous victory that lies within their grasp.
Justice Is Blind,
" Justice is blind ” is a proverb, but
we never supposed it would be so blind
as at present in Washington, where we
learn that fraudulent investigations are
carried on by order against Democrats,
but -not against Radical delinquents.
Here is the last case In point at New
Orleans, where Collector Casey and Na
val Officer Dillingham reported im
mense frauds by certain merchants in
falso invoices. Sugar and cigars, it was
shown, were systematically imported on
invoices which gave in one instance not
one-third the valuo of the articles. This
has been going on for years, but what
the action of the Treasury Department
was, is thus.stated :
“ A bpoeial agent sent to make an inves
tigation ascertained that a thorough inves
tigation would Implicate prominent Radi
cals, holding high legislative and civil
positions. These facts were represented to
I be Secretary, aud the agent was instructed
to coniine his investigations to the admin
istration of the immediate predecessor of
Collector Casey—Perry Fuller, Mr. Fuller
being a Democrat, and ; friend of Andrew
Johnson. Thus sugar passed through the
Custom House, invoiced at the lowest
grade, when it was of the highest, and the
weight reported light to the extent of one
half and two-thirds ; cigars were.passed in
the samo manner. A‘ring’ was reported
in New Orleans, with a capital of over two
hundred thousand dollars, who were
amassing fortunes by these transactions."
These facts have long been In the
possession of the Treasury Department,
and are well-known In Washington,
and In New Orleans Collector Casey can
vouch foe them all; all, but, as com
plete investigation will show that cer
tain carpet-baggers have been making
money out of the Government, Perry
Fuller is made the scapegoat of hiß
Radical predecessors. What Secretary
Boutwell declines to do, we trust Cpn
gresa will compel to have done.
An Alleged Scheme to defeat Recon
structlon In Virginia.
A Washington special to the New
York lit i aid , dated Thursday, 10th,
says:
“Informanon has beeu received herefrom
Richmond of an infamous plot set on foot
by Radical leaders to defeat tho admission
of this Slate into the Union at the meeting
of Congress. Its main object, after the fif
teenth amendment is ratified, by strategy
to filibuster the Virginia question over to
the next session of Congress, and thus keep
the present Radical uppointoes of General
Canby iu office another twelve mouths—
Under the constitution elections for Judges,
sheriffs, and city and couuty ofiloluls tako
pluee iu May, u"d the officers elected enter
upon the discharge of their duties the
the following July. If the Slate Is admit
ted before May next ull the present
office holders by military appointment
would be ousted. In order therefore to save
their Radical minions it has been deter
mined to keep the State out another term
if possible. With this view u number of
of letters have been received from several
Radical members of Congress counseling a
strenuous oppositiou by the party hero to
the restoration of the fctato. Among these
are several from Gen. B. F. Butler, chair
man of the Reconstruction Committee, and
oven Mr. Boulwell has volunteered his ser
vices iu the same direction.”
Here we have a new illustration of
the designs and purposes of the infa
mous Congressional reconstruction
scheme. It bad no other object from
the beginning than the keeping in
power of a set of greedy Radical officials.
For that single base purpose the Union
has been kept divided, and thematerial
interests of the nation have been seri
ously impaired. It Is high time for the
people of the North to Bpeak out upon
this matter Irrespective of party. Let
the voice of Pennsylvania be heard de
manding peace and a perfect and speedy
restoration of the Union at the October
election. The Interests of the taxpayers
of this Commonwealth tlcmand that
there should be an end of Radical in
terference with the South ; and patriot
ism and honor aliko forbid the further
continuance of the unwise and unjust
policy whioh has been inaugurated by
a reckless and mercenary Congress. Let
Congress be rebuked by tho defeat of
that imbeoile and corrupt candidate for
Governor, John W. Geary.
The Maine Law seems to be rather
unpopular in Maine, Judging by tho
small vote the Maine Law there has got
for Governor. The fact is, “the Nig
ger” is yet almlghtier than “ Rum,” in
Maine. The Republican Party of Maine
are willing that Its people shall get
drunk as often as they please, if they
only contluue sound, on Cte9ar, Sciplo,
and Sambo, off in Texas or Louisiana.
An excursion company of over a thou
sand people, from New Jersey and New
York, serenaded Judge Paoker at his
residence yesterday. The fame of the
Democratic candidate is not confined to
Pennsylvania alone. Mr. Paoker being
absent at the time, the honors of the oc
casion were done by Hon, Allen Craig.
‘u fhfr'Monster Lie Hallefl. v
TheMauch Chu uk. Democrat of Bat
urdaylast goes to the trouble of exposing
the miserable falsehoods the Gearyites
have bo pierßistently circulated charging
Judge Packer with refusing to pay his
taxes. Although the Democrat has per
formed this service in the most Bucoess
ful manner, yet we cannot help think
ing It was time and labor thrown away,
as there certainly cannot be found with
in the broad limits of the Common
wealth a solitary individual ignorant
enough to be deceived by such ridicu
lous lies. But as the editor of the
Express has not found a single charge
to bring against Asa Packer, except
this silly Btory about his taxes, we give
place to the statement of the Gazette .
Here are the facts and figures:
Finding Judge Packer unassailable in
decent and manly controversy, the Radi
cals have changed their tack oblate, and
now try to break his popularity with the
people by wholesale and deliberate lying.
Soil has been impudently oharged that he
failed to pay his bountty and other local
taxes whilst a resident of onr borough. But
a few figures are needful to expose this
mendacltj and the political debanohery in
which Radicalism is wallowing.
la 1860 the whole of the taxes of Manch
Chunk Borough amounted to s4o,*
105.18. Of this amount Judge Packer
paid—Borouzh $8,439 26
Thus it appears that in 1805 Judge
Packer paid over 70 per cent, of the total
amount of borough tax levied.
In 1866 the total tax levied was $37,-
801 02. Of this amount Judge Packer
paid—Borough $9,315 96
School 9,315 90
Bounty 6,989 67
$25,621 59
Iu this year then Judge Packerpaid over
G 7 per cent, of the tax levied.
So copiously had the money flowed into
the borough treasury by this system of tax*
atiou that all the bounty indebtedness was
paid off in this warl Wbat bold liars the
Radicals must be, to charge that Judge
Packer shirked hie bounty taxes, when it
was only through him that the burden was
discharged, and the poor man relieved of
en enormous taxation.
Take the year 1807, in whloh the
total tax levied was $24,Mj7 41
Of this amount Judge Packer
paid—Borough 5,763 42
Sobool 9,222 88
14 986 30
Here, too, ho pays over 00 per cent, of the
total taxes levied.
in this year the Radical Legislature pass
ed the law exempting the stocks of corpor
ations from local taxation. This relieved
a great part of Judge Packer’s property.
Still bis real estate and other property re
mained liable to local taxation, and no one
dare sav he has not paid every penny of it.
But Packer chose to take up his
residence in Philadelphia in 1867 and has
Bince resided and voted there! Well had
he not the right so to do 7 Since when has
it become unlawful for a man to take up bis
residence where he pleases ? Judge Packer
did no more than any other man would do
under the oircumstances. His business is.
principally in Philadelphia; most of bis
time is spent there; the duties of his office
as Vice president of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad requires him to be at his post;
hence in 1667 he found it convenient and
i chose to reside, vote, and pay his taxes in
Philadelphia. Out of this a few fools would
make political capital. They will have a
troublesome time in doing It: but so far
they have succeeded in writing I^ themselves
i shameless asses and nincompoops.
Ilow the Radicals Have Been Paying
Off the State Debt!
Geary is going about the State boast'
lug thathe has been paying off the State
debt rapidly. A slight examination
shows how utterly baseless his asser
tions in that respect are. In 1853 a
Democratic Legislature created a Sink
ing Fund, and provided that all money
received from certain sources of rev
enue should be transferred thereto, to
be applied to the payment of the State
debt, and to be used for no other pur
pose. An examination of the reports
, of the Auditor Goneral showß that the
following sums of money were received
from the sources set apart an a Sinking
Fund for the years Darned :
1861 $1,774 002 81
1802 2,432,430 16
ISO 3 3,501 181 13
1864 • 3 008,978 68
1865 4,251 905 75
1800 4,237,912 54
1867 O.oiM.iyiG 01
1868 4,680,021 32
$27,900,227 58
The Laston Aryus, commenting upon
tho above exhibit, says :
General Goary claims in his speech that
the financial management of his adminis
tration has paid off in the two years from
January 15, 1807, to Junuary 8,1809, $4,417,-
403.64 of the State debt, and yet strange to
say the report of his own Auditor General
shows that in ihosc two years, 1867 8, as
above, he has received into the Sinking Fund
to pay it with, $9,010,850.33, and the law al
lows it to be appropriated for nothing else.
Most excellent administration, that ao
‘’knowledges to have paid four millions of
dollars from the nine millions it has re*
celved, and believes it a Judicious manage
ment 1
But there Is something more of this. On
the Ist of December, 1800, the Stato debt of
Pennsylvania was $37,900,847.50. Oa the
Ist of December, 1808, It amounted to $33,-
280.940.13. showing that in those eight years
$4,082,001.37 of the State debt was paid.
But lu those eight years, the Auditor
General admits the receipt into the Sinking
Fund for the purpose of tiquidating the debt,
$27,900,227.38. This evidences tho fact that
if tho Democratic plan had not been faith
lessly executed by Republican officials, the
Stato debt to-day would be but about ten
millions instead of the thirty-three millions
of which General Geary boasts.
While we are speaking of General Geary
It might not be Improper to examine his
administration somewhat closer.
The expenses of the State Government
during three years of Andrew G. Curtin’s
management are shown to be, from the re
parts of the State Treasurer, as follows :
1833 $OlO 450 00
1804 G 00.021 00
1305 016,023 00
During the last three years, while Geary
was Governor, the Treasurer’s Report
makes the following exhibit
1866
1867.
1868
The last two years however only properly
belong to Gen. Geary. It is somewhat mys
terious that during the period of the war ,
when gold was ranging from 200 to 260 the
expenses of the State Government should be
more than Two Hundred Thousand less than
under General Geary , during the years of
peace when gold was down to 140, the num*
her of State officers being 4 'the same and
their salaries the same.
Perhaps General Geary looking through
his glorification spectacles can explain how
his superior wisdom and judgment has
managed this. Let us bear from him.
The Intelligencer office was remem
bered in the Democratic Convention
yesterday. The candidate for Coroner
is our old and faithful typo, H. M. Gei
ter. Pap Geiter, as he is familiarly
called by the fraternity in this city, is
one of the oldest and best printers in
Lancaster. When the war broke out,
though advanced in life, he shouldered
a .musket and kept pace in the ranks
during the whole war, finishing up his
military career by marching with Sher
man from Atlanta to the Sea. During
the war he corresponded with the Intel•
ligenccr, and his letters were read with
much interest by all classes. When he
laid down his musket he took up his
stick again. He ought to be elected
Coronor, for ho knows just what to do
with " dead matter.”
The New York .Norton, a Radical
newspaper, predicts that Geary will be
disastrously defeated at the coming elec
tion. It reaches that sensible conclu
sion after a full review of the present
political situation. That the prediction
of the Norton will be abundantly veri
fied we have no doubt. All the Democ
racy have to do to Insure the election of
Packer and Pershing by an overwhelm*
Ing majority is to get out their full vote.
Let that be kept steadily in mind and
all Will be will.
The Registry Law is pointed particu
larly at adopted citizens, Ithasastrong
flavor of Know-Nothlnglsm. Every
man who holds a naturalization certifi
cate should see that his name Is on the
list, and the very letter of tho law com
plied with* In that manner they can
baffle the intents of tho party, which
means to virtually deprive them of tho
elective franchise.
Geary has appointed an equal num
ber of Demoorats and Republicans to
attend the Southern Commercial Con
vention, which meets October 12th.—
That is right, though we sußpeot his
reason for such unusual Impartiality
was a desire to balance the votes. It Is
almost a wonder that he did not appoint
all Demoorats.
The verdict rendered by the Coroner’s
Jury In the case of the Avondale calam-
Ity annihilates the story that the fire was
kindled by incendiaries, and dlposes of
the base calumny upon thelrlßh miners
whloh certain Radical newspapers of
this State industriously circulated for
political effect. It wob the basest lie
ever manufactured for such a purpose.
Sttfafor lax.payera W Crack.
S The OearyKas are straining every nerve
to divert public attention from the real is
sues of the present conteet by fighting the
battles of the war over again. Their fate
depends in a great measure In their success
in this effort, and well they know it. The
duty of the democratic press of the State is,
therefore, a plain one. It is to keep con
stantly in view of the tax-payers the enor
mous expenditures of the present State ad
ministration as contrasted with that of the
Democrats, and the profligate squandering
of the people’s money. Ids the tax-payers
of the Commonwealth who have the deep
est Interest in this matter. Let the facts
and the figures as found in official docu
ments be honestly and truthfolly laid be
fore them, and then let them judge whethei
or not their interests and the honor of the
Commonwealth will be promoted by a
change of rulers.
We begin with a few of these items. The
aggregate expenditures of the State govern
ment for 1868 were ...‘.....5845,539 89
Do. do. for 1860 401,863 41
Increase .• $433,676 48
Here we find that the present public
servants, under John W. Geary's adminis
tration, are more than twice as expensive
to their masters—tne people—as were their
Democratic predecessors of 1860, under the
administration of W. F. Packer.
Among the items composing this aggre
gate we take, first, the expenditures of the
Executive) department, whtch were for
1868 $32,475
For 1860 15,500
Increase.
, 8.399 26
.15,748 62
Again we find the expenses doubled with
out any evidence of additional services
rendered.
132,587 14
The expenses of the Attorney General’s
office for 1868 were,..- §6,400
For 18C0 i 4,275
Increase $2,125
The expenses of the Adjutant General’s
office for 1808 were ; x .. 520,839
For ISGO 600
Increase.
This enormous increase is made up in
part by appropriations for compiling and
printing Bates’ History, a very cumber
some and inaccurate work, destined to cost
many more thousands of dollars befoto it is
completed.
The aggregate expenditures for these
three departments is therefore shown to be
for 1868 §69.114
For 1860 20,37."
<
Increase,
Lot us now turn to the expenses of the
Legislature for the same year.
Total expenses for 180 S $353,224 50
Total expenses for 1800 177,284 05
Increa9o
In 1868 the total number of em
ployeea in the two Houses was
one hundred and twenty , at a
cost of $118,363 00
In 1800 the total number was
forty, at a cost of.
When the tax-payers remember that
there is no increase in the number of Sena
tors or members of the House of Represen
tatives, and no additional services required
of them, they will be forced to the inevitable
conclusion that this astounding increase of
the public expenditures can only be traced
to OF PROFLIGACY and
corruption, and their verdict will be made
up at once that the guilty and condemned
authors must and shall be hurled from the
saored trusts they have so wantonly betray
ed.— Harrisburg Patriot.
Newspaper Libel Salts.
The New York Journal of Commerce
thus gives notice to all concerned that
the newspaper libel business does’nt
pay :
“Every mau (it says) reads tho news
papers, and a jury of twelve cannot be found
among whom there will not bo a majority
that will appreciate the motive of revonge
or blackmail that usually animates suits for
damages against editors. Every newspaper
reader is aware with what extreme caution
editors, as a class, publish statements of re
ported offences or arrests, interpolating the
word ‘alleged’ in such accounts, so that the
party inculpated may not bo prejudiced in?
public opinion.
The man in Pittsburg who brought suits
for damages against the Dispatch of that
city, for publishing a full report of a trial
in court, with some editorial comments
t&reon, must have been living ‘behind the
lighthouse’ for some years, or he would
have known that he would fail of convic
tion. One suit was so frivolous that it was
dismissed by the court, aud on the other
thejury did not agree, nine standing for
acquittal and three against. The Press
strives to promote the Interests of the pub
lic, and the public in turn sustains the
Press, This is as It should be.”
*' The (Jory Geary.”
Thu Now York Tf’orW pillories Geary lu
the following manner. Nothing neater was
evor done in print:
TUB GORY CIK.ARY.
That bloody Brigadier Gouoral, John W.
Geary, who is again running on his mill
tary record for tne Governorship of Penn
sylvania, Is “ an old soldier, on* it please
your bouor.” Ho is no 101 l law student of
yesterday, politically appointed to lend
armies to buttle and slaughter to day. The
gory saw service in the Mexican
war. Service also saw Geary; and now
that Geary and his friends once more re
vived the stories of his military prowess,
and osp'eblally the tale of his fright
ening Stonewall Jackson to death, it is
well enough to fill in the record. In the
Mexican war Geary wbb Colonel of tho
Second Pennsylvania regiment. Wbon the
Fayette county volunteers belonging to
that regiment came home from the war,
they held a meeting in Connelsvllio and
passed resolutions that Johu W. Geary pro
cured bis election to the colonelcy by “false
hood aud deception;” that “the whole
course and conduct of said Geary wore
inconsistent with the character of a gen
tleman or a man of honorthat he
was corrupt, morcenary, and a “ low
groveling creature, hunting and seeking
popularity for courage and patriotism
that he never earned.” This la what hts
comrades said of him, July 15, 1848. Is he
doing otherwise now ? Ho claims to have
scared Stonewall Jackson to death, and
therefore demands the highest bouors of
his State, when in point of fact, unless his
tory is conspiciously inexact as he is,
Stonewall Juck»on frightened Geary Into 1
writing despatches which threw all Wash
ington into a panic. Geary reported that
Stonewall Jackson was after him with
twenty thousand men, whom his own
forces were utterly inadequate to meet
So Geary, after alarmlDg all Washington,
retreated with his men through the passes
of Blue Ridge, and Stonewall Jackson on
that very day fell upon the right wing of
the Federal army at Beaver Dam. It was
not then, anyhow, that Geary frightened
Jackson to death. Neither was It at Polut
of Rocks, September 20, 1861, when Geary
fought so terribly that “ none of the Fed
eral troops were hurt.” Nor on the 10th of
October, in the samo year, when Geary was
so badly wounded In the right* boot ns to
prevent him from running for the Governor
ship that fall. If Geary is really running
on his military record now, it is proper to
make public the whole of that record.
.£068.900 00
. 802,897 00
. 845,039 89
Tbe Latest Dodge.
A very ingenious trick, by which u gang
of swindlers are making money by mutil
ating national bank notes of the denomina
tion of five dollars, has recently come to
our notice. The dodge consists in making
ten bills out of nine, and managed that there
la but one pasting to each of the manufac
tured notes. The nine whole bills are taken
and from the right of the first one-tenth is
sliced off; from the right of tho second two
tenths; from the right of the third three*
tenths, aDd so on tonumbernlne, from which
nine-tenths are taken from the right, or
what amounts to the same thing, one -ten Ih
from the left. Number one is passed as it ,
is, with a tenth gone from the right; the
one-tenth taken from number one is pasted
to the residue of number two, from which
two-tenths bad been taken; these two
tenths arc made to answer the place of me
three tenth taken from number three, and
so on through. Thus nine fivo dollar
notes are completed, leaving the original
number nine with a tenth gone from the
left as a tenth note. It will be seen that
but a tenth is gone from each bill, and in
a different place on every one, and a little
Ingenious pasting makes the loss impercep
tible to ordinary observers. It Is certain
that large numbers of these mutilated bills
have been put in circulation, and our read
ers will do well to look out for them. The
rogues who have carried out the fraud were
cunning in selecting tho denomination they
did. Larger bills would have been more
olosely scrutinized, and smaller ones would
not have been bo remunerative. Tho de
partment will not redeem a bill which bears
evidence on its face that it has been tam
pered with, and wo advise our friends to
scrutinize their five dollar bills closely.
Only 97,109,101,39 Short t
The Gearyltcs continue perfectly silent
concerning this trifling discrepancy of over
Seven Millions of Dollars in tho financial
affairs of the Commonwealth In tho short
space of two years,
The Report of tho Auditor Genoral for
1867, shows that on tho 30th of November,
the ond of tbo fiscal year 1800, there was In
tho State Treasury un uoexpendod balanco
of $ 1,741,033 27
The aggregate receipts from
all sources, exclusive of
loans, for 1807 and 1808,
were 10,030,879 02
Total receipts $12,880,412 80
Deduct balance In Treasury
November 30,1808 1,012,025 37
Actual Expenditures $11,807,487 52
For what purposes were this large sum
disbursed? what became of it? Governor
Geary In his last Annual Message, tolls us
that $4,200,880.14 of this sum4iaa been ap
propriated to the payment of the Slate
Debt. So far so good. But what became
of the balance? $4,209,880.14 taken from
$11,807,487.62 leaves a difference of $7,168,-
101.88. What was done with it? Who got
it? and for what services? The people
want these questions answered.—Harris
burg Patriot,
Airlealisrai Fair.
The First Annual Exhibition of tho Car
roll County Agricultural Soolety will be
hold at Westminster, Maryland, on Tues
day, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
the 281 b, 29th and 80th of September, lost.,
and the Ist of Ootober.
Geary's Attempt to Cheat the Orphans.
The aroused solicitude of this oommunity
about the great charities which are soon to
ba placed In the hands of new trustees,
gives a fresh interest to a very startling
tact in relation to the Girard Trust John
W. Geary has, as it is well known, a con
tract with the heirs of Stephen Girard to
recover his estate from them from the city
of Philadelphia, to which he left most of his
propwty for charitable purposes. Geary’s
stiprrfated interest laono-third of tho amount
recovered! It is sometimes said that in com
parison with Asa Packer, Geary is poor.
We do not know how this may be; but it is
certain be has been ardent enough in tho
pursuit of wealth, though not in any of the
usualindustrlal pursuits of life, as indeed
the following contract proves. His func
tion under it is not the ordinary ono of a
lawyer, but rather that of a contractor in
speculative lUigation. We think it right
that the cltize&a-'of Philadelphia, at this
time, shall see him 1q that character, so we
republish the contract, the authenticity of
which has been fully established:
ORIGINAL CONTRACT.
This agreement, made in the City of
Philadelphia on the twelfth day of Novem
ber, Anno Domini, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven (1857), by and be
tween Moria'A, V. Hemphill, Caroline E.
G. Peole, and Franklin Peale, her hus
band, John Y. Clarke, and Harriet G.
Clarke, his wife, acting by her attorney In
fact, James G. Clarke, of which said Marla,
Caroline and Harriet are the children and
heirs at law of John Girard, deceased, and
Francoise Constance Fonolou Vidal, widow I
of Louis Vidal, deceased, acting by hor. at- I
torney in fact, Geo. Strobel. which said !
Francoise is the sole heir at law of Sophia 1
Girard, deceased, and Maria C. De Roux,
, and her husband Lewis De Roux, and
Annie Stephernia De Lontilbas, and Alfred
De Lentilhac, her husband, and Fabrlcius
Dumalne, and Lalmire Dumalno, minor
children of John Devars Damaine, de
ceased, acting by C. Lavauie and Willudl,
and John Fabricius Girard, Margaret P.
Laidex, and Madeline Harriet Girard, act
ing by their attorney in fact, Alfred De Len
tilhas, and John Augustus Girard, which
said Mario C. Anne, Stopheute Fabricius
and Salonlro Marguerite and Madelalno,
John Fabricius and John Augustusnro tho
heirs at law of Etienne Girard, deceased, all
of whom are the airs of Stephen Girard, on
the one part, and Israel Painter, John W.
Geary on the second part, witnesseth :
! Whereas, Stephen Girard, lately of tho
I city of Philadelphia, lately doceusod, leav-
I ing a large estate, real aud personal, and
leaving au instrument of writing purport
ing to bo a last will and testament of his
said estates, by virtuo of which the city of
Philadelphia claims to bo entitled to the
same; and, IFAcrt’a.?, Grave doubts oxist
of the validity of said will, and it is proper
that tho same should bo testod by duo pro
cess of law, the parties of tbo secoud uart
have agreed.to undertake such proceedings
of the case, as may lie proper, for the pur
pose of teatiug the validity of such instru
ment. And the parties of the first part
have consented thereto, upon certain terms
and conditions, and it is the design and in
tent of these presents, to giro legul form
and effect to such agreement.
Now these presents, testify that said par
ties have agreed.
That the said parties of the second
part will undertake aud cause diligeully
to be prosecuted, such proceedings in the
lav/, as learned counsel may advise as re
quisite and proper, for the purpose of test
log tho validity of said will, and ofits
several provisions, aud of tho rights claim
ed under and by virtue of toe same.—
Provided that ail expenses attending sucU
proceedings, of what nature soever, tho
same may be assumed and paid by tho said
parties of tho second part.
.S'econcZ, And in consideration of the same,
It Is agreed that the said parties of the sec
ond part shall und may retain as their com •
’pensatioo, ono efjual third part of whatso
ever may be realized os the result of Bueh
proceedings, and this whether the same be
realised, by the prooess of the law, compro
mise or otherwise, howsoever from tbo re
spective interest of the signers hereto.
Third , It is further expressly agreed that
the said parties of the secoud part shall
have power to enter into and conclude final
ly and effectually, Rucb compromises of the
claims to which this agreement relates, us
they in their discretion may think to be for
the best interests of all parties concerned ;
Provided, however, that such compromise
shall be previously approved by a majority
of tho amount of interest in suid estates,
and provided ulso, that no part of this
agreement includes or relates to tho intes
tate property of the said Stephen Girard.
Witness tho hands and seals ol the parties
the day and year first above written.
CAROLIN K E. G. PEA LE, l US. 1
FKANKLJN PEALE, lus.J
JOHN V. ILARKK. IL k.|
HARRIET CL MIKE, lUS.I
By her Attorney in fact,
JOHN G. CLARKE,
FRANCOISE P. VIDAL,
By her Attorney in fact,
GIRARD, JOHN, IUH.I
J. F. GIRARD, | Us. I
M. P. OIRARI), IUH.)
GIRARD, JNO. I us.l
M. Dx. ROUX NKB GIRARD, I us.]
Dk ROUX, Rh.|
MARGARET 1». LAIDKZ, U-M
MADELINE HENRIETTA GI R ARD./1.h.)
FABKICIUH DUMAINK, Jl.h.i
PALMIKE DUMAINK. U.a.l
ANNE STEPHANIE FENTILH AC. | U m.)
ny that r attorneys, an per eon tract, dated Juno
Dbti. 'ihU act ofnurH, In agrculnu to itils
contract, with Mchhth. Geary and Painter,
wo hereby bind ournolvea to havu ratified. by
our principals named above, at the earliest
Eosslblo period.
.LAVAURE, fl. h. |
WALLADK, it., s.)
ISRAEL PAINTER. IL h.i
JOHN W. GEARY. [L. n.|
Certified on 7tn day ol May, boforo
Williams Oulo, au Aldermau or the city of
Philadelphia.
Certified on 7lh day of May. IH*», under tho
seal of tho French Consul, at Philudo phla,
with seal annexed.— Thila. Age.
175,039 9:
28,654 40
$89,708 GO
Slornt Leprosy at WnHhliiiifon. '
Tho Washington correspondent ci tho
Baltimore Gazette says:
“Every day dovolopea new ovldouco of
the moral leprosy which pervades nearly
every department of tbe government in
this city, Federal and Municipal; and tho
more you learn tbo more you wonder at
the apatby«nd disinterestedness manifest- :
cd by the peoplo lu, permitting such men
to roiain office us now form a mujority iu
the Legislative and Executive Depurtmeuis
of the Government. The dispensation of
the patronage, of every description, up
point men ts to office, giving out of contracts,
nil aro made sourers of Income. Tho head
of one of tho most important Bureaus hus
his son with him who holds no position,
nnd yot is as regular in his attendance
at tho office as any of the employees.—
All Hpplipunts for office In this Department
find it necessary to secure tbe influence of
this young man to ensure success. It is
remarkublo, too, that none ure successful
who neglect to see him, pending tboir up
pliculiou. I give this case us an tilustra
tlon of a pructlce that prevails la every
Department and ovory Bureau, except the
War nnd Navy: in all thero are just such
“middlemen.” These men reooive the
fees, and, of courne, divide. Thus wo find
meu In office, with a sulary of three thous
and dollars a year, and who were poor
when they entered upon its duties, living
at tbe rate of six and eight thousand, and
at the end of three or four years erecting u
magnificent dwelling ut a cost of eighteen
or twenty thousand dollnrs, for which
they pay cash. These faots are notorious:
they are not “ hidden under a bushel,” but
brazonly confront you at every turn.
The sumo system prevails at “tbe other
end of the Capitol.” Seualors and Repre
sentatives have their agents, and wbon au
American citizen comes here on "business
before Congress,” or with a recommenda
tion for official position, as soon us his busi
ness Is known (and there aro always parties
at the hotels on tbe look out), he is advised
to see Mr. Ho-and-so, who hns unlimited
Influence with tbe .Senator or Representa
tive whoso services itmimpoitunttosecure.
The party is seen,'an arrangement Is made,
an interview iu secured, and if tbe job “pays
well,” tbe citizen accomplishes blspurposo.
But If not, after much delay, and tho using
up of all his available cash, he luaves Wash
ington, cursing tho town, the people, nud
Eartlcularly tho “Philistines” Into whoso
and? he fell.
These Radical Senators and Represents
lives believe “ whole concern ” belongs
to thorn, at least for the present, und they
are making hay “while tbo sun shines.”
Another use to which they put “ Uncle
.Sain ” is to make him tnko care of tboir poor ,
relations. One Senator und ex-Cabiuet
Minister (who, by tbo way, In the last ton
years, from nothing, has accumulated over
a million of dollars) has three near relatives,
a father, son and daughter, In tho employ
of the Government—two In the Interior
Department, and ono In tho Treasury. Tho
husbudd ol the daughter is ulso a Govern
ment clerk, und the husband of another
daughter holds a like position. Hero we
have fivo members of one family supported
by the Government. This is only ono of
many instances where almost whole fami
lies are provided for, at the request of Nona*
tors or Representatives; and while these
have been kept In, hundreds ol deserving
men huvo been dismissed, and tboir fami
lies roduced to Bufforing, merely bocuuae
they were obnoxious to tbesovory Seuutora
ana Representatives, who desired their
places for their own purposes. This lu but
one view of Radical corruption. Wo may
look “bohlnd tbo scenes” again, and tell
what wo uoo
Tuko That Uuok,
Usary, la bis speeches, Is la the habit of
olalmlng tho credit of huviog founded tho
Boldlors’ Orphan Schools. Now tho houor
of having fouudod thoso Schools belongs
peculiarly to Androw G. Curtin, and Goary
should not be pomlttod to snatch from him
what is bis due. John W. Gear; bos filched
the laurels from bis brothorofficers by false
reports of engagements; bo bas purloined
oxtruots from the writings of other men to
garnish the produot of bis own dull brains,
and be is now engaged in robbing bia pre
decessor in office or his honors. Ho must
bring baok the plundor. Andrew Cr. Cur
tin established tho Soldiers 1 Orphan
Schools, and Asa Packer tho Lehigh Uni
versity, another institution for the poor.
Tho only “lorfllng” whom Geary has fos
tered is ono Capt. McFarland, and for the
evidence of his vigilant care tbe public
have only to see tbo elegant mansion em
bowered In shrubbery on Front stroet in
the city of Harrisburg. Did tbe Soldiers''
Orpbau fund pay for that?— Patriot.
By industry and economy a young man
bas gained possession of 4,000 acres ofiand,
worm some millions, just out of San Fran
cisco, in eight montbß, and people aro so
unkind as to suggeAn swindle.
The Wlnterset (Iowa) Madisonian, says
that John McCllntock, of Walnut township,
found In bis harvest field an enormous spi
der. Its body was as large as a mouse,
and it covered with 11b legs at least five
lnobes of ground.
THE CALIFORNIA THICJIPIt.
.Complexion of ihe New LcKli]nlnr««<
Democratic Popular nnjority 12 000
•—A Democrat to Succeed ft cnat'or
Colo.
From tho Sacramento Reporter.
So far os reliable returns have been re
ceived, forty-eight Democrats and three
Radicals have been elected to the Assembly.
Twelve Democratic Senators have been
elected; Radicals, none. Tho Democratic
popular majority in the State, wo think,will
not be less than, and may considerably ex
ceed, twelve thousand ! That thero will he
a Democratic majority equal to two-thirds
In bdth Rouses, we are now very confident.
Great and glorious as is the Democratic
triumph achieved in California on Wednes
day last, wo say to our readers, preparo for
one on the 20th of October fnr more glorious,
so far as popular majority is concerned,
than that won on Woduesday last.’
[From Ibo Ban Francisco Herald.l
The next United States Senator elected
from California will ben Democrat. That
much is evident, incomplete as the election
returns still are from the interior. The
Legislature just elocted will be so thorough
ly Democratic that tho little band of tho
Radicals will scarcoly bo strong enough to
mnko the legislative proceedings interest
ing. Not over twenty Radical Assembly
men out of eighty members. It will he
next to impossible for tbe Radical party to
so revolutionize politics in this Stale as to
overcome this preponderance previous
to tbe Senatorial election in 1871. Whatever
may be thefato ofthellfteenth amendment,
tbe opponents of that mousuro will have the
satisfaction of sending a muq to Washing
ton who will bo no frieud of that amend- ,
rnent or of any similar abomination in tho ‘
ulure.
Deary and tho l’nrdouing Power.
Tho Philadelphia Evening TelcyrupL
(Radical) i.Siiiot In iho least disposed to no
cept Geary’s explanation about his mod
erate exercise of the pardoning posver.
That uowspuper in its Issue of tin* l(Uh in
stant, publishes a list of fourteen cases of
murder and murderous assault, which Inis'
been committed in Philadelphia within the
porlod of fourteen days commencing with
the 2.1 of tho month, and thus comment-*
on tho sanguinary record :
With such a record for j ust one lmlf of
one month ns that w’hich wo havo before
us, it is evident that thero is a serious ne
cessity that tho iron hand of tho law should
bo felt in all its vigor; that criminals when
convicted should receive tho sentences that
they deserve to tho full' extent of the law,
and that those sentences should be carried
out to the fullest extent, in spite of every
mllueneo that can be brought to bear. The
safely of tho community demands that all
the machinery of tho law shall be put In
motion to cheek the rolgu of blood ami give
a reasonable security lor life and limb.—
Criminals must bo imule to /eel that they
will bo visited by swift and certain ven
geance, and that once conyicted of such
dastardly crimes as those which are em
braced in our list, it will bo of no avail to
I appeal for executive clemency, but that tin
i full sentence of tho law will be promptly
i executed, whatever it muy be.
We cannot refrain from the opinion that
the horrible crimes which are perpetrated
almost dally uro duo in a very large meas
ure to the abuse of the pardoning power.
Kven tho worse criminals are led to enter
tain a hope that they can li-.lluencc (he
Governor to Interfere between them and l he
hangman, aud with many this is all that is
required to give them tho utmost license to
stab nnd cut, as tho passion of tho moment
moy incltno them. Governor Geary's mo
of tho pardoning power has cerialtdy not
, glvou satisfaction nnd it is a serious quos
, lion whethor it ought not to bo taken out ol
| Iho bunds of the executive altogether and
lodged with a property constituted court.
Tho chances tbut the power would lie abus<.
ed in this case would undoubtedly bo less
oned, and the community would have some
assurances that condemned criminals
would not bo turned looso upon society
again without good nnd sullieiont reason...
Strong and truthful as are the remarks ol
tho Tclojrajih , they by no moans cover the
fearful extent of the abuse of thy pardoning
power. It is notorious thnt professional
purdon brokers are now making their bar
gains tor executive clemency in behalf of
convicted clients, In return for votes. In
Homo of these oases the crimes are of the
greatest magnitude, and the proof of guilt
bus been most clear to tho jury, the court
aud the public, lint the brokers are not the
less industriously laboring lor their guilty
clients ou this account, nor are llioy less
sure of ultimuto success. There are In
stances lu which they have succeeded In
creating false sympathy with crime an
account of tho nationality of tho criiidnuV,
and In circulating tho miserable I'ubebomi
that tho conviction was the result of pre
judice against foreigners. There uro ulways
supple and knavish demagogues ready to
trade in the sympathies ot Iho people, at d
turn them to tho worst uccuunts. That
they should succeed lu their nolarious work
is not croditablo to tho honesty or Intelli
gence of their dupes.— J/arri.ibun/ J’utrint,
Tlio Avominlo .fllitlng Dl«iiMt«>r—t'onclii-
Ml»u of tho liiqtumt—Vorillct til’ ilio
Jury.
Tho Coroner's Inquoat nt Plymouth, Pit.,
upon the victims 01 tint Avondale mining
calamity wuh concluded an Tuesday night
in >i verdict of censure against the cumputiY
and llm incunn of ventilation cuiployeii.
Thu Inquest was resumed bcfuro Coroner
Wiidhum on Tuesday morning at 9 o'-
clock. Tho ovldonou luUun wits mostly from
professional miners anti civil engineer*,
who nro Inti mate with tho work Inn and ven
tilation of mimm, and whoso testimony clVer
tually refutes tho theory thut tho tiro could
not havo caught from the furnneo. That li
did catch from thu furnneo lq most curtain,
and no person who is at all acquainted with
thu facta in relation to thu catastrophe, or
of tliu Htluatlon of thu tunnel which ha
formed tho basin of thu Incondlnry theories,,
now believes that It was tho work of an In
cendiary, but rather that thin theory in the.
work 01 certain persons to whoso olu’loum
interest it is to suppress tho truth. Tho
evidence was submitted to tho jury about
live o'clock, and thoy did not agree upon lx
; verdict until neurly midnight, when moy
returned tho following:
“That the said Palmer Steele, and others
came to their deaths in the Avondale minei.;
that tho cause of their death was tho ex
haustion of atmosphoric air or a preva
lenco of sulphuric and carbonic acid gases
lu the said Avondale mines, caused by the
burning of tho head house and breaker ut
said mine on tho Oth duy of September,
thereby destroying the Hlr-cnursea loading
from tho mine through tho shul't; thut the
tiro originated from tho furnace in the
mines taking ofleut on the wooden brattice
in tho up cast alr-couiHo loading from tho
bottom of tho shaft to tho lead-house. The
jury regard the presont system of mining
in a largo number of mines, now working
by shafts ns insecure and unsafe to tho mi
ners, and would strongly recommend, in
till cases where practicable, two places lor
ingress and egress, utid a moro perfect ven
tilulion, thereby rendering greater securit y
to the life of tho miners under uny simihu
accident. ’’
llio Lotulou '1 linen on *.'ubu.
London, September 16.—The " Times"
has an edltoriui article to-day,/on Minister
Siok'.e’H note to thoSpnnish Guvernmrni on
theCubft question, wherein it Hays : “LI wu*
generally believed that Grunt would not
interfere or allow interference in the Cuban
question, until Congress could vole up<ni
it. Is ho less rosoluto than formerly, or li:im
pressure forced him to sanction demand*
upon Spain for the abandonment of Cuba
No doubt tho alternative offered .Spain, 1m
her abundant isluud, or American recog
nition of tho insurgents. Tho probabilities
ure, that wo are on tho eve of serious oven ts.
Tho strugglo will bo hopoles an far%sSpuln
is concerned, but tho Government cannot
resist the impulses of tho people. Theilamo
of Spanish prldo Is fust kindling, nnd tk*
Government, in striving to check it, will,
soou be extinguished. From tbo mo*l
tranquil provinces of Spain, some offers of
men uud urms, iu order that tho regular
troopa may go to Cuba Tho uggrosslvu
policy of tho United States cannot he Justi
fied by tbo nttltmlo of ftpuln towards Cuba.
There is no quosllon of slnvory, for the ab
olition of slnvory has nlrendy been decided
upon. It is not tho determination ofHpuiu
to resist the demands of the Cubans, for
negotiations have been ripened to allow the.
severance of tho island. Setting aside the
question, whether tho meuns to Hot Cuba
treo are fair to .Spain, it Is doubtful If a war
of races might not ormio If tho Insurrection
is not extinguished before tho cession of this
Island. Under tho present critical clrcum
'staucps, tho Cortes, on ronssembllug, will
have to turn their wholo thought und at
tention to tho difficulties and dangers of
Cuba.”
KnlclUo at Muguru S all*.
Niaoara Falls, N. Y., Sept. 10.—On
Friday night a man about lwouty.fi ve years
of age, registered at tho Cataract House us
“Carl Schurz, Now York." Huturday
morning bo loft tho holed, took a carriage,
and started for the now Huspenslon bridge,
but afterwards went to tbo ferry nnd crossed
to Canada. In going over ho remarked to
tbo ferryman, whilo looking up at tho Falla,
that ho could walk over on tho odgu of tho
Fslls, After landing ho wont to the Tublo
Rock, tooa off bis coat, gnvohli money and
watch to a boy who wus standing by, and
wulkod Into tho wuter, whloh la very shal
low. About tun feet from tho brluk he
either eat down or slipped down, and was
carried over tho precipice. Ills body ro
malnod on tho rock below for several min
utes, nnd could bo scon by tho pontons who
wore bohlnd tho shoot of water at tbo time.
It has wushed off, and hssnot yet born re
covered. HU coat and gloves are now in
possoHslon of Z. B. Lewis, Cllltou, Ontario.
Merlons collision.
Wavi:rly, Hept. 20—At muf-past sovon
this morning, an Express train ovor tho
Pennsylvania and Now York Railroad,
bound North, collided with a way train
standing on tbo truck at Athens, Pa., four
milos from this pluco. Ono person won
killed out-right. William Maheo, of Ta*
wanda, Pa., and auolher has since died.—
Nelson, W. Ackley, Jof Dushoro, Pa., the
Republican candidate for tho Legislature
from that district, and several others woro
Injured.
Mrs. Selllnda spulding of Milton Pa.,
George Beers, fireman of the express train,
wore seriously, and others slightly wound
ed. The way engine stopped to tako wator
and owing to a dense fog the engineer of tho
express truin was unable to see the flag sent
back'to notify him of the danger ahead. Offi
cers of the road and many physiolans are
on tbe ground, and the woundod aro weU>
cared for and will recover. Tbe Coroner
will bold an Inquest on the bodies to-day.
There Is muoh excitement at Athens. The
road will be cleared for the passage of trains
by noon.