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Xeither the United Stat en nor any State nhall annume to pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebel• lion against the United Staten, or claim for the loss or emancipation of any slaves, but all suen debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. —Constitution of tho United States, article 14, section 4. Gen. Hancock's Pledge to Enforce the Foregoing Article. The amendments to the Constitution of the United State• embodying the results of the war for the Union are inviolable. If called to the presidency, I should deem it my duty to resist with all my jtoirer any attempt to impair or evade the full force and effect of the Constitution, which in every article, section and amendment is the supreme law of the land. —General Han cock's Letter of Accep.a.ice. Pay Your Taxes if You Want to Vote. Saturday, October 2, is the last day for s paying taxes, and we hope that every Democrat will attend to this matter in time. The beet time to do it is NOW, and then it will be done and be off your minds. But at all events, don't neglect or put it ofT until too late. Every man who wants to vote must be able to show that hie State or County tax has been paid within two yenrs. This is an important matter. Be sure to attend to it. The following are tho tax collectors of Centre county for IST'.f and 1H80: COLLECTOR.* or STATE AND COCSTY TAXES EOK I*7l*: Bellefonte boro.—e. J. 11. Kcchlirie Howard boro ......... Robert fwk Milcsburg boro W. H. Miles Millhfim lioro A.C. Mii*wr Phtlipsluirg boro Daid*! Ayr*-* Cnlonvilb* boro* ..A. N. Ru**dl B*na-r twp W. A Taylor Hurosidr twp li. M. Bt>wart College twp .... William froatcr 4'iirtln twp Henry Hull Ferguson twp Geo. W Kechline tir*-gg twp Cyrua Lo* llatries twp. Jacob B*nnr, Jr Half Moon twp J. 11. Griffin Harris twp.. 11. Htsrn Howard tap... J. M. Klin* Huston twp. I> W. Kiln* l.it*rty twp .....C. 4- G>urt*r Marion twp...„ J. J. Hoy Mil** twp * twp K ranuel Kuofl Huiusid* twp ........ J. A. Mulihollen College twp J. W. Htewart Cnrtln twp C. Theil Ferguson twp. (O. P.) C. H. Haas Hregg twp M. L. Rishel llaiie* twp... William Bright Half MoOti twp P. W Rurket Harris twp Alex. F.verhart Howard twp J. M. Klin* flriflton twrp W. Kline Liberty twp Marion twp Jno. Ppayed Miles twp.... M ..J. C. Bmull Pal ton twp 11. I) Ldf Penn twp Hamnel Ard Potter twp. (O. P.)............ K. B. Iloeterinan Rash twp Rol>*rt Uw Know Mlioe twp ....Bamu*l Boyer Bpring twp. Jos. Tressler Taylor twp William Miller Union William Spott* Walker twp... William B. BliafT*r Worth twp. IL M. Dniiulog MR. SHERMAN'S defence of Garfield, Bays the Bt. Paul Globe, "amounts simply to the assertion that if one is a rascal the other in also." That po sition is impregnable. Both engaged in the same villany—one with his Eliza Pinkston, the other with bis Amy Mitchell, as helpers. THE election in Maine is not a flat tering endorsement of the frauds of 1876. nor is it a hopeful sign of a suc cessful effort in 1880 to seat one of the leading Presidential thieves in the Presidential office in 1881. THIS week, Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, takes the stump for Garfield in Indiana, and Postmaster General Maynard in Tennessee. The rats are being alarmed, as the tide neara their nests. It behooves them to be on the alert. \VrV • v LETTER FROM PITTSBURG. B|hvUl CorrepoliJoDce of the DimoCiut. Pirrsßuaa, Pa., Sept. 21, 1880. The " Hoppers'" meeting on Satur day night was an immense afl'air. Del egations came in from all tho surround ing counties, and the leading politicians from tho western part of the State wero quartered early at the Mononga hela ami St. Charles, (ireen, l-'ayette, Westmoreland, Beaver, Washington, Venango, Armstrong, nnd Indiana were all represented. Not one-tenth of the people who came could got near the hall, or get a sight at either Duller or Forney. They arrived 011 the noon train, and from that hour until they went to tho hall, wero busy shaking hands with tho curious crowd. Puller's speech was much tho same as that deliv ered in the Hast and already published. He speaks in a tnuflled tone of voice and cannot be heard at uny great dis tance, but you would know it was old Ben by the pictures we have often seen of hi in. He does not speak from notes, but otbhand ami straight ahead, and as fast as he can talk it. The applause seems to strike him unawares, and often interrupts him in the finish of a good sentence. He was dressed like a bride-groom, swallow tailed coat, white necktie, and button hole bouquet. The meeting was an immense success, and was due entirely to General Pearson and one or two other " Hoppers." We furnished the torch bearers, the noise and tho music, and did the standing. j The Republicans were given ample op- i portunity. If the lesson is not of great use to them, it is not our fault. Groes beck's speech at Cincinnati last week 1 was an able one. Tho good things that are said this time by our Democratic , speakers are almost too numerous to , mention. BLAINE STEALS MAINE. The twist they are trying to give the returns in Maine is the returning fraud ; of Louisiana repeated in the work where we can see it a little plainer. No Democrat feels discouraged. If they should count Davis, the Republican can didate, in, it will make our people more determined not to lose their votes. The tide is strongly against them. But ler in his speech last Saturday night said it had now become a political axiom that no party ever staid in jojwer over twenty years. The twenty years since IS6O is now up. Butler went from here to Toledo. INDIANA. The tight goes on in Indiana with vigor. The Indianapolis Xenhnel has one entire page filled with appointments of meetings and, speakers Hendricks, Pendleton, Doolittle and Voorhees have appointments for every day. The ap pointments for Hendricks I notice are made to extend right up to the Presi* j dential election. A copy of that paper will show any of our county chairmen where tbey can intercept the men who are on the stump there. It is a real curiosity to look over the list. OHIO. Thurman is staying close to his work in Ohio. This is the kind of weather that suits him. They raise good Demo crats in Uhio. They are so elastic under defeat. They also raise good office hunting Republicans, as may be observ ed. But they have not raised the next President, that is pretty certain. Old Pennsylvania has done that for them. CALtrORNIA. That was a funny dispatch Kugene Casserly (Kx-U. 8. Senator) rent from San Francisco to Hancock, congratulat ing him on the Maine election. He closed it with "Well spoken High Chief." The old Senator seems to have his blood up for Hancock, and is canvassing the coast. Hancock replied at some length by telegraph, for he never permits him self to be outdone in either handsome compliment or serious business, even if it should bring tho biood. When Til den read the Hancock letter to Sher man, he wrinkled up his eyes, put his hand to his mouth and whispered to W. L. Scott, " This fellow is a better politician than any of us." KEYSTONE. GENERAL NEWS. The trial ol Harry Knglish, the Klk county murderer, began on Tuesday. The only colored resident of Union township, Tioga county, was married to a white woman recently. Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman, of the M. E. Church, has been tendered the vacant chancellorship of Rochester University. J. Klosfky, a merchant, of Bradford, Pa., a guest at Crook's hotel, in Chatham street, was found dead in his bed Sun day afternoon, having committed suicide by inhaling illuminating gas. William Neiman, aged fourteen years, of Wilhamsport, while playing truant from school attempted to jump aboard a freight train, missed his hold and was instantly killed, five cars and a cabosse passing over him. Lafayette 8. Foster, formerly Presi dent of the Senate and acting Vice- President of the United Htatee, died at Norwich, Conn., Saturday morning after a brief illness. He was a direct de scendant of Miles Standish. The latest sensation is the supposed discovery that vast quantities of oil lie under the barren wastes of Pike and WayQacounties, this State, A geologist of some note, while traveling through this section of country, discovered thst the two northeastern counties are un doubtedly on the same "oil vein" as Bradford, the great oil centra of this State. Preparations are now making to bore to the depth of fifteen hundred feet, when, if no oil is found, the venture will be abandoned, Up-hill Work. Those Judical organs thai uttered the truth In 1873, when the Credit Mobilier frauds were being debated and investi gated in Congress, are in an awful situ ation now when one of those "soiled doves" is running for President. Here are a few specimen briaks from the Philadelphia Bulletin, a rampantfiarfield organ now. In February 1873, the edi tor said: "Supposing that the acceptance of the bribes did not cover the members with dishonor, the perjury that was commit ted surely did, and for this alone the criminals should bo expelled. It is use less and foolish to attempt to dodge this issue. The Nation regards it as of the highest importance, and if the House overlooks un offence which the laws punish with imprisonment in the peni tentiary, it will deserve the scorn and contempt of every honest man. ***• No one can be satisfied with the re port of the Credit Mobilier Committee. Very properly it convicts (Jakes Ames of bribing various members of Congress, but there could be no bribery unless some members were bribed, and the Committee pretends that such was not the case for it fails to condemn the various parties who bad negotiations with Ames for stock of the Credit Mo bilier of the I'. P. It. It. Co. The pub lic will receive with faith the state ments of the Committee in regard to the various members, for those state ments show that Mr. Dawes, Mr. Scho field, Mr. Bingham, Mr. William D. Kelley and Mr. Garfield were all engag ed in negotiations with Ames. The attempt to excuse them by declaring that they had no knowledge that they were doing anything disreputable is very lame. No one believes that theso men, experienced in all the tricks of the lob by, were of natures so childlike and simple as not to fully understand what they were about. This is especially the | case with those th .t received loans of j .money from Ames, or certificates of I : stock, or dividends or shares for which ! I they had never paid a dollar in cash." "Supposing (hat the acceptance of the bribes tin/ not cover the members of ('oni/ress •nth dishonor, THE PERJURY THAT WAS COMMITTED SURELY DID, AND F(lit THIS AUJNKTHE CRIM INALS .SHOULD BE EXPELLED.'* Solid Stales. I I'rom lie- New York World. The tier of states which stretches from Khode Island to the Mississippi at ; St Louis contains the controlling States ' of the Union in population and in mat i ter of commerce, agriculture and fin- ' anoe. According to the recent census j these State# contain twenty millions nut of the fifty millions of our ent're impu tation. If, therefore, Senator Conkhng talks about a solid North he will talk of ' the States between Khode Island and . the Mississippi at St. i/ouis. How "sol id" they were for the Kepuhlican party , will appear from their voles for Presi- I dent in 1876 as given in the official table or the "American Almanac" pre pared by the Librarian of Congress: 10-ftto, rmltr. flepoMtraa. 1 C..on retire! 1.1 ir; .Vnrtt J 1 >.- Vofk Mi.tua 5v...<7 ! New Jersey til Set I-11.--17 . Pen tt.) i r*li Is .,l:.. II UJ j I this - SiAlirz I 71 £*.''ll j Illinois 3'JMol tin.M j j T0ta1..... I.n.UW lA'i.*7l ! , These commonwealths, which gave a | Democratic majority at the last Presi dential election on their popular vote, may be expected, under the most recent ' advices, to cast their 115 electoral votes for Hancock and English. With these statistics of 1870 and with such presages for 1880, how impudent is the claim of i the Kepuhlican journals and orator" that ! the North is "solid" for Garfield and Arthur—or for sectionalism and keeping ' ( alive the embers of civil strife ? When General Hancock is elected President i by these 115 electoral votes added to ! i the 138 electoral votes of what those same stalwarts call the "solid South," who will dare dispute his claim to be j called a Union President ? No man of sense, when to these Slates are added the 24 electoral votes for Hancock of Maine, New Hampshire, Colorado, Nev ada and California, leaving only 92 elcc- I toral votes for Garfield and Arthur! * Supreme Court. The supreme court of the United I States will convene in its annual term | on the second Monday of October, the 1 11th proximo. Probably in the early part of the term a nu in Iter of opinions in important cases a'gued at the last term will he announced. Among these will fie the celebrated case of ilallet Kilburn, claiming $200,000 damages of the House of Kepesentative* for false imprisonment. Included among the oases which are assigned for argument on the second dav of the ensuing term are those of McHride vs. Carl Schur*, secretary of the interior, in which the right of the secretary to cancel a patent for land duly signed and issued is que*, tinned; the Florida railroad cases, in which there is ouite an array of legal talent engaged ; the Louisiana and Kentucky lottery cases and the case of Miles vs. the United States, a criminal case from Utah territory, in which the plaintiff 1 in error, Miles, was sentenced to imprisonment for five years and to pay a fine of SIOO for bigamy. The itn portance of this latter case consists in the fact that involves theconstitutional ity of the law of congress passed for the purpose of breaking un the Mormon practices in Utah. The aecision of the Supreme court in the case is awaited with intense Interest. Two Generals. from the Ileyloti Democrat Gen. George H. Thomas was a Demo crat who refused a proffered present of SIOO,OOO, and suggested that it should be given to the widows and orphans of poor privates who had lost their Uvea during the war. But who ever heard of Garfield refnsing to " take everything in " that was in sight, from a house and lot to a De Golyer-psvement-Credit- Mobilier bribe T Mrs. Mary flune, of Natcik, Mass. ex-Vioe President Wilson's mother-in law, it 94 years old. ALL FOIt HANCOCK. TIIE MEXICAN WAR VETERANS RECALL TUEIK UATTI.ES. From tlio New York Hun, 16, IMKJ. 4 The Mexican War Veterans' Associa tion celebrated yesterday Hie twenty third anniversary of the capture of the city of Mexico by tba American arrny under General Winfield Soott. The as- Hoeiation was organised in this city in 1858, with a membership of over one hundred. Their first President wit* the lute General Joseph Hooker, who was succeeded by Major Gen. Jan. Shields. The present officers of the association are Colonel W. Linn Tidbail, President; Charles T. Murphy, Marshal; G. W. Leonard, Secretary, and Wrn. Calligan, Treasurer. The association has been reduced by death to fifty members. Twenty-five of the survivors, with the officers, took the half-past one o'clock boat to Coney Island yesterday, where they enjoyed their annual reunion and dinner at the Sea Beach Palace Hotel. President Tidbull presided at the table. He said that it gave him great pleasure once more to join bis old com rades in arms. Such an occasion car- i ried his mind hack to the days of his early manhood, when he and they j marched into the enemy's country and ' lielpe.d to achieve those brilliant vic tories that added lustre to American arms. "And now, comrades," said he, "fall to, and while we enjoy the ban quet, let us revive the memories of the olden time." Mayor J. C. Alexander, being the oldest veteran present (GS years), began at once to recall the achievmenls of the | American army in Mexico. lie de- ! scribed with enthusiasm the victories of ' Kesace de la Palma, Palo Alto, and ' Cero Gordo. But the old veteran's en- | thusiasm reached its height when he j began to talk of the storming of Cha- j pultepec and Molino Del Kay, the4ast strongholds protecting the City of Mex- J ico. " And at last," said be, " when ' that handful of audacious Americans i marched into the Grand I'la/.a of the j proud city of the Mootezumas, did we not feel proud ?" The company at the table cheered j the old veteran to the echo. President Tidbail then arose to offer a toast. "Gentleman," said lie " 1 now propose to drink the health of a distinguished veteran of the Mexican War, one who has since added undying lustre to his name by the great services rendered to his country in the war of the rebellion, and who to day is the candidate of the great national |mrty of the United Slate# —Gen r al Win field Scott Hancock." This speech war greeted with three hearty cheers, and the toast WOA drunk with enthusiasm. Then the old veter ans, forgetting their battles, began to talk politic*. They could not, however, disagree, for they were ail Hancock men. Not being able to find a politic#) op|>onent among his comrades, one of the veterans nked a lady present whom she favored for president. "th, the ladiea arc all for Hancock," said she. Many other toasts were drunk, and after the banquet the veterans strolled about the beach until evening, when they departed for home. Seymonr's Speech. Ff'm tli* K-< >rd. The speech of Hon. Horatio Seymour at ITtica, N. Y., on Wednesday night of la*t week, was a calm, dispassionate and statesmanlike review of the (.olitical situation. He exposed the dangers of centralization, discussed the constitu tional distribution of power lietween the Union and the States, and forcibly presented the mischievous etf'ects of na tionalism as opposed to the principles of local sell govern merit. Gov. Seymour opened with a quotation from the In dianapolis speech of Secretary Schur* ; indicating the centralizing tendencies of [ the Kepuhlican party. Passing thence to the views recently set forth by Secre -1 tarv Sherman, Gov. Seymour says : "He dwells upon the business pros perity of our country. Overlooking the industry of the people, the favorable seasons that have rewarded their labor* with ample harvests, the demands for our product* from other countries, he i claims for the Administration the grali- j tude of our people for all our blessings. I have no unkindly feeling for Mr. , Sherman ; I regret that he does him- i self a wrong when he is ungrateful to (tod and unjust to the lafiorer of the land. It was not the statesmanship of i the Cabinet, but the statesmanship of j the plow, blessed by a fruitful season, that gives us our growing wealth. Not the skill of the Treasuiy Department, but of mechanics and manufacturers, that make* the spring* of our prosperi ty ; not the talk in Congress, but the toil of labor in all its varied field*. In another respect he does himself a wrong. lie does not warn our people of the danger which the change of sea sons may make. He doe* not, as he should, admonish them that at this time, when money is abundant, men should throw off the burdens of debt and extricate themselves from position* of peril if time* should change. He teaches the false and mischievous doc trine that Government |>olicies and not honest toil and frugal care—that the schemes of the brain, not the sweat of the brow—give competence to men. Much has been said about the absurdi ty of fiat money. How much more absurd are Mr. Sherman's teaching* of fiat prosperity. In this direction Mr. Sherman outstrips Denis Kearney." " W SAT do you know at Hancock V a UarSeld .lump er Mil t7nln an honnt rater—then his IdM hea.l. " 1 know lie got hi* title by saltan! hatllee won. t know no Coventor Sued his star* lor nervlce never done; I know he fought npon the Aelila where men were often hurt, And en hoe no temptation now to war# the bloody •hiri. Although, r MI sore. If raterhinert he nan sincerely my. • I do not know fte Ontyer or Credit Mohtlier.' I know he hoe opfnione oar fbther* counted jaet, And thinks official salaries Impose official trwet; 1 know hie politics, like Jeflerwm'e, are Just, And so, like Andrew Jackson, I tholl take him upon trust. Ill* pnllUce are ptala enough , a lasting Union peace— The peace which Lincoln promised when he hesrd the cannon cease; With State to Elate sad heart to heart, and charity o'er all, And the l-anner of the Union hong o'er every hearth and ball." Rev. Dr. Chapin, who was so seriously ill h few days ago, ia now resting and convalescing at Figeon Cove, Mast. Men of the North, Read! !7orthem Men In the Mouth Speuk. ADORE*.* TO THE I REE -AND INDEI'ENDENT VOTERS OF THE NORTH FROM NORTH ERN MBTTI.ERS IN THE SOUTH. The northern settlers whose interests have become identified with the endur- j ing pence and future prosperity of the i good people of the States of the Houth 1 are not idle or indifferent spectators of the spirit of party rancor and sectional : fury which agitates the people of our native Slates ol the North with all sorts of exaggerated state.ments from the stump ami the press concerning "ku- | klux outrages," "improper treatment i of the poor negro," "bulldozing white ; settlers," "disloyalty at the South," etc. j Neither are we unmindful of the duty which devolves upon us as citizens to place before our northern friends a (rank, candid, and truthful statement of i the real condition of civil and political affairs in this our adopted State of the South. Wo hold there is nothing that can contribute more towards obstruct ing the way that leads to reconciliation and enduring peace between the two great sections of our beloved country than to perpetuate sectional animosities by labored efforts of subtle politicians in search ol place and power to disguise the TRUTH. We hold that after a long residence among the good people of the South, which has afforded us the utmost facility for frank, free, and social busi- | ne*s intercourse, we have acquired a more perfect knowledge of their char- : acteristics, habits, sentiments, feelings, | and designs than persons living remote from us. A* we view the people of the j South from a strictly northern stand- : point, when we have been able to garner up from an abundance of facts and incidents which have corne under our personal observation, there i no foun dation whatever to support the charge of attempting to abrogate the funda- 1 mental powers of the Government, or to entertain the remotest idea of nullify ing the just and remotest laws relating to the elective franchise, for every elect- j or, white or black, is accorded every privilege guaranteed by the election laws to vol n freely and without intimidation to cast his lawful ballot and have it counted. We cannot reasonably ex- i pert to extinguish all bitterness of feel ing engendered by the follies of the laie conflict so long OH petty trifles ate magnified into gross enormities, and our southern brrthrm sre charged with brutish attributes of inhumanity to wards the negro. Never is human na ture so quickly debased as when men charge a ju-! and generous people of prohibiting the negro to think, to act, snd to enjoy the privilege of rational creatures. The ttuili is At all election precinct* the two races meet and de. po-it their votes in one ballot /-or, pre sided over by sworn officers chosen from among the niot capable of both races and of the several political parties; the votes ol white and black elector- fairly counted in the presence of white and colored spectator* of the counting pro cess. The same spirit o( impartiality ;* manifested in all the judicial depart ments, where every jury empanelled for trial of civil and criminal case* is strongly tinctured with colored juror*, while in very many magisterial di-trirts we have colored m agist rates to adminis ter the law. No, too. in the distribution of the public school fund, and in the organization of the free schools the same undcviating impartiality i* strictly ad hered to. In short, the live. fortunes, und liberties of the colored race are a safe in the hand* of the chivalrous sons of the South as they would be in the hands and care of the most civilized and humane on earth. Now, what has induced severe political moralist* to declaim so harshly against the generous people of the South ? Chiefly this, that the primary cause winch engendeied the conflict haa long since ceased to exist, the right* of all races are conced ed to be free and equal before the law. There is nothing to quarrel about ex cept the spoil* ol office. Hence recourse muit be had to faction, to imaginary wrongs inflicted ujon the freedmrn of : the South. Nothing will appease the conquerors but to hold the sword of conquest over the heads, not of the infetior race, but over their white brethren, who must he represented as ; the bane of liberty and public spirit. 1 For what purpose? Let our northern i triendz answer the mighty question for themselves. But must it be said of us that the passion for place and power is j so strong a* to absorb every other prin ciple ; that the sense of justice, honor, truth, and decency is overborne in the great struggle for political supremacy ? We reckon no such hase aspersions will attach themselves to northern settlers, whose chief end and aim in life i to "till the srnl," love God and our common country. Of the social relations which now exist between the permxnent set tlers and our southern brethren, we are pleased to say they are of the most happy nature. Whether we meet for mutual improvement in knowledge, business, and morals, at the social en tertainments, or sit together at the house of worship, or join with the children in the union Sabbath schools which everywhere abound, a reciprocal feeling of the utmost kindness and good will prevails, and the most salutary and gratifying reaulti of these inter oounies is productive of frequent in termarriages, which tend the more strongly to rivet the tie# of affection and brotherhood la*tween the two sec tions. Here we have another reason why all should deprecate the follies, passions, and prejudices of any party, sect, or faction which haa not for its sole end and aim a perfect restoration of harmony and fraternal good will. Our attachment to our new homes, to every seene and otyect, to the mild tem perature of the climate, to the splendid characteristics of the people, increase* in proportion to the continuance of our residence. Here, indeed, we are per twitted to rejoice in that protection and freedom, that liberty or sentiment, which the Nouth everywhere affords. We rejoice when we consider this por tion of the ticlirrw which we call AMER ICA is our common country. Though divided into smaller Statee for govern mental convenience only, under the guiding hand of Pnrvuisnee we are united, prosperous, and happy, in the free en joyment of the general principle# of popular government. Of all tli distressing evil* which afflict a State or nation, and retard progress in the development of the great resources of either the one or the other, are those which spring from sectional abuse; in that it tends H, strongly to purjxzses of private malic-, disturbs the peace and tranqudity of society, and effectually barn the great door to immigration, the great propelling l>ower which converts the bowling wit derneaa into a garden resplendent wit), animated life and beauty, village* sw>lj to teeming cities, magisterial district* expand to jopulous counties, and States to wealthy empires within them selves. Then why should we envy the happiness or prosperity of one man or one section over the other? When aii have an ei)ual chance in the pursuit of either the renown of the one adds to the glory of the other. The great*-i advantages in private life alone are realized from the practice of indut - knowledge, and humanity. All of th--e noble refinements render individual* tiappy and prosperous wherever pr.v ticed, and contribute toward rendering ij'ivcrnmtnl as great and as flourishing ; the people. These are self-evident fun which should be jiondered by every citizen, and propounded by every true statesiiian whose heart beats for the welfare of the nation. Narrow indeed are the boundaries of that wretched statesmanship which bends the best en ergies of the mind towards a perpetu; of sectional dissensions or foments in ternal discord among the people. How much more desirable and ne< es-ary to enjoy a better feeling of brotherhood, cemented by the ties of friendship an i good will; to join in one common effort to abolish forever all recollection of past dilliculties, and to unite in one generous emulation to forgive an-i f< -• get the miseries of the past. W- n. 1 not all sections derive a greater sat;- laction to cbetisb and promote by ail means in their power a more Christian feeling of liariiionv and reoonciliatinj. Surely this end may be sccomj ,;-n ed by adopting a general resolut. n to guard against all unreasonable n.- sult and triumph of one party over lie other ; to encourage moderate oj n -10ns ; no taunts; no unhappy allusion-. In a word, to jiersuade each oilier ths'. hoik parties manifested a too precipi tate zeal in opening ujion each olhe: , sanguinary warfare, thus keep a hid ance in the praise and censure whe h we are prone to bestow on one si n only. The most agreeable prospect of present and future happiness of !:.<• people of the nation dej-ends up'-n moderation. Inspired by the more lofty sentiment* of forgiveness si. i moderation the mind of the truly gi- at will shrink back from the aensele-- taunt of the cold-blooded demagog -•• and place seeker, and, swelling w.ih conscious pride and the more tender emotions of humanity, will rise to ti.e more exalted sphere of the Christian statesman and patriot citizen. Here follow the signatures of ort-r one hundred and fifty northern seubi* in Virginia, many of whom are froui Pennsylvania and *everal of whom are personally known to the editors of the I>ENIM RAT. Lincoln'* Mother. TIIE HOME OR THE IREAO MOTHER OF 1111 MAKTVR rRESIIiEKT OV THE INITIO STATES—HER ORATE. Itsk V*tt. Intl.. Cr. CV tumor'U'. A walk of A quarter of a inile over an ordinary country foot path brought us to a small old lashioned cemetery, situ ated on a small eminence and covered with an oak grove and undergrowth of hazel brush. There are a few graves of the humblest kind, whose places are scarcely discoverable. Until very re eently one of the most humble of those graves was that ol Mrs. Lincoln. None months ago a paragraph appeared in the.South Itend Tribune stating that the grave of Mra. Lincoln was unmarked in the woods of Spencer county. Mr. Siudebaker, a public spirited citizen of South Bend, and a warm admirer of Mr. Lincoln, determined to mark the grave in aome appropriate manner. He proirtHcd to Schuyler Collax that he would head A subscription with fVit<> erect A monument over the grAve. Mr. 1 C-olfax told bim that S3O would he enough to erect A suitable monument, aud suggested to Mr. Studebaker that i he send the money to aorue friend at - Itockport who would attend to the mut ter. Accordingly, money WAR sent to , Mr. L. X. till key. At Hock port, who gave his per*unal supervision to the matter. A plain white marble slab was pur chased and put up at the grRVP. A party of cilitena went out from Hock port and put up the monument. Among the number waa General .1. C. Yeah b. 1 who recognized the need of some pro teetion to the monument, and started a dollar subscription on the train as the party was returning to Kockport. The people took hold of the matter heart i ly and the result is a neat, substantial iron fence standing around the moou ment. The monument 'was put up on the 2Sth day of November, I8"tt. and the iron rail was put up May 11, 1880. The following inscription is upou the menu ment: Nasur HANKS LINCOLN, Mother of President Lincoln. : Hied Oct. 5, A. I). 1818, Aged X> \ * years. Krected by a friend of her mar tyred son. GEM. ,1 AM r s .SHIELDS was a brave soldier who served bis adopted country in the war for the l T nk>n. lie was in early years the contemporary and bosom friend of Lincoln in Illinois. As desth approached ho became broken down in health, his old wound of the Mexirsn war breaking open afresh, and poor in means. A bill waa introduced in the democratic House of the Forty-fifth to give him the rank of Briga dier General and placti him on the re tired list of the array for the remaining few years of hia life, he being at the time nearly seventy. When the vole waa taken on a motion to suspend the rules and paas the hill the yeas were one hundred and twelve and the nays fifty five, To the surprise of every lover of justice in the House, James A. Gar field voted nay. (See CbagrreweaW/frW 4>lth Congress, 3d session, page 2,387.)