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A. J. GERRITSON, Publisher.}
) AVIS-CAMERON.
To MI EDITOII OP TIM 11191TIIASE DWISOCRAT.-8111
Wing Fent aconimunicatice to the Independent Re
oneen, signed" People," with a request to the Editor
t o polish it, if he thotight proper, and he thinking
r „p e r, published it over day signature, as I believe
out all rules, observed by editors ; and by such use
u D ams subjected meto and Abusive
4 0 E , by .r.r. Cameron, through the Republican, I
Sri, and he, (tbe editor,) promised me the right to
thiongh7his paper, which. ite now re:1%184; mid
Tuilpifti),ditUbuse the abiia with regard' to the mat
te. would be gratified if you would giiethfs Comma
wagon publicity through your paper.
Ireoura etc.., R. S. DAVIS.
To ME EDITOR. OF THE REPUBLICAN.—
Sat —Never having any desire for noto
riety, I must ask you to explain in at note
to this comMunication_, why the former .
irticle I Rent' you was published over my
n a ture; and in justice to me, I think
mu will do so.
In that article, speaking : of increased
FalarieS, I said "our Member," (meaning
Cameron,) " used his influence to pro
care the increase." This, Camerow pro
nounced unqualifiedly false ; well, if that
should prove . to be Elise, it \ will be. bad
f or me; but if it shoal appear - lo be- : the
truth, then it will not -look quite se well
for the E. R. lt. Co's. agent, as if lie had
been a little more modest. I am some
what like . the Englislirean - wko. - nsed to
attend the French debating club. A friend
asked him what satisfaction it was to him
to attend the club, when he could not un
derstand a word of French. Oh, said he,
jan easily tell who gets beat. how o
said his friend. Why, says be, the one
that gets mad first, is the one that's beat.
en: Now I think if the. Hon. Member
bad not shown his temper quite so quick,
it would probably have been quite as well.
Bat whatever course the gentleman may
take, I shall try to control my - temper,
for I believe that " he that controleth his
spirit," is at least equal to the person who
aided in the passage of Senate Bill No.
577, of the session of 1866.
But, to the point in controversy. It is
well known to Cameron that I introduced
into our nominating convention of 1865,.
the resolution condemning the action of
the legislature of 1865, increasing their
compensation as members, and also the
increase of Judges' salaries, &c. Last
January I was in liarrkbargh, and Cam
eron had a long talk with me in regard to
continuing the increase fur another year;
he using every argument that I supposed
him capable of using, to persuade me that I
the increase was just, and failing to satis
fy rue either of the justice or propriety of
tit set. He said "do you suppose the
people of Susquehanna county are so
penunions as to ask their Representative
not to vote himself a reasonable compen
saLion for his services?" I replied, we
sea think four hundred dollars a month
a 1.1.1 ,, unreasonable. A few weeks after
lb. I wrote to him saying that I had
talked with several persons who had some
prominence in the Republican party, and
that if he favored the increase of salaries,
it would probably be made a test in the
next nominating convention. Soon after
this, being in Montrose, J. H. McCain,
Register and Recorder, said to me, "yon
have changed your ground, I hear, and
now favor an increase of salaries." I re
plied, "that's not so;" and inquired for
his author. Why, said he, "I saw the
tiannent over Cameron's signature.—
Uoder date of March 9th, '66, I received
a letter from Cameron, from which I
quote: After referring to your (Davis')
letter; he says: "said letter advised the
raising of salaries,
_and fees of officers,
Lc.; since then I have received petitions,
and letters from leading citizens, advising
the same thing. This has been done—a
law having passed this House this week,
a supplement to the law of '65, extending
the time for one year. Susquehanna hav
ing been left out last year, comes in this.
Hoping that it may prove satisfactory to
all of the people of Susquehanna county,
!remain," &e. Now
. I challenge Cameron
to produce any letter from me advising
my such thing; and if apy person or per.
eons in the county have so advised him,
he should let their names be known, so
that the people may pass upon them if
they ever have an opportunity. Now,
without making any allotment here, let
ns examine his vote. When the general
appropriation bill was under consideration
and it became apparent that the increase
of compensation of members would he
continued at some rate more or less, the
2,th section then providing that the ex
tra allowance be five hundred dollars, Mr..
Pershing moved to strike out $5OO and
Hum $3OO, (Leg. Rec., page 636,) and
on this motion, Cameron boasts that he
was second among the nays! Is'-not this
in perfect keeping with his conversation
and letters? Now don't let him -dodge ;
did not vote on this motion not. to.
I n oo rtt3oQ, bat he voted net-to :strike
"henss.o9. " That was already itan Ike' bill !
Mr, Pennypacker's name• Was call
ed be said, " I vote aye, becaage a,th
Posed to the increase:of salaries above
the eana of $7OO. Cantpt ; the peoplasfie
by tins, (Cameron's own showing,)- that
4 not oply, vOtedfor - $5OO extra pay, but
that he yowl againn,taakitig it.s3oo
in
stead of 8500. Then on the final joassage
of the bill, (page .695,) where is Cameron
then ? Then _again,
,ort. the ~report of the
conferenen committee on the disagreement
between the Iwo kens% 0e40,14A0.1411,
where is Cameron then "voting and using
his influence?" Not a voile raised, or a
vote recorded against it, although it could
not probably be called anything but a
bundle of, iniquities,;: one beatiful feature
fixing the . salaries of judges at $8,500 per
year, or about $9OO per month ter what
time they devote on the bench. / •
Now, how does this look? He argites
with me for hours in favor of the increase
of salaries, failed to covince me of its jus
tice, or that the people would sanction it.
He wonders if I "think they are so d—d
penurious!" Then he writes that lam in
favor of the increase, (which is not true);
then that the bill has passed, and "hop
ing that it may prove satifactory to all, "
Then his vote not to.strike out $ 5 OO
on Pershing's motion ; his silence on the
final passge of the bill; and his silence on
the conference committee's report. Alto
gether, does it not prove the truth of the
declartion "that he used his influence to
procure the increase," nay more, that he
also voted for it, notwithstanding his bom
bastic charges of falsehood.
And here I would leave this matter, if
Cameron had not thought proper to in
troduce himself as the private legislator
of John Tewksbury. He says " the rea
son for.thii false attack on me, is because
I would not lend myself to Davis and de
feat the Auburn township bill, defrauding
John Tewksbury of the money he had
paid," &ie.; "and aid him in repudiating
the bonds for bounty purposes, ' &c. I
am not sorry that Cameron thought best
to throw the rotten mantle ofJohn Tewks
bury over his shoulders to hide his naked
ness, for I think it very becoming, and if
his carcass does not smoke with corruption
before he gets from under it, I shall be
mistaken.
In March '64, the School Directors of
Auburn township, (John Tewksbury be
ing chief fugletnan,) levied a bounty tax
of ten cents on the dollar of valuation, of
all property assessed in said township,
and in June of the same year, I think,
they levied fonr per cent. more, making
fourteen per cent., or within a fraction of
one-seventh of the eutire valuation of the
property in the township, in one year.—
This seeming oppressive, or rather not
deeming ourselves rebels, and rather ques
tioning the authority of the directors to
confiscate our property, a number of citi
zens applied to the court for an injunction,
filed a bill in equity, and an examiner was
a p ri a4l tad, and earn° ovidono bars barn
taken--some of which I shall refer to.
Before the bill in equity was filed, Tewks
bury claimed to have paid, (in township
bonds, or otherwise,) forty-two volunteers
—8350 each—and thirty-five volunteers,
8-150 etch, making a total of —29,579:
In affidavit, in answer to the bill, he says;
"any amount paid, or agreed to be paid
to such volunteers in excess of $300; was I
raised or to be raised, by subscriptions by
the citizens of said township; that they,
(the school directors,) have not raised by
tax, and do not propose to raise by tax, a
sum exeuding 8300 for each volunteer,"
&c., and that they, "have not issued
bonds to the amount of $15,075, as chrg
ed," &c.; but, that they did issue bonds
to the amount of about 88,000. Tewks
bury swore to this, and I want. you to
stick a pin here. The bounty law provides
that the money so borrowed, shall be paid
over to the township treasurers, if there
be such a pet son, (P. L. Sessions '64, page
89,) and we had such an officer ; but in
violation of the law in this case,
the
money went into the hands of John
Tewksbury, he being one of the school
directors. So you see they had the game
all in their own hands, and when the
township Auditors settled with him, Au
gust 22, '65, they report in his hands
$17,287 30. As to the amount of bonds
issued, the Secretary of the School Board,
(S. A. Clink,) swears before the Examin
er, that the bonds were made out blank
as to amount, and name to whom issued,
signed by the Directors and placed in the
hands of Tewksbury, and that be never
saw them since, and don't know for what
amount, or to whom they were issued.—
Tewksbury, when inquired of by the Au
ditors- about the amount, declaredtbat he
did not know, and that he had no means
of knowing the amount of the bonds is
sued, or the amount of the township in
debtedness. This same TeWksbury had a
son in the army as a Commissioned Sur
geon—went I think in '64. We had him
before the Examiner; he said bowent in
the army as a Commissioned Surgeon, and
after he bad been theroabent_a_Month his
fatbei Wrote him to - send np - his muster=
roll and he would get him a bounty. He
sent it, and in about a month be received
a township bond for 8425. - 'Was not this
pretty cool?' when the law says the boun
ty shall be paid only to privates who are
enlisted and - accredited, iSzc.
We have also proved that two of the
volunteers received only 6,10 each, while
the smallest sum he now. claims to. hive
paid .any one is 8359, and persistently re
fines to inform us of the.. residence or
name of any Of the volunteers , that we do,
not know; and - this taken in connection
with the fact, that in the - due% Sordat
ton, .the 'men. were oteditect by: aozabAr
and mot by name, and you will seethe ini-
Pogbi4y_ of following. , up ~biotrack in
this matter. Besides this, the first thirty.
oilik.looO 'Nara offered tci,bi3 farolsbed 'for
s3oo' each,. and could easily have been fur
, nisba for, that 1t. 1 20 • Qii4i3 dirisetoira
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, SEPT. 11, 1866.
Who engaged in this business, four were
liable to a draft, one had two sons liable,
nod the other, (Tewksbury,) had •three
sods and one son-in-law liable, and when
one of his eons wanted to .enlist, he said
he would give him $l,OOO rather than let
hinfgo. Who have - doubts but what they
were moved to raise bounties by purely
patriotic motives?
Men whose sons were in the army, and
that too without bounties, and men who
paid commutation are taxed to the verge
of ruin, to secure the directors , and their
sons from a ditty they owed to-their gov
ernment, and, men who only ask that the
monies shall be properly guarded, and le
(rally expended and accounted for, are
charged with disloyalty; and every coarse
epithet, that dishonesty and malice can
invent, is heaped upon them. We ask
that the money be paid as the law pro
vides, "into the hands of the township
treasurer,"
and be drawn therefrom by
propei orders, and settled for,
with the
proper o ffi cers, and that will avoid the
probability of fraud ; that the taxes shall
be levied and collected according to the
law as it existed at the time said debts
were created; and we protest against any
amendment, called law, which allows an
irresponsible- body of men, like school
directors, who are not even required to
act under the restraints of au official oath,
to create a debt of the magnitude of $3O,
000 or $40,000 in one township, levy
and collect the same, disburse it as they
please, having one of their number for
treasurer, settling their own accounts, and
that settlement to be evidence of its own
correctness. And here I give the words
of the act passed last winter through the
agency of this beautiful Representative,
Cameron.
• "That all county taxes levied by the
school directors of Auburn township, in
Susquehanna county, to pay volunteers,
a sum not exceeding $425 each, and to
repay money loaned to pay any volun
teers who have heretofore enlisted and
been credited in the quota of said town
ship, are hereby legalized, and the settle
ment by said directors of the account of
the treasurer of said fund shall be prima
facia evidence of its correctness in all set
tlements of the same before auditors or
otherwise."
Now, if that is not the " most odious
of all the anlicked cubs that ever issued
from any legislative kennel," then I am
notaage. It, places in the hands or inte
rested persons an immense power, re
moves every barrier to corruption, and
invites frauds upon the people. And
this act was passed at the solicitation of
Mr. Wm. H. Jessup, the paid Attorney
of the school directors, without a single
petitioner from our township, asking for
such a law. And I will here say to John
Tewksbury's private Representative:—
meet this with something besides a charge
of falsehood, (for any blackguard can
make that,) and produce the petition it
was based upon, or a copy of it, and if
you have not got it, ask me for it, and I
will furnish you with one you exhibited
to me, anti that petition asks for no such
law. And here let me say that the three
first names on that petition are-men com
monly known as copper-heads, and the
name of the sixth, was one who claimed
to be an alien, to avoid being enrolled,
and swore he was a native in order to
vote fur McClellan. Two others had been
soldiers, and one of them signed a re
monstrance as soots as he saw a copy of
the act as it passed. I received a copy of
the act as it passed the Senate, on the
22d of March, at noon, (not through
Cameron's agency,) and the next day I
started for Harrisbnrgh, to arrest, it pos
sible, such corrupt legislation. The next
I day I laid those facts all before Came
ron, (Osterhout not being there,) and
he promised me that he would on Mon
day object that bill off the fides, and also
Senate bill No. 576, against which he had
already received several remonstrances,
and wait until I bad time to go home and
send a remonstranceto him, and that a
remonstrance against bill No. 577,
would be considered as a remonstrance
against bill No. 576 also, they being so
nearly allied together. ow mark the
candor of the man. On the next day he
wrote me that he was in receipt of dom.'
meets that satisfied Lim that both the bills
in question ought to pass, and he should
consequently let them pass without ob
jection.
Now there is one thing I would like
very much, but I do not expect to be
gratified, and that is this: I would like
to see the back of those documents, for I
have 'a strong suspicion that they are
shaded green.
Well, I drew up a remonstrance to the
Auburn bill, and it was' circulated until I
sent to Cameron two hundred and eighty
names of citizens of Auburn township,
remonstrating against the bill. Sixty of
them were soldiers, or men who had sons
in the army. And at the same time, with
the remonstrance was carried, a petition,.
(so that there could be no misunderstand.
ing,) praying the legislature to pass aiaat
providing " that all bounty debts created
and all bonds issued - to raise money for
bounty 'perpoaes shall be paid by taxes
levied, assessed, disbursed and settled for
in accordance -with the law as it existed
at. the time, such beauty debts were cre
ated and not authorised ." 'Does this look
! repudiating.(l4:ol44hiP, 14**?
does,this look like
,defrauding John Tewks
bury;' out upon such low bar-room slang
from a Representative. •
And when our remonstrance and peti
tion got to - Harrisburg, how are we met?
(The petition was sent to Landon, our Sen
ator, and bad also 280 names to it.)—
Why,-says Cameron, you are disloyal l
Now. upon:the remonstrance and petition
that I sent, there was not one man who
wanted to get his hand into his neighbors
pocket to screen him from any liability
he.owed hie government; not one who
offered his sou 81,000 not to enlist in the
arcriY; not one who was lending the di
rectors money at thirteen per cent., to
screen-his sons from the draft; not, one
who had two sons liable, who did not go
and two brothers in the Canadian army;
not one who said he was the friend of
Jeff Davis till be was caught in petticoats.
But there were soldiers who fell wounded
at Fredricksburgh, at South Mountain,
at Gettysburg, in the Wilderness, and
in the trenches before Petersburgh ; and
they are the men whom Cameron calls dis
loyal. We hurl back, with scorn, the
coarse epithet as being the contemptible
emenation of a brainless mind. Now
look atthis whole matter. In '64, the di
rectors levied over $17,000 of taxes, and
they received donations by tens, by fties,
and by hundreds of dollars, from men
who were liable to the draft and willing
to pay ; they have since levied about
$ll,OOO more, making something over
$28,00b, besides the uncounted donations,
which Tewksbury swears was, or was to
be, s6,47s—altogether, making in round
numbers $34,500, while he swears the
bonds were only about $B,OOO, or less
than a quarter of the amount already
within their control, and about $5OOO
more than the whole sum ever claimed to
have been paid for volunteers. Where
then is the effort to " defraud John Tewks
bury," or the "repudiation of the town
ahi'p bonds."
Let me here give the worthy Repre
sentative a gentle hint. Ansel Gay and
myself were delegates in the nominating
convention of '65, and did not vote for
the nomination of Cameron, and Gary
and myself, beaded the remonstrance
against the Auburn bill ; perhaps that had
something to do with the passage of the
act.
I unthirstand that Auburn is not the
only_t ctw ro, htp that has reason to o...mpiat”
or Its unjust legislation. If that be 'so,
now is the time to speak so as to be heard,
and heeded. One word more with regard
to the wording of the Auburn bill. You
will observe that " private" is left out,
and "any volunteer, " now stands as the
law for Auburn. Was this for the pur
pose of including the pin-feathered Doc
tor ? I only ask the the question, /Cam
eron can probably answer.
Now, in conclusion, I will say that the
Auburn bill was passed against the re
monstrance of as firm, true and active
Republicans as there are in Auburn, and
that all we ask is an honest, legal account
ability for the money drawn from us by
taxation, with no special favoritism to
any one; and when our request is so rea
sonable and just,. and we are met only by
charges of falsehood, disloyalty, attempts
to defraud, and repudiation,
we say to the
author of them, that such charges will
recoil on hinrwith ten fold violence; that
he has fixed a "great galph" between us
and him, and that he will cry in vain to
us for " water to cool his parching tongue."
I am now done with this agent of the
E. R. R. Co., and private Representative
of John Tewksbury, until we meet at the
polls on the 2d Tuesday in October, when
I will try and present him with a silent
remonstrance that he may possibly hear
and understand. Let us admonish him
then and there; that when his hand went
into the public treasury to draw forth his
ill.gotten gains, ie came out red with the
blood of the people, and that the mark is
as ineffaceable as the marks of Cain, and
that no human ingenuity can hide the,
stain.
Let me say also to Camearon, that I have
repeatedly offered to give Tewksbury
$5,000 for what he will make by the ope
ration of the Auburn bill, if the courts
will sustain it as law ; and it may cost a
little more of that sum to elect him than
it did to procure his renomination.
When will the people awake! Formerly
Representatives served for 8300 per sess
ion; now they must have $1,200. Then
judges served for $2,000 per year,• now
they have $3,500. Why should office
holders be relieved from the burdens in
cident to a great national debt, and all be
thrown on the people? How long will
the people vote for the men who even
wink at such legislation ? The legislature
tot* '65, passed general laws covering sixty;
-five pamphlet pages, fly sheet and all, and
for that voted themselves $190,000, or
nearly $3,000 per page. Last session they
voted themselves 8106,000, and gave niti
six pages less, and eighteen pages of that,
appropriating the people's money. The
balance of their labor was local - or private
legislation, for which they are . aupp . 6Bol
to get pny in advance, unless revel:hid,
by their modesty, or,conticientions sda
ples. R. S. DAVIS:
Auburn, August 30th, 1869.
—Fred.. Dougta& a delagat'froya,NQW
York to the. "Loyal Soutlipcur • C9V0131
Row Goes the Battle.
We are .often asked, says the Clinton
Democrat, what is the prospect of a Dern
oeratie triumph this fall in Pennsylvania?
We answer, Clymer's success is sure. •
In 1864-Gen. M'Clelltin received 2'6,-
000 votes. Against all the power, threats,
terror. and corruption of the Natiorial Ad
ministration,"the Democracy polled two
hundred and seventy-slx thousand Votes.
This was certainly
. a majority Of froni 40,-
000 to 50,000: of the legal votes of the
State, but the Radicals manufactured an
army vac, sufficient to make a majority
20,000 for them. Be it rernernembere,
that the Democracy had not the power,
even if they had the will, to bribe a con
siderable number of voters, or to poll an
illegal vote. The radicals bad the will,
the power s .,,the - patronage and the peo
ple's money to bribe to what extent they
could, and also to make up a fictitious
vote as large as they wanted• or needed.
They used their advantages, fair and foal.
They have none of these now.
The National Administration is against
them now, and so far as its proper influence
goes is for us. There have been no deser
tions from us since then. In our opinion
our success is therefore sure—our advice
is, work like beavers to make our majori
ty as potential as possible—one that will
crush radicalism to the earth ; so effectu
ally destroy its life that none will do rev
erence more.
Conservative Republicans are coming
to us every day by 4uridre4s. The gov
ernment bOndholders plainly see that
such is the radicals in Congress, that if
thily are putinped in power they will in
crease the national indebtedness to such
an extent that the people will be abso
lutely unable to pay the interest. In self
protection therefore this body is compell
ed to come to the Democracy.
The agricultural, mechanical and labor
ing interests are also beginning to see that
longer radical power is sure to drive them
into bankruptcy if not absolute distress for
the very means of lite.
Everybody must also see that the re
salts of this very same radical power are
filling the land with crime. Hunger and
want ever bring murder, arson, robbery,
theft and cheating, and all these are inev
itably brought on by extraordinary pri
ces of the simple necessaries of life ; cloth
ing, food and shelter. There is no escape
OMb Cho ....c.c. .ora:sushi...a of thp.se ex
cept through tbe success of the Democra
cy.
In candidates for Governor we have an
immense advantage. Clytner, of the firm
old Pennsylvania stock of Germans, in
whose veins runs the blood of the Mulen
bergs, the Clymers, and
.the theaters of
Berks, is a statesman of rare and acknowl
edged ability, integrity and experience—
accessible to all, obsequious to none, a
noble patriot and a true-hearted man.—
Geary is a stuttering, vain, pompous up
start, who commenced life in the sink of
corruption, the Alleghany Portage rail
road, where be held office many years.—
We believe he has never had other occu
pation than a holder of petty office, until
he was promoted in the military, not for
any brilliant exploits on the field, for be
never performed any, but because of his
abject sentiments regarding the negro.—
He has no experience as a statesman, no
marked ability for anything, and there is
not a town in the State that does not con
tain many voters at least as fit as he for
Governor. Whatever of personal integ
rity he may possess, he has no established
public reputation regarding it. He was
Governor of Kansas a short time and
" made a fool of it." So be would '(to a
greater degree) in Pennsylvania, were he
elected Governor.
Thousands of honest Republicans will
not sustain the Radicals for other reasons.
Among these men are those who want
peace since the war is over, who want
great and decided retrenchment itination
al expenditures, the speedy-paynient of
the national debt, and consequent relief
from taxation, 86e: - -- Most important, per
haps, in point of numbers, are those whci
are sick, and tired of negro issues, of sus
taining at the public, expense - herds of
lazy, idle negroes by means of Negro. B
ureaus, itc,, with their swarms of officers
and attendants—those who are opposed
to negro sufDage, negro equality, to ne
groes having any connection with our
government, and to negro companionship
in any of the duties and responsibilities
of ,the white man's life. These must. all
come to the Democracy for relief, and
this fact they begin rapidly to appreciate.
We might assign a• thousand othef rea
sons wily the success of the.Demooraoy
this , fail insure. The obe it:the beginning
of this article is amply sufficient. , Either
of the others, nnaided, would be sufficient.
. All' 4 combined overwbelin every
doubt. Every movement the radical'
leaders mate their desperation. So
boint4etel . 4o . 9 . . their . ' boric's.. wasted and
fied,,that were it pot foe, emigress7
Men , Odlegislat ors 'pey ; Wink iltaga
a fgl&tiihla efrojiti- - • ,
'Wt ., ' SAY' VIE TIMOCRACY,
Att‘ls ,§4Fg f ttrr IDLE.
It ia'tn' We Very 'Moinent oractlfielagii
'and overwhelming tfitim_pb: that the , irk
toriolia general ; s most vigilant, and etrites
his flwf4-rnad Od-,PIPONfOI :Maws, fa. or-,
tittr , tbat glo4Y..ba-iniPP 8 4 13 ,449. 1 7--tiik,O ,
enay, tp;r Ay or Tgooynr r or, it4pre.4o., to
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i'VOLIME XXIII, NUMBER 37.
Every interest of yonr comttylind - every
intereptof patriotism demands ic .(yd to
the battle and the triumph.
Electioos of 1866, Post and to (limy
Those who have paid much . attenta.on,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer, to 'the 'e h
and flows of 'public sentiment, its exiiibib.
'ell in popular elections, have alcvayaill•
marked the affinityibetween'the.differmt,
States and observed that the Brat mnitot
in, the beginning of ayear are generidly
indications Of those that are to
Ever since 1840 this peculiarity has' Ibenti
the distinguishing feature of our political
campaigns. In fact, the elections, thait
commence badly for a party keep growi ng
worse and progress in that direction to dip
end of the year, in a sort of geoinetrino
progression. ' -
It is in view of this fact that we 'harp
everything to encourage us in the aspect
of the- times. The first important pie°,
Lion was in Connecticut. The RaTuittra
there, from having a majority' of 16,06 N
were cut down to 000, •and it Was only
by the most tremendous exertion 'that
they were saved from utter defeat.
Then came Oregon and Nebraska, where
there were the closest contests,and in each
of which the Radical majority-was reduc
ed almost to zero. Kentucky was next on
the list. In 1865 she was about a tie' be
tween the parties, but this yearnhe goes
40,000 Democratic. This glorious result
was, responded to by a Democratic
_irk.
umph in the distant territory of dolniadii;
and Idaho *hose' settlers haie redently
met there from all the States. • ,•
Democrats may rest assured that it - is.
no Accident that canoe these. perica_ of
Democratic victories and gains'.
is it owing to"local causes, for they Wonla
not be likely to happen in so- many and
different parts of the country.. They.are
caused by a wide-spread disaffection with
the course of the Radical
,majority in
Congress. This dissatisfaction will Tie
more strongly marked and developed'
the elections.yet-to come off.• lan all the
great States the Radicals will lose in 1b
same, if not greater ratio, than theyhsys
in Connecticut, Oregon, Ncbraska, Cide
rado and Kentucky. In all of thetn:thi4
will be beaten. The' hand-Writing •
the wall. The neople of ..Kentuckpind
Colorado have changed no more titan)velik
the men of Ohio, ,Indiana, papp7
Ejylvania, and New York. Dom ooi
lc columns, assisted by its. ConserVitiVi
allies in othr parties, is marching •reitiriP
lessly td victory.
" Beware of the Dure n
During the past month or two, one ,Or
two gift enterprises in Chicago have lintst
up and swindled the people out of ikthti
money that had been invested- Mc :then!,
whereupon the Chicag o papers: eaursivest
and warned the peop le not to . have
thing to do with any . of ,these cottiinimikr
Since then another similar "ititerpriie"
has cheated its ticket-holders - knit `of is
clean seventy.five thonsand-•.dollarkon;
There is another " entepriser in. Cbigsg t
called the Crosby Art Unioa S.OPFuerA3
some other high sounding naree , whic
promises to give away hundreds o1;` tifbrt~
sands of dollars in presents "and db' Vs*
one other big things, -which is, got qpifiis
the express , benefit, it is said,, On,. insp.
who has already failed once . during, , ,:thp
past year. This grand setierne lhayg db
all it promises, bnt ive'advise people - ' ts
keep their money in their pockets- ankl
not: spend it for any such visionary!
schemes as that.
GEN. GAN :7 . The . a a tea. papers art
made a great splurge' over''Ganif,''n'd*e
tingnished Southern
ed the call for the bogus llifiltidelptrui
Convention of "Southern ,Loyalists-
This same Gantt wan arrestgd, the qtitkep
day in Baltimore and , held to bail ; on a
charge of attempted outrage upon fiat%
girl twelve years old, in' that otty:-
child, it appears, is a sister.inilaw.ellihis.
brute, and was tinder his protection. .Sbe
has been sent to her home in Arkansas,
under proper, protection, TbisGantt was.
a Radical hanger-on at the Capitol ands
Washington, and stood high with As
Radical members - of ' Congress, Be A&
strong for. punishing,rebels, and is a , kb.
manitarian of, high moral ideas...As 1)0
bail was hied at only one: iboiishial ilo
tars,
it is not'likelY that the petiitentia4
will reclaim its own in his person. Wash«.
ington, Baltimore and Arkansast:milli,
however, in ,the future, be rid ,of
gusting, presence.
gar Of the seven New tort das
five supported the re-electideroP.Line,oln.
Six, of these now. seppprt, the r eat oFptien
policy of .I"resident J01gnmip.,,,14,440?
i s an y indication of pOlie,opinjog, it an
.
like the handle of e Oi.onr tcheill' bn'i•iiiir
aide. - ' , The Tribune ui alcifie Oka tOtt:
gross," inid itetipporta Itr fotvi 6at it menet
but - did , -atoti dare , to doilathes ItuttAOß
whatitedid.,!,
;;--, A firm in Chicago 144Tertit 3 PAA ifirß9
gift s dis;4ribkin ,hcrc.beingianiioßsAti.
er prize's 40 pianos, 20'Iaieloakiiis ;466
gold and silver watches, 1,000 Betigiii
ef)bine aatfotheteportablit . warcourdlplikek
es , . Mi. ; Gem. Beoifitaltk-F.!80h1r,64
Lowe' Xasfh Pt the 4E4 0 , 4 1 4 t fi' .
erences. Beware
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