ZbT
E. B. HAWLEY, Proprietor.
PlOlllOO tilA.
SHIPEAS & CASE.
iiindiht, names* and Trent match. Shop hi; C.rtosers'
atom OnWinn. Ilrooklyn. Pa. Oak - lisirnenacii, hnary
•
and light, made to order.
Brohklyn. April S. Inlt.—ind
M. D. SMITH
Stavin: homed al Snaquehanna Depot, ajtaaora,thm ?
sad dealer in it ht and heavy Darn ettes,CoDara,,Whlps.
Trunk*. Saddle...l c.,l3uping,by .tract attention to bnal;
nese and fait dealing, to bay° • liberal sham of
pattonapc.
Maret 6, 1671.—n010—m3.
BURNS & NICHOLS,
Dltba6ils in Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Dye
st ins, Nines, Dile, Varnish, Liquors, Bplecs.Fancy
sr t.cles, Patent Medicines, Pertutneryand Toilet Ar
orrreicriptions carorally compounded.—
Brick [Sleek. Notarise, Pa,
•. B. Brans -
Feb. ti,
RR. D. A. LATHROP. •
Al ministersruo ca n Taa It_trns, at tho Foot of
Chmtnnt street. Call ul cnocult in all Chronic
.11ontrose. Jan. I:.
J. F. SISIOIF.YIAKEIL
Attorney at law. Month , .... Ps. Office next door below
the Tarbell tionee. Pohlie A vonne.
Montrose. Jon. 17, 15...1.-003-Iy.
C. E. 11.%
ArralotrY ',ACM:l.:ening AT LAW, Great Bend. Penn
.ylrant.t.
U. L. BAI.DIVIN,
ATTOULT AT Lit, Montrose, Pa Orrice with lanesE. Carmalt,
Montrose, Anus& 30. if.
1100:711% & LUSH.
Attorney. at Law. Othce So. 224 I.3CkaIVAIIMI Avenue.
Scranton, Pa. Piactlce In the ecreral Confts of La.
acne and Susquehnuna Counties.
T. 6. 1.0013.
SCI nada. Sept. fth, 1571.7tf.
%. CROSSMON.
Attorney at taw. Office at the Conrt to the
Cammitllooar'• Office. W A. C 110.111103.
lloatroar, Sept. &b. IS7l.—tf.
IfIcKENZIE, & CO.
seers In Dry Goods, Clothing ' Ladles andllilsses
due Shoes. Also, agents for the :rent American
Tea and Coffee Company. [Montrose, July 17,'72.]
DR. W. W. SMITE', ,
Downs?. Rooms at Ma awellin7., next door cad of the
Itepanitean printing °Mee. Wilco boors from 9 / 1 . 1.
to 4 r. ■. 3luntroa4 3loy 3, Itfil—tt
THE BARitER-111a: Uct!
ce.ruy U ri.l. the bather; ttho can shoroyoor pee to
older; Cut. bravo, black and grlszley bar, in his
otiica.ja.t.p Tbyre you ilbul bhp, over
Genes IMAM. below licKcnalcs—Yna one darn.:
licetin. Jana 7. 1671.—tt C. MORRIS.
J. B. & A. 11. MeCOLLUNI.
Jerre %%%%% AT Law OO.t ovet the Dank, Montrose
ra. Itentrose,Msy Vs7l. tf
J. D. VAIL,
d** lc Puretclem AND SerimoN. Etas permanently
Leased Wowed' in Montrose, Pa , where he will prompt.
1); attend to all calls In bit proftwelou with which he may
tarered. Odice and residence welt of the Court
Hose, our Fitch Sr, Wateou's ofdee.
Montrose. Febraat7 418:1.
LAW OFFICE•
tiro! • w ATSO N. Attorneys at Law. nt the old attic,
of CeatlF74 Fitch_ MontroPc.
r rfrri. [Jan. 11. ':1.(
CHARLES N. STODDARD.
Dmiar la Boom and Shaea. 'luta and Caps. Leather and
M?indium Vain Wee% tat door below , iloyd's Store.
art made to order. and repairing dope neatly.
llautreaa. Jan. 1.13:0.
LEWIS iIiSTOLL,
SIISVING AND lIAM DItMSSING.
ahem
I. the nem Post°Mce Ash= be will
as Napa resdy to attend all who may want anything
la his lino. Montrose, I's. Oct. 13, ISO.
DR. S. W. DAYTON,
r• 0
SURGEON. tenden 411* service.* t
e• ettims• of Great Bend and sit Oftlee at bi
opposite Barnum Rouse, Wt. Bend •IlUye
Sept. Ist. ISO.—If
A. 0. WARREN,
ATTORNEY A • LAW. Elonnty„ Back PAT. Pewit..
•d Rem on Claims Attended to. OtOce dr
.eer below Beitri Store,' II ontrore.Pe. [Au. 1,'69
MI. C. SUTTO N ,
Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent,
sat Ott Feiend•illle, Pa.
C. S. GILBERT,
49.12.401t1 4 051G0crr.
Great. Bend, Pa
tr. El.
sail Ott
A Itl 1 ELY,
17, El. 49..u.crtilozo,calor.
An. 1, 1%3. Address, Brooklyn, Ps.
JOHN GROVES,
FASHIONABLE Th.lialt, Uontrose, Pa. Shop over
Chandlar's Store. Altordens Oiled in Sisters** stylo.
Cutting done on short notice. and warranted to It.
W. W. SMITH,
ckintsr A 21.19 C 11.6111 11LiNUPACTURILE 1 ..—Yoe
.f Main stmt. Nozarcle• Pa. 3an. . 1869.
BILLINGS STROUD.
FIRS AND LIFE INAMLANCIE A6MIP. All
bedew attended to promptly, on fair terms. 01lee
Int door oort4 of • Montrose Motel," west Ode ot
Pablic Avenue, Montrose, Pa. [Ang.l.lBo.
Jsiy M. ISM.] DwAts•Os &mom
ABEL TUBBE.LL,
D ZAIXEC In Drugs Patent , ' liedicirms. Chendeals
Llquorr, Paints, I.olll,Die Stuffs, Varnishes, Win • IV
Gruccries. Glass Wan, Wall and Window Pa,
p.r.Btone-srare, Lamps, Kerosene, liscbinery Oils.
, Gans, Acumnnition, Slaves, ISpeStatbni
Brusher, Fancy Goods, JeurenT. redo ""I. cod
bel au font °Me most numerous, extmmve, and
vsluable collections of Goodsln Susquehanna CO.—
Established In 1548. illontrose, Pa.
D. W. SEAULE,
TTOILNET AT LAW, of lee over the State of A.
Lathrop, to the Brick Block, hiontroee, Pa. [sore
DR. W. L. BICNIABDSON, •
EIYSIcIAN t SURGEON,' tendUrs hie professions
sarvines Usthst citizens °Montrose and vicinity.—
oe:ea at hi. raeldenee, on the corner cast of Seyre
Brea. Foundry. Lang. 1. inG9.
OIL E. L. G.ULDNER,
PIiVaICIA a tt ent i onS. Montrose. Pa. Gives
espeeist to diseases of tho Mart and
Loses andsurgical diseases. °dice over W. B.
Owl's atnearlea /late. [Aug. 1. MP
BROTIIERS,
SCRAIi7OII. , FL
litu3:esalo & Retail Dmlenin
JLAILDWARE, IRON, STEEL, . •
NAILS, SP.noN, SROVRIS,
=ll.-DER.'S HARD
SINE RAIL copy ressoArg o T BAIL SPIEZA
CAsefAILROAD d. MINING stIPPLIES.
Ace SPBLATOEr. AXLES. SZEDVB AND
BoXES. BOLTS. NUTS and WASW.E.WI,
PLSLED BANDS. MALLEABLE
fl
EGAD. ÜBS.SPoICES.
PIILLO SCAT SPINDLES. BOWS. de.
VICES. STOCKS :Ad DIES, WILLOWS
HAMM% SLEDOBS. de.Se.-
cutemAa LND SALL SAWS, BOLTING, PACEINO
TACKLE, SLOCES. ' PLASTER PALOS
CEdi EST. SAM& GEMSTONES,
PUNCH WOIDOW Gl,Ass,LEhrilenibirtNPlNUS
YAIRESISINS SCALES. • •-•.
icraaton. Kant VW OWL
'
ERROYBD HUBBARD!
• Vd'lttllllZE HO= WIIIACTIIII.E!
CIIIIIOGI2B-1112 Spired and Boabli Drive Who* it,
bolds the Great _New Yank State National Premrom
Oa the Great Ohio National Poen:l=6,lldd at Mans
/WC inlaid._
naoerisPaiinsylrazda, Maryland Lad Viands Stara
readout
. .
• •
The gearing le el mph, compact, removed entirely from
the drive wimele, end el/chord in a neat cue, In the
centre of the machine. effemnally mating it from grit
fold d
epennon can be changed instantly from a high
peed to one a third slower, without atop. Wm adapt-.
places load light end
be
geese,
1 1==ot " la palest. No brake and One
/atm kit*, It le beyond doubt the Menagest
iUW world , end you an depend upon it, being
pkajf imer) , articular,
MlCAtatii• Ye It gni— WEE MO S.
Votfo Corper.
THE BRIDE% STORY.
When I was but a country lass, now fifteen
years ago,
I lived where flowers the Orerprock through
meadows wide and low; •
There first, when skies' were bending blue and
blossoms blowing free,
I saw the ragged little boy who went to school
with me.
His homespun coat was frayed and worn, with
patches covered o'er.
Ms hat,—ab, such a hat as that was never seen
before.
The boys and girls when first ha came, they
shouted In their glee,
And jeered the rugged little boy who went to
school with me.
Altos Ntcposa
Ms father was a laboring man, and mina was
highly born ;
Our people held both him and his in groat con
tempt and scorn—
They said I should not stoop to own a playmate
such as be, •
The bright-eyed, ragged little boy who went to
school with Inc.
Yet spite of all the sneers around. from children
better drmsed ;
My heart went out to meet the heart that beat
within his breast,
Ills look was fond, his voice was low, and
strange as it may be.
I loved the ragged little boy who went to school
with me.
For years they had forgotten him, but when
again we met,
His looks, his voice, his gentle ways remained in
memory yet;
They saw alone the man of mark, but I could
only see
The bright-eyed, ragged little boy who went to
school with me.
GIME=
Be had remembered me, It seemed, as I remem
bered him;
Nor time, nor donors, in his mind the cherished
past could dim!
Young love hail grown to older love, and so to
day you see
I wed the ragged little boy that went to school
with me.
---* 411•0 11.-------•
[From the Atlantic Monthly flu 'August.)
A Triumph of Order.
A squad of regular Infantry,
In the Commune's cloung days, .
Ilad matured a crowd of rebels,
-Ily the wan of Pere-la-Chaise.
There were desparate men, wild women,
And dark-eyed Amazon girls,
And one little boy, with a peach-down cheek
And yellow clustering curls.
The captain seized the little waif,
And said, " Why dust thou borer
" ,Spariad, Citizen captain !
rm a Communist, my dear. "
" Very well. Then you die with the others r
" Very well. That's my affair]
Bnt first let me take to my mother,
Who lives by the wine allop.there,-
"My Either's watch. You sec It,
A gay old thing is It not?
It would please the old lady to have it,
Then I'll come back here and be shot".
'That is the last we stria' see of him."
The grizzled captain grinned,
As the little man skimmed down the hill,
Like a swallow down the wind.
For the joy of killing had lost its zest
In the glut of those awful days,
And death writhed gorged like a greedy snake
Prom the Arch to Perela-ChaLse.
But before the last platoon had fired,
The child's shrill voice was heard!
" Heup-la ! the old girl made such a row
1 feared I should break my word."
Against the bullet-puled wall
lie took his place with the rest,
A button was lost from his ra .. „glut! blouse,
Which showed bis soft white breast.
•
"Now blaze nway, my children!
With your little ono—two—three!
The Chesspots tore the stout young heart,
And sated Society !
-..------.. 4110 .1111.---•-•-•
Earth, thou art perfect and fair:
Idle, thou art carnet and sweet;
Soul, thou art rigirttully heir;
11 , not thy rapture complete?
Why, from the manifold joys
That hie to the morning of day,
From sorrows that strengthen and save,
Turn'st thou, expectant away?
I stand in the fresh morning lands;
Dew-stars in the stars at my feet;
Buds and white bloom in my hands;
About me sweet son;-pulses beat
From the . far depths of the sky
A glory is rising for me,
A royal roseate dawn
Tinting the hills and the sea.
Youth with , its gladness is here
Time with its treasures untold,
Toil with its promise and cheer,
Love that will never grow cold,
Yet ort orthis sweetness and warmth
I fade, and I follow afar
A voice that is vague as a dteam,
A light that is flint as a star.
Mystery waveth her wand
Over the knowledge I crave,
And the'shadow that stayeth her-band
liovereth over agrave.
[Anna Boynton-Averill.
guritito and Witiciofito.
—Gen. Joe Johnston opposes Greeley
because be signed J 4 Davis's bail-bond.
" Greeleymneracy" is one of the words
now figuring in campaign paragraphs.
=An exchange tells of a marine disaster
'where three seamen " bit the dusk" •
—A California farmer can walk twenty
seven miles in a straight line without go
ling off his own property. A rival adds,
1"So can we, we bought our shoes and
paid for them."
—A negro boy was driving a mule in
Jamaica, when the animal suddenly stop
ped and refused to budge. "Won't go
eh?" .said the boy "Feel grand, do you ?
1 s'pose you forgot your fodder ways a
jackae." .
—"How much did he leave?" inquir
ed . a gentleman. of a wag, On the death
of wealthy citizen. "Everything," re
sp9nded, "ho didn't take a dollar with
—"A thing of beauty is a joy. forever."
"Is it my boy?
,Marry it, and you'll find
its retyitnuch'the reverser-r%Punch,
.=;-An old lady; recently visiting a' pHs
asked-one of the attendants why the
prisaners 'received such coarse food. lie
told her it was te keep their blood from
beodming impure; and when 'she asked
'What, they would do if their blood was
impure, he dryly responded, "Break oat?'
111111 enllk l4l
—The Itorfolk,Na., Chronicle evident
ly has no ear for music. It says the big
drum has killed the fishes in our harbor
by its noise, deafened the children, and
made Iliston wish for the- last hour of
the last day of the last week, for this in
fernal nonsensical hub-bub." If the Jour
nal were here we would try it for its life
by a drum-head court martial.—Baslon
Post.
—Women in Austria perform the du
ties of bricklayers, laborers, and may be
seen carrying hods of mortar and baskets
of brick up high ladders. More than
this, they dig and wheel barrows of " bal
last" almost as nimbly as the men. They
chop wood, they carry water, they offer
to black your boots in the 'street, and per
form many other little offices which, tie
cording to our notions, do not and should
not come under the denomination of
" women's work."
—At a recent performance of the
"School for Scandal," in a San Francisco
theatre, out of love for Miss Leelac(' as
a woman and profound respect for her
as an actress, all the actors of the compa-
ny who wore moustaches shaved, so as to
render the performance as perfect as pos
sible for her sake, and fot once `• School
for Scandal" was not marred by the ana
chonisai of bearded men in bad wigs, It
was a great sacrifice for some of them,
Harry Edwards in particular, his mom
tache being of twenty years growth.
—Jane G. Swisshelm has written a
letter in the defense of Mrs. Lincoln.
Mrs. Swisshelm shows that during the
war Mrs. Lincoln was loyl to the United
States Government, and she says: " For
years I have made it a point to speak io
public and private of Mrs. Abraham Lin
coln as I felt she deserved; but, no mat
ter how long the report of a lecture might
be, that part was always left oat; and I
now formally ask the press of that State
which claimed the body of her husband
for interment to do her justice, and bright
en her pathway to his side:
—A. man in London recently went to
bathe, accompanied by a monkey, which
he was in the habit of taking about with
him. Having undressed himself, he plac
ed the monkey on his shoulder, secured
by a chain, and waded into the water
breast high. The monkey became fright
ened, rushed frantically around his mas
ter's head, and tightly twisted the chain
round the man's neck, producing stangii
lation. In a moment they were to the
-bottom, but were rescued by one of the
lx.atmen of the Royal Humane Society.
The man, who was blank in the face, re
mained for some time in a state of stupor.
—lt would appear from the following
list of salaries paid to singers and danc
ers, that members of those professions
-cannot complain of being ill-paid : Mad
ame Patti, at St. Petersburg, will receive
$B,OOO per month; 3111 e Nilson, $7,000;
Madame Volpini, $4,500; Signor Grazi
' ani, $4,000 ; FiorAti, the dansens,
wife of M. Verger, the baritone, will re
ceive at the Milan Scala, for a short sea
son, $5,000; Madame Pauline Lucca, at
the New York Academy of Music, New
York, next winter, p 7,000 per month and
a benefit; Mlle Nilson, for twelve nights
in London, received $12,000, and Madame
Adelina Patti is paid $6OO every time she
sings :
—For those who love excitement, steal-'I
ing . horses in Kansas is a commendable
business and insures short shrift in case of
capture. The Vigilants have a way with
them of tightening the larynx of any
man who puts serreptnous hands on any
of their favorite mustangs, and their lat
est dispensation of justice was but a few
days ago. Two men had relieved a trav
elling gentleman of his span, and no
sooner was it known than some half-doz
en other young men started in pursuit of
them. One of the thieves escaped, but
the-other, J. T. Smith, was examined be
fore a JUstice of the Pence and bound
over. As he was being taken to prison a
band of armed men demanded him, and
hitching one end of a lariat, around his
neck, attached the other to a tree; then
giving the pony on which lie sat a slap,
the lover of horse fiesh was left dangling
wily I
' MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1.872.
pioctlinuro4o.
in air, labelled a convicted horse thief. -
—A wrecking expedtion, fitted out at
San Francisco on the 14th of February,
to recover a quantity of silver coin, said
to amount to between five and $6,000,000,
from the wreck of the Spanish frigate
Leocodia, is now at work off Santa Elepa,
on the coast of Eucador. They have con
structed a bridge through the surf to
within 200 feet of the sunken wreck.
The divers, while walking along the
wreck, picked up three Spanish dollars,
which are thickly coated with what ap
pears to be chloride of silver, mixed with
tine sand; the coin, however, has lost very
little in-value in consequence of the pres
ence of the chloride. The wreck is cov
ered with a mass of iron -rust, stone and
shell, which is very hard and uneven.—
Most of it will have to be raised, as it con
tains rich deposits of coin. The persons
in charge of the expedition speak very
confidently of their ultimate success and
the managers at San Francisco have con
fidence in their judgment.
—A cdlebroted poet, writing to an edi
tor, proposed to supply him with any
length of lines, and for any occasion.—
The reply was practical: "Send me a
hundred yards of lines strong enough to
fish for conger eels, and that will bear the
tog of a porpois, as I am going to the
Isle of Wight for a week's fishing:'
—A New York'vessel is about to be
built on the Clyde, to run between Liver
pod and New York, of dimensions second
only to the (treat - Eastern. Her length
is to be 576 feet over all, and she is to bo
50 feet beam and 25 feet in depth. It is
expected that the great steamship will
Bake the voyage from port to port in
seven days.
- - The people of Maine 'held a' snow
picnic) on the fourth of July. - lii the
north 'part of the State there is a snow
drift of - enormous dimensions, which, al
though the mercury in the nighborhood
ranges from ninety to one hundred de
g, roes, -bids fair to last all summer. The
drift was originally seventy-five feet high.
—A garrulous - old lady at a • faneral
observed,;" What a nice quiet corpse it
FORNEY ANSWERS CAMERON.
HOW SENATOII SIMON BECAME PENNSYL
VANIA'S POLITICAL DICTATOR.
OEFICE OF THE SUNDAY MORNING
CHRONICLE, WASHINGTON,
July 25, 1872.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE 11EILALD:
It is always profitable to record history,
provided you do it bravely . and truthfully,
and as Simon Cameron, in his nervous
anxiety to screen himself from the penal
ties of a long career of political wrong,
has sought to entangle the in the meshes
of his falsehoods concerning the political
situation in Pennsylvania, I propose to
wake a revelation concerning that gentle
man which will convince yon that he and
the horde of hungry office-holders, fat
mule and horse contractors, and State
Treasury pimps surrounding bins are the
sole and only cause of the dissatisfaction
now threatening disaster to the republican
party in Peunsylvania - iu October.
CA NIERON'S ANTECEDENTS
General Cameron is the original author
of all the corruption, debasement, plun
der and prostitution which have disgraced
the elective franchise, the legislation and
the management of the finances of Penn
sylvania. I need not tell the readers of
the Herald how this man started in pub
lic life as an Indian agent; how General
Jackson spurned him; how he plundered
the Indians, whom he was delegated to
protect; how ho polluted the Canal
Board of Pennsylvania; how he won and
abased the confidence of Governor George
Wolf and Governor David R. Porter, both
of whom abhorred him because he cheat
ed them, betraying the trust-they reposed
in him ; how he managed to have his
brother appointed superintendent of mo
tive power on the railroads owned by
Pennsylvania that he might secure con
tracts fur supplies ; how he engaged in
eontracts while be was President of the
Lebanon Valley Railroad, until the stock
holders drove him from the position; how
to this day, he is forced to disgorge to
makeup the losses of some of the sub
contractors on that road for fear of expos
ure and criminal prosecution; how he
and-his family fattened on the Northern
Central Railroad, and how his business
and financial acts, iu every transaction in
which he has ever been engaged, are
steeped iu corruption, blackened with
suspicion and deformed by shame. It is
not necessary for me to revive any of the
serious charges which are daily preferred
against this miserable old man. The
country has heard them repeated so often,
and the archives-of both State and na-
tional governments contain enough of his
shame and rebuke to make his name exe
crable while thCre is a being to hear it in
his native 'State.
pilrpose is simply. to reply to Goner
at Cameron, who Sought to make it
appear that the political unrest in Penn
sylvanja and the certainty of defeat there
fur the Republican party mu October are
due to-influeuces other than those arising
from the dissatisfaction with his corrup
tion. G.rieral tiatn,iion's fierce struggle
is not to save the republican party of
Pennsylvania in October, or secure that
State for Grant, lint to save himself. He
is the pursued party in all the angry dis
cussion :u the Keystone State, and his
the record of shame:which bears my no
ble republican brethren iu that Common
wealth down into the dust. He feats a
new rule in Op Auditing and Treasury
departments in that State, and above all,'
he shrinks from a democratic Governor of
the Buckalew type, because ho sees in
that result the speedy realizatioti, of .a
doom which he is certain to meet sooner
or later.
IP/ DOES GENERAL CAMERON TI US
TREMBLE
on the verge of the grave and shrink
with horror from having his record laid
bare ? Let me tell you. When he was
first elected United States Senator, in
1845, ho purchased the votes which se
cured him success. It was the first time
a Pennsylvania Legislature was debauch
ed by the use of money, and he is the
first man who bought a seat in the• United
States Senate. In 1857 he repeated the
same game, and so intense was the indig
nation felt all over Pennsylvania at this
act the Legislature then passed resolutions
censuring the Senator elect and asking
the United States Senate not to receive
him. The second time Cameron was
elected he purchased two democrats, and
threatened to send the relative of a third
to the penitentiary for robbing one of his
banks if he refused to vote for him. His
third attempt to get into the Senate fail
ed, because the democracy, having a ma
jority of one on joint ballot in the Legis
lature, went to Harrisburg in large
crowds, threatening to shoot any demo
crat who voted for Cameron, theafact be-
ing well known at the time that there was
a democrat in the Legislature who had a
bribe from Cameron in his pocket, but
who was overawed from voting for him by
the revolvers of his indignant constitu
ents-pointed at his head as he sat in his
seat. Iu 1867, when Cameron was elected
the third time to the Senate—the term ho
is now serving—it cost $30,000 is secure
the result, ar.d that money was made by
the State Treasury Ring on deposits of
State money in Cameron's own banks,
which was loaned at usurious rates of in
terest to all classes of desperate specula
tors. The venerable Thaddeus Stevens,
J. K. Moorhead, W. B. Mann, •A. G. Our
tin and other distinguished Pennsylvani
ans went to Harrisburg in the winter of
1867 toimplore the Legislature not to
put the shame of Cameron's election on
the State and republican pasty; but the
eloquence of these veterans was of no
avail in the glitter of Cameron's gold,
who, with the contractors he had enrich
ed while he was Secretary of _War l , 'kept
an open hotel in Harrisburg, where votes
were-as publicly purchased for him as
cards are played at a Baden-Baden gamb
ling saloon. ' • • •
EVIDENCES OP new:non/arra . 0114CES.
The result of such aynblio career has
been to render General Cameron complete
ly infamous—utterly odious in Pennsyl
vania. He is regarded there as at the
head of a ring as villainous as that of the
Tammany in New York. • While ho was
Secretary of War his satelliteis were en
riched as if by magic, and any one fan&
• '„
_
iar with the banks of the Susquehanna
River fronting Harrisburg has seen,in the
- palaces which rise in that neighborhood,
the results of the Cameron ring plunder
whilelhe old chief was Secretary of War.
He byes in a palace remodelled and re
furnished, purchased by the horse and
mule contractors, and presented to Lim
during hirtime in the War Deparhneut.
for $75,000. His son occupies another
mansion only a few squares higher up the
river, the cost of whose banqueting ball
would pay for the best farm in Dauphin
county, while its proud tower frowns with,
haughty disdain on an •unfishnished
monument which the citizens of Harris-
burg pre too poor to complete to themem
ory of those who perished in a struggle
out of which young Cameron coined sev
eral millions of dollars. Still another
member of this ring, who kept a small
livery stable at the ininning of the war,
lives 'in a marble palace which would
shame many of. the manions on .Fifth
avenue, whose owners acquired the wealth
to erect them after long years of honest
and bold enterprise, and ventures by sea
and land..Havo Tweed, Ingersoll Garvey,
and Connolly done worse or better in the
management of the finances of New York
city than i the Camerous have done in the
manipulation of government patrimage
and the control of the Treasury of Penn
sylvania? In 1860 Donald Cameron's real
estate in Dauphin county did not amount
to $25,000. I have heard it asserted in
Ilarriburg that he is now the owner of
real estate in that city and Dauphin coun
ty valued at from six to seven hundred
thousand dollars. He and his father,own
from three to four thousand acres of the
best farming land in Lebanon, Lancaster,
and Dauphin counties, almost every acre
of which, with the exception of a farm
called Lochiel, was purchased from 1860
to 1867, and during the same time that
family managed to get control of sufficient
stock in the Northern Central Railroad to
elect Donald Cameron its president, so
that that concern is now run in their in
terest.
WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IR DE
Now put that, and this together. and
von will see at a glance why the tepub
lican party of Pennsylvania is &moraliz
ed. Tlic Camerons are known to the peo
ple as having . bcome rich out of their
malfeasance in office, coining gigantic
fortunes while the nation poured out its
richest blood, and gathering wealth hi the
enjoyments of contracts which • were
marked by frauds such as have sent the
Tammany Ring of Neh York into crimi
nal exile. And the hold these men have
on the Oars of State of .Pennsylvania
can only be broken by taking the control
of the Auditing Office and State Treasury
out of their hands. Why is the elder
Cameron so anxious to secure Ilartranft's
election ? Why is he so solicitous to keep
the Treasury of Pennsylvania in his pock
et? Why was General Ilartranft's term as
Auditor General extended 'and why nre
the Camerons so determined to prevent
the light from shining
into the vaults of
Pennsylvania's State Treasury, or of
bringing to the public view the archives
of her•Auditiri,g Department? I answer,
because sucltutelligence, like the inves
tigation rto the affairs of Tammany,
would resu in proseeutions again* the
Cameron ring,similar to those now pend
ing against Tweed and his associate
thieves. General Cameron, in connection
with his son Donahl, his brother William,
and a few choice spirits of like qualities,
now own or control some nine banks, ev-
cry one of which is carried on by deposits
from the State Treasurer. The Cameron
banks at Harrisburg and Middletown hate
the larger portion of these deposits, and
by which the Camerons make enormous
sums m shaving notes. In addition to
this it is well known at Harrisburg that
Mr. Mackay lost at least $lOO,OOO by the
failure of his broker in Philadelphia. Mr.
Mackey is the State Treasurer, compara
tively a poor man, and this loss can only
be made up by the Camerons, who will
never refund the money, but who are now
striving to elect an Auditor General, to
settle Mackay's accounts, covering up tilts
frightful loss and relieving the Camerons
on his bond.
Remember, I am only giving you a
hurried statements of facts, an auyalysis
of local political history, to prove to the
country how mistaken General Cameron
is in reference to the condition of Penn
sylvania politics. He says there is no
trouble in that State. I answer that there
is. The trouble being that he purchased
and packed the last Republican State
Convention there, to make nominations
for officers whom he expects to use, when
elected to
COVER UP ISIS OWN, 111011 CRIMES
and misdemeanors, and save the desperate
scoundrels who compose the ring which
ho beads from the whip of justice. It is
not alone the "Forneys" who are dissatis
fied with this personal rule, and these
acts of plunder, bat the better part of the
republican party of Pennsylvania - is mov
ed to unrest, and the best men of the
Stateare blushing with shame, humiliated
to find that they have beeu so fearfully
cheated, disgraeA4 and misrepresented by
this fraction. Pennsylvadia has felt by
this disgrace for eighteen years in the
United States Sena, where she has bad
but half the voice Sena_
her sister States
enjoy, while her 31erediths,.-her Carting,
her )3rewsters, her Franklins, her Moor
headi, her lielleys, her Poliocks, and oth
er men of mighty intellect and grand at
tainments have been kept out of that
body because they would not outbid Sim
on Cameron for a seat .there; because
they would not do as he has done—barter
in her honor and huckster in the virtues
of her legislators thatbo .might reach a
place to disglade it by his inability and
stain it with his redacts.
• AB LISCOLN . S CABINET OFFICER.
General Calderon ought to have been
the last to make a personal attack upon
another, or talk glibly, concerning any
man's public of private career. I bay°
already said that he .either bought or
begged every position he has ever, held.
The country remembers the manner in
which he managed to get into Mr.. Lin
colds Cabinet against the judgment and
.the wishes of the people of Pennsylvania.
He was forced upon obi Abe, Mato show
this was accomplished I quote &tali ow
, .
of Mr. Linen biographers:—"lt re
quired aliard stinggle to overcome Mr.
Lincoln's scruple's, and the whole force
was necessarily ninstered.to accomplish it.
'All that I am in • the world.' said Mr.
Lincoln, 'the Presidency. and: all else, I
owe to that opinion of me which the peo
ple express when ;they call ma Honest Old
_Abe.. Now what, will they think of their
Honest Abe when he appoints Simon
Cameron to be his familiar adviser ?'"
Once in the Ciibinet, General Cameron
immediately surrounded himself with all
the plunderers ready to gorge themselves
at the public crib, making in less than a
year a millionaire of his oldest son, who
had a leading share in every contract fil
ed in Ilarrisbnrg, forcing another son in
to the regular army as a paymaster, and
placing a brother - in-law in a similar ser
vice. The manner in which the contrwt
system of the War Department was man
aged aroused and alarmed the entire
North, the finaneicrs •of New York and
Boston hurryin,g to Mr. Lincoln to declare
that they would advance no money to the.
government whil6 Cameron had control
of its military supplies. Forced by pop
ular indignation - and literally appalletl by
the irresistable fLets of frauds presented
to him, Mr. Lincoln removed Mr. Came
ron from the War Department in the fol
lowing tart note,in which he breaks the
blow by sending the deposed Secretary an
exile amid the snows of Russia:—
CAMEIIOX'S LEITER OF DISMISSAL
lion. Sisson Cam Enos, Beeretary-of War:
Esau ent—l have this day nominated Lion.
Edwin M. Stanton, to be Secretary of .War, and
you to be Minister Plenipotentiary to 'Russia.
A. LINCOLN.
But on the heels of this removal Con
gress passed a resolution severely censur
ing Cameron : the first Cabineut 'officer
since the orgenization of the government
down to the present time who has thus
been rebuked. The history of this dam
ning decree is now to be told. I copy it
from the Journal of the House of 'Repre
sentatives second session of the Thirty.
seventh &ogress. On the 30th of April,
1862, the following resolution passed the
House by a vote of 79 yeas to 45 nays:
Resoljal, That Simon Cameron, late
Secretary of War, by investing Alexander
Cummings with control of large sums of
the public money and authority to pur
chase military supplies, without restiic.
tion, without requiring from him any
guarantee for the faithful .performance of
his duties, when the services of competent
public officers were available, and by in
volving the government in a vast number
of contracts withpersons not legitimately
engaged in the business pertaining to the
subject matter of such contracts, especial.
ly in the purchase otarms fer future de
livery, has adopted a policy highly injuri
tons to the public service and deserves the
censure of the House.
Among the ayes are such names as
George T. Cobb; of New Jersey; Erattus
Corning, of New York; Henry 'L. Dawes
of Massachusetts ; W. McKee-Dunn, of
Indiana; Daniel W, Gooch, of Massachu
setts; Robert McKnight, of l'ennsylva.
nia ; Justin S. Merril!, of Vermont; John
T. Nixon and J. L. N. Stratton, of New
Jersey; Francis Thomas, of 'Maryland;
Charles IL Train, of Massachusetts; John
P. Verree, of Pennsylvania, and James F.
Wilson, of lowa. Most of these were re
publicans, and nearly all are living to-day,
not one of them without feeling that his
vote for this resolution was just. I recall
this dark chapter in Simon Cameron's
history, so fresh: and well remembered, in
view of his subsequent and recent efforts
to disgnice and debauch the republican
party of Pennsyliania. He who !begun
his career in fraud, still prosecutes it in
tyranny. He has ever since been trying
to efface this decree from the record, but
in vain. He has threatened• and' impor
tuned republican members to vote for its
repeal, but in vain.
CAIIEIION'S , LITERARY QUALIFICATIONS.
Is it to be wendered at, in view of the
facts I have,giren you, that the people of
Pennsylvania are dissatisfied with Came
ron's personal rule? Men are not blind,
voters are" no longer indifferent to the•
honor of the party they support, or the
leaders they follow. All who linow Gen
eral Cameron are aware of his deficiencies
as a statesman, his lack of culture and
his poverty in knowledge: He has 'sur
rounded himself with a fine library, as
the readers of thoHeralli have been al
ready told, but it, is well known that' he
has never read: a volume of Macaulay's
England or of Bancroft's United States;,
that he has no knowledge of the sciences;
that.he is more familiar, with low political
trickery than political economy; that lie
is no speaker, writer or thinker, except it
is for low intripe, base-.slander, or vile
persecution: And yet this "is 'the :man
who occupies (Charles Summer's place,
who makes the room of the Committee
on Foreign Relations, where; under the
chairmanship of Sumner, the- statesmen
of the country assembled for consultation,
a resort for the pot house politicians of
the laud, who plot with him for plunder
and are bribed to execute his plans- for
personal revenge on those who have .the
manliness to resist his personal rule.-
.
I DiD . NOT SEES TIM . QUAIMET
with General osieseron but as ho Went
but of his way to attack me on matters
connected with my legitimate businem in
aiding to colleet the war claims in Penn- •
sylvania, L Arndt to let Mai know there is
oneyorney who does not fear him,, who
knows his. defects and his crimes, and
who, is selfdefence, is' always ready to
strike back when stench. lily relation to
the Evans affair, or rather, the collection
of the Pennsylvania war.claim, was pure
ly professional, and as legitimate as that
of services rendered by- any lawyer or
m
chu agent in the country. Whatever
criminality there is connected with the
inansinsent of the collection of these
claims is certaiiill no fault of mine, but
rather the executive officers of • Pennsyl
vania, who merely .pretended to bo aware
that the amounts collected fronslho' gen
eral goverment hes inever been returned
to' the Treasury of the State nail I bad
brought the platter to' their attention,
which was snore than threeyears after the
appointment of the agency.. I leave the
inference to be drawn - from such neglett
to the people, and whether they think
that the present itandidato for Governor,
Who was then, surnow, the Auditor Gen
eral of the State ) is ie fitluan to be Ace-
VOLUME XXIX, AMBER 32,
tinned in Reiter in the fine° 61.0 i official
neglect or ignoiance of a duty that was
very near jeopariling• the' entire amount
of the war claim—s3,ooo,oool and until
my public eqpose of the use that was being
mrule of these claims not uhe dollar of
them was . paid into the State Treasury.
This amount of service should - eutitlii zoo
to more credit than censure, but, as Gene
ral Cameron is endeavoring to make polit
ical capital out of it for himself, I can
well afford to give him the benefit of it. .
as all the use be can make out' of it. will
never disturb my slumbers or in the
minds of honorable men injure my repn
tation.
THE LAST INTENFLEW.
When f was in Harrisburg, atoll' weeks
ago, General Cameron followed my
brother, Wion Forney, and myself to the
railroad depot, while wo wero on our way
to Laueaster city, declaring that herwan
ted to See'ns both, and insisting that we
call upon him. We consented to do this,
and when wo went we found him in ;his
. .
library engaged in conclave with tioratifOr
the lowest and worst political characters
of Harrisburg—of the old .Fagan . schoel,
Bill Sykeses and Artful Dodgers—instead
of, as a statesman should have been.l4-
gaged, and particularly the chairnat% of
the Committee on Foreign Relations, with
his books,- with "Vattels Law of Nations.
At this solicited metting, on the! part of
General Cameron, he'propoied to .no, to
get Colonel Forney to 'Change his :course
of opposition; but L declined to interfeire.
reminding Cameron of how oftenj :had
tried to make peace for blew in that gnar:.
ter, and how repeatedly he had violate d
its honorable compacts. I called to his
recollection his conduct at arivate din
ner given by Colonel Forney, ' p Mt before
the Republican National - Convention at
which he, Senators Chandler,'Anthony.
Speaker. Blaine, Secretary" R obeson and
others were present, when he {Cameron)
replied to a proposition to make Andrew
G. Curtin the candidate for Vice-Presi
dent, that "if that were done ho•wotild
}:,:cocs DELL IsTo noTn cualg.r
CURTEir •
repeated, - in reply to Ciurieron'S
gent solicitntle,ray-unwillingniss . to In
terfere between him and Colonel
while he• cofessed that the-Press' wars
power in Pennsylvania: that &bur:W.
Forney could , hate anything be - deiiited if
be only stopped fighting Dartrinil4;that
they would take" Allen off the ticket and
allow Foray-to name a successor.-•:." In
deed," said the wily old tricliter,_'_'ne
almost frightened Allen into declining,
but he has been Stiffened by . iankliody.
and is now reiolied to stick on the tictet:7
To all this I merely replied that Colonel
Forney knew his own business, euil could
conduct his own fights; but: so tar as 1
was concerned I intended to staid Winiy
own blood in all their honorablestingles
for right and justice. At this'intrie
din
ner referred to his abuse of Curtin. and
every, other independent. matt_ is .the
State was so insulting to the hospitality
of Colonel Forney that oven Cameron's
personal friends who were pmetitproteit. :
ed and expressed surprise athisarrogamin
and dictation. lle even went so far as to
state—tracking it up with a strong aim.
tive—that no man should be recognised .
politically in his State without hirteni
sent ; that ho had controlled thin sari slid
Could, if he desired, transmit the 'mine
power to his posterity. . r
REPUBLICAN DEFZAT CELLTAL:Cxx: mut- -1-
SYLVNIA. ~4
I have made this communication.. 4 .,
ready too Ion",, brit give me room for, a
few more words. The Ilepublican,Tarty
is sure to be defeated in Pennsylimmi in
October, and Simon Csunerons personal
rule and political prostitatons, orsr)tbe
causes which will produce thedisasterd It
is the only way for the peoideixiget rid of
him and break up the vile combinatitin
which he calculates to fasten on thC State
after be descends to his grave. It .is tho
only escape frgm his pollutions and • the
pluuderinga of' those he has trained whiz
followers. It is the only way to light: filo
the dark places in the financial of .
Pennsylvania; to cleanse its Aziditing
Office; to fix proper guards around tile
treasury and prevent its Chief MagiStsate
:from being made a Tassel of .the clan
Cameron. 4. republicandefeat at' this
time, I admit; is a fearful ventareititifthe
tremendous influences demanding it4n
Pennsylvania aro like the knifelotthe
surgeon which cuts deep into a 'rotten
put to save the entire body .from crake
mg corruption and death. I rejoicelo
feet,therefore, that the people of Perin
sylvania ammoved by such a spirity:luid
the people of the whole country:mill : lo
glad. when this corrupt ring is sent tithe
gave of
. Tammany. Yours respectitilly,
- D. C. Folmar.'
—Alexander the Great bein used .ta
give battle in the night, "No,". soul% hp,
"I will not allow it to be said that I , .4111 P
indebted, to darkness .for vicfory." The
Same prince 'refused to'seo - a Beintlfil
woman whom ho had made. prisoner,
"For fear," said he, should •• " capti
vated by my captive'
—Mr. Voorhees has succumbed to,iiie
inevitable. Ile will support Mr.. - Gres*
whom he thin& infinitely litiferidi.
Gen. Grant and plants , himself stjuaray
on the platform of the New Departnro
-It is Mid that • Henry tail*
lesSons in the art of , presiding, and 'has
actually bought a guiet and tried' ids .
hand at making raps. 'We Flo "not believe
tlaislast. The truth is Henry dais, not •
believe:numb in, raps. He is rather atiaid
of them. HIo has experienol onear,tio
already, and trembles at the- Pi?aulility
of a still heavier ono in November.,"
—Mr.' Bontwell dois..not believe in
th
akingbandi across the bloody chrism.
116 i, he. The sonth_ Must be' governed,
into subjection, and, their willingness to
be:gdvernedby- Gen. Grants carpet-bag
gers is the solo proof of their fitness to
govern theritselve& It is said that . the
more You Whfia spanielthe more' he will
love you. Secretary Ikoutwell evidently
thinks that the south is peppled with
spaniels, and Proposes to win heir love ky
a liberal disponzaugn of tho lash.