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LEWES KNOLL, SIIAVI SG AN) DtitSSING. Shop In the n./W l'u,totn,e where he will toned ready to attend nil who may want anything ID 416 line. Montrome Pa. Oct. 13. lstitl. Dn. S. W. DAYTON, PhITSICIAN Stlit;tioN. tenders Ms erTire• Vi vte cillteas of Gr.,' Icecd sad Ti , iffity Of.lce at oliimii l .• llaruuut 11011,c, C't • Bald Sept. tat, MA.- if A. O. WARREN, ATTORN'tT A.: LAW. Bounty, Back Pay. Pension and Sze,. un Claims attended to. Coffee 13 , +oor below Boyd's Store. 3lontrose.Ps. [dn. ],'63 C. SUTTON, kuctioncer, and Insurance Agent, .01 6911 Fricndwille, Pa. C. S. GILBERT, .41..T.x.cAtcassoemo. Groat. Bend, Ps 17. Ea. 1112g1 Off Alll ELY, ALuctlc.)l3.c.or. A. 1, ler9. .Addrcar, Brooklyn, Pa JOHN GROVES, FASIIIONABLr.T4IIOR, Montrore, Pa. Shop over charditer St.re. APcvdera dllvdfa first-ratestyle. dove on ehorta tfCe. ardwarranted to 111. W. W. SMITH, CA CINET AND CDAIR DIANILFACTUDERS,I r ooI Rain street, Montron, Ya 3.1 n. 1. 180. 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AO the Pennsylvania, Atstrylasid Sad Virgintafitite Prevalinnsi • . . • The gln rt ID: is simple, compact, removed entirely froth the drlre wheels. and 4`11 , 110.4 In nest CUM, in the Gomr, or the machine, sitsetattilY itcrirkr' froth grit 6[41 filial. . - - . - • • tit:melded:l can be changed idebidtb , bozo a high oto a thl rd eloaer. witlueat *tom .bus 11481* tnx tttal(t. bad place.. meld Wahl. and heavy gesso. One eattlne apparsade is perfectiAta I•Zikke , - 41111 . sine ~ .te4r- t 0.&..11.a., it is beymi doubt Tatk.ntrcm,goat smaidnuit. the utorld, addscoa Can dePtads ziPezi4. plug' Adialiierld every wage or. B. SAYRE DIM 110 N. CHAS, R. BUCKALEW The Statesman and Pollticalßeformer. HIS LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES BIRTH AND EDUCATION "Principles, not then," is an oft repeat ed.political maxim. But what are good principles worth in the , hands of bad men ? The maxim which should be laid down and followed in these times is, Good principles and good men. to enforce them. It was evidently the recognition of this great truth that led to the nomination of the lion. Charles R. Buckalevi for the of fice of Governor of Pennsylvania. Mr. Buckalew was born in. Columbia County, Pennsylvania, on the 28th of December, 1821, and is consequently now in his fifty-first year. In common with many of the most distinguished men of the country, he is, in the strictest sense of the, term, a self-made man. His educa tion, so far as it depended on the assis tance of tutors, was begun in the com mon school and comOeted at Harford Academy, in Susquehanna County. Af ter leaving school he was several years engaged iu teaching, and while thus em ployed, was fitting himself for the graver tasks and hi,gher positions of his subse quent life. The bent of his mind inclin ing him to the legal profession, he studied law with M. E. Saekson, esq., of Berwick, and was admitted to the bar of Columbia county in August, 1843. It was quickly perceived that he had not mistaken his pursuit. Capacity, industry, and integri ty, soon opened before him the road to success. Amos Niactois IMM:I3 On the 13th of February, 1849, he was married to Parmelia, daughter of Rev. E. Wadsworth, of Town Hill, Dizerne • Co. No event of his life has contributed so much to his good fortune as this happy marriage. Carefully trained in Christian dactene and duties, and becoming in her youth a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal Church, she has, by a temper in which natural amiability and religions devotion are beautifully blended,constan ly cheered and strengthened her husband, and amid all the varied scenes of public and private duty, in which he has been au actor at home and abroad, she has been his inseparable companion. When not absent from the country, the rani!? sisal' , " of the auu two children. has resided at Bloomsburg. Colombia Co. and if the esteem in which each and all are held by their life-long neighbors could determine the matter, there would be no room for doubt as to the result of the present contest for the chief-magistracy of the commonwealth. In 1855 Mr. Buckalew was appointed prosecuting attorney for Columbia Conn tv, and after discharging the duties of the office with marked efficiency for two rears, he voluntarily resigned. In 1850 lie was elected state senator fur three years, and was reelected in 1853. In 1854 he waq appointed by tte President of the United States special commissioner to es change ratilltations of the treaty with the Republic of Paraguay. Although affairs had then become somewhat com plicated between the two - governments, lie performed the duties of his appointment with entire satisfaction to both countries. Returning in safety from this long and perilous voyage, he was 'chosen Presiden tial elector, from his senatorial district in the fat of 1856. In 1837 lie was a thint time elected to the state senate, and in the %rioter of that year was appointed by the Governor, and confirmed by the senate, as one of a com mission of three to revise the criminal laws of the State. lIE RENDERS IMPORTANT SERVICE TO THE 31r.Buckalew was an acknowledged lea der of his party in the state senate; and was particularly prominent and influen tial in the advocacy of questions of re form, arid of all attempts to secure equal, just, and beneficent legislation. He was the author of the act, passed danng . the session of 1854, and still existing, which forbids the sale of intoxicating drinks to the insane, to minors,, and to persons of known intemperate habits, and prohibits the celebration of the marriage ceremony when either of the parties is in a state of intoxication. Thepenalties annexed to the violation of this law are fine and im prisonment, and any member of the im mediate family, or other relative of an intemperate person, may ftirbid any liquor seller to sell intoxicating drink to such intemperate person. Ile was also the au thor of most of the constitutional amend ments that were proposed at the session of the general assembly in 1857. As ex amples of these may be instanced that illicit prohibits the contracting of any new state debt exceeding the amount of $750,000, that which forbids the incurring of municipal indebtedness by subscrip tionkof st,-•k or loar.s of credit to incor porated wag that which provides for the creatiot. if a sinking fund for the paytnent of the ,sisting state debt, and that! which prevent, !he divisionof coun ties except by the popular consent express ed at an election held for the purpose of ascertaining the popular will.. lIEFORII - Ifi LEGISLATION. On the question of cumulative or free voting he has long cherished a profound internist; and is the author of several local acts favoring that Moue of election, and of the general statute which applies the principle of the free vote to the election of councilmen in all the boroughs of the' State, subject to general law& But upon no question of state policy has he-mani fested so much concern as that of consti tutional reform. A convention for this purpose will convene next November, and the amendment he proposed last winter, which contemplates the removal of the electien of the. State treasurer: from the legislature and tbe plabing of - it in tho hands of the people, will unqviestionably then bo adopted. ACCEPIii A DIPIAM&2IO, MISSION. In tlie Bummer of 1858 Mr. Buckram resigne(l . bis positions as state senator and 00mmiamoner to revise the criminal to t t arr ifie of accepting Mit A SKETCH. MONTROSE, -PA - .; WEDNESDAY, - OCTOBER 2, 1872. of United States Minister resident to the republic of Ecuador. Here, as in Para guay, he discharged his delicate duties with prudence and fidelity. The climate of the country proving favorable to his health and that of his family, lie remain ed three years. and returning to his coun try in 1861, :Ii found his countrymen armed and arming for the suppression of the great rebellion. CHOSEN UNITED STATES SENATOP. On the 14th of January. 1863, Mr. Buckalew was elected to the United States Senate for the term of six years from the 4th of March following. An insignifi cant man is in a pitiable position, and shows very badly by comparison, iu this the most talented and august assembly in the nation. But the new member from Pennsylvania goon won the respect of his fellow senators, and the party in his state which opposed his election, equally with the party that elevated him to his high position, felt grateful for the honor which his reputation there reflected upon their grand old commonwealth. In the senate Mr. Buckalew served on the most impor tant Committees, among others 'that of foreign relations, and was chairman of the special committee on representative reform, whose report of March 2, 1869, contained suggestions of the deepest in terest, and was , extensively circulated through the country for the public infor mation. wan RECORD IN THE SENATE. When Senator Buckalew took his seat the country was deep in the struggle for the preservation of the Federal Union.— As a democrat he could not sympathize with all the measures and aims of the administration then in power. But upon the question of putting down by force the force that had arrayed itself against the authority of the ballot, he never hesitat ed a moment, and was as earnest and de cided as the most ardent republican to be found in the halls of congress, or in the front of the battle. Shortly after his election to the senate he defined his posi tion on the subject of the war in the fol lowing words— "'That rebellion was against the laws of the United States and pet the whole body of them ut defiance- Although it asserted for itself a legal ground of justi fication, it is most manirest that it was lawless and unauthorized. The compact of the Unioa being without limitation of time, must be held, as intended by its au thors, to be perpetual, and the provision provides the only lawful mode by which its obligation can be limited or changed. Considering secession as a breach of the public law, and in view of the immense interests put in peril by it, this state con:. curred in measures of hostility against the south. But this was done to vindi cate the broken law, and to secure the ob ject for which the government of Hi. United States was originally founded, and for no purpose of conquest or oppression. Upon this ground we must justify our conduct, and submit it without apprehen sion of censure to the judgment of future times." And again in a speech delivered in the senate at the close of the war as follows: " Returning from a foreign country af ter the commencement of the war, a hen it was in full progress, and when no hu man power could avert the stone which fell upon us, I found myself, as did most of the citizens of our country absolutely controlled by the circumstances which surrounded us, and which pressed us for ward upon a course of conduct which we could nut avoid. I thought then, and think now, that there was but one thing to do. We were en,,T,411 in a contest which was, as it has often been described, contest of life and death, and there was nothing to b.: done except to fight it out, to tight on, to promote or assist the collision of forces which were then array ed against each other until some ultimate results should be reached. "As a member of the minority in this chamber, I gave my vote for those meas ures of the majority which directly point ed to the use of the force of this govern ment to subjugate the insurrection which raised its bead against us. I was opposed to the political policy of that majority, and have continued to entertain and evince that opposition down to this time, in a respectful and proper manner. But upon the question of prosecuting the war to a conclusion. I never had any difficul ty; I never had any hesitation." SUPPLIES. In accordance with these views Mr. iluckalew advocated and voted for the fol lowing measures that were - to furnish the "xinews of war" April 14, 1864, a lull to meet deficiency in the war department, *97,504,040; and for the naval service. *2,735,500. April 22, 1864, bill appropriating to the support of the arnly. *5529,323,897 65. This bill was strongly opposed in the House, and it bemuse necessary to order a committee of conference. The Senate appointed T. 0. Howe, L ;V. 3lorrell mid Marks R. Bird:alert., and the house Thad dens Stevens and Thomas T. Davis. The difficulty arose mainly from the circum stance that the house thought the senates provision for the pay of colored troops too liberal. The report, of the conference committee, signed by Mr. Buckalm, was 'adopted. It may be found in the 'Glute i page, _2.845. Frequently thenceforward, when alluding to this . matter, Thaddeus . Stevens accustomed to say some very strong things in praise of the manliness and magnanimity of Senator Baekaleir in agreeing to pay so liberally the colored soldiersiirliom he bad employed. May 21, 1864, bill appropriating to dif ferent brunches of the Dare) Rrriee, 8106,- 192.987 99. February 17. 1865;bill appropriating to the navy, 321,486,928 95. February 18,1865, bill making appro priations for the support of the army, $554,579.g27 70. These five money _bills amounted to (31,427,822,881 30)one billion four hun dred and twenty-seven millions eight hnn dred s•nd twenty-two thousand eight hun dred end eighty-one dollars and thirty cent& Mr. Buckaleto advocated and voted for the whole five. See report, of senate proceedings published in the Congression al Globe ender the -dates specified in the NI& BOUNTIES AND.INCREASED PAY TO .SOL WERE. December 22d, 1803, bill appropriating $20,000,000 for the payment of bounties to soldiers. This was advocated and I'o. tell by 4ifr. Burkakw. During the dis cussion of the bill, an amendment was offered by a republican senator, reducing the bounty from $6OO to 8100. Mr. Buckalew voted against the amendment. Pending further discussion on the 22d of April, 1864; an amendment was offered by Mr. Hendricks. of Indiana, increasing the pay of soldiers 50 per cent. This did not pass, though Mr. Buckalew voted for it. March 16, 1864, another amendment was offered and adopted, which increased the pay of sopdiers from $l3 to $l6 per month. Mn, Bt. - mut-1m 'VOTED FOR TI116; May 17th, 1861, still another am endment was offered to pay the soldiers in gold; and though' it was rejected, ill.. Ituckatew voted for it. What wore could he have done to befriend the soldiers? First lie roles for $20,000- 000 to pay bounties; then against redu einff the bounty from $3OO to $lOO ; then to increase the pay of private soldiers front $l3 to $l6 per month, and to pay non commissioned officers $3l per month, and _finally to pay the soldiers in sold. The difference between the tax-paying, self sacrificing patriot, and the army contrac tors, who fattened upon their hard bar gains with, and stealings from the gov ernment, was that he put money in the pockets of the soldiers, and they pnt it in their own. See senate proceedings in the Cowes sionBl Globe, under the dates of the il - of the aforesaid bill, and its several amendments. PAY OF COLORED TROOPS. Before Mr. Buckalew's election to the senate au net passed that body, July 17, 1862, flung the pay of colored troops at $lO per month, the pay of. white soldiers being at that time 613 per month. That . law remained in force until 1864. On the 22d of April, 1862, Mr. Wilson, of Massa chusetts, offered an amendment to the army bill relating to certain regiments of colored troops, against which Mr. Buck alew voted for excellent reasons. First, the amendment proposed to increase the pay of white soldiers. only from -the dale of the p a.s.age of the bill, but to au thorize the inc rased pay to colored sol diers from the; beginning of the year, thus making what he regarded as an un just discrimination. Secondly, it allow ed a compensation to New England agents who went south to procure the enlist ment of colored troops to fill the quo tas of the New England states. Be thought it was conceding quite enough to those enterprising agents to permit them to stay at home and make money by puttiug colored soldiers into the army, without paxin2; thema . commissioner o" the fighting they were to du by proxy. 'Thirdly, it provided fur increased pay to four colored regiments (two from Massa chusetts anu two from South Carolina) and left those colored troops who had been equally faithful to their _colors, though a shorter lime in the service, without increase. These reasons should have been conclusive against the amend ment, yet it passed, AND Ma. BUCKeLEW VOTED FOR TRE BHA, OF WRICTI IT HAD BECOME .t RI, RATA Ell THAN GIVE HIS VoICI AG IINST ANY MEASURE FOIL TILE COMPLNNATION OP COLOILED NEN IN TILE A ST.A NDER NAILED It will be remembered that in 18C4 there was a so called peace conference at Nia,gra Falls. It is charged. against Mr. Backelew that he participated in its pro ceedings, and hereby proved his readi ness to entertain proposals- frMn rebel emissaries that were derogatory to the honor and welfare%f his country. This charge is purely a lie. The real truth is that lie went to Niagra in the, perfor mance of a duty agprectil upon him by the Senate of the Llftted Statics. On the 21 of July, 1854, a resolution introduced by Mr. Ramsey, of Minnesota, passed the senate, which instructed the committee on Indiana afihirs to inquire into the Indian administration of the imperial aftd colonial authorities in the British North America possessions . , Mr. Harlan, of lowa, Mr. Doolittle, of Wisccinsin, and Mr. Bcknalaw, of j Pen nsylvania, being I members of the Indian committee,. were appointed a sub committee to perform this special ditty during the recess of congress. For this purpose solely Mr. Bnekalew went to Niagara, Mrs. Bucka lew accompan y ing her husband. While waiting there to be joined by the other two members of the committee, Mr. Holcombe, one of the volunteer rebel peace commission, casually met Mr. and Mrs. Buckalew in the public reception room of the hotel and conversed with them about ten minutes. The only al lusion to national affairs during this brief interview was a remark of Mr. Holcombe to the effect that Mr Lincoln would have difficulty in raising the five hUndred thousanil -troops for which a call had just been issued, to which Mr. Buckalew re plied "THE Tnoors war. BE • nAmn." Mr. Buckalew was at Niagara in the dis charge-of u high official duty. The only confederate he met, or spoke to or had any iiitercuurse with, during the war, was Mr. Holcombe,-aud the single remark he made to hum became the lips of a patriot and 'was calealiged to discourage the lea den of the rebellion. A N'EIT PliAjallAMME. 31r. Bnckalew, should ho ho elected gov ernor of Pennsylvania, is firmly resolved so to erert the influence of his great of fice as to eradicate the enormousevil of special,kgislation.; prevent fraud in the conducting of primary, local and general elections.; encourage the selection of capable and honest men. for the, legisla time; induce economy and fidelity in the state administration • and place the sink ing fund in hands th at can be trusted by the people. ilis own- words best- define the saint:47y reforms that would be inaug- '"What do we desire to accomplish in our state? . Why, for one thing we want the elecixon.of state treasurer taken .out of the legislature.'' . -,•_ 'Then w expect to obtain in the- gov ernmeut'of our state, great.eldutto and. . . . . .. . „ . .. . ' • . . ...... 11l . . t • • . L. 1 ibe ,—, . 4 i. . . .... .._ ~_ ~- :. . , ‘ . ..,... .. „ . a. . . . .. - .. -.. . . ... <3 ) .-... /ddilleP . • ........ , . _.. ... necessary reforms with regard to the trans action of business by the legislature. We expect to have cut off from the legisla ture a large amount of jurisdiction which the two houses have abused, and which has been productive of evil in the state, and of scandal and reproach. Large masses of' private legislation and large brunches of jurisdiction with reference to bills must be cut off hereafter from the action .of the ,legislative department of our government. Yon, can obtain this by two means. First and mainly, by the action of the • constitutional conven tion which is to meet in November; but we will secure it also to a great extent by electing proper men to the legislature, and by electing some man with proper views upon the subject to fill the execu tive office. But there is a greater ques tion than all these—the great question of electoral reform. Both your primary . and your legal elections are perverted. They are not as they ought • to be, free and open encounters between opposing opin ions." "Well, we can reach that evil. With good men in the legislature, who are not subject to rings, anda man in the execu tive (Alice who will recommend to the le gislature the reforms necessary to purge the ballot, it is possible' to overthrow fraud and to secure honest and fair elec tions generally throughout the common, wealth. ' THE STATE'S GUAR/INTEL This rests upon the universally admit ted capacity, and the universally re ceived character of the candidate. M. lluckalew has distinguished himself as a student, a lawyer, a state legislator, foreign minister, and a United States senator. He is yet in the prime pf EP", and, of his age, there is scarcely a public man in the country who has had equal experience or has displayed equalcapacity, for the management of public affairs. And what is, if possible, still more im portant in the present exigencies of the state, his character, whether personal or official, is alike conceded by his political friends and opponents to be :lbws e,suspie ion. He lies not now, nor has he ever had, "cliques" and "rings" about him. He has throughout his long public life stood alone upon the eolid basis of. his ability and integrity. He has' neither enemies to punish nor friends and depen dents to reward. He received the nomi nation not because he intrigued for it, or even desired it, but because he was believ ed to behest entitled to the honor. If elected be will assume the duties of the office wutramineled and independent; and the result will prove that a governor, either snore capable or faithful to the best interests of tile commonwealth, nev er sat iethe chair. TMLE 1111.11"TELNINIrr romM2I.I;IIL-r," The canvass now in progress in the Keystone state is one without a parallel in the history of Pennsylvania polities. Never before hare we seen, from the days of Thomas, Mifflin to John W. Geary, iii a contest for governor, occurnng every three years, for seveuty•eight 'years, a canvass in which, on one, side, at least, there was so bold a defiance of the mural sentiment of the community. We cannot too often dill the attention to the specta cle there presented, and the contrasts which it offers. The democratic and lib eral party select as their candidate a mm of singularly pure private life and per fectly irreproachable public character. " I am content," said Mr. Buekalew the other day in Schuylkill county, that my public life may be examined, and that upon the. result of this examination the decision of the people shall be made. I- am content that the record of my services in the leg- . islature of my own state formerely in a position under the United States abroad, in the senate, and recently in the legisla ture again, shall be thoroughly and ei haustively examined."' This is the 'lan- . gauge of: a perfectly honest man. It is a challenge. which no one dare accept. Such, then, are the character, the position, and the bold defiance to . his enemies, of the democratic candidate. And what is said'and done on the otherside ? ft would be idle to pretend that the republican par ty in Pennsylvania has not in its ranks many such pf intelligence and unblem ished character, whom it might have been justly proud to select us its Candidate ut a' crisis like this, wheel personal merits are so sure to be scrutinized. We concede this freely, and conceding it, we pause in mere amazement at the actuality which had comet° pass. Left to itself, Pennsyl vania reptiblicauisni would ,gladty have made another nomination than the one it has done.' But it was not loft to itself. There is, and has been for years .in this great commonwealth a huge financial, ring, which, with brief moments of dis turbance, has ruled it absolutely. Its centre is Harrisburg ; or rather, to 'be perfectly accurate, Dauphin county. The magician whose spell guards it, is Simon Carneron-4..and thence.radifite those evil influences which have penetrated every corner of the community,'. and more, or less controlled public opinion, Within the last three years this power has. been intensified, • There has been. no. scruple in the exercise of its agencies, and, as private cupidity and official delinquiney have mingled largely and , closely with political action, a state of things has ar isen, when to surrender power means not more prostration -of political ambition, but actual personal ruin. Jf. ; the :Harris burg secrets of the last three, years were to be wade Inown in all, their hideous ness, even to. honest *publicans, a cat astrophe,wauld come to pass. Hence, one of the guilty agents has to be nomi-* Rat...A. If these !secrets were to be „re ! vealed to political antagonists, who can have no object in concealment tion, thern, would_ be , more than expos ure.. There: would be. strict responsibility andliharir penalty. Hence their_ guilty agent thus . noininated mast at any - cost oo elected.! This is.the philosophy=--this the solution of thellartrauft nomination. Ltd% with Out exception, and so. felt to. be . within and 'without the state; great est entragei,on public - opinion' that:ever • was. attempted. It'ivas.well said the!cither Ally by a New - York paper; that Nwhile,it would be utterly impossible for so , con fessedis wrougdotr,usilartratift , any - chttuco to . be nominated aa .governorof New Fork; yet if he were to be, there would be a revolt •against. him among men of all parties from one end •of the state to the other." . It is neither expedient nor Possible 'for . us to give in anything like detail the cvi deuce on which this grave inculpation rests. Summarizing it ; its mildest name t would be persistent malversation in office( —a combination bet Ween disbursing and j accounting:of:leers whom the theory of! the meant tolceep .almost I onism; the deposit id: , the public moneys with secret and irresponsiblelageneies,aud 'their employment in, the wildest .stock speculations depreciating . the state securities iii - e'ider that these officials and their brokers might buy cheap, and then sell at an advance to the sinking fund, the pocketing the difference ;. the actual robbery of the treasury of the city 01, Philadelphia Ville agdnt of these alai als, or at their instignation. , Their detep thin, conviction and punishment. The astounding exhibition, indeed, is noks made of a man nominated as governar, whose partner and confidtnlal agent Es serving out a term of service in the pent tary f There is no exaggeration, no over- statement, in all this. It is confessed truth. Honest repub!icnn paper, as we have shown, and republican politicians, assert it with as much emphasis as.demo erats; and yet, with all this, the party is called on to support it, and it was to aid, or to procureind in electing it that Sena, tor Cameaon and his congenial follow ers recently came to Washington; for, without the aid of the president, they. know their discreditable candidates have no earthly chance. Washington Patriot. Mora of Ilartranft's Frauds ! The Ihiladelphis Bulletin the Ring Organ, Belo.; oes to l'izbliah Thom. Deacieney of Tonnage Tax Daring Hatt:anti:a brat Year 827,244 18. • Millions of Dollars Duo the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania °mingle Hartranft's larapatity, Philadelphia, August 30, 1872 To Out Editor , of 11th Press 'The following communication was thieday handed lo the editor of the Bul leiiit for publication. As it has failed to appear, the inference is'thut the Bulletin editor acknowledges' the faithfulness or my statement us being so ap r iarent us:to make it unwholesome reading for his vat rons. If you can find room for it in the Press, you will. obligo Yours truly, &nix AV. Pi:Amu. Philadelphia, August 29, 1872. 'To the Editor of the Evening Bulletin— In your issue.of to-day you criticize the 'remarks of a . "speaker at a Buck:dew state ttl it " repeated the stalclalsebood which, declares that ,General Ilartrauft has .been in a ernspiracy with certain railroad companies, by which the latter have been excused from paying a portion of their tonnage tus of the State.' As it was I who made the speech, and as it was NMI wile - asserted that I repeated a falsebotd . in rekrence to Auditor Gen end Hart ranft's manner 'of permittinz. the payments of tonnage tax by the Del aware and Iltalson Railroad Company to be made td the State, and as I did not re peat a. falsehood, I refer you to give me space in your paper to present Your read ers the facts in the case, so that they may determine whether I spoke a falsehood ur You were mistaken in ,assuming I did.. I did say. "If yon will give me u motaen t's attn. Don I will show you how - General Hart ranft, as Auditor General, has permitted 'the great corporations of the State to es cape the pavment hr taxes imposed. by acts °Utile Le,gulature. I will cite a sin: gle case, that of the Delaware aridllud son Railroad. You must .bear in mind that General .Elartranft. was elected iu 1665, and took his seat in May, 1866, and that he succeeded that honest, inner:lo - and good, man, Isaac Slenker. The last return of this railroad company made. to :gr. Slenker was iu.the winter, of 1866 betbre he, retired from eke, and from these several items of taxation on capital stocks, tonnage; gross, receipts, loatis,&c., ,I take that of tonnage; that account for the year 1865 stands thus: . Tax on tonnage, 2 cents pei ton Number of tons carried,tlo.olo. Amount of Mx due, $16,300 20 Amount of Mx raid. Leaving nn apparent difficulty of ' $70 , 1 25 But, the coal thelezrried for Their own Use wag .exempt, from taxa t inn;i9 thus necoun ted for No* 'for the Irst year - of Bartratt as Auditor „ Generul-=". • Ton coal tonnage of .180 W 93 l i 24, 007 tong, itt 2 cents per ton, $30,400 14 Other freights carrietl,l23,l44 tons at • ' 8 cents per ton, , , _8,684 Pa Total tonnage tax. due, -- $34,184 46 Amount of tax paid for 18GG on ton- ormi os nage, • Delicacy during illartrantra . first year • • ' tat 7,214 4S Thu second year they pelt tonnage.tax whaterm The third Year they paid, Tho fourth year, Tho filth year, Tho aictti year . RAMO 00 "Your will notice that this company knew their man from .the start, but by the time, hi had been in - office a year they were so - well acquainted with him that they conlei rub the 'Commonwealth with impunity. .t Disetipanciee its great exist in regard . to tavola loans and' capi tal stock, mid, when the- Judiciary Cunt mittee reported, as they did at their: last session; that millions of dollars were' 44) the Commonwealth, owing:to the pacity of John F. Hartranft, they ,etatepr only the truth.. The three companies en highly favored by (len. Hartrantt pa are the Delaware and Hudson; and the Northern Central:'- My 'only- wonder is that the Philadelphia and - Reading, the- Lehigh. Yalleyoind Pennsylvania Railroad - Com panies tamely.tolerate partialby pre judicial. to their interests. find this is the gentleman who—to - es cape the charge'of Corruption merit plead guilty to-incompetency so gross Jas LAI make it..criminansks your votes- and influence to elect him Esccuthe of the Conuilonwealtb, where on a= breathe scale; he - t ari exercise Guth in comp etency and corruption: 'T/io Paiment :of "tf 4 .o-19 es tax on tonnage autiDgVAltradeli sitth VOLIIiE X31. 1 1X, NIDIBEI :40:- . year, as against nothing the. year ;before, — and 5 two years previous, was undotibt, edly a movement on, his .part looking .to putting his house in order for hia'sneoi sot'. William Hartley." - .Certainly it looks as if John P. Hatt ranft had entered into a. "conspiracy"-r. this word is yours, not mine, and under the circumstances the pablio will doubt—. I,r‘vs excuse you not me, for using a - ward that so aptly,'.applies. The ststemeatialis not made until after John ' Y. and - his friend in of and Robert. W. Mackey.'State Treasurer, bad verified,. it, the latter• in writing addresses to me; therefore, if an "irresponsible' orator at - a word meeting" made a statement that_ to you is "without valne;" it may appear iu a different light 'now:that yo'u know', it was first made by the same John-J. Hart.' ranft, that yen alone Of Ali the riewspa- ' pers in this city have the courage to 'ad vocate for the Governorship of the Coni-; monwealth. In conclusion, the responsibility now being shifted from an 'irresponsible ore. tor" to a responsible State official by the name of John F. Ilartranft ? I respectfully submit. "What are you going to do about it?" 30112 , 1 W. Fnezilm. The Carmichael Correspondence. Governor Seymour, in a speech at Onei da, the other d'ay, gave the Bingliamten . Il publican's "mare's nest" about a *- gam between Seymour and Greeley, in regard to the presidency, a most grace ful kick. He said: I cannot, surely, be acceSed of . any 'per. ' sonal interconrso with Mr. Greeley, nor do I expect to have. I can. Only stand up and urge yon to vote for . him tia.,bn ing a man who would subserio the led interests of his country by laying aido all perional pride, and who would unite the people of the land. - [Applause.] 'I know that some have charged that a an early day his nanie,was suggested by, my self. Ido not know the-men who'-start-- ea this story. - I only know that , they do not seem to stad upon the strength -of their own' ward. but qualify them with ‘ s affidavits, which • a virtual . -- admission that their Words ould not have been be-' tiered without them. Unfortunately they • were so foolish as to undertake to lead Mr. Greeley's writin".„ iLaugter.]: They made him say that lie was m favor. of pensioning the rebel soldiers, but upon a more careful-reading theylound that Mr. Greeley had written ' that in -1868 Mr. Chase ought to have been .nominated in stead of myself. This is as near as , they came to the truth in other charges. Mon trose : Republican will pleaso copy. 'Without a Newspaperi . Nothing presents a sadder . . comnien, tarY . upon' Inc pre efzt unlieerlktrrCoAdilion of our loved and once prosperous count try than the large number. of familiesi both in town and country, but more .es pecially in the latter, that subscribe to no paper of.niy kind. Hundreds ;rid thou sa ais of families are thus ° nro*ing up'in fatxer ignorance of what istranspiririg in the world around them, and' ignorant of the mighty events of the Btit..whO can tell the vast amount of injury being inflicted upon the rising generation* —those who' re to take oui places iti - lite busy world: at no. distant' day—growing up, without tiny knowledge of 010,W:sent or any study of the past, this tiporance. too, being imbued into them by the tic• tion of those who should- and doubtless do know better, did they only think of tho injurcius effects of. thetrinstinecoUrse. L t the head"Cif every .family , "think of t iis; and place in the hands' of those for whom I.e is responsible the mearis:of'ad.; (Firing come knowledge of the-moving panorama in which we' enact- our - differ-, .ent l arta. . . Forney .writi ng _ from o.naha, Nebraska, says: "The sympathies of the Republican party of the Pacific coast - and of the whole West are with the independent Republicans of our State- their ' war against a power that has done so much to degnide us. have , met thousands since I left home who, gave. me cordial greeting greeting for the course of the Press and wuo honor the motives that prompt so . large aportion of their. brethren Lin our State in trying to throw off a burden that will crush us to the earth unless it .is thrown off. 15,625 25 Therefore, comrades and friends, be of good cheer, and 'do not pause; in your well-doing. , I know bow you feel as you rand the caluinnies poured out your the. lads. of those who reflect your senti ments. It is' indeed a pitiable spectacle to, see Republicans proscribed for dischar ging imperative yet painful duty. Thu opologieti for the Ring-have no such de- Enneuttions for. the opponents of Gratl— theli wrath is reserved for the men ho having no favors to ask from power,' l hnd who, after vainly imploringcorrupt' lett dere to give us candidates we could sup port, appeal to the people to help them to get rid of au incubus that is loading Pennsylvania with debt and covering tt with Annie. -Party annals have no para llel to the hate and, vengeance, with which these independent .Republieans .aro fol lowed. - - $722 10 05 00 0,000 00' - —lt is stated on good nithority that the lion. S. B. Conover,. State Treasurer of Florida, and a member of the Repub. limn State Executive Committee, will do. dare for Greeley and Brown in a few —The G rant papers have been_ parad ing the =trio B. Plirks,:o; Illinois, as one of great Democratic converts to Grant. A diligent -searth has been mede in Illinois; and no Imola man can bo found. . • —James IL Curry, for twelve yearn Chairman or the Republican town com mittee; of Yorkland, Westchester county, New York;has written a letter resig,ning that position and declaring for Greeley. --lit Natie, the home of Jermiah bath Wilson, there aro one hundred Be. publics& isini will vote 'fur Greeley. and
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