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MONDAY, AUGITSTM. 1868
PITTSBURGH: - GAZETTE 'FOB THE
CAMPOGN, ! •
I Theg.Presidential fight' hiking now fairly
i- began., and the newspaper
,press being °nap!
I,the best weapons :for 'e f fectual warfare, we
3 propose - to fumish the GAZETTE for the .
Campaign at
_thevery -tow rate of 40 .oent a .
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1 .P copy for the WEEKLY, and 32 far tke:
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~ DAIL a 7; fro= now to the close of the Presi 7 ::
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1 dential election.. • ' '
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The GAZETTE Ras been an earnest, COl4.
aistent - and ;efficient advocate of Republiecni
isrinciples, from the start, and it is therefere
all the better quaiified to present Republican
avant/reds now, in this decisive ecmteet, which
must settle conclusively whether the nation
shalt go back to the oid domincdionof slavery,
and the slave power, or go forward to UteLjuti
fruition of the restate accomplished by 'tke
war.
The <)t , ::1 Southern politicians, galvanized
into new life by.,the Democratic nominations
at New York unheiitstingly avow that all
-- the Confedertzey fought for is to be gaixed
in the election of Seymour and bletir, and
that .seeeanott is not dead, but is to 6e fully
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and finally trtuniphant in the success of the
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Demoeratte candulate&
it has also been plainly given out, by the
Democratic caiididate frit nee, liesident„
that the Democracy, i I
,successfulthis It 21„.
intend to overturn by force the .sYr:de Govern
'inents .Ttcsbi l ished . by the people of the South,
thus giving notice in advance of another war,
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and the Derweratic Convention, in lumina:
Ling him for the Vice 1 3 residei4, gave the
emphatic endorsein ent of the party to ale in
• eendiary and revo/Utionary
Shall what the Confederacy fought for, and
failed to attain, be now attained through
Seymour's success? Shall secession; over
turned and defeated in the field, be allowed to
triumph at the polls? Mail the Democracy,
xnder the lead of Seymour and Blair, tie
permitted to inaugurate a new Bebeition f •
If tug, it behoones the Pepublieaneof West
ern Penney/Minict to labor with an .eases.:
mess and zeal befitting the perils of the ho u r;
and l one of the surest ways Of meeting the en-
CM
*my successfully ie to circulate /i'epulqican
apers freely, gn pact them into the hands of
all who are Milling to read'them.
To their end we ojfer. the GAZETTE at a
very . /ow rate far the campaign. = There l are
ME
very few men who cannot afford 'to give forty
yenta eo aid the geiod cause by eirCUZCaing a
Rood Republican paper.
Try it, frieintla, try it for your nebyhbore.
There is seareely c! neighborhood in the
,coun
.
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try fit, which from ten to twenty more weekly
papers cannot be distributed to advantage;
and a few thousand q weektypapere read ea.re-
fully from Twit , Co .the election tall do inoie
good than lens of thousand' of Congreisioned
veeche&
Meadquarters Republican County CoM.
City Hall, Market Street. Open
every day. County Committee meets every
Wednesday, at 2 •
WE PRIRT an - the inside pages of this
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:morning'sGAEETTE--;Seeond page. Does
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Irnateledge Cause Crime, by .Pereeval Beck
ett. .17&irdand Sizth pages : Gainenereial
and River 'News. Seventh page :
Teeth,' ilarbarous Operation, A Hint to
Cities, Bize of the Stars, - General Butter's
Alleged "Rztortiori," Rebel Slander Refuted,
Pe*:, 6" - c., to.
GOLD closed Saturdays-in New York at
144;@145a.
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IT gyres been decided that no election shall.
be held in Virginia until after the next meet
ing of Congress. It seems that additional
legislation will be required...
THE Steubenvilie Hercad states that "ate
German Demoerats of Ohio are abandoning
that party by thousands" and enrolling'
among the friends of Gge.HT and peace.''-'.
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Oun .Ikinister to , England, Hon. BEVER
int Jommozr, sailed from Baltimore on Sat
urday. The widow of the 'late President
_Ln - cols is a passenger:on the saino veeseL
, THE building for the new Insane Asylum
at Danville, Pa., ;is to be eleven hundred
,and thirty-three .feet in length, and, the
wings will have a frontage of nearly htm;
dred feet more. . • -
NEBRASKA will cast her-virgin vote as
State in November. The campaign for
GRANT and CoLvix has been auspiciously
opened and an overwhelming kriumpki will
certainly folloiiv. .
THE speech of Senator Mu, of Georgia,
for GRANT and Coiatsx, at Atlanta, on the
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31st, is followed y his declaration that he
will at once take the stump for the`Union
ticket and nominees.
Ti mHorn HENRY C. JO/11410N, of Mead.
- ville, has fi4ally been made the Republican
candidate for Congress in the ,Tvientieth
ci t
District. Leis a gentleman of high soCial
repute, ala yer of distinction, and a `.tried'
and consist nt &publican. He served in
the Legislature with decided success, end
lug as Speaker of that body.
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IT is understood that, hi flew of the de
sire of the present COMMissioner of Inter
nal Reqnue to retirekts soon as a suitable
successor shall be de.:signated for the place,
the President tendered it, first, to Ex-Gov-
Co; who declinm and, 4 subsequently, to
Ron. C. Ditta.ve, t of9hio, who has it under
advisement. '
Tim Democracy of the West are heartily
dissatisfied with the candilAtes put forward
,ftir their suffrages by the New York Con
.vention., SEYMOUR is looked upon as an
artfuktriokster, while Bt is regarded as a
revolt:llia:list. Neither name evokes any
enthusiasm, and the Republicans with their
noble standard-bearers have matters pretty
much all their own way. t
Sarin
To9Kus, at the rebel Brain ratifi
cation meeting in Atlanta: "The Recon
-structiou acts are null and void, and shall
not stand. * , The grinning skeletOns
*hick have been set,•up in our midst as leg
islators ithall be owed by Frank Blair, whom
OM PARTY 11AS EXPRESSLY APPOINTED FOR
THAT PURPOSE." Let no honest Democrat
declare.that he has not had fair notice of the
real designs of his leaders. .
THE RECEIVER of the Atlantic and Great
Western \Railway reports a reduction of
working expenses from 73,9 to• 61.8 per
tent.; receipts for last year, $6,769,673, and
disbursements $6,690,950; and recom
mends the adoption of a' narrow
gnage on account of economy, or at least
the putting down of a third rail so as to al
low a.narrow equipment to be used until •
the broad Shall be worn out.
Kw:Tacky holds her State elections to
day. BAKER (Rep.) and STEVENSON,
(Dem.) are •the respective candidates .for
Governor. The minor State i'Mficetrare also
to be tilled, but no Representatives 14. Con
gress are to be chosen until next year. The
rebels have full control in Kentucky, as was
shown by her last vote: This was Demo
cratic 90,225; Republican 83,939: Third party,
13,167: But the friends of GRANT , and
COr.raz will , poll evetty vote they have, no
matter against what discouraging odds.
Mil
Tan Literary Societies of Lafayette Col
lege, at Easton, Pa., were addressed, last
week, by Hox..G. A. Gaow, who had been
designated as the orator of,the occasion.
The leadtng idea- which the speaker elo
quently elaborateA was that the stability of
a nation depended upon the recognition of
the righti of all classes ofher people. Rome
fell not through her' extent of territofr or
vast population—but because she did injus
tice to the people she enslaved. The oration
Was_regarded as the most btilliant effort of
the COmmencement exercises.
Timm are . very significant indications at
Waship' gton, that not only is the president
indisposed to promote the election of ,Ev -
moms and 13tItin, but that lie desires toCon
ciliate the regard of the friends of Gen.
Gn eVel4 if need be, by openly espous
ing the - RePublican nominations. Mr.
13F.wean alsiiis likely to anticipate him, by
an open declaration in this direction at an
early day. 'NP.e hear, from all quarters, of
gentlemen. ¶ho - Ittached themselves two
Tqlitrs since to the interests of Mr. Jormsow,
who now announce their adhesion to the
Chimp platform and ticket.
.IN% an -admirable impromptu speech-. by
`Hon- SCircritint COLFAX, subsequent to his
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great.. reeeptiort speech at Bondi Bend to
thOtisands of hid const ituents'. who met
to .
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- ;; welcome..lum. home, he uttered these
Words, - which ought to be written ,on the
banners brae dlmpaign : UoyeraiSAALL
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IgOVIERN,PiIriIT LOYALTY NAB PRREIRRYRD."
The, whole 'sentence readi-tbus:
• *•lll,ati their hours of disaster and eloom, when
inen's Acute .fitinted by _the - way,' there was one
Party, every maw of which around our balmier,
and never despatted of *tic American Republic; and
there is one organisation . that, since the armies of
'thit.rebetiton were crushed: has demanded, and in-.
tends to stand by that deinmid." God being our
iper,-. to the end that loyalty shall goyertt what
loyaltylas preserved,7 „ • .
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THZSABLIGATIONS of their. parole are not
wholly ignoiedl by some` of the officers of
thelateConfederate army; Gene. Cawer
!r.4tritir and 8., 4 101um0n. have
forward, in their State of .Tennessee, to op.
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pose the K.• K. K. threats of violent resistance
to the laws, and on Saturday 'no less than
thirteen.of these pr -rebel Genirals met at
Nashville; to Condert with theloyal authori
ties the proper measures for the preserva
tion•
of the peace. One of them,-Gnmeernett,
said that "he kept the par Ole which he gave
when he surrendered, always about his trei
son, and felt that he was honor-bound to
yield quiet and; honest obedience to the
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Dunmn the stay of the Rocky Mountain
editorial' excursion party at Omaha, the.pro
prietor of the Re4ublican newspaper surren
dered the sanctum to the guests of the city,
and gave them full control over his columns.
The Democratic editor's took advantage of
the generous tender, to print villainous and
abusive aiticles op Gnm.vr, COLFAX and the
;Chicago platforni. This deParture from
goodiaste might have been overlooked, had
not the Omaha herald, a copperhead.sheet
of the worst s character', republished the arti
cles next day, crediting them to the Repub
ileivi,:withoui a Angle word, of explanation.
Such small and disg,racefulpnrfonnanCe l on
the part 'of the ;opposition plainly show how.
'sadly. thiki are in•need of political food f9r
Capital „ ' .
AmoNG the reports, which come throng
ing ipen ms I fi.om all sections of , the
Union; Demoirats 'whose
patriotism' impeli them to the suppoit of
GRA4iT and CoLvex, Nyo ,lutY9 one from
California P. a 0P 3 1 ,1 5 Esq., a metaber,
of the bemodratie Central Committee, pub: -
lisheda card on the 13th ult., advising his'
tormer associates I.bat he is no longer with
them. Resigninglis phtee upon the ,Com
ntittee, givesi • expresslon . to, a. patriot
isM as sterling as the purest ore - ever found in
the hilliof the Golden State. Fer exaMple:
”kl7.ltidgment-neblier 'approves the platform of
principles put forth bythe blew York Lottrcutten,
nordoes my sense °I.-duty to the, country Justify me
in aiding to advance Jioratlo a eytnuur to the office
of President of the bolted diatom. In reincutherlue '
that Lam eMOCriit, canno t for g et lona It Igber
allegiance t, the Altterica ct li b i gn , b b e i n d b e
1211411
glad to I ILD ,
4,1110 l Mlle Deny, count I be
lieve that Id doing 80. i am nut trterltlct ng those ,
prinelpies of patriotism that arc higher bud huller
than any sentiment or mete patty &atty.+ , •
PITTSBU RGN GAZETTE ; MONDAY, AUGUST '3: 1868.
THE , YRIMARI " MEETINGS.
On Satlirday week, the 11;th of August,
the &publicans of. Pittsburgh hold their
primary meetings for the nomination of a
city ticket. It is proper to remind our
friends that these nominations are to •be
made directly by the voters at these meet
ings, withoutany intervention of delegates,
each Republican designating his preference .
by his ballot, and the returns from all the
polls being Canvassed and announced by the
Executive Committee. the candidates hav
ing a majority to constitute a ticket for the
support of the entire party at the regular
election in October.
This is known as the Crawford County
system of nomination, and the great merits
I which have been claimed for it have been
I abundantly established whereverithas been
fairly tried. It is decidedly a simpler, more
direct and .more decisive mode of testing
the wishes of a majority of the Party, ob
viating completely that objection to the old
plan which rested upon the alleged Corrup
tion, or falthlessness,of delegates in log-roll
ing and,making neW and improper combi
nations in convention, With proper regtr
,
lations to ensure a fair poll, and with such
an interest entertained among Republican;
citizens as will bring out a full vote, there
can be no doubt that the new system would
result in a satisfactory expression of all
'preferences, The duty of providing those
regulations has been entrusted to the Ex
ecutive Committee, and we have yet to
hear of the first man who entertains any
doubt of the wise• and faithful efficiency of
their action in the premises. -
The ,imporbuice of a full vote,,also, can
not be over-estimated. If there be any
virtue in any system which obviates the
mischief resulting from a general
r and dis
organized scramble for office, In the face of
an -organized opposition, at the 'Cctober
polls, by harmonizing and uniting the votes
of an entire patty, in the selection of a ticket
'which, being wrceptable to the majority, is,
for that reator4submitted for the support of
all, the plan now proposed Inuit be conce
ded to be the fairest possible mode of ascer
taining the strength ( of each candidate.
While it submits the question of personal
preference to , a direct vote, it renders the
obligation pt each voter the more conspicu
ous. It becomes, more -than'ever, his per
sonal duty to attend. these primary meetings
and have his preferences there recorded.
NoW that his vote cannot be traded away or
ignored, but each and every ballot is to
count one, and Will have its just weight and
no nlore ; now that the voter, accepting the
need Tor any system of nominations, has
this opportunity given to him to take a di
rect part, himself, in bringing those
nominations aboat, it F is his bounden
duty to attend at the time and place ap
pointed, to use an honest effort to secure
the selection:, of his favorites,. to concede
precisely the same rights and privileges to
the frien+Lof lOPposing candidates, and he
and they, all alike, are honorably bound to
abide by the result and ever after hOld their
peace. Let us therefbrehave a full vote on
the; 16th: Let .every Republican voter in the
city bear in mind his privilege, and the
obligation which results from it. No man
has honorably a title to vote at these meet
ings, who intends
. to bolt the ticket if hie
favorite names be not upon it. No candi
date has any honorable claim upon the. Re
publican suffrages at these meetings, who
intends to withhold his support from a suc
cessful competitor. And no Republican,
who might have attended the meetings, but
has not done so, has honorably the right to
except to a ticket which. by his primary
vote, he aright' have successfully opposed.
We have the fullest confidence in the fair
nesi with . which the primary electiOns will
be conducted.- Now, Republican friende,
whontever your favorites may be, make
your selections beforehand; and; on the 15th,
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go and vote for them. 'Nominate them if
you-can, but if not sum:WI:IL in that, re
member Yon have had a fair chance, and
that the ticket be it What it mai', is fairly
entitled to your
.cordial 'support. In this
way, you can , eniure tho.selection of a
good ticket and that it will have the largest
majority in October.
HOWARD , ' UNIVERSITY.
By the adoption of the Ftiurteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution it Is made certain
the black inhabitants`of ten of the Southern
States, now between time and four millions
in namlier, and rapidly increasing, all pre
tended statistics to the 'contrary notwith
standing, wpl permanently Sconstitute part
and parcel of the political power of the Re-
public. It is, theiefore, a Matterotnational
importance to make provition for the Intel
lectualeducation of this mass of population.
Of course, ignorance and its ct;ncomitants,
passion and prejudice, are as 'endurable in
black voters as in white ones; but the diffi
culty consistsin making depraved and de
graded
. white men. think' so. White men
Who are so untaught and unthinking as to
render their participation impolitical . . affairs
a problem of serious Magnitude as touching
the stability 'of molar institutions," arc
loudest and sharpest in deninciation of 111.,
lowing negroes the ballot. Those naturally;
fail to see that the peril is not in the color of
the skin, but in the 'condition of the under-j,
standing, reason •and conscience. I
These general considerations Lave led to
various plans forth° mental elevation of the
colored people at the. South. Among other
instrumentalities Primary Schools have been
extensively organized inn used. The zeal
evinced by the blacks In the pursuit. of
knowledge, demonstrate that, they know,
this is the secret of their former masters'.
Power, and that if they would ,protect and
maintain their . newly acquired liberties
they must share equity' "with the
whites. In addition to these cognnon
schools, twenty-live Normal: Schools, be several still higher institutions, have
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been established 4 for the blacks in the
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Southern States, and are in successfeoper
ation: , -
The Howard University is designed to be
the chief of the. Seminaries' of• learning for
the colored people of this country. It was
.chartered by, the Thirty-ninth Congress,
113 located at Washington, and was named
M=EI
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tin honor of G \ en. 0. o . , Hwerenp, the Coin
iniiisioner of the Freedmen's Bureau'. The
plat, fifty acres in. extent, is situated upon
the circle of hills surrounding Washington;
and overlooking the city. Here two spa
cious buildings have already been erected;
one for -recitations, lecturea, Offices, chapel,
&c.; the other for dormitories sufficient to
accommodate two hundred students.
For a year past the normal and prepara
tory departments hive been in operation,
under the superintendence of Mr. `A. L.
BARBER, a graduate of Oberlin College,
Ohio. The Medical department will be
opened the approaching autumn; For clin
ical instruction the students will have ac
cess to the Freedmen's General Hospitil:
It is hoped that a freshman class in the Col
legiate depatiment may be organized at the
same time. It is intended-to open theolog
ical and law departments in due season.
Tuition in the Normal and Collegiate &-
partments c Istit three dollars , a term, and
board can be obtain d at three dollars a
week.
So far the success If the enterprise has
f
been excellent But it mains to complete
the endowment ; toe ablish scholarships
and professorships. T this an ap •al
is made to the liberality of the public. .
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A few years ago Mr. THOMAS CARLISLE
advocated a new plan for dealing with of
fenders against the peace and good order cif
aociety, which consisted in taking summary
and relentless vengeance upon them. , His
theory was that the weakest point of modern
civilization lay in criminal jurisprudence,
`which utterly failed t either to protect: the
community or to reform the individuals who
depredated upon it. ' PolloWing this coarse
of reasoning he reached die conclusion that
the best wait to treat a criminal was to cut
his head off as soon after he was caught and
convicted as practicable. That would cer
tainly prevent his doing further mischief;
but the effect of this sanguinary discipline
would be to trarkorm the; civilization of
these times. into doWnright. barbarism In
deed, no nation could he brought to deal
after this manner with criminals 'until all
its truer and nobler Mstincts should be cor
rupted.
Mr. Centisis was right in nil% that all
systems of dealing with 'crime and crimi
nals, nowlin use, entirely fail of producing
a curativeleffect Nay, the tendency of all
these systems is to make the men and
women subjected to them worse instead of
better; to organize offenders into distinct
classes, having no feelings or purposes in
unison with the other portions of society,
and no hope of success but in fresh offence
But to intensify this system - , by suPeradded
elements of retribution, would not reason- -
ably inspire a hope of rendering it more sue
emend. It is not difficult to make an end
of a particular 'criminal by chopping his
head from his body. It is a very different
matter to deter others from like courses by
the exhibition of such severity. Hell is re :
presented in the popular theology as a sort
of penal colony where punishment is grad
"Mtted exactly according to the nature .and
extent of misdeeds. Under such conditions
'punishment ought to do the best it
ble of Yet we do not recollect an instance
in-which the fiery discipline. of that place
ever converted a sinner into a saint The
only evidence of human sympathy left in
that abode relates to a man who had some
solicitude that his brothers should be spared
the horrors he endured.' Not another man
has been chronicled atOuiving any kindness
left in him. But, It *net be remembered
that this colony was not designed to be re
formatory, but strictly penatt,
M. Minx DE °meninx, editor of the
Paris newspaper, La Liberia, has gone off
li the opposite direction from Mr. CARLISLE.
By a powerftil series of articles upon -- the
right of society to punish crimes, and the
beat methods of restraint and 'reformation,
hu. has" produced LC profound sensation
throughout the; continent of Europe.
Instead of sending criminals swiftly to
_their final awards, or even driving them
from all_the infiuences of home, friends and
family, he would try to make those influ
ences stronger. instead- of destroying
within them the sentiment of self-respect,
.and the hope of obtaining the respect of
others, he would endeavor to make those
motives prominent and controlling. To
this end he would frame a complete family
and neighborhood police, - giving each Mini-'
ly and neighborhood' so much authority
over the liberty and lives of its members as
to justify holding these responsible for their
conduct. By registration and pUblicity, and
by being sent to his.own home and people,
find there placed under supervision, he
thinks that nearly allthote who are arrested
for crime, and who becomp enemies to
society, might be saved. In other words,
, he would deal with moral delinquencies as
with other departures frbm the normal con
dition of human beings, treating crime as
a disease to be cured rather than punished.
He would'divest law entirely of all idea s of
dessert and of distributive justice, and put its
dealings with disordered
,members on a
basis analogous to the treatment of diseased
organists:is by. physicians; directing the
whole energies,of the community to the re
storation of universal moral health, and not
to the excision of diseased members. Y .- Not
that lie would of a sudden swing from the
methods In uso to that het suggests; but,
that he wourd approach it' gradually, and
with as much celerity as the circumstances
allow.
In European. countries this plan can.be
tried more faithiblly than in this. There
everybody is under the direct supervision
of the Government. High and low, in town
and country, Government papably over:,
shadows and touches each indivitinal„ Here
Government is (unlined essentially differ
,
ent, making its presence felt only in the
larger concerns of life; andleaving each one
comparatively without restraint in most
other .affairs.
I'Vhateverimay be maintained on either
_side of this queition, it is manifest to care
ful investigators that the criminal` laws of
all the more advanced nations are desthaed
to be thoroughly reconsidered and revised .
, before many years shall elapse. Under these
laws as they now stand, the criminal classes,
shut out .from association and sympathy with
alt other classes, are fully organized for thel
commission of bad deeds, which they have ;
come to regard in some measure as just re
taliations for the miseries they end - greT
There is no probability that any:civilized
'nation will adopt the savagery of Mr. CAE :
LISLE; there is a chance tliat,a modifiiaon
of the' humanitarianism of 3f.r Gth ARDIN
may prevail.
Tits Republicans of the• Northern States
are "rapidly completing their preparations
for the fall elections. Their nominations,
both State and Congressional, are all nearly
filled up, and in each State the preliminaries
of a working organization are receiving at
tention. The Democratic opponent of Mr.
GruswoLD, for Governor of New York, is
notyetselected, CORNING, HOFFMAN; Mun-
PRY and Gunner( being all named as candi
dates for the honor of a defeat. In Michi
gan, the first four Congressional districts
will be canvassed by their present mem.J
bers for re-election. H. P. BALDWIN for
Governor heads a full ticket for the State
°T wee. Nominations have been made in
fife of the six districts of lowa, only one
member, Loom:1111ms,, being a.candidate
for - re-election, the others voluntarily retir
ing from the public service. In ALLISON'S
district, no nomination has been niale, and
the wish is generally expressed, within and
without the State, that this excellent Repre
sentatiie will again serve his constituents.
The Ohio districts are nearly. filled up, the
latest announcement being Judge . STANLEY
Mit'yramws in the Second. district, ,at Cin
cinnati, and his triumphant election will
evince the re-establishment of. the ,normal
and healthy condition of politics in this
district, which prevailed before the develop
ment of a pernicious caries two years since.
In oar own, the Keystone State, the nomi
nations in several of the districts are not
yet made, but we trust that another fort
night will see all preferences reconciled, and
the tickets filled up from the Ohio to theses.
On Saturday we mentioned that the cattle
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plague was prevailing tusuch'extent sa tb
create serious alarm'among the people. As
indicating thebattire and 'extent of 'the evil,
we make the following extracts:
TARINA, ILL. July 18 6 / 1 1.--To Ells Excellency,
Gewernor Ogles by: 1 take the liberty to write to
you to inform you of a dreadful cattle . pleague that
fatalroken out la or t he m
edst., which has proved so ,
as to battle all ffortsto save a sitagle ani
mal. There ha totalne recovered that has been
attacked. Theloss up to this- date is - from
forty to fifty valuable milk cows and fat steers—: A
week have had fifty head otfat, steers in pastare;
now I twenty left, and they continue to die at
rho rate of five or ten per day. It Is rapidly spread
ing over our prairies, and there are but feW cattle
In this neighborhood that are not affected. It has
taken them all from ninny a poor lamlly, and •if we
cannot dlscove.r some remedy, it will surely tweet)
our country of a good deal Ladaluabl •
committee
have been informed that there been a
or scientific men appointed by you to examlnc some
cases or the kind in -Sangamon County: If so, you
will confer great favor upon-us, and we believe
the country. to havethe matter examined. and see
If the dreadful 'ecdurge cannot be' stayed; It Is be
lieved by many to have been brought.here by Texas
stock. that were With ours a month ago. It Is cer
tainty contagion of some kind, and Is Increasing In
violence rapidly. Your obedient servant,
E. EICIIAnDSON.
The : Nei. Albany (Indiana) Commeivial
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says:
"A gentleman Informed to:yesterday that at a nor.
tails point north of, and about one mile from, the
city, the carcasses of over Atty. cows that have - died
of the mysterious cattle plague, have atmosphere
and deposlt&l. and are now filling the
with the most pestilent odors. Every cow that dies
of this disease- should:be buried at, least four fr.et
under ground."
The Chaiiipaign (Indiana) Gazettes.states:
Re'Vegalquittle have died of a disease supposedo
be the Spanish fbver. contracted from dead animals
thrown off the cars by the Illinois Central Railroad
Company two miles north of Champaign. The dead
animals were left unburied for several days, and the
tattle on the adjoining farm were taken with a dim
ease, In eight or nine days. In several instances
dyird In an hour after exhibiting symptoms of dia
-1 ease:" , .
The Sullivan (Ind.) Ilepublicansays - :
- "We learn that a drove of fine cattle, herding
close to Peach Orchard In Lown townshlit, are dying
off at the rate of fifteen per day witiathe Texas fever.
They were shipped from the Soh th in ears that Texas
tattle had been whipped n o n t may- prove destrue
jive to the cattle In our county, and means should
betaken. to stay Its progress."
At Omega and other . Illinois towns the
inhabitants have made forcible resistanceto
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the passage of Southern cattle through to
Chicago. -
Last winter the Legislaturesipf Mississip
pi, _Kamm and 'lllinois passed stringen
laws to prevent this .disease Item spreading
"THERE ARE," Says the' Memphis Post,
"four buidred empty storetOn'. Memphis,
and very few property • holders are getting
more rent than will pay their taxes," yet .
the fire-eating, ' rebel element in that * city
still persists in discouraging the Immigra
tion of Northern enterprise and capital, and ,
in its hostility to all those present residents
who avow Republican opinions, although
,the imminent ruin of all the material inter
eats of the community is thus made a mere
Auestion of 'time. Such are the character
istics of the ‘,‘rtl or ruin" politicians of the
Btarn Democra every here ,':. North or
South. The Post, upon thi3 facts above
cited as a text, presents to its readers the in
evitable results of thisproscriptive policy, in
the plainest and most instructive light. Yet
we have no hope for the restoration of wiser
counsels among the' Southern people, until
they shall'become satisfied of the complete
fallacy of the revolutionary holies which
BLAIR'S nomination hits inspired in them.
And that c..in only hp accomplished by the
election of Gen. GitXriT.
Tun Charleston Courier in its declaration
of what basis it would have the , Southern
Electoral Colleges organized upoi says:
"Congress, by numerous acts and decla
rations, lifts recognized as legitimate all the
State Governments existing in the South at
1 the termination of the war. Therefore,, in
case two sets of electors should presentthem- I
selves from such States, the votes only of those
I should be counted who were chosen tinder the
Government so, formed by tha pebple. The
country should see to it, that the votes'of the
negro .organications should not be received."
Here we have the issue of the" Electoral
College joint resolution 'fairly put. The
work of the last two years must be entirely
ignored.' G t overnments recognized which
have been set aside•as 'invalid, the elective
franchise given to the blacks trust be takeu
from them. This is the undisgeißed issuei
, , ,_. •
.111 . Essits. Fowrzn and Ross, members of
the United States Senate, publish in the
, Congressional Mat, defences of their
change of front on the impeachment ques
tion, each occupying several columns.
They contribute no additional facts to the
stock of information previously before the
public, but they dp what. they' evidently re
gard as much better--abuse Mr. B. F. BUT
LER soundly. That, doubtless, gratifies
their spite, but 470 fail to see bow it relieve . ;
their .reputatiops.
I. A NEW Yong letter of the 30th, to the
1 Philadelphia Ledger says: -"The most in
. teresting political rumor of the day is that
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Mr. Seward, who passed through this city
yesterday, onhis way. to Auburn, gaie his
friends to understand that he was about to
break ground in favor of General Grant. A'
_brief -editorial in one,, of the Republican
morningpapers has a hint to the same effect;
but the Secretary, in conversation on the
subject, 1 am - assured, was much more out
- spoken-thin-the hint would seem JO -_ imPl t r
The Democratic politicians lire not a lii e
perplexed by this movement. They say
that they cannot understand how the Secre
tary can take such a position, and yet occu
py a place in the Cabinet of President John
son. But, in answerto this, the more know
ing ones °lithe 'other side intimate that, if
-they will have the patience awhile longer,
President Johnson himself will be follow
ing the example of his _Secretary of State.
That is how both' sides are talking., Time
must tell which is nearer the tnith.'
"_
:nen what the Cincinnati Enquirer said
of 3L4trit,in 1861 :
`llt was because a set of demagogues, to
subserve their own ambitious purposes,
made the people of the free States believe
that African slavery in the Southern States
was a 'great moral, social and political evil,
and should not be allowed to extend into
new terfitory. This was about the whole
of it. It was the negro, and ambitious dem
agogues* riding on his back into power.
Rather than they- should not do so, the peo
vle. allowed the grandest Government in the
world to be destroyed, and civil war to deso
late the land; and Frank P. Blair was one
of thou demagogues." •
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Ti New York Commercial says : "It is
rumored that two of the most prominent
Major Generals who took part in the. Sol
diers and Sailors' gathering held in this city
during the .Democratic Convention, are
`kicking in the traces,' and _are only held
back by very powerful influences from de
claring for . Grant and Colfax. The gallant
soldiers who led the armies of the Republic.
to victory for the Union do not feel at home•
in the Seymour ranks. • There are other
weak spots in the enemy's lines thatawill
show themselves sooty"
—A general agricultural report of the con
dition of the harvest on the Continent says:
The harvest in the south of France is-ter
minated. The fears which hadgenerally
prevailed have been dissipated .and the re
sult better . than expected. The mops,
which in certain localities weresuppoged to
be in jeopardy, will be abundant. At
Anglers reaping was going on 'everywhere,
and farmers seem to be well satiated. The
yield will be large, although the qualit,
leaves something to be desired. At Monti
ney the sickle is abk) in the corn ' and the
crop will be good. Lettere from Norman
dy give the greatest hopes and at several
points the preduct will be above the aver
age. Similar 'accounts are received front
the East of France. In Hungary the harvest
is advancing rapidly. Great plenty is
united to excellent quality. That country
has still in its granaries wheat oflast year.
Cmps and prima' are eensequently"failing,
Throughout Germany- also there wheatea
abundance of grain. In Belgium le
almost ready everywhere for cutting. The
crop is fine in every respect.
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_General Prim' has disappeared from
London and has probably gone to Lisbon.
where all . he military men of the progre4
stye party who had to leave• Spain, are pro
eeeding. The friende of the Spanish Gov
ernment were betoming alarmed, and a.
state of seige will probably be proclaimed
shortly. The belief was prevalent that the
present Portugese,Ministry is in ; favor of a
revolution in Spain.
IS YOUR DISEASE RHEUMATISM!
• Many , persons, supposing they are suffering from
this disease, haveapplied I:laments, Plasters and
other Rheumatic Remedies without obtaining any
relief, when in fact the cause of pain is a derange..
meat of the If.idneys. These are small organs., but
very important, and any obstruction or interference.
with its functions are indicated by Vain in the bank
and loins, languor and weaknest, difficulty in avoid
ing and 'unnatural color of the urine. A Dia.retie
should t once be resorted to.
Dn. iwiismarra
Litiretio or Back Oho PUis
Can be rellefl on for these purposes: they bare
si
direct influence on the cells of the 15Idneya, assists
nature In relieving them or any foreign partlcles m .
anciatizeulates them to a healthy 'and vigoroas
ac lion I .
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Dr. Sargent's Backache lls
Contain nothing. inittrious,•belng .eompoeed of en
itirely vegetable remedies; they.do not sicken nor
ripe—on'the contrary they act as a gentle tonic and •
restores tone to the system. They are reconuninded
by all'who who have tried them. -
Psleo 50 Vents Pei 844.
POSBALE IifDRI334aLSTS. Sole Proprietor,
GEORGE A. KELLY,. Whoesale Druggist,,
37 WOOD STREET, PITTSBURGH., . ,
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SWINGING 'ROUND, T E CIIRCIL.
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There are fifty ways of iillevLst n g the agonies of.
dyspepsia for, the..moment t but here is only one
wayto ceps lt. After "sviinglniround the circle"
Of temporary palliatives the patient rinds that the
disease, so far from being subdued, has actually
gathered strength, while he has been parleying with
its symptoms...,
The, only way to get rid of the demon is to endow
the stomach with sufliclent strengh to- edit it out
and keep ft out. Impart permanent energy to the
digestive_ organs with HOSTETTER'S STOMACH
BITTERA, and the object is accomplished. This
powerful vegetable remedy Is not a mere stimulant.
It does not brace up the gaitric machinery for
hour or two, leaving it, when the temporary
,ex
citement has passed oft', in a worse state than be
fore. Such is the effect of the ordinary alcoholic
nostruins. They keep the htemach-in a perpetual,
See-saw between unnatural activity 'and utter relax
ation. Not st. the BITTERS.: Medicated with the
finest tonic, itheratlve and anti...bilious extracts,
they permanently reinforce and continuously regu
late the a.ssimliating organs. debi l ita ti ngh xperience
of tenet of thousands. At thi season of
the yea weakenede solv nciple or the gastric
Jake Is by-a c un, t ant drain the animal
fields through the pores, HOS ' E fTER'S 5T0.31-
ACH BITTERS is au article ofpritne necessity for
the weal.. To neglect the use of P a tonic and altera
tive, so wonderfully efficacious-and entirely harm
less. Is slmpll to fares* the blessing of health and
vigor, and voluntarily accept feebleness and - dis
comfort in their stead. ' .
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CURE OF FISTULA.
Da. ICZYSfin I write to thank you for your kind.
UM and scientific management, of my disease,. tbr
which I called to consult you sometime in. January
last. rOtt will remember that I had a compliant=
of diseases, which finally ended In a terribha
winch I had been advised to "let alone," on a o.
,oount of a boatswain: cough, which it Was feared*
might fasten It on my lungs. , I knew that the yam
bar m ode of treating diseases Ilkoonine - was by
cutting operation, filcoesslnl at all, would ,
naturally throw the disease upon the lungs or some
other vital organ, on account of the iuddinness or
the cure and the Immediate' check to the discharge,
which I believed was a salutary provielon of nature
to get rid of sonie morbid condition of the system..
I feel jperfectly satisfied that your; method of treat•
mlt, purifying the system, and leoal applications
to the thittilous, Inn. must cure, if anything' could*
without cutting, which I find It dld,'ind I am happy
to report myself well in - every' ` particular, Mtb,
sounder and better health than 1 have bad for Years,
I would also add that the aPplleations you made,
were almost painless, and have left inc anew man,
with all the energiec' and Thor of restored health:
- Yours, gratefully. I—
DR. RICIVER'd CONSI7LTAIrION-ROOIIB4FOR
DEMONIC DISRASEB, No. 120 PENN BTRISST,
from' 0 a. DI. UNTIL'3 r. s.
'June 17th, 1868,