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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, ISt S.
National Union Il l eimblican Ticket:
NATIONAL. '
President--TTLYSSFiS S. GRANT.
I rice_President—SCHpYLEß COLFAX
• PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS..
AT LARnE.
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G. MORRISON COATES. of Philadelphia.
THOS. M. MARSHALL, of Pittsburgh.
District. Dixtri et
1. W. H. BARNES, 3. SAMUEL SNOW,
2. W. J. FOLL.ICK. 4. 11. F. W AGossEr.rant
8. RICHARD WILDEY, 15. CHAS. H. MILLER,
4. G. W. HILL. G. JWIN STEWART,
5.. WATSON F. MAGILL, 7. GEORGE W. ELSER;
G. J. H. DRINGI/URST, S. A. G. Ot.mB2lcAD,
7. FRANK C. HEATON, G. LADIES SILL
& ISAAC ECKERT, ) 0. H. C. JOIINSON.,
S. MARIS DOOI . BB. 1. J. K. EWING, ,, -
26.
DAVID 31. RANK, ". WM. FREW,
. A. W. CRAWFORD,
22.. W. W. KETCHUM, J. S. ROTAS...
STATE.
Auditor General—J. F. HARTRANFT.
Surveyor General—J. M. CAMPBELL.
DISTRICT.
Congress, 22d Dist—JAS. S. NEGLEY..
%, 23d Dist.—DARWIN PHELPS.
COUNTY.
State Senate—JAMES L. GRAHAM
ammoza
GEORGE WILSON, M. S. HUMPHREYS,
GEO. F. MORGAN, VINCENTMILLER,
JAMES TAYLOR, ,SAMUEL KERR.
.INstriet,Attorney—L: L. PEARSON.
Asst District Atte. B. FLACK.
Controller—HENßY LAMBERT.
Commissioner—JON THAN NEELY.
Surveyor—R. L. McCULLY.
County Home .Direeter—J. G. - MURRAY.
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Mayor—JARED M. BRUSH.
controller—ROßT. J t McGOWAli'.
Treasurer—A.J. COCHRAN. •
Headquarters Republican County Com
mittee, City Hall, Market Street. Open
every day. County Committee meets every
Wednesday, at 2 P. M
WE PRINT on the inside pages of this
morning's GezETTE—econdpage : "Maine,
and the Remainder," Rphemeris, Row New
York Gets Her Vegetables. Third and Sixth
pages : Commeicial and River News. Sev
enth page : Farm, Garden and Household.
Gold closed in NewlYork yesterday at
141 k.
ON °us second • page this morning we
print a spirited political contribution from
the gifted pen of .TraiEs M. 31.4.cuum, Esq.,
of this city.
THE Episcopal Church of the United
states is threatened with disruption; the
low-church portion thereof hsving resolved
to have rittiplism repressed or to secede from
the Convention soon to be held, and estab
lish a Reformed P. E, Church.
Tait meeting of Soldiers and Sailors,
which will be held — at Philadelphia on
Thursday and Friday of this week, promi
seito be unusually large as to numbers and
specially grand as a popular demonstration.
From all parts of the country, notes of the
preparation of delegations thereto Leach us.
HON. Jomr M. KRUM, an eminent Demo
cratic lawyer of St. Louis, General H. F.
finurraFsm.ow, the original border-rudian
of Kansas and the compeer of ATcrusoN
and others, who led the great prh-slavery
raid upon that young Territory in '55, and
Postmaster CLEVELAND, of Hartford, who
went over to Dembcracy two years ago, are
among the latest accessions to the cause_of
GRAFT and Peace.
. Do ROT FORGET the meeting at Union
town tomorrow ! Excursion tickets by
railway, fine weather, a beantill country,
a live crowd and a pleasant time generally !
Our friends there send a special invitation
to the Boys in Blue, inviting also our Clubs
to attend and take part in the torch-light
procession of the evening. Let us send up
a good delegation to- cheer our struggling
friends on that hard , battle-field I
WE rhiNT the address of Gen. BLAIR,
made last evening—precisely word for word
as pronounced by him, being the only pho
nographic report made of his remarks. The
Reech as printed by our cotemporaries this
morning is. a document dictated by Mr.
&am to reporters during the afternoon in
his rooms at the hotel, and is no the speech
as delivered and now printed in the GAZETTE.
The discrepencies, between the speech as
written and spoken are very decided.
TILE brilliant auguries of the last few
- weeks have filled the Republicans of this
regiiin with a wild enthusiasm. That quali
ty is well enough in its way; but it is not a
gopd substitute for hard work in conducting
a campaign. ,
Republicans! only a fortnight remains be.
fore the October election. Much is to be
done in this short space. What we want is
net simply a victory, but such a one as
shall be - absolutely decisive of the whole
campaign. To this end the attendance at
the polls of every Republican voter must be
secured. This is a matter of detail and
pains.takinz, which mere enthusiasm is
likely to overlook.
It is not sufficient that your neighbor will
V oce for GRANT and COLFAX, and so stay
away from the October election. One vote ad
ded tip the majority ofHARTRANFT and CAMP
BELL will avail more than twenty votes ad
ded to the majority in November. . Act on
this presumpiion, and get ont two weeks
',env. every Republican voter. •
MEETING TO-NIGHT.
There will be a grand rally at Hare's Ho
tel, Liberty street,. mouth of Fifth street,
this evening, at half-past seven o'clock,
which will be addressed by General Jonx
F. FARNSWORTH, member of Congress for
the Second District of Illinois. His abili
ties, as well as his experience in public af
fairs, entitle his views to the highest respect
and confidence. I
In addition, the meeting will be addressed
by the Hon. 3IAnLoN °RANCE, of, Ohio, an
eloquent and accomplished speaker.
As this will be the first meeting held dur
ing the present canvass in the old Fourth
ward, and as the oratorical attractions of
fered are quite unusual, we hope to see a
rousing turn-out.
GEN. FRANCIS P. BLUR.
On the 30th of last June, just prior to the
assembling of the Democratic National ' a
Con
vention, this gentleman wrote letter to
Mr. I3RODHEAD, which found its Way imme
diately, as was intended, into the newspa
pers. That letter contains three remarka
ble paragraphs, which read as follows :
"If the President elected by the Democ
racy enforces or permits others to enforce
these Reconstruction acts, the Radicals, by
the accession of 20 spurious Senators and 50
Representatives, will control both branches
of Congress, and his administration will be
as powerless as the present one of Mr.
Johnson.
"There is but one way to restore the
Government and the Constitution, and that
is for the President elect to declare these acts
null and void, compel the army to undo its
?au , potion at the AS'outh, disperse the c•trpet
bag &ate Governments, allow the white people
to re-organize their own governments and
elect &motors and Representatives. The
House of Representatives will contain a
majority of Democrats from the North, and
ploy will admit the Represeotatives elect
ed by the white people of the South, and,
with the co-operation of the President, it
will not, be difficult to COMPEL THE SEN
ATE to submit ones more to the obligations
of the Constitution. It will not be able to
withstand the public judgment, if distinct
ly invoked and clearly expressed on this
fundamental issue, and it is the sure way
to avoid all future strife to put the' issue
plainly to the country.
"I 'repeat that this is the real and only
question which we should allow to control
us; Shall we submit to the usurpations
by which the Government has been over
thrown, or shall we exert ourselves for its
full and complete restoration? 11 is idle to
talk of bonds, greenbacks, cold, the public
faith, and the public credet. What can a
Democratic President do in regard to any
of these, with a Congress in both branches
controlled by the carpet-baggers and their
allies? He will be powerless to s'op the
surplies by which idle negroes are organ
ized into political clubs, by which an army
is maintained to protect these vagabonds in
their outrages upctn the ballot. These, a•-d
things like these, eat up the revenues and
resources of the Government, destroy its
credit, and make the difference between
gold and greenbacks. We must restore the
Constitution before we can restore the
finances, and to do this we must have a
President who will execute the will of the
people by trampling into the dust the
usurpations of Congress, known as the
Reconstruction Acts.'- I wish to stand be
fore the Convention upon this issue, but it
is one which embraces everything else that
is of value in its large and comprehensive
results. .It is the one thing that incLudce all
that is worth a contest, and without it there
is nothing that gives dignity, honor, or val
ue to the struggle.!'
This language is singularly direct and un
ambiguous. It is susceptible of only one
construction, unless through manifest and
inexcusable violence. In point of fact,
both political parties, in both geographical
sections of the Union, instantly gave the
same_ interpretation to Throughout the
South the leaders in the late rebellion were
delighted, because it gave voice to their
own thoughts and feelings. At the North
all the Democrats whose sympathies ran
with therebellion received it with the same
manifestations of applause. It gave Mr.
BLAIR the nomination for the Vice Presi
dency, and on a Platform made- to match
his epistle.
The candidate and the declaration of prin
ciples were greeted with great enthusiasm
all over the revolted States. Orators and
journalists, in all the principal towns of
those States, vied with each other in prais
ing Mr. Biala and his letter, and in com
mending the Convention for its courage in
selecting him as a standard bearer. He was
hailed as the pre-ordained leader of a fresh
assault upon the government, in the inter
ests of the men who surrendered to GRANT
and SUERMAN.
There was nothinglunnatural in this, ex
cept that, under the circumstances, so much
frankness and audacity should be displayed.
We saw proper at the time to collate extracts
from theie fulminations which made two
full pages of this journal, for the. enlighten
ment of our readers. Other Republican
journals Wrought the loyal States aided in
disseminatinz the exaltations and threats
which Mr. Swan's letter, and his subse
quent nomination inspired. The impression
made upon the people of the Northern
States was instantaneous and profound. s
The Northern Democratic leaders prompt
ly discovered that they and Mr. BLAIR had
miscalculated the temper of popular opinion
outside of their own organization, and•
measurably inside of it. Consequently the
,swiftly despatched orders to the chief
Southern cities that all swaggering of
fresh violence must cease. Some of the
newspapers thus admonished concludini
that dissimulation would be profitable, took
the hint and followed it with alacrity. Oth
ers of them, directed by sturdy and uneom
plying writers, not only refused, but, in ad
dition, revealed what injunctions had been
laid upon them. This courageous, but in
discreet avowal, added to the disgust and
alarm which pervaded multitudes of minds
all over the North. • .
Among the orators, Mr. WADE HAMPTON
had been conspicuous for the intensity of
his bravado. But he was prevailed upon to
change front, and even to deny that he had
'made the speeches attributed to him. With
unblushing impudence ho averred that the
press of his own party, and even of South
ern cities, had conspired to put thoughts
into lds bead that he had never
meditated and words with his mouth
that he had never spoken. The pres
sure must have — been very great when
ithis man, who never shrank from the com
mission of an infamy l was thus Induced de
PITTSBURGH- •GAZETTE : TUESDAY, SEPTEMMI 29, 186E1.
merely to eat his own words. We put it in
this shape, for everybOdy understood him.
He was not misrepresented, but simply
wished to ebunteract the mischief his bold
utterances had done his party.
And now Mr. 13man. is upon a pilgrim
age over the Northern States to put a forced
and unnatural construction upon a letter the
authenticity of which he cannot deny. He
asserts, in substance, that lie was misun
derstood alike by - friend and foe. No
man was ever so unfortunMe before. Does
he attach a meaning tot words and sen
tences entirely peculiiir to himself ?
Then he should not presume to ad
dress the public until he has acquired a
speech that can be understood without an
interpreter. But what assurance can the
people possibly 1, have--if he used language
in the letter to Mr. BRODHEAD in so, unusu
al a sense as tol mislead every body—that
they comprehend his meaning now ? -
Last evening Mr. BLAIR undertook to de
fend himself, and the interpretation he now
seeks to put on his BROADHEAD letter before
the citizens of Pittsburgh so far as his audi
ence was composed of Democrats, we have
no hesitancy in expressing the belief that
they liked that Letter not at all as he ex
plained it, but vastly as Mr. HAMPTON ex- I
pounded it when it first appeared in the
newspapers.
Mr. BLAIR was careful to have his speech
not simply prepared beforehand, but put in
type in ,advance of his delivery of it, and
proof-slips thereof furnished to all the re
porters of the press who were charged to
take notes of whtit he said.
We have not space this morning to com
ment in detail upon BLern's attempted
change of base. That task will require a
separate article. It is sufficient for us to
say now that MR. BLAnt's explanation not
only comes too late, but is of such a charac
ter as to do neither himself nor his party a
particle of good. His present duplicity is
transparent even to the dullest ap9rehen:
sion. His purpose is not to recant and atone
for his recent violence, but so to allay the
alarm he created as to gain a position from
which he would be able to put his threats
into execution. For this he is too late.
The people understand the issues it
is their duty to settle at the ballot-box, and
no amount of chicanery will deflect them
from the fulfillment of the purpose they have
already made up, to avoid the possibility .
of serious trouble in the near futore by the
election of GRANT and COLFAX.
i•SET HNC THINGS TO RIGIITS.”
Oar Northern Democrats are generally
attempting to dodge the BRODHEAD letter of
General BLAIR, but their cowardly taetics
are scorned by the Southern rebel leaders of
the party. For example, the Mobile Tri
bune says of this letter :
"This is the main plank of the platform.
A few timid politicians and poltroons may
revile Forrest, Hampton and Blair, hut
th se statesmen stand on the Democratic
pl ,tform, which is broad enough to support
the South as well as the North."
The Louisville Courier, of the 24th, edited
by the es-rebel Generll Buctoirtit, wh H e
works at Fort Donelson were so unpleasant-,
ly and disastrously moved upon by General
GRANT, also says :
"As to the Brodhead letter. we thank
Gen. Blair for his exposition; and, so far as
we are concerned, we indorse it to the full
est extent. * * * * * *
There could be no doubt as to the position
of the party on the subject. This General
Blair knew when he penned his letter. He
knew that his sews entirely accorded with
the views of the part.. If there are !boso—
ns we are led to infer from the language of
the Times—A ho endeavor to quibble ahout
or explain away Blair's words, the 'east we
can say is that we do not comprehend their
Democracy, and that we have no manner of
sympathy. with them. What Blair said
was well-timed and to the purpose, and, as
we halie.said. we thank him for It. It was
a manly and bold_ avowal of Democratic
sentiment, and presented a practicable so
lution of the rec3nstruction proolem. * *
* * *
That %birth we have to consider, and the
country has to consider, is what can hedone
now to set things to rights.t This problem
U •neral Blair has solved in the only way
that it was possible to s lye it. Radical
usurpation renders a settlement of the &ill.
cuity through the medium of the courts im
practicaerte, and the only way, therefore,
and it, is indeed the plain and obvious one,
is for the incornirg Democratic aduiin s
traticn to see that the - highest law of the
land, the Vonstitution, is enforced and
maintained. •
The party -sneaks at the North will per
ceive that this is a track of their old mas
ter's whip; they are not to be permitted to
retreat from any position which satisfies the
views of the Southern Democracy. The
Brodhead letter is distinctly affirmed to be
of the essence of current issues, and to af
ford the only correct guide for an "incoming
Democratic administration."
The Democracy arc also distinctly ad
vised, and the country is informed, that the
Brodhead letter means the armed and ford
ble intervention of the Executive, and troth.
ing else General BLAIR himself excludes
Congress from any participation in the bu
siness of "setting things to right." His
suggestion that the Senate should be "com
pelled to submit" was rather the rounding
of a rhetorical period their:l - the expression of
any well-founded expectation. The entire
context of his letter supposes the exclusive
ly independent and arbitrary action of the
President alone, and, indeed, is based ex
pressly upon the idea that no Congressional
concurrence can be hoped for.
As to the Judiciary, although Brant did
not literally declare its exclusion from the
work of setting things to rights, yet no other
inferences can be drawn from what he does
say. And this is made clearly apparent in
the above commentary by Gen. BUCKNER.
"A settlement of the difficulty through the
mediuni of the. Courts is impracticable"
says this cordial endorsement of theißrain
programme, and nothing remains available
for " Setting things to rights" except the
sword in the President's hands.
BLAIR hints at judicial decisions declaring
the unconstitutionality of reconstruction,
but all his practical suggestions mean 6nly
a Presidential Dictatorship. BUCHNER,
equally frank,' but vastly more logical,
throws out the Supreme Court altogether.
Thus both of the co-ordinate departments
of the government are to be Ignored and
laws duly enacted by the Congress of the
United Statee but which ore Wasteful to_s
political party, are to be removed from the
statute-book, not by their constituticnal and
orderly repeal by the law-making depart:
ment, nor by their condemnation as invalid
by the revising power of the Judiciary, but
by the new Democratic plan of nullifying
disagreeable laws by violently overturning
and defying them.
This defines the issue too plainly to be
misunderstood. Republicanism says that
no law, once legally enacted, no matter how
unpopular it may be, least of all when so
just and necessary in its purview as the re-
Construction acts, shall be modified, amend-
i: ,
ed or brogated exiept in the due course of
repeal ng legislation, or of judicial scrutiny
and ondemnation. The Democracy de
mand the right to nullify laws by military
force,
, rrespective of the regular constitu
tional methods. One party upholds the sanc
tity of law, as the law supreme; .the other
appeals to the stronger might of the bayo
net! The one party points to the ballot-box
as the only method of redress under our
constitutional government, for any wrongs,
real or imaginary, while the other avows its
traitorous preference for a forcible and rev
olutionary-resistance. The Democracy are
at leas consistent in this, for they propose
nowactly what they did in '6l, when,
beaten by the ballots of a majority, they re
sorted o bullets. Ballots Against Bullets is
the issue they now make before the people,
and upon that issue we have no hesitation
in meeting them, and intend to overthrow
them once more.
ARE YO ' ASSESSED?
If you are not, r if you do not know
positively the fact ti at you are, go at once
to the Assessor of ye ur precinct, and have
it attended to. Re a ember that the period
expires next Saturday night, October 3d, at
midnight.
We annex a correct list of the Assessors
in, the several wards of the cities and in the
boroughs:
PITT§BURGII.
First ward, Pittsburgh ,Samuel Patterson
Seefuid ward, Alexander Aiken.
Third ward, John D. Eagan.
Fourth ward, A. P: Thompson.
Fifth ward, John Quinn.
Sixth ward, Ch.ist King,
Seventh and Eighth wards, Wm. Shore
Ninth and Tenth wards, Joseph Irwin.
Eleventh ward, John Crawford.
Twelfth ward, John S. Normine.
Thirteenth ward, Robert Inder.
Fourteenth ward, James McGinness.
Fifteenth ward, J. P. Pearson,
Sixteenth ward, Thos. Merkel.
Seventeenth ward, Edward Davidson.
Eighteenth wan!, Sarni. Caro hers:
Twentieth ward, David Aiken, Sr.
Twenty-first ward, Saml. Chadwick.
Twenty-socond ward, Wm. Irwin.
Twenty-third ward. Wm. Wyde.
ALLEGE' 1:14Y.
First Ward—Simeon Milford.
Second Ward—John Sterrett.
Third Ward—H. R. Ray.
Fourth Ward—James Graham.
Fifth Ward—Henry Paulis.
Sixth Ward—Wm. Motheral.
Sffventh Ward—John Mierhoffer.
Eighth Ward—George Moul.
BOROUGHS.
Birmingham—Wm. D..y.
Ea.t Birmingham—A. J. Rapp.
Monongahela,l—JOhn Cregan.
Temperanctiville-,F. C. Dorrington.
South Pittsburgh--Win. Lloyd.
McKeesport—Wm, Mains.
Sharpshurg—Jonas Butterfield.
Mt. Washington—Eli Buribrd.
Bdlevue—JamesSterrett.
Tarenturn —Win. V. Evans.
Braddock—M. J. Bennett.
'Orrnshs—t:eorgo .Geyer.
Sewickley—Wm. Miller. •
Elizabeth—J. N. Laughlin.
West Elizabeth—John 0. Percival.
HATR ED OF UNION SOLID FIRS
"If I could have my way I would place
JEFF. DAVIS in Congress, where he richly
belongs. Then I would go to Concord,
take all the miserable battle•fiags 'from the
State House, and make a bonfire of them in
the State House yard. (Great applause.)
Then I would go all through the North and
destroy all the monuments and gravestones
erected to the memory of soldiers. In short,
I would pat out of sight everything which
reminds us that we ever had a war with our
Southern brethren..
."I do not know that I would hang one
lezged and one-armed soldiers, but I would
pray to God to get them out of the way as
soon as possible."---Henry Clay Dean, in a
speech at Manchester, N. H., February, 1868.
Ma. B. F. BUTLIZR was yesterday renom
inated for Congress, in the Fifth Massachu
setts district, receiving all hitt four - out of
179 votes, and the nomination was subse
quently made unanimous. No man in this
country, and few in any other, have been
so persistently or atrociously vilified and
abused as he. - Adverse newspapers and or
ators have seemed to consider themselves
licensed to invent and promulgate any con
ceivable chlumuy upon his reputation. But
his rare endowments have enabled him suc
cessfully to endure and easily lo surmount
all the assault of his detractors. He fur
nishes ,a living demonstration of the fact
that a man who has substantial matter in
him, and is true to himself, cannot be writ
ten or talked down. The instinct for fair
play operates strongly in his favor, and car
ries him along, where he might otherwise
full,
GEN. GRANT'S dispatch of November 10,
'64, to Secretary STANTO, congratulating
the President upon the grand victory of the
Republicans in his reelection, was included
in our recent report of the es-Secretary's
speech nt Steubenville. The publication of
this dispatch attracts much it tention now;
in view of the fact that, for full three years
after it was written, Democratic journals
and leaders everywhere were advocating his
nomination as President by their party.
And to toll the truth, the' would gladly ex
change him for BEIMOIII today. Nor has
their preference for the ictorious comman
der been so thoroughly uprooted, but that
thousands of honest Democrats are bent on
giving to him their votes.
NEvEu.before were the Republican mass
es in Western Pennsylvania so thoroughly
aroused as as at the present moment. The
majority' on this side of the Alleghenies two
i
weeks from to-day will be unprecedentedly
large. f our friends on the eastern side of
the Mo ntains only keep the balance even,
as wed übt not they will, the Republican
11
majorit in the State will be enough to elec
trif7 the country.
THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU.
The entire cost of the Freedman's Bureau,
includine the very large expenditure to feed
the starving white rebels, was only a little
over six millions of dollars up to August Ist,
'6B. The annexed letter tells the whole
story.
WAR DEPT. BUREAU OP REPOGELS,
FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 1868.
Hon. J. G. Blaine, Augusta, Me.:-
Dear Sir—l have replied by telegraph to
your letter this morning, and herewith, en
close some c•ip es of a letter to Mr. Eliot,
which I drew up a few. days .ago. - That
letter Covers the expend tures for three
years from January 1, 1865, to January 1,
1868. The bureau was organized in May,
1865, and got fairly under wav in July, 1865.
The accounts of the old ..Department of
Freedmen's Affairs' were turned over to
this 3ureau, and are ail, included hi the
state Went of expenses.
Total cash drawn frr m the Treasury :end received
from rents of abandoned lands. Cr spa ,old, taxes,
tines, and a:1 utheettaueous soureeb up to Jan. I.
9T48.‘11 .19
Transferred to Agricultural Dent.
11:11an,,e
Expeudia from Jun. 1 to Aug. 1, INA
@MI
The pay of army officersought to be reek
oned as expended by his Bureau, it being
accounted for by the Pay Department.
General Howard has gone South, where
I hope he will do g .od work. Yours truly,
' (Signed) E. `VIrITTr ESEY
Acting Assistant Adjutant General.
P. S. - --The total cash drawn from the
United States Treasury up to Aug I, 1868.
has been $6,247,251 78; deduct Agricultural
Bureau, $50,000, leaving $6,107,251 78 as the
real cost of the Bureau to the Government.
The balance of the $7,935;285 88 was oh
tained from the rents of abandoned lands,
&c , at the South. E. W., A. A. A. G.
DEMOCRACY TWENTY YEARS AGO
A State Convention of the Ohio Demo
cracy, held at Columbus, January 8, 1848,
adopted the following resolution
"That the people of Ohio now, as they
have always done, look upon the institution
of slavery as an evil, and unfavorable to
the full development of the spirit and prac
tical benefits of free insthutions, and that
entertaining these sentiments, they will
feel it to be their duty to use all power con
sistent with the national compact to prevent
its increase, to mitigate and finally to eradi
cate the evil."
THE "Democracy,"whom General BLAIR
addressed last evening, were thus described
by himself three years since:
The Democratic patty at the present day
is democratic in name and nothing else.
The old Jefferson and Jackson principles
have been abandoned. The man whp did
not escape the rope by three hours is the
author of all to which the Democratic party
of the present day subscribes. It has not
one scintilla of true Democracy to animate
its carcass.
WHEN General Grant went to Governor
Yates to offer his services, he did not even
mention that he fought at Palo Alto, Resaca
de la Palma, Monterey, and served under
General Scott in his campaign from Vera
Cruz to the City of Mexico, or that he had
been promoted to First Lieutenant on the
field for gallantry at Molino del Rey, and
brevetted a captain for brilliant and skillful
fighting upon the Heights of Chapultepec..
Not a word of all this—nor did the Governor
remember it—but he simply said he had
been educated at the expense of the Gov
ernment, and, as. the Government was in
trouble, desired to serve it in any situation
he might be placed. Assigned to a clerk's
desk he went to work quietly and faithfully.
Such is the man who rose to the highest
place in the army through the power of 'his
talent for doing well what was before him.
He never asked anybody to promote him.
He never seemed to care for promotion.
And yet there are those who say that Gen.
Grant is not a great man. If he is not, who
is or liaG been great in the world's history ?
—Harrisburg Telegraph.
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BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
-Chas. H. Grappon, of the Philadelphia
Sunday Mercury, died on Sunday last.
—Abner Greenleaf, formerly editor and
proprietor of the New Hampshire Gazette,
died yesterday. •
—John Isherwood, a native of Belgium,
aged twenty-six, was killed by the Erie
railway train at Passaic, Monday morning.
—Henry Dol z, a brakeman, wasl killed,
and several others of Bethlehem, Pa., were
injured yesterday by a passenger car being
upset on the Penn-ylvania railroad.
—Four English miners, named William
Moore, Richard Sampson, Jas. Richards
and Jas. Thompson, were instantly crushed
to death last Thursday by the falling in of
a shaft of iron in a mine at Mount Hope,
Morris county, N. J. They were buried en
Sunday. An immense crowd of miners
attended the funeral.
Mysterious Poisoning Case.
(By Telegraph to the Pltt.burgh Gazette,)
NEW Yomic, Sept. 28.—Another case of
mysterious poisoning has occurred in this
city, the victim being James Hamilton,
proprietor of a boarding house on Thomp
son street, who died this morning from the
effects of oxalic acid taken in a des° of
sonna and salts, purchased at the drug store
of Mr-Roger- Spring street, about a month
ago. Rogers and his son were arrested
and held to await the Coroner's inquest.
They deny that the salts contained any ox
alic acid when purchased. The family of
the deceased say the package of salts was
not interfered with while in thelhouse.
'I he Suspension of Rer. Dr. McMullen
[lty Telegraph to the Pittsburgh tiazetted
CnIt'AGO, Sept. 28.—A mass meeting was
held , at Father Maubow Temperance Hall
last night for the purpose of taking action
upon the suspension of Rev. Dr. McMul
len, of St. Patrichs Church, by Bishop
Duggan.! Resolutions sustaining Dr. Mc-
Mullen were discussed at length and final
ly adopted by a large majority. The
friends of the Bishop then left the ball in a
body. Subscription list‘were opened for
the purpose of rasing a sufficient sum to
pay Dr. McMullen's expenses to Rome. A
considerable sum was subscribed.
Dea•h of an Indianian
(By Telegraph to the littebursth Oazette.l
BUFFAt.O, Sep ember 28. Capt. Fred.
crick H. IBrandleo died suddenly in this
city this morning of paralysis. He had
Jost ro urned from Europe. He has resi
ded in the west for a number of A ears. In
his pocket was found a commission as
Justice of the Peace in Cass county, Indi
ana,•clated 18t36, and also showing him to
have been the agent for several Insurance
Companies in that state. His body was
taken °hero of by the Masons. He was
about seventy years of age.
The Calamity at Wheeling—Business Sus
, peuded.
(By Teletriaph to ttoi Plitsbumb Goiwtte.l
WHEELING, W. VA., Sept. 28.—1 n coin
pliance with the Mayor's proclamation.
business was entirely suspended this af
ternoon. the citizens generally uniting with
the city in paving the last tribute of res
pect to the police and firemen who were
killed by the falling walls at the fire on
Sunday mprning.
Tf.e Boys In Blue Convention.
Mg Telegraph to the Pltt.bargh Elasette.l
PHILADRLPIIIA, Sent. 28.—The National
Committee of the Soldiers and Sailors have
received letters from Generals Pope, How
ard, Siegel, Sherman, and others, which
will be read at the Convention on the first
proximo.
FBOhi EITROPE.
Progress of the Insurrection in
Spain—A Great Battle Expected
--The Revolutionists Gaining
Ground.
By Telegraph to the l'lttsberzb Gatette.3
.M.tnnin, Sept. 26.—The insurgents have
, torn up the railway in the Sierra Morena.
Count Gergente with his troops is compelled
to remain in the mountain defiles. General
Prim is expected at Barcelona to-day,
where the people are only waiting for his
arrival to rise: Madrid and Saragossa are
also ripe for revolt. The vanguard of the
army under Novalechez, numbering 3,000,
has joined thb insurgents. He has, in ixin
sequence,, been obliged to wait for reinfOree
ments. The French squadron arrived at
Barcelona.
LONDON, Sept. 2g.—A battle is hourly ex
pected between Novalechez and Gergente
near Cordova. rho royalists Lst over six
hundred men in the fight at Santander, but
they succeeded in retaining possession of
the city. General Cologree marches to-
Morrow on Santona. He has resolved to
barn the place if it makes any resistance.
LONDON, Sept. 28.—Advises from Spain
to-day confirm all previous reports that
the insurgents are marching in force on
the Capital. The royal troops sent against
Santander, wlm have since captured that
city, have been engaged in pursuing the re
tio
bele in that quarti r. They b. ye since been
ordered to return to Madrid 'r the protec
tion of the Capitol. The reyo ution is rap
idly progressing in the interior. The city
of Valladolid had pronounced against tho
Queen. and the revolt already extended - to
most of the provinces into which the WO
and new Castile are divided.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
LONDON, Sept. 28.—Evening—American
Securities firm. Bonds, 73. Illinois, 94.
Erie, 33X.
FRANKFORT, Sept. 28.—Bonds firm at 75.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 28.—Evcning—Cotton
advancing, with uplands at 10d; Orleans at
1030; sales, 15,000 bales. Petroleum 11d.
per gallon. Breadstuffs and Provisions un
changed. Lard at 725. Bacon at 575.
Arrest of a Negro Desperado—He is
Lynched on the Spot by Blacks and
Whites--Gen. Hindman. C. S. A., As—
sassinated.
[By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.l
MEMPHIS, Sept. 28.—The Avalanche's
Helena, Arkansas, letter says: Yesterday
morning Deputy Sheriff; Joseph M. Maley,
with a posse, surrounded the cabin of a no
torious negro named Lee Marson, who
killed several persons last winter.' He shot
and maimed for life Sheriff Bart Taylor who
was attempting to arrest him, and recently
knocked a jailor in the head and escaped
to the hills, where he has been the ter
ror to all white and black people.
No sooner had the Sheriff's posse knock
ed at the door, yesterday, than Marson
fired, instantly killing Maley. Others at
tempted to close in on him, when ho made
a desperate resistance, severely wounding
Perry Neagle and Andice Barnes, colored,
and then escaped to the woods. News of
affair spread like wi (Hire. Soon fully a
hundred men were svouring the woods
and succeeded in finding Marson, whose
arms were broken and also wounded in the
side. A vote was taken on the spot, black
and whites voting in favor of hanging him,
which was accordingly done.
Gen. J. C. Hindman, late of Confederate
States Army, was assasinated at his resi
dence at Helena, last night. The Superin
tendent of the Police received a dispatch
this afternoon directing him to arrest It man
named Robbins, passenger on. the Shreve,
who it was relieved committed the deed.
Robbins was arrested and sent back. He is
from Springfield, Missouri, and served tin
der Hindman. He stoutly denies being
the murderer.
LATER—The Avatanche'B special to-night
says: General Hindman was shot at ten
o'clock last night while sitting in the midst
of his family smoking, his left hand,which
held the pipe, being carried away by a
charge of buckshot, two of which entered
his neck, inflicting a wound from which he
died eight hours afterward. His assassina
tion, it is said, *as procured through polit
ical causes.
Serious Railroad Disaster.
(By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette
CuiclrmATl, September 28.—The Piloher
tunnel on the M. t C. Railroad, which
caught fire some days ago and has since
been burning, caved in on Sunday and
buried two men. Their remains have not
been recovered. While a construction
engine was backing up to the scene of the
disaster, it ran over two hand cars near
Athens,
containin4 eighteen men, and in
stantly killing five and severely injuring
three others, two of whom are not expect
ed to rec-ver. The men endeavored to
jump from the cars which were demolished.
One man hal his head entirely severed
from his body and another had half his
head torn away by a splinter from the car.
The burning and caving of the tunnel has
blockaded the road, but the ompany are
building a track . over the hill, which will
soon be completed.
Large Flre az Buffalo
By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
BUFFALO, September 2S.—A large fire oc
curred this eveninz in Adams' block on
Washington street. It • ccurred by the burst
ing f the gas pipe in the basement of the
Commercial Advertiser newsp per office.
A laige rive story building in the rear of
the block was entirely destroyed. This
building was occupied by Mathews and
Warren, proprietors of the Commercial
Advertiser, and an extensive job printing
office, Adams & Co.. wholesale tobacco
manufac,urers, and Clayscoek & Co , litho
graphers. The front building was occupied
by the above named parties, also by the
Plat Fruit and Oyster Co., the Assessor of
Internal Revenue, and sei eral law offices.
The loss will approximate $150,000.
Gen. Banks to the Workingmen
[By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
BOSTON, September 28.—1 n an address to
the workingtnen in Charleston, this even
ing,Gen. Banks reviewed some of the acts
of the last and present Congress, especially
treating on the e ght hour law, which he
said was but a preliminary step towards
co-operation between the employer and em
ploye. The time was soon to come when
the laborer would receive part of the prof
its f his employer as his compensation.
Beheld that the national debt must. be paid
in go d and silver, as promised when the
leans were created, and said if the people
repudiated this they repudiated their own
interest.
New Orleans Market,
CEty Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.)
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 28 —Cotton In fair
demand and firmer; middlings U%; sales
3.30 bales; receipts, 4,727 bales. Exchange,
Sterling 152%; New York sight draftsMa
% discount. Gold 140. Sugar and Molas
ses unchanged. Flour dull; Superfine 87.
Corn dull at . 85041. Oats dull and de
clined to 56c.' Hay declined to 823. Bran
declined to 81,15. Pork steady at $30,50.
Bacon shoulders,l34i; clear sides 17c. Lard
steady; tierce, 19%c, keg, 21340. itsceipts
of-produce since Saturday heavy.
Chicago Market. •
By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gasette.l.
CHICAGO, September 28. Wheat—the
market to-night ie easier, and sales were
made at $1,4.134 for No. 2. Corn is firmer
and higher, and sales were madeof No. 1 at.
980. Oata is firm at 62e.
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