DI pts littsinttgt fiaitttt. PUBLIEUIAD DULY, BY 4 It: REED &CO Proprietors. B. B. PENNMAN. JOSIAH KING, T. P. - BOUSTON,+ • N. P. BEM. Xdifors d Proprietors. • OFFICE: GAZETTE BUILDING, NOS. 84 AND 86 FIFTH ST. OFFICIAL PAPER . Of Pittsburgh", Allegheny and Allegheny Conxisy. rerms—Destiy: Semi- Weekly.' Weekly, \ %tie year....18,c0 one year.p.soll3ln le e0py....51.50 One month. 75 SIX mos.. 1.50 5e • ples, each-1.2 5 By the creek .15 Three zoos 75110 .. . .. ' 1,15 .(from carrier:) —said one to Agent. 'WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 1888• liationitrUnion Itepublican Ticket. NATIONAL.' • Presiiient—llLYt3gf.B'B. GRAYr. Vie.ePresident--SCRI F Y LER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. AT LARGE. G. MORRISON COATES. of Phitsdelobls. THOS. 31. lILLIIBILALL. of Plttsbo.rgh. 1. W. H. BARNES, 18. SA.MVEL ENOUR, 2. W. J. POLLOCK. • 14. H. F.WAGENSELLER. 3. RiciLtED WILDE,F, • 15. CHAS. H. MULLZ.W,'" 4. G. W. MIX, 116. GEORGE W._XLMLB, S. WATSON' P. MAGILL, 17..301LN STEWART, ' • 4. J. IL BamogtrusT, 18. JACOB GBAnUS. 7. FRANK C. HOOTO 15. JAMES T 6.' ISAAC ECKERT, 23. H. C. JOHNSON, s. MARIS HOOPES. , 21. J. K. Ewtml,;• 343. DAVID M. HANN,- 12 1 . Wu. FREW; WK. DAVIS.- W. A. CRAWFORD, 32.. Mr. -W. SZTCILL3I. • 24. 3.8. Rtruff • STATE. _ Auditor General—J. P. HARTRANFT. Surveyor General—J. M. CAMPBELL. DISTRICT. Congress, 224 Dist —JAS. S. NEGLEY. it 23d Dist.—DARWIN PHELPS cOIINTY. iStafg Senau—JAMES L. GRAHAM. ASSEMBLY. GEORGE WILSON,!M.S. HUMPHREYS , GEO. F. MORGAN, IVINCENT MILLER, JAMES TAYLOR, ;SAMUEL KERR. District Attorney—A. 11. PEARSON. Assn District Attorney-4. B. FLACK. anztroller--HENRY LAMBERT. - Commissioner-JONATHAN NEELY.' Surveyor—R. L. McOULLY. County Some Director—J. G. MURRAY - CITY. Nayor—JARED M. BRUSH. Controller--RORT. J. MoGOWAN. Treasurer—A. J. COCICEUE. Headquarters Republican County Com mit*, City Hall, Market Street. Open every day. County Committee meets every Wedneiday, at 2 P. M. "LET ES RAVE PEACE. "—G-ran; "LET US HAVE WAR. "—Mar. liras essentia/ to have a poiitical victory - this Pall as it was to have an Appomattox in 1865, and every man who loves his country should Void for Grant. • "Panzle H. SHERIDAN, Major General, 11. S. A." " SEYMOUR AND BLAIR WILL GIVE BB ALL THE CONFEDERACY FOUGHT FOR'l—Ez-Rebel Gov. pane's speech at tha Democratic Ratification Meeting in lii-chniol . . f WE PIUNT on the inside pages of this morning's GAZETTE : Sian4 page liana fadtiring Items; Ephemerii. Third and Bixgh Pages: Commercial and River News. Baena page: Special Correspondence from _Kansas; The Boys in Blue Convention , at Philadelphia; Strange Freaks of Eeictricity. closed in New York Yesterday a 1141• _ Orb Government officially recognizes the new ievolutionary goverment of Spain as de facto exercising the national sovereignty. Tn;s president takes no active part in this campaign. Let him, in the same spirit, continue to maintain and enforce the Con; stitution and laws, and the last half year of his eventful administration may'go very far in restoring to him the good opinions of his countrymen. ~,,~' Tim 'VIRGINIA rebels have already given notice of their intention to demand payment for their slaves, in the event of Br ern's elec tion. The entire South will concur in the demand, and the cringing Democracy will allow it. Four thousand millions of dollars, it least, for that item • , • 11 EVEIa voTE• against the Union State ticket means a vote for Smiona and BLAIR. And every vote for these is a vote to repu diate our debt, strip our pensiOned veterans, their widows or orphaned children of the pittance which a nation's bounty accords for their relief from starvation. THE BLanis regard their prospects in Pennsylvania as desperate. MONTGOMERY complains that money is hard tovget, the New Yorkers-contributing nothing, so that, as he- expressed it, the canvass was "hard work, and up-hill at that." As for -Fitaxx, he is said to have told his friends in Wash ington that he had many"deubfe of the suc cess'of the Democratic ticket in this State next week. Nosm L ei' the Democratic orators, who ever that rsETIIOUE was loyal during the war, have yet succeeded in, or even attempt ed, any explanation of the faa.that the gov ernment was obliged to withdraw troops from the very face of the Southern rebels, to watch and keep down this "loyal" Govern er and his "friends" in New York. As soon as this circumstance shall be explained, we will mention it. • Toe ELECTION of SEYMOUR and BLAIR lir:ad be accepted by the rebels as an over throw of the-Xrirth amendment. They have made thatdistinctly an issue. That poini ga i n ed; gays thiLidobile Tribune, "one of the very first things we will ask for will be the aesurnplion of tlierehel debt." This is for bidden by that amendment; when the latter sball fall; that debt may be at any time as= seined at the pleasure of a Democratic Con gress. Nor would it be lOng defe hand rre and d by a party which is already bound foot in slavery to the7traitorous spirit which ivied its New York Convention, I lIM SENATOR WILSON Speaks to-night at the City Hall. Let us give this distinguished cluunpion of Free Labor, of Honest Labor, of ;intern- gent Labor, such a rousing recep tion as shall convince him that the manufacturers, mechaics and operatives Of this industrious centre have justly earned their Pre.eminence in the National markets. Let him see that we have the brains to con ceive, the nerve to sustain and the hands to execute ; that we area thinking as 'well as a doing people ; that 'with clear heads and strong hands, we have hearts in the right place, and that we; who live by the Law of Honest work, know how to appreciate and honor the man whorri Honest Work has self made.. HENRI Y'ILSON is not Sex CAnnY nor GEORGE H. PREDELTON, but he has, in his own personal and practical history, quite as good a title to talk to workingmen of their rights and duties in this crisis. Honor him to-night, fellow-citizens, and you will honor yourselves. FORBEARANCE NOT A VIRTUE Whoever may have witnessed the infa• mously brutal and unprovoked assault made upon the Republican procession at and near the intersection of Wylie with Tunnel street, last evening, will admit that forbear ance with the blackguards, some of whom made that attack; has ceased to be a virtue. The Mayor can, but apparently will not, protect- Union men in the peaceable and quiet, enjoyment of their public rights. He seems to have reaped—from the fiasco which thus far has been made of the pro ceedings to • ventilate and punish the parties to the illegal assault upon an unof fending lady, committed in accordance with bis official orders—fresh excuses for signal izing his inefficiency for good, or his ample sufficiency for mischief, and 'hip "friends" in the purlieus of the old Third ward and elsewhere take the fullest license in outrage against Republican gatherings. ' We are now free to say to our friends that the right of self-defence is inalienable, and the time has come for its exercise. Be pre pared for all such c attacks hereafter, and, when repeated, go in and clean out the crowd who assault you. You have in vain demanded legal protection; now let it be seen that you can protect yourselves. Don't go out of your way, in the streets of this city, to seek difficulty, or to avoid one. Go where your engagements or pleasure shall call you, and maintain your right to do so, in every necessary mode. The re sponsibility for any consequences is not MORE RECRUITS FOR GRANT We chronicle the accession of Judge STRONG, late of the Shpreme Court of Penn sylvania, Hon. T. S. Faitsox, formerly a Democratic Senator from Philadelphia, and Gen. SCHOFIELD, at present the Secretary of War under our Democratic administration. Gen. S. hasheretofore been regarded as an extreme Conservative, and, when in com mand in Missouri, was not at all in favor with the RadiCals there-' We now find in print his letter of May 25th, dated at Rich mond, and addressed, to Gen. GAT, con gratulating him upon the Chicago nomina tion. The annexed quotations from this letter express the judgment and hopes of a very large and influential class of our citizens' : 'The judicious selection of Mr. Colfax as second on the ticket, and the general prac tical wisdom displayed in framing the plat form—that is, in laying down practical rules of action, based upon the necessities of the country, insteal of abstract political theories—have greatly increased the proba bilities of success, and at the same time made that success the more to be desired. I have always believed that the Union could be fully restored - only by the men who put down the rebellion. * * ,* * * *Your election to the Presi dency will be the end of our political tronfiles, as your accession to the Command er-in-Chief of the Army was the end of the Southern rebellion. • ' Very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. M. SCHOFIELD, Brevet Maj. Genl." GEN. 3LcCIBLLAN has done himself marked honor in the significant terms with which his letter condemns the spurious Democracy of BLAIR, VALLANDIGRAM and PENDLETON. The same independence and honesty of old-fashioned Democratic prin ciple which, in '64, lad him to repudiate a part of the very Chicago platform on which he had been placed, prompts him again, in meaning phrase, to exclude rebellion, dirO. loyalty and repudiation from his catalogue of Democratic principles. Take his letter, paragraph by paragraph, and read it in the light of the New "York platform, and of the notorious records of the principal leaders in that sassemblage of the party, rebels like FORREST and HAMPTON, traitors like VAL LANDIGIIAM, and 'repudiators like PENDLE. TON, and it must be confessed to be the most bitteily sarcastic and indignant commentary upon the present status of the Democracy. It is no longer to be wondered at that he in• tends to remain a "private citizen." CoNNiccrictiT is making ready for a place in the Grant pyramid. Her people have heard from Maine and Vermont, and the flews pleased them so well that their town elections on Monday. last showed large Re publican gains. As usual, the Democratic slate will be brought out, to prove that her elections were of no great consequence, be ing.puroly local, and all that, but you will see the Democracy taking so much pains to make thts appear as to excite suspicion that, they are hurt in a tender spot. The fact is that these town, elections afford a very marked indication, that the State will join her New England sisters in a solid vote for GRANT and CoLFAx. TEE - Pacific Railway is opened to. Green River, in Utah, 850 miles from Omaha. A telegram says that "it was theoriginal inten tion to cease operations at Green River for the winter, but the road is to be pushed on to the Bear River Mountains, where Brig ham Young's contract for grading commen ces." SRURGH. GAZETTE - W EDNESDAY , 0CT08ER77;17868 PI HUMAN CONTRADICTIONS. I • Human life is everywhere' full of striking contrasts. SUme of these are solUble upon principles which are disclosed on the very surface of events; while others of them are if not contradictory, defying critical analysis and baffling sagest investiL cation. Perhaps the strongest presented in Ame rican life is found in the calmness and be nignty, the philosophic poise and Christian charity, with which the Catholic hierarchy uniformly treat the black race, and the un measured contempt and hate, the inhuman cruelty and absolute fiendishness, with which the masses of their followers pursue the same people. Yesterday morning Vas announced in these columns that the tatholic Synod had promulgated the decre4 of the Plenary Council at Baltimore urging.the immediate establishment of - Ateols find ' Orphan Asylums far colore children in the Southern States. This movement is not anomalous,. but in strict accord ance with both the practice and genius of the Catholic Church. With wonderful te nacity and uniformity it has not only insisted that all persons are equal before God's altar, but that they are alike entitled to the care and sympathy of the ministers of the Church, and to the enjoyment of what ever benefits arise from institutions of all sorts founded by the benefactions of the faithful. This is manifested in various ways. While Protestant Churches in this country, and particularly those in the larger cities, belonging to what are reputed the fashion able denominations, are steadily becoming mere appendages and ornaments of social life, —so . costly and exclusive that the poor and those in barely comfortable pecuniary con dition are shut away from them—the Catho lic communion, as of old, opens the doors of its temples to all, without reference to worldly distinctions—and so Opens them that pauper and millionaire feel equally at ease within the sacred • enclosures. At Rome, under the shadow of the Papal throne—in the College of the Propaganda— students from all climes and of all races, meet in the same classes, on a 'common level. The church is cosmopolitan, not 'condescending to temporary passions or local prejudices. Like the ocean, it receives streams from all plains and all mountains, contracting it may be a trace of impurity from each, but remaining evermore—the ocean. Day before yesterday Democratic proces sions defiled through the streets of these tsVo cities. As to numbers and decorations it was a display creditable to the- enterprise and liberality of the party. But, what im pressed us most deeply was not the great.,s l ness of the throng, nor the lavish expendi-, ture visible in emblazonments and music,; nor the enthusiasm which evidently anima ted the whole, but the flaunting of legends, mottoes and devices, unblushingly avowing a coarseness of feeling, an illiberality of sen timent, a blindness of passion, an invinci., bility of prejudice, and a depth of hatred for the most lowly, altogether unsurpassed, if not unmatched in the annals of human ignbrance and defilement. Those divis ions of the processions in which the Catho lic element predominated were infamously conspicuous beyond all the rest in thus dis playing brutality. It seethed as if nothing was' too low, or vulgar, or malignant for them to throw into the faces of the commu nity as indicative of their sentiments and purposes towards the black race. Yet these people marvel at the disgust and i contempt, mingled with pity and shame, WWI their conduct inspires among all classes of the American people who, by virtue of better mental and moral training have risen to juster views of life and the co-relations ex isting between all the members of the hu man family! Where shall.we search for the explication of this anomaly? When we have found it, what will it prove to be? Who will vouch saTe Its answers ? =I ACQUISITION OF CUBA. While it is confessed on all bands that covetousness is an indulgence forbidden by the moral law toindividuals, it seems to be about as generally taken for granted that those aggregations of persons known as na tions are at perfect liberty to covet as much as they please, and to take by guile or force whatever objects they desire. Cuba has excited intense longings on the part of the people and lgovernment of the United States for many years. Its geo graphical position renders it convenient for us as a possession; possibly, under complies. ons that may arise with other powers, an indispensable one Sometimes it has been proposed to ac- quire the sovereignty of it by the payment of a price to be mutually agreed ; upon. But Spain, often exhausted and distressed, has neyer been found so poor or desperate as to part with this gem of great value. At other times it has been determined to resort to filibustering to gain the point. Expedi tions have been set on foot, under cover of various pretences, . to create a formidable insurrection in the island, which might be enlarged into the proportions of a revolu tion; but all these efforts have had no other result than to procure the execution of cer tain adventurous gentlemen who mis calculated the vigor of the Spanish authorities, the temper of the colonists, and their own resources. Then, again, it has been suggested . that our government Should spize and appropriate the island, and settle the bill of damages afterwards, according to the suggestions of its own lib erality or selfishness. While not a few of our people have been eager That the repub lic should thus turn highway robber, a de , cided majority have been restrained from consenting thereto either by a proper regard for the dictates of honesty, or by a whole some sense of shame, or by a fear of what the combined nations of. Europe might say or do. Notwithstanding all these proposi tions, Cuba still remains an appendage of the Spanish crown. But Spain has just undergone a revolu tion. Queen IsLism.LA has found it to com port with her personal safety to take up her abode on the soh of France, and the leaders I of the revolt against her rule are now en gaged in adjusting the preliminaries for a new dynasty. •It is thought at Washington they may.need money, , and be glad to raise j r it by selling Cuba. Hence Mr. SEWA D proposes to acknowledge the revolutio ns y government, and while extending that co r ten, in true Yankee fashion, Offer to dr' e a bargain for the piece of land he wants. n- , doubtedly this experimer tis well-timed. ut whether it will succeed or miscarry wi de pend not so much upon the 'astuteness of Mr. SW,VARD as upon the need the Spanish chieftains are under for ready cash. It is not reasonable to presume in view of,the enterprise they are engaged in, and the II manner in which they are conducti g it, that they will cheerfully despoil the mon archy of its best ,depedency. The f rce of circumstances, however, may leave them no other option. We venture to say that i will be safer to Wait the results of the ne otia tions, than to'rust ih.emiturelyr to a co clu golf. "Wno will make the war," asks Mr. PENDLETON, "if we elect SEYMOUR and BLAnt ; if we control the House of Repre sentatives" ? He is answered by piLani, who says that the President shall, with his army, make instant war upon the lawful governments in the Southern States. We shall not heed the Senate, says General BLAIR ; there is no use in looking to the Supreme Court, say all of these advocates of revolution; let the President alone take all the responsibility, for neither Congress nor the Courts can aid him ; he shall march his soldiery from State to State, overturn the new governments, and restore the lost cause. Mr. PENDLETON knows that this would be an arbitrary assumption of power, not recognized by the Constitution; he ,:knows that no free people would submit to such an usurpatiop, and yet he would have it to appear that such an usurpation would be peace, and the resistance thereto of a free people would be the war which he speaks of. How differently this matter is put by another orator, who somehow finds himself making speeches for the Democracy, and yet cannot swallow BLAIR'S programme of Revolution I Said Attorney General STAN BERT, in his Zanesville speech the other day, after advecating the election of SEY MOUR and a Democratic House of Repro sentatives : Finally, put a Democratic majority in the Senate, and then the go id work will be finished. It will take time, perhaps more than it has taken to do the mischief. The process may be a slow one; but my Demo cratic friends, if you are of the same class of men as the Democracy of old—if you pos sess the same steadfast, unconquerable will, sooner or later success is ours. That looks vastly more like true Democ racy, but it is not tbe Democracy of the New York platform ! THE friends of SErstoun and BLAIR have succeeded in eliciting a sort of half-way nalting endorsement of their ticket and platform from General 31cCLELLms. He gives Bum a dig, by insisting that the Con stitution shall be firmly and faithfully sup- I ported; he pays his respects to the PENDLR- i TON humbug by asking for " the mainte nance of the national credit inviolate;" he expresses his judgment of V ALL-U:I3I6IIAM, and the Southern rebels who framed ,both the platform and ticket, in his allusion to Ithe recent war as "undertaken by the North for the success of Constitutional principles;" and he disgusts the entire party by his just compliments to General GRANT and the "other brave soldiers" who "so ably com menced this work : :: If the Democracy can feel grateful to Gen. liIcCLELLAN for all this, surely Republi cans have no reason to complain! SIX THOUSAND MILLIONS of rebel war debt, four thousand millions for slaves emancipated, thousands of millions more for property destroyed by the avenging Boys in Blue—every dollar of these claims, in all over ten thousand , millions of dollars, will be just and legitimate liens on the Treasury, at the option of the South, and in the judgment of the Democracy, as soon as SEYMOUR and BLAIR shall be elected. As it is idle to talk of our ability to pay all these demands, the rebels will accept in lieu thereof the repudiation of the entire body of the National indebtedness, for all purposes incurred, and thus be doubly re venged upon their "Northern oppressors." REPUBLICAN FINANCIERINO Official Figures—Facts Beyond Question— Reduction of Debt and Taxation-1m ' mense Reduction of the Army. NATIONAL DEBT, Net, August, 1863 Net, July 1. 1868 Absolute reduction of debt in less than three years V. 52,000,000 OR AT TILE RAZE OF OVER SEVEN MILLIONS PER MONTH., REDUCTION OF TAXATION Reduction of taxation since July, 1866, $167,000,00 0 per annum. .1865. Taxes upon everything. 1868. All agricultural products exempt from taxation. 1868. All manufactures exempt from taxa, tion'exeePt distilled spirits, beer, 'tobacco and playing cards: ' I There is no donut whatever that diseases of the lungs, or ulcers of whatever sort, on ant or the In ternal organs may be and are frequently cured, and a cnmplete condition of health established. if the elaborative functions, of which the stomach is the primary and most imp , rtant one, ar restored to a condition to do the repairing of the human system, ulcers or sores, woether upon the lungs the liver, the kidneys or the hovels, or upon the legs, as is frequently the case, can be maqe to heal, and a complete standard of health re-established. We have frequently, seen these results from the use of Dr. KEYSER'S LUNG CURE, a pleasant and agreeable midicine, which will ripen up and carry oat the animal economy all effete and used up material. Dr. KEYSER'S LUND CURE is enrich- eti by some nf,the most valuable plants and herbs known to be useful and curstive I all deteriorated states of the human blood, and whilst it adds to its plasma, it at the save time stimulates, gently but effectively, the nkW, net's, the liver and the glandular system to eutllcient action to enable the body to take on healthful Betion.and eradicate the dies •