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MEM CONSERVATIVE SHAM
It la"repOrted from , the-Federal Capital
that 10elegation of the Virginia Radicals
are irOliakcity for the purpose of organ
a, Pongrescdonal opposition to any
approval of•the recent election in that
State: It is worth no one's while to pred
icate upon this Movement -results ofany
There is an almost 63...
venal public cortion that-this eleCgon
was conducted early, and that its issue,
no matter how ilidaderta in the main to,
an earnestly Radical opinion,' has been
legitimitelY reached through the regular
operations .of the measure expresslypro
videdby Congress for the pacllication. of
!Ice State. We hive seen no:substanlial,
or, even plausible, reasons for`doubting
that this.conviction, is well-formded..
The akbple fact that Et very large and
hostileilement iii the population of Viz
bas not Consented' to support the
spiljt of the Congressional "policy, at the
supplemented by another fact,
equally clear r that the same element has
taken a punctilious care - tto adhere in the
minutist - pluticulars to the letter of that
policy, as promulgated in the statutes and
'the exiontive orders based 'Thereupon.
We. hear hints of but a single exception
to this faithful acceptance of the legal
situation by the people; it may be that a
greater or less number of the elected
members of the legislature will be found
to be ffisqUalified for office midi the new
Constitution shall have actually obtained
,the Federal sanction. Gen. Cesar has
initiated an enquiry on this point which
will reveal all the facts. The new instru
meat does not recognize the disqualifica
tion which we allude to, and which would
• not stand in the way at . all if the assem
blage of , the Legislature were deferred
until after the sanction of Congress had
been given. • But the. peculiarity of the
case is, that the. Legislature is required to
assemble, and to act upon the new Article
first, in ordeibitiomplete all the condi
tions which Congress has exacted. It fol
lows thattbe present disqualification_ will
,hold for in that preliminary action.
Theresa only one • explanation for the
appa*d_overslight 'of the 'Conservative
politicians in failing to reckon this inter
mediate_exclusion of the disqualified mem
ber& In theft' .
. _ . calculation )3 - They evidentlY
U(' reiiients for presumi n g that the iron•
clad. oath; as a it sailed; muld not be in.
siated on by the Zederal it,t4thority. What
theae Teutons, -were, we do not care to
enquire. "It is enough to know, let, that
the authority to 'dispense with that ,
re
quirement nowhemexiatti; 2nd, that the
discretion which shoild have assumed to
exffiise such an authority without legal
warrant, would have been in the highest
degree reprehensible; and, 3d, thaVthi
• autlior4 has not been assumed in ppint r _
of fact. If the Nirginia Democ i rtiO have
expected Gen. CAXBY, with or without
MEE
express qrdera from his superiors, tn
nonf\the plain terms of existing legisla
lion, they have been sorely disappointed.
We are not willing to believe that they
have had any show of encouragement for
their expectations at Washington.,
Beyond the hitch in this matter of the
qualifying oath, we can find no evidence
whatever that the reconstruction laws
have been disregarded by the people of
Virginia.' Wnhave no proof, not even
any plausible allegations,' that the elec
tion, taking the State altogether,
was conducted sugtdrly. We can find
nothing, in the Canvas or at the hustings,
to complain off `eXcept that the votes have
not counted out in favor of our Radical
friends.' ;. And from this complaint ire
hardly need add that we are not sanguine
of any specially profitable, results. In
short, we feel that we express but the
general udgment of the Republican par
ty, in anticipating the unhesitating ap
probation of Congress for the proceedings
of the Convention and people of Virginia.
In this judgment, we haje the concur
rence of Mr. Boutwell, whom earnest and
thorough-going Republicans everywhere
have come of late to regard with special
confidence as an uncompromising supporter
of the Rsdical doctrines and policy of our
party. That gentleman holds, as we do,
that the election was fairly iroaccordance
with law, and that no plea remains for
excluding Virginia' from her Federal
rights.
Of course, •that transparent political
sham which is known in that State, as in
some other States of the South, as "Con- .
servative Republicanism," will vanish,
like a soap-bubble, invisibly into space,
•
in the hour that witnesses their Federal
restoration. Although a sham, it '`has
answered, its' purpose in the disintegra
tion of the Union feeling as a political
element, and in the temporarily fatal
division of a party which was wholly
one unit eighteen months ago. That it
succeeded at all was due to the single
fact that the Republican party of that date
was Composed in part of earnest and in
tellipmt, believers in c those radical doc
trines which are tfie life-blood of our Po
litical organization, and, in another part,
of that class of trimming adventurers
who became Reptiblicans only because
they saw a present profit in the associa
tion. Not one of the first-class has given
his suffrage in the majority just triumph
ant in Virginia, and not one of the other
class has 'neglectedthis same opportunity
to abandon a party which had never a
charm for any but thinking and sincere
men. Virginia Republicanism has final
ly, in a salutary defeat, sloughed • off its
unsound elements—to stand hereafter, as
true 'Republicanism ought everywhere to
stela, radically uncompromising in its
fidelit,y to the living and mbving principles
of an equal and fraternal liberty.
There is no such thing as a Conserve
five Republicanism in this country. It
is radical, or it is worse than nothing.. It
holds fast to the ideas of individual right
which a common Creator has implanted
in every human heart, and which flourish
in their admirable development under the
beneficent influences of Christian knowl
'edge. Rooted so immoveably, the
growth of these ideas shall yet over.
shadow humanity throughout the planet.
Then we see all that there is of the Con
servative element in Radical. Republican-.
ism, while no living eye can measure or
define any limit to its expansive progress
through all the ages to come. That pro
gress is itself Radicilßepuhlicar4m, and
the Conservatism, which it seems to be
the present fashion in some quarters to
defend, is its deadliest enemy. We want
none of it. Republicanism, purely and
simply radical. is to be forever an inex
tinguishable element of American politics.
natfar it is against it. Whoso
ever may,ttaiter himself that this sort of
radicalism is to be sneered at, or trifled
with, or fought down, or quietly smoth.
ered, or thrust out of the field as a living
and potent influence with a liberty-loving
people, makes a sad—it may be for him
self a fatal=mistake. /
The Republican party have heretofore
taken all the needful bonds of the traitors
in their midst; an exemplary experience
has purged their ranks so effectually that
they have no fears for any new treasons :
The peril now most to be feared comes,
not from any deliberate infidelity on the
part of those whom - it trusts, but simply
from their neglect to entertain 'a correct
perception of the thoroughgoing ex
tremity of the :true Radical doctrine, or
to manifest:that perception in the caeca.
tion of their trusts. Here is
‘ tlie only
peril which now threatens the supremacy
of Republican opinions -and it will be
no compenaatign,tfor the disasters tliat
may vitae, to gee 'that these are shared,
as they would be by those who have been
responsible for bringing them upon tui.
THE REPUDIATORS.
Last year's Democratic demands for the
taxation of the public bonds, and for their
greenback redemption, were simply the
reconnoisances of their partizan skirmish
line upon the entrenchments of the Na. ;
tional faith. That campaign, like the
one now opening, had but one real obA
jective point—the repudfattost of the vub
lie debt. Worsted' as they were in the
preliminary fight of 'OB, the opposition no
longer care to conceal the real
point of attack. Repudiation is the cry
which begins to come , up from the entire
Democratic I ibis. The Pendletonians,
'through their organ, the Cincinnati En.
quirer, significantly say, that the policy,
.
like the ',mid; becoinlnga familiar one,
and sounds to the popular ear like a mere
PITTSBLIIGH. GAZETTE : WEI)ICE SDAY, JULY. 1869.
synonym for a substantial and grateful
relief from a Inuthen too oppressive to be
borne with patience. The Brick Pome
roy school of the party through
out the North and West have stood
squarely upon that ground for a year
past.' The influence of that school of
Democratic partizanship may be judged
of from the fact that it furnished for
Peacsu'a money the adroit engineers
who consummated last week's scandalous
sale of . the Democratic party to the Na
bob of the Lehigh. Pomeroy himself
and all the little Bricks are red-hot repu
diator& Throughout the South it is also
the popular doctrine—it would be natu
ral for any people to be averse to the
payment of a debt which repress i s the
cost of their well-deserved humi lia tion.
It was only last week that Hr. J. S. GOL
LIDA; a Democratic Representativ from
Kentucky, and now a candidate f r the
Federal. Benate, l made, at Louisv lle, a
flaming speech in behalf of the a owed
doctrine of his pacty. We quote fr the
report in the Couirier-fourna/, apr t•of
the same politics: „
Mr. G. said that after a fall examina
tion of the thousand and one ways pro
posed, in and out of Congress. be saw no
solution of the public debt question but
that of repudiation of the whole bonded
debt of the government, after having
withdrawn the circulation of all na
tional banks giving up . their bonds and
issuing greenbacks payable ,in gold and
silver, to protect the citizen.
That is the Democratic doctrine, not
only in the South, but here in Permsyl.
vania, although the opposition here have
not yet had -the manliness to make an
equally straight-out declaration. They
will all come to it, in a year or two more,
and with such an unanimity that,- if they
can only contrive to hold their rickety
and broken-winded party together until
'72, its National Convention must then
yield to ` the demand of the old Southern
masters of the doughface Democracy, for
the incorporation of downright repudia
tion as a plank in their platform.
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MORE DEMOCRATIC HYPOCRISY.
A day - or, two ago we animadverted
upon the duplicity resorted to by the
Democrats of this Commonwealth in the
Platform of Doctrines adopted by the late
Harrisburg Convention, especially in ref
erence to,the universality and inalienabil
ity of political rights. It now devolves
upon us to show that the deception is not
confined to the three resolutions which we
then reviewed, but is as freely used in the
others.
The first resolution sets forth' sundry
stale platitudes about the limitations of
federal authority; against the exercise of
powers 'concerning the constitutionality
of which there is reasonable doubt; of the
dangers to .t.he stability of the government
resulting from the assumptions of undele
gated control; and the like. These plati
tudes are 'all well enough; though by
constant repetition, in season and out of
season, they have lost all the force they
originally possessed. If the Democrats
had been mindful of these maxims when
the management of the Government
was in their hands, their present
apparent solicitude for their observance
would be entitled to some degree of tea :
pest. In power, when they had an end
to vain, either for their party or the na
tion, they never accounted-these maxims
of the slightest validity or iniportance,
bdt ' constantly discarded the whole of
thein. Whatever they saw fit to do, they
did, reducing the Constitution to a most
wonderful ductility. For more than a
generation their control of the Govern
ment was _ practically supreme, and
all the tendencies to centralism they now
profess to deplore, and impute
to , the recklessness and obstinancy
of their opponents, were started
and stimulated into vigorous life
by them. When centralism ceased,
through the development among the
northern masses of anti-slavery opinions,
to suit their ends, and power was cer
tainly slipping from their grasp, they
rushed to the other extreme, resolving all
substantive authority into the possession
of the States respectively, reduced the
national government to an incoherent and
vigorless league, with only advisory
powers, and totally destitute of the means'
of self-defence and perpetuation. This
lasted so long as the rcbellion endured,
and, then, they resumed the repetition of
the old saws against centralism, in order,
if possible, to , deliver the 'States that re
volted from the necessity of executing
proper.sureties for the non-recurrence of
civil strife.
So, too, the fourth resolution demands
"reform in the adininistration of the fed
eral and State govexnments." The
"outs" always imagine there is special
need of "reform," by which they mean
they have a special desire to get "In."
Did the Democrats manage affairs wisely
when they were in power? The bank
rupt condition of the national treasury
when the Republicans took it in hand, in
1881, doos not confirm the assumption by
the Democrats or Superior intelligence or
honesty. Nor does the forty million debt
they contrived to saddle upon Pennsylya-
WAN and which the Republicans are grad
ually but surely extinguishing.
Doubtless, the men who now preside
over the affairs of the State and Nation
are not infallible. It is not in human na
ture to be. But it would be an infatua
don tnoniding almost to insanity, to sup
pose that they could note be better con
tinned Where they are than to have the
'laces they occupy tilled by the men who
either engineered the rebellion, or sym
pathized with those who did.
Theseventh resolution defile lovingly
•
with the reputations ' of "the soldleri and
sailors who carried the flag of the country
to victory." Alas ! we all remember
when these same Democrats bitterly de.
nonnced the men they now laud as
"Lincoln's hirelings." The victories
won by the gallant soldiers and sailors
extorted from unwilling lips this compli
ment. Had they failed, those very lips
would have overflowed upon them with
gall and wormwood.
_ .
The last resolution pronounces the "In
ternal revenue and taxation system
grossly unjust." No specifications are
• vouchsafed; and that is prudent. Last ,
year the Democracy were not so discreet.
They descended to particulars. , They
vaunted what they would do, • item by
item, if only a lease of authority should
be given them. Art was laid under con
tribution to symbolize their projects so
plainly that the dullest head could coin
prebend theni and be delighted there
with. In November, after the most
searching discution, the people voted,
and the Democrais and their plans were
rejected. Htimihation taught them. the
value of caution,l and they no more come
fi
down to '
specs cations. But what do
their generalities amount to? Just this:
that hopelessly cast in the issue that was
joined and tried last year, they wish to
withdraw their s ecifications, and have a
new trial on statements made as vague as
ingenuity can invent. Tt will not do. Under
President Joansort_the Democrats had
the revenue department precisely where
they wanted it; that is, pretty much in
their own hands. They managed to steal
a good deal more than an hundred mil
lions annually. l At all events, President
GRANT is getting that much more revenue
into the Treasury, through the operation
of the same laws, than they did. With
the overplus he is canceling the public
debt. Ev_ery man of common intelligence
knows that. What better way' can be
contrived to make the burdens of the peo-
ple less? Paying up is the genuine
method of deliverance from financial
trouble. The masses of the people see
what is being done, and are content. It
suits them better to have the debt reduced
by an hundred millions a year, than to
have that large sum made a spoil by trees
ury.agents and business men, acting in
combinatiO'n with each other. Let us
hope that the era of that scandal has gorte
by, never to return again.
Railway items.
The Mason County Idurnai has the
gratifying intelligence, from a source that
it considers reliable. that the West Vir
ginia Railway Company "has about
completed arrangements for building the
road from the Pennsylvania line through
the heart of West Virginia to Charleston,
the future Capital, thence to the Kentucky
line at thi mouth of Big Sandy." s, The
Journal says :*
The bonds of the company are secured
by:a mortgage of allthe rights, franchises,
&c., belonging to said road under its
charter and are ,to be further secured by
the endorsement of the great Pennsylva
nia Central Railroad Company.
The Mt. Vernon (Ohio) Banner, re.
ferring to the Pittsburgh and Mt. Vernon
project, says : Judge Hurd telegraphed
from Philadelphia, Monday, that if our
citizens would increasetheir subscriptions
to $BO,OOO the railroad would ,he secured.
The various canvassers went to work at
once an in two days the 'requisite sum
was raised. This, we presume, secures
the railroad beyond all doubt.
The railroad bridge now in process of
erection at Venango City, connecting the
Oil Creek and Allegheny with the Valley
line,
will be fi nished towards the close of
the fall months. The Keystone bridge
company are the builders. The structure
will have three spans of 120 feet each.
The estimated cost is $lOO,OOO, The re
quisite legislation authorizing the exten
sion of the road to the west branch of the
Susquehanna having been obtained, steps
have been taken for the early and vigor
ous prosecution of the work. The sur
veys of the route are nearly completed,
and at delvers' important points ground
has been broken tor the road bed. The
projected line is located along the valleys
of Montag Creek and BennetCs branch,
and connects with. the Philadelphia and
Erie road at Emporium. The grades will
be easy, not exceeding twenty,feet to the
mile. The material aid for the extension
has been obtained upon terms highly ad
vantageous to the State. The Common
wealth receives for $6,500,000 worth of
bonds for the Philadelphia and Erie road,
not payable till 1912, an equal amount of
the bonds of the Allegheny Valley j load
guaranteed by the Pennsylvania, North
Central and Philadelphia and Erie Com
panies, payable 1875, at the rate'of $lOO,-
000 per annum.
Last April that portion of the Ashtabula
4,- New Lisbon R. R.. laying between
Niles, Trumbull county, and New Lisbon,
Columbia county, was sold at Master
Commissioner's sale to the Erie R. R.
management, who proposed to make the
road ti feeder for the A. & G. W. R. R.
Under a former lease, by which the Erie
purchasers obtained their rights e the road
was to be completed by ,Inly 14, 1869.
A thousand men were at once put on the
work, and were pushed night and day.
Eleven . , miles, from New Lisbon to Lee
touts, were complete, and about thirty.
:fire miles remained to be finished. As
the time drew near when the road should
be completed the excitement in the neigh
borhood became intense, crowds gathered
about the workmen, and things were very
lively. But the mornln of the 14th of
July came and found five or six miles of
rails yet to be laid. _,
The original Ashtabula &- New Lisbon
R. IC Co. people who were interested in
the northern end of the line, -which it is
supposed the Erie people did not intend
to build at all, became alarmed, and on
Friday held a meeting and declared the
lease under which' the Erie managers
I bought, forfeited. The matter promises
a fruitful field for litigation.
Demos Bozum, a celebrated German
surgeon, has; just performed the operation
of separating two female children, five
years of age, who were joined together. In
the same meaner as the BiaeleSe twins.
The German papers state that me opera-,
tion was attended - with perfect iuccesss
. bat one of the patients seems to have died
the same day. The survivor is in goo
health:
Presbyterian Union
The Moderators and Committee of Min
isters and Editors of the Old and New
School Presbyterian Assemblies have is
sued a pastoral letter on the subject of
union to the Presbyteries and churches
under their care. Speaking of the basis
of reunion the letter says:
This basis is simply the doctrinal and
ecclesiastical basis of our standard hereto
fore and now common to both branches,-
"the confession of faith and form of gov
ernment of the Presbyterian Church in
the United States," without inote or
comment, without restriction or qualifi
cation. Each body, equallywith the
other, recognizes and abides by *s.plat
form, as the natural and constitutional
ground for claiming to be . Presbyterians;
and as the true, safe, consistent and un
changeable ground for these two bodies
coming again to be one.
After referring to the unanimit4:f the
General Assemblies on the subje ct, and
to the fact that these bodies did not wish
to deny to the Presbyteries the .ree ex
pression of their opinions and suffrage,
the letter continued:
Accordingly it was ordered that , the
plan of reunion above described should
be transmitted to you for your formal and
official approval. It only remains that
you take prompt and - harmonious action
upon it, such as is indicated by, the action
of your delegates, and that you send up
to the espective General Assemblies your
Presbyterial ratification, and then the
separation which has lasted nearly half a
century thus far, and almost a whole gen
eration, will be happily ended, and we
shall surely gird ourselves for a new
stadium of our career in the work and
services of our Lord.
We beg you to notice that, inasmuch
as the affirmative vote of the two.thirds
of the Presbyteries connected with each
Assembly is requisite, each Presbytery
must act, or be counted in the negative.
And action must be taken definitely, on
ot before the 15th day of October, and a
statement of the vote of the Presbytery
most be certified to the Stated Clerk of its
Assembly, prior to November Ist. And
besides, in order to secure transmission,
the Commissioners should bring up in
hand to the adjottined meeting of the
Assembly in Pittsburgh on the 10th of
November a duplicate certificate of the
action of their respective Presbyteries.
And now, brethren, do not the times
demand of us such organic consolidation,
when the forces of Antichrist are every
where organizing union against the Lord
and against his anointed, and when the
rallying call for an Ecumenical Council
goes from Rome, that would fain muster
her recruits from the Protestant ranks for
the coming conflict? Our best answer to .
the Pope's Encyclical will be our reunion
in November, in season to be 'Communi
cated to the Papal conclave at the 'Vati-.
can, in December. We are loudly sum
moned to reunite now, when such gigan
tic enterprises are on toot to subvert our
only religion, when alll forms of mischief
and disbelief are banding their forces to
destroy the Christian faith, to break down
the Christian Sabbath, to denioralize so
clay, and to root out our blessed Christ
ianity froni the world; when Romanian,
Rationalism and Ritualism make up the
triune falsehood which denies all that is
vital in our doctrines and -worship; and
when the great Deceiver_goes forth in all
the earth, with sleepless energy, to 'natl.
gate kings and peoples to all the horrid
orgies of Atheism. At such a fearful cri
sis ought any evangelizing energy to be
wasted or misapplied? At the moment
of final conflict is it not a woeful mis
take to turn our guns against battalions
of our own allay, who come to join our
ranks, bearing aloft our banners? Our
Confession dwells much upon "the corn.
munion of saints."
What will be one of the consequences
of the reunion is set forth as follows:
Wealth that has long been withheld
will flow forth, as we trust, in a new con
secration, and - oar excellent Presbyterian
system will be operated with new effi
ciency in Oita departments. We fondly
believe that not only our merchant princes,
but the masses ot our membership, touched
by the spirit of revival, and hailing this
new era in spite of the annals of Chtireh,
will bring forward their munificent thank
offerings to supply the treasures of our,
boards and committees; to endow and
equip our theological seminaries. t to • =S
tain our impoverished ministry, and
against all negative and false Christianity;
to bear aloft the standards of the Presby
terian Church, its confessions and cats
clams, with Its free government and its
simple, scriptural worship for the salva
tion of the world.
The letter concludes as follows: We
have only, in conclusion, to beg your ob
servance of the second Sabbath in Sep
tember, recommended by both General
Assemblies as "a day of fervent and
united prayer to Almighty., God, that he
would grant unto us all the, spirit of coun
sel and might, the spirit of knowledge and
of the fear of the Lord," and that he
would enable us; in the new relations now
contemplated, "to keep the unity of the
spirit in the bond of peace."
Washington Itsms.
There is reason to state that the ar- ,
zangements concerning the Yerger habeas
corpus case were discussed in the Cabinet
session, and that a postponement until
December, and not October, as has been
stated, was agreed to, in order to have
the matter decided before the lull bench
of the Supreme Cong. There was no in
tention to give Yerger any advantage by
postponementv but it was considered de
sirable to avoid any decision by the Chief
Justice alone as to the constitutionality of
acts, done under military authority fit the
southern States, as such a decision might
have involved the constitutionality of the
reconstruction acts.
By , ' the present arrangement the case
will be postponed till after Congress meets
a.gain, when, if neceissary, additional leg
islation can be had. Itwas held by some
of the members of the Cabinet' that Chief
Justice Chase had no jurisdiction in the
case whatever; that it was' In Justice
SwaTne's circuit, and the application, if
made at all, should have been made be
fore him, when the responsibility would
have been imposed upon him of granting
or refusing the writ. It is believed that
the Chief , Justice felt that he would be
-exercising a doubtful power to decide the
case, under the.circumstances, which ac
counts for his acquiescence in the post.
ponernent.
Gen. Aouis, commanding the District
of Misidasippl,"and a number of Repub
lican politicians from that State, arrived
here recently. Ames seems to be strong.,
ly opposed the Dent movement, in
BeMississippL says there, f are only two
parties in :that State, Reimblican and
' Democrat, thelermer composed of loyal
met; the attiir of rebels. There is not
the' same hone in the appt,tmlii . ii; elec
tibit that'theie wit in Weds.- Both
parties are opposed to disfranchisement
and the test oath, and are in thvor simply
of universal amnesty and universal suf
frage, so that the only question with the
voters is whether the offices in the gift of
the State shall be filled by Republicans or
men who were formerly rebels. General.
Ames thinks the Dent movement is dan.
gerous to the peace and prosperity of the
State. The men who proNse to support
him are the former rebels. They will
put one of their own number on the ticket
with him as Lieutenant Goiernor, and if
they succeed they will send Dent to the
United States Senate, *ld then secure the
control of the State organization for
themselves. He says firther that the Re
publicans will hold their convention in
about two months hence, and will nomi
nate a strict Republican, ticket.
The Fifteenth Amendment. •
From the St Louis Republican, Mem)
The Radical papers publish strangely
Incorrect lists of the States which have
ratified or assumed to ratify the Fifteenth
Amendment What object is to be gained
by repeatedly asserting that lowa, Ten
nesaee' Minnetota, and other States
whichhave taken no action, have Hilly
accepted the amend `went, passes conjec
ture. The action taken thus far Is as fol
lows :
Alabama, said to have ratified.
Arkansas, ratified March 15.
Connecticut, ratified May 13.
Delattare, rejected. ,
Florida, ratified in June.-
Georgia, rejected.
Illinois, ratified March 5.
Indiana, assumed to ratify. March 14.
No quorimi present. ,
Kansas, assumed to ratify February 27.
The second section was imperfect.
Louisiana, ratified March 1.
Maine, ratified March 9.
Massachusetts, ratified March 12.
Michigan, ratified March 5.
Missouri, assumed to ratify March 1.
Did not act upon the second section.
Nebraska, assumed to ratify. Certifi
cate on Meat the State Department is in
formal and insufficient k
Nevada, ratified March 1.
New Hampshire, ratified July 1.
New York, ratified April 14.
North Carolina, ratified March 5. .
Pennsylvania, ratified March 20. ti
Rhode Island, the Senate ratified May
27. IThe amendment will probably, be re
jected, because the Rhode Island radicals
believe that under it they can no longer
disfranchise their Irish Catholic laborers.
South Carolina, ratified Ranh 10.
West Virginia, ratified March 3.
Wisconsin, ratified ?dards 5.
This makes only twenty-one States that
can possibly be claimed fore the amend
ment thus far; and of these, oniy seven
teen have legally ratified it
EIGHT members of the "United Sons
of Liberty," a coal miners' organization,,
were convicted last week in the Clear
field County Court. The prosecution al
leged that thB Society was for . the purpose
of controlling the hours oflabor, &c.,
to their injury. The,defendants did not
duly that they belonged' to the ,society,
but alleged that there was nothing illegal
in it—that it was a benevolent associa
tion. The Court held however,' that it
came under the technical definitions of
conspiracy, and the ,jury " - found them
ONE OF THE HOST ASTOUNDING,
CURES EVER PUBLISHED-AT
TESTED 01 OVER FIFTY
WIT
MESSES. I
The remarkable cure of "Kiss Flatter. of Beaver
county, 1$ one worthy of more than a passing
notice, especially when'so many persons are suf
fering not only with diseases of the eyes, and
partial or total blindness, but likewise with other
chronic ailments 'which Dr. Keyse; has treated
with such astounding imccess.
The lady concerned was doomed to perpetual
blindness, which through Dr. geyser's skill was
completely removed. the truth of which has been
vouched for by a sufficient number of witnesses
to establish the fact beyond all cavil. The sub-
Joined letter from the young - 1601 , s brother
speaks for itself
DC. Eirrsin—This Is the list of names thet
have to the cure of my sister. Christiana Fisher.
They were all vrtlllog to put their names down,
and were very much astonished to see that you
brought her eight so soon. My mo her sends her
tha,,ks to Ton• she says "yen 'none of the great.
e.t men in the world." She says if we hai not
come across you eh* believes her child'wocud not
be living at this Mate. We all join in sending
our love and resoectsto you.
8. P.' USHER,
' North Sewickley.
We, the spdersinned. know of the care of
sass Fisherislind bear willing testimony to the
fact &bore stated.
•lirstlarr FIaUZI,
Sato I P. transit. (brother.)
ArcriL3 BEADLILY.
Taylor ay. sue. Allegheny.
FrOEN.I McCaesar.
LouisA Flanslt, (her mace.)
S: H. Brown. Philip Friday. Rachel Friday.
H. N. Teckle. A. H. Carroll . Wm. Jenkins,
E. W. Leven- Michael Harris, J. A. e Leming,
darter, S read Lenrmax,. Mira Hyde, '
C.B. ewineburg EliraLevendor- T, L. Young, -
Wm. Alison, rer,_ A. K. Leven-
J.Levendorfer, J. F. Mitchell. dorler,
A. Gardner. Leyendorfer J. P; Morrison,
A. M. Morrison Robs Manead," Makead,
isaiwila Dobbs, N.Funkhouser, D. Fisher,
G.Fisher (brrr) I.lzzle Idalread, Tuttle Mahrad,
T M. Mabead, Thos. alahead. Leon Allison,
Mary J.Drown. Jane A. Morton J. 0. Weller,
Mary J.Weller. N. H. Hazen. MaryEl.Mo. ton
wm. 13,_Morttin Ezra Hazen, Jennie Wilson,
C. M. Fuson, awry E.Wil.on Mary Patten,
Jennie Patten, Marsha Patten, .1 anies , Patten.
sadie E.Dobbs„ Jenniett.Dobbs J. W. Dobbs,
I. Dobbs. Wm. B. Pence, . C.'F.sher,
Wilitamina Elsner, (her mother.)
Deafness, Hard Hearing, Discharges from the
Ear, Polypus of the Ear, Catarrh; Ozena, Blind
Eyes, Inflamed Po es, and every species of flora
Eyes and Tars Rupture, Varlococele, Enigma
Limbs. Broken Veins , Ulcerated Legs and the
various dlseasesof the skin and hair successfulry
DR. KEYSER, nlay be consulted , everyday
untU ISt o'c.ock. at Ablators. 187 Liberty street.
and from 1 to 5 oloweit ESM Elite, No. .t.%0
Penn street.
SEEKER PERILS—HOW ES..
CAPE.
It will not do to trifle With the health in hot
weather. Vigor oozes through the skin at every 1 1
pore, and it ie by tarred Vigor only that tin
bealthirinnuence6 can be - baffled and repelled.
The sitar elementi are evaporated in perspira
tion. Intense heat' converters maw - into a self
.
acting pump, and the Moisture 'that Is pumped
out of him Is derived from the well-springs or
life within him. There Ls great need there--
tore. that these sources of physiii strength
should be in a coalition to bear, without danger
or incenv enienee , the extraordinidS drain. If
tees are not to such s. condition, the isidividual
becomes languidand iow-spiriteo.
The main thins is to keep the digestive appa
ratus in good working trim; for If the stomach,
the pervarior of the syatem, does its • duty tnor
ongbiy. the ilver, the bowels, the brain, and the
navel's system, being duly matured. will be
likely to do theirs. In view of these facts, it is
manifest that a_nowerful and wholesome vegeta
ble tonic EIOSTErTEIt'S STOMMM SIT
TEES is especially required at this' enfeebling
season, It is the most admirable of all correct
ly., and invigorants, and for this reason: it does
not overstimulate. the system. The proportions
0 1 eppeef e es, sanfeand stimulating , compohents -
are sujudicionsly arsduated, that the process of
invigoration and purification go on sinaultaneous
ly. and no undue excitement is created In the ,
circulation or the brain. All ,untuedicated stlm-
niants. however pure, excite the pulse and the
nervous system. Their exhilarating effect la tem- •
porary, and when it passes off the physical and
mental depression they were employed to remove
returns In an aggravated Vino. But this is - not
the case when 1108TETTILIVd !OTTERS are ta-
Aw l as & stomechic and nerViers. The medical
herbs, roots and,gume - with which they are iin
pregnated. hentralize the exeltnalirinclple of
the ryek spirit Whickfonsie their and which
is in Itself the mdat Wholesome the Yule.
-this of &Melia;