OXK. S'BHKONT’B EJIOOI*AMA.TIO3ff.
- St; toms, Saturday,' Aug. 21,
The following Proclamation was. issued this
, morning;
"HeiixuiAaTßHg op Westers Djsparturst.7 I
Sr. |.otaj, Aug. 31, ISBt. > -
•* Circumstances, in fey judgment of suffi,-
. dent atgehey, render’-it'necessary" that thfe
Commanding 'General of]mis Department should
assume the administratis powers of the State.
Its disorganised conditSjn,, the helplessness of
thsciyil authority, the t)la! insecurity of life,
and the devastation of , property by bands Of
murderers and maraud fra ’ibo infest nearly
every county-in the Sta avail themselves
of the public misfortune Wj* the vicinity of |a
hostile force to gratify weivitte and neighbor
hood vengeance, and wife find an enemy where
ver they find plunder, fitfelly demand the sever
est measureet fa represj; the daily increasing
crimes and outrages winch are driving off the
inhabitants and ruining the State. In thjs
condition the public safety and the soccess of
our arms reqnjre unity) bf.pqrpose, without let
or hindrance, to the prj mpt administration of
affairs. . --, i j ■ ■ ['
“In order; therefor®- to suppress disorders,]
to maintain as far as ri; iw practicable the pub-j
Ho peace, and to give sf curity and protection itol
the persons and propoi iy) of loyal cilisens, I do]
hereby extend, and cN fere established martial)
law throughout the S fljte of Missouri. The|
lines of the array of tioupation in this State
are for the present declared to extend from!
Leavenworth by way of the posts of Jefferson]
City, Holla, and Irontpn to Cape Girardeau' on)
the Mississippi River.
“ All persons, who phallhe taken with arms
in -their bands within these lines shall be triei}
by- court-martial, nnd.if found guilty, will be
shot. The property, real 'and personal, of al|
persons in the State of Missouri who shall take
up arms against the Doited States, and who
shall be directly proven-to have taken active
part with their enemi is in; the field, is.declared
■ to be confiscated to ije. public use; and their
■’arcs, if any they havef ate hereby declared free.
7* All persons who shall ;,ho. proven to have
destroyed, after the publication of this order.
raTl-rpad 1 tracks, bridges hr telegraphs, shall
suffer the extreme pe&lty of the law. i
“ All persons engaged in treasonable corres-
giving ngproouring aid to the ene
mies of the United States, in disturbing the
• public tranquillity, bjjcreating and
false reports or inoeni inry documents, are . in
their -own interest waited that they are expo
sing themselves. s :'
' - “ All persons who ! lave been led away from
tbfehr allegiance are ri ijnired to return to their
homes forthwith; alid'such absence without
sufficient cause will h ! held to be presumptive
evidence against the 1. 1 • ,
“The object;of:tht .declaration’is to plaete in
the hands of tffe mill iry authorities the power
to give instantaneousiffcct fo existing laws, land
to-supply such deficiencies as the conditions of
demand. Bat it, is not intended to suspend
the ordinary tribunttlsof the-country where
the law will bo administered by the civil officers
in the Usual manner, and with their customary
authority while the same can be peaceably) ex-
.erciscd.-
The ■Commanding General will labor vigi
lantly for the public Welfare, and in his efforts
'for their safety, hopes ter obtain -not only | the
acquiescence, bat -the active support of! the
people of the country. 1
: J - ■ ! f; ; ’ “J. 0. Fsemont,!
‘‘Majc Commanding."
OPINIONS , a. democrat.
' [The following qi "Vact from a bnsiness letter
to the editor of paper, states the demo
oratie qideof the Ijiiouquestou so forcibly,
~ that, although not; authorized to give the wri
ter’s name, we cant it refrain from laying his
views before the j 'bite. It is hftrdly neces
sary fox ns to say, that we disagree with the
•writer in nearly a!f bis positions. We ; honor
his franknessand tjanliness, and give,his views
ns the honest eipneaions of a democrat,' who,
although he supported Breckinridge last Tall,
does not think be is 1 any less a democratic
atmsahe is opposed to treason, nor entitled to
bold ofteeqn account of his loyalty.—
ITATOS.} l
; * ,♦ * * “It does seem to me that of alj
blind and stupid people in the world, that class
of men in Pennsylvania who claim to be the.
disconsolate friends of the lamented Douglas,
' deserve the .premium. They set' up a howl at.
the removal of every postmaster, because Dem-;
oerats are loyal to thtf,Union. They claim a;
share of all the offices, because Democrats are
in the battle field fighting for the Government.
Ken taking this position, leave, to say the least;
room for very unfavorable inferences. Loyalty
tlltthe Government, is one thing; approval of
the policy that just now controls it is quite an
other. If these sticklers for a division of offi
ces are prepared to endorse the principles of
the party now in power, let them go into its
organization! and they. will find a ohanoq for
anion; if, however, they disagree with the pol
icy of the Administration, let them not thrust
their mournful frees through the door of j the
“ wigwam,” andiask for'a slice af plunder) be
cause they are'fa favor of a maintenance of
- the Union. I rued not tell you that I am a
Democrat, that 11 Opposed the election of the pa
triarchal rail spli .ter, and am opposed.to !him
now; I can see i Ary much in his, Administra-j
tion to condemn; knd great reason to fear |tha : t|
the war, from b( ing conducted solely to »re-|
serve the vigor ayd integrity of the Union, willf
grow into a war-.for the abolition of' slaijery,|,
and the complete-Subjugation of a people who.'jJ
while they had no adequate cause- for war.lhadf!
great cause for dissatisfaction.' Still, with oliji
my opposition to the principles of the party*j
that placed Mr. Lincoln in power, I am as sin-||
care in my love for oar common country at das
anxious for the preservation of Constitutional!
liberty, as any man; and I claim that it does
not make.me any less a Democrat than boforq
the war commenced. Fcannot express my coa|
tempt for theman who asks to be rewarded foi
hie loyalty to tfaq government thot protects jhitp|
and I sincerely pope snob a man will fail t|
get office.' It is; foe doty of Democrats to h|
true to the couqt|y,~a duty they discharged
in the past, that are manfully dischargjj--!
lag now, and they will continue dis
charge in all codling' rime, and that dutjy in-1
eludes determine!! opposition to the party
has grown into < gigantic proportions b? ‘if.
ceaseless agitstiofof the slavery question, ftf
the future peaoei if (he country depends jupop
its demolition, [ ton see lam in favorerf keep
ing up,party lin| | and being Organised niid ip
readiness to read ae the control of government
in 1864, and tf to. Jf a hungry BopnhKcah
should eoroa to W and say, ‘ I am loyal, ,1 am
for the Union; giro ms an office/ I would r|-
plt, ‘to the victor* belong the spoils, and if
r - loyal
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iTHE AGiTATiDII.
" HUGH YOUNG, EDITOR A PROPRIETOR.
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a@“ We are oppoaed'to mob law in ttny shape
05 form, and we are glad that the secession pa
pers In Allentown, Pa.; were protected by the
municipal authorities. | Tbo way to kill these
pipers is by withdrawing all patronage from
it em. Same of them want to be mobbed,
hoping thereby to get sympathy and-damages.
We print on the outside of this sheet,
tl|6 call for a Union pemocratio Convention,
w|thout request of the managers who got it
'signed. Many- of the gentlemen who signed it,
siy they ore satisfied with the ground taken by
tie Republican Union Convention, and repudi*
ale the whole Dcmoorptio Union affair. One
suspicions cirourostando about this call, is, that
it was printed in the Democrat which admits to
ila columns articles trying to prove that this is
a blaok Republican Wiir, and the South an in.
defenselessj sufferer.
(|n extract from Edward Everett’s article on
(treason. According la that statesman, print
ing treason is just 1 as bad as acting it. “We
Commend this opinion to the Democrat in con
nection with the pr nting of such stuff ns
I’DoraDep” and other masked-battery-traitors
|Prite for its columns. The editor of the Demo
crat denied publicly tmt he ever published any
ifrticla in which the writer tried to make ont
(hat this war was brought on by the “Black
Republicans.” The consistency of trying to
|brm a-Union party a ong side of such crimina
tions and rccriminati ms must be evident to the
fullest. Read the extracts from the- Democrat
In this paper,
SPLENDID VICTOHY.
As we go to press we have nows of a splen
did victory gained otjer the rebejli by the joint
forces; naval and military, Gen. Butler
and Commodore Strmgbam. They proceeded
with a small fleet frdm Fortress Monroe, and
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bombarded and took possession of Fort Hatter
as on the East Coastjof North Carolina. This
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fort commands the;ejitire coast of Virginia and
■North Carolina, frorr Norfolk to Cape Lookout,
and thuk places that whole coast, with all its
| inlets and batteries, '’including Pamlico and Al
bemarle Sounds, at the disposal of the naval
squadron, if its operations are judiciously con
ducted. The capture of Port Hatteras not only
placed in oar hands a dangerous post, but also
seven hundred rebel prisoners, a thon
! sand stand of arms, {twenty guns, -and a large
{quanty of ammunitipn and provisions. Seven-
I teen of the rebels . were killed and thirty five
| wounded; not a maij bn onr side was hurt. |
i THje ISSUE.
Judging from the Democrat of the last two
weeks, we most bake touched the leaders on
the raw in exposing in. our issue of two weeks
ago the scheme for (he inauguration of a Peace'
party in this county, in the name of the Union;
If the of this county were not
friends of the Union, the fact might form some
sort of a pretext flat such a party. But the
fact is, that while it is true.that “ all democrats
are not traitors, it if equally trne that all trait
ors are note or liacej been democrats." This is
a fact beyond controversy. On the other hand,
no Republican, Noith or South, is now, or has
ever been otherwise than for the Union.
We have heard before of those who “steal
the livery of heaven to serve the devil in,” and
the effort on the part of certain uneasy lead
ers to rally a new jiarty under.this new cry of
“ Union” is but another effort, feeble os it may
appear, to sow the ieeds of dissention'nnd con
sequent disintegration among the real friends
of the Union. This is why the leaders howl.
The whole scheme is such a transparent one,
that just as soon as we tear off the mask and
shew that instead of a Union party it was a-
Spoils party, they direct attention from it by
making a personal warfare upon the editor of
this paper. • -
We published last week a few extracts from
the Democratic press of the country showing
what the spiritof democracy is elsewhere. We
ask all Union menl to reflect well on these ex
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tracts. The triumph of a party of that kind
in this county, under whatever name, would be
heralded from one end of the country to the
-other as a. splendid “Peach” victory. The
New York Ke\cs, pay Book, and their echoes
everywhere would announce it in the largest
capitals:' " Tiogla, the Banner Count? op
Black Republican Pennsylvania ros Peace !"
That would be a new way to sustain the Union
and put down rebels—a new way to sustain
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: - WHH.SBOB«UGH, PA n - -
Wednesday morning, sept. 4, isei.
|- County Elo^ainations.
| FOR PRESIDENT SUDGE,
Robert g. white, of Weiubon.
| (Baileet to the decision of Conferees.)
j FOR ASSOCIATE'JUDGES.
ROYAL WHEELER of Lawrencevilte.
VICTOR CASBi of Knoxville.
•f FOE REPRESENTATIVES.
S. B. ELLIOTT;, of Mansfield.
B. B, STRANG], of Clymer. '
: (Subject to tbe decision of Conferees.)'
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FOB SHEBIFF.
jB. STOWELt, |Tr., of Delvtar.
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5 . FOR TREASURER.
HENRY B. Ca|rD, of Sullivan.
E FOB CpMIiISSIOKER.
sIOB REXFORD, of Clymer.
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I- FOR AUDITORS.
H- BU L L A. RdJ o/ Wellsboro.
IpHAS. GOLDSMITH,' of DeerfeU.
.ocrat |of last week published
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J&'Tbe
THE TIOGA. COUNTY AGITATOE.
the government and the country—a new way
to encourage the brave men who have left their
homes and firesides to pot amend to armed in*
earrcotion for all futaretime. 'j "
• There is jbot-one issue before the people of
this County at the coming electioni and it is the
only issue: The maintainaneo of the Govern
ment and the vigorous prosecution of the war
against rebels, to-the end,, that when Peace
comes it shall fie permanent. That is the only
issue. If you are in favor. of this sentiment,
you will support the nominees of tho Republi
can Onion Convention. If yon are opposed to
the sentiment, yon will support the Democratic
party under any name it may assume. We
make the issue fairly, and squarely; If the
proposed Onion party, or any considerable
■number of its members are in favor of oar plat
form, then it is useless to stir op the ill-feeling
and the recriminations of a political campaign.
The responsibility of such a course, rests with
those who force it upon the people. .
THE CONVENTION.
We present |his week at the head of our col
umns the names of the nominees of the Tioga
Republican ’Onion Convention. The Conven
tion was the largest, and the most harmonious
local Convendon we ever bad the pleasure to be
present at. The Resolutions were up to the
times; broad, liberal-and patriotic. Wo shall
speak of these at more length,in tho future,
meantime let all men, no matter what their
party names may! have been, read them, and
if| you are really in earnest for the Union, it
seems to us, you cannot help being suited with
them. '' 4
i The re-nomination of Judge. White unani
njously by acclamation, was a well deserved
tribute to that gentleman’s popularity at home
where he is so well known, and that, of itself,
speaks mote highly for him than anything we
can say. In the western counties of the dis
trict, the Judge is equally popular with the
people, and if the latter can have a fair, chance
tp express themselves, there can- be no doubt
oif his nomination and election.. Except Mr.
Guernsey who gracefully withdrejv before the
Tioga Convention, there was no other candidate
resident in the'Districf.
For candidates for Associate Judges,-Victor
Case, of Knoxville, and Royal Wheeler, of Law
renceville, were the choice of the Convention.
Both of these gentlemen are well known
throughout the County as upright citizens, both
well qualified for the duties of the office. ,
The fact that the present Representatives
were re-nominated Jay acclamation without a
dissenting vote, is sufficient proof of the gene
ral satisfaction of the people with their course
last winter.
| The most exciting contest of the Convention
was on the nomination for Sheriff. . Mr. Stow
ell, of Delmar, led all others from the first to
tho last ballot, antd his nomination was received
with much enthusiasm. He, is a young man of
genial social qualities, kind and obliging in his
scanners, is a good business man, and well
qualified to perform the duties of the office.
We should have I been perfectly satisfied with
any candidate before the Convention and so
far as we know, any one of the candidates
would have made an excellent Sheriff So far
as we hove heard, the people seem satisfied with
the choice of the Convention and will so decide
at tho polls. -
H. B> Card, of Sullivan, the nominee for
Treasurer, is well and favorably known all
over the County. He has been a prominent
Republican for many years, and bis neighbors
say that he is an honest man. He will do for
Treasuter. Johi Rexford, of Clymer, will make
an excellent Commissioner, and the Convention
thought Mr. Ballard and Mr. Goldsmith, being
both good accountants, would fulfill the duties
of Auditor os wjell as anybody else, otherwise
they would not have been nominated.
—As airhole! the ticket, is a good one—as
good as any ticket ever before presented to the
people by any County Convention of any party.
All it needs is the legal ratification of the peo
ple nest October, and ire have no doubt it will
get that as heartily ns ever any ticket did.
TJWO NAMES.
“What’s in ainame?” asks William Shake
speare, his great mind wearied, perhaps, with
the utter barrenness of such a philosophical
abstraction. lie answers the question despond
in gly : “ That Swhiob we call a rose, by any
other name would smell as sweet," Very likely.
Nevertheless there is much in names, and our
first parent who had the task of inventing a
nomenclature; seeing-there was- no one else to
do it for him, did it, doubtless, to his own sat
isfaction, influenced only by what he knew of
the nature of tie thing to be named, and bis
own peculiar taste in the premises. History is
not clear as to : what language Adam spoke,
nor is it clear whether he and bis family in
vented a language -wherewithal., to express
their ideas, or spoke one already' - created for
them. The presumption is, however, that the
names of all things gave general satisfaction
to the generations which , succeeded the first,
for the pages of history known, to us contain
no complaints of that kind. Happy indeed, so
far as names can make human beings happy or
miserable, must have been those who lived in
the early days of the world when surnames
were unknown. The time at last arrived, say
a dozen centuries ago, when there were more
persons in the world than names to distinguish
them by ; bence surnames became a necessity.
The time also arrived, though we cannot even
guess at it, when, surnames got so scarce also,
that some families had to put up with exceed
ingly indifferent ones—surnames which might
Wellsbockthe tender sensibilities of romance
readers—surnames without euphony, grace, ele
gance, intrinsic meaning, defying all known
roles of orthography. . Witness Scroggs. Bo
ker, Bugg, Hogg, Snaffles, and All
these names are real namSs f to. be found, with
hundreds.of others just asgtfeer, in any city
directory. It is with at human being with the
last surname—bight Ellis B.r-wenowpropose
to deal.
Nearly all of our readers will remember the
'exciting campaign of 185 J; few Indeed who
tick part in it will forget it very soon. It was
io that year that, the Slave Power got complete
control of the Democratic 1 party, and need its
organization to break down the constitutional
barriers which had divided freedom from slave;
ry fur athird of a century, and declared vir
tually that henceforth slavery was national and
freedom sectional. When the freemen of the
North trampled underfoot the rotten fragments
of old party organizations, and rose np nn
unsbakled, and stepped forth to . defend their
homes and rights, there were lots of brazen
faced rascals who had fattened on the old party
carcass sent out over the country to defend the
giant wrong, and to defame and misrepresent
the wishes and will of an outraged people, then
newly organized at Philadelphia as the Repub
lican party. Among the most eloquent of those
who stumped this State in behalf of the imbe
cile old man, who avowed himself as nothing
but a Platform, was Ellis B. Schnabel. » He
was ft lawyer of Philadelphia, was gifted with
the rare talent of telling what he knew elo
quently, and; with the talent, not so rare, 1 of
lying so/ajidftciously, openly, and boldly as to
make believe that'what he
said, was true. Such qualities, added to an as
sumed sincerity of manner, and the capacity
of drinking an unusual quantity: of whiskey
without being considered dead drunk, could
scarcely escape the notice of such a shrewd po
litical manager as John W. Forney, and Snob
ble was sens out a paid missionary in behalf
of slavery extension and democracy. Destiny
drove him into this district. His intellectual
candle was’ intended to light np this benighted
region. It flickered here and there, from; one
school bouse to another for a time, and finally
disappeared, put out, perhaps by ill-success,
perhaps by bad whiskey. .
Wc have stood on the seashore on calm sum
mer evenings and watched the grampus as’ it
rose upon the smootbe surface of'the waterjfor
a moment, and have seen it sink j again in the
pursuit of its prey, perhaps never again to ap
pear to sight of mortal man. Four times has
this political grampus appeared to us rising
upon the surface of tho sea of democratic poli
tics ; once as a missionary’ to the benighted
“ abolitionists” of the Wilmot District, once
before John Cdvode’s investigating. Committee,
where, strange to say, he did-not distinguish
himself as a swindler or'- thief ;j once, only a
few days ago, as an advertised, speaker at a
secession peace meeting,' at' Bridgeport, Con
necticut, which meeting never was held; last
os a prisoner on his way to Fort Lafayette as
Of traitor and a spy against the government
Upon which he has been for four years quar
tered as a clerk in. the State Department at
Washington, with a good salary and little or
nothing to do. Good bye.Snobble I Best from
your treasonable labors. The world will wag
along as if yon had never been, aa indeed you
never have been for good to yourself or others.
Solitude and reflection are sometimes followed
by repentance and remorse. Be busy with
these, Snobble, for when you emerge from the
quadrilateral walls of your prison, you may
find the country you aimed to destroy, great and
glorious and united once more, and perhaps
rich enough in intellect to dispense with your
modicum of that at the end of a halter.
The other name we propose to mention for
the reader’s (and her) improvement, is the beau
tiful, alliterative and euphonious one, signed to
a communication on the ont side of thisphper,
and copied from the Democrat, viz., “ Dora
Dee." Very pretty isn’t it? What a contrast
between the names of Ellis Grampus Snobble,
and Dora Dee 1 Yet in sentiment, they are con
genials. “ Dora" compares the North to a great
' brute of a fellow, with a whip in his band, ma
king love to the South—a gentle, amiable, and
timid creature,-with any quantity of charms,
and a- wealth of niggers. But we have not
strength of stomach sufficient to follow this
charming romance of Miss Dora, so we refer
the reader to it, with this'remark, that the sap
head who wrote it and palmed it upon the pub
lic as the production of a lady, is not only a
traitor, as deep-dyed (so fg,r as he knows,) as
Soobble, but makes himself contemptible by
the sneaking cowardice of hiding behind - the
alliterative nick-name of a simpering school
girl. We presume “ Dora Dee” was an active
member of the committee by whose order half
a dozen secessionists were requested, with the
aid of a score or two honest and earnest Union
Republicans, and Democrats, to hold a conven
tion bore next week for the purpose of organi
zing a “Union” party.. If “ Dora Dee” could
be put on the stand, and if it were possible, as!
it is not, for a traitor to realize fully the sanct
ity of an , oath, we presume she would testify
that she has done duty in the columns of the
Democrat over several signatures, as “ A Repub
lican,” as “An Old Man,” (of straw ?) as' “ A
Democrat,” and sometimes in the editorial col
umns without signature. We take leave of
Dora with a word of advice. If you are a trai
tor, as no doubt you are, keep out of the, news
papers. If you have not the courage to avow
yourself by name, don’t sicken the public with
any maudlin romantic appellative. Public sen
timent is too strong for you at present. If yon
don’t like oar institutions, sell ont and go South
where you belong; but if yon do, and value
yoor health and reputation, keep qniet, oj yOnr
fate may. be worse than that of your dear con
genial, the immortal Skobble.
; The Cleveland PlaindeaUr * a prominent
Democratic paper, openly justifies the mob:
bing of all the secession newspapers in the
North. , '
(Reported for The Agitator.]
The Republican Bounty Convention.
The Republican.fjounty Convention met In
the Methodist Church in Tioga Borough, oh
Friday afternoon last at two o’clock, andorgan
ized by..the election of the ,following officers:
PrunSeni.—jtiEh FAftfefiOßST BstJ.
SeSteiarieg. —S.6. Joints and C.O. Bow tax.
Every township and borough in tho county
was represented, and as the weather. waS very
fine for travel, a large concourse of citizens from
all parts of tho county- wore in attendance.—
The following delegates presented credentials
and took seats as members of the Convention:
Blass —E. J.Boswortfa, Richard -Williams.
Bmolfield —llano Plonk, John W. Fitch,
Clymex —B. M. Skinner, J. B, Benn.
Charleston —Epb. Hart, Geo. Avery.
Chatham— S. Bntlcr, Keub. Morse.
Covington- —John lewis, Deloss Walker.
Covington Boro— lra Fntchin, 0. F. Taylor.
Delmar —Roland Reed, Job Bymonds.
Deerfield —C. H. Goldsmith, C. F. Billings.
Elk —Jos. F. Weecott, Geo. Maynard.
Elhland —Jool Porkhurst, John A. Hammond.
Farmington— R. Cassbier, And. VandUsen.
Gaines —A. K. Furman, F. D. Ritter.
Jaelcson —Contested, v
Knoxville —C. O. Bowman, Giles Roberts.
Lawrence —Dyer Insobo, Henry Colegrove.
Latorenceville —Daniel Nobles, J. C. Reeman.
Liberty —Wm. Norber, Wm. Fulkerson;
Mainsburg —John Fox, A. J. Webster.
Mansfield: —H. Davis, J. M, Pbelps.;
Middlebury —Col. Hammond, L. C. Bennett.
Morris — Sam. Doane, Nelson Root.
Kelson— G. H. Baxter, Perry Dailey.
Osceola —D. Coatos, W. H. Wilkins. !
Jiichmond —F. M. Shaw, W. W.'Baines.
Rutland —R. Sixbey, Q. P. Crippen.
Shippen —Joseph Darling, Uriah Impson,
Sullivan —H. C. Johns, R. B. Rose. •
Tioga —W, B. Keyes, D. L. Aiken.
Tioga Boro —H. H. Borden, Leroy Tabor.
Union —W. Bi Harriogton, John Irvine.
Westfield —C. Phillips,, C. R. Rride. ,
WeUshoro —B, T. Vanhorn, Bobt. Yonbg.
Ward —Peter Cameron, J. J. Denmark.
-In the case of the contested seats for Jackson,
the President appointed 0. F. Taylor, John
Fox, and G. H. Baxtet, as a committee to hear
the claims of both parties and defcide which
■were entitled to seats in the Convention.—
While the Committee were out, Seth Daggett.,
Esq., of Tioga, rose to make an explanation. He
had been for many years an active Republican,
and his whole heart and soul was in the cause.
At the request of his friends he had consented
to become a candidate for Associate Judge, and
as he bad been taking both county papers be
had written to both).editors to make the an
nouncement, The pimovrat had taken advan
tage of bis absence man the connty to connect
his name with some so-called" Union movement.
He desired to say that hh repudiated the whole
thing. This explanation was relieved with
cheers.- * (
'he Committr- >n Contested 1 Seats were
As the Committee on tesu .. w<
not yet ready to report, H. C. Johns Esq,, of
Sullivan, with a few appropriate remarks in
troduced the following j !
EESObtrTIOXS.
Whereas, Civil War with all its horrors and at
tendant evils now exists in onr country—war waged
against the existing government and against free
institutions by armed legions of rebels and traitors
in the South, and by those, who, in the free North,
palliate and excuse them, thus giving them aid and
comfort; And Whereat nil former party issues, vi
tal ns they are in themselves, have sunk into insig
nificance hg the side of the great question of Union
or Disunioh. Therefore be it [
" Resolved, That until peace shall bo again restored
by a vigorous and successful war, there can be but
two parties—one maintaining inviolate the Constitu
tion and the Union, and the government established
by it; and the other directly in arms, or indirectly by
sneering at the efforts of the administration to enforce
the laws, and palliating, excusing,; apologising, or
sympathising with rebellion, conspiring to overthrow
the Constitution and thereby destroy the Union of the
States. i
Rooked, That while we have the utmost confidence
in President Lincoln—in bis ability,] wisdom, nnctin
tagrity—and in the principles on which he was elected
to the first office in the world; nevertheless, we be
lieve it to be the dnty of all men to meige the parti
san in the patriot, and therefore we are willing to
meet all men upon a common platform: The Union,
for the sake of the blessings of freedom and good
government; the Constitution and the war for its
maintenance until the rebels lay down their arms;
and the enforcement of the laws, oven to the
hanging of traitor loaders. This is our only platfom
and we invite aii men to unite with as, no matter what
party they may have belonged to heretofore in sup
port of these principles.
Rooked, Thnt if the Union Democrats of this
County shall unite with) ns in forming one party, upon
Die platform stated in the above resolution, as they
have manfnliyunited with ns in contributing volun
teers for the Wat, we shall in the Talnre, as evidence
of nuf good failhi require only loyalty, honesty, and
capability in the distribution of offices, without re
gard to party names. ;
Rooked, That “ the practice which seems to have
grown np in thisjqpnnty for tho last ten years, of per.
sons selecting themselves for office, advertising their
names to the pnblio” through the county papers, as
candidates, is, of itseii right anil proper; bat that
“ the practice of traveling over the county in all di->
rections beggirg and pleading the people to elect del
egates instructed for them, has become a nuisance,
end ought to he” abolished; that', “ the effect of such
a practice is demoralizing, tending to promote bar
gains between the candidates; to provoke strife and
discord, and in the end to place candidates before the
public who are sometimes unworthy of public trust
that the people themselves, and! not political wire
pullers who take advantage of a bad system to pro
mote their own selfish ends, should be allowed to say
who their candidates for office shall be. * That to re
move these, and other abases, this Convention hereby
abolishes, so far as the County Republican organiza
tion is concerned, the present Convention system, and
that we hereby adopt the following in its stead:
The people of each township and borough will meet
at the usual place of holding elections, and at a cer
tain time agreed npon by the County Executive Com
mittee ns heretofore, and shall cost each man for him
self, one vote for the person he desires to be nominated
to any given office. It shall bo the'dnty of the Vigi
lance Committees appointed by the County Executive
Committee as heretofore, to cohstitnte themselves os
an election board, to count the votes given for each
candidate at the close of the election, and to meet nt
the Court House in Wellsborongh at four o’clock P.
M. of the Friday following each primary election.
After proper organization, these, committees shall pro
ceed to count the votes cast for each candidate in the
several townships and boroughs in the county, and
tho person having tho highest! number of votes cast
for him shall be declared tho nominee of the Repub
lican party for that office, and shall receive tho hearty
support of all the Republicans at tho election which
follows. ' ; I
' Retoked, That, ns the above system, if properly
carried out, wilt represent more faithfully the wishes
of a majority of the people than any other, and, as
it at ones does away with delegates, and political
traffic in any shape, wo call upon all Republicans to
aid ns in carrying ont this much needed reform.
During the reading, Mr. Johns was frequently
interrupted by cheers, and when the motion was
made that the resolutions be adopted as a whole,
it was unanimously carried amid the wildest
demonstrations of enthusiasm.
Mr. 0. F. Taylor, on behalf of tho Commit
tee on Contested Seats reported that A. Lariew,
and C. H. Leffler were entitled to seats from
Jackson Township. On, motion the report
was adopted.
The President announced that as the Con
vention was now fully organized, the first bu
siness in ordqr was the nomination of candidates
for President Judge.
Robert G. White, John W. Guernsey and C.
B. Curtis were named, !
Before' proceeding to vote, Mr. Guernsey
made a few remarks withdrawing his name,
whereupon on motion of'Mr. Tabor of Tioga
Borough. Hon. B. G. WHITE was declared the
unanimous choice of the Convention-by acola
mation. The motion was carried withhT.T'
done cheers. ;'
[Subsequently, after the hallotingfov •
was concluded, the Convention appoim
Strang, Hugh Young, and John R.Bo».
Conferees to meet the other Conferees
other Connties in this Judicial Bi|S
Smethport, M§Kean County, on SatonW
lernoon,‘Sept.2lst next, to nominate a ’
date for President Judge.]
The Convention proceeded to nominal u,
candidates for .Associate Judge, with
lowing results— ”
Ist ballot 2d 3d 4th 6th
Victor Case ' 40 <
E. T. Bentley 21 16 18 20 IJ’
Royal 14 _ 13 21 23 gj
W. C. Ripley 15 ’ 5 4 _
1 Wm, Butler 15 19 18 18 24
Seth Daggett. 13 4 _
J. G. Whittaker 12 8 5 5 1
Chauncey Ferry 4 2 2
At the close of the feet ballot, Victdv
Esq., of Knoxville, Waa declared duly nc
ted for Associate Judge, having received
jority.
At the close of the 6th ballot, Rotai
leb, of Lawrenceville, having received i
jority of all the votes cast, was declared,
nominated as the other candidate for
Judge.
The President announced that the ni
order was the nomination of Represents!
On motion of C. 0. Bowman, Esq., S. B. ’
ott and B. B. Strang were declared the ■
moue.'choice of this Convention byacclar
[Subsequently, at the close of the hal
Messrs. J. B. Niles, and Henry Allen vrt
pointed by the Convention as Confer
meet with the Conferees of Potter Cor
Coudersport, on Tuesday afternoon, Sej
next, to nominate candidates for the Le;
for this district.]
: The next business in order was'the not
tion of a Candidate for sheriff. This to
most exciting as it was the most importer
test in the Convention. The friends of. tii
rions candidates felt confident of success,'
balloting afterwards showed. We snip
few of the ballots:—
Ist bal 10th 20’th 21st 22d 23i
Bossard '4 4 2
Elliott 12 14 15 19 21 24
Stowell 15 17 27 26 30 31
Brundage 6 6 _ 5
■Holden 13 15 14 16 14 13
Lowell o 10 10 8 3 1 -
Ogden 6 6
Christenat.2
At the close of the 24th ballot H. .
Jb., of Delmar, having a ’ majority of
votes cast, was declared the nominee
Convention for the office of Sheriff. Hi'
ination was received with demonstration!
tbusiasm on the part of his friends,
the relative strength of the various cp
on the first ballot, we give the vote:
Fob ’Elliott : —Hart, Avery, Patching
Goldsmith, Billings, Bowman, Roberts, r
Dailey, Harrington, Irvine, —12.
For Stoweli.. —Bosworth, Williams,
Reed, Syrnonds, Narber, Fulkerson, 1
of Middlebury, Donne, Bennett, Root, D:
Impson, Cameron, Demnark.—ls.'
For Holden. —Plank, Fitch, Botier,
Walker, Davis, Phelns, .Shaw, Baines,
Crippen, PbiHips,Tnde.—l3
Foe Lowell. —Cassbier, Tandnsea,
Colegrove, Nobles, Beetnan, Keyes, Aikei
den, Tabor.—lo
Foe Betjndage. —Leffler, Fox, "Wi
Johns: Rose, Lariew.—6
Foe Ogden. —Skinner, Benn, WesfMl
nard, Furman, Bitter.—6
Fob Bossard.— Coates, "Wilkins, Pi
and Hammond of Elkland. —4
; For Christen at. —Young and Tanhoi
The Convention nest proceeded to w
the candidates for treasurer. The secoat
lot resulted in the choice of H. B. Cim
livnn, as follows: H. B. Card, 39; M..
win, 10; M, Seeley, 7; B; S. Bowen, 5,
Card was declared the nominee.
■ The vote for a candidate for Comt
was quite spirited as will be seen by fit
joined ballots:
Istbal 2d 3d »
Job Bexford 22 ,24 '25 *
Peter Bush 6 4 J 4 1
B. S. Seeley 6 6 J
B. Blackwell 21 21 • 'p. ®
H C Terroilyea 10 11 ’ 9 ‘
At the close of the fourth ballot, Jt
of Clymer, was declared duly nonis:
Commisioner. *
C. 0. Bowman, Esq., on behalf of B
dener, announced that there was ava
the board of Auditors, the latter g* l
■having resigned that position, ft o ?
were therefore made for the office of
with the understanding that the two ,
having the highest numbers upon the fo
lot shall be declared nominated.
stood as follows: C. H. Goldsmith, 35-
lard, 38; Jas. I. Jackson, 6 ; H. L.
Moses Lee", 15; 17, Cojegrove, 14; C.
ton, 2. Messrs Goldsmith hntlßollard
dared the nominees for \Su3itor.
On motion the Conferees were app°"
given above,) and the following resold
offered and passed unanimonsly:
■Resolved, That S. B. Elliott, T. B. lW;
E. White, H. C. Johns, J. B. Niles, C. ?■'
and Jas. H. Gnlicfe, be, declared the.co®
Convention for the County Executive to
the coming year.
One of the delegates offered the
which also passed unanimously: .
. Resolved, That, halieving.as wo do,
nces of this Convention are all earnest
Union and against treason or traitors, N®
we pledge them our hearty support at
election. ,
The Convention having finished to
gave three cheers for the .Union an “
and adjourned sine die.
'• So remembered the Forgotten
folly said of Howard the philsntnrop
so applies to every man who brings
ioratione, comforts and enjoyosntso
in the reach of persons,andclasses
erwise deprived of their advantage s ;
ly may it he said of him who |Lj
and finds new means of preserving .
poor man’s capital and the rich. .
We think this eulogium properly OPP
C. Ayer, of Lowell, the renowned ■
New England who,.Boprning the t
to fame, devoteft;hia entire ability 8
ments to tho discovery of Nature s
nal remedies. When the bidden
been revealed, he proceeds
mankind'alike, through onr ■
low prioes that poor and rich may ,
its benefits, —Journal and Enf 1 ' ’
Maine.