CURRENT NEWS.
Tom Thumb is high in Masonry, notwith
standing his shortness.
Two thousand Ilebrews in St. Louis protosl
against Oram's election.
The only point Grant has made aince bis
comiaation—West Point.
Kit Carson leaves fire penniless orphan
children, all under sixteen.
A Democratic wigwam has been opened
la Philadelphia. It will seat one thousand
peraoas.
The Cleveland Democracy propose to send
two car loads as their portion of the "Pen
dleton escort" to the New York convention.
Somebody having stated that Grant baa no
will of his own, Prsntice thinks he had bet
ter make one as sooo as possible, in view of
his political death.
Mrs. Cady Stanton scolds T. Tilton be
cause he will not "follow a good man with
the Democratic party, rather than help to
place s drunken soldier in the White House,' 1
A Radical organ says that Grant and Col
fax "have no strength to deliberately throw
away." That is the reason why they stick
so close to tho nigger. He is much strong,is
Sambo.
The friends of Pendleton who sre expected
to be in attendance at the National conven
tion are so numerous tbat it is proposed to
build a wigwam for their special accommoda
tion.
The party which deliberately hands over
the govemnient of the finest country in the
world to niggers, traveling gamblers and es
caped convicts, is not exactly the party for
the people of this republic.
The Seneca Adcerliser. of Ohio, ssys : "A
dog fight would have made a better show
than the Grant ratification meeting did in
thta place - " We don't doubt it, for a dog
fight might have brought out Grant himself.
The daughter of a prominent Radical in
Washington County, Ya., eloped a few days
ago with a big buck nigger. Bad for her,but
aerved the old man right, Only a few more
practical illustrations of Radical doctrine are
needed to set tho old folks a thiukin'.
Butler says Bingham is a murderer Bing
ham says But!fbr is a coward and a thief-
Donnelly says Washburne is a scoundrel and
a fool. Washburne says Donnelly is a crim
inal and a liar. All these leaders of Radical
ism are endorsed for truth and veracity, and
in this instance none will question their re
liability.
A bey fifteen years of age has eloped from
Lowell with a gushing creature ot fifty, the
mother of five children, who was a servant Jin
the household of his mother.
When Donnelly said Washburne carried
Gram in his breeches pocket, Gen. Butler
remarked, ' It was the proper place for small
change."
A New Jersey farmer has pulled up a rad
Uh seventy feet lung and walled up the hole
for a well.
Grant must be a better man for President
than old Abe was, for while the latter could
split rails good, Grant can lay out worm
fence faster than a dozen men can put it up.
Tbad. Steven says Judas betrayed only
one individual while Johnson betrayed the
whole radical party. Won't old Nick make
his bones rattle one of these lacky days,
Grant is a convicted liar by the mouth of
tve disinterested witnesses. Until this hap*
pened be was not considered by the Radicals
fit for a candidate.
Ben Wade by one little yes thought to take
the oath of President of the United States,
bat one little no made bin take several other
oaths.
A niggerhead exchange says "the Repub
licans are gathering." So they are, and like
like a boil, getting ready to "bust !"
The Detroit Post saja "Colfax will make
tbe opposition see * If the Ku Klux
ever get after Colfax, he will see f f.
The Rump Senate did not impeach An
drew Johnson, to any alarming extent, but
it did impeach Stanton, a murderer of infa
mous renown !
A year ago the Republicans were uncer
tain about Grant's politics. His tnany great
dranks and ignorant displays, aince then,
have confirmed bis Radicalism.
An up-country exchange 6ays the "third
party movement will end in smoke." Grant
is tailing the Nationalunioorepublicanparty
up in that manner now, very rapidly.
Butter-bowl hats, or sundowns, are again
in vogue almost everywhere.
A lady can now-a-daya dress most any
way she sees fit and she will be in style.
"Let us have peace," says Grant
Shall we look to the South where you are
military dictator for a pattern of yoar peace ?
Lately Stanton couldn't sleep unless his
room was guarded. Now he can't sleep at
til. Acquittal is t Macbeth that "doth mur
der alecp.".
Tbe San Francisco Examiner says that
the three Pacific States, California, Oregon
and Nevada may be set duWD as sure for the
Democratic Dommees in the next Presiden
tial election. California, It says, will roll up
twenty thousand Democratic majority.
The Carroll (La) Record says : "Sergeant
Bates should undertake one more trip in or
der to cap the climax of the service (lor it is
a service) he has rendered to his counlyman.
Lot him undertake to carry the same flag
through Ntw England, unarmed and without
money, and aaa bow lang it would he before
ha starved to death on radical hospitality and
patriotism in the prosperous North."
Brick Pomsroy's La Crosse Democeat bss
900,000 regular subscriber#.
A Philadelphia heiress has just eloped with
bogus Count, from Paris. m
®jj* §emorrat.
HARVEY SICKLER, Editor.
TUNKHAirirOCK , PA.
Wednesday, June 24, 1868.
DEM OCR ATIC_STATE_ TICKET.
Auditor General,
CHARLES E. BOYLE, of Fayette.
Surveyor General,
Gen. WELLINGTON ENT, of Columbia
Conservative Soldiers' and Sailors Na
tional Convention.
The Executive Committee appointed by the Sol
diers' and Sailors Conventi n. held at Cleveland in
IBG6, have called a national Convention of the Con
servative Soldiers and Sailors of the Unite ! Slates,
to meet at the city of New York, the 4th ot July
next, to take action on the nomination of Converva
ive candidates for President and Vice-President.
As it is desirable that Pennsylvania should be Mis
represented in said Convention, we request our late
comrades in arms to take the necessary action to
have delegates elected or appointed from every
Congressional district in the State. As the time is
rapidly approitcbiug when the Convention will meet,
tbvro should be no delay in tho matter.
EDWARD L DANA Brigadier General
WELLINGTON II ENT, Brevet Major General.
JACOB SWEITZER. Late Colonel and Brevet
Brigadier General.
JOSEPH K. KN'IPE, Major General.
W. W. 11. DAVIS, Late Colonel and Brevet Briga
dier General.
WILLIAM MtCANDLESS, Late Colonel.
JOHN P LINTON, Late Colonel.
LEVI MARSH, Late Colonel.
All Democrat ic and Conservative editors through
out the State are requested to publish this notice
and call attention to it.
Senator Grimes is said by the pa
pets to be in a dying condition.
JC3T The Senate passed the Arkansas in
iquity over the veto of the President. It
therefore becomes one of the law 9 of this
most infamous of infamous* Congresses. An
other State has been turned over to niggers
and barbarism.
ihn H. Surratt has been discharged
from the indictment for murder, and has been
indicted for conspiracy to murder, and re
leased from imprisonment on §20,000 bail.
It is said that old Thad. StevcDS is
preparing new charges on which to impeach
the President, as soon as enough carpet-bag
Senators shall be admitted to make convic
tion cure.
fIV Representative Young from Ken
tucky, who was elected over his radical com
petitor by over 1400, has been misled from
his seat and the carpet-bagger McKee put
in,on the ground that those who voted for
Young were not io the opinion of the Rump,
trooly loil."
Light Wanted.
To the Editor of the Tribune.
SIR: A few d iva since, wanting light upon the
subject of impeachment, T addressed a note to one
of your cotetnporarios, but I bare not been enlight
ened, and I fear the p over to enlighten has been
Chased away and the Sun is about to pet in that
teriible national scourge, Democracy. I appeal to
you. I take this grouud : 1 That the saeen Sena
tor! were and are pure, incorruptible, conscientious.
2 That twelve Senators were known to be in favor
of acquittal ; that conscience was never mentioned
in connection with these twelve Senators, nor a
doubt ever expressed as to how they would vote, and
that they were notoriously in sympathy with trai
tors. Now I want light as follows: Are Senators
whose consciences accord so completely with traitor
sympathisers fit or safe custodians of a nation's lib
erty 1 I grant Senator Fessenden, for instance, to
be oonscientioos, but I am in doubt whether such
a conscience .-an represent a tree people, or is a safe
depositor of their liberties. To my mind it presents
the darkness of despotism-
POLITICAL DARKNESS,
New York, June, 1868,
We clip the above from tbe A 7 . T.
Tribune of recent date. In the name of
Liberty let the Democratic Press try to
enlighten such Political Darkness. Art*
the acknowledged "pure and conscientious"
ones of our nation more to be trusted, or
those whose consciences accord with "Po
lit'cal Dai kness" only? —a Darkness be
side which that ol Danton and Robespierre
was Light for they allowed some latitude
to their political conferees
TW MN. SCHUYLER COLFAX has a
platform of his own quite as distinctive
and charming as that of General Grant. —
In 1834 he took the following oaths at
South Bend, Indiana,
" FIRST DEGREE " AS A KNOW NOTHING
u ln the presence of Almighty God
and these witnesses Ido solemnly prom
ise and swear that I will not vote, nor
give my influence, for any man fur any
uffitce in the gift of tbe people, unless he
be an American born citizen, in favor of
Americans ruling Amerca, nor if he be u
Roman Catholic."
" SECOND DEGREE."
" In the presence of Almighty God
and these witnesses I do solemnly and
sincerely swear, if it may be iegally done,
I will, when elected or appointed to any
official station conferring on me the power
to do so, remove all foreigners, aliens or
Roman Catholics fiom office or place, and
that 1 will in no case appoint such to any
ojficeor place in my g>Jl."
Mr. Colfax has undertaken to flitter
the foreign element since his nomination
for \ ice President, but the oaths he took
in the Know-Nothing lodge are the best
evidence of his real position.
Grant, it is announced, is going to Col
orado, not on business, but lor bis health,
which Washington water, etc, etc., has
somewhat seriously impaiied. Perhaps,
he will extend his trip to Oregon, where
the people have recently responded un
mistakably to his nomination on the Chi
cago ticket. No doubt Grant would be
accorded a lilting reception in Oregou.—
4 * The colored troops fought nobly."
English of the Republican Platform.-.
Read and Compare.
Ist. We congratulate the country on
the assured success of the Reconstruction
policy of Congress, as evinced in the
striking down, in the southern states of
every privilege, right and hope for life of
the descendants of the sires of' 76, and the
lifting of the negro in his high and noble
intellectuality to a ruling place beside the
southern Tory ; and it is the duty of the
Government to sustain those institution,
and to prevent the people of such states
from being remitted where the Now Eng
land, British puritanical, monied hypocrite
can rob then no more.
2nd. The guarantee by Congress of
equal suffrage to all Loyal men—i e : To
ties—supporters of a Government, in
striking down the lights ofa great people;
and the rights of the negro to carry the
1 a'lot we fix for him to the polls, was de
manded by every consideration of safety
to the Republican part}*, from white folks ;
and of gratitude to the colored troops—
fought—bravely—beautifully—and—nice ;
and of spite to the southern people ; and
must be maintained; while the negro
must not vote in the North to the opening
of the eyes of the people—and the injure
of our dear Republican party.
3. We denounce the restitution to the
laborer of the country of his right to secu
rity from the bond-holding robber of Eng
land and America; and the National hon
or requires that the labor of the country
be held in slavery to the bondholder for
ever.
4tli. It is due to the labor of the Nation
to say we would like to tax the bonds
far we want your votes—but the National
faith requires that workiug men pay all
the taxes.
oth. The National debt contracted as it
has been for the subjugation of the Amer
ican people must be extended over an in
definite period of time to make the work
sure and old England call us honest.
Gth. We must conciliate the capitalist—
he is getting afraid of the people -and we
cau't get a good chance at Uncle Sam's
treasury without him.
7th. Now just see how cunning we are—
That old southern Tory Andy Johnson,
says he's no longer any Tory—and we'll
pack all our robberies on him. Won't
that sweep the States.
Bth. We profoundly regret the untime
ly death of A. Lincoln ; and we regret the
accession of A. Johnson to tho Prcsiden
cy, for though we thought and declared it
the providence of God to our party, An
dy wasn't half so mean as we thought he
was. lie made a pretty good tool for a
while, though.
9:h. We of the Republican party hate
the Irishman, we never have interfered in
his behalf and we never mean to —but just
before election it sounds nice to talk of
protecting naturalized citizens and of in
terfeting ia behalf of those imprisoned in
England—but mind you we don't mean it.
10th. \on soldiers and Seaman are as
honest as a bond holder ; but the Nation
al honor says ; gold for him—paper for
you— WKJOWS and orphans rags, too—but
you are a sacred legacy bequeathed to a
nation's protective care,
llth. Emigrants come over across the
water. We republicans have fixed it so
the Washington*, Jt-ffeisons and Madiaons
don't vote down South—but we area
great asylum.
12th. The convention declares itself in
sympathy with all the oppressed people
who arc struggling for their fights— inside
we hate a rebel the worse.
13th. That wo lfghly commend the
magnanimity and forbearance with which
men who have served in the Southern ar
my four years, even, forgive the butcher
Grant and the vandall Sherman and coop
erate with the loyal thieves who in the
high and holy cause of the puritan bum
mer, rob the people of the south.
14th. Just for fun we recognize the Dec
laration of American Independence and
hope its principles may be a living reality
on every inch of American soil, but don't
read: "Governments are instituted among
men deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed"—Don't read that
part. E L. YV.
The Money Changers In The Capitol.
The zeal which is manifested in the Sen
ate of the United States to pass John
Sherman's bill to add $20,000,000 more
national bank notes to our already redun
dant currency, need occasion no surprise,
when it is known how strong is the per
sonal interest of many Senators in this
scheme of finance. Cattell, who, by a
figure of speech, is called the u Senator
fiom New Jersey, 1 ' is President of the
Corn Exchange of Philadelphia, and has
already made a very good thing out of the
system, and is of course, quite anxious to
perpetuate it. Sherman himself, chairman
of the Senate Finance Committee, Mor
gan of New York, and Zach. Chandler, of
Michigan, are all said to be heavily inter
ested in national banking concerns. This
accounts for the sudden change of base
from contracting the currency of the gov
ernment at $4,000,000 a month to the is
sue of $20,000,000 in national bank notes.
Unless this scheme is arrested, it will in
evitably end in establishing national bank
money as the currency of the country, and
put off to the distant future the return to
specie payments. The banks, already ex
ercising through their money a dangerous
influence in the legislation of the country,
will then be in complete mastery, and will
dictate every measure of government*.—
Tliey will resist every effort to return to
specie payments, as long as they draw in
terest on their bonds in coin, ar.d make
loans to the ciiizen in depreciated curren
cy at heavy rates of discount. Since we
must have paper money, let it be the na
tional currency, and if more must be issu
ed, lot the bonds be retired, and stop the
interest, and thereby lower the taxes.—
Ilarrisburg Patriot.
Napoleon paid over 540.000.000 in gold
to have Maximilian killed off and Carioita
sent to the mad-house. — Evening Bulle
tin.
We can beat that considerably in this
country, Thad. Stevens, Ben. Butler,
and company, paid $40,000,000 of other
peoples money and sacrificed a million of
lives to have our constitution destroyed
and nigger equality established.— Daily
Xevt,
VETO MESSAGE
BY PRESIDENT JOHNSOfc
OF THE ARKANSAS BILL.
To the House of Representatives:
I return without my signature a bill
entitled, An act to admit the State of
Arkansas to representation in Congress.
The approval of this bill would be an ad
mission on the part of the Executive that
the Act for the more efficient government
of the rebel States passed March 2d, 1867,
and the acts supplementary thereto were
proper and constitutional. My opinion,
however, in reference to those measures
has undergone no change, but on the con
trary has been strengthened by the results
which have attended their execu'ion.—
Even were this not the case I could not
consent to a bill which is based upon the
assumption cither that by an act of rebel
lion of a portion of its people the State of
Arkansas seceded from the Union, or in
terrupt its relations with the government
by arbitrarily deptiving it of rep'denta
tion in the Senate and House of Represen
tatives. If Arkansas is a State not in th ■
Union, th.is bill does not admit it as a
State into the Union. If, on the other
hand, Arkansas is a State in the Union,
no legislation is neces.sary to declare it en
titled to representation in Congress as one
of the States of the Union, The constitu
tion already declares that each State shall
have at least one representative ; that the
Senate shall be composed of two Senators
from each State, that no State without its
consent shall be deprived of its equal suf
frage in the Senate. That instrument also
makes each House the judge of the elec
tion returns and qualifications of its own
members, and, therefore, all that is now
necessary to restore Arkansas in a'l it*
Constitutional relations to the Govern
ment is a decision by each House upon
the elligibilitv of those who presenting
their credentials claim seats in the respec
tive Houses of Congress. This is the
plain and simple plan of the Constitution,
and believing that had it been pursued
when Congress assembled in the month
of Dec -mber, 1865, the restoration of the
States would loiig since have been com
pleted. I onee again earnestly recommend
that it be adopted by each House in pret
ence to legislation which I respectfully
submit, is not only of at least • doubtful i
constitutionality, and therefore unwise and
dangerous as a prec-dent, but is unneces
sarily not so effective in its operation as
the mode prescribed by the Constitution,
as it involves additional delay, and may
from its terms be taken as applicable to a
territory about to be admitted as one of
the United States, than to a State which
has occupied a place in the Union for up
wards a quarter of a century;
The bill declares the State of Arkansas
is entitled and admitted to representation
in Congress as one of the States of the
Union, upon the following fundamental
conditions : that the Constitution of Ar
kansas shall never be so amended or ehang
cd as to deprive any citizen or class of
citizens of the United States, of the right
to vote who are entitled to vote by the
Constitution herein recognized, except as
a punishment for such crimes as are now
felonies at common law whereof they shall
have been duly convicted under laws
equally applicable to all thu inhabitants of
said States, provided any alteration of said
Con->titut<on prospective in its effect, may
be made in regard to the time and place
of residence of the voters.
I have been unable to find in the Con
stitution of the United States any warrant
for the exercise of the authority thus claim
ed bv Congress. In assuming the power
to impose fundamental conditions upon a
State which has been duly admitted into
the Union on an equal footing with the
original States in ail respects whatever
Congress asserts a right to enter a State
as it may a Territory, and to regulate the
highest prerogative of a free people the
elective franchise. This question is re
served by the Constitution to the States
themselves, an l to concede to Congress
the power to regulate this subject would
be to reverse the fundamental principles
of the republic, and to place in the hands
of the Federal Government, which is the
creatures of the States, the sovereignty
which justly belongs to the States or the
people, the true source of all political pow
er, by whom our Fcdeial system was cre
ated and to whose will it is subordinate.
The bill fails to provide in what manner
the State of Arkansas is to signify its ac
ceptance of the fundamental condition
which Congress endeavors to make unal
terable and irrevocable. Nor does it pre
scribe the penalty to be imposed, should
the people of the State amend or change
the particular portion of the constitution
which it was one of the purposes of the
bill to perpetuate, buf as to the consequen
ces of such action, it leaves them in un
certainty and doubt When the circum
stances under which this Constitution lias
been brought to the attention of Congress,
are considered, it is not unreasonable to
suppose that efforts will be made to modi
fy its provisions, especially those in re
spect to which this measure prohibits any
alteration. It is seriously questioned
whether the Constitution has been ratified
by a majority of the persons, who, under
the act of March 2d, 1860, and the acts
supplementary thereto were entitled to
registration and to vote upon that issue.—
Section 10 of the schedule provides that
no persons" disqualified from voting or
registering under this Constitution shall
vote for candidates for any office, nor shall
be permitted to vote for the ratification or
rejection of the Constitution Rt the polls
herein authorized, " assumed to be in
force before its adoption. In disregard of
law of Congress the Constitution under
takes to impose upon the elector, other and
farther conditions. The Fifth section of
the Eighth article .provides that all per
sons before registering or voting must take
and subscribe to an oath which among
others contains the following clause.—
" That I accept the civil and political
equality of all men, and agree not to at
tempt to deprive any person or persons on
account of race or color, or previous condi
tion of anv political or civil right privil
edge or immunities enjoyed by any other
class of men." It is well known that a
very large portion of the electors in all the
States, if Dot a largo majority do believe
lin or except the practical equality of In
dians, Mongolians or negroes with the race
to which they belong ; If the voters in
many of the States or of the north and
west were required to take such an oath
as a test of their qualification, there is rea
son to believe that a majority of tbem
would remain from the polls rather than
comply with its degrading conditions. —
How far and to what extent this test oath
prevented the registration of those who
were qualified under the laws of Congress
it is not possible to know. That such was
its effect, at least sufficient to overcome
tha small and doubtful majority in favor
of this Constitution there can be no rea
sonable doubt. Should the people of Ar
kansas, therefore, to regulate the elective
franchise so as to make it conform to the
Constitution of a large proportion of the
States of '.he Norih and West, and modify
the provisions referred to in the fundamen
tal condition what is the consequence ?
It is intended that a denial of rcpresenta
tion shall follow, and if so, may we not
dread at some future day a recurrence of
the troubles which so long agitated the
country! Would it not be the part of
wisdom to take for our guide the Federal
Constitution, rather than resort to measures
which, looking to the present, may in a
few years renew in an aggravated form
strife and bitterness caused by legislation
which has proved to be so ill Aimed and
unfortunate. Signed,
ANDREW JOHNSON.
Washington, D. C., Juue 20, 1868.
[ Seal J
SPEECH OE DANIEL W. VOORHEES.
The following extracts are from a speech
delivered by Hon. D. W. Voorhees before
the Democratic State Convention of Indi
ana:
TAXATION.
In the midst of these darkening dsys.
when the laborer goes about streets in quest
of bread, grinding is low, and skeleton want
looks in at the doors windows of many an
honest tousebold, you are taxed by Con
gress for the support of a standing army he
yotind what an) other countries endure be
neath the snn.
The people of the United States are pay
ing over SSOJ,OOU,O(K) of annual
revenue. More than one-half of that e
normous amount is swallowed up by Con
gressional uolicy of reconstruction. If the
farmer or mechanic pay# twenty dollars to
the taxgalhcrer, ten of it goe3 as a tribute
to a vast military government, which exists
in plain, open and confessed violation of
the Constitution. If your property is ad
vertised on the trees at the cross-roads,
and 011 the doors of puhlic houses for de
linquent and unpaid taxes, remember that
tlu-y woul l not have been half so heavy
and you might easily have paid them, il
the stan ling army had been abolished, and
the expenses of governing Southern States
left w here it belongs-witu the people of
those States.
COSDITION OF THE 80UTII.
And the generous and growing farms,
those plantations of more than oriental m tg
nificonce, from which all this startling
wealth was obtained, and which have been
so much derided by the desciples o fN'ew
England, what was their value ? They
were worth over one thousand four hun
dred millions of dollars, while all the real
estate of a similar character was appraised
at four hundred and seventy millions.
Where now is this mighty wealth of the
Sftuili ? Where are her corn, her cotton,
and her ca'tle ? Why do her inexhausti
ble acres lie barren and unbroken ? Wliy
do her gigantic resources invite none of
the capital of the world ? Why does
business enterprise turn away from this
natural paradise of trade ? Why does the
emigrant, in search of home, go to colder
harder and poorer regions ? There, you
can look and behold the reason fcr your
selves. The Radical Congress has killed
the life, the hope and the prosperity of
the most fruitful portion of the Republic.
Once it poured into the lap of a foster
ing protecting government a stream of
treasure as deep and strong as the current
of its own Mississippi. Now it hangs like
a paralyzed limb, a helpless incumbrance,
a poor pensioner and burden upon the pa
tiencc an d bounty of the of the body. Its
fields are smitten with an unnatural steriltv
Every production has withered and died,
as if some vast upas tree had cast its shad
ow over all. A fatal and desolating blight
is" upon the land" upon the mountains,
and upon 'he corn, and upon tin
oil, and upon that which the ground
bringetb forth, and upon men, and upon
cattle, and upon the labor of the hands."
In her ancient glory and strength she could
meet one half the taxation whieh now dar
kens the face of the land. She could take _
from yonr shoulder one-half the load whieli
now bends vou to the earth. The South,
in a natural condition of prosperity—the
child of protection instead of oppression
an object of love, and of hate, spoliation
and vengeance on the part of the Govern
ment, could pay two htindrend and fifty
millions a year, of the puhlic revenue.
Under the present murderous policy,
however, toward her, it costs two hundred
and fifty millions a year to govern, crush
and destroy her-making a difference of
five hundred millions, an amount almost
equal to the entire expense of the govern
ment. The Radical policy has not only
set fire to and consumed one-half of the
granaries, the slacks and harvest fields of
the United States, but it likewise taxes
what is left to keep a standing army over
the smouldering ruins it has made.
But I may be told destruction of slavery
is the cause of the destrction of so much
wealth; that the figures which produced
from the census oft 1860, were based on
slave labor. At time that the South contain
ed a white population 0f8,604,000, its black
population numbered 3,896,000. There
that population, trained to labor, remains
to-day. The ravages of war and the re
sults of emancipation have been made up,
or nearly so, by the law of natural increase.
The statcsmanhip of the country finds a
laboring population in possession of the
most fertile and productive region of tha
earth, and by its policy turns that legion
into a barren desert and howling wilderness.
The rirh lands are all there. The braw
ny and stalwart labor is there, and actual
want is there. But the miserable aud in?
| cendiarv politician of the North is also
: there; the infamous Union League, with
| which to seduce the negro tq his ruin, is
there, a vast arid appalling miliary despo
tism, created and used by a political party
for purposes of abomination, is there} the
Freediuan'a Bureau, that guarantees out of
your pockets that tbe negro may livo with
out work, is there, with its mighty clan of
pernicious, poisonous emissaries; and the
darkness, reptiles, locusts and plagues were
not more fatal to Egypt than are these gi
gantic evils to that ruined land. We hear
the dreaeful cry of actual starvation com
ing up at'this moment from a country far
richer than the Delta of the Nile. A loan
of thirty millions to be paid by you, is in
contemplation by officers of the Freedman's
Bureau at Washington, with which to main
tain a people who will not work or let
others work in the garden spot oF creation,
Is this the banqoet to whichyou were in
vited by the abolition of slavery ? Is th s
tbo feast of good things to wbicn you were
biddeu by the abolition emissaries ?
KADICAL I'CnPOSEi.
Thus Radical reconstruction proceeds,
and it is the open and avowed purpose of
Congress to admit these States thus in the
hands and under the control of the negroes
before this session closes. The great
crime is pressed now each dty and hour
with fierce desperation. And who so
blind as not to see the odious p< rposes ?
A presidential election is at hand, and the
first fruits of this accursed coiui'ira -y are
to he seventy electoral votes d ,-po-died for
the lta lical candidate by the hands of the
negroes. The negroes of Georgia. in their
dense barbauty, are to outvote the free
men of Indiana in the choice of Cheit Mag
istrate. The negro on the levees of the-
Mi ssissippi is to drown the voice of tbe in
tclligent farmer of the North. 1 speak ad
visely.
The Radical leaders, since the late elec
tions, expect tocarv but v. few of tbe North
ern States. They despair of controlling
any longer the wi itc vote of the country.
They seek no longer to govern this Repub
lic by the white man's influence. They
yield all that to the Democratic part}-, and
denounce a white man's parry as an intol
erable offense. Bat with seventy negro
electoral votes, and to them added the
votes of Tennessee Missouri, both bastard
offsprings of the bavonet, they are. prcpar
ing to rob the people of their sacred rights,
and op; nlv defy the legally expressed pub ,
lie will. The act of reconstruction is un
constitutional, if there is a Constitution in
the land; it i a fraud on the purposes and
objects of the war, if that word lias not
lost all its meaning; it is upheld by oetjury
and duress, if there be such a cr ov-; and
yet we are expected to quietly yield to it
claim, that the negro shall make the next
President.
.-
THE 5-20 BONDS.—A western paper
gives the following concise and cogent
reasons why the 5 2!) bunds should be re- I
deemed with '"legal tender" currency of the
country.
Ist. Because the United States Govern
ment never agreed to pay anything the.
2nd. Because the bondholder lent green
back to the Government, and it is equita
ble that what they loaned tln-v shouid re- i
ceive.
3rd Because to pay them in gold make.-
the investment of the bondholder the mo.-t
profitable one of mod rn times, and a liar- '
der bargain for the 'ioveroineiittli.au wa
ever before extorted by money-changers
even from the weakest principalities.
4th Because every other kind of indebt
edness both by Government and private
individuals is paid in greenbacks, and to
pay bondholders gold gives them an unjust
advantage over their fellow citizens.
sth Because gold cannot be pid for
them, unless thelaboiing arid agricultural
interests of the people are taxed to an ex
tent that will impoverish the masses, ana
destroy the material ptosperityof the coun
try.
6th Because to pay gold is impossible,
and to pay in greenbacks prevents a fund
ing of the debt into other bonds, and,
saves the enormous amodnt of gold inter
est annually paid by the Government.
♦ 7th Because payment in greenbacks will !
increase the currency in circulation, and re
move the financial distress which results
from the tightness of money among bus
iness men.
Hex. BKVERDY JOIIXSOX, our new
Minister to England, was born in Annap
olis, Md., May L' Ist, 17t>G, and is there
fore 72 years of age. He is a lawyer of
53 years practice, and stands at the head
of his profession in the country. He has
held many otli vs among those of State
Attorney, and State Senator of Maryland,
Attorney General and United States Sen
ator. lie also reported iu conjunction
with Air. Thomas Harris, seven volumes
of the decisions of the Maryland Court of
Appeals. He is a ripe scholar, a finished
lawyer, and a polished gentleman, who
will worthily represent the United States
abroad. His confirmation by the Senate
was highly complimentary, being made
unanimously and without the usual refer
ence to committee.
THIS IS TO GIVE NO VICT? ;
THAT on the 2lstt day of May A I). 1569 a
warrant in Bankruptcy was issued against the
estate of Jerry A. Thomas of Nicholson, in the
County of Wyoming and State of Pennsylvania, who
has been adjudged Bankrupt on his own petition ;
that the payment of any debts ami deliveiy of any
property belonging to such Bankrupt, to his. or for
his use, and tbe transfer of any property by him nre
forbidden by law ; that a meeting of the Creditors of
said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose
one or more assignees of his estate, will be held at a
Court of Bankruptcy, to bo holden at No. 303 Lack
awanna Avenue, Scranton, Pa., before E Iward N.
Willard, Register, on tbe 19th day of Juae, 1868, at
10 o'clock A. M.
THOS. A. ROWLEY, U. S Marshal,
42w4 as Messenge, Western Dis. Pa.
To the heirs of Solomon Whitcomh, late of Wind
ham toirnship, Wyoming County, dec'd'
TAKE NOTICE
THAT in pursunnce of an order of the Orphan's
Court of the County of Wyoming to me direct
mi, an Inquest of Partition of the real estate of the
said decedent hereinafter described to and among
the heirs and legal representatives of said decedent
will be held on the 16th day of July, A D. 1868, at
ten o'clock A. M., at the premises aforesaid, to wit:
all that certain tract or lot of land situate in said
township of Windham, bounded on the North by
lands of John Fassett, Charles Fassett, G: S. Faasett
anJ Alvab Fassett. and by land of Ilarlow Fassett,
on the Eastern end of said tract by the Susquehanna
river ; on the East side of projections of said tract by
land of Harlow Fassett, nnd land of John, G. S. and
Alvah FeßSott j on the South by land of Juhn, Q. 3.
and Alvah Fassett aforesaid, and land of G. L. Pal
mer, nnd on the West by land of the heirs of (1, W.
Grow, dec'd. and land of Wm. Burgess; containing
about four hupdred acres, more or less. Said In
quest will meet at the mansion house occupied by
said decadent in his life time, for the purpose afore
said, at the time above mentioned.
M. W. DEW ITT, Sheriff.
Sheriffs Office, Tunk. June 15, 1869,—45w4
SEEHHAI & LIMP'S COM,
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