Wyoming democrat. (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, August 12, 1868, Image 2

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    CURRENT NEWS.
A marriage was solemnized in Hartford
nearly two years ago, which has been kept a
secret from the friends of the parties to the
present lime. The parties are now applying
to be divorced.
A man bathing in the Tallahatche mer,
Florida, a few days since, struck a small box
on the bottom. Being fihed up and opened
U was found to contain 87,080 in gold, and
84,000 in Confederate scrip.
There has been a grett fire in the woods
on the Rocky mountains. The heat was
perceptible a mile and a hal f from the fiames >
and at a distance of half a mile was so great
aa to be unendurable.
Prince Napoleon employs six cooks and
spends §20,000 a year on his table.
John Dupree, negro, of Georgia, is tired of
the carpet*baggers and advises his brethren
to rote with the Democrats hereafter. lie
alludes to the false promises of the bngeen.
and asks his colored friends, "Have you got
jour mule ? I ain't got mine, yet ; and they
told us right here in Irwintown they was go
iDg to give us one. Have you got your forty
acres of land ? Hate you got your I,l*oo iD
greenbacks 1 Echo answers whar's your
mule, instead of here's your mule."
'"Not a man but was a Democrat that went
into rebellion," says the Albany Evening
Journal. True for once. About 500,000
Democrats ' went into" the rebellion so suc
cessfully as to eud it in five years, which
they would have dona in two but fur the
Radical botch work at Wa>hington. And
they are "going into" the Radical rebels with
equal rim now.
Whittemore, a New York carpet-bagger
Congressman from South Carolina, is charged
with having persuaded all the negroes in bis
district that their marriages were illegal be
cause the proclamation of Lincoln set all the
negroes free from matrimony as well as sla
very. Then, it is said, he married them over
■aga'n as a magistrate for trooly loil fees.
Col. C. C. Gardiner, United States Asses
sor for the Twenty-seventh District in this
State, has written a letter to Major General
Henry W. Slocurn, of Brooklyn, announcing
that hereafter he will support Seymour and
Blair, because he is convinced that only a
change of rulers can remove the evil of Con
gressional despotism, a divided Union, a
worthless currency, unequal taxation, com
mercial paralysis and citizen liberty. 101,
Gardiner and Sen. Slocum were soldiers in
the same regiment iD the early part of the
war and they fight together now again.
Tennessee is reconstructed. Tennessee is
bankrupt. Cant meet her July interest. And
wanis troops. can't be carried for Grant
without 'em. Let us have peace.
Gov, Buell, the man who saved Grant and
his shattered army from an inglorious defeat
at Shiloh, expresses himself greatly pleaded
with the Dominations made by the Democrat
ic Convention, and predicts for the ticket a
glorious victory.
Grant is said to be quite disgusted with
his new party friends. lie has discovered
that being a candidate for President dors
not compensate one for even a little time
wasted with his new bed-fellows. He has
been reading over the Chicago platform, and
is unable to ascertain what it means. He
says the "goll durned thing' "reads as well
one end up as the other- Washburn ex
plained it to him, but he has forgotten the
points.
Ten million dollars, it Is estimated, is re
quired to pay the Tennessee militia. "Let us
have peace," says Grant.
GRANT, ANDREW JACKSON.
"I shall have no "That man deserves
policy of my own." to be a slave, who
wo'd vote for a num
candidate when his
liberties aieat stake."
The radicals in convention, on Saturday,to
nominate a judge for the Greenfield District
in Ohio, broke up in a regular riot. Let us
have peace.
Kentucky gives a Democratic majority of
over 90,000. Let us have peace.
Only one member of Lincoln's original
cabinet is now acting with tbe radicals, and
that one is the notorious corruplionist,Simom
Cameron.
Grant kissed a baby at Council Bluffs, The
baby has been sick ever since.
Senator Ileodricks will stump Indianna for
Seymour and Blair.
Colored Democratic barbecues and mass
meetings are popular in all the Southern
States.
We have heard so much of Grant's fine
horsemanship as to almost regret that such a
fine circus-iider should have been spoiled by
placing him in the army.
A radical exchange says : "The Republi
cans will be in TRANSPORTS, after tbe No
vember election." Of courae, they wilt— gor
iDg up Salt river.
An indignant female cowhided a Radical
ex-minister and editor at Tyrone, a few days
ago, for playing "Paul Pry" and embarking
in the Police Gazelle business. The (ellow
received a severe and well-merited castiga
tion.
The Radicals are greatly disturbed be
cause Gov. Seymour has none of his wealth
in Government bonds. He has chosen to in
vest it in property that paysYaxes.
A boy eight years old having been told
that a reptile is an animal that creeps and
being asked to name one, replied, Aunt Mar
tha's baby.
The N. Y. Day Book gives the mongrels
to understand that the next President shall
be elected by white votes exclusively. It
says, it is well for the bummer party to un
derstand now, that no presidential candidates
elected by a majority sustained solely by
Digger votes, will be held as constitutional.
The democracy mean that the republic shall
continue to be "a white roan's government."
'Rah for Cant and GrabtaX.
Sjcgemotnti
HARVEY SICKL.ER, Editor.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA. ~
Wednesday, Aug. 12, 1868.
FOR PRESIDENT,
HON. HORATIO SEYMOUR.
OF NEW YOKK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT^
GEN. FRANCIS P. BLAIR,
OF_ MISSOURI.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
Auditor General,
CHARLES E. BOYLE, of Fayette.
Surveyor General,
Gen. WELLINGTON ENT, of Columbia
Telegraphic report received this
morning, announces the death of Thad.
Stevens, yesterday.
Read Horatio Seymour's splendid
letter in this paper.
It is the very sublimity of consis
tency for the party which argues that a
National debt is a National blessing, to
keep on increasing the "blessing" by pec
ulations frauds and plunder.
'liah for the " Bureau " ! 'Rah fot
Mercur's " Claim Agency " !
Impudence.
The impudent assumption of the radicals
is manifested in their congratulations of the
country, on the "assured success" of their
reconstruction schemes, at the same time
demand that the niggers be supplied with
aims for the purpose of keeping down the
white men in the southern half of the
States.
W hat impudence in the party that has
made the country bankrupt by its extrav
agance and stealings, to declare for re
trenchment and reform in expenditures.
Ilow impudent to claim that the war was
carried on for the Union, and for three
years refused to acknowledge a union ex
cept with sneaking carpet-baggers and
niggers.
ilow impudent to claim to be the party
of "great moral ideas " and following the
lead of spoon thieves, woman hangers and
irreligious libertines.
What impudence to claim to be a party
of temperence, and place at the head of
their ticket a notorious inerbriatc.
What impudence to declare for impar
tial sufirage, and bayonet from the polls
all the intelligent white men in ten States.
A Crowning Outrage.
One of the last acts of the Radicals in
Congre=s was to pass a bill punishing with
fine and imprisonment any one who offers
to vote or act as Election officers at the
coming Presidential election in Mississippi
Virginia or Texas :
Mr. Lawrence, (Disun. 0.,) offered an
amendment MAKING IT A PENAL
OFFENCE, PUNISHABLE WITH
FINE AND IMPRISONMENT, FOR
ANY PERSON IN THE SAID
STATES TO VOTE OR ACT AS AN
OFFICER OF ELECTION IN THE
ENSUING PRESIDENTIAL ELEC
TION, and making it the duty of the
President to prohibit such a thing.
This amendment was adopted yeas, 112.
nays 27, a strict party vote. Every Rad
ical present and voting, recorded his
name in favor of this infamous proposi
tion.
Can history point to a more high hand
ed scheme of usurpation ?
They disfranchise the whites.
Ann the niggers.
Exclude the States supposed to give
Democratic majorities.
And declare it a penal offence in three
States to vote at the ljjesidential elcct
tion.
This is the Congress that the people
are called upon to endorse.— Jrffersonian.
Our opponents, in the desperation
of their cause, are shirking the issue of the
present and endeavoring to revive those
of the past. But even in this line of strat
egy they do their work bung ingly—for
they do not argue, they abuse. They are
bringing into use again stereotyped but
(as every decent citizen will say) "played
out " epithets of "copperhead,' "rebel,"
and the like which they apply to every
one who docs not subscribe unreservedly
to the creed of Radicalism. Not only is
the great Democratic party the object of
these expletives, but also such men as
Judge Chase, Scnatof Doolittle, General
Ewing, and other Republicans who can
not, as friendn of their country, hesitate to
express their disgust at Radicalism. The
word "loyal "is also becoming quite pat
again in Radical sheets, and the public
are being nauseated with the constant
bragging of the Radicals being tbe only
"patriots" in the country It reminds us
of men we have seen who, while dispara
ing the integrity of everybody else, are
constantly boasting of their own honesty—
when they are, in truth, the greatest
scoundrels in the community. Such
characters are better watched than confi
ded in ; and we would apply the advier to
their copyists, the Radical.— Bradford.
| Argun.
LETTER OF HON. HORATIO SEY
MOUR ACCEPTING THE DEMO
CRATIC NOMINATION FOR
THE PRESIDENCY.
UTICA, August 4.
GENTLEMEN : When, in the city of New
York on the 11th of July, in the presence
of a vast multitude, on behalf of the Na
tional Democratic Convention, you tender
ed to me its unamimous nomination as its
candidate for the office of President of the
United States, I stated I had no words "a<U
equate to express my gratitude for the
good will and kindness which that body
had shown to me. Its nomination was
unsought and unexpected. It was my ambi
tion to .ske active part,from which 1 am now
excluded, in the great struggle going on
lor the restoration of good government, of
peace and prosperity to our country. But
I have been caught up by the whelming
tide which is bearing us on to a great polit
ical chauge, and I find rnyselt unable to re
sist its pressure. You have also given me
a copy of the resolutions put forth by the
Convention, showing its position upon all
the great questions which now agitate the
country. As the presiding officer of that
Convention, I am fam liar with their scope
and import; as one of its members, I am a
parly to their terms. They are in accordance
with my views, and 1 stand upon them in
the contest upon which we are now enter
ing, and shall strive to carry them out in
future, wherever 1 may be placed, in polit
ical or private life."
I then stated that I would semi you
these words of acceptance in a letter, as is
the customary form. I see no reason, up
on reflection, to change or qualify thetemi
of my approval ofthe resolutions of the
Convention.
I have delayed the mere formal act of
communicating to you in writing what 1
thus publicly said, for the purpose of see
ing what light the action of Congress
would throw upon the interest of the coun
try.lts acts since the adjounment of the Con
veutioo show an alarm lest a change of po
litical power will give to the people what
they ought to have—a clear statement of
what Las been done with the money drawn
troin them during the past eight years.
Thoughtful men feel that there have been
wrongs in the financial management which
have been kept from the public know ledge
The Congressional party has not only allied
itself with military power, which is to be
brought to bear directly upon the elections
of many States, but it also holds itself in
perpetual session, with the avowed purpo'c
of making such laws as it sh ill see fit, in
view of the elections which will take place
in a few weeks. It did not, therefore, ad
journ, but take a recess, to meet again it
its partisan interests shall demand its reas
sembling. Never before in the history of
our Country has Congress thus taken a
menacing attitude towards its electors.
Under its influence some of the States or
ganized by its agents are proposing to de
prive the people of the right to vote for
I'residental electors, and the first bold step
are taken to destroy the rights of suffrage.
It is not strange, therefore, that thoughtful
men see in such action the proof that there
is with those who shape the policy of the
Republican party, motive stronger and
deeper than the mere wi-h to held polit
ical power; that there is a dread of some
exposure which drives them on to acts so
desperate impolitic.
Many of the able.-t leaders and journals
of the Republican party have openly de
plored the violence of Congressional action
and its tendency to keep up discord in our
country. The great interests of our Un
ion demand peace, order, and a return to
those industoral pursuits without which v e
cannot maintain the faith or honor of our
Government. The minis of the business
men are perplexed by uncertainties. The
hours of toil of our laborers are lengthen
ed by the costs of living made by the di
rect and indirect exactions of Goverment.
Our people are harrased by the heavy and
frequent demand of the tax gatherer.— |
Without distinction of party there is a
strong feeling in favor of that line of ac
tion which shall restore order and confi
dence, and shall lift off the burdens which
now hinder and vex the industry of the
country. Yet at this moment those in pow
er have thrown into the Senate Chamber
and Congressional 11 all new elements of
discord and violence. Men have been ad
mitted as Representatives of some of the
Southern States, with the declaration upon
their lips that they cannot live in the States |
they claim to represent, without military
protection. These men are to make laws
for the North as well as the South. These ,
men, who a few days since were seeking as
suppliants that Congress would give them
power within their respective States, are
to-day the masters and controllers of those
bodies. Entering them with minds filled
with passion, their first demands have been
that Congress shall look upon the States
from which they come as in conditions ol
civil war; that the majority of their popu
lations, embracing their intelligence, shall
be treated as public enemies; that military
forces shall be kept np at the cost of the peo
ple of the North, and that there shall be no
peace and order at the South save that
which is made by arbitrary power. Evi-ry
intelligent man knows that these men owe
their seats in Congress to the disoider in
the South; every man knows that thev not
only owe their present positions to disor
der but that every motive springing from
the love of power, of gain, of a deire for
vengeance, prompts them to keep the South
in anarchy. While that exists, they are
independent of the wills or wishes of their
fellowcitizens. While confusion reigns,
they are dispensers of the profits and the
honors which grew out of the government
of mere force. These men are now placed
in positions where they cannot urge their
views of policy, but where they can en
force them. When others shall be admit
ted in this manner froin the remaining
Southern States, although they will have
in truth no constituents, tlicy will have more
power ia the Senate than a majority of the
people in this Union living in nine of the
great States. In vain the wisest men of
the Republican party protest against the
policy that leads to this result. While
the chiefs of the late rebellion have submit
ted to the results of the war, and are now
quietly engaged in useful pursuits foi the
support of themselves and their families,
aud are trying by force of their example
to lead back the people of the South to the
order and industry, not only essential to
their well-being, but to the greatness and
prosperity of our common country, we see )
that those who, without ab-lity or influence,
have been thrown by theagi'atinn of civil
convulsion into possession of honor and
profit, are striving to keep alive the pas
sions to which they owe their elevation.—
And they clamorously insist that they are
the only friends of our Union—a Union
that can only have a sure foundation in fra
ternal regard and a common desire to pro
mote the peace, the order and the happi
ness of all sections of our land.
Events in Congress since the adjourn
ment of the Convention have vastly in
creased the importance of a political victo
ry by those who are seeking to bring back
economy, simplicity, an I justice in the ad
ministration of our national affairs. Many
Republicans have heretofore clung to their
party who have regretted the extremes of
violence to which it has run. They have
cherished a faith that while the action
of their political friends lias been mistaken,
their motives have been good. Tbev mu-t
now see that the Republican party is in
that condition that it cannot carry out a
wise and peaceful policy, whatever its mo
tives may be. It is a misfortune, not only
to a country hut to a governing party itself,
when its action is unchecked by any form
of opposition. It has been the misfortune
of the Republican party that the events of
the past few years have given it so much
power that it has been able to shackle the
Executive, to trammel the Judiciary, and
to carry out the views of the ino-t unwise
and violent of its members. When this
state of tilings exist in any party, it has
ever been found that the sober judgments
of its ablest leaders do not control. There
is hardly an able man who helped to build
up the Republican organiz ition who has
not, within the past three years, warned it
against its excesses, who has not been borne
down and forced to give up bis convictions
of what the interests of the country called
for: or, if too patriotic to do this, who has
not been driven from its ranks. If thi
lias been the case heretofore, what will be
its action now with this new infusion of
men who, without a decent respect for the
views of those who had just given them
their positions, begin their legislative ca
reer with call for arms, with demands that
their States shall be regtrded a sina condi
tion of civil war, and with a declaiation that
they are ready and anxious to degrade the
President of the United States whenever
they can persuade or force Congress to bring
forward new articles of impeachment.
The Republican party, as well as we, arc
interested ia putting some check upon
this violence. It must be clear to every
thinking man that a division of political
power tends to check the violence of party
action and to assure the peace and good
order of society. The election of a Demo
cratic Executive, and a majority of Doino
cratic members to the llouse ol Represent
atives would not give to that party organi
zation the power to m ike sudden or violent
changes, but it would serve to check those
extreme measures which have been dcplor
ed by the best men of both political org in
izations. The result would most certainly
lead to that peaceful restoration of the
Union and re.establisliment of fraternal re
lationship which the country desires. I
am sure that the best men of the Republi
can party deplore as deepl}' as I do the
-pirit of violence shown by tbo-e recently
admitted to scats in Congress Irom the
South. The condintion of civil war which
they contemplate must be abhorrent to
every right thinking man.
I have no mere personal wishes which
mislead my judgment in regard tothe pen
ding election. No man who has weighed
and measured the duties of the office of
President of the United States, can fail to
he impressed witli the cares and toils of
him who is to meet its demands. It is not
merely a float with popular currents, with
out a policy or purpose. On the contrary,
while our Constitution gives just weight
to the public will, its distinguishing feature
is that it seeks to protect the rights of mi
norities. Its greatest glory is that it puts
restraints upon power. It gives force an i
form to those maxistn aud principles of
civil liberty for which the martyrs of free
dom have struggled through ages. It de
clares the rights of the people
'to be secure in their persons, houses,
"and papers again-t unreasonable searches
"and seizure. Th it Congress shall make
"no laws respecting an establishment of re -
"ligion or the free exercise thereof, or
"abridging the freedom of speech er of the
"press, or the right of the people to petition
"for redress of grievances. It secures the
"right of a speedy and public trial by an
"impartial jury."
No man can rightfully enter upon the
duties of the Presidential office, unless he
is not only willing to carry out the wishes
of the people expressed in a constitutional
way, but is also prepared to stand up for
the rights of minorities. He must he
ready to up hold the exercise of religion.
He must denounce measures which would
wrong personal or home rights, or the reli
gious conscience of the humblest citizen of
the land, lie must maintain, without dis
tinction of creed or nationality, all the priv
ileges of American citizenship.
The experience of every public man who
has been faithful to his trust teaches him
that no one can do the duties of the oflice
of President, unless lie is ready not only to
undergo the falsehoods and abuse ot the
Dad, but to suffer from the censur° of the
gold who are misled by prcdjudices and
misrepresentations There are no attrac
tions in such positions, which deceive my
judgment, when I say that a great change is
going on in the public mind. 1 be mass of the
Republican party are more thoughtful, tem
perate and just than they were dur.ng the
excitements which attended the progress
and close of the civil war. As the energy
of the Democratic party springs from their
devotion to their cause and not to their
candidates, I may with propriety speak of
the fact that never in the political history
of our country lias the action of any like
bod.< been hailed with such universal and
widespread enthusiasm as that which has
been shown in relation to the position of
the National Democratic Convention.—
With tliis the candidates had nothing to do.
Had any other of those named been select
ed, this spirit would have been, perhaps,
more marked. The zeal and energy of
the conservative masses spring from a de
sire to make a change of political policy,
and from the confidence that they can car
ry out their purpose.
Tn this faith they are strengthened by
the co-operation of the great body of those
who served in the Union army and navy
during the war. Having given nearly
j sixteen thousand commissions to the offi
cers of that army, I knew their views and
wishes. They demand the Union for
which they fought. The largest meeting
of these gallant soldiers which ever as
sembled was held in New York, and in-
I dorsed the action of the National Con
: convention. In words instinct with
meaning, they called upon the Govern
ment to stop in its policy of hate, discord
and disunion, and in terms of fervid elo
quence. they demanded the restoration of
the rights and liberties of the American v
people.
When there is such accord between
those who proved themselves brave and
| self-sacrificing in war, and those who are
thoughtful and patriotic in council, I can
not doubt we shall gain a political tri—
ump which will restore our Union, bring
back peace and prosperity to our land,
and will give us once more the blessings
of a wise, economical and honest govern
ment.
I am, gentlemen,Jtruly yours, Ac.,
HORATIO SEYMOUR.
To Gen. G. W. Morgan, and others, Com
mittee, Ac., Ac.
—
Delegate Elections to County Conven
tion.
The Democratic electors of Tunkhan
nock Borough and the several election
districts in Wyoming County, are request
ed to meet in their several election dis
tricts on Saturday the 29th inst., between
the hours of two and live o'clock P. M ,
and elect del. gates to represent fc them in
County Convention to be held at Tunk—
bannock on Monday the 31st inst,
VIGILANCE COMMITTEES
The following Vigilance Committees,
for the several districts in said County,
were returned at the last annual Conven
tion :
Braintrim, George Kennard, Hamlet
ilill, A. G. Seymour.
Clinton, David Armstrong, Daniel Bi
dleinan, A. O. Ulley.
Exeter, Sam'l Wall, Benj. Sickler, Fish
er Gay.
Eaton, George Jayne, John Lee, Bow
eis Hunter
Falls, Andrew Dewitt, Ira Weed, G.
W. Sherwood.
Fork-ton, Russell Cora stock, Chas. Mil
ler, O-car Farr.
Lemon, George Bcbee, 11. Billings, L-
Clouse.
Mchoopany, Warren Goff. John Sbehan,
Henry Love.
Meshoppen, John Bridget, J. G. Davis,
E last us Bowman.
Monroe, C. S. Shooley, W. Watson,
Win. Sickler.
North Branch, W. Iloxie, C. Adams,
D. S. Catlin.
Northmoreland, L. Winters, J. Perry,
E. R. llallock.
Nicholson, K. N." Ba:on, M. Oakley,
J. Stevens.
Overfield, Henry Ager, Henry Bur
gess, Henry 11. Walter.
Tun!.. Boro, Thus. Osterhout, Wm S.
Kutz, James Young.
Tunk. Twp., S. Ncyliart, D Z. Michael,
Wm. Ball.
Washington, E. Overfield, J. Robinson,
W. Crawford.
Windham, II W. lueney, Chas. Fcs
-ott, W. T. Keilhline.
RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF DEMO
CRATIC CONVENTIONS, &C.
1. The Democratic electors of each elec
i<in district in this county, shall annually
on the last Saturday in August, meet a' ihe
place of holding their General and Town
ship elections and elect three suitable per*
sons to serve as a Committee of Vigilance
for the ensuing year, whose duty it shall be
to superintend all other meetings of the
Democrat electots of their district.
2. At the same time and place, shall also
be elected two delegates to the Countv Con
vention, who shall on the following Monday,
meet at the Court House, in the Boro ol
Tunkhannock, and after orga: izing by elect
ing one of their number for a President, and
two Secretaries shall proceed to nominate
such D strict and C unty Officers as are to
be voted for at the ensuing General Election
elect Conference for such District officers
as they shall nominate—appoint Delegates to
the next State Convention and a Standing
Committee for the County.
3. All County Conventions shall be held
with open doors.
4. All candidates for nomination shall be
voted for rira voce ; and the one receiving a
majority of all the votes polled, for any office
shall be nominated.
5 The Convention shall keep a journal of
all its proceedings which shall be duly pub
lished in the Democratic paper or papers of
the County ; and any nomination not made a
conformity with the forgoing rules shall be
declaired void, and the vacancy or vacancies
so oceuring, shall be supplied in the manner
hereinafter provided.
G, The Standing Committee shall consist
of nine Democratic ci'izens of the county,
who shall hold their office for one year from
and aftej the date of the eleciton ; and it
shall be their duty, during that lime, to call
at all County Conventions, Mass and other
meetings of the parly—to fill all vacancies of
the Ticket, occasioned either by the declina
tion of nominees, by a want of conformity to
the foregoing rules, or where the Convention
shall have failed to make a nomination, and
also in special elections, where the necessity
for doing so occurs after the regular time for
holding County Conventions—and to fill
vacancies In the Committee Vigilance, occa
sioned by removal, death, or failure on the
part of the citizens, to elect him
7. The Standing Committee shall annual
ly hereafter, in issuing the call for the elec
tion of Delegates to the County Convention,
cause a copy of the foregoing rules to be pub
lished in connection therewith.
8. These rules may be amended, or new
ones added therein hy a general meeting of
the Democratic cit'Z.-ns of the county called
for that purpose by the Standing Committee
or if the same shall pass two successive Coun
ty Conventions without amendment and not
otherwise.
J. V. SMITH.
Chairman Standing Committee.
A MISCEGEN BALL. —Governor Bullock,
the carpet-bag Governor of Georgia, gave
his inaugural ball to his miscegen fri ends,
on the 80th ult. The attcndence was
large, and Dinah's ivories shone out con
spicuously ; the Governor irnde a speech
to bis black bretbern and Northern whites
and encouraged tbera to vote for Grant
jand Colfax.
Why Grant hates the Jews.
If Grant's hatred of the Jews was a mat
ter of speculation once, it is so no longer.
The courts of Cincinnati hare furnished
the best of evidence in the case, and a
wandering public can satisfy its [curiosity
by simply reverting to the records. It
appears that while the Mongrel candidate
for President was in command of the army
of the South-west, then stationed at Ox
ford Mississippi, one of the greatest cot
ton regions in that State, that Jesse 11.
Grant, the supposed pater jamtllias of the
gentle Ulysses, conceived the idea of tnak- j
ing a fortuno as a trader. Accordingly
he entered into an agreement with a firm
in Cincinnatti —Mack & Bros., Jews—to j
secure tor them a certain amount of cotton
at certain figures. Old Jesse knew that
his promising son, who had rode the mule
in the circus and let the monkey ride j
him, had command of armies, and could
pass his dad, if he so desired, into the re- j
pious of "rebels'* and riches without any i
trouble and with plenty of backing. So j
getting together a parcel of medicines j
needed by the Confederates, with several ,
j car loads of government provisions and a
pass furnished by Ulysses, he started on
bis cruise for cotton. He succeeded.—
When he couldn't steal he bought, pa vino
I for what lie puri.h veil with, medicines and
stores intended for the use of the Federal
army. Government transportation was
furnished him and the cotton thus secured
was forwarded to the parties in Cincinnat
ti. In the meantime the price went up,
and Mr. Grant Sr. concluded that the ;
firm in Cincinnatti should allow him ad- (
varice in the market price, 'lhis they re
fused to do, and in order to compel them
to accede to the demands of the " old
man, " Mr. Grant Jr., or rather Lieuten
ant General Ulysses Hiram Grant, Mon
grel candidate lor President, threatened,
that unless they divided spoils fairly, that
lie would hsue an oidi-r expelling "the ;
Jews as a class'" from the lines of his j
armv. The Messrs, Mack refused to give
more than they had contracted to, and
Grant made good his threat by issuing his j
infamous order driving the Jews as a class j
out of his aimy. Jesse R. Grant entered
suit against the Cincinnatti firm, and
some two weeks since the case, came up
for trial, from the records of which these
facts have been gleaned.
In this case our readers can see the j
character of the Mongrel candidate for
President in about as clear a light as pos
sible. A General who w uld steal the
rations of his own troops and give them
to his father, to trade to the foe for cotton
to speculate upon, and who would make
war upon an entire class of respectable,
worthy citizens, because a couple of them i
would not allow himself and his father to
fleece them, is certainly a fit candidate for
a party that has stole the country poor, |
and now seeks a longer lease of power, in
order that it may have an opportunity to
take the little that is left as private prop
erty. If the people of this country think !
that this man whose mind centres en-;
tirely on bitch pups and whiskey bottles, .
and whom the records of our courts prove
used his position as commander of armies I
to enable his own family io trade and traf
fic with the enemy —is tit to fill the p"si- •
tion that has been honored by a \Y ash
ington, a Jefferson, a Jackson and a Mon
roe, let them vote for him. 1 hey dt serve
to lie cursed with jurtsueh an administra
tion as he will give ttiem, it they have no
more honor, no more respect for their
country, or no more love tor the right
than to vote for a inan who has no more
appreciation of honor anil justice than has
ULYSSES GRANT.— BeIIi fonte Watchman.
State Elections.
As our readers will be interested to
know the time of the different State eb-c- .
tions this year, we publish below a state- j
ment of the same :
Tennessee, August 13th ; Vermont Sep. !
Ist; California, Sep. Bth ; Maine Sep 14th; 1
Nebraska, Oct. Gtli ; Pennsylvania, Ohio, j
Indiana and lowa, Oct. 13th ; West \ ir
ginia, Oct 22nd ; New York, New Jersey
Delaware, Maryland, Illinois, Michigan. 1
YY isconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas.
Nevada, and Massachusetts, Nov. 3d.
Grand Jurors for August Term 1363. ,
Braintrim —David GooJalo, Win. Nye.
Clinton -Mil', Wilson
Eaton— Erastus La-liar, Punderson A. Milter.
Falls—John M Weiss, Andrew J. Yuntyle
Meshoppen—Wm. Burr.
M onroe — wm. F. Cairl.
Nicholson —Jamas Stephens. Henry Brown
North Branch—Peter Hope.
Tunk.Twp.—Daniel Ball, Daniel B.irtron, Philip (
Knnsman. George Wagner. Saui'l Flummerfelt*
Tunk Buro—Philo Baldwin .
Washington—lsaac 0. Smith, Scarl Lathrop, j
John Crawford.
Windhum--Willard T. Koithline-
Lemon—ll. H. .Mitchell. Francis Patterson.
PKTIT JURORS
Braintrim -C. B Lacy.
Clinton- J. B. Carpenter.
Falls—Azor Ross. Solomon Hunter. Henry Van
campen, Peter Walter.
Meshoppen—Nicholas Sterling, Erastus Bowman,
John Gay, Wesley Jennings. Paul 0 Clayton.
Monroe,—George H. Orcutt, John D. Suiitb, Dan
iel Montaaaye.
Mehoopany—Warren F Goff, Henry Love, J. S.
Swct land.
Nicholson —Silney Baily. Loren G, Stephens,
Holoway Stephens, Joseph Stephens, Ziba Billings.
North morel and—Adam Snyder.
North Branch—Solomon Bigley, Jason Burgess.
Oveifield George Walter, Riley Vott.
Tunk. Twp.—Adam Ace. Henry Stark
Tunk. Boro.—Amos B Mott, Thos. Stonier.
Washington—Jared Robinson, Henry Ellsworth,
Edward Proi-ost.
Windham—Hiram W. Keeney
Lemon—Nathan Keim.
REGISTER'S NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the following accounts
have been filed in the Register's office, in and for
the County of Wyoming, and will be presented to
the Orphan's Court, to be held at Tunkiiannoek, in
and lor Wyoming Couuty, on the 17th day of Aug.
next, for confirmation and allowance :
The Final account of J. G. Spaulding and A. P.
Burgess, administrators of the estate of Gilbert Ad
ams, late of Forkston Township, deceased. Filed
April 30th '6"5.
The Final account of Jacob Decker, Guardian of
Mary Flummerfelt, minor daughter of Jacob
Flumraerfelt, late of Meshoppen township, dee'd:
Filed May 4th 'gS.
The Final account of John G. Spaulding, adminis
trator of the estate of Joseph S. Yaow, late of
Forkston township, dee'd. Filed May 29th 'gB.
Account of Abel C Thompson, Executor of the
last Will and Testament of Solomon Brown, late of
Exeter Township, dee'd. Filed June, 13 'gS.
The Final account of Wm. B. Overfielil, Executor
of the last Will and Testamont of John Townsend
dee'd. Filed June 18th *gB.
The Final account of Chauncy Rosengrant and
Hannah U. Rosengrant, administrators of the estate
of Albert Rosengrant, late of Eaton Township, deo'd
Filed July 10th 'gB.
The Final account of E. J. Mowry, administtator
of the uslate of John Ktotner,dee'd. Filed July 17, 'gB
0. L. PAKRISH, Register.
Register's Office, Tunk Pa July 21st.
gTATEMENT
0* THK
HOME INSURANCE COMPANY
of New Haven, January 1, 1368 :
Capital Stock #1,000,000,00
Surplus 619,J70',00
ASSETT3.
T, , _ . Market Value.
Real Estate owned by the Company #205 .500 oo
j Loans on Mortgages • 37.374
; United States Bonds. 325,875 00
Missouri State Bonds 19;>5(j (f)
Tennessee State Bonds 16,900 00
VV isconsin State Bonds 12 000 GJ
! Virginia State Bonds 17 4fB ctt
I National Bank Stocks 3fiblB9 50
Canada Bank Stocks 34'373 75
1 Loans on Collateral and en Call 23,814 50
| Cash on hand and In Banks 66 014 55
[ Cash in hands of Agents 230 108 36
Interest Accrued 37 4,.^
Bills receivable 41 370 75
Premiums unpaid at home and branch
„ offices- 100,541 eO
Rents accrued 2 302 (x)
Salvages on Fire and Inland L >asea Un
determined 51,451 44
Other property owned by the Company.. 25.771 88
#1,619,07 oil
LIABILITIES.
Losses in process of adjustment -3fi5,550 41
Statement of Premiums received and Losses paid
during each year since the organization of the
Company :
Premiums received. Losses nai I
IS6O 37,887 30 20 787 20
186 87.230 00 46.190 (h
186 168,289 1 9 92.130
1863 256,973 55 160.138 80
1861 470.473 7 3 275.49S 01
1 h 65 773,815 68 451,294 9
1366 1,477,231 23 1,122.96880
18g7 1,950,025 01 1,137,935 41
Stock owned by the Directors.
January 1, 13g7 $231700
January 1, 18g3 27U,buO
I) R SATTERLEE, President,
DANIEL TROWBRIDGE,
CHARLES WILSON.
SAMUEL L. TALCOT,
Y'ice-Presidents.
WM. S. OOOPELL S rctary.
Special attention paid to perpetual policies.
J). G. BLACK, Agent, Nicboslon, Pa.
I>. AC. J. Wright, Agents, Tunkbannock, Pa
QLOTHING STORE
AND
jjjcnfe' Jurnfeliimj {ljootfc.
J J
11. BAKU AM & CO.
Announce to the public that they have reccn'ly fit
ted up an I removed their Clothing Store to the
Store House of C. P. -Miller,
Tu nkh an nock, Pa.
Their stock coprises every description of
MENS' Affl BOYS' CIME
such as
DUBSS CO A IS,
COATS,
O T£HCCA IS,
PANTS,
VESTS,
SHIRTS,
UNDERSHIRTS,
BRA WERS,
BOOTS,
HATS j CAPS,
Seclc-ties,
Hosiery,
Suspenders,
Hdndktrch itfi
COLLARS, UMBRELLAS, &C„
and in fact everything in the Clothing or Furnishing
line at
Trie PV T C\T TOP TOV v j
VJbJciA Ja'J \V X IIAUUD.
In addition to the above we have an elegant as
sortment of ;
Clothes, Cassimereand Vesting.
Clothing male to order at the shortest n>-
tiee
Call and see, before purchasing elsewhere an I !j
SECURE GOGS GO JDS
ANI>
FAirt PIIICE3. I
li. BARIUM f CO.
Tunk , Aug. s,'gS.--vSal-tf.
jjjggt SCOTT'S
Popular Remedies,
Prepared from Grm. Ilsaaa ail
Roots, and never fails when used is
time. j
fC 3, T't i
tnSllf \arii i
idggEj SANATIVE CERATE,
.—cr~. —z\ For Burns, Sushis os Scald Cri-i.
' Frosted Feet, Wounds. Ir'-rrcl
L-njd Eyes, Chapped hands. Old l:cc:J,
Indolent Tumors. Pi lea. Sore N p-
pies,Caked Breasts,Bruises,Spruit*
Corns, 4c.
*r>y
00S Cholera Curale,
"j For pTsenteFv. Choera Mornri,
;09KWf*.a Bowel Complaints, Cramp Cede.
! rti Nervous, BiilioUl and 8 Head
-11 { ache, S 'ttr Sumach, I'. sjep ,
p - ; Nenra'p'.a, Fever and Ac.e. tc',il
B- - ■ - - | and Cold Cnilis, Spotted Fevar, Ac
I LU . ?:cs si
| ~ ~ I Congli Syrup 4 Candy.
B " 17"-1 Coughs. Colds, Difficulty or Breath"
lir"""-""'! ing. Spitting of Blood. I "Miu|>-
tion, and al! affections of th* Lim vs
CfS-J The afflicted ran rely upon its -c
|4!j ae much or more tl.ua at,.*' ° : cr
■ 9SI remedy, in soothing the nerves, is*
cilitati'ng expectoration, snd
jfjpesii e! ing the d'aeased Lungs, tl.usef a-
Fffeux
- , *raiMc.ViPp: it fn-m the cysien. A
i ilaskisatiialof this P:c a-; f.
* '2 0 , u ha? noeijiial, r.nd neve: fa
MOMATtCt9. . entire eatirfacticn to aU wto
j- ' ; use it.
REPIEDIFS.
; L.-gr.f. :_rr 1 ecrtain cure for Chronic and.
—* ' flsmmatorv Rliemnutism- L o-'t*
t * tirelv Tree "from all poisonous svh-
Etkt.i-cs; it Is not injurious to L K
awaaatsrihealth; it cleanses the syslen: ' H
purifies the Blood: ■
direase. To be used with the h-f- ■
fy? malic Ointment Fulldireitf ma. B
company each bottle and box- ®
CLCOD PURIFIER- I
. '&■■& i This remedy is a certain Cure S
. ali diseases of the Blood; it I
■ • the 1 ystcm, and tl .
* " only rational way, to erad.ca'c ' _ K
emWS F-SIFIE# disease, and effect a thorough c-
S The above Medicines hsrc he- ■
: prepared for the last S3 years." • B
' - ~ •, have given entire satisfai'tion i■ l B
: caes, where the directions h"
j • been observed.
BCOTT '
For sale by Lvmnn 1 Wells, , I
noek, Pa. ■
NOTICE. 1
Notice is hereby given, thut a bay m<-
i eight or ten years old, came to the preia'- , H
subscriber in tlie Township of Eaton, >u the 1 ■
of August 1968 The owner is hereby n
prove projierty and pay charges, othrrwi e, " I
mare will be sold as the law direct'. ~ I
CHANCY KOBE.N-H li - ■
Baton, Aug, 10 IS6S n2 S