CURRENT NEWS. Counterfeit notes—the political notes of the Grant canvass. The most popular nets, at Saratoga just now are the bru nettcs, I The Radical cry—help us, Postmasters or j we SIDE. Discharged—the Radical party from the confidence of the people. Peace warrant—to be issued next March by President Seymour. A man of weight died recently in Ken tucky—he was a five hundred pounder. Ex President Pierce writes that New Hampshire will go for Seymour. Seymour will carry Pennsylvania bytwen ty-five thousand majority The Cincinnaiti Enquirer says if "silence is golden," Grant is very rich. The "coming man" is named Grant. lie is coming to grief. Captain J. M. Hudson, who crossed the Atlantic in his little yacht "Red, White and Blue," is penuiless in London. Why is the letter T like the approaching November election ? Recaue it is the end of Grant ! The Radical papers say, " If we lose Grant's election, all is lost." There is one comfort, their loss will be the people's eternal gain. The number of threshing machines in Ibis country is said to be 225,000. Grant will think there are several millions of them in November. A Radical cotemporary says that two hun dred "Tanners" met Grant at Galena— What an awful barking time ii must have been. When General Grant reached Denver Colorado, all the soldiers of company B, ' Third Infantry saluted him with a Seymour ; add Blair flag. The General felt unable to remain long in that town. Failures—Grant and Colfax meetings. During the war Seymour was always fill ii:g the ranks of our armies while Grant was thinning them out. "Money makes the mare go." and as a consequence the Radical wire-workers are spurring up old jade and the postmasters at the same time. Thirty-four negroes andten degraded ra <"s were arrested in Bedford 6treet, Philadel phia, tor disorderly conduct. Grant anil Colfax will carry that ne ghborhood sure.— fur Grant. The besUway to secure peace is to whip } the Radicals so badly that they will not be | heard of again for ten years, for they are the j ones who have provoked civil war in this j country, and they are the ones who wish to > renew it. A novel pedestrian feat was recently per* formed in England. A man walked, wheel ed a barrow, trundled a hoop, and bopped on one leg a distance of five miles, in sspa rate feats of a mile, each, within one hour, for £2O. and won with two minutes to spare We Polked them once. We Pierced them well, And then we Bucked them sore; And with Frank Blair We'll make them stare, That they may all Sey-mour. The hanging cf the express robbers in In diana has decreased the vote for Grant. Grant wants peace. Seymour will give it to him after March 4th, 18(;9. Sigel is for Seymour and Blair. So are they who Lught with him. There are four thousand female warriors in the Paraguayan army. Willis Rollins, a colored Democratic speak er of New Orleans, has become famous for his eloquence. The Radical party swallowed Grant at Chicago, and Prentice thinks that accounts for their staggering ever since. ~ There will be a total eclipse of the sun in • India during this month- In November there will be one in the United States.— The tota 1 eclipse of the son of Jesse. The Radical puns on Seymour's name are not very pungent. A Montreal shoemaker cut off the esrs of his apprentice. The boy had previously cut out the shoemaker in his wife's affections. Some ungenerous biped has patented a medicine to make a fellow rise early in the morning. The Boston Post says a six month's old baby can beat it to death. Col. Wm. B. Thomas, Collector at Phila delphia under Lincoln, and heretofore a shin ing lighf in the Union League, has been ex pelled. (ause why—be goes for Seymour and Blair, and is throwing the influence of hie immense wealth and popularity in favor the Democracy. The day before the nomination of Grant, Gold was below 140. It is now nearly 150. Grant will not resign. He sees signs of approaching defeat on every hand, and is determined to hold on to what he has al ready got. Ben. Butler ran for Stevens' shoes, The moment he was dead, And also grabbed Lis shining wig, To clap it on his head ; Thus habited from top to toe, More fame he hopes to win ; 'Tis but a new-made version of The Ass and Lion's skin. Grant's peace—throwing clubs and atones amongst women and children at a Democratic meeting in Missouri. Gen. Bui 11, who saved Grant from being defeated at Shilob, now declines to rescue him again, and supports Seymour and Blair. Cljcgemotnti HARVEY £ICKUEK, Editor. TUN KHAN NOCK, PA. Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1868. FOR PRESIDENT, HON. HORATIO SEYMOUR, OF NEW TOKK. FUR 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 MASS MEETING. * At a meeting of conservative citizens of Wyoming County, held at the office of It. R. Little, on Monday evening Aug. 17th 1868, called for the purpose of considering the question of holding a mass meeting of the conservative citizens of Wyoming County; during the present Presidential canvass. It. R. Little was elected chair man, and O. L. Parrish, Secretary of said meeting, whereupon it was unanimou.-ly Rrjolttd, That a meeting of the conservative cit izens of said County be held at Tunkhannock, at siu-h point as shall be decided upon by the Committee of arrangements on the 15th day of Sept. next, in the afternoon and evening. lion. J. V. Smith was appointed a com mittee to correspond in reference to speak ers upon the occasion. On motion, L. C. Conklin, O. L. Parrish, IV, F. Terry, Carl Ilenniger and J. P. Loderick were appointed as a committee of arrangements. On motion the following named gentle men were chosen as a committee in refer ence to attendance, viz. HAMLET HILL Braintrim, HENRY NEWCOMB, Clinton, T. 1). IIEADLT, Exeter WRA. BENEDICT, Eaton, RILEY SICKLER, Falls, IIIRAM HITCHCOCK, Forkston, MILES AVERT, Lemon, C. L. VAUGHN, Mehoopany, RICHARD MOOKS, Monroe AHIKA GAY, Moshoppen, ZIHA BILLINGS, Nicholson Twp. L. HARDING, Nicholson VIL. J. M CARET Northinoreland, 11. COMSTOCK, North Branch, LEWIS AGEK, Overfield, DANIEL LAI.L, & 1 M • ... GEO. OSTEKI.OLT, } Tunk. Twp. JOHN W. CRAWFORD ), V ~ , A JACOB DECKER, J Washington ROSWELL GARET, Windham, On motion the meeting then adjourned. 11. It. LITTLE, Chairman, O. L. PARRISH, Sec'y £££* Old Thad. Stephens had only endor sed a port of the Democratic Platform, and was therefore only about half prepared to die; —hut,"Give the Devil his due." papers are teeming with ac counts of outrages committed on inoffendiug citizens of the South by negroes instigated, and often lead on, by the black republican carpet baggers and scallawags who have gone there under the protection of the Bu reau and bayonets. Not a single radical paper had condemn ed these lawless proceedings. No radical orator has condemned them. but a single kinky hair, of one of the colored brethern, be straightened out, and one universal Low! goes up about the "rebel outrage." (3TAn ignorant specimen of a radical ant-eater gravely informed ns, that he was "against Seymour because he got up a riot in N. Y. City." Of course we didn' attempt to undeceive the stupid creature, by telling him how Seymour put down a riot which Stanton and his his dishonest I'rovost Marshals got up. We had uot forgotten the injunc tion as to casting pearls before that breed of animals. A QUEER ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF GRANT. —The New York Herald, has been silent upon the political situation for some days past. It has quit prophesying that Grant will be elected. Its last effort in bis be half was a singular one. It said: "Seymour and Hoffman, the Tammany candidates for Governor, are both Puritan ical in their notions, ami live upon cold water and weak tea. Hoffman, we believe, did attempt a glass of lager at a German meeting during the campaign of 18GC, but was compelled after drinking it to go home to bed and send for his family physician. GRANT ON TIIE OTHER HAND, WOULD SCORN TO DRINK WATER WITHOUT SOMETHING IN IT." That certainly is a singular argument to advance in favor of a candidate for the Presidency, but it has the merit of truth. We commend it to the serious attention of all straight out temperance men. They ought either to anwer it or refuse to vote for Grant Which will tbey do ? KEPUDIATION! AN HONEST MAN LEAVES THfi COR RUPT PARTY. DON'T WANT OFFICE OK HONOR FROM SUCH A SOCRCK. BLACK REPUBLICANISM AT A DISCOUNT IN WYOMING COUNTY. The following note handed us for pub lication speaks for itself, and shows unmis takably, how the wind is blowing in this region. To THB EDITOR OF THE WVOVIRG DEMOCRAT.— Having been nominated by the late Republican Convention as its candidate for the offi.-e of Treasur er of Wyoming County, I desire to tender my thanks to said Convention for this token of its es teem, but most respectfully decline the acceptance, of a nomi notion at the hands of a party with which I have no longer any sympathy, and with which I have therefore ceased to act. FLETCHER DICKSON. Tank. Aug. 17, IR6B. Out for Seymour and Blair, and the Whole Democratic Ticket. The Daily Republic published at Pitts burg Pa., a workingraen's organ, has hoisted the names of Seymour and Blair. Boyle and Ent, Ac. Thai's the way the workitigmen generally are going. The lion. Judge Mello, of Pittsburg has joined hands with the Democrats and is enthusiastic in his support of Seymour and Blair. The Greensbnrg, Intl., Expositor, here tofore a Radical Abolition sheet, has de clared for Seymour and Blair. It says that "the German Republicans of Indiana abandoning that party by thousands and enrolling themselves among the supporters of Seymour and Blair." They see how the wind blows and acts wisely. At a Democratic meeting in Fayette co. Ohio, last Saturday, the principal speak ers were Judge R. M. Briggs and Col, John M. Connell. Both these gentlemen have heretofore been staunch Republi cans, but they cannot sanction the usurpa tions, the corruption and the unparalleled extravagance of the Radical .Congress which styles itself the government. All over the country the same thing isgo ng on and everywhere many of the more honest Republicans are pledging themselves to support Seymour and Blair. Grant will be beaten worse than Scott was, if there is no abatement in the tide of popular feeling. The St. Louis Times announces the names of three leading Get man Radicals who have forsaken Grant and will vote for Seymour and Blair. Their influence is worth thousands of votes. The Quincy 111., Herald says in that city there are not less than fifty changes of this sort in the last three weeks, and in the county not less than two hundred. The "loyal league" of Philadelphia have expelled eighty-two of their members for nou payment of dues, They have united with Seymour and Blair organiza tions, A correspondent informs the Philadel phia Aye "that one hundred German citi zens in one of the upper wards of the eity, who have hitherto voted the, Radical tick et, have declared their intention to sup port Seymour and Blair. The German citizens of the Sixth ward are also flock ing to the suppoit ot the Democratic par ty, being unwilling to belong any longer to such a corrupt, radical and revolution ary party as that now in power. Germans who have lived under a monarchy in their native land, are against corruption, and the rule of the bayonet and the sword ; they love liberty, economy and honesty ; they arc for constitutional rights and a constitutional Union. The Germans not only in the upper wards, but all over the city, are coming into Democratic ranks.— We take the pleasure in stating, on the authority of Dr. lioth. one of the leading | German citizens of the Sixth ward, and who is well posted as to the German sen timent throughout the city, that three fourths of the Germans will support Sey mour and Blair and the other Democratic nominees. Tints the solid men of the Radical parry —the honest Union men—men who stand | upon principles—are this year wheeling j into line with the Democracy ; and it is ! with such help that will enable us to sweep the country at the coming elections, i —Ex. Radical Extravagance. Since the month of June 1805, more ' than twelve hundrtd millions of dollarx : have been collected from the people of this ; country , yet we have increased our indebt edness instead of diminishing it. Just think of it tax payers. There has been perfect peace all over the land, and no necessity for any expense, except what is ordinarily required for the cost of govern ment. Yet the Radical party has in some way managed to dispose of this vast sum of money, besides running us many mil lions into debt. If this extravagance con tinues, how long will it be until the gov ; ernmcnt utterly (ails from sheer povertv ? How long can the people bear sueh a bur ; Jen ? and how are we to hope for a de j crease of the vast debt upoti which we pay interest, if our expenses continually j exceeds our income ? we hope every , b'idy will think seriously over the linan ! cial danger which threatens us with ruin for we have come to a point when such a danger is very iminent, and if the policy l of the Rump Congress is continued, it j will not lie long until it is fully upon us. No man who thinks the subject over, and takes into consideration all the cir- I cumstancea, can ome to any other con ! elusion than that we are being most j shamefully robbed by the party in power. The amount of money, raised from taxa ; tion and from the sale of government bonds it> the past three years could never have been honestly disposed of in so short a time. It is high time the people were opening their eyes on this subject.—Belle fonte Watchman. Arms ! give us arms !" is the crv of the carpet baggers. wait till next No vember, and in the general and precipitate rush of the radicals towards Salt river,legs will be more in d roand than arms. COLUMBUS PRISONERS. Account of their Arrest, Imprisonment, Treatment, &c. [From the Columbus Sun, July "Gth.j July 25th, 18G8. Upon resuming onr personal liberty, we, the undersigned, known as the Columbus prisoners, deem it proper to publish the following brief account ot our arrest and confinement bv the military authorities. During the night of the 30th of March, George VV. Ashburn was assassinated in a low negro brothel in Columbus, Georgia On the 6th day of April thirteen citizens were arrested by Captain Mills, of the United Slates Army. On the 30th they were released under bond. Four of their number have never been rearrested. Ihe man Mills stated that he did not know the charge against the party arrested, but no one believed him, and the fact is only men tioned to show the character of tie pro ceedings, On the 14th day of May lour arrests were made, on the 24th four, on the 2d of June four more, on the lOlh sev en, followed the next day by two others. On the 14th another, and the last arrest oc curred. These arrets were made by the order of General Meade. Several of the undersigned have in their possession writ ten orders which show this fact. The ar rests were made without warrant, affidavit or charge. We were kept in total igno rance of the ex parte eviJencc against us, and the name of onr accusers were con cealed from us. No one who has followed the trial will be surprised at this apparent neglect. While we were clamoring for the char ges against us, Joe Brown, Whitley, Ma jor Smyth and others were suborning Betz, Marshad. Bennett, and Amanda Patterson. The evidence for the prosecution acknowl edged that disclosures were made under the acts of imprisonment. This is bad enough, but a worse feature is that the date of these disclosures is placed by the witnesses themselves subsequent to the arrest of a majority of the prisoners. The question naturally arises upon what foundation were based ? Of the twenty two persons arrest ed on end since the 14 th of May, four were suborned by torture, bribery and threats Nine, after confinement in felon's cells and much Buffering, were released without any explanation whatever. The remaining nine arc signers of this card. The prisoners ar rested in May were at Frot Pulaski before they were remove to Atlanta. Their cells were as dark as dungeons, without vcutila tion, and but four feet by seven. No beds or blankets were furnished. The rations consisted of a slice of fit pork three times each week, and beef too unsound to eat the renaming da\s. A piece of bread for each meal, soup for dinner and coffee for break fast, finished the bill of fare. An old oys ter can was given each prisoner, and in this vessel both coffee and soup were served. It may be said that the soldiers received nothing better, but these citizens were not soldiers, and their friends were able, will ing and anxious to give them every com fort; they were denied the privilege, lie fused all communication with friends, rela tives or counsel, they were forced to live in these horrid cells night and day, pros trated by heat, and maddened by myriads of mosquitoes. The calls of nature were attended to in a bucket, which was re moved odce in twenty-four hours. At MePherson Barracks we were placed in cells 5 feet 10 inches wide, by 10 feet long. These cells were afterwards divi ded, reducing their width to 2 feet 10 inches. This is terrible, but true. Upon the arrival of the officer sent from Wash ington to investigate the arrests, the par tions were removed Neither bed or bed ding was furnished for from two to five days. We were not permitted to see our friends, family or counsel until after memorials to Congress had aroused the whole country to the enormity of the out rage. Even after this, our letters, breath ing the alfections and sympathy of a wife or mother, were subjected to inspection. The prision sink was immediately at our cell doors, and emitted a stench that was horrrible. At times when some humane soldier was willing to transcend his orders, and give a breath of fresh air to soothe our distended, bursting veins, we would ask him to close the door, preferring to risk suffocation rather to endure the intolera ble smell. During all this time we wore ignorant of the charges against us. Of course we accepted the common rumor that our ar rest grew out of the murder of Ashburne, but after our counsel was permitted to visit us no definite line of defense could be planned in the abscence of all specifi cations. We were furnished with a copy of the charges made against us on the 27 of June our trial having been set for the 29. The intervening day was Sunday, and we were one hundred and forty miles Irom the scene of the murder and the residences of our witnesses. Several of the undersigned never saw the detective Whitley until weeks after their arrest. When they did meet him he never presumed to treat them with disrepect. Recent developem mts, new to vis, have sworn him to be intairous, and his treat ment of suborned witnesses will be proven to those who know the facts. Our friends and the press have not exaggerated the barbarity with we wore treated, but tfrey should not throw the responsibility upon a contemptible detective, who would only glory in the notoriety his infamy would give him. We fly for higher game.— General Meade told General R. 11. Chil ton , (during the war Gen. Lee's Adju tant.) upon the eve of his departure from Atlanta, that he had left full instructions with General Sibley concerning the dis position of the Columbus prisoners.— These instruction; controlled our treat ment, and leave no issue as to the ques tion of responsibility. At the proper time, and in a manner that will not in trude upon your valuable space, we will make good our positiun, and will show conclusively that this unparalleled perse cution was attempted solely and entirely for political purposes. The officers and soldiers of the gatrison were as kind as their orders would per mit, and respectful, with but few excep tions. General Dunn s courtesy during the trial, especially after Duke's alibi, was in strong contrast with the vindictive, un generous, and unmanly conduct of Joe Browo. Of the able and unretiiing efforts of our counsel we cannot speak in too high praise. To the people of Georgia, and especially to our good friends in Atlauta, we return our sincere thanks for their sympathy and assistance. W. D. Chipley, C. C. Bedell, tt. A. Wood, E. J. Kirksccy, M. D. R. Hudson, J. L Wiggins, Alva C. Roper, W. A. Duke, J. \V. Barber. Questions for the Northern Industrial Classes. IFho is it at present keeping white me chanics and laborers for seeking employ ment in the South ? Who is making a bairen waste of the most fertile and productive section of the Republic. Why is the burden of taxation so op pressive and employment so scarce. Why are there to-day hundreds of thousands of white men and women in the North, living in dread of starvation within the present year. Why are the commerce of the North, and the ship-building interests almost to tally paralyzed ? lUliy is the South threatened with a war of races, and civil law trampled under foot in that section. Why are millions of white men not rep resented in Congress ? Why have all the guarantees of the Ci.n stitution been broken down, and the rights of free born Americans suljected to the ar bitrary will of irresponsible satraps ? Why are thirty millions of white men taxed tor the special benefit of a class who pay no taxes ou the gteat bulk of their property ? Why should there be over two thousand millions of dollars exempt from taxation ' Why should there be special legislation for one class of the population, to the seri ous injury the interests of every other ? YVhv should the great agricultural pop ulation of the West be made tributary to the manufacturing lords of Yaukce land ? If the nat onai bankers are enabled to make twenty millions of dollars a year out of the industrial classes by their specnla ti >n in the necesities of life, why are they tob rated ? If negroes are fit fir freedom, why lias a great po >r house system for their support to be kept at the expense of Northern in j dustrv ? Why is it that the products of the South have fallen off to a great extent ? Why are murders and outrages, and rob beries so ft a fully frequent all over the South ? If the war wa= prosecuted for the pres ervation of the Union,why are States kept out of it ? If the South is permitted to fall under negro domination, will it be fit for the bab itat.on of white men ? The iuclustorial classes of the North will find an answer to all the questions in the destructives. It is to them we arc indebted for the evils by which the country is ! threatei ed. And the worst is ye' to come ' The negro refuse to woik, and the great I productiveness of the South is lost to the I country. The while men of the free States are oppressed with taxation, that they may be supported in idleness. Of the four or five hundred millions of doll .rs which are raised upon the industry of this section every year, a larger portion is used in the devilish w rk of reversing the natural or der of the races. \\ orking men of the North, wall yon. can you endure this infamous work ? Do you not see that the perjured, plundering. Constitution breaking, law-defjing gang called Congress, is striking at your rights at your freebom, at your dearest interests, through reconstruction. There lias not been a single act of legis lation, a single measure passed in Congress that has not been aimed at yon. It is you that the National Banks are fleecing. It is your families who are made to suf fer, that the South may be Afiicanized and converted into a wilderness. It is out of your pockets that the taxes to pay the interest on untaxed bonds is paid. Nearly one-half yon labor is mortgaged for t lie support of a privileged class. our loaf of bread is the cents, because the South, instead of contributing to the resources of the country from the fertile soil, is a drag and tax upon your industry. Look into Radicalism, and you will find in it the true cause of all the poverty all the misery, all the wrongs from which the whole country is now suffering. The remedy is in your hands and the time is hastening on when it can be applied. Organize and be prepared for the day of action, the daj' on which you can settle all sources with the party of ruin and anarchy, the party which seeks to maintain its pow er through the sacrifice of every right and principle vindicated in great revolution. Organize for the salvation of the Repub lic, and rescue it from a beastly, degrading, tuongrclism. Organize to save this land for white men, and make it the white man's inheritance. Organize to protect yourselves and fam il.es from the conspiracy of an unconstitu tional Congress, and from the nefarious de signs of an unprincipled bondocracy. Organize for the emancipation of eight millions of our own race and blood, from the most galling, crushing, binding despotism ever inflicted upon a people. Think of what they are to-day suffering —Tiiink of their ruined homes, their wast fields, their prostrate trades, their thousands of proverty-stricken orphans and widows.— Think of the fate with which they are menaced. Think of the outrages perpetra ted by a halt savage race, iustigated to • heir deviltries by Radical friends and cut throats. Think of this, and resolve in your hearts that, the aoeursed party which has brought this woe, which has brought this flood of evils upon this land, shall i when the day of retribution come, he crushed in to the earth, under the tread of your tri umphant majorities.— Metroplitan Recbrd His CHARACTER. —Many of the Radical organs are now suffering the pangs of in digestion, in eating their own words, spok en of Grant before be was their candidate. 1 lien they uttered their real opinions; now they sing the set chorus of the party. In this matter, the Tribune lately called the attention of the Times to some of its old ' opinions. Recently the New York Times retorted thus: "The Tribune must have its own record in view when it tpeaks of newpapers which 'now follow the instincts of success, and are the lusty champions of Grant.' There is none else that we can think of to which the description truthfully applies. For months, up to a very recent period, the Tribune had only contemptuous terms for the Union soldier. He was a mere 'epau letted Sphynx'—a nobody off the battle field —a doubtful and over-rated man, whom the Republican party could not af- I ford to 'make its standarJ-bearer.' Such : was, in brief, the estimate which the Tri- I bane put upon Gen. Grant at a period ; when the Times was earnestly advocating ! his nomination as the only man around whom all friends of the Union could conti I dently rally. When this conviction be i came general, and the Republican party ! indicated its choice in a manner not to be mistaken, the Tribune dropped its sneers, restrained its antipathies, and joined ir, the ! universal shout These arc not antecedents ; which entitle our cotetnporary to play the | patron or the bully." Delegate Elections to County Conven tion. The Democratic electors of Tunkhan nock Borough and the several election districts in W joining County, are request ed to meet in their several election dis tricts on Saturday the '29 th inst., between the hours of two and five o'clock I'. M , and elect delegates to represent tbem in County Convention to be held at Tunk hannock on Monday the 31st inst, VIGILANCE COMMUTEES The following Vigilance Committees, for the several districts in said County, were returned at the last annual Conven tion : Braintrim, George Ketir.arJ, Jlamlet Hill, A. G. Seymour. Clinton, David Armstrong, Daniel Bi dleman, A. O. U'Jey. Exeter, Sam'l Wall, Benj. Sickler, Fish cr Gay. Eaton, George Jayne, John Lee, Bow eis Hunter. Falls, Andrew Dewitt, Ira Weed, G. W. Sherwood. Forkston, Russell Comstock, Cha-. Mil -1 lcr, Oscar Farr. Lemon, Georg : B bee, H. Billi igs, L- Clouse. Mchoopany, Warren Gotf, John Sbehan, Henry Love. Mesboppen, John Bridget, J. G. Da* is, Erastus Bowman. Monroe, C. S. Shooley, W. Watson. I Wra. Sickler. North Branch, W. Iloxie, C. Adams, j D. S. Catlin. Northmoreland, L. Winters, J. Perry, E. R. Uallock. Nicholson, E. N. Baron, M. Oakley, J. Stevens. OverfieM, Henry Ag r, Henry Bur gess, Henry ii. Walter. Tunk. Boro, Thos. Osterhouf, Wm S. Ixutz, James Young. Tunk. Twp., S. N yliart, D Z. Michael, Win. Ball. \\ asliington, E. Ovta tkld, J. Robinson, W Crawford. Windham, II W. Keeney, Chas. Fes- ; sott, W. T. Keithline. RILES FOR THE GOVERNMENT UK DEMO- ' CIIATIC CONVENTIONS, beC. 1, The Democratic electors of each elec- j ion district in this county, shall annually on the last Saturday in August, meet at the ! place of holding their General anil Town- j ship elections and elect three suitable per sons to serve as a Committee of Vigilance for the ensuing year, whose duty n hhall be | to superintend all other tn>enn s s of the j Democrat electots of their district. 2. At the same time and place, shall s'*r> be elected two deleaves to the County Con vention, who shall on the following Monday, meet at the Court II use, tn the Boro of Tonkhannock, and after organizing by elect ing one of their number for a President, and two Secretaries shall proceed to nominate such District and C unty Officers as are to be voted for at ihe en-uing General Election —elect Conference lor such Disirict officers as they shall Dominate--appoint Delegates to the next State Convention and a Standing Committee for the County. 3. All C unty Conventions shall be held with open doors. 4. AM candidates fi r nomination shall In voted for viva voce ; and the one receiving a majority of all the votes polled, for any office shall he nominated. 5 The Convention shall keep a journal of all its proceedings which shall be duly pub- j lished in the Democratic paper or papers ol j the County ; and any nomination not tnide a ; conformity with the forgoing rules shall be j declaired void, and the vacancy or vacancies ! so occuring, shall be supplied in the manner hereinafter provided. 6. The Standing Committee shall consist of nine Democratic citizens of the county, who shall hold ihcir office for one year from and aftej the date of the eleciton ; and it shall be their duty, during that time, to cali ' at all County Conventions, Mass and other J meetings of the party—to fill all vacancies of i the Ticket, occasioned either by the declina- j lion of nominees, by a want of conformity to j the foregoing rules, or where the Convention j shall have failed to tnake a nomination, and \ also in special elections, where the necessity for doing so occurs after the regular time for holding County Conventions—and to till 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- I ly hereafter, in issuing the call for the elec tinn 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 by a general meeting of the Democratic cit-zens of the county called for that purpose bv the Standing Committee or if the same shall pass tw> successive Coun ty Conventions without amendment and not otherwise. J. V. SMITH. ' Chairman Standing Committee. THE REASON way.—The reason why j the British journals are almost unanimous jin the opinion that the Democratic uomi ! nees for President and Vice President will jbe defeated, can be found in the fact that ; 3169,000 in gold left New York on Thurs ! day last to pay interest on the bonds of j the United States held by their readers. |ln the event of Giant's election this state I of affairs will be continued { hut if the tax | payers, or, in other words the people de | cide in favor of Seymour, the allies of the ' Radicals in Europe will be compelled to , take the same kind of money the laborer : receives as a remuneration lor the "sweat lof bis brow." Do you uijit J that, now j An Incident in the Early Life of Gen. Grant. _____ BY tIIB FATHER. We wish our reader* to distinctly un derstand that we are not so partial to our nominees for the Presidency that we can not see some good traits in the history and character of General Grant. The follow ing incident of Hiram, in his youthful | days, furnished to the world, and made public through tbe New York Ledger by his father, will strike the reader at a glance that the boy Hiram U. was an inquisitive cuss and always had a propensity for hanging on to a good thing, as the sequel will show in the following incident.— Iliram's father says : " One morning in the early part of the month of Juuc, when Ulysses was about twelve years old, I had a cow which I de sired to have driven to a neiglilior's place about two miles away. As it was impor tant that tbe cow should be driven over at that particular time, I called Ulysses, who was out back of the house digging fish- 1 worms prepartorv to going fishing. Ulys ses answered " What?" I told hint I wanted him. He asked What for?"— ; 1 told him to help drive the cow awav.— He wanted to know " What I wanted the i cow driven away for? " I relate this to j show that even in early life he was never willing to undertake anything without fiist understanding what was to be done, • t>ut also knowing the reason why it sltoull he done. So he turned all the other cat- I tie out into the lane which led to the pas ture, and then turned the cow out into the road and started her in the right direction, j She acted very wild at first an l tried Sard to get by us and go to the yard.— i But alter we had driven her about eighty rods, she walked along so well that Ulys ! scs thought he could drive her alone, ami I let him. I do not think I had been in ! the house longer than five minutes when on looking out of the window, I saw the cow coming back towards the house at a furious rate, with Ulysess holding on to her tail. How the hoy held on has always j been a wonder to me. I do not think he touched the ground oftener than once in , twenty feet. His hat was off, and his 1 hair was streaming in the wind. Just in j front of the house was a mud hole iu the road, which I had long intended, but as long neglected, to fill tip. Coming to that the cow made an awfui leap, actually jerk ing away from Ulysses, and he tell head long into the mud. He was complet- iy submerged, so great was the force with which he fell. He was so much out of breath, that he Could scarcely extr cute Ifmself alone, so I went to his assistance. He was indeed, in a sorrowful plight. N>t only weie his clothes, completely coveted, hut his eyes, nose, mouth filled witii tintd. 1 asked Ulysses what this really meant.— He said the cow tried to run by him, and he tried to head her off, hit could nt stop her, so. as she passed him, he grab bed hold o.' her tail. I only relate this incident to show the bull dog plu k an i tenacity with which Ulysses always held on when he got hold of a good thing." # SCOTT'S Popular Remedies, Prepared from Guue, Hfkbs and ROOTS, and never fails when used in jfF*time. scan-s ChOUt-OMi g§| SANATIVE CERATE, r-V-i —. For Burns, Scalds or Scald H-ad, Frosted Feet, Wounds, Inflamed Ryes, Chapped hands, Old l ifers. Indolent 1 amors, Piics, Sore Np- ples.C&ked Breasts, Bruises, Sprains, | Corns, &c. Cholera Curale, ■ 'icons"! For Dvsentery, Cholera Morbus, ;eoeaasvfl.: Bowel "Complaints, Cramp Colic, ; —*— { Nervous. 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