CURRENT NEWS.
A Radical eye opener—Kentucky.
The cattle pest, like the hopes of the Radi
cals, is fast subsiding.
Extra Billy Smith is on the stnmp in Vir
ginia against Radical reconstruction.
( hieargo slakes its thirst at one thousand
three hundred and fiftyfive saloons.
A few days ago a Grant meeting was held
in the Filth Ward, New York. The speakers
numbered six, the audience four. The meet
ing adjourned.
A girl in Chicago died recently from swal
lowing the point of a needle, which broke off
while she was picking her teeth.
The Chicago POST recently considered,
"Can a Democrat be saved ?" and answered,
''Hardly." We beg to inquire then, ''lf the
Democrats can scarcely be saved, how shall
the Radicals appear 1"
A crippled soldier has been at the Collec
tor's office in Buffalo, selling both flags and
badges, offering the boatmen their choice
anxious to sell all that he c> uld. lie sold
Flags—Seymour and Blair, 2q5
Grant and Colfax. 4
Badges— Seymour, 580
" Grant, 22
And, "let us have peace."
The Jackson Glarian says that there will
be 50,000 majority for Seymour in Missis
sippi.
Colfax says he is not a Know-nothing.—
After November he will be no more.
IFram Grant embodies the principles of
his party—all smoke.
If the Radicals want peace, what are they
arraing the negroes for ?
A jealous negro in St. Louis stabbed an
other negro dead. The job occupied only a
few minutes. 'Let us have peace."
Mr. William A. Crafts has written a Life
of Ulysses S. Grant. There is more Craft
than truth iu it, we suspect.
Col'ax. a little over a year ago, said that
"Grant had proved a failure in every capaci
ty outside the military." Now Grant ho'd
give his opinion of Colfax.
A man in Ohio got tired while black ber
rying, slept up on a railway, and his friends
had to do the rest of his "burying" for him-
The Chicago POST inquires : "In contra
distinction to the Democracy, what is it that
our Republican leaders tn Congress go for ?"
Why, they go for all the money they can lay
their hands on.
The reason that Butler favors the green
back system is because he is afraid that hi*
spoons will be melted and run into coin.
Disas'er—The Kentucky and Montana
elections, to the Radical party.
The E'raira (N. Y.) Gazette has been
quoted a- having gone over to the Radicals.
The Gazette man says the fellow that start
ed (he story is "a branded liar and villain." .
We suppose it started where the other's do.
in the N. Y. TRIBUNE.
Queen Victoria, it is said, believes in spir
its. So does Giant.
Flcmington, lowa, had a democratic pro
cession three miles long.
Five hundred ladies on horseback partici- j
pated in a Democratic procession in Illinois '
the There was an acre of Demo
crats ia'attendance.
A "manhood" down in Louisiana whipped
his boy to death for running away—a fact
which the Radicals have overlooked as an
argument against the election of Seymour.—
Tbey should not thus neglect their strong
points.
Wanted—Radical vagabond*, idlers, and
loafers to go down South to preach "loyalty'
and "mules" to the niggers. In return they'
will be sent to Congress—salary five thous
and dollars a'year and stealings. The only
outfit necessary will be a carpet bag, a paper
collar and a fine tooth coinb.
The enthusiasm for Seymour and Blair
throughout the West is so great that the at
tendance at meetirgs is estimated by the
acre—"acres of live Democrats." Grant had
the pleasure of witnessing one in St. Louis
and doubtless thought it an "acher."
GRANT'S EOI.ILOOIR.
Quoth Gen'ral Giant, "It's blamed unlucky.
First Oiegon—and then Kentucky !
Such conduct don't show any sense—
And hits me in my reticence !
It's not that they have got the State—
But that they -gain' afsuch a rate !
And what is most uncommon rough,
Our pirty's vote is 'falling off!'
We'll have things fixed a little straighter
In States that vote by Legislatur' !
But here's a pint that's rather tough
How are we sure there'll be 'enough ?*'
A h-ird conundrum ; and I think
I'll go and take another drink !"
Mr. Pendleton addressed a crowd of thirty
thousand people, in Maine, one day last
week.
It is said that Gen. Grant intends to see
the Niagara Falls this summer—let him wait
until November before he goes and he can
witness two falls, Niagara, and the fall of the
Black Republican party.
There was a grand enthusiastic Gran'
club meeting held in Port Jervis, one day
last week—only EIGHT persons present.—
Not much enthuse there.
A severe case of sun-stroke—Grant 'telling ,
bis father to "stop them letters."
The Democrats carried every county in
Kentucky except one.
Gen. Blair has been making more of his .
very effective speeches. CLlfax is afraid to
say anything,
Fred. Douglas refuses to take the stump for
Grant and Colfax. Fred, has the old pre- j
juqicc of hi race against poor white trash. ;
ffly democrat
HARVEY MCKI.ER, Editor.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA.
i Wt'dne-tlay. Aug. 26, 1 868.
-FOR PRESIDENT,
•I HON. HORATIO SEYMOUR,
' OF NEW YORK.
FOIL VICE PRESIDENT,
' GEN. FRANCIS P. BLAIR,
OF MISSOURI.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
Auditor General,
i CHARLES E. BOYLE, of Fayette.
Surveyor General,
Gen. WELLINGTON ENT, of Columbia
f Delegate Election.
The Democrats of the several election
districts in this County will meet on Sat
urday next (the 29th inst.) to chose Dele
gates to the Democratic County Convcn
-1 tion to be beld on the following Monday.
1 Three persons for Vigilance Committee
I for each distiict are also to be selected.
Our friends in making these selections
should do so, with especial regard to the
best interest and success of the party. No
minor personal considerations should be
allowed to stand in the way. Let the
j contest, if any there shall be, between
the friends of rival candidates, be decided
in a fair and friendly manner. Let all
agree to abide by the result, whatever it
may be, and cheerfully vote and woik for
the whole ticket which shall be put in
nomination. Those who threaten to bolt
a ticket regularly pl aced in nomination
! because their particular wishes or interests
| have not been gratified are not the men for
these times. We want no bolting Dem
I oerats, no secret enemies in our ranks.
The issues to be decided at this time are
! too imp irtant —too momentous to allow
persona! preferances or p tty bickerings to
interfere with the genera! welfare.
We do not believe that Democrats will
allow this to be so. We throw out these
reflections, in advance, that they may not
be thought to apply to any p<rticular can
didate, who may fail to get a nomination
; nor to the friends of such.
Wiaeo asked as to where we stan 1 as to
rival candidates; we do and truthfully an
| swer that we are for the Whole .Demo
f cratic Ticket, which the Convention in their
discretion shall place in nomination. We
i feci certain that they will select good anJ
true men. We ask nothing more.
i °
CS~The negro soldiers selected by the
1 radical managers, a* a "guard of honor" to
! escort the remains of late Thadeus Stephens,
while passing along the streets at Wash
ington, on their way to the capitol where
the body lay in state, on some real or
imagined provocation of a trivial charac'er
fired indiscriminately into the crowd upon
; the streets scattering the missiles of death
in every direction. Several persons were
wounded—one, it is said, fatally.
This negro'guard of honor' for the lead
is o
er of the great Republican party —its llep
resentative man—was a very fit arrange
ment. It could hardlv be expected that
the managers of that affair would consent
to make use of "white trash - ' for this
j purpose. These sleek bureau-fed, pam
pered pets of radicalis n were very ap
' proprialely chosen for this solemn state
I occasion. But that they, should have
( thought it necessary, to assert their su—
| periotity and dignity by shooting down
! white men in the streets, smacks a little
Jto strong of "the colo'.ed troops fought
nobly."
i This little sportive affair of the dar
keys we learn bv the late papers is like
ly to end in something more seriou*.—
Twenty of these gay and festive bla. k
"guards" have, since the depositing of the
remains of the "gr< at commoner" in a
nigger burving ground, and since their
return to Washington, have been arrested
as rioters. Three of tliem were fined
and sei teen put in prison to await further
heat ing.
"Let us have peace" says Grant.—
"Give us muskets for the loyal negro'
say the carpet baggers.
tr a Charleston artist thus draws the
! poi trait of a genuine "carpet bagger " :
1 "A man with a lank head of dry hair
—a lank stomach and long legs, club
knees and splav feet, dried legs and l ink
jaws, with eyes Ike a fish, aod a mouth
like a shaik. Add to this, a habit of
sneaking and dodging about in unknown
places—habiting and cohabiting with nig
' gi-rs in dark dens and hack streets —a
look like a hound, and the smell of a
i skunk, lie would rob a dead nigger and
; foi ge his dead father's name to a draft for j
$5. , I
MASS MEETING.
At a meeting of conservative citizens of
Wyoming County, held at the office of R
R. Little, on Monday evening Aug. I7ih
1868, called for the purpose of considering
the question of holding n mass meeting ot
the conservative citizens of W yoiuing
County; during the present Presidential
canvass. R. R. Utile was elected chair
man, and O. L Parrish, Secretary of said
meeting, whereupon it was unanimously
Rmolttd, That a meeting of the conservative cit
izeup tf said County be held at Tunkhnnnock, at
euch point as shall be decided upon by the Committee
iof arrangements on the !sth day of Sept. next, in
the afternoon and evening.
Hon. J. V. Smith was appointed a com
mittee to correspond in reference, to speak
ers upon th<- occasion. On motion, L. (J.
Conklin, O. L. Parrish, IV, F. Terry,
| Carl Henniger and J. P. Roderick were
! appointed as a committee of arrangements
On motion the following named gentle
| men were chosen as a committee iu refer
euce to attendance, viz.
HAMLET IIILI. Braintrim,
IIENKY NEWCOMB, Clinton,
T. D. IIEADLT, Exeter
WM. BENEDICT, Eaton,
RILEY SICKLEK, Falls,
11 IK AM HITCHCOCK, Forkston,
MILES AVERY, Lemon,
C. L. VAUGHN, Mehoopany,
RICHARD MOORE, Monroe
AIIIRA GAY, Mcshoppen,
ZIHA BILLINGS, Nicholson Twp.
L. HARDING, Nicholson VIL.
j J. M CAREY Northtnoreland,
H. COMSTOCK, North Branch,
LEWIS AGIR, Overfield,
1 DANIEL BALL, AJ )
r* > lank. 1 wp.
GEO. OSTEEHOCT, J R
JOHN W. CRAWFORD / *TT T • .
4 T i. J- Washington
5V JACOB DECKER, J °
ROSWELL GAREY, Windham,
On motion the meeting then adjourn ed
11. R. LITTLE, Chairman,
O. L. PARRISH, Sec'y
Wendell Phillips on Grant as a Drunk
ard.
AN INVESTIGATION DEMANDED.
In order to show that it is not Demo
crats alone that believe that Grant takes
j too liberally of "tear-punch," we repub
| lish what Wendell Philips said upon this
subject in February last. He demanded
an investigation. Has this been made ?
If so, when, where, and by whom ?
Mr. Philips' information from "different
anil trustworthy (black Republican) sour
ces," on fhis subject are not to be treated
wiib silence nor contempt. Democrats
! and decent Republicans, don't want a "con
; fessedly invetorite drunkard"' for Presi
| dent, whatever Mr. Philips and the radi
I cals may think of his fitness, on the score
: of "fidelity to the nigger."
' [From tiro Anti-slavery SlancLird for the Week
Ending February 1, 1869 ]
This is an anti-slavery journal. Look
ing out ou politics, as the mgro looks on
them, it deals with public men and m. as
I ures only as they are tree or false to him.
But has abundantly proved even before the
1 existence of the present administration,
j that only temperance i* the substratum of
! all other reforms How sad the result
when power is given to men who are
wont "to put aa enemy into their mouths
| to steal awav their brains,' this war has
i almost impressively shown us. Sow ru
-1 mors re c'<es from Washington, coining
i from different and trustworthy sources,
| >hut General Grant has been, remarkably
j drunk in the strei Is of that city within a Jew
' weeks. We know nothing ourselves of the
truth of th-se tumors. We make no
. charge against General Grant in this re
-1 spect But even the possibility of the
truth of these reports is of tco momentous
importance to be lightly dealt with. The
nation is bound to inquire as to the habits
;of candidates for high office. After the
experience of the last three years it has no
; right to run the slightest, risk in this re
i-peet. No public man, whose friends are
asking for him high offiee. ought to com
plain of the strictest scrutiny by the pub
lic, as to bis habits in this particular.—
We call, therefore on the national and
State temperance societies to investigate
these reports. They have this subject in
their special charge. They are bound to
give us the facts, and save us from even
the possibility of such another infliction as
the nation now sutlers. Especia ly we
i call on the Hon. Henry Wilson, a pledged
teetotaller, to see that the whole truth in
this matter is given to the country, lie
has devoted himself to the advocacy of
i Grant's claim. As a temperance man, ho
is bound to see that we run no risks of this
kind. Living in Washington, he must
know, or have ample means of knowing,
the truth as to this matter. If we are un
necessarily anxious, let him relieve us by
, trustworthy assurances that Grant is now a
temperance man, fully able, on all occasions
to withstand this temptation. It the fact
is not so, let him explain to his temper
ance associates how he dares to ak their
votes for General Grant. It is perilous
enough to give the Presidency to a man
who was confessedly an inveterate drunkard
, two or three years ago. lut it will be the
gravest crime to give it to him if that vice
still holds him in its grasp. Of course fi
i delity to the negro must be our first and
decisive test of any man's fitness for Presi
dency. But this test of temperance is also
< vital,
WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Radicals will have it that South
ern Democrats are anxious for battle at
arm*; hut the Democrats d-clare it is onlv
a contest t the ballot box they contem
plate or desire. The Richmond Examiner
says; "Our notion is that the people of the
United States this Fall are going to use the
peaceful remedy of the ballot box to put
down the mad revolutionists of Radicalism,
l'hev are going to outvote them. It is pes
sible that the Ra licals may arm and resist
the verdict of the ballot box. hut if they take
the sword thev will perish by the sword." ;
negroes in Washington are
arm dby Radicals. They march thronch
the stieps with gun* loaded with ball car- ,
tridges, and at the slightest provocation file !
a platoon of innketry into the nuoffending
wayfarers on the side walk. j
"Let us have peaoe."
Is ItP
Is the fact that GRANT rode a mule in a
circus when a bov, a sufficient reason why
you should vote for him ?
Is the fact that he was a drunken worth
less vagabond at West Point and gradua
ted at the foot of his class, any reason why
you should vote for him ?
Is the tact that he resigned his position
j in the regular army, to save expulsion and
disgrace on account of drunkenness—"con
! duct unbecoming a gentleman and officer,"
any reason why you should vote for him ?
Is the fact that this drunkeu imbecility
during the war murdered more men than
his advasary had command of, any reason
why you should vote for him ?
Is the fact that he issued an order ex
pelling from the lines of the army, the
"Jews as a class" because they would not
pay his father double priee tor the cotton
he stole, any reason why you should vote
fur him ?
Is the fact that he draws twenty two
thousand dollar of a salary per year, upon
which he pays not one cent of taxes, any
reason why you should vote for him ?
Is the fact he is seen almost daily when
in Washington, beastly drunk or carousing
about some house of prostitution, any rea
son why you should vote for him ?
Is the fact that he is the candidate of
gold-grabbers, treasury plunderers, New
England knaves, southern negroes, bond
holders, national banks, tax-collectors, con
stitution defiers, thieves, liars, hypocrites,
prostitutes deser/ters &c., any reason why
you should vote for hitn ?
Is the fact that he is the candidate of
the party that oppresses the poor for the
benefit of the rich, that gives to the la
boring man greenbacks and to the nabob
gold—that makes the working men pay
the taxes of the bloated bond holder—that
takes the bread out of the mouths of white
| children to feed overgrown niggers who
aro to lazy to earn a living for thems lve,
any reason why we should vote for him ?
Is the fact, t'>at he is the candidate of
I those who have run this country in debt so
| deep that figures can't represent the
i amount, and who are daily squandering
: millions of dollars of the peoples money,
' upon negro bureaus, large armies, theiving
! officials, v.llianous politicians and houses
!of prostitution about the capitol of the
; country any reason why you should vote
i for liirn ?
Is the fact that he represents all that is
corrupt in politicshy, pocritical in religion,
debased in morals, and revolting in society,
any reason why we should vote for Lim !
If for none of these reasons, why do you
j vote for him ?
Ilis friends deny none these facts, and
they present no other inducement for your
support. Think welt before you cast your
ballot. — Beliefante Watchman.
Large Increase of the National Debt in
July.
The official statement of the public debt
has just been published.
It show an increase, during the month
of July, of thirteen millions, two hundred
and filly eiykt thousand, fire hurt/red and
ninty three dollars, and mat'/ three cents.
What has become of all the money
raised by taxation.
How has it been squandered ?
To what purpose lias it been applied ;
The debt Las constantly increased for
months.
Is that to continue ?
Are the people to be taxed as they now
are for all time to Come; and never to see
the debt reduced or paid off ?
When will we see economy practiced by
the Government?
When will some wise and financial sys
tem be adopted ?
How long are we to endure the rule of
the set of thrives and public plunderers,
who are spending all the money wrung
from the toil and sweat of the masses, con
stantly increasing the debt ?
The people aro asking themselves these
questions ?
There can be but one answer to them
Not until the Rad caisare turned out of
power will there ever be a change.
Let the tax-ridden ma>ses remember
that when they go to vote.
BANKRUPT LAW —I.; the Bankrupt Law
of March 2d, 1867, it provided by the 2d
cla .se of the 331 section, that "In ad pro
ceedings in Bankruptcy commenced after
one year from the time this act shall go in
to operation, no discharge shall be grant
ed to a debtor whose as e ts do not pay titty
per centum of the claims aga-nst Ins es
tate, unless the assent in writing of a ma
jority in number and in value of his credi
tor who have proved their claims is filed iti
the case at or before the time of applica
tion for discbarge." The act went into
operation on the Ist of June, 1867, and
therefore, any .debtor wh e estate would
not pay fiftv per cent of his indebtedness,
lias been debarred since the Ist of June
last, of an application with the prospect of
a discharge. The Senate, however, on the
22d ultimo, passed finally an amendment to
the act, which amendment had previously
been passed in the House of Representa
tives, which extends the time for an ef
fective application by those who cannot
pay fiftv per cent on their indebtedness, to
the first of January, 1869.
THINK OF IT. —Farmer, mechanic, worfc
ingman—and especially you who have act
ed with the Republican party—you have
now till November to think of a matter
that concerns von and your children. W ili
yon vote the Ra icai ticket and pay the
bondholder's taxes, or will you vote the
Democratic ticket and make the bondhol
der pay his own taxes ? Every dollar ad—
ded to tax duplicate relieves you. 1 lie
Democratic platform demands that bonds
sha I be taxed the same a* other property
—the same as your dwelling house. Ihe
Republican Platform favors the exemption
of the landholder, sa>s, in etf.ct, that he ts
a privileged character, and shall not be
taxed on his bonds. hicli is right ?
Throw away your party prejudices, and
think of it.
takes twenty thousand soldiers to
enforce riegto equality in ten States of the
Union. According to Radical usage each
soldier costs two thousand dollars a year.
It can thus he seen that forty millionsofthe
people's money is squandered in order to
obtain the votes of negroes for General
Giant. Arc the tax -payers of tho North
cootent ?
gdT The National Intelligencer, in a
lato issue, adverts to the increased cost
of running the legislative machine of the
nation, and shows how the people are
fleeced out of their hard earnings in that
direction. According to the Intelligen
cer :
The bills brought in by the Sergeant
at-arms of the Senate and House are
frightful. They are salaried officers, and
yet are allowed to charge mileage and to
collect fees for summoning witnesses ami
bringing in members, which may be call d
shameful extortions. It is understood
that the Sergeant-at-arms of the House
has charged for over two hundred thous
and miles of service since the meeting ol
Congress, in summoning witnesses for the
impeachment and other investigations, for
which he receives 520,000 above and be
\oni bis regular pay, and superadded to
five dollars per head for every member
absent on a call of the House. In other
words, he has been, consecutively, nearly
nine times round the globe without ever
leaving the Capitol building, and is paid
lor it at the rate of ten cents per mile.—
The Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate was
equally benefited, and, perhaps, even a
greater degree. lie summoned witnesses
From Alaska by telegraph, and was paid
precisely what they received who made
the whole journey.
This is the manner in which the taxes
wrung from the people are expended
here. And yet we are told it is all done
according to law. If so, why not repeal
such glaiingand indefensible abuses?
So-called committees of retrenchment
waste months in absurd schemes for reduc
ing the protection to our citizens abroad
by abolishing small missions which aie
absolutely necessary, and yet they tolerate
this system of fraud and plunder right at
their own doors, and encourage the mo-t
profligate expenditures and open thieving
about the Capitol They cutoff arbitrali
ly some proper salary or officer, and cry
out " economy, ' while they open a source
of corruption, and defend it by precedent
or convenient contraction of law. Kadi-*
calisin has symtemaTtzed plunder, and the
people's treasury is regarded as the spoils
of office holding Jacobins and "loyal'
rogues.
The Radical orators and journals are
fully aware of all these facts, and hence
th y appeal to the passions and prejudi
ces of the people on past issues. They
are afraid to face such fact 9 as can be
gathered from the records of Congress
and the books of the departments. Hut
they must do so. When they talk of
"traitors" and "copperheads," we respond
what have you done with all the money
stolen from the people ? The proper an
swers to all the clap-tiap appeals of the
Radical politicians are such facts as we
are daily presenting. We have brought
a great national robbery home to the
Radical party, and at the coming election
the tax-pavers will gibbet tue robbers. —
Ex
Nine Cogent Reasons Why Gen. Grant
should be Elected.
1. Because be is General Grant.
2. Heeau>e he smokes incessantly.
3. Because be can "talk horses" scien
tifically.
4. Because he is a statesman. (Should
any ill-minded copperhead ask where he
learned statesmanship, we answer : first
at school, second in the tan-yard, third in
the army.
5. Because he battered down stone
ramparts by, almost literally, hurling liv
ing human beings against them.
6. Because he lo<t six Union soldiers
where Lee lost one rebel before Rich
mond.
?. Because ho "will have no palicy."
Wise, firm patiiot!
8, Because tie didn't destroy the rebel -
lion, for he diJ not plan, and for a long
time would not consent to Gen. Sherman's
manh. [Vide Grant's report.]
9. Because he can't make a speech.
We believe we enumerated all Giant's
quaiiti ations, and will rest assured that
all candid men will see that they are just
those which are needed in a candidate for
President of the l ulled States. Vice la
bagatelle.
Grant's Record.
Radical experts are now busy at work
searching for Grant's record. In this la
bor of love they are necessarily satisfied :
with a very small reward. The well de- j
fined opinions he has been known to ex- |
press acquire, however an immense sig- j
nificance in view of their scarcity, and 1
stand out like tombstones in a sparsely
graveyard. At present they sum up as ,
follows:
No. I Thinks negro suffrage unwise,
and calculated to produce a war of races.
Boolittlc's speech, Oct. 2, 1805.
No. 2. He expelled the Jews from his
military lines on the plea that they were
dishonest as a class. —Order, Aug. 11,
1802,
No. 3 Opposed to the freedom of the
press. — Letter, Feb. 17, 1867.
No. 4. In favor of stripping the Pres
ident of all appointing and removing
powers. —Letter of Aug. 1867.
No. 5. In favor of impeachment, lie
thinks its defeat would result in "blood
shed."— Letter, May 12, 1868.
No. 6. Endorses negro suffrage in the
South and rejects it at the North.—Chi
cago platform.
•
The Radical Lieutenant Govern
or of New 1 ork made a speech in Brook
lyn a few nights since, and here is the
manner in which he alluded to the Dem
ocratic nominee for President: "I make
no attack upon Governor Seymour as a
man. Most courteous and gentle in his
manneis. cultivated in mind and persua
sive in eloquence, his private chaiacter
is without a blemish "
LET rs HAVE PEACE —The best way to
secure peaee is to put a stop to all this
fighting. The best way to put a stop to
all fightirg is to whip the Radicals so bad
ly that they will not be heard of again for
ten years, for they are the ones who have
provoked civil war in this country, and thev
are the ones who wish to renew it. Ask
ihe Radical papers and Radical politicians
if this is not true.
i Delegate Elections to County Conven
tion.
The Democratic electors of Tunklian
! j nock Borough and the several election
! I districts in Wyoming County, are request-
L ed to meet in their several election dia
- tricts on Saturday the 2!) th inst., between
I the hours of two and five o'clock P. M ,
i and elect delegates to represent them in
! County Convention to be held at Tunk
| bannock on Monday the olst inst,
VIGILANCE COMMITTEES
I The following Vigilance Committees,
I for the several districts in said County,
' were returned at the last annual Conven
! .
tion :
Braintrim, George Kennard, Hamlet
llill, A. G. Seymour.
Clinton, David Armstrong, Daniel Bi
dleman, A. O. Uiley.
, Exeter, Saui'l Wall, Benj. Sickler, Fish
or Gay.
Eaton, George Jayne, John Lee, Bow
el s Hunter.
Falls, Andrew Dewitt, Ira Weed, G.
W. Sherwood.
Forkston, Russell Comstock, Cha s . MU
, ler, Oscar Karr.
Lemon, George Bebec, 11. Billings, L-
Clouse.
.MehooDany, Warren Goff, John Shehan,
Henry Love.
Mcshoppen, John Bridget, J. G. Davis,
I Krastus Bowman.
Monroe, C. S. Sliooley, W. A\atson,
Win. Sickler.
North Branch, W. Iloxie, C. A Jams,
D. S. Catlin.
Northmoreland, L. Winters, J. Perry,
E. R. Ilallock.
Nicholson, E. N. Bacon, M. Oakley,
J. Stevens.
OverfielJ, Henry Ager, Henry Bur
gess. Henry 11. Walter.
Tnnk. Boro, Thus. Osterhout, Wm S.
Kutz, James Young.
Tunk. Twp., S: Neyhart, I) Z. Michael,:
Wm. Ball.
Washington, E. Overfield, J. Robinson, j
VV Crawford.
i Windham, II W. Keeney, Chas. Fes
; sott, W. T. Keithline.
RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF DEMO
CRATIC CONVENTIONS, See.
1. The Rem cratic electors of each elec- 1
ii.>n district in ihis county, shall annually :
on the last Saturday in August, meet a' the
place of holding their General and Town- i
-hip elections and elect three suitable per- 1
'suns to serve as a Committee of Vigilance
| for the en-uing \ ear, whose duty it shall be
to superintend all other meetings of the
Democrat electois of their district.
2. At the same tone and p'ace, shall also
be elected 'wo delegates to the Countv Con
vention, who shall on the following Monday,
meet at the Court II >use, in the Boro of ,
Tunkhannock, and after organizing by elect
ing one of their number f>r a Pre-ident, and
: two Secretaries shall proceed to nominate .
such Dis'rict and County Officers as are to |
| be voted for at the ensuing General Election
elect Conference (or such Di-triet officers ;
as they sha'i nominate—appoint Delegates to ;
| the next State Conventi >n and a Standing
Committee for the County.
3. AH Cmnty Conventions shall be held
I with open doors.
4. Al I candidates for nomination shsll b<
v ued for vied voce ; and the one receivin- a
m-ijorify of all the votes polled, for an) office
shall he nominated.
5 The Convention shall keep a j mrnal <>fj
all its proceedings which shall b-' dulv pub
lished in the Detuocra ic paper or paners o'
the County ; and any n >m'n'u>r. not mtde a
conformity wuh the forgoing ru'es shall be j
declaired void, and the vacancy r vacancies
so occuring, shall be supplie 1 m the manner
hereinafter provided.
6. The Standing Committee shall consist
l of nine Democratic ci'izens of the county.
who snail ho d iheir office for one year from :
| and aftej the date of the election ; and Hi
i shall be their duty, during that lime, to call 1
at all County Conventions, Mass and other
, meetings of the party—to fill all vacancies of
I the Ticket, occasioned either by the .lectins- j
1 tion of nominees, by a want of conformity to j
I the foregoing rules, or where the Convention j
| shall have faded to make a nomination, and ,
• also in special elections, where the necessity
for doing so occurs after the regular time (or :
hid ling County Conventions—and to fill I
vacancies in the Committee Vigilance, occa
| snmed by removal, death, or failure on the
; part of the citizens, to elect him
7. The Standing Commit'ee shall annual
( ly hereafter, in i*-uing the call for the elec
tion of Delegates to the Cmnty Convention,
cause a copy of the foregoing ru'es to be pub
hshed in connection therewith.
8. These rules may be amended, or new
I ones added therein by a general meeting •(
' the Tetnocratic cit'zens <>f the countv called
j for that purpose hv the Standing Committee
or if the same shall piss two successive Couu
ty Conventions without amendment and not
i otherwise.
J V. SMITH.
Chairman Standing Committee.
THE NEW POST OK ICE LAW.— The
new postal law just passed by Congress!
contains some important changes in the
: busim ss of conducting the business of the j
department, and as all our readers are
more or less interested in sending and re
ceiving letbrs and newspapers we publi-h
some of the provisions of the new law for ;
their information The law provides that I
all letters or. which the name of the sender
i is endorsed shall he returned to him if not
| call for within thiity days, it doubles the !
| compensation of post-masters for the pay
' tnent of money orders, hut reduces the fees !
on the same. It permits weekly newspa
pers sent to regular subsribers in the coun
ty where published to be delivered free of
postage from the post office nearest the
place of publication, it also autli >rizos the
issue of duplicate money oiMers. This
law also makes it a felony of high charac
ter to use postage stamps a second time
kowingly and authorizes the Postmaster
General to prescribe a uniform for letter
carriers, and m ike it a misdemeanor for
any one else to wear the same.
gy Money and arm% theft and mur
der, that's what reconstruction m aus
Brownlow wants $10,000,000 an ] 20,000
troops. Negro mi.ilia hills have passed
tl e pretended legislatures of Alabama.
Arkansas and Louisiana, and the first
move of the carpet-bag men in Congress
was for full pay trom March 4, 1867,
though only-elected in 1868.
Colfax was first elected to Con
gress as a Know-Nothing, and he is now
' running on a national ticket with a Know-
Nothing, If he kieps on in this kind of
i. company, he will be taken for a fool him
(self %t last.
Facts for Working-men.
While the producing industries of U,<
country arc unjustly taxed, and the ahno-t
intolerable burdens of the war rest up -j
those who fought the battles and r , M > J
the sacrifices, those who till, d land- tof
produce supplies, and those who lahor-dl
in the workshops, the organs of the RadiJ
cals are asserting that the bondholders an.
the men who pay all our revenues. ThJ
organs of the Radicals in Lorain countvj
replying to an article which rucently ap-c
pearcd in the Plaindcaler, sncc ringly Ea j,
that ''not one laboring man in every hunl
dred pays a penny of taxes to the Gov.l
ernmcnt directly." True the
man does not pay his taxes directly,
the Government, but every man of ser,..
knows that the consumer pays the tax u-.
on every at tide manufactured by capita.
A practical working man, a few dst{|
ago, being in our office, handed us t.> |
following, which in itself is a volume oil
argument to show that the poor tnsn
pay taxes :
Radical legi-lation requires the COOMJ.
tner to pay all taxes.
It taxes' the hat on your head.
The boots on your feet.
The clothes on your person.
The food you eat.
The tea and coffee you driuk.
The pot it is cooked in.
The cup you drink it out of.
The implements on your farm.
The tools you work with.
The paper you write on.
The pen and ink you ue.
The papers and books yon read.
The furniture in your house.
The gas or oil you burn.
The coal you consume.
The stove you burn it in.
The irateh you light it with.
The medicine you take.
The tobacco you smoke.
The pipe you smoke it in.
The di-hes on your table.
All you eat off them.
The laboring mari of the country, who
! owns a little house anJ lot, which he ha-,
earned by toiling from eaily morning to
night, pays State tax, county tax, school
tax, road tax, upon it ; while his next
door neighbor, who is a bondho! it r, own
' ing $50,000 in tli • bonds, pays no ta.x-s
whatever, draws interest in gold, laughs
at his unfortunate neighbor, who has his
I money in a i ttie home 1 If tbe masses of
the laboring men desire the equal taxa
tion of every species of property accord
ing to its real value Government boD .s
and other sectiriti- s included, if they want
one curren y for the Government and the
people, the laborer, and the otfi e-holder,
the pensioner and the soldier, the produ
cer and the bondholder, they will not vote
the Radical ticket, but wdl vote for that
of the Democracy. Cleveland Plaindealer.
Radical Rascality at Harrisburg.
The Ilarrisburg Patriot has unveiled a
precious bit of "trooly loif' rascality at
the Capita!, that is a very fair specim u
of the WAV the thieving party which rules
and robs the State manage the bu-iness.
It seem- that an account was presented
to Auditor General Hartranft and by him
audited, piss d an 1 paid by the State
Treasurer for S7OO sa'arv due to one A.
C. llvus as Paster and Poller last session
and 81-' mileage, in all $712. This liyus.
it further appears, had applied for an ap
p diitin -nt as Paster and Fol ler, but fa 1-1
to get it, and went home. He nevei per
formed a single day's service for the S;at<\
He came to Ilarrisburg, however, a'i
drew the amount as stated above frotu
the State Treasury.
The Patriot has been endeavoring *o
trace out the authorship of this robbery
to the party patticularly responsible; but
thus far the endeavor has been fruitless.
Whether it is Hartranft who passed the
account : Speaker Dsvis or Clerk Self
ridge, who certified to it, or Represent.*
tive Armstrong, of Lancaster, who appears
to bavejbeen interested in putting the bo
gus claim through, or who wis principle in
the robbery remains a mystery, and will,
doubtless remain so. The tiutb is, the-e
Radicals thieves at Ilarrisburg an I Wash
ington are too well organized arid disci
plined for justice ever to be able to over
take tliern. Ttie only remeJy the people
have is to drive them frotu power and
elect honest ineu.
From one erd of the country to the
other the cty goes up from the people that
we must have a change. The farmers de
mand a change; the merchants demand a
change ; the laboring people everywhere
demand a change ; the tax-payers demand
a change : the lovers of the Constimti >n
demand a change ; the white pcop'c say
they must an] wi.l have a change of ad
ministration.
ANOTHER GUN —A LITTLE BIT A LOUD
Onk. I—On the 13th in-t., the Territory
of Montana held its territorial election. —
Last fall the Democracy carried it by
eleven hundred, this fall they glory ove: a
majority of twenty seven hundred. An in
crease of lfioo! How are you mule
rider ! 'Rah for de bureau !
SENATOR FOWLER SAYS OF BUTLER:
k 'He is a hold genius that rises above the
dusty and tortuous paths of the common
sneak. He mounts upv>n strong pinions
high up in the atmosphere of never-ending
and uncontaminated falsehood, and basks
in his natural element, lie is a tbaroug
hred. No trace of truth contaminates hi
v*ins or stains his memory. lie seeks to
perfect the false by eliminating all th true.
He is the immaculate and protean liar ot
the age, as well as the very god of theives.
editor of the Pre** thu* spokts
of Governor Seymour in June, 1 S6-t:"lloo
"or to New York ! Her Governor ha*
''acted like a man who knows when the
"time tor partizanship is at an end l' el [
"gallant Seventh is now at Harrisbnrg. and
"side by side with our brave Porinsykat ians
i "preparing to resist the invaders. This is
the true spirit of brotherly love." l'eun
sylvania will not lorget Governor Sey
mour
iW Do you want to pay taxes for
bond-holders—vote for Giant and Col
i fax.