CTJRBENT NEWS.
II ram Grant embodies tho principles of
his parly—all smoke.
One thousand clerks in Washington are
looking blue, and growing th'n.
Do you want to pay taxes for bondholders
—vote for Grant and Colfax.
Forney makes a statement on the "honor
of a gentleman," but does not name the gen
tleman.
Gen. Siegel now a r< sident "of Baltimore,
won't go for Grant. Hundreds of Germans
"files mil Siegel."
Dan Rice is trying to hire Grant to ride ■
bit trick mule. The difficulty is that there
is uo monkey fool enough to ride with him.
Grant Man—l tell you 6ir, Republican
is looking up.
Sevmucr Man —Bell, Radicalism is 60
flat on its back ibat it can't look any other
way.
Radicalism hunot C ptain W'irz, the keep
er of the Andersonville prison, and lionize*,
in the Chicago Ci.iiventi"n, Governor Brown,
of Georgia, the founder of >aid prison.
Arm all the negroes South against the
whites, and then let us have peace.
There are 200 miles of logs in the Co
neuch and Eicambia rivers, Florida, awaiting :
transportation to the saw-mills.
A marrying nun in BrooKlyn has now his 1
fifth wife and five mother* in-law in his
bouse, and '"order reigns in Warsaw."
A Western newspaper reports that corn
in lowa has grown so rail this summer that
a man on horseback cannot reach the tassels
of the stalk.
/udge George W\ Woodward has been re*
nominated for Congress by the Democrats in
the Luzerne and Susquehaunah district of
this Slate,
A gang of burglars wheeled a safo out of a
warehouse and through a crowd the other
day in Ehnira, civily answering all questions ,
and escaping detection.
"The death of Thaddeus S'evens," says a
coteraporary, "leaves the Radicals without
a leader." That may be so, but, as the road
Wall down hill, they won't need one. Tbad
waits for them below.
I
A merchant advertising for a boy adds : ;
"Lads who part their hair in the middle need
not apply."
Fanny Fern having said that "the men
present aie fast," Prentice replies ' that they
have to be, to catch the women."
Take away some men's money, and their
now wonderful intelligence will vanish like
smoke.
New Orleans has eight hundred and sev
enty-five policemen.
Grant had a splendid reception at Nix >n,
111. He was met by a crowd of four per
sons.
Srme rascals at IYcotab, lowa, blindfolded
a :ow last week, and then drove her into the
mill-pond, where she drowned.
In Chicago the Radicals refused to let a
club of neproes, " Grant tanner", " march in a
torchlight procession. Their sable allies are
indignant at this treat men), and threaten to
tan the hides of their white brethren when
next they appear :u public.
Those who talk about repudiation should
remember that if Radicals get another four
years' lease of power, "he people will be so
beggared by taxation that they will be un
able to pay their debts, even in greenbacks.
It costs the penp'e si <y four thousand
nine hunt!red and elereti dollars to get wit*
nesses before the ./udicarv Committee • f the
House, upon whose evidence impeachment
articles were drawn up. This is one dirty
Item the Radicals have to carry.
CAKDIP— The Ilarnshnrg State Guard.
one of the organs of the Radical Republicans
in this State says that, "taking together, we
(the Republicans) as a party,, have the
largest and dirtiest loads to carry that ever
were strapped on the back of any political
organ'zation !" We believe you, my boy
AMONG IIIS LAST Roans— A day or two
befure "the great Commoner" died, he was
told of ibe recent accident to Ben Butler in
Wisconsin. "It gives me great pain," said
the expiring embodiment of Motigrelisin,
"great pain to know tbat his
d d neck wasn't broken."
While the Republicans are hugging Joe
Brown,of Andersonville notoriety, General
L mgstreet, and other notorious rebels to
their bosoms, their "loyalty" is terribly
shocked because Wade Hampton, Gen. For
est, Howell Cobb snd others, who took part
in the rebellion, are welcomed into the Dem
ocratic ranks. Their sensitiveness on this
subject is extreme ; but they ate still more
sem*>bly affected by reports from the South
that the " only loyal people" (as they have
termed their) there are rapidly deserting the
Radical, and rallying under the Democratic
flag Poor fellows !
The late Queen of Madagascar was buried in
a silver coffin, worth .§30,000, and a box of
coin, which it took fifteen men to carry, was
buried with her. The mourning requires all
her subjects to shave their heads and go
barefoot for ninety days. They must also he
ou the ground snd do no work for that time.
The tenacity wi!h which some men cling
to life is astonishing. He are told <>f a \ er
m>n ter, who survived thirteen years alter a
tamp>ng iron was driven through the brain.
A man is still living in Eastern Ohio whose
skull was penetrated by a gas pijte. The no*
torious Bill Pools lived several weeks with a
bullet lodged in his heart, and a young man
died at Lexington, Ky., three weeks after a
bullet lodged six inches within his brsin,
and another bullet ha* |ed from his back
to his abdomen, lie retained bis sense* un
til hit death.
Cjje JUmocrat.
HARVEY tHCKLER, Editor.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA.
Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1868.
FOR PRESIDENT,
HON. HORATIO SEYMOUR,
OF NEW YOtlK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
GEN. FRANCIS P. BLAIR,
OF MISSOURI.
DEMOCRATIC STATE icKET.
Auditor General,
CHARLES E. BOYLE, of Fayette.
Surveyor General,
Gen. WELLINGTON ENT, of Columbia
DISTRICT AMD COITMTY TICKETS
FOB CO.IGRF.SS.
COL. VICTOR E. PIOLLETT
of Bradford County,
FOR SENATOR,
ZIBA BILLINGS ESQ.
tf Nicholson Tp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
GEORGE OSTERIIOUT ESQ.
of Tunkhnnnock Tp.
FOR TREASURER,
ILIRAM HITCHCOCK ESQ.
of Forkston,
FOR COMMISSION EH
WM. F. CAIRL ESQ.
of Monroe Tp.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
JOHN SITTSER ESQ.
of Tuokbannock Boro.
FOR CORONER,
DR. SARGEANT KELLY,
of Tunkhannoek Tp.
FOR CCITNTY SURVEYOR,
WM. S. SCIIENCK, ESQ.
of Washington Tp.
FOR AUDITOR,
CATT. P.M. BURR,
of Meshoppen Tp
POSTPONED.-- The Democratic meet
ing, which it was intended should be
held in this county, on the 15th iiist.,
has been postponed to the 22nd, on
account of previous engagements of
speakers intended for the occasion.
Democrats will take notice and gov
ern themselves accordingly.
HON. GEO. W. "WOODWARD has
been positively engaged as one of the
speakers. The names of other speak
ers will be announced in due time.
JOHN V. SMITH,
Chairman Dera. Standing Committee
CT The "Yarmeount" election, over
which the radicals have been cackling so
vigorously, turns out to be a sort of wooden
egg affair. Their majority is not. within
several thousands, as large as reported by
them and the percentage of increase of*
vote is very decidedly greater for the Dem
ociats than for the Jacobins. Such a kind
of victory will give us New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana and all the middle
and western States.
Let's give the country peace, and put the
liads out of their misery in October.
Ex-Governor Thomas 11. Seymour,
of Connecticut, died at Hartford, on the
3rd inst., of typhoid fever.
XST" There is not a cotton thief, not a
disunionist, not a treasury plunderer, not a
wench worshipper, not a political cut
throat, not a "loil"'coward, not a dirty,
drunken advocate of military law and h.gh
tuxes, not a sneaking, Jrivielng pryer into
oilier people's business, rot a scallawag
carpet bagger, escaped convict, or gallows
deserving wretch in the entire country, but
will vole for GIIANT andC'OLFAX.
Xff'Tlie poor man of the country is
made to pay the taxes of the rich man by
the present Internal iv venue laws, passed
by the Radical Congress. Eveiy pool
man who wi>hes to be relieved froin his
burden of taxation, will vote the Democrat
ic ticket
" SUPPOSE." —Suppose Seymour and
! Blair should be elected. Suppose Sey
raotir should die or be " put out ot the way,"
rebel fashion. Suppose Frank Blair,
the candidate of the retails, should then,
as he would, become President. Seneca
Falls Courier.
Suppose a gosling i 9 a hedgehog, sup
pose the moon is an terolite, suppose a
chimpanzee is a brick chimney, suppose
your aunt was your uncle, or suppose the
great megatherium was a tadpole, covered
all over with chicken feathers —what then 1
—Ftim Van Vtmocrat.
Work ! Work ! :_Work ! ! !
Remember, fellow Democrats, that yon
have now but a little over four weeks for
work before the October election. Let
this time be spent in making a thorough
canvass of the voters in your respective
districts. See to it that your nanus and
your friends names are on the assessors
list. Attend to the Naturalization of such
aliens as are entitled to their final papers.
Make preparation for a vigorous onslaught
upon the enemies of free government. Wc
have wily, unprineiple foes to confront.—
They assume a thousand deceptive guises.
They resort to a thousand artifices and strat
agems ! They appeal to men's patriotism,
while wringing the sweat of toil out of
them in taxes, They take the brea 1 from
white men's children to feed indolent nig
gers, and enrich army contractors and bu
rean agents. They assume to pay the bond*
holder in gold, but the widows and or
phans, and the wounded pensioners, in ade*
preciated paper currency. They keep a
standing army in ten States, to overawe
their citizens and control their elections,
and say : "Give us peace." Under loud
professions of retrenchment and economy*
they are enriching their favorites, — there-
by increasing the national debt, by millions,
every month, in times ot profound peace
and enormous taxation. They white wash
their infamous negro equality doctrines, by
telling you they are not iu favor of it, but
ask you to vote with them for the men who
vote for it, at every time and "place, when
and where they have the power to establish
it.
These, fellow-Democrats, are some of the
characteristics of the men you hare to resist.
Up and at them ! Charge these and their
other iniquities and ciimcs upon them
Kxpose their hypocrisy. Refute their
falsehoods. Strip their disguise from them, i
Show the people their rottenness and defor
mity. Work! work, without ceasing, un- 1
til the triumph of truth, the re-establish- j
mont of Democratic principles and the j
restoration of the country to its original,
prosperity.
THE SENTIMENT OF THE SOUTH.
The Correspondence Between General
Rosecrans and General Lee at the
Wrote Sulphur Springs.
The following is the correspondence be-
tween General liosecraus and the promi- j
ncnt Southerners at the White Sulphur
Springs :
GEN. ROSECRANS TO GEN. LEE.
I
WHITE SILFHIR SPRINGS, 1
WEST VIRGINIA, Aug. 2d, lßt>B. )
GENERAL : Full of solicitude for the fu
ture of our country, I come with my
heart in my hand to learn the condition,
wishes, and intentions of the people of the i
i Southern States ; especially to ascertain
the sentiments of that body of brave, en- j
eigetic, and self-sacriticing men who, after
I sustaining the Confederacy for four years,
1 laid down their arms and swore allegiance
:to the Government of the United States,
I whose trusted and beloved leader you have
been.
1 see that interpreting " State Rights "
to conflict with national unity has produc- j
ed a violent reaction against them, which
is drifting lis towards consolidation, and .
also that so great a country as onrs even
! now* is, certainly is to be, must have State
! governments to attend to local deiails, or
go farther and fare worse It is plain to
us at the West and Noith that the con
| tinuance of semi-anarchy, such as has ex
istid for the last three years in ten States
ol our Union, largely increases the danger
l of centralism, swells our national cxpen
j ditures, diminishes our productions, and
our revenue, inspires doubts of our polili-
J cal and financial stability, depreciates the
| value of our national bonds and currency,
and places the credit of tlie richest below
i that of the poorest nation in Christendom.
We know that the currency must be de
i predated as long as our bonds are below*
par, and that therefore the vast business
5 and commerce of the country must suffer
the terrible evil of a fluctuating standard
of value until we can remedy the evil con-
I dition of things at Ihe South. We also
, see otln r mischief quite possible, if not
probable, to arise, such as from the fail—
! ure of crops, a lceal insuirection, and
many other unforeseen contingencies
which may* still more depreciate our credit
and currency, provoke discontent and dis
order among our people, and bring dem
agogical agitation, revolution, repudiation,
ai<d a thousand unnamed evils and villain
ies upon us. We know that the interests
of the people of the South are for law
and order, and that they must share our
fate of good and til.
I believe—every one I know who re
flects believes—that if trie people of the
Southern States could be at peace, and
their energy and good-will heartily ap
plied to repair the wastes of war, reorgan
ize their business, set the freedmen peace
i fullv, prosperously and contentedly at
work ; invite capital, enterprise and labor
i from elsewhere to come freely amongst
them, they would soon rebuild their ruin—
' ed fortunes, multiply many fold the value
of their lands, establish public contidence
in our political stability, bring our govern
ment bonds to premium, our currency to a
gold standard, and assure for themselves
and the whole nation a most liappv and
prosperous future. Seeing this, and how
all just interests concur in the work. I ask
| the officers and soldiers who fought for the
Union, as every thinking man of the great
West and North asks, why it cannot be
idone ?
We are told by those who have con
trolled the Government for the past four
years, that the people of the South will
not do it. That if ever done at all. it
must be done by the poor, simple, nncdu
cated, landless freedmen, and the few
whites who. against the public opinion and
sentiment of the intelligent, white people
i are willing to attempt to lead, aud make
' their living off of these ignorant and in
| experienced colored people, mostly men
who mint be needy adventurer*, or with
out any of those attributes on which reli
ance tor good guidance or government can
be placed, We are told that this kind of
government must be continued at the
South until six or eight millions of intelli
gent, energetic white people give n to it
or move out of the country. Now I think,
the Union army thinks, and people ot the
North and West, I daresay, believe, there
must be, or there ought to be, a shorter,
a surer way to get good government for all
at the South. v\ c know that they who
organized and sustained the Southern
Confederacy four years agaiust gigantic ef
forts, ought be able to give peace, law, or
der and protection to the whole people of
the South. They have the interest and
power to employ, protect, educate and ele
vate the poor freedmen, and restore them
selves and our country to all the blessings
of which 1 havejnst spoken. The ques
tion we want answered is— 44 Arc they
willing to do it ? '
I came down to find out what the peo
ple of the South think of this, Hrid to ask
you what the officers and soldiers who
served in the Confederate army, and the
leading people who sustained it, think of
these things.
I came to ask more. I want to ask you,
in whose purity and patriotism I here ex
press unqualified confidence, and as many
good men as you can conveniently con
sult, to say what you think of it, and also
what you are willing to do about it. I
want a written expression of views that
can he followed by a concurrence of ac
tion, I want to know if you, and the gen
tlemen who w ill join in tne written ex
pression, are willing to pledge the people
of the South to a ciuvalrou* and magnani
mous devotion to restoring peace and pros
perity to our common country. I want to
carry that pledge high above the level of
party polities, to the late officers and sol
dier* of the Union army and the people of
the North and West, and to ask them to
consider it and to take the necessary ac
tion, confident that it w ill meet with a re
sponse so warm, so generous and confiding
that wc shall see in its sun-bine the rain
bow of peace in our political sky, now
black with clouds and impending storm,
I know you are a representative man ;
in reverence and regard for the Union,
the C onstitution and the welfare of the
country, and that what you would say
would be indorsed by nine tenths of tin
whole people of the South ; but I should
like to have the signature of all the repre
sentative .Southern men here, who concur
in your views, and expressions of their
concurrence from the principal officers and
representative men throughout the South,
when they can he procured. This concur
rence of opinions and wills, all tending to
peace, older and stability, w ill assure our
Union so diers and business men, who
want substantial and solid peace, ail I cause
them to arise above the level of parlv
politics and take such steps to meet yours
as will insure a lasting peace, with all its
countless blessings. Very truly your
friend.
( Signed ) W. S. IiOSECRANS.
General H. E. Lee, White Sulphur Springs
West Virginia.
HIE REI'LY.
W iiirE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WEST )
VA., August 26, 186 S.
GENERAL : 1 have had the honor to re
ceive y our letter of this date, and in ac
cordance with your suggestion 1 have con
ferred with a number of gentlemen from
the South, in whose judgment I have con
tided, and who are well acquainted with
the public sentiment of their respective
States. They have kindly consented to
unite with ine in replying to your commu
nication, and their names will be found
with my own appended to this answer.
With this explanation we proceed to
give to vou a candid statement of what
we believe to be the sentiment of the
Southern people in regard to the subject
to which you refer.
Whatever opinions have prevailed in
the past in regard to African slavery; or
the right ot a State to secede from the
I'nion, we believe we express the almost
unanimous judgment of the Southern
people when we declare that they consid
er that those questions were decided bv
the war, and,tliat it is their intention in
good faith to abide by that decision. At
the close of the war the Southern people
laid down their arms, and sought to re
sume their former relations with the
United States Government. Through their
State Conventions they abolished slavery
and annulled their ordnances of secession ;
and thev returned to their peaceful pur
suits with a sincere purpose to fulfil all
their duties under the Constitution of the
United States, which they had sworn to
suppoit. If their action in these particu
lars had been met in a spirit of frankness
and cordiality, we believe that ere this
old irritations would have passed away,
and the wounds inflicted by the war wou d
have been in a great measure healed.
As far as wc are advised, the people of
the South entertain no unfriendly feeling
toward the Government of the United
States, but they complain that their rights
under the Constitution are withheld from
them in the administration thereof.
The idea that the Southern people are
hostile to the negroes, and would oppress
them if it were in their power to do so, is
entirely unfounded. They have grown
up in our midst, and we have been accus
tomed from childhood to look upon them
with kindness. The change in the rela
tions of the two races has wrought no
change in our feelings toward them
They still constitute the important part of
our laboring population. Without their
labor, the lands of the South would be
'•omparatirely unproductive. Without
the emplo\ment which Southern agricul
ture a fluids, they would be destitute of the
means ot subsistence, and become paupers,
dependent on public bounty.
Self respect, even if there were no high
er motives, would therefore prompt the
whites of the South to extend to the ne
groes care and protection. Ihe impor
tant fact that the two races are, under ex
i-ting circumstances, necessary to each
other, is gradually becoming apparent to
both ; and we believe that but for influ -
enccs exerted to stir up the passions of the
negroes, the relations of the two races
would soon adjust themselves on a basis of
mutual kindness and advantage.
It is true that the people of the South
together with the people of the North and
West, are for obvious reasons opposed to
any system of laws which would place the
political power of the country in the
hands of the negro race. l>ut this opposi
tion springs from no feeling of enmity, but
from a deep seated conviction that at pres
ent the negroes have neither the intelli
gence or other qualifications which are
necessary to make them safe depositories
of political power. They would inevita
bly become the victims of demagogues,
who for selfish purposes would mislead
them to the serious injury of the public.
The great want of ihe South is peace.
The people earnestly desire tianquility
and the restoration of the Union. They
depreciate disorder and excitement as the
most serious obstacle to their prosperity.
They ask a restoration ot theii rights
under the Coustitntiqn. They desire re
lief from oppressive misrule. Above all,
tlicy would appeal to their countrymen for
the re-establishment in the Southern
States of that which has justly been re
garded as the birth-right of every Ameri
can—the right of self-government- Es
lahli-h these on a fiim basis, and we can
safely promise, on behalf of the Southern
people, that thev will faithfully obey the
Constitution and laws of the United States,
treat the negro with kindness, and buinaui
ty, and fulfil every duty incumbent on
peaceful citizens, loyal to the Constitution
of their country.
We believe the above contains a suc
cinct replv to the general topics embraced
in your letter, and we venture to say, or.
behalf of the Southern people, and of the
officers and soldiers of the late Confederate
HI my, that they will concur in all the sen
timents which we have expressed.
Appreciating the patriotic motives which
have prompted your letter, and reciproca
ting your expressions of kind regard, we
have the ho ior to be,
Very rt-spectlully and truly,
K. E. LEE. Virginia.
G. T. BEACKEGAKD, Louisiana.
ALEX. 11.STEPHENS, Georgia.
ALEX U. 11.STUART, Vitginia.
and many other prominent men of the
South.
To General W. S. Rosecrans, Ministei
to Mexico, White Sulphur Springs, \ ir
ginia.
THE OATH-BOUND. SECRET AND
REVOLUTIONARY G. A. R. EX
POSED !
Horrible Oath of the Supreme Degree!
We give below an exposition of the I
character of the Radical military secret so ■
ciety. which has been organized for the j
purpose of overthrowing the liberties of the
people. The attention of the Govern— i
ment has lecently been called to the trea
sonable character of the organization known
as the "Grand Army of th; Republic," and J
the ritual, oath, Ac., have been discovered
and are now in the possession of the detec
tives. The oath of the Supreme Com- j
mandery, which we print b low, is of a
most hurt id and revolting character, and j
should op n the eyes of all men who still j
cling to the Constitution and a Republican
form of Government. Concerning the
character of the lower degrees, we are fur- •
nisht d the following:
"The "Cost" is the initiatory degree in
this order, and here the rite ot initiation j
is very simple. In order to delude those j
wiio have been in the service of the United j
States into joining them, the statement is j
made that the G A. R. is not of a political
character and that its object is only to pro
mote the interest of those who were in the
annv. Rut upon initiation the novice is
obligated to vole for a soldier as against a
civilian, unless otherwise instructed hv the
order, which means that in case a Radical
civilian is a candidate for office against a
Democratic soldier, the order will instruct
members to vote for the civilian. Thus
the " I'ost" is used as a political machine,
and as ibis under the control of the Su
preme Commandery, this subordinate i
branch is subject to military duty under
the orders of tbe upreme Commander. —
This, however, is studiously concealed from |
the knowledge of the members of the "l'ost,' '
and so are many other things which are j
deemed safe only in the breasts of the |
members of the higher degrees. Only
those who have risen to the grade of
"Rrigadier Generals" in the order, can
take the highest degree, and only on taking
the following oath:
" 1, , in the presence of Al
mighty God and upon his Holy Evangely, !
do solemnly swear that I will bear true al |
legiance to the American Nation, that 1 i
will leeognize all men wi'bout distinction j
ot race or color as my political equals, and
that I will oppose and stand ready, at all
hazards to a>Mst in abrogating, or if need
, be, in overturning, all laws, under what
euer name, not in harmony with this doc
tiine of equality; and I furthermore swear
that 1 will, at all times and under all cir- ,
j eumstances, favor the concentration of pow
er in the Federal Government and oppose
1 the idea of reserved rights rosining in the
| States, or in the people; and I furthermore
swear that 1 will resist, to the extent of my
I power, even if it should require the sac
rifice of my life itself, the continuance of
the State R ghts theory in the policy of the
Government of the United States; and in
I token cf my sincerity, I hereby announce 1
my willingness to submit to the extreme j
penalty, even death, which this order may I
choose to inflict upon me, if at any time I i
should prove unfaithful to this, my oath of
loyalty. So help me God and keep me
: true."'
Thus are the revolutionary and treason
able purposes of this oath bound conspir-
I acy unveiled It can scarcely be possible
that any soldier, who fought for the pres
i eivation of the Constitution, which this or
! der seeks to subvert, will continue in fel
lowship with it, after learning its atrocious
! designs. We call upon all who are mem
! bers of the inferior degrees, those who have
united themselves with various " l'ost"
throughout the country, whether they are
Republicans or Democrats, to at once dis
engage themselves from the snaro iuto
which they have been led. Come out !
Leave this revolting and revolutionary
cabal, and dbdaui to be the tools of the con
spir.itors who seek to make you their in
| strumeuts iu overthrowing your own, as
1 well as the public liberty.— Exchange.
The Power of Music.
The following from the N. Y. Journal
of Music will be read with interest by the
many friends and acquaintances of Trof.
T. E. Perkins, in this vicinity :
u One evening sometime since, as Mr.
Theodore E. Perkins was sitting in the
room of the Howard Mission, New York,
conversing with the liev. Van Meter, they
were interrupted by a wild looking man,
who exclaimed :
1 M ls Awful Gardener here ?"'
"No," replied Mr. Van Meter,
M Then," exclaimed the man in accents
of despair, lam lost. If Awful Gardener
was here he could save me. He'd know
how becuse lie's been the same road; but
now I'm lost !" ar.d drawing a bowie knife
from under his vest, he was about to
plunge it into his bosom, when Mr, an
Meter sprang forward and caught his aim.
Seeing.that it would be useless to attempt
to wrest the knife from his grasp, Mr. Van
Meter sought to distract the man's atten
tion from bis suicidal purpose; but the un
fortunate crest ure was seized with a fit of
delirium tremeus and became unmanage
able.
Mr. Perkins, not knowing what eles to
do sat down to the melodeon and began to
play and si'igi nme ye disconsolate.
The effect was magical. The man was
sufficiently calm for Mr. \an Meter to
march hiin up and down the room, while
Mr. Perkins continued to play and sing
From "Gome ye disconsolate," be struck
into "Jesus, to Thy dear arms I flee." The
effect was stili marked. After singing that
beautiful hymn, Mr. Peikins commenced
"Flee as a bird to your mountain." As
the strain of ibis exquisite composition filled
the room, the maniac paused, sat down,
covered bis face with bis hands, and sob -
bed like a child—or rather like a broken
hearted, remorseful man. By this time,
Mrs. Van Meter, who was present when the
man first hurst into the room, came in with
a bowl of strong Cofl'ee which she had
thoughtfully made, and as soon as the
weeping stranger b- came sufficiently com
posed, she gave it to him. That quieted
liis nerves and renewed bis strengh, and in
a little while he became completely re
stored to the possession of bis faculties.
"Who is this man ?' was the question
which rose spontaneously to the lips of his
deliverers. All tfforls to Ascertain who he
was proved fruitless, lie presistently re
fused to give bis name, or to furnish any
clue to his residence or iudentity. Mr.
Perkins accompanied him to the St. Nich
olas hotel, were lie took a room under an
assumed name. But in bis conversation be
had chanced to mention a clergyman living
in Newport R. 1., whom Mr. Van Meter
knew. The latter immediately wrote to
the clergyman, stating the cae, and ask
ing him to come to llie city. The clergy
man came bv the first boat, and was taken
at once to the hotel, where th-y fortunate
ly found the poor man. The clergyman
kr.ew bim well. He was a neb resident of
the city of Hartford, (,'onn . highly connect
ed, a married man, and the father of sever
al children. On coming into bis patrimo
nv, he fell into dissipation, and the result is
indicated in the foregoing sketch. Hut
bis day of salvation bad coine. The cler
gyman took bim back to Hartford, lie
threw off the thraldom to rum which had
degraded him. He took bis former posi
tion in society; and be is now living in
llarttord, a respected Christian man, and
affording in his own peis >n and history
the most remarkable instance of the tiiumph
of music over delirium that Las ever come
to our knowledge."
Who Did It ?
It was the party that now asks you to
support GRANT and COLFAX, that repeat
ed the tonage tax on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and thereby robbed the taxpayers
of the state over six millions of dollars.
It was the party that asks you to sup- j
port GRANT and COLFAX, that sold the
public works to the Pennsylvania Railroad
Co., and thus placed the peopleofthe States ,
at the uicrcy of that soulless corporation.
It was the men who now support GRANT, 1
that said, when secession was first talked of, i
'•let the South go, we can get along better !
without it than with it," an I who called
the Hag of our country a "flaunting lie," a
"polluted rag."
It was the party that now asks you to
suppor GRANT, that caused the war, and
after they had it inaugurated, robbed the j
soldiers who enlisted in it, and taxed their j
families left at home.
It was the party that now asks yon to
support GRANT that hired soldiers for Gold j
ami compelled them to take greenbacks— j
that f-d them on rotlon herring, clothed |
them in shoddy and gave them paper sohd
shoes to wear.
It was the party that now asks you to |
support GKANT, that told you the war was
waged "only for the restoration of the Un
ion," and now when the war is over pre
vents the Union from being restored.
It was the party, that now asks you to
support GRANT, that established National
Ranks for the benefit of the rich, and by
which the laboring men of the country are j
robbed annually of over eighteen millions
of dollars.
It was the party that now asks you to
support GRANT that concocted the infa- 1
mous bond scheme, by which the wealthy \
men of the country are exempted from tax
i aticu, and the poor—the farmers, mechan- ;
• ica, and the. laboring men —made slaves
i to bond-holders.
It was the party, that now asks you to
j support GRANT, that gave tax exempted
i bonds to tbe rich f<.r greenbacks, and now
says that these bonds must be redeemed iu
i gold.
It was the party in power that establish
ed, and now maintains, the negro bureau,
to feed and clothe the negro population of
j the &iuth at an expense to the laboring
white men ofthe North, of forty millions of
! dollars annually.
It is the party that asks you to support
i GRANT, that keeps a standing army in
times of peacs, to attend to niggers and
Bureau ollicers, at an expense of one hun
dred and fifty millions o) dollars per year.
It is the party that a.-ks you to support
j GRANT, that has made the public debt what
i it is, and increases it at the rate of fen mil
lions of dollars per month.
It is the party that asks you to support
GRANT, that makes the expenses of the
Government/ice hundred millions of dol-
Urn per year. W hen the Democracy cot.
trolled, the expenses amounted to bi
eighty million* per annum.
It is the party that asks you to gap.
port GRANT, that compels you to p t .
the enormons taxes that are levied op'
on you —that gives gold to the rich srd
greenbacks to ine poor—that makes whit,
men slaves for negroes —that keeps •
army of officials to pry into your bos:
ness, and that robs yon with tax<i i ni
prices, such as has never cursed any couo
try or people.
If you want a continuation of bit;
times —high taxes —disunion and deroor
ilization, vote for GKAST and COLFAX...
Watchman.
The History of the Radical party.
Would be Vice President Colfax, in,
recent speech, asserted the "history of it*
Republican party is written in the brigl,;.!
est pages of our country's annals. ' Th,
following are some of the prominent re-o.:, i
of the success of the Radical party whit;;
now seeks by usurpations and military
force to perpetuate its power, as stated it
the New York Express:
1. The history of the Radical party be
gan 18G0, in a war which extremists North
and South labored to perpetuate
2. In two millions of men, North anc
South, in arms, facing each other with th,
most destructive weapons of warfareu?
modern invention.
3. In the loss, North and South, of over
dOO.OOO lives.
4. In the indenture of over four billions
of dollars tor the North alone—s4,ooo,ooo,-
o°°.
5. In an existing debt of over two bil
lions and a ha1f—2,500,000,000.
G. In the heaviest taxation ever impos
cd upon the people in any country, ur.dcr
which our labor is so groaning, that it ran
no where come into competition even with
taxed Germany, England or France.
7. In enormous high prices upon ever
thing.
8. In an irredeemable currency of men
paper money, $300,000,000 in Nation)
banks, which are paying the owners of
them from 10 to 30 per cent, per annun.
arul in S4OO, GOO,OOO of greenbacks, r
good enough to pay the duties to the cus
tom house; or interest due the bondholder
on their $2,5000,000,000 of debt.
9. In a standing army of 00,000 men ot
pappr, 36,000 men in fact, costing million
and millions of dollars, nearly §2,000,000
for every regiment,
10 In the hordes of frcedtnen's barer,
office holders, paid by the North tog..v,m
the negroes of the South, costing million!
per annum.
11. In a tariff which drives off from the
outer ocean (reserving for Americans only
the coastwise tiade) almost every Ameri
can ship, and which nearly stops all for
eingn ship building in the Uuited States.—
Exchange,
LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
WYOMING DIVISION.
SUPPLEMENT NO 3 T<> TIME TABLE NO. 13.
IS PLACE OF SUPPLEMENT NOS. 1 AND 2.
To take effjeton Monday Sept. 7th, lSg9.
Ex. Fr't. 1 Loral Local I E* Eft
am. P M. P.M. A M
10 30 4.30 McKune's 4.10 9*40
10.46 440 Buttermilk Falls, 400 971
11 Oa 458 Gardner's Ferry 3.42 901
11.30 5.20 LAB. J. Leave ) 320 810
Airive S 10.30
12 00 5.30 Pit'ston, 10 20 B.os
1218 535 Port Griffith 10,15 7.5s
12 ie 540 Plainsville, 18.10 J®"
12.3 c 5 toO Wilkcs-Barre 10.00 7.30
The "Express Freight" down Train, arriru '•
Pi Its* on and Wilkes Barre in tim'. for the
ger train for N. Y A Phil'*. The 'Local''
Wilkes Barre A Pittstoo. for "'Mi-Rune's an! otlur
stations north, aficr the arrival of the N. Y. •
Phil'a morning trains
R A. PACKER.
Sup't Wyomtog Division
Offi-eL|V'.B,R C Wyo Dir., )
Wiikes-Barre Sept 4, (j3. >
Washing-Day no longer a Terror and
Dread to Housewives !
A GREAT MONEY AND LABOR-SAVING IN
VENTION.
THE EUREKA
WASHER & BOILER
I. D. SEELEY Inventor <t* Patentet.
|P ll
igi WASHERUOUR !■
|gif!i| PATENTED
MAY 5"1868. |
The Cost of the Boiler will soon be returns i d
! the Saving of time and labor, ani th# great sirts|
in the wear of clothes.
Washing clothes without rubbing, pounding. c
any friction ; it is accomplished simply by
| eration of steam and boiling soap-suds, which,
the action of the heat, are forced up through
I chambers and poured on the top of the clothes
i forced through the fabric with great rapidity, cl
ing it perfectly.
The Invention can be attached to any com
i boiler at a 'rifling expense, consequently it is W1
the reach of all. . . , „
Ladies and gentlemen ure respectfully inviteu
call and examine the Washer.
STATE AND COUNTY RIGHTS FOR SALT
I It is on Exhibition at Tunkhannock Pa., "PP* 1 "
Wall's Hotel. T?nb l-
To the Heirs of Gilbert Adams late of l"'
Township of fr'orkston, In the County
Wyomiug Dec'd,
TAKE NOTICE- THAT in pursuance of an #
of the Orphans Court of the County of VVyoiu' o f
me directed, an Inquest of Partition, to P 4 ' '
j the real estate of the said decedent herinatter
i scribed, to and among the heirs and local
1 tatives of the said decedent, will be held on I -
day of Oetober, A. D lbgß, at one o clock
afternoon at the premises aforesaid, to wit . *'
certain piece, paieel, and lot of land nituat# ■
township of Forkston, County of
State of Pennsylvania, and bounded on ' .
|by the North Branch of the Mehoopany ' r , ,j,
land of Jacob Bartolett, on the Ea;l by
! cob Bartolett, on the South by land of Aip
ams and oi) the West by land of RusseU
containing about eighty acres more or lew
inquisition will meet at the mansion horn#
) tty said deetdent in his life time, tor , .
aforesaid at the time above mentioned I(#J :
| time and place all parties interested can
the, think ptoper. MWDeW ITT
1 Sheriffs Office, Tunk. Sept, 5, 1368.