_
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Four linen° less oonetitatehali square. Sight UMW
or =ore thalrfour, constitute a square.
Half one 20 SO One ni g one aly.— $0 00
I oils weak_ IYO 14 one west. 290
gg one month.. it 00 it one mont h .. 600
three months 600 gg three monthslo 00
six month,. 800 C' DIX montlue.. 16 00
o ne year.... 212 00 It one year 20 00
y no Ruins's natiessinserted in ).004L OOLVIII 3
~,t t re marriages and deaths, me onus Us Linn for
omertiou. To merchants and others advertising
year, merle corms win be of Bred.
a., .1. be manner of inserelens madly* designated on
lioavoriatnnuoiri.
tcr Marriages and Deattswiliteinileried at the same
rates am regular advertisemeata.
Busintgo tads.
WM. H. MILLER,
AND
E. FERGUSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
OFFICUIS IN
SfIGE,MAIcEB.N3 BUILDINGS
SECOND STRESi,
BETWEEN WALNUT 4144 /44 - AKET SQUAB.);
aP-2Shatd Nearly opposite the Buehler Howse.
ROBERT SNODGRASS ;
ATTORNEY A r LAW,
Office North Third street, thsrd door above Mar
ket, Harrisburg, Pa.
N. 11.Poutden, $411114 sad , 10112817 claims o f a ll
hinds proCeented and collected.
Rater to Nona. John 0. Runkel; David Mumma jr.,
and B.A. Lamberton. • nyfl-d&w 6m
B R. 0. WEICHEL,
SURGEON ANI) OCULIST,
RTHIMIIROD THIRD NRAR FORTH RUMAT.
Ha i n Ra w fay prsiorsd to attend promptly . to
&MOS sr profs/don In all Ili
• LONG AND MIT NINGINOMPOL 1011DIOA1iZIPIIIPAIKI1
jamighie Lim is promidag fan and ample satisfaction to
all who mayfavar himiritirseell,lbetheiliamaiebroale
OCNICI eau mature.
H 0 B.' C. Id &.o1:09 mr.oLL
,
• ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MILITARY CUM AHD PATENT AMENT•
Qzhce in the Exchange,Walnut at., (0p Stairs.)
Siting formed a connction with parties in Wadi
ington City, wne welt reliable business men, any bind-
MOM connected with any of the Departments will meet
witkimmedisteand ciassfal sttlial444, mi6l
MILITARY CLAIMS AND PEN
SIOBS.
' The undersigned have entered into an association for
the collection of Military Claims and the securing of
Pensions for wounded and disibled soldiers.
Muster-in and Muster-ent Bolls, officers' Pay Bolls,
Ordnance and Clothing returns, and all papers pertain
ing to the military earriee will be made out properly
~Isdarpeditionely. _
Office in the Ischange Buildings, Walnut betireen
Second and Third streets, near Omit's Hotel. Harris
burg, Pa. THOS. 0. MAODOWBLL,
ie26-dtf THOMAS A'. MAGIIIRS.
SILAS WAItD.
80. 11, NORTH THIRD RT., HARRINKIIIO.
STEINWAY'S -
HIELODZONS, VIOLINS, titrITABS,
Banjos, Flutes, Fifes, .Drams, Jecorddese,
STRINGS ' wpm Amp sem mom, &c.,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES ALBITMS,
Large Pier and Mantle Iffirrors,l3oere and Ovid Prima
ofeverydeeeriptieamade toorder. Begaildingdww.
Agency ler Hewes Sewing Machines.
B - Peet Music sent by Mail. ortl-1
JOHN W. GLOVER,'
BEERCHANT TAILOR!
Has just received from New York, au assort•
meat of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
which he Wien to his onstomen and the palate as
novZO MODERATE PRICES. dtt
T 000 K, Merchant Tailor,
fet e lit 01L1M17T.8.2., bltorean Seeend and front,
Has just retnntedfromthe city with an assortment of
CLOTHS, CASSTMERES AND VESTINGS,
WlO4llOll be sold at moderate prices and made up to
order; and, also, as assortment of BEADY MADE
Clothing and tierrtionteit i ll Faralaking Garda:
nod:L-Iyd
DENTISTRY.
B. L ORD% D. D. 5. 1 %
NO. ll e ILL&KET STREET,
Positively extrasts teeth without pain, by the use of
Nitrous Oxide.
* .V
RELIGIOUS BOOK STORE,
11/ CT AND SUNDAY SCHOOL DSPOSITORY 3
E. S. GERMAN,
sr sou=rs acoomp sTICAMP, dfova OZIONTIT,
muntiestrie, PA.
Depot fortkenk of atersosoopes,Eltereaseopielninnil,
limbs and Musical Instruments. Also, anbecriptloas
liken for sigigions publitalleos. noiSlNdy
illeticaL
**At
DR. SWEET'S
INFALLIBLE LINIMENT
GREAT EXTERNAL REMEDY,
FOR RHEUMATISM, GOUT, NEURALGIA,
LUMBAGO, STIFF NECK AND JOINTS,
SPRAINS, BRUISES, OUTS WOUNDS,
PILES, HEADACHE, and ALL RHEU
MATIC and NERVOUS DISORDERS.
For all of which it is a speedy and certain remedy,
and never fails. This Liniment ie.prepared &Cm the
reihipe of Dr Stephen Sweet, of Connecticut, the fa
• mons bone setter, and hew been used in his ptaetioe for
more than twenty years with the most astonishing sac.
ems.
AS AN ALLEVIATOR OP PAM, it le unrivaled
by any preparation before the public, of which thorned
ekeptieal may be convinced by a sin ge trial.
This Liniment will cure rapidly and radically, 8111117.
XaTIG DISOWN= of every kind, and .in thousands
of emit where it has been used Wham never Wu known
to fail.
Pali NEURALGIA, it will afford immediate relief
is every case. however distressing.
It will relieve the worst cues of HEADACHE In
three minntee and le warranted to do It.
TOOTHACHE also will it cure instantly.
FOR NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERAL
LASSITUDE ! , arising from imprudence or excess, this
letalfaans IS a man happy and unfailing remedy. Act
beg direedly upon the net on e themes, it ekrengtheass end
revivifies the system, and restores it to elasticity and
CR PILES.--As an external remedy. we shim that
it is the best known, and we challenge th e wor m to pro.
lase as aqua. Rver7vietim of t his liktrenigg e°lll
- should give it a tr i al. for it win not fall to afford
immediate relief, and in a majority of clam will effect
a radical cure.
QUINSY god SORE THROAT are sometimes ex
tremely malignant and dangerous, but a timely apples.
!San of this Liniment will never fail to ewe_
SPRAINS are gometimee very obstinate, and enlarge
ment of thejointil is liable to occur if neglected. The
worst ease may be conquered by this Liniment in two or
arm day!.
Eitli/aga. OM, WO WNW, SORES, ULCERS,
BVIINs - amid SCALDS, yield readily to the wonderful
healing properties of DR. SIVDDT , II INTALLIBLD
LIDDISNT when need according ections. Also,
CHILBLAINiI• Egon/0 MR", and Imager
BITES and STINGS.
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should have this remedy at hand, for its timely use at
ilke Stet appmranes of Lameness will effectually pre-
Teat twee - raddielkla &mama to which all heroes are
liable and which render so many otherwise valuable
wee Desxly.wortbless.
Over four hundred voluntarytostimeniabi to the won.
a ~sties properties of this Liniment have been
Monies& within the lest two yearn, and muiy of them
fawn pennies in the highest ranks of life.
CAltuirioN.
Ile avoid lopes ! .IVon absents the Signature and Like-
Mee et Dr. iltor&on 'Sweet ea every label, and able
u Ntepten Sweet% infallible Liniment 1 , blown In the
&Ns cf each bottle, without
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Tam Baru Phonies .IND Trittou will be sewed to thew
scribers residing in the Borough for rumours. rini WINN, -„
PaYable to the Carrier. Mail subeeribeni, smi noLLAIIS .
DR* ANNtg.,
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Tin Wuxi'. PATRIAT AND Intim is published stogy ,s , ,
LLARB PER ARNIM btrariably la advance. Ten •
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• Connected with thitstablielunent n extensive V
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VOL. 6.-NO. 34.
DIIRYEAS' MAIZENA.
Received two "PRIZE MEDALS"
(Front Arlo 3 and 4) at the
International Exhibition, London 1862,
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BEING THE
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'Calond by Anything of the Kind.
It Oleo . ftieeiired the HiperWive 'loped of
"EXCEEDING EXCELLENT FOR FOOD."
MAIZENA
At the &eat international Exhibition at
UAMBUEG, July, 1883 , Received
THE HIGHEST MEDAL
For its mat delicacy' as an artiola of Food.
•
treed for Puddings, Custards , Blanc Mange, /be , with
out Dineam, with, f4iv 42r,iio eggs. It is excellent for
thickening Sweat Sauces, Gripes for Fish, Meit,toupi,
For Lie Cream nothing , can. conga?* with it. A
little boiledin milk will produce rich cream for coffee,
chocolate, tea, &o . A most" delicious' aiticle of food
for children and invalids. It is mealy superior to ar
row Root, mid midi mere seenatniell.
Put up in one pound pacKsges, with full direction
for use, and sold by all Grocers and Druggists.
WILLIAM DURYEA, Wholesale Agent.
166 Fulton Otaccet, New York.
Aug Man
amastments.
DAN RICE'S
GREAT SHOW !
DAN RICE'S GREAT SHOW
WILL VISIT
imis2rlximssiarrn.,
FRIDAY AND SATRUDAY, 00T. 9 AND 10.
Performances every afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Performances every evening at 11 o'clock.
DAN RICE THE AMERICAN . HUMORIST,
"WllO STILL LIVES,"
Will positively appear at every exhibition,' and in
troduce the Wonderful Blind Talking Horse,
EXOLSIO.R, JR.,
THE TRAINED ANIMALS AND
•
Ig . . T o .
,
-
EDUCITED MULES I
And lead in their various performances, the Beat
Troupe of
EQUISTBIANI3, GYMNASTS,
ACROBATS, ATHLETES.
Ever Brought before the Public :
Dan Rice's Pets,
THE ACTING DOOR, MONKEYS.
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+ 6
- 41,
`AND PONIES.
Will also be 'brought forward., Will also be intro
&wed
DAN RION'S DREAM OP cp.tvezar,
REBEL RAID' ON &UNION PICKET !
And Many . Other Novel Features !
LodAries Of LOT: Near Iteadigg Depot.
45aitiabion Bases. 25 eta. ; Reserved Seats, 50 eta. ;
Children under ten years of age, 25 ota., to all pada of
the Pavilion.
TIER GRZAT SHOW will exhibit at LEBANON,
WEDNESDAY, Oet. 7; at HIIII.67ELSTOWN, CRITES
DAY, OA 8
Remember the day and dates.
J. B. WAR B 3 Agent
C. L. loguLra, Director of Publication.
THE, • CONTINENTAL CASINO
wurivr BIifTWIBN BBOOND & THIRD,
This FAMILY SISOBT will open nightly for the
season, on Monday, October bib, 11183.
PROP. HALL'BII,
The werld-reamettad imbidextrons Prestidigitator,
et I appear sad perform his groat Changes, T &Won ,
mations, Baum Mmiipalations, Ocular Deceptions, &et,
assisted by
MADISMOISELL vrot,A., • • •
The ehersting letters and. Pannell
MLR IDA LAWRENCE, "
The Pretty Songstress
W. H. -POMBA,•
Wm emil Negro banal/tor west of N.Y York City,
D. £. Nat ikiikr•La,
TIN aa'a'rated Vocalist, Comedian and general per
former—minted by many o th er s anegnallad in their
hoe.
Hoed srder mill be el:domed. No improper permute
admitted. No liquor so'd about the gum. /rout
seats reserved eepealay for the tidies.
APILI6IO9III - - - - - 16, 96, &60 ate.
P. A. IROLINIIAI7X,
Delo Lease awl Ltapiivtitte
HARRISBURG, PA:, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1863.
Weekly "Patriot & Union , "
TEE CHEAPEST PAPER PUBLISHED IN
THII ONLY DZMOCIRATIO TAPIR, PUBIJOKED AT
o
m
FORTY-FOUR COLUMNS OF REAP/Zia MAT
TER EACH WEEK :
AT THE LOW PRICE QF QNE DOLLAR
AND FIFTY CENTS !
WHEN
STIRsCRIBED FOR IN CLUBS OP Nor LESS
THAN TEN COPIES TO ONE ADDRESS!
We have been compelled to sales the club subscription
price to one, dollar and fifty cents in order to save our
selves from actual lees. Papa Das risen, including
taxes, slant twenty .five per oent, and is 11111 rising; _
and when we tell our Democratic friends, eandidly,, that _
.we can no longer afford to sell the Weekly Barrier AND
tring at one dollars year, and. mustadd fifty cents or
stop the pablieetion, we.tra!t they will apprecilate our
, pindtion, and, instead'of withdrawing their subscrip
tions, go,to work with a will to increase etur,list in every
county in the Rate. have endoiavored, and shall
continue our elforte,to make themes-WOW as d "arty -
orgso„and.weleome ae a news messenger : to every fain
,ily.
_We ,fiatter'ounielires that it has
,no ' rieen •iiithout
some influence in producing the glorious revelation in
the Politlea of the State achieved at the late election
and if fearlessness lathe dieckerie of- duty; fidelity to
the prindplee of the,partnand an armiousdesire te pro
mete its interests, with some experience and a moderate
depth& of abllityolan be nude nerviceliklo
Weekly Diem°. aim Timm wiu not be leas 'useful to
the . party or leie wetbacks to the family circle in the fa-
tore than it has been in the Fast. We confidently look
for increased eneencagement in this great enterprise,
and Wield toaTalT influential Democrat in the State to
i
lend us ' his aid n running our sipscription list up to
twenty or thirty thousand. The eipense to each indi
vide/fie trifling, the benefit to the patty RIOT be great.
Believing that the Democracy of the Stat. feel the ne
cesidty of sustaining a fearless central organ,'We make
tido appeal to them for assistance With the fullest isonfi-•
dines of success.
The same reasons which' induce us to raise the price
of the Weekly, operate in regard tothe Dual paper, the
price of which is also increased." The additional costto
each subscriber will be but blinks; and, while we can*"
not persuade ourselves thetas change necessarilymade
will result in any diminution of our daily circulation,
yet, were we certain that such would be the cone.
queues, we should still IA. 46MPelied to make it, or sub
fer a ruinous loss.. Under these circumstances we must
throw ourselves upon the generosity, or, rather, the
justice of the public, and abide their verdict, whatever
it say be. •
The period for which many of our subscriberS have
paid for their paper being on the eye of expiring, we
take the liberty of issuing this notice, reminding them
of the same, in order that they may
RENEW- CLUBS.
DAN RICE
DAN
RICE!
DAN RICE !
DAN
We shall also take it as an especial favor if ourpreaent
subscribers will urge upon their neighbors the fact that
the PANatol AND UNION is the only Democratic paper
printed in Harrisburg, and considering the large amount
of reading matter, embracing aU the current news of
the daywind__
RICE!
DAN RICE
. TELEGP4APIIIC, D,I.RPATCHES .
trout everywhere up to the moment the paper goes td
pregg,political miscellaneous, general and local news
market reports, is decidedly the
CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED IN
DAN
RICE!
There is scarcely a village or town in the State in
which a club cannot be raised if the proper exertion be
made, find 'sorely there are few places in which one or
more energetic men cannot be found who are in favor of
the didgemination of sound Ilemooratip doOtrinee, Wh9
would be willing to make the effort to raise a club.
DAN
RICE!
Let rut hear from you. The minting was, and the ap
proaching sessions of Oongrean and the Mete Legisla
ture, are invested with unusual Interest, and every =III
should have the news.
TERDISS.
DAILY PATRIOT' AND 'UNION.
single copy lei one year, in advance • $5 00
Kettle copy daring the session of the Legislature.. s 00
City subscribers ten cents per week.
Coplog onpplied to agents at the rate of 11 60 per hun
dred.
Single cow one year, in advent* YE 00
Ten copies to one address 6 00
Subscriptions may commence at any time. PAY AL
WAYS IN ADVANCE. We are obliged to make this
imperative. In every &Moue cask mast accompany
subsciiption. Any person sending us a club of twenty
subscribers to the Weekly will be entitled to a copy - for
his services. The price, even at the advanced rate is
so law that we cannot offer Wats? inducements than
this. Additions maybe made Many time to a club of
subscribers by remitting one dollar and fifty cents
for each additional name. It is not noceesaryto send
lathe names of those constituting a club, Sa we Cannel
undertake to address each paper to club subscribers
separately. Specimenceples of the Weekly will be sent
So all who desire it;
N. B.—The following law, passed by (longterm in 1860,
definer the duty of Pootmeetere in relation to the de
livery of newspajwird to Club Otaidelbsie
(See Lettle, Brans f Co.'s edition of the Laws of 1860,
page 88, chapter 181, adios 1.)
“Provided, however, that where packages or new pa-
Pfain Or periodicals are received at any post office directed
to one address, and the names of the dub subscribers to
whit& tliey belong, with thepostir for aquarterln ad
vance, shall be handed to the pcsaasterike shall de
liver the same to their respective owners n
To eaeble the Postmaster to comply with this regula
tion, it will be necessary that be be famished with the
list of =meal composing the club, and paid a quarter's
year's) POW in advance. The hidforni courtesy
of Postmasters, affords the assurance that they will .
cheerfaliyaceommoaate club subscribers, and the latter
should take care that the postage, which is bat a trifle
each case. be paid in advance. 84;14 on the Clubs
PRINTING PRESSES FOR SALE.
One amen CARD PRESS.
One 111DPER-ROTAI. SW - PIUS NAND PRESS.
One RUOGLES' QUARTER MEDIUM PAST PRESS,
for cards, circulars, &c.
One DATISSI OSCILLATING, SUPER-ROYAL, MA
CRIER PRESS,' imitable f or jobs and newspaper work.
A Stout boy can run off 1,000 copies per hour.
All, the weasels are in good order , and will be sold
low. Apply to T 'Do P. SCREPPER,
oat 1. N 0.1 5; Market 81., liardebarg.
BASKETS! •
LADIES TRAVELING, •
MARKET,
.1111H08L, -
PAPER, • -
SNIP".
• E=
OW
" 0 ,
setp $6
For 'able low, by
len
MESSRS. CHICKJ iUNG &'CO !
HATS AGAIN OBTAINED rigs
GOLD 1NE',•0,4114!
AT TEA.
MECHANIOB' .pAnt, BbairOir,
• arum ram rooormina WZRZ
eras sra-Tr compliiiro,asi
Wariroom for the 01130 NAILING PILIOII, at Hurl&
" 24 12 Null" W es .
600/UPLIMIO MOBIL
T H E
PENNSYLVANIA I
THB BRAT 0P GOVIRNMENT
THE STATE!
DEMOCRATS OF THE INTERIOR !
WRILTLIIT PATRIOT AND UNION,
Published every Thursday.
0. BARRETT & 00 g liarrisb - arg, ra
ZOOK, Ir., Co&:
;11 mat d
SATURDAY MOWING, OCT. 10, 1868.
THE THREE VOICES.
What saith the PAST to thee? Weep !
Truth is departed ;
Beauty hath died like the dream of a sleep,
Love is faint-hearted;
Trifles of sense, the profoundly unreal,
Scare from our spirits Godle holy ideal—
So, as a funeral bell, slow and deep,
Bo tolls the past to thee ! Weep !
How speaks the PRESENT hour? Act!
Walk, upward glancing; . -
So shall thy footsteps in glory be tracked :
Blow, but advancing.
Scorn not the smallness of daily. endeavor;
Let the great meaning ennoble it ever;
Droop not o'erefforts expoaded. in yak j •
Work as believing that labor is gain.
What 'kith the Fort= ley? Hope!
Turn thylace etinward!
Look where the light trines the, far rising slope;
Day cometh onward.
Watch! Though so long be twilight delaying;
Let the first sunbeam rise on thee praying;
Veer not; for greathr 'is God by thy side
Than availed 44 Wan against thee allied I
SPEECH OF GEN. FRANCIS P. BLAIR.
Gen. , -French: P. Blair, member' of Congress
from 'Missouri; 'and. an influential, indeed a
leading member of. the 'Republican party' in
that State; made a powerful speech recently in
Sf.''Loitis, 'in Wlealie dentinneed the ' radical
Abolitionists in fortis' of great severity. He
spoke of-Jim Lane; the bloody Kansas ruffian,
as the greatest living liar, and greatly' inti
mated that Chase,lhe - Seoretary of the' Treas
ury, Was little better than 'a sharper, feather
lag .his own nest and those of his reddest
friends to the detriment of honest men and the
great disadvantage of the country. Gen. Blair
farther eipressed a determination to sustain
Gov. Gamble against the efforts of the radicals
to put him down, and to sustain the rights of
the State, it need be, even against the power
of the administration. We subjoin a portion
of the speech :
SZTAACTS PROM GEN. BLAIR'S SPEECH.
Delivered in St. Louie, September 26
* If, my friends, the
government cf the State can be displaced at
the will of a set of politicians, otherwise than
by the forms of law, we shall sacrifice our re
publican institutions and run down into a sort
of Mexican republic, where presidents, judges,
Are made by prenunciamentoes. The peo
'ple of this State are not prepared to degrade
themselves to this standard of government.—
We are a people who desire that there shall be
Btp,bility, dignity and respectability in our
government. We are all of a race of people to
'fight it out rather than submit. All these men
who were entering upon this career of rebel
lion ; all these men 'who make our great con
test for our national existence degenerate into
a revolution like that which afflicted France in
the last century ; these men who were follow
ing fin, •the footsteps :of the: Jacobins of the
French revolution—who are demanding "the
guillot ne, who constitute themselves judges,
witnesses, and executioners alike—l tell them
to beware! They will not• find a eubiniesive
people. They will find Girondists of a differ
ent stamp—a Robespierre will never live.—
(Cheers.) -
Their Itobespierres and Dantons will never
live to exercise the authority which they covet,
to immolate people who differ from them in
opinions. Ent they will find* themselves
veling the road to the gallows. There id no
way to deal with such people. It is idle to dis
cuss this- question with men constituted as
these men are. Why,.it was related to me by
a gentleman whom I know is thoroughly reli
able, that he held a conversation the other day
with a man who beltings now to this Ja
cobi fatten, that I once knew to be one of
the most temperate, wise and sagacious men in
this State, but that man had become so imbued
with this spirit—this Jacobinal and revolu
tionary spirit—that he declared to this gentle-
man that "the opposers of radicals in this State
must go out of the State—that they could not
live in the State together." He said, also, that
""he did not care so much about the negro;" the
fact ie, he wanted to get rid of the negro and
the negro question; but the opposers of the
radical power, their opponents—their enemies,
as' he describes them—must go out or the
State.
GENERAL EWING'S ORDER DENOUNCED AS TIM
"SUBTERFUGE OF AN IMBEGUE."
Why, certainly, my friends, although having
been so long absent from Missouri, I cannot
omit, on this occasion, to express my astonish
ment that, because the commander of Ale de
partment could not provide against the hellish
and diabolical scheme of Quantrell to destroy
the people of howreltee, Kansas, it eheehi have
entered into the head of a man to devote one
entire slice of the State of Missouri, thirty-five
miles deep, to devastation, rapine and murder;
,that a man calling himself a military man,
could have allowed himself to become so ex
cited and unmannered as to depopulate a tract
of thirty-five miles deep, the whole breadth of
Missouri, because he had not the force, and the
hardihood, and the eouragelo follow Quantrell
and hie brigands. It is the subterfuge of an
imbecile. [Applause.] Our innocent people
—twenty thousand of them—with their women
and children, are to be punished because they
cannot hunt out and find Quantrell. And then
this other man—no better than (Neutron—
Lane [great applause) is to be allowed to come
into Missouri and de deeds which, according to
his own aeeciont, blacken him as black as the
deeds which Quantrell did at Lawrence. [Ap
plause and hisses.]
I havi seen a speech delivered by him since
he came back from his search after Quantrell,
in which he took very good pains not to find
him; ,but he followed them into the State of
Missouri,pillaging and destroying, and he came
across a man by the name of Hook, who pro
fessed to be the be e t Union man in Jackson
county.. This man Hook, upon being interro
gated, admitted that he had seen some of the
guerrillas, and then it is reported that some
one inquired what become of this man Hook,
and he replied, "In helll left him in the
hinds of the executioner. " It is ' not pre
tecoed that Hook had anything to do with the
Lawrence affair; that is, not pretended, even
by his murderer, and yet he was immolated.
He was put into the hands of the executioner, I
according to Jim Lane's story, and the only
palliation.Vcan ever find for Jim Lane is, that
'he ie such an infernal liar that nobody believes
that stery as he told it. ,(Laughter and ap
.plansi), iiiid there ic a suspicion even that he
is debased and degraded enough to boast of a
Murder Committed when he even did not have
the audacity to attempt it. (Applause.)
-But, my friends, there are those in this fac.
don in Missouri who justify this desolation of
a large portion of the State—and that, too, in
the most fertile portion of it—and look upon
it as a just retribution. Ido not believe there
is a military commander, who, because a band
of men, four, or five, or eight hundred strong,
PRICE TWO. CENTS.
infested a region of country—men who are
outlaws and murderers—would And It neces
sary to destroy the whole people and their
property, and drive the people abroad and strip
them of their territory. I can find no excuse
for it—none whatever—except in the imbe
cility of the man who makes the order, and
who visits upon a poor and helpless people
the penalties he had not either the power or
ability to visit upon the real perpetrators of
the outrage at Lawrence.
Now, my friends, it is about time to see who
will go out Of the State. [Applause.] For my
part, when they commence that overt act of
expelling those men who are opposed to their
fanatical and revolutionary doctrines, I shall
feel inclined, wherever I may be upon the face
of this earth, I shall feel inclined to come back
to this State and try the issue with them. [Ap
plause.]
LN:r.!=rs,(,
There are still other points, my Mends, upon
which I had intended to touch. One among
the most important (and which I do not feel at
liberty to omit to-night) io a question which
has taken some prominence in our midst, in re
gard to the free and unrestricted navigation of
the Mississippi river. (Loud applause.) We
know how sensitive upon this question the
people of the Northwest have always been. We
know how it thrilled every heartwhen the first
gun was fired from the heights of Vielmburg
against the commerce of the country, passing
by upon the broad bosom of the Mississippi
river. We kno* that every man in the-North
west with one voice eiclaimed, "It never can
be permitted that the Missiesippiriver can be
long to any other than our own people, or any
other than our Government ; that the com
merce of that river shall be unrestricted." That
was the unanimous sentiment of all the people
of the Northwest.
It was so well understood that even the se
cessionists—that Jeff. Davis, with his Congress
at Montgomery, sought to allay what he knew
and felt would so arouse the anger of the
Northwest, by declaring that they did not in
tend to obstruct the navigation of the Missis
sippi river, or restrict its commerce; and I be
lieve a resolution is now extant, passed by the
secession convention in the State of . Lottisana,
when it attempted to secede from the Union,
in which a declaration was made to the effect
that they did not wish oz intend to. obstruct
the navigation of the Mississippi river. Our
armies were eager to rush to the field after an
embargo was placed upon the river and its
commerce, and they broke it down. The va
liant hosts of the Northwest broke through and
destroyed all obstructions against the com
merce of the Mississippi river. But, my
friends, we found' we were no better off after
we broke down Jeff. Davis's obstructions than
we were before—that Chase had taken Jeff.
-Davis's place. (Loud cheers, mingled with a
few hisses.)
(A voice—" Three cheers for Mr. Chase !")
A few individuals cheered accordingly, crea
ting some confusion.
CHARON OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST TR&
NOTHWarff,
My friends, if youwill give me permission,
I wish to say that I shall contend for the free
navigation of the Mississippi against the em
bargo of Chase as strongly as I have contend
edagainst Jeff. Davis's embargo—(lond cheers
and cries of "Go on !") and I - don't care what
position or what power he holds or wields in
this government. I shall diem* this Pimply
as a measure deeply affecting the interests
of our people ; and I don't believe that any
argument has been raised on the other side—.l
have not seen one attempted to be raised—
which will justify the restrictions which have
been placed upon the oommeroe . of this great
Our city of St. Louis, whose great prosper*
was noted with marvel throughout the country
prior to the war, has been tried more than any
other city by the vicissitudes of war. Our com
merce has been aluitoet annihilated, and yet
with Out counting the cost, and without one
moment's hesitatation, I know that those mer
chants who have been denounced here recently
by one of Chase's organs.....denounced as cop
perhead merchants of Bt. Louis—l know that
they were among the first men to come forward
and clothe and arm the troops which were
called into the service of the United States....
(LAntd cheers.)
Yet they are stigmatized, at the bidding of
Mr. Chase or some of his minions as copper
head merchants, because they have attempted,
by fair representation to the government, by
nothing improper, through a committee of
their own number, sent to Washington, to ex
postulate with Mr. Chase about these re
strictions, and he deems it inadvisable to con
sider the wishes of the great interests of the
Northwest, but prefers rather to keep up
their restrictions, and keep up an army of his
people who do a great deal of trade on the
sly.
LETTER IRON HON. WM. BIGLER
The following letter from Hon. Win. Bigler
to the Democratic meeting at Erie, held Octo
ber 6th, will be read with interest. Gov. Bi-
ler has been doing yeoman duty in the cause
of Democracy and free government, he has
traversed the State throwing the weight of his
character, ability and experience
° into the scale
of the people against their oppressors, and
whatever he utters on the stump, or commits
to paper, has great weight, as it should have,
in making sentiment and confirming wavering
minds. The letter to the Erie Demooracy,
which we subjoin : is replete.with facts and ob
servations which deserve the attention and con
fidence of the people :
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 3,,1863.
Gentlemen : I regret my inability to be with
you on the 6th. 1 should like exceedingly to
be present, to reason with those fair-minded
men of whom you op-ask, who voted for Mr.
Curtin and. Mr. Litman in 1860; but who are
not so clear now that they thereby did a good
thing for the country. There is one point,
above all others, which I should present for
their consideration. It is this waiving all
complaints against the men in authority at
Washington—conceding to them the virtues and
good purposes clawed fgt. them by their friends,
—I nevertheless maintain that, because of their
impracticable notions about slavery, and the
intensified hostility so long cherished between
them and the leading men of the &nth, they
are hopelessly incapable of adopting a policy
calculated to restore Union and fraternity
amongst the States and people. There is enough
in the put to convince any one of the sound
ness of this position. At Washington and at
Richmond are found the radicale of both sec
tions, actuated•by feelings of mutual hostility,
and that mistaken pride which rejects the'woi_
fare of the nation rather than assume even the
arearahce of concession. .So far as these men
are Ogneerned, I see no hope for the country.
If they be permitted to go on and gratify their
feelings, they will keep up the bloody strife
until the last. man and the last dollar shall be
esdriaood.
It is no answer to say that the South must
first become exhausted. Of that I have no
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doubt. But ' that will not leave us the Union.
Mr. Lincoln told us in his inaugural that, if we
should go to war, we could not fight always ;
and that when we ceased fighting, the identi
cal questions of• intercourse and settlement
would be open us'; meaning, doubtless, that no
matter how much we fought, if we intended to
live together in the future under one govern-
Ment, we shorild have to stop .fighting and set
tle. But the pride and bitter hate cherished
at Washington and Riohmond, render both sides
alike incapable of adopting the steps necessary
to save the Union.
It is no uncommon thing to witness a simi
lar attitude between individuals, theresult of
long controversy, bitter wranglings and evil
sayings about each other, where passion and
prejudice have so warped the judgment of the
respective parties that they become utterly in
capable of finding a ground of equity and jus
tice between themselves. Now, gentlemen,
what is usually done in such a case ? Why,
according to my observation, it should be re
ferred to impartial parties to be adjusted.—
That is precisely what I think should be done
with our national strife. An umpire should
be selected. Not a foreign one by any means.
The reference I propose is to displace the rad
icals of both sections, and put the country in
the hands of conservative men, who will seek
only the re-establishment of he Union, and
. not the gratification of passion, prejudiee and
hate. Our part lit thie work will be to displace
the administration of Mr. Lincoln, and put in
its stead one composed of men representing the
conservative people of the North, and against
whom less prejudice is cherished in the South;
which result would undoubtedly be followed
by the prompt overthrow of Davis and his ad
herents. Thus the country would be placed
in the hands of men whom neither pride nor
passion could restrain from doing those things
which may be indispensable for the re-estab
lishment of Union, fraternity and equality
amongst the States. If the Union cannot be
saved in this way, its chances are hopeless.
It must be apparent that the first effect of the
triumph of the Democratic party would be die
sensione in the South, encouraging those then
who voted against secession, and who were only
driven over to that bad cause by the impolitic
measures of the administration, to rise up and
overthrow the secessionists and bring the re
volted States back to their wonted allegiance.
It may be asked, what reason I have for the
assertion that the overthrow of the Abolition
ists in the North will be followed by the down
fall of Davis and his party in the South. In
answer, I point to the unmistakable signs in
the shape of resolutions of public meetings in
North Carolina, and similar indications in
Louisiana, and Tennessee, and elsewhere ; but
above all to the bitter denunciations which the
Richmond Enquirer and other radiosl papers
bestow upon a clase of mon whom they call
reconstructionists." There is enough to be
gathered from these things to convince any one
th a t there is a modal party in the revolted
States looking to the restoration of the Union,
and prepared to avail themselves of any new
ground that would relieve their personal honor
and secure them in their rights and dignities
within the Union. Mr. Lincoht's great error
from the beginning has been in not cherishing
this feeling. The impolicy of his measures
literally drove those men into the ranke of the
secessionists. It would seem, therefore, to, be
necessary for all' men who really seek to re-es
tablish and maintain the Union, to unite, re
garding of past party identity. in favor of a
radical change of , policy in the management of
our national troubles.
With much esteem, I remain, your obedient
servant, Wm. BIGLIB.
WHO ARE FOR THE RESTORATION OF
THE UNION? WHICH PARTY RUC.
CEEDING WOULD MOST PLEASE
THE REBEI4?
The Abolition papers, such as Porrey'S
Press, Greeley's Tribune, and the hundreds of
others of lesser importance keep up the false
and senseless cry that the rebels desire the
election of the conservative candidates at the
North. No doubt those of the Southern people
who sigh for the reorganization of the Union
do ardently desire this, but there is nothing
the leaders of the rebellion fear so much as De-.
mooratic success in the Northern elections.—
Forney says ;
"We defy the i3oston Courier, to show a soli
tary instance in which a leader of rebellion
has shown any fear of the . Copperhead party ,
Everywhere in the South, and in Europe, the
enemies of the Government point to Demo
cratic principles as evidence that the North
will be divided, and that the rebellion will
finally triumph. It is the National Union party
that the traitors fear, audits success in Penn
sylvania and Ohio will dishearten and discour
age the boldest of their leaders."
And he quotes from what Lieutenant Maury
recently declared, viz : That the success of
the Democracy would help the rebellion, and
that the Richmond Enquirer had advised Gen.
Lee to invade Pennsylvania with' the single
Abject of "strengthening the Democracy." Any
one with half an eye would see in what Maury
and the Enquirer declare is intended to help the
Abolition party to continue inpozver. As a proof
of this, read the following editorial of the Mo
bile Register:—
"There is only one party in the North who
want this Union restored, but they have no
More power—legislative, executive or judicial
—than the paper'we write on. It is true they
make a show of union and strength, but they
have no voice of authority We know , that the
Vallandigham school wants the Union restored,
for he told us so when here in exile, partaking
of such hospitality as we extended to a real
enemy to our struggle for separation, banished
to oar soil by another enemy, who is practically
more our friend than he. And if VaUendig
ham should, by accident or other cause, be
come Governor of Ohio, we hope Lincoln will
keep his nerves to the proper tension, and
not allow him to enter the confines of the
State. His administration would do more to
restore the old Union than any other power in
Ohio could do, and therefore we pray that he
may be defeated. Should a strong Union party
spring up in Ohio, the third Slate in the North
in political importance, it might find a faint
response in some Southern Brame, and give tie
free bk. ut as long as the Republicans hold
power they will think of conquest and domin
ion only, and we, on the other hand, will come
up in solid column for freedom and indepen
dence, which we will be certain. to achieve,
With such assistance as we may now (after the
refusal of the Washington cabinet to confer.)
confidentlyexpect before the Democrats of the
North get in power again and come whisper
* i n our ears . 'Union, reconstruction, Consti
tution, concession and guarantees.' Away
with all such duff. We want aoperation.—
Give us rather uoh men as Thaddeus Stevens
and Charles Sumner. They curse the old
Union and despise it, and eo do we. And we
ne w promise these gentlemen that, as they hate
the Union and 'accursed Constitution,' let them
keep down Vallandigham and his party in the
North, then they will never be troubled by us
with such whining about the Constitution and
Union as they are sending up."