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'WALLACE AND HIS COFFEE-POT IN THE
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 15670
•
Twas eventide:—pest supper time—
' The shanty table cleared ;
When' to the door a pilgrim came,
With dust upon his beard. .
Ile asked if Collins' boss -was in—
Arid could he with him speak !
Was ushei'a in—Politely told
"There stands the:than you., seek."
The boss inquired \rho lie was-
Said : !Tray, what's to befall us ?"
He said bring no evil news ; •
• My name is William Wallace. • .
"I want two hundred men to vote
The Democratic ticket;
The nuniber needed you can call
From this secluded thicket."
The boss replied "Sir, all my gang
Are fresh from Erin's sod ,
And have no better right to vote,
Than Aaron's magic rod."
"I have that fixed," the piles. iui said, .
"The papers signed and sealed ;'?
There's naught to•do hubwrite their names,
When ballots they can wield.
‘And as the documents are fresh
And have ,no badge of age,
I have - my coffee-pot along, -
To tan the snowy page.
"We'll boil them for" a little while'
In coffee strong as lTe, -
When they will pass official gaze
Detection will defy."
Like Barney, then the cook was told,
-To put : the kettle on; • •
While from the check-rolls were transerib
• • ed . • .
The names that stood thereon.
The boss and pilgrim bOiled them well
To look like copperheads.;
And then rejoiced—nor felt the tramp
Of conscience's stealthy treads.
A. 0.1
The jop•wgll done,, the pilgrim said :
"Assess and swear them through ;
Our chance for victory depends
On what you thus may do."
And starting off for other
fields—
• coffee-pot in hand ;
Exulting, said : "Aladitis lamp
Did nothing half so grand.
"Let orators their speeches make
And editors indite ; •
With this good coffee-Pot, I can
Be victor hi the fight.„..
A. B. IIUTCIIISON
"Two hundred voters to the gallon,
Its conquests are and more ;
Ne'er whiskey in its pahniest . days,
Such splendid trophies bore."
Tims on his pilgrimage-he went
From Centre to Luzerne *.
Baptizing in the wilderness.
With coffee from his urn.
And as he went, he sang this song;
• "My magic coffee-pot--'
You've raised us up ten thousand- votes—
My bubbling coffee-potl
"Hurra!" he yelled ; but as the voice
Careered amon, the trees—
He hushed, in fear his secret would.
Be borne upon the breeze.
Like painter from the holy land,
The Keystone Club lie sought ;
Ile hail no palm-leaf in hiS band,
• But bad his cofiee-pot.
October seventh, in the night,
They heard his glowing story ; -
And straightway placed upon his brow
The laurel wealth of glory.
'NM -thundering 'shouts that sh6ok the
house--
With gin and joy so hot--
They throned beside Columbia's Eagle,
The glorious Coffee-Pot. •
THE HEIRESSIN JEOPARDY. •
It was one day when I was about
seven years old, after the unusual
bustle in the family. mansion, and my
being arrayed in a black frock; much
to my inconvenience in the hot month
of August, that I was told my enthu
siastic old uncle had gone like a lamb,
and that I was the heiress to ten
thousand per annum. This informa
tion given with au air of infinite im
portance, made no very great
im
pression on me at that time, and, in
spite of the circumstances being reg
ularly dwelt on, by my French gov
erness, at Camden House, every
iIQiIIOUS misdemeanor, I had thought
little or nothing on the subject, till,
at the age of eighteen I was called
upon to bid adieu to Levizaz and
piroquettes, and hear my uncle's Will
read by my guardian.
It furnished me, indeed, with am
ple
.materials .for, thinking. Dr.
Marrowfat's facQ . 'neither human or
divine, appeared positively frightful
as he recited its monstrous contents.
It appeared that my father and un
cle, though brothers, had •wrangled
and jangled through life, and that
the only subject on which they ever
agreed was, supporting the dignity
of the Vavasonr Tinnily. That, in a
moment of unprecedented unison,
they had determined that, as the ti
tle fell to my cousin Edgar, and the
estates to me, to keep both united.
in the family, we should marry. And
it seemed which ever party violated
these precious conditions was actu
ally dependent on the other for bread
and butter. When I first heard of
this arrangement I blessed myself,
and Sir Edgar cursed himself. A
passionate, overbearing and dissolute
young man thought I, for a husband,
for the husband of an or i than—of a
girl who has not a nearer relation
than himself in the world—who has
no father to adVise her, no mother to
support her, a professed rake, too,
who will merely view me as an in
cumbrance on his estate ; who will
think no love, no confidence, no.re
spect due to me; who will insult my
feelings, deride my sentiments, and
wither with unkindness . the best af
fections of my nature. No! I con
cluded,as my constitutional levity re
turned—l have the greatest possible
respect for guardians—revere their
office, and tremble attheir authority,
but to make myself wretched merely
to please them—no ! no ! I postively
cannot think ofit.
Well, time—who is no respecter
of persons—Went on. The gentle
man was within a few months -of be
ing twenty-one, and, on the day of
his attaining age, he was to say
whether it was his pleasure to fulfill
his engagement. My opinion, I
found, was not to be asked. A titled
husband was procured for me, and I
was to take him, and be thankful.—
I was musing on my singular sitta
tion when a thought struck me. Can
I not sic , : him and judge of his char
eha by himself ? This
w , awni ...Alen he pays anannu-
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VOLUME XI.
J. SEWEL STEWART
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without horses, without servants, to
all appearance a girl of no preten
sions or expectations, and avowedly
dependent on-a distant relation.
To this hour I remember my heart
beating audibly, as I decended to the
dining room, where I was to see, for
the first time, the future arbiter of
my fate, and I never shall forget my.
surprise, when a pale, gentlemanly
'and rather reserved young man, was
introduced to me for my noisy, dis
tracting and distracted Baronet.—
l'recionsly have I been hoaxed,
thought I, as after a long and rather
interesting conversation with Sir
Edgar, I, with the other ladies, left
the room. Days rolled on in suc
cession. Chance continually brought
us together, and .prudence began to
whisper, "You had better return
home." Still lingered—till one
evening towards.the close of a long
.tete-a-tete conversation, on my say
mg.-that I never considered money
and happiness as synoymotts .terms,.
and thought it very possible to live
(M, five hundred . a year, he said,
"One., admission more—could you
live. on it with me ? You are doubt
less acquainted," he continued with'
'increasing emotion, "with my unhap
-py situation, but ..not perhaps aware
that revolting from, a union with
Miss Vavasour; I have resolved on
taking orders, and accepting a living
from a friend. If, foregoing
.more
brilliant prospects, you would, conde
scend to. share my retirement—" his
manner, the moment, the lovely scene
which surrounded us, all : combined
against me, and heaven only knows
what answer I might have been hur
ried into had I not got out with a
gaiety foreign to my heart—"l can
say nothing to you till.yOu have in
person explained
.your sentiments to
Miss Vavasour: Nothing—positive
ly nothing."
"But why ? Can seeing her again
and again," lie returned, "ever recon
cile me to her manners, habits, and
sentiments—or any „estates induce
me to place at the head, of my ta
ble, a hump-backed blue stocking,
in green spectacles."
"liump-backed ?"
"Yes ' from her cradle. But you
color. Do you know her ?"
"Intimately. She's my most Tar
ticular,friend !"
• _"I sincerely beg your pardon. I
hope you're not Offended '?" •
"Offended oh, no, not offended.
Hump-backed, of all things in the
world !" And I involuntarily gave
a glance towards the glass.
"I had no conception," he contined,
as soon as he could collect himself',
"that:there was, any acquaintance."
"The most intimate,"
I replied,
"and fcan assure you that you have
been represented to her, as the most
akwarcl, illdisposed, young man liv
ing."
"The devil !"
. .
"Don't swear, but hear me. , See
your cousin. With her answer you
shall have mine.''' And, with a lu
dicrous attempt to smile, when I
was in*monstrously inclined to cry.
I contrived to make my escape—l
heard something every .much
"Damn Miss Vavasuor," by the way
to my . own . apartment. We did not
meet again—for the next morning,
in no very eviable frame.of mind,
returned home.
A few weeks :afterWards; Sit:Ed
gar : came ,of age. The bells were
nnaino• the biceieL . —the
tenants were carousing on the lawn
—when, he drove up to the door.—
My cue was taken. With a large
pair of green spectacles ou my nose.
—iu a darkened room-4 prepared
for this tremendous interview. Af
ter hems and haws innumerable, and
with confusion the most distressing
to hiuiSelf, - and the most amusing
to me,: he - gave Me to understand
that he could not fulfil . the engage
ment made for him, and regretted it
had ever been conteinplated. "No
—no," said I, in a voice that made
him start, taking off my green spec
tacles w:th a profound courtsey—
"No, no, it is preposterous to sup
pose that Sir Edgar Vavasour would
ever connect himself with an ill bred,
awkward, hump-backed girt l" Ex
clamations and explanations, laugh
ter and raileries, intermixed with
more serious feelings, followed, but
the result of it all was—that—that
we are married.
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A STOIIY OF LOA
The long time ago . of which I
mea n to tell was a wild night in
March, during which, in a fisherman' s
hut a shore, sat a young girl at her
spinning-wheel and looked out on
the dark, driving clouds, and listened,
trembling, to the wind and the sea.
The m orning light dawned at last.
One boat that should have been
T iding on the troubled waves was
missing—her father's boat! and half
a mile from the cottage, her fathe r ' s
body was washed up on the shore.
This happened fifty years ag o, an d
fifty years is a long time in the lif e
fifty years, is a
of a human . being;
long time to go on in such a course
as .the woman did of whom I am
speaking. She watched her father's
body, according-to the cust om o f t h e
people, till he was laid in the grave .
Then she lay down on her bed and
slept, and by night got up an d set a
candle in her casement, as a beacon
to the fisherman and a guide. She
sat by the candle all night, and
trimmed it, and spun ; then when
day dawned she went to bed and
slept in the sunshine. So many
hanks as she had spun before for her
daily bread, she spun still, and one
Over to buy her nightly candle ; and
from that time to this, for fifty years,
through youth, maturity, and old
age, she has turned night into day,
and in the snow storms of winter,
through driving mists. deceptive
moonlight, and solemn darkness,that
northern harbor has never once been
without the light of the candle.
How many lives she saved by this
candle, or ho* many a meal she won
by it for the starving families of the
boatmen, it is impossible to say;
how ninny a dark 'night the fisher
men, depending on it, Went fearless
ly forth, cannot now be told. There
it . stood, regular as a lighthouse,
steady as a
.constant care would
make it. Always brigther when
daylight waned,, they had only to
keep it constantly in view and they
we're safe; there was but' one thing
that could intercept it, and that was
the'Rock. However far they might
BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1868.
have stretched out to sea,. they
had only to bear down straight for
thatliglited window, and they were
sure of Fa safe entrance into the har
bor.
Fifty years of life and labor—fifty
years of sleeping in the sunshine—
fifty years of watching and self-de
nial, and all to. feed the flames and
trim the wick of that one candle !
But if we look upon the . recorded
lives. of great, just, : and wise men,
.few of them s can show fifty years of
worthier, certainly not of more suc
cessful labor. Little, indeed, of the
"midnight oil" consumed during the
last half century so Worthily deserved
the trimming. Happy Woman I and
but for the dreaded rock her great
charity:Might never have been called
into exercise.
But what do the boatmen and the
boatmen's. wives think of this ? Do
they .pay the woman! No; they are
very poor ; but poor or rich, they
know better than that. Do they
thank her ? No. Perhaps they feel
that thanks of theirs would be inade
gate to express the obligations, or
perhaps long years have made the
lighted . casement so faMiliar, they
look upon it as a matter of course.
Sometimes the fishermen lay fish 24
her threshhold, and. set a child to
watch it for her till she wakes; some
times their wives steal into her cot
tage, now she is getting old, and
spin a hank or two of thread for her
while she slumbers ; and they teach
their children to pass her hut quietly,.
and not to sing and shout before her
door, lest they should disturb her.
That is all. Then• thanks are not
looked for—scarcely supposed to be
due. Their grateful deeds are more
than she expects, and as much as she
desires.
How often in the far distance of
my English home, I have awoke in
a wild winter night, and while the
wind and storm were rising, have
thought of that northern bay, with
the waves dashing against the rock,
and have pictured to myself the case
ment, and the candle nursed by that
bending, aged figure! How delight
ed to know that through her untir
ing charity the rock has long lost
more than half its terrors, and con
sider that, curse though it may be to
all besides, it .has most surely proved
a blessing to her.
You, too, may perhaps think with
advantage on the character of this
woman, and contrast it with "the
mission of the Rock. There are
many degrees between them. Few,
like . the 'rock, stand up wholly to
work ruin and destruction; few, like
the woman, "let their light shine so
brightly for good. But to one of the
many degrees. between them we
must all. most certainly belong—We
all lean toward the woman or the
rock. On such characters you do
well to speculate with
. me, for you
have not been cheated into, sympathy
With ideal ship wi eck or imaginary
kindness. There is many a rock else
where as perilous as the one I have
told. you of—perhaps there are.many
such women'; but for this one, whose
story is before you, pray that her
candle may burn a little longer, since
this record of her charity is true.—
Jean - Ingelow.
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A MAD WOLF ON TEE RAMPAGE
A letter from Fort Lamed to the
Leavenworth Tiwes tells the follow
ing: A most fearful. and appalling
circumstance transpired at the fort
last evening. While a t party of
ladies and. gentlemen were sitting
in front of the beautiful quarters of
Col. -,Ed. Wynkoop, Indian Superin
tendent or Agent of several warlike
tribes, the entire party commenced a
beautiful song. While the melody
was ringing in the night air, a mon
strous shaggy and rabid wolf dashed
madly in the midst of the party,.first
attacking Lieut. Thompson, Third U.
S. Infantry, tearing and lacerating
his limbs in a most frightful manner.
The monster' broke away, pursued
by Col. \ Wynkoop, and his chief
scout, James Morrison, who had
lost no time in procuring proper
arms. Before either of these fear
less gentlemen however, could over
take him the wolf had attacked the
sentry at theguard house, whom he
also bit savagely, the sentinel having
fired, but, most unfortunately missed
his aim. From the guard house the
wolf next clashed over to the hospi
tal, and made an assault upon one of
the men there staioned, almost tear
ing his right arm from his body,
after first taking off a finger entire.
He then attacked and mutilated a
colored soldier of the Tenth Cavalry,
and subsequently entered the quar
ters of the landress, while she was in
bed, but owing to the thickness of
the bed clothes, fortunately failed to
inflict any serious injury on the poor
woman. The maddened creature
next caught sight of the sentinel at
the haystacks, who almost provi
dentially, shot him dead. Besides
Lieut. Thompson, there are three
persons badly bitten and mulitated
by this monster.
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GO TO CIIITECH
•There is nothing which helps to
establish a man's character more
than a steady attendance at church,
and a proper regard to the first day
of the week. Every head of a fam
ily should•go to church as an exam
ple. Lounging in the street and bar
rooms on the Sabbath is abominable
and deserves censure, because it
lays the foundation of habits which
ruin both soul and body. Many a
man can date the commencement of
his dissipations, which made him a
burden to himself and friends,an ob
ject of pity in the sight of enemies,
to his Sunday debauchery-- - -Idleness
is the mother of drunkeness. The
Sabbath is generally an idle day ;
therefore if it were not properly
kept, it were better struck out of ex
istence. .
A TEXAS man gives it as his opin
ion, when importuned to take out a
policy in a life insurance
. company,
that a fellow's life was so mighty
uncertain about there, it wasn't
worth insuring.
A DRUNKEN Englishman said to
Judge Ledwith, of New York, on
Wednesday, of last week : "Your
honor, I'm a nobleman in disguise."
"So I perceive," replied the: Judge,
"you're disguised in liquor, and as
drunk as a
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TAXATION OF 11. S. BONDS.
SPEECH Or MR. BLAINE
The following is the Globe report
of Mr. Blaine's speech, delivered in
the House of Representatives, June
23, 1868 : •
Mn. BLAINE. The fact That the
bonds of the UniOd StateS are ex
empt from State and municipal taxa
ation has created a wide spread dis
content among the people, and the
belief prevails guLte generally"that'if
this exemption could be removed the
local burdens of tie. tax-payer would
be immediately aful essentially light
ened. Many persons assert this •be
lief from a spirit P' mischevious de
magogueism, anl,:many.do. so from
sincere . and conSeientious conviction.'
To the latter clas I would beg to
submit some fae and suggestions
which may gre i ally - modify, if not
entirely change
eir conclusions.
t
The total gold earing debt of the
United . States, ifhe conversion of
seven-thirties coipplete,, amounts to
a little more that - 42 ; 100,000,000 ;; of
this sum total something over $200,-
000,009 draw bil five per cent. hi
,.
terest,'a rate notsuacieritly high to
provoke - hostility of - sugueSt the:
.x
ne
cessity of taxaticw: 'lndeed it ~ may
be :safely said tlAt there has never
been any popubt dissatisfaction with
regard to the 'li -
on-taxation of the
i
five - per cents., -4 being agreed by
common - conSer,that such a rate of
interest was no :-unreasonable on : a
loan negotiated4it such atime,
The agitatiOr may,: therefore/be
rerfarded:as substantially confined to
the six per cent"; gold-bearing bonds,
which amount - to thelarge aggregate
'of $1,900,000,P00.' - 'Many people
honestly but ' thoughtlessly believe
that if this class of bonds could- be.
taxed by local ,authority the whole'
vast volume *resented by . them
would at once - he added to the' - list
of the assessorit- It . is my purpose
to show very briefly that this .con
elusion is totally unfounded and er
roneous, and that if the right of lo
cal taxation existed in its fullest and
amplest extent,- but a minor fraction
of'the total =bunt of bonds ' could
by any possibility be subjected to
any more local tax than they already
pay. : .
The entire amount of these bonds
as I have stated, is $1,900,000,000 ;
and of this total, by the hest and
most careful estimates attainable,. at
least six hundred and fifty million
are. now held in ' Europe. This
amount could not therefore be reach
ed by any system of local taxation,
however extended, thorough . and
searching. Deducting the amount
thus held abroad we find the amount
held at home is reduced to $1,250,-
000,000. - -
But of this ;$1,250,000,000, more
than one-third, or to speak with ac
curacy, about $425,000,000 are held
by the national banks, and no limn
of property in the whole United
States pays so large a tax both local
and general as these banks. The .
stock depositories, and the deposits
which these $425,000,000 of bonds
~. . ...
represent, pay full local 'tax at ' the
highest rate besides a national tax
averaging about two and a half . per
cent. Were the power Of local ta..x
ation made specific and absolute on
these bonds, they could not yield a
dollar more than is now realized in
that direction. It thus follows that
the 1,250,000,000 of bonds in this
country, presumptively escaping lo
cal taxation, must be reduced by the
amount represented by the banks,
and hence we find the aggregate
falls to 825,600,000. '
The 'reduction, however, goes' still
further, for it must be remembered
that the sayings banks have invested
their deposits in these bonds to the
amount of 175 ; 000,000.. In some
States by local law - the deposits of
sayings banks are exempt from tax
ation, as an incentive , to thrift and
economy. • In other States where
these deposits are taxed, as in Con
necticut, it has been held by judic
ial decision that the fact of their in
vestment in United States bonds
does not exempt them from taxation.
Hence these 175,000,000, thus in
vested in savings bank deposits, are
either locally taxable, or if exempt it
is by State law and not by virtue of
the general exemption of the bonds.
It thus follows that the 825,000,000':
must be further reduced by this sum
of 175,000,000, leaving but 650,000,-
000 not already embraced within the
scope of local taxation. But there
is still a further redtictimi of 30,000,-
000 held by the Life Insurance Com
panies and held on precisely the
same terms as the 'deposits of sav •
ings banks—that is, either taxed lo
cally, or if exempt, deriving the ex
emption from the local law. The
surplus earnings and -reserves of
these life insurance companies in
vested
to - the extent , of thirty mil
lions in United States bonds are just
as open to taxation . when, investrd
in that form as though they were in
State or railroad securities. De
ducting these thirty millions we find
the untaxed bonds reduced to '620,-
000,000.
And still there is another large
reduction ; for the fire and marine
insurance companies and the annuity
and trust companies and other cor
porations which cannot readily be
classed, hold in the aggregate over
125,000,000 of bonds, and these are
held on precisely the same basis as
those held by the savings banks and
life insurance companies. . These nu
numerous corporations have their
capital stock, their reserves and their
surplus earnings invested in Gov
ernment bonds to the extent named,
and they are in this form just as
open to taxation and are actually
taxed just as much as though they
were invested in any other form of
security. Making the deduction of
this 125,000,000 we find remaining
but 495,000 ; 000 of the six per dent.,
gold -bearing bonds that are not al
ready practically subjected to local
taxation. Allowing for the possi
bility that 100,000,000 of five per
cents, are held instead of six per
cents, in all the channels of invest
ment I have named, and it follows
that at the outside figures there are
to-day in the whole country less
than 600,000,000 of Government
sixes, not fully subjected to the pow
er of local taxation. And these six
hundred millions are rapidly grow
ing less as the various corpoiated in-
stitutions I have named invest their
;funds more and more in the boobs.
These institutions desire a security
that is of steady value, not liable to
great fluctuation, and at all- times
convertible into money; and hence
they seek Government bonds in pre
ference to any other form of invest
ment: The high. premium on the
bonds induces individuals to part
with them and hence they are readily
transferred to, corporate ownership,
where they become in effect at once
liable to local. taxation and are no
longer obnoxious to the charge of
evading or. escaping their just share
of municipal burden. In 'the hands
of individuals the bonds may be cOn
cealed, but in the possession of cor
porations concealment is necessarily
-impossible.
. If ; these statistical.. statements
: needed any verification it would be
supplied by an examination of the
income returns recently made under
oath and published in all the large
,cities of the country, disclosing the
fact. that the amount of bonds held
by.the wealthy men of the country
has been continually growing less,
just as they have been absorbed by
foreign purchase and by corporate
investment. The correctness of
these income returns in reference to
the investment in bonds* will be ac
cepted even by the incredulous and
the interest of those making them
was to, exaggerate rather than de
preciate the respective amounts held
by . theni. Instead then of 1,600,-
000,000 of these bonds running free
of taxation it is clear that 'less than
600,000;000 are open to that charge
—less than one-third of the whole
amount. , Thee remainder, largely
more than two . thirds of the whole,
are either held abroad where no lo
cal taxations can reach them, or they
are held at home in such form as
subjects them to local taxation.
And now let us suppbse that we,
were in possesSion of, the full power 1
to tax by local authority these 600; 7 1
000,000. of bonds presumptively
owned by. individuals! Would we
realize anything from it? On its
face the prospect might be fair and
inviting, but- in practice it would
assuredly proVe delusive , and de7.
ceptive. The trouble would be that
the holders of the bonds could . not
be found. No form of property is
so easily concealed, none so - readily
transferred back and forth, none so
difficult to trace to actual ownership.
We have hundreds of millions of
State bondS; city bonds, and railroad
securities in this country, and, yet
every one knows that it is only an
infinitesimal proportion of this vast
investment that is ever represented
on the books of assessors and
tax collectors. As a pertinent
illustration, I might cite the
case of the bonds of my own State,
of which there rire over five millions
in existence to-day, largely held'as a
favorite investment by the citizens
of Maine. Of this whole sum lam
safe in saying. that scarcely a dollar
it found on the lists of any assessor
in the State. And yet the facility
.for concealing ownership in national
bands is Tar greater than in any other
form of security, andthe proportion
in the hands of individuals - that
would escape the assessment of local
taxes may be inferred with reason
able certainty fi•orii the analogies
I have suggested, and which are
fa
miliar to all who have given the least
attention to the subject. Indeed, I
venture to assert with confidence
that if the power of lobal taxation of
these bonds were frilly accorded to
day, the tax lists of our cities and
towns would not be increased on an
average one per cent Many of those
who to-day may be ambitious of pa
rading their bonds when protected
by what is deemed an offensive ex
emptier], would suddenly have none
were the. power of taxation applied
to them. Indeed, the utter failure
to realize anything from this source,
if the power to test it were granted,
would in the end create more dissatis
faction than that exemption, which
in theory is absolutely of no conse
quence whatever.
But it will be asked, "Why don't
you tax the bonds by national au--
thority ?" Granted, it will be urged,
that the power of local taxation
would be nugatory and valueless,
"that affords all thefstronger reason
for taxing the bonds by direct Con
gressional enactment." In answer
to this I have. only to say that a tax
levied directly upon the coupon is
simply an abatement of interest, and
that result can be reached in a better
and more satisfactory and more hon
orable way. The determination
manifested by this Congress and by
the great Republican Convention at.
Chicago to maintain the national
faith has already worked a large ap
precntion in the value of the bonds,
and with the strengthening of our
credit, which results from an honest
and high-toned policy, we will speed
ily be able to fund our debt on a
lower scale of interest, running down
to five,'four and a half and ultimately
four per cent., per annum. Should
we proceed, however in violation of
good faith and of the uniform prac
tice of civilized nations, to hold back
part of the stipulated interest instead
of effecting an honorable exchange
of bonds to the mutual advantage of
the Government and of the public
creditor, we should only punish our
selves, produce calamitous results in
the business world, and 'permanent
ly injure our national thine.
To withhold one per cent., of the
interest under the plea of a national
tax this year might be followed by
withholding two per cent., next year
and the three per cent. the year en
suing. To cuter upon such a policy
would produce alarm at home and
wide-spread distrust abroad, for
every man holding a bond would
have to count his rate of interest not
on what %vas stipulated in the con
tract, but on what might. be the will
and caprice of Congress in its an
nual withholding of a portion of the
interest under the pretence of n tax.
Under such a policy our bonds would
be returned upon us from Europe
with panic like rapidity, and the
drain upon our specie resources
would produce an immediate and
disasterous crisis in monetary cir
cleS. If even one half of our bonds
held in Europe were suddenly sent
home it would drain us of 250,000,-
QOO of specie, and the financial dis-
tress throughout the length and
breadth of the land would be beyond
the power of calculation or imagina
tion. And yet that is the precise
result involved if we should follow
the policy advocated by those who
urge us to tax the coupon and with.
hold one or two per cent. of the in
terest. Let us reject such counsels,
and adhere to the steady, straight
forward course indicated alike
.by
policy and good faith. And let us
never forget that in the language of
the Chicago platform, "the best
policy to diminish our burden of
debt is to so improve our credit that
capitalists will seek to loan us mo
ney at lower rates of interest than
we now pay, and must continue to
pay so long as repudiation, either
partial or total, open or covert, is
threatened or suspected.'•
DANIEL S. DICKINSON ON SEYKOUR
The following is an extract from
the speech of Daniel S. Dickinson,
delivered at the great ratification
meeting held at the Cooper Institute
in the city of New York, ,Oc
tober 8, 1862. As Mr. Dickinson
was a life-long Democrat, and in a
position to be perfectly posted on
Mr. Seymour"s record, the picture he
draws may be 'especially refreshing
just now to those Conservative Sol
dier's who, at their late Convention
in New York, committed themselves
so unreservedly to the support of
the Democratic nominee for the
.President :
When s most atrocious conspira
cy which ever desecrated earth found
development in an assault [von onr
national flag at Sumter, and in efforts
to massacre a half-starved garrison,
placed there in 'a time of prothund
peace, according to uniform- usage,
for no other offense than asserting
the supremacy' of their country's
Constitution, and giving to the
breeze, as emblematical thereof, the
glorious Stars and Stripes of their
fathers—when the 'brave volunteers
who were hurrying to the defense of
our nation's capital, to save it from
mob rule, and rebellion • and confla
gration, were bleeding
. by traitori
Us hands ; when strong men trem
bled, when women wept, and chil
dren instinctively clung.oloser to the
maternal bosom; when. all communi
cation between the loyal, States and
capital lima cut off by rebellious for
ces ; when the President elect of the
United ,States . had . then - recently
reached the seat of government,
when duty called him,, by a circui
tous and unusual route, and in dis
guise, to escape the dagger of the
assassin, and when our land was fill
ed with excitement,: and Consterna
tion and alarm ; when `shrieked . the
timid- and stood still the brave,' and
th&conflding masses looked about to
see who were the men for the crisis,
among the citizens of the Empire
State, 'who had borne a part in pub
lic affairs, and were naturally looked
up to as examplars .in such a crisis,
he (Horatio Seymour) hired himself
away upon the double quick in the
opposite direction (laughter), and for
nearly half,a year hid himself among
the lakes and rivers and romantic
woodlands and inland towns of Wis
consin, and his tongue was as silent
on the subject of denouncing the
Rebellion. as those .of the murdered
volunteers, whose "ghost walked
unrevenged among us." (Sensation.)
There we may suppose .he basked
and balanced and watched and wait
ed, and turned and twisted (laught
er), until autumn, when a small
knot of defunct., defeated, desperate
and despicable politicians, who had
for years hung upon the subsistence
department of the Democratic par
ty iu this State. catne to his relief
by entering the field. (Laughter.)
They borrowed without leave the
the honored name of Dentocraey,
under which to perpetrate their cov
ert treason, as the hypocrite.
"Stole the livery of the court of Heaven
The serve the devil in."
Their disgradeful and disloyal rec
ord stands out as the doing of men
too stolid in political depravity to be
gifted with ordinary instincts, and
too regardless of the popular will to
be mindful of shame ; and the defeat
they experienced at the hands of the
people, should serve as a warning to
trimmers, an 1 traitors, and parri
cides, and ingrates, throughout all
future time.
This moveinent drew thV secluded
one from his hiding place, he .and
came forth with all the courage of him
who, in a conflict with his wife, be
ing driven under the bed, while re
maining thus ensconstd, declared,
whether she consented or not, he
would look out through a knot hole
in the clap-boards so long as he had
the spirit of a man. (Great and re
peated laughter and applause.) He
entered the political canvass, and on
the 28th of October, 1861, a few days
before the election, made a great
speech, the burden of which was an
apology for the Rebellion,' and a con
demnation of the administration for
having meted out the rigor of mar
tial law to these in arms against the
government. Though abounding
with flimsy disguises and sophistical
generalities, it contained one point
worthy of not only notice, but of the
severest reprehension, and heie it
is :
"If it is true that slavery must be
abolished to save this Union, then
the people of the south should be
allowed to withdraw themselves
from the government which cannot
give them the protection guaranteed
by its terms."
What ! Place this glorious Union
—this heritage of human hope—this
asylum for the world's weary pilgrim
—this refuge for the oppressed of
earth, in the scale of being beneath
the black and bloated amid bloody—
the corrupt—the stultified and stul
tifying institution of slavery ! No
Sooner than see this Union severed,
let not only the institution perish
whenever and whenever it can be
found, but let the inhabitations that
have known it perish with it, and
be known no more forever. (Tre
mendous and long continued ap
plause. "'That's so." 'That's the
talk." Three cheers ) And yet this
returning fugitive from patriotism
proclaims as his creed, in effect if
not in terms, that if either
slavery or the Union mug be des
troyed, it should be the Union. And
the name of this man is Horatio Sey
mour. (Sensation.)
NUMBER 1.
A FEW WORDS TO THE mum
We know not whether any
words we utter will reach any con
siderable number of the Southern
people, yet we desire to place our
selves right on the record, and at
least to discharge a duty we owe to
the soldiers, sailors of the late war,
and the cause of loyalty, peace, and
truth.
We wish to utter a word of warn
ing against the men who propose to
re-open the orama of war and revo
lution. No graver mistake can be
made by the people of the South
than to repose confidence in the "fire
eaters" of other days, who now are
using all their power to inflame and
drive them on to certain ruin ; and,
on the other hand, to trust the Nor
them demagogues, who now make
them promises of orthern rebellion
and blood to regain "the lost cause."
The leaders of the South in 1860
taught the people that there would
be no war—that "the North would
not fight"—and that if there were
any fighting in the North it would
be done in - New York, where the
workingmen would rise, and Yankee
soldiers • would •be shot down in the
streets. Even Jefferson Davis said
in Washington before he left his seat,
under the assurances of Northern al
lies, that . "New York would give
twenty :thousand recruits to the
Southern army." And now, jour
nals like the La Crosse Democrat
and Metropolitan Record are broad
cast over the South, filled with prom
ises of the alacrity with which the
North will 'aid them in the use of
•"the bayonet."' •
We warn the South that the lead
ers who thus address them are only
hurrying them into a deep abyss.—
We warn the South against being
betrayed by the 'political mock-auc
tion men and pocket-book-droppers
who promise such immense strength
to their cause. It is nothing but the
rabies of disoppointed ambition. Not
one in ten thousand of the Northern
people went to the help of the South
in 1860, and a smaller number will
try it again.
- The people of the North love the
nation—they loie the old flag—they
have an unheralded feeling of union
and sympathy with the South under
the terrible calamities and losses it
has suffered :under the demands of
her designing leaders. They look
at slavery as lost by the great con
vulsion of war—they see the ruin,
the countless graves, the wreck of
hope and life to hundreds of thous
ands—and they are ready to grasp
With a warm hand all who are will
ing to fail into line and submit to the
new order resulting from the contest.
But they do not and will not consent
to see a new attempt made to settle
the questions.of a Democratic gov
ernment with the sword. Abide by
the verdict of the ballot-box. If it
be against you, discuss, appeal, and
try the cause again. But, remember,
that the people will not submit to
have periodic war to gratify the am
bitious men who happen to be de
feated at the polls. We think we
are's* in saying that if such an ap
peal be again made "to arms" the
result will be that the South will
find "its last ditch" so deep that it
will have no resurrection. The peo
ple have submitted to the burdens of
one long and bloody war to maintain
our nationality, and they now desire
peace, and the opportunity to repair
the losses, and work off the burdens.
The new agents in rebellion will
find their hopes fearfully blasted if
they build them upon the promises
of the La Crosse Democrat, the Me
tropolitan Recoi d, or the Cobbs and
Hamptons of the South.
The true - course fur the people of
the.Sonthern States is to treat these
"fire eating" mouth-artillerists as
they would a Chinese lantern—hang
them up for people to look at, but
not to be deceived by thefillse lights
they throw out. . Scorn and trample
the corrupt journalits under foot,
who are simply manufacturing
Northern sensation sheets to skin
the money out of Southern pockets
—and then leave them so empty
that their customers will hardly have
enough left over to buy a cartridge
or a ramrod !
Southern men and women in New
York ! You can reach by your cor
respondence, and your numerous
family ties and business relationships,
every corner of the South! Warn
the South against the snare ! The
men who promise revolution cannot
make good the bond! In the day
of trial they will be found bankrupt
in muscle and helpless in the sinews
of war ! They will hunt creation to
prove an alibi, and leave you to your
rain ! Be warned and be entreated
in time!
TILE Kentucky Times says : We
venture the assertion that if Blair
were elected President instead of
Vice President, and there should be
left out some States of the South by
virtue of the recent legislation of
Congress, be would wipe it clear out,
take possession of the White Ilouse,
and blot out the record in infamy
made by Congress since 1365.
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LEAN CAI-mt.—lt is not profita
ble to sell cattle to the butcher, till
they are well fattened, as a fat cow,
or bullock, will sell for more, over
lean cows, than it costs to fatten
them. Feed roots and meal plenti
fully, and keep your animals in their
stalls in the winter season, and if
kept warm they will take on fat rap
idly.
WE predict that ex-rebel Commis
sioner Robert Otild will come to
grief in his effort to establlsh•thc in
t-4111°ns charge he makes against Gen.
Grant. It would appear after the
Democracy rendered the rebels all
possible aid to hurt Grant on the
battle field, the rebels are now de
termined to aid the Democracy to
beat him at the ballot box. As the
first failed, so will the last.
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Ex-Gov. Bramtette or Kentucky,
is the head centre or the Ku-K'ux
in that State, and is in a meas..re
largely responsible for the roign of
terror inaugurated there. So much
for the rebel wing of the Democratic
party.
ADAM was the only man that never
tantalized his wife about the way
mother used to cook.
Miscellaneous Wits.
New York has a French Grant and
Colfax Club.
A fatal disease is killing the chick
ens in some parts of Berke county.
General Kilpatrick will arrive in
this countryfrom Chili on the 15th of
September.
The Northern New Jersey rail
road boasts of never having killed a
passenger.
Gen. Sheridan says he deems fur
ther forbearance with the Indians
impossible.
A. J. Herr, of Harrisburg, is spo
ken of for speaker of the House this
winter.
Peaches will be scarcer this sea
son than they have been for several
years.
The Utah grasshoppers eat win
dow curtains, much to the disgust of
the female saints.
First class butter Sells in Mifflin
burg, at 25 cents, and potatoes at
$1.50 per bushel.
The Cumberland Valley Railrtrul
is to be extended to •Villiamsi
Maryland.
The wheat crop of Minneso:
estimated at 15,000,000 bushels,
is of the best quality.
President - Johnson arid
Hancock declined attending
cratic picnic near Washingt„
Montreal (Canada) cattle art:
in considerable numbers from .
known discease.
The cattle disease increases a:
the cows belonging to dairymen
Cincinnati,
Five hundred new lawyers
hung out their signs in New
during the past. year.
The Seymourites of Mar•_
sneak out at night to cat down
ory poles erected by Grant and
fax. clubs.
A prominent lowa Democrat slys
that the Republicans must go out of
office next November, either by the
ballot or the bullet.
Alfred Alexander, colored, who
was to have been executed in Phila
delphia, On Tuesday of last week,
has been respited till September Bth.
Lewis Thompson and Homer Lane
wrestled at Harrisburg, on the 20th,
ult., for a purse of two thousand dol
lars. Homer was badly beaten.
Fully three thousand persons heard,
and applauded Carl Schurz,s ad
dress at Johnstown, on Tuesday
evening of last week,
The Harrisburg State Guard
thinks the out-door .experiences of
the -War, the cause of the great in
crease-in the number of camp meet
ings.
The Reading Adler (German pro
rebel paper) speaking of Thaddeus
Stevens, says : Thank God he is out
of the way. It would be equally
thankful for the death of every loyal
man in the country.
Ku-Klux murders are on an in
crease in Missouri. The last victim,
Judge Morris, was guilty of the un
pardonable crime of exerting his in
fluence in favor of Republican senti
ments.
It is claimed that 8,000 new build
ings will be completed in Chicago
during the present year, before the
close of the season, at a cost of from
ten to twelve million dollars.
A Quartermaster's clerk has rp
cently discovered in a corn-bust
mattress, on Sair Padre Island, n--,-
Brazos Santiago, Texas, a rusty
ket containing diamonds and err
aids estimated to be worth 00. f
Gen. F. S. Heintzeiman and
are sojourning at "The Grape.
Lancaster county. (.4e n.
man's father is a resident or 1,
heim, Lancaster county, «•here
General was born.
The authorities or
established a re,,ular
hat borough. Peddling on
s prohibited, and dealers al
ted from buying in cinantity
market hours
Shirt collars and dickeys arc
made of wood. First steel can
then India rubber.. The steel pl.
out after it bad cut three n.
throats; the rubber yielded the
after it had suffocated several •
by its putrescent and sulphu
odor. The latest invention eon.:
of dickeys and shirt collars of wo , !
Erank Blair now occupies vary
much the position of Benedict Arn
after the arrest of John Andre. All
that Blair once fought for he is req , lv,
he now says, to fight against. Tin
wants to undo his own victories s , lll
cast down that which he built.
Letters continue to be received in
`Washington from the Southern States
urging a session of Congress in Sep
tember. At first these appeals came
from unimportant sources, but now
they come from leading and influen
tial men, among whom are. many
Senators and members of Congress.
A Columbia (Pa.) paper makes the
following ungallant announcement :
"A talking match is on the tapis be
tween two women of this town,
though no bets have been made as
yet. The time to talk has been set
down at forty-eight consecutive
hours. Both will win."
In his niessage to the Senate, in
December, 1867, President Johnson
said : "Salutary reforms have been
introduced by the Secretary ad in
terim, (General Grant,) and great re
ductions of expenses have been ef
fected under his administration of
the \Var Department, to the saving
of millions to the Treasury."
The Harrisburg Telegraph perti
nently remarks : "There is not a sol
dier in the Commonwealth but what
knows that what is called the Demo
cratic party to-clay refused to give
him the right of suffrage while in
the field ligthing for the life of the
Nation. Knowing this soldiers, .
you vote for the eantlidatagvho
in the lead of that party t y
Vallandighatn, to Nvl um 'Soy In,
is largt•ly intlebt oil for his nomi•
tion %Moroi the following sc:
motif, on the 6th of ,fitly, 1861,
before the battle of Bull Ruu :
this unholy and unconstitutional I
satle figtitist the South, lin the n
of the insurrection :1;1 , 1 innrih
which she has been subjeet,and
‘vhich she is stilli.ithreatvned,
the torch of the incendiary a 111
dagger of the assa4sin
over hei, my most cordial synipa
are wholly with her.