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rational repcblican ticket.
FOE PBE!ltDE5T,
Gen. ULYSSES S. GHANT,
FOB TICK PRESIDENT,
Bon. SCHUYLER COLFAX.
REPUBLIC N STATE TICKET.
Fob acditor general.
Gen. JOHN F. HARTRANFT, of Montg'y.
FOB SCBTtVOa OrXERAL.
Col. JACOB M. CAMPBELL, of Cambria.
REPUBLICAN DISTRICT TICKET.
FOR CONGRESS
GLENlfl "W. SCOFIELD, of Warren Co.
REPUBLICAN ELECTORAL TICKET.
SENATORIAL ELECTORS.
O MorrisoX Coates. ol Philadelphia.
Thomas M. Marshall, of Pittsburg.
BEPRESE5TAT1VB ELECTORS.
1 Xfm. H. Barnes.
2 Wm J. Pollock.
3 Richard Wildev.
4 George W. Hill.
5 Wttwi P. M Gill,
6 John H Binghunt.
7 Frank Hooter,
8 Isaac Eckert.
F9 Morris Hoopes,
10 David M. Rank,
11 Wm. Davis.
12 WinthropW.Ketchura
13 Samuel Knorr.
14 B. F. Wagnnseller,
la Cbas 11 Jluller.
18 George W. F.lser,
17 John Stewart,
15 A O.Olm.tead,
19 -T rimes Mil.
20 Henry C. Johnson,
21 J K. Fwing,
22 Wm. Trew.
23 A. M. Crawford,
2i J S. Rot.in.
Thaddeus Stevens.
Thaddeua Stevens died in Washington at
nddnight of August 12th. His death was
not wholly nnexpected.andyet the announce
ment startled the country with a sort of sad
surprise. Such had been the activity, and
strength of will and intellect, of this wonder
ful man up almost to the hour ot his death
ihar the public had not learned to look upon
him as on the verge of the grave.
Mr. Stevens was a native of Caledonia,
Vermont, where he was born on the 4 th of
April, 1793 which would make las age 75
at the time of his death. He was one of a
large family of children, of poor parentage
and straightened circumstances. In addition
detorrued loot anaateenie irauie, as tnougn
to compensate for these physical defects,
'nature endowed hitu with mental powers of
the most spiended kind, and from his boy
hood he seemed destined for a high career.
By teaching district school three or four
months each year he worked his way through
Dartmouth college, where he graduated in
1814. Immediately after graduating he re
moved to Adams County Pennsylvania,
where he studied law, teaching in an acade
my at the same time. In is.",:) he was clec-
ted to the State Legislature, as also in the
pears '34, '35, '37, aud '41. In 1842 he re
moved to Laucaster where he has since lived.
His connection with national politics dated
from ISIS, when he was elected Represen
tative in the Thirty first Congress, He was
re-elected to the Thirty-second, and Thirty-Bixth.Thirty-seventh,
Thirty-eighth.Thirty-ninth
and Fortieth Congresses. During
the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh, he
wis Chairman of the Committee of Ways
and Means, and afterward of the Commit
tees on Appropriations and Reconstruction.
He was a bachelor, and devoted himself
to public life, and to what he believed to be
the service ot the Republic, with a single
ness of purpose and intensity of zeal that
few could understand or appreciate.
For six years, embracing the period of
the war, he was the acknowledged leader of
the House. As a statesman he was a strange
compound of the theoretical and the practi
cal. The practical in him enabled him to
sway, and shape the legislation of a turbu
lent legislative body, while the theoretical
side of his character often led him to pro
pose and advocate meaures and policies
which, though urged with his usual vehem
enee and power, could not command the
support of a half-dozen Congressmen.but as
a practical legislator he frequently surpass
cd the best statesmen of his time. His forte
was the destruction of the wrong, and, like
Mr. Greeley, a minority was his natural
clement. In building up new institutions j
and in shaping a pV.ky for the future, Mr.
Stevens was not at home. He was a reallv
great man, and very naturally had great j ,
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years has been gathered to his fathers. The I
Amencan people will long remember the j
vou.ulu,.erwun gratitude tor hu labors j
and charity for his shortcomings.
A QrEsno.w If the Tanimny ticket is
just the thing for trne men, and if its elec
tion is to be desired for the sake of peace
and good government, hour docs ;t happon
that all the old rebel leaders have suddenly
moved to the front in its rapport? Have
they changed and become wise and good all
of a sadden, or are they, be'ln? about as Ud
ever, intent on a scheme to execute a
mrpos in which, up to this time thev have
failed? " ?
"The Drift of the Tide."
Unfortunately for Wallace the "tide"
still keeps "drifting." For example:
Mnj. Gen. Gordon ot Indiana,-lways a
Democrat has been speaking lor Grant and
Colfax.
The Hon. I. N. Morris, late Democratic
Member of Congress from Illinois, has taken
the stomp for Grant and Colfax.
Judge Lfndscy, of Kokomo, Iowa, nomi-nare-1
tTr Presidential Elector by the Dem
ocrats of the Eighth District, has bolted
Seymour and taken the stump for Grant.
The Hon. Dennis McCartney and Gen.
Daniel S. Wilson of Iowa, both life-Ions'
Democrats, have repudiated Seymour and
Blair and taken the stump for Grant and
Colfax.
The Hon. Thos. X. Stilwsll, U. S. Minis
ter to Venezuela, and Gen. J. L. Swift.both
Johnson Democrats, have returned to the
Republican fold and are stumping for Grant
and Colfax.
Hon. Geo. M. Weston, of Bangor.Maine,
one of the most prominent Democrats in
the State has taken the stump for Grant.
Speaking of Blair he says:
"The flag with which he marches at the
head of the Democratic column, is the black
flac of discord an l civil war for the country
and a war of races for the South."
Ffon. David Kilgnre, of Delaware county,
Hon. R. M. Hudson, of Terre Haute, Col.
StiilWt II, of Anderson, and all the promi
nent men ot Indiana who swung around the
circle with the excursion of Dave Gooding,
are all out for Grant and Colfax, and will
take an active part in the campaign.
The New York Timet says : "The War
Democrats of this city are about holding a
preliminary meeting for the purpose of ef
fecting a thorough and independent organi
zation to support Gen. Grant. They are
greatly alarmed at the present aspect of af
fairs, and are by no means ..pre pared to go
rack on their war record, and ignore all that
they have done by supporting Seymour and
Wade Hampton, ami contributing their
votes and means to inaugurate anarchy and
another civil war. Some of the "leading men
in the city among the War Democrats are
taking part iii this important movement. and
it will he followed by similar organizations
in other States.
A very important political movement was
begun in Baltimore last week. The leading
spirits in it are Republicans, who followed
Gov. Swann otex to the Democracy. They
met and announced tlieir determination to
go fur Grant and Colfax. Of these th re
were present Wm. Thomson, Secretary to
Mr. Swann while he was Major of Balti
more, and recently Sheriff of the city ; Thos.
H. Males, late State Senator; John Thom
son, late member of the House of Delegates;
Young Fall, Jr., one of Mr. Swann's most
liberal registers; Win. T. Valliant.Ex Con
Fervative Police Commissioner, who took an
active part in the ousting of Police Com-
miumiuiro Wtvula on,! I Jlnlo..- Jin K W-il.
gates; Adam Kohlcr and Joseph Hawes.
ex-members of the Legislature; Wm. H.
Pearce and John II. Pearce. There was a
number of persons present who now hold
positions under the Federal or State Gov
ernments. Ex-Police Commissioner Val
Jiant presided. Sheriff Thompson's remarks
were indicative of the tone of all the speak
ers, ne said : "Here, in Maryland, we
have witnessed the arrogance of the modern
Democracy. They have neglected the Union
men who led tlietu into power. I have de
termined not to l frightened by the hob
goblin negro equality, but shi.II vote for
lirant. We h.ive not to be afiaid of these
people whom we have lifted up, and tried to
make men of. 0'ir object is to initiate a
cmcrtiie movement for Grant." .Mr.
Vailiant said that in onn.,ultinj with promi
nent Conservatives in Washington he had
found them to be unanimously iu favor of
Grant. A resolution to prepare an address
to the country was unanimously adopted.
Gen. J. F. Hartraaft.
We direct the attention of our readers to
a biographical sketch of Gen. J. V. Ilart
ranft, our candidate for Auditor Gcneral.on
the first page of to-day s Jot nx.u.. Gen.
Hartranft has already served the public in a
civil capacity as faithfully and fearlessly as
he served his countrj on the battle field du
ring the r-taHion. In referenci. tn .... 1..1
ity to perform the duties of Auditor Gener
al, it is only necessary to state, that the
varied duties of that ofnee have been dis
charged by him in such a satisfactory man
ner, during the past three years, that his
political opponents have not even dared to
charge him with partiality or incompetency.
The interests of the State have been judic
iously gnarled, and. notwithstanding the
extraord -.ary expenses incurred by the war,
the Stat ; debt has been reduced over five
millions of dollars during hisadministration.
It is conceded by all, that a clearer-! -ended
lawyer, a closer business man, and a more
conscientious gentleman in all his actions, or j
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selected to guard the interests of the people
in thi Auditor General's Office of the Com
mouwealih. than John F. Hartranft; and
j we feci assured that the people will re-elect
im to the position he now occupies, by an
overwhelming majority.
A G ukat Max. Some are insane onontrh
to thk Horatio Seymour a great R,an
lhe"Ioudt" admirer of ,h,P.n w
we nave neard oi however, is a well known
lawyer of Wa:kias,N.Y., who expressed
his admiration of the greav decliner in the
following forcible, if not elegant, language,
a few days ago: "Horatio Seymour, eir,"
said he, "is the greatest man that God Al-
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mtgnty ever made, unless I
Wilkes Booth."
must except
A Fact. Remember, it was the so-called
Democratic party that threaten', commenc
ed, and carried on the war of the rebellion.
The same party now threatens revolution'
iafbma goimxat, gJarftefb,
Is Mr. Seymour a Statesman ?
The adversary is engaged at this present
moment in vaunting the statesmanship of
Horatio Seymour. Let us see what are Mr.
Seymour's claims to be fctyled a statesman?
State -mianship ma-1 be made up of character,
study, and experience. Napoleon was a
statesman by nature ; John Stuart Mill (be
fore entering the House of Commons) by
study; Palmerston by experience. Mr. Sey
mour has never held a national office, and
so far as national politics are concerned he
cannot be a st-ttesman by experience. In
the State offices he has held, his only evi
dence of statesmanship is his veto of a pro
hibitory liquor law. It does not require a
gifted imagination to conceive that General
Grant, in the same circumstances, must
either have shown equal statesmanship by
vetoing it, or superior statesmanship by
signing it. He might have done more. He
could noi have done less.
Those who have ever troubled themselves
to learn anything about politics will not ac
cuse Horatio Seymour of being a statesman
by study. He never studies. If he did he
cou'd not lie to so great advantange as he
does in his public speeches. He skims the
surface of history for half truths, knowing
That a lie which is half trnth is ever the black
est of lies.
That a lie which is all a lie, may be met and
fought outright,
Bnt a lie which part a truth is a harder matter
to tight.
If he stumbles on a whole truth, he cuts
it in two, dropping the kernel and feeding
on the husk. Let us see how far his states
manship would have availed us. During
the agitation of the Slave question, he re
commended throwing open the National
Territories to Slavery, so that the Slave
E'ower could have been strengthened in the
Senate by the votes of all the present and
future States west of the Missouri River,
from Texas to British America. He argued,
also, that slaveholders should be allowed to
sojourn with their slaves, for all transient
purposes, in the Free States, to stop with
them at the Springs, and to travel with them
for pleasure or business. He would have
given slaveholders eternal sway over the
National Territories, and temporary sway
wherever they went iu the Northern States.
Suppose Mr. Seymour's statesmanship had
prevailed, would the Slave Power-have been
less tyrannical ? Would the ultimate suc
cess of free principles at the North have
been less certain ? Would not Mr. Seymour's
policy have strengthened the Rebellion iu
advance, and so insured the final and irre
vocable dissolution of the Union?
Then Mr. Seymour advocated the Critten
den Compromise i. e., he wanted the
North, after electing a President on the
basis of "no further extension of Slavery,"
to ajrree that, if the' South would haul down
the Rebel flag and allow Mr. Lincoln to be
Presideut, and the Union to stand, then
.Mr. Lincoln should consent to the indefinite
extension of Slavery, and the voters who
elected him to the perpetual abandonment
-.O..V W ova, " Aid V. Ou.v.
that the defeated party at a Presidential
election can always reverse the political ef
fect of the election by threatening to secede.
This is Mexican statesmanship not Amer
ican. It is the statesmanship of brigands
and rioters not of Senates and Parliamen
tary bodies ; of ruffianism not democracy.
If Mr. eymour had ever studied much, he
would not have placed himself so exactly on a
par with men who never studied at all. But
if Mr. Seymour had studied the Crittenden
Compromise so far as to enquire whether
the South were willing to accept it to re
main in the Union provided the successful
party should repudiate and back down from
the principles on which the people elected
Lincoln-he would have found that the South
nowhere voted for it, and would nsver have
accepted it. Hence, Mr. Seymour's states
manship is not that of study, even of the
most eupc-rfieia! kind. Again, at the out
break of the war, Mr. Seymour declared
that he had no faith that the Union could
be maintained 1 y force ; that he had ex
amined the Montgomery Constitution ; that
it was better than our own ; and that the
better way was for New York an 1 other
Northern States to come under it. Was
this statesmanship ? Is the cringing span
iel, the fawning cur.the whipped an 1 jelping
hound, our beau ideal of statesmanship ?
Again, in 1m2-3, he de t ied the constitu
tionality of the Draft laws, argued that a
Union restored by coercion would be as great
a crime as the rebellion. taught thatouly Re
publicans should fight for the Union, and
contended that emancipation was the death
knell of the Union. In 1SC4 he, in the
Chicago platform, denounced the war a fail
ure in the midst of the smoke and heat of
the contest, encouraging the Rebels to per
severe though they were already whipped,
and predicting defeat for the Union armies
who were already victorious. Was this
statesmanship? Had the country assented
to Seymour's doctrine in ISO), that the
rebellion could not be subdued, or in 1364
that hostilities should cease, our Union
would have been dissolved, and the North
ern States would have been plunged into a
war amonir ihemslvp.c l,v ili tT.,r
mour and his L-iends to carrv out the nnli
he had advised, of seceding from the Union
and joining the Confederacy. In these con
vulsions, the army of the independent Rebel
Confederacy under Lee would have stood
ready to mrrch into the Northern States
and aid the efforts of the Democrats to car
ry these States over to the Confederacy and
Slavery up to the Canadian line. In short,
Seymour's policies-would have given us a
uuited and independent South, a divided
and eonlllctiiig North, and a country at war
from one end to another, after all hope of
restoring the Union or destroying Slavery
had disappeared. Since Seymour's policies
indicate neither experience nor study of
statesman-hip, if he be a statesman he can
only be so by character, having been born
such. But people who are born to the pos
session of great wealth of any kin I, fi nancial
or inreilectual.scldom live to the age of fifty
seven years without making it manifest. Mr.
Seymour, however, has never proposed a
Pt'licy or inaugurated a measure of anv kind,
lie has been a mere critic of the doings of
aiuve men.a carper.not to sava slanderer.of
those whose familiarity with 'pnblic affairs
be uas bad to opportunity to attain.and with
wnose practical statesmanship he baa never
been brought into rivalry.
A Little overythicg.
The cattle plagae is ting.
The Cholera has real Philadelphia.
Mrs. Trumbull died auhicgton.oo Saturday
Oo the decline eiwhere Seymour nd
Blair stoec.
Go to the Grant and fax Beading room in
the evenings.
Cholera Infantum isevalent in the eastern
part of the State.
Our friends should b- work. "Eternal vigi
lance is the price oi lily."
"Lost Caws" the erog of the Coppearhead
cocks over the Kentucklection.
The "conservatives" Maryland are deserting
sermanr Anil nin. n. i:nt
Mr. Seba Smith, the inal -'JacK Downing,"
died at his ressdenee, oong Island, last week,
aged 78 years.
The Copperhead majiy in KentucKj is about
90,000. I'uion men teelo be rather "sKeerce"
in that Rebel State.
The Copperheads of dton Count; have nom
nated L A. Mackejr fonngress- lie is a rene
gade Know-nothing.
It is said the Democa contemplate adopting
the apple-blossom as a tmaizn badjre. It will
be worn on the nose. ;
One of the Pendletonort is said to be wander
ing in the Kocky Mouains. Poor fellow ; he
shouldn't ' take on so."
In ISflO the Southernre-eaters threatened se
cession if the; failed. in 183 they threaten
revolution if they succd.
Seven thousand doghave been taken to the
pound in New Yorc.tbiaasnn. Bologna sausage
must be dog cheap in th city-
Feymour boasts that I never held a dollar of
the pubPo debt. Soniody says he has iu his
life held a great many cbis own debts.
The annual report of u County Superintend
ent of Common Schools s unavoidably crowded
out this week. It will aoear in our next.
The Schenectady Evemg Standard puts Sey
mour and Blair at the lad of its columns, and
directly underneath say-The Road to Ruin."
Mr. C. Shank, of Howrd township. Centre co ,
has a eorn stalls, which leasures J3 feet 7 inches
in bight. Genuine Grar. and Colfax corn, that
President Johnson's Katucxy friend; have sent
him five barrels of Borbon. That, certainly.
should Keep his spirits o to the end of his term.
The Sew York erurgoes for Grant on the
Republican ticket. aad fr Blair on the Democrat
ic ticket. Bennet has i cockney's penchant for
alf-nnd-'alf.
Mr. Pugh said of the .ublie debt, in his recent
Cincinnati speech, tbafnobody considers it sa
cred, except the man w!o has got the evidence ot
it in his pocket."
Some of the sedition Southerners declare if
eymour is not elected they will leave the coun
try. That is one of the strongest arguments tor
the election of Grant.
There is one different between the speeches of
Grant and Seymour. Tbt former always speaks
to the point; the latter steaks along and makes
no visible point at all.
A Democratic paper fa vs. that in order to secure
Seymour s election they mn?t get out every Dem
ocratic voter Can't lio it. for some of them are
in for a number of years.
The Ebensbure AUrahanian after a suspension
of five months, has azain made its appearance
It is a live psper. n will do ro"d servioe in the
- " jo oi m icmt are aeior.a naii-wsv
character. A Tennessee paper savs when they go
out to kill a Union man, they carry picks and
spades alon to bury the corpse
An account of the Kansas State Democratic Con
vention says '.he rebel flag actually hung in the
hall during the entire cession of the Convention
Such is the latter-diiy Democracy.
We hardly know which will become insane first
Seymour or Frank. Blair. Seymour inherits
madness, and Blair has such a horror of water
that be is lively to become mad at any time
A pamphlet copy of the proceedings of the Tarn
many Hall Convention, printed for circulation in
the South, bears on its cover, in large tvne
-'Stand by your friends who have stood by you."
Every Union soldier's grave is an eloquent
speech against the Democrat io ticket, which was
nominated by the mea who initiated and carried
on the war, in which our boysin blue were slaugh
tered. The Democrats imported rebels from the South
to stump the North against Lincoln and initiate
rebellion. They are now importing thesame class
of men to stump the Aorlh against Grant, and
initiate revolution.
When Wade Hampton left Columbia, at the ap
proach of Sherman's army, he aonomced bis in
tention of going to -Texas or hell." He didn't
go to Texas, and as to hell well, be has joined
the Democratic party.
-What uniform do you suppose I wear? Do you
tbinK I h.ve begun to wear the gray ?" said on
of General Hancock's stkfi" officers, when asked if
he would vote the Democratic ticxet. Many a
soldier will repeat the question
The demolition of the old Court House in In
diana, preparatory to the erection of a new one,
was commenced on Monday a-week. Rev. Biuir
preached the first serif on in the house after its
erection, and on Sunday, the 9th, he abo preach
ed the last one.
The spirit of inflation is strong, even with
Presidential candidates. It is said that when
toe intelligence reached St. Joseph, Mo., tbiit
Seymour was last seen on his farm putting in new
hay. Biir, who was in the place, immediately
put in a little old rye.
Albert Pike, the Rebel poet, in the Memphis
Appral, gives this derilifh advice to bis readers ;
'Goon, boys; swear to murder Northern Hans!
Ann yourselves and organise, and be ready to re
spond promptly when eal'ed on, and fight brave
ly even if you get killed."
The Milwaukee Srntiad having described a
"grand Democratic ratification meeting" in that
city, concludes with the following : ' As a specu
lation by the proprietors of the bar at the Kink,
it was a success; as a funeral it was doubtful, and
as a ratification meeting it was a Gcsle "
The Chicago Timrs gives np Illinois to Grant,
but claims Indiana and Ohio. In Indiana the
Democrats claim Illinois and Ohio, but give up
Indiana. In Ohio thev claim Indiana and Illi
nois, but give up Ohio ; and that is the kind ot
figuring that is resorted to in order to defeat
Grant or paper.
The Wheeling Iutr.'lig'nerr, speaking of Th ur
man'sspeech io the Convention there. says: "Thur
man asiied hisfrienls what they should do with
the Radical suldien when they (the Democrats)
got into power;" and the rebel crowd cried out,
' Hang 'em ! Hang em !" Radical soldiers will
please take notice.
The Philadelphia Atn is quoted as saying that
in one ward in Philadelphia, one hundred thous
and Germans have come out for Seymour and
Blair. This is not the same, but the same kind
of a story, as that about the -ten thousand cats"
which were finally squeeied down into "our old
eat and another one."
Skvuocr's "No" ad "Yes "
Horatio said, with bew profound,
"Tour candidate I ennnot be.
For it would surely lose the cause,
And would dishonor me." July 9.
Now, "by the 'whelmirg tide caught up,"
"My friends. I really can't say no;
Of honor I've not much to lose,
So. -a it. let it go." August i
a., Jlngitoi
A Einging Speech by Gen. Sickles.
General Sickles was serenaded at the
Union Hotel, Saratoga, Monday evening,
when he made one of his telling speeches,
a synopsis of which is given below. After
some remarks personal to himself, and some
bard hiu at the State politicians, he saia :
My sympathies in the Presidential con
test are similarly distributed.and,as I trust,
with equal impartiality. I rejoiced in Gov
ernor Seymour's nomination although he
did not wish it. I regretted the disappoip t
nipnt of President Johnson, whose nomination
would have gratified me exceedingly, and I
shall rejoice with you mo--t heartily in the
election of Grant. I thank V allaijdignni,
Wad.- Hamnton. General N. B. Forrest,
audthe World newspaper for the unsolici
ted aid thev are giving to secure the election
of Grant, and if they will continue in their
present work, very little will remain for the
Republicans to accomplish. Great lameh-
ter. Indeed, I do not see why most ot my
old Democratic friends will not follow the
same direction. Grant is for peace, and the
Damocrats were for peace all through the
war. I Laughter. 1 Graut is for economy in
political expenditures, and the Democracy
of New York city, arc certainly in favor ot
economy as well as an intelligent suffrage,
and an honest ballot. IGreat Laughter. J
Grant is for ameliorated taxation, for am
nesty to those who have committed politi
cal offenses, for a speedy return to specie
currency, so that everybody may be paid in
ld and silver, and for universal suffrage.
If these views are not new acceptable to the
Democratic party, I remember the time
when they would have been acceptable. My
friends, let us remember all the sacrifices of
the past seven years, made for union, order,
and tranquility, and let us so act that these
shall not have been in vain. Vie alL desire
peace and prosperity, and I w ill tell you
when we shall have these blessings. When
all sections of the country, all classes, and
all parties accept the situation, when,
throughout the length and breadth of our
country, every law-abiding citizen, no mat
ter what may be his opinions, his religion, his
nationality, his race, or his color, can rely
on the laws of the land, the courts of justice,
and the amenities of his neighborhood for
protection and security ; when, for exam-
nip, a Union soldier can build for himself
and his family a home in the Carolinas,
wear, if he chooses, the old blue coat and
corps badge he wore in battle, hangs out the
old flag he followed, lie down to sleep with
the latch -st ring outside and no one rball
molest him : and until that day shall come,
a million boys in blue are ready, when sum
moned by proper authority, to marcl. to de
fend that cabin against all who may harm
that old comrade for his cause. That day
will come when General jrant is President.
After thanking Iih audience, Gen. Sickles
retired amid loud cheers, and cries of "Go
on."
The State Debt and Taxation.
Union Republican State Central Co mTutteeT
recently addressed a note to Gen. John F.
Hartranft, Auditor General, asking him
what the total debt of the State was on
January 1, 1800. and January 1, 186S to
what extent, during that period, taxation
had been abated or repealed, and what
amount of extraordinary expenses had been
paid by the State during the same period ?
General Hartranft' answersby producing the
official figures, lrom which it appears that
the total State debt, Nov. 30, LS60, was
$3T.99,847,50. On Augusts, JSCS, the
total debt was $33,651, 037,, 47. The tax on
real and personal estate has been reduced
as follows : Net amount charged to the
counties annually from 1802 to 1865,$1,C57,
314,33. Net amount chargeable annually
forlSOO, 1SG7 and l, $313,222,19 show
ing an annual reduction of $1,344,092,14.
Lxtraordinary expenses to a large amount
have been paid during these years for mili
tary purposes a fact well known to every
tax-payer. These figures show an absolute
liquidation cf four and one-third million
dollarxof the State debt, and an annual re
duction of taxation to the amount of one and
a third million dollars. The immense debt
of almost forty millions, which bad been
contracted under De
tions, has been reduced under Reuublican
rule, and at a time when extraordinary ex
penditures were incurred by a gigantic war !
Nor is this all : while th deht L.!n.
duced, taxation has been materially lighten
ed. When our Republican friends hear
Democrats prating about 'taxation.' 'debt.'
etc., let them have these figures. They are
official, and form a sufficient answer to the
flippant and baseless assertions of dema
gogues. His Farewell Order. To show the
inconsistency of F. P. Blair, Jr., it is only
necessary to refer to his farewell order to his
army corps, previous to its being mustered
out at Louisville. The order is dated July
llih, 1865, and recommends the confisca
tion of Sothern lands to provide homesteads
for the Union soldiers, nis late overture
to the country shows instead that Southern
rebels should again butcher the boys in blue,
if they attempt to maintain the Federal au
thority, or side with the cause for which
they fought.
Wht it should be done. The Balti
more Commercial, of August 7th, irives
credit to a Democratic orator, Thomas F.
Bowie, for addressing his party friends
thus :
"It there be any class of men I wnnM
sooner tax.it would be those men who
furnished the means to carry on the m.st
unholy, wicked, and cruel war in history
(Applause.) I would not tax them as prop
erty, but I would because J can read upon
the face of these bonds a con'rilution to an
unnoiy and tricked purpose."
TnE Electio-ns. The State elections
that are immediately ahead of ui.will occur
in the following order:
Vermont
Sept. 1
Sept. 8
Sept. 14
Oct. 6
Oct. 13
Oct. 13
Oct. 13
Oct. 13
Oct. 22
Delaware
Maryjand
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Missouri
Kansas
Nevada
Mass.
Nov. 3
Nov. 3
Nov. 3
Nov. 3
Nov. 3
California
Maiae
Nebraska
Penn'a
Ohio
qdiana
owa
West Va.
Nr.v 3 1
Nov. 3
Nov. 3
Nov. 3
Nov. 3
New York
-Nov. 3
New Jersey Nov. 3
19, 1868.
Forrest on the Eampage.
Sevmour. in his letter of acceptance, said
theiebel leaders were all submissiveness.
having settled into the ways of peace am
quietness. The truth of this remark had
already been exemplified Dy me xiauipio.,
the Cobbs, the Teombses, and others, ana
we have now to add that shining patriot,
the hero of Fort Pillow, General Forrest.
At a late meeting ot the Confederate offi
cers in Nashville, he was the principal ora
tor.and from his speech we make the foliow-
ing quotation :
"Troops would bo called out. He was
confident too, that they would be backed by
.1. . l.-...l.,-,l l.invi President Johnson,
notwithstanding all he and others had done
to gratify his pride in the National Conven
tion, had gone back upon the Democracy.
II .11.1 Ir.nl- t.-ir anv heln from hitu but
liC UIU 4t" f WJwm. - -' J . ,
it mattered not how many were arrayed
;f ;, ".ml his old comrades. He
liked peace, but if any of them were si
La nTTicft.il thev would be,
would toot hi horn, lie knew that his old
troops troidd anmcer as they had always
done. He hade them arm themselves and
he ridy. They .cere already ctrilleil ana
neednl no drilling. Jl me ngni uwn
would not be troops in line o: Paine con
frontine each other, but citizen against citl-
r t I 1 f . - i. ....... f ..Y.'.is .
zen. lie snouia ue in juivi vj j..c
quarter.
This petted Democratic le 'der is evident
ly-asain stirred with the same spirit that
animated him at Fort Pillow, where "no
quarter" was the watchword, and where
with it he won a great uetnocratic victory.
That Cotton Story.
General Grant, as usual, has come out of
the absurd allegations concerning his coni-
i licity in illegal cotton trading during the war
with cedit. It is of little use forhisenemies
to try. they cannot "fix him" whatever they
do. The merchants in Cincinnati, who took
Grant's father into partnership, took the
elderly gentleman to headquarters in hopes
ot getting special privileges. It was a bold
stroke to endeavor to corrupt the honesty of
a man through supposed respect for a father ;
but the plan failed. How like the man
was his letter in reply :
"I am always pleased, sir, to render any
proper assistance in my power to my friends;
but I am a General of the army of the Lni
ted States Government, and I cannot dis
criminate between its citizens. I do not
know why my father should write asking
such a favor. It can have no influence with
nie. The request is improper, as it would
give one an advantage over another. and
would lead to that demoralization which it
is my endeavor to prevent. The attention
of the military cannot be diverted from the
work in hand, viz: saving the countrj-. You
can take out a permit and trade along the
river, as others are doing, and I shall be
pleased to hear of your success."
The merchants of Cincinnati must have felt
very small when they heard the result. The
cemduct of the Generai U best told by his
letter. What story will the General's ene-
mim start next? Attempts to miure him
only show his worth in more striking char
acters.
The Democratic View. The Louisville
1 iwent 'rtti ronfcSf rin;'tn'eotfowin'g
clear and uumistakaLle light. Speaking for
the Kentucky and Southern Rebel Democra
cy generally, it says :
"Greenbacks are but an incident. Negro
suffrage is but an incident. The cist of the
matter is,shall five men. embracing the Ueeon
struetion Committee, rule us with a rod o
iron, or shall the people rule ? The Radicals
seek to obscure this real question. Iliev
seek o keep it out of sight. But it is em
braced in the simple proposition : If Grant
gets a majority of the electoral votes of the
Northern States, where there is likely to be
a lair election, why, well and good ; but if
he fails to tret a maioritv of the Northern
electoral votes, and Congress attempts to
1 , i; . . 1 - r - .
iiiiiKe up a uenen oy a niacmiic oi its own
creation in the .south, then we fight. The
sooner the people toe the line the better."
Taxation . of National Securities.
Hon. John A. Bingham addressed a large
concourse of people on Saturday a week at
Wheeling, West Virginia. Amongst other
striking passages iu his speech we note the
following ;
"In the words of your Supreme Court of
.1 I ' - 1 o. ,1
me iniueu states, utterca long ago lliroueh
the lips of John Marshall, in a case that
will live as long, as our language lives,
"When you ad nit the authority of a State
to tax you admit its power to tax without
limitation." If, therelore, the State of South
Carolina may tax to-morrow your national
securities one per cent., on the same punci
ple they may tax theoi 50 per cent ; and I
defy any man to show a remedy against the
grievance. If States are permitted to tax
your national securities they may be taxed
out ot existence as fast as von i.siic ikum
j uh a power in States is incompatible with
the nation's existence."
A Eofctile Land.
What would the South become if Sey
mour and Blair should be elected? Albert
Pike, late general in the rebel army, and
now editor of a Seymour organ at Memphis,
tells us:
The Xorth is a foreign and hostile realm.
Stand at the altar of your country. Swear
eternal hatred to its oppressors. Swear
that the day shall come when the Susque
hanna and the Ohio shall be like rivers of
nre,as tney are now rivers of blood.betweeo
your native land and that of the Northern
Huns, xrhich no man shall attempt 'o cross
and live,"
It shall become a foreign and hostile land,
in which no Northern man shall live, says
Pike! That is what those vote for who
vote to elect Sey mour and Blair.
Rather Late! The Copperhead papers
are busy proving by mathematics that Grant
is no general. If they had only done this
in '64 their friends of the Confederacy could
have gone right along with their little war
and come out victorious. This tardiness in
succoring their Southern friends will be the
death of the Northern Democracy.
!?. 1? chared doubU usual rates. Ho tuts.
P; TIIE COURT of Common Pleas of Clear
X n Id County:
lwwiJ. Dt.i4r, 1 No. 271, Sept. Term. 1867.
Mart a, Dtn,,. J" Aiia, .Slti. Sur Divor,,
To i M.r Ass fccsnp. Respondent :
apper,n III?' BOtifi"d reSnired
on Mnrf .u VPLe5' t0 be holden Clearfield,
?or? !'tb d-T of September, 1863. bo
m.t b- .b such things as
may be then and there charged against you in
?0VrPJa,nt 01 5id Lib.ll.ntln tn. proe.od.ng.
eLP .i"eondn""nit'( inch q.der and de
cree, as the Court may make. And hereof fail
not- (An?. :Q-4t.) C HOWE, -.heriff.
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taining over 500 pages and numerous engravings.
Price nly $2 75 Send for circular and terms.
Also Familv Quarto Bibles best edition published.
WlLLlASl FLINT, Publisher. No. K'S. seventh
St., Philadelphia, Pa. August 19. 1m.
PR. IXGRAHAM'S GREAT MAGIC
MACEDONIAN OIL.
Trr a bottle of it for Rheumatism and all Ner
vous "Diseases Positively no humbug, and in all
cases when tt falls todogood the money refunded.
Persons not well able to boy it shall have it
without money or price. Ask the people of Phil
ipuburg what it Has done for them Those who
have snffcied pain for years have been made to
feel perfectly at ease, and sleep and work well.
Send and get eiresrfur and sample of oil free of
charge. Address JA. K. WATSON. Agent.Phil
iosburg, Pa., or Dr. Ingraham Co, Wooster,
Ohio. lAngost 19. ISfiiMt
REPUBLICANS, AWAKE!
The exigencies of the hoordemamf your atten
tion. Our enemies are again busy eoncocting
their nefarious schemes, whereby they aspect to '
defeat the will of the people, and elect to high
offices their more than semi-rebel leaders, who'
are atill odorous with the foul stench of treason.
REPUBLICANS, TO THE RESCUE ! !
A meeting of the loyal, law abiding citixens or
Pike township will be h!d in the Brick School
House, in Curwensville. on THCRSDAY EVEN
ING, AUGUST 20, 1SB8. for the purpose of organ
ising a Grant and Colfax Club. Vigilance Com
mittees will be appointed and other necessary bu
siness attended to. E. A. HOOVER,
Member County Com. for Pike town'p.
CAUTION. All persons are hereby cau
tioned acainst purchasing or meddling
with two horses and one wagon now in possession
of Robert and illiam Wallace, of Cheat town'p,
as the same belong to me and are only left with
said Wallace's on loan, subject to my order.
Angl2,'63-3t. WM. WKSTOVER
p ROCERI ES at rsduced prices. St
- pulverized, granulated, crushed, s
Smith rs.
sugar-
house. Coffee, old government java. prime rio.
roasted Teas.japau.imperiai young nyeon.riaca..
Molasses. Lovering s syrup, extra golden, sugar
houe. Crackers, egg biscuit, wiue, oyster and
soda crackers. Vinegar, white wine and pure ci
der vinegar, at J. P. KB.ATZKK :S.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Letters Tes
tamentary on the estate ot James Al
bert, lute of Decatur township, ClenrBeld coun
ty. Pa., dee'd. having been grnntod to the
undersigned, all persons indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate payment, and
those having claims against the same rill prefect
them, properly authenticated, lor settlement.
Aug. 12,'Gs-6t. WM ALBERT, Jr , Kxeaj
CAUTION. All persons are hereby cau
tioned against purchasing or meddling
with 1 cow. 1 two year old steer. I one-yer old
fteer. 3 yearling heilers. 3 head of f beep, 3 head
cf bogs. 3 acres of corn in the ground. 3 acres of
buckwheat 40 bushels ol rye. 2l buebelsof wheat.
3 tons of hay, and i an sere of potatoes in the
ground, now in possession of Wm. Ilasleton. of
Chest tow'iship. as the samebelong to me end ate
only left with said Hai-leton en loan, subject to
my order. RIC11AKU MOhhlaON.
A GROVE MEETING will be held near
Messiah's Church, one mile fioni Ky
lertown. commencing on Wednesday evening Au
gust l:h. and continue over the Sabbath follow
ing There will be preaching each morning, at
li o'clock, and each evening at bi o'clocn. 'n
Sabbath there will be three preaching services.
Rev. M L. Jacuson. of Cumberland co.. and Kev
At. L. Osier, of Providence. R. I., will be present
to preach the word. Kev Jaciison will commet.ee
a series of Meetings at Messiah's Church Cooper.
pn.W.ed.nes .ay evening. August 12. to continue
TTARDWARE. For P.lacksmith's-liorse
bhoe., horseshoe nails. rfil rods, files,
rasps. Fee Wagonmakers thimble rkeins and
pipe boxes, tire bolls, wrenches, carriage br.Us.
For Carpenters planes, saws, augers, hatchets,
hammers, plane bitts. squares. Builders lock-,
hinges, door bells, nails, screws, bolts, latches,
sash fasteners. Lumbermen double bitt axes,
rafting axes, mill saws, drawing knives. House
keepers knives and forks, spoons stoves anil
pipe, flat irous. eoflee mills cleavers. Cabinet
makers bed screws, casters, cupboard catches,
furniture knobs drawer locks Farmers Scythes,
rakes, spades, shovels, forks, hoes, scoops at
August 12. HGS lm. J. P KRUZER S.
STATEMENT of the finances of the Ilor-
ouuh of Clearfield for the vear ending
January 1st, 180S.
receipts.
Taxes credited on MacAdamizing Streets, STt 57
Excess of expenditures, H 3.1 31
ToUI' "sT46fi8,t
EXPENDITURES.
Orders were drawn for
Taxes credited,
Total,
Orders were drawn :
For work done on streets.
For printing.
For stationery and services.
For removing snow-drift.
For preparing duplicate.
For rent of hog pound.
For high Constable s services.
For exonerations to collectors,
For office rent.
For bounty claims.
For lnmber,
$1433 31
34 57
$l4flfi Tsg
Total,
ASS KITS.
Iue from Collectors for IS68,
Due on rlankinir.
f 12 00
I ) S(7
291. 34
Cash in the Treasury,
Total.
S33S 31
LIABILITIES.
Outstandirg'orders for year 1R58,
Outstanding orders for year ls.60.
Outstanding orders fi.r v
t 8 0ft
3 22
23 67
4 AO
122 2
176 63
Outstanding orders for year 1866.
uu lacAaamizing.
Assetts over liabilities.
Total,
$333 31
We. the Undersii7n-.rt A s-i - ' l
-SI -. 'i m-i i .1. Ul I.ICXIUBIU
Korough, having examined the accounts of said
Borough, do eer.ifv them ,o h .1
stated and that the above represents the financial
condition of said Borough; and that the assetts
exceea tne liabilities one hundred and seventy six
dollars and sixty-three cents (SI 76 63 )
L. G. SlouOAJi, W. S. BRADLEY. ) . .
Secretary. O. B. SANDFORIl, j Aui Tt-
ALLEGHENY IRON WORKS
WARREN, PENN'A.
BROWN, AIIXETT & CO..
Proprietors oi these works, have added to tha
Machine Shop enlarged .Machinery, of the be-t
description, for heavy work, a steam hammer in
the Blacksmith -hop. and in the Boiler Shop tools
necessary for the manufacturing of Steam Boil
ers in the best style.
Th.y would respectfully notify Millers, Lum
bermen and Tannery n.en that they are prepar
ed to receive, and promptly execute, order, for
ENGINES, BOILERS. CIRCULAR MILLS,
smi.ngle machines. and baklow's
patent rotary mulei-saw hang
ings, PLOWS, Sec'., 4c.
Tbey employ none bnt the best workmen and
purchase the best material the market atTords.
They feel astuied that they will thus be able to
turn out work which will give satisfaction to their
enstomers. The Barlow Patent Rotary Cutting
Muley Saw Hangings are considered th. most
perfect Muley ever yet introduoed. W. will
guarantee them to cut tw.nty-five per oent. more
lumber than any other Muley now in use.
Our Circular Mill may be seen t th. Mill of
Ellis Irwin d- Soa, at Lick Rub, where informa
tion respecting them oan be obtained.
H. W. BROWN.
L. W. ARNETT
THOS STRCTHERS.-
Aug.S,'88onx.
S3..9 71
34 50
5 0(1
in on
2 50
5 no
5 00
8 50
10 00
075 00
18 10
SU33 31