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MishitsMay o September 18, 1886.
UNION STATE TICKET.
FOR - AUDITOR GENERAL,
GEN. JOHN F. lIARTRANIFT, of Montgomery
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL,
COL. JACOB CAMPBELL, of Cambria.
UNION DISTRICT TICKET.
FOR STATE: SENATOR,
DAVID WI'CONAIDDIIY, or Adam.,
FOR ASSEMBLY,
COIL F. S. sTrin,ttran. of Franklin.
CAPT.- GEORGE A. ROITMAN, of Perry.
,UNION COUNTY TICKET.
FOR SHERIFF,
ow!. ions INEBLER, Chambersburg.
==M
lIAJ. JOHN HASSLER, St. Thomas
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
COL. H. WATSON ROWE, Autriat
FOR SURVEYOR
EMANITEL HUHN, Chambersburg.
FOR COMMISSIONER,
DANIEL SKINNER, Fannett.
FOR DIRECTOR OF THE POOR,
JAMES H. CLAYTON, Washington
FOR AUDITOR,
SAMEEL W. NEVIN, Southampton.
FOR CORONER,
DR.VIIARLES T. MACLAT, Green.
CI4)SE VP THE RANKS!
We are now within one short month of
the October election. There have been
issues of more immediate moment in past
Political con - Rids, when the very life of
the Republic trembled in the scale; but
tever had Pennsylvania a more solemn
duty to perform, touching the future peace
and safety of the Nation, than that de-,
volved upon the faithful people by:the vi
tal issues of the pending contest.
If Pennsylvania shall falter, there is not
a. despairing traitor who will not take
fresh coinage in his work to embarrass
the happy restoration of the revolted
States; there is not a foe of free govern:.
meat or of Freedom who will not be glad;
there is not a sordid, faithless devotee of
repudiatimi who will not rejoice that, even
after armed treason has been overthiown,
the great Republic of the World may yet
be shorn of its strength and the lustre of
it's triumphsdimmed by the destruction
of its credit.
_ -Loyal Men of Penn . sylvania!—you who
have with unfaltering faith upheld the
, canse of the government in the darkest
days with which murderous treason shad
owed us—yon who have given freely of
your sous as martyrs to a holy cause, and
_withheld not your means when imperiled
credit threatened to give tkitimPh to the
foe—there are hut fen' days for thorough
organization ; for patient, tirelq:s, syste
matic work; and the success of 'the Union
ticket depends wholly iiPon the fidelity
with Which you discharge that duty. If
we shall prove faithless, the better disci
pline and ceaseless efforts of the Democ
racy will prevail.
Immediate and thorough organization
only will save Pennsylvania this fall.—
Our opponents are well prepared for the
r - •
conflict. They have ceased riot to pre
pare for the struggle since the overthrow
of therebellien gave them new issues un
der which to hide their substantial aid
and sympathy with treason during the
war, for which they were so ofel-whel
iningly Condemned by the people. They
have now new lrannens9 with new devices,
and where their heaviest artillery thun.,
dered before they come with gifts more
to be dreaded than their blows.
They profess to accept the results of
the war, and yet quibble with and res'•
pond to every complaining traitor whose
treason and wanton sacrifice of hun
dreds of thousands of lives and countless
treasure, have won but a tithe of their
just penalties. , They seek to disarnithe
loTilpeople by professing to sustain Pres
ident Johnson, and yet they denounce his
daily acts, and plead the cause of every
assassin who is overtaken by justice.—
They'.declare that the,National faith must,
be maintained, and Yet not a journal or
'orator of their faith but denounces every
measure of the government deVised to
preserve our credit—the only Safety and
the chief peril of the Republic.
They will poll their full vote.. In the
North-east4hey will do quite as well as
last year. There is not a skulking con
script who will not now return to vote in
behalf of the remnant of the tre t ason whose
triumph he sought to insure by deserting
honor, home and country In defiance of
thelaw justly disfranchising them, they
will vote, and swell the thousands of ma
jority which so nearly made Pennsylva
nia— .
a suicide oneyear ago. Other thou
sands
,
in Selitiilkiß,Litzerne;Carbon, Le
high,Northrunpn, Monroe, Pike and
' Wayne, who have concealed or postponed
their naturalization until now, in order to
evade the defence of the government they
have adopted, will noann upon the
assessments and rejoicei 4 witli the Hughes's,
Reeds, Wonawards, 6te., when their hu-
muse majorities are announced.
In the Southern conuties—those South
oldie Juniata and Sustmehana and East
of t h e 'Aileghenle ,, s, we cannot materially
improve the October vote of last year.—
It is possible to reduce the crushing Ma
jorities of York, Cumberland, Adams, Ful
ton and Bedford a thousand ; but more' is
not to be e.pected—lcss may be the re
suit.
Philadelphia must fall off essentially in
her vote, because the vast manufacturing
for the army. 14 18 been almost ,wholly
-arrested, and' thousands of government
employees and operatives on goverutnent
7ork of cartons kinds, haie been scatter-
ed in other channels of industry over the•
country. Their reduction must diminish
the large Union majority of last year from
2,500 to 3,000, and the adjoining county
of Delaware can scarcely fail to be simi
larly effected by the same causes.
The success of the'Union ticket depends
wholly on the organization andfall vote of
Lancaster, Dauphin, Somerset, Bradford,
Susquehanna, Tioga, Erie, Crawford, Indi
ana, Lawrence, Allegheny, Are. If these
Union,strong-holds shall be systematical
ly and thoroughly organized and polled,
we shall carry the State by a decisive ma
jority. If they fail, as they did last year
in October, the State will inevitably be
•
lost.
Loyal men of the Union counties !--
forewarned forearmed ! The - issue of this
momentous struggle is with you, and upon
your verdict will the verdict-of the State
depend. 'The-Union State Committee is,
we are assure, pressing organization and
discharging its duty with matchless ener
gy; but without complete local co-opera
tion, it cannot insure the triumph the
Union cause should attain. There is still
time enough for Work, Fon Vicronr !
Close up the Union ranks—forward the
whole line, and the people of Pennsylv&
nia will be faithful to their past history--
to their martyred sons; to their noblest
inheritance, to Freedom, Justice and a re
deemed Republic !
WEDEGIIII2MEMOCRACY 1N GRIEF
We deeply, indeed profoundly, sympa
thize with the Bedford Gazette and the
Bedford Democracy generally. They have
more than their share of sorrow. They
have lost elections ; they have lost a war;
th4—haye lost agonizing conscripts ; they
have lost offices ; they have lost the loaves
and fishes; they have lost hopeful sons
for a season in the rebel armies; have lott
upright, eminently order -loving citizens
from their social circle for the mere eccen
tricity of murdering a 'Deputy Provost
Marshal and eulisting r in the rebel army
to devastate their own homes ; and to
crown their deluge of grief, the-Ethiopian
now threatens to arise from his abject de-'
gradation, marry their daughters, confis
cate their lands, and crack the master's
whip about their loins as they go.forth
from day to day to unrequited toil. We
keenly sympathize with them, for.
" Like warp and woof all destinies
Are woven fast."
And when the dark day of Ethiopian do
minion shall come, none can escape the
terrible doom—" the paining jar through
all will run." Well diies the Gazette pro
claim the danger. "Arouse! Arouse !"
thunders to its imperiled readers. and de
cide " whether gee shallsoutinue to be the
dominant race in this country." Whether
the historic hills and fastnesses of BedfOrd,
which have been hitherto sacred to boun
ty-jumpers and skulking conscripts; shall
henceforth resound the broad, deep, sono
rous voice of the lordly African calling his .
Meyers's, Shannons and ileeds—his tin
willing but yet subdued and obedient serfs
—to their daily tasks; or whether they
shall raisin, as now, the recipients of the
priceless religious, civil and social bless
ings conferred on them by a government
they live rewarded with the deepest hate
and the most persistent efforts to destroy ,
it. Such 'stile issue—so fraught with weal
or woe ; so pregnant with the question of
dominion between the sable and the pale
faces of our Western citizens. The Ga
zette has read Jefferson—the father of
Democracy—and it remembers that, in
consequence of Slavery, he trembled for
his country when he reflected " that God
" is just ; that His justice cannot sleep for
" ever ; that considering numbers, nature
" and natural means only, a revolution of
the wheel of fortune, an each nge of sit
" nation is among possible events; that it
" may become probable by supernatural
" interferente," and that " the Almighty
" has no -attribute which can take side
" with us in such a contest !" Well has the
Gazette trembled, and it and its sorrow
stricken followers— * -
"Thus roving on .:
In eonfued march forlorn, th' advent'rous band
With shudderk horror pale. and eyes aghast,
Viewed their lamentable lot, and found— -
No rest!"
The Ethiopian is omnipresent with them.
Their dreams arta shadowed by sable
nightmares ; their waking hours are made
hideous by dark apparitions ever flitting
before them ; the lash and chains are ever
clanking and whirling in their ears, and
they are at last driven to that depth of
despair where " hope ne'er dawns and
pleasure never smiles." In starless mid
night of their grief they cry to themselves
and to their followers to " Arouse !
Arouse!" for the African is at their doors,
and with, grimly smile he rattles the dead
bones of a million of his sleeping race,
cursed,- brutalized and benighted by man,
- each one crying for that vengeance which
God has "no attribute" to interpose and
break its fearful sweep.
—ln charity we would whisper philos
ophy to, the palpitating hearts of the Bed
ford Democracy. How much they merit
the fearful doom that makes them utter
the cry of despair, lest the African may ,
win 'distinction over those 80 sparingly
endowed as the Democratic leaders of
Bedford, we do not pretend to decide ;
but we assure them that all needful pro
tection shall' be awarded them. If it
must be so, we shall faVor statutory in
terdiction to protect the Gm:elk from the
competition ,of a better and abler Demo
cratic organ being published by a sable
son of the South, or even one of mingled
African andlordlyDemocratic blood. If
they fear that the disenthralled slave
shall outship them- in the learned profes
sion's ; shall make their fields to blossom
• with still richer fruits; shall shame them
into the support of truth and • justice as
voters at the polls; shall win, popular
elections by honest suffrages rather than
by manipulating election returns ; shall
gather their daughters in marriage over
their paler rivals, and, in short, make
Democracy and the Gazette forget their
el)e ,Franklin litiwoitorn, itiaTniaefsbutg, pa.
cunning, and draw thein step by step from
power to the volmitary surrender of do
minion—if these are to be the inevitable
fruits of the freedom of the benighted
bondman, when his untuned chords shall
strike in painful melody with the fine
strung social strains of his oppressor, then
must there be law to-save the Gazette and
its race from the unequal struggle. Rest
easy, tender, trembling Gazette. Jeffer
son's appaling,prophecy will fall short of
fidfihuent, for the reason that the God of
justice did not sleep until the slave work
ed out his own redeMption. His proud,
insolent, traitorous lords, and their cow
ardly,.copPery serfs of the North, hasten
ed the triumph of Freedom, though they
marked its victorious path with..Overs,of
ire. The slave is free, but he rules not.
Itis fidelity and his bayonet, turned the
tide of the terrible conflict when loyal
hearts were dismayed' with agonizing
doubts, and when the Gazette and its
treacherous satelytes demanded the con
fession of treason's supremacy. He has
won the right to be a man ; to own him
self; to protect the purity of his hearth ;
to shieldhischildren from the auctioneer's
block and a master's brutality and lust.
No more, no less, is his victory ; and hav
ing consigned him to a bondage that made
hilt but a chattel, a thing, a stranger to
light and knowledge, we now condemn
him because he has dot defied all statutes
and moral - and social barriers, and fitted
himself for citizenship. He is commit
ted to our care for atonement—not as the
Prey of the fears and prejiiilices of the ig
norant, who eibuble at the prospect of
his progress, and demand protection front
his Mobable intellectual, social and po
litical power. 'The Gazette, and like or- .
gang and orators, who-dare not be be just
lest the degraded bondman shall teach
therm humility, will be faithless still ; but
the enlightened, the patriotic, the chris
tian sentiment of the Nation will in due
time vindicate itself, and labor to elevate
an abject race, made so by our crimes—
nut theirs. Let the Gazette quiet its fears,
let it learn- to accept the inevitable logic
of events, for—
" The mower mows on though the adder may
writhe,
And the copperhead coil round the Made of his
scythe !"_.
31R. ![•LELLAt•R
We give elsewhere in to-day's paper the
Spirit's report of Mr. M'Lellan's speech be
fore the Democratic Convention, believing
that our readers who have been used to
his speeches on the right side. may feel
some solicitude to know how he will ad
vocate the other side. It read oddly
enough, and but for the conducting por
tion of it, tlnkreader would be perplexed
to , make it harmonize with the accepted
convictions of his new associates. All will
endo . nse his views relative to restitution to
the deSpoiled border, and the propriety of
supporting the President in his adminis
tration of the government. Had he stop
ped just there, it Would have required a
distinct label to stamp him as a Democrat;
but forgetfel of the wise admonition given
the young judge by his father. he gives
toci many reasons for the faith that is in
hith, and badly damages the symmetry of
the faith it,elf by awkward and ill-shaped
prOps proposed in viinlication of it.
Whether the South should be held in
military subjection or restored to the en
tire supremacy of civil law. is a question .
for defeated traitors themselves to deter
minehot for ns. If the North had the
option, ; then Mr. M , Leban would be justly
sustained in his theory that it is a question
of Nuance, and civil law should be at once
restored to arrest our expenditures. But
it is not a question' for us to decide. We
wish ineeed that it was; but the same
wicked ;treason that made wanton war,
stilt practically defies the supremacy of
the civil authority unless it can control
said authority and use it to crush out every
man who was not a traitorduringthe war.
Traitora are willing to accept pardon; to
resume possession of their lands; to vote
at elections provided they can vote - for
blood-stained rebels, anti to accept offices
and administer the local governments, pro
vided they can be rebels still and practi- _
cally punish the faithful men of.the South
for the crime of loyalty to the Union while
treason was seeking to overthrow it. If
thei will accept the arbitrament of the
sword and the clearly defined , results - of
the ;war4 let them vote and reign ; but the
governMent owes it'to all men in the sub
jugated States, and especially to those who
Ns:ere - faithful among the faithless, the same
protectipn in the exercise of citizenship
that is due Mr. APLellan ; and the opening
efforts for the restoration of civil power in
Virginia have demonstrated that no such
secarity;can be attained under a restora
tion of 'rebel rule.: Until they will thus
rule, as faithful citizens and not as mali
cious foes, seeking coiertly to crush loy
alty - and; weaken the parent government,
military pccupation of the South and even
military 'government are imperious neces
sities, and rise above all considerations of
a possible increase ofa few millions of debt.
—The gravest error of Mr. IPLellan's .
whole speech is his assumption that the
negro cannot "be perfaaneutly elevated
without placing him on a social equality
with the White man." This theory ignores
the highest duties of the citizen, and thick
-ens the curse upon a race we have brutal
'ized by slavery because he has not defied
all accepted rules of progreffia mong whites,
and elevated and enfighteued himself in
spite of the laws interdicting his educa
tion. That he is degraded is our shame,
not his ; and now that the great
National crime of bondage has crimsoned
the fair fields of the Republic in its death,
and the christian world rejoices at our Na
tional disenthralment, it . becomes not us
to declare that the victims of our brutal
ity shall not be eleiated lest they should
win from us social equality, id mingle
their blood with the proud Anglo-saxon.
, We advocate no stuth solution of the grave
problem as either social equality or amal
gamation. They could not be enfhrced
even by statute, nor can they be attained
by the workings of any Rocial system un
less the whites shall profier their vices—
not their virtues—to the victims of sla
very. For such men we have no fears to
deter us—no hopes to make us be unjust
to any. They will be criminals whether
surrounded by whites or blacks—the de
graded of any race, and no political theo
ries will either protect them or deepeutheir
disgrace. We cast them aside in meas
uring the duty we owe to a people we
have made strangers to light and knowl
edge—used to gratify our tastes and lusts,
and thus plunged them into abject moral
and social darkness. We , owe them ele
vation now—not curses for the hard des
tiny we have wrongfulbt imposed upon
them, and no one can be more sensible
of this truth than Mr. M'Llellan. There
are those who might tremble at the eleva
tion of the negro—some whom a disqiud
ttting Creator has but pOorly endowed,
and who might justly fear that the negro
would outstrip them in the race for social.
destinction and btisiness success ; brit we
trust that Mr. M'Llellan 'doeS not confess
to that standard for himself. If he does
not, then is his argument unworthy of
his sense of justice and confronting a man
ifest duty to a race long.. doomed to ig-t
norauce and by our wrongs. The time
has come for atonement to the slave—
not by high-sounding theories of, social
equality, but by patient, just,, generous
eflbrt to make them useful tolhemselves
and to others, and aid in the early fulfil
ment of the justice of Him who" doeth all.
things well."
THEY had a dead lock in the • Democra
tic Senatorial Conference in the Cumber
land and York district last week. The
York conferees voted fifty times for lion.
A. Ileistand Glat7.; the Cumberland con
ferees voted exactly the same number of
times for Col. James Chestnut, and each
candidate had exactly the same number
of votes every ballot. They then adjourn
ed to meet yesterday in Carlisle, when
one side or the other must have:given way
or the roses of York and' Cumberland
continue in a lock.
- We think that it is Col. Chestnut's time
—certainly if ever it is to collie. He kis
pursued office under difficulties with most
commendible energy, and at every cost of
principle; but his locks have grown fros
ty and4still his honors are in the dark
womb of the future, if anyAere. He
once managed to get a nomination. but
just at that particular time the glorious
uncertainty of- elections left him second
best. and again in 186'2 Ite-was,presented
for Senator, hut Bucher ran off with the
nomination, Mid Chestnut tried to run off*
with a few broken traces to the eneiny
but they rejected him and his wares. He
importuned the Republicans to adopt him'
for the reason that his own party wouldn't;
but they did not teeth; the humorfur set
mhand goods and old clothes, and he
was compelled to retire. Now, -having
Died the people unsuccessfully, and hav
ing tried both parties for a chance to ran
in 1156'2, we insist that if he means to run
(luring the net sixty years, be must run
abina now. Glatz has been in the Sen
ate and Ilonse, is'young, and can afford to
wait. Besides he is inexperienced as a
politician compared with Col. Chestnut,
as his contycted notions never once al
lowi4 him to offer to rim on any other
than the Democratic side. Such bigotry
is intolerable in a Senatorial candidate,
and we insist . that Col. Chestnut's liberals
,ity of sentiment shall have a chance to
vegetate. . ;
Tiff; Democratic Senatorial Conference
met at Goodyear's on. Thursday last, and.
C. M. Duncan, Esq., of this place, was
unanimously nominated for Senator—Mr.
3PSherry having previously withdrawn.
Mr. Duncan will please clean up his re
volvers and prepare for a new peace cam
paigm. Judge K hnmell is Chairman of
the Democratic County Committee, and
he will see that the bottle and sponge are
kept in order. Sharpe is ,ordered to the
rear, for the crime of knowning too much
about some things and too little about
some other things, and he can 'amuse
himself with the stragglers. M*Dellan will
be assigned the task of skirmishing
around the enemy with occasional flags
of truce to take President Johnson's lati
tude, and with a strong guard to prevent
the Ethiopian from flanking him in moral
and social progress. Stenger - will be
charged with the task Of proving that:as
himself,, Duncan and the other party
leaders all voted against conferini the
right of suffrage upon our soldiers, there
fore the soldiers should vote for non.
He is expected to demonstrate his .propo
sition on the scriptural principle that the
soldiers when smitten on one cheek by
himself and his associates, should with
becoming meekness present the other
cheek also. Perhaps the machine will
run that way, and perhaps it may get
a little tangled. As Duncan and Sten
ger insisted, a year ago, - that the soldiers
didn't know enough to vote independent
ly, and therefore shOuld not be allowed
'to vote at all, the soldiers may still not
know enough to vote for such candidates
this year. The,y 'might in the course of a
century or two learn to appreciate the
theories of such Democratic leaders; but
just now a few may be wise that way, but
most of them otherwise !
WE are informed by a reliable Lynch
bug correspondent that the rebel Gen.
Early, who ordered tlwfree-Looter's trib
ute to be levied in Chambersburg and the
towirto be burnt in default of payment,
left Virginia for Mexico_soon after the
surrender of Lee,. mid his friends have
heard from him since his arrival in the
Mexican Capital. His health has been
good :ill the time, and the rumors of his
severe illness and insanity were doubt-_
less circulated to facilitate his escape to
Mexico. We believe that he never WAS
paroled under the stipulations of Lee's
surrender, and he has doubtless loft his
country for his country's good forever.
Maj. Gilmore and Capt. Smith, who were
conspicuous under M'Causland in the sack
ing and burning of Chambersburg, have
sled to Europe, and M'Causland is a refu
gee in Canada. We incline to the opin
ion that regret for the vandalism that de
stroyed Chambersburg is not confined to
those who were left in the midst of deso
lation thereby. There are a few wander
ers in Canada, Mexico and Europe who
"would be most happy to consign that dark
page of the war's history to eternal ob
livion.
THE Democracy of Columbia county
bare held a camp -meeting, lastingseveral
days, at Nob Mountain, and Senator Buck
alew and other orators of that regionhave
delivered addresses. The chief object of
the meeting doubtless was to 'get word to
the extreme gorges of the niountaius of
that region that the war and drafts are
over, and that the hundreds of copperhead
conscripts who have been hid there to as
cape service in the army, are now wanted
to return to their homes in time to be as
sessed and vote the Democratic ticket.—
A commendable enterprise. We don't
exactly remember of any such meetings
having been held by the. : Democracy of
that region to strengthen the government
when •it was in'O deadly struggle with
treason ; but the country now being safe
and the Democracy in danger, the case
being altered alters the case !
THE Commissioners of the Si nking F nxid _
have certified to the Governor the amount
of debt paid during the last year, and- he
has issued his proclamation, in conformi
ty With law, announcing . the payment of
$745,811,26 of the State debt. This is a
vast increase over,. the reduction of the
State debt the Previous year, when the
amount reached $268,569,50—there being ;
an increase in the sum redeemed-this year
of $467,241,76. It must be remembered
that the _expense's of_ ,the previous year
were far heavier than of the year just past,
growing out of the war. But without
resorting to comparison, the atuount of
debt redeemed daring both years reflects
great credit on the economy and financial
ability with which the affairs of the Com
monwealth are conducted.
. THE Denmerat.4 of Perry county have
rmininated Capt. ID. L. Tressler for As
sembly. He is a t ioung attorney of the
Bloomfield bar o respectable character
and attainments, and'was nine months in
the service as captain of a Perry compa
ny. Geo. licobs,la civilian, was nomina
ted for Sheriff ovnr Capt. Grubb. who bad
served three years in the Reserves and
been wounded. The Perry Freeman sig.
nfficantly says that if it had been consul
ted about the nominees, it "would have
adiised the nomination of those who have
been placed on the ticket."
Tun . grand jury of Bedford county re
turned a true bill on Tuesday last against
John P. Reed, Jr.;( for the murder of Mr.
Crouse. Mengel Reed and Schell Reed
Were discharged. find immediately there
after Mengel was arrested by U. S. Depu
ty Marshal, Col. Alexander Complier, on
a ch4rge of treason against the United
States. - He, it willpe remembered, ioined
the rebel army during the invasion of the
State in 1863. He l iwas conveyed to Pitts
burg and has been returned to Bedford in
the custody of the Sheriff.
UNION . tickets,tickets, ontaining the Union
candidates couplet for State, district and
county offices, are now ready at this of
fice for distributionl. Every Union voter
in the county who knows of soldiers still
hi the service from this county, should
see that tickets aret sent to them in due
time. Let every 11,nion man make it his
business to see 'Willis at once. .
FROM January 1, 186.1, to January 1,
.1865, goy. Curtin issued but ninety-seven
pardons, while the 6roVernor of New York
issued two hundred 6,nd sixty-one. Many
of the pardons issneki by Gov. Curtin were
of soldiers convicted of offences which
could not be avoids when in the strict
performance of niiltary duty in the ser
vice of the government.
HON. TEIAD.STEViINS addressed the cit
izens of Lancaster °all , ednesday_eveniug
last by invitation. _llis review of the issues
arising from the subjugation of the revolt
ed States was temperate- and eminently
able, and as conclusive in vindication of
his positions as it vim, matchless in elo
quence. We shall give it entire in our
next issue.
THREE President ..TiHges will be chosen at the
next-election. In the l'ioga district Judge H.
W. Williams was appointed by Goy. Curtin in
conformity with an act Of the last legislature, au
thorizing an additional Judge in that 4llitrict,
mainly because of the infirmities of JUdge White,
and ho will be unanimously nominated and eleet
ed by a very large m4ority. In the Bradford
_district Judge Mercer resigned' because chosen
to Congress, and Gov. :Curtin appointed B. F.
Streeter, of Susquehanna, who will doubtless be
nominated and elected. The other vacancy - oc
curs in the Wayie and Monroe district, where
Judge Barrett's term expires—he having been
chosen in 1855 over II(M. Thos. S. Bell, since
Democratic Senator, and dead.' Judge Bar
rett will probably be rt ' i-nominated by the De
mocracy, and if so, his election is inevitable, ar
they vote the Democullic ticket out that wiy
early, frequently, and persist in seein g that ther
neighbors vote pretty nth all the day when be
election tomes around.
THE disinterment of tie bodies of enior sol
diers buried in CAM. Schofield's Departmot of
North Carolina cannot bet resumed until akr the
Ist of December. An order 'lias alsi ben pro
mulgated that no bodies' can be removd from
City Point, Va.,- until aft r the first of Nvember.
t ..t
Disinterments from all they Souther Depart
ments will be permitted a er the Ist i October.
1
It is important that km' s applying fr transpor
tation for the removal of the remair of soldiers
for burial in cemeteries in his State could be goy
enied by these facts. j
TIM Perry , Comity Mutual Ire- Insurance
Company has elected C. Roth Fesident ; John
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A. Baker Secretary; Sarni el A: kale Treasurer;
Win. A. Sponger, James MeCire and William
McKee Executive Com ittef and John Mc-
Keehan general agent for the erning year. There
were 420 insurances taken! thing the last year,
'and no assessment has heel, ivied for two years.
THE liorticulturalist for i ;ciitember maintains
it% high character by its htresting and instruc
tive contributions on nits and Horticulture
generally: It is the bestrublication of the kind
id the country. Geo. F&P. W. Woodward,
Publishers, 37 Park It W, 'New York. Price
$`2,50 per tannin
TILE assignees of tb late-!`Brialc of Pennsyl
vania" located in Phadeliihia, give notice that
holders of notes wi' be paid in full if presented
prior to the first °October. The bank, it will
be recollected, fail) some six years ago. '
THE Union jomale of Maryland condemn the
late speech of Pa. M. Mar., Not one has yet
endorsed it, whit the Demo i cratic papers have
with like unaaity applauded it.
. _ . .
IN atswerlo several:eomiunicatiims on the
subject, we would say that Ihe list of:taxable; in
comes for the remainder of the county will ap
pear as soon is we Min gent complete. It has
been delayed for that purpose.
WE' welcome the Maryland Fanner to our ta
ble again. It is one of the most readable and
valuable Agricu tnral periodicals'nhw published.
S. B. mills & C.. Publishers, Baltimore. Price
$1,50 per annu. . ,
THE Adams flaunty Agricultural fair will ern
at peaderaville, on the ]Dth inst.
PHILADELPHIA
The Weather in the Clti—The Grand
Wool Itanquet—A ghable Incident—
' Speech of Gen. Bn ox ide—The Political
11 1 1 Palitn—A Libel finit— New Wash
ionable raan—TheaLrie.al A
Gossip—Bra
matte /Whim
- Correspondeute of the Fraalin,ltelioe'
No _IV.I PIIILADELMILI, September 11, 1865.
Certainly your correspondent can lay - no claim
to being one of the "oldest inhabitants," yet he
may usurp the functions of one so far as to say
that the beat of the past week, has exceeded any
thing is his recollection. It seemed as though
the fiends of Tartarus had inaugurated a'new re
bellion against Omnipotence and were struggling
earthwards bearing th6ir fiery tortures with them.
The air has been close to suffocation, depressing.
,and enervating both body and mind. Yet the
current of city life, augmented by the returning
hosts of pleasure seekers, has flowed on without
the stagnation of the preceding fortnight.
The "event" of the past week'was the grand
banquet given at the Continental Hotel on Wed
nesday evening to the National Association of
Wad-growers. Among the distinguished stran
gers present were Senator Henry Wilson of Mas
sachusetts, Maj. Gen. A. E. Burnside, Hon. Hen
ry Winter Davis, Johu govode and T. Buchanan
Read, the distinguished poet. One of the most
amusing incidents of the evening was the seating
in close proximity of Hon. William D. Kelley and
Hon. Simon Cameron. The liostile chieftains
eyed each other closely, but no token of .recogni
tion passed between theui. They sat "the obser
ved of all observers." But Kelley clearly had the
vantage-ground in a gathering composed inn' of
local politicians but of leading business men, and:
his Scottish foe marked with .exasperation the
coolness with which he mingled with his Con
gressional confreres from other States. Not how
ever till the Judge-was introduced to speak 'did
Cameron show his feeling, but when in response
to the universal call, the eloquent Congressman
commenced one of his witty impromptu addresses,
"the sage of Lochiel," pocketing a handful of
confectionery, precipitately left the room amidst
the ill-concealed mirth of the bystiindens. Gen.
Burnside =idea few telling remarks advocating
"the equality of all men before the law."
This week will fairly open the' political : cam
paign. A mass meeting of the friends of Hart
mann, Campbell and McMichael is to be held on
Saturday evening at Natiolml Hall. _ Daniel
Dougherty, John Cessna; Gen. Owen and Judge
Kelley are expected to speak. I wrote you two
weeks since of the lively opposition to the elec
tion of John Given, the Union candidate fhr city
Commissioner, inaugurated by jatiunialmembers
of the party. Some of the lattehave publicly
denounced Given a Swindler in the daily news
papers and on Friday be undertook to champion
his cause by knocking one of his
_assailants in a
very libellous way through the alumna of the
Brining Telegraph: The gentlemavassailed im
mediately had Given arrested, togeter with his
two fellow City Commissioners suit Mr. T. Bar
clay Harding, publisher of the Tdegraph, with
Dr. R. K. Smith, all on the chargeof libel. The
prosecution against Mr. Harding sus promptly
withdrawn, however, it being shown that the
publication of the objectiOnable athertisement iu
his paper was entirely without hii knowledge.—.
Tim testionny taken indicates Dut . qinith wrote
the article and Given having (Meordiug to his
own testimony) "no money at 'al" got his am
dates to pay for its insertion. The politicians
anxiously await the trial, Gird & Co. having
been bound over, and rich devebpments nre ex
pected
Fashionable circles here an - somewhat exci
ted over the prospective issue of anew weekly
which in to be.conducteny ysing men of recog
nized ability and of high staining in filkiety. It
is.to be devoted to fasbionabh, literary and dra.:
matte intelligence and is to chronicle all the move
ments of society on the styleaf the English Court
Journal butwith vast more tealorn and indepen
dence. It is understood the there is any amount
of money to back it up, ant if so it will become
a formidable engine amonf the "first circles."
It is sure to be popular, fe scandal and gossip
always command success.
Edwiii Booth the distinanshed .tragedian is to
be married next month ton handsome young lady
of this city, daughter of a well known and im
mensely wealthy importer of perfumer; and fan
cy goals. Shortly after lie marriage he will ap
pear on the stage,' for tie trot time since the
great disgrace brought spar' his family by his
traitor-brother Wilkes. Indmeudently,,however,
of such is consideration, hiF return tb the stage
cannot but be joyfully hailel by all lovers of the
great bard of Avon.
No little scandal has been created in our fash
ionable circles by the latetuarritike of a popular
young 'soubrette actress. long the charm of one
of our city theatres. 'lbis young girl was much
admired and hei recotions were attended by
many of our leading "society men." One of the
Laney, a physician of tie city of Brotherty Love,
went so far as to invest in jewelry to the extent
of SI3QO, which he presented to .his fair inamo
rata, But money cannot accomplish all things,'
and casting aside ill the wealth and refinement
around her, has tatted -her destiny to that of a
clog dancer attached to one of our negro minstrel
troupes. So "society" is hugely amused at the
expel* of her former.swains.
Theatrical matters are lively. Mr.l Barton
Hill and Miss Annie Graham have been playing
at the Walnut to delighted audiences. Mrs.
Drew is " doing" comedy at the Arch and Helen
Western is to appear to-night in the muscular Iliac
of performances at the Chestnut -fur the first
time since her recent marriage. At the Acade-
My of Music - Mr. and Mr's. Charles Kean are
shortly to play an engagement to be followed by
Edwin Forrest. So it is not lit,ely that our citi
zens will gaffer from want of amusements during
the coming winter. . - L
WASHINGTON
The WerzeTrial—Diasrusting Chant Pier of
the Details—Some of the . 1111;r-Fixh"
plieniesl-11einoval ofTetf. Dna". Car
roll Ball—Presentation of n carious
Chair to President Johnson.
Correspondence of the Franklin Repository.
NO. NIXI.I WAsniNnToN CM', September 10, MI
As the trial of Capt. Werzo progresses the
murders, horrors and sufferings of the Anderson
vile prisoners surpasses anything ever before
brought to light. The details are so sickening
and disgusting that we will feel relieved *ben the
trial shall have .ended. Even Werze himself—
fiend as be has been—quakes and shuddersuader
the revelations-of the cruelties and cold bloody
murders he daily committed as a aort of past time.
His looks betoken dreadful mental anxiety and
suffering—so much, that should trial last for
any great length of time death will surely relieve
him of his earthly sufferings. He has called for
spiritual consolation. He revived some yesterday
when Col. Chandler, late no Adjutant Generat of
the Rebel War Department gave in his testimony,
which took part of the responsibility from his
shoulders. Col. Chandler was detailed in July,
.1861, to make an examination of Andersonvilli.
He found the place exactly as narrated by all the
September 13, 1865.
prisoners that have come away from there alive.
" He found it so crowded that there was only a re
space of ground for each prisoner sir feet long bg
one foot in breadth, No medical attendance was
furnished within the stockade. The sick are
brought out by the Sergeants of squads daily at
sick call to the medical officer who attends at the
gate. The crowd at these times is so great that
,only the strongest get access to the Doctors.—
The hospital accommodations so limited that,
though the beds have all two occupants each—
large numbers who would otherwise be receive
are necessarily sent back to the stockade where
they die. Many die daily whom the medical offi- •
core never seen. The dead are hauled out 'daily
by the wagon load and hurried without coffins,
their hands being in many instances first mutila
ted with an axe in the removal of finger rings.—
Nothing seems to have been done and but little if
any effort made to procure proper food or better .
the condition. of the prisoners which is as wretch
ed as can be.".* This is only a short extract Iron
his report to the Rebel War Department. In his
testimony be stated that Gen. Winder. was com
mander of the post and prison, and that Werze
was only an executive 'officer. He conversed
with Winder on the subjct of bettering the condi,
tion of the prisoners, but-found 'Winder inditlim- -
ent as to the welfare"of the prisoners or to alle
viate their sufferings. Wheo witness made sug
gestions as to the.draining the stockade and fur
nishing better food to avoid the great mortality,
as the sickly season was tiOloaching;Gen. Win
der replied "it would be bett . if half the prison
ers would die." Witness sttted that the dead
line was established by instruction of Gen. Win
der. Green corn and cabbage could easily have
been furnished 'the prisoners. As Gen. Winder
would do nothing toward improving the stock
ade, &c., he (Col. Chandler) in his report re
commended the removal of Gen. Winder, but in
stead of his removal he was promoted. Though
he made his report to the 'War Department at
Richmond it was never acted on.
We can judge froni,the evidence produced the
last two days, and froth that reported as to come,
that the coil n4ll soon be wound around some of
filo rebel "big, fish." They are the real anthers
of these horrid crimes. The leaders of the rebel.
lion could not help knowing of Andersoniille.
They suppressed the report of Colonel Chandler.
They gave the orders to starie, torture, tear with
hounds, and shoot to death the prison - nay and
found in this Swiss caitiff a proper person, willing
dog to do their bidding, which he did to the letter.
It is to implicate and convict the "bead and front':
of these 4 crimes that this trial is prolonged.—
Enough proof against Werzo was brought for
ward the first three days of the trial to justify the
court in ordering his execution. If the villain
had a thousand lives, and the Commission order.
the taking of them all,-it never would atone for
the awful crimes he committed. It is the leaders
that must be reached. "Why should one misera
ble Swiss quack and pickpocket be saddled 'with
all the horrors for which the aggregate leaders of
the rebellion should be pilloried in history 1"
We learn that Jeff. Davis is no longer confined
,in the casemates at Fortress Monroe. He has
been removed into a fine airy room in Carroll
Hall—the dwelling , house of the officers in charge
at the Fortress. Why this change we do not
know. It is said by some that the casemates are
to damp for his health. Is his health more pre
cious than the thirty thousand of our fathers and
children who were by his orders allowed to suf
fer and did so miserably at Andersonville ? This
is certhinly returning " good for evil"—but the
masses of our people will not be able to see it,
though four thousand - secesh she-devils in Missis
sippi can suit and petition too for hispardon.
Some people think that tilt influence of these she
devils from Mississippi aided by his Northern
allies will bring so much influence to bear on the'
Presideot that he will succumb to their appeals.
Tie ahosva symptoms of it ymt—thot4th leer
confess we do not like his changing the quarters
.of Davis to. a place when he can enjoy so'mueh;-
ease and comfort as lie will in Carroll Hall.
Seth Kinman, a California bear hunter, but a
native of Pennsylvania, has presented to President
Johnson a curious chair manufactured from the
skins and paws of four grizzly bears killed by
himself in the wilds of California: It is wonder
in design and workmanship and is exceedingly
comfortable to sit in. The great feature of it is
that by touching a cord the heid of a monstrous
grizzly bear, with distended jaws, will dart in
front kiln under the seat, snapping and gnashing
as natural as life. While the President was seat
ed on the chair Seth suddenly pulled the cord,
when out darted the monster head between the
President's knees, somewhat to his astonishment
and much to the amazement of the spectators.,
Seth got off a good one before retiring by advising'
the President to leave the head of the grizzly well
Protruded so as`-to frighten off office seekers and
rebels who arc daily besieging his domicil. The
whole affair passed off very agreeably. Seth had
presented a chair to Buchanan, which he says is
about the only thing he has to regret. He also
presented one to Lincoln. c. c.
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