Addrrm of the ITnton Repnbll licnn Mate Central Commit tee. COMMITTEE ROOMS, ) HARKISBURO, July 26, 1867. J To the People s/" Pennsylvania : FELLOW CITIZENS :—The official term xjf George W. Woodward, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ot the State, is about to expire ; and under the constitu tion his successor will be elected on th-) second Tuesday of October next. This election is every way important, and the more so, because of the great principles and issues involved, and of the fact that the term is for fifteen years. AJI the powers of our Governments, both National and State, are divided into three classes: the Legislative, Execu tive, and Judicial. The people are the source of all power; and our constitu tions prov'de the manner in which all offices shall be filled, and the terms for which they shall be held. The National Judiciary being for life, and that of the State Judiciary fifteen years, changes in these tribunals are wrought more slowly than in tho other branches of the Gov ernment ; and hence should be made with the greater caution and wisdom ; for nothing is of greater public import ance than a wise and patriotic judiciary. Our past historv shows a constant tend ency in these several departments to en large their respective jurisdictions, and occasionally to encroach on each other ; and especially is this true of the judiciary. It is but recently the Supreme Court of the United States, in the interests of sla very, gravely undertook to overturn the foundations of the Government on that question, and to nullify and destroy acts of Congress enacted by the mcu who made the Constitution. The Dred Scott decision virtually legalized and extended slavery over all the Territories of the Union, in defiance of Congress and the people ; and laid down principles, which, but for subsequent events, would have extended slavery and made it lawful in all the States. And after the recent eivil war was inaugurated, our State ju diciary, by a denial of the constitutional power of Congress and of our State Leg islature, in measures absolutely necessary to carry on the war and save the nation, so imperiled our cause as to make intelli gent patriots everywhere tremble for the issue of thj contest. True, these false j theoriet did not prevail. But it is equal- j iy true the continued assertions of them j paralyzed the arms of both the National | and State Governments, distracted and | disheartened our people, gave aid and | comfort to the enemy, prolonged the war, and added immeasurably to our sacrifices of blood and treasure. Hence it is, "That wrvned by past misfortunes, we ask j that the Supreme Court of the State be placed in harmony with the political opinions of the majority of the people, to the end that the Court may never again, by unjust decisions, seek to set aside laws »ital to the nation." Who, then, are HENRY W. WILLIAMS and GEORGE SHARSWOOD, the candidates for this vacant seat upon the Supreme bench ? What are their past records, J and where do they stand, in these event, ful times, and on these momentous is sues ? The weal or woe of the Common wealth, and perhaps of the nation, is in- j rolved in these questions; and it be- j hooves every patrioiic voter in the State to examiue them with care. Of Judge Williams, the Union lie- i publican candidate, we here propose to 1 give no extended biography. He is a high-toned Christian gentleman, about forty f-ix years of age, a ripe scholar, and a learned and eminent lawyer, with fiP— J teen years' judicial experience on the bench of the District Court of Allegheny j county. He was first elected Judge in i 1861, when he ran over one thousand ; votes ahead of his ticket, and was re- j elected in 1861, by the unanimous vote j of all parties. The following extract ; from an editorial in the Pittsburgh Post, ; (the principal Democratic paper of the j West/) shows the estimation in which he id held by political adversaries : " The nomination of the Hon. Henry 1 W. Williams as a candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court is a good one. He \ was the best man named be/ore the Re publican Convention, aud possesses legal ' and moral qualiScations for the responsi ble position to which he has been nom inated." He is Of the Webster and Clay school of politics, and during the recent civil war, from the beginning to tho end, did everything in his power, through his means, his voice, and his votes, to strength en the hands and encourage the hearts of the loyal people iu the struggle to ! maintain the Union. Who, and what Judge Sharswood is, as a public man, will appear from what follows : Early in the history of this nation po litical sentiment became divided on the powers of the National and State govern ments, and their true relations to each other. On these divisions two great par- j ties wore subsequently founded. The one, known as the State Bights party, had John C. Calhoun for its champion; and tho other, for its recognized leader, had the great expounder of the Constis tution, Daniel \\ ebster. The former had tree trade, and the right of nullification and secession as cardinal doctrines, de nying the constitutional power of Con gress to impose duties for protection, and claiming nullification and secession as in herent rights of a State. The latter de nied these assumptions, and between these conflicting principles and parties there has been perpetual warfare. In the main, tho old Whig party ranged it self under the banner of Webster, and tbe Democratic party under that of Cal houn. One of the legitimate fruits of State rights doctrine was the rebellion of 1833, in South Carolina ; the avowed object of which was to nullify the pro tective tariff law of Congiess, enacted in 1828. The oountry at that time was saved from a disastrous civil war by the firmness of President Jackson, the wis dom of Congress, and the patriotism of General Scott. That effort at rebellion and eivi> war failed; and the principle on which it was based was repudirted.— But in 1860 and 1861 South Carolina and i other rebel States, again endeavored to i putin force their States rights doctrine of secession. The sympathy, imbecility, 112 and connivance of President Buchanan, and his advisers, so contributed to the success of the effort, that its consumma tion could only be pravented by a long, desperate, and bloody civil w.ir. In the end, and after fearful sacrifices of life and treasure, the rights and power of the National Government wore again vindi cated; and the Calhoun doctrine of se cession was again overthrown. Such at least has been the popular conviction, and cause for rejoicing ; and even the worst of Southern rebels have been compelled to confess it, and for two years past have beeen weeping over their " lost cause." Strange, sad, and incredible as it may seem, wo are already called upon to fight these great issues over acrain The Dem ocratic party, with Judge Hhaiswood fbr its leader, and with F-ee Trade, State Rights, and Secession upon its banner, is again marshaling it,s hosts, and now sum moning us to the field of political com bat, on same issues '. That party, at their National Conventions in 1856 and 1800, re-adopted what are known as the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of their platforms. These resolutions are known as the embodiment of the old State rights and Calhoun doctrines. They do not regard the relations of the States or people thereof to the United States as constituting a government, in theordina ry and proper sonse of the term, but de clare them to be merely a compact, and that "as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge each party has an equal right to judge for itself, AS WELL OF INFRACTIONS, AS OF THE MODE AND MEASURE OF RE DRESS." Under this free Democratic charter for rebellion, the lawful election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States was claimed by the people of the rebel States as an "infraction" of the '•compact;" and they chose secession and civil war as the " mode," and the de struction of the Union and State inde pendence as " the measures of redress." The Domocratic party at its last Nation al Convention proclaimed the war a fail ure ; and it has now putin the field a lifelong Free Trade and State Rights candidate, whom Judge Black indorses as one who will " stand by the Constitu tion and give pure law"—viz : who will stand by the Constitution as the State Rights party construe it, and give us such " pure law" as Judge Black has given President BCCHANNAN and AN DREW JOHNSON. Judge Sharswood and his party friends have not only denied the lawful powor of the National Government to coerce a rebellious State, to make and enforce a draft, to make paper money a legal tender, to emancipate and arm ne groes, to punish rebels and traitors by disfranchisement, to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in time of rebellion, or to arrest and try offenders in time of war by court martial , but they hold that all these thiugs, though actually done, were illegally and wrongfully done, and therefore settled nothing! Or, as the Democratic orgau (the Philadelphia Age,) in a recent elaborate editorial on the Republican State platform, thus ex presses the same idea: " We put it to the sober thoughts of the people of Pennsylvania, whether they would not have all these grave pending questions decided according to law, and not ac cording to war, JUST, IN EACT, AS THEY WOULD HAVE KEEN DECIDED IIAD TIIEY ARISEN EIGHT YEARS AGO, OR HAD NO WAR TAKEN PEACE." Is, then, the " lost cause" not lost? Has the late dreadful war decided noth ing? Is the right of secession an open question ? Has slavery not been abolish ed ? Are not the four millions of bonds mec free? Has our national debt no le gal existence ? Have the victors no power over the vanquished ? Have the rebel States and people lost no rights by re bellion ? Have our sacrifices of blood and treasure been all made in vain ? Fellow citizens, weigh well these solemn questions, and answer them at the ballot box on the second Tuesday of October next. Having concluded to reserve for a future occasion BOUJO remarks on party organization, aud other topics, this ad dress might here properly close. But it may be asked by some is Judge Shars wood, indeed, the political heretic herein set forth ? "A man is kuown by the com pany he keeps," says the old adage. We have the right to assume, and have assumed, that the Judge is of the same political faith as his party, and the pub lic will hold him responsible for all the guilty acts and omissions of his party. There can be no mistaking the true po sition of the man who recoutly delivered an elaborate opinion donying the con stitutional power of Congress to make paper money a legal tender. ( See the case of Doric is. Trott, Legal Intelligen cer of March \9>th. 1804, page And when we go further back, and ex amine his early history, we find ample justification for all we have written, and more So long ago as April, 1834, he appeared as '• The Orator of the Day," at a meeting of a States' Right Associa tion, in Philadelphia. We here copy some of the proceedings of that interesting convocation from " The examiner and Journal oj Political Economy. Devoted to the Advancement of the Cause of State Rights and Free Trnde," Vol. 1. page 309. The orator on that occasion delivered a long and carefully prepared vindication and eulogy of the State Rights Virginia and Kentucky resolutions hereinbefore cited, and summed up his elaborate in dorsements thereof as follows : "He rom« bac/c to our storting place, and finding nothing in the Constitution establishing any final judge of the enu merated powers, prohibitions, and re served rights it must rest upon the ad mitted priuciples of general laic in cases ' cf compact between parties having no common superior. EACH STATE HAS : THE RIGHT TO JUDGE FOR ITSELF OF THE INFRACTIONS OF THE COMPACT, AND TO OHOOSE FOR ITSELF THE MOST PROPER AND EFFICIENT REMIDIIS." The better to exhibit still further, if possible, the true character of that 1 meeting and its distinguished orator, the ' following toasts are copied from the pro ceedings. {Same vol., p. 312): 1 TOAST: "JOHN C. CAXHOUN —The J Brat to (brow himself into the breach 3 against Federal usurpation. May he live to tee his principle! predominant throughout the world." TOAST: " The patriots, otherwise rail ed Nullijiers §f South Carolina —their memories will be cherished wheu the advocates of the Force Bill are for» gotten, or remembered with execration." TOAST : " The State of South Caroli na —as her principles are cherished, we need not fear usurpation, either in the Legislative, Judicial or Executive de partments of the Government." The Hon. John C Calhoun was among those invited to this meeting by Judge I Sltarswood and others ; but declined in I a published letter of sympathy. We thus submit, as briefly as possible, the record of the Democratic candidate, and of the party which placed him in nomination. We feel that no added comments could do justice to the ject; and only ask you, fellow eitizong, to examine the whole reoord with care, and under a sense of your solemn rc> sponsibilities to your country, render your verdict at the ensuing election. By order of the Committee, F. JoEDAN, Chairman. GEO. W. IIAM&USLY, ) Q , J ROBLEY DUNGLESON, |' aec yB EURROPE. WAS IN CRETE ENDED. LONDON, July 25.—Omar Pasha re ports that the military forces under his command have succeeded in suppressing the insurrection in Candia, and that the war in that island is now ended. TRIAL OF RODMAN GUNS. LONDON, July 25.—8y order of the British War Office, a trial of American fifteen inch Rodman guns w:is held to day in the presence of a number of naval and military officers and experts. It was proved by tests to which the gun was submitted that no iron or steel armor yet invented is capable of resisting its pro jectiles. ROME TO BE GARRISONED BY NATIONAL TROOPS. FLORENCE, July 26.—Baron Ratizzl, Prime iMinister of Italy, has made an offer to garrison the City of Rome with national troops to protect it from the threatened attack of the party of action under Garibaldi and Mazzioi. THE SCHLESWIO QUESTION. VIENNA, July 26.—Napoleon has sent a note to the King of Prussia, urging him to surrender the Danish Provinces of North Sch'eswig to Denmark. The Emperor of Austria declines to interfere *n the matter. WAR IMMINENT. LONDON, Evening. July 26—There is mueh caut ion shown by capitalists and business men here, the feeling having be come (renerai that a war between France and Prussia is imminent. A private dis* patch from Berlin, received this evening, makes mention of the general opinion there that war is certain, and adds that Prussia is actively urging forward her preparations for such an event. FENIAN PRISONERS. LONDON, July 27.—The names of the prisoners rccetly arrested at Cork, on sus picion of being Fenians, are Csilaghan, Griffin and Gould, lteilly, who has been on trial for some time, charged with com plicity in the recent outbreak at Kerry, has been found guilty of high treason. DEATH OF AN EX KING. A dispatch from Muuich announces the death of ex King Otho, of Greece, of the measles. VIOLATION OP TREATY. Late Japanese advices received via Ilong Kong, report that the American ship Anna Kimball, Capt. Williams, had arrived at Nagasaka, Japan, with a car go of rice, which it was alleged she had taken frrtn a port of China which had not opened to foreign trade by any treaty stipulations The facts having been re ported to the commander of the United States squadron, she was by his order seized and heavily libelled for infraction of the treaty made between the Chinese government and the United States. THE SULTAN IN VIENNA. VIENNA, July 27.—The sultan arrived hero from England today, and is the guest of the Emperor Francis Joseph. THE TREATY OF PRAGUE. The official journal says it is the right and intarest of the Emperor Napoleon to enforce the treaty of Prague. The same paper says tho Czar has sent to King William of Prussia a dispatch to the same effect. —Legislative reforms aro called for by the ablest Republican journals in the State. The West Chester Record is agitating the question, and insisLs that the people must take the matter in hand and see that nono but good and honest men are sent to our legislative halls. Corruption and abuses have become chronic ; to repeat them is like telling a twice told tale, and they lose their force by familiarity. The Record btings forward the name of Hon. John Hick man—one of tho ablest as well as one of the purest men in the State—for a seat in the legislature, and thiuks that if he is called upon he should not deciino serving. Tho Lancaster Express seconds the motion of the Record, not only lor Ches ter county, but for Lancaster county also, and says; "Let us send our best men to Ilarrisburgh, and this cry of corruption and venality will no longer be a stench in the nostrils of the great Republican party of Pennsylvania. Legislative re form—good men and true men—should be the battle cry of the great party this fall." —An Omaha special says: Sev enty-five Indians attacked a survey ing party of the Union Pacific Rail road, on Bitter Creek, on the 22d, mortally wounding B. F. Brown, Engineer in charge of the party.— Brown died on the 22d. The Indians , virtually have possession of the rail road between Fort Sanders and Fort , Bridger. , —A new company is organizing to i make one more trial of the Great ( Eastern between New York and i Breit, ] ©he gtmmcau The Largest Circulation oj any Paper in the County. 0. E. ANDERSON, - - - Editor BUTLER PA. WEDXESUAI, JfJL.Y 81,1867. <F*"LIBERTY IND UNION, NOW AND FOREVTR, ON» AND 'NAEPARABTO."—D. WEBSTER. Union Republican State Ticket. SUPBEME JUDGE. Hon, Henry AY. Williams, Of Allegheny County. Union Republican County Ticket. ASSEMBLY : JAMES T. M'JUNKIN, JOHN EDWARDS, [LAWRENCK CO.] GEO. S. WESTLAKE, 1 „ DAVID ROBINSON, | ™ E K TEA <-<>• TREASURER : HUGH MORRISON. COMMISSIONER : CHARLES HOFFMAN. JURY COMMISSIONER : CHARLES M'CLUNG. AUDITOR : J. CALVIN GLENN. News Nummary. The rumors with regard to' removal of General Sheridan have at last taken dcliuite shape. Iu au interview with the President, whish certain gentlemen interested in Louisiana mutters had on the 22d iost; they were informed that the difficulties in their way would soon be removed by the displacing of General Sheridaa and the appointment of Geu. llancok or Meade as commandant of the Fifth Military District. The principal reason now urged for the removal of Sheridan, comes, it is said, from Atty Gen. Stanbcry. Who declares that Sheridan's construction of his opinion on the reconstruction aci is an iusult to the administration. According to the la» teat news irom the capital no steps have as yet been taken for tho removal of Sheridan ; but those it are said to feel confident it will take place inr mediateiy after the election in Teuuessec is over, so that Geu. Thomas can be transferred to New Orleaus. It is reported that Gen. Sheridan has appointed Ex-Gov. Hamilton a? Gov - ernor of Texas in plaoe of Trackuiorton removed. The persons appointed by the late act of Congress for the purpose of settling our Indian difficulties were to meet iu St. Louis on last Tuesday to organize the commission. The United States troops lately sta, tionediu Kentucky,are moving into Ten nessee by direction of Gen Grant, who h&? instructed Gen. Thomas to distribute his troops throughout the latter State in such streugth, and at such places, as will protect the lives and property of tho cit izens, and secure order on Thursday neit the day of election in Tennessee. The sub committee of the House Ju diciary, who were instructed to inquire as to whether Maiylaud possesses a Re publican form of government or not, will □ot make up their report until after the labors of the present Constitutional Con vention of that State are closed. The registration will close in the State of Louisiana on the 21st instant. From the recordi of the Elinira prisou which have been used in the Suriatt trial, it is found that duriug the spring of 1863, when 5,025 Rebel prisoners were confined there during that time, and that oDly six deaths occurred in three months; this is a very small proportion compared with the number that died in Rebel i>ria -003 among the time number of Union prisoners, and yet we find persons who prate about injustice being dealt out to leading rebels. Nnbbatli School Visit. On Sabbath, July 28, in company with I. £. W. Thompson, wo visited the M. E. Sabbath School of We<t Sunbury. We startod from Butler at 6} o'clock, A. M., and arrived in Sunbury at o'clock. the morning threatened rain, and the day was anything but propitious,we were surprised to find the church almost filled with scholars and the friends of the Sabbath School cause ; the attendance of so ninny on Such a day revealed to us the fact that there was a lively interest in Sunbury and vicinity in this noble work. Every teacher, but two, belonging to tbi* scboo] was present, and the absent ones were una voidably detained. The wholo number of scholars on the rolls is 153; of these, 135 were present. We were introduced to the school by A. B. .Rhodes, Superintendent. School was opened by my friend, Thomp son. The teachers then took charge of their classes and for 30 minutes the scholars were busily engaged in their recitations. Ex cellent order and strict attention prevailed during the whole time. We notioed two larire Bible classes. one composed of males and females, (be other made up almast en tirely of young men, who have lately con nected themselves with the school, this is a promising class, and if they are faithful in this cause, they will be able to do a greaj amount of good. We would say to these, as we would say to all j don't forgst the Sabbath School. The old as well as the young were present, and we were informed by the Superintendent, that these old persons wore regular attendants and scholars of the school. Upon seeing these aged persons in Sabbath School we were impressed with the thought thai, persons are never too old to learn, and that these persona had sacrificed ease and perhaps bodily comfort for the purpose of being present in their places. Sabbath Schools will prosper where the parents are interested. Aro all fufficiently engaged in this good work ? But we cannet particular j ze. The singing wus Tery good j and I cannot but mention no circumstance in thi( connection. After the classes were through with their lessons, our ears were at once saluted by the sweet sounds of music, by a eingle voice,and for a short time I was unablo to tell from whence it came, when I discov ered that a little girl, about five years old was the sweet singer; finally the whole He boo) joined the sweet voice, which was again heard as it started off in the lead,sing iug several stanzus. The exercise and or der in this Bchoolare good. The officers and teachers appenrto be interested in the work, and we have no doubt of the success of this school if the present interest is kept alive. We are informed that there are two other flourishing schools in this vicinity, viz : the U. P. and the Presbyterian, that they are strong in numbers and useful, and each in its proper sphere lab 'ring to do good. We would say to all: D n't forget thu object of S;ibb:ith Schoils, "To educate the heart.' May success attend tho Sabbath School cause in Sunbury and vicinity. Before closing, we desire to return our thanks to Isaac Donaldson, keener of the public house in Sunbury, for bis kinduess and gentlemanlv conduct toward us. We are led to believe that it is no fuult of bis or those around him, if his guests are not com fortable nnd well cared fur. ED. Coctiran House. Those who visit New Castle wou Id do well to stop at tho Cochran House, S. E. Corner of the Public Square David Wolf the present proprietor is a gentle man, and understands how to make his guests comfortable. Mr. Wolf was for merly a citizen of Butler county, and kept public hou'e in Harmony. Our citizens will give him a call. tfommuuiaition& FOR THE CITWWI BENZONIA, MICHIGAN, ) July 18, 18G7. j MAJ. ANDERSON :—We are now in the midst of harvest. Some of the grass is already cut, and the ripened grain is be ginning to fall before the reaper. The yield in this locality is very good, and the quality surpassed by none. Michi gan wheat holds the first place in the market, and the wheat of this section is tho best in the State. Last Fall the first premium was awardel at the State Fair for wheat raised about twenty miles north of this place on ground that had never been plowed. The yield was thirty bush els per acre. The climate here is very regular. It is neither very cold in Winter nor very hot in Summe.r The coldest day last Winter was 70°. The warmest this Summer, so far, was 90° in tho shade, nud it brought out a great many com plaints. Frosts do not come in the Fall until late, and by the time it is cold enough to freeze the ground (about the beginning of December,) the snow be. gins to fall and lies until April. Indeed, I saw snow in some shaded ravines on tho Ist of May. In consequence, grain is completely sheltered, and potatoes will keop in the ground with perfect safety. Those who reserve their potatoes for a Spring market never think of digging them in tho Fall. In consequence, po tatoes are about the worst weed we have, as onco in the ground it is almost impos sible to get them out. We have an abundance of rain in this country, but not too much It now rains on an avenge about once a week, and usually at night. The climate is adapt ed to every variety of fruit nnd grain raised in old Butler county, and to some things you can't raise. The soil is a mixture of sand, clay ami lime, pebbles. Very loose when you get the roots out: very fertile and with a rich subsoil many feet in depth. It is equilly well calcu lated to'carry off an excess of moistur and to withstand drouth. There is clay enough to retain manure ; sand enough to make it loose and prevent it from ba' king; and lime enough to keep the iand in good heart. And now a word to the boys. We are revelling in fresh fish. I have often seen some of you go up the creek and spend half or all the day and come back tired and wet with a few little minnows as your reward ; and if you had enough for your breakfast you thought you had done well. Well, I know threo little boys that went out on the lake a few days ago, at fuur o'clock in tho morning, and went home in plenty time for school, with 57 rock bass which would average a pound in weight. Then you will some times get a black bass weighing five pounds, or a Pickerel of ten or fifteen pounds, or a Mutkulnnge of from twenty to sixty pounds in weight. Think of that, and next time you take a trip come to Bens zonia and try our fishing. Yours, truly, ( W. J. YOC.NQ. NEWS ITEMS. —The 'number of emigrants landed in New York last week was 5,956; making the nnuibcr since January 1, 144,336- against 143,880 to the corresponding date of 1866. —A fatal cnse of cholera has occurred in the township of Ngwton, Queens county, New York, and it is reported several other persons havo been attacked in the same house. —General Thomas has sent orders to Qen Duncan, who commands at Nashville, in regard to the disposition of troops on the approaching eleccion day, directing that, except iu extreme coses, no troops shall ap proaeh the polls. —At th<s base ball match, Saturday, be. tween the Nationals, of Washington, and the Excelsiors, of Chicago, played at Chica>- go, the furmert worr. The score stood 4'J to 4. The Excelsiors were whitewashed six times. —An attempt has been made to introduo e Coolie labor on some of the Southern planta tions, and one or two enrgoes hare already been landed. There are laws against this traffic, and we look to the Government for their rigid enforcement. —A project is on loot for the establish ment of an Ooean Steamship Line between Washington and Antwerp, with a depot for the reception of German emigrants in Wash ington, from which they will be distributed through the different Southern States. An order has just been issued from the War Department providing that at every military post supplied with the proper ord nance and ammunition a in>rningand even ing gun will, in time of peace, he fired daily at revcllio and retreat. It is stipulated that for such purposes six-pounder guns and in ferior blank earn idges or other powder on hand will be used for the purpose. The Iferald'a Canada correspondence says: Certain parties in Canada, who are supposed to be posted, say that a scheme for the abduction of President Lincoln was started in the South ns early as 1863, and tha{ Colonel Percy Windham, who corns manded a regiment in and about Washing ingtnn, had at one time agreed to deliver up ihe President and his Cabinet at Richmond, and would probably have done so if he had not been suddenly removed. Since the published announcement of theintention of the Treasury Department tu issue a fractional currency note of the de nomination of fifteen cents, a largo number of letters have been receivhd requesting samples, and further information iu regard to the proposed new issue. Some parties Nave inclosed amounts of money with their letter for sample notes; but these will not be ready for some weeks, as the water-mark for the paper is not completed. —On Thursday evening a new Lodge of the Independent Order of Oood Templars was organized in the borough of Tarentuin, by Mr. T. 11. Hoyden, District Deputy, as sisted by Mr. Hugh D. McGaw. A large number of members were initiated and officers elected to serve for the ensuing term. The cause of temperance is stendily advan cing, and is bringing wishin its fjlds nearly all the young men of the borough. On the evening following (Fridy) the same officers also organized a lodge ofOoood Templars at McKeesport, which is to be known as the Luketis Lodge. —The Cincinnati Enquirer says the pol icy of the Republicans is to "transfer power to the negro." Of cotirso reference is had particularly to the South. Accepting for the moment this assertion, thecommon loyal sense of the land will readily acknowledge that if any particular sat or class is to pos sess power in the South, the preference must he given to the loyal negro over the disloyal whito man. It is precisely the forcing of this choice that has led to the enfranchisement of the 1" reed men. In the contest wherein loyalty is the point at issue, the loyal man will ever ho preferred, no matter what hie color may be—for in no other way can tho Republic be secured. —The Governments of Prussia and Den mark are still quarreling about the retro cession of the Danish districts of Northern Schleswig to Denmark. In tho treaty of Prague, Prussia promised that "if the northern districts of Schleswig should man ifest, by free voting, a wish to be united t » Denmark, they should bo ceded to Denmark." After having put off the execution of this article for about a year, the Prussian Gov ernment has finally declared its willingness to submit the question to a popular vote, provided Dmm irk giro guarantees for the protection of the German inhabitants of North Schleswig. Denmark having at first flatly refused to comply with this derjandi now intimates its willingness to grant the desired guarantees, but previously demands information as to the nature of them. —Democracy everywhere is a contradic tion, and new proof of its absurdities is given by the recent Democratic Convention of Marion County, Indiana. Tho Indiana Democrats are firstly, opposed to negro suf rage ; secondly, they think legislation should be in the interests and for the benefit of, the laboring men. We do not see how I these propositions can bo reconciled, and prob'ibly there is no desire on the part of their sponsors that they should be. If ne groes cannot vote, wbat security have they that legislation will protect them ? The Democrats, however, have an easy escope from their dilemma , it is a part of their Breed that the negro, in a state of freedom, is not a laboring man, and the reports of the t'reedmen's llureau, the industrial returns of the South, are not insufficient to convince them of their mistake. —Fifteen speakers have been sent South during the past week bv the Republican Congressional Executive Committee, to asist in the canvass now going on in that section. They have been sent to the Carolinas and Mississippi. Funds have also been sent to the several Union State Committees. General Brisbin, of Kentucky, will stump the State of < Alabama during the month of August. < •The Honest Men of Tennessee/ A few days since the New York ■ published a long communication from : Mr. John Lellyett. Chairman of the Mid dle Tennessee Executive Committee It was full of the fiercest deunciatiou of Governor Brownlow and th# Union citi zens of the State. They are bloody thirsty, and Mr. Brownlow is a monster of tyranny and iniquity. But if a pen sive public wished to seo mild, manner ly, forbearing, humane, and law-abiding citizens, devoted to the Government and to the fundamental American principles of liberty and equality—in truth very lambs—it must inquire for Middle Ten* nessee Conservatives. The naiuo is sug gestive. Mayor Monroe's thugs who massacred Union men last summer were "Conservatives;" and the men who held a carnival of murder and crime in New York four years ago at this time were of the same gnat "Conservative" party. On the day upon which Mr. Johu Lel lyett's communication was published, we also received a communication from a citizen of Tennessee, who served through out the war upon the side of the Union, against which the "Conservative" party, which the World calls "the honest men of Tonnessee," was arrayed. These hon est gentlemen are in faot the ex-rcbelsof Tennessee organized into a political par ty, controlling fifty newspapers, whilothe Union men havo not half a dozen, carry-. ing on the campaign with a determina* tion to succeed at all hazards, their lead-- er and candidate for Governor, Euierson Ethendge, declaring that any man ought to be shot who says tint slavery is abol ished, and the rituk and file of the party following his advice to the letter. Such is the terrorism that these "honest men of Tennessee" have established that Union wen art consciously in oonstant perii; and Governor Brownlow, who fuU iy understands his State and the spirit aud purpose of"the honest men of Ten nessee," has taken military measures for the pieservation ,of tho peace and the protection of the Union inen. "None but a Brownlow," says our correspondent "could meet the emergency now upon us in Tennessee; and underlying his ing rhetoric there is a reliable basis of truth, virtue, and patriotism." No man iu the country needs to be en lightened upon the character of tho ex rebels in Tonnessee. They hate the Union and the Government just as cordially as ever, an I the lost cause is the unknown god whom they worship. the mild Air. Lellyett, who calls Governor Brown-, low a monster of tyranny because he will not let rebels ride rough shod over loyal men, is much icss mild at home than when he addresses a New York public.— Butter, so to speak, would not melt in his mouth in New York,but in Nashville —Ma in Hispania ! Our correspondent writes : "Governor Brownlow can not surpass in fiery iuvective the published card of tho Honable John Lellyett in tho Nashville Banner of a few days since, ic which he says ttat 'every man, white or black,who votes the Radical ticket,ought to be marked and not patronized or encouraged in any thing, and that the ground he walks upon should be accursed.' His advice is being oar ried out literally." What that means in a semi rebel State every sensible man knows. The hope and purpose of Mr. John Lellyett and bis "honest men ol Tonnessee" is to make tho State too hot for the devoted and faithful friends of the Uuion and of equal rights. That is the issue of tho August election. If Mr. John Lellyatt and his Iricnds succeed, the situation of loyal men in the State wilt become intolerable. —Harpers' Weekly. Negro NuH'ragc aud Matrimony Tho introduction of a new social and matrimonial era is confidently anticipated and most vigorously asserted, by that class of the Democratic press which does the thinking for tho lower strata of tho party. The iu»st potent, in fact almost tha only argument employed, against im partial and general suffrage is, that if the "nagnr" be allowed to vote, he will at once have free access to all parlors aud as good a chance as anybody clso, or por— I haps better, for success iu any matri i niouial aspiration ho may indulge, as he turns his eyes upon the lair daughters of the land. This, it must be admitted, is highly complimentary to the personal attractiveness of the sable raee, and, if correct, would justily the appeal to the fears of competition which the argument presumes to be latent and lurking in the minds of those to whom it is addressed. It is, therelore, far les? complimentary to their personal attractions aud the gal lantry of their muuners, than to those of the darkey. Under the impulse of a desire to do impartial justice to both, as well as to the argument itself, wo refer to two his torical facts. The first is this. It has never been known,except in one instance —anJ the exception confirms the gener al proposition —that in connuhiaj affairs tho darker race has been preferred to the fairer, in popular female opinion. A very black negro, nauied I'hihp, perhaps,, who accompanied Lewis & Clark's early exploring expedition to the Columbia river, was the preferred favorito among the women of tho red race. And his deep color was his capital. As soon as they ascertained experimentally, by wet ting a finger on the tongue and rubbing it on his jet black cheek, that he could be "warranted fast colors," there was no limit to his popularity among them. Although the general tone and power of female preference ought to allay aIL tears of colored compction, the other fast to be stated has .-till more weight, and ought to sink the great Democratic argu-.. ment entirely out of sight. llow much prestige in j>enteel parlors and refin<>d circles of society, has the right of sirfk rage given to the low and half civilized p rsons who have been endowed with it?' The vote does not give then social ele vation, nor advance their matrimonial prospects. Yet, to their low prejudices is this argument of the Democratic press pertinaciously addressed. To avoid all' risky competition, to insure the whites againlt conjugal alliances with the blacks the infallible and the only means is, to d eny to the latter the vote. The Demo cratic doctors reckoa this cure "the sov ereign'st thing on catth."— Fltfi, Com.
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