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The Democratic Party.
We suppose it will not be controverted
in any intelligent quarter that since the
organization of the government under the
Constitution down to the election of Mr.
Lincoln, it is the Democratic party that
has maintained the honor, extended the
territory, controlled the policy, formed
the traditions, said Paade the history of
the country. We ask the , • men who so
industriously traduce the Democratic
party and impute to it treas able pur
poses, to consider the fact that 't is this
party which conferred on the oh Union
the greatness and g lory
. whichhave it
security at home and conside :talon
abroad. It C 7418 maligned when it op 'wed
the Alien and Sedition laws and of cted
Jefferson ; it wag vehemently opposed
when it purchased Louisiana ; it was de
nounced when it made ivar with Great
Britain to maintain the right! of our com
merce on the arms ; as infuriated outcry
was raised against it when it annexed
Texas, prosecuted a sucers,ful war against
Mexico, and brought in California and
other valuable territory. But time and
the unanimous approval of the next gen
eration have, in every instance, vindicated
the wisdom of the Democratic party.
Every Federal senator, except DAyton,
voted against the ratification. of Jeffer
son's treaty for the purchase of Louisiat , n,
and the Federalists in the Ifouse opposed
the measures necessary for its executicr. ;
but who, in the next generation, would
have been willing to see that vast and
magnificent territory, which stretches
from the MisSi-sippi westward, again in
the possession of a foreign power? Who
was there. ten years after the annexation
of Texas, that would have been bass
enough to have willingly seen it given up ?
What old opponent of the war with Mex.
ico'wishes California out of tho Union ?
The Republican party, it is true, during
th 4 whole period of thettruggle by which
it,"rose to power and destroyed the Union,
was in the habit of declaiming against
what they called the perversion of the
gOvernment in the acquisition of territory
On our southern border for extending the
area of slavery ; but tue Republicans dare
not now confess a wish to see these acqui
sitions out of the Union. By fighting to
retain what they opposed the Democracy
in acquiring, they make a tacit admission
that the Democrats have always been in
the right and their opponents always been
wrong.
The Democratic party, in the face of
violent and abusive opposition,began and
conducted the only two foreign wars we
have had under the Constitution ; in the
face of similar opposition it carried the
national flag and extended the national
authority over territory three times as
extensive as was possessed et the forma
tion of the government ; it made the
Monroe doctrine the tradition, and "man
ifest destiny," to supremacy on this con
fluent the sentiment and hope of the
country; it has been the embodiment of
that national pride and irrepressible na
tional ambition by which a young country
marks out for itself a high Career and
attains greatness and empire. The quali
ties which have enabled the Demecratic
party to make the history of the country
are mainly these two: boldness, and a
true national instict. The boldness of
the party is evinced by the fact that all
its great measures have, from the moment
they were announced, encountered a
storm of infuriated vituperation, before
which it never for a moment quailed, but
which it always met with resolute de
fiance. The correctness of its national
instinct, which has proved a truer guide
than the sagacity of statesmen, is estab
lished by the fact- that though its meas
ures have always been furiously opposed
at the time, they have been universally in
dorsed by the next generation. It is only
by these master qualities Of boldness and a
true national instinct that our bleeding
country can be again restored io unity
and health ; which is but another form
for sayingihat it can be done only by the
Democratic party.
All the separate measures of the Demo
cratic party have been the logical conse
quence, or, to speak more correctly, the
natural and spontaneous outgrowth, of the
instinctive impute toward national, great
ness which has always been the -ruling
passion of the parry. It is this which h as
fed its thirst for territorial aggrandize
ment, which has given birth to the Mon
roe drctrine, which has'inspired the hopes
o f m anifest destiny, which has taken fire
at every affront to . our flag on the sees,
aind declared the deck of every ship that
carries that flag as inviolable as the soil of
the national territory. This same instinct
taught the Democracy that immense terri
tories avail little without a. corresponding
population ; hence its uniform hospitality .
and kindliness to foreigners; hence its
opposition to the Alien law whichit made
odious,. and to ,the more:recent Know-
Nothing party which it destroyed. This
'same impulsion toward national greatness
`has mane it tolerant of sectional differ
ences and diversity of institutions, from
an instinctive feOing that the arraying of
sectiou.against section is even more des
tructive of conselidatcd national 4trength
than the arraying of class tigainst class,
natives against foreigners, or the ,rich
against the poor, • The instinct of the
DeMecratic.masses has always been in the
right;, and the unexampled power and
popularity of their leaders have resulted
less from their
. statesmanship—high as
that may have - ''been--than from their
quick and'symprthetie perceptions a the
feelings of the•MaEses, and the assured
confidence with which they counted on
their support. -
ye hundred
ds on our
Let each
copy to be
or friend,
ill ha first
Opposed to Segr . • Suffrage.
Gen. Cox, the Republican candidate for
Governor of Ohio, has at last been forced
to define his position on the negro ques
tion. The fire from the returned soldiers
made it necessary that the General should
change his base, and this he does in . & tart
letter to the committee of Republican
electors who propounded certain ques
tions to him and demanded an answer.
After snubbing the committee for
running in advance of their party on the
negro question, the General take' ground
against negro suffrage, and in favor of a
separation of the white and black races on
our own soil. Same of the points made
by Gen. Cox against the radical theory
are forcible. In answer to the radical as
sertion=" deliver the four millions of
freed people into the hands of their for
mer oppressors, now embittered by their
defeat, and they will make their condi
tion worse than before," he says:
I, starting from the same principles,
and after four years of close and thoug'it
ful observations of the races where they
are, say I am unwillingly forced to the
conviction that [ho effect of the war has
not been simply to " embitter" their re
lations, but to develop a rooted antagon
ism which makes their permanent fusion
in one political community an absolute
impossibility. The sole difference between
us then is in the degree of hostility we
find existing between the races, and its
probable permanence. You assume that
the extension of -she right of suffrage to
the blacks, leaving them intermixed with
the whites, will ur . a the trouble. I
believe that it ild rather be like the
decisions in the outer darkness of which
Milton speaks, where
" Chaos umpire sits,
And by decision more embroils the fray."
Yet, as I believe, with you, that the
right of life and liberty are inalienable,
and more than admit the danger of leav
ing a laboring class at the entire mercy
of those who - formerly owned them as
slaves, you will say I am bound to furniTh
some selution of the problem which shell
not deny tho right or incur the peril. So
I am, and the only real solution which I
can sec is the peaceable separation of the
races. But, you will reply, foreign coloni
zation will break down hopelessly under
the very 114 . 11C,i of the labor, even it it
were not tyrannical enough to expel these
unfortunate l eeple `r en the land of their
lirth. I 7.int. - the full weight of the ob
jection, mid thrrofrre say the solution is
thus n srrowed ilown to a peaceable aepa
istiou of the roses on the boil where they
a.r.r are.
NEME
lion list of
hereafter,
't6 any ad-
esent Rub
41 other
A 3 to the 50ei...1 diflicultics which -lie in
the way of carrying nut the programme
of the radicals, Gen. - Cox renrirks :
The an taEotii-m Cr which I Lava spoken
is net entirely 0,1 the part of
the formor nriOer, it t 'hes th form of an
indomitable pride, which utterly refuses
to entertain the ides of political or social
equality mingled with a hatred intensified
by the circninst:,nces and results of the
war. This feeling is lot: cnntined to the
lave-owners alone. but the poor whites
share it fully, and often show it more
passionately.
.0o the part of the freedmen, it is mani
fested in an alter distrust of the dominant
race, an enmity which, although made by
circumstances more passive and less open
ly manifested, 1.4 us real and implacable
as the other: They have the mutual at•
traction of race among themselves, and
repulsion to the whites as another people,
developed to a degree which surprised
me. * *
The daily and hourly repetition of
proofs of this fact, msny of them too sub
tle for description, but none the less con
vineing‘p the observer, has fully con
vinced _Me that never between , Norman
and Saw), nor between Gaul and Frank,
was thee a more conscious hatred, or an
antagonism more likely to prove inveter
ate, than between black and white on our
Southern soil. The negroeit will have no
sense of security, nor faith in their former
mastersi _
The effect of the war upOn the opinion
of the soldiers in regard to negro equality
is thus stated by the General :
I have watched with deep interest the
educational effect of the war upon our
own army, and I assure you that whilst
our white soldiers have uniformly and
quickly learned to appreciate the fact
that the existence of our free govern
ment could only be preserved by the des
truction of the system of slavery, and so
became radically and thoroughly anti
slavery, the tendency for battling 'for the
old flag wa almost equally uniform' in in
creasing and deepening their pride of
race. The fact is ono which cannot safely
be overlooked in any calculation involving
their action upon the political problems
before the country, and it is ono in regard
to which I think I can hardly be mis
taken.
It is evident that negro suffrage, negro
equality, is distasteful to the majority of
the Republicans of Ohio. But the radicals
threaten to nominate a separate State
ticket if their views be not adopted. Gan.
Cox, however, repudiates their policy, and
sets forth a plan of 116 own, which the
Nap York Tribune predicts " will be found
impracticable."
air. Biehanan and the Buffalo Express.
Tho Buffalo Express, a paper which
seems to be incapable of telling the truth
of a political opponent when a falsehood•
can be invented to its purpose, recently
set on'foot the following story :
" We learn from a citizon of Pennsyl
vania, in whom we have implicit coat.
dance, that for three years in succession
the voters of Ida city have honored him
with their sutPages as constable to the
extent of en election ; and thrice. under
the law requiring it, has the old P. F.
gone to the proper authorities and made
oath that his election was without his
wish, knowledgq, or procurement, and
that be did not desire to hold the office.
In this way Mr. Buchanan is annually re
minded that he holds s distinguished
place in the popular regard of his city."
The Lancaiter Intelligenea, published
near Mr. Buchanan's home, pronounces
the above statement natrne, and the Ex
press's implicit confidence man "an un
mitigated liar." Its reasons for so as
serting are given briefly, as follows:
" Kr. Buchanan is not- now nor has he
been for the last s l iitees years a resident
of the city of Lancaster. !fees at
Wheatland, in Lancaster tawriship; half
a mile west of the•: city limits. 2d. The
voteawcif this city havettoo much self-res.
pect and decency to think of casting
their siffragps in the mannerspokenef."
We.copy thebuetagencer's contradiction
simply as a matter of justice, and not be
canto we think anything originated by
the Express Vorlhy of refutation. In this
locality, where the Express' characteristics:
are so we understood, it would be a
work of supererogation to attempt to ex
plain or - refute its repoated falsehoods. It
is a paper which possesses no self-respect
Whatever, and the decent portion of the
cimitnunity appreciate it according to its
exact deserts:
Letteifrom 6c n. McClellan.
The American citizens in Geneva cele
brated the 4th of July by a dinner at the
Hotel de la Couronne, forty-four persons
being present. Among the letters received
from invited guests was the following
from Gen. McClellan :
HOTEL BYll.oii, LAZE OVIETA;
Tuesday, July 4, 1865.
Mr DEAR. Sin I have received your
polite invitation on behalf of the citizens
of the United States of ''America who see
in Geneva, to Mrs. McCAlan and myself
to join them at dinner today.
. I regret that it will, not be in our power
to do ourselves the pleasure of meeting
with you in the celebration of this most
interesting anniversary of the most sacred
day in the calendar. Although I cannot
meet you.ita person I hope that you will
permit me to express the intense joy and
pride with which, in common with all
Americans, I look upon the recent glori
ous successes of our gallant armies under
Grant and Sherman.
As these victories have finally crushed
the armed opposition to the General Gov
ernment, and 'have briiinght back the
whole of the national domain under the
folds of our flag. I trust that this anni
versary of the Nation's Birthday will be
the opening of a new era in our history—
when brotherly love will again prevml
between the people of the once contend
ing sections—when all the causes of the
late war shall have disappeared—when
the idea of secession shall be regarded ns
a thing entirely of the past—never again
to he revived, and during which we shall
become a stronger, more united and more
prosperous nation than ever before.
I most sincerely unite with you in the
feelings of sorrow and indignation which
have been so universally expressed for
the cowardly murder which deprived the
country of its Chief Magistrate, and the
desire to afford the most loyal support to
his successor. I trust. too, that you will
unite with me in the hope that, glace we
have completely vindicated-our national
strength and military honor by the entire
defeat and ruin of our late enemies, our
people will pursue a magnanimous and
merciful entree- toward a fallen foe—one
that will tend to soften the bitter feelings
inevitably caused by a long and earnest
war: ani to restore the confidence and
kind feeling that should exist between
those who owe allegiance to the same
government and belong to the same
people.
Ik•gging that you will convey to the
committee, and to the gentlemen they
represent, my sincere thanks for their
'very courteous invitation, I am, my dear
Sir, very truly and respectfully yours,
GFORGE B. 31cCLELLAN.
Political Itoms.
The editor - of the Lancaster Gazelle, the
Abolition organ of Fairfield county, says:
" A negro has as good a right to vote as
on Irishman."
The Buffalo Courier hoprs that the South
will send none of her Fire-eaters to Con
gress, and the North will turn all her DN.
unionists out at the earliest opportunity.
The Albany Journa? (Rep) sliys " so
long as the Southern people address them
selves to the work of re-establishing their
Political and social institutions within
constitutional and legal limits, they
should be lot alone."
Gen. F. P. Blair said in a recent speech
at St. Louis, that G3ll. Sherman "has
been assailed by nobody except those
who are the cietnies of their country ?"
How do the editors of the Abolition papers
like that
rA Soldier's and Loyal Citiaente Anti-
Negro-Suffrage State Convention is called
to meet at Des Moines, lowa, the - 22d of
August. This movement is set on foot
by returned soldiers and disaffected Re
publicans.
TIM HAMLIN FAMILY OF PATILIOTB.—The
family of ex-Vice President Hamlin is
welt taken care of. Major Charles Hamlin,
who has lived in Washington during the
entire war, draws $3,300 ; another son,
with rank of Brigadier, manages to live
on st„soo ; a brother of the ex-V. P. holds
a sinecure of $4,000, paid in gold ; a Bon
in law was made paymaster as soon as he
married, with the rank of Lieutenant.
Colonel, and $3,G00 to support his Hale
family on, all'et which Uncle Sam pays.
The Abolitionists of Crawford count's
have taken open ground, in their county
convention, in favor of negro suffrage.
The secret of this is that Crawford county
gives:them about 1,500 majority and they
imagine their ticket sate on this platform.
They have done the same thing in Alle-
gheny, where they usually have 6,000
majority. In counties, where the vote is
close or doubtful, they will dodge the
issue.
A WORD TO TUE WDSR.--:NOW is the time
to push true Democratic papers in every
direction, for it is only by sowing sound
seed that we can hope for a good harvest.
Democrats too often wait until just before
election before they begin to circulate
their pipers, and that is generally too late.
Abolition tares have sprung up and the
good seed will not take root. Reader, if
you have a Democaticie neighbor, or one
who is a moderate Republican, don't rest
until you have induced him to take a re
liable Democratic newspaper.
Simon Cameron has received the degree
of " L. L. D." from the University of Lew
isburg. Simon does not care for or appro.
ciate such empty honor 3, His aspirations
are political rather than literary. He is
exceedingly anxious to have the degree
of "U. S. 8" conferred upon him by the
Pennsylvania Logislature, and is pulling
the wires accordingly.
Henry Ward Beecher sticks to it that
Davis ought not to be hung, as hanging
does not reform s' man, and justice re•
cptires nothing that is not for the good of
society. The results of the war are a more
terrific warning than the gallows. He
sap:
" I would withhold capital punishment
OM these offenders, then, not Woman
ey do not deserve CaPitil punishment,
but because its intik/ton is not demanded,
and because it wet& create an injurious
impression in Europe. I say, taken step
of moderation in ahe.direction of human'.
ty, because it will. will= be understood to the
advantage of free Overnments all the
world over."
i(EIA Cp GOODTLYLINO" NOT WANT
ID"--The Washingtim correqiondont of
the Springfield Erpui./ican, while he is sat
isfied that Mrs. Surratt " was not guilty
of din murder of lift...lincoln," is delight
ed that she wan hung, because her death
gas made the Democ4atio leaders " swear
ing mad." Ho aays:
"This is an excellent result. 'don't
want an "era of good feeling" just now.
That is, I do not desire that men who
hate the black man and the Union shall
like Mr. Johnson. Praise from the lips
of bad men is always suspicious, and for
a public man is dangerous."
AMENDINfI TU CONSTITUTION.—Tho Leg
islature of Connectidut, by a party vote—
the Republicans for , and the Democrats
against—has propoied an amendment tti .
the &Ate Convention, striking .out thcp
word White, In as to permit Indians, ne. )
groes and mulattoes 'to vote. It is useless
to deny the fact that the Republican or.
ganization is now wholly committed to
the doctrine of negio political and social
equality with the white, and is laboring
to give it effect.
Governor Wells, o Louisiana, in a re
cent address befOre gte Universal Suffrage
Society of Louisiana„, said :
" I dissent in tote from that conclusion.
On the contrary, I am fully persuaded,
from my knowledge of the negro charac
ter, that nine - out of ten of the late entire
slava population would support their
former masters personally or politically,
or any. way, in, preference to all strangers
—and I regard all as strangers in this
connection who did not stand in this do
mestic relation toward them. Nay, more,
I believe in my heart, that within twelve
montha from the time the negro would
obtain the suffrage, neither the unfalter
ing Southern Union man, nor the Union
man whose loyalty dates from the obtain.
ment of Federal office, could live other
wise than on suffrance in the States where
the privilege was given, if the individuals
latily in rebellion were disposed to coun
tenance such proceedings." •
In Zanesville the other day, a returned
soldier:•met a pet negro, the joint prop
erty of, an Abolition admiration society,
and pummeled him well. The negro re
fused to give up the center of the side
walk to the soldier, who was walking with
a lady. Tne soldier was arrested and
fined twenty-five dollars. Ile paid the
fine, returned and knocked the negro
into the arms of and paid another
twenty-five dollar'. The -Abolitionists
bought a revolver for the negro, after
which the veteran licked him again, and
told the negro that if he did not leave
town in ten hours he would lick him
again. The darkey has ,gone wandering
for some more congenill clime and the
" vet " is cock_of the walk.—Hotnies County
Farmer.
The French antrier calls attention to
the following reports from the Shqu
strap Court (Broome street, New York):
" BREYDED.—Matt. Anderson, 3d U. S.
infantry, sentenced to ba branded with
the letter length ono inch and a half,
etc.. etc. _
" Charles B. Harris, 1•lth U.S. infantry,
sentenced to be branded on the left hip
with the letter D, length three inches."
The French editor, though accustomed
to see hard sights, doubtless, under mon
archies and despotisms, seems to marvel
over this, at cleast, typographically. We
brand horses in the North, U. S. A., cat
tle, &c , but this brandir.g of men is a re
publican novelty, especially here in this
city of New York, by sentence of Should
er-strap Court. In aforetimes, when a
negro was branded or put in the chain
gang, or manacled, there was a tremend
ous outcry ; but war has so educated us,
even of the North, into such things now,
that we not only brand men, and manacle
them, but hang even women in iron fet
ters. 0 Tcmparc! May God in Heaven
preserve us from another war, thus de
moralizing the best sentiments of the peo
ple, and breaking down the strongest
guarantees of human right and liberty.—
.2t': F. Erpre.,:.
MORE:SOLDIERS DEOWNED.—The Albany
Argus says:
It is now ascertained that the total
losses on board the miserable old Quinne
bang, wrecked off Morehead City last
week, will amount to'thirty. At first it
was reported that only ten or twelve were
lost, and then the number :was doubled,
with a later addition by the last accounts.
The drowned men Were all Maine and
Pennsylvania soldiers, on their way home
to be discharged. We shall probably
have a recurrence of such criminal discs-
tern until a batch of government commis•
series and contractors are sent to sea and
drowned for an example, in some old
craft like the Quinnebaug.
That is the care the War Department.
take of white men. While any old tub
will do to send- white soldiers to sea, in
structions were recently given to spare no
expense to make the negro troops com.
fortable, that were destined for Texas, arid
the finest vessels and the best seem:no.
dations ever used for transports were . pro
vided. To receive humane treatment now,
at the hands of the radicals, requires one
to possess a black skin.
Gen. Howard . , of the Freedman's Bu.
reau, has issued an order to the effect
that if the planters of Lover- Maryland
do not cease turning off their old slaves
to starve, or neglect, to employ them. that
the Government Will seize their Lamas
and work them with freedmen.
The above comes to.us in the shape of
a telegram from Washington. While the
dictates Of common humanity should in
duce " the planters of Lower Maryland"
to assist their slaves who have been set
free without their consent, we would like
to know what business it is of the military
satrap who has issued the order referred
to. - To seize their farms, because they
"neglect to employ " their emancipated
slaves or because they rely be unable any
longer to feed and clothe them. is a spe
des of tyranny as yet unknown even in
this cotintry. General Howard has no
more right to issue atrl put in force such
an arbitrary edict, than he has to order
the seizure of a New England manufactory
because its owners turn off or " neglect
to employ" their old workmen:
Since the advent or the Republican
party in power, it be; become the habit
of public officers to d) their private trav
eling and pleasuring at the people's ex
pense. Ships, railroad cars, and every
thing necessary for the purpose are ap.
propriated by the publics servants with
the most unblushing effrontery. A short
time ago the two Sevvards and family
started for Cape May in one of the Gov
ernment revenue cutters. Secretary Mo.
Cullough and family took a trip down the
rotKanaa in a Governiaeat vend., sad,
following suit; President Johnson and
family also took a run to Chesapeake Bay.
The Philadelphia But. lan; (Rep.) some
time- ago
,published the following :
Jtist as the second edition of the Bulk=
tin was going to press, the Associated Press
commenced furnishing us with Gen. liar
:die'a statement, and we had most of it in
type-when the, following notice was re
ceived:
"To Eorras: Orders have just' been
treeeived from the War 'Department not to,
publish the 'article,
dated Washington,-
referring to the confession of Mrs. Surratt.
" W F. CORBIT,
" For Associated Press Agent."
• What right, we should like to know,
has the War or,any other department•, to
order a paper what to publish and what
not to publish ? How much better are
eve off than if we lived in Austria or Rus
sia, if such things are tolerated by the
people?
Neoaoits.ix Catceao.—The city of Chi"
cago is overflowing with negroes. The
Times says they aro dropped down in the
streets, ragged, hungry and as ignorant of
life as so many apes. They stand bewil
dered in our crowded streets, and on our
docks, having not the slightest idea what
they are to do with themselves. They
cannot work, if employment is furnished
them, until put through a lengthy course
of sprouts, which reauld be entirely out
of place in a Republican city. So they
crouch down in doorways, and. listlessly
eye passers-by. Some thirty thousand
have been passed out of Kentucky by the
military autfsorities since the close of the
MU
The radical revolutionists will please
augment the volume of their howl. Gen.
Sherman has again " betrayed" the court%
try—that is to say, that portion of it cov
ered by Boston and Fsreningliam. A t
Indianapolis, oe Tuesday, he declared,
in his speech to the thousands of grate
ful citizens who welcomed him, that he
"opposed negro suffraLe and ihdiscritni
nate intercourse with the whites." He
believed " the whites must have the gov
erning power ;" and he thought the ne
greets "might be colonized in Florida,
and admitted to representation in Con
gress."
A college for the education of colored
youth is to be founded in the District of
Columbia: Africa is stretching out her
hands to Goit—Exchave.
Africa is str,etcl.ing her hands in a queer
direction if she expects to find the object
'ought at Washington.
GENERAL NEWS.
Fif tem murders have been committed
in Edgefiekl. county, Tenn., within the
past two weeks. ,
A young earn namal Irwin brutally
murdered hi 4 father and mother, et Deer
town, near llamiltou, oaio, on Saturday
last.
On account of the unhealthinebs of the
White /101180 as n summer residence, the
tSecretary of the Interior has issued orders
for obtaining another house for the Presi
dent to occupy during the remainder of
the season.
The Macon (Ga.) Journal and ifeslenger
has been suppressed in consequence of
the publication of a flippant editorial,
sneering at the amnesty oath. The arrest
of the editor and the seizure of the press,
type and material of the paper, was made
by order of Gen. Steedman.
The story that Gen. Robert E. Lee is at
. .S`iggsra Falk is probably based upon the
presence there of another General of the
same name. The late rebel chief is in
Virginia, at some quiet retreat up the
country,
Tho Washington Chronicle says the
"mysterious" prisoner suppose•! to be
John H. Surratt, is a man named Fuller,
who committed the frauds upon the Union
National Executive Committee during the
last campaign. The immediate cause of
his arrest is not yet known.
lfujor--Gen. Benismin PrentisP was ar
rested at Quincy. 111., on Saturday, and
fined $5 for thrashing a young ,rrian who
kept company with his daughter against
the General's wishes. His son aided his
father in the work, and was fined a like
amount.
Jacob Crouse. late Deputy Provost Mar
shal, was shot dead in the streets of 11.ml
ford, Pa., by John B. R.:ed, a lately re
turned Canada refugee. His brother, M.
Reed, who has been in the rebel army,
was also engaged in the affray. Ile has
been arrested and lodged in jail. Great
excitement prevails.
Brutal Murder in the Nineteenth
Ward ; A Fireman Nearly Decapitated ;
Two of the Assassins Arrested—Eseane of
the Principal; Proceedings at the In
qoe Outrageous Highway Robbery in
Westchester ; Foot-pads in the Suburbs ;
Robbery and Attempted Murder of Two
Citizens ; The Bold Burglary in Broad
way ; Arrest of the Thieves and their Ac
complices ; A.Da y's Record of Crime in
the Metropolis.— N. V. World, 27th.
SANOUINAItY FIGIIT WITII INDrsss.--The
Leavenworth (Kansas) Cnuervative of July
publishes an account of a desperate
and sanguinary fight, July al, near Red
Butes, 100 miles west of Fort Laramie,
between Co. Ii of the 11th Kansas regi
ment and a gang of Indians. The train
which the soldiers were escorting was
burned, and private Moses Brown and
James lisliew were killed, and one ser
geant and ten- privates were reported
missing- The dead were scalped, and the
fact that these soldiers were very Rood to
ho mustered out of service, rendered the
occurrence peculiarily harrowing. The
company were from Shawnee county, and
it is said of them that they resolutely
fought against great- odds until their am
munition was expel:l(l.3d.
&horrible murder was discovered on
the Ist inst., at daylight, at the of
Oakland, in the town of Manchester, nine
miles east of Hartford. Conn. Mrs. Benj.
Starkweather, aged 46, and her daughter
Ella, 14 years of • age, were chopped to
death'in bed with an axe. The blows sev
ered the skull and the bodies presented a
horricti•ight. They were also stabbed in
many places with a butcher knife, which
with the axe has been found. The son of
Mrs. Starkweather, named Albert, 24
years old; has been arrested. and it looks
as if he committed the deed for a sum less
than•ooo in money, which was found in
his draper with the knife. He first gave
the alarm and to beds were found on
fire, his own and his mother's. Tho
daughter still br i eathed but died in ten
minutes.
The following is the latest statement
put forth "by authority." in regard to
Jefferson Davis.; " Notwithstanding the
various stories set afloat in regard to the
ill-treatment of 4eff. Davie, it is but just
to the authoritie4 to state positively that
ho is treated with the consideration due
a noted prison 4 of state by—the Cor u .
mandant at Fortress Monroe. No officer
has been or is stationed in bis cell ; he Is
allowed to take i frequent walks on the
ramparts and permitted to choose his'
own food. The; stories that his cell is
guarded by a shcire or more of bayonets,
that in his prordenades he is attended by
a battalion of soldiers, and that his diet
is limited to the; army ration, are as ridic
nloos as they are untrue. The treatment
of J. D is thariecisn•liko and humane and
just such as tO generous and dignified
Government can well afford to bestow
upon one who is no longer ills enemy, but
its ptieoner"_
. .
The official statement of the public
debt as appears from the books of the
Treasury Department on the 31st of July,
shows the amount outstanding to be
$2 757, 4 253,275 85., ' - .
.;. •
Vic legal tender notes in circulation I
are as follows :
• ~ •
One and two years, 5 percent - •
notes ' I-. .. $39,951,2:1(1
U. S. notes, oidlsaue _ .. 1 472 603
U. S. notes. nrn issue 032;687,i,)66
Compound interest notes, act
of March 3;1 1 965 ... 15,000,000
()ompound ,int'eieet notes, act --
of-Junei'4o,lB64 . - 1 197,121,476
I' ti j• ' 1
~ --
Total ltig.l tenders 'in ekr- e . •
culation... ,',508.5,236,269
The amount of tractional currency is
$25:71), 0 ,000. .
Total deb 6 $3,468,239,538 85.
TtiA uncalled-for pay, requisitions and
miscellaneous items oF the War and Navy
Department amount to $15,736,000. The
amount of coin in the Treasury is $35.-
338,900, and of currencv,-451,402 000.
Total amount in Treasury, $116,739,632 59.
The statement of •the public debt, as afr
peartty the returns and .'Treasury books
on thr3lst of July, as compired with that
mai:la:if:ill the 31st of May;- two months
ago,•,-lhows an increase of $122,000,000
durna the intervening period, owing in
part- 'Air the extraordinary sums ,required
to piiy.the arrearages due to the army.
The,ilergict contains accounts of bad
conduct of the negrooldiera at Wilming
toniN.C, A party of em,accornpanied by
negroes of the city, 1 tely entered a store,
esllecl for cigars, an; left without paying
for them. Subsrqu ptly they returned
with others, broke; Open the store and
robbed it indiscriminately, A portion of
the Gth regiment colored troops caused a
riot by attacking the quarters of a sutler.
They fired round after•round into his
place in the hopes of killing him. The
officers' quarters being,* a line with the
sutlees, many of theAballs fired went
through them also. Very fortunately no
one was hit. A number of the leaders
were arrested. Three, negroes wt re found
murdered in Dauphin county, N. C., last
week. The suspected parties were arrest
ed. No definite evidence was had to fix
the crime on them.
The Poste s I.Vashingto'n special says, the
.iv i
a ti o n a hue/Jigs-neer has a statement, that
a plot has been discovered among a largo
number of negro workmen' at. Aaquia
Creek, to assassinate the white laborers
engaged on: the railroad there. A com
pany of soldiers arrested and imprisoned
all the'negroes, capturing tll9ir weapona,
such as scythes, &c. The officers of the
road say they know of no reason why
such a plot should be projected. The In
telligencer says one of the negroes was shot.
The criminal statistics of
. New Yorkscity
for the past three months arc not very
pleasant reading. From the Ist of May
'to the 31st of July 20,417 at rests wore
made by the local police. Of the:4311372
were males, and 6,005 females. For the
quarter ondiag April 30 there were only
7,875 arrests in all. During the war the
arrests averaged from three to four thous
and per quarter. The increase of crime
that the,o figures show is really alarming,
and should attract more public attention
than it has heretofore done. The items
of increase are in assaults . and robberies ;
that is, crimes against person and prop
erty.
The police detectives of Cincinnati, a
few day: ago, broke up a gang of burglars
and thieves at Covington. Seventeen
noted professionals are- under arrest.
Their headquarters at Covington were '
filled with stolen goods of every descrip
tion, valued at about $lOO,OOO.
About two o'clock on Saturday morn- '
ing, a young man named Thomas Tris
tram, who resides with his mother and
brothers at' No. 34 Esst Broadway, New
York, was shot and killed in his own bed
room by his brother Richard. It appears
that the two had Leen out drinking to-
I gether, and it is supposed that a drunk
en quarrel ensued between them, during '
which Thomas was shot. Richard has
been committed to the Tombs.
There were 1.785 deaths from cholera
at Alexandria, Egypt, from June' 27th to
July 17th, and more than 30.000 people'
had left the city from June Ilto to July
7th. The most distressing reports were
received from the interior.
Thirty-five employees have been 'dis
chargeLl from the gas works at St. Lpuis,
and 150 negroes employed to do their
work. The negroes receive 2.s,cents per
day more than was paid' to whites. The
police were sent -to the spot to prevent
the whites from mobbing them.
LYNCH LAW IN lowa.—On Saturday even
hag some dozen or more men went to the resi•
deuce of Mr. Joseph Dunbar, in Cass town
ship, and took hlln fr,r,n his tel, tied his
hat:as bandr..3 ills :1 :acre 3 `_lm. They
then tack sailz-pi ui 7'3,47,rd
side, from. r.erzlmm-e !..te was
a mass of ;•31:y Zr/ was ago
choked =o LI s: zar:Me 3 the =arks of ffcgers
for a few days ate-. He was given four days
in which 13 :save tlie c onntry, or he *Quid
be hanged. Ilia wife, and a dinghter rend
about Iff nr 17. were also taken from their
beds en dishabille. Tho old lady was choked,
gagged and some of her teeth knackcd out.
The young lady was muffled, but was not in
jured very badly. The dwelling was broken
in pieces, anal the furniture smashed
.np "
generally. The cause of this is of old stand
ing. and reaggravated by some acts of the
sufferer. Mr. Dunbar has the reputation of
being a very bad neighbor, and this method
was taken to rid themselves of his presence.
He may be a bad man—and we have no doubt
but he is—but we have laws to deal with such,
and the fact that they have ea far forgotten
themselves as to he found in so low and con
temptible an act creates sympathy- for him.
Special Notices.
There- is nothing more certain VI prevent
female irregularities than Dr. Velpateli Fe
male Pills. They will in all cases cause a re
turn of monthly sickness, without which no
unmarried lady can enjoy perfect health.
Sold by all Druggists. atr3 1m
" But pain is perfect misery, the worst of
evils, and excessive : overturns all patience."
All druggists have for sale Dr. 1). 11. Seelye's
Liquid Catarrh Remedy, which will remove
permanently all pains from Catarrhal cliff:Lou'
ties. Any one who has ever used it will so
recommend it.
The Providence Journal, in an article on
Mason & Hamlin's Cabinet Organs, speaks of
these excellent and now celebrated instru—
ments as follows : " For volume and quality
of tone for variety and beauty of •effects
for excellence in crescendo and diminuendo;
for quickness of response to the touch in rapid
staccato raid legato passages ; for the ease
and entire freedom from fatigue with•which
the bellows is operated; for the stability of
every part of the workmanship and for'ca—
pacity for standing well in tune; the new
Cabinet Organs of Messrs Mason &. Hamlin
—portable reed instruments the largest of
which are smaller than ordinary piano fortes
—are not only quite equal to the smaller
pips organs of the best makers, but much
superior to the generality of those heretofore
used in small churches and halls, and for pri_
Tate practice."
READY PAY STOIiE
3IINNIG Sc. RUSSELL,
Would respectfully Worm. the Public that they ham
Purchased the
STOCK or GROCERIES OP JAMES, A. BLISS.
c:fliSIL OF 6171 A3D STATE STS.
Where they Intend to keep as good. ais ene)r talent of
FA MIL Y
r GROCERIES -84 PROVISIONS,
WOOD & WILLOW WAILS, AND YAMLItY GOOD 3.
as Is kept in Kria.
Best Brands of Erie County Flour,
Kept constantly on hand.
WARRANRED A GOOD ARTICLE!
rr The highest Market !me pall for all kinds of
Country Produce.
rr Qo3ds &limed free of charge to &Ay port of the
City.
A. MUM. onsaulufj J. EMMY..
GREAT. SA
Watches and
,000000 WORTH ! T 4)
ofat Doe Dollar each, without,.
to be yald for urn!y on . know whio
By A. H. Rowro k PO , (i ebt r ,,,
No. WS Beekman lamer., New Yo.
Eir Baal the •followmg 1 st of A
ONE DOLLAR CA
•
100 Gold hunting case wat
100 Gold•Aatches, •ari tie
200 Ladies' gold watches,
600 silver watches,
0,000 Late style rent & neck
5,600 Gents' Cal. diamond
4,000, Cal. diamond ear dr,
3,000 Miniature revoliing
2,000, Cal. diamond and en,
gentle Scarf pine, nti
2,000 Masonic & emblem pi
2,600 Gold band beseeleil,
8,000 Jet and !cosine brow
2,000 Cameo brooches,
2,000 Coral ear drops,
2,000 Ladies' 'ratan chain:
6,000 Gents' pins, Splendid
4,000 Solitaire sleeve butt.
3,000' Site studs tltfleeve '
6,000 Sleeve)buttons,
10,000. PlainA engraved
8,000 Lockets, richly en
15,000 Sets ladies' jewelr:
latest styles;
5,000 Handsome seal rin
2,000 Seta bosom stuffs.
1,000 Gold pens &gold
'2,000 Sets jet & gold
drops, latept sty .
2,000 Gold thimbtds, pe:
10,000 Gold pens, & silyt
10,000 Gold pens, ebony
This entire list of
1011 (17f Vag Dollar each. Cc]
articles will:4.e placed in 0121Fei
engelopeg.are sent by mail, as
ti choice. On the receipt of V
%hat loa ace to hare, and the.
send the dollar and take the arts
Flirteertiticates esti b&ore.e,
thirty for $5 ; misty-fire for $
$l5. We will Ocd n mingle
cents. 6geota emoted, to wni,
Leute for one tertitem
term,. -
P 270.
88 Be,.
Rind's Vegetasl
GREAT-HAIR
antv.AßArtolics
nglon as
."Tfir. LIONOLULAT SliGl
and has this new name an Lei
toner being enneoltdated
the proprietors of the two
en iinnten , e sale. for the foil
let. It re:toles Gray Heir t
2d. It imparts a beautiful
hair.
d. It cures all Ruruora
4th. It la au infalltEe tra
St ti. lc is a richly rerfaule
Lulled i Ito you deitire to
artificial Front riticea?
restore •our Gray flair t,
tresses of youth.
Gentlemen I Do your he:
Theo usu the
more whlcli are CAlllkitq3.
/t ie cot a dye
est linen : It •s C,:11
chiefly of hierta.o.s
1.0,j i
Reskoatite.. Iryit a b•
F. 'AL Tubbs 2.: Co., i
N. T. Home, Union MI ,
.Nortiachtern 1 ennet Iry ",
Local Ageata—Pall
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,_
Co, Titunralle ; E. 3. Si
Wood, Corry.
ERIE A
7-30 U.
Bonin i
$5O,
. $lOO
On Imul for
Immedia
THE SUB
Duly Author
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JOHN J
The above bank wil
Monday, Dec.
West aide of State S,
Sattlactpri paper e
Roney received on
Collecttons =ads
promptam.
Drat* Specie and
A share of Public
; New NI
PIASO FORT
From
MANU
Bta ciF . ay k os,
Wm. Kna . & Co.
Litideutan LSons.,,
Vint. B. Bradbury.
John
Groreffen tc Co ,
EIMM
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What. Needham
Prices at a Lar
PIANOS F
Also, Tatra
Aii persocui wiahL
on, are invited to call
lore purchasing eser
Reed's Mock, St'
Oface.
re P. S.-Evil
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WHOLES
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IX inform LI
hare opened the al
lltsnond, next dc
store, where they
n the trade west
trent muntattol
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AND WILL
TO
Without their pa
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CHANGE OF Hot') RS,
THUM 4Y, Die. 1, IA
Trans sill Issas Dunkirk at about Ulf
Eastward Bound—Di
Train No. 14
Train No 16
Train No. 6
Train N 0.4
The Aooonunodation Inns awl
cass• gvior.