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THURSDAY. SEPT. 28, 1865.
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DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
AUDITOR GENtRAL,
N.. W. W. H. DAVIS, Backs Co.
SURVEYOR ORNESSI.,
COL. .JNO. P. LINTON, Cambria Co.
Democratic' Comity Ticket.
ASSIMIR.T.
VI. W. 0. COLT. .f Waterferd Borough.
Valor T. J. 110311111103, Erie City.
CONY IeaTONIS
LIAM HILL, Girard Township.
POOR Dill CTOII4
Private WI. C. ILEBLZII, Jr., Erie City.
AUDITOII,
'rapt. 11110. W. ►[BCCKL6, Girard Borough.
. erarnron,
Capt. JO® IL MILLER, El Creek.
'returns' OF ZVI AOLDOIT.
iteT. Joe. I. Pressley, Dr. Thomas B Stuart.
Gem, W. Starr. ,
s irEleetion Tuesday, October 10th.jos
CESSNA AND fifitHICLUIr.
Mr. John Cessna, unappreciated can
slidate for the Democratic Executive nom
ination, now Chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee, like all great
toen, has felt it his duty to issue an ad
siren to the people. It is a frothy, weak
and pompous document, full of untruth
ful charges and glaring misstatements,—
in short. just such an epistle as we would
expect from a renegade, John in particu
lar. In this address he labors to prlive
that the party with which he was connec
ted up to the fall of 18 ;3, whose candidate
for Governor he was anxious to be in that
I ear, and whose principles the best years
of his life were spent in advocating, has
been since the war a treasonable organisa
tion I Strange, indeed, that JOhn, with
his intense patriotism. should have been
thoroughly identified with thin "disloyal!'
party for three years of the war. and
stranger still that he should have been
willing to become its candidate for the
highest office is the State. yea, mortified
beyond measure that he did not succeed
in becoming such
As a sample of what a man can do, af
ter be he• once become reoreaut to his
former faith, wo will simply state that
(Saone. iu his address, altuolly has the
boldness to assert that the question of
negro suffrage Is not at issue in the' ores
ent campaign in Pennsylvania. Impu
dence and dishonesty can go no fu•ther.
Almost every County Convention, Demo•
critic or Republican, has passed resolu
tions on the subject, every political paper
In the Commonwealth is arrayed on one
ek<ke or the other of it, the neople make
St the'leading topic of their discussions,
all the signs of the timPs indicate that it
Ss the great, all pervading idea of the
canna, and yet Mr. Cessna, with brazen
laced assurance, announces to an &Mon
iabed public that negro suffrage is no Isle
merit of our State politics. Oh„ John,
John. We have seen renegades do many
unmanly..acts before, but yours, for dowr.
right depravity and bold untruth, caps
the climax.
Horace Greeley does not agree with
Cessna. He thinks the megro question
the main one at issue here u well as else-
where. In the course of some well•timed
comments on the policy of political eva
sion,in the Tribune of Monday, be thus
sharply raps Mr. Rep üblican Chairman
Cessna over the knuckles for "his dishon
esty :
"We are sorry to see Mr. Cessna shirk
a point so frankly and justly pressed upon
him. I/negro suirraqe is not an issue in Penn,
aritunia we should like to know what is. The
offices to be chosen are trivial affairs, and
searoely worth the taking. Whether Gen.
B artran ft or Col. Davis becomes Auditor
General makes little'difference. They are
both exoeilent men, fought gallantly nn•
til the war ended. and have high personal
traits of character—Cot. Davie being a
rather bigoted Democrat but a good sol
dier. The purpose of the campaign in
Pennsylvania and everywhere else, as we
understand it, is to advance the cause of
Freedom. (that is, give the black the bal
let.) and preserve the discipline of the
:Union (Republican) party for that pur
pose—to see that the great results of this
War are not nickel up and carried off by
rebels and Copperheads. The 0 14 issu e
remaining' upon which the Union (RA.
publican) party can concentrate and call
out the enthusiasm of the masses is this
very issue of manhood suffrage. We must
declare that labor IPwla to the ballot.box,
and that they who Work and create wealth
shall have the power of making and ex
ecuting the Jews governing wealth."
Oca D tmticratio brethren in Elk and
Clearfield counties have got into a morti
fying difficulty over their legislative nom
inee. Etch county claims the candidate,
and each is supporting one of its own.
:fie trust our friends there will have the
good sense not to permit the great nation
al cause to be imperilled by mere person
al or local issues. Let the fair minded
members of the party in both counties
get together, and if they cannot agree
upon either of the candidates presented,
compromise on some other sound man
who will reconcile the conflicting claims.
It is very unpleasant to see our friends
pulling one another by the ears in any
locality, when the prospects generally are
looking so favorable.'
A similar difficulty has occurred over
the Senatorial nomination in the York
and Cumberland district. The eternal
jangles between these two counties may be
very interesting to the people there, but
they are a source of much' annoyance to
the Democrats throttehout the Stato, Why
is it that our friends in that district can
not settle on some gust basis which will
harmonize the disputing interests, and
give each county its due share of the
offices? If it were not for the great im
portance of securing, the Legislature,
we would almost be reconciled to see the
party whipped now and then in these
quarrelsome localities, in order th a t it,
might learns wholesome lesson.
Tea civil Ira grew out of the conflict of
opposing sentiments and interests, fanned
into ultraism by the ever intensifying gale
of sectional dispute. The end of the ap
peal to arms leavei the ultraists of one side
silent, subdued and submissive, while the
ultraista of the other side are more ultra,
more aggressive and more malignant than
ever. And this is the only remaining ob.
steels to national harmony and entire res.
Location of the Union.
Mit. WC'S LIITTICIL
In reply to our allusions, Mr. DeCamp
has inserted a communication in the Gc
zette, over his signature, which no one but
a personal enemy could have induced him
to present to the pub ' e. It is at once so
weak PO so vulnerable so groundless in
its accusations, and so defenceless in its
general character, that even his political
friends freely express their mortification
and astonishment at its appearance. There
is politively nothing in the half column
of nonsense which Mt. DeCamp has seen
fit to Impose upon the previously effiicted
enough readers of the goadle. which does
credit either to his julgaient or ability.
His personal accusations will have no
weight with those who know us, and
whose good opinion we care for. His po•
litical charges are simply a rehash of the
same nauseating stuff that•has been dealt
out in the name of " loyalty " for four
years past, and like the rest, have merely
a partizan meaning. -Suffice it to say, that
in our entire course, since the commence
ment of the war, we have been actuated
solely by a desire for the beat interests of
the country ; that if we have committed
errors, they were mistakes. of judgment,
and not of intention ; and that every
charge, either by Mr. DeCanip or others,
of a design to extend sympathy to the ene
mies of the Republic, to destroy confi
dence in the Government, to weaken the
public credit, to disparage the defenders
of the nation, or to cause a failure in the
struggle, we pronounce base and unfound
ed calumnies.
The last paragraph of Mr. DsCrtenp's
letter need only be , seen to suggest its
proper answer. Every - man of good char.
actor who reads it will cry " for shame.'r
A few words more of a Ranyral nature,
and we shall leave Mr. D'Camp to his
writhinrs. An .effort is being made by
certain politicians to create the idea that
we have a fancy for indulging in:personal
attacks. These who are acquainted with
us moat intimately know beat the false
hood of
,this imputation. It is no part
of our nature to be on unpleasant terms
with any person. We always prefer say
ing a kind word for a neighbor to a harsh
one. Our desire during the four years in
which the paper has been un ler our con
trol, has been to treat our political oppo.
wants with jnatice. to keep en itecal terms
with all, and to make no offensivepenion
at allusions unless forced to do iso.
marked has been our policy in .this rea-,
peet, that we are aware of halting in
curred the censure of some Political sup
porters for what they chargati as timidity
and anxiety to court the favor of the
other side. How our efforts have been
met we leave for all acquainted with Erie
county politics to answer. In common
with the other members of our party, we
have been maligned in every quarter. our
sentiments misrepresented and our mo
tives impugned, until " forbearance has
ceased to be a virtue." The men foremost
in this work of detraction are genera*
those most yulneiable to attack, and be
tray the utmost sensitiveness when treat
ed to their own medicines. We now give
due notice that the Democrats of the
county blunt resolved that an and rhall be
put to this system of unjuit and infamous
calumny. Those Republican gentlemen
who show by their acts that they are fair
minded, honorable political antagonists
we intend shall always be treated as be
comes persons of respectable standing;
but the loud-mouthed few, who have b en
faremost- in exciting wicked passions
among their neighbirs, who originate the
falsehoods for political effect, and who
villify all, high or low. who do not keep
step to their music, may expect in future
to have that justica •m9ted out to them
which they_refuse to grant to others.
ALIMMED.
Nearly every Republican exchange we
take up, speaks in a nervous tone of
. the
encroaching election. The Harrisburg
Telegraph, of the 21st, says :
" Whatever differenees of opinion may
exist among the individual members of
the party on the question of colored suf
frage. they must be reserved, and not al
lowed to interfere with the greater issue,
of universal freedom which is at stake. Our
opinions on the subject of the enfranchise
ment of the negro are well known. We
believe that justice, sound policy, and
the guarantees of the Declaration, alike
demand that the ballot 'should be the
symbol of freedom, and co •Xt1.1131111/R with
it ; but in the present imperrilled condi
tion of the country, we think there are
other, nuestions more pressing than that."
The "other questions more pressing"
are simply—tifs spoils I If the people vote
to secure these in Republican hands, the
question of "enfranchisement to negroes"
will soon be settled. A Illitiblican sue—
cess in Pennsylvania this fall will embold
en that party to advocate negro suffrage
outright. not only in the South. but here
in the North. Let the issue be pressed
home on them from this time on. All
who want the government to remain as it
has been in the ninety years of its exist
ence, a white man's government, must
vote the Democratic ticket.
The Philadelphia &sin complains
bat " there is very little interest evinced
in the conduct of the present ofilleptiga."
Just wait until election night, and the
Democracy will give you principal and
interest both.
Toe influence of the Erie Gazelle with
its party may be seen in the action of the
Republican County Convention. kscir six
months past that paper has been advocat
'ng negro suffrage, and urging its party to
adopt it as a plank of their platform.—
Notwithstanding its earnest efforts, the
resolutions of the Convention do not say
a word on the subject, but; on the contra
ry, endorse President Johnion,:wbose pol
icy is well known to be antagonistic to
the Gazette's 'Views. We are-forced to be
lieve one of twuthings--either that the
party here does not express its - honest
sentiranaa in the county resolutions, or
that the Gazette has lost all its former in
finance with the Republicans. •
Tag platform of the Allegheny county
Abolitionists is explicit in favor of giving
negroes the right to vote. It asks for
them—we quote the exact linguage—"all
the "rights of citinnship. including' the
dectini fnpteiVs*, on the same terms and to
the same extent as the, awry 6 f - twee: Wed
to Me white pop& !" It believe
,is hard to
that any person there could be so =blush
ingly impudent as to stand up !ind con
tend that the party is not committed to
negro suffrage, and yet the Pittsburg Onsi
inercidassures its readers that such is not
the case I
131010CRATS ALL 66 TILI TRUTOIL.4.n
' The Graeae was not content with mak
ing a base and unprovoked personal at
tack on the editor of the OBSIRTEI last
week,. but extended ita foul satinet ions to
the entire Democratic party of Erie coun
ty. For infamous malice and falsehood
the following sentence eclipses anything
that has ever appeared in even the Har
risburg Telegraph or Forney's Preu, which
have been heretofore regarded as the in
carnation of meanness :
He has disgusted all loyal men by the
vileness of his course, and his party has
gone down, year by year, until it has sunk.
en Into the very abyss of contempt, nod
until scarcely a man in the county. who is
not at heart as vile a traitor as hinue?f, can be
found in its ranks.
This statement, besides being abase and
wilful libel, is as untrue as it is malignant.
The Democratic party has not"gone down,
year by year," in this county, but bas
shown a steady increase, as surprising un•
der the circumstances as it was unexpec
ted.
What do our readers think of the man
who, not satisfied with wreaking his im
potent malice upon us, accuses the whole
Democratic organization with being vile
traitors 1 Is he not a base and contempt
ible-creature, fully deserving of the por
trait we drew of him ? Can fair minded
Republicans any longer sustain such a
coarse and unscrupulous slanderer ? Here
is a direct wholesale charge upon all who
vote the Democratic ticket, that they are
traitors at heart, and in consequence anx
ious to destroy their Government. Many
of the men thus assailed are among the
best citizens of the county, and have done
as much u any to advance its prosperity.
Not one of them is excepted—all are vile
traitors according to the Erie Gm:die. "Oh
for a tongue to curse the slave "-to' his in
tolerance and bigotry, who could thus
scandalously traduce ore-third of his fel
low citizen.. Bad as he is, we could never
conceive him to be as great a villein as he
has proved himself. His imbecility we
could excuse, because it was a matter over
Which he had no c;introl,.and more to be
pitied than anything else, but to be in ari.
dition a sweeping and,recklees slanderer
and falsifier is a character which sinks
him into utter contempt.
CIP74VA INI
John Cessna. of Bedfsrli.is the C'tairman
of the Republican State Central Catrunit
tee. He was formerly a Dsmocrat, but
failing ti receive our nomination for Gov
ernor in 1863, he turned his coat, covered
it with pitch and wool, and is now work
ing like a beaver to secure., the success of
the principles he once thought all, that
was despicable aud dangerous in politics
To show his present allies what he tho't
in 1861, we copy a resolution offered by
him at a meeting in Bedford that year :
Resolved, That " the civil war by which
our country is distracted is the natural
offspring of misguided sectionalietn, en
gendered by fanatical agitators. North es
well as South. and that the Dsorscratic
party have equally opposed the extremists
of both sections. and having, at all Limos.
zealously contended for Ole administration
of the General Government, within- its
constitutional limits, that party is in no
way responsible for calamities that have
resulted from a departure from its doc
trines and a disregard.of its warnings and
advice.
How any men cm deliberately swallow
his words, and appear in public after •the
operation, as Cessna has done, is one of
the wonders in human nature which we
have never seen adequately explained.—
Will not some one of these cast-away
Democrats write a bo3k descriptive of the
modus opeiandi and physical and natural
effects of the operation ? If it were given
some such attractive title as " C3nacinnce•
thrown to the Dsgtor the Renegade's Cs
reer."--suggestive of its contents—we
would warrant it a large sale, and,a lucra
tive remuneration to the author.
MGR@ SUFPRAGE.
The two Pittsburg Abolition pspers,the'
(ache and Commercid, are just riew,en
gaged in a very spirited controversy to
decide the meaning of their State ,lat
form. The Vommerctat, which profolisei ba
be anti-negro suffrage, probably for pru
dential party reasons, urges that the reso
lutions to which Hartranft and C impbell
are committed do not endorse the new
dogma,while the Gazdte, which is a minia
ture edition of the Tribune, as loudly pro
claims that they do. We must do the lat
ter paper the credit to say that it sustains
its position very conclusively, as proof of
which we quote :
The Commercial suggests that we are bla
tant for immediate universal negro suffrage
and asks where - we find that doctrine in
the 'Harrisburg Resolutions ? * * * We
refer it therefore to the third of the series
already quoted by us—where it is asserted
that the rebel States " cannot be safely
trust's.' with the political rights they have
forfeited by their treason, until they have
proved their acceptance of the results of
the war by incorporating them in Consti
tutional provisions, and securing to all 131 0 11
tbeir borders their ins/fiend/We rights to
life liberty and the pursuit of happiless " *
* * Will the ammerciat inform us if this
was not intended to mean'that they should
vote ?"
Bravo! Mr. Gazette. You have him in
a tight spot, from which he cannot escape.
Persevere in making him swallow the
whole negro or none.
Orni of the resolutions passed by the
Republican County Conr,ention,reiterating
the sentiments of the State platform, de
clares that—
" The people of the Southern States
cannot be sately entrusted with the po
litical rights which they have rejected."
On the other hand, President Johnson
*VI
"The people mugr be trusted with rusts
owe, government ; and, if trstited, my
opinion is that they will act in good faith
and restore their former Constitutional re
lations with all the other States composing
the traion ."
Now. which is right, the President or
the Abolition politicians ? We prefer to
believe Er. Johnson.
Tax Boston Commonwealth, the editor of
_which vitus one of the Massachusetts Re
publican Convention, says, respecting
Gen..Butler's.speech before that body:—
" All listeners were struck with the coin
okbpnete 4.. his views and those of Mr.
'Stnner, and were mere than deligked to
'heir him with, great explicitness• pro-
Douses otei Praidera's 'Anne of reconstruction
se wire faihcre."
SLUMMING Sotorsas.—The
eel pollthiani tell us that it is the negro
- soldier who saved the Union I This is a
eorepliatent.to the white soldier which he
wilt apjevointe.
ANY time during the fmr years of war
it would have been possible for the ne•
groes of the South, had they r'sen en masse.
to have put an end to fighting, to have
crippled hopelessly the Southern cause
to have made certain and immediate the
restoration of the Federal authority. The
negroes of the Sauth did not do so. Their
labor supported their masters in the field.
They worked on fortifilationa, and, except
along the outskirts of the Confederacy,
lent no assistance whatever the Union
arms.
The R►dical+ want to reward this intel•
ligent patriotism by elevating the negro
to a level with the white. They wish to,,
manifest their gratitude for -thin exem
plary loyalty by giving them the ballot.
Either the Southern negves were capa
ble of thus stopping the war, or not. If
they were capable, yet did not, what claim
to the suffrage have they over the South
ern rebels ? If they were not capable of
Rich a timely and patriotic use of their
physical power, what claim have they to
be trusted with the use of political power ?
TUR FEDERAL DEBT.
In a speech delivered recently at Din
caster. Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, the leader
of his party in Congress, referring to the
National debt and taxation, declared that
as to the debt—
" There is no use in•belittling it. It
can only deceive the ignorant and those
only for a time. It eannot deceive fsan ;
niers. Osehsif of it now hears interest.
and the interest amounts to one hundred
and twenty millions per annum. The
ordinary expanses of carrying on the,gov
erntnent. and the Puma required for the
army end navy will swell our nnnual ex
nendituree to five hundred millions of
dollars. The amount derived from i n t,
nal revenue will diminish—TAX ITIONI
MINT BE DOURT,E WIT IT NOW
NTO MEET EXPE‘NEi nan cur peo
ple bear this? h wi" he a curse frost genera
tine to generatisn We pity the tsx•croo d
Englishman In reality WA are worse off
than he Oar deht is only a tr;fl less
and it hears double the rate of interest,
/n the future our Sur-lens mast be double his."
A MALI. VOTE.
We would especially'impress upon the
mini of every Dsmonrat in the State, says
the Lancaster Inteignteer. the acknowledg
ed and admitted fact, that all that is
needed to insure a glorious triumph for
the Democracy at the corning el-ction is
the polling of our fall vote. Lot this be
done and our majority will be sufficiently•
large to crush out of existence in thin
State that mongrel political nrganization
which derives all its vitality from its close
connection with the fanatics and radicals
of New England. There are some eighteen
hundred election districts in this State, or
very nearly that many. The absence of
three Democratic voters in each of these
would be a lose to us of five thousand
four hundred votes. Let every Democrat
remember this important fact, and then
resolve to see to it that every vote is poll
ed. Get' out the full vote and we cannot
be beaten.
Tag Republican press of Wisconsin are
ont in full cry against President John.on,•
and the action of their recent State con
vention In timidly sustaining his meas
ures. Among the papers at hand which
take this ground are the.Milwaukie Sent;
net, Baraboo Republic, the Monroe Sentinel,
the Northwestern, and F•rnd du Lao Cbm•
neonwedih. More than two-thirds of the
Republican papers in that State are in
open revolt against the President's. plan
of restoration. The bolting convention at
Janesville threatens to be an important
body, and may be the initial step to the
formation of a national R siical party.
TER Republican journals are bard at
work calumniating Cols. Davis and Lin
ton. Returned soldiers who are minus a
log or an arm ! please observe that you
are no patriots except you vote the Radi
cal ticket.
Tqz Northampton county Democratic
convention recommended Hon. John W.
Maynard, President Judge of that die.
triet, as their choice for Governor, and in
structed their delogstes to support him.
lIIPOSIV INT QUORUMS.
MR. EDITOR :—Some persons have a hab
it of making a fuss about small matter.
and paying no attention to things of real
importance. They have spent tenzner.,
time and trouble enough on the Perk
fence to have managed a Commonwealth
And the Park needs nn fence at all, since
th e geese have been frightened stray by
JimeStew 'Ws frying pan and V trnev's
cionnd. They get into a tes - ing passion
over the hauling of some gravel into the
streets. And of what great importance
is it, if a member of the street committee
did make the mistake of filling up the
highest part of Etta Sixth street,when he
should have cut off part of the street and
filled pp the Valley of the Creek ? It was
an error, but bigger ones have been made
scores of times, and will be made again
by inexperienced Councils—men elected
to a position they have neither age nor
experience to fill. But when the trade of
the Philadelphia road and the oil regions
of Pennsylvania, which belongs to Erie
'city, is about being carried away by a rail
road from Corry to Dunkirk, what say
they ? Why, if their advice is so impnr
taut to Erie and its surroundings, have
they never said a word about the immense
injury done to Erie city and Erie county_
in Penn's, by the granting of a charter Co
the State of New York, to cut. MY the l'e•
gitimate trade of Erie by this railroad from
Dunkirk to Corry ? Why did these people
who put their fingers into every man's
business, never once speak of the ble
fraud committed,
,by turning the Erie &
Meadville road into an Atlantic & Great
Western road, to carry every passenger
and pound of freight peat Erie, and leave
her out in the cold? Why do these men.
elected as some of them have been to im
portant offices, by Erie citizens, never
once mention the loss about to be suffered
by Erie, by the railroad chartered from
Emporium to Buffalo—by which Erie will
be deprived of a fleet of coal vessels to car
ry the coal of Penn's from Erie harbor to
Buffalo? These persona who arrogate so
much, and are forever sputtering about
geese and hogs, and old fences, and inter
fering with street committees about a
load of gravel, say no single word about
the loss of millions of money to Erie. by
the taking away- of, her trade to Bofftlo
and Dunkirk, and by cross route to Mead
ville, leaving Este a deserted triangle;
roads running South of her and East of
her, and all done by Carters of the State
of Penn'a. When we send one
. big Sen
ator and two Representatives to attend to
our interests at Harrisburg. and who cart
make hie speeches about rebels, soldiers'
votes and the ciders of the day, and per
mit franchises of untold value to be given
to the States of New York and ()hie;
which will carry off the trade belonging
to Erie and leave her desolate and poor ;
they utter no word of warning. or can •
sure, or rebuke for the men who could
nermit or perpetrate this great wrong to
t he citizens by whose vote they were elec
ted, and to the State by which thisy were
paid. ' 'Why do these wise people, who
as be so busy over our gravel, geese, hogs
and fences, sound no note of. warning
when our prospects e'a being ruined ► , y
the abstraction or our business by foreign
corporations? Who ie phi these vsl
liable franchises which are ruining us
Eras no man received s psltry ten or twen
ty thousand dollars for pt vileres worth s
? or are we ea stupid nr so honpoit
as to give away incalculable advantages for
just nothing at all? Why do they praise
and puff other linekof travel and contin
ually denounce our own ? Why, in short
have they always meddled in the affiirs of
the city. and never, in one single instance.
even by accident or choice, said or done
any one thing for the real interests of the
city ? And wny do our Senator and repro
sentativabusy themselves all winter alvnit
all and singular the afftirs of the United
States, and the world in general, and leave
Erie city and county to be fleeced and
plucked by franchises given to foreign
corporations ? Is is safe to say that a city
more cursed by meddling and-more nee
r lerted and injured by those to whom its
interests are trusted, does not exist be
tween the rising and the setting of the
sun. , A NATIVE.
TII6 OCTOOKII. ELECTION.
Our State electio is . only three weeks
distant. The canvass must therefore ne
cessarily be short, and from present indi
cations it will be a quiet one. There is
nothing in this to discouraee the Democ
racy. The questions at issue. although
imnortant,-are not of an exciting nature.
end do not call for any great display of
effort in the way of speech-making. mass
meetings and the like. The people are
simply asked to decide by their votes.
whether the Union shall be restored under
the Constitution. or whether ifs harmony
and integrity shall be destroyed by an
unlawful extinction of the separate exist
ence of the States lately in rebellion ; and
whether the right of self-gnvernment shall
continue to be exercised by white free
men, or shared with the inferior race of
-blacks, by their admission to a voice in
nnlitical affairs, through the medium of
the ballot-box Upon these questions.
fairly presented. there silnuld be no doubt
gs to their decision. The people of Penn
sylvanite are no revolutionists. or fanatic--1
agitators for an impossible scheme of
negro equality All that is needed, to
give us victory at the polls, is a full vote
To that end out efforts must be directed
—quietly but 'effectively. Last - leer. in
the face of the most powerful exertions of
the opposition, hacked by all the influence
of the Administrating. we carried the
State by a clear majority on the home
vote. and were only thrown in the minor•
ity by a manuf ictured and to a great ex
tent fraudulent soldiers' vote. This year
the soldiers will vote at borne, and as citi
rms. and we believe they will vote right
In former tithes our railvine cry %seg—
..' A full t' to it a Drinocratic victory !" Let
it he so now ; for the result will prove its
truth —l'4/icy S
TO THE PROPILR OR PRNNAILYILNI%.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CFNTRAL COM Isonms.l
PMILADI.L.PLIIA S-pt. 10. '65.
You are upon the<eve of a most impor
tan t election.
Bith political organizi!ions.hre an
nounce(' their platforms and presented
their candidates for you- suffrages.
The Dzmocratic , partv distinctly affirms
its support of the policy of reconstruction
adopted by, President j•Ainson, and an
nounces its opposition to negro suffrage
and negro equality.
Upon these, the real issue.: of thi canvass,
the Republican platform is ambiguous, its
candidates are mute, its central authority
silent.
We believe that it is your right to know
their sentiments, and' that they who seek
your support should be frank ,in the ex
pressiun of their 0
Can you sustain the President by voting
for those who e refuse to endorse his pellet?
Will you hazard the superiority of your
race by voting for those who are unwilling
to proclaim their belief in the inferiority
of the neero ?
Democrats of Perintylvihia :
Press home upon your antagonists the
vital issues of the campaign.
Thrntich the press and on the rostrum,
in the field and in' the workshop, demand
that they shall ankwftr.
Are you jar or aiainst President Johnson's
policy of reconstruction I
Are you for or against negro suirrage and ne
gro equality f
By order" of the Democratic State Cen
tral Committe.
WII:LI6/1 A. WALLACC Chairman:
We are gratified to notice the alter ?d tone
of this week's-Gr:ette. Instead of the offen
sive epithets which hive marked its language
for several weeks past, it is as mild as a suck
ing dove. Our neighbor has taken a compre
hensive view of the " situation," and con
cludes he might as well be jolly as feel bad
over it. We commend his philosophy, and
take the liberty of suggesting that if he hod
been actuated by the'same spirit before which
he 'now proles' es to entertain, an immense
amount of unpleasant feeling wou'd have been
avoided on both sides. it is our sincere hope
that no necessity will be occasioned by him
for a repetition of the incidents of the past
two weeks. The sanctimonious airs of "injured
innocence " which he puts on Would be pro
coking, if they were not so amusing. It is a
charac'eristic trait of his class of minds,
when they have done others an injury, and
are paid back for it, to bawl out lustily about
their superior virtue. The public will nut be
deceived in this way. Mr. 49,vette. They knot.,
too well who is responsible for the difficulty,
to give you any sympathy, much as you may
heg for it.. Our advice to you,in future, is to
keep your temper, indulge in no indecent ex
pressions, treat your opponents like gentle
men, and do in all things as you would be
done by. IVe shall then labor to corince you
that all the horrid pictures you have chnj 'red
up about our lock of professionsl dignity nod
"courtesy" are mers vagaries of the fancy.
County Fair.
Speaking of the Fair held at Concord, N.
H. the Independent says: •, It cannot he de
nied that a throng so numerous and brilliant
as was seen on the ocenston. furnishes a bap•
py Illustration of the glorious peace which
sends its untold and rich blessings all over
oar country. The salutary influence of such
gatherings. on the minds of the hardy yeo
manry of our labd, • 0 ttl never be computed.
These annual exhibitions, for the purpose of
divlayiog the ingenui.Y and skill o t the far
mers and mechanics of, America suggest one
of the grandest elementa of our national
strength. Not a man can attend them withou ,
receiving some benefit. Such fine stock and
excellent tools and implements have a tendin
cy to prompt our ambitious young men to dis
tinguiah themselves as good tillers of the aCil.
manufacturers of useful implements of h4s
bandry, or producers of beautiful and valuslra
animal , ." •
Heed this, farmers and mechanics of Erie
county. and let us see that you not only can,
but will have a Fair. That you not only ap
preciate the great blessing of peace but that
you mean to mite use of it for your own and
your neighbor's benefit. Let us have a grand
turn out of the farmers, and mechanics, and
All interested in the welfare of Erie county al
regards Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.
IL
The T►cketß,
The tickets for the Demoorstio voters of the
county will be printed and circulated on or
before the let of October. A list of the 'persons
to whose hands they are committed in each
district will be published in the Onssaran, so
all may see whom 'to apply to for a supply.
As lila not fair that the candidates should be
asked to pay for the tickets, we shall pantile
the plan adopted by us last year, of charging
'soh township with those supplied tolt, and
sending a bill for the mount-along with the
tiokete.
MARRIED
. 11 oirefos —Buss —On Thur day afternoon, the
21st lost , at the residence of the bride's
father, by Rev. Mr. Johnson, %Ir. IL M.
ishonon to Miss Mery Buns. eldest daugb•
ter of Wm. Buss, all of this city.
Passosis—Att.rs.—On the 22 , 1 ingt , by F.
• Catnphausen. , Mr. E B. Par.ons. of
this city, to Mrs. L. N: Allen of Columbus,
Pa.
DIED.
C001.611.—1n Harbor Creek. on the 211 h inet ,
after a lingering illness, Mrs. Wm. Cooper,
aged 61 years.
Mrs. C. was no old'resident of, this oiunty
and highly esteemed by all erholuew Ler.
Itussm—ln Wayne, 3eptecaber 26 J 865, of
diphtheria, fieorgn W., second Pon of Wm S.
find Esther Russell, aged 11 year's, 5 months
and 19 days.
Important Notice.
We desire that a:I aceounta due this offices shall be
settled on or befo - e the let of January neat. Oyer
$5,000 of Indebtedness is due upon our books, no-stly
in small Sums trifling to the rrtiee from whom they
are due, but Important In the ■ggrerate t.) us It is
neetuary to our interest■ that they he collected berme
the commencement of the new year. We shall send out
bll■ between this and the date ;nentinned, to every per
sox owing us. whether the raze be large or malt, and
hope they will be responded to in the right spilt. Tr e
money may be remitted by ■atl, or can be paid to any
of the following patties, who are our Armin In the places
named, and duly authorized to collect money due us,
and receipt in our name there•er :
Water - tad W. C White ; Polon, ti. T Fiume ; Corr)
Colt:mhos and Warne, a mom Heath : Watt.borg,
Roblo.on YP , unaaville, Capt. (. J. Whitney : F6;300111
M.+aler ; ;one tgoe • Gir •rd Cent. ri. W
Hotehinson ; Platen J. C. Caoffnao ; Albion, C. F.
Lincoln ; North Eta, R. A. Tann, er2.3-tt
A Merited Tribute.
The following resolution•. ndnpted by the Ftnphemofle
Class of Yale College relative to the tad des'lt of one
its most biehl. ea reined maim PrP, Mr. r Orin D Ryan,
of Will Creek, hare ...eon hand. d oa foe rnblleation. Mr
Ryan dt•d.at 'ha reedenee of hie fatbtr , J. hn Roan
Erq. on the EA lest , where he wtr on a alit to reeu-
T....e btu impaired health At a ilea - Inc of the e 1.,.
held September Idth, tee following preamble and !reelni
tine. were •dnp ed
W1N.11.8. It has n'ealed an 11-Pro/Men.* to re•
more from one midst nor onteern..d friend and clan/mate
"Edwin ' , ode R• an, the•et,re
Resolwei. Thai although we VIVI hot 110b.11 , to the
fhvee leer., we feel our b.r .4.rarnon , the lea..
Resolved Th•t hi• degth we h•ve In t a p'ea•snt
tom . woo agitn t whose elpirxet.r no wo r d f re ,, srh
eon be otte•el. and whose memory we shall ever cherish
int deems err etinn.
Re v ol te d r h e in an no.rre-11 •xpres Ana of oar grie
w wear th • norAl b trig* or moorofn• thlr• da•••
Reseeel. That gra tender o r heartfelt ournpa.he t
hla oerea,d went* and frieode. and that a copy o
these resolutions be tranemitt• d to them.
GCnIGR IT. C0w.1.1..,1
WILL AM PAPP ,, Ifil, I -.
TF , OZAB H. ROBB NB riIIXIIIIIttei
5•14 ,, V1C , •1 , 7 , . I
JniiN M. Fr • pj.w J
NOW Advertisements.
NOTICE •r 0 PiCillof/l. TEteiIFAIN4
Ap,'•ra'lo"a for -rhnol• .011 he received by 'he
noder.igned n tll Oefol'er 20th, for lifrhnoa to kffil
Creek foexel In f o r lefeter term ; Arp'fcanta anoet en
c.o.., their certificates for the iatp•et , no • fib. Board of
Dl , e^tnro. F. R. ICM H' FN.
If II Creek, 'fr,-.4.21;',,1nf..5-2re et , e'y of Board.
T IVERY AND wok T .R ‘BLRes,
Onit•Mt FRENVI 71 . 11 r F r.
R. W. RatcHT P rioter n"nd B uses And reresgss
slims lon hand at n3ll..rate Fept. 21. 1,05-1 y
T e Tug oFv,erit. AND' .4 ITL DI ILS OF
V.ll - 4 1 1TY-THl•tio
The omnivore of the rla Regiment who are w`Fing to
contribute towards dofra inr the rxn•nne• of romor , rB
th• renoeins of Yajiir Loot• R. %Rabet from rh• battle
field of l3ain•e' Mitt. Ta IC•w Alb•n'. Indbana, for
honorable lineal ore rooni stool in rend or h•nd in
whalers .em tbPv dieposed to otiro for th.norpo.e.
to "art. John t:nh•m rr T. V. I u.tin. t e twe*,,
tlme and the Lot of i'etohor. .Shnilit a sum to ralvd
m re than to envor th• oxr site, the haLacee will be ap
niieof to the Vonnrn•nt Fund
Erie. Sept. IS 1855. ee29.2we
pRICES REDUCED.
UNION FURNITURE STORE
ERIE, PENN'A,
Is now selling the largest assortment of
FIIRSITCRE, BEDSTE k03,1317RF.AU, C 4 NE, SOFA
SEAT ♦ND OTHER CHAIRS,
flees* Feathers. Yatraaee • . Lounges. and other Furn'
tore, ever brought to this city.
GT.O W. F.LT.qr.Y.
General Commt•sino Furniture Dee'er,
*West side neer fith. ors State sheet.
Cr" C►Tl and eye the Iro'dlng Bedstead. '15'28 3ro
QTRIN COW.
CI Came to •h• prernives of the sabecriber. to .tom
mitt township. shoat toe Int el' Augamt. • White Cow.
with some tei tttlota on her. bode, ard ab , n , fire ear.
old. The owner is requ.ated to come forward. prove
property, paticharrea. nod take her away ; otherwise
ahe will he dioon.ed of according to law.
Sept. 28, 1845-3 w • 'WM A. BSAN•
A A. ADAMS s C 0..
WHOLESALE tIE/LERS
•
BOOTS,
SHOES,
AND
RUBBERS
•
COltifEat -OP STATE AND FIFTH STItitP,TS,-
ERIE, PENN'A.
Erie, September 29, 1565. 5e,29-3m
WAND GIFT ART ASSOCIAT/UN,
FARRAR HALL FOR ONE WEEK ONLY,
Commencing
MOND tY EVENING, SEPT. :25, 1805
THE ORIGINAL mAmuora STEREOPTICON !
COPYRIGHTKD BY P. C. AUG, PRIVA
The collection of iorelrn and American riPWR,S'a
blare St.., arab sp'eodl I exhi , it numi•era r Ter
Onstbonaand btu the largest and most select eollec
tlon . erer brOLIO together.
Amemc the other attractions onhta refined and die—
lighttni ent..ertainment the Propr etors enge.ge to pre
pent their Weans each evening with
ONE }1! NDRED DDLIAR3 WORTH OF SUPERB
LARGE SIZE AND
lIIEDIUIt SIZED PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE
Rarest and Yost Select View', msny of which
CANNOT BE DUPLICATED IN THE WORLD
This splendid qtereopticon ham twenestablisho nearly
ars ear...end doing tbet time hail Mei with unbou ded
recesses throughout the Eastern Cities, basins bad the
unprecedented run of -11txen weetain the City of rhii
&Web's, lad It welt known atO applauded throughout
tb• Itastern •itatei.
Tickets SO cents.
Doors open at 7 o'clock. Commence at ti-o'cleek.
een It
RnmovAL
THE D•RI GOODS STORE
KNOWN AS
MERRILL'S ,
WILL MOVE TBI3 WEEK,
TO THE NEW AND ELEGANT STORE
REED HOUSE
LOOK OUT FOR BARGAINS!
Siptetaber fi t 1863-4,*
W IL. MAGILL, ..- .....
_
Dium °See la Roma- 'I i 1a..•
Wale; /Mask. aorta abla al at,
the Put. Ley„ Pa. ye.
E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO„
Igarliofacturoro of Photogr4;,h lc If . •
44r.4
501 BROADWAY, N y
la lAA: U.. le four mug ;
Stereoscopes arid v,'
or I,sl •
yaws OF THE, tkr"h, d,
[Mitred v., • • . 1 • 1.
PUOTOGZ.LrIiIe 111 . 51 , ,8Y • .
Ball Ran.- butch
E P ! t u n t o e v e t r r
- • ,
Yorktown,
Gottycbargh,
Fair Oaks, Lookrut
Savago Station, Chickai.oul -
Fredericksbargh, City
Peter;ly,rviEelio ,
Pkon,
ChattaLv,gi,
Atlar.tl.
Mo1)11 , ,
Stra 4Lcrry
Fairfax,
Richniond,
Peep Bottom,
Monitors.
Fort Morgan,
Charleston,
Florida.
A•rler.rrn 1,1) - ,crOkr. C • ••1
rt, sr. • „. '
a Our „
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St.s.np.
Photographic Aib Lnu.
W. yen th. n•,• I •
.roll tntsJflrt,?.• •••• ••
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lag lIJ pr:r. rr .vn •
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Tat) . ••• r.ont by
%Limy,
Tho Trade will find o•Ir
Sa.eable they ca
CA RD II( .
Our Cat•for , ••• .
subpr.t• (43 •• 54•1.. • ,
n•n) , 1,••••,11. ,k• , I a •
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CHEROKEE P
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HEALTH PRESS;
CERTAIN 'AND S
FO? as RP MOM, of (M4f ,
of Repuktrstv in the
Munt/./ry.
lir They cure or obviate
!VW., that arcing freqn
tbe,lrregularity itaell.
Pr' They clre Sup'nreetarY.
fui Menvruath,o
They cur. Green
IFVP .-- They care Seq . VOuo A.
pain:, in the hark, and '
litayineas, Fatigue on thzt ,
of the /Part, Insane,* ur
iPadarA.,
moving the Irripahtn ,, , , , t..
and with it •L. L. V,
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M.' Comr,n,vl ...f 4.11•,.1. v•
COntattl nothing deleter o. •
however delimit, thUr for .•
rtexorth t.r vreaknep,, ‘ 0.,,, ,
they never fall to .10.
re , ' They tn." . he •A r • . , ..,.
any period, e ICK Pt r. ret % , } • .
during ort.telt the Uhrktil ...
liutlhl Itlf , llllhly Pitt.‘"E.Sl 1, , ,
'Ver All letters w-eldn.., '
be promptly, freely au.l : ... ,
Full dirtien,
f
t Prwe fl ec l.. rb 3
ox, , •,:s
Sent by mail, ire
•
price.
gar Pamphlets sent I,r ^ , • •
DR. W. R. MERWIN &CI
64 Lile-rty , 1 •
DR. WRICHT'S
REMENITIAG Eli
Or, ESSENCE OF L,
primpar.d hum l'ut4r %reetabi. I. tire
h. 4 In] IA Hu. to Ile
Molli delicate.
' 5l; "
=
=GZ3tti=el
inlmsted eritb New WY , .
rebt•enece the a pat.: .7.1 crrer-
Intr The lit-Jaren-ding F
ern di.curerles in the
an entirely I,* nod sh•Ftri
pecli•e of all the old owl
'tar' This medicine his
emin.nt tn.akal men of
th
nou to be one of the grea:
of the sire.
One bottle grill cur , sr , •
[11.""' A fru doses cures Hs'
pr. - One bottle cures Fhti, • c,
_V,Frorn ~nr to three
ne.4lnd MI rigor of yo•.
re- A Yew d.dwe rest.d...
, re- Three bottles care
fence.
A few doses ectret , t
One t,,,tcl•• recto,, , • •
4 feu, iloo , A
1 fe• doses brill: • •
VD'TMI medicine r;•,.. • • •
robult•heedth the poor • .
deop,dring.
re - tr•t,
ed /II al] I'Llshie•rs. the
[to- fr
Jp ”t w. i kn.° 0/ 41 "
date an.l permanent relkf l)
or Es, Pre Of Lir,.
VEIP — Prire, ft: per bottle
and torwarded by Expre , ,,
to any address.
rr The Cherokee Pub
are •• i.l '.• •
DettAwlet•i, the et rlitaell lorhrt , l
drat r, hover r. r, try to ..11 -
lb plaee of t it,ae ; those which U...
ca..ar , and make cnole
Inc. than they can go tte-se In • k'
sour health, aye, the health of y
'Prime, do nor he ..letetred
Druggist', ask Pe . 0•• e -
era. If the limurcl-t 6,11 alt tiqy
CIO* , Ihr money lh a letter, In.! • e•
to you by Fa pr...., ant urvly 4, 1
from ot.servatioo.
Ladles or-Gentlemen eas +4'•
confidence, 'canna lolly •.. 1 4, 4 - • •
and symptnnalf, .. • ,•-•
Daffier in male or femal.• P, • • •
Late beeans.• of 1,11.1 r , • -
[rented patients sumer.' r
1414,11 e, c,grr•-•,
Patients aAldre,sing ut
the aympti . atis thrtr
Other, Coun , y, State and
Inclrrnr pornia4;....tarni. 6,r ••
w. se,/ ..tir S . : p.p.] , I'.
ilret• letter , . f. , ••
the proprietors,
Or. W. R. MERWIN b.
No. VS Liberty io,r•-t
ENNM
PIANU FORTE MANUFAI
4c9 BROADWAY, NEW 1.
The attAktinn of !h. Pus , ' io nmt •
nor ?err 6,1- 7 OctAs,
for volume and print, of tnno .• '
trer-r , tr Van offered in thin marl rt.
inirri , rern-ntn. Fr•-och.
Iron Fra Over-.4trun: t'
grump.. !,ing 'en,rinr th • 3.- - .''s
Mr. 1.11 '; rwr•ter,, who
cf orrr :5 ten-. In th,ra mlaut.c•
In evert particular.
,7.GRuVESTEEN
Rec.ivid the sward of mitt a
celebrated
WORLD':; F
Where were exhibited iastrum.•; . ..
of
LONDON,
fARIS,
ammo
BALTIIIORS;
3OSTON,
--
AND
And al,'
AMER 'CAN 'N''T Tr:
for dye snr•Pll,iV4 p.m.., •'1
D AND 51!,'• F".
from both of which can be g• •": 4
By tb , Introln .t lon of
rerfset Pi :n Fort.,
with 4 strict••lll 11 a, etrv,
u nt-at a. pri.r which ,
?niers—No I t vrn • 1,0 •
plaitiraao S 2 - 7.
No 'J. Seven A...
. heavy mnul Isar $
'No 3. Se% en
void Louts X'
ntltkfl Nrt. Prt.h in
Descriptive circular' aril
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11 • y vtutratto.,;,:por
• V.
Gradolit, , of the tenon, ,•
gory. MD,. 1,, o,,;ht'e
Drag Storn) Erie, PA. •
iIL/IgtXri 1.1
C V. Pierce, U. D.S , N. , • •
plats
T. L. •'
street, 'lt
irMl"Mtl`.\ NOrlf '
11.441.4• - • •
p , elte the Vv.. t;
twinvie. ptrrtsrlt tr. co
reiltmlotintiottt•-i rr- Arr
thwir me..., int,
so , nst me will • `•,
settl.ahnot Ir t 5, •
of ()Veber next t'lttr Wirt r
Cirtte for eoll•etion
Erb", September 14,W5-31'
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