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TILE 130IITEI -UNDER RADICAL RULE,
A more significant indication of the con
dition to which the Radical policy has re
duced the Southern portion of our country
cannot he found than the report of Gent Gil
lem, Chief of the Ffeedmen's Bureau, in Al
abama, to Gen. Ord, commanding officer of
the district. He says the blacks do not ad
here to their eontractsi that they are shiftless,
lazy and impudent ; that thousands of them
arc reduced to the verge of starvation ; that
signs of revolution, spoliation and rapine are
rapidly increasing ; and that unless the aid
and authority of the Government are extend
ed at once, the present winter will exhibit
scenes of horror beyond comparison. In re
sponse to this report, Gen. Ord has issued an
order requiring Gen. Gillen' to proceed to
Washington and the 'facts before the
President forthwith. He is directed to noti
fy the Executive of the "absolute necessity.
of some provision being made by the Gov
ernment to feed the freedmen and avert the
war of races in such b sections as are without
food." The immense number of negroes
who will - not work, dependh - fg upon the Bu
reau for support, has also compelled the Gen
eral to Witte another order to the following
effect:
"Commanding officers are directed to notify
the leading colored men, and take such other
meastires as may be necessary, to give gener
al publication of the film, that all freedmen
who are able will be required to earn their
own support during the coming year, and to
go to work upon the best terms that can be
procured, even should it furnish a support
only, and thus prevent their becoming a bur
den to Government, All freedmen who
van, but will not, earn a livelihood when em
ployment can be procured, will lay them
selves liable to arrest and punishment as va
grants." •
Prom Louisiana, the same sad story reach
es us by every mail. The -Tribune's Wash
ington teieg-rarns say the "Assistant Commis
sioner for Louisiana reports to the Freedmen's
Bureau-that the number of laborers of all
classes, male and female, is stated to be 294,-
000; anti the aged and helplessof both sexes,
190,000 in that State." In other words, (Wer
half the negroes in Louisiana are unable to
provide themselves with the means, of exist
ence, and unless the Government steps to
their relief will perish fVom hunger . iii :gland
where the.means of securing food aro easier
than in any other part of the Union, The
people_ of the North must furnish them their
source - of subsistence, and, although the tax
es to provide it come directly out of the
pockets of the business and monied classes,
they must inevitably be paid by the farmer
and laborer. At a time when it is as intuit
as most persons in the North can do to sup
ply the neFe , .sities of their own families, the
knowledge of such a state ol' fhet. will be
apt In be received with sensations the reverse
of agreeable.
We ask the careful consideration -of the
reflecting public to these statements. They
are not made at random, for political effect,
but are based on the official documents of
tho , e who' have the most interest in keeping
them concealed. The Radical press take
special pains to avoid their publication, or
if they do print them, place them in such a
-shape and Position that they attract the
attention of very : few of their read
ers. Bad as the circumstances now are, un
der Radical policy they must continue to
groW Worse and worse, until the whole South
is one vast pour house, ,sustained at the ex
p6nse of the tax payers4l-working ela%ses
of the Northern States.
=I
A. friend has inst called our attention to a
feature in the report of Mr. McCulloch, Sec
retary of the Trtsury, which does not ap
pear to have attracted general notice, and is
deserving the careful consideration of every
person in the country. Front the statistics
given by Mr. McCulloch, it appears that,he
has increased - the interest paying debt of the
nation from $.1,100,000,000, as it stood in
March, 186, to $2,1100,000,000, as he reports
it at present; thus lidding $72,000,000 in gold
or $100,000,000 in currency to the annual in
terest. This has been done by funding green
backs and giving interest paying bonds for
other portions of non-interest paying indebt;
edness. He has reduced the legal-tender cir
culation from $684,000,000 to $402,000,000,
which difference of V 82,000,000 adds to the
interest paying debt and reduces the curren
cy. making it more difficult to pay taxes, and
increasing the value of bonds. ,We are
aware that the Radical party, as a mass, en
dorse this financial policy, but it seems as if
!hey =fit do so morn from want of race ;
tion over its results than front any hearty be
lief in its soundness or safety. There may be
some 'plausible objections against the pro
posed plan of paying of the debt in green
--backs, but how any sensible person can be
lieve for a-moment that it is good statesman
ship to convert The non-interest paying and
unsettled debt. of the ebuntry, into interest
paying bonds, at a time whim there :t gen
eral complaint of the scarcity of currency,
the pUblie taxation is already more hem
the people can hear, is one of the profound
est mysteries of the age. How long the
country can endure such tinanciering, each
iti,ren can judge fn himself. It doe-. not
ienuire very deep ethical knowledge to com
prehend that there is no injustice in continu
ing Milli - lion under which a debt was con
tracted until it is paid, and that payment in
the kind borrowed, is natural, honorable and
implied linty., the bond stipulates other
wise. •
THE WAIT TIIE MONEY GOES
The cost of the useless investigating com
mittees, which have been multiplied to an
almost unlimited.extent by the Radical rump
Congress,__ enornoius. Could the whole
sum thtis wasted be figured up, it would star
tle the tax-payers. It is announced that the
Sergeant-at-Arms of the House has presented
a bill of $1.10,000 Jur summoning witnesses
ditring tke past year. It' it cost that much to
summon them, what did the fees of the wit
nesses and other expenses amount to ? It has
come to pass that investigating committees
are appointed on the Most frivolous preten
ces. One has been traveling round New Eng
land to ascertain the truth of certain charges
made by the showman Barnum. Another
has spent weeks in KentuCky,' looking up
charges of disloyalty- against the members
elect, ull of which they found to be false.
There have been two or' three committees to
investigate Maryland affairs, and so we might
go on enumerating them by the score. This
iy one,of thoye new dodges by u hich the tax
payers are -,xvindled out of millions of mon
ey. The people hare constituted themselves
an Investigating Committee, anti they intend
lo bring all these rascals to the bar of public
opinion. It will not cost $150,000 to sum
mon witnesses to convict them, and at the
Congressional elections, which take place
next fall, honest men will he returned in
Phice , of the corrupt swindlers who seem to
think it their chief duty- to plunder the pub
lic treasury:
. ONE of the tirst duties of Congress is to
lessen taxation by every means in its power
consistent with the maintenance of the public
credit. To this end it should close - up the
businM4 ‘.4 liecoustruc tio as rapyiffaspos..
Bible. . .
FUN FOR THE ROTS, EMT DEATH TO
- THE. FROGS.
A number of journals have been at the
pains to make some careful inquiries into the
cost to the people of the Radical mode of
governing the Booth, and the filets and figures
they present are' no less interesting than sig
nificant and appalling. The mass of the
Northern people, in their anger at the mad
ness of the South in entering upon the re
bellion, have been . too eager to gratify their
feeling of revenge to count its terrible cost
to themselves. It is well remarked by the
Philadelphia Age, that "military governments
are always expensive. France pays heavily,
for her armed rule, and Russia and Prussia
expend millions upon millions to support
their immense armies. The South is now,
divided into military provinces, and we are
beginning to feel the cost of such an eiperi
meat. Not only is-the North deprived of the
business and-trade of the ten unrepresented
States ; not only ate manufactories idle, mills
stopped, the fires of finnaces extinguished,
ships rotting in the docks, find mechanics
and workingmen asking for employment, but
taxes are increasing, itnposts augmenting,
and the cast of all articles advancing on ac
count of the revenue collected from the labor
and industry of , the people. Hosts of tax
collectors traverse the land, peep into books,
examine private accounts, and place the seal
of official power upon all the fruits of hon
est industry.• The : people are taxed to the
uttermost. What b6comes of the money?"
A statement of some of the items in the
appropriation bill to supply deficiencies in
the execution of tlle'military reconstruction'
laws, and for the service of the Quartermas
ter's Department, will enable the tax-payers
to see how their money k expended. The
following ere the items in the second deficien
cy b ill, now before Congress :
For reconstruction expenses in the
Ist Milituty District, - - Vio,ooo
Reconstruction expenses M the 9.(1
Military District, - 110,000
Reconstruction expenses in the :Id
Military District, - - 97.000
Reconstruction expimses in the 4th
Military District, - -150,000
Reconstruction expenses in the sth
Military District, - - 250,000
-Making in all
As there has already been appropriated
$1,500,000 for objects specified in the above
schedule, the whole ainotint which the white
men of the North are called upon to pay for
faices called elections in the ten subjugated
States, is $2,151%000, This is paying dear for
breaking up all civil rule and authority in the
South, and reducing the people-to the condi
-6011 it -vrite.i by Gen. (Allem, in his report
to the eutnut:uuliu_• Gi.nPral 44 ' the Fourth
Military flit Mill
In the ,erond deficiency - bill the tbllowing
items also appear, To supply deficiencies in
the Quartermaster's Department for the year
ending June 30, 1843 :
For relrular supplies, - - $330,000
For incidental expenses, - . 730,000
For purchasing cavalry and ar
tillery horses, - - 400,000
For transportation of army, 7,330,000
Making in all the sum of $8)350,000
There are other items, making
the Whole
A large portion (it' the last deficiencies is
fur army transportation, and keeping black
and white troops in the South to uphold a
system intended to place the negroes in the
ascendant in that section, and make them the
political allies of the - Rm nt the coming
Presidential election.
In addition to tikes/. items Gen. Howard,
the head of the Freedmen's Bureau, has. re
ported on hand asked and for additional np
propriations, as follows:
On band, - - - - $0,513,085 55
iidditional a4zed, - - 3,836,800 00
Total, - - $10,350,765 55
1 And here are some of hi, items of expen
ditures a.; he presented them in detail :
Salarit.-.4 of assistant commission-
. ,ers, sub-assistants and agents, . $147,000
Salaries of clerks, - • 82,700
Stationery and printing, - . 03,000
Quarter; and fuel, - - - 200,000
Subsistence stores,-
1,500,000
Medical department, - - 500,000
Transportation, - 800,000
School superintendents, - - , 25,000
Buildings tbr schools and asylums, 500,000
Telegraphing and postage, - 18,000
To all these expenses, enormous and crush
ing as they are, must be added a fair propor
tion of the regular appropriations ibr the
army ; for, if the Southern Stites were al
lowed to govern themselves, as the other
States of the Union are governed,ithe mili
tary force could be reduced fully one-half.—
One hundred and thirty millions are the esti
mated 'expenses of the army under the pres
ent system, and as long as the South is
chainedqo the cur of Northern fanaticism,
that sum will be continued if not increased,
From these facts and figures; which are
gathered from Radical sources,..dlie . people
can readily see why they are so heavily taxed,
where the public money goes, and what it
costs to beggar the South and destroy the
business of the North. The Radicals will
not allow the Southern States to be repre
sented in Congress; they encourage the
negroes in idleness and profligacy : they con
tinue to increase the expenses of the nation
by such action, and upon them the responsi
bilityi
rests for the present condition of
North and South. The President, in his last
annual message to Congress, estimates the
yearlY cost of the military scheme now be
ing carried out in the South- at two linndred
millions'of dollars. It will, doubtless, reach
that figure. And what benefit does - the
country receli.e from the movement? Is the
South more prosperous,happy and contented?
Are even the negroes henefited ? Is the North
more flourishing now than when civil law
reigned in the now disordered South
these questions must be answered in the neg
ative. it costs money to beggar the South,
and the bills for that job of Christian and
humane work must be liquidated by the
white workingmen of the North.
ON THE ANXIOUS SEAT
' The Washington ~correcpontlemt
.of the
Cincinnati Gazette
".runt nt present every member of the Re
publican party 'seems bent on saving it.
There is a perfect panic on the subject. We
mast inflate the currency and have an easy
money market during the next campaign or,
the people will shelve us—so say a large
party. We must return to specie payments
and show the people some hard money again,
or we shalt fail—so say many more. We
must retrench say all, and every One it trying
to outdo the other in gmwling'at the Treas
ury gate. The one purpose in view with the
majority is to make the path to the White
House smooth and plain for the Republican
nominee."
The Radicals may as: well give up their
efforts to perpetuate their party, and 6m
m-envy for once doing something to save the
comurv. No scheme that they can devise
will prevent them front meeting the fate that
all the signs of the times indicate to be in
store for them. Their bewilderment and de
inbralization is certainly amusing, when it is
taken into consideration that they are called
Upon to tight the Democratic party which has
so frequently been pronounced dead"! The
path to the White House will be a hard one
for any candidate of the Radicals—whether
it be the say-nothing Grant or the say-too..
much Chase. The people have interests at
stake which they know the policy of the
Itidicals is certain to destroy, and they will
place no man in the Executive chair, be his
record in other respects what it may, who
does not stand up fairly, boldly and unequiv
ocally upon the great issues of the dal•.
ES-LIEETESANT-GOVERNOR Tom Faun is
threatened with arrest for "contempt" of
Congress. We feel guilty of that crime our
selves. If everyone who has a "contemprfo r
Congress should be arrested, there would not
be clerical force in Washington suillelent to
record their names, before the ezpinttlan of
the term of that rtintemptlide Romp. _
visraNcrEanto witTrt A %Mi.
(MANCE.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, which bus sig
nalized itself as one of the boldest and ablest
of the journals Which are advocating the
payment of the Federal debt in greenbacks,
thus tersely sums up the objections it Vas to
the Radical system of Government financier
ing. Whatever may be thought of the En
quirer's greenback platform, it must be con
fessed by all that the clearness with which
it exposes the present system of managing
the public credit and revenues is well calcu
lated to carry conviction with It:
1. Borroiring greenbacks for the Govern
ment when gold is at 250 or 280 premium,
and then paying the lenders in geld, thus'
paying liack, two or three times as much
money as they received.
2. Greenbacks are a legal tender to dis
charge debts contracted in gold by private
citizens, but are not a legal tender to pay ob
ligations that the Government contracted in
greenbacks.
3. .We have now a debt of $400,000,000 or
.$500,000,000 in currency, bearing no interest
and costing the people nothing for its use.
We have a9so a debt of $2,000,000,00Q, which
bears an Interest in gold at six per cent., or
about nine per cent. in currency. The Secre
tary of the Treasury, with the assent of a Rad
ical Congress, is regularly reducing, at the
rate of- $4,000,000 a month, the debt that
bears no interest s and adding it to the debt
bearing interest. 111 other words, he adds,
every thirty days, s24o,oootin gold to our
taxes for interest, or $400,000 In legal ten
ders, by this process of changing a non-inter
est bearing debt into an Interest bearing one.
4. Sixteen hundred National banks are
created .to issue $400,000,000 of bluebacks
as currency for the people. For this curren
cy the banks get from the Goverwient, who
collect it in taxes, some , $24,000,000 a year.
Now, the Government could issue the same
amount of greenbacks, and not cost the peo-
Rle one cent. The $24,000,000 a year are
simply thrown away, for the greenbackcur
rency .
much better than 4he blueback, be
ing a legal tender for debts, which the Na
tional bank notes are not. No one need re
ceive a National bank note for debt unless
lie chooses. Vet for their issue we are taxed
half as much as it cost to run the whole
Government a quarter of a - century . ago.
5. Another beauty of Republican financier
ing is that Government money is not good
enough to pay Government debts, and that
we have two kinds of money, one for the
people, but another and better one still for
the bondholder.
0:• As the great elinia of the matter, we
have an interest debt of more than $2,0ti0,-
000,000, and the holders of which do not pay
one cent of State or local taxes upon it tint
the support of the Government that protects
their lives, liberty and property. The aim of
the Radicals is to make this debt a perpetual
institution—a millstone, that shall hang up
on the necks of the people, bearing them to
the earth. Every sixteen years we are to
pay enough in Interest to discharge the
principal, but the latter is to remain entirely
undiminished, the source of fresh and an
nually recurring burdens to come. This, we
repeat, is the financial policy of the Radicals.
Is it possible that it will not, ere long, be
swept away by the good sense and Intelli
gence of the people? '
- $657,000
President Johnson has done nothing since
his induction into office that will commend
him more to the conservative portion of the
public thah his recent order" deposing the'
Radical military commanders, and substitut
ing stauncli Union loving and law sustaining'
officers in their places. It directs General
McDowell to relieve General Ord in the com
mand of the Fourth Military District ; Gen
eral Meade to relieve bmggitdocia Pope in
the Third District; and General Wager
Sivayne is ordered from his Freedmen's Bu
reau duty to the command of his regiment,
the 4th Infantry. The removal of Pope
and Swavne is denounced bitterly by the
Radicals, who claim it as corroborative evi
dence of the President's determination to
usurp the legislative functions of Congress.
The Pittsburgh Post's Washington corres
pondent, whom we hare always found the
most reliable, says, however,' that General
Grant is said to have approved it. Gen. Ord
was relieved at his own request. Gen. Gil-.
lem, Who succeeds him temporarily, until the
arrival of General McDowell, is a native of
Tennessee, and a Conservative politically.
Gett. ]leads is in full accord with the Presi
dent. -Many Democrats express the opinion.
that the President means aggressive action
henceforth with. Congress, and believe he
will not allow the South to be Africanized, if
it can be averted by Executive powers. Gen.
Lorenito Thomas will be restored to his old
position of Adjutant General of the Army,
from whence he wa.4 displaced some years
since by Stanton, whose displeasure he had
incurred. Bravo, Andy ! The "second
Jackson" begins to prove himself a worthy
successor to "old Hickory."
12,657,ax)
corwrivr WHERE ALL ME?. ARE
EQUAL.
They have a government of mixed races
in Mexico—such a government as Stevens,
Stunner and Greeley are striving to force up
on this country. How it works there; it is
well to'observe. and profit by the lessons
presented, The following Is contained in
the last news from our sister Republic,-where
negroes - and Indians are as gckid as white
'men, and where the blessed "colored" folks
all vote with the whites:
"Robberies and murders are on the in
crease everywhere throughout the Republic;
all the roads are Unsafe, and even the people
residing in the cities are compelled to watch
all night with arms in their hands to drive
off the bandits. A band of fifty entered the
town of San Andres, and only owing to the
supplication of a relation of the robber chief
residing in the settlement, the robbers were
prevented from sacking the place. No oh
jest is too small for the robbers, they having
stolen miles of telegraph wire, interrupting
the working of the lines."
TIIE record of the year 1867 shows a, glo
rious work for the Democracy. Dr the
twenty States in which elections have . been
held in the year past the Democrats have
carried ten. They carried but three the
year before. In these twenty States they
have a popular majority of nearly one hun
dred thousand, and have made the unprece
dented • gain of nearly three hundred' and
- sixty thousand. votes. A change sof sixteen
thousand votes Will, next year, give to the
Democrats seven of the ten States which the
Radicals have carried this year. The ten
States which: have gone Democratic this
year cast one hundred and sixteen electoral
votes. If we take from the list of Radical
States, Ohio, which wits carried for the Rad
ical candidate for Governor by a small ma
jority of illegal negro votes which may be
thrown but by the legislatne, the electoral
vote in the twenty States will stand thus:
Democrats, one hundred and thirty-seven ;
Radicals fifty-six.
ANOTHER - RADICAL -FAILURE.
The bill passed by ('ongress placing the
negroes of the District of Columbia on a foot
ing of political equality with the whites; has
tidied to bectime fit law, owing to the fail that
the adjournment of the two Houses for the
holidays did not allow the President the re
quisite ten days to either approve the bilLar
return it with his objections. It is contended,
however, by some of the Radical frienth of
the measure, that the bill has become a law
throUgh the President's neglect, and it is giv
en out that Congress will protieed to art nn
that supposition. If so, and nearoes are
placed in official positions, the matter will
undoubtedly be laid before the proper judi
cial tribunals and settled in a way to stop all
further caviling.
Tin: State Legislature will assemble at
Hurristiitrg, on Tuesday nextohe seventh
day of Jandary, accordance with the
clause of the Constitution which requires. it
to meet on the "second Tuesday of January in
each and =every year." In both brunches the'
Radicals have a decided majoritv.so that there
will scarcely be any likelihood of a delay In
organizing. The Camemn and Curtin factions .
will \ eac.h make a hard fight to secure the
officers, with the chances strongly in favor
of the former. Senator Lowry will take side
with the Cameronians, and Messrs. Strata,
hen and Rea, our representatives, will, in all
likelihood, array themselves under the Par
tin standard.
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EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
States,
condition affairs' in the Southern
States, stmerindueed by Radical legislation;
has had much to do with closing
„op cotton,
shoe and carriage factories North. They
have lost their best customers by the hopeless
prostration of the large and fertile districts
subjected . to negro rule and the baneful abet
of the reconstruction measures, Tracing
effects to their cause, will enable the people
of the North to, 'comprehend this subject in.
all of its length and breadth, and. when it is
once understood,. we shall witness such a
revolution as will sweep Radicalism entirely
out of existence. There can be no
arguing with hungry men, and even
the "grand moral ideas" of Semler and WlT
sonWill not overcome the fact that their
measures are destructive to the industry and
prosperity of the country. •
In a recent editorial, the Pittsburgh Advo
cate—the non-political organ of the working
men—truthfully declares that--"If, eighteen
months ago, the proper relations of all the.
States to the Union had been fully restored,
anti the vexed 'Reconstruction' question sat
isfactorily settled, the Government would
have been saved millions . upon millions of
dollars, a vast amount of taxation would
have been averted, and the business of the
country would to-day be in - a flourishing in
stead of a. prostrate Condition. This pro
longed 'Reconstruction' quarrel, gotten up,
as it was, by designing politicians, both in
and nut of Congress, has affected Injuriously
every branch of trade, and well nigh brought
ruin upon the laboring classes North, South
East and West—a filet of which we have
daily evidences' in' Pittsburgh -and every
other city in the Union."
Ix a sermon on Thanksgiving Day, in St.
John's Church, Washington, the Rev. Dr.
Porter, of South Carolina, took occasion to
say that in his charge of Church Schools for
the education of Freedmen, a large number
of whom are being so educated in Charles
ton, he had called upon Mr..Tolutsou, and
the President had subscribed and paid to aid
the effort one thousand dollars, being, the
Reverend Instructor went on- to say, nine
hundred dollars more than that received
from any one subscriber in Washington . .
This,when the city.was filled with Congress
men howling against Andrew Johnson as
the enemy of the-dolbred nice, is a crushing
"commentary upon the liberality and the mo
tives of those who - assail him, and a proof
beyond question as to - who are the negro's
true friends.
Tut: New * York Sim, which has been in
clined of late to wink at , the reconstruction
ideas of the Radicals, now avows itself tired
of the obstructing pad delays towards amore
perfect union. Now; we are told
"The North is blameable for the. intempar.
ate manner, in which the extremists act upon
the question of reconstruction. 'Whatever
the degree of - culpability may be, however,
it must be admitted that it would be better
for both sides, and the country generally, if
animosity were now dropped, and its place
supplied by that excellent Christian Jnaxim
—Charity toward all; malice towards none.
We have had enough of the past, let it now
be forgotten. It can do no good to gaze up
on or brood over it, and the best policy is to
draw a veil over its dark scenes, turn• away,
and henceforth look only to the bright and
happy future."
As TUE - Radicals seem bent on making
Gen. Grant their candidate for- the Presiden
cy, we trust they will bear in mind` the fol
lowing portion of his testimony before the
Committee on the conduct of the war:
"Mr. Lincoln, prior to his asmssination,
had inaugurated a policy intended to re
store those governments. I was present
once before his murder when a plan was
read. The plan adopted by Mr. Johnson was
..mbatantially the plan which had been inanyar;
ated by Mr. Lincoln as - the basis for his future
action. Ido not know that it was - verbatim
the same. I think the very paper 'which I
heard read twice while Mr. Lincoln was
President was the one which was carried
right through." '
After this, let us hear no more denuncia
tion of President Johnson's policy. -
, Morning Post, a Radical paper
lately established in Philadelphia, is strug
gling hard to prevent Grant's nomination for
the Presidency by that party. In one of its
late issues it tells the following story, to show
the probable coure of its faction in Case he
becomq; the nominee:
"Just after the recent elections, a gentle
man was asked whir he would support for
the Presidency. "That question;' said he,
"reminds me of a story. A colored preacher
in the midst of an animated discourse ex-
claimed : 'Brederen, dare am hut two ways
one am de broad way dat leads down, to
damnation, and de oder am do narrow way
dat leads straight up to perdition.' Good
Lord" exclaimed one of the Christians, `if
dais de case dis niggah takes for de woods?".
"Tnil Republican papers set up an awful
howl at Mr. Pendleton because he suggested
the propriety of paying the public debt. in
greenbacks and saving twenty-five millions
taxes, Old Mr. Greeley screamed at the top
of his cracked voice, "rascally," "repudia
tion," .k c., and has been echoed
by papers of the- , same ilk here. He and
they must have forgotten that the suggestion
teas not of "Copperhead" origin, but was
advocated by Republican journals two years
ago, and by Mr. Thad: }evens iw Congress,
who proposed to issue tine hundred millions
ofgreenbac .- ; to pay compound interest notes
falling due, which Democrats voted against."
Ma. SPEAKER COLFAX recently addressed
a note to "My Dear Mr. Conway," in whielt
he informed that indivdual that "the Radi
cals intend to take no steps backward." We
are glad to hear it,. provided Mr. Ccilfax
speaks authoritatively for the Radical party:
Rut if they don't contemplate any backward
movement in view of the serious calamities
which betel them during the present year,
they certainly propose to "roost lower" in
nominating as their Presidential candidate a
gentleman whose political opinions are in
volved in considerable mystery.
Is a report recently made by Senator
Sherman, from the"Pinance Committee,"the
folloWing pointed lanznage is used : "The
vague and' indefinite appropriations of money
by Congress, growing out Of the vast eipen
ditures during the war, cannotlonger he_con
tinned without utter destructiorf of the na
tional credit, or such an increase of our taxes
as will bring back to these halls new faces
and new names. It is idle to disguise the
fact that the increase of.oneextraordinary
expenses and weight of taxes have, alarmed
the people."
"A MECRANIC," who is out of employ,
wants to know "why Congress ought not to
establish a white freedmen's bureau in Penn
sylvania as well as a black one at the South,
for the supply of mechanics and others out
Of work r He gots on and asks "what the
North has -done that the national bounty
should be confined to the South alone ?'
There are thousands of men in Pennsylvania
out of employment, today -= and if Congress
ever-takes the trouble to think of-white peo
ple, the present firinishes a gOod opportunity
for a display of its parental care.
THE aggregate Revenue of the United
States is now less-than five millions of dot:
lam per week, or 1a50,000,000 per annum.
The expenditures are over $350,000.000 per
annum. We are thirs :fishing toward a de
ficit of one _ hundred millions per annum !
Such is the confession ofLite Tribune, which
adds Ironically that hereupon "every body
seems intent on appropriating the surplus
to the relief of their own peculiar interest."
-A Gronora freedman, being asked who be
voted for, said r."I doesn't zactly member his
fust name, but nigh's I can get at it, dey
called him -Musa Convemption." Re was
then asked who that was. "Dunno," he said,
"but dey eagle's guide to take de place of
the head man, if all the. folks vote
.for titre
Patranten concludes that the great design
of the Radical state Conventions in the
Bouth is to confine taxation to the whitesand
political pow to the blacks.
WE have galling taxes, but no Union! .21.
gigantic debt, but nq 'eaten ! Negro suprem
acy In eleven of the States of the' republic,
but no Union! Fire military despots, but no
Union l
_A standing army costing 5130,090,-
000 a year, but no Union Our taxes amount
toe thousand millions a year, but there is to•
Union! Every family in the United States
pays, upon atiaverage, about -two hundred
dollars for taxes every year, tri pay the inter
eston the public debt, and support the army
of office holden, eating out the substance of
the people,, but there is no Union! "Give—
give—give !" clamor the swarm of peatih ht
fanatics who have usurped the government,
but • they do, not give us the Union of our
fathers In !
TEE Democratic gain in Illinois is simply
Immense: The election of November was
merely for county treasurers and surveyors;
but It shows a itondeiful change froth last
year. In the sixty-eight counties, Which
have 'returned their votes, Logan had last
year, as congressman at large, a majority of
45,781. Now the Radicals Carry them by a
bare - majority of 5,585. This shows a gain
which, if proportionath in the remaining
thirty-four counties, will give a sound -Demo-.
cratic majority in.the whole state,
WE are rapidly approaching the English
condition in this country. The New York
World asserts that there are just now fifty
thousand people in New York out of work,
with an inclement •winter before them, and
no means of subsistence hut to beg, steal, or
—starve ; while the Jay Qookcs and the
rich speculators are vieing with each other
in thd extravagance of the entertainments
they are giving to their patronizing friends.
Genend Grant reported to the President,
six months after the war closed, that the
people of the Southern States were all ready
to resume their duties in the Union by re
organizing their State Governments. But the
Radical papers that - hope to catch the. Gener
al for their party candidate- refused to be
lieve any such thing, and have cried out
against such a reorganization from that day
,
Fr is stated that there are more• removals
for political reasons being made than the
public haVe any knowledge: The" President
is determined to clean out the Augean sta.
bles before the coming campaign fairly oi)ens,
and will not allow this great official patron
age to be used in the interests of Radical
ism. - '
Ti* New York World advises-Wendell
Phillips to take a couple of blue pills, and a
dose of rhubarb, and prepare to "vote for
the Democratic candidate for the Presidency
next fall."
','GOVERNMENT, to he free and safe," John
Randolph used to say,"must consist of repre
aentsuces having a common. interest. and a
common feemig- . 1.1th the represeotrd.",
Another Conversation.
As reports of interviews with prominent
men are all thii raa at present, one of our
correspondents, in order to be in the fashion,
has furnished us the following:.
The following questions are supposed to
have been asked a somewhat noted, would
be Congressman, a day or two ago. He was
neither reclining, like his friend of the ruf
fled bosom, nor was he smoking a poor cigar
but was standing upright with his well
known cloak about him (not martial cloak,
for be is not like Sir John Moore, a military
hero) and would occasionally, as some. in
spiration would enter his brilliant mind,
throw back the cape of said cloak over his
shoulder:
Q. What do you think of the present po
litical condition of the country ?
A. I think it Is wrong, all wrong ; the peo
ple were•wrong last fall; they are encourag
ing that base man, Andrew Johnson, to fur
ther outrages, and also preventing; the South
from being properly, reconstructed. '
Q. What would-you consider a proper re
construction of the South, or rather what dis
position would you wish the Southern peo
ple to display, to show Congress that they
wislilireconstructed according to their
plan ?
A. Well, in the first place, I want them to
'admit negro equality. Their not didng so
is disloyal, to Congress. I want them to
'submit to all the actions of the Freedman's
Bureim ; I want them to act as if they felt
sorry that they rebelled ; that's what i want;
they should look up to our party_ with re
spect; neither should they call our dear Ben
Butler a thief, nor a spoon stealer, nor a
beast ; they should also have quietly submit
ted to all the military orders of Sheridan and
other military governors.
Q. Do you think the President should be
impeached ?
A. Impeached ! why, certainly, long ago ;
not only impeached but hanged for his high
crimes and miademeadors .against the nov
ernment, which is now the Congress; it was
at one time the President that was the Gov
ernment; but we changed that rule ; it is
handier now to have Congress the Govern
ment, don't you see? If there was any en
terprise in the young men of this country
there is now, Sor? one of them a noble chance
to becolne a makfr: If I were younger and
had ho family t myself would be the one to
raise aloft the aim that would rid the coun
try of stieh a villain.
Q. What do you think of the Freedman's
Bureau ?
A. The Bureau, I think, is a necessary
piece of furniture ; every freedman, I insist,
must have one, and should also have the
drawers well tilled withprovisions and wear
ing apparel. lie 14 as yet not tit to make his
own living. •
Q. But he vote*?
A. Yes, yes, yeiti that is another thing al
together, and so he should vote.
Q. But the colored man here doe; not
vote ? •
A. Yell, no, but when I go to Congress
I nm going to have that regulated.
Q. Who do you think should be nominat
ed fur next President? -
A. Well, I don't exactly know ; for my
part I Shall go for the man" who upholds
Congress every..fitne ; who goes in to the
neck for punishing rebels; who also- advo
cates confiscation; and .keeping up the
Freedman's Bureau forever; ani particular;
ly-who promises to give me a good rat office:
thit's my man (at this juncture - the cape is
thrown back two or three times).
Q. Were you not a Democrat at onetime?
A. Well, yes, I was when Buchanan was.
President.
Q. And how did you come to change I'
A. Well, you see, I applied for an office
in the Navy, and was refused. Ido not be
lieve In any party' that will not help me pe
cuniarily, and I tell you, quietly, that if this
party don't do something for me soon 1 am
going back to my first love ; so - help, me
graeious.
VER.DICT OP THE Junv.—The
. Coroner's
inquestinto the cause of the late railroad
disaster at Angola, after
. 11 days' investiga
tion, concluded
_their labors at Buffalo, on
Tuesday evening, The jury was composed
of some of the most intelligent business men
of the city. A thorough and searching in
vestigation was made. Forty-two witnesses
were examined, and the result of their in
tfuiries is a verdict that the accident was
caused by a bent axle of the Cleveland &
Toledo car-Nito. 21, the car that was burned,
causing the Wheel on that truck to drop into
the wing rail;tlms throwing the-wheels
of that truck, and subsequently the, whole
car off the track, and that there were forty
persons in all killed thereby. The jury also
re.rammend the adoption and enforcement
of a more thorough system of-ringing
wheels of cars, so as to prevent an imperfect
axle or wheel' being made in the future.
idomniunicatedO
The Children's
_Christmas Festival, at the
English Lutheran church, on Christmas tae,
was a gaud suttees; the church was com
pletely filletijadmany tumble to °blahs seats.
The roonfias richly festooned with' evet
green and. a' number of benutilbi emblems
were hung around the wall. The exercises
commenced with singing and prayer ; then
the class emblems were presented to the
Soperlutendent. Wean only mention one
that of Charity class, Hiram L. Beret
teacher, being a little girl feediog a wingless
bee, How beautitbl, hOw MI of love! Rev.
Mr. Cain nude some happy remarks. The
gills to the 4 scholars showed that much work
is done in the school. The Superintendent
presented an elegantoopy of Webstees Die- -
denary to Rev. Mr . Balch, who replied with
a few witching remarks thanking the givers
for the kind remembrance. A ft er thediltri
p
btation or to the children the festival
tinged wi and the Lord's Payer:
Every twin fine 'order tad was
indeed a tied to the children. .
THE STATE OF AVIPAIRS IN THE
•
A Terrible Winter in Prospect.
tOorre4spondenco N. Y. Nerold.l
One of your travelling correspondents, who
has just made an extensive tour of Louisiana,
Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, North Caro
lina and-South Carolina, represents the con
dition of the freedmen as heartrending in
the extreme. In all the cotton districts' of
those States thegreat mass of the Preedmen
arc not only on the point of starvation, but
possess scarcely a sufficiency of clothing to
cover their nakedness. At most railway
stations many colored children collect on the
arrival of the trains and enter into competi
tion, with the famished swine and dogs for
the -bones thrown by passengers from the
trains, while scores of lazy .negroes collect
about the depots as spectators. In the corn
growing districts the prospects of a famine
are not so near, and whites and blacks are on
friendly' terms. He declares that the negroes
are much more destitute than under the old
slave regime.' many counties of these
Slates - the forests are filled with' armed ne
groes, who hunt game in the day time and
make raids upon planters' stock at night.
The reign of terror is general in Upper Louis
iana, Lower Mississippi, and the cotton' dis
tricts of Georgia and the Carolinas.
The destitution. hoWever, is not confined
to the blacks. Thousands of the white pop
ulation hav_e'not a month's provisions ahead,
and no money with which to lay in a sappy.
Many planters; who were far seeing, provid
ed a year's supply for their families:but the
starving negroes have very generally pil
laged their smoke houses and embarks and
stripped them clean. His estimate of the
number of persons (compiled from statistics
collected by the Executives of the States and
others) who will starve unless Congress pro
vides some relief, is three millions, two-thirds
of whom are negmes. This estimate em
braces Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia and the Carolinas. He has no esti
mate of the other unreconstructed States.
Unless prompt action is-taken to provide for
the starving freedmen and whites, the pillag
ing of the whites will become general, the
latter-will resist, and a bloody conflict will
be the result. Plantemare generally alarmed
and would leave the country could they raise
the means to remove their %milks. Hund
reds are offering their homes for a mere song,
hut can find no purchasers. Plantations that
'before the war commanded as high as fifty
dollars per acre, can 110 purchased for five
dollars per acre, so gent'ral is the terror that
reigns and the -desire of the owners to save
their families from the outrages that are
threatened by the negroes. unless aid comes
from the government or- the people of the
North.
On the way North he witnessed a striking
illustration of the effect of Radical teachings,
At Greensboro, N. C., a party of negro emi
grants entered the cam. In the party were
two very pretty' white girls. Investigation
resulted 'in learning that tliey sere the
daughters of an English gold miner in Guil
ford county, N. C., and had voluntarily left
their homes as the mistresses of two coal
black negroes. They are destined to Vin
cennes, Ind., and Xenia, Ohio. 3ruch indig
nation was manifested by the white passen
gem, and threats of lynching the negroes
were indulged in, but not carried out. •
The Louisville Democrat-publishes an ex
tract from a totter written to gentle
man in that city, by one of the first minds in
Georgia, and• once one of the wealthiest men
in that fine ohl State :
"There is no money here. Cotton sells at
ten cents, tax paid, and doesnot pay half the
cost of production, and universaLlntud to
prevent the payment of debts is the conse
quence. We can hardly get food to eat ; can
not sell property, or collect debts. God only
can tell what is to be the result. The negro
convention meets to-day in Atlanta. In view
of its action, all is distrust and uncertainty.
Mobs, insurrection and violence are impend
ing. Tile entire community steep with doors
.barred am' guns loaded to protect itself ftom
violence. The negro is destitute, suffering
and insubordinate. He believes the whites
have reduced the price of cotton for the pur
pose of starving hint to death. Such are the
teachings of the demons who think Tor him,
and educate his passions up to violence and
bloodshed, that certain ends may be achieved.
I would leave here, but have not money'
enough to enable me to move, and it is ques
tionable if I have enough to remattrwhere I
am. The present is threatening, hut the fu
ture is despair." •
One of the editor's of the. Memphis Ava
lanche has just completed a three weeks' so
journ in Arkansas. He gives a gloomy pic
ture of the state of affairs in that State. Ile
rays :
"The reports which have reached this city
have not been exaggerated. Indeed the con
dition of the country is worse than represen
ted. GlooM and despair peryade the minds
of the entire farming population. The losses
of those engaged in the culture of cotton
swill he enormous. • But few will payexpens
es. The losses this.year are larger than those
of last year. Planters are mpidly paying off
and discharging their hands, being'unable to
feed them longer. ,The negm is completely
demoralized. Most of them have largely
overdrawn their wage 9; and having learned
this fact, many of them have abandoned their
employers; leaving the cotton still unpicked
and the result is, planters are compelled to
eniploy others.to pick their cotton, for which
labor they have already paid. As so many
planters will refuse to raise cotton next year,
thousands of neg Mes will be thrown out of
employment, and they will be forded to live
by a regular system of pilfering and robbery.
They have already commenced killing stock,
stealing horse's, plows and harness, With a
view of setting up for themselves next year.
Game is abundant in Arkansas, and most of
those who have abandoned their employers
are living by hunting and fishing. All of
them have a repeater or a gun. or both, but
their great trouble seems to be in purchasing
caps, powder and shot. Those who have
Stock or anything to steal, in constant
dread. The same state of attars exits
throughout the Sbuthern States. What we
saw and heard in Arkansas . can he seen in
every, section of the South."
NOTICE TO APPLICANTS FOE TILE BENEFIT
OF THE BANKILCPT ACT.-It being provided
by the 30th General Order in Bankruptcy in
the Supreme Court of the I; S., tltat— 'ln
cases where the debtor ha.s no means and
makes proof to the satisfaction of the Court
that he is unable to pay the costs
in
by the act," &c ., the Judge may Hi his dis
cretion direct that the fees and costs therein
shall not exceed the sum of fifty dollars, le,.
(mired to be deposited by the applicant. I
desire to inform all those who, intend to
avail themselves of the benefit of they above
provision, that it eannt t be expected to ap
ply to the case of any petitioner who is of
sufficient ability "to employ an attorney at
law to conduct the proceedings 'for him.
That if such petitioner is incompetent to the
task of preparing his own petition and - sche
dules he may apply to the clerk of the un
dersigned, henry Ball, Esq., as his office,
(next door to the office of the undersigned)
in Girard, who will prepare the. requisite
petition and schedules for the reasonable fee
of t0..5 and costs of stationary. -,
S. E. AroonnurP,
. Register in Bankruptcy. •
Girard, Dec. 28th, ion. • •
TUE ATLAN - Ttc.—Memrs. Ticknor& Fields;
Publishers, send us the Jauuary Atlantic,
with the following list of articles and Writers :
The 'Wife, •by John G. Whittier; Flotsam
and Jetsatn Part I ;.Pittsburgh, by James,'
Parton ; Doctor Molke's Friends, 1. by Dr. I.
I. Hayes; The Combat of Diamond and
Mars, translated from Homer, by W. C. Bry4
ant; Our Second Girl, by Mrs. H. B. Stowe ;
Oldport Wharves, by T. W. Iligginson ; The
Late President Wavlaud, by J. Lewis Di
man ; By-Ways of Europe ; A Visit to the
Balearic Islands, Part 11, by Bayard Taylorl;
Aspects of Culture, by , Ralph - Waldo Emer
son; in the Twilight, by James Russell Lo
well; Mrs. Johnson, by - W. D. Howells t
Hawthorne in theMoston Custom Rime, by
Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Old Masters in
the Louvre, and Modern Art,-by Eugene Ben
son ; Geii - Silverinan's Explanation, Part 1,
by Charles Dickens.
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Bellows-Menderet Lyons, illustrated by Geo.
G. White; The Smalkhange Fandly, illus
trated by W. H. Davenport; The Scotsman's
Tale, by Harriet Lee ; The Blacksmiths of
Holsby, illustrated by W. L. Sheppard ; A
Penitent Confession. These stories are not
original, but are generally unfamiliar to the
present generation of readers. They are
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newsdealers have them, or they Can be pro
cured postpaid.directly from the publishers,
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OSAIRRIMD.
MELLEN-BTav—On New Year's ven
ing, at the residenronn ee of 0, B. Andrus, e
In McKean, by Rev. Jos. IL Pressley, Mr.
Emmett Mellen to Miss Emma Stafford,
..both of this city. .
Bgnsr—Sisti*uc—On the 26th Ult., at the
residence of the bride's father, by Rev. W.
N. Reno, assisted by Rev. J. L. Smith, Mr.
lllmm L. Beret, of Erie, to Miss Mary E.
Sampson, offOirard. • ,
OirEn—Wnltsme—On the 26th tilt., by Rev.
J. L. Smith. Mr. Samuel G. Ozer to Miss
Emma M. Williams, both' of Erie county,
Pa.
ROBINSON—AMES- 4 ) 11 the 24th ult., at the
residenbe of the" bride's father, by Rev.
Dillon Prosser, pastor of Simpson M. E.
Church, Mr. James P. Robinson to Miss
Mary Ames, daughter of E. J. Ames, Esq.,
of this city.
EsnttoFF—Joitusou—On Christmas evening,
at the residence of the bride's lather, by
Rev. J. L. Smith, Mr. J. G. EarhotF, of Al
legheny, Pa., lately of Erie, to Miss Mary
T: Johnson, of this city.
WtterrEt.sint—HtTN - r—On the 26th ult., lty
Rev. Mr. Vance, at Belle Valley, Capt. E.
L. Whittelsey to Miss Lottie Runt.
Buteros—FulsnEE—Oti the 29th ult., at the
residence of the bride's parent's, near New
Castle. Lawrence Co., by Rev. J. C. Ault,
Mr. Thonittson Burton, editor of the
"Champion," to 3liss Jennie D. Frisbee, all
of that place.
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on State street, for rent. Apply to
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For Rent. -
A - LARGE TWO STOR7 • FR.131 F 1 HOUSE on
Peach street. between 2d and dd, at present
occupied by Dr. Magill. POSKeSNIon will he giv
en on the Ist of April. Apply to Jas. C. Mar
shall, I.:sq., or to the owner,
- Ja2-t f. Mns. N. FOG LEBACII.
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rpjj} UNDERSIGNED offers for sale two
1 Mimes on Sixteenth street, in the rear Of
Hartleib's brick bullding,being among the most
de-(table places of residence in the city. The
one is a two-story brick, In good order, fronting
on sixteenth street; the other a frame one and
one-half story, fronting on Penn alley—both
on the .amc lot. EASY terms will be given. In
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Digcharge in Bankruptcy.
IN THE bISTRICT COURT of the United
I States, for the Western District of Pennsyl
vania. Wm. M. Arbuckle. a bankrupt under the
Act of rongme, of Mareh 211, lati7, having ap.
plied for a M
IsehArge from I his debts, and oth
er chilies provable under said riot, by order of
the Court, notice is hereby given to all creditors
who have proved their debts, and otherpersons
interested, to appear on the loth day of
January, 1104, at le o'clock, A. before
H. E. Woodruff; Esq., 'Register, at his office,
in the city of Erie , to show cause, if
any they have, why a discharge should not
be granted to the said bankrupt. And further,
notice Is hereby given that the second and third
meetings oTereditors of said bankrupt, required
by the 27th and 2.ith sections of said act, will be
held before the mild Register, at the same time
and place._ c. McCANDLESS,
Clerk or D. S. District Court for said District.
jut-2w.
Discharge In Bankruptcy.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT of the Mutts ,
I States, for the Western District of Penn.
sylvanin. Alvin Thayer ,a bankrupt under Du
Act of Congress of March "_d, 1867, ll:lying ppliee
for a discharge from nil his debts, and othei
claims provable under said set, by order of tht
Court, notice is hereby given to all creditor
who have proved their debts, and other persons
interested, to appear on the M.. 1 day of January,
NUR, at 10 o'clock, a. m., before H. E. Woodrultat
his office, at Erie Pa., to show cause, if any the 3
have, why a discharge should not be granted tc
said bankrupt. And further, notice is beret.",
given, that the second and third meetings o
creditors of the said bankrupt, required by Do
27th and Olth Sections of said Act, will be has
before said Register, at tie same time h rut place.
S. C. 3fcCANDT,ESS,
Clerk of U. S. District Court for said District.
Jag-2w.
Discharge in Bankruptcy.
THE DISTRICT COURT of the United
States for the Western District of Penn
v 1 sra n la. M. Chapin, a bankrupt under the
Act of Congress of March 2d, isc, having ap
plied for discharge from all his debts and oth
er claim- provable under said Act, by order of
said Court, notice is hereby given toall creditors
who have proved their debts, and other persons
Interested, to appear on the 16th day of Janua
ry, 1661, at 2 o'clock. P. M., before said Court; at
,Chambers, at the office of S, E. Wobdruff, Esq.
Register, in the city of Erie, to show cause, if
any they have, why a discharge should not. be
granted to the said bankrupt. And further, no
tice Is hereby given that the second and third
meetings of creditors of said bankrupt, required
by the 27th and "Zith Sections of said Act will be
had before the said Register at the same time
nndplace. S. C. M cCANDL FM,
Clerk of U. S. District Court for said District.
Ja2-2w.
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ver, Emil Gaffer. Also, Melodeons and Organs.
Prices at a Large discount below manufactur
ers' prices. Every instrument warranted for
flve years.
No. SliStato street, Erie, Pa,
)nn:-tf. Z. fall , . 11EPIT.
Hoop Skirt & Corset Depot!
AT TilE
New York hoop Skirt Manufactory,
loos t4T_lorv. sex%
Neat. Light, Fashionable and
Cheap: .
A. F. COHEN tt 13110. respectfully inform the
ladles of Erie and surrounding country that
they have on hand a large assortment of Hoop
Skirts. of nil and styles, of ourown make,
and manufactured of the Isla flexible steel and
material, which we will guarantee equal to any
in the-market. Having bad considerable expe
rience in the business, we are confident of our
ability to give entire satisfaction to all those
who may favor us with a call. If any of our
make will linnk within one year, they will be
repaired, and no charges made.
Old Skirts repaired, altered and shaped RN
new, New Skirts made to order at the shortest
notice.- A splendid and large stock of all kinds
of Corsets arid Corset Steels constantly kept on
hand. ;Country merchants supplied at the very
lowest:lutes. A. F. COHEN 4r BRO.. -
ja: ter No. 1001 State street, Erie, Pa.
WANTED.
Men and Women. possessing good
1 000
, 'character. and energy, perseverance
and Intelligence, to not as canvassers for a se
ries of New Engravings,. Five Beautiful Ideal
American Faces, engraved on stone in Paris by
the most eminent Lithographers in the world.
These faces, which are most beautiful -end
poetic conceptions, are designed to typify the
best Ideal types of American Womnahona'rep
resenting their charities, devotion, sympathies,
attachments and heroism. +The lithograph is in
the highest style of the art, and is such as has
rarely been equaled, and cannot- be excelled,
These portrait* have received unequalled praise
from the most eminent critics and prominent
newspapers of the country, and they should
adorrkevery household in the land. For partlo.
alarm and descriptive circular, address
1.. D.-ROBINSON.
decae* 46 Main St., lipringfield, Mass.
Assignee in Bankruptcy.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT of the United States
for the Western District of Pennsylvania,
In the matter of Henry Keith, bankrupt. The
undersigned hereby gives notice of his ap
pointment as assignee of Henry Keith, of
Springfield Township, county of Erie and
State of Pennsylvania, within said district,
who has been adjudged a bankrupt, upon his -
own petition, by the District Court of said dis
trict, dated at Erie, Pa., Dec. D.. 1867.
HENRY M. RIDLEY, Assignee,
deelMw. No. 1333 Peach St., Erlo, Pa.
Mary J. Crowther,by her In the Court of
next friend, Edward D. Common Pleas of
Loomis, Erie County.
Vl4. No. 40 Feb. Term,
Isaiah Crowther.' , 1807.
110TYTICE Is hereby given that testimony in the
VI above case will be taken at my office, In the
borough of North East, on January MN - MK at
10 o'clock by virtue of opts:dram eut from
the Court of Common Pleas.
2w. B. B. HAMMOND, Commissioner.
HORSE,, BLANK ETS
&Ring at Iliticaga Rau*
by
deol 4L .1. 0. /MILDER
BLANKS complete amulet-
Me mental every kind of Blanks needed by
Attorne7s, Jeasticee,. Constables and Business
Men. for sale at the Observer office.
ion IittrNTING of every kind. in large or
male tleantities. Main or adored; dorm In
Ob the best stTle. and et moderate piteati at the
server
Jctn abbettisentrait
1324: Peach Street. 134
0'
TUE BLOCKADE ItAINEn.
BURTON & GRIFFIT H
Corner of roach and 16th Hut.
Are Rind to Inform then etie nThen
obstruction mums} by the 33,Ying"41,41
sewer through Peach Street, ban b . ,° ka ki ,
and their patrons and Merits are74teat
reach their stand with teams ti of me:4 , 4
w ive b e en improving their llmetan itzt Obj
jr blockade by more than do ti 'Ott
y largo stock of
Groceries and Pros - 15444 1N e.
ittlti they now have the
LARGEST AND BEST BETAIi. Trx,
ever brought into the city ,
cull.
ttc4l.-tr. GEO. P. GRIIT'-'•
ESTABLISHED \
HALL & WARFEL
WHOLESALE AND RETAD
TVIELU G-Gr IS. TA:
630 Mate M., Erie. pLL
And Importers of
French Window Glas
The public nre respectfully Inlnrurcl 14;;,,
Stock of
FRENCH WINDOW GLASS
Imported by ut directly from the tonality:,
In France is the largest and niont
to he found went of New York city: It eta;
Troth single and double thickness, of
size.- The superior strength, dram.",
beauty of French glass is admitted by
prices are but little more than for ME,:
glass, `
AMERICAN GLASS.
We also keep constantly on hand s Lhe l
varied supply of American Glass, (nrst quL,
both single and double thickness, or ur
every size. Dealers and consumers in sit:,
Glass will promote their interest by cuss,;
ourstogy. and prices of French and Al:elle'
Glssafore ordering from New York cr
where.
Pants, Oils and Varuis6
White Lead of various qualities,
raw and boiled, Spirits Turpentine, V2ni,
Colored Paints, both dry and Ilion, Brustiriz.
every other article in the Painting Line g
Lowest Market Price,!ln,large or small qtx,
ties.
DYE WOODS.
Our Stock of Dye W 00,14, and Dye susl
complete, which we , are xrl l ing ut whole.a:rz•
total/.
PATENT ZIEDIeBES,
An the popular Medicines of the day, at ks
est chnh prices.
Drugs, Chemicals & Gln
Our tip oc above articlesextencr,u:
are pre at all times to Kupply neve;
both o the retail and lobbing trade.
. COILS.
Whale Otl,
Lewd on,
Tanners' Oil,
Linseed 011,
Both ran and boiled,
(Suitor Olt,
And all kinds of Essential Oils, In Is.v 1.1.!
multi lots.
We express our thanks for the liberal rxt...l.
age received during the last twenty.threems
and now Invite the attention of commutes!.
our Wholesale and Retail Depattinens,st::
are well supplied with Staple Goods, whirl
are selling at low e st cash
oeirt77-6m.
•Nr--
CLIMAX ! CLIMAX!!
Page's Climax ,Si►lve, a Fag/
blessing for 25 cents.
It heals without a ear. No
tamily should be without it.
We warrant it to care Scrofnli
Sores, Salt - Rheum, Chilblain
Tetter, Pimples. and all Eruption
of the Skin. For Sore -Breast cc
Nipples, Cats, Sprains, Bruises
Burns, Scalds, 4:happed Ban&
sc., it makes a perfect cure.
It has been used over Often
years, withont one failure.
It has no parallel—having per
fectlY eradicated disease IA
healed after all other remedies lat
failed. It is a compound of Anna
with many other Extracts al
Balsams, and put op in Jams
boxes for th...same price than at)
other Oint e:lt
Soil by Drum: kts e very' here. White!
Pr:vide:v.lH L:bery 'cork. '
• . Farm for Sale. '
THE UNDEBIHONED offers for wale
able farm, on the Kuhl road, in IV"
Creek township, one stale south of the felt: 4 '
tion road, and eight miles from Erie. I:
tains fifty-live acres and eighty perches... -
proved and in the highest state of cultoAa!
The Land Is equal to the very beetle that reLt:.-•
of the county. The buildings comprlm .. s•. - 7
17 frame house with 114 story k itchotand
cellar under the whole: wood houseimi. s :.!
house; 2 barns. each 30x45 feet sac , '
long with stable edtho end; and all the eo""
ry. ontbulldings. A flrst class well of peg vs".
which never fails, is at the kitchen dmr. r,„ e !
is an orchard with 140 apple trec, all
Otherg andan abundance of l ame , :
kind of fruit grown in this ilelgtd° 7 '' o
The only reason why I wish to I. that I
going West to embark 'ln another 0etn 6 ' . .,7,
Terms
e m s a doe
t k oHo wn
E h!4 k aiapp lyßang tot,
at-Law, Erie.
me
Pa. ..J. A. s wr ELI.
deasstf. Post Cate Atitirmc
To Architectn and Builder* .
IDLANS
lire PROPOSALS mill
by the Dctors of the Pooruntll
ttmrt
March next,for the building of an Alms
House of Employment. on the Erie cosniv„r.t
house farm, four miles west of Erie.
tier. W3L H. AR BUCKLE, Ile'
duel:l:67.
Auditor's Notice.
E. Cooper, In the Court of 4:1.11,7,f
vs. Pleas of Erie Co. So,
I:>'`
Mahan, Jr. term, 11467. Vendittosi
And now, Doe. 2, 1887, on motion G. W.
n lion, Esq., appointed auditor. Cl- .81
PER '
Notice Is hereby given to ittt parties Intl _
ed that. I will attend to the duties of
polntment on lertday,Jeumary 3d, at
nty office la Erie ,No. 502 State street. jito ,
Seen-4w. GEO. W. GCNNISON.
Assignee in Bankenplei•
T THE DISTRICT COURT of the Tillie.' Stit,!‘
/ .for the Western District of PennWir.o?
in the matter of Wm. H. Arbuckle: l
The undersigned hereby alsw notice of
pointment a assignee of Wm. M
Erie city, Eris Oa. and State of PennsYl"'",...,
within said district, who tins been sdit , "g
bankrupt upon his own petition, by thv
Court of said district, dated at Erie. ra..l)."•'"
A. D.,legf. HENRY RIDLET, Assliort;
decl94w. No. 1= Peach St.. We%
CONRAD DECK.
703 liguit. State et., between 7th and eel
b j sin VlLl he l l= tatiOut.tltw• Agent, eondue%
Cigars, and l e
SI/ Mita of Totowa. ,
thotiNl74t. CONRAD flOiliWg
Net. FtwE OP
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