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that the warll over, noW that every rebel
haajnitl,dognikis arrnsoiow that the Apeople
'of the South Lave -unanimously agreed to
abolish slavery forever, to obey the Constitu
tion, and disckars,vgalas Mt' ens of
tho , Thaitect Starts, orth
have morally begun'a riew rebellion against
the Union - and the Constitution z for, raising
anew the old cry ofthe Radicals 'ollie South,
they now declare that the States of the South
are outside the Constitution, and that -Con
gress, acting outside the Constitution,- has
unlimited power over them as user conquered
territories. In their blind zeal for the ad
vancern&it of the negro they propose to over
throw the Constitution in order to practically
subject the white race to the domination of
the negro...
- As men who to be the friends of lib
erty, we have no right to do that.
. As Christians who-claim to have learned
something of forgiveness from the teach
incts of our Saviour, we have no right to do
that.
As statesmen who desire to restore the
blessings of peace, we:have no right to do
that which would inevitably make -eight
millions of our own race and in our own
land eternal enemies of the government.
As statesmen who, with ordinary sagacity,
- should look to the future and to possible war
with foreign powers, we ought to make haste
to restore sentiments of affection and patriot
'ism in all thaevast region, larger' and richer
by far in natural resources than England,
France and Prussia all combined.
And, I ask Mr. President. with all the ear
nestness of which the soul is capable, can any
human being conceive of a measure so well
Calculated to make the whole white people of
.the South, men, women, and children, hate
and loathe our government, to hate it with a
perfect hatred, to oather around the (amity
altar upon their tended knees to curse it,
. and in the agony of prayer to call upon God
to curse it, as this Radical reconstruction
which seeks to disfranchise the heart and brain
of the South, anti to -subject at the point of
the bayonet .the white race to the do
minion of their late half-civilized African
slaves'? Instead of peace it gives them a
sword ; instead of hope it fills them with des
pair;
inatnad of civil liberty it gives them
military despotism. White disfranchisement
and negro domination was the idea which in
spired and provoked the riot at New Orleans.
.11 has arrayed everywhere the blacks and
' Whites in !Motility to each other, often result
ing in bloodshed all over the South. It
tends directly to bring on that war of races
which in the West Indies enacted scenes of
horror to sicken and appal the world.
That War is now impending over all the
South—it is only the presence of the Federal
Army which prevents its outbreak upon a gi
gantic scale—a war which, once begun, will
end, I tear, iii the exile or extermination of
the blacks Bout the Potomac to -the Rio
Grande. I know the Senator from Ohio, (Mr.
Wade,) in a speech in the late canvass, had
no fears df such a war or of its results. He is
reported to have said. "let that war come ; let
them fight it out." God grant that war may
never come! But, if it does come, no amount
of military discipline can compel the white
men of the North to take part in the massa
ere of their own race and kindred.
Mr. President, having considered at some
length the second :tswer to My question, and
finding that it is not sustained by the facts,
that it is had in principle• and worse in policy,
I ;'peat the question a third time—why
press this negro supremacy over the White
people of the South? What reason can you
give'[
The lender of the Radical forces—that inex=
orable Moloch of this new rebellion against
the Constitutidn—
"The strongest and the fiercest spirit
That.foupt in Heaven, now fiercer lw des
. pair,"
Answers with boldness, and in plain Eng
lish gives the true reason, namely, to secure
party ascendancy. ThiS is the third and last
answer which I propose to consider on this
occasion. On the 3d of January, lEtti7, Mr.
Stevens, in the House of RepresentatiVes,
used this - language, which I find reported in
the Globe:
"Another good reason is, it would insure
the ascendancy of the . tnion party. Do you
avow the party purpose, exclaims some horror
stricken demagogue r do."
The party purpose is here avowed in the
House. In his speeches and letters elsewhere
Mr. Stevens again and again, in stronger lan
guage, avows the real purpose of this legisla-.
non; to them I mainly refer. The negroes,
under the tutilage of the Freedmen's Bureau,
led by Radical emissaries, or pushed by Fed
erajbayonets, must take the political control
of these states in order to •obtain their votes
in the Electoral College or in the House of
Representatives in the election of the next
President. Heie is a reason, and rust such a
reason as the bold Radical would give. It is
in keeping with his revolutionary measures,
and in keeping with his own revolutionary
history-. •
The letter of General Pope, when in com
mand of one of the districts, recently pub
lished, draws aside the veil and discloses the
fact that the same party purpose seeks to con
trol with the bayonet also.
This argument, for party ascendancy, all
can understand. It is bold,-clear, and logi
cal.• It is' the argument of necessity address
ing itself to unscrupulous ambition. One
syllogism contains the whole of it : "We
must, says the Radical, "elect the next Pres
ident. The negroes, under the lead of our
bureau or the control of our bayonets, will
vote. -for our candidate. The whites, out
raged by-our-attempt to put the negro over
them, will vote against lum. Therefore, the .
bayonet must place the •negro in power in
these States to give us seventy electoral
votes for President, twenty Senators,. and
idly members - of the How!'
honor_to the Radical Chief, the great
Commoner, who, With all his faults, is too
great a man to resort to subterfuge or shams,
or attempt 10 conceal his real purpose in this
legislation.
Some who favor these measures do not ad
mit his leadership. But the truth is, in some
• -way or other he does lead or drive the Radi
cals in the end into the support of all his rev
olutionary schemes. Now and then one
shrinks hack. More than once I have' seen
the "galled jade wince," but never ihil at the
last to obeLlhe lash of her master. Would
to &nen that the Radical party could pause
and modify its suicidal .'policy! But I fear
the majority have become bound to it—bound
hand and foot with chains they cannot break ;
'that, however much some may regret it or
strive to conceal regret, political necessities
compel you to go on,and -iglu on to the bit
ter end. You haN c stakol your all upon it.
Yon must live or die by
The Senator from Massachusetts (31r. Wil
son.) as if hr authority. sa : "We will take
no step backward." :W. Colfax. in his re
cent letter, re-echoes : "Not a hair's breadtli."
Such I fear is the tidal resolution taken by
the majority.
The result of the recent elections, showing
that' a majority in- the Northern and West
ern States is opposed to that policy, so, far
front changing a resolution - front which the
Radical party dare not retreat, is pushing it
on to the madness of dispair. It sees that its
majority in the North and West is already
lost. It dare not exclude the South in the
next election. The South must be forced at
the.point of - the bayonet. by white diem
_ chisernenband negro suffrage, to vote for the
Badica), or be will be beaten. The majority
in the Northern and Western States against
hiMmust, Therefore, be overcome by the ne
gro votes of the South.
Sir, we shall see if the people of the tab
tea States will allow the regular army, which
now controls the ignorant negro vote in the
South, to hold the balance of power in the
Republic, and to elect to the Presidency the
candidate. of negro supremacy, upheld by
military despotism. Shall Prtetorian hands
control the Presidency, as in the degenerate
days of Rome, they set up the empire for
sale? lam no prophet, but, if not mistaken
in the signs of the times, the American peo
ple are not yet prepared for that.- The Dem
ocratic party, everywhere freeing itself from
the errors of the past, planting itself upon the
living issues of the hour, welcoming into its
ranks all whO are opposed to this radical and
barbarian policy of subjecting the States of
the South to negro supremacy by military
dictatorship, all who are in favor of main
taining the integrity of the Union, the rights
, of the States and the liberties of the people
antler the Constitution, and all who . neither
admit the doctrine of the Southern Radical
ism which brought on this rebellion, that a
State may secede from the Union, nor admit
that other doctrine of the Northern Radical,
no less revolutionary, that Congress may ex
clude or disfranchise ten States from the
Union, are now coming together upon the
platform of the fathers of the Constitution,
and in the same fraternal spirit it was formed,
and lay which alone it can be maintained,
Sir, there are times.when public opinion is
like a placid "stream gently flowing within
its .banks, when slight obstacles may for a
time arrest or change or divert its course.
Then, it may be said, the voice of the peo
ple is the voice of politicians; the voice of
the people, is the will of the party. But there
arc other times - when the heavens - are over
cast, the ruins have descended, and the floods
' 7 have - come, that its majestic currentrolls pa,
- emblem of wrath and poweY, when resistance
maddens ita.ftiry and increases its strength.
. Then it overflows its banks, The harriers of
party caucuses and politicians are all swept
away and become mere tiocstwood on the
surface of the 'troubled Waters. The voice
Of the people then is no longer the voice of
Atte.politicians ; then it is that the ,voice of
the people is the voice of God. . • -
Air, we have passed through such crises in
our day. Yew well altnember when a feeble
minority in tl, • laxly rfitsrd its voice against
that•overbeariftizajority which,undet the
dictation of Southehrradicals sought to force
1. State government, With negpslaverynpon
the people •ot_gauggt
That tuonattinls - ivyteglstartd4O hearts.of
the people to their very depths, and party
lines and partynames were forgotten. Par
ty ties were sundered like - flax at the touch of
fire. You remember that, sir.
Again. when these same Radicals of the
South, becitase. the_ people of- ,thf North. In-.
digiantly rellised - to sanction'ilie stilingation
of Kansas, rose in arms to destroy the Union
and the Constitution, what became of party
then ? The people rose as one man. Large
masses of the Democratic party gave their
support to the administration of Mr. Lin
coln, fermin,g the Union Republican party ;
and to their eternal honor be it said, that the
great mass of the Democratic party, = with
some exceptions, gave to his war measures a
hearty and unflinching support. Without
that support the war would have been a fail
ure.
In the actual prosecution of the war, in the
camp and on the field of battle, in the rank
and file, as well as in command, we found
no distinction whatever., Shoulder to shoul-
der, Democrats and Republicans, stood to
gether like brothers on every battlefield from
the beginning to the end of the rebellion. To
defend the 'Colon and Constitution against
overthrow by Radicalism, in arms
against them, they braved every danger and
endured every hardship. Together they
stood in the day of conflict, freely bared their
bosoms in each other's defense : together of
ten their life's blood gushed and mingled,
and side by side they now sleep their last
sleep in their honored graves. There they
will sleep together till Heaven calls them to
their reward.
And ndw, sir, what do we behold? A
dominant majority in this Senate and in Con
gress, under the lead of Northern Radicalism,
at the point. of the bayonetforeininegro suf
frage and negro governments upon ten States
of the Union and six millions of people
against their will. What was the outrage
upon Kansas compared to that? We see
them practically dissolving the Union -by ex
-eluding ten States from the Union, thus do
ing what the rebellion could never do, and
what we spent 0,000,000,000 and 1100,000
lives of our best and bravest to prevent. For
long months we have seen them encroach
ing steadily and persistently upon the just
rights of the ExeZutive; and now •to shit
their
-chains upon us and to crown the whole
of their usurpations, they propose to subju
gate the-Siipreme Court ; to overturn justice
in her sacred seat in this tribunal of last re
sort. They would compel the- Court whose
office it is to hold an even balance between
the States on the one hand and the Federal
government on the other, and also between
the several departments of the government,
to place false weights in the balances,
would make the weight of the ouinions of
three judges in favor of the usurpations of
Congress more than equal the weight of the
opinions of five judges in favor of the rights
of other departments, the rights of the States,
anti the liberties of the people.
Sir, we are in the midst of a new rebellion,
bloodless as yet, but which threatens to de
stroy the Constitution, and-- with it the last
hope of civil liberty for the world. But let
us not surrender our faith in the pt,ople, nor
our faith in public 'institutions. The people
everywhere are coming to the rescue. Tkey
are again rising above party and the elantors
I anti denunciations of partisans. Ifundreds
and thousands of the earnest Republicans
who supported Mr. Lincoln's adtninistration
have already severed theirrelations to this
revolutionary party. Hundreds of thousands
more are ready to do so and to strike hands
with the great mass of the Democratic party
to rescue the Constitution front this new re
bellion against it. •
They are organizing everywhere, from
Maine to California, not upon the dead is-
SUCC3 of the past, for inglorious defeat. There
is too much at stake, and they are too terri
' bly in earnest for that. But with living men,
upiin the living issues of the present, they
s ill organize for a victory so complete and
I overwhelming that the votes of the negro
States of the South eannin hold the balance
-of power and decide tle election against
them. The samepatrotism which led hun
dreds of thoustuads -of Democrats to sustain
the Republican party in putting down the
rebellion of the Southern. Radicals, will now
lead hundreds of thousands of Republicans
to act with the Democratic party to over
come the no less dangerous doctrines of the
Radicals at the North. They are fighting in
the same cause of the Union and the Con
stitution, and for the spirit which gives -them
life.
At the conclusion of Mr. Doolittle's re
marks, Mr. Morton repeated his question
whether the Radicals of the South, or the se
ces.sionists,are not now acting with the Dem
ocratic party, and did not do so hetbre the'
war''
Mr. Doolittle said. there were three parties
in the Southern States before the war, but
the majority acted with the Democratic par
ty. It might be that some of those Radicals
now acted with the Democratic party North.
Mr. Sumner—ls there any doubt of it?
Mr. Doolittle—l never knew a majoritv in
which there were not' some Radicals. The
majority here has several. [Laughter.]
Prom the Cincinnati Enquirer.)
TILE PEOPLE'S TICKET.
FOR PRESIDR.ST
GENERAL GREENBACKS
FOR VICE ritEsibENT :
ODNERAL LOW TA.XE-S
The above tieket, which we published yes
terday has been received with a universal
shout of approbation. It is both a good and
a popular ticket. It is popular both with the
people and the soldiers. It fills every requi
sition which the nation now demands. With
out the candidate for President, Gen. Green
backs, who is our favorite, the war could not
have been successfully prosecuted. This gives
him a great claim upon the "loyal" men of
that period. The popularity of Gen. Grant'
in the army was very small, compared with
.that •of Gen. Greenbacks. Whenever" the
presence of the latter in camp was announc:
ed—whenever his aids-de-camp, the paymas
ters, appeared upon the ground—it was the
signal fur a general shout of exultation. It is
true that sometimes there was a feeling
against him on account of his long absence
from camp, but it was owing to causes entire
ly beyond his control, and for which thear
my, when it was understood, exhonerdted
him. Gen. Grant was but a Lieutenantunder
the orders of our military hero. Indeed, to
his influence we owe his appearance, in the
military field. Gen. Greenbacks was at one
time a great favorite with the bondholders,
and under his auspices they contracted with
the Government for the' bonds. They can
hardly go hack on the General now with any
any consistency and decency.
The candidate for 'Vice President, General
Low Taxes, is a gentleman with whom the
people have had no acquaintance for some
years, but he is popular from old associations
and recolleetibns, lie did not render any
seryiee in the war, it is true, but it was not
his limit, he being overshinghed by the Ad
ministration and placed upon the retired list.
But the people are anxious that he should
again be brought prominently info the field,
and would willingly srlebitn hold a high place
in the Government. In connection with Gen.
Greenbacks he will he irresistible. We there
fore hoist this military ticket and shall labor
fur it until success ctsiwris our efforts. It is
proper to add that Generals Greenbacks
and Low Taxes have agreed"to give George
H. Pendleton a prominent place in the Cabi
net. •
POSITIVE DECLINATION.
By the following letter in the Syracuse
Courier, it will he seen that ex-Governor
Seymour positively declines being a candidate
for the Presidency _
tiTicAi Jan. 22,1868.
31v DEAR Stu have been very. ill—too
ill to answer your letter of the 12th inst., un
til now.
I assure you I am not a candidate for the
office of President. In my letter I said what I
meant, and I am annoyed to find it is looked
• upon by sonic as a strategic movement. I
have bad a large number of letters ifollt lead
ing men In the Northwest. I have written
to theta that my name would not go before
the National Convention. I am very much
gratified that my friends are willing to sup
port me for the office of President—as much
pleased as if wished the office. I do not
know when I can go to Albany, but -I have
told all my friends there my purpFises,when
ever I could do so without exposing myself
to the imputation of declining what might be
beyond my mach. Truly yours,
ticinAtto SEystorn.
“Witn.r. the lamp holds out to bran” there
is a chance for restoration of health. If,
therefore, the constitution has been weaken ,-
ed by disease or excess—.the nerves shattered
—the stomach weakened--the appetite gone,
and all the world appears glot my—pour
some fresh oil into your lamp, in the shape
of Plantation'llitters, which will make the
flame of life again barn brightly, and iliumi•
sate a once wretched existence. For ladles.
It is an excellent and gentle stimulant, exact
ly such as they require. Many families will
!loth° withont•it, It has an immense Bale
throughout the world.:
Ni A iixo Ltt WATER.:—A. dellghtlittiollet are
tie/o—superior to Cologne and at half the
Aries FeblSt. •
Ohic Motnitt.
itURSDATtFEDRIYARYI3, 1863:
TRH President's last letter to Grant is pub- .
lisheo, and proves to be, what we expected,
a still more triumphant vindication a his
understanding of the controversy- between_
them thou even his, tyst one, .It is accompa
nied by letters from Ave members of his Cab
inet, Messrs. Welles, McCulloch, Seward,
Browning and Randall, explicitly endorsing
the President's statements of Grant's, agree
ment to hold on to the war office until &suc
cessor was appointed, or the case could be
tested in the Courts. The document places
Grant in a hitmlliating attitude before the
country, showing him to have deliberately
violated his plighted word for the sake of
pleasing his 'Radical trainers, and then sought
to steal out of the dilemma by tergiversation.
ills warmest admirers cannot till to regret
the pitiable position in which he has allowed'
.himself to be placed.
InvicEs from Alabama indicate the defeat
of the Constitution adopted by the negro
Convention of that portion of our "subjuga
ted territory." The law requires that it must
have a majority of the registered voters. In
order to - prevent its adoption, the whites,
with the 'exception of a few Northern Radi
cals, remained away from the polls, and hi
duced enough uegroes to do the same to ac
complish their purpose. The latest informa
tion says the vote will lack from 10,000 to
20,000 of being half the tannher registernd.
The white vote is represented not to exceed
one for every 150, negroes. To accomplish
the success of their scheme, it is now pro
posed by Congress to pass an amendment
making a majority of all the votes cast suffi
cient to adopt a Constitution in any of the
Southern States. , Provinces, Districts, or
whatever may be the proper name to call
them.
IL SPEECH
The speech of - Senator Doolittle, which NVC
publish in this issue, is a production that we
wish could be read by every voter in the coun
try. its arguments are:unanswerable, and the
purity and eloquence of its language render
it not only the most interesting but the most
effective speech of the day. The impression it
created in -the. Senate can readily be appreci
ated from the fact that every Radical Senator
who has spoken since upon theinbject -of
Reconstruction has directed all his efforts to
an attempt to answer Its Positions i —thus far,
in our opinion, without the slightest approach
to success. We trust the speech will not
only be read by all our patrons, but that, af
ter they are through with it, they will place
the document in the hands of their Radical
neighbors for their perusal - also. An effort
of so much power canpot fail to have as in
fluence upon nil who read it.
IMPEACHMENT REDIVIVITS.
The Radical scheme of impeachment is re
vived again under the auspices of Mr. Wash
burn, Gen. Grant's trainer. The fresh pre
text is that the President has 'violated the
law in ordering Gen. Grant to disobey the
Secretary of War. It is given out that the
Radical Congressmen are nearly a unit In
favbr of the movement ; that the sub-con=
mitten will report to impeach President
Johnson ; and that, front present indications;
the report will be sustained by the full com
mittee, and by a strict party vote in the
Rouse. , It is now simply a question of a
few.days. Radicals like Bingham, Spalding.,
Dawes, Banks and others of that stripe, will
be found voting with Ashley, Butler and
Stevens, on this inipeachment question. 'The
party lash has been applied, and all the
weak-kneed fellows will be compelled to
"toe the mark." The programme, plainly
visible, is to make Wade President, through
the instrumentality of a Jacobin majority in
Congibas, assisted by the army under Grant .
and Stanton. The.sooner the usurpationists
consummate their schemes the better. The
people will never fully comprehend the enor
mity of this Radical conspiracy to revolution•
ize the government, until the attempt to de
pose the President is made. Let the impeach
ment project proceed
HOW THE
,11101 VET oons
The report of .ToluvW. Forney, Secretary
of the U. S. Senate, is one of the: most extra
ordinary volumes which has• ever appeared
in this or any other country, and if any 'per
son is curious to know the manner in which
the taxes extorted out of the groaning public
are spent, we advise him_to procure a copy
and study it at his leisure. It gives st. de
tailed account of the payments from the con
tingent fund of that body for the year ending
December, 1866. The whole amount ex
pended was $164,892.04, and the correcuiess
of the account. is certified by Mr. Forney,
with his own immaculate signature. • We
cannot, of course, pretend to give anything
like a fair abstract of its eighty-seven fines,
but the following list of articles purchased foi.
the use of the Senate will - afford a satisfacto
ry sample: - • •
For pocket knives, 504 in number . $l,llO 30
For pen knives, 405 in number
. 1,204 60
Making 909 knives for these
gentlemen, in one year, about
17 each; average cost $233,
rithountini , ° to - - - - 90
- 703 pairs of shears, about 14 pairs
each, cost - - . 325 00
Sponges - - - - 3G-I 76 .
1,13 - i pairs of scissors, about 22
pairs each, at a little over $1 a
pair - - -• • 1,18910
210 pairs kid gloves, about 4 pairs
each, at $2. .70 a pair - 31230
116 diaries - • 400 75
294 portfolios, nearly 6 each, at
about $4 . - - 1,104 00
416 pocket-books, 8 each, at about
$230 ; - - = 1,01030
409 brushes • 324 35
356 pin cushions - - • 60 60
1,083 boxes of pens - 1,89564
2,203 lead pencils - . - 724 33
Newspapers and 3frigazines - 3,26660
2,8761.2 reams of paper - - 4,09239
1,8 07 ,434 envelopes - • • 40,904.07
Of whole pages of individual hills the fol
lowing is a fair sample : "For B. F. Wade,
'Harper's Magazine, $4; . Incetic, $5; t
. Wes
minister, $5; Le Bon Ton (indispensable to
Wade,) $2." Five dollars for a "scrap-book"
was undoubtedly for Senator Sumner's bene
fit. The frequently occurring item "one
gallon of alcohol, $5.50," can best be ex
plained in connection with such other items
as -"corkscrews, $24;" -"Lemon-squeezers,
$2 ;" "Four boxes of lefuons, $4O" "188,11 is.
of sugar, $53.50." These items fur substan
tials ; leaser luxuries appear in the charges
of $512.50 for seventeen and a half dozen kid
gloves; $2.25 fora gallon of hay nun ;
.for a half gallon of cologne, and $2 for toilet
powder. Mutt a sumptuous thing it Ls to be
a Senator, to be sure, with such a Secretary
as remny, arid such a contingent had as
Radical recklessness draws from the public
treasury and the people'i pockets.
Tire issue between the President and Gen.
Grout, which has led to so many extended
and ponderous articles in • the newspapers,
can be stated in a very few words. President
Johnson charges that Gen. Grant, acting Sec
retary of War,' soletnnly promishi that in
case the Senate voted to 'ye-instate Stanton,
he '(Grant) would either give the President
an opportunity to select some one to relieve
hint, or retain the office until the mater could
-be judicially determined. This Grunt denies.
The President prtoduceis the testimopy,of jive
members of the Cabinet, who saythat Grant,
in'their presence, admitted everything to be
true that the president chugs.. The Presi
dent is corroborated by five respectable wit
lasses; and Grant stands alone upon his un
supported'statement. Who that has Dot de
tetmined to prejudge the case, can, hesitate
as to which antte,ment is most worthy of be-
GIBINERALL GELAN't TEre RADitAll•
_ • NODIUMEtV
Theßadical . State Convention of New
York, at its session last week unanintotislY
pronounced in-favor of tliehlnitination of
Gen. Grant for President, find Gor. radon,
of that State, for Vice Prtildent, and adopt
ed s platform in suttatantial accord with the
wishi-ashy politics of both the candidatr.
The papers of both' 'Nikki consider thL4 fo.-
- snit as settling — bevond'lll.44te' the - Ma of
Gen. Grant's nomination; and he may hence
forth De looked upon in that light is
positively as if the National Convention had
met and given him Its talkie! 'ratification.
The World argues that the circumstance will
be favorable to the I . .)eiticiCifitle cause, Inas
much as it will give' us several months the
advantage in 'exposing the weak points of
our antagonists. Until our candidate is in
the field, they will have no opportunity to
concentrate their attacks;: While the Heme
-1 erotic batteries will be in full play, dealing
blows with an effect that already begins to
be perceptible. Gen. Grant will find that
the charity which has ;been shown to his
faults while lie was content to retain the hon- '
°ruble record of a soldier, will be of no '
further avail, now that he has assumed the
role of a trafficking politician. "Heretofore
he has been permitted to' be dealt with only
in a strain of fleshy panegyric; be will now
be dissected with the scalpel of truth. The
narrow, sluggish intellect, whose dearth of
ideas has been dignified by the courtly name
of prudence, may be deemed to have a safe
refuge from extravagance in stolidity. The
dogged persistence by which he was chiefly
distinguished as a soldier, may be thought to
have stood forth in such bold relief because
it was not accompanied by other qualifica
tions. The really able soldier is he who ac
complishes great results with an inferior force;
and the country may conclude, on examine!
thin, that in his Virginia 6ampaiga General
Grant sacrificed nearly twice as mink men
as the enemy had in the, field. It is-not the
mark of a great soldier to tray for a victory
thrice as many lives as it ought to cost. Gen.
Grant accomplished everything by numbers,
nothing - by skill. Out ',of the army he has
never given the slightest evidence of abili
ties. In his native town nobody knew him.
In civil life he made no mark. He is dull in
conversations he has nb dignity of bearing;
he has no geniality and popular warmth of
manner to compensate for his want of digni
ty ; .he has little political knowledge ; he has
no capacity to enjoy works of genius; he is,
in short, a cold, narrow, commonplace, =at
tractive man, remarkable for nothing but a
stolid force of will. .
"If NVC pass from Gen. Grant's intellectual ,
capacity to his moral tinslilies, we shall find
them, of the same vulgar stump. He has
changed his political principles from motives
of ambition. Ile has treated his superior of
ficer With insolence to Ingtatiate himself with
a Ilictidn, and has tarnishtd his personal hon
or by unmanly duplicity. Nobody ever heard
that Gen. Grant is a model of sobriety.' No
body ever heard of his. being inside a place
of - worship. No instance or anecdote was
ever told of his kindness to a sick or wound
ed soldier. He was never known to manifest
a spontaneous interest in benevolent institu
tions. He never gave !utterance to an eleva
ted sentiment, or made an Inspiring address
to his soldiers. - Even the generous ardor Of
patriotic youth, awaysfroht their homes, ex
posing their lives under his leadership, never,
with the youthful tendenCy of hero worship,
regarded his person with affection. No eyes
ever brightened in a hospital at his approach.
No warm outburst ofadMiring cheers habit
ually greeted him When he came in "Joie of
his soldiers. Nobody ever felt that he was 'a
man to be loved. ,
"The certainty that a -candidate is to be
nominated who is so little capable of inspir
ing esteem or attachment, will cause the zeal
of many republicans 'to wax cold. Chief
Justice Chase will be ;more likely to confine
himself to his judicial duties, and surrender
his mind to the conserviltaing intluenCe of
juridical studies. The nomination of Grant
will therefore improve the prospect of im
partiality in the Supreme Court. It will cool
all and alienate many of the Chaise men.
They will be ,li,gusted to sec a life-long abo
litionist and, as they think, able statesman
set aside ft r a new convert who barters his
convictions for the sordid hmie of office. The
nomination siiikes the eloquence of. Wendell
Phillips, who connot;;with a very good stom
ach, lap tip from the grb - untLand swallow his
profuse vomit of diatribes against Grant.
Tilton makes speeches; it will be with a wry
face. Many other Republicans will regard
him as a tool which they despise while they
use it. Butler will de tilt he can to expose
him, from motives of personaL hatred. Be
fore. midsummer, if not before the meeting of
the-Chicago Convention, it will be discovered
that Gen. Grant is a weak and damaged can.
didatc."
SARIBO.WONI WORK.
A Virginia planter wishing to o tat a a
number of able-bodied negro laborr.rs, re.
canny went. to Rielunond to proctree them,
having heard that there 'were trindreds of
unemployed blacks lounging, ithout the city.
Re was directed to one of Ale places where
the Freedmen's Bureatt daily distributes large
quantitica of breafl and soup. There he
found %b tut tire hundred ragged persons,
among whom he counted one hundred and
eighty able-bodied men, capable ot perform
ing any labor on a farm. -While they were
idling about the spot, with pans and kettles
and jugs, waiting for soup 4ncl bread, ho of
fered many of them' the highest wages paid
agricultural laborers, and abundant rations of
good food. But they one and all - refused to
go to work on any tenni, alleging that they
were fed by the Briteau without any trouble
on their part, and lfj they left Richmond they
would lose their right to vote ! So it is that
we are taxed to keep lazy negrues in idleness
that they may vote the Radical ticket and
reconstruct the South on good Radical prin
ciples. What should- we think were the
streets of our Northern cities filled with ro
bust beggars, fed by the goverm9ent instead
of being eompelled tO earn rotd for them
selves ? What if this Were done; for partisan
purposes? White paupers are not allowed to
vote; but here Is a race of paupers, kept
in that-condition by - the Government for the
sole discernible purpose of enabling them to
vote
• Tut: intelligence comes to as tram Harris
burg' that Gov. Geary has been withdrawn
as a candidate for Viee President, and the
Cameron forces have concentrated their
strength upon Galusha A, Grow, who has
already been endorsed by a number of the
Northern and Western counties. The friends
of Curtin are pressing his claims with great
'vigor, and tlie contest promises to be one of
.the most exciting in our political annals. In
giving up Geary for 'Grow, the Cameronfans
have the advantage of a much stronger man,
and will be able to secure many of the coun
ties which Curtin relied upon with Most con;
fidence. Curtin's strength has been supposed
to lie mainly in the North and West, and in
case Grow should b6able to obtain only half
the delegates from these .counties, the ex-
Governor's chances for nomination will be
exceedingly slim. , The struggle is a life and
death one for Curtin, for if be loses this time,
he can never, hope; to obtain a, position of
prominence in the future.
UNDER the heading "Can it be Truer the
Dispatch publisheS the following' among Its
telegrams of the 6th inst.':
"The Judiciary Committee had the matter.
of the alleged. injtidicions utterances of
Judge Field under consideration yesterday.
Mr. iirilsbn, chairman'of the committee ; tes
tified that he had Wand remarks of the tenor
of those charged in, the rradution under con
sideration fall from the lips of Chiefjustiet.
Chase, and associate Justices Davis and
Add. All these gentlemen bad pronounced .
=ending meonettuction tilleolllo3l-
.
TIM WAY Tagil NtATS Id ROBBED;
A, Radiml ddrMapOndent of a Radical pa
per, the Reading Times, writing from-Harris
burg, gtit**Bre Virrelbffitteurs ceptiertht*
the expenditure of the public 'motley at the
State Capital, which should be sufficient to
awaken the indignation °fib e muses through
out the length and breadth of the Common
wealth He sayi:' .
"iii . iniyeiierdily'e . letieC I releried to the
subject of "Retrettelunent and Reform,"
which is beginning to attract some attention
here. I also, stated in a former letter that a
"resolution was adopted directing the Clerk
to Inform the Reuse as to the number of "of
ficers" now employed, which resolution was
offered by Mr. Mullen, (Dem.,) of Philadel
phia, and adopted by the Democrats with the
aid of a sufficient number of Republicans to
constitute a majority. When the Clerk came
to make up the list, it was evident that it
would be pronounced simply outrageous by
ninety-nine-hundredths of the tax payers of
the State. I did all in my power to ascertain, ,
in"advance of the Clerk's statement, how i
many there are, but could only succeed in
getting the number employed as "palters and
folders," and this figure , is truly startling,
there being now no less than thirty-eight
able-bodied men on the, list,Who, at last year's
rate of compensation .(about $BOO average),
will amount to over thirty thousand dollars
for doing the work of folding, and wrapping
and ptitdng_up about 4,000 copies of public
documents daily. I know that resPonsible
parties would•be glad to do all this work by
contract for s3iooo, and yet $30,000 is taki.a
out of the Treasury for this petty item alone.
Last year the sum required to pay these pas
' tees and folders was $20,600. (See Auditor
General's Report, page 112.) • ,
The amount paid the officers of the Senate
last session, including misses. was $32,671.
Although, in 1865, the Capitol extension was
put up, and everything in and about the Sen.
ate Chamber newly tbrnished, painted and
repaired, we find the last year there was paid
for furniture, material and labor furnished
Senate Chamber the sum of $2,040.75.
George Bergner's stationery bill, for the
Senate, amounts to $3,522.17, being at "the
'rate of a little over a 'dollar a day for each
1
Senator, although the law allows cad) loon
ber twenty-five dollars for stationery during
the session.
But the House account the interesting
one. Sixty-four thousand, three hundred and
ninety-six dollars anikeighty cents were paid
to the officers of the House during the version
of 1867. The postage bill amounted to $16,-
463A0. The contingent expenses of the House,
including $4293 paid t Genres Bergner for
stationery, Purdon'stligmt, &c., amounts to
$23,689.60.
Among other items of interest is one of
$7E2.10 Benedict for services as
"assistant fireman," and I have very good au
thority for saying that Mx. B. -Ilk' not serve in
the capacity of "assistant fireman," or In any
other way, for, a single day—that no one knew
of such an "assistant fireman" as A. W. Ben
edict, until his name was certified as such
and paid by the State Treasurer upon the
certificate. Among the "posters and folders"
is Wm. P. Small, who received a salary of
nearly $BOO for doing—nobody knows what.
Ire certainly did not serve in the folding
room pt all.
The items of painting the Senate chamber
and hall of the 'louse, one coat of paint, and
the whole job not more than two weeks
work for about two or three painters, amounts
,to two thousand, three hundred and five &A
lava. For this sum,' the cost of painting the
wood work of the two chambers, one coat,
which is very great, a large and comtbrtable
brick dwelling can be erected. . And it is - a
singular coincidenbe, that there is only five
dollars difference between Mr. ernikshatik's
bill for painting the hall of the House, and
that of Messrs. Fleming & Brown for paint,
ing the Senate chamber—the former being
$1.150, and that of the latter $1,155. -
Mr. Bergner appears to be particularly fa
vored. According •tu.the report of the Audi
tor General, his honest share of public patron
age, for stationery, printing Record "on ac
count, (it is noteworthy that nearly all his
big figures are "on atenunt,") amounts to.the
snug sum of $25,245.67. This does not in
,
'elude the stationery-furnished the Executive
Departments. . •
The public buildings and grounds are also
an item of very , great financial importance,
as po less than $38,281.8.5 are '{put throng!'"
just to keep them—from running away—or
in order.
1 am informed that a resolution is to be of
fered to have the folding and wrapping done.
by contract, and that the same shall not cost
more than eight thousand dollars, which
would be a saving of twenty-two thousand
dollars. as it now costs the State at the 'rate
of thirty thousand dollars for the am , -Lon,
in the House' alone. Such a resolution, if
am& compel prOfessing; reformers
on both sides of the House to show • their s '
hands. •
HOW THEY WON.
The Radical papers have teemed with re
jolcines over the recent election fot Congress
man in Ohio, where they succeeded with
hard flan in securing the triumph of their
candidate by a majority reduced one thous
and in comparison:with the :vote of 1866.
They do riot tell- their readers, though, that
this victory was only accomplished by adopt
ing Denfouatic ground. Lest souse might be
disposed to doubt the assertion, 'We quote
from a letter to thr- Tribune, written by Gen
eral Dann Pb' a, a leadinr , OltiO Radical,
who cites ths,: verdict as a rebuke of RIM pa
per's mune in clamoring against the plan
for Pal!'.ng off the public debt in greenbacks
,: 7 4 want to say, that this result, lq--the
v. lllth District, is a lair. indication, of the
political feeling in Ohio, if. a -e:unpaign can
- se fought out to the same manners, and on
ti, same issue. While a "white man's gov
ev meat" was detaapded at intervals, and
the Reconstruction act commented - . on, to
some extent, the elution turned on the finan
cial policy of the goi , ernment: And if von will
refer to •our candidate's speeches, reported
carefully, and published at length -In the
Cincinnati Commercial, you will find that
he placed himself fairly upon the financial
platform of - Gen. Butler. Our people rallied
to this cry with a life and enthusiasm that re
minded us of the itar tines." •
In other 'words, the people abandoned
Sambo's interests and concluded to look after
their own. To 'show the position of General
Beatty, the Radical candidate, still more
clearly, we .publish the following extract
from a speech made byhim during the cam
pa igit, at Caledonia, O i ltio :
"ii am in favor of p4 - ing off the live-twen
ty bonds in legal tender—in greenbacks ;
ant in favor of providing for the taxation of
all Government bonds that may hereafter be
issued 'by the Government; I tun in favor of
allowing the present Democratic Legislature,
which last•fali promised the people that they
would tax the present bonds, to fulfil that
promise if they can do it."'
IT is a Angular- but not inexplicable fact
that the resolution of Congress calling upon
the so-called Secretary of Wei for a copy of
the correspondence, between Grant , and the
President, was offered at least one hour be
fore President Johnson received Grant's last
letter; that the, unfinished correspondence,
us read in the House and sent for publication
.111 tlie-Moriling.,lvaa. in the _bands of Stanton
before General Grant's last letter was sent to
the President, „is , thirefore not- doubtful.
The truth will appear that, although Gener
al Grant, in his conversation with the Presi-:
dent before and since the change in •the War
Department, and in his private conversation
with friends within the List few days, has
frankly admitted Ids opinion that Stanton
should resign, he has at the same time been
pmbahly . in collusion With Stanton , to effect
this demonstration against Mr. Johnson. So
improper and sliaineless a call_ for a corres
pondence of such a kind'between the Presi
dent of the United States and the General of
Armies could not, of course, have been
prompted by any other except sieret infor
mation and active inspiration on the part of
that party to the controversy who'conceived
himself most in need, of the correspondence
being made public at the present time.
. Tax N. Y. Tribune, which is not very
likely to speak well of a political opponthrt.
unlw he is pre-eminently..deservinc.of it,
says_ of the recent speech of Senator Huckti
lew, of this State, that it was "the ablest ex
position of thafkmoniatie policy * . et made."
The predictions ttrad s ein regindtollr. Bucks
lew at the tithe et hi ection, seem destined
to be abundantly. His, late efforts.
Mire deieloped ade of argumentative
skill that placed him in the fothmost rank
among our public men, and, as s'delrater; he
is without a Aral in either house 'of Con
vent.
AItOTREII, SADICAL idPER MISAILII
GRANT
Bometlialtoneattlepablican,who ieetiocked
to heir )holtnth told, has writeioN?follitW7
tisk - Strerti:thin lively Radlpaper, the
Philadelphia Post, one of the estrentesied its
party organs : •
"2;1 the Editor of the Morning Dist :"
"Spa: tilhould such a charge as. that made
&glans* General Grant by NS emlell Phillips,
copied lathe Post of this morning,- be.
made fr copied. against any Man, high or
low, upon runaer?", Is it consistent in the
Post? It tintounded, will not the effect of
it be exactly the same as that predicted by
the Post us to other thates from other
sources, refeiTed to in Its editorial tm Grant
I and .the.Cabinel =
"NerrYtT ton Ouwr..
•
"Friday, Jan. 31, 15368."
The Post, nowise deterred by , the holy
horror of its correspondent, and determined
to_ speak its mind, nukes the following frank
reply
"If the charge that General Grant has been
seen drunk' In the streets -of Washington
were-made upon a single rumor- we would
not have repnuted it. But the rumors arc i
many. Mr. Phillips says they reach him
from different and trustworthy sources. The
Independent of this week tells the same atom
The Revolution deliberately says that "Gen
eral Grant is drunk half of his date." More
than this, we-bare repeatedly and recently re
ceived similar information, with statements
of the time, place and company in which he
is said to have been publicly intoxicated.
With Mr. Phillips we can only say, "we
know nothing ourselves of the truth of these
rumors." But the question is not one of per
sonal knowksige, but of public report.
'lln fact'. so often has the charge
so emphatically is it repeated.-and so many are
its belierers, that it amonntr now to a deliberate
accusation, which the political friendi of
General Grant are bound to meet. We
place the matter solely upon the high
ground that the people have a right to know
whether a Presidential candidate is sober or
intemperate. If It is not true that. General
' Grant has been lately intoxicated in public,
Senator Wilson, or Judge Kelley,, or ,Mr.
Waslibunie—gentlemen who want him to be
the next President—should put an end to the
calumny. They cannot continue to: treat
these rumors as mere idle tattle, fbr they
must be aware that silence will increase the
uneasiness of the public, and injure the polit
ical fortunes of their candidate.'.
Tits Harrisburg Patriot claims that the
debate in the State Legislature, endorsing
the reinstatement of Stanton, will cost not
less than i 10,900, and demands that hence
forth_ our legislators shall attend to their le
gitimate duties, and leave Federal politics to
those selected to give them their special at- .
tention. The Patriot insists that "it is sim
ply robbery to saddle the property holders
and tax payers with the expenses of making
such ..capital, If. members of : the Legisla
ture desire to make speeches on purely parti
san questions, they should &take theta to
called meetings of their own partisans, and
those partisans should pay them for so doing,
if they desire pay, and liquidate the expen
ses of printhig their speeches. Legislators
have no manner of
. right to consume time,
for which the State•paya them at the rate of
about *lb a day, in. writing and delivering
such speeches, nor to keep a host of officers
in. attendance on, them while doing so, at
heavy expense, nor yet, to compel 'the State
to pay the'expere-ms of printing their speeches
in the Legislative Record." To all of which
• the masses will respond with a fervent
"Amen:"
INCREASE OP TILE DEBT.
Secretary McCulloch reports the total debt
of the United- States , on. the Ist inst., less the
amount of cosh fin hand, at $2,527,069,313,
being nu incremse or Some Twenty. Millions
over the previous month, or only a little less
than a million-a day-,' This•s+tartling exhibit
is attributed to several reasons, one 'of which
is that three months interest were paid dur
ing •Tnnttary, but the main rause scents to he
owing to the heavy Lilling'otT in the gi?vern
tratit reVennes, rendering it neeessTary to
I ane more bonds to meet the ordinary ex
penses. A heavy decrease is ,shown from
both Tariff and Internal Taxation, and the'
prospects are discouraging for an improve
ment in• either branch. An increase- of the
debt, it will be remembered, also, took place
in Veceinber, and its amount at the present
time in excess of what we ()Wed on the first
of the month, is something like Twenty Mil
lion... These are ugly facts, and if people
would only reflect aver them as their import
ance demands, a cry- fir• •reform would soon
be beard throughout the r length and breadth
of the land.
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in connection with all the Western Lines . , as
follows: From DUNKIRK and SALAMANCA
—by. New York time—from Union Depots:
7:30 A,.M., Express Mail, from Dunkirk daily
(except Sundays). Stops at Saiatnanea at
. IWO A. M,, and connects at Hornensville
and Corning with the BA. M. Express Mall
from Buffalo and arrives in New York at 7
A. M.
P. M., Lightning Express, from Salamanca
dully (except Sundays)._Stops at Ifornells
villa 5:15P. M., (Finppet), Intersecting with
- the 2.2.1 1 P. M. train from Buffalo, and arrives
In New York at 7 A. M.:
4:15 P. M. New York Night Express.: from Dun
kirk daily (except Sundays). Stops at Sala
manca at 6:40 P. M. and arrives in New York
at 12:3D P. M., connecting with afternoon
trains and steamers for Boston and New
England Cities.
0:31P. M. Cincinnati Express, from Dunkirk,
(Sundays excepted). Stops at Salamanca
11:55, Y 51., and connects at llornellsville
with the 1133 P. 'M. Train from liutfalo, - arri-
Ting in New York 3:45, P. 51.
From Butlido—hy New York time—from Depot
corner Exchange and Michigan Sts.:
.1c45 A. M., New York Day Express daily "except
Sundays). Arrives in-New York at x).301'.1 M.
. Connects at Great Bend with Delaware,
-Lackawanna dc Western Railroad, and ut
Jersey City with midnight express train for
PhilsidelPhlif, Baltimore and lA. v ashingtoti.
4:00 A. M. Express Mall, via. Avon and Horneils
- vine, daily (except Sunday). Arrives in New
York at 7:00 A. M.
/.23 P. M., Lightning Express, daily (except Sun
day), connecting with morning express
train for Boston and New Enkland
Arrives in New York at 7:60 A. 51:
6:10 P.M.., New York Night Express, daily. Con
nects at Rornellsville with the 4:15P. Si. train
from Dunkirk, and arrives in New York at'
12311 P. M.
11:20 P. M 0
,Cincinnati Express, daily (except
Sundays). Arrives in New York ai /GP. 51..
Connects at Elmira with Northern Central'
Rallway.for Willianisport,liarristurg, pllll
- Baltimore and Washington; at
Great Bend with Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western Itailraltd, and at New York with
afternoon trains- and steamers for Boston
and New England cities.
Only one train East on Sunday,leaying Buffa
lo at 6:10 P. M., and reaching New York at 1/30
P. M., in advance of all other rotates.
Boston and New England passengers, with
their baggatA., are trans erred, free of charge, in
New York.. -
The best Ventilated and most Luxurious
Sleeping Cars in the World accompany all night
trains on this Railway.
baggage checked through and fare always as
low as by any other route.
ASK VORtICKKIN VIA. ERIE itanAvAY,
which can be obtained at aft principal ticket of
flees in the West and South-West.
H. ittronr.E. WM. R. BARR,
Gen"! Su p't. tien't Pass. Ag't.
fe1)15'66.
Farms► for Sale.
IlrEiOni.dlikeßrefnorilnesaonfulVee,r„ol t tlo good Farms t
m e.
ri reduction from former prices. Buyers
should not fail to see our list before purchasing.
FIRST FARM—Is 3 4 acres, 5 miles west of the
city. fair buildings. orchard of grafted fruit, all
kinds of fruit, soil all the best of grsvel and
black walnut soil, We think we are safe in
saying that no better small place can be round
In the county. Ra en; ram learn more particu
lars from J. A. French,. 2l French street,a form
er owner, or John H. (liner, the present owner.
SECOND FARM—Is the David Russell place,
and formerly a part of theThos.Mcßee proper
ty; 'Nacre:l, about ten acres timber which has
not been-eulted; 2 story new frame dwelling
house, new barn. Fences good. Pere, 87.000;
about 1 , •.2101.in baud. Soil—all of the best sand
and gravel.
We believe the above farms in point of soil,
character of the neighborhood, schools, church
es. die., be., offer attractions seldom found in
this county. and more, they are cheap'.
BARGAINS IN BriLtirw; rpm
s Building botq, Price S4ou.
3 " " STal. In Oat Lets 49
and north east corner Buffalo and Chestnut
streets. This desirable property is about l)
rods from the depot, dry gravel soil,good water.
A number of fine Dwellings and a large store
have been built on the block this season, and
quite a number more will be built the coming
year. We think them to be the best invest
ments In a small way now offering. Terms $5O
in hand, balance on time.
COTTAGE HOUSE
Modern Style, Complete Finish, All the Mod
ermeonvenlenees, eitnnto on Myrtle, between
Nlnthrind Tenth etreets—the Dr. Whilldln pro
perty-% City Lot.
FOR SALE
- - -
At great reduction, a number of Private Mee.
Webers, at prices touch reduced. .I:ow is the
time to get bargains.
FOR BALE.
.A number of Lots on Third and Fourth atreeta
between Holland and .German. Terms $3O to
SOO In hand, balance on sixyears' time.
ja.3041. • ' HAY & KEPLER.
LATEST & BEST!
PHE GREAT
AMERICA'S COMBINATION
Button Role, &remelt ming
I=
SEWING MACIME!
Ix warranted to ekeente in the beet Man
ner every variety of Sewing, Hemming,
Felling, eonliag,Tucking. Braiding (kith
eurign o g n .
the e O vaenrse a i m n ing i r t a io s n o n4lkeers
lbeautiful Bu g nand d Eyel d dHoles m n
nU
fabrics.
IT' llAfi3- NO EQUAL
Being nbnolittely the bent
Family Machine
In the World. and Intrinsically the Cheap.
eat, for it lattroafachines combined in one
by a simple and beautiful mechanical nr
rut:gement,
Circulars With foil particulars and stun
pies of work done un this machine, can be
had on application at the
SALPA-ROOMS - OF THE COX-PANT,
Booth-West Corner of Eleventh and-
Chestota Ste.,
PHILADELPHIA,
• • Inftnactioue given on -the Snelihie., grt! . •
tatonaly to nil purchatiery.
_ A.Ca NVANT
T ,, To Sell MIR Machine
C. ILlEingsblit7,
42 State Street St., Erie,
-igent .Erle, Warren and Crawford
counties. 3418.64-Iy.
Discharge - in Bankruptcy.
rs VIE DISTRICT COURT of the United
I. States, for the Western District of rennsy I.
verde. N. S. Fausett, a bankrupt under the
Act of Congress of March 2d, 1567, haying ap
plied fora discharge from ail his debts, and oth
er claimeseovable under said act, by order of
the Court, notice Is hereby given to all creditors
who have proved their debts, and other persona
interested, to appear on the 27th day of
February. !Mk at 10 o'clock,. A. M., before
S. E. Woodruff, Et% .11egieter, at his cities
In' • the city of Wile, to show Cause. i f
any they have, why a Maclaine should not
be granted to the said bankrupt. And further,
notice is hereby given that the second and third
meetings of =editors of asildbankrnpt,xequieed
by the =them' Stith sections of midget, will be
held
pl befo acer.e the said llea .
C ta MtercC at the same time
And - • • 11. ANDLESS,
Claof If. S. District Court for said District.
MINK, PDX,
as KUBIK. RAT TRAPS!
By the damn at single, for sale by •
dolis4t. J. C. BELDEN.
FLAWS FlLAitirSt—A complete assort.
mutt •ar ever: kind of Blanks tteeded by
Just,kes, Constables and Business
101.1pe at the Observer office.
E. mono* at *Pia kted,.. AA; !og
• Ansa 4=o= t l=l , oo .
beast steer
Oimansrodlee.
nabtritgraa nts.
Burton &ftri.Mtle.s cont.
HARD TIMER! HARD Tors:
prieek Have Come Do*
BURTON &
1524. Prat.h Street, tt.r
For partleuloors owe Small „
come In otnel wee oar
Reduced Pricy+, 4111
febl3-tf.
ENTABLII411111) 1.7 i),,
HAIL tt-
130SX0P19
PL 4 r 4 Gr . I.S s
French Window Gla4
The poblie ere respeetfolly interrnel
titcx* of
Imported by us directly from the inanuL,
In France iq the largest and lawn,•
to he found west of New* York city.
both single and double thickness, of
ry size. The superior strength,
beauty of French glass is admitted
prices are but little more than
glass.
AMERICAN GLASS,
We also keep constantly on halo] a},
varied supply of American
both single and double th1ek0,,,,,
every site: Dealers and oonsuniei, az
Glass will promote their Inten-4 hi ex
our stock and prices of French sod
Glass, before ordering from New York cr ,
where.
Paints, Oils anti Vanti,ll
White Lead of various qualities,
raw and boiled, Spiritm Turpentine, Vac.:!
Colored Paints, both dry and In oil,
every other article In the Paintina 1.4.1
LoweMt Market Price, In lar4e or small q
ties.
ow. Stnelt a bye Wood.; and Dye
complete, which we are selling at letnlke
PATENT MEDICPM
411411 e popular Medicines nf
eqt eamh priceg.
Drugs, ChentlealS &
bur supply of above articles itieiZet„,
are prepared at all times to hupply
Moth of the retail and jobbing trade
Whale Oil,
Lard 011
And all kinds of tam:final Oil., In 17
=all lots.
Wo express our thanks for the Ilberal
age received during the last tWetal•thrn
andtow invite the Attention of cor.or:.`
our Wholesale and Retail Department..c.
are well supplied with :staple
are selling at lowest cash pricet. •
0c2f137-gra.
Farm for Sale.
THE 1:1, NDERSIGNED offers for ‘alr.tsr.
able farm, on the Kuhl road. In
_Creek township, one rn.lle mouth of tre , ..l-s
tion road, and eight miles from Ent
tains fifty-five acres and eighty nerrb‘C•
trod and in the higb,,,t state of Iw
land is equal to the very bent in 2.4 f:
of the eounty. The buildings compas
17 truffle house with P. story tele] 4
cellar Under the whole . ; Mood isttc ,3,
boasts; 2 barns, each 3054; fret : ,
long with stable at the end ; and all llo'r. -
nr outbuildings. A first class well of ..o`.ll ,
which never fails, is at the kaciten door. '1
Is an orchard with 140 apple tress. ail
and bearing; and an abundance of n.lnrez
other kind of fruit grown in this nositbc"-
The only reason why I wish to sell is tlat.
going West to' embark in another occ;;;i,
Terms made known by applying lo -
premises, or to Hon. Elijah &MAW.
at-Law, Erle, Pa. J. A. SANS - TELL,
deaf-t f. , Pest Office Add 1: : 1 , •
WANTED.
Dien and .er Nt al 'ox e e i t ri. p47: o, e;.V .
and
,intelligence, to net as cans
ries of New Engravings, Five liesu , '-
dtmericrut Faces, engrrive+) on stone
the most eminent Lithographers is nl4 r-.
These faces, which are most
poetic conceptions, are designed to rri
best ideal types of American WOll/ o ','
resenting their charities, devotioto r: ' 7 l - c
attachments and heroism. The hair":
the highest style of the art, and is gr''
rarely been equaled, and eannortr%
These portraits have received sunk-!..:
from the most eminent critie. nth'
newspapers of the country, and
F 7
adorn every household in the land.
ultra arardescriptive circular, ailarft,
L. D. Rop,,
dee26-2w. 46 Main St., tiprintdr''
Dissolution Notice.
THE FIRM OF V. SCHULTZ .t
this day been disaolved by maul A,
all persoria indebted to the same
set their accounts on or before Tsf !°.;
of March tiezt.• The books :411
stand, where V. Schultz wiliyontcr.rf. ,
peso the same as before; F. riehulua ,, •
t . • .nr trade next door. • • ,ar:-
VALENTINE.
Mill Creek, Jan. J. ISOB.
- To Architects and sali o
a AND PROPOSALS will be...,„;
-I[ 3l 4 2 ;the Directors Of the Poorant.
March next,for the building of an A O ,
TiOtiae of Employment, on the Free:L . "4
house farm, four miles w est of
der. 'WM. M. ARSl'clar-s
deel767.
NEW SToV
And Tin Ware Establis; .; '
A GOOD ASSORTMENT OF 11) WI
ALWAYS ON ItANP• r ,
Call at Illtarad
UM Sassafras street, nest the
Erie, Pa.
(R. FAULKNER , 3 f' D "
atmotos .t UOMOT.Ord. TO IC 111111.' _a
KA French Street, Erie, P" : i
ttwire"7-eat.
•FLOuseit fpr
rartE trISTDERSIONFID 0
Houses on ISLlteenth et!
leib'n brick bnilding.bet
de.intble places of resident
ono Is a two-story brick, in
on sttutenth street; thboth!
one-half story, fronting on
on the same lot. Emit' term!
quint of PETE,R, ritiltiaF„
the undersigned, owner, In
ja2-tf.
For Beni
A LARGE TWO STORY Y 7
XX resat street between '
occupied by Dr. Madill. rm
•atiler et.wil. AKA
~es tM Omer.
44010
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
039 State St.. Erie. Pa.,
And Imporfrni ,A.
FRENCH WINDOW OLAS
DYE WOODS.
OILS.
Tanners' 011,
Linseed 61
Bath raw !Ind b;311,1,
Castor Oil.
Nea.g FA. J.