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duties ou importa awl the in,terest,of the pub
lie debt: . and
WItEIIEAS, It is not good policy, nor just
to the people that Congress , shall pledge the
fah of the United States to a mode of pay
ment More burdensome than the laws re
quite ; therefore,
" Be it ;.esnhyd, d , ., That the public debt
''l the United States, except where the law
provides for the payment in coin, shall be
paid and redeemed iu the lawful money of
tie United States, and the faith of the Uni
ted States stands pledged accordingly." '
In the speech which I delivered before
our lest Sib of January Convention I discos
east this question with come rare, and will
ask you to allow me to read briefly from
what I then said: •
" But there is a class of bonds , known as
live-twenties, so called because they arc pay
able in twenty years, and redeemable at the
pleasure iif the United States, in live years
trout their issue. The law authorizing their
issue does not provide that they shall tut
paid or redeemed in coin, but it does pro
`tide that the interest shall be paid in coin,
and the same law provides that the treasury
notes, known as the legal tender notes, " shall
be receivable in payment of all taxes, inter
nal duties, excises, debts and demands of ev
ery kind due to the United States, except
duties on import, and of all claims and de
ue against the United States of every
tint whatsoever, except for interest upon
bonds and notes, which shall be paid in ruin,
acid shall also be lawful money and a legal
baidet in payment of all debts, public and
private, within the United States, except du
ties on imports and interests as aforesaid."
Treasury notes having these qualities were
issued - to the amount of four hundred millions
before the five-twenty bonds were negotiated.
The argument drawn from the tact that bonds
heretofore issued did not provide for their
payment in coin, yet they were so paid, has
no force, for the reason that when such bonds
were issued and paid, gold and silver were
the only "lawful money and legal tender,"
and therefore a contract to ,pay iu money but
silent as to the kind of ,money, was a con
tract to pay in coin.
"Those who agree with Governor Morton
in the denunciation recently made in his
Columbus, Ohio, speech, that it is Democratic
repudirition to pay these bonds in legal-ten
der Treasury notes, repudiate the letter of
the act of Congress declaring them "lawful
money," and clothed them with all the qual
ities, of gold and silver for the purpose of
diseharging legal obligations, except In the
ailment of "ditties on-imports and the inter
..fat on the public debt." If after that Con
gress atifliorized the issue of bonds payable
it linotcy; but silent as to the kind of money,
may they not legally be discharged in what
ever is the "lawful money" of the country?
By what right then does Governor Morton
and the Itadical press of the State denounce
us as , repudiators, when we propose to stand
by the letter and spirit of the contract? lie
who bought the bond- of the Government
With Treasury notes as "lawful money," then
heavily depreciated. must• be content to be
paid in "lawful money" now notch apprecia
ted. This argument is strengthened by the
fact that in aubsequeut loans, as in the case
of the ten-forty bonds issued tinder the act of
alareh 3, - Wl4, when Congress intended pay
ment to be anade in min, it was so provided
in the law Mid upon the face of the bonds.
"The debt of Indiana was contracted when
gold and silver acre the lawful money, and
the only legal-tender. She did not hesitate
to pay her Interest in Treasury notes' when
they were worth but forty cents on the dol
lar. Was that denounced as repudiation ?
"It is said that it is unjust to pay' these
lauds otherwise than in coin. I am not
able to perceive that it - is so. The bonds'
were bought front the Government when the
Treasury notes were lunch more depreciated
than now. Undoulatply there were haul
cases under the Leg: -tender Act. I recut
had one case that app tired so to me. I may
not he accurate lo tit amounts, but nearly
so. One citizen having gold, $lO,OOO, during
the first year of the war, and before the rise
in gold, or rather the fall in paper, loaned it
to his neighbor at seven per cent. That
neighbor %%LS Ale to pay the interest and
hold the gold. He did so until after the
passage of the legal-tender law, and until
gold went up to *2..10. He then sold the I
*old for $25,000 legal-tender antes. With
10,000 of the notes he paid the note given
for the gold, and with the remaining $15,000 1
he bought fifteen of theiive-twenty bonds of
$ 1,00(1 each, upon which he has since receiv
ed his 'Merest in wield every six months.—
What became of the other gentleman who
was compelled to take paper worth shout
$4,000, I can not tell. Perhaps he becatue a
Quartermaster, or sought some other emi
nently loyal position, hoping to retrieve his
fortunes; but I have been entirely unable to
excite a throbbing sympathy fur the gentle
men who holds the $1:1;000 in bonds. I can
not say that financially be Las done badly;
and in the little question between hint and
the tax-payer, I cannot go with Governor
Morton and his followers, and hold that we
shall go beyond the conttact and Stay his
bonds in gal. Tins large class of bonds be
ing payable in twentyyeara in Treasury notes,
they are now many of them redeemable in
the sallle. ,
"Then we may comnienee the payment of
our debt by the issue of Treasury notes, and
thus stop the payment of gold interval, and
also inerelue out currency, and thus shwa ,
late commerce, emeriti ise and labor, and in
connection with a wise polies ion apt South
ern' States, and the development Of their re
souree,, restore prosperity to the whole/a:mi
tre. I would not bv ninlersttiod as !win; in
Myer of an increase of the currency, without
limit. The dangers and evils of an unrestrit
tad issue or paper moneV cannot be too ease
fully avoided. Temptations in that direct ion
are great, and mist he resisted by a Mom
and prtuleuce. No :me more than myself ra g
grata the necessity of a resort to-paper curler
cy, , Nil it results trout uses-shies of out. e - •
(DIME'. The issues mast be limited le '-
demands of business, all.l 1 1 1,e. weals. ' t i c
people
oms counts- and Co- '
people hi meeting the enorniotta ' .' of t •
Natioal, att vies for
. o _, purposes."
The Chlesa go convto.', on . -
, c high nomina
te'l 11. .. m Grant arid 'tr. Cad fax. professed to
tio•lare the pelicy e l i a.a• x iii
govern the can
didates and a l to party c n thi s - sem ea t, The
reathitionsls:
"Third. lye lenotrnee all forms of ri.:pielia
iron as a national Caine., and nazi nal honor
requires the payment of the public indebted
ness iu the utmcat good faith to all creditors,
. at home and abroad, not only according to
the
,letter but the spirit of the laws tolder
which it NVItS contracted '
What dues this mean? it gold payment,
why is it noe so said—ami it' greenbacks, why
not tell the people'.' If is plain that the let
ter, the language of the laws is not to control,
but what is supposed- to belts spirit is to
govern what the lowa hay ought to be what
they menu, and the spirit and intent of a
law ought to appear in the language used.
• A construction has already been given.
, ha a speech delivered' at Columbus, Ohio,
- on the :lith day of August 1804, Governor
_Horton spoke of the proposition to pay the
bonds in•greenhaelas as '"the black channel
of repudiation," "the black cloud of repudia
tion," ' - "charged with the livid
lightnings of dishonor and destruction," and
as "a weak device of the enemy by which
they approaCh direct repudiation.' Gov.
Baker in his speech at Cincinnati, on Septena
bsr 10, 1867, said of the measure that it
"would result in the destruction of the eredit
of the Government tit home and abroad, and
ultimately in practical repudiation, which is
the real object sought." The Chicago reso
lution denounces "all forms of:repudiation as
a National erhne"—and the great leaders of
• the party in Indiana say that it is repudiation
to pity the bonds in greenbacks, and thus
they declare that the spirit of the law requires
payment iu gold,, and that is the meaning of
' the resolution. '
In what contrasts are the New York reso
lutions upon this and kindred subjects ? They
leave no question in doubt, but in plain.
words declare the policy of the party. I will
'rand them:
"3. Payment• of the public debt of the
United States as- rapidly as practicable ; all
moneys drawn front the people by taxatio:
• except so much as is requisite fur the p: , , c , ea „ , ;:_
ties of the Governnient, econoe:;,„i h . ad
ministered, being honestly "ttplied to suck
payment, and where 11:,,,, obligations of the
Government du nut ,:,p,,,,,,A,i. state upon then,
figs, or the law 'under is hick they were issued
ddea not ',.. erivide that they shalt be paid in
colt, :nay :night, in right sod in justice, be
paid in the lawful Immey of the United
States.
"4 Equal ta:Vation ~f every species of
property according to it-+ real salve; ho
Government. bonds and other public se-
"5. One currency for the Government and
the people, the laborer and the office-holder,
the pensioner and the soldier, the producer
and the bondliolder."
Will you allow me to call your attention to
another of the .Clueago resolutions. 1 refei
to the second, which declares that. it was
right tor Congress to establish negro suffrage
in the Southern States, and that it is the duty
of Congress to maintain it, while the wtestion
of suffrage in all the loyal Slates properly be
lohg to the people of those States. Upon
what principle does that rest ? Are we a di
vided people? awe we one Constitution
' l ortheNorthasdanotherforthesoutht The
Con , titutioa as made by the tlithers left it
with each State to tleeide who may and who
Shall not vote. In his carefully considered
speech of the fl9th of -September, ltfai, Gov
ernor Morton, in discussing this very ques
tion said
"I have come to speak mot,- properly on
the subject of negro snaraffe, The Coultitit-
Lion of the United States has referred the ques
tion of suffrage to the several States. This may
have been right or it may have been wrong.
I merely speak'of the subject as it stands,
and say-that the question of suffrage is referred
by the Constitution to the several States." He
then referred to the provisions of the Consti
tution, which settle the • question that Con
gress cannot interpose to control smfrage in
any State. Are you now willing to say that,
as the Chicano Platform, in effect, declares
that the Constitution of the L oiled Stateshas
a force and meaning in some of the -States
which it does not have in others. That the
war was to maintain the Pnion, but that a
political poliey,shall prevail which tows the
seeds-of division and dissolution. The men
who control the party intend negro suffrage
everywhere in the country, and they have es
tablished it wherever they have been able.
By an act of Congress it has been established
in the Distriet of Columbia, and now at
every election in the city of Washington, the
disagreeable sight is witnessed of hundreds
of white men being jammed and crowded
from the polls by organized bands of negroes.
By act of Congress and power of the sword ne
gro suffrage is controlling in the South and
by act of Congress it is extended to all the
Territories of the United States, and the poli
cy is fixed that no new State is to he admit
ted whose Constitution does not make it per
manent and secure. It has been established
in all the Northern States where the p eo pl e
would allow. lint recently the effort has
been made to fasten it upon the Constitutions
of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas
and Ohio, but the people, by large votes said
they would not endure it. A year ago the
question was submitted to the People of Ohio,
and Governor Norton, addressing them, said :
"If you Audi refuse, von will then stand naked
before your enemies. It will then be hissed
scornfully in your face that your immortal
principle of equal rights is only for Southern
eAuctumption, and that the Radicalism of Ohio
is but a cheat anti sham."
In the same campaign, Governor Baker, at
Cincinnati, was glad that the issue was made
so bluntly in Ohio between "Old Prejudiee"
and "Young• Progress," and claimifig that he
and his associates were "Young Progress."
He said she rejoices in equal rights; and
planting herself firmly upon the Declaration
of Itidependenee, she invites men to come up
to the same glorious level, and enjoy the
good thing , : which (hid has so bountifully
provided for his children. . Then, to show
how stupid is "Old Prejudice," by which he
means the Democrats, because they will not
stand on the glorious level universal of equali•
ty, he tells the story of an old gentleman,
who did not believe in railroads, but would
ride iu his ox-wagon rather than upon the
ears.
Ns the story is too long for argument, I
w ill not repeat, but only reply, at the risk of
being ridiculed and Isughed at, by "Young
Pro , ress"—which, in this case, is etedly run
—that we shall continue to ride upon the ox
wagon of the Constitution, where the flag of
Nual States is ftoating - above us. (fur Na
tional banner in now carried by able and
patriotic men, who have adopted it as their
own, and in their representative capacity
they are worthy our support. Let us carry
them on to victory. With them and with
success we return to the plthetice of political
virtue, and to honesty in the use of the pen.
ple's money ; to retrenchment and economy ;
to equal taxation ; to lower taxes. We re!
store respect and obedience to the Constitu
tion ;we restore the authority of ;we re
store the ancient proceedinwa and writs of
Courts
,whielt have protected the liberties of
our race Mr so many centuries; we restore
to the Sum:tine Court Uta;, rightful jurisdic
tion of which it has been stripped ; we restore
to the Executive its constitutional rights and
powers, and place Congress once more tinder
the authority of the Constitution ; and our
troll,: will la; complete only when ithl the
machinery of Gover»ment moves in harmony,
and each departtnent in olyedienee to• the
Constitution. Let us dig down to the fOun
dation of -our political structure and if they
have taken away the rock that our fathers
placed there, let us restore it.
Let us examine the joists and framework,
and if any of the supports and braces have
been removed. let them be restored and made
firm, under this edifice which our fathers de
vised, and under which the country became
great and powerful, and the people were
prosperous ittal happy. It must I restored.'
The shades of the mighty dead, the hope, of
the great future, unite in demanding it.
Then we will have peace at home and power
abroad. Then the laws will be obeyed, and .
the strong and the weak, the rich and the
poor, will be protected alike, and the songs
of joy and gladness ii ill. be heard in the
homes of all the people. Then nor flav2; will
be honored by every nation, :old our citizens,
Whether native born or adopted, will he a ,
secure in their rights u herever they traycl vt
sojourn, from the Chinese Sea to the rekgdi
waters that dash upon the western row.t of
Ireland, as the titled lord in his es-The or the.
,crowned king upon his throne
Jr - HY liAsT.—The the ?ist of
Jurors fir the Ciiin l / 2 4 Court, ronol,oneiny
on the !Mirth Mcuday iu.A.thrust, ; 1
flr , ,i - m‘riou,
Waterfi Porew.,m. lieetat,
of
I Nlttt
L V e' sl l u l t r r ak.
Dunit-',ntly, .1 D. Phil
r•onnedv. Vonrord—
ajor 4 . 0ig1;61, , A
•rMuld I 'almond.
Corey—Lan< ( . ‘o/' T : .mu
"
Thompso.l4 we. mon .p
• Onion Boro--C. U. Stramt
han. Lahr?' 63,
.B.Stra11.111:111. Sllllllllllt
Jscktaa
.:raham. 3legean—trialt Skin
rteat. -
Creek—John W. Steve s. Con
-Miles Dorman. Springfield—Daniel
FAY , ' •
ey. Guard Tp. (miry Teller, .Jr.
"la . rd 1340.—LefTert Hart. Fairview Biro
—John inqin, Isaac Webster.
Trorewe Jor”rx.—Win. W. Dobbins, T.
D. (Thais, <l4. Compton, G. C. Dunn, N.
Murphy, F. Schneider, .1. F. Walther, An
drew (Vaguer. South Erie-li i Liebel. V,
Schultz. Mill ere( k—.l. F. Lave,
Waidley. Harbor Creek—Chas. W. Ken
drick. Not th East Tp.—L. Curtis, H. I).
Tab u ] North East 'Born—Wm. N. Allison.
Creentield—C. Morgan; C S. Raymond
Venango—`.:has. lloward. ,
Wattsburg—W. B. Smith. Amity—.T. A.
:McClanahan. Concord—John Cowell. Uni
on Tp.—Josiall Emerson. Union Bum—
Charles Benjamin, Thomas Dunham, Dallas
Smiley. Waterford Tp.-.lolth (',over, Mat.
Campbell, 1). M. Johnson, J. L:NeWilliams.
Waterfoid Doro---A. Lytle, Hobert Leslie.
Greene—Geo. (V. Donnell. MeK'ean—.l as.
Dunn, D.miel Marsh, I) Wright.- Washing
ton—Charles Sherman, Gilbert Spencer.
Franklin—Chark; Foster, Wm. MoCathmon.
Elk Creek—C. C. Godfrey, D. M. Wood.
Springfield—S. G. Baird, A -IV. Gray, S.
Devereaux. Girard Tp.—.T. W. C,mk.
Ui
r Born—L. S. Jones.
rorr Drawn lo t (:,art 11144
to he herd on Pie Monthly in Alifp.4.—
Erie—T. M. Austin, M. R. Barr, C. M. Briggs,
Jacob Bootz, R. W Dibble, Valentine Ileidt,
George Hill ; M. Knoll, I'. Sehaaf. .t-:outh
Althof, 'obits fiekinger. Mill
Creek—T) H. Barton, Janies Blackwood, J.
K. Caldwell, G. S. Davi,on, .1. B. Evans,
Warren Foote, Elias Hayberger, H. liable.
loan, .1. F. Manley, A. Russell. Harbor
Creek—Win. Magill, B. P. Walker. North
East Tp.—ll. R. Porter, J. Spofford, Martin
Frey. Wayne—llarrisJohnson,John Whit
ney. Corry—Warren Bills. Greene—K. J.
Hirt. Summit—O. B. Andrews. McKean—
E. Pinney. Middleboro—L. Peas. Albion
--M. Jackson. Girard Tp.—Samuel
Fairview Tn.—Giles L. Galusha.
[COY NIT:NICATED:I
CH CHOI EXTENSION.—We Ullikratand that
the "Christianyhureh," organized some three
months ago, under the supervision or l ir.
Lord, in Park Hall, is moving to slot
upon - which to erect a has. of wors hi p.
The church numbers abr ..
. twenty-five mem
bers and is increae r :._
which, with a good
audience of a l f . - -:titive hearers filling the seats
in the //::," 1, g i vet prestige that they must
have '‘s more • comtnodiopa place of worship.
_ar. James Darsie, agent of the State Mission
ary Society,'was in the city in July, and has
pledged the means to erect a fine brick
•trueture, at a cost of ten thousand dollars,
or over, if the church here, co-operating with
the citizens will secure a lot. Mr. Thomas
Stewart, Dr. Lord, and others of the com
mittee of the church, will wait upon our cit
izens to obtain the needed amount. We
ought to give a liberal and hearty response
hi this enterprise, as others will build the
house if, we will furnish the ground.
We are glad to see a move in this direc
tion. We have many beautiful edifices al
ready dedicated to the worship of God, but
we need more. There are not sittings enough
in all our houses of worship, to-day, to ac
commodate one-third of our population at
once. We want more room for the poor and
the destitute, as well as the rich.
Dr. Lord is the representative in our city
of the. " Christian church," which now nunt
hers, in the U. S., some 000,000 in its mem
bership. Though wealthy and influential
for good in the States of Ohio, lientucky,ln-
Altana, Illinoiti, Missouri, &c., yet, like all the
other churches in this city, they are par in
their beginning. Like the other shushes,
which in their poverty called upon a gener
ous and public, and met with a ready
response, they ask for the aid now much
needed in
,this worthy enterprise. Let the
aiddsi extended, and that, too, with a liberal
hand.
Wm/TETER tuLky be the End of man, there
can be no doubt when we see those long
trains gracefully sweeping the floors and
roads, that the end of woman is—Dust.
eghtOrie (0 bum.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 186$
1.1 )1: EISIDEN F,
HORATIO sEtmoun, oe N. IV.
FOR VICE PII.EAIDENT,
Gen. F. P. BLAIR. of Missouri.
AUDITOR. GENERA T.,
CHARLES E. BOYLE, of Fayette Co.
SURVEYOR GENERAL,
WELLINGTON 'LENT, of Columbia Co.
Democratic Platform.
The llemocratlC party In National
t ion assembled, reposing lb:trust In the Intelli
gence, patriotism and dlierlmluallugJustice of
the people, standing upon the Constitution as
the foundation end limitation of the powers of
the Government ! and the guarantee of the lib
ertles of the citizen; anti recognizing the ques
tions of slavery and accession as having been
settled for all time to come, by the war or the
voluntary action of the Soathern States In Con
stitutional Coirventlon assembled, end never to
be renewed or re-agitated, do with the return
of peace deniand:
Ist.—immediate restoration of all the States
to their rigida In the UnlOu ander the Consti
tution, and of civil government to the Atnerl
call people.
241.—Anineity for all past political offences,
and the regulation of the elective franchise In
the States hy thelr citizens.
3d.-Payment of the public debt of the United
States as rapidly as practicable; all moneys
drawn from the people by taxation, except NO
much es Ls req uisite for the necessities of the
Government, economically administered, being
honestly applied to such payment; and where
the obligation of the CioVern/wilt, do not ex 4
pressly state upon their face, or the law under
which they were issued does not provide that
they shalt be paid In coin, they ought, in right
and In Justice, to be paid in the lawful money
of the United States.
9th.—Equal taxation of every speclex of prop.
erty aecording to its real value, tnennting Gov.
ernient bonds and other public securitielt.
sth.--One currency for the Government and
the people, the laborer auu the office-holder, the
pensiOner and the , oldler, the produccrand the
bondholder,
Gth.—Economy in the thlutinistratien of the
Govenunent ; the reduction of the standing ar
my anti navy; the abolition of the Freislmen's
Bureau and all political instrumentalities de
signed to secure negro supremacy; simplllica
tlon of the system, and discontinuance of In.
quisitortal modes of assessing and collecting In
termil Revenue, so that the burden of taxation
may be equalized and lessened; the credit of
the Government and the currency made good;
the repeal ttf all enactments for enrolling the
State militia into national forces in time of
peace; and a tariff for revenue upon foreign
impornt, and such equal taxation under the In
ternal Revenue lawn as will afford Incidental
protection to domestic manufactures, and us
will, without impairing the revenue, impose
the least imrtien upon and yet promote and en
courage the great - Industrial interests of the
cuuntry.
7th.—ltiifurtu of abuses in the:ailininistmtion,
the expulsion of corrupt men from othce, tho
abrogation of useltas oflice_s, the restoration of
rightful authority to, and the independence 04
the executive and Judicial departments of the
Government, the subordination of the military
to the civil poicer, to the end that, the usurpa-
tion of Congress and the despotism of the sword
may ceaxe.
Sth.—Equal rights and protection for natural.
Iced and native-born citizens at home - and
abroad, an assertion, of American nationality
which shall command the respect of foreign
powers, and furnish an example and encour
agement to people struggling fbr national In
tegrity, oonstltutlonal liberty runt Individual
rights, and the maintenance of the rights of
naturalized citizens against Ito absolute doe.
trine of !inimitable allegiance, and the claims
Of foreign powers to punish them for alleged
crime committed beyond theirjurisrliction.
Alh.qglorniro toed Ohio I::lettionir fur
Mite, Dixtri f q (1,, 4 1 Golfity Office,; Titesthly,
Oet,Zer 13th, 1N6.4. •
IT IS NUT n VW re party iriltMITA toy bed.
- 4 - e ore t,lfis,g to wire our &in-:dry from the
hgee,irl, ;eh or, rlotog it. irt to lift Off
tht: l oGildf.ritivs unul tlw Aliteck: ei whi c h, in the
84 aiet of I Ple , bites ern.qhing kration,
I! , 71A pe I raly:c, the aftz%,,, , A., aMI labor of on r Zan&
h"i" . l ; 4,4 , ihr:t ger eau give order, prosperity
" 711 haPeiza',/ to those sections tg" our country
Thl" . ^ l .""if,er so deeply to-day 'in their homes),
snit ir, their industry, front the unhappy
ce.itx of the last eight years.-1101tATIO SET
morn.
INCREASE OF THE DEBT
It i' not generally known that the debt ()f
the United states has actually increased sinoe
the ekise of the war. On the let of June,
18n."1, it hmounted to $2,635:205,753, and on
the 1.4 of June 1848, it was $2,648,753,54;6,
according to the report of Secretary McCul
loch, showing an increase of M 547,813. At
this rate of payment when will the dent be
extinguished? Who can answer? In these
last three years, hundred, of millions, that
Aould have been applied to the payment of
the national debt, have been wasted in the
Freedmen's Bureau, a large , standing army,
and many other ways. If economy had been
practiced the dAt might have been reduced
several hundred millions in the last three
years. Whether this extravagance and in
crease Of the public debt continues will de.
Pend on the way the people vote next. Nov
ember.
ANOTHER. OVERIV!IELDtIiG Vie
ECM
The State election in Kentucky was held
on - Monday, being the first since the noon
nation .of Seymour St . Blair, and affords a
fresh confirmation; or the great political re
volution which is sweeping over the
country. ,
After one Of the most hotly con
tested canvasses that has ever been held in
the State, the Democratic party times out of
the eontlict with its majority vastly - increased,
and with a prestige that cannot. 'fail to tell
favorably-in all . the elections to ktc held here
after. The Democratic 'candidate for Gov
ernor. the Hun. John W. Stevenson, is
elected over his Radical competitor, Mr. R.
Tarvin Baker, by the largest majority ever
given in, that State. In 1861 MeCbtllanN
majority-was 36,603 ; in 1867 Gov. Belm's
majority was 43,119; and now, in l'B4B, Ste.
venson's majority reaches in . the neighlx
,--
hood of + , erenty thouNtiul ! The city of Lot u i s .
ville, where, if anywhere, Radicalism world
have a foothold, gives a Deninernticmaj ority
of nearly-eight thousand—;4 gain sine a last
year of 3,691. All lt::11 glorious Ken' etcky !
The home of lienry Clay remains tru e to the
Nalion'l l , principles for which he cor Ltended,
every year increases her devotion to
them. Democrats of Pennsylvmaia, take
courage Item tlie inspiring condmrt of your
brethren in all parts of the Union, E.nd let us
not be content with less than thirty thou
sand majority in October.
The elections to be held theprestat and
next month arc as follow% : Tennessee, Au
gust 13th Vermont, September Ist; Cali
fornia, September Bth ; Maine, September
14th.
FROM June to July the debt. rose from
$2,007,827,8-12 to *3,060,833,392, or more than
$83,000,000 is one month—over $13,000,000
a week—over $1,750,000 a day—over $70,000
an hotir---oVer . $1,200 a minute--o(er $2O
a second! But this is not all. The appro
priations made at the second session of the
Fortieth Congress are nearly twenty,Jwo
millions more than these made at the second
session of the Thirty-ninth Congress. The
regular army appropriation, without taking
into consideration the Items of deficiency,
amounts, to ten millions more now than then.
Thus the cost of Radical rule increases every
year.
GOY. 'SEYMOUR'S ACCEPTANCE.
We publish in another place the formal
acceptance by Gov. Seymour of his nomina
tion for the Presidency. Like all of his pro
ductions, it is 'an effort of rare ability and
interest, and no commendation will be
needed to secure its perusal by every one
who has an interest in public affairs. The
telegraph has not given it to us free of errors,
but they will be easily detected by the ma—
jority of our readers.
A RAMIOAL APOLOGY.
Mr. David A. Wells, Commissioner of In
teriail Revenue, has made a report, at the in
stance of his party Mends in Congress, who
have become alarmed at the growing indis
position of the people to submit .to
further estravagaree, imposition and rascal-.
ity, designed to gloss ever the facts in the
case, and Make the country believe It is on
the ligharay to prosperity, Instead of the ruin
anti oppression which stare every man In the
face so boldly that he cannot evade them if
he would. It is a...document of much inge
nuity and plausibility, and.well calculated to
deceive those who are not acquainted with
the financial transactions of the government.
The' eageruiss with which, it has been caught
up, and eulogized, and republished by the
Radical press, shows that it is lobe employed
atibitektif.tAllitading campaign documents
on that side, anti as such we will analyze a
few of its leading features.
Mr. *ells informs us thauthe whole reve
l)
nue Of t Government e Govement collected in the fiscal
1 year 'end ng the 30th of June last, given in
currency, amounts to the following figures:
Customs, . - - - • $228,ca0,0w
Internil Revenue, - 193,000,000
, Atiscellaneous, -.- - 49,000,000
1 ' , Public Lands, - - 2,800,000
Total.
• This is an extraordinary sum for a year of
profound peace. It is a larger expenditure
than that of either the governments of Great
Britain or France, the latter of which, main
tains tt standing army of 1,000,000 men, and
has a debt half as large as ours, while we
have an army of less than 50,000 thin. But
this is not all. Our State and local taxes are
at least $250,000,000 more, Increasing the
grand aggregate to $720,000,000, the. most of
which, through the crazy reconstruction acts
of Congress; falls upon the Northern and
Western States. It is an amount of taxation
unparalleled in the history of the world, and
it cantiot '1)(1 long centhmed without utter
impoverishment and beggary. Of this un
metaled sum drawn from the labor and in
dutry of the country, these remained un
spent at the close of the year but thirty-four
millions of dollars. When this deduction is
made from the amount collected, it leaves
the actual expenses of the year $437,000,000.
During the 'Obi yews of Mr. Pierce and Bu
chanan the whole amount raised from,taxa
tion and the sale of land only reached $492, -
000,000. Now, under a single year of Radi
cal rule the 'people are . taxed $471,700,000,
and of that vast sum $437,000,000 are expen
ded and stolen. The taxation for the ordi
nary expenses of the Government is estima
ted to be $229,000,000, exclusive of interest
on the public debt, or three times the amount
it was in the days of Mr. Mantuan, when we
had nearly as many people and had all the
Stiles in the Union, except three or four new
onei, that are in - now.
Mr. Wells does not state the national re-'
eelpts for the preceding two - years, but • in
forms us that ,the taxes were reduced's6o,-
000,000 by the act of July lath, 1888 and
$40,000,000 by the act of March 2d, 1887.
Prom this we may fairly infer that the Gov
ernment receipts frOm taxation, direct , and
indirect, since the end of the war, have ex
ceeded fiyleen hundred millions of dollars, or
three-fifths of the whole amount of the na
tional debt. Mr. Wells claims that the debt
has been reduced $250,000,000 Within the
same period, but forgets that alnfost all his
reduction was effected by sales of govern
ment vessels, Anna, ammunition, supplies,
ite., at the close of the war. This leaves the
indisputable fact that, after allowing $500,.
000,000 for interest, the Radicals have squan
dered more than one thousand millions of
dollars within the last three years: And not
withstanding the collection of $471,000,000
in the year just ended, the National debt is
increasing I
The statements which Mr. Wells furnishes
of estimates and appropriations for the com
ing year arc of no consequence, as the latter
can and will be supplemented by deficiency
bills. But he furnishes the actual expenses
of the past fiscal year, tempered and reduced
as they were, to some extent, by a salutary
fear of the approaching Presidential Election.
They amount • (including interest) to $471,-
700,000, and embrace, among others, the fol-
lowing items:
Civil List, - -
Navy, • - -
Army, -
Bounties', -
Freedmen's Bureau,
Ree(aNtruction,
The Civil list only embraces the salaries
and expenses of the President, Congress,De
partmenls, Courts, Foreign
, r Missions, &c.
A decent economy would strike - at least
$33,000,0011- from' this item. Five millions
would be an ample expenditure for the
Naiy, in view of the fact that the Radical
policy has left Scarcely any commerce to
protect. The standing army should be dis
banded entirely, but there is no excuse what
ever for keeping more than 10,000 men at an
average expense of 0,000 each,. which would
cost WA Millions.' Make these reductions
and strike off altogether the infamous charges
for Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction,
and the Government would save Ninety-Jane.
Mill iota Fier Ihv u lrot Dab, ts in a single
year. - .
Mr. Wells gives the total expenditures of
the army and. navy frotn the termination of
the war to the:loth of dune, 1868, as follows:
For the Army, - - $911',117,043
Portho Navy, • - - - 133,119,270
Total,
In order to accurately measure the full ex
tent of this outlay, for two departments of
the Government: alone,let it be reduced to
yearly expenditure. In other and plainer
words, what have the Radicals charged to
the account of the army and navy per year
since the close of the war? The answer is,
more than three hundred millions of dollars
have been expended each twelvemonth since
the close of tlrb war, and while the country
wa's in a state of profound peace. Let this
be contrasted With the expenses of the Gov
ernment before the war. Then the whole
cost of runnini the machine, army and navy
included, was only seventy trillions of dol
lars per year.
He claims great credit for the taxes which
have been taken off from the people by act
of Congress. But those taxes will have to be
pit back again at an early period, in order
to meet the demands of the Treasury, which
'ate daily increasing. They have only been
Liken off for electioneering purposes. When
the aggregate expenses of the Government
amount, as they did last - year, to nearly
050,000,000, all will admit that there is great
reason for reduction, and for a reduction
such as the Radical party will - never, make.
This champion of crushing "taxation and
appalling--not to say criminal—extrava
gance; bas done good service fOr the Demo:
cratie plarty and the country by issuing his
stammering "Apology." It spikes the guns
of his 'own party. According to their own
showing, they are by all odds the most ruin
ous party that ever held the reins of power
in any country. In a time of peace they run
up the expenses to far more than war figures.
And what have the people received_ for all
the taxes drawn from their industry? Busi
ness has not been stimulated, the South does
not grow more cotton, nor can the poor
num support his fatuity with less labor.'
Four hundred and thirty-seven millions of
dollars have been paid out for governmental
expenses in a twelvemonth, and yet the na
tion is less prosperous than before. If the
people needed further reasons why 'they
should insist upon a change of. rulers, Mr.
Wells has given them in abundance.
Iri his speech on the Funding bill, deliv
ered in the Senate Inly 13, Senator Morton,
of Indiana, (Republican) took ground, side
by side with Pendleton and Butler, that it is
lawful and tight for the Government to pay
the grolvienty bonds in legsl442dergnotes.
WE MUST RAVE A ORAEGE.
The cry comes, up from one end of the
country to the other and meets an echo in
the breast of every voter who has the good
of. the country in view, that we must have a
change of officers in every department
of the Government. , The farmers demand a
change; the merchants demand a change;
the laboring people everywhere demand a
change; the tax-payers demand a change;
the lovers of, the ; Constitution demand a
change; the white people say they. must and
will haves : change of adminbitration. Mat
ters cannot be made worse ; they shall not
be made worse. They must be made better
by any change. Let the people all unite in
one universal' demand for a change. -Let
them through the press, on the stump, on the
street, on highways and on the byways, in
the market, on sea and on land;deinand
change, and deinand it in tones not to be
misunderstood.
A suocuraa piece of intelligence for the
"trooly loll" portion of the community comes
to us from Leavenworth, Kansas. Either by
accident or design, Generals Grant and Blair
were in that city at the same time, and what
do you suppose occurred General Blair
invited Grant to breakfast, and the "greatest
captain of the age" actually accepted ! What
further happened we are not told, but the
mere fact of the two officers and .candidates
sitting down. to table with each other, Is
enough to set Radicalism inta "conniptions."
Just think of the embodiment of all the "troo
loilty" in the country taking breakfast with
a "revolutionist" like Frank Blair! Treason,
treason—more treason ahead.
$471,700,000
TIIE following letter has been received by
a:ftiend of Mr. Stevens, residing in the neigh
borhood of Lancaster, in reply to one writ
ten to hint :
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1 .
W-ABRINOTON, D. C., July 23, 1868.
Dear Sir: I have not declared for Seymour
and Blair, and never expect to. I have only
declared against fools and swindlers, who
have fabricated the most atrocious falsehoods
as to my position upon thekuriency question.
When I am a little stronger I shall give a full
history of this matter, which will put the fel
lows to shame, if they are capable of blush
ing. I shall take care to protect the-tax-pay
ers from usurers by making every man pay
anti receive just according to his contract.
Yours, &c., THADDEUS STEVENS.
TIM enthusiasm which attemls General
Grant in his movements through the WeSt,
may be ascertained from the following. spe
cial telegram to the Philadelphia Press :
Sr. Louis, July 30.—GencralGrant arrived
here last night, and lett fur lds farm this
morning. _
Important Correspondence.
HON. GLENNI W. SCOFIELD
Honired' and Ho'st Incomprehensible
We, the undersigned, your most humble con
stituents, hitting seen the base Copperhead
calumnies upon your official career, and
knowing your magnanimous and• patriotic
character, would respectfully Tray that you
may condescend to answer the following in
quiries. In deigning to tiring them to your
attention, we would beg your most gracious
pardon, and state in explanation that we
know your response will se clearly refute the
atrocious attacks of the Copperheads upon
your conduct as to need no further efforts at
convincing the people that you should be
retained in Congress during the balance of
your natural life.
Is it true, amiable and honest sir, that you
did pocket the extra appropriation voted by
Congress to itself. after tacitly promising
that you would do nothing of the kind ? We
do not believe it is, but, then, the better to re
fute the Copperhead lies, you know, it would
be convenient to have a denial over your
own signature.
Did you or did you not, most patriotic rep
resentative, vote for the bill deducting ten per
wait of the interest on Government bonds;
thus virtually repudiating that amount of the
principal? Of course, you didn't, but then,
&c.
It is false, is it not, great and consistent
sir, that you voted for that other repudiation
scheme, the' so-called funding bill, which
proposes to reduce the interest on bonds to
four and• some tenths Per cent., thus placing
the debt, as Thad. Stevens says, on the same
level as if it were "payable in greenbacks?
We are sure you didn't, but, as you are fully
aware, youidenial will be, as M. Toddles
was wont to express it, a handy thing to have
about the house.
*53,000,000
25,775,000
55,713,000
38,000,000
3,215,000
1,709,000
And while you arc about it, illustrious
man, will you not answer that other impu
dent query raised by the Copperheads : What
has Congress done with the people's money?
We are aware•that some fifteen hundred mil
lions have been expended since the 'war
ended—at least three times as much as was
ever expended before in time of peacc—and
yet we,know the integrity of our trusted rep
resentatives too well to doubt • that "all is
well."
'We must not burden you too much at one
time, but if it is convenient, you may furnish
us your views in the same epistle, upon sev
eral other topics whjch arc just now seriously
agitating the public mind, such as: 'fat,
Whether it is just that money invested in
farms Should be taxed, while money put in
bonds should go 'clear. '2,(1 Whether it is
good policy for the GovernMent to pav the
National Banks twenty millions a year, when
it could issue the 'notes itself and save the
whole amount; and 3d, Whether it is not
better to adopt the Democratic plan of par
Mg off the bonds in greenbacks, and stopping
the interest, reducing taxation and lowering
prices, than to continue the debt forever, as
designed by the Chicago platform? Hav
ing seen no reference to any of these vital
topics in your late speech, we conclude that
they must have been overlooked, and as they
concern us all, we would like to hear from
•
ydu in regard to them.
With great respect and profound condo
scencion, we remain, most obediently,
$1,050,237,319
Your servants,
Wilkins Micawber, August F. Chattoniaa,
John Law, • Ancient Pistol,
Moms Multicalus, Oily Gammon,
The Roman Father, Fieri Facias,
Sancho Panza, Munroe Edwards,
John FaLstatt ' S. W. India,
Sir Morton Peto, Munchausen Oil - Co.,
Roaring Buncombe,
And fifteen hundred others.
Dear Observer: Everything in this vicinity
has been dried up for two or three weeks,
which state of affairs has been the cause of
your correspondent's silence, for, with other
terrestrial objects, he "dried np" also. It is
said that "the prayers of the righteous avail
eth much." No person alMut here presumes
to doubt the fact. That there were strong
supplications made by the just and unjust for
a change of weather everybody knows, and
that copious rain was sent to both parties,
the revived fields are a living testimony.
Whether it will revive the Grant club of this
place is a question. The meetings of the
"happy family" have grown thinner at each
appointment, until their "large and respecta
ble" gatherings are made up by'the presence
of a large president and respectable secre
tary: It certainly is about dead, and, unless
it receives a resurrection, is used up for the
campaign. They have a meeting appointed
for Monday night, the 3d inst., when, Judging
from some little stir among the players, the
programme will be as follows:
Ist.
,Opening Chorus—by, "Happy Family."
"When we went down to Washingtim,
Didn't we make the rebels run?'
3d. Ballad—by Defeated Candidate.
"Where now are the hopes I cherished?"
3d. Quartette—by Legislator, Assessor, Ex-
Assemblymari and Postmaster.
" 'Tis sweet to be remembered.,•
4th. Walk-Around, "La Africanne"—by at
tire club—all Bulging :
"Wont we be glad when we git out ob de
wilderness ?"
Gib. Exhortation to morality and faithful
uen—by DIRF.
Girard Correspondence.
Bth. Solo—" The Poor Old Slave," with vari•
ations on cbrn•stalk fiddle, by the Presi
dent.
7th. Toast—"A nigger is as good as any
Democrat," by "Whee C. Tooler"—to be
drank of pure Grant 'whisky. Good
Templars allowed water.
Bth. War Dance—Conducted by the "Hus
band to the Widows, and Father to the
children," accompanied by the "Hee-oh
hee," by Mac.
9th. Refrain—by the officers.
. "Is there no balm in Gilead ?"
To conclude with the great campaign song
of Grant clubs throughout the' country,
"Carry me home to die."
As soon as the next bill is
. rriade up, we
will endeavor to have it ready for the peo
ple. Adieu, happy family.
The Democratic club of this place is a fine
working organization, composed of elements
which, when united, cannot help but be suc
cessfill. Their first public meeting was held
at Albec's Hall, on Saturday night last. The
several committees reported things favorable.
A considerable sum was Subscribed to defray
incidental expenses, and everything appears
cheering. Quite a large audience was pres
ent to listen to the able address of D. W.'
Hutchinson, Esq. He made a scorching ex
pose of the frauds, tricks and errors of Re
publican rule,:and pressed the claims of the
Democratic platform upon the people With
great force.
The work of the campaign is fully inaugu
rated, with a determination to whitewash the
Radicals of this vicinity thoroughly. •
It was resolved to have an old-fashioned
hickory pole raising in the village, on the
15th inst. A true 'patriot's heart swells at
the thought of the old stars and stripes
proudly waving from those majestic old
hickories which were in times past the cer
tain index to victory. The Democrats are
anticipating a pleasant and profitable time.
Eminent speakers have been invited, and
arrangements will-be completed to accom
modate all. Come up from Erie, and help
us do honor . to the good• old cause.
Yours, VOLUNTEER.
Democratic Co. Convention.
The Democratic and Conservative voters
of Erie County are requested to meet at their
accustomed places of holding Primary meet
ings, on Saturday, August 15th, 1868, and
choose the number of persons to which each
ward, district and township is entitled, to
serve at delegates to a Convention to be
held at the Court House, in the city of Erie,
on MONDAY, AUGUST 17TH, 1868, at 11
o'clock in', the fureztoon, for the selection of a
county ticket to be supported at the October
election.'
The following is the representation to
which each district is entitled-. Erie-let
- District 2,2 d District 2,3 d District 2, 4th
District 2, South Erie 2, East 31ill Creek 3,
West Mill Creek 3, Harbor Creek 4, North
East Tp. 3, North East born' 2, Greenfield 2,
Venango 3, Wattsburg 1, Amity 3, Wayne 3,
Concord 3, Corry-North Ward 2, South
Ward 2,Union Tp. 3, Union Mills 2, Le
Beouf 3 , Waterford Tp. 3, Waterford boro 2,
. Greene 3, Summit 3, McKean 3, Middleboro 1,
Washington 9, Edinboro 2, Franklin 2, Elk
Creek 3, Conneaut 3, Albion 2, Springfield
4, Girard 'Tp. 3, Girard boro' 2, Lockport 3,
Fairview 3.
By order of the Co. Committee.
BENJ'N WHITMAN,
Chairman
Erie, July 16, 1868-tf.
DIJLRRIED
JOIINEON--Gumual—August Ist, by the Rev.
Mr. Spaulding, me Levi R. Johnson to
Miss Isabella D. Graham, all of Erie.
DIED.
TiromPsox—At Ids residence in East Erie,
on the 30th last., IL L. Thompson, aged
50 years and 6 months.
Mintam—At Kansas City, July 23d, Samuel
Dean, son of F. A. and Ellen E. 3lidiam,
formerly of this city, aged ten months and
two days. '
Erie, -July 31st, of consumption,
Nellie Capitola, infant daughter of Wm. J.
and Mary A. Dates, aged 5 months and 18
days.
Durm.—On the 22d of July, at his father's
residence, in Mill Creek township, Edwin
J. Dunn, aged 25 years, 6 , months and a
days.
This yoring man for. many years was vig
orous and healthy, but at length was arrested
by diwise, arid,continued to sink under It ,
power until life's lamp was quenched in the
cold stream of death. He was a noble spec
imen of humanity; he bore his affliction with
great fortitude, though it was., severe and
long; he seemed to desire that God's will
should be done. He was generous, kind,
obedient and affectionate, much attached to
his friends, yet he submitted to the call of his
Creator, and met death with a Christian he
roism. During his sickness he gave his heart
to Christ, and passed through death trium
phant home. He leaves many friends to
mourn their loss, but their loss is hi 4 gain.
lie lives with Christ.
Emerald isles in ocean sleeping,
Skies that seem to stretch fore'er,
These shall fail, but thou shalt ne'er.
EDWIN
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be handed In by 9 o'clock on Thursday morn
ing. AU advertisements will be continued at
the expense of the advertiser, unless ordered
for a specified time.
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WATERFORD ACADEMY
AND
Teachers' Seminary.
A. S. ABBEY. Principal.
Misn B. A. SMITH, Preceptreis and Teacher of
German.
Term-her of French.
Mrs. 8. F. WHITE, Teacher of itmtrumenta
MID,Ic.
Fall Term opens Aug. 17, Isfi.S. Closes Nov
weeks. Tuition from Si to Frenel
and German extra, each 9,1.50. Fur further in
formation address
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THE VRINCIPA L.
Wu. BENSON, Bee'y. JNo. WOOD, Prea't.
Waterford, July, lbtts. jy:.l)-2t
PUBLIC SALT
(}• 11I}:
Poor House Property
BY VIRTUE ISI'CD IN PURSUANCE OF THE
powers conferred by, the Act of the Gene
ral Assern - bly of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania entitled "An act to authorize the Court
of 'Erie County to appoint a discreet person to
art in connection with the Commissioners of
Erie county and the Directors of the Poor of
said county to sell the real estate of the Poor
House and use the proceeds in purchasing land
and erecting buildings for the use of the poor
of said county." approved:the 24th day of March,
1563, by the Board of Commissioners for the coun
ty of Erie, Pennsylvania, the Board of Directors
of the Poor and of the House of Employment of
the county of Erie, and Samuel G. Brotherton,
specially appointed by said Court, by force of
said Act constituted a Board to sell the land,
selected, .reserved and occupied for the use of the
Poor for the county of Erie, which land is loca
ted on the Ridge Road and Canal, about four
miles more or lass southwesterly from•the pity
of Erie, described as follows, to wit: Com
mencing at the southwest corner of the lands
known and called the third section of the town
of Erie at a post, thence north degrees, west
one hundred and thirty-one and ono-half per
ches to a post; thence north 6:3 degrees, east one
hundred and twenty-one and seven-tenth per
chers to a post; thence south 27 degrees, east one
hundred and thirty-one and one-half perches to
a_.post; thence westwardly oneh undred and
twenty-one and seven-tenth perches to the
place of beginning, containing one hundred
acres of land. The said land is bounded on the
south by the Ridge Road, west by lauds of J.
Evans and north and east by lands of H. War
fel.
The buildings and ImproVements on the said
Land are as follows; to wit : One large two story
brick building, now, and heretofore used as a
Poor House; one wooden building erected for a
Hospital; a wash house, bakery, 3c., and two
barns, a nice thrifty orchard, grapes, cherries,
ace.
At a meeting of the said Board held at the of
fice of the Commissioners of Erie County, on
June 17th, 1863, all the members being present.
'lt was resolved by a majority of the member 4 of
said Board to sell the said hereinbefore des
cribed' Poor House Farm at public auction, on
the Court House steps, in the city of Erie, to the
highest and best bidder, on Tuesday, July 23th,
.184, at 2 o'clock P. 31., which said sale will then
and there take place, of which notice Is hereby
given.
Termsbf sale : Ono-third of the purchase mon
ey in hand, and the balance in two equal annu
al Installments, with interest to be paid annu
ally, to be secured by Judgment bond and mort
gage on the premises.
L. M. CHILDS, '1
J, GODFREY, -Co. Coin's
•
\l - M'. B. WEED, I
ANDREW THOMPSON.
Director of Poor Boat d of sale,
Erie June 18, 18134,
. The above sale is postponed to Tuesday, Aug
h, l8&', at 2 o'clock P, M.
By order of the Board of Sale.
Ann• person having a farm fur sale, suitable
for a Poor House Farm, is hereby invited to give
notice thereof at the Commissioners' Office be
fore the 2.ith day of August, A. D. lses, 'dating
number "(acres, price, ..tc.
,j,y3d- ft
ERIE DINE SAVINGS and LOAN CO
L. L. LAMB, Brest. HARTLEB, Vlee Brest
GEO. W. COLTON, Secretary and Treasurer.
=
ORANGE Zs.:OIILE, W. A. GALBRAITH,
PRESCOTT METCALF, SELDEN MAltrIN,
Jon H. BLISS, M. GRISWOLD.
JOHN C. SELDEN, G. F. lircEvu.l.TEß,
BENJ. WllrrmA:•:, L. L. LAMB,
BRAS SCIILLTIL‘FF, M. II A ItTLEII,
G. B. DELAILVIER, .leadville.
The above Institution is now lolly organized
and ready for the tramiaction of bnnkingopera
t ions, in the room under the Keystone Bank,
CORNER of STATE and EIGHTH STREETS
It opens with
A Capital Stock of $lOO,OOO,
With the privilegeof increasing tolialf a million.
Loans and discounts tramacted. and pus
chases made of an kuids of satisfactory seeuri
tics,
4'a - To the citizens generally this Bank offers
an excellent opportunity for laying by their
small savings, as interest will be allowed on
Deposits of One Dollar or Upwards.
VirSPECIAL DEPOSITS.JO
A special feature of the Bank will be the re
ception, for safe keeping, of all k inds of BMWs
and Securities Jewelry, Plate, &e.; for which a
large FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF VAULT
has been carefully provided.
Persons having any property of this eharac - ter
which they wish to deposit in a secure place,
will find this feature worthy their attention,
my2l-tf.
The Singer Manufacturing Co.'s
ESE
Noiseless _Family Sewing
MACHINES.
The undersigned beg leave to announce that
they have recently opened rooms in the city of
Erie, where they will keep on hand an assort
ment of the above
FAMILY & MANUFACTURING MACHINES
Also,
COTTON AND LINEN THREAD,
SILKS, TWIST,
Superior 3inehine Oil. Needles
All maehines delivered, and warranted for
three years. Instructions given free.
Sale rooms rear of (Jenslielmer's Clothing
Store, CC State street. J. F.-PEFFER dc 00.,
Jyl:3-ly Agents for Erie County.
State Street Property for Sale
rr U C 140 .
►PIIE TWO very choice bu,iness lots, situated
I on the west side of State street (north of
Tenth St.), will be sold at public auction at the
court House in Erie, on •
Wednesday, Aug. stli, at 10 o'clotk, a.
These lots are each twenty feet and two in
ches In front, by one hundred and forty-seven
feet In depth, to a public alley eighteen feet
wide, which extends through from Ninth to
Tenth streets.
TERMS OF SALE.
One-third cash; remainder payable in two
annual instalments,with interest to be secured
by mortgage.
WSI. A. GALBRAITH,
Agent for the Owner'
OEM
CITY WORK.
ROPOSALS will be received up to August 3,
P
IS6B, for the construction of an Iron Bridge
on Gth Street, over the Canal, also for abut
ments for the same.
Plans and specifications to be seen at the of
fice of the City Engineer.
M. HARTLEB,
G. M. SMITH
JOSS. EICHEI4L,IIIB, Jr.,
J. 0. BAKER,
Street Committee.
Q. w, F. li/KELNyci, City Fa3gineer t :. .131ka
itetp Abberttgetn.---.....ent5.
Biirton &Grlffith's corner.
HARD Tpl'ES! HARD Tilftst
Prices, have Come Dow
11
BURTON & URIFFITIUN
1394 Peach Street, Corner Ith,
+ I
Fotrbartlrulars sec Sinall 'Mk IH „
come n and ace our
Reduced i'ricex on Tem,:
feb43-11. •
lIAYE.S & IiEPI.ER ,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
On c•ast 12th Str i ev U t rt ,
Street , t,rt good 2 story horn o, rive
&e.. Lot 79K:cirk feet to 10 loot alley:-
I)er of bearing fruit trees on lot aal
ter. Price $1,10). Terms ease, •
1 A 1 P.M
FOR SALE.
The floe two sib - my, modern s , ty' won
brick dwelling_ on 16th 6 tree%
Burton kGriMth's Store. Frain, -
the rear of Lot. 11.1.YE5 a, KE N
u. 11 , -*.tr'.
If CsF GIIA_PEItY,
Situate on Wallace St., eaht
of 10th. Lot 65x171), completely
choice bearing tirape Vines,
ry well built house 2fixiii stone
the house. Price 5 4 2,500. Cheap, '
11.11'1S &
No. 1 Reel
ON PRIVATE TERMS.
We have a number of very thrmram e w v,
cc- to offer eustotnere. tor particular Z
our °thee, No. 1 need Souse.
.
rny2l-tf.HAI LS dt
FARIERSEIb - 1
Herd& • Fleiible Rano
rvIIE FOLLOWING COMMI"Nit 'ATIoN
I well known citizens ••cld.int it, w, r
LETTER FROM RILLPATEICIL
I hereby certify that I t V., INNI the
Flexible Harrow," the .' , 4lit of f •
County Is owned by Capt. Jelin H. -
rind that I can accompli- t one-third
this machine than witl• any other I ay "
anointed with, It combines the ,1114:..t•
lightness, cheapness and durabilit, ze
most perfect harrow M.: I have r -
can be easily changed ii.tu a cultivat,,,t;,:r,.,
and any boy large t nough to dri‘,.
readily and easily lake it apart ;lad
gather again. I most cheerfully
ray friends and :a-quaint , t , ,
chine t. y.S I consider it altogetiar
Ilse. urrad by iI. par -
buyer will have ample °lmo:lung',
before paying for H. I have purcLae.::
row and a farm right.
JOHN
Fast 31:I.,:
LETTER VEDM DR. .1011:: 0. caß:a .
Having witnessed the operation eftl.JE •
row at the trial on the land of (kn,
on the bith of June, I hove no hesitatloi..t..
frig that I believe it to be a very super,,,,,,
meat of its claw , and quite worthy th. , ll:<„
lion of all who have occasion to use ww
tide. Its flexibility—which eausrs
itself closely to the surface of the grog:
ever rough or unevewit may be, L, a
much Importance, and oue that
this from all other Harrow!, Tlaie
other peculiarities in its con , trut: r.„
will be readily perceived by the fah:.
mer, and which will doubtless !nil, ling •
bring it into general me. I hmi: jr,r , w,se! L
of these !farrows fur Its, on my Tani.
.lull\ cAran
Manuf.tetur,,l and sold by the 1111 , ir7 - •
who guarantees the liarrowb to glve
lhfitetion. _ JOIIN 11. IVEL.II,
' Welsh HOu,e, near P 111111.1: Erie S!.
jy2'6,5-tf_
- SPINK'S
Pat. elf-Clearing Conlie,
A New and Useful Implement,
To I're vent Cloazing when Plowirri - ST
hie or Closer Land, or Pio» iii;
in Coarse Manure.
PATENTED .11:1.1" TILE IST I, 1.. - 4
Read the I ,
testtnyn...l'•
L Tli I, 1. 1...) , •-..tv;l
••••,
.. _-- "• ':- —.•,.. f• I Iris° Ii l"r '
::::;111r4/ .". 4,7 ' ' ! t;11.111t;.41 7, : ''l , : 1
' --"; ' .""••••••• C Patent ! , ,If r ..,...1 .
. ',l? - . I,:ttulti_t Ili I. ~ '
- 1. ~ .7:11 ',.. 1 under a ler)" 1..1
---'• .' - '1::' , • coat of straw 1...1:1:..
''..1 . .7 7 .. .. r- . . , andl ,- un,hhvia
44 12 1tv.....
' --- t4, - fest Lucets•,sl:l,
tinually clean ...-
and I con , le.c: ~.
ving Of ;1 1K: ,'..,
all uch - kinds of plowing.
1101 - IERT EV
31n. R. E.; SPINS; Thlsls to certify th.,'
sub - mated your self-clearing
bought of you last full, to a vvry
plowing under - a heavy pkee of did
that was - very badly lodged, and I ch , a , :i , r.
perfect - thing, for 1 could plow as
pleased without stopping to unclog
as b , invariably the case when us; n;
coulter. I certainly would not be witi, , At
for such use on soy farm for three tnn,-..;
Yours truly, DEAN
The stib•erlber is located at Erie fir tLe r •
em season and will cull tano.r, tr. rr,.:
by agents to supply tLoo "-
t PM tory.
Qs' Town and County Rights for sa,
price that will pay the purch.v,er Ica
the investment.
•.
This Coulter has been P , 331 ri,led a priz... , :z
plotna wherever exhibited. F. Fr
of Ith operation, &c., err :t pert 61 Com:.:--
•r of AL:rieulture fur IN L, F , r
formation address:, It. E.
J3-0-2ta
House and Lot for Sale
SUTISCRIIIER tub r• , alc IN} W
conveniently arranu , l how.%
in the beautiful
VILLAGE OF NORTH EAST
Good well or water, t' o Odom, ro , :pl
and an alai ..a«• dthc
BEST v.uurry or IFITIT.
kTICE lOW.•••TERfES nfasaau.
The property de,trrii
much its the-Late minty**,
tion of learning,„ which V. `U not h. ,
eu
any in the country. 3, I,,Alt , l.l l var
sea, For particular , , of the ,tll.-
on the premises,
mr2s2-3nr.
ALE , BREWERY
Gr 0 . L. 13 ICE IL
Formerly with A. King; hiving
known Brewery on
French Street, below Fourth. Eric.
Formerly occupied by Wm. Jacob:,
form his old acquaintances nini vic pu the
rally that ho is now brewing a to - y Auper:
quality of Ale. From his long experience
uniform success, he is fully prepared to fore:.
best of satlsfact ion. Dealers are 111‘
IY5'/Y GEO, S. BAKER
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SPLENDID FIRM FOR SALE (no:
rpirE SUBCRIBER offers for ,ale •
...Li
situated In North East township,
west of North East station and one Io ,5 .
Moorhead's station. This farm
about one hundred and twenty aeresn , e` ,
which are under a high state of
the balance of good timber. It Is
the north by the B. & E. it. It., ninettsi_
in width and runs south 217 rods.
barns, outhouses and fences are all :a
pair. There is a largo apple orchau
place which will produce in ordinary ,
barrels of best winter fruit, also o thtr: , -•,.
the best quality. There is an abundta''''";
best of water, also a good stonequast7 , ,''',,
o
ne in the nei I will sell ,
or divide into g twohborh orood.
three vans,
chasers. Only a small payment m113217'7,,
red, and.ten years time given on theta:'-'`
paying annual interest. LON
Jy2-tf. THOMAS
7.177; 4 :1
f. vEciHNTABAALELLScia:
1 -
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It, the best article known to pres,rs , .,.,.
It will positively restore Gray Hair lo
nal color and promote its growth. .
It is an entirely new scienntle
combining litany of the most pew , „
storative agents in the vegetable
It makes the hair smooth and
does not stain the skin. ,
It is recommended and used by th ,
itral authority,
R. P. HALL & CO., Nashua, N. IL, I
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For sale by all druggists.
CITY . W012,1i.
1 EVE N I NG , ot
AUG. e &I, for reedved ups , '
struet ion of Nicol.on Pavement ea
from Eighth street to Fienth str,:•
Plans and vecitleatiou ft s e to be Vva
( - dike of the City Engineer. •
M. lIARTLEII,
(I. M. SMITII,• ' •
JOS. EICIIENL%t I
• J. 0. BAKEI I ,
Street Collltv ,/t ; '
,
G. W. F. SitErnvis, Oily Engbieer,_.`—,
JOHN GENEEMEI &
DEALERS IN
Clothing and Gent's Tunisia* 6 0 1 6 '
cOltNtat OF 4Ev>M:i•Ts sTILEET ,
ZIISVP rh.
BEM