ghe ttie %ram THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 18G8 FOR PR FM I DENT, HORATIO SETMOIIR, of N. V. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, . (feu. F. P. BL4111,:of =I CHARLES E. 1101 LE, of Fayette Co. SVIIVEYGE. GENERAL,: WELL INC:MONif.EXT, otColunablallo. a"Piiiivicatritt aid 0/40 Edeptioo for• are Dietrict and County O' , rs,.roe'thrYt Oehler 3300868. , TI4E (MEAT IiVESTION. The Harrisburg Patriot rightly concludes that the great question which politicians should study just now, is, what shall be done to relieve the taxpayers ? That the country cannot long endure the present rate of taxa tion, and prosper, is no longer a debatable• question. The burden is now so heavy that many think it really dangerous to add /1110- tiler feather to the camel's load. Whence, then, shall relief come? We answer, turn out the bunglers and destructives from the halls of Congress ! The increase of our na tional indebtedness at the rate of from eight to t,en millions oftiollars a month shows that they are either dishonest, or wholly incapa- We of managing our pm - Imin! affairs. POITERCIIPS NEW PAPER. The first number of "Brick" Pomeroy's New York daily was issued on Saturday last, and, as might have been expected from the reputation of the proprietor, it at once. secured a circulation which establishes its success. It is called "The Democrat," and presents au appearance of neatness that is scarcely equalled by nine out of ten papers in the country. - Mr. Pomeroy has gathered a corps of assistants about him who are un excelled in their especial departments, and we need hardly add that, whether for edito rial ability and spirit, or enterprise in collect ing news, the Democrat has no superior and few rivals among the Metropolitan press. We like the frankness and pluck of Brick, though we sometimes- differ from his views, and heartily wish his new enterprise all the success it desen - ci—which is more than can he measured by tsords. HAS THE MONEY GONE 1• 9 MR. WELyi , LETTER AGAIN. We were not wrong in suggesting that the letter of Mr. 6. 1 A. Wells, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, to. which we referred a - couple weeks ag,o,•would be used as one of the leading Radical documents during the campaign. It was prepared with the especial design to cover up the terrible costliness of Radical rule, and as such will be circulated over the country by wholesale. The Dis patch published it the day atter we exposed its deceptive character, but made no attempt to refute our statements. In due course of time it will find its way, either wholly or in part, into all the Radical papers, and be quo . ted by all their orators, so that it behooves our friends to have the material ready to counteract its effect at once. They. will find it in in our columns, alike in the past, present and future editions of the paper. The prominence given to Mr. Wells' letter by the Radical papers, will not incline them to dispute its contents, and ive propose to show by his figtres, distorted even as they are, that the party tibich has had control of the Government for nearly eight years, is non nrthy.the further confidence of the peo ple. Below are the receipts and expendi tures from Mr. Wells' statement, from June 30, 1867, to... Tune 80, 1868, and also the re ceipts and expenditures from June 0, 1860, to June 50,1801, as taken from the official reports of the Treasury Department. A com parison of the two tables will be all that we shall ask from the thinking portion of the community; MIMES 1860 to 1801. 1807 to 1838. $39,582,125 $163,000,000 80'2,200 47,000,000 103,000,000 Customs, - MiKellaneous, Initmat Revenue, Total fromlax., 40,474,325 41,500,000 Land & direct tax, 870,659 ' ,800,000 Loans, 41,861,700 Bat. from former, y'r, 3,629,207 VA,835,900 406.300,000 Sti,M,9oo Exeegs of 'GS over '5l, EXPENDITritVi .111890 to 1801. 1857 to IS6ti, Civil List, $23,187,203 $53,009,847 Navy, ' ' 12,428,577775,503 Army, 22,81;3,991 N 4713,410 Rivera and Harbors, 107,,169 0,132,020 radians, , :,699,923 5,000,000 'Pension - 9, old, 1',000144 1,000,000 PubNo debt paid off, 18,221,709 Interest, 4,000,173 141,63.1,1:, Other expenses, inclu ding Freedmen's reau, Reconstruc tion, Pensions, Bounties, &e., $84,578,834 V 71,530,225 84,578,834 Excess of expenditures of 1807-8 over 1800-1, For the last fiscal year of Democratic it will be seen, the amount raised from the people by taxation was only $40,474,325. Of the $84,578,834 expended, more than a fourth was to pay off Interest _and debt previously incurred. It will be remembered that during this period 3fr. Lincoln had been inaugura ted, the war had commenced, and the expen .see of the army and navy had already become considerably more than usual. During the fiscal year just closed, the Republican party, in a time of peace, have levied taxation; and actually collected off the people $403,.190,000, or ten times us much as they had to pay seven short years ago. During these seven years the actual wealth of the country (compared with the gold basis of valuation of 1$60) has not increased one dollar. The devastation and impoverishment of the South, and the loss of three thousand millions of . dollars of negro property (the negroes were then wit sustaining and surplus earning, while now they are n burden upon society and the pub liC'treasury)together with the addition of twenty-six hundred million dollars to the National debt, and one-fourth that sent in local debt, form in the aggregate more than a set-off to any apparent increase in the pro pertyof the Northern States, estimated as it is in Paper, which is at forty per cent. dis count. From these data; kindly furnished to the public by Republican authority, one can readily cbmpreheud why it is that the busi ness of the country is gradually sinking to wards a;state of final collapse. Again, look at the expenditures for 1867- 08. $148,231,380 for items which in ,1860 cost $62,356,932; we mean the ordinary ex- ' penseo, not including interest on the public debt, and , for extraordinary expenses, includ ing interest on . the public debt, Freedman's Bureau, ReconstruMion and other little ex centricities Of our present .rulers, $223,318, - 815, against $4,000,173, .in 1860 81, which was for interest, the only item of "extraordi nary expenses," as Mr. Wells denominates them, which we indulged in at that time. Will not fats like these open the eyes of the people to the shameful manner in which Radicalism is destroying the best interests of the country s - Mn. SCOFIy.LA, in his speech at Corry, took positive ground in favor of exempting the bonds from taxation, and against paying them off iri greenbacks. The farmers, mechanics and laboring men of the district are thus given dearly to understand that if they re-elect him he will use all his influence. to continue the policy which taxes them to desperation and allows their rich neighbors to go free. PROSPEcTe or VICTORY. In our investigations of the political pros= peels, we are led: to conclur that the one and only essential necessar - to a complete overthrow of the Radical faction is a confi dence among Democrats in the strength of their party that will induce them. to +Ow for the cause with that energy whirl' cliarae terized them in their campaign'. previong to the war. Thetlespoth. - (aud arbitrary meas- Ines of the Lincoln administration, the etn- Littered lone of social feeling, and the, con- tinned defeats m e have bustained since the country went mad over the slavery issue, have had a desponding effect upon Many Democrats, which has kept them from doing their full share towards party organization. We have never doubted that if the Demo crats at large had displayed a proper degree of spirit, courage and energy, Gen. McClellan would have been chosen President in 18114, a majority of the State Governments passed into . our hands as rapidly as opportunity of- ' furred, and the nation been saved from the reckless expenditure, the business disr.x;ter and individual unhappiness which have en sued as a result of that conflict. Another great national election is before us, and the views here express,eil receive fresh, applica tion and afford ground for advantageous re flection. Every day convinces us the more that the Democratic party ton trin,f if they try :—in other words, if they divest them ! Selves of the silly fear that "tlier6 is no "chance," as so many weak-minded persons are in the habit of exprc's'sing, it, and go to work with that reliance, upon themselves, the justice of their cause, and its approval by the people, which is ofliself one of the best assurances of victory. We are delighted to know that this conviction is eonstantly grow ing, and to-day a majority of Democrats are as certain of Seymour's election xis of their own existence, aml willing to perform their part towards securing it. The reasons upon which they build their faith may he seen in the following facts which' we gather at ran dom from the election returns of the past few years: At the Presidential election of 1864, Mr. Lincoln, by suppressing the soldiers' vote cast for General McClellan and by, throwing into the Western States several thousand New England soldiers who voted for him (most of them voting five or six times,) man aged to obtain a majority on the popular vote 0f411,281. At the last general elections in the States the Republican majority was only 49,910, including Illinois and Indiana, which have not held a general• election since the fall 011866, and crediting Ohio with a Re publican majority of 2,983, which was oh:- tahaed by the Republican candidate fur Gov ernor, though at the same election the Dem : ocrats defeated negro suffrage by over 60,000 majority and elected a majority of the mem bers of the Legislature. In 1864 the change of 205,641 votes would have elected General McClellan over Mr. Lincoln ; in 1868 it re quires the change of but 23,456 votes to give Horatio Seymour the electoral votes of the States which were carried by 31r, Lincoln. That we arc not in error in our statement will be shown at a glance by the following table showing the steadily &Creasing power of the Radical party in this country: . ; 186. • 11460.1.5. ,\TATAN. 41 EZP. DE3t. nue , . California, 42,811 62,1111 49,0115 41052 Connecticut 42,1.1 11,691 60,711 40,772 De1aware,:..........0,767 8,055 0,019 04,06 Illinois, "1.14,370 139,1911 171,050 2111,015 Indiana, ..._....__130,033 150,422 155,102 160,01 8 49" , 5L1,075 ai r s:SO 110,789 Kansas, 11,691 10 ,441 19,421 10,1'1 Kentucky, 01,391 17,794, :1°,25 33,9:5) Maine, 40,092 62,111 45,611 57,462 •10,ryland ..... 32,7..12 41454 63,739 22,110 3fassachusetts,. 40,715 12.,7112 71,31 D .110.1/6 Michigan 71,e41 - 91,521 .'0065 50,51 D Minnesota, 17,375 25,061 29,51'7 31,,,07 .Mtssouri, ....... 31,178 7'2,754 19,95'1 - 62,107 Nevada, 6,591 2,0211 1,0 , 1 2al New Hampshire, 112,071 114;,1,10 21,7:0 Now Jersey,....:-. 1 10, 11 21 00;7211 07.14 51,11.1, New Tor' - 711,101 330,7.1 572,029 323, 1 621 Ohio, *0!5, - , , 14 201,131 210,1:22 2 61,6 , 11 Oregon ' 5;47 11,149 11,709 111,;q3 Pounsylvania,...l7 o ,3l.o '2P4,31/ •..10 - 7,7.1f 266,021 Rhoda Islaud, .. 0,710 11,010 :090 9,7. - Verm0nt,......,...11, 1 121. 42,112 11,310 31;2;1 West Virginia,- 11,1.44 •Ava 12,493 14;1171 Wisconsin, , 01,475"1 63,603 72,170 1,011,751 11,22L1,01.; 1,905;41 2,012;291 Taking the above table as a standard, ant remembering that in every State the Dein° eratic vote has steadily increased since 1F:11 the following States may safely be set dov.: as certain for our ticket : Connecticut, liew_York, New Jersey, Delan are, Maryland, !MEM! Missouri, California, Oregon, Nevada, Pennsylvania, - Ohio, Indinna, Illinois, t:310,464,100 OE The total electoral vote, Including that of the Southern States, is 1117, which requircs . /50 to elect. Supposing the above table to be correct, it gives us a majority of six, et en with the carpet-loggers voting in the South. In ease Congress deprives firm 7 6f par ticipation in the Presidential electi,on, it will reduce the electoral vote some eighty,' and render our victory all the more certain.' We carried Connecticut in April •by 1,700 majority on Governor, on the I:l7st.eote ever polled in the State. The opposition ticket had Grant's name on it for President, so that his, popularity was as fairly tested as if he had been himself a candidate. New York went Democratic • Last full by. 50,000 majority, and we shall, with Mr. Seymour a leader, Increase it this year. New Jersey is always Demeeralle. It teas so last fall by a Majority equal to 80,00:9 in Ohio. Dela ware voted against Lincoln even during the war, and she will now go twice , as strong against Grant. In Maryland and Kentucky the 'Radicals will not poll-for Grant one vote ti) every three the Democrats poll for Sey mour. In California, at the last election, We had 8,000 Democratic majority, and in Ore gon we had 2,000 in June; 1868. Them is not an earthly prospect that the Thidieals can •overcome these majorities. Pennsylt•ania is naturally Democratic. We carried it last year when the opposition did their best, and we will repeat the result with interest this fall. We also carried Nevada at the last election. These State , , where it hardly seems possible we can he beaten, have 115 electoral votes. 81,G3,204 qP - -)56 r 1,30 - Indiana and Illinois arc old Democratic States which the war caused,to swerve flom •their moorings: They had no State officers to elect in 18117, but If they had the Demo crats would have carried them triumphantly. This was evinced by the local 'county elec tions, where the Detnocrats made Vast gains in almost every instance throughout the States. The pressure of:taxation, is severely felt in them, and the desire fora change in 'the admitiletration pervades all classes, with out diStinction of party. _ln Ohio we polled last year 210,000 votes for Judge Thurman, our candidate Mr Governor. He was beaten by lesi than 4,900 (in the largest vote' ever given in the:State. The Democrats were de ficient in their organization and ]malted confi dence in the result. litul they had better organization, and as much confidence as they have now, Ohio would have been Democrati c by'2o,ooo majority.' Missouri, with her eleven electoral votes, is one of the strongest Democratic States in the Union, if her people all voted, would give Seymour and Blair 50,000. majority at least. We have been beaten there for several years, because the Democrats have allowed themselves to be disfranchised by illegal test oaths, administered at the polls. These oath's have been deektred to li4 Unconstitutional, and this year the Democrats will vote, and the support Grant will receive In Missouri will be sniiiirlideed. Grant Is not certain of all the South. He cannot, even backed up by the negroes and the military, carry half of it. He will lose. Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas certain, and they have fitly electoral votes. If the people in Western Virginia turn out and vote,as we nnderatand they. will, Grant will be beaten'in that State' 1)F - ti great majority. The Radicals have been carrying it het-atm not one-third of the pur ple hare voted. It has fire electoral rota. Nebraska is about balanded politically, • is as likely to go for Seymour as Grant: Wis consin and Minnesota are in the same cate gory. A vigorous effort by the Democracy will give both States tu Seymour. The Rad, ical6 only carried them last 3 ear by the be rest majmitit Men New Hampshire is not absolutely certain lbr Grant. Upon therefore, of the genei al field, the friends iiiflsieyntour and Blair have everything. to t r opeonrage Ilion, and IN ith proper w_nil:noon can hardly NI to sue cei,4 TUB REASON WHY. We find in the New York Sun—a paperpro- Sussing and, to some extent, practicing, inde pendence, though decidedly Radical—an ar ticle on the discomforts of the laboring popu lation of that city ; which says: "They are profoundly dissatisfied with their present con dition. And why Because, though receiv ing high rages, they find themselves daily growing poorer. They cannot purehase_for themselves and families ns many comforts to-day for five dollars as they . could for two dollars six years'ngo." The New York- Herald, in on article show ing that the American people to-day are taxed heavier than any other nation in the world, gives the true reason why the. laboring classes cannot purchase for them selves and Dimities as many comforts now for Vi as they could for $2 six years ago. • The I editor say:,: . "We have estimated that taxation by the Federal Govi.rinent alone, - independent of State, county and municipal taxes, amounts to fully fourteen dollars a head—man, woman and child—Millie whole population. Take the ease of a laboring man, with a family of five or six children, and it will be seen that he pays about one hundred dollars a year, which, on an average, would be about a seventh or eighth of his earnings. Yes, the whole working population pay, in one way or other, this enormous and proportionate amount of their hard-earned money. 'Nearly ono day's labor out of the week the year round goes to the support of the Federal Governrunt The local taxes imposed by the States, coun ties and municipalities amount probably to nearly as much, for in the end, directly or indirectly, all taxation comes out of labor." Directly or indirectly, all taxation comes 'out of labor. TIM extravagance of Govern ment,the profligate expenditures of Congress, the schooling, housing, feeding and support ing negroes through.the agency of the Freed men's Bureau, the keeping up of a standing army in the South to make the negroes the masters of thaiiaportion of the country—all I such and their like, which require hundreds of willious of dollars annually, and which necessitate crushing taxation, fall directly or indirectly oulabor to sustain them And yet we find laboring people so blind to their own interests as to support meta and measures whose success will continuo and increase these very buftheus so opprS.ssive to them. As you make your bed, so must you lie in it. “GREAT ItICORAL rnoGnxss OF IDEAS." 11 o find in Saturday's .issue of the New York Sun, the following catidoaue of crimes brought to light in that city within a single dny. The record k a Fair sample of the state of affairs throughout the country, and shows more clearly the horrible condition of public Morals which 11:19 followed in the train of Radical predominance than volnmes Of argu ment: "A. carman dusaped the remains of four human beings iii one of our intblic street.s, and unconcernedly drove mi. Nobody seems to have found out where they conic INN. The hest account stated that they were elicit-- tons ; the second that they were dead bodies, and had been taken to the Morgue. A little rail boat in the North River was run down, by one of the ferry boats crossing from Hobolicn. The ferry boat stopped fora moment, and a buy who was in the boat which was run down climbed up into the wheel'of the furry boat. The heartless Eliot,. without waiting for him to save himself; started the engine mid crushed him to death. "Ore the, corner of West Thirty-seventh street and Sixth avenue a man, name Ed ' ward Seaman, was found by the police at 1 o'clock in the morning in an insensible con dition. with severe cuts and bruises about his head anti face. It turned out that be had been 1,0(14.14 tittacke,l by robbers. "Ne.trly all the mita and women ore com plaining of haying hid their pockets picked. "Iltnry Ilawkius,, advertises, offering a tundra for the apprehension and conviction of the person who made a murderous assult On him and neatly killed him. This pleasant _little event occurred to Mr. Hawkins last Tues. d.ty night, between Forty-second and Forty: third streets, and near Ninth avenue. I "Mr. Eliot, a merchant, with the well known firm of A. M. ifininger it Ca, was finind floating in the water. -It was evident that he bad Veen dead several days. When last Seen alive, 110 . WaS on his way to receive a p ayment of four thousand dollars in monOy. ANlten found, his pockets were turned inside out, end his watch was gone. It isstippased that he was murdered and thrown Into the river." The Sun, whose editor, Charles .1. Dana, is n leading and distinobthed Radical, adds with, unaccustomed frankness: "None of thew events attract more than a very tymsi cnt attention front thu public. Since the war people have become so accustomed to blood shed and horrors, that they seem almost as much a matter of course as our daily meals." GOV. stly mote. TO TIIE. soLnupus. The Soldiers' and Sailors' Union of Oneida couuty, Y., heti a meeting. at Utica on Thursday last, which is represented to have bee» "large and enthusiastic." Finding that Gov. Seymour was in the city, they paid him the hon9r of a serenade at his hotel, to which he reiponded in the following eloquent re marks : "SiciWien of Oneida County—l thank you for - this mark of your good will. 1 know bet ter than most men the character of the servi ces rendered by our soldiers in the late 'War. I grtVe them more than fifteen thousand Corn missions. It was my official ditty to mark their upward progress in rank as they gained honors in the , field. . It was also my sad ditty to record the loss of life of many of those with whom I had had pleasant intercourse in the exeeutive chamber. I saw your regi ments as they went forth to war with ranks tilled with men in the vigor and prime or manhood. It was my official privilege to thank them, in the name - of the State, when they returned With thinned ranks and torn banners, Which were made glorious by the proofs that they had been borne by brave men in the thickest of the tight. 'Lisa pleas• ant thing amidst all the harshness of a politi cal canvass to receive these tokens of good will and of confidence from those who have shown their patriotism - upon the battle-field ; and in return I pledge myself in 'whatever station I may be placed in public or in nrivate life to struggle for the restoration of that Union for which you have perilled your lives in the contest of arms; and in our struggle for constitutional rights we are strengthened in our convictions of duty by the hiet that n majority of our soldiers uphold us in this poli tical contest. In the course of my life I hare received many testimonials front political friends as well as from political opponents, as front their sense of the services which I have been able to render to our State and to our cohn try ; but none touch ray heart so much as those proofs of , respect which come from My neighbors, and particularly those which are given by men who have served our coun try in the ranks of its armies." •-t_quesrics which we have never yet seen answered: "If bonds are to be paid in green backs, in what are the greenbacks to be paid?" Keen/Lyle. ..12.;swen.-74.re.ol—Nothing plainer. lint ther6 are none so blind as those who won't see, except those whose eyes are blinded by the gfftter of gold.—BrAtartn's