Announcements.
The following named persona offer themselves as
Candidates for the offices named below—subject to
the decislen of the Republican Cotinty Convention :
Fon
. 7-111E8E.NTATIVE.
JOHN I. ITOHELL, Wellsboro.*
FOR PROTHONOTARY,
J. F. DONALDSON, WeHaber°.
Oen. R. C. COX, Liberty.*
HENRY R. CARD, Sullivan.
- Fon RECILYTEIS awl) REcoaran,
Deitius L. DEANE, Wellaboro.*
BALPA 11ULKI,EY, Knoxville.
JAS. 11.•BOSARD, IYellaboro.
ton COVNTY TUNASIUDNII. -
C. E. MILLER, Tioga.
PURPLE, DeerilebL".
-' R. 13.: ROSE.-Sullivan.
JAMES M. WILKINSON, Ch fr leaten.*
BUEL BALDWIN, Tioga.*
B. ROWLAND, Wellaboro*;
Bloaa
J. W.'TUR
P. 0. VAN DER, Weßaboro.*
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
.:.
C. W. LOVELESS, Tioga.*
SIMEON BACON. Delmar. • • .
- EPHRAIM HART, Charleston. l
A. H. WESTBROOK; Tioga.*
EDOAR,KINNER. Jackeou.
WILLIAM W. wimert, Farmington.*
I liau a candidate for Delegato to t l e Convention to
emend the Constitution. JOHNI. GUERNSEY.
I Wish to ho elected a delegate to the approaching
Constitutional Convention. I solicit the support of
my friends. - THOMAS L. BANE.Bane, April, 8.1872. •
Aeitottor.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1872
Republic . an Nominations.
FOR PRESIDENT,
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
EMIEZEI2
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
HENRY WILSON,
Or MAllBtuCtlrbk.l /13.
FOR ooritagon,
JOHN F. HARTRANFT,
of Montgoutery-Counsy.
rOll Stuns= JUDGE,
ULYSSES MERCUR,
of liroafurol Comity.
11011 AUDITOR GENERAL,
HARRIEON ALLEN,
rf IVi.rren County.
FOR CONGILIViMEN LT LABUE,•
HARRY WHITE, DE INDIANA;
LEMUEL TODD, or CulnitmAarn.
DELEGATES AT LAIIGE Ti) THE CONSTITUTIONAI
CONVENTION.
WM. AI. MEREDITH. ...." I "ILADELPHIA
GILLINGHAM FELL, PUILADEIRHIA
HARRY WHITE, InnTANA
WILLIAIL,LILLY, CARBON ;
LINN lIARTIIOLOAIW, SCIIHYLICILL ;
H. N. • ArALLISTER, CENTRE ;
WILLIAM H. ARMS RUNG, LYCOMING ;
WILLIAM DATIS, MoNnoE ;
JAMES L. REFNOLDS, LAnvsrEli ;
SAMUEL E. DIMAIIK, ItimrxE
(4EO. V. LAIVRENO..., WAsumoToN ;
DAVID N. WHITE, ALLEGHENY ;
W. H. AINEY. LEHIGH ;
JOHN 11. WALKER, EIIIE.
Campaign Edition.
We will send the AulT,!aon. from the firs
of July until the close of the campaign, (No
vember 13th,) to new subscribers, for PIMA'
CENTS IN ADVANCE.
The paper will, during that time be mainly
devoted to the discussion of the political
questions of the day, and the unyielding
's•upport of the Republican principles and
Republican nominees. Believing it will
Drove an efficient worker in the good cause,
ai ask our friends to assist us in extending
it influence by increasing its circulation
luring tlie campaign.
As the price at which it is °tiered barely
cov(rs the cost of white paper, printing and
nnO r ing, the cash must accompany all or-
ME
Gold closed laSt Sriturday in New York a
11;11.
Fifteen hundred hands employed in the
hUnber mills at Williamsport have struck
for the ten-hour system. They huve-heretc
fore been working from twelve to
p lirteen
hours
Mr. C-iroesbeek, after plenty of delibbra-'
tion, announces that he will not be a candi
date in opposition to the nominee of the
Baltimore Convention. So the baker's doz
ell of free- faders are without a ticket again.
President Grant has been dubbed LL. D.
by Harvard. So we have two Doctors run
ring for the Presidency—Grant and Gree
ley Whatever happens, the country mus
be safe no*, if Doct4s can save it.
The Senate of Neve York has been en
gaged, as a Court of Impeachment, during
!tie past WCCH, In Ulu Ixtul vt nor.to of the
ju(lges of that State. No flecision has yet
hcen reached in any case.
The trial of Stokes for the murder of Jas.
Fisk, Jr., got well under way in New York
last week. So far the testimony against the
prisoner seems conclusive and very damag
ing.
A Democratic paper publishes a letter of
the late General George B. M'Clellan dated
just ten years ago, and seems to think it in
teresting to men still upon earth. This is
refreshing. We had almost forgotten the
Hero of the Spade.
Mr. Frederick Law Olmstead presents his
compliments to the cab-load of gentlemen
who nominated him for Vico President the
other day, and respectfully declinds t the
honor, because he is so absorbed in his pro
fessional duties.
The Cat.kill Reeorder (Dem. )(says that last
fall Greeley and Fenton promised to make
!hr election of the New York Democratic
state ticket sure, and it plaintively adds,
" They cheated us then and will cheat us
:tgaiu " course) they will; but by your
t,‘, iny you deserve to be cheated.
Tilt , Board of Arbitration met again at
(b.apva lust Friday, and put on record the
formal decision rejecting the claims of the
Stides for indirect damages, and like
-1% the application of Great Britain for a
protracted _adjournment. The next sitting
takes place July 15th, when the printed ar
gument of ithe British Government is to he
put in.
- -
It l another column of this paper will be
found the conclusions of the committee ap
pointed to investigate the Evans fraud, so
fur as they relate to Gen. Hartranft's alleged
complicity in that affair. We ask every vo
ter to read that report carefully, to note the
names of leading Democrats subscribed to
it, and then to reflect upon the measureless
lies already told about Gen. Hartranft's con
nection with this affair.
A few days since the ' • hiladelphia Preis
published, in its Washington correspond
ence, a statement that Russell Errett,
Chair
wan of the Republican State Central Com
mittee, had privately given it as his opinion
that llartranft cannot be elected in October;
that the party is more divided upon Grant
than upon the candidate for Governor, and
that the President is the "old man of the
sey upon the sliouldersof the Republican
paity in this State. M. Errett denounces
all these allegations of the Phtitsus utterly
false and unfounded. Washington-newspa
per offices seem to be a prolific source of
what Horace laconicaq calls Uee. '.„
• There Was a short-lived revo ) the.."in
voluntary inmates—we like to stitaik politely
once in a while4of the State Prison :at An=
Y., lttst Thursday: Nine hundred
such characters in open insurrection; even
within prison walls,.are-not loVelylobjects
to contemplate, and a fe* companieiset mi-
litia were called out to bring them to order
and to work again. The rising was soon
put down without bloadshed, - and a few
score of the leaders were placed in close
confinement, where it'is reported they will
he kept
.on bread:and water for a time.—
That is all very well; .but it seems to us the
State authorities should at once make a tho
rough examination of the management Of
this prison and of its officials. Such an af
fair as this i is a reproach and disgrace to the
prison authorities, and it may be that some
body outside the walls deserves punishment
rather more than
The Men who anybody to -beat
Grant are having a terrible time. A good
many of the shrewder Democrats don't. be-
Have that Greeley is exactly the man to Un
dertake that little job; but they can't see
how they are to get rid of him at this stage /
of the game, and so some of them are al
ready contemplating a bolt from Ate Balti
more nominations. 4. call has been issued
by certain New Yorkers of the Hemocratic
stripe requesting the attendance at Balti
more of all opposed , to Horace the day be
fore the eomidg, convention. And at Ili&
same thne.a circular has appeared at Chichi
-mai addressed to Democrats and " Libei
ruts" who oppose Greeley, being substantial-
ly a call for a bolting Democratic Conven
tion in case he is nominated,, ; It :won't do,
gentlemen! You have got - t 6 support one of
the Gs this fall; so make your choice, and
stand by it.
' We suppose no „Nvell-regulated•foupal of
the day can be' Thought` COMplete j iiithout
some 'mention of the "grand Peace Julii
lee" at Boston. Therefore, be it knOwn that
for the past two weeks twenty thousand
singers, more or less,—soMe famous, and
Many unknown to newspaper reporters,—
fifteen hundred eoundirit instrnments of
brass, wood, catgut, sheepskin, cowhide,
I
bell-metal , steel and iron,\ to say nothing of
anvils hammered by rei -shirted firemen,
and cannon fired by electricity,—all these,
things have been conspiring together to pro
duce a musical uproar and harmonious hub :
hub. Of course the result has been a big
noise more or less melodious, and long re
ports in the city dailies, mainly' , skipped by
their readers. It must be admitted that Mr.
-Patrick Gilmore has managed W
,get- . pp a.
very " big thing"—the biggest of the kind
on record. But ho has done it once too oft
en for the good of the Boston pocket. It
is reported that there has been a loss of
about $250,000 on the affair to be distribu
ted among the solid men of that city.-- :ut
the money has been well laid out if it tench
es the Yankees and the whole country that
the measure of excellence is not quantity
but quality..
•
Light Waiited.
The following letter, received by us afew
days since, will interest the candidates for
local offices:
"OSCEOLA, June 25, 1872:
"Editors of Agitator—Gentlemen: W
you be kind enough to request the several
candidates for office in this county to let the
people know how they stand in reference to
their choice for President? The voters this
way levant some Rid on the subject. Very
respectfully yours. A VOTER."
We don't suppose that any candidate for
office in Tioga county will expect to receive
the votes of Republicans, either for the nom
ination or election, unless he is out-spoken
and unswerving in his support of the whole
Republican ticket, from Grant and Wilson
down to the humblest officer named by the
State Convention. But it seems that some
of our readers want to make assurance
doubly sure, and so we print the above re
quest for the several candidates to show
their hands. Our columns are open to re
sponses from any or all of them.
October—November.
It has long since passed into a proverb
that the political position of this State is de
cisive in determining the result of natipnal
electioni. Certain it is that' there hes'bot
been such an election since the present Re-N
publican party came into existence when it
was not found true that. as Pennsylvania
went so went the Union. It was so in 1856,
when the State gave Buchanan an over
whelming popular plurality, and elected
him in spite of the vote of the peat .State
of New York on the other side. It was so
in IR6O, whon she gave Lincoln a still more
decisive majority, and in 1864, when she re
affirmed her faith in Republicanism by
,cheering the great War President witha ma
jority abdut three times that given him by
New York. It was so in 1868, when she
went for the modest soldier whit hadleuglii
out the war and conquered an honorable,
and a lasting peace.
And in most of these cases the vote in
November was but an intensified repetition
of that cast at the October election: Thu;
in 1880 Curtin, Republican candidate for
Governor, received 32,164 majority over
Foster, Democrat, while in November Lin
coln received 59,618 majority over the com
bined opposition vote. The cause of this is
obvious.. There is a class of men who al
ways ke to be ou the winning side; with
them &thing is so successful as success, and
when the October elections show them the
drift of the popular current, they hasten to
swell the ranks of the majority with their
suite - eli s ions but welcomi!'presence. •
In view of these facts it is the sheerest
political nonsense to talk of the possibility
of losing the State at the October election
and regaining it in November. The idea is
so silly that it is hardly possible to believe
that the fey politicians who advance it can
be honestliii their intentions. They profess
to be working for Grant's election, but if
they know anything of political matters,—
and some of them do know a good deatioo
much for the public good in that line,—they
must be aware that the 'defeat of the State
ticket in October almost necessarily involves
the overthrow of the national candidates in
November. This is so evident to the me
rest tyro in politics, that it is impossible to
'believd those politicians are truly in favor,of
Grant who are engaged in an incessant and
a causeless warfare upon Ilartranft.
We say that Republican opposition to our
candidate for Governor is causeless, and we
use the word with due consideration. We
admit there may be reasons of a personal
nature impelling certain politicians to that
course. - But as Republicans working for
the continued. ascendency of our party and
its principles—as citizens anxious to advance
the best interests of the Commonwealth—
we can find no substantial ground of just
opposition to the election of Gen. Hartranft.
That a majority of the delegates . to the Har
risburg Convention were sent there by the
people in favor of his nomination every man
knows who is acquainted with State poli
tics. That he is an honest man i las bitterest
enemies admit. That he has been faithful
in his present office the unanimous'vote of
the Senate attests. That he had no connec
tion with the Evans fraud, except to' prose
cute the parties implicated in it, the unani:
mous report of the investigating committee
affirms. That he has been guilty of nomal•
EMI
feassii4, In i;ifit,ie is prOved by the vague and
'general hitillre of:the charges_made-against
biln brbriernieri Options SO - di:Toyer and re-,
`sort some definibB.4md sipOcifie oftense; k-
1 1 ! An:4 - an-L'a brav * e, faithful Oil etIV
iientriaildiei during the:war-414011 and
efficient civil officer since—a ;faithful Re
publican to-day—we arc asked to 'drop in
favor of Buelcalew,-adisciple of Calhoun, a
bosom friend of 'Woodward, and notori
ous Copperhead. We decidedly : decline _to
trade, And we believe the Reptiblican etas
' sea will decline also; more especially as the
proposition' really invOlves the_ defeat of the
national as well us the State ticket. They
don't prOpose :to throw away itie • St'ute in
October,'in the vain hope, of recapturing: it
in Novewiber. -And certainly they don't in
tend to g - o into
-any snclquinous speculation
to gratify the-malignant spite of one editor
and'the insane ambition•nf another.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASITINGTON, Jtine 25, 1872
DISRONORAI3LE ATTACKS
FollOiving on the forbidden ground so re
cently trodden by Senator Sumner, who,
wild with woUndell pride and humbled dig-
uity, brought the pretended death-bed mnr
inuriugs of . Stanton, the 'War Minister,
against the great war chief who saved the
nation and won its deathless praise, we now
hax;e another‘evidenee of- the pitiful weak
ness of‘ our opponents.. -Judge Mason, of
- lowa, has gone down into the mouldy tomb
of ex-Senator Grimes, and there found ano
ther sample of Joe Smith's tablets of brasS
to regulate the conduct of the world's peo
ple—in politics. This time it is not claimed
that the immortal spirit of.Gritnes has spo
ken since it left the fleshly form, but that,
When sadly ;depressed. in bcly, anti mind
1 and confessedly. "lilasted" in both' he had
given up public life irrciocably,-he wrote' to
this Democratic Judge, and confessed that
he, in common with. the Republican party,
hod been exceedingly naughty. This pn
vete letter of a friend was written. in reply
to one received by him, which doubtless was .
meant at the time to draW hiM out privatelY
and confidentially while yet alive, in order,
tO use his feeble testimony after his death;
'when no escplannaon from him could be
niade.
!This utilizing of dead humanity has gen
erally been monopolized by hyenas and can
nibals, but Charles Sumner and .Judge Ma
son, in their desperate anxiety to injure their
opponents, seem willing to vie with both in
'linking second-hand ha h out of their
parted friends. The gravest part of this
offending is the reckless manner in which
ex-Senator Griutes's friend, in digging up
his buried private sentiments, has exposed
I 'his reputation by imblishing..admissions to
the effect that exactly what he had been en
gaged in all his'Senatorial life, and nothing
else but that, was "reeking corruption,"
for which the Republican party is responsi,
ble, and ,out of which, in one way or ano
ther, he amassed a large fortune, as it is un
-14itestionably proven by his Senatorial and
personal - record. Is it possible that Mr.
Grimes could have been sane, and at the
same time write such damaging admissions,
which could have no greater effect, if true, ,
thaw that of covering his otherwise untar
nished reputation with shame and disgrace?
Instead of Liberal Republican, we will :limn
have to denominate these grave-yard dese
crators as the Cannilial Opposition, whose
principles arc truly enough anything-to-beat-
Grant, even to feasting on the reputations of
their friends.
NEWS FROM TRE SOUTH'
A report has just reached here from a re
liable source in Tennessee stating that there
are not twenty Republicans for Greeley in
that State. The Democratic support is not
hearty, and most of the leading Democrats
are ashamed to in - knowledge the position
their party holds toward the Cincinnati
nominees. Toombs and Linton Stephens
in Georgia, by theirspeeches, have made a
(t
great breach in the ranks. The ge end feel
ing is one of nausea in Tennessee nd else
where in the South. The colore element
is solid for the Philadelphia ticket and the
Republicans were never more unit d - and in
itbetter working order than at pres 6 t. They
gill make one solid column at the polls in
November for Giant and Wilson.
TITE DISTRICT RATIFICATION MEETING
This evening is to be made memorable by
one of the grandest mass meetings that has
ever moved the people of the District and
set the city ablaze. The decorations of the
open-air stand in,front of tile. Pity .Ball are
in the best taste, and the arrangements for a
perfect success can only be frtistrated by the
elements. Since last inauguration day there
has been nothing like this demonstration in
point of interest and elegance.
ritosEurTnici AND STEALING
' Who is it that Greeley sends to the South
to proselyte the 'colored people? Ans.--:A
man named Smith, who was dismissed from
one of the Departments for stealing. And
this is the purity in office of a party that
claims to be more . " liberal" than the pres-'
eht Administration. This will no longer be
denied by those who know.
DXBORACEptrL rasiorLY
' The Kuklux reports are now all in the
hands of the government printer. The
whole will make thirteen volumes, with an
aggregate of 8,261 octavo pages, containing
such an amount and quality of testimony as
must entail disgrace 'upon the pretense of
maintaining, a Republican form of govern
ment in the Southern States where these
outrages have occurred. r_
NO nivitlioN: ALLOWED.
Mr. Groesbeck; the free-trade Liberal
nominee, has not yet
.declared himself on
the New York nomination. It is supposed
the Democracy will compel him to adhere
to Greeley. - . C. M.
Jule Thompson.
On all questio s where the, supposed in
terests of his pa ty were concerned Judge
Thompson has b en a strict partisan. Pa
triots of all part es will not soon.forget that,
in the dark dayi f the war, Judges Thomp
son, Lowrio'and,Woodward did their best
to bring the war •to a disgracefUl termina
tion by declaring the draft law unconstitu
tional. Fortunately there was an election
almost immediately after this decision; Ag
new took the place of Lowrie on the bench,
and the decision was reversed. Although a
Democrat, Judge Strong had patriotism en
ough to rise above party, and he, with Read
and Agnew, formed a majority of the court.
Judges Thompson, Lowrie and Woodward
also declared the legal tender act unconsti
tutional. The Democratic Judges twere
wonderfully tender about the Constitution in
those days. Everything was unconstitution-.
al that would help to put down the rebel-'
lion; and Judge Thompson served the reb
els to the . best of his ability in trying to em
barrass the DOvernment by withholding
men and money to carry on the war. The
people have not forgotten these incidents in
Judge Thompson's career, and are unwil
ling to trust with fifteen years more of pow
er a man who cannot on any occasion rise
above party, who was willing that the reb
els should conquer, if thereby the Dew
crate could regain power.—Er.
General Grant and Senator Sumner.
A contributor to the Cincinnati Gazette ap
parently has not any unbounded zeal for the
classics. Hear him:
"Mr. Sumner's vanity .dcstroya
Quotations from classic authors anti snatch
es of poetry arc all very good and entertain
ing in the - Senate room, but they would cut
a sorry figure on the battle field. Think of
Grant laying siege to Vicksburg with Tauch
nitz's and Trubner'a latest editions of the
Greek and Mihail classics and the church
fathers! Imagine Grant coming through the
Wilderness with Bryant's translation of litr
mer underondiirm, Jowett's translation of
the Dialogues of Plato under the other!L-.
No, a hecatomb of -libraries such as Caliph
Omar burned, and quotations tient ancient
lore thick as kayo in Valloinbrosa,' wo'd
forever fail to bring about the results of the
last grand campaign that quelled the rebel.
, • .
iionltini saved the nation. And now; 'for
sooth, alt must be put in peril, nal the ,party
broken, because 'Gen, Grant hi ilitipleaaing to
Stlitiner, and may have inadeently made
'Some honest mistakes in Ana: 'ineeessful ad.
lilinlstration. It is only_ttecessary to,'Coin
'plete'the ridiculousness •Ottlin picture by
putting - Mr. Sumner, •With, his eye glasses
on, and a copy of Ciceries first' oration
against Catalina in, his hand, before Lee's
army at Spottsylvania,_and watching the ef
fect of his oratory in saving a nation with
its untold fortunes and peerless free inatitu
thins from the hand of an mined tuntrelent
-1 less foe."
(envy 'Ward Beecher on -Mr. Sumner.
For, more than three yenta n monster has
been sitting in the Preside - mita chair at
Washington, There arc nu . lights to his
character; it is all blaclCas night without a
star! Since the old Honiun monster-heroes,
it will be difficult to Lind n creature so entire
ly made up,of faults, so devoid of oxeellen
(TH. ThiS is Gen. Grant; as Mr. Sumner has
painted,hint. Paragraph after paragruph,
column after Column, page - after page, the
rehearsal of .evil gees en; without an allevi
ation, without a single - light to the huge
mountain of derkness.-.llntil we involuntari
ly cry out, " Why ,does krovidence permit
such a miscreant to liver
Soberly, Mr.,Sumner has, not proved a
wise rhetorician nor a 4lcillful special plead
er. Ile has overcharged his ;picture. Men,
will not believe that the silent man at the
White . House is an incarnate fiend. That
this oration wijk produce a certain effect up
on natures surcharged, with violent feeling;
that a campaign, Aocunient it will have
'some considerable weight, is probable. • But
we think it has so, far overstepped the
bounds of moderatiojt, that the fair-minded
and- ihe just will recoil from it.' Its infiu-.
ence, will be temporary. By and by Mr..
Stunner's friends will look back upon this
speech with regret, as lacking in generosity,
in justice, in truth, in moderation. No man
who liatesis fit to judge another. Sumner
has raised a.monument of his hatred to Gen.
Grant. We must commend to Mr. Sumner.
a 'passage in a book we fear he does not read
as often. as _he should • -
" Hathat saith he is in thelight, and ha
14th bis brother; Is 'in darkness even until
now. lie.that loveth his brother abideth in
thelight, and-there is:no occasion 'of ! stum,
Ming In him.. But he that hateth his brother
is, in darkness, and knoweth not whither be
goes, because that darkness hits blinded his
eyes." . . .
•
CHIPS }ROM APPAQUA ;-
Or a rosy feilthe naltiinore - convention.
Every one who chooses lb live •by pugi-
Him or gambling or harlotry, with nearly
every keeper of a tippling house, is politi
cally a Democrat. —Horace' Greeley.
'lt theie were not a newspaper nor a com
mon school in the country, the Democratic
party would be far stronger than it is.—Her
we Greeley. I •
The essential articles of the Democratic
,creed [are] • love rum and hate niggers.'—
The less one learns and knows, the more
certain ho is to vote the regular ticket from
A to Izzard.—Horocs Greeley.
We thereupon asked our cotempormy to
state' frankly whether- the pugilists, black
, legs, • thieves, burglars, keepers of dens of
prostitution, etc., were not almost unani
mously Democrats.--Horace Greeley.
•To smoke is a Democratic virtue; to chew
is that virtue intensified; to drink rum is
that virtue in the superlative.—Horace Gree
ley.
A purely selfish interest attaches the lewd,
ruffianly, criminal, and dangerous classes to'
the Democratic party.—Horace Greeley.
This would amount-to six in a bed, exclu
sive of any other vermin, for every Demo
cratic couch in the State of New .York, in
cluding those at Sing Sing and Auburn.
Horace Greeley.
The brain, the heart, the soul of the pres
ent Democratic party Is the rebel element at
the South, with its Northern allies and sym
pathizers. It is rebel at the [core to-day.—
It would come into power with the hate, the
chagrin, the wrath, the mortification of ten
bitter years to impel and guide its steps.—
Whatever chastisement may be deserved by
our national in, we must hope that this dis
grace and hu iiliation - will be spared us.
ilumee Greek/.
What Honest Men Should Do.
- The Nalioia is one . of the papers which
supported the so•calleil !Liberal Republican
movement at Cincinnati. but it could not
stand the - nomination of Greeley, and has
not hesitated to expresS its opinions pretty
plainly. The following remarks are from a
late issue:
" He (Greeley) is neither revenue' reform
er, civil service reforMer, nor any other
kind of ref Oner that people now care
abo u t ! ...a env irtry •wv:Eiu
has, since the establishment of the Weather
Bureau, become more reliable than he. The
result is, and the more
of the last month
shows it, he has uoi\ only not drawn to him
self any of the reputable discontent of the
Republican party, but he has driven it back
into the ranks, repentant \ and humiliated.—
He stands surrounded, aslar as the Repub
lican North is concerned, `in the main by
soreheads and blatherskites. 'iis great, and
indeed only reliance, is the'D,emocrats , of
the North and South, but especially of the
South, and he therefore presents:himself to
the Iteptblican party as simply the visible
siktf of a renewed attempt on the part of the
pld Copperheads and 'Rebels to get pnes
sion of the Government. *
" What are-honest men. to do now? We
if there is nothing else offered, if the DemN
ocratic Convention commits the absurdity of
raising ' the old white hat" as its standard at
Baltimore, the only thing for Republicans
of our way of thinking to do is to choose the
less fl two evils, and vote foe Oen. Grant. We
expect no improvement in the Administra
tion from him; we do not look at his hands
for the removal of any, of the existing abu
ses; we know of no answer to any of the
weighty and reasonable objections made to.
his Administration; bet we do know, as
near as may be, what ho will do; WO know
at least the worst be will do. Thqprobabil
ities are that, the temptations connected
with renomination over, he will on many
points change for the better. Moreover—
and this is the most impartant point of all
—if be is re-elected, there will be np general
redistribution of offices and nofinahcial dis
turbance. What Greeley wilt-do, and what
the - motley crew whom he would lead to
Washington would do, nobody linows."
Retrospect and Prospect.'
, The conference of Free. Traders, called to
meet at the Fifth Avenue Hefei, assembled
and talked till midnight, and went out\in
darkness; the advantage, on the 'whole, be
ing clearly with Greeley. Indeed, it looks'
to us simple folks who ..now little of the
machinery of politics, the conference
• had chine together—l ke 'the famous Ger
man dwarfs of the fai , 'story—to hump their
backs to form a brid r:e upon which their
countryman, 'go • C • Schurz, could walk
over to Mr. GreeDl-:-' 1 He is 'safely over!—
Not so his companions in grief, the Free
traders-on-principle. They did not step
quick enough. But being - left desolate; they
held an aftemeeting, and determined to
leave Grant and Greeley to' fight out their
ditTerences, while a new party, with Groes
beck, of Cincinnati; and Olmstead, of New
York, should march straight upon Washing
ton and take possession of the Government!
Now,, then, people can take their choice,
of the three G.'s—Grant, Greeley, Groes
beck; the brave soldier,'-the skillful editor,
the acute lawyer; the old Republican, the
new Republican-Democrat, the old Demo
crat. ' As for ourselves, we stand by our col
ors—Grant and Wilson, and the old Repub
lican party, which has been bred and proved
in stormy days, when the whole nation
leaned upon it and found it a sure support.
It went through the fire and the flood to
save our country. We do not ; believe that
the common people - of America are ready to
throw away an old servant, ' and pin. in - its
place a party whose whole strength lies in
the adhesion to it of the very men whom the
Republican party has fought before, at Shi
loh, at Vicksburg,' at Gettyiburg, around
Richmond. They tried to take Washington
several times before. They could not.do it
by Millets, and we to not intend they shall
by ballots.
'This country is not prePared to pass the
Government into the hands of that patty
which has for fifteen years done nothing but
fight those laws and that policy which they
hope soon to construe and administer. ; It
is not even pretended that the rank and file
of the Democratic party have been convert
ed to those ideas for which the whole war ;
was Waged. They have changed their poli
cy, 'but not their convictions. They will go
to Washington es Liberal Reptiblicans, hut
once there they will' throtv off the odious
name and stand forth out-and-out Demo=
'ends. The old questions are not settled.-r;
It is not likely that any party will attempt -
to overthrow the constitutional amendments; ,
but a law may be Iniade nugatory without
abolishing ft. Thespirit of an Administra
tion may neutralize a 'constitutionnl provi
sion without attacking its letter.
`'lf ',the Republican party is defeated,. it
will be the concentration of Dem
ocratic vote* North and South. .The Dem-,
pantie eleinent- 'will prevonderater to suck
an extent, that it will be impossible to Carry'
on the Government except by its political
and moral influence. In, six Moonlit - Acre
will not be, the shadow of a doubt that the
Democratic party has swallowed and digest
ed all the'erratie Republicans that helped it,
and it will stand forth, no new creation,.
born out of past struggles, with regenerated.
genius to lead on a new era, but' from inevi
table inward necessity it will be - the-old
Democratic party. The voice may' be Ja
cob's, but the hands will be Esau's. Now Is
the time to consider the may be's..,.
How far from probability is it, that iri a
year or two, should this new movement site
coed, will the new Administration think' it
best to pension- the Southern 'wounded vet
erans for their service ' and' suffering? If
they aro taxed:to pay , the' national 'debt - ,
Why, they will say, should we - not be paid'
for some of our own lOsses? There is a pro
digious property-interest in the South, now
in silence and obscurity, that may, if fair
occasion be.given,i bring an irresistible pow
er to bear Con the Government' double
the nationalflebt.-Clirisfian Union.
llen. '
'
The opponents of Gn. llartranft are try
ing to injure the standing of that gentle man before the people, by persistently circulating
slanders againet him which have been dis
proved before a committee of the Legisla-.
Lure. Gen. Hartranft has been assailed by
men whom he was active in bringing to jus,
Lice, and,who were eMbittered against hint
by his refusal to covet] up their misdeeds.—
The charges that are made against him were
first circulated in tltat .good Democratic
journal, the N. Y. Tritrude, and a committee
of the Legislature, embracing some of the
ablest Democrats in that body, including
William A. Wallace, were appointed to id
vestigate them. Mei investigation was a
complete vindication of Hartranft, and after
it was over in
was,a unanimous vote of
confidence, m his integrity, The committee
in their _report say: „,
_ _
" On the 28th of February, 1872, a reso
lution and preamble in reference to ,a,.com
munication in the New York Tribune of the
preceding day were referred to the commit
tee. In that communication certain resolu
tions were quoted which reflected upon. John
F. Hartranft, Auditor General, and. R. W.
Mackey, State Treasurer, and made specific
charges, against them in their official caps-
city. It was made our duty to investigate
these charges, and to ascertain the facts at
tendin* the attempted; introduction of said
resolution and the publication of the same.
We have ascertained that the resolutions re
ferred to in the communication to- the Trib
use were prepared by trahan, counsel of
Evans, Evans himself, or Dr. Wm. Payne,
one of his bail, and that they jointly at
tempted to procure their introduction 'into
and passage by the House of Representa
tives and Senate; that;the facts charged in
the resolution recited in that communication
arc untrue; that in pursuance of this inquiry
we called before use all of the witnesses
whose testimony seemed likely to throw any
light upon , the transactions charged; that
several, communications have appeared in
the New York Sun and the New York Trib
une rpfiecting upon the l pfficials before named
and other persons in a private capacity; that
these have been based upon data either fur
nished by Dr. William Payne or some other
friend of George 0. Evans, and that upon
careful inquiry of witnesses under , oath we
find that the specific Charges made in said
communication are not true. All of which
is respectfully submitted.
JAM B L. GRAMM,
Whf. A. WALLACE,
HAR tY WIIITE,
Senate Committee.
D. N. WHITE,
A. a. Noes,
B. LI Ifswirr,
J. DL IlAricoex,
R. .Ii I ., 4I III'CONNELL,
ouse Committee."
Senator Weakley, who is a pure man, and
who stands so well where he is known,
that, although a Republican, he was last fall
elected to the Senate in the strong Demo
cratic district embracing Cumberland coun
ty, thuS writes in th l r last number of the
Carlisle Herald: Ik
- " The Democratic journals throughout the
State delight in disparaging Gen. Hartranft
on every occasion ; and often make charges
against him in connecition with his official
duties as Auditor Geral. The single an
swer to all those allegations is the vote of
the Senate on the question of continuing
Gen. Hartranft as Auditor General after the
expiration of his ter in. This measure, al
though entirely out of the usual practice in
, 1
similar cases, was su ported by the entire
Democratic side of he Senate, and many
Democratic Senators ook occasion to speak
in tile - niguest terms f the personal worth
and integrity of Gen. T artranft, and to Qua
mend, in the stronges language, the in nner
in which the financial affaiA of the Stat had
been conducted during his term of o e.—
These encomiums, coming from gentl men
who were politically opposed to our andi
date for Governor, many of whom ha been
for years in a position which enabled them
to scrutinize his official acts closely; are the
best evidences of his! ability" and integrity,
and should at once silence all clamor about
any official shortcoming% From the criti
cisms of the Democratic- papers Gen. Har
tranft may turn to the indorsement he re
ceived from the leaders of their party in the
Legislature, and on, that and the splendid
record of his administration .11f the finances,
may confidently count on the hearty sup
kport of this Commonwealth.? —Ex.
Meeting of the Republican County Committee,
in .ursuance of notice the Republleau County Com
mittee net at the office of John W. Guernsey, Esq., in
Tioga, lied appointed the following Committee of
Vigilancqor the several Townships and Boroughs in
the County of Tioga, who shall compose the Boards of
Election for -the several districts in which they reside :
Riots Towns i • Peter ( Cameron , R. E. Howland,
Henry Lazarus. I
Blocs Boro—H. Shattuck, J. C. Horton, A. T. James.
Brookfield—L. D. coleY, Harvey Plank, A. Simmons.
\
Ohartestob--Gillis t; Even Lewis, Thos. Elliott.
Chatham—W. Reach, .S. Mowry, I). IL Lee.
Covington .Twp—John ver/y, R. Walker, E. Klock.
Covington Boro--,A. M. nal tt, Otis Gerould.
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Clymer. --- O. 0. Ackley, R. -e„ George Burdic.
Delmar—M. W. Wetherbee, . Jeffers, H. Bulkley.
e 4:‘
Deerfield—A. Leo, H. H. Ina am, 0. F. Billings.
Ea/and—B. Dorrance, A. Cul r, D. Buckle°.
Elk—J. Beach, John Maynard, ren Wetmore. '
Farmington—A. Wright R. B. 01 e, W. Van Dusan.
Fall Brook—D. W. Knight, M. /nes n, J. Pollock.
4\
Gaines—O. A. Smith. Jessee Locke, . Vermilyea.
Hamilton—John James; Jr., S. Bowen,lk r W. Walker.
Jaeleson—Clark Stillman, Jos. Sedinger, . Spencer.
Knorvitio—L. Case, Gilee'Roberts, Joel J lumen.
Lawrenceville—E. F. Branch, J. F. RuslM . C. S.
Mather.
Lawrence—Henry Colegrove, L. Smith, Jos. G e.
Liberty—G. B. Sheffer, O. F. Veil, J. H. Leverg ed.
Mansfield—A. J. Ross, Henry Allen, Wm. Hollands.
Middlebury—O. Harnmond,lll. C. Potter, B. C. IlyineS
Morris—Job Doane, R. Custard, E. Blackwell. \
Mainsburg—E. Maine, 0. T. Haight, Stephen Peters.
Nelson—G. H. Baxter, Mark Seeley, Hiram Merritt.
Osceola—A. K. Bosard, C. L. Hoyt, C. Tubbs.
\ Richmond--E. R. Haight, E. L. Sperry, S. Whittaker.
Rutland-- O. P. Cripperi, E. Backer, J. Argetsinger.
Sutlivan—G. W. Seymonr, M. Palreer,Chas. Jaquiala
' Skippen—S. Scranton, J'. A. Darling, H. Broughton.
, Tioga Tap—C. W. Loveless, E. Niles, Geo. Hazlett.
' Tioga Boro-0. B. Farr; 0. B. Lowell, F. H. Adams,
Union— , A. A. Griswold, Rathbone,J. M. 'Whitcomb
Weltsb'oro—.7. B. Potter W, Stone, N. T. Chandler. -
IVard—Wailace Chase,lB. Seeger, J. W. Kincb.
Westfield -Wm. Hurlburt, A. K. Bayles, C.-Thompson.
Westfiefd Boro—T,C:Sfinders, R. Krusen, G. Close.
The Coinmatee passed I the following resolutions:
That voters Wonging ;to the Republican party in
each township and borough Shell meet on the 17TH
DAY OF AUGUST pest, at the several places of hold
ing elections at 2 o'clock p. in.. and .proceed to vote
for one person for Congressman, one person for As
sistant Law Judge, one pars infer Representative, one
person for Prothonotary; one person for Treasurer,
one person for Recorder, onp person for Commiss
ioner and one person for 'Auditor. That the polls be
opened at two o'clock P. to.. and dosed at seven
o'clock. 1 \ .
The voting shall be by' ballot, written or printed,
and the name of each person ve.ting shall be written
on a list at the time of voting. Mid no person shall be
allowed to vote more than once foreach office.
That one of the board of each district who shall be
elected by a majority of each board, 'Ethan Meet at the
Court House ha WelUboro on Friday, `the 23d day of
August next, at one o'clock p. in., having the certliled
returns and a list of the voters together with the votes
cast for each candidate, and the person who shall have
the highest number of votes for any office Shall be de.
dared the regular nominee of the Republican party.
Any two or more persons having an equal Millibar of
votes for the same office, the return judges shell pro
ceed to ballot for h choice i the person having the
highest number of votes to be the nominee. - \
The return judges shall be competent to reject, by •
majority vote, the returns of any district whore there
is evidence of frand.either in the returns or otherwimi;
And the return judgesf "shall have power to appoiro
re ‘
confees-Congma oual and Judicial, or either, as the
case may require—who shall be instructed to support
theeperson who shall have received the highest num
ber of votes casefor that office in the county. And the
return judges may at their meeting change the mode
of selecting candidates, if they are satisfied that a
change is n . And the return judged shall ap
point a Standing mmittee for the county for the eiv
suing year.
In mom of acancy in any board at the time five&
for opening the polls. the vacancy shall be supplied
by any rnember'or members of the vigilance commit
tee who shall be present or in attendance.
E. HORTON, JR.. JOHN W. GUERNBEY.
Bec'y. Chairman.
Jul 3. 1872.
Good Livery !
VAN VAIXENBIAIa & CO, would say to their
friends that they have a good Livery established
in Welisboro for the acepintnodation of their friends.
Good Horses and Carriages
always on hand at moderate rates.
Stable on Water Steet opposite Geo. Derby's red
lines. 0. 0. VAN VALKENBIIIM.
June 20, 1872. C. W. MOSLEM
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN
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GRANT* !4.SON. 41AEEAE':11, BROWN.
oaol-'rellieivOd-'llbrohes
. TRANSPABENCIES AND BANNEIO3,
With Pottraita or any device for all parties.
Hunting aud - Afostiu rbge oral! sizeoou band
or, utivto to order, ethiese tantortio of all oizeo load
styles; Paper 13athente, Vivo WoOco, ts.c, auu
raign 0104111 W MA at the loweist rates at - .
:WM. F. SCHEEBLE'S
CAMPAZON DEPOT, -
. 49 Houth Third StrefA,
1, tam iron critcuLu.
July 3,1872-9 cg.
ISTRAY-- - - . 43anto to tho premises of the subscriber
.124iu Furalingtun, (Pennington IMO, several %coke
141.11C1), u red yearling heifer,Vith white spots ou the
belly. 1 would like to Love the owner take her away
—after paytng her hoard, Sc.
Juno :hi, 142-3 w. ' • ' REUBEN T. BALL.
lIALDVVIN'S SIIANTY-
IS you wnut a Woo assortmelit of
iql,L AND WINTERGOODS)
CALL AT
BALDWIN'S SHANTY,
TIOGA, PA
If you want Dress Good of all kinds
eakat BiLDWIN''s Eihau
if you ' , mint Brk Alpaca, call fur the oraud Dub:hose,
at BALDWIN'S Shanty
la •
If y u want an Ottoman Shaul,
eat at BALDWIN'S Shan
II you want Ladies & Gentle under ware.
call at BALDWIN'S Shanty
If you want notions and trimmings,
call at BALDIVLITS Shanty
I[ you want Furs.
If you ward knit Goods,
If you waiitfa and Cum
If you want Boots and Sh()Ca,
call at BALDWIN'S Bb
lt you want a s • t of Dishes,
call at BALDWITrS 13
If you want go d Teas and Grooorlea fresh,
call at BALDWIN'S Sh•
If you waut a ready made suit of clotbos,
call at BALDWIN'S SbiE.
If you want a suit of Clothes leavo your meaauro.
at BALDWIN'S
If you want Over Coate,
If yot; want I.luffalo ItubcS,
If you want pricey that cant ho boat,
call at BALDWIN'S ti an
That's whats the Matte I
o sell these goods before we lea ma
We are anxious
Shanty.
Nov. 1, 1871.
lIeEI 1 eg
am now receiving direct from the Importer.'
I
and well selected stock of
CROCKERY,
[11:S10M:I '01110111!:KILT
with a gool assortment of
Table Cutlery & Plated Wi
Table Linen, Xciplcins, o
eling„ 66:\
Pry .
I will sell at great .
a full a•L
Table and House
My stock of
nods, Clothing,
reduced prices to make r•om
ld complete stock of
of which I propose hereafter to \keep a fu i lla r
x. col
pike assortnieti
, .
t, \\\
C. at V
April 3.1872.-th
IM=lii
E3M:IIEI=Ii7IEI
WELLSEJORO, P 1
~..A. : 7 1- . ANDREW. F I
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\AMERICAN' WATCIIE
Gold'or Silver, Clocks, iJewelry, 'Gold aim
Heys, \ Rings, Pins, Pencils, Cases, Gold d
Steel Pens, Thimbles, Spoons, Razo ,
• Plated Ware,
•
•
SEWING MACHINE ' ►
4h4 , .; Sze., ke
N
With most all Other articles usually kept In
- • ,
tibliihments, which art , so ld low for
C S
flopairing done neatly, and promptly, and •
'NOTICE.
Jan. 1.1879-Iy.
call at BALDWIN'S Shanty
call at BALDWIN'S Sli El
call at BALDWIN'S Sit: u
call at BALDWIN'S S an
call at BALDWiIi'S SI imt
T. L. BALDWIN & CO
Also
j'urnishing 0)o
who bee long been es 22!
111 the Jewelry heal CM
Wellaboro, has always or a
various kinds and pric=s of
imi
-Yi 'a i illi , ‘M . ai.2>C:o3:logEt
ENLIIIIGEITENT
New Sales' Ito9ll-15
PAISLEY
New Spring Shawls
In all the nest (loanable styles at the lowest coat and prices. Also
at still lower prices than last season : we have full pieces at $1,12M, $1,25, $1,50, *1,75, *2,i30,
*2,25, $2,60, $2,75 Dor yard.
iu great variety. Plaiils, Stripes, and Wind Colors, in extra qualities
Spring Dress Go ds.
Wo ahall;keep a still larger knock this'year than ever before, as wo now have ample room to show
their New Goode in this department received alinbat daily,
Cloths and Cassinierosi
Wo shall keep in our new Bales Room a very fine stock of Woolens for men and boys' suits, a much
larger stock than we have ever kept,
We have also moved our flOop Skirt stock up' into our new sales room, and shall keep a very fine
stock of new styl'ea at low prices.
. -
Nottingham Lace Curtains in great variety, 2h.' to 4 yards long, at from $2,25 to per
,Josephine Kid Gloves.
An entice new steel: of spring colors. This Glove is warranted to be equal to any Glove in the United
States either as to fit or quality.. Our stock is very large indeed.
New Prints, New ginghams,
our regular make, equal in color and quality to any in market, and still sold by us without auy ad
Vance iu prices, Making them the cheapest goods in market.
• One of the main advantages to us in opening the NEW SALES ROOM. is the iLICITILSNI room it g yes ug_
for our Boot and ShocAtoek. -We are now situated so that we can keep a still LAIZGEIt, STOCK In tl ,s line,
and we shall add new lines of Oighls in most desirable makes as our trade calls for Chinn. We shall sell all
Work VERY 011F,AP and give every oue that calls onus good pay for their tune in hiokiug at our goods. .
Corning, ?it!)) , I; 1&72-tf.
The Eiegniator,
1 r
!FULL OF GOODS
\DRY
GOODS;
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1300tS
•
Notions, Ft. y Goods )
( .
•
All the people in Tioga County who wish to make purchases
l in i$ Hue arc invited to COl.ll, Old
.2-
Tim closest buyers be convinced that this is the place to pity'
oitt. money economically.
X. K. NEWELL
Corning, April; 1872.
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Mr
The eubse ibere lave now
Au untiro now Stock of
$lO, $ll, $l2, 14, $l6, $lB, $2O, $22, $24, $25, $26, $2B
Black , Silks
Japanese Silks
Hoop
Lace Curtains.
Nottingham Lace
by the yard at 373i'e, 44e, Me, 523 c, 75c
1
choice istylee
Black Pure Mohair',
Boots and Shoes
CORNING, N. Y.,
MI
The aseortment i le complete In every department
GROCERIES, COOKERY;
Look. at i my ,Sitcoc
and compare prices
in stock in their
SHAWLS;
-Skirts.
is now
SPRING ME
J. A. PARSONS A:
&c., &C.