®|t Xlimoaat. HARVEY BICKLER, Editor. TVNKHANNOCK, PA Wednesday, Sept 13, 1865. The Knob Mouutaiu Meeting. The Democratic Mass meeting held for three successive days, at Knob Mountain, in the now historical '-Fishing Creek" region of Colombia County, was, from all acc>unts a decided success. As all the speeches and proceedings of the meeting are being general- IT published throughout the state, and will •kortly be giren in book form, great good trill undoubtedly grow out. of this novel and Interesting gathering. As soon as space will •How, we design giving the readers of the Democrat some of the addresses made on the occasion. The following brief summary of the pro ceedings, taken from the Danville Intelligen ter , will be read with interest by all. Tha monster camp meeting of the Democracy of Celambia, in Megargell's Grove, at the foot of Knob Mountain, which commenced on Tuesday August 19th, and continued three days, was a great success la point of numbers, in the number and quality of thospoaksre, and in the intelligence and character •f the assemblage. Every township of Columbia Connty was represented, with large delegations (torn the adjoining to nshipa of Montour and Lu cerne counties. Many families brought their tents and provisions along and "camped out" during the whole time of th 6 meeting. We visited the ground on Wednesday, the second day, and found thousands of the Democracy present. The woods in every di foetion for an immense distance around wag filled With horses and vehicles of every description from Ihobig farm's team drawn by six horses down to the light spring baggy and wagon. The speaker's stand was tastefully n~ranged wiih fee toons and decorated with beautiful boquets, tbd handiwork of the ladies in the vicinity. The first day's proceedings commenced by opening the meeting with prayer, by Rev. L. W. Lescher, of Bloomsburg, after which managers of the meeting were appointed, consisting of some of the oldest and , time honored Democrats ot Columbia County. Charles W. Barkley Esq., then read Jefforson's i lint Inangnral Address, the doctrines which con etitutad the ere-d of the ancient Democracy; and which are still the distinctive tenets of tho Demo cratic party. This was followed by an address by Weeley Wirt on the necessity of party organization. Colonel Freeze read the resolutions adopted by the Democratic State Convention. In the evening Col. V. E. Piolett, of Bradford county, lion. C. R. Buck alew, and R. R. Little , of Wyoming, severally ad 4meed the meeting. On the second day the attendance was much larger than the previous day. Large delegations arrived from Bloomsburg, Danville, and various places, headed by Stoes' Silver Cornet Band, of Danville. Thia celebrated band, throughout the exercises of the Booting, discoursed most enlivening and excellent nuic, and were warmly applauded by the specta tors. The meeting was called to order at 10 o'clock. — Col. John G, Freeze delivered a very interesting •dross on the history of the Columbia county iuva- Koa of 1864. During the delivery of the address tho released prisoners from Fort Mifflin, were call ed pon to occupy the stand. Tliev numbered some thirty -five or forty plain, staid, farmer-looking gen- Camon, every one ot whom had suffered most grevi- Otefy from the tyranny of this A lministration. Col. | Freeze gave a full history ot every thing connected with the invasion. As tha audienco listened with breathless interest to him, thee became indignant ud diagusted at tho adminiatration when they fully learned tha iniquitiea they had perpetrated toward Ifco citizens of the fishing creek region. Tha afternoon services commenced with a song •ung by Iram Derr, written for the occasion,entitled "When this old hat was new." This was followed by an address from Colonel Wellington H. Ent, to the returned soldiers present on the position of the Democratic party in regard to soldiers voting. Col I. paid a high tribute to General McClellan in the ooarae of his address, giving a succinct history of his •orricos. and of the scandalous abuse he bad receiv ed at the hands of the late aiministntion Col Ei.t also narrated the services of Col. W. W. 11. Davis, our candidate for Auditor General, and appealed to the soldiers to support him at the coming election. After another ng from Sheriff Derr, entitled the "Democratic Call," Captain Charles B. Brockway mounted the stand and proce :ded to sjo.ik on the ▼nrirous issues that are now presented to the people of Pennsylvania, Capt B. devoted a portion of his discourse to the subject of negro suffrage, and by tacts, figures and stnt sties, all bearing on the sub ject pretty thoroughly exploded the doctrine that ne gro suffrage would be beneficial to the State or •atim. At the close of Captain Brockway'saddress, the choir of Mr. Fry, of the Lutheran Church of Bloomsburg, consisting of some fifteen or twenty little girls, sung in fine style the popula song of the "Prisoner's Hope." The e ening's entertainments commenced with a song from the Derr family, which was followed by an able address by Mr. M. Trauzh, of Berwick, followed by a most excellent speech from Mr R R Little, of Tutikhaunock. The evening's proceed ings were closed by some remarks by Thomas ChaKant, of Danville. The third day, and the last of the meeting, was attended quite as nu neroiwlyjj* either of the for mer days. After prayer by Rev. Hartman, Hon. C B. Buckalew presented to the meeting some statis tics of the vote of Cambria county, (including Mon tour since the division), showing the consistent aud Steadfast adhcraiue of tbo people to Democratic principle and jolicy, and accompanied these by an Ale and eloquent speech. After another song by the Derr family, Hon. Heistsi flymen, of Berks eownty, addressed the meeting, *bly and elo quently defending the Democracy of Pennsylvania against the charges preferred ngainst them by the late Republic*i Convention at Harrisburg. He was fallowed by E. Ikeler, of Columbia county. Thnreday afternoon—the meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Rutan, who also gave a Brief statement of his own arrest an t imprisonment Vr. Rutan is a resident of Luzerne county, and wag one of the victims of the Stanton War Power, dur ing the Columbia county "invasion." Col. Piolette followed in an able ai d telling speech. At the eonelusion of which Iram Derr and sons again san the song entitled "When this old hat was new " ° C. Chauncy Burr. Esq ;of N , J., was then intro dneed, who, in a most interesting, eloquent and ar gWMntaiive speech addressed the meeting. The meeting then adjourned until evening In the evening Hon. 11. Clynier again addressed tha meeting. After some remarks by other gentle men present, the meeting closed. lOw whole proceedings during the three days and * "MhLle of the continuance of the meeting were j •••ply interesting, and the utmost good feelings pre a This meeting—the Knob Mountain meeting—will by bo remembered oy at! who hat the pleasure of •SUtOSting or participating in its procedings ADDKKSS OF THE DEMOCHATIO STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE To the People of Pen.iixylra.niu .- In accordance wiih its time honored an nual custom, the Democratic party reaffirms its principles and presents its candidates for your suffrages. Of those principles and can didates it is our purpose now to speak. Thanks to Almighty God, the patriotism of the people and the prowess of our citizen soldiery, the terrible war that for four years has devastated our country and repeatedly laid waste our own fair valleys has ended. The Confederate Government, its armies and its animating doctrine, secession lie prostrate at the feet of the people ot the Union. The tramp of armed men and the crash of battle are no longer heard, and the recuperative energies of the people will speedily fill the air with the sounds of the busy arts of peace. The soldier yields place to the citizen, the commander gives way to the dalesman.— The power of force is succeeded by the pow er of reason, justice and law. The soldier's duty of unquestioning obedience to the or ders of a superior is supplanted by the more rational but not less imperative obligations of obedience to Lw. THE SUPREMACY OF THE LAW. Whether we be citizen or soldier, officer or statesman, ruler or ruled, this obligation rests with equal weight upon each and all of us. The docmne of implicit and unqualified obedience to the Constitution and laws of our country is now, and in all time has been, a prominent tenet in the faith of the Democ racy of Pennsylvania, and they have invaria bly been found denouncing by voice and op posing by tact those traitorous principles which seek to weaken the binding force of the Constitution, attempt to nullify the plain est provisions thereof, or actuate those who aim to subvert it by force of arms. The Federal Constitution bad power enough, had its mandates been observed IU the spirit in which they were framed, and the warnings of tt-e Democratic party been heeded to have preserved us from the war through which we have just passed, and to have saved the nation from the stupendous sacrifices of the blood of her slaughtered sons, the waste of her national power and prestige, and the fearful load of debt and taxation that now encumbers her. When the nation was pre* cipitated into war, obedience to the plainest provisions of that 'J.institution would have protected the most precious privileges of a free people, and preserved to the patriotic people t.f the country both the form and sub stance of the national bill of rights ; and now that "arms are silent and the laws resume their swap," a strict observance of its re quirements, a rigid enforcement of its obli gations in all the States, and fealty to their official oaths by those in power, are the in dices which po'ut the way to harmonious unity, permanent peace and a speedy re sumption of our career of prosperity and progress. The arbitrary and uncontrolled will of the temporary incumbent of place ought not to be the rule of our government, and we hold ' that the Constitution estab lished by our (revolution,'in ) fathers is enti tled to our unqualified respect and obeli ence,the oath to support is binding, religious 1)', morally and legally, at all times, under all circumstances, and in every part of the country, upon all public officers, from the highest to the lowest, as well as upon pri -1 vate citizens." The Democracy of Pennsyl van ta are for the supremacy of the law. FREE GOVERNMENT. The great central objects tvund which are grouped the materials, and for which was constructed the simple and harmonious ma chinery ol t our system of government are "the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity." They who formed it, created no government to administer theories or to protect imaginary rights from imaginary en emies, but as brave and practical men, deeply ; imbued with the spirit of liberty, and fresh | from the bloody civil struggle of the Revolu I tion, they knew from bitter experience the j value of those blessings, and in the light of ; that experience they framed a government ot law, and not of arbitrary power, a govern ment to guard their civil It aeries, an I not to overthrow them Tne fundamental prin ciples of free government guarantied to us by the plain words of the Constitution, distinct ly reserved, and to be forever held as inviola ble, ha beas corpus, trial by jury, the sub r dination of 'he military to the civil authority free speech, and a free press, form the very essence of our institutions ; and when they who administer the government fail to pro tect us in the exeicise of these rights ; when they who hove rarfied on a gigantic war in the name of the Constitution, not only fail to maintain its fundamental principles, but at£ habitually guilty of their violation, is it not our duty to turn them from the seats of power they so shamefully misuse, and to re quire at their hands reparation from the ma ny wrongs unnecessarily infl cted ? "Fr un the day that Knnnvmede had its name linked , with human freedom to this hour every man j of Anglo-Saxon blood has lifted his head m >re proudly when he heard the great text of manhood repeated. No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed of his free tenements or liberties, or outlawed or baniehed, or in anywise hurt or injured un less by the legal judgment of his peers or by toe luws of the land. Dearer than dynasties dearer than forms of government, dearer than the inborn sentiments of loyalty to the Eng lish heart, has always been the right of trial by jury. For two hundred years it has been more than his crown was worth for an Eng lish King to deny this right to an E glish subject." Yet these principles, inwrought with the vitals of our system, baptized by the b'ood of patriots during six hundred and fifty years, and wrenched from the hand of tyranny for our benefit, we have basely yield ed to the unquestioned cootr.J of those in power. And during the past four years again and again, have freeman, American freeman, freemau of Pennsylvania, been "ta ken and imprisoned, dispossessed of their free tenements and liberties," and "outlawed and banished," and "hurt and injured," without "the legal judgment of their peers," and contrary to "the law of the land." And this too within our own Commonwealth, at a time when no hostile druin-head was heard and no armed soldier lifted his head against the government within all our borders. At this hour, when military necessity can no longer be made the pretext for their con* tinuence, when the authority of the Federal Government is admitted and recognized in all the land, these abuses still exist. The courts created by law are in obeyance, and tribunals unknown to the Constitution and laws usurp their power over life, liberty and property. The great writ of freedom that assures every individual the protection of civil authority is fettered by the hand ol ar bitrary power, and the citizen is denied the right of trial by a jury of his peers. The Democratic party of Pennsylvania believe that THE HOI*K HAS COME in which murders by military commissions should cease; the' right of trial by twelve calm, impartial sworn citizens, should be restored, and the privil ege of the writ of habeas corpus be free as the air. THE RIGHTS OF THE STATES. Asidejfrom these great cardinal d>ctrines, the supremacy of the law and the inviolabili ty of the fundamental principles of free gov eminent, there is no subject more closely allied with the preservation of our form of government and the protection of our liber, ties, than that of the telaiions of the Stales to the Federal Government. Both were cre ated for the benefit of the people, and within the sphere of power granted or reserved to each, each is supreme. The obligation of the citizen to the Feder al Government within the scope of the pow ers granted to it is binding and imperative and no one can absolve him from the duty thereto. So, also, the power of the States over those matters not expressly granted to the Federal Government or reserved to the people, is equally clear, and the duly of the citizen thereto is equally imperative and binding, 'Upon the one hand, in their at tempt to interfere with the powers granted to the Federal Government by the people, all ordinances of secession were utterly void, and the insurrection being suppressed, the States resume their place in the Union and the penalties incurred fall upon the individu als engaged in the rebellion. So too upon the other ban 1 it ie the right of each State to determine for itself the qualifications of its electors without interference by other States or by the Federal Government. Such is the doctrine of the Democracy, and such appears to be the policy of the Presi dent, and yet, sectional prejudice, the love of gain, increasing wrath and deeply masked political purposes, seriously obstruct the pro cess of reconstruction and reconciliation ; and they who should be foremost in attempting to restore the harmonious unity of the nation are loudest in denunciation and most zealous in pursuit of a conquered foe. As between the Federal Government and the Slates in which tiie people have been in rebellion against its authority, ttie only issue during the war was how should be the restoration of that au'hority. Tha tred of no hostile soldiery presses the soil of one of them now, In no one of thetn is there aught of objection now to the assessment and collection of Fed eral taxes, to the creation of Federal custom houses, courts and postoffices, or to the peaceful transit of munitious of war and troops. The wonderful exhibition of a dev astated country, of defeated armies, of a hu miliated people and of emancipated slave 8 ought to be sufficient to 'arouse the sympa thies and engage tht purest devotion of the Christian and the Statesman; but uncon cerned at the condition of the white people of the S'ates, desirous only to perpetuate their political power regardless of the vital intei?6t* of six millions of their own race and of the importance of their rehabilitation in the Umon, the leaders of the Republ can party, as a coudition precedent to their res loraiion and to the release of the reign of military authority, over a conquered and submissive people, demand that the negro shall be p'aced upon a political equality with the white man, and they insist up a the use of the arm of the Federal G vernment to effect it. and are moving for an amendment of the F.-doral Constitution to perpetuate if. Such a praciieal interference would be a palpable infraction of the Constitution, a gross and unauthorized increase of central power, and a wanton overthrow of the rights of the S'a'es. This doctrine gives to the cit Zen of Massachusetts the right to aid in prescribing the qualifications and color of the voter in No-ih Carolina, and in practice will give to the black inan the control ol the great States of Louisiana, Mississippi and Sou'h Caiolina, and will -end six black in*u to tho Senate of the United States. This in all its breadth and with a full un derstanding of its resulis, is the doctrine of the Republican party of Pennsylvania, for the 4th res-lution adoptei by the Republican S'ate Convention, held at Hariisburg, on the 17'h of August, 18G5, distinctly BO asserts. It is as follows : Resolved, That, having conquered the rebelioua States, they should be held in subjugation, aqd the treatment they are to receive, and the laws which are to govern them, should be referred to the law making power of the nation, to which they legiti mately belong. With this doctrine we take this issue, ihe States of the South are in the Union, and the people thereof, except those on whom the penalties for rebellion fall are entitled to all their political priveleges, tnd we affirm that these States are entitled to all the reserved rights of the States under the Federal Con stitution, and within the sphere of these re served rights, they, and they alone hare the power to make aud unmake.the laws that are to govern them. NEGRO EQUALITY AM) NEG O SL'FF-KAGC Negro equality and negro suffrage are no longer a mythical issue, but are part of the vital, practical realities of the present hour. They are demanded of the black man ; they are advocated by white men in power in the National Government, AND WE CHARGE THAT they are endorsed and sanctioned by a large majority of the Republican part}- of the North, including those who govern and control that party in Pennsylvania. Let us examine some of the evidences upon which we found this charge. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Ver mont, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, by constitutional provision,give to the black man the unrestricted isght of suffrage. These States are all under Republican control, and their politicians lead the van in the crusade they hope is to result in tne degradation of the white race to the level of the black. The Sena'e of the United States, on the 31st of March. 18G4 (see Congressional Globe, p. 1361), had before it a bill for the construction of the territory of Montana. Mr. Wilkinson moved to strike from the sec ond line of the filth section ( which defined the qualification of voter*) the words, "whitf male inhabitant." and insert the words, "male citizen of the United S'alos," &c. , which was agreed to as follows: YEAS : M issrs Brown. Chan Iter. Clark, Colla mer, Conneas, D xon Fes-sen len, Fo it, F. tar, Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Harris, Howarn, ll'> ve, Mor gan, MorriU, Potnoroy. £muie.i, Wale, Wilkinson, Wilson. 22 NAVS : MESSRS. Buekalew, Cariile, Cowan Pa vis, Hardine, Henderson, Johnson, Lane, Nesmitb, Powell, RLliile, Snulsburv, Shi riuan, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Willey, 17. Those who thus voted to place the black man on equality with the white in one of the richest terrt'ories of the U non, will r-;aMy be recogn zed as the leaders of the Republi can party in the Senate. 3 Ins subject came np in the house of Rep resentatives on the 15'h April, ISG4, (Con giessional Gi be, page 1C52), the motion pen ding being the appointment of a Committee of Conference on the disagreement between the Senate nd House on striking out the word "white." Mr, Webster moved "that said committee be instructed to agree to no report that authorizes any other than free white male citizi D 8 to vote." On the question of the adoption of these instructions, the fellow ing named Republican Congressmen from Pennsylvania voted NAY: Messrs. Broomall, ! Kelley. Njers, O'Neill, Stevens' Thayer, and Williams. No Pennsylvania Republican vo ted YEA. The Republican State Convention of Maine, lately in sessior, tn the Bih resolution de clares in favor of negro suffrage, as follows : "That the emancipation proclamation ofPres ident Lincoln, the enlistment of over 100,000 colored troops, the good faith of the colored race amid treason, aud their being paid like whites and placed in the most dangerous pla ces, has pledged the nat'onal honor that these people shall have in fact, as well as name, conferred <n thrm all the political rights of freedmen. and that the people of the United States will redeem this pledge." The Republican Conventions of the S.ates of lowa and Vermont have emphatically en- | dorsed the doctrines of negro equality and ne 1 gro suffrage, and placed their candidates squarely upon that platform. 11. Winter Davis of Maryland, at Chicago. said : We need the cotes of the colored people : it is numbers, not intelligence, that counts at the ballot box —it is the right intention, and not philosophic judgment, that casts the rote. Rev. Henry Ward 8.-echer. in the Inde pendent of recent date, says : We are pleading earnestly with the State to abolish the distinction ot caste by universal suffrage We see that this will inevitably lead not to the end the present Governor of Louisiana declares—the surrender of that country to the Meek man,— but to the equality of black with the white ; the occupancy of office without regard to color ; the eleralion of the negro to the governorship, the senutorship. the judgship by the side of his whiter kindred ; the obliteration of all marks of distinction and separa tion between men and men. These are representative men nf the Re publican party, and thy have wielded a pow erful influence in its ranks. In our own State a number of Republ icau county conventioi# have fully endorsed this doctrine. Crawford county, at her convention held at Meadville, June 27, 18G5, resolved that Loyalty to the government should be the only test of the right of st'ffrage—those who have fousriit to preserve the Union on the field of battle, wh thcr white or black, are certainly worthy and fit to pro tect it through the ballot-box —it s unworthy the age in which we live to deprive men of voting who sustain the government by their treasure and blood. Tiie Republican County Conventions of Northampton, Urion and Alleghany have alo btoadly endorsed these doctrines. I The question of the right of the negro to I social equality was before the Legislature of Pennsylvania at its last session. On the B'h day of Feb , 1865, the bill to prevent any pas senger railway company from excluding col ored people from the cars came up in the Senate, and finally passed that bor?y. Seven teen Republicans (all who voted) voted for •he bill, and fourteen Democrats against it. It was sent to the Ilou*e for concurrence ; and on 231 March, 18G5, it came up in trie House on a motion to discharge the commit tee. Forty six Republicans voted vea, and twenty-eight Democrats voted nay. (See Leg Rec., pages 210 and 712 ) Nearly all the prominent Republican news papers of the State have also av >Wed them selves fiVorable to negro suffrage and negro equality, and yet, strange to say, the Repub lican State Convention failed to meet the is sue,and seek to conceal their true sentiments beneath the ambiguous wording of a resolu tion. Their third resolution declares that the Southern people "cannot safely be entrusted with the political rights which they forfeited by their treason, until they have proven their acceptance of the results of the war by incor porating them in constitutional provisions, and securing to all men within their borders their inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Who so blind as not to see that this may I or may not be a declaration in favor of negro suffrage I Can any man doubt what this means when he remembers what Thaddcus j Stevens, the radcal lead sr of tho last Nation- j al House of Representatives was a prominent; member of that Convention ? Can any man doubt what Henry C. Johnsoo, the President I 1 of t lai convention,meant and expressed w hen he declared the passage of 'hi> two-laced res olution, if he remembers that M. Johnson re ceived his credentials f oin that very conven tion in Crawford county which declared that •'loyalty should be the only test of the right of suffrage 1" Pennsylvanians, the serious importance of the issue involved, and a just regard for your intelligence, demanded a manly declaration of opinion upon this subject ? but the leaders of the Republican party know your destination of their degrading doctrines, and they seek to obtain by double dealing your support to sen timents they dare not avow. The problem of the capacity of man, the white man, for self-government is being solv ed in the history of the American Republic, and in the face of the recent exhibition of the physical and mental qualities of the Caucas ian race, in view of the mighty power of the nation as displayed in the heroism,endurance and indomitable energy of the while soldier of our armies, and in the stupendous sacrifice of the blood and treasure of the people, the Democracy of Pennsylvania unhesiiatingly announce their belief in its successful result. 'We will not acknowledge the incapacity of our own raee to govern itself, nor surrender ! the destiny of the country into the hands of negroes, nor|| u'. ourselves under their guar dianship, nor give tip to them the political privileges which we inherited from oar fith ers." Whether the blood of the Anglo Sax on, the Celt or the Teuton flows in out veins there are but few among us who do not feel it ting'e with a thrill ol Just shatne when is p onoHuced to be only the equal of the negro of Dahomey or of Congo. Call this prijudice or what you may, it exists, and the slates • an who desires the peace, the happiness and the prosperity of both races can ignore it Give the black man equal political rights in our country and you give him equal social rights, Give him equal political rights and you multiply the poiuts of contrast be iween the races, and the weaker and the in ferior must yield place to the stronger and superior. The law must recognize his equal ity or his inferiority ; there is no middle ground. We believe in thesupcriority of our race, and wo are unwilling to degrade our selves either socially or politically. RETRENCHM F. NT.* The Democratic par:y have ever been zeal ous lor the preservation of the national credit and ihi hour demand rigid economy in the expenditure of the public money and a prompt revision of our cumbrous and inquisitorial system of taxation ; a just regard for an a!-- ready burthened people demands that a horde of Federal office-holders, assessors and tax collectors be dispensed with, and the ma chinery of the State Governments used in their room. The retention by the Federal Government of large numbers of officeis of the army, whilst the private soldier is dis charged and sent to his h >me, aiso imposes additional and unnecessary burdens upon the people. Can the people expect these reforms to come whilst the men who created the abuses remain In power ? The Democracy of Pennsylvania have no reply to make to denunciation or invective. They refer with pride to the-r record during the past four years. I,ike the historic people* of the Scripture-, whilst engaged in the re pair of the walls that protected their II ly City, they have wiih one hand engaged in earnest tod in protecting and preserving the 0. nstiiutu n and laws of their country,whilst the other grasped the swnrd that aided in destroying those win violently assailed them Amid tlie blandishments of power, the perse cution ol official tyranny ami the corrupt and reckless use of the public money, they have been ever bold in the expression of their opin tons, and have unswervingly maintained their principles and their Integrny. During that time they have once elected their ticket, twice carried the State on the home vote,and at the last election polled over 276,000 votes lor the candidate of tbeir choice. Such a body of men, uied, determined and organized, a unit in support ol their glorious principles, must ever he a power in the State and will be feared by its enemies, and respec ted by all. OCR STANDARD BEARERS. For Auditor General, Colonel W. W. H. Davis, of Rocks county heads the ticket. Colonel Davis is a sound, practical man. well qual tied lor the position, and of that stern integrity of character so much needed in this day of official prostitution and degen eracy. As a soldier, h s record stands equal to that >f the best and purest. When the war broke *u', he raided a company and ser ved for a teriu of three months. At the ex pirvioo of that term of service he raised a ; regiment—the 104 th Pennsylvania and as ; colonel of ihat regiment went fh? the I war. lie was in many of tho most severe , battles; was wounded severely at the des pera'e alFiir at Seven Oaks, before Richmond and insi a hand in the neighborhood of Charles ton, South Carolina. Manned as he was, -Colonel Davis remained in the field until the three years for which his regiment was rais ed had expired, when, as the war was then virtually at an end, no returned to private lite. Such is the record of the honest m*n and brave soldier who heads the S'ate- ticket of j the Democratic party of Pennsylvania. The nominee f**r Surveyor General is Lieut. ; Col John P. Linton, of Cambria county. ; Like (Jol. I) avis, ihis gentleman is an honest, ! Intelligent, upright citizen, and a brave sol 1 dior. lie was chosen Major of the 54.h reg j iment, P V , in 1861, and Lieu'. Col. of the I same regiment, in February, 1863. He was Constantly tn the Held, and bears upon his > person numerous sears as testimonials of his ! gallantry. Col, Linton had the honor of euiifpj the 54th in the battles ol Newmarket and Piedmont. And most bravely and gal tanily he I. d his regiment on those disastrou J fie ds. In both these battles he was severely wounded, but although for a time compelled , to go home for treatment, he scarcely remain ed long enough from his.post to fullv recover . —so wedded was he to Ins regiment, his duty j and thu serious work required of him. This gentleman is well worthy of the nomination lie has rece.ved, and of tae suffrages of citi zens of his native State. As our standard has inscribed upon it the true principles of the Democratic part}*, and i's chosen bearers are brave, honest men, the Democracy of the State must and will rally to its stjpport with a zeal ard determination that will prove irresitib'e. Men of Pennsyl vania ! the issues are before you, fraught with thegrea'tst consequences to yourselves, your rase. Weigh well your action, and de cide as white freemen should. By order ol the Democratic S'ate Central Committee. WILLIAM A. Wallace. September 8, 1862. Chanmau. The address of the Democratic State Central Committee, which will be found i Q our paper to day, we hope will be carefully read by every man into whose hands it falls, i It contains a true exposition of the principles involved in the approaching election While it deprives the inside of our par er of its u*ual variety, we feel certain that no subscriber will complain on that account. We say, again, Read it. ■ <• ... XT3T The Tracy, or "people'® party" of Bradford Couuty, called a mass convention on Monday last for the purpose of placing a candidate in the field against the political Parson Land on of "tonnage tax" notoriety, who will, undoubtedly, be the chosen stand ard bearer of the radical negro suffrage wing of the republican party. The tonnage tax swindle and negro equality, together, make rather too strong a dose, for tbeir stomachs. They won't swallow it, even though by refusing, they may call down upon their heads the anathemas uf this pretended disciple of the "Most High." republican papers of this county, Bradford and Susquehanna, have all come out 'fiat footed "in favor of negro voting in this state. Will the honest white men of the county so degrade themselves as to vote for the advocate of such a doctrine ? "STRANGER THAN FICTION." —Nature has cut queer pranks in her lime, in getting op the various specimens of humanity which hav# peopled this green earth of ours. Siamese twins, triplet is quartetts, thrpe loggers, double headers, babies with six fingers Ac. are common ; but the "Divinity that shapes our eends," has reserved one of her queerest tricks for these times of universal nigger equality and abolition freedom. We will not vouch for the correctness of the following,but c .ming as it. does from "down east,"—where they are looking after such matters—we havo no reason to doubt the correctness of the statement in the Inquirer , nor the expfana lion by the Register ; But would add our opinion, flat the sahle damsel, was not only chased hut was probably captured, by the per*evoring tax collector: ■ A negro baby was born in Petersburg. Va the other day, with the exact impression of a two cent U. S revenue stump on his fo refiead. Litchfield Inquirer. The Mother must have been chased by a Government tux collector—Arte Ilacen Reg ister, Local and Personal. Blank Deeds for sale iu any quantities, attho office of the Demo rat. • Marriage Certificates for Justices of the Peace, for sale at the Democrat office. Constables and Justices' Fee Bills, under both the old and new laws, for tale at this office. New Goods at prices to sttiy the times, can now be had at Beemer's store in Falls. Having re cently made large additions to bisstock. which b* wished to dispose of before uiscontinuing tha trad# he will make it an object for all to buy of him.— Give him a call. TOWN TAI.K, "If there's a hole in a' I rede ye tent it : A chiels amang you taking'iiotes, And, faith, he'll prent it." llf Town Talk has to complain already, in the second week of hi? trials and tribulations In the ca pacity of gereral fau't-finder, of the scarcity of in teresting incidents. And, to adrf.to the gloom and quietness, a dark mantle of clouds has been .spread over the town a greater portion of the weak, letting, at times, the rain-drops descend in copious showers, as if it were necessary, before we could once agaia behold the blessed sunlight, to oe cleansed and pu rified by those "Angels' tears, distilled in heaven". Whether Providence has deemed it neeessary that we should undergo this cleansing process, from the universal ''eussedness" of the place, or on account of the Republican Cou ty Convention sitting here, we are unable to say ; but, if the latter, we would respectfully submit that the dose was too small by far And, by the way, we would suggest to the proprietors of the hotels and beer saloons, that the next time our negro worshipping brethren have any sort of a gathering here, that tbey should largely increase their stock of lager. On Convention day it only lasted long em>ugh to considershfv elevate some of the candidates and a few of their ehosea friends ; whereas, if the supply had not run out, to judce from the general willingness displayed, the whole Convention would have been'drunk. We heard a lady remark the other day, that she "wished that tellar Town Talk, would publish the names of tboso io ifers who got so drank here every night, and made such horrible noises in the streets." Town Talk, while he uientallv diSseutrd from her opinion that we were a "fellr,"'saltf nothing, bat went to thinking upon the subject, and at length came to the conclusion that it would *t be benefi cial, either to the public, or the young men in ques tion, to do so. That in a little time tbeir natural goo I sense would compel them-to see that the over dose of "itk" they were in the practice of taking nearly every night, would before long be ruinous both to credit and character. That this "no* only hollooing, but howling" around the streets nights, would not improve their standing in sociefy j, and, that while cavaby raids have been extremely useful during the last four years of war, now that "mild mannered peace" has once tignin exerted bar sway, they nre not exactly the movement to tuaka sp>n the pon hof a hotel Town Talk says this with the best of feeliDgs towards the parties. Neither would we have any one believe that we da not. appreciate a social glass in company with set of jolly good fel | lows. But, while we would endorse the p>Stle's i saying, if he would substitute lager for wine, and we have no doubt he wuutl if h" lived in this en lightened age, still we hardly think he meant to have us get our skins lull every uight. j Passing along Warren street the other day, we were surprised to see the streets IIT one place looking as if somebody had been cleaning it. The stones una brush were laid in piles, preparatory to being hauled away, as we suppos d, and we began to think that the borough authorities had really awakened from their Rip Vgn Winkle sleep, and were about to put the streets in something like de cent order. We were sadly mistaken however. A little farther along, crouched in the corner of a fence, and busy turning over the leaves of an old book, was the crazy woman we spoke of last week. Her face was begrimuied with sweat and the dirtoftho street, and her large eyes were raised with a wild, mouruful look, as we passed. It was her teeble hand that had effected tho slight improvement w# had noticed. Afterwards we saw her. walking up the street leading a young man by the hand. As she passed a group of gentlemen she exclaimed, ''You had better be doing as I am, loading some of these drunkards home, than standing here Veri ly, a whole sermon in one sentence. A goodly number of yaarg ago, Town Talk came across the following p'easant little conctit, and it tickled his faacy ao. much that h,o pustjd it up in bis memory : "The sky is a drinking cup, That was overturned of old ; And it pours into the eye? of men Its wiue of laughiDg gold. We drink that wine all day, 'Till the last drop is drank up. And are lighted off to bed By the jewels iu the cup."
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