tissippi, and report my whereabouts to the ,
Adjutant General. Ah there was nothing
for me to do in the ahape ol military duty.—
I apent a few weeks in hunting, fishing, and
killing time generally at Uncle Sam's expense
At this time, in view of the approaching Pres
idential election, the Republicans mad e a
grand paiade, marching some colored soldiers
in front of a Pennsylvania regiment, in spite
Of their protests. At the same time, General
Hooker, commanding the department, Gen.
Logan and other military gentlemen were
making speeches through the State in behalf
Republican party. Following the ex- I
ample thus set me, I acted as Marshal in a
Democratic process iomand also made a speech
Twenty four bours after I recoived another
* dispatch stating that I was "honorably mus
tered out by reason of expiration of term of
service," though that had occurred seven
months before, at the time of the discharge of
Pennsylvania Reserves.
But, fellow-citizeus, I must enter a spec
Jnl protest against the doctrines of negro
•qoality. Oo this question the soldier feels
the moat sensitize, and is the most earnest ib
repudiating it. Although Wendell Phillips
god his Republican coadjutors maintain that
In all tho desperate deeds of the war "the ne
fro bears the palm," we resent the insult,
'-•and boldly decla re that a more cowardly
rew were never drawn up in line of battle
-It Is oar boast that not a regiment of them
belonged to the old Army ot the Poto
mac. At the opening of the campaign of 18-
64, Bornside brought one division o f them. !
. into the army under Gen. Ferrero, a French
dancing master, who, during the Petersburg
mine explosion, was safely hid in a bomb
proof. During that terrible contest in the
* Wilderness, when Hancock's gallant corps
bad advanced beyond its support, and was.
being outflanked on the left, this division, in
stead of advancing to the rescue, was with
drawn towards the Rapidan. Gen. Grant,
when informed of it by an aid, said,"tell Gen
Burnside if he cannot fight his corps, to turn
it over to Gen. Hmcock, who can." Again
during thv terrible fight at Spottsylvania.
when our gallaut men were falling by thous
ands, 16,000 having fallen on the 12th of
May, these government pets were kept well
to the rea r, ready to run at the first signal-
Aod so ii was at was at the North Anna, Tol
opatamy Cold Harbor. Baldy Smith's corps
—the Eighteenth— by taking transports
reached Petersburg the day bebre us. It
was garrisoned by about 500 citizens and in
valids, who held a line of w. rks about six
miles long. On arriving the batteries were,
pi Med in position, and the corps, consisting
•f two white and one colored division, about
eighteen thousand men, charged. Ot cours e
the main line was taken with scarcely any
loss, and this assault against almost empty
Works war heralded to the world as a victory
gained by the negroes. They were careful
not to advance into the city, though had they
dene so it would have saved the long and
Wessy siege which followed. You rt member
(be Petersburg mine explosion, where Burn
aide determired to show the world how much
braver the blacks were than the whites
You all know the result—how they broke
under the first fire and threw the white,
troops behiud into coufusion. An 3, soldie s,
do you not remember how you were sacrafic
ad this spring while the negroes were kept in
reserve until the enemy were defeated, and
then to them was given the honor of first en
tering and capturing Richmond.
* Was iffigro equality part of the contact?
Give your answer at the polls, But if they
are to be our equals, if they are to be allow
ad tba right of suffrage because they eulist
ed in the war, tno same privilege should at
be granted white mnn. For instance,
take the Irish brigade, or the Corcoran legion
both attached to the Army of the Potomac
and among the pravest of our troops j should
•ot they also have the ligh) of 6uffrag e? Yet
where is the Abolitionist who advocates their
claim or speaks of these brave Irishmen in
terms of respect? If fighting is to bo the
Standard, surely those hr<.ve minors who en
tared the service should be given the elective
franchise, and are asjikely to know the prin
aiples of ibis government gs these brutalized
negroes.
But who are the advocates cf this new cru
eade against the established principles of our
government ? Besides New England Aboli
tionists and disunionists, we have briiish em
tmaries, delegates from Exeter Ilali, brought
here to teach Americans the true principles
•f liberty —men who
"With golden bribe and treacherous smile,
Sew the vile seeds of rank pollution ;
Aad with their reptile slime defils
The temple oi oar Constitution-''
They demand, as the price of their labor,
that we give the right of suffrage to our ig
■orant negroes, while, according to John
■ Bright'a statement, out of 7,000,000 full
grown Englishmen, a thorough canvass wo'd
show only 1,000,000 of voters—a disfran
ehieement of 0,000,000. We want no teach-
In* or teachers from abroad. Now that we
bare conquered our enemy they make prof
fere of friendship, yet while the contest was
doubtful they supplied him with arms, money
and ships. These aristocrats who prate on
equality refuse to associate with their own
white operatives, and would make the negro
the equal of the poor white man, while them
•elaee despising the latter. Look at the Ab
alition States, where the negro has the right
•f suffrage, of holding office, and the lixe.—
In order to force an unnatural equality they
fcOpepassed laws imposing heavy penalties
an raHroada, thearrss, hotels, and the like,
which make any diseri nation as to color
Bnt observe the unfairness of these miser •-
Mia in endeavoring to fasten their d<ct rites
a pan the people of other States. They well
know that the mass of tbe negro race would
' aneid their bleak shores. In Vermont, in
I*6o, there were only eighty colored voters,
and in Mew Hampshire 160. But bow is it
liFinneylvania 1 The entire colored popu
lation North in 1860, was 223.000, of which
Pennsylvania bad 57.000, over one fourth of
fba entile number. Of course, since the wpr
tbi* number has greatly increased, because, i
according to Kennedy, Superintendent of (
the Census Buiean, the increase is greater in '
Pennsylvania than any other free state j
Now let us compare our white and black
population in localities where they enjoy
equal advantages. Tbe census shvws that
where out of 10,000 whites there would be
one convict, out of the same number of I
blacks there Would be uinetcen. In Penn- '
sylvania the blacks are but one-fil'tie'h of j
our population, yet one-ih:rd of ur convicts
are blacks. In this Slate we have an aver
age of 1 white convict in every 4,243 whites
and 1 black convict in 200 blacks. In Mass
achusetta,-that land of piety- and godhmway
they have oDly 1 black in 128 persons, yet
have 1 black convict in 9. Notwithstanding
thtß terrible record, we have a party in oar
midst who would Africanize the whole South
who would place the ballot in the hands of
men far more ignorant and debased than the
Northern negro. They would place their
own race under the domination of an inferi
or one and against their consent. Let us
glance again at the statistics. In 1860, the
negroes had a raaj.mity in 258 counties—
nearly one third—of the South, which num
ber is now increased by the loss of the South
erners in battle and by exclusion iu muni
cipal affairs for having engaged in the rebell
ion. They have a small majority in Louisi
ana ; of 33 000 in Mississippi, and of 121,000
in South Carolina. This would give thein
6 United States Senators, about 15 Con
gressmen, and place the whita race in many j
other localities completely under their con
trol. Besides their political elevation, they
would wreak vengeance upon their former
masters, incited to it by fanatics ol the
North ; and the terrible 6cenes of San Do
mingo would be re-enacted in our own
midst. Look at the example in Mexico, in
South America, where the doctrine of negro
equality is in full bluet—where they have
negro soldiers to dominate over the white#
and support tyranical rulers in their offices.
Why, one of the leading Generals of Ecua
dor is a negro, yet married an accomplished
white lady of Panama. What do figures
show us there ? In ihe Stale of Panama
seven tenths of the children arc illegitimate,
and in one department, out of 1,100 people, j
there were to be found only 7 married
couples.
To illustrate the suhjeet further, let me
r<ad you a letter written by Senator Bucka
lew, In 1858' from Quito, South America,
which I took the liberty of copying, while
acting as his private secretary. At the time
he was Minister resident in that countly,
had ample opportunities for observation, and
wr< te at a time when his inind could have
had no bia, as he occupied an independent
I osition from which he viewed this ques
tion :
CITY OF QUITO Dec. 26, ISSB.
DEAR SIR:— * * • There is a very proper
restriction upon the diplomatic representatives of i
the United States that they shall not publish let- j
ters relating to the political affairs of the countries
in which they reside. But I may say to you that a |
sojourn in this quarter ot the earth is instructive to j
one who comes to study the organization and action !
ol government. And here, also, may be studied the i
relation between different ruces in the same com
munity. The Indians of the great An lean chain
from Mexico southward, and whose centres of pow
er were the cities of Mexico, Quito and Cuzco, were
very different from the savages of the North
Their religion was better Jefin -d though idolatrous;
they bad treat cities, extensive roads, cultivated
fields, and drew their support from the earth rather
than from fishing and the chase One would sup
pose ttct there wp# a basis for high civilization, j
and that countries populated by such inhabitants
would become first in rank in the new world upon '
the introduction of new elements from Europe.—
And this conclusion would be strengthened by con
sidering that no exhaustive wars were necessary to
the submission pf the natives, and that the Chris
tianiiy of the conquerers was readily and gener
ously accepted by them. Besides, the Andean In
dian had and has a good physical dcvelopemcnt, a
docile temper, is not destitute of ingenuity, and can
be traine ito habits of indn try. But the result
has belied su.-h reasonab e expectat.on. Power has
seated itself on the stormy coast ot the Northern
Atlantic, in the valley of the Mississippi, and along
the streams which flow from the Stony mountains
to the Pacific, while Mexico approaches social disso
lution, and south of it all governments are unsteady,
labor sluggish, population stationary, property in
secure, speculation rampant and poverty general.—
There is no established literature ; and there ire
no roads ! Even tbe Ince highway, extending from
Quite hundreds of leagues southward into upper
Peju, in fact as well as name tho Camino Real—
the royal road has become dilapidated, and is sup
pi .nted by mud paths. And te what cause or caus
es shall this result be attriblted? It cannot be
the Catholic form of religion which prevails, for
France is Catnoiic, and yet among the first of na
tions. Nor can it be the misgovemment of Spain
The errors of Spanish colonial policy wete much
mitigated before independence and thirty or forty
years have elapsed since. Nor can it be republi an
institutions, for we have them also. Nor can it be
an inferiority of the Spanish race to others. Spain
has pioduced hero-s and poets. She was once
domif ait m Europe, and more recently she broke
the power of Napoleon even when her own sover
eign was treacherous to her cause and her honor.
No one of these alleged causes then preduccd the
result before us. and we must look further for an
adequate cxblanation. Some of them may have
contributed to the result, but they did not cause it.
In my opinion, the main cause has been, the mixing
of distinct races. The Spaniard his Dot had selt
respect enough to keep himself uneontaminated
from the rative aud the negro, and be has, there
fore, inflicted upon his conquests or colonies in the
New World, nil the curses of hybridism. But he
his neen still more in faint. In all the new repub
lics of the South his theory has been as false as his
practice has been vicious. He has proclaimed po
litical and social equality among all stocks nod mix
tures of human beings, in contempt of notoriouc
facts and of past experience. This theory, :nd
practices conformed to it, have produced monstrous
evils._ which centuries cannot undo In point of
j fact, in Spanish America, there is neither purity of
i blood nor organization of labor, wi-hout. wttb-h no
, people can be energetic, virtuous and prosperous.
It is for us to take the inst uction of this example
i and prtofi by it ; to regret the appeals of false phil
, anthropy, and to maintain those principles of po
j litioal and social conduct which wa have followed
heretofore, with signal advantage and success.
I am, Ac. Ac.
C. R. BUCKALEW.
Hon. John Cresswell, Jr*
Now, fellow-citizens, let us try no rah
experiments with the people of tho South.
But let us not exasperate but .conciliate.—
let us not adopt such a course as will justify
rebellion in their eyes, or that of their de
scendants. Furthermore, let us insist that
no preference hereafter be shown to the ne
gro, If he is as good as the white man let
him take the same chances. How is it now ?
i A Freedmao's Bureau is erected especially
for the care of negroes, and homes, farms,
schoole and the like furnished thetn at our
expense. Nay, New England in her love for
( them sends school teachers, money Ac., while
; she sells the poor crippled soldier who hap
pens to becoiqe a township charge to the
•' lowest b'dder. Vfhy do thsse men adopt
tliee negroes as f he'r brethren 1 They want
their votes Horace Greeley Hay# emanci
pation will add 800,000 vole# lo ibe Repub
lican party, and H. Winter Davis, of Mary
land, another liigH authority, says: "Itia
voles, r umbers, not intelligence, we want."
There can be no doubt tmkt this
jdedged to negro equality, Tbcy have
adopted it wherever they have had power.
Their conventions endorse it. Leiding men
in their party- and their principal papers
openly proclaim it, and unless we at once
crush that party they will fasten it not only
upon the.South but upon us. Chief Justice
Chase quotes Tacitus, and preaches equality
nil <i"aa— 'i Ml ■ ■> rfi 1111 mi . E - - -
vO TuvOv iTCvvlTllviij W IT T VUvfKlvj IjUuiDCT
aud the lesser lights make it an eternal text.
In view, then, fellow-citizens, of ihe per
nicious tendencies of the doctrines of thejonly
position, so subversive of government and of
objects for which this war was begun, What
is our duty ? In the first place we must be
true to the grand principle of liberty, must
never forget what we are, what we have been,
and what is before us. By our example in
1776 we revived liberty throughout theearth.
It ascended the Andes, awakened France, and
taught Italy and Greece the lessons of better
days. It inspired Koscivsko, La Fayette,
Emmet, Kossuth, and Bolivar. May their
example not be lost upon us. But what, you
ask, if our liberties be threatened ? I point
to h v Btorv. When King John attempted to
destroy British liberty, the grim barons on
j June 15, 1215, assembled at Runnymede and
and extorted Magna Charta, and compelled
* their King to give them the Tower and Citv
of London as securty ; and as often as their
liberties were invaded would they re-enact
their great charter—had it read twice a year
to ihe peop'e and fulminated excommunica
tion against all such as disobeyed it. Sec. I
■ said ,"Nulli vendeinu-, nulli negobinus aut
emns, rectum vel juslitian." "We will
; sell to no man, we will not deny or reply to
any man, right of justice." Again, when the
Stuarts so pressed prerogative as to claim the
! right of trying citizens by Courts of High
: Commission and the Star Chamber, our stur
| dy ancestors in iheir vengeance brought the
: head of Charles Ist to ihe block ; and when
they secured the habeas corpus under his
successor, they made it a crime unpardonable
by the king, to disobey it. Later still, our
own fathers fur abuse# set out in that indict
ment—he Declaration of Independence —
cast <>ff t heir allegiance, and appealed to the
God of battles. So long as we have the bal
lot, w>- ask for no other mode to redress our
grievances, but if that be taken from us we
will profit bv the lessons of history.
Fellow citizens, in conclusion, let me ap
peal tuyou to support the Deinoo-atic party—
i the only national one now in existence. 11
had its origin with the government, and will
only die* when that government is no more.
Our country is sliil on the verge of ruin
through fanatical doctrines, and let it be our
, mission to preserve and transmit to our po
' teri'v the lab >rs of our ancestors, We are
j but in our yuth. The Roman Empire lived
500 before its decline. Babylon existed 1.600
years. Athens enj yed its liberties twelve
tunes as lung as we have, and E tg'and has
existed over six centuries since Magna Lhar
ta. Soldier#, let us renew the oaths taken
three years ago, and swear to support only
the Constitution and the lats, oppose any
thing to the contrary. We fought for the
Union because we believed that "What God
had j lined together no man should put asun
der," aud we h .ve now entered upon anoyier
i contest, not with onen foes with arm# in their
hands ' but the no less dangerous but unseen
ones who are insiduoosly endeavoring to sap
the foundations of our bb-jrlies. The war
has opened. We have planted our artillery.
Our colors are spread to the breeze, and we
will neither ask nor give quarter. Our pass
word is
"Our cause is troth ;
Pure as the virgin stripes which wave
O'er freedom's everlasting youth,
And spotless as the soldier's grave.
Then lot our only motto be.
Our eountry, cause, and liberty—
Our nation and our nation's laws,
The rights of white men, freedom's causa*"
PRIVILEGED CLASSES —The privilegedcla#
ses of this country may by classed as follows :
Class A—Abolitionists.
Class B—Bondholders.
Class C—Conttaciors.
ClassD—Dead men.
Clas# E—Exempt#.
Class F—Fanatics.
Clas# G—Good for-nothing General#.
Class ll Hangmen.
Class I—ldiot#.
Class J—Judg.r Advocvte.
Class K—Know-Nothings.
Class L—Lunatics.
Cass M —Members of Congress.
Class N—Nigg- rs and National Guards
car ARE YOU ASSESSED? —The election
! is coming on, and every voter should see to
it that he is assessed in time. To entitle any
one to vote hi must be a citiz-n, and have
paid a state or county tax within two years,
which tax must be assessed at least ten days
before the election.—Tins should be attended
I to at once. Every vote counts, and perhaps
every vote will be needed. S-*e that the re
turned soldiers are also assessed, and every
man is at the polls. Get every cuan AS
j SESSED.
j A Republican exchange says Simeon Dra
! p. r, late collector at New York, realized one
; hundred thousand dollars in less than one
! year from the profit# ol the office. No won-
I dir the cry of "copperhead*' has been HO loud
j from all the Government offije holders.
WHITE MEN SHALL RULE AMERCA Let
j this be the rallying cry of the Dem •cratic
party. It is bound to win Soldier# will
stand by that Flag—the people everywhere
will sustain it.
The North Branch A*#ocation of
j Universahsts, will hold its next annual meet
: ing at Sylvania, on Wednesday and Thursday,
j October 11 ih and 12ih.
is- | | jj
Cjjt Jjhwcrat,.
4 HARVEY SUKLER, Editor..
. * ' ■ . -' f j* ' - > it /I '
tfrfedfidsttay, Sept 26, 1865.
ELECTION, TIT ESDaV, Oct lOlh.
DEMOCRATIC TICKE*T.
, . AUDITOR GENERAL, ,
COLONEL W..W„ 11. DAVIS, of Bucks.,
SURVEYOR GENERAL,
LT. COL. JOHN P LINTON, of Cambria.
REPRESENTATIVES,
MASON PARKER, of Wyoming, and
S. S. GILBERT, of Susquehanna.
COMMISSIONER^
LEWIS COOK, of Washington Tp,
DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
HARVEY 81CKLER, of TunL. Borough.
AUDITOR,
Wm. BENEDICT- of Eaton Tp.
We this week pre-eiil our leaders
with the admirable speech of CAPT. C. B
BROCKWAY made at the gieat "Knob Moun
tain Meeting" in Columbia County, a few
days since.
■ -
Our Representative Candidates.
The Democratic Representative Confer
ence for this district, met at Montrose, on
|
Monday last, and placed In nomination Mr.
MASON PARKER, ol Wyoming, and J. S.
GILBERT, of Susquehanna, as Candidates for
Representatives. No "ffic a! account of the
proceedings ha s reached us.
Mr. Gilbert is a s'ranger to us but is
highly spoken of by our friends in Su-que
hanna. Wit! Mr. Parker we are personally
acquainted, and can assure our Trends thai
he is a man well worthy of their suffiage*.
Having served two terms of enlistment in
fhe late war, the soldiers can now. bi voting
for him, tnan'fesl their appreciation of a com
panion in arms.
His record as a Democrat, a cit'Z'-p, and a
soldier, is without. sta<n or blemish. No
tnan who knows him will question his ca
pacify and fi'ness f T the position. Want of
space forb'd# a more oxu n led notice.
TONNAGE TAX LAN DON.
Tbe Honest Re pubs. Can't Swallow so Bit
ter a Pill.
The honest Republicans (and we are glad
to Hod there are so many sue! ) of Bradford
County, met in Mass Convention at To wand a
on the 11th inst., an 1 solemnly resolved not
to support the infamous Ge<>rge Landon wh -se
nomination bv* ttie radical negro suffrage par
ty, has produced intense disgust and indig
nation. Hon. H. \Y. Tracy presided. Judge
Long, Judge Parsons, C"l. Elhanan Smith,
Capt. S H. Newman,Capt. J. W. Reeve#, S. N
Blood, B L. R ckwel , A. Newell, A B Tem
plelon, M. 11. Case. J. B. Thompson, and oth
er prominent R< publicans, made speeches
and look part in the meeting. Resolutions
strongly denunciatory of Landon were pass
ed. Doctor SILAS E. SHEPARD of Troy, was
recommended as a candidate for Senator,
Two brass bands were present on the occasion
and the gteatest enthusiasm prevailed. We
have not space for a full account of the pro
ceeding# and the resolutions.
The Question at Issue. ,
Shall tbe uegro be given the political, and
what would inevitably follow—the social
privileges of the white man ? Shall vote
at the polls, sit in the jury box and the hall#
of legislation ? In short, shall he make and
administer laws, choose rulers for, and rule
the white man ?
These are questions that now come home
to every voter. Alter thirty years of cease
leas agitation on the one side, culminating it
secession on the other, and a civil war a par
allel on both, the .anaucs who inaugurated
and featured aboiu'omsin have accomplished
their purpose. Abolition is now a dead is
sue. Slavery is abolished. The people of
Ibt north and the south, everywhere, ac
knowledge the fact, act upon, and acquiesce
in it. Whether the negro,., or the white man,
or both have been benefitted or injured by
the change, is not uow our purpose to dis
cuss j time —expetlence, will demonstrate
its wisdom or tolly. Having accomplished
their purposes —though at a fearlul cost of
blood and treasure- -these revolutionists,
these fanatics now take the next step in
their progiamine. Tfu-y demand that the
negro shall vote! Not content that the
stale shall prescribe the qualifications of its
i lecturs ; they insist thai Cong.ess and the
President st all interfere m his behalf. Real
christian s>rapathy tor the negro they do
nut possess ; but hope by his votes to per
petuate and keep in power the most corrupt
and unprincipled set of uien that ever dia
graced a government. Their schemes are
more or less openlv avowed as they find
themselves strong or weak, in a Siaie, DIH
trict or County.
In lowa, Massachusetts, and other states,
their platforms, then prea.es and their ora
tors, bo Id I v avow ihe purpose .oi (he party ty
be the enfranchisement ol the negro. In
this and some i ther State* toe ig-ue is more
or less concealed or evaded Tins same sys
tern of political triintfflng is practiced by
them in different counties of the MUUU state.
In Berk#, Northampton, and other strongly
dtuiucra up counties, thiy deny that they are
in lavor of negro suffrage. In Bradford, Su
quehanca, Allegheny. n J elsewhere, their
' papers anil'spofTcers opt-illy avow lhia to be f
lite rtwl issue. dare net submit the *
question to * direct tote of lire people; bqt
Beek by Congressional and executive author
ity, to accomplish their despicable purposes,
and usurp these cherished prerogatives of the
whiiesnan. "if they eref encored in their
fell purposes, it takes no prophet to foretell
that the terrible scenes of a&t. Domingo, will '
be reenacteu in our country. A war of!
races such as the world never beheld would 1
follow. Heaven avert the calamity !
"But," some objector says, "we do not
propose to give negroes the right to vote in
any but the southern states, unless the peo
pie shall wte for it and change their oonsti-j
tutrdtia. I*' 1 *' We answer: If Congress or the
President, or both, under the whip., of radic
alism, assume and exercise the power to de-
J clare who shall or shall not vote in South
Carolina or Virginia, they may assume and
exercise the same power, i( it suits their
•I pjprpfiseSii t'6" Pennsylvania. Jn
* dSed, tone cdßsistent, if tftey give the negro
the right to vote in one state, they must
give him tltp*samer right jn another. We
tni>si efrfphincalh'*-Bony That this power to
declare who shall or shall not vote in any
state—exists either in the President or
Congress, To the States, respective'y, and
to te Sta'es alone, belong the question of
jthe 'qualifications of its electors ; and we
are glad to know that President Johnson
takes the sauie commop gense view of this
tbat hat '-ftiur far • resisted the
! clamors of these fanatics, and chooses rather
their opposition in his efforts to restore the
union, than to violate his official oath to
support the Constitution and Laws.
But to bring this question a little nearer
| home, let us see how we are affected by it and
i how we should act.
Iu ibis restrict, the political priest George
Landon is 'ho candidate for State Senator, of
this class of revolutionists and radicals. II
would be an in'sult to observation and intell'-
gence of any man who has been a resident of
this district foruny length of time, to adduce
proof that Landon is in favor, tooth and nail,
of negro suffrage and negro equality. There
is not an intelligent child of ten years age
I who does not know it. lie has declared it
scores, aye, hundreds of times, in the pulpit
and out of it,; on the stump and off the stump,
till there is hardly a meeting house, school
house or cross roads in the three Counties
where he has not at funerals and poli ical
meetings boldly, unreservedly and unblush
j inglv declared in favar of it. It has been the
j constant iheme of his life. It has been his
1 religi"n.
Dints any sane man doubt that as as; oator
! he would vo'e instructions to our congress
! men to take the radical position assumed bv
! himself and other leaders of the black re
: public m party ? Would not he claim that
i in so doing he expressed the will of the peo
: pie of his district ? In view of his oft repeat
j ed declarations of opinion on this subject.
would he not, if elected have the right to as
' sutne that the people in his district endorsed
1 them ; and were in favor nf NF.GKO SPFFRAOE,
I NEGRO JURORS ASn NEGRO T.AW MAKERS ?
The question, then, for every voter to do
cide at the next election, (laying aside all
tonnage tax issues.) is, whether or not he
is in favor of these doctrines. If he is, he
will cast his ballot for GEORGE LANDON,
THEIR ADVOCATE AND CHAMPION. If he 18
against them, he will VOTE NOT ONLY AGAINST
LANDON, BUT TUB PARTI THAT UPPORT HIM.
Local and Personal.
New Advertisements.—We call attention to
the following new advertisements in our paper to-day
NEW JEWELRY AND WATCH SHOP, by A. A-
Stoddard, opposite Wall's Hotel,
ADMINISTRATORS of Wm. H. Baker Dec'd, adver
tise notice of Letters of Administration
COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENCR TAX, gives
Dotiee or time he will receive our greenbacks.
ELECTION PROCLAMATION, by Ahira Gay.
TOWN TALK*
"If there's a hole in a' your coats
I rede yo tent it :
A chiels amang you taking notes, -
And, faith, he'll prent it."
Sporting, such as foot-racing, wrestling,
cock-fighting, and quoit-pitching, has been the
| prin ipal featur# of the past week. Thursday morn
) ing a foot-race of one milo ;ame off between Henry
! Wall and Earl Sicklcr. At the start Wall took the
lead, and soon opened out a distance of eight or ten
yards, running lightly, and appaiently with ease,
while' his antagonist, by the time ho reached tho
quarfer mlli mark, had "bellows to mend."
! He labored on, however, until the half mile was
passed, when he gave out, and Wall walked over
the remainder ofthe couise, and pocketed the stakes.
' Ear had evidently "mistaken his forte," as A,
! Ward, Esq says, and however good his mind may
| be, when it comes to "blowing his own horn," it
. isiLt worth shucks on a footrace,
f Yhwrw'Wws ateo a quoit-match and a wrestle, in
both of which Wall was engaged, and managed to
1 loose all he had made on the foot-race, and consid
; erable uj"re. Saturday night, a number of young
men, having a little more steam on than was neces
i sary, worked it off by running foot-races through
the streets, keeping it up until the dull gray of the
' Sablath morning began to appear.
Jjjp* Town Talk was forcibly reminded, the other
day, of that remark of Uncle Toby's, when after
catching a fly that had been annoying hitn for
some time, he, with the utmost care, opened the
window and put it out, saying ; "Go, poor devil,
the world is wide enough for you and me." Look
ing out of our wiudow, we observed a time honored
j driving something before him with his
j opus .Our became somewhat excited to
see what was the object of so much care and solici
tude, and we stepped to the door. Wriggling
along through the sand, its unwilling motions di
j rected and impelled by our friend's cane, was a
small specimen of the daluler of woman-kind —a
snaka A final toss wi h ths cane, and "Get out of
j this, you devil, or the boys will be attar you and
his snakeship passed beneath a fence and disap
peared in the long grass. Some ill-natured people
observing the circumstance, would probably have
said that it was the name, it being a g*ar/er-snak,
secured it tho sympathy of our old frienl; white
our repcd>Men fWends would have undoubtedly t
-| trlbuted it td a tooling of wo be
lieve if was the great warm heart that makos htm
the genial, health-restoring visitant of the sick room
snd tbe social, companionable gentleman wherever
met, that causod him to be thus tender of qne of
the lowliest and most despised of God's creatures
| "Go, poor devil, the world is wide enough for you
and me."
GrEWETt AT.
ELECTION PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS in and by an Act of the General
Assembly of tbe Commonwealth of Pean
sylvania, entitl d "An Act regulating the General
Election within this Commonwealth, passed the *24
day of Ju1y,1639," it is made the du y of the Sheriff
of every county to give public notice of snch elec
tion to be holden, and to make know a in s-ich notice
what officers are to be elected —Therefore I AJfIRA
GAY, S ieriff of the County of Wyoming, in said
Commonwealth, do make known by this advertise
ment, to the Electors of the County of VjahA|
that a
GENERAL, ELECTION*
will be held in tbe County of Wyoming on the ,
Second Tuesday ot October next, '
(it being the 10th day of said month) at whloh time,
Jftate. .District and County Officers as follows are la
Re elected, to wit ;
One person for AUDITOR GENERAL of the State ef
Pennsylvania.
One person for Surveyor General of the State ef
Pennsylvia,
One person for SENATOR of Pennsylvania to rep
resent the Counties of Bradford Susquehanna aad
Wyoming k
Two persons for REPRESENTATIVES of Pennsylre
nia, to represent the Counties of Susquehanna and
Wyoming. .<•'*
One person for COMMISSIONERS for the County ef
Wyoming.
One person for DISTRICT ATTORNEY for the County
of Wyoming.
One person for ABDITOR for the County of Wye®
| ming.
1 alio hereby make known and give notice the!
the place of holding the General Election in the sev
eral townships within the county of Wyoming, are
! as follows, to wit : .
1 Briiintriui District, at the house occupied by T. D.
j '-P r ing, > n Laceyville
Clinton, at the new school house iu the village of
Factory ville
Eaton at the house of Peter Stroh, in Eaton town
ship.
Exeter, at the house of Solomon Brown, in Ereter
township.
Furkston. at the house of Hiram Hitchcock, la
Forkston township.
Falls, at the House of Levi Townsend, in KaUe
township.
Lemon, at the school-house, near 11. G. Ely, ia
Lemon township.
Monroe, at the school house near the late restdenoe
of John Phenix. in Monroe township,
Mehoopany at the house of Peter Bender, in Me
hoopany Township.
Meshoppen, at tbe house of Daniel Haukinson, in
Meshoppcn township.
Northmoreland, at the house of Winters A How
ard at Centremoreland Corners, in Northmoreland
township.
I Nicholson, at the house latelv occupied by E Jf*
i Bacon, iu Nicholson township.
North Brunch, at ihe school house near the store
of Patrick Kingsley's late John Pfouts, in North
Branch township
Overfield, at the old school-house near Lawrence
Agers, in Overfie! 1 township.
Tuukhannock Borough, at the Court House, in the
Borough of Tunkhannock. '•
Tuukhannock Township. *t the Court House, in
the Borough of Tunkhannock.
Windham, atthc house of David Fisk, in Windham
township.
Washington,at ibe Baptist Church ou Russell Hill
in Washington township.
I In pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An
Actrelatiug to the Elections of this Commonwealth,"
! passed the 24th of July, A D. 13.19.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
"That the Inspectors and Judges chosen as afore
said shall meet at the infective places appointed for
holding the election in the districts to which, they
respectively belong, before nine o'cloekon the morn
ing of tbe second Tuesday tn October, in each and
every year, and each of said Inspector shall appoint
one clerk who shall be qualified voter of such dis
j trid.
"In person who shall have received the
second highest number of votes for Inspector shall
not attend on the day of election he, the person
who shall have received the second highest number
of votes for Judge tit the preceeding election shall
act as Inspector in his place And in case the per
son who shall have received the highest number of
votes f.r Inspector shall not attend, the person eleet
i ed Judge shall appoint an Inspector in his place; and
in case the person elected Judge shall not attend,
then tbe Inspector who received the highest number
of votes shall appoint a Judge in his place,and if any
vacancy shall coutinue in the Board forthe space of
one hour after the time fixed for the opening the
election of the unqualified voters of the township,ward
or district, for which such office shall have been
elected, present at the pi.tee of election, shall elect
one of their number to fill such vacancy.
"In all cases where the nami 8 of a person claim
ing to vote is not to be found on the list, furnished
by the Commissioners and Assessors, or his right to
vote whether found therein or not is objected to by
any* qualified citizen it shall be the duty of the In
spectors to extimime such person on oath as to his
qualifications and if he claims to have resided in the
State for one year or more,his oath shall be sufficient
proof thereof; hut he shall make proof Wat least
. one competent witness who shall be a qualified elec
tor that has resided within the district foi -uiom than
ten days immediately preceeding the election, and
shall also himself swear that his bona fide residents,
in pursuance of his lawful calling is within th* dii
trict and that he did not move into the district for
the purpose of loting therein. *
Every person qualified as aforesaid, and who sh*!l
make due proof, if requirtd, of bis residence aaJ
payment of taxes as aforesaid, shall bo admitted te
rote in the township, ward or district in which b
shall reside.
'lf any person or pcrs ms shall make any let or
wager up<>n the result of any elecjian in this Com
monwealth, or shall offer to make any such bet or
wager either by verbal proclamation thereof, or by
any written or printed advertisement, challenge or
inrit J any person or persons to make such a bet or
wager, upon conviction thereof he or they shall for
feit and pay three times the amount so bet or offered
to bet.
' If any person not by law qualified shall fr indo
lently vote at any election v- ithin this Common
wealth, or being otherwise qualified shall vote out of
his proper, district, or if any person knowing the
wa .t of qualification shall aid or procure such per
son or persons offending shall on conviction be fined
not exceeding two hundred dollars and be imprison
ed for a term cot exceeding three months.
"If any person shall vote at more than one elec
tion district, or otherwise fraudulently more than
on o on the same day or shall fraudulent y fold and
deliver to the Inspectors two tickets together, with
tho intention to illegally vote, or shall vote the same
j or if any person shall advise or procure other so to
i do, he or they so offending shall on conviction, be
I fined in any sum not less than fifty nor more than
five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned for any term
| not less than three nor more than twelve months.
"If any person not qualified to vote in this Com
j tnonwenlth agreeable to law (excepting the sons of
j qualified citizens,) shall a; pe.ir at any place of elec
tion for the purpose of issuing tickets or influencing
citizens qualigcd to vote, he shall on conviction for
feit and pay any sum not exceeding one hundred dol
j lars for every such offence, and be imprisoned lor
any term not exceeding three months- "1
! " That every person except justices of the peace
i who shall hold any office or appointment of profit
' or trust under the government of the Uiiited States,
j or of this State, or of any city or incorporated di
! trict. whether a commissioned offie ir or otherwise - a
subordinate officer or agent—who is or who shall hs
employed under the legislitwe, executive of judicis-
I ry department of this State or ofthe United Statee
or of any city or incorporated district and also that
j every member of Congress and of the State L-gila- *
' ture, and of tbe select or common council of any city,
' or commissioners of any incorporated district is br
; law inciipjthle ofholdi ig or exercising, at the sam
time, the office of app dntment of Jud -a. Inspector
; or, Clerk of any election within this Commonwealth
ami that no Inspector, Judge or other officer of any
\ such election, shall be eligible to any office to b
; then voted for.
"No person hall be permitted to vote at any elec
tion as aforesaid, other than a white freeman of th
age of 21 years or more, who shall have resided 10
this State at least one year, and in the election di*-
trict where he offers to vote, at least ten tUys imme
diately preceeding such election, and ffjthin tw*
years have paid a State or county tax. which sh"
have been asses-ed at least ten days before election
i But a citizen of'tne United States, who das previoJ
ly been a qualified vuler of this State, and rew*i*j
therefrom and relumed, and who shall have resided
' in the election district, and paid taxes aforesaid*
shall be entitled to vote after residing in this >"tw
six months,provided,that tbe white fteeman
ofthe United States, lietween the ages of 21 ani •-
1 years and having resided in this State one year.
in the election district 10 days as aforesaid, shah
entitled to vote although they shall not hare p l *
t
1 "No person shall be permitted to vote whose re*
is not contained in the list of taxable inhabit*-
I furnished by the Commissioners as aforesaid un