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HARVEY SICKLER, Editor.
TUN KHAN NOCK, PA
Wednesdy, July 18, 1866.
" FOR GOVERNOR,
101. IEISTEII CLYHES.
OF..BERKS.
A SOLDIER'S CONVENTION. —On our first
page will be found a call for a soldier's Con
vention to be held at Harrisburg. This
call, as will be seen, is signed by a large
number of Generals, Colonels, Captains, and
privates, representing almost or quite every
Regiment that Pennsylvania sent to the
field during the late war.
The idea that the soldiers of this 6tate en
dorse the disunion negro equality resolves,
of that little knof of radical schemers, lately
assembled at Pittsburg, is ridiculous.
Read the call and the names of those who
make it.
-'Let the galled Jade wliiee,"
At the head of the editorial column of
the last week's Republican we find the fol
lowing startling announcement; and ac
companying remarks which, in order that
we may do no injustice to the writer we
copy in full.
"Removal* from office by the action of the Ad
ministration have already commenced in this Dis
trict.
0. H. Loomis, Postmaster of Sterlingville has
been removed without any known cause turther than
that his knees were not found to be pliant) enough
to b ndto every truckling behest of the dupes of the
Administration about him, and the name of the of
fice wag changed to that of "Meshoppen." The
original name of the office was Sterlingrille. a
name to which it was honestly and justly entitled,
but for partisan purposes during the reign of Bu
chanan it was changed to "Meshoppen," and chang
ed back to its original n.'une during the Administra
tion of Lincoln. Now under an administration
which Mr. Loomis aided to elect, a few interested
partisans, attracting to them and their base purposes
all the' Copperheads of that section who had com
bined to thwart the government by resisting drafts
and opposing the war. conspired to rob Mr. Loom s
of his office aud the office of its just name without
even the shnddow of a pretext for the movement,
other than the hope of a very small amount of po
litical capital. This is meanness and usurpation
■combined. If the Democracy, however, has really
regained power and the control of the government
the sooner we know it the better.
We have aimed to treat the Administration with
all possible courtesy that would not require a sac
rifice of principle but we ask every true and loy; 1
citizen, every fellow soldier who went forth to bat
lie for his country's rights and his country's free
dom. if such ingenous(ungrn r>us)trratment >s not an
outrage beyond the utmost rrach of charity.
Wo forbear further comment at present, but
mark the final issue, for the end hath not yet come.
Wi lextn also that our friend Dr Paleinon John,
our Revenue Assessor has been removed and that
the nomination of Robert 1". Clark has been con
firmed. This was somewhat unexpected, but crafty
[oliticians with oily tongues and deceitful represen
tations often manage to draw false issues and rob
juctice of her dues."
Lieut. Burr whose appointment as
Post Master at Meshoppen, Billy Burgess
denounces'as an act of "meanness and usur
pation eouibined went into the army in
1801> as a private soldier. After the close
of the war in 1865, he' returned home
having in the meantime, by his bravery
and good conduct, been promoted to the
first Lieutenancy of his company. A
large majority of those receiving mail
matter at the Meshoppen office, asked his
appointment to the position of Post Mas
ter. O. 11. Loorais, an open and avowed
er.emy of President Johnson's reconstruc
ts policy and of thejUnion,for which Lieut
Burr fought, and who, like P. M. Billy, at
this place, managed to evade the draft,
was removed and the appointment given
I jeut. Burr.
The name of the Post office, (which was
not changed, under President Bachanan.
as slated by this veracious (?) editor,) was
changed back to MesboppeD—a name by
which the village is almost exclusively
known, being the name of the stream, at
the mouth of which it stands; and of the
Township of which it is theccentrae —a
name given it by the red men of the for
r sts, centuries before the Sterlings' the
Localises or the Biliy Burgesses came
here to speculate, give names to, and hold
Post offices, evade drafts, print forged en
rollnn nt lists, or rail at Presidents of their
own choice. On the ground of priority
of settlement, to fix a name, the Aldens'
and the Mow rey's built their humble cabins
at the mouth of the Meshoppen, long
years before the Sterlings. These names
are quite as respectable and as euphonious
as that of Sterling. We are not aware,
even under the administration of Buchan
an , that they bad the vanity to ask that the
office be called ALDKNSBURQ or MOWRET
TOWS ; but, were content that it be known
by the name of the place in which it was
located.
If'hen Capt. Burr—for we have been
informed since the above was written that
he held a Captain*s commission) when
Capt. Burr was fighting the battles for
these draft sneaks, none were more profuse
of praises and promise* than they—but
now that he has returned a wounded, bat
tle scarred hero— What an outrage !
What Usurpation, what cruelty in the Pres
ident to appoint him to a little village
Post-mastership ! Those long continued
and loud-mouthed laudations of "our brave
defenders those promises of "undying
gratitude those "enduring tokens of affed*
tion those "honors and emoluments—
which were to be lavished in such profu
sion upon him at his return, it seems, were
as empty as the beads that uttered them.
This is the requittal the wounded soldier
gets at the hands of these fat, sleek home
guard office-holders,
This "meanness and usurpation this
"outrage beyond the re'ach of charity
this "robbery of Mr. Loomis of hi* office,"
which the President has been guilty of for
it was he, who did all these things—con
sists in the removal from office of a man
who vilifies and traduces him without stint,
and who, during the war by the industrious
circulation of a protest prevented his town
ship from raising bounties to fill its quota
of men; and the appointment by the Presi
dent's, in his stead, of an ardent supporter,
Mr. Burr, whose mangled arm at the bat
tle of Fair Oaks and whose unflinching val
or on many a bloody battle-field attest his
devotion to the £7nion of these states, but
not to the cause of negro equality, or black
republican disunionism. Ah, there's the
rub ! There's where the shoe pinches!
Another act of infamy and outrage —
" Our friend, Dr. Palemon John, our Rev
enue Assessor," the very embodiment of
"justice" has been "robbed oP' his or her
(the creature's sex is left doubifu!) dues."
Boo! hoo!! boo!!!
"This was the unkindest eat of all."
What a poisoned chalic is this to Bil
ly's lips ? What bitter dregs for such len
der palate ? His own dear God-father, upon
whose paternal breast he had rested his in
fant editorial numb-skull, upon whose words
of political wisdom he has fed, and grown
eloquent in the ue of terms in which to
denounce "Copperheads/' and above all, the
man under whose political coat-tail he shel
tered himself when there was a reign of
drafts. The man who writes such affection
ate love letters for the President (see letter
in another column) who p.. raises such faith
ful support "if the offices are not taken from
us," This man, this paragon of perfection
and political integrity, he too has gone the
way of all time serving mendicants and
spoils hunters. Great God! Whose turn
will come next ? Don't you begin to feel
sick, Billy ? Old Thad. thinks there are
earth-quakes about, 'Guess so too.
WHO ARE THE DISUXIONI9TS I
The Damning Record.
On the 14th day of December, 1863, in
the House of Representatives at Washing
ton, Mr. llolraan, of Indiana, a Democrat,
offered a series of resolutions declaring
"THAT THE STATES IX RKBELLION ARK NOT
"OUT OF THE UNION, AND SHOULD NOT BE
"HELD AS TERRITORIES AND SUBJUGATED
"'PROVINCES ; THAT THE ONLY CONDITION
"TO PROPER RELATIONS SHOULD BE UNCON
"DITIOXAL SUBMISSION TO THE CONSTITU
TION AND LAWB OF THE UNITED STAI ES,
"AND THAT WHEN THIS 13 ACCOMPLISHED,
"THE "WAR OUGHT TO CEASE."
Thaddeus Stevens(disunionists) moved
to lay the resolutions on the table ; which
motion was carried, by a vote of EIUHTT
EIGHT disunionists -all Republicans—to
SIXTY-SIX Unionists— NEAßLY ALL DEM
OCRATS.
[See House Journal, Ist Seraion 39th Congress.
Pge 49.]
The vote on this resolution establishes
beyond all cavil and dispute, that the
Democracy are not only the true ftiends of
the Union, but that they endeavored to
preserve inviolate, the faith of the nation
as pledged by the Crittenden resolution ;
while the Republicans are the bitter and
unrelenting foes of the Union, who reck
lessly violated a pledge, given with a unan
imity that should have sanctified it against
infringement.
White men of Pennsylvania, remember
this record; read it to your neighbors;
post it, in printed placards, in public places
where it can be seen and read by all men !
EIGHTY EIGHT PEPI BMCANS voted that
the States in rebellion were out of the Un-
SIXTT six DEMOCRATS voted that they
wcrte not" k out of the Union.
EIGHTT-EIGIIT REPUBLICANS voted that
the rebellions States should be Territories
or subjugated provinces.
SIXTT-SIX DEMOCRATS voted that they
should have all their rights, unimpaired,
by unconditionally submitting to the Con
stitution and laws of the United States.
EIGHTY EIGHT PEPUBLICANS wanted the
dismembered Union of Sumner, Stevens
and Geary.
SIXTY-SIX DEMOCRATS wanted the un
broken Union of Washington, Johnson
and Clymer.
EIGHTY-EIGHT REPUBLICANS violated
their oaths of office, by acknowledging se
cession as a "fixed fact," and changing the
war for the Union into a crusade for the
subjugation and annihilation of the States.
SIXTY-SIX DEMOCRATS preserved their
oath 6 unbroken, by repudiating the here
sy of secession, and demanding that the
flag that "bore on its azure field a star for
every State, should also have a State for
every star."
These eighty-eight Republicans are for
GEARY AND DISUNION.
These sixty six Democrats are for Ci r-
MER AND THE ULUON.
KEEP IT BEPOKE THE PEOPLE.
Whi are tor the Union t
On the 7th day of January, 1864, Mr.
Rogers, Democrat, of New Jersey, in the
House of Representatives of the United
States, offered resolutions, declaring that a
State or States, "WHENEVER THET SHALL
"DESIRE TO RETURN TO THE UNION, AN
"OBIT THE CONSTIIDTIOW OF THE UNITED
"STATES AND LAWS MADE IN PURSUANCE
"THEREOF, HAVE A RIHT TO COME BACK
"THEIR LAWS AND 'ACTS OF SECESSION BE-
'INO UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND VOID; THAT
"WE ARE FOR THE MOST UNITED,"DETER
"MINED, AND VIGOROUS PROSECUTION OF
"THE WAR, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENFORCING
"THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
"STATES AND A RESTORATION *F THE
"UNION UNDER THE CONSTITUTION."
Mr. Stevens (disunionist) moved that
the series of resolutions be laid upon the
table; which motion was carried, by a
vote of seventy-eight disunionists —all Re
publican—to forty-two Unionists —all
Democrats.
[See House Journal, Ist Session 38th Cong ess,
page 116.].
What does this vote mean ? What does
it assert ? What does it defend f It means
that the Republicans in Congress, and the
radical portion of the constituency they rep
resent. were in 1864. as they are in 1866,
and will ever be, opposed to the return of
the rebellious States to the Union, no mat
ter how repentant and submissive they may
be; it asserts, that they (the rebellious
States) have no right to come back, altho'
we lavished millions of treasure and piled
np whole hetacombs of lives to compel them
to come back ; it defends a war, which, by
their votes, they declared should not be
prosecuted for the enforcement of the Con
stitution and the restoration of the Union.
In a word, this vote of the Republican par
ty in Congress, proves them to be secession
ists and traitors.
What else does this vote meafl, assert
and defend? It means, that the Demo
crats in Congress, and the conservative con
stituencies they represent, were in 1864, as
the) are in 1866, in favor of the retu-n to
the Union ot all the States who obey the
Constitution and the laws ; it asserts, that
this submission being shown, they have a
light to come back ; and it defends the war,
as one which was carried on for the sole
purpose of bringing these States back, un
der the Constitution, the Union and the
laws.
The Republican disunionists say they
shall not come back; the Democratic Un
ionists say they, shall come ,ack. GEARY
represents tbe Republican disunionists; —
CLTMER represents the Democratic Union
ists. GEARY Stevens, Sumner
and the "boys in black CLYMER repre
sents Johnson, Cowan and the " boys in
blue." Stevens, Sumner, and the "boys in
black" are disunionists —so is GEARY ;
Johnson, Cowan and the "boys in blue"
are Unionists—so is CLYMER. VOTE
FOR CLYMER!
• ♦That letter."
BLOOMSBIRG, March, 2, 1866.
Hon. H HTCulloch. See'y of the Treasury :
SIR I inclose you a copy of tny issue this week.
I have likewise addressed a copy to the President —
You will see that the charge that I am opposing him
is false.
If I am sustained by yourself and the P:esident ;*
if the patronage is not taken from u* and given to
tboee who oppose us, we shall be able to make our
vigorous Union organisation a unit and TBUH
PHASTLT SUSTAIN TBE ADMINISTRATION.
Respectfully, ' PALEMON JOHN.
Assessor Thirteenth Distriot Pennsylvania.
The Bloomsburg Columbian in commen
ting on the above letter which appeared in
the last number of the Republican says it
was written, as the reader will observe by
its date, to the Secretary of the Treasury
long after the veto of the Freedman's Bu
reau Bill, and subsequent to the twenty
second of February speeeh The speech
as well as the veto settled with great cer
tainty the President's position, and his fix
ed determination to maintain it. Yet with
these facts staring the Assessor in the face
he gets up a copy of his paper which by
implication he admits was a cheat, and so
intended, and forwarded the same to the
Secretary and the President with the let
ter above. It would no doubt gratify pub
lic curiosity tokno# how much of the Pres
ident's time was consumed in the reading
of the Republican.
We confess this letter took us by sur
prise, and we are sorry that in this we were
alone. We were a stranger in this com
munity, and the character of tbe writer un
known to use. We did not then for a mo
ment suspect that the love of filthy lucre
had eaten out and consumed whatever of
manliness and decency nature bad origi- i
nally bestowed upon him. The letter
speaks for itself, and .the character of the
writer is summed up and epitomized in his
prayer to the Secretary that the patronage
may not be taken from him. He says he
he sent to Washington for a copy of this
letter. But why ? Upon information're
ceived by bim that it bad been generally
read by Senators, and that every Senator
looked upon the writer with the loathing
and disgust which such a letter must in
spire in the breast of every honorable man,
be sent for a copy ; and we strongly sus
pect thnt his moral sense has become so
perverted and depraved by greed for gain
that even now he cannot appreciate the
baseness of his present position. Indeed,
this may be clearly inferred from tbe pub
lication of this letter iu his own paper.
While bis friends blush for very shame at
its perusal, he gives it to the public with a
bravado becoming to bim alone. The un
animous confirmation of Mr. Clark by the
Senate, and the refusal of t hat body to re
consider the same, was-no doubt in great
part due to tbe contempt of Senators of
Radical proclivities for the present incum
bent.
The "oertrtr Caae."
We have heretofore referred to the de
cision of the Supreme Court, at its last
session, in this place, upon what is com
monly known as the "Franklin County
Deserter Case." The opinions of Justices
Thompson and Woodward and the dis
senting opinion of Justice Reed would
doubtless be read with great interest, but
their length precludes their publication in
our columns at present.
The Harrisburg Patriot and Union a
ruccioct synopsis of the case, which we
adopt:
"A non-reporting drafted man, named
Rcily, offered to vote at an election poll in
Franklin county, but bis ballot was reject
ed by an election officer, named Huber, on '
the ground that his name appeared on a
provost marshal's list as a deserter. Beily
thereupon entered suit in the Common
Pleas of Franklin county against Huber,
and recovered judgment. Iluber appealed
to the Supreme Court, whose decision has
now been rendered affirming the judgment
of the Franklin county court—which is
that, lleily " not having been convicted of
desertion and failure to return to service,
or to report to a provost marshal, and not
having been sentenced to the penalties and
forfeitures of the law, was entitled to vote"
Chief Justice Woodward and Justices
Strong and Thompson, constituting the
majority of the Court, affirmed, whilst
Justices liead and Agnew dissented.
"The decision of the Court does not as
sume the unconstitutionality of the act of
Congress, under which the case arose,
though it recites the grounds upon which
its constitutionality has been assailed; —
first, thet it is ex post facte ; second, that
it is an attempt to regulate the right of
suffrage in the States ; and third, that it
proposes to inflict pains and penalties be
fore and without trial and conviction by
due process ot law.
"Upon the first, it is stated that it may
be insisted that the penalty is not pre
scribed for the original desertion but for
persistence in desertion.
"Upon the second, it is stated that the
act operates only upon the individual of
fender, and does not overrule State law,
but leaves each State to determine the
qualifications of the voter.
•'Upon the third, it is stated that the
law does not presume to inflict the addi
tional punishment of defranchisement upon
deserters, except upon trial and conviction
bj court martial according to the provis
ions of previous acts to which the act in
question is only supplemental.
"According to this view a person who
deserted from the military service previous
or since the passage of the act of March
3, 1865. might be disfranchised, but enly
after trial by regular court martial, con
viction, sentence and approval of sentence,
the same as in other cases in which deser
tion is punished. According to this view,
also, a record from a provost marshal's
office, the War Department, or Adjutant
General's office, charging a man with de
sertion and classifying him as a deserter,
is not sufficient to entail disfranchisement:
and no election officer or board of election
can assume authority to reject any man's
vote upon such grounds. There is no au
thority, therefore, under which an election
board can assume to reject such vote ex
cept through the regular record of an ap
proval sentence of a court martial.
Elec'ion officers cannot presume to try
men for the crime of de e ertion, because,
among other reasons, their decision woald
not be a bar to subsequent trial for the
same offence by a competent tribunal, and
it is not lawful to have two courts to try
one offence—each to administer a portion
of the punishment. Besides this, it is held
that it is not in the power of Congress to
confer upon an election board, which is ex
clusively of State creation, jurisdiction to
try offences against the United States.—
Congress cannot vest the judicial power of
the United States in any State or sover
eignty. Hence even the Legislature of
Pennsylvania cannot prescribe penalties for
•fences against the United States, nor au
thorize either State courts or election boards
to try or punish offenders against the Uni
ted States , The State disfranchisement
act, based as it is upon the act of Congress
and intended to be co-operative with it, is
therefore a hulity. Only through courts
martial can deserters be punished, and as
no State is authorized to constitute such
courts, the legislation falls to the ground.
Although the constitutionality of the
act of Congress was not an issue in the
case, and although the court does not con
sider that subject in full in all its bearings,
Chief Justice Woodward does not hesitate
to say that he considers the act to be ex
post facto in respect to all soldiers who de
serted prior to March 3, 1865.
This decision of the Supreme Court will
enable every man in Pennsylvania, quali
fied under the State election laws, to vote,
unless he has been tried, convicted, and
sentenced to disfranchisement for desertion
by court martial, and unless the sentence
has been approved by the Commander in
Chief of the Federal array. Should any
election officer or board refuse the vote of
any man, above, he or they will
be subject to severe punishment. Not
withstanding these facts, however, there
may be attempts made to intimidate per
sons voting by threats of arrest and trial
by court martial for desertion. It can be
authoritatively declared that court-martials
are ended. There will be no more trials
for desertion. The armies are disbanded
the Government has no use for their ser
vices; and it is not so vindictive as to
bunt np victims now to punish. Besides
all this it cannot afford to send out guards
to hunt up deserters and maintain courts
martial for their trial Each trial would
cost the Government many thousand dol
lars—which is an expense which the
President will not by any means sanction,
merely to aid politicians in making or de
stroying a few votes. — Luz. Union.
When a lady once asked Turner, tbe
celebrated English painter, what his secret
was, be replied : "I have no secret,madam,
but hard work. This is a secret that many
never learned, and don't succeed because
they don't learn it. Labor is the genius
that changes the world from ugliness to
beauty, and a great curse to a great bless
ing."
Read I Read I t
Read the following article from the Eve
ning Pott , a Republican paper, edited by
WILLIAM CULLKN BRYANT, and until very
recently a Radical and a firm supporter of
the Rump Congress. Read what he says
in this article, entitled :
IMPRUDENCE OF THE PROHIBITIONISTS.
The majority in Congress are, under the
dictation of Messrs. Morrill and Stevens,en
gaged in passing a tariff bill, which, by the
acknowledgement of its most determined
supporters, sacrifices the revenue of the
United States for the sake of protecting a
few wealthy manufacturing capitalists.
The arguments used to justify this atro
cious act are so weak that they move to
laughter those who hear the speeches of
Mr. Morrill and Mr. Stevens. Mr. Morrill's
strong point is that this country is greatly
deficient in laborers, and that therefore it is
highly necessary to provide employment for
American workingmen. Mr. Stevens's
strongest point is that the proposed tariff
is not nearly high enough, and is, in fact.a
free-trade measure.
We cannot doubt that the President will
veto this oppressive bill. He is too en
lightened statesman, and too impartial a
lover of the whole country, to give his con
sent to a scheme whose effects will be, a.s
we have frequently shown, to cripple our
foreign commerce ; to increase the present
high prices of the necessaries of life; to
retard the progress of the country ; to
grant monopolies to a few manufacturing
capitalists, and to seduce the scanty labor
ing forct of the country from profitable in
to unprofitable employments,
What is needed is a vcventie tariff and
we hope some members of Congress will
take the trouble to frame a bill to that end
and propose it. In the meantime we trust
the members from southern states who can
take the oath will be admitted to their
seats.
We warn the prohibitionists that they
ride too high a horse for safety. They
aie trying to force a most hateful and wick
ed scheme upon the country. That is bad
enough ; but they are at the same time
keeping out the representatives of the
southern states. Are they doing this in
order to make sure of their own schemes ?
Is it to secure the passage of this prohibi
tive and destructive bill that tbey refuse to
admit the southern members ? It would
seem so, from their highhanded course.
The country will believe it, and they will
only ruin themselves by such a course,
which heaps injustice on injustice, and com
mits one wrong in order to facilitate the
committal of another —just as a highway
man maims his victims in order the more
easily to plunder their persons.
The American people will not tolerate
such legislation ; they will sweep away, at
the first opportunity, men so faithlesss to
the general warfare ; there are already
signs to show that the men who vote for
this tariff, especially t.nder the aggravating
circumstance of the exclusion from debate
and vote, of the southern members, will
be left in a small minority in the next Con
gress.
A FEW PLAIN TKCTHS, —We copy the
followiog plain talk from the Quincy (Il
linois) Herald:
The taxes paid by the people of the
United States to the Federal Government
exceed those paid by Great Britain by
about one hundred and seventy millions of
dollars a year; and yet the British debt is
the largest owed by any government in the
world except our own. A few years ago
our public speakers and newspaper editors
used to point to the system of taxation pre
vailing in England as the most burdensome
and giindingtbat afflicts any people in the
world ; and now we are more heavily tax
ed than the English peop'e. Ours is now
the most burdensome and exhausting sys
tem of taxation endured by any people in
Christendom. England was about two
hundred years in accumulating a debt as
large as our own ; but it took our "rulers,"
as they call themselves, under republican
domination, only four years to contract a
debt about as large as that of England. All
this debt was contracted, as we were told,
to restore the seceding States to the Union;
and put the party who coutracted the debt
for this pretended purpose, now refuse to
restore these States, when every obstacle to
reconstruction is removed. Does such a
party deserve the countenance and support
of the people ? Is it not time we made a
change in the men who control the affairs
of our government ? A change cannot
make matters worse, and unless we have a
change for the better, we shall rapidly de
generate into a nation of tax-ridden white
slaves with lordly non-tax paying bond-hold
ers over us.
PLAIN AND PERTINENT TO THE TIMES. —
Does any one doubt that the people of each
State are best able to regulate their local
affairs? and this being so, is it not true
that, if nothing else, self-interest is sure to
lead the people of the Southern States to
take good care of their laboring population.
They must do so, or pensb. It is all that
they have left on which to build any hope
for the future, and this without any Wash
ington Bureaox. The interest of the en
tire country is involved in this subject,—
The New York Journal of commtrce says :
"The North needs Southern prosperity
The North wants Union, and the Union is
valuable because of the mutual dependence
and assistance of all its parts. Unless the
people of the South are soon placed in
control of their local affairs, we may re
gard the material prosperity of the South
ern States as hopelessly destroyed, or
postponed for un indefinite period. The
Freedmen's Bureau is doing nothing to
wards restoring local or national prosperi
ty. It is a drain on the national purse for
evil, and very little, if any, good. Gener
al Howard is entitled to credit for the best
intentions, and for a sincere desire to do
good; but his work is utterly vain. It is
becoming a curse to both black ai d white
man, and the sooner it is brought to an
end, the better for all.
The Cause ef Hlfh Prices and Dlatrwa.
There is to day in this brpad land maoy
an earnest, honest, hopeful working num.
breasting the waves of adversity, his stout
heart clinging to the picture he sees away
off in the far of a home of his own
purchased with the savings of his weelfty
toil. To be sure, to-day he has no sari nga;
the great war debt, with its taxes upon
him, eats up all his little suiplus. The'
enhanced price of the necessaries of life be'
has to stagger under. He has no surplus
now ; but he hopes ever. He sees the lit- -
tie home, and the school house, andth e
church, and his weekly news journal, and
a decent wardrobe, and three good meale
a day for him and his— a beautiful dream,
away off in the far distant future. For
the present, all is dark and gloomy, and
were it n<t for hope bis heart wonld sink
within He struggles on in poverty
and self-denial; he works and earns his ten
or twelve dollars per week, but the land
lord and the butcher, and the baker and the
coal dealer takes all his money—for are
they not taxed, doubly taxed, ani he baa
to foot the bill. He realizes that he, as a*
consumer, must suffer through these taxes,,
that the people must bleed at every pore,,
but for what? Let the complaining tax
payer, who cannot educate bis children*
and feed and clothe them as formerly,,
judge for himself.
Working white men of the North, your
families are made by the present party iir
power white slaves. Your task is placed'
before you, and is so piain that you cannot
mistake it You are to toil and sweat so'
for the negro. Nor is this all, here are-
THREE BILLIONS OF DEBT —H SUm whicft
can scarcely he realized—which would
never been made but for the triumph of
this sectional and revolutionary party!—
A large part of it, enough to buy every
p°or man a home, is made up of the
STEALINGS and ROBBERY of the dis
union Geary men who ask your votes
Besides this, did you ever think why
you had to pay so much for boots, shoes,
clothing, hardware, coal, and every other
article which you use in your family.—
They put a tariff of prohibition on import
ed articles. They tax manufactures to
raise money for speculators, negro Bu
reaus and party purposes. All this rotr
HAVE TO PAT, with additions for profits, or
an increased investment which it requires.
The Child Whlpper.
The Radical abolitionist preacher, who
whipped his child to death because it wo'd -
not pray as he desired, has awakened the
greatest indignation in Orleans county, N_
Y. against the '•philanthropic" and Chris
dan father The Rev. Dr. Lindsley's
(that's the monster's name) statement be
fore the Coroner's juiy, g-vtn on the 21st,
was corroborated by other witnesses before
the jnrv. The body of the child told more
plain y and pathetically than words could,
of the terrible punishment it had undergone.
Several of its fingers were broken, and
blood oosi d from every pnre. To conceal
the crime, the father tied the little on ft hand*
behind his back, md placed it in it* coffin.
While the physicians were making a post*
mortem examination of the body, he sat by,
coolly looking at the proceedings. After
a while he spoke, aid asked them if tbey
had not carried, " this thing about far
enough." The physicians discovered,, no
diease about the child—it died solely from
! excessive and cruel punishment. The lit
j tie one would have been three years old
next August—whipped to death because
it would not say its prayers.
We are told that Lindsley justifies hia
horrid work. He thinks it was his duty
to punish the child until his will was bro
ken and be obeyed. Lindslev was arrest
ed yesterday and committed to jail in AU
bion. it was with the utmost difficulty
that the officers who had him in charge
could keep the citizens of Medina and
neighborhood from lynching bimonthe
spot.- Lindsley is a man about five feet
eight inches in height, well proportioned,
has black whiskers, and dark complexion.
He has the appearance of a man of violent
temper.— Rochester Union.
Ihe Medina Tragedy—Lindxley out on
Bail. —A telegram announces that Rev.
Joel Lindsley, who beat his child to death,
was released from custody on Saturday, on
giving bail in the sura of SIO,OOO.
This reverend scoundrel since giving the
above bail, has fled to Canada, fearing the
wrath of the community in which he com
mitted the deed.
The poor Manufacturers of New Eng
land are more cautious in the publication of
the dividends, about these days, than they
were before the Tariff bill came up in Con
gress ; but now and then they let out a lit
tle of their doings as something altogether
"too good to keep." Last Wednesday, the
Chicopee Manufacturing Company held
their annual meeting in Boston, and dis
closed that their dividends for the pastyear,
poor fellows, amount to only forty-fire per
cent, But they have saved enough to buy
the property of the Massachusetts Arms
Company at Chicopec Falls, .with water
power to carry fifteen thousand additional
spindles. The Pacific Mills, at Lawrence,
Massachusetts, arc ashamed to say that
twelve per cent, is their comparatively in
significant semi-annual dividend. The
Maine mills, at Lewiston, also show the
following contemptible results ofsix months'
work ; Hill and Androscoggin Manufac
turing Companies, twenty per cent, eacht.
and the Bates Mills ten perceut will he.
doubled in the next half year. All these,
poverty stricken companies, with other*,,
whose dividends are too large to publish,
are howling for protection."
The CHbinet of President
is undergoing a pretty thorough change.
Post Master Gen. Denson, and Att'y Gen.
Speed hare resigned just in time to save
themselves from removal. Of course the
President promptly accepted their resigna
tions. Their successors have not yet been
named.
Other changes are expected.
The latest European pews is that the
Austrians have suffered several disastroua
defeats. The papers begin to speculate up
on a peace which is thought will be soon,
brought about.