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THi: RESOLUTIONS.
Continued from last weet.
Whereas, The ConveDtion maaged
and controlled byjpoliticians, which as
sembled in Pittsburg on the 5th or June
last, pledged the officer, soldiers, and
sailors of Pennsylvania to the Radical
disunion members of Congress, and as
opposed to the just and constitutional
restoration policy of President Johnson (
ond ...
Whereas, The members of the said
Convention falsely styled themselves the
representatives of the soldiers and sai
lors of Pctmtylvania, and presumed to
speak for them without authority ; and '
Wiiereas, The proceedings of the
8aid Convention misrepresent the true
sentiments of the great mass or the re
turned soldiers and sailors of this State,
and do great injustice to the late defen
ders of the Constitution and tho Union ;
therefore be it
. Resvlvai, That we, the authorized
representatives of our late companions
in arms, do repudiate the proceedings of
the Pittsburg Convention of the 5th of
June, because they do not teprescnt tho
true scnt'mcbts of the officers, soldiers,
and seamen of Pennsylvania.
Resolved, That we hold the same be
lief now that we did when we took up
arms in 1801, that the war was for the
Uuton, and for do other purpose ; that
the agreement made with the govern
meat when we took up arms to defend,
her agaiust armed rebellion is found in
the joint resolution of Congress, adopt
ed July 22d, 1861, which declares that
this war is not prosecuted on our part
in any spirit of oppression, nor for any
purpose of conquest or subjugation, but
to defcud and maintain tho supremacy
of the Constitution, and to preserve the
Union with all the dignity, equality, and
rights of the several States unimpaired
This is the bond many sealed with their
lives, and many others signed in blood
Resolved, That the failure of Con
gress to carry into effect this joint reso.
lution after the war is over, and to re
store the Union with all the dignity.
equality, and rights of the several
States unimpaired, is a gross violation
of a solemn compact made with the do
fenders of tho government at her time
of greatest need and peril.
Resolved, That we repudiate the ac
tion of the Radical Congress, which is
an insult to every officer, soldier and
seaman who served in the Federal army
curing the rebellion. Iticir policy as-
scits that our victories accomplished
what the enemy could not, divided the
Union, and the fruits of our . toil and
blood bought victories turned to ashes
in their hands.
Resolved, That we cordially endorse
the restoration policy of President John1
son, as announced in his annual, special
and veto nicssogcs, and as further uiado
koown to the country in his treatment
of the States lately in rebellion We
believe it to be just and humane, and
better adapted than auy other known
policy to restore, those States to tliei
constitutional relations to the Union
and bring renewed peace, happiness and
prosperity to the country. It is in
keeping which a magnanimous victor
awards to a brave foe.
Resolccl, That the action of Con
gress in refusing scats to the Senators
and members from the South, who bear
true allegiance to the Constitution and
laws, whilo that body is encased in
changing the fundamental Lw of th
country in an important particular, is
revolutionary in its action ; while thci
conduct in tasiug the South without
her consent strikes at tho vital princi
pic of eonstitutional liberty that ticro
can be no taxation without represents,
tion.
Resolved, That we are opposed to
negro suffrage, and all legislation that
has tor its object the raising of the ne
gro to social and political equality of
the white man, or to make him a pet of
the nation, meets our unqualified disap
- proval. Ho and his friends should be
satibfied that the war has given his race
the boon of freedom, and should not
aim to control the destinies of the coun,
try.
Jeyhxdt That wc return thanks to
il . 1 . ; -:
TOIIN O. II ALU Editor.
Ood for giving victory to the Federal
armies over armed insurgents, and wo
congratulate the couutry upon a return
of peace. It is as mnch our duty now
to use our best endeavors to heal op
the wounds of the rebellion, ns it was to
take up arms in defence of the Union.
Resolved, That we deny that John
W. Geary is the soldiers' candidato for
Governor of Pennsylvania. He is the
choice of the Radicals, who are seeking
to destroy the Union we perilled our
lives to preserve. The men who placed
him in nomination and who are now his
most active supporters, repudiate tne
object of tho war by declaring the
South out of the Union, and by accept.
ng their nomination, he assumes their
principles, which violate everything he
contended for in the field.
eVsocxw, That we endorse the nomi
nation of the Hon. Hicstcr Clymcr, the
Democratic candidato for Governor of
Pennsylvania, because ho is a man of
integrity and a statesman of experience,
and approves the principles we advocate.
We call upon our late companions in
arms in this State to rally to his support,
for his election will be an endorsement
of the cause for which wc fought and
bled, while his dctcat will be a defeat
of tho cause of the Union.
Resnlved, That the Radiouls in Con
gress, professing to speak for the major
ity of the people, have recently testified
their preference for the negro by ap
propriating money to support him in
idleuess, by the payment to linn of a
bounty of $300, and the repudiation of
the white soldier and his claims by the
passage of a bounty bill allowiug but
6100 to him, without even a provision
appropriating money for the payment of
the same, thus disregarding his faithful
and patriotic services, demonstrates to
the country their belief in the assertion
that the negro bears the palm.
Rctohed. That we. the soldiers of
Pennsylvania, iti Convention assembled,
do return our sincere thauks to the
Hons. Edgar A. Cowaa and Charles R.
Ruckalew, our representatives in tho
Senate of the United States, for their
noble conduct in sustaining the l'rcsi
dent's policy of restoration.
The readmz of the resolutions was
frequently interrupted by tho hearty and
prolonged applause of the Convention,
and they were unanimously adopted.
After some other minor business the
convention adjourned tine die, to pro,
ceed in a body to the Rolton House, to
pay their respect to our distinguished
condidute for Governor, Hon. Iliestcr
Clymer.
Proverbs. Don t swop with your
relashuns unless you can afford to give
them the big end of the trade.
Marry yountr, and if circumstances
require it, often.
If you can't git good clothes and cd
ucation, too, git the clothes,
Say " How are you " to everybody
Cultivate modesty, but keep a good
stock of impudcucc on hand
Men of ccnius never part with that
commodity and for the best of reasons,
Re charitable ; three cent pieces were
made on purpose.
It costs more to borrow than it docs
to buy.
If a man flatten you, you can kalke
late he is a rogue, or you are a fule.
Keep both eyes open, but don't sec
mom half you notis.
If vou itch for tame, go mto a crave
yard and scratch yourself
tunic stone.
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against
Two armies generally getalorg quiet
ly, until eugaged.
A man mav be said to know thor
oughly only what he can correctly com
muuicate to others.
Q7The twitter of the Republican
office-holders in their present state of
uncertainty is very laughable. They
know the aic is ready for every Radi
cal neck. Many of them begin, dimly,
to see the fallacy of Republican doctrine.
If tho Johnson candidates were a little
prooouueed they could ice thuir way
better. Like the fellow who eat the
persimmon, they don't kuow whether
they 8-0 whistling or singing.
Kvcry bird pleases us with its lay
especially the hen.
IUVJHtl PEAWa, VG. 16th 1 1C0.
Select: cciir".
Wish I was a Printer.
I wish I was a printer,
I really do, indeed ;
It seems to me that printers
Have everything they need.
(Except money !)
They get the largest and tho best
Of everything that grows, '
And get free into circuses 1 '
And other kind of shows.
07 8vnS equivalent !)
The biggest bug will speak to them,
No matter how they dress ;
A shabby coat is nothing
If they own a printing press.
(Policy ! )
At ladies' fairs they're almost hug
Ry pretty girls who know gcd
That they will crack up everything
The ladies have to show.
(Lucky fellows!)
Thus they get a " blow out" free
At every party feed
The reason is because they write
And other people read.
(That's so !;
General Geary and vVetjro
Suffrage.
Notwithstanding the studied efforts
of the Radicals to keep in the back,
ground their pet measure of "negro
suffrage," knowing it to be immensely
unpopular with the masses, their candi
dates are all solemnly pledged to it,
The following will illustrate this point ;
Immediately after his nomination, Gen-
eral Geary called upon a Democratic
neighbor, engaged in mercantile pur
suits, soliciting his support in the com.
ing canvass. To this the Democrat re.
plied, that previous to the assembling
of the Radical Convention, he had
thought as a neighbor of voting for
Geary, should he receive the nomina
tion, but that the resolutions passed by
the Convention and indorsed by Geary,
had wrought a thorough change in his
views. He was always ready to act
neighborly, but it was asking more than
Democratic human nature could bear,
to request his support of so shameless
measure as that of negro suffrage and
negro equality. To all of which the
" life.long Democrat," in his blandest
terms, replied that, although ho had
fully committed himself to the rcsolu
tions of the Radical Convention, his
neighbors need have no scruples about
voting for him, as the subject of negro
suffrage was yet in embryo, and could
not, under any possible circumstances
be brought fully before the people dur
ing his term of office, should he be
elected. The Democratic merchant
failed to see the point so ingeniously
presented, and wisely determined to ad
here to the ancient landmarks of the
party with which he had always votcd.-
A'je- . .
tguWe do not say that it would not
have bcon proper to expel both Soldier
Rousseau and Preacher GitiN.Vfclii.
after their abusive talk and personal
violence ; but was it right to kick out
tho bravo Soldier and allow the con tin
ued presence of the blackguard Parson ?
It is easy to sec in what different estiuia,
tion extra loyal Congressmen hold the
man who has perilled his life bravely in
defence of the Union, and the paltry
fanatic who has done his little best to
destroy it. The soldiers of the Uoion
may draw from this token of Congres
sional action and advantageous infci
ence. When Rocssf.au was piotectin,
the carcasses of Republican Congress
men from rebel seizure he was a demi.
god. Now that the carcasses are safe,
the demigod is deposed, and we live
again under the reign of the political
cravat.
The New Orleans Picayune, an
nounccs the arrival there of the Mollie
Able, from St. Louis, laden with provi
aions for the eufferiug poor of Alabama
to whom, it says, they will be a God
send.
Tho receipts of lumber during the
last week at Chicago were 18,328,000
Tho demand from the west and south
west still continues exceedingly active.
ana tuc markettshows no signs of abate.
UK'Ut.
Tho Increase of Pay.
The Congress which has just adjourn
ed managed with that high parliamen
tary art which is so mysterious to the
uninitiated and so simple to those who
understand it, (and which is us difficult
to explain pn paper as a piece of ma
chinery without a diagram), to attach
the proposition to advance the salaries
of Congressmen to five thousand dollars
per aunuin to the bill equalizing sol
diers' bounties, as it is called.
In the first place, it was a neat thing
for Congressmen to get into good com
pany, and the veterans to whom hour.,
tics were to bo voted, with the purpose
of equalizing them, were those who en
listed for three years in the flush times
of the war without bounty. Now, our
sagacious Congressmen could not any
way in the world avoid increasing their
own salaries without voting against the
soldier's bounties. Therefore, they
patriotically put the twin measure
through, tho pecuniary effect of which
to pay each member of Congress
$4000 more than lie agreed to servo for,
aud to each three ydais' veteran who en.
listed without bounty, 100. The in
ference is fair that as each Congressman
takes forty times the amount for two
years that he gives the veteran soldier
for three, that he estimates the compar
ative value of their services in that pro
portion.
The New York Tribune pronounces
the course of Congress upon this matter
" a very unwise, selfish, cowardly and
unprincipled act. It was unwise, be
cause thero are not five men in the two
Houses who would have dared, when
candidates for their present positions, to
declare that if elected, they would seek
and vote to raise their own pay from
$0000 to 810,000 each per Congress.
It was selfish ; for the members must
have known, that in so acting and vot
ing, they were emburassing aud damag.
nig the public- cause, which they pro
fess to have at heart, in their greedy
lust of private gain. It was uiipiiuci
pled ; for functionaries entrusted with
power over their own recompense should
therein set an example of moderation,
in order that they may bo in position to
resist sternly and efficiently the rapacity
of other would.be leeches on the body
politic. It was cowardly ; for they did
not venture to enact this increase of pay
in a distinct bill, and let the yeas and
nays be taken and recorded thereon
but sneaked it into the tail end of an
appropriation bill, and juggled it thro'
by the machinery of a Conference Com
niitlee, after the House had vuted i
down by I so to three. It was a very
mean performance, and we hope to see
it repealed at the next session. It will
be, if the people only take the matte
in hand and ask every candidate for the
next Congress, " Sir, will you vote to
put the pay of members back to $3,000
per annum, and have all mileage charg.
cd by the most direct mail routo 1 "
" E7cn if an increase of pay had been
just as it is not the bill should havo
provided that every member ubscnt
from his scat should forfeit at least $25
per day aud $ 10 for every time the yeas
and nays are taken and his name not
recorded. Absenteeism is a crying and
growing evil. Half tho members are
absent half the time. When such ab
sence is totally without excuse, they
pretend to deduct 8,50 per day for it
(which Is about one. fourth what they
have just voted a day's service to be
worth) ; but this forfeit is rarely exact
ed. The absentee pretends to have
sickness in his family, or makes (to him.
self) some other excuse for taking from
the Treasury money which he has never
earned, and to which he is not entitled
by law.
" If members choose to vote them
selves a full $1,000 per month (over $10
per workiug day) for their services, they
ought to abolish tho fr&uking privilege,
dismiss three-fourths of their well paid
satellites, and reduce tho mileage to ten
cents per mile by the shortest mail
route. Rut they make no show of deal
ing honestly with the public' Some of
them will rue this before they get re
elected." A silver chain around a dog's
oeck ill not ko p him from barking or
bitiotr.
T. F. MOORE, IMbliHhcr.
TEH.ltS-1 50 Per IVor in advance.
Organization.
The State Central Committco, under
the lead of its competent chairman, has
mapped out a plan of organization, and
that plan is before tho people and ready
for execution. It now remains for the
different counties, townships, wards, and
election division? to co operate with the
Central Committee in the important and
indispensable work of thoroughly or.
ganiclng the Democratic party in the
State and preparing the people for the
contest.
" A full Democratic vote in October,"
the Philadelphia Aye soundly urge " is
a defeat of the Radicals. That is cer
tain. The vote east in favor of If on.
Georgo W. Woodward for Governor will
elect Heistcr Clymer, with a margin of
ten thousand votes. Tho Radicals can
not now dragoon men as they did then
Their army of shoddyites andj contrac
tors and spies and informers has melted
away, and in their places remain tax
gatherers, who are draining the iast
penny out of tho pocket of the farmer,
the merchant, the mechanic, tho manu
facturer and the workitigman to nictit
the interest on a debt contracted by an
extravagant Congress to support Freed-
men's Rureaus and other kindred mcas.
ures. The people feel the truth now,
and are prepared to act with any party
for the defeat of tho Radicals. The
National Union Convention will con.
centrate and consolidate the anti-radienl
clement of the State and make it ii re
sistible" Rut the Democratic party Heeds or.
ganization. The material is abundant.
It must be collected and put in shape
for effective uso at tho proper time.
Not a vote should be lost. Organization
is the " needle gun " by which the vie.
tory is to be gained. Here in raw
county we are sadly defective in this
respect. With one or two exceptions,
no Democratic clubs havo anywhere
been organized in the county. We
ajniu urge upon our friend that they
Onlay no longer. Inc time has come
for a determined effort, and wc will be
shamefully negligent of our duty if we
fail to avail ourselves of every honora
ble means to secure success. Erin Ol,
We have heard a great deal, but
not much to the purpose, about black
" Uuionism " and black " loyalty " at
tho South. Wo havo heard little or
nothing about black fidelity to the South
crn cause, and to the Southern leaders
and people. The truth is, and every
soldier will confirm it, that for every
black soldier eiilistcdto do garrison du
ty on the side of the Union, there were
at least forty blacks at the South who
clung to the fortunes of their masters.
and repudiated all connection with the
Northern araiy. This might have been
foreseen as an inevitable result by any
person who knew the negro character,
It is sublime effrontery for Radical jour
nals to deny it now that through a tour
years' War tho obvious character of the
nesro race thus made an exhibition of
itself. Erie Observer.
' It is undcrstoodjthet General Sick,
les will accept the mission to the Hague
Kirby Smith is in Lcxiugton, Ken
tucky, the guest of Qeucrul Yulli
Preston.
AruotusM It is not tho varnish
UDon a carriage that uives it motion or
strength.
It is stated that the Confederate
General Early is prcpairiug a history of
his campaigns
Sidney Everett, son of Edward
Everett, has married Miss Kitty Fuy, a
Boston heiress.
Neither false eurls, false teeth
false calves nor falsecyes are as bad as
false tongues.
General Lee thinks he will have
three hundred students at Washington
College next session.
The journey men plasterers ot Mem.
phis, Tenncsee, demand six dollars a day
after tho 10th of July.
The wheat crop of North Carolina
is said to be an average one. Corn and
potatoes promises a large yield.
President Johnson bus handed to
RifiUop Potter, of South Carolina, his
check for $1,000 in aid of the Thcolog.
icul Institute iu that State.
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A Iitllo of Uverylhin.ir.
- Senator Fcsscdcn lost half his prop,
erty, including his valuable papcts and
library, by the Portland fire.
The Coemnjtnlitan says that Hon.
MiliardlFilraotc and lady have just lelt
Purls on their Way home to America.
An old lady being asked to sub
scribe for a newspaper declined on tho
ground that when she Wanted news she
manufactured it.
The Republican Convention of tho
state of Maineon Thuisday passed
strong rcsolutious in favor of negro .suf
frage. Stick apinthere,
A nosegay is easily obtained. Font
brandy toddids a day will soon put yon
n the way of one that will astonish all
your friends.
' Senator Lane died at Leavcnworth
Kansas,onthc 11th ulti( from "jtlic ef.
feets of a pistol shot ho inflicted va
himself the week before.
A Cur driver in New Orleans kill
ed a man by striking him "on tho head
with a loadcdwhip, .for getting ou his
car with a ci'jar in his hand.
The negto troops on the Rcd'rivcr
in Texas afe CnjoyitlgVcarntval of rob
bery and murder. They have become
a terror to friend aud foe
Hon. J. II. Reagan, late Confeder
ate PostmitRtcrGcucralwasjiiarried on
the 31st ult-, to MissJMollie F. Taylor,
of Anderson county, Texas
Kossuth has, it is said, received a
great number of invitations horn Hun
garians to put himself ut the head of it
revolution in Hungary now that the waf
has broken out.
The National Johnson Club,"
IIoiu Montgomery Rlair, President, aud
tho "National Uuion Club," A. W .
Randall, President, have been consoli.
dated at Washington RitV.
A man in Philakclphia ha been
sentenced to four years imprisonment
and the payment of $100 fine for biting
off a policeman's nose. lie will have A
long time in which to chew his bite.
A boy at Orleans, Massachusetts,
lately CoUghcd up the leg of a porcelain
doll. It had been in his lungs for seven
years, and all that time he was thought
to bo ill of consumption.
Robert Carroll, of Winnamac, In
diana, has a natural curiosity a sing.
ing mouse. It is small, and almost jet
black. It siugi like a Canary bird, ami
is tho wonder of every beholder.
The tears we shed for those wc
love arc the streams which water the
garden of the heart. Without them it
would be dry and barren, and tho gen
tle flowers of affection would perish.
A National Picture. The Rich
mond Times makes tho following sug
gestion :
" There is, Wc believe, still a vacant
panel in the rotunda of the Capitol at
Washington, which patiently awaits its
inevitable fate in the form of some hid.
cous daub of a national painting. It is
the panel next to that famous " shin
piece," where the talent of the artist
was exhausted in painting the well
developed legs of the signers of tho
Declaration of Independence. As the
Jacobins are doubtless proud of the lato
triumph ot American valor over a fee.
blc, old and helpless prisoner, let Con.
gress appropriate $50,000 for a gigantid
paiutiug of the 4 Placing Shackles upon
Jefferson Davis." It is a magnificcut
subject for an accomplished artist. The
cold, damp, cheerless cell, the small iron
bedstead, the fragment of mouldy bread,
the overturned tin cup of dirty water,
tho bold assault ot a dozen stalwart,
armed soldiers upou a feeble old prison
er, the heavy manacles and the uplifted
sledge hammer of the herculean black
smith, are splendid materials for a
great national picture. As a certain
poetic license is allowed to aitists, Ilea I'
turnkey Miles should be introduced,
looking ut this noble and inspiaitiu; ex
hibition of American valor and humani
ty, through a double-barred wiudow."
Tho wire worm is destroying Vh
ginia corn, and tho potatoo bug is cit
ing the Virgiuia potatoes.
The Republicans of Grccue county
Pa., have no uinatcd General Grant lr
Pro.ideut in IS')?.