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VOL. 27.
PaMfsIicd by Theodore Schocli.
No p.iperlis:,mii1iued until limcaiagcsarc paid
Viceptattne option ofth Kilii
r!-'"!rthre.c "ertioiwo. E.-t h additional
veins. -.on'rer onci In nrooortinn
JOB I'RIXTIIVC,
IIP H.I, VINTtfl.
fcjicu'icJ inthe highest ftyle of the Ai t.and onthe
inosi icasori tbic terms.
III. I. CUOLBAUGII,
j Sign and Ornamental Painter,
SHOP ON MAIN STREET,
Opposite Woolen Mills,
STKOUDSKURG, IA.,
Respectfully announces to the citizens of
Ktroudsburg and vicinity that he is prepared
to attend to all who may favor him with
their patronage, in a prompt and workman
like manner.
CHAIRS, FURNITURE, &c, painted
and repaired.
PICTURE FRAMES of all kinds con
stantly on hand or supplied to order.
June II, LSG3. ly.
Drs. JACKSON & BIDLACK,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
DRS. JACKSON &. BIDLACK, are
prepared to attend promptly to all calls
of a Professional character. OJJice Op
posite the Strotiilshurg Bank.
April 23, lSG7.-tf.
C. W. SEIP, M. D.y
Physician and Surgeon,
STnouDsnuna, pa.
Office at his residence, on Main Street,
nearly opposite Marsh's Hotel.
All calls promptly aUcnJed to. Charges
reasonable.
Stroudsburg, April 11, 18G7.-tf.
IK. D. I). SMITH,
Surgeon Dentist,
Office ou Mi in Street, opposite Judge
Stokes residence, .Strodsbrg, Pa.
v 07 Teeth cxlr.-ccd without paio. )
August 1, 1667.
m .A. Card.
The undersigned has opened an office for
tbs purchase and sale of Real Estate, in
Fowler's Bui'ding, oil Main 6t eet. Parties
having Farm Mills llo c' o-.-other proper
ty for sale w'- find ;. io their advantage to
call on tnc. I have no Ci'is. Parties
must sec me personal'?.
GEO. L. WALKER,
Real Estate Agent, Stroadsburg, Pa.
A. Card.
Dr. A. 11EEVES JACKSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
BEGS TO ANNOUNCE THAT IIAV
inir returned froiu Eoronc, he is now
prepired to resume t:ie rctivc duties o his
profession. In orucr Lo prevent disa poo" it
mcnt to persons liv'ig at a distance who
may wish to consult him, he will be found
at bis office every THURSDAY and SAT
URDAY for consultation and the perform
ance of Surgical operations.
Dec. 12, 1SG7.-1 r.
WX. W. PAIL. J. D. HOAR.
CSASLES "v7. DEAH,
WITH
XM. YV. PAUL &, CO.
Manufacturers a:ul Wholesale Dealers in
BOOTS Ss SHOES.
WAREHOUSE,
C23 Market St., & 614 Commerce St.
above Sixth, No'th side,
PHILADELPHIA.
March 19, 18GU tf.'
Iicli! I tcli! Itcli!
SCRATCH! SCRATCH! SCfiATCH!.
BOLLLN.SUOU'S ITCH & SALT MILT J! OHTCEST.
No Family ho. Id be without ih is valua
ble medicine, ro- oi the first appearance of
the disorder oi the wri-te. betweeu the fin-
few, &.c, a slight application of the Oint- J
. ...:n i . i .
inenl will cure it, and prevent its be in? ta
ken by others. -
- Wa rrat ted to give satisfaction or money
refunded.
Prepared and olJ, wholesale and retail,
by - -v W. IIOLL1NSIIEAD,
Stroudeburg, Oct. 31, 'G7, . .Druggist.
Has permanently located him
self in JStroudfcburg, and moved
his office next tiooi to Dr. fc.
Walton, where he is fully prepared to treat
the natural teeth, and also to insert incorrup
tible artificial teeth on pivot and plate, in tqe
latest and most improved manner. Most
yersons know the danger and folly of trust
f their work to the ignorant as well as
the ifivcling dentist. It matters not how
much experience a person may have, he is
liable to have some failures out of a number
f cases, and if the dentist lives at a distance
it is frequently put off until it is too late to
eave the tooth or teeth as it mav be, other
pf'use the inconvenience and trouble of going
o far. Hence the necessity of obtaining the
cervices of a dentist near home. All work
warrtnted.
fitdiburg, March 27, 1862.
DON'T FORGET that when
you wan any thing in the Furniture
or Ornamental fine that McCarty, in the
Odd-Fellows' Hall, iajQ Street, Strouds
fcurg, Pa., is the place to get it. Sept. 20.
B
LANKS OF ALL JiJDS fur Sale at
thifi Oft;ce.
Battle of Cedar Creek.
Old Early camped at Fi.hcr Hill,
Resolved eonic Yankee blood to Fpill ;
He chose his time when Phil, was gone,
The Yankee Camp to fall upon.
ciionrs :
("Jet out of the Avay old General Early,
I have come to drive you out the Valley,
At night like thieves of sense bereft,
He marched hi troop around our left ;
With order strict unto his loys
To nothing take, to make a noise.
chorus : Get out of the way, &c. Ac
"While they were on their mission bent,
The Yanks were sleeping in our tents ;
Until the Keb's with a rousing volley,
"Warned us, to sleep, was death and folly,
cuonrs Get out of the way, &c. &c
Old Early carried out his plan ;
Surprising Crook and his command: "
Who had not time their lines to form,
So sudden came the Ilelel storm.
c iioni s: Get out of the way, Sic &.c
Now when the Sth Corps all had run,
Old Early thought it jovial fun ;
But General G rover (God bless his name,)
Said he would help them play the game.
chorus: Get out of the way, &. Ac
He formed a line the Pike along,
To cheek old Earlv and his thronir:
OF
Anil here he held the EeUl's at bay,
Till he was Hanked from every way.
chorus: Get out of the way, Ac. Ac,
This gave the Cth fori time to form,
Who bravely faced the Rebel storm:
Till the lDtii Cops had time to rally,
To stop the Relx-ls in the Valley.
chorus: Get out of the way, Ac.
Now Johnny's thought the victory won ;
And the usual pillaging begun:
Robbing the dead and wounded too ,
As none but southern blood can do.
chorus: Get out of the war. Ac. Ac.
. Now when the day was almost lost,
God sent a reinforcing Host:
The host he sends is but a man ;
But that's the noble Sheridan.
chorus :
Now turn your tune he says to General Early,
Yon have come too late to get the Vallev.
On! on! he comes; with lightning speed
Crying who hath done this awful deed:
He'd fare neath Southern skies,
Who dare my sleeping camp surprise.
CHORUS :
Say, get or.t of the way says Phil to Early.
Oh ! there another sound is heard,
And Liberty is the rallying word ;
And every heart is filled with pride,
To see the gallant lc:rder ride.
chorus: Say get out of the way, Ac.
Saying form ; quick J we will the figbt renew;
And see what rij;ht that wrong can do:
By night our camp v. e will regain.
And vengeance have for those that's slain.
chorus : Say get out of the way, Ac. Ac
Then orders flew left to right,
And glerions was the evenings siglii :
The Rebels flew 'mid the ran nans roar,
Losing all they gained and thousands more,
chorus: Say get out of the way, Ac.
Martinsbur", Vn.
Strange Freaks of Lightning.
Lightuing, like light, furnishes another
wonderful succession of marvels. How
delicate, how subtle! It performs its work
sometimes with scarcely a touch. It is a
most extravazant idea to comoare the
v " I
causes of thunder and the effects of lightn
ing to the noise and effects of cannon and
cannon ball; we are face to face with aD
essentially superior force. It might be said
that it constitutes a transition between this
one and a better one; in fact, it is really
subject to transcendental laws which our
weak intelligence cannot grasp.
Bodies have been killed repeatedly by
lightning, and they have not given the
slightest trace of any wound or scar, no
slight touch of a burn or a contusion, no
hint of the way by which the bird sprang
: i r. i r i .
from its confinement. Delicate and most
subtle, we havesaid,has often been its work.
Think of it melting a bracelet from a
lady's wrist, yet leaving the wrist untouch
ed; think of it melting instantly apairof
crystal goblets suddenly without breaking
them. Arago telU how the lightning one
day visited the shop of a Suabian cobbler,
did not touch the artizan, but magnetized
all his tools. One can well imagine the
immense dismay of the poor fellow; his
hammer, pincers and awl attracted the
needles, pins, tacks and nails, and caused
them to adhere firmly to the tools. The
amazed shoemaker thought that every
thing io the shop was suddenly bedevilled,
or else that he was dreaming.
And there are several well-authenticated
cases like this, showing that iron can
be rendered magnetic by the electric cur
rent. Wc read of a merchant of Wake
field, who had placed in a corner of his
room a box of knives and forks, and iron
tools, destined to be sent to the colonies ;!
in came the li??htii!n-. struck onen tha
n,i,1 .11 U .rtil nn ! fWr
and it was found, when they were picked
' . - . . .
up, that every one had acquired new por
pertics that they had all been affected
by the subtle touch of the current. Some
remained intact, others were melted, but
they had all been rendered more or less
magnetic, so that there was not a single
nail in the box but miht have served the
purpose of mariner s compass.
STROUDSBUHG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., AUG
The Growth of Mormonism.
Mr. W II. Hooper, Congressional dele
gate from Utah, has recently addressed
an interesting letter to iUr. John W
nanler, giving a sketch of the growth
oi Li tah. He says the Mormons have
built up Utah from a desert waste, which
iwcniy years ajro was twelve hundred
miles from cither settlements or navi"a
ble rivers, to what is now claimed to bo a
nourishing younir state, containing nni
hundred thousand inhabitants, with t
territorial extension of seventv-five thous
and square miles. There arc eighty six
flourishing townsind cities in the terri
tory, with near one hundred postofBces,
Willi ncr imst and- saw-mills.' vnnlon
t , - J ..ww.u
manufactories and manv other branches
of the mechanic arts equal to those of the
oiaer states. Ihere are one hundred
churches, one hundred and twentv school.
houses and three theatres, which equal
tuoooi mc siar.es in size ana grandeur.
The Mormons left Missouri in 1845,
crossing Iowa, then a wilderness, and en
camped on the banks of the Missouri, in
what was then called the Pottawatomie
country. Here they laid out the town
now known as Council Bluffs. Io the
spring of 1847 an advanced guard of one
hundred and fifty men proceeded to Salt
Lake valley, and selected the present site
of Salt Lake City in July of that year.
A few of these pioneers, under the lead
of President Young, returned to the Mis
souri river the same fall, leaving most of
the men at the lake to plough and plant
during the following season.
In 1848 the great bulk of emigration
of that year reached the valley, and found
that much had been raised for sustenance.
The march was attended by many hard
ships. The industry of the pm!cMnf i
shown in the fact that during the tedious
journey of four months duration the
spinning-wheel and loom continued their
work, and hundreds of yards of goods
were woven, the heavy wagon and slow
motion of ox-teams giving an opportunity
to spin and weave while the train was in
motion. The first printing press ever tak
en west of the Missouri was established
by the Mormons at Independence, in the
years 1832-S3.
In 1850 there was not a shingle roof
in Salt Lake City, which now contains
twenty thousand inhabitants. Mr. Hoop
er says that it is a remarkable fact that
most of the money which has been made.
and most of the fortunes which have been
amassed in the territory of Utah in mer
cantile pursuits previous to 1SC3, have
been made by those who have not been
Mormons ; and yet he has never known
of a farm having been oncncJ. mill
built, and very rarely a house erected in
the territory, by any one not a Morman.
Mr. Hooper estimates the Mormon emi
gration from Europe, from 1850 inclusive,
at an annual average of two thousaud souls,
or an asuresatc of thirtv-six thousand :
while the emigration from the states dur
ing the same period has been about twen-ty-lour
thousand. The estimated cost of
taking these persons to Utah is eight mil-
ion three hundred thousand dollars.
The emigration from Europe this year is
estimated at four thousand souls ; but it
will.probably be greater.
About one-third of the emigrants have
paid their own expenses. The remainder
have been taken out by what is styled
J "the perpetual emigrating fund," which
has been in organized existance about
twenty years, and is composed of contri
butions, tithe3; legacies, and funds drawn
from various sources both iu Europe and
America. The fund is kept up, in fact,
by those who received its benefits repay
ing when convenient the expense incur
red in their emigration, in order that oth
ers may receive a like benefit. During
the present year 6150,000 was contribut
ed in Salt Lake City, alone, to cnablo
others to reach America.
Mr. Hooper proves that it is cheaper
to treat the Indians midly than to fight
them, by stating that the United States
Government paid only scventy-fivo thous
and dollars for suppression of Indian hos
tilities in Utah since the organization of
the territory, while the Indian wars in
Oregon and tho adjacent states have cost
the Treasury millions.
Mr. Hooper also asserts that Utah has
done much, directly and indirectly, todc
vclope California, Nevada, Montana and
Idaho, enabling the latter territories,
through the supplies drawn from Utah,
to work the gold and silver mines, which
have contributed so largely to the na
tional wealth.
To Horsemen.
A correspondent of the Scientific Amer
ican gives this advice to horsemen:
Whenever they notice their horse direct
ing his cars to any point whatever, or
indicating the slightest disposition to be
come afraid, let them, instead of pulling
the rein to bring the horso towards tho
object causing its nervousness, pull it on
the other side. This will instantly divert
the attention of the horse from the object
which is exciting 'his suspiscous, and in
nnety - uine cases out of a hundred tho
nor80 wm Pay 00 nioro attention to tllO
lobjcct, from which he will fly away if
'TArAltilir Iflnn trt ii 1... .11.
forcibly driven to it by pulling tho wrong
rein.
One of Gen. Hancock's principal staff
officers, when asked, after the Democratic
National Convention, how he liked the
ticket, responded, "What uuiform do you
suppose 1 wear? Do you think 1 have
bc'.uu to wear j'ray H"
v w r
MR.NASBY VOTES.
The llcv. Petroleum V. Nasby thus
describes the recent election in Kentucky:
-."v ncwuuu wcui ou maniucenii v.
Never did I
see in
an my experience,
i w . -
wicu licz bin very great, sich extensive
iiri'iri nnnna mnii. I '
e. jjusconi s bar wuz
made free. Deekin Porgram, Kernel
McPcltcr and myself, one uv wich holds
a government ofBs, and the other two ex
pects to bed a barl uv new clcckshun
whisky purchist, wicli Elder Pcnnibackcr,
notwithstandin hisdisaffeckshun, furnisht
at cost, wich wuz 22 cents per gallon, ez
no tax hcz ever bin pade in his districk.
vpvucu mo pons, usin ior me purj
a hat, and the votin commenst lively,
put in two, Dascom slint in three unt
I opened the polls, usin for the purpus
I
der
different names, and the other faithful
ones voted cz many times cz they thot
ncssary. About 10 o'clock Pollock came
up to vote, at wich I was suprised. "When
I say suprised I mean it. The presence
uv tho man at sich a time wuz start.
lin, and it had a terrible effeck on the
populis. "Whatl" said Isaaker Gavitt,
J I? il ...11 -rtt. ..... -
iuuignanuy, -siiei a iiiinoy Ablishnist
a man not born in Kentucky a man who
holds views so totally different from ourn.
to vote at these ere poles ? Never ?"
And Issakcr, billin over with rae.
went for him, in wich he wuz assisted bv
the entire balance uv Corners. The
wretched man paid a hcavv nennltv frr
. j r - - -
is insolence. He wuz carried off bv
some sympathisin niggers, a mere wreck
uv hi3 former self.
A hit
mu iaicr iuo " uoonnun men. ri
they call their-sclves, upon Pike llun,
come down to vote. Hut Iswl-pr nn.i
McPcltcr reasoned with cm. Kernel
McPclter's remarks wuz pertikelcrlry
Impressive. They asserted that ez Ameri
kin citizens they had a rite to vote, and
shood do so at all hazards. The Kernel.
in reply, statid to em that the Corners
wuz a fitin for their liberties that no
matter wat their abstrack rites mite be,
the Corners cood not permit herself to be
contaminated with Ablish votes. "Shood
yoo attempt it,"scd he impressively, "the
Dioou uv the Cornerswiu be up, and I
won't be answerable for the con5ekences.
Beware !"
They precscd forerd, when from amonjr
our people a single shot was heard, and
the head one uv cm, a preacher, fell writh-
n in tnc oust.
I pitted the poor wretch, but what kin
we do 7 Why will they come about us.
irritatin our people with inccujary votes?
" uiau cu a iuiuuy. ,v at reason win
ie give them, when he s carried home
dead, for his ontimely dececsc ? Its ever
thus, lhe Abhshnists will never let m
lone. And yet I sposc that a hirclin
and subsidized press in tho North, in the
ace uv tue provocasucn wc rcccevcd, will
accuse us uv raurdrin this man !
Our ambishen wuz to hcv the vote
clean Dimekratic. But it wuz not so. j
vi aooui i p. m , doc Uigler, who hcu
hcerd uv the doins, coma to the polls.
iS-akcr ana Alcl'eltcr wuz a gion to pre
vent him from votin, but the villain
drawd a revolver the minit they lookt at
him, and they partid, makin a lane for
him to the hat,
"Docs any one challcngo my vote ?"
scd he, cockiu his wcepou. "Efso, let
cm speak."
But no one interfered, and I took it.
When we countid out there wuz barely
one Ablishu ballot iu the hat. It wuz
Biglcr's But wc were nccr cnuff yoonani
mus, and wc pcrposo to keep so. The
process is simple. It consists merely in
shootin all who differ with us. Thus wc
hev peccc at home.
Our politikle pro3pcck arc mixed.
The rcduckahen uv the lax oa whisky in
clined many uv our voters toward Kcnub-
likinism, but I headed this orf by swcarJ
.1..1 1-v . . . I
ing mat me jjemoensy wuz plcdgeJ to
take it orf all together. The Northern
papers "assertin that Blare's letter dou't
mean rcvolooshcn is hurtin us some, but
that is more then balanced by the case
with wich wc kin organize. Yesterday
an entire regiment in the Confedrit scrvis
reorganized a3 a Seymour and Blare Club
rctainin their officers cz doorin the war,
and yoosin the iJcntiklc rolls, flags and
sich. It aids us wonderfly.
Petroleum V. Nasuy, P. M.
(Wich is Postmaster.)
Ono of the best replies wo have noticed
in the canvass is that of the Hon. John
A. Bingham of Ohio, who, whilo speak
ing at a llepublicau meeting in Bangor-
iue., was insulted by a Copperhead, who
cried out. "How about Mrs. Surratt."
Mr. Bingham instautly responded :
'How about her ? Go and consult the
records of the court that tried and convic
ted Iter. Go and ask Gen. Hancock, whn
issued tho order for her execution is snitc
of a writ of habeas corpus which had been
served upon him : and. if vou aro still
unsatifcfied, go au J ask that apostate Pre-
nicnt, Andrew Johnson, why he refused
a pardon after a petition had becu scut
him signed by every member but ono of
the court who tried her, and drawn up in
tho handwriting of tho man you seek to
insult." .
Ex Gov. Seymour says i "Never bc
foro in tho "history of our country has
Congress taken a "menacing atitudo to
ward its electors." It U certain that tho
Democratic electors for whom Mr. Scy
inour speaks have often taken a menacing
attitude toward Congress. They did in
18G0, when they voted their States out of
tho Union, and during the entire Rebel
lion, until their "menacing attitudo" waa
taken out of them by Gen. Giant.
27, ISGS.
Description of the New Stamps for Dis
tillers' Use.
The Printing Bureau of the Treasury
xcparimeni is now actively engaged in
printing the tax-paid stamps for distilled
spirits, in accordance with the new
" accoruance wiui tnc new rev
enue law. The stamna arc' about fivft in
encs square, with a handsome vignette
i . . :
representing the reaping of grain, and arc
made of ten different denominations, from
twenty to one hundred and thirty. JGach
denomination of stamps has nine coupons
aiiucueu, so mat tucsc ten stamps will an
swer for any number of gauged gallons,
between those numbers. They arc bound
in books, with stamps attached to each
stamp, like bankers' checks, and bcin
charged for their Tull value to the collector
he get3 credit for all unused coupons re-
maining in tnc book on its return ; and
thus operates as a check upon the collec
tor, preventing fraud cither by collusion
or otherwise. The method by which re
use, or the use a second time, of the stamp
is prevented is new and ingenious. The
stamp is pierced with a large hole in the
centre, which is covered by a thinner pa
per before printing. After it is printed
and attached to the barrel it cannot .be
soaked off and re used, as the beer stamps
have been, because the stamp will come
off in two pieces, which, from their pecu
liar construction, cannot again be united
on another barrel. The stamp is perman
ently defaced by any attempt to remove
it. One peculiarity of the stamp is that
it cannot be printed except by what is
known as the dry process, by hydrostatic
power so that the stamps cannot, in the
present state of the art, be printed any
where but in the Treasury Department.
This effectually prevents counterfeiting.
The stamps, as well as the paper upon
which they are printed, were invented by
Mr. S. M. Clark, Chief of the Printing
urcau.
Operations of Solitary Confinement
The Philadelphia penitentiary being
an institution designed for separate or
solitary confinement, there arc no large
machine or workshops, no factories, no
moving gangs of workmen convicts. The
labor is all performed in the cells. Those
engaged in chair-making, shoemaking
weaving, jobbing, or what not, work in
their own cells cat thercj drink there,
sleep there. They never move out of
them. Their day's labor over, the dirt,
scraps and shavings arc swept in barrels
or baskets, and removed by carriers. Of
the poor fellows themselves you sec noth
ing.. Outside workmen are employed to
do what ever is required about the place.
The prisoners are sedulously secluded in
their rooms, and the vistor is not permit
ted even to view them. They are shut
off from the outside world as completely
as if dead. Their very names are obli
terated ; they are known only by num
bers. That is the extent of their in
dividuality. Of relatives or friends they
sec but little. Oace in a period of three
months an inspector's pass admits a wife
or a mother to a conference with her
criminal though loved one, and even then
such are the precautions of the prison
discipline, that they meet and talk only
through the bars of a cell-door, and iu
the presence of an officer of the institu
tion. Poor satisfaction for the lips that
moisten, for a kiss, for tho heart that
yearningly throbs for an embrace ! Fif
teen or twenty minutes also is the brief
time allowed for the meeting. There arc
in the institution at the present time
somewhat over COO convicts.
Two Serpents and a Cat Singular Case.
'PI. - V? .. 41 I. .1 n.
.nu uM-sstifcr utjcrion relates tne lol
lowing curious story : "A very singular
occurrence took place in the warehouse of
the Jlcssagcries Iniperialf, at Stora. .
large case containing two serpents, direc
ted from Batna to the superintendent of
tne zoological Gardens in Marseilles, was
deposited in the warehouse for shipment.
While there, a cat, ignorant of what the
case contained, got into in No sooucr
had it done so, than the reptiles spran
at it with the rapidity of an narrow, and
squeezed it to death in their immense
coils. They then relaxed their hold, and
commenced the process of swallowing.
The male serpent seized the dead cat by
ncad end, the lemale swallowed the tail
end. It is well known that when serpents
take into their mouth a substauce of a
certain size, the conformation of the teeth
and jaws in such that they cannot let go
their hold. In the prcscut case both
snakes were brought face to face, the pro
cess of deglutition was arrested, and it be
came doubtful how the matter would end.
At length tho famalc snake mado a des
perate effort to swallow tho other, aud in
doing so was choked. In coroboratioa of
tho above facts, the animals have been
preserved in rpirits of wine. The direc
tors of the Zoological Gardeus of Marseil
les are goiug to bring an action against
tho Eessagerics company for the loss of
the scrpcuts, whilst the owner of tho cat
demands that tho skin at least should be
given up to him as a matter of curiosity.
To the Editorof the Tribune.
Silt: Gen Grant is a Jackson Demo
crat, and so am I. He cau stamp his
loot on ado Hampton, as Jackson did
on Calhoun. A still tongue makes a wise
head. Tho hand that writes this voted
Gen. Jackson at his last term. Now tho
IIcro' ashes in" the grave would bo a
ashamed of the party that call themselves
Democrats. No trilling with men's souls
that have laid down their lives for U3 K
TlIO. B. Cl.AUlvC
Cut JJauk, A'. .., Au- 1
NO.-22,
Address to tho Republicans of Pennsyl
vania. .
Hon. Galusha A. Grow, Chairman of
the llepublican State Centrel Committcc;
lssues the following address to the voters'
of Pennsylvania :
Rooms of the llepublican State Central
Committee, Philadelphia, Aug. 18G3. '
To the Voters of Pennsylvania : Within'
sixty days you are to decide at the polls up
on the principles and general policy tha.
arc to control the administration of nublin
affairs for tho next four years. On tho
result hangs the grave questions of tha"
peace and good order of society, the pro
sperity of the industrial interests, the
development of the resources of the coun
try, tho integrity of the Union, aud tho
guarantees of liberty.
in the outcst, the party that for four"
years parlayzed the arm of industry by
iuauiug it wun a burden of twenty-fiver
hundred millions of debt, involved tho.
country in civil war, and threatened th
destruction of the Union and the over
throw of liberty, solicits'vour suffra7es
declaring that it has no principles to ad
vocate or measures to support, and callar
upon its followers everywhere to defend
nothing. With nothing in its history for
years worthy to be defended, it is wis
dom not to make the attempt; for it has
manacled the freedom of the press, crush
ed out liberty of speech and brutalized:
me public conscience in fifteen States.
It ostracised every man who had the cour
age to declare human bondage a sin
against God and a flagrant violation oi
the spirit and genius of the republic. Ifc-
waged a cruel war against tho pioneer set
tlers of Territories and covered tho prai
ries of Kansas with murdered heroes, bte-
cause mey preierred lrcedom to slavery.
It established a reign of terror, and mada
the residence of men faithful to the prfa-
yiic, oi mc -declaration ot independence
impossible on more than half the teritory
covered by the flag of a common country..
Defeated in its efforts to elect a President
of it3 choice it appealed to arni3 to nullify
the decision of the ballot-box. In tho
struggle it laid a million of brave men in
untimely graves, shrouded the nation in
mourning, .and flooded it with tears.
Such are the ghastly testimonials of what
the Democracy has done in years past.
Np thanks to that party that to-day wo.
have a country to love or a Constiution to
revere. It did all in its power to destroy
both. J
And now it again cocks power, through,
discord and civil strife. For four years. '
during the height of the nation's peril1,
the only hope of the party for success
was in disaster to our arms. Henco it
rejoiced at every Union defeat, and
mourned over every Union victory.
Its candidate for Vice Presideut declar
ed to the Convention that nominated him
that "we must have a President who will!
execute the will of the people by tramp
ling into the dust usurpations of Co
grcss 7cnotcn as tlie Jicconst ruction acts..
I repeat, this is the real and only
question which wc should allow to contro?
U3. It is the idle to talk of bonds, green
backs, gold and the public credit.
I wish to stand before the Convention up
on this issue." Thu3 was he nominated,
and Wade Hampton, advocating the tick
et, before an audience in South Carolina,
declares "that the cause for which they
fought, and for which Stonewall Jackson
died, will yet be gained in the election qL
Seymour and Blair."
If this party can succeed at the ballot
box, the work of reconciliation of four
years will be undone, and tho priclcss
sacrifices of four other will have been,
made in vain.
The issue is marked and well defined r
Grant, Culftx and Peace
or.
Set.
mour, lilair and
ar.
G ALUS it a A . G no w.
Chairman State Central Committee.
tiEOROE W. llAMERSLET, )
J, K. McAfee.
Seer's-
The Worcester Syy writes the fol'ow
ing epitaph for a headstone, which will
be wanted before the next snow falls:
Here Lies.
Without hope of Kcsurrcction,
All that remains of
American Demo;racy
(falsely so called).
Her appalling crime was to have sacrifice J
A million Lives
And Many Thousaud Millions of Trcasuro
Iu a fiendish struggle to perpetuate
v The accursed system of
American Slavery.
In the presence of this oue enormity
It would bo mockery to utter
The name of any
Virtue.
An Irish correspondent, who says Ik?
wants to vote for Gen. Grant, whishes us
to inform him whether Colfax was ever a
Know Nothing. Wc must sav the ques
tion does not appear to be very important
The Know-Nothings belonged to an era iu
our politics which passed away longsincci
some of them aro now Democrats of high
stauding, aud some Republicans ; and they
ought uot to bo held rosponsiblo for ideas
which they uo longer cutcrtaiu. But ca
to Mr. Colfax, it happens that ho was
never a Knw-Nothing' at all, but all
through
that coutcst defended tho rights
of our naturalized citUcns both in his
journal and as an activo politician. N. Y
The San Jose (Cal) Patriot, a Demo-
cratic, but u loy
loyal aud nation il journal.
is unable to go Seymour, and touic-
out
for Gtaut and Coitus.