The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1863-09-30
A BLACK RECORD.
Curtln's Own PartyJspeaks.
The SoLDIERSGREArFRlENo.
The Tonnage Tax swindIe.

The editorials of the Pttsburg Gazafe,
and Pittsburg DtsbntcA, two abolition pa
pers, against Governor Curtin are being
circulated in pam mphlet form. They make
q truth ful and damaging record.
lst. That the Governor was the inti-
mate friend Of Charles n. Neal and
Frownfeld. who swindled the soldiers in
shoddy and shoes, aud that the committee
of investigation, were managed TO cover
up and smooth the fraud.
I'd. That the Governor favored and
signed the bill repeating the ."Tonags
Tax, although be Confessed it was
trociously wrong" That he signed the
bill with "indecent haste during a recess
of the Legislature notwithstanding "hs
had given the most positive assurances
that it should be vetoed" and notwith-
standing he ''was solemnly and repeatedly
pledged TO refuse.it his assent"
Sd. That he 'ssigned" this tonnage tax
swindle Immediately after these assur-
ances were given" and that there was a
"private agreement in writing, made by
Thomas A. Scott, for the company to pay
the sum of s75,0 900 per annum into tho
treasury. which agreement he (Curtin,)
cancelled from the people, and afterwards
surrendered to the company without even
preserving a copy of it." "When intsf-
rogated at the next session upon this
point, he admitted the fact himself of the
agreement, and its surrender and excus-
ed himself on the ground that t'the CON-
pany were paying more than that amount
in taxes" The.record showed that sthey
had not been paying the half of that
amount and the Governors words were
ntradicted by the testimony of his own
Attorney General" who swore before the
Hopkins Committee that the paper was
given by Scott and placed in lis hands
as an official and public document.
9TH. The Patsbnrg Gasette says in
view Of these things. that the masses be-
lieved that the Governor had sssold the
People, and betrayed the State, and asks
if ''anybody is weak enough to think that
these things are already forgiven and for.
gotten"
8. That when another attempt was
made to investigate the whole matter COL
Mcclure hastened from the sick bed of a
friend to advise the appointment of the
committee, that great struggle was made
to keep off all who "were bent on running
Republican Governor"
That the committee "actod languidly"
that twas surrounded by the s'companies
spies" 'who telegraphed to witnesses
about to be summoned, in order to keep
them out of the way" and that the Presi-
dent and Vice President of the company
evaded The summons as wiinesses-one
by "absenting himself from the State" and
the other by certificate from q Physi-
clan, that he was undergoing injections Of
lunar caustic, although he was walking
the streets. The committee however
| found that the bill was procured .by the
use Of fraudulent and improper means" to
which bill the Governor, however against
his pledge put his signature. Thus was
the people of Pennsylvania robbed Of
many hundred thousand dollars.
9th. These Abolition papers allege, that
Governor Curtin in our national matters,
has not only fallen far short of the oe-
casion, in every element of courage, truth
fulness and ability but has enacted the
part of a marplot. from the beginning"
and "created more trouble at Washington
by his Officious intermeddling than all the
orher Governor" Of this we need not
speak, as there is not much honor, truth,
or decency anywhere among them.
18th. That the Governor pledged him.
self not to be candidate, meaning to be
one aud lastly these papers by many asser-
tions regard his nomination as fatal, and
his reelection as impossible. The pam
phlet is lengthy and exposes rascality
which the people should remember Gov
Curtin for at the ballot box. Nuthumbcy-
| land Cou;tfy Democrat.
The SOLDIERS VoTE.-The people
| should remember, that the abolitionists are
tho varv mon wbo ohseotad ~ the sol1;ers,