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ELECTION NOTICE.

PURSUANT TO A APR0CLAMATtUE AMI
i writ of election to me directed w III "a
celleney, William q. Brownlow, GOTei.If OF
the State of Tennessee, bearing date Seplem:
an election on SATURDAY. the 18th day Of
October, 1866, for two Representatives in the
General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, to
fill vacancies OccasiOned by the resignation Of
Walker: tor judge of the Chancery Court OF
Memphis; fo- Ju ge of the Law Court OF
Memphis; for Jhge of the Criminal Court Of
Memphis for Attorney General OF the Solicit
torial District composed of the Fifth, Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth Civil Districts of the
county OF Shelby, Tennessee for Clerk sf the
Circuit Court of Shelby county, Tennessee; for
Mayor of the city of Memphis, Tennessee; for
Memphis; for City Tax Collector; for Tax Col
lector on PRIVILEGES; for Wharfmaster of the
city of Memphis, Tennessee.
The following named gentlemen are ap-
pointed Judges and Deputy Sheritfs TO hold said
District No. l-R. W. Bond, w. 4. Gather,
J. IL; Lipphe. Judges; Ihos. Epperson, Dep
uty Sheriff
son. 5. X. Lignon. judges; W. p. York, Dep
district No. 3-Charles Crenshaw, g. r.
Wynne. $; c. Bolton, Judges c. A. Hill, Dep
district No. 4-Wm. Stoveall, James Carroll,
+. Hester. Judges N. NJ Satterwaite. Deputy
Sheriff
District No. 5-Engine-house No. 6--John
Turner, Thos. Foley. Patrick Conroy, Judges {;
John w. Taylor, Deputy Sheriff.
Engine bouse No. 80, D. johnson, William
Chase, Lewis Amis, Judges; ,. 4. Morgan
District No. 6--H. B. willerford, Sau. Allen.
Wm, II. Sneed. Judges; b. W. Pryor. Deputy
District No. 7-E. PulIiam, j. B. Mercer,
james Holloway, Judges; g. NJ. Bartlett, Dep
district No. s--J. Mills Thompson. Robert J. .
Chester, F. P. Thompson. Judges; Z. h. Pey
ton, Deputy Sheriff.
District No. IN. Rodgers, Philip Jones. NJ. .
L. Williams. Judges; W. II. Webber. Deputy
District No. lot. C. Blakely, b. B. Nevill.
]. ApplewhIte, Judges james Moore. Deputy
District No. 1l-wm. H. Walker. W. c. Har-
rison, ], II. Townsend, Judges l.. A. Rhodes
District No. i2-wm. Counell, Thomas Hole
man, J. W. Elan, Judges ; Doyl Pearson, Dep
district No. ls-w. S. Walton. L. Leamon.
James $; Bailey, Judges c. F. Stephenson,
Deputy Sheriff.
District No. i4-Engine House No. 2. Shelby
street-John =. Tobin, Joseph Chambers. L.
NJ. Walcott. Judges T. A. Hamilton, Deputy
Engine House No. Wv. W. Jones, Thsmas
o. Smith, Jessee Moore, Judges; james ii.
District No. l5-R. II. Glisson, DR.. Thomas.
J. ID. Danburry, Judges; W. Il. Cotton. Deputy
Sheriff.
District No. l6-EliJah Brooks, J. II. Good
lett, W. Moon, Judges; Wesley Moon. Deputy
Sheriff.
District No. III. Massey. W.. s. Smith.
E" COrlish, Judges; Erwin Oakley, Deputy
Sheriff.
Deputy Sherifs. Judges, Clerks and voters
will be required in all things TO comply with
the law of the State defining and limiting the
elective franchise.
Deputy Sheriffs will make their returns to me
at the Sherifi-s Office. in the Greenlaw Block.
on Second street. Memphis, Tennessee.
p. NJ. WINTERS,
IS Sheriff Of Shelby County.
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he was Matched, and everywhere about
the upper part Of his face you see the old
devil mark. No lucid interval OF sym
pathetic humanity could eradicate that
peste; and when we come out TO his nose,
we touch the sign of all the paramount
physique of his nature. 1t is destitute of
muscle, and those gallant apertures
through which courage snorts in battle,
are here but toylet holes. 1t drops, it
turns, it lifts, it wreathes; it shifts, it
doubles up and down and runs back,
when anybody offers him hand, fearing
a null"
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That evening" again continued the
President, there was court ball. |
appeared at it still clothed in my judi
cial robes, and bearing with me the death
warrant of FRANCHISE Bending my
knee to the earth, | said to King Louis
XVI:
Sire, to-day the bones Of my foster
sister have been broken on the rack. /
was her accuser, sire, and she has con-
fessed all
Well said the King.
Sire | invented the story of that
theft"
The King recoled with horror.
And wherefore, Monsieur 2"
Because | wished to prove to France
that with the torture the most frightful
falsehood was beieved-the hottest truth
assassinated Sire, to this proof have
sacrificed the thing dearest to me in the
world My opinion, therefore, cannot
be doubted"
Messieurs," said the King, let the
bail continue" Then, turning to the
Chancellor, Monsieur, from this night
the torture as abolished an France! Let
it be made known throughout the king
dom -
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= hall the Voters of the North
have Equal Rights with the
Voters OF the South!

One of .he great questions to be Gecid-
ed at the Congressional elections this fall
is whether the voters of the North shall
obtain equal rights with the voters of the
South, or whether they are satisfied that
the abolition of slavery shall even increase
the superior rights which the voters of the
Southern States have thus far enjoyed
under the Constitution. The matter is so
plain that, properly presented, it cannot
fail to be understood by the dullest intel
lect.
According to the law Of the 23d of
May, 1850, it was enacted that the num-
her of representatives in Congress should
be 233 that the representative population
(Which means the whole number of free
persons, excluding Indians not taxed,
with the addition Of three -ffths of all
other persons) determined by the census
Of that year and thereafter should be
divided by saiG number 233, and that the
quotient so found should be the ratio of
representation for the several States
The ratio thus ascertained under the cen
sus of 1860 was 124, ,1S3, and upon this
basis the 233 representatives were appor-
toned among the States. The number
was, however, increased by the act OF
March 4, 1862, from 233 to 241, by al
lowing one additional representative t.
each of the following States : Illinois
Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio, Penn,
sylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont
According to this apportionment the
Northern and Southern States had the
following number of congressman:
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jected, ana the present misrule in The
South continued, it will NOS be too late to
require impartial suffrage as the only
safety of the nation. Any other system
of suffrage is built on passion, on prejudice,
and the hateful spirit of caste. Let
every man have like opportunity with
other men, and if he rise, then God speed
him, and if he sink, he himself, and he
alone, is responsible. Impartial suffrage
must finally prevail. Perhaps not this
year, nor next, nor this decade, but before
the present generation shall have passed
away the same law of franchise will be
applied to all. The amendment changing
the oasis Of representation from popula-
tion to voters will prove itself the agency
in the work. South Carolina herself may
be the first of the rebellious States to
enfranchise the people of color. We
cannot afford, whether il Pennsylvania or
further South, to allow one class of people
to speak arbitrarily for another in the
national councils When any man, high
or low, is robbed of his inalienabe rights,
just to the extent he is robbed is he inca
pable of self protection within the pale of
law. Those who derive advantage from
the robbery are made his masters and so
surely as any men have placed IN their
grasp the rights of other men, so surely
will they begin to learn how to abuse
them. In this, then, we have confidence
that while the proposed amendment does
not absolutely secure the only true and
wise policy, it yet gives promise Of bring
ing about that desirable result.
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Look to YOur National Securf-
ties!

In reply to question as to what effect
the success of the Presidents policy
would have upon our National Securities,
the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens has written
the following important letter. We COM
mend its argument to thoughtful atten-
ton:
JoHy GIGER, esq.-Dear Sir; In answer to
your inquiry, ''what effect the success of the
Presidents views will have on the National
Securities ?" L am of opinion that its effect
would be very injurious.
The President contents that the BODY Of
men acting as Congress has no constitu-
tional powers and can do no valid act in the
absence of the excluded States. The Con-
crosses that authorized the war debt, and
laid the internal duties to pay it. were COM
posed of precisely the same number of repre-
sentatives, from the same States, as the pres
ent. If it should be decided that those
Congresses had no constitutional existence,
then the 5-20s, l0-40s, 7-3Os, and the legal
tender greenbacks will have been issued with
out authority, and will be worthless.
Whether they would ever be redeemed
would depend on what the President would
consider constitutional Congress, after the
admission of the Rebel representatives, when
the condition of the debts of both belliger-
ents would be considered. Yours, truly,
Sept. 81, 1866. THADDEUs STEVENS.
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The Boys in Blue.

The National Convention of Soldiers
and Sailors held in Pittsburg last week
was grand success. Ten Thousand dele
gates were present, including such distin-
guiShed heroes as Gen. Butler, Gen. Sigel,
Gen. Garfield, Gen. Logan, and Gen,
Burnside. The proceedings were entirely
harmonious, and not only harmonious but
enthusiastic to degree rarely witnessed,
giving assurance that those who were true
as steel in the field cannot prove false at
home to the great principles for which
they fought and suffered during period
of FIVE years. The Convention issued no
address. Their resolutions were brief aud
to the point, and such as no loyal and
sensible man can fail to approve. AS
they did their work we'll on the battle
field, so have they done in council, and
SO will they do at the polls convincing
our erring Southern brethren that those
who advise them now to their destruction
are as impotent in the North as the men
who did the same thing in 1861.
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It will be seen that in this case Illinois,
Maine, Michigan, New Jersey and Wis
consin will gain one Representative each,
Massachusetts two and New York four.
Men of New York, New jersey, Mass
achusetts, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin
let it be we'll understood by every voter
in your State that the Republican Con-
gressional ticket means equal political
rights for the voters North and South, and
that the ticket of the Democrats and the
Jonson party means superior rights of the
Southern voters. Every man who votes
the opposition ticket thereby consents to
have lesser rights than a voter in the
Southern States while every supporter of
the Republican ticket insists that the
Union men of the North shall have at
least equal rights with the late rebels. Is
it possible that the issue between two
such tickets is doubtful ?-N y Tribune.
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"'AS Goes pennsylvania SO Goes
the URiOH.''

The Gubernatorlal election in Pennsyl-
vania will be all one way. Major General
Geary will undoubtedly be elected by a
majority that will settle the question at
issue in all the other loyal States, and
revive the old proverb, GAS goes Penn
sylvania so goes the Union" Thousands
of the supporters of President johnson
cannot conscisntiously vote for Hester
Clymer, and the President himself cannot
desire the defeat of such a candidate as
Geary The chief importance OF the
Pennsylvania election, therefore, is in its
bearings upon the next Senatorship.-
Ncw York Herald, September II.
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CIyner and the Soldier.

In a speech delivered at Lancaster on
Thursday last, Hon. John w. Forney
related the following incident connected
with Clymer's electioneering experience
among the soldiers. The ''brave soldier" :"
it occurs to US, can be none other than
Major James G. Burke, during the war
an officer in the 11th Pa. Reserves, and
formerly an Ebensburgher but now a
resident of Elk county =
"Mr. Clymer was nominated and why :?
Not certainly because he had reflected
any credit upon his country as a soldier
No He was selected simply because his
political life had mainly been confined
to sympathy with the rebellion, and
because his votes and his speeches had
been givan and pronounced against the
presented as a soldiers candidate, and in
the course of his loug speech, day before
yesterday, trying to apologize for his
course, he never once said or attempted
to say why he had spoken against his
country and her champions. 4 man may
vote as a partisan and under party arrange
ments, out he certainly could not have
spoken treason without feeling it. His
whole speech was simply an insult TO
those to whom it was addressed. In NV
recent tour in the Northwestern counties
of this State [ found that Mr. CIymer's
speech here on Tuesday last was his staple
apology whenever called upon to explain
his anti-War record.
ga brave soldier, who lives in the
town of St. Mary's, Elk county, told ME
little incident connected with Heister
Clymer which strikipgly illustrates the
point. Mr.. Clymer had just been making
his speech at ST. Iary's, and the soldier
happened to be absent Meeting Clymer
few days afterwards, he was introduced
to him. Mr.. Clymer said: Major, what
regiment did you belong to p 'The Ilth
Pennsylvania Reserves was the answer.
q know the regiment well, said Mr.. ely
mer, 'it did good service-it fought brave
ly.' Yes sald the Major 1T did good
service it did fight bravely we went out
with a full complement of men and re-
turned with but remnant; we had infinite
trouble with our rebel adversaries but
we had far more trouble, Mr.. Ciymer,
with such men as you. We could get
along with the rebels, but it was difficult
part to fight men at home, politicians like
you, who were al the time stabbing US
in the back while we were offering our
lives to the country Mr.. Clymer,
greatly confused, said We'll, Major, if
you had heard my speech, [ think it
would have satisfied you had done my
duty in the Senate, aud that all my votes
were honestly given, and for patriotic
purposes To which the Major responded ::
'Sir, you may be an able man, but you
must be much more able man than you
are if you can satisfy me on that heard
l only regret that [ have forgotten the
name of the gallant soldier who told me
this incident, but when Mr.. Hester ely
mer sees what [ have said in print, he
can decide whether it is true or not"
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rhe A11eghandan.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1866.

REPUBLICAN UNION TICKET.
With malice toward none, with charity for
all, with flrmness in the right, as God gives
us to see the right, let us strive on to finish
the work we are in to bind up the nation g
wounds to care for him who shall have
borne the battle, and for hiswidow and his
orphan; TO do all which may achieve and
cherish q just and lasting peare among our
selves and all nations.-Abraham Lineolns
Second Inaugural address.
GOVERNOR:
Gen. JOHN w. GEARY, of Cumberland CO.
CONGRESS:
DANIEL j. MORRELL, of Johnstown.
ASSEMBLY:
JOHN J. GLASS, of Allegheny township
ASSOCIATE JUDGES:
JOHN WILLIAMS, of Ebensburg
CHARLES B. ELLIS, of Johnstown.
REGISTER AND RECORDER:
WILLIAM M'DERMITT, of Cleariield Up.
COMMISSIONER:
HENRY FOSTER, of White township.
AUDITOR
JAMES NJ. COOPER, of Taylor township.
POOR HOUSE DIRECTOR:
CHARLES BUXTON, of Jackson township.
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The PuniShnen Of DeS
for Fraudulent FOtlI

The law against dese-ters voa
plain that it Is scarcely neccssaT
to it any more. i Is as plain 4
against minors voting as the ID
non-resideGts voting-as the lEF
aliens voting. 1t does not rsq1
of any such persons to establish |
cannot vote. When they aYpsaI
polls they are challenged 0l cd
are asked certain questions %
whether they are of the pr
whether they have resided in tt
district the length Of time pres
the law, whether they have 4
taxes. If they swear they aFs
to vote, their vote is taken, al
afterwards ascertained they h'l
falsely, they are subject TO an
conviction aud punishment for 4
voting and false swearing. ~
rules at the election, IN our lutguI
apply to all deserters. Ii will D
trial to establish desertion,
than it does to prove a mans
dence or payment of taxes.
charged with desertion at tbi
be worn when his vote is chs
IF he swears falsely he is a
prosecution for fraudulent v9.ini
jury. Electors can thus ADM
law without any violence to i
any man, while no true man
soldier will object to this pEo1
protection of the ballot boz
are not entitled to vote, and
way Of executing the law agaI'
is the best way of enforcing
ment they have incurred.
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Now that slavery is abolished, the
three-ffths rule has, of course, to cease,
and the new apportionment has either to
be made upon the voting (white) popula-
ton, as the Congressional amendment
provides, or upon the total population, as
will be the case if the amendment is re-
jected, and the johnson party have a ma
jority in the next Congress. Should the
amendment not be adopted, and the 241
members, provided for by the act of 1862,
divided among the States according to
their total population, the South would
gain nine members and the North would
lose nine. The ratio Of representation in
this case would be 129 ,245, and the rep
resentation of the Northern and Southern
States in Congress would be as follows:
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The Bounty Lie

We have received from sev.,,
soldier readers requests to refpt. u
temptible falsehood uttered h. !,
johnson and re-echoed by b;s a. !
to the effect that Congress bad -. W
as much bounty to negro soIS. ,S,'
white. The following extract ]
New York Tribune refers to tbi' {
"The World says:
"'Some of our radical friend, !
to relish this little item of on,s /
publish it again in hopes it M,
them good. Congress has ann!
pay for two years service a, z en-
For each negro soldier, SIOO. ~ 4,
white soldier, $50; for each n.., , .
Congress, $1,000
"Les US briefly expose tba :.
Stiffness of this impudent lie = %
enacted that eUery Union s.l5:a%, = !
war who has been honorlbly Az
after three years faithful servics
receive an extra bounty of slMl
those likewise discharged after /,
service should receive but $50 n
enlisting of blacks to put down A
lion was not fairly begun till n
assumed much larger proportions,
while the fighting ended in AM
OF course, most of the blacks ~
than two years, and so were eHdt.I
extra bounty while scarcelYa b,l
them served three years, so as to
them to 500 On the other hs,I
are many tens of thousands of vii
served through three years OF n
another large number who Sen
two years. Why utter falsehool
every one who reads or reflects
to be such ?"
The above is clear enough, bv,
no room COR doubt let us bring #
in every detail !:
Soldiers of 1861 (whea all YER
received no bounty at first, but /
they were asked to re-enlist, and ,,
First. SI00 bounty (by subs
actment) for their three years n
Second. For their addition
they received $500 bounty, 4
cities, States, counties and borou.l
ranging from $500 20 $1,000. as
douceur These men served auh
Of the rebellion.
Soldiers Of 1865 received slTI
from the Government, and, in a 1;
bounty from hume.
Soldiers of 1868, white and B /
ceived 800 bounty from the Go71
and additional bounties and
Soldiers Of 1864 received s50J
from the Government and a
bounties.
Some black soldiers received.
whatever, particularly those who
slaves. The law is 10 correct til
of the Government and to eQ1
status of the soldiers of 1862 /
and the blacks who received 4
Their right Co such bounty must
by their discharge papers.