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our service. Doolittle talked Northern
talk coz its a habit lie got into doorIng
the war, brit he'll get over it. Raymond
will be On our side this year, certain, Tor
last year he wuz agin us, and by the time
he is ready to turn again he will be worn
to so small a pint that he won't be worth
heving, and the Democracy up the North
wuz allus ourn, and eff they wuZzent1 the
offices johnson hez in reserve will draw
en-. like lodestun.
Ny desr sir, 1 wunst knowd q Irish
man who wuz sence killed in . Fenian
raid, employed as a artist in well diggln.
1t wuz his lot to go to the bottom NV the
excavation and load the buckets with
earth. The dinner horn sounded and he,
with the ais erity Characteristic NV his
race, sprang into the bucket and told EN-
te hist away, and they histed, but ez they
histed they amoozed themselves a droppin
earth onto him. "Shtopi" sed he, but
they didn't. "Shtopl" sed he "or b
CORA III cut the rope" My dear sir
Randall, and Doolittle, and Seward, and
johnson are a histin US out Nv the pit We
fell into in 1860. Their little talk abouf
debts and slavery and SIGH, is the eartl
| they'r droppin onto us for fun, but she
we like ijeots cut the rope? Naryt LIE
en- hist, and when we're safe out and OF
solid ground, we kin, eff we desire, turr
and chuck EN- into the hole.
All went off satisfed-the Northern
men, for they carried home with en- thei
commishun-I, feelin that my Post Ofhc'
wuz sekoor, for eff, with the show View
got, we can't ~re-elect johnson, the glor,
Nv the Democrisy hez departed indeed.
PETROLEUM v. Massey, P. NJ.
fuiob is Pockmastar
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-29
De RnIes oh de Honse.

A few days ago one of the walters st
the Bancroft House left rather suddenly,
and it became necessary to obtain anoth-
er immediately in his place. After q
while a respectable looking Ethiopian was
picked up on the streets, who agreed to
perform the duties of q waiter for a stipu-
lated sum. Being taken into the dining
room, he was duly installed in his Office,
with a neat white apron and shiny shoes,
which were, nevertheless, outshtHed by his
ebony face and ivory grinders. A bill
of fare was handed to him with proper in
structions how to operate; but Hdis chile
didn't need any instructions in that line,
he knew about Hdem eating arrangements,
yah, yahI" Dinner was announced and
shutting of feet prevailed. Our darkey,
who had never before been inside of a
first class hotel dining room, stood one
side lost in amazement at the scene. Pre-
sently an old gentleman with gold eye
glasses, and exceedingly fastidious look
ing withal, motioned for our waiter, who
answered the signal by bringing the old
gentleman a bill of fare and instantly
leaving him. In q moment he returned
bringing a soup plate trimming full OF
rich, greasy soup, and placed it pefort
him. The old gentleman poised his eye
glass and examined it critically, and then
pushed it aside. The darkey replaced II
again, when it was testify showed back
with the remark that he had ordered nc
soup and didn't want any at all, either
II tell you what it is, old fellah, you go
to eat it, cos it am de rules OBJ de house
and dey must be ibed up to, yah, YAH
| SaqinQao Enterprise.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-29
Few Points.

From the Bellefontaine Republican,
The President in his late speech,
speaks Of Congress as q body that was
scalled or assumed to be the Congress Of
the UAited States If he did not believe
it TO be rHE Congress of the United
States, did he not violate his oath Of office
when he care his approved and signature
to most of the Lalos passed By that Congress
and enforced them as the laios Of the eoHn-
iry7
Which is the biggest traitor, our Dicta-
tor or Dick Taylor2
A. johnson, in his late speech, says;
HMy race is nearly run" The man is
certainly getting his eyes open
Andrew johnson styles himself the
Stumble individual who addresses you, Ii
the inauguration scene and the 22d OF
February speech didn't humble him, his
last speech certainly ought to-
any policy in his last, speaks of the
Observation-Disclosures brigade as "my satraps
and dependents, in every town and vii
lage." Ughl but that's heavy on the
Observation-Disclosures"
A. johnson protests that he is not ego
tistical, and that he is a perfect type Of
humility. vet he declares that his Phila-
delphia Convention is 'the biggest thing
on Ice that ever the people of the United
/ States laid eyes on: ats a powerful
smart child, End I'm its daddy
1t is rather rich to hesr the President
speak of the platform of the Philadelphis
Convention as second declaration Of
independence" when we remember thai
the Convention was called by those who
| are dependent on him for their sbresd and
butter. Independence indeedi
M. johnson speaks of his Endorsement
by the Philadelphia Convention IS 'spon
~taneous." We remember to have seen !
dog that would wsg his tail, bark, stand
on two legs, and do many other 'sponta
neous@ things to get a bone.
American amum"-mies-the member;
Of the Philadelphia Convention.
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-HaaxinE on the Verge Of the GOV


In President JOhnson's recent revolu-
tionary speech to the delegation from the
Philadelphia Convention, be denounces
Congress as a Congress of part OF the
,tatesy changing on the verge of the gov
eminent The use of the word verge,
as the Chicago Tribune suggests, IS a SIG
nisc.nt one. 1t should always be remem-
bered that the President was speaking OF
Congress whose dispersion by the sword
had been concluded upon BE was speak
ing also of the possibility of his declaring
himself Dictator. he used the word
averge7 in its legal senses in the sense IN
which it is known to the English laW-by
which. avergeH is defined to be IA privil-
legged space srOund, or Immediately ad-
.5Oining the kings residences the com
apass of the jurisdiction of the court OF
stbe Msrshalsea, or palace court"
When the stumble individual from
Tennessee dons the Imperial purple
when he assumes the title Of Dictator
when he has the army and the treasury al
his command, to do with as he pleases, the
dignity ofhis ofRce viii require that he
carefully keep his ''verge' free from IN
trusion. None but those basking in the
radiant smiles Of the Dictator, win be per
mitted 70 hang upon the verge, or to en-
tor the sacred precincts Of the Kings pal
aAa
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The johnson Party Developing H
aaIE

The johnson party of Ohio have made
a demonstration in Hamilton county.
They have issued call signedby Len. Har-
ris, Gen. Hickenlooper, F. P. Saunders,
N. P. Gaddis, and others, which bitterly
attacks the Cincinnati Congressmen, Eg-
gIeson and Hayes, denounces the course
of Congress and the Union platform, and
calls q delegate convention for Tuesday,
Septsmber 4th, to nominate candidates
for Congress and county Offices. The
Democracy viii probably fall in with the
movement, and the fusion will be easy.
This is the first overt act of treason COM
mitted by the johnson men of Ohio. 1t
is the more despieable as many of the men
engaged in it especially NJ. 2. Gaddisi
have given in their voluntary adhesion to
the platform and candidates adopted By
the Union convention Of june goth. w
hope to see this attack upon the Union
party, led by deserters from if, most sound
ly repulsed. The best response which
Hamilton county can make to this treach'
ery is to increase her majority for the
Union from four 10 six thousand. Lei
her Union men go to work and do it.
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POLITICAL.

WIN
A German meeting in sandusky on Mon
day evening, August 9th, was ably ad-
dressed by Fred. Hassaurek.
J. F. Mckinney is the Coppsrhead can
didate for Congress in the 4th Ohio District.
He ran two years ago, against Judge Law
renee, his present competitor, and was beat
en- by the comfortable majority Of 2,664.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Richard Phil
ippe Llewellyn Baber, formerly Of the Pay
Department. himself as an indie
pendent johnson candidate, in the It'll Dis
trict; and Brigadier General A. D. Richard
son, formerly of Camp Chase, does a like
thing in the 18th District. There are no
other third candidates in the State 50 fer.
General David A. Murphy's name having
been appended to the call for the Soldiers
and Sailors Convention, at Cleveland, with
out his consent, he publishes q card IN a
Cincinnati paper repudiating the call, and
says 81 had fondly hoped that when l Rad
given three of the best years of my life to
the service of my country, that l would
never have to define my position in the po-
Iitical world, or to rush frantically into
print to s the people that I am still q
patriot from principle. Bat alasi l am at
length asmoked outl" lam, then, frankly,
50 fer as I understand the political princi-
| pies and sentiments of each, in favor Of the
American Congress as it is in 1866, and Of
Andrew johnson as he will be in 1865"
GENERAL.
The Copperhead State convention Of West
Virginia which was held in Wheeling on
Friday, endorsed the Philadelphia conven-
ton, and nominated for Governor Colonel
Smith, for Attorney General H. Richardson,
and for Secretary of State j.. VI. Kennedy.
Major General Custer wa ~nounc &c
address a meeting at Washington on Friday
evening, called TO form an organization To
oppose the sRadical Soldiers League"
Hon. John P. Cook, of Davenport Iowa
Wing member of Congress fourteen
years ago, and supposed to have been dead
for ten years, has consented to take the
scattering Copperhead votes fer Congress in
Hiram Pierce's district next October.
The Memphis Bulletin, whose editor has
been a warm personal friend Of Mr.. John
son, "learns that the President is not very
hopeful of entire success in the Northern
elections" 1t adds: that he expects Hsems
inroads will be made on the dominant par
ty," this fall, but it is to future elections he
looks for complete success.
The Indianapolis Journal says that the
convicted traitor DOdd is prowlinE around
in Northern Indiana, the guestof that Other
convicted traitor, Mulllgan, in orang'
county, and the Journal wants to know /
these signs mean business, and if the Som
Of Liberty are again gathering to theil
kennels to plot schemes of Instruction anC
murder. Manifestly they are, Mr.. Journal
and their rallying cry is that Of the New
Orleans "Police :" THE President IS behinC
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-29

The Atlantic cable informs u hat a
revolution has broken out in the Island of
CsndiA, in the Mediterranean the cause of
the difficulty being religious differences
The Island Of Gambia lies due south Of
Greece, and is 100 miles in length and
about 2smiles wide. Itspopulstion is two
hundred thousand. It has belonged sinee
1868 TO Turkey, but a large majority Of
its inhabitants are Christians of the Greek
Church A similar i~nsurreetion on the
part Of the Christians occurred in Is5s, the
rsvolutionsts, who were unsuccessful,
making no opposition to the Turkish rule,
but demanding equality Of religions rightA.
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The Signatures to the Call for the Sol
dierS' johnson Convention.

0ANA6 SCA-
Iron the Ohio State JoarnaI, August a.
The signatures to the call for q Soldiers
johnson Convention at Cleveland have
already been greatly discredited by the
discovery of the fact that many of the
names have the wrong titles attached.
Custer, (who heads the list for instance,
and our fat friend Aleck Med. McCook,
have attached to their names the rank of
"Mai. Gen. U. S. A." while the fact is
that neither of the gentlemen named have
ever reached that rank "by several rows
of apple trees A large number of the
names signed to the call are thus incor-
rectly titled. And now, in addition tc these
facts we have two direct denials on the
part OF gentlemen whose Names are on the
call, who certify that their names appear
ed there without their knowledge and
against their consent. It is with
no ordinary feelings of qualification
that we mention the name of
George Crook, as one of these.
The mingled pain and increulity with
whice many men who had followed him
through the war heard of his supposed
obliquity but showed the high honor in
which he had been held by his old com
mand. They will now still be able to say
"0ld George is ahead-it's all right" In
addition to General Crooks name is that
of General Robert McAllister, of New
Jersey, who declines TO acknowledge the
signature which some oficious person has
been obliging enough to attach to the call
for him. General Runyon, the Copper.
head candidate for Governor last Fall
who was but three months IN the service),
and General Mott, who holds a s~inecure
in the service of the Camden and Amboy
Railroad Company, appear by their sig
natures as the only two New Jersey sol
diers favoring the movement.
The question is, how came the names of
these officers to be attached to the call
without their knowledge or consent? Did
the same hand that so kindly struck out
the Objectionable parts of Sheridan's New
Orleans dispatch do the work of forgery
in this instance-relying upon the pat
ronage at his disposal to stop the mouths
of his men afterward? Is no villainy toe
deep for his doing, as nopetty act Of spite
full meanness seems too small?
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One Of the most prominent snd petted
delegates to the Philadelphia Convention
was the rebel General Dick Taylor. His
character is vouched for by the following
note written by g Southern Colonel in the
Union army and published in the Wash
ington Chronicle:
To the Editor Of de Chronicle:
The man who heads this article is, as
above stated, the MURDERS. of Union men IN
cold blood.
There were seven Union men Of Louisiana
VINO escaped through Dick Taylor's lines
aud enlisted in the Eighth Vermont regi-
ment as Federal soldiers, after which they
were captured in battle by Dick Taylor
command, tried by his court martial and
sentenced 70 be shot TO death. Dick Taylor
having the execution ofthe sentence, ordered
them 10 dig their own graves, one sufficient
10 contain four men, the other 70 contain
three. In these two holes they stood NJ
and were shot ty Dick TaylOr's rebels. ia
regard 70 the facts in detail I refer to Col
Thomas, commanding the sth Vermont vol
unteer regiment General Benjamin F. But
Ter, commanding the department, and Maj
Green, ofNew Orleans, now in this city.
A fine companion piece to this traitor
is furnished by H. Il. Northern, of Yer
mont, who spoke as follows during the
last Presidential campaign:
Il had rather see JEFF. Davis President Of
the United States than 10 see Abe Lincoln
reelected. l had rather risk the destiniel
Of this country in Davis hands than Lin
coins. I think him ten times more honest
and a man Of ten times more brains.
think him (Lincoln) the d-dest traitor 4
the Constitution that ever was"
Let Us complete the trio by a sentence
from the lips of a third delegate, Paul A
Merrill, of Maine, who in 1861 uttered
the following wish
awhen the Republican army march t.
South Carolina may they be met en- mass
BY the whole South, and have a Southern
welcome"
What an utter farce it wss to object Il
the admission of Vallandigham into
convention in which such men as Taylol
and Merrill were welcomed!
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Ma.sashu.eta. and south Carolina.

Massachusetts, and south Carolina
The dramatic spectacle OF Massachu-
sets and South Carolina marching srm-
in-arm into the Philadelphia Convention,
has been generally ascribed TO the man
agemens Of DoOlittle, Raymond and Ran
dali. This is a mistake. The suggestion
Of coupling Massachusetts, and South Car
olina together was made by President
johnson himself, in aspeech delivered in
the Senate in February, 1861, as follows ;
al do not intend to be ~invidious, but ]
have sometimes thought it would be a COM
fort If Massachusetts, and South Carolina could
be chained together as the Sianese twins, sep
arated from the continent, and taken out 10
some remote and secluded part Of the ocean,
and there fast anchored, 70 be washed ey
the waves and 70 be cooled by the winds
and after they had been kept there a sum
Gent leugtho Of time, the people oft United
States might entertain the idea OF taxing
them back
Massachusetts and South Carolina hav-
ing been chained together in the Gonven-
ton, it now only remains for the people
to carry out the rest of the suggestion, by
overwhelming the chained Johnsonites Of
the two States under the waves of th'
great ocean Of pss-iotism- After the,
have been kept under nns sAongh to re
pent and COOL they may be taken bAel
into loyal company.
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The English IroucIads.

lIondon Letter to n. 4. Times |
Admiral Yelverton, in view of possible
complications, took advantage of the gale
which has been blowing for a week to try
his iron-clads in the Channel. They bore
sail well, and after beating to windward
t~wenty-four hours, took an observation,
and found they we're exactly where they
started, except one, which had fallen a
mile to leeward. Then they dropped tar
gets overheard for gun practice, and did
very well, only the gunners couldn't see
the targets. Then they beat westward
two days, carving steam to aid in tack
ing, SC, and at the end found that they
had lost ten miles, and that, floating and
sailing like heavily laden merchant ships,
they could use their guns by keeping a
good lookout for the coils. 1t is possible
that 1 have been suspected of some preju-
dice against the British Navy, but the
above is copied, word for word, from a
condensed report of the cruise in the Pail
MaH Gazette which concludes with the
observation: GThns it is that Britannia
rules the waves in the year Of our Lord
1866, -s, -
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The ~sandusky Register prints the vote
bv counties for Governor last fall in the
Ninth Congressional District, which shows
a majority for Morgan DEM of AZ, the
totals being, Cox, 12,7es Morgan, l2,sll.
Blu. our neighbor forgets the army vote,
which, though not large, is worth looking
after, especially in SO close a district.
Here it is
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-29

Hon. William A. Howard former mem
Der of Congress, has been removed from
the District Postofiee, and Col Henry
Barns, formerly of the Detroit Tribune,
is appointed in his stead Mr.. Barns has
always followed Seward, andis simply
following him now. The Detroit Tribune
praises him personally, while it pitches
into Nj. Towards administration Of the
post Office, but, notwithstanding, 1t con
dennis the change.
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So that the real vote of the district was
Cox, 1856; Morgan, l2,s57-and Cox
carried the district by nine majority
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WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
coPprRJouysoy MEANNEss.

Persistent attempts are daily made at
the White House and at the Postomee
Department 10 prevent the coTrespon-
dents of Union journals from learning
ANYTHING concerning the public business
To this attempt the President himself Is a
partv, and the object is to have the news
of all public events first reach the country
through decided Administration papers
DESPERATE EFFORTS MAILING To RETAIN
sNcRETARYsTANToN IN THE CABINET
The tremendous pressure for the re-
moval ofSecretcry Stanton has demanded
desperate efforts on the part OF the Secre-
tarvs friends to retain him in his Office.
Mr.. Seward, who has hitherto been his
fast friend in the 0Sbilet and now seem-
ingly his only friend, Departing OF over
coming the pressure, telegrsphed for his
good man Friday to assist i'm. Mr..
Weed appeared this morning in response
TO the call, and, in conjunction with Henry
]. RAYMOND and Nh. Seward, has been
| eudeavored TO fix matters Up. Mr.. Ray
mond left this evening, but Nj. Weed
still remains here. 1t is not known what
| arrangement has been effected, If any but
there is every indication that no change
will be made at present in the Cabinet.
TO BE CHALLENGED.
]. W. Forney and other radical leaders
in Pennsylvania have procured from the
] War Depsrtment q list of deserters from
| the armvduring the war, belonging to that
\ State. numbering sixty thousand, and pro-
pose 10 challenge such of them as shall
| offer 10 vote the Conservative ticket, and
prevent their exercising the elective fran
chise.
THE CHICAGO EXCURSION
General Grant and General Rawlings,
his chief of staff, have decided to go with
the Presidential party to Chicago. 1t Is
also understood that Secretary MeCulloeh
and Attorney General Stanbery will ae-
company the party to New York, and re-
turn from there TO Washington.
THE PITTSBURGH CONTENTION.
The call for the Union Soldiers Con
vention at Pittsburgh Will be issued to
morrow evening. Responses have been
received from a large number of our lead
ing Generals. Among the orators whC
will speak are such men as Banks Butler
and Burnside from the East; Logan and
Oglesby. ofnlinois; Mcneil and Fletcher
of Missouri; Garfield, Cox, Schenek VII
Itch, and many others from the West.
GEN. scHENcK AND vALLASDIGHAM-
One Of the highest officials in the John
son ring declared a few days since thai
they must beat Gen. Schenck, of Ohio, II
some way, ever if it became necessary t.
run Vallandigham to accomplish it.
cuANcEs IN WASHINGTON OFFICES.
1t is stated that Lewis Clephsne, one o
the original Republicans of Washington
and the organizer of the first Republican
Club south of Mason and Dixon's line, II
making his final report as collector OF In
ternal Revenue for this District, prepare
tory TO vscating his Office TO make room
for a supporter of the johnson policy.
Ii is also probable that there will short
ly be a change in the comm~issionship o
internal revenue, as Senator Cowan re
marked to a gentleman that "we must &c
rid of this DID Radical Rollins ayr
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PRESIDENT JOHNSON, in his last speech,
bitterly denounced the Subsidized press,
We know Of but one such in Ohio-the
Cleveland Herald, whose editor endorses
INV policy in order to remain Postmaster.
To the honor and glory of the Union press
of Ohio, be it said, that the Cleveland Her
aid is the only paper that with HIS htty OF
sixty millions appropriation President
johnson has beer able 10 corrupt IN III
inois he has not been able to find one MAJ
he could buy."-Dayton Journal
Perhaps the Journal puts the case
rather strongly. Altho' the Herald hiss
come Just as near supporting Johnson's
policy as iteould and not utterly destroy its
own business, yet it is fair to say that II
does not endorse Philadelphia, and even
gives an occasional manly thrust at the
johnson party. But we think that jour
nal has shown by its unhappy course thai
it is the business patronage of a Radica'
| community, and not q manly regard fol
principlethat keeps it from following Mr.
johnson to any length. The time ha
now come when the Herald must choos'
between losing the post-otice and losing
its subscription list and as the subscrip
ton list IS worth more than the post
ofica the guilotine will proably be al
lowed to do its bloodiest7SandEsky Reg
ister.