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The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31
THE FALL POLITICAL CAMPAIGN.

The Press mentions the fact of the
meeting on Thursday, the 18th, of the
State Central Commettce, in Harris
burg to project the political campaign
Of this fall, and adds: Reports were
received from all parts of the State, and
so far the indications are most auspici-
Gus. AT this carly stage we are able to
give words of cheer-a fact which
should not only encourage but stimulate
every one to increased energy and acti-
vitv. Never before was individual ac-
ton SO needed. Every man in this
State must be talked to and reasoned
with. In every house and counting
room and mill and store must be cx-
planned the decision against legal ten
dcrs and its connection with the svstc-
matte opposition Of the D,morraav to
the Government. Every mm must ba
made to feel that solemn rcsponsibiIi-
ty is thrown on him in the matter of
voting this year. No one must be al
lowed to escape vote. No vote must
be given ass compliment, oron account
of family or business connections.
No man must be allowed to think that
he can sell his country for such price.
The Democracy, desperate from repeat
cd defeats, and hungry from their fast
of years, are straining every nerve.
They are cavassins every corner of the
State, and bidding in one way and an
other for every man in it. Their ex-
ample must be initiated. We must
emulate in good cause the cxertion
and energy displayed by the leaders of
n bad one.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31
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THE PLAINS.
The Indians Attach u Rniir0ad.Survey.
ing Party-The F1Osging nt Fort Scde.
wick.

OMAHA, Nebraska, July 25.-Sev-
enty-fve Indians attacked surveying
party of the Union Pacific Railroad on
Bitter Creek, on the 22d, mortally
wounding p. 7. Brown, the engineer
in charge Of the party. Brown died
on the 23d. The Indians virtually
have possession of the road between
Fort Saunders and Fort Bridger.
The investigation ordered by Gen.
Grant in the alleged brutal whipping
of citizens by soldiers at Fort Sedgwick
has closed. The testimony is conclu-
sive as to the whipping of citizens by a
sergeant, for selling whisky to the men
under him. Lacerations of the flesh
and other cruelties were committed.
Lieut.. Lantz promptly stopped the
Aogging, which was simply few
strokes with gun sling. The report
ed whipping Of a soldier for stealing a
gun, and exposing him to the prey of
gnats and musketoes, is without foun-
dation, as testified to by all the officers
of the Both Infantry and a number of
civilians. No civilian was present at
the fogging, as falsely reported -
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31
The Armies Of the Dead.

Still the moeurnful muster of our
armies of the drad goes on. Another
"Roll of Honoa" has been issued from
the Quarterm ster Generals Office,
embracing the names of soldiers who
died in defence of the American Union
inferred in New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, IL
linois, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, Tex
as, Utah Territory, and on the Pacific
coast. About eight thousand names
are given, and three thousand graves
are numbered under that sad heading,
unknown" How many of these
nameless heroes went to their graves
because of Democratic judicial opin-
ions rendered in the courts of the
North to embarrass the nation and
strengthen her enemies? How many
of these men were killed by reason of
Woodward and Sharswood decisions T?
There was time, in the darkest hours
of the war, when the court rooms of
Philadelphia and Harrisburg were
nearly as dangerous as the marshes Of
the Wilderness. .-.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31
THE DIFFERENCE.

Report has it that Mayimilian's case
was disposed of before the court mar
tial in less than an hour. Surratt's
trial has been in progress more than
forty days and is not yet finished. 1t
is very evident that the phebotomists
who demand the trial before civil
court Of this rebel and assassin have
but little feeling for the body public.
The absurdity Of their position is more
apparent when we consider that they
demand the trial of each and every
rebel by civil courts before they can
be pronounced traitors. Should this
policy be adopted, taking for example
Surratt's case in what condition would
it leave the treasury of the country.
This thing of burdcning the North
with trca8)a's load is the policy of
Democracy, and ever will be until the
people in their wrath declare for and
put in practice the far spccdicr and
less oncrous policy of Juarcz.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31

DEMOCRACY everywhere is con-
tradiction, and new proof of its absur-
dities is given by the recent Democra-
tic Convention Of Marion County,
Indiana. The Indiana Democrats are
firstly, opposed to negro suffrage !;
secondly, they think legislation should
be in the interests and for the benefit
ofthe laboring men. We do not see
how these propositions can be recon
ciled, and probably there is no desire
on the part of their sponsors that they
should be. If negroes cannot vote,
what security have they that legisla-
tion will protect them? The Demo-
crats, however, have an easy escape
from their dilemma it isa part Of
their creed that the negro, in state of
freedom, is not a laboring man, and
the reports Of the Freedmen's Bureau,
the industrial returns Of the South, arc
insufficient to convince them Of their
mistake. "a s''a
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31

power Mr. johnson, who once had
the effrontery to say, whenever you
hear a man prating about the Constitu-
ton, spot him-he is traitor" now
talks more of it, and does less for it,
than any public man in America; Mr..
Blair's new friends, the Democrats,
throughout the war, gave all their SYM
pathies to the sworn foes of the Con-
stitution. The Republican party not
only preserved the sacred instrument,
but improved it. Let it never be for
gotten that to Republicanism the
Constitution owes Article Kill, pro-
hibiting Slavery throughout the United
States.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31

In the event of the triumph of the
manhood suffrage measure in Ohio,
some of the Democratic journals of
that State threaten to elect, SO far as it
is in the power of the party to elect,
negroes to office. This Homeopathic
threat is put forth to frighten Republi-
cans out Of voting affirmatively on the
question, but it cannot have much
weight. In some Democratic districts
the minority might welcome a change
in the men who manage to get office,
even if blacks should he substituted for
whites.-PHs. Gazette.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31
r.a - TENSESsEE-5
Dreadfui riot at Roye.syiltc.-Twe Men
Killed---A Large NuM her wounded.

NASHVILLE, July PA dreadful
riot is reported to have occurred at
Rogersville, East Tennessee, on Tues
day. A large crowd had assembled
on the public square, near the Court
House, to hear Mr.. Etheridge, con-
servative candidate for Governor,
speak. Many, both conservatives and
radicals, were armed with guns and
pistols. After Etheridge had spoken
an hour, he was interrupted by Tom
King, leading Radical, who pro-
nounced a statement he made add
lie." Etheridge retorted bitterly,
when some one shot at him. Numer-
Gus other shots followed in quick sue
cession. The crowd broke, the Con-
servatives in one direction and the
Radicals in the opposite, shooting at
each other. Finally haltins, they
fired volley after volley at each other
for about twenty minutes. A white
Conservative and a colored man were
killed, seven mortally wounded and
about thirty slightly. The wounded
were conveyed to hotel, where they
remain.
Etheridge was not hurt. He left
for Smeedsville after quiet had been
restored.
A negro is reported killed at Knox
vile yesterday. He shouted for
Brownlow at a conservative meeting,
when he was shot. Theprompt action
of the police prevented a riot.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31
JOHN P. c. SHANKs,
WILLIAM A. PILE, am
ABNER G. HARDING, p.
AARON T. STEVENS,
WILLIAM MUNGEN, !,
.r N .r, Committee.

THE Harrisburg Telegraph of the
9th inst, says, Dodge's saw mill, at
Williamsport, on Friday and Satur-
day last, cut with four gangs of saws
532,524 feet Of lumber, 12S,000 lath
and 5000 pickets. The Gazette says
if any mill in the United States will
show an equal product from the same
amount Of gates we will try again,
being fully satisfied that Dodge mill
can cut thousand feet every two min
utes for twelve hours. =; OF this vast
amount sawed in the two days, not
one hundred feet were spoiled.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31
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The Surratt Case.

The evidence in the Surratt trial
closed the 26th, the fortieth day of the
trial, the defense waving the right to
examine rebutting witnesses relative to
character. Arguments on points Of
law, raised on the evidence, will occupy
the attention of the Court for two or
three days, after which the regular
summing up will take place. The
case will reach the jury about week
from to-day. 1t e-E "a .al1f
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31
Tie lcttor from Ex-rchcl c.

THE letter from Ex-rebcl Commits
sioncr Ould relative to the exchange of
prisoners suggests strange surmiscs,
backed as theyarc, by the assertion that
he can prove what he says by Federal
officers. The matter will have Il
thorough investigation and if he can
make his word good we trust he will
do so. Let the murder of our prison.
crs be fixed upon the guilty parties.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31
THE .ex-rebel but non.fightinp

i THE ex-rebel but non-fghting Gen.
John s. Preston, Of South Carolina, is
in Paris, and lives in great style on
the Champs Elysees. He carries An
drew Johnson's pardon in his pocket,
fully indorses his "a. J.'O policy, aad
is as bitter rebel as eves.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31
Crue.tics 10 Union Prisoners.


The following circular will explain
itself:
Roous or THE CON- on IuH TREATMENT or
PRISONERS OF WAn ASD USIoS CIrIzrSs.
Washington d, C., July II, 1867 }
In pursuance of a series Of resolu-
tons passed by the House of Repre-
scntativcs. July 10, 1861, the under
signed were appointed committee to
investigate the treatment of prisoners
of war and Union citizens held by the
Confederate authorities during the
rebellion"
All persons in possession of impor-
tant information upon either of these
subjects are earnestly requested to
address thccommittec as directed below,
stating, ...
First. The name, age and post Of
flee address of the writer.
Second If soldier or seaman, his
rank or position, and with what com
mand he served.
Third. A full statement of all
facts known to the writer touching his
own imprisonment or treatment, and
that of others, either soldier or citizen,
giving, as faras possible, names, places
and dates, with names of confederate
officers in charge.
Correspondents from New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, West Virginia, North Car
olina, South Carolina, Georgia, Flori-
da, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Arkansas, Texas and the States and
Territories lying west of the Rocky
Mountains, will please address John
p. c. Shanks, NJ. c., Washington, d.
G.
Correspondents from Missouri, Iowa,
Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada and the
Territories east of the Rocky Noun
tains will address VIM. A. Pile, NJ. c.,
St. Louis, No.
Correspondents from Illinois, Indi-
ana, Wisconsin and Minnesota will
address Abncr G. Harding, NJ. c.,
Monmouth Ill.
Correspondents from the New Eng
land States will address Aaron F..
Stevens, NJ. c., Nashua, New Hamp-
shire.
Correspondents from Ohio, Michi-
gan, Kentucky and Tennessee will
address William Mungen, M. c., Find
lay, Hancock county, Ohio. ...
Communications addressed to the
several members of the committee will
be free of postage.
1t is the intention of the committee
to collect all facts necessary to make a
thoroughly official history of this sub
ject.
The various newspapers throughout
the country are requested to give this
circular gratuitous insertion, togeth-
er with such notice as they may deem
proper. ra..I ... e.,,...t.. u
ToJN y C Str,Nuc
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31
Facts about Mr.. GreeIcy's Nomination.

The facts about Mr.. Greeley's nom
ination in the Senate are substantially
these: Mr.. Sumner reported that the
committee had had the nomination
under consideration and reported it
back favorably. Several Senators call
ed for the vote at once, and the affirm
ative vote was called, when Mr.. Upton
asked the effect of an objection to its
immediate consideration. The chair
replied that it would postpone it one
day, which was equivalent in this case
to postponing it until December next.
Several Senators appealed to Mr.. Tip
ton to withdraw his objection, as he
could effect his object just as well by
voting in the negative. He replied
that he might do so were he certain
that Mr.. Greeley would be defeated,
but as he had no assurance of that, he
must insist on his objection, "for," said
he, with increasing earnestness, "never
will consent to comforting such hon
ors on the bailsman of jeff. Davis"
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31

ONE of the richest men in New
England Augustus Hemenway, OF Bos-
ton, whose estate is valued at S5,0OO,- :
900. Il He Is ,coaansd in an insane
asylum.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31
Foreign.

The latest official accounts from
Crete give terrible reports Of the cruel
tics of the Turks. The Cretans having
inflicted severe punishment upon one
ofOmar Pasha's spies, this general
retaliates by actually crucitying Il
Greek priest, in order to satiatc his
revenge and at the same time to cast
odium upon the Christian religion,
from which he apostacized that he
might become a Turkish general. He
next besieged Il cavern in which Greek
women and children had taken refuge,
and by closing the cavern with stones,
left them to die from starvation. This
renegade is repeating in Crete the
scenes of carnage which made him so
famous in Koordistan, Syria, and
Montenegro. He boasts that he will
extcrminate the Cretans. The Turkish
Government, stalking its faith on the
general, declines for the present to yield
to the remonstrances of foreign powers.
1t declares, however, that it will con-
suit the Cretans' wishes in the event of
the revolution not being quelled prior
to July "a. 1t is stated that the
Cretans are more heroic than ever in
their resistance, and that there is no
probability Of the success of Omar
Pasha,
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31

The Irish-American officers in New
York have passed resolutions expires
sive Of their regard and esteem for the
late General Thomas Francis AIcagher.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31

CHIEFof Police, Dimen, of Mobile,
has ordered the disbandment Of all
military organization among the col
cred PEOPLE Of that city.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31
A Rebel Nomination.

The Goherr, paper published
monthly at Ruddells Mill, Kentucky,
by c. c. Rule, flies the Democratic
ticket at its masthead, together with
the following
For President in 1868,
Gen. John c. Breckenridge.
For Vice President,
Hon. il. W. Powell.
The Rochester Erpres ssays there are
several curious circumstances about
this nomination. First, ex-senator
Lazarus W. Powell died few days
ago, and is consequently ineligible.
Second ; if he were living, both he
and Breckenridge hail from the same
State, and both Of them could not be
elected at the same time on account of
constitutional prohibition. Third, if
Breckenridge is not a citizen of Ken
lucky, he must claim a residence in
Canada and the rebel ticket would
therefore be: For President, John c..
Breckenridge, of fMontrcal. For Vice
President, l.. W. Powell, ofKcntucky
or of some other placc-both outside
the jurisdiction of the United States.
AS the ticket is intended to represent
"thc lost cause" there is peculiar and
evident propriety in taking ghost as
one of the candidatcs-especially ly when
the ghost is supposed to have gone to
the same place as the dead confe'lcracy.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-31
roIlrICAL AND MIscEIlANY;

.uoIfaYiffiu1I - gT7---.'I-
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-11-13

Gen. Grant.
The Mac-a-cheek Press, edited by Don
Piatt, whose Republicanism was so heavi-
iy endorsed By the Columbu Journal not
long since, thus speaks of Gen. Grant AZ
the Republican candidate for President:
1t is no time to fear or to harken TO tho
enemy. =
Already certain shallow-pated poll
ticians, and all the rural obscurities engag-
ed in tbs pleasing task of editing the cOun-
ty printing, have raised a despairing cry
Tor Grant.
:. Il is ascty Of terror, and as senseless
as it is shameful.
I" It means, when translated into plain
English, that the people no longer believe
in our principles, or sustain our measures.
Let us, then, abandon both, and run on
Grant.
Every we'll. Grant has not, much .po-
litical sagacity, but his friends, Thurlow
Weed and James Gordon Bennett, will
help him to correct reading of our con-
duct, lie is their candidate, and j. made
availabis7 by eur misforthnes.s, lie will
have to carry ~ aud cur principles, ant and
not we him. -. -.
"This is no new move in politics. Tits
a pleasant sort of suicide, and made illus
trious by the late Wing party. In it We
have a semblance Of victory, Without its
substance, and march in solemn grandeur
to our own graves.
1--WE cannot turn our backs on our tried
statesmen and not abandon our principles.
We can .noMiaete General Geo. II. Thomas
and still retain our platform, and continue
our fight slfr however, We were worthy
our past, we would nominate Salmon P.
Chase, and, if defeated, would 60 dowGin
honor, with the hope, yonchsafe truth,
justice and humanity, to rise again in tri.
unth. -
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-11-13

R = Is
If there is any public political concern
in more muddled condition than the
American radical press of this country, it
ID the German radical press. The Stats
Zeitung, published in this city, rejoices
over the defeat of Puritanism in the recent
elections of October and November, and
draws the most iacomprehensible dedus-
ton that this vial be making ofthe repubs
lcan party. The Stats Zeitung, like most
other German radical papers, is opposed
to the Sabbatarian and Prohibitory laws,
and characterizes them as fanatical, yet it
maintains other principles which are equ-
ally extreme, and result alike from that
Puritanism which. first conceived the Sum
day and Liquor laws, and all other meas
ures that SAVIOR of radicalism. In other
words, the Stats Zeitung, like many reli-
gious sects, accepts that which happens to
be congenial in the general doctrine of
radicalism, but refuses all that is obnox-
ious to its nationality, although one is as
Just and consistent as the other z~y ~
BUTT will be found q difficult task to
secure the confidence Of the individual
Germans who do the voting. They will
scarcely have faith in party whose lead
ers are committed to all the isms which
they dislike, and will no sooner have made
their power secure than they will proceed
to indulge their most obnoxious propensi-
ties. The mass of the Germans will here
after vote against party that attempted
TO betray them.-Daily Fines.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-11-13

"a & 81 80
AN UNIQUE .PETITIoN.-The following
petition was presented few days ago to
the Aldermen of Lynn, Mass:
The undersigned respectfully repre-
sents that:
Whereas, on the evening of the tenth
of October he illuminated his residence on
Union Park, ON the ::outskirts Of the city,
ndscommenced firing one hundred guns
il honor of the recent victories in Califor-
MA, Ohio, Pennsylvania, &C., and
Whereas, after firing but fifty three
(53) of the number, he was prevented from
further demonstrations bya peremptory
order from the City Marshal, and
SO Your petitioner Graves permission to
ere the remaining forty-seven az on any
evening your honorable body may appoint,
and as in duty bound will ever pray.
"JosEPH LAkExAN."
Five hundred of Mr.. Lakeman's fellow
citizens have petitioned that his petition
may be granted.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-11-13
Ladies, Take Particeiar NetIcs.
THE REAL VEbPEAU FEMALE PILLS

THESE PILLS,
!, q; e. % celebrated
many years ago in
Paris for the rslisi
Of female trrcgd;-
larities, and after
: wards 50, notorious
FOR their criminal
employment in the
practice ofabortion,
are now offered for
The evening Argus., 1867-07-08
THE CAMDEN ROAD

It is wholly unnecessary to argue with
any man in Rock Island, whether he be>a
business man, a mechanic, a laborer, capi-
talist real estate owner, professional
man, or a loafer, in regard to the fact that
his pecuniary interest demands good solid
McAdamized road to Camden. That is a
fact which every man in Rock Island will
admit. Every man wants the road, but the
question is how to get it. We viii suggest
how it can be done:
There is now in the hands of our township
officers some three thousand dollars in cash,
the surplus left from taxes to pay soldiers
bounty bonds, to fill our quota for the war.
The bonds are all paid, the township wholly
free from debt, and this amount of cash on
hand. A town meeting is called, as viii be
seen by an advertisement in this paper, to
meet in the court house on Thursday July
18th, at P NJ, to decide what to do with
this money, and the general feeling of the
people, as far as we can learn, is to pass an
order to pay it into the city treasury with
the understanding that it is to be expended
in building McAdamized road to the city
bridges, and the Camden shore.
1t is also said that Mr.. Sears offers to add
one thousand dollars to the pile, for the OBJ
ject named and it is thought that these
amounts, together with smallappropriation
from the city, will make a good durable and
substantial road. We hope, therefore, that
everybody will attend the meeting and place
it in the power of the city authorities to build
tho rood