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Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05
A Word to LabOring Men.

Poor white men are falling victims to the
heat all around us, as they toll toll for daily
bread, and for money to give the tax.gath-
ercr. Thousands of poor fellows have left
their families at home in the morning, gone
forth to provide for the next days necessi-
ties, and never returned. A paragraph in a
newspaper records the fact that man has
been sun struck, or it may be that scores
are included in few lines, and it is said
"the cases of sun stroke were very numer.
ous."
Down South, the thick-skinned, thick
skulled negro, who could bear any amount
Of heat without serious Inconvenience, and
certainly without danger, is taking his ease,
or doing the voting for the whole country.
He is not working at all, badly as his labor
is needed, yet he is living at the top Of the
heap, and getting into legislatures, where
laws are made to govern white folks.
How is this? Who has reversed the Or
der Of nature, and who is paying the expen-
ses of cuiFee's subsistence? The poor white
la5orers who are falling in the heat of the
sun are supporting blacks and whites both.
They are bearing the whole burden of the
country; they are not only keeping the lazy
negroes Mt the South, supporting the army
which is quartcred there, and keeping up
the carpct-baggers who swarm in that afilict-
cd country, but they are also paying millions
of dollars in gold to the capitalists Of the
country, who pay no tax at all. Every day
the poor man must work harder and grow
poorer, while the rich man works less and
grows more wealthy. Yet, the party which
promised so much for the poor has been in
complete power for eight years, and all the
changes which have taken place have been
the work of their hands, and not of ours.
If the laboring men, the bone and sinew Of
the country, have received any benefits from
their administration of the government. let
them have full credit for it, for We certainly
had no hand in it. But if, on the contrary,
the poor man has been dragged from his
iCihC uhu oSb uP oS u mai w uC Suoe ~
his taxes have been increased, if the price
of living has been doubled, if all together
the poor have been oppressed until they are
sinking from exhaustion, we bear none of
the blame, We had nothing to do with it.
Mongrelism did it all, and has fairly won all
the praise and all the blame which can at.
tach to their eight years administration of
the government.
But it is time laboring men were waken-
ing up to their interests. We propose to
tighten their burden at least one-half the
first year We have complete power. Will
the people give us power? Are they tired
of feeding and clothing negroes and sup
porting armies to keep their brethren from
exercising the rights of men? If they arc,
let them stand forth in the dignity of man
hood, and place in power party which
never betrayed nor oppressed them in the
past, and which alone can save them in the
future. democratic Watchman.
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05
way to avoid all future strife to put this
issue plainly to the country.


issue plainly to the country.
Irepeat that this is the real and only
question which VIC should allow to control
US shall we submit to the usurpatlons by
which the government has been overthrown
or shall we exert ourselves for its full and
complete restoration. It is idle to talk OF
bonds, grecnbacks, gold, tho public faith
and the public credit. What can Demo-
cratic President do in regard to any Of these
with Congress in both branches controlled
by the carpet-baggers and their allies? He
viii be powerless to stop the supplies by
which idle negroes are organized into polit.
ical clubs-by which an army il maintained
to protect these vagabonds in their outrage
upon the ballot. These, and things like
these, which eat up the revenues and resour.
ces Of the Government and destroy its cred
it, make the difference between gold and
greenbacks. We must restore the Constl.
tuition before We can restore the finances and
to do this we must have President who
will execute the will Of the people by tramp
ling into the dust the us,irpations OF Con.
gress, known as the reconstruction acts.
wish to stand before the Convention upon
this issue, but it is one which embraces
everything else that is Of value in its large
and comprehensive results. 1t is the one
thing that includes all that is worth con.
test, and without it there is nothing that
gives dignity, honor Or value to the struggle.
Your friend,
FRANK P. BLAIR.
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05
Frank T.. Blair Defines his 20.
SittOn.

WASHINGTON, June 3O
Col jas. O. Broadhead.
DEAR COLONEL: In reply to your inqui-
ries, beg leave to say that leave you to
determine, on consultation with my friends
from Missouri, whether my name shall be
presented to the Democratic Convention,
and to submit the following as what | con-
slider the real and only issue in this contest.
The reconstruction policy of the Radicals
will be complete before the next election !;
the States so long excluded, will have been
admitted; negro suffrage established and
the carpet-baggers installed in their seats in
both branches of Congress. There is no
possibility of changing the political charac-
ter of the Senate. even if the Democrats
should elect their President and majority
of the popular branch of Congress. We
cannot, therefore undo the Radical plan Of
reconstruction by Congressional action; the
Senate will continue Il bar to its repeal
Must we submit to it? How can it be over
thrown by the authority of the executive,
who is sworn to maintain the Constitution,
and who will fail to do his duty if ho allows
the Constitution to perish under series of
Congressional enactments which are in pal
pabe violation of its fundamental principle.
If the President elected by the Democ-
racy cnforces or permits others to enforce
these Reconstruction acts, the Radicals, by
the accession of twenty spurious Senators
and fifty Representatives, will control both
branches of Congress, and his administra-
ton will be as powerless as tho prescut one
of Mr.. johnson.
There is but one way to restore the gov
ernment and the Constitution, and that is
for the President elect to declare these acts
null and void, disperse the carpet-bag State
governments, and elect Senators and Rep
resentatives. The House Of Representa-
tives will contain majority of Democrats
from the North, and they will add the Rep
resentatives elected by the white people of
the South, and with the cooperation ofthe
President it will not be difficult to compel
the Senate to submit once more to the obli-
cations Of the Constitution. 1t will not be
ablc to withstand the public Judgment, it
distinctly invoked and clearly expressed, on
thia fundamental. issue, aud it is the sure
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05

A WASHINGTON special to the Philg,
Age of the Goth ult., says: A large major
ity Of the members of each house of Con
gress have already left for their homes, and
the Capitol to-day presents rather a deserted
appearance. The Democratic and Radical
Congressional Committees have their head
quarters in the building, however, and quito
a large force is employed sending out docu
ments for the pending Presidential cam
paign. From present indications it is not
likely that there will be session in Sep
tcmber, but as the matter rests with Nor
gan and Schenck, it is, Of course, impossi-
bic to tell what these worthless will do when
the time comes round. 1t is observed that
the Radical leaders, and even the followers,
are more cautious now than they were when
the New York nominations were first made
They declared then, as will be remembered,
that they would have no trouble in defeating
Seymour and Blair, Now they say it will
require hard work, and some of the more
sagacious men of the party express the
opinion that New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio arc already lost to the Grant ticket,
This agrees with the Democratic view of
the matter and the probability is that ere
the expiration Of tic first autumn month
the Radicals will discover that they have
been reckoning without their host, and
that the election Of Seymour and Blair is II
forcgone conclusion.
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05
why Grant Should not be Eele-
ted,

, IF mono others could be named, there are
two substantial reasons why General Grant
should not be elected President Of the Uni.
ted States. The first is that he is not qual.
fled to fll tho Office, and the second on &C.
count Of the political principles he processes
to represent
We have never met man who will say
that he possesses the requisite qualifications
to fll the Office Of President. His most
ardent admirers will not say that he does.
And how is II possible that he should have
them? He has never had experience as o
statesman, nor has he ever held the simplest
civil Office or appointment In all matters
Of State craft he is as unlcarned and unso.
phisticated as child. He is totally igno.
rant Of the essentials necessary to qualify
person to preside over this great country as
Chief Executive knowledge and expert
ence. He who supposes that any man can
be picked up and put in the Presidential
chair, and can, as matter Of course, dis.
charge the duties with intelligence and wis.,
dom, is very much mistaken. knowledge
and wisdom are as essential to statesman
as q mechanic, and he who undertakes this
calling without qualifications will fail. The
President Of the United States needs great
capacity, great experience, and great wis
dom as a statesman, none Of which General
Grant has the credit of possessing. He
was nominated simply as an expediency can.
didate. The Radicals have no man of their
own who would stand ghost Of chance
Of election, and therefore seduced Grant by
the nomination and induced him to become
their candidate. IF person wished on
agent to conduct any business, whatever, he
would select one skilled in the particular
occupation he was to take charge Of. If
this is important in private pursuits, how
much more important is it in the manage
ment of the intricate and important affairs
of government. The people cannot expect
their public business to be we'll managed in
the hands Of an unqualified agent.
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05
A Western Editor Describes
Pittsburgh,

Western editor thus describes the effect
produced by the numerous founderies, iron
works, &C., at Pittsburgh, Pa:
Pittsburgh people never have fresh air
except when out Of town. They live on
coal smoke and floating cindcrs. We in.
hailed seven tons Of coal the first hour we
were there. The people breathe smoke, cat
smoke, chew smoke, and carry it loose in
their pockets. It is now seventy.two years
since Pittsburgh has been warmed or reach
ed by the suns rays. Once streak Of sun.
shine, of several years condensing under.
took to penetrate the cloud Of smoke over
the city, got lost, became smoked, and fell
like n standing edition Of the Black Crook.
The ladies use smoke and coal dust to
protect their complexion. Little boys and
girls stand on the corner with wet brooms
and sponges to wash peoples faces for five
cents. Everybody is of color in Pitts
burgh. At the postoffice window the clerk
distinguishes people by certain signs, it be-
ing impossible to see their faces from the
layers Of dust and smoke. We saw little
boy crying on tho street because he had los,
his father, who was six feet ahead of him in
all the darkness.
Every one is mourning in Pittsburgh. A
barber once went there to color hair and
whiskers. He morn busted in a week !!
Men kiss each others wives in Pittsburgh,
unable to tell which is their own only by the
taste. Women send their children on er-
rands, first writing on their faces with
thumb nail or wet stick. People feel their
way by door-knobs, and read by raised type.
A man once stood in his room with his
window raised changed his shirt nine times
in four minutes, and only got clean one on
him when the window fell down by accident
and kept the smoke out.
Bedclothes are unknown in Pittsburgh
just leave the window open and sheets Of
smoke settle upon you like newspapers from
o machine press. Some years since some
snow fell into that city from a cloud of
s,noke--thc smoke was not hurt, but the
snow looked sick. When looking at watch
to ser the honr it is the fashion TO light a
match. Men carry lanterns to see how to
shake hands. They make black broadcloth
by hanging spiders web out till filled with
smoke, and Use hot coal dust for pepper
They roll the smoke, sweetcned. into sticks,
and sell it for licorice.
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05

A GENERAL movement is to bo made in
the next Legislature to increase the pay OF
jurymen. Two dollars day is paltry sum
for such services, at least those who have
their boarding to pay, think so.
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05

"A lively urchin accosted travelling
dealer on Market street, the other day, and
cried, in an earnest voice: "Mr. -, please
give me an apple; my brother goes with
yo,r s.gtsy." He'll do.
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05
Staying from Church to Read.

Some stay away from church to read.
They say they can find better religious think
ing and teaching in their books than in any
Of the pulpits near them. Suppose they
can. Do they get the better teaching2 Are
they really at home for purposes Of religious
culture? Are they actually growing better,
more godly, by this reading which keeps
them from church? Let them be honest
with themselves, and see if this is not a
Aimsy excuse for spending their Sundays,
not in mere religious reading, but over all
sorts of books. Even if they give their
Sundays up wholly to religious reading,
they have generally mistaken the aim Of
public Sabbath services if they think it can
be thus met at home.
God expressly commands US to "rever-
ence his sanctuary, to ''lift up our hands
in his sanctuary" and promises to come
unto US and bless us there. We should go
to church to worship; to worship publicly
and unitedly, as we'll as to receive instruc.
ton from the preacher. Would an Israel
ite have been held blancless who never went
to the temple-worship because he had roll
of the law at home? But the church ser
vice is, in a sense, our temple.worship. No
other appliance Of religious culture can take
its place. Abolish all church services, and
you abolish Christianity. He who stays
regularly away from church is doing what
little he can to introduce heathenism. He
is contributing his influence toward secular
izing his community If his way was uni
versal, irrelgion would be dominant, and
the nation would slowly sink back into an
atheistic barbarianism. Parrish Visitor
Why does young lady love to waltz ?
Cause she loves iuggin',
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05
No Sabbath.

In prize essay on the Sabbath, written
by journcyman printer in Scotland, which,
for singular power Of language and beauty
Of expression, has never been surpassed,
there occurs the following passage. Read
it, and then reflect for while what a dreary
and desolate page would this life present if
the Sabbath were blotted out from our cal
culatiou:
"Yokefellow! think how the abstraction
Of the Sabbath would hopelessly enslave the
working classes, with whom We. are identi.
fed. Think Of labor thus going on in one
monotonous and eternal cycle, limbs forever
on the rack, the fingers forever straining,
the brow forever sweating, the feet forever
plodding, the brain forever throbbing, the
shoulders forever dropping, the loins for
ever aching, and the restless mind forever
scheming.
"Think Of the beauty it would efface, Of
the mcrry.hcartedness it would extinguish,
of the giant strength it wouli tame, of the
resources of nature it would crush, Of the
sickness it would breed, of the projects it
would wreck, Of the groans it would extort,
of the lives it would immediate, and of the
cheerless graves that it would prematurely
dig! See them toiling and moiling, sweat
ing and fret,ing, grinding and hewing, weav.
ing and spinning, strewing and gathering,
mowing and reaping. raising and building,
digging and planting, unloading and storing,
striving, strugging--in the garden and in
the field. in the pranary and in the barn, in
the factory and in the mill, in the warehouse
and in the shop, on the mountain and in the
ditch, on the roadside and in the wood, in
the city and in the country. on the sea and
on the shore, on the earth in the days Of
brightness and of gloom. What sad pic
ture would the world present if We had no
Sabbath"
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05
OFFICERS OF COLUMBIA co.

President Judge--Hon. William Elwell.
ASSOCIATE Judges Peter X. Herbein.
Prothy and Cl'k of Courts-Jcsse Coleman.
Register and Recorder-John q. Freeze.
John i. Fowler,
Commissioners Montgomery Cole.
David Yeagcr,
Sheriff -Mordccai Millard.
Treasurer--Jacob Yohc.
l.. B Rupert,
Auditors John p. Harmon.
Jacob Harris.
Commissioner Clerk-Wm. Krickbaum.
commissioner Attorney. II. Little.
Mercantile Appraiser-W: II. Jacoby.
County Survcyor-lsaac A. Dewitt.
District Attroney-Nlilton NJ. Traugh.
Coroncr--William j. lkelcr.
County Superintendent--Chas. G. Barkley,
Assessors Internal Revenuc-R +. Clark.
John Thomas,
Assistant ASSESSOR s. B. Diemcr,
Daniel McElcnry.
Collector benjamin 4. Hartman.
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05
Bloon,sburg Literary Institute.

ntOOHISuUEk AlaSINIy huSsstusCs .
BOARD OF INSTRUCTION.
HENRY CARVER, A. NJ, Principal and
Proprietor,
Professor Of Philosophy, &c.
Miss Sarah a. Carver, Prcceptrcss,
Teacher of French, Botany and Ornamental
Branches.
Isaac o. Best, A. b.,
Proiessor.:of Ancient Languages
Charles Il. Rice, a. b.,
Professor of Mathematics,
7. NJ. Bates,
Teacher of Book k-kceping and English
Branches.
Miss Alice NJ. Carver
Teacher of Instrumental Music.
Mrs -,
Teacher Of Vocal Music.
Miss Julia Guest,
Teacher in Primary Department,
Spring term commences April 18th, 1868.
floomsburg, March Is. 1868.
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05

PHILADELPHIA, March LIST, 1865
6eD We.beg t0I inform you that we are pre-
&1 paredto oteI,f for your your ins ~ pestIon oui usual
Con sting Uf the newest shapes In Straw Silk and
GIMP Hats, Bonnets, &C. Vsvets, Silk Good Rib.
hons, Flowers, Feathers. Ruches, Grapes, blondes.
,vn, IN YOU at our Store, OF receive your orders
r,;ees low for Cash. Yours. &c. H. WARD.
.s,:S ia.-i-.o. Nos lG3, lT Z !G3 North Second
s,,e., Fiji ade!Ihi,
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05

a WESTERN paper says that as General
Grant was coming of the cars at ST. Louis,
he was stung on the nose by locust. In
mcdiately afterwards the locust was seized
with terrible convulsions, and in a short
time died in q fit of delirium trcncns. Grant
and bad whisky arc in demand when the
locusts are bad
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05
Uncle Sim lpsOn Grant.

lney roll the smoke, sweetcncu; into stlcks,
and sell it for licorice.
Uncle Simpson Grant.
Still another name and q new business for
Grant. The Tribune declares that his name
is Uncle Simpson Grant," and that he has
gone into the ''old clothes" business. Here
is the handsome way in which it notices
these interesting facts:
"Uncle" Simpson has for sale the uni.
forms of the Peudleton escort.
The TiJunc as usual however, can only
be half right. U. S. Grant may very we'll
stand for Uncle Simpson Grant" An
eminent shipowner Of this city remarked,
when one Of his friends demonstrated with
him for ordering the word "Asha" to be
PAINTED on the stern of vessel which he
desired to baptise in honor of the largest Of
the continents, "lf A, $, h, don't spell
asia, what in thunder does it spell?" In
like manner, if U. S. G. don't stand for
Uncle Simpson Grant, we should like to
know what in thunder it does stand for2
But if U. S. G. has bought ''thc uni.
forms of the Pendleton escort" it is not
that he may sell them. Finding that he ex-
cites no attention, and receives no cheers on
his western tour, the Radical candidate has
made up his mind to disguise himself and
his suite in these Democratic costumes, in
the hope of thereby receiving q better re.
ccption. The Pcndleton men ought to have
foreseen this and guarded against it. "Give
me your card, sir!' exclaimed ore angry
student to another at Bob Sawyer's party.
Give you my card, sir? responded his an.
tagonist, mot !, indeed you will put it on
your mantle.picce, to make your friends be.
lieve gentleman has called upon you.
A SAD MIsrAKE-People not well post
cd in biblical lore should be little careful
how they quote from memory. Very grave
mistakes have occurred before now but the
following, told by Mark Twain, shows con-
cIusively that different commandments refer
to different things, and that the captain un
Willingly made confession:
"Why Captain, you appear to have
very bad cold"
"Yes, madam" said the captain, who is
fond of working in his garden early in the
morning, in his shirt sleeves, II suppose /
deserve it; caught it while breaking the
Seventh Commandment, last Sunday"
The party, male and female, started and
looked blank and then the lady who had
brought out the remark said, as well as
choking fit of laughter would let her:
well, upon my word Captain, consid.
ering the unusual circumstances Of the case,
and your present surroundings, it was hard
ly necessary for you to enter so much into
particulars |"
When the innocent captain got home he
found, to his dismay, that the Seventh Com.
.nandment does not say ''Thou shalt remem.
ber the Sabbath day to keep it holy!
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05
All Kinds Of Machinery,

for Cnllcries. Mast Furnaces Stationary Engines
MILLS, THRESIIiNG MACHINES, NC. &C.
Neis also prepared TO make Stoves, all sizes and
cptterus p'ow irons. and everything usually made in
fist.ciass fOundrics.
His extensive facilities aud practical woFkmen wnr'
,ant him in receiving the largest contracts on the
III ,St reasonable terms.
u Grain Of all kinds Will be taken in exchange fot
castings.
VI Ihi- .stab.is shmrnt il iocaed near the Lackawa
ma GIoomsburg Railroad Depot.
noomshuTy, Sent. IL, tsGJ
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05

"A North Carolina negro prophet fore
tells a famine in 1873, and is going to Wash
iug,on 10 prevail upon Congress to lcgslate
IL away
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05
OMNIBUS LINE.

OWNI Duo CINEs
THE unders signed would respectfully announce to
/ the citizens Of Bloomsburg, and the public gen.
orally, that he IL running
an OMNIBUS LINE. he
tween this lace and the DIFF. 6EEl9a[fASNSyF
ferent Rail Road Dep0ts dai. WW HHH
ly, (Sundays excepted) to
connect with the several Trains going South West
on the Catawissa aud WilliamspoFt Rail Road and
with those going North and South on the Lack. &
bloomsbury Road,
His OMNIBUSsES are in good condition, commo.
dious and comfortable, and charges reasonable.
O- Persons wshisg 10 meet or zee their friends
depart, can he acconimoda ated, upon reasonable
charges by leaving timely notice at any Of the Ho
tells,
JACOB L. GIRTON,
Proprietor
pinop, .hnro Anil laCA
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-05

"A popular stopping place Brandy Sta.
tion.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-06

vTANTED-A SMART GIRL TO DO THE HOuSEWOR
w of small family, gentleman and wife; must be goo
washer and roner and plain cook. Apply west side 3D.
third cottage north of list at.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-06

7A7 EAST SD ST., SECOND FLOOR.-A REsPECTA-
BILE girl aundrcss CHI ambermaid; good city
ference. Can be seen for two days
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-06

vNANTED-AT A MILITARY POST, ABOUT AN
w hours ride from New ork cool to do the
cooking washing and ironing q sany q three persons
and obgng disposition, wishing permanent home need
apply. Apply at 404 tth between ~ and II A. H.,
Wednesday, 7lh inst.