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AN INTERNAL MEASURE.

Congress, on Friday last, passed a
bill to take the control of the military
in the first and fifth districts, from
Gems. Stoneman and Buchanan and
place it in the hands Of the Carpetbag
Presidents of the Reconstruction con-
yentions of those districts. Thus Vir-
ginia, Mississippi and Texas are re-
fused even the few rights left them
under the Reconstruction acts, and
their people are to be bayOnetted into
the embrace of Radicalism, by such
fiends in human shape as Hunnicutt,
Eggleston and Hamilton. But worse
than this, the people of those States
are to be prevented under the Sc
verest penalties, from voting at the
Presidential election. We quote the
following from this bill:
"That if in any one of the said States
any person shall, during the year 1868,
vote for any candidate for election for
President or president of the u
nited States, or shall act as an officer
at any election for such candidate, ev-
cry person so offending shall be deem
ed guilty of high misdemeanor, and
shall be liable to Indictment and con-
viction in any court Of competent juris-
diction, and shall, on conviction be fin
ed not more than one thousand dollars,
and be imprisoned not less than one
month nor more than one year. That
it shall be the duty of the President of
the United States to prohibit any per-
son from voting or acting as an officer
of and election contrary to the pro-
visions of this act, and for that purpose
he shall employ the power of the army
and navy of the United States so far
as may be necessary"
There was but one Republican" in
the whole House, who had the honesty
to vote against this tyrannical and
shameful outrage, Mr.. Baker of IIli-
nois. God of Justice, cannot be that
such crimes as these shall go unrebuk-
ed!
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ORGANIZE E!
coward ?

Now that harvest is over, and the
weather is becoming cooler, we advise
our friends throughout the county, to
take steps to organize the party. The
full Democratic vote of this county has
not been pOlled for years, for the sim
pie reason that our organization has al
ways been imperfect. This year it must
be otherwise. The interests at stake in
this canvass are too important to let
things take their own course. Every
Township and Borough should have its
local organization. Seymour and Blair
clubs should be formed in every cleo
ton district. 1t is not necessary that
much noise should be made in getting
up these organizations. Quiet acork is
more effective than the braying of
horns and the Haunting of banners
These are well enough in their place,
but thorough drill, perfect discipline,
complete method, are of incalculable val
ue. 1t may be said that in some places
it is impossible to organize a club.
Nonsense! Where two or three meet
together i'm a good cause, the angel of
success will be in the midst of them.
Let there be regular meetings and fire.
quent consultations. Even if but two
persons meet together and take counsel
for the welfare of the country, good re-
suits will follow.
Now, shall this suggestion be acted
upon? Men may boast of their Democ-
racy, they may talk of their fidelity to
their party and the labor they have
performed for its success in the past,
6,h the coming election a0iU pr0ue their
deUOtion to their proteSsed l0rinciples.- =
The country must be rescued notO, i,a
this u,gftH crisis Of its fate, from the grasp
of the demons that are dragging it
down to perdition. Can you sit quiet
ly at your fire-side, can you pursue the
even tenor of your way, and permit
this great crime to be accomplished ?
1t cannot be. To work, then, and do
not wait for others to take the initia-
tive. Begin, of your own accord, and
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DEMOCRATIC REPUTATION.

While the Radicals are clamoring
against what they term the "Repudia-
tion plank" of the Democratic platform,
which embodies the views of Mr.. Pen
dleton, the following extract from the
great speech If that gentleman, deliv-
cred to the Democracy of West Virgin
ia last week, will enable those who do
not fully understand the matter to
comprehend it in all its parts:
81 am," said the distinguished ora
tor, "hostile to no class or interest in
this country / simply desire to be
just-iust to the bondholder, just to the
people. / would live up with scru-
pulous fidelity to the terms of our con-
tracts. would pay the interest of the
five twenties in gold, because the Gov
ernment promised to do so; | would
pay the principal and interest of the
ten-forties in gold, because the Govern
ment promised to do so; | would pay
the principle of the five twenties in le-
gal tender notes, because the bOndhOl-
ders agreed to receive them in payment;
and as | would not repudiate an honest
bargain 10 make money for the peO-
pie, so | would not repudiate an hon
est bargain to make money for the pub
lie creditors" Again: "These bonds
operate as mortgage upon the proper
ty and labor of the country. There are
two thousand millions of them. Pay
off those two thousand millions, and
will not these legal tenders be just in
that proportion more valuable? Since
the debt was contracted in legal ten
ders, | am in favor of continuing it un-
til we can secure the people, who have
already suffered all the evils, whatever
good may be expected from the sys-
tenn.
These are the views of Mr.. Pendle-
ton, and these are the views embodied
in the Democratic platform. Will the
Radical journals, which cry ''repudia'
tion," be kind enough to point out tC
their readers wherein Mr.. Pendletor
or the Democratic platform advocate:
any such wrong? The howl of "repu
diation," like that of COpperhead, i.
simply "played out"
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1t is worthy of notice that Messrs,
S. D. & III. w. Smith, of Boston, man
ufacturers of the AMERICAN ORGANS
have been most successful in the sale
of their instruments in those localities
where special exertions have been made
by certain manufacturers who have
had the arrogance and deception to
claim every improvement in reed in
struments as their own, which were in
operation ever before they existed in
the business. Never have the AMERI-
CAN ORGANS been SO popular, and the
sales so large as at the present time.
We have tested these instruments for
long time, and find them in every
respect the most satisfactory and per-
feet which we have ever used, and we
have had practical experience in the
use of those organs which in the pub
lie prints claim the greatest celebrity
W. Musical Journal.
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TBADDEUS STEVENS.

Old Thad. endorses the Democratic
platform on the financial question, the
taxation of bonds and every thing else
except "the Negro" Thad. says that
the Chicago Grant Platform, if it means
the payment of the bonds in gold, as it
is construed to mean by the ~. Z Trl-
6,oae, Forney's Press and nearly every
Radical leader in the country, is a
s'swindle" and an Outrage" and he
%ill vote for Seymour and Blair, if
that construction is to be put upon it.
Republicans, pause and ponder! When
the "Great Commoner," as you delight
to call him, thus exposes the hypoc-
risy of your platform, is it not time
to stop and think?
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FROM BALTIMORE.
Terrific Rain Storm and Tremendous
Flood.

BALTIMORE, July PA very tre-
mendous thunder storm passed over
this city to-day. The rain fell in tor
rents for some hours, flooding the
streets in every direction, and inter-
rupting telegraphic and railway COM
munication with the South. The rain
continued until four o'clock this after
noon. Jones' falls were overfiowed
and the city in that region inundated.
Baltimore, Gay and Holiday streets
were flooded, the water rising at the
rate of two feet per minute. The Hol-
liday street theatre and old City Hall
are filled with water nearly up to the
second story, and Mr.. Ward, the jani-
tor, was drowned. Many others are
believed to have lost their lives, and
the destruction ofproperty is immense.
All of the canal bridges in the city
have been swept away. | have just
learned that Swami lake, seven miles
out, on the Northern Central railroad,
from which the city is supplied with wa
ter, has given way and the whole Of the
immense flood has swept down the val
ley, carrying away bridges, houses,
factories and other property. The cars
at the Northern Central railroad depot
are now swimming in water, and
some persons are in them. Persons
who have just arrived from the
country report terrible destruction.
Drowned bodies of men, women and
children are frequently being picked
up. The flood also has been very Sc.
we're on the Washington railroad, and
did much damage. Boats are now seen
in all directions in the lower streets, in
what used to be called the meadows
The dam at Swami lake cost nearly q
quarter of a million ofdollars. 1t makes
one shudder to contemplate the fearful
| consequences of this awful flood, which
are not yet half known. The central
police station is twenty feet in water
This flood far exceeds that of 1885. The
water is passing off tonight rapidly
but is still about ten feet deep, and q
raging food on Pratt and other streets
in he lower part of the city. The
damage done is roughly estimated at
$4,000, GOO, but may greatly exceed that
sum. A lady and four children were
drowned, about dusk, in trying to get
out Of a frame dwelling down town
Probably thirty persons have lost theil
lives by this disaster. Policemen arc
rowing all about the city in boats max
ing rescues of persons and property
wherever practicable. The rain ha:
ceased and the crisis has passed as
dispatch this to you.
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THE OLD GUARD FOR AUGUST
This sterling old Democratic visitor
comes out in the most inviting make
up for the coming month. 1t is par
ticularly rich in variety of very inter
esting and original character. Among
its contents will be found the follow
ing: Modern and Ancient Ideas OF
Liberty Contrasted, by the Editor
Chapter III-Ideas of Government
and Liberty in Europe during the
Eighteenth Century; Origin of the
Swiss Republican; Under the Roses.
A Novel, By Miss Marshall. U. S.
Grant; by a General in the United
States Army; VoItaire's Theory upon
the Peopling of America, the Demo
cratic Nominees and platform Finan-
cial and Commercial; The Book Table,
which is very replete and inviting /;
The Editors Table, of which it may
be said that it presents, like the Book
Table, a very interesting melange; An
excellent life-like steel plate portrait
of Horatio Seymour, the Democratic
nominee for President, is presented in
this number. 1t is the only steel plate
copy extant, and is pronounced by Mr..
Seymour and his friends the very best
ever issued. Single copies, % cents
50 per year. Address Van Evrie,
Horton g. Co., Publishers, No. 1852
Nassau street, New York.
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Campaign Gazette !!
REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT,
Civil Liberty and Constitu-
tional Rights!
NO STANDING ARMY!
NO FREEDMEN'S BUREAU,
NO NEGRO STATES!
White Men Must Rule America! |!

"Light, more light !" is the start
ling cry of the honest people groping
in the darkness of Radicalism. "Light,
more light" shouts the groaning tax
payer, bending under the load which
a Radical Congress has heaped upon
him. "Light, more light!" is the
pleading cry that comes to us from
those who earnestly seek remedy for
the disease that is tugging at the vi
tails Of the nation. Look and We shall
see! Read and we shall know! The
BEDFORD GAZETTE, for the Presi-
dental Campaign, will be a complete
compendium politicalnews speeches,
documents and every thing that per-
tains to political canvass in the col
umns ofa weekly newspaper. 1t will
be published from the first day of June
until the seventh of November, next,
at the following low terms, cash in adj
vance:
One copy, S rs
Ten copies, 600
Twenty copies, 1l.00
Fifty copies, $500
Not only should every Democrat
have his county newspaper, during the
coming campaign, but he should like
wise make it point to furnish his Re-
publican neighbor copy. This is
the plan upon which our opponents
have acted for years, and it is about
time that Democrats DO something of
the same sort. NOW, GO TO WORK
and put yor Democratic newspaper into
The hands Of eueyy Republican aolo acW
read. If you will do this you will
accomplish more good in six months
than you will by any other means in
six years. Democratic politicians,
throughout the county, are enabled, by
the above low terms, to circulate Dem
Ocratic newspapers at very small
cost. We appeal to them to see TO get
ting up clubs, and to see to it in time.
NOa0 is the time to SOW the seed. Af-
ter little while the heat of passion
and prejudice will beam upon the pub
lie mind in all its intense ferceness,
and then seed-time will have passed.
Friends, let us hear from youl
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The natural color and beauty are re-
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Alta Radical meeting held in front of
the Washington Hotel, a short time
since, the Hon. John Cessna made one
of his usual screeching speeches in
which he belabored, with his wonted
vindictiveness, his old friends, the
"Copperheads. John, in order, we
presume, to show in what familiar
terms he and "the Devil' intercom-
municate each others secrets, related
the following:
"The Devil asked a Yankee to be-
come one of his followers. The Yam
kee said he would, if the Devil could
do certain things. The Devil replied
he could do anything. The Yankee
asked him to pluck up large tree that
stood near them. The Devil pulled it
up by the roots and flung it away from
him. The Yankee asked him to remove
down with his foot. The Yankee then
asked him to tell him what was mean
er than 'copperhead.' This the Dew
il could not answer, but burst into
tears with grief at not being able to
count the Yankee among his followers.
Mo- said the Devil, there is nothing
SO mean in He'll as a copperhead."
Cessna, of course, adopted the state
ment of the Devil as truth, and is con-
WINGED and now tries to convince 9TH
ers, that "there is nothing in He'll 50
mean as "copperhead."
Shame on this ungrateful dog! Who
gave him all the position he ever held :?
Who sent him to the Legislature ?
Who made him Speaker of the House
of Representatives Who worked and
fought and spent their time and money
to make him the John Cessna of 1868 :?
The very men whom he now denounces
as "copperheads' and beslimes with
his malignity. Why, that title of
"Hon.," which he wears SO meekly,
would not be before his name to-day,
if it had not been placed there by those
whom he styles ''copperheads." He
was "copperhead" himself. He op-
posed the Republican" party until
the very last year of the war and de-
clared on the stump that the Union
could not be restored if Lincoln did
not withdraw his Emancipation Pro-
clamatiOn. Now, "like the dog that
returns to his yomit," he has gone to
the ranks of his former enemies, to eat
all the dirt he threw at them for twen-
ty years. And this renegade "copper"
head" has near friends whom he places
in this category OF ''copperheads" who
are "meaner than anything in HELL"
men who are respected and beloved
wherever they are known, but whom
he dislikes because they would not fol-
low him in his treachery to the party
that made him. Such a man is not
merely guilty of treachery to his party,
he is false to friends and kindred, and
a traitor to the best and nobleSt in
stincts of humanity.
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Among the supporters of Seymour
and Blair, are Chief Justice Chase,
Judge Field and Judge Davis, of the
U. S. Supreme Court, Maj Gen.
Ewing, Gen. l.. d. Campbell, Hon. J..
r.. Doolittle, Senator Dixon, Ex-Sena-
tor CoWan, Senator ID. S. Norton, Sec
retaries Welles and Browning and 9TH
er members of the cabinet. These
have all hitherto been Republicans"
Maj. Gen. Hancock, Maj. Gen. w. B.
Franklin, Maj. Gen. ID. N. Conch,
Maj. Gen. III. w. Slocum, Maj. Gen.
w. F. (Baldy) Smith, Maj. Gen. J. ~.
McClernaud, Maj. Gen. Duryea (of the
famous Zouaves) and host of the a.
blest and best officers of the Union
army, are warm supporters of Seymour
and Blair. 1t is said that Maj. Gen.
Geo. B. Mcclellan will soon return to
this country and take the stump for
the Democratic candidates.
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1t should be remembered that this
does not include pensions, bounties,
and debts of similar description. Is
it not amazing to contemplate the
sums which are gathered from the peo-
pie, year after year, simply to pay the
interest on this debt? People often
complain of their county and State
taxes, but in hardly any county in the
Commonwealth do these amount to
One-tenth of the interest actually paid
on the public debt each year by the
people of such county. It is true this
interest is not all collected from the
people by a direct tax; that part of it
which is not so collected Is raised 6y du-
ties on articles Of meat, drink and appaT-
Ell, aohich are iaUdria6y paid 6y the con-
sunaer. Hence the high prices of the
necessaries of life, and "the grinding
of the faces of the poor" And this in
terest, mark you, must be paid IN gold,
which adds 40 cents to every dollar of
it. This is a subject worthy the atten-
ton of every man; for if this land Of
ours is ever again to be one ofprosperi-
ty, this load must be lifted from the
shoulders of the people.
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ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE
COMMITTEE.

DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE Rooms,
CLEARFIELD, Pa, July 2l, 1868.
Democrats of Pennsylvania
THE HOUR FOR WORK HAS COME!
We earnestly invite you to organize
for victory.
Attention to details, persevering ener'
gy, organization and discipline will
bring triumph to your principles.
Zeal and perseverance in ere1y Dem
ocrat, and thorough organization in
erery locality, are the true roads to
success.
Superficial effort, noise and parade
are valueless. The stake is a mighty
one, and must be won by systematic
work and business-like energy.
Pennsylvania is the battle-ground.
At the October election the enemy
will make their most determined con-
test.
You occupy the post of honor-the
vanguard of the Democratic army
You have proven your ability to carry
the State; and Individual effort, faith
in your principles and courage in their
maintenance noa0, will enable you to
count your majority by tens of thOus-
ands.
The drift of the tide is toward you /;
changes are abundant and It's appar-
ent that the political revulsion now in
progress will end in the utter over
throw of Radicalism.
Let us labor to deserve so propitiOus
a result.
We invoke you, then, to energetic
action, to close attention to the details
of your organization, to the formation
of clubs, to the conversion of voters, to
the enthusiastic support of your candi-
dates SEYMOUR, the statesman, and
BLAIR, the gallant soldier.
Let us recognize in their names the
symbols of change, the representa-
tives of hatred to Radicalism, and eX-
tending the hand of fellowship to all
who will aid us in saving the Repub-
lie, Conservatives and Democrats will
move forward under their banner, as a
mighty phalanx, united, determined
and irresistible.
Let your warfare be aggressive. De-
fend nothing. The Radicals in power
are responsible for the unhappy cOndi-
ton of our country Charge upon
them their extravagances and their
crimes. Demand of them an account
for your treasure wasted, your Union
not restored, your race degraded, your
business destroyed and your Govern
ment prostituted.
Let your rallying cries be, A GOV
ERNMENT OF WHITE MEN EQUAL
TAXATION; ONE CURRENCY FOR ALL.
Organize Organize! Organize
To work To work To work!
Bv order of the Democratic State
Committee.
WILLIAM A. WALLACE,
Chairman,
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PITTSBURGH FEMALE COLLEGE,
We call the attention of our readers
to the claims of this really sterling in
stitution. Its recent catalogue shows
an attendance during the past year of
three hundred and .f0rty-SeUeR young
ladies, gathered from twelve States.
Its admirable location, on one of the
most beautiful and quiet streets of
Pittsburgh and yet within ten minutes
walk of nearly every important point,
its wholesome discipline, and withal,
moderate prices, commend it to all
who have daughters to educate. This
latter item is worthy of special notice.
The charges are scarcely one-half those
of many schools having fewer teachers
and less facilities. 1t is not an insti-
tuition established for private gain,
but to meet public want, and the
single aim of all concerned has been
to put finished education, of the high
est grade, within the reach of all
worthy young ladies. The Fall term
commences September Send to Rev.
I. G. Pershing, for catalogue. Let
its halls be crowded.
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BETTING ON THE ELECTION.

One of the most bastard tricks of the
opposition, is getting strangers to bet
with our citizens on the result of the
election. When this is done some in
dividuals present will take a note OF
it and prevent the democrat from vot-
ing, on the day of the election. Look
out for all such offers to bet and avoid
the trick.