The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-09-17


travagance. This is the sum and
substance of all their charges
against the Republican party.
A young man, pretending to be
a son of John @. Breckenridge, has
been imposing..upon the people of
Chillicotbe, and, after being re-
ceived with good deal OF favor
by Conservative families, dit OUT
in the night, and has not since
been seen.
The Fourth of July was celebra-
ted in Sitka with q canoe race, a
procession, ora;ion, dinner and
fireworks. A young Russian girl
represented the Goddess Of Liber-
ty in the procession.
Ex-Governor Thomas Il. Sey-
mour, died at his residence, in
Hartford, Connecticut, on the Sd
inst, of typhoid fever. His age was
sixty years. He was a prominent
democratic politician in his lifetime.
The Democracy avenged them
selves for the turn out of the Re.
publicans to the great mass meet
ing at Indianapolis, by sonping the
railroad track about five miles out
from the city, and thereby dctain-
ing returning excursion train all
night.
Gen. Longstrcet says he. believes
that if Seymour were elected it
would open all the old issues, and
.we should have trouble. OF Gen.
Grant he says: "IIe is a man. |
believe he is a fair man. | met
him at West PoiLt. think he is
above meanness. His silence is
grand"
Mr.. Pendleton says that the le
gal tender act was unconstitutional
and wrong, even as a war measure
and that he voted against it. Yet
he now insists upon passing anoth.
er unconstitutional legal tender act
IN time of peace when there is no
pretencc Of necessity for lt.-Jour-
nal.
"One currency 10Y the govern.
ment and the people," is now a
Democratic cry; and --shade Of Ben
tonl-that one currency is to be,
for twenty years at least, currcn
cy of "rags, only rags" as Judge
Thurman Expressed it in 1867.
The Republicans are emphatically
the friends of one currency for all,
and that currency to be gold and
silver coin or its equivalent
Journal.
Our advices from the Fairfield
District arc 10 the effect that Van
Trump will probably be elected,
notwithstanding his splendid Know.
Nothing record and tho Iukcw arm
ness OF the Statesman.-JouradL.
Tho Democrats are 80 deficient
in arithmetic, that in adding up
the Northern States they don't
known how TO "carry one"
A most aggravating attack has
boen made on tho philosopher u
N" by q Cleveland paper, which
has an article on "Rosecrans as the
rival of j. N"
The men who gave furloughs to
the rebel guards for shooting the
starving soldiers at Salisbury and
Andersonvlfle, are now swinging
their hats for Seymour and Blair,
The Blair and Seymour elector
al ticket of Georgia has on it one
rebel General, two Colonels, and
opo Major, four out OF nine, rebel
officers.
A discriminating little Republi.
can at Ellsworth, Mo, on seeing n
Democratic flag, exclaimed, "Why,
they have their names on our flag
DEMOCRATIC MoTTo FOR THE CAM.
pAlGN.-"Let us not employ in the
future any one, white or black, who
gives his aid to the Republican
party."-W Wade Hampton,
A western paper says that Gen.
eral Frank Blair will deliver tenn.
perance lectures during tho pres
cnt campaign. Somebody else had
better deliver tho lectures, and let
Frank furnish tho "frightiul ex
ample"
Nelson Collins, Esq, formerly
an active member of the Demo-
cratic Executive Committee of Bal
timore county, Nd, has como out
for Grant.
Fifty.two Democrats Of Des
Moines, Iowa, have declared for
Grant.
General Devins, Democratic
candidate for Governor of Massa.
chusetts in 1862, is out for Grant
and Colfax.
Tho La Sallo Press of Minnesota,
which before tho New York Con.
ventior gave tho Republican party
soma pretty hard knocks, has since
come out squarely and fairly for
Grant and Colfax. ,tsl
A Republican paper at Des
Molnes, Iowa, states that by actual