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The Movement to Set Aside Seymour and
Blair-1he Gamblers Behind the Scenes

Blair-1he Gamblers Behind the Scenes.
From the ". Y. Herald
The puzzle of perpetual motion, the problem
OF squaring the circle or what became of the
ten lost tribes of Israel, are questions not
more difficult of solution than the late factious
movement in the Democratic camp against
Seymour and Blair upon any pi sumption of
party expediency. The proposition was put
forth simultaneously from a Copperhead
journal in New York and Copperhead jour
nal in Washington, and was so promptly
responded to by several Copperhead journals
in New Orleans, Richmond, and elsewhere in
the South and West, as to suggest common
understanding among them all. The reasons
advanced for the motion to cast Seymour and
Blair overheard and to try new ticket headed
by Chase would have been somewhat plausible,
with margin of two or three months of time
to work upon; but coming forth within three
short weeks of the Presidential election, the
proposition naturally excited among the
honest Democratic masses suspicious of lunacy
against the guilty parties or of treschery,
bribery, and corruption.
The reasons assigned for this absurd and
suicidal movement were that General Blair's
Brodhead letter had "played thevery devil"
with Win the Democratic party in the late Penn
syIvania, Ohio, and Indiana elections that but
ioi Dia,r and that fatal letter the Democracy
plShI nave carried at least Pennsylvania and
ihoiaha; that blair was the deadweight that
broke the party down in October, and would
certainly, unless removed, break it up in No
vember. 1t had, therefore, become an IN. pera.
tive necessity to out off Blair and substitnta
man perfectly clear of his damaging heresies.
But to ''make assurance doubly sure" in this
change of front, il twas further proposed to
substitute Chase for Seymour in order to gain
over the conservative balance Of power from
the Republican camp. In short, some great
event was needed to challenge at once the
public attention and divert the current of
public condemnation from Blair and his OBJ
noxious letter to the shortcomings of the
but the change of the Democratic ticket from
Seymour and Blair TO Chase and Hancock, or
Chase and Hendricks, or Chase and Johnson,
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popular candidate voted for at the same cleo
tiOn."
We meet this gasconade with an array Of
recorded facts. Figures are its proper anti
dote.
Horatio Seymour first ran for Governor of
this State in 1850, when ne was beaten,
though all bis associates on the Democratic
ticket were elected. Here are the aggregates
Whtg Candidates. Democratic,
Governor........W. HunL24,64 Seymour.2t4 1852
aneI S9 oS3 SnnLon SlsVOs
Prison Insp.... -Baker...206l l42 Angel ...2l7 $50
Clerk Appeals. Smith ..."2llu u29 Benton ..2l7 955
In 1852 he ran again, and was elected; but
be ran behind his Lieutenant, Church, and
his Canal Commissioner Foster.
In 1854 he ran again, and was BEATEN but
for once led his tioket-his party being di-
vided into "Hards" and "Softs."
In 1852, he ran again, and was elected,
owing to the absence Of fifty Thousand voters
in the field, fighting for their country; but his
Lieutenant Cd. R. Floyd JonesJ and Canal
Commissioner (Skinner) both ran ahead of
him.
In 1864 he made his last run for Governor,
stumped the State as aforesaid, and was beaten
by Governor Fenton, Seymour running be-
hind his ticket as usual. Here are the aggre-
gates:-
Presdent.... .uooln.",.ses7s5 Mcclellan ..ss.q,e
9overnor.."-F ento n...-359557 seymour."-Ssl. .2St
Lieut. lyord Ss9 800 goneS.......Sslsis
CanAl Com.....A $50 367 LO 36l 6i2
Prison Intp..Forrest.. ..360 42s McNellL..3s 8ls
Seymour had the lowest vote, and was the
worst beaten Of any man on the Democratic
ticket, from President down. And that was
his last appearance as candidate till now.
But trot him out, gentlemen opposite, and
put him through his PAGES We have the
record of his time, and know that, like the
Irishmau's racer, Botherum, he ''drives all
before him." He may just as we'll talk as not,
for he can't kill himself any deader than he
already is.
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pYEING, sCOuRING. ETC.

NEW YORK DYEING ANO PRINTING
In ESTA Bills sHMENT.
WORKS ON sTATEN ISLAND.
Offices, No. 40 N. EIGHTH street, west side, Phla
No. 0S DUANE Stxeet
No. 762 BRO a DWAY, New York, aud
Nos. 1874 and 1886 PIERREPONT Street. Brooklyn
Ihis old and extensive establishment haylng Deea
In existence hGH century are prepared TO D1 nna
CLhANSE Ladies and Gentlemen's Garments anu
Piece Goods OF every description and iaoric IN theH
usually unsurpassed manner ,.rx. ,.oa,aon.
J. IT YouNya RacraIarW 10 10 mwi2m
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GAS FIXTURES.

~ 8 x I u r q g.
0 MISKEY, MERRILI. Il THACKARA,
NO. 7ls OHE5NUT Street,
manufacturers OF Gas Fixtures, Lamps, eto. eto1
would call the attention OF the public their large and
elegant Assortmsnt Of Gas chandelers. Pend ania.
Brackets, etc. They also Introduce gas pipes into
dwellings and public buildings, and attend 20 extenGs
inE rssSlpE SsF xspanseS spd rsPSSrinE EaSpipes am
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PROPOSALS.

u Z A n o Il ID A r e N l.,
Il PHILADELPHIA, PA. OctoOer 10, 1858,
sealed Proposals. in duplicate, will be received by
the undersigned until IL M, October lSGS at this
office for fnrnlshng the troops stationed At Frank
ford Arsenal with Fresh Beef, of good marketable
quality, in equal proporIi of fore and hind quar-
lers. excluding necks, shanks, and kidney tailOW;
the Beef 20 be delivered Tree of cost TO tie troops
such quantities and on such days as may be from
Time To time required by the proper authority and
continue In force Six Months such less time
CommissaTy General shall direct and subject TO his
approval, commencing on the lst day or November,
1868: Upon acceptance OF the oher security and bond
in The sum Of Six HundTed Dollars Will be required
for the faithful performance OF the contract.
Bids must be eloorsed Proposals for Fresh
JOEN E. GREER,
10 20 st Second Lieutenant Ord, A. O6
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COTTON AND FLAX,
OF all numbers and branda,
Tent. Awning. TrunR. and Wagon Cover DUCK
lEo Paper Mannfacturers DrIor Felts, frona one
several ice Wcei Paul e, Belting Sail TWlne' eto
John w, EVIN2MAN - OOY
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EDUCATIONAL,

HAMILTON INSTITUTE DA1 AND BOARD
ing-school for Young Ladies' No. 1910 CHEsNUT
Street, Philadelphia. will reopen on MONDAY, Sep
tember 2, 1868. For terms, etc., apply TO
824tf PHILIP A. CREaAR A. M Principal,
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TNHE MISSES JOHNSTON'S BOARDING
- and Day School for Young Ladies', No. 1877
SPEtUCE 81 street, will reopen Cd. w september
II, 1865. 824 I'm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-20
TIE FUNDING BILL.
or deep.

The House has matured, and will probably
pass, a bill to fund at lower rate of interest
the present funded Debt of the United States.
Its principal features are as follows:
/. The new bonds are to be redeemable at
the pleasure of the Government after forty
years.
2. They are to draw interest at the rate of
SO 65 on every 800 due. That is to say:
Each "Five-Twenty" bond of $1,000, which
now draws SEQ interest per annum, is to be
exchanged for new bond drawing but 1861
interest per annum.
3. The new bonds are to be absolutely I'M
taxable by Federal, State, or local authority.
4. In heu of our present Sinking Fund, the
sum of 1885, 100000 in specie per annum, col
lected each fiscal year from Duties on Imports,
is set apart and pledged to the payment of
the interest and reduction of the principal of
our National Debt
a. No commissions shall hereafter be paid
on the exchange of one form of National Debt
for another or on the sale of any coin or bull
lion for account of the Treasury.
8. All exchanges of bonds on behalf of the
Government are to be effected by public cOmpe-
titlon, after advertising for proposals.
0. Henceforth the income tax due or accru-
ing upon our existing bonds is to be de-
Quoted at the Treasury in paying the interest
on such bonds.
7. All authority to issue new bonds of the
United States, save in exchange for old Ones
is revoked and annulled.
This bill has good features; but is it a
practicable measured In other words: Is it
probable that those who now hold $1,000 bonds
of our Government, wherein they draw an in
terest of $50 each per annum, will rush to the
Treasury and offer them for exchange into
new bonds of like amount, drawing but 1891
each per annum2 Would MT it be advisable to
pay half per cent. to whoever shall induce
them COR part of them) to do sol
We shall certainly be glad to hear that the
holders of our Fiye-Twenties are ready and
eager to make such an exchanges but we do not
understand the inducement. And we appre-
bend that the cutting off of all commissions
precludes all hope of any general OF rapid re-
funding of our Debt.
As to the $t3J, 5000 clause, it seems to SAVIOR
of Reputation. Here are the provisions of law
which it proposes to repeal
/. All the Duties on Imports to be collected
and paid in coin;
2. Said coin to be specially devoted, First,
to the payment in Coin of the interest on the
bonds and notes of the United States;
Second, to the annual purchase or payment
of one per centum ot the entire Debt of the
United States.
That is TO say: BY existing laws, the
whole revenue from imports is to be collected
in coin, and the total interest of our National
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-20

1t is reported that the King of the Feejee
Islands, who owes us $4,000 and cannot pay it,
wants Mr.. Seward to buy his entire possessions
as good and easy means of settling the pc
cuniary embarrassment. We are opposed to
Government land speculations on principlej
but really there is something particularly at
tractive in this little scheme, and we are half
tempted to disregard our own advice and
recommend Mr.. Seward to make trade. The
property is worth O great deal more than
Alaska. The climate is not cold. The inhab-
itants are warm hearted and impulsiye. Living
is cheap, for yams are abundant, and when a
settler wants meat he has only to go into the
bush and shoot man, according to the Gus
tom of the country. We shall soon need a
territory of this kind, as the Democrats will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-20

The Democratic papers make much Of the
fact that Mr.. Lincoln thanked Gov. Seymour
for his promptness in forwarding troops t.
Washington at the time of Lees Gettysburg
campaign. Ivwas a graceful courtesy from the
President to a political opponent but we de
not see that Gov. Seymour derives any par.
ticuIar credit from his conduct. He did nc
more than any Northern Governor must have
dODe-no more than his official duty impem.
lively demanded The honor, such as it was,
belongs to the soldiers who volunteered, not
to the official who gave the word March A
Governor who had refused in those days TO dc
his share in the defense of the capital of the
nation would hay ed i'll IT the hands Of the
people for all tao thereafter. Why, Gov,
Seymour could not have stopped the soldiers
from going to Washington it he had tried,
The point against him is, however, that he op.
posed the war, that he discouraged recruiting
and that while that very campaign of Gettys
burg was at its elimination he was denouncina
the Government here in New-York, and stir
ring up the Rebel mob to open that fire In
the rear" which our city remembers with Sc
much shame and Indignation.
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MISSISSIPPI.

Extract from the letter of a Delegate 10 IN.
late Constitutional Convention of Mississipo;
dated July 16:
The Constitution has been defeated by about SO,
votes-defeated by the most audacious raseaes ey.
perpetrated in election on this continent Had ever,
man been permitted to have gone up and voted his SEMI
ments without fear, the Constitution would. honest,
believe have been ratified by $4,000 majority Prejudice
and wicked passions have got such complete control a
this people that the life OF Union man in constant
danger Not only but such being wickedly mobbs
and murdered different quarters Of the State Only
day OF two since, d. ii. Orr Delegate from RarrisOa
County, was fouy murdered by political adversary
For my own part, have been notified time and tina
again to charge my quarters else l would he missing
Such is the state Of affairs that unless there is sroug
probability CT a change for the better sOon must leave
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-20

Debt paid therefrom, with one hundredtf, mar,
of the principal every year.
1t seems to us that the House bill substituto,
a less for more complete security to the Ma.
tional creditors, and so is unjust.
We ardently trust that good Funding hin
may be passed at this session, and that the r,t.
of interest may not be fixed so low that no an.
will accept it. Do let us have the work !,
funding our National Debt in an American Con.
sol well begun at the earliest moment Ru,
let us have no quackery, no demagoguisn. and
no faint of reputation.
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" Congress, The Presidents Message, The
Wreck of the Scotland, Germdny Hodr upon the
Chicago People, The Drama, Music, Stray Notes,
and Political mag be found on the second page /;
Base Ball, The Late Excursion Disaster, legged
Heavy Bank Robbery, Indian Cure for a Snake
Bite, Gen. Grant ON the Pacific RaiLwdy,
WOrkmen on the Union Pacific Railrag
Government Of the Dominion, The Courts,
National Guard, and The Money Market may be
found on the third page; Balloon discussions
on the fifth page; and Real Estate, The Markets,
Nep- York Post Office Science, The Long Island
Torpedo Trade, a Medical Experiment, and
Commercial GroCh Of Nicaragua, on the
seventh.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-20

The Senate ON Saturday was engaged most
Of the day in discussing the bill granting
further protection to American citizens abroad
Messrs. Sumner and CONFESS made the prin-
cipal speeches, the former in opposition to GER
tain provisions, and the latter in support of
the bill as reported. Without taking vote
the Senate adjourned. In the House five mem
bers for Louisiana and two from South Caro-
lima were qualified The Funding bill, after
being amended in several particulars, was passed
by the Committee Of the Whole, and reported
to the House. vote will be taken on it to-
day.
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Amustmtnts, ct.

BROADWAY THEATER.-This Evening at S-"A
Flash Of Lightning" ,r ~ -,
ing FourteeDth st., adjoining Academy OF Music Evening
Much Ado About NOthng-L Love among 'ne Roses opa's
hinsres $500.
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN-Seventh-ave and Fifty
eghhstTE Evening aG-Ihod're Thomas Popular Oarden Con
eeFtA
OLYMPIC THEATER-This Evening at s." Humpty
Duupty.p @. L. FoT Mdlle Sangah .
WAILACKs-This Evening at S.-"Lottery of Life "
John Brougbam.
NIBLO's GARDEN,-This evening at S, Ohenbach's
Beu" Mile iTma Mile Lambel6; Grand Partisan Ballet
Troupe
NATIONAL EXHIBITION HAIL. No. GIG Broadway
Day and Evenng.-Models Of New.York and London.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-20

Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens has introduced an act
limiting the jurisdiction to admit aliens to cit
izenship and grant naturalization papers to the
limited States Circuit and District Courts, and
N such Commissioners as those courts may ap-
point in counties in which no Circuit or District
Court shall be located. There might be some
benefit from such an act, but there would be n
Far greater advantage in having detective
" description of every person naturalized In
serted in the body Of his papers, including his
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all want to emigratc early next November,
and the Feejee Islands will be just the place
for them. Mr.. Seymour will, of course, be APP
pointed Governor of the new Territory with
Mr.. Blair as commander of the military de-
partment, and cooking an islander will seem 50
much like roasting "nigger" that both gen.
tlemen will feel themselves among their friends.
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Busintss autitrs.

PHALON's "PAPHIAN LOTION"
Bebes ofhe skin and Complexion Removes FrecA' Pmpes
Tar Salt Rheum, Bryspelas &c.
PHALoNs "PAPHIAN SOAP"
possesses the same properties "Pphn Lotion" For tho Tor
LET HURsERr and BATH Price per cake Sold By Drug.
gss
PHnoS, No SIT Broadway.
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There is something significant In the half
hearted way in which the leaders of variom
wings of the Democracy give in their adhesion
to the nomination of Mr.. Seymour Mr.. Pen.
dleton began his last speech by protesting that
he had recovered from his disappointment, and
was now ready to support the ticket Jadgs
Thurman, in a speech the other day at Column
bus, expressed the keenest regret that Pendle-
ton had not been nominated. Mr.. Hendricks
compliments Gov. Seymour very highly, but
feels dismal about his prospects in the South
And, finally, Mr.. DOolttle makes no secret OF
his opinion that the Democratic candidate ought
to have been either James r. Doolittle or q
military man; and is frank enough to ayow
that although he means to vote with the party
it is not because he likes the candidates but 10
cause he approves of the party. Gov. SEYMOUR
undoubtedly has warm personal admirers is'
many parts of the country; but to say that the
Democracy as a body are pleased with his nomi'
nation would be great mistake.
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age hight, figure, physical marks by which he
might be identified, color of hair, eyes, &C.,
and registering on every such certificate when
and where he votes. Under such a system
papers could seldom be borrowed and never
voted upon twice at the same election. 1t is
the revolving system that needs most to be
stonned
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-20

The President on Saturday sent to Congress
q message recommending certain amendments
to the Constitution in respect to the mode of
choosing the President and members of the
Senate 1t will be found on our second page.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-20

A proclamation has been issued by the
President announcing the ratification of the
XIVth Amendment to the Constitution by
the Legislatures of Louisiana and South Caro-
Lima.
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Advertisements for this weeks issue of THE
W. pgfY TRIBUSK must be handed in To-Day
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-22
National Banking Policy.

The Montrose (Pa.) Democrat thus shows
up the National Banking system:
The system of National Banks was estab-
lished by the Radical party, as an incident
to that national blessing" as their leaders
called the public debt. The beauties of the
banking system are set forth as hereunder
by an exchange: t-.-ssl 4,it 10 .... ...
thousand dollars in bonds and receives
ninety thousand dollars In greenbacks. His
real outlay is therefore only ten thousand
dollars. On this he gets from the Govern
ment on the bonds six thousand in gold,
equal to eight thousand in greenbacks, and
besides makes ten per cent. at least on the
greenbacks issued to him for the bonds,
making the comfortable sum of seventeen
thousand dollars; and yet the people, under
this absurd system, expect some day to pay
about three thousand millions-the public
debt. The bankers may be able to dis
charge this debt by this system of aug
menting it, but the people, never.
The only real outlay to which national
banker is subjected, is the difference be-
tween the United States bonds he deposits
and the amount of greenbacks issued to him.
Suppose he continues the process, and when
he has 100000 in greeDbacks he again buys
bonds and again draws $4,000 in green
backs from the treasury. Again he repeats
the process, and draws $4,000, and then
100000, and $4,000. Sums greater, but
approximating these in greenbacks, would
be furnished until he would receive interest
on quite half a million dollars from the
Government, and his only real outlay would
be the original $4,000. II the Union were
richer than Croesus and Rothschilds, and
all the kings aud emperors of the world,
this process would speedily bankrupt it.
The people, under this wonderful banking
system, disguise it as We may, pay one hum
dred per cent. for the use of private bank
ers' capital. as, ...if