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ASA PACKER.
A SIX EToH OF HIS EARLY LIFE.


Asa Packer, the Democratic nominee
for Governor of Pennsylvania, was born
in the township of Groton, New Lon
don county, Connecticut, in the begin
ming Of the year 1906. Although Asa
Packer had enjoyed very limited oppor-
tunities of education, these had enabled
him to master the rudiments of knowl-
edge, and he made every offort to i'm
prove his mind and increase his store
of information. By diligence, faith
fulness and good temper, the first indi-
cations of a manly character, he won the
confidence. and ultimately the affection
OF his employer. Despite his youth he
came to be regarded by the tanner as a
confidential friend and adviser, and, IL
death had not interpGsed and broken
the connection, Asa Packer would pro-
badly have become partner in the es'
tablishment, and ended his life as a
tanner. During Mr.. Smiths last illness
Asa was his trusted manager, and, after
the hours Of business, his sympathizins
friend and companion.
After the death of Mr.. Smith, Asa en-
gagged himself to farmer by the name
OF John Brown. This farmer was mar
OF strong character and still stronger
convictions. He was q Democrat Of th'
school of Thomas Jefferson. From thi
farmer Asa Packer got the bias whicl
has ever inclined his heart and his judg
ment to the party which is now know
as the Democratic.
Like all young men of New England
when Asa reached seventeen years o
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EXCHANGE HOTEL, -

The undersigned having purchased this we'll
known and centrally located house, the Exchsage
Hotel, situate ON MAIN STREET, In BloomslaKg
Immediately opposite the Columbia county Court
House, respectfully inform their friends and the
public in general that their house is now in ogosF
for the reception and entertainment OF vsElsrs
who may be disposed To favor II with their Gus
tom They have spared no expense IN preIs-sins
neither shah there be any thing wanting on thstr
part To minister TO their personal comfort. 1Asy
house Is spacious. aud enjoys an excellent busi-
ness location. I..TI .LI.. ..... 10
Omnibuses run at all times between the GN-
change Hotel and the various railroad depOts. by
which travellers will be pleasantly conveyed to
and from the respective Stations In due ttnia to
meet the cars. .....L KOONS d CLARK.
Bloomsburg April 3, 1858.
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AcRosT1c.

Ger all mankind a holy sway.
Drives hate and tyranny away.
Delivers mind from bigotry-
Fills earth with heavenly charity.
Endless be its sacred flow, ....
Laboring still to shed below,
Love, such as angels glowing tongue,
Ger Judah's plains at midnight sung!
Well might the bright seraphic band,
Sing-"Peece on earth, good will to man."
Heard never was such Joy before
Irreverent hate that hour was slain,
Peace, love and truth shall cease no more.
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Ghaifs guetry..
FRIENDSHIP LOVE TRUTH

When Friendship, Love and Truth abound,
Among band OF brothers, iiil '.a
Tho smile Of Joy goes gaily round. 1870
Each shows the bliss Of others. .... .....
Sweet roses grgce the thorny way
Along the vale OF sorrow. ' ..
The flowers that shed their leaves to-day
Shall bloom again tomorrow. r.. ....
How grand In age, hew fair In youth.
Are holy Friendship. Love and Truth.
From their am brosial fountains flow
Ambrosial rills Of pleasure.
Can man desire, can Heaven bestow
A more respondent treasure! ....
Adorned with gems SO richly bright
viii form constellation,
Where every star with modest light
Shall gid his proper station, HlMIil .
How grand in age, how fair in youth.
Are holy Friendship, Love and Truth.
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JERSEYTOWN DIRECTORY.

TACOB A. SWISHER, dealer in Hides, Leather
J Bark etc. Madison township Columbia county
Pa. "..! .rflt..". . ...r.. ..l- vl-n46
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BLOOMSBURY, PA. FRIDAY, JULY 90. 1869.

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WILLIAM FISHER aIii" aoi i..'
WITH
THOMAS CARSON & co.
WHOLESALE alllA A4t tt'tN
d. DEAL LERS5 IN HOSIERY, glf
bod MEMS FURNISHING GOODS, I..
...t LINENS & NOTIONS, f.r-
NO. IS NORTH FOURTH STREET
H.H selai IoHTLA DELPIffA. ''.
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John STROUP d Co., ro.pm .J
Successors to stroup a Brother
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FISH
No. "a North wharves. and zslhslu Ns'-isi.,
.. H. philadelphis Ha Hs.
n w. BLABON & Co, ........ ..,.
r.U r.f Manufacturers OF s EgI|l
OIL CLOTHS AND WINDOW SHADES 8,
Warehouse, No. l2 North Third Street
GEORGE H. ROBERTS, ..
Importer and Dealer In
HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS. &C.,
No. 81 North Third Street. above Vino
Philadelphia. ..... ....- .
CNYDER, HARRIS & BASSETT,
T.. Manufacturers and Jobners oi
MEMS AND BOYS CLOTHING. uo u.l
Nos. SIS Market. and 522 Com mere street 81 i
| ID Bt..sa Philadelphia o. .. 90.
INEORGE FOELKER & CO., .a.a
| - ~ Wholesale Dealers In
WOODEN WILLOW WARE, YARNS.
| oil-Cloths, wicks, Twinos, Baskets, etc, etc.
2,9 & PSI Market st. & 2S8 Church st.. Ihilada
| June 5,'6s.
| John c. YEAGER & CO.,
Wholesale Dealers in
| HATS, CAPS, STRAW GOODS. AND
LADIES' FURs.
HH No. 257 North Third Street,
Mar 10, '6o-ly Philadelphia. ' ..-i
EsrABLIsHED 1898. a.aaa.a
| JORDAN & BROTHER
| Wholesale Grocefs, and Dealers IN d.
| SALTPETER AND BRIMSTONF. j.
| i-a No 2is North Third st.
| ..... ..... pb,lodolobi, ......
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i. II. WALTER ..aa. ~
| TO- Isu Late Walter q Kant. '.t
l. Importer and Dealer In aIl
/ CHINA, GLASS. AND DQuEENswARE.
| llh No 2si N. Third street. ta nf
H. .... nf Philadet phia Eu-I. H.
III w. RANKS
: WHOLESALE TOBACCO. SNUFF. AND O.
| ...gu CIGAR WAREHOUSE Hf .a 3
No. l48 North Third Street, .f..a
| between Cherry and Race, west Side
| Philadelphia. ..t... ..
WARTMAN & ENGELMAN,
| TOBACCO, SNUFF sEGAR
MANDATORY,
| 80 3l3 NORTH THIRD STREET,
| Second Door below Wood.
| PHILADELPH
| J.. W. WARTMAN y. FNGELMA,
IWAINWRIaHT q CO.,
| HOLESAL ROGERS,
| N. Z. Corner Second and Arch Streets.
| .#..... .... ....... PHILADELPHIA.
| Dealers in
TEAS, SYRUPS, COFFEE. SUGAR MoLASsEas
| RICE, SPICES. BI CARR SODA, ac., &C.
Ss- Orders will receive prompt attention.
| May 10. ls87-ly
| G. II. HORNE. W. $. KING. ]. b. sEYBEHy
HORNE, KING & SEYBERT,
II WHOLESALE DRY GOODS.
/ . No. 3I3 Market Street,
tt... PHILADELPHIA. . a...
Orders filled promptly at lowest
January s. 1868.
major Il. IL. ARTaAN. C. II. pILLINeER. NJ. MoRl
A RTMAN, DILLINGER d CO.,
No. Ioi NORTH THIRD ST. PHILADELPHIA
Two Doors above Arch formerly 22J,
| MANUFACTURERS AND JoBBERs IN
CARPETS, CoTToNS YARNS. BATTING,
OIL CLOTHS, CARPET CHAINS, CoRDAGF
OIL SHADES, GRAIN BAGS, TIE YARN,
WICK YARN, WINDOW PAPER, covERLETs,
| -ALsO,-
| WILLOW AND WOODEN WARE,
BRooMs. BRUSHES, LOCKING sLAssEs. TRUNKS
| Feb. 500 ....rs ........ .... DE-.
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THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
RAvENNA. THURSDAY. DEC. aa. 1869.
Kentucky U. 8. senator

The Legislature of Kentucky, on
Thursday last, elected Governor John
w. Stevenson to represent that State
in the United States Senate. He was
elected ON the second ballot, having
on the first received majority of the
Democratic votes. The newly elected
Senator is gentleman of ability and
integrity. and devoted to the princi-
pies of the Democratic party. He
possesses considerable legislative ex-
perience, having been a member of the
Kentucky Legislature from lS45 to
l84S. and served in fhe Thirty-ffth
and Thirty-sixth Congresses.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-12-23
The Red River War.


CHICAGO, Dec. PA special from
st. Paul says:
News had just been received that a
company of mounted insurgents ap-
peared at the Hudson Bay Company's
fort, near Pembina, on the night OF
the 9th, and took possession of it On
the 10th.
The greater part of McDougalPs
agents and emissaries, including
Shultz, Cowan and Halet, have been
captured. Col. Dennis is skulking
about until he can reach the American
territory.
McDougall is absolutely without
even faction, save some fifty "Swam-
py" Indians. The balance have de-
serted.
Another correspondent says:
The efforts of Col. Dennis to organ
ize counter revolution have failed.-
The whole population is a unit
Shultz, Cowan, Major Wallace and
fifty others are prisoners. No blood
was shed.
The French under Risel are in un.
disputed possessions OF the who!e
country.
There are sixty "Swampy", Indians
yet in the lower fort who are not in
terferred with because they are con.
sidered harmless.
1t is said that McDougall is prepar-
ing to come back.
Another correspondent says:
Joseph Mckay and family fled tc
St. Joseph.
On the 7th when the prisoners were
taken more than six hundred insur.
gents were occupying Fort Garry
The prisoners were all taken at DR.
| Shultz'a.
Col. Dennis has fled.
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Radical Economy Illustrated.


The House Committee of Congress
on Appropriations, on Friday last, il
Illustrated the consistency of the econ-
omy practiced last winter in the mat
ter of expenditures. The Radicals
cut down the latter so much that they
have fallen over three millions below
the amount actually required by the
existing laws. Not only has this
amount to be made up by deficiency
bill, but three millions more have to
be added to the bill for Legislative,
Executive and Judicial appropriations
torthe next fiscal year. This is the
best answer to the hue and cry over
retrenchment and reform of the last
session of the Fortieth Congress.
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washington city Government.


"Mack" in his spicy letters from the
national capital thus states what the
negro rule established by the Radical
destructiyes has accomplished for that
city:
81 believe the government of Wash
ington City was the first patient sub
jected to Mr.. Summers Political Bu-
chu-facetiously called "equal rights
the universal panacea for all the ills
of the body polite. 1t has been tried
now for few years, and more hope
less case of malpractice was never
known to political quackery. This
city is undoubtedly the worst govern
ed in the United States, and the most
corrupt. Taxes are higher and pau
perism greater than any where else.
An army of negro paupers is sustained
at public expense for no other pur-
pose than that they may be here to
vote on election day. During the
other three hundred and sixty-four
days of the year they loaf about the
streets, sleep in the House galleries,
and do what lazy stealing comes in
their way.
But among the many incongruities
of the "equal rights" business none
strikes me more than this: A negro
member of Council recently offered,
and secured the passage of, an ordi-
nance denying license to any restau-
rant or place of amusement that re-
fused to treat negro customers on a
perfect equality with whites. The
father of that measure is the owner of
the principal barber-shop in the city.
| While one of his workmen was scra-
ping my chin the other day, 1 asked
ifhe ever had any colored customers
"No, sab, we don't shave no niggas
in dis shop" was the prompt reply.
But" said l, "suppose a colored
man were to come in and sit down in
one of the chairs, like l do, what
would you do"
" Put him out, san! Some shops'll
shave niggas, but dis is too Spectacle
for dat"
" You wouldn't refuse to shave the
congressman from Louisiana. would
you?"
"Yes, sab. Wouldn't shave nc
.niggas, nollow-even if dey was Pres
ident. One O General Grants's mig.
gas came here one day-but he didn't
| get no shave-no, sab. Wese got al
we can do to shave the White folks
and don't want no niggas.'
The second "lather" :" was here inter
posed and put a stop to this interest
ing conversation, and 1 was left il
suds and silence to the contemplation
of '.ekal rights" in the District.
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IT is thought that Buffers bill to
repeal the tenure-of-of1ice act will
pass the House with little opposition,
but in the Senate, those members who
strenuously adhered to the modified
law will oppose its unconditional re-
peal.
ARoUT three o'clock on the 10Th,
the people of Titusville, Pennsylvania
were startled by tremendous shock,
caused by the explosion ola glycer1ne
magazine, owned by the Roberts tor
pedo Company, containing about
half ton of nitro-glycerine. The
cause of the explosion is not known.
P. Ii. Brophy, one of the agents, who
was the only man known to have been
near the magazine at the time, was in
stantly killed Considerable damage
was done to the buildings throughout
the city, although the magazine was
situated about one mile away.
ALBERT B. KNIGHT and VIM. T.
Roof, of Edgarton, Ohio, the former
being postmaster, and the latter one
of his sUreties, were arrested and
taken to Cleveland, charged with the
embezzlcment of money-order funds
OF the post office. The Department
Special Agent, c. T. Baldwin, upon
ali examination of the affairs of the
Office, reports deficiency ranging be-
tween $500 and 5000. Both are held
to bail in the sum of s., 500 to answer
the charge at the January term of the
United States Cougt.
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RepudiatiOn--A Scene in the House of
Representatives.
Quite sensation was created i'll the
House Representative in Congress,
on Thursday last, by the PRONUNCIATION
on the floor of the House by Mr..
Munge.l,. the Democratic member
from the Fifth Ohio District, of the
doctrine of reputation. He read a
long manuscript speech to that effect
and argued from the premises that,
as the Government had refused to pay
loyal private claimants, it had virtual
ly inaugurated reputation. "But l
am in favor" said Mr.. Mungen, of
repudiating the bonded debt, the five
twenties and ten-forties, and l say
this OH my own responsibility" And
he proceeded to cite every historical
precedent to sustain his theory, charg-
ing that reputation was inaugurated
in this country by the Massachusetts,
colony. When Mr.. Mungen finished
nearly every other Democratic MEM
Der was on his feet. Messrs. Randall,
Potter, Cox, Gen. Slocum and Judge
Woodward, all spoke in succession,
denouncing the doctrine of repudia-
ton, and saying that it was no part of
the tenets of the Democratic party
The keenest interest seems to have
been felt to hear whatever a Demo-
cratic member would say, and the en-
tire House left their seats and grouped
around the speaker to catch every
word. Judge Woodward, of Penn
sylvania, denounced the Legai-tender
Act as unconstitutional, and charged
that Republican Congresses had, i'll
that and other ways, inaugurated the
doctrine of reputation. Finally the
whole thing wound up by the adop-
ton of resolution declaring as the
sense of the House that the public
faith must be preserved. But one neg
ative vote-that of Jones, of Ken
tucky-was recorded. Munsen was
accidentally absent from the hall when
the vote was taken.
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DeatI, Of Hon. john Russell.

The Hon. John Russell, Senator
elect from the district composed OF
the counties of Clarke, Champaign and
Madison, died at Urbana at half past
four o'clock of the afternoon ofThurs-
day last, from the effects ola parafytic
stroke. He was for many years Clerk
of the Court, and Chief Clerk in the
State Department at Columbus.
His funeral took place at Urbana on
Saturday last. and, was largely at
tended, Governor Hayes, Secretary
of State Sherwood, and thirty other
State officials being present. The
services were conducted by the
knights Templar. aa
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-12-23

ALcoRs who has been chosen Gov
ernor of Mississippi by Federal bayo'
nets and negro votes, says that She
"happiest moments of his life," are
those which carry him back to his
connection with the late rebellion
He was General in the Confederate
army. There's specimen of Radical
11oyalty." He couldn't overthrow
the government in that way, SO be
proposes to accomplish it through the
means marked out by Wendell Phil
lips, and that class of loyal patriots
!. e. by SO changing the Constitution
that the trainers of that instrument
would not recognize It as the work OF
their hands. That's the way the RAIDS
Amake treason odious."
CONGRESS has adjourned for the
holidays.
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The Mississippi Eiection-The Way Radi-
cal Victories are Wen

The Mississippi Eiecticn-Tlle Way Radi-
cal Victories are Wen.
The J7icksburg1 Times of the 1st
inst, says:
Our citizens were unutterably as
founded at the Hnbluslling corruption.
intimidation and fraud exercised at
the polls yesterday. Every avenue
to the ballot-box was completely COW
cred by crowd of colored men, in
utter disregard OF the election order OF
Gen. Ames. That order distinctly de-
clares that no voter, except in the act
of depositing his vote, shall stand
within thirty,feet of the polls. This
regulation was wholly ignored yes
terday. But this is a mere feather in
the weight of atrocity perpetrated by
the Radical leaders and their tools.
AT the courthouse, one Of the prin-
ciple voting places in the city, the en-
frances to the building itself, (not the
voting room) were guarded By colored
policemen, and while the white Radi-
cal politicians were allowed to circu-
late freely within the building and
distribute Radical tickets among the
voters, the National Republicans were
refused admittance by Sheriff Furlong
and his subordinate caitiffs.
On the Sheriff is enjoined the duty
of enforcing the election order of
Gen. Ames, but at 10 voting place
did we find single qchtte deputy or
policeman. We have had occasion to
commend heretofore the good con-
duct of some of our colored officers
of the law in certain places and at
proper times, but that they should
have been placed in exclusive charge
of the peace and good order at the
polls at time like the present in an
election where both whites and blacks
vote, is too fagitious piece of con-
duct on the part OF those whose duty
it was to act otherwise, to be easily
passed over.
AT another place, one of the most
important polls in the city-eorner of
Washington and Crawford streets
the Rev. School Fund Stringer stood
unmolested arithin sic feet Of the
Board Of Commissioners themselves,
taking and examining the ballot of
every colored voter, and changing the
same, when his sanctimonious high
ness thought fit. Within the very
door of the polling room, touching
the very elbow of one of the commits
sioners, stood another dusky leader of
the Radicals, who a second time exam
ined the ballots of the colored voters,
before they could reach the ballot
box. And over such a victory the
Radical papers are rejoicing.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-12-23

KEEP UP Your ORGANIzAT1oNs.-
We commend the following we'll
timed suggestions which we clip from
the CRISIS, to the consideration of our
Democratic friends throughout the
county: '"Fhe session of Congress
just begun will be prolific of impor-
tant political events, about which all
Intelligent Democratic politicians will
desire to be informed, and they will
have the opportunity to learn all
during the long winter evenings al
their local clubs by perusing the news
papers. We recommend the Demo
Gratis to maintain their local organiZa-
tions where they have them, and in
stitute associations at once where none
exist. Now is the time to do the or
ganizing which is generally and un-
fortunately postponed until later in
, the summer, and when the political
campaigns grow so exciting as to pre-
clude a fair and unprejudiced investi-
CATION. Form clubs, subscribe, first
for your local paper, and then fol
seme sound, solid and reliable Demo.
cratic weekly like THE CRISIS, and
others, and you will discover the ben,
eficial effects in larger interest in the
spring elections, and a much greater
vote next fall"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-12-23

Mr.. Morgan declared his belief that
there was a conspiracy on the part of
the Republican leaders to break down
the Republican institutions of the
country, to weaken the executive
power, and emasculate the Supreme
Court, and he warned New England
of the fate she was preparing for her.
self in breaking down State rights,
the only ground on which she had
twelve Senators i'll the Senate, while
Ohio, with an equal population, had
only two.
Further discussion ensued, Messrs.
Axtell and Briggs opposing the bill,
and Coburn and Hoge advocating the
passage.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-12-23

The st. Louis Democrat, a leading
Radical paper of the West, published
some weeks since, table showing the
prices paid for wheat at 20 different
points i'll the state of Iowa, the high
est price being IS cents per bushel
and the lowest 80 cents, being an av-
erage of about 81 cents, and then COM
ments upon the facts after the follow
ing fashion:
"Now we cannot vouch for the
strict accuracy of all these figures, but
we do know that they have behind
them one great and indisputable fact.
that the farmer gets less money for
his wheat to-day than he did before
the war. For nine years we have
been trying to build up home mar
ket" for agricultural products by high
duties on manufactured articles i'm
ported. To that policy the repre-
sentatives Of Iowa in Congress have
given their votes. We we'll remem-
Der, also, that some have not-Mr.
Grimes in the Senate certainly did
not. But every constituent knows
whether his representative has or has
not been voting for these high tariffs.
And now we respectfully ask the
farmers of Iowa, How do you like
it 2"
Does it pay yon to get only sixty
cents for wheat when you have to pay
forty dollars ton for iron, and in
like proportion for the implements
and machines, the chains and wagons,
and all the other articles made OF iron ?
Do you like to get sixty cents for
wheat, and then pay the prices now
current for clothing? We showed
not long ago that your wool, like your
wheat, was actually sold to-day for
less money than it brought before the
war, not because it was not "protect-
ed" bnt because it was protected
too much. Now we ask again, how
does the farmer like it, to get less
than gold prices for his wool, and to
pay more than. currency prices for his
wooden goods ?"
All the above is most true, but il
strikes us that the remedy for the
evil complained of is not in keeping
i'll power party that is the author OF
that evil and which during the whole
period of its existence has devoted
itself to the building up in this coun,
try of a bondholding and manufactu-
ring aristocracy to Cypress and eat
out the substance of the loboring
producing classes. 1t is absolute fol
ly to think of effecting a reform il
these matters through all organization
controlled by the bondholding, bank
ing and manufacturing monopolies.