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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14

The election in Bloomsbury on Tues
day last passed off very quietly. AT
no time was there an observable crowd
about the Court House, and only 1870
votes out of about 800 were polled. The
reason for all this is to be attributed to
tho cumulative plan of voting. Six
Councilmen and President were to be
elected. As parties stand here (nearly
equal in strength) each could elect three
and no more. Hence no motive for
strife existed. The most complete har-
mony therefore prevailed. Both the
political pa rites had agreed that the
old Council should be reelected. The
Democrats yielded the President, in re-
turn for which the Republicans yielded
one Councilman. A working mems
organization wanted representation in
the Council aud they obtained it in de.
flance of all political parties by cumu-
lating (plumping) all their votes (6) on
one candidate. They are therefore rep
resented, and satisfied because they have
special represen tative in body of
seven supposedly fair men. There are
no sore heads, no regrets to be avenged
in future. No favors were asked for
there were none to give, and none wanted
or needed. In fact every body,or nearly
every body, had their own way, and no
room is left for GROWERS. Is 1t strange
that people approve a system that
avoids all strife and renders unfriendly
feelings, chagrin and spite impossible?
The following is the vote:
ppESIDENT OLE C0ITNCIL.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14
No Armed Interference with Our State
Elections.

Senator TURNER has introduced into
the State Legislature bill, which pro-
vides that elections for members of Con-
gress shall hereafter be held in Penn
sylvania on Tuesday after the first Mon.
day in November. The object of the
law is to defeat the purposes of the ad-
ministration at Washington, in their
design to intimidate voters by placing
Federal soldiers at the polls. The mere
threat of such a thing is an outrage
which ought TO be Indignantly resented
sy every Pennsylvania. We are per.
fectly competent to manage our State
elections without any interference from
Washington. The Democratic Senate
will no doubt pass the bill promptly,
and it ought not to meet with a single
objection in the House. The question of
expense is not worthy to be thought of
in connection with such an important
matter. If the Federal government in
sists upon supervising Congressional
elections with armed soldiery, it is the
bounden duty of our Legislature to
change the time for holding such elec-
tions, to some day ON which no State
elections are held. The man who votes
in favor of Federal interference at our
State elections will commit an act which
ought to damn him in the estimation of
the people of Pennsylvania. The lesson
to be drawn from the defeat of Congress
men who voted for the odious enact
ment, ought to be warning to members
of the Legislature and to political par
ties in Observation-Disclosures Intel
ligencer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14
Connecticut Election.

The result of the Connecticut election
is at last simmered down by both par
ties to this: ENGLISH has an apparent
plurality of seventeen votes; but the
scat tering votes are1ikely to give the
election of governor to the legislature.
To add to the uncertainty of the result
on governor, the town of Enfield re-
ports twenty-four more votes for EN-
GLIsH that the poll lists show to have
been cast. Should these votes be thrown
out JEWELL will have plurality of
seven. The republican candidates for
State officers, other than governor, are
elected by an average majority of 300.
The legisl ature shows a republican
majority of twenty.six on joint ballot,
but this result is accomplished by a
peculiar manner of pportionment.
Other nice questions also arise, such
as whether votes containing only the
initials of Gov. ENGLIsH's baptismal
names shall be counted-whether those
cast for women should be counted as
scattering votes, &c. &c.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14
Congress-,

The lower House has passed an anti
kuklux bill, by party vote, containing
most stringent provisions, and which is
in fact nothing else than bill to au-
thorize the President to employ the
standing army to control State elections.
The Senate will no doubt also pass it
this week.
The House has also passed general
rebel amnesty bill, by the requisite two.
thirds vote. 1t is said the Senate will
also pass it. Only three classes are ex-
cepted: officers of the army and navy
who aided the rebellion, members of
Congress who resigned when their States
seeded, and persons who assisted in the
passage of secession ordinances. Several
of the negro representatives voted for
the bill. Our Mr.. MERcUR voted
against the bill-SCoFIELD and KELLY,
Radicals from this State, voted for it.
The vote stood yeas 1874, nays As. Con-
gress is expected to adjourn this week
or the beginning of next, but the Senate
will be recalled to act upon the British
treaty.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14
San Domingo.


On the first page of the Columbian the
reader will find the report of the San
Domingo Commissioners and also the
message of the President communica-
ting the same to Congress. Both docu-
ments are plain and to the point and do
not call for special comment.
The subject of the annexation, it is
stated, will not be further pressed at
present, and unless some unexpected
change should occur will be dropped
altogether. The old anti. ti.annexationists
have become intermixed, on other
issues, with both the present parties,
and happen just now to be at the head
of both. SUMNER, with all the yankee
Senators, thoroughly schooled in anti
annexation ideas on the Texas issue, of
course oppose San Domingo now, and
they are a sufficient power in the Radi-
cal party to divide it and nullify its
strength on the subject in question.
1t is singular, nevertheless true, that
the leading Democratic dailies of the
cities are all in the hands of old Wings,
anti.annexationists of Texas days. Col.
BIDDLE controls and edits the Philadel-
phia Age, VIM. B. REED the New York
World, j. f. HARVEY the Washington
Patriot, B. +. MYERS the Harrisburg
Patriot, &c.-all old Wings and of course
deeply imbued with anti.annexation
ideas. These have led the Democracy
lever ready to oppose Republican ad-
ministration in any pet project) into an
opposition that is antagonistic to the
history, instincts and traditions (if not
principles) of that great party which
has much more than doubled the powell
and prosperity, and glory and strength
OF the Nation by anneXations. Right
or wrong the facts exist as we state, and
through this means and because of bad
paternity, the Democratic members of
Congress have quite generally been led
to oppose San Domingo annexation.
These, with the Federal ideas that con-
troll so large portion of the Radical
party, are sufficient TO kill the project,
at least until an instructive Democrat is
elected President.
The documents referred to are worth
reading for the information they con-
tain.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14

THERE has been an aggregate de-
crease of three and a half million of
dollars in internal revenue in less than
one year. The greater pa rt of this de-
crease was in the Income Tax return,
and the cost of collecting this tax has
been nearly equal to the amount receiv-
ed, since the reducti on of the rate and
the increase of the exemption. Then,
why it is asked by business men, is this
tax continued? They are anxious the
imposition shall be lifted off their inter-
ests. They have petitioned Congress to
do SO. But General GRANT says, no.
He will not allow such remedial action.
Thousand of officers would be discharg-
ed by the repeal of the Income Tax
law. He is now depending upon these
men for denomination. They are his
friends. Such as these are his only
friends. Office. olders and bayonets
are the crutches ON which he leans for
support in the matter of denomination
and reelection.-Age.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14
The Scranton Troubles.

In another column we give two &C.
counts of the Scranton troubles
from source friendly to the miners,
the other from the Scranton Republican.
Although the statements of the latter
are always unreliable, in this instance
they are probably nearly truthful, as
its home readers would insist, no doubt,
upon tolerably fair version.
The riots have been put down by the
strong arm of military force, but what
will follow when the military are with
drawn remains to be seen. Unless there
is prompt and severe punishment of
those who attempted to invade and de-
feat the great and indefeasable right to
icOrk, no good will be accomplished.
Amongst these, the most criminal are
those who taught such doctrines as led
to this result. The mere actors in the
assault made are but slightly to blame
in comparison with the leaders whose
teachings induced them to act as they
have. Both ought to be punished, but
the latter most severely.
Such outrages and kindred acts OF
violence and contempt of law and au-
thority are but the legitimate results OF
Radical example. From President down
to the lowest menial in office, Federal
officials constantly show the utmost con
tempt for the Constitution and laws of
the country, and these Scranton rioters
but follow their example. If people
will vote to keep such men in office, they
must expect just such results. And as
violations of law become more common
they will also become more general, and
the difficulty in Furnishing wrong-doing
and crime will constantly grow greater
The place to commence reform is at the
elections, by voting for men who will
respect the Constitution and laws made
In pursuance thereof, and the safe way
to do this is to vote the Democratic
ticket without a scratch.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14
EurOupou News.

The Republican and Radical Gov.
ernments in France are still cutting
each Others throats as rapidly as posi-
BILE. Tho fighting between the two is
severe and continuous. The Radicals
execute many of their prsoners-many
for but slight offences and after mock
trials. Many of those arrested and i'm.
prisoned are described as "persons who
worship being called Cod" and this
furnishes key to the character of the
Radical government, which has stopped
the payment of all debts and denounces
the holding of property rs a crime.
These monsters are led by the Garribal-
dis, who have been 50 much applauded
by the Radicals of our country. SO far
the THEIRS government seems to have
gained all the advantages in battles,
and are now bombarding Paris, to
which tho Radicals are confined. Their
destruction or capture seems certain.
Marshal M'MAHoN, ,NAPoLEoN's favor
ite General, is in command of the
THEIRS forces, and may give an entirely
new turn to affairs after he conquers
the Radicals.
From other portions of Europe the
news is not important.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14

DR.. PAUL ScuTppE is making an
effort to obtain, from the Legislature,
the passage of an act to authorize a
review, In the Supreme Court, both of
the evidence and the law of his case, on
which he was convicted of murder. His
application is chiefly based on the very
able examination of the testimony
against him by DR.. John j. Reese, of
Philadelphia, the Professor of Medical
Jurisprudence and Toxicology in the
University of Pennsylvania. DIR. Reese,
though an entire stranger to the parties,
examining the medical questions in
volved in the case, with singular acu-
men, and, certainly, demonstrated the
entire insutliciency of the evidence to
prove that the death of Miss Stinnecke
was the result of poison. 1t follows that
no sufficient proof of Sch@ppe's guilt
was given on the trial, and according to
the well-known principle of the law, he
is to be regarded as innocent.-Age.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14

UTAH.-The returns in the census
office of the population, &C., of Utah,
afford facts for interesting deductions.
The population is given at sG,6O5. In
the whole territory the males number
1,277 more than the females. Id Joking
to the classification by nativities, the
source from which polygamy draws its
sustenance is apparent. OF the native
born citizens the males outnumber the
females seventy.fve, but of the foreign
born the females outnumber the males
CSC; and, outside of the Chinese, which
has sent but sixteen females to 429
males, the foreign female population
outnumbers the male 1899. In Salt
Lake City there are COG more females
than males, but in the county the ma les
preponderate by 3OS.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14

The Erie Observer makes the follow
ing just observation "The Democratic C
party is a good party'-the best ever
established, aud the most sincere in at
tachment to its principles-but it has
yet to learn that the great necessity of
thorough organization is prosperous
and widely circulated press. The era of
permanent Democratic triumph will
never come until Democratic profess
ional md business men and others, who
have pa tronage in their control, realize
the importance of placing their party
press on as strong footing as that of
their p olitical enemies"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14

GooD PLATFoRM.-The platform of
the "new party" lately organized in
Cincinnati, by General Cox and other
dissatisfied Republicans, is based on
these planks:
1. General Amnesty.
2. Tariff for Revenue only.
3. Civil Service Reform.
A. Early resumption of Specie Pay
ments.
This platform is essentially Demo-
cratic and good enough for anybody to
stand upon. All men who advocate
these liberal views must come over to
the Democratic party-there is no other
abiding place for them.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14

RADICAL NEWSPAPERS, here and else.
where, have circulated story that Mr..
Holden, who was recently convicted of
high crimes and mlsdemeanofs, partial
ally by the votes OF his own political
friends, does not return to North Caro-
lima because he fears personal danger.
This fabrication, like Others from the
same source, is easily silenced. Several
acquisitions upon criminal charges have
been issued against him by the Radical
Lieutenant Governor, Caldwell, who
succeeded to his place, and that is the
true and only reason why he seeks
shelter here under the wing of Judge
Cartier, who refused to deliver him and
Kirk and Bergen to the hands of justice,
with full knowledge of their guilt.
Holden's son went from here recently
to Raleigh, and no one molested him,
Notwithstanding fisatrocious testimony
before the investigating committee. So,
too, with other swift witnesses, black
and white, who have returned to North
Carolina. In no single instance has any
one been disturbed there. They have
all been left-as the same tribe were
after appearing before the Legislature
to the silent scorn of the peaceable peo.
pie whom they had DETAINED by false
swearing. - Washington Patriot.
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Views of n South Carolina Senator.

i
One Sawyer, carpet-bagger, now
holds the seat in the United States Sen
ate once occupied by John G. Calhoun.
uo ,ros ohosar hv q pooro leoislature
o m"n onos,n ,;oo, 49, w -. a,i oansoionoo
hrt bo cannot agree with the majority
~ biS nortv Tn a debate on the nro.
nosod Ku.Klux h;lI he took occasion to
dorornoo tbo oonr,e which the Renub.
Ian majority are bent upon pursuing at
tho d;ct.t;or of Grant who desires an
''io u,o''.,o' VI "n' wv ,,,.sI
opportunity 10 employ the lhilitary W
re.elect himself. Mr.. Sawyer said:
ur hold that tho soutbern neonle had
hoon ;ndoctrinated With the Iriuinnt
.ooh;Otr;eo nf the somtharn statesmen
Sop,,,U~ so. o,orot;ons re-, ord that thew neni jnto
,Ga G1 srn, fa. oeness;n,, a w, nr;ic;oIe ah.
horrod mv m" J JsocoSsion Vm os ,nncb % as anv one
H,1 % fuo,niuo 4" 1Jne'' hat e. nese neonh Houo6i
tbev ,nere ,:;o6t oo,s tbof fIev are can.
o,,sred and Heir a,oI;tjcof heresies uttern,
a6iiteroted r TcoufI mi foyom the cram.
ME of others Gnd Ginnnntiv 6urI ot Them
The cnHbets of rebel Gpd trGiior, Icomld
not Genonnce them because thew will
not renent 6eeouse os fheu Lelierca fhev
hare ,,ptb;no IN aenent of They fonoht
for % the ~ nrincip,es nphieR Mev had been
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14

BAD as has been the management Of
political affairs in the South, by carpet
baggers, scalawags, and negroes, the f.
nances of the several States has suffered
still more severely, if that is possible.
The State debt of Georgia, under Radi.
cal action, has been swelled to more
than fifty millions of dollars, or one
fifth of the taxable property in the
State, exclusive of railroads, banking,
express and insurance companies. In
Louisiana, the Radical members of the
Legislature have pocketed from ten
thousand to fifteen thousand dollars
each, according to radical testimony, as
bribes for violating the constitutional
provision which limits the State debt
to twenty-five millions, and increasing
it in the interest of lobby schemes, by
five millions. Naturally, the real es'
tate in New Orleans is deprcciating,
and the credit of the State goes the
same way. The same path has been
followed by the same party in other
States, and like end reached in the in.
crease of debt and taxation. Age.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14
IBIAN DEMOCRAT, BLOOMsBURG COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA

RETIRING SENAToRs.-Th terms of
the following named Senators will ex-
pire with the present session-seven Re-
publicans and four democrats:
A. w. Henszy, Second district, Phila.
delphia-Republicau
Geo. Connell, Fourth district, Phila-
delphia-Republican.
Peter M. Osterhout, Eleventh district,
Bradford, Susquehanna and Wyoming
Republican.
Samuel G. Turner, Twelfth district,
Luzerne-demoerat.
A. g. Olmstead, Thirteenth district,
Potter, Tioga, Mexican, and Clinton
Republican.
Andrew G. Miller, Eighteenth dis
trict, York and Cumberland-demo
G. M. Duncan, Nineteenth district,
adams and Franklln--democrat.
Harry White, Twenty, second district,
Cambria, Indiana and Jefferson-Re.
publican.
VIM. A. Wallace, Twenty-third dis
trict, Clearfleld, Cameron, Clarion, For
est and Elk-democrat.
James T.. Graham, Twenty fifth dis.
trict, Allegheny-Republican.
James Kerr, Twenty-seventy district,
Lawrence, Butler and Armstrong-Re-
publican.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14

THE KUKLUX EPIDEMIC.-The New
York Herald, a GRANT organ, says
Admitting that there are disorders in
the South, it is worthy of notice that
the reported Ku Klux terrible outrages
are always made to assume a formida-
BILE character at the time of elections in
the North, and when Radical politi-
clans are pressed for issues before the
people. Conservative men who have
just come through the Southern States
were astonished when they arrived at
the North to hear the frightful stories
of Ku-Klux enormities.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14
The Vote in Connecticut.

The census of 1870 gives the popula'
tion of Connecticut as follows: White,
527 $40; black, 9,66s; Indians, 2s5
Chinese, 2. Total, 587 ,454; of whom
423,Sl are of native and 1853 of for
eign birth. Giving the voting popula.
tion as one in seven, very low esti'
mate, the number of negro voters in
the State would be about 1881. AS the
Democratic majority in 1869 was only
s43, it is evident that nothing but the
negro vote saved the Radicals from an
overwhelming defeat.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14
Auditor General,

We last week copied from the Ian.
caster Mtelligencer an able article on the
subject of the next Democratic nomina-
tion for Auditor General, which, we
observe, is copied and approved by the
Democratic papers generally. That ar
ticle demanded the nomination of a
candidate of unspotted character, of ac-
knowledged integrity and undoubted
ability-one who would confer honor
upon the Office and upon the party that
elected him. Such a candidate would
insure success, and if our State Conven-
tion have sense and patriotism it will
nominate just such candidate.
The fact that at such time any man
would press his own nomination ought
to be sufficient to set him aside. Such
conduct at once establishes that self
glorification is held by such individual
as paramount to party success, and a
man who proffers himself in such an
emergency thereby proves his unworth-
iness and general unfitness. Let all
such be thrown aside, and that man Sc
lected who can give greatest strength to
the party. There need be no inquiry
whether such a man will accept-a pro-
per man nominated under such circum-
stances will of course not decline.
The Hatelligencer well says that such
a candidate would add ten thousand
votes to the party, and of that fact we
can not conceive a reasonable doubt.
While no man is fit for the office or for
a candidate who will scramble for the
nomination, no one that is really fit will
decline it if the nomination is confer
ed upon him for the reason that the in.
terests of his party demand it. One
who accepts on such grounds alone will
command the confidence of the public
to such extent as to secure him hund-
reds of votes that would never be cast
for seeker of the place. Let the Dem.
ocratic press, therefore, continue to
appeal to the delegates to cast aside all
selfish aspirants and select the fittest
and strongest candidate that can be OBJ
tanned. A Democratic victory in Penn
sylvania this fall is of incalculable i'm.
portance and every other object ought
to be merged into the grand one of sue
cess,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14

SOME of the Radical journals are
quoting the libels of "SenatOr AMEs"
upon the State which he pretends. to
represent. He is the Brigadier. General
who, being charged with the recon-
struction of the State of Mississippi,
had himself and negro returned as its
Senators; and now the shoulder-strap-
ped imposter, who thus abused his
military position, libels the State which
he pretends, chose him to be its Senator'S
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14

SINCE the adoption of the rule by the
Committee on Elections to recommend
the payment Of no moneyto contestants
who do not have reasonable ground of
contest, and in no case beyond actual
expenses to unsuccessful contestants,
Withdrawn their papers, and decline
further prosecuting their claims. One
contestant, who was beaten by his
Democratic competitor over six thous-
and votes, has given up the contest, de-
claring the Committee on Elections "too
conservative" for him to hope for sue
cess - Washington Patriot
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14

In the Legislature of South Carol ina
there are fifty negroes, and thirteen
white members. OF the fifty negroes,
only thirty-two can read and write, and
nineteen only pay taxes, the sum total
of their contributions to the support of
the government being $145 10. AS this
body has just levied over $4,000, 900
taxes, to be collected the current year,
the beauties of the system will be at
once apparent.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14

SENATOR MORTON, who misrepre.
sents Indiana, presumes too much on
the ignorance of the people when he
attempts to create the impression that
Mr.. GRANT, or any of his appointees,
deserve credit for the amount paid on
the public debt. The people know that
the money has been extorted from them
by the army of tax gatherers. That
kind of capital is too thin.
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NoriI,pru kul.Iuxf

What glorious thing it would have
been for the Radicals if the Scranton
riots had taken place in the South The
whole United States army would have
been marched down to suppress it. and
no doubt a State or two would have
been denied representation in Congress!
The question arises must Penusyl-
vania be reconstructed now? Shall her
Congressional delegation be voted out?
Is the U. s. Army wanted in Luzerne |?
Will the L. S. Senate appoint COM
mittee of Investigation ? Have we Ku.
klux amongst us?