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A EOMenter Of DiScOrd and VIC.
lenCP.

Though Mr.. Greeley made the duty of
Shaking hands over the bloody chasm" the
chief issue of the campaign, so far as he has
been able to do so, and has clamored ''from
early morn to dcwy eve" for RECONCILIATION"
between the North and South, no man in the
Union has done so much to keep alive and
increase the luminosity of Southern against
Northern people by his wicked and malignant
cutlery against carpet-baggers. He has left
no means untried to render the condition of
Northern men who have settled South disa-
greeable and their lives unsafe. For more
than year he and his paper have expended
all their powers of vituperation and abuse
upon these emigrants, and to fan into 4 flame
the prejudices he had done so much to create.
And this man Greeley claims to be peace
maker and a just man. God save the mark
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The New York Tribune on Speaker
Blaine's Wealth.

Ever since the Maine election the New
York Tribune has exhibited spirit of malig-
nant rancOr toward Speaker Blaine. One of
it's constant charges is that Speaker Blaine
entered Congress "poor man," in 1868,
and is now millionaire" AS to his being
millionaire, it is to be presumed the asser-
ton is merely one of those eXtravagant
statements which belong to the literature of
heated campaign. But as to his being
"poor man in 1863" every one familiar with
the coal trade and the value of coal proper
ties in our immediate vcinage on the Monon-
gahela river knows the assertion to be COM
pletely at variance with the fact. Long be-
fore lS63-indeed as far back as the Demo-
cratic administration ofPresident Buchanan
it was well known that Mr.. Blaine owned
one of the finest coal properties on the Mo-
nOngahela, which returned much larger in
come than Congressional salary, many
years before he was candidate for Congress.
This fact the Allegheny county registry Of
deeds establishes in the most indisputable
manner, and we refer to it simply to show
how wild and reckless the Tribune has grown
to be in it's charges against conspicuous and
influential Republicans. 1t should be stated,
moreover, that the business reputation of
Mr.. Blaine in trade circles, where he is well
known here, stands very high, Those who
are familiar with his attention to details, his
industry, his energy, his enterprise and his in
tegrity find no cause for wonder in the fact that
he has become, not millionaire, but a man
of independent fortune, destined probably,
in the development and advance of his prop
erty, ultimately to attain to the possession
of large wealth. Will the Tribune have the
candor to state these facts ?-PiHsbmg (Pa)
| Commercial, Oct. l6.
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THE Greeley-Liberal-Copperhead papers,
in their desperation to secure one respectable
convert, have been claiming Robert 7. Lin
coin, son Of the late President. But Mr..
Lincoln, as soon as he heard.of the insulting
imputation upon his political integrity and
fidelity, Indignantly repudiated any such al
lance. In letter to friend he says: IF
you think it worth while you may say that
any statement that l am a Greeley man is
denied at my request, and that am a Repub-
lican, and heartily in favor of the election of
Grant and Wilson,"
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How 10 Tell u Man He Lies.

Since the New York Tribune has been UNI
der the management of Mr.. Greeley's per-
sonal organist, it is almost every day severely
criticised and denounced by the Republican
press on account of the fabrications, the
ISLANDERS, and hard names which it hurls like
rotten eggs at the heads of everybody and
everything opposed to Mr.. Greeley. Its
"liars," thieves" ''plunderers," "corup-
tionists," "bribe-takers," and the like, are
duly brought home to it; yet, strange to
say, to this very organ thanks are due for
having furnished quite valuable addition to
the dictionary of polite phraseology. Of late
it has become customary in refined society to
express disbelief in some manifestly false and
slanderous assertion, some malignant gos-
sip, as may unfortunately sometimes be in
dulged in, even in the most fashionable cir
Giles, by the simple question: "Have you
been reading the Tribune?" We advocate
the general adoption of this expression on ac-
count of its exquisite politeness. "Are you
certain of it?" ''That seems incredible !"
81 cannot believe it," How rude all this
sounds compared to that courteous question !:
"Have you been reading the T,ibune?"
Your worst enemy cannot quarrel with you
for it, and yet it is as striking, as explicit, as
much to the point as any of the organs own
''liarsn and 'slanderers" with which it is so
liberal. Let nobody deny that good may
sometimes come from evil, and that sweet
grapes will once in while grow on thistles
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The Vote Of Pennsylvania.

The official majority for Gen. Hartranft, the
Republican candidate for Governor Of Penn
sylvania at the recent election, was 35,621
over Buckalew. The Republican majority
of Gen. Allen for Auditor General was &c.
$50. The Republican majority for Supreme
Judge was 40,443. The Republican majority
on Congressmen-at-large was 46,707 for
Todd and AZ ,Ol2 for Albright, and 43, 999 for
Schofield. The Republican majority on Dele
gates to the State Constitutional Convention
was 47,5SS. These are all enormous ma
jorities. The result shows that Hartranft
ran about ten thousand behind, in conse-
quence Of the opposition being mainly CEN
tered against him, and because of the Repub-
lican detection. Nevertheless, Buckalew,
Hartranft's. opponent, ran less than four
thousand ahead Of the Democratic ticket for
Congressmen-at-large.
The new Legislature is politically divided
as follows:
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Sure for Greeley.

There seems to be very little doubt, that
unless the Government take some measures
to prevent such q wholesale slaughter of Re-
publicans by the Greeleyites as took place
there at the recent election, and to protect
them in the right to vote, the electoral vote
of Georgia will be given to Horace Greeley.
the secession candidate. Besides that State
he will probably carry Kentucky, Tennessee,
Maryland, and Delaware. The Wilmington
Commercial protests against CHASING the
"blue hens chickens as Greeley worship
ers. He may carry cold Vergirny," ifnot
New, and there the story must end. He will
have no Northern State, and no other South
ern State than the ones we have named, I'M
less by such violence and outrage as won
him Georgia last month.
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This is the last opportunity the New
NATIONAL ERA will have, for addressing its
readers and friends, prior TO the momentous
election, which is to decide the destiny OF
the Republic during the next four years. In
the canvass, from its inception until now,
this paper, to the extent of its ability, has
reformed its part in diffusing information, and
conducting the public mind to wise and patri-
otto conclusions. 1t has faithfully supported
the principles of the Republican party, and
earnestly commended Ulysses S. Grant for
President, and Henry Wilson for Vice-Presi-
dent of the United States. At last, as at
first, it is not ashamed of its position. 1t
has nothing to retract or to explain, and now
does its whole duty in urging upon every one
n the circle of its influence to do theirs, and
cave no honorable means unemployed, which
can contribute TO a glorious triumph of Re-
publican principles on Tuesday, the 5th OF
November. Not only has nothing transpired
to divest Horace Greeley and Liberal Repub-
licanism of their mischievous, wicked, and
dangerous tendencies; but every week since
they came upon the scene has abounded in
developments, showing that their triumph
would be an inexpressible calamity to the
whole country, and especially to the colored
citizens of the Republic; while on the other
hand, all the willy and persistent attempts to
disparage and blacken the character of U.
S. Grant, have left him at this late hour of
the canvass freer from all blemishes on his
reputation, nobler in character, and more
elevated in policy than he appeared at the
beginning. SANDERS have been refuted (;
imputations have been brushed away, and
u. S. Grant, in his silence and equanimity,
is recognized not only as the great soldier,
who saved the Republic, but the safe ruler,
who can conserve, and will conserve its
highest interests. Hence, while we have not
the least doubt Of his election, we take the
occasion of this last opportunity to call for
every voice and every vote, in order that his
election shall be complete, triumphant, over
whelming, and glorious.
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Barnwell's article on "Torpedoes" presents
a number of interesting facts concerning the
history and use Of torpedoes as engines of
war, and dwells especially upon the methods
and results of their employment during our
late war. "Sketches of Southern Life" by
L. {. de Leon, abounds in graphic and lively
notes upon the peculiar characteristics of life
in the South, and opens to the reader views
of social and domestic customs rarely pre-
scented in our periodical literature. "AIinor
Shows" by Charles Dawson Shanly, gives
description of those devices for exciting pop
ular wonder and mnistering to popular
amusement, which, in various sections of the
country, have from time to time obtained
prominence or elected special attention. The
subject possesses the charm of novelty, and
is well treated. The series of papers upon
The Private Art Collections of Philadcl
phia" is approaching its close. The gallery
described in the present number is that of
Professor Fairman Rogers. All the papers
of this series have been marked by rare criti-
cal ability, and by delicacy and finish of
style quite unusual. "Our Monthly Gossip"
is crowded with excellent matter, and offers
a most palatable miscellany. The contribu-
tons to fiction in this issue of LippincOt's are
numerous, and of high order ofmerit. Chief
among them are chapters 27-29 of Mr..
Blacks serial novel. 1.-THE Strange Adj
ventures of Ph@ton;" "AimGes Story"
by tia Aniol Prokop; "In the Dark by
Kate Putnam OsgoOd; and GA Modern
Philosopher" by Jeanette r. Hademann.
Emma Lazarus contributes a poem entitled
Expectations"
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PRESIDENT THEIRS has prohibited the
publication and exhibition of political carica-
lures of Mr.. Napoleon of Chiselhurst, though
he is but an abolished nuisance, deposed for
his crimes and misdemeanors. Not even
Andrew johnson would have ventured to in
terfere with TIL. Nast's famous illustrations,
though they immortalized him as if it were
upside down; and if Matt. Morgan's spirit
less and inferior cartoons fail to produce any
noticeable impression, it is certainly neither
owing to lack Of will on his part, nor to
any impeachment put in the way of their Cir
culation on the part of the President and his
supporters, whom he attempts to make the
laughing-stock. Inscrutable are Mr.. Theirs
notions about free press and popular
soyereignty,
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Love for Traitors and Hate for
LOyalists.

Mr.. Greeley and all of his "Liberar' fol-
lowers, since they deserted the Republican
party and cast in their lots with the rebel
Democracy, seem to have adopted all the
hatred of the bitterest Copperhead rebel for
the men who saved the Union, and all their
love and admiration for the men who fought
so desperately to destroy it. Their organs,
from the Tribune down and up, have
uttered no word of commentator of loyal
men. But initiating the example set by
their leader in his insulting attack upon
Union soldiers at Pittsburg and elsewhere,
those who hazarded their lives and sacrificed
their limbs or their health in defense of the
Government, while they have been filled
with the most fulsome praise of rebels and
traitors. All their efforts have been eX-
crted to make treason honorable and loyalty
odious, and thus to pave the way, if Greeley
should be elected, for pensioning, by the
Government, rebel soldiers and their widows
and orphans. five were to judge the Gree
leytes by the utterances of their leader and
his " organs" we should do them no injustice
in charging that, if the Government can PEN
sion only one class, they would decide that
it should be the Confederate" rather than
the Federal soldiers. Were this not the
sentiment which influences them they would
certainly not exhibit so much hatred for the
men who fought to save the Government and
so much love for those who fought to
destroy If
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Another Republican Triumph!

The decision of the Emperor of Germany,
to whom was referred our dispute with Eng
land in regard to the San Juan boundary
under the Treaty of Washington, has been
decided in favor of the United States. This
disposes of another question which for many
years has been source of irritation between
the two countries, and is a brilliant triumph
for the nation and for Gen. Grants admins
tratiOn. 1t secures us several valuable
islands ON our Northwest boundary in the
vicinity of Vancouver's Island, and an equal
right with England to the navigation of the
De Hara channel or canal between that island
and the main land. What will the Greeley
snarley yaws have to say about it?
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spoke of "negro supremacy" and the Tribune
took it in silence. Mr.. salisbury unburied
the "whitc mans government" and the
Tribune did not notice it. But passive assent
was not deemed sufficient pledge; the Lib
erals had to 60 through the disgraceful and
mortifying performance of renouncing every
one of their former utterances that was not
in harmony with the extreme Democratic
creed. They were made to fight their former
allies so as to make return forever impossi-
BILE. and to commit them irrevocably to the
Democracy. Then the great slander-mlll
was set in motion at rate to amaze ana
eclipse even the merry old BtdtheFskife ana
its smaller competitors and imtators all over
the country. Ku-Kluxism revived, but the
Tribune, and the smaller sheets to which 1t
gives the watchword, deniedit. The Georgia
elections were marked by an almost unpre-
cedented system of intimidation, but the Tn
bune called it a fair and honest election.
Outrases on white and black Republicans
are openly committed in Alabama, Arkansas,
and Maryland; yet the Tribune, with its
choir, makes the negroes out as the agrees
sors, and Mr.. Tilton harps on the "terrible
provocations" given by the liberty-intoxi-
Gated negroes. Presently the Tribune OF
1872 has given the lie to that of 1868, by pre-
tending to believe, and to make others be-
lieve. that four years ago New York was
fairly carried by the Democrats. Mr.. Gree
lev, while on the swing, has duly eulogized
and celebrated the rebel soldiers, scolded and
reviled our own war veterans, and sealed his
treason by the confession that his resistance
to slavery was perhaps mistake!
Now, how little credit for conviction we
may give to some men, we yet assume there
is a good deal of human nature in them, and
it is not natural that a man, even though he
be considerably degraded, should all at once,
without the slightest provocation but his own
selfish ends, Systematically attempt to under
mine the reputation of his tried friends and
allies, paint them as enemies of their country,
without feeling that he is engaged in mean
and dishonest business. Nor can he, day
after day, give the lie to all his former asser-
tons, eulogize that which he denounced a
year ago, and revile that which he pretended
to hold most sacred, without knowing that
he is mourning the contempt and loathing,
not only of his former associates, but also Of
those who use him to-day as vile and will
ling tool. 1t is fortunate for the Greelcyites
that few days more will put an end to the
exhibitions of their own disgrace, for nobody
can tell the antics they would go through at
the bidding of their lords and masters; and
still more fortunate it is for them that they
have no chance of victory, as no one either
can measure the depth Of political infamy
into which they might have to plunge, sub
servient to the dictates of ex-rebels and Cop
perheads, who would make them the instru-
ments with which to Guido Andrew Johnson,
and restore in all but its name the old "white
mans government" with the Constitution
as it was.
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factory as it is-was not published until Anew
weeks ago. more than two years after its
passage.
The attitude of the Government in refer
ence to this question has lately been COM
mented upon in petition for the immediate
abolition of slavery, presented to the Cortes
by the Spanish Abolition Society, which VIII
be found in another column. The document.
among whose signers we find the famous
Emilio CASTELAR,, is entirely free from the
pompous and overloaded rhetoric so common
among Spanish writers and orators. The
urgency of the abolition Of slavery, its in
compatibility with the spirit Of the consti-
tuition of 1869, the evils growing from grad
ual emancipation, and the manifest bad faith
of the Government, arc set forth with sinSu-
lar power, simplicity, and lucidity, which
cannot fail to convince any one, at all open
to conviction; vet, so dcep-seated and hope
less is the blindness even of those who claim
to be looked upon as representatives OF pro-
gress, that after an animated debate the
Senate refused to receive the petition. VI
course, there can be no peace as long as the
Spaniards will persist in shutting their eyes
to self-evident truth, and imagine their ma
tional honor involved in the possession OF
Cuba; for the spirit and civilization of the
age cannot be defed with impunity. Cuba
must some day belong to the Cubans slavery
is doomed everywhere; but thanks to per-
verse resistance to the natural and necessary
course of events, two countries may be
nearly ruined for many years to come, thou
sands OLIVES sacrificed to phantom of glory,
unless higher wisdom should unexpectedly
obtain control in the counsels of the nation,
and achieve the natural solution at an earlier
lox-
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PROGRESS Of Our Industries.

During the twelve years the Republican
party has been in power our country has adj
vanced in wealth and general prosperity be-
yond any other twelve years since we became
an independent nation, notwithstanding
the liberation of four millions of slaves, which
before we're estimated as mere property IN
our census returns, and the terrible destruc-
ton of other property by the war. And this
progress has been as marked in the Southern
as in the Northern States. In 1850, manu-
features amounted in value TO only 81 $780,
SCI GO. In 1870, a period OF ten years, in
Guiding the war, they had reached the enor-
nous value of 1902, 1896. And fair
proportion of this progress was in the South
ern States, for their manufactures had in
creased from s292, 2S5, All, in 1861, to s6SS,
364, 432 in 1872. Taking all the slave States
together, therefore, it will be seen that the
manufactures had considerably more than
doubled in spite of the war and the destruc-
ton of slavery, while IN several of them
they have more than trebled and quadrupled
in that time under the benign Republican
policy.
And their progress in agriculture is almost
equally, though not proportionately, so large.
By the destruction of slavery the system of
feudalism upon which it rested, and which
together constituted the curse of the South,
their agricultural industry has been distri-
buted amongst the whole people. The land
has been subdivided into small plantations,
and wonderful stimulus has thereby been
given that large class Of laborers who before
had no motive but the fear of the lash for
work. Thus tic number Of farms between
1860 and 1870 were increased from 7Gi,S67
to 1885, or more than 2GS 900, number
equal to all the landowners in Great Britain
and to the slave-owners in the palmy days of
| the institution"
Two conclusions may be drawn from these
facts. One is that the best interests of the
South demand continuance of that policy
which, under wise and beneficent Republi-
can Administration, has produced such ia
vorable results and the other is that there
is no truth in the charges made by Greeley
demagogues of wrong and oppression by the
Government at the South and suffering
among the people there. They-w were never
more prosperous than now, and never freer
from wrong and oppression, except such as
is perpetrated by their own lawless citizens
upon loyal men.
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Book Notices.

We call attention to Johnson's Natural
Philosophy. 1t contains about five hundred
pages, illustrated with five hundred cuts, and
is the most complete work on the subject
that we have seen.
Also, classified list of Object Teaching.
Aids home and school. This book is especi-
ally valuable to young teachers.
The American Educational Monthly for
October deserves special notice.
All lovers of good music should secure
The Atheneum and The Polytechnic.
All of the above books are published by
J. W. Schermerhorn, IA Bond street, New
York. For sale in this city by VIM. Ballan-
tyne, 42S Seventh street, near E street.
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AnecdOte of Grant.

A correspondent of the Louisville Com
mercial has the following
A volunteer soldier of the late war, with
whom l am acquainted, a man of truth and
honor, who was with General Grant at Vicks-
burg and other important places, tells the
following: A fOp of a lieutenant, with s5Oo
suit on his back, kicked a soldier who among
others was unloading boat, but, as the
lieutenant thought, was rather slow. A
communicating man, without shoulder
straps, walked up to him and inquired of him
the company and regiment to which he be-
longed. He named them. Said the man
without shoulder straps, $50 and report
yourself to your superior officer dismissed by
order of General Grant" The lieutenant
departed, crest fallen, and the General rolled
up his sleeves and assisted the boys to I'M
load the boat.
Wonder if that lieutenant will vote for
Greeley? That same soldier assures us that
it would require a thousand such speeches as
Summers to convince him that President
Grant is either tyrant Or a thief, or any
thing of that sort.
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The Difference. Which do You
Prefer!

Gen. Grant, in forty-three months, has paid
off 1856, 100000 of the public debt; he will
pay off in the fifty-three months he is to re-
main in Office Sal 100000 more, making
s799, 900, 900 in all, at the same rate. The
public debt, therefore, at the end of his time
will be only about 81 ,GO0, 100000, and the
interest upon it more than twenty millions of
dollars annually less than it is now. BY the
Greeley the debt would be increased $440,-
DOC, 900 at least, even if they did not get up
another civil war to restore slavery! Choose
ye This day tchich ye sciU support.
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The Greeley Governor of Georgia is not
satisfied with the achievements of his
people" on the last election day in that
State. They only murdered twenty or so OF
colored Republicans, and did not prevent
more than two-thirds of the colored electors
of the State from voting. This failure to
slaughter larger number and prevent the
other third from voting was owing to the
want of arms and discipline by the Greeley
ties. And so he has issued an order for
them to be organized into military companies
and armed forthwith. They will, therefore,
undoubtedly achieve a much greater victory
on the 9TH of November!