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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-08-09

The great argument of the Grant
men is that he is paying the national
debt. Yes! but whose money is he
paying with? And how much more
Of it would have been paid had not so
much been plundered from the national
treasury by his defaulting appointees
And how much faster would it be paid
if the hundred and fifty millions Mr..
Boutwell, keeps locked up and idle in
the treasury were wisely invested ?
And if he cared much about paying the
national debt, would he have had the
most extravagaut Administration since
the government was founded? His
friends talk as though he were paying
the national debt out of his own pocket,
as Webster once proposed to do when
he threw his empty wallet down upon
his desk in the Senate Chamber; but
the truth is, he has grown rich on the
spoils Of his office, and has helped his
friends to fortunes, and has seen the
public mouey absorbed by deiaulters
aud squandered by the Administration
without murmur, and to-day is using
the treasure of the nation to secure his
own reelection for another term. And
this is the man who is paying the ma
tional debt The claim is almost toe
preposterous to be absurd, and thos,
who make 1t must be strangely misin,
formed or think other men are Idiots. =
| HOkalen AQe.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-08-09
The HOlcOmbe Report.

The report of Professor Holcombe
one of the so.called Confederate Peace
Commissioners, dated November 16,
1864, which has been given to the press
from the rebel archives recently pur-
chased, contains but little information
not already known, and is devoted
mainly to an explanation and defence
of the commissioners in their proceed
ings. But one statement in this report
invites to the statement of an additional
fact, of which we happen to have
knowledge.
Holcombe speaks in his report of in
terviews he had al Niagara Falls with
Governor Hunt, Of New York, and q
number of other gentlemen, including
Judge Black and Mr.. Buckalew, oi
Pennsylvania, but does not state the
fact that Judge Blacks communication
/ with him, with which Mr.. BuckaleW
was casually connected, was upon the
express request of Edwin M. Stanton
Secretary of War, and with a full un
derstanding between him and Mr.. Stan
ton with reference to its objects. Thi
was the truth, the Judge writing to Mr.
Stanton the results of his visit imme
diately after it took place. His com
munication to Mr.. Stanton can doubt
less be found among the records of tn,
War Department, unless retained b!
the latter among his confidential papers
Press.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-08-09
A Healing Hero,

The Harrisburg Patriot thus gratuit-
ously advertises quack medicine firm
of that city, aud we republish the ad-
vertisement also free of charge:
A firm in Harrisburg, calling them
selves Burroughs & Co.," advertise a
quack medicine which cures every dis.
ease known to the medical faculty. 1t
disposes of consumption in three days,
cancer yields to its magic power in
twenty-fOur hours, and a common cold
vanishes in five minutes after the first
dose. The "Co." of the firm of Burr
oughs & Co., Inventors of "Nature's
Assistant" as they call this last, best
gift to man )is General Harrison Allen,
the Republican candidate for auditor
genera. burroughs mixes the molasses
and water (which are the chief of the
potent ingredients) and Allen writes
the certificates of cures. To-day this
versatile warrior is an old lady in Pitts.
burg, newly cured of cancer by the
Assistant, and tomorrow he indites and
subscribes an affidavit, dated "Wolf
Creek, Oregon" recording the superior
ity of Burroughs balm over capsules or
any other form of balsam in cases of
disease brought on by close application.
1t is estimated that Allen, who invents
all the certificates and affidavits, has
been cured of over one hundred differ
ent complaints, under a hundred differ
ent names in hundred different places
since last November. He adds fresh
testimonial every day or two, he and
Burroughs divide the profits monthly,
and they are, of course, silent about
the ingredients of their nauseousness.
Hence Allen is throughly trained in
Addition, Division and Silence" and
is the very man to fill Hartranft's place.
What pity it is that this physicing
and purging hero hadn't got hold of
the "assistant" during his military ca
reer! Perhaps it might have helped
him to hold his legs steady in one fight
If no more, or repaired his health
sufficiently to enable him to get away
from home long enough to become ac
quainted with his men. But the blessed
Burroughs had not then found out his
secret and no "yarb" then known tC
the pharmacopoeiaw was potent ugh tc
hold coward to his place. liens
nature Topped without the 'assis
tant" and the only portion of his person
that the rebels saw was that which will
never touch the Auditor Generals
chair,
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To the Front, Tariff Men!

During his whole life Horace Greeley
has been the champion of protective
tariff, nor has he changed his views on
that point. His opponent, Gen. Grant,
on the contrary has no decided views,
on that or any other question. His first
cabinet appointment, however, was
that of A. T. Stewart, noted free trader
who aided to give him houses and lands.
We desire now, more especially, to
commend to Messrs, Paxton, McKelvy,
Neal, and other iron men, that portion
of Gen. Dix's letter giving his reasons
for supporting Grant and opposing
Greeley.
Third. Because he has been the advo.
cate land in this instance persistently)
of that most unjust and unequal com.
mercial system which is destroying oul
mercantile and shipping interests, ant
heaping up enormous accumulations o
wealth in the hands of the protected
classes, to the oppression and impover
ishment of all Others.
Bryant, Atkinson, and other notet
free traders are opposing Greeley for tn
same reason, and his tariff opinion
were the main obstacles to his nomina
tion at Cincinnati. In this canvass W
desire to see If the tariff men repudiat
their main apostle.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-08-09

GEN. JOHN A. DIX has declared
himself in favor of the reelection of
Grant and opposed to Horace Greeley
among other reasons "Because he is as.
sociated in relations more or less init
mate with some of the chief plunderers
of the city of New York" 1t is per-
fectly well known that Mr.. Greeley is
bitterly opposed to Tom Murph y, Leet
and the Administration ring general y,
who comprise the whole number of
"chief plunderers of New York." and
that this assertion of Gen. Dix is utterly
without foundation. The truth is most
probably that the old man has never
forgiven Horace Greeley for defea tin g
him for Office some years ago. Dix has a
way of finding himself on the winning
side and will doubtless turn up Gree.
ley man after the election. Our only
wish regarding the old fellow is that he
may stay where he is, for he possesses
all the requirements of first.class Re.
publican. Jov be with hi m.
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Greeley or,n,or Of Garnet. paprcrs.

About year ago Mr.. GREELEY made
a tour of the south. On his return he
made a speech at the Lincoln club room
in New York, In which las we find on
referring to the newspaper report in the
next mornings journals) ho used the
following just, rough and characteristic
words:
"I allude," said he, "to what are
known as the thievlng carpet,baggers {!
(Applause.) The thieving carpet-bag-
gers are a mournful fact they do exist
there, and have seen them. They are
fellows who crawled down south in the
track of our armies, generally at very
safe distance in the rear; some of them
on suffers wagons, some bearing cotton
permits, some of them looking sharply
to see what might turn up, and they re-
NAMED there. They ut once iDgratiated
themselves with the blacks, simple,
credulous, ignorant men, very glad to
welcome and to follow any whites who
professed to be the champions of their
rights. Some of them got elected sena-
tors, others representatives, some sher-
ifs, some judges, and so on. And there
they stand, right in the public eye,
stealing and plundering, many Of them
with both arms around negroes, and
their hands in their rear pockets, seeing
If they cannot pick paltry dollar out
of them; and the public looks at them,
does not regard them as honest northern
men, but calls every carpet-bagger n
thief, which is not the truth by a good
deal. But these fellows-many of them
long-faced, and with eyes rolled up, are
greatly concerned for tho education OF
the blacks, and the salvation of their
souls. Great laughter. Let us pray,
they say; but they spell pray with an
'e,' and, thus spelled, they obey the
apostolic injunction to pray without
ceasing.' They got into the legisla-
lures they went to issuing state bonds;
they pretended to use them in railroads
and other improvements. But the inn
provements were not made, and the
bonds stuck in the issucrs' pockets.
That is the pity of it. n What the
southern people see of us are these
thieves, who represent the north to theii
ljaundiced vision, and, representing it,
they disgrace it. They are the greatest
obstacle to the triumph and permanent
ascendancy of republican principles al
the south and as such 1 denounce them.'
Applause.
| GRATZ BROWN, himself a Southern
er, both by birth and lifelong residence
and an eyewitness of the abuses which
he denounces, corroborates Mr.. GREE
LEY's testimony against the carpet bag
gers as follows:
"At the SOUTH" says Mr.. Brown, "th'
spirit of dominion has been the synonym
of federal authority in the shaping of al
local organizations, open control oflarg'
bodies of dependents, interference tt
sustain worthless officials and RUTHLESS
violations of the rights of persons. Their,
the substance of entire sections has beei
plundered, debts mortgaging genera
tions of labor contracted, taxes levied Il
the point of fconfiscation-all done unde
agencies upheld by the national govern
ment."
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HON. F. M. BIRD, of Massachusetts,

HON. F. M. BIRD, of Massachusetts,
in speech few weeks ago, declared
that one Of the laclSeys of Grant, con-
nected with the press, said to him in
Washington, last winter: Grant is
just the same man to-day that he was
before the war, when he lived near Ga.
lena; the same man surrounded by the
same set of men, in just the same
society as when he left his wife and
family almost suffering for bread, and
left in the morning with load of bark
for Galena, leaving it uncertain whether
he would come back at night with the
proceeds of the load for the benefl OF
his family, or drunk, in the bottom oi
his wagon"
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A GENERAL BEvERAG E-whO was
probably full of his own name at the
time-followed Ex-Governor Oglesby as
orator at Grant meeting in Chicago
recently. When he spoke ofthe war, an
impatient man roared out, "Damn the
war !" and Beverage sided off into an
attack on Mr.. Greeley. Then another
man yelled, "Dry up!" The batiled
Beverage here took up Mr.. Greeley's
censure of Democrats. Again voice in
the crowd shrieked, "We can stand it ''
amid roar of laughter. Beverage then
dissolved into silence.
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NEWS


"Dutch Heinrich;" confined at Sing
Sing for bond robbery, attempted on
Wednesday to escape. He seized a
horse in the prison yard, mounted, and
galloped away. The guard fred and
killed the horse, when Heinrich contin-
ued his flight on foot. He was finally
overtaken and secured.
Advices from Geneva says that the
English representatives have presented
to the Tribunal supplementary case,
attempting to establish that England
faithfully executed her laws in connec"
ton with the Confederate cruisers. The
American agents have submitted re-
tort, placing tho question on inter
national law.
The trouble ut Williamsport has
| ended, and the troops are Withdrawn.
Most of the mills have resumed work.
Grcvy, Birmingham, Wilton and
Blake, the leading strikers, have been
| liberated on bail, and bail also has been
furnished for the other strikers who are
in prison.
Hon. Charles Sumner has published
his long expected letter to tho colored
men. He advocates Greeley and ad-
visos them to support him. The inllu-
ence of this letter will undoubtedly be
very great in the south.
Gen. Fitzpatrick has begun criminal
suit for slandcr against the New York
Times and civil suit for $50, 600 against
q Bangor paper for the same cause. II
was charged that Fitzpatrick wher
| Minister to Chilli attempted to intro
| a disreputable woman into society
there. Fitzpatrick denies this and state
that the only woman with him wa
his mother.in. law who went there fo
her health.
Messors. Shanks, Smith, and Burdett
the subcommittee on Indian affairs
appointed to investigate alleged fraud
on the tribes inhabiting tho Indial
Territory, have taken an immense mas
of testimony,and unoarthed frauds to {
very large amount.
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aur Victory in North CarolIna.

North Carolina being the first State
to vote since the nomination Of Gree
ley at Baltimore, the Administration
party were nervously anxious to carry
It No effort was spared. Negro and
white orators overran the State, even
Secretaries Boutwell, and Delano,
and Wilson, the candidate for Vice
President, giving q portion of their
time. Money was used without stint,
and the population being poor, 1t un-
doubtedly had a great effect. AT least
$223 900 was taken from the public
treasury at one time and placed in Mar
shal Csrrow's hands for distribution.
The grossest intimidation was prac-
ticed. Over 1000 indictments for Ku
Kluxism were held over the heads of
voters, with the promise of release in
case the threatened parties would vote
for Grant. The revenue officers also
thought it their duty to threaten to
make arrests for alleged violation of
law in case the voter would not vote
for their master. AS many as 500 ar
rests were made in one County before
the election for the purpose of intimi-
dation.
Besides all this "colonizing" the i'm
portation of colored voters from South
Carolina and Virginia was practiced on
an extensive scale, and in counties
where the negroes had large majority,
il was impossible to prevent these ille-
gal votes from being cast. In some
Counties along the border the vote was
several hundred beyond that registered
In addition to all this, the State Gov
crnmenl is in the hands of the Radicals,
and as usual among carpet bag govern
mcnts, in order to perpetuate power
the Governor appoints all the election
officers. OF course he appoints his own
tools-men who manipulate returns tc
suit the necessities of the case, and this
is the reason for the constant reduction
of the Democratic majority, as first re.
ported, and why returns have been
held back over a week.
knowing all these facts we did not
expect to carry the State, and our op.
ponents claimed it by at least 10000
majority. Yet we have gained glor.
ious victory. We have certainly carried
five of the eight Congressmen-and Sc
cured both branches of the Legislature
by large majority, and in consequence
will gain a U. s. Senator. five have
not carried the Governor, the vote is SC
close that victory will be assured in No.
vember for Greeley and Brown. The
victory is all the greater because won
under the disadvantages mentioned
Grant carried the State by over 1900
majority, and last year we were beaten
by over 5000 majority. Our friends
everywhere should fell encouraged, ana
40 TO toork.
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During the long life of Mr.. Greeley in
New York, he has belonged to no rings,
and entered into no combinations to de-
fraud the city or the nation, or to run
stocks orgold up or down. He has neith-
or made or lost money in this way.
Whatever property he has, has been ac-
cumulated by life Of great toll as a
Journalist. II elected, he will appoint
no relatives to Office, and accept no pre-
sents from Office seekers or office holders.
Presents ofcigars, ,brandies, dogs, horses,
carriages, horses, or money, will not be
received as they now are. He will re.
store the good old days Of honesty,
purity, and regard for the constitution
and laws which characterized the ad.
mlnistration Of former presidents.
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BOunties to Soldiers.

To THE EDITOR OF THE LYCoMING
STANDARD: Sir: The article you send
me, cut from the Pittsburg Commercial,
is q remarkable specimen of mendacity,
concocted upon the pretense of reciting
my record in Congress.
1 take the first item, given in the
article, for illustration:
December %, 1S63.-On an amend
ment to the Deficiency Appropriation
are now provided by law shall be
paid to any person enlisting after the
fifth day of January next" Mr.. Buck
alew voted nay"
Upon this the Commercial says: HE
voted against paying bounties to volun-
teers. He would have deprived the
soldier of all bounties because he hated
the cause for which they fought, and
wanted to discourage the enlistment OF
volunteers"
In fact the bill in question was for an
appropriation of twenty million of dol
lars "for the payment of bounties and
advance pay" to soldiers, and 1 was for
it heartily and voted for its passage.
The record shows that I was present and
that the bill passed unanimously. The
amendment mentioned above, against
which / voted, was an amendment to
reduce bounties, or to prevent the mill
tary authorities from paying more than
800 bounty for each soldier after 9th of
January, 1864, whereas they were then
paying 5000 under the Presidents proc
lamation of 18th October, 1868. The
President had called for three hundred
thousand men and had promised this
larger bounty to all who should come
into the service before the 5th of JAM
uary following, except veterans re.en-
listing, who were to receive $400. The
amendment was simply to prevent the
President from paying, or engaging to
pay, under any circumstances, more
than 800 in future. I was opposed to
this amendment and voted against 1t,
considering il to be unwise, unjust and
impracticable-unw because 1t would
discourage the filling Of the army and
limit the Presidents discretion In case
of emergency; unjust because it would
fix different rates Of compensation for
soldiers Of equal merit and serving for
equal terms, and wholly impracticable
because neither the spirit of the coun-
try nor the manhood of the soldier
would sanction ii. may add that il
was not maintained afterwards, for the
larger bounties were voted and paid.
For instance, the Joint Resolution Of
January 16, 1854, provided. that tht
larger bounties should continue to be
paid from the 9th of January to the Is
of March of that year, and by subse
quent legislation the ground taken b.
me in my vote of 22d Of December, wa
fully assumed and endorsed by Congress
This false imputation which / have
exposed is no more gross and unjus
than many Others in the article sen
me, but have taken it because 1t stand
first in order among them and consti
tutes a fit representative of the whole
G. r. BUCKALEW.
Aug. 7, 1872
Note.-See Congressional Globe, /!
Session, 39th Cong. 1880, GIGS; App
TO same, 1853.
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Gen. N. P. Banks of Massachusetts,
has written letter announcing that he
will support Greeley. The separation ol
so prominent Republican from the
Grant wing, will undoubtedly cause
dismay to the Administration party.
We may now look to see Gen. Banks
reviled in the Grant papers as either a
blackguard or person of no influence.
The attitude of Gen. Banks and Mr.
Sumner will tell on the vote of Massa.
chusetts.
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A Gentle Reminder.

Charles Buckalew Snyder of Wilkes
Barre, local reporter for the Scranton
Republican, Is the announced proprietor
of the Independent, one half of W hich is
printed in Berwick. The Independents
for Grant, Hartranft, Evans, DIR. Allen,
et al. OF course the proprietor has
right to make his journal partisan
sheet and to "pitch in" to his distin-
guished name.sake to his hearts con.
tent, nor do we know of any act of as.
sembly that compels him to tell the
truth about candidates or political mat.
ters, or to observe the Ninth Command.
ment. We are induced to make these
remarks, because of the remarkably
original article in the last weeks issue
relative to Senator Buckalew's recent
speech at Mahanoy City.
Having accompanied Senator Bucka-
lew on the trip alluded TO we desire to
state that the article is true except that
he did not address parade of miners
and laborers, having reached there af-
ter it was over; he did not suggest three
cheers for Greeley and Brown; nor was
he followed by any one who proposed
three cheers for Grant and Wilson.
Senator Buckalew stopped at Maha-
noy City for dinner on his way to Shen.
andoah City, and was serenaded by the
Ashland band. He made brief re.
sponse, in which he did not allude to
Grant or Greeley, to llartranft or him.
self. His remarks We're we'll received by
men of both parties.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-08-09

HARTRANFT is better mathemati-
clan than soldier. He, assisted by Kem-
BILE and Evans, figured the state out of
over 81, 200, 900 in less than three years.
Addition, division and silence-Evans,
Kemble and Hartranft-the "rule of
three" that did the business for us.
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Nescopeck township, Luzerne Co. n3lwi

l. Town of Bloomsbury.
NOTICE Is hereby given, that the UNDER
signed Treasurer of the Town of bloomsbury,
will be prepared to receive Town taxes for the
present wear, on and during thirty days from
and after Monday the 18th day of August, lS72
at the office of Hon. Charles H. Buckalew in the
said Town. ,
Any tax unpaid at the expiration of thirty
days from the said l2th day OF August, snail be
tum penalty upon the amount added thereto.
Office hours from 0 TO l. a. NJ, and from to
o'clock p. NJ.
W. b. KooNs, Town Treasurer.
RIoomsburp August 1 lSI2 n3lwl
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The Kennebec tMe.) Journal. an ex-
cessively loyal Journal, says; a
1t would be better for the country to
have Grant for President, though drunk
every day, than to have Greeley Presi-
dent, though sober.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-08-09

The Baptist Watchmaa says of Gree
ley that "all parties unite in admitting
his integrity, fearless advocacy of hui
man rights, law and order, and his
deep-seated desire TO do good at ALL"
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New Advertisements.
A I1nIrOR,S NOTICE

IA ESTATE OF sAVGLLA PEALER DECD.
The undersigned appointed Auditor to dis
tribute the funds in the hands of the Adminis-
traitors of the estate of Savilla Pealer deceased
will meet the parties Interested at his office in
the town of Bloomsbury on Saturday August 3lst,
1872, at 10 o'clock a. M, when and where all per-
sons interested are requested to present them to
the Auditor or he forever debarred from coming
in for said fund. - -
SAMUEL IINORR
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I IST OF GRAND JURORS FOR
A. september term 1872.
Bloom.-Geo, W. Bates, Geo Cavauce Angus
tus Mason.
Berwiclt-Hudson owen.
Bri1r Crcck-Enoch ltitt CnhOusC,
BeaVer-pctcr Knecht.
Ccntrc-Edward Hartman.
CCutralia-Patriclt Il, Burke.
CatawiSsa--SamuCl Frederick.
Green WOOd--Frank ROat
Hcmlock-Eli OH,
Monitor r--Samuel GiEer.
Main-Natnan Miller
Madison-Wm. FaiTmun, Frames Runyan.
Mt, Pleasnnt-Wm. Miller, Thomas Jones,
Orangc-David Herring, James Ewes.
Iiue-JOhn GOrducr.
Roaring Creck-John d. Houcll, Frank No-
cum,
scott-Thomas Croycliug, Jr,, j. b. Ammer-
man.