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Hovy Government Clerks are As.
sessed and Made TO Perjure
Themselves,

A clerk in q United States Assessors
Office in New York City, published a
communication on the 26th ult, stating
that having demurred 10 subscribing
twenty dollars to carry Maine, he was
told to take his choice between paying
the money or dismissal. In common
with other clerks he yielded, and at the
ond of the month each clerk made oath
in accordance with the new civil service
formula that 81 have not paid deposited,
or assigned, or contracted to pay a de
posit or assign any part of such COM
pensation to the use Of the Assessor or
any other person, or in any way directly
or indirectly paid or given or contracted
to pay or give any reward or compen,
sstien for my office or employment, or
the emolumcnts thereof
1t will be seen that GRANTS boasted
Civil Service Reform has simply added
perjury to extortion. The wretched
clerks are still bled, and solemnly swear
at the end of each north to the contra
rV
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California will garner in 100000
GENITAL of wheat this year, or more than
twice as much as in any year since 1865.
There is no "Black Friday or "Cred.
it Mobilier" label stuck to the back of
either Greeley or Brown. They show a
clean hill of moral health.
Ashland CO.. has pie plant the
main leaf of which measures II feet 4
inches round; from the end of the leaf
to the end Of the stem it measures 40
inches; across the leaf 33l inches, and
the circumference of the stem is 5 inches.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says that
Mr.. Forney has undertaken to destroy
the reputation of Hartranft. If We pos
sessed such reputation as Hartranft's,
we should be very grateful to any one
who would destroy it,
There are some honest Grant papers
Here is what one of the honest sort
the Galveston Bulletin-says Of Grants
chances in Texas: ''The Grant party
might as well call the coroner to hold an
inquest over its remains in this State"
Blondin, the acrobatic hero of Niaga-
ra, is still delighting the Englishmen
with his astonishing but foolhardy feats.
The other day, at Sydenham, he walked
rope 500 feet long and so feet from the
ground, clad in heavy armor. -.
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Two Of Grants speeches.

Two weeks ago GRANT was in Phila.
delphia visiting his fellow corruptionist,
SrHoN CAMERON, and during his stay de-
livercd the following:
GENTLEMEN AND MERCHANTS OF Phil
ADELPHIA: You have heard much better
speeches tonight than could make if
we're go inclined. I am very glad to
see you,and am pleased to hear that you
have been to hear such fine speeches, ,and
how you have been engaged to night"
Oh, hear him hear him! Compared
with this effort the following Prosiden-
tial speech at Newark sinks into insignl-
fcance:
"LAptEs AM, GENTLEMEN could not
but feel grateful for the reception have
received at the hands Of the citizens of
Newark and oe New Jersey day. l
had the pleasure of visiting the State
Fair near Elizabeth. where | saw little
else bat people. ] was at your Exposi.
tion tonight, but saw little of what they
had there to see. hope to see to NOR
row what / went tonight to see.'
Compare these with the able speeches
of HORACE GREELEY and then decide
which has the ability to discharge the
duties of President of the United States.
GRANT is an imbecile when compared
with q man of brains like Horace GREE
LEY,
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plished, could not have been effected
without the connivance and support of
men high in authority, and these facts
assure you that publication is urgently
needed
Fellow-citizens, let me say one word
for reconciliation. For years l have
pleaded, fos yars | have inplored, that
saifs an contention shoHfs cease: For
years | have said, let us have universal
amnesty and impartial suffrage. Great
applause. We have achieved impartial
suffrage No man contests it, no man
disputes it.: Now give us universal am
nesty. We ought to have it. Great
applause 1t is time that alienation
should cease. 1t is time that the Amer
ican people, the whole of them, should
be asked again to assume the right of
power over our common nationality no
outcasts, no aliens, no prescribed ; and
then united once more, in taking the
VOWS of allegiance, and the honor, and
the unity and the prosperity of this great
Republic, fGreat applause.
plead for reconciliation, perfect and
complete. I stand for Amnesty, so
thorough that no man shall be left out,
side of its circle. | desire to see every
American recalled to loyalty by being
asked to stand equally with us on com
mon platform Of American Nationality
Applatise.
citizens; we were promised
this four years Ago iii the Republican
National platform It has not heen con
ceded to us We must, take it. We have
asked for it long enough. Now, let the
people say we will have It. [Applause.
In several States--in Virginia, in Mis-
souri,, in West Vireinia-the people have
been asked: "Wil you have every mar
enfranchised, and no man prescribed P
And they have always answered: "Yes
yes. No prescription; universal am
nesty." The whole people will so All
swer if the question can be fairly pre-
sented. l have put the question. Irep
resent the affirmative of that question
: and l call upon the people SO to vote
that no man shall doubt that the Ameri
can people demand universal amnesty
and the restoration of every withheld
right to every American, born or natu
raiized, on our soil. Applause.
4 People of Indiana, l know your gen
erous hearts are with me. believe you
votes will testify that your hearts are
sound and true. / believe You canno
be bought. l know that you cannot b.
bullied and feel that when your verdic
shall be pronounced it will thrill tn,
hearts Of the friends Of reconciliation
from one end Of the country to the 9th
er. Applause. knew YOU and trus
you. Your hearts beat responsive tt
mine Make it sure that there shall b,
no ambiguity in your verdict, and moth
ing to mar the completeness of your tri
umph. ILong and deafehipg applause
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Clerks Discharged for Reststing
Political Assessments, 81.

New York, Sep. 30-Wm. Ha Mer.
shan and Z. Elish Holmes have been
discharged from Inspectorships in the
New, York Custom house because Of
their refusal to pay. a political assess
ment of forty dollars each. After his
remoya Mershan made an effort to see
Collector Arthur. He wss met In the
anterooin by the Collectors Chief Clerk.
who told him that if he had called for
the purpose of urging reconsideration
of the order removing him, it would be
in vain. Mr.. Mershan replied that such
WAS not his object. He had called 10
demand the reason of bis discharge,
and should respectfully but firmly insist
on an answer. The Chief Clerk went
into the private Office of the Collector
and returned with a statement that Ar
thur declined to see him or to give any
reply to his question. Mr.. Mershan
closed his business as Inspector and in
a few days presented his payroll TO
Deputy Surveyor Benedict for the put.
pose of having it checked, when that
public servant exclaimed: 80 you're
tainted with Greeleyism, are you! This
is the way Greeley men are served here
Mr.. Mershan voted twice for LGcoln
and once for Grant
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MIR. Greeley's Speech at Allentown,
Pennsylvania.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM!

ALLENTOWN, Pa, September 27.-
Horace Greeley spoke here this evening
as follows:
"FELLow-C CITIZENS: believe the tim.
has fully come for scrutiny of &C.
ssunts with the nen now In power in
The Nation and in majority if not all
of the States, so that we can see just
what money has been lost by incompe-
tency and carelessness, and obtain an
honest report of the condition of the
finances and expenses of the Govern
ment There is steady concealment
of important facts which the people
have right to know"
Mr.. Greeley here referred to the de-
falcation of Paymaster Hodges, and
said there was plenty OF talk about it
The Pay Department charged the Treas;
ury Department., and the Treasury De
partment charged it back to the Pay De
partment; but ne investigation, nc
searching exposure was made, but tht
whole thing was hushcd up as though il
was forgotten We have defalcation af
ter defalcation, loss after loss, and We
are called upon to admire the honesty
and publication of an Administration
which once in a dozen times catches s
rogue. What we want is not punish
ment for this one rogue in dozen, bu
means devised and put in operation
whereby such stealing shall be impossi
BILE. What we need is not satisfied
nothing near it.
Mr.. Greeley said that the reason safe
guards for the protection of the Treas
ury were so defective was that the Off
cials whose business it was TO &atcl
and guard were not attending to theil
duties, but electioneering to secure an
other team of office Il am" said Mr.
Greeley, "a candidate before you in op
position to this kind of policy. l be
lieve President In office never should
be reelected. l believe you will never
see any genuine civil service reform sc
long as the President wields the power
of sixty thousand officers and his fifty
millions per annum of official patron
age; so long as he may be, and most
necessarily must be, candidate for re.
election, you can have no genuine civil
service reform; so says the Cincinnati
platform so says the Endorsement by
the Democratic National Convention al
Baltimore. / demand of the people
that they enact a decree of civil service
reform by doing away with that one
primary and prominent source of abuse
in the Civil Service, the gibility Of
a. President to election for a second
term. s..
Mr.. Greeley closed with plea fol
reconciliation.
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Resolution Of The COlOred Liber.


a National Convention of colored
men, in session at Louisville on the 26th
ult., adopted the following:
"WnEREAs, Wendell Phillips, who,
owing to his personal ill@ill toward
Horace Greeley, counsels the colored
people of the United States to vote
against that noble representative Of con-
stitutional liberty; and, providing Gree
ley is elected, he advises us to arm, and
arm Immediately; therefore, be it
"Resolped, That we, the National Lib
eral Colored Convention assembled, do
denouncc such counsel rs impolitic, in
judicious and unpatriotic, calculated, if
needed, to hurl us to destruction and
annihilation, and is only the outgrowth
of envy and personal differences and
utter disregard fer right and the welfare
of the colored man, and the peace and
prosperity of this great Republic"
PnILLIps is one of GRANTS speakers
who is opposed to "clasping hands, he
favors bloodshed, murder and riot to
Reconciliation, Peace and Publication
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The Pardon of Yerkes. .

New YORK, September 30-The par
don of Yerkes BY Governor Geary.sis
recoiling upon its authors. The Pbila-
delphia Press says: sit is horrible,sa q
revolving spectacle to behold it is. the
most damnable and insulting exhibition
of political desperation we. have ever
had in this country, that great party
should be forced to take as its candidate
for Chief Magistrate of a State a man
against whom criminal practices have
been established for which he ought
now, in vindication of the ordinary
rules of justice, to be an inmate of
cell" s
Yerkes was taken from prison by the
Grant Mayor, of Philadelphia, together
with Grants District Attorney, Swope;
he was driven with them to the office of
the principal Grant organ in Philadel.
phia, and from there to the Grant
headquarters. There be signed his re-
traction, and then. but till then, waA y
allowed his freedom Yerkes swears
that somebody personated him in ma
king his original affidavits against Hart.
rant before Alderman Dougherty, Of
Philadelphia. The latter explodes this
highly improbable story by declaring
that he knows Yerkes perfectly well !;
that he had been in his Office frequently,
and that when Yerkes made his original
aflidavits proving Hartranft to be a
thief, he remembers all the details, as
the unusual nature of the proceedings
made strong impression on him at
that time.
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A Leading German Paper ON the
n Pardon Of Yerkes.

The most influential and widely cir.
culated German daily in New York, the
Stats Zeitung, which has been on the
fence regarding the Presidential strug
giles. says, concerning Grants and Cam
eron's pardoned Penitentiary birds in
Philadelphia: <'The liberation of the
swindlers, Mercer and Yerkes, from
the Pennsylvania State Prison, is an act,
in regard to which the firmest purpose
of the firmest man to keep his blood
cool in this contest of parties is placed
on a trial which is too difficult to bear.
The Cameron clique by this act of des.
peration has given up Pennsylvania
What will our Pennsylvania neighbors
do? We shonld not only despair of
them, but of the whole American people,
if Pennsylvania does not strike just
such decisive blow against the Came
ron Ring as New York did against the
Tweed Ring. Grant has personally
mixed in this. matter. People will form
their judgment of Grants case from
these circumstances, and eventually
throw Grant and Hartranft overheard
together" >
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Frantic Radical Bid for the Ger
man Vote.

The Congressional Committee has in
print a document containing the official
correspondence relating TO the care oI
German subjects in France during the
Franco Prussian war, with the letters Of
courtesy, compliment, and thanks from
the German Government This docu.
ment will be Immediately put in circula,
ton among German voters in the West
and Northwest, with the hope of check
ing the influence of SCnURZ and other
German orators and politicians who
have been making great inroads on the
German clement OF the Republican par
ty.-Fashirgton Patriot.
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The Penitentiary TO the Rescue

From the New York Tribune, September 30. |
Pennsylvania, under the rule of ST.
mon Cameron, has been brought to
many shame; but she. never before
reached so low pass as on last Friday
night, when-the President of the UNI.
ted States conniving-her Governor
robbed the penitentiary to reinfercs a
declining and desperate party Well
may that earnest advocate of President
Grants re election, the Pittsburg Chroh-
icle, shrink back in horror from so as
founding an insult to the people of the
State lis "pressing the renitentiary into
the canvass"
Charles 7. Yerkes, ,Jr, then is the man
on whom Hartranft relies for his cleo
ton. The convict from the Pennsylva-
MIA penitentiary is to make the Pennsyl-
vania Governor. Then give him the
striped jacket for his robe of office
The bargain is palpable. The officer
before whom Yerkes made his affidavit
against Hartranft knows him well. He
declares that the affidavit was duly
made; that he saw the signature, knows
all the case. knows there was no decep-
ton. The canvass being desperate
Yerkes is brought out Within an houi
he has signed an affidavit declaring his
former one false! Who can doubt tha,
it was business misfortune" that won
the pardon? But that business opera.
ton, like the others, will fail The price
of pardon was merely perjury; but the
convict's oath will only impel honest
men to loathe the man that seeks and
the Governor that sells it, and to regis
ter at the ballot-box their stern condein
nation of both. Pennsylvania! we do
not doubt your action! You have not
yet fallen to accept your Governor al
the hands of your penitentiary!.
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Good Effects OF Greeley's Trip
West.

The speech of Mr. Greeley in New
York, the 9th ult., sets at rest the slan-
ders teIegraphed from here that the Lib.
eral candidate was acting contrary to
the wishes and recommendations Of his
friends and the two National Committees
in making a trip through Pennsylvania
and the West, by asserting positively.
that he acted on their consent, and that
the trip would not have been taken
otherwise. Considering the great benz
eft to the Liberal canse of Mr. Gree.
ley's speeches, it is a matter of regret
among his friends here, and the MEM
bers the COMMITTEES resident here; that
he has decided to speak no more 'du.
ring the canvass, as it is urged on all
sides that a trip of week or two in the
South would be of corresponding SER
x,;oo
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WASHINGTON CITY NEGROES
Spragme and His Friends
Bringing Negroes from
w aShingtOn.
The Defeated Sprague Certain

The best evidence that the Radicals
In this District are defeated in their eff
orts to foist WILLIAM 2. SPRAGUE upon
the People as their Representative in
Congress, is the following:
"WasI,ingtOn City, October LA
gang of forty negroes, who left
here On Friday, have been traced
by The Liberal Committees into
Ohio, where it Is understood they
Will endcaVOr to vote. They are
now located on the ShOTt-Line
Railroad between Parkersburg
and Athens, ohio"
Our friends in Athens county know
just where SfRAGuE's Negroe voters are,
and hope to send a few, if not all OF
them to the Ohio 2enitentiary.
RICHARD r HUDSON will defeat
| SrRAGuE easily. SPRAGUE and his friends
acknowledge defeat by the hands of the
honest voters of this District when they
bring their Negro rcpeaters here. That
act betrays their weakness, and the cor
ruption and dishonesty of their failing
cause
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wE EMIL RorHE, of Cincinnati, c.

wEMrt RorHE, of Cincinnati, calls
attention to the fact that under the ex'
isting laws the most ignorant and dc,
PRAYED of the negroes are, in polltlca
sense, the superiors of the represents
tives Of the German nationality, thei'
statesmen, their professors, their sol
diers, their men eminent in the arts aho
sciences, all citizens fervently true and
patriotic to the country of their adop'
ton. The negro Of the most ignorant
class unable to read or write, with &C
idea above his wants of the present
could become President of the United
States, but not so CARL SEIZURE.
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Astounding Radical Frauds Pro-
passed.
BALLOTBOxEs TO BE STUFFED
Gangs OF Travelling Voters.
Let Indlanians Lock 10 This.
TSpeeial Dfspach to the ENQUIRER. !

lNb>f"h DinPWSoh W thC
LAFAYETTE, INDIANA, Sep. 30.-The
following astounding affidavit appears
in the Lafayette Dispatch. The persons
Implicated as being engaged in this
frahd on the elective franchise are con-
sidered among our most respectable cit
liens, and it is hard TO believe them
guilty of such crime. They are the
principal stockholders in the Lafayette
Plow Works, and the men who make
the affidavit are workmen in the works,
and are apparently truthful and intel,i-
gent enough to know that if they have
sworn falsely they have laid themselves
liable to the penalty of perjury. The
affidavits have produced the most pro-
found sepsation in this community.
The Dispatch SAYS:
"Late this afternoon we are enabled
to lay before our readers partial devel.
opments Of a high handed piece of
fraud which certain parties in this city
are concocting as a means to defeat the
people at the coming election. The par
ties to the affidavit came forward with
out solicitation and exposed the devil.
ish design. We have not time to-day
for additional comments:
estate of Indiana. Tippecanoe Coun-
tv, ss,--David H. Beard and William
Mckay, being duly sworn, On their oath
say that we were solicited by Robert
Sample, Fl I Sample, G. j. Parker and
Henry Taylor, and asked TO join party
to 60 to Attica and return on election
day, and vote at each place possible or
the road to Lafayette For this they
offered to pay us ten dollars each. 1
is the intention to send thirty-fve men
We give the names Of the following
men, that, to our wledge; have prom
ised to go: G. H. Burkholtep H. Viii
son, A James, L. Thomas, David Ram
say, D. Coleman, G. Smith, C. Watson
O. McCarn, NJ. Watson, j. Blake, G H
Clines. We were approached by thes
men at the Lafayette Plow- works ol
Friday, September n, 1872. We know
that different bodies of men,to travel Oh
other roads and vote at different places
are being organized. d. H. BEARD.
VIM MCKAY.
estate of Indiana, Tippccanoe Coun
ty, ss.-Before me, the undersigned,
Notary Public in and for said county
came David H Beard and William Nc
Kay, and made oath to the foregoin,
affidavit.
"Witness my hand and Notarial sea
this Both day of September, 1872.
| Seal TIMorHY j MCCARTHY,
Notary Public"
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Gen. Gfos.cnor Backed povn.

[Fros the Mariettian, sSth ult.l
Betting on elections is bad prsctice,
and is very properly prohibited Ivy the
laws Of the State. But people, in the
excitement of canvass, will bet-or at
least efsr 10 do 81. For instance, oar
Grant slsslar, Gen Charles Ii. a,ssve-
nos, was in town on Monday mornine
last, and slapping his hands on his
hrceehes pocket, as though the happy
results of forty cotton speculaions were
therein safely deposited, offered to wa.
ge- a thousand dollars that Hudson
would bc beaten for Congress in this
District The proposition did not long
rcmsn open, before . gentleman of this
city called on the General at the Regis
ter "HeadquarterS," and politely inform
ed him that he would take the bet -
Charles II. hemmed and hawed little
He had not the money with hitn. " ould
he step down to the bank aud deposit {
forfeit of S25, $50, or S75?' Nc. HI
could not well do even that Finally he
would have the money ready by Friday
noon, Friday noon came bat the mon
ey did: not. Charles, in the mean time
had been to Monroe County, an6 thu
conclusions thence drawn We're not ia
vorab!e to the prospects of Bro
Sprague.
The General did excellent work il
Monroe for Mr. HUDSON, netwithstand
ing the fact that he was imported to tall
for Mr.. SPRAGUE, the Protectionists ant
Land Grabbers' candidate He was dis
eauTage3 when he came here and whs
he left the county; and the information
| he impaired to SpRAGuE's few support
srs satisfied them that HoDsoN's election
was certain. They have looked and fel
decidedly blue ever since.
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Ey"The enormous drain upoa tho
Federal court fund to carry the elections
in North Carolina and Maine hos cx
hausted The entire appropriation inten.
ded to meet the United States court eX
pcnscs in all the States. The apprO
priation was larger than ever before, yet
il has been exhausted before the fiscal
year is half gone-u,ed up to help re-
elect GRANr-and now the entire Fed
eral courts of the country will have to
run on tick until Congress meets in De
cember
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CAIRO, September 30.-At Tunnel
Hill, Saturday night, an atfray took
place among the laborers employed on
the railroad tunnel. Three men were
stabbed one died, and the other two
can hardly recover The names are
unknown.
After the melee, an attempt was made
to blow up the residence of a saloon
keep named Cover, who had incurred
the ill will of the crowd, but the fuse
being wet, failed to ignite the powder,
A whole keg was placed under the
house, and Cover and family, who we're
asleep, had a narrow escape Whisky
seems to have been the only melting
cause.
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EEThe New York Hedtd is an un-
failing barometer. It's editors feel the
nnhlic nulse and never fail to indicate it
in the broad columns Of their Journal
The Herald, on the goth ult, conceded
that Mr.. GREELEY was gaining ground,
and that his wonderful speeches through
the West had greatly strengthened his
cause. The Herald has, disccrnment
enouoh to know that Mr. GREELEY will
lie the next President.