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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

Governor Ames of mississippi, who boldly
accused by prominent members of his own
party of having melted the Vicksburg riots
by declaration that "the shedding Of some
negro blood would aid the Republican party
and who has started the outrage mill and
calls upon the general government to inter-
fere in State which he is incapable of gov
erning. We thought that the approach of
the Ohio election would revive the "bloody
shirt business. Since the reports cannot be
manufactured any longer in the attorney
generals Office the mill has bten removed to
Mississippi and put in charge of Ames. 1t
is in good hands. The country is beginning
to know him about rs well as it knows his
father-in-l n-law-Ben Butler Clinton Demo-
crdt.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

The Postmaster General is making tre-
mendous blow about a fast mail line he says
he has established from somewhere to some
where, and is out with pronunciamentoes in
the usual Radical cocklofty style returning
thanks to Tom. Scott and Commodore Van
derbilt for their assistance in the achieve
ment! Very good. We once knew darkey
philosopher who was in the habit of luxuria-
ting under a gum tree near his residence.
Unfortunately for him lightning struck it
one day with such power as to totally de-
stroy it NOT 4 Hstanding the knarley charac-
ter of IT, <,ood The darkey looked for a
mo,>sr~'s, and then exc llaimed; "de lightning
s'SS do great tings 20 spoil dat gum tree
~ let him quit ioJrh and try dis darkey's
heau Now let the doughty bow-legged
Postmaster General quit his Dragging about
fast mail lines until he tries his hand on the
Lackawanna & Bloomsburg railroad, as re-
CARDS that business! We will engage to
pick up any one Of dozen bulls in Colum-
bis county who will deliver the North Branch
mails with more regularity and in better
time than that railroad has ever yet done.
What says our nutmeg p. NJ. G.? Is he
ready for another contract?
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

A change cannot be effected in the fna ncial
condition of the country as long as he Re
publican party is permitted to remain in
power. 1t has been fairly tried and has pro-
ven itself incompetent to restore prosp 'rit!
to the country. Let it be no long tru' tod.
Judged by its acts it is worthy of tho sever
eat condemnation. Having abused its power
and utterly failed in all the requirements OF
good government, let it be set aside and the
old party under which the people greatly
prospered, and under whose wise prudent ad-
ministration our country became the wonder
and admiration OF the civilized world, ne
again permitted to take hold of the helm Of
the Ship of State. We are so nea. the rocks
that even the most experienced and watch
ful pilot may not be able to avert the i'm
pending peril. At such time delay or hesi-
tation may prove fatal to the hopes of the
millions who have their all at stake.--Juni-
ata Register.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24
The Right View of II.

The New York Heraid gives utterance to
an important truth when it says "The truth
is that the country is not suffering any long
er from poverty. We have as much actual
wealth as we ever had, for although for the
last two years we have been producing less
of some things we have also been consuming
less.-Many things have been marked down
in value, or rather price, at a shocking rate,
but that is because they were valued too
high before; the things themselves we still
have, and they constitute our real wealth,
irrespective of their money yaluaton.-The
trouble with us is that we are frightened out
of our proprietyi we have senselessly lost
confidence, and we fail to discriminate be-
tween the sound aud the unsound, and like
frightened children stand still and whine,
instead Of getting earnestly to work.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

Ex-Gov- Seymour has written a letter on
the money question to working man in
Pennsylvania, explaining the evil which in
fation brings to the laboring class. He
writes: "Paper money is cheap and makes
society drunk as liquor does an individual,
Then comes the reaction, the delirium tre-
mems. That is the trouble pow in our coun-
try. Business is checked and thousands of
mechanics and laboring men are out of work
and suffering severely in our cities. Every
one can see, if few men had the power to
change the size Of bushel baskets or the
length of yard sticks when they pleased,
that the laborers who buy would be losers.
The same thing is done in effect when the
value of bank bills is changed, for they
measure values just as bushel baskets and
yard sticks measure quantities, There is no
limit to the quantity Of paper which can be
printed and called dollars, but they are not
dollars. The laborng man if he tolls in
fields or workshops should be paid in good
money, not in money which is at a discount
He should get money which has fixed and
certain value. If others, acting upon the
Government or by other means, can change
the value of paper dollars by getting greater
quantities, the laborer will suffer both from
poor money and unsettled business. Itmay
be said the Government must put out cer-
tain quantity and then stop, but the history
of all nations shows that they do not stop put
ting out paper money until they make
nancial crash.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

The latest statistics show that we have in
the United States about $4,000 miles Of rail-
way, with a nominal capital of$4, 200, 900, 1000;
their receipts aggregateing over S5OO,OO
600 amount greatly in excess Of the govern
ment debt and revenue. All this sum is
capable of being controlled and directed by
few men. Or all questions where railroad
interests conflict with the interest of the
public the influence of this wealth is 4 unit
against the people. 1t employs great armies
in operating the various lines of road it is
the best customer of the press it controls
the telegraph lines, has the readiest access
to the public ear, and is the all powerful
abetter or terrible foe to political aspirations.
Many of our laws are made in its interest
and along every line Of railway it keeps in
become our judges, and, having been educa-
ted to view laws relating to railway mat
ters from railway standpoint, naturally in
terpret difficult points in their favor. Mem
bers of the legal profession are often in the lob
by to serve this interest, and instances are not
wanting where representatives of the people,
while holding official positions, accept retain
ers to advocate claims adverse to the rights
of the people.
A railroad corporation is soulless, and yet
immortal wiser thas philosophy, it has found
ina perpetual charterthe elixrof life. When
our fathers abolished the law of primogen-
iture they supposed the country was secure
against the evils Of vast individual wealth
accumulating from generation to generation,
because the certainty of death would bring
the certainty of distribution; but perpet-
ual charter, granted without consideration,
has become a spindle to twist the gossa mer
thread across the chasm Of death All this
vast and constantly increasing wealth isunder
irresponsible control.
A corporation can neither be hung nor
sent to the penitentiary; that is to say, there
is an entire absence Of individual response
bility. Vigorous, alert, all-powerful and
perpetual, it only needs unscrupulous man
ayers to become Il worse tyrant than Nero, a
more dangerous master than Robespierre.-
International ReUiGU.
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THE COLUMBIAN AND

outstanding, on the 1st day of July, 1874
sGl0,000 Of 20 years nix per cent bonds of
said city of the issue of 1868.
-. E.s. LOWE,
J,.1 CITY clerk.
Upon the above testimony the re-settle-
ment Of this account was approved by the
Attorney General and the amount thereof,
uuless paid before the sixty days grace al
lowed have transprcd, will be sued for and
collected, with fines and penalties added by
the Auditor General.
BY the settlement Of Auditor General AL
len on basis of 5000, the State would re-
ceive only $l0S year tax on these bonds,at
the rate of mills on the dollar, but even
this amount was not received, for by mis-
take in computing the interest, ouly S1o.SO
was yearly paid to the Stnto on this large
bonded Indebtedness of Williamsport.
The settlement of Auditor General Temple
on the correct basis, deducting the paltry
sum paid under Allen, shows balance still
due the State of IS 500
General Temple will collect this sum, and
thus recover to the State that out of which
it was defraudcd, shall we say, by the conni-
vance OF his Republican predecessor.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

Gov. ITartranft approved the Hiding Act
of May 9th, 1874, which pnt the Sinking
Fund of the State in the pocket of the State
Treasurer, The people of the State are de-
nicd knowledge of the custody of their
own funds, by virtue of this act, except as a
matter of favor. This law was especially in
tended to make It safe to speculate with the
money of the State by making the parties to
the transaction unknown, the knowledge be-
ing locked up in the breast of a single func-
tionary. A vote for IIartranit and Rawle is
vote to continue this system by endorsing
the Governor who approved it and by elect
ing a new custodian for the public funds
who expects to profit by it.-Pdtriot.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24
Those Walnut Stable Doors.

The Radical papers affect to sneer at the
papers that have exposed the spObbery of
putting Walnut doors on the Governors s
stable, but as the Radical officials have stolen
them and submitted Others, they must have
considered them Of some importance. The
Roman Emperor who raised his horse to the
dignity of Consul of the Empire has been
held up for ages as an example of folly and
a subject of just ridcule and animadversion
for that absurd act, yet Gov Hartrantt's $
Walnut doors and stable carpets are but a
feeble imitation of Caligula's heathen folly.
Perhaps the grandiloquent gentlemen who
explore and exhaust their dictionaries for
terms of abuse to pile upon the humble
Democratic editors who expose Radical
snobbishness will now turn their terrible
batteries upon the historians who have seen
proper to record and denounce the Roman
Emperor's nonsense. We admit that it
savors of the grotesque to resort to the class
les to illustrate Hartranft's folly, but his de-
tenders have rendered that proper.
To such exceedingly sensitive pantalooned
milk-maids as the squeamish prodigy whose
name figures at the masthead of the Milton
ian we commend the eloquent and exhaust
i've poem commencing with
"Dogs delight to bark and bite"
The moral illustrated may not only con-
sole his nerves but also suggest lesson of
gentlemanly propriety and editorial courtesy.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24
Will lie Re Withdrawn?

Should Governor IIartranlt be withdrawn
is the question that is now agitating the
minds of the Radical leaders in this state
Frightened at the dreary prospect of defeat
with him as their candidate, the managers
of that party are considering whether it
would not be advisable to withdraw Hartranit
and unite with the prohibition party upon
Robert Audlcy Brown. Should this be done
then room is to be made for Rawle by the
withdrawal of Pennypacker, and the pro-
hibitionists are to vote for him for state
Treasurer in return for the Radical vote for
Brown.
This arrangement has not yet been com
pleted, but is talked of, and we may look for
some startling movements in this direction
Immediately. The Radical leaders are cvi-
IDENTIFY very badly scared; they feel that
Hartranf is terrible load for them to carry,
and that by abandoning him for the prohi-
bition candidate they will stand better
chance of saving themselves from almost
certain defeat and disorganization. And we
think they are right in this. The junction
of theirfo with those ofthe prohibitionists
would be mastery stroke of policy, and
though it would not save them nor elect the
candidate of their adoption, it would at least
enable them to effect mastery retreat and
retire from the field in good order
To this arrangement, however, there is
one man who will not agree, and that man
is Governor Hartranft himself Nominated
by the Radical convention of last year as a
candidate for the Presidency he would esteem
it death-blow to his hopes in that direc-
tion not to be allowed to carry the banner
of his party in this falls campaign. Hence
he and his friends will fight any such fixing
up of the slate as will crowd him off the
course for Governor. We really do not see
how our Radical friends will manage this
business. If they adhere to Hartranft they
will just as certainly be defeated as the sur
will rise up on the morning Of election; anc
if they do not adhere to him, he will raise {
nest of hornets about their ears.-BeHJoHt
Waterman.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

The Republican press are finding fault
with Mr.. Piollet because some twenty
eight years ago when he was offered bribe
he refused to take the money and exposed
the rascal who sought to buy his vote in the
legislature This action is so inconsistent
with rad ical notions of propriety in the con-
duct of a representative, and involves such
disrespect for the practices in Republican
state and national administration that their
newspapers rake it up again to show the peo-
pie how unfit Mr.. Piollet is for public office.
- pJjrt0I
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

PERsHING AND PGoLLET represent the
popular desire for economical administration,
the equal protection of laborer and employer,
the establishment of q system of free bank
ing, the detection, conviction, and punish
ment of public plunderers, and return to
the pure and simple political faith and prac-
tce of the fathers.
HARTRANFr AND RAwLE reflect the
wishes of the present leaders of the Repub-
lican party to preserve the existing order of
things, under which industry languishes, cap
ital is unemployed, an irredeemable curren-
cy curses the land, and defalcation and pee
ulation plunder government and people.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24
Gov. Hartranft's Extravagance-St

Although our Harrisburg letter relates
mainly to the affairs of the city of Williams
port it is highly illustrative of one of the
means Of pilfering from the State that the
Radical ring practices. This is one case of
thousand or possibly ten thousand. Gov.
Hartranft spent $4,000 in one year fer addi-
tional furniture for the Executive mansion
mainly for snobbish glittcring tinsel, and
this expenditure will be annual if n stop is
not put to it--every week additional cxtray-
agances and stealings are discovered and cX
posed-and these together will soon ran into
millions. For the whole of these Gov.
Hartranft is himself directly responsible, for
it is his duty to see "that the laws are faith
fully executed" No wonder, then, that his
administration costs the State over a million
of dollars annually, while none of his pre-
decessors cost nearly half that sum. Nor is
this sum even q considerable or main por-
ton of what his carelessness, Indifference and
extravaganza costs the State and the people.
The STEALINGS, such as described in the
letter relative to the Williamsport piliering,
areimmense though neither halfnor the fourth
has been told, nor can they ever be fully ex-
posed until there is a total change of State
officers by the substitution of Democratic for
Republican officers. a
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24
To Foreign Advertisers aud Agents.

We regret that there is no possible way Of
reaching the ear Of the whole gang Of news
paper advertisers who propose to pay in
sewing machines, pianos, organs, traps, gin,
scholarships, &c. Many of these scallawags
and cheats even propose money difference
to be paid to them by the publishers, run
ming from ne-fourth to oDe-half. OF course
every reputable publisher consigns these offers
to his waste basket OF course, too, the PARTICLES
offered are worth no more, if so much, as
the money difference demanded, and very
likely will not be sent atall, Any publisher
who suffers himself to be gulled by such ad-
vertisers is q pirate in the profession, who
does himself little or no good but nilicts un-
toldinjury upon his more respectable fellows,
degrades the business, destroys or Injuries
proper and paying advertising, and directly
attacks the business Of honorable agents.
No wonder swindlers flourish when publish
ers thus stupidity become their agents and
tools.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

To have had honest State treasurers for the
not less than twenty millions of dollars to
the State of Pennsylvania. By this we
mean that if the surplus moneys Of the
Treasury had been used as honest Treasures
accruing to the Commonwealth would not
have been less than the sum we have named.
If Rawle is elected, the system 50 long in
vogue and so damaging, will be perpetuated.
The Treasury Ring would rather see Hart
ranft than Rawlc defeated, ard some of them
do not hesitate to declare themselves to that
effect.-Phid Chronicle
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

The Philadelphia Press thinks it is very
small in the Democratic journals to find fault
with Hartrauft's carpet bill of thirteen hun
dred dollars. How then is it about the ex-
penses at the gubernatoral mansion in two
years time for fixtures and furbelows am
ounting to over fifteen thousand dollars? q?
Gov. Hartranfts mansion cost the State more
in two years than Gov. Curtin's salary for
three years. Gov. Hartranft's clerk and
messenger hire costs the State more per year
than the whole yearly salary of Gov. Packer
and the salaries of all the officers of the cx-
ecu!ve department including clerks and
messengers. Are these things proper sub
jects of newspaper comment ?-H0aeSdale
Herald
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

The famous "Geghan law" simply gives
the clergy of one sect opportunity to minis
ter to the spiritual comfort of persons of their
own faith in the pententiares and other re-
formatory institutions. A law almost iden-
tical in object and phraseology passed the
Minnesota Legislature several years ago by
nearly unanimous vote, and thus far there
are no complaints of its operation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

Since old "Father Hunt" is dead the Re-
publican papers announce that he is to take
the stump for Hartranft We don't know
where he is and don't believe there are
stumps in either of the places where he must
be, but at any rate he will not be about this
potato patch to make speeches for any body.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24
California Golden Victory.
The following is given as the full vote in
California, viz:
Irwin, Democrat. ..... ........ Gl,625.
Phelps, Republican ,BO922.
BldeMell, independent. ........ ......... 2g.G3O.

CallOfnla, VIZ:
IRWIN, DtulocIhl' '..,. ,Gl,b4b.
ihelps, hepuDllcan .BOVl2.
Bldewell, Independent t..,.,,.,..,.......,2 29.G3O,
1t will be seen that Irwin has nearly two
to one over the Republican candidate and a
majority of nearly 1000 over the combined
vote of his opponents. For several years
past the Republican majorities ranged from
5000 to 10000, and at the last Presidential
vote Gen. Grant had over 1900 majority.
The vote polled at this election was the lar
gest ever cast in the State
Full returns show that the Legislature
stands as follows: Senate, % Democrats, 5
Independent Democrats, Republicans, 0
Independents; Assembly, GO Democrats,
Independent Democrat, IL Republicans, 7
Independents, and one seat tie between the
Democratic and Independent candidates in
Yuba. The Democrats have 4 majority in
the Senate and 20 majority in the House.,
over all others combined.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

Edward McPherson who has lost his oc-
cupation as clerk of the popular branch of
Congress in consequence of the Democratic
preponderance in that body, recently made
Republican speech in Berks county, and
the Philadelphia Press says there were 5000
people present The local Republican papers
say there were from 400 to 500. Different
people will vary greatly in estimating a
large assembly, but the statement of the
Press in this instance looks like square ly-
inc
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

Hon. w. II. Armstrong, of Williamsport,
is an ingenious lawyer, and it is announced
that he is going to undertake the exploit of
Standing on the Erie platform and speaking
for the Lancaster nominees. That will lie
an intellectual straddle that will either spoil
consistency or split statesmau.-P Patriot.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

The disgusting phrase applied by some of
the city press to Judge Pershiug, "the Til
den of Pennsylvania" should be taken for
what it is, piece of city sap. Judge Persh-
ing is no counterfeit, no follower or imitator,
but an independent honest MAN, the superior
of Tilden or any other New Yorker. As
Governor he will lead in the straight way of
economy and gooi Democratic government
with manly courage and bold power
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

The Republicans elect their Governor in
Maine after hard fought contest, by per-
haps little over 1900 majority, where they
formerly had from $4,000 to 10000. They
save themselves in the Legislature by =
small majority in each house, which they used
to carry almest unanimously, the Democrats
not having members enough to form re-
spectacle committee. That tidal wave will
sweep Maine into the Democratic ranks next
year
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

Gov. Hartranft is splurging around the
country at military parades, ordered by sub
ordinatcs at his command. Judge Pershing
is quietly discharging his public duties. The
people pay the bills. Which is the deserving
man?
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

Up in Bradford they have Democratic,
Republican, Prohibition and Anti-Secret-
Soc ETY. county tickets in the field. "Iou
paysyourmoncy and you takes your choice 70
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24
Mann and lIartranft.
A STRUGGLE FOR PLUMBER.

The Bellefonte lpdtchman says that an ex-
animation of the State Treasurers reports
show that William b. Mann received the
following amounts out of the State Treasury
for examining foreign insurance companies
These figures are official and cannot be de-
MED
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

A Political change in Pennsylvania pro-
portionate to that in Maine will give Persh-
ing and Piollet a majority of fifty thousand,
All the signs are propitious.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

DIR. Browne, Rev. ID. @. Babcock and others
are claiming no little attention from the
Republican press. The shoe is pinchipg -
temperance Pindsdtov.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

The latest adyices from Ohio are exceedingly
encouraging. From every part of the State
come words of glad greeting, The California
election added not less than ten thousand votes
to Gov, Aliens majority,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

Hcndrick b. Wright has been appointed
chairman of the Democratic State executive
committee.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

A STEAL or 5000 AND MORE or THE PEo-
PLE's MONEY. EX-AUDlTOR GENERAL
ALLEN WITH his "FINGER IN Tue PIE"
THE FRAUD EXPOSED BY HIS DEMOCRAT
&c SUCCESSOR.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

To the Auditor Gen, Of the State Of Psnna -
/ hereby certify that ii appears by the re-
port Of the city auditors of the city of Will
Transport, for the year 1873, on file in the
Mayors Office of said city, that there were