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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15
Pennsylvania Board of Centennia! Managers

Responding to q suggestion of the United
States Centennial Commission, that the his
tory, resources and capabilities of the several
States might be fifty demonstrated through
meetings and addresses on the Exposition
Grounds, Governor Hartranft, has set apart
Thursday, the 2sth day of this month, for
an assemblage OF the People of this Com
monwealth, and has named, as the orator
for the occasion, the Honorable Benjamin
Harris Brewster, gentleman whose admit
ted ability sttests the wisdom of his selection.
A committee has been appointed to ar
range details. The Centennial Commission
have promised that every feature and ap-
pointnent of the Exposition will be rendered
ny complete and attractive aspossible on the
day named, and assurances have been re-
ceived from prominent Railroad officials that
ample facilities for travel will be furnished
at reduced rates. As soon as the arrange
ments have been completed, these rates will
be made public, and nothing will be left un-
done to make the occasion desirable time
to visit the Exhibition.
1t is source of just pride to Pennsylvani.
sns that the great event,so happily commem-
Grated by the International Exposition,
occurred in Philadelphia and on Pennsylva-
MIA soil. But the historic period which fol-
lowed it so closely, specially commends itself
to our grateful recollection and observance.
The day which has been set apart will be the
One Hundreth Anniversary Of the signing OF
our first State Constitution. Pennsylvania,
at the commencement of the Revolution, was
mere province. Eleven days after the
Declaration of Independence was promul-
gated, the representatives of the People con-
vened in this City, and, under the presidency
Of Benjamin Franklin, undertook the for
nation of new government. They COM
pleted their labors on the 2Sth day of Sep
tember, 1776, by adopting Constitution
which abolished all Proprietary authority.
asserted the sovereignty of the People, and
solemnly dedicated our State to Freedom and
Independence.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15
The War in Servia.

BELGRADE, September l2.-Ollicial dis
patches say there was severe fighting on Sum
day and Monday between belgrade and
Alexinatz in consequence of the Turks at
tempting to throw bridge across the Morava
They were unsuccessful This movement
indicates that the Turks despair of taking
Alexinatz by direct attack, and are seeking
to get to the rear of its fortified lines. The
Servian garrison at Alexinalz numbers only
6, 4O0 men, but the Turks need the place as
base of operations against belgrade and
for the preservation of their communication
with Nisch. Horvatovich, with IL 900 men,
has retired from Granada and joined Tcher-
nayeff at belgrade. Yesterday they gained
the Turkish rear, south of Djunis, when a
combined attack was made on the Turks by
the two generals. The fight ceased at night.
fall without a decisive result, and was re-
newed to-day. No later advices have been
received. Nothing is known here respecting
peace negotiations. Popular feeling still
iavors a continuance of the war in prefer.
ence to accepting humiliating terms of peace
--HitadeIphia Times.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15
r.. L. GRISwOLD, A M, M. D. Principal

All honor to General Joe Hooker, when
the band played GAS we go Marching
Through Georgia." at the Centennial Cali
fornia Celebration, on Saturday last, he was
asked how he liked it, and replied, mot at
all. My war feelings were buried when we
signed the treaty of peace" This sentiment
deserves to be remembered, and it would be
well if it couldsfnd an echo in the breast OF
every officer and soldier who served in the
Federal armies during the late civil war.
The trouble is ti;at their war feelings in most
cases, are yet in full blast and it is the aim
of their Radical masters to keep them so.
General Hooker is brilliant exception to
this rule, and his example should carry
great weight with his late companions in
arms. The time for war feelings has gone
by, and each citizen should strive to forget
| that they ever existed.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15
What Mr.. Tilden Has Done.

During the past eighteen months Gov.
Tilden has originated and carried through
measures that have reduced our canal expen-
ditures at the rate of two and half millions
of dollars annually. Besides this he has in
itiated a line policy that has exposed and
broken up chronic system Of frauds where
by the State Tor years past, has been robbed
of large amounts of its canal revenues. He
has set at defiance aud driven cut of the field
a horde of contractors who had been long
accust omed to do work on the canals that
was either not needed at all or was performed
at rates ruinous to the State lie has care
fully watched the proceedings of the Legis-
lature and his warning voice has frightened
away many jobbers, while by his vetoes he
has in two sessions reduced the appropria-
tons Tor general purposes about million of
dollars. And during his term of Office, and
mainly because of his measures, the State
taxes have been cut down nearly one half
~ Y. Sun.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15
PLAIN WORDS TO DEMOCRATS.

From the time of Jefferson to 1860, as a
rule, the Democrats were united on candi-
dates and policy, and the result was success,
economy, and good government. or late
years the Republican leaders have become so
corrupt, that the party suffered overwhelm-
ingly defeat in 1874. The result has been
retrenchment and reform,-a saving to the
people of the nation of $50, 900 ,000,-an
equal amount in states won by the Demo.
Gratis, and peace and order wherever they
have the guidance of political affairs.
This revolution was not accomplished by
the Democrats alone, but they were aided by
the independent voters who formerly had
acted with the Republican party. In fact,
since 1856, the Democratic vote in this State
has not been poled. The reason has been
apathy, differences of opinion as to platform
and candidates, and lack of organization
In Columbia county alone, although last year
we had over 2l00 majority, at least 1000
Democrats were at home 1t is also mat
ter OF fact that the men who do the least for
success, whine the most over defeat.
In this Presidential year we have the most
brilliant chances of victory. The ticket and
platform are admirable. We have the pres
tige of success. The recent elections have
given us states heretofore Republican and
after a desperate fight they sustained terri
bic loss in Vermont
But it is time for action. Speeches, docu.
ments, and committees are useful, but it
rests with the people themselves to make a
thorough organization. A start must be
made, and then let all work in harmony
Every voter should be classified, each school
district organized every doubtful voter con.
verted, and by all means every Democratic
voter should be at the polls.
If the people desire honest government,
economy, reform, and wise legislation, they
must act, and do 30 promptly; and then
neither patronage, campaign lies, nor corrup-
tion funds will avail our opponents.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15
Mnsie RaH Tillnn

TRENTON, N. j., September l2.-Thc
State Democratic Electoral Convention as.
sembled in Taylor Opera House at noon to-
day and WAS called to order by w. D. Ship
pen, of Hudson. Ex-Governor Parker was
made permanent chairman, after which Sen
ator Bayard, Of Delaware, was introduced.
His speech WAS lengthy, but characterized
by nose tLaa usual elo9aeaoe and yigor
Afses referring 10 the tune when, haadrea
yoars ago, Mo sous Of New Jersey aud Della
ware claspea hands ia tAis city and faugh.
shoulder to shoulder in the war Cor indpeasi-
ence, he advanced at once TO o consideration
Of the political issues Of the day. .5.ll
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15
READ AMI PONDER.

Col. Mcclure, an Independent Republi
can, oloqucntIy writes
There must DC peaee 10 bring .frithIess rulers
10 accountability. Eight years ago the nation
declared for lasting peace. Peace was the
slogan that rallied the people to the support
of the hero of Appomattox; and they re-
joiced as he taught peace by dividing his
highest honors with the Confederate warrior,
Longstreet, the Confederate Senator Orr, the
Confederate soldier and iurist Akerman, and
many others of lesser note For nearly
eight years President Grant has been en-
powered to strengthen peace throughout the
land. lie had every department of the gov
crnment in political sympathy with himself,
and ample authority to enforce his mandates.
lie had Senators obedient TO his will on par
tisan issues, and he and they had but to en-
force honesty and maintain law, and peace
would have been supreme. But ambition
bred debauchery debauchery begat disorder
and crime, and violence was summoned to
defend the disturbers of the peace and to
punish those who pleaded for government
anu iohiShN1 anu EINSN bNNuhS WV
painfully prominent attributes of political
power, and throughout its countless streams
decentralization spread withering blight.
And now the authority that has been charged
with the peace of the nation for eight years,
is brought before the great tribunal of the
American people for judgment of approval
or condemnation. If there is not peace, it
must answer for it. If it has rejected peace,
il must be execrated and overthrown, for the
people created it in the love of peace and
will not accept discord and hate as its offer
ing. They are sick at heart of sectional
strife. In their extreme distress and embar-
rassment and want they ask some other gar
lands of eight years of trust, than the fam
ing wreath of a divided and resentful people,
and they will demand peace that they may
take an account of their stewards. In vain
will Cameron train his guns and marshal his
cleaning bayonets in the contest, and idle
will be the bloody shirt defamation of Nor
| ton and Conkling and Blaine and Fitzpatrick
as they hauut the banner of endless hate be-
fore people who long for fraternity, that
| they make united effort, over the graves of
the dead and the passions Of long-ended
strife, for common prosperity and common
brotherhood. Federal and Confederate, with
the distinction eilaced by the sword, look
out through appalling misrue for some re-
lief from the universal distress that besets
them, and they demand peace that they may
restore to prosperity the country they have
made illustrious in the fame of battle
There must be peace; and in peace, and for
peace, North and South will enter the solemn
Centennial judgment of the Republic in be-
half of Honesty, Liberty and Law.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15

South CAROLINA and Florida are hope
lessly in the control of the negroes. They
manage the courts, they alone make up he
rank and file OF the militia, they alone have
the right to bear arms, and the State govern
ment is in their hands. And YET United
States troops are to be sent to these States to
assist at the elections, it is said, at the in
stance of the famous carpet-bagger, Senator
Patterson. II is q notorious fact that regis
tration is so loose that the Democrats of the
city of Charleston fnd it useless to 60 TO the
polls any desired majority can always be
figured against them. Does Mr.. Cameron
mean that tho Republicans shall have the
opportunity to return the votes so as To
prevent any possibility of = Democratic sue
cess anywhere p PAiladeiphia Times
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15
$50, ,OO0, 900 Saved BY Democratic Con gress

Thirty millions in round figures is the
amount saved the people in the shape of
expense by the Democratic Congress. This,
in Republican estimation, is, of course, a
very Insignificant sum. 80 accustomed has
that party been to squandering the public
money, but to the people at large it is large
amount Of money. Had there been on the
part of the Senate disposition to retrench,
instead of thirty at least sixty millions an
nually could readily have been saved. But
the Republican majority in that body was in
no such mood. 1t stood up stoutly for con-
tinued extravaganza and burdensome taxa
ton, and we desire that this fact shall be
deeply impressed on the minds of all who
are signing for better times. Better times
will come only when better men are at the
head Of the Government, and when economy
and prudence supplant recklessness and ex.
travagance and dishonesty in the use of the
public money. If Tilden had been Presi-
dent instead Of Grant, and the Senate Dem
ocratic instead OF Republican, the amount Of
administrative retrenchment would have
been not less than sirty millions annually, OIL
enough to pay nearly one-half of the inter
est OF the National debt. Such facts neeG
no comment. They tell their own story anc
| carry their own moral. l.-PhRd. Chronicle.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15
LET us HAVE PEACE |

The following from McClures Times, an
independent paper is pungent and TO the
point
There must be peace for reform Corruption
holds high carnival in the fountains of pow
or, national, State aud municipal. II has
pcrmeatcd everywhere. Like the unseen mi
asma that in,ensibly saps the life of its vic
Tins, 1t has coursed its way into every tenn
pic Of authority into our social system
into our business channels, and even the al
tar Is almost daily taught its pollution. 1t
stains the Grant administration from the
highest TO the lowest of its dependents, and
its chief leaders recoil from the severe cru
chile n suffering people would demand Tor
them. We have reached the descent OF what
was once digniied and honorcd authority,
where to be honest is to be driven from trust
and with the approval of the first legislative
tribunal of the nation. We see the most re-
spOnsible gifts of the administration dispens.
ed rs rewards for faithlessness to law and
successful resistance to Justice. We see great
Commonwealth in the South given up as
the prey of thieves and adventurers; their
elections perverted by riotous mockeries of
the will of the people, and the President,
the Senate and the army exhausting their
powers TO give victory to usurpers and to
plunderers. We SEQ troops ostentatiously
thrown upon peaceable communities on the
threshold of national election, to invite
the cunning of the lawless to provoke disor-
der that the innocent may be disiranchised
and punished. We see carpet-baggers who
would not be trusted within sight of a vii
lage, monuments of nations shame in the
United States Senate, and crawling into
Gubernatorial chairs in defiance Of popular
defeats, and guarded by every department
of the government as if they were the jew.
els of freedom. We see corruption surging
unchallenged about the very throne itself;
the strong arm of power reached out to stay
the avenging blow of justice, and the few
faithful public servants who labored to assert
the majesty of the law, striped for their de-
votion, DETAINED for their integrity and dis.
mantled of their authority. We see great
States in the North grinding in the prison
houses of corrupt leaders, who have usurped
the party machinery and made themselves
masters Of the people. The honors of the
State have been bartered to the most accom-.
plished in political infamy, and the substance
of the taxpayers has been perverted to pee
ulation and debauchery. And we see great
cities as great sores on the body politic-pol.
| luting the ballst, degrading official trust,
and giving consuming waste and debt and
taxation as the logical fruits of their gov.
ernments. There must be peace for reform.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15

The New York Express brings rather
serious charge against its neighbor, the
Times, to wit that in its campaign supple
ment, now being circulated through the
eastern states, the Times describes Governor
Tilden's hard money professions as a Snare
and delusion," while in western edition
of the same supplement especially prepared
for Indiana and Ohio, these words are
omitted, and Governor Tilden is described
~ "the hardest of bard money men,"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15

The st. Louis Globe Ds@Oordt is one o
those papers which are continually raising
hohgoblins with whieh il hopes to frighten
people from voting for Tilden and Reform
Amongst other bosh that from time TO time
appears in its columns, was the assertion
that in the event Of Gov, Tilden's election,
soathern war claims would be paid where
upon the Chicago Times thus happily ridi-
cules the Globes fears:
'The st. Louis Globe is troubled lest the
southern war claims should be paid, tgives
a catalogue Of filed claims. ". 4. CaH
waA.s.' Marsha Psrkes wants. etc. ete.uu
But people dont always gel what tney want.
There Is the editor af ,hs eiOAs. lie wants
10 get Oat Of Jail, bnt he's there yes.It sl.a..
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15

The Republican papers are traducing both
Tilden and Hendricks and using all the epi-
thets that they can invent, as well as coming
all the canards about both that their ingenu-
ity can suggest, and then turn around and
charge Democrats with making personal
attacks upon eminent men because they have
shown up the frauds of Belknap, Shepherd,
Robson, Babcock and the Washington
Ring.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15

In 1874 the Republicans carried the states
Of Vermont and Maine by nearly the same
majorities rs this year, the former by up
wards OF 10000 and the latter by $4,000, but
Ohio and Indiana started tho tidal wave
which swept the former Republican states of
Wisconsin, California, Massachusetts, and
Pennsylvania from their moorings and ear
red Samuel j. Tilden into the goyernorship
of New York by 90, 900 majority. The tidal
wave has not been rolled back even in Maine
"HOw is this I"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15
MnnaY and RInah.

What should be thought Of candidate
for the Presidency of the United States who
would receive so Infamous letter as the
following, written by one of the leading
hired orators of his party, and not rebuke it.
AS will be seen by the name appended to
this precioue epistle, it was written by that
prince of demag0gues, General Fitzpatrick,
and addressed to Rutherford b. Hayes, the
Presidential nominee of the Cincinnati Re-
publican Convention
"DEAR SIR The leaders of the Inde-
pendents are poor, needy, and in debt they
must be lectured t,, documents be placed in
their hands, that they may be convinced of
their folly. a bloody shirt campaign aOah
NANCY and Indiana Is sdy5 Il financial CAM
paign and no money and we are beaten.
your friend, j. Fitzpatrick.
"To II, b. Hayes, Governor, ETC."
Gov. Hayes has not either rebuked the
writer or disavowed the internally mischlev-
Gus sentiment of the letter. Klpat rick is
still on the stump in Indiana, and the
reasonable inference is that he has received
the money. Morton has furnished the
bloody shirt quota, from which Fitzpatrick
and similar paid hireliugs are drawing copi-
ously.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15
REFORM IN PHILADELPHIA.

At a recent banquet given recently by the
Republican Msyor Of Philadelphia. at the
public expense, SS 900 were spent for liquors,
and the Pilgrim crowd got glorious!y drunk.
While the poor are suffering in all quarters,
the Republican leaders are wasting The sub
stance Of the people in orgies like this
LET US HAVE A CHANGE
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15

There Is nothing particularly disconrag-
ing for the Democrats ia tho recent elections,
Arkansas and Alabama count I6 electors
for Tilden and Hendricks against ~ for
Hayes aud Wheeler in Verm0nt and Maine.
On the popular vote the Democratic majority
iu the four states would be about tny
THOUSAND. 1.l D
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15

The Chicago Times asserts that if the
election in Indiana were to take place now
"Blue Jeans" "Williams," the Democratic
candidate, would be elected by from $4,000
to 10000 majority. How much his majority
will be on election day the Times is afraid
to predict
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15

LANCASTER, ONO, Sept. 9.-While the
Republicans were raisinga pole this even
ing, two hundred and fifty feet high, the rope
broke and the pole fell, killing Charles
Drinkle, George Fink and Charles Huffman.
Several others were wounded.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15

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HON. ]. HlXARn REACH.

The nomination of Mr.. Beach for Senate
by the Democrats of Wayne was judcious
act, and should be concnrred in by Susque-
hanna county. His ability and integrity
was'proved by.scrvice and votes in the Legis-
ia ure OF 1923, and his popularity at home
and abrod IL admitted.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15

Twenty four destitute widows and City
orphaned children made SO by the Custer
massacre are nov at Fort Lincoln. They
need the results of tho arst contributions
from sympsibizing cilizens. m
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15
How TO Vanquish the StOmach's TOrmen-
tOp

If the Enemy of mankind was permitted
to exert his diabolical ingenuity in the in
vention of new disease, he could scarcely
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dyspepsia. The dyspeptic sufferer is tormen-
ted by symptoms resembling those of almost
every known malady, and is often worried
into monomania by these conflicting and
perplexng manifestations, fav tie
though absurd hallucination Of the victim
of chronic indigestion is that lie or she has
heart disease. Dyspepsia has often been
pronounced incurable, but experience has
shown that Hostetter's stomach Bltters Will
vanquish it, together with the constipation
and bilious arrangement which usually ac-
company it. Diseases of the kidneys and
supposed rheumatic pains are also frequent
concomitants of dyspepsia, but they, too,
succumb to the above named invaluable cor
rectivc. September i'm.