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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05
The War Claims Business of Con.
greSS,
COME INA BRIEF SUMMING UP OF THEIR
NUMBER AND AMOUNT.
From the Washington Correspondence of the
Boston Daily Advertiser.)

From the Washington Correspondence of the
| Boston Daily Advertiser.)
In the last letter from the Washing
ton correspondent of the Daily Adver-
tiser on the subject of war claims, it
was stated that up to the Dist of Feb
ruary three hundred and seventy-one
bills Exclusive of the large number of
pension bills), growing directly out
of war damages, had been introduced
in Congress, and that two hundred and
thrty-tour of this number were for the
relief of Southern claimants, involv-
ing appropriations to the aggregate
amount OF $3,377.2ll.09. Since the
eighty-four bills have been added to
the three hundred and seventy-one.
making six hundred and fifty five. OF
these additional bills, eighteen are of
a general nature, relating almost ex-
clusively however, to the adjustment
of Southern claims; sixteen are for
the payment of claims of Northern
parties to the amount of $5s.703 81 /;
twenty five are for the reference Of
Southern claims to the claims COM
mission or to the court of claims, the
estimated amount being $40, 900 !;
sixteen are for the payment of cotton
claims to the amount of $46l ,656 Is !;
and the remainder, two hundred and
nine, provide for the payment of mis-
cellaneous individual Southern claims
to the amount of 81 ,9s6, 933.2S. To
sum up all together, there are fifty
eight bills of general nature, nearly
every one of which is designed to ia
ciitate the adjustment and payment
of war claims of Southern citizens.
seventy-one providing for the payment
of Northern claims to the amount of
s., 5S5, 636.0S; forty-nine referring
Southern claims to the claims commits
sion or the court of claims, the esti-
mated amount involved being $780,
600; thirty-four to pay for cotton
claims exclusive of so-called tax-re-
funding bill) to the amount of 81 ,23l,-
Csc. Is, and four hundred for the pay
ment of individual Southern claims Of
a miscellaneous character, amounting
to $4,076,2l023 This shows the to-
tai number of Southern relief bills of
all kinds introduced during the ses-
sion to be four hundred and
eighty-three, and the amount of
money involved, 80. .S66.3S.
In addition to these II the cotton
tax refunding bill, amounting
to SOS 900 900. AMI the several
regular bills to pay the awards of the
quartermaster-general, the Treasury
department, and the claims commits
sion, which swell the requisition upon
the Treasury by about a million dol
lars.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

The Ellsworth American says: "In Els
sworth the tide has turned and every day
sees new accessions to the republican par
ty. The Hayes and Wheeler Club are do
ing noble service and recruiting is daily
going on. Honest men are joining their
ranks every day, and are becoming sick
and Disguised with the reform cries of
Office seekers and men who denounced
the ''boys in blue"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05
The Voting Lists.

Let every republican voter see to it in
season that his own name stands properly
upon the voting list. Also see that the
names of all new voters are added. Let
no republican vote be lost by mistakes or
omissions in regard to the voting lists.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05
The DOlitical Situation in tho E;c,b hi;

The political situation in the Fifth Dis
trict never looked better. Mr.. Hale will
undoubtedly be elected by as large ma
jority as he ever had. Washington Coun-
ty expects to give him five or six hundred
majority. The fifth District has reason to
be proud OF her representative. No man
better understands the wants of the Dis
trict, or the political tuation.-Machias
Republican.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

Every republican voter should be sure
and east his vote for the republican
ticket on Sept. nth. Be sure and be at
home on that day. Every vote is necessary.
Make Thorough preparations to have
absent repub lean tiers at home on the
day VI election. II is OF gr. al importance
10 attend TO his at 0nCe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

They (The frsmers of the Constitution
LEFT fevOBUtiOa Organized WHENEVER II
shOuln be demanGed by the public pin.
len n state LEFT II wi b pow 10 SNAP
TIE lie Uf confederation as a nation m Oh
break treaty, and 70 REPEL COERC. On
6 nation might REPEL INvA Ion.
s.. y. 1ltdef, in 1860.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

The Portland Press says that in Turner,
in 1872 there were thirty republicans who
voted for Kimball and Greeley. This year
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

From this time on it is stern chase for
the democracy. The campaign has be-
come aggressive" but not in the way
Mr.. Tlden expected. Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

Now that the issues in New York have
been decided, there will be no more COM
plants of dulness in the canvass The
old republican enthusiasm is already in
the air, aud the democrats can truthfully
exclaim with Ben Hill They've got US
again -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05
Bring out Every Voter.

Bring out the last republican to the
polls. There should be no stay at-homes
in this election.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

Not one cent. II Is a black republican
war and black republicans may cot the
bills. They'll z t enough of 1t before
they get through can tell you.
John G. Talbot, in 1861.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05
STAY at Homo to Vote.

Don't leave home to be gone on election
day. 1t is duty which every man should
perform to 60 to the polls and vote. If you
pair off you may be cheated.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05
Brief Records of Hayes and Tilden

HAYES RECORD. TILDENs RECORD.
A staunch Unionist A rebel sympathlzer
with wounds to prove it. Friend of Bill Tweed.
An honest man. Morrissey's right bow
The twice elected Gov err.
ernor of one of the larg- Swindler OF railroad
est Common-wealths in corporations.
the Uuion. Defrauder OF the UoV'
eminent.
Perjurer.
Democrat.
(The above are negative T'The above are some oil
0nalities according TO Mr.. Tilden's positive
democratic oroans) reform qualities. Fol
proof see court dockets
internal revenue returns
and his own writings
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05
The Democratic Debt.

Parson Brownlow respectfully remarks and In
qnires:
"The national debt is, for the most part, a dem
ocratic debt; and if the principle of indemnify
insisted upon in the late Franco German war hao
been carried out in closing up their repellon, !,
would not have been the people OF the Cniteo
States but the rebel democracy that would nave
had to paw that debt. What right have liiaeh
and Hendricks both syn1pathizcrs with reoeiilon,
to arraign the party which saved the Union ~,
lowing taxes to pay the interest on the nationai
debt and make annual reductions from Inc primer
pal? 1t is not those who pay, but those VINO
make debts that should be arraigned.
The following are samples Of the Jokes respect
ing Mr.. Tilden's income tax trouble gong the
rounds of the Republican press:
H'Do'Rs DEMOCRATIC NATL COMMITTEE
NEW YORK, AUGUST 80, 1870.
To S. J. T: e. -
Dear Sir-Please inform us for the penent OF
our campaign speakers when you hrst enlereu up
on your noble work of retrenchment. give Us
~ 'dota as no.r 90 nossible HEwETT.
'AN ALBANY, Aug 81, '76.
Hewitt Chm. sc. , ,
Dear Sir-Yours Of the 30th inst. received:
began the work alluded to as far back as iooz
lie tding off by retrenchng my income OF glv ,1
O0O-be the same more or iess-down 10 Sbiio
See nv income return of that year.
Yours, S. j. L.
SJT-Your contribution to the conscience
fund on income tax account, has not yet been re-
ceiyed at the United States treasury. Hurry II
along People are beginning to talk.- Wdshmg
ton Star
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

democratic campaign ora or, Gen.
Iousg. sp~ak,Hg ed day al Cent -
vile. q -. sad SIT is an &c, Of g'eat r.
sra auce 70 permit u republican 10 iesi-e
in the SOUTH"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

We have got the State; we know how
we got il; we k"Ow how to keep il, and
we are going to keep il without regard to
MercurU.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

While Hayes was fighting to preserve
the Unien, TIlden was byperjury defraud-
ing the Government out Of the tax II levied
10 support its defenders.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

Vicksburg, Miss, Aug. 29.-Ex-Sfnator
Pease OF this Ntate was rOtten.egged hire
last night while delivering republican
speech. The meeting Was broken up IN
hlsO, der.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS IN som.
ERSET.

GEN JAMES A. HALL of Damariscotta, and
DUDLEY w. MOOR, ESQ, of Waterville, will
speak follows
St. Adams, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2 +. NJ
Hartland, 5, 7.30
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

Hon. Z. F. WEBB of Waterville, and OR
WILLIE d. BAKER, ESQ, Of Augusta, will speak
at
Mercer Village, Tuesday, Sept. 6-evening
Norridgewock, Wednesday, "
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05
PROGRAMME OF SALE.

The welknown Mai. Chisam FARM. consisting
needs no recommendations it will show for ITSELF
Bay Mare, in foai by Thayer's Knox, years old /;
sound and kind IN harness.
Brown horse Colt, by Thayer's Knox; foaled
April 18th.
Gray Mare, years oil sound and kind In har.
Black Oily Colt folled April 3D..
Bay Mare, known as the Delaney Mare.
Black Horse; kind in all harness. A good fair
driver and good worker.
Bay Horse; kind, and sound except a blemsh in
one eye; good worker.
lyear-old Colt dam. the Webb Mare; sire,
Thayer's Knox.
Colt year old in Augu.t; sired by Thayers
Knox; dam, Delaney Mare.
3-year old horse-Colt, by Beacon, he by Volun-
teer; dam, Tar River
2year.old horse-Colt. by Lothair
l-year. old (horse), bv Lothair.
lyear.oli Filly, by Lothian.
Durham and Ayrshire Cow. years ODD spitn.
did COW.
Red Durh am p,it blood Cow, years old.
Dolly Jersey. splendid COW.
Lily, years old, from Dolly by full-blood Jersey
bull.
Kitty, years old, from Lily by full blood Jersey
bull.
Dot, jersey Calf ON Dolly by full blood Jersey.
Red Cow, years old a good IN lker.
Jersey Calf, months old.
Sow, with 8 pigs weeks cd
Chester Boar.
Five sows with pig. WILDE sold separate.
Buckeye Mower double horse.
Woods Mower, for two horses.
Farm Wagon and Hay Rack.
Dump Cart.
Pair of arm Harnesses.
Lot OF Farming Tools -Ploughs Harrows, Rakes,
Forks, &c.-too mum rous 10 mention.
Set of Back-mounted Light Harnesses, with
Collars and Hames.
augs5 III
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

~ m per day at home. Samples WORT
Name mar3.t&wlY
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

"This war is a perfect outrage. and l
will lend no assistance TO Its pr0seeu Ion.
Samuel j. Islden
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

81 am sorry that laid down my arms
in 1865; | am In favor OF zee Slav ng
the n gro, and, II that cannot be d ne at
once, my idea is t. adOpt n pla' Will h
l W uld deprive the egrO OF education |
piivi eses; Nv uld pi y him low wages /:
! would prey him from acquir ny real
es ate: / would depr We him of "rms,
stock, a d agricul ural i'm.
Zcbeioa Von,e Of North Car.
~ mn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

ORvILLE D. BAKER will speak at
Pittston Village, Friday Sept 8,-evening
Clinton Village, Saturday, ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

81 would prefer to go into this war, If
! knew was To die, or be killed In the
course Off, rather han i've through and
after II wit. out taking any part In IT,"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05

Hon. NELSON DINGLEY, JR., and Hon
JOHN L. STEVENS will speak at
Hallowell Friday, Sept. S,-evening
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-05
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS IN KEN.


GEN. JAMES A. HALL Of Damariscotta, and
DUDLEY w. MOOR, ESQ.,, Of Watervle, will
speak IS follows;
Albion, Wednesday, Z. M, Sept ..
China village, 7.3O &.
Windsor, Thursday, " Z.
Weeks Mills, Thursday, 730 e Z.
Hon. NELSON DINGLEY, JR., and OR
VILE d. BAKER, ESQ.,, will speak at North
Vassalboro', Thursday evening, Sept. 18th.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-03
CHEYENNE MARKETS..

Groceries, Grain. Provisions, Etc.
Corrected weekly by whipple d Hay, Whole
sale and Retail 0rocers and Commission
Merchants.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-03
ILLITERACY

in New York, the legal popular majori-
ties of those States.
In the South the violence and fraud
was even notorious and fragrant,
and the pretended popular majorities
even greater cheats. The election, in
deed, was simply an infamous and
bloody farce; it was no election. In the
States of Georgia, Kentucky, Arkansas,
Tennessee, Texas, etc., with the State
governments and all the machinery of
election under the control of the Con-
federates, no Republican organization
or canvass was permitted, and the pre-
tended popular majorities returned are
simply the handiwork of their return
ing boards or State officers. In North
Carolina the Republicans carried the
State by a handsome majority on the
legal vote. The returns show that their
candidates polled a heavier vote than
was ever before polled by any party in
the State, but the ballot-box stufing in
the Vance counties DISTINGUISHES the le-
gal popular majority in the State. In
Alabama and Mississippi crime rioted
in all manner of deviltry. In the two
States, both confessedly Republican by
at least sixty OF seventy thousand votes,
the pretended Democratic majorities
reach S0,000; and as in Mississippi and
Alabama, SO by systematic intimida-
ton, through organized violence and
blood, they desperately attempted to
wrest South Carolina, louisiana and
Florida, from their legal Republican
~majorities. Hence, if we strike from Til
denis poll the majorities thus obtained
through gigantic fraud. he has not car
ried six of the seventeen States claimed
for him, and he stands in an immense
minority of the legal popular vote, ashe
does in the representation of the wealth
and intelligence of the nation.
The infamous and violent fraud, in
the form of an election just closed, has
no parallel in the history of free govern
ment. In 1861 the Democratic rebel
lion was, by force of arms, to destroy
the Union, to blot out the Republic
from the family of nations, and to erect
an oligarchy, based upon negro slavery,
upon the ruins of American liberty, In
1876 the Confederate Democratic con
spiracy is but slightly modiied-a re-
bellion by all malignant agencies, by
systematic intimidation and fraud,
through organized violence and murder,
to disfranchise the legal, popular ma
~jorities of the States, to subvert the
Constitution, to destroy the Democra-
tic principle underlying it and our laws,
and substitute for it, in the rule ofSthe
government and nation, the old oligar-
chical tyranny! Have they succeeded?
God save the Republic.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-03

Hence the States represented in the
vote OF Hayes, if elected, contain nearly
100000 square miles more of territory
than the area embraced in the States
represented by the vote of Tilden, and
nearly $1,000, 0O0, 900 more of the
wealth of the nation; while those rep
resented by Tilden's vote embrace
nearly all the ignorance and consequent
crime of the nation, and those represen-
ted by the vote Of Hayes its very high
est intelligence, the noblest culture and
learning, as they do its greatest wealth
and taxation, and the largest portion of
its geographical area. BY a singular
perversity of things, the vote of Til
den the candidate of the men and party
who labor to disfranchise the negro, to
wrest from hin all political power, rep
resents the great bulk of the negro pop
u~lation, and Hayes vote a vast major
ity of the white population, as it does
the land, the wealth, and the intelli-
gence of the Republic.
Analyze and run the parallel as you
will, the result is the same; in the rela-
tive number of libraries, public and
private, and in the number of their VOL
umes; and in the relative number of in
situations of learning and school facili-
ties and attendance, in the relative
number of authors and works publish
ed and read, and newspapers and peri
odicals printed; in the relative charac-
ter Of populations, their relative thrift,
industry, wealth and morals; under
every analysis and comparison, the
dread color line of ignorance and crime
bounds and darkens the Tilden States.
That, too, while giving Tilden the
advantages of the notorious Democra-
tic violence and fraud at the late cleo
ton, while counting for him all the
States thus carried. Thus the electoral
vote of New York will be counted for
him. But is he legally entitled to the
vote? He carried New York city and
its surroundings through the terrible
frauds of its vicious classes. The State
was heavily against him. Thus the
city, by its frauds and crimes, disfran-
chises the legal majority in the State,
and Tilden will count its electoral vote
as the representative, not of its legal
popular majority, but of its Five Points
and its criminal classes.
In like manner, and for like reasons,
Tilden will count the electoral vote of
Indiana, only carried for him by the
fraudulent Kentucky vote, principally
In three counties, against the legal pop
ular majority of the State; and Of New
Jersey and Connecticut, only carried
for him by colonization, false naturali.
zation and registration, and wholesale
repeating, violently DISTINGUISHING. as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-07-22

POLITICAL SoUIBs.-Campaign enthu-
siasm, like paper collar, willis beneath this
weather. 49, rhe N. Y. Tribune says:-rhe
Hon. b. FL. Hill has consented to a renomt-
nation for Congress, and his reelection is
entirely probable. He makes a very cool
Congressman-when he is muZZled. 800
Spring field observation-disclosures Hewitt,
Of the democratic nstioDal convention, says
Mr.. Tilden's letter will not be made public
until after Congress adjourns. Cautious
Uncle Sammy! IN. Y. Herald:-It is said
that Mr.. Tilden Is waiting for Congress to
adjourn before he writes his letter OF accept
ance. A reform candidate for the Presi-
deDcy should wait for no one. .'"Ciucin-
natl Commensurate there is a man In
America who has moved forward in a right
line on political questions, Carl Schurz is
the man. 1t is his distinct consistency that
places him at variance with the variable,
drifting and crooked party organizations.
AS tn his lecturing rates for campaign
speeches, we know that, in Ohio, he has re-
fused compensation from both parties. The
books Of the democrats In 1879, and OF the
republicans In 1874, will prove this. Schurz
has refused to be partisan. Tots is what
troubles those who answer him with insults
rather than arguments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-07-22
The Fast Mail Trains.

REPORT FROM SUPERINTENDENT VAIL.
Mr.. T. N. Vail, superintendent of the post
al service, has ,ssnt to the Postmaster
General, a fun account OF the agreement
made with Messrs. Scott and Vanderbilt,
viz: "That all postal service on special or
fast trains shall be withdrawn, and that any
service now upon the roads In addition to
that shall remain for the present. So far as
tions are concerned, the service Is not Grip
Piled as much as is generally supposed. 1t
leaves postal service on that road through
to st. Louis on the best postal train
middle states and the southwes So far as
local service is concerned, about the same
facilities will be allowed as previous to the
fast malls. On the New York Central aud
Lake Shore, however, the service is serious
ly crippled. The speed of the fast mail al
lowed the con centration Of most of the ser
vice upon that train. Between New York
and Buffalo there was but one additional
service, leaving New York at a. M,
connecting with the postal car leav-
vious to the fast train there was a
local service leaving Albany at q. m.
which was merged into the fast train. This
most severely felt throughout New York
and New England. On the Lake Shore there
are very ample facilities left for local SER
which to handle all New England mails for
the west, but not sufficient TO handle any
part OF the through mails from New York to
tne west, Wn,cn are very neaVy. TneSe CON-
panies will carry such mails as can be put
into the baggage cars on all trains
upon which they now carry them;
but these facilities are not sufficient
for 1.-THE of the mails. A force of
postal clerks will be detailed into the New
York office, who will work up malls for the
west as fast as they are deposited, dispatch
ing the same by every train. 1t Will be ne
cessary for the public to deposit their mails
as frequently as possible, so that there may
be CHARGE to distribute and dispatch them.
Ohio and the southwest will hardly notice
the change; the serious trouble will be In the
mails for north Indiana, Illinois, Michigan
and the west.