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i jmmsssmmm fetrpablfcan Ticket tor U. S. GRANT. FOR VHTS PBEKIBEST, HENRY WILSON, Sk H. VEM'HAM. of Vimotl'n winnlv. Vr. i. H auk. or Wwhinaion coimy. J. r. UAZLK V, Of INmglMCOiinty. I . K. Oflletnl Paper Mr OrtffOn. FRIDAY. AUGUST 1). SJi. Hi? ProKrcsft of Kit Tlmr. Tie progress of tlic time is to wards established principle ot troth and virtue. The history of num. archy one of oppress! and wrong, crimsoned with rivers of blood. Republics are the offspring f popular intelligence, guided by an instinctive thirst lor universal freedom and equal justice. The fuecessof the latter has been com mensurate with tl growth and adoption of intelligent truth. Tl ends to be maintained by govern incut' are peace and security The bases of these arc ww! and equita b'e laws faithfully administered and obeyed. Those can never exist where there is not a clear and en lightened comprehension of human desire, and a willingness to confer every favor and privilege that, in the same relation, it would a-k. 7'liis latter we denominate be nevolence sometimes, sometimes vir tue; hence we say of a republic, that it is strong and substantial in proportion to the intelligence and virtue possessed ami practiced by the people. Guided by these ideas, the fathers of our Republic favored every enterprise tliat eemed to liold out a promise of increasing Intelligence and promoting virtue among the people. Mistakes were made, such as the practice of reli gious intolerance, the establishment of human bondage, and in other directions ; but increased enlighten incnt and experience demonstrated their evil character, and the de termined progress of mind towards n more perfect standard of right aud duty, first modified and then destroyed their existence. The opinion that detoreoration in mind and morals is thecharacter of Amer ican progress, will not stand the test of close scrutiny. One need but. glance over the remarkable jiolitical events which have trans pired within the last dozen years in our country, to prove that the prog, ress of the nation has been towards increased enlightenment and virtue. A relic of barbarism, n giant wrong, the enslaver of millions, whose evils of wrong ami degradation the eyes of generations yet unborn will gaze upon, ha been swept away before the onward march of a more hu mane and enlightened civilization. The millions of enslaved have Ijcen made citizens, and the struggle lie tween truth and error, enlighten ment and ignorance, still continues. Tlic political contest now before the people, embodies the two belligcr ant ideas that have so long been struggling for the mastery. The Republican fkrtj represent the progressive educational and moral idea. It is opposed to caste, favors universal freedom and equal rights, and popular education, or the five school system. Hie opposition par ty is made up of all tlio various phases of apposition to these. There is tlic South, with its record ot slavery and blood, and its Ku Klux. There is the North, with its history of truckling obedience to the behests of the South, its opposition to free schools, and its present position of an unprincipled mendicant at the feet of a few Republican Judases. 7he Republican party represents that class of the American mind, whoso aspirations are for a pnrerj freer Snd more enlightened civiliza tion. The opposition party, if we may use the language of its candi date now before the pcoplo for fVresidential honor, 5 largely eom ! posed of til "rfurhs," tlwuplugug I He," or nt kst of tire more de. ' graded elements of society, and tlieir aspiration are far from a desire to secure purity. W e do not ray tl.it , there are not good element in the cplAMtiim, for sucn an assertion . would be iiiitenablc ; wc ray that the had element predominate. JSut then the reason, purely personal, which prompted tho present rone- gade Republican leaders to set up are ,I0W wling Uie T)omocnwy are a rty for themselves ; the numer- j of t,lis T,)e ,iistory of "iIor. ous "departures," ending in so cm- acfi Qm .,!,; it0 plete a sacrifice of individuality, , yparS) fe m of n dentures which lead the Democracy to merge ()fa moft py, tv, from tho into the fhappaquack organization,,,- of .i.,, ijP,,blican i present anything but an attractive ! l)rogrCT(lj j,, cvcry tlAmtcc M,bsti j picture of truth and consistency. , fltiilg S(ime jgi prcfv1c0lH!p 7'hore is nothing in the picture to c,,im,(ll) ;., tne' paCe 0f tje rrPncral I indicate progressive enlightenment, ';fV of t),c j.arty (Rr; .inn but on tho contrary an opposition to j lias Km equity, if not more disa I it 7'lie Republican party is the . greoablo to the warty in this rartic- veal party of progress, and, as such, i in the present tenqicr of American 'mind, is bound to succeed. The Ship of r'tatc has been guid ed by a masterly hand during the ' past three years and more. Gener al 6' rant has been faithful to the trust imparted to him by friends of freedom and progress. A lease for ' another term will be extended to him by the same party, and the re- ' suit will bo far more glorious in its influence upon American civiliza tion . , . Chewing- to RrpnlilleiuM. If lis? opposition can gather any comfort from the election in North Carolina they are certainly welcome to it. To the Republican it is a source of goodly cheer. They re memlier that two years ago the State went Democratic by nearly five thousand Tliey don't forget that every effort, which Democrat ic ingenuity awl strategy could bring to bear, was used to cany the clecton Even tricks of the most improved Tammany stripe, were projected ; but in spite of all these, white Republicans stood man fully to their duty, and the colored citizens rallied around the Republi can standard as faithfully and fcar- t .1 i j.m 1 3 .... Hie OKI nag nioii many uiuuuy uhi- tle fields in the South. It demon strates the sterling integrity of the colored citizen. It showsthat neith er persuasion nor threats will wean him away from tho Republican r ty. Ir it he lieholds his best friend and savior, and he will not forsake it. The victory in North Carolina is cheering, too, as indicative of the results of future elections to trans pire in other States of the South. The example set them here will not lie ignored, and Repub'ican victor ies may most certainly lie anticipat ed. Not There. It will not lie forgotten by our readers how bitterly Greeley ani advortod on the appointment of Thomas Murphy to tho Collector ship ot New York by Grant. The reason why he ranted and scotched so much atwutit, wassole'y because Murphy had votud for Hoffman for Governor, we believe it was, of the Stale. This act Greeley regarded as both damnable and nnpardona b'e. I Ie Called loud ly for Murphy's removal ; but an investigation into the custom house affairs ot New York tailing to discover anything wrong in the affairs of Murphy, Grant refused to comply with llie angry and imperative demands of Greeley. Now, Greeley is cheek by jolo with this same Hoffman, doing all he can to assist him along in his Democratic plans, and receiv ing in turn a correqionding assist ance in furtherance of hisChappa quack plan. A great deal is said by Democratic Chappaquacks about Greeley's honesty. Let them look at this picture of inconsistency, and tell us just where the honesty is. JTho colored citizens of San Francisco held a large meeting on the evening of the 12th, at which they denounced Grocley and Sum nor, and endorsed Grant 'Ykij Five hundred thousand brick have been used in the first story of the now court house at Salem, There are some loading oliti. ciau in tltc country whose support of a party is as much if not more of Bn evil than , l)pi)cfit qi trc ' wpiIIIonated. revolutionary j and to llieir mml aspira,ioil8 au(j crotclictR, if not spites, to interpose obstne'e in the way ot tlic progress of the party which they profess to support. The men from the T; enublicai irart ywho ular, and the fame characteristics apply with more or less pertitieiicy to Sumner, Trumbull and the rest. It is lietter to have nn individual out of the household as an oen enemy, or opposrr, than in llw fam ily as an je'emcnt of discord, and peevish unrest. There is one thing evident: No party can succeed with such discordant elements in the lead. Kven now they scarcely to'erate each other, and one success would burst them into belligerent fragments. V"e verily lelicvc the Republican party is better off with- ! out them, and we think tlic coming election will show it. In EariiMt. Tlic Dcivocratic Executive Com mittee have issued a vigorous circu lar to Democrats, urging them to immediate organization, so as to lie ready to give an earnest and hearty support to the principles of the party, as they will be proclaimed by the Septemlicr Convention at Louis ville. Tlic Committee says that an utter abandonment of principle is evinced by the coalition of spoils men and place-hnnters in their at tempt to elevate Greeley to the Presidency. Tliey say there is cv- iilnnm nf mrrnnlino lironin fwinil 1 ' and base hyiwcrisv. It must be re pudiated ami siMirned by every man who has a spark of honesty in his heart There are hundreds of thousands who already proclaim their purpose of maintaining the Democratic organization at all haz ards. The circular concludes with a recommendation for the immediate appointment in every county of a committee of five or more, the Chairman of which shall constitute a district committee, and that Con gressional Conventions shall bo as sembled on or before the 2.r)th of ylugust, to select two delegates and two alternates from each district, that a full delegation from each State shall be present on the 3d of Septemlier. J'hceircnlar is signed by Rlanton Duncan. I II I I I II II L IMsroiirnRinir. It must be liecomingmore appar ent to the eyes of t he Chappaquacks every day that Greeley stock is on the decline. It is offrcqnent occur rence to read of leading Democrats by name, be'onging to different sec tions of the country, uttering their declarations of opposition to Cree- Jev. Such Democrats are tho ones who are the most emphatic and outspoken in their declarations of opposition. Since the principles of the Democratic party have been ignored, given up, slaughtered, they feel under no obligations to go with the slaughterers ; but propose to act in the future in consonance with their own views ot independence and consistency. . i FMBdS. Now that the Democrats are fully satisfied that North Carolina has gone Republican, they try to console tlicmsolves by saying that the election was carried by "frauds." It will lie granted that there is no party more thoroughly qualified from experience to tell what a fraud is than it,as the historic chain of that party is linked with them; but be cause that propensity constitutes so large an .clement in its identity, it is no just reason why it should charge the evil upon it bolters. A drunken man sees everybody lntoxicatca oui mmsen. rtiM m riMiti. According to tl rflinounscment of two very celebrated astronomers, this mundane sphere of our was to have lice n "banged into eternal smash" on last Monday afternoon between four and six o'c'ook, by a tremendous fiery-tailed comet com ing in contact with it. For some .,,n.-..n rf linr ilia iumnl fu Mswl i t ,n.tinanappeara.e,a.Kl the pc,.. formance did not come off. Rossi- bly the eminent "star gazers" made a mistake as to the time, and our readers may yet be favored with the "crash ot matter." It is reported that Democrats in the Kastern counties of Oregon turn their noses skywanl whenever the proposition to support Greeley for President is suggested. 7'hcy re meinher the editorial articles old "While Hat" used to write in the Ti-ibime in favor of miscegenation, or the amalgamation of the white and black races, and they can't take him down. poiVfHAi.. i town b, M i..umT ifr olincnttfi who lias spIih! with the Democrats of late years, is now for (Vmnt. At Oswego. New York, F. T. farrhigton, O. II. Hastings, J S. jfott ami many oilier prominent Democrats have declared forGrant. 7'he Twentieth Ward (Brook lyn) Grant and Wilson Club now ha 1,P00 signerson itsrolls. There is no Greeley Club in the ward, it a meetinj' of the German Re- publican General fommittee of ; teen hundred thousand passengers Brooklyn N. Y.. a few days ago, &m kilbl mho(y Joseph H. Strauss, a prominent T' ., .. . , x. t -i - , i In the city ot 111 nghamton. rsew German Democrat, made a speecli ' f in which he declared himself for wk, the Grant Club has on its Grant and said that hundreds of . rolls 1,435 signers. Last year, German Democrats among his ac- j wi,en the Republicans carried the T'ST wM do likewise atSlatcby i8)900 majority, the total Ir1!0.-.-! n-.n . u.j'u RepttWIeM vote of Ringhamton ifll. uunut'i mo-pi, it iiomiii i Democrat of Annapolis, Md., and Chairman of the Democratic City Convention, says he will not sup port G reeky. r01. J. F. Hoy, of Albany, N. Y.j a life long Democrat and a noted stump speaker, will take ihe stump this tall for Grant and Wil son. Alalwma is reported as sure for Grant by a large majority. Gov. Pntton, the first Democratic Gov ernor since the war, has declared for (7rait. Tlic colored vote is solid on the same side, and Greeley ism makes no progress with white Republicans. A movement is on foot to make II. R. ( larlin, the well known merchant, Republican candidate for Governor ot New York. Six days after Abraham Lincoln was elected 1 Resident, Horace Gree ley applied to him tor office ami wasn't successful. After that Gree ley became Lincoln's enemy. Orecley is getting tne luumorusn cleared off his farm without ever putting a scythe to it, Every mem ber of the cavalcade who visits it on Saturday carries away a "Chap paqua cane," and one by one the troublesome clumps of bushes are disappearing. Frederick Douglass has just is sued a powerful letter in tavor of (Vrant, urging the colored people to his support, and in proof that it is their duty, arraying in a master ly manner a large amount of docu mentary and other facts, some of which have not before been pub lished, showing (Vrant to have been the early, couristent and persistent, though quiet and practical, friend of tho freedmen and colored citi zens. Brick Pomeroy says that his Democrat readies 200,000 readers. The prevailing sentiment among them is against, Greeley. Pomeroy says-Ju? rhas i. received 2,000 letters to tins eltect.'J He will not support Greeley iri'nny'event With a View to the eternal fitness of thing, a Greeley and Brown flag floats over AndcrsOnville, Georgia, where 15,000 Union sol diers.were starved to death during the war, and where they lie burial A few days ago while the Sheriff of Walla Walla was taking an in sane man to the Asylum at Steila coom the stage stopped at Akooknm Chuck to change the mail. 7'he Sheriff got out, as did the crazy man in his charge. Once out, the insane started for the stream, pur sued by the Sheriff, plunged into its waters and attempted to drown himself. 7'he Sheriff stood upon tho bank, and told the man he might dmwn if he wanted to so ladlv, when, perhaps, to be obstinate, or, maybe, cooled by tltc water, the fellow turned arid swam back to the shore. KANTr.RI NEW. It was reported that Grata Brown was gon g to Mississippi to take part in the canvass there. The first course of the founda tion stone of the Standish monu ment at Duxburg was laid on the Gth inst. General Cutler will make no 'lil eftort to secure the nomina- j tion for Governor of Massachusetts, but if the Labor Reform or the Republican party nominate him he j wi ,10t J . I r-ecretary Delano was reported I seriously ill at Mount Vernon, Ohio, on the 7th. A collision occurrcsl on the 7th, on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, between Humboldt and Troy, kill ing three negroes and wounding five others, An incendiary fire at Stcubenville, 1 Ohio, August 8th, destroyed $10,- j rjOO worth of property. I Epidemic cholera is reported at ! Moscow ami the Ra'tic provinces of : ., , York intra are apprehensive. j ?'he Morrisania (X. Y.) Journal, ' a Democratic paper, has come out for Grant. . Moran',, nim. The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, has been purchased for the Capitol at Washington tor $10,000. 7'he Michigan Central Railroad Company carried more than thir- was 1,258. German emigrants to the amount of 11,835 arrived in New York during the month of July, which is an increase of 2,CG1 over July last year. Thirty cases of sun stroke occur red in New York on the 8th inst. The Republicans in many cities and towns of the West celebrated, on the 8thr the victory in North Carolina. The Democrats of Micigan have issued a call for a convention to appoint delegates to Louisville. At Carsonville, Mo., on the night of the 8th, a number ot roughs assaulted Captain John Stev ens, and kicked and beat hinv to death. Major C. W. Morgan, a promi nent Democrat of Indiana, has is sued a call for a State Convention, denouncing the nomination of Gree ley and Brown, and declaring that there are thousands of Democrats who will not support them. J. W. Carson, Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Ohio, has declared his preference for Grant over Greeley. Andy Johnson, in a political speech at KnoxvUle, Tenn., on the 10th inst., came out for Greeley in preference to Grant. It is meet that he should. Mrs. Mathews, mother ol Vice President Colfax, died at South Bend, Aug. 11th, aged C7. The official report of the assault of United States Consul Butler upon-Major Campbell in Alexan dria, Egypt, by Gen. Loring, who was present, shows that it was un doubtedly a premeditated attempt of Butler and Wadleigh to murder Campbell while at the office of the Chief of Police giving testimony and demanding the arrest of Wad leigh. The latter attempted to draw a revolver and shoot fVcneral Loring, and was only prevented from so doing by the police. Worcester was visited on the 11th inst. by a very severe thunder stonn. Four rsons were struck by lightning. Tlic World says that Thomas Murphy will bo a candidate for Congress from a city district at the next election, a new apportionment having been arranged so as to make him reside in a Republican dis trict. Other Republican politicians are dissatisfied with the plan Charles Spencer is the opponeut of Murphy. At Cincinnati, on the 10th, Wm. Southgate, supposed to ba crazy, attacked Mrs. lmfley with an axe, inflicting seven wound. He " spat the skull of John Flatfoot who came to her rescue, killing him. In the first race at Huffalo, on tho 9th inst., for f 2,500, the hop Rosalind burst a blood vessel whit scoring, and in the first heat J. J. Ilurke, who was leading, dropped dead. Gen. McClcllan and Gen. Mansy are on their way from New Yorjl to Utah and California. Dis) latches from Maine state tlt active canvassing is being carried on by ln.th sides throughout the State. Doolittle is speaking m be half of the Greelev ticket. Gov ernor Xoyes, of Ohio, is addressing the Republican meetings, and Sena tor Wilson is short y expected. It is believed that the murder Of tho young Mr. Matthews, near ! Vatcs- Iltinobi 1 been discovered, 111 ll,C HTM III OI 1 lUllllg. IW was arrested, waived an examuia limi, and was taken to jail. Tlie proofs arc so strong that the Sheriff, with difficulty, rescued him from the mob that had gathered to lynch him A shocking child murder is re ported at Yates, ll inois. A little nephew of a man named Hale was found buried in the yard of hi uncle's house, the lxy licaring evi dence ot having lieen whipped t death. Hale has disappeared. A negro named John Mitchell, accused of an outrage on a young woman, was taken from jail at Memphis on Friday by a mob and shot. It is announced that over one half of the Erieconsolidated mortg age or about $3,500,000, will be taken at a rate about par currency in New York. The Democratic and Liberal Committees of New Orleans were unable to agree on a coalition ticket. The latter nominated D. B. Heim, for Governor. Over fifty of the heaviest shoe manufacturing companies in Lynn, Mass., have concluded to employ no iergons controlled by the Crispin Association. 7T.e Crispans haye voted to withdraw their money from the Lynn Savings Bank, amounting to $1,500,000, whwh they claim to be used by the manu factures and speculators. Newton V. Chandler, a notorious desperado, was hanged at Charlotte, N. C, on the 9th. Re confessed to numerous crimes, including murder, robbery, and other foul deeds, and was one of a gang of Kit Klux. A letter from St. Petersburg de nies the statement that the Emper or of Russia declined to shake hands with Lt. Grsi't. 7'heeutire Imperial fnmily received him awl General Sherman most kindly. 7'he colored citizens of Lawrence, Kansas, held a largo meeting on the night of the I lth, and among other things, addressed an earnest letter to Sumner protesting against his opposition to the Republican party. A Lexington special to tho Ua zettc to-night, says that Rev. J. Jl. Stansbiiry spoke to a large meet ing of Republicans there, mostly colored. Gabriel Burdett followed him, but was prevented from pro ceeding by the throwing of rotten st icks and stones. The meeting eggs, was effectually broken up. A meeting of workingmcn, hekl in Alleghany, Penn., August 12th organized a party in opposition to the importation of Chiiese labor. It is the first of a series of meetinfir to lie held. The War Department has issued regulations for tho discovery, iden tification and payment of claimant for pay, Iwunty, prize money, etc., to colored soldiers, sailors, marines. or other representatives now reach ing, or who may have resided in any State where slavery existed in the year 1800. A chief disbursiua olhce will lie established in tlic Ad. jutaiit-Generarg office at Washing- wm, wiui uisoursiug officers at Lou isville, St. Louis, Nashville, Mem phis, Vicksburg, Natchez, and New Orleans. Payments to claimants in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia will be made through the Wash ington office. In North Carolh South Carolina, Georgia, and Flori da, and in whatever States slavery did exist, payments will ba made by officers who will be temporarily appointed, and iu all other State through disbursing offices hereinbe fore enumerated.