il 1 ! tiifori) inquirer. ItKDFOKIt, PA., FRIDAY, JAN- *5, tSCI. \ till NEK AI. JURY COMMISSIONER I A W The agitation of this subject, growing out of the abuse ot the present system of se- Icetiug juries, iu many counties where the for til remains of the corrupt and effete Democratic Party maintain a death-like bold upon the few spoils of effiev. will lead, wc hope, to the adaption of a general Law. regulating the selection of those to whose hands the lives and property of the eUiscti* of the State are committed. I'nder tin old system, the trial by Jury is becoming i lucre by-word and a failure. Tiiis was the case iu this county. None but the vilest partisans, of the most venomous Copper head stripe, with hardly a Republican lo even modify or neutralize tbeui, wore placed h> the wheel. If good men had been select ! it would have been quite another matter, i' e merest tools and drones in the county were the fortunate cues, and to make place for these, hundreds who would have adorned the Jury and who were above parti san prejudices, were compelled to stand aside. So low down in the scale of intellect and intelligence did the Jury become, that it was sometimes very difficult to select one out of twenty four, who was capable of acting the part of Foreman to the Grand Jury. This difficulty, happily, has been entirely removed by the Jury Commissioner Rill. New faces, beaming with intelligence and honesty, uow grace the Jury-box. Old At torneys, who have practiced for an ago, who had their stereotyped juries. Court after Court, bite their lijw, and petulently in quire the names of those, whom they have a right to suppose, from their countenances, might be indifferent to the sophistries which too frequently characterize the members of the bar of ten or fifteen years standing. And not unfiequently do we behold the counsel on both sides challenging the best men called to the box ; we have seen eight men leave the Jury-box, that would Jo hon or to any cause; four challenged because they were Republicans and a like number because they were Democrats. This is not creditable to counsel, and it is an insult to the good sense of those who are rejected. The intelligent christian man. who would deliberately and solemnly take an oath, be fore High Heaven, to render a verdict in accordance with tho evidence, and then al low his judgment to be warped by party prejudices, is a criminal too vile to be de scribed and when counsel challenge him for any such reason, they virtually suspect that he might he guilty of perjury. Though the Jury Commissioner system has entirely revolutionized the juries in this county, and has wrought such a healthy improvement in the dispensation of Justice, we do not think that the bill, as it now stands, would be the proper bill for a Gen throughout die State, the bill must be J&qui table. The Republican Party can afford to pass such a law, and future generations will sing hosannahs to its name, for the bless ings it will have conferred. We would sug gest thai the Commissioners perform all the duties conferred upon them by the present hill, and that the elections take place in the same mapner as now directed, but that they be elected to serve for the term of one year, and in the selection of jurymen, they each select from each township, ward, or borough, juries in proportion to the votes received by them respectively at their elec tion. In other words, if John Smith, Demo crat,receives 200votes in Cumberland Valley, and Richard Brown, Republican, 80 votes; if the whole number of jurors for one fill ing of the box required from Cumberland Valley, be 28; Mr. Smith selects 2i>and Mr. Brown 8 of that number ; on the other 1 . 1 - tv, TO n re ceives 190 votes, and Mr. Smith 30 ; Mr. Crown's complement, in the Fame propor tion, would be 19 and Mr. Smith 3. This would be infinitely more fair than Mr. Smith selecting II out of his 80 votes. This plan ought to be satisfactory to all par ties. In Republican as well as Democrat ic counties it would leave the majority a majority of the jurors. In Lancaster, as an instance, the Republicans would have .62 and the Democrats .88 per cent, of the whole number of Jurors. Again, in York, the Democrat.-, .59 per cent, and the Repub licans, .41. This would boa decided im provement upon the exceptional one or two Republicans, that reach the jury, under the present system. c have tried the Jury Commissioner system in this county for one year, and we arc satisfied that the results will warrant its adoption, with proper improvements, throughout the State. -MR. RICHARDS AND TIIE SENA TORNHIP. The following article from the Fulton Republican, we endorse most heartily ; "In the Senatorial contest at Harrisburg, wc are glad to see that our representative, Mr. RICHARDS, whatever may be his private interests, or his personal preference in the matter, made all other considerations subser vient to the wishes of his constituents and cast his vote for the man of their choice. Mr. Stevens. _ But six others, besides Mr. RICH ARDS, paid their tribute to the honored lead er ol the party. What tnay be the motives ai d influences that induced the majority of the inembtrs to select Mr. Cameron' for'the United States Senate, in preference to Mr. Stevens, we are not prepared tosny, and time and circumstances may cause them to regret their coune; but wc can safely predict, that it must ever be a source of sincere gratifica tion to Mr. RICHARDS to feel that he cast his first important vote in support ol so noble a chieftain as Thaddt-us Stevens, whose name so unmistakably identified with the great principles of the liepublicau party, will be written high on the immortal roll of patriots and statesmen, nu record as enviable as the noblest"" " as imperishable as the The Fulton Democrat, doing R s best to be complimentary all round, speaks thus "Mr. John T. Richards east his vote for u very bad man when he voted for Tbad. Ste vens : yet he did at least one good thing thereby—he cleared his skirts from the suspi cion of bribery. That is what a good many of the Radical members have not done. <% F IVE negroes were taken from Greene coun ty jail, North Carolina, by a body of armed men and lynched. They were charged with ontrwi'intr the person of Mrs. Miller. • 1 IIK I'KKNK" AM) OUR COMMON SCHOOI.S. AY aro rejoiced to sec the l'luladelphta /V<. giving attention to the condition o( our common schools. Iwo articles have #p ponied in its eohmtw on this subject. Ibe firM. after cnutneratfag a number of catues to account for the present inefficiency of our schools, says : '•These causes, as well as iiuperfectious, described at length in the State and county reports, gender it desirable that our educa tions! system should in some essential res nectr be "reconstructed." While it embraces much worthy of admiration and approval, the oqlv wny to correct its deficiencies is to define thbir character and to suggest remedies, 'I he orincipls that, the blessings of education should be universally distributed by the action of the State is now established, and the trite maxim that '"Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing welt" can be more appropri ately applied to thiß subject than to any oth er. It this generation resolved to begin s earnest and determined a straggle to improve oilr common school system as was commenc ed a generation ago to establish it, we should soon have the best schools in the Union ; but Pennsylvania falls far short of this standard now. It is necessary, first, that increased in creased interest should be felt by all classes of citizens. * * * . * TI ?S general wakening of public interest would soon be followed by appropriate legislation, and eventually lead to such ft system of com mon schools, normal schools, academies and colleges, as would place within the reach ot every child 111 Pennsylvania, rich or poor, all the advantages that education can confer." What will appear further in the way of proposals or plans for the accomplishments cf the highly desirable object set forth in the above extract wc know not. The prin ciples there enumerated are sound and we hope that the subject will not be allowed to rest at this point. Wo called attention to this subject a year ago, aud showed, as we believe, conclusively that tlic only method by which our common schools could be ele vated to the high standard here advocated, involved a radical change in the administra tion of our school laws, and ar going hack to the fundamental principle upon which our common school system is founded, viz : That the property and wealth of the State should bear the expense of educating tbw children of the State. The application of this principle, ever since the adoption of our school system, has been limited to the least possible extent consistent with the acknowl edgment of its existence in the system at all. We now confidently assert that tie only method, by which we can even approxi mate to the condition of affairs contempla ted in the above extract, is by the extension of the system of equal taxation, from the single school district to which it is now con fined. to the whole State. As long as this fact is ignored no progress can be made in the rural districts where the chief difficul ties of the system are now encountered. It will be of no avail to bemoan the want of qualified teachers, the short srtiwl terms, the insufficient grounds, the injurious and insufficient furniture, low salaries &0., while the means to remedy them is withheld by law. It is much easier to advocate iin- provciuents and changes in all these things, from the comfortable sanctum of a city edit or, than to grapple with the difficulties in the..itav.oi'.. improvement, that meet every which, from his practical knowledge learned by a bitter experience, he knows to be insuperable without important changes in the existing laws. To attain even to the low standard now prevailing the rural dis tricts have long endured such oppressive rates of taxation as would be borne for no other purpose. If any one wishes to know the sacrifices that have been made to obtain even the minimum length of school term in tho poorer counties, he has but to turn to the statistics in the school reports. A brief examination of the figures there will con vince any impartial mind that it is not igno rance of the benefits of good schools nor lack of interest that retards progress. When the people of a school district endure a self-imposed tax of 2j per cent, upon all their property (as did the citizens of Red Bank district, Armstrong county iu 1804) for the sake of four months of such schools oo uw uu uutamta a* vtic meagre saiary or §23 per month, it will not do to reproach them with indifference. Especially does it come with a bad grace from the inhabitant of a populous city or wealthy and densely populated rural district where the taxation, for incomparably better schools and double the minimum length of term, scarcely amounts to a half mill on the dollar. The rural districts long for better schools, longer terms and more efficient teachers and under stand the conditions oa which they can be obtained. They will be found in the iolJow ing resolutions drawn up and offered at the Superintendents' Convention at Harrisburg on tho 6th of December last: Resolved, That we recommend to the School Department and the Legislature that the school fund be raised by general and equal taxation throughout the State. Resolved, That wc recommend to the De partment and to the Legislature an increase of the State appropriation sufficient to defray the expenses of tuition throughout the State for the minimum school term. JResolved. That the appropriation of the school fund shall be made in proportirn to the Dumber of schools instead of, as at present, to the number of taxables. If the Press wishes to display its earnest ness in the cause of Common Schools, and its devotion to the great principle at the bot tom of our system, let it agitate for the adoption of some such measures as arc con tained in the above resolutions and it will find the rural districts not only ready and willing but eager to obtain all the benefits to be de rived from longer terms aud more efficient teachers. OOK UNITED STATES SENATOH. On Tuesday the 1 oth instant, the Legisla ture proceed to elect a U. S. Senator to suc ceed the recreant Cowan. Gen. Simon Cameron was elected on first hallot by a ma jority of eleven over all competitors. Our first choice was Stevens, who. we believe, would have been the first choice of the Re publican party of the State. We believe Cameron would have been the second. Curtin would doubtless have been the choice of the whole people, as between Stevens, Cameron, and Curtin. But it never was in tended in the formation of the U. S. Senate and the of the election of Sena tors, that it shr.„!d be done directly by the people. Jhe dire of the people are in the House. The Senate was organized as a distinct body and sort of bal ance wheel to the House, and the election of its members was placed in the hands of the Senators : ind liepreseotatir os of the States, as bodice whose knowledge of the qualifications required of Senator s as well as the fitiwsa of men ior the position, was presumed to he more extensive, as well as their judgment more sure than tl at of the people at large. It is therefore no especial claim that a man ist the choice of the people or the party, for i/either is required or de-, signed, but it is presumed that the man selected is a true representative of the State and its interests, b tile judgment of the en lig'atcned body to wßicb his election Jf, by law, entrusted. Thews qualifications no one denies to Gen. Oaimro'n. Tliat he is a true and thorough goiri.T Republican, a firm friend of l'ennsylvnt w interests, with the wi/1 and ability to takw care of them, and an ex periencud and far-swing statesman,is con oed.ed by friend and ftv alike. lINANCIAL EMEBUSTEKINCJ. Secretary McCulloßgh. ever since his Fort W ayne speech, has been in the habit of pe ril idically reiterating the same stole threat of attempting what all sensible men know to be impossible, viz ■ to return to specie payments. Though all practical financiers know the utter impossibility of accomplish ing what the Secretary threatens, yet from lii s constantly repeated threats, they kuow not but that he may bo fool-hardy enough to attempt it, if Congress should give him the power. Ily the frequent reiteration of h?s intention to make the attempt, he has, several times since his accession to the Sec-, notaryship, brought the whole country to the verge of ftnancinl ruin, though there never has been, nor is there now any ne cessity for these panics. Whether, the Secretary has partners in WallStrcet whose interests arc promoted hy these wanton pranks with our finances, or not, we can not tell, but unless he has some private ends to accomplish, there is uo way of account ing for his performances, except that, in the natural wickedness of his heart, he de lights in distressing the whole country, depressing business and grinding the faces of the poor. His conduct in this respect has already cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars, by depressing business of every kiud in the effort to prepare at different times for the crash, which he threatened to bring upon the country by an unnecessarily rapid contraction of the cur rency. As there is no probability of liie removal or resignation, it becomes the duty of Congress to so regulate the issues of cur rency and the conversion of government se curities, bylaw, that the attempt to return to specie payments will not be made or threatened, until there is some reasonable prospect of onr being able to do so without financial ruin. Until some such measures are adopted by CongTess, there can be no revival of business. Without a restoration of confidence and revival of business gen erally, the receipts from revenue will inevi tably fall off. and the next embarrassment will be in our revenue. The payment of the interest on our national debt depends upon the prosperity of the country, and whatever damages our business interests our ability to pay cither debt 0"r interest, With such important results depending up on the crazy freaks of a single man in charge of the U. S. Treasury Department, it be comes of the highest importance that measures be speedily taken to so limit his powers and define his duties, as to prevent any future harm from his reckless conduct of the Department of the Treasury. GI:\KP.AI. GRANT has been successful in his lawsuit at St. Louis. A verdict was issued in bis iavor to the amount of SB7O damages, for unlawlul holding of bis land, and $16.60 per month for back rents. HON. JOHN M. BOTTS, accompauied by Franklin Stearns of Richmond, Lewis Mc- Ensic, of Alexandria, and other well-known Virginians, is now in Washington. Mr. Rottg does not conceal his opinion that the only way out of cur difficulties is the impeach ment. or Jobrisun. Ilia aigumeut in support of this last resort is very power ful. GOVERNOR Cot MINUS, of Colorado, pub lishes a protest from the territorial legisla ture against the passage of a law admitting the State without first having the question submitted to vote of the people, for the rea son first, that they have a right to a voice in the selection of the character of our govern ment ; second, that they hnve not a sufficient population to support the expense of a state government. A ESPATcn from Washington says : "The government is in receipt of information from Vera Cruz that several transports hove al ready arrived there, and that the French troops have commenced to embark. There are twenty-four large transports in all, which will be amply sufficient to remove all the troops. The last ten left Brest some days ago. It is expected, therefore, that by the Ist of March the last instalment will have embarked." A Moxs. SCHNEIDER, of Paris, now claims to be the bona fide inventpr of the rifle at tributed to Mr. Jacob Snider, Jr., and will, it is said, contest his right against all other claimants. The similarity of name is curious and unfortunate. There are now so many claimants for any further benefits, that even any considerable sum were to be awarded by the Government, which is not at all probable, it would be all fritted away in defeuding law suits. THE bills, admitting Nebraska and Colora do as States, have at last passed the Senate, with an amendment, making civil or political proscription on account of color impossible in cither State. The addition of these two young States will admit four Union Senators; and for this reason, we suppose, the Presi dent will veto the bill, lie supports nothing that is not either rebel or copper. The bills have also passed the House by a vote of 106 to 55. DCRIKG the visit of Congressmen to New Orleans three men sought an introduction to Ben Wade, and stated to him tbat they were rebels, had been from the first, and intended to remain so. Senator Wade replied: "Well, gentlemen, I am happy to meet you, as you are the first rebels T have seen since the war closed, the balance of the Southern people claiming to be Union men. Now tell me, if you please, how did you three men manage to carry through such a dreadful war against the government, and keep it up for four long years by yourselves?" The rebuke was si lently received rebels and the crowd. lIAKKIMitm. CORRESPONDENCE. llaiirisiii:r<;, Jan. 23, 1867. The inauguration of Go*. Geary was deci dedly the most imposing demonstration of the kind ever witnessed in Pennsylvania—credit able to .the people of the old Keystone, and a fitting tribute of respect to a hero who had so nobly defended his country in its hour of peril. When the Union was in danger of be ing destroyed by rebel hordes, who determin ed to dissolve it, John W. Geary buckled on Ids sword and marched forth to defend the Rag he loved so well. Sow, when the traitors have been whipped, and pence is restored, the people bave chosen the man we have Darned to preside over the affairs of State in the second Commonwealth of the Union, and the same John W. Geary, who proved him self a hero on the battle-field. was. on 1 ues day last, inducted into the highest office with in the gift of the people of our State, where he will (as he has done already, elsewhere,) prove himself a statesman, worthy of the honors of the position to which l>o has been called. There was an immense outpouring of the people from the counties North, Sooth, East and West of us, and although the day was not the most favorable, the procession, composed of military and civic societies, citi zens and strangers, was the large t that ever inarched through the streets of Harrisburg upon inauguration day. It seemed us if everybody deaired to do honor to the man who, for the next three years, wiil occupy the gubernatorial chair of otir good old Common wealth. Now, that the affairs ot ottr State have been so admirably conducted during six years, (a greater part of which time the war was in progress,) by a patriot who never faltered in the hour of trouble, it is gratifying to know that we are not to be governed by a man of wliose loyalty any doubt can be entertained. Andrew G. Curtin was a model Governor, and every citizen of the State respects him for his firmness in the dark days of the re bellion. We believe, however, that John W. Geary will maintain for Pennsylvania the good name she Los earned, and while it is to be regretted that the old Governor could not be re-elected, (owing to a provision of the constitution prohibiting it) we are gratified that our new ruler will in every respect equal the one who has just retired from office, crowned with the blessings of the people. Gov. Geary has announced the following appointments: Isaac B. Gara, of Erie, to be Deputy Secretary of State; Capt. John Stew art, of Allegheny, to be State Military Agent at Washington, vice Col. F. Jordan, (now Secretary of State:) William A. Cook, of Westmoreland, to be Deputy Military Agent. Flour Inspector of Western Pennsylvania, Capt. William B. Coulter, pf Westmoreland. Messenger to Governor- Win. C. Armor, of Venango. A bill has been offered in the House, by Mr. Diese, of Clinton, to prohibit railroad companies from issuing passes except to em ployees. persons who have been iniuied oi the roads, or wounded or disabled soldiers. How Mr. Diese expects to get the bill passed I cannot conjecture, for certainly no legisla tor who would vote for such a measure could hope to receive the support of a newspaper, for re-election. If the railrottd companies see proper to issue free passes, it is their own interfere. Since the close of the Senatorial struggle hundreds of politicians have left the city, and those yet remaining have quietly settled down and are devoting their attention to matters of more importance to themselves and the pub lic. The friends of Cameron are satisfied with the victory the General has won, while the supporters of Curtin. Stevens and Grow have submitted gracefully to their defeat. The election of V. S. Senator took place ut three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon (15iU inst.) the Senate and House voting in their respective halls. A very large number of outsiders gathered in and around the Capitol, eager to learn the result as soon ns the ballot ing ended. Iu order tiiat your readers may have a list of the voters or Cameron and Cowan to preserve for tuture reference. I ap pend the names, as follows: SKS ATE. Messrs. Bighim, Browne (Lawrenoe. Brown (Mercer), Coleman. Council, Cowle Fisher, Graham. Haines, London, Howry M'Conaughy, Ridgway, Buyer, Shoemaker Stutzmau, Taylor, M orthington and Hall Sjitaker. —l ' 1 vote! for Simon Cameron. Messrs. Burnett. Davis, Donovan, Glut/ Jackson, James, ilandall. Scliall, Searight Wallace and Walls.*-11 voted for Edgar Cow an. HOI'SB OK UEPRESRSTATIVES. Messrs. Adairc, Allen, Armstrong, Barton Brown, Cameron, Chase, Chndwick, Colville Davis, Day, Deli ven, Donohugh, Espy, Ew ing, Freeborn. Gallagher, Ghegan. Gordon Harbison. Holl'min. Humphrey, Kennedy Kerns. Kimmell, Kinney, Lee, Leech, Mc Cainaut, M'Crearf, M' Kee, M'l'herrin, Mann Marks, Mechling, Meily, Pennypacker, Pe ters, Pillow, Qua/, Jticbards, Roalh, Seiler Sharnles, Sliumai - Staeey, Stehman, Stum baugn, Sobers, Waddell, Wallace, Watt, Webb, Wilier. tVhann. Wharton. Wilsnt, Wingard, Woodward, Worrnll, Wright and Glass, Sixaker —6"J voted for Simon Came ron. Messrs. Harrington, Boyd, Boyle. Broen, Brennan. Calvin, Chalfnnt. Collins. Craig. Deise. Fogtl. Gregory. Ilarner, Headman, ■Hetr.e!, Hood. Hunt, Junks. Jones, Kline, Kooii, Kurtz, Linton,Long, M Henry, Maish. Mark ley, Meyers, Akllin, l'holan, Quigley. ltboads, Robinson, Rouch, Satterthwuit. Tharp and Westbrook—37 v oted for Edgai Cowan. KELAI'IT-l-tTION. For Simon Cameron. In the Senate 19 In the House fi'J HI For Edgar Cotran. In the Senate J 11 In the House 37 J8 Majority for Gen. Cameron 33 On the following <!ay Senator White re corded his vote for Simon Cameron, and Messrs. Bandull and McCandless recorded theirs for Edgnr Cowan. This reduced Gen. Cameron's totr.l majority one vote. Gov. Geary's appointments of Cabinet and other officers have rendered general satisfac tion, and his independent course is winning for him the good opinions of all grfod people. It is gratifying that Gbaky is the Governor, and that he '"ill not be "managed" by any man or clique. This was illustrated n few days ago, when a gentlemau applied to liim for a position. The Governor examined his papers, and promised to consider the 'natter. This seemed to disappoint the applicant, and he remarked. "Mr. promised me the appointment." His Excellency did not rel ish this and at once replied: " Then let Mr. appoint you. lam not subject to his orders or those of any other man." Let the General continuo to do thus. Mr. Weller has presented, in the House. three petitions from citizens of Somerset coqaity, asking for the pussago of b free rail road law. Mr. Stutsman has presented in the Senate a petition from citizens of Bedford township and others, for the extension of Bedford Bor ough School District. Referred to the Com mittee on Education. Also, a bill entitled an act to attach certain Innd* and tenements in Bedford township to I ted ford borough for school purposes. Re ferred to the same committee. On Friday night a fracas occurred two miles east of this city, between two colored men belonging to llarrishurg. They had a quarrel on account of it jug of whisky, when ' ouc of them, named Jacob Jones, drew a knife and let out the entrails of the other, named Edward Moore. The latter is mortal ly wounded. Jones is in our prison, to await the result of his evil deed. The late snow storms have blockaded all ' the railroads more or less, and the mails have been very irregular for several days. 1 The city is very qoiet—nothing of a local ' character, worthy of notice, occurring. TOUT. , THE NEW senator. Three tew. I S._ Senators, each one prominent in public life, have been practi ' calfy elected during the present week. Scn f atpr Harris is to retire after the 4th of i March, and to make place foriloscoc C'onk u ling, now a member of the 39th Congress, and re elected to the 10th. Ifon. A. Conk ling, father of the successful candidate, was made Minister to Mexico in isf<2, by Mr. 1 Fillmore, and was a Representative from a New York in the 17th Congress. Roscoe i Conkling was born in Albany, in 1828. and ~ has not quite attained his 39th year. He adopted the profession of the law, and pur • sued it with energy. In 1849 was appoint f ed District Attorney for Oneida Co. In . 1 858 he became Mayor of Utiea, and at the ■, close of his period of office was elected a ; Repic-jntaiive to Congress. After his re-; election he became known as the Chairman of the Committee on the District. At the ■ present time Mr. C. is a member of the e Committee on Ways and Means. 0 Cameron was born in Lancaster. Co., t l'enna., in 17'.9, and is 6.8 years of age. When years of age ho was left an orphan, lie began life as a journeyman printer. i>e -1 fore he was 22, he had been chosen as the J editor of the Pennsylvania Intelligencer, i, publi-hed at Doylestown, and at that age established a Democratic journal at Harris burgh, which he edited for some time, in 1832 he established the Middietown c Bank of Pennsylvania, acting as cashier. He has for many years been one of the lar it gest stockholders, and most active mana „ gers in the leading Pennsylvania roads. He C was appointed Adjutant General of Penn ' sytvania. fn 1845 was first elected to the • IJ. 8. Senate, in which he served tiil 184' J. In 1857 he was re-elected for the term ex 1. pi ring in 1803, but resigned in 1861 to ac ,f oept the Secretaryship of War, in Mr. Lin coin's Cabinet. While in ihc Cabinet he advocated the emancipation of the slaves as 7 a necessary military measure. In 1862 he d resigned the Secretaryship, and was ap i- pointed Minister to Rus.-.ia. Chas. D. Drake, the newly nominated . U. S. Senator from Missouri, is a lawyer by profession, tie became prominent in poli tics during the Presidential campaign of ' 1860, by advocating t'ne ejection of Mr. <1 Douglas, hi February, 1862. in an address r at St. Louis, Tcmatkable as being the first ' speech of the kind ever made in Missouri. he charged slavery with being the cause of n the rebellion. Two months later, in a same city, he took ground for emancipation e in Missouri. In >1 ay, 1864, he was chosen <1 a member of the State Convention, and the n prt ent State Constitution is the work of ' his pn. During the Presidential campaign " 31 r. Drake warmly advocated the re-elee tic-n of Fresident Lincoln, and was chosen d a member of the Electoral College. *• WHAT UOtS IT MEAN T The President's evening organ, Jau. 18 says the Administration that "If necessary its 11 strong and iron hand tcill ho invoked to slay 1 the court and prevent the consummation of ,{ radio>/ tr iv.m. The great oath of the I, President to protect and defend the Consti tution will not be forgotton and tli - people who sustain him with their five hundred thousand majority of_ voting population ' North and South will not forget him. >• Events have already brought the Govero tti ut to the very verge of another revolution If the radical majority in Congress pursues its treasonable course much longer the Gov -1 eminent in order to sustain itself, will hare > - > arm its supporters. At (fi> call of the • I'ri si'/en! oit his friends, North and South, ' "ud the-triny and Xury, will respond. In ■ seeh a contest ths issue cannot be doubtful. t 'or.'grc ; uicn may be valiant fighters on the ' floor of Congress, but when they eomo to | lead tlteii cohorts into the field.it will be another thing. Real armies and the great sol dier- of the Republic will be found fighting under the flag. We advise the opposition ef the dch rinin- dam/fixed/act that Andrew John- ei tcill serve out his ('institutional term , ! of office." Concerning the meaning of such bluster as the above the New York Times speaks as ' I foUowa; 'Hie Democrats have for soma time ; past threatened terrible things, should Con -1 gross per. ist in its roeoustruation policy; but : thus far without eli' iting an approving echo | from the South. Mr. James Brooks, of the \ Krpress, made the boldest bid that has yet lieeu made, in the rcceiit Conventional New Flaveu. He called upon the President to resl-t Congress, and in the event of that j contingency promised him the active lighting 1 support of the Northern Democracy. lie pointed to civil war as a not remote possi- j biltty, declared that this time it would not i . be confined to the other side of the Potomac j and asserted that ten thousand trains will j not be sufficient to convey the Democrats ! who are prepared to rally to the support of ; the President. The South however, takes the matter coofly. Its newspapers refer to dr. Brooks' valorous sayings as unconcer nedly as though they meant nothing. The 3lacon(Ga.) Journal and Jlcssaigei, for in- ; stance referring to the belligerent attitude of the Democracy in genetat and the belli cose language of 3lr. Brooks in particular, j begs to decline the invitation to renew the : fighting in the following pithy paragraph: ' " Bluffing may be a very good practice in' so reckless a game as is now going on, but we | beg leave to suggest that if there's going to i be any more fighting on this side of the Po tomac, we must turn it over to the Northern brethren exclusively, and be counted out. There's so many of them, that only a small i population were able to take a hand in the war ! of the rebellion, and it is not wonderful, therefore, that, they should be spoiling for another opportunity. Not so with the peo ple on this side of the Potomac. Every man who wanted to fight was provided with the fullest opportunity for the gratification of his appetite, and the result is we want no more just now We had much rather raise corn, meat and cotton, and do what we can to re pair our dilapidated fortunes, than take a I baud ju any uew revolution." It is plain that the value of Democratic professions and the trustworthiness of Dem ocratic bluster are fully understood atthe South. Tlie Southern people do not forget that the politicians and the presses who now threaten revolution also threatened resis tance to_ the measures of the Government for putting down the rebellion. They urged the South to rebel and guaranteed it irnmu- j uity; but when fighting time came they l tdunk out of right a I'd their Southern dunes and allies were left to face the difficulty. The Macon Journal reminds Mr. ilrooks that, that game cannot be repeated. Hence forth, the Democrats must fight their own battles —the So tth complacently looking on In these circuit tanecs Mr. Brook's gener alship and army will be of the Fahtaflian sort. Letter from Mexico--The Situation-. Bftznitie Directly Acknowledges Juarez.' Claim. The Marshal, on hi* part, his not been ille. A messenger was dispatched by him to Juarez to obtain from that generous In ! diana recognition of the debt claimed by France to nave been incurred in the inva sion of his country, running him out of the capital and in destroying, robbing and kill ing every one bom a Mexican. The extent to which his Excellency seems to think Christian forgiveness can go suggest* the suspicion that he has cultivated human pas sions. The proposal, of course, infers a re cognition of Juarez as the authority in Mexico, and i.s none the less offensive be cause the bribe is kindly extended. A I'K'TL'KK OF TIIK POLITICAL AM) POM MKRCIAI. MTUATIO!?. With all these blind efforts to unravel the difficulties of the "situation," the state of ; affairs continues to be painful and oppres sive in the extreme. Filled with resent ment against the French because they let! that they have been befooled and betrayed, the conservatives yet turn to the best account the presence of the expeditionary army, so a- to strengthen their position and to com plete their preparations for the bloody strug gle they arc determined to maintain. De crees are issued daily providing ways and means, the army is being organized and the battaflions filled up by the odious system of the press gang. Men arc caught in tbe streets, tied hand and foot, and when a suf ficient number are strung together, are hur ried off to the barracks to lie shaved, drilled and uniformed for the field of carnage. Councilors of the State run about in search of the constitution of the United States, which they are eager to examine as to the electoral law for Congress promised at Or izaba. The conservative press proclaims with noisy confidence the empire to be the will ot the nSf' n Able articles are writ ten, vaunting the r -ourees of the party, and protesting again, t the United States as the arch enemy of the Mexican race and of the Catholic religion. All thc.-.e articles are draped in dark prophecies of the ruin of their inu-h cherish 1 nationalitj- if the Au glo--Anieri'-:tn i ■ allowed to interfere in the affairs of Mexi'-o. Notwithstanding this stirring declamation, all enterprise is paraly zed and business is brought to a stand still. Merchants foresee universal bankruptcy if the present situation be prolonged into the next month. Merchants in Vera Cruz re fuse to recognize or pay duties to the French authorities, who have entered into the Cus tom House iu virtue of the convention of xkugust last between Maximilian and Napo leon, while the Collector here notifies mer chants that he shall < xact the duties upon nil importations into VeraCruz, even though they may have been previously paid to the French at that port. UNCLE SAM i.N THE BACKGEOI'ND. All eyes are turned in the last extremity towards the United States as the only hope of rescue from ruin for both natives and for eigners ; and yet the day that our govern ment ignore- that wise advice upou_'"cn ; i tangling alliances," the word "situation," j as understood here, must find a place in our I vocabulary and a quiescent acceptance, it is jto be fear d. ii ur p aiey, both domestic and j foreign. If Mr. Seward be misled by ineor i ;cct data into artive sympathy with the re publican party < f Mexico, or deviate from • , —.^..-mncxept of a moral neui;a iiy, lie will inherit, on the departure of the French, a question more difficult of solution than even the suppres sion of the Southern rebellion. ACTIVITY OF MAN RIO DIAZ. General Porfirio Diaz, having cleared Oajaca of its enemies, is organizing the civil and military government upon the republi can basis. \Y here there many such as he to direct with the energy and probity the affairs of this distracted land, Mexico might hope for a futun amongst the nations of the world. One e.ve-ption to tfie mass of rulebs offers no pro-| ;to a population scattered over a vast tejrriiory. without means of com munication or <•' civil and commercial in i tcrcourso. Disbanded by decree of the Emperor, the Autro Belgian corps is invited to enter the | Mexican army or to return to Europe at government expense. The invitation to re enlist. though accompanied by tempting promises, wi!i be accepted by few. The promise to replace them in Europe will not be fulfilled. Tiiesc poor fellows must either starveor join the liberals, for whom they at least entertain mora sympathy than for their actual ma-tors. The empire can do natbiag for them. QUEER BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS. The French arc, packing up rapidly and selling off at auction their artny supplies. The hospital -tores were sold a few days ago —sl,Boo cash I- -.vii utid the balance to be paid on short time at the \\ ar Department. The purolia.-cv, 0 u presenting himself to comply with tbe terms of sale, was notified that he must take back his money, as the -ale could net ! recognized by the govern ment. The .-Mr - had been brought into the country for the ii-e of the empire ; and if the French wishd to dispose of them by sale, the eust"inary duties must lie previ ously paid. Very many French residents are selling off ami making preparations to leave by the loth of January, with the first division ot the army, towards Vera Cruz. I hey are ready to sacrifice their business and property in dread of the return which they are conscious of meriting for the insolence and overbearing conduct they have or. all occasions displayed toward Mexicans of all ranks and parties. The exceptions to sueh deportment have been so few that ir docs not relieve the mass of them in Mexico from the observation, "that in prosperity they arc domineering, and in adversity as cring ing." Speech of Senator Cameron. HAHIUSIU.'UU, Jan. 15.—This afternoon a public gatherinrr was liulJ atone of the hotels in thi- cit.>. at which speeches were made he Attorney General llrewster, Sena tors Lowry and Laugdon aud General Came ron. In the course of his remarks Gen. Came ron said; Your greeting is very kind aud cordial and I thank you for it. I thank God that in spite of th-- -landers my ,enemies have heaped on me for twenty years, my fellow citizens, who have seen my life from day to day, have always stood by my side and hel ped to repel them. This last struggle of my political life has ended in victory. I deserved this as iin answer to vindicate my honesty to uiy children and my friends. "I now propose to put these slanders buhiud me and to forget alike the liars who concoc ted them and the laet that good men in some cases, !y the repetition of them, were induced to believe and repeat them. Of the eighty two Republican members of the Legislature, my friends assure me that sixty three of them preferred mc to any other candidate, and would have voted for me rather than have witnessed my defeat. The character oi my supporters is as gratifying to- me as their number.-. Any one who knows anythingei'our politics, who will read the list of those who voted for me will find names ns pure and honorable as that of the pti! est Christian moralists among my rivals and tpiite as unlikely to descend to anv cor rupt proposal. Just there I leave the.wholo matter putting all party feuds, aud animosi- tie* aod prejudices together under my i'ect, and Igo forward to the honorable duty to which my native State has called me for the third time. Six years ago f thought that slavery *a, s the strength of the rebellion and ought, to be destroyed without delay. 1 wished ako to arm all the black meo who would volun teer. Of coorp, I thought that clothing a black man in the American uniform clothed bim also with die right! of ait American citizen; and I am always sorry to see a black soldier and then refect that even Pennsyl vania denies him the ballot—the only weap on whereby he can protect hitu.-olf. I hype to live to see the word •'white'' -trick''!) from our own Constitution, and the spirit of caste, based upon color, utterly destroyed. The South however, is more controlled by social influence than by political prinei pies. If you arc wise and firm you may po.- - sibiy educate the rising generation with loyalty; but there is no method of statesman ship which will make this generation of the South loyal to the Union and to the flag. The poison of thirty years cannot be eradica ted by the subserviency of the President or by the statutes of Congress. Let us look the truth in the face. The Southern terri tory is disloyal. The loyal men of to day must guard their children against another J treasonable rebellion. The constitutional j amendment and universal suffrage will help to do this, but universal amnesty will help i to undo it. Of Andrew Johnson, I said long ago, that he was a traitor to his party, and an enemy of his country and a bad man. He has done many bad things but nothing worse thai) offering the offices of the country to those few unprincipled men who agreed to desert and betray the great Republican organization for bis patronage. He joined the Demo cratic party long ago. He has a right to give them the offices, but be has no right to dispose of them at auction, to weak kneed Republicans. The pauper labor of Europe is again competing with our labor, aul our manufactories languish for want of protec tion against it. Fenusylvani* needs no a suranee of my devotion to her interests in ! this regard which is the intere.-t of tbe whole country. I will continue to labor iu season and out of season, to protect our manufactories from ruin and their workmen from being thrown out of employment, or their wages reduced to the starvation point for I hold that the true welfare of any naiion depends on the welfare of its laboring clas-. Gentlemen, I trust that this is my la-t political struggle. I have nothing more to desire and I hope that we will all forget the bitterness, the unjustifiable bittern..--.-I think of the late contest. For my pari 1 shall try to act as a representative of all tbe Radical Republicans of Pennsylvania, with out regaid to past differences or di-sen-iou-. With my temperament I cannot forget uiy friends who have stood by mc so nobly, but I will try to forget and forgive the unjust calumnies and the political opposition I have experienced. Subsequently the Good V, ill Fire Com pany presented the speaker with a costly seal, THE state of Count Bismarck's health, says a Berliu correspondent, whatever may lie said to the contrary, occasions serious uneasiuvss. Our own information states that four medicsq men of the first eminence met in consultation at Berlin a week ago. Were the malady not of a very grave character, such an appeal of the greatest medical celebrities of Berlin and Vienna would certainly not have been made. c T. —iftrtn—Y—The anions! uf Plaiitatia Hitters sold in one year is something *r.a.. t io*s They would liH Broadway six foet high, from the Park to 4th street. Drake's umncfactury is ot of the institutions of N*w York. It in said ;ka Drake painted all the rocks in the Eastern State# with bis cabalistic M S. T.—l*6<LX t " and then got the old gTanny legislator# to pass a law "pre venting disfiguring the fa'-e of nature," which gives him a monopoly. We do not know how this i. but vre do know the Plantation Bitters SELL a- no other article ever did. They are u-cd by all classes *f the community, and are death . u Dyspepsia—certain. They are very invigorating when languid and weak, and a great appetizer. Saratoga Spring Water, sold by aadrug^Uts "In lilting the kettle frota the fire 1 seal. g. myself very severely—one hand almost to a ere The torture was unbearable. 3 - The Mended Mustang Liniment relieved the pain alwost isp. mediately. It healed rapidly, and left very lican scar. CR VS. FOSTER, 420 Broad St. PkiJai This is merely a sample of what the Mustattl Liniment will do. It is invaluable in all ease# of wounds, swellings, sprain#, cuts, bruises, spavins etc.. cither upon man or beast. Beware of counterfeits. None is genuine unlc-s wrapped in fine steel-plate engravings, bearing the signature of G. \V". Westbrook, Chemist, and the prifte -ramp of DEMAS 11A ;.M> Co., New York. araloga Spring Water, sold by \W druggists. AQUR DR MAGNOLIA. —The prettiest thing, the "svrcetesT thing," and the most of it for the lea t uvm.r. It overcomes the odor of perspira tion: fftot- ;iud adds delicacy t the skin, is a delightful perfume: allays headache and inflam mation, "tt i a necessary companb nin the sick room, in the nursery, and upon the toilet sideboard. It can be obtained everywhere ut one dollar per bottle. Saratoga Spring Water. wM by aildruggista AB who value a bcu*Uful bet'. <f hair, and its preservation from premature 1 -and turning gray, will not fail t use Lyons' ••• tcbratc.l Kath airon. It makes the hair re. 1.. -It and glossy, eradicates dandruff, and causes the hair t grow wiili luxuriant beauty. It is .erywlicrv. E. TIIOM AS LY I • . LICUR-' N Y. Saratoga Spring Water, sob! by nil d ruggist ffiiix Du> IT?—A y. ung lady, returning to her country homo after a sjorn of a few months n New York, was hardly recognized by her friends. In place of a rustic, flushed fan-, she had a soft, ruby complexion, of almost uiarbta smoothness: and instead of 22. she really appeurj cd hut 17. She told them plainly sheu'ed M gan'j Magnolia Halm, and would not he withon' it. Any lady cau improve her pet-ninal oppearan very much by nsing this atlii :•. It on be order cd of any druggist 'or only a a reals. Saratoga Spring Water, m . . .>v aUdruggi.-ts lleimstreot's iniinitble iiair Coloring ha. been Itily growing in favor for over twontv years, sd acts upon the absorbent- at the root.- oi tho aair, and changes it to its original color by do crecs. Ail instantaneous dyes doaden and injure th liair. lleiiustre- i's £ not a ilyt, bu: is co ntain in its results, promotes its growth, and i.- bcautifui HAIR OBKSSIVU. Price iO cents and SI Sold by all dealers. Saratoga Spring Water, soil by all druggists Lvox'* EXTRACT UK Pru* JAMAICA UIXKKK - for Indigestion, Isausea, 11 eartburu, Sick Head ache. UholcraJliorbus, ., w here a warming, ge nial stimulant is required. lis careful prepare tion and entire purity make it cheap and relia ble article for culinary purposes. Bold every where at iO eta. per bottle. Saratoga Spring Water, soul by all druggists July 20, lS6S:eow:!y
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