tOr star it. Situtind. it. isTo. adirsallsors andotbersluterested w 111 ' boat tie Sated M i st tie regular strew. , latlow of She "SITAR ANDAENTIISEL" Is atuei larger thaw that of way star wooer publisbrd in the County, biotiwg read weekly by sot less thaw MONO 4. • enema. DECORATION DAT. We notice in our exchanges that prepanitioniiire being' made in various places for the observance of the 30th of May, the day set apart for the decora tion of the , graves of the heroes who fell in-defence of the Union. As yet we have heard of no preparations in this-place, where of all others the occa sion should be duly honored. At Get t3 sburg the power of the Rebellion culminated, and here _.received its death-blow. Over three thousand of the nation's heroes lie in the National Cemetery, and it is eminently fitting that their graves should be strewn with Bowers on the 30th. Hitherto the cer emonies in Gettysburg have been con ducted under the auspices 'of the mem bers of the Grand Army of the Repub lic. We understand that die Post in this place has disbanded, and it will be necessary that some other agency take steps to observe the day, either by a meeting of citizens or of the surviv ing soldiers of the War. There is a propriety in the latter moving In the matter, and as but little time remains to complete the arrangements, we tak the liberty of naming Col. C. H. Buehler, Col. E. G. Falinestock, and Hitj. H. B. Benner az a provisional committee, to initiate ;the movement, by promptly callino a meeting of citi zens or surviving officers and soldiers of the War, as may be deemed best.— We name these gentlemen simply be cause they are the highest commis sioned officers in the borough. There are others, both in town and county , who will doubtless be glad to co-operate with them. IT Is somewhat remarkable that while Northern Copperheads and Southern fire eaters of the Ku-Hinz stamp alike fail to accept the situation as determined by the triumph of the Union arms, and manifest a dogged purpose to keep alive the spirit of Re bellion; by a constant abuse of the N ational Government, and an equally constant defence and laudation of the men who precipitated the Rebellionr— the Rebels who did the actual fighting and bore the brunt of the conflict, with ,s conviction of the rightfulness of their cause; now evince a determination to atone for past errors by a manly sup port of the Government. While Fer nando Wood, Horatio Seymour, Voor hees and Vallandingbam, Jett. Davis, Henry' A. Wise, and other blatant politicians, North and South, are 'still at heart Rebels, Wade Hampton. Breckenridge, Longstreet, and other prominent Rebel chieftains, insist that it is the duty of the South, having staked every thing on the arbitrament of arms, to abide the issues of the war, and accept the results work ed out by the logic„ of events. We have before us another *illustration of this same feeling. Robert W. Hughes, a prominent Viginia Rebel, who went into the contest, not from ambitious purpose but in vindication of what he believed to be a just cause, in response to an invitation to attend a recent . freedmen's celebration, thus writes : "Having been myself a rebel until the close of the war, it was natural that I should have arrived at the aoaclusiou slowly and reluctantly (but I entertain it profoundly) that the policy of the Republican party is the only policy that , can settle the controversies of the late war and restore a final and substantlal peace between the sections and races." We commend this paragraph to Northern Copperheads who are reluc tant to surrender their sympathy for the loot cause, and doggedly cling to the issues of the dead past. Southern Rebel organs are just now roundly berating (ten. Longstreet for attending the colored celebration of the ratification of the 15th Amendment, on the 80th ult., in New Orleans, on which occasion he rode in the proces sion in a carriage literally covered with Stars and Stripes. Tun woman suffrage movement doesn't seem to be waiug 1111tch pro• tress in this.country. The Illinois Cotu3titutional Convention, which had agreed to submit the question to a vote of the people of that State, has re-eon - sidered its action and struck out the clause. In England, however, the ag itation bids fair to amount to souk thing. The House of Commons has passed to a second reading the bill re• moving the disabilities of women in -regard to voting, by a vote of 124 to 91. A petition signed by 190,000 women was lately presented to rerilenlebt, asking for the right of suffrage, " and the decided vote in the House of Com mons shows that. the new movement has considerable strength among our congas across the water. In England the right of suffrage among men is limited by a property test, and the masses de not vote. Hence even If female suffrage be granted, It will be confined to the '!upper" Tim New York World, the national Democratic organ, is after the colored vote—insists that "the colored people owe nothing to the Republican party for the change in their politiesl condi tion," and that prudent management will secure a lame proportion or the Democratic party. Now that the "nigger" has become a power in polit ical movements, we hear little of the 0 4113 in-bone" philosophy, and it will not be long before these tome Demo- cratic leaders will claim to Iwo bcen the life-long and peculiar friends of the colored man. It will take some time, however, to bring the Adams county rank and file up to that stand point.— They have been too persistently Indoc trinated with negro•phobia to change front at once. We see it stated that a bill was passed by the Legislature changing the man ner of electing School Directors. While it is difficult to ,say what bills were passed and what were not passed, we feel satisfied that no such bill panned either Howie. Mr. Beaus, of Bucks, reported i bill to provide for the elec tion of School DlrecMrs the same way that Inspectors 'of Elections me elected, so as to give each political party a representation in all School Boyd*, but the bill was not brought to a vote; School Directors will be sleet ed as heretofore. Tinaßoontreet Nava comes to us this week enlarged and in a now dress, presenting a neat appears km. Mr. Scum., the editor, kit 'veteran in the service, hsa proved his fidelity to Re publican priuoildss in a long andikith ful editorial career, and in this im provement manifests!' purpose to merit the continued oestildeum and support of ihi true Ropubikaps of liktuansel eocutig.' Putnam's Magazine, for . May, has an article on "Political Degeneracy," from altieh we take the following' extract. It faithfully portray a the abandonment of Drinocrativ pr inciples by the Dem ocratic party within the last fifty years. The writer says :—"The Deniocratic patty used to be a party of ideas; its shibboleths in the old times, though it was not always true to them, were equal rights and impartial legislation ; and the predominance it acquired was won by these words. All its greater leaders professed and expounded them; and they made the party dear to the popular heart. The writings of Jeffer son, of Nathaniel hiticon, of John Taylor, of Carolina, of Andrew Jack son, and particularly of Silas Wright, Samuel Young, Michael Hoffman, and William Leggett of the Rate of New York., were the utterances of men sin cerely,`convinced of the truth and good ness of the democratic theory of the State. - In the long and exciting strug gle between the masses of the people and the money power of banks, the leading Democrats clung with an in vincible tenacity to that conviction, and by means of it they were victorious in the end. It secured them a prolong ed control, not only of the General Government, but that of nearly every State in the Union. But prosperity wrought corruption ; the sinister alliances which success al ways brings with-it, and particularly thtalliance of the slaveholdere o tAte South—swift to put themselves on, the stronger side--cauleci a deflection from the straight line of duty. How could they who bad marched to victory un der the banner of equal rights, wave its glorious folds in the face of a body of men whose whole social, system was built upon an atrocious denial of all rights to an entire race of mankind?— How could they who had clamored for Impartial legislation uphold a legisla tion which refused to acknowledge ev en the political existence of at least one-half the community ?. It was a painful predicament; a few re' mained true to principle ; but the most preferred the tortuous paths of jug glery. Iu the place of Human Rights they inscribed upon their standard an- I other word, not different in every re spect, yet not the same--State Rights. Under a plausible but fallacious inter pretation of the Organic Law, they erected these commonwealths, which are but the coequal integers of a Com poalte Nation, into the independent and sovereign parties to a federal compact. There was enough truth—and of im portant truth--.-in their doctrine to mislead the simple mind, unused to the nicer distinctions of, political her meneutics. It was not discovered, at a moment, how they brought the Con , *Mutton into conflict with . the most elementary principles of liberty and justice,—how they adroitly shielded an abuse which every unperverted mind abhorred by an instrument which ev ery American heart revered. Thus fbr a time they were successful in confus ing popular intelligence andconsolence. Slavery triumphed ; but as it is the na ture of all despot/arm to proceed to excess, its triumph was accompanied by an assertion of supremacy so dicta torial and arrogant, that it of itself, apart from its nefarious cense, provoked revolt. A reaction, slow at first, but sure and inevitable as the laws of God, gathered intensity and strength with time, until the smouldering fires burst into a conflagration. War, the- last arbiter, came; but when it came, it is to be said with sorrow and regret that, while the masses of the_ Democrats shouldered their guns in defence of Liberty and the National Life, many, far too many, of their leaders, either aided with the insurgents or gave a cold shoulder to the patiltits, Throughout this contest, and especi ally in the appeal to arms, the conduct of the Republican party was as decided and honorable as that of the Democrats wag vacillating and disreputable.— Formed originally, indeed, of the seri ous sad - thinking men of all the °lda' parties, as a protest against their gen eral subefrYlonee to the SlaTal'ower, it marritained ConahitelleY with a greater purity of zeal and a ingfre In flexible purpose than is usual with political combinations. . fik,Elietintaa it doubted, sometimes it wavered, some times conspicuous leaders thought possible to solace the hardships of the -tnarch with the sweets of official bivouacs; but when the battle was at length joined, 'They fought li p brlyve mex long and well, They were!' the Faked with slain: and they did not desist—in imy &irk nese however black, in any strain how ever exhausting and desperate—until the enemy had been dispersed, am) an entire race redeemed from slavery into freedom ! That Is a transcendan glory for any party to have achieved at any period of the world's history. The movements of reform are coin manly so slow ; wrongs are so inveter ate, strike so deeproots into the so weave their branches among many tender twigs, clamber up and twine about so many sheltering walls, that pulling them up is dangerous ; so they can only be lopped oft by degrees. Bu the hideous Upas of slavery was liter ally deraelnated ; radicalism was _true to lts meaning ; the very roots were torn from the soil by the Act of Emsn &paten ; and subsequently by the Great Amendments, all the rootlets and little fibres that might sprout again somewhere hive been out uft. Now for the first time slime the preamble to the Declaration of Independence—the Mating CACirifi 4f Oa ftepUblie—Was framed, every human being In the lend may read it without feeling it to be a 14, with an hyneat and js i ddlant anti solemness tlutt,ll le a truth. *Act the greatest of truths. What is to oome of so swift and tre mendous a change, the future will tell ; hut it is impossible to indulge in any despondency in respect to it; for we should distrust the God who mac) us, and man, his Pohlad image, if we could suppose that as act of Justin, so grand and signal could hays any other than prosperous leioes—pusperms beyond the dreams of oath, because In- volving every benignity of the gym. isthettilo baavens.n Tan Trustee, of the Delairare State :formal Schwa have recently imbed a einsular on "the prreent oondition of nubile education" in ;hilt Mite, which oontaine the startling Mateasent th4‘ good Judges estimate the ;lumber of men and women in that State unable. to read and write their own namm, at not lea tiara one-third of the emirs population. This le the State where a White Idan's Party".'Wanted pre aerve the armed rights of the white eltizens, and to protect them from the dreaded Influence of "ignorant" blacks! On too AI bug., Glen. Irwin onounod the aloe of Stile TIONNWer • boring Sled cm bond roquLrod by tbo our Aot..lleggart, cootifor amber Mr. Irwin'/ 'brew adinfabnedkonAgs boon • fie - Eleils owe Gov. Geary a debt of 'gratitude lbe his veto of the Bill to rob the State Treasury of over $9,000,000 to aid sundry railroad. enterpriser. It Is conceded that the bill was carried in botkbranchotof the • Legislature by the • most andacioni bribery, members' votes being shame lessly brought up by the originators of tile swindle. The enormous amount of the "steal" gave the lobby ample means to buy up as many votes as were requisite, and but for the lute hour at which the veto was sent lu , making a 1 second passage of the bill impractica. f We, it may be that it woulithave been I enacted into law over the Governor's veto. The p inks wilco engineered the matter will i in doubt he co. hand next winter, and ose only way- 'a.• the peo ple to prevei.t the swindi.- being con summated iiext is for the nominating Convebtions , o see thatall Legislative candidates" are squarely pledged against it. Adato.s county is on the record, through the votes of Dr. Dill and Senator Duncan, as favoring the bill. Row about our next Re-. presentative ? This is a matter that concerns tax-payers of all parties, and they should see to it, if corrupt party leaders will not. TH E result of Napoleon's appeal to the people for endorsement of his peculiar scheme for establishing the appearance of popular government While, at the same time, he retained hie absolute personal power, has justi fied his confident expectatons. Full returns from ail parts of France show the vote on the Plebiseitum to have been : Yes, 7,210,296 ; Nor-415.30,610, giving a Majority of 5,679,686 for Na poleon. The army vote stood, 227,886 for, and 29,864 against. These enorm ous majorities peeve that the go• ovo runt of the Empire still has a r Hog hold upon the masses of the people, despite popular belief to the contrary • Paris and Marseilles voted against the Empire, the former by 45,013, and the loiter 6,417 mojority. .The rural dis tricts gave nearly a unanimous vote for the Empire. There wag mueh excite ment in Paris, and barricades were thrown up by the mob, but the prompt action of the troops maintained order. Tax General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South is in session at Memphis, Tennessee. On Wednesday a memorial ws. read from Bebop Janes, of the Church North, urging a re-union and asking the ap pointment of a Committee to consider the question: Last year a !similar pro position was- declined. A re-union is only a question of time, but at present the Church South needs a little more "re-construction" to bring it into ac cord with the unionistic movements of the day. THE Pension Committee of the Uni ted States Senate have reported ad. versely to granting Mrs. Lincoln a pension. The Committee give a de tailed statement of the amount realis ed from her husband's estate to show that she is not in the needy circum stances generally supposed, and argue that as there is no existing law under which the pension can - be granted a special act would be a dangerous prece dent. THE trial of McFarland, for the murder of Ilicharcison.' which has been in progress in NeW York for several Weeks, terminated on Tuesday by the Jury rendering a verdict of "Not Guilty," after three hours deliberation. Tea Irma °aux &Ana. —lf the House basis of 275 members of Oongrese should be adopted for the next ten year*, Ohio will have 21 members, Indiana 12 and Illinois 19; total for the time States, 52 members. This is nearly one fifth of all the House.— It is nearly equal to the number of members of the imperial States of New York and Pennsylvania, which will bate 58 member" between them. The five. States lying side by side will cut 110 votes in the next House, or within 28 votes of a" majority of the whole Union. There are thirty-eight States in the Union, but practically the political power in the legislation of Congress and In the election of President and Vice Presi ,dent is in the five States we have mention - ell--,New York, Pennsylvania, Ohlo, In diana and Illinois : 'pa 4ed with the smaller States they will carry, they will be irresisd ble, It is probably safe to:lay that after 1880 a majority of all the people in this country will reside within their borders,— They are thiseat - of American empire.— Look at their present mpjestic populations : New York 4,700,000 Peruisylvania. $ 500,000 Ohio .3,100,000 , Illinois", 1,700,000 •?, 1,700,000 Total . . . Here is a population within a million and a ball of the whole population of the Valon In 1840, thirty years ago, —.ltarrishurg Telegraph. A - 81110171.“ CAs=.—The following cue of suffocation comes from Portland, Maine : "A few evenings since the family of Mr. Charles Rolf, Jr., consisting of himself, Wife and one child, residing 'on Portland street, narrowly escaped suffocation by gas from a mei stove. • The child had been playing about the room, e 4, pnobserved, shut the damper to the stove, thus preventing the gas from escaping up the chimney. Just before retiring Mr. Roll Ailed the stove with new coal, but did not notice the con dition of the damper. ,Ithey retired, and the escaping gas soon completely stupided them. When they returned to -conscious seas Mr. and Ma. Rolf both found them selves prostrate on the door, and had been vomiting violently and (flo od was oozing rom their noses. The child was still sleep lag ow the hod- They fetlnd 4 Wiedelf open which we. closed when they went to bed, bat neither remembered raising it.— They thought they : had slept the usual time, but on going to the store far his morning'i milk be thund they bad slept until nearly six o'clock the next evening—sbout twetßy two hours. Fortunately, no serious effects have ;united." Dammam Aocumer.—On last Friday, little Freak, the only child of Frank and ano7 !twins; While &ding with a pet dog in the kli4heni pulled a fee kettle or boiling water off the stove, deluging himself with the oontents. An examiustion show ed a terrible scald , . covering the entire body from the waist down, but even than the fat al result which followed was not anticipat ed. Although every thing that could be was done to relieve the pain, the shook was too great ler his system, and on Saturday morning the little seems died. - Frank was II Most interesting child, aged about three ran and memo iusarki t 'mtd was the idol ebb parents end the pet oi fhe belem4o4l, eild redden has Arita the dopes" sympathy of the entire cermenethy.—gar ibrd DenweraL Tan host hualligattoa front the mad!. lion farming the Isthmus of Darien ibr a canal route tantrum the Atlantic and Pacif ic, is that it has not yet met with sums, and that the Calakalla bay routs is Wigan triable, Ti* intensatkiial Yacht jam between the Sag lid yacht Oestibeis. sad the Anal. tas —I Elepato, at Wednesday la the gates eheseel, vu west by the Sappho. Tag 80boone aglow mos was to bek“ Peamyinsis Igoe. Omit Widesaigy, MANI Constmsnr - of an adjourn ment before thlt Ist of A.nignst. Tim Senate Killats4',Committee is ad verse to the amen* to Mrs.- Lee of the Washington relics - owlet Mount Vernon. Tiu Pfasideitt baistated hie approval of Senator Sherinan's bill for the reduction of the ham Ox Saturday 'there was ten-and-half mil lions of currency in the Treasury, and near ly a hundred milliome of coin. AIMS° Napoleon's little bills of, house hold expenses, is an Item of $lO,OOO paid ,yearly to his hair dresser. - Tas British Government purpose wolfing to the Canadian waters a force sufficient to protect the fisheries. Tim Ways and Mean Committee Mon day decided,tipon a large redaction of in terrud taxallOn. Ma Jossrs H. Lawns, Mr. Golliday's successor as Representatives from Kentucky, took his seat in the House yesterday. IT is said that four thousand Mormons attended the fortieth Conference of that church at Salt Lake City last week. Gamut. SHUMAN has ordered that all available troops at Fort Columbus, New York harbor, be sent to Texas. Tax Emperor and Empress of Austria recently washed the feet of twelve poor old men and women in the throne ram at Vi- enut. Amnia girl sent out to hunt for egp, came back unsuccessful, oomplaining that "lots qt ballr were standing round doing nothing." car loads of ego passed through ta i na Toled one day last week. The shipment con ' one million two hundred and sixty ,; nd eggs. Nsility two Weeks ago 1,500 pounds of strawberries arrived In the San Francisco market, and were sold at from twenty-five to thirty cents per box. A raiment:4nm hall storm occurred in Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon, stones seven inches in circumference falling and causing the wreck of thousands of windows. Guinean Jordan and several Cuban of ficers have arrived in New Cork. They re present the patriot cause as being In a bet ter condition than at any previous stage. Tas Oblo'Leeslature adjourned without passing the appropriation bill. Members will have to wait for their own pay until the next session. AT Memphis, Saturday, the graves of the rebel dead were decorated, aid the corner - stone of a monument was laid. Business generally was suspended. Tut Executive and Locating Committees of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural So ciety have fixed upon Scranton as the place fbr holding the State Fair for 1870. A TOTING lady of Massachusetts was re cently offered $5OO-fur her hair, which lacks but half an inch of being six feet long, but refused. The offer was increased to $l,OOO, and then rejected. A Mn. Pickleton was lately married at the Walnut Street Church, in Philadelphia, to a Miss. Sardine. This is a fact. There is nettling fishy about, the announeement—ex-_ cept the name of the bride. A Barron gentleman who could not waltz, offered a young lady one hundred dollars if she would let him hug her as much as the man did who had just waltzed with her.' "1 WOULD do anything to gratify Yon ; would go to the end of the world to, please you," said a fervent lover to object of affec tions. "Well, sir, go there and stay, and I shall be pleased." Tux world is -safe from collbdon fur a while longer, as the consoling intelligence is afforded us that for the next hundred years the distance between the earth and the sun will gradually increase. Tim Burnett House In Cincianati was leased several years ago by Mr. Miller, who cleared $250,000 during the thus he mana ged it, and sold the lease for $225,000. Mr. Miller knows how to bring grist to the mill. Ir Ls stated that a man recently died In 0 4 4=7 county, who left his wife one cent., a brother a few dollars, and the re mainder of his property„ss,ooo, to erect a monument to hte own atinriotess and ego tism Tom Majesty of the law takes care of it self in Louisiana. A district Judge of New Orleans has just commiued to prison for five days, and fined ninety-live dollars, the Lieutenant• Governor of the State fbr con tempt of Court. donne from Tomas, Louisana, and Mis sissippi are scouring South Carolina for plantation bands, and thousands of celled families are saifi to be moving Westward in response to this great demand for their labor. Tni dread disinter at Richmond has awakened an unusaul amount of sympathy throughout the Country. In most of the Pities subscription lists bare been opened, and liberal pontributinne srP 1 111 14 4 7 going forward to the sufferers. m•-!.. 14 ,7 00 . 00 . Turas yaks ego, a young man in West Rutland, Vt„ boaght a quarry hi that lawn, in which's supply of stone bad been discov ered adopted to the manufkcture of slate pencils. He paldsloo for his purchase. At present the quarry is valued at ssoo,ooo. Tax Republican Executive Committal of Philadelphia is taking measures to secure the polling of the full colored vote of that city. it will amount to between four and five thousand, and ought to secure the suc cess of the entire Republican ticket, Tag peach growers of Delaware are Johl bat over the prospects of an immense crop of peaches. There is no danger now from frost or cold winds, and this Important crop to the people of the State may thergiete be considered gab. "Do you mean to challenge the jury P" whispered a lawyer to his Irish client. "Ti,, by }abets," was the answer, "if they dont aerate me, I mean tp phallism vary spa_ peen of 'em ; I want ye to give 'em all a hint of it, too." GOTZRYOB Morrow, of Indiana, is a per manent invalid, Re walks with a pane In each hand, and addrepea the Senate while seated in his chair. Although a paralytic, there is no lack of energy in his manner, and his voice reaches every portion of the spacious chamber and galleries. Am Irishman, being a little fuddled, was asked what was his religious belief. "Is it PIP be of 'IV be sikieß 0 0 104 It's the 'amp es t Widdy pc*. owe Or twelve *Miroto Whisky, and she lo ans VU never pap bert—end, hith4 that's my Wahl too," Tea Hon. John Morrlsey, member of Congress, is evidently without honor in his own otentry. The new 13uptriatentleat of Pollee in New York has stationed= Wager at the door of site Honorable gentleman's gambling den, to warn all parsons from en tering that renowned but dangerous stab ile/meat. As a New SAW school esaminamm, the etbendayobe timber sought to drrelop 1W romemLintelllimme"