She
Borulnt,.M Deronber S. ING 3.
THE NAME THING AT EAST.
After all the carnage and destruction
of four years of war, how much nearer
are we to a restoration of the Union
than we were when the Peace Congress
was in session, in March, 1861? The
question.which then divided North Car
olina, Virginia, Tennessee and other
"border states," from the North, was
the status of the negro in the Territo
ries. That which now operates to keep
the Southern States out of the Union,
is the status of the negro in those States.
Had the proposition of Virginia, offer
ed in the Peace Congress by Mr. James
A. Seddon, been accepted, by that txxly,
and adopted by the Federal Congress,
not one of the "border states" would
have joined the Secession movement.
That proposition was simply the "Crit
tenden Compromise." This was Vir
ginia's ultimatum, and to abide by this,
that State was solemnly pledged by her
Convention. Its success in Congress
would have saved Virginia, Tennessee,
North Carolina, Arkansas and Missouri,
to the Union, and would have complete
ly checked the "Cotton States" in their
attempt at revolution. But, as is well
known, it was defeated by the votes of
Northern Radicals and war was the re
sult. Well, lialf a million of fighting
men have gone to bloody graves; the
fair fields and beautiful cities of one
half of the Union, are in desolation and
ashes; a debt of untold millions con-
traded during the war, oppresses the
people; and, worse than all, our rulers
have set such examples of usurpation
and lawlessness, under the plea of "ne
cessity," as will enable any corrupt or
ambitious successor to make fair excu
ses for trampling under foot that popu-
lar liberty which once was the pride
and boast of our country. But these
dreadful sacrifices have not secured
what it was represented they would
accomplish. It is now six months since
the war has come to an end. Congress,
just convened, is still but a "rump par
liament,'' consisting almost exclusively
of representatives from the Northern
States. The same subject which agita
ted the Congress of 1861, threatens di
vision and exacift-bation in the present.
Jt u the everlasting negro over again!
After all the horror and misery of the
late war, it turns out that Congress, at
last, must relieve the country of this
black ''issue" which has so often (to
borrow a phrase from Abolitionism )
"threatened the life of the nation."—
Tho Congress of 1861, might have done
this just as easily as the present one
will doit. But the Northern Radicals
wanted war, trusting in the fanaticism
of the time and the sujieriority of num
bers, to bear out successfully their
schemes for the destruction of negro
slavery. They succeeded in defeating
the peaceful settlement of the negro
question and it was referred to the ar
bitrament of the sword. Though suc
cessful through the agency of war, in
their effort to abolish slavery, they have
failed in their ulterior purpose, the en
franchisement and potiticfd elevation of
the negro. Hence they stand to-day
where they stood in 1861, and hence
they will not yet permit the restoration
of the Union.
CONGRESS has met and organized.
The "cohesive power of public plun
der" still holds the Abolition members
together. The New York politicians,
who were so loud in their protestation
of friendship for President Johnson,
haveunited with ThaddeusStevens and
the Radicals to kick Johnson's policy
out of sight. There isn't a single con
servative "Republican" in the whole
Congressional bear-garden at Wash
ington. The people have been most e
gregiously hood-winked by the pro
fessions of the men who hast fall pre
tended to support the President's res
toration policy, but who now trample
that policy under foot. MePhetson,
the Clerk of the lower House of Con
gress, has excluded from his roll of
members, even the names of the rep
resentatives from the President's own
State, some of whom are the bosom
friends, personal and political, of An
drew Johnson. Of course, his excuse
for this course of conduct, is, that Ten
nessee is not in the Union. If this be
so, how can we have a lawfully elected
President from that State? The Ten
nessee Congressmen have just as much
legal right to occupy seats in the Fed
eral House of Representatives, as An
drew Johnson, of Tennessee, has to oc
cupy the chair of the Federal Execu
tive. Again, the caucus of Abolition
congressmen, has adopted a resolution
shutting the doors of Congress in the
faces of the Southern representatives,
and recommending the appointment of
a joint committee of Senators and
Members to inquire into and report up
on their Qualifications. Now, each
haute is, separately and independently,
the judge of the qualifications of its
members, but the appointment of this
revolutionary committee, makes Sena
tor.* the judge* of the qualifications of
Members, et vice verm ! But, we think
the Radicals have overshot their mark.
The people will, beyond all question,
promptly rebuke these high-handed
proceedings. If the Union is not re
stored, and the war, therefore, has been
a failure, the masses, so wantonly and
cruelly deceived by the men in power,
will take the matter into their own
hands, and themselves restore the Union !
PRESIDEXT JOHNSON and his cabinet
permit even "rebel" soldiers to vote in
the Southern States; but a few unscru
pulous partizans in this State, would
disfranchise men who never lifted a hand
against the government, but simply
evaded military service in a cause which
they could not conscientiously support.
Now, it matters not how righteous ami
just was the war in which these men
refused to fight; they eonseienfiousti/ be
lieved it to have been wrong. Are they
to be deprived of their citizenship/or
conscience 1 sake/ Are these men to lie
denied the ballot, whilst the whole con
tinent is ringing with the cry of "uni
versal suffrage?". Are these white men
to lie degraded, when we hear from ev
ery Abolition stump and every Radical
pulpit, and read in every column of
every "Republican" newspaper, the de
mand for the social and political eleva
tion of the African? The next Legisla
ture will have to answer these questions.
The last one, under the lead of Colonel
MeClure, of Franklin, and Mr. Brown,
of Warren, decided them in the nega
tive. But, John Cessna and some other
political tricksters, will press the sub
ject upon the coming Legislature, and
will demand, in the name of the "Re
publican" party, the enactment of a
law excluding from the ballot-box all
that clas- of citizens above described.
We shall soon see whether partizan vin
dictiveness will he able to override the
Constitution of the State and to rob a
large proportion of our citizens of the
sacred franchises which it so solemnly
guarantees.
The he is a good deal of noise, just
now, about a history of Buchanan's Ad
ministration, written by the Ex-Presi
dent himself. The Abolition papers
are terribly exercised in regard to it and
abuse it roundly. We have seen some
extracts from the book, and judging its
qualities by these, we must say that
its author handles without gloves,
some certain notabilities of the begin
ning of the war. We defer our opin
ion of the work, until we shall have
read it. Suffice it to say, that it is,
doubtless, a very full, fair and able ex
position of the views, policy and cir
cumstances which governed Mr. Bu
chanan's administration during the
four years it held the reins of govern
ment.
Another W kink re.—' The horn that
is goring the sides of the tax-payers has
just got another wrinkle. On Tuesday
last we were served with a notice by
the Revenue Assessor to the effect that
every paper and hand-bill we print,
will tie taxed ix per cent, upon it-val
ue, and that we must make a monthly
return of the same. Of course we can't
afford to <lo this. We already pay for
a Federal License, as dealer, and have
no idea of living considered also in the
Manufacturers' class. If we must pay
this tax, we shall be compelled to in
crease our prices just in proportion.
Glorious, "grand, gloomy and peculiar"
system! "The best Government God
ever gave to man," i- getting rather
heavy to support under such a load of
taxation ! But great is Congress and
Thad. Stevens is its prophet!
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Way, New York.
THE President's Message has not
been received up to the hour of going
to press, and. therefore, we cannot give
our readers any idea of its tenor.
Ax EDITOR IN LUCK.— At the North
western fair just held here, and which
by the way was a splendid success, apart
of the programme was that of foot ra
cing, in which "Brick" Pomeroy, ed
itor of the LaCrosse Domocrat, and a
young man named Weissenger, were
the contestants. The best two out of
three, distance 100 yards, side,
were the conditions. The jiarties were
well built, athletic looking men, and
dressed in fanciful costume. —"Brick"
wore a flesh embroidered suit imported
from Constantinople, and presenter! to
him in token of his many virtues by
the favorite lady of the harem. | What
a high appreciation these Turkish ladies
have of a Western editor.] The purse
was won by the redoubtable "Brick"
who made the hundred yards in nine
seconds.
Published by Request.
r wa,rsi#x OF A SEBSOV
Prettfhed by Rrv. Mr. Harrow. Episcopal.
ill the I.iitheran Church. Bedford, on
Nil 11 day. Urr.
"In conclusion, allow me to say, dear
friends, that it is with feelings of pecu
liar solemnity, I stand before you this
afternoon to take my place as one of
the Pastors of your town. If I came
as the successor of one who had occu
pied the field before me, I should be at
least relieved of the novelty of my po
sition , but 1 come as the pioneer of a
new enterprise; that is to say, new to
this community. lam here at the call
of a few individuals whose attachment
to the Episcopal church and its services,
have made them solicitous for their
permanentestablishmentinyourmidst,
as weii as for the gratification and con
venience of a large proportion of those
who come annually to the Springs. It
may la 1 that many will be attracted to
worship with us and to aid us in erect
ing a Temple to (tod's glory and which
shall be an ornament to the town; hut
we trust none will allow prejudice or
animosity to speak evil of us, or to re
gard the movement as an uncalled for
innovation upon pre-established insti
tutions. If we were fanatics or en
thusiasts, endeavoring to found some
new sect, to enforce strange doctrine or
to persuade men to believe a lie, then
we should deserve all the reproach and
contempt that might be heaped upon
us ; but we are open to no such charge.
The Episcopal church has a history of
which its members may well feel proud.
We can trace its order and discipline
back to apostolic days, the nursing
mother of primitive worship and pure
Christianity, and of the reformation
whieli gave to us our Protestant liber
ty. Not that we forget the noble labors
of Martin Luther, Calvin, Melanethon,
and other great Reformers, but while
we think some went too far in the work
of Reform and like the Puritans wan
dered toan opposite extreme, were tain
edour beautiful liturgy and Common
Prayer Book, our Episeopal ordination
and Scriptural Ministry, of Bishops,
Priests and Deacons; and in order to
give becoming solemnity to public wor
ship, the simple and appropriate vest
ment of the white surplice which we
now wear. Our Sacraments are those
which are acknowledged and practised
by every Protestant society, viz: Holy
Baptism and the Lord's Supper and
with regard to doctrine and liberty of
opinion, the sth article of our church,
declares that "Holy Scripturalcontain
ethall things necessary to salvation; so
that whatsoever is not read therein, nor
may be proved thereby, is not to be re
quired of any man that it should he be
lieved as an article of the faith, or lie
thought requisite or necessary to salva
tion." Thus we see our church is no
novelty, but a thing of history: neither
a relic of superstition, hut the clear and
enlightened product of Scriptural truth.
In its laws and ordinances it simply ad
heres to the Apostolic injunction: "Do
all things decently and in order;" and
is alike opposed to what is formal and
superstitious, as it is to that which i
radical and licentious, without order
and without reason. It has numbered
among its members some of the wisest
and best of men that have trodden our
earth. It has had its army of martyrs
and can point to a cloud of witnesses
for the truth as it is in Jesus. Kings
and Princes, rich and poor, for many
ages, have all alike together united in
its beautiful responses and chanted it
hymn- of praise. Upon its long scroll
of members, we trace Poets, Statesmen
and Philosophers, which include the
nam's of Benjamin Franklin and Geo.
Washington ; and many a bright Saint
from among all classes and conditions
who have been numbered in its com
munion, have gone from earth to pos
ses- an immortal crown. Such is our
record. "But God forbid that I should
glory save in the cross of our Lord
.Jesus Christ." God forbid that I should
lie proud of my church, unless it points
me to the cross, makes that it- Alpha
and Omega; tells me that 1 am a -in
ner and bids me look to it and live. To
make that my theme whilst I shall be
permitted, dear friends, to remain a
mong you, will be my highest ambi
tion; and, as 1 have done this after
noon, may that Master who has com
missioned meto preach 11 is Gospel, ever
influence me to take delight in telling
of a Saviour's love, and inviting all to
come to Him for rest. May God bless
us and so order our goings that his name
may be glorified, his church enlarged
and true religion and piety be establish
ed among usforall generations, through
Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
For the Bedford Oazette.
Ijtrjfi- Exp''lationM Aiatl Small it<->lilts.
If was in the Spring of I*l—, whilst j
yet the American nation dwelt togeth-■
er as a band of brothers, and were one i
in affection, a- well as in name; ere j
vet the demon of civil discord, causing *
• I
host to encounter host, had desolated
large portions of the Southern States,
reducing to ashes unnumbered stately I
edifices, and consigning to untimely
graves thousands and tens of thousands,
steeping the earth with blood, and j
rendingthenir with shrieksof anguish:
that the Maryland Annual Conference
of the Methodist Protestant Church, j
had convened in the quiet city of Al- j
exandria, nestled upon the hanks of I
the majestic Potomac, in the -'Old I Jo-1
minion." At an early stage in the pro
ceedings, theministers and delegates in J
attendance were electrified with the ti- j
dings that a Mr. S , a student from
the Theological Seminary at < , a
young man of extensive attainments |
and brilliant talents, was on hand as a
candidate for admission. Kxjactation
was on tijitoe. The hearts of old di- j
vines grew warm with gratitude, and i
they were ready to thank the Lord of j
the harvest for sending such an able la
borer forth into the harvest field. "Un-1
cle Toby" (then a young man) thought j
that possibly there was some mistake
aboutthematter. Heinvitedtheyoung j
prodigy to his lodgings, and by quiz-1
zing him, soou discovered that lie pos
sessed neither literary nor mental stam
ina. He communicated his impres
sions to Dr. R ; one of the leading
members of the body. "Oh ! -ir," said
he, "you are eertainly mistaken; the
young man has just enough of the Ger
man brogue upon the tongue to make
his speeeh interesting; I t<*ll you he
will take like a top." When his ap
plication was before the conference,
Rev. Mr. 0. made the following pithy
sj>eech; "Brother S , stand up and
let your brethren look at you !" S ,
rising with as much precision as the
ghost of Banquo, cast an inquiring gaze
upon tlie multitude of upturned facts.
Mr. (.' continued, "There, now,is he
not a fine looking fellow?" As a mat
-1 ter of course, brothers- — was reeeiv
ed almost hv acclamation. The brill
iant young man was assigned by the
president to the charge of a small con
j gregation in the City of Washington,
I). C. Arriving at his place of destina
! tion, the fiock were desirous of hear
ing the voice, and forming a judgment
of the abilities, of their new she]then 1.
j They would not wait for the sabbath,
l>ut had a meeting hastily improvised
for Wednesday night. At the time ap
pointed, a crowd was in attendance,
embracing a uuinlier of classical schol
ars. S arose in the pulpit, after
some effort attained the speaking atti
tnde prevalent in the schools, and then
announced as the text, that passage in
! St. John's gospel, which reads, "The
water which 1 give thee, shall be in
thee a well of living water;" from
which the young man discoursed as fol
lows; "My blethering and my dear sis
ter ing ! This verse in the horriginat,
reads, Tekoali Tekoah Aekum. My
brethering, we must b<*ar in mind that
the water in the well of Samaria,
was not like the other water in the
wells and springs in that country down
east. It was very goad. It was eery
nice. It wa * eery wholesome. The wo
man of Samaria was verg fond of it.
And she drank, and she drank; ami she
drank until.. she bursted lt may be
readily imagined that the young orator
jto use a modern phrase "brought
down the house." Unfortunately for
him, his peculiar style of ministering
in holy things was not adapted to are
fined congregation in the national me
tropolis. Early next morning, whilst
j yet the dew sparkled likediamonds up
i on the tender grass and budding flow
i ers, Rev. S , with his prospects
| blighted and hit ambition sadly erush
; ed, was seen, w.th valise in hand, sev
; eral miles beyoid the city limits, ma
king rapid striles toward his native
mountains in tie Keystone State. If
ever he attainet to eminence as asehol
j ar, or theologian, the fact litis not come
to the knowledge of
UNCLE TOBY.
Shadow or the tiorxTAis,
Pec. 2, 1865.-
For the Bedford Gazette.
SI IKM). REFORM—!VO. 5.
A Talk Ajoct Outline Mai's. —
The directors ought one hundred and
forty-three set, last winter, at a cost of
about two thousand five hundred dol
lars. During the anxiety and uncer
tainty of war, such a large outlay was
hardly to be eipeeted; but it was a step
in the right drection, and a first step.
Before this, w had few maps and lit
tle apparatus of any kind. We taught
after a primitive fash ion. Some schools
were even vithout blackboards, oth
ers had them but never used them. We
remember three or four of the latter
sort. There hang their blackboards
just where they have been for two years,
as bright and new as tire day they were
made, unsc-atehed by crayon and un
sullied by chalk dust. We need not
say the teaeliers of these -chool- were
the worst kind of dunces.
But to come back to the maps. We
think their purchase "turns over a new
leaf." The maps are tumght. This is a
living fact worth all the prospects and
promises in the universe. It proves
that directors are alive to the irnpor
tanceof schooljrcforii); that, therefore,
other apparatus will be likely to follow
a- soon as the means of the respective
districts will justify; and that the
schools and their claims were not for
gotten even during the great fieri I of
the nation.
Wherever teachers made f><xi use of
the maps, more Geography was learn
ed last winter, than in the whole live
years preceding. A short exereise was
given once or twice a day, and the whole
.W/00/joined in it. The progress made
was surprising. In some schools nearly
all the pupils, big and little, weresoon
able to point out and name most of the
countries,capes, mountains, lakes, gulfs,
rivers, Ac., of the whole world. This
began to attract attention. The grum
bling—which issiire to follow any unu
sual expense—gradually ceased. The
tempest in a tea-pot subsided. The
maps became popular, and it was gen
erally agreed that the directors had ac
ted wisely and well. Such were there
suits where the maps were properly
used.
We regret to say they were not every
where properly used. About eighty
sets were put into the schools. The
rest came late in the term, and it was
not thought worth while to put them
up. Of the eighty teachers who had
the maps, how many, think you. made
littleor no use of them? About Jiffy !
We blush as we write it down. Fifty
teachers who did not use the maps. Is
it strange that in such neighborhoods
complaints grew louder, that the tem
pest in a teapot grew fiercer. The pre
dictions of the fault-finders were veri
fied: "Themaps were worthless." "The
money was thrown away." Few took
the trouble to reflect that the fault was
the teachers'. The teachers alleged that
they "hadn't time" or "couldn't get
the school to takean interest," or didn't
"know how," and other excuses equal
ly trifling. They should take time.
An outline map exercise for a few min
utes each day, is as profitable its any
thing else; and an interest is always a
wakened if it is properly conducted.
If they did not know how to use the
maps they should have learned how.
No special gift born with the few and
denied to the many is required. There
are the maps and the Key to them.
Nothing more is needed. With indus
try and common sense, one can learn to
use them in a week, as well as another.
Shall it be said that directors buy appa
ratus, but that teachers will not use it V
and shall directors i>e censured for the
best thing they ever did, because teach
ers neglect their duty? We shall see
what we shall see.
J. W. DICKKRSON,
Co. Sup't.
ORUAMZATIOX OF COARRK**.
j
\\ ashingtoX, Dee. 2. —Mr. McPher
; son haseompleted the roll of members,
excluding therefrom the names of the
i representatives elect from all of the
! States heretofore declared in insurrec
; tion.
I The number on the list is about Ist.
Messrs. Harrison and Peyton, from
Alabama, and Messrs. Stubbs and
Turner, from North Carolina, claiming
seats, are here with their certificates.
The Ohio Republican caucus last night
j was attended by sixteen members, and
| the absent Republican was represented.
! Their most significant action was the
unanimous passage of a resolution, of
i fered by Gen. Garfield, pledging their
i vote solid against the admission of any
I representative from any State lately in
rebellion prior to the organization, or
after it, until the credentials had been
referred to the regular committee, and
j the whole subject investigated and dis
i cussed. They also decided to go in a
j body for Colfax and MePherson for
speaker and Clerk, and follow the lead
' of New England in the vote for Ser
geant-at-Arms, to support Hawkins
Taylor for Doorkeeper, and Col. Given,
! of Ohio, for Po-tmaser.
Kh lUlM'ntt 14* ( AIICI9V.
The Democrats, about twenty-five or
i thirty in number, heldaeaueusto-night
I in the room of the Committee on the
| Judiciary, Hon. Mr. Winfield in the
chair, and Hon. Samuel J. Randall,
| Secretary. They had an interchange
1 of views, and decided to hold an ad
jjourned meeting on Monday morning
at 10 o'clock, to nominate candidates in
opposition to those of the Abolitionists.
CsiiK'iiK of lh<- Abolition < 'omr r'*siu<-n.
The Republican meinl>ersof< 'ongress,
to the number of one hundred and
twenty-four, met in caucus to-night in
i the laill of Representative-. No mem
| bers were present from any of the late
! insurrectionary States.
Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Maine,
was appointed Chairman, and Hon.
Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota, Sec
! retary.
On motion, a committee of seven
| was appointed, consisting of Messrs.
Stevens, of Pennsylvania; Raymond,
jof New York; Spalding, of Ohio;
Washburne. of Illinois; Payne, of
Wisconsin; Boutwell, ofMassachusetts,
land Blaine,of Maine,whoreportedthe
| following resolution:
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the I nited States, in
(bngrrss assembled , That a joint com
mittee of fifteen members shall be ap
pointed, nine of whom shall be mem
bers of the House and six of the Sen
ate, who shall inquire into the condi
tion of the States which formed the so
called Confederate States of America,
and report whether they or any of
them are entitled to be represented in
either House of Congress, with leave
to report at any time by bill or other
wise; and until such report shall have
lieen made and finally acted upon by
Congress, n<> member shall be received
into either House from any of the said
so-called Confederate States; and pa
. pers relating to the representatives of
the said States shall he referred to the
said committee without debate.
This resolution was adopted unani
mously,anil will be offered in the House
of Representatives by Mr. Stevens, the
chairman of the special committee, who
prepared it.
The caucus desired to refer the con
tested case of Koontz and Cot Froth, of
Pennsylvania, to the Committee on E
lections. when appointed, to report on
the subject. The returns of each were
considered irregular by the Governor
of the State.
The caucus proceeded to the selection
of candidates for officers of the house,
when Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indi
ana, was adopted for the Speakership
by acclamation, and so was Hon. Ed
ward MePherson, of Pennsylvania, for
Clerk. Sergeant-at-Arms Ordway of
New Hampshire, was also renomina
ted unanimously, Col. lngrahnm hav
ing withdrawn as a candidate. The
vote for Doorkeeper was, for Goode
now, of New York, t!f>, and for Haw
kins Taylor, of Kansas, AS. Mr.Goode
now having received the highest num
ber of votes, his nomination was made
unanimous. Col. Given was selected
as a candidate fo! - Postmaster in the
place of the present incumbent, Mr.
King. With this exception, all the of
ficers of the former House have been
renominated.
The caucus then adjourned.
XWl.ttli roi^roiti—Fir*( SsUn.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.
At noon Mr. M'l'herson, Ulerk of the
House, proeeeded to will, as required by
law, the roll of the members elect.
While the roll was being ealled. Mr.
| Maynard, of Tennessee, whose name i
not on the list, wished to suggest some
thing, but the Clerk refused to be in-
I terrupted. After the call was comple
j ted, Mr. Maynard again arose, but the
i Clerk*again ruled him out of order.
One liundred and seventy-five mem
bers answered to their names. Mr.
; Brooks, New York, made a speech,
characterizing the omission of the
members from Tennessee from the roll
as unprecedented, if Mr. Maynard
was not a loyal man, from a Union and
! loyal State, the President himself was
! not loyal, hut an alien and a stranger.
! He charged that the adoption of the;
f resolution by the Republican caucus
was designed a.- antagonistic to the
President's forthcoming message.
The House took noaction on the sub
ject, but under the operation of the
previous question, proceeded to thee-;
lection of Speaker; Mr. Colfax, of in-l
diana, and Mr. Brooks, of New York,
being placed in nomination.
The result was announced as follows:
Colfax. 139, Brooks, 80.
Mr. Colfax was declared elected amid
applause from the floor and galleries,
and was conducted to the chair by Mr.
Morrill and Mr. Brooks.
Mr. Colfax made a brief but eloquent
and patriotic speech.
Having taken the oath of office him
self, the Speaker ndn 1 inistered it to oth- j
er members, who were called up by
delegations.
Mr Wilson. lowa, introduced a resolu
tion declaring McPherson clerk, Mr. j
Ordway sergeant-at arms, Mr. Goode
now door keeper, and Mr. Given post- j
master until their successors shall be da- j
lv qualified. The yeas and nays being
ordered, Mr. Wilson's resolution was]
adopted—yeas 138, nays 35.
Ttiose officers of the House were then
sworn m.
Mr. Stevens offered a bill approved in
the Republican canons, for the appoint
ment of a committee to examine and
report whether any of the so-called < 'on
foderate States are entitled to represen
tation in Congress.
Mr. Eldridge objected to the intro
duction of the hill.
Mr. Stevens moved a suspension of
the rules.
This was agreed to, and the bill was
then introduced.
Mr. Dawson moved to lay the resolu
tion on the table.
SENATE.
The Senate met to-day at 12 o'clock
noon, and was called to order by Mr.
Foster, Conn.
Rev. I)r. Gray delivered an impres
sive prayer.
Mr. Foot, Vt., presented the creden
tials of L. P. Poland, appointed to till
the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Mr. Coliamer, Vt.
Mr. Poland took the prescribed oath.
Mr. Wright, X. .1., presented the cre
dentials of Joint P. Stockton. Senator
elect from New Jersey.
Mr. Cowan, Pa., presented the protest
of member- of the Legislature of
New Jersey, alleging rhat a majority of
that body had not voted for Mr. Stock
ton, and lie was not therefore constitu
tionally elected.
The protest was ordered to lie on the
table for the present, and Mr. Stockton
took the prescribed oath.
Mr. Sumner, Ma--., introduced bills
of the following title-: Bill to carry
out the principles of a Republican form
of government in the District of Colum
bia; a hill prescribing an oath to main
tain a Republican form of Government
in the rebel States; a Dill in part execu
tion of the guarantee of a Republican
form of Government under the Consti
tution of the United States; a bill on
the subject of appropriate legislation to
enforce the amendment of the Consti
tution and prohibiting slavery; a bill
to preserve the right of trial by jury by
securing impartial jurors in the courts
of the United States; a bill t<> enforce
the guarantee of a Republican form of
Government in certain States, whose
governments have been usurjted and
overthrown.
Mr.Sumner introduced the following
joint resolutions: Declaratory of the
amendment abolishingslavery: a-eries
of resolutions declaring the duty of < 'on
gross, especially in respect to the loyal
citizens of rebel States; a series of res
olutions declaratory of the duty of < 'in
gress with respect to guarantee- of lhe
national security and national faith in
the rebel States.
The above were all ordered to be
printed.
Mr. Wade, (J., introduced a bill to
regulate the franchise in the District
of Columbia, which was ordered to be
printer].
Mr. Harris, X. Y., introduced a bill
to regulate the judiciary of New York.
Ordered to be printed.
Mr. Wilson, Mas-., introduced a bill
to maintain the freedom of the inhabi
tants of State- declared in rebellion.—
Ordered to be printed.
The Senate then adjourned.
TKKKIIILt: KAVLKOin IHSASTEK.
i Collision on tin* \'w Ouiru]
lload—\iue(4fii Persons itill<*d :mi
Woiimlfd.
K ASTON, X. J., Dee. 1. —The Western
express which left Harrisburg at three
o'clock this morning, ran into a coal
train at White House, X. J. on the
New Jersey Central Road, about eight
o'clock this morning, killing seven
i persons and wounding ten or twelve
others.
Killed. —Tile killed are as follows:
R. S. Chidsey. Easton: Edward John
son, Washington, X. .iame-'Tavly}',
Easton, X. J.; West Met tier, Phii!i|is*-
burg; Ei I ward Davis, Relvidere: S.
W. Eilinger, C'urpenterville. N. J.
WovHdeel.*-! The following werewoun
ded: Win. Rex. leg broken ; Mrs. Har
"vey, leg broken; Mrs. Harvey's child
also injured; AndrewO'Xeil, arm bro
ken; W. W. Marsh, of Sehooiey's
Mountain, and also Win. Htrekel, woun
ded about the head; Geo. Walter, of
Newark. X.slightly ; A. >. Strong,
of East Hampton, Mass., badly about
tin- head ; Mrs. A. S. Strong, slightly;
E. W. Lowthrop, Trenton, not danger
ously injured; John F. Stiger, Clinton,
X. J., both arms broken : Wm. E. Na
rys. Washington, X.J., side and arms
injured.
FKO.II SOI TH A.HEBICA,
The War TliiOiii-—WhiT.-iilMtnlH of Cro
fi'isnr IjjussSz—The Emigration f'rosn
Hie t nileii Stales.
XKW YORK, Dee. 1. - Advices to No
vember Ith lmve been received from
Rio Janeiro. It was expected at Rio
that the war would soon be over. The
victories of the allied forces over the
Paraguayans were deemed decisive.—
Gold was at par at Rio. There was 110
further news relative to the movements
ofthe Paraguayans. They had receiv
ed another repulse at Corrientes.
Professor Agassi/, was, at the last
accounts, following the upward course
of the Amazon, and had discovered
sixty new species of tish.
I'nder date of September Stli Agassi/
writes that he had then obtained more
than three hundred specie- of fish, al
though he had, to that time, only ex
amined one-third of the Amazon, with
out trenching on its affluents. He had
only counted on, at most, two hundred
and fifty or three hundred species, and
he says not a third of those he collected
belong to known ones.
It is expected that there will he a
large immigration into Brazil from the
Fnited States.
Several gentlemen from Louisiana
w t re into Brazil seeking suitable local
ities for the intended immigrants.
Colonel Woodward and party, who
went ut to Bra/JI to negotiate for hinds
for some six hundred Southern planters
had met with an enthusiastic reception,
the President promising all aid in fur
therance of the project.
V Witiott (irtsn Ycr!i<-I ul'HlO.wtHk.
At the late term of the Court of 00111-
nton Pleas of Chester county, Pa., a
widow named Bailv, sited the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company for damages
for the loss of her husband, alleging
carelessness on the part of the railroad
employees. It appears that in Septem
ber, lst;4, Raily was returning with a
number of other persons from a politi
cal meeting- in Lancaster. The train,
tilled with passengers, reached Penning
ton ville towards midnight, behind time,
and being on the south track, and tJic
station house on the north side, Mr.
Baily and a number of the passengers
alighted from thenars, and were on the
north track, when some one discovered
a locomotive coming up that track at
full speed, and not many rods below.—
lie gave the alarm and succeeded in
getting the people all off except Mr.
Baily, who wasstruck by the cow-catch
er, tossed into the air and fell with his
head between the ends of two cross-ties,
and was so much injured as to die from
the effects of it the next morning.— !
The widow received averdict of f 10,700.!
Vieksbr.rg papers report a most out- j
rageousand disgraceful riot of negroes
at Algiers, which would have ended in j
much bloodshed only for the prompt I
interference of the military.
1 H I SKITS It It A \ I.RY.
Fhf ankee States have shared
ly in the profit- of the war with the
South ; hut they have in no instance
signalized themselves by brave and
meritorious dei-ds. Among the thou
and-of officers furnished, Butler aim
Banks stand forward as the most prone
. inent and "meritorious." Butler prov
ed 10 l* a thief, brute, ami was finally
dismissed for cowardice. Banks, wher
ever lie went, was used as a commissary
by the South ; while in military skiii
and bravery he could not cope with tin
merest corporal. But the story of Mas
sachusetts bninri/ is not new." It W;L
equally prominent during the revolu
tion. They were then noted for avarice
aud cowardice. ()n the 29th of August.
17T'i, General Washington wrote from
Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Richard
llenrv Lee:
"I have made a pretty good storm a
mong sucii kind officers as the Mussi
i chusett <iovernment abound.- in, since
I came to this camp, having broke one
I colonel and two captains for cowardly
behavior at Bunker Hill; andtwocap
taiiis for drawing more provisions aud
pay than they had men in their com.
Mtnies, and one for being absent from
his post when the enemy appeared an<!
1 burnt a house just by. Beside- these
1 have at this time one colonel, one
major, one captain, and two suhal'teri:-
j under arrest for t rial. in. short, I -pan
I none, and yet fear it will not do, as these
; people seem to he attentive only to their
interests.
From a gentleman who has just ar
rived from Mobile we get some infer
: mation in relation to cotton transact ion-
I in Alabama that may be considered
startling even in these days of whole
sale frauds and rogueries.
Soon after the surrender of Mobile it
became evident that sharpers were at
full work in that vicinity. A -upend
ing agent, Mr. \V. I'. Miller, arrived
then-not long ago and instituted an in
ve-tigation. It was a hurried and su
perficial one, and at all events resulted
in no disclosures of mal-practi<v- on the
part of sub-agents and their assistants,
i The President, desiring a closer scru
j tiny, soon afterwards sent down Colo-
I nel .1. R. Tomene, and this gentleman,
conjointly with Major < ieneral Wood,
who is in command there, began anion
thorough search into the matter. They
soon "struck ile" in the case of a local
agent named < 'arver.aiai he was senten
ced to one year's imprisonment and to
restore S9O.IKM) in money which was ad
judged to belong to the Tinted States.
Gen. Wood promised to remit theseri
! tence, if in a given time he would pay
over the money. Carver complied with
this condition, and saved himself from
thi* first part of the sentence.
The investigation was still in prog
ress when our informant left Mobile,
and interesting and important develop
ments were being made daily. Enough
had been done by those who were pros
ecuting it to enable them to foot up
roughly thi-amazing grand total, name
ly, that of ninety thousand bales of for
feited Confederate cotton in the State
of Alabama, not one-tenth has ever
gone to the use and benefit of the Tin
ted States Government. The remainder
of eighty thousand bales, worth more
■ than fifteen millions of dollars, has been
appropriated by official and non-official
ra-eal- and sharpers.
The Age of Fraud.
('ertain periods of the past are known
as the "golden age," "the age of grace."
Ac. Future historians will find no dif
ficulty in proving that the present is
the Age of Fraud. Every newspaper,
nearly, contains one or more account
of fresh frauds—nine-tenths of all ot
which are upon the Government, and
by tlme "loyal officers who have fre
quently blessed God and congratulated
their country that they were Ijetter than
other men—especially "copperhead.-."
Thus, we read of fraud at Washington,
by which department clerks, in collus
ion with outside "loyalists," attempt to
pas- an immense amount of bogu
claimsfor soldiers' arrearages and boun
ties through the Auditor's office. Thou,
we read of mustering officers in Xe\\
York having made a "good thing" out
of furnishing individual substitutes at
State and Government expense. Then,
of revenue officers at Philadelphia, who
were too heavily interested in tobacco
manufacture for the interests of the
Government to prosper. And so on.
fr< mi chapter to chapter, and from phase
t<> phase—fraud, fraud, fraud! With
the exception of a few insignificant
scoundrels—just enough to keep the po
lice force in organization—every thief
in the country seems to lie either in <>l
tice or to have a bosom friend or a blood
relation who is.-— /'•itriof a- (
I. VTFK yKOM HKXICO.
flnlli'iN oil tin- ICio (irniiili'—l)<i>ariiir<'
<>l tin' i:ui)>rt s.
XKU YORK, l>ec. 'J. —Advices front
Mexico to the Gth of November, hav
been received via Havana.
Zttluaga had been exiled, by order
of Maximilian, to France.
A French war steamer had forced tic
passe> on the Itio Grande, and reaclnfi
Matamonis.
The Frefich transport Allier had
reached Mexico, with4oo Austrian- ari.i
a detachment of Zouaves, on their way
to Matamoras. The Empress Olinriom
stopped eight days at Vera Cruz, and
left for \ ueatan on a merchant vessel.
Maximilian remains in the city of
Mexico.
Further imperial successes in the in
terior are reported by official paper-.
Pirophimatioii I**- the I'rewidoul.
WASH INI.TON, Xo\ 3H.
The following- proclamation has just
been issued by the President of fh<
United States of America:
117/, red.", By the proclamation of the
President of the United States of the
loth day of December, 18(53, tlie privi
lege of tin writ of halK-as corpus. in
certain eases herein set forth, wa- sus
pended throughout the Fnitod States:
and wliereas. the reasons for that sus
pension may he regarded as having
<vased in some of the States and Terri
tories,
Now. therefore, he it known that L
Andrew .Johnson, President of the 1 -
uited States, do hereby proclaim and
declare that the suspension aforesaid,
and all other proclamations and order
suspending the privilege of the writ ot
habeas corpus in theStat.esand territo
ries of-the United States are revoked
and annulled except as to the States ot
Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Flor
-1 ida, Tennesse, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Arkansas, the District ot
Columbia and the territories of Xev
Mexico and Arizonia
In witness whereof 1 have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this
Ist day of December, IBt>s, and of the
Independence of the I nited States tin
ninetieth.
(Signed! ANDREW JOHNSON,
By the President:
Win. 11. Seward, Secretary of State.
Aktkmi's Ward says that his hair
resembles lovers, on the eve of separa
tion. It is hard to part.