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E-q. on Juliana street, nearly opposite the' irkin; House of Reed A Sehell. April 7. 1865. J. B. DI RBOUBOW. | JOHN LUTZ. nl" RRORII O\Y A LI TZ, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA , W ;' attend promptly to all business intrusted to hr are. Collections made on the shortest no i'hey are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents i will give special attention to the prosecution 'aims against the Government for Pensions. I; k Pay. Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ae. office on Juliana street, one door South of the ■ M.-nrel House," and nearly opposite the Inquirer i JOHN P. REED, ATTORNEY AT | LAW, BEDFORD. PA. Respectfully renders .-,•■ services to the pnblie. office , econd door North of the Mengel House. Belford, Aug. 1, ist'ii JOHN PALMER, ATTORNEY AT ! LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will promptly attend : all business entrusted to his care. Particular attention paid to the collection of Military claims. Office on Juliana Street, nearly i'.i-ite the Mengel House. Bedford, Aug L 1 ssrtl. rrSPY ML ALSIP, ATTORNEY AT j Xj LAW. BEDFORD, I*A. Will faithfully and i aptly attend to all business entrusted to hi ire in Bedford and adjoining counties. Military, nuns, back pay,bounty, Ac... speedily collected, office wilh Mann A Spang, on Juliana street. . f.ors Suuth of the Mengel House. Jau 22. ISii-1. • M. KIMMF.LL. j J • w - LfNGKN'FELTEB. K1 M M ELL A LINGENFELTEIi, ! ATTORNEYS \T LAW. BEDFORD. PA.. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law Office on Juliana street, two doors South of the Mengel Hn Juliana Street, three doers -011 th of rlic Mengel House," oppo-ire th • residence of Mrs. fate. May 13. 1861 'so H. FILLER. J. T. READY. LLKR A KEAGY have formed ti I partnership in the practice of the law At vnti.io paid to Pen-ions, Bounties and Claim ij dnst the Government, office on Juliana street, formerly occupied by II i. A. King. March 31. '65. iMuisuuins anil prntists. |> 11. RENXSYL, M. 1)., BLOODY 1 , Rrv Pa . flste snrgeon 55t'n PA I ten r- :,is professional services to the people of that e and vieiaity Dec. 22. 'tt-ly* \I7 W.JAMISON, M. !>., Buxwy It , HI s. l'a.. tenders his professional servi - to the people "t that place and vicinity. Office ■i ior west of Richard Langdon - store. Nov 24. '6s—ly nil. J. L. MAIIBOITiU, Having! permanently located, respectfully tenders ife-ional services to the citizens of Bedford " ' vi inky. "See on Juliana street, east side, nearly opposite ; !■" Banking House of Keei'(lford (iVdsiifr, Ol It till VI. IfIKTORV. lutiiuiis make Itieurwionw into tin- fron tier settteiiienta in 17111) Trailers again NDPPif Hiein uitli provisions anil trm ■a it ions of win-—A si-\y 3>.iii. 'G7, and 'OS. I Lit in ITtihihe Indians l>e£an agrain to make incursions into the un protected settlements. The recollec tion of the summary manner in which ('ol. Smith had punished tiie traders for attempting to supply the Indians with munitions of war, no longer operated j to restrain men whose love of gain in duced them to barter away the lives of their own countrymen. Notwith-1 standing the fact that the savages had again lifted the tomahawk against the settlers, there were found persons base enough to carry on with the former a i trailie which supplied them the means to carry destruction to the homes of the j frontier. The severe measures made use of by Col. Smith four year- previ ous, wore again resorted toby the "Mack Hoys" of Bedford. Wetind the follow ing account of their proceedings and the consequences which followed in Smith's "Narrative," which has already Ijeen quoted largely: "In the year 17611, the Indians again made incursions on : the frontiers: yet the traders continued carrying goods and warlike stores to j them. The frontiers took the alarm, and a number of persons collected, de- ! stroyed and plundered a quantity of i their powder, lead, Ac., in Bedford county. Shortly after this some of these persons, with other-, were uppre- j hended and laid in irons in the guard-1 house in Fort Bedford, on suspicion of being the perpetrators of this crime. I Though I did not altogether approve of theconductof this new clubof black | boys, yet 1 concluded that they should j not lie in irons in the guard house, or remain in confinement, by arbitrary or military power. 1 resolved, therefore, if possible, to release them, if they; even should be tried by civil law after wards. I collected eighteen of mv old black boys, that I had seen tried in the Indian war, Ac. I did not desire a large party, lest they should lie too much alarmed at Bedford, and accor dingly be prepared for us. We inarch- j ed along the public road in daylight, and made no secret of our design: we told those whom we met. that we were going to take Fort Bedford, which ap peared to them a very unlikely story. Before this I made it known to one i William Thompson, a man whom I could trust, and who lived there: him 1 employed as a spy, and sent him along on horseback before, with orders to meet me at a certain place near Bedford one hour before day. The next day, a lit tle before sunset, weencamped near the crossings of the Juniata, about four teen miles from Bedford, and erected tents, as though we intended staying j all night; and not a man in myeompa-l j ny knew to the contrary, save myself. Knowing that they would hear this in | Bedford, and wishing it to be the rase, j I thought to surprise them by stealing i a inarch. As the moon rose about 11 o'clock, I ordered my boys to inarch, and we went on at the rate of five miles an hour, until we met Thomp son at the place appointed. He told its that the commanding officer had fre quently heard of us by travelers, and had ordered thirty men upon guard. He said they knew our number, and only made game of the notion of eigh-; teen men coming to rescue the prison ers; but they did not expect us until towards the middle of the day. I its-j ked him if the gate was open? He said it was shut, but lie expected they would open it a- usual at daylight, as ( they apprehended no danger. I then moved my men privately up under the banks of the Juniata, where we lay con cealed about one hundred yards from the fort gate. I had ordered the men to keep a profound silence until we got into it. I Then sent otf Thompson a | gain to spy. At daylight he returned and Told us that the gate was open and three -cntinels were standing upon the wall; that the guards were taking a morning dram and the arms standing together in one place. I t hen conclu ded to rush into the fort, and told Thompson to run before me to thearms. We ran with all our might, and as it | was a misty morning, the sentinels scarcely saw us, until we were within i the gateand took possession of the arms. Just as we were entering, two of them discharged their guns, though Ido not believe thev aimed at us. We BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2. 1866. then raised a shout, which surprised the town, though some of them were well pleased with the news. We compelled a blacksmith to take the irons off the prisoners, and then we left the place." Smith claims that this (Fort Bedford) "was the first British Fort in America, that was taken by what they call Amer ican rebels." Thelieroof this well-plan ned and brilliantly executed exploit, was arrested for his part in the affair, "and in the scuffle attending the arrest, a man was accidentally shot." Ile was taken to Carlisle, indicted on a charge of murder, and tried upon the indict ment, but was triumphantly acquitted. He was subsequently honored with a Colonelcy inthearniy of the Revolution, was a representative in the assembly, and after the declaration of peace be tween the States and Great Britain, w:t - a commissioner of the emmey el W <•-; moreland. lie afterwards emigrate t Kentucky, "wherehe the au-r years of his life." ■•l\ lt:i.l.lt:\T- si is ii via;. To secure thesupremacy of the "loy al" party, forever, Thad. Stevens wants the Southern negroes to vote. Hesays: "If they [the Southern States]should grant the right of suffrage to persons of color, I think there would always l>e Union white men enough in the South, aided hi/ the Ftfaek.?, to divide the repre sentation, and thus continue Republi can ascendency." Almost in the next breath he tells us how well fitted those blacks are for suf frage.—He says: "The infernal laws of slavery*have prevented them [the blacks] from ac quiring an education or from under ftttitdlmj flu eomtttotieai laws of contract or from natitaqinq lie ordinary Ittisi/tess of lifcf But this is no matter—the blacks would all vote under "loyal"dictation. But if a sufficient number of blacks could not be marshalled to keep up the ascendancy of the "loyal" party, why the horses and cattle could be counted in, also, and voted through agents of the Freedman's Bureau or other radi cally loyal avenues. If is well known that neither the equine nor the bovine classes "understand the commonest laws of contract," and are incapable of "managing the ordinary business of life." They are therefore not likely to vote any more intelligently than the blacks, so faithfully photographed by Stephens. Such plastic "Republican" material -houkl not be thrown away. Besides this, no one ever heard of a horse or an ox. in all the land of seces sion. That proved disloyal to the "dear old flag," or that ever "opposed the Government" by denouncing the plun dering contractors. By all means, Thaddy, let the "loyal" horses and hulls into the ring! Can't the Consti tution be so amended?— Simbury Dem ocrat. ROMANCE AND REALITY. —Many of j the citizens of Pottsville no douht re-1 inexnber a handsome, dashing young ! officer of the Seventeenth United States Infantry, Lieut. Ed. McConnel, who j was formerly stationed here on the re-: eruiting service. "Lieutenant Ned" • was a brave and distinguished officer, and being fine-looking, and of a "gay 1 and festive" turn generally, he was j quite a favorite with many of the la-1 dies and "fast" men here. Some time after leaving here the Lieutenant rose to the position of a Major, and was appointed Provost Marshal of St. Louis. In the mean time he contrived to be in Harrisburg frequently, and became too intimate with the daughter of Gov. Curtin to -uit the fancy of the Governor, who fi nally ordered him to discontinue his visits. One day, however, Major McConnell and the Governor's daughter stepped into the office of some magistrate to j the Governor unknown, and were mar- ■ ried. The bride returned home, and | not long after the Major called to see 1 her, when the 'Stern parent" objecting, he was made acquainted with the true position of affairs. Of course, he "ex alted the antique Nicholas" generally, but finally cooled down and proposed to send his daughter, who was rather j young, to a boarding school for a year j before she entered into the responsibil- ; ties of housekeeping, etc. This plan was carried out, and the youthful bride was sent off to a distant seminary. Major Ned, liecoming dissatisfied j with this arrangement, carried the j young lady off again. But Major Ned : the gossips say, was inclined to fast liv ing, and the "course of true love" did n't run smooth. The Governor went to sea for the benefit of his health—Cu pid did the same, probably, and the ro mantic union of the Major and his partner ended in a most unroinantic -quabble. laistweeka bill of divorce in their rase was passed by the Legisla ture at Harrisburg,and the illy-match ed pair were separated a.-> suddenly and as much to the surprise of the gossips as they had been united. Major Ned is again a gay single man, and the young lady a miss; and both parties will doubtless be a little more cautious next time about "tying the knot with the tongue that can't be untied with the teeth.''— Pottsville Standard. OWING to the high price of meat of all kinds, a company has been started to manufacture pork out of pig-iron. From the Portland Transcript. POETICAL PATCHWORK. I only know she came ant went Lowell. Like troutlets in a pool Hood. She was a phantom or delight, Wordsworth. And I xss like a fool! Eastman. "One kiss, dear maid,"' 1 aid, and sighed. —Coleridge. "Out ot those lips unshorn !" Long fellow. She shook her ringlets round her head. Stoddard. And laughed in merry sorn Tennyson. Ring out. wild bells, to the wild sky, Tennyson. You hear them, oh. myueart ? Alice Carey. 'Tis twelve at night by tha'astle clock. Coleridge. Beloved, we must part! Alice Carey. "Come back, come back,' she cried in grief. —Campbell. "My eyes are dim withfears — Bayard Taylor. How shall I live thro' altthc days. Mrs Osgood. All through a hundred years "' T. S. Perry. 'Twas in the prime of suomer time Hood. She blest me with her hind. Hoyt. We strayed together deepy blest. Mrs Edwards. Into the Dreaming Lani. Cornwall. The laughing bridal rosesblow, Palmore. To dress her dark-browt hair. Bayard Taylor. No maiden may with her-ompare, Brails ford. Most beautiful, most rale ! Read. I clasped it on her sweet told hand, Browning. The prceious golden link. Smith. I calmed her fears, and shewas calm. Coleridge. "Drink, pretty creature, irink!" Wordsworth And so I won my Genevieve Coleridge. And walked in Paradise. llervey. The fairest thing that ever freiv Wordsworth. Aiwecn me and the skies Tennyson. P.IM. VHP ADDRESS Hi HIS COXSTIT- I'EXTS The Metropolitan Record, of New York, has been sofortuiateas to engage that very respectable and highly hu morous Georgia genteman, Mr. Bill Arp, us a contributor to that paper.— The following is his ti.st contribution: Rr.yn ctaljut l\ tple : I address you on thL okkashun with a profound admiration or the great con sideration and the nits discrimination which caused you to lnuor me by your votes with a seat in tie Senate of Geor gy. For two momentis and inspirin weeks the Legislator iave been in ,-nl lem session, one of wiom L am proud to be whiei). For sevtral days we were engaged as shouts, nuking a sorter of rekonysance to see vhether Georgy were it State or Injun tervtory—wheth er we were in the old I'n-ion, or out of it—whether me and ny fokes and you and your fokes were icmebody or no- body, and lastly, but b; 110 means Last ly, whether our pool little innocent children, born durin tie war, were all illegal and had to be lwrn over again or not. This last pint artmueh unsettled, but our witnen are atkised to be kalni and screen. My friends, our ain have honestly been to git you all bade into the folds of the gloryous old Un-ion. Like the prodygal son, we had nuthin to live on, and feelin Jonescme and hungry, have been bowin ana scrapin and makin a pologys for fiv or six months. We have been staniin afur off for weeks and weeks, but duru the calf do they kill for us. They know we've got 110 t hin, for they eat up our substance, and as for puttiu ring- on our fingers, we couldent expect ituntil they bring back the jewelry they carried away. L can not say, in the langwidge of the poet, that our labor ha vt been a labor of love, for we've had monstrous poor encour agement to be shure; but we had all set our heads towards the stars and stripes; and we jintly determined that, come weel come wo, sink or swim, survive or perish, thunder or lightnin, we'd slip back, or sneak back, or git back somehow or somehow else, or we'd stay out for ever and ever amen and be hang ed to, so-called, I golly. Up to this time it have been an up hill business. The team was a good one and the gear all sound and the wagon greased, but the load are perhaps the rnffest, rottenest eordyroy in the world. It's pull upand skotch, and pull upand skoteh, and ever anil anonymous the skotch slips out and'hetung cuts round and away we go into the gully. Andy Jonsin is the driver, and he says, "Go slow," and he hollers "Wo! wo!" and loses the road, and then we have to go back to the fork and wait till he blazes the way. He seems to be doin his best but then there's Sumner, and Satan and Stevens and Davis aid other like gen tlemen, who keep ho.lerin at him and crackin his whip and umfusin his idees, st that suintimes we don't know wheth er he's gee-in or haw-in. My friends, about them fellers, I don't know what I ort to say. if you do,or if anybody does, 1 wish they would tay it. I don't encurrage cussin in noboily, not at all, but if you know of a man that can't he broke of it durin his natcral life, it mout lie well to hire him by the year. If there is in all history a good exkuse and a proper subjeek, it L upon them heart less, soulless, howelless, gizzardless, fratrisidel, suisidel, parasidel, sistersi del, abominabul, conteinptihul, disgus tibul individuals. I surntimes think of em till my brain gits sorter addled, and I feel like becumin a volunteer : convikt of the Lunatik Asylorum.— Charity inclines me to theopinyon that old Sumner are crazy. I think lie has been gittin worse ever since he took Brooks 011 the brain, and it do seem like the disease have prooved contajus. If they are for peace it must be the peace that pa-seth all understandin, for we can't fathom it in these regions. They foutus to free the poor nigger, but did'nt keer for the Union. The Western boys fout us for the Union, but did'nt keer for the nigger. By double teaming on us they licked us and we gin it up, but now the one dont want our niggers and the other dont want our Union, and its the hardest skedule to please em both that a poor vankished peepul ever un dertook. Its the most hardest war to wind up that history records. Sumner, Stanton and Company are still a fussin and fumin about theeverlastin nigger; want him to vote and make laws, and squat on a jury, and want to prohibit us Rebels from doin the same thing for thirty years to cum! Jerusalem! where isthecu&sinman? They say its all right for a nigger not to vote in Connecticut, bekaus there aint but a few of em thar; and its all wrong for em not to vote in Georgv, bekaus there's a heap of em here, and they talk loglk and retorik amazin to prove how it is. Well I haint got a whole passe 1 of sense like sum, but as shure as I'm two foot high a nigger is a nigger, I dont keer whar you smell hint, and a vote is a vote I dont keer whar you drap it. I golly! they cant git over that. The truth is, my feller-sitizens, 1 sum times feel like we did'nt have no Gov ernment. I felt that way sorter when .Mr. Gibson appointed me a committee on the State of the Republik. When the Sekretary read out my name all mixed up with the Republik, i felt that I was obleeged to renig. Risin rnages tikuily to my feet, says I, "Mr. Presi dent, I beg to be respektybly exkused, sur. if you please, if there is Repub lik on this side of Jordin, 1 cant pur seve it at this time with these speks.— Thar was a place in old Virginny called Port Republik, but Mr. Rebel General Stonewall Jackson wiped out its con tents generally in 1863, and I havent since heard of it in Northern literature. I have heard of a scrub consarn over ■about Washington, they call a Repub lik, but sur, it are likely to prove the grandest imposture that ever existed on a continent of freedom. I suppose, sur, it are to he moved to Boston, or the infernal regions in a few days, and 1 want nuthin to do with it. Exkuse me, sur, but I must insist on bein re spektably discharged." I took my seat amitl the most profoundest and tumul tuous silence ever seed, and Mr. G. re marked that he wouldent impose the Republik on no respectabui man agin his wishes. He then transferred me to the Finants Committee, and sed he ho- i ped we would take immediate action,: for the State had no money, as well as ! himself, and board was high and eat seteras frequent. This may not have been hisexaktual langwidge, but isan glin toward it. I bowed my head and said, "Ditto, excep that I dont eat set eras." Forthwith I telegrafed varyous gentlemen for a temporary loan, but they wouldent lend a dollar until Mr. Jenkins wer norgarated, for they want ed his name to the note. Thinks, says 1, there's a tap lost about the wagin. if we are a State, we can borry money in Augusty. If we aint a State, its none of our bisness to borry it at all. If An dy wants to run the masheon his own way, let him pay his own expenses.— What in the dickens is a Provishnnal Government for, if it ainttogit uppro vishttn and provide for a feller gener ally. 1 made up my mind that perhaps we had been yumorin Andy about long enuf. We had a.i much right to a Gov ernor Alabama or South Carlina. He wants us back about as bad as we want to git bark, and a little badder, pre/taps; and he needent put on so many unnes sessary airs about this Senator bisness. If he fools much with us we wont elect nobody—l golly! we'll take the studs and go hack wards. I forthwith return ed to the Capitol, and stretchin forth one of my arms, ses I, "Mr. Gibson, sur—l'm your friend—l'm the friend of your wife and children—but if Mr. Jen kins aint norgarated soon the State will collaps; a bright and glorious Mar will be obliterated from off the striped rag, and the President will lose about nine supporters in the Federal Congress. 1 move, sur, that if we cant git our Gov ernor at once like a tine qua mm, we break up in a row and depart for Mex ico." It took like small-pox, and were carryed toomultoously. THE RK3IIT OF WHITE MEN TO VOTE TO ItE DECIDED BY THE NEGROES. The Blackest Tiling Yet. We had thought that in the multifar ious forms in which the negro had been thrust before Congress and the people, that the very darkest shade of negro legislation had been reached. But on Tuesday morning last we were, we confess, surprised to find a piece of Black legislation offered in the House by Mr, Rroomull, of Chester county, which fairly 'takes the rag off the bush.' Here it is: Mr. BKOOMALL I Pa.) offered the fol lowing: Whereat, Adjust government derives its powers from the consent of the gov erned: and whereas, the best way of ob taining that consent is through the hal lot-box : and whereas , the white men of the District of Columbia have by that means decreed that, in their opin ion, the black men of the District should not be allowed the right of suffrage: therefore Resolved , That the Committee of the District of Columbia be instructed to inquire into the expediency of order ing an election, at which the blacks of the Districfsha 11 decide by ballot wheth er, in their opinion, the white men of the District should be allowed the right of suffrage. Mr. SPALDING (Ohio) moved that the resolution be laid upon the table, and this was agreed to—yeas, 138; nays, 12, namely:—Messrs. Ashley (Ohio) Ashley (Nevada); Brooma 11 JGrinnell, Hale,'Henderson, Higby, Kelso. Long year, Starr, Stevens, and Williams. The more conservative of the negro worshipping sheets afl'ect to rail it "Broomall's joke." But when we find twelve Republican Congressmen voting for it including old "Thad Stevens" we think WHITE people will scarcely re gard it as much of a joke. Can any Republican get up anything blacker than the Broomall resolutions above quoted ? if he can, he ought to have a premium. White men are at a heavy discount in the present Congress.— National Defen der. VOL. 61.—WHOLE No. 5.333. DAHOMEY AT HARRISBURG! BLACK, BLACKER, BLACKEST! MORE NEGRO LEGISLATION! MR. HOUSEHOLDER IN A FIX! THE REPUBLICANS IN A MIX! In the Senate of Pennsylvania, on Monday last, the question of Negro Suffrage was introduced and voted up on. It will l>e seen by the proceedings which we give below that all the "Re publican" .Senator* voted Age , except HOUSEHOLDER, from this district, and Ridgvvay, of Philadelphia, both of whom dodged. All the Democrats present vobnl NO. On Wednesday, the subject was again under consideration, and Lowry, Rep,, of Erie, took Mr. ; Householder to task for not voting.— The refractory Senator then stated that he would vote upon the question when the proper time came. We are quite anxious to know how our Senator will vote when "the proper time comes."— These proceedings make Negro Suf frage an issue in this State, in the com ing campaign. The "Republican" par ty i- clearly committed to it by thi* ac tion of its representatives in the Senate. ; We give the proceedings of Monday I and Wednesday below: Mr. Landon, Rep., offered the fol- j lowing preamble and resolution: WHEREAS, A bill enfranchising the colored citizens of the District of Co lumbia lately passed the lower House of Congress, receiving the earnest sup- j port of our Republican members; there lore be it liesolred, by the Semite and House of Represented! ITS of Pennsylvania in Ren era/ Assembly met. That we approve and commend the action of our mem- j hers in their support of this measure, and our Senators are requested and hereby instructed to vote, for the same. Resolved , That the Governor be re quested to forward to each of our mem ber.- and Senators in Congress a copy of this preamble and resolution. The preamble and resolutions pass ed on-ccond reading by a striet party vote. The following is the vote on the first resolution: YEAS —Messrs. Bigham, Browne, Connell, Champneys, Dunlap, Graham, Haines, Hoge, Landon, Lowry, M'- Conaughy, Xicholis, and Shoemaker— M. NAYS —Messrs. Beardslee, Glatz. James, Latta, Montgomery, Randall and Wallace—7. Messrs. Householder and Ridgway, j Republicans, declined to vote on the question. A motion was made to suspend the rules and pass the bill finally, but was ; disagreed to, two-third- being required —yeas 14. nays 8. The Senate then adjourned until to morrow morning at eieven o'clock. WEDNESDAY, Jan. 24, 1866. The Senate was called to order at II o'clock, a. m., by Speaker FLEMING. Prayer wu- offered by Rev. James < older. ANNEAL REPORT OF BLIND ASYLUM. The SPEAKER presented the an nual report of the Institution for the instruction of the blind. Laid on the table. The resolutions offered by Mr. LAN DON, Rep., yesterday, approving of the action of the Republican members of Congress from this State, in voting for the act granting the right of suffrage to the colored men of the District of Co lumbia, and instructing our Senators to vote for the same, came up on third reading. Mr. DUNLAP, Rep., moved to re commit them to the Committee on Fed eral Relations. Mr. LOWRY. Rep., hoped the mo tion would not prevail. The Senate understood this question as thoroughly as the committee possibly could. The Senator from Bedford Mr. HOUSE HOLDER) yesterday had an opportun ity of voting on these resolutions, but declined to do so. He wished to know if this motion was to allow the Senator to further screen himself; also, wheth er he desired to "change sides" on this measure. He wanted Senators to meet the issue like men. Mr. HOUSEHOLDER, Rep., said he would vote on the question when the proper time arrived. Mr. LANDON moved to postpone indefinitelv. Mr. DUNLAP said that hi* object was to allow Senators who were not present yesterday to examine the reso lutions and give them an opportunity to speak on the same if they desired. Mr. LANDON replied that he did not want to see these resolutions smoth ered. He thought every Senator read the papers sufficiently to properly un derstand the question. Mr. HOPKINS, Dem., hoped that the resolutions would be allowed to lie over. He was ready and anxious to meet the question openly before the Senate but Thought that time should be given for both sides to discuss the I same. Mr. LAN DON, wanted the i--ue met fairly and squarely. Mr. DONOVAN, Dem., was ready to i vote for any day the Senator might name to consider the resolutions to ; show him he did not desire to evade the i issue. He thought there were too many | friends of the red and black men in this Senate to attempt that. [Laugh l tf ' r -J Mr. LAN DON then modified his a mendment making the resolutions the ! special order for to-morrow, which mo tion was adopted. A jniv having been sent out on a | plain ease of assault and batttery, I where the evidence clearly convicted the prisoner, came into court with the | intelligence that they were unable to agree. The court inquiring how they stood, and what was the cause of disa greement? one of their number stated that it was his misfortune to be associ ated with eleven of the most obstinate, ignorant, beetle-headed men he ever saw—they were all for conviction, while he was unanimous for acquittal. A iStafe fair is a queen; an agricultur al fair is a farmer's daughter; a church fair is a person's wife; an editor's fair is the best-looking girl he can get hold of; a charity fair is a female pauper; and the most unpopular fare in the un iverse is boarding fare. THE SOI.WF.R VOTE FB4IIW OF PHIL. AREI.PHIA. Tiie Philadelphia Isedger, (conserva tive Republican,) of the 24th, contains the following deservedly severe reflec tions ypon Given, the Republican can didate at the late election who sought to elect himself upon bogus soldier re turns : G IVEN'S ANSWER.— The public will I have observed that John Given has put in an answer to the petition of Major Weaver. This was done on the 22d of January, 18GG, more than three months after Major Weaver was elected by the people, and nearly three months since John Given was handed a certificate of election based upon fraudulent returns of a pretended soldier vote, which en abled him to defeat the will of the peo ple as expressed at the election. These three months have not been consumed in any effort to show that the false re- on which lie got Ills certificate were true or legal, for that could not be done. On the contrary, the grossly fraudulent character of these returns has been proven beyond all denial. But notwithstanding this, they have ena bled Given to get the certificate, and to consume three months of time. Now that they have served their purpose, he abandons them. He says he knows nothing about them, and swears that he does not even know how many votes were thus added to his vote. New pleas are now set up to consume more time. In the outset of his "answer" he pro tests against the "vague, general and indefinite" character of the petition of Major Weaver, and yet what was stated in that petition lias been proved, with such particularity that it has compelled Given to abandon the pretended soldier vote. There is nothing "vague" about the evidence of the Soldiers who swore that the 19th Pennsylvania cavalry con sisted of but jour companies, while Given had returns from nine. There is nothing "indefinite" about the evidence of the officers and men who swear that on the 18th day of Oc tober that regiment was hundreds of miles away from Baton Rouge, where the Given election was alleged to have been held. There is nothing 'general' about the evidence of the officers who testify that the rascals who made out the "returns" from the 58th regiment forged the names of men dead as well as living, of the discharged men, pris oners, deserters and all. Nothing could be more clear, particular and conclus ive. Hence Given abandons that vote, but still swears that the complaint is "vague and indefinite." But while he protests against theconclusi vely proved facts that have driven him from that part of the case, he sets up a new idea, which is "vague, general and indefi nite" from beginning to end. It was the pretended soldier vote, which isnowprovedto have been fraud ulent, that gave Given the certificate he unjustly holds. Whirhout those false returns he would never have re ceived it. Having abandoned them, he should abandon the certificate. If he has a spark of manly feeling he will do it; and then, if he really believes there were other frauds, let him pursue the case as a contestant. In that atti tude he may consume time by his var ious dodges to his heart's content. A FANCY SKETCH.— AS there is a chance of the District of Columbia be ing turned into Dahomey and of the Ebony class being metamorphosed into voters, it will do no harm to draw a fancy sketch of a scene at the polls. We will therefore suppose the polls open and a voter presents himself and hands in his ticket. Officer.—What's your name? Voter.—Cuffcy. Officer.—But your sur-name? Voter.—Massa neber called me sir. Officer.—Well, your baptismal name. Voter.—Oh, gorry, neber was bapti zed in dis lifetime. Officer.—Well, your Christian name? Voter.—No, Chris was de ole Massa's name. Officer.—Well, are there any others named Cufl'ey in your Ward? Voter.—()h, Gor-a-mighty yes, yah, \ i, here am six Cuffeys in one house. v >ffieer.—Well, which Cuffey are you? Voter.—Why, I am dis identical Cuffey what am standin' here. < officer.—But how do you know your self from the other Cuffeys? Voter. —Why, dis Cuffey am a gem man, de odder Cuffeys are all common folks. Officer.—But which of the Cuffeys are you on this list of voters? Voter.—Can't read 'em 'glyph ics. < )fficer.—V ell, where do you live? Voter.—Down atde hotel. Officer.—Well, does any other Cuffey live there? Voter.—Gorry yes, dere am four or six—can't count which. Officer.—Well, what's your wife's name? Voter.—Lor-o-Massey, hain't got no wife. Officer.—Well, are the other Cuffeys married? Voter.—Neber seed 'em married. Dey habone woman betwixt em all. Officer.—Well, what age are you? Voter.— Dat question is too mistica tedfor dis child. Officer.—Well, are you twenty-one? Voter.—Neber counted more dan two and had to count 'em one at a time. Officer.—Did you ever pay a tax ? Voter.—Yes, Massa he sent me for tacks once but he paid for dat paper he self. Officer.—What c-iaim have you for asking a vote here? Voter.—l's a loyal contraban Amer ican citizen of African descent.—Johns town Democrat. —During the passage of the District of Columbia Negro Suffrage Bill, the galleries of the House of Representa tives at Washington, were crowded with negroes, who applauded loudly when the result was made known.