fii f wlfurfl fetttf.! rri(!T rcbrnxry 16, 1566. ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CEXTRAL COMMITTEE. DEMOCRATIC STATE J COMMITTEE ROOMS, Harrisburg, Feb. 9. } ] To the Democracy of Penmyh'anut : The events of the last political can vass are yet fresh in your minds. You announced your unequivocal en dorsement of the restoration policy of! President Johnson, and denounced the doctrine of negro suffrage. Your opponents affirmed their sup-1 port of the President, and evaded the issue upon the question of suffrage. A powerful organization, large offi cial patronage and an unscrupulous use of money, secured to them the victory. The record of the past month strips the mask from the face of the victors. They treat with derision the declared policy of the President. They have placed the Government of the Consti tution in abeyance, and it- legislative and executive functions are usurped by a cabal of men, who. in obedience to caucus, govern the nation through the forms of a directory. The right of each State to regulate i the qualifications of it-elector- is detii- : ed; the will of the u ■ -pie of the I>i tricf of Columbia is overridden, ami I by an almost unanimous vote, the i Republican party in Congress and the State Legislature accord to the negro equal potitieal right- with the white man. The initial step tow ard a war of races, has been taken, and a consolidated gov ernment looms up in the distance. The tenet- of the President upon these points are our cardinal doctrines. 1 In sustaining him we vindicate them. Organize in every nook and corner of the Commonwealth. Organize to sustain the President, to maintain your principles, to restore the "Union, to vindicate the supremacy of! your race, and to hurl into political ob livion the men who have boon false to j the Union, false to their pledges, false to the instincts of their blood, and true ; alone to the madne.-s that rules the; hour. By order of the Democratic state Central Committee. WILLIAM A. WALLA< K. Chairman. THE Disunionists held a meeting in ; the Court House, on Tue-day evening last. It wa- an improvised affair and would not have been held, but for the Disunion rank-, by the Democratic Union meeting the night before. After much drumming up of the faithful, a squad of them assembled in the Court room and were re-inforced into respec tability by large number* of Democrats who wanted to know what on earth any body could -ay in favor of the "black ness of darkness" that pervade- the doctrines of the Disunion party. Col. John 11. Filler addressed the meeting, but as he desired to avoid the discus sion of the issues which his own party leaders have forced upon the country, he made one of the drie-t and nio-t te dious harangues that ever was listened to. But, then, the "Governor" was there, too, grim and majestic.although he had just come from instituting a-uit for libel. His Gubernatorial Highne-s took the stand amid the whistling of the boy and the roaring of the drums, fa kind of Chinese trick which hi frieuds devised to frighten off hi- "en emies,") and then, oh! reader, you should have heard the ear-splitting bawl, intended for a -peech, to which the audience were treated. It sounded, at a distance, like the caterwaul of a pair of grimalkins quarreling by moon light, on a house-roof. But, in spite of the incessant chawing of hi- words, the "Governor" managed lo swallow tin whole African race during the course of his speech. 1 lesaid,amongotherthings, that "we must forget that there i- a black man, and we mu.-jt forget that there is a white man;" that is, in se lecting our associates, in marrying our wives, etc.. we must not look to see whether they are negroes. Well, every man to his taste; that doctrine may do for the "Governor," but it doesn't suit the people of this country. Again, he said that "five negroes in the South are as good as live white men in the North!" Whatthinkyouof that, hh! ye follow ers of the Disunion leaders?—-After the "Governor" concluded, the Chinese trick was again performed by the drum mers and the small boys, so as to enable him to descend in safety from the stand. A political weathercock was then set up, in order to ascertain which way the wind blew, and it was discovered that itdid not Wow toward the White House, nor toward any thing else that is white, Andy Johnson's name not being men tioned favorably at any one time dur ing the entire proceedings. The meet ing then adjourned. Democratic victories at city elections are all the rage, just now. Look out for a storm! DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING Grand Outpouring of the People! GREAT ESTHtSIIS! * Sptcchw, Resolutions, Ac. The annual mass meeting of the Democrats of Bedford county, was held at the Court House, on Monday : night last. t A large concourse of peo i pie was in attendance. It was truly a ' magnificent-revival of theaneient Dem | ocratic spirit and was one of the lu st | meetings in point of numbers and en j thusiasin that ha- ever been held here in our recollection. The meeting was organized by theappointment of HUGH WILSON, ESQ., as President; Hon. Jamo- Burns, lion. W. G. Eicholtz, Isaac Keusinger, Esq., James Cessna, Esq., Hiram Dae,-, Hezekiah Miller, i Saml. Rcighurd, 11. P. Diehl, Peter Koontz, C. B. Koohendarfer, 80-tian Kegg, Peter M. Bartofi, \Y. Keyser, Roliert Steckman, and li. J. Means, a.- Vice Presidents; and Lieut. James Wogan, S. W. Statler Josinh Ritchey, ; and W. B. Lambrigbt, as Secretaries. On motion of B. F. Meyers, a com mitteeof one from each election di— trie! wa- appoim<-d to draft r<-solutioiG expre-sivc oi ;be -cn-c o;' ihe meeting and to select a delegate to the coming I democratic Slate Convention, The committee wa- compo- .<1 follow-: I. F. Meyers, chairman, Daniel H-Itz ! ell, John . Figanl, Jacob Bow-er, ' Robert Deremer, Henry Wertz, W. A. ; Grove, George Boade-. Aivy l'.oylan, : D. V. Evan--. D. Fletcher, G. W. Dow ser, P. M. Barton, A. J. Morgan, A. J. Snively, Wt <lcy Bennett, Jacob Wal ter, J.G. Hartley. M. B. Miller, Henry I Fluek, M. Wertz. The committee having retired for > j con-idtatiou. the Democratic Martial : Band played in their inimitable style, the glorious old air of the "Star Span gled Banner," aft r which loud (-all- Were made for the Hon. Francis M. j Kimmell, who took the stand amidst • great applause. Judg Kimmell made ; one of his most telling speeches and was i frequent iy interrupt* '1 bv the cheers of ■the a: ■"• ncc. G. E. Shannon, Esq.. : was then railed upon and the cull was ! responded to by that gentleman in a ! -perch replete with sound argument ' and crushing facts. B. F. Meyer-, j chairman of the committee on resolu tion-, then made the following report, , which was unanimously adopted, after which John Palmer. Esq., made a j short speech, and ihe meeting adjour ned with three cheer- Cor th; good old ' Democratic party: ' resulted in civil war, aiui ic/iwoo. after the loss of a million o! lives undtheentailment upon theeoun try, of :iu almost overwhelming debt, the conflict of arms has ceased, and tc/n /•/'.-•, notwithstanding the awful h-.-- -on taught by the last four years, design ing parti/ail- -till continue to agitate the -utiject which was the fruitful vattsf ol our national trouble-, threatening that theresliall i>e no i>eac" until tin ncgro.-liHilliegiveirtheiightot suffrage, and that, if he 1m 1 not so enfranchised, th.ere will he a war of races, Therefore, /,'< W/vd, That in order to secure peace to the country and avert the threatened conflict between the ra ce-, it has liecome the imperative duty o. the people to take the control of thf government from the hands of thost whose grand and only purpose is t< keep the public mind disturbed by .IT eussion of and icgidstion upon the sub ject of the African race. [lrmlral, In the language of the la mented Douglas, the* "This i.-a Whip Man's (Joverninent, er< *ted by \Yi.ic< Men for White Men ana their Posterity forever;" and that we deplore and de nounce the policy which has made th< Tinted States (Jovcrnment the guar dian of four million- of black people who are able to earn their own living especially a- thi- guardianship cost- '.ln white people of tin- country, -om< fifty million- of dollar- per annum. H'sn/rnl, That the Constitution fra med by trKORGK. WASHINCTIIN' all* his illustrious compeer-, i- good etc-,i_! for "s; that it i- theoniy popular lorn of government that has stood the ;e --of time, and that the continual tinker ing, patching, and cobbling of that -a ered instrument, by Disunion Aboil tion Congressmen, is to be abhorred o all men who desire the stability of mi: government and the perpetuity of A meriean liberty. /?exo/r< d, That the doctrine that "tin majority -hmild rule," having lieet preached by the leaders of the party ii power, from the time of the delivery of Mr. Lincoln's first inaugural, ?: should now he practised by them, and therefore, in their effort to force negr< suffrage upon the people of the Distric of Columbia, after the latter have de dared by a vote of over om /miultrd t< one that* they do not want it, those leaders have proved recreant to thei: own political doctrine and have at tempted to tyrannize over a peoph lb: whose protection and good governinon they are sworn to legislate. Re-nt/rerf, That we suggest to the Con gres-nu n of Pennsylvania, that they cease for a little while, to vote lbr ap propriations for that grand negro poor house, the Freedmen's Bureau, and turn their attention to securing to t-h< soldiers of the first two year- of tin war* the same bounties paid to thost who enlisted at later periods, as rceoni mended in the platform adopted by tin last Democratic State ( (invention. Rtxoired, That we most heartily en dorse the policy of President Johnson, iu his effort-to restore the I'nion and secure peace to the country. Whik we deprecate trials by military commis sion and believe that (Jen. Sherman'- plan of immediate re-habilitation of tin State governments, in their constitu tional powers, would have been inort in accordance with the spirit of the fun damental law, than the appointment o; provisional governors, yet we rejoict to perceive in the President's conduct toward the people of the South, that t rue magnanimity and generosity whiel alone can reconcile a conquered peoph to a victorious government. Remjlved , That we will sustain Pres ident Johnson in every proper and con • •• stitutional effort to restore the Union and to give peaee to the country. Rcsotred, That John Palmer be and he is hereby appointed a delegate to represent Bedford county, in the Dem ocratic State Convention, to be held at Harrisburg, on the oth of March next. PAKTIZAX LEGISLATION. Another right, it seems, is to be wres ted from the people of Bedford county, by the infamous cabal which has ruled the roast at Harrisburg the last throe years. Time was when the majority ru led in this county. Now the minoriti/, with the assistance of parti win legisla tion. govern the majority. For in stance, the elected a hoard of County Commissioners, among whose powers were those of tilling the jury wheel and drawing juries. But to sub serve political ends, these powers were taken from the county commissioners, and given to two other officers, one of whom is elected by a minority of the voters of the county. Next, the peo ple elected a District Attorney, among other things, to draw up bills of indict ment, based upon informations before the proper officers, but to suit the pur poses of some individual who wants an advantage of the law as it lias stood from time immemorial, tin* District Attorney is about t< he depo-ed by the Legislature. A bill i- new before that body tor this purpose. What its char acter is we do not exactly know, hut the Pat r I'd a- t'nion, <>t the sth in-t., refer- to it in the following language: "A hill has made it- appearance in the i'euii-ylvania House, whieh,should it become a law, will practically oust the District Attorney of Bedford coun ty. This is another despicable shoddy attempt to get control of thecourts and to secure the political lead in Democrat | it; counties. It is of a part with the "Police Bill." which i- designed to plaee the Democratic counties ot* Lu zerne and Schuylkill under thedomi nation of Shoddy ite> of gubernatorial appointment; and of the "Jury COlll - inissioners'' scheme, which is to divide juries etjually lietween the two political parties in all the Democratic counties, 1 and leave sixteen or eighteen of the largest Shoddy eountits- to the entire : control of the 'loyal' league. There i- certainly a de-perate ami despicable set of "loyal patriots" in the Pennsylvania Legislature. They seem determined to carry out their oaths of proscription and persecution of Demo crats with all possible virulenc? and devilisbtie-s. They are not content to acquiesce in the rule of majorities. Wherever they can foist a "loyal" 1 league niinorbv uumi -,i . Uoow p,- iii.<n>MTy oy ••ruinp legislation or the arm of military power they lose 110 op portunity of doing it. The Shoddy majority in the Legislature should be , distinctly informed that sonic things i are subject- of legislation and some are not; and that, in no ca-e will political or "rump" legislation lie toierated by the Democratic communities of Penn sylvania. The lime- b< ing revolutionary, the Democracy can as welt play at the game as the midnight oath-hound "loyal" leaguers, who arc making the most des perate efforts to acquire ascendancy in this and other Northern States before the admission of the Southern States to representation. The "loyal" leaguers fear a coalition of Northern Democrats and the Son h em people u]>oll a constitutional t'nion basis, whieh would prove a death-knell to negro-ism. and hence the "rump" legislation mat u ring in ('ongre-sand tin variousState legislature-. Let the peo ple observe the midnight conspirators well, and meet wiie with wile—force with force." Sa \ st he Patriot a t a ion : "The( ov ernnr, in iii- me—age talks about redu cing Slate taxation ; so does the State Treasurer; so do the Shoddy members of 11 1<• Legislature ;so do the shoddy organs of the state; and yet the shod dy majority in the Legi-laturego right ahead and pa--hills for doubling the i I salaries of public officers and for in -1 creasing the annual publicexpenditures 1 beyond that of any previous period. The salary of the assistant librarian has already been raised by the Senate from spin 1 to and a bill ha-been offered for the doubling of the -alaries of the Governor, Auditor, Surv vor and At torney Generals. besides a heavy in crease in the salaries of hundreds of other State officials. Shoddy practice . and precept are about, a- wide asunder ; as the poles." "GOVEKNOK" CESSNA, at the J)isun ion meeting, on Tuesday night, tried to make his hearers believe that Negro Suffrage is not and cannot lie an issue in Pennsylvania. Docs he think peo ' pie are fools? Can't other men read as well as he? Why, the Abolition Disun i ion Congressmen from this state, voted i for Negro Suffrage in the District of Columbia, and their conduct must eith i er be sustained, or repudiated, by the j people, at the coming election. The | Abolition Disunion Senators at Harris burg, endorsed the action of the mem ! bers of Congress in voting for Negro Suffrage in the District of Columbia, and shall they be sustained at the polls? Will Mr. Cessna explain these things to the people? As to the Constitution not being amendable oftener than once in five years, that argument is fast "playing out." The last amendment was first passed by the Legislature e lected in lsti?; therefore, the Legisla ture to he chosen a year hence, ran pro ; pose all amciidmcnt to the Constitution. Nay, the Senators, being elected for three years, those to he chosen this fait • iri/t serve ti/t an amendment nan he offer | I'd. Let this he borne in mind. Again, j the Governor to he ehoscn id the next e , /cation, iritt IK IN ojjfiee long enough to ttring his influent ' it, hear in favor of, or againstsaeJi lonendmcnf. Let this, also, he remembered, and lot Air. (V—na dispose of these facts a- best he can. Or u "Governor" infuturo, eulogized ; the Emancipation proclamation very | highly, on Tuesday night last. I his he I forgotten tint from the very samestand, : three years ago, he said that the war : would have been over if the Emanci pation Proclamation had not been i—u- I ed and if Gen. McClellan had been | kept at the head of the army? We just want, to jog your memory a little, 1 "Governor'" Hon. Geokoh SANHKIISIIN ha- been j re-elected Mayor of Lancaster, hv isl majority. The Democratic candidate ! for High Constable, had JiM majority. These are gratifying gain- dv t the vote i last fall. Thaddeus Steven- ha- been ! rebuked in his own home. Good for ! old Iginc.istei*! JAMES M. Roan, Esq., has purchased the interest of Hon. A. J.Glos-brenner, in the office of the Philadelphia Age. Air. llol>ll is an able writer and will do | excellent service in the D. moeratie j cause. The Age has been greatly im )>!■ >ved within the la-t few months and ; now i- a- good a m u-spaner as anv dailv . | we wot oS. Wk are under obligations to Gen. A. L. Buss' il, Adjutant General of Penn i sylvania. for a copy of his report. the i;i;prLi: iv pkkss ox mh. VfKt t:\S- SI*EES'SS. The Republican journals, as a general tiling, are by no nieans pleased with the recent -peech of the lion. Thadele us Stevens on theconstitutiouai amend inent, in which he attacked President Johnson. We make a few extracts: From the Toledo Blioie. Hep.) Tlladdeus Stevens is evidently anx ious to quarrel with the President, lie | made a terrible onslaught on him in the 1 louse, bee*<ui>e the President, in con versation with a Senator, gave it as his ; wetl' save the one bas ing representation upon votes instead ;of population. Mr. Stevens will di— ; <■ -.ver 'efore lie has got through with ! this war that the people generally are i decidedly of the President's opinion, ! and that, if they were not, they would j be willing lie should have his opinion, ! and would be in favor of his express ! ing it at proper time- and in proper i places. The gentleman from Pennsyl ; vauiu is a iisei'ui legislator in many re | specks, but a more bigoted and intoler | ant man never lived. [From tho Cleveland Herald' Rep ] If the l uion majority in Congress is ; driven, into antagonism with President Johnson, it will be through the course of such intemperate leaders as Thad. Stevens, who seems determined to force j a quarrel. In his speech on theeonsti j tutioiial amendment, in the liouseon i Wednesday, lie i> reported as speaking ■ of President Johnson as '•having but ' reeenfly put forth a proclamation or command, at the very time Congress ! was legislating on the constitutional a liicndnierii." This, the irascible rep -1 n-sentatlve adds, "was in direct viola } lion of the privileges eif this 1 ,dv, and | if it had been made several centuries a go !>y a British king to Parliament, i would have cost him his head; hut in I this day we are tolerant of usurpation | and abase of power." Mr. Stevens well knew that this'ppoe- I tarnation' was no more than a reported i conversation between the President and ! a Senator who had called on him, was in no way an official document, and, whether in aceorrlanci with the views of the majority in ('ougre— or not, was not a subjo t calling for their censure or j approval. When an opinion on a pub | lie measure, expressed in a private con- I versation, is declared "usurpation and j abuseof power," it is well for Mr.Stev j ens to consider whether the language he | habitually user, in Congress in regard to ! public measures and public men is not ! an abuse of privilege and place, and j that in later days than that of Charles | 1. would have cost him his head. With j ail his talent, Thad. Stevens lias made ! himself the Tliersites of the I'nion j camp, snapping and snarling at friend ! and foe alike, and he should have no j more influence than had that "core of i envy." lie s so full of the spirit of ! dissension, that if he were east a lone on 1 a desert islant, he would, like Hotspur, 1 "divide himself and goto buffets," for lack of some jne to quarrel with. Wililst on he' subject of kings nnel Parliaments, Mr. Stevens should re member that the Parliament which | jierfonned th experiment of cutting off j a British king's hand in vindication of its legislative'dignity, made but little iby tiieeiperatiin. the history of the long Parliantfnt, Bare-bone's Parlia-j ment.and thellump Parliament, with ' the episode ef "Pride's Perge" anel Cromwell's wild up of the legislative' farce- by turniig the- Parliament out of doors, offer l>u little encouragement for modern ie-gisiiteirs teitroael in the same path. * | F rum the Jinciunati Times. Kep.| In eliscussiig the representation a nienelnient Mi. Ste-vens made an out rageous anel uiealled for attaek on the \ President. istlie* President to he muz zled during tie session of Congress, lest he- say something that may intiu ene-e some weal members? Is the- Pres ident to be gagted? When all eiasses of politicians |nd preachers are- con stantly seeking; interviews, anel using eve-ry art to dniv out some expressions of opinion, is hi so much of a slave that he- must not savin word? is <tongress to bepresumeel seVweak that it dare net Lake a stand in exposition, or so stupid tiiatit knows n>t what to do until the President is ceiisulted? Mr. Stevens t and the Cincinnati Gazette would nuke the President a slave, at the same time that they makeCongressa hotly of fools, that dare not sneeze unless the Presi dent takes a pinch of snuff! We have had enough of Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania. We still have hopes/if the Gazette, but none at all of this incongruity of Pennsylvania. In his great speech upon reconstruction, j early in the session, he had the base-1 a ess to conceive and the -hamelessncss j to avow his chief object to he the per petuation of the republican party! Has 1 our statesmanship descended so low a to make party the object, especially when vital question* arc before tlieeoun try, and the establishment of liberty on a sure basis is the object of patriotic | solicitude? "Get thee behind me, Sa -1 tan." When we shall sustain party for j the sake of party, or countenance a, statesman who has nothing but; party in view, may our right hand he palsied i and our hand refuse the cunning of the I pen. —— The Trimii|>ii in Ijinrnslcr- The result of.the election in this city | yesterday (Feh. O,j must he exceedingly 1 gratifying to every right thinking, con ' servat'ive man in Lancaster. An en dorsement of Thaddeus Stevens and of his ruinous policy was sought. His friends threw all their energies into the j canvass. They fairly dragged Air. Liv ! ingston before the people;, because they believed he could secure some Demo i emtio votes through his personal popu j larity. They raised a large fund of money and used it most unscrupulously. No slander was too vile for them to ut ter through the columns of the Express against the Democratic candidates.— i They resorted to every known or con ! ceivaUe device to carry this good old | Democnitic city. They were perfectly confident of success. Neither Air. Liv- S ingston nor his friends would believe j he could he beaten until the day of elec tion. A few hours trial of the temper of the Democracy was sufficient, how ever, to satisfy them that they were in for siieh a tight a- they hud not seen made for year-. They found the Dem ocrat- more resolute and determined, if possible, than ever they saw them le --fore. In vain had they declared the Democratic party dead. Here it -tood j confronting them as proudly, as defi antly and .0 resolutely as ever before, it showed its former spirit and exhibit ed thesame indomitable pluek for whieh jit has ever been noted. Yesterday's work convinced every Republican in Lancaster city that the Democratic par ty is ,-tii! a living reality. They found ii fully prepared to meet the vital issues of the present day. The energy dis played by it in yesterday's election will mark the contest which will commence with the noudnatiou of a candidate for Governor on the fifth of March next. We give our opponents fair warning that we intend to elect a Democratic Governor next fail and to turn out the ; radical liiemliersof Congress who voted for negro -uffrage. We shall go into the fight fully determined to win, and with a confident reliance on the good sense, the honesty, the patriotism and the just pride of race characterizes the white men of Pennsylvania.— Lanea#- fer Inti 'ttgeD'-er. DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN* READING. —Reading, tbecountyseatof < fid Berks, lias long been under the control of the Republicans; but on Friday last the Democracy rallied at the municipal e -1 ertion and made a clean sweep of the city. The whole Democratic city ticket was elected by a majority of over two hundred. Thi -show- plainly that the popuiar tide has turned against the fa natic- who are ( .oy ;i Jji jmwer. 11( ,fiH t o to be entrusted any longer with the af fairs of the government. Reading has long been a black spot on the fair es cutcheon of the Gibraltar of Democra cy. < >sd Berks in now white all over. Lancaster fired the first gun for the suc cess of the "white man's tiekether sister city of Reading answers with a cheering salute, which is destined to go 1 the whole round of good old Pennsyl vania. Look out for Democratic thun der this year! So says the Political Al manac.—/.ancarter fiifc/ligetirer. HINT TO THAU. STEVENS. —CharIes Lamb used to relate with great glee, that hin theological investigations were exhausted in devising a scheme equal izing punishment after death. This he proposed to do by having a special hell for Scotch men, in which the bci/iiafo/ie rboaal !>• hjt oaf, thereby cm-signing them in a double sense to the "old scratch." Some cliap out West has, however, improved upon Lamb's con ceit, and relates the following story somewhat at thcexpense of Tliad. Ste v ns, of Pennsylvania: He says that he dreamed that he once made a visit to infi i'ii'), and while engaged in conver sation with the proprietor, an imp an nounced that the Pennsylvania Radical wa-at the door sicking admittance.— Old Nick promptly and emphatically refused him entrance upon the ground that In- would be continually disturb ing tb. peace and order of the place.— The imp soon rethrncd, -aving that Thad. insisted upon coming in, declar ing that he had no other place to go.— Alter considerable anxious retiection old Nick's lace suddenly brightened with a new idea and he exclaimed: "I've got it! Tell the Janitor to give him six bushels of brimstone and a box of matches and let him go and start a little heii of his own. 1 can't have him here.— Exchange. THE Republican party have always claimed to he tin* especial friends of the soldiers. When they were in the field j large promises were made by this party a- to what would hedonefor them when they returned. All the positions in the Postottice and Huston) Hou.se were to be placed at their disposal. The sol dier- have returned, and yet not one of j the promises made by the Republican: party has been kept. A notable instance of the insincerity of the dominant party with reference to returned soldiers oc curred at the last meeting of ('ommon > Council. An ordinance hud been intro duced authorizing the Mayor to appoint iroioabv soldier* as telegraph operators and turnkeys in the station houses.— This was a mere "buncombe" measure, as the Mayor could appoint wounded soldiers under the genial appointing power, if he chose to d*-so. In order, however, to test the sincerity of the Re publicans, Mr. King moved that the Mayor be dircbul to appoint wounded soldiers, thus making it imperative up on the Mayor. This was a bombshell in the Republican camp. It was substitu ting <leed*i for word* , and hence the ut most consternation prevailed in the ranks of the dominant organization.— j The vote was taken on the proposition , to direct the Mayor to appoint ironnded J xoh/ier*, and not a."ingle /Republican | iin /nbt r cud hi."ballot in favor of it. This is the way that Republicans remember their promises to wounded soldiers.— Age. Ih'iiiiH'rHlir Victory. READING, Feb. in.—The election in this city on Friday resulted in the elec tion of the Democratic city ticket by an average majority of 200. Reading has heretofore gone Republican by about the same majority. COSQSES6IOXU SXWS. SENATE. Petitions were presented in favor of a protective tariff, and also in favor of a reduction of the tax on agricultural implements. Thecrertentialsof George Houston, Senator elect from \labama, were presented. Tliey were ordered to lie upon the table. Mr. Davis offered a ! resolution dei-laring tiiat as charges of i peculation and fraud liftd been made ' against the cotton agents ol the Treas ury Department, thereforea committee be raised to investigate such charges. Messrs. Sumner, Sherman and Fes-en den asked for specific charges. Mr. Davis cited the case of General Davis, in command on the Mississippi. He offered further to prove frauds against the Government other than cotton frauds, if a committee was chosen, the majority of whom were favorable to an investigation. Mr. McDougall offered an amendment so as to include the Gov ernment officers at New < trieansand the Mississippi Dej>artment. Ilecitedthe case of the brother of Major General Butler, who was a common gambler in (California, and who, after being rejected by the Senate, went to Xew Orleans where his brother was, and in a short time accumulated a fortuneof some two millions of dollars. The discussion was kept up until the expiration of the morning hour. The joint resolution to amend the Constitution of the I'nited States in the matter of representation and taxation, was taken up. Mr. John sou -poke at length against the resolu tion, and at the close of his remark-the Senate adjourned. HOI'SE OF REPKESEXTATRVES. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President, in which he stated that ii would he incompatible with the public interests to communi cate the record or report of the Judge Advocate General, in relation to the charges pending against Jefferson Da vis, Clement ('. Clay, David Yuleeand Stephen Mallory, the evidence being merely e.r parte, and intended for the President, alone. The I louse took up theSenatoamend \ ment to the bill amendatory to the net to establish the Freedmen's Bureau, | which was concurred in. The amend ments reported from the < ommittee of ! the Whole on the State of the Union, on the Navy Appropriation bill, were then considered by the House. The items, as retained or stricken out, will be found in the proceedings elsewhere. The bill was finally passed, with an ad ditional clause, making the appropria tion- as bounties for the destruction of the enemy's vessels during the war, applicable to all cases, and ul-o a new section, that no parts of the amount j appropriated by this bill, shall be paid in violation of the provisions of the act prescribing an oath of office. The j consideration of the bill establishing a 1 uniform system of bankruptcy, was then resumed, but the time wa- passed in discussing the details of different sections, and no final action was taken. 1 luring the s( .-sion,General- < )sterhaus, < -rook and Ward were introduced to the ; JLlun.se, by the Speaker. —The United States Senate wa- not jin session on Saturday. In the House theday was given up to speech-making, and no busines- was done. COXPLIHEXTN <>£ IIIKSKtsox. Little JoHXXY CESSNA has brought suit again-t the editors of the Bedford G<nette for libel! We never suppo-e<i it possible for any one to !• able to li ! Bel CESSNA, and if our friend- of tlie Gazette have succeeded in so herculean ! a task, they must have resorted to a : trick, and characterized JOHN an hon est man and ci>n-ciontiota .ooliiician. I nal \f dun. lie a lie. alio II the '• :Ztro has published such a niLsreprcscutatioii, ; itshoidd sufferthecon-ei|uences.— J'ottx ; vitte Standard. John Cessna has prosecuted Messrs, Meyers and Mengel, of the Bedford (razit/i. for libel—or "defamation of ! character." We don't see how au ae • tion can lie. The damages must be merely nominal.— Patriot A'- f t/ir/it. LITTI.K JOHX CESSNA has sued the editors of the Bedford Gazette for libel. Libel John Cessna".' The thing is im possible.—(i'reens*bury Aiyux. S. svion ,f llu- CnhluH OH fln> IriiiliiiiiiX Kill. The Philadelphia Ledger of this morning has the following special dis patch from Washington: <n Thursday i telegraphed you that there was little doubt hut what the President would return the Freedmen's Bureau hill with his object ion- thereto. The next day the subject was brought up before a full meeting of the Cabinet, when Mr. Johnson, it is -aid, did not hesitate in his usual calm and decisive maimer to a—ert that IK- should "return the bill." Several of the Cabinet en dorsed iiis position, hut a majority of the members, it is asserted, opposed it, urging thai the bill be signed a- it stood. But the President was immo vable. and the meeting, which lasted the best part of the day, broke up with a distinct understanding from the chief of the council board that lie should veto the hill. The objections of the President are said to be wholly constitutional, and they will undoubtedly be brought to hear upon all the acts of Congress tend ing to work injuriously upon theSouth. and in the pe--ageof which the South ern State- have been refused the repre sentation to which the President has officially declared they were entitled. Connecticut democratic Contention. 11 A KTKONN, Fob. 7. —The Democrat ic State Convention, held to-day, i- the largest for many years. The lion. .T. 11. Bond presided, ami the Hon. Jas. K. English w.a- nominated for Govern or; Kphraim 11. Hyde for Lieut. Gov ernor; Jesse ()iney for Secretary of State; Hiram H. Barbour, for Trea-urer, anil Thomas LL C. Kingsbury for Comp troller. Mr. English made a speech of acceptance. The resolutions passed endorse the President's restoration pol icy : The following wa- among the resolu tions adopted by the Democratic Con vention. Peso/red, That we pledge to Andrew Johnson of the State of Tennessee, President of the United States, oursup port in theefibrt he is making to secure to all the States immediate representa tion in Congress and their full rights i under the Constitution a- States of the Union, and that \\V will stand by him j so long as lie stand-by the Constitution, ! and ask all patriotic citizens to unite j with it- in this patriotic purpose. \I H tlaiiijtotiirc lli iiKX ratio < t>N\<-ialion. CnxcoKi), N. 11., Fob. 7.—The Now Hampshire Domoeratie State Conven tion lias nominated Hoi!. John (i. Sin clair, of liethlehem, for < iovernor, and Col. Geo. 11. Pieree. of Dover, for Kail road < 'ommissioner. Resolutions were adopted endorsing President Johnson in his endeavors to have the Southern States represented in ('ongress, and discountenancing any a niendnients to the Constitution. —The e<litor of the New York 7W/>- o/if hasreceived a California beet, meas uring J feet 1 inches in length, and 74 inches in diameter. It weighed 55 pounds before leaving California, HIRCEtAAAEOrs NEWS —The delegation of the Virgo, la'gislature on Saturday waited on <0 President, and presented the n A tions of that oody endorsing his p (l a . In reply the President said that • time was not far distant when a!U States won Id be represented in t < ig r and the t liion eonipletely re-ton <! then all our foreign difficulties v disappear. The Liberia Herald of a late, reports a large inerease in the exp,,, -. the country. "Within th<- Li>t months, five ves-eis have Loaded i oil, chiefly at tilt- Liherian ports try. Tliev took, on an average, f thousand gallons of oil. ' include the oil taken off by trap traders." —The Committee hearing the r.-, tions of the Virginia Legi-i : g ur) . j dorsing President Johnson have; ; i*d in Washington. They purp i.,. present the resolutions to the to-day ■ Feb. 10. ) —The Nebraska Legislature |„ . | rued a .State Constitution which C submitted to the people on June when an election for State officer. also take place. —European affairs appear to la , I aiderably troubled, A war u , Austria and Prussia, which will ;, IVI , j theother powers, is apprehendei ,y a serious and general di.-conteut throughout the new kingdom of h ; '. —A petition for the pardon of.h] C. Breckenridge, signed by over ty members of the Kentucky L - ture, has arrived in Washington presentation to the President. —The iron manufacturers of K • burg have reduced the \vag<>> of ;j. journeymen. Many of the latter I, refused to work, and sonic of the n ; have -topped. —The police of Brooklyn, N. y have begun an examination of the itary condition of the city, to guar gainst the cholera. —The Maryland Legislature lm franchised sixteen of its member- v.; were disijualitied to vote under the i-tration act. —Four piece- of artillery, bron:. from Bagdad toClarksville.iVx,:-,! I been seized by the United State-1 lector at the latter place. —The Governor of South Caroli;. d. again protested against the clause in ■; frecdmen'- bill giving the Sea 1-1, to negroe-. —lt i- reported that bushwhack?: have appeared near Independence, M; i souri, and tliat troops have been so there to preserve order. lt is reported that an oil well yi iiig one hundred and forty gallons petroleum daily has la-en struck in A;, tralia. —John Minor Botts testifies befo the Reconstruction < 'ommitteea-1- ' validity >f the Virginia Legislature. —I luring the cold weather in Jan; j ry, me barometer attained the great elevation ever known in the U. Star —The Rhode Island General A— bly has elected ('harles S. Bradley Democrat, to the Chief Justiceship that State. —The government building-at ' ton Head were burned on the 7th ii and imtneiise stores were consumed —The Maryland Legislature adjo; ed on the -tli inst.. after refusing to peal or change the registration law. —IT i- stated tliatJudah P. Be ■ is studying English law with avii i admission to the English bar. —lt is stated that Juarez has apji ed Cortinas General in Chief eft Mexican Liberals. THE Ijoll-VII.EE .JOURNAL get the following among other readif s(|iiibs: If the clothes of the Radicals in < • gress were patched a- much as tii i propose to patch the Constitution, th would look like a gang of Italian hi gar-. | Sumner show s a disposition to alu the American flag. Ifju-ticeweredo: I he would exhibit more stripe- than i er .tlu- old flag did. A letter writer -ay.- that old Ti>: Steven- "has not a long lease of lif Hi- end and a rope's should conic i i gether. Thad. Stevens says that lie 1m- lb longer to live. The tears "live in onion" thitt will he shed when lied - IN the recent ,-peech of Cliarle-> nor in the Senate of the United St;, tne orator deuiaiuled an equality >f l ii and political right- for the negm. default of which he threatens "r-- i tance"—"revenge"—"blood"—and '■ tin 'horror- of St. Domingo.' A- y we have heard no denunciation of ' b.ruial and bloody manifesto from ' Republican journals of the nation. ' the contrary, whenever they have-! en, they have approved it. They not. by silence, evade the i—tie. Th must meet it squarely ! — Age. To CON-EM i-TIVE-. —The adverti ; having been restored to health in a few week a very simple remedy, after having suffer several years with a severe lung affcetinn :: dread disease, Cohsnmplion—is hiixious to i known to his fellow-sufferers the mean- -■! hi all who desire it. he will send a - opt ! prescription used (tree of charge), with the >' : tions for pr-paring and using ihe -aiue. k j they will find a sure CritK for CoNslli; ASTHMA. 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For sale by all Drusriri?**- By sending bn WEEKS A WTTEh Agents. 170 Washington street. Boston. will be forwarded bv mail, free oi potag*' part of the United States. Sept. 7-—" ! Knuoits or Yorm. — A (lentlciaa" who suffeicd f'.tr y.irs from Nervous Debilny > ! mature I teeny, ami all the effects of youth" l ' discretion, wilt, for the sake of suffering hui.o ty. send free to all who need it, the recipe atM reetions for making the simple remedy by he was cured. Sun'erers wishing to profit ' advertisers experience. can do so bv mdiaj't JOHN . OGOtN No. 13 Chambers St.. New tors Jan. 5. riti—ly. ( 'ATA it A< *r, 40 YKA its.—M rs. A-LN'TII- 1 from Bedford. Pa., stopping with her sister. - _ Williams, near the corner of Baldwin an ''J. (> Streets, has had Cataract on both eyes over tor j years, causing total blindness for the last 9 . ye^ # Lately Dr. Sierrett removed the cataract now sees to read without the aid of glaases. Jan 12-3 m
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