NEW YOBK PRESS. l&lTCliUi. Of INIONS OF THE LEADING JOtKKAXfl tPON CURRENT TOPICS. , , ACe)nplaof Brokers. Jhrm Vn Tribune. That th nDirit of SDPCulfttlon. which is now WO rife, should lay hold on the wise men of WasbihittoD, la not surDrlstniri and bo ou , yntld be astonished to learn that member of U Cabinet, and even Mr. Johnson hlmsclr, bow and then, hazard thelittlo balances' on the httle klte-fljlne of the innocents of Wall Street Human mitnre is weak, and even the ehastenlitifpneetof li reverse' view of the fall ktions may not suffice to restrain great states-- - :.la.....i r it.i. a . JBCn ironi a gnuiiiL-auuu ui mur unuirai pilH- iea for the row et noirot the stock market It is sad (o think that those whom the nation feolds In such unlimited esteem are thus weak; fcut weomuot expect to Ret all the virtues for the meagre salaries ol our chief?. They will feave their little flinp ; arid we can only ask that they venture their own money and cover their Own "shorts." . . . , ' In the abstract, they would'doubilcHs concede the jumice of tuifcproposinon; but It rumor is M b believed, they are setting up business ou Ckivernment account, which may prove iiny . thing bat futtiitnctry to those who are to fur Uku the Vmnrpiii." Mr. Lleutenant-tjioiieriil fcherman aud ilr. Minister Campbell have eoiio to Mexico to repiesent the nation in a traduc tion of very fiw8tionablc promise and still wore fiiietioniible justice. It is reporte.l that they are to open shop at Vera Cruz, and time this opulent and tinenibnrrasse.il people is to put up a marein 01 $o0,00,0li0, more or less, for a fpeculntion which will, at leHst, brill? us diver sion, it i'. do not bring us profit. Kmperor Max )b said to be tired of his contract, and to bn on . his WHy to the rIukIcs of Miramar. All this is , very well; and.it left to themselves. tiioMexl wiuh will adjust the matter to their own stuis lactiou, in their own way. Tucy may not do it very ueccns!ully, but that is their business. If they choose to continue their old disscrmo'is, we may pity them, but we have no right to in Uric.ru with them. Let us wish them well, aud irivA them our lricndly a-sintunce; but, in the name of common decency and of common pru dence, let us not do what we seem about to do. It is curreutly believed, in well-informed busi ness circles, that the Administration brokers are to negotiate a big thins in Mexicans bein? nent for that purpose on the shrewd hint of 31. Montholon thut there is a chuuee for a corner. Divested of biaiieikite such as "Monroe Doc trine," 'Protection to a !Sitcr Republic," Sheltering folds of the American Klug."nid similar twaddle, the thlnir is as follows: The Mexican people are to be assumed (bv what authority is not, stated) to owe from fifty to a hundred million dollars to France, as a com pensation for old claims, and for au ineffectual attempt to enforce those claims by bloodshed and usurpation. France, having fought for her money, ami boeii whipped on a field of her own choosing, would be naturally glad to pet the money, nevertheless, and to be paid tor the whipping into the bargain. Campbell W supposed to play diplomat mirabile dirtu and suggest to Mexico that she ought to pay the money, and that he will kindly arrange with Mr. ticneial Castlenau to accept his mil lions in the form of United States three per cent, bonds, which will be issued for the take of peace, humanity, conciliation, and nil that sort of thine, you know, aud Lower California, Honors, Chihuauua, and Coahuila. At this point in tha negotiations. Sherman comes for ward, as Big Injun, which ho knows how to do, and lends the mysterious aid of his ttcntle influ ence, to the contusion of whom it may corn-em, to, at least, a belief in the prudeue'e of quiet concession. With good backing at Washing ton, the thine will work, and tlio outrage will be accomplished, because Mexico is in uo con dition to resist the blandishment and threats which will be implied or expressed by our agents, while J uarez is iu condition to buy our assistance at high price. If accomplished, the United States will have added largely to her territory, which is al ready too large on that boundary; will have tic inired a large Spanish-speaking, "greater" population; will have opened an accbuut, of which the lirst millions will be only au item: will have decided that Mexico ought to pay to France a sum which Franco fonglit for and couldn't iret, and w hich Mexico "thinks hi ouehi not to pay; and will have expressed ap proyal of the high-handed measure bv which ..Napoleon, in our days of sorest trial, attempted to insert a wedge which should aid in sovciug the Union. Somebody will grow rich and powerful through th!s stock-jjbbiiur, and Mexico will foot the bill or else we shall. The Pacification of the Country-The IKchhU or the Iteceut Elct tl.u. from (he Herald. The general result of the recent elections is ne of those decisive political triumphs which aaark a new departure and u uew epoch in our political history. We have had three of these great conflicts upon great contacting ideas in reference to the general policy of the Govern ment, sluce the time of Washington: and the tettlcments effected in the first and in t he second were merely the preparation of the ground for the third and most comprehensive and d' eisive of any contest In our political annals. The first of these three sreut political struggles was that of inuo. between John Adams and Thomas Jcilcison - between the old f-edeialaudthe old iiepublican party-the .me representing those conservative idea- in herited from England, and the otber the radical popu.ar eoveieignty ideas of the first French republic. It was, in a modified form, a conflict between the English monarchists and the rench Jacobins, and, tresh from their loue war d independence against Eneland, trie American People ot that day naturally sympathised with the republican! of the' French Revolution which was drawn from our own; and so Jeller son and his radical ideas of State rights and ihS Trel"nt J Planed. From this triumph ifc'lT wer? made- Iuore or less, the estat) tu.n f LiDierrpret",1ion of tuc eral Conn u- i re,i sLf; 5jer!od 01 Mx,y yQ& to the trails ''"""'nucnanan's Adminis tration. But still the radical State rights and popular notions of Jeller-on as a cand if ate wZ riTra of ihJZuv ' th ""interrupted Uety" fo,u,rearsriCPUbhCaU Party l0r ft ter" o Tbe election of 1821 m as a scrub race which a recmAn?1' ,but the mon incident to a reconstruction of part cs, the old Federal and lWheC,i.t P"rtie3 ri f,av,r dlsipeared "in John Ou1teAf.rtat Dt'ni0(,;ratic Vnrty. atrainst n. ,?. yA(Jai?? Rnd Ms enormous national iptmdiiures of thuteon millions a year, came J to power under the banner of General J aek -hoo, the battle of New Orleans, and "retrench ment and reform." Still smarting from the of tbe r 181-3 against Eneland, ihe majority of the American people rallied aiound Jackson and elected Uim as the hero rii rle,in8, Tui emple of a military u'iIUlM wa successfully fallowed by the bes with (Jeutral Harrison and with Gene-i',y,or- .These, however, were all sporadic J! 01 ""'I'tary chieftain. It was in Jack nh "uoul1 'lotion, in 1832, upon hfi war Jpllmilhe.0,', Uu,ted S,ates B"nk, that the 1. f. our decisive natioual contest thhJf reu"K " overthrow of Lnt .Vth? "baping of our financial system u.Z -r !. '?te war. "nd in the solid organiza Vu!h .1 kte democratic party. Yet atter i . . l'"rty v" terribly defeated in 1 d(, th hin ot It tcotu In 1644, llr"f out ut-u iu IH4K, and tad a Larrow .?? SSJSill rfic in 1PSP, and wa cut to piece and scat tered to the winds ia 1H0O, leaving only iM Northern rump to bo demolished. After Jck son the party tnmcrl its face to strange gods, and set up tne worship of Baal, in the form of the "almighty nigger" o& a cotton bale. This worship, Jrom bud to worse, was carried at last to ench extremes that the Northern states (like the cbil-lrcn of Israel in many flrmlar caes) rote in their wrath auainst his outrageous pre tensions, and finally, in 18S0, secured tho choice ot a ruler pMc-ed to confine thispre snmptuous Baal or Moloch and bis ore-eaters within certain prescribed boundaries. . ' This was the first election ol Abraham Lin coln; but it decided nothing except that slavery should go no further. There was a Houtheru revolt asainst this decree of the American peo ple. The North rallied in armsto put down this revolt, and the second election of Lincoln was a decree from the Northern people that slavery, too, should bs put down, as the cause and toe lite of the Rebellion. All this isjaccomplished, when our third decisive political contest, touch ing the future policy of the Government, enmna on. between the I'tesident's Houthern policy and the constitutional amendment of Congress. These recent elctions have so decisively settled this controversy that even Wade Hnmntnn mit tet that the amendment, sooner or later, is the 'manilest destiny" of the South, and that tho Republican pnrtv in Cnnoresa lm ti, v nf i i';iit'miui succession ana tne future in its hands. .. Heie, then, we stand. The victorious nn.l all. powerful It-ague of Union States in the war, represented by the dominant party In Conuress, say to the States rescued from a rebellious con spiracy, "Here is our ultlmntum nf restoration Accept it imd come in, or reject It and stay out till ready for a iceonsiUcration. The alternative is with you to choose. Upon your choice you will be admitted into or excluded from th coming Presidential election. The thing is fixed beyond remedy in Concrress to the end nf i'ms. tlent Johnson's term." So overwhelming, t to, is this grand Noi thorn verdict upon the plan of Conuress.that, in adhering to it, and by pursuing in other inn tiers a wise aud saeacloua conrso this uew Republican party, like the old one ot Jetlerson, may hold the reins of power without a break for twenty years to come. The President and the South. from the Times. Ihe Tinws of Friday contained the following telegram from Washington: "Chlcl Justion Cliftsfl. Mr. Sown rH. CniAMiAr Iran. dall, Mr. McCuiloch, and Mr. Browning had a long consultation with the Prntidnntnii lhiiriatr It i. believed that this meeting was for consultation upon an effort now making by loading men of all parties to induco the 1'resident,, in consideration ol a general amnesty, to indwe the peopteofthefsoutktowce.pt universal suff'raae. with aualitination either nf nrn. perty or intetlifiewe. Prominent Soui hern men are co operating with Republicans and JDeniocrats in this etiort." How much of this fctntenunt is conjecture merely, we have no uu-nns of u Iging. We can. not doubt, however, that considerate and judi cious men of nil parties, who are seeking the welfare of the country rather than the promo tion of parly schemes, are united and sincere in desiring v. speedy solution of our natioual troubles the restoration of the Union at the earliest moment possible by the admission to Congress of representatives from all the States which compose iu Nor can any one doubt the nbilitv nf tho Pre sident to bring abont this result. It man ho that the Constitution gives him no power directly tn Intrfirfni'n with if. Hut ,i ... n...nn- , . . . ....... ,.. , njuuiiy uue mat the moral nower of his otlice and his relations to the Southern Slates do actually give him an iuiuenee lully adequate to its full and satislactory settlement. Tne Southern State9 lean on him as their Jnst and only hope. Con gress is against their claims by an overwhelm ing majority. The Democratic party is shat tered and hopelessly powerless. The President has interposed in their behalf wtth the most positive and invincible courage, and is regarded by them, with good reason, as the onlv ottirini power from which they have hope of aid and rescue, inis nas made li'm potential with them. His opicion, his advice, his wishes natu rally weigh more with them than the fiercest menaces of the Republican extremists, or the blandet promises of the moribund Democracy. If the President, therefore, should come to the conclusion, alter' a careful survey of the whole political held, that iinpnrtial suffrage, or the Constitutional amendment, or any other specific measure, is essential to the restoration of the Union, an I should press its adoption unon the Southern States, as conducive to their rcadmis- Fion to political power, that advice would almost certainly be accepted and followed. And such action on the part of the Southern Slates would command the assent of Congress and of the great body of the ueonlo throughout tne North. The President thu9 has the settle ment of this matter substantially in his own hnnds, provided he adopts a basis ot settlement in hariiiony wiih public sentiment as developed in me late elections. Against tuat sentiment he is powerless We cannot doubt that the President himself. as well as the eminent statesmen by whom he is surrounded, fully understands this fact, and appreciates the responsibility which it involves. We are not surprised to hear that prominent men of all j arties, and from both sections, prefer a settlement iomj. upon any feasible and endurable terms, to a postponement for three years, witn all the chances ot turmoil, collision, alienation, and revolution which such postpone- incut weuld involve. And we shall not be at all surprised to learn thut the calmest and wisest of the leaders of Southern political opinion have indicated tbeir willingness to accept any condi tions which the President and his advisers may deem compatible with their honor and safety, for the sake of peace and a renewal of their con stitutional relations with the National Govern ment. Public sentiment in the Northern States does not favor the longer postponement of this ques tion, if it can be safely settled now. It rejoices in the result ot the elections because it has pre served the country auainst its btiug settled by Copperheads and Rebels, on the basis of their principles. But the Union party, which has been clothed with lull power, is expected to use it for the prompt adiustment of all our troubles. If the 1'resident will accept the decision, and seek some ground on which he can act with a mujority of the Union party in Congress, and then ask the assent and co-operation of the Southern States, our conflicts will be at an end. Having this power, he cannot wtsely or hono rably evade the responsibility which it involves. Reckoning -without Their Host. J'Vom the World. If we bad never before learned to consider Carlylo's panegyrics on Silence as admirable, we could easily learn to deem them so amid the hubbub of nonsense which prevails in certain journals since the election. These journals dis course, in their high-and-n ighty style, of the terms of submission which 'the North will im pose upon the South. They expatiate on every aspect of the subject except the one which is really pertinent and ou which it hinges. The election has lifted a bucket of water to the horse's mouth, and puintully holds it there; but if the horse is not thirsty, or dislikes the smell of the bucket, or thinks the water muddy, wha shall compel him to drink? The South is that horse, tied by no halter, enclosed by no fence except that erected by the Constitution, at full liberty to turn his heels, spill the contents of the bucket over its holders, and quietly graze in bis ample pasture so long as be does not overleap the enclosing fence. Meanwhile, the owners of the dirty water are descanting, with peat loftiness, on their determination to make him drink! It iu impertinent to talk of imposing terms on the South, when the South is just as free to re fect the proffered terms as to accept them. There is no power in the Government to punish a Stat for refusing to ratify amendments to the Constitution. WtD, by the requisite number I ol ratificailons, such amendments become a part of the Constitution, tln'y have the force of law and bind the-whole country; but while they are mere proposals thfy have no sort of legal force. The intervention of a popular election between their proposal by Congress and the ac tion of the State Legislatures upon them, counts for nothing, since amendments are never ratified by a popular vote. To parade such a vote as proving tho success of the amendment, is sheer impcrtinenco and absurdity. The elections may prove what required no proof that certam States will ratify the amendment; but if those States are not three-fourths of the whole num ber, the amendment no more prevails than if every State opposed it. It Is Just a flat a failure as it it had not received tho requisite ttvo-tuirds of Congress; ust as much a failure as if it had never tot beyond the Republican caucus. It is absuid to the degree of being ludicrous, absurd to the degree of being contemptible, for the Republican journals to swagger as they do over the late elections, as if they were equivalent to a final ratification of the amendment. When a thing can be done, it is in the power of capable and ingenious men to point out how It can be done. Ascertain journals arc every day asseverating that the Republican party will compel the South to submit to the terras it chooses to dictate, these journals would en lighten us very much if they would give a detailed account of the modiM operandi. There are thirteen States that will certainly relcct the pending amendment; and their rejection kills it ''as dead as Julius CVsar." Well I being thus killed, what next? Is it to "rest in the hope ot a glorious resurrection," like the pious dead whose epitaphs we read on tombstones? But what trumpet shall awake it from its sleep? Thirteen is one-fourth ol fifty-two; tho number of States must therefore reach filty-two be ore such an amendment can be ratified. Where are the sixteen new States to come from ? Thero is no likelihood that so many will ever bo added to the Union: and even it they should, there Is no certainty that fifty or a hundred years hence, States yet unborn will enter liilo the party quarrels of the year 18(i(i. His needless to inquire about any other amendment than the one now pending; the 8Utes which suffice to defeat this, suffice to defeat any other which they disapprove. Such being the fate of the amendment, and such the hands by which the blow Is dealt, we are curious to be informed by some of the Republican pundits, what, in their opinion, are the legal and con stitutional penalties or rejection. The question is an absurdity in terms, but the grotesque ab surdity of the current Republican bluster com pels us to ask it. All their bravado res' a on the conscious or unconscious assumption thatStates may be punished for non raliucation. Pray, tell us by what authority? Pray, tell us by what method ? If by no authority aud by no method as any person niut readily see who attempts an answer why is the nonsense so in cessantly dinned in our ears, that tho laie elec tions have decided that the South must cither lat'fy the amendmentortaketbe consequences? Consequences 1 The only constitutional conse quence will be, that the Constitution remains unaltered. The Constitution remaining, in spite of the Republicans, unaltered, will tliey condescend to tell us tctiat they propone to do about it? That they can proceed uo further aguiut the South by mere Congressional legislation, they have confessed. Why else do they demand amend ments ? They were as Ptrong in Congress, at the last session, as it is possible for any party ever to be. No Congressional sway can be mora complete than a two-thirds majority of both Houses, capable of riding rough-sbod over the veto of the Picsident. With this uncontrolled power, they went as far as U was nnnnihln tn rn .without such gross, open, aud flagrant viola tions of the Constitution as would defeat their own object by bringing them into collision with the judiciary. As against the Supreme Court a two-thirds majority avails nothing, potent as it is aguinst the President. Tbe Republican party, then, has proceded as far as it can go by mere Congressional action; jand it can neither amend the Constitution to get more power nor punish States for defeating proposed amend ments. We beg the Republicans to believe that nobody w ill bo seated by the bluster whose emptiness we have exposed. If they had a majority of the whole people, the Constitution would, of course, be no barrier to their wishes. for no papur compact, however solemn and obligatory, can stand aguinst a preponderance ot physical strength, uut. lortunatelv. their sectional majority is a niniortty or tbe whole people; so that, whichever form the question may take, "Whether the Constitution shall pre vanr" or. "vtnetner tne win ot tue majority shnll prevail?" the decision will be equally uguuiHt xuc xtcpuuiicans. The Political Situation. from the Independent. Eight or ten days atter a great election, when the bonfires and the pulsions are alike iu ashes, and when the returns are tabulated into statis tics for the philosophic historian, a wise man sits dowu to see how far the popular debate aud its decision have advanced bis couutry towards a truer idea of public justice, political equality, and national honor. Kothing but a Presidential election could ex ceed the interest of last week's struggle in ten States. It was the people's verdict for or against me resident's policy. The thunder storm rattled loud against tbe panes of the White House, and we trust Andrew Johnson had ears to hear. Long ago overruled by a two-thirds majority of Cougress, the Executive for that reason denounced the Legislature as fanatical, treasonable, and revolutionary, and made an appeal to the people to decimute Congress by tbe ballot-box, and to give him a working majority for the support of his own policy Instead. On the day when tbe Civil Rights bill came to its victory over the veto, one of the friends of tho President, who happened, like ourselves, to be on the floor of the House of Representatives, said to us, "This is a short-lived opposition; the fall elec tions will tell another tile." No, the tall elec tions continue to tell the same tale. The House ot Representatives can bend a dozen members off to a picnic, and yet leave a majority large enough to pass a radical measure over tne President's veto. Andrew Johnson in the White House is now a child shut in a nursery. "H the radicals in New York State," said Mr. Seward, "are not beaten by 40,000 majority, then I am no prophet." Ah, Mr. Seward! it is honorable to grow old, but pitiable to grow foolish. The President and his Premier have had their Waterloo. The city of New York signalized itself by voting last week exactly as it lis name had beou New Orlean. Not a woid have we to say against the integrity of Mr. John T. Hoffman of who.-e personal character we know nothing except to his praise but it cannot be a pleasing reflection to such a man as we suppose Mr. Hoil man to be, to know that the great Democratic gains in the city of New York were acquired exclusively from the towdy elements ot' the population, trom the rum-sbops, from the gumbling saloous, and trom the Five Points. Nor have we any ill-natured rlingto make at Mr. John Morilssey, particularly if tbe report be true that he is manfully trying, lor bis sou's sake, to retrieve the errors ot a past disreputable life. So iar as any such ambition animates this celebrated Demo crat, let us distinctly record it to his hon.ir. Hut it Mr. John Morrissey shall continue to remain only a Bowery boy, a rough, a gam bler, a ring-boxer, we believe hs will thereoy more exactly represent his district than It could be represented by Mr. John Morrissey, tho re formed man. In like manner, the friends and neighbors of Mr. Fernando Wood, iu sending that geutleman to Congress, have sent their representative character. We believe that uo living American can claim to express their views and aims more fa'thfully. If, therefore, we are proud of living under a representative 'overnment, we see no other reason to regret the election of these two men than the charac ter of their electors. Two photographs, nearly alike, and yet slightly different, make a stereo scopic picture. Fernando Wood and John Mor rissey, taken together, reflect the perfect image of the New York city politics. L1,11) ONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 18C6. Bnt why Fhould lh vrratctHtatoof the Union always be tcbd with such anxiety on elec tion day? Why should her verdict be always in ooubt? This State never unnnuu-hni thn hollr.; box but men but, "Tin citv will go Democratic tuc rurni uisiricis Keni.li llnn- aA tl, n.i .1 result will dep'nd on which ot the two enis ot o tunic man omweign the otoer. ' 1't us look a solemn fact in the tace. ' In tbe chief of the American States, whose motto is "Excel sior," Ignorance, , vice, rum, and corrup tion can always , cast nearly as many votes as houesty, intelligence, and public virtne can cast against thpm. Now can such an accusation bo made acn'nst Massachusetts No. And why not? Simply because Mas sachusetts wiu made, long ago a citadel of all those ideas ot liberty, justice, education, and social order which are elapsed under tho t rm radical. Years ago, the leaders of opinion in Alaesachnsetts stood for orlnciple first and party afterwards; seeking to lift the party to tbe priti ciple, Instead of lowering the principle to the party. The certain reliance which can ow be Placed on Masf achusetts for a Republican ma jority at any and every election, is the legiti mate result of the unflinching opposition of her few heroic leaders or twenty years ago to com promises of principle. It is thus seen how a t!w radical men, though hooted at for a time, like Pallisiy the potter over his clay, at last succeed in remoulding the state. The medi cine of Massachusetts ts tbe cure tor New York Thank God ! there are public men in this State who believe in Justice, equality, and true de mocracy. But, somehow, when even the stannohest of suth KepublieaDB go to a Syra cuse Convention, a three days' taste of that city b salt kills the native freshness of tbeir en thusiasm lor liberty. The Kepnblican party of this State is manancd on the plan ot suppress ing as much as posiole its convictions in favor ol equal and exact Justice. On the contrary, I: ought to be managed on the plan of expressing these convictions. When Geucral Butler came 1rookl?n e other day, to tpeak in the Academy ot Music for Governor Fenton's re election, he was telegraphed by the managers at Albany not to repeat his radical Cincinnati speech. Nature bjrrsclf indignantly took offense at this Interference, and, rather than have the General tempted to do discredit to his heart, lent him a temporary soro throat, which prevented him from speaking at all. Now, what would be thought of the political managers of Massachu setts, if during a State canvass in which Governor Fenton was to assist, they should respectfully request him, on coming to Faneuil Hall, to avoid speaking his full mind ? We mention this incident simply because it is characteristic of the universal moral cowardice which pervades the committee-rooms of the Republican man agers of tbis State. Why docs Kansas give a greater Republican majority than New York? No thoughtful man can deny that the fact is due solely to the dub lime dedication, by that young State, of the ae w other youth to liberty. Now, knowing some thing of the State ot New York, from having been born, reared, and always domiciled in it, we aver that Governor Fenton's majority would have been larger, instead of smaller, it' his phin of campaign had been dictated by advisers who had manifested a greater confidence in the popular enthusiasm for justice and human rights, r Look at Maryland. That State lost her battle solely because she did not arm her negroes with the ballot. With sttch a weapon, in the hands of such friends, she might have routed tho enemy totnlly. Is it not so? The chief lesson ol tho elections is, that the Republican party evervwbere, if it hopes to maintain its ascendancy, must maintain its virtue. Republican successes in time past have been owing to the fact that, or all the political parties, the Republican has had the highest moral claims. But, atter all, these aims have not been to the lull height of honor. The Fre mont campaign of .1850 was against tbe exten sion, not against the existence of slavery. Mr. Lincoln's first administration was against the Rebellion, not against slavery. The Presiden tial campaign ot 18454 was more for the prosecu tion of the war than for the prohibition of slavery. True to its perpetual policy of half hearted measures, the Republican party, during the late elections, attempted, in some of the Stater, to make the pending Constitutional amendment its chief and only aim. But there w as not moral quality enough merely in that amendment to excitethe enthusiasm of the multitudes who have heretoloro been rallied bv tho cry of liberty. The chief plaudits with which the people rewarded their orators during the late campaign were in response to senti ments of universal liberty and political equality. This journal, if it should call for a list, could get more names of Republicans than our fifty-six columns could print in solid type, all subscribed to the solemn declaration that the Republican party stands unpledged to make the Sending amendment tbe basis ot reconstruction, ut, on the contrary, is bound in honor to a re construction on the oue and only basis of equal rights. The radical men of the North arc neither to be conquered by the Democratic nor trifled with by the Republican party. We know the heart or tho omuipotent North, and we know that it beats for justice to tho Southern loyalists, whether white or black. To these men, from their own oft-repeated testimony, the Constitutional amendment, considered as a basis of reconstruction, is worse than no re construction at all. Therefore the radical leaders of 'the party of iustice tho men whose ideas kindle its masses to action, the men whose genius shapes its great measures, the men whose courage is to win its remaining battles totally unequivocally, and 'defiantly reject the amend ment as the ultimatum to the South. They re jected it before the election: they reject it now; they w ill reject it to the end. Once again, fellow-countrymen, we conjure you to seie tbe golden opportunity which God presents to this nation to rebuild its wall upon the corner-slone of equal rights. The Republi can party is now master of the situation. It CPU execute Its wishes against every veto of the r-resiiieni. it can nencetorth plead no lack of power in excuse lor failure of duty. If. now. tbe Republican two-thirds or three-ouarters majority in next winter's Congress shall not propote a reconstruction on tbe basis ot impar tial sunrage. then unon iis own had shnll root the unending dishonor. Let it say to the South, ve seek no man's lite: we confiscate no man's property ; wo propose no measure of vengeance; we gladly assent to a general Hmnestv? but. on other hand, we demand that the negro shall be invested with his just political rigms; and we uuuuuuce iubt, unless these terms shall oe accepted bv the South as the terms of hor return to Congress, not one of her ten excluded States shall return at all." This is the true position for m-.i uecemoer. May God give to Congress wisdom to see it, courage to veuture it, aud for tune to achieve it! U. S. C 1 11 C V I T CO U 11 T JUDGES GRIER AND CADWALADER. 1 ATENT-IUGH T C A S E. Jenkins' Crimped Wire Patent. Chase vs. M. Walker & Sons. This was atutt to determine the title as to the ex- dumm rluht to tbe H ire CrliupiDH I'm tout of H.mhv Jeuklna tur the ouiiern part ol ihe Mute of Pennsyl vania luase ciauueu unuer nu nnojKmueiu trranua slier the mtei.oluii ot the Jenkins l'ut u;, and M. Unkiti.m maimed the exoiunlve rialita fur tha Htkte ot I'muivlvania under tne extension, bv virtue ot an asak'DDjent made to theui prior to the extension Ld recoideo prior to Chase's asslinimcnt. 'lha Euan u artueU by Slyeni and Lonestreth tor I'liaae, and by Harding and Hia lor Al. Walker Soi a. Judne i adwalader stated that this was a very elear caae in lavor ol tue aeiendaiog, and mat ine atainnnient to M. w sixer at iiinnra m n'i the tine, and tbat JuOHO Hrler concurred with tilin In tlna oninlon. and tbat be Muuld hie bia opinion ut length. "N" gLATE MAN T E LSI BLATE MANTELS ra aniurpaasod for Durability, Beauty, Strength, an 3 Cneapneaa. . . feLATE MANTELS and blate Work Generally, made U order. J. 13. KIMES & CO., 9 U Km .!M and 2)28 CliSSM'T BtiecU FirJAMClAL. JayCooke&(p. 112 and 114 So. THIRD ST. FHILAD'A. Dealers ic al Government Securities, OLD 5-20s WANTED IN EXCIIANGi; FOR NEW. A LIBERAL DIFFERENCE ALLOWED. Compound Interest Notes Wanted IKTEEEST ALLOWED ON DEPOSIT, Collection) n adr. Mc Hi ub and Soldo Oonv mlfii 233b 6pe)lb Hem ccommc'dattca reserve fo ladiea. 5-20s, 7 3-lOs, 1881s, 1040s, BOUGHT AND SOLD. DE HAVEN & BROTHER. Ko. 40 SOUTH THIRD ST. 102rp 250,000 7 PEE CENT. MORTGAGE RAILROAD BONDS We offer for sale 2.W,fH0 of the Consolidated Mortnaaa u?X.y 'Hl'?,t'n'"ion ,ui Abroad lop Mounta.n Uauroad and Coal tuuipanj at iy ) Tbey are Coupon Bonds, with privilege of rrciatrv t f?c8 them trom heit, H EAR HE VtvN FKK ljknt. April and October, secured by a mortraue ot si sou ihhi on ant; miles of Railroad, In ceding it Bedford Kall road, ten mllea of sidings, depots, roal e stale, rollmu Btoca;, and equipment of every kind. ' One million of ihese Honda were act axlde for there 2mPH . .ol and second mortgage bonds, a iaiye SJ?J?Jm i0!.wnl.ch.llSv lready been exchanged, and tha w8.aA,,??Ud"ypr,0,iretill,K- Tne I'oinpanv bava but S2M.Mii i lor sale, and offer them at tbe above low H'Jlcliu cl?eL.to 1Pur immediate sale. Tne road la lL.J recently been put down; complote macdlnnrr purchased tor repair shops, and two new collieriea opened up and Improved. By the proposed linraedlate en largement oi the i tennsylvanui Canal HunuSgdon. hm5a,,T hve cl,cP tranortau m well0..Vytr,XSob.,rEnt 10 CW y eto, These Bonds, at the above price, will yield about nine per cent, per annum, and add twenty-one per eenu to the nrlnnhiAl at main. t K h SAILER & STEVENSON, No. 121 S. THIRD Street (Opposite the Girard Bank 11 1.1 fit RATIONAL EXCHANGE BANK Capital $300,000, Full Paid, HAS REMOVED TO ITS I.EY7 BANKING HOUSE, Nos. 633 and 635 CHESNUT St. A. Bt 1) I r Mi'cnt John S . lu.ju ten, Cashier. 117 TILLIAM PAINTER & CO., li ANKERS, No. J3G South THIRD St. Government Securities Bought and Sold August 7.30s, And Old S-SOs, CONVERTED INTO f I VE-TWEN TIES OE 1365, And the no ,v ileu di dc.'iverjJ iiumoiliafoly, CITY LO&i;S BOUGHT AND SOLD. i63m- (7Xlti ' ni p rf !i'. ... i l-J lL Jit. J . IT.l-ll.Ll LI CO. yn J3?y.' ... "----- 'Utrifi fp.Lt.llllUtL, LLILLL inemLeU. af tacit a tut ,fc.LL HxcLanjai in. Laii't rltieA. ' 4Lccxu.uvL&. trp .aidui. cuuL &aii!zzU. tccizLued an a.ucLa.1 ."U.S. Uo A'k ex S2cVaViv. ) A VIES BROTHERS, o. m DOCK Street. BANKERS ANt BROKERS BUT AN BELL , UNITED STATE 8 BONDS, ALL IS VXS. A 1 1 I " fcj T1 1 IT . r. , uunr,, ana JVL.ll J-1U NOTEB. CUMl-OUSD IKTKKKBT NOTES. AUGUST 7a.10 KflTia acts Vthtkv ISTO THE KVW I.Ofl Tin .Via Mercantile Paper and Loans on Collaterals negotiated 1 Block Bontbt and Sold o Commission. 1 8-20 coupons DUE NOVEMBER i, BOUGHT IT , 8TEBLING, LANE & CO , ,' BANKKRB, 9 Wp Ho, 110 So'utt TBJJU) fitreot. INSURANCE CCMTANICS OUTR AM KRICAN TRANSIT INSURANCE COMPANY, No. 33 feouth FOURTH Street PHILADELPHIA. A anasi l oilciea nwue.l au.in.i Ucaeral AraMenul all inii Hon- at eaoeedli Mlv 10 rat lorursiite i fieoteu inr tm year 10 amy iti rrom 1C0 to ln.(,lO, at a premium ol onlv one-half ixir cent., accnilna the lull aiLOiint Insure In case of death, and a enifirnsatlon each week eoaal to tbe whole pre Ullllll, lis to Mmri time 'l fckmsfoi S, 1, or Id day or I, I, or n.enth, at ill central ' nsurumin Uiesam f I'Ofl, nmlvlha ' P" wei 4irii!e. to he. n4 x tue tlenetaJ tifl.ee, Ha. U S. tOUklll atreat, a-hlladeU phia, or at tUe tarious Haiboad licket oilinw. Ha sure to purchase the tickets of the Jiurtb Anerica. Iran.lt Insurance Company. . For circulars aud fnrtnei- information anW at tha Sanera I Ofl.ta, or of any ol the autuoilMU Agents oi'Ui "ompany. Il.r.T IP J. ilux I, X IBIIIWIt J A 1st KM U. t'ti.NHAD. Treasurer BKNKT C. 1IRIHVN, Secretary. JOUSi C. Bl'l.MTT .lloltor. IslhrX'l'OHK ' L.UPopt. late of Pennsylvania Bailroad Oomaanr i. K. Kinitslev, Continental tioiel. ramnel C. ralmer. ( anliler ot Com. Satlona Bank. H. . I.elsenriiiK, Noh. '7 and ?t Dock turn, latnes M. Conrad, tlrm of Courad & Walton, Bo. S Mai set street. l-.noeb hew In, late Gen. Bnp't 1'enna R. R. Andrew Mehafley, 8. W. corner 01 Third aad Walnut treeis. O. C. rranciscns Gen. Agent Penna. TL B. Co. om,"lS P"n, Ko. wmiiamet street, rr. w KnrU " of K.utta at aowar-i, -So. H. Third atteet. Hum 1829clIAlvmV tfERrETiXAL,' Franklin Fire Insurance to. or PllIL.ADKm'IITA. Assets on Jnnuarv 1, 1800. Capital 4fl noo M Accinei. Surplus frit M:l ia iTtnilum l,lw,ii-e, lR SETTLED CLAIMS, ISCOME rOR m fll.4t7 A3. tm 000. LOSSES PAID SINCE 18SO OVER $$0,000,000. rerpetoal and Xem porery Policies on UVrai Terms. DIRECTORS. Charles K Banckcr, , t dward 0. Dale. Tobias Watnct, itlenrge Kalea, ' Hamuel f Irant, Alfred Fitter, i Ueorite W. Wcbards, 1 1- runt-Is W. Iwla, M. B. lsaacl.ea, i Peter McCs.il. CHAKLF.8 N. UAUCKIK, President KTIWA1IIM1 JMLE. Vic-Preident. JAH. W. SIcALUhTF.B. Werrelary crof.m. 1 S tl J QIRAKD FIRE ANi) MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. 0KKICK,..l5WAriiCTSTKEET.PHlLADKirHlA CAPITAL PAID IN. IN CASH, tfHj.UPU. Th icompai'v i-oiitinuesto -wilteon 'ir Mutt ona Its capital, Ith a noud fliirplu. '.s aic-;y Invented. T01 I.oftsi bj Brt ne been promptly paid, and more tbaa .100,000 Disbursed on t Ms arenntit within the past few veaxs. Kor the preterit thu oftlce of tbis company will remain at No. 41."i WATiNITT STREET. But within a lftv month will rcmoye to iu OWM IS. K. CORNER KVF.STn AKD CHK8NWT 'Ihcn as now, we shall be happy to Insure our patrons a Bach rates as are consistent with safely MRLCTORS, THOMAS CBAVEN. A La'RED 8. OILLZTT It U K MAN BHJ-.PPARD, THUh. AlAt KKLLAK, JOHN STJPI'I.l'.K, JOHN tV. CLAUIIOKN, hi LAS YKKKKrt. Jr.. X. a. I.AKtMJB, CBAULKH 1. DCPOHT HENKY F. K KM NET, J08E1H KllAFP.Ji.b ino8 cbavkn. President. ALFRED 8. GH.LE'l X. V. 1-resldeot auJ IreaaurerT JAMEb B. ALVOIU. BccreUrr. 1 i LIYERl'bOL AKi) LONDON GLOBE INSURANCE C Of,! PA NT. Capital and Assets, $16,000,000. Invested in United States, $1,500,000, Total 1'i'pnilumii Received by th Coinjiany in lfMiO, fe5-! ,0-17,175.. Total Losses Paid in 1865, $1018.250 1.018.250 II ; r-'lerence to V MITH, l usylvania. 1 All LostiCK promptly adjusted without Knirlultd. ATWOOD SM r x. . . Ocneral Agent tor Penusyl No. U Aleroh ants' Exchanm riiii itiKLrnrA tg jj Kin PI IOV1UKNT LIFB AM) TRUST tXJMPAVY OF J'UILADKLPUIA VVjIrA'X No. IU bouth KOtiaii SljeeL lSCOKPOKA'l Kil So AION'J H, fbl. IgftV CAPITAL, alftO OW, PAID IN.' Insurance ou Livea, by Yearly Premiums t or bv 5 in or iOvear Premiums, Nou-ioncltiire. ' ' Liidownients, payable at a nttire age, or ol prior deveaie, by Yearly Premiums, or 10 year i retuiuun-. bothcaaeaNontorleluire. rerumun Annuities gtauted on favorable term. Term l o kles. Children's Luilmvmcut This Company, while Klvlui? tho insured the sec.nrtt ota paid up Capital, will dlviue tha entire profits of tba Lite buaineHS auionir its Policy bobbin. JUoneya received at interest, an j paid on demand. Authorized by charter to execute 'irustn, and to act M Executor or AaminlHU-ator, ASNlitnee or limtrdlan, an in other fiduciary capacities. unUei appointment ot any Court of this Commonwealth or of auy permiQ or J er sons, or bodies politic or corporate. iikk;toks. ' SAMfEL V. SHIPLEY, .jtlcllABD CADBUBT JtKKMIAHHAfRK.lt,' HKNI1Y 11AINKS, J08HUA H. MOKU1S, T. W1STABBKO vTW. KlCIlAitD W00arle8 IWM. CLONOdlHEXH, KAatUEL K SHIPLEY. BOWULKD FAKBY, 1'resident. Actuary THOMAS WI8TAK. U. D., J. B. ICVTSSEnD, 2J1 i Me qk a iiaaijoor. Laual Adviser. TjMKK INHHRANUE EXCLUSIVELY TUB X1 I'KHJilYLVAMA. FIUB iii8CACJE COM- i incorporateu iio i barter Peipeiual M0. tlw Ibis Company, favorably kuowa to tha mmnnnih. for over forty years, continue to insure inlnm Z, caniage by tiro on Public or Private BulidliiKS. either permanently or for a limited limn. Also on Furniture Block ot tioods, and AlercbaiKUso generally, on tllirJ Uirma. 'l beir Capital, tosetber with a lame Snmin. inni r Invested iu the most carelul manner, wfiinh ....kL. them to oflerto the iusured an uuuoubted security In thy cae Ot loss. . niBtCToita. Daniel Pmlth, Jr.. John Dnverenx. Alexander benttoo, Thomas Hmlih lsaao liazlebursi, Huury Lewis ' -Ibomaa Kobbius, . J. (.Illluwbam Fell. IMnlel HH.Iitock Jr ' ,,,, (, DAMKL SiUTH,J., President. ' Wn.LiAM G. Cbowkll. Isecrutary. 8)j PIffi?IX INSURANCE COilPANY.OP PHIt IBCOKl'OKATKD 1 Hut CHARTER PIRPimOAL. Ho. WALSLT Street, opposite the Kzchanire. In addition to MAkINK and IM.tkli ivmiiii um tbla t ompany insures from loss or iIaiuu. i,v viuk liberal terms, on bulidius, meictiandlse, lamltura, etc, lor limited periods, and permauontly on buildings bi ri.nn.lt nl nr.mhim ' XUe Company Las been hi active operation lor mop than SIXTY Y EA uS, during which ail louse bars ber piouipuy aajBkieu auu Mm. John L. Hodge, . , Lawrence Lewis. Jr M. . MPiiouey. laid Lewis John T. Lewis, H. Ljvmn Ettlng. Itobert W. Learning, D. Clark Wharton, Bamu.iV71.cox William . "rani, , xuomai H. Powura. A U UAII Kdmoud Cafilon, a. n, jucuenrt Cli.BXKdenti fundi. Wir.rox.Stcretar F ITLER, WEAVER CO., AIASUFACTCSKRS OF Manilla and Tarred Cordage, CortJ-jl i wines, ttc. No. S3 Konh WATER Street, and ' o. a North DKLAVV ARE Avenne, ' EDW1M H. FlTLEK, il'lCHAUl. W... COBAP W CT.OTHlKa. . l4 MONUMENTS, .TOMBS: GRAVF-STONES. Eto. Jostcomnleted. a beautiful varietv at ITALIA Marble mowtaiksts, : . . .. lUMBH All) URAVE-BTOUK Will be sold tkau ftT n tirk sent to any part ol the Vnticd Bute. IIKNUV 8. TAHft. at Ait l LK WORKS c. 110 CMM.S bueet, Liiad.Jpb'iu 124 wim
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