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DOUBLE SHEETTHREE CENTS.
VOL. VII.-No. 21.
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1867.
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SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN.
Address of KlUwbeth Cady Stanton In
Behalf f the American Initial Rights
Association to the legislature of the
iState of New York.
Albany. January 23. This afternoon the
Assembly Chamber whb crowded with ladles and
ttentiemeuot tne judiciary; i appear Detore
gentlemen, to hear Mrs. Stanton's aud Miss An
thony's appeal to the Judiciary Committee of the
Senate ana Assembly. Mrs. Stanton read her
address iu a clear and effective tone, and many
passages were applauded. The following are the
u.aln portions of Mrs. Stanton's address:
you at thw time to urge on you the justice of
securing to all the people of the State the right
o vote lor delegates lo me commit Ccnstitu-
ional Convention. The discussion of this right
involves the consideration of the whole Ques
tion of suffrage, niid especially those sections of
your Constitutfon which interpose iiisurmount-
ittble nualincatious to its exercise. As repre
sentatives of the peoole, your right to regulate
all that pertains to the coming Constitutional
Convention is absolute. It is for you to say
when and where this Convention shall be
held, how many delegates shall be
ehi'fen, and what classes shall be re
presented. This is jour right The actions
ol the LegisiatureaJ.of 1801 and 1821 furnish
you a precedent for extending to dislranc'.uxed
classes the right to vote for delegates to a C in
stitutional Convention. Betore those Conven
tions were called the right of suffrage was re
stricted to every male inhabitant who possessed
a treehold to tne value of 20, or rented a tene
ment at the yearly value of 40 shillings, and had
been rated ana actually paid taxes to the State;
and yet the Legislatures of those years passed
laws setting asi;le all property limitations, and
providing that all men. black an! white, rich
and poor, should vote for delegates to said Con
ventions. See Session Laws of 1801, page
100, chapter 69, section 2; also, tbo-e
of 182L page 83, act '.Ml, sections 1 and
6. The Constitutional Convention of
Ithode Island 1n 1842 atlords another precedent
of the power or the Legislature to extend the
suffrage to dlslranchiaed classes. The disfran
chisement of any class if citizens is in exprets
-violation of the spirit of our own Constitution,
which tays. Article I, sertion 1: "No member
of this -State shall be disfranchised or deprived
ot any ol the rigtits or privileges secured to any
V citizen thereof, unless by the law ot the land
J Bud the judgment ol his peers." Now women,
land negroes not worth $2"0, however weik
land insigintkant, are Mirely ''members of the
7 UiaiQ ! Tho Innr if . flip liiTifl" ia nnalitv
The question of disfranchUe'nent has never
bee a submitted to the judgment of their
peers. A peer is an equal. The "white
male citizen" who so pompously parades him
self in all our codes and constitutions does not
recognize women and negroes as his equals,
therefore his judgment in their case amnuuts to
nothing; and women and negroes, constituting
three-tilths of the people ol the State, do not
reeoirni.e this "white male'' minority as their
I rightiul rulers. On our rcpubl can theory tb.it
the majority governs, women ana negroes must
have a voice in the Government of the State;
onj KoiM lovnrl limilH hn rnrti-aiinntnfl h'Whiu
males" are the nobility of this country. They
we the privileged order, who have legislated as
unjustly foi women and negroes as have the
nobles of England tor their disfranchised clashes.
The existence of the English House ot Commons
ia a stroDg lact to prove that one class cannot
legislate tor another. Perhaps it may hn neces
sary, in this transition period of our civilization,
to create a Lower lloue lor women and
negroes, lest the dreadful example ot Massa
chusetts should be repeated here, anil
black men take their places be ide our Dutch
liooility iu the councils of the State. If the his
tory ol England baa proved that white men of
different grades cannot legislate with justice
lor one another, how can you. honorable gen
tlemen, legislate for women and negroes, whom,
by your customs, creeds and codes, and common
consent, are placed under the bun of inferiority ?
If you dielike this view ol the case, and claim
that woman ia your superior, and tharefote you
place her above all troublesome legislation, to
hftield her by your protecting care from the
rough winds of life, I have simply to say your
statate books are a sad commentary on thi
Dosttion. Your laws degrade, rather than free:
your system of ti.xation is alike ungenerous and
UDjust. In demauding suffrage for the black
man of the South, the dominant party recog
nizes the fact that, as a freeJman, he Is no
longer a part ot the family, therefore his master
is no longer his representative; and as be will
now be liable to taxation, he must &Uo have re
presentation. Woman, on the con'rary, bus
never been such a part of tne family as to
escape taxation. Aituoiign tuere nas ieen no
formal proclamation giving her an individual
existence, unmarried women have alwuva had
the right to propertv and wages, to make con
tracts, and to do business in their own name.
And even married women, by recent legislation
in this State, have been secured in some civil
rights; at least as well secured as those classes
can be who do not hold the ballot in their own
hands. Woman now holds a vast amount of
property In the country, and pays her full pro
portion of taxes, revenue included; on what
principle, theu, do you deny her representa
tion? It you say women are "virtually
represented" by the men of their house
hold, I give you Senator Sumner's denial in
his great speech on Equal Rights in the
Thuty-ninth Congress. Ouoting troin James
Otis, be says: "No such phrase as virtual
repieBentation wa known In law or constitu
tion. It is altogether a subtlety and illusion,
wholly unfounded and absurd. We must not be
cheated by any such phantom or auy other
fiction of law or politics, or any inouki-h trick
of deceit or hypocrisy." In regard to taxation
without representation, Lord Coke says: "The
supreme power cannot take from any man any
part of his property without his consent in
Iitrson or by repm eutatlon. Taxes are not to
e laid en the people (are not women and ne
groes people?) without their consent In person
or by representation. The very act of taxing
those who are not represented appears to me to
deprive them ol uue of their most essential
rights as freemen, and If continued seems to be
in eflect an entire disfranchisement of every
civil right. For what one civil right lit worth a
rush alter a man's property is subject to be
taken from him without his consent'!"' In view
ot such opinions, 's it too much toask the men of
New York either to emranehise women or wealth
and education, or else release them from taxa
tion? If we cannot be represented as individuals
we should not be taxed as individuals. If the
"w hite male" will do all the voting.let him pay all
the, taxes. There is no logic so powerful iu
fmentng the eves of men to their real interest
us a direct appeal to their pockets. Such a
release from taxation can be supported, too, by
your own Constitution. In article 2, section 1.
you sav, "And no person of color shall be sub
ject to'dlrect taxation unless he shall be seized
and possessed of such real estate as aforesaid,"
referring to the $250 qualification. Now, a poor
widow who owus a lot worm iuu or ies it
taxed. Why this partiality to the black man
He may live in the quiet possession ot $149
worth of property, and not be taxed a cent. Is
it on the ground of color or sex that the black
man ends greater favor in the eyes of the
law than the daughters of the State? In order
jully to understand this partiality. I have In
quired into your practice with regard to colored
women. I find that in Seneca Falls there lives a
highly estimable colored woman by the name of
Abby (lomote. She owns property to the
amount of $1000. It consists of village lots.
She now pays, and always has paid, from the
time ste Invested her first $100, the same taies
flat any other citizen paid, just in proportion to
the value of her property, or as it is assessed.
After excluding women and "men of color," not
vtrth 1250, frpjn representation, your Conbtitu-
1i tells us what other persons are excluded
frora the right of suffrage. Article 2. section
2: "Laws may be passed excluding from the
right of suffrage all persons who have been or
may be convicted of bribery, or larceny, or of
any infamous crime, and for depriving every
person who shall make or beco uedirec'ly or ln
directlv Interested iu any bet or wager depending
upon thc;mmltol any election, from the right to
vote at such election." How humtl at na ! for
respectable, law-abiding women and "men of
color" to be thrust outside the pale of political
consideration with those convicted of bribery,
larceny, and infamous crimes, and worse than
all, with those who bet on election'; for bow
lost to all sense of honor must that "white male
citizen1' be who publicly violates a wise law to
which he has himsell given an intelligent con
sent! We are ahamed, honored sirs, of our
company. The Mahornmedan forbids a tool, a
madams, or a woman to ca'l the hour for
prayers. If it were not for the individual classi
fication we might hope it was tendernss rather
than contempt that moved the Mahornmedan to
excuse woman trom so severe a amy. tint lor
the ballot, which falls like a flake of snow upon
the sod, we can find no such excuse for
New York legislators. Article 2, section
3, should be lead and considered by the
women of the State, as it gives them a
glimpse of the modes ot life and surroundings
of some ot the privileged classes of "white
male citizens" who may go to the polls. "For
the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed
to have gained or lot a residence by reason of
his presence or absence while employed in the
service of the United States, nor while engaged
In navigating the waters of the State, or ol the
United States, or of the hifh seas; nor while a
student ot any seminary ot learning; uor while
kept at any almshouse or other asylum, at
public exnense; nor while confined in any
public prison." What an unspeakable privi
lege to have that precious jewel the human
soul in a setting of white manhood, that thus
it can pass through the prlon, the asylum, the
almshouse, the muddy waters of the Erie Canal,
and come forth undimmed to appear at the
ballot-box at the earliest opportunity, there to
bury its crimes, its poverty, its moral and phy
sical deformities, all beneath the rights, privi
leges, and immunities ot a citizen of the State.
Just imagine the motley crow frora the 10,000
dens of poverty and vne in our largo cities,
limping, raving, cringing, staggering up
to the polls. while the loyal mo
thers of a million soldiers, whose bones
lay bleaching on evpry Southern plain, stand
outside, sad and silent witnesses of this whole
sale desecration of republican institutions.
When von say it would degrade woman to go to 1
the polls, do yon not made a sad confession of
your Irreligious mode of observing that most
sacred right of citizenship? In asking you,
honorable gentlemen, to extend sullruge lo
woman, we do not press on you the risk and
responsibility of a new step, but simply to try a
measure that has already proved wise and safe
the world over. So lone as political power was
absolute and beicd'tary, woman shared it with
man by birth. In Hungary, and some provinces
of France and Germany, women, nohling this
inherited right, confer their right of franchise
on their husbands. In 1858, in the old town of
Upsal, the authorities granted suffrage to fifty
women holding real estate, and to thirty-one
doing busintss iu their own name. The repre
sentative their votes elected was to sit in the
House of Uurcesscs.
In Ireland the Court of Queen's Bench. Dub
lin, restored to women in 1804 the old right of
voting for Town Commissioners. In 18G4, too.
the Government of Moravia decided that all
women who are tnx-paveis had the right to
vote. In Canada, in 1850, an electoral privilege
was conferred on women, in the hope that the
l'rotestant might balance the Roman Catholic
Dower in the school svstem. "1 lived," says a
friend of mine, "where I saw this right exer
cised for four years by female property-holders,
ar l never heard the most cultivated man, even
Lord Elgin, object to its results." Women vote
in Austria, Australia. Holland, and Sweden on
property qualifications. There is a bill before
the British Purliament. presented by John
Stuart Mill, asking for household suffrage,
accompanied by a petition ftom 11,000 of the
beet educated won.cn in England. Would you
be willing to admit, gentlemen, that women
know less, have less virtue, h-ss pride and dig
nity of character, under republican inst itutions
than in the desootisnis and monarchies of the
Old World ? Your codes and Constitutions savor
of such un opinion, 1 ortunatelv, history fur
nishes a tew saving facts even under our repub
lican institutions. From a recent examination
bv Lucy Stone ot the archives of the State of
Mew Jersey, we learn that, owing to a liberal
Oi.aker influence, women and negroes exercised
the light of suffrage in that State thirty-one
year from 1775 to 1S07 when "white males"
amended the Constitution, and arbitrarily
assumen the reins of government. This act of
injustice is sufficient to account for the moral
darkness that seems to have settled down upon
that uuhaDDV State. During the dynasty
ot women and negroes, does history
record anv social revolution peculiar to
that ncriod? Because women voted there
was the "institution of marriage annulled,
the sanctitv of home invaded, cradles anmn
laied, and the stockiurs. like Governor Marcy's
pantaloons, mended by the Stale ? Did the men
ot that period become mere satellite of the
dinner-not. the wash-tub. or tne spinning
wheel ? No ! Life went on as smoothly in New
Jersey as In any other State In the Union. And
the fact that women did not vote there created
so slight a lipple on the popular wave, and
made so ordinary a page in history, that pro
bably nine-tenths of the people of this country
never heard of its existence until recent discus
siousln the United States Senatej brought out
the facts of the case. In Kansas, women vote
lor school officers, and are themselves eligible
to the office of trustee. There is a resolu
tion now before the Legislature of Ohio
to strike the words " white male" from
the Com titution of that State. The Hon. Mr.
Nocll, of Missouri, has oresented a bi'l in
the House of .Representatives to extend suffraie
to the women ot the District of Columbia.
As to the property and education, there
are some plausible arguments in favor of such
qualifications, but they are all alike unsatisfac
tory, illogical, aud uLjust. A limited suffrage
creates a privileged class, and Is based on the
false idea that Government is the natural
arbiter of its citizens, while in fact it is the
creature of their will. In the old days of the
Colonies, when the property qualification was
5, that being just the price ot ajakas, Benja
min Franklin facetiously asked, "ff a man must
own a donkey in order to vote, who does the
voting, the man or the donkey?" If reading
and money-maiting were a sure guage oi cuar
acter, if Intelligence aud virtue were twin sis
ters, these qualifications might do; but
such ia not the case. In our late war
black men were loyal, generous, and heroic
without the alphabet or multiplication table,
while men of wealth, educated by the nation,
graduates of West Point, were false to their
country and traitors to their nag- There was a
time in England's history when the House of
Lords even could neither rend or write. Before
Ibe art of printing wore all men fools? Were
the apostles and martyrs worth $250? If a mau
cannot read, give him the ballot, it Is a school
master; if he does not owna dollar, give him the
ballot, it is the key to wealth aud power. I
have called your attention, gentlemen, to some
of the flaws in your Constitution, that yon may
see that there is more important work to be
done in the coming Constitutional Convention
than any to which Governor Fentou has referred
In his message. I would also call your attention to
the fact that while his Excellency suggests the
number of delegates at large to be chosen by
the two political parties, he makes no provision
tor the representation of women and "men of
color" not worth $250. I would, therefore,
uggest to your honorable body that you pro
vide for the election of an equal number of
lcU gates at large from the disfranchised classes.
nut a response to our pre cnt aeuiana uopb not
legitimately thrust on you the final considera
tion of the whole broad question of sutlrage,
on which many of ou may be unprepared to
give an opinion. The simple poiDt we uow pre s
is this: That in a revision of our Constitution,
when the State is. as it were, resolved into its
original elements, all the people should be repre
sented in the Convention which is to enact
the fundamental laws by which thev are to be
poverted the next twenty years. Women and
negroes, being flve-eiahtns of the people, are a
majority; and, according to onr Republican
theory, are th! r'ghtful rulers of the nation.
In this view of the case, honorable gentlemen,
is it not a very unpretending demand we make,
that we may vote onee in twenty ycar3 in
amending our State Constitution ? Bat, say
you, the majority oi women do not make the
demand. Grant it. What then ? When you
established free schools, did you first ask the
urchin of the State whether they were in favor
ot being transplanted from the street to the
school-bouse t When you legislated on the
temperance question, did you go to rumsellers
and drunkaras, and ask if a majority of them
were in favor of the Excise law ? When you
proclaimed emancipation, did you go to slave
holders, and ask It a majority of them were in
favor of freeing their slaves I When you
ring tLe changes on " negro suffrage'
from Maine to California, have you
proof positive that a majority of the
frccdmen demand the ballot? Ou the con
trary, knowing that the very existence of repub
lican institutions depends onjthe virtue, educa
lion, and equality of the people, did you not, as
wise statesmen, legislate in all these cases for
the highest good of the individual aud the
nation? We a-k that the same far-ee'ng wis
dom may guide your decision on the question
before you. Remember the gay aud fashionable
throng who whisper in the ears of statesmen,
ludges. lawyers, merchants, "We have all the
rights we want," are but the mummies of civili
zation, to be galvanized into life only by earth
quakes and revolutions. Would vou know what
is in the soul of woman ask not the wives and
daughters of merchant princes, but the creators
ot wealth those who earn their bread by
honest toil 'hose who, by a turn in the wheel
or fortune, s'and face to face with the stern
realities of lile.
THE VALPARAISO HORROR.
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Movements of the Murderer After the
Tragedy.
The Chicago Kepub'.ican has the following
relative to the late terrible affair at Valparaiso,
lndiara:
From all that can be ascertained. It would
appear that, alter having accompnsnea nis
horrible work, Page struck out across the
country towards the village of Wheeier, a sta
tion on the line ot the FHtsburg, fort Wayne,
and Chicago Railway, distant two miles from
the scene of the massacre, and six miles from
Valparaiso. There can be no doubt it was he
who was seen by a sleighing party returning
from a dance at Hobart.
Arriving at Wheeler, the wandering scoundrel
got on board a Western-bound Height train,
and, alter a wearisome ride of several hours'
daration, about 8 o'clock on weanesuay morn
ing arrived at Chicago.
Taking a hack at the depot, rage ordered the
driver to take him to the City Hotel, corner of
State and Lake streets. There can be no doubt
but that up to this time the hend supposed
every trace of his crime baa been destroyed,
otherwise he would not have boldly gone to the
desk and registered himseit as he oiu. to wit:
'ChiTA-.'cy F, l'age. Dyer Station, 111." He was
shown to a room, and during the rest ol the day
remained very quiet, seldom quitting nis apart
merit, except when h? came down to his meals.
Nothing strange or remarkable was noted by
the proprietor or guests of the hotel in the
demeanor of Page during Wednesday.
(in Thursday, alter having eaten a hearty
bteaKtast, Paee went into the reading-room of
the hotel, and taking up a copy of Wednesday's
I'cj.ubiican, containing an account of the murder,
glanced leisurely over the sheet; then clench
ing the paper in his fingers, returned to the
office. Go'ng to the counter, Page requested
the clerk to make out his bill, and when it was
handed him, he, without examining it, stated
that he guessed there was some mistake, as he
had come on Tuesday, instead of Wednesday.
As it to prove his assertion, be turned back the
leaves ot the register to Tuesday's entries, and,
tukiug up a peu, rtglstered himself among the
panics ot those who had arrived that day. Theu
paying for Tuesday's accommodations, Page lei t
the hotel without his overcoat, although the
weather was bitter cold.
It was about 10 o'clock in the forenoon when
Tepntv superintendent Nelson, while sitting in
the office at the Central Station, saw Page cross
ing La Salle slreet from the Chamber of Com
merce. A moment later and he was at the mur
derer's side. When Mr. Nelson spoke, Page
said: "I have corre to give myself up, because
I am Innocent." Jack replied that it was all
right to do so, ami, without informing any one
connected with the Station about the matter,
conducted the prisoner to the cell in the base
ment, and locked him up.
When Page ascertained that he was to be
taken buck to Valparaiso, he became very much
excited, and begged titeously of Mr. Nelson to
be either locked up in the Cook county jail, or
else to be conveyed to Laporte, Ind., averring
that bis lite would certainly be taken by the
inluiiated citizens of Valparaiso the moment he
reached that town.
On the way dowin to the depot the murderer
brgged Mr. Nelson to tell the Sheriff of Porter
county that he (Page) voluntarily gave himself
up. Ilia conduct on the cars was very submis
sive. He would not talk with his conductor on
the subject ot his crime; but when Nelson re
marked: "Page, the evlder.ee of Miss Ludolph
will go hard against yoa," he replied. "That's
so," and again sank back into his scat and was
silent. About twelve o'clock in the night Page
seemed to drop off into a quiet slumber, which
lasted for about fifteen minutes. Then, suddenly,
as if he had been dieaming something horrible,
the poor wretch started out of his sleep, and
with a startled air burst into a flood of tears.
He begged and prayed that he might not be
taken bnak to Vaioarauo, as be would sooner be
detained in the Chicago jail.
The train with Page on board reached Valpa
raiso at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. At tbe
depot Mr. Nelson was met by Detective Moore
and tbe city marshal, who had been awaiting
bim with a fast horse and cutter. It had been
deteimined that in case the citizens of Valpa
raiso had heard of the coming ol the prisoner,
to place him in the cutter and drive to Laporte,
distant twenty-two miles. This, however, was
not necessary, and the prisoner, accompanied
by his escort, was conveyed to the county iail,
and there incarcerated.
When it became noised about that Page had
been cuptured, and was a prisoner lu the jail,
the people of Valparaiso gathered about the
streets, and In the stores aud groceries, to dts
cuss tbe best method to be pursued in the dis
posal of the murderer. The majority seemed to
think he should be immediately taken out and
hanged, but, up to the hour when Superinten
dent Nelson left, uothing rash had been done,
though the excitement was very great. The
prisoner was subsequently taken to Laporte.
idb oeuicaiory ceremonies or the new
Masonic Hall, on Broad street, Richmond, Vs.,
took place on Thursday last. They were per
formed by St. John's Lodge. No. 36, assisted by
the brethren of the other lodges in the city.
The Lodee met at the liaison Marshall street,
and marched In procession to the new building,
where the cerejuoulei took place,
RECONSTRUCTION.
The President's New Scheme-Amnesty
and Universal Suffrage, Etc.
f rom the New York Ttmes.
Washington, January 23. Early in November
last I informed you that leading politicians of
tbe North and South Republicans, Democrats,
and ex-Rebels alike had been in conference
upon a fplan whereby, should It be adopted, it
was believed the unfortunate differences be
tween the North and South, and between the
Executive and Legislative branches of the Gov
ernment, would be setlsfactorily adjusted ;Jand I
also informed jjou that these gentlemen were
urging the President to adopt this scheme and
recommend it to the favorable consideration of
the South.
Suffiage and amnesty formed the basis of that
proposition. Mr. Johnson gave to the sugges
tions of these patriotic gentlemen the most
careful and sincere consideration, and was at
once favorably impressed with them. But inas
much as the amendment to the Constitution
w as then before the people, and its adoption or
relectlon undecided, the President deemed it
impolitic, if not altogether Improper, to present
the matter to tne country, believing as he does,
and he has acted upon this belief, the asser
tions to the contrary notwithstanding, that the
Southern people should decide upon the pro
posed Amendment without let or hindrance
from the Executive.
Tbe tim has arrived when it may be safely
assumed that the Constitutional amendment
will fall to receive the approval of any one ot
the Southern States, and upon this assumption
Mr. Johnson is considering the propriety of
giving his approval to the main features of the
scheme first above mentioned, and of recoai
mending its adoption by the Southern States,
in deference to the demand of the people of the
North, and in which Southern representative
men who have been heard upon the subject
acquiesce. The President thinks that the negro
population of the South should have such safe
guards thrown about them as to secure to them
the permanent enjoyment of their freedom and
of all civil rights.
The negro, armed with the ballot, can as well
protect himself as any other citizen. As Mr.
Johnson interprets the Constitution, he does
not discover any power in the general Govern
ment to legislate upon the subiect of suffrage
in Ihe States. Iu whom rests the exclusive
control of the matter? Some of the Northern
States, Massachusetts and New York, for ex
ample, have given the ballot to the negro.
in one of them is an educational, in the other
a property qualification, aud it is asked why
may not South Carolina, for instance, be placed
upon the same footing with Massachusetts, as
to those who shall hereafter be admitted to the
elective franchise, and why may not tbe loyal
representatives of the tormer be admitted to
Congress upon the same footing as the repre
sentatives of tbe latter? Working out this plan
in a practical form, let the people of tbe State
of South Carolina so amend the Constitution
and laws as to extend the elective franchise so
far as Massachusetts has done.
As an incentive to this reform the President
intimates bis readiness, to issue a proclamation
of amnesty to all tbe people of South Carolina
who may have approved the movement. This
reform accomplished, the people of that State
elect loyal Representatives to Congress, blacks
voting with whites as indicated above. It would
then rest with Congress to determine whether
these Representatives should be admitted.
I have good rcaon for saying that
this plnn lor adjusting the existing
difficulties in the way of reconstruction
is now receiving tbe serious consideration of
the Administration, and has been discussed in
Cabinet with a view to its adoption. It differs
from Mr. Greeley's amnesty-suffrage scheme iu
this, that if provide for separate State action
and proposes a qualified suffrage, and it leaves
impracticable and uurepenteut Rebels still sub
ject to the penalties for treason, amnesty aud
suffrage ench being qualified.
It leaves States to the exercise of their consti
tutional prerogative of prescribing the qualiti-
cations of voters aud extending the elective
! franchise i to the negro; to the Executive the
I dispensation of pardon and amnesty; and to the
: Legislative the admi-sl'n of loyal representa
. fives to the respective houses of Congress. Each
I branch of tbe Government thus harmoniously
' moving in its appropriote sphere.
THE NEW SENATORS.
The Hon, 8. C. Pomeroy.
The Legislature of Kansas yesterday re-elected
the Hon. Samuel C. Pomeroy United States
Senator lor six years from the 4th of March
nexjt. Mr. Pomeroy is a native of Southampton,
Mass., and is fifty .one years of age. His early
life was passed upon bis father's farm. Iu
183C, at the age ol twenty, he entered Amherst
College, and upon graduating took up his
residence in Sew York. Remaining here
but a few years, he returned to his
native town, and was at different periods
chosen to fill various local oflices of trust, and
in 1852 elected to the State Legislature. In 1854
he removed to Kansas, and at once took an
active and prominent part in the political adairs
of the then Territory, beiug elected a member of
the Territorial Delehse Committee, and a dele
gate to tbe Pittsburg and Philadelphia Convu
tion of 1866, and the Chicago Convention ot
1H60. During the famine In Kansas in 1800 and
lhOl, Mr. Pomeroy, as Chairman of the Relief
Committee, did much, by his energy, devotion,
and constant appeals to the North for aid, to
relieve tbe sufferings of the destitute and starv
ing masses. Upon the admission of Kansas as
a State, Mr. Pomeroy wa9 chosen to the United
Spates Senate lor the long term of six years. As
a member of that body he served on the Com
mittees on Pensions, Claims, Territories, and
Manufactures, and as Chairman of the Com
mittee on Public Lands. While not so promi
nently known as a speaker as gome of his col
leagues, Mr. Pomeroy is an energetic worker,
a laithlul representative, and a sound Repub
lican. The Hon. E. G. Ross.
The Hon. E. G. Robs, who has just been
elected United States Senator for Kansas, is a
native of Wisconsin, in which he spent the early
part of bis life as a printer and an editor; but
on the breaking out of the troubles in Kansas in
1856 the removed lo that State, in whose local
affairs he took an active part, serving first as a
member ot tne Kansas Constitutional Conven
tion In 1858. and from that time till 18C1 la the
State Legislature. In July, i860, he was ap
pointed a Senator in Congress from Kansas
for the unexpired term of Geueral Lane, de
ceased. His triumph over his opponent, Carney,
is a radicul gain.
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
Court of Oyer and "terminer Judges Pierce
and Brewster. In the case of the Common
wealth vs. Jacob Battian, the trial of which was
begun on Thursday, the jury after a short de
liberation returned a verdict of not guilty.
1 District Court Judge bharswood. Brown,
During & Co. vs. Isaac E. Bliem and Jaoob D.
Hei't. An action to recover damages for failure
of defendants to purchase a tract oi land for
$CO,000, according to an agreement. On trial.
I ..
! It Is stated that Sir Morton Peto la about to
retire lrom the English Parliament.
-They call young Jtenuett now Prince J
THIRD EDITION
MEXICO AND CUBA.
rrofrreKs and Success of Mlramon.
A Public Welcome for Maximilian in
the City of Mexico.
The Danks of Havana Ito
Bume Husuncss.
Ravages of Smallpox at Matanzas.
ICtc, Etc., Btc, Etc., Ete.f Etc.
New York. January 24. The steamship Ragle,
from Havana, brings tbe following:
Havana. January 19. News has been received
from Mexico to the 9th instant. Maxtuilllin
was on his way to the City ot Mexico, from
Puebla. R. B. Fisher has been appointed Im
perial Secretary.
The Revolutionists, under Garcia de la Cadcna,
have been defeated near Leon. Most ot the
towns of Yucatan have sent to the capital mani
festations of loy at the return of the Imperial
Commissioner.
The famous guerilla Canesa was killed near
Orizaba.
A despatch from Miramou from San Juan del
Rio says that all were marching with enthu
siasm. They were well received, and more
recruits bad joined Miramon than he had
arms for.
Proclamations had been affixed to the street
corners in the City ot Mexico, calling on the
citizens to meet and welcome Maximilian.
The evacuating French troops from San Luis
Potosi had arrived at San Miguel Albude.
On the 1st instant Rivas Palacios was obliged
to abandon Fenancuigo; on the 2d he
attacked Tuluco, but was repulsed. Alvarez
bad triumphed over the encmv at Zapatlan.
The fort of San Carlos, atPerote, was still lu
the hands of the Austrlans.
The panic in Havana had passed over. The
banks, with one exception, had resumed pay
ments.
There is no abatement of the smallpox at
Matanzas. Seventy-three new cases were re
ported on the 16ih. The Government is forcimr
the people to become vaccinated.
The Connecticut Republican Convention.
Nnw Haven, January 24. The Union Repub
lican State Convention met at Music Hall at 10
o'clock. About four hundred delegates were
present. The Convention was called to order
by the Hon. H. H. Starkweather, ot Norwich,
Chairman of the 8tate Central Committee.
Lieutenant-Governor Averill, of Danbury, was
elected temporary Chairman.
A prayer was offered by the Rev. Dr. Dryden
S. Phelps, of this city, after which the chair
man returned thanks for the honor shown him.
The Hon. H. Lynde Harrison, of New Haven,
and H. F. Bperry, of Hartford, were elected
temporary Secretaries.
Tbe usual Committees on Credeut'als, Perma
nent Organization, and Resolutions were
appointed.
Marine Intelligence.
Fortress Monroe, January 24. Thf steamer
Delaware, from Charleston to New York, has
arrived at Norfolk, short oi coal. She expe
rienced heavy weather Irom the N. W. to N. E
and put into Hatteras Inlet on Sunday, during
which day there was a heavy easterly gale,
wih thunder and lightning.
Left at the Inlet schooner William Tice, for
Philadelphia; schooner Oregon, from New be rn
for New York, with naval stores; also the
schooner Harling, from Huntingdon, Long
Island, in distress, with loss of boat, davits,
bulwarks, stove, and mainsail blown away.
She sailed in company from Newbrn wl'h
the steamer Jam8 L. Grery, for New York.
The schooners J. L. Piice, from Wilmington,
N. C. and Adcle Trued:ile. from Newborn for
Philadelphia, with naval stores, have arrived at
New York for repairs.
New York, Jnnnary 24. The steamship Den
mark has arrived from Liverpool. Her advices
are anticipated.
From Concoid.
Concord. January 24. Hon. E. W. Harriug
ton was nominated at Manchester to-day as
Democratic candidate for Congress.
Governor Smythe granted a requisition on the
Gevcrnor of Wisconsin for the surrender of Frau
ccnia, the murderer.
The New Hampshire Agricultural Land Scrip
has been sold to-day to L. G. Lewis, of Ohio, for
$80,000.
Scientific Meeting.
Washington, January 24. The National
Academy of Science is in session at the Capitol.
Professor Henry is in the C lair. Several dis
tinguished gentlemen from various parts of the
couutry are present. To-day was devoted to
: he reading of reports on different subjects.
Markets by Telegraph.
New York. January 24 Cotton dull at 83le34c.
lor Middling, Flour very du l and deollnlnir; 4001
blle. sold; btate, 87 60i 12 40; Ohio, 811 90 14 15.
Vheut very dull. Baney dull. Corn very dull.
Oats heavy. Proyisious very dull. Vnr heavy and
ower; Mess Pork, 9i0a.S5. Lard, 12i&182. Whuky
'lull.
' CONNECTICUT.
Republican State Convention.
New Haven, Conn., January 23. The Union
Republican Stale Convention .meets here to
morrow. This evening a caucus of the leading
delegates was held at the New Haven House,
w hich was largely attended. The feeling among
be members ot the caucus was strongly in
lavor of General Hawley's renominatlon, and
he will probably receive a nearly unanimous
vote tor Gubernatorial candidate.
There are several candidates for Lieutenant
Governor, the leading one being Hon. O. A.
Perry, ol Fairfield, speaker ot the House for
several session. The other candidates are
Colonel P. J. Kingsbury, ot Waterbury; C. W.
Ballard. Senator from the Seventh District;
W. T. Elmer, of Middletown; and B. Booth, of
Danbury.
Tbe platform will probbly favor Impartlul
suffrage, aud endorse Congress, it will also
declare iu lavor of tbe eight-honr system,
instead of the ten-hour. The impeachment
question does not appear to receive much atten
tion. Hun. E. K. Foster, of this city, Speaker
of tbe House in 18C5, will be made President of
the Convention. The prospects are that, not
withntanding the blockade upon travel existing
in all parts of th State, the Convention will be
nunierou8lytattended. sod will be harmonious
and enthusiastic in ail its doings.
The crown of the Queen ef the Belgians Is
causing a eiisation. It is composed of forty
five pearls, of foity magnificent diamonds of
iinrotube size, and five thousand email bril.
liaiits.
KENTUCKY.
l.rttrr from Hon. Uarrett Davis, With
drawing from the Senatorial Content.
The following letter was read at the com
mencement of the joint session of the Kentucky
Legislature, on the 21et ir st.i
Frankfort, January 17. Messrs. Wright ami
Young Gents: I appreciate the great impor
tance of Kentucky being fully represented in
the Senate of the United States during the
whole of the session to commence the 4th of
March. To effect this my successor must be
chosen at the present session of the Legislature.
Balloting to make an election has taken place
fruitlessly for several days. Tbe continuance
of my name before the Legislature for re-election
cannot, I feel assured, aid it in making
choice of a Senator, and might operate still fur
ther to postpone it.
Therefore, with a view to the early consum
mation of this important business, and to pre
vent unnecessary waste of valuable time, I re
spectfully request you severally to withdraw
my name from your respective Houses, or from
the joint assembly of the two Houses on the
further ballotlug for Senator.
With profound gratitude to you both for the
honor vou did me in presenting my name for
this office lo your respective Houses, and also to
all the gentlemen who expressed their trust in
me, by voting to confer it upon me again, I sub
scribe mjselt your obliged and obedient sjrvnt,
t Garrett Davis.
Vote for Seuator In Kentucky,
Frankfort. January 2.1. In the Leulslature
to-day, the, ballot for Senator resulied a fol
lows: Powell, 43; Hording, 48; Bristow, 31;
Robinson, 1.
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
i
Office of the Evknino Telegraph, I
Thursday, January 24, 1867. J
There was very little disposition to operate in
stocks this rooming, and prices were weak sod
unsettled. Railroad shares, as we have noticed
for sometime past, continue the most active on
the list. Reading sold at 61, a decline of 4 on
the closing price last evening; Camden aud
Amboy at 1263, a slight decline; Pennsylvania
Railroad at 6(lj, a slight decline; Lehigh Valley
at 61 i, no change; Nornstown at 63, no change;
and Philadelphia and Erie at 30, a slight
advance.
City Paenger Railroad shares were firmly
held. Chctnut and Walnut sold at S14, an ad
vance of i. 02 was bid for Tenth and
Eleventh; for Thirteenth and Filteeoth; 30
for Spruce and Pine: 14J for Hestonville; and
2(i for Girard College.
Iu Government bonds there was very bttle
doing. July, 1H65, 5-203 sold at 1044, a slight
decline; and August 7"30 at 103KS103J. State
and City loans were in fair demand. Pennsyl
vania 5s sold at 94; new City Gs at 100; and old
do. at 064, do change.
Bank shares continue in good demand for in
vestment, at full price?. Notth America sold
at 233; 139 was bid for First National; 115 for
Third National; 107J for Fourth National; 151
lor Philadelphia; 136 for Farmers' and Me
chanico'; 32J for Mechanics'; 100 lor Kensing
ton; 66$ for Girarl; 10G for Tradesmen's; 65 for
City; 42 for Com-olidalion; and 67 for Common
wealth. Canal f hares were dull. Lehigh Navigation
sold at 64$, no change. 120 was bid tor Morris
Canal preferred; 13 lor Susquehauna Canal; 66.
for Delaware Division; and 62 for Wyoming
Valley Canal.
Quotations of Gold 10! A. M., 134 j; 11 A. M.,
1341; 12 M.. 134J; 1 P. M.. 134j.
The New York Tribune this morning says:
'Money among brokers is 7 per cent., and col
laterals are looked after moie closely. The
break In the Stock Market hi disturbed a good
many matgins, and any further decline will
leave a good many lenders the proprietors of
their present collaterals. In commercial paper
no change. Best names sell at 7J8, and second
rate at utaiz per cent. n n at sixty days on
London are quoted at 108i(.fil09 for commercial;
100(31094 for bankers'; do. at short sight, llOtfd
110 j; Paris, at sixty days. 5-205164; do. at
short sk'ht. 6-13i5-12.l; Antwerp, 518ai5-164;
Swiss, 6'184'5-16i: Hamburg. 364(f3s Am
sterdam, 41j41i; Frankfort, 4U41jj: Bremen,
79794: Prussian thalers, 72i72J.
"By the Cuba's mail we have European papers
to tbe 12th instant. Notwithstanding the panic
in London, which began 10th May, the stronger
banks have been making large profits. The
London and Westminster Bank dividend for the
past year is 16 per cent., making a distribution
during the year 1806 of 30 per cent."
The Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern
Division, gives notice that the interest in gold
of its flrsl mortgage bonds, due February 1, will
be paid on and after that dale, on the presenta
tion of tbe coupons, at the banking-bouse of
Jay Cooke & Co. In New York.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES TO-SAT
Jieported by De Haven & Bro.,No.40S.Tbrd street
BEFORE BOARDS.
100 sh Reading Railroad ,...s30 61f
FIRST BOARD
Sfiuoo u B 730s Aug.. 1U: f 2000 Read mt 6. .. . 90J
fwyr hj uu lUdj
84000 6-2fls 66 cp Jy. .1041
C32001'a68 cfcp 943
V1400 do4.xintc&p 87
8400 Ci'T S8 new 2il.1ofU
100 sb Kad....b6iut 61
0 sh Cam & a
26 n fenna K..lols 66f
2 sb Leb Vai till
20 sh Buck MtD.... 47
100 sh N H ft Mid C. 4
9 sb Nonnt'n It.. 63
200 sb McC.tntock... i
Brother, No. 40 South
s new 2d. 1004
M400 Jo new its. 100
eiooo do. ... new. 1004
$1000 C & A mt 89. . . 96 :
y.essrs. De Haven &
Third street, report the
loliowing rates of ex-
Change tO-day at 1 P. A!.! AmerWn onlH 1S11
134i; Silver s and 4s, 130; Compound Interest
Notes, June, 1864, ItiA; do.. July, 1864, 16; do.,
August 1864, 151; do., October, 1864, 144; do.,
December. 1864, 13J; do., May. 1805, 114; do.,
August, 1865, 104; do., September. lbC5, 10; do.
October, 1865, 9j.
,.TMelsr Wj111 Painter & Co., bankers, No.
. South Third street, report the following rates
ot exchange to-day at 12 o'clock: U.S. 6s, 1881.
coupon, 1074 1074; I'. S. 6-20-, coupon, JH62
U'7S107g; uo.. 1664, 105105; do., 1866. 10SJ
(a 105$: do., new, 18(15, 10401043; U. 8.
10-40. coupou. 99599i; U. S. 7'30s, 1st
series, 104J1042; do., 2d series, 1041044; 3d
series, 1041044; Compounds, December, 18C4.
LW13J.
Philadelphia Trade Report
Thursday, January 24 There was no de
mand for Flour exoept from the home consumers,
who were net disposed to purchase more than
enough to supply present wants. A lew hundred
barrels were taken at $838 76 V bbl. for superfine;
9(a 10-60 for extra; $116013 for common and ohoioe
Northwestern extra family; t1214 60 for Peon
sylvania and Ohio do. do 1 and C14 75al7 for fancy
brands, according to quality. Ke F our is steady
at 7'25 t bbl. Price 01 Corn Uea are nominal.
Tbe market is pooily supplied with Wheat, and
this ii the only description tor winch there is any
Inquiry. We quote Pennsylvania red at f2 76!
8 10 : southern do at 88 10t8 20 1 and white at 8 20
to8 4o. Kye ranges from 8185 to l-87 for Western
and Pennsylvania. There was les Inquiry for Corn,
but puces remain withoat change; sales of 4000
bushels at 97o.4tfl tor new yellow, and tl for
white. I Hits are scarce, and in moderate request 1
sslee at C7.n68o.
Nothing doing in Barley ; 80OO bushels malt sold
at f1 40.
Whisky Tbe trade is entirely annulled with the
contraband artlole, which sells at l 50,1 75.
The Marquis de la Rochejaquelein, who was
in a tttte of lllcess In Paris which no longer
left any hope, received th3 blessing of the Pope
by telegraph. Some time afterwards an uuex-
fiected improvement, it is affirmed, took place
d tbe suilerer's condition. The French Catholic t
journals say it Is a miracle. Others fay K
clever physician.