I !u iUdfovil laquitet. BEBFOgl), FA.. FRIDAY IDT. 1.1, FSOi. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE We, to day, lay 1* fore <>ui readers the first Messii.cof Preshlent John-on. It i.-*i plain, frank document, and of moderate length, pon-idering the many & hirer- of in terest necessary to be discussed. If rcmaik able for anything, it is tnmemss. On the great question of reconstruction it ritnply relates the experiences of the lastsix month-, with which the whole country is familiar, and lays the matter before Congress with out any attorn (if to point our a policy lor their guidance. The discussion, of the spir it and design of our Union and Constitution, the doctrine of State Sovereignty, the dan gers of military rule. Ac., abounds in gin eralities. which may be useful and instruct ive to the Southern people, but contain nothing that has not long lieen familiar to every intelligent man in the North. The brief notice of the necessity for an early e storation of the .Federal Courts, pointed with the Btatement,"that,since it is manifest that treason, most flagrant in character, has been committed. Persons who are charged with its commission should have fair and impartial trials in the highest civil tribunals of the country, in order that the Constitu tion and the laws may be fully vindicated; the truth clearly established and affirmed, that treason is a crime, that traitors should be punished and the offence made infamous: and. at the same time, that the question may be judicial!) settled, finally and forev er. that"no state of its own will has the right to renounce its place in the Union" will af ford matter for the serious consideration of Jeff. Davis, and his friends, North and South. In regard to the freedtnen, the Pres ident reiterates what he so frequently told the southern people, that the rights ot the freedmen, the security of their persons and property and the enjoyment of the fruits of their labor, must be recognized by the peo ple and maintained by the Government. He recognizes the fact, so long palpable to eve ry unprejudiced mind, that slavery was an incubus upon the whole country and es;se rially the States wherein it existed, and that with its extinction, there opens before the Southern people a prospect of future wealth and prosperity unecjualed in any country. In relation to our claims upon England, he simply states the facts alreadv familiar to the people, without advising any attempt at redress, for the present. On the Monroe Doctrine the message is explicit, and in the following words gives no uncertain sound: "We should regard it as a great calamity to ourselves, to the cause of good government, and to the peace of the world, should any European power challenge the American people, as it were, to the defence of republi canism against foreign interference. We cannot foresee and are unwilling to consid er, what opportunities may present them selves, what combinations might offer to pro tect ourselves against designs inimical to our form of government. The United States desire to act in the future as they have acted heretofore; they never will'be driven from that course but by the aggres sion of European powers: and we rely on the wisdom and justice of those powers to respect the system of non-interference which has so long been sanctioned by time, and which, by its good results, has approved it self to both continents." The message then closes with a, by no means inappropriate, reference to our pres ent unexampled blessings, and magnificent future prospects, and finally calls upon the nation to join with its Chief Magistrate in an appeal for future guidance to that Provi dence which has brought us in safety thro' all our past vicissitudes. PODSNAPPEKY. The Reverend John Chambers delivered, on Thanksgiving day, in Philadelphia, one of his characteristic political sermons ; for it need not be supposed that all the politic al pulpit harangues are on our side. The Rev. gentleman is well known to this com munity (having spent many summers here) as one of the loudest and most violent of all who sympathize with the rebellion. During the summer of 1863 he joined with those at the springs, who got up a ball, to throw contempt on the day appointed by President Lincoln for fasting and prayer. Mr. Cham bers is one of that class of divines (now for tunately growing very small) who imagine themselves the special interpreters of the will of God, and who regret that they arc not commissioned also, to hurl the bolts of omnipotent wrath against all who have the misfortune to differ with them on political and religious subjects. The eutire sermon is worthy of perusal by those who would see how much the views of a man may be warped and perverted by his partisan pas sion. Iu opposing the right of the negro to vote. Mr. Chambers delivers himself thus: "All right thinking men must feel that as a nation, our condition is a deplorable one, because we have dejiarted from our old land mark, and are attempting to amalgamate discordant elements, which God never in tended should be united. This Is what we arc endeavoring to do; we are a nation of white men. * * There are Congressmen who are asking that the whole negro population of the South may have the right to the elec tive franchise, and to give it to every man in the District of Columbia. T have no hostility to the negro, but he must not he put on an equality with white men. God ilocs not menn it." Thus with a flourish, with one of those well known oratorical gestures, our Philadel phia Pod snapper consigns the negro to his original degradation, and banishes the sub ject from the universe We might meekly inquire when this special revelation of the meaning of Heaven came down to the Rev erend gentleman, or where he finds the di vine authority that this must be a nation of white men. Mr. Chambers is opposed to the negro voting in the Dirtrict of Colum bia, and by a peculiar process of podsnap argumentation, he resolves the right of uni veisal suffrage into the amalgamation of the raoes. to which wc are opposed as well as he. A few years ago, this philanthropic divine who, to obtain credence, is obliged to protest his want of hostility to the poor ne gro, was opposed to his emancipation in the District of Columbia and everywhere else told us that Heaven did not mean that eith er, and with a wave of Lis hand consigned him to everlasting slavery. But we arc weary of this church blasphemy, O Pod snapper! Podsnapper! UK SON STATE CENTRAL tOMMir. TEE. A n,coring of the Union State Central Committee was held in Philadelphia, on Thursday she 30th ult.. at the National (Huh Rpom. Chestnut street. Thet meeting was woh attended, and much important business was transacted. The subject of the •ettkim of the time for the meeting of the oi xi State Convention was postponed until th-- next meeting of the Committee, to be hc.id in Harri&burg about the middle of Jam aty. Arrangements were made for keeping permanently open the roonisof the •Committee, and a resolution was passed re questing Union editors in the Slate to send their newt papers to the rooms. Dun notice will la - ven when the new rooms are se cured. A memorial on the state of the country, and addressed to the members of Congress, was adopted. On motion of Goueral James Skin, the | following resolutions were adopted : Rts'tlviJ. That the Administration of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, a evinced in the generous terms proffci> d the States recently in rebellion against "the rightful authority of the General Government, commends itself to the admi ration, respect, and confidence of the people of thi- Commonwealth. lit <ohefl, That the principles recently enunciated at Wa-hingtyn, in the speech delivered by Hon. Sefeuvler Colfax, late speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States. mcet3 the hearty concur rence of the loyal people of Pennsylvania. ltesnh. ,1. That the thanks of the Union party are eminently due, and are hereby ten dered Hon. John Cessna, for bis faithful, energetic, and successful labors during the recent political canvass in this State, contri buting,' as they have done so largely, to the triumph of the party represented by this Committee. On Motion of Colonel Briee X Blair, it was Resolved, That Congress be requested to pass an act to equalize the bounties i'or Sol diers, so that those who enlisted in 1861 and 1862. shall be entitled to receive the same bounty as those that enlisted at a subse quent date. AN OVERSIGHT. The Southern emigrants to Brazil have overlooked, it seems, a fact essential to their future happiness, in selecting that conntry as their refuge. They knew it was a slave holding nation and took everything else for granted: but it seems, from the Freeman's Journal that the cabinet, or ministry, of, the Emjieror of Brazil is chiefly composed of negroes, and that it sometimes happens that there is not one man of pure white blood in the mini-try under him. The Judge- too, that preside in the courts, before which the southern emigrants will have to appear, in civil or criminal suits, are as often, or oftene negroes, as white men. The Richmond Whig, commenting upon these facts, says they could not possibly have been known to those who contemplate mi grating to Brazil. It would be a sad thing, indeed, for the self exiled Southerner to find that, in his eagerness to get away from the reign of Abolitionism be has taken refuge under a negro administration, and will be compelled to address the throne thaugh a negro cabinet officer, or to sue and be sued before a negro judge.— Pittsburgh Ga:.ette. THE INSURRECTION IN JAMAICA. We commend, to such as have been point ing to Jamaica as a warning to us of the dangers to be apprehended from a negro population, the following article from the London Spectator. They will find that the danger arises not from freeing and educa ting the blacks, but from oppressing them and keeping them in ignorance. They who are in fear of negro insurrection will here ! learn whence the danger arises and how to : avoid it : We are still without precise intelligence from Jamaica, but enough is known of the condition of the islaud to justify us in a blank denial of the assertions that the ne groes said to be in insurreetcon are influenc ed by Hayticn agitators, and are themselves only too well off. They are badly off; so badly off that the island lias for months been a perplexity to the Colonial Office, and that, for seven weeks at least, the Secretary of State has expected news of an attempted insurrection. Letters arc even now in town from Jamaica, in which the alarm of the local government and the strange move ments among the squadrons are noticed either with ridicule or apprehension, and the few persons still keenly interested in the col ony are well aware of a discontent which a trifle may have sufficed to blow into aflame. This discount has been growing for years, and flnds its ultimate root in two causes, one of which is ineradicable, except perhaps by long-continued prosperity, while the other is within the reach of parliamentary action. The two are the increase of population and the character of the Legislative Assembly. The negroes, always prolific, as very poor races are everywhere apt to be, have since the emancipation multiplied with extraordi nary rapidity. The climate suits them, the release from forced labor has increased the healthiness of the womenl early marriage has been fbstersd as an antidote to the im morality customary in slave colonies, and though there is a terrible amount of llecuce remaining, it is not of a kind or degree to check greatly the increase of population. The pressure for subsistence becomes yearly greater, while the means of procuring it grow yearly less. Sugar, the grand staple of the export trade, cannot be cultivated to advantage without scientific appliances.— that is. without capital; and capital lias for years been leaving Jamaica, till only some 30,000 persons are now maintained by the ancient cultivation of the island. Other planting scarcely exists, and the negroes, therefore, are driven to hire little plots of ground, upon which they grow their food and some little tobacco, but scarcely any thing else which can be converted into mon ey. The island is therefore practically pop ulated by cottiers, as poor as irish cottiers, as dependent upen the harvest, and, il it be possible, still more unenlightened. To this population, over-numerous, pov erty-stricken and ignorant, the Legislative Assembly adds a number of colored immi grants imported form India, and used up at a frightful puce, and refuses justice, educa tion, and a sound system of convcvanee. That Assembly is elected by less than" 2,500 voters in a population of 441,000, and legis lates exclusively in the interest of the plan ters. These latter are, as a body, inheritors of the slaveholding ideas, and sometimes of the slaveholding morality; and they have refused all measures in the interest of the blacks, wasted half a million sterling on coo lies, who die like sheep, passed a whipping act which recalls the tone of the old Black Code, and imposed enormous duties on Eng lish imports; duties so heavy that, as was publicly stated in the Assembly, the negroes were tailing back upon nakedness to avoid the cost of clothing as raised by the last tar iff. They could pay in kind, but they can not in cash, and they have no means of raising more. The planters will not buy of them, the dealers do not like the half-clean ed produce which is all they, as cottier culti valors, can offer, and in many cases the right of is used, as in Btspgai. to compel the tenantry to cultivate particular articles ami sell them to the owner at fixed prices. Of otic such case we have the de tails. as of others which prove that the true substitute tor slavery, fair wages for fair work,has not yet entered the island's imagi nation The greatest grievance of all, how ever. is the refusal of justice. Jamaica has lieen organized on the country gentleman system, the owners being the sole magis trate.-. and the owner- are said to be unfair towards the colored population. It docsnot matter much, in a political point of view, whether this charge is true or not. Observers -like Dr. Underbill, a cool, shrewd man, whose evidence is distrusted because he is Secretary to the Baptist Mission, but who is a layman ami not a negrophite, think it has a foundation, the planter even w-hou up right being -waved by a feeling of race en grained into his very heart. Successive governors, too, have thought, and have pleaded for stipendiary magistrates; but the Assembly is jealous of its electors' power, and absolutely . efuses to change the system. Whether, however, the charge is true or false, it is believed to be true, and that be lief is fatal to any confidence between gov ernors and governed. The negro when in jured will not apply to the magistrates, and when summoned accepts his sentence a- a 'white oppression," while all civil contracts fall hopelessly out of gear. Knowiug that he has to deal with a poor employer, the negro refuses to make a binding contract, and when engaged by the day, bolts unless rtjgularly paid. lie cannot recover his wa ges by law. and therefore can and will give no credit; while the planter who wants him for only half the year is often unable to pay until the crop is in, —that is, until the negro has abandoned bis own crop for the uncer tain chance of obtaining his employer's wa ges. There are no county courts available, and the negro, finding no redress from the civil law, believing in none from the crimi nal law, ignorant by legislative defect, and self-indulgent from the absence of result to his self-restraint, fall- back absolutely upon the little plot which is not his, to which he can get no lease, and which he is not permit ted by the conveyancing system to buy. When that plot fails, the world falls from beneath bis feet; and for the past two years it has failed front drought, failed till the people were in {daces actually without food —there is no poor law —till they, among the vainest of races, leave their children with out clothing, till in places they deliberated whether they, like their fathers, had not bettor fly to the mountains. The accidental publication of a letter from l)r. Underbill to Mr. Cardwell, which had so impressed the Secretary that he forwarded it to Governor Eyre for a report, blew the discontent into aflame, and meetings of colored men were held, demanding higher wages, education, better representation, an end to immigration and the exemption of raw materials from import duties. None of these demands were complied with; the Governor, though admitting the badness of the governing class, condemned the negroes, and an un lucky placard was published by authority, headed, "The Queen's Advice," and con taining in other words the answer which 1 Miaraoh gave to the children of Israel. "Ye are idle, ye are idle." This increased the irritation to its height, and some acci dental circumstance. most probably a move ment among the West Indian regiments, who are principally liberated Africans, has, we doubt not, caused the explosion which has led to the demand for troops. It can not be a very formidable one, for the ne groes have no arms, and unless the black soldiers have joined it, it is difficult to see why they alone were not strong enough to put it down. The first duty of the Government, it is clear, is to put down the insurrection. Whatever the evils inherent in the present system, and they are many, the violent up rising of an ignorant population is not the remedy for them, and they must if needful, be reduced to order by the strong arm. That done, however, it will become the duty of the Imperial Government to reorganize the island, if necessary, by measures of rev olutionary breadth The old order of tilings has broken down. The Assembly, convened on a plan two hundred years old. is a nest of jobbers, and the planting class is, alike by hereditary feeling and by circumstances, dis qualified for the possession of absolute {low er. If they were angels, they would be dis qualified by the ineradicable distrust among those they govern, begotten by two centu ries of mi-rule; and being what they are, average Englishmen, with strong prejudices, declining caj ital, and the moral tone of a passed-away state of society, are entirely unable to attract the confidence of those be neath them. On the other hand, there is no class in the country to whom their pow er can be transferred. The niulattocs are not educated, and encourage race hatreds of their own, and the negroes must be educa ted ! fore they can be trusted with the fran chi-e. There is no iron necessity, as in the Southern State of America, fir giving them power in order that they may not be traui pled on; for an authority exists in the island competent to secure justice. * * * The talk about, negro indolence is pur- rubbish. There is no settled race upon earth which is indolent, the Bengalee slaving nine hours a day, and the Neapolitan tilling his land with as raueh assiduity as a Dutchman; and the negro is only lazy because he never reaps the reward of labor. Ten years of strict, equal government, administered by a man who can press hard, when needful, on either race, and who will attend to physical im provement, will, we believe, make the is land as prosperous as Ceylon, where, with no slavery and a native population which will not work for wages, the j eople import European goods to the extent of a pound a head per annum, and the Treasury is so overflowing that the Colonial office has quar. relied with the planters by is-utng an order that they shall pay for their own troops. Nothing short of a radical change like this can. we are convinced, save the island, which is full of natural resources, from sinking fi nally into the condition of a great tropical pauper warren, hopelessly insolvent, and rc quiring to be garrisoned with at least fire thousand meD. Payment of Commutation Does not K.v eiupt from Dounty Tar. An important ease, and one in which the public in general are interested to a consid erable extent, was disposed of in the District Court on Saturday last. It was presented iu form of a stated case in which the School Directors of Plum Township were plaintiffs, and John Ewer was defendant. The facts of the case are as follows; John Ewer, a citizen of said township, was drafted in July, IS6B, under the act of Congress, paid the S3OO commutation md was discharged from further liability. In ls/>4. a Bounty tax, under the provisions of the Bounty act of Pennsylvania, was assessed and levied on him, amounting to s">f>, by the School Di rectors of said town hip which he refused to pay claiming that he was exempt under the exceptions in said Bounty act. and hcncc this stated ease. The point of law submit ted to the Court for its decision was, wheth er he, having paid the commutation in 1863 was liable to pay a bountv tax under the provisiens of said act. Messrs. Moffitt and Coc-hrun appeared for the School Directors, and B. G. Childs, Esq., for the defendant. After hearing the arguments of the counsel the Court decided that the payment of commutation did not bring the defendent within the exceptions contained in the 4th section of said act there fore he was liable to pay said tax and order ed judgment to be entered in favor of the plaintiffs for $. r 5, the amount of tax so as sensed and levied on him as a citizen of said township.— Pittdmrgh Gazette. CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. ID the Senate. on the fth inst. . the stand ing committees for the session were announ ed. Bills were introduced in regard to the carriage of pa cngers and iVvb.ht by rail roads from one Suite to another, and to in corporate tKo International Telegraph Coin ny and establish telegraphic communication between New York and the West Indies. Different portions of the President's Mr - sage and bills prevfeu ly introduced were re i terred to appropriate committees. A reso lution calling for vigorous operat ions against I the hostile Indians was introduced. A pe tition of uavai surgeon- for increase of pay was presented. The Senate concurred in the joint resolution for a committee to take action relative to the death of President Lincoln. Adjourned to the 11th inst. HOUSE. In the House of Representatives a bill was introduced and referred to the Judicaa ry Oominittoe. to guard againt the office of President of the United States becoming va cant. It provides for the succession to that position of the Vice-President, President ;pro tern, of the Sewate, Speaker of the House. Chief .lustieo and Associate .Justices of the Supreme Court. Resolutions were offered and referred to the Judiciary Com mittee, proposing an amendment to the Con stitution, making duties on exports legal, that the rebel debt shall never be recogniz ed, and that Congres* shall have power to secure equal liberty and protection to all persons throughout the country. Resolu tions were adopted tHbrring to the portion of tKo JVo.-ickui's relating to tlu> freedinen to a special*committee of nine, instructing the Naval Committee to inquire into the expediency of a naval depot on Lake Erie, and instructing the Military Commit tee to report on the propriety of paying bounties to the two years volunteers dischar ged before the expiration of their service, and on the expediency of establishing a Mil iary Academy in the West. A bill reviving the grade of full General was introduced and referred to the Military Committee. A bill for the lebef of the widow of President Lincoln was presented and referred. A res olution requesting the President to furnish information in regard to a decree of Maxi milian re-establishing Slavery in Mexico was submitted, but laid over. Adjourned to the 11 th inst. The following are the chairman of the Senate Committees: Public Lands —-Mr. Pomcroy of Kansas. Foreign Affairs —Mr. Sumner of Mas-a sh usetts. Finance —Mr. Fessenden of Maine. Commerce—Mr. Chandler of Michigan. Manufactures—Mr. Sprague of Khode Island. Agriculture—Mr. Sherman of Ohio. Military Affairs—Mr. Wilson of Massa chusetts. Naval Affairs —Mr. Anthony of Rhode Island. Pensions—Mr. Lane of Indiana. •Judiciary—Mr. Trumbull of Illinois. Po.-t Office —Mr. Dixon of Connecticut. Claims—Mr. Clark of New-Hampshire. Revolutionary Claims —-Mr. Riuusev of Mass. District of Columbia —Mr. Morrill of Ver mont. Private Land Claims —Mr. Harris of New- Cork. Indian Affairs -Mr. Doolittle of Wiscon sin. Public Buildings—M r. Foot of. Vermont. Patents —Mr. Cowan of Pennsylvania. Territories—Mr. Wade ot Ohio. Public Railroads—Mr. Howard of Michi gan. Secretary Stanton's report to Congress gives the history of the final events of the war, aud then proceeds to show the wonder ful military resources of the country, and indicates what it could d<jjf suddenly called upon to assert the national dignity. The national military forces numbered 1,0H),516 men, .May 1, 1 865. It i- to be reduced to 50,000, and over 800,000 have already been mustered out. The military appropriation-, of the last session of Congress were over $500,000,000, and the estimates for the next year are less thau $34,000,000. Over SI, - 000,000,000 have been pai l to the soldiers, and $270,000,000 were taken home by the 800,000 men lately mustered out. The number of men called for by the Govern ment was 2,750,000, and the number obtain* ed was only 102,4% short of tlii-. The number of negroes in the army in July last was 223,150; of these, 33,234 have been mustered out. After the disasters on th - Peninsula, in 1802, over 80,000 troops were enlisted, organized and sent South in less than a month, and 90,000 infantry were sent to the armies from Ohio, Indiana, lowa, Wisconsin and Illinois, in 20 days; there fore the country need not be apprehensive of the lack of means of defense in case of emergency. The Report to Congress of the Commis sioner of Internal Revenue shows that the receipts of tbat Department for 1863 were $41,003,192; 1804, $110,850,072; 1805,. $211,129,528. The cost of collecting the interna' revenue is 2] per cent The cost of collecting the customs is 3A per cent, which is less than the cost of collecting customs in Great Britain. Among the receipts for 1865 are: From bank dividends, $3,987,200; railroad dividends and interest on bonds, $3,258,4*4; insurance companies, $1,720,- 100; salaries of Government * eniployeos. $2,830,333; licenses, $12,595,691; incomes, $20,567,349, over $6,000,000 more than in 1804. The receipts from iron and steel, in the various forms, were $9,219,713 —$0.- 000,000 more than in 1S04; from petrole um. $3.(47,2.2 —an increase of s*oo,otto over 1804; cigars, $3,009,448; tobacco, $8.010,119; fermented liquors, $3,657,091; distilled spirits, $15,9%,033 —nearly sl*3,- Oi:(i,(foti!c ss than in 1804, notwithstanding that in 1805 the tax was $2 per gallon, and in 1804 anly 60 cents. The receipts for the current fiscal year will reach $272,000,000 about $60,000,000 more than last year. Al teration- in the mode of appointing assist ant assessors, and an increase in their com pensation, as well as that of the elerksin the Interna] Revenue Bureau, arc urged. Slavery l-'irst Abolished in the Keystone State. It is not generally known, we believe, that l'eunsylvauia was the first State in the Fed eral I nion, to abolish slavery within her territory, which was accomplished b\ un act °|_ the General Assembly passed March 1. 1780. It was the first act or edict ever pas sed or issued by any legislative bodv or an toerat, which abolished slavery. "The au thorship of this aet has been errouiouslv given to Dr. Franklin. This i- a mistake. At the time of its passage Dr. Franklin wass. in Europe. I lie author was Win Lewis, for many years the leviathan of the Bar. 'Mr. Binney. in his biography of Mr. Lewis has adverted to and corrected this error. ' he Society of Friends presented, as trib ute of their respect to Mr. Lewis a service of plate. 1 his service of plate is said to be in the possession of Sharp Delaney Lewis, of M ilkesbarre, Pa., a grandson of Win. Lewis. The merit of first abolishing slavery has been claimed by Massachusetts. They base their claims upon their State Constitution, which was adopted on the 2d day of May! 1780. and which declares that all men are born free andequal. Substantially the same language is to be found in the Declaration of independence of the 4th of July, 1776, but it has never been supposed that the Decla ration of Independence either was intended or actually did abolish slavery in the old thirteen Lnited .States. No one can read the opinion of Chief Justice Shaw, in the case of the Commodwealth vs Thomas Aves (18th Pickering's Report page 194.) with out being satisfied that these claims arc groundless. GREAT GOLD DISC OVERY. Ilii iieHt Deposits in the known World- Gold in almost solid masses -Trenton tUius excitement in Montana. Cslonel Inslee, of St. Joseph, now in Montana Territory, in a letter to his family, iitddses the following extract from the Vir - ii.L ('ity(Montana) Pout, of November-lib, relative to some newly discovered mines, which bid fair to surpass in richness any thing heretofore known in the world. Co -1 .m i Inslee writes that he lias seen some specimens of the quartz from these mines which seemed to be "nearly solid gold." Here is the extract from the P*t: "Upon the arrival of the Helena stage, hist ft [day morning, the people of Virginia City were thrown into a gold excitement, be fore which all former excitements mut pale. The til ts, as we get thein from apparently vvll authenticated sources, are briefly as follows : "Mr. Brown, a German or Norwegian, and one of the original discoverers of the celebrated Gould A Curry lode, of Nevada, and afterwards of Brown lode, in Nelson Gulch, in this Territory, was engaged in sinking a shaft on the "Uncle Sain' lode, about the head of Dry Gulch, some four miles from Helena. He had sunk near twenty feet, when, the indications not suit ing him. he concluded to change his course by drifting up bill from the bottom of his shaft. He had advanced in this direction about ten feet, when he reached a gold de posit which, in richness and extent; has per haps, no parallel in the history of gold mi ning. Gold, in almost solid masses, glitter ed before his vision. l-'oi- 1 weeks longer, unknown to others, he tun nelled into the golden wall. Secreted about him. he had accumulated several gunny sacks. literally filled with the precious metal when longer secrecy became impracticable, from the very extent of his unexpected wealth, and Mr. Brown proceeded to record and secure his property, when the public were informed of the great discovery. It is said that he now keeps a strong guard,night and day, over his seemingly incomputable wealth, while he himself, unassisted, delves into the goiden wails around him, and con tinues multiplying his sacks of precious ore. One person who was admitted into Mr. Brown s drift, states that it presented a scene of wealth more akin to a picture of the imagination than actuality. Gold ! gold ! cold! met the view on every side—above, below and all around -and reflected back its rich hues in the glare of the candle, us if this subterranean vault had been hewn out of a solid ledge of the yellow metal. "This gold is found in a well defined ledge fully the feet in width. The gold vein is three feet wide—three-fourths of the entire substance therein being pure gold; the re mainder mainly bismuth. On each side of this vein there is a casing of one foot of quartz, which will assay from S4OO to S2,(HX> to the ton. The very wall-rock is rich. Specimens can be -ecu at the City Book store. "Whether this is, to use familiar mining terms, a blow-out' or a 'pocket,' we are.not prt pared to admit or deny. But be it either, millions are 'lying around loose.' We can scarcely realize that this is a distinct,contin uous ledge,as, iu that case, so vast an amount of gold would affect the standard of gold ! valuation throughout the commercial world. But our informant, whom we know to be a man of reliability, as.-ures us that a distinct ledge has been traced fully seventy-five feet. A Noble (lift to Pennsylvania College. We learn that the Rev. Mr. John K. Giaeff, of Philadelphia, has presented to Pennsslvauia College a Telescope of the very highest order of excellence. This lu.-lru meut ha- for some time been packed up in Philadelphia, where it was taken after its removal from the Sharon Observatory. It having come to the knowledge of Prof. Mayer, that this noble instrument was thus lying idle and awaiting a purchaser he wrote to Mr. Graeff to aid him with his influence in getting up a subscription iu Philadelphia when to the joy of all interested in the wel fare of the College, Mr. Graeff unexpected ly presented it himself. The possessiorriof this instrument forms an important era in the history of the Institu tion in our midst and cannot fail to give the incentive to others to follow- the noble exam ple of the generous giver. This telescope was made by Merz & Son, Obticians, ofMunich, in Germany. It is an achromatic refractor of over 9 feet focal length, with an object glass of 6| inches ap erture. It is furnished with five magnifying powers varying from 85 to 460 times; with a complete set of sun glasses; a prismatic reflector; an annular micrometer; aud a ter restrial eye piece. The instrument has two divided circles for leading off angles, of 9A inches in diame ter, finely graduated on silver to minutes of arc and furnished with two vernier- an 1 mi eroseopes which read to 4 seconds each. The whole instrument, although very heavy, is so beautifully balanced on its cen tre of gravity that the slightest touch will move it readily; aud when it is adjusted on a celestial object, a clock, attached to the tel escope moves the tube of the instrument, so that it follows the apparent motion of the heavenly body and thus it is always in the fi. ld of view without requiring any further handling on the part of the observer. This telescope ha.-already done good work in astronomical -science and has been con sidered by the first astronomers in the coun try to be a perffc' instrument.— A lain* S< n tiwl. TI N TO ONE. —Lord Palraerston's fir&t acceptance of high office was related by him self t lie year before last apropos of a bet said to have been made and won by the late 31 r. Milne-, the father of Lord Houghton, a man of remarkable abilities and acquirements, although somewhat of an idler in his youth. He was lounging in a club when he over heard a college friend saying that something was as unlikely a- i: Bob Milnes Incoming Chancellor of the Exchequer." "And why should I not become Chancellor of the Ex chequer?'" "Simply because the odds area thousand to one against you. " Will you lay a thousand to one?" "Yes, in tens." "Done!" The bet was regularly booked —, ten thousand pounds to ten. > When Pcrciv al wrote to Mr. Milnes to offer him the < Chancellorship of the Exchequer, he inclosed the offer with a ten pound note to his friend. —Economist. THE Alia CaUfornin , of the 10th ult., reports some remarkable discoveries of na tive silver in Idaho. It says: "We hear that the Oregon Steam Navigation Compa ny have - "found a mine that produces blocks of native silver as large as candle-boxes, and they hammer it out like wagon tire. Seve ral other mines of extraordinary richness have been discovered in the same neighbor hood. if the story be true. It is a well known fact that blocks of native silver as large as candle boxes have been found in the silver mines of Mexico and Arizona, and it is settled beyond any doubt that the Owyhee region, in Southwestern Idaho, is rich in silver lodes." THE RESIGNATION OK MAJOR (3 EN. BUT LF.R.—Sent in some months ago was finally accepted to day. It is known that for some months past General Butler has at the re quest of the War Department, been thor oughly examining the laws of treason and cases of State trials, for over a century back; but the final deeisiou of the President has been not to allow a military commission for the trial of Davis for his participation in the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln, and various raids in Northern States during the war. On the appearance of General Grant's report Gcneial Butler again asked for the acceptance of his resignation which request basot last been granted. FROM EUROPE. HALIFAX. December S.~The steamer Asia from Liverpool at noon on tin 25th, and Queen st own on the 2ith, arrived here at ten o'clock A. m. ller dates are two day.- later than those already received. The Fenian's dispatch from Dublin an nounce that Stevens, the Head Centre of the Fenian Brotherhood in Ireland, escaped from prison at two o'clock ou the morning of the 24th tilt His escape, and the mystery at tending it. caused great excitement. In the Court of Queen's Bench at Dub lin,-t ho Lord Chief Justice delivered the | unanimous judgment of the Court, repres sing the writ of (rdorari applied for by the Fenians, on the ground that it was shown that a fair and impartial trial could not be had in Dublin. The Star says that Parliament will prob ably meet on the 28th of January to organ ize. and that the regular business of the ses sion w ill commence on the first of February with the delivery of the Queen's speech. I The question of parliamentary reform shows an increasing agitation. THE ALABAMA DIFFICULTY. Back Down of the English Ministry— The Queen our Friend. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. The State Department received by the last steamer from Europe an important dis patch from our Minister to England. There is strong reason to believe that England, un der the new ministry, will back down front her position on the Alabama question, and at once consent to a just and equitable ad justment, of the question in dispute. The temper of the last dispatch lrotn the Htate Department, and which emanated from the President himself, was calculated to open the eyes of the English Government. A gentleman writing from England to a gen tleman in this city, by the last mail, remarks that the Queen is our friend, and she will net allow Earl Russell to take any position which will cause an estrangement of the two Governments. Mr. Seward's first knowledge of the Death of Liueoiu. Mr. Seward had been kept in ignorance of the at tank on the President, his physi cian fearing that the shock would -be too great for him to bear, and all newspapers were rigidly exclude i from the room. On the Sunday following his assassination the Secretary had the bed wheeled around so that he could see the tops of the trees in the park opposite, just putting ou the spring foliage when his eyes caught the stars and stripes at half mast on the War Depaitment on which he gazed awhile, then turning to his attendant, said: "The President - is dead! The confused attendant stammer ed and changed color as lie tried to say nay, but the sagacious okl man -aid: "If he had been alive he would have been the first to call and know how I am, and there's the flag at half mast. The old statesman's in ductive reason had told the truth, and he lay in silence, the great team coursing down bis gashed cheeks, as the dreadful truth sank into his mind. A COLORED Distort! AT.— lt is stated that the Democratic candidate for the State Senate in New Bedford, Massachusetts, at the late election was a negro, "as black as night's sable curtain." The Republicans nominated a white mau, and in order to catch the votes of fcluek men, the Democra cy put up a negro. But the colored voters could not be deluded, and the Republican white man was elected. — Harrisbnrg Tthf grajih. CORN AS Ft EL. —We understand that many of the people of Warren and other towns in the east part of this county arc us ing corn for fuel. We had a conversation yesterday with an intelligent gentleman, who has been burning it, and who considers it much cheaper than wood, lie says that corn in the ear, gives considerably more heat than the same bulk of wood. Ears of corn can he bought for ten cents per bushel by measure, and seventy bushels worth seven dollars, will measure a cord. A cord of wood, including sawing, costs nine dollars and a half, which is two dollars and a hail more than the cost of a cord of corn, besides the fact that the corn produces more heat than the wood. If these statements are true (and wc have no reason to doubt them, there is no fuel more economical than eorn. The crop of corn this year is far beyond the demand, and if it i; c heaper than any other article for fuel, we can -ee no objection to using it as such. — Galena, (Iff.) Gazette. <TKN. HUMPHREYS, of Mississippi, finds it impossible to forget the rebel officer in the loyal Governor of a reconstructed State. In a recent message to the so-called Legisla ture, he speaks of "four years of cruel war conducted upon principles of Vandalism dis graceful to the civilization of the age,"— mceniug thereby not the rebel mode of war fare as illustrated at Andersonwille, but the operations of Sherman, Sheridan and Wilson, all conducted strictly within the modern laws of war. exclusively for the restoration of the national authority, which this same Hum phreys and his fellow traitors were endeav oring to destroy. He also denounces the Freedmen'sßureau asa' biaek incubus'and a "hideous curse, permitted of Heaven." Very naturally, he confesses a doubt as to "what will satisfy the governruent of our loyalty and ability to maintain order and !>eacc." We should say that it would take a great deal to satisfy anybody of the loyalty of such people.— Chicago Jtep. Or MEXICAN MINISTER. —General Lo gan arrived here last night and bad a long conversation to day with Secretary -Seward upon Mexican matters. General Logan said he desired to have a thorough knowledge of what policy the administration wanted car ried out, He expressed himself gratified at the appearance of matters, and will proba bly accept the position although he has not yet positively made up his mind upon the subject. Ft 1.1. returns ot' the New York City elec tion shows that Hi chard O'Gorman, Demo crat, is elected Corporation Counsel by sev enteen thousand majority, being on all but the Republican ticket. Eight Aldermen were elected, of whom one was Republican and seven Democrats, two of the latter be ing claimed as municipal reformers. Twen ty-four members of Common Counsel were elected, of whom thirteen are Republicans. FOREIGN NEWS. A French war steamer has arrived at M ata moras having forced the passes of the Rio Grande between that city and Bagdad. The Imperial Gen Zuolagg has been ban ished by Maximilian for holding communica tion with the war Minister of the Juarez Government. The Iturbide family have renounced their claims to the Mexican throne. They recei ved a snug little sum from Maximilian for so doing. Twenty six whaling vessels were in the port of Honolulu Sandwhich Islands, on the lltli ult. The year's receipts of whale oil footed up 18,000 barrels. Io Chili rhe Spanish Admiral bus so far yielded to the remonstrances of the foreign ministers against the unlawfulness of a block adc of more than 50 ports by seven stea mers as" to restrict it to six ports. Ihe Chilian Government is unshaken in its determination to resist to the last the in solent aggressions of Spain. The abolition of capital punishment is be ing strong :y advocated in the Republic of Honduras. aron V ioentd Cervio the new President of Guatemala, has received a congratulatory let! v In-ill she j ope and otic also from the Queen of Spain. The P: evident of tlte Heii.ito of the liepnb !ic of <*o.-fa Rica Don Joaquin Bernardo Oftixo died recently at Han Jose the r ajiita! The'iafeurrectioo in the Republic of Hon duras is at an end. The number of Fenians enrolled and now drilling in Canada is about 82,000, nearly half of wboui are armed. Clubs desiened to agitate in favor of annex ation to the united .States are being organized all over Lower Canada. 1 .ii-ut. t'ul. Merer, formerly of the Confed erate amy, has been made a General in th e Mexican I.iiieral army. The Mexican State of Sinaloa has been evacuated by the Imperialists and occupied la the Liberals. The ex-Emperor Soulouque of Hayti has been excelled from Jamaica by the British authorities. lie was supposed to hare had something to do with the recent negro revolt there. Twelve hundred troops of the Foreign Le gion recently arrived at .Matamoras to rein - force the imperialists there. The cholera has appeared in the West-In dia island ol Guadeloupe. The notorious George N. Sanders is in Liv erpool, England. A collision has iahen place between the • v | aniards and the Chilians. A boat from the Spanish fleet attempted to land at Valparaiso, but was driven back with the loss of several killed and wounded. DOMESTIC NEWS. The Supreme Court of the United States met on the oth inst. All the judges were present. After tailing at the White House and paying their respects to President John son the Court adjourned till the following day when it entered upon the business of the term. The California Legislature assembled at Sacramento on the 4th inst. A conductor out West recently demanded two tickets of the Siamese twins who were riding on the train but. the twins insisted they were one and as the conductor could not eject one without the other he had to let them pass. Semi official statements received by the Mexican Minister at Washington assert that five States have been abandoned by the Im perialists and that the Liberals arc every where gaining ground. Sol. Meredith of Indiana lately defeated by Geo. W. Julian in a race for a seat in Congress eowhided Mr. Julian in Richmond in that State a day or two ago. The weather was line in Washington on the 4th inst and large numbers of visitors tilled the galleries in the House to witness the organization. Gen. Howard of the Freedmen's Bureau hats forbidden the summary expulsion of fveedmen and refugees from the plantations restored to pardoned Southerners. The Louisiana Legislature ha- declared by acclamation that there is no opposition to the L. S. < iovernnieht in that State; that Slavery is abolished forever and that they cordially indorse the President's recon-true tion policy. A petition for the release of Geo. Da\b. late Rebel Attorney General, is being circu lated in-North Carolina. All classes sign the petition. Provisional Goveruer Hamilton of Texas lias authorized the organization of special police forces in the several counties to assist in the preservation of order. Gen. Humphreys is acting as Governor of Mississippi although unrecognized as such by President Johnson. In his recent men age to the Legislature he spoke of the late struggle as "four years of cruel war against the boutb conducted on principles of vandal ism disgraceful to civilization. '' The Virginia legislature met in Rieh mond on the 4th inst. Gov. Pierpont an nounces the State debt as $41,000,0 against $22,'*00,000. of available assets and. suggests taxes and a sale of the public inter est in railroads to meet the deficiency. He believes very little legislation in regard to the freedmen is required but thinks they Miould be allowed to testify in courts and be tried and puni-hed ju-t a* white men. The Provost Marshal Courts have been closed iu Texas. The Rebel Gen. Stirling Price, in exile in Mexico has forwarded an application to President Johnson for pardon. The Mississippi Legislature has passed, over the Governor's veto a bill exempting from execution of judgement $3,000 worth of property belonging to the head of a fami ly- V Cough, Cold, or Sore Throat, KKKCIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION AND SHOI I.N BE I-ARCKES. IF AM.OWED TO CONTINUE, Irritation of tile l.mia>. n Permanent Tliroat Affection, or an Incurable l.ii l>iHea*e IS OFTEN THE RKSTTLT. BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES having a direct influence to the parts, give im mediate relief. FOE BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, CATARRH, CONS I MPTIOX ,fc THROAT DISEASES, Troche? are used with always good success. SINGERS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS will find Trachea useful iu clearing the voice when taken before Singing or Speaking, and relieving the throat after an unusual exertion of the vocal organs. The Troches are recommended and pre scribed by Physicians, and have had testimonials from eminent uieu throughout the country, be ing an artiolc of true merit, and having ftrored their efficacy by a '.est of many years, each year find them in new localities in various parts of the world, and the Tro-hr* are universally pronoun ced hotter than other articles. Obtain •nly "BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHE*." and do u>t take any of the Worthier* Imitation' that may be offered. Sold everywhere in the United States, and in Foreign countries, at o5 cents per box. Nov. 10, IKGS. RJ^WENTY TOWN LOTS, FOR HADE IN TJlii BO KOI Call OF BE,>FOKI>. The subscribers offer at private - TWENTY TOWN LOTS fronting on JOHN and PENS sUec.,. "n the Bor ough of Bedford. Persons desirii g purchase will find the TERMS .LIBERAL. T. II A; N. J. I.YONS. Nov. 10, 15*y5.-3m }jIUR.g. H RS. Ft:its. WHOLESALE \t> tiKTAII.. (HAtl.lN OAKI'ORD A SONS. CON TIN EN TA L IIOTEI „ pnii.AiiKi.rnrA. Hare now open their large and splendid stuck of LADIES' FUR CAPES, COLLARS, MUFFS, CUFF'S, GI.OVKS. AND HOODS. Also the finest assortment of FANCY I'TR ROBES, CAPS, MUFFLE US. and GLOVES ever before offered by them, all of which are warranted to he as represented. Shipping furs bought. Oct. 2d, '6s.linß. Q YES: O YES: WILLIAM DIBEKT, Auctioneer. The suhsuril*er having taken out licensean Auctioneer tenders his services to all his old fricuds. Persona desiring un auctioneer will find it ad van I age j tit !• ghe him their patronage. Post Office addicts, BED FOR D. P.nn'a. Nov. ?.. : #m. WM. DIBERT.
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