BEDFORD, P-U FRIDAY, OPT. -"""yssf""* 1 " r,,E This question is n w agicanng S^s'ttlii'<?^tffi§ r yirectry'to t\;c people iir on this question and the people have lespoud cd with a most hearty "amen." while others were not so decided and did not commit themselves upon this grave matter, yet the Copperheads charged even these with being committed to this object and by this nicaiii brought the question of impeachment di rectly before the masses. The present Con gress at its h|tr session took high ground against the Presidential usurpation* and direlk-tions, but it needed the swiction of the people to go beyond the already advanced position which it had taken, and the late elections ih the tinee great .States ol Penn sylvania, Ohio and Indiana have endorsed it by re electing the same members, or oth ers in their stead, by increased majorities in the face of such opposition as the country has never before witnessed. And when the elections ot the fith of November will have doubly endorsed the position of the lie publicans, the impeachment of An drew Johnson will become a maudate, and Congre>i w : " not dare to hesitate. There stre certain great Constitutional questions which have grown out of the po sition and usurpations of Andrew Johnson that should he for ever settled. If there were even no prospect of a successful im peachment, be should be impeached at onco, and let the question be forever settled whether thv President can usurp the Legis lative functions of the Government and re fuse to execute the laws passed by Congress. If the Constitution of the I nited States sanctions any such despotism, if the Presi dent of the United States can set at defiance the co ordinate branches of the Government under the broad sanction of the Constitution the sooner the people know it the better. Let us settle the vev.d questions arising un der a misconstruction of the Constitution. The time has come for the adoption of the broadest principles of liberty, and if the Constitution sanctions such encroachments, such absolutism, it were time that the peo ple knew it and looked well to their liberties. In times of war emergencies may arise when an executive officer may be compelled, by arbitrary necessity, for the preservation of the life of a nation, to exceed the exact lim its or provisions of the law, but in times of peace, when the nation is at rest and all the functions and branches of Government in working condition, for there to be such a radical difference of opinion between the President and Congress in respect to then respective duties and functions, after clear sailing under the present Constitution for nearly eighty years, is most strange and the question should be settled. The people have been led to believe that the President was a mere Executive officer, and as such com manded the array and navy, but they have never believed that he constituted also the Legislative branch of Government. And if the Constitution permits such assump tions of power the sooner some Court of competent jurisdiction tells us so the better. We want this country to be as free as the political and social relations of men will per mit, without any distinctive features for race or color. America is the high ground upon which all races, all nations, all colors are bound to fratenrize. Already the Amer ican, the Caucasian, the African and the Mongolian are here, in a few years the last of the five great races, the Malayian, may be here, and if he comes here, and complies with our laws, we want American civiliza tion to make an American out of him, and when it does, we want him to have equal rights before the law. The Constitution of the United States, art. 1, section 2, clause 5, says the House o* Representatives "shall have the sole power of impeachment," and section 3, clause 6, of the same article says: "The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose they shall be on oath or affir mation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall pre side ; and no person shall be convicted with out the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present." Here, then, is one of the highest and best tribunals in the world, composed of the profoundest lawyers and ablest statesmen ; let this Court decide up on the mooted questions that have arisen and they will be forever set at rest, and if there are any remedial amendments to the Constitution required, let us have them, bo cause the liberal construction imposed upon this instrument for eighty years, if wrong, must now be placed beyond misconstruction and the liberties of the people guaranteed. ON THE INSIDE LINE. Many people express great surprise at the Presidential attitude while to us there does not appear to be any thing so remark ably surprising in it. Andrew Johnson was reared in a slave State, with all the enormi ties of slavery about him. lie was a poor white and as such regarded the negro from a standpoint which only a Southern poor white can regard hiui. And as he began to advance and prosper he became the owner of slaves, and learned only to treat the ne gro as a slave. He advocated the pcrpetu ation of slavery and demanded new guarau tics. When Breckenridge and Douglas were rival candidates for the Presidency, he espoused the cause of Breckenridge, who was the embodiment of all that slavery de sired, while on the other hand Douglas was a northern man and was suspected of having sotue sympathy for free labor. When the Presidential canvas terminated in the elec tion of Abraham Lincoln, Andy Johnson stood ready to demand as many and infa rnous guaranties for slavery as Jefferson Davis. There was no difference of opinion between Andrew Johnson and the ' Arch traitor" on that score. They entertained the same views,but only differed in regard to ! the manner of proceeding to carry them into effect. Jeff. Davis and his immediate j followers contended that the proper course j of procedure was to withdraw from the [ Union aii'i establish an eracy, whUc on the other hand, Andrew Johnson contended that all the tbev desired for the perpetuation of human slavery could be secured in the I nion. the two elements, thi Fire eaters and Loo ser vat ives of the Southern State*, took .**£ Jefferson Ihw as the representative ot Fire-eater- determined to form a <*P era " and distinct Government, Andrew • o. the head of the few tVo,:rvaUves, muh Thiseour.se drove him into the Lmon hnea, not because he had any love for the cause, not that he desired the overthrow of slavery, but simply because he disagreed with those who were at the head of the rebellion. The rebellion has been crushed, Jefferson Davis' plan of procedure has proven a fail ure, and slavery was lost in the struggle. An drew John SOD, true to his first lore, is endeavoring to re-establish it. Jefferson Davis fiiled on the outside line. Andrew Johnson is trying to bind up the shattered institution on the inside line. Jefferson !>avl.-' advice was followed and has proven a faiiu r, Andrew Johnson is trying to sat isfe the slaveholders if they had followed him they would have succeeded. When the Con crass of the United States, which pasted an 1 gave to the States the amend ment to the Constitution forever abolishing slavery, is denounced by Andrew Johnso a as "a body hanging on the very verge of the Constitution," it simply means to invalidate that great oarrier and hand ths negro back into servitude. It ic all very ttac that An l.v John-ou has said many things in regard to what he felt disposed to do for the poor down trodden African, but what have ever the promises of a slaveholder amounted to Look back over the Legislative history of thi i country for fifty years atid it will require no argument. Slavery robs, apparently, the mind of all its nobler attributes and more debased by it, stands before the world in all his naked ugliness. We earnestly believe that the "policy' of the President means the re enslavement of the negro',- and that he only intends to accomplish on the inside line that which Jefferson Davis failed to accomplish on the out side line. We cannot be lulled to sleep with the cry that slavery is abolished and that there is no use of talking about it, we see too much talk in the Southern papers of Emancipation only being an experiment. We tried the experiment of slavery for eighty years and the bayonet pronounced it a failure; we mean that emancipation shail be a success. and that no pro-slavery crea ture, made President by accident, shall crush our best hopes. Andrew Johunon, true to his impressions early formed, is now carrying out a pro-slavery policy, and it will take all the vigilance of the friends of liber ty and law to see that the negro is not again bound hand and foot, and the fair institu tions of this country cursed forever. THE GREATNESS OF OUR TRIUMPH Can any mortal mind estimate, at this early day, the potent and material conse quence? of the overwhelming defeat which the Copperheads sustained on the 9th in stant ? He that undertakes to solve this , mighty problem mast have a mathematical mind greater than Safford, or more logical and penetrating than Webster. Let it be remembered that all the depraved and vi cious of the land from the traitor, who hauled down the National flag, to the mis erable dupe ot party who organized resist ance to the national authorities, in the vain hope of benefitting the rebels, or waited to be drafted and then skulked away in dark and dismal eaves, the fit haunts of slimy serpents and dreary bats, or fled to Canada, opposed us; that every officer from the Cab inet to the most paltry Postmaster was frowned into the support of the nauseating dose known as "My Policy," and not only this, but five per centum of his entire offi cial salary wa3 levied for the purpose of prostrating the glorious privilege of suffrage i „ cl. .1> • f "P n nVinii V /I VTI *J JT. nate who reigns in Washington, and to all this bareness and debauchery is to be added the prestige of a debased and venal •dm nistratiou, which stretched forth its insinuating and lecherous hand, and made no secret of its purpose to debauch the peo ple and wheedle thcra into the support of measures, which would prove the suppression of the rebellion onLy a ruse to elevate the ideas of the men who for four years waged fratricidal war in behalf of slavery. And in still further addition to this the prejudice which the laboring classes have infused and fostered against that race of men on this continent, that created an antagonistic sys tem of labor, was constantly, wildly and almost frantically appealed to. Everything that could irritate and fan this prejudiceinto a blaze was resorted to. Hence the cry of Negro suffrage and Negro equality. From one end of the State to the other the burden of their spcechos aud the spirit of their papers were only directed against some one or other, or all of the rights of the Negro, and yet with all these tremendous, yea hurculean efforts anil influences, in which the Constitutional Amendment was lost sight of, the Republican party came out gloriourly triumphant. Can any one calculate the magnitude of the triumph, and foretell the effect it will hare upon the great and pregnaut future, we are compelled to ask again ? If the Republican party can thus triumph in opposition to all the influence and debauchery of a corrupt administration and the dead weight of eighty years of slavery, as it has done at the late elections, there is no one can tell what is in store for this party which has crushed a rebellion greater than any known to modern history and liberated four millions of Slaves. With such a record as this we have every confidence in the people, and through Him Who rules the destinies of nations, we have every confidence in the party. State of Southampton,'' is pretty well taken off by "Pilgrim in anoth er column. The late session of Court ap pointed a School Board for this benighted region. Give schools a few years head-way and Copperbeadism will be "among the ; things that were." Ignorance andC-opper- I huadism go hand in hand. Our - eighbor is both "proud" of | and grateful of his "run." We presume j 1 allandighaiii felt about the same way when [be was beaten 100,(XX) a year or two since. THE iJAMPAICfI. \\Y i-innot allow the moments of victory to pass without apeakin* ot tho severai ex ecutive committees of the Union Republican party of Pennsylvania. Their task was onerous and exacting. Ot the League everybody speaks in language of • praise Its mission is not for a canvass aU>e, but for the country in its hours of tiuJ First in every patriotic and henevo lent movement, it live* and labors beyond .......- • gIU IT ll uf lUt * few yeu.'s. its roots have struck deep into our whoie social fabric, and its branches have spread all over the land. In the past and in the ft-riner campaigns, it has-done its 'work with a vigor the more effective be cn-uso wholly unselfish. It was, however, o* the Union Republican State Central Com mb tfewe intended to write. Its best eulogy is, Jferlia-ps, the result of its efforts; but these could only have been produced by an uncommon- brain. Colonel Prank Jordan, tbe chairman, has fulfilled ail friendly ex pectations. Quick, quiet, sleepless, and bold, he has 1-eeri as true a sentinel 11s ever watched a pet* or baulked a l'oe. Under his lead the S.'astfr W3* literally ploughed by the intellectual foHew from the Delaware to the Ohio. The Sert was presented ably by himself, and powtrf ally debated by thetu, and with surprising a©rl triumphant effect upon the people; It 5e true, he was tre mendously assisted by the justice of the cause and the spirit of" the masses; but an ordinary mind would not have so Skiltullv trained and directed these great agerneies, and without such talent all might havu boen lost. Col. Jordan closed his rooms yesterday and we say these things because lie has de served them, at the end of as suecetsiul anu severe a political fight as ever was jinown. His secretaries, Messrs. Haurancrsly, Dung lison, and Benedict, were congenial and efli cient co.workers, and combined, different yet essential qualities—the one a capital writer, being an old editor, the other an observant correspondent, and the other a forcible spea ker. In the name of'the I nion pa.rty of the State, we return thanks to (Jolouei -Jordan and his assistants. — Pliilcidclphi Pse&*. Official Vote for Senator. The following is the official vote tor Bena tor in this Senatorial district : StulzmajL. Jdryrrs. Bedford JB6* Fulton <&•> Somerset 309t> 17"* 6408 5064 o'j'Us Majority for Stutsman "Pi The above figures are certainly very flattering to Mr. Stutsman. Mr. Meyers is very much gratified with them, simply be cause they arc no worse. Ihe gratification is mutual. Mr. Meyers' gratification belongs to a kind upon which the generality ot men starve. The Sixteenth Congressional District. [OFFICIAL.] The following is the official vote for Con gress in this District. The seat ol General Koontx i the next Congress, it i now con fidently asserted, will not be contested : A'oontz. ilhurpc. Adatns Bedford -£<> 2850 Franklin Fulton '[J® Y-',' Somerset 3079 i<fo 13589 1*2904 12904 Koontz's majority ®25 BW- In tho*year 1860 the county of Bed ford contained a free white population of 26,242 and the county of Somerset a free white population of 26,731, a difference in favor of Somerset of 489. At the late elec tion Bedford county cast 5,426 votes for Governor, while Somerset cast only 4,821, or 605 less votes than were cast in this coun ty. In this county every vote that could be reached was out, while Somerset has a rc eorved vote of at least 7tiO W ill the frO zette note this when next it calculates that Copperheadism will "soon be able to over come the Radical majority in Somerset?" SB# 1 * The best joke of the season that we have heard is that the Gazette made form idable preparations (or perhaps it would be better to say no preparations) to insert the "Big Rooster" in their next issue after the election. Imagine their chagrin when the majorities were all the other way and the rooster couldn't cotne in. They found them selves without matter ami the next best thing was to issue no paper. "On the whole the Radicals hava been terribly routed. — Gazette. Kind reader, this is probably news to you, but the Gazette was speaking of Bedford county ! It hadn't heard of the hurricane which had swept frotii Maine to the Pacific slope. Bedford county is its world, it knows nothing ebe. iSrThc officers who have assumed com mand of the Bread and Butter Brigade in this neighborhood look as if the bread were sour and the butter stale. Somebody hasn't even got the crumbs yet. Come, Andy, sock up or sotuebody'B bread will be dough. B(!suThere will be a collision between the different pnrties at the approaching election in Maryland it is feared. The efforts of the Governor, with the countenance of Andrew Johnson, to pass the State over into the hands of the returned rebels will be resisted by the Union men to the utmost. tflft. The Cops stood up to Col. Filler pretty well at the late election, if the Gazette is to bo believed. The soldiers that were to elect the Colonel must, have' gone back on him." How is it, John ? Copperheads gained 10S votes on Hartranft's election in this county when they did not get their vote out, but-lo*t 178 on the vote given for McClellellan in 1M64. They arc getting no better fast Bs®i The Gazette thinks well of South ampton ! Likewise of the Five Points when the election returns are received. tSraT" A gentleman named Sharpe lately run for Congress in this district! SfrtyTho Federal Assessor in East Provi dence don't work for bread-and-butter GOVJNROR S ELECTION. Gearf's Majoxity 17.135. We have last the tullq fficuil vote from every couutyjn the State, except the coun ty of Pike, loin which we have only the official majoity. The majoity for Geo. Geary is officially 17,135. \ ass t! ~ s 2 'sl' S • g i;? s i % Cot XTIKf. , J * p / | : 9 |i Adams.' ™! 2,6-9 "£',6l?. 2,M0 3 J 2 AUeirhan-*. > 177,CS 10,053 20.511 12,795 Arm'troffi -j 3,14fi 2,977 3.758 3.078 Ilcaver I 5,037 2,056 j 3,310! 2,385 Bedford • 2,430 2,704 2,591 2,835 Berks.. 6,005 12,027 7,121 13,283 Blair 3,233 2,386 3,520j 2,703 SradlVKl 0,722 2.9.. I 7,134; 3,09 r Bucki 0,266 6,836; 6.805 T.o.tt Butler 3,7128- 3,054] 3,54 1! 3,"61 Cam bin 2,161 3,01,0 9,045 3,29 > Csmwon 3 lis 216 ~14 303 Carboi 1,542 2,11'J 1.906 2,339 Ccntie 2,711 3,058 3,09. 3,565 (Ttirim ' 1,618 2, ~'JSj 1,7,6, 2.51., Chester ' 7,988 5,493; 8,500 6,221 Clearfield 1,531 2,4831! 1,650 2,786 Clin'.-n 1,607 1,911 1,'54j 2,337 Columbia I 1,301 3,312 1,965' 3,583 Crawford i 6,141 1,230 6,711 4.909 Cuniberlaud I 3,134 4.07.' 4,0.0 4,5, 6 Duunhin 5,005; 3,87.> ~09 i 4,-,-' l Delaware I 3.462. 1,7-9 3,647] 2,262 Eit i 336 722 370 916 Erie................. 0.259 3,260 ~23, 4,9>1 Fay0tte]..."..."...1 3,991; 3,791 3,669 j 4,359 Forest ! 91, 58 I'*" 70 Franklin j 3,870; 10 4,299! 4,108 Fulton | 761: 1,022 1,655 Urecnc 1 1,484 2 950 1,099, 3,220 llrnC-o-' - a.oao oir.r; v.9s Indiana 3,961] 1,955 4,4 .8' 2.1' Jefferson 1,754 1,698 2,015 1,91:! Juniata , 1,458 1,737 1,516 1,811 Lancaster 13,341 7,65;' 11,592 8,59' Lawrence.... j 3,063 1,251 3,5..'' I,til Lebanon i 3,658 2,653 4,191 2.096 Lehigh 3,695 5,526 4,159 3,731 Lu/.erne 7,022; 9,803 8,733 12,387 Lycoming 3,414 3,865 3,871 4,448 McKean 727 622 877 714 Mcrcor 3,907 j 3,408 4,4 f6 3,757 Mifllin t.709 1.620 1.72.) 1,835 Monro- 6-4 2.712 705 2,699 I Montgomery 6,25 7,489 • 7,286 8,512 ] Montour 1,122 1.447 1.131 1,52 4 Northampton.... 3,405 6,538 3,8.9 6,-70 '■ Northumberland 2,019 .1,356 3,281 5,829 Perry 2.328' 2,296 2,581 2. '95 Philadelphia 44.27-' 57,19 • 51,205 48,817 Pike ' 2. • 1,1.-st 724 Potter 1 47g 619 1. .16 020 i Schuylkill 6,508 4,517 8.795 10,514 •Snyder 1.7 58 1,331 1.512 1,326 Somerset .'...fit 1,738 3,062 1,759 Sullirun 354 713 -136) 761 Susquehanna 4,134 2,952 4,42'J 2,931 Tioga ] 4,501. 1,617 4,791 1,628 Union 2,024 1,250 : 1,991 1,278 Venango 3,295; 2.979 4.409 3,192 Wtrron 2.274; 1,5-6! 2.-W7 1,572 Washington ] 4,627 j 4,371 4.4,7 1,712 Wayne 2.211, 3,152 2,557 2,883 Westmoreland...! 4.494 i .>,581 6,i>4o' 0,113 Wyoming j 1,379 2,41s 1.10- 1,499 York \ 5,5121 8,069 5,890 8,780 Totals. 269,406 254,171 '306,955-289,096 j 254.171 j 289,096. Curtiirs maj. . 15,325! ,i 17,13-> CiriL WAR i iiUUATKNKU IIV Till MAItVL.WD TUAITOHS. Thomas Swan, the Governor ol Mary land, neither intimidated instructed by the failure of Andrew Johnson s attempt to provoke a civil war iu the North, is believ ed to be preparing to precipitate a violent revolution in that State. The Police Com missioners of the City oi' Baltimore appoint ed by the Legislature, having seivcd faith fully aud loyally during all the Rebellion, have fallen under the displeasure ot the traitor sympathizers, because they reluso to appoint judges of election who win taketuo votes of the rebels registered in defiance of the. Constitution and laws of the State. Ho is therefore appealed to to remove these Commissioners aud appoint others in tin ir stead, who have already been designated as the fit agents of Treason. Having desert ed the people who elected him, he is doubt less ready to punish and proscribe them by elevating and strengthening the Rebels. Should he decide upon this outrage, the Police Commissioners, backed by Mayor Chapman and the Radical loyalists of the State, will refuse to surrender their trust.-. At this juncture tin rebel# claim to have the promise of Audit Johnson- to employ force to put doicn the Uuion men, and to owe the State to the traitors. We do not believe that either Swann or Johnson w ill have the hardihood to perfect this crowning outrage, though the indications that point to it are uumcrous. But should litis belief !>e dis appointed by the result, there will be but one remedy left, and that is for the Mary land. patriots to appeal to the people of the North to keep op-- *>•>. fctcwuy tot tie < :ip ital of the Republic. They responded to a similar call in 1861, and will not be back - ward in 1866. The feoliug in Baltimore yester day was intense. The Radicals were fimiqui etand wholly resolved. They have pose-Mon of the field aud intend to keep it at all haz ards. They will never yield it to the Reb els and traitors. The plots of these latter are hardly concealed and their exultation proves that the revolutionary policy in the celebrated Led ye r dispatch is carefully cher ished, and only requires a Jilting opportuni ty to be announced and perfected. That policy is daily advocated by the organ of Thomas Swaun, Th- Baltimore Gazette , as it is by such Copperhead papers as the Chi cugo Times, though the dispatch sent to The Ledger has been denied, the revolution ary policy it recommcuds has never been repudiated by the man who denounces the Congress of the United States as illegal and unconstitutional. The Maryland patriots are right, therefore, unou calling upon the loyal millions of the North to prepare to come to their rescue when the attempt is made to give them a specimen of its op pressions and its cruelties. They are fully competent to take care of themselves again-t ail the Rebels and traitors around them ; but if it is resolved to employ force to help these Rebels and traitors into con trol, but one remedy is left, and that is an invocation of the people of the country. Chronicle, Oct. 18, 1866. MEXICO OUR WARD. I'rmwsed Terms of Treaty With Mexico.— United. Stnta Amtumes the l'rottctor oli of the ll<public ami (iuaraittee.e the French Clainm. NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—A special Wash ington dispatch to the Boston Journal, of yesterday morning, .-Hates that treaties with the Imperial Government of Mexico have been agreed upon, and are now under pro cess of exchange. The French Troops and Maximilian withdraw this year from Mexico. The United States assumes the protectorate of the Republic, guaranteeing the French claims. In consideration Mexico cedes to the I 'nited State* the peninsula of Lower California and other territory south of our present southwestern boundary. A Her ald's Washington special says : Senor Ro mero has advices which lead him to doubt the report of the defeat of Eseobedo by the Imperialists. MISSOURI. —The rush of emigration to this State continues. Savs a letter: What Missouri may become at'tcr a few years of prosperity is hard to determine, but of one thing we know that she is receiving this fall an emigration never before equaled, either in numbers or character and influence. They arc loyal and patriotic, and will he cu titled to a vote at the next Presidential elec tion. A lilack Man's Opinion of Black Mini's | Capacity for Sell-Goverument. 11. W. Johnson, Jr., aoolorcd man of Canandiagua, N. Y. who was educated as a lawyer and after his admission to the bar emigrated to Liberia, is wiiting home a se ries of letters for publication, from the sec ond of which we make the following extract: "The Government of. Liberia is founded very much on the plan of the Government of the United States of America. Its Con stitution is very much like the United States and other American Constitutions. Its laws are similar to the English common law and the general system of laws iu the the United States, so far as they are suita ble to the condition of the people, and adapted to their circumstances. There are two very important exceptions : First, the people vote directly for President and Vice President. Secondly, the tcrritoy is divi ded into counties instead of States. The jurisdiction of the Government extends be tween six and seven hundred miles along the coast, and to undefined limits in the interior. The population consists of about 30,000 civilized people, and 3 90,000 natives, who acknowledge tho. jurisdiction of the Government, and many of whom daily seek to have their wrongs redressed in its courts of justice. Many of these are friends in peace, and allies in war. The government is divided into three de partments : Executive, L. gislativeand Judi cial. The Executive department consists of a Pie i lent, Vice President and Cabinet. The Legislative of a Senate and House of Representatives. It is called "The Legisla ture." The Judicial department consists of a Supremo Court which is composed of a Chief Justice and two Judges of the .if* Quarterly Session- ami Common Pleas, who sit with the Chief Justice al ternately. This Court i held once a year. It meets in January. It has original juris diction in only a few cases, and appellate jurisdiction in all eases brought up on ap peal from the next highest court below. A court of monthly sessions, composed of one Chairman and two Justices of tlr - Peace of the county, who sit alternately. This CGurt sits every month and is very much like the country courts in youi Ftute. There are, also, justices and police courts, similar to those iu New York. Tit judges hold office durum good behavior. They are not elect ed, but appointed by the Executive. 1 for got to say that the President, Vice President and members of the House are elected every two years, and the Senators every (ouryeat As the great problem—whether the black in mi has capacity for self-government -i now being solved on the soil of Africa, I suppose you and your readers are anxious to know how and with what ability these differ ent departments of government arc filled by colored men. 1 will proceed to state "tho truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," founded upon facts witnessed and seen with my own eyes. This I will do with candor, and without fear or favor : In the first place, they aet like white men, and till their various offices with a- much ability as white men do, when placed in -iui iiar circumstances —when founding a new government in t ho inid.-t of an uul rokcn wilderut ss, sun an 1 Iwi n 1 and bos nietri >, and .vith limited l ans at tin ir disposal to administer tho affairs of gov eminent. ' Tiie i> resident.'?> Excursion from an English Point of View. The London Star he- a long article on what it styles •'President Johnson's Impeii al Progress." After noticing his reception at Cleveland, Toled >. Oberlin and Detroit, ' ' f sa y s: It is something quite new to find the President of a great Republic -tumping its towns and Villages for no oth r purpose than to denounce, vituperate and threaten tlia Congress wbii-.il tho nation elect to ex- Wfes its views and to make its laws. In old Europe we had almost fhrrotfen that suoh things were sometimes done here by despots who professed to be nothing but despots. To find an English Charles or a French Louis vilifying and threatening a Parliament, surprises no reader of history ; but in the England and France of our day we simply regard such an exhibition as im possible. Assuredly no European autocrat at any time ever rated ii onvenient and unmanageable representatives of a popular cause with the coarse an 1 bate,- vol. monee which is now Andy Johnson's . o!y elo quence. Anything so coarse, so "rowdy, . o thor oughly bad spirited and -avage. Inn proba bly never before been delivered by any man holding high office in the presence of a civ ilized assembly. We give Johnson credit for sincerity in other respects as well as his confession that he cares nothing for dignity. When he announced that lie was prepared, if only encouraged, to lucct the Congress sjngle handed and alone, we fully believe 11, meant what he said. Iu that, rough aud rowdy frame is. we are quite ready to believe the soul of a genuine despot. There D probably no extreme of violence, no manner of coup d'etat, from which Andrew Johnson would shrink if only he one ; felt convinced that he had a sufficient support. It is earnestly to be hoped, and now, per hap-, to be expected with some coulidcnee, that the approaching elections will teach hiin a timely lesson, and show him that ha has overrated his strength. 1" truth tire people of the United States have now to cope with a second attack upon their liber ties, scarcely less menacing, and certainly less audacious, than that which began under Jefferson Davis. We have no fear- for the result. The self-styled Moses of the negroes race has turned traitor to them and to the Constitu tion under which he lives, but the free and loyal American people will do justice to the negro and remain faithful to their country. AN INFAMOUS I'UUCttEOINO. An Attempt to Suborn the Officers of National flanks to Help Carry the New York Election. NEW YORK, Oct. 19. —The Post has the following which it styles "An infamous pro ceeding;" "It is said that certain persons have arrived in the city from Washington on an errand which will not commend itself to the good opinion. of honest men. The statement which we have received is to the effect that they are visiting the different banks which have deposits of funds belong ing to the Treasury, and saying to the offi cers. 'You have the advantage of keeping the public nieney, and we ask you on your part to help in raising a fund to be n.-ed in carryingtho approaching election for the Democratic candidates." No threat is held out, but tho hanks understand a re quest put in that shape fo mean that if they refuse to give money to be employed for party purposes, they will Ipse the keeping of the public funds. Wilmington, N. C. Election WILMINGTON, N. C., October 18. —Tho election here to-day resulted almost unani mously for Governor Worth, conservative, lie received two hundred and eighteen votes against two for Dockery. For the legisla ture, Ilall was elected to tho Senate, and Cowan and McGannoy to the House, both conservatives, by within a few votes of unanimous. The total nnmber of votes poll ed was two hundred and twenty-three. The election passed off quietly. Hon Charles D. Drake of St. Louis, in a published letter, makes a careful estimate of the vote at the coming election in Missouri and sets the Republican majority at not t than 40,000. PROM NASHVILLE. The Rumored Revolt Among Freed/men.— Circular from Secretary Seward. -At tempt to talce Rreedmcu to Reru. NASHVILLE, Oct. 16.—The rumor of au outbreak amougst tbe negroes, which pre vailed hero yesterday, is unfounded. It arose from the fact that a number were ar rested last week its vagrants, aud were prom ised liberty it they would eoutraet with Cheat! am & Reach, to work on the plauta tions in Mississippi. Their summary leav ing caused report that they were soid into slavery, producing excitement which it was leared would create a hot. No lears of vi olence are now entertained. The United ritales Attorney yesterday received the following : DEPARTMENT OP STATE, VVASUINUXON, Oct. 11, laOG. —To the Attorney ol the L ul led States lor tne Middle District of Ten nessee:—Sir:—This Departuiou has receiv ed information that measures are in progress lor me purpose 01 inducing frecdineu to move to foreign countries, especially to I'cru, by promises of high wages and oth er inducements. if there is reason to believe that these promises will not be performed, aud that the condition of the frcedmeu wouid not, in most iustauees be, impaired by the chaugc, uis deemed to be the duty ol the Govern ment to prevent them by ail legal and moral means, from being thus imposed upon. This circular is addressed to you for that purpose with the assent of the Attorney-General, iou will do anything which you properly can towards causing it to bo carried into uticct. Vour obedient servant, W. 11. SEWAKO, I'KUSbtlJTlOfi OT tifilOS .>1 EiN IN itXAS. Ati:. Louis dispatch, Oct. 11. says: Pri vate jotters Irani Union men in Texas, re ceived lu this city, reiterate previous ac counts ot the treatment of loyalists in that State. The following is from a gentleman living m JSavaro county, Texas, and is but a sample of the mauy other letters from that section: "1 cannot remain here in safety, lor 1 urn in the midst of enemies. My anticipations, based oil the Union victory, were of a glo rious tr.umph for our cause, but 1 liud mv- Bt'lf to u. . tor the irou heel ol my rebel enemy iviuui the government is trying to pet. The moots have crushed the Union men oi this State into dust, 1 fear, forever. Tell my friends that, instead of my return ing to Texas in triumph, 1 returned to be plac _'d at i ne under mercies of my rebei en emies. "A L n ■■ man lieiu has a narrow chance for Isle, sua less tor his liberty or property The lesult of this is tnat some Union men have actually turned rebel, seeing that they have no chance as Union men, and that treason is virtually rewarded and loyalty practically punished by those who should have been our friends. 1 will say to you, ami you wis! sue it come to pass in less than two years, t.-r three at most, that the rebels will control the I uitcd States as they do this Stale to-day, or there will he a worse war : au there has been. This is ripe lor tne couihet. Uue or the other of these results is sure to take place in the order of things. "luu i . iy tniuk this taik strange, but 1 teil you itic south is bound to rule or ruin this government. You will say the same thing within three years. No man, knowing the people as well as I do, will doubt what 1 say. The signs are that anarchy will come again hen and that all Union men who do not get ...iy in time will he murdered. 1 ROM HAVANA. i'rt 116 ' /.■■ .t< '</('- uii the iJuluiuiwi —llolj (ij A'i - ■ —Damage U> Ship HAVANA, October I'.—On Wednesday last, the Queen's birthday, the Captain Genual held a court, and the next day a grand review of ten thousand men took place. A teii i hurricane commenced in the Luhuma- on the 30th ult. and la.-ied two days. Almo. t hall of the town of Nassau was destroyed by the storm. Houses were blown down, roofs carried away, and trees uprooted. Trinity Church was demolished: theGov- .i, ,t Hou.e lost part of its roof, and th ■ i :< .' the Marine Hospital was en tire!;. b.own off. Vessels were driven asiiore ana eked to pieces, and wharves demolish •= . The neighboring Lslands suff ered in the same degree, and a large number of vessels have beeu lost or damaged. This Luiricunce is the severest which lias been expoiieuo- i since 1813. On board of the French steamer Etupera trice Eugenie, which arrived last Monday from St. EnaZaire, CM runts for \ era Cruz were General Casteinan anu staff, aid-do camp.ol N uuioun. !h 1 —- fey him to replace Marshal Hazaiue in Mexico. We have news from the Mexican capita! to the Ist, and Vera Cruz to the 6th, by the Paris, which arrived on the 11th. The Era asserts that the postponement of the departure ot the French troops from Mexico sb w that the French Government has not ye abandoned the Empire. A dep ututhui ••! t; commerce of Matamoras had arrived at the capital, begging the Govern ment to take possession of this city; that a large number of troops was not necessary, as the while population would arise in favor of the Empire. The E<tajfettc reports the capture <0 A am by twelve hundred rebels. , tit).Vl MISSISSIPPI. Extra Session of the Legislature—The ttovernoi's Message. NEW ORLEANS, Get. 16. —The Mississip pi Legislature met yesterday, in extra ses sion. Th • Governor in his message said, that the necessities of tho State constrain ed him to call them together—not a special emergency, but a general exigency, result ing from the altered and deranged condition of our Federal relations and domestic affair-. lie states the removal of the negro troops from the State and the transfer of the Fw ' Jmen's Bureau to to the officers of the regular army, are subjects of congratu lation. lie d< : 'ores the state of the country, and incloses :ii ; 0 institutional Amendments, but pif sum a mere reading of it. will in-ure its rejection, lie recommends the admission of negro testimony in all Courts, and requests that provision be made for the education of the indigent children ot Confederate sol diers, and for the relief of destitute and disabled State and Confederate soldiers. The re-t of t be message is purely local. 'i'itK RESULT OF THE ELECTIONS. —The New Vork Times, in an elaborate and care ful article, urges tho South aud tho Presi dent alike to snbnit to the popular will as expres dhi tjm late elections, and at once aecept ■ a tduiciit to the Constitution ass ' :-i oi . -..{oration. The Times inter prt' ■ the elections as deciding first, that tho Dei; e e i• .. ,rty shall not decide the time oi nm" f reconstruction ; second that tit i'r ■i- e. policy shall not bet.humeth od employed ; and third, that the amend ment proposed by Congress must be ratified and become valid as a condition precedent. It u ires that the President can have no hope of r -Ving the will of the people, even if h iiikt -th -I' ve'i mof his own impeach u; • ; s-l oth Mr. Johnson and hi. • i ihe South to sacrifice the con si , urn.; of pride and prejudice which - oi 1 in the way, and accept the terms now offered, before a continued persistency in refu-al subjects them to far harsher treat ment. Superintendence of Common Schools. The following letter from lion. C. K. Co burn, Superintendent of Common Schools, explains itsell. It will be remembered we indicated months since, in tlieae columns, that an arrangement like this would take place, so that its consumation now is merely a verification of what we stated would occur: DEPARTMENT or COMMON SCHOOLS, lIARRtSBCRO, Oct 18, 1866. To His Excellency , :T. G. Curtin— Slß I hereby tender my resignation as Superin tendent of Common Schools of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania, to take effect on the first day of November, 1866. It is my wish that, if you shall deem it for the interest ot the cause of the common school system in the State, you shall appoint as my successor J. I. Wickersbara, ofT.au casti-r county, Yours, with sentiments of high Respect an-1 kind reeard, C. R. COBCRN. Professor Wickershani is one of the ablc.-t educators in the State. lie will enter on the Superi!)tendency of Common Schools on the Ist of November, and we are satisfied that the system, under his management, will continue to be one of vast benefit to tl,c people of the State. — Exchange. INDIAN AFFAIRS. The Utes on the War Rath in Colorado. NEW YORK, October 18. —A special di • natch to the New York. Tribune , dated Leavenworth, Kansas, Thursday, October 18th, says: Dates from Peubla, Colorado Territory, of October 8, say that the Ute Indians are committing fearful depredations throughout the country, stealing stock, kill ing men, <te„ and have carried away one man s wife and children. Further information in regard to the fight at Trinidad says that Colonel Alexander im mediately went to the rescue, and reached the scene just in time to witness the attack on a rauche by a party of Indians, lie en gaged them five miles along the Purgatorie, killing thirteen, with the loss of one soldier killed and two wounded. They pursued the Indians, but were unable to overtake them. The Denver aVcius publishes the following accouut of the fight: On Wednesday even ing the Indians made an attack upon the soldiers aud citizens. The Indians were re pulsed with the loss of twelve killed. La / were fighting last cveuing: rcsuituuk >.vn. The International Ocean Telegraph MEW YORK, October 18.—Preliminary steps towards building the International Ocean Telegraph June are to he taken, and the work will be poshed forward a- rapidly as possible, Mr. Wm. 11. Heiss, one of the olde-t telegraph superintendents in th country, has accepted the important position ol Superintendent of the International Ocean Telegraph Company, and the com pany was fortunate in securing the ,-e.rvices of this gentleman, whose great experience and" eminently practical abilities wiil be of the utmost value in insuring success to the great enterprise. Sope-intendant 11 i-s will sail from this city Saturday, the 20th in st., for Florida, through a portioned which State she line is to be built. He will nuke surveys arid determine on the route to he adopted. Several leading eitiz-n- an 1 pub lic men of Florida have ugge-te i that •he line be built from Fernandina, t > h'edar Keys, on the west side o! the State thence by "cable to Havana. This will be deter mined on by Mr. Ileiss. if the practiea tlity of the suggested route is made manifest by personal inspection and survey. Itw !l n>>t be many months ere the citi s ot_ New \ >;k and Havana will be in telegraphic communi cation. THE Buckeye State say.-: President Johnson has been exercising "My Policy " in this pare of the State by removing Mr. Josiah liartzell, Postmaster at Canton, Stark county, and Mr. J. B. M ebb, Post master at Salein. in this county, an J app an ting in their stead one M. V. Gottenall at Canton, and D. Luptcn at Salem. 1: wis thought that there was no one in or about Salem, who formerly claimed to be a m 01 bur of the Republican party, the' • t stoop so low as to accept an app-tinun -nt and support "My Policy," aftci seeing how rapidly it is falling to pieces, for the sake of bread and butter. Deserters ot this kind from the Union ranks should be marked, an i watched in the future. Men who have no more priuciple than to desert a party lor the sake of a petty office can have no confi dence placed in them, and the party i- bet ter off when they take their leave. A SHERIFF IN DESPAIR.— The people of Calhoun County, Alabama, are so peat - able and well behaved that the Sheriff hag 11 •A.!,.. 4 omt iinomDelled. to resign his oilit to avoid starvation. 11 ma .11 address in the Montgomery Advertiser, the sheriff says his clothes are worn out, that ha has not money enough to shoe his horse or supply himself with tobacco, and that bo has been dunued until he is desperate, lis concludes his address as follows : • And now I ask, what else could I do under these circumstances, but quit sheritl ing. go to work; try to make something to pay my debts, and prepare to marry before it is too late." IT is tatcd in a despatch from Philadel phia that the proprietor of the Ledger has instituted an investigation into the origin of its recent despatch about the President aud the Attorney General, and has forwarded to the President a statement of the fact* rela ting to it, with tho original papers and the names of the correspondent s informants. A later despatch states that one H. M. I int furnished the information on which the de patch was ba-ed, and that he received it from an official whose name he refuses to disclose. A late number of the London Athenaeum in reviewing a work on natural history, gives a list of the different terms whu h aic propcrlv applied to flocks of various kinds of winged game, —a blunder in which would at once settle ones character as a sportsman. Thus one ought to say: a brood of grouse, a bevy of quails, a covey of partridges, a cov ert ofcoots, a dropping of sheldrake, a flight of woodcocks, a gaggle of geese (when they are at rest,) a skein of geese (wh n on the wing,) a herd of swans,u nid of nliea-sin!a spring of tial, a segc of herons, a t> am of wild ducks, a trip of dotterels, a wing of plovers, and a wisp of snipes. No less than MX serious steamship dise.*- ters have tiwn recorded within a we .. Steamer Sit vi lan went ashore at Body 1.- land, coast of North Carolina; the Daniel Webster was abandoued off Hattcra- ; the Santiago de Cuba had ber dock - swept by a heavy sea, lying several passengers over board ; propeller Starlight went ashore on Barnegat Sbuai : the Andrew Johnson was driven ashore on the North Carolina et>;. t, and last and most fatal, the Evening tver foundered at s el. and more than two hun dred passenger- were lost. WHEN Judge —, A member ol Con gress from Ohio jvars ago, was opposed tit the second election on account of intemper ate habits, he good natuiedly admitted the fact, but insisted tin it never was so drunk, as not to fairly repu ■ ut bis constituents ; He was elected by a ft tumphaot majority. WASHINGTON special despatches say par ties are urging the I'M sijent to makede mands upon England or the immediate payment of our indent' ■ v el tints and tu ease of refusal, to seise upon < uoada.
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