f ?" F P I T! FTH SI K) rT 3 ! hi Ui.IB.il3 rnltiatl. ! Friday Jkrninfi, - - - Jai. 1, 1875 Tim rPTfOTTnctl dcrret Smith lieilin New York after a brief ilhiCGs on J.I ou tlay last, iu t!;c 78th year of his ago. He had irtjr.e to that citv from his home in tho northern part of New j lo ,lira l-J the people, but aa a person York Stat 0:1 the unv before Christ- j al bener to be shared by his family mas, to spend the holidays. Mr. j alul relatives. All other cadets are Smith was a man of marked ability I scnt to tIieir regiments in a reasonable and kindly impulses, and had acquired I time after graduating, butyoung Grant , national" reputation from having been made an exception, and was al one of the earliest and siost active and lowed to maka a pleasure trip through consistent advocates of the antUla-' Kurope with General Sherman at the vcrv movement. 1 le die 1 vtry weal- j eipene of the government. Some thv", being th owner among other ro-1 time after his return, he was placed periv of about a million acres of land : 011 the stair of General Sheridan as one ir. the northern and central portions j of his aids, with the rank of Lieuten of New York, some of which ii very ! ant t.'olowel. This was an insult to valuable much of it. however, lin'tr ! !1 the young, active ofllcers in the The Legislature will meet on next Tuesday. Tha Senate is Republican, I b it that fact ouzbtnot to deter tho j Democratic) members from making au honest effort to reduce within legiti mate limits the enormous and con stantly increasing expenses of legisla tion ; and if the majority refuse to conj-ir, let the people hold them re sponsible. It will be ditferent in the House, where Democrats are in the ascendancy. Their actions will be rig- :e .1 5 : inij ai i uiiui.eu, sin i 11 iLit y uvj ujt protect the State treasury from all a naults, let thsm assume whatever shape they may, their constituents will spew them out of their mouths and forever disown them. The future of the Dem ocratic party in this State is, in a great measure, in the hands of its re presentatives, who should remember the words of wisdom contained in a recent letter of Gorerner Hendricks to a friend in St. Louis: "TheRc ubliran jarty cannot destroy its, but tec can destroy ourselves." The Louisiana Returning Board, after having been in seesion almost two months, consummated its infa mous work last week. The Board is composed of Jive members, four of whom (two white and two colored) are Radicals, and the remaining member ik Democrat. The returns of the elec tion, list of voters, and tally papers, in every voting precinct in the State, numbering over six hundred, are re quired to be sent to this Board. Af ter they are received by the Board the work of fraud and villainy commences. It m freely admitted after the No vember election that the Democrats had carried the State and Been red a majority in the Legislature. But all this has been changed and the will of the people set aside by the atiocious acts of this partisan tribunal. In many instances the Democratic vote of entire parishes, or counties, has been thrown out and Radicr.I mem bers declared elected. In Uub way twenty-two Democratic members were counted out, making the Legislature stand fifty-four Radicals to fifty-two Democrats, leaving four parishes not acted on, but referred to the Lee'nla- ture, whose decision can readily be an- ticipated No Southern State, save South Car olina, has been plundered like Lou'ini ana, nor have like frauds anywhere been perpetrated on the ballot-box. What makes the outrage more intoler able, is that it is bolstered up and sup ported by (irant' bayonets. The whole business is a wicked mockery on republican government, and the rascally conduct of this Returning Board is enough to goad the Demo crats of Louisiana to swift and stern residence ; yet we hone that more prudent counsels wul prevail. Let t them remember that the darkest hour oi me nigut lrarneuiaieiy preceuea tne dawn of day. Washington letter writers for the pre inform us that Fernando Wood, of New York, and Sam'l J. Randall, of i this State, archill industriously work- ; r n - c? i .' ii g for the Speaker's chair m the next Congress. 1 hey are both r.lary-grab- Tiers, m l amidst the almost universal I wreck of that class of patriot at the ! November elections, these two renre-1 seutatives from the two largest cities (New York and Philadelphia) in the Union, ley some process managed to secure their re-election. With that condonement by their constituents of their otfense in pocketing the extra-pay ' booty they ought to be satisfied. In stead of this, however, we find them r,, ;,i. r: i inuiler is unparalleled, both fatally bent on the Speakership. Have they so soon forgotten the cry of indignation t'itt went up from the poople from Maine to Oregon again.it the back-pay steal 1 Do they suppose that tho national De mocracy will stultify its plain and em phatic record ag.tinst that imfaray in Stat conventions, and will look with complacency on the election of eithsr of them to the high and responsible position at thev are aimios? If they have laid this flattering unction to their souls they have formed a very low and mistaken opinion of the Dem ocratic sentiment of the country. Any Democratic member of Congress from this Stats who votes to place Randall in the Speaker's chair will erect a bar rier between himself and his betrayed constituu i which he can never sur mount. Sim'i-.'l S. Cox, of New York, is a m-ni'sr of the present Congress and will be of the nvrxt. Michael C. Kerr, of Indiana, will also occupy a seat in that body. Either of these gentleman is eminently fit to perform the duties of Speaker, a:'.d it can be said of both th it they never took money which they did i.ot h or.c-tly earn, nor have tl:ty 6i iobc lvtlJ treafr try will; uuwrshec. Lf.uds. 1 - Frederick P. G rant, Second Lieu- fj cr?rj- ; States, his movements since he left the J Military Academy at Tcst Point -o iar as any practical connoct'.on with the arrnv is concerned, he has shown ! himself to be more ornamental thr,n useful. JJis father regards the Presi- 'ney not as a public trust confided c&vsury service, especially as i'rince Fied, as he is earcasticall v called, was of no manner of use to Sheridan, for the reason that he epent three-fourth3 J '"?',rae 1st the caycties and festivities of Washington. When General Custer last summer started on his expedition to the Black Hills, Lieut. Col. Grant accompanied him. But he did net like the' labor or fatigue of the march nor the priva tions of the camp, and as he haa always been matter of his own movements, he turned his back on Red Cloud find "? his SlOUX b raves and Rirain resumed his place in the gay society of the Cap ital. When last heard from in Wash ington, he was acting aa hie father's "personal representative'' in paying Presidential honors to David K&1& kaua, King of the Sandwich Islands. It is understood that during the bal ance of the winter Prince Fred's head quarters, unlike those of Gen. Pope, will not be "in tho saddle," but in the White House. Although educated at public ex pense, this young ecion of would-be royalty has been permitted to shirk the duties of a soldier from the time he left West Point to the present day. Ilia pay nevertheless goes on. What confers on him this immunity from camp life and army discipline? Sim ply his paternity. It is an instructive commentary on the beauties of per sonal government and an offensive il lustration of the most prominent fea ture of Grantism. One of two alter natives ought to be presented to this amateur disciple of ilars, and long since would have been if (Jen. Shfr- I man e.xercisew me least control over him, whicli ho notoriously does not. -i 4 ... 1 ' X;V" " V Ii V . V J U f ...... hit; iiwiiuci, or . be given distinctly to understand that his resignation would bo acceptable. FnsDEBicK A. Cosruso, of New York, is the leader of tho Liberal Re publican party in that State. He is a man of admitted ability and a brother of Roscoe Conkling, the magnificent, one of the United States Senators from New York, but was fashioned in a dif ferent mould. His name having been mentioned in connection with the next Seuator from that State, he apsions tbe following as his reasons for leav- ing t.io Grant party. His language is as vigorous as it is true: "When I have been asked why I left the dorsincnt party of the country, my answer ha been that I regard the present national administration as having utterly foi liken Republican piinciples and led the entire organization away from its original and legitimate objects. It has driven fiom its councils the ablest and purest of the foun ders of the Republican party, and lias sys tematically catered for the support of tho vilest and worst elements in our politics. For years pat honorable and pure men have shmuk from contact with it, as they would from tho touch of contagion or the embrace of death. The degradation and corruption of the lawnr tmpire under tho ,hiri ,ie ' , France fair the greatct and most illustrious of her sons supplanted by the most worthless and in famous, have their parallel in the history of this nrf mi n!'-;t rut Miirln.r T, three years I have dovoted h;rce"sh-tre of my time, and my I est energies, to tho exl)OS,,,re ,!f iu rW'dy and corruptiS!i. I r5 , everwr'r"",1lff teat m the l"te elections as oue of the most signal trK linipb, of trBth a;id vh,c9 iu ufc who history of the republic. Still, the good woik is only begun. We Jiave yet to evpel flom evc'T department of the Govnrninent u,c .cauyo, ti.etoenate and the Jumci- ary the vsnl crew now in power, and put uoiiobt aad faithful man in their places. ' We direct the attention of our read ers to the address of the New Orleans " Committee of Seventy," which will be found in another column. It thor- hl . ,the ,v Leturning Loard and illainies of the the usurpations i ivviiki; ouiie government. No unprejudiced man can read it and say that tlrantism in Louisiana n not a cheat and a fraud. Rut the day of re tribution will surely come, when Kel logg. Casey, Packard, Wells, nnd the whole infamous crew, will have full and ample justice meted out to them, for although "the mills of the gods grind Blow, they grind exceeding fine." On the day before Senator Carpcn ter was re-tlected Pre-d.lrr.r. ?.r-, ,., of the Senate, the Utica Herald fRol publican) relieve its min.l ia hU wise: " The United States Senate should "pare tlie country the sight, of S.iifnr ll.iriifi'tfir nr.in I:-. l. of presiding officer. Lie is not lit for that honorable station. Peveloivu-its i i i-i wcl''l,u--lts have been made since be was last elect - e l to it which destroy the remnants of - - r "b-"" in mc- i-ii.-.ir public confidi'iice in liiru. If the Sen- ato has not a better m.m among members to preside over it, thou iLs we arc eorry for it. " Wharton r,R0Tinyis& Co.. ofPitis- : bnroh, iron manufacturers, have failed. ! IiabUitios, $2 10.000 ; assets reported, j $303,000. The low price of iron, dull- . ness of trade and failure of customers I.ouisiana' lAitnsnt. ADIIHFSS OF THE COMMITTBE OF EEVIKTT TO THE lXOl'I.K OF1HE I'SIIED fiTATKI TUF.V FIOTEST AOAIKST TilE ACTION OK THE ZETI'IIMSO BOAIID. New Oslbaks, December 22, 1374. The Committee of Seventy, whose repre sentative character is weil known to the country, cnll the atteotiou of the people of the, Uiiitcd States o additional wrongs and indignities under which tho once free peo ple of Louisiana are now suffeiing. For two years w.i Lave been in vain appealing to the President and Congress for telief from injustice, oppressions and robberies of a usurping State Government on us by the order of a drunken United States Judge, written in his chamber, and unstained by the United States army, brought here bo forehand for the purpose. The Governor, ineligible under our Constitution and de foatod at the polls by 9, GOO majority, and by fucb roeaus installed and maintained in power, fcad been unable, after nearly two year' misrule, to gain tho slightest foot hold in the confidence or recpeet of the pooplc, and as f-oen is the federal army was withdrawn, vithiu one hour, his show of authority and force melted into air be fore the calm determination of an outraged people, and he sought refuge in the muc tuary of tbe United States Custom House. Upon command of the President, all the fruits of a brilliant victory achieved by our cititena, with the State lleuse, public build ings ar. d archives, wero surrendered to ar. ofiiserof tbe Ur-iled States .rtr.y, whoakew ted Kellogg to hi Gue: baaterial seat. For seveial weeks before the election n the 2d cf November, the whole Stato, end especially tfce Setr.ocratie parishes, were garrisoned by the United States, army, and our bt and leading citizens arretd cn trai?ped-up cbaiga made by irresponsible tools of tbe radical pp-rty, for the purpose of intimidating the whites aad carrjirg the election Rainbt. the will of tho majority. NotwithBtauding this, ourpeople, knowing that their continued existence in this Sta'.o depended upou their driving the Govcrm laput. of plunderers frem power, knowing tht by rr.irgoverument and exorbitant tax ation, icposed by ignorant and corrupt legislator, who Lad no interest in the State, the value of property had been de stroyed, ami ins! end of being a fclessieg, bad heeorae a burden ; knowing that the fountains of law and justice had been cor rupted, and the Government, whoso end should be protection, had been converted into an engine of oppression and extortion, only limited by its imbecility ; knowing these facts, their utmost efforts, and with all the maihiuery of iniquitous election laws, deviiicd to perpetuate radical rule in the Lands of tbe usurpation, and with the United States army in tbe hands of tbe Chairman of the Republican Prate Central Committee, aud used as an electioneering orgine against the Conservathes, succeed ed iu cairyingthe State by at leant y..500 majority, with a majority cf twenty-right in tbe Hone of Reprepcatati vep, a una'ority on Joint ballot in both Houses, aod the eity of New Oilcans carried by the Con servalives by over 12,000 majority. The fact cf the Conservati vos having carried tha eletion haa hern roll Vnsimi tLe 5th of November, beeansn ti. i.im. xP i rt n.'inntArl n ilm rr) 1 a inl;.ifb. returns made out in duplicate. Yet cveu now, seven wccVs after the election, we ar imo-.inently threatened with being de- irautieu oi our victor iy and of our frauchiso. TLe ekotion returns have been submitted to a boaid of leturnir.g officers, consis-tin" of five members, four of whom are iJctt fied wiib aud committed to the usurping Government. These men, aside from their party, have not sustained fetich a character bfor the community aa inspire us with oentidenee in their integrity or impartiality, or to givo any hope that they will fairly and honestly compile and piomulgat.e the returns. They have already evinced a de termination te defraud the people and de feat their will, as expressed at the ballot box. In the caso of the parish of Deeeto, Conservative by over lKMl majority, the radical election efheers stole tho returns and placed them in the bands of women of the town, who offered to give them vm for one thousand dollars, and left tbe State. The returning officers refused to take steps to recover thee papers. Attorneys repre senting the Conservatives yent to Desoto ana orougnt aown and presented a dnpli eato of the original returns of eoual value. which had been filed with the Clerk of the District Court for the parish, in pursuance of law, and theee they refused to receive aud consider, although in radical parishes they had acted on secondary evidence. This is but-one cae of many such. Appli cation was made by a candidate for a man damus to coeipel thorn to receivo and corn pile these duplicates of original returns fiom Desoto to the only eourt compo'er.t under existing law to eiant a writ. 'i'h I of this court, a ercature cf the usurp ing tuate Government, and a member of the famous Lynch returning board of 1S72, haviug received a judgeship as a reward for his services on that occasion, lefer.ed the mandamus. During the session f thia board we Lave saeu the elerk accusing a member of fraud on elrctioa returns, the member in return accusing tho clerk, Lave soen documents on the Democratic side stealthily abstracted, and Republican cross marked a.Tdavits stealthily inserted and apted on, election returns themselves al tered aed forged in the interest, of the rad ical works after the election. There is no redress through tho courts, because those to which al ne application can be i.isJs are but creatures of the nsurpa'Jon, whose ex ister.ee depends upon the cootinuacoo of radical rule, in defiance of the ex pi eased will of the people. Thcso returning offi cers have been now for seven weeks clallys inj with the liberties and rights 6f tbe people ef aa entiro State, apparently wait ing until an opportunity is offered for them to consummate their villainy by promulgat ing a radical majority aa elected to the Legislature. They Lope to do this with impunity, because the State House, where they sit, is garrisoned with KeYiogg police, with several companies of the army of the United States within five hundred yards, the whole force ef tho army aud navy with in call of ireliogg'a wh !;-!!, rleepin" on inoir arms, with cartridge's .jihlributed. In this manner are we threatened with an other monprol herd of sagacious plunders, ignorant aad debauched, claiming to bo Hcpublicans elected by radical returning otltcers, and installed iu tho Legislature by the potential forces of tho army and navv .r i. .. t . . .i ci . . y oniim oiaieH, as was none in 1S73 ! s"cb base uses arc your soldiers put ! and that the rights or the black roan would not be safe if tbe Conservative majority in Leusiana was permitted to rule, as stated by our enemies and by tho President in hi ' 0SRaPe: w know to be disproved by fact ; S ::4't d,-ys el"ci Govern- i ment was m undisputed rower with a : large force at its command, not a nc-r was hurt, not a viulcnco commuted and j ,,0,h withstanding tho great previous provo- i CJJ'on'. nor a. 1 'Cht of any citizen molested. i ivn-w irtiitu in a i our nnnmla K fl,. justice and patriotism of tha President and Congress, we now. na r.-t. , eRs, wo now. as .a le ro.-rt 1 to the source of all power, the people of' tlie 5 ,"n Cn o?: , 80 oral influence with our wand ivKeriwn corded to a brave and free roVnle 't in ' ZinS for liberty of conscience, that a vir t,,0,,!? rubhc sentiment may compel tho hope it may react upon the Executive and Congress, and compel them to grant us that relief which neither their sense of jus tice nor repaid fr the fundamental iestitus tions of the coHutry have been able to ef fect. We make this appeal in advance of the final consummation of tbe great wrong about being perpetrated upon the people, as we are positively aeeured of the inten tion of the returning officers to defraud the people of the fruits of their political victo ry, as if the act had been already consum mated. "Vo are not clamoring for party purposes, that one set of men should be substituted foi another. As public officials, our repugnance to Republican rule in Lou isiana is not baaed altogether upon the fast of itsbeiiig usurpation. Valued as great principles are, and grossly as they have boen violated, yet it is not for that reason alone that tbe people of Louisiana are clam oring for relief. The people demand that those elected by them shall govern tkem, so that they shall be relieved frem oppres sion grown intolerable ; that taxation, wkich has bocoiao confiscation, may be lightened; that hideous and wide-spread poverty and distrust may be lemoved; that they may be permitted to lire by honest industry ; that honest government for pro tection may be substituted for systema tiEed robbery. For tbeue reasons we, a down trodden people, once free, of Louisi ana, now call upon the people of tho free States of .America, if you would yourselves remain free and retain the right of self-government, demand, in tones that cannot be misnnderstood or disregarded, that the shaoklcss be stricken from Louisiana and the power ft the Unitod States army bo no longer usrd to help adventurers in power. P.. R. Format?, Chairman. W. C. Raymond, Arciiihald Mitchell, F. C. Zachaki k, Committee. Rooms of the Coftiraittee cf Seventy. Twenty years ago John Patton was a rich cotton planter in Williamson county, Tetic. Pie was old and a bachelor, but bad throe children by two of bis negro slave women. For these childreu he had great aiTection, and bow to leave them his property without publicly seeming to do so, became tho f.tudy of his waning life. Tbe plan which ho finally adopted was to bequeath his wealth to au intimate friend named Redmond, with the private under standing that it should be wholly devoted to the mulato children. Tbe will made Redmond the sole legatee, and did not hint at tbe veibal agreement. Not long before his death he j;ave Redmond $10,000, and told him to take the two women and chil dren to Ohio arid buy for tbern a farm, upon wbich they might live comfortably until they should come into full possession of the fortune. Redmond took them to Ohio, as directed, but it is alleged that bo there abandoned them and kept the money which was to have paid for their homo. Patton died without knowicg of bis friend's perfidy, ant', iu accordance ih the plain terms of his will, Redmond got the proper ty. Ho refused to fcive the children a cent of it, end, as this was before tho abolition of slavery, and as they were legally slaves belonging to him, they were afiaid that if thoy wade any effort to oppces biro, he mipht tafce them back into servitude. A suit has been recently comieeneed in Nash ville ia their behalf for tLe recovery cf tho $10,000 which I'atton entrusted to Red mond. Tkksti are words of wisdom copied from tho Philadelphia Inquirer of Tuesday ; "Neither the President nor Congress can possibly right the wrong done by the re turning board; but no unurpalion can be sucevt.ful in this country if cot sustained by outside force, and even this fixed up legislature may be left to settle disputed questions as to itsown membership if no Federal bayouets overshadow it. Should tiie people recognize its authority, that fact would be conclusive against-the charge ef usurpation, but if its authority can alv be sustained by the army of the United States, then we can espoct, at tho most, only an acquiesoenee under protest, aud not a lasting peace. In other words, since there can be do stable government npou our American principles without the cot rent of the governed, the only way of avoiding anarchy iu Louisiana is to allow the people an "ntranameled expression of their will. We have tried ttie otKar iln and it has not succeeded. The Rellofg government, put in power by au illegal or der from a drunken federal judge, and kept in power by federal troops, hasjheen worse than a failure, and every fresh interfer eaoo has but intensified the popular dis content. YVcat the country now demands is that Louisiana shall have a chance to govern herself; and it will be well for the authorities at Washington, at both ends of the a7ccue, to ilaten to thia dsiand." A Cr.svF.a Goos. A correspondent of the Hartford Timet writes : "A lady iu East Granby obtained cf a friend six goose eggs and set them under afavorite hen. After four weeks' iucubation, under great difhienlties, the ben came off with ee healthy gosling who caused her much trouble in conscqneuce of bis recklessness in getting his feet wet. Still there was great affection manifested by both parent and child. Rut the ben gradually grew aob&aar d, either of herself or of her strange chicken (whieh had outgrown her) aud she sought another nest, in a retired place, aud commenced sitting for another brood. The gosling wandered "lonely as a cloud" until she at last wade her appearance with a fine brood of chicks. The gander at this time had obtained considerable size, and labored hard to help to support the large family cf his half bl ethers and sinters. He would spread his wings aud brood the chicks and protect them from the rain, and drive offU the other fowls who iuter fered with his adopted family. He would go out to the Geld and bring in an oar of eoru and shell it en for the chicks ; and woe to any other biped who attempted to shaie the meal. At last the iudustrious hen again went to work for another nest. aad then tbo whole charge f the family aevoivea upon me gauaer. ' FirTF.r.w Dot.t.ap.3 Takkv rom Etkrt-ecidt.-The Philadelphia L I?er says that somebody has figured out tho interesting fact that tbe total amount of State, county! city, and town taxes collected in tbe United States in 1870 was $ 2S0,ri91,0O0, which was about $7 a bead for the entire population. Tho total amount of tbese taxos collected in 1800 was ?94, 136,000, wbich waa about $3 a head for tbe entire population. It cost, therefore, more than twice as much to take' care cf a man in Vis State, county, and municipal relations iu 1S70 as it did ten years before. This doss not include tbo Federal taxation. The not ordinary expenditures of tbe Federal Government in 1S73 were-' ?K,8, 421,000, which was $1. ! Zl a head for the entiro population. Iu j 1SG0 they were f-60, (!00,000, which wasf l. j 94 a head, In 1Sr0 thev were $37,lfi5, 000, I wbich waa $1.00 a bead. In 1S40 thev were 124,130,000, whieh was $1.40 a head. It will be seen that while thore was an in crease of 54 cents in tho per capita cost of Government from 1810 to 180, there was an increase of ?2.SG in tho rate in the last decade tho rate being more than doubled. in tins estimate wo do not uielr.de the an j r.ual. interest on the dbt ; this, added to the net ordinary "expenditures fir 1S70, woald make the io: capita cost about Iicechef urul Christmas. The Rev. Henry Ward Reecher has not a very high opiuion of Christmas day. Ho seems to think that it is a holiday that is not at all harmful, and ought to be teiera ted. For one of the Puritan school, who thinks that tho 2otb of November is a particularly sacred day sacred to gorman dizing and bard cider drinking ia New England this is very liberal. Also bis doctrine that -'it is of no consequeDece about tho birth of Christ." Speaking for himself, Mr. Rcecher is no doubt correct, and the birth f the Sav our is not much more of an event te him than the birth of Ananias or Brigham Young. In fact the natal day of the latter is mo donbt a sub ject of interest to the pastor of Plymouth church. In his "lecture" on Christmas, Mr. Beecher says : "To me Christmas is a foreign day, and I jihall die so. Wkci I was a bey I wea dered what Christmas was. I kaew theia waa puck a tiras, lrerause we had an pi copal church in our town, and I saw them dressing it with evergreens, aad wondered what thuy wra taking the woods in church for ; bnt I got no utiid'acterT explanation. A little later I un3erntoid it wes a Ilotnih institution, kept up Uy the Remlba Cknrch. Jlrought up ia tb strictest Stata of Naw England, Brought up to tha moat litaral ptvln ef worship, brought up where thy woiild not read the Bible iu church because tb Episcopalian raad it so Minch, I pasaad all my youth without any knuwleige cf Christ mas, and I Lava d association with tkn day. "Where tha Christum reval ought to bs, I havA uothing. It is Christmas dev, hat ts all." At the New England dinner at the Ac tor House-, on the evening previous, Mr. p.eecher, in a similar strain, spoke of Pu ritan toleration ami said that it was the "old Turitan doctrine that no man should sufl'or for his. views." This moves the World to say that this is an explanation calculated to amaze historical students, and even mildly to startle the New Eng land dinners. Cromwell's Protectorate has been considerably praised ia our gen eration, but never, that we remember, as an example of toleiance. The World joes on further to say : "One in iacliaed to wish that Mr. tSeacbar could m transported for a few days t the condition of an English High Churchman of that epoch, or a Scottish Reman Catholia, er a Masfavhiisntts Quaker. After nnder-reiug- that experience, ha weald daahtless be ehle to fj many things in pi sisa of his persecutors, bnt ha would net hclikaly tv attend !w Ktigland, dinnsrs and talk nan sonso aoat the old Puritan doctrine that no man shall suiTer for his rellgfocs visws, any piora than be wonld be likely to at tri bute that old Puritan doctrine tha chiefs of the Spanish Inquisition. The eld Porltan doctrine, In point of noteriens histcrl.-al fatt, was that tha Puritan should assart for bitnuelf entire rell jions freedom, and enforce, npou ovary body t!ee entire religions con formity, whtrh ha did whenever lie had tbe power. It Is rather hard in him to be praised for a doctrine which he nsver either praetiaed or professed. These thine mntl be known to the onU-prand!i Mr. Beecher If they are not, hp can find thm In any hitory of ths period when "the old PaHtn doctrine" was put Into practice that h likes t eensalt. It ts a pity the laiipajitiJition of the post-prandial Mr. Beother should be so quickened by eomtuunion witli sympa thetic New Kag'aiiilflr? as not enly to 'forget tbera, bnt to construct hlstorirRl rotnnecea altogether unfounded in historical fact." It was hardly necessary for Mr. Beecher to say that he was brought up as a disbe liever in Christmas, and to regard it as an institution of the Catholic and Xpisoopai church. He leaves traces of an indepen dent disbelief in most of the central doc trines implied by the ooming of Christ and His rission. Hud he bean brought up a believer ia Christmas and the lessons it teaches, it would have been better for him, and the Brooklyn scandal might have been escaped, instead of being sown broad cast, to the injury of tbe Christian world of all denominations. Pittsburgh Pont. Is THunn Absolute Heui.tocs FntR rvnt Amsftca ? The New York Tahiti (Catholic) had an editorial last week on Church and State in the United States. It says that while tbe Federal Constitution de clares that no religious test shall be re quired as a qualification for public office, the various States have not conformed to this organic law. Articles requiring ad herence to Prttetnism wero in force in the Constitution of New Vork uatil lP'fl, in Maacbuetts until 1S'?1, in Nerth Car olina until 1S3'), and in New Jersey nntil 134. In Maryland ;a nnaliSeat.ion haa n?t been repealed ; in Vermont n are convpellec1 tokeep the Sabbath : ia New ITftrapniiire Catholics are ineligible tw of fice, and ia Louisiana clergymen have been excluded frem oiTlse. Pennsylvania aud Tennessee require "a belief in God and in future rewards and punishments. The free dom of religion is infringed in nearly all the states, which in their legislation "act as if Protestants were the only ones whose religious convictions are to be at all times respceted." In poorhouses, public asy lums, prisons, etc.. Catholics are compelled to be present at Protestant services, and to listen to tbe singingof hymns which breathe a spirit of antagonism to the Catholic re ligion. A "Westmoreland County Pritttir StAKUKD TO D3ATH BT FX-GOV. Vt'lK- mci'th. A New Orleans dispatch dated Doc. Soth says: In a fight to-day between Daniel C. Byerly, manager of the Bulletin newspaper, and ex-Governor "Warniouth, on Canal street, Byerly knocked Vfarmouth dewn with a stick and jumped en him, whon YVarmeuth drew a knife and stabbed Pyorly several times in tbe abdomen. He died from his wounds at 10:20 o'clock the same evening. He was 4S years old, bcrsi ia Adamsburg, Westmoreland county. Pa., a printer by trade, having learned tbe art in the oCiee of tbe Greensburg Arpui. He came to New Orleans in 1845. He served gallantly in Shields' Regiment ef Louisiana Volunteers in the west during the war, and was wounded four times in one of the fights around Atlauta. Seme mouths ago, Mr. Byerly, in eampany with others, com menced tbe publication of the Now Orleans Bulletin. other vruniKors affrats. Anumber of affrays occurred on Friday. In one of thcra two negioes were killed, and in anolhor two soldiers were severely wounded. Tbe Rev. Felix C. Bwernbergh, a Ro man Calholie pastor in Ueno councy, Kan sas, writes more hopefully of that Ptate than de most of thoso who give accounts of its condition. He says that the desti tution is not so mneh to be attributed to the grasshopper plague in itself aa to tbe dependent condition of the people when the blight camo upon them. The border coun ties have mostly been settled within, two years, and tho pioneers, bringing IHtle or nothing to their new hemes, relied on tbe first crop for subsistence. When this fail ed they became a burden upon the older residents. Swembergh, however, docs not sec a good reason for downright discour agement, lie says that the grasshoppers bad not visited the State in seven years before, nnd there is not a probability but that tho crops will be abundant and molested next season. The people gener ally are not despondent, but are incited to now energy by their trials. The "Party-Saving Bill" is what they call the now financial mcasurn im.nilv 1 passed by the Scuatc. Ifetvs fi I'ottticul Item. Barnnni had a present on Christmas 1 day of a sp.an of horso worth 2,500. ; Bix sheep owned in Coopwrstown, Pit., j have taken premiums at county fairs this '. year amounting to $M,0O0. j It was a sorry Christmas for the four ! hundred female employes discharged from i me govern mcut printing ofbee. Richard Karuum, his wife and two j children wero burned to death at Shannon, ' Mississippi, on Saturday night. Helen Josephine Mausiield has recov- ! ered over $23,000 from the widow of James ; Fit-ke, jr., on notes which nhe held. ;' Another boy, named McAllister, is ' missing from his home iu Philadelphia. ' Fears are entertained for his safety. ' An explosion occurred iu I'agnall Hall ' Colliery, North Staffordshire, England, ou j Thursday, by which twenty miners weie ; kiiicd. ; -Tbe Irish citizens of Omaha have ap- ' pointed a committee to assist General ()'- ! Neil, of Fenian fame, to locate 100 Irish colenies wcet of Missouri. Jefferson Davis is on a visit to Vicks- burg, Mississippi, and instead of being ( r.sriously ill, as leportcd, he is in tho cn- ! joyiuent of excellent health. j An important meetiug of tanners will ! be held at Wilcox, Pa., on tbe 12th Jan., to take action iu regard to railroad freights ; and other rnattors alfecting the trade in ! loather. j In order to inspire tbe pooplo of Lou- j ibiana with a proper degree of dread and , alarm it is announced in radical circles ia i VYasbington that Geueial bheridan is to be sent among them. I A .ry beantiful young woman visits ! the Auburn State Prison regularly once a month, and wanders about comfoiting the i prisoners. Nobody knows from whence j she comes or whithr she goes. Pinchbeck announces that he is will- ing to be bought off. Price, the honor of tbe name of United States Senator for one hour, and $12,000 in cash. We do not presume tbo price will be paid. I Miss Lies, of San Francisco, had the j hnner of being the first young lady to take ; King KalaVaua by tbe hand in the United ! States. Ho will meet plenty more f tbe j same family during bis sojourn here. A Leavenworth man told a lie and : then said : "I hope to be struck drd if I j have not spoken tbe trutb l" Ha bad I scarcely ceased speaking when bn fell to the floor a man having knocked him down. I Ou Monday afternoon last a coal oil i lamp exploded at No. 34 North Twenty- J second street, Philadelphia. Ar.n Ciaw- j ford, her I wo daughters, and Philip and Marge ret Sheridan were severely burned. ! On Wcduesday evening 800 working j men paraded on Pennsylvania avenue, in 1 Washington, with transparencies tearing J such mottoes as "Hard Money ard Hard Times,'" "Down with the Senate Finance till." Pen Putler has been called a eood many hard names in tbe course of his career, but it was reserved for v Drvch. the TTciah paper, to apply to him the wilt ing epithet of "Ymddanyosoddy v Cad Putler." A horrible abortion has been discover ed at Hampton, Franklin omnty, Iowa, tbe victim being Mrs. Cloea. She died a few days ago. Her husband and doctor were bound over to answer at tbe next term of court. Alluding to tbo fnt Jiat Vice Presi dent Wilrn vacated tbe Presidency of tbe 8nat on Tuesday and Matt Carpenter was chosen pro tempore, the Newark Jour nxl says : "Vice and immorality then met and kissed each other." As far as beard from there will be tx-enty-two contested feats in the nej;t House of Representatives. Thirteen of the contestants are Democrats, and uine arc Republicans. ' The Committee on Elec tions will have its haods full of business. A train on the St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad ran over and killed a boy who bad been tied to the track. It is supposed that bis playfellowi bad bound him in sp'irt, and that tbe coming of tbo cars bad frightened theno away, but th6y Ftrennonsly deny it. Jonathan Cnbir.g, ef Rridgewnter, Mas., who is now 8S years old, blasts of having ridden to pchool In 1S02 with Relief Jacobs, who afterward beeame tbe wife if ?heriT Sumner and tbo mother of Charles Sumner. Miss .Taccb6 drove and he sat be hind her on the saddle. From Alexandria comes the romantic j story of a love-sick maiden who, because j hex father "forbid the banns," put all her '' letters into a bushel basket, set fire to them, and Itirn eat dtwn in tho flames with suicidal intontions. P-lie waa badly burned, but is likely to recaver. The Pacifle Hotel, Cbicagn, probably the finest in the entire country, was sold out, Satnrdav, imder tbe foreclosure ef a mortgage. It has been really successful from the start, but the financial troubles of David A. Gage are what involved it. Tt cost over a million ef dollars, atid Fold for $125,000. A-n armless painter may bo seen daily busily engaged in copying some of the old masters in the Pcuth Kensington Musum. ia London. He is a Mr. M. C. Feler of Antwerp, and the facility with which be maDajres his brnsb with hia right 'foot, while holding bis palette with the left, is said o be marvellous. Weston's claim to have walked five hundred miles in six days is disputed by the Newark Covrier, and it is charged by the Spirit of the Time$ that the distance actually made was not more than four hun dred. Whereupon the Rochester Demo crat says, "lie reduces his miles so thst a couple of feet will make tbern." There has been a blast by Beecher in his paper, tbe Chrixtfan Union, and Til ton has responded with a counter Mast. Meantime it is very evident that Mr. Beech er or his attorneys arc responsible for the delays attending the trial. Mr. Beecher has instituted a libel suit against Tilton, which he controls, yet it is unaccountably delayed. Cel. Jcromo Bonaparte and wife are about to return to Baltimore, after a twr years' residence in Europe. Mme. Bona parte was a Miss Appleton, of Boston, an! at the time of her marriage to Col. Bont parte was a Mrs. Newbold Edgar. She s a grand-daughter of Daniel Webster, aid her husband is a son of Prince Jerome Bon a nan o. Rev. J. N. Coombs, for the past twelve years pastor of the Western Presbytf rian Church in Washington, and formerly nem ber of the Baltimore Methodist Episcopal Conference, committed suicide on Sunday last by cutting his throat with a razor. Tbe eauso assigned for the act is dnnestio trouble, his wife having been ins:.ne for some years. Tho Doylestown Demnrrat tcHs this remarkable fish story : "A few dtys ago, while Joel SlitTer, of Haycock. w,u felling timber, be cut down a maplo tree about sevr-n feet in diameter, in the centre of which, about thirteen feet from tl e ground, embedded in the heart, ho foi nd a full sized sun fish as perfect as tbo igh it bad been caught but an hour before." A North Carolina exhanr; says that one dav last. week, at Durham, in that State, Rbv. J. I). Hnfman. pastor of tbo Baptist Church in that plnce, and editor of tho Bibilieal Recorder at Rah igh. shot and killed two negroes with a rifle. Mr. Huf nian heard some one at his hog pen, and repaired thither with his run. He fired ' on him. wbe-i. tohis astonishmeat, he found he had killed both. Th.eo old Udies whoso -.. . ere years. Jtooritly mrt". t'. held depot. Maes. Mil Me'h , aged !.,, walked :dm, flon) nnle distant ; Mrs Hoxana Jew,-, and d,wn stair, tai-iiy, aud pop-coin with the same tee", n ture gave ber SS years aro, 'b.lt V. '" light Laxter, who was tho vo -'" the feculent of tbe thrt-e. -OJ" t. A party of hutitera who a; ; ; days agy at OgallaU, Xeb., .'. flnuing or a deserted cam;, r. .-...,' ' south of Ogallala, UaiingVtf J foul play had been committed s ago three Lleached skeleton v V - . ' on tbe spot. It is supposed th.-it'j'C were robbed and murdered Lv n .., tbe North Platte jail, charM :,Y uimjj una rouuing atnes M- - A shocking tailway aecid - i :i:e. :jtu near tho town of , Oxfoidshirc, England. The -. -', on a branch f the Great Ves, was thrown from vhe tiack a;. I ted down an t mbankruent. v ! carriages fell into the canal road and sixteeu of the us .r drowned. Some of the Utte. c injured. All have been c-i, ,-" ,: ford. ' u The Louisiana Retnrnu.- v concluding its lalnws, has i . ment intended to justify its Board assert, among tbe- " "not at a tenth of tlie , '' t'f- were the forma reipiiied 1 "y ,v. -. ) and they assert that in lav: - r jecting tbe votes of a imiY.! V.. parishes, on allegations " C: ' fiauds or intimidation, thev V(: ing the iciuiremt-iii of tl.i" .,--, A singular outrage i-; Ireland. A partv of ynunj -a young widow, who, wit),"j,er r 4 - . ; ucni i iii.finore. I".iigs fi 'it:-. threatened to take the yonpi'v..'.. unices she would consnnt topi; nan, one of 1b assailants. , 1-. a.sistanco was at Land. and. t :i ' r- & miou, iir in g;lL. urennan, were arrested. 1 r been comnittcd for trial. A telegram from Made;:a at London on tlie sth atat'.n of tbe crew of the emigra-. t rick, from London for New rived nt St. Helena, aud tt-v-Patrick burned at ea. Ti:e 4' ' L - confirmation, bat it is feared rlc-- ami passengers of the Co,;. , v r .. baring 5(10 souls, have all y.tr.-' the exception cf tbe three : . ing anived at St. Held a. - ; ; gram from Madeira ftitcs t' r ! X'atrick was burned on Nwrcr' .- '. : latitude?,? deg. north. 1?--.; : . i -. west. It is now etiniatrd ', !::.t .., were lo(t by tbe riias.ter. .Taccb Neisw,ind r. livi- Ci'izrVi r north of Columbia, (hio, ir. - ? liae been ncuiderfil and ere".iit left home nearly three weeV- r-.': invisible until Sat ui day. l.-ili. v was seen going towards b! h :o-. v a satchel. He as;aio ii-sap:!,! -;. week his family deserted tlii t.c: Neighbors made an inves':.ki hous, aud found tones in a L- ....- ashes in tbe fne plac--. Tv - . : missing nisn have been nrrrv.'. ", : are l'rs fourteen and si.vtt,'': There have been content) 'ii in ' ". . and one of the boys rnnfcu-n; ;-wout-ded bis father with a ba:?:.e: almost a nmcth ago. A woman is awiitirg ser fe.":- -i F' b--ro" for trying to kill be-r infnr.t. i band beirg the complainant, ar little daughter t be only w:trTs. t' harshly treated bv ber host itn d, s ' man f aimer named (lrra: ar-d , . while be was away be t"7d the d.-.-i ' that sVs bad made up her rir.ii t herself. She took tbe baby in ber si and oyeed tbe cover of ibe wll, but i fr a whi'a hindered by t'l girl, v clnng to her dress and begped .tr jump in. She persi'eil, bo-tTr, j when abs had sunk in tbe war ran as ftit as she could to t,s';l'' shoMting, "Ma uri1 baby's droTj' death." Sone laltorers heard ran to the weil in time to rescue !k ". mother and child alive. A horrible nnd atrc-oi.'vi"! rv -J perpetratfd in Erie, Pa., ?.b':t V '!' on Saturday evening lat. f'atb.i r:v ". oeia. a widow, and a niidwif? b t .-." was found dead ua a gutter r.- : . hist outside a low grogc-ery c ' FranVlin House. The i;quts! - eluded, hnt tbare is no doubt t'-'t ti j 1 man was p-ni'-dered duri:- r af':: . -tempt at rape by John Hsn'.ry. ; of the bou"e. a man sixty yev -'A worr.fwn was addicted to diir.V. r. ' prolibly intoxicated at the t' '' murder. Han'.ay has a peara.. tlon. bnt is a notorious yrorli ' in custody alory with wsemb- f V -- ly. His clotbine and nrrw-r- I feucd stained with fresb l-lo I flaor of tbe barroom of ti e herd ' ; exhibits plain traces of W.M. :!-. ! j lion's body wss nut;!i!x! ?n ri ;""' ! manner, T?d bore evidtre r 'i1"3 ' tatien. Hanl'-y has a fim;ly ' fc'r; j speeted children, anil tbe tnuri ir aretiKet! inter firitmrt Tbe Lancaster Fj-t' rl-.-1'- '.' - cumstsrics of a tertibV ' : s Hir n'terrijon. ns Mr. Ph':,, f r.r-' ; bis t-ro sons. Jnmes a-d Jo! p, n-..r- 1 : i ing for cons and rabbits on hania lulls they cane aros ". - glyrcririp, on tbe propnrtv of Stewart, tn Martic townbir. tV u r ani atrm;trd to remove it. vl:.i :' 1 pleled with tremmdons f:e-. ' " klbngtbe eldr Cramer r.n ' " ' tna. The terrible news p-evl : :' Ting rnr-idity. and a deep pi .-.in 'v; 'hat whole section of the coi;''"T- aid that the bod:es of two ! were torn to atoms, shreds f -.. f V.V, tuilRfT fiMlTlfl 'he i sonarcs diant firm tbe ' cidert : while a hole was torn 0 ,. :rr large enough to coneaal a fe-h' One cf the son was fonrc in by. where bo bad evidn.tTr r- dying condition, beinr l"5 ha ; the others. Doputv Co-o v T held an inquest, ad a c-J:s! " al daatb" was rendered : b'i f"r ! occurred will never be V?-."Wi. For twelve years George r olaeville. Ky.. maintained ir ghost tory that be repf '-'ee ' though be" was a man f .'-""' 7 c his narrative wns of c vr" t r attributed to lalhjolnat?on. I f eentlv. and bis Ut wr.' e" '' tinn of the old ta. sbewi' -g t An firm bfll-ever. It r". T tVa nelMibortiOod ia a h-r'-'v wbich is an old graveyard. ! Neet rode night. Su ;" T ' ' -man riding at his sde. wh-e 1"-' made not the sl'ghtet r.-e " ground. Fncbtened by 1hi lance, be reached ' "r , sC' that neither the man no- the ho more substance than a sbs ,-- ; .... tetbe phantom, and wa it r-". c f the graveyard- JL,rr? ,- ' that a tombstone bad tn re , bia grave t- anotbc-. art f.c v. r turned. Tiee ia'un...k-.- ' tasV. whereupon tbe f ! .. v l: rd "h r you. nno "isaj't illation of the town - ;.. ! accept 1h rlt.nr dec 1 ,s i posit i ve ro- if. foT-e. shumii-d by cvt:;
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