SKE Centre Reporter, r*l>.*tJKTS...„ Editor. 0 Centre Hal], Pa., 20, Jan. 1870. TKR W.—t2peryear, is n.i'r,: i.v. '.'..AO wAch not paiA in nrfronee. Advrrti*emrnt*'Mtprrhnt <*• c - t'rtiom, ami for tana 12 vt ...trfAs t> v ill amfrttt. Congressman Maokev ami >, :>r Borer have our thanks for documents vent. Representative Shugert La- been ad ded to the Military committee and repre sentative Alexander to the Educational committee. Some one in the legislature Iras otter ed a hill to make general election day a legal holiday. This i- all noust and tiro legislature should make no nion logal holidays, we have enough of tin r already and more than neecs.-s.rry It the legal holiday husine-.- guc- on, tin .■ will have to Ire a lengthening • ft! < year, to tind time enough to do icg.il business in. It is reported that FA ward >. v . Ac-. the murderer of Fisk, is becoming l-Ur.d and gradually breaking d> wn in .. th in prison, His oomr-> 1 are making n a® wed efforts for his release, and have some hopeaof accomplishing it. At Washington arutnor 1 > eu rent, that Otwron will endeav r to have the Pennsylvania deUy.it a -<■: r tor Conkling, with a view to I t aging in John B. Packer as a compromise man but although everybody has hoard al ■ ti it nobody knows where it originated. Speaker Korr has app anted a- hi private secretary, an Alabama cx-nl No comments.— reran* // What of it when tirant has reln-i guerilla Moseby as his confident:;, friend, and rebel Gen. l ong-tret t in fat othee for the last couple years GOT. 11 art ran ft of Pennsylvania, the Sun, in his annual rne-age adv i-e --vigorous measures against the dis'.ui i ers of the peace iu theyoal region-, arid r commends that every Sheriff I author ised under specified restriction-, to rz -t a special constabulary, to be paid and supported by the county, arim-d by the State. He also says that the Att'rr.ev - General should "be authorized oa his own information, to indict an officer or citizen who failed to perform hi- duty,' which is rathera vague reconnueudation and if carried into effect might result un pleasantly for the Governor himself. It is a matter of notoriety in the Schuyl kill mining district that the Molly Maguires consider themselve-under the special protection of the Republi .111 j ar ty. and a well-informed com -; id. at says it would be almost imp -.-d ie to find one of them who would n ? give hi last shirt for Gov. Hartnuift. Judge Pershing was especially obnoxious t these murderous ruffians; theref- re it. the last election their entire vote wa# cast for Hartranft, and it was not uim.-ai to hear them say that as he had alwav - befriended them they were 1 n;.l t support him at the polls. Fr m the tiuic of the late Gov. Geary, who pardoned a noted member of the Molly Maguircs, who bad been convicted of killing an aged man and wife at Locust Gag. until now, leniency extended to these lawle— men for political ends has been a public scandal, and w ill in a great measure ac count for the defiant attitude they main tain toward their more peaceable neigh bors. THE LEGISLATIVE REVO EE FRA CD. We are receiving the Legislative Rec ord, as usual, behind time, and several numbers folded together where the law requests that they be mailed daily, and each number with the proceedings of the day before. Insteadof this, the Rec ord is often weeks behind and comes in bunches, thus making it of little or no ac count to the public and the press- desir ous to know what proceeding- are actu ally had in the senate and house at the earliest possible moment. The Record thus is a fraud, and the Legislature should not tolerate such an imposition, but make Mr. Bergner come up to tint*, as he is well paid for it. Besides we see the list of "yeas" and "nays" strong out in what printers call "fat matter" thus occupying hundreds of pages, at sl2 to |ls per page, where in solid matter a few pages would suffice. This is a downright piece of plunder, and some member could do the public good service by call ing attention to this robbery on the part of the printer at Harrisburg, and save several thousand dollars j>er session which now go i nto C. 11. Bergner'# |>ocket Will Senator Boyer or representative Shugert and Alexander see to it? CHIC A GO "CROOKED" WHISK V. Internal Revenue Supervisor Tutton, Philadelphia, city, has received instruc tions from Secretary Bristow to proceed at once to Chicago to superintend the trials arising from the seizure# of distil leries, etc., made by him in that city in May last. These trials commenced on Tuesday last. They involve the forfei ture of a large amount of property and the trial of over thirty persons who have already been indicted. The indication# are that most of these parties will plead guilty and permit the forfeiture of their property by default, but the Secretary directs the Supervisor to be prepared with the evidence for the prosecution of each person indicted, as no promise or understanding has been, or will be made looking to a compromise of any of the cases. They are to be prosecuted vigor ously. COXGRESS. The democrats are determined on re trenchment, on 5, Mr. Holman, who is second on the Committee on Appropria tions of the House, that, after a careful examination of all the estimates now be fore the committee, it is manifest that the expenses of the Government for the next fiscal year can be reduced at least ?43,Q00,000. He proposes in the items of river and harbor and public buildings alone to cut down the estimates <*)*>,- 000. In the estimates for the Post-office Department a heavy reduction is also to be made, chiefly in the items of Postmas ters' salaries and the free delivery of let ters. The law now provides that in all cities of 30,000 inhabitants there shall be free delivery. It is projrosed to limit the free-delivery system to cities of not less thn 80,000 inhabitants. The next heavy reduction is to be made in the estimates for the army. It is probable that the committee will recommend a reduction of the army to 15,000 men, with corresponding reductions in the staff and general officers. The estimates for |the Indian Bureau will also be largely re duced. It is believed in tlie best informed cir cles at Washington, that a determined effort will be made by the friends of the Tefal-and Pacific railway project to 'get an endorsement by tin government of tin' bond* of the company The southern eoiigres-mcn, of both political paring, are a unit in favor of this scheme and thoy propo-o war tuon tln> Fnion Pacif ic charter and a bargain with the advo cat os of (lie Centennial appropriation as tho mean* hy which to assure its MUM The utterly -elfish and grasping conduct oft ho rnion Pacific corporation, and especially its illiberal and jealousoppai lion to all ol her proposed lines to the Pacific, have made it enemies in and out of congress. It is maintained hy some that the facia brought to light l>v the tVedit Mohilior investigation in tin Forty-second congix-i afford amph ground for congress to declare itschurtei forfeited. MM 77. - l KdJSI. A Tili) On 12th hills were preented in tin Senate upon the following subjects An act relative to persons writing threatening letters. Section First provi de* that if any one shall knowingly send deliver t r utter such missive accuse any person with a view to extort anything, -halt be liable to imprisonment for tlm c years ami pay a line not exceeding >l. 000. Mr. IHU, a supplementary act relative to burial grounds ami cemeteries sitntc in incorporated borough* which provi de > that c ourts of Quarter > ssiona may declare such grounds a nuisance and re moved the dead. Mr. Mel lellau. an act to provide foi the erection of watering troughs for the use of horses and cattle on the high roads A the Commonwealth. Mr. Rockwell. an :w t to prov ide for the erection of a poor house for keeping the poor in the several counties of the Com monwealth. Mr. Lawrence, an act relating to col lateral inheritance : also, an act ri gtilats iug, making, repairing and keeping in repair public roads in the eountv of Washington. aULtsi i -a or kiri: akvs. Mr. Anderson, < Allegheny >, an act to punish persons fir the careless use of irearms. It provide* that any person who shall point, discharge or threaten to discharge any gun or pistol, at any other jienson, shall be guilty of misde meanor, anil subject to a fine of one thousand dollar* and two years impris onment. Nothing in the act is tq be a bar to recover for damages that may be (aimed in a civil suit for any injury au-ed by the cureless use of firearms. Also several bills to suppress vagran cy, sod one for the re(eal of the bank rupt law. • ♦ ♦ PHEPARIXT. FOR sn:< U: PAY VESTS. v si hem:- tiv wttiiu national bok* m.vv till Tti£ I'L.VX Ol KKM MITIoX. Washington, January 12. —Mr. Btirch mb of Illinois, introduced a biU in the House to-day to require national banks o prepare for the resumption of Specie Payments, which was referred to the Committee on Hanking ami Currency. Mr. Burcharvi's plan is to require banks to retain in coin or coin certificates the interest received upon their bonds, de sited with the United -tates Treasurer - security for circulation, as a reserve for the redemption <>t its circulation, an il the amount ©f this reserve is equal :o 20 per cent, of the circulation. For n-tance, if a bank has $200,000 capital and slm>,CWo circulation it i obliged to deposit f3oo,o worth of security bond.- it 5 |>cr cent. The coin interest on tkm bouds if slO,i" v) and th® bank w ill be re juiri d by. this bill t>> hold this interest in coin or coin certificates nutil $36,000 is accumulated. The total amount of bon is held as security for bank circula s alsjut $ }'*>,f*X>,ooo, and by Mr. Burch anl's plan about $20,(*>0,000 in coiu would lie accumulated by the I winks annually. A member of the Ohio legislature has offered a bill imposing a fine of SV for taking the uame of God in vain. That vould bankrupt the state and pay off the national debt in one year. The Inland insurance and deposit company of Lancaster Ir. H. K. Muhlen '-rg, president J. Cam. Muhlenberg, cashier, dosed its doom on 15th. The directors >n ascertaining the condition of affairs, made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors to S. H. Reynolds a prominent attorney of that city. It is -apposed the asset- will pay general de positors, but little is yet known about the real condition ofatfairs. The product of the Cambria Steel Works, John-town, Pa., for the year end ing I fee. 31, 1575, was 55,525.180-2240 tons of steel. This is the largest output, by many thousand ton#, of any other five ton plant in the world. The capital -took of the company which runs this establishment is $7,000,000. William M. Tweed is said to have been seen on Thursday 0, in a store on Notre Dame street, Montreal. There i# good reason to believe he is at present living with friends in the upjer part of the city. Twenty-five thousand insurgent Tur comans are assembled near Andipan, which they arc prepari opto besiege. A train ran off the track near Odessa, Russia, on Saturday. Sixty-eight per sons were killed and fifty—four were wounded. AXXEBTY HERA TE—BLAINE ASH RAXHALL. Washington, January 11.—The utn nc*tv debates was begun at I o'clock by Hill, of Georgia, who replied to Mr. Blaine. Very close attention was given the galleries being densely crowded. The debate will continuo most of the day. Opinion is divided whether Blaine's amendment will pass or not hut the Republicans say they will be satis tied if they ran place the Democrats on record against excluding Jeff Davis from the amnesty bill. The Southeren mem ber- are greatly aroused over the course the amnesty debate has taken, und many of them assert openly and boldly that they will vote against the Centennial ap propriation because of thecourse pursu ed by Mr. Blaine. The Republicans ■ who favor the appropriation charge Mr. Randall with being responsible for the defeat of the appropriation if it is defeat ed. lie was appealed to not to press the action of the amnesty measure until the Centennial hill had been acted upon, but this he positively refused to do, believ ing that his duty to his party was para mount to the passage of the Centennial appropriation. The Lewisburg Academy of Music was totally destroyed by fire on last Friday morning, at 3 o'clock. They lately had an exciting time in Huntingdon, when Henry f?. Wharton appointed assignees, llis liabilities are over |94,000, and his assets about $50,- 000. The normal school of [the State cost two millions to educate teachers for the common schools. The conundrum is how many of these boys and girls after receiving and education on a college scale, give their services to.the Ktute or how much better are they than those who have been taught in colleges or seminaries at their own expeiice? heri'lij' sitetl tlint applies- | ix| lion will •• m*ds tothw nl Ltflnl Utiiro for the psg >0 an net, authoris ing *n investigation l the linmicisl uinn- j naciuent and condition of the how lihurg. (>ntrs Sprueo Crook Kallroad Ch m pany. -It ; ThealVe was handed u* for puhliea lion hy an esteemed fiicud, who was re quested to ehr s*> hy a third party who'-e name ias .ifo K tu ~ft. . There is beauty in cireuuiloeiitioit sometime'-, a round about way is often resorted to in order to accomplish a thing f doubt- Ail expediency when a strait and >j it course would let too much daylight into it than might be desired. Now we can sec right through the also e notu c w lot h is to bo clad with so much mystery, ami at once pronounce it u humbug ami u sham, ami truly calculated to delay our already Pro much delayed railroad, and the upshot is tins I'h# (tarty one in |iariicuUt who is at the head of this notice, wants tit figure us tine oftheeom mitttcc in u stiaiu investigation ami gel up a temporary iiy ti> serve a purpose ami make a little popularity Our rail road ha* already been delayed by an noyances from the same quarter, giving the l'ennsy Ivauia railroad company ex cuses fur much of the delay we have al ready suffered from. There i- nothing that a committee can investigate, and a> the move has been made, we desire tla party to go ahead, and when ,they are through, w ill call attention to the fact j that we predicted it would ull be a hum bug. If any Stockholder desires to cv amine the Iniok.- he )n%s the law on hi* side for doing so. There lias been too much fooling with our railroad already, and there are those in this county who .ire a- much to blame as the lYnn'a latl road company, and Hie Lord knows it has been slow enough. Certain parties are pretending to be the friends of the road through Pennsvalley, yet stab it in the dark upon every oppoituuiiy. and the above -ham is another uiorc of the kind and in addition to si-rvo for a little Capital some fellows are seeking after. Now go r.ght ahead, and do not say that onr exposure prevented your investiga tion. Let no one otfer any oppoMliou to the (>urisage of the act asked for, and w hen the thing is over, the friends of the road will find us correct. If there is am one in this valley that take- a -|>ecijl in terest in the early completion of our road, it is the editor of this paper. Few have given it more money; few have spent more time, the Kej*>rtor has earn estly advocated it for years, and our name is upon heavy bonds in its behalf, and we cauliou against the advice of men who have thrown every possible obstacle in its way, when at the same time thoy protend to l>e its friend. Let uo stock holder be gulled by fellow w ho wraut to "investigate." The greaie-t cause of delay and the ahm -t fatal no, was the stockholders-mortgage bill in the Legislature a few years ag" : a pretended friendly measure too, that threw u- back -ix months, that six month- threw us into the panic times which caused oj*ra- tion# t hat were then going forward rap idly, to stop, and since that little ha been done. Now investigate. ♦ I'hk Li mbi.k Tr u>e. — From A state ment in the Wil!iam-j,rt Gaily Banner lof Tuesday we gather the following fig ure- on the Lumber trade in the Wet Brunch Valley for the p:i-t year: The shipments from Wiliiamaport for the your amounted 185,131,421 feet being >l,- '74,BfiS feet less than in 1-74. I.oek Ha ven shipjed 39,501,000, being an inrrea- e but how much is not given. Renovo shipped 9,290,015 feet. Taking all the point# together that are named in the estimate—Williamsport, Lock Haven, Re novo, Larry's Creek and south of Troy—and the amount of lumber -hip ped in 1*75 is 254,657,085feet, being a de crease from 1874 of 43,065,919 feet. The -!ock on hand in Williamspurt i* given at 207,571,7)04 feet. Gov. Hartranft wo# inaugurated 011 Tuesday. The Fann School cadets were present. Hartranft should have had the Molly Msguires in Lis parade also, as those bloody fellows did go**] work for him in Schuylkill last election. Lebanon, Pa. January 15.—The jury in the ease of Kliza Benson against the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com pany, for having taken her beyond Avon Station, in Marc h last, whereby she be came permanently disabled by reason of exj>o#ure to in* lenient weather, came in to Court this morning with a verdict awarding the plaintiff f 4,250. The com pany has moved for a new trial. A white man named Miller is haran guing the black- of Northern Alabama and per-uading them to apply to congress for a separate country of their own, from which whites shall be excluded and which w ill then become a paradise hav ing black law-years, ihs tors and merch ants. lie promises to l>c the Moses of the movement. His harangues are pro ducing much discontentment among the laborers. It appears that in districting the state of South Carolina it did not suit the pur poses of the radical legislature to make up the Thin! district out of contiguous territory, one county being separated by 25 miles from the others comprising that district. This fatal constitutional defect w ill probably unseat Congressman Iloge elected from that district. Washington, I>. C., January 16.—Mr. l'inchback has written to a friend that be will be again in Washington this week to urge action by the senate on his claim to a seat in that body. On the last ballot for -enator in the Kentucky legislature, Saturday ttic con testants stood as follows: Beck 50; \V illiains 42; Leslie 29; Wadsworth 14. THE TO IT'.V OF A RASCY, I'ERC, HE S TRO YEH ti 1* A X EA R THern received in Lima, dated t'usco, Decem ber 11, which announce the complete destruction by earthquake, on the 4th of the town of Ahnncay. Between 4 p. m. of the 4tli and 9 a. in. of the sth no lew than thirty-seven shocksoccurred rever al of which were very severe. The town is Mid to becomjilctely de atroycd.but it is not known if loss of life has occurred. The damage done is very large. Abancay is a town in Peru, the capi tal of a province on a river of the same name, sixty-live miles west-southwest of Cusco. It has important sugar reliner ies. Its population is about fivo thou sand. VALPARAISO ISVSI)A TED TWO I.IVKS J.OSTANO 11,500,0(10 WOKTII OK I'ttOKKUTV IJKSTIIOYKU. Panama, January 3.—Telegrams an nounce a severe flood in Valparaiso. The business jiart of the city was inundated, two lives lost and 11,500,000 of property destroyed. The flood was caused by heavy rains and stortnv winds on (lie 10th ult. The aet earnings of tho North Pennsyl vania railroad for the year ending October 31, 1575, were $512,192,34. Afier paying inlesest and taxe llerc remained $100,627 on band. Sait RON TIII TIIKO.IT. In these days' <| *rlt< a clergy ninn, whoti i>rne of the!" Iuot a> to universtilly prevalent, uml in io ninny cases Intnl. wo feel it our duty to! | > iv n word in behn'l ol n simple, HIOI W lint ' has been with us most rfl.ctual. if not all positive euro lor sore throat. For many', venrs |-nt, Indeed we may say during the whole of n lit.- of more limn l ity years i we have been subject to - 10 throat, and' more parlivult rlv u dry liueklng cotigh, whiili i not only dl-ti-itig t.- ourselve , hut ! our friends nr-d itnxao wtaoip wr rsfe brought into busiiie - u-uu.i Ln-t fall we wiio induced to ity what virtue therel whs iii , iiitiii-ii salt \\ e i -miurio .d b> tisirg it th|i i tin .. n d.v, inoin noon, ni i nignt \\ e dlst< rv id n large table . spoon full of pure salt in shout half a tumbler full of c id water. With this wi i g.vrc; id tho throat most thoroughly Just b.-luie meal time. The result I.as beer; that during Ihe.eatire winter wo were not j nniy free t>tni coughs an 1 col.l, but the' dry. I.Hiking t ugh has entirely disnp-, peai vd We nllribulo these satis Artory I re.-ult- solely to the use of the gargle, and most cordially recommend n trial of it toj IhosO who aie subject to diseutCS of the! throaL Many |ier-on who Imve iieverl tried the salt gargle have th e impression j l! tit i. unp'unsaut Such is not tlm case , t'u tl i contrary ii is pleasant, and filler a lew days u-c.no person who loves a nice] clean mouth and lirrt Uric sharpener of the' a| petite will abandon it COLLI K It I h> KKXI'MI.VG, L'ottsv ille, I'M. JUU. IO -Tbe i'htladel phiu and Heading railroad company issued orders to-day to start the Mahanoy places I on Monday. A number of collieries work-' od by tbe Reading company and private' individuals, git lug employment to a large number (>l mall and boys, wiUlhen Ic-amu miuiiig operations. Mr. llsbbitt is n. l a urelbodical, watch ful and wary mere bant, at.-d bs been very -ucc< sslti! in spite of his lack of those qu i Its which usually are desuvod v-seiiltai (o I'UM' C- Tctc- He is nn inventor, a man; more absorbed in the contriving of his in vention than in developing a busings* sys tem with proper checks and guards. Xrob- 1 nbly also there is not another nut a in New' York vv (io could have losl so many hun dred thuii-aud dollars as this lucky tt np manufacturer did wilhout missing tliej money. BLAINE and COX. HI.A IN KuN TIIE R.VMLAGK Reviving the Hatreds nml Auiiuoe ilice of tho \Yur. Wa-hingtoii. dan 10 li. the House to day Mr Landat! Ifrin , l'a taoyej tu, -u-petui the rules In ord< r to proceed to the consideration ofthe Amnesty bill Mr. Heine Kep., Me l suggested that ■ tho Cstutenuiisl Appro) rmlian bill ahouid tie fir-t considered, but Mr Landall insist ed > n hi- luo'.ioli, and the rule* w era sus pended by the rvuut ile two thirds *iOn. Mr. Uruidali tben Jatnauled tin previous ju- - *tion on the passage of tin- bill. Mr B ine I>. H.e gantletimn desir. I to cut off the amendment ' Mr Karvdull -1 desire t> bnTC the prrv i ou- nuestion MH-onded, and then 1 will ] low half of tho hour, which th>- ru'ft give me to disc as-1- n to tho other i'd *of the House. Mr. Itlsins-Tlis gwutieWMii propo not to allow any aniendment M K.tnJan 1 wi([ li-ien t nyamand meet Mr Blaine- Tlie gi-nt'.rnian know s vary well that the i rev .-us qtMslbsn cci t u# auiandoint- Mr Uattdail — I *iu )Uil- aware of the • fleetof iL 1 have fv-r iwetvts yearv Darn ed ita i'Sccti# advarsity under your d.rec ti >n, and tb;.lcf your aid- f tl>e House. Murmurs of appLusa on the Democratio i ds ] The previous -iuflimit way ! iso to w Tbe main queatlon ws -.edere-i Yeas i 1 *ikt ; navs, Its—a strict paHv vote Mr Hlaina— 1 desiro to say a siaglw word. Mr Landail -you may have in r;y p.in I utca if you like. Speaking for the Minority. Mr. B'aln The Injfea-.iout of the v. , l" ndeJ and llis hilt brought before th< 11 me for coon deration Mr Rat. laii—This bu. i* • ssc: > tl.u urns, wurd fur word aluis-t, •• the one which the last Republican lioisso passed without oven ibo seas and mya. Twice' have Republican floutes pasted this bill, and twice ha* it been strangled in the Sen ate. Ido not know wbalhaf "tome over the spirit i'f the dream" of the R. publi- , .an party, or of the gentleman froin 1 Maine. 4 Mr. Hiaine— 1) want the opportunity U> tell what has come over the spirit of uiy i dream Mr Randall —I ask unanimous consent that you may bate thirty minute* Sir Blaine Id' not wail to talk ex cept for tome practical purpose. 1 want to talk t<> an i*uo 1 want to talk in fax t of an amendment, and I do not want to be confronted with the statement that that* amendment tfaneot eve** have the poor prieilag'S of being voted down, and 1 sup pose it would he voted down I want it; to goon to liio journal of the lion*" Mr Randall—The sauUcman t object is, already accomplished if he wants to go be fore the country as Au Obctructionist to Amnesty. Mr. IHaine—The gentleman i* ob-truct ihg amnesty Re is holding down every man in the South at.d keeping off smnii ty because he will not allow us to vote on excluding Jefferson Ifavi- M: Randall Did you allow the milt OS-, ity of the House t - offer auiondoicnt* to,, the Call Right- hill? i Murmurs of "No, no. ' Nor to the Force bill, either," trom ! the Democratic -HIC, and ci lis for the reg. . u!*r order from both -iJe*.] The <]uction ws then taken and the : , bill wa* rejected by a vote of 17'-' yeas and }' U7 nays, uul tbu requisite two-ttiird>|in the ' majority. Mr. lllaine—l now move to reconsider the vote juil taken. and I deor of the House, and all by the grace and magnanimity of the Repub lican party Mr. Blaine then reviewed the action of the Republican majority with reference to amnesty, saying that it offered, it to all except to those who in addition to general revo.t. had violated a peculiar and personal oath to support the (Constitution of tbu.L'uited States That di-abiiily, how ever, wa> hardly fixed ucou the South be fore we begun in this hall and in the Hen ate chamber to remove it, the very flrt bill taking the disability oil" froiu lt,62'>! gentlemen. Then in 1872 n general law was passed removing al! political disabil ities imposed by tlie Fourteenth Amend munduicrit from all persons except .Sena tors and Representatives in the Thirty sixth and Thirty sevonth Congresses, offi cers ol the judicial and military and naval service of the Uuiled Htates, heads of de partmenta, and foreign Ministers of the United States. Since that act was passed a very considerable number of gentlemen included in it have been specially by name relieved from disability ; but since Msy 27,1*72. in no single instance have disabil ilieabecn taken front any man unless upon his respectful petition to Congress thul they should be removed. Mr. Hlalne said the whole number now under disability is only about 750. and ho saw no rasson why amnesty should not he granted to tbem, us it had been to many- of tbo same class, lie continued : A Preliminary to Amnesty I um in favor of giving it to Ihtnn, but in the abcnce!of tliut re-poctful Ibrntof pe tition which mice the '.'7ih of May, 1H72, him become it sort of common lew as a preliminary to amnesty I simply wish to put into the law, that the person-* shall go before n United State* Court, and in open court, with uplifted hand, swear that they mean to conduct themselvc* as good citi zens of the United Slates. That it all. Gentlemen say thai this is a foolish exclu sion. Well, yes, it it j but somehow or other 1 am prejudiced in I'nvor ol it. 1 do not want to impose citizenship on gen tlemen. If lam correctly informed, thero aro some gentlemen <>ti this list who have spoken contempuomdy of the idea of their taking citizenship under the United States, and have spoken with great harshness about their associate* in the South who have done so. I understand that Mr. Hub ert Toombs lias made a special boast, at watering places in this country mid in Eu rope, liiul be would not ask the United States for citizenship. We can stand that •Ivi it s- as well us Mr. T->< nib |lniigiitci |l f and il Mi it. dicrt Toumhs is not prt-pmuu t to coin.- into tb I'mted Stale* four! and , sw car that he means to I e a good ■ it molt, let him stay out. I do riot think that 1 t'ongre aught to rist ilsell into a Joint i .•.invention and ciubincc Mr. K.diorl , Toumhs gusliinglv, and heg him to honor ••lid (uvor im hy coming back ami taking ' llio login -l form of cltiKi l:shi|i Woll. i what niter ' My substllute require* thai • very one of these gentlameii shall show hit good faith hy Ink mg the oath which all fus take and are glad to take. That is a • ere small at action to niaka us a prelim i|lHV to a full lest.iration to all lite right*. >f citlselislilp, , (Utiuu,s UAvia kxcxcian. In my aiiiehiluiaat I liave excepted .lef | leraon l'avis from its operalions Now, I , i ii"i p Dee that ox caption on the ground , thai Mi Halls Was, as lie Is Ct inOioltly • ailed, tlie head anil liolil uftli* rebolllon, because (111 thai ground 1 do not think it 1 would b# tenable Mr Uaviawasju*! as guilty no more so, no le-s to-tban thou ' -and* of others who will get tho benefit of 1 gruce and amnesty Probably he was far i lest a#en*al u- an enemy of tho foiled Stales Probably he wa* far niure u-eful >i g disturber ol the Confederacy, It is ) not because ol any particular or special damage which ho, above all others, did to llio United Stales, or because he is panic j ulart.v of any ap' Cial oons#.tuanea, tb it I rxcepteil him Hut 1 escepl bun ou this | grouiiJ, that ha i* the author, knowingly', jUctiherntely, guilty wilfully, of tho gigan-l I tic murder and crime at Andaraoiivillc. ] . A niember - And Libby ] l.ibby pales in : iiisigntfiran. at con,pared to Anderson | vtlle. 1 plactt it on that ground, and Ibe : uev e that io rapidly duos one event follow .on the hlt of another in the rapid ng.- in j which wo live tbl own those of u who , were contemporaneously cognizant of | what WHS fiat spineg there, still lets those of ui who have grown up since, have fail ed to realize the gigantic crime which was then committed Since tho geiitlrinah ifruaa Pennsylvania introduced this bill 1 I have taken the occasion to read some oflbr . uistorusl cruelties of the world. I have iad over the details of these atrocious na-siw ics under lint iluko >f Alva in the Low tVuuirlvjß, which are uientiotiad with i ihntl of horror throughout Christendom 1 have read the details ol Hi Bartholomew, which stand out as one of the atrocities br lyaod imagination. 1 have read anew the horror* untold and uniniogiticd of the Spanish Inquisition, and 1 here, before God, measuring my words, knowing their lo.i extent ai d import, dccDre that neith er the Luko ol Alva in the Low Countries, . nor tic author ofthe massacre of St. Kar ihohmtuw, nor the thumbscrews. dungeons 'anil utr. itic* of the Spanish jnuuisitiun begin to compare in atroc.ty with the hid ' t-otis ciinie ol AhdrrytivU|o Mr Blaine than proCcdcd to quble froni (the rei>nrt of the Committee ou the Con duct ofthe War extracts in reference to tho horrors of Andersonvilie. in which ilia |afti that no pen can describe, no painter -ketch, no imagination comprehend its jfieirful, iu unutterable iniquity, lie said (hat (lie matt is !m) administered the Ander son v iht> pri*. u w cut there b v urit-r of M r Psvil. Uh4 war sustained Jojr him lie quoit-d tbe ordef o[ (Jcit Winder to the t attery of Fiona* artillery, dire, ting it,on receiving notice of the approach of the en omv. to ..pen fire with grapethoi .in the .usal|r wretches Contlrsci within the Andetsonrillestockade Mr Biaine con . linued : .'XX u) jury tl A V ja * UHKa< Ksl . IM*S. Now, I do not atraigu Ike Houtbcrn poo ( l>!a for this. God forbid that I should .I yrgt- nuy |-cop!u wiiliiyiupalbixing will 'uich an • r.lr. There were many evl deiiee* of gr.v.- at Eicbui.u.d, under tbe adniinkltation ol Mr. Jtfhnsou, wa> a weak Step, for be Was ii.d .U' l only 1 for that f.*r which he wgs g-.iiity .D 'on.,). .. vs'tU #yr utiiergentle nijt who went Into (he confederal# more, inent, and therefore there was no j>*rtieu ler reason for sisg!ing him out for indict n.enL Hut Iwi I undertake to tav this, and wil.'i goot delrberat.'on. that there it nt* Kcveiimrd government on the face of the gii be, very certaiaiy not a Kurvpear go*erocniul. which would not have ur rested Ml. Davis, or which, when it had him re iu power, would nut hgvo tried him for lualtreaUMiit of prisoners of war, , ar.d shot him within tbiriy days. .>i*KLCH OF HON S K CVf\ IN KK l'l.Y IU Ml: BL\INKNT!IEAM- Nfcbl Y BILL fie ' Mr„LV'X ventured to *) t!igt there vras no precedubl in hiak.ry and uo canon in p '.ilica! phiiosophy wbKls tho | arty now in the minority cu this fiopr had not iu Ire a eci by the rejection of cfemer. cy. by its persistwr.ee In making reprisals io tun* >of peace. The gentleman from Maine had began by a refcrcivc L> the Duke of Alva, _Htid the re was 00 doubt that that grolle , OMUU and hit party had beers, tinea the war, at i.-aaL quite familiar with that bi - tevy Tbe history of the N ether lands en vlerthe }>uk# of Alva was tb# history of radicalism. spgJ'uUioß, murdoz, death and tyranny -a tiie south tinea ipixk. [Deri sive laughter on the reputdlean side of the touts and applanae on the democratic tide ] He would refer the gentlemen to a ' prwcs-dcr.t two theuiand years old, and would say that all history was filled vritL sucb precedents, l*pw! it by emne peddling opera tion. [ I,slighter ] He (Mr. Cox) had the honor to be a member of this house at the , beginning of the war, and lie alto had the j honor to bring forward the first measure for the exchange of prisoners He asked whether the record of the federal adininis •ration was a!! right in the matter of ex 'change during the war. He had it on thai authority of sixty gentlemen present, who I bad been in the confederate army, that no order had been Issued at any time in the south with reference to prisoners ol war at to rations or clothing which did not ap ply equally to confederate soldiers. Ex partu affidavit* taken by that humbug committee on the conduct of the war cast Id not controvert the facts of history These foot* were to be determined on a fair i-sue made, so far n the confederate governmenl WHS concerned The order.-! of that government, whatever might bo the bad conduct of certain officers under it, had been couched in a spirit of fairness and humanity. He spoko sneeringly in reference to the remark ol Mr. Diainethai southern gentleman were now members ol the house through the grace of the repub lican party, and he said : "Down on your knees, gentleman of the south, before his majesty of Maine!" (Loud laughter on the democratic side ] lie (Mr. Cox) had labored in this house to nutigalolhe sever ities of civil war. Tho democrats then on the floor had been powerless to avort most of its calamity, but they had tried to miti gate its Severity. They had spoken against all those means which had destroyed in dustry and property ; which had burned libraries, poisoned wells, and done any thing vise but make war the duello be tween fighting men in tho field ; but Ibe | republican i arty hud not pursued that course, but almost to th* end of the wur, until Mr. Lincoln's proclamation of nin nesly, the same spirit had prevuilud which provoked retaliation and perpetuated wur. When the amnesty of Mr. Lincoln was proclaimed it WH* proclaimed in a spirit, oh ! how different from that of the gentle man from Maine of to-day. He had no doubt that tho spirit of Mr. Lincoln look cd down ill udne* on the gentleman when ho inado hi* pocch to-day. "Malice to ward* none, charity toward* all." Jottcr -oti Davi* Included. With him there had been no exceptions, no restrictions, no odi ous lest <>ath* The gentleman from Maim could not have Well raised in a Christian church or in any church which taught the doctrine of lliui who spake as never man spake. He [Mr. Cox] could not lull, and tho nation did not know the church jthai (he gentleman WM im .it In J4l, let | llul uiui thing b itiil know, that if ilisl #1 ntleninn hnd read file Htrinon on the Mount u■ 1> he never w. ulj IIMVS mails tlie r. J snj lirinv |ICI . h which lis' made to day. Mr fus then procttodod to 'give a history of the various attempts of Htiuicsly, in the course of \slm it Mr lllmitsst inquired of him how the southern (gentlemen who were members of the li u.- had got here? Mr Co* replied that they got here because the south wnntel hone.) j representatives, and the retmblicant down there were not honest Mr Ittniiie Hut w ill the gentleman tell us how they got am nasty ? Mr Cos. Thay got it from the force of popular sentiment, whirh enable! a few K oil men on your side of the house to join with the go. 1 men on this side to compel amnesty. [Loud laughter.] M r Cos s srit on to give a history of Ills auitins y legislatl 11 in congress, and re fit r J to the feet that the colored men vo te! generally fol amnesty || character- Led this by saying ttssst the colored troops fought nobly [laughter], and that was a j.retty comment upon iLe white side of the house lie spoke f Mr But tor's 101 l for amnesty having an cicaption in it. The Hub Koy klacgregor exception, jul ss the substitute proposed by the gentleman Iretn Maine, had a L ib Koy Maigiigor e x vj< tion. in imitation of |h spirit of the Eng. iuh tow rds th Scotch liX) years ng.. I'liat till ol Mr Butler's, be stated, had a curious title. It was a bill for full' obliv ion and the full pardon of ail things dm e in the rebellion , but w hen the details of tin bill CMlne to lie harked iuto, It was found to be a bill of ot-iirion of all alive with mem ory, It was all story, like a western river in a fresh-l h was a bill of pardon wliicll was punishment, One section of the lull tiad in m. amnesty ferlhe men.otbcvrs and agents of the confederate government who had been engaged in reconstruction. What had they been doing, these sweet scented agents ol recoiistrni lion, that Hutlsrsh. uld amnesty them ? Ilad they been stealing ? Had they been ly ranittng Had they t.cen upturning leg statures ? Had they bsen running riot ..ver helpiaas and con ! que red people ? This was the s rt of sm I uesly offered to the people ol the south by Mr. Hotter. He wondered that the gentle-1 man front Maine did nut have that -eclior Incorporated in hisamendment. Thai bill) of Mr. liutler* t was 'o < bad eva f r a re publican house tp pars. Mr Cos then re ; ferred to tbe amnesty bill reported last set sioti from the Committee rules, and ill Con tradiction to one of Mr Hlaine'a state inents In rcgatd to that hill said that hi appealed to las collesuge, Mr. Kandnll, of 1 Pennsylvania, to God. and U> the rsoord. Mr. Blaine interposed the remark that the gentleman !r..w New Yark followed the example of Mr. Dogberry and put his colleague first. Mr. Cos retort-d that he w.-uld give Mr. Hiaitu enough of the dogs tief re ho go; through. (Loud laughter ] He said ll.al he would appeal not merely to Providence or his colleague ( Mr. Kandall), but to the ! record. U> show that almost the idenlica ibill which was now opposed by the dis tinguished gentleman from Maine had then received his ai quirr-snre. Mr. Cox went on le read from the record the proceedings in regard to the amnesty iiill of last year, in the r urse i f whirl Mr. Lawrence of Ohio, appears t . havi j ask* d Mr. Maynard whether lhr)bill in icludcd Jslfi-rsen Davis ; alluding to which Mr. Cox said that he remainbered this | same Rr. Lawrence an ring, in IH£7 ot b# that what he demanded for the south was . fir steles* funeral, and tins, said he, was , live years after the war, and illustrates thi benignity of the republican gentlemen ;He remembered when tbe amnesty bill ; ri.sed, the aureole that than# ground thi .r<>w of lyaisi.p pf low a, the centennial | glow that beamed on the lace o! Mr. Kel iey, of Pennsylvania, and a-to the gentle , nsan from Maine, he reminded him of |b siH-aiyptio angel if lha sun. He watte J hr.ghl ami beautiful that it was impost! , kie to lock upon bitn [Laughter.] Wny at that gentleman (Mr. Blaine) taking it ' all back now ? It was not in order to at , tribute motives to gentlemen, and b< would not do it. Re kro-w that tbe gen 'tlraian fn ,n Maine was known t< he a candidate for the Presidency, but that was no reason why h* should be a mean man. He Wat the last man to whom he (Co* srotiid attnbute any bad motive. H-jt one thing was very curious, and that was thai ,be lUininr) was antagonizing I'iesidetl ,Urant on lh> subject, fin (Cusid.il n>t ,iiks the lot* k s of I bat. [Laughter J llr .therefore called • n republican gent lemon, •nd ctpesUlly on that hUie kn-lof colored 'members whu fought so nobly, and who were now fighting for the third term, 'rote down this onnuxlous exception pro ■ posed hy tbe gentian *n from Maine Had nut tbe |Vs*iilent In his annual message o< j He. ember. lo7A. renewed his previous re commendtitiuß for general amnesty? But .(ietivral Oram tt> a soldtwr, and not a j scurvy poiiisi iar. 1 1.slighter, j To be (sure. Geueral liral.l tiad made some little '.rouble down south, jn Arkansas, Louisi ana and othar states, but ha had nerar pro posed an exceptional, partial amnesty He wore theplume fa soldier, at.d the plume •fa soldier, at some poet has said, even in (the din and fire of battle, could be waved 1 by the brealb of xepbyr. How could he contrast the conduct of the genllerr.iir. i fretn Maine with that of General Grant without giving his views on tbe pretiden lel ijuestion t [Laughter] and that h< did not want to do. They had ail coatc here h.gathi r by the same "tidal wave. Those men from ihetoutb had Ix-en silting there taking little contemptible insults fr.-m the i ther side about the oigauixstion 1 of the House, wbile thp fact u that more' maimed Cnron soldiers wrro appointed subordinate officers in the hou under democratic officials than had been ap- i pointed in the last bouse He rendcmnrtl .the course of the gcnllrman frem Mnine j in raking up the embers of hate, and brj , intimated (hat his siieech was a bad, ma licious, mitchicvious speech, and one that would nevrr elect b.m to tho l'resulency i fhe lived for a thousand years. [Vocif erous laughter.) In conc'usion he refer red to the story told by Liry of w Koman general, who. having conqiterrcd l'hiiip lof Macedon, had it announced unexpect-i ;i-LLAR, We Will Send, I'ost paid, The Weekly World one year. 1. 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