= E t *tar It cstutinti. N Friday, April 8,18 TO. Advertisers audetherslu garotted will bear is mind tbat the regular linen• &allots or the - “STAR AND SEXTINEL" Is mush larger than that of any other paper published in the County, being read weekly by not less than 11,N! parses's. TILE Maryland Legislature adjourn ed sine die cu Monday night, after prssinga bill to provide for the regis tration of colored voters. AN election for Town Commissioners was held in Towkontown, Baltimore county, on Monday. Colored peons voted without objection. The Repub lican ticket waseplected. THE Philadelphia papers, which so malignantly fought the Border Damage Bill, are profoundly silent over the grand Railroad swindle which robbed the Sinking Fund of $9,500,000. Was the Border Claim Bill contested, aim- Illy to enable the lobby to make a heavier haul from the Treasury ? GEN. GEORGE H. THOMAS will be buried at Troy, N. York, to day, (Fri day,) with imposing ceremonies i which are under charge of Gen. Sherman.— The latter . proposed to the t friends of the deceased that the body be interred at West Point, but the widow preferred Troy, where she Wends to make her residence, President Grant, with a number of the most prominent officers of the army, will be in attendance. AN article is going the rounds of the Copperhead press, purporting to giVe an account of a State dinner party by the President to Mrs. Revels,- the wife of the colored Senator from Mississip pi, with details of dress, conversation, &c. The intelligent reader need hard ly be told that the en tire story has been manufactured, no is thrown as a sop to the vulgar prejudices of negro•pho bia. Rather poor wit. Gov. BowlE, Of Maryland, insists upon the Democriicy of that State put ting itself in accord with the X Vth Amendment. Lust Saturday he vetoed a bill for the incorporation( of Chester town, Kent-county, because itpacie no pro Vision for the registration and .vot ing of colored citizens. Gov. Bowie holds that the 15th Amendment is now the law of the' land, and binding on the State of Maryland. An attempt was made in the Hansl to pass the bill over the Governor's veto, but it failed, yeas 16, nays 42. A BILL has passed the lower House of Congress, providing that the elec tion for members of the Forty-third Congress shall be held on the second Tuesday after the first Monday In No vember, 1872, and for sulisequent Con gresses on the same day in every sec ond year thereafter. The object Is to have all members of Congress elected at the same time and on the same day. It does not apply to the 42d Congress. Hence members of Congress will be elected in Pennsylvania this year, as usual, at the October election, TizE terrible storm on Monday pre ' vented a hill vote in Connecticut in the rural districts, in consequence of which the Democrats elect their Governor by a small majority. Returns from all but two towns give -English 45,534, Jewell 43,151. The Republicans have the Legislature, 1 majority in the f3en ate and 18 in the House. The State hat been close and vacillating for years.— Two years ago English beat ;Jewell 1765. Last year Jewell was elected by about 600. Colored men did not vote, there not being time to register after the proclamation of the adoption of the 15th Amendment. THE United States Senate on Friday decided, by a vote of 40 to 12, that Gen.: Ames was eligible to a seat as Senator from Mississippi. He was at once swot n in. The case was purely a legal one, and the'whole discussion turned on the Bta(us of army officers as to res idence. Gen. Ames was sent to Mis sissippi as Military Governor, and While still in the Military service was elected Senator, he having some days previously announced his purpose to make the State his permanent resi dence. The Senate Judiciary Com mittee held, as a legal question, that this did not give him a legal habitation, anti reported adversely to his right to alSeat. The Senate, however,by a vote of more than 3 to 1 overruled the Ju diciary Committee. Tn.s U. States ~Supreme Court on Friday, by a majority vote, - ordered a re-argument of the Legal. Tender cases —Justices - SWayne, 21ille4Davis, (who hadillissented from the previous ruling of the Court,) uniting with the new Justices, Strong and Bradley, in favor of a re-hearing--while Chief Justice Chase, and Justices Nelson, Clifford and Field, by who'll the late decision was made, insisted that the decision stand as tbejudgmentpf thaCourtand voted against a re-bearing. There-ar gument will take place on Monday.— This action indicates a probability of the late decision being reversed. Jus tice Strong, while on the Pennsylvania Supreme Bench, affirmed the constitu tionality, of the Legal Tender Act, and Justice Bradley is said to hold similar views.. If so, a majority of the Court, as now constituted, will decide the Act constitutional and put a - quietus on the parties who, under the late ruling, had already begun to`enforee the pay ment in gold of bonds and obligations given prior to 1862. Tim' public debt statement for the month of March, shows a still further reduction of nearly ., six millions of dol lars, ($5,786,849.43,) a decrease quite unexpected in view of the heavy pay ments—nearly $15,000,000—0n account of pensions during the early part of last month. The decrease during the month of April will unaoubtedly be much greater, as the recelpta from in ternal revenue are usually very iteavy , in thia l montb, while the general ex penses; bf the Government are light. Since the 4th'of March, 1869, the re duction in the national debt is abme• thing in tames of $911,000,91X. For the three monilas of this year the decrease aggregatei $16,184,825.07, 1 itemised se follows: - . For danuariri..... For February - For Match Total.. This is an average of over five mil lions a month, and promises for the year a decrease of sixty millions. GRAND Sire Farnsworth, oT the Grand Lodge vf the United States ,of the Independent Order of Odd Fel lows, has issued a proclamation reoom mending the observance of the 26th day of April u a day of thanksgiving and prayer to God, in view of the g prosperity vouchsafed to the Onto. Ar I The Border Damage bill was defeat ed in the House last week, receiving but 16 votes to 73 nays. This kills the bill for the present session. • Governor Geary has vetoed the bill prohibiting the erection of publle buildings tnt Independence Square, on the ground that the State has no juris diction in the matter: ' • The members of the Legislature all winter have been wasting time, ad journing over regularly'from Friday to Monday afternoon, and now that the day fixed for adjournment is near at hand thertvia4 frantic %MIS to rush through long neglected bills. There are an Immense number of local bills on file and every member is solicitous to put ,his own through. As many bills.are read simply by title, it is im possible to tell what is being done, and often the members theinselves do not know. It will be some weeks after this precious . body 'adjourns Wore we will be able to say what are laws and what are not. In the disgraceful hurry mis chievous bills are passed by some ho cus pocus, only to be arrested by a Gubernatorial veto, or to be recalled by joint resolution on being apprised of the true character of the bill. In one day last week Gov. Geary was com pelled to return no less than tWelve . bills with his vetoes; all local bills of no general interest, and the whole batch the spitwn of hasty and thought leis legislation. One was a dui:diorite of a bill previously passed and signed by the Governor, who thought it use less to encumber the volume of laws with two statutes precisely alike. Some were in violation of constitutional provisions, and others covered the jur- I isdiction of the Courts. Year by year this thing grows worse and will not be remedied,.until the people of both par ties take the matter in hand and insist on sending to Harrisburg honest, capa ble Representatives who will be more Concerned 'about their duty to the State, and who can rise above the murky atmosphere of corruption and demoralization that prevails at Harris burg. Another instance of the loogeney with which legislative business is transacted at Harrisburg is thus given. The City Councils of Philadelphia prepared it.pew tax bill for that city, which passed both branches of the Legislature. Before it was sent to the Uovernor, hoWever, it was supple mented by a counterfeit bill which had not been before either House, but was gotten up by the Ring who swarm our Legislative halls. The bogus bill was sent to the Executive and approved by him, and the rascality of the transfur tion was Eat disclosed until after it was signed. The Governor has since sent a message to both Houses asking a thorough examination of the matter, and that the tax law in question be re pealed, The bill giving to the people the right to determine by vote whether licenses shall be granted to taverns and saloons, has passed both branches of the Legis lature, amended so as to require the vote to be taken by counties. This amendment practically. defeats the ob ject of the bill, as but few counties will brow an aggregate majority against 'cense, although many boroughs and crObab/Ps Would be glad to, get rid of he evll. THE colored people in different parts of the country have been celebrating the ratification of tbe 45th Constitu tional Amendment by the firing •of cannon and other evidences of rejoic ing. At Washington the First Ward Repnbliean Club, largely made , up of colored men, on Friday serenaded Sen ator Sumner and a number of promi nent Republicans, calling at the White House en route. President Grant re sponded cordially to the compliment, and after a brief speech by , Col. I. W. Forney, Bald : "I can assure those present that no con summaibuti -since the close of the war affords me so much pleasure as the ratification of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution by three fourths of the States of the Union. I have felt the greatest anxiety ever since I was called to Ibis House to know that this was to be secured. It looked like the reali zation of the Declaration of Independence. [Applause.] I cannot ray near as much .on this subject as I would like hip , not being accustomed to' speaking, but I thank you for your pre,senee this evening." Vice Preiddent Colfax, who was on a visit to the White House, was called out and said ; "My heart rejoices with you in that pro clamation which declares to the people of this Republic and to the people of the world the with:Won of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitutioo. It hilt:Weed a liwtunate coincidence that the satne voice that pro claimed the downfall or the rebellion and the salvation intact of this imperrilled Union, proclaimed afterwards, as the Chief Magistrate of the land which by his valor and that of his fellow-sOldiers was saved from disruption, that as this country was made all free, the same country was deter- Mined that every one should have in his bands the ballot to protect that Notary.— Opposed salt has been in its progress to this Anal culmination, It will live in all his tory as the Magna Charta of this Republic of the United States." The President of the Perna) , lvania Equal /Ueda League, a colored organ- ization, has issued a