= (lie HUNTINGDON, PA. Wednesday morning, Jan, 23, 1867, W. Lewis, Editor and Proprietor Hugh Lindsay, Associate Editor. " I know of no mode in which a loyal. cili :en may so well demonstrate his devotion Ti his country as by suslaininy the Flay the Constitution and the Union, lender all cirewn- slance•c, and DNDER Extra - ADMINISTRATION REGARDLESS OF PARTY POLITICS, AGAINST ALI ASSAILANTS, AT ROME AND ABROAD." A. DOUG I,A° 11.ori. Geo. W. Woodward de. clines being again a candidate for a scat on the Supreme Bench. THE VOTE FOR GOVERNOR.—The offi cial returns for Governor were opened and counted in the presence of the two Houses of the Legislature. They stood: - John W. Geary, 307,374 votes. Mester Clymer, 200,006 votes. Geary's majority, 17,178 WHAT DOES IT MEAN ?—The Pitts burg Republic, a papor_devoted to' the political interests of President John son, and having his name up as its candidate in 1866, says : "The selection of Gen. Cameron to a seat in the United States Senate is a grand triumph of conservatism over radicalism." Sentors and Members of the House waited upon Ex Governor Cur tin in a body on Wednesday to pay their respects. At 12 o'clock ho took his departure, with his flintily, for Philadelphia, whore he intends to re main during the winter. Gov. Geary and family took possession of the "white house," on the same day. na,rhere is a difference of opinion in the majority party at Washington as to how the rebel States should be re-constructed, and it is even hinted that the war will have to be fought over again before politicians can agree. While the dispute is going on the reb els are gaining strength,and they may yet be able to give the country further trouble. iThad. Stevens said in a speech in Congress that Pennsylvania had not a, Republican form of Government, and wanted Congress to "reconstruct," her . When Pennsylvania wants to be re constructed according to Thad's ideas she will politely tell him so. Indeed we think Congress Lave enough on their hands at present, without seek ing for new fields in which to experi ment. A 'Bin DAY. —The 15th was a big day in Harrisburg. Gov. Geary was inaugurated, Simon Cameron was elec ted, and a, prizo fight between two roughs from Now York and Baltimore came off somo eight or ton miles above the city. About fifteen hundred per sons were present at the fight, and the passenger trains and the hotels in the city were run down by them. Of course many pockets were picked. Deacon Bergner's Telegraph gives the "rounds" in full and the result of the contest. Harrisburg is looking up. Prize fighting is becoming popular since the election of John Morrisey to Congress. UNITED STATES SENATOII.—Both lou ses met on the loth and balloted for U. S. Senator with tho following re sult SIMON CAMERON Received in the Senate, House, Total, EDGAR CO WAN Received in the Senate, House, Total, Mr. Cameron was declared elected for six years from tho 4th of March next. Thus ended the contest. m.Col. A. K. McClure, editor of the Chambetsburg Repository, says that twenty-one Senators and Members vo ting for Cameron, were either solemn ly pledged or instructed to vote for Curtin, and if these twenty-one had remained true Curtin would have been nominated on first ballot. Ilefurther remarks :—" Why Simon Camertin was chosen, I need not repeat. The story is familiar to all, oven in the humblest and remotest homes of the State. If written in flaming characters on the dome of the capitol, or branded inefface ably upon the brow's of the men who did it, no ono would have to learn thereby how the richest jewel of loyal victory had been basely bartered for a price." Tho Now York Tribune of Jan uary Bth, says sontitiously the follow ing: !In this country, the shortest politi cal road is that which leads from a ma jority to a miaority. Our party will take this C0111:80 when it rashly begins impeachment." That is a true sentiment. Parties may struggle hard and long to obtain place and power, but it takes very lit tle to make the downward road short and easy, Impeaching the President is not the reconstruction of the South, and the people everywhere would soon see it. The President is now no oh !stack, in the way of the Republican party, notwithstanding his inevitable vetoes, and, of course, that body is to Labe :kit tit , r , nTounil)iiity of a speedy or '.:tidy ruturt, tp,:tQe. ~: ~..^:.r-~; sr.:-sz"resrc-~^-a;-~ cr, .'~-c~:r'~'.2•-_ Wt: observe with great satisfaction that the young men of our town have taken possession of the upper room of the Allegheny Engine House and con verted it into a club room. The object is to afford themselves a place of meet ing for innocent amusement, and to improve the mind by reading and con versation. This is a step in the right direction. They have become tired of bar room loafing places and have re solved to better themselves 'by assem bling for mutual improvement. They will supply , themselves with newspa pers, .Cc., and will try to make the long winter evening pass as delightfully as they can. We suggest that the Town Council make an appropriation to aid this laudable enterprise. Let the heads of families encourage it and as sist the young fireman in gathering a library. Theio things are having an effect on the morals of our young men, and now is the opportunity: We would also suggest to the neigbboring bor oughs that they inaugurate and carry out the same measures.—Hollidaysburg Leader. -STEPHEN We can heartily add "amen" to the suggestion of Bro. Kcatley. If there is anything more desirable in a com munity, where there is a large number of young men, it is a place to congre gate in the evening. It is needless to say where the majority of the unem ployed go to seek recreation, as it is patent to all that it is in the haunts of iniquity and the gates of destruction. Every town has its young men, and every town has its bar-rooms and gam bling saloons, and the roving disposi• tion and yke giddy, unsteady mind of the youth naturally lead him to seek pleasure, such as it is, in those places, where others of his own age and stand ing are to be found. Such is the fact that older and wiser beads look with sorrow on the picture, and the public at hug?) , feel compassion for the youth made useless by liquor's blighting in• fluence, which is administered- to him nightly. We venture the assertion that no young man, at first, takes pleasure in visiting a gambling saloon or bar room. The drtad of public opinion fills him with horror, whilst the pleadings of his own conscience but add to his discom fort. But how soon does he become hardened against public opinion ? how soon does the counsels of the silent monitor within fail of their former ef fect? He has given full license to his Satanic will, and it has led him reck lessly on until he heeds the voice wisdom in vain. The young man is ruined, not only because of his sinful gratification of a deceptive desire, but also because of the apparently encour aged sources of temptation in our midst. It is duo time, then, that our people should enlist as a unit in the salvation of our young men. Nothing should I) considered too.rseat a sacri fice to make them `honored children," whose future career will redound to their own credit and to our people's. The establishment of a Reading Room wo have always urged, and are in fh vor of any worthy enterprise that will keep the young mon in our midst from temptation, and rear them up honora. bly. It is for our people old and young, to co operate in such a lauda ble object as the establishment of a Reading Room, and persevere in their endeavors, no matter what obstacles may interfere. ZE - )s - The Now York Times takes Gov ernor Geary to task for the reflection made in his inaugural address, where ho refers to its being a "morbid clem ency and a censurable forbearance" which fail to punish the greatest crimes known to civilized nations. The Times says: "Such reflections as these, coining from n more political speculator or from an amateur military officer who had done merely ornamental or hurt ful service in the war, would invite no such comment as they do from an offi cer of Gen. Geary's practical experi ence. It would he well enough tor a man with Gen. Batter's military rec ord to revive the question, either in a formal address or in a random speech, whether Gen. Grant, acting in accord ance with the President's it structions, should have accepted the parole of the Confederate Generals, or whether the Commander-in-Chief and the Lieuten. nut-General of the Army are chargea ble with 'morbid clemency and censur able forbearance' in acting as they did. But such words are hardly those one should expect from the Goveanor of a great State, who had soberly weighed the character of the struggle in which our army was engaged, and who had done his full part as an active partici pant therein," A SWEEPING MEASURE.---Tho peti tion presented to the Senate by Sena tor Sherman, asking Congress to pro hibit any person addicted to the use of intoxicating liquor from holding of fice under the Government of the United States, might, under certain circumstances, be worthy of discus sion. But as the enactment of a law to this effect would not only deprive the country of many of its most mus cular officials, but if applied to the present Congress would deprive a large proportion of orthodox members of their seats, there need be no fear of the petition meeting with a favorable reception. Such is the fact, as pitiable as it may be, that_tho majority of the leading mon in Congress, are controlled by the spirit so much that a measure looking to their own "reconstruction," in a very important particular, w ill Dot be passed with as much unanimity as ono for the reconstruction of the Southern States, and if it should it ?night be vetoed. 1J abtr. Isaac B. Gana, of Erie, has been appoilit o l by Gov.(leary, Deputy s...w2 re t ar: ,‘ (,1 the i,',inmonv,Tath. •.~.w...~,:~,Mw,.M.~. ~• ,+ . k~~ Sousa TALK.--The Philadelphia Telegraph, a Republican journal, takes the following strong grounds against the abusive speeches of "I, James Ash ley," who impeaches the President, and a Mr. Loam, who charged the President with complicity in the assas sination of Abraham Lincoln, on the floor of the House, but couldn't bring the proofs. These notoriety-seeking gentlemen deserve the castigation they receive, most worthily : "We wish to refer co these gentle men in a spirit of plain common sense. The people scud representatives to Washington, not to make unnecessary speeches, but to legislate with wisdom The only occasion when a speech is aprop6s is when their side of tho ques tion is to be strengthened by their ar gument. The floor of the House is no place for stump oratory. When a mem ber speaks in Congress he addresses the nation, not as represented by lit erally the nation, but the telegraph and the press make his hearers in% crease to millions. How utterly shal low, therefore, must be the man who, for the purpose of seeing his name paraded, will fill the columns of papers and occupy the attention of thousands with cupty platitudes! If the able speaks 4lp rated shallow, the member who will sacrifice public good for the creation of a sensation is not only shallow, but criminal. Justice, such as the vilest criminal may claim, re quires that, if a member accuses a high official of a crime, the punishment for which is death, that he be required to produce the proofs. It is easy for one to blacken a character when the per son attacked has no chance to reply, and it is a duty which Mr. Loan owes, not only to justice and his own charac ter, but to the country at large, that either lie remain silent and produce the proofs ban.° the Committee; or that, having made so bold a charge be fore such an audience, he sustain his cliat•ge before the same body. We dep recate most earnestly this style of har angue, which reminds us more forcibly of the Jacobins of the French Itevoln• thou than ()fan argumentative and rep• resentative body. The members who thus gratify their passion for notoriety at the expense of reason, endanger the great cause for which they are bat tling, and make themselves ridiculous in the eyes of all thinking men. Let the Loan style of speaking be aban doned, and no charge made, in order that the reporter can say that 'Mr. produced a sensation,' or that a sounding peroration be achieved." The respectable Republican journals begin to see the enemies of peace, order and decency, as the great mass of the people see them. It may not be too late for members of Congress to re-form. FROM WASHINGTON. Jan. 16.—1 n the Senate to-day the House amendments to the bills for the admission of Colorado and Nebraska were concurred in; the bills now go to The provisions _abeut_ which there has been so much debate are attached to each bill in the follow ing language : Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, that this act shall go into effect with the fundamental and perpetual condi _Oen, that within said State of Nebras ka there shall he no abridgment or denial of the exercise of the elective franchise, or of any other right to any person by reason of race or color, ex cepting Indians not taxed, and upon the future fundamental condition that the Legislature of said State, by a sol emn act, shall declare the assent of said State to the said fundamental con ditions and shall transmit to the Pres ident of the United States an authentic copy of said act, upon receipt whereof the President, by proclamation, shall forthwith announce the fact, whercup on said fundamental condition shall be held as a part of the organic law of the State, and thereupon, and without any further proceeding on the part of Congress, the admission of said State into the Union shall be considered as complete ; said State Legislature shall be convened by the Territorial Gover nor within thirty days after the pas sage of this act, to act upon the condi tion submitted herein." The vote in the Senate on concurring in the 1 - louse amendment was tweoty eight to fourteen, just enough to pass it over a veto. The vote by which the bills passed the Ilouse yesterday, was 103 to 55, with several absentees in favor of thoth. Ten were absent from the Senate to day, of whom six are counted for the bills over a veto. In the course of the debate, Mr. Cowan replied to a speech made recent ly by Mr. Sherman, in which the lat ter charged that there hail been two thousand removals from offico during the past year. Mr. Cowan said the whole number of offices in the gift of the President was, but 2,134. In these there had been four hundred and forty six removals by Mr. Johnson. The State Department had 310 officers from among which there had boon ten removals ; the treasury, 973, from among which there had been 179 re movals ; the interior' 10, from among which there had been 21 removals ; the postoffico 709, front among which there had been 197 removals, and the Attorney General 202, from among which there had been 19 removals. The House to day took up Thad. Stevens' enabling bill,and will consider if from day to day until disposed of. The bill in effect provides fbr the call ing of State conventions in the ten in surgent States, to which delegates aro to be elected, to form a new State government on the basis of universal suffrage, except to rebels. The new State constitusions are to declare fir general suffrage and be acceptable to Congress. Mr. Bingham, (Republican,) of Ohio spoke for an hour and a half against the bill, and . denounced it in severe terms. Ile said it was a measure of destruction instead of reconstruction; of disunion instead of reunion, and con templated patching up restoration in a meaner almost fatal to the RepulAie.. The speech attracted great attention. LtD-The steamer Platte Valley, ply ing between llemphis and Vicksbur g , struck the wreck of ti gunboat, on the 17th, and was mtnk in about Llireo minute. It : estimated that one hantlictl pet were ,Iro.xnetl. = = Pen and Scissor Items. A Mr. Coffin, of Boston, has had an infant son named Mahogany. A very grave joke. Bishop Simpson is now in Texas, whore ho has organized the Texas Conference. The Lincoln Monument Association has raised *75,000, but *125,000 more aro re quired to carry out the plan adopted. Donati's great comet will be visible to mor tal eyes again in the year 3858. Cut this paragraph out so that you don't forget it. Two little boys, named David and Darien Allen, were drowned in a pond while skat ing, at Penn Yon, New York, In France, a man who spoke disrepeetfully of the Emperor in a stagecoach, has been fined $lOO. 0, the blessings ? of a monarchy. The total receipts of Internal Revenue by the Government for the last six months were $175,171,/84. Presto, debt. The rebel Lieutenant General A. P. Stew art has located in Memphis as a Professor of the Male High School. Illinois has purchased from Mrs. Douglas the lot of ground in which the remains of Ste phen A. Douglas were buried, paying there fore the sum of $25,000. Fishermen use cotton to catch certain kind of fish. A joker adds, "And that's the way some young ladies fish for a bush:lnd." Should he have said a certain way ? - A schoolmaster in Ohio advertises that he will keep a Sunday school twice a week—on Tuesdays and Saturdays. That's like the fel ler who advertised "eau de Cologne" water. Here, in the land of Penn, where the first railroad in this country was constructed, 4037 miles are now in operation, which cost about *210,080,000. Yet we should have more. A nugget of silver ore from Idaho, weigh ing three hundred pounds, and worth ten dollars per pound, is upon exhibition in New York. Not an ugly thing to lock at nowadays An elderly lady, in a neighboring city, who is extremely partial to n bargain, hear . - log of a bankruptcy of an undertaker thought she might buy a coffin cheap ny auction. Au exchange says the late Gen. Cass' cra dle was a second hand sugar trough, and asks aspiring young men to think of it. . Sweet is the memory .of Cass. Madame Demorest speaks feelingly of the "elastic which keeps the :stocking up at the knee," as impeding the free caTulation of the blood. How about "false calves ?" A German has been fined in Chicago for letting two worthless old horses starve to death. The poor animals' last meal was it handful of shavings. Served him right. Annie Williams drank a quart of raw whis key, on a wager, in Cincinnati, on Thursday, and was "found dead" next day. The wretch es who tempted this degraded woman ought to have been "found strung" next morning. The only beverage at General Grant's re- . ception the other week was iced lemonade.— lie won't have such n crowd at his house the next time, but what's the odds, he'll have fewer "suckers." Fifteen young Mies were poisoned at Ste pliensport, Kentucky, recently, by eating what is called marble cake. There was car bonate of lead in the cochineal, and they "cotched" it. They have recovered. "Why will you persist in wearing naihther woman's hair en your head ?" asked Acid of his wife. She retorted—" Why will you per sist in wearing another sheep's wool on your hack?" He bauked down.. cr-' T7ESSLEft FOSTER 4-, CO., A Galveston editor lately heard a mocking IHID PIIILIPSBURG, Centro co., Pa., mu now twenty,' to furnish all hinds or bird whistling "Dixie" with much animation. FLOORING, WEATHER BOARDIN, DOOR & What a sinful bird to thu# mock his calami- INDOW FRAMES, aursus, SASH, ties. Much better if it would whistle "My nooas, B RACKETS. hopes have departed forever." 011 , 1 ra tn. , . 13. , rt•ti , /IV-i for building purposes. T Having connected with our mill he Boston Journal says many farmers in Massachusetts having ponds, find the propa- 0 s Patent Dry gill g,„io., of fish a paying business. Certainly, ", why riot. If a farmer can propagate plan to, ny which we cunt seeds, etc., wily not fish. Farmers, try it.