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' inrpimsßiinHTS—Accompanied by tbooAsn, and *„; K din K one square, will bo inserted three • „ f.,r One Hollar, and twenty-five cents for each '“lilmnal insertion. Those of a greater length in iroporlioiß , IMiistivc— Such ns Hand-bills, Posting-bills , lil„(,' blanks, Labels, An. Ac., executed with iicuraey and at the skertost notice. ' factual. IA' j/EAVEN LAST^/NIGHT. r vt nipJiLthcro was a festival in honvon : lb >ky burned with a moat majestic light; Ori->n, A'jixi, und the mighty Seven, yi a , ni il Ilho the banners of some awful fight- IU stars hung clustering like white ivy round The oriel window of the curtained sky, i.tli-ji’i-'h (ind had with festoons gayly bound j 3S (loinl-druped nroh through which his An ' fly. Pfn-Imticc! (he Master, in some distant place, |[jdbung mid-sky a-now»orcateil world, QrvAni ni’otlier sun had garnished space, Nreuiiiiinc helow like a gay flag unfurled. Orinnicht’hu some groat returning day/ U-kii mi A feint ngel, by a holy feat. !*>r liis mighty crown another ray, li\ usji'iery at the games where Angels meet. p lt . ffh.xb nt sunset had an organ’s-sound, Alii snlilv played ft low religions tune, T| ;i•, la- ;it ihiit hour tome saint was crowned, Wl.i. died when through hU window looked the maun. iVlmU'Vur was the cause, there was in heaven A r.irc uiul grand display of pomp hist night; I'lrlmp* the Saviour and the groat Eleven I ilevealed themselves unto Angelic sight. THE BABB DEAD. VM ilcwn its little bnhy hands— > This was.a hope you hud of old; Fillet the brow with rosy bands, Ami kma its locks of shining gold. By.iinvhero within the reach of year,B Aiietlierhopc may come like this, gut this poor Imho is gone, in tears, With thin whke lips, cold to thy kiss. In Munmor, a little heap of flowers, In winter, a little drift of snow ; Ami Itiis in all, through all the hours, Ol the promises perished loug ago. S i every heart has one dear grave, hidden under its joys and care, Till o’er it gusts of memory wave, Ami leave the little headstone bare. JllMlniieous. ROMANCE IN HEAL LIFE. Ch'lVslay, in the Police Court, a singu liriK'ninunco in real life took place, which, in tJiif, city, ut least has seldom transpired, liie tiich are those : About 5 years ago a man 'mn.-'d liiwani Gary Iclt an affectionate and Uraiifiil wife and three interesting children, i-nvk a fortune in the mines of California. Im’mie year after his arrival in the gold oaimry . Carey wrote constantly to his wife, m 1 enclosed frequent sums of m >noy. Sud bnly tlio correspondence ceased, and Mvs. I'au‘v received no money, was compelled to thipl other means to obtain a livelihood for 1 e.self mnl Hale ones. In a few weeks there for Mrs. Carey received information that her husband had'been killed in the mines, "hkh wai corroborated by a subsequent let ter reoeivoil from California. Forthroe ye irs dir lhe.l, ns she supposed she was, a widow, ftiui rpi‘(;\ving the attentions of an Italian limed 3> s.q.h Roibo, who succeeded in gain- she consented to marriage, a year ago. the two were legally united *|i the bonds of wedlock,’ and have ever since liwUpiite happily together. On Sunday last, the church bells were summoning to the IKnhf- uf'G,id ilio worshippers of the true "Be-, in}:,Kilwurd Carey, who had .arrived direct ht'iii California by *the morning train, -wos making inquiries in the neighbourhood (in which hirt lamily resided when lie loft Cln- Cll |nati,) for bis wife and children. His* neighbors and friends stood amazed^ 1 md trnn 'lei upon beholding the man whom they had hmg since hollered to be dead. Upon being jwiired that it was Carey, who was not dead hut living, ho was astounded with ihainteli ppiiccjlirtt Ida wife, who bad also '.believed i goMo h) that bourne whence mi trav eler returns,” ,vrus again married to another nian, \vitU whom she was now living in do lu.eßl'u felicity. Ascertaining the residence I r * and Mrs. Roibo, the'afflicted husband to ascertain, whether what he had jeanl was true or false. Knocking at the tl o ( >r, a tall Italian, measuring six feet one and Ufip’iiult inches, came to the door. Carey in quired: ‘ hies Mrs. Roibo live bore V ' ‘ halinn— **Slic does—will you walk in?** are y—“ Yes sir ; will you please tell her lli ; a stentlcman desires to see her V ’ ik i consented, and on going to the Jr eadSng into the dining room, called his all f h er ® ls * ; namo * She answered, and, T I smiles came running down into the fj °p Upon seeing her husband, who rose inf “* s Se *\t to meet her, she screamed out, and fell fainting to the licr f 10 husbands both hastened to raise p ;i r ;. m the floor, wheh Carey informed h»fl!i i le was Edward Carey* the lady's iiiiWT lllsbftnd . Eeibo also claimed herns tin” i> an( * a ddcd,'“l shall never give her from » /ho wife had fully recovered luj hp Qr , a * n t* ln K attack the two husbands resi il eoiao engaged in angry, violent.words, ami iJ'H In , c,lr °y drawing a pistol on Reibo, Mr \J 10 altter being forcibly ejected from on Monday morning, had ftinpp ailt6W(^rn out * n the Police Court, ohar- (| lr °y w 'ith disorderly conduct and provo . m to commit a breach' of peace. Ca frarpAn *i rre ®tod f and arraigned before Jqdge lie n6 u’/n l lO presence of Roibo and the wife lieforn i? 10 ourfc to hear an explanation consf.ni i OQtorc{ l his- plea. Judge Warren both j H ‘.» and Carey stated that ho andßoibe Carev'p a^,0 * a dy (pointing to Mrs. Bcl{ L i l0 ”j e ) wife, and he .behoved him flrdulvin i 0 claimant, had become dis jdve h ot . tloman ding of Roibe that ho should ■Attm-riL? P xr through the Prosecuting h’omaiv* r * .üb, exhibited to the Court at (men c ® r tiftoato, and the question was could v.. }’ “ What further proceedings like N T ioh 1 iJ n .^ mfc Court?” The wife, who, as tadhvti r, m tears,was called-up* and bar Ini , P oai ’t *f cither of these mop was r| d . She replied that she had been married to Loth, hut having learned that her first husband was dead, sho formed an attaoh for Reibo three years afterwards and married him. After assuring the Court of her deep ly seated attachment always for Caroy, and now her warm affection for Reibo, who had boon to her an affectionate and devoted hus band, tho Court inquired of her, viz: “ What do you now propose to do; live with your first husband, who is legally such, or your last husband, who by raisappronension, and unintentionally, you have made your husband ?”. Tho ludy-roplied, “ My duty and mv desire are to live with my first husband, Edward Carey.” The scone which followed can never be de scribed. Caroy and his wife approached each other and wopt aloud, while tho disappoint ed Italian, seated in his chair like a stat ue, presented a picture of despair and disap pointment. Presently his feelings were over come, and ho grievously wept, eliciting the sympathy of all. Caroy and his wife, arm in anil, left tho Court house, and lleibe, after' receiving kindly Tidroonition from tho Court that he must bo resigned, and pursue the mat ter no further, left the presence of. tho_Court deeply chagrined and tenihly mortified at tho fate which had befallen him. Caroy and his family are preparing to leave tho city, and Reibo, all alone in a deserted house, refu ses to bo comforted. Limb.—Among the rich prairies of the great West, or where nature has furnished an abun dance of the proper material, and in an avail able state for the growing plant the subject of manures need attract but little attention. But in most parts of the Eastern, Middle and perhaps Southern States, the subject is of vital importance, not only to the fanner, but to the public in general. In these .parts, the fanner cannot raise remunerative crops, un less he furnish more food to the growing than is-contained in an available form in the soil. Manures may bo conveniently divided into two classes. I. Manures proper, or those substances which contain in themselves the elements for the composition of the plants.— 2. Those substances which promote the growth of vegetation., by stimulating, as it were, the elements in the soil/ or philosophically speaking, by effecting such chemical changes in the soil, as to increase the supply of avail able food for the growing plants. Lime is mainly included in the second class. Tea limited extent, however it becomes food for plants us lime on.ters into their com position ; but* a sufficient quantity for this purpose usually exists in the soil, so that .the principal object of applying dime is to bring about chckiiical and mechanical changes in the soil favorable to vegetation. Lime is chiefly useful. 1. In promoting the oxidation and decomposition of thd insoluble organic matter .which the soil contains. 2. In decomposing clay and rendering its pot ash soluable. 3. In producing a mechanical change, making a sandy soil more tenacious and clayey soil less so. In Pennsylvania, lime is generally applied to effect chemical change in the soil, and not for the purpose of directly furnishing food to the growing crops. Tn its application, much ignorance prevails and many injurious prac tices exist. Lime should seldom bo applied to a soil in a caustic state, yet we have many fanners, and some good ones too, who have fallen into the habit of drawing the lime unslacked from the* kiln, and in that, condition applying it to tho land. In my next I shall show its ruinous effect when thus usod unon tho soil, and give its chemi cal actions upon vegetable or animal manure whether alone or mixed with the soil. Goon.-—An Irish beggar recently made his appearance at the Uifitod States Hotel, when the landlord.said to him; ‘Why don't you go to work ? A large hearty man r like-you should not ho begging.' lie said ho could not find any work. ‘ Well, then, enter the ar army. There you can got $4OO bounty, be sides $l3 a month and. found.' ‘ Found I'—s replied Pat, *bo jabers, found dead on the battle field;’ ' (C7** A chap out west was ftmted take a hand at a game’of ‘ poker,'a fashionable game with gamhlera on the Mississippi— but he .refused saying. ‘ No, I’ thankee. I played poker all one summer and I bad to wear nankeen pants all the next winter. I have had no taste for that amusement since.' BeSy “ Mr. Jones, have you a match ?" “ Yes, sir—a match for ibhe devil; there she is making up dough..'' Jones pointed to lila wife and then put for the front yard. The last we saw of him he was putting down the road, closely pursued by a cistern pole And a red-headed lady. Good Ad-vice. r—When you can help it, no’, ver take the will for the deed, because if you fake the deed you can always have a will of your own besides—-provided the deed is pro perly recorded. The Height of Recruits. —By order of the War Department no volunteer recruit shall bo rejected on account of height who is at least five feet. This is of importance to men />f low stature seeking to enter the army and hence we note-it. T 7" “ I will not strike thee had man,” said a Quaker, one day. “ but I will let this billet of wood fall on thee and at the precise mo ment the “ bad was floored by the weight of a walking stick that tho Quaker was known to carry. (£7- Wendell Phillips is “not certain that slavery is dead unless he sees it buried.”—• The New Haven Register says if ho will g 6 to tho “ Freedman's" camps along the Missis sippi, he will see it buried at the rate of se veral hundred a day. O* General Rosecrans has signalized hia. advent to power in Missouri by removing the restriction which had been imposed upon the circulation of the Chicago Times and other Democratic papers by his predecessors. XyA woman in New York a few days ago claimed a pass on a New York railroad on the ground that she ‘ had three husbands in the army fighting for their country,' and thought it hard that she could not have a free ride to Troy. Some surprise was occasioned the other day at a very brilliant wedding recep tion at Troy, N. Y., when the’ driver of ts hoarse drove along and backed up to the sidewalk With doors invitingly open. The driycr was soon made to understand that ho had mistaken tho place. ICT Scolding is the poper of m'atrimohyj and tho ladies are the popper-boxes. t " OUR- COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY." political. TEE CHASE COMMITTEE ON LINCOLN. TUB NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Mr. Lincoln—The Presidency—Action of Leg islalatures—One Term Principle—Patron age Prolonging the War—lnability and Va cillation — M Honest Old Abe”—Military Commander as a Candidate —The Candi date Wanted. Tlic following document, in pampblej form, \yas recently circulated among tho members of the Ohio Legislature, to counteract, their Lincoln tendencies. It is an emanation from the Chaso committee at ‘Washington, and to have been printed by them in that city for , general circulation: The effort now making to forestall the ao- tion of tho Republican National Convention by procuring the formal nomination of Mr, Lincoln Jn.State Legislatures and other pub lic bodies, is deeply to bo deplored; The more so, because this movement origi nates with tho recipients of executive favor and patronage, sumo of whom hold high sta tions in the Administration of Mr. Lincoln, whose object is to perpetuate their own pow er and means of pecuniary advancement, without any regard whatever to the welfare of the country. While these nominations are made to appear as though they emanated from the spontaneous will of tho people, tho animus in reality is to defeat their will alto gether, by producing such a public clamor in behalf of Mr. Lincoln, as to prevent the as sembling of tho National Convention at all; or if it should assemble, to force his nomina- tion upon tho country, irrespective of the popular will. In time of civil war, with all- its attendant calamities, the attempt to advance tho pcaon al interest and ambition of any one man, or number of men, without regard to the public good, deserves and should recieve universal condemnation. To the proper discussion of Mr. Lincoln’s claim to be made’a candidate for tho next Presidential term, there cun be no reasona- ble objection ; but it is tho people, and not Mr. Lincoln and his dependents, who should decide upon his claim. While the groat body of the American peo ple have everything at stake upon the right, administration of tho Government, they have really no personal interest in its patronage. Therefore, they are the only disinterested par ty to select tho Presidential candidate with out interference from Executive influence. But now* it is too early to commit the peo ple to the fortunes of any Presidential aspi rant. The issues of war are ever uncertain, and though we have every reason to hope our gallajit armies may have destroyed tho rebel power before the meeting of the convene tion, they may not. At all events the people 6 will bo much better prepared to decide this question three or four months hence, than they can possibly be to-day. 4 * Already has this premature action aliena ted many of the friends of freedom, who be lieve that even with a fair nomination in a full convention. Mr. Lincoln cannot be re elected to the Presidency. There are many solid reasons in the very philosophy of Representative Government, against the election of a President, for a sec ond term. The unbounded popularaty of Gen. Wash ington during his administration, the American people that had ho been less than Washington, lie might, by the patronage >f (Jfue, subverted the liberties of the country l»y procuring his own election periodically fur life. The want of.a.constitutional limitation to ho number, of terms to which a President night he eligible was then felt to bo a seri- ous defect. Washington participated in. this sentiment, and pcremtorily refused to allow himself to he elected for a third term; and his decision furnished a precedent which had all the force of a constitutional restriction. During the domination of the Republican party, from Jefferson to Monroe, the practise of the President nominating himself for the second term, and then his successor, through the machinery of caucus which virtually transferred the power of election from the people to the Administration, was becoming a precedent which threatened the subversion ot Republican liberty. . General Jackson, in order to maintain the independence of the elective franchise, be came the candidate of the people in opposi tion to this caucus system, and though defea ted at first, was, in *lB2B, triumphantly elec ted against the powerful patronage of the Government. From that day. no President, i until Mr. Lincoln, ever attempted to revive that odius system of having himself nomi nated without consulting the people in a Na tional Convention. General Jackson was made a candidate by the people for a second term against his will, and elected with unparalleled unanimity.— Yet, such was the unbounded enthusiasm lie inspired, that Jackson saw, ns did every flecting man, that the danger to liberty which occurred under Washington's administration was repeating itself. And as utterly opposed was that stern pa triot to the use of patronage for the purpose of procuring re-election to the Presidency, that ho laid down the one term principle as a fundamental doctrine in our democratic sys tem, and it became apartof thopiilitioal.creed of the people-; so strong, that no President from that day has boon re-elected, and.prob ably never will be by a fair expression of the popular will. If President Lincoln, in defiance of the teachings of Jackson, in violation of the great principle which'underlies our democratic in stitutions, and in the face of the solemn,war nings of history, can now so wield his patron age as to secure bis election for a second term, who bo blind as not to see four years hence ho will have loss difficulty in se curing his election for a third term For with an army of more than half a million of citizen soldiers under his command, and an annual patronage of a thousand of money, he can, if he has 'one-half the brains attributed to him by his friends, have himself elected from term to terra during his natural life. ... v If the “military necessity" supplies a rea son now for his nomination, and the extraor dinary patronage occasioned by the war fur nishes the meane of his election, as a matter of courso4us interest is then -to prolong the war, as a means of perpetuating his power. No man with the patriotism of a Washing ton or a Jackson, would seek to place him self in apposition whore his interest and his personal ambition would bo coincident with the continuance of the rebellion and the per petuity of the war. But aside from the consideration of the second term principle, there is still another CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY’, MARCH 17,1864. and more forcible objection to tiip nomina tion of Mr. Lincoln. \ Tho pcoplo have lost all confidence in his ability to suppress tho rebellion and\ro‘Btoro tho Union. It is impossible to purput of view the fact that there is a general filing of disappointment in the loyal .North,''that after such a wasting of its preoions blood, and such a vast expenditure of treasure, ihe rebellion continues unsubdued; and all the promises of tho Administration, time and’ again, for Us speedy overthrow bare been falsified. Tho truth is, that there is no man who does not wear,tho livery of office, or is not in tho pay of the General Government, who does not feel mortified and humbled that our nation, with its twenty millions of loyal peo ple in the North, wilh four millions of auxil iaries in the South, to say nothing of a largo host of Union men there, has not succeeded yet in overthrowing tho insolent slave oli garchy, which does not number five millions all told. How is it that Jefferson Davis, with his slender resources, without a navy, without manufactories, is still defiant at Richmond, and Ims twice sent*his rebel hordes across the Potomac, putting in jeopardy even the personal liberty of Mr. Lincoln himself?^ It is impossible to prevent the American people from making humiliating compari sons between the rebel chief and the Presi dent of the United States. They will under stand why this condition of things exists at the end of the third year of Mr Lincoln’s term. The fault is not in .the want of intel ligence and bravery on the part of -our sol diers, or the skill of our officers. For both soldiers and officers have proven on many a battle-field that, in endurance and valor, and all the elements which constitute the great soldier, they are the equals if not the supe riors of the rebels. It will not do to throw the blame upon the country, for it has lurnished all the men and all the money the President has asked.. It will .not do to charge it upon' the rebel sympathizers at the North; for they have had no means of interfering with the orders of the President. The responsibility rests alone upon him. lie has been weak and va cillating throughout, seemingly incapable of settling upon any definite lite of policy in regard to the rebellion. Two theories in regard to it have, and now divide the American people. One is, that the Southern States arc still States of the American .Union ; that their several consti tutions and laws, though silent in the pres ence of the rebel power, will, upon the sup pression of the rebellion, revive, and the peo ple return to their former rights. The other theory is that they are no-long er States in the American Un.ion, the sense of the Constitution, but the rebellion hav ing acquired the strength and consistency of a belligerent power the status of the en tire population lias been changed from citi zens to aliens, and they do not return to their mghts upon the suppression of the rebellion but only to such as the supremo legislative power may give them. Had Mr Lincoln adopts 1 either one of those theories, and adhered u> it vigorously, ho might long since have ended the rebellion. Had he chosen the first, he could before this have brought back the States, with their institutions amj laws, slaves anti all. Had he adopted life other, and sustained Fremont and Hunter, the friends of jreedom know that the rebel armies might long ago have been overthrown and the whole rebel territory in possession of the United States with the manacles of every slave stricken off, from the Susquehanna to‘the llio Grande. This vacillation and indecision of the Pres ident, lias been the real cause why our well appointed armies have'not succeeded ip the destruction of the rebellion. Ho lias constantly been going between these two theories, taking n 0 positive ground for either, but holding on to the skirts of both. "Whether from the feebleness of his will, which has been unequal to the alternate pressure of the respective leaders ol these theories, or whether from the-want of intel lectual grasp, ho has really been, unable to comprehend their philosophy, or from the want of political principal and indifference to truth, he has with that species of cunning, which characterizes a certain class of lawyers sought to ride both theories, for the purpose of securing his re-election. The rant about “ Honest Old Abo”,was at first amusing, it then became redioulous, but now it is absolutly criminal. Honesty signifies nothing unless there is a capacity to wield the power. In the lan guage of Wendell Phillips—wko.pares for the honesty of the President, unless he is capa ble ; it is not honesty but capacity that is wanted. When the nation again places in the bands of a commandcr-in-chiof the lives of all its toled-bodiu'tT,men, and all its material wealth it will want a better guarantee than the an teedents of our jocular President furnish, and that the power will be wid led ably, efficient ly and surely for the perpetuity ot the Union. ’Should Mr. Lincoln be forced .upon the .country in defiance of the bettor judgment of the Republican party, and the Democratic party be judicious in planting a candidate for the prosecution of the war, upon the first theory above indicated, (which is their the ory), Mr. Lincoln will bo most unquestion ably" defeated, unless he should bo tempted in an .evil hour, to use the military power in his hands by suppressing the freedom of elections in tbo loyal States. A victory won ‘by the sword would be no victory, hut'a la mentable defeat to the friends of liberty. A convention of patriots; if wise, will never nominate for the Presidency a military load er in actual command of an army, much loss tbo oominandor-ir.-ohief, who has more than half a million soldiers under hie command, and if necessary to success, might have a million before the next Presidential election. The temptation to a military candidate to use "the sword to secure bis own election is too gieat,.the warnings of history too impres sive for tbo American people over voluntari ly to' consent to so hazardous an experi ment. Never heforfi in our history has-such a combination of high qualities boon required as will be neqjped in the administration of the government for the next four years_ The war hae created a debt the magnitude of which is astounding to consider; ICho in terest alone will Oppress.-the" people for scores of years to come ; at the sumo time the means of discharging the debt will, by the necessary operations of the war, have been fearfully’weakened. So many hundreds of thousands of men have boon called from" their industrial pursuits never to return to them ; so much of the material wealth of the country has been destroyed ; so many fields for the production- of its great staples laid waste ; indeed its whole labor system has been prevorted or disorganized 1 To recover the nation this state, ot utter exhaustion, and"fostor» it to ifa wonted prosperity will demand an order of‘“intelli gence which is bestowed upon but few men in any at tho same time, and the mightiest intellect in our land might well tremble in assuming such responsibility. Wo want in our coming President an advan cd thinker ; a statesman profoundly versed in political and ‘economic science ; one who fully understands the spirit of tluT age in which we live. . ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS, To the Democrats 6j Pennsylvania: Feklow-Citizens : — At thiajuncturein tbo proceedings of the Senate of Pennsylvania, tlio undersigned deem it their right and duty to address you. For more than two months wo have unit edly and determinedly withstood an effort on the part of the Republican members of that body to subvert the organic law, to' ignore the precedents of seventy years of our bisto rv, and to trample under foot the rights of their equals and peers. In so doing wo-havo born actuated by the high resolve, that by no net of the representatives of the only Jaw abiding political organization in this Com monwealth should the rights and constitu tional privileges of the people ho subverted.- IVe have relied with unshaken faith upon that people for our support and vindication, and to the end that .their verdict may bo ren dered with a full knowledge of the facts, wo bog leave to present a brief history of our position during the protracted and exciting contest which has just closed. The members of the Senate assembled in the Senate Chamber, at Harrisburg, on Tues day, January sth, A. D. IBG4, at 3 P. M.— Of the twenty-two Senators holding over all weio present save Major White, who was a prisoner in the hands of the rebels; of those present twelve wore Democrats and nine Re publicans. The Senate u*us called to order by the lion. J. P. Penhey, the Speaker elec ted at the close of the session of 186$. The Secretary of the Commonwealth was then introduced and preaented the returns frem the districts which had elected Senators in October IBG3. The returns wore opened and read, by which it appeared that four Demo crate and seven Republicans had been elect ed, all of whom, were present, thereby caus ing a tie in the vote between the two great political organizations of the country as rep resented on that floor.' Upon the readingof the certificates of elec tion, it would have been the duty of the Se nator elected Speaker at the close of the ses sion of 1803,-to have vacated the chair, had ho been governed in .his action by the ex press terms of the Constitution, which, by section X, Article 1, prescribes that the Ge neral Assembly shall meet on the Ist Tuesday of January in every year, .ami by section XI of the same Article, that “each House" (i. e. when they meet on that clay) shall elect its Speaker and other officers. Itappoars to the undersigned that the words “ each House shall elect its Speaker” arc sufficiently cer tain to determine the question that no one elected Speaker by the Senate of 1863 could exercise the duties of that office over the Se nate of ISG4—the latter being a now ami dis tinct body, made up of other members who had never partiepated in an election for Speaker, and as by the express terms of the Constitution, “each House shall (when they meet on the first Tuesday in January in each year) elect its Speaker and other offi>xrs t ” it is manifest and clear that the Senator from Al legheny had no shadow of right to exercise the duties of Speaker over this new Senate i which had never elected liiuwts Speaker, and we have never recognized arm ns such. Rut admitting, for the sake of argument, that the words of the .Constitution ‘are am- j biguous and uncertain, then precedent and ; usage, if they exist, must determine their meaning, and* by this test the .undersigned desire that their position may be tried. I - During a period of seventy years, from 17-1 D 4 until tliis day, there is but one other in slauce where a Speaker elected by a former ■ Senate attempted to exercise the duties of his office over a succeeding and uow Senate, and that was during the “ Ruck. Shot W a a,” when the late Chas. B. Penrose, the Speaker holding over, entertained two motions rela tive to contested scats ; but, when these were determined, even he vacated the chair and did not dare to resume it, until by the vote of the new Senate he was elected Speaker. If the Republican members of the Senate of 1864 can gather comfort from this one soli tary exception in the unbroken lino of prece dents, they are welcome to it. The bold pees and magnitude of their act of usurpation has destroyed its significance as a deed of revo lution. The Senator from Alloghonv/notwithstond j ing the express words of the -Constitution; i with their meaning illustrated-by the action of all former Speakers, save one, for a period of seventy years, after the readingof the cer tificates of election which created the now Senate, failed-to vacate the chair, which he occupied by courtesy and .for the sake of con venience. He requested tin? new Senators to conic forward to be sworn. This the Re publican Senators did, and also the. Demo cratic Senators ; the latter, hovrever, under a protest, in which; in brief and emphatic terms; they denied his right to administer the oath of office to them, they having been elec ted members of a body of which ho had never been elected Speaker.' It is hero to be ob served that this course was necessary on their part, for the reason .that it was the evi dent intention of the Republicans, should the Democrats refuse to t\\ko the oath, to leave their names off the roll,"whereby our oppo nents would have secured a clear majority of those voting. After this act of usurpation, the new Sen ate, by a unanimous adopted a resolu tion to.proceed to an election for Speaker. If it is not true.that the..office was. vacant,.(ns. the undersigned contend.) why the necessity to elect a Speaker ? But under this resolu tion several ballots wore held on the first day of our meeting, each resulting in a tie between the Republican candidate, Mr. Penney, and the Democratic candidate, Mr. Clymor, the Senate adjourned until the next day, when, after several ineffectual ballots, the Senator from Berks, Mr. Clymor, on be half of the undersigned, made the following proposition of compromise, viz : That the Re publicans should elect the Speaker of the Senate, the Democrats the clerk, and so al ternately until all wore filled, Tbis.tyiaifl of settlement the Undersigned considered-to bo just. It was made, not for the purpose of securing place'or .position, hut to vindicate a principle. It wad precisely the basis of com promise adopted in 1855',. when the Demo crats having an actual majority (although not present,) were given, the Speaker, the Know Nothings of tjialt day (at present Re publicans,). the clerk;, BO alternately to the end of the list. But this proposition the Republican Senators.of 1864 refused to ac cept. They had entered upon usurpation, and they determined to adhere to it with all ilg consequences.' During the protracted struggle -which fol lowed, this offer of compromise wns renewed from time to time ; it wus always rejected, and not one proposition tending to a aalution of the difficulty ever came from the Republi can side, save the absurd suggestion of the Senator liotn Erie/Mr. Lowry, that he would vote for the Demsoiatic candidate for Speak er, provided that he or some one oj the under signed would agree never to vole on any parly or test question. It is thus a matter of history that the Re publican Senators refused a fair and just proposition which, had it boon aooepted, would have organized the Senate on the sec ond day of its mooting. They attempt to justify their conduct on two grounds. First, That the Senate is over organized, the Speak er of a former Senate being the Speaker of ; the subsequent one ; and, Second,. That Ma jor White, if present, would have given them a.majority. We have heretofore exposed the fallacy of the first position by reference to the words of the Constitution, hud to the unbroken prece dents of seventy years. In 'addition, we'will present ft test which will so clearly expose the.unwarrantahle-and.unconstitutional mi- - lure.of their claim, that no one, however prejudiced, may mistake or misunderstand it. By the XXIII section, Article Ist, of the Constitution of this State, it is provided that all hills passed by the Legislature and pre sented to the Governor fur his signature, within ton days of the final adjournment, shall become laws without his signature, un less sent hack' (with his objection) within■ three days alter their next meeting. In 1855 the Legislature met on tliMconid day of. January.. The contest for Speaker was prolonged until the fifth, when the lion. Wm. M. Ilicstcr, of Berks county, was elect ed. Upon the sixth, thu fourth day after their meeting, the Governor of the Common wealth returned, with his objections, sereral of the most important hills passed by the Legislature of 1854. If the position of the Republican Senatots of 1801 is correct, viz ; that the Senate is always organized, and that the Speaker of the former Senate is the Speaker of the now Senate, then those hills of 1854, vetoed by Governor Bigler, on the fourth day 'ol the session of 1855, are-laws notwithstanding his vetoes. That this is not so, or at least that none of the eminent law yers and statesmen who composed that Sen ate (among whom were Price, Buekalew, Heiater and Dar.sie) so thought, is evinced by the fact that they all .voted upon those vetoes as required by the Constitution, which ' they surely would not have done had they. hcon of opinion they had been ’sent in too late. The Senators' of 1855 did not even claim to have mot until they had elected a Speaker, much less that they were organized. -Our view ot this question is further strength ened by the act of 1804, which obviously con templates the election of a Speaker of each House at the beginning of each session, and requires him first to be sworn before lie can administer the oaths to the newly elected members. It has been loft Hr the Republi can Senators of 1854 to ignore the Constitu tion, to defy precedent, and to attempt to de stroy tile very foundations of law and order. This disposes of their first ground of de fence. Wo will now prove the second rea son assigned fur their revolutionary conduct. Who is accountable for the absence of Ma jor White, or rather, who is to blame that jiis scat was not tilled on the first day we met? " r It is alleged that Major White resigned his scat in this Senate, that resignation hav ing bee a received by his father, Judge White, .about the middle of November, 1853. It is to he assumed (the undersigned reserving their individual opinions thereon) that the resignation was genuine, since in fnrtlier . mice and in support of the .uaorpntiou inau gurated in January, an election was ordered thereon by the Speaker dc faeio of tlie Sen ate, and a'new member elected and sworn.—' Assuming it to be genuine, whose fault is it that an election was not ordered immediftte . ly on its reception, which would have given ample time to have put his successor in his place on the first Tuesday of January?— Surely neither that of tlie undersigned, nor of any Democrat in tlie State; tlie blame must rest where it rightfully belongs, upon 1 tlie Republicans of the Senate and upon their aletors. . , , ■ The excuse offered is that the resignation was not filed, in order tiiat efforts' might be made (the incentive being the necersity of Major White's presence to Republican as cendency in this State) for his exchange. Without stopping to inquire whether thisas cemlcney is likely to be beneficial to the peo ple of Pennsylvania. we will.mainly remark that if the fate' of Major; While had been ■different or more deplorable than that of tliyuaiiiids of other .brave and gallant men who are enduring the untold horrors of cap tivity-in order that the negro may he raised'to the Itvd of the while man. then, indeed, nrght some such excuse he tolerated. Dot Major White’s condition, much as wo deplore it. is no worse than that.of those who itre a gar nered harvest of brave men rotting in prison, victims to the malignant heresies ol I hose who advocate the sorial, political and military equality of the black am! while races. That Major White became a prisoner is his misfortune ; thr.t lie is not released is.tlm in tentional and designed fault of his political triends. In either view, ho and they are elope responsible for the “ dead lock” caused by hia absence. Alter the Republicans had scoured a clear majority, they still persisted in their course of Usurpation. In the earlier days of the session, by a unanimous veto, and by parti cipating in twelve ballots, they admitted that it was their sworn duty to proceed to the election of a Speaker. When they se cured the power to do so, then, in violation of the Constitution, of precedent, ofJaw, and of their own admissions, they for ten days persisted in their revolutionary conduct. But from the 29th of February, the day when Dr. St. Clair wasa.worn as Senator from the 21st District, until the 9th day of March, the un dersigned have resisted as before, by all means in their power, every attempt on the part of the Republicans to legislate. Baffled and defeated, they have on _tbi« day yielded the whole question in issue. Tub Senate or 1804 has Elected its Speaker ! ! ; ■Thus, fellow-oitizons, have the Constitution, precedent and law been sustained, and the .course of .the-undersigned vindicated. . ■ We have .thus narrated the tacts of this cake, and have endeavored, and wo truat eucceaslally, to expose the fallacy of the os tensible reasons assigned by the Republican 1 Senators in -support of their conduct. Wo say ostensible, for wo do not hesitate to de clare that the entire proceeding is but a part and parcel of a programme which proposes to break down and destroy every barrier standing between them and their lust for power and place. In the past, wo hove presented a determined and unbroken'front. We have done so dur ing the trying times of the present, and sus- tainod by your confidence and support, wo will continue to do so in the time to comb. We fyavo presented you the record— by it we are willing to ho judged. lITESTEU CI.YMEU, WM. A. WALLACE, GEO. 11. IUJCIIER, JNO. DATTA, C. H. DONOVAN, GEO. W. STEIN, A. lIIKSTAND GLATZ, J. If. STAKE, WM. lIOPEI.N’S, B. REILLY, . D. B. MONTGOMERY, J. 0. SMITH, 11. B. BEAIIBSLBE, C. A. LAMBERTQIf. WM. M’SHERRY. WM. KINSEY., lliiiiusuciio, Ma.mli 0, 1861. How Qnarterumlcrs Make Money In Teis> Df&sec. A Knoxville correspondent of tlie Cincin nati Gazette, (administration,) gives the folr lowing history of Quartermasters’ operations in Tennessee. We presume they act in th« same way in all the Southern States whore the process of ‘expulsion'is iu operation.—- lie says: “ Another'large uh'ipmonfc'df calico aid butternut, marked C. o. A., was made yes terday. One Of ..the cargo is. a. Northern womnn’by birth and education, biit having married a dashing 'Southerner, made her home in Tennessee and her nest in the Con federacy. Another is a Miss Scott. There is. whlml, something to adiriiro in the way these Southern women stiek-.to their fast-far ding chivalry. Ami there is something in finitely detestable in the way some of-our sub-'iflicials are enriching themselves on ill gotten spoils. The spotting process has been reduced to a huge game of speculation. Ijing before it is dreamed by the unmitigated tbnt Mrs. A. or Mrs. B. is to bo sent beyond our linos the gallant Quartermaster, who Ims charge of transportation in the department, in a con stant visitor at eaid lady’s nianslop. .Ilia ambulance is at her service, and his'order procure-? her abundance of oiriinlssary vi ands. Poor victim (lid she but know it, those are among the first indications of her disloy alty. A week or tv/0 after these prelimina ries the order is issued for her expulsion.” “•Two days are perhaps given her in whicli to dispose of her costly furniture. Citizen* call to purchase, but are informed that the goads are'engaged to Capt. L , the very po lite Quartermaster. lie has boon so kind, to mel Mo knew a good while before I did that I would bo sent away and made arrange ments to buy nil my things. If lie will sell you any all right. The truth is, the goods were purchased' with fawning* and favors ; and the Quartermaster now sells ’ them to others at exorbitant prices, or ships them homo to liia own parlors on government transports. ‘Ah, but I made a good thing of it thio morning/ said an Assistant Quar termaster to his friend the other day. 4 Yes, but how arc you going to gee your tilings North V * Oh, as to that* you know we Quar termasters have special advantages/ And lie did make a good thing of it not only in that case but in. half a dozen others 1 could mention. “I have no objection to make to the expul sion of these disloyal and rebel sympathizing citizens. They no doubt, richly deserve their fate; hut 1 do most solemnly protest against permitting officials to fill their own p.nkets at the expenses of ( the government’s ronuta ■ talion. It is unpleasant of course to require that women and children bb.eent out of 01 1 linos, without having the additional humilia tion of seeing those necessities turned to the gratification of personal greed, snd made the vehicle'of all manner of chicanery. To say they are rebels and their property is rebel property, is no extenuation whatever. Un ion men fare just as rebels in this. If fewer speculations are made at tbeir expense, it is only because they have less property to bo* plundered. Where the carcass is, there will the eagles be gatbeied together.” A Judge’s Charge: —Judge Jonah Jones recently delivered the following charge t.> the Jury, in the case of Elim. Crunch for steal ing. . * 4 Jury, you kin go out, ana clou t show vour ugly mugs here till you find a \erdidt —if \mr can’t find one of your own, git the one the last jury used/ The jury retired,-and after an absence of fifteen minutes, returned with a verdict of 4 Suicide in the ninth degree and fourth verso.’ , Then Judge Jonas Jones prmoiinca-I Elim Crunch tnia sentence. 4 Elim Oruneh, stun lip. and fam the mu sic. Yon nve found guilty uf suicide fur stealing. Now ' this court sentence you to pay a fine of five shillings. to shave your head with a bagganet, in (he barricks; find if you try to cave in the heads of any of the jury, you’ll catch thunder, that’s all. Your late will he warning to others ; and the con clusion, may the Lord have mercy on your soul. Sheriff get me a pint of red eyo. I am awful thirsty. Philadelphia Prets now proposes an amendment to the Constitution‘abolish ing slavery throughout the whole country. — Wo thought Lincoln hjjd abolished shivery by proclamation,! Wo have been told over and over again that slavery was dead—that Father .Abraham’s emancipation proclama tion had done all that, hut the abolition Doc tors don’t Room to bo satisfied. - They now wantthe Constitution altered. 44 They whom -the gods wish to dcstrby they first make mad.” {£7* *Yho docs not fco the shadow of death is pa'sah.g over our land? That faith has perished, that union has perished, that alj which made us happy at home, rtf J great abroad has perished I What have wo left? Wo have Mr. Lincoln, the negro, the hostile, the Congress, usurpations, a plundered treas ury, an astounding debt, takes, mob\ and a bloody war. That’s all !—Sunbmy Demo erdt. p- There is .no article of merchandise that has a Ivurujed nioro sha i.y since the war commenced than teon; within h short tipie there has been anotbertadvanco of fifty cents per keg on nails, and {bn dollars per tun on iron. Tliis makes an advance within the past thirty days, of one dollar per keg on nails, und' twenty five dollars per tun on iron.— Some statistics of the consumption of iron and steel.ln this country, since the vr/xrbegun. would afford valuable information* ttZ/*’ Aft old lady said bcv hushntul wan very fond of poaches, and that was the Only fault ho had. ... “Fault madam,” said ouo, .call that a fault ?” “Why, because tnero nro dilfercnt ways of eating thoin, eir. My husband takes thorn in the form of brandy.” Dssy» Forests of standing trees have been discovered in England, many fool below the Miirflioo of the earth, completely embedded in staie, "i NO. 40 “ how dan you
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