ll' CAititstiß; sa., I'lmraday Morning, Feb. 1.1 S««. J. B. BIMTTON «fc W. UEJISEUY EDITORS AND PIIOPHIKTOUS. A WORD FOR OURSELVES We this week present the Amkiucan Voi-untebk to Its patrons in an enlar ged form and in a new dress, which wo think will compare favorably, in taste and beauty, with any paper in the State. The type now used upon it are of the most modern and tnstv stylos, just is sued from the Jputrtlry bf Messrs. L. Johnson & Co., of Philadelphia and; the paper is /printed upon due of Campbell’s Improved power presses, which for neat ness and pccuracy of execution has no equal. In addition to the labors of the editors, the services of a reliable corres pondent have been secured at Washing ton city, and we hope to secure the ser vices of a similar correspondent at the State Capital. With these advantages at our hand, we hope to be able to pub lish such a paper as the Democracy of Cumberland County will have cause to be proud of. To do this, however, wo need the cor dial and united support of our political friends. As a general rule, Democrats do not properly sustain their party or gans, and if their local papers are some times not all that they should be,'the fault is with the party and not with the poorly paid editor. In a large Demo cratic county, such ns this is, our sub scription list ought to be twice as largo as it now is. There never was a time - T hen it was more vitally important to scatter Democratic truth broad cast among the people, in order to combat the heresies of the fanatics who are tear ing up the very foundations of our sys tem of government . The decision of the questions now before the country de pends, in a great measure upon their discussion in the-public journals; and unless all men have suitable reading matter placed within their reach how can It be expected that they shall act intelligently upon public issues. We trust our friends will see this important subject in its true light, and lend their influence to swell our subscription list in every town and township in the coun ty. Let one and all do their duty, and in return we will try to give them the best Democratic paper ever published in Southern Pennsylvania. ABOLITION INCONSISTENCY. Abolitionism is daily involving its followers in worse and more perplex ing inconsistencies. Bnt a few years since they opposed the admission of Kan sas, under the Lecompton constitution, because, ns they alleged, that constitu tion was not ratified by the voice of the people. Now they pass a bHallowing negroes to vote, in the District of Colum bia, when the people of the District, at a public election, decided almost unani mously against negro suffrage. Are the people of the District of Columbia less able to take care of themselves than were the outlaws and murderers of the Kansas border ? If they are not, then are not their wishes in regard to their own local government entitled to some slight respect at the hands of the aboli tion fanatics in Congress ? The truth of the matter is, this action of Congress in regard to the District is but the entering wedge to prepare the way for universal negro suffrage and equality; and these same radicals are already declaring that as liberty to the slave was first secured in the District, followed by his libera tion throughout the whole country; so will his enfranchisement in the District be followed by congressional legislation compelling all the States to confer upon him the right of suffrage. In securing this end, they will pay no regard to con sistency, law, justice or decency ; their main object being to secure every possi ble advantage for the negro and to cur tail and destroy the rights of the white man. Already, in the District, this law conferring the right of,suffrage upon ev ery ignorant and tliriftless negro, has been followed by another law disfran chising certain white citizens'. It is high time white men began thinking of this matter earnestly. We assort our sol emn conviction, when we say it is the purpose of these abolition fanatics to confer the right of suffrage upon the ne gro everywhere and to take the same right away from the poorer class of white men. OUK TERMS. We refer subscribers to the terms of tliis paper, to be found at the head of the first column of the first page. We intend to adhere to these terms strictly and, ns near as possible, conduct oi r business on the cash principle. We have to pay as wo go for everything- we use m our business, and it is therefore abso lutely necessary that we adopt the same cash rule. We therefore hope to be able t« dispense with ledgers and day-books, and at the end 'of each week have in our drawer the amount the office has earned. Wo again request those who were in debted to the Volunteer at the time it was united with the Democrat {Decem ber Ist, 1865,) to come forward at once and makejiettlement. We must square up our old books, and we hope those knowing themselves indebted will call on us .very soon. OUR JOB DEPARTMENT. The jobbing department of our office is now complete, and equal to any outside ot Philadelphia. We have added to it an immense assortment of new' material, at a very heavy expense, and are now pre pared to execute all kinds of job work, from the largest poster to the smallest fan cy card, at short notice and at reason able rates. An experienced job printer will have charge of this department of our office, and he feels confident of his ability to execute his w'ork In a manner that cannot foil to render full satisfaction. H3T Ashland, the homestead of Henry fllay, was sold on the 12th instant to the Regent of the ICentucky University for the sum of ?90,000. DEili.itiOOUES IN melt PLACES. When our country was in its infancy the people were jealous of their rights* and particular in the selection of men for high positions. Washington, John Adams, Jici’ruiisox, Munich:, Mam sox, Jonx (y A dams —these wore the first six Presidents of the United States. Great, glorious names—men of giant minds, statesmen and patriots. Jay, Ellsworth, Marshall, Ta xf.v— these groat lawyers succeeded each oth er as Chief Justices of the United States Supremo Court. Their talents; learning, and purity of character attracted the at tention of the civilized world. In the United States Senate, in the House of Representatives, in the State Legisla tures of the several states, could be found only the pure, the talented and the hon est; demagogues and rogues were not then to bo found occupying these honor able positions. No, no—the people them selves were pure, and their public ser vants, State and National, were selected because of their integrity and greatness. But, wo are speaking of our country in its infancy. Let us come down to a later date—to a date some thirty years ago, when “old Hickory” occupied the Presidential chair. How did the United States Senate of that day compare with the present Senate? Who now occupies the seat of the great Daniel Webster? Thepoordemagoguc, Sumner —the man with oho idea, and that idea the negro. Who is in the seat once occupied by the learned and powerful debater, Silas Wkigiit of New York? Morgan, a man noted for his demagoguoism and knavery. Who in the seat of that man of power, Levi Woodbury, of N. Hampshire? Ci.auk, the negro-wor shipper. Who in the seat of the great Benton, of Missouri? Brown, a little man of little mind, who considers the negro “the coming man,” Who in the seat of the great statesman, and patriot, William Allen of Ohio? Ben Wade, a man of vulgar mind, who, a few days ago, thanked God that “the black man had brought the late rebellion to a close. ’ 1 Who are found in the seats formerly oc cupied by Southern statesmen ? Alas 1 nobody. They are empty—empty be cause such creatures as Sumner, Wade, Wilson and other disunionists, prefer anarchy and desolation to peace and un ion. Look over the House of Representa tives and we see the same melancholy change. That little, dishonest, creeping thing, Banks, occupies the chair once occupied by John Quincy Adams; and Stevens— old Thad, the revolutionist, and whose cold heart never felt a patri otic emotion, squats like a toad in the chair of the great Ingeiisodl. Heav ens! what a change. In the Supreme Court how is it? Who occupies the post of Chief Justice, so long filled by the pure, the noble and great Taney? Chase, the man who puts in most of his time in delivering revolu tionary speeches to ignorant negroes, telling them that they are entitled to the lands of their former masters, and that they must have the right of suf frage. This pretty politician, and third rate lawyer, who when in the Senate voted three times for a dissolution of the Union, now soils the judicial robes of the lamented Taney! “Oh, what a fall, my countrymen!” Are wo retrogading' as a people, or why is it that knaves and demagogues occupy the places that but. a few years ago could only ho reached by the learned and the pure? This question is often asked, hut some appear puzzled when they attempt to answer it.— But to the observing man the cause of this melancholy change must bo apparent. The fault is with the people themselves, for it is by their votes that men are elevated to high and responsible positions. The Know-noth ing and Abolition parties, wo contend, are responsible for having foisted into place and power men devoid of honor, or patriotism. These factions advoca ted each one idea. The first opposei} foreign residents; thesecond contends for negro-equality. No man of enlarged views, no statesman, could, without dwarfing his mind, belong to a party having but one single idea to govern it. But such a party is the fit place for the venal, the corrupt and the persecuting demagogue. And these are the kind of men we now find in power. Hence it is that the very air stinks with corrup tion; defalcations, thefts and robberies are daily and hourly perpetrated, but yet the people appear listless and care less, and many are willing to cover up the doings of scoundrels because they fear an exposure might injure their par ty. In the name of sense, how long is this nightmare to last? Will not the people—the mechanic, fanner, and la borer-join hands, and swear by the God that made him that this fanaticism, and ignorance, dishonesty and scoundrel ism, shall cease? Let the yeomanry reflect, and then lot them act. The Radicals have thrown their banner to the breeze, and declared their purpose to go before the country, on tile great and final issue of universal negro suffrage. But they will realize the over whelming, truth that “whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad.” It is one thing to punish the South, and quite another tiling to use the same scour ges upon the backs of their own constitu ents. All this arbitrary legislation—-this party tyrrany, tending to the destruction of tile rights of the states at the North as well as tlie South—all these daily outra ges which the radicals really imagine are helping to preserve theirorganization, are only hastening its destruction; and no one can be more anxious to see the radical par ty stand upon this universal negro-suf frage basis than those who are anxious to see the party and its loaders politically destroyed and swept from off' the face of the earth, them bring the issue be fore the people in the coming campaign in Pennsylvania. We are prepared to meet it, whether they are or not. -Disunion' State Convention.-Tlic disunionists of this State have resolved to hold a Convention at Harrisburg, on tlxe tth of March to nominate a candidate for Governor. A MAMMOTH NEGRO BOARBISO EBOIJSE, A bill has passed the U. S. Senate (the disunionists voting for and the Demoerats against it,) which provides for the onlaigement of the powers of the mammoth national negro boarding house, called by some the “ Frecdmen’s Bureau.” By the provisions of this bill the creatures entrusted with the man agement of the concern are clothed with almost unlimited powers, and are au thorized to draWon the Treasury for as many millions of dollars, as, in their wise opinion, may be necessary for the comfort of the tens of thousands of worthless blacks who are to bo protected by the Bureau. 11 provides for an agent in every county where freedmen are found—and in what county are they not found!—making 1,078 agents, for thfy is the number of counties embraced in the United States. Each agent is to re ceive a salary (independent of stealings) of $1,500 a year. Seventy-two assistant agents, and three thousand two hun dred clerks are also to be appointed, whose salaries arc to be fixed by the head superintendent or boss cook of the boarding house. The salaries of the officers of the concern alone (to say nothing of the sealings,) will amount to some three millions of dollars a year 1 Three millions of acres of “ good laud” are to be purchased and set apart for the negroes, who are to bo instructed how to work by white hirelings; in plain English, white men are to be hired to work for the negroes, wdio are to re ceive all the proceeds of the lands.— Every “pet lamb” found running at large is to bo politely invited to the boardinghouse, where he will bo clothed, fed, and educated for a time, and then a farm of “good land” will be presented to him, which he can move upon if he pleases, or if he don’t please, he can re main as a permanent boarder. Ain’t it something to bcP-a “ pet lamb” nowa days ? Truly this is an enlargement of the powers of the “ Preedmen’s Bureau.”— It is the most extensive boarding house over heard of since the days of old Noah. What a blessing to be a negro now! What think our white soldiers of this? We believe no land is to be given to them, nor is any boarding house fitted up for their iffkommodation. These favors are reserved for the “sweet scented negro,” and his posterity, and the white men of this once favored land have to toe the mark in the way of taxes. Another Abolition Ontrngc. At the late election in the Franklin and Adams district, C. M. Duncan, the Democratic candidate for State Senator, was elected over a Republican named McConaughy, by a small majority. This was too much for the aboiitionsts to stand and as their party had a majority in the Senate, they felt sure that any kind of a charge would do to oust the duly elected Democrat, and so it has proved. At first they intended to put in a bogus soldiers’ vote, but the soldiers came home too soon and declared they did not cast any votes. Then they re sorted to the deserters’ vote —the votes cast by men who were said to be desert ers from the army and under law of Congress disfranchised. Well, on this ground McConaughy wont to Harris burg and had his petition presented to the Senate, contesting Mr. Duncan’s right to a seat and a committee was drawn. This committee consisted of six Repub licans and one Democrat. First, this committee announced that they would submit the constitutionality of this law of Congress to the Attorney General of the State—also a Republican—and as the gentlemen composing the committee were presumed to ho honorable men, who could rise above partisanship, it was hoped that justice would be done Mr. Duncan. But unfortunately it was ascer tained that the Attorney General did not consider that Congress had the right to interfere with State election laws, and the committo changed their minds and concluded to make themselves judges, although a majority of them were not even lawyers, and resolved that Congress had a right to say who shall vote and who shall not, in Pennsylvania, and as they found that SW such votes had boon cast for Mr. Duncan—more than his ma jority—they threw him out of the Sen ate and gave the seat to McConaughy, a man whom the district had repudiated. Could party prejudice go further? Tru ly, elections arc a farce when the will of the people can thus he set aside by unconscionable demagogues. li®“ A committe of the State Senate, appointed last winter to investigate into alledged fraudulent transactions by cer tain Philadelphia “ borers made report a few daysago. By their report itappears that three men, viz—Wm. H. Witte, George Northrop, and Alberts. Scofield, all of Philadelphia, had received some 830,000 from a western rail-road compa ny, for the ostensible purpose of bribing members of Assembly to vote for a bill in which said railroad was interested, — The transaction, by some means, leaked out, and Mr. Hopkins, the Democratic Senator from Washington, exposed it before the Senate, and at his suggestion a committee of investigation was ap pointed. After the committee had been appointed, 825,000 was returned to the rail-road officer who had advanced it, the three “ borers” retaining 85,000. it seems that no portion of tins money was ever paid to any member of Assembly for his vote, and that money was not necessary to secure the passage of the bill in which'the rail-road was interest ed. Wo hope to see the men who were en gaged in tliis fraudulent transaction pun ished to the full extent of the law. Their conduct was most infamous, and wo arc glad they have been exposed. The fact that they are Democrais, will not induce us to attempt a palliation of their con duct. Wo lavor the exposure of till fraudulent transactions, and we repeat Hint these men deserve punishment. It is said the claims of Hon.' .John ,M Botta, for wood taken by the Union ar mies, will not be paid. In our last we published the proceed ings of the U. H. Senate for one week. We now:.give the proceedings of the House of Representatives for the same week. Wocompilotrom the Washington Globe, the official paper, viz: Ho usk.—Prayer by the Chaplain in behalf of “ our colored brethren.” Mr. Broomall, (disunion, Pa.) offeree the following resolution: Jtemlved, That the Committee on the District of Columbia be instructed to in quire into the expediency of ordering an election, at winch the blacks of' the District shall decide by ballot whether, in their opinion, the white men of the District should ho allowed the right of suffrage. A vote was taken and the resolution tabled. The House resumed the consideration of the bill proposing to extend suffrage in the District of Columbia," by striking out the word “ white” wherever it ap pears in the laws and ordinances. ■ Mr. Kasson, (Union, lowa,) spoke against the bill, and Mr. Kelley, (dis union, Pa.) in favor of it. Mr. Johnson, of Pennsylvania, rose to a point of order, saying the hall was very dark, especially in the galleries, and it ought to be lit up. [The galleries were filled with grinning negroes.] Pour or five short speeches wore made by disunion members in lavor of negro suffrage, when the House adjourned. The morning following. House met. Prayer by the Chaplain for the freed men. Mr. Conklin (disunion, New York,) offered the following: Resolved, That in re-establishing the Federal relationships of the communi ties lately in rebellion, so as to permit them again to participate in adminis tering the General Government, the fol lowing arc necessary and proper re quirements on the part of the United States and ought to be secured by such measures as will render them, as far as possible, inevitable: First, The absolute renunciation of all the pretensions and evasions of secession as, a doctrine and as a practice. Second, The repudiation, both by the State and by the National Governments, of all public debts and obligations, in cluding State and municipal liabilities, contracted or as in aid of the late rebel-, lion, and including also all claims by or on behalf of those who were in the mil itary or naval service of the insurgents for bounty, pay or pensions, and all claims by persons not loyal to the United States for damages or losses suffered by reason of the rebellion, or for advances made in its aid. Third, The assurance of human rights to all persons within their borders, re gardless of race, creed, or color and the adoption of such provisions against bar barism, disorder and oppression, as will relieve the General Government from the necessity of standing guard over any portion of our country to protect the people from domestic violence and out rage. Fourth, The impartial distribution of political power among all sections of the country, so that four millions of people shall no longer be represented in Con gress in the interests of aggrandizement and at the same time be excluded from political privileges and rights. Fifth, The election of Senators and Ueprgsentatives in truth loyal to the United States, and never ringleaders in the late revolt, nor guilty of dastardly betraying their trusts which preceded the war, or of atrocities Which war can not extenuate. The above resolutions led to a debate, in which Mr. Conklin, their author, took strong ground in favor of negroes holding office. No vote taken. Tlie House resumed the consideration of tlie bill to extend suffrage in the Dis trict of Columbia. Mr. Julian (disunion, Ind.) made a set speech in favor of the bill. He agreed with Mr. Stevens of Pa., that if the negro is not permitted to vote the Republican party will bo defeated and go down. Give the colored man the ballot, he said, and we (theßepublicans) will carry two-thirds of the Southern States, and canthcn feel secure and laugh to scorn all efforts the copperheads may make to regain power. He spoke severe ly against President Johnson, and de nounced ins policy. (Several Democratic members replied to Julian's speech. The galleries were again filled witii negroes. The House adjourned. Next morning. Prayer by the Chap lain for Sambo. Mr. Wilson, (disunion, lowa,) moved that the House proceed to the consider ation of the hill to extend the right of suffrage to colored men in the District of Columbia. The bill was taken up and debated for some four hours—the Democrats opposing, and the disunion ists supporting it. The -House adjourn ed. Next morning. House met at the usual hour, when a prayer was offered for the “pot iambs.” Mr. Elliot, (disuniouist, Mass.) offered a resolution, giving more power to the Prcedmen’s Bureau. The House resumed the consideration of the hill to give the blacks of the Dis trict of Columbia the right to vote. Mr, C lark, (disuniouist, Kansas,) was the first speaker. He denied that this is a white man’s government. The ne gro had more rights here, he said, than tlie white man. He confessed that he loved tlie negro character, and ho warn ed Republicans to adhere to the colored man, and make him a brother, or defeat to the Republican party would follow. ( Ml '- Johnson, ( Dem. of Pa.) replied to ( lark, denouncing his sentiments as monstrous and absurd. Mr. J. said that now, for the first time, it was sought to confer upon tlie negroes a part in the management, direction and control of this Government, For this there was no foundation in right and justice.— Never yet on the face of the earth lias a popular CowTiiment been organized and maintained by the African race.— When a black man becomes a voter ho becomes a part of the Government. Tlie right of suffrage belongs only to those to whom the Government belongs, ami he maintained that we can haven reimhiie without" conceding to all the privilege of the elective franchise. The man who votes is eligible to he voted for, and this is the very foundation of I mii Jui- government. Machine voting was to he introduced here, suelras pre vailed in ff.dtinioro in “Kmey-Noth ing” limes, when a certain amount of THE RUMP CONGRESS. money was placed in a precinct to pro cure a certain amount of votes, and if votes enough were not furnished they were supplied by return day. The con ferring of suffrage on the negroes here lookoll very much like the continuation of the substitute system—not, however, under the conscription law. There was a largo floating population here, having no permanent residence, being clerks in the public departments, who go home once a year to renew their allegiance to the candidates of their dis trict, in order that the candidates, if elected, shall keep them in office all the time. Therefore, they seek negro voters as substitutes, just as they used negroes for substitutes during the war. Several Republican members followed in answer to Mr. Johnson, all taking strong ground in favor of the bill. Finally, amotionwasmade'.by aDciu ocratic member to lay the whole subject on the table. Voted down—yeas 46, nays 123. Several amendments were proposed —one requiring a property qualification., another requiring the voter to be able to read, and another giving the right to vote to those only who served in the army. They were all voted down by a party vote. The previous question was then called and the bill giving the negroes the con trol of the Capital of the Nation, passed the House—yeas 116, nays 54. When the result of the vote was an nounced, the negroes in the galleries gave yell after yell, and clapped their hands and danced like monkeys. Hun dreds of them rushed from the galleries to the floor of the House to shake hands with Stevens and other prominent ne gro-worshippers. Business could not go on, and the House adjourned. Next morning. The Chaplain, during the prayer, thanked the Almighty for the result of yesterday’s proceedings. Mr. Deming, (disunion,. Conn.) ad dressed the House, taking ground that the Union was dissolved, and that the President was wrong in his views, &c. Mr. Green Clay Smith, of Ky., pro ceeded to address the House at length on the assumption that the States were within the Union, declaring that he held position with the President, that the Southern States were not now and never had been without the Union. He alluded to finding but one man in the Congress of the summer of 1861 who de clared that the States were not in the Union, and that was the gentleman from Pennsylvania. (Mr. Thad. Stevens.) Mr. Kelley, (disunionlst, Pn.) present ed the petition of citizens of the District of Columbia, asking for the abolition of all laws making distinction on ac count of color. Deferred to the Com mittee on the District. The bill to enlarge the powers of the Freedmen’s Bureau, so as to make it independent of the President or any other authority, was taken up and dis cussed for two hours. During the speeches the most fulsome flattery was bestowed upon the negroes, and one member declared that to the, black man we are indebted for the vic tory we gained over the South in the into Rebellion. The white soldiers, in ins opinion, did not amount to much.— Adjourned. Johnny Looming up.— Little Johnny Cessna, of Bedford county, who has been a leech upon the Democratic party for years, and who left that party two years ago because they would not give him the nomination for Governor—a place after which he has hankered for years—is now asking his new made friends to confer that honor upon him for tlie dirty work he has performed in .the Abolition camp during the past year. We see that he has beaten Prank Jordon for the delegates in Bedford county and that the delegates in Franklin are instructed for him. Johnny is a slip pery politician and the old stagers in the abolition party who want to be governor, will have to keep their top eye open to keep up with him. What an incorrupti ble executive he would make! Time 'Works Wonders. —One year ago the men of the South were in arms to de stroy the Union. Now the same men are doing all in their power to restore the Un ion. One year ago the Republican party held Union meetings, made Union speech es, and,were willing that their neighbors should die for the Union. To-day the Republican party sneers at the Union, and all measures looking to its restoration. They insist that the States lately in Re bellion, shall not bo considered States, but shall stay out of the Union and hold only a sort of territorial relation to the govern ment.. If this position bo the correct one, then tire war for the Union was a failure. A Hard .Hit.—A gentlemen recently returned from the South called on the President and told him that at Richmond there were in a single school Iwo or three hundred white children as poor and ig norant as any blacks to bo found in the whole of the South, and urged that they needed the aid of the philanthropic every where. President Johnson replied that he was very glad one Northern man had discovered there were any white people at tlie South. In the debate in the Rump House on the 23d, upon the question of suffrage, Thad. Stevens interrupted Mr. Brooks, of New York, by asking him if he was in favor of granting the right of suffrage to women. Brooks replied that ho preferred his own color and white women above the negroes. The whites in the galleries applauded this retort vociferously. It is not stated whether the old negro lover took tlie reply as personal. The IfREEn.MEN in South Caiiomna.* —Ex-Gov. Aiken, of South Carolina, ar rived at Washington a few days ago, and gives an unfavorable report of the condi tion of the negroes in Unit State. He says that large number* of them refuse to work, and the next cotton and rice crons are likely to prove a decided failure. He has been requested to confer with Gen. Grant and the President oii the subject. liH’iTiix of Gov, CeitTix.— Gov. Cur tin and family' reached home on Friday usd from Claim. T)io Governor's health has been greatly improved by his trip. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. Kegi-o Suffrage in the District—Cully and Dinah iu the Galleries—A Grand African Jubilee—Another Constitutional Amendment— I The “ Lords of the Lash”—Hooutz and Coffroth. Washington', D. I Jan. 27, IStitl. (' Mnssits Editors Volunteku :-*Su “ we arc to have the new paper out next week" are wo, and I must fulfill my promise of furnishing you with a. weekly letter. — Hero goes for number one, but where In the world shall I begin? What point of the mountains of iniquity of the present Congress shall I attempt to scale? I could not think of recording the one hundredth part of their villianies in the limits of a weekly letter. Such hair-brained mad ness was never before presented to the gaze of the American people, as seems to rule the hour in both halls of Congress during the present session. Over seventy amendments to the Constitution of the UnitedStatoshave already been presented, and the wildest fancy cannot estimate how many more are to follow. But more of these hereafter. I was up on the hill, one day last week, and it may interest your readers to know what I saw there. The bill centering the right of suffrage upon the negroes of the District was under consideration, and of course “Sambo” and “Dinah” and all the little “nigs” were on hand, or rather in the galleries. This was their grand gala day, and they were determined to make the most of it. “Dinah” nodded approv ingly to “Ctesar Augustus Hannibal,” as she passed him in the rotunda and inform ed him that “ Dis chile is gwino to git in de front seat.” To the front seat she was shown by a polite usher from Massachu setts. “Cuffy” was pointing to the in comprehensicle painting on the dome, representing the “Spirit of America,” and informing his gaping and astonished hear ers that it represented “ Maasa Linkumin Heaven,” and that the eagle therein por trayed was “tie bird of Paradise" ; while the aforesaid “Hannibal Augustus Ciesar” was informing his “Melinda Jane” that the large painting on the right of the door leading from the rotunda to the Senate wing was “de landing of Massa Sumner and de pillegrine fathers.” They [crowd ed to the hill in thousands—they thronged all the corridors and stairways—and be fore the hour of noon arrived the galler ies of the House were a compact mass of ebony, interspersed with a few white lad ies and gentlemen, who had been admit ted, as an especial favor, by the ushers.— The “ darks” occupied no particular por tion of the galleries, but were scattered promiscuously around the entire “ gilded amphitheatre,” as Sumner calls it; and so greatly did they preponderate that they cast a sombre hue over the entire audience. Infactone of the members suggested that the gas be lighted—stating that it was al ready growing dark in the galleries— though it was but little more than four o’- clock in the afternoon. There they sat— these thriftless, lazy creatures, mostof them maintained by the Freedmen’s Bureau beneficiaries of the public—drawing their means of livelihood from the treasury ofthe nation, while the whitepeople of thecoun try are taxed to pay the expense. How many honest, thrifty, hardworking white men are there who can afford to come to W ashington, and sit day after day, week af ter week, listening to the deliberations of Congress? They cannot afford todoit, but under the protection of the Freedmen ’ s Bu reau the galleries are crowded with those negroes who do nothing to earn an honest living, but are supported out of the taxes levied upon thewhole people ofthe country. The suffrage bill came up in its order, and then the radicals became frightened and wanted to postpone; but the Demo crats were determined to force the issue upon them, and to place them fairly and squarely upon the record. Those who had their written but unspoken pieces in their pockets, were in hopes that further delay would afford opportunity for debate. But the issue was pressed, and the bill passed. Such a scene as followed was never before witnessed In the Congress of the United States. Male and female “nigs" rose to their feet, clapping their hands, and waving their rimless hats and soiled pocket handkerchiefs. Little “nigs” threw their arms around their “daddies’” necks and kicked up their ebony heels in a perfect ecstacy of joy.— “Melinda Jane” rushed into “Dinahs” embrace, with a “Bress de Lord,” and wept whole pails full of tears. Old Sambo, in a perspiration of excitement, rushed at once for the floor of the House, to press Stevens and Kelly and Williams and Ashley to his heart of hearts; while little Sambo danced a jig on the front steps, or walked on his hands through the vesti bules. Oh, you cannot imagine what a disgraceful scene it was! It beggared de scription. The whole .spectacle would have made a splendid picture representing fanaticism gone mad. What evil days we have fallen upon, when judgment has fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason! Distiiet negro suffrage in the House is dead to debate j but there has never been a time, in the lost four years, when the negro, in some shape, could not he used as a “substitute.” He shouldered the musket in the late war for more than one third of the patriots of Massachusetts. And now that the House lias disposed of the suffrage question in the District, the uni versal and irrepressible negro comes up in a new shape. Old Thad. Stevens rose one morning and pulled out a amendment to the Constitution, which readily came to hand in his breeches pocket—where he has two or three dozen more in reserve which proved to bo a provision limiting the representation of States to their actual voting population. Of course it means a constitutional amendment which will force the extension 'of the elective fran chise, without qualification, to the negroes in every State, North and South, and it menaces the refusing States by threaten ing to limit their representation. How anxious these Radicals must be for “universal suffrage,” when they cannot present their favorite plan of enfranchis ing the blacks without at the same time dvfranehisinff whites, ns in tile District or doliarring them from representation! Hs the .Stevens amendment proposes to do in the Stales. Most singular, of all the doings in this extraordinary session, surpassing in cool ness even the gag, no-debnto, general basketing business, was Old Thad’s at tempt to press this amendment to an im mediate passage. It hud not been printed. Not half tlie members heard it distinctly when it Was read. It was n change the whole organic law onf bj, ' treasure of the nation to provide [or r “w * necessities? Cauc.uii SEWS ITEMS. A bill is pending before the Lrgi of this to make eight hours a legal day's wo: home ) The citizens of Allentown props ucnnth erect a wire bridge over the Lehigh: Ten men charged with murdoi; awiting trial in the Cincinnati jail, The receipts of the city railways ini Cell'll cago last year were $656,000; mimic passengers, 13,000,000. Met It cost the Federal Government i year, $2,783,010,78 to do the public p “W* ing. naf Si The now sensus of Illinois shorn'; tal population of 2,126,000; an in:: . ■ A®; of 414,000 inflvo years. ■ The work of constructing a rat mged between Titusville and Union law' he aft commenced. W oodi Kev. G. F. Stelling was on Sunt He wi installed pastor of the First English b ing, ' eran Church in Harrisburg. ‘ show Wm. Richardson, one of thecarli Unot. develops the coal trade of Pennsylt