.fmmrctu Wimto*
CARLISLE, PA.,
lO,lBOO.
FOR GOVF.RXOH,
HI ESTER OLVMER,
OF IIFIIKri rOFNT-V
BK.uoniATu; pi„m oiui
1. The Stales, whereof the people were lately in
rebellion, are integral parts of the Union, and arc
entitled (o representation in Congress, by men
duly elected, who boar true faith to the Constitu
tion and laws,nnd in order to vindicate the maxim
that taxation without representation is tyranny,
sueh representatives should he forthwith admit
ted
2. The faith of the Republic is pledged to the
payment of the National debt, and Congress
should pass all laws necessary feu* that purpose.
;t. We owe obedience to the Constitution of the
Cn lied States! including the amendment prohibit
ing slavery! and under its provisions will aeeord
to those emancipated all their rlgliis of person
and properly.
i. Kaeh State has (he exclusive rigid to regu
late the qiialllication of its own electors.
o. Tho while rare alone is entitled to the control
of Ihe government of the Republic, and we are
unwilling to grant to negroes the right to vote.
<5. The hold enunciation of the principles ot the
Constitution and the policy of restoration con
tained in the recent auual message ami Freed
men's Rureau veto message of President John
son entitles him to the eontldenee and support of
all who respect tin* Constitution and love their
country.
7. The.* nation owes to the brave men of mir
armies and navy a debt of lasting gratitude for
(heir heroic services In defence of the Constitu
tion and the Union; ami while we cherish with a
louder alVootion the* memories of tho fallen, we
pledge to their widows and orphans the nation's
i-are and protection.
8. Wo urge upon t ‘engross the duty of equall/.-
i ug the bounties of our soldiers and sailors.
THE IU.I!* SENATE—'TiII; SOI.IMKIES.
The nomination of Gen. Frank Blair
for Collector of Internal Bevenue for the
District of St. Louis, was rejected by the
Kump Senate a few days since. Den.
Sickle?, nominated as Minister to the
Hague. was also rejected, (ion. Knire,
appointed Post Master at Harrisburg, to
take the place of the rich Hc**ian. Berg
see. disunionisi. cannot persuade the
Senate to take up hi- nomination. and he
U therefore virtually rejected.
These cent K-men. as our reader?* know,
were all distinguished officer* of the army
during the entire four years <>f the rebel
lion. Gen. Blair wa* Sherman** riirhi
hand man during his celebrated march
from Atlanta to the Ocean. Hen. Sr-k
-l had Ins leg shot oil* at (iettyshurg,
and Gen. K.vii'K was severely wounded
three time* during tile war. They are
all Republicans too. win* had supported
I.i>’« oi.N for ITc-ident. But they are not
di-iinionist*. whoaftcr having fought and
bled for the Union, are ready to declare
that the war was a failure, and that the
Union is not restored. They agree with
the President; they say that the war was
a success ; that these States are again uni
t«*d ; that all owe allegiance to the Gov
ernment ; that all should he represented
in Congress; that taxation cannot be
imposed upon a people who are refused a
representation in the councils of the na
tion. They are opposed toa consolidated
Government ; opposed to the treasonable
-ehcnu*& of the Kadical-disnniomsts in
Congress, and favor the conservative
views of the great masses,
These three distinguished officers who
have been appointed to civil positions by
President Johnson, because of their
worth and their services in the Held, arc
rejected by the Bump Senate! What a
commentary i* this upon the hypocriti
cal professions that the Radicals have in
dulged in, of love for the soldier? A few
months ago. for the purpose of pulling
the wool over the eyes of soldiers, a com
mittee of the Senate recommended that
in the distribution of official patronage,
i he preference should he given to compe
tent soldiers who had served in the Union
army This was to gull the “boys in
blue” of New Hampshire and Connecti
cut, where elections were pending. But,
ilie recommendation met the President’s
approbation, and he sent to the Senate
the names of the three distinguished offi
cers of whom we have been speaking, for
civil positions in his gift. The Senate re-
JiM'ts them all ! What consistency is
ibis?
* Herein Pennsylvania (leu. Grauv is
the candidate of the negro-equality dis
unionists for Governor. It is notorious
that he is not a suitable person for the
Iroaltion, but yet men are urged to vote
tor this incompetent because he was a
soldier! What hypocrisy. The U. S.
Senate will not permit a soldier to hold a
civil office, but yet the hireling apologists
of that infamous body of traitors have the
unblushing impudence to ask the people
to support Geary because he belonged to
the army, it is another attempt at de
ception ; another attempt at humbug. If
the Rmlical-disunionists are in favor of
-oldiers holding office, let them prove
their professions good by conferring the
offices upon them that they have id their
ift. Let them not appeal to the people
to vote for men because they have been
*oldiers, and then refuse to confirm the
nominations of such soldiers aw Blair,
Sickles and Knire. This is an incon
sistency us flagrant as heartless, and
should be, and will be condemned by an
intelligent and discriminating people.
A SOTTIIERN WITNESS.
We have heeu permitted, says the
Philadelphia A(/e, to use the following
extract from aletter to n gentleman in this
eity, written with no view to publicity by
a very eminent South Carolinian, an ex-
Senator of (lie United Staten, and one
who, yieldingtohisSouthern sympathies,
took an active and not undistinguished
part in the late war. These antecedents
are referred to as giving force to his testi
mony which certainly is very striking:
** I inn planting," he write*, “ my own and my
lathers estate, with some prosper! of reasonable
success. The trial, however, is by no means
over. The freedrnen under my control are docile,
obedient in the main and profoundly respectful.
Their industry, though greater than' i expected,
still leaves a largo margin for improvement, in
this section of country, and! believe everywhere
else in this Slate, the disposition of the white race
towards the negro is of the kindest nature. The
negro is not considered in any degree or in anv
manner responsible, nor at all blamed for the
disasters which have befallen the country, nor
lor the state of tilings which surrounds ns! For
the past, at least, ami during the trying times of
tlie war, wo feel that we owe him some gratitude
for ills conduct mid services under circumstances
of temptation and iullueiiees the most seductive
to the-commlssion of evil. If not further ami
continually disturbed and incited In - foreign in
lluence in: will, to ills henetlt, harmonise with
the intcligenee and capital of the country ful
some time. Hot only our knowledge of tile nature
of man, hut the history of (his race especially
tenches us that the period of serious trouble will
lie wlien Hie .struggle begins for what they are
t aught and will consider us their polilicili rights,
and for social status."
What is here .said as to the period of
danger has been frightfully illustrated at
Norfolk, where a bloody riot 'recently oc
curred, the details anil extent of which
have been .studiously concealed. Eye
witnesses speak of it as something very
hideous. And yet the fantastic* in
Washington go on and urge a policy
which must cud in bloodshed and an
archy.
TIO\
Any man of av intellect, who will
akc the trouble !nd,a few pages in
(lie Constitution .he -1 Cubed States,
will liud that this government of ours is
divided into three separate and distinct
departments —the legislative, executive
and judicial—each of which is intended
to he independent of the others, and is
guaranteed in that independence by cer
tain expressed conditions in the funda
mental law. That Constitution declares
that “the executive power shall be vested
in a President of the United States;” and
it also provides that “ the President shall
,vo power to fill up all vaeaueies which
limy happen during the recess of the
Semite, liy granting commissions which
shill! expire nl the end of their next ses-
The revoliitioimry cabal now proposes
to strip tlies President of this necessary
power—a power exercised by every Pres
ident of Hie Republic from "Washington
down —and to prevent removals from of
fice during the recess of Congress. "When
the Post ollice appropriation hill came up
for consideration in the Senate, last week,
Mr. Trumbull ottered the following
amendment, which was passed;
“No person exercising or performing the Ju
lies of any ollice, which hy law is required to he
tilled liv the ndvicc and consent of tin; Senate,
shall, before conllrmation hy the Senate, receive
any salary nr rtnnpensalion for ills services, un
less lie he eoimnlssionetl hy the President to 1111
up a vaeanev which has, durian tile recess of tile
Senate, and since its last adjournment, happened
hy death, resignation, or expiration of term.”
The meaning of this amendment in
plain English is that no vacancy shall be
filled which may be caused by the Presi
dent’s removal, for it is not likely that
men will be eager to accept positions in
which they are to serve the government
without pay. Its ohju't is to retain the
radical* mortice-and enable them to use
their official power and patronage to de
feat the President’s policy of reconstruc-
tion, retain the youth in a condition of
va>*al:uro. and fill their capacious wallets
with yet other millions of ill-gotten gains
wrung from the people of the late rebel
lion* State*. Its tffrot will be to make
the President a mere cypher in the ad
miiH*iraiion of the government, to de
prive him of all control of the official con
duct of hi* own appointees, and to vest
lie whole control of executive affairs i
a central directory managed by Lyman
Them hell, l 'haulms Sumner and Thau
Stevens. It is a movement precisely
parallel to that which inaugurated the
horrors of the French revolution, when
the self-constituted Council of State arro
gated to itself supreme power over the
lives, fortunes and liberties of the whole
French people. It is a declaration to the
country that these men intend to main
tain their hold on power, by fair means
or foul, in defiant disregard*©!’the wishes
of the people and the people’s President.
It not only foreshadows revolution, but
w rrroh/fion ifwlf, radical and complete,
and was so branded by a loading Repub
lican Senator, from his place in the Sen
ate. Andrew Johnson has as much right
to say that members of Congress .shall re
ceive no pay for their services, as they
have to declare that his appointees shall
be denied their legal salaries: aye, he.
lias as much right to close the door* of
Congress against them, as they have to
declare that the President shall not “have
power to fill vacancies’’ —whether those
vacancies occur by removal or otherwise.
link'll, if the Rump Congress continued
drifting into revolution, and forcing such
legislation as this upon the country, it
will not lie long before public sentiment
will compel the President and ( Secretary
Stanton to take charge of that delectable
body of revolutionists and public plun
derers, and to vindicate the supremacy
of the Constitution, by (lie strong right
arm of tile government, against the as
saults of iXorthern traitors, in like man
ner as it lias already been rescued from
tile hands of Southern rebels.
Under this revolutionary scheme, pub
lic officers, if they arc only good radical
abolitionists, may embezzle the public
money, may gel beastly drunk every
hour in the day, may ftleh money from
tlie mails; and even if they should be de
tected in their villainy, the President can
neither close the office nor appoint any
one to till tlie vneaney, unless lie is so
fortunate as to lind some patriotic indi
vidual who is willing to serve Ids coun
try for nothing. It is made the duly of
tlie President in “sec that the laws are
faithfully executed,” and how can he
perform that duty unless he has the pow
er to remove faithless and incompetent
officers, and place honest and faithful
men in their places? This legislation of
fers a premium for negligence and ras
cality in office. Scarcely a week passes
by mow that wo do not hear of some as
tounding robbery or defalcation by feder
al office-holders, and if the President is
to be prohibited from removing these
public robbers and giving their places to
men of integrity, villiany will run riot
through all departments of the federal
government, Truly tlie cup of the ini
quity of (Ids Hump Congress is almost
full to the brim. In thoirmulignant anx
iety to harass tlie President, embarrass
ids action, and deprive Idm of ids consti
tutional powers, they have readied the
limit of popular endurance. The great
ground-swell of public indignation can
not long he delayed, and when it does
burst upon them woe to the men who
have so long and ruthlessly trilled with
tlie liberties of a free people.
Tiie Disunion amendment requires
tho Southern people to adopt it in order
to secure representation in Congress ; yet,
after it shall lie adopted, ninr-trnt/m n/l/win
cannot rote for rcprcncnfafii'i'a. It is ex
peeling too much of human nature to
suppose that nine-tenths of tho Southern
people will adopt an “amendment” Unit
shall instantly deprive them of all share
in their own government, and place them
completely at tlie mercy of a hostile and
alien minority. Men don’t willingly
chop their heads off. Ko wonder .the
negro Journals say tlie amedment must
li ofon-rd upon them with the bayonet,
or “all is lost” in power and plunder to
the Disunion.party.
■ Tin-; N t kw HT.tTK Oi-TicKits, —John
Hartranft, Auditor General, and Jtu
M, Campble, Surveyor Gem-nil, to
charge of their rspeetive odiees op the In
inst. They succeed Messrs. Slenkei
and Harr (Democrats) two of the best uni-
corn (hut ever served the State. There
are nine Clerks in the Auditor General’s
olliee, and thirteen in the Surveyor Gen
eral's niliee. AII of the fornierexeept two,
and all of the latter except one, have re
tired, to make room for politic-id favorites
of the present incumbents.
THE “CEXTKAIi BIRF.CTORY” REPORT.
The so-called Committee of Reconstruc-
tion, better known as the “ Central Di
rectory, ” which has kept the JUeprcsen
tiitivcs of eleven States from taking their
seats In Congress during the whole of
the present session, made a report last
week, the points of which we annex:
First. That there shall be no discrimination in
civil rights or immunities in any .State on ac
count of nice or color.
Second. That there shall bo no representation
for males above the age of twenty-ono who are
denied (ho right of sulirage.
Third. That persons who voluntarily aided or
adhered to the rebellion shall not vote for Feder
al oillcers until alter July 1, T. 70.
Fourth. That the United Slates, or any State
thereof, shall never pay any debt Incurred In aid
of the rebellion, or allow any compensation for
loss of slaves.
F\flh. That Congress shall have power toon
force those amendments by appropriate legisla
tion. The committee also agree to report two
hills, one providing that when tlio proposed
iLUiendnient.s shall have become a part of the
Constitution of tlie United States, any Stale or
Stales lately in insurrection ratifying the same,
and altering their Constitutions and laws in con
formity thereunto, shall be entitled to represen
tation in Congress, provided such Senators and
Representatives shall be duly qualified and shall
have taken the oath required by law. An exten
sion of ten years is given hy the other section of
file bill to tlie Southern States, to pay their por
tion of tiie direct lax (now remaining unpaid)
levied by Congress in l.Siil.
There ! What a Report is this to come
from a Reconstruction Committee! After
an examination of some five hundred
witnesses; after a secret session of over
five mouths, old Thai, orders the door
of tlie star-chamber to tie thrown open,
that tlie people may see the new-born
bantling. The ugly thing!—black as
sin, venomous as a toad, with 11 disun
ion” stamped upon its monkey-like fore
head. Here is what the New York Times,
a conservative paper, says of tlie Report.
The Hon. Henry J. Raymond, Repub
lican member of Congress, is the editor
of the Times;
From the Xnr York Times.
As a plan of pacification and reconstruction,
the whole thing Is worse -than a burlesque. It
might be styled a farce,' were the country not in
the midst of a very serious drama. Its proper
designation would be “A plan to prolong indefi
nitely the exclusion of the {South Irom Congress,
by imposing conditions to which the Southern
people never will submit.” This being the obvi
ous-scope and tendency of the proposition, we
are bound to assume Unit it clearly reflects the
settled purpose of the committee. So that the
joint committee appointed nearly live months
ago to take exclusive charge of the question of
reconstruction now offer as the result of all their
labors whut would in fact render reconstruction
forever impossible
There is an anomalous feature in the affair as
it stands, which of itself reveals the monstrous
nature of the pretensions set up by the commit
tee. All the provisions of the proposed amend
ment imply the adoption of tlie extreme view In
regard to the relation of the South to the Union.
We must begin by assuming that what were
Slates before the war are more Territories now,
or this attempt to dictate terms as the condition
of recognition becomes undisguised usurpation.
We must assume, in fact, that the South Is at
this moment neither more nor less than an ag
gregate of Territories, walling for admission as
Slates, and from whose people Congress may
therefore require compliance with certain pro
posals. And yet the amendment, on Its face de
clares the existence, as States, of all the States
recently In rebellion, and presupposes the exer
cise by their several Legislatures of the highest
constitutional attribute of Slate sovereignly.—
They have no right to representation In Con
gress, forsooth. They may not say yea or nay on
the most trivial questions that come before Con
gress. They are not permitted to enjoy a parti
cle of inlluenco in matters affecting the finance,
the trade, Hie industry, the foreign relations of
the country, or any of its concerns, great or
small. Those' privileges they are denied on the
pretence that they are not within the Union, and
therefore have no right to recognition as parts of
the Union. Nevertheless, under the contempla
ted amendment, they are treated as sovereign
States, whose ratification of the amendment is
essential to its constitutional validity. They are
to vote for or against a change in Hie Constitu
tion of the Union, of which, on the Radical hy
pothesis, they are not at present members! Could
absurdity go further? Could the folly of this fa
naticism lie made more manifest?
From Hie dilemma into which the committee
have just plunged there Is no logical escape. If
the Southern Slates are m a condition by their
Legislatures to ratify or reject a constitutional
amendment, they must of necessity lie qualified
to send Senators and Representatives to Con-
gress, subject only to the Judgment of either
House as to the eligibility of Hie persons sent.—
A State-whlch may assist in the sovereign task
of moulding the constitution under which Con
gress acts may surely demand a voice in what
Hie Constitution creates. The greater right cov-
ers Hie lessor right, in this as in other cases. On
Hie oilier hand, if the Southern States are not en
litled to admission to Congress—if Hie point be
established, as the Radical doctors say it is, that
these are States no longer, but Territories only,
subject to the will of the conqueror—then it fol
lows that they are not entitled to any lot or part
in the business of amending the Constitution. —
Upon which borji shall the ‘‘Central Directory”
bo impaled wo take U that this prodigi
ous aiuonTlmoiit —this mighty quiusc brought
forlhitfya mountain alter live months’parturl
tlon-Aloes not mean What it says when it speaks
ol thjj States lately in rebellion as States still,
wltJu their sovereign functions--•unimpaired
though for tlie time Interrupted? Or shall wo
conclude that the doctrine of State suicide is
abandoned, the dootrine ofsubjugatlon given up,
and the criminal blunder of which the Radicals
have been guilty In excluding the South from
Congress at length confessed? Lot there be ex
plicit answers upon these heads of the subject.—
As it at present appears, the position of the com
mittee is utterly untenable.
Aside from those points, the worthlessness of
the committee's proposition is obvious. It can
not by any possibility ctlect anything. Wc may
conlldently take it for granted that the people of
the South will never, under any circumstances,
acquiesce in their own disfranchisement for four
years in reference to all that relates to the Feder
al Government. There Is room for dlllereuce of
opinion on lljo general merits of the reconstruc
tion problem; on tills point there can be none.—
Tlie South bus taken Us stand on the ground of a
common citizenship, and It will never accept as
the price ol Congressional representation that
which would be equivalent to an acknowledg
ment of four years’ serfdom or inferiority as tlie
penalty of rebellion. Nor should it lie asked to
accede to terms of tills nature. Punish the rebel
leaders, If necessary, by banishment or other*
wise. Ratio propose to punish a whole people
to suit the partisan convenience of those who
dictate the penalty is an outrage upon justice ami
common humanity.- With all their errors and
faults the Southern people have shown that they
are not cowards. They w|U not belie their na
ture by writing‘themselves tjown slaves at the
bidding of a committee appointed to consider
the question of reconstruction.
If we would do aught to hasten the result which
all moderate men admit to ho exceedingly desi
rable. It is necessary without more ado to discard
the idea of constitutional changes ns the condi
tion-precedent of the mulmlsslon of the South to
Congress. That Is the primary step toward re
construction, practically considered, and we
should be prepared to take it on the ground of
existing rights, subject only to the lawful test of
Individual lit ness, To talk of wholesale and al
most indiscriminate punishment as a prelimina
ry measure—to call'for concessions implying the
relation of supplicants petitioning for favors, in
stead of citizens Insisting upon their rights— to
demand a confession of inferiority with one
breath, while with another admitting the exist
ence of constitutional equality—is to aggravate
feelings already much too bitter, and to multiply
dhttcuilles which the Joint Committee have thus
fur vainly endeavored to overcome.
Admission of Colorado.— The bill to
admit Colorado as a State, passed the
Senate on the 2oth ulf., by r. Vote of yeas
Hi, uaysHi—absent or uot voting, 17. The
bill declares Colorado to have adopted a
State Constitution and founded a State
Government, and to be a State in the
Union. An amendment, providing for
universal sufferago, was rejected by a vote
7 yeas to 27 nays,
The. Colorado bill came up in tlie House
quite unexpectedly on Thursday after
noun, and was pressed to a final vote,
which resulted in its passage by 80 yeas to
7m nays. .All the Democrats and about
ti teen or. twenty llepublipaiis voted against
it. Mr. AVashburne’s proviso, that tlie
bill should not take effect uiitiljafter the
constitution of Colorado shall have been
amended by striking out tlie word “white”
as a qualification for voters, was lost by a
large majority. Kelley and Droomall,
of tlie Pennsylvania delegation, voted
for tlie proviso, and then voted against
(lie bill on its final passage. AVe may
not here, as a sample of tho connistcncy of
(lie DisunionistCongressmen, that nearly
all of iliem v/l)o voted against forcing
negrtv-auffrage on Colorado, pro open ad
vocates of imposing that- disgraceful
measure on the Southern States.
Don't Miss It.—Wo trust our young
Democratic friends throughout (lie Cou
nty will not neglect ll|e chance we give
them to get a Sewing Machine for noth
ing. It will ho a splendid present to
make to their sisters ; and if they haven’t
any sisters of their own, they can readily
find some other persons siste.l to give it.
to.
HOW THE MONEY GOES.
The items in the appropriation bill in
troduced in the House last week by old
Thai), for the Frccdmen’s Bureau for
1860, shows what an expensive elephant
that animal is on the hands of Uncle Sam
The items are as follows
Officers Salaries,
Clerks,
Stationary and Printing,
Quarters and fuel,
Clothing,
Commissary stores,
Medical department
Transportation.
School Superintendents,
School Houses and Asylums,
Sundries
Education Bureau,
Total,.
Twenty-one million, six hundred and
eighty-four thousand, four hundred and
fifty dollars! This is the appropriation
to the Freedmcn’s Bureau for the year
1866. All this money is to he eqpondcd
for the benefit of the blacks and the lazy
vagabonds who run the Bureau. At this
rate of reckless extravagance, is it possi
ble for this country to pay off - its Nation
al debt of four thousand millions of dol
lars and sustain its credit? This appro
priation to the “ frcedmen,” large as it is,
is but a portion of the benefits they are
to receive. A dozen propositions are now
before the Rump Congress, _all of them
dictated by Sumner and Stevens, grant
ing additional privileges to the blacks. —
One is to grant them tens of thousands of
acres of the public lands, another propo
ses to educate all the little velvet heads at
lie public expense, &c. Truly, it is some-
thing to have a black skin just now. —
White men and white children must
stand aside and sec the public money
squandered upon tho “coming man.”—
How long will the tax-payers of our over
burthened country submit to these outra
ges—to this unlawful manner of appropri
ating their money ?
Let the people of Pennsylvania remenl
ber that’ John.W. Geary, the disunion
candidate for Governor, sanctions these
outrages. Pie is the candidate of the Ste
vens wjng of tho Republican party, and
is pledged to the policy of his chief. Can
it be possible that any decent white man
will support him and thus endorse the
doings of Thai). Stevens and the Rump
Congress? We trow not.
THE DISUNION TERMS.
The Disunion Central Directorv of Fif
teen have come to an agreement upon the
conditions to be proposed to the South, for
readmission to the right of representation.
They are substantially as follows :
Ist, That the Federal Constitution shall be so
anlemled that hereafter no Stale shall make any
discrimination on account of race or color;
2d, That after July 4th, 1875, negroes 7nust and
shall have the right to rote- ,
3d, No Slate .shall haflo reresentatlon for col
ored persons not allowed to vote, between 18(5(>
and 1879;
4th. Southern States will bo allowed represen
tation upon accepting these terms and taking tho
test-oath.
This amounts to an indefinite post-
ponomont of the restoration of the Union,
and is doubtless intended as such. Ad-
mitting that it can pass Congress by the
requisite two-third vote, it must be rati
fied by three-fourths of the States Can
that be obtained ? Let us see. The con
stitutional amendment, abolishing slavery
simply, was ratified by all the Northern
States (except New Jersey), andyetneed
ed tire ratification of two of the Southern
States before it became valid. To carry
it, therefore, the Radicals were forced to
stultify themselves by recognising the
South, for that purpose, as Slates in the
Union. Now, here is a measure, radically
affecting the right of local self-govern
ment, which all the States have jealously
maintained and undisputedly exercised
ever since the Union was formed, and
which, it may be reasonably supposed,
they will not willingly surrender. Would
a decent number of the Northern States
ratify it? The Legislature of Pennsylva
nia ultra, as it is, would not dare to do it,
in the face of the overwhelming senti
ment of the people of this State against
negro equality. And even in New Eng
land, with the recent very decided vote
of Connecticut against negro suffrage, be
fore us, we may doubt whether it would
be generally accepted. But, granting
that, for the sake of destroying the politi
cal power of the South, the whole North
could bo so far coutroled by radical influ
ences, as to assent to these propositions,
no one who has read the testimony of
Alexander H. Stephens, one of the most
moderate of men in the late Confederacy,
before Tliad. Stevens' Directory,.can come
to any other conclusion than that the
Southern States would unhesitatingly and
with one voice, reject such degrading con
dition of readmission to rights' that are
now as clearly theirs, under the Consti
tution, as they are the rights of Massachu
setts or Kentucky 7. They are either in
the Union or out of it. If in, then they
are entitled to representation upon the
single condition of taking the prescribed
oath. If out, they would not bettor them
selves by coming in upon terms which
in effect give the negro tiro rule over
them.
The truth is, the Radicals are determin
ed to disfranchise the South until another
Presidential election shall have confirm
ed them in their usurped power. After
that, they 7 would feel secure in carrying
out Sumner’s revolutionary scheme of re
ducing the Southern States to territorial
dependencies; and thus the Union on
the only 7 truly 7 Republican basis of an
equality 7 of the States would bo destroyed
forever." Unless the people rise in their
might, drive the Disunionists out of the
Capitol, and, aided by the President, take
into their own hands the work of restor
ing the Union, which they were told—
falsely, as it now appears—the war was to
have accomplished, there is no hope for
the future.
*l@" Tho Washington correspondent df
the Philadelphia Press, who pays special
attention to the colored people of the Dis
trict of Columbia, states that a deputation
of wenches presented, a boquet to each
Senator who voted for the Negro Rights
bill. The Secretary of the Senate, For
ney, was similarly honored! Tho wench
es must have carried up several clothes
baskets full. We presume they expect to
secure the washing of the Radical Sena
tors and want Forney to gather up the
dirty clothes.
JtfetCA Negro paper called the Hauler,
published at Charleston, by an itinerant
Boston Yankee, has hoisted tho follow
ing ticket for 1808—For President, U. S.
Grant, for Vice President Wnj. D. Kelly,
of Philadelphia. Tho platform is to bo
“loyalty against treason, intelligence
against ignorance.” Loyalty is the nig
ger, and intelligence' is the onlu yankee.
This is certainly a strong dose of vagran
cy, ami hypocrisy,
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
Andy Johnson Sl.on. 1.1.T<.c(1.--Tlic€n'liio<,
llnnnlmon. In Opposition lo tlic Kcnorl «I
<lio Bccon.lrncllon CommUtcc--Wlini uip
Itrport Monn.-Tlind
grnnl.-Tl.c Flrttt Fruit" of Cly II BIbI>«*
Fraud. ortUcDrafllltn , cnti--A. Jolm"onlins
«lnlt " Hlcndliiß Ilrccclic" -Sonntor Cow nil.
■Washington April 7, 1800.
Mess its. Editors Voi.unteeii: —Tho Revolu
tionary Rumpors have at last driven tho President
to the wall. The constitutional amendments re
ported from tho Reconstruction Committee, last
week, the main object of which was to declare
that disunion was au accomplished and irrevo
cable fact, wore a little bit more than Johnsonian
nosh and blood could stand; and ho at once sum
moned his cabinet around him, and asked their
views upon tho present alarming crisis In na
tional affairs. All tho members of the cabinet
were present except Attorney-General Speed,
who was on a visit to his home in Iven tuck).
Secretary Seward, It Is said, lu thostrongest terms
avowed his hostility to the plan of the Commit
tee, and he was followed by Secretary McCnlloh,
Secretary Stanton, Secretary Welles, and Post-
Masler-Gcneral Dennison, all of them cordially
endorsing tho President’s restoration policy.—
Tho result of this conference Is seml-offlclally an
nounced In the National Intelligencer, the Presi
dent’s organ, a copy of which I send you. The
fact that Stanton has deserted tho radical cause
and come over to the President,.has created tho
greatest excitement In tho disunion camp, and
may be regarded ns one.of those little straws
which show very distinctly which way the wind
blows. It Is also known that General Okant has
expressed his decided disapprobation of the re
port of the Committee, "denouncing it ns revolu
tionary, and avowing his intention to stand by
tho President, come what may.
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. 4,100,250
500,000
. 1,080,000
21.000
. 3,000,000
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It Is a significant fact, too, that Gen. Sherman
is also enthusiastic in his support of tho Pres
ident. At a recent speech in Detroit, he de
clared : “ I know tho man at the head of affairs
at Washington, and all wo have to do Is to trust
him. Exercise forbearance and patriotism, and
give tho President your hearty and earnest sup
port.” In this cabinet meeting President John
son avowed himself In favor of tho immediate
admission of the representatives from the South
ern States, and alsohls opposition to any amend
ment of the constitution, until all the Slates shall
have an opportunity to participate in framing it,
through their representatives In Congress.
In furtherance of these views, Senator Dixon
offered a resolution in the Senate, on Wednes
day, declaring that when any one of the lately
rebellious States shall present itself not only in
an attitude of loyalty, but represented by men
capable of submitting to constitutional tests, It
shall be admitted to the right of representation.
The resolution will doubtless bo defeated, hut It
will so clearly define the position of the radicals
there hereafter there cap be no misunderstand
ing of It. The sole object of the report of the
Committee 1s to secure the next President and
tho Congress elected with him. It will reduce the
South to the condition of Ireland under England,
or Poland under Russia; and looks to a revolu
tion in the government, beginning with the ex
ercise of despotic powers over the South, and
ending—Heaven only knows whore. The whole
system Is based on the Idea that the union is dis
solved. Now the recent war was conducted on
the theory that the Union still existed, and that
all pretended acts, of secession were null and
void. In this sign wo conquered, and If the suc
cess of our arms in the Held meant anything It
meant that immediately on tho cessation of arm
ed resistance by evil combinations of men In tho
Southern States, tho Union was restored lulls In
tegrity over ever foot of our soli. But. now,
sooth, the people of tho South are told that be
fore they can be allowed representation in Con
gress, they must agree to send none hut men for
whose capacious throats and strong stomachs
the most nauseating political boluses of the Rad
ical New England school will be none ton hot or
too heavy.
When the "army bllf was up In the Hump,
the other day.Tlmd Slovens secured the adop
tion of an amendment providing for two regi
ments of cavalry, to be composed of negroes.' White
men can go on foot, hut the lazy niggers must bo
mounted, so as to malic them as comfortable as
possible, during profound peace. It will take
four million dollars a year to maintain tills blade
cavalry excresenec; and while those black va
grants are lolling about their barracks, witli no
thing to do except cook their rations and sky
lark among the wenches, the white laboring men
of the country must sweat and toil to work out
tin* taxes required for the comfort and pleasure
of such “soldiers." Mow will the working tax
payers relish it ? Are they willing to have their
hard-earned wages taken for the support of Idle
negroes—wortliless in time of war, but worse than
worthless in time of peace ?
Ttie first fruits of the Xegro " civil rights" bill
were reaped at Norfolk, last week. Several thous
and drunken black rascals paraded the streets
with loaded muskets, in “ honor" of the passage
of t hat bill over the veto, and to show their ca
pacity for citizenship Immolated nearly a whole
family of whites. The brutes attacked a man
named John Whitehurst, bursted his head open
until the brains oozed out. While they were
dragging him along thus by t lie heels, his broth
er ran to his assistance. Him they knocked
down and shot in four places. The crowd then
ran to his house, which was in the suburbs, and
shot a musket ball down his mother’s throat, kil
ling her instantly. They then robbed the house
and threw the furniture out of the windows.—
William Mosely, a city watchman, and his son
wore so badly beaten that their lives were des
paired of. Many other whites wore shot and
beaten. Much excitement was created among
the whftes, but the military arrived in time to
prevent the black scoundrels from getting their
just deserts. Of course black have
now a right to carry loaded muskets through any
city—even if they are barbarians—so says the ne
gro “ rights” bill, the ‘ law’ of the minority Hump.
There will be more fruits—North and South.
Gen. Baker has made a report in regard to
drafts and bounty jumping, in which he states
that out of the live hundred thousand men called
out and sworn in by the United Slates Govern
ment no more than one hundred and sixty-eight
thousand actually reached the field as soldiers,
although they nearly all received their bounties.
In this swindling operation the agents of the Pro
vost Marshal’s bureau were in many instances
parties. A member of Congress, one day last
week, charged the grossest corruption and infa
my upon this department, and named Provost
Marshal General Pry as implicated in the villi
any. An investigation has boon ordered by Con
gress, which will no doubt disclosp a nep” batch
of astounding and disgraceful frauds. It will be
a consolation to those communities who strug
gled so hard to fill their quotas to know that about
one man In every four reached the front.
A simple-minded republican ollice-seeker from
Connecticut closed a recent application to the
President with the Inquiry whether the breach be
tween the President and Congress could hero
paired. The President, on the spur of the mo
ment, replied by mall that he was not now re
pairing breeches so much as ho. was. This Is
considered a very fair thing by those who joked
with “ A. Johnson” t\yenty-odd years ago.
One of the most remarkable men in the present
Congress is Senator Cowan of your State. Hois
fully six feet tall, possessed of a rich deep basso
voice, and is certainly a most peculiar and im
pressive speaker. Ho possesses one groat merit,
that of never speaking unless lie has something
to say. When ho rises in his place ip the middle
aisle, his tall figure dwarfing everything around
him, he attracts universal attention,’and Is on
all occasions treated with the utmost deference
and respect. His clear, practical, common-sense
manner of attacking the sophistries of the disun
ionlsts, frequently throws the whole radical camp
into confusion. Pennsylvania may well ho proud,
of her Renators, and in po Ayqy can she reflect
more honor on herself than by relqrning Sena
tor Cowan to the scat now adorned by his patri
otism mid eloquence. C.vrcAstAN.
>'C(rro Riot nt Memphis.
. Memphis, May 3. —About thirty houses
occupied by negroes, and all their school
houses in South Memphis, were pulled
down or burned last night. Ton of them
were killed during the day. This morn
ing it was imped order would he restored.
The negroes mostly lied to the woods, but
are returning to-day.
The city remains quiet up to !) o’clock
tips evening, Thu negroes recently
mustered out were paid off in Fort Pick
ering to-day. They threatened to burn
the city to-night, and great uneasiness is
felt. They are kept in the fort by a por
tion of the .Sixteenth Regulars.
Gen, Stuncman this afternoon served a
notice upon the Mayor, Council and
('ounty officers, forbidding the assembling
of any bodies of armed men, black or
white except tho police so far ns they are
to be relied upon to preserve peace.
A large munberofnegroes were arrested
to-day and found heavily armed.
SECOND DISPATCH
(3EXEHAI NEWS.
—Strawberries were selling in Philadelphia on
'rlclay at three cents apiece.
-Over a million of emigrants have arrived in
IhiH country since September.
—The recent whaling season has been very
successful, the vessels securing from 200 to/500
barrels of oil apiece.
—Lake Wlnnlplseogcc, New Hampshire, is still
frozen over to the depth of more than a foot.
—Nearly all the postolllces in Texas are in
charge of females. It works so well that the
males now arrive and depart every hour of the
—President dohnson’s message was read in
China 1.1 days after Its delivery In Washington.
It was telegraphed to San Francisco, and carried
lienee to China by a vessel,
—The emigration to Minnesota this season is
said to lie greater that that of any previous year.
—The 'J'j'ibunc, says the
Jail of Chambers county, in that State, Is packed
full to running over with prisoners. They areall
negroes continod for larceny.
, —The small-pox and varioloid arcprcvaillngdn
Washington to an extent that is alarming the
citizens
—The French troops are to be withdrawn from
Mexico, but Vera Cruz and other ports are to be
garrisoned by French troops as a garanteo for ex
penses. t ,
—During the month of March the Postmaster
General has caused to be opened two hundred
and forty-soven postolUees throughout the
Southern States.
—The Woodstock and Katskill mountalns*are
reported to have been on fire on Sunday, over
live thousand acres having been swept by the
lames.
—Thousands of negro children are being educa
ted by the former slaveholders of Florida. Dis
union organs will please make a note of the fact.
—Governor Curtin has expressed his approval
of the sentence of the Court in the case of Probst,
the murderer of the Dearlng family, and will
unhesitatingly sign the death warrant.
—lt has been reported that the United States
Senate intended at an early day to take action
upon the House bill establishing negro suffrage
in the District of Columbia.
—Among the jurymen of the Rhode Island Su
preme Court, impannellcd on Monday, was a “ re
constructed” negro.
—The American Consul at Asplnwall reports
the appearance ofa cattle disease supposed to bo
the rinderpest.
—The Johnstown Democrat says Col. Campbell,
Surveyor General, is not appointing soldiers to
clerkship in his ofllcc. Why ?
—On the l‘lth of April the work of stowing the
new Atlantic cable on board the Great Eastern
begun at Sherness. About the middle of July
next the work of laying the cable is expected to
begin.
—lt Is announced that at the late election in
Janesville, Wisconsin (which State has recently
enacted universal sullrage), a radical Republi
can was run for the ollice of constable against a
black man, and the black man elected by a large
majority.•'The successful candidate Intends to
qualify and perform the duties of his ofilco.
—The Peach crop in Weste.niPemisyivaniaand
Ohio will bo a failure the present year. A Cin
cinnati paper says that a peach grower in that
vicinity Ims lon thousand trees, and will get per
haps ten bushels of fruit.
—Dispatches have been received at the Navy
Department from Commodore Rogers, concern
ing the bombardment of Valpaariso. It is said
that his not interfering actively to prevent the
bombardment meets the approbation of the gov
ernment.
—Joseph Easterbrook, Jr., of Camden, Me., got
ills life insured for §.‘1,000, some time ago, and
afterwards became deranged and committed su
icide by shooting. The insurance company re
fused to pay the policy, but the Maine Supreme
Court decides that they must pay the 83,000 and
the costs beside.
—A drunken negro at Murfreesboro, Tennessee,
ran againsta little girl Iheothor day, and, angered
because she was in his way, deliberately drew a
revolver and blew her brains out. A little “man
hood sun\e)rttge” may do his case good.
—A cholera panic was created in Washington
Inst week, In consequence of the sudden illness of
a number of contrabands residing in a filthy lo
cality. An investigation Indicates that the ill-
ness came from eating spoiled fish.
—Col. J. H. Taggart of Northumberland, has
been removed from Collcctorshlp of Internal
Revenue in Philadelphia, by the President, and
A. K. Sloanocker has been appointed In his place.
—On Thursday lust a torpedo, which had been
sunk for three years and one month, in Charles
ton harbor, exploded off t lie beach of Sulivan’s
Island, near battery “ B,” in about eight fathoms
of water. It is supposed to have been exploded
by the druglng of a vessel’s cable. It lifted an
immense volume of water, and presented quite a
grand appearance.
—At Memphis, on Tuesday, there was a two
hours’ fight between twenty policeman and one
hundred and fifty colored soldiers, growing out of
the resisting of an arrest by the latter. The riot
was quelled by the assistance of regular troops,
after one policeman ami eight or ten negroes had
l)eon killed, and several on both sides wounded.
—The Columbus (Miss; Index complains that
recently iu that city “ several freed women, dress
ed In the latest fashion, drew up in their carriages
before some of our principal stores, and culled the
clerks to bring out certain goods for their inspec
tion.”
—The numbin' of widows, orphans and disabled
sqldlors now drawing annual pensions from the
Government is about ninety-seven thousand five
hundred, without including those granted during
the present month.
—Last week a negro committed a rape upon a
little white girl of ten years, at Paris, Kentucky,
of which she died the same day. lie was arrested
and put in Jail, hut a mob of while men gathered,
broke down the doors and hung the wretch.
His body hung suspended for two days thereafter
undisturbed.
—lt is reported from ’Washington that Secreta
ry Seward has sent a despatch to the United States
minister at Vienna, in which he threatens to
break oll'diplomatlc relations with Austria, if the
latter Power persists in sending troops to Mexico,
in aid of Muxlmillian and to replace those that
are to he withdrawn by Franco.
PERSONAL.
—Miss Auna Dickinson isnbout to quit lecturing
and get married.
—General Marmadukc is now a grocer at St.
Louis.
—Mrs Jelter&on Davis Ims arrived at Fortress
Monroe.
-Ex-Senator Wigfall, of Texas, is said to have
arrived in England.
—W. W. Clap, one of the oldest editors and pub
lishers of Boston, died on Tuesday.
—The Senate, yesterday, refused to cofirm the
nomination of Gen. Frank Blair as Revenue
Collector at St. Louis^
—John Robinson, of circus notority, shot by
guerlllasntCrittendon,Ky M 'April23d,died on the
:10th.
—Gen. Conrad Shimer, for several years a State
Senator from Northampton, died yesterday.
—General Frank Blair.it is said, will bo the
next conservative eandidate;for Governor oX Mis
souri.
—Rev. Dr. Moore, Pastor of the First Presbyte
rian Church of Richmond, preached his farewell
sermon on last Sunday, prior to his departure foi
Europe.
—President Johnson and family have engaged
rooms for a portion of the season at the Continen
tal Hotel, Long Branch, New Jersey.
—Cassius M. Clay, our minister to Russia sup
ports President Johnson.
—Gibson Peters, who killed his wife last Aug
ust at Rcamstown, Lancaster county, Pa., has
been convicted and sentenced to the penitentia
ry for 12 years.
—The Montreal Gazette reports the death of Ole
Bull, the celebrated violinist, at Quebec, on the
lOult. \
—Kdwin Booth made his Urst appearonco for
two yours in Philadelphia at the Walnut Street
Theater on Monday night. He was received
with grout enthusiasm.
—Quantrell, the noted Kansas guerrilla, is said
to be residing in the West India Islands, hard at
work.
Tub Difi-’ehknoe.— The Democratic
Johnson Club of Washington subscribed
for some thousands of copies of a paper
published in that city, and paid for it out
of their pockets.
The disuuionists, on 11101 ion of Stevens,
attempted to got Congress to subscribe for
some thousands-of copies of 'Kornev's
(JhronhtU to bo paid for out of the peo
ple’s Treasury. Congress, although a
body very devoid of souse, had sense
enough to see the impropriety of the mo
tion and throttled it.
A GAME OF DECEPTION "
The Republican party managed t„
cure power by deceiving the peonla ~t
its real principles and designs tm 0
maintained its hold on the offices of tu’
country by n system of wholes-iln bc
barefaced lying. The most
falsehoods have been constantly U ft CSs
by its flippant partizau orators, whiff
newspaper press has shown an uttm. Y
regard for the truth. Even common h
eenoy has been constantly outraged?'
the leaders of that organization ,7
was too gross, no charge too indecent 7
he employed against a political opnonL,
Republican orators and editors Have
constantly, lied on all possible fmegtJ?
lied boldly, lied with deliberate intent?!
set purpose, lied without stint, liedsimS
and lied in concert, lied as no man or y
of men overlied before. In the cam™! B ' l
oflB6o, when Mr. Lincoln was first e Bll
ted they succeeded by deceiving tiie w
pie in regard to the true issues before a
country. In every campaign which t.!
followed they have pursued the
same policy. They have been forced t
hhis because they never dared, to J
honestly with the masses. al
In the present contest in Pennsylvm'
they are compelled to resort to the sn».
despicable means They know the
pie of this State will hurl them from™*
er-at once and forever unless they iff
age still to deceive the masses. Thtr
dare not, and they will not openly
cate the real principles of tlicir patlv
They will cover up their purposes beneath
a mountain of falsehoods, and makefile
hiding places a refuge of lies. Alrcndv
we see how they intend to manage the
campaign. They dare not talk of poim
cal principles. It is more than their
political life is worth for them to attcujn/
to meet the supporters of Presidential™ 1
son’s restoration policy before theneotfc
They will attempt to doge all the vital
issues of the day. They will deny that
negro suffrage is an issue, and will try to
cover up all the infamous acts of the
Radical aisunionists in Congress, They
will denounce Clymer as a copperhead
parade certain votes, which they forced
for a purpose, when to have voted other
wise would have been to sanction an at
tempt at usurpation, and will manufac
ture a marvelous military record for their
paper General.
The time when they could succeed bv
such meretricious means has passed awav
If the Democracy of the State do tlie’ir
duty, they can force these political trick
sters from their hiding places and compel
them to stand before the people in all the
hideousness of their real character. In
this great work every true man must re
gard himself an agent. Every means
must be used to disseminate political
truth. Men who will read must be sup
plied with the right kind of material.
Clubs must be formed in every township
and school district. The great questions
of tire day must be openly and fully dis
cussed. The campaign must be made the
most vigorous ami thorugh ever witness
od in Pennsylvania. Ouropponentamusl
lie driven from the refuge of lies in which
they have hid themselves, and the good
old commonwealth rescued from their
misrule. It can be done. It must be
done. It will be done. —Lancaster Inleli
fjrncrr.
LOCAL ITEMS.
May. —Bright, beautiful and glorious
May is at last with us in her true self-
Winterlingered long in the lap of spring,
but Sir Jack Frost has finally been driv
en back to his ice-bound caverns of the
North, there to remain until chill Decern
her calls him forth to fasten his icy man
acles on streamlet and lake. May has
been called the “ queen month" of the
calendar—the “honeymoon” of the year,
The “.blind old bard” of English verse
sang its praises, and Tennyson paints its
bloom and beauty in one of his sseeteV
poems. In England, beyond nil other
countries, May-day festivities have been
celebrated from time immemorial with
singular gayety and delight. The erect
ing of the May-pole, and the choosing of
the King and Queen of May, formed a
picturesque and beautiful feature of the
day. The May-pole was drawn by oxen,
sometimes twenty or thirty pairs, bedeck
ed with garlands, to the village green,
and there erected with great pomp and.
hung with wreathes of flowers. Bowen
were prepared for tire King and Queeuof
the day, and in their presence ensuedtbe
dances and fantastic sports of tire occa
sion. This custom used to bo observedin
many parts of this country, but has now
fallen into disuse, and is more honored in
tire breach than in the observance. It Is
much to be regretted that these rural ob
servances of May-day have all passed
away. Yes, thrice welcome, beautifuland
glorious May, coming to us with her
hands full ot flowers, and laughing ail
over in the gladness of her young heart.
Finn on the Mountain.— An exten
sive fire lias been raging in the South
Mountain, near the Pine Grove Iron
Works, since Saturday last. It has burnt
over a large extent of territory, ami de
stroyed a vast amount of timber. On
Sunday last, we learn, several thousand
cords of wood were consumed. During
the day, a heavy column of smoke is ris
ing continually from the mountain, and
at night the scene Is grand beyond de
scription.- The flames may be seen run
ning along the face of the mountain, for
a distance probably of two miles, consu
ming everything that lies in their course.
Here and there a more brilliant ligW
shows where some monarch of the forest,
or tlio cabin of some mountaineer, is 8"‘
en over to the flames. All efforts to M
rest the progress of the devouring eiemen
have thus far been ineffectual.
How to Select Floub. —An exchange
says; In selecting flour, first look tot®
color. If it is white, with a yellow 8 ’
straw-colored tint, buy it. If it ia
with a bluish cast, or with white sp cc ’*
in it, refuse it. Second, examine its 8
hesiveness—wet and kneed a little of
between your fingers—if it works soft-a®
sticky it is poor. Third, throw a m
lump of dried flour against a smooth sat
face. If it falls like powder it is 8 '
Fourth, squeeze some of the flour f>B ,;
in your hand; if it retains the shape
en by the pressure, that, too, is
sign. It is safe to buy flour that '''
stand all these tests. These modes
given by all old flour dealers, and '
pertain to a matter that concerns em
body—the staff of life.
* e fhe
Thu CiiAMiiEßSßUiia Losses.—
commissioners, John H. Briggs, T* l0 ®
Jordan and H. N. McAllister, app° in^
to assess the losses sustained by the 1
pie of Chumbersburg, by the
have finished their labors and madet
report to the Auditor 1
make the aggregate losses $1,625,471,
Base Ball, —We have a Base
Club in Carlisle, via have. When ,ve " _
wc, it is to be understood that we P
ally are a base bailer (not bawler.)
Club has already played a number 0
finest games on record, and is prepa rc ,
“ lay out” the best nine of the celc > r
“ Athletic” or the “ Keystone,” any c
in the week.