CARLISLE, PA., 'thtiradny Morning:, Nov. 22, ISOO. A OENTI.IE ItEVIXDER. We would remind our readers that wc are rapidly approaching the Ist of De cember, at which time the subscription year of ncarlyaii of oursubscribors closes. We therefore think it proper to give this timely notice of the fact. Owing to the continued high prico of all the materials hsgd In a printing office, wo shall bo obli gedth, adhere closely to our terms this year. It will he recollected thatour terms are, two dollars per annumpayable in ad vance, or two dollars and fifty cents, if not paid, in advance. Wo say we shall bo obliged to adhere strictly to these terms in the future. Wo have been disposed to he as lenient as possible, but we wish it to he strictly understood that they are our terms and that we expect them to be ob served. We trust our patrons will give atten tion to the above matter. The price of the Voi.iintf.hr was not increased like that of many papers, but during the whole six years past, when almost everything that we use in getting up the paper, has cost double, we furnished the paper at the old price. We think this is a matter to be taken into consideration, and impel our friends to settle up their dues promptly and save Fifty cents by paying before the expiration of tho year. There Is a large amount due us on our books for subscription, jobbing and ad vertising, which we greatly need and must have. What we buy and need for the printing office, is cash. We pay for the white paper about the time it roaches our office, wo therefore need the cash wherewith to make our payments. We trust therefore our friends will at tend to our request without further delay and square their accounts at once. We are endeavoring to furnish a good county and sound reliable political paper, which is not surpassed in the State, and we think wo have a right to ask our friends to do tho right thing towards us. Money can be sent by mail and receipts, will bo returned. A PERSECUTED PARTY Our neighbor of the Herald copies an article from the Phil’a. North American, and leads it, which for cool impudence exceeds anything we have road for some time. The caption of the article is “ Treat ment of the Republicans.” Itooinplaius that they (the innocent Republicans,) have been treated with 11 uniform disre spect and reproach” by the Democracy ; that we have called their Congress “a rump,” and threatened to kick the mem bers composing the majority out of the Capitol building; that wo have "slan dered and oppressed them,” and called them ugly names and practiced “ arbitra ry usurpations;” nay more, we have kill ed some of them and used 1 ’ every weapon that could be used by envenomed hate.” And, notwithstanding all this, remarks the North American, the good-natured patriots of the Republican party, “ have counselled moderation towards the Dem ocrats and opposed extreme measures!” But, says the same paper, 11 the enemy (Democrats,) must now be made to feel the power we have,” &o. When we remember the infamous tyr anny of the Lincoln “reign.of terror,” the manner in which Democrats were abused, imprisoned, maligned and perse cuted even unto death, robbed of their property by contemptible officials and vagabond attorneys, is it not the'quintos seuce of impudence for Republicans to complain that they have been badly treat ed by the Democrats ? We had no power to “ oppress” them even if we had desired to do so. That power was in the hands of the Radicals, and Cod knows they used it with a brutality that none but cowards and poltroons resort to. In less than one year over one hundred Democratic print ing offices were wholly or partially de stroyed by the miscreants of this hell born party. Men were dragged to prison, many of them to die from neglect or star vation, because they dared to question the motives of an administration that will be remembered only for its glaring dishon esty and pusillanimous weakness. Dem ocrats were drafted into the army by thou sands all over the country, whilst stal wart Republicans had no fears of the draft-wheel, for it never contained their names. McCi.ki.lan', because lie was a Democrat and a white man, was betrayed by the administration, and everything that could bo done was done by those in authority to ruin the army under his command. Democratic officers were dis missed from the army and private soldiers punished because they dared to vote the Democratic ticket, and after having serv ed their country for lour Jong years, if they offered themselves as candidates for a civil office they were maligned by the thieving minions of the administration, and stigmatized as "traitors,” “copper heads,” &c. A constant stream of abuse, persecution and malignity has followed us from the hour the Radicals took pos session of the Government to the present hour, and no slander was too mean, no punishment too great to apply to Demo crats who had independence enough to condemn the infamies of an infamous ad ministration, And yet in ' the faoe of these facts, the North American has the brazen impudence to complain of the rudeness of Democrats toward Radicals. Poor fellows, how they are to be pitied! Moat of them beggars five years ago, they now count their hundreds of thousands, and live in princely splendor, and this is the “persecution” they have suffered.— Most of them are fyt, jolly fellows, who have become rich from men’s blood and women’s tears, and they arc as grasping and remorseless as they are dishonest and heartless. J8S?" Had the Radicals announced dur ing the war their determination to ex clude the Southern States froijrtho Union after the war should Close, how many men of either party would have gone out as soldiers to fight the South ? Not one iu ten thousand of those who did go. It was well for the traitors at the North ern, end of the line” to cloak their design until the war was over, else they would now be groaning in solitary confinement in Government forts. sel-ik° e Choler “ 18 r “B |n 8 terribly in Teunes- Brownlow had .better get hfa life In sured. the roi.irr nm)iissioxEß(tii£STii).\ AT HAI.TT.HOUE. Judge Barlol, of the Maryland Court of Appeals, rendered his decision on Tues day of last week, In the habeas corpus case of the Baltimore Police Gommissiqn crs. He fully sustains the action of Gov ernor Swann in removing tho old Com missioners, and also declares the order of Judge Bond, committing tho new Police Commissioners to prison, was wholly un warranted, and that the Judge of the Crim inal Court had no authority to pass such an order. Ho reviewed the code in re gard to the Police Commissioners, and de cided that it gave tho Governor the en tire power in tho matter; that if, in his judgement, the old Commissioners, Mes srs. Woods and Hindes, had been guilty of official misconduct, the law gave him power to remove them and appoint suc cessors; that at tlie time Messrs. Young and Vailiant were arrested they had been truly and lawfully appointed Police Com missioners, and thati clothed with tho commission of the Governor they wore then truly in office and empowered to rightfully exercise all the functions of tho same in the place of Messrs. Woods and Hindes, removed, and who had been of lioially notified of their removal. The ac tion of the Governor was final; as much so as if these Commissioners had been re moved by the Legislature, and from his action there could be no appeal. Messrs. Youugand Vailiant were discharged, and an order for the release of the Sheriff was issued. The new Commissioners entered upon the duties of their office at once, tho. old usurping officers making rno opposition, being glad, no doubt, to get off so easy.— And now that the question of jurisdiction has been settled by tho highest legal au thority, what should be done, we ask, with tho Radical revolutionists who dar ed to defy the Maryland State authori- ties and the law ? Most clearly they de serve condign punishment, and wo.hope it will be mooted out to them without mercy. Men who attempt revolution, who arrest and imprison tho Sheriff of the county, and the legal Police Commis sioners, and usurp powers not delegated to them, have committed an offense which cannot and dare not be treated with leniency. We hope then, that Gov. Swann will put these gentlemen -con spirators through, and inflict upon them tho full penalty of the law. And must especially shouldhe demand of Gov. Cuß nin of this State, tho surrender of that man of infamy and treason, Forney, who was the head devil in the conspira cy, and who made every effort to get up a riot in Baltimore, and even urged his partisan friends of Pennsylvania to arm and repair to that city to overawe the State authorities, Piero is an extract from tho letter he wrote and published in his pa per, the Press, of Philadelphia, during the Baltimore troubles: Tlie Mayor will never .succumb, but light it out to the bitter end. All tho Union men hi Balti- more swear that they will drench the streets In lilood but they will protect their right mul the law. The bravo General Dennison and the gal lant General Wooley have both ollered their ser vices to the Mayor, and the returned veterans of the Union army are ready to tight. It Is said Johnson promised some Federal soldiers to help him put down the Union men of Maryland. If ho shall attempt this, there will ho civil war. The men I see here mean fight. They do not moan to submit, and will not submit. All they ask is that the mighty North shall stand hv 'them In their struggle for liberty and Union. My solemn belief is, that Andrew Johnson will send the reg ular troops into Baltimore to sustain Hwann, if the attempt of the latter to remove the I’olieo Commissioners is resisted by the people, ns re sisted It will bo'. In that event let the North bo prepared. Let Pennsylvania he ready. We understand that a Bill of Indict- ment lias been found by the Grand Jury at Baltimore against Forney. Let him be tried, and let all the conspirators who acted with him he tried, and if found guilty, as they will be, let them bo sen tenced to the penitentiary for life, or hanged, as the Court may adjudge best. SEGBO LEGISLATORS, During the recent political campaign in this State, wo maintained that the equality of races was one of the objects, and tire principal one, contended for by tire. Itadical-disunionists; that negro-suf frage was not all that was wanted, but tlie absolute recognition of the black man as the equal, in all respects, of the Whiteman. The disunion iats affected to laugh at and make light of the charge, and denied it stoutly and positively. We knew and they know that they lied when they declared that they were not the ad vocates of negro-suffrage and equality.— They were afraid then to avow their ob jects, for they were not sure that the peo ple were prepared to endorse, by their votes, this last demand of the New Eng land fanatics. But now that the elections have been held, and a seeming endorse ment given to radical and treasonable ideas, the disunionists throw off all dis guise, and boldly and impudently an nounce that negro-suffrage and equality were the issues before the people, and that they have been endorsed in every ■Northern State. The leading disunion papers—Gheely's 'Tribune, Fobnuy’s Press, BuncirEit’a Independent, and oth ers of the same stripe, point triumphant ly to tile fact that Massachusetts, (the State from which the Eadioals of other sections get their ideas,) has elected two black men to the State Legislature, and this fact, they say, settles the question, for Massachusetts is omnipotent, apd what she teaches must be heeded by the other Northern States. The question, then, is settled—tlie great aim and pur pose of tlie (Republicans is to elevate the black man to the dignityand equality of the white man, even if it should destroy the latter race. There is something so repugnant in this miscegenation doc trine to the natural instincts of the An glo-Saxon race, that it is one of the .mar vels of the age that it should find so early an exemplification in the very fountain of American civilization. We cannot shut our eyes to the fact, for facts are stubborn things, and we accept this prac tical illustration of negro equality as con firmative of the real purposes and doc trines of the Eepublican Disunion party. 'flic election in Missouri was a most disgraceful farce wherever lladical jsm had control. Every thing black, white and convict —was allowed to cast Radical ballots, whereas the most respect able and upright Conservatives were dis franchised upon tlie most frivolous pre texts, and, in hundreds of instances, driv en by murderous treatment from the polls. It has been proven that the Radi cals acted more like devils than men. Senator Sumner h,,.? married to Mrs, Hooper. —Boston paper. We are glad of it. If ho hadn’t been hooped ho would have bursted during the next session of Congress. jirmcioirs counsels. Under tho caption of “ What of the Fu ture?” the World of Thursday last con tains a long and able review of the polit ical situation, in which very judicious ad vice is given to Mr. his future conduct as President, and to those Democratic leaders, who control State conventions, but who do not, in their selection of candidates, exactly suit the people. Presuming that the Southern States will persist in rejecting the amendment, the adoption of which is insisted on by the Northern Radicals, the World pro ceeds to inquire what would they gain by doing so? Admission to Congress, per haps—but of that they have no promise— with a diminished representation. But since the representatives they would have under the amendment, added to the Con servative representatives now elected from the North, would still be a minori ty, they would have no more power of self-protection in Congress than out of it. Until tho political complexion of the North changes, admission will do them no good. Why should they renounce for all time rights for which nothing sub stantial is offered in exchange? Tho South will preserve order, obey the laws, and leave tho Radicals to pass such meas ures as they please. The spectacle of a quiet, loyal people ruled by-a Government in which they have-no voice, will appeal to the better sentiments of the North, and cause a reaction against tho Radicals.— When it is seen that there is no reason in the conduct of tho Southern people why they should bo excluded, the responsibil ity of keeping the Union dissolved will come home to tho Radicals; and before the Presidential election there will be a great popular reaction which will sweep them out of power. Only a very small change is necessary to produce this re sult. A change of one vote in a hundred would accomplish it in New York; a change of one vote in fifty would accom plish it in Pennsylvania. Tho electoral votes of these two States added to those of all tho Southern States, together with Now Jersey and Connecticut, would make a majority. A change of about seventeen thousand votes in the four States of Now York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New Jersey, would enable the Democrat ic party to elect tho next President; for it must bo borne in mind that every vo ter transferred from one side to the other makes a difference of two in tho result.— Why should Democrats despair of chang ing seventeen thousand votes in the next two years ? Why, wo should have car ried New York, this year, if the Fenians along the linos of the canal and railroads had not been inveigled into voting for Fenton. We would have carried Penn sylvania if moderate Conservatives had not been., dissatisfied with our candidate. A party which needs to gain only seven teen thousand votes in two years to elect the next President, is not separated from success by that immeasurable interval which its enemies pretend. THE MISSOURI ELECTION, The election in Missouri on Tuesday last, was about the greatest farce on right and justice, over enacted in any State of this Union; with a majority of thirty thousand against Radicalism, that' lino Commonwealth is held by a Jacobin fac tion, more desperate in their efforts to hold power, than wore their brethren in the city of Baltimore'. As the St. Louis Republican, the day after the election re marked "the grand end and aim of the Ra dical faction is to defeat the will of the peo ple, and escape a judgement of condem nation at the polls.. The tost oath and registration law are schemes to disfran chise the majority. In the hands of evil men, unscrupulous partisans, destitute of self-respect, sense of justice, honor and honesty, the registration law has proved an instrument of public robbery, where by the most valued civil and political rights of thousands have been snatched away By it the people have been sub jected to great inconvenience, loss of time and most vexations annoyance, unneces sary and offensive impediments being thrown in the way of a rapid registra tion, and all for the benefit of the Radical minority. But the people endured it all patiently, and wore Anally rewarded, by finding, that, in spite of all the misde meanors committed by Radical officials with the manifest design of cutting down the number of registered qualified Con servative voters, a very-handsome major ity yet remained in all the principal conn - ties of the State. It now seems that the people had not yet learned the full capac ity of the Radical officials for fraudulent action. In the wards whore the Conser vative majorities are very large and the Radicals in a hopeless minority, the grand aim seemed to be to cast obstacles in the way of the poll of a full vote. Not suc ceeding in disfranchising the Conserva tive majority before the registration hoards, they resorted to tactics by which in the heavy Conservative districts scarce ly more than half of the Conservative vote could bo polled. Their first fault and crime was in the omission to adopt the facilities provided for by the law by which it would have been possible for nil the votes to bo polled. >yiioi-e‘s tlic Nigger? A Radical sheet, the Tamaijua Journal , says : “Wohave had tlio Republican victory—now where's the ‘Nigger?” Thereupon the -Bellfonte Watchman "goes in” at the following rapid rate,: “Goto your store, anil you get from eighteen to twenty-five cents worth of nigger .In every yard of muslin you buy; from ten to fifteen cents worth of nlggerineveryyard of calico your wife and chil dren use; from six to eight dollars worth of nig ger in eadh btirel of flour your family consumes; twenty-five cents worth of nigger in each pound of coffee you purchase; from eight to twelve cents worth of nigger In every pound of sugar you buy tp sweeten it; you’ll find a small bit of nigger in your box of matches, and considerable nigger In your plug of tobacco. You can eat nothing, wear nothing, see nothlhg,' taste nothing, or have nothing, that is not more or le.s's affected by the miserable niggerlsm thathas controlled the coun try since‘Old Abe’ left Springfield for Washing ton.” . We reckon, after this burst, the Tama qua fellow won’t “ come to time,’ 7 #£>■“■ Secretary Stanton has flung anew insult in the faceof the nation in appoint ing as Adjutant-General of the Military Division of the Pacific the late Provost-- Marshal-General of the United States, the notorious Pky. He sailed on the 10th dust., front New York, for California. It is little consolation that he is on the other edge of the sanre continent, So long as he degrades the service by wearing g jVfajor buttons, .and la kept Ip places of apd trust to the exclusion respond ; . of worthier men. / HOW. TO HOLD POWER In Now. York, in a poll of nearly seven hundred thousand votes, the Radicals have some five or six thousand majority, but by shrewd management in districting the State, they make out to elect two-thirds of the Congressmen to jvliich she is en titled. In this State, as the Hf/c lately ob served, 593,000, votes have been polled for members of Congress. Of these the Radi cal candidates received .302,000 and the Demoeratlccandidates 291,000. There are twenty-four members of Congress in the State, each of whom represents about 2-1,- 700 of those votes. The difference between the total Radical vote and the total Demo cratic vote for members of Congress is about 11,000. For this 11,000 the Radicals might justly claim members more than tiic Democrats upon the ground of numer ical superiority, and thus the representa tion of the State in the Fortieth Congress should by the voice of the people, stand thirteen Radicals and eleven Democrats. It really stands eighteen Radicals and six Democrats. To view these figures from the standpoint of mere numbers, it is still more glaring; for 302,000 votes they got eighteen members, for 291,000 votes we got six members. And to electeighteon Radi cals to Congress from Pennsylvania re quires but, 10,800 votes for each, whilst to elect six Democratic members to Congress, requires 48,500 votes for each. These are stubborn facts, shown by the figures. This result is brought about by the infamous legislation enacted by Radical legislators at Harrisburg to maintain and perpetuate their power. The Legislature is carried by tire same outrageous system of gerry mander. , This is the manner in which the Radi cals apply the majority principle to Penn sylvania, and stifle the opinions and wish es of tire people. The same men who ap plaud the registry laws, by which ninc tenths of tiro white men of Maryland West Virginia, and Tennessee, and Missouri', are degraded to the positions of slaves and serfs, uphold the present district system in Pennsylvania, under which the Demo cratic element is prevented from having a proper influence at either Harrisburg or ■Washington. The majority principle when it runs in the ruts and grooves of Radicalism is potent enough to uproot State authority, nullify the plaiuestguar antccs <jf the Constitution, defy the peo ple of a State representation in Congress ; but when it runs in another and a different direction, it is a rope of sand, which they Can and do break whenever it suits their pleasure. . A ItAOUIAI. CONSPIRACY. Tbe radical disunionists, emboldened by their successes at the late elections, have hatched out a plot for takiugposses siou of the Capital by armed force, in or der to overawe the President, and compel obedience to their revolutionary designs. With this end in view, an organization of Radical politiicans at Washington, calling themselves the “ Soldiers’ and Sailors’ League,” have issued a call to' 11 the loyal veterans of the Republic,” to assemble in that city on the first of December next, “ to give;” as they say, 11 fitting welcome to the loyal majority of the thirty-ninth Congress.” What sort of a “welcome” this is to be, and what base object is cloak ed under this apparently innocent sum mons, may be inferred from the letter and spirit of the call itself, of which this is the substance: “ como nt your inigut!. By your presenceshow how stonily loyalty can rebuke treason. Provo thereby that the threats aud insults [of a treach erous Kxecutlvo] against the legislative branch of the government cannot intimidate a free people. Here in the Federal capital must our great strug gle culminate in wise ipid equitable legislation. Hero, then, should wo assemble to -encourage and strengthen Congress—to whoso hands the Constitution wisely entrusts the power—to such just action os will make peace-permanent and liberty universal.” The words in brackets, “ [of a treacher ous Executive”] which appeared in the original call, have since been stricken out, as being a too glaring declaration of the purpose for which the “loyal veterans” are to assemble. What “ encouragement and strengthening” are needed by Con gress—which lias now almost supreme control of the Government; which, by its majority of two-thirds, defies the Execu tive power, and enforces the most ultra legislation upon a too submissive people; and whoso authority no one has attemp ted to resist, except by such legal and con stitutional means as may be applicable— it would bohard to imagine, unless wo view this singular movement in connec tion witli the threatened revolutionary ac tion of Congress, which the Radical lead ers have been boldly proclaiming for months past. If this gathering of men inured to arms, is not intended to “ en courage and strengthen” Congress in its treasonable plot:, doubtless already ma tured, to depose the President and take forcible possession of the Government, it is nothing. That it is to bo a mere idle display—“ a welcome to the loyal majori ty”—as the Chr'oniulQ (Washington Radi cal organ) now alleges—the very lan guage of the call denies. »It means some thing. What that may be, attending cir-. cumslancos, as we fear, pointout too clear ly- The Radical journals, of late, have, as if by a concerted understanding, made a demand of Congress “ to reorganize the Army,” upon the pretext (false of cousre) that t]ic President was filling up all the official positions with Conservative men. It is not impropable that the Radical ex tremists—those “ traitors at the other end of the line”—who, mainly compose the majority of the present Congress, may undertake to disband the regular Army, as now constituted by law; and, as a pre liminary to their mediated impeachment and deposition of the President, attempt to raise one of their own, composed of Radicals like themselves, ready and on ly too willing to enforce whatever ex treme measures they command. These “ veterans of the Republic,” who under the specious disguise of a “welcome to Congress,” have been invited to be pres ent at its opening, are no doubt intended to furnish the nucleus for the contlempla ted coup d’etat. More improbable things than this are on record in the history of past actors in revolution and treaoon. It behoves the people, therefore, to boon their guard against being drawn into any alli ance that may bring them into 'conflict with the regular and constitutional autho rities of the Government, —Readiny Gaz. £Sf“ Judge 'Advocate Holt’s witness J. A Dunham, alias, Sanford Confer, has got his, head in ehanceryi .The grand jury in Washington have presented him for perjury during the. Lincoln assasin atiou trials. We hope' his case will re ceive a thorough consideration. £3?" Kilkenny is about being eclipsed by the cat-fight of the Mongrels over the U. B. Senatorship in this State. By the time the Legislature meets hot oven their tails will bo left. The New York Wchi,s recommends Horace Qreely for United States Senator. If Horace lived in -Pennsylvania we cer tainly would prefer him to Cameron or Curtin. Mad. The Mongrels, because the White Swan of Maryland didn’t turn out jfo ho a black tjopse, ! JEEFEHSON HA VIS. Wliy h Ho not Tried T—Tlio Menu Treatment of tlic State Prisoner 6y the OoTcrnmcnl. [From tho N. V. Tribune, Nov. o.] Eighteen months have, nearly clasped since Jefferson Davis was .made a State prisoner.;. He had previously been pub licly chm'ged, by the Presidentof the Un ited" States, with conspiring to assassinate President Lincoln, and slo9,ooooffered for his capture thereupon. The capture was promptly made ana the money duly paid : yet, up to this hour, there has not been even an attempt made by tho government to procure his indictment on that charge. He has also been popularly, if not official ly, accused of complicity in tho virtual murder of the Union soldiers, while pris oners of war, by subjecting them to need less, inhuman exposure, privation and abuse; but no official attempt has been made to indict him on that charge. He has been indicted for simple treason, and even this indictment has not been obtain ed at the instance of the government. It may bo so badly drawn that no conviction could be had on it, whatever the proof advanced, yet the Executive could say, “I am not responsible for this. The in dictment was obtained without the assent or privity of my Attorney-General or Cab inct.” Repealed attempts have been made by tho prisoner’s counsel to bring his cose to trial; but to no purpose. The government does not appear to prosecute, tho machin ery of tho courts is always out of order.— At one time martial law stands in the way, when that obstacle is removed, there is a cavil as to the sufficiency or completeness of its withdrawal, and, when that will no longer serve, it is found that Congress has somehow disarranged the. judicial dis tricts, so that the case cannot safely bo proceeded with. And Congress itself, having mostlucousidorately meddled with the matter never took pains to inquire what action on its part, if any, was re quisite, so that now Congress, President, and Chief Justice, are ip a complete mud dle on the subject, each seeming inclined to throw all responsibility for tho delay oh one or both of the others. The upshot of all this is, that the pris oner is not tried, nor likely tobe; and that, if tried, ho is morally certain not to: bo convicted, not to be punished. There are still many persons who would like to have him executed ; but there is not one intelli gent man on earth who has tho faintest notion that he over will be. For, though governments sometimes - inflict capital 'Punishment, on conspicibus rebels, they never; at least in modern times, do so long after their rebellion was suppressed. Aus tria, in 1849, put to death thirteen of the Hungarian leaders betrayed into U'er hands by the miscreant Gorgey; but she tried, them by drumhead court-martial directly after their surrender, and then had them all hanged and buried within forty-eight hours. Had she waited eighteen months, and then executed them, she would have invoked the execrations of all Christen dom. . . Since it is notorious that Davis is not to be punished, why is he still kept await ing.a trial, which he alone seems to desire, and which he can by no means obtain ? What good end is siibseiwed by. persisting in a menace which stillserves to irritate, though it no longer appalls ? Congress at its last session, evidently felt that it had the President at disadvan tage with regard to this prisoner—that ho was an elephant which Mr. Johnson had too eagerly acquired, and was now unable either to keep or dispose of save to his own loss. In the state of feeling then prevail ed, this aspect of the case was regarded by many with evident complacency. Had the President been a man of high courage, we think he would have bailed the pris oner and called on Congres to demand, if that were deemed advisable, that he should be surrendered and tried, and to prescribe the legal conditions of such trial, since the laws as they stand seem inadequeste or defective. But he should first at all events, have publicly retracted the charge of complicity with the assassins of Pre sident Lincoln, since he has virtually abandoned it by not attempting to found an indictment thereon. It is neither just nor wise, to send forth a prisoner of state with the brand of murder on his brow ; and a naked failure to prosecute is • hut equivalent to the Scotch. verdict, “ Not proven.” If Hr. Davis is even probably guilty ofeomplicity witli Booth, he should long since have been indicted and tried for that crime; if ho is not, he sliould have ere this been explicitly freed from the reproach, even though he wore to be executed for treason on the morrow. A great government may deal-sternly with offenders, but not meanly.; .it .can not afford to seem Unwilling to repair an obvious wrong. , Tlic Robbery of tlio monopolists. Side by side with the monstrous Out rage of reducing white Ihen to a level with negroes, goes , part passu, the gigan tic robberies of our tariff laws, by which the producer and laborer are made to con tribute to the wealth and opulence of the manufacturer. “ A woolen manufactur er of Massachusetts said, in Boston, in 1865, ‘ before the war it cost me $3 50 a yard to make cloth, aud sold it at S 4.— Now it costs me S 4 per yard aiid I sell it attS.’” This is no doubt a fair sample of the monstrous profits that New Eng land is nowrolllug up. Among the man ufacturing companies of the East one hundred per cent, dividend recently has .not been uncommon, while twenty per cent, is at most the minimum. A ma jority ranges between these two rates. Now, out of whom do those gigantic profits come ? Why,, out of L every far mer, planter, laborer and 'producer. The tariff virtually excludes all competition, for all that the home manufacturers have to do is to meet together; form a combi nation, fix their own prices, agree not to undersell each other, and the consumers are.at their mercy. It would be just as to protect labor by a prohibitory .tariff on emigration, so that it might comA mand ten dollars per day instead of two, us to capitalists tlio advantages tlioy how enjoy. Wrong and injustice always go hand in hand. The same power that crueUy deprives the South of the means ot hying, robs, without compunction of conscience, its neighbors nearer home.— I* armers, laborers, producers everywhere, as well as planters', are the victims of its unrelenting cupidity. The Great West, with a slavish submission, thatdoes cred it neither to its manhood nor its intelli gence, submits to this gigantic Abolition robbery as meekly as a lamb is led to the butcher’s block. Its markets for its grains, its mules, its horses, and its bacon have been destroyed by New England fanaticism and greed, and yet it keeps on voting for the men who rob and plunder it. Row long does it intend to suffer the pangs of poverty in order that the New England oligarghy may flaunt in purple and fine linen? —Day Book. Want-Looking After.— An organiza tion of political schemers of the Eadical stripe, known by the alias of “ Soldiers’ and Sailors’ league of Washington City,” have issued a call to their poor dupes in the North to assemble in the Capital upon the meeting of Congress to give the Eump a grand reception. Their object is to get a large body of armed Eadicals in that city to prop up the Eu mp in ltd usurpations and to protect and assist it in the contem plated overthrow of the President. It is nothing less than the first step in a treas onable conspiracy to take forcible posses sion of the whole Government, and to.de stroy the Constitution. is high time for the Government to take official notice of the, Eadical plotters of treason. . Declined.— Gen. John F. Hartranft has-declined the appointment of Colonel in tli.e 87th Eegular Infantry, that was tendered him some time since "by the War Department. He will therefore re tain his present office of Auditor General (jt Harrisburg. ' A NICK PARTY. 11l order that our readers may bo able to form some correct idea of the character of the Board of Police Commissioners in the city of Baltimore, recently removed by Governor Swann, we give an extract from the sworn testimony of one of the witnesses who testilied in the case at the hearing before .the Governor. This wit ness, William J. Smith gives the follow ing testimony as to the character of the election officers appointed by these com missioners, and after reading his testimo ny, we think every one will be. ready to justify Gov. Swann for removing them. Mr. Smith testifies as follows : , “ Know ft Judge named Wm. Divers; ho lives on the causeway mid. keens ft bawdy house; know Judge Wm. Lynch; no was indicted for murder; know Judge Josophßuck; ho was com pelled to leave the city for “stripping” soldiers during the war; know Judge Wm. Brady; I arres ted him for the murder of Hugh Morgan; know Win. Hiclmrdsson; he was appointed Judge, but did not act; he was arrested lor murder and In dicted; ho was also arrested for having murder ed one man and shooting two others; know James Manly, a special policeman ; lie was in the peni tentiary; ho lives on the causeway with his wife and keeps a.bawdy house; know George Snyder, a “specialhe was’in the penitentiary; know L. Gray, who was arrested for the murder of his wife; know Gus. May, a special; ho In classed as n,rough; know Fredrick Diver, alias Feller; he lives with a woman who keeps a bawdy house; all the J wdges are known as Radicals; don't know, of any Conservative Judges or Clerk; Gray was arrested for killing Ills wife; ho told me ho caught her in the room with another man and knocked her in the head; know James Manly; ho served about six months in the army; don’t'know that his wife saved the Oth Mass, regiment on the 19th of April, 1801; the Second Ward Is notorious rough ward ; it is notorious that Mr. Manly keeps a bawdj r house; docs not consider Gray a respec table man; Gray was notorious as a constable; ho could get no one to go on his bond. Such are the men whom these Radical Police Commisioners appointed to have 1 control of the ballot-boxes. POIiITICAI*. —Tho Democratic majority In Delaware is 1,610. —J. C. Fremont proposes to himself tho United States Senatorship from Missouri. —The Governor of Georgia, in hlsmessage to tho State Legislature, opposes the Constitutional amendment. —Forney calls tho President a “wiclcedand ob stinate ingrate.” Then, what is Forney? Gentle shepherd, tell, us what I —Gov. Ward, of N. J. has appointed Frederick T. Frelinghuysen United Slates Senator, to fill the vacancy caused by the doatli of the lato Senator Wright. .—The Mobile Tribune predicts that the South will bo more prosperous five years hence than It has ever boon. ■ Exclusive attention will no long er be given to tho cultivation of cotton, and manu facturing will become one of the leading Interests of that section. —Henry Ward Beecher lately said: “Our theory of Government has no place for a State excepting the Union.” Henry has thought differently of it-7 however, since wealthy Plymouth threatened , to Stop his bread and butter—otherwise his $lO,OOO pew rent. • —lt is stated that a radical contractor for tho exhumation and re burial of Federal soldiers in Virginia has been detected in cutting the bodies into quarters and thus appearing to bury four in stead of one. Thus ho got $32 instead of but §B. Ho must be a Massachusetts Yankee. •MDno of the methods resorted to by the Radi cals of Joliet, Illinois, to show their delight at tho result of , the rec<?nt election in that State, was burning the Constitution of tlio United States, which was done in tho open streets, amid the most vociierous cheering from the crowd of par tisans assembled. —Alexander H. Stevens, instead of writing a .letter in favor of the Constitutional Amendment, as the Radicals claimed, has written one in oppo sition to it. By telegraph yesterday, wo learn that Ex-Provisional Governor Perry, of South Carolina, has published a long letter against the adoption of the Constitutional Amendment. He says tho South may bo ruined, but cannot be dis honored; and expresses the conviction that the Amendment can never gain the assent of three fourths of tho States. LOCAL ITEMS A New Carrier. —The Volunteer will hereafter be served on town subscri bera by one of our own boys, and we trust his efforts to please will give general sat isfaction. Should any of our subscribers fail to get their papers, this week, they will be kind enough to inform us of the fact. Rake Chance fob Investment.—Mr. S. I. Irvine’s adv. In another column of to-day’s paper, offers ajrare opportunity for the employment of capital in a man ufacturing business. Tho business is an excellent one, being quite remunerative and requiring but a limited amount 'of capital aud no experience. The estab lishment, is the largest of the kind in the State, and the demand always up to the supply. The Garden. —Now and then a pleas ant sunny day In late Autumn breaks in upon us, as if to,admonish us not to leave .many such go by without performing the numerous outdoor fall labors. They can not be better employed than by clearing the yard and garden of whatever rubbish may have accumulated in the summer months. There are tomato vines, stumps of cabbage, some late weeds and other useless plants, all of which should be east out, root and branch. It will not be re gretted when Spring opens to find your gaiden clean and in viting—ready for spade and rake. A Good Pen.— Wo are at present using one of the celebrated gold pens manufac tured by Leroy Fairchild, and can hear tily endorse it as one of the very best pens we have ever written with, A sin gle trial of these pens will be a sufficient recommendation to any one—tliey even make editorial scribbling look respecta ble; and are endorsed as outlasting any of the ordinary gold pens in use, which is an item to those who have much wri ting to do. They are accompanied by eb ony-gold and ebony-silver cages of mod ern and beautiful styles; and may be pur chased of Thos. Conlyn, at his Jewelry Store, on West Main St. Mae and Directory op Carlisle;— We have the pleasure of informing all who are interested in; the welfare and iin provement of this place, that Mr. JVC. Strong has lately undertaken the enter prise of making and publishing a Map and Directory of Carlisle. The Map is to be engraved on a large scale; it will con tain twelve square feet, and will show all the town lots, giving the names of their owners, and show whether they are occu pied by them or by tenants; also an ac companying Directory containing all the names of the inhabitants usually em braced in other city Directories. We be lieve that the publication will prove of great advantage in facilitating people in town, as well as those from the surround ing country. In the transaction of their as well as a source of gratifica tion to those who have it, and will have an influence in concentrating the trade of the Cumberland Valley here, and, in short, give us the character and reputa tion of a city. We hope that Mr. Strong’s enterprise will prove-a success, and re ceive patronage sufficient to enable him to issue the publication.'' The Meteoric Shower-* „ We trust all the readers of tt, , p " tebh enjoyed the grand disnhv! '> tial fire works which wore aim of k come off on Monday and Tue°i" IC<:(lt '' nings last. For ourselves w e fell?’ Ett ed to announce that the celestial i W far exceeded our moat extravagant 1 ipations—of humbuggery. \y a solitary meteoi, which • Mem!,?* chased by the Lion and ran sin,, ■ arms of the Great Bear, while looked whistfully on as if ho sh„ to "mete-or by moonlight In common parlance the meteori!’!'"' failed to come to time. Wo are • . to believe that the whole thine"' 1^1 Yankee abolition swindle, akin 8 ?* 1 wooden hams and nutmegs ofotho i ttl and wo bog leave to suggest to the? 1 omieal wisacros that “ gamma L ■ which was expected to play tu e ringmaster in the grand etherial bo hereafter known as‘ W WoilL Never within our recollection ? "blue cth,erial” more barren ofm C | than on the nights in question. v i are positively assured that more than " of our late nocturnal watchers S n, v 0 “ ! stars and flashing meteors diirin* a”' vigils than astronomy over dreamed!? One young friend saw a meteor ns his head, but-we regret to say | ieh "'* been under medical treatment At * individual, whom we saw'aesi mo 'j !’ seemed to have been struck , or (or something else) over the bride,!! the nose. Another strange featureoftb. occasion was the conduct of the Colle boll, which under some atmospheric! spiritual influence continued to rlagatin teryals during, the entire night. The' following letter from p rofe3So[ Loomis, of Yale College, to the s B York Post, may possess some interest is connection with this subject which hs recently excited so much attentionon U e jiart of scientific men and others; Yale College, -Thursday Kov iv kv ; J 2b tho Editors of the JCvening Post • ' '% On Monday night, November 12. a columns observers at this place counted CUd shn.,iii S I -i> in live hours and twenty minutes, which is°»S four times the-average number visible ;■$ same period throughout the year. On 'iw,l; night, November 13. another company count;' $ Bbi shooting stars iu five hours, which Mu times tho average number. On wcihii*sihvnil£ the sky was- overcast, so that no obscrvntiS could be made. Wo conclude, then dm it number of shooting stars visible about fllem -J*j was very remarkable; nevertheless (his dfsol-iT ! <) is not to be compared with that of XovemWr l( 1833. In which tho number of meteors was \,m. vJ ously estimated at from ten thousand lotd/rtr '-'I thousand per hour. The grand display fore, which it was supposed might possibly occur >1 this year, has not been witnessed in the Unltd States, and probably not in Europe, or It have been announced to us by telegraph. Unw m have been witnessed in AsiaortlicPasilicOcui -gS hut if such had been the case it seems prolali Tf that tho number visible in the Ini ted Suits woul *3 have been greater than it was. The telegraph u '1 this morning's Herald , purporting to have come M from Greenwich, is' evidently siipurious. it a iSj therefore probable that there has uot been wit- *3 nessed thlsycar In auy part of the world adlsplav 3S of meteors at all to be compared villi the grand 'M display of 1833. ; .v| As an unusual interest in this subject appenn to.havo been excited, some of your readers may wish anauswer to the questions; Mint arc shoot- rtvjs lug stars ? and, How do we account for theirpe- >*g riodical display in unusual numbers? Shoote rs stars may, without much Impropriety, be calls] little comets. Each meteor Is a small body,pt- fts erally of very little density, revolving about to sun in an eliptic orbit, and governed by thesaa .;a laws as the larger planets, Jubitcr and Saturn.- ''i The average number of those bodies which t> counter the earth every day is several mlUicsi, and still there is no perceptible decrease fromya to year. The total number of these bodies, there- >J$ fore, belonging to oursolar system, must be red oued by millions of millions. Tho earth in ia motion about the'sun, with a velocity ofuineiw -pi miles per second, is continually more or less bodies, and they plunge ijitoourcto here loith velocities varying from ten to forty raf la ft second , by which means heat is developed ufmi 6 '■a ignite them, and they are entirely consumed m in a single second, and at au elevation olahoul L- ia4 ty miles above tho earth’s surface. Occasional : ,;-j wo encounter bodies of greater density,whlc cannot be so readily consumed, and they reach the earth’s surface, sometimes entire, audatothu times in a fragmentary condition. Samples it such meteors are to be found in all miuenuogial 'V collections of tills country and Europe. The periodical display of shooting stars in u- ■ 3 usual numbers indicates that they are notdlstrib- J uted uniformly throughout the solar system,hi {ji are collected in vast numbers in certain regions, while In other regions they are comparative* few. Shooting stars are annually seen in gra| 4s numbers on tho 10th of August; and since each meteor is moving in its orbit with velocity,ffhili every year we.flnd larger numbers of them neat r 4 tho same point of the earth’s orbit, wo conduit that they are arranged in a ring or zone, ® ting tho earth’s orbit at a point which the earu passes on the 10 of August. -3 In order to explain the recurrence of an imtu> -si al number of shooting stars year after year, abw» the 13 of November, we suppose there is anotnrf ring of these minute bodies, somewhat incllnca to the ecliptic. Throughout the different portion , v ? of this ring the meteors are distributed i n very u equal numbers, but there is one portion whet ; the number Is immensely great, and itisthlspo*; tlon which tho earth encounters at intervals about thirty-three years. According to Professor -H. A. Newton, 1 tho reason that this display re turns only once in thirty-three years is tne i** l- ; > lowing; Each meteor of the November gron? moves In an orbit which is nearly circular, vw a mean distance from the sun cither a Hmeiw or a little greater than that of the earth, wwj y* period about cloven days less or greater tuanow year. The earth encountered the densest-portia v> of this group in November, 1832; but the ner year this portion passed eleven days beforoori ter tho earth returned to that point ot its orbii the following year tho did'erenoo amoantedt twenty-two days; so that at the end of aboa thirty-three years It must gain or lose ono erirt revolution, and return nearly to the posujffl where it must encounter tho earth. liv oiecew ..y no accounts of an unusual display of meteorsici ». week in any part of the world, we shall look wu dj considerable confidence for such a dlsplajj t» November 14,1867. ***” $ Fatal Bail Eoad Accident.— Op Thursday last an unknown man was fr tally injured by the eleven o'clock train East on the Cumberland Valley Eo» He was discovered by the engineer, on the track, a short distance beyond thi Gas Works; and although “down brakes was whistled and every effort made ‘ stop the train, the unfortunate man ' vS i struck by the cow-catcher aud fatally h | jured. He was brought to the jail an | medical attendance at once procured Ba | injuries were internal, aud after HugH | ing in agony for several hours, he expl | at about ten o’clock the same e veiling- , ;l He seemed to be a man of thirty-ih' eCl | forty years of age, with a high fbrehea deep set eyes—one of which was Win u sandy complexion, and light hair whiskers, and was, dressed as a laborer n Although he occasionally spoke, lie S a but little information as to his nau> e residence. Before he died ho did 0 ever answer, in reply to repeated q® tions, that his name was Patrick Me nus, that he had lived in Harrisburg six yearsj but had no relatives or frie' 1 there. He had about his person and also a carpet bag containing seine tides of clothing, which seemed 0 well worn; ' He had also in his ca n bag a cotton twilled bag or “ poke, '.« the inscription “ Stolen from John P upon it. He had upon his head a “ black slouch hat. His clothing, ino well worn, seemed to be carefully ' and that fact, as well as his apP cn and the money found upon his P seemed to indicate that he had bee industrious laboring man, though 0 undoubtedly under the influco ooo ' when this accident occurred V . Rail Road f! BifASH-yi'-”—' some displacement of a switch, » po l of the morning freight train East, ob Cumberland Valley‘rail road, was from the track near New Kingston, Monday last. Several cars were t to pieces, but np one was seriously ini, ed. The wreck so completely . ■ ■ ,' up the track ns to delay the fW 1 ? “6 911 the passenger trains the Wion, rx
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