E AVI. fv’L'’” ryv;; antericixtz CARLISLE, PA... Thnrxlay Morning-, May a. »»OT V KT.tuto-spFFBAOtTtKTiiE sotrni. Certain Radical journals affect great surprise that so many of “the late re bels” have shown a disposition to rec ognize the right of the negro not only to vote, but also to hold office. They point to the ffct and call it “ progress”; and they have grown very, fond of twitting the Democracy with what they are pleased to •call “the desertion of their • Southern friends.” Whether the South ern Democracy have made up their minds to desert the principles of the party or not, we trust we should be able to survive th*e loss. There are dema gogues in the South as well as in the North —men who seek to ride into pow er on the popular current; and there are doubtless some good and true men in the South who are anxious to elevate the negro race morally, intellectually and politically; but evcryman ofjntol-- ligence knows that the Southern people have never given a voluntary assent to negro-suffrage. It is forced upon them at, the point of the bayonet, by a Radi cal Bump Congress, and they have no power to resist the outrage. If every man, woman and child south of the Po tomac were opposed to negro-suffrage, it would avail them nothing under the despotic military reconstruction bill; and recognizing this state of affairs, the Southern people have accepted the situ ation simply because they cannot help themselves; and they say to the negroes, - as Wade Hampton said the other day at Macon: “ You now have the ballot and ' this gives you the right to hold office; ,we concede this right; you are entitled to it, foftgvery man who is a voter and has'(Opacity, is on a political equality with his fellows and can demand a por tion of the public offices.” No sane man would pretend to deny that if a ne gro is made a voter, he has a right to his share of the offices. But the South ern people are no more responsible for this result than wo will be when the next Congress, as has been announced by Sumner and Wilson, enacts a law establishing negro-suffrage in every State of the Union. It may bo said that such an act would be unconsitutional and could never be carried into oxecu • |iou; but if it can be executed at the -■•South what is to hinder, its execution in the North ? If Congress has the power to say that the negroes shall vote in South Carolina; it. has the same power to make them voters in Pennsylvania. And if the negro who is made a voter in Geor gia has the right- to hold office, so has the negro whom Congress makes a voter in Pennsylvania. These consequences of the Radical policy cannot be evaded, and the sooner we see them in all their length and breath the better for--the peace of the country. The Southern people accepted the situation, because they had exhausted themselves in a wild struggle for Southern independence and could do no better. Whether the labor ing classes of the Middle and Western States will submit to the same degrada tion remains to be seen. If the South saw proper, of her own accord, to confer the elective franchise upon her negroes, we should have no quarrel with her for thht, ttny more than we complained of Connecticut ■ when she saw proper to deny her ne gr6es the right of suffrage. The position the Democracy have always taken—a position so frequently and so plainly avowed that the most perverse and pig headed Radical could not fail to under stand it—is that this is a question exclu sively within the jurisdiction of the States; and of their individual action no one outside of their bounds has a right to complain. What we have denounced, and will ever continue to denounce and resist, is the tyranny which forces negro suffrage-upon an unwilling people, for the accomplishment of the most con temptible and selfish partisan purposes. Some of these Radical journals, while they thus chuckle over every evidence of “ progress,” become very Indignant when they are accused of being in favor , of negro suffrage. This may be taken as evidence of their sincerity. They have never yet acted honOstly with the peo ple, and they never will. They declar ed that the war was not waged for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or overthrowing the established institu tionsof the South, and they proved their sincerity by liberating the slaves and inaugurating one of the vilest despo tisms that ever cursed mankind. They asserted that the object of tile war was to bring the Southern States hack into the Union, and they proved their con sistency by driving the Southern States out of the Union after the war was over. They professed to lie actuated by a de sire to guarantee to every State a Re publican form of government, and they made their practice beautifully conform to theory by abolishing the Legislatures, Courts and municipal governments in ten States, and placing their people un der the absolute and despotic will of a drum-head court-martial. Sumner and Wilson-both avowed that it was the purpose of the Radical party to force negro-suffrage upon every State in the Union, and there was not a voice in the ■ United States Senate to deny the asser tion. The' Tribune itself says “ there i$ no room in the Republican party for those who do not believe in negro-suff rage.” If in- view of what has been done, the white labox-ing classes of Pennsylvania will continue to trust ini the deceitful professions of the Radical leaders in our midst, and hug the delu sion that “ negro-suffrage is not an is sue” until the issue has been decided and they are shorn of their strength— they will have none but themselves to blame. ♦ /V letter was received yes- T r w^V r y Department, postmarked Cincinnati, containing Si'jOO “conscience money.” Later In the day another letter was received from the same city, containing Siooo more. No expla nation accompanied either letter. The receipts from this source are quite large. The aggregate amount of “ conscience money" turned into the Treasury during the last two years Is upwards of fifty thousand dollars.— Washington letter to Phila' D iqutrer . So far so good. It appears that a few of the “loyal thieves” have been con science-stricken and induced to return the money they stole from the Govern ment. It Is a singular fact, however, tliat >- ho.big thieves—those who j—have been troubled in [f their consciences could instead of fifty thousand returned to the Treasury, T e twice that many mill- iM Under,—The cry of igins to be heard in the if papers are'the first to unpleasant fcot. THE I.ATE CIIHKIier lEOINI.ATOBE TIIE UEItAI 11-JUI. I.OXO. The Herald attempts to relieve the late Legislature from the odium that attaches to it, by throwing outsa mean insinuation against Mr. Long, who rep resented this county in the Ho-se dur ing tho last two sessions. Mr. Long has recently purchased a §ll,OOO farm, the Herald says, and wo are asked for our “ comments” onthis fact.- Wo have few to make. Mr. L. we believe, pur chased a farm some time since, on which he paid $3,000, the balance to be paid in three annual installments. 'Wo don’t know that this proves Mr. Long a dis honest man, nor do we consider that the Herald lias any right to speak about it. Tcxdo so is a piece of impudence. These arc our “ comments” on tho suojoct of Mr. Long’s farm. J ' With the exception of the Herald and tho Harrisburg Telegraph, We believe every Republican paper in the Stato.has denounced, in terras of merited indigna tion, tho late venal, corrupt and villain ous Legislature. We all know what It is that actuates tho Swiss Of the Tele graph. Lot any one look over the Aud itor General’s Report year after year, and lie will find that Bergncr of the Telegraph, has solid reasons for his de fense of tho thieves who controlled the Legislature. But.that the Herald here should attempt to cover up the corrup tion of the Legislature, is something we can’t understand, unless it be a desire to shield rogues because of their politics.— It is admitted, by scores of Republican papers that the last Legislature was cor rupt to the core, and that the majority /members enriched themselves by x-e -coiving” bx-ib’ery money. We miglxt fill the four pages of our paper for weeks together with articles from Republican papers in denunciation of this pestilen tial defunct body. The membei-a ax-e denounced by the very papex - s which urged their election. We have pub lished a number of articles from Radi cal papers on this subject, and, ns wo said before, we might fill our paper with them. In addition to tho Radical testi mony heretofore given in these columns, we make room for the following addi-, tional evidence. And yet in the faeeof universal public opinion, the Carlisle Herald, has not a word of condemna tion to offer, but in a quiet way and by inuendo attempts to defend tho incor rigablq rogues of the late Legislature.— Hero are a few extracts from indepen dent Radical journals. Let the people read them, and reflect: , From the Delaware Republican, (Radical). Among the Items In the State Appropriation bill, passed by tho last Legislature, uro six hun dred dollars, paid the clergy lor prayers for tho members. If 6ver a body of men needed tho sav ing grace of the Church, It was those assembled in the late State Council at Harrisburg. They ought to bo ashamed of their meanness in this particular,compared with tbelc. liberality In other expenditures. All the presents of silver sets, gold watches, clocks, gold headed canes, and other costly articles, wIU not save them from the wrath to come. From the Franklin Repository, (Radical). All hull, Pennsylvania! Day has broken In on tho starless midnight that has encircled our venerable Commonwealth. Tho people can breathe again. The Legislature of 1867 is no more. It has fought Its last light—it has won Us last stake —it has brought gladness to over three million hearts by its adjournment. They have passed sixteen hundred laws, “ pinched” others by tho score and Anally, after over three months of leg islative rioting, rotating, pinching, -plundering and pocketing, their time has come, and they go out, as anile, to return no more for ever. Fi'om the Somerset Herald and Whig, (Radical). The act of adjournment, appears to have given more satisfaction to the people of the State, than any other act of the Legislature of 1867 Bad as has been tbe character of our Legislature for years, it seems to bo generally conceded that the body Just adjourned, was even more uutruswor thy than any of Its predecessors. Individual pro mises and party pledges wo.ro sot at naught, and public sentiment dcAed anil derided, . From the Bedford Inquire)', (Radical). Tho Legislature of this State adjourned on the llth Inst., after having passed bills enough to make a volume half as large as Webster’s Uu ahridgotrDlctlonary. All the Christian poop to in i ho State should join In thanks to the Throne of Grace that it did no more harm tjian it did. An other such a Legislature would sink ns. If the Uepublicnn party returns, within tho .next ten years, the same amount of corruption and ven ality to a single Legislature itdesorves eternal defeat. s*ar Repudiation Hinted At. —Ben. • Butler made a speech at Albany, some '■'weeks ago, In which he expressed his views of the National finances and the result he would labor for in Congress.— Among other things he said: “ I have heard of couiitriffii, but they ore very fow, that paid tholr debts dollnv for dollar, but 1 never hcardof acountry, and f aro afraid I never shall In the time that will be allotcd to me of the years given to man, that paid its debts 100 cents for-10 received. It never has been dona and never ivill he done.” • If this saying of Butler’s means any thing it means repudiation. In other words, it foreshadows that the Govern ment will not feel under obligations to pay its bonds to the full amount that appears on their, face, but those who bold them will have to be content with receiving forty cents on the dollar for their claim, If they even get that much! What do the bondholders of the Gov ernment think of this new Radical, doc trine? Aro they prepared” to follow a party ipjy longer, one of whose ac knowledged leaders in Congress delib erately enunciates such a sentiment?— The elections of 1867 in Pennsylvania and the other North?™ States will de termine the question. President Johnson is going to Ralelglj, N. C., to attend, the laying of the corner stone of the monument of his father. KE«BO EHII.nHE.V IK THE PIIHHI' . NEIIUOLS. . v . We mentioned in out last that-negro children are now beixig indiscriminately intermingled with white children In the public schools of Philadelphia.'- This is tho fact. The children attending the public schools in Philadelphia, belong, generally speaking, to poor families.— The nabobs of tho “ Loyal League”— those fellows who woi-o allowed to make their “ pile” dxxriug the four years of the .war —send their children to private in stitutions, where negroes are not to be ’ found. During the month of April three of the public schools of the city had negro children introduced into them. This is an expex-iiixbnt, a feeler; if the white incii whoso children attend these schools submit to tho infliction, it will not be long before we see ail tho public schools of the city in the same condition—all will contain white and black children. Whitt} men who com plain of this innovation* will have the privilege of taking their children from the schools, but they; will still be re quired to pay taxes for tho schooling of negro children. . Such is the “ progress” of rthoA pro gressive party.” Should the Radicals carry the next Legislature, a law is to be passed compelling the School Direc tox-s of the various counties to intermin gle white and black children in all the public schools.. Schools exclusively for negro children ax-e to be, set aside, just as cars for colored.passengers were set aside by.tho last Legislasure. , "White and black passengers are now compelled to sit side by side in the cars; the next step is to compel white and black cliil dren to occupy the same seats'in our schools. A law to this effect would have been passed last winter, but was post poned at the suggestion of Geary, who wanted to see how the people would swallow the negro-equality rail-road law, before another experiment.in.tho same direction was resorted to. Next winter, we repeat, should tho Republi cans. control the Legislature, the negro equality school law Is to be put through. Let tlxe people bear these things in mind when they come to vote this fall. If white men desire their children tp be mixed up with colored children in tho public schools, they will vote with the Radical-negro-equality party. If they desire to keep the white and black chil dren in separate schools, they will vote with the Democrats. AN APOSTLi: ON HIS TJCAVJBI*S. Senator Wilson, of Mass., is on nn electioneering tour through, the South. His audiences are mostly made up of negroes. Ho is trying, to convince the Southern people that the Reconstruction bill was passed in a friendly spirit to ward the South. He coaxes and threat ens the whites and is, trying to check the disposition of the negroes to ally themselves, politically, with the down trodden Southerners. Wilson is but the advance guard of a platoon of kindred politicians who will soon follow him to enlighten both whites and blacks upon the excellencies of the mongrel party. In one of his speeches he told his hear ers that the North would be compelled to accept negro-suffrage within the next year! What think you, sons of Penn sylvania, of such talk, and the hypocri tical Puritan who gives it utterance?— The following is what the editor of the Lynchburg Virginian says and thinks of this apostle of mongrelism: Mr. Senator Wilson, whoso bowels yearn to ward his unhappy brethren of the South, both white and colored, has set out upon his illumi nating tour. lie will probably bo here In a day or two, and we hope thatho will tell the breth ren what he told us In February. 1801, while seat ed upon a sofa in the United States Senate, to wit: “That, if no common ground of compro mise can bo found, I am in favor of a peaceable separation oftho sections and against war under any circumstances*” We were for the Union then, as we ever had been; while Mr, Wilson, Mr. Greeley, and other blatant advocates of colored suffrage and equal rights, would have separated from the South and left the negroes in bondage. They simply wanted toget rid of their contact with slavery, so that the .Northern untlslnvory party epulu control, the grovornment. They cared not a whit for the Uuion nor for the ne groes, more than this. Their subsequent course has been shaped by events that have followed in the track of war, and that now afford them the hope that their party will dominate In some sec tions, at least, of the Bomb, whore It could never have gained a foothold otherwise. We never spoke to Mr.' Wilson but once, being then Introduced (not upon our motion) to him by a Connecticut S'nator, who was really a conser ,-vntlvo and in favor of compromise—a man who had said in his place.ln the Senate, in view of the noble stand taken by Virginia for the Union, that ho “ would do anytldng to satisfy Virginia,” or words to that effect. That same gentleman is still In the Senate, giving his Influence to the cause of conservatism, while Mr. Wilson Is ro wing over the country ho helped to dismember and despoil, playing the arts of the small dema gogue with nn Ignorant and credulous people. The Volunteer people are moaning and groaning over the passage of a Jaw by tlie Pennsylvania Legislature, giving a black man, after ho’lias du ly paid for his ticket,,the right to take nnv va cant seat In a passenger car and ride to lift desti nation. This 1s the rude blast that has wilted the sweetly-scented geraniums so lately bloom ing In aromatic magnificence In the sanctum of the Vahmteer, We sympathize deeply w,lth our brethren over the way. In their allllctlon, and would gladly assuage their grief if It was in our power; but the Legislature has said that a black man, If ho pays his faro, may ride In the cars, and its the Volunteer editors can’t ride In the same train wltlf a “ nigger,” we see pothlngfor It oilier than the throwing away of their “dead head" passes, and a resort to some other mode of conveyance.— Carlisle Herald. The above classical and very witty ef fusion we find in the Herald of the 2Gtli ult. For several weeks we have been urging our neighbor to publish the ne gro-equality'rail-road law, but ho has persistently refused to do so, and con tinues to'keep hia' readers ignorant of its provisions. The above is nil the Her aid has to say on the subject of that law. The editors, it will be seen, en dorse the spirit of the bill, by which a negro'is given “ the right to take any vacant seat In a passenger car and ride to his destination,” A white man can not exercise this privilege; he must take such oar as the conductor points out; the negro alone can take the car and seat he pleases. The Herald approves this—approves of that provision of the law which gives the negro a right which is denied to white passengers. Very well. ■ But, wo again ask the Herald to pub lish the law itself. Forego for once, if you ean, your penchant for fun; never mind the “ sweetly-scented geraniums so lately blooming in aromatic magnifi cence in the sanctum of the Volunteer." That’s ail very pretty—very elegant and nonsensical. But we don’t care about reading the Herald's beautiful flights of fancy just now. We wantour neighbor to give the negro-equality law to his readers, and we desire him to give us his yes or no in regard to that law. Good News—Peace in Europe.— King William, of Prussia, according to a late cable,despaß:h, has' agreed to a conference to be held in London on the 10th of May, his conditions being that the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg shall remain in a state ’of “ neutralization,” to be guarantied by the powers repre sented in the conference, Nappieon has signified his satisfaction at the , manner ' which tee friendly negotiations of Queen and <*ar are pro gressing; This-.is goiju ** to Europe but to our own country. CONFISCATION. ' Thaddeus Stevens, a Plymouth rock pilgrim, practical imaceg’bnationiat, fa ro-bahkeri back-window escapade, and Radical leader in Congress, Is now ex hausting hla remaining energies to se cure tiie passage of his confiscation bill. If he succeeds he will bo popular among the negroes, and turn the whole white population of the South out of doors.— The New York Times draws a picture of the consequences of this scheme of ha tred and revenge, which is riot over charged in a single feature, horrible and revolting as it is. It says that “in the eye of every thoughtful man, confisca tion admits of rifely one Interpretation. It is the equivalent of general spolia tion, bloodshed and anarchy. There can bo no liberty without order, and no or der without ample protection for the rights of property. Invade these rights and inculcate the idea that one class shall bo permitted to seize and enjoy iho lands and •houses of another class, and from that moment the South will be come a second San Domingo, to end on ly in the extermination'of whites or blacks. This may bo a strong statement of the case, but it is the truth. And the men who go about familiarizing the ne groes with the demand, and persuading them of its justice, should be dealt with by the military commanders ns incen diaries.” ‘ Reiallnl Out I Tho Now York Tribune of Monday Bays: “ Men who hold that none but Whiles should vole map be welt enough in their place; but there is no room/or them in the JicpubUcan party.” We know a good many Republicans who have too much respect for their own color to support negro sulprage.— These are among the men Avljom the fo'ibune reads out of the Republican party, but we rather guess thby will manage to stand it. There is'jstill a white man’s party left, and as it is an honest, patriotic and constitution-loving organization, all who believe tllat u a white man is as good as a nigger” can safely and conscientiously take position on its wide and conservative platform. Many of those alluded to by the Tribune have already made the change—as \vit ness Connecticut—and the gopd wprk will -most assuredly go. on until the leaders of, the present equality party shall be swept into &iq deepest and blackest oblivion. \ Governor Jenkins, of Georgia, his written aletter on the subject of Military Despotism. He expresses his conviction that’the Supreme Court will enjoin the Military Law whenever it comes up for .decision, whether at this term of the Court or'the next term. In the mean while, he declares plainly, as every one can see by reading the Military Act, that the law leaves two alternatives, to accept the requirements of the law vol untary and change their Constitutions, or to reject them and wait for certain re lief from the Courts and the efflux ol Radical passion. He advises rejection as the least-dangerous of the two alter natives. If, as is intimated by the dis patches, the injunction against General Pope cannot come up before the Su preme Court earlier than December, ii is necessary for all good men to register themselves as. voters, and use the fran chise for the election of honest, patriotic and.liberal citizens to the Convention, when assembled, will accept or i eject the terms of the Radical members of Con gress, will be a question left to their wisdom, subject to approval or disap proval. SST Connecticut, “ the laud of steady habits,” has alarmed the Radicals by overthrowing the 11,001) majority of a few years ago. Well may they be alarmed; the people are becoming dis gusted at the vindictive hate pf Radical Congressmen, whose ideas of statesman ship consist not in binding, up the wounds of a bleeding country, but in keeping them festering. If the charja tans ever prayed, their prayer would be akin to that of the eld half-pay Captain, in Scotland—“ Glide Laird, gie us elarnal war .” If these crazy destructives were .the only people .who suffered from this folly, the folly itself would be less a subject of regret. Taxation Without Representa tion.—The Richmond JEnquirer makes the following remarkable statement: “ It will give some idea of the enormous taxes levied by the United States gov ernment to state that the single town of Danville, Va., pays, we understand, a tax of three millions of dollars on the manufacture of tobacco —tho tax being forty cents per pound. Yet this same people who are so liberally contributing to the coffers of the National Treasury aro denied representation in Congress.” A Loyal Perjurer Punished.— Sanford Conover, alias Charles A. Dun ham, convicted over two months ago, in the criminal court of the District of Columbia,.on the charge of perjury, in giving false testimony before the Judi ciary Committee of the House, tending to implicate Jefferson Davis in the as sassination of Pres. Lincoln, has been sentenced by Judge Fisher to ten year’s imprisonment in the Albany penitenti ar/. Death of A. W. Benedict.—A. W. Benedict, Esq., Clerkof the Pa. House of Bepresentatives, and one of the Hecre taries of the disunion State Central Committee, died at his residence, in Huntingdon, on Saturday last. Eor many years Mr. B. was connected with the public press, and was, in his day, an able editor and much respected by a large circle of friends. JdSy* Hon. George Sanderson has been re-nominated as the Democratic candi date for Mayor of the city of Lancaster. The election will take place to-morrow". Franklin county.— The Democratic Committee of Franklin county, on Friday, week, made the following appointments of Delegates to the State Conventions: Judicial Convention. —Senatorial for Fraqkllu and Adams—Hon. F. M. Klm mel.' Kepreseutative—Hon. J. McDow ell Sharpe. . , Maw Convention— Senatorial—Jnmesß. Orr, Kepreseutative—Jacobs. Dooseaud Hoh. G. vV. Brewer. JJQ>“ The pbst-offlee at Look Haven, this State, was broken into and robbed on the night of the 27th ult. The letters were all torn open, the contents taken out and scattered all around the neigh-' borhood of the post office, • '"••• . 93F - Six huhdred Aud . twcnty-Bovea thpusapd dollars in specle:were taken put by thp gqrpjpepja stejupers on Saturday; - Republican Ideas of Liberty. One of the most liberal provisions in that model government which has been designed by Congress for the Southern States, Is that section which declares Unit the military Czar, who has thecommand,* may, if he chooses, “ allow civil tribu nals to take jurisdiction of, and try offen ders." Under this section, If Chief-Jus tice Chase, or any other United States Judge, can obtain theconsont of the mili tary officer, lie or they can hold their court! This is in admirable harmony with the old American principle, that the military should always bo subordinate to the civil authority. “The military may allow civil courts 1” What amount of food,far thought and reflection is con tained in that short sentence I How faithfully it indicates our political con dition and the progress wo have made under the Republican dispensation ! Whatsplendidcourtsofjustico will those be that can only bold thclrsessions by the pleasure of some military officer! What an amount of. dignity there wiil ( bo in those Judges who accept these terms up on which to administer justice! This phrase, that the military may, If they please, “allow civil courts,” completes thb picture which has been made by the Republican party since it came into pow er. It fits in with all their other deeds of lawlessness and crime. It will be diffi cult to find anything more dishonorable and base than tills dependence of courts and justice for their existence and for the ratification of their acts, mpon the sover eign will of some military commander.’— Thesuggestiop of such n thing a fewyears ago would have created a storm of indig nation. But wo are progressing fust, and learning rapidly the lessons in despotism. Wo arc becoming familiar with tyranny in its worst and most revolting aspects. Imperial power and centralized despot ism have become as well known to us as republican liberty and local self-govern ment used to be iu.days thafhavepassed. The party which thus acts upon these slovish principles,_came into power with the most wonderful professions of regard for individual liberty, and forderaocratio, institutions. “ Free speech, free soil and freemen," was their motto. The democra cy which we had for seventy years, Was not good enough to suit their fastidious pal ates. They wanted to make some very modern improvements upon the republic of Washington and Jefierson.' We now? see in what those improvements consis ted. Their “ free speech”, was a prison for those who talked or wrote in a man ner that was displeasing to the Govern ment. Their “free men” were'put un der the arbitrary arid irresponsible rule of military tyrants; and their “ free soil,” upon which no slave was to tread, was only the abode of those who were frqbid-. den any political aspiration, except ser vile obedience to usurped and tyrannical power. —Easton Argus. The Surratt Mystery, A dispatch from Washington to tho Herald says: . “ It is tho opinion of persons high in authority and influence hero that tho trial of John H. Surratt will be ultimately abandoned. The impression is that there is a general conviction prevailing in offi cial quarters that the unfortunate Mrs. Surratt was not guilty of the crime for which she was executpd, and that the t rial of her son would only result in more clearly, establishing that fact. Such a development, of course, would not bo relished by tho Administration and oth ers concerned in the trial and condemna tion of the mother. There is another cause, however, not very credible, as signed why the President would not wish 'he trial to occur; but, as it would cast a deep slur upon the reputation of one who lately has not been sleeping on a bed of roses, I refrain from giving it publicly.—’ It might only be creating another sen sation, and, perhaps, without justifica tion, for the gratification of scandal-mon-- gers. However this may be, it is not be lieved that the evidence Iti possession of the government will warrant the trial of John H. Surratt.”' We think it time to say that the many mysteries surrounding this Burratt case should cease. Since the assassination of President Lincoln, we have hud endless "Urmises, and makeshifts, and tricks, in reference to the crime and those accused. In the place, we had the government proclamations accusing Davis,- Banders and Thompson of the assassination. — Then we had the trials, in which these persona were solemnly arraigned as par licipauts in that crime. There are few tilings that our children will less care to read , than that self-same trial, with its wayward and rude justice. Then came the swift execution of Mrs. Burratt, al though Payne, an assassin, by his own confession, asserted her innocence. We had the escape of Burratt—llls wander ings under government espionage—the act that it was known where he was, and no effort made to arrest him until Mr. Boutwell, speaking the public opinion of the nation, compelled his arrest. Wc have also had the imprisonment of Da vis as an assassin—lf there is. any value in the judgment of the commission that tried Payne and his companions. His continued imprisonment without trial, or the pretense of a trial, Is in itself a mys tery, and a shame. Then came General Butler's famous speech, showing that the diary of Booth had been suppressed, on the conspiracy trial, and the declaration of a great lawyer that Mrs. Surratt had been innocently hanged. Immediately came-an announcement that the War Department would print the Booth diary so soon os something or other occurred. , Well, time enough has passed for twenty things to happen, and nothing is heard of the Booth diary I Finally, we have the most provoking delays about the trial of Surratt, with an announcement .that he is not to be tried, because tho trial might establish the fact that Mrs. Surratt was not guilty at all! It is time that this juggling should cease; and especially as the Surratt case is only a part of the juggling that has been permitted since the death of Mr. Lincoln. That tragedy is one of the most mysterious in the annals of crime. There is something liidden that we crave to know. What it is we cannot say; but the records of the trial, the continued imprisonment of Mr. Davis, and especi ally the shuffling of the government, compel distrust aud suspicion. 'Why hag not Booth’s diary been published ? Why i-» George N, Sanders notdemanded from the British government if the Adminis tration really believes ho was a partner in the crime of Booth? Why is not Da vis either punished or released?- And why is not John H. Surratt brought to justice or released.—jV. Y. Tribune. Important to Soldiers.—One of the acts of the last Legislature was to require the Recorders of tlje several counties to place on record the discharges of soldiers, so that in case of their being lost or de stroyed, the proofs will still remain on the county records. 'Hie following is the act as passed : AN, ACT to authorize the Recorders of Reeds in the several Counties of this Com monwedlth to record the Discharges of all nonorably discharged officers and sol dleri. ' - _ fife Section 1. Beit enacted,Her, That the Recorders of Deeds in the several' Coun ties of this Commonwealth are hereby au thorized and required /to record ail final discharges of commissioned and non-com missioned officers and privates, upon ap plication being made to them by the bold-- ers of the same, and that the recording of the same ahullitot be subject to the pay ment of the BHWe tax. 1 ' m- In the Criminal Court of the Dis trict of Columbia, ph Wednesday, coun sel for John H. Surrattnsked thatan early day might be fixed for the trial of the pris oner. _ After some argument the District Attorney agreed upon the 17th or 18th of June next, but the Judge said that he did not think he could fix a day in the June term, as he would not preside then; He would take the matter into consideration. Mrs. Dorcas Majilton, mother of Col. Majilton, of the late Pennsylvania Be-' serves, was brutally murdered at Jier re sidence, 1309 Shipped street; Philadelphia, r?“ Thursday afternoon, Tjie sup igpsed njurderer| aybung inan bythe name* of Wlanemotßjiiasbeeuarreated. msc'EiXAßraors. *. |tr - A masonic tempi© 1b to bo erected In Mu!*-, x ll.adcl Booclicr StowOls Charleston. tana. : —seor^t^-yßlftnlgntsbaaT^ittoOnio. ~-j!fhb Capitol prison Is to be turned Into a hotel. --Gonertd Ewdß Is a stock-fanner In Tennessee. ~Qrcen peoa, Iho earliest of the- year, sell in i-Grceley’Btlfe Ims been worth s2,ooo—to Par- Boston for 82 a peek. .j ■ r . ton. . • a negro In Now Albany, Ind., who is gradually turning white. —Tho Boston Post says tbo purohaao of Uusslan America gives us possession of tho aurora bore alls. —Car loads of omraaiittloa and muskets, direc ted to Governor Browulow, are arriving In Nash ville. .... —The Income returns throughout the country, ns for as sent in, are said to average but one half the returns of last yean : , —“A wealthy and aristocratic” young lady has given Louisville a sensation by oloplng with apoorydaugmachainlo. . ? . :. . r •/ •- ■' —A fight took place in'a saloon ntMemphls, on Tuesday night, and one policeman was killed and another badly beaten. —Russia has sent to the French Exhibition a largo cannon, each discharge of .which will cost n thousand francs and knock down 500 men. Lowell, Mass., has forty-nine factories; ihe capital stock of which Is $13,050,000., 0,018 females and 4, 0 H males are employed. ; —A white man and colored Woman, whom the authorities of a parish in Louisiana refused to marry, have appealed to Governor Wells.' ‘ —A lecturer said,, recently, that If the Patent Office reports could toll the truth, they would describe an amount of lunacy In this country posltlvoley terrific..’ —Owing to cheap -coal and' other local advan tages, the 'Pennsylvania iron manufacturer has an advantage over the Massaohusosts manu facturer of $0 to $8 per ton. —Six ladies and one man wore drowned by the upsetting of a boat, which was crossing the James river, below Elohmonp, oh Monday last. —A memorial window to Poet Gray Is contem plated In the church at Btoko Pogls, the church yard on which Is the scone of the elegy and the burial place of the oleglast. —The Union Hotel, theatre and two stores in Petroleum Centro wore destroyed by an Incen diary fire on Tuesday night. Loss $73,000.‘ Tho incondarlcs was arrested. —Tho London Times declares that It Is “ tho In tention of tho Queen’s Government to withdraw at no distant time all British troops from the American continent. . , , Qon. Hancock has had a conference with fif teen Cheyenne chiofc at Fort Lamed*, but accom plished nothing. There aro indications of a hos tile confederation of the Cheyennes and Sioux. —Gori. Hancock’s expedition entered an In dian .village on tho Pawnee Fork, on the 18th; but tiie Indians had lied, and General Custer was detached In pursuit of them. A . general war ds expected. , ' . —When the Chinese damsels who administer* tea at the Exposition arrived in Paris, they, be ing slaves, were told at the Custom 'house that their corapulsofy Servitude ceased on their touch ing French soil. They expressed their gratitude by kissing their master’s hand. —The Illinois shore of the Mississippi river jU being rapidly encroached upon by tho river.— Farm after farm has.been swept away, and It Is thought that tho river will ultimately find for Itself a now channel through the body of water known as Long Lake. . —lt is ascertained that of all tho fires occurring In tho city of New York full thirty per;cent,'pro ceed from incendiarism. The motive Is more ;frequently to recover insurance rather than ro 'vongo, . —The King and Queen of Portugal have.taken a suite of apartments at tho Hotel Bristol, Paris, and tho said accommodations will cost 1,600 fran cs per day. - —A man in MUwaaklo, who wo* recently resus citated after having been apparently-drowned', has published Ills •sensations. Ho found It-de lightful to drown, but terrible to revive. —From testimony given .before the Judiciary Committee of iho House of Representatives rela tive to the arrest of John H. Suratt, itwould ap pear that auratt was Ignorant of tho conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln, though a par ty to tho plot to abduct hlnv —lt Is reported that recent experiments in Wlsi cousin, relative tothefltuessof peat for smelting iron, liavo resulted favoribly, and demonstrated that Iron can bo manufactured without a resort totolthor charcoal or bituminous cpal.’ , —lt Is stated that although more than three months havo elapsed since tho explosion of .the Oaks Colliery in England, little progress has as yet been made In extinguishing the body of fire raging at tho bottom. Alt the shafts have been sealod'up, . —Strawberries ami aeaon peas are said to be abundant in the New York Markets, but they arn bold at vorylflgh prices. 1 —Discharged soldiers, who have been applying to tho Government for money m lieu of artificial limbs granted by act of Congress, are Informed that the law. docs notallow money to be given In stead of such limbs. —The nows,of tho capture of Puebla by the Llborallsts, and of the execution of the officers who defended it, is confirmed by advices from Vera Cruz. It is reported that, Maximilian es caped from Quorotnro to the City of Mexico in disguise. k . . —Tho Indians have burned three stations on the Smoky Hill route. Tho.raiders, are. believed to. be Cheyennes, and General'Caster has gone In pursuit of them. Notice has been sent to alLtho posts .to be on guard against attack. —The Savannah Herald says that there is a largo number of, persons out of employment in .that city—mechanics,' clerics and others—and thinks that It "will not be long before the fami lies of many of them will be suffering for tho commonest necessaries of life. * —A Missouri railroad company is reported to have ordered several locomotives from Taunton, Massachusetts, bearing the'inscription. “ In God wo trust,” —a motto which Is probably expressive of the feelings of the unfortunate passengers who are to bo drawn by them. *" * —The Indian war has begun. The Indians are massing near Fort Bouton; apparently /or aa at tack orTthe Fort. Some troopsfrom Fort Mitch ell have attacked on Indian camp, killing sever al Indians and recapturing some mules. STATE ITEMS. —A dwelling in Harrisburg was robbed.of SIGOO In money and Jewelry by burglars on Thursday night tho 25th ult., ■ -rJouuthau Harcleroad of Coleralu twp., Bed ford county, caught thirty foxes this wjptor with in two miles of his farm. -Wo learn that tho new Masonic Hall ih bury, will be dedicated on thb 23th of Juno., —Ten spans of the Boom at Williamsport, are reported broken, and large quantities of logs are rqnnlngpy. The river Is fourteen feet high. —Two boys, named Hamilton find Lawrence, wore drowned on Friday last by the upsetting of a boat on tlio Schuylkill river, near Columbia bridge. ** ', ! ■ —A building attached to Rudolph & l Dixoa’s pa per mill, ou tho Schuylkill, ‘ ijear Jtfftnayunk bridge, was burned on Sunday, Loss ! . ,T-Jacob M. Jones, Colored, whosome since kill ed another colored man, named BenJ Moore, was convicted of murder In the second degree at Har risburg, lost week. " • —Col. M'Olure, chief edltorof Repository, will start in,a few day| summer tour through the Rooky Mountains. ■ —The Norristown Independent says that a few days since a lady of that UorOugh was walking along the street, When an anmannerly (log mode a furious assault upon her*blting her in the leg.— The blood however did not fly, buWhe saw ouot did. . , —The grounds of the Pennsylvania aT and Mechanical Society , : at’ Norristown, have been selected as the place'for ; holding' the next State Agricultural Exhibition, tocomeoff in Sep tember next. ' ’ —The OU City jßegtiter announces that a,largo number of that place contemplate leaving "this spring for tin? gold lieldaof Montana; 1 ; T^'ey'pro pose to take bout at Oil City, and proceed from thence to the head of navigation oh the Missouri and Piatt© nyers, from whence they wli proceed overland to their destination. ' ; • L “ • —A brutal murder occurred in Montgomery co., on Sunday night of last week. Sometime during Sunday night a man by the name of Joiias Miller called at the house of Willi amFox, the murdered mhn, and demanded admlttahoe/ Mrs Fox .de scended from her bed chamber, on.d going to the dobt,opened’it to admit: hhid' MiUerdhmred( dis guised,and Immediately proceeded; to tbe 'bed chamber of Mr. Fox, and beat him la saoh:a snooking manner that be died In a very short time. Tne perpetrator of this diabolical act bad been boarding in Lbefamily, and it is tbdugnf the" wife of the deceased bad some edge of the matter, , , —PbUadelphla boa been the scene of.imothar horrid murder, Anaged ooiipleuanied Magil tob, resided at No, ISOir Shlppen a tree V On Thurs day afternoon lost the husband leit tbe homur Jbr ah'hoar or so; and bn returning ■ atthedoor—a irxend of iiie - £aiij Uy—who iHfMrfi edbim bis wife bird bedn/mdrderect 1 -Thy.ojd 7 lady was fouhd hyputhe floor,berihroat ; cd'taha named Winnemore—ho*' been hr rested. ' J —Spurgeon’s -congregation numbers twelve thousand. —lion. A. H. Stephens ia reported in unusually feeble health. . , —Lord Derby at last aocouuM was convalescent, but t\tlll confined. ; , , , . / —Prinia Napoleon has been on a'y&ioH voyage ; to tost tbo new elefttrlo light. . —The Frcsldoni, for some days .quite ill, is now fully recovered. - ’ . , . . ."I —Mr. Buchanan, whose fortune Is placed at $200,- 000 is the richest of our ox-Prcsldents. .• * —Sum\iel Case, aged .16, Is to be hanged, atCln eimmtl, for murdorlnga playmate. > —The ladles—at least spiiao of th^m— In Alaba ma use cocbanuts to fill out their waterfalls. —Forney was seronadcd'ln Washington last week, and spoko half a column of pare bosh. —Thonins Doherty has'boen -arrested in' Glou cester, Mass., for killing his child, throe years old, in a fitof-passfonV ' • • '* f ' ■ '•* •• / ' .r.l Judah P. Benjamin has r boon complimented from tho‘bench,'ln ,Dohdon| for his legal learn ing. ' -Head-Centre Stephens is really hi Paris, and It Is charged that ho Is In occult connection with the English . / ; rrHon. A; J. Eogers, ha?, been admitted to prac tice in the United States Saprenie Oonrt; on mo tion of Hon; Jeremiah S.'Black.'J ' ’ ' —The actor Mardooh was'seized with vertigo in Philadelphia during the'performance of “ Hnm leV’andfoll upon the stage’.': _ - —President Johnson .Will h«; In RalQlghj about the middle of May, to .attend.the.laying of the corner-stone of a monument to his father. . —The Lancaster bar prosontsthe name bf Hon. Thos. 33. Franklin, of Lancaster, os a proper can-' hidate for the Supreme Judgeship. : —Generaj Grant Is- in Philadelphia; also Hon. John A. Audrery, cx-Gpyernpt of Massachusetts, ilsstayingln tile city tor a day or two. untl Is tho guest of General Meudo,' ' ~ ■ —Forney.has taken the temperance pledge; probably, to Judge from tho histfary of Forney's pledges, os a preparation for a. spree ,of ’nhetitß moh magnitude.' " . —Hon, John Morrlsy gold-credit'for b'ptngone of the best behaved Members of, tho Hump Con-- gress, ns welt as pho of tho mostiattoutlvo,'prac tical aad.seuslblo: ;. '' ! —IUS reported that a tailor Is'maklng a uniform for Gov. Geary to cost SI,OOO in which to imvo that; picture taken, to pay for which 8500 was appro priated by tho. Legislature ... 11 Perley,” in a dispatch to. thepEoeton Journal, saye: “Mr. Wad'opresldoa ovor the Senate In a decidedly original etylo. af ter tho passage of a resolution or two, there being no other business to bo transacted in open session, ho said: 'The Senator from .Ohio moves that tho Eenato go into Executive session;* and put tho question, which was carried amid a general roar of laughter. Mr, Sherman having sailed for Eu rope, Mr. Wade was tho'oniy Senator'from Ohio present.’’ - —Tho funeral cortege of the late bishop Tlinou, at Buffalo Inst week, was grand and Imposing.— The proccssionnamborcd thousands, and oonsls* ted of bishops, clergy, and various societies. It passed through the principal streets to the Ro man Catholic Cathedral, where a grand reqalem mass was celebrated for tho roposo of tho soul of the beloved and deeply lamented bishop. The. choir consisted 6f one hundred performers, and tho music was most solemn and touching. Thous ands of citizens lined tho streets through which tho procession passed. Bishop Kendricks, of tit. Louis, preached tho funeral sermon. Tho follow ing Prelates wore in attendance, at the funeral obsequies; Archbishops MoCloskoy. of New York; Kendricks, of St, Louis. Bishops Lynch, of To ronto; Farrell, of Hamilton; Lefovrp, of Detroit; Ilappo, of Cleveland; 'Williams, of Boston; Con roy, of Albany ;. Qrosbrieud, of Burlington; Loughlln, of Brooklyn, and Domlnlncl, of Pitts burg. ' - * ‘ POLITICAL. —Forney has come out .for black suffrage In Pennsylvania, whatever thatmay amount to. j —Quincy, 111., had a municipal election last Tuesday, and the Democratic ticket was Snccess ’ ful. ‘ .. - ' 'v Pottibone, Democrat, aged .-81, Is tho oldest member of the Connecticut House of Rep resentatives. '■ -Ex-Governor Mcßae, of Mississippi, advises the South to reorganize under the Rcooustruc tionact; ,' Rovcrdy Johnson, Jr. has,been nominated to the City Judgeship of Boltl i ore by the Conser vative Unionists. . —ln a recent speech at Atlanta-,-tieorglavPope said “that the Military. Reconstruction acts are proposed by Congress as a final settlemoirf of our difficulties." ... : —The Now York independent .expresses the opinion “that-the political' equalltydj' Ameri can citizens Is likely to bo soohol* achieved In Mississippi than In Illinois—sooner oh the plan tation of Jefferson Davis than around the grave of Abraham Lincoln V* ‘ [' of Southern men who will-be disfranchised.by Is 29,745, that being the !number.who.,havdbeld dfll6ounder the Confederate Government from Davis down. , , V : '• —The registration of voters lu , 'Wa&hlpgton hto been completed. There ore l|2oomore negro,than , whitevoters. Thenegroep ale hlglily elated, and talk of electing a; regular black tloltet, but the Radical'leaders there urge miscegenation. • ■ ‘—Forney Is past finding out. • Hemade a speech to . bis colored in .Philadelphiaon‘ Fri day night, and In the fapecqh he sdid “ WTaßnev’er 1 see a lady shrinking from cohtaot witli: her sa ble sister I am sure shedocy* notfollowtheexam ple of the great Mary, who forgave,those that In jured her," . What can the man have been think ing of? '• 2tocal stem o .Temperance.— A convention of the friends -of . temperance “Was held in Rheem’s Hall,' on Tuesday; and W.ednes day last. Col. R. M. Hendorsoh*presl ded, and a number of addresses Were de livered. ... I. 0. O. F.-—A new' Lodge of Odd Fel lows was in ati trite dat Now Ki n gston, on Friday. lost*-There was a public parade of the ordorVia . tuil ' rogalia, and an elo quent and appropriate address was dellv ored .by ,pql. Wqi- M, Penrose, of thih place. 1 l *Phd attendance ofniedibeii of the order from a distance'was not as large us ithad been expected, blit everything went off admirably, well. ■: • . Mav Days.— Each .season of the year .baa its champions—but none of them have more than spring; they are a host—from school boy composers with their first at tempts upon “ The Spring” to poet lau reates the burden of whose song Is the 16valihessandgrande'urofthe6prIhg-'tlclo. This year It may truly be said that' jWln tor lingering, chills the lap of and in our humble.qpiuiou the old fellow! ought to be ashamed of himself,.. And it bright be further remarked that’ “ the trembling spring Is still unconfirmed” lb which respect: it resembles some of "A. J's” appointees, , ! "P9“° goalie Spring,ctherlal mildness, comer*' sang the poetj nud many a weary and tired heart baa re-eohOod ; the sentiment, as old wldter oalla olf, hid legions to the' ice-bound baverus'of the north. ' What a glorlo^Sjthing it js for oyervyorked-braihs, * have had' the poetry' of life nearly : boiled out of them, *to llnd neu tralizer in escaping to the country and In dulging inun oid-laahioned romp oyer 1 , the hills! How It freshens' up sentiment; and aifeotion, and how.muoh botter busi ness goes on for it! A day in the country, when the plants areWaklngupfromthclr winter’s Bleep,, under the touch of the glancing each ’bush Un folds itself and each blossom burets with an Individ-;, ual Uf^wjjen.ihjßraaye Powers aU around, —flowers to strew the conquerer'a* path—i flowers, to.deoktbe bto\y. of the fair ypuug bride— flowera fir ’tho wine cup, flowers' 'fot tho'bier and fldWerS' for thb rshrihe— ■Buohdaysor?tpn,3ra,heinbored,'llkoßpotd; lives. ■ - ' : ’’’' t■■ .The ! a rh; .’pt* ' ' subject the,Louisville thls following! "We have been mi h .“ 8 UIG the Loulavllie Journal betwoeTthh? 8 ° h and thirty-seven years.; ',‘ r time, jve have Jknowri hh Wi n bn,. IthJs1 thJs in the City ly. And wo. have known no o no ,‘ e . ral ce<^in:pycon»iaerublellfin, stopping at the Mansion House* offers , for. sale a patent Burglar alarm, whiohds most highly en dorsed. He offers territory for sale. . BARN.BuRNEDI-rOVMonday afternoon lust, during the prevalence of a thunder storm at that time, the barn of Mr. Men* tzer, ip Mifflin; tpwnshjp, was set on Are by a strpke of lightning and entirely con* sumecl. 1 TU© -howes,-being -absent from the barn at the time, were saved. Borne Valuable farming implements were lost. —Siar of the Valley. Child Drowned.— A little daughterdt Mr; Joshua Ceas, tanner, in Fairfield, was drowned in one of the vats of the lanyard on Saturday week/ Attention' was fiat attracted by hey bonnet being seen float ing op .the water, rind. on searching, thi body of the child was found in the vat- It'ih supposed that she was playing in the * yprd, and accidenttally /ell in., Her age was about three years, .A sad death, in deed.—Gettysburg Compiler. - WomanDroWnbd. —We regret'to leatu that the wife of Mr. Joseph Harman, re siding oh the York turnpjke, about seven miles from Gettysburg, drowned- herself in a rain vessel, on Monday night lost.— She. had been for some weeks laboring un dor’great depression’ ofpplfits, 'caused, # is thought, by previous religious' excite ment, and her friends were not wlthont apprehension. . DurlugMphday nightehe - was tnisa'od from hor bed, and, upon search being made, her body was found lying head-foremost in a rain Vessel hear the house.' ; Life ’was, extinct;— Gettysburg Compiler. ■., ■ . miPPENSB VRG ITEMS. ■ “ Answer to Correspondents^ l —VVo are sorry our. time has been so limited du r ‘ ing the past week as .to prevent us from calling and answering in person thoques tionsasked by the editor of the "Sentinel. 1 ' “Our dog Story” was taken from facia, “ Our Special Correspondent" being on the ground in person.- Can assure Jho "Sentinel", that theye is polhlng'b'ogus in the article' referee! tbj that there wasadog there Is true, and ‘it is equally true'that after the tirne ol writing that article the afibrsaid dog never wagged a tail. With regard to “ ouf .' farmers sowing oats at this time of year” we need only refer our. friend; .of-the “ Sentinel".- to any farmer who was at home about two weeks since, when that article was dated, and when batajWW,:being sowed;- nrqdfisty pre; : venth us from putting bur hanie.in print, and for this reason our friend of the Unci" will have to-Wait until we whisper in bls ear WhoWe are.t ■■ fjor'further par tlouSfjps, see Handbills, .I; ai£ certain - ft Would afibrd . us pleasure, to assist the " Sentinel" lii .“Bridging Out'tho “News but as that game has been tried so often and without success, we-'havo conclude .il ls a " Dead Duck, V and .that we; baa bettor not wastojbur powder-; , , : ■r, iN TowN.-rtohh Smith, whoso letter was adyortise’d , n town and got the doonniehi! after Indestt tying Mr. : Smltn. 11 ' - (Jbavb thhe, ■ ’grave ‘yards*. to’wn oeiVihg .eoml aiteniioh j, ,1 Wt AMI *‘VUldißecaderl yard r h .and latter,:was.almost a publipopiflinp llB - JV have hs beautiful a cemetery as any to li the; yaliey,;ahU; we.thlnk It would ah advisable slipiotemove all the do 'tfff |n * “ ’ desirablepaftnf thh’ toWn.jt J V ;i; .,; i.V;oSdHBSTRAS4ir)bB htohjwtta'brgtfti^ In this :piape"hy:-t)r.^ai»i^?^‘X 1 stncPr have,'arrlyed ratJw remarkable^ oerts during the.year,-which will greatly