CARLISLE, PA., Tlinrtiday Horning, Jnnitnry 0, ISG9. THE SOUTH. The financial prostration of the North 1 ought of itself to he an overwhelming argument against Radical rule. No in telligent man can shut his eyes to the fact that in all our large manufacturing cities thousands of honest and industri ous laboring men arc daily thrown out "of employment in the midst of a piti -_iv>s winter. In New York, Philadel phia, Pittsburg and Chicago the distress is so great that the newspapers of both parlies are commenting upon it. In the city of New-York .alone the:e are tlfly thousand men and women without work. Kven throughout the agricultu ral of the groat West, though aided !>y a teeming so:!, unbounded la ri lit ies for market and plenteous seasons, the people are complaining of hard* timc«. Ivren the manufacturers win* have foisted this tyranny upon the <u tier ing pimraresharing in -he general di-- trees. The rollon Joid, Sprague, i.-eom lidled to admit that IhuhVal iinanciai legislation has not only been a nd.-lake ,11id a failure, hut a :,.<a; wrung upon the laboring people «-f tin country ; and tin* \ery mannf.icb.v. hidi have ae emmilaled million- during tb.e la.-l lew years are now dosed, itsdf give.-, notice llu it will dbmi.-s a certain p-.,. ‘mage of workmen trom its navy-yard-. .Start ling as (lie fact i-,l here arc people, wir ing to work, who are -tarving to death in our groat cities, Wo have been speaking only of the North, hut this is scarcely a lithe ofthe wretchedness Radical legislation has in dicted. The Northern poor have vote-, and a dread of their powerat the ballot box sometimes cau.-es their oppre.-sors to halt in tiieir j»alh of greed and cruel ty. The Northern poor have repre.-en lativo.s in Congress who arc ready ami able to speak for them. The Northern people are of a common blood, and they have social order and protection for the carningsnf their toil, At the North the hand of industry may work without tin* fear that in one night the llamesofcivil war may consume its fruits, or the throats of wife ami em/m,.,. negro radians, ami the daughters of (!:•• hou.-ehold given over to the wor-t nf outrages', compare.l with which death were a privilege. For the people of the North, poor and pluiakudit may hi-, ereatly .-iiiUTln.L:, U:: energetic, ihritiy. aided by capital, and wi'h 'uii!h which defy the oppnv;-,or, there i.-a future, and the word hope h:i- a pe-i’ive meanimr which braces im n to -(iu,.;y;le on. But what shall wo where eight million.- of oar ,>v. n ran once happy and pn-- ; .ercn-, are pluneed into u condition oi nii.--ei\ and ruin Midi as history never avoided What think you of lad it*', reared in la:: a -y, v. a! kin.; miles through :in -mm in tit bare loot to beg iu..il n.r (!mir-larvi Ii(llo ones'.* Wii;:: white won mil, in mi” man -if '.mi tinm -anil inhabitant.-, It s in.'- it; n r < n ;,od ili gu.-ling pro-litidhai w.th hi gio men, iu gain a lived lined ? Tim - nl.enng." n! the Northern [itHir aiv lad emam a, iad thia e w an indescribable homo- about I'm* misery of the white peopl«« of the Sou*.li. They .-Tiffin to lie utterly at the mercy of their negro ma-term They Imvc no votes; they have no repiv.-entati v<-- in f 'un<(iV'S to appeal in (heir hi-haIT to ; he helter judgment and hnmanliy of the .North. And (la* nial'-vo'emv o!' the Northern Radical.- icin- to liiul it edefdelighl in fomenting discord !>■-- (ween the whitis and blacks. The m groes go ara.cd. They ,-pend their nights in -ccn-l Vagm-s or drunken dahL-w. Tiiey work jiml -a leu ti. y plea-e, and d» maml what \\.mc. ln-y cl.oom* ami Wu' h- In h; m who .aw In niiniinT Ci'inn;!! v'ill U niu'.nnn.i a number oft 1 y Northern i»;ii whifli will roiniy belter idea of t he dc-'.I! m ’■ -n :u,d .-mV. in*'in (be South than v. c co.ild dir in the limited r-pace of an *-dil >>r!a!. In Hu* name of justice and immunity, \> il not high time that ihr i oadilion of the South should aioa.-e the people of this suet ion to ihe nece.->iiy uf forcing the Radicals to abandon Uieir beggary and .starvation policy. Thai (hi* .-date of atfairs is owin'*’ to Radical legislation, no sum* man will pretend to deny. They have a three-fourths majority in both houses of Congress—tin; Kxecuti ve is powerless to avert the evil and Die entire government is in their hands.— The only relief bill they have passed thus far is one increasing their own sala ries to Hvo thousand dollars per annum. When the war ended, and for two years afterward, although the South was suf fering from the losses consentient upon the struggle, she was prosperous and happy compared to her present condi tion, The negroes were in the main contented, and worked cheerfully, and the realties of starvation were wholly unknown to them. Tins stale of things lasted until the Radicals took hold of the negroes to reconstruct them into vo ters. • When Wilson, .Sumner, Kelley, Co., entered the South, the edect wa lls disastrous to that region us it was when the devil entered the CJarden of Eden. Everything is destroyed ihil their political breath touches. Ruin, starvation, discontent between the ra ces, arc seen everywhere in the Smith, and they increase instead oi'decrea-e. - The four millions of blacks have been so demoralized by the Radical policy that they are little heller, to-day, than Unit numberof wandering vagabonds. Their new friends have so pohoned their minds against former masters that they have become hostile to them ami clamor for a division of their lands and other prop erty. Too lazy to work since they have been made politicians, the Helds lie idle for want of tillage, and the absence of production is 1 rapidly bringing starva tion on both whiles and Macks. The Radical treatment has been such toward the negroes, that (General J Toward, chief of {lie Freed men's Bureau, states Unit they have decreased I,Hus,out) since their emancipation! Notwithstanding the .South 5 s in such a dcplorahlecondition, tin* Radicals are deaf ,to every appeal for mercy. Their leading men proclaim that their hard policy will not be aba ted one jot or tittle, and at every addi tional groan of the victim, one more turn is given to tin* screw that cru-hes the people down to tin; very ground. Under present management \w cannot oxjxvt a ejiaiig*' for ihe better, and we <Mmiot.hopeto -eo prosperity again How hack upon tin* South, until the pre.-ent ‘Congre-.-? is turned out uf power, and *c placed by more liberal men nud mea bures. Negro social equality, as a sequence of Negro political equality, is what the Radicals arc confessedly after now in the Southern States, and, to encompass that end, the so-called Constitutional Conventions will leave nothing undone. In the Louisiana Convention there are Radical politicians and Radical preach ers from New Kngland constantly act ing as prompters, and how readily the amalgamationists take the hint may he seen hy the resolutions that wore offered in that delectable body on Saturday, proposing certain changes in the organie law oi {he-hue, to the effect that the Legislature Mudl establish free public schools in the Slate and provide for theirsupport by taxation. All children between >ix and eighteen yearn of age arc to be admitted without distinction ns to race, color, or previous condition. There shall be no sepaiate school estab lishment for any race. A university is al<o to be established in New Orleans, open to nil students capable of matricu lation, without distinction as to race, color or previous condition. This, of r.Kirs', is amalgamation ami its twin abomination, miscegenation,—the be ginning Af that mixture of the two races, the net product of which is the Mexican and S .uth Ameriian mongrel. 1 In the Alabama Convention an effort ha- been made to put in a prohibitory i'!iiu-v auainsl black-.md-v, bite mur- ruigi-, but of course it was tabled. As that is the very thing Rompey and .Sambo are after—the a-.-ertion of the fin* government •t a fixed date fnb.-i ami freot negro .milsocial equali ty, i.y the marriage relationship with white women —tin* delegate who moved t!ic prohibitory clau>e must have been either sadly lacking in a becoming ap preciation of tin* wants of the times, el-c a very mean wldtc. At-ir*-Our neighbor tin; //hm/d i.- given to huge jokes sometimes, and amongst the hugest is a report of the proceed ing;* of the Soldiers, Convention, which nominated Grant, in Ilheem’s Hall, hist week. Our reporter made diligent search for the ‘‘Convention” —he look ed into every nook and corner from Hippie’s saloon up to tin* Good Temp lar*’ lodge room, hut nary a “hoy in Mtie*‘ could he lind. Probably the man ager- were admonished hy the terrible nmni t.iu'lr Ueury Convention two years since, and sat with *• I<i-ed doors. It wa* decidedly the mi •-1 unpretending “Convention 11 we ever iieard of. And what an impos ing li.-t of deb-gate- they selected, larger in number than the entire Convention. Am! ihey nominated Grant tool 'Veil that can't lu* a. hard matter, a< he has ady been nominated two or three tinic- in Car'd-lc. And then thcysnnh ! cil pom- G.-ary. and pul up Curtin for Vji-i Piv-ii Tm . A’liat a nice time mir I ‘a, 1 ,-h’ i ‘re‘ nui.-'r- have of i!. to o! ;lc Smith ■1 he 1 i' o-i ia v. 1n : f'O II mi <•! ! 'in I.;. !••!]. hia. wa- '.-it d '•pi a her, i.'ui. Se.fi idge, m‘ I.vh'uh cmiiily, .lame.- 1,. Graham, of Allegheny, as r-peaker, ami George W. Ilaniersly, of t u-rnnmtuwn, as chief clerk. 1 1, i> un deisluod that the (Jovernor will semi in hi' animal message to-morrow. The 1 emoeralie member- of the i imi- ■ of Rcpre.-entali ves met in caucus and nm»iinak-d (la- lollowlng officers: Speaker, Riehniend L. Jenes, of Berks candy; Chief < lei k, John P, MeFad dt 11 , i’hiiadi Ipld.i city : Ar-dshuit, Jno. <) (■.iinair, Allegheny county ;Serge (!< i.rge Bailey, Dauphin cuiinty ; iT-lnia-ter, Samuel 'f. Brown, Montour county. om: nr sait 'i ill* .Wl'hilhtt If I f MIN’S Hull n-d only arc li:i* jicojiie of ilit* South heavily taxed to Mippnrt iu’l’To cunvcn (i'-iw and governments, hut the Sl-’il,- • ne.nn;) c.-dniat’. d for the army 1- to he largely .-pout in forcing' military guv • ■nimcnN upon ihe Southern Stale-. 'The l-VeednieuV nurcau-g says the Now York .L'.rprcss, a'v nothing hut electioneering bureaus of Northern Jacobins to govern the South,-—ami wo, I blockhead Northern people, pay double ' Hie price we ought to pay for .-ugar, teas and all other articles of consump tion, Just to keep them up ! It is suggested -by the Southern Opin ion that, as the ten Southern Slat*** have been Africanized in all but names, that they also receive African names —that in referring’ <o them, use shall be made of the geographical nomenclature of Africa. Blot out the glorious ami pre cious names of Virginia, North and South -Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala bama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas from our maps and statutes, and write in their places Uayti, North and Guinea, Dahomey, Ashan te, Sahara, Borneo, Congo, Snlulan and Nigritia. Tili-: “torch and turpentine” (’onvoli tion of Louisiana has ordered a tax of one mill per cent, on uU real estate and per.-onal properly,* in order to raise funds to pay the white and negr.o dele gates. The daily expenses of the Con vention are in the neighborhood of eigh teen hundred dollar.'-. In this manner white men have to pay for the chains that imgroc* are riveting on theirlimbs. Tin-: N. Y. 'Jrlhunc, calculating the chances for the Presidential election, says: “Uc do not think much comfort /•. mains for any jiotitlral party that can not carry A 7 tr York and l\'nnsytcania.' ) Then not much comfort remains for (he Radicals in view of their late defeat in Pennsylvania, and the bn,non against them in New York. It is becoming customary to designate Thad Stevens as a “ great commoner,” implyinga comparison with Pitt in tin’s respect, Pitt was, fndeed, u “Groat Commoner;” and we presume nobody will dispute that Stevens is a groat deal comnumcr than Pitt. Tm: President’s Message estimates Hint it will cost »t least .<2no,iwKi,o()h a year to support the Mongrel plan of Re construction. That is, *l- > nn t n(Mi,o(jo an nually and permanently! That is a nice plum for the people to eat. A Cotkmuouauv lnily“ikriiuv.s when it .says : “Starvation has boon the ul- '• timate effect of Ibulie.al rule in (lie 1 South.” 1 MIXING THE RACES. i r; vm u i dm W. J *avi', The Senate organised w ilh A Cooil Snyyesllon, A NEW REVELATION. A negro delegate in the Alabama Constitutional Convention recently in troduced a clause dissolving the mar riage relation between all men who took part in the late rebellion and their wives, and ‘declaring that “ad children begotten of such marriages between the 11 tii day of January, b'fil, and the 21st day of July, are hereby de clared illegitimate.” This is a new'rev elalion of our black masters, and is an index of the great change they will in troduce in the social system of the South as soon as 11 toy begin to legislate for that region. The dLsolution of 1 lie mar riage relation "‘hetivvciiull if'/io (noh purl in the nhi'UUm tunl (heir is the entering wulgcto ihe , milleiiium which the Radicals have been promis ing us for some time. Without saying more," this attach on the marriage iela tion shows the entire unfitness of the negro for the duties of legislation. Rauk-ai. organ editors who were so fiercely opposed to Judge Sharswood bocause-of Ids legal tender decision the Borno-Trott case, Should read the fol lowing opinion from Judge (Irecley, of the Tribune —good Radical authority: “Legal tenders are a ‘forced loan’—a sort of legal robbery. They have no self-regulating, expansive and contract ing power, adapted to the Imdne.-s wants of the community. Any paper currency, to de-vrve the name must be —l. Secured’; 2. Redeemable. Green back> arc neither. They are a standing advertisement that the I’nited Slates arc insolvent. They tire depreciated | Government lies.” lliau niat'AX journal' are 'given to sensation publications, hut we fail to discern in their column* the slightest allusion to the numberless outrages iu the South committed by negroes, and the Tearful les’itution of the whites, mule and female. Wd! they give the public the state of the case? A committki;, so says Jt>hn Phoenix, wailed on Joe Bowers when he was a candidate for the Legislature iu Califor nia, ami wanted him in -date what his politic." were; “ Gentlemen,” said Jo seph, “I have none'." “What! Mr. Bowers, no politic.-*;’ - “ No, gentle men', not ‘a d d politic!”’ Joseph was not elected. A Lancastkii impel- says that tax ation in that county lias been increased from live to twenty-live per cent. If the mi*rule of itadicali-m goes on a year or two longer it will require nearly all a man has to pay his taxes. Tiik San Francisco correspondent of tin* Chicago 7 rihuuc, Radical, says that if ({rant should be the nominee of For ney ami ;hat faction of Radicals, he will he wufuiiy beaten in California, (Jregon ami Nevada. Tin'. Fhilidelphia Pn-' 7, a Radical or-, gan, is engaged in the nasty task of dis- secting the dead duck. The duck allu ded to i* one of (he lishy, plundering kind. t iin;at alarm exists in I-aiglaml in re gard to the Fenians. Troops have been ordered to Portsmouth, and it is said the Cabinet has decided to a.-Jc Pnrli men to suspend the writ of habeas cor pus. Starvation again prevails among tiie thriftless and indolent negroes of the South. 1 low can it be otherwise as U'lig as ihe Badlcals holster (hem up as mere “ voting machines'.'” Tim New York Thnr#, Radical, de clares that the Chase party intend to run their candidate for the Presidency regardless of who is nominated by the “ narrow-minded blockheads.” Ax exchange .-ays “ rats and vermin may is l driven out of any building by burning a little sulphur.” We -honhl lik" t(j -.(■(> Hie experinu nl tried in the ( apitol at Washington. Ji’DCK Williams’ majority in Pitts burg lust fall was 1,2.7.), The Democ racy have therefore gained -1,1-10 by the election of Blackmore. It is said that the “reconstruction” ad will he brought before the Supreme Court next month. Scjikmes for squandering the people’s money still absorb the attention of the Radical leaders. ?{ West .Virginia”— a Radical-wear led and a Radical-ruled State—has not abolished the whipping-post for crimi- nals. STATK ITEMS. —The elephant Romeo killed his keep er last week in Montgomery county. —A rolling mill at North East, Penn sylvania, was burned on Friday evening last. —A true bill has been found against Delemater for the murder of Dr. Durkin at .Scranlon, Pa. ’ —lt is said that immense beds of iron ore have been discovered in Chester coun- —Lust week a boiler exploded in a foundry at Miueraville, Schuylkill coun ty, Pa. Fortunately no one was injured, although several narrow escapes were made. —A mysterious poisoning case has lately taken place in Miuersvillc, Schuyl kill county. The victim is Miss Jenny Dyer, an estimable young lady. Her mother was also attacked with the same symptoms, but her life was saved. —The coal trade of Pennsylvania was never more active than now. .Strikes and kindred troubles at the mines arc generally settled, the markets are over flowing and prices reduced. —A lady of feeble health, who resides New Brighton, Reaver county, while re turning homo from a neighbor’s the oth er evening, was attacked in an alley near her residence by some rulllan who forci bly violated her person, and then tied. —On the 18lh ult., Mrs. Elizabeth Bo gerfc died in Lehigh county, at the good old age of one'hundred years, one month and twenty days. She'waa born pn the -Bth of Oelober, 1707, was married in 179 J, and leaves flvp surviving chll dren, tweqty-eightgrand-ehildren,eigh ty-eight great-grand children, and three g rcat-grcat-graml-chi Id ren. A convention of the Phi Kappa Sig ma -Fraternity was held last week, at the Jjoohlel House, in Harrisburg. There was quite a large attendance of delegates from the Chapters of the Fndornity throughout the country. This college society Ims helm in existence for pearly twenty years, and numbers several thou sand members, among whom are some of the most distinguished lawyers, divines and generals in the country, Tho ses sion of the convention continued several days. c'on'ditiox or Tifi; south. STARVATION AND RUIN. A War of Rauos Imminent. The following extracts from Southern newspapers will give our readers an idea of the terrible condition of things in the South : Stnrxalioa in Had as the condition is among the planters and white inhabitants, that of the negroes is still worse. Upward of twenty thousand are now at the point of starvation, and almost entirely destitute of all the necessities of life. Unlesssome speedy relief comes to succor thgpi, the resulting lamentable consequences will be scarce calculable. Now, the Freed men’ri Ihireau has an do ing some ical and substantial good ; let its" ollloers apply themselves directly to the relief of these starving thousand?- re siding in the rear of the Grand Levee. — AVte Orleans Times, Dee. o. Tliliig-s in Georgia. The JjOuUviUc Dcmovrai publishes an extract from a letter: “Mobs, insurrec tion and violence are impending. The entire community sleeps with doors barr ed and guns loaded to protect itself from violence. The negro is destitute, sutler ing and insubordinate. Ho believes the whites have reduced.the price of cotton for the purpose of starving him to death. Such are the teachings of the demons who think for him anil educate his pas sions up to violence and bloodshed that certain cuds may be achieved. I would leave heie, hut have not money enough to enable me to move, and it is question able if I have enough to remain where I am-. The present Is threatening, but the future is despair.” More Itubliorlos and Outrages. There* have been several robberies com niittecl in Jones, Lenoir and Craven coun ties, North Carolina, this week. Among 1 them we note the* following: The house of Mr. Johnson, in Jones, was robbed last .Monday by thiee or four negroes, during Mr. J.'s ab.-enee. Wednesday night last a band of fifteen or twenty negroes went to the house of Mr. F. J, 'Taylor, in Le noir county, near Kinuton. and asked fur work. Mr. Taylor told them he had no work for them, but that one of Jiis neigh bors had some cotton to pick out. They replied that “ they would be damned be fore they would pick cotton,” and de manded his horses and mules. Mr. Tay-. lor, attempting to icacb his house to get his gun, was seized and thrown down and severely hmi. A parly of the gang then entered* his hou.-c and commenced the plunder, Mealing money, clothing, bed ding :md "i her valuables. These negroes wof armed. Thi- information we gath er from a citizen of Kinston conversant with the facts, ‘‘How long, Oh Lord, how It>n z ! M —A'cnr/mr/y Jour, of Co.n. Poverty in rioi-lUu. An old Fnion man writing from Madi son, Florida, on the -Uh, says of the situ ullini iii tK<>t Wtulo.: “ I think that if the most rabid Kadi- Gils eoubl see the condition of the South if there was nature in them-lhoy would retract. 'Take, fovexamplo, my own case. With an amide income, a splendid re.-i -dence here and another In South Caroli na, Tilled with gorgeous furnituic. plate, statuary and painting, 1 am now living in an open cabin, all the furniture in it not worth one hundred dollars.” Appalling- Destitution In Jli.tsSsippi. A correspondent of the Cincinnati (ia~ :r(tf , writing December 4, says : *• The stateof things is appalling. Dis tress, want and misery tiro even now stalking abroad. What it may come to in the dead of winter and spring, God only knows. Every hind of business here is prostrated. Planters are bank rupts by the failure of the crops, and in volve the merchants who advanced for them on the strength of the growing crop. The distress will be equal, 1 am afraid, to the Irish famine of l.s-17 and IS-W. I as sure you, you never saw such a distressed and mined people as the people of Mis sissippi, ami I presume t he citizens of the oilier cotton Slates are in the sane condi tion, and I see no remedy except within the fold of the Fnion. .V Iluim-a People The editor of the (i<.or</ia C/lizai, who has iccciilly made a trip to Southwestern Georgia, says; “ From all that wo ean gather in a late trip southward, the moM deplorable slate of destitution ami pros pective ban km ploy stares the people in the face. Planters generally are unable to pay expenses, and the merchants will not lie able to meet their liabilities. 'The .Miiallest amounts cannot be collected from pm tics who have been accustomed to the luxuries of life, and wo predict more suffering and distress the ensuing winter ami spring among the poorer ela-ses Ihqn ever before witnessed in this section. As to the colored race, the pros pect.- are • still more gloomy; thousands will he thrown out of employment; while other thousands will not work if they can get work to do. They prefer to live some other way. What will bo the end thereof, the Lord only knowoth.” Xoftro liiHumifilim hi 31l.ss2.vslj;>;)! isoii!. Appivlum-ioii-, of a violent outbreak among' the negroes have existed for some time at Okolonaaml also at Verona. The lute proelomation of (Jovernor Hum phrey's greatly incensed the negroes; whose hopes of being snugly installed at an curly hour in the comfoitable houses and property of the white people were so sanguine that they do pot fpel inelined to give them upat thoeommaml of (he (inv entor, reinforced by General Ord. Fail ing to secure the prize in a peaceful way, they propose now to help themselves by force, and to this end have armed them selves and arc banding together, though no open hostilities have.occured yet, so far as ourinformation goes. The Mayors of the towns above mentioned made ap plication in person to (he military com mander hero for protection, but that olli cer not fooling authorized to semi troops so far, referred the gentlemen to Uoneral Ord, whoso action in the premises we have not-learned. There was much ex citement among the citizens of those place* and tho oountry adjacent, and ap prehensions were prevolant that Okolo lift would bo burned by the infuriated mob-Corinth (Miss.) Kara, Doeember22d. rriUMltnon Slnrvinji'— A War of Kiit-os Ini. pending'. The subjoined order shows (ho lament able condition to which liadieal legisla tion has reduced the South : 1 1KAIHpMUTKIIS Kouaru MIUTAUV Dl-U 1 (Mississiiti and Arkansas.) ” llor.i.v Soiunos, .Mivussiai'i, Dee. in, I iS'jjrrud Order JVo. 20S. [Extract] .Brevet Major General Adam C. Gillem, Colonel 21th United States Infantry, as sistant commissioner of Refugees, Frcod inou and Abandoned Lands for the Status of Mississippi, will proceed to Washing ton, I). G., and represent to the President un.d Secretary of War the starving condi tion of the freedmuii In a large number of the counties inhis.sub-distriel, due to the ruin and Bankruptcy of cotton planters, and the absence of corn or the means to buy it. He will report the absolute ne cessity of some provision being made by the (loverinent to food the armed freod men, and avert a war of raoos in suohsec ; lions as are without food; Gen. Gillem will take with him such reports and let ters on file as bear on the subject. By command of Brevet Major General Ord. O. I). Green, A. A. G. Healso issued, on the Ihth hist., the fol lowing order: CommamlingolUceraaro directed to no tify the leading colored men, and to take such other measures as may bo necessary to give general publication of the fact, that all freedmen who are able, will be requir ed to earn their support during the com ing year, and to go to work upon the best terms that can bo procured, even should it furnish a support only, and tlujs pre vent them becoming a burden to the Gov* ennent.—All freedmen SVhopan, but will not, earn a livelihood when employment can be procured, will lay themselves lia ble to arrest and punishmentas vagrants. The co-operation of sherills ami consta bles, and police magistrates, is requested to the enforcement of this order, and any such action oflheirs, under Us provisions, will be sustained by the military authori ties. ’ J'Vom tl\i‘ A fGfr.JU'/ic “ One of tlio editors of this paper hus spent the Inst three weeks in 4r|cnqsas amt has soen r from personal observation, tho distressed condtllop of the country. The reports which have reached tips city have not been exaggerated. Indeed the condition-of the country is worse than represented, Oloomand deapairpervade the minds of the entire farming popula tion. The losses of those engaged in the culture of cotton will be enormous. But few will pay expenses. The losses this year are much larger than those of last year. Planters aro rapidly paying oil* and discharging their hands, being un able to feed them longer. The negro is completely demoralized. Moat of them have largely overdrawn their wages, and having learned this fact, many of them have abandoned their employers, leav-‘ ing-tho cotton still unpicked ; and,the re sult is, planters are compelled to employ others to pick out their cotton, for which they have already paid. .South Carolina. JViiu i the (south Carolina correspondent of (hi Xrtr }'or£ Suml'tish, S. C., Dec. M, lsi»7. “ Helper was not very far wrong in his estimate of ’the prison and poor-house capacity which the negro population of the South would soon demand. Ko coun try in more terribly scourged with rogues ami marauders than this is at present.•- Hogs, cattle, poultry, horses are swept away, and all tno ordinary precautions fail to a fiord security. Every morning fr(Sh reports are received of daring rob beries during the preceding night, and insomc eases arson and murder n'dd their hoTors to the narrative. The barn in wlich the industrious farmer has housed hh entire provision crop is broken into, plindered, and then fired, ami he and his helpless family aro aroused in the deid of night, by the musketry of the re treating robbers, to witness their entire dependence for another year passing away in flame and .smoko. At Society lii’.l, near Cheraw, a band of fifty armed negroes marched through the village, firing oil* their guns and disturbing the community with their hideous yells. At Lynchburg, in this district, a few nights since, the negro Union League was in session, with Us armed sentinels posted o)i the streets, and peaceable while citi zens, whose business required them to pass to their homes, wore rudely ehnl- Jangod, halted and their lives threatened. These are well attested facts, and col | umnscould be tilled withsimilarrecitals— -1 a state of things which, however deplora ble, is the legitimate result of Radical politics, and bureau support, and emis sary instruction, fetalwart negroes, who loaf about the towns, or sun themselves to sleep daring the day in the country, gather in bauds ns the night comes on, and by their unchecked depredations ex cite dismay and consternation every where.” Terrible Scene at an Alabama Election. “ A lady at Kingston, Alabama, has written an appeal to the ‘Christian wo men of the North,’ to use their influence to save the women of the South from the terrible perils which the Radical policy of reconstruction is forcing upon them, barge numbers of families in the South arc loft without any male head, and the females have to work and toil in the Meld, and are there, as everywhere else, constantly cubjocted to the insults ami outrages of half civilized negroes, who know no Jaw but their own lusts and de sires. After these women have worked iu the open fields and produced their lit tle crops, they are not unfrcquently sto len by the negroes at night, She assorts that large numbers ofthcFreedmen who were three years ago industrious and honest, have, under the new order of things, become drunkards and vaga bonds. Here is an election scene which she recites, that will prove instructive to our people iu regard to the beauties, of negro elections in the-Soulh : ” * We will give a slight sketch of one scene only among the hundreds that Southern women have to encounter. Our recent elections have been awful. Al ways, heretofore, the while men had vo ted at eight dr ten precincts in each C 0.,; but our military monarch ordered that all should vole at the court house, there by, in some counties, collecting together several thousand negroes, to create riots with the whites. May God forgive us if we judge him wrongfully, but we can see no reason- for this order. Our court house is situated in a sparcely settled sec tion, only four or five lamiles in the vil lage, mostly women and children, more than twenty-live miles from a military post. Well, the night before election, between one and two thousand negroes commenced coming in. All armed with guns, pistols, and bowie-knives, they were yelling,-firing guns, and tearing around ns if all the demons from the lower regions had been turned loose on earth to walk to and fro. The din con tinued throe days, and wo did not see a dozen white men during the time. The military order was-for all groceries to be closed; it was done here, but whiskey was handed out at back windows as much as wanted. During the time, one white man attempted to vote; a negro guard knocked him down ; ho had spirit to fire at him ; ho made his escape, and no one was hurt. But language cannot portray the uproar of a thousand half drunken negroes lu purauit. The firing, schreeching, swearing, and obscene lan guage were horrible. None that witness ed the scone can forget it while life lasts. We thought then, and think yet, it would have been a deed of mercy if Con gress had sent old Brownlow with his ' torch ami turpentine, exterminated the I women and children South, if he would ! have laid our bodies beneath our bloody soil, with our loved-ones gone before.— The most of us have been reduced from nlUuonco to poverty ; but we do not ask aid, and are willing to toll for our living. Our young sons work manfully to sup port’thelr aged parents, and hundreds of women in Alabama work daily In the Holds to support their children. Then the lazy, prowling negroes rob our fields at night! Oh! the iron heel of oppres sion is truly on our necks, and life is a curse to many at the South to-day. But that is only the beginning of the drama. Gcd alone knows the sequel.’ ” JIWCKLIiAXIiOVS, —Eighty whitp familjesjji Dcxingtop, Ky., arp starving, —A Connecticut man has a hog seven feet in length—Wo have seen .thorn six feet high. —Hoe Is getting up a press to print both sides of a sheet at the same time. —Lawyers, editors and idiots, are ex empt from serving on juries in Montana. —Agassiz predicts thirty-sis snow chirms this win tar, —There are two negro candidates for ShorilVin Davidson county Tenn. —Two citizens waded the Mississippi at Keokuk lowa, two weeks ago Thurs day. —The death is announced of the heavi est woman in Paris, Elizabeth Vcram que, who weighed live hundred and twenty pounds. —Last week a southern savings bank established by negroes collapsed because the depositors witjujrpw all l]ip funds tp aUepd’a circus. ‘ .—A Genian girl asked a.police jus tice in St. Louis to marry her to a ne gro, and when lie refused, slip buret out into tears ami said hpr heart would bo urokon, —A spring pig, raised In Pontleld, was sold in Rochester market on Tuesday, which weighed, dressed, GBO pounds. —A stage driver in lowa recently drained a companion’s whiskey bottle for a joke. It contained bug poison and the joker died, —Prentice says that Curl Sohurz’s wri tings make people laugh almost as much as his fighting, so-called, used to do. —A New Orleans thief was informed that if ho would return a watch he should be informed where he could steal one worth two of it, and no questions asked, —A California miner, who has barely realized a living for eleven years, dug out §16,000 in three days, work recently: —Two children died last week in Mo bile, Ala., from eating candies which had been colored with poisonous substau*- ces. Review says of tiro author of .‘Norwood,” that a man may.ho a flu ent preacher and brother of a cipvor wo man, and yet break down when be at tempts to write a novel. ' " . —A negro, accused of an infamous prime, lips been burned to death by a mob of whites and negroes, in Jefferson county, Georgia. —lt is anticipated that the coming prize-fight between McCoole and Coburn will end fatally, the hostility between the men being of the bitterest character. —Two silly girls in Mnnqpkotn, lowa, have declared their readiness to walk from that place to Chicago in five dayS, for five hundred dollars each. —Win. Murphy, of Taunton, Mass., died In his one hundred and eighth year Inst week, leaving descendants to the fifth generation. He has sawed wood for his subsistence within a year. —A man is to start from Vicksburg about the fourth of January, and walk to Washington, carrying with him the “stars and stripes,” to prove that they are still popular in the South. —Many of the colllns of soldiers, bu rled by contract in St, Louis, have been fmind'lillcd with sticks and stones. The bodies were doubtless sold by the con tractors for anatomical purposes. —The corpse of Maximilian .has ar rived at Cadiz on its way to Trieste. On its arrival at the latter city, it is said, u solemn funeral sen ice will be held in all parts of Austria. —An agent of the Fieedmen’s Bureau named Pointer was tarred and feathered near Huntsville, Ain., on Friday last, by enraged negroes. / —Some one in England has invented a process by which a photograph can ho printed In oil upon canvass. The efieel is exactly’ that of an oil painting. —Rev. Albert S. Hunt, an unmarried Methodist minister, at Brooklyn N. Y., received for a Christmas present from Ids parishioners an India rubber model of a young lady stalled with $5OO in green backs. —An Illinois woman sold her husband to another female for $1:20. The purchas er came near being swindled by paying the money before the delivery of the goods, but cm threatening prosecution the husband was handed over in good order. —The following advertisement appears in an Illinois paper. Notice— Everybody who knows something about my wife's residence, which I lost three years ago, is herewith requested to call at the fic sllichc Post office. A’uoust Slaoeu, —The shock of an earthquake was felt at Auburn, one day last week. It was probably one of Mr. Seward’s late pur cases “ come home to roost.” -—Seven white men and three negroes have declined the Radical nomination for the State Senate and county offices, at Montgomery, Alabama. They got ashamed of the company they were in. —Tfie work on the Washington Monument, at Washington, has already cost 200,000. The height reached is 174 feet, leaving 374 feet to be finished. The entire height of the monument is fixed at 548 feet. “The Washington Union says that the wife of the “ Rev. Hatchett,” Jim Ash 1/w’h bosom friond. wnu dofonlod, n A*w days ago, in an attempt at larceny at the store of Davis & Gaither. —ln Missouri the Gormans have a queer marriage custom. Some young man is selected to curry invitations to the wedding. He rides about, and each person invited must attach to his hat not loss than a yard of highly-colored ribbon. The effect, when, the young man has completed his rounds, is quite startling, —For the year ending Dec. 30, 1807, the number of emigrants landed at New York was 253,149—an increase of 10,00 ft over 1805, There has been a decrease of 3,000 in the Irish emigration and an in crease of 5,000 in the German. ■ —Skaters are, by a recent Yankee in vention, to bo made comfortable. A “ warm skate” lias been invented. In a slot in the skate-stock is inserted a square bit of soapstone, made red-hot iu the fire. It retains warmth for some hour*, and keeps the skater’s foot in a comfortable condition —a sort of a porta ble stove/which is handy and effective, —A Radical print says : “Jay Cook de nies thatany Sonatorof the United States is connected with his business firm.”— The denial was unncccasay. No one of common Intelligence would imagine Jay to bo fool enough to risk anything in busines relations with such chaps as Wade, Brownlow and Cameron. POLITICAL —An Ohio paper proposes Mr. Motley for Vice President. —Andrew Johnson is nominated for next President by three newspapers in Tennessee. --“.A Pittsburgher,” in the Gazelle , suggests J. K. Moorhead far Vice PresD dent. —Tho Erie Observer is in favor of Sey mour as its first choice for President. —Tho Southern negroes are generally in favor of Chase for President. —A Radical candidate for Mayor of Memphis has been twice publicly caned within a week. —The cost of the Impeachment farce is half a million of dollars. “The Chicago Times suggests Judge David Diwls, or tlic u. S. Supremo Court, as a possible Democratic candidate for President, —ln the. Ohio Legislature, that meets Lius .month, the Democrats have one majority in the Senate and seven major ity In the House—eight majority on joint ballot. —lt is a notable fact, that In not a sin gle State which held au election last year have the Radicals made a gam. They have lost nud In all, —political changes are taking place among the Alabama Radicals, who are coming out against the now constitution. —The Democracy of Kansas declare they will run Sherman as an independ ent candidate for President, if the De mocracy fail to nominate him regularly. —Prominent Democrats in Washing ton are taking steps to bring Gen. John A. Dix forward as a Democratic candi date for president. —Some, of the Southern Radicals, ex pecting that their States will not bo rep resented in the regular Republican Con vention on the 20th of May, arc talking of.holding an independent Presidential Convention—in the interest of Chase. —The Harrison county, Indiana, Dem ocratic Convention met last week to se lect delegates to the State Convention which meets on the Bth of January. A resolution was adopted that Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks is the first clipiQc o( tjmD.e mocrapy pf Jlqrrison coqnty fpr’Gov ernor. * —Fred. O. Prince, of Boston, Secreta ry of the National Democratic Commit tee, has issped qn official call for the meeting of said committee, to be held in Washington on the 22d of February, to name the time and place for holding the next Democratic National Convention. —The Democrats of Philadelphia talk of running General Isaac Wistar for Mayor. Morton McMicbael, the prespnt incumbent, and Goqprals Provost, Greg ory and Tyndnlo, arc talked of for the Republican nomination. —Tho Louisiana nigs have put a clause in the “ constitution,” compelling the admission of negroes to all vehicles of public conveyance, hotels, churches, schools, theatres, halls, &c., on full ©dual ity with white folks. —Tho South Carolina Convention will meet on tho 14th of January. Official information shows tho Convention to be composed of ono hundred and twenty four delegates, of whom fifty-five are white, and sixty-nine colored. In three or four districts the delegates’are all blackßj am} ignorant flerd’lmuds —The State election in Now Hamp shire thkes place on the second Tuesday in March. The reports concerning the political gction In that State aro very en couraging. Discontent prevails in the Republican party there; as in other States Where elections have tfllien place, and large numbers of those who have hereto fore been Identified with that organiza tion are uniting themselves with tho par ty of the Union and Constitution, t • • —Ten little obscure weekly Radical pa papers in Alabama were paid $125 each pur week, for four-successive weeks, by the Alabama Black and Tan Convention, for publishing the so-called Constitution. The Georgia Convention, on the other hand, couldn’t pay its board bills. The latest accounts from Atlanta state that fifteen of the negro delegates to Pope’s Convention, unable to get away, have gone to work at the now barracks at $1 50 Ecr day, while three or four others have Ired themselves to various boarding houses as waiters and boot-blacks. Those will likely be on hand to take another chance at the $9 per day. —The Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal, (Radical) says (hat the newest Democratic ticket men tioned for the Presidency combines, tlio naim-.-' of General Hancock, and lion. T. A. Hendricks, United .States Senator li-oin Indiana. The Morgantown (W. Va.) I'oS’f is in favor of an out-and-out soldiers’ ticket: For President, General (Jrant; for Vice-President, General Sher man. John lliokman is named for the Viee-Presidoncy by the (’hosier county (Pa.) Vitlarjo Jiccord. In the National Convention of ISGO, Mr. Hickman receiv ed M fly-eight votes for this office. A cor respondent of .the Boston Post suggests that the Democratic party blazon on Us banner the revolutionary names of Han cock and Adams ns candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Prcsiduncy. The Ellsworth Advertiser, a new paper just started in Kansas, expresses its choice of Daniel W. Voorhoes, of Indiana, “aman we can trust,” for the Presidency. Speak ing of the Vicc-Prcsidcncy, the Madison, (Wis.) Journal expresses apreferencc for Hon. Geo. S. Boutwcll, of Massachusetts, but thinks Governor Foi\ton equally trustworthy, ami for some reasons more eligible as a candidate. At a fair held in Findlay, Ohio, a gold-headed cane was put up to he voted for, and presented to the most popular candidate for President. ’Thu vote stood 807 for Pendleton and 54J5 for Grunt. The cane will he presented to Mr. Pendleton at the State .Convention, to be held on the Bth of January, by the Hancock delegation. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. Xlic F.lt'crt ol* Democratic Victories—Colfax OrouN Itounlulcanil l*rovc» a Radical dan U»j;..Tiio Expense* of Reconstruction— Unncork for Rrcsldcnt—Another Violation of the Constitution—The (President's Eeveo —Another ofl.lneoln’H Victim*. Ctin’esjiomlencc American Vohmlccr. Washington, X). C., Jim. 0, 1803. Affect to deride it as they may, the ef fect of the sweeping Democratic victories of the past yen* is sensibly felt and sepn in the doings of Congress. The defeat of the infamous impeachment scheme was undoubtedly secured by tlie Democratic successes in the late elections. Had the Radicals carried the day, the wcak-Unees of Unfit 1 representatives in Congre.-s would have been sufficiently stiffened hi have voted for impeachment. Hut many of their districts having voted against their party, they quaked and quailed—poor cowards that they are—and failed to come to lime. Already, too, some of the load ing Ilad'cals talk of taxing Government Bonds, and there seems to be a general hubbub in their camp on the financial question. Before the late elections there was hot a Radical in all the land that did not denounce the taxing of Government Bonds as “rank repudiation.” On the negro question, however, the Radicals tell ns they will not yield an inch, and they have squarely made up their minds to go into the next campaign on a negro suffrage platform. The following letter from Speaker Colfax has just been pub lished : Washington, Dec. 2, ISO 7. I have but a moment* amid multiplied duties to say, in reply to your letter, that you need not fear that Congress will take any backward steps in Reconstruction.— We have slaked our political existence on the principle that the States lately in rebellion shall bo re-organized on the en during corner-stones of loyalty and jus tice, and shall be led back to their old places in our council halls by those who dared, amid the tornado of treason that swept over the South, to stand faithfully for liberty and the Union. While I do not believe in confiscation, or anything looking like revenge, and hope to see suf frage as universal as safety to the cause of loyalty* will permit, and thp restored States guaranteed education to all, I ; would not modify the terms of recon struction In any essential feature one hair's breadth. If the former rulers of the South, whoso baffied ambition plung ed a peaceful country into the carnage of civil war, refused to exercise the right of voting which Congress proffered to the great milk of them, on their own heads, not ours, will bo tho responsibilty. Yours, very truly, Schuyler Colfax. T. W. Coxway, Esq. To hear the inflated talk of these swag gering traitors, a'stranger to’such men might think they had some courage.*— But let a crowd of the indignant people they have betrayed enter their hall sud denly, and they would scatter out of the windows ah incontinently as a similar gang of conspirators did from the Capitol at Harrisburg. It is all bombast and fus tian—the more noise of gongs and theat ric thunder, to impose upon others and keep up their own courage. Nothing they can say will prevent the undoing of their vile work and the restoration of the Constitution. Congress has solemnly resolved to con tinue as It has begun. There is to be no change in the method of dealing with the South. The supremacy of the negro is to bo maintained, no matter what it may cost. It matters not to the Radical fanatics that the industry of the South is almost destroyed, or that multitudes of laboring men are out of employment in the North. Without the 3’otos of the negroes, they cannot hope to elect the next XTesident, and they are resolved that they will not be turned asidS from the course they have chosen by any considerations what ever. The* determination to continue in their mad career has been made with the full knowledge that it will involve a di rect expenditure of many millions of the money wrung from the toil and sweat of white working men, for the purpose of controlling the negro vote, The fol lowing exhibit from the deficiency bill before Congress, will give your readers some idea what this Radical electioneer ing amongst the black barbarians of the South is costing the nation: For Reconstruction expenses in iho First Military District S 50 000 Reconstruction expenses In tlic Hecoiitl ’ Military District no,ooo Reconstruction expenses in the Third Military District 07 oyo Reconstruction expenses in the Fourth ’ Military District 150 000 Reconstruction expenses In tiro Fifth • ’ Military District 250,000 Making in all the sum of. That is tho deficiency now demanded, and is in addition to the SX a AOO 9 OOO before appropriated and Jong since expended.— All mp.ney'Vent fox election expen ses o.nli/. The following items are also found In this deficiency bill, nearly all of which is rendoicd necessary by the establish ment of military despotisms in the South/ To supply deficiencies in tho Quarter master’s Department for tho year endin' 1 * Juno 30, 1807, to wit: ° For regular Mippliea $ iSO.OOO V or incidental expenses *5O 000 I<or purchasing cavalry and nrlUUn'v '* horses - -100 000 For transportation of 7,!J50J000 MaHlny in all tliu sum of 512.000.000 rhero nvo other Hems, mnlcimr tho whole bill SI2,(JU7jOOO At least 5i),330,(100 of this (deficiency mark you,) is for supporting and paying white and negro troops to keep tho .white men of the South in subjection to the ne gro. General Howard, the head of tho Freod meu’a Bureau,' which Congress is deter mined to continue, has asked for addi tional appropriations, as follows: On hmul . M snj BIT, r-. Additional asked ; 3,830,800 03 Total 57,850,703 65 And here are soma of his items of ex ppndUprp he presents them in detail; Salaries of Assistant Commissioners. ' Sub Assistants and Agouts * Sll7 (K¥t Salnilfs of Clerks Sa*Too Stationary and Printing.;. (Vt’ooo Quarters and Fact.. atolooo hnbslstouco Stores... 1,500 000 Medical IJonaitntcnt Wooo TrananarlatlQU,.,,,..., UOOJIOO Scnaol Superintendents a. 000 handings for Schools and Asylums... uoolooo Telegraphing and Postage is’coo Beside and beyond tills there are other and still greater expenses. Tho bulb of all tho enormous appropriations for the army might bo saved If the whites of tho Qputjlx were permitted to manage their own affairs,’ We.a re paying tho most gl gantic sums to enable the Radicals to force the supremacy of, the negro upon them. It is for the working men of the North to say how long such a state of af fairs shall continue. The remedy is m their hands, and wo believe it will be of factually employed at the coming Preal' dential and Congressional elections The President is credited with savim*- that if his special message should have the effect to place General Hancock prominently before the country ns dent, it would have been satisfactory to him. In reference to Hancock’s conger ' vative course in Now Orleans, itisproner to remark that ho is executing a nro gramme marked out for him by the Pres dent, who appointed him to that 0.,m -mand for that specific purpose. It will not diminish the high estimation in which the people hold Hancock by re calling the fact that ho was violently on. posed to the Military Commission which tried the conspirators, and doubted both the legality of that tribunal and the guilt of Mrs, Surratt. As commanding officer of that Department, it devolved on hi ni to carry out the sentence on the conspira tors, and only thourgout entreaties of hh friends prevented his resigning his posi tion, rather than carry it into execution He endeavored to have tlio judgment modified in the case’of Mrs. Surratt, bin, it is believed his communications were delayed in the War otlico and never reached the President. In conscquencoof the President’s order of Saturday last, changing the comman ders of certain military districts in Dio South, there is some talk among Radi cal members of Congress here "of the in troduction of a bill soon after the reas sembling of the two houses this week •vesting in General Grant full powers id assign and control the commanders of these districts, and placing the execution of the so-called reconstruction act in his hands. This, of course, would be in di rect violation of two of the plainest pro visions of the Constitution, one of which makes the President “ Commander-in. Chief of the army and navy,” and the other enjoins upon him the duty of “ ta king care that the laws bo faithfully exe cuted.” The attempt was made last spring by the House Radicals to place tlio power of appointment and removal of tlio commanding officers of these military districts in the hands of General Grant but the Senate, for obvious reasons, dis agreed to that provision of the so-called reconstruction bill, then under considera tion, and it was finally stricken but, on the recommendation of a conference com mittee. There is no idea that the thing can bo succesfully carried' through now, but the bare proposition exhibits the in ter depravity ami lawlessness of iho-e who advocate it. Tho President's levee, on New Year'*- day, was an imposing 'affair. It was at tended by all the Foreign Ministers, the Judges of tho Supremo Court, the Cabi net, Senators and Representatives, and officers of the Army and Navy. Among the Incidents at tho Executive Man-ion Mr. Noble Hurdle, a very old gentleman residing in Georgetown, took the Pre.-i -dent by tho hand, and : aaid, “God bio** you, Mr. President, I have shaken tin* hand of every President from Washing ton’s time, and now sir, I am happy to shake your’s, tho last President, but bv no means the least.” President Johnson smiled, and thanked Mr. Hurdle for tlu compliment. I see by thctolegraphic despatches Unit another victim ol tho Lincoln tyranny is dead. Mr. John W. Keyes, formerly editor of the Circlesvillc, (O.) Democrat, died in tho Insane Asylum at Columbus, a few days ago. Mr. Kcyos was tho edi tor of an independent newspaper, which during tho late war, defended liberty with fearless manhood. Fur this hp was drag ged off to prison and treated so brutally that reason tottered from her throne; and ho became a raving maniac. All ef forts to restore him failed—he sank down in childish imbecility into tho grave. His family is loft disconsolate and bro ken-hearted. Ho ha,s gone to his reward and so has Abraham' Lincoln—tho one from a cell in a mad-houso to which a re morseless tyranny had consigned him - the other from his box in the theatre. Caucasian. 3L oc a l Itfws Accident.— On New Year's day some lads were engaged in the reprehensible business of “Shooting away the old Year. 1 ' The pistol was loaded with pow der and ball, and one of the shots took effect in the arm and side of a little daughter of Joseph C. Halbert, who was sitting at her father’s’ door, near the mouth of Locust Alley. The woumL have been extremely painful, ami at «>iu> time were supposed to be dangerous, but we are happy to learn that tho little suf ferer is again moving about. Of course this was an accident; and yd if it could be ascertained with certainly who fired,the shot, a little, wholesome punishment ought to he administered, by way of example, Tho recklessness with which boys of all ages used firearms on Tuesday' evening and Wednesday', ren dered it exceedingly'- unpleasant and un safe to bo upon the street; and the only wonder is that other accidents did uor occur. A New iTioi.—Mr.Rheem has associ ated James A, Dunbar, Esq., with him-* self ip the proprietorship and editorial management of the Herald. Mr. Dun bar is a ready 4 and forcible writer, ami will doubtless servo lip his best dishes for the Herald patrons. The new firm have laid out a big missionary work for them selves, and intend to fight on “ until jus tice shall have been secured to all men and * prejudice and wrong banished tho land,’* from which we infer that they expect to live to see themillenlum. They have also undertaken the herculean task of “arousing tho Republicans of this county to a live sense of their duty and responsibility,” which will be accom plishing considerable for an ordinary lifetime. Messrs. Rhoein & Dunbar are courteous and obliging gentlemen, ami. wo wish them success in everything e.v* , cept their politics. Acknowj^FjCiq^e^Xc—'-We are Indebted to somo friend for a copy of the message of Governor Geary, which oumo to hand on Tuesday, in advance of its presenta tion to, the’ Legislature. It is devolt-d principally to State aflalrs, and is a plain, unpretending and business-like docu ment. In tho concluding pages ho takes occasion to endorse the Congressional plan of reconstruction, and thinks that it takes “an extraordinary amouutof polit ical effrontery to assume that a Chief Ex ecutive at the nation, to any’ degree or under any circumstances, is the United; States,” which might bo taken to be a, very unkind lllng at “ the late lamented,” £Oj7,OQO PnESinTTEiiIAK U n to>c Convention.— In furtherance of the design of tho Pres byterian Union Convention lately held in Philadelphia, tho ministers and elders, within tho bounds of,t)ie several Pt-qaby-. teries of Huntingdon,’ Northumberland. ■Carlisle, Harrisburg and Big Sprats, are invited to meet in Convention, in the First Preshy toriau Church of Harrisburg oil Tuesday, January 1-1 th, 1803. A cor dial invitation is extended by the pastors and.elders of the Presbyterian churches of Harrisburg, and those who propose at tending are requested to send their names to Rev. T. H. Robinson, Rev. S. S.Mitch el, or Marssrs J. W. Weir, R. J. Flem ming, J. McCormick or J. F, Givler-., Recoveuino.—We are glad to, see out friend Deputy Sheriff Bowman about again. Ho was. thrown from his sttMty u week ago, and it was feared fine of the small bones of his leg was broken. Rut he is able to walk with tho assistance of crutches, and thinks the hones ate ah sound,'
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