Jlmmajj SMtmte.
CARLISLE, PA.,
Thursday Morning 1 , January IC, 18GS.
THE REASON'
It is gratifying to know that even
some Republican journals have honesty
and fairness enough to admit and pro
claim the truth regarding the purposes
of Congress. The Now York Times, Re
publican, in a recent issue says: “The
Radicals are determined, it seems, not
to admit the ton Southern Slates, unless
they arc so recount nu-teilasto sc--art tin ir
vote for the Jiadival canditkde for the
Presidency." This explains the whole
object of the Radical reconstruction
sebeme.
To say tiiat the Southern Stales arc
denied admi-.-ion on the ground of dis
loyalty, is the veriest non-ense. Thu
cry of treason is merely a pretext to give
a shadow of reason to the action.- of
Congress. The mie moiive of its legis
lation is the eontinuathui of the power
of the Radical party. To llii- end they
concentrate all their rts, and thi-ob
ject is at the bottom of ai! their lawle.—
machination-. If tin- s-oiith were ad
mitted upon a fair and equitable ba.-i-.
the Radical party wouM be s;altered to
the winds like ebalf, before the In -t hur
ricane of the popular will. Tin* leaders
of that party are overw helmiugly eon
vineed of tills fact. Ihey are also aware
that in the North oven, their days arc
numbered. Their lost and only hope i
in the negroes of the South. They pro
pose to tic down the white njen and
whip thw blacks to the polls, to .-tuft the
ballot-boxes with Radical ticket.-. Up
on conditions like these they will extend
the hand of friendship to the South and
welcome her into the Union. Such is
the “reconstruction” of the Radical
Congress, and such the purposes for
which that policy was inaugurated.
Ail Ohio Victim «r Itotllom Tyranny.
Nut alone in the South lain the mer
ciless hand of the Radicals crushed its
opponents with every circumstance of
cruelty. In the North it 101 l heavily
and often on those who dared to protest
against the shameful deeds done in the
name of the Union. Vallandigham was
the chief of thooe who were pursued re
lentlessly fu vtiiu, hut l<•*>!». If* f
individuals in that State suffered more |
from the prevailing oppression. One of
these has just died in the insane asylum
df Columbus. This was Mr. .John W.
Keyes, formerly editor ol the Circleville
i_Ohio) Dnnfvml. In referring to the
sad demise of this patriot, the Colum
bus Crisis says;
-Tlili imforuuiiU.- CKiitlriuiin 1« um..Ohta-M.-.l
in llit! lung lirav<-i»uiill moil who havo I>c< n
uuinlureil by iiu.-lu-'. ay th»* patty m ;-n\vur. Mi'.
Iveyc.i whs lliu c*di lor •if :ui i iuh-p.■ inh-j,i m* wspa
ji.T, Wlni-li (h*fL*niiM lihi'l-ty 11 1 1 f-m less niaii
iloud. I 1 or this ha v. a-, i| c.ll to prison tuni
in-aliiti »o brutally (li.it x«*ji -»■ >i• luitiMo.l ircim hi-r
tluoiif. luul ho i n I. r. • \ 11..; 1U.H1..U-. All
lorti lo if-toiv hiii. ! I..'' 'I ; in- vaiil; ’down m
i-iolilisli IniVjfn-ilily ml . On* Hi-, f.uinJv,
1.-lI ilt-.-oriMihit** uni lin . .k<M-hciri.-.1, oci ii' li
ed witli Ua-1 v ran I isi i oko. lie w:a tin pn-oi n-.j
dunnii the lu fa in on- r. ■. j K*; .d Tmh.--tm.kT
tin* 1.-rror of Mr, lan* "In s htnoitv i<n;n. ll<*
Ims untie lo nircL hi-, p.-r..*i*iit..r-, Ur will m<-ol
Lincoln facu lo hu ■*. 1 in- mi ■ ■ n-i-u 1 w ilM.in* t Ik*
Utility! His death is u h.n nt .!i* v
upon tho unri'sisiL-d in r n of an adm i n Ist nc a m
sourculy cxwlliM in an-m-liv la- thu worst lyninls
of the enrll..’'
Is not the mea.-ure t;f tin.* iniquity of
tills bloody Radical parly about full ?
Is heaven and eat Ih to be further -hook
ed by Its atrocities? Tho day of wrath
is nigh, and woe unto the traitor knaves
of Radicalism I
a Bi*i.i;x;m> n look tv
An exchange po*ts the political hook-;
of the year and show* a glorious work
for the Democracy. Of (he twenty
States in which elections have been held
in the year past, tiie Democrat* have
carried ten. They carried Imt three la<l
year. In these t weniy Staton they have
a popular majority of nearly l')o,nii() and
have made tin* unprecedented gain of
nearly :!i;o t nnn vole-. A change of I a,(UK)
votes will, next year, give to the Demo
crats seven of the ten State* which the
Radicals have carried thi.- year. Tin.*
ten States which have gone Democratic
this year east lld electoral votes. The
ten Radical States have 77 electoral
votes. If wo take from the list of Radi
cal Stales, Ohio, which was carried for
the Radical candidate for (Juvernor bv
a small majority of illegal negro votes
which may he thrown out by the Leg
islature, the electoral vole in the twenty
States will stand: Democratic U»7 ; Kad
cal oG.
fii’KVKYoit (a;.\t;i(.Ui
The laiuoastCT InlelUyfitcf-r proposes Jnliii M.
Cooper. Esq., of the Chnmbtrslnng Va/lrj/ ,S/tirit,
ius lUe Democratic camUUule lor Surveyor (j.-n
-tirul. We "hocouil the motion.” Mr. Cooper Ik a
velerKii Democratic editor, ami deserves well of
llio party. We have known him lonj» amt well,
and can boar cheerful testimony to his enicieuov
and falthfulueHs in the “good old eunse.” As fo
qunlllicMiona for the post, no other gentleman
lit the Stale pObtfCHHtu lliem in a more eminent
decree. Dunni; tin* whole of Mr. Harr's term’
and a portion of that of one ol Ms predecessor*
Mr. Coopwr was connected with the Surveyor
(ii iutkl’k olllce in a e»|melly wMeli madeiimi
familiar with Its entire imutAi'ement. All in nil
John M. Coooor is t ne man for Surveyor General
ami should the Convention select Min, Us action
would bring out an unu.sinilly strong endorse
inout lu nil the border counlie.s.— Uitli/.sburg tom
jnter.
Most cordially do we assent to all that
is .said of Mr. Cooper in the above arti
cle from the Gettysburg Compiler. Bc
yond no better, no more sui
table, no more deserving man could bo
named'. His long services as a Demo
cratic Journalist, his acknowledged abil
ity, and the locality from which he
hails, all combine in jhis favor. We
sincerely hope to see him the nominee
of the State Convention.
“Johnson condom nod, Grant and
Sheridan thanked,” is the caption to an
article in the last llcralti. Tin; itnmp
House, it seems—a body composed
mainly of army contractors, ex-sutlers,
and traitors, two-thirds of whom were
condemned by their constituents last
fall—attempted, a few days since, to
throw mud balls at the President, and
thatgreatmilitary hero, Gen. Hancock;
and at the same time to eulogise Gen.
Grant, because of his abilities to “Inlk
horse,” and humbug Sheridan, for hav
ing acted the part of a tyrant and black
guard at Now Orleans. Condemnation
by such creatures is something good
men should desire, and (heir praise will
break down any man of character.
The investigation of the committee
appointed by tho Rump House to in
quire into the “loyalty” and antece
dents of the Kentucky delegation of
Democrats, cost the taxpayers the enor
mous sum of four hundred thousand
dollars, and not a particle of evidence
of “disloyalty” was found. The Rump
Rads consider fifty or a hundred then- .
sand dollars of tho people’s money as •
nothing, when they want to throw out
a Democratic member of Congress, who ;
was honestly elected, i
What N'cjjro SnfTraKC Costs.
The Radicals admit that the cost of
voting the negroes of the South will not
be less than SEVENTY-FIVE MIL
LIONS OF DOLLARS for the present
year. Lot the white workingmen of
the North think of that. Every dollar
of it is wrung from their toil, and they
will have to pay it hy the sweat of their
brows. Just think of it. S7o,OUO,tUMi a
year to keep ten States impoverished
and .-übjcct to semi-barbarian negro
rule! How long is this state of things
to continue? The workingmen of the
country have the remedy in their own
h ind.--, if they will but use the ballot
box in the way that common tense
points out.
A I’aualmx. —'i’he law of Uongre.-.-,
establi-hing the Freednieii’s bureaus in
the S< utli, costs the country ten.-of mil
lions of dollars annually, in order to
maintain in idlcnc-- a nation of igno
rant and ilml't'cs- paupers. The plea
which i- urged tojustify thi- enormous
drain upon the iv-onrce.- of the white
jK‘"p)e of (he Northern and We.-tern
State- i-, that the.-e Mack stipendiaries
of ihe i it*vermnent are incapable of -up
porting them-elve-. And yet Congress
pis po-e- that this army of negroe:—
some three or four millions in number
—ihu- incapable of self-support, -hall
become the dominant governing class in
(ui States of the Union; not only con
trolling the desimie- of those Slabs, but
nullifying the voice of great Common
wealths like Pennsylvania and New
York and Ohio in the Congress of the
United State.-, and even deciding the
question of the next Presidency ■ Does
hi.-lory furnish a parallel with such folly
and madnesses this? .
Shall the Soi/tiierx Statics be
I RI’.I’UKSLNTED IX THE De.mucbatjc
j Convention?—We notice with sur
j pri.se, -ays the NY. Louis Times, timtsorne
1 Democratic journals are debating this
‘ subject. To us it is plain. It requires
I no argument. Of course the South
| should be i(‘presented in the national
councils of the Democracy. All the
I weight of reason, if the subject is sus
ceptible of argument, lies with tho as
j sumption that the South has a right to
| representation in (lie Convention as it
! has In Congress, and tho Democracy of
Dm North will welcome Southern rep
resentatives in (fie Convention aa they
would welcome them to the floor of
Congress. Throne event will precede
the oilier. Radieali-m may delay and
embarrass the* consummation, but U will
he accomplished. Only through this
National Democratic party can tlieSouth
ever regain its right*, and in our na
tional councils Hu* lir-l step in that di
rection is to Ik; taken. Therefore wo
*ay the matter is not debatable.
Ws: have, .-ays the Krie O.Wrn r, gal
ling taxes, but mi Union I A gigantic
debt, but no I nine! Negrosupremacy
in eleven ol the Shite.- of tin* republic,
hid no Unionl Five military'despots,
hut no Union! A standing army cost
ing 4ian, nun,nun a year, but no Union!
nur taxes amount to a thousand mil
lion-a year, but then 1 is no Union!
Kvory family in the I nited States pays,
upon an average, about two hundred
dollars for taros every 5 oar, to pay tho
interest on the public debt, and support
the army of oince holders, eating out
the substance of tho people, hut there is
no Union! 11 Give—give—give !” clam
or the swarm of pestilent fanatics who
have usurped tin* government, but they
du not give us the Union of our fathers
in return I
Bnv m:ly J iKiii.NTo.v, a colored man
m Warrcnton, Virginia, publishes a
cai'il in the /,nfr.r in which he says:
ilaxiug been ;i member ol the Union
I eiurue, u illi the mider-tanding that it
die lte-t step to take to promote
peace, lni( now seeing that it is a peace
breaker of this community, and being a
lover of peace at all times, I do with
draw thcretrom.” For similar reasons
Daniel Drown, carpenter, ami William
Webster ami Minor Grayson, black
smiths, (all colored) have withdrawn
from the league. Radicalism must have
assumed a horrible shape in the South
when even the negroes are forced to
abandon it as a disreputable and accurs
ed thing.
Radical organs are exultingly de
claring that the Rump Senate will oust
Grant and restore Stanton to the War
Department. They expect that Stan
tmi if restored, will reinstate the army
of Radical “ bummers” and leeches who
Were discharged by Grant, ami spend
the public money by millions to the
pels and organs of the Radical party.—
The people see clearly through their in
famous motives, and they nre determin
ed to sustain the President in any action
he may take to keep Stanton out of his
Cabinet.
.Morrow li. Lowry, the rutiled shirt
Senator from the Krie district, says that
his party l the Radicals) will be compell
ed to nominate Grant for President, in
ordi r to get a ” strengthening-plaster,
nerve and bone* liniment and green gog
gles” for the u weak-kneed, bow-backed
and sunken-eyed Republicans.” Mor
row knows what’s what.
The St. Louis Dctuorrut (Radical),
says: “11 is time to understand that
people have done voting about the war,
and have begun voting about their
pockets Kloijuenl speeches about the
disloyalty id this or that measure, this
or that individual, will weigh less at the
ballot-box than one single dollar taken
from the burdens of a nation praying
for relief.”
Only $”110,11110,11(10 I —The President in
Ills last Annual Message estimates that
it will cost at least Two Hundred Mill
ions oi Dollars a year to support the
Mongrel plan of Reconstruction. That
is, s?ml,ni«l,oooanmmlly and permanent
ly ■ A very nice plum for tho working
Classes of the North, who pay all tho
taxes, to eat, isn’t it?
Tiik N. Y. Irihunc , calculating the
chances for the Presidential election,
says: “ He tlo not think much comfort
remain s for n,n/ political /iartj/ (hut can
not caret/ .\ctr York anti Pennst/lrania.”
Then not much comfort remains for the
Radicals in view of their late defeat in
Pennsylvania, and tho .IOJIUU against
them in New York.
Tim .Southern Stales sire out of the
Union, ami must be coni rolled' by the
negroes and military governments.
8. Freedom belongs to Congress, and
only those who arc in favor of thultadi
-Miss Kicm.Nfi.s, the vocalist was ■ cnJ I" 11 ' 1 >’ slulll inherit it.
married, on Christinas day to'll Pierre . o The “ Constitution isa league with
.1 , ' ‘ I 0 ’ lu ' u . l lurl ° iiell and a covenant with death,” and
J.emard, a tenor of the troupe. we, ns Radicals, discard it entirely.
State Convention.— At the meet
ing of the Democratic StateCcntral Com
mittee, at Harrisburg, on Tuesday eve
ning, the 7th inst., it was resolved that
the State Convention for the nomina
tion of candidates for Auditor Ueneral
and Surveyor (tenoral, ami the selection
of Delegates to the National Convention,
ho held at Ilairisburg, on the -ilh of
March next.
A Uadu'ai. print suggests that “the
vagrants u-ually confined in all county
prisons ho brought out in gangs and
made to work on the streets of the coun
ty towns, cities and boroughs.” How
would it do to take the -ame measures
with regard to (he black Radical negro
voters who are pampered in idleness by
the Freednien’s bureau?
Tin-: Chicago Times very truly says
that “it is sheer humbug and bosh to
talk of paying our debt unless we stop
the va-t and useless expenditures c f the
(.lovernmenl." The mo-l useless of
tlie.-e expenditure.- grow out of the ef
forts of the Radicals in Congress to Af
ricanize the South for the benefit of the
Republican parly.
• Kvkuv Radical organ in the country
i- denouncing (ten. Hancock because lie
ba.- made lie military power subsidiary
to the civil and judicial authority in bis
Dependency, and becan-e he has declar
ed that all men -hould be protected in
the enjoyment of civil liberty. Wash
ington was luited during his time, hy the
same class of Radical moiiarchi-t.-.
Till; New York 7V;nc.vtells its Repub
lican friends that if they do not aban
don their pre-ent wild scheme.-, ami re
form their Congressional practice, they
will assuredly be beaten in the Presi
dential conle-t —whoever they may
nominate. “All of whieh is respect
fully submitted.“ They will be beaten
any way—and it is a sound cun\iciion
of such a catastrophe that makes them
obstinate.
Dicta Ton Sni s m: lias written to the
Georgia moiigVel enn vein lon to go ahead,
and, if they want any more legislation,
they need only to a-k .1 of the Rump,
and it will be granted, flic wishes of
tho people of I he North and South arc
of no account. Mongreii.-m is now “ the
rage. M
A Radical newspaper called the
Journal lias been started in Jackson,
Mississippi, since tho meeting of the
black and ♦nn menagerie, and the cbn
ventinn printing has been awarded to
it. The organ will collapse when tiic
menagerie adjourns.
It is currently and apparently relia
bly intimated that (Ik; Supreme Court
wll -lurlly decide that the so-called-re
eon-inirtiotr acts tire um-onstitutional.
Such a decision is just what the people
want and for delay of which the country
is badly suffering.
J3e»\st UrTLKit is in Richmond, ma
king speeches to the negroes. A tele
gram says that as soon as the Roast's ar
rival wa* announced, all silver *pr ons
and other valuable* wen* deposited in
the sale* of the various banks for safe
keeping.
- Stanton Uki ss'i'ATr,i>.-In tho
Rump V. S. Senate, on Monday, Stan
ton was reinstated in the War office, by
a strict party vote. What line of policy
tin; President will pnrsiiu in the matter,
lias not transpired.
Mrs. Lincoln’s Old Clothes. —Tiie
telegraph announces that the Board of
Aldermen of Providence, R. I*., have re
fused to grant a license for the exhibi
tion of the old clothes of “ Mrs. Gov
ernment.”
Tm: Mississippi black and tan men
agerie wants tin* Rump to allow it to
put the pre.-ent State otlieer* out and to
till up with creature.*, with the black
streak down their backs.
A military organization of negroes
has been discovered in Virginia by the
military authorities and one of Us oili
eers has been arrested.
Prentice says the Southern negroes,
like Shakespeare’s breeze over a bank
of violets, are “stealing and giving
odor.”
Senator from Ohio.-— Judge Thur
man, Democrat, was elected U. S. Sena
tor, by the Ohio Legislature, yesterday.
Good.
Logan still vainly duns the Ohio
committee for the six thousand dollars
which lie thinks he earned making Rad
ical speeches for them.
The Rails Gelling Frightened.
The New York Evening Post , a leading
organ of the radical party in that State,
sees the hand writing on the wall, and
thus sounds the note of alarm :
It cannot be denied that there has been
a gooil deal of inconsiderate and even
dani/crous UufislntUm in Conf/rcmt tinring
the past two years. There has been a
great deal more inconsiderate and dan
gerous talk. There are still threats made
by men whomigblto know better, which
are nothing less than rcvolutionan/ y and
of these tilings tiie people are getting wea
ry. They tell their representatives in
Congress that instead of listening to their
enthusiasts, to their extreme men, to their
Sumners, their Stevenses, and their
Butlers, it would be better to listen to
the dictates of good sense, to the strict
requirements of constitutional Jaw, and
to men of moderation and statesmanship.
As for reconstruction, it is not so hopeful
a condition now us it was a year ago,
when the constitutional amendment-ar
ticle XlV—was passed. Nearly all that
Congress has since done has heen nerd
hss, viulrni nnstatcsmanlikc— we might
say, fanatical.
Th« ICiulioiil Platform,
An exchange give.-* the following as
the Uadical platform:
1. The negro is better than a white
man.
Being black and ignorant ho shall
vole.
;J. The white man, unless a lladical,
shall not vote.
•1. Greenbacks are a legal tender for
the laboring classes, but gold and silver
must be paid to bondholders.
o. No tax upon the rich man’s bonds
but compel the poor man to pay upon
everything he owns.
i). Love Xew Lngland because she
demands your protection and your
money.
THE GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE
Governor Geary’s message hag been
published. It It a very lengthy docu
ment, fully as Icing ns President John
son’s last Annual' Message. "We have
not the room for lit entire, but give below
an abstract of the more important parte,
which we extract from the Philadelphia
Hominy
The first part of the Message is devo
ted to a consideration of the Stale finan
ces. The Governor calls attention to the
fact that during the entire year a very
large sum of money is in the keeping of
the Stale Treasurer. This sum nt pres
ent amounts to considerably over four
millions of dollars. It is unncccessary
that the greater pot tion of this money
should be kept in the Treasury.
It can be loaned with ample security
for its repayment when needed, for cer
tain specific periods, at a reasonable rate
of Interest, and the proceeds placed in
the treasury for the benefit of the Slate.
The fund thus acquired could be added
to the sinking fund, and would material
ly aid in the reduction of the .State debt.
A glance at the condition of the Treas
ury will show that at least four millions
of dollars might be loaned, and at four
per cent, would realize the inuUome sum
of sloo,obO per annum.
The total in the Treasury, November
110, ISO 7, was $30,205,395,34. Payments
during the fiscal year $25 243,55*,.v>. Ral
auce in Treasury November 30, $4,001,
*30,40, of which $2,037, 07S, 55 are appli
cable to payment of over duo loans, leav
ing a balance of $1,723,557,1'1. Public
debt November 30, I*o7, $14,700,431,22.,
Of the school sy.-tem the Governor
then >peaks, recommending uniformity
of books and gradation of schools, and re--
commends the --Agricultural College to
the legislature, lie then relers to the
Gettysburg (. emetery, protesting against
the interment of Rebel dead therein. —
The thorough revision of the civil code
by Wa.\ he .McVeigh, David Dickerson,
ami W. M. Hull, is said to be in satisfac
tory progress, ami bills will be presented
to this Legislature by the commission.
The (I'ovenmr urges the passage of a
general railroad law, and says it seem*
that any person’can receive
injury from its adoption, whilst, il.shene
fij-~ may lie felt by all i lasses of citizens.
Iv.en the chartered companies have no
re isonable grounds for opposition. The
intention of the proposed Jaw is not lo
deprive them of any vested rights or
franchises, hut to secure to others the
same privileges ami opportunities f»r
competilon.
it will open new avenues to distant
markets; impiovc the value of property:
give now imp dse t«» immigration, ami
add to our general prosperity. Other
Slates have tried the experiment with
satisfactory results, and there is no reason
why Pennsylvania should be a laggard
in the gram! march of progress and'im
provoment.
He recommends the establishment of
an insurance department, as in New
’i ork, that shall control) all companies
within this Stale. .Such enactments is
rcM/iiiied for security of our citizens.—
Millions ol dollars arc paid out by them
annually for insurance-much of it un
der such circumstances as to render it
impossible for a private individual to
know‘whether the company to which he
pays is or is not reliable.
Consulting the insurance journals, we
find that, as a general thing,’ Pennsylva
nia insurance companies are acquiring
an unenviable reputation abroad, aflec
ting the Junior and good name of the
Slate. The great purposcof the proposed
department should be protection.
He advises the creation of an ndieo
for tlie inspection of gas and gas meters
to enable the people to appeal for redress
from alleged hnpositiunsof the gas com- 1
panics.
Of national aOliirs thoOovornorspeaks
earnestly, insisting 1 hat the Congrossion
al plan of reconstruction shall not be sur
rendered.
He thinks the general financial condi
tion would bo greatly benefited bv reduc
ing the number of articles taxed. A
strong tariff is necessary for the protec
tion of home labor and resources. The
mcs.-age concludes by invoking the bles
sing of Hod upon the Legislature—which
there is reason to fear will lie greatly
needed.
.VOKTII (’AUOIJVA
C'apliii'o «r n <;nnc of IS'psrro I»ON|»oi-a<loou...
IiSU’BC X limber in Klmbo,
Uai.kkmi, Jan. 9.— lntelligence has
just I teen received here of the capture
<>f a gang of negro desperadoes who
have tor some lime past infested the
eastern portion of the State, committing
nightly murders and outrages to such
an extent that the people were comple
tely terror-stricken. About the latter
part of December, the people of (freon
county were tlu-own into the utmost ex
citement and alarm by the presence of
a band of negro robbers who were arm
ed and in the neighborhood fur purposes
ot murder, arson ami incendiarism.
Their capture was elfeeled on infor
mation furnished by Uyo negroes, re
spectively named John Dixon and Har
ry Coward, who, with a number of both
whites and blades, combined to arrest
the banditti. After careful reconnois
sam-e and considerable strategy, Need
ham Speight, alias Needham J-ivans,
John Dunn, alias Curtis, alias John
Miller, were surrounded and captured.
They wore found to bo armed with three
double-barreled guns, two pistols and
one dirk. They laid also three sacks of
clothes, a large quantity of lino dresses
for Indies, ladies’ underclothing ami u
quantity of old peach brandy.
The day after the camping place they
had occupied previously was discovered,
and hero were found the notes, bonds
and bank stock of Willis Uriorly, the
man whom I have hitherto reported
murdered in the presence of his wife
and who was also robbed of a trunk’
containing a largo amount of specie and
State money. The desperadoes confess
ed to the above murder, also that tliev
they robbed and beat a Mr. Taylor
that they shot Mr. C. M. A. (friilin, ami
that it was then their intention, before
arrested, to pillage and destroy the
stores and residences at Fountain's Hill
n village close by, as well as a Mr. Pit
man’s residence, about a mile distant
from where they were arrested. A num
ber of the gang who were with the two
arrested had left them the moi-iiiim be
fore to go to Kingston for additional
belli to effect the, numerous nndertii
ings in their extensively laid out pro
gramme of plunder, incendiarism and
murder.
Over thirty of these desperadoes are
now lodged in the jail at Greenville
Hnow Hill and Kingston, and the whole
country is thorougly aroused to a sense
ol its danger. The special forces order
ed by General Canby may possibly have
some effect in restraining these ontrii"-
es.—A r . JlrnUil. “
Vai.i.axdici'ham ox liixcnrAM
hnuliglnnn in a recent speech, thus re
ferred to John A. Bingham :
" liinghum Ims chosen to speak of Val
hnnliglnnn as ‘ sticking out his neck
like a crane ami gibbering like a ghost.’
I fM n ;‘, tel . 1, . (m tlu>t ‘t is tire gliost
«1 \ allandigham which disturbs his su
runny. Vaihuidiglmm is still alive and
able in the llesh to vex his foes. [Ap
plause.] 11 is tlie avenging spirit of that
unhappy woman which Hits before his
stsion at noon-day and glares across the
meditations ol his guilty conscience at
midnight. It is the ghost of his victim
that dogs Ins footsteps, mocking threat
ening, tormenting and driving him to
the doom of suicide. Says this counsel
lor of a murderous conspiracy, the ‘ ne
gro Is just as lit to vote as the tail end of
a wheelbarrow,’ meaning thereby the
hard working Irishman. Has ho not
read the history of the Emerald Isle?—
Knows lie nothing of her statesmen her
scholars and her warriors? Hus he nev
er heard of her orators, carrying multi
tudes captive with the resistless power of
native clnquem-e? Of her poel>, thril
ling the hearts of humanily wlti* their
songs, and immortalizing the laud of
their birth and the race from which they
sprung? Must tiie great, the gifudami
the good be thus insulted , by ignonuiee
and malice ? I shall dismiss the unman
ly reviler of genius from further conside
ration, and if ho wishes to discuss the
merits of the Irishman and African let
him produce for his negro pets a record
that will eompalr with that of the people
he assailed.
THE DANGER AHEAD.
Under this caption the Morniny JW,
anew daily Radical paper published nt
Philadelphia, discourses os follows :
“ The second number of The Morning
Font, October 30th, predicted the defeat
of the Republican party in Pennsylva
nia. . The third number unfortunately
confirmed it. We recall this fact to show
that we arc not idle alarmists when wo
now say that the danger increases that
the Republican party will lose the Presi
dential election. It has made no pro
gress since the war, and its purpose has
been shaken, its spirit cowed, its leaders
demoralized by the Democratic victories
in the fall. It is to-day without leader
ship, not from the want of men capable
of directing It, but from the dissensions
of those who, born to be subordinates,
assume the rights of generalship. These
false leaders have turned an army into a
crowd of foragers; they have made' the
success of candidate the highest good,
blind to the truth that the mission of the
Republican parly is not to elevate men
but to enthrone and establish principles.
The Democratic part on the other hand,
likely the ragged and hungry troops of
the rebellion, have been starved into
courage and whipped into discipline.—
Defeat has taught them how victory may
bo gained. They, have no candidate;
there is not one nmn'in the Democratic
party of whom it can ho said, “On his
nomination our success depends.” ,ThC3£)
-stand upon a platform which declares
that punishment for rebellion is uncon
stitutional, and that the head of the ne
gro must for ever be kept under the
while man’s heel. On the popularity of
these principles they mainly depend for
Seymour js strong in the Hast,
IVmilelon. is strong in the West, Han
cock has military fame as an advantage on
the niie hand, and repudition of the cause
in whic'* he won that fame, on the oilier.
Rut the Domacratic party does not de
pend on Seymour or Pendleton or Han
cock. Even when Grant was supposed
to lie the man, the Democrats refused to
toady to his epaulets. They are so firm
in their convictions, so earnestly united,
so enthusiastic in their devotion to what
they consider the right cause, that they
can aflbrd to .chose even an unknown
man as their loader. This was precise
ly the position of the Republican party
when it took Abraham Lincoln from his
obscurity. Who can say that we can now
make that boast, that it is not upon the
popularity of our candidate that wo ap
peal to the people, but upon the gran
deur and justice of our platform ?”
FllO3l GEORGIA.
Removal of Governor Jctildns—General
Huger Appointed in 111 m Nlcml.
Atlanta, Gn., Jan. 13.—The follow
ing order was issued this morning :
Headquarters Third Military
District, Atlanta, Jan. 13, ISOS—Gen
eral Orders No. B—First. Charles J. Jen
kins,- Provisional Governor, and John
Jones, Provisional Treasurer of the State
of Georgia, having declined to respect
the instructions of, and failing to co-opo
rale with the Major-General command
ing the Third Military District, arc here
by removed from ollico.
Second. By virtue of the authority
granted by the supplementary recon
struction act of Congress, July It),
1807, the following named olhcersaro de
tailed for duty in the Dislrictof Georgia:
Breyel Brigadier-General Thomas H.
Huger, Colonel Thirty-third Infantry, to
be Governor of the State of Georgia;
Brevet Captain Charles F. Rockwell,
Ordnance Corps U. S. A., lo bo Treas
urer of the State of Georgia.
Third. Thu above named officers will
proceed without delay to Milledgeville,
Georgia, and enter upon the duties de
volving upon them, subject to instruc
tions from these headquarters.
By order of Major-General Meade.
H. C. Drum, A. A. G.
At 10:30 a. m. this order was read to
the Convention amid much applause.
miscellaneous.
—Tiie sudden squelching of the ini
poachment spoiled forty-six speeches.
—A Baton (Ohio) stage horse has trav
clod 35,0u0 miles in seven and a hal
years.
-—There are now thirty-seven thousan
miles of completed railroads in the Un
ted Slates.
—1 fc costs just two dollars and a half to
thrash an editor in CJuelph, Canada.
—An exchange says the ladies would
rather face a mad bull than not have
their div.-i.-cs gored.
A young boar wondered down the
streets of Cheshire, Ohio, the other day.
He was arrested.
—A man in St. Louis drinks so much
whiskey that several mosquitoes who
have bitten him, have died of the deliri
um tremens.
Brigham Young is said to conduct
his establishment on the principle of
‘‘ largo sales and small prophets.”
—A Little one, after undergoing the dis
agreeable operation of vaccination, ex
claimed, “ Now E won't have to be bap
tised, will I ?’’
Cough has identified and recovered
a spoon stolen Irom him in Massachu
setts hy burglars. There are several
spoons still in the hands of burglars in
■Nassuebusetts.
—lt is said that the whole black and
tan Convention of Mississippi does not
own property enough to furnish means
for tlie burial of one of its members.
—The custom house and fifty other
buildings in Indianola, Texas, were de
stroyed by an incendiary lire on the 3d
instant. Loss $lOO,OOO and no insurance.
~A man in Indianapolis, Ind., has bet
that he can walk on his bands from the
bridge to the lunatic asylum, lie had
better stay there if he succeeds.
A Shrewd Arkansas editor advertised
that his paper would be mailed free to the
person who should send in the biggest
turkey lor Christmas and that the fortu
nate individual would be “ compliment
ed from time to time with flattering no
tices.” °
. —Helena, Montana, reports a carious
instance of the Chinese mode of trial.—
A Are tqolc place there recently, and all
the Chinese residents were summoned
to ballot for the olleuder. The person
receiving the highest number of votes
was to be punished.
—There is now unbroken railroad com
munication from New York to the lloekv
Mountains a distance of nearly two thou
sand miles, a temporary bridge bavins
been ompletod across the Missouri llivcr
at Omaha.
—The anniversary of the battle of New
Orleans was generally observed by the
Ochlocracy. In Washington City three
hnndreu guests, including President
Johnson, sat/lown to dinner.
Henry Morrison a laborer at the Jer
sey freight depot, while moving some
bars of iron not long since, took up one
so cold that it adhered to two of the lin
gers of the right hand, and when he
threw it down, it stripped the llesh en
tirely from the first joints, leaving the
bones bare and rendered amputation nec
essary.
-Vu 1
“A gentleman writes to the New York
Herald Hint he lias received a letter from
Africa that confirms tho reports printed
in English papers, that a white man,
supposed to bo Dr. Livingston, is travel
ling in that country.
—Tho “ Soldiers’ and Sailors’ League”
—the cow-catcher of the National Black
and Tan Menagerie—is to meet in Chi
cago on the 19th of May. It is a wcalc par
ty that- has to resort to such t-leks and
clap-trap.
• “A. of Boston tho colored
member of the Georgia convention, was
convicted of riotous and disorderly con
duct in disturbing the peace, and sen
tenced to pay $lOO line or ninety day’s
impnsonmen* s *aiid ton days imprlsou
ment for gross contempt of the court.—
1 here is much excitement among the ne
groes. °
—i he Surratt case was a “ fat thiuo-”
for loyal” lawyers, but not so to the
tax-payers, whose pockets have to stand
the expenses. Pierrepont was naid .
OUO, Kiddie £3,090, Edmons, $l,OOO • anti
reporter, Smith, *2,1150. Of course it is
natural that the parties, and others who
have fared equally well, should want to
try the assassin” over again two or
three times.
THE HOOK OF PARDON*.
We promised, the other day, to refer fo
to the book of pardons issued by Governor
Geary.
The Hat of persons to whom Executive
clemency has been extended numbers 74.
The list of persons whoso fines were re
mitted numbers 7, and the list of those
who were released from the payment of
forfeited rccognizauc.es numbers 7.
ThcpaiVlons may *be classified as fol
lows;
Adultery,
Assault and Battery,
«l» do do
Assault with Intent to kill,
Assault ami Battery by overcoming an Elector,
Burglary,
Burglary, Larceny, Broach of Peace, Horse
Stealing, do., Larceny,
Tarrying Pistols,
Conspiracy to Defraud,
Deserting a Bastard Child,
/ ilitiirbiii;/ an Election,
Fmhe/zlemonl,
Forgery,
Lummy,
I.ihel.
Malicious Mischief and Assault.
.Maliciously Obstructing Hall Hoad trank,
Manslaughter,
Mayhem and Assault,
.Misdemeanor,
Obtaining Money under False pretences,
do Clouds do do
Passing Counterfeit Currency,
Jteieetini/ (he rofe.tnf JJlretorn,
•SW/pif/ hi'jiinr Without Liceme,
do do do
do do to Minors, Intern
la-rale persons and on Sunday,
These pardons were generally gran led
upon the recommendations of the judges
before whom the criminals were tried,
the jurors, the district attorney and oth
er ollicers of the Court; besides those of
citizens of standing and integrity. The
jjolitic'it cases, however—those distin
guished by italics—wore invariably grant
ed upon the recommendations of private
parties—individuals “unknown to fame,”
and who had no connection (except it be
political) with the parties or the suits.—
Patriot and Union.
POLITK’AE
—lt appears that “ my two newspapers,
both daily,” will support Grant. Whith
out subsidies they would not support For
ney.
—There is a rumor afloat of a move
ment to place General Butler and Sena
tor Wade in the Held as radical candi
dates for President and Vice-President.
—The Chase and Colfax Radicals have
united in common cause against the
“narrowminded blockheads' 7 who are
begging the loan of Grant’s uniform to
hide there criminal intentions.
—lt is said that Gen. Grant was con
siderably annoyed when told that ho
had received the presidential nomimitiou
of Josh Owens and other Radical poli
ticians who call themselves soldier’s.
—The mobile Time# hoists the standard
of Grant and Fessenden for President
and Vice-President, upon the universal
amnesty and suffrage platform.
- The Democratic Slate Convention of
Ohio, on the Sth inst., by acclamation,
nominated Hon. George H. Pendleton as
the choice of the Ohio Democracy for
President.
—The following three kinds of wood
are now in popular use: &haruwood t
"Woodward aud Underwood. No nigger
under the first two, bub an awful big one
under the last “ wood pile.”
• —Twenty-live of the Republican jour
nals published in the northern ami north
western portions of Pennsylvania have
expressed a preference for Galusha A.
Grow as the candidate for Vice-Presi
dent.
—The Post, the organ of the Democra
cy of Western Pennsylvania, declares in
favor of the nomination of the Hon
George H. Pendleton for President, as
the only outspoken representative of the
policy of paying the national debt in na
tional money—greenbacks for bonds
and equal taxation. 1
—The Munlncipal Election, hold on
Monday last, In the Borough of Colum
bia Lancaster county, resulted in an over
whelming Democratic Victory, for the
first time in twelve years. Our friends
there elected the entire Ticket. The
Democratic majorities ranged about GO
being a gain of 10-i votes over the elec
tion of last October! Hurray, for “ Old
2'had." “ Confiscation” and “ Miscegen
ation!”
In a speech at the Sth of January
celebration Attorney General Stanbery
declared ; “I do not hesitate to say that
the whole of those Reconstruction acts
of Congress, from beginning to end, first
second and third in the aeries, are uncon
stitutional and void. There are times
when men must speak out. I w ! li not
attempt to school myself into reticence
upon these great questions, and X could
not, if I would.” It is said that Justices
Grier, Nelson, Clifford and Field, of the
Supreme Court agree with the Attorney
General, and that Justices Chase, Miller
and Swayno take the Rump view. Jus
tice Davis is said to be undecided.
PERSONAL
—Jefferson Davis will spend the win
ter in Mississippi.
—Vallandigham has been lecturing in
Ohio on the inspiration of the Bible.
—Rev. Dr. Mnhlonburg, who wrote " I
would not live always,” is contentedly
going through his 71st year.
Charles Dickens refuses to attend
church in this country, because lie de
sires to keep out of politics.
—A. H. Lee, who drew the Crosby
Opera House, at Chicago, is striving to
get together the finest private library in
the United Stales.
-Caleb Cuslnng is hard at work on his
codification of the Salutes at large a nor
tion of which will he submitted to Con
gress at tlie present session.
-Sumnor looks worn and badly out un
Die separation from Madame S will be
final, owing to diverse tastes and views
of social questions.
I •“ 1 ,‘, u Revc|, °'id Bishop Hop
kins, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the United States
expired at the Episcopal residence at Reel!
Point, \ ermont, recently, aged 76 years.
—Dickons made Ids first speech in this
country on New Year’s eve. When lie
had finished reading Mr. Bob Sawyer's
laity, he said: Ladies and gen tlemen
allow mo, from my heart of hearts to
wish you a Happy How Year,' 1 1
--Uov. Hoberi J. Breckinridge ftadl
cal Ims addreswd a letter to President
Johnson, asking a pardon for General
John C. Breckinridge, late Vice-Presi
dent, who is now in Paris ia very reduced
circumstances.
—Colonel Ely Parker’s the remote con
sequence of tho loves ofaF.-onch OHicer
and a Seneca Squaw, at Port Du Qucsne
during the last conto'y. Th«s circum
stance Is adduced to account for his late
French leave.
—Ashley, " the linpeacher,” is out in a
long letter llatly denying that he is a liar
and a rascal. That certainly raises l\ ques
tion of voracity between him and Dublin
opinion. 1
—Miss Caroline M. Uichings the well
known American primadonna, was mar
ncd. at Boston, on Chrismas Eve to
I icrre Bernard, of New York city. Mr
Bernard js a member of tho Operatic Com
pany of which his wKe is the star.
—William Cullen Bryantis writing three
poems for tho Now York Ledger for
which Mr. Bonner pays him three thous
and dollars. This Is the largest amount
ever paid to a poet.
—On Saturday last, Mr. Justice, of Lo
gan, introduced in tho Kentucky House
of Itepresentativcs resolutions suggesting
to Senator Guthrie tho propriety of resign
mg his seat in the United States Senate,
to enable Kentucky to bo fully represen
ted there, in case lie finds himself unable
to attend the sittings of Congress.
USS" Have you a cough, cold, paiu in
the Chest, or Bronchitis ? In fact, have
yon tho premonitory symptoms of tho
“ insatiate archer,” Consumption? If so,
know that relief is within your roach in
tile shapeof Dr. Wisiw'e Balsam of Wild
Cherry, which in many cases where hopo
had lied, has snatched tho victim from
the yawning grave.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
.Ilui'o nndlcnl Infamies—TlioNuprrmc Court
(<> bo Overruled—.A A'cir jnciimiro ofl'mir*
pnlloa-Urnnt to be ftlmlo JOlcCulorOver the
Soulli—Tlio Klshth ofJnmmry Celobrnlloa
••Judge IllaeU* Speech.
(hrresixnuicnce American Volunteer.
Washington, D. C., Jun. 11, 1563.
Startling iniquities crow'll fast upon each
other since the reassembling of the Rump,
it is impossible to tell what now villainy
n day or an hour may bring forth. The
House Judiciary Committee has agreed
to report a bill requiring a two-thirds
majority of the Supreme Court to declare
any law passed by Congress unconstitu
tional. This will require a vote of six out
of the eight judges to set aside a law for
uneonstitutionality. The object of the
Jaw is to prevent the court from deciding
the reconstruction nets unconstitutional.
A ea-e is now befoie the Court which will
lost the whole question,and the majority
of t lio Court are supposed to be in favor
of upsetting the unconstitutional legisla
tion of Congress. .Last week Judge Black
cohered a motion to advance a case upon
docket, which comes up from the State of
.Mississippi, under a writ of errorgranted
by Jude Hill, of that State. A person
was arrested by the authorities under the
laws of Congress, and a writ of habeas
rorpun was refused. Attorney-General
Slanbery was present in court on Friday,
and staled that as he had advised the
President that these acts were unconsti
tutional he could not conduct the case for
the government. This fact he had com
municated to General Grant, as Acting
Secretary of War, and the latter had tel
egraphed it to the authorities in Missis
sippi. General Ord replied by slating
that the authorities in Mississippi would
send counsel to Washington immediate
ly to conduct the case. As soon as the
counsel arrives the case will bo brought
up for argument.
The enormity of this attempt to tamper
witli justice in her highest sanctuaiy,
this attempt to destroy the independence
of the judiciary, this attempt to degrade
and subvert the Constitution by enacting
that the laws of Congress deserve thrice
the respect which is duo to it —the enor
mity of lids attempt cannot be overstated
by any strength of language. The pro
verb that whom the gods wish to destroy
they first make mad, was never more fit
ly applied than lo this last project of the
Radicals.
The very proposal of such a law is a
confession that the Reconstruction acts
violate tile Constitution ; a confession that
Congress is aware that they cannot pass
tlie ordeal of a judicial examination by
an impartial and fairly constituted tribu
nal. The bill so suddenly proposed is
prompted by the expectation that the
Reconstruction acts will be brought be
fore the Supremo Court within the next
few days. The bill of course cannot be
retrospective; for in that case it would
unsettle every constitutional decision ev
er rendered by the .Supremo Court. A.
disgraceful attempt is therefore to be
made by Congress to run a race against
the .Supremo Court, and huny an act
through impairing the powers of that tri
bunal before it shall have time to set
aside an unconstitutional law. So many
Republicans Jiavo openly questioned or
denied the constitutionality of the Re
construction acts, that it is no wonder
Congress dares not trust the Supremo
Court to pronounce an opinion on the
subject. But a bill to deprive judges of
their authority is so bold and so wild an
infringement of the rights of the Court
that it will react against the party more
destructively than auytlrng it has yet
done. The object of the bill is to punish
judges for perceiving that an act of Con
gress is unconstitutional, by depriving
them of their authority.
In party view, the Democrats need
have no objection to the passage of this
preposterous bill. It will give occasion
to such a veto as will make tho country
ring, and tho ears of the Republicans tin
gle. If it should bo passed over a veto
the Supreme Court would treat it as null,
and the Republican party would have
disgraced itself for nothing. If it bo
meant merely ns a menace, to influence
the action of the judges in the case about
to come before them, it will equally fail,
and equally recoil. It gives the Demo
cratic party the advantage of a new ami
strong issue. The independence of tho
judiciary, tho great bulwark of all rights
and liberties, is involved in tho result of
tho Presidential election.
There is still another iniquity—more
startling than the one I have mentioned,
if that weic possible—in process of devel
opment. Tho Reconstruction Commit
tee has agreed upon u bill virtually de
posing tiie President from command of
the Army, and making Grant Commau
der-in-.Chief over all the Southern States.
This is to secure the speedy Africaniza
tion of the South and Lo secure their vote
lor the Radical candidate forProsidoat.
Here is the bill in full:
Jic it enacted, cie., That in Virginia,
uS'orth Carolina, South Carolina, Gcoigia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,
P Jorida, and Arkansas, the”earc no civil
Stale governments, and said Slates re
spectively shall not bo recognized as val
id or legal Slate governments, either by
executive or judicial power, or the au
thority of the United States.
Sec. 2. Jic it further enacted , That for
the speedy inforeement of the Act enti
tled an act Lo provide for the more elli
ciont government of the rebel States,
passed March 2 ISU7, and the several Acts
supplementary thereto, tho General of
the Army of the United States is hereby
authorized and required to enjoin, by spe
cial orders upon all oillcers m command
within the several military departments
within said several States, the perform
ance of all acts authorized by said several
Jaws above recited, and to remove, by his
order, from command any or all of said
commanders, ami detail other olliceis of
the United Siatcs Army, not below the
rank of Colonel, to perform all the duties
and exexcise all thepowers authorized by
said several acts, to the end that the peo
ple of tho several States may speedily re
organize civil governments, republican in
, lorm; in. said several States, and bo re
stored to political power in the Union.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted , That the
General of the Army bo authorized to re
move one or all civil officers now acting
under the several provisional govern
ments within said several disorganized
States, and appoint others to discharge
the duties pertaining to their respective
offices, and may do any or all acts which
by the said severallawsabove mentioned
are authorized to be done by the several
commanders of tho military departments
within said States, and so much of said
acts or of any act which authorizes tho
President to detail military commanders
to such military departments, or to re
move any officer, which may be detailed
as herein provided, is hereby lepoaled.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That it
shall be unlawful for tho President of tho
United States to order any part of the
Army or Navy of the United States to as
sert by force of arms the authority of ei
ther of said provisional governments in
said disorganized States as provided in
this act and acts to which this is sun
plementary 1
. °* Lc , lt Jurihcr enacted, That any
interference by any person with intent to
prevent by force the execution of the or
ders of the General of the Army, made in
pursuance of this act and of acts afore
said, shall be held to be high misdemean
or, and a party guilty thereof shall, upon
conviction, be lined not ss 000
and imprisonment not exceeding two
years. 6 '
Sec. 6. Be it Jurlhcr enacted. That
BO much of all acta and parts of acts ns
ooulllct or 13 inconsistent with tile nro
visious oi this act is hereby repealed.
Iho Anniversary of the Battle of New
•Orleans was celebrated by a banquet on
Wednesday evening, at the Metropolitan
Hotel, in this city, at which the Presi
dent, the heads of departments, most of
the Democratic members of Congress, and
many distinguished guests were present
A company of about 300 sat down to din
ner. rho dining hall was appropriately
decorated. The columns were covered
with the national bunting, and two ianre
paintings of Jackson and Clay hunir at
either aide of the table of honor. Letters
were read from Ex-President Buchanan
Hon. George H. Pendleton, John Quincv
Adams, Ex-Governor Seymour, Ex-
Gpvernor Parker, and many others.—
Ihrilhng ami eloquent speeches were
made by President Johnson, Senator
Keyerdy Johnson, Thomas B. Florence
Judge Black and others. Judge Black
said there was no day in the year except
the lourth of July that'ought to be kept
so sacred as the Sth of January, and that
except the bather of his Country, there
was no name known among men which
was entitled to higher reverence than
that of Audrew Jackson. Tho life of
Andrew Jackson was one
with tho enemies of constitutional (v to
dom ; He had been assailed w Ith i
species of slander, and oven to thi. ? y
the foul birds who had Bcronmori 18 day
him in his life time,
from the same stock, liked to rio«* 10(1
deiilo him. One of the most& ttnU
aspersions heaped on him was UmiT 8
which tho Radical party had dttemni^
cmnf f “J m nu ‘ hori ‘y for their 0 ”n P a°t
tempts to trample on liberty and law if
there was any truth in tlmr If
then was General Jackson uttGrlvunw 011 '
thy of tho honor which the >\mi n^or '
people all over the country w , '^' 1
moment bestowing upon him. thls
mi l r ?" B to the proclamation of Gen
fnnl J!>c , kson 9 f , martial law In New Or
leans, he said that that was no Ho
tion, as war actually existed then, ami if,!
declared that Jackson’s acts in New Or
leans boro no sort of resemblance to tlin
wanton outrage of declaring martial law
foi the mere purpose of trampling down
wmi aW lnn< * at places where there
ueio no military operations going on. °
Caucasian.
&ocal Jtemg
C'AKP I’j.Avtxa.—Of nil tho besettlin
sins with which this community is curs
ed—and tlioy are by no means few hi
number—that of card playing is one 0 f
the most injurious. More boys and girj s
anti some of a larger growth, who j a «
claim to the title of young men ami la
dies, are almostcoustautly engaged in Dm
practice- thus neglecting their studies
duties and employments. Parents some
of them members of churches, who pro
fess great morality and religion, permit
card playing in their dwellings almost
daily and nightly. Did these persons
know the ruinous effects of this so-called
amusement wc cannot believe they would
permit it for a single moment. The vo
tary of the card table and its concomi
tants at first engages in the game for
pastime—after a time for pleasure, and
then, eventually, for gain. Wo know
persons, women as well as men, and wo
need not go out of Carlisle to find some of
thorn, who can no more resist the desire
for card playing than a continued drunk
ard can resist that of indulging in strong
liquors. Chess, Checkers or iiaeUgmn
mon are by far preferable to card ploying,
while neither of them has that appear
ance of, and tendency to, evil which at
taches to cujrds. Wc trust that the evil
to which we refer will be discounte
nanced, and that parents, church mem
bers at least, will see that cards and card
playing are excluded from their resi
dences. We have seen, more than once,
the evil effects of the practice whereof
we spink, and write what we know.
CuuKLTV to Animats.— We receiv
ed a letter a few days ago, says (he
West Chester JivpnbUemi, directing our
attention ton subject we have not pre
viously thought of, and which may not
have occurred to the mindsof many oth
era. It is tho practice of placing the front
erhitin (he mouths of horses ! Wc ven
ture to say there is not one person in a
thousand, who use horses, that take the
precaution to warm the hits before placing
them in their mouths. yet were
they to stop and leilect fora single mo
ment, they would all at once recognize
what an inhuman piaclice tins is. By
placing your damp hand to these frosted
pieces of Ivon, it wi'l almost carry the
llesli off with it. If this is the case with
the hand that has been rendered hard by
constant and rough usage, what must bo
its-effects upon the tender parts of the
mouth and tongue of the poor animat.
We feel assured it will only be neccessary
to call attention to this subject. The hn
mane man will warm welt the iron bit hi
frosty weather.
Hiot.—On Friday night last, a severe
riot occurred at tho saloon of Philip
Pritsch, in Fast Louther Street, former
ly owned by J. T. Murray, between some
soldiers and citizens. It appears that n
party of citizens went to the saloon above
mentioned and were engaged in playing
dominoes, when some two or three sol
diers from the Garrison came in to get a
drink. After the soldiers had drank and
were in the act of going out, one of them
made a remark, which was regarded by
the citizens as an insult, and a general
row ensued. As there were no police to
be found, the light lasted for some time,
until finally Sheriff Thompson, being
sent for, repaired to tho scone of tho
riot, and succeeded in arresting some of
the parlies and dispersing tho crowd.—
We understand that both parties were
considerably “ used up.”
IjKap Yeah.—lmpatient damsels and
bashful young meu should welcome the
now-year in an unusually «• happy” iiiiui
nei. Ihe former who now have uu op
portunity of bringing dilatory lovers to
the point without further delay, and
many of the latter will no doubt bo re
lieved of the dire necessity of “popping
tlm question” by the voluntary offers of
their dulcineas. Leap year only comes
around once in a while, and wc trust that
our fair readers will make tho most of
their present opportunities. If anything
comes of this advice, wo hope that the
printer will be remembered.”
How TO Foutell the Weather.—
If you wish to know what the weather is
to be, go out and select the smallest cloud
you see; keep your eye upon it, and if it
decreases and disappears, it shows a state
of the air will be sure to bo followed by
fair weather ; but if it increases in size,
take your great coat with you if you are
go:.ng from home, for falling weather will
not be fur off. The reason is this : when
the airiabeconilngoharged with electrici
ty , you will see every cloud attracting all
less ones toward it until it gathers to a
shower | and on the contrary, when the
fluid is passing offor diffusing itself, even
n large cloud will bo seen breaking to
pieces-and dissolving. **
Advertising Peopee. —People who
advertise are smarter than those who
don’t--better looking, too, nine in ten.
Ihis is natural, if not logical. Advertis
ing is an indication of intelligence, and
intelligence is onoof the leading elements
of good luck. At nil events the world be
leives in those who advertise, and it
plants its dollars in their pockets. Such
are live people ; ’and in these lively days
nobody wantsany thing to do with any but
your live men and women. Our advice
to everybody except in matrimony—is to
advertise. It is sure to return largelyi
increase your reputation as a business
man, make hosts oif friends, and add to
the number of shrewd and sensible peo
ple in the world, of which there has nev
er yet been an overstock.
Anniversary. —Tho Young Men’s
Christian Association’ of Carlisle, will
hold its first anniversary exercises on
Thursday evening, January 23, in tho
First Lutheran Church, on which occa
sion addresses may bo expected by G, H.
Stewart, Escp,.Hev. Cullis, of Philadel
phia and others. All are cordially invi
ted to attend. Exercises to commence at
Q\ o’clock, P. M,
H. 11. Peeper,
John A. Duke,
J. C. Stock,
Committee.