Jlwmcim Wuiitm. CARLISLE. PA., Tli«n in the support o constitutional principles ,ire requested b proceed to the election.d the delegates h their respective districts. By order of the Ihai'-ciulic Stale Coni miltee. W m. A. Wam.aim:. U. O. Df.lsU, Sec'y STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING. A meeting of the lieiuooralii*, atutnllnu Coni-* mltteu of Cumberland county, will hi- h«-hl at Committee dooms In the Court liniisi*. In C.u lb on Saturday February Ist, A /nil «Ufii now very apparent, is a mere tool—a hall of wax---in the hands of the conspirators against the country. He has surrendered Ids own opinions, and is now guided in hi» course by agitator* and demagogues.— By breaking faith with the President he fixes an indellibie stain upon his character. It will ho a sad day for tin* country, should tlii-> weak and vacilla ting man he elevated to the Presidency. But that calamity, we feel sure, will never happen. The people, wlm.-r ('Oll - has been trampled under foot by Grant’s sanction, and by his friends, will rise in the majesty of their power and crush their oppressors. They have submitted too long to the unblushing treason of men who work “outside the Constitution,” and they -will no longer. We .sincerely hope, now utrrt" Grant hag afliliated witJi the oonspim torg, that he may become their candi date, tor we believe he is the weakest man of their party. With Chase as the Radical candidate, we would at least have a man of brains to contend against, but with Grant as their candidate, the Radicals could only appeal to the for bearance of the people, and ask them to overlook Grant’s notorious indUnc.-*.— Lot them nominate Grant, then, mid the Democracy will defeat them, horse*, foot and dragoons. ALABHBO AT TBS K UTS OF Tillin' I.K.IOKKM. Republican journals all over the eoun try show a nervous uneasiness over the doings of the conspirators who compose a majority of the Rump Congress. The attempts to declare Grant dictator in ten States, to upset the Supremo Court, to deprive the President of his Consti tutional prerogatives, to place the War Department in the keeping of a nmn who has been a spy and conspirator, and who Instigated the Xew Orleans riot, to place th e negroes over the whites in the Southern States, to continue that sink of iniquity, the Frcedmen’s bu reau, are measures so fearfully revolu tionary, that even Republican editors stand aghast uff the spectacle. No won der; for these editors know very well that the people of this country will not remain quiet and witness the Constitu tion of their fathers torn into tatters by u set of Yankee adventurers and trai tors. The measures wo have mention ed, and which appear to be supported by the united vote of the Radicals of both houses of Congress, a K c, one ami all, indirect violation of tin* Constitu tion, and the members who vote for them know this, and desire to destroy the Supreme Court, which stands ready to declare its edict against the whole hatch. Let* the conspirators go on then in their work of treason. The people are watching them, mid at the proper time they will administer a rebuke such jus this country never witnessed. But Lheoc men should !>*• more than rebu ked; they should be punished. They have violated their oaths and are at tempting revolution, and should he made to sulfur for their sins. We hope the day is not far distant when (‘very man who is now engaged ip these wick ed conspiracies will be brought to a tri bunal of justice.- A Skckkt organization known as the “Grand Army of the Republic,” which Is made up of boss-politicians, sutlers and camp-followers, is non' engaged in nominating Gen. Grant for the Presi dency • We suggest that they take Loo, or Johnston, or some other rebel Gen eral whom Grant got President Johnson to pardon, aa their candidate for Vice President, As the redoubtable Kadi cab appear to be ready to swallow any quantity of conservative dirt, they cer tainly could not object to a pardoned rebel*, especially if Grant had him par doned. Masonic. —lion. C. J. T, Mclntire, of Pcry county, has teen appointed District Deputy Grand Master of th L . Masonic District compo.sed.of the eo.un- JJes of Perry, Juniata and MifiUjb THE TRUTH WILL OUT. •• Tlio vajmo nml link-finite appropriations of tnonov by Congress, growing out of Che vast ex penditures during the war, can not longer bo continued without Uto utter destruction of the national credit, or Ritch ftu Increase of our taxes as will bring buck to these halls new faces amt new names. Ills Idle to disguise the fact that the Increase of our extraordinary expenses and weight of taxes have alarmed the people. The above extract from the report of Senator Sherman, Chairman of the Fi nance Committee of the Senate, in high ly suggestive and should arrest the at tention of the people. He is the last man to be suspected of a leaning to wards the views/had principles of the Democrat and the last one to after a word to the discredit of the Rad ical party, unless eon-trained In do so either h\ a seii-e of duty or the fear of exp >nre. Nor will he be accused of a want of information concerning the mutters to which ho refers, otherwise he would not have been placed at the head of that important Committee. And what doe- Mr. Sherman say, in his re port made to tin* enato of the I nited States, for the information of that body, ami for the entertainment of the tax- payers of the country, just previous to the adjournment of Congress over the holiday-? He says, that “the vague and indefinite appropriations of money by Congress, growing out of the vast ex penditures during the war, cannot long er he continued, without the utter tie.— tiuction of the National credit. M How often have \ lenm' rals asserted the same I thing and been outrageously abused for doing -o? But Senator Sherman, know ing that longer concealment is impossi ble, admits that Radical legislation lias put in jeopardy the credit of the Nation, and that a change in the mode of con ducting its affairs has become indispen sable. And, in making tins mortifying confession, lie leaves out of the account the enormous defalcations, frauds and thefts of the official scoundrels who have grown rich upon the bounty of the par ty with which he has been acting, and charges the ruin of our National credit directly upon the Rump Congress of which lie is a leading member. Chairman A Republican paper, in an article on hard times and the consequent suffering of the people in the cities and densely populated districts in Hie North, says; •*Tliu Xorllu-rii mocimiilr will lira for n loi»K mid im;ul a duv before hn will Ih*k. A Norlliorn axiclmiilc n who win »*«u* uc- rj,.y U <- cii.ltf lo flio bunc* before hbe will allow Jut cTill* • Iren to bo fed by dimity. Hut jilndiliiic wnnt begins l>> tell on ibe {K-(>|ilo in all parts of the North. Wl liter liuwlk it roll ml many u eoUJ bom lb when; Wuiiii n uml I'lilMn-ii ennu-b mlfei mg for food.” This is a picture, in many respects only 100 true. But who is responsible for this mUeiy anti wretchedness—this suffering among tin* mechanics and la borers? Who destroyed the industrial interests in the North? The Republi can party, hy laying waste the South, revolutioni/.ing society, and Ijer labor system'. That party, ami it alone, is re sponsible for all this misery. What wen* we before that party procured the ascendancy? Pio perousand happy.— C'omparativi ly without taxation—com merce second to no other nation in the worUl-'the nccc,--ai ic- of lift- for the mechanic and laborer, cheap and plen ty. Uni now, look at thcehange. The Southern negro, then happy, contented and well-cared for, i- now, in nmny in stances, starving tor want ol food and shelter. There is a day of reckoning coming, ami that day is not far distant. In the Southern conventions the no . groes have passed laws forbidding the establishment of any school which will notadudl the negroes. This practically forbids the advancement of white chil dren. The negroes can’t advance and the whites dare not. Such is Radical “ progress.” Resolutions forbidding the intermar riage* of the races wore voted down. — The big buck negro will not permit any impediment in his way to the marital couch of white girls. Another stop in the great onward march ofequalily and amalgamation. Another evidence of Radical “ progress.” Fnvoxstiti’tioxal,. In a speech at the sth of .January celebration, Attor ney General Stanherry declared : “ I do not hesitate to say that the whole of these Reconstruction acts of (.’engross, from beginning to end, tirst, second and third in the series, are unconstitutional and void. There are times when men must speak out. I will not attempt to school myself into reticence upon these great questions, and I could not, if I would.” A N'kguo delegate in the Alabama Cons* Rational Convention recently In troduced a clause dissolving the marri age relation between all men who took part in the late rebellion and their wives, and declaring that “all children begotten of such marriages between the 11th day of January , 18(11, and the 21st day of July, ISWi, are hereby declared illegitimate.” Another Republican victory! ItADiCAijS who have kept the South in astute of absolute disorganization, in order to produce certain political re sults, can sci* the legitimate consequen ces of their policy in tin* ab.-o Jule de struction now coming upon the people*. Death by starvation stares the negroes in the face, and the daily record of acts of violence, crimes against persons and property, is a reproach to the pretence that there is any government of law. Tu k Slate election in New Hampshire talas place on the second’ Tuesday in March. The report.-concerning the po litical action in tin* State arc very en couraging. Discontent prevails in the Radical party there as in oilier Stales when' elections have taken place, and large numbers of that organization are uniting themselves with the party of the Union ami Constitution. Tim DcMnocratic State Convention, to nominate candidates for Auditor Gen eral and Surveyor General, and choose delegates to the next National Conven tion, Is to he held at Harrisburg, on the •Ith of March next. tsajrlu the Georgia menagerie, (called by the Radicals “The Convention,”) a few days since, ono negro “delegate” gave another negro “delegate” the lie, during the session, in a quarrel arising out of the non-receipt of-pay. Both nigs subsided without blood-shed. Millions to make voters of the freed negroes of the South, to be paid out of the taxes of the North. More Radical policy for you. Kpal'LKttes against principles.— Which are the best for the people? IIAUT> TIMEM. 310 3111. ES OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. We kept hearing of it all summer, and late into the autumn—how ton miles of track were laid per day, until the footof thcßocky Mountains wore reached, 517 miles west of Omaha, and one thousand miles west of Chicago. We had sup posed that llic contractors might stop thoi\ —that old Boreas would have i blown such a frosty breath out of the bosom of the frowning Black Hills, ami followed it up with such a snow blan ket that railroad building would have waited for spring and a warmer sim | shine. But no: onward was the word, I and to-day thojoemnoiiveis within ten I miles of the highest summit in the I mountain-chain that separates the At lantic and Pacific States, and during this year of our Lord, lM»s f much more than half the distance between the Mis souri River and the Buy of. San Francis co will he spanned by a first class Rail road. The California mails and passengers have already been curried through to New York and Philadelphia in fifteen days, and it is expected that during the coming season the regular time will be reduced to nine days, and that more than half the Pacific coast travel will take this nude, Instead of the long, te dious journey of twenty-two to twenty four days by sea. The intervening stage trip between the two ends of the Pacific Railroad line will he but a ro mantic It*>ll ay excursion, ami we have no doubt that the passenger traffic in that diieclion llii« year will he a full earnest of the immense business that niu-t follow thecompleiion of tin* work perhaps two years later. The Union Pacific Railroad i- especi ally fortunate in many way*. It i- tine that, unlike any other line, it will he a raonoply,hut nothing less than a inmu-- ply could have commanded the large resources ne- essary to carry it through, and as it was,—all hula few fa r-seidng ca pitalists declined 10-l.d.e their fortunes on the result. It is fortunate in having secured the most generous government aid, and the government iV still more fortunate in being paid back with compound inter est. It is also fortunate in escaping all those pecuniary embarrassments, that have so often checked and UnaJ/y de stroyed similar enterprises. The stock holder*- have already paid in uisht mil lions five hundred thousand dollars up on the capital stock on tire work al ready done, and this sum and the gov ernment aid, and their own First Mort gage Bonds, have given them ample means for the most vigorous prosecu tion of their great undertaking. We can preceive no reason to doubt that this greatest of modern works will go on as vigorously a? it has been begun, and that ls7i) will see the two sides of the Republic for the first time really milled, to be, —let in hope, forever in separable. AN IAI'DN’HnU •* IH'.M I*. I I'any hody doubts that the present Muu grel Senate in a patriotic body, sparing of tin.* people's money, let him read the fol lowing items of “supplies” with which the Ufty-tw'o members of that body have furnished themselves during the year Fur Pocket K n l\ I"-. .Vil la mi m tier l-'ur Pen Knives, -HM in MtikliiK in;t icmvi's fur Uu-m- liny t Wu h-iiirh. i it niic yi-ur a Lull I 17 ; UNflilgt.' cusl Htn- (milling to, each, cobt, Hponj:.*, l,i;rr |iuir.-»nf ScikMn - ', iihmii.’.'puli'* t-ui-li, ut :i 11i t!<■ ‘i $1 u |mir, 'Jill pairs Kill i! In vu'., alum I I putts (■aril, ut SJ.'di a pair. 11(3 1 Hailes, JLU I'ort folios, ufiii b ll narh. ulu >ltl 81 apiece, ,'S(i Pocket IjooUh, U viieli, at ulioiil 82..V1 apiece 4in> llrushoK, /Vjfi Pin Cushions, J.Juf Lead PeneiK. Xew.spapen ninl Maya/luos, l.sTtl 1 , Ueatri'- Paper, l.Si'7, l.'il Klivelopes. To llib we might add a li*t of much needful thing*, cork -M'erws, erasers, leu tlter dusters, chamois *kins, pen-racks, gold pen*, key-rings, combs, I line ones we hope, i eolonge, soap (certainly much needed,' pomade, toilet, powder, lemons. And then to a hundred more similar “ trilles” must be added an immense hill for “stationary.” If each memberof the Senate had been going to set himself up in a fancy store, lie could not have sup plied himself more bountifully. It will lie noticed that each member helped him self to twenty-two pairs scissors at the people’s expense. What did they do with them? Perhaps presented them to their “dark browned”charmers, “sweetscent ed lillies” of the warm African clime.— The live hundred and forty-six pin cush ions divided among lifty-two economiz ing patriots may have gone the same way. The 552G4.7G worth of uponf/r we confes* to boa necessary and needful expenditure, not only on the score of cleanliness, but because .spoa//nir/ is the normal condition of a Mongrel politician—he euuld not pos sibly live without it. —Day Jlook. Tjik Piuiposku Ratioxstucc*rion ok Okn. Hancock.—A bill is now before the Rump Congress to reduce Gen. Han cock below the military rank necessary to enable him to act as a district com mander. Rysuch despicable means the traitors in Congress expect to bring back a reign of terror and military tyranny in Louisiana and Texas. In regard to tins' infamous scheme, the Xew York Turns (Republican) says : “ Congress proposes to degrade- Gen. Hancock from the rank of Major Gene ral, because ins course hPtho Depart ment of New Orleans does not meet the approbation of the majority of the bod}’. Gen Hancock won Ids rank by such ser vice to ids conn try in the hat tie-field as few men over perform, and such as it is a disgrace for any public man in this coun try ever to forget. Tito men who pro pose to take this action in regard to Gou. Hancock are the very men who insist most loudly on the duty of gratitude to llie soldier ; but they keep their gratitude to the soldier strictly subordinate to their party interests and party zeal. The pro posed measure is utterly' unworthy’ of Congress and discreditable to the parly' which brings it forward.” G AUFIKLI) on Gkant. —The Ashtabula (Ohio) Sentinel publishes a letter from the Radical Gen. Garfield, from which the following important extract is ta ken : “The presidential outlook is anything but pleasing. The current for Grant seems irresistible, and if it be not check ed or controlled it will result in nomina ting him without platform or pledge.— Indeed some of our friends are so mad as to advocate precisely this course. I hope that some movement will compel! the party to make a solid platform for the nominee. There are many half-hearted Uepuhl icans who would drop the negro. If your party shall dure to be so unutter ably base as to abandon this unfortunate people now, it will deserve ami receive the deepest political damnation ever visi ted upon men. If the negro is abandon ed he will, before ten years arc past, ex plode our party as he did the Democra cy in istil. There is no path for us but the onward one. Let us live or die by our principles. Either is hono»ablc.— Life ou any other terms is ineffable dis grace.” 1 APPROPRIATE AST* PITHY SPEECIIES In the House of Representatives, at Harrisburg, a few days since, a Radical member offered a resolution tendering: tho thanks of the people of Pennsylva nia to the Rump Senate for having re instated tho brute Stanton in tho War Department. Messrs. Linton, Chalfant, Comma*! and Maish, Democratic mem bers, delivered short but pithy speeches in opposition to tho resolution. We copy from the official proceedings as follows: Mr. Linton, of Cambria, contended that this resolution was an attempt to endorse the United States Senate in attempting to enlbive an unconstitutional enactment. That the Tenure of Office hill was un constitutional was conceded by Stanton, | and shown by contemporaneous construc tion of the framers of tho Constitution by-theopinion of all elementary legal wri ters who had discussed the question—and by the uniform usage of (lie government ever since its organization. Resides to endorse an net which placed a man in a position whore bo would be a spy—an in former on his otUcial superior—would bo showing ourselves devoid of those senti ments and principles which actuated all who have a proper appreciation of the dignity of true manhood. And, in addi tion, the man Stanton was unworthy of endorsement and eulogy—the assertions in tho resolutions were false, in fact. — The war was a success, not because he ruled in the War Office, but in spite of his ruling there. His Intermeddling tiiwaited our (loneials, extended the war, and tho army was only victorious when lu* was deprived of the right to in terfere. Again Stanton was the leader among those who disgraced the country and violated the Constitution by arbi trary ami tyrannical arrests, lie, too, was the responsible party upon the Union side for the deaths and misery in the Southern pH.-ons. Ry preventing the exchange of prisoners when urged upon him, he canned the death of thousands, and surely iimio of the comrades of those men, thus saeritieed hy the cruelty ami inhumanity of ibis war minister, will ap prove his acts or endorse his re-inslale ment In olllce. For these and other rea sons the gentleman contended Unit this resolution should not he adopted. Mr. Chalfant, of Montour, spoke as follows: During this debate I have hoard-many anathemas hurlod at the head of Edwin M. Stanton, but not all of them can sink him lower in the estimation of every fair, every ju-li«floving man, than his own base and lymtinieal acts, and these have gone into history. By them ho will bo judged, and nil the flattery you may heap upon him will not have a feather’s weight with posterity in making up their verdict. Like Sejanus, the minister of Tiberias, he will be known as one who made friends ojily to betray them, and u*ed the power of the State to opp’ess the weak and persecute the innocent. — Cringing, fawning, designing, cruel, am bitious and treacherous, he is the very counterpart of that. lm«o«»hof t-b** ah has justly been said, ho urged others to embrace secession, and then deserted them when they committed the overt act. He fawned on (Jen. M'Clellan un til, through the inlluenceof that gener ous anil noble soldier, he was appointed War Minister; then, ingrate like, ho joined the Radical conspirators to strip him of his command and drive him from the army. To Lincoln he was deferen tial and Obsequious at first, but knowing the weakness of that Executive, he soon became his master. No autocrat of all the Russian ever played the despot to a greater extent. True, public opinion would not allow him to use the knout, nor erect the guillotine, but ho used the bastile chains and the dungeons to crush his victims. 'We know he hates the De mocracy with the hate of an apostate.— 11 is characteristic of the class, from the (irsl who was hurled over the battle ments of Heaven into his seething hell, down to the apostates who have left the Democratic party within the past decade of years. History will write accursed over the name of Edwin M. Stanton. In his own district some forty innocent farmers wore dragged from their homes and thrown into tho dungeons of Fort Mijllin by the command of this ruthless despot, kept there in damp casemates, whore some died, others became invalids ami after being kept there one hundred days were sent forth without trial, with out redress, ami as yet in ignorance as to their accusers. And this is the* man you Radicals wLh to crown with lays. He is worthy of you. A fatal leader to a (Uful parly.— Vou love despotism and therefore desire to honor the despot. If you desire to hug the chains that have been thrown around you; if you wish to crown tho tyrant who has riveted the fetters upon your limbs, do so; but ask not the free Democ racy to aid yon in your ignoble and de generating work. Mr. Coninmn, of Cumberland, averted that the day of retribution would come Just as sure*as Edwin M. Stanton stood before that Great Tribunal, there to an swer for his misdeeds during the last six years. He was not willing that the powers granted to the President by the Constitution should be trampled under foot by Congress. The time for that had passed. There yet remained sufficient spirit in the people to wipe out the ty ranny and oppiossion of the United States Senate. As a representative of a major!- 1 ty of the people, he pronounced the reso * lotion infamous. Edwin M. Stanton 5 had been a party to the dissolution of 1 the Union. The word “traitor” was ’ written on his brow. The skeleton fin gers of thousands of dead soldiers point ed to him, who had deprived tho or phaned child of its father, the widowed mother of her husband. Mr. Maish, of York, referred to the as * sumption of the gentleman from Potter, . Mr. Mann], that the Republican par j ty was par excellence, the only loyal par -1 ty, and said, that there were men upon ■ this floor, bearing upon their persons honorable scars, which attested the fal sity of tho gentleman’s arrogant and impudent assertion, that the Democratic , party was in league with traitors. He also referred to the fact that Edwin M. J Stautgn was the man who, first in sym ■ pathy with the conspirators, and second * yl, in defeating the military operations of . Gen. McClellan against Richmond, was accountable above all other men for the ' immense amount of blood sacrificed and the vast expenditure of' mom-y made in putting down the rebellion. 31,11 s ;m> I,’JM wi no ;i2.‘. ou Zli 1 TO I, |Sil 10 n'l~> 00 ;iOO 75 l.lUl IXJ 1,01050 o-2i aj i.,sai(M in i.o! i 2;« It >,:»> 1 o: .HISCKU.INKOIS, —Napoleon has pulled down li-j.imo houses in Paris, and put up 87,000 butter edifices. —The thermometer at La Cross, Wis. stood at eighteen degrees below zero on the 7th. —A ninety-live dollar pearl wan found in an oyster in Alexandria, Virginia, the other day. —An exchange thinks that whatever may bo said of an extravagant wife, she undoubtedly does her best to make home the dearest place on earth. Fifty thousand Arabs have died of cholera in Algeria, and now famine threatens the survivors. —Paris has a new style of bar-rings.— They are little globes of rock crystal, filled with water and miniature sea fish es and molluscs. —A gambler recently arrested in St. Louis, lestilies that live “ hells” in that city had boon paying $lOO per month each for “protection”—!, 0., immunity from arrest. —While Menuningor was secretary of the rebel treasury, the joke went round that he had said the debt amounted to $800,000,000 or sB,ooo,ooo,ooo—lie forgot which. &a>‘" As a Tonic and Appetizer, nothing can equal the effect of Dr. If Anders’ lo dine Water. Unlike all stimulants its ef fect is ju.n/ifnicnf, building up the body, ahcl giving strengbtand vitality to all parts of the system. In old and chronio cases it may be used with almost a cer tainty of success. Millions to run the Bones and Banjo Conventions of the Negroized States, voted out of the pockets of the people by Congress, Such is Radicalism, TIIE CRISIS Important Interview with the President. Opinion or the Eslillnir Criil* nml of tho Kent Vnlpu of the IlndicnU— Ills Power*. Duties nnd Intentions—Coiiffrc*s aniltlic Kiipremo Court—The llmllcal Itcbels Worse tlmn the Southern llcbcls. [Fjaeinl Jh'spatch to the IPortt/.] Washington, January If). The following is a synopsis of a desul tory conversation had by tho writer with President Johnson last evening. As no man’s utterances are so important or so eagerly sought at this momentous time as°lhoso of tho Chief Executive, I am convinced that the dignilicd tone of these unofficial remarks will bo hailed with satisfaction hy every true friend of the Republic and of constitutional govern ment. I began by remarking the anxiety of the people to comprehend the present crisi>. The position of Congress was never suffered to bo in doubt. Every night there was sent hy telegraph from Washington, to all sections of the coun try where a newspaper is printed, a re port of the day’s debates in both Houses, in which the purposes of the Radical ma jority were distinctly expressed, lint tho position of tho President in respect to tho pending measures which threat ened to deprive him of nearly all authori ty in the government could* only be in ferred. “It would seem,” said Mr. Johnson, very deliberately, “ as if there could be no doubt as to that position.” He paused a moment and went on : “ Let us first briefly consider what has been ami is the situation. Men, before now, have suffered much who were in trusted with or who took upon them selves the duty of defending a principle. Such a duly became very painful when. as in this instance, a President of the Cnited States, wiio was compelled by bis oath to administer the government in strict accordance with the Con.-lilulion, found himself singularly opposed in so doing by another branch ot the govern ment claiming to represent n majority of citizens. For a long lime it required firmness to act up to the conviction that the demands of tho Constitution were more imperative than tho partisan willof Congress and the transient desire of the deceived people of the North. It was like breaking thick ice to break through the crust of prejudice that intervened be twixt tho perceptions of the multitude and the President’s real motive. Rut, even in the worst period, faith was had in the ultimate good sense ofcltizenaeve- ry where; and as it happened that, as the resistance of the Executive to the un constitutional measures of Congress be came firmer, the tests applied to it by Congress became more aggressive, the the people did at last begin to be alarm ed by the rapid rate at which cherished institutions were being subverted. A modification—perhaps I mightsay ndeci ded change—of public sentiment in tho North has been tho consequence. One who held fast to a principle when a ma jority .was arrayed against him is not likely to loosen nis hold upon it when so much of the pressure has been removed.” “ Vet," I observed, “ Ihv IttnJlat/a I n Congress appear to take precious little warning from the Northern reaction.— One would think, from what they are now doing, that their pressure was in creasing.” Tho President smiled grimly. “’The Radicals in Congress are desperate. They have made of that body a political mon strosity. While they still seek to hide their deformities with the cloak of patri otism, or strive to distract public atten tion from them by specious mamenvres, they are becoming more and more con vinced that the people see through it all. Having gone farther than they intended, so Tar that they have overleapt all bounds save those of party and personal ambi tion, retreat would be equivalent to hari kari. They keen on now, hoping to ob tain by conquest in the South this year a power more than equivalent to their loss of prestige in the North. Perhaps they trust by such a conquest to awe and subdue a majority in the North whom they are failing to lead. This extreme party, which is represented by men like Mr. .Bingham, Mr. BoutWcll and Senator Sumner is in a worse dilemma than ever party was before in the Republic. Its vacillating legislation in respect to many vital mailers, and the character of its late struggle for impeachment, prove a gross lack of principle. What kind of dispo sition and estimate of human nature was shown by the person Aahly and those who assisted him in getting up the as sassination charge? They had simply to seek in their own natures for ample sup port of their theory that human nature is corrupt. They recollected thesuspicions attached to the Vice-Presidents under Harrison and Taylor, and derived from those, and from their partisan enmity to an Executive who had consistently thwarted their unholy designs, a vague excuse for accusing me. How did they proceed toobtain thcirso-ealled evidence? By ransacking brothels and slums, and accepting statements from the lips of a felon. After employing such means to compass tho removal of a President, it is not surprising that, baulked as they are, they arc capable of employing any means, constitutional or unconstitutional, to yet riauf him or shear away his jnnu ers. n *’ Well, sir,” i suggested, “now to con sider what Congress is actually doing.” “ Why,” responded the President, “ these measure* arc of course revolution ary.. The arguments used to defend them are as clearly fallacious as the assertion that black is white would be. A propo sition to deprive, by mere act of Congress, the President of the United States of any portion of the authority vested in him as Coimnauder-in-Chief of the Aripy and Navy, is a proposal to do direct violence to the Constitution. There are three sep arate but co-ordinate brunches of the United States Government, the Legisla tive, the Judicial and the Executive bran ches. Each of these branches, or depart ments, has its special functions, which the Constitution rigidly defines, and the provisions of that instrument are so framed as that no one or two of the de partments obtain any power to subtract from the functions of the other. Yet, for a special and despotic purpose, the bill, submitted by Mr. Bingham is being forc ed through the House to place in the hands of a military subordinate of the President, independent of the latter, an executive privilege .which can only be lawfully removed from the President’s hands by the people themselves voting the requisite amendment to the Constitu tion . Th is bill assumes a right of Congress to do away with the President altogether , if it chooses, and make itself executor of as well as legislator for the Government.— Could any assumption be more arrogant, more .dangerous and destructive in its tendency? Could any assumption so completely annul the indictment against the President that he is in a position to thwart the administration of the law ? Truly enough the fallacy was not needed to prove that the Executive is not, though it clinches the proof that Congress is the aggressive one of the three governmental departments. When our fathers framed the Constitution, the grcatalin of the ma jority in the Convention was to avoid whatever there was obnoxious in a king ly government. By carefully delegating to Congress many legislative powers which the King of Great Britain had been accustomed to exercise withoutcon sulting Parliament, they rendered the Executive merely an executorof the law, without the right to originate measures except in sudden emergencies and in de fence of the Constitution. Congress, vest ed with such exclusive prerogatives, and composed of numbers of individuals or di vided into parties between whom there were always .general and specific differ ences of opinion, has ever had a tendency to encroach outside of Us proper func tions. The attitude of the Executive has ever been one of defence or resistance.— It is his plain, simple ollloe, while seeing that all laws are put in force that conform to the Constitution, to see that no law ob tains, so far as bis veto or authority can prevent itfromobtaining, which does not conform to it. I regent that he is obliged by his solemn oath to defend that instru ment from any and every assailant: Do I make myself understood?” “ Perfectly, sir.” “Well, now, to proceed in this connec tion a little farther: Congress, or at least the present Congress, claims to be the only national representative of the will of the people. Yet the President is elect ed ns directly by the people, and Is there fore as directly their representative, as Congress is. But Congress claims to be nearer to the people than the President'. Yet, while members of the House of Rep resentatives are chosen every two years, Senators are elected ouoe in six years,the President is chosen every four years. Tho President is chosen oftener by-two years than Senators are chosen—a fact which seems virtually to equalize tho respective nearness of the Executive and the Legis lature to citizens at large. This point is not of so much importance as it would ho if the functions of th& Executive were less arbitrarily defined, or, let us say, more subject to tho fluctuating demands of popular sentiment than to tho stable requirements of the Constitution. If it be said that a member of Congress Is nearer to a particular constituency, or that a Senator is nearer to a particular State than the President, because each has been se lected to represent the citizens or domi nant party of that particular constituency or State, it may bo said of the President that he is selected hy a broader constitu ency than either —that is, by the people or dominant majority in Ihe Union, who, in selecting him, are presumed to subor dinate local considerations to those oi the general welfare. A President's ({()iee, a/- it r aft is said, /s' one t/iat , in a crisis li/:e (he //recent, should he held suj)crior to ere nphhii/ t .errjif his fealty to the hue." “Then you regard the .Supreme Court as equally independent of legislation by Congress'.*” “ Ihujuesiionably it is. The Supreme Court is us much a separate and distinct branch of the (Jovernmciit as Congress or the Executive. What right lias Congress to usurp the prerogative of the people in this ease, more than in the other?” “ I’ardou me—am I right in suggesting that no clause in the Constitution actu ally prescribes what number of judges Hindi decide a case in the Supreme Court?” “ The provision was not necessary.— Time-honored usage—nay, the regulation of the Court itself—was ami Is sufficient. A majority of judges have always prevail ed in nil courts, in England, France ami elsewhere, ns well as in the United States. This is an attempt to strip the judicial branch of the government of a right which it is competent to define and maintain.” His your opinion, then, that a ma- jority of the Court can decide against tlie validity of the pending bill, and ignore it, if it should pass both houses V” “That is my conviction.” “It may be superfluous to presume that the President is in no wise at fault respecting the partisan object of botli the bills which have been alluded to?” “ Quite superfluous. As I explained at the commencement, this so-called Re construction bill is destined, if carried in to effect, so to increase and consolidate the military tyranny which has already come nigh to ruin the Southern States, that no body of legislators not run nearly wild with a patty idea could think of for cing it through. The vast cotton inter est, which used to pay an enormous reve nue to the government, instead of having been recuperated since the war, has near ly died out. In the place of the revenue which it yielded and which helped to lighten the taxes of Northern citizens, there is now an almost absolute blank on the books ,of tho Internal Revenue De partment, and the Government not only has to bear this loss but expend an amount more than equal to it to support u Uciioviutc urufliiingayacem upon mu pa triotism and enterprise of the Southern people. Hero is a policy of repression which chokes up the fountains of reve nue in the South, is continually making paupers there among both the white and black populations, and compels the gov ernment to fall back upon the North for three-fourths of its current revenues, and pledge.its credit for additional means.— One-half tho country, having spent its ; substance to fight the other half back in to tho Union, finds itself, now that it has accomplished its object, the scape-goat of a political party which for its own inter ests prevents tho defeated section from taking its rightful place again under the shelter of the Constitution. This is not all. Tho measures of that parly will, in my judgment, tend to repress for an in definite period such a development of the resources of the South as had been ac complished before the war. It is grind ing out and discouraging tho property holding and intelligent class of citizens, to place all power, tho whole conduct of affairs, in the hands of the negroes and the few native whites and Northern ad venturers who would share it with them. Look at Tennessee, the reconstructed and 1 model’ State! There are fifty thousand negroes, uud twenty thousand whitcawho vole with them, making seventy thou sand in all entitled to tho suffrage. These represent a negro population of say two hundred and seventy-live thousand. But there are one hundred and thirty thou sand white citizens, representing a white population of more than eight hundred thousand —the property-owners, the bu siness and professional community of tho .State —who are practically excluded from participation in the government. How does it work ?” “ Hut we come back at last, Mr. Presi dent, to tho first thought—that Congress is determined not to allow this happy con summation.” “Bo,” remarked the President, leaning back in his chair with another grim smile, “so it would appear.” “ Which naturally leads us to the pros pect of continued and perhaps worse an archy.” “ A revolution, such ns those headlong spirits seem determined to precipitate, may have, if it is suffered to yo on, an ef fect more damaging than that of the last civil war.” “ The President—pardon me—has been understood to express his intention to ex orcise nil the authority vested in him by the Constitution to repel these revolu tionary measures.” “The President,” said Mr. Johnson, with a resolute gesture, “lias already ex pressed his intention to perform his duty. As to what that duty may involve ” (laying his hand lightly on the table and drumming with his lingers during the pause) “it would be rather premature, just now, even to suggest. Ire will leave special measures for special occasions when they arise. I have confidence in the good sense of the army, and certainly I believe in the people, i believe in the young men ; they will not permit a revo lution to be accomplished, even though,” added the President, in a serious, but not at all threatening tone, “ it might be nec essary for the people to take the mutter in to their own hands.” PVBIAC JRJSCJEPriOJV lIOVOIUHLIi JX«. x. HOFFMAN, The Hon. John T. Hoffman, Mayor of New York, was tendered a public recep tion, last week, at the Club Rooms of the Democratic Association of Pennsylvania, No. 901 and 903 Arch street, Philadelphia. The hall was beautifully decorated with American banners, which hung in grace ful festoons upon the walls. Many of the portraits and decorations which ornamen ted the hall on the memorable night of the Bth lust., when the anniversary of the New Orleans victory was so enthusiastic ally celebrated, still remain. Beneath the portrait of Jackson, over the speak er's desk, hung a large-sized and life-like, picture of the honored guest, Mayor Hoff man. Long before the hour announced for the Commencement of the meeting the hall was jammed, not a seat was there for any late unluoky oijGj but the aisles ami all the space unoccupied by benches -were appropriated as standing room for the spectators, so crowded was the hall. They came to sec and hear a statesman, who, us an earnest Democrat, held such an im portant position in the political contest of the day.. As the party, consisting of Col. Page, President of the Association; Mayor Hod man, audHon; Carles Browne, entered the hall, and worked hard to pass through the crowd, they were greeted by a storm of applause. Reaching the stand, the meeting was called to order by Col. Page, who said that they were honored by the presence of a gentleman who was a dis tinguished citizen of our sister city, New York, and a distinguished citizen of the Empire State; but what was more and of greater Importance to us and to the coun try at large, he is a distinguished mem ber of the great Democratic party of the land. Col. Page then, in some happy re marks, introduced Mayor Hoffman, who, upon rising, was greeted with a storm of applause, and before ho could commence his remarks, lusty voices cried out that at least two thousand anxious persons were waiting to got in. Being informed that Mr. Hoffman would address the as semblage who could not gain access to the'room upon the outside of the hall, quiet was restored. Mayor Hoittuau then said he had little expected that on hjs visit to this olty, which was to obtain rest, that ho would bo so publicly received by so groat a throng, and bo asked to address them on the important topics of tho times. Ho continued: I have gone through your beautiful city, greater in tho number of its comfortable residences than my own, though, perhaps, not so great in popula tion. I have looked upon your city, fa mous in history—famous in the records of your country, famous In its past, and destined to be still greater in its future ! I have been amongyourpoople.and havo met with nothing but extreme kindness. I have stood In the old Independence Hall, which brought so clearly to my mind the earliest associations which clua- tho past history of tho coun- I have seen tho Hancock chair, and the table, whereon tho glorious constitu tion was signed and sealed ; have looked u iii >n the pictured conn te nan cos of the old and tried patriots of our nation’s infancy. I found that in that old- building stand glorious mementoes of a glorious past, which toll of the times when men fought fora free and independent country, and of davs when a Constitution was framed to he preserved inviolate forages to come. As long as (he American people take a pride in their national name, so longwill ihat old building and its grand memen toes be cherished In remembrance. As I stood there I thought of the scenes which were transpiring in a city not far distant -■-l he capital of the nation —where uCoii giess, although elected by the people of the great North, and which did once rep resent them, butdoes not now, Is attempt ing to override the Constitution of our forefathers, in their determination to op pose the President of the United States, and arc essaying to override the Supreme Court, the great bulwark of the nation. When I feel like making a speech, I am impressed that tho action of Congress to-day is the best speech which can bo made for the Democratic party, and feel, also, that silence is bettor, when a fanati cal Congress is marching into the jaws of political death. A friend of mine, an eminent jurist of New York, hut whoso political affiliations arc exactly in contra distinction with my own, said lie was amazed and astonished that the Bar of America should remain silent when tho Congress of the United States was under taking to destroy this great Union. The organization of our government is made up of the Executive, Legislative and Ju diciary ‘ Departments, each independent of the other, and each vesting Us powers in the Constitution of the country. The Executive Department is charged by the Constitution with the duty and responsi bility of executing the laws; the Supreme Court is charged with the duty and re* Bponsibility of construing the law, and the Legislative Department is charged witli the power and the duty of making the law. Not until nowhas it been claim ed In this country, or any civilized coun try, that the majority of the Court did not constitute tho Court. What is this Con grees aiming at? It is now declaring that because the Supreme Court intends to ad judge certain acts of Congress us uncon stitutional, it should not bo’heeded as au thority, setting forth by such action that a minority may control the country, if tiie men of America make up their minds to willingly submit to this declartion of Congress, that the Supremo Court shall bo revolutionized, and that the majority of that highest Court of the United States shall not pass judgmentou the law of Con gress, they make up their minds that Con gress is a power absolute over belli tho Executive and Judicial Departments of the country. The speaker said further that the men of the North should not trust a General Grant, or any other soldier, who is allied to a party and a Congress whose object is to overthrow a great and time-honored government like this. The question now pending in Congress as to wether or not the {Supreme Court shall be overthrown, should be mot with thejust indignation of an earnest and honest constituency in the Northern States. Whyisit,thntlook ing about ns, we see such prostration in our business circles, when factories are closed, and store clerks are idle, and when each laborer looks with fear asd.o wheth er or not ills little pittace wouid meet his current expences of the day V It is because we have a dishonest lladlcal Con gress, who are keeping out ten States of the South, when they should be allowed their seats in the Legislature of the na tion, to txid puylne Oh* hie liettvy burden of taxation which hangs like an incubus about the neck of every poor man in the North. This is a time when men should gird up theirstreugth ; uphold our great na tion now, when it stands in such immi nent danger of being destroyed by the fa natics at Washington ! Wo care not for men, it is for principle we look! Tho next battle is not to be a battle of men but of ideas I Great principles are lobe upheld in the coming contest, or be over thrown ; and the speaker took great pride that in the city which has honored him with Its highest trust, there will be cast for the great and true principles of De mocracy, which is but another name for liberty and true nationality, and against that Congress which seeks not to main tain our great Union intact, 100,000 votes ' [Applause].— Age. romXCJS AT THIS STATE CAVITOL. SECOND WEEK ok the State Lechs latuke.—Another week has passed since i wrote you Just. The Legislature is now in running order, and different parlies are trying to force the passage of their hills’' under a suspension of the rules, but from the spirit manifested in oppos ing a suspension of the rules, wo think the action of the last Legislature Jias taught the present one that it is not wholesome for the Common wealth to run hills through without careful scrutiny’. Spirited discussions have been entered into by both sides in the House on the following resolution, offered by Mr. Oleckner, of Philadelphia. Resolved, That wo the representatives of the people of Pennsylvania do hereby heartily endorse the action of the United States Senate in reinstating as Secretary of War, Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, whose successful administration of his depart ment during the memorable and gloomy period of war and national peril, has en deared his name to every lover of liberty and Union throughout the laud. In the discussion attending the passage of the above resolution wo were pleased to hear tho member from dear Old Moth er Cumberland, my old home, give expres sion to their principles which are over true to tho Constitution and the Union. In connection with these remarks, al low mo to say that the Cumberland Val ley is ably represented in tho persons of Messrs B. F. Winger, of Groencastle, I 1 rankhn county, and your townsman, Theo. Cornmau, Esq., and I feel assured that iho interests of tho Valley will be carefully guarded during this winter Mr. Speaker Davis elected ay a free Bail-road advocate, has appointed tho following Bull-road committee, which if you look over the list carefully,-you will find that he has consulted the iutor estsofthe Fcuu’a. Baijroadln forming the committee. Tho opinion around the hill is that the Penu’a. B. B. has tho con trol. The committee is us follows: Jltiiirof/ib.—Mvsii rs, Wilson, Wall, Strung, Adalro, Herr, Ilcinuehl, Clark, (Philadelphia.) rum, Klsc-lcnor, Dum-im, Koy, M’Junkln, Hoi- W olJcr, Sluices, Phillips, Millar, (Alletdic ny.) .leaks, Josephs, Jqih*h, and Westbrook. After the appointment of tho commit tee, the discussion of tho resolution rela tive to Stanton was resumed, but after forcible am! spirited speeches the “ Bads” called the previous question, which had been amended, thereby showing that the guns tired by the Democratic side of the house were too heavy, and after having their arguments sifted they were willing to show the “ while fdalher” and discon tinue further discussion, More anon. C.mst phou not minister to a miml disceased Ana, with some sweet, oblivious antidote. Cleanse the foul bosom of tho perilous stall' ilmf weighs upon tho heart?” Certainly ; Plantation Bitters will doit when nothing else will, Melancholy, De pression, Hypochondria, Insanity, all spring, more or loss, from a disceased stomach, and this, Plantation Bitters is a sure cure- There is no mistake about it; Dyspepsia, Headache, Dullness, Ague, and Low Spirits must yield to the health giving and genial influence of the Plan tation Bitters. If you are in doubt, make one trial and bo convinced. Thus say those who know. Magnolia IVathii.—A delightful toilet article—superior to Cologne and half tho F ioe - Jan, 10, Bt. Hocal Items The Police.— ln an article, last week on the riot which occurred at the saloon of Philip Pritsch, on Louther Street the expression occurred; “As there were no police to be found, the light lasted some time ” Wo have since been informed that the police wore on hand and made several arrests. As it was not our inten tion to do injustice to the police we cheerfully make the correction. 'Wo look upon our police system as one of the very best institutions of our borough gov . eminent; and any one who contrasts the good order and security to life and pm perty of which our town boasts, with the lawlessness, riot, arson and murder of year ago, cannot fail to come to the same conclusion. Chief Burgess Campbell ami his police force have been a terror to evil doers ; and they deserve the cordial sup. port and encouragement of the order-iov iug people of this community. Thorcare those who complain of the expense of maintaining such a police system; but we would remind them that under tin; old administration scarcely a wool; or a month passed that property was not de stroyed by lire in this borough whose value would more than support the po lice force for all entire year. CJheat Western House Inker,ix rK Co.—A few weeks ago Mr. W. W. iirii ton, of Strasburg, Franklin county, pur chased an insurance on his line horse, from Mr. S. K. Donavin, of Shippn,-’ burg, agent of the Great Western Horse Insurance Company. Soon after the horse died, and, as will bo seen by the receipt below, Mr. Britton was promptly paid the amount for which he had insured. The Great Western is a solid Company, with assets on the Ist of July last, of $171,079. Their Agent at Shlppeusburg, Mr. Donavin, is doing „ large business in the way of lusurlii" horses and cattle, and always pays losso” promptly; January ].j, isos. Deceived of the Great Western I[o r -,. Insurance Company, one hundred and fifty dollars, in full for loss of horse, in. sured in said Company. W. W. Britton, Policy-holder. Strasburg, Franklin Co., Pa Admittkd to Pit actick. —On Monday, the 13th inat., our young friend Kdgar Hastings, was, upon presentation of U\< diploma from the Harvard Law school, and on motion of Win. M, Penrose, Khj admitted to practice law in the several courts of this county. Ho is a youne gentleman of tine abilities, has enjoyed the advantages of a thorough education, and wo wish him abundautsuecoss in the practice of his profession/ On Wednesday, John A. J. M’Cune, *J£sq., of Shippensburg, after passing a rigid and highly creditable examination before a committee appointed by the court, was on motion of F. M Beltzhoo vor, Ksq., also admitted to the Bar. Mr. M’Cuno is not only well road in the prin ciples of the law, but a long oxpirionee in business and extensive travel will com bine to render him a safe and reliable counsellor; while his dibits upon the fu rum give promise of no mean foren-ic ability. We wish him hosts of client.-. Finn. —Wo learn that a large Coach Factory at Shiremanstown, belonging to Messrs, /oigner A Shuster, was totally destroyed by lire on Saturday night last, together with a large amount of material. Wo have not learned the origin of the hre, nor any additional particulars. Nkw Kail-Koad, —We learn that the engineers in charge of the extension of the Cumberland Valley Bail-road from Hagerstown to Williamsport have com pleted their survey and submitted then estimates. The construction of the road will probably be commenced early in llu* Spring. Muiideueu Sentenced. Donovan, the murderer of the Squibb family, in York county, the details of which our readers are familiar with, was, after two trials, both of which .resulted in convic tion, sentenced, on Monday last, (o ho hung. ftiiff" Wc announce to our house-keep ing friends that Wm. Bentz intends to sell off his entire stock of goods ut cost by the first of April next. We know from experience that for every dollar in vested with the Colonel, his patrons will get back the value and a little more. Court Proceedings.—The January Term of Court commenced on Monday of last week —President Judge Graham and Associate Judges Stuart and Blair upon tho bench. The following cases were dis posed of: COUIIT OK .COMMON PLEAS. Ahl vs. Foreman. Action in Debt, to recover the price of mules sold the de fendant. Verdict for the defendant.— Penrosoaud Miller for Plaintiff; J. M’D. Sharpe and A. B. Sharpe for defendant. QUARTER SESSIONS, Commouwsalth vs, John Henderson. Fornication and Bastardy. Verdict guil ty, and defendant, falling to give securi ty for payment of maintenance, was com mitted to county prison. Mnglaughlin, Miller and M’Clure for Commonwealth ; Hepburn and Sharpe for defendant. Com. vs. James Smith, John Cramer aud Lewis Faber. Assault and battery upon Policeman First. Smith plead guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine of ?10 and costs of prosecution. A nolle proa, was entered as to Cramer and Fa ber. Mnglaughlin for Com. ; Hepburn for defendants. Com. vs. Sophia Mathers. Larceny «f wood—verdict not guilty. Maglaiighhn for Com. ; Shearer for defendant. Com. vs. Thomas Baker—Stealing wood —verdict not guilty, Maglaughliu fur Com. ; Shearer for defendant. Com. vs. Mrs. Ann White, Adultery and Fornication. Defendant plead guil ty. Shearer and Maglaughliu for Com.; Todd for defendant. Com. vs. Henry Wolf. Larceny of Verdict guilty, and defendant sentenced to pay a line of $1 and undergo an ini prisonment in county jail for three months; Maglaughliu for Com.; Her man for defendant. Com. vs. Daniel G. May. Assault and Battery upon his wife, and desertion.— Verdict guilty, and defendant sentenced to pay $4OO 00 per annum for mainte nance of his wife ami child. Maglaugli* linandHumrlch for Com. ; Hepburn ami Hepburn for defendant. Com. us. Margaret Miller. Keeping a disorderly house; selling liquor to mi nors and selling on Sunday. Verdict guilty, and defendant sentenced to pay !l lino of $5O, forfeit her license, and under go an Imprisonment of sixty day’s in t* lC county jail. Shearer and Maglaughim for Com, ; Todd for defendant. Com. m. John B. Noble. Selling dis eased meat. Verdict guilty, and sen tenced to pay a fine of $3O, and an imprisonment in county Jail for - days. Maglaughliu for Com. ; fobeiuei for defendant. Lonnv Com. vs, John Hard. False Pretense. Defendant not guilty; and prosecutor >• H. Heberlig to pay two-thirds of iu« costs, and John Hard, defendant, on third of the costs. Miller, Nowshain an Williams foroom.; Sharpandßhoads io defendant.