Jlwmcim Wuiitm.
CARLISLE. PA.,
Tli«n<l*7 Horning:, January S 3, 1808.
democratic state convention
Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 8, iscs.
The Democratic State Committee of
Pennsylvania have fixed WEDNES
DAY, THE FOURTH (-Uh)DAV OF
MARCH, 1803, at 12 o’clodk M„ ns the
time, and the Hall of the House of Repre
sentatives, at Harrisburg, as the place, for
holding the annual Convention of the
puny.
It is ordered that this Convention I e
composed of one member for each Sena
tor and Representative, who shall be
elected in the usual manner, am! thev will
meet at the lime and place aforesaid, lor
the purpose bf nominating candidates for
the olliecs of Auditor (leneral, and Sur
veyor General, and of selecting Delegates
to the National Convention for the nom
ination of candidates for President and
Vice President.
The members and committees of the or
ganization and all cuieoi vutive citizens
who can unite with u> 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<lunoi
U deiired
fUA.VK UII.LIiLKN,
CVui.Vmnn Dent. Stand. O-hi
»* UNBECOMING AN OPFICEII AND A
GENTLEMAN,
Pending the discussion in the Senate
to reinstate that man of infamy, Stan
ton, in the War Ofiice, Gen. Grant
pledged his Jtonor{'. 1 ) to President John-
son that lie would not surrender
keys of the office to Stanton, even if the
Senate should declare him reinstated,
without giving the President duo no
tice. But he violated his word, and in
doing so he committed an not “unbe
coming an officer and a gentleman.’'—
No sooner had Grant been told of the
action of the Bump Senate, than he left
the War Office, leaving the keys with
his Adjutant General, with Instructions
to place them in the Inman of Stanton.
Stanton took the keys, unlocked the
doors, and at once entered upon his du
ties (receiving negro delegations,) with
out molestation, a* d without the knowl
edge of the President,
Gen. Grunt, it i> 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\ >‘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.
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.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.