Ca dotuttbia gpi• y e - • ; *4. " fiats' J. W. YOCIIM 3. W. YOCIT3I, 1. Publishers and J. A. W'OLPERSISERGE.a, I'l uprieturs. Columbia, Pa: Saturday, April 2, 18:0. COVIIUN/C trloNs,letters, enntributlens, generally of merit and interest to the reader, will be acceptable from friends (tern all quarters. FOR THE COLUMBIA SPY ► THE COL UMBIA SPY! AND TUE YEW YORK _INDEPENDEN ! =IMMMM The SPY, worth $2.00 per an num; the NEW YORK INDE PENDENT worth $2.50 per annum ; a Steel Engrav ing of Grant, worth '.42.00, and a Steel Engraving o Colfax, Worth 02.00 ALL FOR FOUR DOLLARS Ifeeting of the Count 7 Committee A meeting of the Republican County Committee will be held in the " Orphans' Court Room," in the city of Lancaster,on Monday, April 4th. at 11+ o'clock A. M. for such important business as may be brought before the Committee. IV.E quote a notable passage from a lecture delivered on the 4th instant at Washington, Pa., by W. D. Moore, Esq. mn a democrat, and opposed to the Fifteenth Amendment, but I desire to bear my testimony to the character of the negro population of the South. After the passage of the conscript act they outnum bered the whites five to one. They could have arisen at any time and utterly anni hilated the :white population, and there - were not wanting evil men to make the suggeition. They remained, however, the same in obedience, docility, faithfulness, and order, as before the war broke out. There is nothing like it in all the pages of history, and I never knew or heard of a race who seemed, in my judgment, to live so near to the Divine teachings as the ne- Oes of the South during the rebellion. Their conduct was epitomized in a single. remark made - to inc 11Y - a -- Very aged one among them. 'We'se like-the children of 'lsrael at the Red Sea; all we has to do is to stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord!' At all the times and under all the circumstances I will bear testimony to the unequalled behavior of the Southern neoes during the war." OUR Legislature continues to attest its uncompromising devotion to retrench ment and reform! The • House has just created a new $3,000 office, with traveling expenses. The incubent is to be styled a "Commissioner of Pensions," and his , special bUsiness will be to stop certain small outside - 'dealings from the State reasury, in: the, - matter of pension. earing the GOVernor's incapacity to se lect a suitable niam the House expressly deSignates,l'for - the post, Mr. Thomas Nicholson; the'preseut Chief Clerk under Mr. Mackey, in the The Gov ernor will be - grateful for this mark of confidenCe in the Fxecutive discretion; Mr. Nicholson, who has been generally expected to take an active part ere long in certain legal proceedings against a former delinquent officer, will perhaps also be so grateful that he will think better of his desperate intent; and Mr. Ames, himself a supporter of Mr. Irwin, who introduced this little sugar-plum, no doubt, expects to be grateful also for the probable sup pression of a further unpleasantness. All this is very cheap at only $3,000 more, per year, out of the Treasury. By all means, don't stop it!—Ex, ME Philadelphia Democrats are split up on the negro question, and are about to disband the organization known as the `Democrtic Association of Pennsylvania,' in consequence. At the last meeting res olutionS were offered to this effect, and some spicy speeches were made on the oc casion, one of them by a Mr. Karnes, an "old fogy," in which he referred to the new doctrines which were inaugurated by the new Saturday night speeches. He was in favor of disbanding the association at once; he did not want to see it go into the power and hands of those who preach ed the new doctrines. He for one was in faver of a "white man's government," and as of late the association did not fa vor this view, it had better be ,dissolved. After:a big `row , between the 'old' and 'am lights' the meeting adjourned to meet' again on March 20, at 74- o'clock, when the question of continunig or dis solving:the association will be settled. Tim tendency of our copperhead neigh bOrs,to announce several days before what will appear in their sheet is a family weak- One ,of the trio—the Alexandria antoblogr' aphist—was in Lancaster on Monday; and told a disgusted group of in telligent cltizens—strangers to the afore- Said editorz—how " he was agoing to pitch into theStormarthis week . . " - The "pitch in" accordingly came, but knowing that, there was not a word of truth in his rep resentations, and knowing too, the credit which is attached to his sheet, he supple mented the article with the sparkling an nouncement, "the above facts are true." Like the fly said to the ox. "I won't hurt you. Tun Rome (Ga.) Courier casts a politi cal horoscope and cries out, "we can't see ahead; and if we could we would hit it." How fortunate that that head is not like lytd be a colored man's this time. The negro's skull Is notorious for its thickness and it can stand, as the experience of the past few years has proven, any amount of hitting or "butting." The head ahead now is - Woman's—"beautiful woman's,'— which our gallanecontemporary in Rome will no: doubt have but little objection "Maine' in a friendly contest. Au Eastern philosepherpredicts that within elevenyears a woman will be inaugurated President. Think of that, ye Rome Alms; Y. Herald. WHAT Is TRU' lIATT.I,II?—The. Laucas the intelligencer takes the , Philadelphia Age severely to task fof publishing articles laudatory of, the late swindling railroad act. • - • The Bellfonte Watchman, is quite sharp, on. the Age for refusing to publish• sound democratic doctrine without •putting the word advertisement over it, and - placing it ,With,quack medicines. ~ , The Day Book, denounces the Age for refusing to .publish democratic doctrine without.being paid. ! !.,"lf,any man attempts to (oppose the new ToWn If.all) haul &own the American flag, shoot hilt on the spot.„ .Editor Senator Billingfelt Prom the speech of Mr. Billingfelt on the great Railway raid on the State sink ing fund we make the following extracts: "I might not have attempted to speak upon this subject to-day, on account of the condition of my health, had it not boon for the.fact that in colleague and myself have been cliallengedrepeatedly,by the Senator from Potter last night, and the Senator from Greene to-day, through allusions made to the fact that the main line runs through the county of Lancas ter, which we have the honor to represent, and hence our county being largely bene fited thereby, intimating as though we ought to favor the passage of this bill. It is true, the main line runs through our county, and could they in building it have found any other practicable route to reach Philadelphia, it is doubtful whether we would have had the benefit or it. As it is, we have the road; the trains are run ning through there, and barely stop long enough in the city of Lancaster to enable passengers to take a decent dinner. And what has the comity of Lancaster to pay for this privilege? Look at the enormous debt heaped upon the Commonwealth, created almost solely by the construction, of the public works, and. see what proportion of them falls upon Lancaster county, and compare it with the benefits we derive therefrom—a debt which will cling to us for generations yet to come, unless we adopt a different policy of naanaging the finances of the Commonwealth faom what we have here tofore done, and especially from what is proposed to he done by the provisions of this bill. And does not Lancaster county pay wore taxes into the Treasury of the Commonwealth than all the counties rep resented be the Senators hauled who fa vor this bill, with the county of Schuyl kill added to them? Mr. Olmstead: Give us a Railroad and we will pay as much as you pay. Mr. Billingfell: I am as much in favor of developing the resources of the Com monwealth as any other Senator, and 1 am willing to give you all the corporate privileges you may ask for, but no money, for we have none to spare to build Rail roads with. We need it all, and more too, to pay our debts as rapidly as theybE come due_ fir. Randall: The county of Schuylkill pays more into the State Trmsnry than Lancaster. and the ..ludit4 - )r General's Rz- port shows it. Mr. Billingielt: Well. then_ let us re fer to the Annual Report of the Audi tor General. I find that the county of Schuylkill pays I=ll.ooo tax on personal property, whilst the county of Lancaster pays over S34„000. Mr. Randal: In reply to the remarks of the Senator from Lancastef (Mr. Billing felt) I would say that the county of I Schuylkill pays three times as much tax as the county of Lancaster. although Schuylkill county may not show it in her rettu - n to the Auditor General. The pro ducts of her mines pay three times as much as the county of Lancaster. Mr. Billingfelt: I generally take a man at his own offer on a question of this kind and have already proved my assertion by the report of the Auditor General. Now he falls back and asserts that they swell their revenues by paying a tax upon the products of their mines. This is undoubt edly true; but since the passage of the act of ISG 7 t, taxing the products`of the mines, s kSic., for ei;er,37 dollat they pay into the Treasiwy the consumer is charged 'an 'ex tra price on coal to tliamount of a dollar and a half if not two dollars. And here -again the county of Lancaster comes in for a larger portion than the county of because the consumer in reali ty pays the tax. And, sir, those are not the only burdens Lancaster, as iGreil as other eastern counties, has to bear more than her appropriate share. Look at the immense appropriation bill passed every year. The amount appropriated last year exceeded the revenues for that purpose $918,000, and that much had to be taken out of the sinking fund in violation of law. And for what purpose? Why, the Principal item is the appropriation to Common Schools. Several years ago it only amounted to 200,000, next to $350,- 000; last year to 5500,000, and this year the House raised it to $750,000. Now the secret of this large appropriation is little known to the public. the real object of which is to benefit those counties repre sented by the Senator favoring this bill at the expense of such counties as Lancaster, Chester, Montgomery, Berks and others. And yet it seems we are to have no inter est in the disposition of these bonds, and that we should remain content and let this bill pass because the Pennsylvania Railroad runs through Lancaster county. I am not an enemy to that mammoth corporation. I believe that road to be a great part of the life of the Commonwealth its managers are among the most accom- inodating and shrewdest business men in the State, and. they ought to have all the rights belonging to them; but I cannot agree and be made a party to this proposed measure. whereby securities which are certain are to be given up, and others taken in lieu thereof which arc uncertain mid most assuredly less valuable to the Commonwealth. here is no guarantee in this bill at all going further than securing the payment of the interest on those bonds until these new roads are built. After the guarantors will be relieved, and by the time any part of the principal -becomes due those bonds may be_shifted on some other proposed neWroads likethe Sunbury and Erie bonds last year, and if not, we will have no security left for the six million bonds save the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway Compa ny, and nothing left for the payment of the three and a half million bonds save the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Railway Company, with the Wanesburg branch in Green county, for $1,600,000; the Clearfield and Buffalo Railway Com pany for 81,400.000, and the Erie and Al leghany Railway Company for half mil lion dollars. Here are 59,500,000 to be taken out of the State Treasury to be de vided amongst half a dozen unconstructed or proposed railroads, with no assurance that a single dollar of the principal amount will ever find its way back into the Treas ury. We ought to hesitate and ponder well before we take this important step, to which nine-tenths of the people would disagree, were the question submitted fairly to them. The passage of this willbe far more un popular with the masses, as it is more dangerous, than the repeal of the Tonnage tax in 1801. Had the Pennsylvania Rail road Company then paid imto the Treas ury tha $BOO,OOO then due the Common wealth, perhaps very little would have been said. But here it is proposed to vote tin ay millions of money arising from the contracting of our immense debt, and not applying it to repay such debt, but for other purposee . - thin thOSe named in the Constitution. 'We are still in possession of these bonds; they are doubly secured, first, by an Act of Assembly, followed by obligations of which the pin - Chasers of the main line can ner, get rid until every dollar is paid. .1 even doubt whether the transfer of these bonds, although to be authorized by an Act of Assembly, will relieve the Penn sylvania Railroad Company from the orig inal contract entered into in ISOI. But why hazard the experiment, and compel our honest tax-payers to make up a defi ciency in the revenues that Will be caused by giving away,those securities before the Public may even be allowed to know what we propose to do? You are assuming a fearful risk, and still more fearful will be the responsibility. I would not vote for this bill though the whole of the proceeds of these bonds should go to Lancaster county." The "Herald" Nowhere This exquisite piece of devilism, dub bed the XV Amendment, is a creature of fraud--a child of dirt, oppression and des potism, so bestial, impious, irrational and offensively vile, that it demands resist mice at the hands of every true patriot. If any portion of the Democratic press, anticipates a triumph of the Democratic party, by obsequious submission to this bestial fraud, they must be ignorant and besotted asses. The doctrine of expedien cy will fail them here, as any other course than squarely contesting the fallacies of the nigger mongering faction, is absurd and destructive to the best interests of the people. The Democratic journal that succumbs to this hideous devilism, is either a traitor to the democracy or a political strumpet, who, in its lecherous wantonness, has thrown itself into the embraces of tambo, for a price. It is no time now for the the Democratic press to stand trembling and hesitating upon the brink of this and revolting chasm of miscegenation. Never was the cause of liberty in such deadly peril as at this time, and if we al low this diabolical fraud to be enforced upon us. through timidity or 11011-re:dSt ance, we deserve richly the combined curses of all future generations. We say to our readers, never, never compromise with this Vestal, vile_ andun hallowed monster. Stand up to the issue —fight it to the litter end—fight it till b—II freezes over, and then fight it on the ice. Ignore every candidate that is not in favor of resisting it. Malt' it the ral lying cry for victory and the restoration of our rights under the Constitution.—nut ler County (0. It is seldom in the 'lm-task of newpaners that we have the/leas - are of enjoying such exouisite feasts as is offered above. The unwashed" country papers are slow to accept the instruction of their cite entem poraries. and invite the much abused col ored man to a seat in the `- dress circle '• of their political theatre_ 'But Pennsylva nia jocula •al-ma is leadiMt the way. Al ready we have intelligence of a disruption in the wig - warn because a number of the party declare for the nerro. while 'a less respectable portion are resolved to -- carry the war into Africa" against the nigger. The democratic organ in Lancaster county is preparing for the presto! change which must be accepted as a part of his tory. The democracy of Lancaster city have decided upon nominating a purely Anglo-African ticket, one which can not fail to unite the disturbing elements of this most harmonious party. Thaddeus henry, a distant relative of a distinguish ed local politician, is to be nominated for the office of Inspector. As Thaddeus is an expert whistler and banjoist, be can ; resurrect democratic visions of " the lost irtS," and perfornithe offices of aubracular -muse! Pat Rowland,theintelligentteam ster, is to be the democratic candidate for Constable in Brubaker's Ward, and with the Intclligen err to bolster up his claims, will become a formidable rival for prima cy election honors. We rejoice in this growing appreciation by the democracy of their fellow men. The political mil leniwn, about which we read, is clawing in Lancaster county, and there are even wild rumors of a somewhat similar atlilia tion of these heretofore antagonistic ele ments in Columbia. We understand tIO a call is being signed for a meeting of the "leaders" and that measures will be adopted, which will result in the most felicitous coalition of the democrats of all ages, color and sexes. The heteroge neity of the past will be lost in the homo geneousness of the future. Unblulling Frank.: Dispatches to the Philadelphia papers on monthly night reveal the following: The Senate was not in session. The evening session of the House was mmked by the most reckless legislation that could be imagined. Bills incorporating railroads and other companies were passed by situ ply reading their titles, and it was ascer tained in one instance that a company had been granted rights which would enable it to construct a six foot wide track through the entire length of the State. This bill was afterwards reconsidered under the system pursued. It was absolutely im possible for the contents of the bill to be known before the passage. Since then it has transpired that an other infamous outrage has been com mitted by members of the Philadelphia delegation. A bill was introduced ap proved by councils providing for the transfer to that body full authority over the whole subject of delinquent taxes, a matter in which there has been great abuse and la's to the city amounting to millions of dollars. This bill was really passed by the Legislature. The fact of its passage is vouched for by William Elliot, one of the Representa tives front this city, who had charge of it in the Legislative . , and by Mr. Bardsley, Chairman of the Joint Committees or of Cmincils, who, with his colleagues,rep resented the wishes of the city authori ties. These gentlemen both attest the fact that the bill prepared by councils and correcting the abuses of which the city justly complains, passed the House of Representatives on the 15th of March,and the Senate on the 22d of March. At that time it went to the clerk's °dice to be en grossed or enrolled, and there all trace of the genuine bill is lost. Between that time and the time when another, a coun terfeit bill was signed by the Executive, the gross and villainous fraud was perpe trated substituting for a genuine act of legislation a false paper that was never passed. We present this additional in sight into the character of Harrisburg legislation, and the perils to the interests and property of Philadelphia and its peo ple from the never-ending frauds perpe trated at Harrisburg. Ix another column we present an ex.. tract from the able speech of Mr. Billing felt delivered in the Senate on the great Railroad bill. The speech has been favor ably commented on by the press, as Mr. Billingfelt's best eflort. 'MAJ. GE. THOMAS, the hero of Nash ville, dicd at San Francisco on the _'St, inst. In the language of Gen. Sherman, there is no need to refer the archieves to search for his history, for it is recorded on almost every page. Orn copperhead neighbor does not re ceive his'instructions from the Luteligen cer, or the Age, but plays," second fiddle" to the"Bellefont -Watchman. ENFRANCHISEMENT! RATIFICATION OP TILE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT "Raised From a Dead Lovol to,a Living Perpendicular." ——o— "The surf shall'wear the strand itway. The granite hills to dust shall znouldq, - Ere Slavery Its hated hand lay Again upon the negro's shoulder." ILotrr,ToN Fisir, Secretary of State of the United States: To all 'whom. these presents may eonte,greet ing: Know ye that the Congresss of the United States; on or about the 27th day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, passed a resolu tion in the words and figures following,to wit: " A resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States: "Resolved, by the Senate and '.lfou.se of .7?epresentatices of the United States of America in Congress assembled, tico-thirds elf both Houses concurring, That the fol lowing article be proposed to the Legisla tures of the several States, as an amend ment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by„ three fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid° as part of the Constitution, viz: Article 15. • SECTION 1. That the rights of citizens, of the T.Tnited States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color. or previous condition of servitude. - SECTION 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropri ate legislation." And further, that it appears from offi cial documents on file in this department that the amendment to - the Constitution of the United States, proposed as afore said, has been ratified by the Legislatures of the States of North Carolina, West Virginia, Maine, Wisconsin. Michegan, Louisiana, Pennsylvania_ South Carolina, Connecticut, ' Arkansas. Illinois, Florida, New York, Indiana, Navada, New nampshire, Virginia Vermont, Missouri. Alabama, Ohio, Mississippi. Kensas, lowa. Rhode ITinue‘ , APl, - Massachusetts, a\ ebraska. Texas, in all twenty-nine States. And further. that the States - whose Legislatures have so ratified the said proposed amendment const - tute three-fourths of the - whole number of States in the United. States. And further, that it appears from an 0775.- 6111 document on file in this department that the Legislature of the State of New York has since passed resolutions claim ing to withdraw the said ratification of the said amendment, which had been made by the Legislature of that State. and of which official notice had been filed in this department. And further, that it appears from an official document on file in this department that the Legislature of Geor gia has, by resolutions, ratified - the said proposed amendment— - .ANors, thefefori, be it known that I, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State of the United States, by Virtue, and in-pursuance of the second sectidu of the act of Con gress approved the 20th day of April in the year 1818, entitled "An act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States, and for other ptuposes," do hereby certify that the amendment afore said has become valid to all intents and. purposes as part of the Constitution of the United States. In testimony' whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Department of the State to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 30th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and s) seventy, and of the Independence of the united States the ninety fourth. HAMILTON Fisn. Iv the Crawford County System is un popular with the masses of the people, then let the people themselves petition the County Committee for an opportunity to test the questiOn, but it looks had for any one of the • Committee to get up petitions, and personally canvass a place for names. Of course it is quite charit able for any one to help them out of the little trouble into which they "delved 2 ' when that call for a special meetin g was issued. If any member of the Committee thought the movement to press the issue on the people on the 30th of April was right and judicious, and calculated to send him to the Legislature, there can certainly be no good reasons for his securing the peti tion of his neighbors. Somebody made a big mistake in not getting the aforesaid petitions signed and presented before that special meeting. To get them now will not mend the matter any. The object was to foist the imrtter sud denly upon the people. The attempt fail ed. We have had special elections enough. At a general primary election the question may receive a full and honest decision. At another time it will not. There are many flood men who believe that the Pop - War system of nominations has a bad tendency, that it will corrupt the people, &c; but even, they acknowledge the in justice of a special election. The present movement has for its object the sending of certain polltici2ns to the Legislature, who want just one session in which to be ruined. They know the peo ple don't want them there. Sic transit (Aria pLundi.. The Night of St. Bartholomew. Monday night was, to use • a llyberni cism, a regular Field Day in the Rouse. The roosters flaunted their gayest plum age, and flapped their wings, and crowed so lustily that the very rafters of the cap itol vibrated with the noise. As the hours of official existence are waning, the char acter of the legislation becomes more profligate. It would be in vain to run through the catalogue of bills that were hurried to final passage that night. The bills were readmerely by their titles and passed in a twinkling, and all who are familiar with with Pennsylvania legisla tion kiwi , / how ingeniously the language_ of the title is made to cover the frauds• ' lent nature of the act. Scarcely a mem ber, except those who had clutrge of a bill knew its contents, for no opportunity was given to examine them. With such un seemly haste were the bills rushed through that the reporters could hardly catch the titles, and it was not intended that they should. As if to give some show of de cency and deliberation to theproceedings, two or three bills were reconsidered, but, this was, probably, for the purpose of giving them 'a fresh "squeeze." The shameful scene was kept up until a late hour, the chanticieers finally desisting from downright exhaustion. Long will Monday night•be remembered in the dis graceful annals of Pennsylvania legisla tion.—Putriot, Columbia. awl h^r Carpet-laggc-rs. WltAl"rillni HAYTI DONIt: lu a former article we referred to the fact, when W. G. Case, Esq., first located In Columbia, the Reading & Columbia Railroad was only a project. This has been questioned by a few. An inquiry in to the history of that enterprise estalishes even more than we asserted. When the construction of the road was first proposed to Mr. Case, he stipulated for an immedi ate commencement of the work, provided .HubscriPtions to the stock to the amount of $300,000:00 could be secured. This con dition was apparently complied with, the subscriptions were secured, but when the collections were to he made only about 75,000.00 could be made available. This exceedingly small sum became the start ing point of a project which, as now corn pleted.cost nearly three millions of dollars: in fact this amount was the only cosh fund •which Mr. C. could command in his haz ardous undertaking. This was in truth the working capital. This fund was soon exhausted, and, Mr. C. had to rely upon his individual enterprise and the resources which a man of enterprise and determina tion may devise. Bonds, scrips, due bills, &c., were issued. loans negotiated, and the finances so carefully managed that every dollar of the floating obligations was promptly met. The details of the disap pointments and disparagements which beset the enterprise would alone form an interesting chapter in the history of our carnet-baggers. Yet it was finally accom plished, and no one can estimate the great advantage to Columbia. which resulted from the completion and subsequent oper ation of the B. &C.F. B. There is not a p.irallel in the history of railroad con struction_ in which so "ranch determination was display - ed. Mr. Case stood almost alone in the breath. but refers with pleas ure to the devotion of the few citizens who were always ready to sustain him_ They were carpet-leiggers--good men and true. It is a pride for Columbians to point to the thirteen furnaces and the two tolling, mills Rine now lying idle) in and around the town. As an iron centre we wield no small influence in shaping legislation on the most important interest. In faiit, it is asserted in well-informed circles that the late able mid statesmanlike review of com missioner wens' report by Senator Scott was induced by the resolutions and peti tions of Columbilms. The comments by the leading papers in the comity upon their action is a flattering endorsement of the importance we attach to these inter ests. The increase in wealth and population. -influent by flies€ investments can only be approximately estimated. They tO hundreds of men_ an that e':tent increase trade. The true prosper ity of any town consists in the amount of steady employment sl:e can offer the la boring man. The addition of such capital as would, e mpl4,y one thousand additional men would oi;, - -a up a most certain and diro-r:t Iray to city dignity. To this end our iron interests have contributed largely. One gentleman alone contributed at least $.40,f.ki.v0 to :he Value (.f the real estate of Columbia. We might pursue this subject further, and prove but one and the same proposi tion at first laid down—that about ninety five per cent of our population belong to the nomadic race (we do not however ignore those most excellent citizens, who join hands with their adopted brothers in every 4.riblic enterorise.) We might point to the banks, to the school building, to the market house, to the new town Hall, •to the atewspapers, and to—everything. With such associates as these, the epithet of carpet-bagger has become but another name for enterprise, energy, thrift and influence. Surely in the intelligence of the decade upon which we have just en tered, the croakers and old fogies "must stand from under." DEFUNCT. Sale of the Furniture of the Democratic Association of Pennsylvania on Monday. Monday saw the last of the Democratic Assosiation of Philadelphia. For some time past a furious war has been raging in the ranks of the party in this city,which last week culminated in open rupture and subsequent disbauchnent. The leaders of the unterrified have been quarrelling over the new voting element so lately added to our population, and were at chiggers' points as to the measure by which their failing fortunes might be retrieved. All these causes, together with certain little debts which the association had never cancelled, conspired to hasten its dowfall. A few days ago an advertisement appear ed in the newspapers stating that on Mon day, March 28, the furniture and tiixtures of the " Democratic Association of Penn sylvania" would be disposed of at public sale, In accordance with the announce ment a motly crowd gathered on Monday at the rooms of the association, in the old fashioned but respectable mansion at Ninth and Arch streets. The crowd was curious one,and was made up of all classes. Democrats and Republicans, Irish and colored men, coalesced together and kept up a friendly rivalry in bidding for the effects of the defunct Democracy. A few members of the moribund association, with w•oe-begone countenances, mingled in the throng and helped to run up tile prices by putting in an occasional bid. Keepers of junk shops, secone-hand deal ers, and a sprinkling of professional thieves made up the residue. The sale commenced punctually at tell o'clock in the west parlor. The tables, chairs, carpets, and chandeliers of this apartment were sold at very good prices. Two good engravings of 'Washington and Jackson, whom the Democracy profess to revere so much, were knocked down for $lO each. Photographs of Seymour and Blair, which adorned the walls of this parlor, were not put up, on the plea that they were private property. No body manifested any special ankiety regarding them, as far as we could see. The Flag staff which "Surmounted the building, and from which the banner of the Union, so distasteful to the Democracy, had often iloatzd, was disposed of at a sacrifice. A member of the association, as if to excite commiseration in the hearts of the buyers, in a plaintive voice announced that it had cost the association $1.50. This nppem was in vain, however, it was knocked clown at the end for $lO. . The Eagle which adorned the top of the roof was next put up. This eagle was, as the auctioneer gravely announced, an American eagle, of tine pattern, and had cost the club a great deal of money. lu his talons he held a scroll on which was inscribed "The Union and the Constitu tion." Alas! that the Democracy should set such a little value upon articles so necessary to the rhetoric of their orators. The Eagle and the Constitution brought $l7. The benches which had so often supported the weary Democracy when they liiul reparied to the headquarters to,listen to the speeches of their demagogues, were knocked down for a mere trifle. The Rostrum from which so ninny of the shin ing lights of the Democracy have address ed the riff-riff of the party, was next put Up, and knocked down for ten dollars to a gentleman who, it is to be hoped, will convert it to a better use. Some little indignation was expressed by the curious on account of the failure of the auction eers to put up the coffee-pot which has often increased the Democratic vote by means of manufacturing fraudulent nat uralization papers. BEECHER says: "Ifs" are the dragons which haunt men's lives. What a drag on their fears would be removed if the old croakers could defeat the new town Hall project. SPECIAL NOTIC.L'S. PAIN K LI, -lan zrANIIATTAN, Ititnems, April 17, 186 G I‘ll:ssris. PERRY DAVIS & SOS, GENTLEMEN:— * * *I want to say alitho more about the Pain Killer. I consider it a vety v.duablo medi cine, and always keep it on hand, I have traveled a gond deal since I have been in Kansas, and never without taking it with me. In my practice I used it freely for the Asiatimeholera in 1819, and with better I 'limeys than as him any other medicine, I also used it here for Cholera in 1855, with tee ...ante good re /mita. A. hUNTING, M. D. s s ‘. I regret to soy Mat the dholera has pre vailed here of late to great extent. For the last three weeks, from ton to titty or sixty fatal eases each day have been reported. 1 should add that the Pain Fidler sent reeently from the Min ion 110114 e, ha. , been used with con , nieJablr. , uceee• dialog this epi.lemie. if taken in season, it Is generally effec tual in checking the thsea,e. Rev. CHAS. HA RDISG, Sholapore, sept I-69- tfii. THE FACTS AS TREY ARE: I We bewail, In 186 l to make improve ' mews to the style and make of Ready-Made Clothing, and continued to do sw, introducing new 6tyle, and Im /" .. " . " ideas et ery year, so that the entire char ester of the bosine. ,, is now vastly lbetter and totally different from the systems of older hoagies. our tirst idea is to learn exactly What Wri AT THE CUSTOMERS WANT, and Instead of persuading him to buy Want. what way be most conveniently at hand, we take the utmost pains to meet HIS wishes. The building we occupy is the MOST CONVENIENT SIZE, LARGEST AND HEWADArrEu for our business of [any in Philadelphia f CmitoinerS can oe what they are I buying, our Establishment being on the corner of three large streets, Mar . (ket, Sixth and Minor streets,) abun dant light is afforded from all direc tions. A light store is far better for _customers than a dark one. I iiTerehanld know that our sales are I larger than those of any other Leone The in Philadelphia, in cur line: hence we Large have to buy larger quantities of goods, P.- and so get them at lower pnees, c-- , ch I ases. ecially as we buy altogether ice oasis. Buying cheapest, we can cell cheap ' est_ i We closely elantine every inch of goods that comes into our Estiiblish in,pee hen. -, meat, invariably rejecting all ref perfect, moth-eaten and tender ,(e.t., i nes, ( The time wasted in looking over the i A to- is of a dozen stores can be molded. , i Pt.:, under -me loo.f, we o ff er for sale °''''''s ran Assortment equal In varletj• and ex- Sav m g- tent to that embraced by a score of the Lordinary houses. I We have GOO hands employed in the manufacture of Clothing, who are Free constantly making upstock to take tits Go e. ) r lace of that daily sold; this gives our t eu