latker braljain.
LANCASTER CITY, OA
FRIDAY, APRIL 10,1869.
Neonomy, Retrenchment, Faithful Collection
of the Revenue and Payment of the Public
Debt.—GaA N T.
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THANLS
Wc are under very great obligations to
one of our distinguished representatives in
the Legislature, Dr. Gatchcll, for a copy
of the annual School Report, printed in
the German language. That was kind of
the Dr. and " werry seWere."
PLAYED OUT!
The late elections in Connecticut and
Rhode Island prove conclusively that the
topperhead bugaboo cry of "Nigger, Nig
ger ! " has fhhlcn into utter contempt.
Still, the Lancaster Intelligencer keeps
it up. Poor devils, it is their only stock
in trade, and that is worth nothing.
COL. WICKERSHAM.
The re-nomination and unanimous confir
mation by the Senate of our townsman,
Col. J. P. Wickersham, as State Superin
tendent of Common Schools, is a compli
ment well deserved. During the three
years that Mr. W. has held the position,
the affairs of the Department have been
administered with great ability, the work
-done having been immense, and accom
plished with a less comparative expense
than that of any other of the State De
partments. We congratulate Mr. W.,
and the friends of the Common School
interests of the commonwealth, in his re
appointment.
FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
" The right of citizens of the United
'States to vote shall not be denied or a
bridged by the United States, or by any
Mate, on account of race, color or previ
ous condition of servitude."
Webster 'Unabridged Dictionary—the na
tional standard of our language—gives the
following definition:
DEMOCRAT, n. One who adheres to a
government by the people, or favors the exten
sion of the right of suffrage to all classes of men."
—No man, therefore, can be a 'Demo
crat,' in the true sense of the term, who
is oppos?d to the Suffrage Amendment.
Let Democrats everywhere ponder this
Fact.
THE 66 WAVE."
The Boston Post, a "Democratic " pa
per, says : "It was from a lack of incen
tive that the Connecticut election, in great
part, went as it did, to which should be
added the fact that the wave of last fall
which carried General Grant into the
Presidential chair has not yet wholly sub
sided." If this be the truth, the Demo
mats had Letter bestir themselves in the
work of manufacturing fresh "incentive"
and erectingbreakwaters to check the force
of that " wave," as there is no telling
what tremendous damage it, may occasion
the Democracy. We have heard a good
deal about the irresistible force of the
"ground swell," but hereafter we shall
base our apprehensions wholly upon the
"Presidential wave."
WE STILL LIVE!
We aregetting on. We learn fast. We
yield to what is inevitable with becoming
grace. Negro soldiers gave us a 'shock
from which wo had scarcely recovered
when emancipation, wholly and at once,
struck us with a death-like chill. This was
scarcely recovered from when negro suf
frage was proposed and accomplished, not,
however, without giving us the shakes,
which had not entirely subsided when
negro office-holding became a fixed thing;
and we are now in a state of relapse into
which it threw us. We shall recover how
ever. The Lieutenant Governor of the
State of Louisiana, in the person of a
negro, named Dunn, has for weeks been
received on the floor of both branches of
Congress, where he has been treated as
though his skin was white. A gentleman
of wealth, culture and elegant manners,
color is the only peg to hang an objection
on; and that is so short and feeble that it
is of little account. Should a negro make
his appearance with credentials entitling
him to a seat in Congress, it is probable
we should survive. In fact, there is noth
ing more likely, and we shall yet live to
wonder that we ever made such a fuss
about "the nigger."—So says the Pitts
burg Commercial, and so say we.
"POLITICIANS."
The newspapers of the State are be
coaling aroused on the subject of denun
ciations of politicians, winch is becoming
s) fashionable among the "parlor politi
cians" of the day—the very exquisite
gentlemen who have great reputations,
away from home, as "influential," "high
character," and all that, who turn up
their aristocratic noses at the men who do
the work of the party and contribute the
money necessary to carry on the work of
advancing Lite cause of Freedom and 'Hu
manity. The' Beaver Radical of the Oth
inst., has a leader on the subject, which
we regret our limits prevent us from copy
ing entire, but we take the liberty of
adopting a portion of it. After showing
how unreasonable and unjust this whole
sale proscription of "politicians' , is, the
Radical says that--" There is a class of
politicians for whom we entertain no re
spect. They are men without heart and
without convictions, who study politics as
they study the ebbing and the flowing of
the tides (and there are such in Lancaster, )
and hold themselves in readiness to desert
their party as soon as they hope to get
place and prominence in another. Such
were the men who assisted Andrew John
son to break down the Republican party
in the midst of its responsibilities, and
build up a new one upon him as its chief
corner stone. They all deserve to go down
into the same grave of infamy with their
leader. But the men who sacrificed their
time and money to convert the American
people to the principles of the Republican
party, and succeeded in doing it—the men
who did all this work because they loved
these principles, and believed that. the
safety of our institutions depended upon
their being carried outinfo the policy of
the Government—such men, if they are
fit for office, and desire it, should not be
subjected to the reproach which it is now
so popular to cast upon them.
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"And before we close this article we
will say one more thing. If the Republi
can party has not made its last will and
testament, and spoken to the undertaker
for its coffin, and selected its place in the
graveyard of deceased organizations, a
stop must be put to the indiscriminate
abuse of the workers iu the party who are
called "politicians." In 1872 the two par
ties will be marshalled in battle array for
a new four years lease of power. But if
the fighting men of the last campaign re
ceive more kicks than coppers for their
services, it will require an immense
amount of patriotism to get them into the
field again. We are over the pinch in our
public affairs. Slavery is abolished and
can give us no further trouble. Universal
suffrage will be incorporated into the Con
stitution, and the questions of the future
will not like those of the past, affect in
their settlement, the foundations of the
Government. The best men in the coun
try would not lose sleep of nights lest the
Democracy should come back into power.
We submit therefore to the °than cum
dignitate gentlemen, that it is not good
policy to speak so discourteously of the
men who bore the heat and burden of the
day in making the Republican party what
it is—the party of reform and progress.
We take the ground that if there are any
honors going the working men should be
honored. If there is any money honestly
to be made by rendering equivalent servi
ces in a public position, the working men
should have a chance.,,
RHODE ISLAND.
The Entire Republican State Ticket elected
by about 4,000 Majority.
Rhode Island held her election on Wed
nesday week, and follows Connecticut. In
the election a year ago her Republican ma
jority was 4,309. In 1867 it waf.44,194. Now,
in spite of the general apathy of the year
following a Presidential election, and with
a vote only about one-half as heavy as
last Fall, we have carried the State by
3,396.
The Senate stands: Republicans, 26;
Democrats, 7; and the Rouse, Republi
cans, 70; Democrats, 12. This secures
the passage of the suffrage amendment.
Well done, Little Rhodyt And now let
us all keep silence while the Democrats
reckon up their great reaction against
Grant's Administration.
HOW THEY SQUIRM!
The presentation of the allegory of the
"Drummer Boy of Shiloh," in this city,
last week, under the auspices of the G. A.
IL, wonderfully affected the nerves of the
corps of editors and reporters of the Lana
caster Intelligencer. The poor fellows
squirm and wriggle like skinned eels. The
holding up of their especial friends, the
perjured rebels of the South, to public
scorn and indignation, was too much for
them. Their base and unmanly flings at
the respectable ladies who assisted in the
entertainment excited no surprise, as that
is the characteristic of the paper, and any
praise from that quarter would be damag
ing to the character of any female who
would be so unfortunate as to receive it.
The character of the two beauties who
control the columns of that paper is well
known in this community, and their lame
and impotent attempts to copy Brick
Pomeroy excites the pity and commiser
ation of their readers.
THE Grand Army of the Republic num
bers 3000 posts, and a membership exceed
ing 400,000.
THE CRAWFORD COUNTY SYSTEM.
As the time approaches for making the
annual nominations in this county, con
siderable interest is being manifested on
the subject. The following article from
the Columbia So, of Wednesday last, is
worthy of consideration. Allegations of
fraud in the conduct of the nominating
elections heretofore, have been very freely
made, anil in some instance; with a great
show of truth. We hope nothing of the
kind will be allowed to occur next fall, as
all the county offices are to yed, a
it is e3f the first importance that eve
thing should be fairly done•. Candidates
will find it to their interest to frown upon
and expose every effort of too anxious
friends to resort to trick and fraud in their
behalf. It will be found that in this, as
in every thing els " llonesty is the lust
policy:"
" It will not be leng until the people will
he called upon, under the Crawford county
system, to nominate candidates for county
offices, &c. It is highly important that
these nominations be made without fraud
or stuffing of the ballot boxes ; for other
wise we apprehend, from expressions cif
voters all around, they will not be satis
fied, and the ticket will be repudiated. It
is not to be denied, nay it can be proven,
that in several Districts most glaring
frauds were committed by unscrupulous
men, the voice of a majority of the voters
disregarded, and men put on the ticket
who were not honestly selected. Weknow
that the ballot boxes have been stutlid at
the primary elections, and more votes
counted for certain favorites than were
polled, by which men justly entitled to
nomination were cheated out of it. This
thing must not be repeated. If it is, there
is a remedy which will heap disgrace upon
the heade of the guilty, who.
cape as they have done hithe ' •
men who do those things think themselves
very smart, when they are only dishonest.
They arc known and will be watched.
Their dirty work shall not avail them, for
the voice of the people shall be regarded,
even if it should result in the defeat of
the ticket and the abandonment of the
Crawford county system, which without
the restraints of legislative enactment
seems to furnish ample opportunity for
roguery."
IN NU ITOUS.
We call the attention of the reader to
the letters from Harrisburg, in this paper.
It will be seen that a bill of the most ob
jectionable character has passed the
House, and great efforts arc made to get
it through the Senate. Its object is to tax
the people for the benefit of a "ring , ' of
millionaires who are sucking out the life
blood of the tax payers. We have hopes
that the Governor will interpose his veto, if
the bill shonld unfortunately get through
the Legislature. lie certainly will have a
glorious opportunity to show his interest
in the welfare of the people, and receive
from them a most emphatic endorsement
Will not somebody furnish the yeas and
nays in both Houses on this infamous bill?
We don't want to wait for the Record.
EX-00V. CURT''.
The many friends of this distinguished
gentleman will learn with pleasure that
he has been nominated to the U. S. Senate,
and confirmed, as Minister to Russia. It
was hoped by his friends that he would
have had a place in the cabinet of Presi
dent Grant, but as that could not be, it
is a subject of congratulation that so dis
tinguished a mark of appreciation of his
great services to the country has been con
ferred upon him. Our artist has furnish
ed us with a very fine likeness of Gov.
Curtin, which will be found on the fourth
page of this paper.
TIMES OLD AND NEW.
Senator Wilson, in the United States
Senate, in replying to some remarks by
Senator Sprague, made the following ref
erence to times old and new in New Eng
land : -
“I know something of the stern trials of
men who seek of their fellow-men leave to
toil for wages, but I know, and am grate
ful to God for the cheering fact, that the
laboring men of the country have made
immense progress during the past third of
a century. I speak not now of the mighty
change in the condition of the toiling mil
lions of the South. I speak of the im
provement in the condition of the great
body of the mechanics and working men
of the North, of New England. of Mas
sachusetts, and of Rhode Island, too. I
happened to be born in New Hampshire,
in a farming community. I have toiled
in the field in the cold of winter and in the
heat of summer, with as good men as ever
handled hoe or swung axe or scythe, who
received fifty cents per day for their labor,
and received their pay not in money, but
in corn at one dollar per bushel,or pork at
seventeen cents per pound. Women in
those days went out to labor to do house
work, to spin and weave at fifty cents per
week. Sir, I venture to state a fact that
illustrates the wonderful improvement in
the condition of working men. In the
winter of 1836, when I became of age, I
hired myself for one month to a farmer of
my native town. I went into the forests,
drove team, chopped wood and timber
working at least fourteen hours daily.'
For this work I received the enormous
sum of six dollars cash. I then thought
I was quite fortunate to get six dollars in
money for that hard month's toil. The
wages of labor have increased in that
region in New England since that day
three or four fold. Hard as is the lot, and
perhaps ever will be, of laboring men, the
houses, the furniture, the means of im
provement of their children, the accumu
lations in the savings banks, all demon
strate the advanced position of working
men during the past thirty years. Better,
far better, inspire hope and courage, than
to inculcate hopelessness and despair.”
LAST week six sons of Samuel Diller,
deceased, of Hanover, York county, after
celebrating their mother's birth-day, con
cluded to have themselves weighed. They
weighed 1,429 pounds.
OUR HARRISBURG I,I3TER.
HARRISBURG, April 7, 1869
Dear Father Abraham: If there ever was a
time in the history of the Legislature of Penn
sylvania, when we stand in need of good add
true men—men who have the interest and
welfare of the people at heart—men who can
sacrifice their own personal interests for the
iublie good—that time is now. The crisis
as come. The question to be determined
ere within the next forty-eight hours is
bather the people through their immediate
epresentatives shall govern this great old
commonwealth, or whether their Representa
tives shall be used as pliable instruments in
k , /melds of de4nlug men, to further their
. ends,llald destroy the vitalitg of
politic. I must confeeN, thoughwre
netantly, that I am almost despairing of our
grand commonwealth, when I look over the
Legislative Flails, and instead of witnessing
grave Senators and Representatives, solemnly
deliberating over the ways and means of best
serving their constituency and the public in
general, I see them besot on all sides, even in
the Legislative halls, by men who are notori
ously interested in those big jobs, such as the
cattle bill, the tax bill and those obnoxious
provisions contained in the general appropri
ation bill, as incorporated by the Com
mittee of Conference.
The Cattle Bill, as you are aware, passed
the Senate, and is now awaiting its chances
in the House ; the Tax Bill passed the House
last night and is now rallying strength to get
through the Senate. lam told that a combi
nation has been effec tell lately by the friends of
both to hitch teams and thus get them through
both branches. 'Who would have thought
that the Legislature of Pennsylvania, during
the session of 1869, would pass a bill to relieve
these large Railroad corporations from the
tax on their gross earnings, and impose
that burden, doubled, on consumers of oil
and coal ? The former will be relieved of
nearly half a million of dollars annually,
whilst the latter will be taxed about one mil
lion dollars; mutually. The sole object of this
injurious proposition, is to bring more money
into the Treasury, to enable those having
control of it to speculate with. Of course,
they need the aid of Railroad men to pass the
bill, hence they are exempt from taxation in
consideration thereof.
'he S. te. The report of the Committee
of Conference was adopted in the House yes
terday, but the committee are afraid, as yet,
to call it up in the Senate, as up to this hour
a majority of Senators are opposed to its a
doption. For you must remember that it
provides for the payment of the immortal
"twenty-seem," strikes out the amend
ment of Mr. Dallingfelt, alluded to in my last,
adds $lO,OOO to the Marine Hospital at Erie,
and, in fact, yields everything to the House
and retains but little or nothing of importance
asked for by the Senate. If the Democrats
vote as a unit against it, it will fail. They
now have an opportunity of proving their
nerrit y. Will they do it
ADJOURNMENT
Both Houses have agreed to adjourn finally
on Friday next, at 12M. And yet, should
the Senate not agree to adopt the report
aforesaid, the Governor will have to call an
extra session to pass an Appropriation Bill.
My impression is that enough votes will yet
be secured to adopt the report.
All here is confusion. Any number of
sharpers and financiers are on hand to further
the interests of the "ring."
LOCAL LEGISLATION
An act to exclude certain farm land from
the borough of Washington,
Lancaster county.
Ruled out of order by the Speaker, the Courts
having jurisdiction.
Au act to incorporate the Intercourse asso
ciation of Lancaster county, for the recovery
.f stglen horses and other stolen property anti
etettion of thieves ; also, a supplement to
an act establishing the Fite's Eddy ferry:
also, an act to incorporate the Manheim slate
company—passed both House and Senate.
Senate) bill to increase the number of terms
of the several courts in the second judicial
district, and to expedite business therein,
passed the House with an amendment, except
ing from its provisions writs of execution.
An act allowing parties to place fish baskets
in the Susquehanna river, in the counties of
York and Lancaster, was amended to include
the county of Perry. The whole upper Sus
quehanna delegation opposed the bill, on the
ground that it would destroy young shad and
other fish. The bill was strongly advocated
by Messrs. Peters, of Lancaster, and Porter, of
York, but without success. It was defeated—
yeas, 30; nays, 40. An act relative to the
president, managers and company of the Lan
caster, Elizabethtown and Middletown turn
pike road company; also, an act to extend an
act to prevent horses, cattle, sheep and swine
frem running at large to the townships of
Bart, Sadsbury and Colerain, have passed the
House.
The following introduced by Mr. Hopkins,
also passed the House :
An act for the taxing of dogs in the county
of Lancaster, for the benefit of the Home for
Friendless Children of tho county of Lancas
ter. It provides that the Commissioners shall
have all dogs owned by citizens of the county
returned by the Assessors, on which a tax of
one dollaf per head shall be collected, of which
.asurer shall keep a separate account
• me of the Home for Friendless Chil
dren. Any dog, not so returned and taxed,
is liable to be killed wherever found. Z.
HARRISBURG, April 14, 1860
Lear Father Abraham: This morning Sen
ator Connell called up the Conference Com
mittee's Report on the Appropriation Bill.
Messrs. Wallace, Graham and Billiugfelt, in
a few remarks, opposed its adoption. Messrs.
Erten and Connell, members of the Commit
tee, favored it. The vote was taken and re
sulted as follows :
YEAS—Messrs. Connell, Errett, Henszey,
Lowry, Olmstead, Osterhout, Robinson, Stitt
son, Stutzman and Taylor—D.
NAYS—Messrs. Beck, Billingfelt, Brown
(Mercer), Brown (Northampton), Burnett,
Coleman, Davis, Duncan, Fisher, Graham,
Jackson, Linderman, M'Candless, M'lntire,
Miller, Nagle, Randall, Searight, Turner,
Wallace, White and Worthington, Speaker
-22. Not voting—Mr. Kerr. So the report was
rejected.
An effort will doubtless be made to-morrow
to re-consider the vote negativing the report,
with what success it is impossible at this time
to conjecture.
Another unsuccessful attempt was made in
the House to-day to call up the Cattle Bill.
Messrs. Sammy and Peters, voted "nay," and
Messrs. Gatchell and Hopkins voted ' aye."
On the passage of the tax bill, through the
House, to which reference was had in my
letter of yesterday, Messrs. Peters, Sammy
suut Hopkins, voted in the negative, and Dr.
6 ._ , '.ll in the affirmative. On a motion to
• molder, Meows. Peters and Sammy, voted
"aye," Dr. Gatchell, "no"--Mr. Hopkins
absent or not voting. Z.
A clergyman in Maine, in the middle of
the sermon, had occasion to use his hand
kerchief, and to his astonishment scatter
ed in all directions some fifty specimens of
paper dolls, which his little girl had lodged
in the parental pocket for safekeeping.,
Tun Elmira Gazette says :—"The entire
gift of Ezra Cornell to the Cornell Uni
versity will amount to about two million
two hundred thousand dollars. Twenty
years or so ago Ezra could not pay his
grocer's bill.
Mn. I. B. GAUA, Deputy Secretary of
the Commonwealth, has been appointed
postmaster in Erie city. He will no
doubt be confirmed. This is an excellent
appointment.
STATEKENT IN BEHALF OF IRS.
TWITCHELL-HER DEFENCE.
The Philadelphia Sunday Transcript of
the 11th contains a good deal of gossip in
regard to the birth and history of Mr. and
Mrs. Twitchell. In contradiction to some
former statements, it is denied that there is
any ground for the belief that there was ever
an improper intimacy between Mr. Twitchell,
sen., and Mrs Twitchell. -- During the time
she was his housekeeper, she received regu
lar wages for her services, and was a mem
ber of Dr. Lord's church. She married young
Twitchell in 18114.
We have already said, the Transcript con
tinues,that Mrs. Twitchell is not yet ready to
give to the public a formal statement, but
while in prison awaiting trial, in conversa
tion with prison officials, she made a partial
explanation, which has never been published.
When informed of her husband's conviction
and probabilities of her own fate, she re
marked " I know nothing of this murder ;
that afternoon George and I were out riding,
and when we got back to the house mother
was getting tea, as Sarah Campbell had gone
out. I noticed that George was very much
depressed in spirits. He never was much of
a talker, but this night he was quieter than
usual. Lie scarcely spoke at all at the table,
and after supper I said to mother There is
something the matter with George ; suppose
you go and talk with Lim, while I clear
away the things. Mother went up stairs
and I did clear away the things, and when I
got through I went to my room. George
was then in the sitting room reading the
paper and smoking a cigar. I went to bed
and dont know how long I was asleep when
I was aroused by a cry of Sarah Campbell in
the kitchen." This is the only statement
she has ever made outside of whatever she
may have communicated to her counsel.
s*eitill hang!
At the outset it may be well to remind
our readers that on the day of inquest she
appealed to her husband to tell what he
knew of the murder, and that if he was
guilty, to act like a man and relieve her.
This he refused to do. After her acquittal,
she called at the prison, but instead of the
greeting °Oyer part being warm and affec
tionate, it was cool, as would naturally be
the case with one who looked upon her hus
band as the murderer of her mother. Im
mediately after her acquittal, Twitchell and
his friends commenced trying to get a state
ment from Mrs. Twitchell which would take
from him the charge and transfer it to his
wife. So shrewd were the parties engaged
that one of them visited Daniel Dougherty,
eaq., to ascertain from him whether a person
once acquitted of a charge of murder could
be tried a second time, although there be a
confession of guilt . . The response being that
there could not be a second trial, the efforts
were renewed with redoubled vigor, until
Mrs. Twitchell's friends heard of them and
advised her to absent herself from prison.
She always denied any complicity in the
murder, and her fears of confession by him
were based upon the fact that she knew that
ho did not believe in the immortality of the
soul, and that his professions to 1 4. Bring
hurst of piety were only sharni‘Besigned
merely to retain his service in the game for
life he was playing. Others besides herself
had every reason to feel assured that he
would not hesitajet at any lie to save his life,
for there is every reason to believe that to at
least one human being, George S. Twitchell,
jr., confessed his crime, and made himself
the sole actor in the tragedy. Throughout
this effort to induce his wife to take upon her
self an unjust accusation in order to save his
life, Twitchell had frequent conversations
with his friends, who, anxious as they were
to assist him, could not overlook the damn
ing proofs of his own guilt. They saw
the inherent improbability of his con
fession, and they were anxious to have
some parts of it explained to the satisfaction
of the public. A day or two before his death
his strong love of life led him again to refer
to it, and he remarked to his aunt, Mrs.
Moore, " It is hard that I have to die for this
thing." Mrs. Moore then inquired of the
prisoner, " how can you account for the
blood that was found on your shirt ?"
Twitchell related to her the circumstances
of the murder in keeping with his so-called
confession. He told her how he was
aroused by his wife calling to him, how he
went down into the dining room and was
there told by her that she had quarreled
with her mother and murdered her. "My
first impulse was to alarm the neighbor
hood, but my second impulse was to save
my wife. may
then stated to Mrs.
Moore the circumstances attending
the throwing of the body from
the window. He asserted that he grasped
the body of the murdered woman by the
head and shoulders while his wife took hold
of her feet. They then brought the body to
the window and rested it on the sill, in
which position it was held by 'Twitched,
while his wife ran down stairs and out into
the yard immediately under the window.
When she reached this position, Twitchell
quietly lowered the body into the arms of
his wife, by whom it was laid at length up
on the pavement. In this way he accounted
for the circumstance that the body, when
found, was not thrown together as it might
have been if hurled violently from the win
dow, but laid in a straightened condition.
Twitchell concluded by saying that he sup
posed the blood came upon his clothes by
having hold of the murdered woman in the
manner described. Mrs. Moore inquired
what became of Camilla's clothing. "How
was it that it was not bloody as yours ?"
To this he responded that the clothing was
carried off. In face of all these Confessions
Mrs. Twitched has remained quiet. Vie
has realized that if she denied the story
while her husband was alive, she would be
amused of an attempt to insure his death.
She was willing not-to tell what she knew
if that would be of any service to him, and
she was also willing to assist him to the ex
tent of her means, but when he wished her
to go a step further and assert herself guilty
of a came she did not commit, she left him.
It is anticipated that within a few days Mrs.
Twitchell will make a full statement in her
own behalf.
The funeral of Twitchell, it is stated, was
only attended by his father and brother and
a few near relatives. Mrs. Twitchell was
not these.
Cmcacto is somewhat excited over the
successful application, by one of her citi
zens, of coal oil as a fuel for locomotive
engines. The experiment was made re
cently on a passenger train with the most
gratifying success.
IN New'Orleans there are so many clerks
that they are glad to get anything to do.
Half a dozen were hired on one street to
act as waiters at a hotel, glad enough to
do it so as to get their bread.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND-GOSSIP.
[cum mOullt V.N.]
Both Ifouses of Coi4.4rel , s remained in
session Friday until nearly daybreak Sat
urday morning, and re-assembled at 10
o'clock. It was generally expected that
the session Saturday would be continued
through the dies non of that day until noon
Sunday, but the presiding officers of both
houses construed the adjournment resolu
tion to mean that the first session of the
Forty-first Congress should adjourn at 12
M. yesterday. Accordingly, wheit that
hotly arrived, they adjourned their respec
tive Houses sine die. The closing scenes
were almost void of general interest, but
were marked with unusual decorum and
freedom from the boisterousness which
usually occurs on such occasions. All the
bills of importance pending on Friday
morning were passed or finally disposed
of, and consequently the business of the
session closed up in better shape than that
of any preceding Congress since the war.
There is just enough body left to Sena
tor Brownlow to keep his soul pinned to
one place. His feet are useless for walk
ing purposes. his hands shake with a
fearful palsy. ills tongue almost refuses
to articulate a word, yet his mind is as
active, his judgment as clear, as when in
the meridian of health and strength, of
unimpaired manhood. Confinement in a
rebel dungeon brought on the severe phys
ical sulliTing which afflicts this Senator.
The dampness, the wretched food, and
constant expectation of death, made him
what he is to-day. llis private secretary,
who is his son, always occupies a place by
his side, and through him he manages to
perform his duty as Senator. What an
unflinching will this man brings to bear
upon life! Very few in his condition
would think of leaving a sick room; and
yet, day after day he may be found at his
desk, completing the last remaining chap
ters of the book which ends only when the
pen fa f tut the nerveless fi • .
BED II
ling dust. Parson Brownlow ha just
entered the wintry forest of age. Medium
sized, broad-shouldered, with a waist as
handsomely tapered as a womnn',9, he has
a line intellectual head, large, kindly blue
eyes, but the lower part of his face indi
cates his sensitive organization, and the
lines around his delicate, mobile mouth
have been seamed and scored with passion.
He must have been made of the best kind
of material in the beginning, else the con
stant friction or the carrying of so many
pounds of steam to the square inch would
have destroyed the intricate machinery
long ago.
Front the present indications it is pro
bable that the Senate will remain in extra
session from two to three weeks, a longer
time than has been supposed. The ses
sion will be lengthened by the necessity of
dealing with the Alabama treaty in some
definite way. It is understood that Mr.
Sumner, whose position as chairman of
the Committee on Foreign Affairs gives
him much weight, will take the ground
that the Ileverdy Johnson treaty must be
rejected altogether; that negotiations must
be entered upon de nom, and that the only
admissible base for such negotiations is
the concession by England that her action
was wrong in itself.
In the Post Office Department a list of
the employees in each bureau has been pre
pared, and Postmaster General Creswell
is giving it a careful examination, to as
certain how many can be spared from
each branch, and to select from the list
the individuals to be discharged. This
will occupy his time, with the pressure of
other business, for about two weeks, when
the process of decapitation will begin. It
is estimated that within the next three
months there will be dismissed from all
the Government departments between fou r
and five hundred employees of both sexes.
The Senate confirmed about one hun
dred and ninety nominations in executive
session to-day, among them Wilder, post
master at Columbia, S. C. He was once
a slave, and one Senator who to-day voted
for him went some years ago to buy him.
lie is a very competent qiid intelligent
man,and his office is worth three thou
sand dollars. Jonbert, the colored Asses
sor for New Orleans, was also confirmed.
Lieutenant Governor Dunn, of Louis
iana, is daily upon the floor of the Senate
and the House. He produces a decided
sensation. He is a large, well formed,
black (not yellow) man. He has a supe
rior education, is easy and dignified in
manner, a graceful and fluent speaker,
and withal a man whom every one is
compelled to respect—Garrett Davis
shakes his head laughingly and says, "I
told you so," and with emphatic mean
ing Wilson replies, "So did I, and I am
profoundly grateful to God and the Re
publican party that I now see it."
The President stated, on Thursday,
that he was being deceived in many in
stances about appointments, and that he
had made up big mind whenever he learn
ed that everything was not fairly repre
sented, he should promptly remove the
nominee, and correct any error he had
made' as soon as ho found it out.
Senator Ross called on the President on
Monday, and demanded the appointment
of a man whom the President had refused
to nominate. The President again declin
ed, and told Mr. Ross that he had his
mind made up on that question, when the
Senator made a very insolent and profane
reply, whereupon lie was ordered by Presi
dent Grant to instantly leave the house,
and without waiting for any further de
monstration from the President, Mr. Ross
made a bee-line for the door, and never
'stopped until he was safe within his own
lodgings. This man Roes was one of the
" cusses " that saved Andy Johnson from
impeachment.]
--"A painful accident occurred in Frog
Gulch, yesterday, which has passed 'a wet
blanket of gloom over a hitherto joyous,
whisky-loving community. Dave Spigger
—or as he was familiarly called "Murder
er Dave"—got drunk at his usual hour
yesterday, and, as is his custem,tooltdown
his gun and started after the fellow who
went home with his girl the night before.
He found him at breakfast, with his wilt
and thirteen children. After killing them,
he started to return, but, being weaxy,
stumbled and broke his leg. Dr. - Bill
found him in that condition, and, having
no wagon at hand to convey him to town,
shot him to put him out of misery. Dave
was dearly loved by all who know him,
and his lose is a Democratic gain. He
never disagreed with any but Republicans,
and would have materially reduced the
vote of that party had he not been so ulti
mately cut off."—Siskiyou Klock Daum.