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OUR PHILADELPHIA CORRESPONDENT.
Our friend " Warwick” whose interest
ing letters from Philadelphia have for
some time appeared regularly in these
columns, has been absent from home,
which accounts for the apparent neglect
this and last week. In a private note
just received from the writer, stating his
absense and return he says. " I will be
with you again in time for your next."
or The Reading " Daily Evening Dis
patch" newspaper was sold last week to
Messrs. J. Knabb & Co., proprietors of
the Daily Mims and the two papers con
solidated will be published under the title
Times and Dispatch. It is an ably conduct
ed, high-toned and prosperous business
paper, and sound in the Republican faith.
Success to the Times and Dispatch, and
continued prosperity to its enterprising
publishers.
The editor of the Examiner has
secured a personal interest in a certain
law-suit pending against E. H. Rauch.
He does not appear upon the record as one
of the plaintiffs, however. He advocates
his interest in the case through the col
umns of his paper with much persistency.
THE NEW VOTES.
It is estimated that there are fully fifteen
thousand colored men who will vote in
this State on the second Tuesday in Octo
ber next, under the Fifteenth Amendment.
Of this number, probably one-third are in
the city of Pbiladelphia. That these fifteen
thousand new votes will add at least ten
thousand to the Republican majority in
the State, there is no doubt whatever. In
Lancaster county, the Republican major
ity, by the addition of the colored vote,
will be from seven to eight thousand,
whilst several counties, heretofore Demo
cratic, will hereafter be found on the Re
publican side.
But, the new colored vote will be found
most important in Delaware, Maryland,
New Jersey and Kentucky, as it is almost
certain that all these States will be com
pletely republicanized, leaving not a single
democratic State sure in the entire Uuion.
The only districts counted on as likely to
hold out for democracy a little longer, is
New York City, Berks county and Sour
Kraut Hill. Oue more amendment and
all will be over with the Democratic
party !
THE NEXT GOVERNOR.
Some of the political wire-workers are
already agitating the next Governorship,
and bringing forward as probable candi
dates, quite a number of " old stagers"—
professional office seekers and well known
traders, tricksters and hangers on. That
all named are of this class we do not say,
but most of them are.
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The Republican, party although more
powerful to-day in Pennsylvania than at
any former time, must and will take high
g round in the selection of the next can
didate for Gubernatorial honors. The old
and notorious political trimmers, jobbers
and pensioners must give way to men of
the right stamp—men of principle, con
science, honor, character and sound mor
als. Old issues have passed away. The
"everlasting negro' , is now in the full en
joyment of equal political rights as a citi
zen, and by means of the ballot he will be
able to help himself, send his children to
school, and to church, and to a full enjoy
ment of all the blessings and benefits of our
Republican institutions. Exact equality
before the law having been secured under
the glorious fifteenth amendment, for all
men, without regard to race, color or creed,
the Republican party, in order to retain its
power and assure its future unity, must
next direct its attention to the importance
of weeding out corruption and inaugurat
ing thorough and radical reform in every
branch of the government, from ward,
borough and township to State and Na
tion.
If we are not greatly mist:lf:en 4.11,
signs of the times, the people are about to
move in earnest for reform—for effective
safeguards against plunder in high places;
for crushing out the abominable system of
local or private legislation and the enact
ment of wholesome general laws ; by pre
serving inviolate the glorious system of
general education and making it more per
fect; by promptly putting down any 'at
tempt that may be made to divide school
funds for sectarian purposes ; by framing
and enforcing laws calculated to protect
the youth of our State and Nation against
the evils of intemperance and other vices
resulting therefrom, and by such other
measures as may tend to promote the hap
piness, prosperity and sound morals
of the people throughout the land.
To the end that such measures and
principles may become realities, old hunk
ers must go on the shelf, and a new and
better class of nen must be brought for
ward, not only to fill the Executive chair
but every other office in the State and Na
tion. Good men, who have long since
been disgusted with low pot-house politi
cal trickery and corruption, must come
forward and take active part in all prima
ry meetings, elections and conventions of
the Republican party. The State and its
institutions belong not to political rings,
cliques and plunderers, but to the people.
Christian and moral men have rights and
interests, and to protect and defend them,
they must make up their minds to manage
their own political affairs for themselves.
Let them resolve to do so, and our word
for it, the right man will be chosen Gover
nor of Pennsylvania in 1872.
The Philadelphia Age having recently
said that " the Democrats of the Legisla
ture have a plain duty to perform ; they
must keep their fingers out of dirty jobs of
all kinds, watch bad bills, and expose them
so that the public may note the leaders in
each case," the Harrisburg Telegraph
which ought to know all about that mat
ter, remarks :
" There's verdancy for you. Why there
never was a carrion carcass before either
House that the Democratic members, with
rare exceptions, did not pounce upon it
like buzzards and gorge themselves to re
pletion. If they were not always the first
to introduce corrupt measures, they never
failed to fully and actively participate in
their consummation. It isjust as impos
sible for the class of men the Democrats
generally send to the Legislature to 'keep
their fingers out of dirty jobs' as it is for
the hungry vulture to keep his beak out of
putrid flesh when the decaying carcass in
vites him to the feast. Let the Age look
at home. How many incorruptible De
mocrats has Philadelphia sent to the Leg
islature within the last fifteen years ? Go
search the records—scan their acts—and
then you can count the whole number on
less than the fingers of one hand."
RICH !
THE GREAT FINALITY!
POLITICAL EQUALITY FOREVER !
Just after going to press last week we
received the message of President Grant,
and the proclamation by the Secretary of
State, officially announcing the ratifica
tion of THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT
by three-fourths of all the States. These
documents will in all coming time stand
side by side with The Declaration of In
dendence and the great Emancipation
Proclamation of President Lincoln. They
are as follow :
To the Senate and House of Represented;TN
It is usual to notify the two houses of Con
gress by message of the promulgation by pro
clamation of the Secretary of State of the
ratification of a constitutional amendment.
In view, however, of the vast importance of
the Fifteenth amendment of the Constitu
tion, this day declared a part of that revered
instrument, I deem a departure from usual
custom justifiable. A measure which makes
at once four millions of people voters who
were heretofore declared, by the highest-tri
bunal in the land, not citizens of the United
States nor eligible to become so, with Itkls
assertion that, at the time of the Declaration
of Independence, the opinion was fixed gad
universal in the civilized portion of the white,
race, regarded as an axiom in morals as well"
as in politics, that black men had no rights
which white men were bound to respect,
is indeed a measure of grander importance
than any other act of the kind, from the fonn
dation of our free government to the present
time. Institutions like ours, in which all
power is derived directly from the people,
must depend mainly upon their intelligence,
patriotism and industry. I call the attention,
therefore, of the newly enfranchised race to
the importance of their striving in every
honorable manner to make themselvet
worthy of their new privilege. To the race
more favored heretofore by our laws I would
say, withhold no legal privilege of advance
ment to our new citizen. The framers di
our Constitution firmly believed that a repub
lican form of government could not endure
without intelligence and education generally
diffused among the people. The Father of
his Country, in his farewell addess, uses this
language :
"Promote, then, as a matter of primary
portance, institutions for the general diffusion
of knowledge. In proportion as the struc
ture of government gives force to public
opinion, it is essential that public opinion
should e enlightened."
In his first annual message to Congress the
same views were forcibly presented, and are
again urged in his eighth message. I repeat,
that the adoption of the 15th Amendment
to the Constitution completes the greatest
civil change and constitutes the moat impor- ,
taut event that has occurred since the nation
came into life. The change will be beneficial
iu proportion to the heed that is given to the
urgent recommendations of Washington. If
these recommendations were important then,
with a population of but a few millions, how
mu& mole important now, with a population
of forty millions and increasing in a rapid
ratio.
1 would therefore call upon Congress to
take all the means within their constitutional
power to promote and encourage popular edu
cation throughout the country, and upon the
people everywhere to see to it that all who
possess and exercise political rights shall
have the opportunity to acquire the know
ledge which will make their share in the gov
ernment a blessing and not a danger. By
such means only can the benefits contem
plated by this amendmebt to the Constitution
be secured. IL S. GRANT.
EXECUTIVE MAN , lON, March ptli, Is7o.
IlAm T.ToN Fisu, Secretary of St aie of ti c
United States:
cric Wito77 - 1 JAW preSC7aB Duly come, grediny:
Know ye that the Congress of the United
States, ou or about the twenty-seventh day
of February, in the year one thousand eigh
hundred and sixty-nine, passed a resolution,",
in words and and figures following, to wit :
A resolution proposing it n amendment to the
Constitution of the United States:
Resolved by the Senate and House of Re
presentatives of the United States of Arne
rica, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both
Houses concurring, That the following arti
cle be proposed to the legislatures of the
several States as au amendment to the Con
stitution of the United Status, which, when
ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures,
shall be valid as part of the Constitution,
namely :
ARTICLE 15—Section 1. The right of citi
zens of the United 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.
Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to en
force this article by apprcpriate legislation.
And further, That it appears from official
documents on file in this department, that the
amendment to the Constitution of the U. S.,
proposed as aforesaid, has been ratified by the
Legislatures of the States of North Carolina,
West Virginia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin,
Maine, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Connecticut, Flori
da, Illinois, Indiana, New York, New Hamp
shire, Nevada, Vermont, Virginia, Alabama,
Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, lowa, Kansas,
Minnesota, Rhode Island, Nebraska and
Texas—in all twenty-nine States.
And further, That the States whose Legis
latures have so ratified the said proposed
amendment constitute three-fourths of the
whole number of the United States.
And further, That it appears from an
official document on file in this department
that the Legislature of the State of New York
has since passed resolutions claiming to with
draw the said ratification of the said amend
ment, which had been made by the Legisla
ture of that State, and of which official notice
had been filed in this department.
And further, That it appears from an offi
cial document on file in this department that
the Legislature of Georgia has, by a resolu
tion, ratified the said proposed amendment.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Ham
ilton Fish, Secretary of the State of the United
Ste tes, byvirtue and in pursuance of the second
section of the act of Congress, approved the
20th of April, 1818, entitled, An aot to pro
vide for the publication of laws of the United
States and for other purposes, I do hereby
certify that that amendment aforesaid has be
come 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 State to be affixed.
Done at the city of Wasington this thirtieth
day of March, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy, and of
the independence of the United States the
ninety-fourth,
THE SUPREME BENCH.
With the confirmation of Judge Brad
ley, the United States Supreme Bench is
once more full. The following is a list of
the Judges, with their ages and the date
of theft appointments :
Age. Appoint.
Salmon P. Chase, Ohio 6i 1864
Nathan Clifford, Maine 66 1858
Samuel Nelson New York.... 77 1816
David Davis, Illinois 55 1862
Noah S. Swayne, Ohio 60 1862
Samuel F. Miller, lowa 54 leo2
Stephen J. Field, California... 68 1863
Wm. Strong, Pennsylvania... 61 1870
Jos. P. Bradley, New Jersey.. 57 1870
intended this week to publish
Mr. Reincehls 7 s excellent speech on the
" border raid but found it neces
sary to lay it over until next week.
After this "able and eloquent" appeal,
4.0 "Carpet-bagger" resumed the ros
trum, and, after drinks all around again,
announced that a series of resolutions had
been drafted, which, with the permission
of the meeting, he would read. There
Piing no objeciion, be progressed thusly:
Whereas, Tho President, in violation of the ex
used will of the Democratic party, has proclaim.
Fifteenth Amendment us a part of the law of
ereas, Sam AmOndnlent h 'glves colored
men utZerwlse known as niggers, the same politi
c:ol rights as any other men. Ito It therefore
HAMILTON FISH.
" DEMOCRACY" UNDONE!
Anti-Fifteenth Amendment Meeting!
THE UNTERRIFIED IN COUNCIL!
BAD CASES OF NEGROPHOBIA!
A White Man's Government, &e., &e
The proclamation of the President an
nouncing the Fifteenth Amendment as the
law of the land, has had a terrible effect on
our local "democratic" politicians. They
were dumbfounded when they first read
it, but after imbibing freely of red-eye from
a demijohn marked "Old Rye," they
concluded to rally the faithful, and they
assembled in council at a drinking saloon
on Saturday night, to express their indig
nation at having to make " the nigger,"
as they used to call him, a "man and a
brother." It was a gathering of white
men, and they all wore white hats, white
overcoats, and had no blacking on their
boots. At eight o'clock a burly Fulton
county " carpet-bagger" called the assem
blage to order by jingling his glass against
a bottle. Both were empty.
" My white friends," said Smith, bow
ing, "we have gathered here this evening
in an esoteric manner, to give vent to our
detestation of the fraudulent manner in
which the jet black, coal black, lamp black
Republicans have subverted the dearest
riothts and privileges of the white race.
My pale-faced friends, I am growing
older, age is sprinkling snow on my hir
sute caput, and I am glad of it, for when
my head will be white, I will walk the
streets of Lancaster, if I stay long enough
among you, a protest against the 15th
amendment. Allow me, in conclusion, my
friends to introduce to you my disconso
late friend and partner, Andrew J—ss."
Jack was received with tremendous ap
plause and thumping of glasses. When
all had taken drinks round, he said:
"White men of Pennsylvania! Do you
want your sisters to marry niggers ?
Cheers.] Do you want your daughters
to marry bondholders? [Cries of "yes,"
"yes," and "you bet."] Do you want
your wives to be torn from your bosoms
by a bloated bond-holding, no-tax-paying
aristocracy?" [Cries of "let 'em go, if
they want to."] Free white men of Penn
'Sylvania! Rise up in your might, strike
oil the shackles that bind you, and sub
scribe for my red-hot paper, which don't
sell worth a cuss since the last Presiden
tial election."
Resolved, That this is a white man's government;
taut white men only have the inn/Ion:0de rittlits to
vote. early and vote of ter, stud ballot-bases, colu
niza, and contest elections.
Resolved, That Berks county is called upon to
stand firm, and never, no never, to receive nigger
ballots, unless they bear the names 01 Democratic
candidates.
Resolved, That Greorge Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, Benjamin Vranklin, ♦Vin. Penn ; the
Indians with whom he concluded the treaty • Chris
topher Columbus, Jeff. Davis, R. E. Lee abd Beau
regard, were white men. Therefore, to the vletlors
belong the spoils.
Resoined, That, though Andrew Jackson had
nigger soldiers at the battle of Nev Orleans, he
never wont back on his own race by saying they
fought bravely, as did the Radical General George
H. Boker, at the first battle of Bull Run,
Resolved That, inasmuch as Sheridan took his
famous ri d e to assist in coercing our Southern
brethren, we hold said ride to be unconstitutional.
Resolved, That we will never, under any circum
stances, count the niver vote unless We given on
our side.
The resolutions were adopted unani
mously, and, after all the bottles had been
emstied, the meeting adjourned, much
more sober than any reasonable person
could have expected. Then the poor fel
lows wended their way disconsolate and
forlorn, occasionally cursing the black
Republicans and the nagur. " Poor old
hoss ; let him die !"
SENATOR BILLINGFELT.
But few men in the State are more
highly respected by the people everywhere
than the popular and incorruptible Sena
tor from this county. The Harrisburg
Daily Topic pays him the following merit
ed compliment :
" The Chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee deserves the commendation of
the people for the persistency with which
he has devoted himself to the Appropria
tion bill. We know, personally, that he
has been assiduous in his efforts at reduc
ing the public expenditures, has spared
no one—not even his most intimate friends
—in his assault upon unnecessary appro
priations. In his fight against extrava
gance he has known neither friend nor foe,
and we think the whole body of which he
is a member, will bear us out in this obser
vation. Though often placed in trying
circumstances and tempted by friendship
and his aversion to giving offence, he has
never faltered and it is to him we in a
great measure owe the very reasonable ap
propriation bill which is now near its final
passage.
"In paying this justly merited com
pliment we do not wish to be understood
as disparaging any other member of the
Finance Committee, all of whom did their
duty, actuated by the common desire to
curtail the bill without doing injustice to
any individual embraced therein. Nor
would we underrate the abilities and the
laudable economy manifested by the mem
bers of the House Committee of Ways
and Means, with whom the bill originat
ed. Our only object is to render a slight
tribute to an honest man who happens to
hold a prominent position in connection
with the State ilnasees.l)
orGovernor Geary has reappointed
Colonel George F. McFarland Superin
tendent of the Soldiers Orphans' Depart
ment for three years, dating from April
29, 1870, but the Senate refused to con
firm him.
AT IT AGAIN.
The Soldier's Monument organ of Sat
urday last, edited by that pink of political
and moral perfection, Elwood, the "great
defunct," contains a column and a half
article on Senator Billingfelt. In the
whole diatribe, there is not a single truth.
Such epithets as "tricky politician,"
"political thimble-rigger," "political
trickster," " treacherous politician," and
other language suitable to the taste of the
gentle Elwood, will not injure the
object of his malice. The people know
that they do not apply to the Senator.
It is just because he will not allow base
fellows of the Griest kind to influence him
in favor of measures supported by such
" political thimble-riggers," that the buz
zards of the Thug organization hate and
vilify him. Billingfelt is fortunate in be
ing the subject of the slanders of the In
quirer and its satelites. " Lay on, Mac
duff!"
THE LAST DEMOCRATIC PANIC
Your modern Democrat is a curious
compound. lie was proud to sympathize
with the rebellion, and gets angry if you
tell him 01 it. He resisted the issue of
greenbacks, and now demands an unlimit
ed brood of them. lie fought against the
war, and now insists that he was the chief
agent in quelling it. lie has pursued the
colored man with measureless hate, and
now claims his suffrage. Voting against
emancipation, against the negro's rights
as a witness, a juror, a traveler, a voter,
without exception or remorse, the modern
Democrat prepares to capture the negro
as his political ally. We have seen this
in Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, South
Carolina, Maryland, and now we are re
galed with it in the North. In Philadel
phia the Democracy broke in twain over
a proposition to treat the negro fairly, dis
banded their central organization, and
left one portion of the party, and by far the
most influential, committed to fitir play to
the colored voters on election day. But
the most significant sign of the times is
the acceptance of the fifteenth amendment
by the "Democratic" rebel Governor and
legislature of Maryland, the former
vetoing a bill recently passed incorporat
ing a town in that State, because the
qualification of voters of the embryo
borough was confined to " white" citizens,
and the latter promptly passing a law pro
viding for the registration of negro voters.
The precious hypocrites no doubt do this
in the vain hope of preventing their ap
proaching political death. They seem to
have forgotten the fate that befell one
Andrew Johnson, who prophesied that the
sl i
colored people of he South would in a
body vote for thei old izaqer6. Titis
was the text of hi. , damnable iteration''
from the 22d of Fe ruary, P7;6li, to the 4th
of March, 1z7W,9. Have they done so ? We
trove not. They have no more voted with
their masters than they killed their fami
lies while they were in the rebellion, or
refuse to work, or reject the opportunity
to educate themselves and their children.
Will they be eager to vote with the De
mocrats of Maryland and the North ?
Their old masters South had the decency
to submit to suffrage in advance ; but
Maryland Democrats and their Northern
allies have resisted it to the last.
From contempt for the colored voter,
the Democracy have passed into respect
for him ; and from respect they are now
merging into fear of his power. They
have a right to this latter feeling. The
negro can not be a Democrat, because the
negro is a grateful man and loves his coun
try.
WllO ARE HAPPY ? Lord Byron said:
" The mechanics and workingmen who
can maintain their families are, in my
opinion happy, the happiest body of men.
Poverty is wretchedness; but even pov
erty is, perhaps, to be preferred to the
heartless, unmeaning dissipation of high
order." Another author says: " I have
no propensity to envy any one, least of all
the rich and great; but, if disposed to this
weakness, the subject of my weakness
would be a healthy young man, in full
possession of his strength and faculties,
going forth in the morning to work for his
wife and children, or bringing them home
his wages at night."
As Thaddeus Stevens, who was an im
placable foe to official stealing, was once
coming out of the House of Representa
tives, a plunder-monger, wlipse same of
robbery he had headed off, met him in a
violent passion, and exclaimed, " You
are a liar! a scoundrel!" whereupon Old
Thad, with great composure, turned round
to the gentlemen present, and said to
them, " You must not mind what this
poor fellow says; it is a way he has; he
was only talking to hirnself.”
A NEW' daily is to make its appearance
in New York, in the course of a few days,
with John Russel Young as editor. It
will be Republican in politics, and make
war to the knife on Dana, the Sun, and
the Associated Press, and its price will be
two cents.
DAVID WESTBROOK and John Hoffman
were drowned in the Juniata river at
Huntingdon, Pa., on Saturday morning,
the skiff they were in having been broken
in two by collision with the trestle bridge.
The river was swollen, with a rapid cur
rent, at the time.
PROF. KrEPERT, the celebrated Ger
man geographer, is about to make a
journey to Turkey and Palestine, at the
expense of the Prussian government.
A NAN confined in the Allentown jail
has read the Bible through twenty-three
times within the past two years.
forreopondence.
OUR HARRISBURG LETTER.
HARRISBURG, April 6, 1870.
Dear Father Abraham : The confusion and
excitement incident to the adjournment is in
tense, and it is next to impossible to keep
pace with legislation. The rapidity with
which laws are being enacted is really fright
ful, and only when these " laws" are printed,
months hence, will it appear to what extent
the people of the State have been cheated out
of their rights.
THE TREASURY BILL AND THE DIAMOND-
WATT CASE
I have only time to mention the action in
certain important measures. The Treasury
Bill was considered again in special session
by the Senate on Monday evening, and pass
ed with Mr. Billingfelt's amendment by a
vote of 13 to 7. Mr. Warfel was necessarily
absent, being on the Watt—Diamond Com
mittee, in session in the House hearing the
argument of counsel. Yesterday a majority
of the Committee—Messrs. Graham, Warfel,
Brooke and Kerr—awarded the seat to Mr.
Watt, the sitting member, by a majority of
543 votes. The minority—Messrs. Randall
and Miller—submitted their report, claiming
the contestant, Mr. Diamond, elected by a
majority of 147 votes. It has for some days
been pretty generally conceded that Mr.
Watt would retain his seat, so that the decis
ion of the Committee created no surprise.
THE REBEL RAID BILL
On Wednesday night last, this notorious
swindle was annihilated in the House. It
was indefinitely postponed by a vote of 73 to
16. Major Reimehl made an earnest speech
in opposition to it. The entire Lancaster
delegation have opposed it from its inception.
THE APPROPRIATION' BILL
Chiefly through the indefatigable efforts of
Senator Billingfelt, Chairman of the Finance
Committee, the general appropriation bill, as
it passed the Senate and into the hands of the
Governor, amounts to about two hundred
thousand dallars less than last year, notwith
standing the fact that an increase of $50,000
is required to meet certain obligations, and
$20,000 for extra pensions, being really a re
duction of $270,000 as compared with last
year's bill. But the greatest financial tri
umph of Mr. Billingfelt is a reduction of five
hundred and seventy thousand dollars on the
total amount of the bill as it came from the
House—saving the State over half a million
dollars. The taxpayers of Pennsylvania owe
a debt of gratitude to this ever faithful public
servant, which, if we are not mistaken, will
be acknowledged in due time, and in a must
emphatic mannbr.
RETIRING SENATORS
With the expiration of the present legisla
tive session, the terms of eleven State Sena
tors will expire. They are :
33 District—Philadelphia—D. A. Nagle,
Democrat.
sth District—Chester, Delaware and Mont
gomery—Chas. H. Stinson, (Speaker), It epub
bean.
6th District—Bucks—Dr. Linderman, Dem
ocrat.
7th District—Lehigh and Northampton--
Robert S. Brown, Democrat.
Bth District—Berke—J. D. Davis, Demo
crat.
9th District—Schuylkill—Wm. M. Rauda,ll,
Democrat.
14th District—Lycoming, Union and Sny
der—John B. Beck, Democrat.
21st District—Blair, Centre, Huntingdon,
Juniata, Mifflin and Perry--John h:. Robin
son, Republican, and Charles J. T. Mclntire,
Democrat.
25th District—part of Allegheny county—
Thomas 'Toward, Republican.
29th District—Gravvford and Erie—Al
B. Lowry, Republican
Of the Senators holding over 14- are Rep
4ansand 8 Democrat t s—givithg us a nuaio
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f t..."*.osti Khios[reit,*( Ipite Drordocra.
Ltal 4 Republicans. Conceding that Sena°,
of like .political faith will be returned, the*
next Senate will stand 18 Republicans to lii
Democrats. But the chances are that we
will gain 2—in the XlNtlt and XXlst dis
tricts—giving u. the new Senate by 20 to 13.
The new books cannot possibly show a small
er halantse in our favor—most likely it will
be larger.
LOCAL LEGISLATION
I send you a summary of the legislation for
Lancaster county, up to noon to-day (Wed
nesday. Other Lancaster bills are pending
in either House, but may be finally disposed
of before the adjournment to-morrow.
In the Senate, Mr. Warfel has introduced
an act to authorize the School Directors of
Litiz to borrow money. Passed both Houses.
Also, an act allowing the Lancaster County
Agricultural Park Association to increase its
capital stock. Passed both Houses.
In the House, by Mr. Reinceehl an act to
authorize the Commissioners of Lancaster
county to appropriate funds to the Children's
Home, on the recommendation of the Court.
Passed the House, and on motion of Mr. Bil
lingfelt passed the Senate. By Mr. Wiley,
an act to authorize the appointment of an ad
ditional Notary Public in the county of Lan
caster, to be located in the town of Columbia.
Passed the House, and on motion of Mr.
Warfel passed the Senate.
The following heretofore introduced have
passed both Houses : A supplement to the
act, entitled An act to authorize the Clover
nor to appoint an inspector of relined petro
leum, kerosene and burning oils, in and for
the county of Lancaster,' approved March 12,
1869, limilng inspection and compensation.
"A supplement to an act, entitled 'An act
relative to the Lancaster County Prison,' ap
proved the 19th day of February, A. D. 1850,
providing for the election of Keeper." " An
act to authorize the old Columbia Public
ground company, in the county of Lancaster,
to borrow money and issue bonds." " A sup
plement to an act extending the provisions of
the act, entitled ' An act relative to roads and
public highways in Fulton and Salisbury
townships, Lancaster county,' approved the
16th day of March, A. D. 1868, to the town
ship of Martic," "An act to promote the im
provement of real estate by exempting mort
gages and other money securities from taxa
tion, except for State purposes, the same re
lating to the county of Lancaster is hereby
repealed." "An act to prevent cattle, horses,
sheep and swine, from running at large in the
county of Cheater, approved April 1, 1868,
extending the provisions of the same to the
townships of Sadebury and Oolerain, in
the county of Lancaster." "An act author
izing the borough of Columbia to borrow
money to build a town hall, and hold an elec
tion to get the sense of the people as to the
erection of said hall." " A supplement to an
act to incorporate the Pequea Valley Railroad
company, approved April 4, A. D. 1866."
" An sot to incorporate the Lancaster and
New Danville turnpike road company." "An
act for the improvement of the public roads
in Lancaster county." "An act to incorpo
rate the Mount Joy and Manheim turnpike
road company."
The bill introduced early in the session by
Senator Billingfelt, repealing the tar on dogs
in Lancaster county, has passed both Houses
with an amendment requiring the tax already
assessed to be colleoted.
The Governor has vetoed the bill entitling
the School Districts in Lancaster county, to
perpetual scholarships in Franklin and Mar
shall College, upon a certain amount being
subscribed therefor.
LATER
HARRISBURG, April 6, 1870, 2 P. M.
A few momenta ago the Governor sent 't
message to the Rouse requesting the passage
of an act requiring charitable institutions re
ceiving appropriations to file vouchers in the
office of the Auditor General of the manner
in which these money have been expended.
A bill was immediately prepared and passed,
and this whim of the Governor's gratified. It
was telegraphed all over the State that the
Governor had vetoed the bill, but that was a
mistake. Z.