.S.;*)I4,BISA44DECEIbtri 20,1885: oiThhtizintirig_prealserf shall be free to ninny person, who un dertakes to examine the pro ceedh*.of the legislatare,ovanY branch of government• ; and., no law shall - ever be made to raltrainthe right thereof. . Thefree cammti- Weal:km.4f tho ng and opinions Is one of the invalu a bl e ; jun of .11113 II; .and every citizen may yreely.apeak..write anti print ion anYarib feet ; being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. I.n prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of ofh cers,nr men in. public capacities, or where the matter published is proper for public informa tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi dence:'.'' Will -Agitation End with the Abolition of slayer' ? ,In our columns of to-day appears the official announcement of the adoption by.the requisite number of States, of the amendment to the Constitution of the United States aholi;3hing slavery. What ever opinions may be entertained with regard: to the manner in which themeas ure was forced upon some of the States, it. cannot now be regarded as other than a final settlement of a much vexed ques tion. The negroes are authoritatively declared free, and there need be no ap prehensions of any atterupttore-enslavd them. • The States recently iii revolt have accepted the result in good faith, and, if permitted to do so, will speedily adjust themselves to the new order of af fairs in the best manner possible. All their public acts since the surrender of the rebel armies, show that they are ready to comply with every reasonable demand of the general government, and that they are anxious to resume their position as States in the Union. They have not set up a single obstacle. to a permanent restoration of the Union and the establishment of a lasting and hon orable peace. They freely accept the fact that the negroes cried slaves are now flee; and, if left to manage their own domestic affairs, will so adjust the rela tion between employers and the labor ing class as. to. bring eventual order out of the chaos that now exists in their so cial condition. What the Abolitionists have so long striven for is DOW accomplished. Slavery is effectually done away with. It i s dead. Will they now permit it to be buried out of sight? Are they willing to rest satisfied with the accomplish ment of a long cherished purpose? Shall we be rid of their dangerous and disturbing agitations, now that the ne gro is free? We fear not. They have laid down a new platform, far in ad vance of their former demands. They now boldly avow their purpose never to rest satisfied until the negro is recog nized as the equal of the white man, and all laws which make a distinction in favor of the latter wiped out of our statute books. This is their present position, and they are laboring with fanatic zeal to accomplish their purpose. In Congress and out of Congress they are applying every known means to keep up the agitation. Their old appli ances of the press and the pulpit are be ing used with powerful effect. They are boll, daring and utterly unscrupu lous. They are willing to make war upon the President, ready to keep the Southern. States out of the Union for an indefinite period,and prepared to hazard the best interests of the nation to ac complish their diabolical purposes. It is for the people to say whether they shall continue un-rebuked and un checked in their ruinous course. The white men of the North have it in their power to put down these pestilent fa- natics at once and forever.4t can only be effectually done at the ballot-box.- - kt must be done, if we would not have republic resemble the miserable :governments of Mexico and other States N ' v here the experiment of admitting an o erior and degraded race to full rights Acitizenship has been tried. Wherever tried it has proved an utter failure;: and a source of misery to all concerned. Let us have none of it. The Beginning of the End Fn to-day's lietellijcncer will be found two official papers which are j us t now of the profoundest significance. By order of Andrew Johnson, Secretary Seward officially announces the restoration of the State of Alabama to the Union.— The Provisional Governor appointed by the President is relieved from all his du ties and responsibilities, and the Gover nor elected by the people is recognized as the executive officer of that State.— The wording of the two communica tions is of a character to lead us to be lieve that President Johnson is fully re solved to keep his plighted faith with the people of the South, despite the acts of the disunionists of the dominant par ty iu Congress. The President will be gladly sustained in such a course by a vast majority of the people North and South, without respect to party. Let him but tread firmly on the plain path of official duty, which is the only path of national safety, and he will find the honest masses of all sections and parties rallying round him with the determina tion to sustain him in his course. Let the case of Alabama be but beginning of the end of what is needed—the speed iest possible restoration of the Union. The Prestdent Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, in his speech at the serenade given to him at Washington on Thursday night, said: " Andrew Johnson is no hothouse plant, but a mountain oak, which defies the fury of the thunder 'gust. Intrepid yet patient, firm but forgiving, with the Union and the Constitution as his pil lar and his cloud, he seeks to reconcile and bring together again the estranged children of a common father. Let us all aid him in the good work, and secure its accomplishment." We suppose by the term "Thunder gust" the speaker intended to designate the radical fanatics who are opposing the policy of the President. We are glad to hear that Andy Jonnson is not scared by them, and we earnestly hope he will show that he is not. Let him stand up boldly for his own policy, and he will find the people at his side. The radicals are not strong, andcan be easily put to flight. They are like those East ern Warriors, whose main dependence is upon the noise they make. If in spite of their clamor an opponent has the courage to make a show of fight the tom torn heroes are sure to turn tail. If Andy Johnson chooses he can carry out his policy in spite of Sumner and Ste vens and the whole crew of their fanat ical followers. If he be the strong reso lute man he is represented to be he will do it. The whole country, both North and South, will rejoice to see him do so. Let him go in, and he will find the masses at his back. THE EXPRESS tries to make a vote or two for its party in Lancaster, by charg ing one of the editors of the livelli gencer (Mr. Cooper) with a leading agency in the dismissal of Mr. Dennis Marion from the position of Messenger in the Land Office at Harrisburg. Mr. Cooper asserts that its allegations in re spect to himself are untrue. He has not the slightest objection to its encomi ums upon Mr. Marion, towards whom he entertains friendly instead of "spite ful" feelings. Whether these encomiums are sincere or hypocritical may soon be put to the test. About the first of May next the Land Office will fall under the control of the political friends of the - Ezpress,' when the editors of thatpaper .:Cariido".M.r. Marion a. far better service -by having him reinstated than they are -riONtt . doing by• parading before the pub lic the unfOrtuttato -fact:of his retire ineut. Au Interesting Questton. A Serious question may arise hereaf ter, in consequence of the refugia - to ud mit the Southern ,delegationg to their seats in Congress; 4 - 1-OneOfllieNprincipal complaints made by our revolutionary fathers against thel3ritish (*eminent,' and which eventuated in hostilitieSind separation s Was the exclusion the . Colonies from all. participation In the legislation of the Empire. They took the strong and invulnerable position that taxation and representation should go hand in hand, and that laws passed by the British Parliament had no bind ing force upon the people of - the Colo nies, for the reason that they were not represented in the body. And the peo ple were right.' The civilized world justified them in the noble stand they had taken, and a seven years' war re sulted in the dismemberment of the Empire and the establishment of our independence as a Nation. Is not the same principle involved in the position taken by the dominant party in Congress at the present time? The South is actually excluded from all participation in the legislation of the country. Laws will be passed which are to be made binding upon them, al though they have no voice in their enactment. As States they are virtually denied all the privileges which apper tain to the other States of the Union, and are to be held in the character of ter ritorial dependencies—in a condition of mere pupilage—without the poor privi legeof saying yes or no in the framing of the laws which are to affect them in their persons and property. This makes a much stronger case than the one which existed prior to 1775. Then, we were mere Colonial dependencies of the Brit ish Crown—now, the Southern States areas much independent sovereignties, according to the sound and incontro- vertible argument of President John son, as they were before the late rebel lion. They never lost their status .in the Union—in other words, they did not and could not commit suicide. They were held in abeyance, and the opera tion of the Federal authority was only suspended for the time being—not de stroyed. The cessation of the war re stored the supremacy of the General Government, and, of course, hostilities having ceased and all resistance ended, the States are entitled, by every princi ple of Constitutional law, to resume their proper places in the Union. But what will be the effect of keep ing them out, and legislating for them without their consent? Will they be disposed to yield a ready obedience to laws which they had no voice or part in framing? Is taxation and no repre sentation to be saddled upon the people of those States for all time to come, or until it shall please the dominant party to grant them the great Constitutional right of a representation in Congress? If the iron rule of an inexorable major ity of radicals is to prevail and to shape the policy of the r eountry for all time to come, then we very much fear that we have notyet seen the end of our troubles, nor is the Governmentany longer what was intended by the patriot framers of the Constitution. The case as it stands now, is simply the forcible disfranchise ment of the members of Congress from a minority of the States of the Union by the members from a majority of the States—a virtual expulsion from the Federal body of one section by another. Is this right—is it Constitutional ? and can such a course result in anything but disaster to the lation ? We are glad to see some signs of re turning reason even among the ultra radicals. The New York Times is forced to make an admission whichjus tifies all we have said. It declares edi torially: "The true policy is to expedite rather than delay the re-admission of the Southern Representatives and Senators. It is neither right nor safe for any part of the country to legislate fur another part of the country, without giving it any voice in that legisla tion. Representation is the vital princiele of Republican institutions. Its denial to any extent impairs the normal operationsof our :overnnient, and opens the way to all kinds of abuses." Excusing the Jamaica Insurgents The report of the Governor of Jamaica has appeared in the English papers. He describes the character of the late insur rection and details the measures to which he resorted for its suppression, and expresses the belief that, but for the promptitude with which the Govern ment acted, the revolt would have be come general, and would have resulted in the extermination of the white race. We have already given our readers an account of the origin of the uprising and of the scences enacted at Morant Bay and elsewhere. Some sixteen or twenty white men were killed and eighteen or twenty wounded, before the arrival of the troops. Of the way in which some of the hapless victims were murdered and mutilated, Governor Eyre says : "The most frightful atrocities were per petrated. The Island Curate of Bath, the Rev. V. Herschell, is said to have had his tongue cut out while still living, and an at tempt is said to have been made to skin him. One person (Mr. Charles Price, a black gentleman, formerly a member of Assem bly) was ripped open and his entrails taken out. One gentleman (Lieutenant Hall, of the Volunteers) is said to have been pushed into an outbuilding, which was then set on fire, and kept there until he was literally roasted alive. Many are said to have had their eyes scooped out; heads were cleft open and the brains taken out. The Baron's fingers were cut off and carried away as tro phies by the murderers." And :yet, with this horrible record staring them in the face, and with the most overwhelming evidence of the devilish designs and the infernal atroci ty of those engaged in this fiendish work, men and newspapers are found in our midst ready to defend these black demons and palliate their hellish out- So utterly lost to all sense of decency, and so completely wedded to the cause of the negro, are numbers of the Re publican journals of this country, that quite a number of them have been found willing to take sides with the black Ja maica insurgents against their white victims. The revolt was owing to the teachings of a set of religious fanatics, who are scarcely worse than some of the canting hypocrites of the Republican party, who are eternally whining over the wrongs done to the negroes in this country. There is abundant reason to believe, that a rep petition throughout the South of the horrors recently perpetrated in Jamaica would be excused if not justified by Yankee preachers and puritanical poli ticians. The truth is, there is a diabo lism about abolitionism that seems to distort the moral faculties of the fa natics who are now the leaders of the party in power. They so hate the white people of the South that many of them would gloat over the spectacle which would be presented in case of a general negro insurrection. They would shout and sing psalms while some of their own race were being disemboweled alive, and women outraged by a pack of infuriated barbarians, who had been transformed 'into demons incarnate by the teachings of the Abolition press and pulpit. Can any one doubt it who has heard them excusing the Jamaica insurgents? THE Convention of literary societies recently held in Philadelphia, for the purpose of forming a Literary Union of Pennsylvania, have adopted a constitu tion excluding colored men from mem bership. It seems, however, that there were delegates present from an associa tion of negroes known as the Bancroft society, and these maintain that as they were members of the convention, the constitution cannot alter their status.— It is a nice question, and will serve as a subject for; discussion , among the differ ent debating societies represented. Let Every Nan Read and Think for rTMITRI • In the midst of political revolglionq the voice of reason is almost always 4hawno blithe noisy din of popular -`clamor ; and We is most sure of a• tear ing from au elicited - multitude who is .itiostradical in-his utterances. In the .French revolution thosenien WhO cried 'out thostlustily for blood, while prating of liberty, fraternity and equality, were -the idols of the sans cullottes. The baser portion of the people were uppermost, and their fierce and brutal passions moulded the only public sentiment which was allowed to exist. Had speech and reason been left free, France would have escaped with less than one-half the dark stains which the reign of terror left upon her fair fame as a nation. But, such is humannature. A great storm of passion, likethatwhich accompanies every violent political rev olution, drives timid men into retire ment. If such men speak at all, they are sure, through terror, to utter just such sentiments as they think will be most popular, no matter how great may be the sacrifice of principle. Being moral cowards, they are ready to seek perional safety, even at the expense of personal honor. The selfish are always ready to take the side which promises profit or seems likely to win, and they are earnest in proportion to the prospect of gain. Thus it comes to pass that amid political revolutions the most rad ical ideas are sure to be the most popu lar. If there be error, it is sure not to be on the side of moderation. During the great revolution through which we have been passing, and from which we are now slowly and painfully emerging, reason has been too often drowned by the hoarse and fierce cry of brutal passion. He who was most vin dictive in his utterances was sure to be most loudly applauded. Men who made pretentious professions of christianity were bloodiest in their instructions.— Ministers of the Gospel of the God of Peace, the very men whose duty it was to soothe the wild passions of their hear ers, were too often the most violent agi tators, the most reckless excitors todeeds of blood. The partisan Press surrender ed itself. .entirely to the passions of the hour. There was an end to calm discus sion of the great question which agitated the public mind, and in many instances he who undertook to stay any current of popular excitement did so at the peril of life and property. Now that the rebellion is effectually ended, there must be a speedy return to reason. We begin to see signs of the coming reaction already. The sooner it is thorough and complete, the better for all concerned. if American citizens in tend to rule their country as freemen should, they - must reason calmly and decide impartially. The great questions of the hour address themselves with equal force to every citizen. They must, be settled at the ballot-box in accord ance with the dictates of good common sense and sound political reasoning. Let every man think and act for himself. Day by day the acts and the designs of political parties are being unfolded. The radical Republicans occupy one position, the Democratic party another and entirely different one. We believe the people cannot be mueh longer led blindfolded by a set of mad fanatics. Popular passions are rapidly cooling down, and reason must speedily resume its sway. With returning reason must come the ultimate triumph of the Democratic party. In the meantime let each man in the nation read and think for himself. That is all that is needed to make the triumph of the Democracy both speedy and lasting. Doolittle Castigating Stevens. On the occasion of the consideration in the Senate of the joint resolution in regard to the seceded States, of which Thaddeus Stevens is the author, Mr. Doolittle, a Senator always classed among the radicals, took occasion to give our representative a well merited scoring. Mr. Doolittle said : Sir, it is not improper for me to refer to the proceedings of a caucus held in the city of Washington. By the pub lished proceedings of that assemblage it seems that on the first Saturday in December, without any discussion what ever, a certain resolution, which reads word for word just like this resolution which is sent here from the House, was adopted in that caucus under the lead ership of a certain gentleman whom I will now speak of as a member of this House best known to history who re sides in the State of Pennsylvania. His history is known of all men ; and one thing we know of him—he is most bit terly and uncompromisingly hostile to the policy of the present Administration. On the subject of reconstruction he goes with him ho goes farthest ; holding even that the State of Tennessee is an alien State. It was, if lam not mista ken, in the Convention at Baltimore which nominated Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Johnson for President and Vice-Presi dent, that Thadeus Stevens objected to the nomination of Andrew Johnson be cause he was an alien enemy. I have seen nothing in the history of that gentleman to lead me to suppose that he has in any respectchanged his opinions, for it is not long since we had a speech of his delivered in the State of Pennsyl vania, marked with his usual ability and with that cool assurance that sometimes rises to the sublime, in which he proposed, if I do not mis take, almost the entire and univer sal confiscation of the whole Southern States. Now, Mr. President, of the doings of that assembly in connection with the resolution I feel at perfect lib erty to speak, without violating the ules of the House. I will simply say that within three minutes by the clock of the hour when that assembly was called Thaddeus Stevens - had moved his Committee on Resolutions; and withdrawing with his committee from that body to make his report, within ten minutes, without any consideration whatever, it was by that cool tact of his pressed through the body and declared to be unanimously admitted. Why this hot haste? What necessity for such hot haste, Sir? Who does not know that the leader of that caucus did not desire to wait? Nor did he wait until the President had spoken to the country in his Annual Message on the state of the country. The Constitution requires the President, from time to time, to give information on the state of the Union; and we have no right to presume that the President would not furnish the in formation which his Constitutional duty requires. He has at his control all the agencies which are necessary for this purpose. There is an able Cabinet which surrounds him and is able to fur nish him with assistance. Mr. Doolittle then declared it to be the duty of Con gress and the country to support Presi dent Johnson'in his policy of Recon struction Don't Know Tennessee The Louisville Journal makes the fol lowing good hit at our representative : Old Thaddeus Stevens, of the House of Representative, says he "doesn't know Tennessee." Then he should take to the study of geography. He will find Tennessee to be considerable of a place. One end of it butts up against the Mississippi river—did Thad deus ever hear of that stream ?—and was once the dwelling place of one Andrew Jackson who said that the "Federal Union must be preserved." Tennessee is the home of Andrew Johnson—does Stevens know him?— and if Tennessee isn't in the Union, neither is Andrew Johnson, and the Pennsylvania radical ought forthwith to pitch him out of the Presidential chair and put into it a citizen of the United States. How comes it that so virtuous and enlightened a patriot should have supported for the Vice Presidency a man from a foreign State, as Tennessee is if not in the Union and not known to the Legislative Department of the Govern ment? Why does Stevenssitquiet and see aforeigner from afareign State usurp the functions of the Presidency? If Thaddeus doesn't "know Tennessee," he shouldn't " know" Andrew Johnson, for he is a citizen of . Tennessee. What monstrOsitie.s .the unsluictified.. radicals' are exhibiting: General Grant Blows up the Radical , Fortifications. - While Thad. Stevens has been whip: the whole horde of Republican Congressmen into the support of his crude and illy digested plan of opposi tion to the restoration policy Of Presi dent .Tohnson, General Grant has been making, a tour of the States recently in rebellion. Old Thad. has been on the war path; Grant, as it appears, on a mia sion of peace. The hero who subdued the rebellion returned to find a fierce fight going on at the capitol. The coun try will not be surprised to hear that he at once took sides in the contest. He has had a talk with Andy Johnson, the particulars of which are thus reported in the New York Herald_the other day, which says: General Grant had a protracted inter view with the President this morning, and communicated to him the result of his observations during his recent trip through Virgipia, North Carolina, South Carolina and a portion of Georgia. He was everywhere received with tokens of personal respect, and none were more forward in such manifesta tions than the leaders in the late rebel lion. The discontented who staid at home during the war, and the women are our bitterest enemies. The labor question is still in an unsettled condi tion. A large majority of the negroes are in comparative idleness, and nearly all refuse to make or renew contracts till after Christmas. In some localities the negroes religiously believe ageneral division of property is to take place at that time, and a vague expectation of something of this sort prevailed nearly everywhere. They have been strength ened in this belief by the express or im plied promise of those having them in charge. In too many instan ces, it is feared, they are the great est hindrance in the work of recon struction. All men of standing and in fluence were outspoken in favor of com plying with any demands the President might consider necessary for their res toration. Slavery, State rights and se cession they admit to be settled against them irrevocably and forever. Their desire now is to return to the Union in fact as well as in name, and devote the balance of their lives to repairing the ravages of war. The summing up of General Grant's observations inclines him to the belief that the Southern peo ple almost unanimously desire a speedy readmission to their old position as States in the Union, and that their pro fessions of future loyalty and good be havior are honest and sincere. Short as the journey of General Grant has been, its effect must be fully asdam aging to the radicals as were any of his campaigns to the rebels. He complete ly explodes their theories, and blows up all the fortifications in which they have been entrenching themselves. He shows clearly : First, That all men of standing and influence in the South freely accept the situation with all its consequences; that they regard slavery and their peculiar dogma of State rights and secession, as forever settled against them ; that they desire to return to the Union in fact as well as in name ; that the Southern peo ple almost unanimously desire a speedy admission to their old position as States in the Union ; that their professions of loyalty and good behavior are honest and sincere ; and that they are ready to devote the balance of their lives to re pairing the ravages of war. Secondly, Gen. Grant clearly proves, from personal observation, that the ne groes themselves are the greatest hin drance in the work of restoration ; that they are living in idleness, and re fuse to go to work, because they have been led by the radicals to believe that there is to be a general division of the property of the whites among them at Christmas. If Andrew Johnson needed any furth er support than that which the people are so ready to give him and his policy, he has it in General Grant. Let him stand squarely up to the work before him, and the great body of the people of both sections will yield him an unques tioning and hearty support. They did not need the assurances of Gen. Grant to convince them of the entire sound ness of the President's policy, but with that Andrew Johnson's position is so strengthened that he need have no fear of the whole crew of radicals, who fol low the lead of such fanatics as Sumner and Stevens. Grant has effectually blown up all their fortifications. The Negro the Only Obstacle to Be- That nothing but the impracticable theories of the radical Republicans stands in the way of a speedy, perfect and permanent restoration of the Union is clear to every man of common sense who reads the public prints. Indeed it is no longer possible for any one to help seeing it, be he ever so stupid. The New York Tribune, of yesterday, has an arti cle headed " An Outside Congress."— This " Outside Congress" is composed of Fred. Douglass and certain other ne groes, who have been sent to Washing ton to urge negro suffrage. Greeley gravely proposes that the rejected South ern members and these negroes, they both being outsiders, get together and settle the little matter of allowing the negroes to vote. This he asserts would at once end all opposition to the resto ration of the Southern States, on the part of the party now in power. Here him! He says: —Do we seem to speak lightly? Most cer tainly we were never more in earnest. A reconciliation between the Southern Whites and the Blacks would completely solve all our remaining difficulties in an hour. Mr. Stephens might demand confiscation ; Par son Brownlow might call for military exe cution ; the cotton jobbers now roaming over the Gulf States /night insist, so long as a single bale remained outside of their clutches, that martial law could not safely be withdrawn ; politicians might expatiate on the bad temper and imperfect reconstruc tion of the ex-Rebels ; but let it be proclaim ed that the representatives of the late slave holders and those of the Black race had come to a full and clear understanding and agreed on the basis of future harmony, and no parliamentary tactics could keep a sin gle Southern delegation out of Congress for even a week. Does any man, can any man ask for a clearer or a more open admission, that the only object of the radical Republi cans, in their effort to keen the Southern representatives out of Congress, is the desire and resolve, to force upon the States they represent the odious condi tions of negro suffrage and negro equal ity? Let them be judged out of the mouth of Horace Greeley. An Amendment to the Constitution Wanted There is a great deal said in Congress about negro suffrage, negro equality, ne gro rights and all that, and amendments to the constitution are offered to meet the several points. We have no doubt all parties will agree that negroes should be on an equality with the whites in one respect, and that is that they should have the privilege of working for a liv ing like the whites. Therefore an amendment to the constitution is want ed which will make the niggers work. Here is a chance for Sumner, Wilson, Wade, Thad. Stevens and all the rest The sugar plantations in Louisiana, to say nothing of the cotton plantationsall over the South, are anxiously awaiting an amendment to the constitution that will reach this subject. —N. Y. Herald. In our opinion an amendment to the constitution of the negro would do more to effect the desired result than an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. That's what is wanted. TErEPennsylvania Railroad Company will shortly commence the erection of a new, handsome and commodious pas senger depot, on the extensive grounds southwest corner of Thirty-first and . Bridge streets, West Philadelphia, witch are now being graded. It will be a greataccommodation to the public, especially to those arriving in the city from the West. It is but a few squares 'toTairmohnt; Where passenger ,pars may be taken to all sections of the city. The Fraud In the 161ililetrIei: - The-fraud by which an attempt is to be Made to count out Duncan, the Sen ator elect in the 16th District, is being shown up already, and amorainfitmoua . transaction never disgraced any politi cal party. The Valley Spirit has a lengthy article on the case, from which we mike the following extinct. At will be remembered that the votes returned were from Battery B and Co. Aof the Tith Regiment, and that no votes were cast for any other candidates except for McConaughy, the Republican candi date for Senator, and for Rowe, the Re publican candidate for District Attorney in Franklin county. The Valley Spirit says: A poll was opened in Battery B, on the day of election. The judges were Daniel Stoner, Matthew McConnell and Levi T. Robinson, and the clerks were James Hallet and David H. Hafleigh. The returns received were signed with the names of Stoner and McConnell, two of the judges, but with the names of John Hall and James Carbaugh, as clerks, who were not members of the board. The board of election declare that twenty-four or five votes were cast for the State ticket, butnot a single sots was polled for McConaughy or . Rowe, and no return was made of the election —the papers were never signed and the tickets were abandoned. The judges say that wherever their names appear on any of, the returns they are forged, and one of the clerks declares that he cannot write his own name. In addi tion, he is returned as a voter, butswears he id not vote at all. Four others of the men returned as voters were forty miles away from the battery on the day of election. Another was never in the battery in TexaS, but, on that day, was at home in Franklin county. Six oth ers never were residents of that county, &c., &c. Never were such bare-faced and un blushing frauds attempted as those which have been repeatedly enacted within the last four years. The ballot box has almost come to be a mockery. We do not think the efforts being made to cheat Mr. Duncan out of his seat can succeed. We can scarcely believe it possible that a majority of the Senate will lend themselves as parties to so open and base a fraud, but we are not sure that they will not do so. The Two Remaining Obstacles to Recon- struction From the N. Y. Times. The Southern conventions and legis latures have conformed, in the main, to the declared policy and wishes of the Government. Their shortcomings have been on minor points, and without doubt, will be promptly enough made good if the Government asks. So far as relates to the President's action in the premises, there is no serious obsta cle left to a speedy reconstruction.— There are two things only that can be converted into serious hindrances, and both of these depend upon the action of Congress, not upon that of the Execu tive. We mean the establishment of negro franchise as a condition precedent to restoration. and the insisting upon the test oath of' 1862 as a sine qua non of admission into any seat of the Senate or House of Representatives. In regard to negro suffrage, the Presi dent has stated in his Message that "it is not competent for the General Gov ernment to extend the elective franchise -in the several States." His objection to any such requirement from the South rests on constitutional grounds. There is a class of extremists who contend that the President can obtain suffrage for the freedmen through the war power. It is an absurd pretension. A war power has no existence but in the necessity of prosecuting the war effectually, and securing its ends. The war has now closed. All war powers have ceased, save those indispensable to the transi tion from the military government of the war to the normal civil condition of the late theatre of the rebellion. The only power which Congress has upon the matter of securing freedmen suffrage is the power of - proposing an amendment to the Constitution to that end. We doubt whether there is a mem ber, in either branch, visionary enough to imagine it to be possible to obtain the ratification of any such amendment by three-fourths of the States. Net one of of the late slave States would ratify it of their own accord, nor would one-quarter of the other States, for the simple rea son that more than three-fourths of them exclude colored men from their own ballot-boxes, and it would be mon strously unjust for such States to com pel the Southern States to an electoral system they themselves are unwilling to adopt. 4 ' * As relates to the test oath, perhaps there may be more room for rational doubt. Possibly it may be proper for Congress to maintain its dignity by holding to that oath, which makes it impossible for any man who ever has been a traitor to sit in the national coun cils. But it is little else than a point of dignity. No practical danger is involv ed in it. The future allegiance of the late traitors who have been pardoned by the President, may be as securely relied upon as that of any class of_ people in the South. There is no reason to doubt that they have taken the oath of alle giance in absolute good faith. They can have no motive to break it. No body believes a renewal of rebellion possible. It is not fit that these Representatives and Senators elect should be excluded from the halls of national legislation merely as a pun ishment. If it is best to punish them, it should be done with the regular pains and penalties of the law, visited upon their property and persons. There is no such independent punishment known to the statute book as exclusion from places of public trust. That exclusion is only incidental to some high penal conviction. This test oath was origi nally intended to be simply protective, not at all punitory. It is no longer ne cessary for protective purposes, because there is no longer treason, either actual or potential. F - ~* * Is there' any dignity involved in the case which would justify the continu ance of this suspension of the represen tative principle, which is the very vital essence of our civil system? We trust that Congress will judge this matter as dispassionately and as liberally as possi ble. Sketch of Otero One of the Havana newspapers gives the following sketch of Mr. Otero, who was lately so brutally murdered at Brooklyn : " Otero was a native of the province of _Asturias, Spain, and might have been about thirty-five years of age, more or less. He came to this city (Cardenas) I when quite young, and immediately went to work, soon succeeding by his assiduity and honorable conduct in ma king a tolerable fortune. Within the last few months fortune favored him in the lottery with a prize of twenty-five thousand dollars, and with his enterpris ing and :eager character, desirous of ad vancing the interests of the country to which he owed his fortune, he proposed to endow this city with a handsome col isoum. With this view he purchased the old theatre, the only one of the kind then here, before the Lyceum was built, and instead of an ugly house, which in no way corresponded with the progress and culture of the city, he raised a build ing which cost him his fortune. The perseverance, fatigues and arduous la bors of Mr. Otero in completing his work are well known to all Cardenas.— Already our friend was congratulating himself on his success, since the hopes of seeing his building finished before next carnival were his golden dream.— This is his work—there is his capital, acquired by so much honest industry. We have seen the painting, which he had entrusted to that excellent scene painter, Monte Lilla, almost completed. There only remained to get ready the seats in the parquet, the boxes, railings, and other appendages, for which pur pose he went to the United States, where the hand of the assassin put an end to his existence." THE Rockingham (Va.) Register re ports the recent sale of 12,280 acres of timbered land in Rockingham and Au gusta counties, viz : 4,000 acres of North Mountain land belonging to Messrs. Click & Spec; 6,800 acres belonging to Daniel Cupp, and 1,380 acres known as "Union Springs," belonging to Messrs. Allenmong & Mayers. This land has all been sold to a company of capitalists from Carlisle, Pa. The sales were made for cash. The price 113 not Stated. - • Urrout the Montgomery (Ala.) Ledger. j The Regro—His Position. The Proclamation of the President de dared, the marches of the Unionarmies -brought, and finally the action of sover eign Oorivehtione ecinsuieniated - the lib erty of the slave.' But alas! the condi tion of the emancipated slave to-day but furnishes mournful evidence of the truth of the exclamation of the gifted and beeutiful „Madame Roland—" Oh, Liberty! how many crimes are com mitted in thy name." A perfect . .and splendid animal in the development of his physical nature, a perfect child in the feebleness of his intellectual powers, the negro possesses immense capacities for evil, with little, or none, for good. Deprived of the - wholesome restraints of involuntary servitude, his destiny is now inevitable relapse into his native Afric barbarity; and the flat of his free dom, instead of being fraught with bless ing and benefit to him, has been a fatal blunder in statesmanship and a positive curse. In his servitude he looked to his master for food, clothing, and kind management, and he got it. The master was necessarily impelled to give these from the various considerations of self-interest, public opinion, State laws, and the generous teachings of humanity generally. There may have been instances of per sonal cruelty, but they were few, con stituting the exceptioland not the rule. In proof of this the world saw exhibited the spectacle of this race, born under a tropic sun, and in the most degraded barbarity, transported to the cold clime of the temperate zone, under the gov ernment of their masters steadily pro gress in mind and increase in physical qualities. But the chief interest of the 'master now in the care of the slave is removed. He is no longer property, and in that sense he is nothing to his former owner. He is free; no compulsion for him now but that cruelest and most tyrannical of masters—dread necessity and absolute want. To say nothing of his inborn, invincible, and ineradicable inclination to idleness, it may be regarded as al most impossible for the negro ever to work well here in the South, because he can not and will not be as well fed and clothed as in his condition of slave ry. These two things are indispensably necessary to a good day's work from the negro. Where is his pork, vegetables, bread, comfortable woolen clothing, warm houses, and fire-wood, to come from now ? There exists no watch ful and provident master to pro vide them. He must look to him self. Will his sloth, idleness, and ignorance supply them? Never. And thus free, though he be, his only posses , sions are degradation, imbecility and barbarism. Opposed to him is the white race, panoplied with civilization and all its subtle forces, its genius, its science, its learning, its discoveries , its energy, its enterprise, boundless andi infinite as the resources of the globe itself. Thus the conflict begins, and one race or the other must lower lie—one or the other must go to the wall, without escape from the inevitable consequences. Just as the red man, once ran wild in the wilderness and prairies of this Western Continent, receded and vanished before the advancing civilization of the white man, so will the negro retire and perish in the " irrepressible confict" of race to which his emancipation has subjected him. We write the above in no inimical spirit to the negro, for we believe that we are and have been his best friend. We Write in sorrow, not in hostility, for we pity him rather than despise. But it is but stern truth, that his condition and prospects are frightful, and men are now living whom we honestly believe will survive to witness his extinction upon this Continent. In his slavery he had ample and abundant comforts, but under this " grievous bondage" of free dom, what comforts does he enjoy ? It is no abuse of language to say that they are abridged to the scantiest necessity, his diseases have superceded joyous animal health, while his morals and religion are fading, perishing, dying together. The civil war annihilated one-fourth (so estimated) of the entire black population, a large proportion of the remainder it dispersed in conjunc tion with their nomadic proclivities, broadcast over the land, and all were at once hurled into want and degradation. With familiy ties disrupted, houseless, destitute, he is driven out upon the cold charity of the world. True, the healthy and strong may get work•and wages, but the old, the infirm, the sick, and the young, combined with his constitutional improvidence, will speed ily consume his hard and small earnings. Thus he is brought face to face with Winter totally destitute of any provision to meet its cold and hun ger. No Africa here with its overflow ing lap of tropic fruits and roots to fill his stomach, merely by the gathering, but an uncongenial clime and thestrong and austere antipathy of the Anglo Saxon race, a terrible contest awaits him merely for the boon of life. No hu man power can now avert the result. His real friends would have preserved him in slavery—his real enemies have sealed his doom with the curse of free dom. The Habeas Corpus Case In Alabama The Warrant for Attachment Against General Wood Vacated—Judge Busteed Protests Against the Action of the Pres. ident, he MOBILE, Dec. 12, 1865.—1 t will be re collected that Thomas C. A. Dexter, a special Treasury agent, was arrested by the military on the charge of fraud, and that General Wood, commanding the Department of Alabama, declined to obey the writ of habeas corpus issued by Judge Busteed for the liberation of Dex ter, on the ground that said writ was suspended in the State by proclamation of the President, and that the action of General Wood in this matter was sus tained by the President. Yesterday Judge Busteed delivered the final opin ion in this case, saying : The warrant for attachment against General Wood will be vacated without the Court's consent; but, while acquit ting General Wood, I cannot, even by implication, consent to what I consider an encroachment of the Executive De partment of the Government upon one of its co-ordinate brances. The exercise of these functions by the President not only allows, but directs disobedience to these authorities. I claim exemption from any responsibility of guilt as al leged. No official station is or ought to be beyond the public watchfulness, and, as with us all, places and power and acts are held in trust for the people, I deem it due alike to them and myself to make the foregoing statement of facts. I respectfully protest against the acts of the President, and assert that the trial of the petitioner, Dexter, cannot lawful ly proceed in any other way than that established according to the forms now prescribed by the constitution, Christian reverence and obedience to which is the most patriotic service that either citizen or official can render to the Government. Pork and Packers The receipts of hogs at Cincinnati and Chicago, left for packers, this season and last, compare as follows : Cincinnati Chicago.... Deficiency 436,648 This' would ordinarily be regarded as indisputable evidence of a short crop, and would consequently cause a wild speculative excitement. But packers do not see a " short crop" in it now, and therefore hogs are decliningqn value in stead of advancing. The trade feel con fident that there are hogs enough in the country, but owing to the great abund ance of corn and the .good feeding weather experienced, they delay their coming in order to take on more meat. It will, however, require lively work, especially at Chicago, to catch up with last year's business.—Cincinnati Gazette. The President's House _ - It is understood by the Washington news gatherers that the President's house was cleared of articles of furni ture to an extraordinary degree when Mrs. Lincoln left it, The subject has been kept from the public as much as possible, as it was a matter of scandal disgraceful tothe country. The Express correspondent says : THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE is in a very shabby condition the old oc cupants having used up all the appro priations, as well as the furniture. Both Houses of Congress! are preparing for a fresh appropriation. " I visited (said Mr. Riddle of Dela ware, in the U. S. Senate,) the White Hoae, or Executive Maiisfori, as it is called, last week, and it is a disgrace to the eountry."-Hartford Mies: „ Slivery, Abo ll shed—The Constitutional Amendment Adopted., Win. H. Seward. Semttiry of Stateof the United States, to all to whom these presents may come greeting,, know ye that whereto, theCongressofthe United States, on the Ist of February last, pass ed a resolution, which is in . the words following, namely : • "A resolution submitting to the Leg islatures of the several States a proposi tion to amend the Constitution of the United States. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of said Constitution, namely: ARTICLE 13, SEC. I.—Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place snbject to their jurisdiction. SEC. 3. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legis lation." And whereas, It from official documents on file in this Department that the amendment to the Constitu tion of the United States proposed as aforesaid has been ratified by the Legis latures of the States of Illinois, Rhode Island, Michigan, Maryland, New York, West Virginia, Maine, Kansas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ver mont, Tennessee, Arkansas, Connecti cut and Georgia, in all twenty-seven States; and whereas, the whole num ber of States in the United States is thirty-six; and whereas, the before specially named States whose Legisla tures have ratified the said proposed amendment constitute three-fourths of the whole number of States in the United States. . Now, therefore, be it known, that Win. H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, by virtue and in pur suance of the 2nd section of the act of Congress, approved the 20th day of April, 1818, entitled, " an Act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States and for other purposes," I hereby certify that the amendment aforesaid has become valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitu tion of the United States. - . [L. S.] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the Department of State to be af fixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 18th day of December, in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the Nintieth. The Government of Alabama Restored . . The following has been addressed by Secretary Seward to Mr. Parsons : DEPARTMENT OP STATE, WASHINGTON, December 18, 1865. To His Excellency Lewis E. Parsons, Pro visional Governor of Alabama, Mont gomery, Ala.:a SlR—The time has arrived, when in the judgment of the President of the United States, the care and conduct of the proper affairs of the State of Alabama may be remitted to theponstitutional authorities chosen by the people thereof without danger to the peace and safety of the United States. By direction of the President of the United States, therefore, you are re lieved from the trust which was hereto fore reposed in you as Provisional Gov ernor of the State of Alabama. When ever the Governor elect shall have ac cepted and become qualified to discharge the duties of the Executive office, you will transfer the papers and property of the State, now in your custody to his Excellency, the Governor elect. It gives me especial pleasure to con vey to you the President's acknowledg ment of the fidelity, the loyalty and the discretion which have marked your ad ministration. You will please give me a reply speci fying the day on which this communi cation is received. I have the honor to be your Exce lency's most obedient servant, Wu. H. REWARD. Mr. Seward to the Governor of Alabama - • • • •• • • DEPARTMENT - OF STATE, WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 1865. SIR : By direction of the President I have the honor herewith to transmit to you a copy of a communication which has been addressed to his Excellency, Lewis E. Parsons, late Provisional Governor of Alabama, whereby he has been reliev ed of the trust heretofore reposed in him, and directed to deliver into your posses sion, the papers and property relating to that trust. I have the honor to tender you the co-operation of the Government of the United States, whenever it may be found necessary in effecting the early restoration and thepermanentprosperity and welfare of the State over which you have been called to preside. I have the honor to be, with great re spect, your most obedient servant, W3l. H. SEWARD. NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—The discussion among the leaders of the Fenian move ment is still the subject of rival action by Colonel O'Mahony and the Senateof Brotherhood. It is now deemed doubt ful whether the Congress convened by Colonel O'Mahony will be able to effect a reconciliation between the Senate and the officers now in charge of the head quarters in Union Square. The course pursued by Colonel O'Ma hony, however, has been approved by a large number of circles ; and since the difficulty commenced, an average amount of $7,000 daily was received by Mr. Doran Killian, the Treasurer, from various circles throughout the country. This is relied on by the supporters of O'Mahony as a practical illustration of the confidence reposed in him. On the other hand, however, the members of the Fenian Senate have re ceived a large number of letters from the great Fenian circles of the West aiding their action. In a few days the Senate will issue orders countermanding those of O'Ma hony concerning the Congress to meet January 3d, on the ground that such a meeting would be illegal and adverse to the Constitution. The Senate rely on the fact that a House of Delegates cannot arraign, in dict or impeach a Senate. Should the Congress meet, its action will be regard ed as null and void by the Senate. The Senate was engaged to-day in pre paring documents to be sent to the vari ous circles, explaining and defending its action. NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—The World of this morning makes the following edi torial statement: - - From facts which have recently come into our possession we believe we are justified in making the following statement in reference to the finances of the Fenian Brotherhood ; Receipts per month at the time of the o '..hony-Roberts quarrel $150,000 Total receipts during the past seven years 5,000,000 In addition to the five millions which had been received, it was confidently expected that twenty million dollars would be realized by the sale of the new Fenian bonds. It will be an interesting point for the Congress which meets in January to find out what has become of the five millions, as well as what disposi tion is made of the one hundred and fifty thousand which is received monthly. 1865. 1864. 137,675 240,587 77,962 410,698 While several persons were hunting near Bald Mount in this county, they discovered the dead body of a man named Scutt, and well known in that neighborhood as a hunter, lying in the woods. When discovered the body was greatly mutilated, and the legs, from the, knees down had apparently been gnawed off by a wild beast. It is not known how he came to his death, but as his rifle and ammunition were found in a hunter's cabin in the woods, it is supposed that he had started for his home, which was some distance off, to procure some necessaries, and while on his way was attacked by a panther and killed. We could learn no further par ticulars of the melancholy occurrence. —Scranton Register. THERE is now .on exhibition in New York a life-size,full length portrait of the Confederate General Lee. The paint ing was executed by order of the Vir ginia Legislature. It represents Gen. Lee in the full dress ranking General—a gray suit—military boots, and wearing the sword and belt presented to him by the ladies of Baltimore. A 'short dis tance in the rear, Is seen, held !:).y an or derly the iron-grey - charger which car ried Lee in all engagementiy .... • WM. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State The Fenian Trouble I Hunter Found Dead 9s,figtAnds. A Great reiterprislie Cattle and Hog !feet of the Weeht••—T hirty line* of Streets--.A First-Class 'll[o4 ll, d, -"Ex ensue*, and Bank—.Constrnetio of - a Canal Contemplated—. Advantages walk Facilities of the New Yards, &e. The Great Union Stock-yards are now the sensation in Chicago, and sensations being contagious, are the prime topic of conversation in other cities. Not only is Chicago the greatest lumber and grain market in the world, but it is also the greatest live stock market. No enter prise in the . history of that city has combided so many corporation capital ists together into one great company, acting as an individual in the businesit world, as the Union Stock-yards. Th e old yards were six in number and at great distances from each other, creating great inconvenience in the working of the cattle system there. The new yards have been erected by a joint stock com pany•of capitalists and railroad compa nies, and the capital fixed at $1,000,000. The yards lie just outside of the south ern limits of the city, and are about four miles in a direct line from the Court House, or the centre of the city; being perhaps five miles by way of the streets. It is open prairie, no dwellings or places of business being situated anywhere in that locality, and contains three hun dred and forty-five acres of ground.— The work was commenced last June, and it has been thoroughly drained.— The total length of the drains and sew ers is about thirty miles. The yard is regularly laid out into streets and alleys in the same manner as a large city.— This is the greatest feature of the yards. The central thoroughfare is seventy five feet wide and one mile long. It is divided into three sections, like a bridge, to facilitate the driving of cattle through it. Droves passing to the south will take one section, those to the north another; passing, on the way, without the slight est inconvenience or stoppage. This street runs through the entire grounds, and is paved with Nicholson pavement, the blocks used being the refuse ends of plank, &c., which greatly reduced the expense. There is not a hirer orsmooth er drive in Chicago, and there will be no more sightly one, when the yards are filled with innumerable herds of cattle and swine, and teeming: with the activity of buying, selling and trans porting stock. Running parallel are other streets, leading to the railroads that surround the yards, and to differ ent sections. These are crossed at right angles by others running east and west. They are all designated by letters and numbers, as are all the pens and differ ent stalls and yards. There are five hundred inclosures, varyingin size, and are so constructed that several can be thrown into one. They vary from 20x 25 to 85x112 feet, while others are pre cisely the size of a car, calculated to hold just a car load of stock. The yards are provided with six hay barns and six immense corn cribs, con venient to different sections of pens.— These barns are 30x150 feet long, one story high, and will contain 500 tons of hay each. The corn cribs are each near one of the barns. Their average capa city is 6,000 bushels of corn. Nine of the principal railroads of the west find a common centre at these yards. There have been constructed fifteen miles of track, as branches, which connect these roads with the yards direct, besides many switch tracks. The yards are divided into four sepa rate divisions. Division A belongs to the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, and the Illinois Central. Division Bis as signed to the Michigan Southern, Mich igan Central, Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne, and the Chicago and the Great Eastern. Division C accommodates the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the Chicago and St. Louis, both of which are heavy live stock roads. Division 1) will be used by the Chicago and North western Railroad, which, since its con solidation with the Chicago and Galena Railroad, requires considerable room for its live stock trade. The yard is supplied with water from the Chicago river, which Is two feet above the level of the prairie where the pens are erected. Tanks holding 220,- 000 gallons are kept constantly sup plied, and the water is distributed to every pen through over six miles of pipe. Sheds for cattle are also to be erected, supplied with every necessary to that branch of the trade. A great scheme is now fast gaining ground in the inventive brains of the officers of the yards, which outrivals the whole that has been done, if such a thing were a possibility. It is pro posed to cut a canal from the south branch of the river to the cattle-yards, of a sufficient capacity to float' vessels. The river is already navigable to within a short distance - of where the canal would enter it, and the remainder could easily be dredged out. Vessels could then come directly in front of the yards, and depart thence to any port. The yards are provided with half a dozen of FairbanklGreenlears scales for weighing cattle.7—Xsommo dious hotel (the Hough House), ank and exchange buildings have been erect ed. The former contains over three hundred separate rooms in all, and the working arrangment is pronounced un exceptionable. All the modern im provements have been introduced, and the concern may be set down as " first class." Its cost was $165,000. To add to the completeness of the yards the company will soon erect on the grounds a number of neat cottages for the use of men permanently employed about the premises. These buildings will be uniform in size, and finished in an artistic manner, with a view as well to the embellishing of the grounds as to the ease and comfort of the inmates. They will be provided each with a little plot of ground in front and rear, which the lessee can make use of for either a vegetable or floral garden, or both. The wisdom of this plan will be apparent to all. Up to the present time there has been expended upward of one million of dol lars, but much more will be required to complete the work. Since ground was broken for the undertaking, early in June, three construction trains have run daily between the yards and' the city, conveying lumber, brick and other material to the spot. Mr. Civer, the resident engineer, states that over 15,- 000,000 feet of lumber have been used in the flooring and pens. No computa tion has as yet been made of the amount of spikes, iron, etc., used, but it must have been very large. The work has been pushed forward with a rapidity never before equalled in the history of building. It is impossible, at the present time, to state definitely when these mammoth yards will be formally opened. The yards are already completed, and every necessary arrangement is in readiness to receive live stock. Taking every circumstance into con sideration, it can hardly be presumed that the yards will be formally opened before New Year's day ; but the officers are confident that everything will be in readiness in a week. Eloquent Tribute Gen. George W. Morgan, late Demo cratic candidate for the Governorship of Ohio, in one of his campaign speech es paid the following eloquent tribute to the dead of the war: "Then let their names be cherished as was the memory of La Tour d'Au vergne, by the grenadiers of Fran Ce. A score of times be had won, and a score of times bad refused promotion ; but his proud title was 'The First Grenadier of France.' At length on a desperate day, a fatal bullet pierced his breast, and he died, as he had lived, a soldier. But by an order of the Emperor h is name was retained upon the rolls, and at ev ery inspection and review the name of La Tour d'Auvergne was called by the Adjutant in the presence of the army, and it was the privilege of the oldest grenadier to step to the front and an swer to the name, 'Died upon the field of honor.' And let us ever remember that our absent heroes—they who sleep the long sleep of death—that they, too_, died upon field of honor." [Applause.] IT RAVING become evident to the cit izens of Washington city that the radi cals are resolved to confer the right of suffrage upon thenegroesin the District of Columbia, the city councils have passed a resolution, which has been ap proved by Mayor WaHack, appointing an election to be held on Thursday next for the purpose of ascertaining the views of the people on negro suffrage. That there will be a large majority against' allowing the negroes to vote isundoubt ed ; but that the radicals will forcetheir odious, scheme upon them in spite of it there is just as little 'doubt. •
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