gMcfate* ftttdUpwfr. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1860. •• The printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the pro ceedings of the legislature, or any branch of Government; and no law shall ever be made the tight thereof. The free commu • nfcation of thought and opinions Is one of the rights of men"; and every citizen ■ Arnhy freely speak, write and print on any sub ject; being-responsible for the abase of that iiberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers Investigating the official conduct of offi cers, or men In public capacities, or where the matter published Is proper for public informa tion, the-truth thereoi may be given in evi dence.’' The records of the Surgeon General’s officd show that during the rebellion there were 202 United States general hospitals, having for the accommoda tion ot sick and "wounded soldiers 186,- ‘894 beds. Last week the Treasury Department disbursed on account of the War. De partment £13,079,000, and to the Navy Department £621,000. There are five thousand and two hundred|effective soldiersin this'depart- being composed of four regiments of United States colored troops, and the remainder white organizations. Robert Martin, charged with hav ing bt)en concerned in the alleged rebel attempt to burn the city of New # York in the month df Njiyember 1804, is now on trial in that city. \ • •; > Mr. Harlan, the’Secretary of the Interior lias been elected United States Senutor by the lowaLegislature for the term of six years commencing with "March 4th, 1866. Ex-Governor Kirk- wpod has been elected to fill the unex pired term. An old Steamer named “Illinois,” which was bought by the Government for four hundred thousand dollars, will bring higher than twenty-three thousand .dollars now. An investiga tion is talked of by the Congressional Committee on Expenditures. We ap prehend it wilhonb/ be talked of. William Milnes, Esq., an enter- prising Pennsylvanian, and a citizen of * Columbia county', *has purchased fifty nine acres of hmd in the Shenandoah VgUey, Virginia, on which are three furnaces and a forge. It is his design to putiheiu into operation immediately. Pennsylyania fanners do well to plant as largely the coming season us possible, aVid to make as much maple sugar as they can for home user It is now tolerably sure that t very little sugar and molasses can be expected from the sugar producing re- of the South. A New Orleans dispatch reports’that Horne of the' negroes on the Red river plantations in recently rose jn ‘insurrection, nirjl attempted to mur der . their, They were put down, however, hy\ tile militia, and their leaders have been arrested. Anns and ammunithTii have been found secreted on the plantations. • ** Am. tin*, daily newspapers in New Ytftk ninkv lyrge sums of money. The clear projits of the during the ast year, it is said will reach 881111,001) ; tho-eofthe Tribune £170, 000 ; of the Times sl-'ii 1, non ; and of the 11 WAV £OO,OOl l to £100,000; while the Ee<nin</ Co,sV lias realized £7'>,ooo ; and the Evenin'/ Ex /)/‘fss £4o,non in the same period. Prior to the rebellion, There were three hundred and twenty-two light houses on thecoast otThe Cnited States, one hundred and sixty, of which number were.on Lite Southern coast. Most of these light-houses were destroyed by the enemy. Since the close of the war, the bureau has re-estaldised thirty-six, at an ‘'expenses of many thousands of dollars. Of the 0,000 postofliNjain IhtyJTslbyal ►Suites, about 2,000 have ite-opened. Nearly three hundred of rnese have postmistresses, because no man could be found who could take the oath that he had not borne arms ( against Ills country. q Baltimore is rapidly progressing willi her orranir. enterprises. The “ Isahelia” oft he Hal liniore anil Havana line lias made one of the best trips on l'eeord to The passengers weremneh pleased with the performative of the vessel in every respect, and the captain says he was received therewith great cordiality, and the line bids lair to lie very popular. Another steamer will soon be placed upon the line and the eomlnereial interests of Haltimore promise to be materially enhanced by tlu l fostering of t lie Havana anil Charles ton trade. BRIGADIER GENERAL iI.VRNES, of Boston, who has lately been appointed to a place in lhe, Hoston Custom House, formerly Colonel of the Twenty-ninth Massachusetts, has been working at his trade as a journeyman printer since lie was mustered mil, Hu served in the two sieges of Richmond, in the siege of Vicksburg, and took part in twenty pitched battles. AVhatkykr may be Haul in certain quartern, rely upi«n it it is the settled purpose of the President to cultivate friendly relations with all the powers of the earth, and particularly between our iiAvii •recently conflicting, sections. If Louis Napoleon can ad'ord the waste and expenditure of fifty or sixty mil lions of dollars a year to maintain a French army in Mexico, lie can be left td try the experiment at his own will nml pleasure. Sufficient for us to know that we have too much work on our own hands, of immediate and trans cendent importance, to turn knight er rants for the amusement of strangers. Tin: last plank of the scaffold near the , eye of the dome'of the capital at Wash ington, lias been removed, revealing the magnificent design in fresco, upon which for eighteen months past, the artist Briniudi ha- been at work. The central piece of thi- painting is a picture of Washington, on the right and left of which are representatiops of Peace and Justice. Around are six groups, the first representing War! a picture of Mars, Agriftulture, picture of Ceres, me chanics, picture of Vulcan, commerce, picture of Mercury, marine, picture of Neptune, and science, picture ofMiner vn. From the lloor of {'he Rotunda to the centre of the picture, is one hundred ami 'eighty feet. The cost of the whole work'is over sdO,unn. Ih'ljiNG tile war the blockade, run fiers of Charleston, S. c., organized regular stock for the trans action of a wholes!fle''c?uitraband busi ness, many of which wse verjPsuceess ful, and the stock ran high. The offi cers of these companies, becoming emboldened by tile leniency with which they have been treated by tliejiational government, recently published notices to the stockholders of dividends de clared payable. The United States Treasuary agents at once seized upon the officers of the companies, their books and assets, and, as appears by Charleston correspondence, are en-- ergeticully watching Uncle Ham’s intCr .estin the matter. Later dates from the same plae.e state tiiat the case has been sent to Washington for adjudication. iTseemstliat three Congressmen have been elected in Arkansas by eight hun dred votes —twenty thousand votes hav- ing been excluded because the voters did not take a test oath, which was not presented to them. Surely these three “ loyalists ought to be admitted to their : seats! Jttlm Cessna. John Cessna is fully resolved to force himself upon the Republican party for Governor, if it can possibly be done. Col. F. R. Jordan, of Bedford, has been frequently spoken of in connection with that position, and Bedford and some of the surrounding counties instructed their delegates to voteforhimatthelast Gubernatorial Convention, which we believe they did on the first ballot at least. Col. Jordan went into the army; John Cessna, more loyal and physically more robust, Staid at home to manage political campaigns. Cessna now wants the support of Bedford county at the 'coming Republican State Convention • so it seems does Colonel Jordan. The fight between them was getting to be very bitter, when the Republican Coun ty Committee of Bedford county held a meeting and ordered an election to be h&d; the man getting the highest num ber of votes to he considered entitled to the^ ; 'delegate. Yesterday was the ap pointed day for determining the event ful question as to which of these rural notorieties should be the candidate of our opponents in the coming campaign. The telegraph has failed to announce the result, but unless Col. Jordan was very sharp we feel assured John cheated hirmbut of the delegate. When he was a candidate at the last Democratic State < Convention which nominated a candi date for Governor he was forced to get down on knees, to beg and plead, and was at last compelled to resort to trick ery to secure the delegate from his own county. He told any amount of lies at home and elsewhere to secure delegates. He even made a trip to Lancaster, and when here assured prominent Demo crats of tiiis city that he only needed the six votes of this county to nominate Jiira on the first ballot. No trick was too contemptible and mean for him to resort to. Yet, when the Convention assembled, in spite of all his boasted strength, he had wily nine votes on the first ballot, gild none afterwards. Whether his pretensions will be assum murily disposed of in the coming Re publican Convention we are uhable to say. We are anxiously waiting to hear from Bedford county. Very much de peuds upon that. It is passing strange that tjie telegraph should be silent as to tile result of yesterday’s election. Koontz vs. Coffroth, A special telegram to the Philadelphia Aye says, the contested election case from the Sixteenth district of Pennsyl vania Koontz vs. Coffroth, was decided in committee this morning in favor of Mr. Coflroth. The report will be pre sented to the House in a few days, and ‘the matter will then be discussed there. The impression seems to be that Mr. C. will get the seat. It will be remember ed that no certificate was issued by the ‘Governor to either of the contestants. Coflroth had a certificate signed by four out of the five Return Judgesof the dis trict ; Koontz had trumped up four bogus Return.! udges, who in connection with the regular appointed judge from Somerset county gave him a bogus cer tificate.. The Atto/ney General decided that neither of the returns were regular; Coflroth being deficient in not having any return/from Somerset county, antj Koontz being invalid because signed by bogus Judges. The case was left to Congress for decision. The question now decided by the Committee on Elections gives Coflroth his seat jirima facie , but leaves Koontz free to contest .his right to it on the merits of the case’ If Coflroth has justice done him he will any cause to fear the further efforts of Mr. Koontz as there is no doubt that he was legally elected. A si'KciAUtelegram from Washing- ton says: The resolution adopted by the Senate au thorizing the Committee 011 Reconstruction to send lhr papers and person's will super sede the original intention of despatching a sub-committee to the Southwest to obtain information relative to atfcurs in that sec tion. It Ims yet to be acted on by the House. The committee are enjoined to secrecy as to their proceedings. Tile last sentence is’decidedly signifi cant. What will he done by that Com mittee in secret session it is easy to con jecture. No papers and nopersons will be sent for except such as will corrobo rate the sealed views and substantiate tile preconceived sentiments of the rad ical majority. The report will be a tis sue of lying utterances gleaned from ir responsible sources, and will be gotten up ami spread abroad as campaign documents sometimes are. The negro will he lauded to the skies and the body of the white people of the .South will be villified after the current ntyle of rudi eal orators anil newspapers. The whole concern will he gotten up with a design of creating capital fortliat portion of the Republican party which stands out in opposition to the restoration policy of the Government. A Good Time Coming, Mesdames IS. Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony, all of them ardent advocates of women’s rights, have addressed a petition to Con gress, asking an amendment of the Con stitution of the United States, that shall prohibit lierealter the States respective ly from disfranchising any of their citi zens, on tlieground of sex. They claim that fifteen millions of white women have quite as much right to be invested witli the suffrage, as four millions of blacks. Being a bachelor, we think so too.— What a delightful time bachelor politi cians will have in this land of ours when tlie women, God bless them, all have a vole. What delicious sport it will be to electioneer among the dear creatures; what huge mass meetings we will have; how full of poetry and fine sentiment our speeches will be ; what a refining influence will be exerted upon our whole system of politics. When that day arrives, he who would run for office must he young and handsome, with a killing moustache, soft silken locks, and the form and face of an Adonis. -Long legged, gaunt, ungainly men, with huge hands and feet, and iil shaped features will have no show.— There will be no possibility of our ever again having a President like the late lamented and departed Lincoln, after the women get a elianee to vote. The Return of Governor Curtin Letters received at Harrisburg con tain the news that Governor Curtin had re solved to sail from Havana A ork/on the loth inst. He may there fore be expected at the State capital within a week. This puts an end to the difficulties in which the Legislature found themselves placed in consequence of the absence of the Governor, and that body will be enabled to proceed with its business without interruption or adjournment. A letter from Gov ernor Curtin’s physician announces the -fact that his health is greatly improved. Tli® President ana the Suffrage Question. The following statement made by the the AVashiugton correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledtjer, contradict* the assertion made on the floor of the House of Representatives by Air. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, that the President favors the passage of a law establishing negro suffrage in the District of Columbia: The position of the President on the negro suffrage question is so far known that I think it would be safe to ■ say that be would veto any bill upon °/ su , ffra U e in the District that did not submit the matter to a nal vote of the people. A -veto from him would kill the measure assuredly as it wouid be found impossible to pass it afterwards by a two-thirds vote.’’ in Errnc Corrected**.’ A New York contemporary ,• in reply ing to a correspondent, affirms that the late Chief Justice Taney, of the tjs 8. Supreme Court, never made use of the expression so often quoted to hi& dis credit by the Abolition papers, that “a black man has no rights which a white man is bound to respect.” Judge Taney did say, when delivering the opinion of the Court, was as follows: “ The question before us is, whether the class of persons described in the plea of abatement compose a portion of this people, and are constituted members of this sov ereignty? We think they are not, and that they are not included, and were not intend ed to be included, under the word ‘ citizen * in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provider! for and secures to citi zens of the United States. (In iheeontrary, they were at the time considered as a sub ordinate and inferior class of beings, who bad been subjugated by the dominant nice, and whether emancipated or not, remained subject to their authorit}’, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the Govern merit might choose to grant them." This is very different, and conveys a very different meaning, from the ex pression sought to be put in the Chief Justice’s mouth by a falsifying and un principled opposition. A Conscientious Demagogue. The Philadelphia Ledger , speaking of Thaddeus Stevens’ attempt to dictate to Congress and domineer over the President, says: “In 1838 ai.tin* ciipital of Pennsylvania, he whipped his parly followers into the of attempting to sot aside the election bv the people, and foist upon the Commonwealth a minority candidate for Governor, and a minority Legislature. Three honest member* of the same party with Mr. Stevens, refused to uarrv out these treasonable practices. (>m- uf thorn \John Montelius) o-siitj.-d ln.-ioiv the committee of investigation that lie told Mr.- Stevens that his conscience ‘would not permit him to sanction these corrupt proceedings.'— ‘Conscience, indeed,' said Stevens, ‘ throw conscience to the devil, and stand by your party."’. And this same Thaddeus rttevens to day stands at the head of the “great moral party” of the country, and 19 .petted and patted by “loyal" preach ers and laymen everywhere. No doubt he has thrown his “ conscience to the devil,” and that heh/mself is in hot pur suit. He tried to revolutionize the Commonwealth in 1838, and failed. He is now trying to ruin the whole country by his wicked and incendiary measures, and will fail iii that too, after which, like his prototype iti the New Testa ment, life “ will go to his own place.” Our Standing Army We have repeatedly denounced tilie determination which is exhibited *to keep up a huge, standing army, now that all need of sucli an institution has passed away. We heartily commend the following timely remarks on the subject which we find in the New York Tribune, of yesterday : We entreat Gohgress to ponder long and anxiously before consenting to pass Gen. Wilson’s bill proposing to increase the personnel of our Regular Army to some Seventy Thousand men. If that bill becomes a law, at least Thirty Mil lions per annum will be added by it to the taxes of our people ; and for what? “To add Forty Thousand men to our. Army,” say you? Then you ate griev ously mistaken. We shall at most Rave but the skeleton of an army: officers without soldiers ; regiments on the books dwindled tocompanies on parade ; bloodless, lleshless skeletons, with bonv jaws grinning at the folly which called them into being. .Men in Gongress! save us from this costly illusion ! Ample experience proves that the ranks of our little Army of Fifteen to Twenty Thousand never were nor could be kept full in timeof peace ; they were oftener scarcely half full. Now, War is going out of fashion ; and every man in our ranks beyond the first* Twenty Thousand will have cost £SUU by the time lie has fairly joined his regimen/. Then why expand ? We are groaning under unprecedented taxation-, which must be yet nmre severely felt as prices decline toward a specie standard. Econ omists in Congress! save us from the passage of this most needlessly oppres sive measure I Another Sensation Story Spoiled. A story is going the rounds of the press to the effect that President John son’s brother, who was recently acci dentally wounded at Velasco, Texas, and died from the effects thereof, because the “rebel” physicians refused to at tend him. The story further says, the sons of the deceased are responsible for the statement, and that they had to send to Columbia, one hundred miles distant, for a federal surgeon to attend their father, the delay causing his death. A correspondent of the New A'ork Tint's thus disposes of this sensation story : “Tliesons.ot Mr. Win. At. .Johnson were not in Texas at tile time of the death of their father, and are doing in justice to his memory, us well as to the medical faculty of Brazoria county, by sanctioning a -ensation article (olsimi lar importj which appeared several days since. There was notal the time of the accident, nor lias there ever been a resi dent physician in A'elasco. The place is not large enough to sustain one. The remarks, therefore, attributed to tiie medical faculty of A'elasco are manu factured for a sensational purpose, for they are utterly untrue. The distance from A’elasco to Columbia is but 2N in stead of 10U miles, at which place there were three physicians, and all the po litical friends of President Johnson.— Drs. Alorris and Anthony could not leave their patients, it "being a sickly period ; the oilier amputated Mr. John son's arm, after which he lived about ten days, but being an old, feeble man, sank under tlie shock. The writer was in Columbia at the time of the death of Air. Johnson, and there wasevery mark of respect shown him by tlie people at tending liis funeral." Republican Editor in Trouble, I lie negroes in tlie Alichigan colored regiment who have come back from tile war, have gone to -tiing Colonel Henry Barnes, a super loyal amt high llan.ed fanatic, who first organized tlie regi ment, for tlie I'HMVerns of their boun ties which Barnes thrust into liis own pocket. Home forty suits have already been entered. Barnes ,at the time he was thus stealing from the darkies was editor of the republican paper at Detroit, and was seoidi ng severely at the copper heads for their want of sympathy with tlie negroes. The Humored Cabinet Changes. Tlie Philadelphia Lcdtjer of this morning has the following special de spatch from AA’ashington : AVasiiingtox, Jan. lo.—Air. Stanton intends to retire from tlie Cabinet upon the Ist proximo. It is not known who will succeed him. Frank P. Blair, Jr., lately Alujor General of volunteers, is named. Should Air. Stanton’s retirement in volve an entire remodelling of the Cab inet, Gov. Andrew, of Alassachusetts, is also named ; but that is not probable, if Mr. Adams replaces Air. Seward. Of course Mr. Doolittle is spoken of His entife accord with the President causes his name to be brought up when ever a vacancy in the Cabinet is likely to occur. Should he enter the Cabinet however, it will probably be as Secreta ry of the Interior. Those camels which the United States Government imported from their oriental home some years ago, sent to Texas, and used for army transportation purposes, are to be sold at auction.— Those camels have made one trip to San Diego and hack, via Arizona; they served in the Confederate Quartermas ter Department during the war, and, we expect, were the only property of that department not stolen in the general grab game so freely indulged in, report has it, in Texas, when the war ended; again reverted to Uncle Sam, and now he is going to knock them down to the highest bidder. They have led an easy life out in Northwest Texas; fully pro ven their usefulness as beasts of burden ; and it seems rather hard to turn them adift. | Alleged Indorsement of the ' by U atephenit Ac. . •e The following documents appear, ill the New York'papers of .Saturday. Wet give them as a piece of news without vouching genuineness: ~ 7o John (fifahony. Jisq., Representative and R%- nancial Agent of uie IrUh hepublie in the tinited states: \ , - Decern bier. 22, 1860. Brother and Friend : The. only misunderstanding ever possible between you and me has been occasioned by what deemed your dragxchain policy. Knowing the absolute ifecessity for ac tion within a given time, and aware that you did not agree with me that, so far as the Fenian Brotherhood was con cerned, the time would come and -find us unprepared. This apprehension has kept me in a state of pain and Irritation also, and so I have often said and writ ten things which must have hurt you most keenly. For all this I now sin cerely ask your forgiveness. Let me add, however, that I would not do so, though you were on your dying bed and I on mine, if you had not entered, albeit very late, on the only path of salvation for our land and race. Treason and baseness in every shape have been at work around you, and to such effect as to have put the cause of Ireland in serious peril. Before my es cape from Richmond Bridewell, I should have looked on the actual state of things as all but certaiu ruin. That eveut—for it is nothiug less—has given such marvelous strength to our work, and to me such influence, that I can now undertake to hold our forces togeth er for some time longer. Btill it is of the utmost urgency to make this delay as short as possible. For delay in our case is of more than proverbial danger, and I could not long hope to hold against the strain of time. But as you are on the right plan at last, 1 rely on you briuging affairs to a speedy issue. To break with treason anil Imsfeuess of all kinds; to brand it, 9mosh it, was the policy, and 1 rejoice at your having made it yours. * * * * Hour ranks be somewhat thinned by this summary riddanceof traitors our reliable strength is but increaaed. ByVthe way, some good meu were sent oj&r here by Scan lon. We know how toappreciate them. But he sent others of a vile kind, that at their first interview with me, they, in confidence , accused each,other of rob bery, and I know not what! Itmay be that such scoundrels would fight; but till we are actually in the field, fellows of this stamp would bea standing shame and .danger to us. Thank o>d, they have sneaked away —some of them at the merest shadow of danger. .May they never more pollute our shores! Cut and hack the rotten branches around you on all sides without pity. This can lie done safely,at your side, the stag is harmless there. ***** I am pressed for time. This is of little consequence. 1 hope, as almost .ail you could need to know will be \found in the letter of the M. C. brought put by General ; and anything that letter may lack the General is the very man to makegood. Theaccompanyiug document confers on you, in America, C-auada, <fcc., the absolute and unques* tionabh/authpritysftf representative and financial agent of lyie Irish. Republic. With the old friendly feeling, I am. Yours fraternally, James Stephens, (J. E. J. R. IRISH REPUBLIC. To the Members of the Fenian Brother hood , and the Friends of Ireland <hn trady, in the ('nited States, Canada dv. .• December 23, 1860. Countrymen and Friends: Aware that certain members of the Fenian Brotherhood, and notoriously the “Senate” of Wat*'Association, have madly and traitorously moved to a mad aud traitorous end, raised thecryof“To Canada!” instead of the cry of “To.lre land !” and aware that John O’Mahony, known as Head (tenter and President of the Fenian Brotherhood, has wisely and firmly, as in duty bound, opposed this mud and traitorous diversion from the right path—the only path that could possibly serve onr country and onr face ; lin consequence hereby ap point the said John O’Mahoney repre sentative and financial agent of the Irish Bepublioin the United l .States of America, Canada, itee., with ample and unquestionable authority to >* * * and in all other ways in which to the best of his judgment he can serve Ire land—that land to which he has devo ted life and honor—l hereby authorize and call on him to do so. James Stephens, C. E. 1. K Letter From Mrs. .Jefferson Davis The following letter lias beenaddress ed by Airs. Jefferson Davis to the Sec retary and Agent of the Ladies’ South ern Association : Alll.i, View, Ga, Dee. 4, I.MiO. J/y Dear Sir : lam in receipt of your very kind letter in tlie name of the La dles' Southern Aid Association, having “ for its object tlie purpose of placing” me “ and family in cireunistancessome whateomiuensurate with their estimate of' me and mine, and begging that I will, at my earliest convenience, desig nate a place to which the mea|iis so col lected may be conveyed so that they may “ safely and satisfactorily” reaeti me. From our desolated-imd impoverished friends I scarcely expected such an ex pression of material sympathy, though my powers of gratitude have been al most daily taxed to thank those who have, witli so much heart eloquence, pleaded with tlie President forliim who, though unsuccessful, lues given you all he could —his best energies—and whose only hope of future happiness lies in the sweet trust, often expressed, that he has not lost your confidence and love. Ignorant of all which his own people have done for him in liis painful cap tivity, liis devotion is unabated. “ The unfortunate have always been deserted and betrayed, but did* ever man have less to complain of when he had lost tlie power to serve ? The multitude are silent. AA liy should they speak, save to him whose heart best knows tlie words most secretly uttered ? “My own heart tells me the sympa thy exists; that tlie prayers of the fam ily hearth are not hushed. Be loving and confiding still to those from whom I have received much mure than I de serve ; far more official honors than I ever desired. Those for whose cause I suffer are not unworthy of the devotion of allfwhieh I hudtogive.” This is the message of love which is sent through prison gates to our own people. I sav our people, because both of us have been brought upwjthyou; oneof uswas born in Alississippi, the other came to her in infancy. Theseare my own people, and it is a privilege of which no change of circumstances can deprive me. To tlie accepted prayers of our widows and or phans, our suffering but heroic women, our brave and true men, our innocent little children. I look for the restora tion to my children of their agonized but Christian fattier If a merciful Providence so ordain it, we hope to live and die among you mutually consoling and bearing each oner’s burdens. I pray God we may be restored to the iiomesmf our child hood, “for how can we sihg our own song in a strange land?” AVe would not have our dear friends betrayed by their sympathy in offering, for our use, too mucli from their own “ basket and store.” I and mine have, so far, been miraculously cared for and shielded from want. AVe seem ever environed by the love wrhich is reflected upon us from that which lighted my husband in his dungeon—softened liis prison wail.-|with sunny pictures bftoving eyes and outstretched arms. Grief and gratitude seem to impose upon me sileuce. I would, but cannot say more. I will enclose within this note the name and directions of gentle men to whom the contributionsof which you speak may be inclosed. And instead of the eloquent voice which so often has poured forth his love to his dear people, now mute, I offer a wife's, anil a mother’s, and a countrywoman’s grati tude to you aud those you represent. I have the honor to be, very grateful ly and sincerely yours, A’arina Davis. THECineinnati Commercial says “the policy of Charles Sumner and Thad. Stevens, which the radicals are all braying it is treason to oppose, comes to this—that in the States lately in rebel lion tlie whites shall be disfranchised and the blacks enfranchised ; that these States shall not be admitted to the privileges of the Union until their gov erning class is black. This is the actual issue.” The Commercial is a Republican paper. CheapJaermwCßUWh-ißr: WaffgdEl and Dr. Beecher. Dr. Beecher has sold bis pews, and the saints of Plymouth church nave chosen their new places. It was done just as Dr* Marigold sold his. wares un der the hammer. 44 N6w then friends, said Dr. Marigold, 44 FD tell yon what Til do with Here’s a nice pew out by the door a little cool perhaps In the cold days when the door opens ev ery minute, and not good Tor heating when the door, slamsshutevery minute, but a good enough pew if a man’s a good Christian and wants to go to hea^eh — good as any. What will you give for it? Five hundred? four hundred? three hundred ? twohundred! one hun dred? What! You don’t want it?— You won’t have it at any price, per haps. Well, let it go. Here’s another, close by the pulpit, where you can look ' the parson, full in the face, be seen by all the congregation in your place and as you go to it; be esteemed one of the pillars, in fact, and I’ll throw in the grace of God ana half a dozen little trilies usually supposed to go with it. Wliat do you say ? Five hundred ? four hun dred ? three hundred? There are so many bids I can’t make out the man.” Does, any one suppose that Dr. Mari gold would be out of place in the church, selling the pews in this way. ? Well, exactly this rigmarole was gone over, and the thiugs sold were, indeed, all those good influences that are supposed to flow from the Church, and to be dis tributed thence among men, the grace of God with the rest. Henry Ward Beecher is a . sort of modern gnostic. He supposes that he is the only person who possesses a true knowledge of the Christian religion, and he exalts the divine nature of Christ, carrying that exaltation so far that he denies the Trinity and maintains that Christ is God, pure and simple. We should be pleased to learn from what part of the Christian law this only enlightened Christian justifies recently enacted in his church for the sale of seats, when the grace of God was knocked down under the auctioneer’s hammer and sold on speculation; when the humble followers of the Nazarene paid two, three or four hundrejd dollars for the privilege of touching the hem of Beecher’s garment, while, within a few miles distance, women and children, frozen in the bitter cold, died for the need of Are. There needs no other evi dence than this sale in Plymouth church —this ostentatious sacrifice laid before the Moloch of personal vanity in a place dedicated to the worship of God —to prove what we recently advanced —that modern Christianity has done with Christ and his doctrines. We know _what the parson was once—the earnest, “simple-minded expounder of the moral law, endeavoring to impress upon all within his sphere the true significance of the Scriptures ; a man who, in virtue of his office, had voluntarily renounced the vanities of life and the pnrsuit of an ambitious career; frugal withal, and, though not so poor as Christ's own di rections would keep him, yet “ passing rich on forty pounds a year.” Buoh was the parson once, and now the right to choose pews in Beecher’schurch nets twenty-five thousand dollars. These pews were not bought by men who desire to be made better—they are already so excellent; nor by men who desire to comfort the wretched and feed the hungry. There are the police for that and the poorhotise. Nor yet by men who care particularly for the incul cation of the spirit of Christian charity, without which speech, even Beecher’s, is sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. Besides, the whole length and breadth of instruction on Christian charity is to be had in a Testament, which even in these hard times, can be got for ten cents. Why sould they pay four hun dred dollars for that? Why should they assemble to hearthe places in what our books call God’s holy temple” sold out in the jargon of the Cheap Jack of the Christmas story ? These sums were paid for the right to the best places in a fashionable resort —for the right to sit high on crimson cushions under the parson’s eye, the observed of all observ ers, and to applaud with noisy hands the political diatribes of the canting oracle of the hour. At least that is the view with which the many went to buy their seats in this fashionable place of amusement. But there were others there who had a tliriftien turn, and were animated only by the desire to turn an honest penny. They boughtthe seatson “speculation.” We are not informed whether these speculators are the same persons who buy up the choice seats at the theatres in the day time, and then haunt the entrances at the door of admission and oiler orchestra chairs, dress circle seats and proscenium boxes at a moderate advauce of one hundred per cent. We fancy not. Poor men are apt to have more respect for the church than to treat it in that way. It is the richer speculator who has no qualms of con science. We do not object to Mr. Beectie’s making preaching his business, to his having his church enterprise in Brooklyn, and making it pay as much as possible; but we do object to his pretending that his business enterprise is Christianity, andsobringingdisgrace upon the Church. We object to this stealing the livery of Heaven for pur poses that are not Heaven’s and we think that the line between churches and lottery enterprises ought to bemore distinctly drawn—A’. )’. Herald. France and the United States, Probable Course of the Kiiii*cror->lc.xico to be Evacuated by the Trench. Special Dispatch to The X. Y. Tribune.j Washington, Jan. 14, lS6t». A private letter dated Paris, Dec. :14, has been received here from an un doubtedly well-informed and trust* worthy source. It contains the follow ing statements: “ 1 he Legislative bodies of the French Empire wilhissemble either on the loth or ISth of January, the precise day having not yet been fixed upon when the letter was mailed. The Emperor will, in his opening speed), express the most friendly and pacific sentiments toward the United States. He will, unless meanwhile the relations of the two countries have become hostile by menaces or questions of honor, promise to evacuate Mexico as promptly as such an operation can be practically effected, aud will by practical measures prove the sincerity of his intentions?" The letter states further that, unless unforseen complications arise before the delivery of the Emperor’s opening' speech, the relations of the two coun tries will not only remain friendly, but an opportunity will be presented for making them more cordial than ever, by the conclusion or a treaty upon the basis of common interests. ’’ lbc iniuiliiuimii here given comes from a responsible quarter, and may be considered asstrustwortliy as informa tion can be without being published in an official way. letter from Gen. Sherman N.™ Orleans, Saturday, Jan. 13 ISH6—The Alexandria (La.) Democrat publishes a letter from Gen. AA’. T. Sher’- man to a friend in Rapides Parish in winch he contradicts the general’im pression that liis appointment as Super intendent of the Louisiana MilitVrv Academy at Alexandria before the war was due to Bragg or Beauregard He also controverts the impression that when he left Louisiana he was pledged not toentertheservice against tbeSouth He did say at Alexandria, that warT would be the inevitable result of seces sion : and at New Orleans, on the eve of his departure for St. Louis, he might have said to Bragg he was not going As orthito seek military service which was true. He refused to enter the volunteers force first called out by President Lin coln, because he considered that the whole South would become involv ed in the war, which -could be handled only by vast armies of reg ulars. Gen. Sherman concludes as : “ I wish the South well, and if I have been a scourge, then how much better that it was I than Ben. Butler or some other of that school.” Gen Sheridan in reply to a letter in Ihe New York hews from Gen. Early contradicting the United States official reports of the* Confederate forces and losses m the Shenandoah A’ailey, has published a letter in 2'he Cretfccw/, show ing that he captured as prisoners more?' men than Early states to htive been his ' entire force. General Frank Blair, on the 3d, be fore leaving Bt. Louis for Cincinnati, entered his action in the Circuit Court against Messrs. Ridgeiy and Thompson for $lO,OOO damages. The gentlemen who are made defendants in this suit were Judges of Election in the Sixth ward, and refused to allow General Blair to vote unless he would take the oath prescribed by the constitution. 1 1 1 ii i mil mu r i iii i i "* 1 §/Mai gntdligencc. Court Proceedlngii. Tuesday Afternoon.—ln the case of the CJom'th va. Augusta’ Walker, the jury re turned a verdict of guilty, accompanied by a strong recommendation of the prisoner to the mercy of the Court. The Court seu [tenced her to pay a fine of one dollar and to undergo an imprisonment of six weeks in the County Prison. Oom'th vs. John Ooldren , Aaron It. Weid mon, Isaac E. Bombergcr , Sam’l E. Keller and John B . Erb. Indictment Conspiracy. This case is one which has excited con siderable interest. The defendants are charged on a number of indictments with conspiring to defraud certain parties, prin cipally Philadelphia merchants, the credi tors of John Coldren, who kept store at the villageol Rothsville, near Litiz. Judgments for large amounts had been given by Col dren to those joined with himosdefendants, aud on these execution was issued and the goods of Coldren sold by the Sheriff, the proceeds of the sale not being sufficient to satisty the claims of the defendants. It is alleged that there was such collusion be tween the defendants as brings the transac tion under the act of Assembly in such case made and provided. The defendants ex pect to be able to show that the whole was a perfectly legitimate business transaction, and that the only advantage they had qr took was i lie advantage of being first on the ground and in a position to Save themselves by legal means from suffering in conse quence of llie failure of Coldreu. Tiie case was ope net! by John B. Livinj ston. Esq., on the part of the Comnioi TESTIMONY. W. B. Lippineott, sworn: Am one of the ‘firm of Lippineott,Brown & Co., of Philadei. phia; I sold goods to John Coldren, about April 18lh, lS*>o, to the amount of §2(50; I had a conversation With hun when he came into our store; he? paid a small balance and began purchasing very liberally; bought everything I showed; I told him he was buying mure gorfds than he needed ; he told me to reduce it one-half; after he got through purchasing he told me to ship the goods immediately, and said he would come in next day utter the bill ; when he was gone we were not satisfied with the way he hud talked and acted ; when he called next dav I told him we did not know enough,of him; he got a little angry ; I told him it was our interest to sell to good men ; said he and Weidnmn had a fine property worth §4.000; that he had bought \\ eidtnun out; I asked him again ifhe c-usidered himself perfect ly able to pa\ : he said hedid, and thegouds were sbip|w>d : ul the middle of June 1 came ii[ -o I. aster and went out to the store of ('olUivn ; Coldren wus not there; saw Weidnmn ; he said they bad been in solvent since January previous ; that Col dren had bought him out in April and given him judgments ; his wife seemed anxious to gel him out of the way ; told him to hold on ; lie told me the stock was worth $14,000 and $3,000 on the hooks, of which $2,000 was good; asked him what was to become of the Philadelphia creditorsf said there was nothing for them, that the assets would not satisfy the home creditors; saw Coldren after lie had passed me on the road, buthad no conversatiofi with him ; the goods were sold on t >n days time, and were positively to be paid for at the expiration ofthat time; refused to deli verexcept on such conditions. X By Mri H tester. This conversation oc curred in June. When he slated to me what the amount of stock was he told me nothing in regard to wliat the firm owed.— Our conversation slopped then; do not know what his object was in telling what he did; Coldren never bought but one bill ot usheforo; there was a small balance of eight dollars: he-paid that ; said he was sorry it had si "d so long. XBy Colon- ' Pordney. Have contribu- ted nothing ve. in the way of paying attor ney's lees; was at no meeting at John Mich ael's tavern; have made no contract ex cept with Mr. Dickey; he is our counsel: expect to pay him; expect to recover our money through this prosecution. John E. Albright, sworn. Our firm is Josiah Keagloand H. S. Fiester; am a mem ber of tlie firm; one of our salesmen sold goods to Coldren: had no conversation with him at the time of the sale; I had a talk with Coldren at Lancaster; met him; told him who 1 was; asked him how much money lie owed; lie .refused to answer; asked him what he was worth; still refused to I saw Mr. Bomberger after ti-rward; lie told me he was a judgment creditor of Jno. Coldren; said he wus; that he had a judgment for §1,000; he declared to me that was all the judgment he had ; af terward admitted that he had another judg ment for $1,3U0; said it was for what Weid nmn owed him; he told me the judgment creditors of Coldren had met aud agreed to sell him out and divide the proceeds. Had a talk with Aaron Weidman nextday. He was very slow in answering niv questions; said he had agreed to sell out to Coldren ; the agreement was made in Januarv but trans action not consummated till April; said the stock was §14,000, and the amount good on books 82.0(H); he said he sold to save him self and friends: he told me he and Coldren were currying on the business, and that Col dren was agent for Samuel E. Keller; the amount of the bill bought of us was about $2,500; tnese goods were* purchased about April 18th.v By Mr. Hiester. X My conversation with Mr. Bomberger took place in Mr. Tshudv's store, at Litiz, on. June 14th. It was alter the .Sheriff’s sale of Coldren’s goods. He positively de nied having more than one judgment against Coldren. Ho claimed that the §l3OO judgment was to cover Weid mau's indebtedness to him. Denied hav ing another until I called his at tention to it. I was on a committee sent up by the creditors to examine into mat ters. Our conversation was intended to be of a private character. I so regarded it.‘ He told me in the conversation that the homecreditorshadbad a meeting at Esquire Erb's office, and agreed to sell Coldren out and apply the proceeds to the payment ol the judgments they held. X By Colonel I- ordnej'. The committee of investigation sent to Lancaster consisted of Mr. Lippineott, Cline ami mvself; the judgment creditors had a meeting at Mi chael's Hotel ; the agreement between the creditors was that the expenses were to be borne according to amounts ol the indebted ness of Coldren to the djfferent linns; niv interest in the §2,500, owffig to our firm fs about S4UU; ,1 do not expect to make my money out of this prosecution; have not been told by my counsel that in case the de fendants are convicted, that there will be a judgment of restitution ; we have not had any such case before'in our business ; deem it necessary for honesty and business inter ests that the case should be prosecuted ; am doing what I do for the public good. Still on trial, when the Court adjourned to Wednesday morning. Wednesday Morning.—’Sir. Albright re examined. Theodore Wile sworn : Live in Philadel phia; know John Coldren; sold him a bill of goods in April last tothe amount of soma ; he owed us small balance and told us that butore he lelt he would call and pay that balance and the bill he had bought; when he came he said he had paid all his other bills in the city and we must trust him; he also told us that he had bought Weidman out, and that he wanted his goods marked differently ; said that his purchase <>f Weidman amounted to some $10,001). X By Mr. Hiesfer. Coldren paid me lor the goods h^bought. lie-examined by Mr. Dickey. He paid my bill niter I had him arrested" for obtaining goods under false pretences. A. Cline, sworn : John Coldren bougbta bill of goods of us in April last; he bought more goods and of more extended variety than usual; this led to some conversation among the iirm, and objection was raised to‘shipping the goods, but they were finally shipped; after hearing of the judgments entered against C’oldren, I went to Litiz, and in Mr. Tsbudy's .store met Mr. Bom berger; I remarked to him I believe you are one of the unfortunates; he replied,lam safe ; by arrangement I am to be paid; in the afternoon I culled at Coldren’s store; did not see him, but saw Weidman; he re marked that Coldren could pay nothing; I asked him how it was with the affairs of A* Coldren ; said he was just as bad off as Coldren; I asked him what had become of the judgments given him by Coldren ; he Said he had assigned some ? > u >0 for the benefit of Elias Baker, that he had assigned $2,000 for the benefit of hie " he, and $2,000 to his brother; he said it was in January that he had arranged to sell ? »out to Coldren ; I ukked him what was his design in selling out; he replied that they were insolvent and that it was necessary to doit; he said the understanding between mm and Coldren was that he was to sell to save his friends; I asked him what was to become ol the Philadelphia creditors; he replied they could get nothing; he said the arrangement was perfected in April, that they had met with heavy lasses in tobacco: said they were not engaged in any other business than that of tobacco and merchan dizing ; he said the stock on hand at the sale amounted to $14,000, with $2,000 that was good on the books; he said that at a meeting of the home creditors it was agreed that they should seU out; Coldren was to act as agent; I said to him, the last thing .rhen you got a judgment of s7,ooofor which no equivalent, as you were in solvent; he made no reply ; the amount of the bill purchased in April was $l5O, about L^, tin l es tiie am °unt he usually bought. 1 Hiester. A bill of $l5O is a large bill for a country store. We sell to some five hundred customers: the usual price of a dinner set is from s;jo Fr |'iS h china dinner set would cost £4OO or $.->OO ; we do not keep such seta; Coldren and Weidman had bought of us wn?th en ol y: tb , e - v bou B ht from $4O to $5O at a time; there was a small bdi still unpaid ; we sold Coldren the I •f V OI ; p .?' ni , se that be would send a- , Jl£’ r b S >t £ b ' ,,Bas 8000 as begnthome; ; I the debts of Coldren <fc WeldmaO I know amounted to sorpe $30,000; I took tVeid- man's word for the fact that they were in* solvent; in the remark in regard to the losses on tobacco he said we have lost heavily; I took ithe meant the firm; Mr. Weidman did not say he was present at the meeting of creditors; goods of all kind were down in April last; our goods were lower than they had been for three years; goldwasdownatthattimeto a lower figure than it is now ; otxr impression at the time was that it was foolish for a man to buy largely at that time; we were wrong; any man who had bought then would have made money by it. Eugene Steinmetz, sworn. Am a sales man in the house of Edward Froth ; on the 18th of April last I met Coldren at the door of our store; I found out that he and Weii man had dissolved partnership, but he as sured me that he was as solvent as the firm had ever been; Coldren bought Ireely uud told me to ship the goods immediately; a few days afterwards I heard that both the firm and Coldren were insolvent 1 ; I came up and saw Coldren at his store; I asked him to pay our bill; said he could not; ask ed him to give us a note with security; said be would try; he rode off ou horseback; had a talk then with Weidman ; Weidman told methathe was resolved not to let his wife’s property be sacrificed and so sold out; said he had about $l6OO and Coldren about $llOO when they went into business; th«t Coldren had got into three scrapes with the women, and that paving for this had made them about even in capital; saw Coldren again on Monday morning ; he made some attempt to get some one to go security, but tailed, and I left. X By Mr. Hiester. I had in selling Coldren the bill; the firm of Coldren it Weidman had always paid us prompt ly ; I was anxious to sell; goods were low then; are higher how. Urias Curling. I sold Coldren a bill of goods amounting to somesl4<K); when he bought, he said he had dissolved with his partner and that he was a little short of money, but that he was as good as ever the firm was; he bought largely: 1 told him that goods were declining; he said he need ed them and bought on ; on Saturday some of the goods were shipped, but learning that he had been making such largo purchases elsewhere, and all on time, we concluded not to ship the balance. X By Mr. liiesier. Am in_lhe whole sale grocery business; weshipped Coldren some $BOO worth of goods; had sold Coldren and Weidman a small bill before, which was promptly paid. ' S- s - Miller, sworn : Am a partner in the firm of Hood, Bonbright A Co.; Coldren came to our store m April; we are in the dry goods trade; he asked what our terms were; told him 3d days; lie complained that that was a little too short; wegavehint 60 days; in the evening I noticed, when the goods were invoiced, ‘ilmt the purchases were very large in some things, particu larly fine caxsimeres ; [went to the Mer chants’ Hotel in the evening, when Coldren asked me to sav nothing to the firm of Bea gle A Fiester of his buying goods of us; I heard about.-thirty days' after that he was insolvent; went out to Bothsville; heard Coldren had gone to Beading; learned af terward that he was at Berlin ; went down to see him ; could get no satisfaction ol him; he refused to do anything for me; would not sign a note. Lewis Royal, sworn. On the ISth of April last Coldren bought a bill of goods amounting to over $5OO of our firm; when he began to purchase he asked the terms; I told him cash ; he asked me if he could not have credit; I told him fifteen or twenty days was our limit; he bought very largely of one or two articles, which I told him at the time were sure to get lower ; this led to some suspicion; I questioned him in re gard to affairs, and he told me that he had purchased the real estate of his partner and was going to open two stores. That it was thus .made necessary for him to lay in a heavy stock; he said he was short of money just then in consequence of having to pay his partner; butt hat be would sendn check for one'half in ten days and the balance in thirty; his purchase in April was twice or three limes as large ns usual for country stores; Coldren paid me some $7O due us from the (inn. X By Mr. Hiester. When he told me he had purchased the real estate of his partner, I did not enquire as to what amount he had paid; did not ask whether it was encum bered ; he bought much more largely than usual; 1 was perfectly satisfied utter my in quiries to sell him the bill of goods; many goods in our line were deeidedly lower m May and .June than in April. A. H. Huber, sworn. Am with A. 11. Franciscus A Co.; sold Coldren a bill of some $3OO worth of cotton goods, willow ware, cedar-ware, oil cloths, Ac.; was not exactly willing to ship’the goods after he had bought, but on inquiring concluded to ship, which we did after two or three days; ho referred us to Beagle A Fiester, ami others. t H. S. Frank, sworn : Am with the iirrn of Frank A Co.; we are in the clothing business ; Coldren bought piece goods, amt bought very liberally; he had formerly bought a few yards of a kind at a time; he now bought two or three pieces; his bill amounted to $400; after making inquiry we shipped the goods; as a general thing all parlies bought lightly at that time; goods went up afterward, and those who bought largely then must have made money. Hiram Brook, sworn; Am of the firm of Brook A Fuller; Coldren bought a bill of some $750 on the ISth oi April lust; Culdg-m A Weidman owed us a bill; Coldren said bo would pay that and the bill he was buy ing the next day; he did not come for two days, when he gave us a draft on a produce merchant in our city Jor the amount of the old hill; when the draft was presented it was not honored; we wrote to Coldren and drew on him five days after date; by the time the five days hail expired we learned that Coldren was insolvent; John L. Flkin, 2d and Callowhill, was the merchant on whom he drew the draft which was dis honored ; the draft was made payable ten days after date; he said he had* produce there but it was not sold yet; when the draft was dishonored we drew on him five days after date; ut the end of that time he sent us his check, payable ten days after date; Mr. Elkin denied that ho had any produce there. John S. Gibler, sworn: Am a salesman for Miller, Barnes A Miller; on the ISth of April last Coldren pi:ivhs»<-.| a bill of goods amounting to $2BO ; hoe:,no mthestore and asked us (o sell him a lull of goods ; we agreed to do so; he asked our terms; we told him 30 days; said he wanted 00; told him I could not give him that time without consulting the firm; he told me he had bought out Weidman, both his interest in the store and the property; .-aid lie had started another store at Berlin; the firm directed me to sell at 3()dayxjf possible, but that I might sell at 60; lie* said he would pay at 60 for sure, and at 30days il possible; he bought readily and largely ; we are in the notion and variety trade. 1 XBy Mr. Hiester. The bill was not an extraordinary one ; Coldren and Weidman had bought a bill of us some two years be fore; have not taken very especial* interest in this prosecution ; may have said on the cars coming from Harrisburg yesterduv morning that I would give my share oV what '.’oldren owed to unravel this busi ness; did not say I would be willing to spend $20,000 for that purpose. lieorge W, McWilliams, sworn. Am the book-keeper of K. A. Hendry; sold a bill of goods to Coldren on April 18th last, amounting to some $560; there was a bal ance due from W’eidman and Coldren which he said he would pay within thirty days; we were satisfied with the arrange ment; wh£n we heard of his insolency T went to Rothsville to see him; found his Rtore locked, and learned that he had gone toLitiz; saw him there in the hotel; told him I was there to see about our bill; he said he could not give us security and re fused to sign a judgment note; but said the concern woujfcbe sold out the next week; that he was going on as agent and would write to us then ; he asked me how such af airs were generally settled ; I told him that it depended upon the kind of statement made; that if H wus fair the terms given wen? libera! X By Mr. Hipster. Coldren and Weid man had bought of us several times; the bill remaining unpaid was some 3300 ; this amount was about a month overdue; we are in the habit of granting indulgence to parties dealing with ns. John B. Breneizer, sworn. Am salesman in the bouse of Amos G. Heilman; John Coldren bought a bill of goods on the 19th of April last; he bought rather loosely; I sent our hook-keeper to Keagle A Fiester, and he brought the news that he was good still I sold reluctantly; I passed him by some poods, not showing him some goods which I would have exhibited to ordinary customeis ; after he had finished buying, I saw another merchant who assured me that he was good, and I shipped the goods; about the Ist of May I went tb Kothsville; saw Weidman, but got no satisfaction of him; Coldren was away; afterwards saw Coldren; he said he could (do nothing for me ; the amount of the bill was some $5OO. John Keagle, sworn: Am a member of the firm of Reagle A Co., in the wholesale dry goods trade ; Coldren larnglu a bill of over gdOO of us in April last. X Goods were lower at that time than they had been; Coldren A Weidman owed us some $300; we took a note for that amount at the-timo Coldren purchased to be paid in 30 days; Coldren purchased at 30 days, with privilege ol four months with interest. 0 S. M. Kouns, sworn: Am of the firm of Koons A Co.; Coldren bought a bill of $-’lOO of us about the lSlh of April last; we sold him steam syrups; we inquired in regard to him, and finding that he purchased on credit of Waterman A Young and Reagle A Fiester. we trusted him. J. W. .Lynch, sworn : Am iiowa member of the firm of John N. Shriver A Co.; sold Coldren a bill of $270 on the 19th of April last ; he told me he had bought Weidman out and was going to open another store ; we are in the wbolesalefishbusiness; Weid man & Coldren had bought of us before and had paid the bill. John G. Worth, sworn. Reside in'War wick township ; was Mercantile Appraiser last year: was at the Sheriff’s sale of Col dren‘s store; on the first day John B. Erb bought most of the goods ; sometimes Col dren would hit Erb or tap him on the leg, then ha would tap the Sheriff on the leg and the goods would be knocked downtoSquire 1 Erb; sometimes he would ‘wink to ninv on the second day Squire Erb was not here, Jeremiah Roth did the bidding and 'the goods-were knocked down io -Squire Erb; as Mercantile Appraiser I asked Weidman as to the proceeds of'sales; he hesitated, bnt Anally said at the store at Rothsville they had sold betweens2o,oooand be told me that they bad been sell ling some $2OO per week at Berlin store; af ter the notice of the dissolution of partner smp I put down the name of John Coldren; alter the Sheriff's salelhostore went on in the name of Samuel E. Keller; I had some trouble collecting license; gave Keller and Lolaren both notice; it was Anally paid; alter Keller had assumed control of matters ant * Weidman continued to'sell. Wednesday Afternoon. —Elias Becker, sworn: Isold the store stock at Midway sometime last January to'Weidman and lor they still owed meabout ?i,oUO Just May; I was notitied by Weid an to attend a minting of his creditors uUiut the 4)lh of May ; Weidnmn, Bom et ryer, Keller and Erb were present; 1 not ajudgmrnt for more Hum mv claim, but the credit of the dillerence was to he put on f l "'" 8 ," judgment of Weidman igninst Coldren; the agreement ivns that the goods should not be sucriticeil, but that k ,i 'ou h^-l i. kl bu > Mben ‘ in when sold bv the Sheritt for the benefit of the creditors; no particular creditors were'mentioned; the whole amount of the judgments given was someslS.wo: tlio judgments' were m the cure ol John EH); there was an agreement in writing; whether I signet! it or not I do not know; do not know where the docu ment i>; do riot know whether Miles Hal lacher signed it or not; it was about Jan. Ist, that I made thy sale to Coldren \\ eidman. b y Hiester.—Paper handl'd to wit -1U j SS ’ , l ! s * s tbt * agreement tlmt was sigti e<l in Squire Erb’s otiiee; you \woro there; you prepared and presented tin* paper; n\ hut took phtee there was generally done under vour advice and instruction; I met von again at Litiz on the following Satur day ; I was summoned to come there; you told me that I had best withdraw inv judgment ; yon told me that judgment arose out ol the sate of the stock to Coldren, and that it had best stand behind rest ; 1 agreed to have my execution issued last. Re-examined in chief. Mr. lliester had not been employed by me; ho said lie would rather, if he were in my place, stand back and depend upon contribution from the oth er creditors than to expend the whole amount of my claim in a law suit; the sec ond meeting was at Jolm Krb's house, about one week afterthetirst; do not know that anything was said about the Philadel phia creditors at eitlicrmeetmg; every man was lookiugout for himself. It was admittisl by counsel on both sides tlmt the real estate of Weidfliun and Col dren was not sold by Coldren to Weidman, Iml remained tiie property of the firm. The .judgments were also admitted to bo as they stand on the Pocket. Execution Pocket produced and execu tions from 1M to ;t»», of August 7, lsU.'», offered in evidence. Among these is one on Elias Becker's judgment for $2,00R TUK I>i:l'HNl'i;. D. G. Kshlonisin, Ksq.,opi*ncil tin* rusotor lilt* tlelemv. X N^ TK.sTIM(*N V !•*< i R fllK UK t'KNCI John .1. Keller, sworn: I witnessed the judgment U.nds given bv John Coldren to my brother, Samuel Keller; bonds shown ; those are the bonds; they were drawn at the time they are dated ; I drew them; I hurl told my brother that if he had any thing against Coldren that ho had better secure Jiiiuselt; he seemed to be alarmed and said lie had a good deal against him; healso said lie would go at once and get a judgment boml: I told him he should issue ail execution as soon as he got judgment, as Coldren had nothing else than personal property; tins ccmjyeisation'was the day before the bondif were exeeuted; I drew tiio bonds and witnessed them at the same linn*; I put the indorsement on the back of the bonds; note from Coldren to Keller shown witness ; the note was produced and admitted to he due by Coldren; a sum of $-°0 charged j u a pass book as lent to Col dren was also'admitted by Coldren to be due. X Hy Mr. Dickey. / I took the judgments to town and entered them up; did not issue execution at onee; saw Coldren and he said lie hoped Sam. would not issue at I think this was after the goods were purchased in Philadel phia. Ponds nth-red by Mr. Iliester. Ist judg ment boml bv Aaron Weidman ,V John Coldren to Samuel K. Keller for s2,Him. i >n the back is tie • fob u\\ ing indorsement, "the within bond is given to secure Samuel K. Keller, who is indorsor for ns at the Inland Insurance and Deposit Company, for the sum of S2,HUU." 2d judgment bond of John Coldren to Samuel K. Keller for s2,].'m, with the in dorsement, "the within judgment bond is given to Samuel K. Keller to secure the sum of $7(10, for which Samuel K. Keller is in dorser for us forthenboveamnunt, at the In land Insurance and DepositA’ompnn v." For a note, dated " Litiz Mji.j.s, Dec. 10, jH'il. Sixty (lavs after date I promise to pay to S. K. Keller or order tiiesmn 0f51,2."»0, with interest at C>i percent, per annum, without defalcation, for value received. John Coldiien." And lor money loaned ns per entry in lead pencil of pasw hook. “Loaned .John Coldren $2OO, Aprn 7th, .John W. .Jackson, Esq., sworn: 'l'he In land Insurance Company, held a note against t'oldren indorsed’ hy Keller; noie shown; amount S2,M-10; date April loth, IN‘>.">; indorsement of payments made ; these amounts were paid by Keller. The Company held another note on which Keller was indorser,' given hv Coldren and Swnlley; note shown ; dale March a, amount ?J7(U); given for fifteen davs ami, then renewed ; paid hy Keller, .1 mic 12, I*lm. Aaron K. Ihieh, sworn: I hold a note against John Coldren with I. K. Hoinber ger as security ; I lent the money to Col dren, and Homherger was bail; date of note April Ist, amount jt'WO; interest live per rent. Daniel Jlanberger, sworn : I hold a note against A. K, Weidmun for $.'()(), with I. K. Homherger as bail. Note shown. Date April Ist, !*<>.»; Weidman had the money lor two years he|<»re ; he gave me the note with Homherger as bail; 1 had Weidmnns note without hail before. Jacob (let/., sworn: I hold a note ugajnst Weidman; I. E. Homherger is bail; 1 gave Coldren A’ Wiidmanthe money last fall a year ago;' I was in the army and my wile got uneasy;* Homherger then went bail ; amount of note &MO, dated April Ist, Emanuel Kauffman, nflirmed; Jkeepthe ware-house on the railroad at Litiz; I know that some of the merchants in that vicinity get us higli as four or live- barrels of coal oil at a time. A. M. Hooklmrt, allirmed : I was at the meeting of (‘oldren's creditohs at Litiz; an agreement was made bet ween myself, Kel ler and others that we would join our judgments and push all alike; nothing was said about the Rhiludelphiu creditors; the goods bv the Sheriff, and a large part by Esquire Erb under this arrangement; Mr. JI jester had the agree ment there; agreement shown; this is the agreement; agreement read ; the agreement referred to js as follows; 'fltc undersigned creditors of John Col dren to whom he lias given, and is about to give judgment, hereby agree with such others to issue* xecu lion on their judgments together, and deliver such execution to the Sheriff of Lancaster county at the same time, so that they mav come in i*r>> v<Uu upon the personal property ofsnid John < ol dren; anti we appoint John B. Erb to Imv in for us at thi* sale or salts that may be made by the Sheriff of said Cohlrnn.Vper sonal prop. i t v, Mich slock und merchandise as he, the said Jab, shall think proper, at such prices as ho may bid therefor; and we further agree to makeand constitute the said John Coldren our agent, to Bell und dis pose of such stock and merchandise as may be purchased by John B. Erb on our ac count; the proceeds whereof, after deduct ing the expenses <>f '-ale att.* to be divided among us j>ro rain , ac«-ordingtothcnmomitH of our several executions, except that the sums for which any of us are bail, wcurhv or endorser for the said John Coldren, shall first be paid thereout, to which we all agree. May 2f>th, ISO'). her Hannah X Coldren, mark Abraham Coldren, Nancy Weidman, and her Trustee, Elius’Weidmun, . . Elias Weidman, Jy Elias Be<-Uer, Samuel E. Keller, A. M. Bruekert, I. F. Bomborgw* Benjamin MeCutchen , Miles Hallacher. present: Jvre. Roth, _Fridlcr f l. E.*Ud*sler. ! " Two bonds were here produced^ drawn in favor L F. Bomberger, one from Coldren for $1,350; the other from A. R. Weidman for $l,OOO. On Lbo buck of the first was the following endorsement. “The within bond is given tb secure I. F. Bombergerforn note which he has indorsed in the inland In surance and Deposit Company for $OOO ; also the note on which the said Bomberger is bail for Coldren to Aaron R. IJnch, being for $350, and for the sum of $5OO loaned by Bomberger to Coldren." On the back of the second bond was the following endorsement : “This bond is given to secure to J. F. Bomberger $5OO, for which he is bail for Weidman to Daniel Hanbergvr ;• for $340 for which he is bail to Jacob Getz, and for $lOO borrowed monov. K Some admissions with regard to these bonds were made by the prosecution, which finally narrowed themselves down to the admission that the claim of the defence in regard to tho note in the Deposit Company,, the note to Buch, and the $5OO money was correct. The defenci* then proceeded to their proof in regard to the balance. Testimony resumed. Squire Erb was appointed to purchase so that the full value ol the goods might be re- he did, buy in some of his gfoads; Coldren was made our agent to' sell the goodß } he aid this under articles of agrees ment; the only ofijectin getting Squire Erb to bid was to prevent the saerifioe of the goods; the understanding at' the’ meeting;
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