JANUARY 24, i860.' - VO?he printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the prcn legislature, or any branch t>f government; and no law shall ever be made to restrain .the right thereot The frflftnnmmh. nlcation.of.thought and opinions Is one bfihe invaluable rights of men; and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any sub ject r being responsible for .the abuse or that liberty. In prosecutions for the pubUeatlon f the District of Columbia, and no ma terial partisan advantage to be gained, why was it done? To this question there can be, but one answer. It was in tended to be as it is, a bold, open and authoritative enunciation of the settled political creed and policy of the Repub lican party. The leaders of thisorgani zation believe that there should be no legal or political distinctions between negroes and white men, and they are resolved to break down all such as do exist. The passage of thebillconferring the right of suffrage in the District of Columbia is nothing more or less than a solemn declaration of the settled po litical policy of the party now in power. It is, so far as they have power at pres ent to make it such, a law passed by Congress to makethenegro everywhere, the political and social equal, of the white man. As such it must be met aud fought. No man who is not prepared to admit the negro to the ballot-box, to the jury box, to office and to entire social and po litical equality, can consistently vote the Republican ticket in any coming election. No one can any longer deny that the Republican party is fully committed to negro equality. The negro worshippers of Lancas ter county will have to look to their laurels, gr their friends in Chester will cast them in the shade. Thaddeus Ste vens will have to “ stir his stumps.” or one of his Congressional colleagues will outstrip him iu the race after Sambo and Dinah. Chester county was dis tinguished iu the Revolution for the number of her tories, and her tones were distinguished above all others for “ loy alty” to the King. J. M.Broomall, who represents|thedescendants of these tories in the lower House of Congress, not hav ing King George to worship, is paying court to King Congo. It has been gen erally supposed, even by the most radi cal constituencies, that a member of Congress went far enough when he pro posed to confer the right of suffrage on negroes; but the Congo courtier who rex>resents the Chester district in Cou gress has taken astepin advauceof that. "Witness the following from the pro ceedings of the House, as published in our second edition of Monday: Mr. Broomall, of l’a., offered a resolution setting forth that as the white man in the District of Columbia have decided that the black man shall not vole, the for the District of Columbia inqu'iro into the expediency of ordering an electio'n by which the black man shall decide whether the white man shall vole. The question, then, with the living slander on white men who represents the Chester district, is not whether ne groes shall be permitted to vote, but whether white men shall vote! The negroes, in his view, have a divine right to the ballot, and it belongs to them, to determine whether white men shall vote or not. If all white men were as sadly deficient in self-respect as Broom alj, there would be some reason for handing the political affairs of the coun try over to the negroes. But in spite of the downward tendency manifested by that portion of the white men of this country who make up the radical ma jority of the Republican party, we still think it worth while to preserve the ballot in the hands of the white race.— If there are any members of the Repub lican party who think with us that we should not put it in the power of the negroes to deprive us of our votes, they would'do well to consider whither they are drifting when they follow such ne grodoving leaders as Stevens and Broomall. UsaT A press of local and other impor tant matter has crowded the usual Con gressional summary out of this'issue of oUE.jVeekly. Our readers catf console theapelves with the asßuranoe that, be sides the passage of the Negro Suffrage bill, nothing of importance has been 4one. , ■ 6 burly Senator from Allegheny, whose strength, unlike that of Samson, lies entlrelyTh his boots, has' given a vicious kick at the interests'.of Penn sylvania, by introducingTesolutions in structing the Railroad committee ofihe Senate to pursue a line of policy which would result in diverting toNew York and Baltimore a large portion of the trade that now finds its way to Phila delphia. Although our political opin ions are in harmony with those of the great majority of the citizens of the city of New York, and in opposition to the majority in Philadelphia, yet as Penn sylvanians we can have no sympathy with any blow which may be aimed at the prosperity of our own commercial metropolis. It is not by assisting to build up one great rival a hundred miles east of and another a hundred ipiles south of her, that we can best promote the interests of Penn sylvania. Eighteen or twenty years ago there seemed to be great danger that Penn sylvania would soon dwindle from her rank as the second State in the Union, to that of the third or fourth. Ohio ap peared to be overtaking her rapidly, and even far-distant Illinois was loom ing up with alarming distinctness. The construction of the Pennsylvania Rail road changed all this, by opening an artery, through which the trade of the west has ever pince been poured in an unceasing flodd into Philadelphia. The increase of population in that city and in the coal region connected with it, and along the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad and its branches, alone has saved this State from falling behind Ohio. The resolutions of Senator Bigham are designed to encourage “the con struction of a through line on the route indicated in the contract between the Atlantic and Great Western and the Reading Railroad companies, ’land also “ the extension of the Connellsville Railroad eastward in the direction of Baltimore and Washington.” Both of these projects are in the main eminent ly anti-Pennsylvanian, though un doubtedly calculated to benefit those sections of the State through which the roads mentioned would run. The Connellsville Railroad ought to be finished, but not so as to carry its traffic to cities outside of this State. It should 1 extended eastward through Somerset, Bedford and Fulton counties down do Chambersburg, where, con necting with the Cumberland Valley Railroad, it would pour the trade of the south-western quarter of the State through Harrisburg and Lancaster to Philadelphia, instead of running it off to Baltimbre and Washington as con templated by Mr. Bighnm. The con struction of the Southern Pennsylvania Railroad would the object we have in view, and there is good rea son to believe that this road will -be made without unreasonable delay, if the present Legislature throws no ob stacle iii its way. The Atlantic and Great Western Com pany is a foreign concern altogether.— Its capital comes from England and its traffic is intended to go to New York. Sir Morton I’eto and other English cap italists with handles to their names, by which they are lifted above ordinary mortals, have furnished the money ; the enterprising business men of New York city have laid the plan, and we in Pennsylvania are expected to furnish all the stupidity necessary to enable this combination of English cap italits and New York merchants to drain our State from one end of itto the other. The through route which this compa ny proposes to open is not needed. The ground is very well occupied by the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad and its branches and connections. But these carry their trade to Philadelphia and set it down at tide water on the soil of our own State, and hence they do not subserve the purposes of those who wish to make Pennsylvania tributary to New York. We can lend our support to no scheme that threatens to cripple the trade and commerce of our own cities. The interests of Philadelphia and of Pennsylvania are inseparably connect ed. Hand in hand they walk together, and whoever puts a stumbling block in the way of the one, puts it also in the way of the other. This is the light in which Senator Bigham’s proposition strikes us at pres •sent.' If it shall turn out that we have mistaken the true interests of Pennsyl vania, we shall not hesitate to say so hereafter. James K. Morchcad. The delegates to the Republican State Convention from Allegheny county have been instructed to vote for James K. Morehead for Governor. In order that his character and connections maybe well known to all our opponents, and that they may be insured against any mistakes in the selection of a candidate, we give below a letter from a gentle man to whom Mr. Morehead is well known. The sketch ofhim therein con tained may be regarded as strictly accu rate and true : Pittsburu, Jan. 11, 18(j(5. Mr. Editor: Is not the Republican party exercising itself unnecessarily about its next candidate for Governor? I maintain that their natural and proper nominee is tlie indefatigable and excellent General Morehead, of this city. Did not the General feed and grow rich on the Demo cratic party during the administration of Gov. Purler? Is not the very house in which he lives the profitable product of the Moun tain Reservo'r? Was not his large amount ofstock in the Monongahela Navigation Company obtained from the State at about live cents on the dollar, and tbesuni of fifty thousand dollars in the same stock at a much less rate through the agent of the Bank of the United States? Is he not large ly interested in the Washington Street Rail ways, whose franchises were obtained by his own vote and official influence in Con gress, and is not ids brother even more largely interested in the same enterprise? Is not a brother a partner of Jay Cookeand enormously rich on the pickings of the Treasury? Is notanother brother the main owner of the Delaware Division of the Penn sylvania Canal, obtained from the State by means which the tax-payers will forever re member? Have dot heavy contracts been received from the Navy Department in the name of his son amounting to millions, the son returning ninety thousand dollars in come for the last year? Have not most of his relatives been snugly provided for at the Government expense? If the Govern ment isa fat goose to be plucked tand sure ly nogood Republican can deny it) is not he who plucks most adroitly and profitably entitled to the highest consideration? These things are constantly talked about on the corners, in the shops, in the offices and Lite parlors of our people. Even as he walks the streets these incidents of his life are related among the passers by. Would it not be an infinite shame if, with this record, Gen. Morehead should not be allowed to complete his career as Governor of Pennsylvania, and permitted to distrib ute whatever ofher assets may remain? 1 Tax-Payer. The Valley Spirit and the Frank lin llejmsitory, both published at Cham bersburg, have been enlarged within the last two weeks. They are now- among the largest and handsomest newspapers iu the State, and we may add with great truth that they are also among the most ably edited and in all respects best con ducted. 'Hie Spirit is soundly Democratic and iU ample editorial columns are always well tilled with vigorous articles. The Ueptmi.toTj) is on the other side, and its talent for making “the worse appear the bettor reason’.’ excels that of most journals with which we are acquainted. Both of these papers sustained heavy loss when ('hamborsburg was destroyed by. the rebels. They were burnt out clean ; hut they speedily re appeared and have prospered so well that now, only eighteen months after their destruction, wo find them taking rank with the mammoth journals df the country. in^Cbnffress. 1 The Republican newspapers are in ecstacies over the passage of the bill giving every miserable, greasy, ignorant negro in the District of Columbia tbe ;right to vote. We . may expect their columns to be adorned with the most graphic descriptions of the grandeur of the scene presented in the magnificent hall of the Hobse at the moment of the passageof thebill. Imaginative imagery willno doubt beexhausted. Poetry will be called in where plain prose halts; and all the lyres in the land of New England will be newly strung to sing pseans of praise tq tbe white men in Congress who werje boldenough solemn ly to vote that neither they nor any of their race were a whit better than the horde of negroes whofilled the galleries of the House of Representatives, apd sat trembling with delig£tas the sonor ous aye of each Republican delegate was recorded against his own race and in favor of that which many of them delight to laud as the superior one. The scene presented on the occasion was one just suited to the style and the capacity of modern Yankee poets, and it will no doubt be sung in strains of fitting melody. By and by art will, as is her custom, come to the aidofpoetry, and painting and sculpture will be tax -4d to their utmost to perpetuate the glo ries of the ever memorable occasion.— It was unquestionably a strong and stir ring spectacle. The Washington cor respondent df the New York Herald sends to that paper the following tele graphic photograph of tbe appearance of the House, and the conduct of the Republican members at the moment when they had succeeded by legislative enactment in placing the negro on an equality with the white mau. Here is his sketch taken on tbe instant and for warded by lightning : , The galleries were filled by anxious spectators and listeners of both colors, the blacks preponderating, however. The passage of the bill was hailed with such boisterous and prolonged applause on the floor that .Speaker Colfax losthis temper, and said that he would not in future attempt to suppress the galleries unless members behaved themselves. Jubilantradicalsrushed into the lobbies, the halls and the barber shops, and grasped the greasy hands of every thoroughbred freedmau they found in those localities. Coming down from the galleries big darkies jostled loftily against the high born dames of this Dis trict and trod upon their drapery with an air of divine right. In‘.the streetcars they hobnobbed with sucee~sful Con gressmen and grinned familiarly in the faces of the heretofore ruling race. Negro Suffrage ;ind Negroes During the War. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald, who has been on the ground from the beginning of the present session of Congress, and who lias hud ample opportunities to judge of the character and the conduct of the radicals, thus speaks of their position and con duct on the only questions in which they have as yet displayed any interest: The lower house of Congress, having assumed command of the armies and ar ranged everything relating to that por tion of the government satisfactorily to itself, is now devoting its entire atten tion to the negroes in this District. Day afterday has thissubject been discussed; and inattentively listening to the debate I have learned one important historical fact in connection with the war. It is essential that this fact should be under stood by the public, especially by all who intend to writeahistoryofthegreat struggle. It is, to be sure, somewhat at variance with the general, and, in fact, the accepted version, but, nevertheless, no fewer than half a dozen radical speakers-in Congress have asserted its truth, and argued by the hour to prove their assertion, and it must therefore be so. It will have to be admitted, or else declared that these radical Congressmen are not good authority, which might hurt their feelings. Thisimportanthistorieal fact is no less than the startling assertion that the “ negroes fought all our battles, won all our victories, conquered the rebels, saved the nation, and secured a Eeace which the white soldiers were una le to do.” In all the speeches which have been delivered by the extreme men in Congress not one has taken any other ground, or given the white soldiers the least particle of credit for services dur ing the war. According to their ver sion, every battle lost was fought by whites, and every victory won was the work of the negroes. II a stranger who knew nothing ofthegreat contest which we have gone through should drop in upon Congress and listen to the argu ments of these extreme men, he could come to no other conclusion than that the colored race in this country was su perior to any other race in the world— brave, valiant and capable of accom plishing almost miracles. They hold that the white race, as soldiers, were al most worthless, and incapable of accom plishing anything ; also that they were unable to cope with the enemy, and the negro had to step in and fight'our bat tles, or all would have been lost. This is the radical version of this contest—a point which they have labored hour af ter hour to prove. According to their statements Vicksburg was captured by negroes, Gettysburg was won by them, Richmond succumbed to the sable war riors, Lee surrendered at their advance, and Sherman severed the confederacy with the black warriors. This must be exceedingly gratifying to the hundreds of thousands of volun teers from the North. They must be specially complimented by this constant reiteration on the floor of Congress of the assertion that the black and not the white soldiers did all our gallant fight ing. It must also turnish a consolation to the numerous bereaved families to know that their husbands and fathers who fell on the battle-field were of no account, and were worthless soldiers. Such is the fact, if radical members of Congress are to be believed. Really, have they not carried this matter a little too far ? In the wild attempt to laud and glorify the negro they have sneered at the white soldiers as though they were mere cattle. One or two of the principal speakers have even gone so iar as to ridicule the whole white race, and speak of it as though it were be neath contempt. Talk about prejudice against our colored population—if this does not increase that prejudice it will be because human nature has complete ly changed and the most common feel ings in the human breast have been obliterated.. It may enable those who engage in it to carry their point now, but it will only increase the extent, the severity and the vengeance of the reac tion when it comes, and it will materi ally hasten the day. The negro suffrage bill for the District of "Columbia, that passed the House of Representatives on Thursday, puts all the negroes in the District on a footing of perfect equality with the whites, so far as voting is concerned. — Only seven -Republicans voted against it; six dodged the vote. All the Fenn -Bylvanidßepublicans voted in the affirm ative except Mr. Culver. He is recorded as not voting. AU the Pennsylvania Democrats (eight) of course are recorded in the negative. The conservative Republicans who had declared that they would never vote for an unlimited negro suffrage in the Dis trict of Columbia, were compelled to go with the crowd, and on the final vote their names are found in the affirma tive. When asked why they didn’t vote against it, they answer that they were bound to go with the party, and as this unqualified negro suffrage bill for the District of Columbia was a party measure , they could not help voting for it, notwithstanding the damage it ’will do them in their respective dis tricts. As will be seen by the report in another column the negro suffragites have settled a Candidate to fill the vacancy occasional by the death of Day Wood. The Democracy will put no candidate in the field, and the contest will therefore be merely to nominate one. The Navy Department has ordered the fitting out of the ex-rebel steamer Florida for a twelve months’ cruise. The ram Stone wall is being overhauled for experiments, . for life/on tfegroSuffrage. During the political campaign of last fall the leaders of the Republican party' in this State took especial pains to deny .that the organization was in any „way committed to the odious doctrine of ne gro suffrage. John W. Forney wrote from Washington to his. paper, The Press, not only denying that the-party favored it; but, Insisting In the strongest possible terms, that on such a platform it must inevitably be defeated and de stroyed. Now that the party is irrevo cably committed to the doctrines by. the solemn act of Congress, the Republican press throughout the State is ready to endorse it fully. Forney is among the first to speak, and he speaks outplainly. Here is his letter to the Press of Satur day over his well known*signature “ Oc casional.” Let any one who doubts about what is the fixed policy of the Republican party, read it: Washington, Jan. 20, 1866. The passage by the House of Repre sentatives yesterday, of Judge Kelley’s bit 3!, striking qut the word “white” from all laws and parts of lawßprescrib ing the qualifications of electors in the District of Columbia, devolves a solemn duty upon every loyal citizen. The vote was nearly solid—alltheNational Union members but fourteen in the affirmative —all the so-called Democrats that were present,in the negative. The issue is made up; for whether the Senate se cofikda the bill or not (and there is no doubt that it will prevail there at an early day, and by a large majority), the case will be carried to the people,and will be discussed at every fireside in the Re public. And it is one well calculated to awaken extraordinary interest. It belongs to the class of measures com pelled by the rebellion, assailed by the traitors and their friends, and, in every instance, taken up and carried through by the earnest support of the masses.— Made a party question, it should be met with equal unanimity by the Union party everywhere. The powerful vote of the House being but a reflection and re-echo of the popular will, will doubtless produce a response not less decided. The obedient Repre sentatives must be sustained by the obeyed constituencies. I do not know a better time to meet this issue than the present. It was blind folly to suppose that we could stave it off. He was a madman who supposed that' the great Union party would not be called at last to meet the question of conferring the civil rights upon four millions olslaves rescued by tbe rebellion from their former masters ; and there was no spot upon which the national authority could be so constitutionally exercised for the trial of the experiment as the Dis trict of Columbia. The objection to universal colored suffrage, on the part of those who were so anxious to see it exercised by the returned rebels, would have been equally vehement against qualified suffrage. Now they charge that all the negroes are to vote; but then they would have been agonized (had the test been intelligence),because it would have operated against large classes of foreign-born whites. Let us then prepare ourselves for the exciting controversy at hand. The subject need not practically arise at thenext election in Pennsylvania ; but no boldand patri otic man will refuse to show his hand, convinced, as he is, that in every North ern. State to which the terms of the bill that yesterday passed the House may be applied, will eventually be agitated by the discussion-of the principles therein contained. Having met exigencies far more trying during the war, we must notBhrink from this.* A people that were so permeated with attachment to country as to stand ready to sacrifice their own lives, and to give up millions of money, so that that country Height be saved—whose men, when not in the field, sustained suspension of the writ of habeas corpus , and all the strong measures of the Government, and whose women cheerfully surrendered their time and their pleasures to endure un equalled labors in those charities which immortalized their sex and our Repub lic at the same time—such a people will not be dismayed when they are called upon to say whether it was right to enunciate and practioalize the pledges of the Declaration of Independence.— When the institution of slavery lay a mass of ruins at their feet, and when they are asked to organize Christian liberty for the victims of that infernal institution, they must not hesitate. Are you ready for the issue, my countrymen? 1 do not fear your answer. The contest will be most acrimonious, and probably some of us may fall victims to our honest devotion to the truth. Rut the duty is our’s to discharge, and we dare not postpone it ,to posterity. What a field for tbe young men of America! Plow, in this coming controversy, all the fundamen tal principles of our Government, all the immortal maxims taught prac ticed by the early teachers for genuine Democracy, will arise, to inspire, to guide, and to strengthen them! The very magnitude of the stake will give a rapture to the strife, and the end will be a Government in which all classes will be crtiitlcd to the same privileges, and will rise by their virtue and intelligence, or fait by their ignorance and vice-. Occasional. \ iegro Suffrage In the district. A Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun writes as follows in rela tion to the negro suffrage bill for the District of Columbia, just passed by the House of Representatives : Much speculation prevailsin regard to the ultimate late of the free negro sulfrage bill of the House. That it will pass the Senate is a foregone conclusion, It will pass the Senate as it comes from the House by a de cided majority. I notice that some shrewd politicians hold out the idea that President Johnson will veto it. They assume this as a ’matter of policy, because they are un willing to sutler the impression to be made on the public mind that the President is really to co-operate with the radical majority of Congress—perhaps also a temporary power, which at the next elections may be overthrown. Many others believe that the President will sign the bill upon the consideration that the District is not a State, but is placed under the exclu sive jurisdiction of Congress, which bodv lias a right to legislate for the District in every particular. There is no doubt that Congress can legislate upon the subject of the municipal government of the District, and they will probably follow up this mea sure by a law providing that the councils of the cities and the Levy Court shall be composed in due proportion of negroes. Lawyers here differ in opinion as to the legal efiect of the bill which has passed Congress upon rights of the black and col ored voters tositonjuriesandtoholdoffices. One of the most eminent Senators holds that when the law shall take effect the freedmen voters must be admitted 'to serve on juries, and are also eligible to any cor porution office. In the event of a close election between two candidates for the mayor'ality, the negro vote will bold the balance, and as to the councils, compro mises may be made by which one-third of the members may be blacks or nxulattoes. But a Congress which has pressed this mat ter of negro equality so far will not hesitate to press it further. Another correspondent of the same paper writes as follows : Prominent radical Senators, much to my surprise, say that the House negro suffrage bill will pass the Senate like a flash. An inside Republican says that the only amend ments they will make to it will be provis ions in the way of penalties for keeping negroes from the polls, and things of that sort. The latter is a coldly ironical view, with probably too much of the spirit of truth in it. I believe the President will veto the House bill, if it comes to him, and I have no idea that the requisite two thirds vote could be got in the Senate, if, indeed, in the House, to make it a law under con-, stitutional provisions. The radicals seem intent on making ne gro suffrage general, North and South. If the £ are defeated in respect to 'this District then their bitterness will be augmented against the South and reconstruction. They feel confident about carrying the elections, by the howl they can set up to effect that if the Southern members are iidmit ted, they, with the democrats, will repudiation of the national debt. Colonel Forney announces that the “issue is made up for the country by the passage of the negro suffrage bill by the Senate. Mr. Wade made it a national issue.” Three venerable ladies still survive who were in the choir of young ladies that, dressed in white, greeted Wash ington as he entered Trenton in 1789, on his way to assume the Presidency, and who strewed his -pathway with flowers. One yet lives in Trenton; another is the mother of Hon. • Chestnut, formerly Senator from South Carolina, and the third, Mrs. Sarah Hand, resides in Cape May county, N.j. - ' the Doc trine orkegro Equality Solemnly Endorsed by Congress. the Bill Giving the Negroes : the Bight to Tote in the District of Co •litmbla by the House—Large Republi- can Majority In Its FavorU-No Restric tion on Negro SnDfrage—Who Toted fbr ,ity and Who Against it. .The Republican majority in Congress Thursday passed,;in the House, the bill allowing the negroes to vote in the Dis trict of Columbia. Before the final pas sage of the bill the House struck out the clause restricting the right to vote to those who could read ahd who held property, conferring the right indis criminately upon the negroes in the District. The bill, as passed, reads as follows: Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amer ica, in Congress assembled, That from all laws and partsof laws prescribing the qual ifications of electors for any office in the District of Columbia, the word “white” be and the same is hereby stricken out, and that from and after the passage of this act no person shall be disqualified from voting at any election held in the said District on account of color. “Sec. 2. And,be it further, enacted. That all acts of Congress, and all laws of the '’State of Maryland in force in said District, and all ordinances of the cities of Washing ton and Georgetown, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed and annulled.” The bill was passed—yeas 116, nays 54, as follows: Yeas.— Alley. Allison. Ames, Ashley, of Ohio, Baker, Baldwin,Banks, Barker, Bax ter, Beaman, Bidwell, Bingham, Blame, Blow, BoutweU, Brandegee, Rroomall, Bromwell, Buckland, Bundy, Clarke, of Ohio, Clarke, of Kansas, Cobb, C’onkling, Cook, Cullum, Darling, Davis, Dawes, De frees, Delano, Deming, Dixon, Donnelly, Driggs, Eckley, Eggleston, Eliot, Farns worth, Perry, Garfield, Grinnell, Griswold, Halo, Harding, Hart, Hayes, Higby, Holmes, Hooper, Hubbard,of*Ct., Hubbell, of lowa, Huboard, of New York, Hulbuyd, Humphrey, Jas. Ingersoll, Jencks, Jydtan, Kasson, Kelley, Kelso, Ketchum, Jftiflin, Lawrence, of Pa., Lawrence, of Ohio, Loan, Longyear, Lynch, Marston, Marvin, Me- Clurg, Mercur, Miller, Moorhead, Morrill, Morris, Moulton, Myers, O’Neill, Orth, Paine, Patterson, Perham, Pike, Plants, Pomeroy, Price, Raymond, Rice, of Mass., Rice, of Maine, Rollins, Sawyer, Schench, Scofield, Shellaberger, Sloan, Spaulding, Starr, Stevens, Thayer, Francis Thomas, Trowbridge, Upscm, Van Aerman, Van horn, Ward, Warner, Washburne, of 111., Washburne, of Mass., Welker, Wentworth, Williams, Wilson, of lowa, Wilson, of Pa., Windom, Woodbridge. Nays.— Ancona,Anderson, Ashley of Nv., Benjamin, Bergen, Boyer, Brooks, Chanler, Dawsoii, Dennison, Eldridge, Farquahar, Finck, Glossbrenner, Goodyear, Grider, Harding of Ky., Henderson, Hill, Logan, Hubbard, W. V., Hubbard, N. Y., Hum phrey, J. M., Johnson, Jones, Kerr, Kuy kandall, Latham, Le Blond, Marshall, Mc- Cullough, McKee, Niblack, Nicholson, Noell, Phelps, Radio.d, Randall, of Pa., Randall pfKy., Ritter, Rogers, Ross, Shank lin, Sitgreaves, Smith, Stillwell, Sirouse, Taber, Taylor, Thornton, Trimble, Van Horn, of Mo., Yoorhees, Winfield. When the result of the vote was announ ced, applause followed from the floor ani the galleries. llow Pennsylvania Congressmen Voted. It will be seen from the list of Penn sylvania Congressmen which we give below, that every Demotyat from Penn sylvania voted squarely against negro suffrage, while every Republican, except one who dodged the question, voted for it. Let the people examine the list, and in the coming Congressional elections let them mark those who voted to pros titute the ballot-box for the purpose of securing the supremacy of a party which shows itself ready to degrade the white man to the level of the negro: AGAINST NEGRO SUFFRAGE. The Roll of Honor—All DemoerfttN. Ist Dist. Samuel J. Randall; 6th Dist. B. Markham Boyer; Stk Dist. Sydenham E. Ancona; 10th Dist. Myer St rouse ; 11th Dist. Philip Johnson ; 12th Dist. Charles Dennison ; loth Dist. Adam J. Glossbrknnek ; 21st Dist. J. L. Dawson. FOR NKORO SUFI-RAGE. The Black List—All Shoddies. 2d. Charles O'KeiU; Philadelphia; sd. Leonard Meyers; Philadelphia; 4th. William D. Kelly : Philadelphia; sth. M. Itussell Thayer; Philadelphia; Tib. John M. Brcomall; Chester, Dela- ware; oth. Thaddeus Stevens; Lancaster; 15th. Ulysses Mercur; Bradford, Wyoming, Sullivan, Montour, Columbia; 14th. George F. Miller; Northumberland, Dauphin, Union, Snyder, Juniata; 17th. Abram .1, Barker; Cambria, Blair, Huntingdon, Mifflin ; ISth. Stephen F. Wilson; Center, Lycoming, Clinton. Potter, Tioga; 19th. Glcnni IK. Scofield; Erie, Warren, McKean, Forest, Elk, Jefferson, Clear field, Cameron; 22d. .fames K. Moorhead; Allegheny. 25d. Thomas Williams; Allegheny, Butler, Armstrong. 24th. George T". Isnvrcnce; Greene, Law rence, Beaver, Washington ; The “ Republican” member from the 20th District—Crawford, Mercer, Venango and Clarion—Charles V. Culver, is not recorded as voting. Will our Democratic cotemporaries examine this list, and hold the (mis) Representatives of their various districts to a strict account before their constitu ents ? The Vote on the Suffrage Bill The following analysis of the vote against the suffrage bill will be read with interest: Northern Democrats.—S. K. An cona, Pa.; T. B. Bergen, New York; B. M. Boyer, Pennsylvania; James Brooks, New York; J. W. Chauler, New York ; J. L. Dawson, Pennsyl vania; Charles Denison, Pennsylvania; Chas. A. Eldridge, Wisconsin; W. E Finck,Ohio; A. J. Glossbrenner, Penn sylvania; Chas. Goodyear, New York ; J. M. Humphrey, New York ; E. N. Hubbell, New York ; Philip Johnson, Pennsylvania; Morgan Jones, New York ; M. C. Kerr, Indiana; George R. Latham, West Virginia; F. 0. Le Blond, Ohio; S. 8. Marshall, Illinois ; W. E. Niblack, Indiana; Wm. Radford, New York; S. J. Randall, Pennsylvania; A. J. Rogers, New Jersey ; L. W. Ross, Illinois; Chas. Sitgreaves, New Jersey; Myer Strouse, Pennsylvania; Stephen Tabor, New York; Nelson Taylor, New York ; Mithonis Thornton, Illinois ; D. W. Voorhees, Indiana ; C. H. Win field, New York —81. Border-State Democrats.—John A. Nicholson,Delaware; L. S. Trimble, Burwell C. Ritter, Henry Grider, Aaron Harding, George S. Shanklin, Hiram McCullough, Maryland; John Hogan, Missouri—s. Northern Republicans.—A. J. Keykendall, Illinois; Ralph Hill, John H. Farquhar, Thomas W. Stillwell, In diana ; J. D. Henderson, Oregon ; Delos K. Ashley, Nevada. Border State Unionists.—Green Clay Smith, Wm. H. Randall, Samuel McKee, Kentucky ; Charles E. Phelps, Maryland ; Thomas E. Noell, John ¥. Benjamin, Geore W. Anderson, Robert T. Vanhorn, Missouri. Besides these there were a number of both parties who either did not vote or were absent at the time, viz; Northern Republicans.—D. C. Mcßuer, California;*Ebenezer Dumont, Indiana; William A. Newell, New Jersey; G. W. Hotchkiss, New York; C. Y- Culver, Pennsylvania; W. d! Mclndoe, Wisconsin; J. R. Hubbell* Ohio—7. ’ Border State Republicans.—Lo vell H. Rosseau, Kentucky ; John L. Thomas, Maryland ; Chester H. Hub bard, West Virginia—3. Democrats.—B. G. Harris, Mary land; E. V. R. Wright, New Jersey—2. A correspondent of the New York World gives a harrowing description of the sufferings poor Sumner endured when he went to Paris for medical treat ment after being caned by Col. Brooks in 1856. The correspondent says ac cording to the letters published at the time in the Abolition papers, “his spine was taken out, scraped, oiled and put back again ; he went 'through a chaly beate course, including the application of hot irons to his back; he was baked, boiled, stewed, fried and fricasseed, and plasters applied which drew everything out of him but his malignity, his mile age and his salary as a Senator/’ It is clear from the heroic treatment the Paris physicians subjected him to, that he must have been suffering from the terrible disease which we have heard old women in some parts of the country designate as “spine in the back.” 'gml ftttetttgww*. Court Proceedings. Tuesday Afternoon. —Commonwealth vs. Georgd'W. .Compton; Indictment—Assault and Battery. Ttie defendant plead guilty and wna sentenced to pay a tine of $2O mid costs. “ ■ The case of the Com’th vs. Daniel Mttlhr was resumed. It 'appeared from the tes timony that the defendant, a school teacher in the town of Mount Joy, oh the 13th of last October administered a very severe whipping to Tabitha Boyce, a little girl ten years of age. The rule of Miller was to make the girls, who were caught talking during hours of study, stand up with the hat of one of the boys on their head, and to put a bonnet on the heads of the boys. The mother of Tabitha Boyce, it seems, had told her that she heed not submit to this method of punishment, and she refused to do For such disobedience Bhe was whipped by the teacher until she yielded obedience and wore:the hat, The evidence showed that the whipping was very severe, no less than twenty-seven marks being left on the child’s arms, back and shoulders, There was some evidence which indicated that a second and outside party was urgiDg Mr. Boyce to prosecuie. It was also in ev idence thpt the school was very large, and that it had been very • disorderly under for mer teachers. The charge of-the Court to the jury was of such a character as to im press all who heard it with the importance of the decision to be rendered. The recip rocal duties of teacher&and parents, and the responsibiliti&fcjpf each, together with the important duty of courts and juries so to act as to give all the aid in their power to render our system of common schools an efficient agency in the great cause of edu cation was ably discussed. The case was given to the jury under very clear aud full instructions. Com’th vs. Charles Thomas. Indiclmim —Larceny. The defendant in this case was a little negro eleven years old and as black as need be, but apparently sharp uud intelligent, lie was charged with stealing one chicken, the’properly of Magdalena Hays, ot Mari etta. Plead guilty, and sent to the House of Itefuge. Com’th vs. John D. Reed. Indictment- Larceny Tlie defendant plead guilty to having taken the basket of one Ellen Langan, of this city, a sort of itinerant podler. The crime was committed in the railroad depot of this eky. W.ieti caught Reed was going up an allot’ hiding the contents of the basket in different places as he went along. He begged for permission to address the Court, and stated that he had been four years in the service of the United States during the war, that he hud two sons killed at the bat tle of Gettysburg, that he had been wounded in the leg himself, that he had been for 8 months a prisoner at Salisbury, N. C., and nearly starved to death. He also averred that he was laboring under mania potu when the basket was taken, and that he was utterly unconscious of what he was doing. The officer who arrested him certified be was under the intluence of liquor at the time of his arrest. Sentenced to six weeks imprisonment in county prison. Com’tli vs. David K. Potts. Indictment —Lnrcenv The prisoner was charged on three in dictments with stealing various articles from what is kmnvn us the Horse .Shoe Road School House, and from the Old Road School House. Sentenced to pay a tine ofsl and costs of prosecution for each offence,and to undergo an imprisonment of nine months. Com'th vs. Charles Smith. Indictment— Larceny. Jt appeared in evidence that the prisoner stole a horse blanket from Henry Brown, in the village of Rohrerstown, on the 11th of last November. There being no defence the jury returned a verdict of guilty without leaving the box. Sentenced to an imprisonment of six months in county prison. Com'th vs. Henry I). Jones. Indictment —Larceny. Tiie defendant was charged with stealing two gold rings, one of the value of $7, the other of the value of $6, and a cornelian ring of the value of $3, the property of Mary C. Ripple, of this city. Mary C. Ripple proved that the rings were taken from a drawer in her father's house, to wbiclKthe defendant had access, and the man to whom he sold one of the rings was produced on the stand. It appeared from the cross-ex amination of Mary Ripple that she and Jones had been engaged to be married ; that they were on such terms of intimacy ay is usual among per sons holding that interesting rela- :ion to each other; that he boarded at lier father’s house where she also lived; that Jones had gone so far as to ask the con sent of the parents, or at least of the mother to the marriage; that he had bought his be trothed a silk gown for the value of $25, which said silk gown it was understood was to be her bridal robe; that he bad also bougiit her a cloak of the value of $8 ; that he had nursed her in a spell of sickness; that he went away to work last fall; that he faithfully promised to return to gladden her heart during the Christmas holidays! that he failed so to do; that she, Mary Ripple, had learned, first by rumor, and then from undoubted sources, that he, the said Jones, being false in heart and in action, had another girl. This was more than the injured and outraged love could bear, and so she had the false and fickle Jones arrest ed, thrust into jail, indicted and tried for the crime of larceny. Com'th vs. Carl Foclit. Assault. This defendant was indicted for committing an assault upon .Sophia Spelling, of this city, some time last November. The prosecutrix testified that Foeht -- gentobler to stop, immediately after I heard frequent cracking of the whip and the horse increased his speed; I turned round to quiet, the ladies with whom I had been talking on the porch, as they were excited; when I turned toward the road again I saw Book man alongside of Hogentobler’s horse, run ning at a rapid gate to keep up with it; im mediately thereafter I saw the flash and heard the report of the pistol, the horse still galloping on ; from the circumstance of the horse running on and hearing no outcry from the ladies I concluded that no damage was done; as the horse stopped I heard screams from the ladies in the buggy; be fore the horse was stopped I saw Bookman and Devlin coming back, Bookman lmd a hat; heard him say," Well, we have his hat !> n .vhow;’* I theu went up street to Doctor Reed's office; the Doctoi was probing tho wound at the time; it was about seventy five feet from whero Devlin’s buggy stood to where the shot was fired. X. 1 cannot say how much room Mr. Bookman’s buggy took up in the pike ; there was plenty of room to pass; from the tune of the cracking of the whip until the pistol-shot a minute did not elapse; thoy were almost simultaneous : I do not know whether they would have struck the buggy ot Devlin if they had driven down the mid dle of the it could not have taken up much oi tho road ; when 1 asked what was broke Bookman said it was tho wheel, and milled it was llogentobler of tiie hill, and he would'blow his brains out when he caught him. Miss Annie M. Kitch, sworn: I was sit ting on the porch in conversation With l)r. Bernhciser when the buggv containing Bookman, Devlin and Kitch drove up; . hours, until 12 o’clock and 41 minutes past on Monday morning; the shooting occurred on Satur day evening between s and !» o'clock; my office is about 200 yards west of Blel/.'s house; Hogentobler died from the effect of the wound; after death Dr. Compton made a post mortem examination, at which I as sisted; the upper portion of the skull was removed, the bruin taken out, and the bul let found in the left lobe of the brain; tho direction had been inwrtrd and upward, and the ball struck the left parietal bone and re bounded or gravitated to the place vvheVe it was found, near the coronal suture; it was taken out and thu Coroner took churgoof it; ball shown ; that is the ball. Dr. Win. Compton, affirmed: In com pany with Dr. Reed and Dr. Kohror I made a postmortem examination in Dr. Reed’s office. We found the bullet in the left lobe of tho brain; ball shown; that is tho hull to tho best of my knowledge; the ball entered the right parietal bone near tho ear,, passing inward and upward, arxl was tho cause of the death ol'Hogentobler. Joseph C. Snyder, sworn : Bull produced ; am a Deputy Coroner of the county ; this is the ball the Doctors ga\o me; I have hud il in my possession ever since. J. il. Eraiiey, sworn: I stopped tho horse of Hogentobler's some 120 vards from Blitz’s house; the horse camo down at a trot; the women were screaming; did not know them at the time; they were thosamo girls who testified here; when I stopped the horse 1 helped u> lake Hogentobler from the buggy; others carried him into tho office. Mrs. Fanny Hogentobler, sworn: Heard the buggy puss down the roud ; after it came back went to the door ami saw the flash of the pistol and heard the shot. Court adjourned until Friday morning at l J o'clock. Friday Morning. —lsaac A. llogentobler, sworn : Witness stated that he was the father of.lohn Hogentobler, who wiia killed; he wus a little past 16 years oldjwhen he en listed, and was lit years, 10 months and If) days old; he had only been nt homo from the army three weeks "when he was killed ; he was overthreoyeursin thearmy ; he first enlisted in th • infantry, und alter serving his time out in that service, enlisted in the cavalry; he was regularly discharged with his regiment after the yvur was over. ' Dr. Bernthoiz.-l, recalled. A draft of the road leading through Mountville, and tho location of the transaction which was ad mitted to be correct, was shown to tho wit ness ; the witness testified, the post to which the buggy was hitched was five feet from the fence; the buggv which was struck was not much further out on tho road than the post; for some reason the most of the travel is on the side of tho road next to where the buggy was standing ; the right hand hind wheel of the buggy was struck and the wheel was badly urokeu ; the wheel was struck on the outside. THE DEFENCE O. J. Dickey, Esq., opened the case on the j)art of the Common wealth. * TESTIMONY roll THE DEFENCE. Cyrus A. Ksholman, sworn : Hogentobler fame to in v father s house on the ufternoon of the day when he was killed ; ho asked for Miss fShollunherger; ho got out of his buggy; was drunk at the time ; ho told mo to unhitch his horse; when I had just goL the holding buck strap out of the keeper, he cut his horse, and started off utagallop; 1 had told liim where Miss Shollenberger lived or was. John B. Devlin, sworn: I live in the vil lage of Mount Pleasant; Bookman, Kitch and I had been engaged in hauling goods from the railroad to my father's store on the day of tin* killing ; we agreed to take u ride-; 1 wa* to furnish Lhe horse, and Kitch and Bookman lhe buggy; about eight o’clock in the evening we started down the pike and drove to Bletz’s residence, when Kitcli stepped in the house to change his coat; while he -vyas gone a man came driving along very recklessly, Bookman and I be ing seated in the buggy; our buggv being weak, and we fearing he might run" into us, called on him to turn out; a moment after wards the collision took place; Book man fell out against the side of the buggy and I fell against him; lie fell toward Hogentobler’s buggy; I jumped out at the other side to take care of the horse; Mr. Kitch came out and asked what was wrong ; we told him, and proceed ed to unhitch, as our buggy was too much broke to go on ; while wo were unhitching, Hogentobler came driving back at a rapid rate; I stepped out and raising'my bund called on him to halt; ho did not stop ot my signal but cut me ucross the back with his whip; shortly alter this I heard the-report of the pistol, and saw Bookman in a posi tion which I thought to be rising from the ground after a fall; then came to pick him up and asked him whether he wns hurt; besuid.no; then proceeded to unhitch my horse to take him home; when wo stopped, at Bletz’s our buggy stood up und down the pike; it was not on tho beaten track; our buggy was struck, as I suppose, on the out side of the wheelj nearly all the spokes bo ingbroken out ot the wheel; if Hogentobler had kept on tho beaten track ho could not have struck us; I donot know that we asked him to stop after he had broken our buggy; did not hear tho girls or any of them laugh ing; do not know whether any of the girls shook hands with Bookman when they / stopped. / XBy Mr. Reynolds ; I was sitting,on the / left hand side of the buggy; Bookman fell / over against Hogentobler’s buggy; did not J. fall on the ground as I seen ; we did not agree to stop the buggy when they came back; do not know where Bookman was when I made an attempt to stop the buggy; went to assist Bookman to rise after no shot; he was about six yards from me; asked him if he WHsahot; the hitching post was some two.or three feet from tho beaten or traveled track of the road; we had driven our horse between the hitching post and tho fence; the main travel was on thosido next to our buggy; there wero fresh broken stone on the right-hand side of the road as you* come to Lancaster. , * M By Ml. Livingston: Didnotfiear any conversation between Bookman and Fir Berntheisel; when the shot was firedl wan Standing in the pike opposite to our buggy the buggy was as near the other oneruaf “, ot k ? ow exactly bow fer it wm from me to where the shooting oceuted;.