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A Lesson for the Times.
“ Aunt Malinda, pieasegive meapin,”
saLd a bright looking butshabbily dress
ed little fellow, opening the door of Mrs.
Lane's kitchen.
“ Justsee here,” he added, poiutingto
a large rent on the knee of his trowsers,
“ me and Will Brown Were playing tag,
and I fell down and tore this.”
“Why don’t you run home and get
your mother to mend it, johnny ?” said
Mrs. Lane, as she did her best to bring
together the severed parts.
“ Oh ! ’cause mother ain’t to home.—
She’s gone to the ‘ Society for Clothing
Destitute Children.’ ”
“ Destitute children!” ejaculated Mrs.
Lane, as she surveyed her nephew from
head to foot. “If you don’t come under
thatclass, then never a child did ! Why,
.my dear, you are all rags and tatters!”
“ 1 know it, aunt,” responded the boy,
moodily ; “ but it ain’t my fault. Moth
er says she has no time to mend my
clothes, and if she did, they would be
just as had next day ; so what’s the u-e?
Father said, last night, that I looked
like a heathen, and he almost wished I
was, for mother would think I was
worth looking after a little.”
“ Have you had any supper, Johnny,
you look hungry ?”
“ No,” said the boy, casting a longing
look at a generous piece of pumpkin pie
that Ills aunt was cutting; “mother
left some cold victuals on Lhe table for
father and me, hut.”—
“ Well,” interrupted thegood woman,
placing the pie upon a plate, and adding
toitasliee of cheese, “you just take
this, and mind you don’t leave a bit of
it.”
Johnny lost no time in obeying his
aunt's peremptory but by no means un
pleasant injunction, and the contents of
s the plate rapidly disappeared before the
energetic assault.
“1 wish mother stayed at home, just
as you do, aunt,” he said, as lie opened
the door, casting a longing look back
upon tlieeheerful,cozy lookingkitchen.
“ I declare !” exclaimed Mrs. Lane, as
taking up the roller pin, she resumed
her labor, “ If ilisn’tashame forNaney
to neglect him ; I am actually ashamed
of him, and his mother an active mem
ber of half a dozen societies. As for
brother John, lie’s clean discouraged,
and I don’t wonder at. it. [ don’t believe
he comes home to a warm supper once
a week. It’s my belief it's a woman’s
business lirst to look after the comfort
of her family, then, if she has time to
do for others, well and good. Charity
ought to begin at home, if she don’t
stay there.”
“There’s Aunt Nancy, now, just
coming into the gate,” said her daugh
ter Betsy, as, looking up from theapples
she was now paring, she chanced to
glance out of the window.
Indignant as she was, it was not in
good-natured Mrs. Lane to refuse to see
hersister-in-law, who was evidently too
full of her own concerns to have noticed
any lack of cordiality, had there been
any.
“ How do you do, sislcr Lane; how
<lo you do, Betsey,” she said, seating
lierselfin the tirsl chair she came to, as
if quite exhausted, though her keen,
black'eyes looked as sharp as ever. —
“ Always cooking, 1 do declare! Ah!
how it makes my heart ache to see you
spending so much time in caring for the
poor, perishing body !”
“ Folks can’t live without eating,” re
plied Mrs. Lane, a little tartly, as this
remark called to mind what she con
sidered her sister’s remissness in care of
her family. “Least ways, I haven’t
yet found out the other way of living.”
“ You always did make nice dough
nuts, Malimla,” said Mrs. Shaw, very
herself to one.
“ They are light as honey-comb,” she
addeil as she broke it open and proceed
ed to dispose of it with evident satisfac
tion. “ I don’t know when I have
made any kind of pastry. Professor
Spare, who lectured here last Winter,
said they were very unhealthy, entirely
destroying.what he called the digestive
apparatus.”
‘‘Yes, I know,” returned Mrs. Lane,
dryly. “Husband invited him home
to tea one tlay, and I couldn’t perceive
he had any particular objections to my
pies and cakes. Indeed, I remember
thinking if it was his ordinary way of
eating, 1 shouldn't like to be the one to
cook lor him. And let folks think
what they may, I never will think that
plain, light pastry, eaten moderately,
will ever hurt anybody. I always let
my children have it, and they are as
hearty and robust a set of boys and
girls as you can find anywhere; as I
am sure they wouldn’t be if they were
feil on cold, half-cooked victuals, given
to them any way and just when it hap
pened.”
“ It isn’t always the rosiest and fresh
est children that are the healthiest,”
said Mrs. yhaw, helping herself to an
other doughnut. “ Now T think of it, I
am certain 1 can seea pimpleon Betsey 's
nose—a Hire proof of over and
John Thomas is not so strong as my
Johnny, who is not more thau ayearor
so the oldest. But I guess I’ll do my er
rand ami be going. I called to tell you
that we are going to have a fair for the
benefit of the oppressed Poles. I'm on
the Committee of Arrangements, and
really hope, sister Lane, that you’ll take
right hold and do everything in your
powerjto forward this noble and praise
worthy object.”
“ No, thank you,” returned hersister
iu-iaw. “ I think I can find objects of
charity nearer that Poland.”
“But there is a society of which you
are a member, that I think I should
like to join,” she resumed, after a mo
ment's thought; “the one for clothing
and providing fordestitute children.”
“That’s what we expect and desire
every member to do when she has an
opportunity. We have a number of
little jackets and punts on hand, and
there will be some among them that
will fit. Our next meeting is just a
week from to-day, remember, at’Squire
Mayo’s ”
There was a merry twinkle in Mrs.
Lane’s eyes that night as she superin
tended preparations for supper, which
ever and anon deepened into a smile.—
But though the children were anxious
to know “ what mother was smiling
about,” she kept her own counsel.
The next Wednesday afternoon a
score or more ladies were seated in
'Squire Mayo's parlor with busy fingers
and still more busy tongues.
“ There is Mrs. Lane coming up the
walk!” exclaimed Mrs. Mayo, who was
seated at ihe window. “ Just see what
a wretched looking boy ahe is leading
by the hand. It can't be one of her
boys, for I know they are all models of
neatness.”
Mrs. Shaw was too bußy distributing
work to even look out of the window.
; "I forgot to tell you, ladies,” she
VOLUME 67.
said, “ that my sister-in-law joins our
society this afternoon. The boy with
her is no doubt the one she spoke to me
about the other day as a fit object for
our charitj’. I take considerable credit
to myself,” she added complacently,
“ for persuading her to this step. Sister
Lane is such a homebody, so wrapped
up in herself and family.
“ Mrs. Lane is a kind hearted woman,”
replied an old lady, who was knitting
in one corner of the room, “and doe 3 a
great deal of good in her quiet way.”
By this time Mrs. Lane was in the
room.
“Good afternoon, ladies,” glancing
around witli a pleasant smile. “ You
see, sister Shaw, that I kept my word,
and did not come alone,” she added, as
that individual fixed her eyes in un
disguised astonishment upon the boy
whose reluctant hand she held.
“I found this poor lad,” she con
tinued, “in an alleyway, playing mar
bles with a number of profane and vici
ous boys, who were uttering words that
I shudder to think of. The black eye
he Ims got in a fight with one of them,
in which it appears he had the worst of
it. He is very .dirty and ragged, asyou
see. But I offer no apology for bring
ing him to you in this condition, as
your society was formed for the benefit
of such, and trust thjit under your kind
ly care he will soon present another ap
pearance.” ;
Twice did Mrs. Shaw essay to inter
rupt the speaker, hut anger and shame
choked utterance. When she had con
cluded, she sprang to her feet.
“ Malinda Lane!” she ejaculated, “do
you mean to pretend that you don’t
know that is my boy?”
“Your boy!” exclaimed Mrs. Lane,
starting with well dissembled amaze
ment; “is it possible? Now, that I
look at him closer, it does look like
Johnny. But whowould have thought
it? T leave it to you,” addressing the
other holies, “if the mistake was not a
very natural one, or if ever a child, ap
parently, stood more in need of your
friendly offices?”
This assertion could not be denied by
any present, certainly notby Mrs. Shaw,
who was completely silenced, though
she was looking unutterable things.
Not long after she could be seen with
poor little Johnny “in tow,” takiug a
round about way in the direction of
'home, for, unlike hersister-in-law, who
escorted him thither, she went by the
darkest and most unfrequented streets.
A Romantic Love Story
The Count de St. Croix, belonging to
one of the noblest and wealthiest fami
lies in France, became engaged, after a
long and assiduous courtship, to a lady,
his equal in position and fortune* and
famous for her beauty. Shortly after
the happy day was appointed which
was to render t wo loving hearts one, the
Count was ordered immediately to the
siege of Sebastopol; so he girded on his
sabre, and at the head of his regiment
marched to the battle-field. During the
Count’s absence it happened that
bis beautiful .Jiancc had the small
pox ; after hovering between life
and death for many days, she re
covered her health, but found her
beauty hopelessly lost. The disease had
assumed in her case the most virulent
character, and left her not only dis
figured but seamed and scarred to such a
frightful extent, that sire became hide
ous to herself, and resolved to pass the
remainder of her days in the strictest
seclusion. A year passed away, when,
one day, the Count, immediately
upon his return from France, accom
panied by his valet, presented himself
at the residence of his betrothed, and
solicitedan interview. This was refused
He, however, with the persistence of a
lover, pressed his suit, and finally the
lady” made her appearance closely muf
iled in a double veil. At thesound of her
voice the Count rushed forward to em
brace her, but, steppingasideshe tremb
lingly told him thestury ofher sorrows
and burst into tears. A heavenly smile
broke over the Count’s handsome
features, as raising his hands above he ex
claimed “ It is God’s work ; lam blind.”
It was even so. When gallantly leading
his regiment to the kttack, a cannon-ball
passed so closely to his eyes that, while
it left their expressions unchanged and
liis countenance unmarked, it robbed
him forever of sight. It is almost un
necessary to add that their marriage was
shortly after solemnized. It is said that
at tliis day, may often be seen at the
Emperor’s receptions an officer leaning
upon, the arm of a lady closely veiled ;
a!ud they seem to be attracted to the
spot by their love of music.
The Wind as a Musician,
The wind is a musician by birth. We
extend a silken thread in a crevice of a
window, and the wind finds itandsings
over it, and goes up and down the scale
upon it, and Paganini must go some
where else for honor, for lo ! the wind
is performing upon a single string. It
tries almost everything on earth to see
if there is music in'it —it persuades a
tune out of the great bell in.the tower,
when the sex.oil is at home asleep;
it makes a mournful harp of .tlie
giant pines, aud it does not dis
dain to try what sort of a whistle can
be made out of the humblest chimney
in the world. How it will play upon a
tree until every leaf thrills with a note
on it, whilst a river runs at its base in a
sort of murmuring accompaniment.—
And what a melody it sings when it
gives a concert with a full choir of the
waves of the sea, and performs an an
them between the two worlds, that goes
up perhaps to the stars, which love
music most and sung it first. Then,
how fondly ithauntsold houses; mourn
ing uuder the eaves, singing in the halls,
opening doors without fingers, and
siuging a measure of some sad, old song
around the firelessand deserted hearths.
An Elevated liallroad In Broadway.
We have seen a plan andsketches for
an elevated railioad for Broadway,
which appear to us to have considerable
merit. Captain Hemstreet, the young
engineer who devised this plan, pro
poses to erect an elevated roadway upon
elliptical arches over the centre or car
riage way of the street; to pave this
track with plate glass, which will ad
mit sufficient light upon the street be-
Jow, and at the same time keep it, in
all weathers, dry and clean ; and to let
the sidewalks be open and uncovered.
Ou the roadway thus resting upon
elliptical iron arches, and reaching from
gutter to gutter across the middle of the
street, he proposes to lay three or four
tracks, upon which trains should be
run with dummy engines. As the
tracks will be always clear and elean
the rail may be light, and Captain Hem
street proposes to lay them on rubber
cushions, and thus make the motion
perfectly smooth and even. It is esti
mated that Buch a road could be built
from the Battery to Union Square in
cluding the glass roof, for less than* ona
million dollars,—2Y. Y, jpost.
The Maiden Aont
It is mercifully ordered in the great
scheme of existence that nearly every
person - should have an aunt who is
willing to grow into an old maid, and
to sacrifice her life to the good of others
—these others being generally her
nephews and nieces. Aunts are the
fairy good godmothers of society, the
supplementary mothers who are often
more kind and indulgent to the chil
dren than their parents are. There is
not a single person anywhere who is not
familiar with this idea of a good aunt.
We sometimes hear of children who
never knew father nor mother; blit
where is the child that never knew an
aunt? When the father and mother
disappear and leave the poor infant to
the mercy of the world, who is it that
takes the little waif in, and feeds
and clothes it, and sends it to school?
Who? The aunt. The good, kind,
tender-hearted soul, who, perhaps, has
been passed over in life, who has toiled
hard, who has suffered much, who, at
any rate, has never tasted the joys of
maternity, who has certainly never
incurred its vexations. It is really
wonderful, under such circumstances,
that these women should retain so
much humanity ; that the fire of love
should not have been quenched in their
lonely hearts; that the milk of humau
kindness should not. have dried up iu
their breasts long ago. We should be
thankful to Heaven for these maiden
aunts of ours ; they are legions of angels
upon earth, forever hovering about us,
to pity and to succor. If the natural
history of aunts were faithfully and ac
curately followed out, I am inclined to
think that the aunts of whom I speak
would be found to be a distinct species
of the genus. There are points of re
semblance in aIL aunts of this class,
which are not to be observed iu persons
who stand to society iu other relations.
There are mauy varieties of mothers;
some good, some bad, some indiffer
ent; there are also,many varieties of
fathers, brothers, sisters, aud uncles. —
There is a kind and iudulgent father;
but quite as often there is the harsh aud
tyrannical. There is the affectionate
brother and the jealous brother; the
loving sister and the spiteful sister. —
Then as to the uncle (who should be a
counterpart of the aunt in every thing,
being the masculine of the species,) it
is not proverbial that while some of
them poke their nephews in,the ribs,
call them sly dogs, and give them uo e
end of bank notes because they
wouldn’t sell their uncle’s pictures,
there are others, cruel, blood-thirsty
—rapacious uucles, who take their ne
phews into dark woods and leave them
to die of hunger. But our aunts ? —our
aunts are always good. Whoeverheard
of a wicked auni? Be it understood,
however, that I do not reckon among
my bright particular stars the sister of
your father or mother, who marries and
has children of her own; nor the lady
whom your uncle may take to himself
with the same commouplace result. —
We don’t think of her, be she
oue or the other, in the true
aunt sense. I)o you ever call her
“ aunty,” and go and sit in herlap, and
putyour arms round her neck ? Answer
me that. No, no. She is aunt—mark
how cold the word is without the en
dearing diminutive ! Aunt Charles or
Aunt James, with lots of little buckets
of her own dipping into the well of her
affections, aud she has notadropforyou.
Dare to sit in her lap, and she will push
you rudely and coldly away. Venture
to put yourarm round herneck, andshe
will probably stand upon her propriety.
The person whom you call “ aunty dear”
is quite another order of-being She is
your father’s sister or j T our mother’s sis
ter —occasionally the wifeofyouruncle;
but, in this case, she is only “aunty
dear” when she has no children of her
own. As to her natural disposition ;
she is born to deny herself, but for oth
ers—born, above all, to rear the weekly
sheep,.and to rescue the black ones who
go estray.
Peter the Great,
The famous MenzikofF had shed his
blood in battle and exposed his life to
defend the life of his master, Peter the
Great. -But joined to his many brilliant
qualities were great vices; his cupidity
and. ambition were without bounds ; he
used for hi 9 own advantage large sums
designed for the public benefit. Having
left St. Petersburg in the suite of the
Emperor, who was hastening to Astrac
han with the design of surprising and
taking possession of that city, he learned
on the.way that he had been denounced,
and that the Emperor was fully inform
ed of his robberies and extortions.
The gloomy countenance aud silence
of the prince, whose inflexible severity
he knew, announced to him his disgrace;
he believed himself already precipitated
from the height of honor to opprobrium
and misery; the deserts of Siberia, the
solitude of a long exile, the headsman’s
axe, came by turns before his imagina
tion ; his blood took fire and a malig
nant fever attacked—; for three
weeks he lay in a wretched chamber in
a state of frightful deliruim. Finally
he woke and look anxiouVly-amund the
the cabin ; he seemed abandoned only
one man was near him ; only one cared
for him ; one voice only addressed to
him words of comfort. Il was that of
the Emperor. It was Peter the Great.
This uniooked for sight restored to
him life and strength ; burning tears
rolled down his cheeks; he fell at the
feet of the monarch.
“ Great God !” h
-.real >Ol ,ie cried. “My sire
is it you?” x
“Yes,” replied the emperor raising
him up, “for three weeks I have not
left your bed.”
“Wliat! do you love me yet? Have
you pardoned me? You have not then
condemned to death a guilty "
“Unhappy man!” said Peter, em
bracing him, “ believe you I could for
get you had saved my life?”
At the bottom of a truly great soul,
the virtue one is most sure to find is
gratitude.
Mr. Thomas Williams, a member
of Congress from Pennsylvania, offered
a resolution, on Monday last, proposing
to organize another military commission
to try Jefferson Davis and Robert E.
Lee. Mr. Williams, acting no doubt as
the tool of '‘the divine Stanton," says
in his resolution that “ thearraignment
of these parties before anyJucfteeaJtribu
nal of the country would be a matter of
questionable propriety," and hence he
proposes to disgrace the nation by hav
ing them executed without any trial at
all, for no sensible man will contend
that a military commission would afford
anything of the kind. Military com
missions are organized to hang, not to
fairly try, and this is well known to all
the advocates of this new method ofdis’
pensing justice. Mr. Williams is a law
yer and is fully aware that his position
is in direct opposition to all law, justice,
decency and common sense; but he is
also a wretched fanatic and is willing
to secure his ends by any means, no
matter how disgraceful, that may be
pecessary to accomplish them.-- Age*.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1866.
§)}feaU&iuint&
Musical Accent.
At a trial in the Court of King’s
Bench, (June, 1863,) between certain
Tweedledees, as to an alleged piracy of
an arrangement of “The Old English
Gentleman,” T. Cooke was subpoened
as a witness. On cross examination by
Sir James Scarlett, that learned counsel
flippantly said, “ Now, sir, you say the
two melodies are the same, but different.
Whatdoyou mean, sir?” Tom prompt
ly answered, “I said that the notes in the
two copies were alike, but with different
accent.” Sir James: “ What is a musical
accent?” Cooke: “ Yry terms are a
guinea a lesson, sir.” (A loud laugh.)
Sir James, (rather ruffled): “Don’t
mind your terms here ; I ask yfiu what
is musical accent? Can you see it?”
Cooke: “No.” Sir James: “Can you
feel it?” Cooke: “A musician can.”
(Greatlaughter.) Sir James, (very an
grily) : “Now, pray, sir, don’t beat
about the bush, but tell his lordship and
the jury the meauing of what you call
accent.” Cooke: “Accent in music
is a stress laid on a peculiar
note, as you would lay a stress on
any given word, for the purpose of being
better understood. Ifl were tosay, you
are’an ass, it rests on ass; but were I to say
you areanass.itrestsouyou, Sir James.”
Reiterated shouts of laughter by the
whole court, in which the beuch joined
followed this repartee. Silence being
obtained, Lord Denman, the judge, with
much gravity, accosted the chop-fallen
counsel: “ Areyousatified, Sir Jarr>es ?”
Sir James, drep red as he naturally was,
had become scarlet in more than name,
and in a great huff said,. “ The witness
may go down.”
-/'Cadies of the White House.
/The President’s estimable daughters,
Mrs. Patterson aud Mrs. Stover, who
breside over the Executive Mansion
(/Mrs Johnson herself being an invalid),
by their courtesy, and hospitality, are
doing much to sweeten the mood of pol
iticians, and to make life at the metrop
olis amiable as well as attractive. It is
as when Henry Clay once said to Mrs.
President Polk : “Madam, I never heard
anything but praise ofyouradministra
tion, though occasionally I have heard
some slight objection toyourhusbaud’s.”
At their first drawing-room this season,
as the large and brilliant party were
ushered into the scarlet room, they were
introduced first to Mrs. Senator Patter
son, and" subsequently to her sister,
Mrs. Stover, who occupied a position at
her right hand. The duties of the in
troduction devolved on Maj. James R.
O’Brien, Deputy Marshal of the District,
who performed his part with ease and
propriety. Our lady readers will be in
terested in the following description for
the manner in which the distinguished
sisters werg attired:
Mrs. Patterson was dressed in black
velvet trimmed witli black lace, aud
made with high corsage and coat sleeves,
with a point lace collar fastened with a
simple jet pin set in pearls and corres
ponding to the ornament worn in the
ears. She wore white kid gloves, and
borje in one hand a white fan and lace
handkerchief, and in the other a small,
exquisite cluster of flowers. Her hair
was done up in the fashionable style of
the season, frizzed in front, gathered in
a mass of curls behind, a Grecian brau|
passing over aud concealing the comb
confining them, and a white japonica,
with another delicate white flower, care
lessly fastened in the hair, near the left
ear.
Mrs. Stover was dressed in all respecLs
ike her sister, Mrs. Patterson, excepting
that she wore heavy moire antique in
stead of velvet, and she had no flowers
iu her hand. Her hair was in.the style
of her sister’s, adorned with a small
white flower.
We understand that Mrs. President
Johnson lately received from Sir Mor
ton Peto (whose recent visit to the
United States will long be remembered
with pleasure by all who had the advan
tage of meeting him) a most elegant
and costly present in the form of a
Christmas box or rare and exquisite de
vice filled with Parsian bonbons.
[From Hall’s Journal of Health.j
Dr. Hail on Failing Eyesight.
When the sighUis beginning to fail,
the eyes should[/be favored as much as
possible! This can be done—
1. By sitting iu such a position as will
allow the light to fall upon the paper, or
sewing, obliquely over the shoulder.
2. By not ufciug the eyes for such pur
poses by any artificial light, or before
sunrise, or after sunset. *
3. By avoiding the special use of the
eyes in the morning before breakfast.
4. By restiug them for half a moment
or so while Vending, or sewing, or look
ing at small objects ; by looking at
things at a distance, or in the sky ; re
lief is immediate in so doing.
5. Never pick any collected matter
from the e;\ elashesor corners of the eyes
with the finger-nails ; rather moisten it
with the saliva, anil rub it away with
the nail of the finger.
6. Frequently pass the balls of the
fingers over the closed eyelids towards
the nose ; this carries off an excess of
water into the nose itself by- means of
the little canal which leads into the
nostrils from each inner corner of the
eye, which canal tends to close up, in
consequence of the slightest inflamma
tion, which attends weakness of the
eyes.
7 Keep your feet always dry and
warm, so as to keep any excess of blood
from the other end of the body.
S. Use eye glasses at first, carried in
the vest pocket, attached to a guard, for
they are instantly adjusted to the eye
with a very little trouble; whereas, if
comnnui spectacles are used,such a pro
cess is required to get them ready, that
to save the trouble the eyes are often
strained to answer the purpose.
b. Wash the eyes abundantly every
morning. If cold water be used, let it
be flapped against the closed eye with
the fingers of the right hand, not strik
ing hard against the balls of the eye.
But it would seem a better plan to open
the eye in pure blood warm water, be
cause warm water is more penetrating
than cold; it dissolves more readily any
hardened matter that may be about the
lids, and is more soothing aud more
natural.
IU. The moment the eyes feel
feel tired, the very moment you are
conscious of an effort to read or sew, lay
aside the book or needle, and take a
walk for an hour, or employ yourself in
some active exercise not requiring the
close use of the eyes.
The State Library
Wien Forney, Esq., the State Librar
ian, reports thatduring the last pastyear
he drew from the treasury $1,804.74, and
expended $2,534.28, as follows : For
miscellaneous expenses, $500.81 ; for
books, $1,600.14, and for
exchanges of books, $433.33. The
explanation of this excess of expendi
ture is derived from the fact that the
cost of books has largely increased ;
that it was-necessary to purchase a large
numberof rare publicationsim mediately
or run the risk of paying at least a third
more for them a year hence ; that the
organization of governtments in the
lately revolted States increased the pur
chase of our State reports for Southern
libraries ; and that the loss of the frank
ing privilege tended to swell the ex
penses. The Librarian recommends an
increased appropriation hereafter, and
calls attention to the abuse of the
“order" system, by which the library
has become a sort of “circulating
library," especially to the people of
Harrisburg, and by which a large num
ber of volumes are annually lost.
Three cases involving the question of
the liability of government securities to
State and municipal taxation will come
up before the U. S. Supreme Court on
Monday next.
Business and Polities.
Some of our Philadelphia people have
curious ideas of the fitness of things.
Thus we very frequently hear persons
getting quite eloquent over the import
ance ana necessity ofsteam communi
cation and an active commerce between
this city and the Southern ports, and a
little while after, or perhaps at the same
time, getting highly excited against the
efforts beiDg made to place the Southern
States iu a condition to have any com
merce at all. It is very hard to under
stand the political philosophy that leads
men'into such inconsistent acts. The
fact is, they do not act according to any
sound system ofpolitieal economy at all.
When they’ talk and work in favor of
establisbingactive and direct commerce
with the South, they are carrying out
their' experience as business men and
obeying true business principles. But
wheu they talk and act in a way to re
tard the thorough restoration of the
Southern. States to their places in the
Union, without which there can be no
active or prosperous commerce
they are merely following the behests of
party leaders. Business and party pol
itics get along very well together,
and when business men are trying to
forward a truly business project, they
should let the party work of party lead
ers alone while they are at it, aud they
should be careful to see that their Or
gans do the same thing. Or, at least, if
they mu9t mix up business matters and
party politics, they should see that the
politics is not of a character 1 to defeat
the business. No thoughtful man, when
he is carrying on negotiations with an
other with a view to engage him in «
commercial enterprise, would persist in
reviling that man, calling him names
and saying that he is unfit to manage
his own affairs, and that he ought not
to have control of them. Yet this is,
in effect, about what is being done by
some parties iu our city, who speak
strongly in favor of close and active
business intercourse with the Southern
, States, and at the same time do all in
their power to prevent those States from
being put into condition to have an ac
tive commerce at the earliest possible
day.
Party agitations are at all times the
worst foes of business stability. If we
want irade with the Southern States or
their cities, we must aid them to have
their affairs settled immediately. Peo
ple do not engage iu plauting rice, cot
ton, sugar, tobacco, &c., or in producing
rosin, pitch, turpentine and other naval
stores, or in merchandising, with energy
and alacrity, when they do not know
whether they may call the products of
their labor and capital their own or not.
Nor do they enter into any business
operations with hearty good-will while
all affairs aresounsettled thatthev
do not know whether they are contiolf
ed by themselves or other people. If
the industry of the South is to be
brought into active operations at an
early day. their affairs must besettled at
an early day, so that they may know
where they stand. And this we do not
urge any more on their account
than on our own. If Congress
is going to tax Southern cotton
heavily lor the sake of adding largely
to the national revenues, it should first
take care that the peopleof the Southern
States shall be placed in a position to
raise it —otherwise there may be but
little cotton to tax. The earlier and
more certainly they are assured of a
generous aud permanent policy, the
more zealously will they go to raising
cotton. So of all other articles and all
other interests. If Congress would have
the South contribute its full share of
the excise and other taxes, then Congress
should act so as to set all the wheels of
Southern industry and trade promptly
and actively in motion. It is not alone
for the interest of the South that this
shall be done, but for the interest of the
North, East and West, and the whole
country. *■
Especially is it in the interest of those
who, like us in Philadelphia, desire to
open up new commercial relations with
tlie Southern seaboard, to support and
advance the earliest restoration ofthose
States to their places in the Union, so
that their people shall be able to plant
and produce aud trade withaknowledge
that they cau manage their own affairs
and possess their own property as we of
the rest of the country do.
The principles here'laid down show
the difference in commercial value be
tween the common-sense policy of Presi
dent Johnson and the plans of the
politicians who are opposing him. He
would restore the Southern States for
the good of the whole country ; they
want to keep them out to punish them,
although the wlole country must be
just so much the worse off by keeping
them out. It is cutting one’s nose off to
spite his face.— Phil 1 a Ledger.
The Pacific Railroad
The act of Congress passed to aid the
great enterprise of connecting the At
lantic and Pacfic oceans by a continu
ous line of\eomnninication by railroad
requires one line to de constructed from
Omaha, on the Missouri river, opposite
Council Bluff's, to Kan Francisco. This
main line was, by the act, to- be con
structed by two companies, viz : 1
First— Tlie Union Pacific Railroad
Company, which is to construct the line
from Omaha to the eastern boundary of
the State of California. General John
A. Dix is President, and John J. Cisco
Treasurer of this company.
Sr.cond— The Central Pacific Railroad
of California',was, by the act of Con
gress, to construct the whole line from
the eastern boundary of California to
San Francisco. But it has assigned so
much of the line as lies between Sacra
mento and Kan Jose (one hundred and
twenty miles) to the Western-'Pacirtc
Railroad of California. The road from
Kan Jose to Kan Francisco has already
been completed (forty-nine miles) by a
local company.
The Union Pacific Railroad has fifty
miles of road completed frqjii Omaha
westward. The Central California is at
work from Sacramento eastward, and
the Western California from Kan Jose
to Kacramento. Both are making good
progress.
There is also the Union Pacific Rail,
way Company, Eastern Division. (Its
charter says railway, not railroad.)—
This company had at one time General’
Fremont for its President and Samuel
Hallett for its financial manager. John
D. Perry is now President and and Wm.
J. Palmer Treasurer and Secretary. It
is sometimes called the Kansas branch,
and was formerly known as the Leaven
worth, Pawnee and Western Railroad
Company of Kansas. This company is.
authorized to construct a road from the’
mouth of the Kansas, westward, to con
nect with the main line at the one
hundredth.meridian of longitude west
of. Greenwich. It has finished sixty
miles of road to Topeka, which is a lit
tle east of the meridian of Omaha.—
Omaha is on the ninety-Bixth meridian
and Topeka ninety-five degrees forty
five minutes. The main line is, there
fore, about sixty miles in advaqce. But
as the line from Topeka to the one
hundreth meridian is longer than the
line from Omaha to that meridian at
the point of junction, the main line
from Omaha is, in fact, some eighty
miles in advance.
The one-hundreth meridian is two
hundred and forty-six miles west of
Omaha, and it is expected that the main
line will reach that point by the Ist of
July, 1867. Thence to Laporte on the
eastern slope of the Rocky Mountain is
three hundred and five miles. The
.mining interestsof the mountains may,
’Therefore, look at an early day for es
sential relief in the matter of travel and
transportation.
The permanent location of the main
line has been made for the first two
hundred miles west from Omaha; and
the route to Salt Lake, including the
passes through the mountains, has been
carefully surveyed and mapped, though
surveys are still going on with a view
to ascertain whether better grades can
be found. All the Results obtained are
exceedingly favorable and' show no
difficulties which may not be easily
overcome.
Bishop Kebfoot, of the Episcopal
Diocese of Western Pennsylvania, was
consecrated yesterday at Pittsbnig.
How tbe Unqualified Negro Suffrage Bill
Was Passed.
Thad. Stevens, 9 aster of Ceremonies—
Tbe Action of the Democrats, and the
Motives that Prompted it.
The Washington correspondent of the
N. Y. Herald got the following account
of the movementsof the different parties
in Congress, at the time of the passage
of the bill conferring the unqualified
right of suffrage upon the negroes of
the District of Columbia. It places tbe
Republicans in their true light. It will
be seen that the Democratic minority
acted on principle, and acted wisely and
patriotically throughout. We give the
correspondence entire as it appears in
the Herald:
Washington, Jan. 18, 1866.
PASSAGE OF THE UNQUALIFIED NEGRO
SUFFRAGE BILL.
The great event of the day has been
the passage in the House of the byi for
universal negro suffrage in the District
of Columbia. Thad. Stevens has again
brought hi 9 Republican associates to
his feet, and, in spite of their profes
sions, has made them do his biddiug.
With all the opposition to unrestricted
negro suffrage by the Republicans in
caucus, Stevens Ims managed to wheel
them into line and carry his point. He
knew the men that he had to deal with
and has so directed his movements that
nearly ali wheeled into Jine and sus
tained his scheme. His threat in the
caucus that he would vote with the
Democrats and defeat its decision proves
to have been no idle boasting. He bad
made hiseslimate of the material in the
House and counted with certainty on
the result. During the debate a num
ber of Republicans had directly op
posed unqualified suffrage, but nearly
all of them voted with Stevens for it to
day under threats of that master of
ceremonies to read them out of the
parry.
The combinations and the manner in
which the direct test was forced upon
the House were very curious and inter
esting. The first vote was ou the motion,
of Mr. Darling, of New York, to post
pone further consideration until April.
This motion the Democratic members
intended to vote for, but they acciden
tally ascertained that some of the Re
publicans desired to postpone a direct
vote until that time, for the purpose of
not affecting the New Hampshire and
Connecticut elections, which take place
prior to that date. They wished to,
avoid the issue at those elections, feard
ing the effect might defeat them in
these States. As soon as the Democratic
members became cognizant of these
facts, they at once decided to force the
Republicans to meet tbe issue at once
ami not to shirk it any longer. They
therefore voted against a postponement,
while Ktevensaud all his associates who
were in favor of the Simon Pure and
unadulterated negrosuff'rage voted with
them, and defeated the postponement.
Stevens and the extreme men of the
House cared nothing for the effect po
litically, but, being honestly in favor of
the doctrine, rejoiced at this oppor
tunity, and fairly chuckled over his
success.
The question of postponement having
been defeated, the House was brought to
a direct vote on recommitting the bill,
with instructions to modify it by in
serting an educational restriction. The
Republicans who have claimed to be
conservatives, and professed their oppo
sition to unrestricted negro suffrage,
rushed over to the democratic side, beg
ging the latterto votewith themaguiust
the extreme men. But the democratic
members thus appealed to replied, “We
are opposed to negro suffrage in any
form, and shall Vote according to our
convictions,” regardless how any of
their opponents voted. They would
certainly have no objections to a suffi
cient number of republicans to vote with
them ou every motion to defdht it. If
the radicals voted with them to defeat
its recommittal they wquld certainly
have no objections'; then, if the issue
before the House came direct on un
qualified negro suffrage, those republi
cans who have been loud in their pro
fessions against it could then prove their
faith by deeds. The votepn recommit
ting with instructions wasffinallyreach
ed, and Stevens again marshalled his
radical associates against it and voted
with the democrats, as he stated in the
caucus he should do. The motion was
lost, only fifty-three republicans voting
for it. Then came the direut. vote on
striking out the word “white” in the
election laws and allowing the negroes
to vote the same as the whites, or, in
other words, universal and unrestricU
ed suffrage. The calling of the yeas and
nays revealed the fact that only abouta
dozen republicans stood out against it,
notwithstanding their professions, but
yielded at once Co Stevens’ machina
tions. Warwick immediately be
gan to crow .over the weak-kneed of the
party, and is to-night in high glee over
his success in- bringing them to terms.
Thus the republicans in Congress have
beeu forced to meet the issue at once,
and that, too, in the mostdirect form.
Here we have another repetition of
history and the effect of the moderate
party yielding to the extreme faction
the Jacobin and Girondist contest over
again. The false step of those republi
cans who professed conservatism was on
the first day of the sessio. . They yield
ed then to the extreme party with the
belief that in doing so they could induce
the latter to change their tone ami adopt
more moderate views. But, instead
of accomplishing this object, they
strengthened the radical faction and
placed themselves completely in their
power, until now, when the great ques
tions are to be met, the moderate portion
are powerless and are forced tocringeat
the feet and are at the mercy of the rad
icals. The extreme faction have been
growing stronger and bolder every
day of the session, and all from the
temporizing noliej' of the moderate
portion of tne republican party of
Congress on the tirst day of the
session. Many of these members com
ing from such States as Indiaria aud
Illinois, where they have provisions in
their State constitutions against a negro
living in the State except by giving
bonds, are wonderfully exercised over
their record of to-day ; and well they
may be. The democrats might have
possibly been induced to vote forrecom
mitting the bill, were it not for the fact
that they had become completely dis
gusted with a certain class of republi
cans,’ who were constantly avowing
their opposition to the extreme measures
of the radicals, and yet, while this
avowal was on their lips, turned around
and voted for the very measures. They
were determined to unmask this hypoc
risy and make them show their true
colors. Had the pretended conservative
republicans voted with the democrats
against unqualified negro suffrage they
would have defeated it. Then they
could have forced the Stevens party
over to their side in favor of a qualified
suffrage, which they would have taken
rather than not get anything. But in
stead of thus using the radicals to carry
their points they allowed themselves to
become the tools'of Stevens and support
ed his measures. Their policy was
plain, but they had neither the skill nor
nerve to carry it out, and therefore fell,
victims of their own folly, as did the
Girondists in their famous contest with
the Jacobins. %
NEGRO SUFFRAGE IN THE SENATE.
The bill now goes to the Senate for
approval or rejection by that body. Its
fate there is somewhat doubtful, as both
sides claim to have sufficient strength
to carry it. If the radicals had a Ste
vens in that body to direct the move
ments there could be no doubt as to the
result. But Sumner the leader of the
faction in that body, possesses no such
skill as Stevens, and cannot crack his
whip so successfully over their heads.
It is, therefore, more than probable that
the Senate will delay actioif until they
can see whateffeetthe vote of the House
will have upon the country. From all
appearances several weekß will elapse
before a direct vote is reached there.
In the meantime, many of the members
of the House will plead with the Sena
tors to modify the bill, for the purpose
of relieving themselves from the di
lemma which they have l placed them-
Belves in, and quiet their, conscience
NUMBER 4.
under the action of the Senate, which
as members of the House, had not
the nerve to do.
EFFECT UPON THE DISTRICT.
The effect of unqualified negro suf
frage upon the District will unquestion
ably be injurious. Ever since slavery
has been abolished in tbe District,
negroes have rushed here from all direc
tions. A large proportion of them are
of the very lowest kind—the lazy and
indolent. They are those who were of no'
use to the owuers, and are constantly
engaged in thefts of all kinds. These
blacks, if this bill becomes a law, will
enjoy the same rights at the ballot box
as the whites, and thus an element, not
only dangerous, hut which will tend to
demoralize the government, will be in
troduced to the highest privilege of
American citizenship. In this respect
its effect will be worse than unqualified
negro suffrage in the late rebellious
States.
Truly, the contest goes on. The battle
increases in fury and interest. The
great problem of the day is being work
ed out. The principle of self-govern
meut is about being put to a more se
vere test than ever before. The party,
w T hich for a long time claimed tout it
was kept from power by the votes of
the iguoraut and uneducated is now
voting to increase the class of un
intelligent voters at an alarming
rate. The republicans have made it
their boast, even before the war,
that they carried every intelligent State
and every intelligent portion of every
other State. Under thisstyle'of reason
ing they are conferring the privilege of
the elective franchise upon a class which
will hurl them from power.
Rayages of the Trichina Disease In Prus
sia-Eight) Deaths Out of Three Hun
dred and Twenty Cases.
The Berlin correspondent of the New
York Herald gives the following ac
count of the terrible ravages of the trich
ina disease in Prussia:
The good people of Berlin are not a
very excitable race; they take thiug*
coolly, submit with philosophical resig
nation to what cannot be helped, and
only grumble a little now aud then
when their powers of endurance are too
severely tasked ; but at the present mo
ment they are really in a state of con
siderable agitation, li is not a political
agitation; the question that is discussed
in public meetiugs aud private circles,
in newspapers and placards, is neither
the annexation of Schleswig-Holstein,
nor the partition of Belgium, nor the
approaching cataclysm of the Mexican
empire, nor the exploits of the British
Hayuaus and Mouravieffs in Jamaica—
it is
THE GREAT TRICHINA QUESTION
Perhaps many of your readers may
not know what triclnnse are, although
they are by nomeansa recent discovery.
The Criehina sjnralin is a small micro
scopic worm or animalcule, which was
tirst observed by the distinguished ana
tomist, Richard Owen, in 1835, and is
found in the muscles and iutestiues of
various animals, especially pigs aud rab
bits, in such enormous quantities that a
single ounce of pork is said to contain
occasionally as many as one hundred
thousand of these parasites. By par
taking of the meat infected with them
they are transferred to the human body,
causing suffering, which, in
many instances, is followed by a pain
ful death. The first symptoms of triehi
nitis were noticed some years since in
Dresden, but uo particular attention
was paid to it till the summer before last,
when a number of cases occurred both
here aud in other parts of Germany,
which led to a medical investigation
o f this novel form of disease. As
usual, the doctors were of different
opinions; some of them declared that
it was nothing else than what is gener
ally called measly pork, which had.
been known for ages aud lias never been
known for ages and has never beeu
thought particularly dangerous, and al
though many people refrained from
eating of the unclean animal, especially
in the shape of such German delicacies
as raw* ham and smoked sausages the
whole affair was beginning to pass out
of memory. The pork butchers breathed
more freely, and trichiuaphobia was
almost laughed out of countenance,
when a few weeks ago it was suddeuly
Tevived by the announcement that at
Hedersleben, a small place in Prussian
Saxony, the mysterious disease had
broken out with great virulence and
was spreading over the adjoining vil
lages, its origin being distinctly tracea
ble to a trichiniferous hog which had
been killed by the butcher of the place
and parceled out among the inhabi
tants.
HORRIBLE RAVAGES OF THE DISEASE.
, Bay by day the accounts grew more
alarming, whole families were stated to
have died off' in excruciating agony,
and by the last bulletins the number of
cases actually amounted to over three
hundred,and twenty, of which eighty
had already proved fatal. It is impos
sible to describe the consternation exci
ted by the intelligence ; since the appa
rition of the cholera nothing like it is
recollected by the oldest inhabitant.
PORK AT DISCOUNT
t A general strike took place in the pork
eating line ; in vain every butcher pro
tested that his meat, at least, was sound
and uninfected by tlie formidable infu
soria; the public turned from ii with
disgust; ham and sausages were ta
booed, and roast pig itself was"”ventured
upon by a few bold spirits, notwith
standing the most practical trichinolo
gists admitted that a thorough good
roasting was a process which even a
trichina could hardly stand. In the
meantime physicians crowded to He
dersleben from all parts of the country
to investigate the symptoms of the
disorder, aud communicate the result of
theirobservations to the newspapers, the
publication of which increased the uni
versal pauic. The poorer classes of the
population,who( besides potatoes aud rye
bread) live clffefiy on pork, either fresh
or^alted, were in the worst dilem maoful I,
having the alternative of going without
meal altogether, or of eating lood which
they knew or suspected to he unwhole
some, and which the first medical au
thorities affirmed to be dangerous to
health and to life itself.
PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES,
It was proposed, therefore, that every
butcher should be ordered, under severe
pains and penalties, to havetheanimals
slaughtered by him submitted to a
microscopicexamination, and on Friday
last a great public meeting took J place
in which the question was debated, and
both pro and auti-trichinists, the latter
principally of pork butchers and their
retainers, were assembled in great force.
TAKING A MAN AT HIS WORD.
A veterinary surgeon by the name of
Urban, a man who acquired au uuenvi
ble notoriety in the revolution of 1848,
contended stoutly that there were no
such things as trichime, und offered to
eat any that were given him ; where
upon his antagonists produced a* slice of
black pudding, made, they said, of trich
iniferous pork, and requested him to
devour it. The unhappy man turned
pale and seemed inclined to back out,
but, put upon his mettle by the laugh
ter of the meeting, he suddenly bolted
the nauseous morsel held out to him,
and then rushed from the hall—ill
natured persons assert—to an apothe
cary’s shop, where a good doseof ipecac
relieved him from the possible effects of
his rash enterprise. I
DECIDING TO DO SOMETHINGS
The meeting broke up, as is usual with
such meetings, after concluding that
“something must be done;” but no
action has been taken as yet by the city
authorities. The butchers, however,
finding the tide of opinion running
against them, have given way so far as
to have their meat examined in the
manner proposed, and in almost every
butcher’s shop you now see a handbill
posted up with the information tblit the
joints of pork, hams, sausages, &0., Have
been chemically analyzed hy Doctor
Huch-a-one, and found “ free from trich
inffi.” It remains to be seen whether
this, will suffice to calm the apprehen
sions of the public, who do not often
attach much weight to such testimoni
als. In Berlin there have not been many
cases of the disease, about thirty in all
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square of ten lines: ten per cent.
fractions of & veer*
.Rest. Brass, ProoirAT, PaonsTTrand G«S
aae2. AnvzaTzsnvo, 7 cents a Une tor the
gnt, and 4 oents for each subsequent Inser-
Patkht UxDicnred and other adver*« by to*
oolnmn:
One oolnmn, 1 year, r _, COO
Half column, 1 00
Third oolnmn, 1 40
§narter BO
usiNxsa Cards, often lines or lees,
one year, 10
Business Cards, five lines or less, one
year iim 6
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Executors’ notices 2.00
Administrator*’ notices .. 2.00
Assignees’ notices, .. M 2.00
Auditors', notices, 1.50
Other “ Notloee, ’ ten lines, or lees,
three times, .50
of which thirteen have ended fatally,
and it in alleged that of ten thousand
hogs slaughtered here not more than one
has been found infected with trichin© ;
but of course this does not prevent peo
ple from being frightened, for as every
oqe who takes a ticket in a lottery ex
pects to draw a prize, so every one is
afraid that if he eats pork it may just
happen to be part of that particular
representative of swinish multitude
which forms the single unlucky excep
tion among his myriadsof healthy breth*
ren.
The trichinapbobia continues to rage
with unabated intensity. In Berlin
several new cases of the sickness have
appeared. At Hedersleben the number
ol deaths amount already tonearahun
dred, and attacks of trichinitis are re
ported from many other parts of the
country. The pork dealers are at their
wits’ end ; all their asseverations that
every ounce of their wares has been
microscopically examined and proved
to be perfectly free from the noxious
animalcuhe; ail the medical certificates
invoked in their behalf, are disregraded
by the police, who subbomly refuse to
touch anything appertaining to the por
cine geuus. The entire population of
Berlin have been suddenly converted to
Judasim, and display religious antipathy
to the unclean animal which must truly
edifyiug to the followers of the Mosaic
law, lioast and pickled pork, hams,
sausages, black puddiugs and pigs’ trot
ters have vanished frpm the bills of fare,
aud if the butchers want to save their
bacon they have no otherresource but to
eat it themselves. A new branch of in
dustry has been called into existence
by tlie general panic ; specimens of the
trichina are shown through microscopes
at the moderate charge of half agroshen
per head, and the frightful aspect of the
pigmy monsters increases the aversion
to the ouce prized delicacies which are
said to harbor them. 111 an economical
point of view the consequences are seri
ous ; the prices of other kinds of meat,
which were already sufficiently high,
are daily becoming more exorbitant,
ami tiie poorer classes of tile population,
who are never too well fed, are in dan
ger of being restricted altogether to a
vegetable diet. The subtraction of a
staple article of food from general con
sumption can hardly fail to produce dis
astrous effects upou the public health,
especially if the rinderpest, which pre
vails now in England, should extend to
these regions and still further reduce
tlie supply of wholesome nourishmeut.
HINT TO AMERICAN PORK DEALERS.
If tlie trichina has uot yet made its
appearance in America, it might, per
haps, be a good speculation to export
hams, salt pork, &c., t& this couutry,
where the people would be too happy to
partake of their accustomed alimeut if
they could do so without fear of infeo
tion.
Hasty Legislation.
The Philadelphia Ledger, paper
whose political standiug is well-known,
has the following judicious and timely
article :
The practice of rushing important
measures through Congress without con
sideration or debate is one that will lead
to mischief, unless it is stopped. That
body has had one example of the bad
results of the practice already in the
present session, in the railroad law
which seemed to strike a blow at one
railroad, but really released dozens of
the Western roads from their obliga
tions to the United States. That bill
was whirled through one house under
the whip aud spur of the previous ques
tion, aud the action had to be recalled
when it was found what mischief had
been done. But bad as that was, it
is nothing when compared to the at
tempts now being made to change the
Constitution of the United Htates, with
out allowiug debate and even without
printing the amendments. The reso
lution reported by Mr. Stevens from the
committee of fifteen, to change the basis
of representation in Congress, is itself a
modification of a very crude proposition
which it was some time ago proposed to
rush through iu the same way. But
that measure, as it was demonstrated
in these columns, would have produced
very different results from those con
templated by its movers, and it had to
be thrown aside for the present one re
ported by Mr. Stevens. It is doubtful
f even in its present shape it will effect yj
tlie object of those who are pressing it. "
Even after a slight examination of it,
we can see several ways in which it can
be avoided or evaded/ It provides that
whenever the elective franchise shall be
denied, in auy State, on account of race
or color, all persons of that race or color
shall be excluded from the basis of rep
resentation.
But how easy it will be in the South
ern Htates, if it is thought desirable to
evade the provision, to put the disfran
chisement on other grounds than color,
but on Huchgrounds as will apply almost
exclusively to the freedmen. without
naming them. They can enact that all
those who were qualified voters under
the State laws on the first day of Jan.,
1806, shall continue to be voters, but
that all who are thereafter admitted
to be voters shall have been free citizens
for the term of ten years next preceding,
that they shall be able to read and write,
that they shall hold property in fee sim
ple to the amount of $5OO, and shall be
ruled for taxes to the extent of $2O or
more. Such enactments, and many
others, would apply, or could be made
by State officers to apply, almost exclu
sively to the freedmeu without naming
them.
Hence, in this aud in muny other
ways the crude amendment to the Con
stitution which it is sought to press
through with so much haste could be
effectually evaded. The truth is, that
Congress in amending the Constitution,
should imitate the cautious and consid
erate methods adopted by the fathers of
tlie Republic in framing the Constitu
tion. Those really great men weighed
every word, discussed every clause
thoroughly and anxiously, with a view
to foresee all its futyre bearings, and
whether it would accomplish their ob
jects or not. In tiffs way they spent
longmouthsof debateand consideration,
fully maturing that which has lasted so
well, and which it is now proposed to
overthrow between two o’clock and
“sundown” of a short winter day.
Our New Nobility.
It would seem that this republic Is
about to attempt a rivalry with the old
monarchies in the establishment of a
new nobility, based not upon hereditary
titles, as in the Old World, but upon
what the individuals are supposed to
represent on ihe books of the Internal
Revenue Assessor. A committee of
tlie New York Chamber of Commerce
waited upon the President the other
day, as our Washington correspondent
relates, and sent in their cards, with the
number of millions they were worth ap.
pended to theiruames; forexample, “F.
S. Winston, President Mutual Insurance
Company, representing seventeen mil
lions dollars ; R. H. Burdell, President
of the Erie Railroad, representing sixty
millions; U. B. Clanin, the largest
merchant on the globe.” This imme
diately suggests the idea of novel titles
of nobility. Instead of using the prefix
of “Lord” or “Sir,” or the affix of
“Baronet,” “ K. C. 8.,” and so forth,
we might have inscribed on the cards
of our new nobility, W. B. Astor, forty
millions ; John Jones, seventeen mil
lions ; Augustus Adolphus Brown, ten
millions ; Theophilusßobinson, twelve
millions ; Hieronymus Dry Goods, the
largest merchants on the globe, and so
on.
Our new nobility, who have visited
the White House in connection with
the New York collectorship, evidently
agree with Burns in the idea that
The rank Is but the guinea’s stamp;
The man’s tlu? gold for a’ that,
and a’ that, and a’ that; and especially
for the collectorship of the port of New
York. —i\ r . Y Herald.
The interest on the Seven-Thirty
bonds, amounting to $7,300,000, falling
due on the 15Hi inst., is being redeemed
by the Treasrfry Department and all the
designated depositories. Over $125,000
in coupons have already been redeemed«_