%E&NESI)AYi MARCUsi, iB‘66: - ■ W-)TV| *~ ■• >• I Tr-wYv-T ' : t*The printlng.preasee shall be .free to, every person who undertakes to examine the:pro aoeedlngs olUie leglfllature, or any tbrancnd government: and no law shall ever,be made to restrain the right thereot • TheXree commu nication o t thought .and oplhlonais one otthe invaluable rights of men; and every .citizen may.freely speak, write and print on any sub ,leot; belng reapousible;Xor ; the abuse rof that liberty, Xn. prosecutions for the. publication of papers investigating the official conduct of offi cers. or men In publlo.capacities, pr where the matter published Is proper for pnbUe informa tion,.the truth thereof may be given In evi enoe.” ~ •., „ f y ' FOB GOVERNOR: Hon. HIESTEB CLIMEB, of Berks Co. Tho democratic Platform. The Democracy of Pennsylvania In Convention diet, recognizing a crisis in the affairs of the Iteputilic, pnd ffiteamlngtholmjuedlatoreetoratlon of the Union pariunonht to all other issues, do resolve: t ' L That the States, whereof the people were lately In rebellion, are Integral parts of the Union and Jvre entitled to representation, in Congress by men daiy elected who bear true faith to the Constitution and' laws, and in order to vindicate the maxim that taxa tion without representation fs tyranny, such represen tatives should bo forthwith admitted. 2. .That the faith of the Republic is pledged to the payment of the National debt, and Congress should pass All I&wb necessary for that purpose. ‘ 3. That we owe obedience to the Constitution of the United States, including the amendment prohibiting Slavery, and under its provisions will accord to those emancipated all their rights of person and property. *'4, That each State has the exclusive right to regulate the qualifications of its own electors. 5. That the white race alone Is entitled to the con trol of the Government of the Republic, and we are unwilling to grant the negroes tho right to vote. 0. That'the bold enunciation of the principles of the Constitution and the policy of restoration contained In the recent Annual Message and Freedmen’s Bu reau Veto Mtssage of President Johnson entitle him to tho confidsoce and support of all who respect the Constitution and love their country. 7. That the nation owes to the brave men of our armies and navy a debt of lasting gratltudo for their heroic services in defence of tho Constitution and the Uaionraud that while we cherish with a tender affec tion the memories of the fallen, we pledge to their widows and orphans the nations enre and protection. • 0. Tlintwe urge upon Congress tho duty of equal izing the bounties of our aoldlerß and sailors The Treasury Departments informed that there are five counterfeits on the issue, four on the §2O, two on the §5, r slo and §lOO, and over fifty on all the denominations of fractional currency. Last week the redemption division of the United States Treasurer's office detected and branded with the word counterfeit $710.80, in spurious notes. Of this amount seven hundred and ninety notes were of the fifty-cent de nomination. The Pittsburgh Post thus-refers to Geary’B popularity among the soldiers : If General Geary wants toknnwhow pop \ilur lie is with his old regiment, the 28th, a number of whom are in this city, let him come and find out. The Republican por tion of this regiment will not ouly not vote lor him for Governor, but will vole for OJ y mor. Judgeßlack hasmndeau unanswer able legal argument before the Com mittee on elections in the contested election case of John L. Dawson. The impression now, is that Mr. Dawson will be declared entitled to his seat. Private telegrams from Albany, to day, state that “noses have been-count ed M iu the Legislature on the bill au thorizing the construction of an aerial railway in Broadway, N. Y., and thal its success is beyond question. The radical postmaster at Forestville, Conn., hasjust been removed for speak ing disrespectfully of the President. There is reason to believe Unit more of the same sort, will ere long, be invited to retire. The constant stream of emigration from Ireland to America is tellingou the population of the Emerald Isle. During 1805 there was a decrease of 10,277 in the number of inhabited houses in Ire land, ami the population diminished 1)4,880. The Internal Revenue Commissioner has instructed the Collectors in the various Southern States to collect the United States taxes on {ill property about leaving their districts. Jf pay ment of the taxes is refused, the Col lectors are authorized to sell the prop erty and collect the unpaid taxes from the proceeds. Harriet Pinckney, aged ninety years, adaughter of Gen. Charles Cotes wortli Pinckney, of Revolutionary fame, died last week. The deceased was everywhere known and beloved.— Possessed of an ample wealth, she be stowed it with an uusparing hand, and was thus the means of doing a vast amount of good to those who were in neo '-powerful Connecticut Interest can corp ' maud. Tho committed is equally divided .upon tho morlts of these two sites. The terrible civil war through which we have just passed was the legitimate fruit of sectional animosit^-~At, the very start of the anti-slavery agitation hatred of-,the SoSthem)peoplexas culcated as a part of tfie new pojtticalj creed. This wa&^jdipstantb^fos-! tered. The mo£fcjextravag*aht barbaroj&'cru^^y^toe the slaves Tver# manufactured x fthd tailed fortrufch. These lies were dressed up in all the drapery of poetry and ro mance. The Puritan intellect exhaust ed itself in -the preation of such impos sibilities as'Legree fcnd-Uncle Tom, and Yankee.apinsters weptr.nopious tears? over the imaginary, wops heroes. The New England Aboliliion press was completely enlisted on the side, which promised to bring political power to that section at the expense of every other, and it skoweditself tobe utterly unscru pulous as to the means it used. The church was made a most potent engine for the dissemination of sectional ani mosity, and the gospel of helbengen dered hate was fulminated from Puritan pulpits Sabbath after Sabbath. Wheu the teachings of these slander ers of the.people of the South brought forth a gighftic civil war as the legiti mate issue, the opportunity was seized upon to intensify the hatred that had been bred beetween the contending sec tions. Tiie most infamous lies were manufactured, and retailed. Tales of thein discriminate murder of our wound ed were currently reported after every battle during.the early part of the war; and they would have been kept, up had not the brave men who were engaged in them given the lie to these base fabri cations. Every conceivable appliance to increase tiie hatred between the con tending sections was constantly and most assiduously employed. How bittter the feeling thus engendered was, we all remember well. When Lee surrendered to Grant all who heard the news in Northern town or city will bear witness to the out spoken curses of the radicals, which greeted the announcement of the terms accorded to the vanquished. Their hearts were full of a hate so bitter that it would have shamed the ferocity of a tiger. These stay-at-home cowards were the most bloody-minded villains in ex istence. Amid the general rejoicing, even, so-called ministers of the Gospel guashed their teeth in impotent rage at the thought that the people of the South were to be allowed to escape annihila tion. The spirit of the murderer lurked under the gown of many a Puritanical preacher; and those who heard them, both men and women, were as blood thirsty as so many famished wolves. Time has cooled down this fiendish hatred to some extent. It still exists, however, and is to a great extent the motive of political action with such in famous wretches as Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner and those who endorse and uphold them. These political scoundrels have in their employ multi tudes of bureau men, Treasury agents, cotton thieves and other vulture-like creatures, whose busiuess it is to fill the North with slanderous lies against the people of the South. Sumner reads these lyiug reports from his scrap book, the radical newspapers are full of them, and the Central Disunion Directory of Fifteen are busy getting up a volume full of such falsehoods to be printed and distributed at the public expense. No man of ordinary judgment, who knows anything of the real condition of affairs, can fail to be fully convinced that the people of the South are ready, willing and anxious to resume their al legiance, with the full determination to keep it inviolate. They accept the is sue fully and withoutreserve. They are ready to grant the negro all the rights he is entitled to in a condition of free dom, and to assure him in the enjoy raentof personal liberty and of property. Their Legislatures have passed laws to that effect. Yet, in spite of all this, we find Stevens and Sumner and all who follow them, still preaching the gospel of hate and refusing to allow the Union to be restored. Is the present scene of desolation to be prolonged indefinitely? Shall thebuainess of the nation, its com merce, its manufactures, all its material prosperity, its political safety and its future greatness, glory and renown all hang trembling while a lot of in famous wretches devise schemes for glutting their hellish hate? The cardi nal political principle of these avowed disunionists is hate. What Christian is there who does not earnestly pray that this bitterness may pass away, and its very memory be forgotten ? Negro Suffrage. The Dlsunionlsts will attempt to shun the vital issues of the presentcampaign, and to cover up their real designs under an immense amount of patriotic pre tense and clap trap loyalty. From the question of negro suffrage they will try to escape by the same dodge which they used last year. It answered them to some extent, because there was no ac tive open campaign; but it will not serve Their purpose in tlie present con test. They will be smoked out of all their cunningly , constructed hiding places. The platform adopted by them ' at their recent State Convention will be completely ventilated. They will not be allowed to put the people off with the assertion that negro suffrage is not a present issue. That they will try so to do is sure. We find their course fore told In the Washington Chronicle. In an artieleonnegrosuffrage Forney says : Tlie Legislatures of many, perhaps most, of the loyal States are in session; beside which, there have recently been held State Conventions of tho Union party in Con necticut, Indiana and Pennsylvania. These Legislatures, these Conventions, are au thentic expositors of Union sentiment.— Which one of them—barely one has de clared that, so far as they differ, the Presi dent is right and Congross wrong? We challenge the production of barely one N. I'. Tribune. That we deem amply sufficient to show where the Disunion party stands. It is completely committed by its leaders to tlie infamous schemes of Sunnier and Stevens. Every man who js in favor of a speedy restoration of the Union upon the wise and statesmanlike policy of President Johnson must cut loose from this Infamous band of revo lutionary radicals. There is no middle ground in the present contest. A vote for Geary Is a vote in favor of the Dls unionism of Stevens and Sumner. The Rei-uulicAns of Waynesburg, tlie county seat of Greene, have given a striking proof of the insincerity of their profession of regard for those who serv ed and suffered for their country. Lieut. I. I. Furman, who lost a leg at the bat tle of Gettysburg, was nominated by the Democrats for Justice of the Peace. .W, T. E. Webb, who denounced treason at a safe distance from the traitors, was nominated by the Republicans. The election woe held on the Oth Inst., and resulted as follows: For the one-legged hero Furman, 104 votes; for tbs treason smeller Webb, 114. Wo have the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with Lieut. Purman. He is u gentleman of fine character and su perior education, and weil read in the law, which ho has studied since his discharge from tho army. But .his character, ills qualifications and his grievous wound ull have gope for noth ing with tho Republicans ,ot Way nee - burg. The Prince of Wales proposes to ex pend thirty thousand dollars In the improvement of tho Royal Lodge In Windsor Great Park,'ln order to adapt that ro.sfij.onpo to the requirements of his establishment, The prodigality of the Disunion party in this State is astonishing. Only ten , days have elapsed since their* Convent tion was held, an,d yeL in that almost :tiBe4 9p aH the material vihey [had in ; tetotetfor jplymer as a speech he ever made ami every Vote h*e ever cast which might havea tendency todamagebis prospects. They have puffed- Geary so out of all proportion tbatuveq the: .Philadelphia Inquirer will uriable ; to rfecog nizethe paperGeneralTt made; There was only onedodge left for them. We expected them to Reserve : that as alast card, to be plkyecl on the very eye of the election. But they are, in agonies of dread that Connecticut may be carried in favor of the wise and* statesmanlike policy of President Johnson. : With one of the New England States against them, the Stevens and Sumner faction of Disunioui&ts would be dead and buried beyond hope of political resurection.— Connecticut must.be saved to them, no matter at what sacrifice. In that State very many Conservative Republicans are ready to vote against the Disunion candidate. To influence such the fol lowing lyingdispatch from Washington is paraded in the, New York Tribune: THE PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRACY AND THE PRESIDENT. It will bo remembered that the late Cop perhead Convention of Pennsylvania, after nominating Mr. Clyrrter for Governor, passed a resolution indorsing the President’s policy. A sub committee wasappointed to come on here and present the resolution in person. This grateful missipn wasessayed a few evenings since.. The committee were admitted to an audience with the President and were proceeding, after the mostapprov ed fashion, to assure him that the Democ racy of Pennsylvania had designed no empty compliment; that they had watched his recent action with no ordinary gratifi cation ; and that they should stand by him and his Administration so long as ho so nobly adhered to the sacred Constitution. Before the peroration was reached, the President broke in upon them with the sue gestion that “tho wisest thing they could do was to go homy and change their ticket.” He believed that they hud made a fatal mistake in nominating sucli a man, espec ially at this particular time, with much oth er remurk.sof a similarly encouraging char acter. The last seen of tho Pennsylvania Committee-men they were making for the Raltimore depot, in a fearfully demoralized frame of mind. On indisputable authority we pro nounce that to be a lie manufactured out of the whole cloth. No committee or sub-committee was appointed to wait on President Johnson and present the resolutions of our State Convention. — Neither did any committee of Pennsyl vania Democrats,self-appointedor other wise, wait on the Presidentfor any sucli purpose. This we know to be the fact. But this is not all. We know enough of President Johnson to be assured that those who denounce him and oppose his policy will fail to be the recipients of any favors at his hands. Have we spoken plainly enough for the Disunion ists who follow the lead of Thad. Stevens to understand what we mean ? llow Pennsylvania Hoidlers Vote. At the municipal election in Harris burg, the returned soldiers voted the Democratic ticket. The Patriot and Union says; The gallant soldiers of the Union—(not of negroism and disunion)— thy men of the musket and knapsack—the brave “boys in blue”—are all at homo now, and they have been heard from: Are tho contractors and plunderers of the Government cunteut?— 'Vhc soldiers of Peiuisyluania are nut camp and barracks pets from Massachusetts and Maine: They voted tho White Man’s ticket—voted as they have fought— for the Union and the Constitution! All honor and prosperity to them and theirs? Those who imagine that the soldiers will blindly vote for Geary, merely be cause he wears shoulder straps, will fiud themselves utterly mistaken. They will stand by the President iu defence of the Constitution Union. In so doing they will follow the example of the bravest and the best of those who led them on the field of battle. We have yet to hear of the first successful general who endorses the infamous policy of Stevens and Sumner. Beast Butler does so —so docs John W. Geary; but the bravest and best of our military men, all those who com manded the respect and confidence of the soldiery and of the country, heartily endorse 'the wise and statesmanlike policy of Andrew Johnson. The war being over, they are willing to let “ the dead past bury its dead." They would scorn to wreak unmauly vengeance on a vanquished foe, and earnestly desire to see the Constitution preserved and the Union restored. We have nothing to fear, but very much to hope for from the soldiers in the present political campaign in Penn sylvania. This, the only element of success on which the radical supporters of Geary rely, will fail them utterly. Pennsylvania soldiers will scorn to be caught supportingany man who avows, as Geary has done, that he “can fully endorse every act and speech of Thad. Stevens." louts Slilssicr, Esq, The gentleman whose name heads this article, one of the ablest lawyers and most eloquent speakers in. Illinois, has’ been eleutod by the Democrats Mayor of tlie city of Galena, tlie home of Lieut.-General Grant, of whom it is related that on one occasion on being requested to become a candidate tor the Presidency, he replied that he was not an aspirant for any civil position except that of Mayor of Galena. Mr. Shissler is a native and former resident of this city, and is connected by marriage with one of Lancaster’s oldest and most dis tinguished families, being a son-in-law of Mrs, George li. Porter. We note with pleasure tlie suucusb of our old friend, and trust tliut higher honors are yet in store for him. The present Congress passed, with out hesitation, a bill which contem plated an expenditure of twenty mil lions of dollars per annum for the main tenance of negroes. Andrew Johnson vetoed it, and the Democratic party sustained him. The same Congress has neglected to appropriate one cent to the equalization aqd payment of bouuties due white soldiers. The Democratic ]>arty demand that they shall do so, and Andreto Johnson is with them. Who are thesoldiers’ friends ? Those who postpone his interests to the eleva tion of the negro, or those who demand that the elevation of the negro shall be postponed to his interests ? The people will answer at the polls. Tlie New Hampshire Election. The Express goes off into eestacies over the result of the election in New Hampshire- Did it expect the Demo cracy to carry that State? One would suppope so from the wonderful fusß it is making over, a greatly reduced Repub lican majority. Np .Demooratio paper ever intimated that we had the slightest hope of New Hampshire, or of any of the Now England States. Shoddy and love of the negro ip too strong there yet. We do intend to carry the Middle and Western Rtates this fedl, though ; and we. confidently predlo't that Pennsyl vania will elect Hiester Clymer by an old'ffichloned Demooratio majority., ■ ; —<* .g »' 1 , 11 ■ ■ We heal’d one of the RadlCttl leaders Say that it the. president won't' pn, the next tebOllloh ivould h'o Ih Massaohu 'lP a rebellion ever bcfMrailn'Waesa ohnsetts It will be}jy resolution, os here* toforo, not by armies—unless thoy can ’nfiW'ft hdVf'biltph^^H^^aflsAh^oesr o , substitutes, ' ” "" : The municipal election in Harrisburg yesterday resulted in a glorious triumph? for JQfie Democracy. Notwithstanding" the-rllepublicans- carried the city lapti were afraid to hura candidate of th4ir own against the regular Demo-’ cratlcnominee for Mayor. They ihougttj hovfcejver, thby had & sure: thing ofit when they * managed to life» v , long Democrat to run as an independent candidate. That theysucceedin lessen ing our majority by that dodge is sure. The independent candidate denied that he brad'any affiliation with’ llcani, and clhimecf to be an uncom •promlsiiig Democrat. He was popular too, and able to induce numbers of Democrats' to vote for him. But, the masses would have nothing, to do with any man who lent himself to aid in dis organizing the Democratic party. The result was the triumphant election of Mr. Edwards by a majority of about 150. Last fail the Republicans carried the city. The vote yesterday was tho heaviest polled at a spring election for many years, and our triumph under the circumstances is most gratifying. Lancaster led off this spring b,y an old-fashioned Democratic triumph, Reading followed with an unprece dented majority, and now Ha rrisburg goes the same way in spite of the most desperateeffortsoftheradica) Disunion ists. These elections show plainly how the tide of popular feeling jg running in Pennsylvania. They aro but the pre lude to the great, crowning Democratic victory, which is sure to come with next October. The Democratic Revival. The Spring elections in this State surprising and gratifying Demo cratic triumphs. Even in this county and in Chester we hear of the most de cided gains. The reports from thelarger towns and boroughs throughout the State tell plainly of a complete turn In the political tide, and are the sure pre cursors of an overwhelming victory next October. The following special despatches to the Philadelphia Age are full of encouragement to the friends of the Constitution and the Union : TIIE VICTORY IN YORK. York, March 17.—Tho majority for David Small, Esq., the Democratic candidate for Chief Burgess, at the municipal election yesterday, is about 400. Last year it was 235, and the majority for Colonel Davis at the October election was 231. The Demo crats carried the First, Second, Fourth, and Filth wards. The Republicans elected their Councilman in the Third ward byoulv five majority. The Democrats carried the Second ward for the first time, and have swept every thing before them in the coun ty. GREAT TRIUMPH IN EASTON Easton, March 17.—Oar borough election was held yesterday, and resulted in the success of the Democratic ticket by 110 ma jority t being a Democratic gain since last lull ol 155. The Republicans carried the town last full by 45. Of the tweuty-six districts in the county, the Democrats have elected theirtieketsin iwonty-three, and the Disunionists the other three. In several districts the Democrats ran two tickets, lor the suko of having opposition. LARGE GAIN IN BEDFORD. Bedford, the home of John Cessna, has joined in the Democratic revival. On Fri day last tiie spring election resulted in this wise: Bedford, March 17, 1800, —The Demo cratic gain in Bedford borough and town ship on the vote for Judge wus forty-six. HUNTINGDON Huntingdon, March 17.— C01. Andrew Johnson (Democrat) was yesterday elected Justice of the Peace in this borough. The Democratic Revival Still Continues. The returns from the different towns in this State show the most surprising Democratic gains over the vote of last Fall. In every town or city of any im portance in the State the result is the same. The tide has not only turned, but it is running in our favor with a current that will sweep everything be fore it in October. The Danville Intelligencer conies to us with a cannon firing over what is really a glorious victory. It says: Dr. Simington, Democrat, is elected Bur gess by 41) majorit}’ over the Loyal League Radical Negro Suffrage Anti-Jolmsou can didate. The Democratic gain over the vote last Fall is 114. The Negro Suff'rngeites are completely floored. This is a White Man’s Government. We stopped the press to announce the glorious victory over tho Disunionists of the North. / A special despatch tof the Philadel phia Age announces a victory at Phoen ixville. That is in a region where radicalism has always been rampant, and is therefore the more significant.— The despatch says: I’hienixvit.i.k, March 111, IB6o.—The fol lowing shows the result of the borough election on Friday: B. Hallman, Esq., was elected Burgess on the Johnson Reconstruc tion policy—over Jacob Baugh, Esq., so called Union, by a majority ol‘J7—a gain of 57 votes since lust full'. Out of Ammunition Not seven days have elapsed since the adjournment of tlie Republican State Convention, and Brigadier-Gen eral John W. Geary lias not been a Gu bernatorial candidate for a full week. That is certainly a Bhort period of time, rather an insignificant portion of the Rending political contest. Yet, strange to say, the great Republican party has managed, in this brief space of time, to exhaust all their political stock in trade. They have had their say. They have paraded John W. Geary as a military hero, and have denounced Hiester Cly mer as a Copperhead. That being said, they are dumb from this hour forth, unless they choose'to keep on repeating their parrot-like cry. ' Do the leaders of the Republican” party suppose the people of Pennsyl vania are such fools as to vote in the coming contest without any examina tion of the great issues before the coun-. try? Do they imagine that this State can be carried under the influence of a mere senseless hurrah ? If they do, they will find themselves utterly mis taken. All the vital issues of the preg nant present must be met and fully discussed before the masses. The people will soon see on \yhat shallow pretenses the vaunted Re publican party rests its claim for sup port. The campaign will be long and earnest. Our opponents will find that they cannot dodge the issues presented for eoneideration. One week is only the beginning of the campaign, and the party which has fired away all its am munition’before the battle is fairly be gun, will fare badly in such a struggle as that upon which we are now enter ing. The Union men in council at Harrisburg, last Wednesday, did not shirk the question of negro suffrage. The issue cannot come before the people ot that State until the regular period for again amending their Constitution, which will be about 1870. When that time comes the men who did not fear to speak out on Wednesday will not fear to take ground in favor of giving the right of suffrage to all their citizens. We think Forney is a little more hon est in that paragraph then the majority of the newspapers and oratorß of tho PisuniQplßtfl will he iff the coming carp palgn, .They will be apt to content themselves with denying that negro suffrage Is not an issue in Pennsylvania without asserting their determination to favor the conferring It upon them by means of a constitutional amendment to be adopted in 1870. But, they can ‘not and shall not be allowed to shirk the issue by any such miserable dodge. They must stand where they have boldly plaeed themselves upon the plat form of the radical Dlsunionlsts In Con gress. fhijf jnohicjes negro suffrage ancj, negro ' ~ TRE .riim'or that the bulk pf the negro Tfieiieearoftne Country* Baltimore Sun very tru) y says: industrial and business) Interests of jihe country are, on every b and, becom- i Isig, : restive unde* the ariomalous and .detrimental political fcrdWing; oqtof the reckless p f xrtisan course of itiie majority in j in a in .£ maY -sense, is demanded among the people, -Who fee\ its necessity to their best- interests, and in all manner of oc cupations. J tis felt.that all the pros peets of incr easing development in trade andprodu c tion a wpidd be - much »more certain oY rapid and full realization if the per? is tent impediments imposed by Congressional notion, -or rather non-ac tion, were out of the way; While the eouTitry is kept practically divided, as it r !ow is, therejis an .absolute loss of all tb.at unity and contentment would hiring. This is too serious a matter to be patiently borne, and will certainly, as it ought to, bring retribution in the end. In the North and West both, the cry is coming up against it. As an Eastern cotemporary remarks, it is a pity the crazy politicians at Washing ton cannotsee the importanceofprompt ly restoring the Southern States, of pa cifying the country, and thereby in creasing the production of cotton and other things in the South. That is the true way to bring about specie pay ments. Gold has touched 129} in its decline, and that not spasmodically,.but steadily. This may be seen by going back to last summer and by looking at the quotations from that period to the present time. There will be some re actions in the gold premium, but yet among intelligent financiers the belief now is general that the decline will go on gradually, if not prevented by the disorganizing radicals in Congress. The natural effect of increased indus try and production and consequent ex pansion of business, is to improve the currency, by giving to capital legiti mate employment. This, whether Congress shall pass the bill for funding the greenbacks or not, is one of the solid roads to financial improvement. The excesses of our circulating medium —if it cannot be reduced as it ought to be—will then be less felt. As indicating the manner in which'the representa tives of .substantial interests in the country view the delays of Congress, especially as to properly reuniting the political bonds of the sections in order to mutual prosperity, we annex the fol lowing from “ The American Hour and Grain Register ” of New York, a jour nal of course entirely Independent of party politics : Cbm and Cotton, —A Macon exchange states that little or no corn will be raised in tiie South this year, owing to the enor mous profits which are expected to be re alized from the growth of cotton. In view of the fact that tne South must buy all tho broadstufls it needs, the same paper says, “ The West must now feed us, and if the Freedman turns outto be afaithful laborer, the trade between Jhe South and West will exceed anything before known.” There is scarcely any doubt but that the South will devote its whole energies to the raising of cotton. It cannot possibly cost more than eight cents a pound in gold to grow it, while, if the crop turns out at all fair, it must sell for over twenty-five cents a pound in gold. So large and so certain a margin is rarely offered for an agricultural product, and all accounts agree that, with ihe freed men or without them, a very Targe amount will be raised if the season is at all propitious. So great is the demand for white labor to go to the Southwest, that there is an abso lute scarcity of farm hands ut the West, notwithstanding the stoppage of the war; and wages rule so high that farmers are holding meetings to induce laborers to come from the East. Indeed, there is afear that the high price of labor and the rates charged for transportation of freight on the railroads will discourage the growth of breadstuff's this year, when they will be so much needed to feed the South. The heavy trade which will spring up next summer and fall between tiie South and West will have important political as well as business consequences. It will give great activity to the ship yards to supply the immense fleet of steamers which will be needed on the Southern rivers to replace those destroyed by . the war; while cities like St. Louis, Memphis, Cincinnati and Louisville, will add enormously to their trade. The more intimate commercial relations between the South and West will not bo without their influence on the fall elections. If tiie present Congress persists in keeping the South out of tho Union, the West will be revolutionized politically when Congress men arc to be chosen. The Western people are too generous as well as too shrewd to needlessly humiliate the section which will be their best customer. The following proceedings were had in our Legislature last week. In the House, An act requiring city passenger cars to take the right hand track was considered. Mr. Glass offered an amendment prohib iting companies from refusing to carry pas sengers on account of their color or nation ality. Tins amendment was agreed to by a vote of 43 ayes to 31 noes. The passenger railroads of Philadel phia have had serious trouble In regard to this matter. Some ambitious negroes, being moved by the teachings of the leaders of the dominant political party to assert their claims to entire social equality, have Insisted upon riding in the same cars with whlletpeople. They were not satisfied to find accommoda tion in cars especially provided for their own color. A vote was had on this question in Philadelphia, and the de cision of white men and women was overwhelmingly against allowing the negroes the privilege demanded. Yet, we find the Republican majority of the present Legislature prohibiting passen ger railways from refusing to allow ne groes to thrust themselves into the same car-and the same seats with white men *pnd women. In so voting the Repub tiean members of the Legislature are ntirely consistent. Political and social /equality for the negro is part of their political creed, and they are acting properly in standing up for it. The above isonlyoneof many instances in Bhave solemnly avowed their ion to- enforce the odious ige of bastiles and guillotines iut there is a despotism in Con ltuatod as that which caused :ep tears of blood. Tho majority le of Representatives has in vusieu a - Committee of Fifteen" with powers which, under the guidance of a Jacobiu Chairman, is becoming as odious as any triumvirate created by despotism. The above is from the New York Times, edited by Henry J. Raymond, a Republican member of "Congress. That Committee of Fifteen, or Central Direc tory, as the President of the United States terms It, is a complete revolu tionary body, whose whole proceedings are for the overthrow of the Govern ment, and for the destruction of consti tutional liberty. Sumner,-Stevens and Wendell Phillips are the triumvirate which govern the committee, and through it the Congress. In comparison With those names, the trinity of French revolutionists, Robespierre, Marat and Danton are glorious. Alleged Corruption In the State Senate. One day last week' the following scene oocurred in the State Senate : Paring the discussion in the Senate on the Philadelphia and Railroad bill wbloh took place between Messrs, Lowry, of Erie, and Hall, of Blair, for words usen by the former In tho Executive Chamber, to the effect that some of the nineteen memberslof the Senate who voted for the bill vetoed by tho Governor did It from motives they would not like to appear on the reoord, Hull denounced the man who made such an assertion as a falsifier, a scoundrel and a knave. An angry discussion followed, dur ing whloh Lowry said the Senate was reek ing with corruption. JudgeJCbampnoyß moved his expulsion. Tho subject- created a marked spnsatldp, At the afternoon session Mr. Bingham, of Allegheny; asked that tho objeotlonablo pro ceedings be expunged from the record, Nq action wait taken on either motion, ■ It is scarcely neoesßary for us to say that all the participants In the above spicy debate belonged to the party ot great moral Ideas, Pretending to Support the President. The duplicity and mendacity of Re publican newspapers is. astonishing. 'Many of them show a disregard for trdttofhleh is literally astounding. Just ■now quiteia nomlber of those published in this State are’ claiming that the Con ’ivehtiohlvhichiipmlnated General Geary ■■endorsed President 1 Johnson, We do not wonder that they are sharply taken to task by their own party. The Cham bersburg Repository reads the Harris burg Telegraph a lesson in the following style: , ' The Harrisburg Telegraph , speaking of the resolution of the Union State Convention relative to President Johnson, says that “ Pennsylvania,- through her loyal men, has expressed her entire confidence in Andrew Johnson.” The resol utionreferred to will be found elsewhere in to-day’s paper, and Union men can judge how 1 much truth there is in the statement. • The deserted soldiers of Benedict Arnold might have passed just such a resolution with entire justice and propriety, and the stricken disciples oould nave given an equal expression of confi dence in Judas after the crucifixion. The Telegraph is a Uniou paper and we believe sincerely desires^the success of the Union ticket, and it should not thus, even unin tentionally, create doubts in the minds ot faithful men as to the integrity oftheUnion party. On the proposition of one of President Johnson’s office-holders—Mr. CaraahaD, of Allegheny—to endorse his integrity and patriotism, the Convention stood justexactlv —for the proposition, one, the said office holder; against it, the other one hundred and thirty-two members of the Convention. We have already given extracts from Forney’sPresstoshowhowheiooksupon the actiou of the Convention which he helped to manage. The following from his Washington Chronicle is in the same strain: We observe that there is a disposition in some quarters to extract from the resolu tions of the Pennsylvania Union State Con vention a positive indorsement of President Johnson’s “policy,” This is too ridiculous to be noticed, we are reliably informed that the resolution in favor of his “policy” offered by Mr. Carnahan, nud it not been withdrawn, would have received but one vote. The feeling, in the convention with regard to Mr. Johnson's “policy” maybe gathered from the fact that upon the adop tion of the fourth resolution, which, it will be seen, is simply a complimentary notice of his past career, and an appeal to him to stand by the party which elected him, there were twenty-one votes in the negative. This, in connection with the fact that Mr.* Carna han’s resolution indorsing the President was not even put to a vote, will show how far the convention indorsed Mr. Johnson’s “ policy.” We do hope shame, if nothing else, will put an end to the barefaced and im pudent lying of such Republican news papers as pretend to support President Johnson. They cannot escape from the record their party has made for itself, by the solerau act of their recent State Convention. They are fully committed to the infamous doctrines and the perni cious schemes of those members of Con gress who follow in the lead of Stevens aud Sumner. They cannot and shall not escape from the position in which they have voluntarily placed them selves. They must go before the people of Pennsylvania in the coming campaign with all the sins of Stevens and Sumner upon their heads. How they will fare in such a contest it is easy to foretell. They will’be utterly repudiated by the people. The Pennsylvania Resolutions as Seen Through Western Spectacles. The Republican Convention of Penn sylvauia has so boldly thrown down the gauntlet at the feet.of the President; it has so defiantly breasted his policy, “stemming it with heart of contro versy,” that the Radical as well as the Democratic press, in all parts of the country, are fain to acknowledge that Stevens, Forney & Co. have pitted themselves against the President. No intelligent man can, without renounc ing all candor, pretend that the Repub licans could succeed in Pennsylvania without humiliating the President.— Here is a specimen of what the Radical Chicago lYibunc has to say on the occa sion : Pennsylvania has always been esteemed a moderate, sober-minded, and cautious State in political action, and always given to supporting the acting President, where the same was possible. Three months ago the Republicans of Pennsylvania were tolerubly hearty in their support of John son. Ifthey did not fully subscribe to his peculiar views, as then avowed and under stood, they treated, him with forbearance, charity, and toleration. But his treacherous veto, his copperhead speech, and his dicta torial assumptions, have disgusted and chagrined the patriotic men of the “old Keystone;” and in their State Convention, on Thursday, at Harrisburg, they nomi nated a Radical soldier for governor. They declared in their platform that the work of reconstruction belongs to Congress—not to the Executive. They praised their fellow citizen, Secretary Stanton, who is a bold Radical, and they wound up with a resolve requesting Senator Cowan to resign his seat in the Semite. Cowan was elected by the Republicans, but, like Doolittle, has betrayed the cause of freedom aud become a blatant supporter of the Johnson scheme of reconstruction, and, like Doolittle, votes and acts with the copperheads on all party measures. The resolution requesting him, in the name of the 300,000 Republican voters of Pennsylvania, to resign his seat in the Senate, is an admonition to “ Moses P.” Johnson that he, too, hud better resign, unless he is filling to carry out, iu good faith, the sentiments of the great Union party who elected him. The Toval masses are not in the humor to be bamboozled or betrayed, or to have tho fruits ol’their great victory over treason and rebellion donated back to the conquered parricides. President Johnson, of course, under stands the bearing of the Pennsylvania resolutions ; he cannot but seethatthey array the Republican of the State in determined hostility to him and his policy. It is for him to decide whether he will give the moral aid of his great position toabodyof men who follow the lead and submit to the dictation, ofSte vens and Forney—two factious dema gogues whom he has publicly denoun ced, and who daily defy him in strains of vituperative derision. The reasona ble presumption is, that the President is not quite that miracle of unresisting meekness. Is It a “ Kump” or a “Damned Bart' bones" Congress 1 John Van Huron thinks there is a mistake in calling the present Congress the Rump, and insists that it should be called the Burebones Congress. In a recent speech, in Connecticut, lie said : Now, it is flattery to call this Congress a Rump Congress. [Laughter.] It is a great deal more like a Parliament that succeeded and which was known as the Barebones Parliament, in which there were members with all sorts of names as described by a writer of that day' who says (“ Brown’s Travels in Eng land,’’ page H7l) :) / “Cromwell," says Cleveland, “ hath bent up his drums clean through the Old Testa ment. You may learn the genealogy of ourHaviour by the names of his regiments. The muster-master has no other list than the lirst chapter or St. Matthew. The broth er of this Praise-God Barebones hud for name, If-Christ-had-not-died-for-you-you had-been-dumned Barebones; hut the peo ple tired of this long name, retainod only the last word, and commonly gave him tho appellation of Damned Burehanes," Now one would not have to go long through the present Congress and the Reconstruction Committee before find ing a gentleman who answers exactly to the description of “Damned Bare bones.” [Laughter.] Another Amendment. It is rumored that a prominent mem ber of the Committeeon Reconstruction has prepared and means to offer in Con gress, in a few dayß, the following addi tional amendment to the Constitution ; Article XCV. That no State shall bo admitted to representation in Congress un til, by a provision embodied In Its funda mental law, it pledges its citizens never to claim restitution oi any pianos, watches, linger rings, spoons, silk dresses, books, pictures, sideboards, wines, liquors, car riages, J and othor portable property which m ?,y at UUy tiiqo, under the pressure of military necessity, have boon transferred, snipped, removed or carried away from their residences, cellars, grounds, out-houses or stables, and delivered Into tho oaro and keeping of loyal citizens or New England— ana all persons claiming or assorting tltlo to any such portable proporty- so removed, shall be excluded from the basis of repre sentation, and aro greyer disqualified to bold any ofiM.or trust or profit under theb State or Genera! Government, Another Radical Scheme. Rendered desperate. by the decided stand which President- Johnson has taken against theigplans for keeping r %e^ushem* States out . of the Union, .tile nodical disunioniste have resorted to another'infamous: scheme, by which they ;hope fcdjefiect their purpose. This fa their last desperate expedient, by which they hopetosecureaoontinuance in power. A special despatch to the New York Tribune gives the following detailed account of the plan : “The question, of. the recognition of the State governments ini the lately rebellious States will shortly be brought to a practical test. Measures have been taken by prom~ inent loyalists in the South, and are now being perfected under the advice of leading men in Congress, to briiig this question to an early decision. The plan .is as follows: Loyal men, and they only, bothlbfack and white, iu the States of Arkaniis, North Carolina, Louisiana, and" elsewhere, have taken steps toward the formation of new State governments. These/ loyal men, without respect to color, will shortly issue calls in their respective States for State Conventions, and elect delegates thereto!; the Conventions so formed will trame State Constitutions embodyiug the principles of loyalty, freedom, and equal rights; will pledge themselves to tho payment of the national debt, the repudiation of the rebel debt, and the disfranchisement of the rebels. This being done, they wiD then'-proceed to elect Governors, State officers, Represen tatives and Senators; the lutter of whom will at once demand admission to Congress. The question thus being thrust upon that body, there is no doubt of the recognition of the governments so formed,aud the admis sion of the loyal members so elected. A number of true and loyal men of the South have been here,for some days consulting and deciding upon the best method to bo adopted, ana having determined upon tho plan presented above, have left for their, homes to carry the same into execution.— The matter has been kept very quiet up to this time, but, as the movement in most of tho States is now well under way, no harm can, and perhaps much good may, be done the Union cause by giving the facts to the public at this time. Any serious attempt to carry out so infamous a scheme would necessarily result in bloodshed. That tfie radicals in Congress are ready to risk anything in order to retain power they have al ready shown. Fortunately the Presi dent has in his hands sufficient power to check them completely in this their last and most infamous plot against the liberties of the people. The Registration Law in West Virginia. The Registration law of Maryland has been justly characterized as most infamous. The superservicable aud over loyal Legislature of the new State of Western Virginia has adopted aud are engaged in enforcing a similar en actment. Its effect will be to exclude all except a meagre potion of the peo ple from the polls. r M Spirit of Jef ■ ferasm say% that in that large county not fifty wtolte men can conscientiously “take the oath." The a list of questions to be/proj»tynded to each person : 1. What is your full aud true name?" -. Do you consider an oath us legally aud morally binding as if admlnisterid-’by a Judge of the Court or Justice of the Peace? 3. Do you kuow that any' false orwrouf statement you may now iflkke , and renders you liable to punishment as perjurer, and disqualifies you from voting and holding office? 4. What is your age? 5. Where were you born? •' -'** 0. Have you resided, or lived the lflj twelve mouths in the State of West Vir ginia? The last mouth in Jefferson county ? 7. How long have you resided iu the United .States? .'3. If naturalized where did you get your first certificate ? Where your last ? Show them. 9. Have you voluntarily since the Ist day June, IWJI, borne arms against the United States, the ro-orguuized government of Vir ginia, or the State of West Virginia? 10. Have you ever forwarded money, pro visions, clothing, arms, ammunition, or goods of uny kind, or letters or information, to persons engaged in the rebellion, or liv ing within the rebel lines, for yourself or other persons ? What undhow? 11. Have you voluntarily given any countenance to the rebellion by saying to others that tho North was wrong and the South right in the war; by saying if you had to fight you would fightfor the South or similar expressions diseournging the cause of the Union ? 1”. Have you voluntarily afforded sup port to the cause of the rebellion by aiding others to go to the South, either by your words, by letters, by money, clothing, pro visions, arms or other wire, for themselves, or promise of the same for their families? 13. Have you ever voluntarily left this State and gone within the military lines of the so-called Confederate Suites, with the purpose ofudhering to said States or armies? 14. Have you ever expressed a desire or wish lor the success of the Southern army or the defeat of the Union army in any of their battles, or rejoiced over a Union de feat? The Real Issue to be Met by Geary. The Pittsburg Post in an able article says of the Republican nominee for Governor; If he were as brave as Julius Caesar, wh*ch he certainly is not—if ho wero as wise as Solomon, which no one claims for him, — and lie possessed every capacity for a Gov ernor, which ho honestly says he does not possess—we could not support him—for he is the champion of destructive ideas, und tho h'orbingur of anarchy ami ruin to our country. Others may seok to disclose hla dements, to expose his frailties, and to prove his en tire unfitness for so great an office. In this we propose to take no share. His political sfins and his present connection with Forney und Covodo, are sufficient—tho puppet and the tool of men like these—the ronegudo to Ids own Taco, (for Geary is n white mnn) can never be chosen to rule over tho white citizens of Pennsylvania. Mr. Geary is tho negro suffrage radical candidate, and nothing else—and to this issue, Mr. Geary and his trainers and back ers, Covode and Forney, must bo held with an unshrinking grasp. He must not be permitted to bide himself from this ques tion in the clouds of Lookout Mountain, nor in tbe smoke of tho numberless baltles he boasts of, but in which his share was so un certain. His banner is the black flag of negro equality and a divided Union, und he eau not bohillowed to fight out this contest on any other line. • Where Genera! Hawley Stands. Under the pressure of an honest pro testation against a contemplated fraud upon the popular intelligence, General Hawley, the Republican candidate for Governor in Connecticut, has been forced to define his position to a certain extent. He recently addressed a political meet ing at Norwich, and while he was speak ing the following questions, in writing, were handed to him. The questions and Mr. Hawley's answers (which have been furnished us from a responsible source) are as follows : Q. Do you approve the President's veto of the Pruudinuu's Bureau bill, and tho mes sage ? A. No. If I had been a Senator T should have voted with those who voted to pass the bill over tlio veto. Q. Do you approve the sentiments of President Johnson's speech delivered on Lite Zfid of Pobruury ? A. No. (1. Do you favor negro sufi’rngo? A. I ain in favor of giving the right of suffrage to the negroes who served in the army, and who can read. Are you nn Andrew Johnson man ? A. I am nobody’s man but tny wile's, and I stand by the ilug, Kucb questions as these must be an swered by General Geary if lie should conclude to take the stump in this State during the present campaign. It would be well for some Intelligent Democrat to put similar queries to evety Republi can speaker who may attempt to ad dress the people. We" must force the Disunlonists to face the issues of the hour. A Washington dispatch says, Mr. Coflroth, of Pennsylvania, introduced . the following resolution in the House this morning, which was adopted, Mr. Cofl'roth is a Democrat, and all the Dem ocratic members voted for it : Resolved, That tho Committee on Mill-' tary Affairs bo and is horeby instructed, at ; an early day, to report a bill toequalizo tho bounties or nil soldiers and sailors who wore mustered into tho service of tho Untied' States. It will be observed that It is positive instruction to the committee, and will UQ doubt produce the desired result. Leaking Democrats and Repfibllcane, including some pretty radical ones|on both sides, are of the opinion that the 1 President will return the Civil Rights! Bill with his objections. The chances, of a veto, however,, are not SQ; Oerta[uj oh this bill,as (hey were qn t^ It is, very evident that the Jacbblna In Congress begin, to see that:their javor . course and opposition to the policy, of thq.'President la : destroying tneir hold upon the people. The de velopments since the. reception of the veto message in the Senate, and the rresnieut's masterly speech on Wash ington's birthday, has no. doubt conr vinced them that they must take a new tack, or go under. They.cannot sustain themselves before the country, on a platform in opposition to Andrew John son, for his course has been such as to'’ secure the approbation of the great , f ’ f the people. To support the remeasures of bis administration and car ry out his policy would destroy ull the party schemes of the radicals; but, on the other hand, they see that if the peo ple once become convinced that the Re publicans in Congress are arrayed in direct opposition to Mr. Johnson, their success in the future is equally hope less. They have therefore adopted an adroit course to mystify the public and postpone a direct issue betweeu them and the President, until after the fall elections. When those elections are ® ver then they will come out and bid the President deflauce, claiming that they have carried all the Northern States on the radical issue. The speech of Thad Stevens in the House ot Representatives, on Saturday last, was part of this programme. It was a bold attempt, by uttering a de liberate falsehood, to cover up the fact that there is an actual conflict between the Executive and the ruling majority in Congress. The Freedmen's Bureau veto message of the President ami his speech irorn the steps of the White Houseon the 22d of February defined clearly the issue betweeu him and Con gress. •• They reveal-the fact that there is a contest. But sufficient time lias elapsed to show that a large portion of the Republican party side with the President iu this controversy; that there are at least a sufficient number to hold the balance of power and turn the elections in the Northern States against tho radicals. Stevens therefore comes forward with a plausible story, yet wholly lalse, aud delivers an amusing haraugue, attempting to prove that the President madenosueh speech. In Ills usual bold style, claiming that lie lias a confidential communication, ho says, “ That speech, which bus had consider able run, and which has made consider able Impression upon the public mind, was one of thegrarulest hoaxes that has ever been perpetrated, and more suc cessful tliau any other, except the moon hoax.” In order that this falsehood might have its proper effect, he adds that he exonerates the President from ever having made that speech,” and then goes on, charging it with being a coinage ol the opposition press. To clinch it still lurthcr he quotes a state ment heretofore made by a New York journal, and characterizes this us a piece of the same kind of slander. Admit ting, however, “ that if the people be lieve that the President ever uttered that speech the case would be made out. But,” continues Stevens, “we kuow tijafithe President never did utter it.” As If he could not repeat the lie too offen. Now this bold electioneering dodge of the radjpal chief, this malicious coin age wijl- fio‘ doubt accomplish its pur pose in. many localities, unless the .President pUrsuesastruightforward and course. It, is calculated, ?to affect the campaign in Pennsylvania.,- It will be senL broud thjtfirgl* the rural districts, and those who do not fully understand the 1 of Johnson’s speech and how-ic ivas made public, will take Ste vens’ version, and set it down as a de vice of the opposition to divide the Re publican party. “Here,” they will say, “ we have Stevens’ statement that such is the fact. He was on the ground, and must know. If he had been de nounced by Mr. Johusouhe would have known it.” Such, Stevens calculates, will be the effect of the speeches upon the Republican party in Pennsylvania. With it he hopes to bridge over the chasm until after the October election. In adopting this course lie has in fuel proclaimed to the world the ignorance of his constituents. He has the same assaid that they are unable to compre hend the affairs at Washington, or judge between truth and falsehood, and that any statement, however lalse, that he may make will beswallowed as true. It has been proverbiul that tho people of Pennsylvania are behind the age. but we never witnessed so bold au admis sion and so direct a declaration of this fact from one of their own representa tives before. It is a wonder that Stevens consents to represent a constituency which can be gulled by such trash us he uttered on Saturday, v All this bodes no good to Andrew Johnson, nor his policy of restoration. It is intended to deceive tho people un til the radicals can carry the fail elec tions. The President should take good care that they do not get him into a po sition that will strengthen this but, on the other hand, boldly meet the issue, and in a manner that will leavo no doubt as to the attitude of the Jaco bin faction of Congress. They are his foes and the enemies of the country, and his course should be marked with deeds so positive that tho humblest cit izen in the most secluded portion of the couutry will understand it, not except ing tho voters whom Thud. Stevens has proclaimed to be so ignorant.— N. Y. Jlvrald. Xew Hampshire tarried for the Repub licans by a Reduced Majority. There is always a tendency to in creased majorities for a party in power, unless»somuUilng happens in politics that strongly arrests the public atten tion. Thus, the mujority of 7,400 lust year in New Hampshire for the Repub lican candidates for Congress (soldiers' vote included) would have been largely increased this year hud not the policy o’f the Administration led intelligent and reflecting Republicans to think that the warfare of Congress upon the Presi dent required some consideration as to their course In State elections, even ut this early period. Had this feeling been stimulated by the idea ttiut the friends of the President desired reliable assur ances from Republican candidates for State ofllces tliat they were in favor of his policy, and opposed to the mischiev ous and destructive course of the star chamber cabal in Congress, it is hardly doubtful tliat Goveruor Smyth could not have beeu re-elected. Seeing this, the instruments of the Congressional clique or junto set to work to cajole tho Republicans at home by the Idea that no such serious difference existed be tween the President and Congress Unit might not lie calmed down at un early day. Hence, they caused a resolution to be passed at the Republican State Convention, which endorsed the Presi dent. Here at Washington it was given out to tlie friends of the President In power, tliat there was nothing but good fueling for him amongtheltepublicansnthomc, and hence no steps were taken by the former to procureaconeertedmovement in the State that was based upomudhe sion to ills great policy of State restora tion. Meantime the partisan Radical tricksters exhausted ingenuity, and ef fort, pnd means to get overy employee of the Government to contribute of his money and time to go home tocast his vote in such*a manner us to enable the enemies of the President to announce a great victory of Congress over him. That this will be done we doubt not, but the facts that we have stated will show that the rest would doubtless have been against the Radical destructives had a distinct issue been made upon the- President's policy. In short, the result may be regarded as a virtual Radical! defeat. —JSational Inlcl/ipcnccr, A Missionary’s Adventure with Cannl- An English missionary, who describes life in New Zeulund iu the lastnum ber of Hours at Home, relutes an incident that occurred to hint on oneof the South Pacific Islands. While on a cruise he touched at a small Island for fresh food, fruit aitd vegetables. Of these he ob tained a full supply, and wus about leaving when a chief asked him if he would like seme flesh food. Says the missionary: “Thinking thatdoubtless they hod hogs, I said yes; he gave a quick glance around him, as If he were looking for a messenger, and singled out and called to a flue young lad apparently about eighteen years of age. The boy came and stood bofore him ; and before I knew what he wus abodt to do, and having my back turned'to him, lookng at the fruit, Ao., 1 heard the sound as of a heavy blow, and look ing quickly round found the stHl'q'ulv erlng body of tho boy laid at my feet, with the words, 'hevlana te kaif' (la that food suflloient for you?).: Horror atrlokenpl denounced most .bitterly The deed, , and leaving all the provlslonsjbe 'bind, on the ground, returned sorrows fully on board"’ ' - Ta "