IjIABCH 28,1688 m Tho nrinting oreuM shall be free to entry. D6tma who'nndertake* to examine the pro. oeedlags of the legialatnre, or'.any aoveffimentt and no law ahaUi everbe made to reiffialn the right thereot. Thefree «>mm.n -0?lfi-< Senior men SSfpnbUo eapaolUee. oy where the matter pubUahtfi la proper for pubUo lnforma- truth thereofmay be given, in evl enoe.” ••• ■ : ■ • FOR GOVERNOR: *HIKSTBB CLXMEB, of Berks 00. :;iTh© Democratic PlotCojpm. 7ho jDomoaraoy of Poansylvimla In Convention mett rocognlzlng n crisis in the oflUlrs of the Republic, and ©stcomlngtbolmmodlatorostofcatlon of tbo Union paramount to all otbor Issues, do resolvo: L That tbo States, whereof tbo pooplo wero lately In rebellion) aro Integral parte of tbo Union and are eptitled to representation In Congress by men duly elootod wbo bear true faith to the Constitution and InwSi and In order to vlndlcato the maxim that tax a* tlon without representation Is tyranny, suob represen* tatlycs should bo forthwith admitted. 2i lWth of tho Republlo Is pledged to tbo payment of the National dobt, and CongrcM should puss all la*wa necessary for that purposo. & That wo owe obodlonco to tho Constitution of tbo United Statos, Including tbo amendment prohibiting Hlavory, and undor Its provisions will accord to tlioso omiloclpauid all their rights of ponton and property. 4. That oaoh State has tho exclusive right to regulate tbo qualifications of Its own doctors. & That tbo white race alono Is untitled to tho con trol of tho Government of tho Republic, and wo uro unwilling to grant tho negroes tho right to vote. d. That tbe bold onunolation of tho principles of tho Constitution and tho policy of restoration contained In tbo reepnt Annual Mossugo and Froodmou’s Bu reau Veto Message of President Johnson entitle him to the confldonco and support of all who respect tho Constitution and lovo their country. j, That the nation owow to tbo bravo men of our armies and navy a dobt of lasting gratitude for their heroic services In defence of tho Constitution and tho Union i and that while wo cherish with a tender affec tion tho memories of tho fallen, wo pledge to their widows and orphans tho nations care and protection. 8. That we urgo upon Congress the duty of equal izing tbo bounties of our soldiers and sailors | - More Good News—The Civil hlglits Bill Tlie Civil Bights Bill was vetoed by President Johnson yesterday. Up to the hour of going to press last evening the Veto Message had not come to hand. The following telegram was sent from Harrisburg, on Friday evening last, by the agent of the Associated Press. Itwos excluded, however, from all the Repub lican papers in Philadelphia. This Is a sample of their fairness. When detect ed 111 false statements, they meanly de cline to make the correction : J*rcNl(lcnt Johnson nud the lleinocrncy. llAUHisnuno, March ZJ.— I Tho (llmlrinun of tho Democratic Htato Duntrnl Committee authoritatively denies tho statement which has appeared ill the New York papers, Unit any committee of the lute Democratic t'on voutlon, or of tho State Cuntrul Committee, has waited upon President Johnson. RimtT Rev. W. 11. Htkvhnh, Bishop of Pennsylvania, bus arrived In London nn route for Rome. His health Is much Improved. John Van Bkiikn, who has been down at Charleston looking around, re turned homo on the -Hth Inst. Ho says If them are any rebels left In that city, heeould not see or hear of them. Every body'was In favor of the President and the President’s policy. Maj. Gen. Frnnklinhasbeen appoint ed the responsible and lucrative position of superintendent of Colt’s pistol fac tory. He Ims sent in his resignation to the War Department and it has been accepted. Gen. Ward, recently conlirmed by the U. 8. Senate as brevet brigadier general, was lately arrested at Cleve. land, Ohio, on a charge of forging a check for $5OO in gold. It is safe to bet that he was intensely loyal. Ex-President Pierce will build a summer residence at North Hampton this season, and have it completed by July 1. He owns about forty acres of land there, in one of the finest locations on tlie Atlantic coast. The Democracy of Bucks county held a ratification meeting at Doylestown on Thursday evening, the 15th inst. There was a large turn out, and the Democrat speaks in tlie most hopeful terms re garding the present campaign. Look out for a huge majority for Hiester Clyliter in old Bucks. A dispatch from Washington re ports that the Ways and Means Com mittee have agreed to continue the ex emption of tax on income at six hun dred dollars, adding fifty dollars to the exemption for every child in a family, up to fifteen in number. One of the Government Revenue detectives on the Canadian .frontier writes to the Commissioner of Customs, that the smugglers have laid ..pipes across the St. Lawrence river, and are engaged in pumping whisky from Can ada Into the United States. . The hotel proprietors of New York ure to hold a meeting this week to con sider the expediency of reducing the price* of hoard. If the hotel keepers can safely see their way to that con clusion, it is probable that many other interests will follow their example.— The restaurants also are thinking of the same kind. Major-General Thomas' has, in accordance with the request of the late Gommltee on the Conduct of the War, prepared a narrative of all the opera ' tlons of the Army of the Cumberland. This will finish the history of the war tinder the auspices of that Committee. The narrative makes sixteen hundred foolscap pages, and was on Tuesday placed in possession of the Chairman. In the country about Vicksburg, both in Mississippi and Louisiana, eight Union Generals, between fifty and sixty late Colonels and Majors, and several hundred privates and non-com missioned officers, discharged at the close of the war from the Unioh army, are now living.in that region, engaged in various occupations, many of them in partnership with officers and soldiere of the rebel army. Mr. Wheelwright, of Newbury jjorl, Mass., is still at work upon his great enterprise, the construction of a railway from the River Platte across the Andes to tire Pacific, and is confi dent that it will be completed within the next ten ybars. Already two hundred and forty miles of the route are in the course of rapid construction from the Port of Rosario to the interior city of Cordova. Quite a panic prevails at the present time along some portions of the north shore of Staten Island, N. Y., in con sequence of the possibility of Hydropho bia. Six or seven dogs, said to be rabid, are at large; and during the last week ■ fifty-seven dogs that had been bitten,have been killed. There is talk of a self-appointed Vigilance Commit tee, whose business it shall be to com mence a vigorous crusade against all canines on that portion of the Island. The Department of State has re ceived authentic information that the three colored children of Rose Klyrea, of. New Orleans, who were taken to Havana without the consent of their parents, have been sent back to her by tjie United States Consul at the latter city. General Canby gave the infor mation concerning the abduction or removal of the children, when the State Department instituted the meas ures which led to their recovery. A clerk in the Paymaster General’s Department was threatened wiih dis missal for refusing to pay an assessment for 1 - (Republican) election purposes in New Hamprhire ; he appealed to the President and the President not only forbade his dismissal, bpt ordered the Paymaster General to give him the ekriiest possible promotion for his ipde pendence. The President. . Day by day, with the maroh of events, the future grows clearer to the eyes of the people of this nation, and.tbe path Of duty more plain before them. With'-, new and ever increasing reaponslblll ties, the ability to jneet them properly seems to be given,; In such a crisis as Is upon this nation what Is moat needed Is this right hind of a leader; one In whom the masses ean put their trust, and whose guidance wise men can safely follow. He who would aspire to such a position should be wise, hold and.honest., He must be able to see the right, and willing to fol low 'lt fearlessly, unawed by danger, and uninfluenced by any sellish motive. Happy are the people, who In a great crlslß like that upon us in the- present, find themselves under the guidance of such a man as him who now presides over the destinies of this nation. The best minds of the country, whom ever they are to be found, whether in the North or the South, tho East or the West, all approve of the wise and statesmanlike policy of President John son. When the work of the warrior was done the labors of the statesman had but begun. A nation lay In ruins. Andrew Johnson by the removal of Mr. Lincoln was In the providence of God culled to stand face to face with duties and responsibilities of the greatest poH- Blble magnitude. Any ordinary man would have found himself unequal to the task. Any but the purest of men would have found himself bound hand and foot by the ties of party. The oc casion demunded superior abilities and tbe most exalted patriotism. This was found combined in theperson of Andrew Johnson. Regarding the war as a contest waged for the maintenance of the Union, and not for the sake of conferring especial privileges upon the negro, President Johnson acted in accordance with his honest convictions. No sooner had he laid down his policy for the speedy res toration of the Beceeded States to the Union than he was bitterly assailed by two classes of men in the party "which hud elected him. That some of tho leading fanatics are honest In their efforts to elevate the negro to an equal ity with the white race we believe, but the mass of those who oppose the policy of the President are influenced by self ish motives. Over and again they have given expression to tho real euuse of their alarm. They “ee In a restored Union tho extinction of their rule.— ThaddeUH Stevens never makes a speech, without giving expression to this ldeu. With them party Is the first great con sideration, before country Itself. President Johnson knows these men thoroughly, and lie lias no putlouuu with them. When lie denounced them publicly the whole country rejoiced. Ills spoooh on the of February met with a hearty response from the masses throughout tho nation. Every new step he tukeH In the path of restoration elicits new pluudltH from the multitude. They are with him, ready to march under the banner which he has raised. His lute announcement that he regards those only as Union men who support his policy will be the watchword of all who love their country more than party. The Union Party. The Republican party, when tbe war broke out, stole the livery of Heaven to serve the devil in. They announced themselves as tbe Union party, and de nounced all who differed with them as disunionists. This was a strange party name to be adopted by those who were the real leaders of that organization.— They had been original and_avowed dis unionists. The only men in the North who desired or advocated the dissolu tion of the Union were high in its ranks, Yet they held to this title in order that they might lead the honest masses blindfolded to tlie accomplishment of their base designs. Being adepts in de ception, they succeeded while the war raged in deceiving many. -On the liddof February Andrew John son stripped the cloak from the leaders of certain prominent radicals. The peo ple rejoiced. Hellas now laid down a test by which every man may try his Unionism. The Union men of the coun try are those who stand ready to aid the President in restoring the Union. There are none others. The Uniort* party is theparty which standsopposed to the in famous designs of the radicals in Con gress. The line of distinction has been plainly drawn by the President. Read Mr. Ingersoll’s report of the interview he had with him in regard to the Con necticut election. Andrew .1. Stelnmun, Esq. The unanimous vote by which Andrew J. Steinman Esq, was contin ued as chairman of the County Com mittee was no empty compliment. It was afitting expression of the confidence which the Democracy of this county have in his ability and integrity. We only speak that which we well know when we say that he is eminently fitted for the position. He will prove to be a most efficient leader in the present all important campaign.; We were glad to see so many members present on Saturday. It is a good omen. Under the control of Mr. Steinman, the differ ent members of the Committee will find work enough to do. That it will be well and effectually done we cannot doubt. The Radical Fire Slackening, Within the past few days the radical newspapers of the country have greatly modified their assaults upon President Johnson. They see how the tide iarun ning in Connecticut and elsewhere, and are alarmed, as they well may be. Even the New York Tribune and the Philadelphia Press have grown very mild. Greeley is deprecating the wrath of Andrew Johnson and trying to prove that he is not opposed to the election of Hawley, the Disunion candidate for governor in Connecticut. Meantime the the even tenor of his way, and insists upon it that he cannot be expected to aid those who oppose his Hawley has been compelled to beg for favors, but has not succeeded in securing any promise of support from President Johnson. The friends of the Union, all conservative men of both parlies in the State of Con necticut. are rallying to the support of Mr. English, the Democratic candidate. It looks now as if he would certainly be elected. Not long ago, no one would have dared even to hope for such a re sult in one of the New England States. The skies are brightening. The House of Represenhitives of the United States has adopted a resolution that it will adjourn on Thursday, the day of May, if the Senate agrees. The blanks is to be filled up, and the time may be in the beginning, middle, or towards the end of the month.— Exchange. If the Senate, says the Philadelphia Daily Nexus, will fill up the blank with tlie first Thursday in May, and pass tlie resolution at once, it will be doing more service to the country than it is likely to do by the passage of any meas ure which has been before it during the session. The people would feel greatly relieved if Congress would ad journ,- and give them the opportunity which they will havo next autumn to express their views with regard to pub lic measures. It js probable that after the next election many of the members of the present Congress will entertain more sober opinions of national affairs than they now have. John Cessna.' It Is seldom that a political renegade , has met his deserts bo suddenly ashas the man whose name stands at the head ftfcrovMo sodUrAaomedSosltton of minor and {dofit fromplhe SSemocljatlc pfjuty of Penpsylvanjai clung to ltpjntll the lauajS hope in. Its ratijfs bad-been vvyenoned 'from hlii grasp. Then, belngi tempted by the rewards which had beenreonferred upon others who had gone from Its ranks into the party, he left If., He did not do this, 'howeveffiifitll bie'nw majle,a mq&tdeaperate.-.effort,- to secure the Democratic nomination for Gover nor three years ago. Finding when he came to the 1 Convention that- he could, only muster nfnc votes', ho leftourrahks In disgust. No one regretted his going. He was received by his new found friends with some marks of destlno tlou. Last year they made him Chair man of their State Central Committee, and he did tlielr dirty work., Well and faithfully. This little promotion led him to aspire again to the nomination for Governor. After using every appli ance ut Ills commund he managed to secure one vote forecrtuln—thutof Bed ford oounty. He got that by using the most unscrupulous means to defeat Frank Jordan, who also had some simi lar aspirations longer standing than those of Cessna. Tho Republican Convention assem bled. Poor Cessna found that he had not votes enough to make eveu a decent show for a complimentary vote on the first ballot. So, making a virtue of necessity, he concluded to withdraw his name. Before doing this he got Col. A. K. McClure to make a strong effort to have him reappointed Chairman of the State Central Committee. That was a flash in the pan. Cessna must have seen from what was said and done in the Convention that his new friends had precious little respect for him ; but we do not suppose he imagined that any sueli indignity would be pot upon him os tlie appointment of Frank Jor dan to file position to which he aspired, after abandoning the contest for a uom lnatibn as candidate for Governor. A greater insult was never ottered to any political aspirant. The appoint ment of any other man In the State would not so have outraged Cessna.— lie miiHt pocket the Insult however.— Hu uunnof abandon the party witli which he Is now acting. Thero Is no otlierplucu for him to go. He ean never aspiru to any position of Importance In the tanks of the organization to which he carried all the little political liiltu ciico and Importance he hud. Ho Is dead and burled politically forever.— Ills public life has hcun a lltful fever bringing him no honor and no great profit, /fcqtiiniaal in pave! The I'lltslHirg Meeting. in another column we give a full ac count of the great Johnson Mass Meet lngtheld 111 Pittsburg on Tuesday eve ning. Mr. Carnahan, whose resolu tions endorsing the President were so unceremoniously put down in the Dis union State Convention lias been heard from. He has taken the Radical politi cal bull squarely by tlie horns, and the beast is in as much danger as was that of the obstinate Quaker who thought the father of his herd a match for a full grown elephant. If Mr. Carnahan and other friends of tlie President make a vigorous figli t against old Tom Williams and James K. Morehead t tliey can easily prevent them from being returned to Congress. In such a contest they would have tlie hearty support of all truly loy'nl men. Tlie bold and manly speech of Mr. Carnahan shows how thousands of hon orable and intelligent Republicans feel and think. They know that the policy of President Johnson is wise and emi nently well calculated to restore the Union, while it preserves the Constitu tion from the assaults constantly being made upon It by the followers of Ste vens and Sumner. We regard this meeting at Pittsburg as a proper effort ot the Conservative Republicans to break loose from the Disunionists who now have control of that organization. It will be followed by moderate men throughout Pennsylvania. The Express is in raptures. It pro fesses to have found one Democratic ♦newspaper which is in favor of negro suffrage. It copies article on that subject from a New York weekly which, we venture to not three men in Lancaster ever saw, and not a dozen ever heard of. The endorsement there given to the doctrine of negro suffrage is not such as is being accorded by the radical Disunion newspaper press, but, feeble as it is, the Express is wonder fully elated thereat. It professes to see in this a sure sigu that the day is not far distant when every ignorantand de graded negro in the land shall have a vote. We would advise the Express to moderate its joy. The millenlal day of negro equality is not yet at hand. It will be compelled yet awhile to submit to live in a community where the white man is regarded as superior to the negro. Grievous as such an afflic tion may be to the editor of the Express it must be borne. 'The Irish and the Germans will continue to vote, while the negroes will be refused any such privilege. It may denounce the idea of this being a white man’s government, but white men will still maintain it as such, in spite of obscure and wrong headed newspapers like the Lancaster Expxrcss and tlie New York Leader. The Express seems to tie growing atrabillious on the result of the Spring elections in this State. The universal gains and the many significant triumphs of the Democratic party are decidedly significant. They show which xuay the soldiers arc votiny. This has alarmed and angered the Express. It not only loses its temper, but forgets to observe a proper regard for the truth. It accuses the Intelligencer of speaking disrespect fully of the brave men who went forth to battle, not for the sake of negro suf frage and negro equality which the Ex press advocates, but for the Constitution and the Union. We have heretofore corrected that paper when it made simi lar assertions. It knows they are false. We defy the Express to quote a single passage from the Intelligencer, either Daily or Weekly, in which the gallant soldiers are spoken of in any terms other than that of praise and admiration. It is true, we have not puffed up General Geary, and some other men of similar character, whose - military reputation have been made by newspaper corres pondents and not by fighting. But we have never refused to award to the true soldier, either officer or private, hiß full meed of praise. I f the Express would maintain a reputation worth having, we advise it to cease lying. We are informed, says the Bedford Gazette, that Col. Frank Jordan has been appointed Chairman of the Disunion Geary State Committee, vice John Cessna kicked out. This is “the unkindest cut of all.”— The “ Governor " will now have to takef his plaice as a private in the ranks, and “ forward, march,” bright dress,” “left wheel,” “mark time,": “company, halt,! 1 according to the command of Col. Jordan. : Jordan Ib de massa, Qe esoa Is do servant,. Try lilra hqwhe like It wr a spell; So day crank de butternuts, so day keep de go (plsam'ts l trbw away ’de Sh'el) I" ’ Repeating their Stories. *i It Ijvery early in the eampalgn 'for. *mir onjonents to be. forced to repeatfc KoryHet they are Already reduced tel fiiat OTalt.v'-Not diurlng' to Seopljpnopeßvadvoißaoy o|-the pies tjbby havftlaid down tjj&tle gldund ’la rendered conjtracted,' All-they can do 1b to parade certain'votes of Mr. Clymer which were cast when there was a dead lock in the Senate, and to repub lish his speech made against granting the use ,of,th& hall of the Hpuse /orthe purpose <of heidirig therein a’ partisan political meeting'. The ihyresshashad that speech In twice already. How often it proposes to republish it during the campaign we do not know, but we sup pose once a week. The people have not yet forgotten the disgraceful attempt of the Republicans io force such an organization of the Sen* ate in 1884 as would have been uncon stitutional and revolutionary. That body then stood 16 Democrats to 16 Re publicans. The Republicans Introduced resolutions of every conceivable char acter in order to force the Democratic members to record their votes against them. Among others was one In re gard to allowing the soldiers to vote In the army. If the Democrats had voted for that, or for any other of the resolu tions offered, they would have recog nized the revolutionary claims of the Republicans. Of oourse Mr. Clymer voted nay persistently upon every mo tion that came up. He could not have done otherwise without yielding a great and well settled principle of political action. When these votes of Mr. Oly mer are paraded before the people, they should remember how they were cast. Before that, when there was no com pulsion upon him, Mr. Clymer had vol untarily and cheerfully voted to confer the right of suffrage on the soldiers In the army. He never at any time op posed the amendment to the Cbnstltu tion which was passed for that purpose. Such is the plain honest truth in regard to the matter. That vote and the speech to which we have referred are to be the main dependence of the Disunion party In the pending campaign. They have al ready paraded these things In all their newspapers, and, though only two weeks have elapsed since the nomina tion of their paper General, Geary, they ure forced to repeat them. How oau any party succeed which goes Into a great light like tlio present with their ammunition completely exhausted bo fore the battle Is fairly begun? They must Inevitably bo beaten. The Dem ocracy are Just gutting their butteries fulrly planted, When they open upon the Disunion lets who follow the lead of HLovoiih, as Geary Hays ho does, there will bo warm work. Wilson's Army Bill, This bill, which passed the Senate on the 14th by a vote of ayes, 27, nays 6 absent or not voting, 18 —provides for live regiments of artillery, twelve regi ments of cavalry (two of which are to be made up. of negroes), and fifty regi ments of infantry, (thirteen of which are to be made up of negroes). Promo tions in negro regiments are not to be confined to the negro corps! .No pro vision is made for the Veteran Reserves they were entirely counted out. Fes senden, Republican, of Maine, said : “The request of the Reserve Corps for retention in service he considered sel fish and impudent!’’ (The Invalids will make a note of this.) In all, the bill provides for a standing army of about seventy-five thousand men and niggers. What earthly use this army is to be to the country, except to roll up taxatiou, we cannot see. God knows the public burthens are heavy enough already. Should the bill pass the House, we hope it will get a prompt application of the veto. On the Right Track, Hon. Eli Thayer, formerly a Repub lican member of Congress, from the Worcester, Massachusetts, District, is stumping Connecticut in behalf of the Democratic State Ticket. On Wednes day evening last he addressed the peo ple of New Haven, in Music Hall, in a speech of great power and eloquence. He maintained that all the members elect from the South ought to be ad mitted to Congress, and said the object of the Government is to let the people alone, and make them let each other alone. He said the Republicans were entitled to no credit for subdoing the rebellion, forit might and ought to have been put down in a year. If an ener getic man had been President the war would have been finished in 1862. He denounced the freedmen’s bureau bill, advocated free trade and urged that paper money ought not to be issued by the Treasury at Washington. He closed by challenging Mr. Sumner or any other man to debate before the people of Con necticut. A Connectlcnt Eye-Opener. “ The endorsement by Mr. Johnson of Cleveland’s course iii coming out for the President’s policy is looked upon here as what is known as an ‘ eye opener.’ General Hawley and his Republican friends had been endeavoring for a long while to get some such act of committal from the President, but all to no purpose.” The above special despatch to the Philadelphia Ledger tells the whole story of the Connecticut election. The President emphatically endorsed the Democratic candidate. Whether his late action in the matter will be suf ficiently well understood to carry the coming election remains to be seen. If the same action had been taken a week ago tlie matter wonld have been placed beyond the possibility of a doubt. Amendments to the Gonstltntlon. The New York Post (Rep.) ridicules the number of amendments proposed by Congress to the Constitution, and very truly says: “ Our constitution is not a thing to 'be brought into Congress and tossed from hand to hand in a sortof contempt for itsiinperfections, and finally mended like an old shoe, with a new heel and a new toe-piece, a patch upon one side, and a patch on the other. We fought the rebel States, which had thrown off its authority; we poured out our blood like water in its defense; we mortgaged the revenues of long prosperous years to come that we might reduce the in surgents under its dominion; we eulo gized it through the four years of that cruel war as a frame of government which had never been felt by the rebel States and their population, save in the benefits it conferred, and we brought the insurgents back by persevering efforts and immense sacrifices to their allegiance. It does not become us now to treat this venerable instrument aa if itwere the work of sciolists, a thing yet to be licked into shape, and upon which every man who happens to be returned to Congress is invited to try his ingenuity." The New York Tribune don’t like President Johnson’s polite response to a notification of his election as an hon orary member of the Manhattan Club. It growls as follows : The World publishes what purports to be a genuine correspondence between a Com mittee of the Manhattan Club and President Johnson. The Manhattans have elected Mr. Johnson an honorary member, and desire “ to adorn their walls with'a representation of the form and lieaments of a statesman ftnd a patriot who,” &c., <fec. As Mr, John son aooepts Tyilu sincere thanks, we pre sume he is unaware that the Manhattan is a C opperhead Club, arid that three-fourths, of the men who Bign ’the letter to him—Bar low, Balmont,. G. T. Curtis, Hiram Crans ton,-Marble, Schell, Tilderi, rite.—were open Secessionist? or Peace Democrats through 'the war, President Johnson's Record en the But- Question. SaJh 181J8 the territory of Minnesota yitade application for admission Into the Objection wamn%de4Qha|pon-ji 'BtHjjßlpn, because it confenMtMfrigbt • oj-ajilTVage upon persons not citizens .'of ; States—aliens dot naturill \ze<h«Thls was the main ground urfid by-'tßdsewvho opposed his - ' admission, and forjmis It was contended that her Constitution was not 11 republican in form.” President Johnson was then in .Senate, an<},contended, th(jl BUffraf/eibaB.ltiecOnatitklloiial'prero(fo tiveqf the States' trtofwyand that it war the right of Minnesota, as of every oth er commonwealth, to regulate the qual ifications of voters according to hfer own conviction of right. The ; following ex plicit declaration of the Senator from Tennessee, eight years ago, may serve to enlighten his radical opponents at this day on the question of constitution al construction of which they appear to have such need. It wllLshow that one essential feature of the President’s re construction policy was shadowed four years ago, and that he Is now living up to his already announced convictions. Hear him: “I desire to enter my protest against a doctrine which maybe supposed to be advanced here In reference to the quali fication of the voters of a State. This Government has no power under the Constitution of the United States to fix the qualification of voters In any sover eign State of the Confederacy. I want to enter my protest against the doctrine being indulged In or cultivated to uny other extent, that this Government has power to go inßidea sovereign State and prescribe the qualifications of her voters at the ballot-box. It is for the State and not for the Government to do that. If the doctrine be once conceded that the Federal Government has power to fix the qualifications of voters in. a State, the idea of State Sovereignty Is utopian. There is no such thing as State Sover eignty if this Government can fix the qualification of voters. Thereare simply twothlngs to be ascertained here: First, have we evidence that a State has been formed ? Beyond, have we evidence that it Is Republican in form ? These two things being ascertained, everything else Is for the State tlmt ap plies for admission." The Connecticut Election. The following correspondence be- the Postmaster atHartford, Con neotlout, and the President, speaks for Itself—lt needs no comment: 11 Post Office, Hahtfoiid, Conn.,) Mnroh 22. ) To President Johnson Hin: I am now engaged In publluly ad vocating tho dilution of Jumus K. English ns cnmlldatu for (lovurnor of Connootluut, n goutloman who 1h openly oommltted to tliii support or your voto, to tho dofoiiHo of your -'2il of February Hpuooli, und of your pollov of restoration In opposition to tho Dlsunloii- Ists of Connecticut. Inm opposing the elec, tlnn of Uonorul .Joseph It, Iluwluy, wlio oponly disapproved of your voto nud ot yourffiid of February speooh, and declines to Miipport your policy no opposed to tho Itudlonl minority In Congress. If my po lltluitl notion 1h not sntisiuetory to you, I hog you to rooolvo my resignation ns Post muster of this olty. I hnvo thohonorto bo, Your obodlent sorvnnt, (Signed) IS. H. Cleveland.” The President returned this to Mr, Cleveland, endorsed as follows: 11 Your political notion in upholding my meusures and policy is approved. Your resignation is, therolore, not accepted, but is herewith returned. (Signed) Andrew Johnson. Executive Mnnsion, March 23.” A Party/Without Principles, The astounding impudence of the Rad ical Disunion party is equalled by its talent for lying. One after another of (he recent State Conventions of that organ ization have endorsed President John son and the bitter opponents of his pol icy in the same string of resolutions. — We are glad to see that in Rhode Island they had too much decency to resort to any Buch miserable lying subterfuge.— The New York Herald thus announces the result of their deliberations in that State: The Republican Convention of Rhode Is land yesterday nominated General Am brose E. Burnside for Governor by accla mation, and William Greene for Lieutenant Governor. In view of the dissensions ex isting in the party no platform resolutions were adopted. That was infinitely better than to pass such a string of wordy inconsis tencies as is dignified by the name of the Republican platform in Pennsyl vania. As they have no decent princi ples they might as well admit the fact at once, just by way of making a show of honesty. The Harrisburg Election. The importance of the Democratic victory gained on Friday last is so well shown by the figures, and has fallen so like a dead weight upon the mule con tractor party, that we cannot refrain Hrom reproducing the vote, as follows : Mayor—Edw urds, Democrat, over : Kepner Ind. Democrat 117 Treasurer—Wilson, Democrat, over - Dunn, Republican 242 AuniTOKS —Haller, Democrat, over Stroh, Republican 200 Eager, Democrat, over Shelf, Republican 201 Osier, Democrat, over Bostic, Republican 208 Three years ago Mayor Roumfort was elected by only 47, and last fall Hart ranft, Republican, had 3 majority! The result on Friday, certainly exceeded our most sanguine expectations. Democratic Tlctory In Brie. William L. Scott, one of the Vice Presidents of the Convention which nominated Hiester Clymer, and an un flinching Democrat, has been elected Mayor of Erie. This Is a most decided triumph over the radical and shows a Democratic gain of otter three hundred. Everywhere through out the State the tide runs with sweep ing force in our favor, showing what will be the result next October. The people of Pennsylvania will crush the radical Disunion party. “ Tweedledum and Twecdledee. ” The radical journals, such as the New York Tribune and Forney’sPress,delight to refer to Senator Stewart, of Nevada, as a son-in-law of the late rebel Henry S. Poote. This, now that the Senator has introduced resolutions which please them, is designed as complimentary. But a few weeks ago the Bame journals were for anathematizing the Senator because he had married the daughter of one who afterwards turned rebel. “ Strange, all this difference should be ’Twlxt tweedledum and tweedtedee !’ An Odious Comparison. Senator Wade has always made ugly comparisons relative to white and black troops. This man Wade says: “Expe rience had shown that colored troops were as good as white, and it was a noted fact that while the white regiments along the frontier were being reduced by de sertion, there were no desertions from colored regiments." This is a dose for men who fought four and five years to restore the coun try to its original high position, and if they can swallow this, with other naus eous pills emanating from the same party, we will be compelled to believe the truth of their sayings. At Harris burgand otherplaces the “boys in blue" have been settling with those who make such assertions at the election polls. The Cincinnati Enquirer. It affords us pleasure to. state that ar rangements have already been com pleted for the Immediate resumption of the publication of this excellent journal, -whose offioe was totally destroyed by the disastrous conflagration on the 22d instant. The Enquirer is one of the beßt newspapers in the great West,-and we trust that it will speedily rise froiq Us ashes, The Berwick Gazette says, that a breach of 260 feet was made in the cen tre of the Towanda dam by the late leg freshet. This will probably pave An im. portant bearing on the coal trade north for a portion of the coming season. The President'll Policy. Mmi Stettin? In Pittebnivof the Friends : fe of pncMent Johnson—Th&ise of City nallDeiind It—Market Street Used for , KfctiOepaslott—apqech of Robert B. Car* I »*eMßrtntidifei»nstalntn#,. 1 P^MdeatJonn^nAdeviU to be jheld-ln on ,s?aerfjijLevenin£ l -for jfchfe purpose of en ttdrslngth'epolicy of president Johnßon in the matter-of Reconstruction. At the hour announced for the opening of the meeting, a large concourse of people as sembled on Market street, in front of the Hall, but to their astonishment they t fonnd it closed. It was then announced that arrangements had been made for 1 the Use of the HSU, butthe Market Com mittee of ths City. Council? had decided that they could not occutiy it. A meet ing was then improvised on the Bide walk, under a gas lamp, a bench pro cured for arostnlm, when an organiza tion was effected by the selection of Col. Samuel MoKelvy as President, assisted, by a numerous corps of Vice Presidents apd Secretaries. Immediately after the meeting had been organized, a large delegation of citizens, preceded by a brass band, ar rived at the ground. Robert B. Carna han, Esq., in response to repeated calls made bis appearance on the stand, and proceeded to address the meeting. He alluded to the fact that he was an office holder under the General Govern ment, but thought It was dis honor to hold an offloe nor a reason why any man’s honesty should be Impeaoh ed. He proceded to explain and defend the policy of the President. What, Htiid ho, Is the policy of tho Presi dent In regard to the States lately in rebel lion, which has been the object of so mnch denunciation in Congress und in certain sections of the country? It may be ex pressed in a single sentence. It is to briug the States lately in rebellion into practical relations with the National Government ns speedily as possible, consistently with the public safety. When E say States lately in rebellion, I mean the people of the States. Tho President does not admit that any of these States were ever out of the Union. In constitutional theory and in fact the Union was never broken. In his opinipn seces sion and rebellion wore impotent to dissolve the Union. Nothing but revolution could •accomplish such a result. He believes that the Suae is an integer in our political sys tem ; that without States there can bo no such thing as our Federal Government; that tho eleven States which were lately in rebellion are eleven of the thirty-six col umns on which the Federal Union rests. These opinions of the President are not new. I believe they have been entertained by every one of his predecessors in office. They were certuinly entertained by Hamil ton, Jefferson, Mudlson, the Adamses, Jackson, Webster. Clay, Bouton, Wright and tho most illustrious statesmen the country bus produced. Thoy wore nover doubled by any ono until tho postllont heresy of secession was promulgated by Calhoun and his followers. About four years ago a new doctrine wus broaohod in opposition to tho teachings of more than seventy years. The new dootrlno wus that of Stuto Bitleldu; that a Stute could kill it self and thus suvor its relation to tho Fed* • (mil Government; that hocuuso curtain 1 oillziOMM of a Sluto rebelled und gave their ' rulwilfnii an organized form, tho sovereign ty ufihu SLuloh bocumo forfeited, and uo graded Into some subordinate political po sition. Now this doctrlnu is Just four years 1 old. I Uellovo it was originated by Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, but its ablest advocate is 1 Thudilous StovonH, Thu President looks 1 unpn this now doctrine as a horusy, as pos --tyont and destructive as that of socoNHlon, When the oxcitornontof tho day has pussed, I think tho wholo country will agreo with > him. Active hostilities ended with the sur reudor of the rebel armies lust spring, but wo are still in military possession of tho rebel Staton. Tho President found them without Stale Governments, or with rebel governments which could not bo recognized, and he appointed military or provisional governors. These appointments were alto gether military, and were made in pursu ance of our military occupation. The States were required to abolish slavery, adopt the Constitutional Amendment abolishing slavery, to repudiate the rebel debt, and repeal all laws in regard to the blacks which bad their origin in the exis tence of slavery. A discriminating amnes ty absolved the masses from the penalties of treason. The Slate governments here ro-organized, and the people of these States were invited by the President to send Sena tors and Representatives to Congress.— Wlnit has been done by the President was done by virtue of his powers as Comraand er-in-Cbief of the armies of the United States. Subdued rebels have been simply restrained, and the same power which au thorized the President to prosecute hostili ties for the preservation of the Union, au thorizes and justifies this military repres sion, while we are still in military occupa tion of the hostile territory. The prescribed conditions were accepted by the people of the rebellious States. Their State govern ments have been organized, and they have elected Senators and Representatives and sent them to Washington. What was done by the President was generally considered well done, unfil Congress assembled and the A’hole country approved. Now this plan of reconstruction was pre cisely the same originated and inaugurated by President Lincoln, with the approbation of loyal people everywhere. Reconstruction can mean nothingmore than reorganization of the State governments, adapting their constitution and legislation to the altered condition of affairs resulting from the war and the destruction of slavery. Now this work of reconstruction is chiefiy the work of the people of the Stales them selves. Even the President can interfere with them only indirectiy, and by means of the war powers with whose execution he is charged. He certainly can prescribe the terms on which tho military occupation will be withdrawn, and he has done pre cisely this very thing. He has told the peo ple of the States lately in rebellion, what were the indispensable pre-requisites to a withdrawal of tho military force now in oc cupation of these States, and his pro-requi sites have in great part been complied with. But when 800(1(01-8 and Representatives from these States come to Washington and ask to bo admitted to seals in Congress, no inquiry is made into the personal loyalty of the member, the regularity of his election, and return, but ho is toid that his St-te is out of the Union, and not entitled to repre sentation in Congress. Here appears to be the radical difference between tno Presi dent and Congress. Congress duims abso lute power over these States—to say how the State governments ahull bo formed, what shall be put into their constitutions, who shall be voters and who shall not vote, and there is talk about irreversible guaran tees, itc. The President claims that the flowers of Congress are limited to inquiries n regard to the regularity and legality of the election of members of Congress, the fitness of the Representative to sit in Con gress, and the general nature of the State government, a? to whether it be a Repub lican or not. In all of the Rebel States there are many persons who never took any part in the rebellion—men whose loyalty was tried as if by lire. But these men, many of them elected to Congress, are placed on the same footing with Rebels and denied seats. You are here to say who is right in this controversy. Is it right that loyal men in these States should be treated as Rebels? Andrew Johnson once said if tla*re were but loyal men remaining in h State, those ought to have control of the' government of the State. If these loyal people are not allowed to control the politi cal affairs of the State, how can a Rebel Stateever be re-constructed? Mr. Lincoln’s plan was to allow one tenth of the people of the State, being loyal to the Government, to assume and arrange the State government. But Congress now declares that the political sovereignty of these States is shattered and destroyed, and must be reconstructed be fore the State can be allowed to take her place in the National Government. I sub scribe to no such doctrine, and while I have great respect for the character, abilities and integrity of the Republican members of the present Congress, I think the coarse of the , majority is calculated to work irreparable mischief. What has the President done that the con fidence of Congress should bo withdrawn from him? He vetoed the Freedmen’s Bu reau bill, a measure whichhad its origin in this idea of the absolute power of Congress over these States. The President has shown this measure to be unconstitutional, oppres sive and dangerous to the liberties of the citizens. It erected a military tribunal which was’in times of peace to decide con troversies between different classes of citi-. zens. If this bill had become a law, a steamboatman from Pittsburg, as soon as he touched Tennessee or Mississippi would be liable to be arrested and dragged before a military court on the complaint of a color ed fireman, perhaps, that he owed him a dollar, or had not given him full rations, or something of the kind. He might be de tained a month in the- investigation, his boat tied up, and he could have no appeal or redress of any kind, no matter how un just, or partial, or oppressive the action of the military court. Institutions of this kind will not be tolerated by the people of this country in time of peace. The bill of 1860 was passed when we were in a state of war. It was altogether a military measure. The operation of the bill was limited to a hostile country, and it was as mach a war meas ure as the conscription act A pressing public necessity in time of war dictated that measure, but it is ridiculous to say that the same necessity now exists, I believe the country at large approves the veto message, and the reasons assigned for the veto are unanswerable. Well, the President has pardoned rebels, not half so many, however, as his enemies charge. Well, did anybody espfect, even when war raged with its greatest fury, that rebels would not be pardoned. Did anybody expect that any others but the leaders of the rebellion would or could be punished, . But it is said why is not Jefferson Davis tried? ppes anybody oharge this delay upon the President? You all remember bis letter to the Chief Justloo on the subject six months ago. But the Chief Justloesald ! no court could be held in Eastern Virginia, because the country was noder military oc cupation and bad not been, reconstructed, ] an. oplnion In which he does not appear to hayd the &ncurrenoG of his colleagues. 'Mr. Garnahnn referred to theaction oftlio late Republican Convention at Harrisburg. He haa offered .a modest resolution to the effect that wo bad confidence in thelntegrity and patriotism of the President. He was at once awarded with such a storm of obloquy as had never before greet ed his ear. It was not true, however, as stated in the Press and Washington CAi'om clc t that he stood alone in favor of tho reso lution. He had ascertained that therewere about twenty members who ’ Would have voted for it. Ho withdrew it, however, be cause it was manifest that it could not pass, and he was unwilling to see tho President defeatedln the Convention. He found on the iloor ot that Convention persons denoun clngAhe President, at least unwilling to say that they had any confidence in him, who three yeare ago were acting with the Dem ooratio party. When Andrew Johnson was suffering in Tennessee for his loyalty, some who now donouneo him ns unfaithful, were putting obstacles iu tho way of Mr. Lin coln’s administration, He predicted that in Six months the managers of the late State Convention would find themselves in a miser able minority before thUpcophe. At tho conclusion of Mr. Curnnbhn’H re marks, ox-Mayor Lowry, Chnirmun of the CoinmlUeo on Resolutions, read a series of resolutions which strongly support Presi dent Johnson. Among them were the fol lowing: Resolved , That uo Stuto can be takeu out of the Union—tho late rebellion being an Ineffectual effort to tloso—and tho rebellion having been utterly overthrown, it Ls the duty of Congress without delay, to admit to seats in that body, all loyal men who can present regular credentials, und take tho oat h proscribed bv law. Resolved , That we sustain the recent veto of President Johnson on the Freedmen’s bill In all Its parts. The Manhattan Club and President Johnson. The Manhattan Democratic Club of New York, have elected President Johnson an honorary member, and ad dressed him a letter requesting his ac ceptance, and also requesting him to sit for a fuLl length portrait which they desire to have taken for the use of the Club. The letter is signed by John Van Buren, President ; Jas. T. Brady, Au gustus Belmont, Manton Marble, aud others, aud compliments Mr. Johnson on the position he has taken aud his re buke of disuuionlsts. President Johnson bus replied as fo lows : Executive Mansion, ) Washington, D. C„ March 12. J Gentlemen—l have tho honor to ac knowledge the receipt oi your letter of the 2d Just., informing mo of my election mm mi honorary member of tho Manhattan Club of Now York city and asking mu to ullow jm urllst of your selection to take a full length portrait of myself for your club. In communicating to you my acceptance of thuso compliments, I desire to thank you sincerely for them and for the friendly ex pressions of support and encouragement you tender mo in the discharge of my pub lic duties, An holiest, aud oluur conviction of duly a* d consciousness of rectitude of purpose, tho unwavering support of tho American people und the blessing of an all wise Providence, will, l believe enable me to meet any emergency. I feel that I Imvo tho first two, and it shall be the object of my ovory ondouvor to deserve the remain ing requisites. 1 um, gontlomon, With groat respoet, Your obedient servant, Andrew Johnson. John Van Huron. Esq., 1 T. Hainan, The “People” who are to Rule the Dis trict of Columbia. Before slavery was abolished the “Re publican” leaders asserted that the ne groes, if freed, would be fully capable of taking care of themselves. They seem, latterly, to have vastly changed their belief upon this subject. Take, for instance, the thousaud and one amendments to the Constitution, and the bills, resolutions, &c., which have been offered or passed in the Rump for the fostering and support of the blacks, among which prominently stands the vetoed Freedmen’s Bureau bill. As a later instance, take the following from the Rump Senate proceedings of the 20th: Mr. Morrill, Republican, of Vermont moved for the appropriation of $25,000 for the relief of destitute colored people of the District of Columbia. Mr. Sauls bury, Democrat, of Delaware, moved to amend by makiDg the expenditure ap plicable to white people, but tho chair refused to receive the amendment. Mr. Morrill said there were 15,000 destitute colored people in the city! Mr. Sauls bury offered an amendment appropria ting $2*5,000 additional for the destitute white people. The amendment was re jected by the Senate. Mr. Willey, of West Virginia, moved to have the ap propriation distributed to white and colored alike. The Senate rejected this amendment. Mr. Davis, • Dem ocrat, of Kentucky, moved that the corporate authorities find em ployment for all able-bodied black peo ple, and that $5,000 be appropriated for that purpose. This was also rejected by the Senate. Mr. Saulsbury then moved that the money be expended under the direction of the Mayor, ami not of the Superintendent of the-Freedmen’s Bu reau. The Senate rejected this. The joint resolution, as offered by Mr. Mor rill, was then voted on, and passed by a large majority. We will simply remark that these “ fifteen thousand destitute colored peo ple” for whom $2*5,000 of the people’s money has thus been appropriated, are the same to whom this same Rump Congress desires to entrust the muni cipal government of Washington, by making voters of all male negroes of the age of twenty-one years. It is true that poverty should be no bar to political qualification ; but this confessed desti tute population of fifteen thousand has but lately arrived from every part of the South ; the negroes composing it have no knowledge of civil government, and can have no interest in the welfare of the city ; for the most part they are con stitutional vagrants ; many of them are vicious and criminal; and almost all are lazy and worthless, as their nomadic tendencies clearly indicate. They won’t work when work is offered, though they could get work if they possessed energy or industry enough to go in search of it. Laying race and color altogether aside, therefore, are these the people to whom to entrust the government of the Fed eral Capital? —Patriot and Union, , What a Friend of llenry Clay says. To tlie “old line ” Whigs of Pennsyl vania, if any there be who still revere the name and the memory of that politi cal organization, we commend the fol lowing extract from a letter of Hon. Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky. General Coombs is well known as the intimate personal friend of Henry Clay. He writes thus to the Whigs of Kentucky : “ As a veteran in the Whig army in times past, standiug by it in all Its dis asters, as well as in its brief period of triumph, I appeal to my brother Whigs in Kentucky, what will you do? With which of the two great parties now di viding the country will you co-operate? Are you for the negro or th aiuhite man? If you coincide with me in opinionj-hen I entreat you to assemble with the Dem ocrats, and all others of similar views in your respective counties, and send your wisest and best men to,Louisville, -to hold counsel together to save the State, and restore the Union as our im mortal Revolutionary fathersmade. The recent veto message of President John son, and the action of the Senate bus* taining it, is calculated to warm, the hearts of freemen, and give hope that the usurpers ana tyrants in Congress will soon be put down, and honest men take their places. Gain of 3,500 in New Hampshire. The Manchester (N. H.) Union says : The real gain of the Democrats in the late election is better indicated by com parison of this year’s vote with the Con gressional vote ot last year. That in cluded the whole vote—the soldiers in the field voting for Congressmen, but nof voting for Governor. The Repub lican was 7,925. This year the soldiers voted at home, and most of them the Democratic ticket. Suppose Smyth’s majority to be 4,500, the true Democratic gain is about 3,500. JoHN P, Hale, United States Minis ter at Madrid, has written to prominent members of Congress, urgingan increase of his salary, which is now twelve thou sand dollars in gold. If John P. Hale cannotr manage to live at Madrid on twelve thousand dollars a year In gold he bad better come home at once. , fwareur: When in our Report of the speeoh .made byGeneral Geary oh his nomlna- itlon wesaw-flt .'to-characterize it as a poor performance, the Hxpreta saw fit to deny the truth of our assertion.— What will it think of the figure whloh this paper General and tricky politician cuts lu the following article from the New York World; Tho person whom tho anti-Johnson Ro r! p “ nus ylvanla nominated tho ? “i!y Governor was formerly the lerrUorriil.aovornor of Kansas. His namo l B ti oh !f W ' Qoar y- Doubtless ho can wrlto his own name; perhaps ho can spoil It “r r ™ l 'y i but It Is certain ho cannof write his own messages. When ho was In. Kan sas ho stole thorn. Woro ho to bo "looted Governor of Pennsylvania, of which hap plly there Is sinull probability, ho would ftovo to steal them again. /onnsylvanlS reullv desorves a Governor capablo ot writ ing Ids own messages. iV Common SeTiool system of that State ought not to culminate In suoh Gubernatorial Imbecility. Wo print below In parallel columns ex tracts from Governor Geary's Inuugural address of 1867, and the fnuuguriu ad dress of Govomor Honry J. Ganluor, do llvered to the Massachusetts Loglsluturu two yours bofore, In 1856 EXTRACTFROM OOVER* NOB lIENBY J. OABD* NHK'il IN aUGU UA L ADDRESS DELIVERED TO THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS, JANUARY l), IBM, KXTIIACT mow OOVEII NOHJOIIN W. Q BABY'S INAUGURAL ADDHKSH DELIVERED TO TIU TERRITORIAL LKOIK LATUUK OK KANSAS, JANUARY 12, 1857. Genielmen qf the Terri torial Lei/hlature (if Kama*; Tlio all-wlßo and be nertooQt being, who controls alike tlio deft tlnles of Individuals and of uatlonß, ha# permitted you tooou vene this day, charged with grave responsi bilities. • • • • •••••• For olllctal notion, l know no bolter rule thau n conscientious conviction of duty, none more variable than the vain uttempt toeoucl I lute temporary prejudice. Principle# uud Justice are eternal; aud if tampered with, sooneror luter thosuro and Indignant verdict of populur conduinna* tlou against those who aro untrue to their leadings will bo rou dered. Let us not bo fnUo to our country. °ur duty, und our con |HtltuonLs. The triumph ,of truth ami principle, 1 «iin partisan ami selfish objects, should bo our stondy purpose —the general welfare and not the Interest of a few our solo aim.— Kamaa Journal of Cbun clltfor 1857, page 21. There Ismuch moro uf the same sort of bnre- tscod literary thieving. I‘orhups roll bury would bu tlio tutor turiii, Ibr the thult la aooomnunlod witJi violence. Geary not cmly HUilu tho MnssaeliUHotls Governor's appronriulu HunttinoiilH uml correct Kmi glisb. but twists them Into (luury grammar uml drour.v senso-not quite destroying tho Identity nl tliu luiwuvur. ' tlml'l by paying two com pliment;! to tlio Unity m pliu’u of tlio ouo which bo steals, “(Iriii'lmiH llolnir." bo comoM "tbo all-wise uml bonollounl fielng." \Vltb thl»clmn K owollml no lUult, for It may Nlnnlfy Unit tho man who now solicits I’ant!■ sylvimln's sum-ngoM has tlio germs of a conscience In him, ami, llku tho Hottentot ami Iho I hug, whoso religions are uluo of a , yory rudimentary sort, thought It possible a tho act ol uln to propitiate Itu rowanler by ampler iiHorlptlons to hlu awful namo. Hut tho iioxt dlstlguromunt which Uoury practices upon thin utolou property lu vll lalnouH, Uovornor Gardner's VnnkooH wuro purmlttod to "auHumblo," "IntruHtod" with grave responsibilities. Goary must uoodn “convcno 1 ' hlu legislators "charged ” And uo ho boos on, buttering his stolon sub h tan Lives with suportluousudjecliveH, In tho hopo that tho loat will beswullowodoro it is known to bo stolon. "Principles aro on during,” |was the phruso at tho Hull; but Geary strains over thosentonoo and iinally proclaims that "principles and jUHticu aro eternal." Wo will not quarrel with Geary over this transmogrification, though it is a rule ot truth as well as of rhotoriu not to stretch tho language beyond tho broadth ot the tact. Justice probably is otornul, but Geary must see that in tho present instance it has boon only nine years in coming around; and as for principles, which, ho says, are eternal too, it is quite enough tor him to prove that the stock which he had In Kansas in the winter of '57 will last him to tho fall of '(iti, to satisfy honest Ponnsyl vanias whom to cast their votes for. Gentlemen q/ the Ornate and Ho use of hepre scntaiivcs: That graoloua Being, in whose hands are alike the destinies of individuals and of no* Hons, has permitted us to assemble this day lulrusted with grave responsibilities and duties • • • • • • ••••• I know no safer Index in official action than a couscloutlous convic tion of duty, noueino e fluctuating th'-n tho attempt to satisfy tem porary caprice. Prin ciples are enduring, and If iiLsregardodf sooner or later the ver dict of condemnation will he recordodagnlnst those who are, false to their Let us then bo true to our country aud our duty. Let the success of principle, not ofpur> ty, be our desire— the lament ol thoatato, not of a taction, our alin.— \ Massachusetts He note Document A’o. 3 for IKVj. President Johnson and the Office-Holders, The following correspondence speaks for itself and needs na commeut: LETTER TO HON. E. U. ROLLINS. Paymaster-General's Office, l Washington. D. C., March 2, IHCMI. f Hon K. Hollins, United Mates House of Represen tative*. ' J Sir: I have just received a circular of tho “New Hampshire Union Club,” requesting mo to remit u sum equal to “one aud ono hulf per cent.’’ of my annual salury for tho purpose of “defraying” (he expenses of tho approaching election. Ihe circular states that “ such persona as go homo to voto at said election are thereby excused from complying with this request. As I am not a voter, I must, according to this circular, remit u sum equal to one and one-halt percent, of my annual salary. X am against all measures which tend to destroy tho purity of the ballot-box ; and this I regard as ono. J have never given a cent for the purposeof bribing voters to voto contrary to their Judgments, and I novor shall. Any man who sells his vote deserves to be disfranchised. I have watched the doings of" Congress during the present session, and , in so doing, have noticed that you have acteil with that disunionist, Thaddeus Steven*, and , there fore, I run ln( to believe that you and your company partake of his cup , which contains the essence of disunion. ♦ U pon the principle that “ liko begets like,” I am led to believo that this money, so raised, will bo expended for tho purpose of elevating more diaunionlsts to power. As a student of tho Constitution, I have been taught that all efforts made for tho purpose or procuring power and office by unfair meuns are contrary to the spirit of liberty and lustico. I do not believe that you have, during tho present session, acted In accordance with the will of tho majority of the poopleof New Ifempshiro, and I confidently hope thut you and your disunion copartners will, ut this next election, meet with that rebuke you so justly deserve. Your appeul for funds argues tho weak ness of your cause. I am, sir, yours respectsully, * E. B. Johnson. INDORSEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT. Referred to the Paymaster-General Tho independence exhibited by tho writer in resisting tho attempt to levy a tux upon him as an office-holder under tho Fed eral government, and his Just estimate of correct principles, entitlo him to respect und approbation. I, therefore as an evidence of m U appreciation of the qualities manifested in the letter , recommend him to the Pay master- General fur early promotion. Andrew Johnson, Executive Mansion, March 15, 1860. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says the “ Dead Duck” is coming to grief. He is visi bly sinking under the heavy honors President Johnson laid on his back when he dubbed him D. D. The cor respondent thus describes his present appearance and deportment: The Secretnry of the Senate shows grief.. Earlier in the session he would trip lightly through the Capitol passages from, the Sen ate to the lower House, appear inside the bar of the House and lay a message from the Senate before Mr. Speaker, with a loud voice, a smile, creased countenance and an advanced stomach. Latterly, however when he appears he seems dejected. He mumbles in a faint voice the titles of the papers which bo holds in his band, and slides sorrowfully away to a sofa in the lobby for a few moments* interchange of woes with, the sepulchral Kelley or the ghostly Broom all. His loss*, ot voice, stomach and spirit occasions remark in the galleries, among reporters and others, who like to catch the titles of Senate bills and to oommiseram u the duck with the weak quack.” The Fall In Price of Dry Goods.. The N. Y. Poet of Tuesday •evening' says: Prices of goods of all descriptions are falling. The decline was great yester day, though some kinds of merchandise were held by owners with considerable firmness. So much effort to makesales> has rarely been put forth, ahd the dis position was everywhere manifest to close transactions and to “ realize.” The concession in dress goods are large—it extends to prints and all fine fabrics; on standards and woollens it is lightest. The fall in one month, on the basis of Borne of the prices of goods sold at auc tion yesterday, is reported to be fully one hundred per cent., but this is, of course, no criterion whatever of the market. The average decline may not exceed twenty or twenty-five per cent, in that line. There is a very general feeling of in security in business circles, amounting almost to a panic in some quarters, ana this adds to the depression. Nobody questions the policy of settling, but the public, and particularly themeniabufl*- mess, do not readily buy.
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