:-h: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11i'1866. oil.’ v, if •• »i ■.!.' 1 ■ • ' > ! r > ‘rifepi^i^gpresses'frhall tie free to eyery o •pereon-wlio. undertakes to examine Uie pro oeedlngkof tue legislature, or'any of government; and no law sliaJl ever be made to restraln therigfit thereof. Thefree commu nication of thbtight and opinions Is of the invaluable rlgh& of men! and every citizen raavfreelv speak* -write and print on any sub iflrt• beffie responsible for the abiise of that libfirtv. ffi biosecutlons for the publication of naDerß Investigating the official conduct of offi cers or men In pnbllo .capacities, or where the matter published is proper for public informa tion; the'truth'thereof may he given in evi denoe.ir'., FOR GOVERNOR: Hon. HIESTEB CLYSTER, of Berks Co. The J>emocratic Platform. The Democracy of Pennsylvania In Convention toeS reSSiTa crisis In the affairs of the Republic, and esteeming the immediate restoration of the Union paramount to all other Issues, do resolve: 1. iliat the States, whereof the people were lately n rebellion, are Integral parts of the Union and are entitled to representation in Congress by men duly elected who bear true faith to the Constitution and laws, and in order to vindicate the maxim that taxa tion without representation is tyranny, such represen tatives should be forthwith admitted. 2. Thßt the faith of the Republic is pledged to the paymentpf the National debt, and Congress should pass all ltfwß necessary for that purpose. 3. That we owe obedience to the Constitution of the United Btates, Including the amendment prohibiting slavery, and under its provisions wUI 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 unw&ling to grant the negroes the right to vote. C That the bold enunciation of the principles of the Constitution and the policy of restoration contained in theTrecent Annual Message and Freedmen’s Hu reauyeto Message of President Johnson entitle him to the confidence and support of all who respect the Constittition and love their country. 7. That the nation owes to the brave men of our armies and navy a debt of lasting gratitude for their heroic services in defence of the. Constitution and the Union; and that while we cherish with a tender afiee tlon the memories of the fallen, we pledge to their widows and orphans the nations care and protection. 8. That wo urge upon Congress the duty of equal izing the bounties of our soldiers and Bailors The great bridge across the Ohio river at Cincinnati ia said to be nearly com pleted. It is two thousand feet long, and one of the spans, measuring over one thousand feet, is said to be the largest in the world. A machine for making ice has been invented in London, which will produce eleven pounds of ice in an hour, at a cost of not more than half a cent per pound. This is cheaper than the natural article is furnished in most places. General Cass was born in 1752, and is, therefore, eighty four years old. He was born the same year with Martin Van Buren, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun and Thomas H Benton, all of whom have preceded him to the grave. General Cass is almost, if not quite, the only survivor of that class of public men who were personally acquainted with tile leading characters of the American revolution of 1770. The Radical i*ai*eks say Joe Holt is of opinion that there is sufficient evi dence in possession of the Government to justify the conviction of Davis, ('lay and others for being concerned in the assassination of Lincoln. Plenty of better men than Holt are of opinion that he lias been concerned in enough of military commission murders to justify the hauging of him till he should pronounced dead beyoml resuscita tion. The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia J’rexs, who pays special attention to the colored people' of the District of Columbia, states that a dep utation of wenches presented aboquet to each Senator who voted for the Np gro Rights bill. The Secretary of the Senate, Col. Forney, was similarly hon ored! wenches must have carried up several clothes baskets full. We presume they expect to secure the crashing of the Radical Senators and want Forney to gather up the dirty clothes. Over thirty years ago, Rev. E. H. Avery was tried in Rhode Island for the murder of Sarah M. Connell and acquit ted. The girl was found dead in the woods near a camp-meeting, and Avery was said to have been seen with her j usl before. Proof has lately appeared that the man Heen with the girl was not Ayery, but a person resembling him iu size and dress, and that the girl com mitted suicide. That Mr. Avery from all suspicion. He left the minis try after his trial, and is now living in New York. Mr. Frank Morgan, of West Eliza beth, Allegheny county, sends to the Mononguhula Jlejniblican the particu lars of a remarkable slide from the mountain which overlooks that place* During the recent wet weather a tree slipped from its position and slid down its side over rocks ami cl ills to its base a distance of about two thousand feet. The singular part was that the tree as sumed its natural position aud stood perfectly erect when it reached the foot of the mountain. There was a complete trail of its course left upon the side of the hill. , Tms Chicago Tribune furnishes the following bit of fashionable gossip : “A wealthy ami highly accomplished lady of Chicago, now sojourning Paris, has gained the affection of, and will shortly accompany to the hymenial alter, an American gentleman long residing there, sustaining a prominent connec tion with a leading Kew York journal, and whose relations to the French Government are such as to have inves ted with much interest his letters writ ten. from the capital for many years past.” Who is the “wealthy and highly accomplished lady,” and who, the ; fortunate Bohemian? A large and enthusiastic mass meeV ing of the friends and supporters of the President and his reconstruction policy was held in Washington on Thursday evening, at which speeches were made by Senator Qpwan and ex-Governor Johnson, of Pennsylvania ; Green Clay Smith, of Kentucky; Marshal Gooding, and others. Mr. Smith said, “ Andrew Johnson is the Gibraltar of America, aad every man who ditches his head against ' that rock ’ will get his brains knocked out.” Resolutions were adopted endorsing the President’s policy, oppo sing all attempts of the general govern rn&ht to force universal suffrage upon the people of any ScateorTerritory, aud in favor of the admission of loyal rep resentatives from the Southern States without delay. James Stewart, Esq., of Kißun ning, has In his possession a sword and musket barrel, relics -of Armstrong’s Expedition, which burned Kittanning in 17515. They were found on Blanket Hill, aboutfive miles east of Kittanning, some ten years ago, having lain there for about a century. Blanket Hill, it will be remembered, i« the spot where the expedition stripped itself prepara tory to the fight ut Kittanning, and where Lieut. Hogg and his party met such a fate. The sword when new must have been a handsome weapon, and propably may have belonged to the above named gallant officer. The mus ket barrel is a heavy but well made af fair, and is stamped “ London.” Thp lock, which was found at the same time, Ib stamped with the maker’s name, “Wilson.” Mr, Buchanan at Harrisburg. Mr. Buchanan visited his old friend . Governor Porter at Harrisburg on Thurs day last and remained there till Satur day' afternoon. During his stay the "’Xfemocratic members of both branches df the Legislature, together with mumber of private citizens, paid their respects to him. His visit was one of [ personal courtesy only, and Lad no corny ■nection Whatever with political moye jnents or public affairs. j ' Rtfn. ifedgar CowalaT “ Renegade” ia the politest term the Radical papers condescend to bestow upon Senator Cowan. From what is he a renegade? Not from the , of the old Whig partyy for it never held that the chief end of the imeric&n gov ernment was to keep black men in bacon through the operation of a Freed men's Bureau. Not from the'resolution' of Congress defining the object of the war, for that looked to a speedy restora tion of the Union. Those who denounce Senator Cowan as a “ renegade' 7 are the worst of renegades themselves. They have run away from all the promises they made to the people throughout the whole war. They have been guilty of fraud. They have obtained popularity under false pretences. They have proven themselves political “ confidence men” of the most unscrupulous kind. With professions of devotion to the Union constantly in their mouths for the last five years, their great delight now is to embarrass and nullify the efforts of good men and true patriots like President Johnson and Senator Cowan to restore the Union. Stand from Under. The New York Tribune , in recording two or three failures in that and other cities, remarks : “ They are not the last we shall hear of between now and mid-summer. Prudent men are begin ning tostand from under.” No wonder. The signs of the timed are threatening enough to alarm anybody. Merchants and private bankers are going by the board. State Banks are breaking in squads of a dozen at a time. Heal estate is running down and taxes are running up. There are more than sixteen hun dred National Banks in the country. Their capital is invested in stocks of the United States, and those stocks are the only security the people have for the re demption of the notes of these Banks, Instead of restoring the Union and thus giving additional value to these stocks, ,llie Radical majority in Congress are straining every nerve to preventrestora tion. They threaten the President with impeachment. They threaten the coun try with a new civil war. Another year’s delay of restoration will seriously diminish the value of government stocks. An impeachment of the Presi dent would run them down in priceone . half, aud a new civil war would render them totally worthless. Any serious diminution of their value would ruin every National Bank in the country and 1 leave this whole land strewn over with worthless notes. Well may prudent men begin tostand from under. If next fall’s elections do not put a stop'to the headlong career of tire Radicals, every man who owes two thousand dollars on ten thousand dollars’ worth of property, either real or personal, may expect to see his property sold for the debt. Assault on the President. Postmaster Bergner, who prints the Harrisburg Telegraph, which he would doubtless edit as well as print if he wasn’t too ignorant to write, some weeks ago instructed hishired editorto pursue such a course as would enable him to hold on to the post olfice and at the same time float along with the great body of his party. This half-hearted policy was tried ; but the fat man was too clumsy to ride two horses at ouce eveu by proxy, and lie has fallen down on the radical side. Feeliug that the President would see through his transparent treachery, and that lie could not hope to hold his office much longer, lie yesterday evening came out with a bitter attack upon tlfe Chief Magistrate of the United States, into whose hands he has not the manli ness to put his resignation. He says that in the result of the Connecticut election, which the Radicals have barely carried, and which they could not have carried at all if* the President’s prefer ence for j*£r. English had been made known ten days earlier, “the man now President of the United States has been signally rebuked.” He alleges that “ the issue was one solely and only be tween the people aud the President,” and that the people “ have pronounced a verdict against the President.” Pursuing his assault (by proxy) on the Chief Magistrate, the Harrisburg Postmaster says that “ the attitude of Scovel, the recreant Speaker of the New Jersey Senate, shows plainly to our mind that either the President is plot ting with the Copperheads to defeat the expressed will of the people of New Jersey, or that Andrew Johnson is using the patronage of his position to thwart the triumph of patriots who saved the government from the destruc tion of traitors.” As if all this were not insulting enough to his official su perior, this horse-leech Postmaster, who still holds on to his commission, adds that if Scovel’s “conduct is in obedi ence to orders from the President, it is infamous alike in Scovel and Audrew Johnson.” It remains to be seen how long Presi dent Johnson will permit this mercen ary wretch to act as Postmaster at the Capital of Pennsylvania. The only character he has is his official character, and he cannot be stripped of that a day too soon. • v lion. Tliaddcus Stevens, In order that our home and foreign readers may enjoy the privilege of read ing the late epistle of the “ irreproach ble” Thaddeus to the irrepressible Sco vel, we print it below in the three leading languages of Christendom : MR. STEVENS TO MB. SCOVEI. Washington, March 29, JSOU. lion. James M. scovel, Ac., Ac.: Dear Si k—By all means hurry up your elec tion. Give us no conservative. A radical like yourself or nothing. A. copperhead is better than a twaddler. TfrADDEUS STEVENS. MONSIEUR STEVENS TO MONSIEUR SCOVET. Washington, 29 mars. A l’Hon. J. M. Scovel Cher monsieurHatez.par tous lesinoyens possibles voire election, Surtout ne nous don nez pas de eonservateur, uti radical comrne vous, ou rluti. Uii copperhead est preferable a un discur de banalities. THADDEUS STEVENS. MYNIIKER STEVENS TO MYNIIKER SCOVEL ■'3o a f d>i njj t Pit, 29. 'JPtdrj. £pr. 3- DJI. gccstl u. f. JD.. ©ertl'cr £err, bctrfibeit Sit Qbrt JDaM mil alien DJluteln. t'affcit Sic uni? mtr feitten lipufercaricen befam* men. (£intn fllatifaitu, rote Sit, ober Dticmanbcn. din di’Vptrlifctt ill l'C||tr aU tin Sduudfer. Itjabbcua Steptntf. As soon as we can find a sufficiently “intelligentcontraband,” we shall have this important communication transla ted into Congo for the information of that portion of the Radical party who have had too much wool pulled over their eyes to read the language of white men. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore what kind of President Johnson i%: THEjiadicals charge'thatPresident John son is “a Can "anybody tell us what he bainsorped? A , N President Johnson has restored. the right of habeas corpus. Does “ a usurper,” relinquish despotiapowera-in ? ‘A Violations of constitutional rights dis tinguish all usurpers. President Johnson obeys the Constitution to the letter. Is this usurpation ? Usurpation, according to the radicals, means surrendering all military power/ as President Johnson has just done in his peace-prodaination. ' Civil War is favorable to the projects of a usurper. President Johnson has just proclaimed peace. But the radicals accuse him of usurpation. The Civil Rights Bill would have en abled President Johnson to imprison all State judges who disagreed with him about the negro. Yet be vetoed the bill. Was that usurpation ? Supreme Control of the Southern States was placed in the hands of the President by the passage of the Freedmen’s Bureau and Civil Rights bill. He vetoed the bills. And yet he is called “ a usurper.” Politicians are so accustomed to cor luption and rapacity that when a President declines power and patronage they call him “ a usurper.” They do not know a patriot when they see him, but the people do. The Constitution provides that the President shall veto all bills of which he disapproves. Is President Johnson “a usurper” because he has vetoed two bills out of the forty-two presented to him by this Congress ? A Usurper is apersonAvho seizes power which does not legitimately belong to him. President Johnson sternly declines all such power, even when Congress urges him to take it. How, then, can the radicals call him k ‘ a usurper?” Grant is “a usurper,” according to the radicals, because he disbanded the greater part of the army and declared that the war was ended. President Johnson has only restored us to a peace policy ( and if he be “ a usurper ” so is Grant. Congress opened the Treasury of the United States to President Johnson and au thorized him to take out as much money as he liked and distribute it among his politi cal friends He declined to touch a penny of it. Is ho a patriot or “ a usurper?” Washington was “ a usurper,” accord ing to the radicals, because he obeyed the constitution, refused to become a kiug, and resigned the command of the army. This is what President Johnson has done, and he is called “a usurper” for doing it. Thousands of new ofiices could have been created by the Freedinen's Bureau bill, and under it the President could have tilled these- offices with his favorites. He refused to take this immense power and patronage. Was that the act of “ a usurper?” Aggrandisement, both personal and political, is. the motive of a usurper. By his vetoes President Johnson has voluntari ly deprived himself of the golden opportu nities for such aggrandizement placed within his reach by Congress. If this be usurpation make the most of it. The National Intelligencer says that Inspector General Strong, of the Freedmen’s Bureau, who is at present in iSavanah, Georgia, writes to Major General Howard that there is a great scarcity of labor in that vicinity and many other places he ha 6 visited in the State. Healso states that many North ern men, who have purchased or leased plantations, will lose money the coming season, or fail altogether. Sev eral parties on the Ogechee have ex pressed themselves willing to pay as high as one dollar per day, and furnish the hands with quarters, fuel, and good rations; or would be glad to contract with the freedmen, giving them one half of the rice crop, clear of expenses; but even at this rate of compensation hands can not be secured. Agents are travelling all over the State, some of them having come from as far west as the Mississippi river, who are anxious to obtain laborers to assist in raising the present crops. This does not look as if the negroes were turning out to be such willing “ free laborers” astheaboJi tiouists expected. Every tax-payer—no matter whether he be rich or poor, whether he be Dem ocrat or Republican—will remember that the present Congress, made infa mous by its recreancy to the rights and interests of the white men, passed the “Negro Bureau Bill,” by which the tax-payers of the country would have been robbed out of at least Fifty Millions of Dollars annually to feed and clothe the idle and worthless negroes who have been thrown upon the public by the re sults of the war. And let them recol lect, also, that the Abolition Conven tion of this State, which nominated John W. Geary for Governor, endorsed this same odious bill to the very’ letter. 8,-10!) 10,6-10 2,938 2,039 11,3-17 13,*T9 .1,932 The Cincinnati Election, 5,W0 4,617 3,443 2,080 The Enquirer of Tuesday, in noticing the city election, which came oft' on Monday, after stating that the result far exceeded the expectations of the Democ racy, says The immense Republican majority of one year ago has been re duced one-half. It has fallen off from G,OOO in 1805 to 3,000 in 1800, and even far below this on a portion of the ticket. The republicans were fully organized, and had possession of the patronage of theGoverment, local, State and Federal, The Democracy were but imperfectly organized, and had no hope of success in most of the wards. They have, there fore, done exceedingly well under the circumstances. The result affords an earnest that, with energetic work, the county can he carried for the Democracy by a handsome majority. In the wards where the Democracy made a contest, their majority is exceedingly large. 6,809 1 7,101 3,790 3 075 10,00-5 10,776 The Hous'e of Representatives of the present Rump Congress filled up the measures of its infamy yesterday by ex pelling James Brooks from the seat to which he was elected by the Eighth Congressional District of this State, and voting into his seat Mr. William .E. Dodge, who was not elected, although it is known ami admitted that he used tens of thousands of dollars corruptly to secure the suffrages of the voters of that locality. A little plain talkou this matter will do no harm. Messrs. Radicals of the Rump Con gress, do you not see that, by expelling Senator Stockton, aud Congressmen Baldwin, Voorhees, and Brooks, to ac complish purely party ends, you justify and invite like violence? You use fraud and force to add to your numbers ; and you, cannot, in reason, object, if some power, superior to yours, should adopt your methods in its dealings with you. There is intrinsically, no more sacredness in the Republican majorities which elected Thad. Stevens, WenP~ worth, or Bingham, than in the Demo cratic majorities which chose Baldwin- Voorhees, and Brooks. If no rule of[ justice obtains in the one case, neither does it in the other. You kick Repv resentatives out of their seats because you have the power, and in so doing lose all moral status with the country. Should the kicking process be turned against yourselves, remember it were you who made force the arbiter. Its a poor rule that will not work both ways. Hereafter, the deliberations of this ir regular body can have no value to the public. We deny that it is a Congress of the United States. It not only ex cludes eleven States, but it reduces its own membership by violence to carry on a war against the integrity of the Union. Its record is already the most shameful page in our history.— World. Coup D'Etat Rumors.—A distinguished military chieftain has, within the last few days, been sounded by two noted politicians, one of whom was in the army, to see what extent he could be relied upon to fayor a coup d'etat by which the Southern represen tatives are to be placed in both Houses of Congress. No encouragement was given, but the project has not been abandoned.— Wash. Cor . jV. Y. Tribune. We have italioised the only question able part of the above information'. Substitute for that clause, "by which the Government of the United States is to be overthrown by a revolutionary junto of Radical demagogues," and we will vouch for every word of it, and so could the Tribune correspondent, if he is well enough infonhed to speak on this sub ject.—National Tntelligenoer. Johnson- “aUsurpcr Not to be Forgotten Mr. Brooks Expelled. ife«TUß4hte»Bill Piwmwi Owrttte’ Teto In the Home by 122 to 4l—The . . JHmren Jubilant over the Host Seri ; Blow ever Strack at the Liberties -■ of White Hen. ?. Washington, April 9.— The vote on thef Ci’WjJ Rights Bill * notwithstanding the Prtidd&pt’H veto—-yeas ■ 122,-mays 41— when the Sp<&ker N dedared; th o bill had become a law; .j Tremendous, long-continued and deafening; applause fol lowed,*, with some hisses* amid which’ the ’'House adjourned. Signs of Storm, The tyjphoon which sweeps the China dread of mariners—is , thrice terrible, because theskiesgivenowarn-. ingo'f its coming. Pleasant zephyrs la zily flap tne'loose canvas and gently swell the sails. No. cloud, save per haps a fleecy tangle of vapor, dimsthe bright sunshine. The sea is smooth, and there is not air enough to toss a white-cap on Its waves. But suddenly, almost in the twinkling of an eye, the shock of the hurricane sends the vessel reeling over the stormy waters. Sails and cordage are rent, masts go by the board, aud the’dismantled hulk which lives through the gale owes its safety either to the surpassing strength of its timbers, or to the forethought of the seaman in watching the fall of the ba rometer, which alone foretells the com ing of the mighty wind. The American people havebeen taught by hard experience a lesson which they should have learned from history, that there is such a thing as a political typhoon—a storm which sends nor clouds nor lightning as its herald, and which makes its works of ruin thrice disastrous, because the nation which lies in its path is unprepared to meet it. It is possible, as we all know from the bloody lesson of 1861, that a nation shall be on the eve of a revolution in which a million of lives are destined to’ be sacri ficed, and yet thatits people shall be blind to the coming of “ the destroying angel, the waft of whose wings is thunder, and the tremor of whose plumes is storm.” And yet we had warnings enough. The fathers of the Republic, and all the great statesmen who came after them, had foretold many' times that the conten tions of sectional parties, if such were ever established, would culminate in the terrible strife of the battle-field. On the 4th of March, 1861, the day of which they had had prophetic vision had come. A sectional party had got control of the general government. Mr, Lincoln had been inaugurated as President of States already divided against each other al though there had as yet been no open war save that which John Brown and his followers, under the sanction of the Abolitionists, had made upon the com monwealth of Virginia. Ordinances of secession, held to be perfectly valid by the people who passed them, and by large numbers of persons in the North of whom Mr. Greeley was the spokes man, had temporarily deranged the re lations of the Gulf States to the general government, although, as the Democ racy held then, and hold now, these enactments were altogether impotent to carry them out of the Union. There was arming and drilling all over the South. Threatening and angry words were the language of the dominant party in tlieNorth. RadicalSenatorssneered at honorable campromise, and demanded speedy “blood letting,” without which they declared the “Union would not be wortharush.” Madness ruled supreme everywhere, and the brave, and good, and conservative men in both sections, who lifted their voices in behalf ofpeace and good will, found themselves either despised as visionary fools, or threatened with popular \*olence as public enemies. This was the state of things when Mr. Lincoln became President, and for six weeks afterwards it grew worse. The political barometer kept falling, falling. The mercury sunk into the bulb. But there was a bright sky overhead, and not a cap-full of wind to raise the fears of people who relied on mere material and outward signs of storm. We were so rich, aud so strong, andso prosperous, and there had been so much talk of dis union and war, and it had been so long coming, and the people were so un used to fighting, and so habituated to minding their business and making money, that although we stood on the very edge of a ghastly four years’ strife, men would not be roused to see it. No capable or potent hand was stretched out to avert its calamities and horrors. The storm found us unprepared because we did not choose to read the signs of its approach, and although we weather ed it out, it was with fearful peril to our free institutions, and a loss of life of which no man wishes now to think. If we do not greatly err—we lay no claim to the gift of prophesy, but simply assert an honest disposition to read tlie plain signs of the times—we are hover ing now on the brink of dangers as great as any through which we have passed. Ominous hints begin to fill the air. The Radicals regard the continu ance of power in the hands of Andrew Johnson for the next three years as a fatal obstacle to the schemes by which they propose to secure the control of this country’ for all time to come. They have tried the arts of conciliation to move him from his faithful adherence to the Constitution; they have tried threats, too, and vituperation; hut all alike in‘vain. He will not change a policy bottomed on the supreme law either upon the suggestions of simulated friendship or under the spur of party dictation. He has chosen his position cautiously aud wisely, and he means to hold it firmly and forever. It is not to be supposed that men as ruthless of heart and as void of principle as the Radicals who rule Congress, will suffer their assaults upon the Constitution to be repulsed without seeking vengeance on him who keeps ward over the great charter and defends it from spoliation. If they cannot make away with the supreme law they will do their best to destroy its guardian. Hence it is that we begin to hear whispers of impeachment and dark threats of a revolution, to he directed to the overthrow of the President. There was a time when we might have disregarded these and like portents of evil which are now abroach But we have learned a lesson whicli we mean to remember. “ Sixty-day” skirmishes expand into mighty wars. Tlie bluster of ..demagogues, if they chance to have power, sets bayonets clashing and rules tlie thunder of artillery. A bee may thrust its little sting through a crevice in the armor of the strong man and smite him to the earth; and small politicians, incapable to reconstruct or even to carry on an established govern ment, may yet lie able to precipitate a revolution which will result in its over throw. It is well to be warned in time. If tlie storm >s coming let us not be unprepar ed lor it. If the President oftlieUnited States is to be made a victim of party malice because of his maintenance of the rights of these StatesundertheCon stitution, and his refusal to obey the be hests qf a lawless faction—if he is to be impeached by such accusers as Thadde lis Stevens, and tried before such judges as Charles Sumner, we have a vision, dreadful but distinct, that the decree which shall unseat him will be|registered in blood —whose blood, time alone can shoiv. — Age. Departure or Ex-Presldcnt Buchanan. Ex-President Buchanan left town for Lancaster ou Saturday afternoon on the "two o’clock train, after enjoying a brief visit of two days in our midst. Mr. Buchanan's eminent public services are knpwn to all. We will simply make a -brief gketch of his illustrious career. He wasTiern-ftrFfanklin county, Penn sylvania, April 23, 1791, and is therefore nearly 75 years of age. He served his country as a private soldier in the war of 1812, and in 1821 was elected a mem ber of Congress, having previously served in the State Legislature. Hecon tinued in'Congress ten years until 1831, when he was appointed by General Jackson Minister to Russia. He re mained abroad three years, and was elected a United States Senator from Pennsylvania in 1835. He served in the Senate until 1845, when he resigned to accept the position of Secretary of State under James K. Polk. He filled that position during the entire four years of Mr. Polk’s administration, when he re tired from public life. He remained at Wheatland until 1853, when he was appointed by President Pierce Minister to the Court of St. James. In 1856 he re signed that mission and returned home, and was elected President of the United States. He was inaugurated President on the 4th of March, 1857, and conduct ed public affairs with dignity and skill until succeeded by President Lincoln In 1861. Since that time Mr. Buchanan has been enjoying repose from the la bors of the past, and lives at his beauti ful residence called “ Wheatland,” near Lancaster city, Pennsylvania, honored, respected and admired by his fellow-citizens everywhere.—Harris burg Union. The Position of Gen. Lee—The Becon straetlon Committee. “ Hack,” the ofthe Cincinnati Commercial , fills : izpthe.vacuum Ui N Gen4ral, Lee’s teeti ifiohy before 'tion (?) Conmiitteevas follows!. It Is a imost capital hit "at the folly of such a Committee as well as the radical fools f who serve upon it: : ' ‘‘ I atu sony to'observe a disposition on the part of the Reconstruction Committee to suppress in the pretended publication jof General Lee’s testimony, the most import ant portion of that distinguished officer’s examination. I violate no confidence in giving it, as follows : i Q.—What kind of shirts did you wear daring the wart * i A.—Calico, sometimes, and sometimes woolen. ! Q. —You are married, are you not? t A.—Yes, I am. j Q-—Well, state to the Committee wbpt kind of under- clothing your wife wore dur ing the unholy strife. ! A.—l was not at home much of the time and can’t say. J Q. —What color was it? A. —I don’t know. i Q.—Wasn’t it gray ? A.—l never took notice. \ Q. —Don’t you know that the ladies ofthe South formed a secret cabal for the wearing of gray petticoats during the war? A.—l do not. Q. —Don’t yon think they wore more gray than blue in the article of clothing to which we refer? A.—l do not know. Never investigated that subject. Qr —Is it true that the women of the South wear Jeff. Davis’ picture in their bosoms? A.—l never took notice. Should not be surprised if some of them did. Q,—Do you think a Freedman's Bureau agent would be allowed to marry into a first family of Virginia? A.—lf a young lady belonging to a first family were willing, I suppose he could. Q.—How long will it be before pumpkin pies become a favorite dish in the lately re bellious districts ? A.—l do not know. Some people like them now. Q.—ls there not a great aversion to cod fish, as a Yankee staple oi diet ? A.—l do not know that there is. Q. —Do they like pork and beans in Vir ginia? A.—Some people do. Q. —What’s vour opinion of the Fenians ? A. —I have not given the subject much attention. Q. —How are you on Schleswig-Holstein? A.—l have not made up my mind on that subject either. Q.—Which side do you sleep on? A.—The right side generally. (1. —Do Southern men geuerally continue to sleep in arms, notwithstanding thecessa tion of the rebellion? A. —Those who are married do, I believe. Q.—Do those whoare not married abstain from doing so? A.—l can’t say they all do. There are other important parts of Gen eral Lee’s testimony not yet published by the Committee on Reconstruction. I trust I have given enough to show, when con trasted with what has heretofore been given to the public, that the most significant por tions of the examination—those bearing most directly on the great problem of re construction—are willfully suppressed. Mack. Christian (?) Feeling. Is it strange that many Northern poli ticians and a portion of the Northern press should continue to bespatter the South with foul aspersions, when their clergy —claiming to be men of God —set them the example every recurring Lord’s day? What must we think of that religion whose professors, instead of winning us with love and gentle kindness, profanely allege that we are identical with the great Arch Euemy of mankind! Will it be credited that at a Conference of Ministersof the Holy Gospel of Chi ist, held in Philadelphia, that city of Brotherly Love, a certain minister remarked, that “if they were, given a good supply of good paen, neither the Devil nor/the South could break them down.” To which Bishop Ames remarked: “ They are both the same, brother”—at which piece of rever end wit, it is conceded, that there was much “laughter” amongtheassembled clergymen. A set of political sinners and demago gues at a town caucus of the party, would behaved with as much decency and propriety. And are these men followers of the meek and lowly Saviour, who preached and prac ticed peace aud love? Verily, itappears that they do need “ a supply of good men,” to prevent “the Devil” from “breaking them down,” without any aid fromtheSouth. Clerical buffoonery is painful to witness at any time, but when it appears pointed and directed by sectional animosity, it becomes a matter of grave and most serious reflec tion as indicative of the decay of true religion. Are our churches, or are our people, North and South, to be recon ciled by calling one another “devils?” Speaking in behalf of the Union, of peace and harmony, we vehemently de precate and utterlycondemnsuchexam ples, no matter where they occur. The lips of the clergy should never be de filed by such utterances. The fierce pas sions and coarse epithets of the political arena should never be permitted to invade the sanctuary of the church. We are grieved and pained when we see these continued exhibitions of bad feeling and malignant expression, cor rupting public opinion and overthrow ing public reason and good will. Let the politicians, press and preachers ab stain from firing the passions and preju dices of the people for a few months only, and the native honesty and kind hearts of our people would make, a restoration of the Union which would put a blush upon the cheek of every enemy of peace. All that the North and South need to eome together and : to live happily and harmoniously is to be let alone. Why is it necessary to fre forever stirring anew the elements of discord? Did abuse ever produce any other crop but hate? Can sneers and epithets move the breasts of the people to anything but discord and malice? If common charity and love be wanting where are common sense and self-inter est, that men should still continue to sow the seeds of strife? It is high time that the pandemonium of political agi tation had been abated. We quarrelled and fought—are we still to quarrel again and keep it up forever? For shame! For shame!!— Richmond Times. Financial and Commercial, The New York World of yesterday says: The money market was easier to-day at five to six per cent, for call loaDs, and seven per cent, for strictly first-class paper. The recent failures of bankers, the run upon those in Rochester and the late robberies and frauds, are alarm ing to capitalists and money lenders, many of whom think that the season of frauds incident to every speculative era is at hand. When the season of frauds and failures immediately preceding the final collapse of the bubbles created by the paper money system does come, they willjbe, doubtless, for amounts on a scale of magnitude far exceeding every thing in the records of the past. The Indiana fraud for two or three millions, the Ketchum affair for four or five mil millions, the Columbian Marine Insurance Company for seven mil lions, Culver, Penn, & Co., with thirteen victimized banks, and the rob bery of 51,500,000 in bonds, Ac., from Mr. Lord, have all failed to astonish or agitate the community. Before the re bellion, any one of these affairs would have seriously affected our money len- i ders. Now-a-days, they are considered trifles. Nothing short of failures or frauds for five or six hundred millions, which will wipe out of existence the national banks of the country, is likely to disturb seriously the callous serenity of the people. Stock operators play with counters for millions, and national bank presidents and cashiers, all over the country, are in with them and sup ply the funds from their own banks. When the bubble dbesburst, the assets of the national banks will consistlarge ly of the paper of first-class insolvent millionaires. The general trade of the city is active, but prices are low. The dry goods mar ket has improved, and prices are better under the influence of large sales, the steadiness in the price of gold, and the resolution to add 50 percent, to the cus tom house duties for a period of ninety days. Thiß resolution, although never intended to be acted upon, has been of benefit to importers. Dry Goods. —The following quota tions are from the bulletin of the Dry Goods Exchange, No. 49 and 51 Park place: Jobbers' Prices. —Brown Sheetings—At lantic A, 26c.; Nashua Extra, 22c.; Pepper ell E, 25c. Bleached Shirtings—Masonville, 37c.; Anthony Manuf. Co., 28c.; Palmer River, 24c,; Palermo. 19c. Prints—Merri mack W, 22c.; Merrimack D, 21cj Ameri can, 19c.; Allen, 15c. Delaines—Hamilton 22Jc,; Armures,234c. Brown Drills-Pepper ell, 25c.; Winthrop, 20c. Corset Jeans— Pepperell, 26c.; Bates, 174 c. Canton Flan nels—Naumkeag, 30c.; Nashua, 27c. Ticks —Amoskeag C, 41c.; Amoskeag D 36c. Hoop Skirts— Bradley’s Duplex Eliptio—2o to 60 hoops, S7Jc, to §1.05; Empress Trail, §1,26. The lnfamoas Outrage on the White Sen of the United. States Consummated. The Civil Bights’ BUI Passed Over Presf. dent Jobnson’s Bight eons Veto by a la. . - Pull Particulars ofthe Final Debate an< Tote In the Senate, - The moatinfamoua outrage of modern times waa perpetrated upon the white men of the United States in the U. S, Senate yesterday. The Civil Rights’ Bill was passed over the' veto and un answerable objections of President Johnson. The Radicals have done their worst. We believe the liberties of the people will yet be preserved, be cause Andrew Johnson is in the Presi dential chair, and he is equal to the emergency. Below will be found a full report of the closing scenes in the ’Seju ate: The morning hour, which was devoted to debate on the Reconstruction resolution of Mr. Lane of Kansas, having expired, the Veto Message wa9 taken up. Mr. Wade continued hisspeech, discussing the President’s policy in unlavorableterms. Mr. Lane rose at the conclusion of Mr. Wade’s speech, and said: The Senator from Ohio, forgetting the position he occupies, has suggested that I have t ken upon my self the collar of the President oftheUnited States, I hurl the suggestion into the teeth of the Senator from Ohio as unworthy a Senator. Ale wear a collar! The pro slavery party backed by a Democratic ad ministration, sustained and supported by the army of the United States, could not fasten a collar upon the handful of Kansas squatters of which I had the honor to be the leader. The fight the Senator from Ohio made in this Chamber, and a gallant fight he made, aided by other Senators, would have been of but little avail had it not been for that other fight made on the prairies of Kansas under the lead of your humble speaker.— Me wear a color! indicted for treason by a pro-slavery grand jury; hunted from State to State by a writ founded upon that indict ment for treason ; a hundred thousand dol lars offered for my head ! Jim Lane wear acollar. (Laughter.) Wherever he is known that charge is denounced us false by both friend and enemy. Mr. President, I desire to call the atten tion of the Seilator from Ohio to the state ment I have read from his speech yesterduy. The President of the United States is not here to answer for himself. Mr. Wade—l wish he was. Mr. Lane again read the extract given above, and said he appealed to Mr. Wade to withdraw the serious charge he had made against the President. Toward the conclusion of his remarks, he referred to the Connecticut election. One more victory like that, he said, would ruin the Republican party. It wasthefirst'scratch ofthe handwriting on the wall. Ho was not* the defender of the President’sspeechon the 22d of February. He believed the President was excited (laughter) when.ho made it; he had been provoked to it by what had been said of him in Congress. Mr. grown took thfe floor to correct a a statement made by Mr. Lane in relation to the position of Senators on the Winter Davis Reconstruction bill. Ho (Mr. Brown) had voted for universal suffrage in that bill, and he desired to reiterate that statement, and to say that no proposition at nuy time looking to readmissiou ofthe lately* rebel lious States would receive his vote, unless it provided for universal suffrage, without regard to color or race. Mr. Doolittle said he was not present when the Civil Rights Bill was passed, but had ho been here no doubt he should have voted for the measure. .Since the passage of the bill in the Senate he had read the very able speeches of Messrs. Bingham and Delano, of Ohio, and the objections to the bill as set forth in the Veto Message, nnd these had caused him to give the measure his earnest consideration. It contains propositions upon which the ablest men in whom he had unbounded confidence differ. He wishes the bill could be placed in charge of the Judiciary Committee, and that that Committee would frame one which would avoid the objection raised to it in this bod}', in the other House, and by the Executive. He was desirous of preserving amicable re lations between Congress and the Executive. There were three years yet of this admin istration during which the country may live or perish. He had discovered the elements of a collision before tiie session of Congress, and he had striven and would strive to pre vent it. He saw among his frien Is a dispo tion to net toward the President as though the Executive was unworthy of their coun sel. lie deprecated this telling. Gentlemen belonging to the Union party denounced others of that party for supporting the Pre sident and his policy, and they called the President a traitor lor carrying out thut pol icy. Mr. Doolittle proceeded to show the adop tion of this policy, step by step, by Mr. Lin coln and his administration ; its indorse ment by Congress, os late ns March of last year; the reiteration of this policy by Mr. Lipcoln in his speech but three days before his death, and the faithful adherence of Mr. Johnson to the measure and policy adopted by, and the process of consummation when the present Executive succeeded Mr. Lin coln. The latter had laid down the track on which the car of State was to move.— The train was moving on, when in came some gentlemen who claim to be wiserthan Mr. Lincoln and threw obstructions upon the track, and thre%v the car of State off the track. Mr. Dooliltle said he had received a de spatch informing him that the Legislature of his State had pnssed a resolution request ing him to vote for the Civil Rights bill, the President’s objections thereto notwith standing. Ho hndalreadysetforth at length his objections to the measure, and he could not vote lor it, and he would abide by the consequences. He entertained the highest respect for the gentlemen 'composing the Legislature of his State, butstanding where he does, he sees what they cauuot. They are at a distance, and intluenced by a purty press, and persons interested in a continua tion of disorder in the South. Mr. DoolittJe read from letters from gen tlemen of great intelligence, sojourning in the South, to prove that shameful misrep resentations of the real sentiments of the Southern people have been made by news papers through their correspondents. One of Mr. Doolittle’s correspondents snys ac counts in the Northern press are mere car rieatures of Southern sentiment, and that be has never heard of any conspiracy, or effort, or intention of any kind, to resist the government or laws, or to oppress the negro. Mr. Davis, of Ky., rose anu said he would proceed a good deal like an October rain, with deliberation and very much at his leisure. Ho proceeded to speak aguinst the Civil Rights bill, and in favor of the veto. Toward the conclusion of bis remarks, Mr Davis said if the bill now pending before Senate became a law be should he compelled to regard himself as an enemy to the gov ernment and to work for its overthrow. — Ho wanted no bureaucracy to govern this country. Mr. Saulsbury, of Delaware, look the floor and said—f rise to say, sir, that in my judgment the passage of this bill is an inau guration of revolution. It is well, sir, that the American people should take warning and set their house in order, for it is impos sible that the people will patiently submit to it. Heaven knows wo nave had enough of bloodshed, enough of mourning in every household, There are too many newly made graves for any one to wish to see more. Attempt to execute this law within the limits of any State of this Union, and in my judgment this country will again bo plunged into all the horrors of civil war. In my own State—an bumble Stale in point of number, but a State of gallant sons —your law will never be observed by the judiciary of that State, most of them of the Republican party—there is not, I say. a Republican judge—we never had a judge so dear to the teachings of the great lumi naries of the law as to attempt, to enforce such n llagrunllv unconstitutional law or act as this. I shall not again enter upon the constitutionality or uneonstitutionality of the act; but, sir, if it be not grossly, flagrantly unconstitutional, then fiyo-nnd- twenty years of soma diligent study pf the law have availed me nothing. In conclusion, Mr. Saulsbury predicted that the passage of this bill would lead to bloodshed, war and disunion. Mr. Yates simply wished to sav : Let the Union people of this country and their Sen ators aud Representatives march forward in the performance of their duty, and jet them do it now and hereafter. ' Mr. McDougall spoke of this bill as revo lutionary and unconstitutional; one of a series or revolutionary measures now be fore Congress. The vote was then taken orvthe question, shall the bill pass, the President’s objection notwithstanding, and the result was as fol lows: r' Yeas—Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chand ler, Clark, Conness, Cragin, Cresswell, Ed munds, Fessenden, Foster, Grimes, Harris Henderson, Howard, Howe, Kirkwood’ Lano(lnd), Morgan, Morrill, Nye, Poland’ Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner, Trumbull, Wade, Wil ley, Williams, Wilson and Yates—33. Nays—Messrs. Buckalew, Cowan, Davis, Guthrie, Hendricks, Johnson, Lane of Kansas, McDougall, Nesmith, Nor ton, Riddle, Saulsbury, Van Winkle and Wright—ls. Absent—Mr. Dixon. When Mr . Morgan recorded his vote in* loud/^ rmat * Ve ’ a Pplauded very The Chair announced, amid great ap that the bill having received a two thirds vote, had become a law, but subse quently corrected the inadvertence by sta ting that the bill, having received a two thirds vote, had passed the Senate. On motion of Mr. Trumbull, the Secreta ry of the Senate was ordered to communi cate to the a 00,- 000 to erect, not to speak of the value of the lots upon which they were built, their profits on the sale were worse than infiuitesimal. AU this occurred fifteen or twenty years ago; and meanwhile Burrows has been living in Italy like a nabob, on the results of his ill-gotten treasure —anotherof the family of exiles to whom to such names as Bcbuyler, Fowler, Swartwout, ct id onine genus > have beeu lent a sort of lustre.” Appeal from Head Centre o’Mahony Stephens Coming to America—Tile Irlnli Head Centre’* Without As Alleged), ete.. Hkalhi’s Fknia>' Broth krjioou, ) No. :12 East Seventeenth street. [■ New York, April 5, INK). J To the Fenian Brotherhood: Brothers: It is my duty toannouncc to you the arrival, in Paris, of James Stephens, C. E. 1. R. 8., and to prepare you for his coming to the United St ites. Four days previous to his leaving Ire land he dispatched a special envoy to me, your Head Centre, witli instruc tions to publish the following fuels as soon as it became certain that he had reached the French capital in safety. First. He informs the American and Irish-American public, through me, that he left the organization in Ireland in as good a condition as it lias been since the recent Fenian scandals Juid begun in America, and had cast a gloom over the hopes of all true lovers of free dom ; and that he had placed the ruins of his government in the hands of com petent, devoted, and well-tried leaders, to direct it during his temporary ab sence. Second. That he went tef Paris ou most important business connected with, the present struggle for Irish nation hood. ami not because he had been forced thereto by the enemy. —=— — Third. He is now coming to the United States for the purpose of re storing harmonious counsel and well concentrated action among all true friends of Ireland on the American continent; aud to reconeile'ull discord ant elements, and to make a last appeal for his suffering country to all liberty loving men throughout the world. His stay will be but short In onr midst. Let us receive his advent to these shores as his patriotic devoted ness, his high talents, and stern fideli ty deserve. May dire discord, and hate ful jealousies; vanish from among us at his approach. May they cease thence forth and forever to be the constantly recurring destroyers of our hopes for national resurrection. I remain, in fraternity, your obedient servant, John* ()’ M AifoNY, H. C. F. B. Snappfng-Turtlc Tom. iFrom the Cincinnati Commercial.! Dr. Burney, of Dakotah, is certainly the greatest uagjn the House of Rep resentatives at the present time. He can tell more stories and will go further in pursuit of a practical juke, than any other man on the floor of the House. Like all other sensible men he is a Con servative Republican, and supports the President and his policy. A neighbor of bis on the floor is Mr. Williams, of Pittsburg, a vain old gentleman of ex tremely Radical views. Mr. Williams was in the habit of talking to Burney of Conservatives as dead-and-alive sort of men, ami of the Radicals as ‘‘the real,, wide-awake, snapping-turtle party.” The Doctor one day bethought him of a joke, but only hinted just thou to Mr. Williams that he’d better look out or that snapping-turtle party would play hell with him. Next morning, while passing through the market, he saw a lot of turtles exposed for sale, among them a pugnacious snapper that seemed to be affording a great deal of amusement to a crowd of bystanders. His size was about that of the crown of' a man’s hat, but his grit was Immense, and he jumped at everything that came in his way, whetliera crowbar or aeoru stalk. Burney immediately became his purchaser, and seizing him by the tail, put him in a basket and carried him to the capitol. It was not yet 11 o’clock and the hall waa nearly empty, so he was enabled to carry out his pro ject unobserved. He went directly to Williams’ desk, found it unlocked, by good fortune, quietly lifted the lid, and transferred thesuapperfrom the basket, to rumble aud tumble among foolscap and pub. docs., then closed Lhe desk and left it as if nothing had occurred of the extraordinary character just re lated. After the House had been called to order, Burney, who, with a few o!' the initiated, hau kept a close eys on Williams, to see if he would open his desk, and had been disappointed, ap proached the old man, and witii an air offeigued impatience,said : “ Williams, reach your baud into your desk, anti get me a sheet of paper, I’m out.” Williams raised the I tti of Ids desk just enough to let Ids hand in, and was reaching for the requested sheet, wheu he experienced a remarkable sensation, uttered a yell which astonished half the House, and jumped backward half u dozen feet. The “snapper” had grab bed for him, caught him by the eoat cuffs, and narrowly missed his hand. It is not necessary to say that there was a big laugh at Williams’ expense, at the termination of which Burney said to him : ” I told you to look out for this darned Bnapping-turtle party, as you call it. It isa dangerous crowd.” Mack. Circular letter from the President. Washington, April 7th.—The Pres ident has just issued the following cir cular to Headß of Departments in erence to appointments to office: It is eminently right and proper that the Government of the United States should give earnest and substantial evidence of the just appreciation of the services of the patriotic men who, when the life of the nation was imper illed, entered the army and navy to, , preserve the integrity of the Union, de fend the Government, and maintain and perpetuate unimpaired its free in stitutions. It is therefore directed: First. That in appointments to office in the several Executive Departments of the Generai Goverennient and the various branches of tho public service connected with, said Departments, preference shall be gived to such meritorious and honor ably discharged soldiers and sailors, particularly those who havo been dis abled by wounds received or diseases contracted in the Hue of duty, as may possess the proper qualifications. Second. That inwall promotions fit said Departments, ami the several branohea of the public servied connect ed therewith, such persons shall have preference, when equally eligible and qualified, over those who nave not faithfully and honorably served in the land or naval forces of the United States s Andrew Johnson, Executive Mansion, April 7th, 1866,