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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.
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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 <S un says; Lieut. Gen.
Grant was arrested on Saturday after
noon by office Bailey, on the charge of
fast driving. The officer had quite a
race after the. General, and when he
caught up the General offered to pay
the fine, but refuesd to be arrested.
The officer having no authority to
receive fines on the highway, desired
the General to report at the station
house, but he immediately drove off at
full speed. It is said that President
Lincoln was once placed under arrest
for fast driving, ana acknowledged the
authority of the law by paying his fine
at the station-house.
Democratic Victory In Hartford.
Hartford, Ct., April 9. —The result
of tlie Hartford election to-day was a
full vote, and the Carrying of the entire
City by the Democrats, totally changing
tpti political character of the city gov
ernment. The Democrats elect Charles
R. Chapman Mayor, over Allyn 8.
Stelluiuu, the present Mayor, by 233
Majority, and Henry H. Pitch Collec
,tor, by 2UU, over H. T. Sperry, the pres
ent Collector. They also elect the
City Clerk by 200 majority, the Auditor
and City Marshal, and have a majority
ip the City Council.
During the whole period of Mr. Lin
coln’s administration, the
“You’re a Traitor” was constantly qnj
.the Ups of a class ofc blackguard, low-j
breu appU?af it iq
every Democrat who did not? believe
that all that Mr. Lincoln. 'did, said and
drowned, waa entirely rightaud
They were unwilling . that any man
should differ with.the in any
particular. He was “ the government,”
they said, and the man who didn’t
support the government through thick
and thin was “.a traitor,” according to
their way of thinking, and deserved
hanging at the first lamp-post.
Now, 1 then, what was sauce for the
goose ought to be sauce for the gander.
If Mr. Lincoln was the Government
then, surely Andrew Johnson is the
Government now, and should be sus
tained by every loyal citizen. Mr.
Johnson is trying fo restore and recon
struct the Union on a Constitutional
basis, and it is the duty of every man,
who has at heart the interests of the
country, to stand by him and hold up
his hands in the great work before him.
He is defending and protecting the
Constitution, and those who are op
posing him aie revolutionists and trai
tors, according to their own argument.
The only true Union men are those
who are upholding and sustaining the
President. All others are. bogus, no
matter what they may call themselves,
or how loud-mouthed their professions
are.
Under Which King, Benzonlafi?
Why don’t the Federal office-holders
in thi3 city call a meeting to sustain
their master, President Johnson? They
have done it in several other places—
thenwbynotin Lancaster? Is Stevens’
whip still held in terrorem over them,
or are they in reality, which is doubt
less the fact, opposed to Mr. Johnson
and his entire policy of restoration?
The U. S. Assessor had a flag hung
outon the result of the Connecticutelec
tion, and the whole crew, plate lickers
and all, were exceedingly jubilant atthe
triumph of the radicals iu the nutmeg
State, which they claim as a victory over
President Johnson. I
Let these officials come out boldly ami
openly, and be either one thing or the
other. They cannot serve two masters.
If they are for Stevens, they are against
Johnson, and vice versa. But let them
show their true colors, and no longer
continue to row the boat in one direc
tion while their eye is fixed in the op
posite. Come,gentlemen, be honest for
once, and take your true position, even
at the risk of losing your bread and
butter.
Which Is the Union Party ?
President Johnson, on the 23d ult.,
said to several Connecticut gentlemen :
“ THE UNION PARTY IS NOT THE
PARTY OF THE RADICALS.”
“ When I said the Union party, I DID
NOT MEAN THE MEN WHO ARE
ENDEAVORING TO BREAK UP
THIS UNION, BUT THE MEN WHO
STAND BY ME!” “I believe the
maintenance of this Uuion depends
upon the policy which I have indicated
to Congress, aud those who sustain
THAT POLICY ARK MY FRIENDS, AND
THOSE WHO OPPOSE THAT POLICY I
CERTAINLY HAVE NO DESIRE
TO SEE ELECTED TO ANY OF
FICE !”
The Democratic party sustains Presi
dent Johnson’s policy, and the Radical
party does not. Therefore the Demo
cratic party stands by the Uuion, and
the other does not. Hiester Clyrner
supports the President’s white man’s
course, and General Geary does not.
The President’s choice between them is
therefore plain.
Our Gain in Connecticut,
The great gain for the Democratic
party in Connecticut can only be realized
by taking the count by Congressional
districts ; ami considering the fact that
the State is at present represented by
four Abolitionists, the vote by districts
is as follows :
FIRST DISTRICT.
Hawlr)/. Enf/lixh.
8.61S ’ 8,037
2,37S 1,037
Oo}inties.
Hartford..
Tolland....
10,SUli 10,871
Abolition majority 122
SECOND DISTRICT.
New Haven.
Middlesex;..,
Democratic majority
THIRD DISTRICT.
New London
Windham
0,073 0,703
Abolition majority 2,370
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Fairfield..
Litchfield.
Democratic majority
The result shows a gain of two Con
gressional districts, and also that a sound
Democratic district requires 24,010 voters
for a representative, while a strong
Abolition district needs only 1.5,770.
Ex-Governor Johnston
- Wm. F. Johnston, who, by virtue of
his office of Speaker of the Senate, be
came Governor of Pennsylvania when
Governor Shunk resigned in the sum
mer of 1048, ami who was elected to the
gubernatorial chair in tile fall of the
same year by the Whig party, addressed
an “ Andy Johnson” meeting in Wash
ington city ou Thursday last. He as
serted that tlie President adhered to the
principles enunciated by the Conven
tion that nominated him, and that it
was the Radical party that hud departed
therefrom. Those who now compose
the great bulk of the Republican party
of Lancaster county were tlie warm sup
porters of Governor Johnston in 1848
and throughout his administration. We
do notknowany reason why they should
not put the same confidence in him now
that they did then, and therefore we in
vite tlie attention to the following brief
extract from his speeoh at Washington.
He said :
I do not know your President more than
T have been introduced to him on one or
two occasions, and never spoke twenty
words to him in my life. I know many of
your members of Cougress, mid I know
many of them to bo highly estimable gen
tlemen. They were sent to this Congress
to perform a particular duty; and I trust
they are performing that duty as they un
derstand it. And while there in the per
formance of that duty, I am willing to sus
tain them as a branch of the Government;
but whenever they step beyond the lino or
that duty for the purpose of making unjust
attacks upon a co-ordinate branch of the
Government, I am opposed to sustaining
them. [Loud applause.]
Now, my fellow-citizens,' I say here to
night, fearlessly, that Andrew Johnson,
your President, stands preoisely on the
platform that was made for him by tlie
party that nominated him at Baltimore.
[Enthusiastic appluusc.] He stands on
precisely the same platform that Congress
made for you and me by their resolution,
that this war, as they call it, was prose
cuted for tlie purpose of putting down the
rebellion against the laws and restoring
this Union. Let those Congressmen, many
of whom voted for that resolution, go to
their own records and they will find they
are either by their actions to-day lying to
their constituents or they were then.
Andy Stewart.
This old gentleman, so many years
the leading man in Fayettecounty,Pa.,
in opposition to the Democratic party,
is out in full support of President John
son, and belabors the radicals with con
siderable spirit. Mr. 8., in a recent
speech said “he had served several
years in Congress with Andrew John
son. He knew him well, and he never
knew a ; firmer, purer, or more patriotic
man—a man . who, by ; his talent and
unaide.d efforts, had raised himself by
regular steps from the lowest to the
highest position in the syorld. He had
good fensp and good principles. His
instincts are all right, and he can't go
wrong. Yon can neither drive norseduc^
The New York Herald of yesterday,
in|the following pithy and truthful
paragraphs, shows > 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 <?opy of the veto mes
sage, together with the result of the vote
above given.
The Senate adjourned at 6.80 to meet on
Monday next.
The press of New Orleans call for
the return of the libraries tahen North
durlngthe war.
, j •• I a t or i»iPfiW‘w- 3 ,:
The New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Oommtrcial says;
announcement of deaths,
published by.one or two of our papers on
Monday, appeared the information that
one Philip Burrows; died recently in a
town in Italy. But it seems to have
escaped the usual retentive memory of
our public that quite a long tale hangs
upon this little item of mortuary news:
for this same moribund individual was
once a lawyer of some prominence here,
enjoying a large and lucrative practice,
aud in the confidence of many of our
heaviestcapitalist and real estateo wners.
He was counsel fori the Van Rensselaers,
A. T. Stewart, and others, in his day :
hiß brother being, while living, a part
ner of the great dry goods merchant.
In an evil day, however, Phillip Bur
rows went back on both his clients and
his character, by suddenly eloping for
parts unknown, taking with him a
large amount of money temporarily in
trusted to his care by. several estates,
quorum magna pars was the hand
some sum of half a million of
money belonging to the Van Rens
selaer family and paid to him by Mr.
Stewan as the purchase price of the
magnificent Metropolitan Hotel, then
justboughtby Mr.S. forthesuui uauieil.
Burrows was at thetimeacting for both
parties to the transaction, and, upon
delivery of the deed of the property,
was promptly placed in funds by the
purchase. But the temptation was too
strong lobe resisted, and thelegal^entie
man incontiutently packed up his duds,
gathered together what little of other
people’s funds he could get at haudily,
and started for Tuscany, where such
tilings us requisitions and extradition
nuisances are ignored. It is said that
one or two of his victims followed him
up with a sharp stick; but when
they came tj bring law to bear upon
him, he was swift enough to turn the
tables upon them, whereby they not
only lost their suit, but had to foot
heavy costs. In respect to the Metro
politan Hotel matter, rumor says that
tlie Van Rensselaers did not get a dol
lar for that handsome property. The
buildings having cost them nearly $.">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,