-WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1860.
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person who undertakes to examine the pro
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government; and-no law shall ever be made
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dence.”
FOR GOVERNOR:
Hon. HIESTEB CITMKB, of Berks Co,
Tho Democratic Platform.
. The Democracy of Pennsylvania in Convention
met*recognlxlng a crisis In the affairs of the Republic,
and esteeming the Immediate restoration ofthe Union
paramount to all other issues, do resolve:
L That the States, whereof the people were lately
In rebellion, are integral parts ofthe 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.
U. That the ftUth of the Republic is pledged to the
payment bf the National debt, and Congress should
pass all laws necessary for that purpose.
3. That we owe obedience to the Constitution of the
United States, Including the amendment prohibiting
slavery, and under its provisions will accord to those
emancipated all their rights of person and property.
■L 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 ofthe Republic, and we are
unwilling to grant the negroes tho right to vote.
0. That tho bold enunclutlon of the principles of the
Constitution and tho policy of restoration contained
In the recent Annual Message and Freedmen's bu
reau Veto Message of President Johnson entitle him
to the confidence and support of all who respect tho
Constitution and love their country."
7. That the nation owes to tho bruvo men of our
armies and navy a debt of lasting gratitude for their
heroic services In defence of tho Constitution and the
Union; and that while we cherish with a tender affec
tion tho memories of the fallen, we pledge to tbelr
widows and orphans tho nations care and protection.
8. That we urge upon Congress, the duty of equal
izing the bounties of our soldiers and sailors
The Commitee appointed at the late
County Convention in reference to Ger
man Newspaper, will meet at the office
of the Jntellifjcyiccj', on Monday, April
30th, at 11 o’clock, A. M.
Let Us Be Thankful.
The members of both branches of ou l '
State Legislature seem to have got in a
very thankful mood just previous to tlieir
adjournment. They voted thanks to
the Governor, thanks to Speakers,
thanks to the Clerks, thanks to
the subordinate Clerks, thanks to the
Clergy ; and finally, in the prodigality
of their thankfulness, they voted thanks
to all tlieir officers, from the fattest door
keeper down to the slenderest page. In
the Senate, the retiring Speaker “re
turned his sincere thanks to every Sen
ator,” and forgave all who had bothered
him with knotty points of order during
thesession. The new»Speaker“returued
thahks for the distinguished houor the
Senate had conferred upon him,” and
after apologizing to some Senator to
whom he had at one time uttered a harsh
word, “in conclusion lie returned his
thanks.” Iu the House, the temporary
Chairman informed the Speaker of the
passage ofa resolution of thanks, and
thunked him for his impartiality to the
minority ; whereupon the Speaker “ re
turned his thanks to the House” and
thanked the temporary Chairman for
thanking him, and begged the minority
to believe in iiis perfect sincerity when
he thunked them for tlieir thanks.—
Then the members fell to thanking one
another, and when that affecting job
was finished, those who had a little of
the raw material of thankfulness left,
plastered it over themselves. Smith
thanked ills stars that lie called Jones a
liar the day before, as it afforded him
the opportunity to declare that he had
implicit confidence in Jones’ veracity.
Jones thanked Smith for calling him a
liar, because his retraction of the charge
and expression of confidence would do.
him good with his constituents. Then
various committees, representing divers
persons who in the thankfulness of their
hearts wanted to thank sundry other
persons, presented these-other persons
canes, watches, gold chains, tea sets, et
cetera, which the thankful recipients
received with expressions of profound
thunks. The two Houses then adjourned
sine die, for which last and best “ uct ”
of theirs the people of Penn sylvania do
most sincerely thank God.
The Political Rinderpest.
Abolitionism, as exemplified by .Ste
vens, Sumner & Co., is the political
rinderpest of this country, and, unless
it is chucked and extirpated by the
strong arm of the people, will be as
fatal and destructive to our free institu
tions as is its prototype to the cattle of
England.
Either Stevens, Sumner and tlieir
confederates in the work of destruction
and infamy must be driven from the
high places of power and influence, or
the Union will never be restored, and
the toil and sufferings and blood of our
heroic soldiers will have been expended
in vain. If the American people sus
tain and uphold President Johnson in
the patriotic work he has undertaken,
then will we once more have a united
and prosperous country ; if they desert
him and follow the nefarious teachings
of the radical leaders above-mentioned,
the country will continue to be dis
tracted and divided, and political death,
from which there can be no resurrec
tion, will be the finality of what was
once the fair land of Washington aud
Jefferson aud Jackson.
Tlie people of Pennsylvania will
have an opportunity in October next of
staying the onward march of the pesti
lence ami driving it back to the murky
atmosphere of New England, where it
originated. Will they doit? That is
the question, aud upon its answer de
pends, perhaps the future of the Re
public for weal or for woe. 'The -whole
country will look forward with anxiety
and trembling to the decision of tlie old
Keystone .State, and will rejoice with
exceeding joy at the electiou of Hiester
Clymer and the consequent triumph of
Democratic principles; but a gloom,
darker than Egyptian midnight, will
settle upon the nation in the event of
his defeat. May Heaven preserve us
from such a sore calamity as the election
of John W. Geary.
Slavery Among the Puritans.
The Appletons have thrown New
England in to consternation by announc
ing that they have in press a work en
titled “ Notes on the History ofSlavery
hi Massachusetts.” The Puritans are
shaking in their righteous shoes, for fear
it will come out that the foundation of
the wealth they boast was laid in tlie
flesh and blood of the African. The
author of the " Notes” is George H.
Moore, who is said to have great facili
ties for historical investigation. If Mr.
Moore should succeed in convincing the
Massachusetts Yankees that their
-worldly possessions are tlie product of
African slavery, tlie world would no
doubt witness a very sublime spectacle
of “ restitution.” Who can doubt that
the God-fearing cotton-spinuers would
at once turn over all tlieir wealth to tlie
Freedmen's Bureau V
Wm.-Stewart, United States Sena
tor from Nevada, is a native of Trum
bul county, Ohio. In his boyhood he
was employed as a farm laborer. He
managed to get Efficient funds to at
tend sohool, and, having qualified him
self as a teacher he kept a district school
in the winter to provide the means of
attending an academy in the summer.
Several years since, he immigrated to
California, was elected Sheriff 'of San
Francisco, there married a daughter of
Henry S. Foote. More recently he tried
his fortune in Nevada and turned up U.
S. Senator.
The Radical Policy.
The convention which first nomi
nated Mr. Lincoln for the Presidency
was a conglomeration of the‘ odds and
ends of all political parties which’ had
been opposed to the Democratic party.
They harmonized the discordant materi
als of which that body was composed
by forming a coalition without regard
to principles or past differences of opii>
ion. Of course there was a complete
sacrifice of all political honesty. During
the campaign which preceded the elec
tion of Mr. Lincoln they kept the
designs of the real leaders of the party
hid, and hesitated at no lie by which
they might deceive the people. Here in
Pennsylvania they asseverated thatthey
had neither the design nor the desire to
interfere in any way with the existence
of slavery. They scouted at the idea
of the Southern States attempting to
secede, and avowed that they could not
be driven to any such act; but, when
forced to the point, not a few of their
leading men declared that they would
willingly let them go out of the Union if
such was the desire of their people.—
Thus the election of Mr. Lincoln was
accomplished by the free use of the
most infamously false and fraudulent
pretenses.
When, after his election, troubles be
gan to thicken, the course of the Re
, publican party was still shamefully dis
honest and deceptive. They might have
averted the war if they had chosen to
do so, and have saved the nation from
all the woes which have fallen upon it.
An honest policy would have accom
plishedjthat result. Adishonestand de
ceptive course plunged us hi to the fatal
struggle.
What was the course of the Republi
can party when the war began ? Were
they any more honest then ? Let the
facts answer. Aftertheir tortuous policy
had led to a conflict of arms, what was
the condition of affairs? Xsitnot afact
that the Republican party still conceal
ed their real designs? With the fall of
Sumter party lines were for the time
being blotted out in the North. The
Democrats were first and most prompt
ly ready to buckle on their armor to
avenge the insult offered to the national
flag. This they did from the purest
motives. They took the party in power
at their word, and rushed to arms in
order that they might preserve the
Union. That was the avowed pur
pose of the war. It was call
ed a war for the Union. The word
Union became the grand battle cry of
all the hosts who went forth against the
people of the South. The Republicans
abandoned their former name and trick
ed themselves out in the new title of the
Union party. The words Union and
loyalty were loudly mouthed us the
Shibboleth of the then dominant party;
and all who could not pronounce them
through their nose with a Yankee twang,
were at once denounced as disunionists
and as disloyal. Yet, in spite of all this
the Republican party leaders were from
the beginning of the struggle dishonest
and deceitful. They avowed one policy
and acted upon another. They called
the war a war for the Union, while
busily engaged in making it a war for
the destruction of slavery and the es
tablishment of themselves in places of
power and profit. They paraded their
avowed policy before the people while
keeping their real designs hidden. The
public prints, the pulpit, the political
rostrum and every possible agency was
used to deceive the masses. The people
were honest. They really believed the
war was being waged for the restoration
of the Union. Many of them believed
that sacred object to be the single design
. of the struggle. How could they well
doubt it in the face of all the solemn de
clarations made by the party in power.
Had not the following resolution been
unanimously adopted by Congress as
» early as January, 1801 :
' Resolved. That the present deplorable
; civil war has upon the country
by the disunionists ofthe youth, now in re
bellion against a constitutional government
and in arms around tho capital, that in this
national emergency, Congress, banishing
( all feelings of resentment, will do its duty
to tho whole country ; that this war is not
waged on our part in any spirit of oppres
sion,' nor for any purpose ofi>conquest or
subjugation, nor for the purpose of over
throwing or interfering with the established
institutions of those States, but to maintain
ami defend the purity of the Constitution,
and to preserve the Union with all its dig
nity, equality, and the rights of the States,
unimpaired; and as soon as these objects
are accomplished, the war ought to cease
Bid the Republican leaders stand by
that policy? Do they stand by it now?
Were they ever willing to see the Union
restored on such terms? To ask these
questions is enough. If any one doubted
in the past he must be convinced now
of the infamous duplicity of the party
which originated, controlled and car
ried on the war. More than a year has
elapsed since all armed opposition to
the national authority ceased. Since
that time profound quidt has prevailed
and not a hostile gun has been fired.—
The South has fully accepted the situa
tion, and through her leading men has
expressed entire willingness to bear true
aud faithful allegiauoe to the Federal
Government forever. The constitutional
amendment abolishing slavery has been
adopted by the Legislatures of the States
recently in revolt. All, and vastly more
than all the Republican leaders once
dared openly to demand has been con
ceded. Yet they refuse to permit a
restoration of tlie Union. Why? For
ney, who is clerk to the United States
Senate, tells us why the radicals in Con
gress refuse to consent to a restoration
of the Union.- In a letter written by
him to the Press he says :
Congress ici/l do the work ]>atrioticnlly
and permanently. Immediate universal suf-
frage is not possible , but that the /Southern
/States will be left unrepresented until they
formally bind themselves to. the ultimate and
complete enfranchisement of all their citizens,
is certain.
That such is the real design of the
crew of radical disunionists in Congress
there can be uo doubt. They will deny
it so long as it suits their purpose to do
soy but they are resolved to perfect the
revolution which they have begun,
aud to maintain a factiolis minority in
control of the government through the
agency of negro votes. Such is the pro
gramme they have secretly laid
down and sworn to carry out. How
can the people prevent its accomplish
ment? Only in one way without the
shedding of more blood. They must
sweep the tools of such men as Stevens
and Sumner from power at the coming
elections.
The Spring Elections in the West.
The spring elections in the Western
States show very large and universal
guins by the Democratic party. In
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana aud everywhere
the result has indicated that the tide of
popular sentiment has fairly turned
against the radical disunionists. The
Fort Wayne Democrat, speaking of the
result in Indiana, says, the political
signs indicated everywhere authorize
the conclusion that that State will purge
itself of all Jacobin rule in October; re
turns from various locations showing
Democratic gains enough to prove that
the State has gone decidedly Democratic.
As it is in Indiana so it has been else
where. The revolution has began and
it is safe to predict that it will not stop
until the radical disunionists are swept
from power. The people have so willed
it.
Prentice says that the Democrats
didn’t quite annihilate Radicalism in
the late Connecticut election, but they
knocked its eye-teeth out. So it can
never save itself “by the skin of its
teeth.”
An Impending Revolution.
The radical disunionists in Congress
are resolved to hold on to the power
whlch they have so shamefully abused.;
They show-this,determination by their
acta, and some of them are bold enough
to avow their purposes in plain terms.
A few nights since Mr. Orth of Indiana
declared to a crowd who serenaded him
what the Rump Congress intended to
do. In his own outrageous langugage
he said : ‘ We have told the man at
“ the White House that we do not in
-11 tend to go with him in his treasonable
“acts. As an old Hoosier said the other
“ day, we have him on the ground and
“ we intend to keep rolling over him. ”
That is a plain bold avowal of the de
signs of the disunionists in Congress. —
Emboldened by their success in being
able to pass the infamous Civil Rights
Bill over the veto of President Johnson,
they are ready to throw off every dis
guise, and to proceed in the revolution
ary programme which they have laid
down. They intend to trample under
foot all constitutional restraints and to
defy and set at naught the co-ordinate
branches of the government as repre
sented by the Executive and the Su
preme Court. In the same speech Mr.
Orth declared :
This Congress will not adjourn soon. The
dog- days may come, hot weather may come,
the cholera may come, but we will not go
home until our work is completely done,
and done iu such a wav as to leave no room
for mischief when we are gone.
The people can not help kuowiDg what
the work is which these political despe
radoes are bent upon accomplishing.—
They have shown their intentions by
their speeches and their acts. They in
tend tlaat the Union shall not be restored
except in some such mutilated form as
will enable them to continue to plunder
the public treasury. Toaccomplish this
purpose they will either force negro suf
frage upon the South, or prevent the
whites of those States from having any
vote or voice in the affairs of the govern
ment. Thus a revolution will have been
accomplished, by means of which a
reckless minority of voters under the
lead of bad men, will rule this nation.
Then will our boasted republican form
of government become the veriest farcei
and the United States be made a mock
ery and a by-word among nations. —
Then the evils and the burthens that
will press upon all sections of our coun
try will become toogreivous to be borne,
and a people who allowed themselves to
be easily led to destruction, will bitterly
bewail their folly when it is too late.
These Jacobins must be checked in
their criminal careerat once. The first
and the only opportunity the people
will have of doiii«* this peaceably, will
be by means of the ballot-box in the
coming elections. Every vote cast for
Geary in this State, and every vote for
a radical member of Congress will be a
vote against the Union, a vote against
the liberties of the people, a vote for
negro suffrage, a vote for negro equali
ty, a vote iu favor of encouraging the
Rump Congress to usurp powers which
can only be wrenched from tlieir bunds
by means of physical force. We are not
only on the eve, we are already iu the
midst of a revolution. Prudence and
wise precaution may help us through it
without violent convulsions or blood
shed —imprudence and reckless disre
gard of the best interests of the nation
may plunge us into all the horrors of
another desperate and sanguinary
struggle. We believe and hope the
masses will apply the proper and pow
erful remedy of the ballot in such a
manner as to bring about a peaceful
solution of the difficulties which sur
round us. If they do not no one can
safely say that our near future will not
prove to be as iiideous as our immedi
ate past.
Military Commissions.
Tlie Pittsburg Gazette, the Radical
organ in Western says
“ tile decision of Chief Justice Chase in
the case of the Indiana conspirators,
against the legality of trying civilians
by military tribunals, meets, as it ought,
with approbation from all meu.” Per
haps it does now, when power is mani
festly slipping from the bloody hands
of the Radical Republicans; but it is
not a year since nine out of every ten
members of the Gazette's party ap
proved the hanging of civilians upon
sentences pfouounced by military tri
bunals composed of officers who had
disgraced their profession in every po
sition they had occupied. If this de
cision had been rendered by the late
Chief Justice Taney, instead of the
present Chief Justice Chase, howwould
these bloody-minded Radicals have re
ceived it? The answer to this question
cannot be doubtful. All must remem
ber the torrents of abuse they heaped
upon him when he issued a writ com
manding Gen. Cadwalader to produce
John Meiryman in court, that liis case
might be inquired into by a judicial
tribunal and not by a military commis
sion. Chase was in the Cabinet when
that writ was issued and disregarded,
and if he then advised Lincoln to re
spect the law as he has since laid it
down, his advice was not taken.
The Cincinnati Enquirer very justly
observes that there never was a time
when there was a doubt of the illegality
and rascality of such tribunals; yet they
were permitted to be held and to inflict
avast amount of personal suffering upon
innocent parties. There is no darker
and more uninviting chapter in our his
tory than that which records the pro
ceedings of these detestable tribunals in
Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago and
otherplaees. Thulihey were suffered to
be held withoutVhe prompt and effect
ual interference of the other branches of
the Government—and particularly tlie
executive and judicial—and without an
unanimous verdict of public opinion
against them, was a strange fact that did
not speak very highly for the capacity
for self-government.
Like an alarm-bell, they ought to have
aroused the country, and produced an
agitation from one extremity to the
other. But instead of so doing, they ac
tually had the approval of time-serving
and feeble judges, of corrupt and un
scrupulous editors, of prominent poli
ticians in Congress, who devoted their
whole ability to the justification of
them—nay, more than that, they were
favored by the Administration of Lin
coln, which employed them as Charles
I did the Star Chamber : in the perpe
tration of gross private outrages upon
its opponents—outrages that will con
demn its memory to eternal infamy.
Security for the future, as well as in
demnity for the past, demands that
stern examples bemaade of some of the
tyrants engaged in these “military
commission ” outrages. The thunder
of Judge Black’s legal artillery has
shaken open the prison doors of some
of the victims. Another roll of that
thunder is needed to bring the red
handed law-breakers to justice and the
gibbet.
The New York Tribune says that its
party “ is sloughiug off effete matter.”
What will be left of it, when all the
effete matter is sloughed off?
Attorney General Borden, of
Virginia, now in Washington, paints a
deplorable picture of the state of the
farmers in Virginia, the great portion of
whose farms are lying perfectly idle.
He says that not three farmers on the
peninsula have succeeded in even par
tially refencing as much as the outer
boundaries of their lands, and asserts
that, owing to the political incertitude
of the times, New York men lend Vir
ginians nothing even on the security of
unincumbered real estate.
s. • Coercing a State*
•j Among the questions put to Gen. Lee.
'when he was examined by the Com-v
inittee, appointed by Goingresson motion
of Mr. Stevens, to find reasons of excu
ses for excluding the Southern States
irom representation, was the following;
Suppose the Executive Go vemment of the
United States should be held by a President ‘
who, like Mr. Buchanan, rejected the right
of coercion, so-called; and suppose a Con
gress should exist here entertaining the
same political opinion, thus presenting to
the .once Rebel States the opportunity to
again secedo from jiie Union,.would they or
not,in your opinion,; kvaiL themselves of
that opportunity, or some of them f
This question could just as easily have
been asked without as with the mention
of Mr. Buchanan’s name, but the ma
lignity of the committee’s inquisitor
wouid not permit him to pass over this
opportunity of making a mean and
cowardly thrust at the late President.
Like the boomerang of the Australian,
however, the thrust will return to the
hand that sped it. Senator Johnson,
of Tennessee, took the same view that
President Buchanan did as to the pow
er to coerce a State; and with a full
knowledge ofhisvieWßon this question,
the self-styled “Union party” elected
him Vice President, by virtue of which
election, under a provision of-the Con
stitution, he has become President of
the United States. This self-styled
, “Union party” therefore stands before
the world in the attitude of an'lndorser
of the doctrine that the Constitution
has conferred upon the Federal Gov
ernment no power to coerce a State.
In his message of the 3d of December,
1860, President Buchanan, afterarguing
that the Union “was intended to be
I perpetual, and not to be aunulled at the
i pleasure of anyone of the contracting
. parties,” proceeded to examine the
j question of coercing a State to remain
in the Union. He said : “After much
, serious reflection, I have arrived at the
, conclusion that no such power has been
delegated to Congress or to any othe r
! department of the Federal Govern.
l ment.” This conclusion he sustained
> by an extract from the proceedings of
the Convention which framed’the Con-
L stitution. From this extract it appears
, that on the 31st of May, 1787, when the
. clause “authorizing an exertion of the
force of the whole against a delinquent
t State” came'up for consideration, Mr.
. Madison opposed it, and upon his
motion the clause was unanimously
j postponed,and wasneveragain proposed!
, On this occasion Mr. Madison remarked
tli at “The use of force against a State
would look more like a declaration oi
war than an infliction of punishment,
and would probably be considered by
the party attacked as a dissolution of
all compacts by which it might be
bound.”
On the 18th of December, 1860, two
weeks alter the reading of President
Buchanan’s message in Congress, Sen
tor (now President) Johnson made a
speech iu which the views of the mes
sage were ably sustained. He said :
“ I donot believolhu Federal Government
has tho power to coerce a State, for by the
eleventh amendment of the Constitution of
the United States it is expressly provided
that you cannot even put one oi' the States
of this Confederacy before one of the courts
ofthe country as a party. As a State, tho
Federal Government has no power to coerce
it; but.it is a member ofthe compact to
which it agreed in common with the other
States, and this Government has the right
to pass laws, and to enforce those laws upon
individuals within the limits of each State.
While the one proposition is clear, the other
is equally so. This Government can, by the
Constitution ofthe country, and by the laws
enacted in conformity wit&the Constitution,
operate upon individuals, and has the right
and the power, not to coerce a State, but to
enforce and execute the law upon individu
als within the limits of a'State.”
This was spoken in the face of Sum
ner, Wade, Trumbull, Wilson, and
nearly every other Radical Disunioni9t
now in the Senate. It was published
throughout the y country and read by
Stevens and all his followers. If these
Radicals regarded Mr. Buchanan’s
views on this question as not only un
sound, but unpatriotic-and even treas
onable, why did they nominate as their
candidate for Vice President in IHC4,
the very man who had made himself
conspicuous above all other Senators for
his able defence of the doctrines of the
message ?
j Negro Industry,
John Covode, who is sometimes ironi
cally called “ honest John,” not being
received into good African society in
Washington city on account of his gross
ignorance, got authority from the gov
ernmeut about the time the rebellion
broke down, to seek congenial society
among the freedmen of the South. He
went down to Mississippi and “laid
around loose” among the niggers, eat
ing their bacon and enjoying their com
panionship, till he had gathered in what
no doubt seemed to his ignorant mind a
very valuable stock of information.—
Then he tore himself loose from his sor
rowing friends of the Bable hue and
hastened to Washington to communi
cate the results of his observations to
Mr. Stevens’ReconstructionXL'omraittee.
Here is what he told them.
“I will state that, throughout the whole
Mississippi Valley, the best crops of corn I
saw growing there, the cleanest and in best
order, were those on land farmed by negroes
for themselves. About ten thousand ot
them have been employed for the last year
in that way on about that number of acres of
land , near Vicksburg, including Davis’
Bond.”
It is enough to make a Pennsylvania
farmer sweat just to think of such
amazing industry as this. Imagine ten
thousand negroes cultivating ten thous
and acres of land for which they pay
no rent, and with nothing to stimulate
them to the performance of this stupen
dous labor but tlie fact that they are do
ing it for themselves. One negro culti
vates one acre, and we have Covode’s
unfailing word for it that he raises “tlie
best crops of corn ” in the Mississippi
valley. His one-acre farm is “ the clean
est and in be9t order.” Whatasplendid
achievement of free labor.
Our Lancaster farmers must look to
their laurels. They have heretofore
been considered the best cultivate of
the soil in the United States. But Co
vnde has smelled out a rival for the best
of them, in the shape of a Mississippi
freedman who works a whole acre, all
for himself, and keeps it clean* and
raises the best crops of corn that “ bon
est John ” saw growing there.
The Tyrant’s Example.
Thaddeus Stevens’ special committee
on an air-line Railroad from Washing
ton to New York having refused, by a
majority vote, to override the rights of
Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jer
sey by reporting a bill for a new road,
the Jacobins in Congress added two new
members to the committee. This had
the desired effect of overcoming the ma
jority in the committee as originally
constituted, and Mr. Stevens has had
the gratification of being instructed to
report a bill to the House.
This planforovercomingmajorities is
not original with Stevens and his Jaco
bin associates. A tyrannical King of
England had recourse to it long ago.—
When the House of Lords refused their
assent to one of his bills, he created
enough of new Peers to carry it. When,
at a subsequent period, they balked
again at another bill, he forced them to
recede and allow it to pass, by threaten
ing to create another batch of Peers.—
The conduct of this tyrannical monarch
has been censured by all liberal-minded
men, but the Jacobins outside of Con
gress will applaud the Jacobins inside
for imitating it.
The famous Kentucky Devil, they
say, has been lassoed and put in prison.
Now let Tennessee lasso and cage Brown
low, and the two States will be even.
The Bearing Massacre.
Anort of Antoine Gantber. tbe Ferpeln*
tor of the Peed—He Ctiff > liWßnllt.
nd Implicates an He 1
Mateo that Re was IntoxtMtea .when
Committing' tbe Crime. N ”
From This Morning’a Age.
greatest excitement prevailed'yes
terday morning on the receipt of the cheer
ing newa that the murderer of the Dealing
fanifly had been arrested. The news spread
like wild-fire, and not many hours elapsed
before the fact was made known through
out thedength and breadth ofthe city. • /
1 The following Interesting facts connected
with his capture were disclosed yesterday
morning at the private office of Chief Frank
lin : The name of the assassin is Anthony
Ganther, and he was bom in Germany. At
roll-call 6 o’clock Thursday evening the
officers in the several stations received strict
instructions to arrest all parties answering
tbe description they had been furnished
with. Anthony was arrested at 8 o’clock on
Thursday evening by Officers Thos. Wel
don, Jas. Dorsey, and Jas. Atkinson, at
Twenty-third and Market streets.
On seeing him Officer Dorsey ran in front
of him, ana suddenly remarked, “ You are
German,” which he denied, stating that he
was a Frenchman. He was then taken to
the station house arid locked up. Mrs.
Doland, the mother of Mrs. Keating, was
sent for, and upon her arrival immediately
. identified the prisoner.
After being identified by Mrs. Dolan, he
acknowledged to the officer that be had
killed Cornelius Carey, the bound boy. He
was then placed in a carriage, and in charge
of Chief Ruggles and Officer Patton was
driven to the station, Filth and Chestnut
streets. Here he stated that he had killed
the boy at 12 o’clodPtm Saturday, by chop
ping him with a new axe, while they were
on the tvay to the haystack. He states that
he stayed at Front and Brown streets on
Wednesday night, and at Front and Moore
streets on Sunday night, at a lager beer
saloon. On Friday Deering, the murdered
man, paid Antoine $8 as wages. He then
came to the city and bought two shirts, and
sold them on Thursday to a man at a lager
beer saloon kept by Mr. Myer, at Front and
Callowhill streets, who drank two glasses
of beer with him. Antoine intended to stay
in West Philadelphia until yesterday morn
ing about 8 o’clock, where he had a pre
concerted engagement to meet a friend.
The thumb of the right hand Is entirely
wanting, und has apparently been cut off
for some time, as it is entirely healed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE ASSASSIN,
Antoine is apparently about twenty-three
years of age, about five feet four or five
inches in height; wears a dingy white hat,
approaching buff; and is dressed in d new
suit of clothes. Ho is of florid complexion,
has light mustache and fair hair. Ilia nose
is straight from the forehead to near the
lips, when it turns up abruptly, having the
appearance of being broken at some time.
The general effect of his countenance is
against hitn. He claims to be a member of
the sth Pennsylvania Cavalry, und was
honorably discharged. During the exami
nation he was calm and self-possessed, an
swering the questionsot the officers prompt
ly. After tho examination he was removed
to a cell, when a private interview was had
with him by Coroner Taylor and other of
ficials, the purport of which was not made
public.
THE PRISONER IS TAKEN BEFORE THE MAY
Yesterday morning, at about a quarter
before 11 o’clock, the Chief of Police, accom
panied by other officials, proceeded to the
cell of the prisoner, just after he had been
partially engaged with the Coroner, and re
quested him to accompany him. Ganther
rose from the bench, and with an officer on
each side of him, closely followed by the
Chief of Police, he was escorted through the
cellar of the station up a back pair of stairs,
and from thence up into the Mayor’s office.
A number of representatives of the press,
members of Councils, and other privileged
characters followed closely on the heels of
Ganther, and passed around him, anxious
to get a glance at his personal appearance,
which has been fully described in another
part of this narrative.
Entering the large room which adjoins the
Mayor's private office, the figure of the
murderer broke on the view of the surprised
police lieutenants, who were all seated
around waiting to make a return uf their
morning reports to the Chief of Police. At
once each lieutenant rose to his feet, and in
a few moments the prisoner was surrounded
by a cordon of police officials.
They gazed earnestly at him, and Ganther
glanced furtively at the flashing eyes which
were directed upon him. After standing a
few minutes until an officer went into the
Mayor’s private office to pave the way for a
private interview, Ganther was marched
across the room and through the door lead
ing into the Mayor’s private office.
The prisoner was seated on a chair at a
large square table, and at the other side sat
the Mayor. The Chief of Police, the May
or’s Clerk, the President of Common Coun
cil, a few members of Councils, reporters,
&c., stood around the table in quiet groups,
bending their ears to catch every word that
was said. ,
During the lengthy
the prisoner was perfectly cool and collect
ed, aud exhibited the greutest self-posses
sion. lie answered every question in the
most unreserved manner, and stated at
one time that be had nothing whatever to
conceal.
At one time, when the Mayor put a ques
tion to him regarding his family, the pris
oner became melancholy and slightly agi
tated. *Hi9 face colored, and his eyes were
moistened with tears, but they quickly
passed away, and he resumed his manner
of stolid indifference.
It was the subject of general notice that
during the rigid examination at the hands
of the Mayor, the prisoner did not contra
dict himself in a single instance. He spoke
broken English with tolerable distinctness,
but occasionally when in doubt as to the
meaning of a question put by the Mayor,
the Services of Mr. George Mock, the Mayor’s
private Messenger, were brought into re
quisition, who acted as interpreter.
The manner of the prisoner would indi
cate that he was stricken with remorse; for
wheu questioned as to whether he did not
fear being arrested while loitering about the
city, he said: “He did not care, as he knew
it would be all right when he was caught.*’
The prisoner was subjected to a lengthy
examination by the Mayor, in the course of
which he stated thut he had an accomplice
named Jacob Youder. This examination
disclosed the following facts:
On Friday last, Ganther's accomplice in
the terrible tragedy came over to Mr. Dar
ing’s, and proposed to Ganther that they
should murder the family and rob the
house. Ganther consented to the plan pro
posed by his accomplice, and it was ar
ranged that Ganther should murder the
boy, while the other man dispatched the
rest of Mr. Dealing's family.
About ten o’clock on Saturday morning,
the accomplice persuaded Mrs. Deariug to
come to the barn, a short distance from the
house, and getting her there, struck her on
the head with an axe, and then Cut her
throat with the edge of thut instrument.
He then pitched her body into the corn crib
adjoining the barn, aud then proceeding to
the house, took the children one by one to
the barn, when their heads were knocked
in with the butt end of the axe and their
throats cut. As fast as one was dealt with
in this manner, its body was thrown into
thecorn-crib, and the process coutinuoduu-
Lii the whole family was disposed of.
While the accomplice was thus engaged,
Ganther proceeded to murder the boy Cor
nelius. lie overtook him at the haystack,
and struck him on the back ofthe head with
an axe, alter which he cut his throat,-and
then hid the body under the hay.
Tiie fiendish plot boingaccoinplished, the
two murderers proceeded to the house and
lay in wait for Mr. Bearing and Mrs. Do
lan. They arrived home about 12 o'clock,
and as soon as Mr. Bearing had deposited
his carriage in the wagon-house, the accom
plice (according to Ganther’s statement) at
tacked them both, knocking them in the
head andcuttingtheirthroats. After which,
the bodies were carried to the barn and
placed where they were discovered. The
precious pair then proceeded to the house,
and after collecting together all the valua
bles they could gather, deliberately sat
down and eat their dinner, when they left
and came to the eity.
THE BODIES OF THE MURDERED.
The bodies of the victims of this foul mur
der have been lying in ice at the premises
of Mr. Gartland the undertaker, at Seven
teenth and Barker streets in anticipation of
their burial, which will take place to-day at
1 o’clock.
The bodies were prepared for the coffins
yesterday afternoon, a number of friends
having volunteered for that purpose.
A strong posse of police was in attendance
during yesterday, in order to prevent the
crowd from intruding on the premises. The
solemn cortege will be one of the most sad
that has ever before been known in this
city.
g anther’s DESCRIPTION OF WIS accom-
The murderer Ganther states thatheonly
killed the bound boy Carey, and that his
accomplice iput to death the rest of the fam
ily. He describes bis accompliceas follows:
He is named Jacob Yonder, and formerly
belonged to the 11th Pennsylvania cavalry;
he is 38 or 39 years of age, about 5 feet 3 in
ches high, large shoulders, big face, dark
brown hair, and bad on a white slouch hat
and Mr. Bearing’s boots, with his pants
tucked inside.
We have fallen on pestilential, days.
Cholera in the Orient, Italy and South
France, Trichiqp in Germany, Rinder
pest in Russia, Holland and England,
whereunto the Sheep Plague is added—
these are not all. Even the birds in
Italy are dying by thousands of miasma,
and a marine epidemic on the coast has
made shrimps of the French oysters.—
So Bays the New York Tribune. If it
had included among the pests of the
world the revolutionary radical politi
cians, of which it is the organ, its
mary of pestilent things would, have
been complete.
The Philadelphia Tragedy.
Tbe scm«s of the Who and
i? A Whathe Is^HlsFalaeandGon*
- V , tradletpry f tatyygti,
Farther Afreets fippersons Suspected o/
. CompUelty lnlhe Harder.
Crowds Visit the Beene af
Heir bid'Cariosity. ;
A Solemn Spectacle—-Burialof the Vic.
time—Thousands Follow the i
Funeral Cortege to the
Cemetery.
[From the Sunday Press. J
Notwithstanding the pablie have been
pretty fully informed, through the medium
of the press, of the general facts relating to
thn wypnt amuMirfnatiftn nf thA TWwing fam
ily, yet there is still some excitement exist
ing in the minds of tho people. It has
greatly subsided, however, and in the course
of a few days, the public will learn all, the
tacts as developed under the solemnity of
an oath. : "
The curious crowds of people of all classes
and conditions visited the place yesterday ;
and to-day being Snnday, doubtless thous
ands will do the same. Greenwich Point
road is the best way to reach the place. The
visitors yesterday seemed desirous of grat
ifying a very morbid feeling by carrying
away some of the hay that had human
bloodfupon it, or cutting off portions of the
wood-work that were' stained with the life
fluid of the victims.
Beneath the piazza, on the rear front of
the dweliiog-house, there still remained
duringyesterday the little carriage or veloci
pede, which had often' been used by the
children that were slain by the ruthless
brute in human form. Some little toy
things, that had last been played with by
the prattling babe, were yet in the coach.—
It may be, that while smiling in the very
face of the murderer, he dragged that inno
cent being from that place, and served it as
he had done all the others. Thoughts such
as these passed vividly through the iniUgi
nation, during a brief visit we made to the
farm yesterday.
TIIE RIGHT NAME OF THE PRISONER.
The prisoner has not only told more than
three lies already about his complicity in
the tragic affair, but he deliberately stated
his name to be Anthony Gunther; at least
this was understood, but the reporter may
have been mistaken. It has been ascer
tained that his real name is Anthony Probst.
In the soldier’s discharge paper ionnd in
the valise that he left at the house in New
Market street, the name of Prepost is writ
ten. The mere fact of the paper beiug
found is no evidence ofitself that the prison
er was the legal owner of it, or that he
was named therein. It seems, however,
that a certain Mr. Moore was made the
custodian of a letter written in Germany by
a brother of the prisoner and directed to
Anthony Probst. To satisfy all doubt on
this point, two individuals visited the coun
ty prison yesterday, and the prisoner was
told to write bis name; he complied with
the request, aud wrote Anthony Probst,
and then stated this was his right name.
He further said that he is a native nfStras
burg, »Dd yet he cannot talk French.
Strasburg, however, is on the border be
tween France and Germany.
THE CONDITION OF THE PRISONER,
Probst has already settled down into a
state of comparative calmness, and though
haggard, yet seems to begin to realize the
situation in which he finds himself. He is
very much like Langteldt and the Skupin
skies were shortly after their arrest. They
told lies, and so has the present prisoner,
but it is thought, by judicious management,
that the truth of the terrible affair will be
made known before many days.
THE PRISONER’S LIKENESS.
Mr. Cohill, the artist.of the detective force,
took five negatives of the prisoner, and yes
terday the demand for the likenesses was
intense. Such a rush of people we never
saw before. Even letters were sent by post
for copies, and, of course, it was an impos
sibility to supply one-hundredth part ofthe
demand. The photographs of the prisoner
are taken in different positions, ana of sev
eral sizes, and there will be any number of
them ready by to-morrow.
ARRESTS.
A bad-countenanced follow, of Germun
origin, was locked up at the Central station
yesterday. He was arrested on Friday
night by several citizens, on Limekiln turn
pike, in the Twenty-second ward. He had
with him a valise pretty well stuffed with
clothing. The fellow told contradictory
stories as to where he came from, and where
he got the valise. He said he was from
CollegeviUe in the Twenty-third ward, and
was on his way to York, Pennsylvania.
He certainly was not going in the proper di
rection to reach that place. He was ques
tioned relative to the murder shortly after
being arrested, but said he knew nothing
about it. He said that he could neither
read nor write; but yesterday morning,
while in the cars, he spoke of the details
of the tragedy, and when a newspaper was
handed him he immediately turned to the
account of the assination. This was con
sidered suspicious, because he had said he
could not read or write. The valise was
examined and a handkerchief in it was
found to be marked with the initials “W.
M. V.” The name “Boyd” was on other ar
ticles. Some of the wearing apparel the
prisoner declared belonged to his wife, but
she had run away from him. A Philadel
phia-inade coat was found in the valise.
The prisoner says he brought it from Ger
many four years ago. It is evident that he
stole the articles. It is not believed that he
had anything to do with the massacre. The
prisoner was still in custody last evening at
the Central station. Ho does not answer
the description given by Probst of an al
leged accomplice.
THE BONNET STORY.
The bonnet and furs of Mrs. Keating, the
first cousin of Mr. Deering, who accompan
ied him iu the wagon, were found in the
house. There is a small spot on the muff,
but it has not been subjected to microscopic
power; it is not believed to be blood. When
the prisoner was questioned as to tbekilling
of these two unfortunates hesaid his accom
plice killed Mr. Deering and also the
woman, just as they had alighted from the
wagon. After Mr. D. was knocked down the
woman rau and the accomplice followed
after her, knocking her down and cutting
her throat. A question was then asked how
the bonnet got into the house; the prisoner
replied that lid “took it off her head.and car
ried it there." The bonnet was carefully
examined ; there was not a mark of blood
upon it, nor the least indication that it had
been on the ground. When the prisoner
was asked where he was and what he was
doing when his accomplice was killing these
two victims, he replied “/ was holding tho
horse."
THE GUNS DISCOVERED.
It has been stated that two guns were
missing from the house of Mr. Deering,
which seemetr to be strong evidence that
two persons were engaged in the slaughter,
as one man would scarcely take away two
guns. These guns, however, have been
found at the house behind one of the doors.
more about the prisoner.
The prisoner has steadily insisted that his
accomplice obtained tbo plunder. It was
ascertained yesterday that Probst had of
fered for sale two of the pistols. He also
offered for sale one of the watches to a Mr.
Moore, on Wednesday last, but the wife of
Mr. M., thinking that the fellow had not
come honestly in possession-of it, it was re
fused. Thus the points thicken against the
accused, and tend to relieve the mind of
any idea of an accomplice in the crime of
murder
WHO I)II) THE WORK OF MURDER,
It is conceded by everybody who has
made an examination of the bodies of the
victims, that oue man did the whole of the
shocking work. There is a remarkable
similarity in the wounds. That which
seems to strengthen the belief that Probst
committed all the murders is the purely
mechanical way in which he must have
held the weapon, because ofthe loss of his
thumb.
PROBST VISITS A DISREPUTABLE HOUSE.
A fact that was made known on Friday,
but withheld for prudential reasons at that
time, may now be told. Ttie pocket-books
of Mr. Deering aod Mrs. Keating were
found upon Probst. They were empty. He
had remained over night at a disreputable
bouse in the northern part of the city, 1 and
the great probability is that at that time he
was robbed of all the money he had. Such
is very frequently the case at such places.
This mav account for the absence of the
funds which Mrs. Deering was known to
have when she left her mother, Mrs. Dolan,
at Burlington. New Jersey
THE FUNERAL.
The last sad rites of the murdered victims
took place yesterday afternoon. They have
passed from view, but not from memory.—
For some reason, best knowD to the lela
tives, the bodies of the deceased had been
removed from Mr. Cyrus Horne’s place to
that of Mr. Simon Gartland’s, on Thirteenth
street, above Cbesnut. At an early hour
yesterday morning the processof preparing
them for burial was commenced, and not
finished for several hours. This portion of
the* sad affair was superintended by Mrs.
Lydia Thomson, who is deserving of great
credit for the manner in which she accom
plished it. Each body was neatly arrayed
in a white shroud, with a tasty bow of
white ribbon at the neck.
By ten o’clock the coffins were in order,
and everything arranged for those desirous
of witnessing the remains of the dead. The
room selected for this purpose is to the
right of the main entrance on Thirteenth
street. The coffins were in an elevated po
sition, and extended north and south
towards an alcove, which was tastefully
draped in mourning, and in which stood
four lighted' candelabras Between these
rested a beautiful lamb, and at the centre
of the archway, overhead, was a carved
eagle, with its pinions extended. Draping
was visible in other parts of the room, giv
ing to it a solemn appearance. The coffins
wore arranged ip two rows, one containing
five and the other three. On entering the
room, the nearest one in the north row was
that containing Mr. Dee ring’s body; then
Cornelius Carey* then Emma Dee ring; and
the last one on the east side was that of Mrs.
Deering. The fifth coffin in thiß row con
tained the body of Annie Deering. It rested
in the recessß below Emma’s coffin. In the
second row, and in order from west to east,
were the coffins of John Deering, Thomas
Deering and Elizabeth Dolan. The tops of
the coffins were not elevated more than three
and a half feet from the floor, thus giving
visitors an opportunity to see'the faces of
the deceased. The bodies showed to ad van
tage. The shrouds .were so arranged as to
cover the gashes in the necks. The head of '
the boy John, which was so much crushed in,
was covered with cotton. .The face of little
Thomas wto almost black from decompo
sition. The horrible gashes in the foreheads
ofthe other bodies were exposed to view—
which, however, coaid not well be avoided.
Shortly before eleven o’clock, a number of
the relatives of the deceased were permitted
to take'a look at the bodies. The scene
which then ensued could not well be de
scribed. There was mnch weeping and
wringing of hands. Cries of agony and
despair fell from their lips. The disfigured
state ot the bodies rendered the agony of
gazing on them more intense. After many
minutes spent in this way, they were re
moved to an adjoining room. ‘At eleven
o'clock the door was opened for visitors.—
Tickets of admission to the extent of several
hundred 'had previously been issued, and
but few were admitted without one. The
police arrangements of Chief Ruggles were
excellent Some thirty ofthe force were on
band. A rope was stretched around the front
pavement, and no one was permitted to go
under it without a pass. Officers were also
stationed in the room where the bodies lay.
The visitors passed down on the west side of
the passage-way and returned again on the
east side, and thence out the same door by
which they entered. There was a constant
stream of persons, both male and female,
old and young, passing in this way, till two
o’clock in the afternoon, at which time it
was stopped. Another and the last oppor
tunity was then given to the relatives to
look upon the remains of their loved ones.
This scene was even more heart rending
than the previous ones. The little boy, the
only surviving member of the Deering
family, cried as if his heart would break.—
His last action before leaving the room was
to shake the cold hand of his dead father.—
After the relatives had retired, the lids ot
the coffins were screwed down. We will
state here that till of the coffins except those
of the father and mother were of black wal
nut. Those ofthe latter were covered with
black. Each coffin was surmounted with a
small-sized German silver cross, containing
the name of deceased, the age, and date of
death.
When it was known that the coffins were
about to be removed from the house, the
excitement on the outside increased in in
tensity. There must have been five thous
and persons on Thirteenth street, who were
waiting anxiously to see what was to be
seen. The body of Cornelius Cary was
taken out first and placed in a hearse. Then
came the body of Elizabeth Dolan, which
was also placed In a hearse. The four chil
dren were then takeu out and placed side
by side in the umbulance of the Philadel
phia Engine Company. This occupied
sometime. Mrs. Deering’s body was then
taken out aud placed in a hearse. Another
hearse was left, in which was placed the
body of Mr. Deering The vast multitude
seemed awe-struck at such a sight. The
burial of eight tuurdered human beings
was a sight they had never anticipated see
ing. There was no boisterous talking or
rude jesting as the bodies were borne from
the house. The neighborhood seemed quiet
us the midnight hour.
The solemn cortege moved off in the fol
lowing order:
Ambulance of Good Will Fire Company,
containing a number of policemen dressed
in their uniforms, and with black gloves
on.
Ambulance of Western Firo Compauy,
containing the pall-bearers.
Hearse, containing the young man Cor
nelius Cary.
Hearse, containing tho body of Elizabeth
Dolan.
Ambulance of Philadelphia Firo Compa
ny, with the bodies of the four children—
John, Thomas, Annie and Emma.
llearse, containing the body of Mrs. Julia
Deering.
Hearse, with tho body of Mr. Christopher
Deering.
The route proceeded over was as follows:
Down Thirteenth to Chestnut, down Chest
nut to Twelfth, up Twelfth to Arch, out
Arch to Thirteenth, down Thirteenth to
Chestnut again, down Chestnut to Tenth,
down Tenth to Passyunk road, down Pas
syunk road to Buck road, and along Buck
road tn St. Mary’s cemetery. Alargenum
ber of persons iollowed the cortege , .nnd u
still larger number witnessed the burial in
the cemetery. There were but two graves,
each ten feet deep. In oue tho bodies of
Mr. and Mi's. Deering, and two of their
children, were placed; and in tho other
the bodies of Elizabeth Dolan, Cornelius
Cary, and the other two children.
The impressive burial-service of the Cath
olic Church was road at the grave by Rev.
Tbos. F. Hopkins, of St. Philip’s church.
This occupied-about fifteen minutes. A last
look at the graves was then taken by the
relatives and the many hundreds of specta
tors present, which ended thesolemn scenes
of the day. They have been returned to
the dust from whence they came, but as
long as time shall last so long will the
houghts of their horrible deaths exist.
“Beast” Butler In the House of Bepre-
resentatlTes.
Pursuant to joint resolution of the
Republican party in the Legislature,
an evening session of the House was
called last evening to listen to an ad
dress from Gen. B. F. Butler—the vali
ant Ben Butter of Big Bethel and of
Dutch Gap notoriety—the “Beast”
Butler that directed his soldiers to treat
the women of New Orleans as prosti
tutes, and the thief Butler that robbed
and plundered whereverhecould, under
the authority of being the most “loyal.”
At the appointed time—seven aud a
half o clock—the hall was packed. The
members, particularly on the Demo
cratic side, yielded their seats to the
ladies, who, notwithstanding the char
acter of the lecturer, numbered some
fifty odd. A little before eight o’filock.
Speaker Kelley took the stand and
called the House to order. The com
mittee in charge of Butler then entered
the Chamber, escorted by Speaker
Fleming on the right and Senator
Lowry on the left. As he took his stand
aside of Speaker Kelley, there was some
what of a manifestation of applause.
Butler is a chunky and somewhat cor
pulent man, with bald head, contract
ing forhead, italic eyes, and, although
having short arms and chubby hands,
has exceedingly long fingers. In short
he reminds one of Fagen, the Jew, in
Dicken’s Oliver Twist. He has the
very face of Fageu, is bald-headed like
Fagen. but in body is much stouter.and
wears better clothes than -Fagen did.—
But Fagen, the Jew, never was a major
general, and that may account for the
difference. Speaker Kelley, in this in
stance, evidently .concluded that he
would not be imposed upon as he had
been some weeks before by the female
spy—Susan Thompson—he was, there
fore, very discreet in introducing But
ler; simply saying that the
name and fame is sufficiently well
known to need no introduction from
me.** ;
“ Oh ! yes, we know him well,” said
a Hibernian aside of us. “He stole
$150,000 in gold in New Orleans.”
Butler, as a lecturer, has rather a
poor voice, hesitates and stutters con
siderable his delivery. His theme
last night consisted of abuse of the
President, and the most fulsome lauda
tions of the Rump Congress. Heaskjed
the “Union” party to prepare for any
emergency that might arise, as every
thing depended upon the present Con
gress, which must be sustained at all
hazards. If it wa3 not sustained, the
treasure spent and blood shed had
been in vain. We had conquered the
South—conquered them of all their
rights, except one—the right to be
hanged. He (the speaker) had im
proverished himself, and shed the blood
of a brother aud son in defense of the
great principles for Which they had
fought, and he for one would never
yield unless some of the leaders in the
rebellion were hung. The good and
brave president Lincoln had, by public
acts and private conversation, said that
Jeff. Davis and General Lee should be
hung. But Andrew Johnson said
these traitors should be admitted to
their seats, and help to make laws for
us.
He then compared the United States
to a partnership, saying these Southern
gentlemen had seen fit to withdraw—
but not forgetting to draw their pay be
fore they went. He, for one, would take
care that they did not come back until
the impress of “ true loyalty” was suf
ficiently perceptible upon them. He
then spoke of Geary—to whose bravery
he could bear witness—who was not
only a great chieftain but a great states
man, and that the friends Bhould see to
it that he was elected in October.
Butler spoke for fully an hour and a
half, and was applauded considerably
in his most radical points. At the close
of his address, a Republican member,
with long red goatee, red face, and still
redder hair, and also, somewhat, resem
bling Fagen, the Jew, arose and said :
“ Mr. S-p-e-a-k-e-r, I move the thanks
of this House be tendered to the gallant
Major General Benjamin F. Butler for
his able address this evening,” eh !
The yeas add nays were called, and
resulted—yeas 60, all Republicans, nays
32, Democrats. As the Democrats rose
to cast their votes, they were greeted
with hisses from the Republican side of
the House, and for a time a scene of
confusion ensued that beggars all de
scription.
As we now noticed Rutler preparing to
retire, we made a hasty examination,
found ourselves “ all right.” and were
prepared to say with the old Irish lady,
who Waited upon him as he was about
to leave New Orleans :
“ Good bye, Gineral; PII eay this for
ye—that ye niver stole anything from
me. Good bye, Gineral;”—Pofrio* and
Union.
-• Wnrtproceeding ■: <’
Tho April term of the Court of Quarter
Sessions commenced this morning, Judges
Long and Brinton on the bench—Judge
Long presiding. The only bnsiness trans
acted tliia morning was the appointment of
John M'Cutchon as Constable for Lancaster
township in place of Martin Stanton, and
the appointment of Thomas Zell as Fore
man of the Grand Jury. Court adjourned
till 21 o'clock this afternoon.
/ Monday Afternoon.- The case of the
Com'th vs. Nathaniel Rlttonhonse and Wil
liam Powell indicted for Highway Robbery *
was culled up. The whole ofthe afternoon
was nearly taken in empanneling a jury.
An evening session was held, which waa
takeu up with an examination ofwitnes
ses.
Tuesday Morning.— Tho trial of Rltten
bous© and Powell was concluded this fore
noou. Tho facts in the case asdeveloped in
the trial are, that on the night of tho 2Cth of
September last, John McCoombs, the pros
eeutor, and Nathaniel Rittenhouse and
\\ jlliam Powoll, the defendants, met at
a beer house kept by Mr. Reese, near
the Old Factory road in tho south
eastern part of the eity. Several other
parties were also in the house at the time.
McCoombs was very much intoxicated and
spent money freely in treating thoso present.
About half-past two o'clock In tho moaning
McCoombs, Rittenhouse and Powell left
Mrs. Reeses in company, for the purpose
of seeing the sights in other portions of tho
eity. \N hen they got to an alley, near tho
foot of Goose street, McCombs either fell or
was knocked down. Two of tho night
police, officers Foos aud Kulhman, who
were following the party unobserved, heard,
n sound at* of a man falling, and on going
to the place from whence the noise pro
ceeded, they lound McCoombs lying on the
ground, with his face cut and bleeding
When the policemen arrived on tho ground
Rittenhouse and Powoll were a few paces
distunt, moving in the direction of where
McCoombs Was lying.
Iho policemon arrested tho threo men,
and took them before Cupt. Frailey, Chief
of tiie Night Police, by whom they were
committed to tho lock-up. At a hearing
the next morning before the Mayor, Hit
tetihou.se nnd Powell were committed to
prison to answer the charge of Highway
Robbery. On a subsequent visit tho same
night by the policemen to the place whore
the affnir occurred, a ten dollar bill was
lound close to where McCoombs fell. A
wallet and comb belonging to McCoombs..
were also found near by. A large number
of persons were examined as to the good
character of tho accused. Jury out.
George Young, (colored Individual,)from
Columbia, pleud guilty to stealing two
bams from Jacob Miller, and was sen
tenced to uiuo months imprisonment In tho
County Prison.
George Ilonry, another “American citizen
of African ’scont,” ot Marietta, who plead
guilty to tho robbery of the smoke-house
belonging to Benjamin Herr, of that violn
ity, was sentenced also to nine months Im
prisonment in the County Prison.
Samuel Briggs plead guilty to an assault
and battery upon Levi Grnbill, and was
sentenced to pay the costs of prosecution.
Tho trial of Gibson Potors, for the mur
der of his wife, was put down for Thursday
of this week, when the court adjourned to
21 P. M.
Lancaster House Market, Mon day,
April I(>th, 18(50.— The market during the
past week has been somewhat dull in the
way of arrivals, but has assumed a brisker
aspect in that of sales, both of which are as
follows, viz:
MoryarC head on hand last week.
The arrivals at these stables for the past
week were 10 head boughtup in thocounty.
The sales amount to 150 head to farmers,
leaving ol head of choice young horses on
hand.
Copeland it' Cline's .—lo head on hand last
week. The arrivals during tho week wore
44 head bought in the county. Tho ship
ments and sales to Eustorn buyers amount
to 49 head, leaving 11 head of fine young
working horses on hand.
State Notes. —lt seems very pro
bable that before long tho notes of the Statu
Banks will go out of circulation. The Ad
of Congress of March 3d, directs that the)’
shall be taxed ten per cent, if in circulation
after the first of July next. It is therefore
necessary that they should bo redeemed be
fore Unit time, and tbo National Banks,
which must suffer the tax if they hold tho
notes at the dale mentioned, are relieving
themselves of ih.-ir liability by throwiug
out th" .State Bunk notes, or by receiving
them at a small discount sufficient to pay
for the cost ot sending them homo for re
demption. Tins action will soon hurry
them out of sight, nnd there will bo uo cur
rency in circulation but greenbacks and tho
notes ol the National Banks.
Change in the Telegraph Office.—
Wo have heretofore unintentionally neglect
ed to notice tho withdrawal of our excel
lent friend Mr. JamesMacGoniglofrom the
Chief Operntorship In the Western Union
Telegraph Company’s Office of this city,
and Ids transfer to Baltimore. Mr. Mac-
Gonigle is one of tho most accomplished
Telegraph Operators in the country. We
have hud much business aud social inter
course with him, and have ever found him
attentive, obliging und intelligent in the
discharge of his duty, lie is a gentleman,
of very decided ability, and his long con
nection with tho Telegraph has made hirn u
thorough master of his profession. Wo part
with Mac wilh sincere regret, and trust that
there are many years of usefulness and
prosperity in store for him.
Mr. MacGoniglo is succeeded by Mr. Da
vid Potts, late of the U. S. Telegraph Com
pany’s Office in this city. Mr. P. bus had
considerable experience ns an Operator, is
very gentlemanly and courteous in his
manners, and will doubtless inuke a popu
lar and efficient officer.
Messrs. Deankr <fc Schaum, No. 7 East
King street, have udded to their extensive
Stove aud Tinware business, that of Gas
fitting aud Plumbing. They liavo em
ployed a first-class workman from Phil
adelphia, who will have charge ofth is brunch
of their business. This firm is one of the
successful and enterprizing in th.s
city. Tho senior partner Mr, Deauor, has
been connected with the establishment for
over thirty years, and tho junior, Mr.
Sehnum, beguu as an apprentice under ex-
Mayor Kieff'er, and by industry und energy
worked his way up to the head. Both are
courteous and affable in manner, and in
every way fitted for conducting so large a
business os they are doing.
Improvements.—lt is a long time since
w<rt?ave seen so many improvements in
the way of alterations und additions going
on, at any one time, as are now in progress
iu Lancaster. Ono improvement leads to
another, and the prospects are that during
the year we will huve plenty of building
going on. We trust that the progress thus
commenced will be continued, and that tho
spirit of enterprise thus awakened will
quicken the growth and increase the busi
ness interests of our city.
A Preventive of Cholera.— The Chol
era, according to all accounts, is approach
ing our shores very fast. The best way to
avoid this contagious disease is to have your
system in complete order. There is no better
purifier than Mishlor’s Bitters, unci we be
lieve it to be an effectual preventive of the
Cholera for that very reason. There can
certainly be no harm in trying it, but there
may a vast deal of good result from its use.
Assessment of Revenue.— James K.
Alexander, Esq., Assessor of United Stutes
Revenue for this district, Ims received orders
to make proposals for the assessment of
taxes for the year 1866, including the in
comes for 1865. The necessary papers will
be ready in a few days, when the Assistant
Assessors will be enabled to commence
operations.
A New Postage Stamp.— Postmaster
General Dennison is having printed a pos
tage stamp of the denomination of fifteen
cents, which will soon be ready for issue.
A stamp of this price, it was found was
greatly needed for the payment of postage
on quarter-ounce letters for France, On
the face of the stamp U a finely executed
portrait of Abraham Lincoln,