- ”■* •>.•> Sjrfr^iy anymb jeot; being responiilblo ibi mfi.Slbus© .of,that liberty. la praaMUtlottß for the publication of nanErslnveaugatlng the offlelaloohdupt of offl- eapaalUea.br Where the matler published is proper for public Informa tion, tne truth thereof may be given in evi dence.” , • ~ •. ~ . - ' ;FOR GOVERNOR? Hon. HIESTER CITHER, of Berta Co, ‘""The nayigafionof the 'Weatem "rivers is in danger of leifig Impeded by sunk steamers. Forty-four have gone down In It'ed'river alone Bince lakt June. A Jliss Stebbins, of Chickasaw co., has received an appointment as notary public for thatcounty. She is the first female ever having received such a commission, and is represented as emi nently competent. The Bucyrus (Ohio) Journal states, on the authority of a reliable man, that two boya, 'a few days since, found $20,000 huriedbeneathanoldwaterhouseon the railroad. Six thousand dollars of thiswas In gold. The Treasurer of the United States has designated the Merchants’ Exchange Bank of New York city a depository of public money. It is to be hoped the public money deposited in this bank won’t go the way of that deposited in the Merchants’ Bank of Washington. The Henderson (Texas) Times ad vances the best argument yet given for the division of that State. It says: “One advantage at least would be gain ed —we would not have quite so many fools together ; in two separate bodies they would perhaps be less able to do mischief.” • Mr. A. W. Boothbay, of Maine, upon opening liis store last Monday morning, was surprised to find a hole in the iloor, of the size of the Htove, and the stove lying quietly and cool in the cellar. It had burnt directly through, and the flames then went out of their own ac cord. The LinEi. suits instituted by Hon. John Cessna against Messrs. Myers & Mengel and Messrs. Myers and bliannon were disposed of last week in Bedford. The jury found a verdict in the first case of not guilty, the defendants to pay the costs. A non pros was entered in the case of Messrs. Myers & Shannon, the latter paying the costs. Juikie Underwood, of tire United States District Court for Virginia, de posited with the Attorney (Jeneral at Washington, on Saturday last, the bill of indictment for treason found by the grand jury of his court against Jeffer son Davis. Tt is said Chief Justice Chase will preside at the trial, which is ex pected to take place in June. A onvEKXMK.VT s.u.K of seventeen thousand spades and seven-thousand shovels is advertised to take place at Washington to-duy. It was supposed these useful implements would all be bought by the itadical members of Con gress, who would need them tobuj'y de capitated office-holders this summer. .Stevens was expected to take at least five hundred. His “last ditch” will be Jong, wide and deep. Jefferson Davis is said to have receiv ed the news of his indictment calmly. His main defence wi U be the preroga tive of every citizen to support the official action of his State. The health of Davis is failing rapidly. It is stated that the incessant tramping and chan ging of the guards around his cell has prevented him having more than two hours of unbroken sleep at any one time during the past year. The chy tlmt the grain crop of the Northwest will prove a failure has been set up, and is industriously kept up. The proofdoes notseeuito be conclusive, though doubtless it is entirely true that the prospect is not at all promising. It would be no injustice to holders of grain to suggest that they have been instru mental in raising the cry —at any rate they are profiting large by it. The act which has passed both Houses of Congress to authorize the coinage of five-cent pieces provides that the new five cent piece shall be composed of copper and nickel, not exceeding twenty five per cent of nickel. This coin is to he a legal tender to the amount of one dollar, and redeemed when presented in sums of not less than one hundred dol lars. The law prohibits the issue of fractional notes less than ten cents after the passage of this act. The Jewish Messenger says: The an nual session of the board of delegates will commence on Sunday, May -Otli, at the city of New York. The execu tive committee have issued a circular notifying the congregations of the time and place, and we anticipate an unusu ally full representation. Thequestions to be considered at the coming session ■will be of importance to Israel. It is of the first consequence that there be a fair representation of the talent and in fluence of the Jews in the United States. The body of Sterling King, who has been in jail at Louisville for some time, on a charge of horse stealing, and who made a confession that was pub lished all over the country, claiming to be an accomplice in the assassination of President Lincoln, arrived in Cincin nati on the 10th, on the Louisville steamer, he having died on the passage. His death was really a suicide by star vation. For forty days he had taken the merest morsel of food, and during the last ten days refused to eat more than an ounce of food per day. Previ ous to bis death he acknowledged that his story of his connection with the as sassination was false. The New Yoke Times, which we need hardly inform our readers is a Re publican journal of the highest charac ter, says of Stevens’ late speech in the House, that it was “ made up wholly of most unworthy appeals to passion and prejudice, and without the faintest at tempt to answer a single argument that had been advanced.” This is the great man who represents the “garden of Pennsylvania” in the Congress of the United States—a man who, when the grandest questions that have been dis cussed since the Constitution was formed are under consideration, answers no argument but contents himself with what a journal of his own political faith properly characterizes as “ most un worthy appeals to passion and preju dice.” Is that the kind of man who ought to represent a county like Lan caster? In Scotland a man has been sen teheed to ten days’ imprisonment for trying to gain admittance to a Masonic Lodge, not being a membePof the order. It is not many years since Thud. Stevens wanted to imprison men in Pennsylvania for being members of the Masonic Order. He was as bitter against them as he is against the Rebels, and if he could have done it he would have sent them to the place described in his speech last Thursday. Are there any isiembers of the Order amoug his sup porters now ? If so, we would advise them to acquaint themselves with his .conduct thirty years ago. They might thence determine whether it is quite .■£Bfetp jfolW him now. The lew Revolution. When the Reconstruction Committee of Congress, after a session of live months, announced the plan. upon which they had agreed, the natiob'was startled.- „Bo completely revolutionary and so anomalous the. scheme put" forward, that many staunch RipjiblK cans were amazed and alarmed. ’Not a few pronftpent BepubUcap’ s n^oPap e re denounced It -as a whole. The'objec tions urged were radical and '.of such a character as to lead all well-informed men to believe that it could never re ceive the support.of even a majority of either branch ofiCongress. The New York Times, a Republican newspaper second in influence tp none in the coun try, spoke of it in the following lan guage of most emphatic and wholesale condemnation: As a plan of pacification and reconstruc tion, the whole thing is worse than a bur lesque. It might be styled’ a farce, were the country not in the midst of a very seri ous drama. Its proper designation would ,ho “A plan to prolong indefinitely the ex clusion of the South from Congress, by im posing conditions to which the Southern people will never submit.” This being the obvious scope and tendency of the propo sition, we are bound to assume that it clearly reflects the settled purpose of the Committee. So that the Joint Committee appointed nearly five months ago to take exclusive charge of the question of recon struction, now offer as the result of all their labors what would in fact render re construction forever impossible. That the Times uttered the truth and expressed the honest convictions of every right thinking man in its own party we must believe. How Congress could persist in forcing through such a measure is something that would excite wonder did we not know the character of the men who constitute the majority of that body and the motives by which they are governed. In the House they are led by Thaddeus Stevens. Years ago in a political contest in this State lie revealed the code of morality by which he has always been governed, when he advised the honest men of the political organization with which he then acted to “ throw conscience to the peril and stand up for their party." Upon that maxim he has consistently acted all hi 9 life. An itinerant Yankee, he came to Pennsylvania to better liis fortunes. Embarking in politics he carried into public life the morality of the vagrant peddler, who will scruple at no mean trick to dispose of his wares at an ex orbitant profit. Disregarding every moral obligation, and repudiating every social tie, he lived the life of a man isolated from those) about him. Sating his passions where he could, spurning all the humanising associations of domestic life, setting at open defiance the deepest seated prejudices of race and color, recognizing no obligations to the community in which he lived, to the State which furnished him a home, or to the country at large, he cherished in his perverted mind and wicked heart a single sentiment which in course of time came to control all other emotions of his nature. He hated the South. Wliat special cause lie had for animosity against the entire white race of that section we kuow not. We can only'account for his bitter, unbending and unreasoning predjudice, by sujj posing that the inuate malignity of the cold-blooded Yankee was kindled to unwonted intensity by & very close in timacy with unworthy specimens of the negro race. Sure it is that unreason ing, unrelenting hate of the South was the controling principle of his whole political life, the one infamous quality which gave him public notoriety.— Whatever he may once have been, Thad deus Stevens has long since been ren dered incapable of feeling or even of comprehending the emotion, of patriot ism, as it should exist in the heart of every American citizen. He had no wife, no children whom he recognized or called his own, no friends in the acceptation of that word. Ostracised socially in the communities in which he lived, and a foreigner in the State he made his home, he has shown himself to be utterly incapable of comprehend ing his duty to his country. Such is the man who, with his bitter curses and his sardonic grin, acts as whipper-in to the crew of Radical dis unionists who presume to call them selves the Congress of the United States. When our national legislature has fallen so low that such a man as Thaddeus Stevens can lead it, no good can be ex pected to come out of it. It is not strange that no provision of the Constitution is any longer regarded as sacred, that the public good is habitually made subser vient to base party purposes, and that the Rump Congress now in session are willing to risk the best interests of the (nation to secure thd spoils of office. They have learned political morality from the Representative of Lancaster. They have deliberately ihroivn conscience to the devil and resolved to stand by their 2>arty. The passage through the House of the plan proposed by the Committee shows that the present Congress is ready to peril all the best interests of the nation for selfish aud partisan purposes. Many of these men believe they will be sus tained by the people. They expect the masses to follow blindly where such men as Stevens lead. AVill they do so? We cannot for a moment imagine they will. We believe there is wisdom and virtue enough left among the people to save the Republic from the impending ruin which is now imminently threaten- ing. The masses can no longerplead ig- norance. They must see and know what will be the inevitable result of thC iufamous revolutionary schemes of Ste vens and his followers; and they must set the seal of condemnation upon them if they would save their country. This new revolution, boldly|began by the Ra dical disunionists, must be checked and crushed out by the votes of the people, or bayonets wifi yet be needed to quell it. The Weekly Age, We cannot too often or too strongly urge the imperative necessity for a wide- 1 spread circulation of Democratic news papers during the. pending campaign. It is the first duty of every Democrat to extend the circulation of his county paper, but if he can afford to do so, he should also subscribe for some other standard Democratic Journal. We know no paper which is more worthy of support, or better worth the price de manded than the Weekly Philadelphia Age. It is published at a low rate for the Campaign. Itand other Democratic papers should be put into the hands of every man who will read them. Clubs should be formed aud money raised for this purpose. More can be accomplished to secure the triumph of correct princi ples by this agency then by any other. LetDemocratssee thatitis not neglected. TiieLedg er’-s New York correspond ent says it does not seem that the great “Head Centre” Stephens, who arrived in that city last week, can do much,, after all, to heal the rupture in the Fenian ranks. The malady looks as if it was beyond cure. The investigation of O'Mahony’s accounts, which is now going on under Mr. Stephens’ eye, dis closes a very bad state of.affairs. Of all the money contributed, only $5OO re main. The rest seems to have been swallowed up in salaries and extrava gances of which outsiders' never dreamed. The Intelligencer long ago warned all its Irish readers not to fool away their money by Bending it to O’Mahony. We now warn them against sending it to Stephens. Santa Anna’s business in this coun try is said to have no official signifi cance. TOJ Wft.ExpecMo Win. - -» ■* “Principles, not men,” has always been a favorite motto with the Demoe , cratic party. While it has been,carefij|j to put forward its best men for public’ 'positignSj -Jt has . never i attempted toj ;carsy elections by clap-trap contriv ances. The garrison, tti£ Taylor, ! the Lincoln • campaigns ere Ulustra-. . tions of the policy of ouropponents.—' Coon skins, log cabins‘&nd hard cider carried the hero of North Bend into the Presidential chair. Old Rough and Ready rode “ old whitey ” into Wash ington amid the cry pf “ a little tqore grape, Captain Lincoln \vas lighted to the White House by “-Wide Awake lamps.” Except by means of such meretricious contrivances the op ponents of the Democratic party have neversucceeded in carrying any general election, or any important State election outside of the shadow of Yankee land. In the present contest for Governor of Pennsylvania the radical disunionists hope to be able to run Geary through on his military reputation. We shall have a dazzling parade of blue trowsers and brass buttons. Under the cover of a loud outcry and an immense deal of parading and hollow pretence, they hope to be able to gull many simple people and to blind the honest masses of Pennsylvania to the vital importance of the great political issues of the day. Were Geary really a great soldier, and not the poorest kind of a paper Gen eral without any military record worth parading, there might be some excuse for this kind of thing. Had he high civil qualifications combined with even his poor military record, the attempt to increase his vote by meretricious clap trap would be more pardonable. As it is it is but a deliberate attempt to gull the masses and to blind them to the real designs of the dangerous men in whose hands Geary is but a willingand supple tool. Simon Cameron, Thad. Stevens, John W. Forney, and the corrupt crew of infamous men who are the leaders of the radical disunionists in this State, know that they will be able to mould the weak and vain creature they have set up tojtheir own base purposes, if he should be elected Governor. In this contest, as in all that have preceded it, the Democratic party takes its stand on principle. It resorts to no disguises and despises and repudiates all subterfuge and clap-trap. Its plat form announces its political belief in terms so plain that no man can be de ceived. It meets the great issues of the day fairly, openly and in a spirit that must commend its position to every right-thinking man in the Common wealth. It has placed upon this plat form a man of high intelligence, one who has given abundantevidence ofhis fitness to fill with honor the high posi tion to which the people of Pennsyl vania will surely elevate him. In the pending contest in Pennsylva nia the Democracy expect to win. They are confident that Hiester Clymer will be elected Governorby a large majority. To effect this purpose they intend to leave no honorable means unemployed. They will expose the empty clap-trap contrivances of their opponents, and show up the real objects which lie hid den. They will tear away the flimsy veil of a false military reputation in which General Geary would faiu hide his real insignificance. They will show him to be but the mere tool and cat’s paw of such infamous men as Simon Cameron and Thaddeus Stevens. They will prove tothepeopleof Pennsylvania that the real contestis between theliad ical Disunionists of Congress and the true Union men of the nation, between Andrew Johnson’s "wise policy and tne absurd and destructive designs of Thaddeus Stevens. They will not attempt to gull the soldiers by lying subterfuges, but they will show to these brave men that Geary is but the base tool of those who assert that the war to restore the Union was a failure and a cheat, unless the negro be made the political and the social equal of the white man. This will be the labor of the campaign. The Democracy enter upon it confident of success. They rely upon the intelligence, the virtue and the patriotism of the people of Penn sylvania in this great struggle. lion, llicster Clymcr. George V. Lawrence, member of Con gress from the Washington (Pa.) dis trict, whose attempt and failure to con vict Hon. Hiester Clymer of the use of certain reproachful aud insulting lan guage towards President Johnson was noticed in these columns last week, has been “brought out” by the sharp criti cism of the Pittsburg Post. He com plains that he has been misrepresented. If this is true, he can lay the blame on his own party friends, for what we pub lished as having been said by him, and upon which the Post commented, was copied from the Philadelphia Press' 1 re port of proceedings in the House. The following is Mr. Lawrence’sletter to the editor of the Post: House op Representatives. 1 Wasiiinuton, D. C , May 10, lsoti. j James P. Barr. Dear Sir ln your paper of yesterday you make a most ungenerous assault on me—for what l was represented as saying; but what I did not say. I send you a true copy of what I did say—and you can tind nothing in it unkind to the President. I have alwuys had a high personal regard for lion. H. Clymer, aud did not think I was wrong in referring to his lead ership of his party, or to bis record, politi cally. You will see I called him a personal friend and an honest man. Was this tradu cing him ? I claim the right to refer to his public record—which has alwuys been straight forward and consistent, and I am sure he could not condemn that; but I shall nevereomlescend to say a word against him personally. So far as lam informed, no man can charge him with any dishonest act, or from avoiding the responsibility of any political act. Yours, truly, (I. V. Lawrence. No friend of Mr. Clymer’s will object to any fair reference tohispublicrecord, for no friend of his is or need be ashamed of it. It was to Mr. Lawrence’s sup posed falsification of Mr. Clymer’s re cord that objection was made. The Press' report of the proceedings of the House represented Mr. Lawrence as as serting that Mr. Clymer had denounced Andrew Johnson “ as a ruffian, an in cendiary, a hireling, au abolitionist,” &c., and as sending to the Clerk’s desk a speech of Mr. Clymer’s which, on be ing read, was found “not to contain any of those expressions.” The same report further represented-Mr. Law rence as awkwardly attempting to wrig- Igle out of the difficulty in which he had involved himself, by explaining that “ the objectionable parts of the speech had been suppressed by Mr. Clymer.” Mr. Lawrence denies the accuracy of this report, and claims to have referred to Mr. Clymer as “a personal friend and an honest man.” He adds his testimony to that already volunteered by other leading Republicans, candidate for Governor is an honest man. And does not this plundered aud debt-ridden old Commonwealth of ours need just such a man for her chief magistrate as Mr. Lawrence says we have in Clymer? Who that is acquainted with the affairs of the State, does not know that the most pressing of all her needs is a bold and honest Governor, who will never avoid responsibility, but fearlessly tram ple under his feet any man or any com bination of men who may seek the pro motion of individual interests at the expense of the general welfare. Democrats of Pennsylvania, you may justly be proud of your candidate when the bitterest of his political opponents bear testimony to his unflinching cour age and his unswerving honesty. ' Hon. Geo. E. Badger, ex-U. 8. Sena tor from North Carolina, is dead. uea.; UhMO^Bxn&ißarstlnff. 1 Mr. Chase's Nationalßank scheme for bribing avaricious voters to support;the metit profligate administration that existed in the United States, successfully attain purpose-of ise Inventor. .It promised ftv be equally successful in robbing th!e;.public treasury of millions and'i in stripping individual depositors of the fruite of long years of toii P The faifureofthe Merchants’ National Bank at Washington city, with not much short of a milliou dollars of gov ernment money in its custody, has startled the country, and caused some pf MV- ■fchhSe’s admirers to doubt the vaunted value of thlß favorite hanking schemeofhis. They naturally conclude that if such things can happen right under the shadow of the Treasury Pe~ partment, more and at least equally dis astrous and disgraceful failures may be looked for throughout the country. There can be no doubt about the per nicious effects of depositing government money in banking institutions. The heavier the deposits, the worse the ef fects. A Bank that deserves the confi dence of the community in whose midst it is located, will always have in its paid up capital and individual de posits all the means that it can profita bly and safely wield. Whatever it gets in excess of this, will only tempt it to enter the whirling gulf of speculation, whose rocky shores are strewn with countless wrecks, and whose restless waters are vexed by unnumbered vic tims. The Democratic party, after a long and severe struggle, rid the Government of all connection with Banks and estab lished the Independent Treasury. This system did not admit of the use of pub lic money for the purpose of private speculation. The surplus public funds Were always in the public treasury and could only be drawn out to pay appro priations made by law. The custodi ans of these funds were officers of the government itself, and in the severe penal provisions of the law under which they were appointed, as well as in the established character of the men them selves, the public had ample guarantees against the misuse of their money. A return to the Independent Treasury system, and a complete divorce of Bank and State, or atleast a severance of their relation as depositor and depository, are demanded by the interests of the Gov ernment and of the people. The specu lating, gambling spirit engendered by the issue of a redundant and irredeem able paper currency, and fostered by the deposit of millions of Government money within reach of the struggling throng of speculators, has already work ed immense injury to the moral tone of the country, and if not speedily checked will exercise a disastrous influence upon its material interests. Such raging fever must in the natural order of things be followed by a racking chill. The startling character of this Wash ington Bank failure—its completeness, and the heavy loss it has entailed upon the Government —has compelled even the reckless radical majority in Congress to pause in theirhotpursuitof the negro and to bestow a thought upon a ques tion that vitally affects the interests of white men. Whether they will pause long enough to bestow more than a passing thought upon the Bank ques tion remains to be seen and may be re garded as doubtful. Still more doubtful is it whether any remedy they n/ay propose will be sufficiently searching and stringent to secure the Government against further loss. Nothing short of the re-establishment of the Inde pendent Treasury will effect this. Blind to their own real, permanent interests, and unmindful of the severe lesson learned by the stockholders of the Washington Bank, those interested in National Banks will still yearn after Government deposits, and to retain theirsupport and influeuce the Radicals will give the public interests the go-by. It is only through a return of the Democracy to power that we can hope to see the public funds securely locked up for public* use and put beyond the reach of plundering speculators. Mortality Among the Frecdmcn When Judge Sharkey, of Mississippi, announced in his testimony before the Reconstruction Committee that there were little more than one-half as many freedmen in that State as therehad been slaves, the whole country was startled, and many newspapers expressed their incredulity. Yet, alarming as this statement may seem, there is good rea son forbelievingitnotto be exaggerated. While there is no way at present of es timating the exact extent of the mor tality among the negroes of the South, it is well known that they died in im mensenumbers. Northern newspapers have been filled with accounts of the manner in which they perished whole sale in the crowded camps where they were collected as our armies advanced into the populous slave territory of the South. The agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau confirm the reports of the won derful extent of the mortality among the blacks. With the.sudden breaking up of the old system they were thrown upon the world without the means of subsistence or any way of obtaining it. Vast multitudes died for want of proper supplies of food. Diseases spread among them with amazing rapidity, and they were swept away in multitudes- Nothing else was to be expected under the circumstances. It was the legiti mate result and first fruit of sudden emancipation. The figures of the Provost Marshal General show how destructive disease was among the enlisted blanks. It was vastly disproportionate to that of the whites, though the latterwere to a much greater degree exposed to the rigors of active campaigning and marches. The report tells us that while only 2,997 colored soldiers were killed or died of wounds received in battle, the enor mously large number of 2(1,301 were swept away by disease. The proportion of deaths in action or from wounds, among them was only a little over one per cent, of the number enlisted, while nearly fifteen per cent. died of disease. In his analysis the Provoßt Marshal General says among the white troops the proportion of deaths in action and from wounds to the deaths from disease, is about as one to two ; among the colored troops as one to eight. About ISO,OOO colored men were enlisted In the army during the war, of whom accordingly nearly one out of every seven died of disease. The general proportion among white troops is one to fifteen. It may be as sumed that where one colored soldier died of disease, at least five others were seriously sick, so that a very large pro portion of the colored troops must have been constantly upon the sick list. There need be little surprise, then, at the statement of Judge Sharkey, in his evidence before the reconstruction com mittee, that there were now in Missis sippi very little over one-half as many freedmen as there formerly were slaves. If the mortality from disease was so great among the sound and originally healthy black males, who were well fed and well cared for In the army, it must have been literally terrible among the women, the children, the aged and the ipfirm. Such are the first fruits which the negro has reaped from emancipation, and bitter enough they have been. - Collector Smythe, ofNew York, has filed his securities with the Govern ment and entered on bis duties. SegroAslor as-81ioin»' kytlir Msweti The ears of the country have been stnnned by the loud pceans which have •‘been sung in praise of negro valor.— The sounding hexameters of blind old Homer, in which he portrayed the gi gantic struggles of his godlike heroes, have been rivalled by the loyal league poets, who in strains of fitting melody have heralded to future labae tjie won derful valor of our black myrmidons.— True it is that no Caesar, common as that name is in negro nomenclature, has yet been found capable of rivaling the great commentator the ability to de scribe the various battles and sieges In which negro troops have distinguished themselves. that has been in the habit of reading loyal newspapers does not know that the veteran legions which bore the standard of Rome from the confines of India to where the At lantic laves the western shores of Brit ain, were infinitely inferior to the negro cohorts who fought, bled and died under Beast Butler. Before the prowess of these swarthy warriors all records of military renown furnished by the past pale away into insignificance. Even the generous and glorious rivalry that made invincible the hosts of our pale faced Northmen must yield the palm to the magnificent heroism of these chil dren of the Sun. Never, if loyal news papers, loyal orators and loyal-league poets are to be believed, did the world witness such prodigies of valor as were displayed by the favored negro race. Have we not all heard how eagerly they / courted death in the race for freedom, honor and historic renown? Before the charges which they made upon the rebels, that of the six hundred at Balaklava sinks into insignificance, and Tennyson’s sounding lyre‘would fail to describe the steady coolness with which our bow legged black cavalry rode “ Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of Hell.” Witness Fort Pillow, where, thougli massacred in cold blood by thousands, they kept" their places under logs and in the thick brushwood until another fire than that of the rebelssmoked them out. Witness Olnstee, where they stood up to be mowed down by whole regiments, in the dark, dank fastnesses of a Florida swamp. Witness Fort Wagner, where they piled up their black bodies higher than the rebel ramparts. Witness the crater in front of Richmond, out of the huge mouth of which, as if from the burning bowels of a bursting volcano, an immense column of negro warriors was thrown heavenward until the sky was shrowded by a pall of Ethiopian darkness. Witness the hundred other battle-fields on which they are said to have excelled the white troops in valor. If the Radicals are to be be lieved, we are indebted to negroes for the victories won. What two mil lion of white soldiers could notachieve, less than two hundred thousand negroes accomplished. Such is the rhodomon tade which has been constantly dinned into our ears. Is it true? — Let the figures answer. Figures, it is said, will not lie. Before their ar ray the frostwork of fancy melts away. What say the figures in regard to the boasted valor of negro troops ? According to the report which we publish elsewhere, the death record, as it is appropriately called, the whole number of men enlisted during the war was 2,154,311. Of these about ISO,OOO were negroes. Nearly one hundred thousand white soldiers were killed in battle or died of wounds received, and this does not include many thousands who went home on furlough to die among friends. Of negroes less than three thousand were killed in battle and died of wounds. We hope we have heard the last of the slanders against white troops, with which such papers as Forney’s Press and other Republican sheets have been filled. If they desired to keep up the delusion they have been fostering they should have prevented this report of Provost Marshal General Fry from being published. They have only one chance left now. If they can prove that Fry has blundered as sadly in this report as he did in making out quotas they may save the reputation of Sambo. Otherwise it is gone, and they stand before the country a set of con victed liars, who are ready to traduce and malign the white soldier in order to secure to the negro political and so cial equality.. Dear Both Sides. It is the bounden duty of every citi zen living under a Republican form of government to examine all public ques tions, and to vote and act as he thinks tlie best interests of his country de mand. He is criminally negligentwho refuses to act in accordance with his honest conviction of right, and before acting he is bound to inform himself in regard to the questions at issue. There is no excuse in this country for igno rance. All men may inform themselves if they will. In the newspapers of the day every great question is so fully dis cussed that no man who can read need be left in doubt as to his duty. The great trouble is that party predjudice prevents many from reading more than one side. If such people could realize the utter silliness of their conduct, they could not help being heartily ashamed of it. In the pending political contest in this State the Democratic party asks to be heard. If it can secure the ear of the masses it is sure of a glorious triumph. The great principles which it advocates are as immutable as truth itself. Its candidate for Governor is one of the purest aud most upright statesmen of his day. Will the people hear both sides in the present campaign ? We believe they will. The times are such as to create a willingness to listen to argu ment. Believing this we regard the de feat of Geary, who is the representa tive of the radical disunionists in Con gress, as a foregone conclusion. No right thinking man can vote for him.— All we ask is that every voter shall hear both sides. Senator Creswell, of Maryland, got a hard knock from Senator Cowan on Wednesday. Mr. Creswell attemp ted to insinuate a charge of inconsis tency against the President, when Mr. Cowan very pertinently replied that the consciences of very few of the Sena tors would be free on that score, and he hardly thought his friend from Mary land could plead guiltless. He then spoke of the resolutions admitting the right of secession, passed at the meeting in Elkton, in 1861, and which are generally supposed to be the production of Mr. Creswell. That gen tleman responded that he had never offered the resolutions, but made no de nial of the oft-repeated assertion that he was the author of them. It appears that some kind friend of Mr. Creswell’s has had the resolutions printed and laid on the desks of all the Senators, evidently for the purpose of enlighten ing the present Radical associates of Mr. Creswell as to his position a few short years since. There is no doubt about his being the author of those se cession resolutions. But he is no more inconsistent than his Northem ‘ ‘Union” friends, who were great sticklers for State rights when that doctrine in its most radical form was required to jus tify or excuse their resistance to the ex ecution of a law of Congress. A magnificent horse has arrived in Washington, as a present from the Mexi can Gen. .Carvajal to Gen, Grant. - «>T.flw*iitt , » Tolltre«l Sfiitiw. * GovernorSwann, ofMaryland, having been advertised to be present with ‘Frank Thomas and other Radicals at a free ting to be held Hagerstown on 29th of Kay, he has addressed a let ter to the eflitorof the Baltimore Ameri- ; van defining hlspresent political status. •• He says he gave no Authority for the •use of hiflnameat the Hagerstown meet ing, and he differs very widely from many of the gentlemen announced to speak on that .occasion. After declaring himself in favor of “ the reconstruction of the Union by admitting the revolted States to representation in .Congress, provided they elecf men of undoubted loyalty, prepared to take the oath re quired by that body,” the Governor puts himself in apposition to the Stevens disunionists and their negro equality schemes in the following plain and emphatic language: , I am utterly opposed to universal negro suffrage, and the extrema radicalism of cer tain men in Congress and in our own State, who have been striving to shape the plat form of the Union party in the interests of negro suffrage. I took upon negro suffrage ana the recognition of the power in Congress to control suffrage within the States as the virtuai subordination of the white race to the ultimate control and domination of the negro in the State of Maryland; and in view of the action of certain extreme men in Congress for three months past upon the bill to introduce universal negro suffrage into the District of Columbia against the unanimous voice of the people, the enlarged freedmen’s bureau bill, the civil rights bill, I and, finally, the reconstruction scheme of | the Committee of Fifteen, I consider the issue upon this subject of negro suffrage will be made in the tall elections, and it will be the most important question that has ever been brought to the attention of the people of the State of Maryland. I deny that the admission of the revolted States by loyul representatives subjects the reconstruction plan of the President to the charge that no guarantees have been secured for the future. The States asking admis sion have, by u constitutional amendment, grhnted universal freedointo the negro, and they have further guaranteed, in another form, n'repudiation of the debts incurred by them in the rebellion. These guarantees I deem as securing for the present all that can be reasonably asked. In these views I believe I am sustained by the almost united voice of President Johnson’s Cabinet, com posing many prominent Republicans who havebeen!tho friends ofbolh Presidents|Lin coln and Johnson. I look upon the war now being waged upon President Johnson as ungenerous, unwise, and uncalled for, and I believe that its longer continuance will greatly embar rass the national prosperity, by keeping alive a state of uncertainty and distrust in the public mind both North and South; certain to eventuate in financial trouble, affecting the tide of immigration now flow ing in upon us, the domestic commerce be tween the Stales, and exercising a most de structive and paralyzing influence generally upon all the great interests of the country. I am, gentlemen, with great respect, your obedient servant, Thomas Swann. Annapolis, May 10, 1860. It is stated that Gen. Fisk, who has goue to Memphis for the purpose of in vestigating the facts attending the late riot, has signified his intention to have all the negro churches rebuilt in better style, and will see that the city foots the bill of damages committed by the mob. He advertises for negro carpen ters, masons and laborers to do the work. When Gen. Fisk, who seems to have as much power as the autocrat of all the Itussias, gets the Memphis negroes fixed up in “better style” than before the late disturbance, perhaps he had better come up North and see that cities in which Democratic printing offices have been mobbed are compelled to “ foot the bill of damages.” We don’t Bee why the Memphis negroes should fare better than Northern white men. But is Gen. Fisk the supreme ruler of the United States ? Have we a Presi dent? And if we have, is not he su perior to any General in the army? If such outrages as Gen. Fisk is said to have in contemplation are to continue to be committed, let us have them done in the name and by the authority of the Chief Magistrate of the country. The National Intelligencer makes a point against one feature of the Congres sional Plan of Reconstruction, which is rather more forcible than some of the objections brought from the opposite quarter. It refers to section 3, provid ing that “until the 4tli day of July, IS7O, all persons who voluntarily ad hered to the late insurrection shall be excluded from the right to vote for elec tors for President and Vice President.” This amendment proceeds on the as sumption that the electors of President and Vice President are necessarily chosen by the people, whereas such is not the case, nor has itbeen theuniform practice. The Intelligencer says : “ The Committee forget that the electors for President and Vice President can'be chosen by the State Legislatures. In the early days of the Republic nearly all tho States, if not all, elected Presidential elec tors through tho Legislature. Tho State of South Carolina never elected Presidential electors in any other manner. The legality of tho votes cast in this way from the begin ning of the Government to 1860 was never questioned. “Tho Joint Committee suppose, because they see the people at the Presidential elec tions casting their votes for the electors of President, that this is tho only way the busi ness can be done. “If the amendment were to pas# in the shape in which it was reported, it would be perfectly nugatory, because the Southern States could provide for the election of Presi dential electors by the Legislatures.” The editor of the financial depart ment of the New York World takes the same view of Chase’s national banking scheme that we took in our article of yesterday. He holds with us that the way to save the government from being swindled out of its cash on hand is to return to the independent treasury system, under which the public funds were kept locked up in the custody of regularly-appointed officers of the gov ernment, instead of being deposited in Banks where they could be used by gambling speculators. The World says: “ The collapse of the Merchants’ National Bank at Wash ington is awakening the people to the evils of the whole national banking scheme. The Herald, and other paper money journals which warmly advo cated the national banking scheme, and for years praised Mr. Salmon P. Chase as the embodiment of financial genius, are now forced to takebackallthey wrote, and advocate those measures which the World suggested while the national bankinglaw was under discussion. The nostrums suggested by these paper money journals as remedies to prevent the government being swindled are superfluous. The remedy is to carry into practical execution the sub-treasury law, as yet unrepealed in our statute books. No new laws are required. The national banking scheme is simply the pet bank system revived in an (aggra vated form. Nothing new can be said or suggested on this subject.” A Prophecy Fulfilled. The gjjeat New England statesmen Daniel Webster, in a speech delivered in the United States Senate, on March 3d, 1850, made the following remarka ble prediction which has been fulfilled to the very letter: ”If the infernal fanatics and Abolition ists over get power in their hands they will override the Constitution, set the Supreme Court at defiance, change and make laws to suit themselves, lay violent hands on those who differ with them in their opinions, or dare question their infallibilitv, find finally bankrupt the country and deluge it with blood.” “ The Hon. Mr. Culver,” the en terprising Yankee Disunionist who squatted in Venango county a few years ago and soon persuaded the gullible Pennsylvanians of that district to elect him to Congress, has played a sharp game on the Meadville College. He donated to it a piece of land and erected thereon a College building that cost $50,000. Gratefulfor apparent generosity the institution not only gave him its influence for Congress, but also invested $30,000 of Its funds in one of his Banks. Unfortunately the “ Hon. Mr. Culver” forgot to transfer the title to the College property, which now appears among his assets, whilst the thirty thousand dollar deposit may be reckoned a dead loss. ie'BlßtrfctJffdp BtlforWlfr—Chargeto the Jury. The instant rebuke administered by the foreman of the gland jury to Judge Underwood, upon the conclusion of his charge in the U. 8* District Court at Norfolk, on .Tuesday last, will find an echo in the breast of every human being. Th%grave, upright man asked to be excused from serving on the jury because he felt himself incompetent, os a man of peace and good-will to all men, to handle the tools spoken of in the charge. He did not know how to use them. Thanks, brave old man, for telling the judge that you could not use such tools. Who could use them? who could consent to be made the instru ment of an official manifesting such eager impatience for the blood of his fellow-citizens? If it has come to pass that grand juries are to be reminded from the bench that the world condemns their slowness; that the omission of one grand jury to indict particular individ uals, designated as clearly and precise ly as if they had been named, is to be the subject of a studied apology to an other grand jury, accompanied by the assurance that there is no longer reason for omitting the sacred duty; If they are to be stimulated, by a judge going out of his way ior the especial purpose, to select shining marks For judicial vengeance by exhortations that it is cowardly to punish the subor dinate and comparatively insignificant, and allow the principals to escape—and t-hifl to be accompanied with the gentle, tender, considerate admonitiou that all this is to be done with such discrimina ting clemency thafc/mo unnecessary blood shall be added to the torrents which have already soaked the soil—it is quite time for those who have the hearts as well as the form of humanity to declare, in the face of day, that they know uQt how to use such tools. Doubt less the stern old man understood from the words which were addressed tohim that he was listening to the commands of an executioner and not the precepts of a-jndge; doubtless he thought he heard the voice telling him to lift the axe of the headsman and strike off the the head of his victim : and in natural response to such an order, he declared that he knew not how to ÜBe such tools. When Jeffreys administered the Assize of Blood there were no stern old (Qua kers to rise up and coufront the tiger, and to tell him they knew not the use of his tools—then the judicial history of England had been 9pared the darkest page of its record. May we be spared that which one bad man, unresisted, can bring upon a whole nation. It is a fact that the best informed lawyers hold that a district j udge sitting by himself in a circuit court, is not com petent to tryandpass sentence in capital cases. Virginia, the land of sorrows, of mourning, of desolation, must submit to be libelled by those who sit on the seat of justice: every crime may be im puted to her children at which human ity sickens; she may be taunted with the ignorance of her people and derided at the desolation of her fairest counties, and that her oldest town has not ruins enough for owls to hoot over. All this she must bear from judges in their solemn charges to grand juries within her borders. But at least she will be spared the flow of blood, at the bidding of ju dicial monsters. They may disgrace the American name ; but the laws will not suffer that they shall stain the national ermine with the hurried thirst of blood. One mau has not the power, and two cannot be found, to facilitate such a purpose.— Baltimore Bun. How Stevens Plied His Lash, The National Intelligencer thus de scribes the merciless manner in which Thaddeus Stevens drove his African Car of Juggernaut over the writhing bodies of his political friends, who vainly endeavored to escape its crush ing wheels: The passage of the resolution of Reconstruction Committee in the House of Representatives was auother triumph of inexorable Tliad. Stevens over the Republican members of the House. The Republicans were forced to place themselves on the record in favor of a measure emi nently obnoxious to many of them, arid upon which a majority of them "are loath to go before the country. Earnest and auxious efforts had been made to obtain a modification of the resolutions. Several of the Republicans had frankly avowed their objections to the measures as presented by the star-chamber com mittee, and pleaded hard to be allowed an opportunity to strike out certain features, which they are convinced will prove sadly damaging to the Republican party among the people ; but the grim old man, to whose tyrant leadership they have servilely committed them selves, was deaf to every appeal. He hadmadethe bed forthem, and whether too long or too short, they mustllein it. At the appointed hour theiuappeasable Stevens, as chief of the star chamber, demanded the previous question to cut off debate ana preclude any amend ment. He did not want any tinkering' upon his work. He had fashioned the monster according to his own ideas. It was the bantling of his own darling Re construction Committee. However hid eous its deformities, no man of the Re publican party in the House dared, under the penalty of ostracism, to disown the misshapen offspring, or to exercise the privilege of voting upon it in accordance with his own conscience and judgment. The flat of Stevens had gone forth, and all Republicans, without distinction of race or color, whether Radical or Con servative, were mercilessly compelled to toe the mark and votejfor the measure, although convinced in their own hearts that it was throwing a boomerang that will prove their own destruc tion. Less than fifty Republi cans voted to sustain the previous question, but at this juncture the Democrats, almost without exception, rallied to its support to assist in driving .this nail in the Republican coffin ; and it was sustained by a vote of 84 to 79. Then followed the humiliating specta- cle of the tame submission of the 79 to be whipped with the party lash into the support of a measure that many of them had openly condemned. The vote upon the passage of the resolutions was a strictly party vote. The 37 Dem ocrats Btood by themselves in the nega tive. The Republican party vote was recorded solidly in the affirmative. Not one was permitted to shirk. There was much murmuring, squirming, and even cursing, but implicit obedience was ex acted. Not one was allowed to escape. Men who were sent to Congress to repre sent proud, intelligent and patriotic constituencies were compelled to lay their own opinions, their own judg ments, their own convictions of right and duty, and the wishes and interests of their constituents, as an bumble sacrifice at the feet of the triumphant Mokanna of their party. The Advantages of being insured against accidents have been fully demon strated in our midst, within a few days past. Our readers are aware that among the parties injured at the firo, ou Thursduy last, wero Major C. C. Davis, who had an arm severely burned, and Mr. DaDiel 8. Barr, who sus tained an injury to one of his limbs. We have just learned that thoso gentlemen had recently taken out policies in tho North American Transit Insurance Company. Major Davis is now entitled to receive $25 per week, and Mr. Barr, $5 per week, from tho company, in consequence of their ina bility to attend to business. Tho policies cost, for a year, a sum equal to the amount tho injured men will receive for a single week . —Harrixburg Telegraph . The company above referred to is the one of which our friend Cyrus S. Halde man, whose office is at No. 521 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, is General Agent. It hasagentson all the trains of the lead ing Railroads throughout the country, who sell insurance tickets for one day or for any number of days desired by the purchaser. Agencies are also being established in all the principal towns. The insurance extends to accidents of all kinds, and not merely to such as or dinarily occur on Railroads. Nobody ought to make a journeyon a Railroad without one of these insurance tickets in his pocket; and the above item from the Telegraph shows how well it would be for every man to take out a policy, no matter whether he intends to travel or not. The Chilian Consul at New York vis ited James Stephens on Sunday. A grand Fenian mass meeting will be held in New York to-night. The President has pardoned Briga dier General W. R. Cox, of North Carolina, and D. H. Cooper, of Arkan sas. No new cases of cholera have occurred in New York bay since last report. The cholera has entirely disappeared from the Quarantine station at Halifax- ... .•; BFirMuiiw. ~ . The qutetiofi of all the pins?” nowsinks into insignificance beside another inquiry of more serious moment* What has all: the gold watches? This country has been famous for these glittering time-pieces. Not a well-to-do-gentleman in any part of the land but had his gold ticker; they were an indispensable portion of ayoung lady’s daily attire; and even beardless boys were eager to possess the coveted treasure, and could not wait for it until they came to man’s estate. But, un fortunately for the happy owners of these elegant articles, tne eye of the greedy tax-gatherer was caught by their glitter, and they were to be made to contribute to the national revenue. Any gold watch in use, worth less han one hundred dollars, was to be charged one dollar, and when valued at over one hundred dollars was to pay two dollars cash, per annum. At this precise moment, by a singular coinci dence, a large part of the gold watches in manyStatesdisappeared from record. The sudden vanishing of so much valu able property should be a matter of public concern, and we desire to direct toward it the attention of all who are interested, in the hope of obtaining some explanation of this remarkable phenomenon. The following, from the latest official return of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, exhibits the extent of this startling loss, and may partially aid in its recovery : GOLD WATIICHES IN THE UNITED STATES. (From the official returns.) States and Worth less than Worth more than Territories. sioo $lOO. Maine o 3 New Hampshire 33 l Vermont 2 Massachusetts 38 .....N.... y Rhode Island Connecticut —.— New York SS3 2UL New Jersey 4 Pennsylvania 1,U6 .. 150 Delaware Maryland SS3 M Virginia io7 .. ;t2 Kentuckj* 297 30 Tennessee it>*2 77 Ohio 40 Indiana 220 80 IlUnois 4 Michigan I Wisconsin lowa Minnesota Missouri 1,5.19 320 Kaunas California s“7 211 Oregon aw 28 Nevada , .... Colorado Nebraska lu 2 Utah ... Washington 2 New Mexico 33 39 Montana .. Thus we have only 7,896 gold watches left, out of all the thousands which were owned before the war ; and some Spates have not a single specimen. Rhode Island, the home of tne wealthy Sena tor Sprague, has not one of the yellow treasures, even of the most inferior de scription. Connecticut has notone, and her late patriotic governor Bports, it is fair to infer, only a silver bull’s-eye of the antique pattern. And Wisconsin Iowa? Minnesota? Kansas? and the other blanks? Alas! we have no an swer. Vermont has two, but they are worth less than one hundred dollars. Only two gold watches of any descrip tion ip all Vermont! In Michigan there is one. Who is the fortunate man? Will not some historical Society in that bereft commonwealth give us tne name of this fortunate gentleman who still retains his yellow time-piece? Strange to say, Missouri heads tne list and has been the least “spoiled” by the threat ening tax gatherer.— Journal of Com merce. A Cabinet Officer Visits the Great Culprit. Correspondence from Fortress Monroe states that the Secretary of the Treas ury took a pleasure excursion to that renowned place on the 6th inst., and while there held an hour’s chat with Jefferson Davis. The New York Ifer ahVx correspondent says : Shortly after making himself known to General Miles, Secretary McCulloch ex pressed a desire to visit Jell* Duvis. Of course such a request, corning from such a high official, could not bo refused. The in terview lusted over un hour. No one was present during the interview. Not coming in an official capacity tho visit of the Sec retary did notinthoslightestdegreopartako of the character of an official visit, and it would be simply absurd to attach to U tho least significance as bearing upon the future disposal of Mr. Davis. A simple desire to ; see the man, and havo a social chut with him us man to man, was. doubtless, tho controlling impulse and desire of tho Secro tary. And such was the nature of tho in terview. It was nothing more than tho social interchange of thought and feelings between two great minds. Many topics, it is to be presumed, were discussed, in which the shrewd, cultivated and incisive vigor of their diverse minds and views sbono out with brilliant effect. A prisoner, und particularly ono possessing the largo de gree of egotism characterizing Mr. Duvis, tho latter, it is reasonable to con clude, could not be restrained from speaking of himself, und it wus natural he should suck to divert tho channel of con versation in that direction and betray |a palpable eagerness to speak of his long im prisonment, his impaired health and eager ness to be tried. Mr. McCulloch listoueu no doubt with mingled politoness and pationce to these diversions; but all that could bo wrung from him by his adroit interlocutor was the simple hope and assurance that justice would be dono him. Thus tho con ference began, continued andended. Wheth er Mr. McCulloch wont away with a bettor opinion of Mr. Davis than before his talk with him is best known to himself. What ever his impression, it is not at all probable that it will swerve him in tho least from what in his high official character ho con siders his duty to him ns a state prisoner. The Washington correspondent of the Herald , writing on the Bth, adds the following on this subject: Secretary McCulloch has returned from his visit to Fortress Monroe, and states that from hia interview with Jed' Davis, ho in satisfied that tho treatment of tho ex-Presi dent of the defunct confedenic)' has boon unnecessarily sovere and strict. The din ner of Davis, which was brought in during tho interview, was served upon a pine table without any cloth, and, although of good material und plenty in quantity, was not such as a great nation could aliord to bo stow upon a distinguished although unfor tunate criminal. Secretary McCulloch will use his influence to have a milder form of treatment used in future. A telegram from the Fortress, dated May 7, gives the following in relation to Mrs. Davis and the arrangements in progressjfor her accommodation during sojourn there : Tho casemates selected in tho fortress for the accoinmodation of Mrs. Davis are rupidly being fitted up in a very comfortablo though not luxurious manner. General Miles has detailed an orderly for her use in place of the services of the officer of the day, whose duties since her arrival hero havo consider ably increased from having to escort her at stuted hours to Carroll Hull, where Davis is imprisoned. Since her arrival Mrs. Davis has casually remarked tho fail ing state of her husband’s health, and en tertains, it is said, serious fears should ho be attacked during tho coming summer by one of his perodical intermittent fever or congestive chills. His general health, how ever, remains good, nnd it is supposed to bo only tho loDg imprisonment and many anxious fears and doubts which havo weighed so heavily upon his mind ns to produce tho very natural change in his ap pearance during the past year. Of Dr, Cooper, tho post surgeon, whoso medical advice lias had a very beneficial effect on the prisoner’s health, and indeed of all the officers of the garrison, Mrs. Davis speaks in tho highest terms, und has expressed herself extremely grateful for their courte sies and kind feelings towards her husband. Some of the lady friends of Mrs. Davis re siding in Baltimore nro making various articles as presents, which will be shortly forwarded here for her use during her so journ in the fortress. A Sand Storm. A stranger might have supposed yes terday morning that Pittsburg was In the Desert of Sahara, and that the in habitants were Bedouin Arabs. Thero certainly was sand enough floating about to justify the Supposition. Up to about ten o’clock every person who ven tured out of doors became at once a real estate holder. Indeed everybody might be called a princely proprietor, for he could see nothing but his own posses sions, inasmuch as he could seen aught beyond the sand in his eyes. At about half-past nine o’clock the high wind that had prevailed all the morning, suddenly increased toagale, ana the people on the streets became involved inailsortsof disastrous confusion. Jiats, bonnets, crinoline and clouds or sand were floating in all directions, and the chief end Of life seemed to be to get out ofthedrafA At about ten it commenced raining in torrents and the temperature suddedy changed from sultry heat tp raW disagreeable cold. The wind was very high, and in some placesproduoed some marked effects. In Allegheny,’ particularly, considerable damage was done. On Ohio street we noticed sev eral small trees twisted off. On (Federal street many of the awnings were torn away, the posts demolished and the; stout iron frames bent and warped in all directions,— Pittsburg Post, .
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