WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1866. Tne printing presses snail be free to every Person who undertakes to.examine the pro ceedings of the legislature, or any branch of government; and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereot The free commu nication of thought and opinions is one or the luvaluable rights of men; and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any sub leot; being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of offi cers. or men in public capacities, or where the matter published is proper for public informa tion, the truth thereoi may be given in evi dence.” To Our Campaign Subscribers. This is the last j[ssue of our paper which we can send to our Campaign subscribers. Already many of theliun dreds who responded to our proposal to issue a Campaign edition have become permanent subscribers, and we expect to enrol the greater portion of the en tire number on our regular list. Now that the election is over, vveshall be able to fill the Weekly Intelli gencer with such a variety of enter taining matter, as will make it all that a Family Newspaper should be. We will give the latest and most reliable news by mail and telegraph up to the hour of going to press, as full and com plete market reports as can be had any where, the doings of Congress and the State Legislature, a general variety of literary matter, useful reading for farmers and mechanics, all the local news of the county, and, in short, every thing that can be desired in a first-class Weekly Journal. We shall not forget politics, but, while zealously doing battle for the right in that respect, shall take care that oilier interests are not forgotten or neglected. We believe we only speak the truth when we say that the Wkkkj.y In TKI..LH;j:n< nit is second to no paper in the State of Pennsylvania. Our sub scription list is already large, hut there is ulways room for more We hope our Campaign Subscribers will all conclude to continue to takethe flOy* Terms $2.00 a ymr in adraurt or $l.OO/or A ir. Mouths, Send the money by mail at our risk Address Cooper, sani>erson & Co. Lancaster, Pcnna. The Result The result of the election of Tues day as reported in the Slate of Penn sylvania, is calculated to sadden the heart of every truepalriot in the natiou. Passion and prejudice have overcome patriotism and prudence. If it he true that the .Radicals have elected John W. Geary ami made a gain of Congress men, we may confidently expect them to carry out their threats. The South ern States will be refused admission to the Union except on degrading and impossible terms, and the President of the Cniled Slates will lie impeaehed ami an attempt made to depose him from ollice. The people were fully and faithfully warned against tlie infamous schemes of the bold bad men who are now in the ascendant throughout the North. They have allowed themselves to be duped and deluded into the support of measures which must effect disastrous ly all the best interests of this nation. That they will reap the reward of their folly we verily believe, but with that conviction is mingled the sad assurance that the natiou must sutler for the fool ishness of those who refused to heed the warnings of history and the earnest entreaties of the wisest and purest statesmen of the land. The future of this country is shrouded in gloom, ami God alone knows how we shall escape the perils which now beset us. There is no reason to believe that the Radicals will exhibit more moderation or decency in the future than they have displayed in the past. The Conservative men of the nation w|io did battle so gallantly yesterday are the hope of the nation, and they stand ready to do all that men can do to avert the evil which threatens. It is their duly to stand by the right, and they will do so as lirmly in the future as they have in all the past. Lancaster City The whole vote polled in the city, on Tuesday last, was if we take it on Register. The whole vote polled fo l ' Governor was :*,5.‘->l, and for Associate Judge /The latter is, perhaps, the fairest test of the strength of parties. Mr. Bower, the Democratic candidate, had 1,912 votes, and his opponent, Mr. Martin, 1,594 —showing a Democratic majority of IMS votes. This is a pretty good day’s work for the old Democratic city, and is a proud record for her in domitable Democracy. Had the rest of the .State come up to the work like lam caster city, Hiesler Clymer would now be the Governor elect by a large ma jority. ; Lancaster Count) The vote polled for Hiesler Clymer in this county was 8.59:2, the largest Demo cratic vote ever cast for any of our can didates. Some teu or twelve years ago, six thousand was considered the utmost limit lor the Democratic party. The result this election shows an increase of at least forty per cent., whilst the Re publican vote of 11,59:2 only shows an increase in the same period of time of twenty-five percent.. According to this ratio of increase, the time will come when purlieu in this county will be much more evenly balanced than they are ut the present. There Lno portion of the Stale where the iJuinoerucy, all tilings considered, deserve more credit than they do ill Lancaster county. Handsome Compliment Samul il. Reynolds, our rami date for Congress, has reason to |.-j proud of Ills vote in this city. Jlis mi jority over Stevens is 441, having cut ried the four wards. The returns IVoi every district show that he has ru largely ahead of his ticket. How the Soldiers Voted, From the loud claims made by the Radicals, one would have supposed that the soldier vole in this Stute would have swelled the majority for Geary to the vast proportions of at least fifty or one hu'udred thousand. That it should fail below that of Mr. Lincoln was absurd, according to their calculations. Vet it Is from one-fourth to one-third less. How is this to he accounted for? The soldiers were all at home. In it possible that any considerable proportion of them voted for Clymer? Let the returns’ an swer. The “ boys in blue” were true to the cause for which they fought,. The defections from our ranks are to he sought elsewhere. All the calumnies which were Hpread in regard to our can didate did not allen/ite the Boldiers from principle. Bondholders in many In stances allowed their fears to get the bet ter of their judgment, but the “boys in blue” were true to the Union cause and the Un ion candidates. All honor to them for it. Hon. Henry Wilspu. of Massachusetts, has publicly professed religion inaCon gregational church In JtostoQ, What Use Wli the Radicals Make of their Victories ? A week has passed away since the election was held in this State. The contest was not long in doubt after the polls had closed. Before midnight it was known that Geary was elected Gov ernor, and that the Conservative candi dates were defeated. Fora week we have waited patiently to see whether the Badicals would display any signs of statesmanship in the midst of their triumph. We have waited in vain. From no source have we heard a single word of political wisdom uttered. The leaders of the party seem to be blinded with rage against President Johnson, and full of bitter and unrelenting hatred toward the entire white population of the South. They talk of the people of that entire section asif they consider ed that they had nota single right under the Government and no claim to a place within the Union. Every Republican newspaper in Pennsylvania, so far as we have seen them, has been full of the most insulting epithets. They have assumed the haughty domineering tone which they indulged in throughout the war. The whole white population of the South are denounced as rebels without any rights except the right to be hanged, and the entire mass of those in the North who supported the policy of President Johnson are spoken of in terms which are literally indecent and outrageous. Forney openly threatens the impeach ment of a President whose distinguish ing characteristic is a sacred regard for his oath of office, and a firm resolve to maintain, protect and defend the Con stitution of the United States. Follow ing in Forney’s lead, every lesser Radi cal newspaper in the State echoes the cry of the leading hound. Throughout Pennsylvania, from oneendof the State to the other, the result of the election has been received by the Radical lead ers as an endorsement of the most ex- treme policy. That President Johnson will be im peached by the Radicals during the coming session of Congress we do not believe. They will hesitate before they put their threats into execution. Much elated as they are with their victories, ami vindictive as they feel, they will hardly dare to risk tiie consequences of such an act of folly. If, in defiance of the Constitution, and of all law and justice, they should, they will neces sarily precipitate this natiou into a new revolution more terrible than that from which we have just emerged. They would find resistance of the most eflec ti ve kind meeting them in the very first move they made toward deposing the lawfully elected President of the United States, for the purpose of setting up a tool of their own in his stead. To a call for aid from the President, under such such circumstances, the whole mass of able-bodied men in the Demo cratic party of the North would at once rally in their undivided might. It is \\:ell that the Radical leaders should know this. Rut, while we do not believe they will dare to impeach the President, we expect to see the Radical majority in Congress carve out for their party a policy which can result in nothing but political, social and financial disaster. A few moderate Republicans journals declare that the Southern States will be admitted to the enjoyment of their full rights in the I'nion immediately upon their adoption of the proposed Amend* mends to the Constitution. The New York Tii/U s and the Herald both urge them to do so at once. Rut, the very anxiety of these sheets shows that they dread tlie effect of the advancing de. mauds of the Radicals. The real leaders of the Radical party boldly avow in ad vance that they will not be satisfied with the adoption of the proposed Amendments —that they will demand other and as yet unknown concessions from the late slave States. Will the people of the South accept the proposed amendments and accede to such other unknown terms as the Radicals may see lit to impose? That is a question now to he considered. That they have a right, a free and untram melcd right either to acceptor reject the proposed amendments no one can deny. The very nature of the proposition and its method of presentation presupposes this; and in submitting them to the people of the Southern States, the Radi cals themselves admitted their entire right either to accept or to reject the proposed amendments. Will they accept them? When we say they will persistently refuse to do so, we only repeat the determination universally expressed throughout the entire South. There is not a newspaper in that whole section, with the slightest influence, which does not declare that it is the fixed resolve of the people never to adopt or sanction the proposed amend ments to the Constitution. The Louis ville Journal we regard as the best type of Conservative journalism in theSouthl Throughout the entire rebellion it stood firmly by the Union cause from first to last, and it. has beeu accused of leaning strongly to radicalism. From it, if such a sentiment existed anywhere in the South, we might expect to hear an in timation that the people would adopt the proposed amendments. An extract from its last issue will show the feeling among the Union men of Kentucky in regard to this matter. It says : Bulweuii these terms, which the radicals nominally oiler to the South, and negro suffrage, which they really offer, there is no (lillei'eni'o in principle, both aliko being offered in delianec of the Constitution, which requires the unconditional admission of the (| mil i lied representatives ofthe South, as of every oilier section. The objection to both is fundamental. No power on earth lias the right to impose either. Nor can the Southern Slates voluntarily accept either wit:.out degrading themselves from the po sition of co-equal members of the Union to that of conquered provinces obeying tin* dictates of their conqueror. The objection lies with equal weight against all terms. No terms are admissahle. The idea of terms is out ol'lhc question.. It is absurd. It South Carolina, lor example, may ratify a coushiniioiinl amendment, thus perfonn im- as high an act of sovereignty as a Statu >';tn perform under the Constitution, she is in lea' plarc in the Union to all intents and po.i-jj..,..i whatevet/Tuiidhor exclusion from ' •hi-ic and link Electoral College until ■'ll" .cVrj.is loniis dictated by the repre v • i j i; 11 i v i i,r In-r co-equal Status or of apart ol i lean ii ini mil rage us great as would be Him like e\elusion ■ of Mussachtiselts or of New ’ixik. :siie ,fs the equal of any other Stale or she U not’,a Slate at ull. Ji is eu->y to ernivise the particular terms of this amendment, pointing out its tend ency to eeiitnihxaii'Mi, encroachment on the domestic mdepend,.,,,.,, of the Slates, its parly animus, its inequality, its injustice, ns ruinous inexpediency, lu ,d all the minor vices lurking in Us provisions, but these are subordinate objections, the discussion of which, if not carefully guarded, may serve to lessen the loree and obscure the dignity ofthe paramount objection which L, us we have already implied, timi the ex action of any terms strikes down the Con stitution in its vital principal, Jr atiy terms may be rightfully exacted, our gov ernment is no longer a compound Kepuhhe, hut a single one. It lias ceused to he tin’ government of our lathers. The exaction of these terms annihilates the States. The arguments contained in the above extract are unanswerable anywhere, and will be so regarded by every man who lias the slightest comprehension of the theory and system of our Govern** ment. They address themselves to the people of the South with overmastering power, and to expect them to adopt the proposed amendments to the Constitu tion with such convincing reasons to iniluence them to a contrary course, is to expect them to violate every sacred eonvietjon of right, and to sacrifice all that honorable men hold dear in life. But, should the people of the South ern States refuse to sanction these pro- amendments—what then? That is for the Radicals in and out of Con gress to Bay. They have vast power in their hands, aud can be only slightly restrained in its use by the wisdom and statesmanship of the President and his advisers. What will they, do in the premises? That is the question which thousands are eagerly asking. How it will be answered we know not. All their past actions are calculated to in spire distrust, and theirpresent utteran ces lead us to apprehend coming disasters. That they will moderate their insane fury there is no reason to believe. The present hour is one of extreme peril, and the future of our country is in the hands of men who are unfit to be trusted with power. What this nation most needs now is peace and a perfectly restored Union. It is sure that we shall have neither so long as the Radical leaders can prevent it. The recent elections give them a new lease upon power. They are moie insolent and domineering to-day than they even were before. They will not yield one jot or tittle of their impossible demands. Theycin work muchevil,and we have every reason to believe they will pursue sucli a course as will not result in any permanent good. All the Con servative masses of the nation can now do is to stand firmly by the right, pre pared to meet every demand which may be made upon them in the future. That they will do so, we have as little doulit as we have that the Rad icals will only make use of their victo ries to work evil. A Minority Party The assumption of the Republican party that it represents a majority of the citizens of the United States is a sham aud a falsehood. Never since it had an existence were a majority of the people of tliis country endorsers of its entire policy. Yet it has arrogautly as sumed, ever since it came into power, that none of its aids were to be question ed. On the strength of the recent elec tions, in which it is shown to be able to control but a meagre majority of votes in the Northern S ales, it haughtily de mands that all its exactions shall be ac ceded to at once. Coming into power as a minority party, through the principles of State sovereignty, the Republican party ig nored State rights as soon as it found it convenient for it to do ho. On the close of the war it voluntarily put itself into a position of antagonism to a majority of the citizens of the United States. How it could maintain its hold on power was the one question which engrossed the thoughts of its leaders. Being unfitted to pursue a moderate and rational policy it was compelled to resort to desperate expedients. The Union has been kept divided for the sole purpose of enabling the Republican leaders to devise some scheme for per petuating on power. They dare not await the verdict of the ma jority of the citizens of the United States, and art* ready to resort to compulsory means to secure a seeming endorsement by States of the schemes they have proposed. If the proposed ('onstitutional A mend ment were submitted to a vote of the citizens of the United States to-morrow, it would be found that there is a clear majority of at least half a million against R. If it he left to Slates themselves it will never receive the sanction of the number required to make it part of the Constitution of the United States. The Republican party stands before the country to-day as a minority party. Y'et itsdemandsure of the most arrogant character. Its hauling men are full of bluster and big with defiance. Excited by the result of the receut election they insist upon the immediate endorsement of their schemes. They speak as if they thought they had the power to enforce obedience to their com mauds,and as if no one should dare to question their right to lord it over the nation at will. The majority of the citizens of the United States will see to it lhatthe Con stitution and the laws of the land are observed by all. While the Constitu tion remains unaltered, it must lie re spected and obeyed. It can only be altered by the voluntary action of the requisite number of States. Any at tempt of the Radicals to force their policy upon the county in defiance of the Constitution will lead to serious trouble. We fear they may make the attempt. Befure they are tempted to do so, however, it would he well for them to relied that they are decidedly and hopelessly in the minority, and that the recent elections in the North ern {States pr-u-p them to he so. Stand by Principle. The devotion of the Democratic party to great cardinal principles is not the offspring of selfish calculation. It is born of a clear conviction that by and through a Lriumpli of the doctrines which this gram! old party advocates the best interests of the masses will be subserved, and the glory and greatness of the Republic enhanced. Believing that firmly the Democracy of the North made a most gallant fight in the recent election. They are defeated, but they are not disheartened. They expect their principles to triumph and to triumph with them. In all such contests as those in which we have been engaged, the party that stands most firmly on principle has the surest guarantee of success, while the party that is thoroughly and exclusive ly identified with a principle vital to the government lias a guarantee as abso lute as the existence ofthe government itself. The conservatives of this coun try stand on such a principle. Letlhem become identified with il as thoroughly as they are exclusively, and they must prevail, if the government endures. If the government does not perish, the principle must triumph ; and, if they but gallantly lash themselves to the principle, they will triumph with it. Gear)’s Speech. We give in full the reported speech of General Cleary at Harrisburg, as we find it In the P/’ckh of yesterday. That tills thing was written by Korney, and only delivered by Geary, us a parrot repeats what it has beeu taught, there Is no doubt. We read it with sadness and disgust. That any man, recently elect ed Governor of the great State of Penn sylvania, should so far forget himself, and what is due to the position he will shortly be called on to occupy, as to as sail the President of the United States in language of coarseness is enough to cause any Pennsylvanian to hang his head with shame. While we were con fident that Geary would be but the pliant tool of corrupt politicians, we did not expect to see him lend himself to Forney as a mere mouth-piece through which he would give utterance to his blackguardism. The declaration of Geary that by his election it had been decided that equal political rights were to he granted to the" negroes, was to be expected. But, Forney might have made his puppet give utterances to that sentiment without causing to make a mean and undignified attack upon the Chief Magistrate of the nation. So un seemly an exhibition this country has never witnessed before. Contemptible. More than twenty men have been dis charged from the Lochlel Iron Works, simply because they voted fm* Hiester Clymer. This is contemptible business —a poor man has no right toau opinion —but must be the tool of others ifhe de* sires to earn hiß daily bread. The “Old Winnebago.” however, is mean enough to do anything.— Patriot and Union, Depreciating the Value of if;'B. Bonds. Some of the means to which parti zans resort during a hotly contested 1 political campaign are perfectly despi cable. The Radicals In their despera tion during the canvass through which we have just passed, made constant ap peals to those who hold the bonds of the United States. They boldly asserted that the success of those who favor a speedy and complete restoration of the Union would necessarily depreciate the value of government securities, and cause great financial disaster. This method of appeal was not confined to the loose assertions of unscrupulous Radical newspapers. Such prominent men as Thaddeus Stevens, had suffi ciently little regard for truth to pub lish over their signatures letters cal culated to excite the apprehension of ignorant men who hold evidences of the 1 nation’s indebtedness. That Mr. Ste. veus and every other man of sense who made this appeal to the avarice of un thinking men, knew that there was no truth in the statements made by them we must believe. To suppose them to be ignorant of the true condition of our national finances, would be to assume that they are more perfectly uninform ed in regard to public affairs of prime importance than we dare charge them with being. The public debt, as shown by the statemeut of Mr. McCulloch on the Ist October, was $2,578,336,942. It reached its maximum on the 31st of August, 1865, when the total stood at $2,757,781,- 190. During the following month of September it was reduced $12,719,346, and on the Ist October, 1865, it stood at $2,745,061,844. The present statement shows a total reduction of $171,724,908 for the past year, which is at the rateof $14,310,408 per month. The average monthly reduction of the debt has, however, been much larger of late. Du ring the mouth of Septemberit was $22,- 346,226, ami during the past four months it amounted to $06,951,425-an average of $21,287,859 per month. While the debt of the (iovernmeiil is thus being rapidly lessened, loans which have been resorted to as a means of tem porary relief have been considerably reduced by conversion into 5-20 bonds. The 7-30 loan, for instance, which stood, on February Ist, 1806, at $830,000,000, now stands at $748,990,050. The com pound interest notes, which stood then at $180,012,141, now stand at $155,512,- 140, and the temporary loan, which was then $114,7.55,840, is now only $22,- 500,000. In other words, there has been a reduction of this large class of indebt edness which, in case of unforseen fi nancial complication, threatened the Government with dangerous embar rassment, to the extent of $202,759,791. Against this we have an increase of the amount of 5-20 bonds from $665,870,800 on the Ist of February to $798,102,250 or $132,390,450: That is, there is so much of the debt which has not been actually paid off, but which has been put into a more manageable aud controllable form. In addition there has been a reduction ot $24,270,081 in the amount of green backs, which stood in February ats4BB,« 485,373, aud now stand at $399,105,292, and the amount of gold, which was 851,448,102 on the Ist day of February, has risen again tn $75,202,269, which is neurly as large as it was in the month of May, previous to the immense sales by Mr. McCulloch, when it stood $76,67(5,- 407. These are the main features of Mr. McCulloch’s statement. There is one other noticeable fact. There is $28,302,- 372 of matured debt due and uncalled for, on which interest lias ceased. This is of itself a suggestive commentary on the faith of these bondholders in the re sources and integrity of the Govern ment. The above statement, as summed up in the columns of one of the ablest business newspapers of the country, shows that in a comparatively few mouths the Government has made rapid strides from the verge of bank ruptcy to a position of financial security. The enormous resources of this great nation give abundant evidence of our ability to pay every dollar of the na tional debt, and tiiat within greatly less time than any one dared to hope at the end of the rebellion. There is no party in the country which even hints ut repudiation. All parties of all sections stand solemnly pledged to pay the entire debt of the nation to the very last farthing. The Dem ocratic party of the North has given its solemn promise in the most authoritative manner to that effect. This it did only to make assurance (L.ubly sure, for never lias itbeen known to advocate any policy calculated to cast a stain upon the National honor. The people of the {South have all solemnly pledged themselves in the {State Consti tutions which they adopted after the end of the war to repudiate the whole debt incurred in the rebellion, and to bear their full share of the burthen imposed upon the General Government in its suppression. If further assurance was needed, they gave it voluntarily and without the slightest constraint through their representatives in the Nationel Union Convention at Philadelphia. That the Radicals are opposed to the payment of the Natioual debt we have never charged. If they are not, all parties in the country are fully deter mined to see every obligation of the Government discharged to the last penny. The truth is, that the only party which has said a word calculated to insure the national credit during the political can vass through which we have just passed in thw .Rate were the Radicals who followed the lead of Stevens and For ney. To such men, and to the illus trious author of the ridiculous Gold Bill In particular, the A T . Y. Time a, a paper which supports the Radical ticket In that State, administers the following well deserved rebuke. Scorning to be guilty of such mean devices us Thad deus Stevens and his followers resorted to the Timea says ; It seems that there are some people in Pennsylvania who, up till last night, considered that there wus dauger of the United States assuming the Confederate, debt , and also that there was danger of the United States repudiating the na tional debt. We trust that these honest folks, now that the election is over, will feel reassured in their faith in the coun try’s honor, and entertain no furtherfear of the occurrence of either of the events spoken of. We may say, however, that though it may be thought a good enough election dodge to raise such fears in Pennsylvania or elsewhere, we think they are very damaging to the credit of the country abroad, as well as at home. Every intelligent man knows that there is no more danger of our as suming the Confederate debt than there is of our assuming the debts of Julius Ciesar. And every intelligent man ought to know that nothing less than the destructiou of our Union, and the completeoverthrow of our Government, can invalidate the national debt. To talk of the possibility of such things, discredits the national honor as well as the national intelligence. We hope Mr. Stevens and his friends will heed the above rebuke, and that the iguorant and silly people who were scared by the false representations of these men will remember that they alone used language calculated to de preciate the bonds of the United States. The truth is theßadicals are the only party whom theholdersof Government securities have any cause to fear. What is needed now is u speedy and complete restoration of all the States to the Union, This is needed in order that the industry of the South may become again what it was in the past, a great source of natlonalwealth. We address these remarks to men who will hear what we have to say now, with more consideration than they would have done before the election. Now that the; ; excitement of the heated contest 1$ cool-" ingdown, we hope passion and prejudice may speedily cease to affect the minds of the people, and that they will calmly consider these great questions, which still remain unsettled. Preparing to Perpetrate an Outrage. The Radicals in Congress showed during last winter that they were ready to resort to any expedient to increase their majority in the House and the Senate. Thecase of Mr. Stockton, Sen ator from New Jersey, was so gross and barefaced a piece of infamy that it ex cited the indignation even of honest Re publicans. Several of the cases of con tested elections decided in the House were equally outrageous, but the vil lainy in them was not thrust quite so openly before the public. The news of the election in this State has not been fully received as yet; but even thus early the first steps are being taken to oust one of the Democratic members elect from his seat. Forney is making a loud outcry in regard to frauds in the Lu zerne district. The Radicals hoped to beat Hon. Charles Dennison there. Failing to do so at the polls they are taking the initiatory steps to deprive him of his seat by the direct action of the Radical majority iu the House. All Forney’s outcry in regard to frauds is only the preparatory clamor which is raised for the purpose of building a foundation on which to base a contem plated outrage. Mr. Dennison liaviug been in Congress fora number of years, may be able to defeatthe villainy which will be attempted, but that an effort will he made to thrust him out of hie seat we have no doubt. Forney's cry about frauds, which is perpectly base less, is proof of the intention. Bombast?* Furioso on the War Path Again. The military editor of the a day or two after theelection, announced with a grand nourish of his penny whistlethathe had “sheated hissword.” The whole world breathed freer, and immediately thereafter a Peace Con gress ventured to assemble in that pan demouiumof sectional hatred mis-called the City of Brotherly Love. We really imagined the fellow was in earnest. We thought we should have no more of liis ceaseless rub-a-dub-dub. But, we are sorry to say, we were deceived. He re minds us of a Scotch terrier with auburn hair. He is not dangerous ; “ his bark is waur than his bite;” but he does snap and snarl in a way that sets ones toes to itching, and keeps the muscles of the foot and ankle contracted. The report in the Philadelphia Ledger set his head in a blaze again. He fusses and fumes over it with a fury that would be terrible were it not so perfectly ridic ulous as to make it laughable. His threats remind us of the swellings of the leader of the frogs in their terrible conflict with the mice. Ye Gods! how valiant the fellow is. lie pants for a new war, ami longs to dictate to a new regiment of old veterans from some safe “headquarters.” He scents the battle from afar, and his heart is troubled. Evidently lie was scared. Seriously, however, a more ridicu lously absurd piece of fooling, a more laughable exhibition of Borabastes Fuc rioso, than the military editor of the Express gave to the readers of thatsheet on last Saturday evening we have never seen. We hope he will now put up bis “ cheese toaster ” in earnest. The coun try has no use for him or it. Let him confine himself to squibs advertising his business in the editorial columns of the Express. He understands the ad vertising business. By taking our ad vice he may put money in his pocket. Reported Majorities, Relow we give the vote for McClellan and Lincoln and the reported and official majorities for Clymer and Geary: i 'Of NT I US, Adams Armstrong lk?aver Bedford Berks Blair Bradford Bucks Butler Cumbria Cameron Carbon Centre Chester Clarion Clearfield Clinton Columbia Crawford Cumberland Dauphin Delaware Elk Erie Fayette Forest Franklin Fulton (fre ne Huntingdon Indiana JeHerson..- J utiiata Lancaster Lawrence Lebanon Lehigh Luzerne Lycoming McKean Mercer Milllin Monroe M ontgomery Montour Northampton Northumberland Perry Philadelphia Pike Putter Schuylkill Somerset Snyder Sullivan Susquehanna Tioga Union Venango Warren Washington Wayne Westmoreland.... Wyoming York 1 “HI”! |“l.jß)| I 82G7 I iRJIi : (iTln 1 :>2fL J 11st i.*) ! H-PIli; . 1721 •i 17 ,| S-i-U) I7NO . J.')U> | . IJ'H 1 i.ss:t ; ;w“i . -I3”0 0*72 1130 3726 2915 2106 Ueury’H mujority 'Those marked * are otllcial Total Lincoln vole " McClellan vote Lincoln’s majority The Government Finances. The Secretary of the Treasury has completed his statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Government for thelastfiscal year, ending June 30tht 1860. From this statement it appears that the receipts of the Government were $*>56,039,195 06, and the expendi tures were $518,347,337 70, showing an excess of receipts of $37,691,857 36. This statement does not include any transac tions in loans, but the payment of in terest on the public debt of $133,074,- 737 27 is included In the expenditures. At the beginning of the fiscal year, July I, 186*5, there were $658,309 15 in the Treasury, ancj at the close of the year, June 30th, 1866, $130,069,815 19. The gain during the year was therefore $129,811,500 04. A Compliment. The Patriot and Union Bpeaking of the result iu thlß city, sayß : Lancaster city—the home of Thad. Stevens—has done her full share in repudiating that old Disunion miscegen. Her majority for Clymer is 335—a gain of 280 over Woodward's, of 1863, and 138 over M’Clellan’s, of 1864. Her Democracy deserve great praise, indeed, John W. Geary’s Speech at Harrisburg. On being serenaded at Harrisburg on the night of the election John W. Geary made the following speech: Fellow-Citizens: As the candidateand representative of the triumphant Union Repnblican party of Pennsylvania, I recip rocate your congratulations, and return you my sincere thanks for this greeting. It is indeed a noble victory we have achieved. "We cannot too fervently-and too repeatedly offer thanks to Almighty God for this new evidence of His presence in the midst of our national difficulties* The same hand that guided us through the sufferings and death of a causeless rebellion has led us safely through a new and even more tre mendous peril. The intelligence of the terrible overthrow of treason in Pennsyl vania—the sublime civic sequel to the crowning victory of Gettysburg—the second and final surrender of the rebel sympa thizers, will forever and justly settle many disputed questions. It permanently establishes the fact that the Government of the United States is vested in the American people, and in their representatives in Congress assembled, and not in a corrupt Executive. And upon this strong and granite founda tion we shall new proceed to fortify against the inroads of time and the attacks of trea son, the following truths and covenants: ‘‘That the Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth ; “That cruel and revengeful traitors, de feated in battle, shall not be restored to ruin the country they attemptedtodestroy ; “That when our forefathers declared man capable of self government, v they rejected the heresy of human slavery, and pledged equal political rights to all their successors; “That hereafter the citizen represented in the State and National Legislatures must be clothed with the rights of citizenship; “That all the agencies of theGovernrnent, civil and military, must be perseveringly and sternly exercised to protect, vindicate, and if needs be, avenge our oppressed brothers in the South against the savage persecutions of rebels who nre still so im penitent and defiant that even Andrew Johnson fears to pardon them? “ That this obligation is as sacred as that which made the Homan citizen strong and respected all over the world, and which stimulates the British Government to-day to defend British subjects against oppression and persecution, however remote and how ever remorseless: that as we must choose between those who will not yield tothecon querors’ terms iu the recent iusurg. nt States and those who have fought steadily for the Government and pray for its protec tion, we gladly prefer the men who offered their lives for the Mug to those whocontinue to seorno and trample upon it.” The defeat of the sympathizers with trea son, and the overthrow of an abandoned and ungrateful Executive in Pennsylvania, opens the whole Southern country to the progressive people of the North, with their ten thousand intellectual and elevating agencies, and better Ilian this it secures to tlie resident loyalist, white and black, those natural and civil rights pledged in the Declaration of Independence and secured by the laws of the land. What Pennsyl vanian who contributed to the resplendent majority wo contemplate with such grati tude and joy to-night, will not feel proud that to his vote and to his energy mankind is indebted for t»hese priceless,blessings. Having fortified these great’truth against nil future dangers, it is for us of Pennsyl vania to maintain the forward position we have so proudly won. The result proves that an intelligent peo ple cannot be driven away from principle by appeals to prejudice. Bui it fixes the fact more than all that profligacy and pro scription iu high places servo to arouse popular indignation, and to strengthen pop ular convictions. No tyrant in any age— not even that of Nero, whose infamy is written in the immortal pages of SetUonius, ever descended so low in his efforts to debauch or reached so high in his efforts to destroy, as Andrew Johnson. Strong in the stolen pow» r of a betrayed people, lie stretched iorth i is arm, paralyzing where he could not pc - •base, and scourging where he could not su-alue. Our State was con verted into’a marketplace, where theollices of the people were proffered to themselves as the price of their own degradation, and where honest opinion was ostracized and craven sycophancy disgustingly rewarded. But this attempt to restore the traitors ofthe South and to revive the Copperheads of the North has proved to be a galvanism so brief that his failure has consigned hot h to a deeper dot th and to a darker grave than they occu pied before. The Commonwealth that has resisted and defied such tribes and such brutalities may well claim Uie proud title of being the fortress of American freedom. But as I speak to you I feel that we are not alone entitled to the laurels of transcomlaul triumph. Indiana and Ohio complete the triumvirate as they compete for the palm. Let us share it with them as those who won the immortal battles against rebellion shared equally the dangers and the honors of the conllicl. Now that we have (lone our duty, it will be easy for others to follow—easy, let us hope, for Maryland to hold the position so bravely uud so bloodily won during the war, and now sought to be torn from her by returned rebels and pensioned mercenaries; easy for Tennessee to retain and rivet the splendid post she has captured from a double treason; easy for Delaware to cut loose from the prejudices under which site has groaned soloug; easy for Missouri to add another page to her crimsoned yet im mortal record; and, above all, easy for the patriots ofthe South to compel obedience to the lust generous proffer of the American people in the new amendment ofthe Na tional Constitution. i: c >i O > t Important Letter from President Lin coln’s Attorney General. The following letter was written by Ex-Attoruey General Bates some two months since, but for some reason was never published until the 9th iust. It will be read with interest by all classes, showing as it does the views of Mr. Lin coln aud his cabinet on an important question. It will be seen that Judge Bates clearly proves that the position occupied by the Radical leaders of to day is completely adverse to that of the late Presidentand the Republican party during the continuance of the war : St. Loris, Aug. S, isr>(». To CW. James <>. lirnadhead, ,St. JjOuis: Dear Sir: You wore rightly informed Hint President Lincoln did require of Lite heads of the different Departments their opinions in writing as to both the consti tutionality and expediency of the bill “for the admission ofthe State of West Virginia into the Union.” And such opinions were given by all uf them, except only Mr. Caleb B. Smith, (who had then vacated, or was about to vacate, his office of Secretary of the Interior.) Tlmt transaction took place in the few last days of tbo year I*o2. My own official opinion bears date on the 27thof Deeembor, 1562, and the President approved ami signed the bill on the last day of that year. I have occasion to remember those trans actions very distinctly, for I took a very lively interest in the question ; and, indeed, it was upon my own suggestion that Presi dent Lincoln demanded our written opin ions. I urged upon him the advantage of written over oral communications on a sub ject ho important, und chiefly upon those two grounds: 1. They constitute valuable muniments of the passing history of the Government; nnd 2. They operate as a reasonable and wholesome cheek upon us the advisors ofthe President. ’ *llO *199-1 •Ml 55 *392 *3Oll * MS The questions pm l.y the Pres).l. nl wore in the most brief nod compendious Jorni, thus: “1. Is the said act constitutional ? 2. Is the said act expedient ?” To these two questions we all gave to tbo President our written answers; and I can only express my surprise that they should havo been so long withheld from publication, seeing that they touch upon a principle of the greutost magnitude, nnd bear directly upon a ques tion which bus produced groat exciteineut in Congress and In the nation. *1447 3270 *704 *919 *lll5 500 I have the only copy of those documents that I know of in private hands; but no doubt they may be found in the proper de positories at Washington. Aud in regard to your suggestion as to what those opin ions may euntuin concerning the legal and political stutus of States in rebellion, (ns I have no time now either to unulyzu tbo opinions or to copy them,) I can only say thut not one of them contains a single para graph tending to tbo conclusion that u State Ordinance of Secession, or the fact of open rebellion within a State, did or could take a State out of the Union. The very con trary was assumed as indisputable doctrine, und argued upon us a postulate. In fact, I did not know a Republican of that day, in Congress or in the Executive Department, who pretended to believe that a State could withdraw itself from tbeUtiion by secession or rebellion, or both together. We all consid ered an ordinance of secession a mere nullity in law nndpolities, and rebellion a personal crime, punfshable by law. It never was the doctrine of the Republican purty in Mr. Lincoln's lifetime,and, I believe, is notuow that a State can get out of the Union by se cession and rebellion. That is a late inven tion of a few enterprising, extreme Rudicals, who have labored in vain to fasten it upon the Republicaus as one of their tenets. President Lincoln and both Houses of Con gress, by their repeated solemn acts, ure pledged to the contrary. They passed the West Virginia Bill, which, according to the plain provisions of the Constitution, could not have beon passed, unless Virginia were a State in the Union, with a Legislature capable of consenting to the dismember ment. The President, with the udvico und consent of the Senate, did all ho could to extend the judieiury system of the United States into States which had passed ordi nances of secession, and whoso people stood in open rebellion, by appointing District Judges in Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, r lorlda and Louisiana. And both Houses of Congress admitted members from Vir ginia, iennesseo and Louisiana. I remain, deur sir, with cordial regards, your friend, Edward Bates. majorities. 296,391 276,310 Counterfeits of the new five cent coin are in circulation. Great Danger of a Kew Cirli War. We have several times within the last two months felt it our duty to warn our countrymen-that we stand on the declivity towards another civil war. The proofs that our fears were not chimerical or premature, thicken every day. Violent language and fierce re criminations have been followed, as was natural, by political riots in several cities. Thepublicmindhasbeen kindled to such an inflammatory pitch, that men have grown reckless and defiant. The present state of the public mind forebo'des infinite mischief. The follow lowing extracts, all taken from the city Republican journals of yesterday, show that we are not singular in supposing that the country is in immineutdanger. These extracts are, of course, tinged with party feeling. They are quoted by us merely as evidence that intelligent observers of all pasties consider the present state of public feeling as critical and portentous • [From the Evening Post 1 The great mass of our population, excited almost to the same degree as when the rebel guns bombarded Fort Sumter, will listen to no project of reconstruction short of the ac ceptance ofthe amendments to the Consti tution. [From the Tribune.] I warn those who are now seeking what they term a Conservative restoration of the Union, that a republic cancel be pinued together by bayonets—that it must rest on und be upheld by the affections of its peo ple—that, if the loyal blacks of the South shall not be fully enfranchised , there will sooyi be another outbreak of [the rebel spirit now smouldming there, even more desperate and formidable than that which has cost the country such lakes of blood and such moun tains of treasure. Count the four millions of black ciphers, and tho rebellion has to day, what it had not in the winter of Y>o 1 —a decided preponderance at the .South; and that preponderance will soon bloodily manifest itself. There is no safety, no real peace, but in universal justice ami impar tial freedom. ’ 11. G. I From the Herald. I Outside of Congress the political stump speakers on both sides have been yet more riotous ami violent. The Butlers mul Brown lows and Hamilton* on one side, and the Sharkeys, Dawsons and Monroes on tho other, have done their best to excite the prejudices and passions of the people and to destroy the blessings of peace. One set of mm in the South amt another set in the East /tare used their breath unceasingly to fan the smouldering embers of fanaticism and sec tionalism once more into <i flame. On one side we are told that Congress is to be forci bly entered by the Southern members and tho organization carried at the point of the bayonet. On the other we are promised the impeachment of the President as soon as Congress reassembles. i From tho Times. | The same feeling prevailed six years ago. Few then attached importance to thethreats of tho tiro-eaters, or realized Lheerisis which was imminent. So it is to-day. The. ex plosive. force, oj elements which are at work is undcrrxtnnai. <l. The }>ossibiliti/ of col lision, of conflict , of civil war, is not ac knowledged. Tho causes which operate in that direction arepassodoverasofno imme diate importance, uud the influences that are most likely to bring it about aro persistent ly disregarded. The existence of the dunger which impends over us being thus generally acknowledged, we deem it pertiuent to remark, iu the first place, that the peril is not of Southern, but of Northern origin. At the close of the late war, the submission of the South, and its manly acceptance of the result, was a marvel of good feeling and moral magnanimity. The gratifying and unexpected attitude of that section was due to its good sense uud to the confidence inspired by the generous terms of surrender granted to the rebels when they were compelled to lay down their anus. The prompl alacrity with which they co-operated with the federal government iu its con ciliatory attempt to restore the revolted States to their former political relations, fostered kindly sentiments, and author ized tlie hope that the wounds caused by the war would bespeedily healed. It was the Radicals of tlie North that step ped in to mar tlie returning harmony. It was the Northern Radicals that light ed anew the torch of discord und flung it, blazing, iulo Congress. It was the Radicals that stirred up a mutiny against the President, having deter mined, nt all hazards, to arrest and undo his pacific work. The South could not be otherwise than dissatisfied, und yet its bearing throughout the session of Congress and up to this time has been considerate and patriotic. Its spirit in the Philadelphia Convention was ex emplary and praiseworthy. Its State Legislatures, particularly th at of South Carolina, which was the cradle of se cession, have voluntarily passed laws giving equal protection to tlie freed men, iu ali their civil rights. Their public journals, with one or two exceptions, depending on peculiaritiesof individual temper in the editors, have been far more temperate in their discussions than the average press of tlie North. Tlie present danger is not of Southern, but of Northern creation. It is solely the work of the reckless and infuriated Northern Radicals, who refused the cheerful submission of the Southern people to the federal authority, and who have done their utmost to exas perate them by wicked calumnies on their character, and to force upon them the detested policy of negro suffrage, which even the Northern States, to whom negro suffrage could never have been dangerous, have hitherto rejected from strong antipathy of race. Another remark pertinent to the ex isting danger, is, that a new civil war would have more of the hideous charac ter which that phrase imports, than the oue which has just closed. The late war between the North and the South was very similar to a war between two foreign countries. Each, for the time being, had its own government, to which all its people submitted. The contest of each was against a people divided from it by a geographical line. If we have a new war, liie enemies will not be thus territorially separated. It will be a contest fought in every locali ty of the North. Men’s deadliest foes will be their own neighbors and kindred. The horrors of tlie late strug gle will grow pale before such a con test. Another pertinent observation is, that it will lie a war for no justifiable object. It will be a war to reduce, in contempt of tbe Constitution, the representation of a section which is already in a hope- Icssand constantly decreasing minority. If tlie South comes into Congress witli all tlie representatives which the un amended Constitution gives it, tlie North will still outvote it, three or four to one. All the new [States yet to come in will be .States with Northern sym pathies. All tlie growtli of tlie country by emigration will increuse tlie prepon deranceof the North. I u wealth und the weight and inlluencewhich wealth gives all comparison is distanced. Thedispuri t.v will grow greater ami gcuter. To go to war to reduce tlie Southern represent!! tiun is, therefore, to go to war for a chimera. It is as thougli a growing elephuutshould worry himself to reduce tlie, strength of un antelope, lest, In some future trial of strength, tlie ante lope should get tlie better of him. We trust thut there may yet ho virtue and moderation enough fn the country to prevent tlie Kudieals from consum mating their infernul designs.— N. Y. World. \ Retirement or the Russian Minister. On Saturday Huron Stockel, for many years the respected representative tff tlie Emperor of Itussia to this Govern ment, waited upon the President, in the company of tlie Secretary of State to take a formal offlelul leave previous to his fiual departure. The interview was of the most interesting character, not only from the Intimate friendly relations of tlie two Governments, hut from the fact of the long residence here of this esteemed Minister, whose depar ture from our midst, with ills brilliant lady, will be regretted by a large circle of friends andacquaintances. The Rus sian Government will be represented by M. Waldemar Bodisco, who has been attached to the legation fora num ber of years, and whose namewill recall that of the veteran diplomat, who for so long a period represented that Govern ment here. M. Bodisco was introduced as Charge d' Affairs in the usual appro priate munner. The high regard with which he is held renders him a moßt acceptable representatives at this point. The Radicals lose one Congressman, Mr. Delano, in Ohio, and another, Mr. Farquhar, in Indiana. They also prob ably lose a third in Pennsylvania by the lute election. The Rump candidates In Allegheny wore as completely repudiated as though they had been defeated. Moorhead has umajorlty of only 3,051-running behind Geary’B military prestige (!) 4,024 votes, Williams has only S’loo majority—run ning behind the same 4 t 47(3 votes, The Proposed Constitutional Amendment —letter fromfiorernor Sharkey. Washington City, Sant. 17 lßflfl B;Ham P hle y». Governor or Deah Sib— The public prints inform me that our Legislature is to be convened in extra session on the 16th of October. The proposed amendment to the Constitution or the United States as a 14th article, may possibly be submitted to the Legislature for I’ llo,l or rejection, and as our Statu tbrnimh i, no opportunity of being beard ‘ ' l ? cr Representatives on this inter hm . Hnd “ 1110 peop'e Of a Statu Reoreseu kDOW the °P iniona oftPeir EZ J on u r l uestloD SO vitally rme?eft maLri op - 1 thta motho d—tho only fine of n,«^l' C Vl ” 6 ver y briofl y the out line of tno opinions which I entertain in W rd i 1 " 0 P r °P°sed amendment. No d .übt the good sense ofthe Legislature will guide that body to a correct conclusion but the mien*. I feel for the welfare and dignity oi the State demand that I should not remain silent, when both aro so deeply involved. * J In the first place, I do not beliove tho amendment was recommended by two thirds ofthe Congress of the United States. The Constitutional House of Representa tives consists of members chosen “by tho people of tho several States,” and the Sen ate consists of “ two Senators from each State.” It is very clear that a body not so composed, or,* in other words, win re a considerable number of the States aro ex cluded from representation In both branch es, is not the Congress ofthe United States. Euch State has a right to know that idl claiming to be members possesstbe Consti tutional requisites. Mississippi does not and cannot Know that the members who recommend this amendment were Consti tutional members of Congress. Nearly one-third ofthe States were excluded from reprcseniution in both Houses by a major ity of members who assumed to bo the Congress. If a majority may thus exclude States from representation,* it is easv to perceive that it may go on in tho work of declaring States disloyal and in tho exclu sion oi minorities, until Congress shull bo made to consist only of mem hers from a few ofthe larger States with all others excluded. For instance, New York aud Pennsylvania may so manage as to control a majority, and begin by excluding first one small State and then another ami so on, until all tho legislative power of the nation is usurped and controlled by those two States, and ultimately even by the largest of them. When tfle Southern States adopted tin* amendment abolishing slavery, tho state of things was very different,; they had not elected or sent members to Congress which recommended that amendment. But when this amendment was proposed, they hud elected members who appeared at tlie pro per time and demanded to bo admitted, but were rejected. Wo are not, therefore, to bo told that wo havo recognized this as a Con stitutional Congress. Bui again : T no President is n component part ot tho Legislative Department, and tho Constitution declares that “Every order, resolution or vole to which tho concurrence of tlie Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (oxcopt on a question of adjournment), shall be presented tn the President,” Ac. Nothing can take effect or bo completed until so presented. And the case is not altered because a two- thirds vote is required on amendments proposed; such resolution is not n complete legislative act until so presented. In no other way, ex cept through tho President, can.such resolu tion bo communicated to tlio States. As the proposed amendment was not submitted to tlie President, it does not amount to a recommendation. It is a nullity. But let us look, lor a moment, at the pro visions of the proposed amendment. Tlie first section declares that “all per sons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction there of, aro citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” It then pi-o ceeds to prohibit the States from making*or enforcing any law “which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens.” It does not say what are privileges and im munities; that is left for the next Congress to provide in virtue of tlie last section, which declares “that Congress shull have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions uf this article.” We may find Congress conferring “privileges and immunities” on one clnss to the exclusion of another class ; or wo may find Congress assuming absolute control over all the peo ple of a Statu and their domestic concerns, and this virtually abolishes tho State. Per haps any State that has so little sell-respect, as to adopt tin* amendment, deserves no better fate. The second edition, if my construction of it be rigiit, would probably exclude one Statu from representation in Congress, as 1 suppose the number of male negroes over twenty-one to bo nearly equal to thu num ber of white males. It is, therefore, u mere ellort to force negro suffrage upon us, whether we are willing or not. Either do this or you shall huvo no representation. It is presumed that our intelligent peoplo would not hesitate long in making their choice. The third section provides that no person shall hold any oilieu who may have hereto fore taken an oath to support tho Constitu tion of the United States, and who after ward engaged in the rebellion, or who gave aid and comfort to those who did engagu in it. This is a swooping act of disfranchise ment, which would embrace, perhaps, a majority of our citizens ; for there are prob ably few who have not, in some way or other, taken an oath to support thu Consti tution. Evun those who opposed secession, and engaged in the war only uuder compulsion, would be embraced by this provision, as well us the mmi who had given to tlio hungry soldier a meal’s victuuls or a. piece of bread ; and also those who, in charity, had given an article of clothing to u suffer ing friend or relative in the army. Such n provis’on would he so contrary to the theory ot our Government, and so oppressive toward a very large population of the Sout hern Stales, that u can not be supposed that those who proposed it could luivu enter tained a hope that it would bo accepted. They (night to have known, too, that such a provision was calculated to endanger tlie existence of the Government, as revolutions may always la* expected, sooner or later, from acts which disfranchised tho enfran chised class. I f the people can not exclude unworthy or undeserving men from ollleo by the instrumentality of the ballot-box, then they arc untillbrself-governinont,und the sooner they ahundon the experiment the better. I need say nothing of the fourth section, but tho fifth is the Trojan horse abounding in mischief. It provides that “Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, tlie provision of this article,” which muy be construed to authorize Con gress to do whatever it may desire to do. Under this same provision, attached to thu emancipation amendment, you have the Civil Rights Bill and tho Freedmen’sßureau Bill. It was considered in the Senulu, just as I admonished many members of the Legislature it would be. to authorize these odious measures. Wo should profit by the experience it has furnished us. 1 might have greatly extended my argu ment in support of the many objections to this amendment, but huvo deemed it sufii cient very briefly to express my opinions, and to leave the subject lor tho reflection of all who may feel un interest in it. { will only add, that should this amendment be come part ofthe Constitution, woshull have a very different Government from that which we inherited from our ancestors. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, W. L. Sharkey* Workingmen's Earnings In Great Rrituln. We see it stated by Professor Levi, an English statistician of excellent reputa tion, thut the aggregate unnuul earn ings oftlie workingmen of Great Britlan are übout $2,000,500,000. The distribu tion of tills sum, according to industries, Is found to he about as follows : England Scotland Total. $2.r00,5<X),000 The average wages from 20 to 00 years of ugo for both sexes, details of which ho gives In connection with each hrunch. of Industry, Is stuled as follows England KcollnuU. Prof. Levi adds "Frequently, however, there are more workers than one In a family. In a family of five, generally, two or even three persons are earning something. Assuming, then, that there are two earners In each family, and taking the average wages of men, women and children as a basis, the average income per family may be estimated at 32s 4d In England, 20s Gd in Scotland, and 3!s Od in Ireland.” If these estimates are correct, the average amount for thosustenanceofan Eugliajj workingman's family Is equal to about eight dollurs per week ; In Ireland It is only fifty cents per week less. Contrast the wages of our Ameri can workingmen with these figures, and we have an explanation of the rapid tide of emigration ever flowing to this country. Ohio Congressmen. The Radicals In Ohio elect sixteen Congressmen, on a total vote in the State of 275,000. Their opponents elect but three members, with a total vote of 235,000. It takes therefore, under the rascally district apportionment of the Radicals In Ohio, 78,000 votes to elect un antl-Radlcal member, while 17,000 votes are all that Is required to choose a Jacobin! This Is their Idea of equal representation 1 With a fair apportion ment we are entitled to at least elgut of the nineteen members from the State.— Cincinnati Enquirer. The Louisville Theatre was destroyed by Are last Friday night. Loss about $70,000. .SI/mViOO.OW ‘2%rw,mA) ;wo.&oo,ooo Wn. 2d. IIM. 10(1. Uh. lid.
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