WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1866. Tne printing cresses stum be tree to every Person wbo undertakes to examine tne pro ceedings of the legislature, or any brMion or government: and no law ehaU over botnade to restrain tnerlabt thereat Thti treo cpmmu nloatlon of thought and opinions is one of tne Invaluable, rights of men: and may freely Bpeak, write and Erink?“ 55“! jeot; being responsible for uis 1 iberty, In prosecutions forjtbe publloatio 110: f sESsass® tion, the truth thereofmay be given In evi dence.” Letter from Mr. Browning. We call the attention of our readers to the letter of Hon. 0. *H. Browning, which we publish in this number of our paper. It is a calm and powerful argu ment against the constitutional amend ment, and a triumphant vindication of the restoration policy of President John son. The Radical press has filled' the air with rumors that the President in tends to abandon the Constltutlon-be cauße a majority of Congress has aban doned it. This letter is the yoice of one of his most trusted advisers, assuring the country of the firm and immutable purpose of the President, as “the execu tive head of th'e nation, tomalntulnand preserve the Constitution uh it /«.” A vacancy having occurred In the United fltutes {Senatorial representation of Illinois In the curly part of Mr. Lin eoln’s administration, Mr. Browning wus chosen to fill It. He was under-, .stood to be the intimate and trusted friend of President Lincoln, and was supposed to have been selected ut the request of the President, who wanted a Conservative Whig In the Henate from his own (State, to counterpoise the Radi cal renegade from Democracy, (Senator Trumbull. Notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Browning was the trusted friend of the late President, John W. Forney, who professes lllie highest respect and the profoundest admiration for Mr. Lincoln, assails him in the coarsest terms—all because Mr. Browning bus written a letter sustaining the restoration policy of President Johnson, which he under builds to bo the same that Mr. Lincoln hud adopted ami would have carried out if be had lived. Writing to the Prrm of yesterday Korney says : .The letter of Mr. Browning, the new Sec retary of the I nlurior. against the constitu tional umontimonl, just published in the Copperhead punei-H, must be accented as the explicit declaration of Andrew Johnson that he intends to sustain tin* violence of the recent rebels, and to refuse all surrender to the late tremendous vunlicl ol the people. Such is tin* exact value of the carefully drawn opinion of this well-paid parasite and prntessional jobber. Mr. Browning was pul into olliec to do precisely such things. Long before lie secured a portfolio, he was in training for it, and no man was cversowcll prepared and equipped ior a particular self-abasement, lie was the most industrious claim agent and the most pertinacious advocate of doubtful cases, ior the short time ho practised before the de partments, ever known in Washington, llis printed apology is only a grateful return for his olhee. Before be ventured to cull Mr. Brown ing a “ well-paid parasite and profes sional jobber,” or to refer to “ self-abase ment,” to the “advocacy of doubtful eases,” or “grateful returns for office,“ be should have recalled to mind these lines from Burns — “ /;//].' j/’< III .VT//K pawn- thr i/iflir >/tr 11\, T<> sre oio\W.y an o//icr *< € us.'" If this vile renegade eould realize to its full extent the disgust and loathing with which lie is regarded by a large ma jority of tl 10 people, not a few of whom belong to bis own party, lie might be induced to change his course, and put on the semblance at least of some sort of decency. He might, possibly, so far change Lin course as lo make the /V/vw a moderately respectable newspaper, In stead of a receptacle of all the filth, venom and blackguardism which ema nate from the purlieus of Radicalism. But we have no hope of any change for the better from the writer of the Jami son letter. His instincts are all of the lowest and most depraved uharaeler, And even if he did make spasmodic at tempts at gentility, like the sow that was washed, he would hasten to return to his wallowing iu the mire. Those who are personally acquainted with this debauched and lnfumous po litical trimmer, know him to be desti tute of all correct principle—u mere mercenary,scenting from afar thefiush pots which are dripping with the plun der of the Government. Without a dollar in his pocket ut the commence ment of our National troubles, ami a pensioner on tho bountyof his betrayed and outraged friends, lie has succeeded, In the last five or six years, in amassing a large fortune, all of which has been extorted from the public treasury and drained from the pockets of the tax payers. But not satisfied with the wages of-iniquity already accumulated In his hands, he is anxious for a chance to obtain more plunder, and is now en gaged in the diabolical attempt to in augurate another civil war throughout the Republic. What cares lie for the credit of the government or the peace and prosperity of his countrymen? They are light as a feather in his esti mation, when weighed in the balance with his inordinate cupidity. He could look on complacently and see the whole country become adesolation, if he could thereby add half amillion tohisalready plethoric cotters. Such is Mr, Browning’s slanderous assailant, John W. Forney, the basely vile renegade and apostate from the faitli of his fathers, and it were vain to look for any wholesome reform from such a compound of all that is hateful and disgusting in humanity. The un principled demagogue is joined to his idols, and, like Kpliraim of old, he should be let alone, steeped to the eye brows, as he is, in corruption and in« iquity. Sooner or later he will have meted out to him his ju.it deserts from an outraged and plundered people; and when that day comes, as come it surely will, the unerring finger of scorn will be pointed at him, and a whip will he pm in every honest man’s hand ” to he-L the rascal naked round the world.” To show how little it becomes John W. Forney to call Mr. Browning or anybody else a “professional jobber,” we extract the following from a letter addressed to Forney and published in the Philadelphia General W. Button,ofßradfordcounty, formerly an officer of the United States (Senate : Soon after you were eleelod Clerk of the House of KopreHorthdlveH, Mr. Morrison, of the firm of \V. M. MorriHon <V Co., book sellers, on Pennsylvania avenue, in Wash ington eity, said to me one day : “ General Puttenjiuii and Colonel Fornoj' scorn to bo terms, and I want you tndo mo f ihe favorio negotiate with him to give us llie contract for supplying memberHof Con gress with books to which they are entitled. As he will probably expect a bonus for it, you may toll him that wo will give him sf>,ooo for it.” I suid 1 would do it y/ith pJeuaure. I informed you of Ills request and the amount of bonus he offered; but you said he.must do hotter than that—you must have $lO,OOO for it. Said I, Colonel, thut seems to be pulling up pretty steep and I doubt whether they cun afford to glvo it. “ Well,” you said “ I don’t care whether they cun or not; tliero are other parties competing for it, and I cun getU.” I reported to Mr. Morrison what you had said, and he said the bonus was larger than what he had expected to puy, hut that he would risk it. You gave them the contract, and they gave you tho $lO,OOO in cash. Now, Colonel, as tho only injunc tion of secrecy imposed upon me in this matter was not to let P. Barry Hays, your chief clerk, know unythlng about it. and as he has gone to thut “ bourne from whence no travoler returns,” I do not, therefore, consider this disclosure a broach of confi dence. Tho Baltimore radicals still threaten to resist the removal of tho Police Commis sioners of that city. Malignant Stupidity. It was not until one of tlielr own most distinguished leaders had been branded as a "copperhead” and a “rebel sym pathizer,” that any Republican dream ed of pausing to consider whether ln ustlce might not have been done to a large number of the American people by the free application of these terms to them during the last five years. But the letter of Eev. Henry Ward Beecher to the Cleveland Convention having brought down upon his head a shower of the Bame uncomplimentary terms that have been so freely bestowed upon Democrats, some of his Republican friends have had their eyes suddenly opened to the “malignant stupidity” of the course their public journals have pursued. The New York Evening Post says: A year ago it would have Heoined mon- Htrous and silly had any one ventured to ussort that Henry Ward Beecher, whom tho country gloried in us tho great cham pion of ItH cause in Europe, und whom it Lad so many years loved and honored as the bravo and laithful pleader of liberty, was or could over be false to liberty. But such Is tho exeltoment to which tho public mind has of late beon wrought, that oven so malignant n Htupldity as this has been gravely put forward In journals professing lo he honest nnd sensible: and tho reason able ,mrt of munklnd has been amazed to hoar Mr. Boucher deliberately clusHod with rebels and rebel sympathizers. That Mr. Beecher has been badly abused und grossly slandered by Radi cal members of Ills own party sluee the publication of bis letter In favor of tho Immediate re-unlon of nil tho States, Is a fact ns fnr beyond dispute as it Is far from creditable to Ills slanderers. But lie Is not the only victim of unjust abuse In the country, uor is he the only person in whose defence “journuls professing to he honest and sensible” ought to raise their voice. Tills broad land is (lotted all over with hundreds of thousands of gentlemen, many of whom are as pious, and all of whom are os pa triotic us Mr. Beecher, who for live years have dally beon Hlnndered as “rebels and rebel sympathizers” by Radical bluukgunrds who never enter tained a sincere Union sentiment In their lives, and never were capable of appreciating one. The excitement of public mind to willed] the Pont refers was deliberately wrought up by the Radicals, who knew thut their nefarious schemes could never succeed when the public ntlud was in sound reasoning coudition. if the Injustice that has been done to Mr, Beecher by his own political household shall have the effect ol awakening the public mind to a sense of its wicked disposition, great good may come of it. It Is essential to the future peace and comfort of every community that tills thing of stigmatizing one-half of its members as “ rebels and rebel sympa thizers" shall come to a stop. Fierce heart-burnings have been occasioned by it; und these, if longer fed and further inhumed, will end in head-breaking or Hometiling worse. If it comes to that, Forney, Butler and Brownlow, and their town and township imitators and echoes, will find that although Demo cratic tougues are not as foul uml blus tering as theirown, Democratic muscles are strong enough to strike stunuing blows. .Nobody Frightened. Forney's threats of revolution and bloodshed do not seem to have had much effect upon (iov. Swann, of Mary land, if we may Judge of what .trans plrechut tlie preliminary hearing before him on Monday last, lie gave those present to understand that he claimed the right by law to investigate tlie con duct of tlie Police Commissioners of Ihillimoro, and if lie found them dere lict ill duty or transcending their powers, lie would take measures to com pel them to obey tlie law, or fill their places with bettor men. So that For ney’s threats of violence are nothing more or less than the quacking of a crippled duck in the last hours of its existence. They have no terror for the Governor of our sister Commonwealth, and will frighten nobody acquainted with the cowardly miscreant who utters them. Gov. Swann, we believe, will do his duty to the whole people of Maryland ; and If so, tho Democracy will sweep tho Slate, und elcol tlielr entire congres sional and legislative tickets In Balti more and everywhere else. Tlilh Is wlmt troubles the wretch Korney; for It will he hut the first swell of the mighty avalanche which is destined ore long to sink him und his Infamous purty so low that tho hand of resurrection cannot reach them. If Forney Is spoiling for a fight, let him go to Baltimore himself, and com mence operations. We have,no doubt he would soon have his hands full. The people there would be perfectly willing to accommodate him and a few more of the same sort to tlielr heart’s content. The President and Ills Offense, The great original cause of the strife between President Johnson and those who elected him, is his assertion of the right of the Southern States to repre sentation in Congress. The unreason ableness of this censure ought to be apparent to all. During the war, the suggestion thut the rebel States had forfeited their right to representation received no favor except from a mere faction of Republicans, headed by Sum ner and Stevens. That party not only admitted delegates from rebel States into their nominating conventions, but their Congress, on the 4th of March, 1862, passed tlie following act, which was promptly approved liy President Lincoln : 11c it enacted by the Senate and House of Jtcjivcsentatives of the United .States of America, in Cenirjrcsseisscmbleel, That cnn:,r nnd AFl'Klt the ltd day of March, the number of member* of the House of Jteprc sentatives of (he Congress of the United iStates shall be two hundredandforty-one; and the eight additional members shall bo assigned one each to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, lowa, Minnesota, Vermont and Rhode Island. Approved March -I, ISO'-’. This law, as will he observed, says tliaL from the 4th of March, 1863, the House of Representatives shall consist of 21 1 members. As there are but 170 members from theso-called loyal States, it i- Hear limt ililh act of a Republican (.'ongre-.s Islill oil the statute hook), recognized the right of the Southern KtaU-H to representation, and that the members above 170 were to come from the .South, This law was passed, as we have stated, by a Republican Congress, and signed by Mr. Lincoln, Yet, be cause President Johnson has Hought to have this policy of his predecessor car ried fairly into execution, he is de nounced as a traitor, und threatened with Impeachment! "Twknty tyrants, ” said .Jefferson " are worse than one.” The rlghtH ami liberties of the American people have been guarded by a written Constitution. That is their charter of freedom. Abrogate that, and we have anarchy or despotism. Its violation is a crime, aud that may be committed as flagrantly by usurpation of power as by open and armed resistaneo. Mem hereof Congress who swear to support the Constitution and violate their oath, may be more dangerouß enemies than they who with arms in their hands refuse obedience to itsrequirements. Congress, when raised above the Constitution, by ausurpation ofpower, becomesan ineßponsiblebody. A Legislature of many heads, is a monster more terrible than a Nero or Caligula, Condemned by tbelr Friends. The New York Herald, wlileh ranks among the noisiest and- most active su|>- porters of the Congressional policy of reconstruction, condemns the efforts of John W. Forney and the pestilential pack of howling Radical curs who bark in concert with him, to produce a col lision at Baltimore. The Herald says that “the proclamation of the Governor of the State of Maryland, cautioning all those who ure inciting riots in the City of Baltimore that the whole power of the State will be exhausted to compel obedience to the laws and to preserve the peace of the commonwealth, is well timed and places the conduct of the radical agitators in its correct light. There is no possible justifi cation for the tli reatened resistance of the Police Commissioners to the laws of the State. If, as they allege, the Governor has not tho legal power to remove them, they should test the question in the courts and not organize un armed rebel lion against the authority of the Exe cutive of the State. Tlie report spread by the Commissioners and their friends that a compromise had been offered by the Governor, based upon the consent of the Police Commissioners to divide up the inspectors of election, and which Is distinctly denied by Hie Governor, shows thut the revolutionary officers aro sensible of tho weakness of their posi tion and the Illegality of their action. Kworn charges have been made ugalnst them of violations of law ami miscon duct In their olllclul capaolty, and these charges, us the Governor declares, must be investigated. There can he no com promise of the luwh of the State. Blit the present action of the Commis sioners alone proves them to he unlit persons to hold control of the police and should occusion their removal.” The Evening Post, too, with more of truthful ami patriotic good sense than we are used to finding in journuls of its political caste, warns the Radicals that if they resist Governor .Swann by force of arms, the law will be against them, and public sentiment must condemn them. It says: They [the t'ommiHslom'rsJ argue upon this that tlie power of removal “gives no power to the Governor to try for official misconduct, or [o pronounce Idem guiltv." This Hoems u> us manifestly absurd ; If it were the true meaning, then a majority of tho Legisliiluiv would have the right by tho'conHtitiilinn to keep the Commissioners in office, even though liiey lmd been judici ally tried and found guilty of official mis conduct. II is (O'no use to argue that the constitution intends limb It seems tons clear that the Police Commissioners arc amenable to tlieGovernorduringlherecess of tho Legislature ; und as we have no doub! thoy have acted properly and lawluily we are sorry to see them put themselves in tho wrong. Nor can we think well of tlie attitude ol' the Republicans in Baltimore. They have luken for granted that tlie Gov ornor will do wrong—tins they have no right to assume; then they have publicly announced that they will resist the Gover nor’s acts, ami tlie .Mayor of Baltimore, we read, Ims now quite a formidable army at his back. Is civil war so welcome and so profitable that il should thus lie invited? The Pud further concedes that Gov ernor Hwanu appears throughout this unfortunate affair to have acted with " moderation uml good sense.” This Baltimore squabble is a purely local affair. \Ye in Pennsylvania have of right no business to interfere in it, and very little would have been said about it here if John NY. Forney, upon whom the mautle of" old John Brown ” appears to have fallen without carrying with It old Brown’s courage, hail not excited our people by his iullammutory appeals. Our right to Interfere with the removal of the Police Commission ers of Baltimore by the Governor of Maryland, Is on a pur with the right of the people of that .State to interfere with the removal of the Flour Inspector at Philadelphia by the (iovernor of Penn sylvania. Sour drapes I It Is getting to be quite fashionable for negro-loving office-holders, after being removed, to write letters of resig nation, which the nulicul organs pub lish with great gusto. These self-saerl fleingpatriots generally state that their "self-respect ” will not admit of their holding office under Andrew Johnson nuy longer, or that they fear a continu ance in office will he construed by their party friends into nn approval of his policy. These follows are generally careful to date tlielr letters anterior lo tho tlmoof tlielr removal, aud thoy are, nH u general rule, very abllHlve In tlielr terms. But oneoftheseworthy patriots, who was recently compelled to "walk the plank," forgot to ante-date his let ter, and mado hlmselfdoubly ridiculous by publishing a letter of resignation dated several days afte r his removal had been announced at Washington! The valorous Potter, lateConsulat Montreal, avoided this blunder aud carefully dated his letter a few days before his removal: but It was not published until some time after he got his leave of absence from headquarters. It is remarkable that these letters of'resignation are never heard of, and no unwillingness to con tinue In office is publicly expressed, until after the announcement of the removal and the appointment of a suc cessor! It is to be regretted that some of the prominent radical office-holders cannot manage to publish their pom pous and hyper-virtuous letters of coff demnation aud resignation at least con temporaneously with their ejection from office, if not a little in advance of the announcement of that unpleasant fact. It would have a much better look. Geary Nominated for Vice President. General Geary’s besetting sin is his vanity'. Having dyed his hair aud whiskers, aud gotten himself up re gardless of expense after he had secured control of the electioneering fund of the Radicals, he strutted through thereceut campaign with the air of a peacock. His friends know his weak point, and they play upon it skillfully. The latest specimen of the kind which we have seen is a mock serious nomination of the hero of Suickersville as the next Radical candidate for the Vice Presi dency. Wimon Cameron has had that done through Ills organ, the Har risburg Telegraph. The article as sures us that Forney has been get ting the" inside track of the Winne bago chief. Bince he lias been detected as the authorof Geary’s speeches, Simon has decided that something must be done to break the effect of that intimacy He accordingly has Geary proposed as a candidate for the Vice Presidency. Thut is a stroke worthy of the great po litical financier. Geary will he fool enough to think Cameron can secure him a nomination, and will put himself into his exclusive keeping. Forney had better look sharp. He has one chance left. Let him nominate Geary for Presi dent. Our word for it, if he runß his name up at the head of both his news papers, Cameron will be completely check mated in his own game. Let him take our advice, and he can continue to own the next Governor of Pennsylva nia, and to dictate not only his speeches lint all his actions. A word on such a subject, to m shrowd a politician as For ney will In- sufficient, we are sure. General Klicrinuii. Lieutenant-i loneral Sherman, in com pany with <Jnncrul (Jrunt, had an Inter view with tho President yesterday, con tinuing moru than an hour. The first named afterwards In formed a friend hat he Intended to return to HI. Louis in the course of a few days, After the joint Intorvlow hntwoon tho President and General Grant and Lieu tenant-General Bherman terminated. Ihe President and Bherman had a con ference of long duration, The South Will not Adopt the Amend- , We consider it to be settled that nb single Southern State will voluntarily: endorse the proposed amendments to the Constitution. The objections which they urge cannot be overcome. The action of several of the States, and thd tone of the Southern press, almost without exception, lead us to that con clusion. The most remarkable feature In the matter is the great calmness with which Southern journals approach the question. There is no bluster and not the slightest attempt to arouse the pas sions of the people. They advise their readers to ignore national politics, to devote their entire attention to their domestic affairs and the local interests of tlielr States and communities. They Urge them to abandon the control of the Federal Govern ment to the Radicals for ,the pres ent, and to devote all their time and energies to repairing their broken fortunes. Southern newspapers are tilled from day to day, and from week to week, with propositions for building railroads and erecting manufactories in their midst. The want of capital Is a greater Bource of complaint with them than the past or proposed uctlon of Con gress. They have declared the propos ed amendments to be of suoh a char acter that the people of the South can never adopt them, and having done that they quietly direct attention to local concerns. That tho newspapers ful ly express thesettled resolve of the people we have no doubt. They are prepared to bide tlielr time, preferring to continue to be unrepresented in Congress rather than to submit to terms which they re gard as degrading. They assert that Congress has no right to make any such conditions precedent, hut being power less to control the matter, they are con- tent to wait until reason resumes its sway In the North. That they will stand llruily by their convictions thus expressed, there iH no reason to doubt. How the Radicals will meet this kind of opposition to their revolutionary de signs remains to be seen. They cannot deny the right of the Southern States to reject tho proposed amendments. In HUbmlttingthem for adoption, they fully recognized the right of the people of the difl'ereut States to approve or to repudi ate them. The people of the South hav- ing decided not to accept them, the Radicals are at the end of that Htriug. What now move they will make we can only vaguely conjecture. They must do something. They caiiuot neither stand still nor go backward. To do either Is to meet political death. They must advance or die. We await the re assembling of Congress with no little anxiety. Ihe Baltimore Police Commissioners. The examination of the Baltimore Police Commissioners was resumed yes terday. We published in last evening's edition of our pqjper an extract from the evidence taken before Governor Swunu in relation to the conduct of the officials whom he lias summoned to answer for their misdeeds. The full report of the testimony taken up to Saturday night shows that men of the most infnmous character were employ ed by those whose duty it istoseecrlme suppressed In Baltimore. A more out rageous record was never fastened upon any set of men. The examination of witnesses on the part of the people was resumed on yesterday, and continued up to oue o'clock, when the counsel for thedefense began to call tlielr witnesses. The case will be likely to be concluded on Wednesday, and there can be no doubt but that the Commissioners will bo removed. They are dearly guilty. Tho Radicals have abandoned their design of Inaugurating a new civil war in Maryland, and the law will lie allow ed to take its coui-Be. Thoughtful men of all purtles were justly alarmed at tho revolutionary proposals of Forneg and others of Ills class, and capltul shrunk hack instinctively from such a struggle. It is not impossible that the people may yet learn to discriminate between those who are friends and those who nro ene mies of the country. The New Legislature. The Pittsburg Gazette , one of the most ltadlcal newspapers published lu tills State, makes tho following rather remarkable admission as to the charac ter of the men whom its party have elected to the coming Legislature. It says: " Tile now LcglHluLuro is noL, on the wholf i UH Htrong a body us Llio immediately pre ceding one. Indeed, there ItiiH been a grad ual diminution of intellectual powor ill tbo Houhoh at Harrisburg for toil years past. This is all evil which culls imperatively for rectification. But no adequate remedy can be found oxoept in the electors themselves. So long as they aroeontonttoacceptlni'erior men they will'got plenty of thorn, and lew' of the other sort. When they insist that mon of the superior gradeH shall be selected for tbo Legislature, such will ho brought forward, and not beforo." The Gazette might safely have gone further. It might have said that the Legislature of Pennsylvania has always been noted for corrupt jobbing when ever the Republicans have had a ma jority. There is no denying or disguis ing that fact. The morality of the dominant party has always shown badly in Unit respect. The leading men in its ranks in tliis State are noto. riously venal. Curtin, Cameron and Korney, prominent leaders, are well known as trading politicians. The weal tit tliey have accumulated lias been made by political jobbing. When such men lead a party what can be expected from the rank aud iile. We do not know whether the coming session will be what is known in this State as a “profitable” one or not, but we are sure that the first question asked by the men who compose the Radical majority, whenever a measure comes up, will be —“ is there any money in it?” Those who desire to secure any special legisla tion at the coming session will be apt to find it a costly business. The men who compose the majority are below medi ocricy in point of intellect, but they will be found fully up to the mark when it comes to making merchandize of their votes. Of course there will be some honorable exceptions amongst them, but they will be few and far between. The Impeachment ofthc President, The following very sensible article is from the Albany Journal , the central Radical organ of New York. We trust that its warnings and its cautions will be heeded in the quarter in which they are addressed. If they are not, the darkest and worst chapter to the history of the country 1b about to open. The Journal says: “ If an impeachment were ordered, it would not merely be the trial of Andrew Johnson but also the arraignment of a party which represents a very great minority and exceedingly active minority (large mqjorlty, counting the South in), of the American people. That party accepts the President us its leader aud exponent. It sustuips his policy with energy and determination. It defends, upon what it calls Constitutional grounds, the very acts which are relied upon to justify the process of arraignment. It says that any attempt to withdraw this Eower from the Executive would, in itself. e usurpation, We cannot doubt that if articles of impeachment were to be prepar ed, the Democracy would consider itself as having been plaoed ut the bur—would re pudiate the judgment as the fulmination of one party against the other, and would stand ready to uphold the President in a refusal to submit; oven though that refusal should result in civil war, as would bo most likely in the exoitad state ofthe public mind cortaln to prevail. > " Let us imagine the condition of affairs. A chief magistrate condemned by a court whose J urisdiction is denied at the outset by several millions of American citizens, lie rofiises to obey process. The Senate doclitres him out or office; but he persists in the exercise of prerogative. Congress then, representing the Government, under takes to oust him; but he summons to his aid.what military he can command, and prepares to test the question of forge. Mean-. WMle, tlie violence and turbulonoo engend- 1 ered at the National capital extend through every section of a country not yet fullyTre covered from the delirium of war. Parties are developed in each town, city and ham let, holding excitedly to the most pronoun ced opinions on one side or the other, and ready to fight for those opinions. A spark might at any moment drop into such a magazine, and then—what then? We of the North yet hardly know what civil war means, as they have learned it who have seen street divided against street, family against family, law obliterated, order de stroyed, civil securities overthrown, and neighbor arrayed in mortal enmity against neighbor.” The Republican Press on the Baltimore LProm the Baltimore Bun of Friday, i As indicating the wholesome reaction In the Bepublican press of the North in regard to the mendacious attempt of self-Beeking partisans to stir up ire against this community on account of the issue relative to the removal by the Governor of the Baltimore police com missioners, we cull a few brief extracts from the leading journals of thatcharac ter in different quarters. They all. It will be seen, show that they now under stand the main question in issue, and are satisfied of the authority of the Governor, under the law, to act, guided by the facts which come beforo him as to the determination which he may make: iFrom Llio Hpringlloid Ropublicau, rop.J Colonel Forney, in writing inflam matory letters from Baltimore, seemß determined to have a political row there, if possible. The cause of quarrel Is the conductor certain police commissioners, who are accused of appointing incom petent judges of election and using un fair means to deprive conservatives of the right of suffrage. Governor Swann hasoruered the commissioners to appear before him to answer these charges. Forney says they will not appear, and if the Governor undertakes to remove them, they will resist by force. As the law authorizes the Governor to remove them for official misconduct, if they fall to appear and clear themselves of the charges made, the Governor will at least have the law ou Ills side in removing them. We should hope the Union men of Baltimore are too wise to be misled by such pluttcra of miachicf. If it comes to fighting, (Jelouel Forney will be con veniently absent, and the “mighty North 1 ' lie so confidently Invokes will not rush to anna to help any class of Marylanders inviolcnt rcaiatance to their own laws. IFroin the Chicago llepubllcau, rop.i We not only deprecate, but we hearti ly and unqualifiedly denounce, as dan gerous to the country and fatal to the republican party, the language which Col. Forney writes from Baltimore. Pennsylvania and the North will re ply that this Maryland quarrel must be adjusted according to law and without any rebellion on the part of Union men. li Governor fcjwaun has the legal right to remove the commissioners, let him do so. If he does so from corrupt rea sons, impeach him. If the President lias the lawful power, as he certainly has, to order troops into Maryland to sustain Governor Swann in any official acts which Governor Swann is permit ted by the law and the courts to do, let no loyal Union men of Maryland fire on the federal flag, for they cease to be Union men when they do so. Let us maintain, in spite of every provocation, our allegiance to the Union and our pos session of the flag, and denounce as political mountebanks and charlatans the would-be republican agitators who would throw us into the false position of rebels against the national authority. [From llio New York Post, rop.] We warn the Republicans that If they resist Governor Swann by force of arms the law will be against them, and pub lic sentiment must condemn them. They (the commissioners) argue upon this, that the power of removal “gives no power to tlte Governor to try for official misconduct, or to pronounce them guilty.” This seems to us manifestly absurd. If it were the true meaning, then a majority of the Legislature would have the right, by the constitution, to keep the commlsslouersin office, even though they had been judicially tried and found guilty of official misconduct. It is of no use to argue that the consti tution intends that. It seems to us clear that the police commissioners are amenable to the Governor during the recess of the Legislature; and as we have no doubt they have acted properly uud lawfully, we are sorry to see them put themselves in the wrong. Nor can we think well of the attitude of thelte publicans in Baltimore. They have taken for granted that the Governor will do wrong ; this they have no right to assume. Then they have publicly announced that they will resist the Governor’s acts ; and the Mayor of Bal- tlmore, wo read, has now quite a formi dable army at Ills back. Is civil war so welcome and so profitable that It should thus be Invited? Tho Post further concedes that Gov ernor Swann appeurs throughout this unfortunate affair to have acted with “moderation and good sense.” [From tho N. Y. Commorelul Advertiser, rep.) Governor Swann has, wo are forced to believe, from a' perusal of the law ereatiug the office of police commis sioners of Baltimore, a legal right to re move such commissioners. It says that in the recess of the Legislature lie cau remove them for official misconduct. If he now chooses to regard the action of the present commissioners in the ap pointment of election judges, in the light of “ official misconduct,” he has a legal right to do so, aud the aggrieved parties should quietly submit. If it should then prove that the Governor has been guilty of an illegal decision, of an exercise of power on a groundless pretext, let him be called to account in the manner provided by the State con stitution, He is open to impeachment if he, under the shudow of the law, pursues an illegal course. This is the redress which the Unionists of Balti more should wait for, instead of now listening to the counsels of wicked agi tators. (From Iho New York Times, rep.l The Baltimore American states that should the Governor proceed with his inquiry, and as a consequence of it re move the commissioners, “ they will refuse todeliverup the books and records of their office.” And then a conflict of authority will practically begin. It is evident that a mere denial of jurisdiction should not, and probably will not, influence the action of Gov. Bwann. His right to remove the com missioners when the Legislature is not in session is ton plainly asserted by the law to be successfully controverted ; and his right to iustitute the inquiry which thecommissioners refuse to acknowledge follows clearly and incontestably. A denial of jurisdiction, therefore, will not avail the commissioners. The inquiry may proceed in their absence ; and if they permit the case to go by default, they will have no ground for complaint against a sentence of removal. If their resistance take no more violent form than a refusal to deliver up the books and papers of their oflice, the chances of trouble will be reduced to small di mensions. The law will be available against them : and to that, we are glad to observe, the American no longer threatens resistance. 11 is satisfactory to- note that the revolutionary appealß of Mr. Forney, and the violentmen forwhomhespeakß, are condemned by the Influential repub lican journals of the country, with scarce ly an exception. Whatever may be thought of the issues involved In the talked of removal of the commissioners, the republican party give no counte nance to the threatsana plans by which a few extreme and reckless men have striven to produce collision and riot. The influence of this outside opinion has already operated beneficially upon the organ of the radicals In Baltimore, and will, no doubt, help to prevent the serious occurrences which have been apprehended. The legality of Contracts Adverse to Public Morality. Among those lost* on the FJveniug Star was Mrs. King, who was bring ing hither some twenty or thirty girls for her extensive bagnio on Basin street, in this city. It Beems that Bhe had jußt had a magnificent building for the pur pose of her business erected on Basin street, at a cost of $lB,OOO, and that Bhe leaves two minor children as her heirs in New York. The question of en forcing obligations made with women of 111-fame as coming under the head of contracts, contra bonaa mores, will there fore likely occur when the undertakers of the building seek to enforce thejp contract with the deceased upon her rep resentatives. Thesuccession hasalready been opened in the District Court,— Fab Orleans Bee. THE FENIANS IN CANADA. Close of (lie Trial of Col* James I.ynch —The Prisoner Found Guilty and ' Sentenced tot Death — Extra ordinary Harangue of the Pre ng Judge. [Special DesjWvch to the WorldLl Toronto, October 25, 1860. The evidence having closed for the de fence, the judge announced refreshments — crackers and cheese—to be eaten at their Beats, for the Jury, and there was a short interval. Mr. Martin, counsel for the prisoner, ad dressed the jury. He thanked Solicitor- General Cockbnrn and Hon. H. Cameron, i counsel for the prosecution, for the very kind and courteous conduct of the trial. They had appealed to no passion, distorted no met. He, too, wished only for afairtrial. All aimed only at justice; and as the judge and counsel did their duty, so should the jury do theirs, and cast aside prejudice and preconceived opinions. No one had at tempted to prove that the prisoner ever hurt a hair or any man’s heaaor committed any cruelty. His appearance was that of a humane man who could not be guilty of murder. Let the proud boast be ours that a Canadian jury shall be above all suspi cion of injustice. He contended that tne decision of tho jury was final, and there was no appeal, and it could not consign to tho gallows onu who had never hurt the hair of a child. Here ho was interrupted by M r. Camoron, who snld Martin was mistaken us to tho provisions of tho statute. Tho Judge said tho prisoner should have the full beuoflt of tho aiscrotlonary power vested in hlsolllce, Mr. Martin argued that tho prisoner could not bo regarded as an American ctl zon ; once u as hud boon proved, ho was always a subjoct, und tho indictment churging him as an Amoricancitizen failed. Tho witnesses for tho dofonco agroo that Lynch was not an officer, and ho himself has stuok to it throughout tho whole trans action. No country had ever gono so far as to hanga reporter. When Garibaldi invaded Italy English reporters went with him and wore uninjured. Tboro were parties who wroto from Kentucky: “We regret ex ceedingly the posltlon ofMr. Lynch He is innocent; came over as newspaper reporter, and was In no way connected with tho in vasion. We would testify to this before a commission, but cannot go to Cunadu, knowing that wo shall losoour lives.’’ Tho counsel reviewed tho testimony, and begged the j ury to dispol all outside prej udico. The case was one of life and death, and he wfls confident they would decide without party bias, and give a verdict according to the ! evidence. Solicitor-General Cockburn replied bijelly and temperately. Ho expressed sympathy with tho prisoner, and said ho had been al lowed to produce any evidence compatible with law und Justice. If the Jury believed tho evidence oti'ored, they must deem the prisoner guilty. For tho defence, it had neon sot up that the prisoner was a reporter for a Louisville paper, and that it was in that capacity that ho came over. But al though they rnuko tho statement. they havo not showed, by uny evidence, that ho is a reporter. If ho was employed as such, the counsel for the prisoner might have sum moned ovor the proprietor of tho Journal , which would at once get over the matter. But nothing of tho kind was done, and tho law did not contempluto that any man, oven if he is a reporter, has a right to coine over, mingle witn and assume a command. Tho prisoner had claimed that ho was an American citizen by a document proved to bo in his own handwriting, if satisfied of guilt, their duty to the country required them to bring in a verdict of guilty; if any doubt, to give the prisoner the benefit and acquit him. Judge Wilson summed up at length, 110 argued that if reporters give aid and com fort to invadors, they become part and par cel of them, and are liable to the same punishment. He thought the testimony of tho Crown wus unshaken ; that the prison er was proud i<» havo come to Canada us a Feniun invade:-, armed agnlnst the Cunu dians, giving countenance to the Invuders. und identified as a commander. He road and roviowod the evidence. The prisoner, if a reporter lor tho Louisville Courier, could have produced the evidence of its proprietor, lie might have been both a reporter and a commander. If he had merely stood by he was not a neutral. The law recognized no neutrality In crime. It was his duty to warn others, and dissuade them In all cases of crime; no man can stand neutral. .So of reporters and in ail other cases. At 4,20 the Jury retired to consider, and at brought in u verdict of guilty. Solicitor-General Cockburn moved the Judgment of tho Court on the prisoner. The crier having read tho usuul proclamation previous to sontence or death, his lordship asked the prisoner if he had anything to say why the sentence of death should not be passed on him. The prisoner replied with his usual calmness and admirable deportment: “My Lord, you must have noticed tho disadvantage my counsel laborod under In not being ablo to procure tho attendance ofwitnesses who could provo that I. in act or part, hud no connection with tho Fenian invasion. 1 came ovor as a roporlor, not knowing that I was break ing tho laws of this province In doing so, and as God will some duy bo my judge, I declare before tho court and his lordship thnt I took no part In the Invasion. At tho same time, I take tills opportunity, as it may bo my last one, of returning sincero thanks to tho learned counsol who con ducted tho prosecution, and Mr. Camoron, and tho court and jury for. tho attention which they have given to my case, und for tho impartial manner in which 1 havo boon tried.’' Judge Wilson tlion proceeded to pass sentence of death upon tho prisoner. Ho expressed regret andlpalnJancl lils|voico was tremulous, apparently from contending omotions. There was trepidation, and at last petulant anger in histone, little consist ent with his previous avowals of calmnoss and Judicial temper. He charged tho pris oner with having come, as if a reporter, to gloat and glory over tho blood of tho slain. Why, lie askeu, if tho iron heel of tho Saxon is on the Celt should the injury bo repeated in Canada, the relation only of tho parties beiug reversed? Will any man of sense auswor the question? Why, rob Canadian farmers and kill Canadian young men ? 110 had abstained from characterizing tho crime of tho prisoner appropriately, but lie might predict justice now. Tho motivo isntan end. Tho Judge, at this period of his address, sadly marred by tho display of temper tho effect of his previous seif-restraint, but yet gave the prisoner the benefit of the delay left to the discretion of tho Judge, ns to the sentence itself, he had no alternative but to pronounce. It was obligatory upon him. lie would givo all tlmo for bringing for ward nil legal objections thnt can bo made to tho course of this court. In tho usual words he sentenced the prisoner “ to bo taken from tho place of confinement to tho place of execution on Thursday, Docember 13, and there bo hung by the nock until lie is dead.” He held out little hope for mere v. Thus terminates tho first trial, In private conversation with your correspondent, Col. Lynch assorts that those who suppose ho acts as an officer or had gone to Cauadu ex cept ns a reporter, are mistaken. Ho say be came at the request of (Jen. McDermott, of Louisville, to write an account of tho Fenian Campaign, little dreaming that ho broke tho laws either of Canada or his adopted country. He desires the press to say that, according to the evidence, be bad a fair trial, and was treated with courtesy and kindness both by Judge Wilson, So licitor-General Cockburn, ami Hon. J. 11. Connor. In the hue war in the United States he knew reporters were respected on both sides, and thought the same rules would be observed in Canada. He was born in the County Galway, Ireland, and was chief clerk of the Board of Charitable Donations and Religious Bequests, in Dub lin, from 1837 to ISC', when he emigrated to the United .States. He has been in business at Louisville. In ls-tD lie went to California and has visited the chief cities in the West Indies uud South America. He enlisted in the United Statos army, and was quarter master in the Twenty-Fourth United States Volunteers, with the rank of major. He was afterwards chief clerk in the Discharge Department at St. Louis, with tho rank of captain. There are assurance current in well-in formed circles that, although tho decision of the law is proclaimed, the sentence will not bo executed. I havo it on the authority of a member of the Imperial Parliament that the home government have determined to void execution ; and the name of John A. McDonald Is coupled with similar honor able declarations. Stevens and the Ironmasters. A few days ago an iron manufacturer of Pennsylvania called upon us to say that he and others of his craft in his State thought we did them Injustice in classing them with the “ greedy protec tionists." “We do not need a high tariff,” said this jgentleman; “we do not want one, do not ask for one, and do not desire to (nour odium with the public as high tariff men.” We re marked to him that Mr. Daniel Morrill and Mr. Thaddeus Stevens were gen erally believed tospeak the wishes of the iron men of Pennsylvania. “ They do not,” washis reply, “Mr.Stevensowns a little iron foundry, which is of no ac count at any rate. My company makes more iron in a week than he does in a year, and his foundry is so disadvan- situated, and labor ß under so many Insurmountable difficulties, that it can never be made profitable, no matter how high a tariff is laid on lm ported iron. He B peaks only for him -86 l a * e W °therß os badly situated as himself; but the great body of the iron men of Pennsylvania are not of hi ß mind,aud do not need a high tariff'.” —A r . Y, Evening Post, ( Radical ) —A boy, fourteen years old, was shot dead on Third street, Cincinnati, yes terday, by a comrade of the same age, for knocking his hat off, THE FENIANS. Clemency and Amnesty Officially Asked of the Crown. Washington, Oct. 28.—The following documents have been issued: Department of State, 1 Washington, Oct. 27, 1860. J D. Thurston , Esq., United States Oonsul, To ronto: Sir : For your information I enclose a copy of u note of this date, which I have addressed to Sir Frederick W. A. Bruce, the British Minister here, upon the subject of the conviction and sentence of James Lynch and John McMahon, by a colonial court of Canada, on the charge of complicity and participation in tho late attack on Fort Erie. In accordance with the purpose expressed in that communication, you are expected to procure, without delay, for the use of this department, a copy of the record of tho trial and conviction of Lynch nnd Mc- Mahon ; and also ot all further trials and convictious of a similar character, which shall take plnco in Canada, with the least possible dolny after their termination. I am, sir, your obedient servant, William H. Seward. Department of State, Washington, October 27, 1806. Sir: It is understood that James Lynch und John McMahon have beou rocontly convicted In a colonial court of Canada, and sontoucod to death upon a chnrgethnt, being citizens of the.Unlted States, they woro ac tors in tho assault mado in tho month of Juno last, lit Fort Frio, in that colony. It can hardly bo necessary to direct your attention to tho fact that tho Government of tho United Slates is required by the highest considerations of nntlonaldlgnfty, duty and honor, to Innulro into tho legality, Justice and regularity of the Judicial proceedings which have thus taken place, and that after making such a careful scrutiny, wo shall expect to make known to her Majesty’s government, such opinions as the President, upon duo consideration, shall adopt. With this view the United States Consul at To ronto, is this day instructed to procure for tho iulormation of this department, a copy of tho record of the trial and conviction of Lynch and McMahon, und also of all furlh : or trials and convictions of a similar charac ter, which shall tako plaeo In Canada. While no unnecessary delay in the exam ination of tho cases which arollms expected to come before this Government Is intended, It may nevertheless happen hereafter that delavs will unavoidably result from past incidents or from futuro ovents, which can not now bo foreseen. I have now the honor to request you.to tako such proceedings as you rnny think proper, to tho end that such applications of the consul shall bo promptly granted. Tho President directs me to assure you of Ills confident hope that her Majesty’s Gov ernment will not only choorfulJy comply with tho request 1 have thus made, but that thoy will think It proper also to examine the judicial proceedings aforesaid with a careful regard for the rights of the United Htutes, and to tho maintenance of good re lations between tho two countries. Such relations aro always difficult and deliculo In States that are adjacent to each other without being separated by impussablo borders. For this reason it would be very gratify ing to the President if you should bo able jo give me an assurance that the execution of tho sentences pronounced upon convicted Fenians will be suspended, if occasion for delay shall arise, in tho manner before men tioned, to make it desirable. Finally, I deem it proper to say that tho offences involved in these trials are in thoir nature eminently political. It is the opinion ol this Government that sound policy coin cides with tho best impulses of a benevo lent nature in recommending tenderness, amnesty, and forgiveness in such casos. This suggestion is mado with freedom and earnestness, because tho sumo opinions were proposed to us, in our recent civil war, by all the Governments and publicists of Europe, and by nono of them with greater frankness and kindness than by the Govermnentand statesmen of Great Britain. I um very sure that you will find that these recommendations of a policy of clem ency and forgiveness in the case of tho par ties concerned aro in entire harmony witli all the suggestions and representations which this Government lias made to her Majesty's Government In regard to the nggresslons which have been made on the Canadinn frontier, and that they are also In harmony with the proceedings which this Government has thought It Just, wise aud prudent to pursue in rugaril to the vio lation oflts own neutrality which was in volved in thoso aggressions. 1 have the honor to bo, with tho highest consideration, sir, your obedient servant, Wm. H. Seward. To the Honorable Hit* Frederick W. A. Bruce. Stanton and Sherman. It Is rumored, and tho rumor is not a pleasant ouo in times like these, that Wm. Tecumseh Sherman may bo called to tho Secretaryship of War, in case of Mr. Stan tou's retirement. If this bo so, or if it bo probablo, wo hopo Mr. Stanton will hold on to his post. General Shermun, who wont inarching through Georgia with dashing buyonots and ringing cheers—whoso war faro was romantic and dramatic, Is without question a most excellent soldier, and one gifted with all the military qualities requi site to execute an order, "But with ail duo respect to his reputation and achievements, we must say that his sphere is tis a subordi nate ofllcer. Ills his province to obey, to oxoouto, not to order or originate. Without Grunt wo should never have hud the his toric march to tho sou,— Express. We wondered, when wo road the above, what could have provoked the military editor of the Express to un sheath that terrible sword of his and carve up the martial reputation of Gen. Sherman. But from tho following it appeurs that he is only paying the Gen eral back in his own coin : Gkn. Sherman on the Hiiaiiuahts.- Gun. Sherman Ih rather hard on a certain class of “heroes,” who bou*t in public places of their achievement in tho war against rebellion, lie says: “It is amus ing to observo how brave and linn men be come when all danger is past. I have no ticed on the fields of battle that bravo men never insult the captured or mutilate the dead; but tho cowards and braggarts id ways do. Now, when the rebellion in our land is dead, many 'Falstall's appear, to brundish the ovldonce of thoir valor, and seek to win applause nnd to appropriate honors i'or deeds that never were done.” Shooting Affray at Westminster, Md. The Westminster Advocate contains tho following account of a recent shoot ing affray in that place : Late on Saturday evening, as thepeo ple who attended the mass meeting were quietly dispersing to their homes, everybody was startled by a report that four men had been shot atSheets'Hotel by Henry Bell, a well known Radical. This was a mile and a half from the place of meeting, and at the lower end of the town. Many different stories were circulated and excitement which prevailed was naturally intense. It is reported that some men passing Henry’s Hotel hurrahed for Johnson, which was met by a counter hurrah on the other side for JefT. Davis. One of the party called back, “You had better hurrah for Joe Shaw.” Henry Bell, who was one of the parties tried and acquitted for the killing of Mr. Shaw in 1860, immediately follow ed the parties down to Sheets’ Hotel, about three hundred yards further. He waiTseen entering the bar-room door at Sheets’ with hi ß hand in his pocket covering the butt end of a revolver. Here there was a number of persons, some of whom had been drinking, and enjoying themselves us usual on such occasions. We have not heard any re liable statement as yet as to what happened there before the firing com menced. It is certain Bell fired three times, and that four men were wounded thereby. After he fired the first shot it is suid that some one Btruck him with a chair, and that he was somewhat bruised. At the second shot the landlord ran to the bar-room, and as he opened the dining room door seized Bell around the body, and threw him round into the dining room, whence he fired the third shot past the landlord Into the bar-roohi, He then escaped out of the back of the house and concealed himself in a cellar, whence he was soon taken by the Sheriff, and In a very short time landed in the jail. William Lafferty was B hot through the upper part of the thigh, the ball passing near the femoral artery. He bled very profusely and lay as if dead. The attending physioianß, Dts. Beltz and Hering, thought his case was very eritioal; but he rallied after midnight, and is now thought to have a good chanoe of recovery. John Stewart was shot through the palm of the hand near the fingers, having probably grasped at the pistol, a short barreled one. The ball then grazed his cheek-bone, glanc ing over the nose. Both these men are comparatively strangers, having resided hut a short time In the neighborhood of Manchester, John Loveall was Bhot In the neok, near the jugular vein, the ball passing round to the hind part of the neck. He made avery narrow escape, ashis wound is not thought dangerous. Isaac Green was slightly wounded, the ball grazing his left arm. These two last are citizens of Hampstead Dlstriot we believe. Abusing tlie President. Talking- Treason In 1860 and In 1866. iFrom the N. Y. Journal of Commeroe.J There is a remarkable parallel to bp drawn between the attacks made on President Buchanan in 1860 and thoso now made on President Johnson. The former was most fiercely assailed for * permitting Senators to talk treason without arresting them. The latter Is assailed for not permitting them to talk treason without rebuke. The former was assailed for not entering the halls of Congress, and with his own strong arm, backed by his soldiers, stopping the plots of Senators aud Representa tives for the overthrow of the Union, by clearing them out of their seats and sending them to prison. Tho latter is now assailed for daring to have any opinion adverse to the opinions of Sen ators aud Representatives, and is ac cused of high crimes and misdemeanors because ho criticises what he regards as the treasonable plots of men now in Congress. How strangely in theße days does such a paragraph soundsosthe fol lowing. which we take from the New York lYibune of June 8, 1801: “Men talked treason In tho Senate and in the House, and went and came as if their blurting forth of rank revolt was but the innoceut aud mild Jokes of the after-dinner third bottle. * * * Weak, wicked, wretched us all this was, tlie secret history, as yet unknown . to tho country, sends us to a lower deep of humiliation. But there Is enough that is public, uud let what is now con cealed from observation romuiu sup pressed, nt least until we have purged ourselves from tho disgrace and scorn of all Christendom. “ Bo you suppose that you, os an In dividual, eau nave the respect of your fellow-men and have no respect for yourself? Can you allow the dogs to bark at you, and clowns to spit in your face, and expect that your standard of Intercourse will be higher that you have made It yourself? And cau you expect your President aud your administration to hold nations In fear, when thoy per mit drunken demagogues to shake fist under their noses and sound tho rally of rebellion under the arches of the Capitol? “Taking the whole race, from the Esquimaux In his smoking hovel, and his seal blubber to eat. to the last ami living Duke of Northumberland, and reverence and regard belong to the possession of power audits use. Weak ness has our sympathy or our contempt, but strength aud manhood win our admiration even In their abuse.” There was something In that style of argument In 1861. There is something in It now. Certainly we cannot expect the President und his administration to command much respect at homo or abroad if he permits this; but how is he to help it? The Great Tornado at St. Louts—Fur ther Particulars. Tho telegraph has already given many particulars of the terrible tornado which passed over St. Louis on Sunday after noon last. The following is from the St. Louis Republican of Monday : The morning was cloudy aud wet, but about 1 o'clock the rain ceased, tho sky cleared, and it appeared as if tho afternoon was going to be line and plea sant. As the day advanced, however, vast volumes of inky clouds gathered round the southern horizon,thunder roll ed in the distance, and the rain fell In torrents. Notwithstanding, however, these threatening indications, lew per sons apprehended any serious storm, nor, indeed, did the appearance of things indicate tho terrific outburst of elemental forces which took place. About half past 4 o’clock a black shadow fell swiftly over everything, a low short, sharp pealsof thunderwereheard, when suddenly, with hardly a moment's warning, a rushing storm of wind and rain dropped over the city. A seem* ensued that exceeds all description, uud is equaled only by those equatorial tor nados of which we so often read. Everything was enveloped In gloom and confusion, the black clouds seemed to rest upon the house tops, the ruin descending In sheets of fulling water was blown Into snruy, tilling the air as If a sea had broken over tho city, and with tho rush aud roar of tho whirl wind rendered it impossible almost to see or hear. Ho suddenly nnd swiftly did the hurricane, tornado, cyclone, or whatever it may best bo called, strike the city, that it seemed to bewilder everybody, and there wus no time to adopt any precautions to insure safely. The violence of tho wind wus abso lutely terrific, and as it swept through the streets tho effect was tho most as tonishing wo !mvo ever witnessed ; awn ings, signs, chimneys and roofs were broken up aud carried away. The air was filled with timbers, bricks and every conceivable material. For a few minutes large hall stones mingled with tho rushing storm, windows were blown in or fell with a crash on the street; tho tearing of boards, the fall of dobrls of every kind, tho crash of glass and the giving way of walls wus to be heard In every direction. In fuct, for about ten minutes or so the storm so completely enveloped everything us to reliefer it impossible to ascertain what damage has actually been done. Thu streets were strewn with innumerable fragments; bricks, timbers and largo masses of tin roofing were carried through the air like things without weight, or crashed against tin* walls of the houses, or broke through windows and doors to the dismay and danger of the in mates. Tlie storm appeared to rise from tlie south, or southwest, but on reaching tlie streets ol the city it was impossible to tell from what direction it came; tlie whirling currents of air swept up one street ami down another, mailing up various alleys with irresisti ble violence, upsetting carts, carriages,, and uprooting houses and breaking up or displacing everything movable In the way, end playing the most fantastic tricks, and in many Instances doing the moßt serious damage in the space of a few minutes. The whole duration ot this most singular and unparalleled storm-burst was not over ten minutes, yet In the enormous amount of damugc done it would seem as if some destruc tive agent had been ut work unrestrict ed for days. About a quarter to five o’clock the whirlwind hud passed over the city, and although the rain still fell, comparative calm and quiet ensued. “ Beware of Geary!” When the great General Geary, now Governor-elect of Pennsylvania, wns on the slump for himself, he was very fond of relating, among his friends at least, tile following thrilling narrative —the like of which, as calculated to muke one's hair stand on end, is not to be found even in the pages of “ The Bold Buccaneer, or the Bloody Black Brig of Bermuda”; Stonowall Jackson, while lying upon ids improvised cot, suffering from wounds of which he was conscious lie must soou dio, sent ior General Longstreet to come lo him at once, as ho hud something speclul to say to him. The General shortly appeared.. The dying hero, almost in the agonies ot death, raised himself upon ids elbow, and with a voice of deathly earnestness thus ad dressed the South C’arolinaGenerul: “Gen eral Longstreet, did you observe thnt tall imposing form to-day seated on a bluck horse in the thickest of the tight, as we did battle ?" Quoth General Longstreet, “l did, Indeed, my dear General.” “Thatman so valiant was (ieneral Geary !” exclaimed Stonewall. "Mark mu, beware of him ’ avoid him '. beware of ids troops 1 Meet Idm not when you cun shun him, for he is irre sistible!” Longstreet arose to depart, but us ho readied the door, " Stonewall ” called to him again, “ Longstreet, bewnre of Geary!” and fell buck dead upon his couch! With this dying injunction to his comrade, the hero of the Shenandoah ex pired. It may not ho wonderful that Stone wall Jackson was thus fairly frightened to death, but it is astounding that Long street, after hearing (for the first time) of this terrible fellow, should remain a moment on the field.. “Beware of Geary!” The whole Democratic press uttered this warning during the late campaign; but, alas! it was unheeded, and this military Bob Acres, who kills his “ man a week,” and who thinks he was the hero of the last words and warning of Stonewall Jackson, is likely to be theinvlnciblecommander-ln-chlef of the unterrifled Pennsylvania militia in the threatened Radical civil war. — N. I’. World. Murder lu Hudson, Sow York. Hudson, Oct. 2D.-On Saturday- night a man named Allen, living In Tagh kaneo, killed his wife by ohoklDg her. Allen has been crazy for the past few weeks On Saturday evening a murderous assault with a razor was committed by a negro on three white oltlzens, inflict ing a serious wound on one of the party.. The negro was arrested,, but subse quently made his escape,.
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