WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1866.
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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
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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,.