WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21,1866 THe printing presses ahn.ii be free to every Person who undertakes to examine the pr°" ceedings of the legislature, or any branch oi government: and no law shall ever be maae to restrain the right thereof. The free commu nication of thought and opinions Is one Invaluable rights of men; and every olH^n liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers Investigating the omolal conduct of offi cers, or men In public capacities, or where the matter published is proper for public informa tion, the truth thereof may be given In evi dence.” Wliy They Oppose Restoration. The New York Tribune aays that the U. S. Senate (without the ten Southern States) will hereafter stand 42 Radicals to 22 Democrats, and the next House 340 Radicals to 44 Democrats. These figures are very significant, as they fur nish the key to the Radical opposition to the restoration of the South to repre sentation in Congress. Under the or ganization of the 40th Congress, as it now stands, the Radicals have iiL the House*lB more than two-thirds, while in the Senate they are also within one of having a majority of two-thirds. With the admission of the ten ex cluded States, with their twenty Sena tors and fifty-seven representatives, the Senate would very likely be a tie, and in the House the Radicals would lack twenty-one ofhaving two-thirds. Such a condition of afiairs would enable the President to check all improper legis lation promptly by his veto. Under such circumstances it is only natural to expect that a party which has become habituated to a disregard ol its Constitutional obligations, should re fuse to consent to any terms of restora tion likely to deprive it of arbitrary power. Whatever it may pretend to he willing to do, it will persistently oppose any scheme of settlement which will jeopardize its political supremacy. Jt has already declared through its leaders that the adoption oP the Con stitutional Amendment, now proposed, “shall not be a final settlement;” and if the South should signily its entire willingness to accept Greeley's “l ni versal Suffrage, Universal Amnesty” proposition, Congress would reject it, and devise some furtherscheme for slili depriving the South of representation. ('ongress and the whole Radical party is well aware that in a restored Union, it, would he in a minority of a million votes, and this very knowledge rentiers the party desperate and determines it to prevent a reunion as long as possible. All the talk of the Radicals about “ loyalty,” and patriotism and the dread of “ rebel sway” is thus easily resolved into mere demagoguism, and a few oi 'losing partisan power. To maintain the rule of tlie minority over the ma jority of the people of the United States, ten States are deprived of their Consti tutional rights, the legitimate business of the country is deranged, all our com mercial interests are jeopardized, and even a renewal of civil war is threatened. What will he the result of such a reckless policy cannot be foreseen. We fear! he people.of the North will only realize their dangerous condition, when a monetary convulsion shall have en gulphed their present prosperity and have left them as destitute as their brethren of the South. 4 d. We take it there are very few Democrats in this Com monwealth who would under any cir cumstances sit in the same jury-box with a negro, ami we trust there are still fewer who would tolerate the beat ing of their children by Radical vixens in order to compel them to sit beside negroes in school. This Ebensburg case affords a fair op portunity to bring the negro equality question to a crisis which will settle it one way or the other. Let the Court and the law be tried first, and if these fail to punish such crimes as this school teacher has been guilty of with suffi cient severity to prevent any other teacherin thecommonwealth from beat ing a white man’s child for refusing to sit beside a negro, then let an appeal be made to the “ higher law” of human nature, and let every white man defend his children and adequately redress their wrongs. Too much of Radical outrage has been submitted to already. (From the Johnstown Democrat, Nov. 11. t iMI’ROI’HK t'u.NUl'lT of Tkach krs. —On Tuesday, of lust week, very reprehensible conduct was perpetrated in the public schools of Ebensburg, this county. A Mr. •Singleton, ;i young sprig of a lawyer, who was a candidate for District Attorney hist year oil the Disunion ticket and was de feated of course, is now employed as Super intendent of the schools in Ebensburg. He teaches the higher class. He has for one of his assistants, who teaches a younger class of scholars in the same building, a Miss Eliza Jones. Mr. John Blair, a worthy citizen of Eb ensburg, and the keeper of a very respecta ble hotel in that town, has a bright little bov of about twelve years of age, who was attendingthe school dr (-lass taught by Miss Jones. It sn«-*vs that a shiny, black faced, woolly headed, little negro girl, was at tending the same school. Miss Jones ordered the intelligent little white boy to sit beside the little black girl, (an unusual place to seat boys beside girls in school under any circumstances). The white boy refused, said lie “would rather sit on the floor than beside the nigger.’* Tbe Mistress told him “it was a better place to sit than in a barroom with copperheads.” This expres sion showed most conclusively the partisan feeling of her conduct. The white boy still refused. The partisan teacher then locked thodoorso that no one could go out to report her proceedings. It is said Mr. Singleton did the same with the door of his room in the same building.• Miss Jones then com menced flogging the white boy for not sit ting beside the negro girl, and duringnearly half a day, it is said, she most unmercifully whipped him, until “ the boy wasso bruised aud mangled that he could hardly reach his father’s house.” If our informant Ims giverFus the truth, we look upon this as one of tlie most dia bolical acts we have ever recorded. The at tempt to teach miscegenation fn a school room, and to enforce it with cruel and un mitigated punishment, is a crime of so hor rid and revolting a character that should condemn Us perpetrators to the deepest scorn and contempt of every human being. All the Decency ' Extract from a speech covered be fore the Washington Union League, on the 11th inst., by J. J. Stewart, Esq., the defeated Radical candidate in the Sec ond Congressional District of Maryland: “lie, the man [Andrew Johnson] whom the loyal people of this country picked out of the'imid—a drunken tailor—rude, bois terous, vulgar, boastful of his origin while ashamed of it, lifted for the 1 single virtue of supposed patriotism, because it was excep tional in his section, from the lowest condi tion in /life to the highest position in the State —he must boast to the world that he could have made himself dictator. His re creant tongue should have cloven to his mouth before he spoke that word. It was a traitor’s heart that suggested it; a traitor’s mind that conceived it; ajtraitor’s lips that uttered it. lie owed us 'gratitude—he has returned us baseness. He has fa.sided his promises; he has broken his pledges; he bus foresworn to-day his word of yesterday, and will undo to-morrow what he has done to-day. His life is a lie, his success a curse; his position a disgrace. He must be im peached, that men may learn it is a crime for Presidents to lie.” The above choice extract is taken from the speech-of this man Stewart as published in Forney’s Press of yes terday. If, during the administration of Mr. Lincoln, any Democrat had uttered one-half as much villainous slander and low billingsgate against that gentleman, he would have found himself, before many hours or days, an inmate of Fort McHenry, Fort Warren, or some other Federal Bastile. Such language, uttered in the Capital of the Nation, and by a man, too, who aspires to a seat in Congress, is a dis grace to the American people, and the vile demagogue who spouted it forth is only a fit associate for the Plug Uglies and degraded ruffians and bullies who have been ruling the City of Baltimore for the last five or six years. Won’t \ o Down. The New York correspondent of the Ledger says the Chicago Times ’ article in favor of the Democratic party ac pepting negro suffrage does not appear to find any favor with the party, in that city. A public meeting to denounce it is contemplated, Something? About a Radical Orator. It is just possible that some of our readers may have heard of Gen." Clin ton B. Fisk, or Fiske, rather, for that warrior elongated his name with a final e about the time that the late A. Lin coln, in the fullness of his wisdom, ad ded him to the vast and glorious com pany of paper Generals. Fiske. (pro nounced Fisky under the new spelling and intended to hint towards French extraction) by no means won his mili tary honors in the deadly breach. He rune, like an Aeronaut, by the lifting power of “ gas.” He shot up with mar vellous velocity from the useful but somewhat humble position of a weeder and packer of onions on the outskirts of Weathersfield, Connecticut, to the ele vated rank of Major General, U. S. A., witbouteitherfighting a battle or seeing oue, although his friends aver that he once heard one. The fact is that Fisky (this Yankee-Franco cognomen is charming) had neither appetite nor aptitude for fighting. He “snuffed battles afar off,” after the fashion of the war-horse, but, unlike that imprudent animal, nis fancy was to get as far away from their sulphurous and suggestive fragrance as a stout and nimble pair of legs would carry him. But while Fisky’s sword rusted his tongue and pen were never idle. He wrote periodical letters to what are called “religious newspapers” in the North, recording “ a wonderful work of grace” in some benighted negro-quarter, which was always sure to be progressing (by the Lord’s help) under the auspices of Fisky. That was his tack. He be came a distributor of tracts. He led prayer-meetings at which the souls of multitudes of Africans were brought into a hopeful condition of orthodoxy, aud these blessed additions to the company of the faithful, as registered by Fisky, and printed by Abolition newspapers everywhere, wakened hal lelujahs in all the Abolition churches. Hardihood of nose acquired in the cul ture of the onion was of infinite service to F. in his. labors among the pious and perspiring blacks. Soon the fervent Fisky begun to reap his reward. He was prayed for and puffed so persistent ly in the shoddy meeting-houses which dot the plains and decorate the crags of New England, that he would have been a downright ass to fight battles when fame, rank, bars, and then stars, came to him cheap, in.plenty, aud without a particle of personal peril. Why “seek the bubble reputation in the cannon’s mouth” when it could be had just by, at a freedmen’s camp meeting or a “ Colored Ladies’ Dorcas Society?” So reasoned Fisky, and soundly, too, as the event proved, for in due time he found himself a Major General, and at the close of the war was transferred to the Freedmen’s Bureau, and made Assist ant Commissioner aud Military Com mander over Kentucky, Tennessee aud portions of Georgia, Alabama, Missis sippi and Arkansas. Here Fisky found himself suited to his mind —the fighting all over, so that there was no danger even of being ac cidentally shot —plenty of niggers, plenty of plunder, and plenty of power. He carried things for a season with a high hand—impoverished the helpless and enriched himself—lived luxurious ly, attended by as many blacks as an Eastern pacha. In short, although his piety had always been profitable, never before had he such an occasion as during this brief season of bliss to clap his hands aud cry out, “ Godliness is. great gain !” But suddenly, without inward moni tion or visible warning of the dire calamity at baud, there came an order from Andrew Johnson which stripped Fisky, in the twinkling of an eye, of all his power and turned him loose without pay, emoluments or shoulder-straps, on the long path which led back to his native Weathersfield. lie didn't take that path , however. Much as the Yan kees affect to love “New lug-gland, ” (heavy emphasis on “gland") the first effort of the infant born there, after a preliminary whetting of his faculties and features on his paternal rocks, is to get away; and the last thought that crosses his brain when age approaches and he has cheated some distant com munity out of a competence, is that of returning to lay his bones at home. A thoughtful fear thatliis indigent cousins there might be tempted to work them up into buttons perhaps has something to do with this. Fisky, therefore, instead of going home, has been wandering over the country, delivering lectures, making long prayers, and collecting money to provide the Carolina blacks with tracts and trowsers. His “ honest earnings ” in this way must foot up handsomely. Of course he engages the sympathies of the loyal by a pathetic account of his expulsion from the Bureau, and kindles their virtuous indignation with harrow ing tales of “ the murder of freedmen,” etc., under the auspices of “the per jured Johnson.’’ We read one of these veracious harangues in the N. Y. Iri bunc the other day, reported in full. Hence these little reminiscences of the orator. Should he chance to come this way, let our readers keep his history and services in mind and treat his hat when he passes it round with the proper respect. A wolf in sheep’s clothing is a disreputable and unpopular beast at best, but we fancy that few specimens of the kind have ever travelled the country in a heavier suit of “wool” than that which veils the voracity of Fishy. A Clever Majority. The majority against Horace Greeley, for Congress, in his District, is only 9,088! Wonder whether Horace will contest the seat of his successful oppo nent ? Shouldn’t wonder if he did,-and oust him too. Hon. Jamks Brooks, who was ille gally ousted from his seat in the pres ent Congress, has been elected to the next Congress by over 0,000 majority! This, we should say, is a pretty stiff rebuke to the Thad. Stevens Bumpers. Mr. B. was one of the ablest men in Congress, and was the greatest thorn in the side of the Radicals—hence his ejection from his seat at the last session. South Carolina. A special dispatch from Washington to the Pittsburg Commercial , says that General Sickles, who arrived on Wed nesday from South Carolina, had an interview with Mr. Johnson and Gen. Grant on Thursday, and presented an elaborate written report, showing a highly favorable condition of affairs in his Department. The condition of the freedmen is improving and outrages are growing less. The Constitutional Amendment. It requires the ratification of three fourths of the States to secure the adop tion of the Constitutional Amendment. Its rejection by ten States defeats it ; and we shall find its rejection in the following States: Maryland, Florida, Delaware, Mississippi, Virginia, Georgiu, North Caroline, Texas, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana. Here are thirteen that have rejected or will reject the amendment. Tennes' see has not ratified it. The vote that Brownlow claimed as a ratification was not legal, and will not be counted. There are in Chicago seven counts, two marquises, one who would have been a duke', and a baker’s dozen of German barops, Tlie Baltimore Troubles. It will be seen by the following from the Baltimore Sun of yesterday, (Thurs day, Nov. 15;) that the old Board of Police Commissioners gave up the ghost, officially, with a tolerably good grace, after Judge Bartol’s decision had been rendered. Mayor Chapman, however, seems to have “the sulks,” and to be disposed to stand aloof from the new Board. He, too, will no doubt “ come down” after awhile, and it is certain he will be brought down when the Mayor’s election comes off: The Board of Police Commissioners — Letter from the Late Board — They Agree to Sand Over the Office and Papers. — The board of police met at its office, No. 1 North street, yesterday morning, where Marshall Carmichael, and through him, the various captains of police, made their regular reports. Although the board have made five different attempts to get a meeting with Mayor Chapman, up to the adjourn ment of the board yesterday afternoon the Mayor had failed to respond. During yesterday’s session the followingcorres pondence took place with thelate board: Office Police Board, No. 1, North St.,) Baltimore, November 14th, 1866. ) To Messrs. SamuelHindesand NicholasL. Wood: Ucntlein.cn: The present Board of Police of the city of Baltimore beg leave to call your attention to the noteof Messrs. Young and Valiant, and to repeat the demand therein made for the property, Ac., belong ing to the Board of Police of the city of Baltimore, and now in your possession, in the hope that, as the demand is now sanc tioned by judicial decision, it will not be resisted to the extent of requiring the action of the courts in the premises. Very respectfully, James Young, President. P. S.-We will be pleased to receive an answer previous to 4 P. M. The late Board replied as follows, previous to the hour named, it being the first notice they have as yet taken of the new Board : To Messrs. Jam s Young and H'm. T. Vallianl : Gentlemen: Your favor dated the 13th, making demand for property, Ac., and asking an answer by a certain Hour to-day, was handed to us at half-past ten. Our counsel are engaged in court in the trial of a cause, rendering it impossible for us to confer with them until 2 P. M. With no desire to delay unreasonably or embarruss your action, we wish to see our counsel be fore responding to the subject matter of your demand. We will send you our de cision before 4 o'clock this" afternoon. Yours, respectfully, Samuel Hindes. N. L. Wood. To this the following was sent in reply: Office Police Board, No. 1 North st. To Mcs rs. Hindes and Wood : Gentlemen: Yours of this date is received. We will cheerfully wait the desired time as requested. Yours, respectfully, James Young, President. The following is the response subse quently received of the late board to the demand for the delivery of the property, Ac.: Baltimore, Nov. 14, 18f>G. “ Messrs. Jas. Young anu Win. Thos. Valiant, Gentlemen: In the matter of your favor dated yesterday, and received this morning, weliave conferred with our coun sel, unci beg leave lo reply that we are ad vised that nothing which has transpired has changed their opinion with reference to the correctness of their advice or our position both in fact and in law. We are also ad vised that we have the right to retain our position until the courts have acted on the question of the legal title to the offices of commissioners of police and to the posses sion of the muniments of the office. At the same time we are advised that iu view of the results of the late elections, the contest in which we might engage, though entirely successful, must be barren of fruits, and might ensure the destrution of the police system and police force which af fords security to our citizens and is the boast of our city. Under these circum stances we deem it due to the public not to obstruct the operation of the system by oc cupying the apartments assigned to the board of police. We have some arrange ments to make in connection with the re linquishment of books and property, and will, if agreeable to you. meet you at the rooms occupied by us to-morrow, at 10 o’clotk A. M. Yours, very respectfully, “Samuel llindks, “Nicholas L. Wood.” As stated iu our telegram from Balti more yesterday, the old Board of Com missioners met the new Board at the time designated in the foregoing letter, and handed over the property and ef fects pertaining to the office. Thus have ended the troubles stirred up by Forney .and other Radical scoun drels, who had personal as well as par tisan ends tosubserve. There is a United States Senator to elect from Maryland ; aud Forney, realizing the utter failure of his attempt to obtain the Pennsyl vania Senatorship, is struggling des perately to keep up Radical ascendency in the Senate, so that he may retain his well-paid position as its Secretary. His Baltimore scheme has failed ; and henceforth, if he shall venture to set foot' in the “ Monumental City,” he will do so in mortal terror of arrest for the part he took in the late dis turbance. Hon, Stevenson Archer. A correspondent of the Baltimore-Sim pays the following tribute to Hon. Stev enson Archer, lately elected to Congress in place of John L. Thomas, of Balti more. Mr. Archer is a native of Har ford county, and we happen to have known him well enough years ago to know that he well deserves the enco mium passed upon him. He is an able lawyer, with a tine and lucrative prac tice in his native county. We congratu late him on his election. The Sun cor respondent says : Stevenson Archer, just olected to Con gress, will* represent the same district for merly represented by his father and grand father, and what is also remarkable, all three are graduates of Princeton College. In notieiug this tact, it is a source of grat ification to the friends of the newly elected member that in him none of the noble qualities, mental and moral, of his ances tors, have degenerated, and that we have in him at least ono example that an honor able, ancient Maryland family still main tains itself in public respect and confidence. Mr. Archer’s father was chief justice of Maryland. His grandfather was Dr. John Archer, of Harford, a distinguished patriot of the revolution, and as remarkable for his eccentricities as for his sterling virtues. Divorce* lu \pw York City The decrees of divorces in New York last week made ail aggregate of sixteen divorces on the ground of infidelity, and four judgments of separation from bed and board, on account of cruelty, inhuman treatment, and neglect of care on the part of the husband. The num ber of similar cases pending in the dif ferent courts at the present time is be tween seven and eight hundred. Such a record as that is enough to frighten timid bachelors and spinsters from at tempting matrimony. Dali Time*. The World says there is a universal complaint that business is dull. Before the elections it was supposed that the canvas had something to do with it } but now that the elections are over trade is worse than ever. The truth is that the country has a surfeit of high priced goods. It costs so much for food, rent and fuel, that people have no money to spare for luxuries. Unless Congress contracts the currency and reduces taxation, production will come to a stand still, and trade, except for the 'barest necessaries, will languish. The first and best step towards continued prosperity would be a complete restora tion of the Union ; but that we cannot hope for now. Xew York Senatoratilp. The Democratic pres 9 in New York generally speak favorably of Mr. Gree ley for Senator. The World assigns the reasons thus : “ The Democratic papers admit that they do notlike his opinions • but if the State must be represented by a Radical, let it be by a representative man and not a dummy.” The friends of Mr. Greeley have commenced an active campaign for him, and have; high hopes of success. Hon. Jacob Thompson A dispatch from Washington says that Mrs. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, has been there importuning the President to allow her husband to come home. It is said she left with assurances from the President that he might return to his home in Missis sippi. It will be remembered that he was one of the alleged Canadian conspirators, The Crops. The late crops of the season are now mostly housed. As was fearedj the early frosts in the Northwest, reaching south ward to embrace one third of'the State of Illinois, did considerable damage to the corn crop. Accounts from the sec tion thus affected report much soft and immature corn. Throughout the coun try, however, the crop is above the av erage annual yield, though not so very large as war expected it would be three months ago. The potato crop is large; but unfor tunately the tubers are infected with rot, so much so that dealers refuse to buy in large quantities, and prices are consequently low. The apple crop is fair in the Western States, and the fruit is of excellent quality. In the Middle and Eastern States the yield is light. The Hop crop has been over-estimated. It will not, as has been supposed, be un usually large, but will barely exceed the average harvest. Grapes are in fair supply, but of in ferior quality. In mkny localities, by reason of early frost, failed to ripen, and henceyis-dry and insipid. Good grapes are very scarce, and in great demaud. Though we are without definite in formation on the yield of the Bean crop, the high prices, active inquiry, anu small supply indicate a short crop. The New York market has never, hitherto, been so completely overrun with cattle, hogs and sheep. They are poured in upon us from all parts of the West, where the supply seems to be in exhaustible; and both growers and dealers are anxious to sell at present prices, which are gradually settling to a lower basis. Turkeys were never before so abun dant throughout the country. Small poultry is also in full supply. Preseut high prices, therefore, are purely specu lative, and must eventually break down. The quantity of Butter made this Fall is truly enormous, and a vast supply is held by both dairymen and dealers, who have overheld themselves, and will now be compelled to reduce their stocks at lower figures, as the supply is quite too large to maintain preseut present prices. The accumulation of Cheese even ex ceeds that of Butter, and must, for the same causes, experience a decline in price. Wool is in good supply. The shearing was larger than usual, and of fair quality. The army demand having ceased, the market is inactive, and has already experienced a marked decline. The Cotton crop is coming in slowly and with great irregularity. After over coming the effects of defective seed, early frost, flood and drouth, the planter found relief in a most propitious Bum mer; in tlie early Autumn, the cotton fields, from Texas to Virginia, promised an abundant yield of fine staple. Much of the cotton was late for the season, but the stalks were vigorous and of luxuriant growth, and, with a favorable Fall, would have produced up to the full average yield per acre. In ordinary seasons, with good seed and fair Spring and Summer weather, the cotton plant will attain a degree of maturity by the Ist of September, that places it beyond serious damage by the army-worm, which usually appears in the Valley of the Mississippi about the second week in September. The stalk, being then well boiled, may be defoliated by the worm without having its product of fibre materially diminished. This year, however, the crop was fully three weeks late in arriving at maturi ty. The army-worm made its appear ance in tlie lower portion of Texas about the Ist of September. A week later, it appeared in gi- at numbers in Louisiana and Mississippi, and, before the middle of the month, had crossed Alabama into Georgia. Fields that had been planted with good seed, and were well cultivated suffered but slight damage ; but all late cotton in thelow lands of the Gulf States was fearfully destroyed. Lands that on the Ist of the month promised a bale of 400 pounds to the acre, on the 20th of the same month presented a most bar ren prospect; on some, half a bale to the acre, on some, a quarter, on some, nothing will be gathered. Middle and Northern Texas escaped with but slight injury; Arkansas, Northern Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the country lying north of this line, were not inflected by the insect. From the Yazoo Valley, we have most doleful accounts of the condition of affairs; both corn and cottou are reported to have failed. The reports of severe drouth and of early frosts seems to be nothing more than tricks of trade, and are untrustworthy. We are safe, there fore, in counting on a fair average crop for the area planted in those regions not visited by the “army-worm.” These, however, are not the best cotton lands, aud hence the aggregate yield will fall short of our lormer estimates. While 2,500,000 bales would have been gather ed under favorable circumstances, it is now doubtful whether the crop will reach 2,000,000 bales. —jV. Y. Tribune. The Results of Sudden Greatness. The two colored men elected to the Massachusetts Legislature receive now on an average a bushel of letters each daily. Many of them are congratula tory, and come from their white friends in the Northern States. Many others are of the begging sort —soliciting their votes ami influence in every sort of project of legislation, private and pub lic. Besides this, their houses are be sieged by crowds awaiting an audience, and they have beeu compelled to em ploy ushers, who admit the applicants by turns. In many instances money has been paid for first places in the line of audience seekers. Advantage has been taken of this fact by professional loafers at the “hub,” who go early and stay late; never getting an audience, but always selling out their places in the line to the highest bidders. Wo nu merous and eager are the besieging crowds that numerous bloody-nose recontres take place upon questions of precedence. The Boston and Charlestown authorities have been compelled, in consequence, to station policemen at the doors, and also to keep the sidewalks sufficiently clear to allow of ordinary travel. The colored legisla tors, for a few Uays, felt exceedingly honored by these manifestations, but the long continuance of the ovation has bored them, broken their rest, and undermiuded their general health so much that they have concluded to rigidly adopt the exclusive system always practiced by great men. They will hereafter, therefore, neither peruse a letter nor grant an audience except through the recommendation of their private secretaries. ThW'will, at least, be the course adopted by Mr. Mitchell, of Boston, who represents the most aristocratic ward of the city. A project is already on footto raise by subscription sufficient funds to enable both members tomaintaiu private establishments com mensurate in sumptuousness with their new-found dignity. Indictment of “Sanford Conover.” Justice is likely to be meted out to one of the principal conspirators who is alleged to have been employed by Judge-Advocate Holt in the scheme to connect Jeff Davis with the assassina tion of Mr. Lincoln ; for we observe that the Grand Jury of the District of Columbia have indicted the redoubtable Sanford Conover, alias Dunham for perjury. The facts in this case are, doubtless, remembered, and no one will regret to see brought to punishment such an infamous character as thisman, who, if he was not the concocter of the horrible charges against Davis, was, at least, the pliant and willing tool of persons in a higher sphere and the principal agent in the disgraceful trans action. Wherever the blame rests for conceiving and working up this con spiracy against the life and reputation of the ex-President of the so-called con federacy, it is morally certain that the man Conover did his part of the busi ness boldly and unscrupulously, though the denouement proves that he was not quite as reliable or as cunning as his employers supposed. The intimate connection of Judge Holt with this disreputable affair has been the subject of much comment. The authenticity of his letters to Conover, which are in our possession, was at first denied by Judge Holt, but, upon com paring his note of denial with the letters to Conover, we found the handwriting to be marvellously similar. Since we made that fact public, which we did at the time, no attempt has been nc&de to deny the paternity of the Holt-Conover letters. We still hold these documents, and, of course, if it becomes necessary for the furtherance of the ends of justice, we can have no objection to the proper au thorities looking at them, if it be essen tial in making up the record of the case. —New York Herald. A destructive fire occurred in Milwaukee on Friday, The wholesale grocery store of J. B. Setvan, on Chestnut street, was de stroyed. The loss is estimated at $BO,OOO. Human Sacrifices on the Gold Coast In Just now, while the Republican news paper press of the country are congratu lating themselves,'that the millenial day of negro equality is near at hand, the following account of a fitting burial given to an African Kine will no doubt help to prove the entire fitness of hi 9 kindred on our soil for perfect social and political equality. The following ex tract is from a letter to the African Times: Accra, Gold Coast, West Africa, \ August 10th, 18GG. J In my last I informed you briefly of the death of Q,uow Daddy, the King of Aquapim, at Akropong, the capital of that eountiy, about the end of June. The death of King Quow Daddy was the signal for thesacrific ing of some thirty-five or forty men and women connected with h»H household. Such a wholesale slaughter of human beings within the jurisdiction of the Government of the Queenof England has not been known nor heard ot, even in the remotest or most savage and uncivilized regions of this pro tectorate for the last sixty years. In Akropong the Basle missionaries have numerous large establishments. Immediate ly on the death of the King being made known to them, their, principal, the Rev. Mr. Widmann despatched an express to Lieutenant Brett, the chief civil eommaud ant of Accra, through Mr. Muller, the agent of the Basle missionaries at Christianborg, informing him of the occurrence, und oftke certainty of great disorder and irregularity, if the Government did not at one depute some officer or important commissioner up thero to preserve order and keep in check any such desire on the part of the people. This friendly and timely warning of the Basle missionaries was treated with that con tempt with which the British authorities on the gold coast invariably’ treat information coming fromsourcesnotentirely’ and strict ly official ; which latter,be it observed ,almost alway’sprovesto be corrupt, false and manu factured to suit official despatches. The result of this apathy is, that many poor victims have been ruthlessly' slain" to accompany Quow Daddy’ to the next world ; amongst the number were four young females, his wives. Several of the intended victims fled to the different residences of the Basle missionaries, and were afforded refuge by the Rev. Mr. Widmann and the Kev Mr. Madre. Some of these are still in the hands of these missionaries ; others, who were being smuggled to Accra for better protection, were discovered killed. Some, again, who reachedf Ac cra in safety’, were pursued, and actually seized under the walls of the ruined tort, and would have been carried away had uot several of the residents forced the matter on the notice of the commandant, who, with the utmost reluctance, interfered, amt lined the defendant £12 —twelve pounds! Akropong is only eighteen miles from the seat of government in Accra. It is a coun try very easily' accessible through good roads, made not by the Government, but by the German missionaries. The Delegate from Colorado. Governor Cummings, of Colorado, ex plains, in a letter to a friend, his recent ac tion in relation to grantingthe commission to Mr. Hunt, as Delegate to Congress, in stead of to Mr. Chillcolt, Radical. He say's he gave Mr. Hunt the certificate because “ he was fairly elected by a majority’ of the legal votes, M and he could not do otherwise without perpetrating a wrong against the people ot tlie Territory. There is aboard of canvassers, consisting of the Secretary’ of the Territory, the Audi tor and the Treasurer, who, together with the Governor, canvass the returns for Ter ritorial offices. With the Delegate—being a Congressional office—they have nothing to do, for the law gives to the Governor full and sole authority in the matter. Two of the Board, however, assumed entire author ity, and threw out a large number ot votes cast for Hunt. Not content with this they received the votes cast by the oth United States volunteers, which organization was recruited from rebel prisoners at Chicago. Without a shadow of right of citizenship in Colorado, these rebel deserters voted for Delegate, and without exception the)/ all voted for Mr. Chillcolt.' To this the Gover nor refused to submit. —Patriot and Pnion. The Maryland Elect on. The Comptroller was the only State offi cer voted for at the last election in Mary land. W. J. Leonard was the conservative candidate, R. Bruce that of the radicals, and S. Townsend independent conserva tive. Tlie returns are as follows : COMPTROLLER. Leonard. Itruce. 2,202 2,410 Counties. Alleghany Anne Arundel 1,440 lot) Baltimore city 8,313 7.4D3 Baltimore couuty 3,602 2,ur.) Calvert maj. 500 Caroline av> sot) Carroll maj. 7*l Cecil 2iil.) 1,721 Charles 631 4 Dorchester maj. 1.008 Frederick 3 oil Harford 1,0 4 1,.>56 Howard 51.5 4-0 Kent I,u7s 232 Montgomery maj. 1,000 Prince George's 833 137 Queen Anne’s 1,171 ls 2 Somerset 1,837 467 St. v Mary s. Talbot..* Washington t nmj. 7u3 Worcester Ml 231 Total 33,757 22,801 Leonard's majority, lz.syti. Townsend (independent candidate) received about 1,000 votes. Tho Decline in Beef. Mutton ami Pork The heavy decline in the price of beef, mutton, and pork, which has taken place during the past four weeks, has had no parallel since the year 1537. We have had sudden fluctuations of the market here, when for a week, owiug to a limited supply and a pressing demand for immediate con sumption, the price of live stock has ad vanced one or two cents per tt>. for a single week ; and with a full supply the succeed ing week, has fallen back to the old figures. But the decline was not general, and did not reach a point so low as to involve heavy losses upon original purchasers. Now'Western men are losing in the neigh borhood of $3OO on each car-load of cuttle, ami as much as $3OO per car-load was lost on hogs sold on Monday and Tuesday last. Beeves that one month ago sold readily at $l3O per head, could not be sold to-day for more than SIUU; and hogs that cost De. per lb. in Chicago were sold utTJc- per lb. here. And lots of sheep that sold to average $0 per head thirty days ago are thought to be well sold now if they average $5. The fol lowing comparison of prices on the 13th of October, and on the 13th of the present mouth, will show more clearly the heavy decline in cattle, sheep, and hogs : Prime beeves Prune hogs.... Pri i.o sheep.. This falling off is attributed solely to the large supply of stock in the country and while there may be a slight reaction in the latter part of December, the general opinion is that for iho next six months the average of prices cannot be higher than we quote to day. Large operators, with plenty of means to hold cattle, have no faith in prophecies of better prices ; and one firm, at a loss of near s2o,out) per week, continue to send cattle forward in even larger numbers than when prices were better.— X. Y. World. Colfax on the Rampage. Mr. Schuyler Colfax is Speaker of the Thirty-ninth Congress. The same gentle man has an ambition to be Speaker of the Fortieth ditto. And as, from present ap pearances, the next Congress will be even more Radical than the present, Mr. C. finds it expedient to emphasize the fact of his be ing a candidate for re-election by election eering on the extreme ultra basis. Rust week ho delivered a speech at Detroit, in which ho assailed President Johnson in the bitterest and boldest terms, amplifying the usual chip-trap about his “ treuson ” to the Republican party, stigmatizing his policy as “ wicked,” accused him of fancied usur pations, and threatened him ‘‘that if he don’t mind his p’s nnd q’s his head may fall off next winter.” But this menace of impeaching the President is not the worst of Colfax’s blatherskiting. As if the people ofthoSouth—women anu children, Union men and all—had not suffered enough by the ravages of the late war, as if the But lers und Turchins had not done devastation sufficient, Mr. Colfax says: I wish they [the soldiers] had devoured the entire subsistence oj the South. Ifunother war should come, I shall pray that every soldier might carry in one hand u torch, in the other a sword, and sweep the face of the country with destruction. We suppose this exhibits Mr. Colfax's interpretation of civilized warfare. The Christian spirit it breathes will no doubt commend itself to every pious individual in the land, especially in vlewofthecircuin stance that it is necessary to give expression to such hideous sentiments as the foregoing in order to win or retain the favor of the Radical party.— St. Jxtuis Republican. National Bank Issue*. The amount of national-bank notes issued last week was $073,953, making the total now in circulation, $297,065,0a9. The Gov ernment holds securities as follows: For circulating notes, $340,291,400; for deposits of public money with designated deposi tories, $39,423,950. Total, $379,715,350. The amount of fractional currency re ceived from the printing bureau during the week was $455,410; forwarded to national banks and assistant treasurers, $477,079; redeemed, $422,634,31. Another Nliipmeiit of Courtezans. The New York World says, another ship ment of courtezans is to be made from that city to New Orleans in the steamer which leaves there on Saturday next, to make good the losses on board the Evening Star. These unhappy women, It is said, are some seventy or eighty in number, mostly be tween fifteen ana twenty-five years of age, and chosen expressly with reference to their personal attractions. The person who has them in obarge is a notorious procuress, who keeps an establishment in Crosby street, and who figured extensively at Sa ratoga last summer. Sunday Police Court* In Hew Tork. The New York Herald of yesterday has the following among its city items: Perhaps it is unknown to the majority that so numerous are the transgressors of the iaw that the utmost despatch of the magistrate cannot dispose of them all du ring the week day sessions, and that an extra session on the forenoon of every Sab bath is required. It is a remarkable though a natural fact that on Sunday the prisoners’ box is always the fullest, and the lists or returns from the various precincts are always longest. Saturday night is thetlme when laboring people receive their week’s wages, and it is then more intoxicated and more disorderly persons are encountered by policemen on their beat than at any other time during the week. As a couse quence the number of arrests is much larger. The court room is always thronged of a Sunday, and the noise and bustle of business is always great. Lot the one who desires to see his fill of the woes und miseries of the lower classes in a great city betake himself to uj e Police Court on one of these fine, pleasant Sunday mornings. It is unnecessary to remind him that he need not go as a prisoner, how ever. As he hears the tolling ot the bells for church from the neighboring spires let him not think that there alone will lie learn lessons which shall teach him tho right, and that thero it is uecessary’ for him to go if his desire is to hnvo his heart filled with bettor resolves and a purer charity. In the Police Court he may if ho will receive in struction lor the better, and may obtain a more practical and vivid knowledge ol the blasting, damning effect of a vicious and sinful life. If he sees here the long truin of offenders issue forth from the prisoners’ box, and take their station at the bar—the ragged, wretched, wrinkled and repulsive form ot the vagrant; the poor unfortunate, whom no one can help pitying, sweeping haughtily and indifferently from tlie sawdust, in splendid attire, her cheeks painted and her fingers glittering with jewels; the drunkard, maud lin and insensate, or trembling with tho effect of his debauch and the terror of re turning reason, his garments soiled and torn; the idle, shiftless ami lazy beggar; the protessionul criminal, slouching, care less and easy, or the young man whoso first offence is this—if he beholds this throng of prisoners and studies the feelings of each as revealed by the outward act or expression, ho is a lost man if he does not go from thut court room with a butter and a kindlier knowledge of human nature and human frailty, and with a heart filled with a more commiserating, tender and Christian spirit towards the lowly, weak and fallen of his race. Tho curious and heartless crowd of spectators will laugh at the sufferings of the beggar, the outcast woman—externally listloss ami unconcerned, but racked with burning shame within; tho inebriate, tin* thief ami the many other violators of justice and law ; but if he possesses a lieurt of feel ing and kindness he will not laugh. They will soon leave his sight, but his mind will go with them, and duys after he will think of that lost soul, ponitent and sorrowful, with a useful regret behind the bars of u cell. Distillery F; nuds—Starlling Disclosures Frauds upon the government, through a violation of tho internal revenue laws, to tho extent of a million and a half of dollars, have just been discovered in Brooklyn. It appears that large quantities of illicit whis key were found in different private distil leries through tho vigilance of government detectives and the Deputy United States Marshal. When it Is known that these frauds have been going on for some time it becomes questionable whether tlie govern ment inspectors —who receive five dollars per day for overseeing the distilleries and insuring the payment of tho tax upon all manufactured spirits—have not grossly ne glected their duty. In many insiances the internal revenue officials are most zealous in preventing aud detecting frauds, but it would appear either that the distillers were too smart for them, or that the temptation thrown in their way was too strong for some of them. In addition to tho quantity’ of liquor found stored away which had not paid the tax of two dollars a gallon an in genious mode of defraud mg the government was adopted by manufacturing what was called “ burning fluid " —a non-taxablc ar ticle—but which was in reality ninety per cent, of alcohol to ten percent, of turpen tine, from which the latter ingredient was extracted by a chemical process after the spirit was inspected, and the pure alcohol put on the market without {laying tax. 11 is said that the parties engaged in this pro cess of manufacture realized over S4