WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1860 Ttte printing pres«ea snail be tree to every Person who undertakes to examine the pro ceedings of the legislature, or any branoh or government; and no law shall ever be mad® to restrain the right thereof. The free commu nloatlon of thought and opinions Is one of tne Invaluable rights of men; and every oltlzen may freely speak, write and print on any sub leot; being responsible for ate liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of paper* investigating the official conduct of offi cers, or men In publlo capacities,orwherethe matler published Is proper i u 5 r srt' tlon, the truth thereof may be given In evi dence.” Tbe Advancing Radial*. The fanatics who will assemble in the National Capital on next Monday spent about nine months at the last session of Congress in devising a plan by which they hoped to continue the rule of a minority of Radicals over a large majority of the properly qualified voters, of the United States. They heralded the proposed amendment to the Constitution as thegrandestschemfe ever devised. Their puffery of it put to the blush the extravagant advertise ments of patent medicines. It was de clared to be a political panacea, war ranted to cure all the ills by which the nation was afilicted. Every Radical newspaper in the country endorsed it. It furnished the text for every Radical orator who spouted during the recent political campaigns. When one State after another was carried by fraud and misrepresentation, the universal cry was that the people had endorsed the Constitutional amendment, and the policy of Congress as enunciated there in. That was taken to be the platform of the progressive party, as it delights to call itself. No doubt many people were fools enough to Imagine thut a proper plan for the adjustment of our national difilculties had been discover ed. They imagined in the simplici ty of their unsophisticated intel lects that the Kudicals really intended to abide by the platform which they had laid down. They forgot that such leaders as Stevens and Sumner are only strong to destroy. They eau tear down the political fabrics which former gen erations have builded at infinite cost, but are utterly powerless to reconstruct. Vain and visionary theorists, nothing bus ever come from their hands which could stand the test of time. The pro* gramme of to-day they discard to-mor row. Under a pretentious cry of pro gress they seek to gull the masses by . presenting new ami startling political theories. They make no allowances for the existing condition of affairs. Their politieal platforms areproerustean beds to which they would force com munities to adapt themselves. With them the teachings of history amount to nothing. Everything must measure itself by their arbitrary standard. Whatever of apolitical or social nature refuses to live imuccordunee with their rules of action must be blotted out of existence. It is, in their estimation, no more allowable to stand by theories to which they adhered in the past than it is to embrace what they have always denounced as heretical in politics. All men are expected to change with them, lie who refuses to follow them at (‘Very new departure into all the mazes of fol ly through which they wander, is de nounced as an enemy of human pro gress, or as something worse. It is strange that Lhoir followers do not tire of such an erratic existence. Surely that is a very blind infatuation which induces masses of intelligent men to yield themselves up to the guidance of such unsafe and unstable leaders. They are just about giving the coun- try and the people another instance of their instability. Already the real lenders of the Radical party have aban doned the proposed Constitutional Ameudment. The present session of Congress promises to be spent in undo ing the prineipul work of the last. Hteyens, Sumner, and in fact about all of the Radical leaders, will set them selves earnestly to work to get up some new scheme. It will not be better cal culated to restore the l uiou than the one they are now discarding. Whether it will proVe us well calculated to catch voters rrunalns to be seen. Why Trade In Dull and PriccN t’nHOttleri. Just now there is no little excitement in all business circles, Thu commercial world in petrified, and capital in ner vously timid. The great centres are filled with goods for which there is no sale. Manufacturers junta! the moment when they were making the heaviest outlay nud expending most money in improvemen ts, find goods unsaleable and the markets unsettled. Jf, in the good old days, specie payments and an un divided country, we were liable to pauics and to seasons of depression from over-production, how could it be expected that we should escape when production was stimulated to the great est degree, and the market circum scribed one-third. Not only is the South shut out as a market, hut it is rendered uncertain when it will return as a paying customer to our marts of trade. So long as the chief effort of the dominant political party is to degrade the whites of that whole section and to keep them in an unsettled and subordinate position, so long will wo derive but little commer cial advantage from what was formerly a great element in our financial pros perity. Production in the South is crippled, and one-third of our former outlet for our manufactures is shut up. To-day the North needs the South more than the South needs the North. Had the South been admitted early at the last session of Congress the depres sion that now exists in our business circles would not have been felt, and business men would not have been standing behind their counters trem bling with nervous dread of a coming financial crash. If Nemesis does not always take the precise shape we might have anticipated, none the less is the penalty exacted, and that in full. The commercial work! must now await the action of the political world. A few more months of the present un certainty will render a year of disaster certain. There will be no safety in trade, no certainty for manufacturers, no stability in any sort of business, un til the South is permanently rehabili tated in all her political rights. Business men may differ as to the manjier or basis of settling the South ern question; but that it must be speed ily settled no one but a political charla tan will deny. The longer the dema gogues at Washington defer the settle ment of existing difficulties by denying the South full communion on the basis of Constitutional equality, the greater will be the injury inflicted upon the commercial and manufacturing interests of the whole country, and especially those of the North. The truth of this will soon be forced upon our people by a bit'ter experience, unless there should be a change in the temper of the Radical leaders in Con gress. who at present seem willing to sacrifice the prosperity of the country to maintain the sway of the miuority over the majority. Missouri’s response to President John son’s “appeal” is twenty thousand ma jority, at least, against him.— St. Jjoui.s AT e What mockery of reason and justice is this! says the New ork Express You deny the right t.o vote to 100,(100 Conservative white men in Missouri, and then claim a majority of 20,000. If you had carried your proscription a little further, you might have claimed a unanimous vote for Congress. A New Departure. it is painfully obvious to every reflect ing mind that our country and its insti tutions are in imminent peril. For four years we prosecuted a war, with* out example in the history of the world for carnage and destruction, and yet we have no peace; we poured out blood and treasure like water for the restoration of the Union, yet the Union is only re stored in name, for where there should be love there is hate; we have abolish ed African slavery in the South, only to inflict upon that section a political slavery infinitely more daDgerous and degrading. It is now definitely settled that the Constitutional Amendment will be rejected by the South, and can not receive the sanction of the requisite number of States. In this situation the dominant party discusses three modes of treating the contumacious South ; first, to exclude it from repre sentation in the Congress of the United States until it does accept the Amend ment, which means a generation at least; second, to obliterate its state gov ernments, and rule it by force, through the agency ofsalrapsor military govern ors ; and third, to disfranchise the vast majority of its people, by organizing with federal power new state govern ments, in which only such persons as may be designated by Congress shall participate. The first would reduce the South to the condition of Ireland or Hungary; the second to that of Siberia; while the third would establish an oli garchy as galling as that of the thirty tyrants of Athens. All would be equal ly effective in embittering the South against the North, and alienating its af fections from the Union; and all equally effective in accustoming the minds of the people of the whole country to the exercise of arbitrary and despotic power. All these schemes would prove speedily fatal to tiie Union of the States and the permanence of our institutions. How can they be thwarted? Only by the success of the Democratic party, for it is idle to expect reason or moderation from its frantic opponents. And how can this success be achieved ? We an swer l»v discarding those conservative principles which, however excellent in themselves, only embarrass the party in its efforts to serve a people who de liberately turn their hacks upon the ex- perience of all ages. In fact, by taking a new departure in the line of progress, which will restore the Democracy to power, although it. may subject the country to some ti ials, hut far less se vere than those in store for it under its present rulers. To this aid we recommend Fokkign Waii as the policy of the Democratic party. Among the nations that out raged us during the rebellion we might readily select an antagonist without in justice, but all the signs of the times r ])oint to Kuginud as our proper adver sary. Her (ji/asi recognition of the Confederacy, her contributions to rebel loans, the damages done our commerce by her cruisers under rebel colors, and her undisguised sympathy with the re bellion, are sufficient cause for war. J n war with her we should have the sym pathy of freemen everywhere, by reason ofdier oppression of down-trodden Ire lands And in war with her we might give practical extension to the Monroe doctrine by the Vd» radon of Canada, and reap substantial fruits of victory by the annexation of her American provinces. A foreign war would rekindle the embers of patriotism, now almost ex tinguished by the blasts of sectional passion and hatred ; a foreign war would divert the animosity of our people from each other against the common enemy ; and above all, a foreign war would ren der the immediate audequal restoration of all the States to their proper relations with the Natioual Union an absolute and paramount necessity. Hut would tiie Republicans take Issue on this question, and the Democracy succeed? The Republicans must op pose such a war, because it would thwart tiieir projects for the subjugation and disfranchisement of the’ South. Tiie people would go with tiie Democracy, because war parties are always popular, because our civil war has aroused a martial spirit among the masses, be cause England is especially odious to Americans, because the expatriated sons of Ireland would rally in logions to our standard, and because tiie obvious re sults of the war would contribute so gloriously to the aggrandizement of our beloved country. True, a few timid bondholders might object, but the De mocracy owe them nothing, and they would be swept away by tiie irresistible euthusiam of the belligerent “boys in blue.” Then, let us have a foreign war to rescue the country from thedisastrous consequences of a civil war. Yif.i.i>jN(; to fanaticism will not stop its onward march any more than the giving way of a dam in a stream will arrest the rush of the waters. Thf President is busily engaged in preparing his message, and applicants for office are requested to refer their petitioners to the heads of Departments. (’in.. Joseph. Skvkrxs, of the Wash ington ('on.sfifii(io)Hi! I’niiDi , has been .appointed Surveyor of the Port of Phil adelphia. We congratulate him on his good luck. A Texas lady being asked at a New York dinner table to drink a toast to General Puller, consented, and as her glass contained about a drop of wine, she raised it to her lips and smilingly said, “ Here’s a droj> for Butler.” GENERAL PeaFUKIiAUD, WllO Went through the whole of the late war with out a wound, dyed recently in Paris. His hair, when he went to that city, was as white as a grizzly bear’s, and, when he came away, asblack as a black bear’s. Tin-: Neoko Candidate.—The New Orleans Tribune , a paper conducted, edited and read by negroes, in a column of editorial, advocates the election of General Beast Butler as the candidate of the Radicals for President of the l.'nited States in lSlin. Tin-: Turkish Government has grant ed a general amnesty to the Cretan in surgents. Why doesn’t the United States Goverumentgrant a general am nesty to the Southern insurgents? Are they worse and more barbarous than the Turks ? Thf Reading in announc ing the appearance of a new counterfeit one dollar greenback, says : “They may however be known by the vignette of Chief Justice Chase, which is much darker and contains more wrinkles than the geuuine.” Tiif three good old counties of Prince George’s, Charles and St. Mary’s, in Maryland, went cn masse for the Conser vative ticket at the recent election. In Charles the Radical candidate for Con gress received one vote; in Prince George’s, only 14b to Mr. Stone’s vote of 1,100. Somk Radical organs talk about a compromise—they agreeing to drop the Rump amendment if the Southern States will adopt “universal suffrage.” This would be a very safe compromise for the Rads, inasmuch as the late elec tions in Delaware and Maryland have killed the Rump amendment beyond resuscitation. Trading a corpse for sev eral hundred thousand darkpy votes would be a regular Yaukee dicker. The Example Sei by the Chler Justice. Every where , throughout the Noith we hear com taut complaints that justice is hard to be obtained in our courts when party passion or prejudice is ex cited. Now it is asserted that Judges are corrupt, and then charges are made that jurors exhibit a disregard for the solemn obligations of an oath. The day wasintiiis country when the breath ing of a suspicion of jthis character against any man would have excited a feeling of astonishment little short of public horror. The time was when all men who sal upon the bench were sup posed to be high-toned, honorable, in* corruptible and beyond the reach of suspicion. Once oaths were most sacred things with our people, and to breath a suspicion that a judge or jury had been influenced by im proper motives was to offer the greatest indignity possible. There are indica tions that tbe most sacred obligations are no longer sufficient to bind men. That the complaints which vex the ears of honest men are entirely unfounded we do not believe. There is some grounds for the increasing conviction that Courts of Justice in this country are no longer entirely safe tribunals; that Judges and Jurors are both influ enced in their decisions by partizan feeling. When the Chief Justice of tkeUnited States becomes a peripatetic political stump speaker, there is reason for the uneasy feeling that pervades the public mind. When lie is reported as having delivered an intemperate harangue in one city to-day aud in auother to-mor row, is it strange tnat men begin to lose their respect for Courts of justice? There was a time when a proper pub lie sentiment, universally expressed, would have forced* Mr. Chase to show a decent regard for tiie sacred duties of his high office. There was a day when even he would not have dared to travel about the country peddling out his pe culiar politieal views to any gaping crowd of listeners which could be got together. That day lias passed away, and in its stead we have the present dis jointed times, in which tiie country is shocked constantly by tiie exhibition of the chief judicial officer of the country goiugabout likea political mountebank, exhibiting his skill in partizan jugglery, and bidding fur tiie-Radical nomination for the Presidency. 1 11 a recent speech at Philadelphia! lie attempted to defend his course; but no one who heard him or read what he had to say, could help feeling that Mr. Chase was perfectly conscious of tiie utter impropriety of his course. The country is sufficiently disgraced by tiie appointment of such a man to the next to the most exalted position in the na tion. He ought to conduct himself with propriety, or, if that is impossible, let him resign. His course is calcula ted to bring U >urts of Justice into con tempt throughout the country. It l A high time he ceased to make an unseem ly exhibition ot himself—high time for him to set a better example. The Mode of I) iiwhti;' Jiu-orA. Just now the Radical newspapers, published in several strong Democratic counties, are ijrging the passage by the next Legislature of local enactments, taking the selection of jurors out of the hands of the Sheriff and County Com missioners, and transferring it to two Commissioners, one to be elected by each of the two prominent political parties. This change of the existing general law of the State is urged upon the ground tlmt the jurors are now selected almost entirely from one political parly, and that it is, therefore, almost impossible for the opposite party to have justice done them in the Courts. Our readers will bear witness Loathe fact during all the years which preceded the late war, no such complaints were heard anywhere in this State. However high politieal excitement may have riseu, it never entered the halls of justice. The Judgeswhosat upon our benches rarely, if ever, permitted political prejudice to interfere with the discharge of their high duties. If it lias come to pass that party prejudice und passion interferes with the dispensation of justice, then indeed have we fallen upon evil times, and our days are must degenerate. If such is the case, or if there be even good ground for suspicion that jurors are influenced in their verdicts by parti zan bias, a change in tiie method of selecting them should be made at ouce. Rut it should be, not by local enact ments, passed at the request of party friends to af’*-d certain counties, but by a general law applying to every county iu tiie State. Here v in Lancaster county, complaints are constantly made that a Democrat cannot expect to obtain justice in a case where party prejudice can be excited against him. However that may be, it is sure that eight out of ten jurors in at tendance on our courts belong to the dominant political party. Nowhere in the State is the minority more rigorous ly proscribed. If the law which lias already been applied to certain counties in the State is to be extended, let it be made gen eral. To such a law no one could oh ject. But the attempt to apply it to Democratic counties alone would be so infamous a piece of legislation that we do not believe any Legislature would dare to pass an act of the kind. We hope the Democratic citizens of Lan caster county will hold themselves ready to demand to be included in any bill of the kind which may be origi nated at tin* coming session of our Legislature. Wlmt •♦Old Tlmil’* is Doing. The papers all had an. item a few days since which represented our grim old representative as saying, that, “ having been conservative during the last ses ion of Congress, he intended to be rad ical during the present one.” The Washington correspondent of the Bal timore Gazette says : Since the arrival of Thud. Stevens at the seat of liovemment, increased interest in political affairs has been excited. I do not think any great importance is properly to be attached to his personal wishes and in tentions. If, however, the action of Con gress is to be controlled by his dictation, then, indeed, there will lie stirring times this session. I understandhesneers at any “ bargain,” as he called the conference be tween the President and Mr. Chase, in which the South is to bea party—denounces “ universal amnesty,” though coupled with “ universal ” suffrage, and deems the action of the Southern States altogether unneces sary to . make valid the Constitutional amendment. I also learn he has prepared a hill, the purpose and operation of which are to render null all the appointments made by the President during the iecess of Congress. “Old Thad ” has a perfect right to run the Radical Rump Congress after liis own style. He would be losing cast if he should not go to greater extremes than he ever attempted before. We ex pect him to keep up his reputation. If he does not do so from the very first day of tlie session he cannot expect to be chosen .Senator from Pennsylvania, There is a suspicion abroad that his great age has impaired his vigor. He owes it to himself to show that rumor to be an invention of the weak men of his own party. A proper show of en ergy may enable him to defy every com petitor. He is no doubt aware of this, and we expect to see him lead off from the start at a pace which minor Ra'dicals will find it difficult to keep up with. In the race to political ruin he will be found to beasure as well as a fast leader. Tbe Calmnefi* of tbe Rontheru Prem. The tone of the Southern newspaper press is one of the most significant signs of the time. There Is no bluster about political affaire, no urging of the people to action, and no exciting appeals to the masses. There are allusions to national politics, and discussions of the great questions now agitating the pub lic mind. But, almost without excep tion, the Southern press speaks of all these matters with an air of unconcern that is singular. The Charleston Mer oury has just been revived. In its first issue it almost ignores politics, and an nounces its intention of devoting all its energies to the development of the in dustrial and material interests of its section. Even the proposed amend ments to the Constitution and the arro gant claims of the Radicals of the North seem to have no effect on the minds of the people of the States recently in re bellion. They calmly announce their determination never to adopt or sanc tion the amendments, aDd having done that make no noisy fuss about the mat ter. All the talk about negro suffrage does not appear to excite a ripple of alarm, or to call forth an indignant re ply. They profess to be perfectly con tent to let the Radicals have things their own way for the present. The following from the Richmond Exami ner, a paper not accustomed to quiet talk heretofore, will give a good idea of the general tone of the newspaper press. It says \ We cannot forbear surprise, that the acute and intelligent correspondents of Northern journals in Washington should suppose that there is anybody there from the South, possessing any sort of influence or authority whatever, to pledge his State to the adoption of negro suttrage in any shape or form. So far as Virginia isconcerned all our statesmen are at homo, quiefly minding their own business and not meddling with politics. If there is anybody there profess ing to make this new trade for Virginia he is simply an imposter, und we imagine that those who claim to transfer oilier States to the Radical platform are not one whit better. Iu all this constitution tinkering we beg to be counted out. The threat of being ex cluded from the next Presidential election does not affright us. We had nothing to do with the last one und yet we survive. As Daniel Webster said about the present of a new carriage, “these things are or dered belt' r for us than we could order them ourselves.” If they have read of Canning’s knife grinder they can under stand that wo must prefer food and clothes to their politics. No! We are intent on corn, tobacco, wheat, potatoes and conven tions—not for laying down platforms, but to help on agriculture. The failure of last summer’s wheat crop from a bad season hurts us more than the failure of our repre sentatives to get into Congress. TheNorth orn people hold the reins. Let them drivo on us they like. All we ask of them just now is to*' 1 stand out of our sunshine”—to leave us tlmt blessed gift of God which makes the grass to grow und the grain to rippn, and assures us that above man’s nmlieo sits supremo and eternal the power that controls evil for good and shall yet evolve the perfect day. The reason for this calm demeanor may be fouud in the firm conviction of the people of tiie South that neither the proposed amendments nor negro suf frage in any shape can be forced upon them against their will. Indeed, the Constitutional amendments are most effectually killed. Tiie result of the recent elections in Maryland and Dela ware render it certain that they will never be adopted by the requisite num ber of States. The people of the South do not fear that negro suffrage can or vill he forced upon them-in any other way. They have the power Lo prevent that degradation, though unable to con trol tiie tide of fanaticism which was s\>ept over the North. Reiug unrepre sented in Congress, they feel no respon sibility for the acts of that body. So they quietly address themselves to re pairing the ravages of the war. We are inclined to think they are not altogether unfortunate in their situation, and we are suretiiey show wisdom in the course they are pursuing. There will come a day when they will be gladly recog nized as equal members of a fully re stored Union. They know tlmt, and calmly bide their time. Tiie calmness of the Southern press indicates the quiet determination of the Southern people. How .Soldiers Meet The manner iu which those men who led tiie great opposing armies during the war now meet is enough to put to the blush the miserable stay-at-home cowards, who are still endeavoring to keep alive tiie feeling of hatred between the people of the two sections of our country. The Baltimore Commercial states that at the Horse Fair, in that city, on Sat urday, General Grant was present, and occupying one of the stands, when his attention was called to tiie fact that General Joe Johnston was upon the other, the question being put, “Would he like to see him ?” “Certainly,” was the reply of the General. “Thera is no man on the ground I would be more pleased to see !” Geueral Johnson was sen for, and a cor dial greeting took place. While this was iroing on, General Stoneman also made his appearance, a like cordial greeting occur ring, the three occupying the stand for a couple of hours in company. The Louisville Journal gives the fol lowing pleasant account of a recent meeting in that city between the latter and Gen. Geo. H. Thomas, of the United States army: During the past few days several distin guished Confederate officers have been in the city on business connected with their peaceful avocations. Thu meeting between E. Kirby Smith and J. B. Hood was more than cordial—it was affectionate. They had not met before since the close of the war, and their greeting was that of true and tried friends, who loved and trusted each olhor. We have -no inclination to pry into the privacies of two such men, but the twinkle of laughing eyes and inferred fun expressed in their greeting, and use of old nieknatnes —their significance best known to them selves—told of pleasant bygones. But a nobler exhibition of the gonemsily of mind and personal honor wustlml afford ed yesterday in the meeting of Gen. Goo. 11. Thomas with his old comrade-in-arms, ex-Gen. John B. Hood. Unon two disas trous fields for the Confederacy General Thomas had been matched against Hood, aud had overwhelmingly beaten him at Franklin and Nashville, and added lustre to the stars and stripes. Yesterday, as General Hood stumped into tho dining room of tho Louisville Hotel to take his midday meal. General Thomas roso from his seat to meet the maimed and gallant Hood, ami cordially greeted his old com panion-in-arms. The two Generals dined together like old friends, and no doubt had many reminiscences to recall of scenes by Hood and field in auld lung syne,- Their interview was most geuial and pleasant, apparently, and wo believe that such meet ings go further to reunite tho late opposing sections than a thousand resolutions of wordy lenity. Sottt to bo Contented, The Lebanon Advertiser says that C. D. Gloninger gave notice, a week ago, to Mr. Cake, of his intention to contest liis election to Congress. Dr. G. bases his case upon numerous aud glaring frauds perpetrated in the election by the friends of Mr. Cake. From what we have learned we think the Dr. will have no difficulty whatever to show his legal election and right to the seat; and he would get it, too, if any justice were to be expected from the present or next Congress. The visitors to the comiugexposition at Paris next year—and they will no doubt be numerous—are, according to an exchange, to be congratulated upon the fact that every preparation is being made for their comfort. Among other things it is announced that the Prefect of the Seine, aware of the fact that crowds are liable to develop epidemics, has bought four hundred acres of land near Paris for the accommodation of foreigners’ bodies in the event of the reappearance of the cholera. The President has finished his Mes* sage and it is ready for delivery, v Tbe Democratic majority In tbe (Tnlon. Among other speakers at the Radical assemblages in Philadelphia last week was an honest Radical, H. B. Stanton. At a large meeting In National Hall he delivered an address, in which he thus , spoke of the relative strength of the two parties in the country: The recent election* show that in the free States, the Republicans were backed by a population of about eleven millions, while the Democrats were sustained by a popu lation of about nine millions. This gave the Republicans a majority of two millions of the people in the free States. In the slave States, excluding the negroes, and Judging by their latest elections, the Demo crats represent a population of about six and a half millions, while the Republicans are sustained by only a million and a half. This gave the Democracy a majority of five millions of people in the slave States. Thus, North and South, the Democrats represent ed fifteen and a half millions of the popu lation, and the Republicans twelve und a hulf millions, giving the former a majority of three millions. The Republican voters in the free States amount to two millions, while the Democratic voters number one million six hundred thousand, thus giving a Republican majority of four hundred thousand. In the slave States the Demo cratic vote is about eleven hundred thou sand, and the Republican two hundred thousand, thus giving a Democratic ma jority of nine hundred thousand. Thus, North and South, the Democrats had two million seven hundred thousand voters, and tbe Republicans two million two hun dred thousand, giving the former a majority of half a million. According to these figures it appears that the Democracy had (includ ing Southern negroes) a majority over the Republicans in the whole nation of three millions of people, and live hundred thou sand voters ; aud I hat nearly all the avail able political strength of the Republicans wus in the North, while that of the Demo crats was diffused in about equal propor tions over both North aud South. Now, he affirmed, that no .such sectional party could lour; maintain itself against such an antagonist. He insisted that the party was shut up to this policy, for it had little olse but negroes out of which to construct a large party in the South, and it could not long exist with out such a party. lie insistsd, also, that unless the party succeeded in soon en franchising the negroes, or in good faith promptly incorporating that measure into its creed as a condition of reconstruction there was almost a certainty thut it would he beaten in the next Presidential election , even though no voles wore counted besides those cf the twenty-six States now rep resented in Congress. Those States give 24(5 electoral votes, of which 124 are a ma jority. Of these, the Democrats were sure of Delaware, Murylund, Kentucky and Tennessee, ousting thirty-three votes, and leaving a deficit of niuety-one. The large States of New York, Pennsylvania and In diana, and the smaller States of Connecti cut, New Jersey, Nevada and Oregon give just ninety-one. At the last elections, these seven Slates cast less than f>O,UUU Republi can majority. A change of 24,<>ou or 2.*>,Oo<> votes, or one in eighty, would carry them over to the Democrats, and elect their Pres ident. So, a refusal of less than f>o,ooo Re publicans to vote the tickets would accom ' plish the same result. Fifty thousand! Why, so soon as the Republican party gave it to be dearly understood that it had ig nored negro suffrage, and turned its back upon this great reform, twice f>U,()OU Re publican voters in those seven States would ignore tlmt party, and turn their backs upon it, while in all the North the number would be at least a quarter of a million. Tlic JUist of the Revolution— Samuel Duun. Ah tho name of Charles Carroll, of Car rollton, became celebrated as the last oftho signers of tho Declaration of Independence, so will Samuel Dunn be illustrious as the last of tho pensioners—the Inst survivor of that generation of men who participated in the war of the American Revolution. Ninety-one years have passed since the Revolution commenced, and eighly-four years since it closed by the capitulation of Yorktown, in October, 17sl. The age of Mr. Dunn must be over one hundred years in order to have taken pari even in ils closing scenes. In order to realize the ex tent to which the life of Mr. Dunn has been prolonged, lot us consider a few facts. Tho men who are now in middle ago, and the most active in worldly uHairs, were taught in their youth of the marvelous ex ploits of Napoleon Bonaparte, whose fame had even then been |loug historical. Yet here is a man still among us who was born before the great Corsican came into being, who is older than him whoso fame the world was discovering seventy years ago. Wo conceive it to be an immense historical distance back to the reign of the great Frederick of Prussia, yet he was but in the zenith of his glory when this aged veteran was born. What national changes—what stupendous revolutions—what rise ami fall of Empires and dynasties—what extraordi nary discoveries in the arts and sciences, has it fallen to the lot of Mr. Dunn to bo eotemporary with. Tho mind ot the stu dent of history can hardly grasp them all in his thought, or span in imagination the stupendous chasm ofthe intervening years. Here is a man, who is still living, who is older thuu the Duke of Wellington, older than Andrew Jackson or John tptincy Adams, ami who is but ten years thejunior of Alexander Hamilton. It would have been possible for Mr. Dunn to have con versed with those who had been the lirst settlers- that landed in the United States at Plymouth or Jamestown. Such a fad shows the extreme brevity of our National history. All that has been done on the American continent has been within three such lives as that of this Revolutionary hero ! That epoch saw the first white man within those United States, saw the lirst Htroko ofthe axe against the lirst tree ofthe American forest. It is a solemn thought and reflection, that ofthe millions ol'livinp actors in these United States in the War ofthe Revolution, there is now but one solitary survivor. Less than a century will be sufficient to erase every living trace, every participant, in the struggle, and make it all rest entirely upon history and tradition.— <'incinnati Enquirer. The Recent Elections. The following is tho official vote for Con gressmen at large in Illinois: Logan, 203,- 343; Dickey, 147,138, Logan’s majority, 00,- 087. Logan’s vote exceeds Lincoln’s 13,000, while Dickey's lulls short of McClellan's 11,< r )7-. The vote in the'northern counties of the State, all of which are overwhelm ingly Republican, fell off fully one-quarter, while the vote in the central and southern portion of the Stato is fully one-quarter in excess of ISti-l. The aggregate vote for Congressmen li the five districts of Maine, at the late elec tion, was: Radical 08,714 ; Democratic -12, 20.7 ; Radieul majority 20,500. The following are the official figures o the vote of New York city at the late elec tion: Hoffman 50,(177; Fenton 33, 102; Dem ocratic majority •17,is,*i. The Radical majority in lowa at the late election, as officially announced, for Con gress, is 34,070, —a loss of-1,800 on Lincoln’s majority in 1804, which was 30,470. The result of the election iu New York foots up, (with six counties to hear from officially,) Fenton 300,030; Hoffman 334,- 300 ; Fenton's majority 14,330. The vote in all but three counties of Kan sas foots up: Radieul 15,772; Democratic 7,711. The total poll will be 27,000. The Western t orn Crop. Ingathering the corn crop of the West, the fad is revealed that Ihe damage sus tained by friMl and floods early in tho Au tumn, is much greater than had generally been expected. The Chicago Republican says: We have met and talked with farmers representing nearly the entire corn region affected by frost, and the unform testimony is that the crop is depreciated fully one third. Its value, if not the aggregate amount, is so depreciated. Development ceased with the coming of frost. Had the eorn been cut up prior to the frost, when in its growing state, and shoked, the result would have been different even with the succeeding wet. For then tho juices in the stalk would have been eliminated. Hut there was not sun enough afterward to do the work which must needs be done in order to give substance k> thekernel. Such is tho testimony of farmers. The great luet should not bo lost sight of, however, that the great breadth of ground seeded was in oxcess of that of any previous year, and that the damage* by frost and wet did not extend nearly over the great growing region. Worth of an American Hollar in Enjy It is not generally understood, nolwith- that has been written on the subject, 1 that United States currency will only sell by weight in London, and has no actual representative in any British coin. Jlow much an American dollar is worth in London may be told by taking an eagle to a builionist and selling it for its weight in gold. Divided by ten, the quotient is the Erice. But eagles vary in weight, some eing more worn than others ; and the price varies a trifle with the demand for bullion, and the quantity and quality of the coinage. The value of new double eagles, fresh from the Mint,is more than that of worn pieces; and when a large amount is melted to gether the refiner extractsalittlesilverafter separating the gold from the alloy, and this increases the nett result. How many eagles must be shipped at any American seaport to pay their own expenses, and a given sum in dollars at London, where the coin can only be tendered by weight of pure gold, depends, in addition to the freshness of the coin itself, on the cost ot freight, the rate of insurance, and the amouut of commission exacted by the London agent for attending to the business. When the inquiry is ex tended, and the exact equivalent of a quo tation for sterling exchange is sought for, there must be taken into the account, in addition to all the above contingencies, the rate of interest at London, as current ex change is payable in sixty-day bills, and the discount lor ready money is part of the calculation. All tins seems very mysterious to those who are unaccustomed to the cal culation. Particulars of tbe Shooting of Two Offi cers of Colored Troops by each Other— Jealousy, and Murder. [Prom the Louisville Journal, Nov. 10,1 A correspondent at Fort Craig, New Mexico, whose letter was written on the Ist Inst., sends us the particulars of a most shocking affair that took place between two officers ofthe One Hundred and Twenty fifth U. S. Col. troops, a regiment which|was recruited In Kentucky in the seeing of 1865, and which was sent out to the Territory of New Mexico lust summer, where it is now doing duty. One of the parties, First Lieu tenant John F. Warner, had been for some time suspicious that improper intimacy ex isted between his wife—wtyo has been with him nearly ever since he has joined the regiment—and another first lieutenant (Fred. Haselhurst). He finally became so confirmed in his suspicions and dissatisfied that he peremptorily turned his wife away, and instituted proceedings for a divorce. This was a little over two weeks ago, ot Fort Selden, New Mexico. His wife thus left to herself, appealed to the generosity of the officers at the post for a sum of money sufficient to cover the expenses ofajourney back to Kentucky. She was a native of Lexington, Ky., where, if we are not mis taken, she has a parent or parents. She has friends also in Louisville, and intended to make that her place of abode. She suc ceeded in raising the necessary amount of funds, and left Fort Selden about two weeks ago, civ route , by coach, fortheStates, shaking off the dust ot her feet against “Johnny,” and breathing parting regrets lor the more favored “ Fred.” No sooner had she left, however, than frequent letters began to piefi* between her self and Haselhurst. Warner, stung with jealousy, was on the qui vive , and Tuesday, October 26, just before the departure of the Northern mail succeeded in getting access to the mail-bag, in which he found three letters directed to “Mrs. Julia Warner.” These he opeued and found to be very glowing love-breathing missives, written by Lieutenant Fred. Haselhurst. Shortly after it being nearly dinner time, he (War ner) stationed himself at a point near which the officers usually passed on their way to the mess-room, armed with three or four well-loaded pistols and a bowie-knife. It was not long before Haselhurst came along when Warner confronted him withadrawn revolver and demanded, “What do you write letters to my wife for?” and there upon immediately discharged his revolver, the charge taking effect in Haselhurst’s body just below tho lower ribs. The wound was helplessly fatal, but Haselhurst, not at once disabled, retreated luto the quarters of the commanding officer of the post, which were near uthand, pursued by War ner, who continued to fire at him, though it seems without effect. Two or three shots were thus fired inside the room when llusel hurst spruug upon Warner and succeeded in wresting away oneofhis revolvers. Thus armed Haselhurst took deliberate aim and shot Warner directly through the heart as the latter was standing outside tho door preparing another pistol for firing. Warner staggered forward, drew his bowie knife, struck it two or three times in tho side of the adobe building, and fell dead upon tho spot. Haselhurst only survived him a few hours; ami now they sleep side by side far away from their homes each, through tho influence of base passion, the other’s de stroyer. Warnor was about twenty-eight years old. At the time of his death he was Acting- Assistant- Quartermaster at Fort Selden. lie was native of Kentucky. His father was Colonel of oneofthe Union, Ky., regiments for a period during the war. Mrs. Warner has a child about a year and a half old, which she took with her on her journey. What her feelings must bo when | she learns the horrid result of her miscon duct may be imagined. McNHitgc ol' the Governor of North ('aro< Ralkioit, N. C., Nov. 20. —Governor Worth’s message has been sent to the Legis lature. Afterdiscussing purely local affairs and the hopeful aspect, he then declares that law anil order exists ut all points ofthe State, and that the civil authorities are udequulo for the* punishment of all offenders. The courts are in operation effectively, and justice is met'd out to men of all colors. He opposes in gro suffrage and the consti tutional amendments, and recommends tho Northern States to encourage the diffusion of freodmen in their midst. Unsays every thing seems to invito immigration to the dominant States, but most oft; e freedmen are too poor to pay the expenses of moving thither; but this difficulty may be over come, lie thinks, by diverting the appropri ation to sustain the Freedmen’s Bureau to the defraying ofthe expenses of those who may choose to move. Each one to choose tho State or Territory to which he would go. When thus left free ami aided to go where they may think their condition will be bet tered, no ground will be left for further sec tional strife as to their government. The Military and civil authorities in tho State are harmonious. The balance of the message is devoted to tho consideration of measures for the sup pression of crime and pauperism, taking care of the poor, apprenticing negro children. Ho also refers to the election of United States Senators, the Military Academy and other matters. W. E. Bell has been re-elected State printer by both branches of the Assembly !>y a large majority. Alabama. The message of Governor Patton to the Legislature of Alabama, a brief summitry of which has been received by telegraph, is a straightforward statement of affairs in that State. The total bonded debt of Ala bama is $5,079,695.55, which the Governor thinks is small enough “to entitle her to as much public confidence as is enjoyed by any State in the Union." The message tidies strong ground against tho lux on cot ton of three cents a pound as not only a burden upon the planters, but “a mutnli cont bounty ruthlessly wrung from the hurd-onrnings of tho toiling freedmen." In regard to the freedmen, tho maintains that the laws enacted for their protection, nnd awarding them greater privileges than they once possessed, have, in tho main, operated satisluctorily; it sug gests, further, thut llu* revenue derived from taxes upon freedmen, or a portion of it, might be applied to the education of their children, and the support of the aged, in digent, and infirm among them. < Jovernor Patton urgently recommends the rejection of tho constitutional amendment as sub versive ofthe State system of judiciary, as disfranchising a large portion of the South ern people, and vacating nearly all the offices in most of the States now unrepre sented in Congress. Driving Out the Devil. 'lhe Sacramento (California) lire, of October lbth, says: “The Chinese popula tion of this city are troubled in mind, and for that reason some of their prominent men to-day submitted to the board of trus tees a document, of which tins is a copy : ‘To the Honorable the President and the Board of Trustees of the City of Sacramento —The undersigned, residents of the city of Sacramento, pray your honorable board to grant them promission to Imrn firyeruckors and otherwise celebrate, in accordance with the customs of their native country, for the period of three days, for the purpose of driving the devil from the city, and par ticularly from that portion of it occupied by til ■ Chinese. (Signed.) Sacramento, Oct. Hi, 180(3.” The temple for the orgies js being arranged, and the three days’ per formance will protmbly commence towards the end of the week.” The Tempornl Power of the Pope. Krdan, correspondent of the Paris Temps at Florence, confirms the report that an arrangement is contemplated by which the various powers arc to guarantee to the P"pt* a small portion of the territory which he still retains, lie says: “A great many people are convinced, and iho Homan (rev olutionary) committee and the Italian gov ernment, among others, that the only prac tical settlement of tho dillicully is to leave the Pope the absolute sovereignty over the Leoline City ami a strip of territory, ex cluding Civita Vccchia, but including the port of Palo. According to this plan all that part of Home on the left bank of the Tiber and the Traslcvere, as far as the gate of Porto Santo Spirilo, would become ex clusively Italian. The Leoline City is walled in. and the Pope could thus feel himself at home.” The JlclliodlMt centenary Fitu. Snow to the Fulled States Senate to bn illegal, and tin seat vacant. A new election was to be held on [he 2<>lh hist. Admiral Raphael Semtncs, late of tin* confederate navy, lias accepted tho chair of Professor of Moral Philosophy ami English Literature in tin* Louisiana HtnteSuminnry, at Alexandria. Three thousand mineral specimens have been collected in California for tho Paris Exposition. The project for sending a sec tion ofu big In-e of < ’nluveras has b‘*en near ly abandoned. Jack Hamilton's Texas organ-tho Gul veston Unlli'tin Ims declared against uni versal or qualified sutl'rnge. This about ends all there was of the Huilical party in tho Lone Star State. Olio thousand stand of arms—Peabody breech-loaders—have been purchased by tho Canadian Government for the volun teers, and are now being distributed among tho different artillery and cavalry corps. The Hadind Union Stale Committee of Louisiana lias issued an address, denoun cing the President and asking Congress to establish a provisional government, with negro suffrage, in Louisiana. A draft of a bill to equalize and reduce internal taxation, prepared bv Special Re venue Commissioner Wells, will lie sub mitted to Congress with the Secretary of the Treasury's annual report. Gen. Dtidrey, now in command at Vicks burg, Miss., attended a dinner recently given by tin.* merchants of that city, and gave as a sentiment: “ The conservative element of the country—the lighting men ol both armies.” A movement is reported to be on foot ilk Missouri, headed by the Government and other prominent Radicals, to secure the rejection of the Constitutional!Amendment ; also of the bill giving the suffrage alike to negroes and ex-rebels. The Chicago Journal says: Senator Trumbull is generally understood to he a candidate for re-election. General John A. Logan’s friends intend to push his claims for the suceessorship, and < Jovernor < igles hy*s friends an* likewise active in his la hid f. It is reported at the Treasury Department that tho smuggling operations on the Cana dian frontier, which were actively carried on during the past spring and summer, have nearly ceased, and those on the Rio Ciande n\.-r an- hemming highly dung.-r- Gcneral John A. Sutter, tho California pioneer, is now in Washington endeavoring to gel a claim against the government allowed. It will he remembered that it was upon the general’s farm that gold was tirst discovered in California. A Dubuque merchant, named Edgur Tisdale, disappeared some time since, and the Dubuqe journals laid him robbed and murdered in Chicago. Mr. Tisdale’s body has lately been found in Lake Michigan, near New Casco, Allegan county, a point Opposite Chicago, and about forty miles to the north. Wool is “ down.” The price in this State and Vermont is about lifly-five cents, and the market is dull at that price. Farmers who refused one dollar and sixty-live cents per-pound in |SO4 und 18<>5, now realize what the proverb means about “going for wool, and coming borne shorn.” This Government has received no posi tive information from England of the de termination of the British Cabinet in rela tion to the Alabama claims, nor has any confirmation or denial of the statements imputed by the cable to have been made by Lord Stanley in the matter been re ceived. Secretary Stanton bus appointed Colonel W. H. Stewart, W. Flynn and Washington A. Miller, of Cecil county, a commission to. awurd compensation to loyul slave owners of Maryland whose slaves were drafted into the army during thewur. The commission is created under the act of Congress passed, last session. Tho receipts of cotton at all the southern ports since September Ist, the opening of tho cotton year, amount to 330,000 bales, against 450,000 balesduring the same period in 18(35, showing a decrease in less than ten months of 120,000 bales. The exports from Mobile and New Orleans during the week were 13,000 bales, chiefly to Great Britain. Hon. John Morrissey say that he is pre~ pared to spend $lO,OOO to elect Mr. Greeley to the United States Senate, as there is no possible show for a Democrat, and Horace having been his frieud through good and evil reports, he considers it hisdutynow.as Greeley needs assistance, to stretohforth liis band and his purse to aid u friend, though a political foe. Colonel John Hay, Secretary of Legation at Paris, has sent In his resignation. His successor has not been appointed. Probu bly General Dix. the newly appointed Min-, ister to France, aesires the retention of Col* Hay. Major Wickham Hofljnan, of New York, son of Ogden Hoffman, has gone to. Paris as Assistant Secretary of Legation* He may succeed Colonel Ray,