WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26,1866 Tne printing premies snail be free to every person who undertakes to examine the pro> oeedlngs of the-lagislatnre. or branon ox government; and no law shall ever be made to restrain tne right thereof. The free commu nication of thought and opinions is one or tne invaluable 'rights of men: and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any sub >|eot; being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions fu the publication of papers Investigating theofhc*- /conduct of offi cers, or men In publio capacities, or where the matter published la proper for publio Informa tion, the truth thereof may be given tn evi dence." In order that all hands In the In telligencer office may enjoy the fes tivities of Christmas, we put our weekly edition to press on Monday instead of Tuesday evening. It will be found none the leas full of interesting reading mat ter on that account. Christmas, Christmas comes in midwiuter, ajoy ous holiday in the dreariest season of the year. That very circumstance has given to it a universal popularity among Christian nations dwelling in Northern latitudes that attaches to no other fes tive occasion. Belonging exclusively to no people, beiDg observed as the great holiday of the year, wherever the religion of Christ prevails, it has always been held especially sacred by the Saxon race and their descendants. In Germany and England, where home ties were closer aud more enduring than elsewhere, it was from early days the great annual holiday, sanctified by religion and passed in mirthful pleasure by the entire people. Nor is it strange that Christmas should have been made the most noted and universally ob served festival among Christian nations. The associations connected with it are of a character calculated to iuspire emotions of profound gratitude and to arouse feelingsof rapturous joy. Being most sacred in its origin, it has never been divested of Us religious character. The early founders of the Church, (uot having learned from Christ or his im mediate disciples any of the harsh dogmas that have made the creed of some modern sects repulsive to even the purest human natures) made of Christ mas a joyous festival and taught the people to observe it. It was held to he a sacred season, and the Church then bent all her energies to attract to he*' embrace the body of the people. Much oalbedral ami every rhappel was taste fully decorated for the occasion, and sacred music of a joyous character greet ed the dawning of the day on which “ Christ, the Lord was born.” It was universally regarded as a holy time, a period in which all good inlUicnces pre vailed. Home .say that cwr, 'gsuust u,at season coni s Whuivin our Saviour's birth is celebrate, The bird of dawulng singrlli all uiglit long ; And then, they say, no spirit walks abroad ; Tlit* nights an- wnolesoin.-; then no planets strike; No lulry takes, no witch hall) power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious Is the lime." In England Christmas has always been celebrated with especial reverence aud the most unbounded popular favor. Who is there that docs not recall with each recurring season the ancestral glories of a genuine Christ mas? For well our t’hnsuan sires of old Loved when tin* year its course had rolled, And brought blithe C ristmus back again, Willi all its hospitable train. Domestic and religious rite Gave honor to the holy night (in c rist mas eve Ihe hells were t uni* i )n Christmas eve the mass was sun-;; That only night, in all the year. Haw Die st-.led priest,the < hallce roar. The damsel donned her kirtle sheen The hull was dressed with holly green Fot t It i o the Wood did merry men f»o To gather in the mistletoe ; Then opened wide the baron's hall To vassal, tenant, serl, and all; Power laid his rod of rule asi Aud ceremony doited Ins pride Theh ir, wnn roses In his shoes, That uiglit might village partner ehons, The lorn unueroy Unix, share Tue une of " post and pair." All hulled, with uncontrolled ueligld And general voice, the happy nil'll!., i'hul to the cottage, as the crown, Brought tidings wf salvation down, Who has not in imagination set down at one of Liie long oaken tables in some baronial hall of the oldim time, \vln*n at the Christmas fra.q “no mark parted squire or lord?” Who has not sipped from the wassail bo»vl steaming with itfl fragraut beverage, while the yule log burnt on the hearth and the huge Christmas caudle liglited up the merry hi'eno that made every old English homestead re-echo with merry shout aud cheerful laughter? Who has not listened to the many gibes, aud witness ed the grotesque antics of the Lord of Misrule, or joined in the romping round dances of a century ago, aud snatched a kiss from willing lips beneath the mistletoe bough ? In short, who is there that has not sighed for the glad and full liearted festivities of an old time Eng lish Christmas? , In this country Christmas has never been fully observed, except in the South. The self-righteous Puritans who settled New England thought it a sin to be glad; and they established Thanksgiving day, with long sermons in unadorned churches, as their annual holiday. Thru Jedediah drove the wagon in which he had been peddling ligneous hanis ami wooden nutmegs back to the old barn yard, Jerusha Jane came home with her children and the whole family sat down with long faces to feed on pumpkin pie. The Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam made New Year's day the great annual holiday of New York. In Pennsylvania Christ mas has always been honored ; hut it was never celebrated with an approach to old English heartiness except at the South. There the holidays began the day before Christmas and lasted until the day after New Year. None but the most necessary work was done, and the time was given up to universal fes tivity. The household slaves took turns at their labors, and were paid double wages and given the same number of days holiday at otherperiods during the year. No one who spent a Christmas in the South before the war, could have failed to be struck by the joyous revels of the entire black population. They always had plenty of money for Christ mas, aud, as they were provided by their masters with all the necessaries of life, their savings went to provide luxu ries for their tables and adornments for their persons. From farand ueargucsts assembled at the old family mansions throughout the South, anti the Christ mas board of the planter groaned be neath the sumptuous fare. There was music and dancing, and a round of visits throughout the neighborhood for miles about. The descendants of English ancestors in the South kept up the good old Christmascustoms, as there fathers had done before them. Now all is much changed in that see- tion, and Christmas will never again he what it was prior to the war. A reverence for the day seems, how ever, to beextendingamong iihthrough out the whole country in spite of the materialistic tendency of the times. There is scarcely a house in the Jam! in which the German (’hristmas tree will not bear its load of tempting fruit, scarcely a hearth thatwill not bo visited by that generous patron of all children, Santa Claus, and, we hope, but few tables which will not be graced by the traditional turkey, which has taken the placeof honor accorded to the boar's head of our ancestors. No marvel Christmas lives so long, He never knew but merry hours; His ulghis were speutwlth mirth aud song, In happy homes and princely bowers; Was greeted both by serf and lord, And seated at the festive board; While every voice cried u Welcome here,” Old Christmas comes but once a year. We sincerely hope our patrons, one and all, may enjoy to the fullest extent all the pleasures of this festive occasion. To rich and poor, to young and old, to every one, and to all alike we wish A merry Christmas. \We earnestly pray that the hearts of all in the nation, even the hearts of Radical politicians, may be softened and touched by the spirit of kindness and charity that should prevail during this sacred season, aud that all may be willing to exclaim : “ Let furious discord cease ; Be peace in earth before the Prince of Peace." A Bill to Territorialize Maryland. The State of Maryland having freed itself from the trammels of an infamous minority is the object of especial hatred on the part of the Radical Disunioniats in Congress. that these min ions can never regain power in that State by the ballot-box, the RumpCun* gress is seriously contemplating the en tire destruction of the State Govern ment. The old malignant, Frank Thomas, is said to have prepared a bill “ to guarantee a Republican jorm of government to Maryland/ 1 ” That is the high sounding title by which the Disunioniats designate what would be despotism pure and simple. The bill, as prepared, is said to be so framed as to deprive white men of the elec tive franchise and to confer it on all the negroes of the State. It is of a piece with Thaddeus Stevens’ bill for reducing all the States of the South to a territorial condition. Should such a thing be attempted, we hope the people of Maryland will stand firmly by their indisputable rights, and refuse to recognize the despotic rule of a set of men who have no more right to dictate to one State than to all the rest. Such a procedure would involve the destruc tion of the very form of free government, and no patriotic citizen could stand by and see the outrage perpetrated, with out lending ull his energies to preventit. There must be an end of Radical usurpation somewhere. It cannot be permitted to proceed unchecked. If the representatives of a minority faction persist in their revolutionary course they must iuevitably precipitate a con flict that .will bring with it a day of retribution, in which the outrages they perpetrated will be fully and ter ribly avenged. Tlie County Tax Tin* County Commissioners on Mon day last, our citizens will be startled to learn, raised the county tax from three mill* on the dollar, which'has been the assessment for many years past, to live milts on the dollar. They assign no reason for this very extraordinary act ? except that they are anxious to pay off the county indebtedness. Now, the county debt was principally created by the building of the Court House, and was being gradually liquidated under the tax of three mills. The credit of the county has always stood high, be cause of the conservative manner in which Us finances have heretofore gen erally been administered. It has been able to borrow all the money it wanted at low rates of iuterest —A to o per cent. —and lias generally had much more offered to it at those rates than it was able to take. Our fanners have thus had an investment afforded to them at rates of interest which were satisfactory to them, and the people of the county have hud the advantage of a loan ob tained at lower rates than ang individual in tin* county could have got it. May we not naturally inquire why, under these circumstances, it is consid ered advisable to pay olf the debt rapidly under an assessment of five mills, when heretofore we have been diminishing it, though mure slowly, under an assessment of three mills? We are now enduring an extraordi narily heavy taxation, in endeavoring to provide means for the liquidation of National, School and Bounty debts. Why then should we, at this particular juncture, be still more heavily bur thened for the purpose of paying at oner, an old imlebtednessof the county, which is not pressing for immediate payment, ami which bears upon us so lightly ? Can any one tell us why ? The reason assigned for their action by the Commissioners seems to us so insufficient *aud so unwise, that we cannot unhesitatingly accept it as the motive for their conduct. Parties well posted in regard to the matter assign another aud very different reason for this sudden and unnecessary advance in the rate of taxation. Before making public facts which have come to our knowledge, we prefer to give the Com missioners a chance to explain their action. The people will insist that the explanation shall be clear apd satis factory. The Missouri War. The Radicals managed to carry tb e State of Missouri at the recent election only by a resort to tbe basest frauds and the grossest outrages upon the ballot box. In some districts, however, even those who took the “ iron-clad oath,” aud complied with all the requirements of the infamous registration law of the State, refused to support the Radical candidates, ami Conservative men were elected. Finding the triumph incom plete, Governor Fletcher, one of the basest wretches ever foisted upon any people as a ruler, proceeded to organize his agencies with the design of forcing into power his minions who had been rejected at the ballot-box. It would have been strange, indeed, if such out rages should have failed to provoke re monstrance aud to arouse resistance. Finding that the people were not will ing to submit quietly to tbe outrages he was perpetrating, he ordered out the militia to sustain his underlings in their usurpations. Men were found willing to enter his service, and, as all the arms in the State were at his disposal, Gov ernor Fletcher seemed likely to meet with comparatively little opposition. Fortunately the President has ordered 'Gen. Grant to proceed to Missouri and investigate the condition of affairs. It seems that Fletcher lias become alarmed since the arrival of the Commauder-in- Chief at St Louis. He is outranked, ami oilier troops than his “ papaw militia” are likely to be introduced into the Slate. Fletcher has appealed to Conirress. The New York Tribune he telegraphed to Senator Heuderson, “ Dial u considerable force of United Stale* troop*, had recently been ordered into the State withouthis recommenda tion or knowledge, and that lie knew of no necessity forsm-h order.” The Radi cal Senator called the attention of his Radical associates in Congress to the matter, but as Gen. Grant, was under stood to have ordered the movement of the troops, the valiant Jladi<-ai H did not take any decided action. The country expects General Grant to do bis whole duty in the matter, and the people will applaud him if he does. There is no doubt that the grossest outrages have been perpetrated by Fletcher. He Ims taken the war-path in earnest, and his rnilitiaare engaged in shooting down peaceable citizens because they differ with him politically. The matter not only demands investigation, but prompt ami decided action on the part of Gen. Grant. The mad fanatic who exercises the functions of Governor of Missouri should be disarmed at once. The Doylestown Democrat i n notio ing the call for the Boys in Blue to a 8 Bemble at Harrisburg to witness the in auguration of Governor Geary, asks whether Geary will care about seeing the “ boys in blue” whom he denounced as “shysters, cowards and hospital bummers.” We should think ijot, Why Clothing is so Dear. Everybody musthaveelotbing. There is no living in this latitude without a protection against the severity of the season. \Vith winter we must all have woollen garmeu is. The iaboriug man needs them, his wife needs them, and his children must all have them. Since the terrible inflation of prices there has been universal complaint in regard to the high price of clothing. The rich have felt tlie increased tax upon their purses, and the poor have been com pelled to deprive themselves of neces sary articles of dress. Lately there has been a fall in i he price of wooileu goods, l and ail classes were rejoiced at the pros" pect of securiug cheap clothing once more. The monopolists had received a blow from which it was sincerely hoped they would not be able to recover. The masses were not sorry to hear them grumbling about the fall in cloths, cas simeres, flannels aud all the fabrics which go to make up the wardrobe of every family. Ouecorrespondeutofthe New York Tribune, the owner of large woollen mills, writes to that paper that he is now selling cassimeres for §l.lO which a year ago brought $2.23 per yard. Of course lie wants tob against this fall in prices. They all do. Every one of these manufacturers is eager to filch a dollar ayard, orapropor tionate sum, off* the purchaser of auy woolen fabric. Wliat do they care if the laboring man is prevented from hav ing a decent coat to his back, or that his children are left tosliiverin the cold for want of clothing to keep them warm. In the estimation of these mill owners it is the duly of Congress to legislate in the interests of the capitalists of the country. The poor may be left in rags and naked ness, but they must have huge profits on their goods. The Wash ington correspondent of the N. Tri bune says: The Fiuance Committee of the Senate will remain here during ibu adjournment of Congress lor the holidays, tor the purpose, mainly, of considering tlie Turiti. Already there is a considerable delegation here re presenting tlie woolen interest, which, it appears, demands a protection ot -0 per cent, eleur ufthe live percent, lax and duty on the raw material. Do the laboring classes suppose the present - Congress will refuse to take good care of the manufactur ers? If they do they have not kept themselves posted. The man ufacturers of New England can drive any bill through Congress which they may desire. That, body, as at present composed, is completely under the con trol of tlie Yankee States. Tlie woollen manufacturers will get their “ twenty per cent, clear of Jive per cent, tax and duty on ran' material.” They have the money, and can control legislation as they desire. Who cares for the laboring classes? Not the men now in power. They go on the principle of giving the rich manulacturers all they ask; and then they prate to the laboring men of the country abouL the advantages of a high taritl'. How much longer will tlie masses allow themselves to be saddled with heavy burthens, in order that a set of grasping monopolists may roll in wealth and revel in luxury —that they and their families may dress in the most costly fabrics, rustle in silks and glitter with diamonds, while the laboring man goes to his work in patched and thread bare garments, leaving his children to shiver at home in raj£s? Isn’t it about time there was soiu/* legislation for tlie benefit of the laboring classes? We will have cheap olothing, both woolen and cotton, when'the Radical Yankees of New England cease to control Con gress, and not before. They are ready enough to spend millions to keep ne groes in idleness, but they first wring it all out of tin* pockets of the laboring white men. The Supreme Court. Forney, immediately after the deeisiou of the Supreme Court was rendered, ad judging the military tribunals which domineered over us during the war to be unconstitutional, called upon Con gress to interfere. A day or two after the New York Jfcrald bad a most in famous article, proposing a plan for packing tbe Supreme Court with Radi cals who would decide questions ac cording to the dictates of supposed party necessities regardless of the law of the laud. Fortunately for the people no such outrage can be perpetrated at present. Congress at its last session passed an act reducing the number of Associate Justices from ten to six ; but, inasmuch as the Constitution, though not specifying the number of which the Supreme Court shall be composed, declares that the Judges thereof shall hold their offices during life or good be havior, the only way in which the law passed could be made applicable was by directing that no new nominations should be made to fill vacancies until tbe prescribed diminution was accom plished. The number of Judges cannot be lessened, therefore, except by the death or resignation of some of the present members; and Congress will hardly have the audacity to repeal the law passed at the last session and to pass one enabling them to increase the num ber. If they aid, the right to nominate would still remain in the President under the provision of the Constitution, and, as he would designate conserva tive men, the .Senate would either have to confirm his nominations or permit the Court to remain as at present constituted. But for the existence of these seemingly insur mountable obstacles, we might expect to see the fanatical destructives in Con gress attempt to pack the Supreme Court of the United States with a set of itinerant and mercenary Yankee school-masters, such as Underwood. It may be the people will yet realize tbe fact that the Constitution framed by tbe Fathers of the Republic is of some worth after ail. The Suffrage Bill. Tbe new suffrage bill for the District of Columbia has not been presented to the President for his signature, and it is said will not be until some lime in the recess. If sent before the com mencement of the recess, its advocates think it might be lost under the clause of tbe constitution which provides : “ Lf any bill shall not be returned by tbe President within ten days,Sunday excepted, after it. shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like munner as if ho had signed it, unless the Congress, b} r their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.” By keeping the bill back until tkere cess, Congress will be in session again before tbe expiration of the ten days al lowed for consideration. A Columbia correspondent of the Express took the pains to send that paper a lengthy report of a lecture de livered by the veritable “ Spanish Cre ole” whom we reported at length ver- IxLiiin d. literatim. The reporter of the Kxpn.HH and another attache of that paper were present at tbe lecture in this city. I’he Express didnotdeign to report the speech made here, and de clines to print what was sent to it from Columbia. Since the “ Creole ” gentle man left Columbia lie has turned up at Harrisburg. The Telegraph gave him the following complimentary notice: The “ Spanish Creole " will lecture at the African M. E. Ciiurch this evening We know nothing of him except thuthe refused to pay his bill for printing done at this office. We hope Signor Chaross did not serve our neighbor the same scurvy trick. It may be that accounts for the failure of Jbe Express to report his lecture. General Grant not Loyal, The Harrisburg Telegraph , the cen tral organ of the Republican party of Pennsylvania, makes a direct and most decided attack upon the loyally of Gen. Grant. It reads him a lecture after the following fashion: The public has been much disappointed and outraged by the knowledge that General Grant has seen fit to endorse the application for pardon of one of the most desperate traitors whose hands are stained with the blood of loyal men. Gen. Grant has certi fied Lo the honor of the rebel Gen. Pickett. We cannot imagine by. what standard of honor low beloved hero of the war for tlje Union, measures the deservings of a man who hung men during the war because ihey would not renounce their allegiance to the national authority ; who tired the bousas of Union citizens, aud sent their families to wander as vaga bonds, because their protectors were in the federal armies. Is this the honor which Gen. Grant esteems? Suppose Pickett could have reached Grant's house, andsup pose he would have burned it over the heads of Mrs. Grant and her children, and cast its hot ashes after that lady us she fled to escape its flames, would Gen. Grant have endorsed this as an honorable act? Gen. Grant surely has not forgotten, because he, best of all other men in the country, had a knowledge of the fact, that Pickett belonged to a class of men who entered on rebellion not so much to vindicate their political “ rights” as to satisfy their personal spite ; yet Grant claims that Pickett should not be punished because his punishment will do no good to the surviving friends of the peo ple he murdered. We deplore thut one so high in honor as Gen. Grant should be so far in error as to what is due to a traitor. We do uot suppose General Grautever sees the Telegraph. If he does, he might be led to ask who the men are who thus assail him. We can imagine the proud scorn with which he would learn that neither the ostensible owner of the concern, nor any of his hired scribblers, eversaw a rebel, except when they could view them safely as prison ers; that they sneaked out of all lia bility to military duty by pleading age, sickness, or some one of the other ex cuses by which nearly every loud mouthed brawler iu this State kept his carcass out of dauger. When such puuy wretches as thema lignaut vipers who own aud control the Telegraph undertake to read General Grant a lecture on loyalty (!) they must uecessarily disgust even theirown party friends. General Grant was right in his action in regard to General Picket, right iu law, right in point of military honor, right in principle and right in policy. His position before thecouutry is such that he can afford to be independent; and he has administered several most severe rebukes to tile miserably malig nant wretches who are daily doing all they can to keep alive a spirit of ani mosity between the two sections of our country. General Grant looks at public affairs from tlie standpoint of an honor able and successful soldier. He is ready to stand by tlie terms on which he ac cepted tlie surrender of the Southern armies. We do not, therefore, wonder he should call down on his head the maledictions of such foul sheets as the Harrisburg Telegraph. There is not an individual connected with that establishment who is capable of appre ciating a noble sentiment or of compre hending a generous, manly action. The Supreme Court Decision In the Cab* At the Cabinet meeting ou Friday last tin* subject of trials by military commissions was considered, the case of IS. Watson having been brought to tlie notice of the Government through Gov. Letcher, of Virginia, who came to Washington to obtain a revocation of the order convening the military com mission to try Watson. Tlie President and members of the Cabinet, in view of tlie recent decision of the Supreme Court, determined that no more trials of civilians shall he had before military tribunals upon auy pretence, aud the Secretary of War was advised to issue au order to the military commanders accordingly, with instructions to them, also, that when they make arrests of civilians upon any grounds whatever, they shall report the matter to the War Department iustauter, and await in structions therefrom before proceeding further. No doubt a great howl will be raised by the Radicals in Congress over this matter, immediately upon the reassem bling of that body. The masses will, however, thank the Supreme Court for its righteous decission, aud the Presi dent and his Cabinet for their prompt compliance therewith. Tbe Supreme Court is all that now stands between us aud the most irresponsible despotism, it will be sustained iu its action by a vast majority of the American people irrespective of party. Assailing the Supreme Court. Forney, having assailed the Supreme Court of the United States in the mosj; violent terms in his Washington ('hronicle, telegraphed liis editorial home to the Press. The interference of Con gress is threatened because the Judges decided the case of Milligan against the theories of the Radicals aud in accord ance with the constitution and laws of the land. Forney’s attack is not only violent, it is vindictive aud indecent. He declares that “treason has at last found a secure shelter” in the Supreme Court of the United States. The line of demarcation between the revolutionary Radicals and the true friends of the country is daily becoming more distinctly marked. If the masses are not utterly blinded they must soon discover that our free institutions will be completely destroyed by tbe fa natics now in power, uuless they are checked. Even the Supreme Court of the United States will be made subject to the will of a crazy Congress if these destructives have their way. It is stated that the Presidency of the Union Pacific Railroad, made vacant by the resignation of General Dix, will be offered to Chief Justice Chase. He seems to be using the high office he now holds merely as a means to ingratiate himself into the favor of Radical poli ticians, with the hope of being nomi nated for President. He is utterly un fit in every respect to preside in the Su preme Court of the United States. The country would be glad to learn that he had resigned and accepted the Presi" deucy of the Pacific Railroad. He may be fit for some such position. We hope he will see the propriety of ceasing to disgrace the nation, and get off' the bench of the Supreme Court ay speedily as possible. Colonel ForneUs “Hari-Kari.’ 1 The Harrisburg correspondent of the Pittsburg Gazette (Radical) does not give Colonel Forney great credit for re tiring from the Senatorial contest. He takes our view of the act—that it was dictated by a consciousness of the utter failure of Forney to secure any votes. He says: Yesterday’s Philadelphia Press contained the withdrawal of Colonel Forney from the Senatorial canvass. I do not mean £> joke at the gallant Colonel’s expense when! say that no event has yet transpired since the contest began, which has had less effect on the result. I state but the simple fact. Col. Forney has had his canvass for the Sena torial office more completely in his own hand than any man probably who ever en tered the political arena. He nominated himself in a speech at Lebanon some six months ago; he owned the only newspa pers which urged his claims; he remained before the Legislature as a candidate with out a single supporter in that body; and now abandons the fight without affecting the relative strength of those gentlemen whose names are mentioned in connection with the office. No act of political hari kari, so startlingly unproductive of bowels, has ever occurred in Pennsylvania. There was absolutely nothing in the man (Sena torially speaking) to let out. A Word of Warning. The Pittsburg Commercial, an able Radical newspapers, and one represent* lug the business interests of Western Pennsylvania, has a word of warning which is decidedly sighificant. One by one the Radical newspapers of the country are cautioning their readers against the mushroon prosperity which grew up to such gigantic proportions during the war. They admit that it caunot be expected to prove lasting, and cautiously warn their readers to prepare fortheiinpendingfinancial crash, which must inevitably come unless a wise policy prevails. The Commercial says : There are reasons—strong ones we think —for believing that a change of times in business matters are not far off. The indi cations are too pluin to be mistaken. It is contrary to all history and experience, that the business condition that accompanies war should continue in a state of peace. The inevitable change has, in our case, been delayed by causes that are known, and that must ere Tong cease to operate. Toe un usual demand for labor and manufactured goods is slacking off by supply. Prices of commodities have declined, wages of labor will decline by the same law. We, therefore, along with this word of friendly warning, earnestly counsel all persons receiving wages to take the best possible care of what they earn, to avoid unnecessary expenses, and, if need be, to take less pay rather than not have a place of regular employment. Should the ex tensive works of this manufacturing region be constrained to stop, as they must if they cannot be continued without serious loss, the men will be best off wbo have laid up something from former earnings, for the support o f themselves and families A bet ter time it would be, of course, if the busi ness of manufacturers should not be inter rupted, but as things are, that is, with de clining prices ‘of the products of labor, while the wages of labor are kept up, the burden falling wholly on the proprietors of the works, is heavier than they are disposed or able to bear. Hard times may be safely considered as impending. They might, in some degree, be warded off by a general willingness to accoimnodade business and prices to the peace standard. If any large class stand out aga’iist the umivoidubletendency, they may hasten the crisis, but caunot escape its consequences when they come. Labor and capital will both feel the change. By just and reasonable accommodations they may make it much less severe. At any rate, we advise all to be industrious, to livefrugally, to prepare for hard times. Thus, if not able to ward them off, they will be in the better condition to weather them through. Negroes Sent North. The Washington correspondentof the New York Tribune says about To freed men are sent North weekly by Briga dier General Charles H. Howard, As sistant Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau for the District of Columbia, and proper homes provided for them, where they are well cared for. Jn the cities of the North there are thousands of white men and women destitute of homes and out of employment; but the Radical philanthropists take no care o* them. No one is paid to hunt up homes and employment for destitute whites, and the Government does not pay their fare to distant points throughout the country. The charity of Congress is exhausted upon “the wards of the na tion,” as the negroes are now ostenta tiously styled. “ Old Thad.’s ” Chances for the Senate. The Pittsburg Commercial , which is strongly for Curtin, publishes a column of extracts from Republican newspapers which have expressed a preference on the Senatorial question. It thinks Cur tin can count a majority over Cameron. It ranks the Examiner as for*Stevens ostensibly, lyut-really foi Cameron. It only accords our grim old Congressman a singleout-and-outsupporter. The-£T* ■press has the honor of being the only paper in Pennsylvania which urges his claims with an air of seriousness. Con sidering what “ Old Thad. ” has done for the Express, it would be very un grateful indeed if it did not at least make a show of doing something for him. It has the honor of being entirely alone. Putting It In Poetry Some moon-struck Radical has set negro suffrage to metre and rhymes through a quarter of a column of the Cincinnati Uatettr, One stanza reads as follows: 14 ’Tis yours to wipe from labor's brow, The curse that shamed the laud, And teach the freedu-au how to wield The ballot in bis hand.*' We do not know that the injunction will be any the better obeyed for having been put into verse. It is our opinion that the ballot is uot yet in the hand of the negro in any of the States where Yankee Puritans do not predominate, and that a good many years must elapse before the slow moving Dutch State of Pennsylvania will be educated up to that mark. At least we hope so. Falling Into Line. One by onethe different organizations of the Republican party are falling into line on the questiou of negro suffrage. A Republican cotemporary says the Union League of Baltimore passed a resolution declaring themselves to be in favor of it on last Friday night. The Union League of Philadelphia is ex pected to take action in the course of a few days. But whether itdoes so or not is immaterial, as it is known to be fully up to the mark. The mask which the party wore during the late elections has been boldly thrown aside. They can not humbug the masses again. Tiik New York Herald says the re moval of Adjutant (ieneral Schouler, of Massachusetts, was on account of his opposition to General Butler’s nomina tion for Congress. He intends publish ing letters, it is said, that will connect General Butler’s name with several profitable speculations during the war, with which the public are not generally acquainted. What! more swindles by Butler, the high priest of the Loyal Radicals? Are we never to hear the last of his thiev ing? Must each day add new crimes to make him the more fitting representa tive of “ theparty of great moral ideas?” No wonder he is popular as a candidate for President with them. He is the very man of all others in the country who would suit them. They are right in going it strong for the Beast. The Extra Pay The N. Y. Tribune has an occasional article which we can cordially approve. The following is one of such : The impression appears to be general in the House of Representatives that the bill to increase salaries having been passed at the last session, the members are legally obliged to accept the extra sum. We assure them that no penalties will be enforced against any member who declines the money. The method by which Congress secured that extra pay was especially dis creditable because it was cowardly. The people expect to see the act raising the salaries repealed, and the mileage cut down to a decent figure. Had it not been for the transcendent importance of other subjects, the recent elections would have convinced even Mr. Driggs that the people were dis gusted with the extra swindle. But now that the question between Mr. Johnson and Congress is settled, the members who vote against the repeal of the appropriation will not be overlooked. A Republican* paper says there is great dissatisfaction among all parties in Missouri concerning Gov. Fletcher’s course in calling out the militia. It is only natural that such should be the case. He is one of the most unprinci pled hounds iu the country, and does not command the respect of decent men of any party in Missouri. Even the Radicals feel that the State is disgraced and injured by having such a wretch in the Gubernatorial Chair. The Radical swindlers in Congress have taken compassion on their Radi cal comrade, swindling Culver, and he is now at home among his compeers in Washington. He gave bail to answer for the felony with which he stands charged. Northern Slave Trade. Much has been said in the Radical papers, nay, at all the firesides of the North, about the miseries of black slavery at the South. Mrs.. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written ex pressly to make Northern people feel the horrors of Southern servitude —and we will not pretend to deny, that in Isolated cases, she may have found pre cedents for all the extravagant pictures she has drawn of the treatment of Southern slaves by their masters—but we know that she has pointedly mis represented the actual state of slavery at the South under the “ ancientregimeJ ’ However, admitting all that Mrs. Stowe says, and even taking for truth the monstrous lies of Helper’s “ Im pending Crisis,” we should not forget, while shedding tears over the misfor tunes of Southern slaves, that at the North we have white slaves occupying a more pitiable condition. It is true they are not called “slaves”—they are only “operatives”,—besides, some of them have the privilege of voting, as their masters direct —and they are there fore freemen, in the full acceptation of the term—but when we compare their real condition with that of the late Southern slave, it will be found that the Southern black over whom so much sympathy has been expended, has had the advantage of the wnite slave of the North. We have heretofore given the horrible statistics of demoralization iu the man ufacturing towns of New England—of the prostitution at Lowell, and the ter rible infanticide at Lynn—but these are only the stray statements that accident ally are permitted to be made public % Preachers exercise their most fervent* eloquence to show that these very towns are the cynosures of morality and social happiness, while pathetic tracts, based upon the virtue of factory life, are sent broadcast over the country, to elevate the reputation of New England. It is only occasionally that we find papers like the New Haven Register admitting to its columns the wails of workmen who feel the force of their shackles, and in the agony of despair, make known to the world their heart felt grievances. Listen to the following story of a workman in a Connecticut cotton mill, and say whether the condition of a late Southern “slave” was not preferable to that of this white “ operative “You would not wonder that working men sometimes have hard feelings against the “ cotton lords’ and the wealthy manu facturers who perpetuate the existing sys tem, if you hud been thrust into one of those prison-like factories when a mere child, and been deprived or all propereducationul advantages at that period of life when the mind umi heart are the most susceptible of improvement and right impressions. I know full well what it is to grope my way to the factory through tire darkness of a cold Winter’s morning amidst ice and snow, shivering in every limb, and cursing the necessity that compelled me—a mere child—thus to suffer and toil, and wear out mv very life, that some men might forsooth be enabled to realize a handsome dividend on capital invested. If you had seen the dark side of factory life, as I, aud thousands of others have seen it, you would perhaps be astouished at the patient endurance and long-suffering of the laboring class under the most grievous burdens.” Yes, it is indeed singular that North ern “operatives ” have such “patient endurance and long suffering”—but it is still more singular that, even under thedeadly infiueuceof their “ masters,” they should every year persist in voting to sustain the very system that keeps them ground down in abject poverty and dependence We cannot blame the , men—as it is rather the consequence of ■ the system, under which they have been reared—but we trust the time will come when Northern operatives will be more intentupon theirownenfrauchise ment than that of Southern negroes.— Newark Journal. General Grant’s Report. The second paragraph of this brief report contains a significant intimation. He frankly acknowledges that the class which will acknowledge no law but force is “ much smaller than could have been expected after such a conflict” as that in which we have been engaged. “Sufficiently formidable” to require the presence of an armed force, “ the condition of the States that were in re bellion against the Government may be regarded as good enough to warrant the hope that but a short time will inter vene” before the bulk of them can be withdrawn. The condition of affairs is better than could be expected, although Mr. Wilson aud the New York Ti'ibune would have the country believe that the constant occupation of the Southern people is to murder freed men and burn their school-houses. Nor does General Grant see auy need of ter ritorializingthe South, andmaintaining a permanent military occupation. He has more faith in kindness than in military power, and evidently repudi ates the violent programme of those who would hold the South by the tyran ny of arms. —National Intelligencer. A Petition or White Men Presented to Congress. Senator Saulsbury, of Delaware, presented to Congress a day or two since the follow ing petition, which was numerously signed by white men in Washington. Of course it was buried in a committee. Whereas, during the month of December, I SM, an act passed both Houses of Congress, granting to the African race the right of suffrage in the District of Columbia, at the same time excluding from that privilege all emigrants who have not resided five years in the country and become naturalized, and thus depriving them of the inalienable and innate right of manhood suffrage, so highly prized by our loyal Congress ; and Whereas Wc venture to believe the Cauca sian emigrants, whose intellect, industry, and wealth have contributed so much to the unparalleled progress of this country, is just as good, enlightened, anddeservingof political privileges as the African just emerged from a state of slavery; and, whe/eas, the Caucasian emigrant, though white, is a man possessed of manhood, and, consequently, entitled to manhood suf- frage— Therotore we, the undersigned, natural ized'citizens and emigrants, who have de clared their intention to become citizens of the Caucasian race, and residents of the District of Columbia, very respectfully, atid most devotedly petition your honorable bodies to amend the above act in such a manner as to put all whites, of the Caucas ian race, who are either citizens, or have declared their intention to equal footing with the negroes, and extend to them the same rights and privileges enjoyed by the latter. V ery Old Persons. We have in this city two negro women respectively aged one hundred and four and one hundred and live years. The former, Rachael Pency, is quite active, walks with great ease from where she lives to any por tion of the city. Her eyesight is very good, and her other senses much more perfect than one would expect to find in a person : of her age. 1 The latter, Fanny Williams, has been blind for the piist eleven years and can scarcely get aboufherroom, and is notable to walk on the streets at all. She formerly belonged to Colonel Tompkins’ estate, in Matthews countv, and was brought here by her children after the evacuation. These are remarkable instances oflongevity, and Rachael Peachy, although one hundred and four, bids lair to live many years.—Rich mond Examiner. Tbe Michigan Democracy In allusion tothe report that the Michigan Democracy, headed by the Detroit Free Press, are soon to declare in favor of negro suffrage, the Free Press says : “ Michigan Democracy, whose organ the Free I'ress claims to be, "have distinctly an nounced the doctrine that negro suffrage, so far ns it embraces its imposition or enforce ment in other States, is a most impudent and unconstitutional doctrine, with which they will have nothing whatever to do. When the question of permitting it in this State properly comes before the people, we presume that those Democrats who believe that a majority of the negroes in this State are fitted to exercise it and ought to hayeit will vote for granting it; and those who agree with the Free Pi-ess in deeming a large majority of them unfit, will vote against it.” Damages for Expulsion from a Train, In the Richland county, Ohio, Court of Common Pleas, George W. Hauk has re covered a verdict for four hundred dollars from the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chi cago Railroad, under the following circura stances: Major Hauk, in traveling from Mansfield to Crestline, failed to purchase a ticket before entering the cars, tfie price of which was fifty cents. The conductor, in collecting the fare, demanded eighty-five cents, which is the rate fixed by the Com pany between the points when the passen ger has no ticket. Mr. U refused to pay the extra thirty-five cents, whereupon the conductor rang the bell, the traiii stopped, a* T"r waa Before leaving the cars Mr. H. offered, in the hearingof the passen gers, to pay the eighty-five cents demanded, but the conductor told him that it was too late, and that he must get off, which he did, and was compelled to walk to Crestline, a distance of four miles, for which he now receives §4OO, or §ioo a wile for the distance. Congressional. Washington, Dec. 19, Senate.— The resolution to print the re port of the Commissioner of Public Lands in foreign languages for distribution at the Paris exhibition was adopted. Mr. Harris, N. Y., from the Judiciary Committee, reported the House bill provid ing for an additional session of the fortieth and succeeding Congresses on tbe 4th of March, withannmendmentstrikingout the 2nd section and inserting that no person wno was a member of the previous Congress, shall receive any compensation as mileage forgoing to, or returning from the additional session provided for iu the bill. A resolution was adopted instructing the Secretary of the Interior to place to the cre dit of Charles Clark, U. S. Marshal for the District of Maine, $3,018. lost during the Portland fire. A resolution was adopted calling upon the Secretary of the Interior foriuformation as to the supplies purchased for Indians during the past year—whether they were purchased in open market, etc. Mr. Sumner, Mass., offered a resolution, which was adopted, calling upon the Secre tary of State for information as to what steps had been taken for collecting products, weights, coin. etc., for the Paris Exhibition. At one o’clock the bill to admit Nebraska was taken up. Mr. Howard took the floor in favor of it. Mr. Wade yesterday stated his intention to press this bill to’ a vote to-day. House.— On motion of Mr. Hubbard, Conn., the Committee on Commerce was instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a light-boat off Black Rock Hnrbor, ou the coast of Connecticut, “On motion of Mr. Phelps, Mo., the Committee on Ways and Means was in structed to inquire into tbe expediency of modifying the Internal Revenue Law, so as to dispense with the tax on gross receipts. Mr. Ingersoll, Illinois, asked leave to offer a preamble aud resolution reciting that contracts are reported to have been re cently giveu by the Commissioner of Indiau Affairs for Indian goods to persons not the lowest bidders, and whose samples were inferior; ealliug ou the Secretary of the In terior for information on the subject, ami directing the Committee ou Indian Affairs to inquqe into it. Mr. Leblond, Ohio, objected, and the reso lution was not received. On motion of Mr. Weutworth, 111., the President was requested to furnish copies of all papers in his possession touching the case oi Col. St. Leger Greeufels, convicted by military commission, as one of the leaders in the conspiracy to release rebel prisoners at Cutup Douglas, Chicago, ami burn the city and was sentenced to death therefor, which sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life and whose pardon inj’ull was now recommended by the Florida Legislature. On motion of Mr. Stevens, I’a., iheScnuto amendments to the deficiency bill were taken from the Speaker’s table and con curred iu. On motion of Mr. Ward, N. Y., the Secre tary of the Navy was directed to communi cate a statement of the amounts charged to the State Department since the Ist of May, 18t>5, for service rendered by naval vessels. The House proceeded in the morning hour to call on the Committees for reports. The bill reported yesterday by Mr. Mc- Ruer, from the Committee'on Public Lands, to amend tho act granting lands in Oregon to aid in tbe construction of a military rail road from Eugene City to the eastern boundary of Oregon, was taken up, read the third time, and by a vote of yeas 79, nays 20, passed. Mr. Mcßuer, Cul., from the Commit tee ou Public Lands, introduced a bill to aid in the construction of a military wagon road from Dalles city, on the Columbia river. The bill was explained and advo- cated by Messrs. Mcßuer and Henderson, and opposed by Mr. Leblond, who said that the quantity of public land given away for private purposes had become alarming. (>u motion of Mr. Thayer, Penna., an amendment was inserted that the grant made by the bill should not embrace any mineral lands of the United Stales. The bill was passed—yeas 7<>, nays 37. Mr. Driggs, from the same committee, reported a bill to utnend the Act of March 3d, 18d3, grunting lands to Kansas for rail road purposes; it authorizes the construe tion of any portion of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, in a way suitable for the use of a steam traction engine with its train of cars, and reduces the grant of land from ten sections per mile to live sec tions. The bill, after some debate, was re committed. Mr. Holmes, from the same committee, reporltd buck the bill to amend the second section of the act to authorize the Legisla tures of Illinois, Arkansas. Louisiana, and Tennessee to sell school lands. The bill proposes to permit these Legislatures to lease for fifteen years the mineral lands contained in the grants. Mr. Ashley, 0., said he should not vote for any bill recognizing any of those rebel Legislatures or bogus Slates. He suggested a proviso that the act should not apply to any of the late rebel States. The amend ment was agreed to and the bill passed. Mr. Ashley, 0., offered a resolution to pay Messrs Arnell, Campbell and Hawkins, members from Tennessee, mileage,for the last session. He said they had been in at tendance during a part of tbe session before tbe State was admitted. Referred to Com mittee on Mileage. On motion of Mr. Julian, tho Committee on Public Lands was instructed to inquire into tlie expediency of amending the Home stead act, so as to require from the settler that he had not borne aems against tbe United States. Mr. Ingersoll offered a \ resolution in refereuco to contracts for Indian goods which had been objected to this morning and it was agreed to. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, Mr. Lawrence in the chair, arid resumed the consideration of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial appropriation bill. Mr. Upsou, Michigan, on leave, intro duced a bill supplementary to the act of April Ist, 18(34, to increase the pensions of Revolutionary pensioners. Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. The bill makes the act to apply to all the surviving widows of soldiers of the Revo lution at §lOO per annum. Mr. Maynard, Tenn., corrected a state ment made by him in debate on Monday in relation to a demand made by the Governor of North Carolina on the (iovernor of Tennessee for the person of Capt. Nelson, indicted in the former State for murder arising out of the performance of military duties under Gen. Stoneman. The present Acting Governorof North Car olina had since assured him that he had made no such demand on the (iovernor of Tennessee. It was possible that he, (Mr. Maynard), might have been mistaken, but he had certainly understood the facts to be as he had originally stated them, Mr. Hubbard, West Virginia, introduced a joint resolution, authorizing medals to bo distributer! to honorably discharged sol diers from the State of West Virginia, through the mail free of postage. Head three times and passed. Washington, Dec. ”i). Senate.— Mr. Wilson, Mass., offered a joint resolution directing the President of the United States to instruct the officers of the Navy and the Freedmen’s Bureau to prevent and prohibit the infliction of cor poral punishment for crimes and misde meanors in the late rebellious States, until their civil governments shall have been recognized and ratified by Congress. Ordered to be printed. Mr. CattelljN/J., presented the petition of the Carpet Manufacturers, for the relief of the 5 per cent. Internal Revenue tax. Referred to the Finance Committee. Mr. Anthony, It. 1., from the Printing Committee, reported a resolution to print the annual report of the Librarian of Con gress. Adopted. Mr. Ross, Kansas, called up the resolu tion on Reconstruction offered by him yes terday,and printed in yestei day’s report,"and delivered a speech in advocacy of ibe right of Congress to establish governments in the rebellious States. Mr. Henderson offered a resolution based on a despatch from Governor Fletcher of Missouri, calling upon the President and for information as to whether he had, since the Ist of December, sent troops into the interior of Missouri for any purpose, and if so, to indicate bis reasons, Ac. The resolu tion was adopted. The bill to admit Nebraska was taken up. The Nebraska bill was considered, and Mr. Edmunds, of Vt., advocated* Mr Brown’s suffrage proviso, while Mr. How ard, of Mich., thought Congress had no right to impose such a condition. Without acting on the bill, tbe Senate went into Executive session aud soon after adjourned until the 3d of January. After a ioug discussion of the Xebrnska bill, the Senate adjourned without coming to a vote. Adjourned. House. —Mr. Spaulding, 0.,- arose to a question of personal privilege in connection with'an article in yesterday’s Chronicle, re flecting upon a resolution offered by him on the 9th inst., and referred to the Com mittee on Reconstruction. That resolution simply directed the Committee to inquire into the propriety of proposing a joint reso lution, declaratory of the purpose of Con gress in the reception ofSenatorsnnd Repre sentatives from rebellious States respective ly, on the ratification by them, of theconsti tutional amendment and the establishment of a Republican form of government. He declared 4 his adherence to the Consti tutional Amendment in all its parts, and advised its adoption as a measure of concil iation and security. In his judgment, if tbe Amendment was ratified by throe fourths of the States represented in Congress it would become a part of the Constitution. He did not believe that the approval or disapproval of the Amendment by the out standing communities, or any of them would affect the ratification ' of the Amendment in the slightest degree.— It might become necessary, ere long, to place those revolted States in the condition of territories. If that neces sity became apparent, he should not flinch from the work, though he would fain save the country from so great a strain ppon its institutions of the Government. Mr. Stevens, Penna,, at a subsequent stage of the proceedings, said he bad in tended, perhaps irregularly, to Bay a word in reference to the position of Mr. Spauld ing. He would only say now that he thought the argument of the editor alto gether better of the two, and perfectly con clusive. While he would not oharge the gentle man, Mr. Spaulding, with being the author of the resolution, he thought the doctrine implied in it was the most pernicious that could p os aibly be brought to obstruct the final free reconstruction of the Govern ment; but he would not go into the argu ment now, as thegentleman, Mr. Spaulding was not in his seat. He had only thought it proper to say so much in favor of tho ar gument of one who could not appear here himself, and which he deemed conclusive and entirely more satislactory than that of the gentleman from Ohio. In the case of C. V. Culver, a report was received declaring tho arrest of Mr. Culver, and his imprisonment bv the civil authori ties of Venango comity, n breach of tho privileges of the House, a resolution was adopted prohibiting disbursing officers of the Government from paying any account or claim against tho Government in favor of any one who encouraged or in any way 'promoted or sustained the late rebellion, or to any one who was not known to be in favor of its suppression, A resolution was adopted for tho appointment of a committee to frame a bill to organize free schools iu the Dis trict of Columbia —Mr. Stevens wns named as chairman of tho committee. Mr. Lawrence, of Ohio, made a long argument in favor of repealing the act granting additional pay to mem bers, and in favor of reducing the mile age now allowed. A uumber of documents in relation to Mexicanaffuirs woro received from the President. A petition of seamen and others in tho naval service for bounty ; was presented. An inquiry was ordered to be made whether receivers and registers of public lands in the late rebel States had hiudered any person in securing tho privi leges of the homestead law. The House then adjourned until Tlmrsdny, Jan. 3. King Peppel King Peupel is dead. The Africa, at Hali fax, brought the news. It was not thought of sufficient importance to semi the an nouncement by cable, but was brought to Halifax by the steamer and thence tele graphed to New York. 44 King Poppel of Bonny is dead.” We have not seen any tlags at half-mast to-day, and yet we ven ture to suggest to some of the ardeut gentle men who claim to be the special friends of the colored race that this decease of the most important man of that raee, perhaps in all the world, might well receive some notice at their hands. But it is highly probable that a great many of the most ardent advocates of ne gro equality are so profoundly ignorant of what they ought to know before discussing such a subject that they will be actually in quiring “who is King Peppel?” king Poppel is not. He was. But lie has falleu. The electric wires do not tell us whether he was murdered by his nobles, who have threatened it for ten years past, or whether he died of obesity or drunkenness, or any other of the ordinary vices and diseases of African kings. But it is highly probable that there has been wailing in tho Bight of Benin, not over tho dead king, whom every one detested, but over the oilier dead who have perished iu the funeral tights, honors and massacres. Some readerswill remem ber when Peppel was in England. He re sided there and received attention, t’ivili zntion tried to win him, but made a miser able failure of it, as civilization has often failed in similar attempts. He went back to Africa aud established his throne on the mud banks of the river Bonny, one of the mouths of the Niger. His pa lace consisted of three huts, on tho oozing black mud of the shore, redolent of tilth. The latest account we have of him from a visitor describes him as especially addict ed to dog stews, the animals being bred expressly for bis eating. Alter his long residence in England he carried back with him, in his yacht, an English farmer, a lady’s maid, and some other enthusiastic English people who went out to serve Pep pel in the cause of civilization. But he had scarcely reached home when he dropped his English prejudices, and returned, like a hog, to the mire. We don’t know what became of the deluded people that went out with him. One traveler said that “tin* lady’s maid made a plant upon Peppel which provoked tiie jealousy otthe gucen.” But whether they devoured her, or what was her fate, is not, so far as we know, writ ten. The farmer gave up all idea of farm ing for the King, and tho others, who had been promised life pensions and homes iu the royal palace, were nut on rations of two yams per day, per head and that disgusted them with African civilization. But the king waxed strong, fat, ami rich in the African way. He became the wealth iest king on the coast. 11 is incomehas been estimated at $7.‘>,000 per annum. Ho once lost bis throne, having blown out the brains of one of bis wives, and raised a family quarrel thereby. He regained tho nominal sovereignty, but for some time past it has only been nominal, the government being in the hands of four 44 nobles” as regents. The trailers on the coast live in old hulks, offshore, aud never trust themselves on tin* land at night. Dealing with them in all the “products” of the coast has* made King Peppel, of Bonny, a man of mark in tho world, so Unit his death is announced by telegraph, and that is the end of him. There is this importance iu the history of the man, that he was an Afrieun, having some intelligence, long resident in England, wealthy, with every inducement and every opportunity to receive for himself and cany to his own countrymen the blessings of civilization, who deliberately rejected tbo opportunity, and lived and died in a mud hovel, finding his highest pleasures in tho vile life and hubitsofhisoriginal barbarism. It is one of the most melancholy facts in tho history of Africa. New York Journal of (Commerce. Miscegenation in Ducks County |C'oi reMpouiieuce of the Doylestown democrat.i Biustoi., Dec. 11, 18(3(3. Mr. Editor : Wc have just bad a practi cal illustration of the Black Republican' doctrines us advocated by Thad.. Stevens and his negro equalizing Union Leagues. Dur ing the pu.'l week the clergyman of thu Methodist Church was called upon to go to the residence of n Mrs. Banks, und perform the marriage ceremony. When ho arrived there he found assembled some eight or ten white and black spirits; one of whom in formed him lie desired to be married. The clergyman asked where the lady wns, when up stepped a wench as black as a frying pan, and said she “is the lady tliut’s to be married to dat gemmen.” The clergyman was surprised, aud felt a little sheepish—thought he had beou hoaxed, and was about to retire iu disgust, when the white nigger insisted that it wns all right, and he wished to be married to that “colored lad% r ,” as she was the *• idol of its heart, und lie desired to be umong the first to break clown tin* prejudice thatoxisl ed against the colored race, and bo an Gxomplitiur of the doctrine of blending together the races,” as advocated by Stevens, Sumner A Co., and the advocates ot negro suffrage in general. T. e clergyman replied that it was repugnant to his feelings ami against the interest of society to unite in wedlock the two races; and ho declined to have anything to do in the matter—that he could not perform any such service. At this time there appeared to be unmistaka ble signs amongst the colored gentry, of dissatisfaction againsL the clergyman for refusing to comply with the request of the parties, and they broadly hinted to him that if he refused there were other ministers who wero not so ignorant of the signs of the times, who would do it. 'Fla* minister replied, “ you cam go to such,” and taking up his hat he left. What wns iift.-r i heclergy man left, my Informant did not say, but supposed the white nigger embraced the “idol of his heart,” and gave her some other evidences of his peculiar atlection, for on the next day they went to Philadelphia, und found u colored minister who was further advanced in thu teachings of the Radicals, and up to his standard of progress, and by whom they wore They are now enjoying their honeymoon in Philadelphia, and it is said they intend lo> visit Washington and tuku up their resi dence there as soon us their friends in Con gress puss the uegro suffrage bill for the District of Columbia. 'Hie man is an Eng lishman, who has been working in the fac tory, and tbe wench wus employed on board of a steamboat, but the Captain has since discharged her on account of marrying the low trash white man. Lko. Democrats to the Visit of New York White House. The Now York Herald of yesterday says : Charles O’Conor, Amasu J. Purker, Rich ard O'Gorman, Waidt* Hutchins and others, of New York, called at the. White House and had a protracted interview with the President. They stated that they had called to pay their respects, were very cordially received by the President, and the interview took a conversational turn, in the course of which the delegation assured the President that the Democratic party of New York would certainly sustain him in his efforts to udminister the laws in accordance with the constitution and the late decision of the United States Supremo Court, und that it would also endorse the position the Presi dent had taken in the greutquestion at issue before the country. The President replied, in substance, that his confidence in the cor rectness and integrity of the course ho had adopted and had been pursuing hitherto was unshaken, und that it was his determi nation to be guided in the, future wholly by the spirit of the constitution. British Trade. The English journals say that, iu spite the universal dullness of business in that country, tbe trade returns show more ac tivity than at any previous period. In October, 18(30, the value of exports from the United Kingdom was nearly nine per cent, more than in Obtober, 1805, and the first ten months of 1860 show seventeen percent., more exports than the corresponding period of 1865, and sixteen per cent, more than the corresponding period of the year 1864. The London Times thinks the English peo ple are now making more money than ever* and, if they continue any length of time at the present rate, they will soon recover losses of the late panic.
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