igatiaoto littdkpay. WEDNESPAY, JANUARY 2, 1887. Tim printing presses snail be free to every . ' Pinion who undertakes to examine the pro- 1 oeedings of the legislature, or any branch of lirernmenti and no law shaU ever be made restrain•the right thereof. The onesmu ication of thought and opinions is of the invaluable rights of men; end ever) , Citizen may freely speak, write and print on any sub teat; being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutiorui for the publication of papers investigating . the onic...loonduot of WH OM.** or men in public. capacit.es. or where the' matter jnibUshed. is proper for publics informs-! .Lion, the truth thereof may be given in 0 , 4 donee." Ron. Thaddeus Steome.ven Is Supported at. Rs If Thaddeus Stevens has the slightest aspiration for Senatorial honors he must be most thoroughly disgusted at the manner in which his claims are pushed by those who pretend to be his friends. True the Radical newspapers pulAished here, at his home, pretend to support him, but it is all the flimsiest kind of pretense. The proprietor of one is in Harrisburg .urging the election of Simon Cameron, while the proprie tor of another is there laboring just as • earnestly to aid Andrew 0. Curtin. One office has already received the price stipulated as the reward for is services, and the son•in-law of the proprietor has a bran new commission as Notary Pub lic, with the bold signature of Andrew Gregg Curtin, thereto appended. Of course he and his ure fast friends of " the soldier's friend." The only other English newspaper published here i s not believed by those who are best ac quainted with It to be one whit more honest In its pretended support of Mr. Stevens. It talks that way; but the knowing ones declare that it is only talk and nothing more. So much for the only newspapers In the State which eccin to be urging the electloii of Mr. Stevens—those published at his home. How hi IL with the people of Lancaster The newspapers of Lan caster are only following the sentiment of the Radical masses. The truth Is that the people of Lancaster look upon Simon Cameron and Andrew Curtin as the only reel competitors for the seat now occupied by Mr. Cowan. The resolution passed at the conven tion which nominated members of the Legislature, declaring Mr. Stevens to be the choice of Lancaster county for United States Senator, was - aly gotten up as u compromise to allay the ani mosities which had already been ex cited between the friends of Cameron and Curtin. It was not au honest ex pression hi favor of Mr. Stevens and has never been so regarded. The Rad icals of Lancaster county have remained divided In their preference between Cameron and Curtin. They sLill are so almost without reference to Mr. Stevens, with a decided preponderance In favor of Simon Cameron. The only attempt at a popular expres sion In favor of 'Thaddeus Stevens in his own home appeared in the Express of yesterday. An examination of the document there put forth will show it to be the veriest sham, and will prove the truth of all our assertions. It pro fesses to be the production of a "com mitter appointed by a meeting of the friends of Mr. Stevens, held in this city on the —lh all. Those who got the thing up did not dare to till out the blank date. It was purposely left blank, because it is well known that no such meeting was ever held iu the city of Lancaster. The signatures appended to it are suffi cient to show that neither the Radical leaders nor the Radical masses of this county regard Thaddeus Stevens as a bona fide candidate for Senatorial hon ors.. The parties who got up the address to which we refer represent nobody but themselves, and are about all the honest supporters Thaddeus Stevens has at home. We are not pleading the cause of the old man, Thaddeus Stevens, nor do we intend to enter the Radical ring as his champion. We only de sire to expose the duplicity and double dealing of our opponents. They are having a most interesting light among themselves. Let it go on. The duty of the Democratic members of the Legislature is plain. They must maintain their organization unbroken, and preserve their personal honor and integrity unimpaired. They will have a proper Senatorial candidate, and will cast an undivided vote for him. Simon says Thumbs Up." The result of the Radical caucus, which took place last night, shows very clearly that Simon Cameron has the inside track for Senator. Mr. Glass was avowedly and openly the Cameron candidate for Speaker of the House. - Mr. Quay, the Curtin candidate, finding that be had not a ghost of a chance, made a virtue of necessity and grace fully nominated_ his opponent. The nomination was unanimously ratified amid a shower of curses, and the disap pointed bore defeat us best they could. Forney thinks the telegram of the Associated Press agent, which we pub. MI elsewhere, was dictated by Cam eron. Why growl about the mere an nouncement of the result when the whole transaction was dictated by the Winnebago Chief. Forney is In the predicament of Mrs. Toodles. He sees a contingent chance in the future, and invests. Old Thud. being very old, might die In a year or so; then there would be another vacancy; and then the Radicals might still have a majority In the Legislature; and then the Dead Duck might be able to secure bne vote or more ; enough to sell out for a con sideration, if not enough to elect him. Hence Forney is for Stevens. But —"Simon says thumbs up." Meeting or the Legislature. The Legislature met yesterday at noon and the organization of both branches was effected according to the programme laid down at the Republi can caucus. Louis W. Hull, of Blair county was elected Speaker of the Senate, and John P. Glass, of Allegheny Speaker of the House. The Chief Clerks of last year, W. Hamersley of the Senate and A. W. Benedict of the House were re-elected. We have been furnished with au ad vance copy of Governor Curtin's an nual message, but as it will not be de livered until to-day (Wednesday) at noon, we cannot lay it before the readers of our weekly edition until next Week. The message Is short and ex" 4.;eedingly Radical, made so by Gover nor Curtin to aid his chances of being elected to the Cnited States Senate. As all lils aspirations In that direction have been utterly extinguished before the readingof he: lath the sat - isfactiou of knowit.g that h , !‘:rlnged at the feet of tloi P.4. , L , d rmi:orlty of t h e Republican party, with scorn. If he hai: v. , 01..a.:04 a zjaark of manly principle be been seen In such a Monument to Chief Jukti..... 11.14,1 v Mr. Hugh McAleer, ohe prominent cltlzene of Frederi,,k, ,y; .7 land, and J udge Marshall, have (IQ4t, iZ4: I I a :novel:fent for the erection or r, tilling monument over the grave or the bow: Cider Justice Taney, whose re mains repose In the Catholic burial Ktlitned of that city. The members of OA bat of Maryland have been called flpfili Pi: contributions, and wo notice foluarr S . 4I;fI4IJVA that they are respond tog *rho, tha promptitude and liberality VOtittfr chstarletims them. We have rXJ fliitiiit, 00: thus reared arlif ter* m fitting Rti l / 1 4114 ti) Wm gusted ytaSx .WsatllAttoil srver ptarlutxd. The Radical Philanthropists Horrified. Tho laws of Maryland provide that free negroes convicted of certain crimes shall be sold for a short term of service. The statutes to 'vhioh we allude have been in existence for ma* years. Un -: der the operation thereof negro crimi nals were deemed more lucky , . itian, white men who shad been guiltyasim- : liar offences. The white convict was immured in the cells of the State prison, while the negro was left free to enjoy the pure air of heaven and unrestrained intercourse with his fellows. It would seem as if the lawmakers of Maryland had taken into consideration the lower degree of civilization attaching to the negro, and in regard for his weaker na ture had purposely provided a lighter de gree of punishment thlin was inflicted upon the more intelligent white man. No dqubt the negroes appreciated the distinction thus made In their favor; and there are few white convicts now who would not prefer to labor for their board and clothing as farm hands, rather than be shut up at harder and solitary labor within the dreary dungeons of a penitentiary. While slavery existed In Maryland, those who purchased the time of negro convicts had some hold upon them ; but since that Institution has been abolished, every man in the State knows that his title to the services of a negro sold for crime would be worth nothing. The law as it now exists on the statute- books of the State of Maryland is a dead letter. Negroes sold under its provis ions escapealmost without punishment. Some friend bids a few dollars, enough it may be to pay the costs of prosecu tion, and, instead of going to the peni tentiary, the negro convict goes scott free. It would seem that there is noth ing in such a law ,to excite popular in dignation anywhere: Yet, strange as It may seem, the whole body of Radical philanthropists are howling In an agony of indignation over this matter. A sale of the kind alluded yo took place at Annapolis a few days since. Four negroes weft. sold. They had all been convicted of larceny, and If they had been white would have been sent to the penitentiary. Fortunately for them, they were negroes, and so were put up at auction. The first one was knocked down to himself, paying $27.- 00; all he was worth we dare say. An other man brought only $24.00. Two girls brought respectively $!22.00 and $30.00. Horace Ureeley and John W. Forney, and the entire radical newspaper press have been thrown into spasms of agony over the above transaction. They howl about the revival of slavery, and paint terrible pictures of auction blocks with trembling human beings compelled to mount them under the lash of imagi nary monsters like Legre. Here is au extract front the Tfibun, : Advertisements announcing the sale, for a term of years, In pursuance of the sen tence of a Court and the authority of a sheriff, will excite a feeling of something more titan surprise in the breasts of hun dreds of thousands, who or more than a year have been accustomed to thank God that slavery in America lies been consti tutionally abolished. They believed that they had lived to see the day so long prayed for, when in his westward course over our ocean-girt Republic the sun no longer rose upon a master nor set upon a slave. But beds Is a new and hideous vision of auction blocks in front of Court Houses, for the sale of "slaves and other cattle, - with a sheriff as auctioneer, flourishing Ins judi cial record and pointing to the " Constitu tional amendment abolishing slavery," as confirming its validity. Even those who in the olden time had so "conquered their prejudices" as to contend that slavery was not a crime, must feel that its unblushing revival at this moment and iu this form is, to say the least, a blunder. Such stuff is really sickening, and can scarcely move any one to indign6 tion, except it may be those virtuous and antiquated females who still persist in the manufacture of red flannel shirts, with which to clothe the infantile Guinea negroes who delight to basque in nakedness beneath au equatorial sun. Ureeley might be excused for getting off that kind of stuff. His mind has run so long in that channel that it is hard for him to get out of the groove. But, there is good reason to believe that Forney's indignation is more owing to the result of the recent election in Maryland than to anything else. The whole cry of the crazy pack is perfectly ridiculous. We have no doubt the people of Mary land will speedily repeal the law, which the Radicals so much deprecate while they admit it to be constitutional. The day has gone by when it can be made effective. Selling a negro for a, crime cannot now give the purchaser such a hold upon him as would enable him to hold the criminal to service. The ne groes would escape almost without punishment, and crime would thus be greatly encouraged. The blacks must henceforth suffer the heavier penal ties awarded to the whites. They must be made to work in the walls of a penitentiary, Instead of out lu the fields, among their fellows, and with the cheerful light of the glad sun-shine about them. We hope the Radicals will be satisfied with the change ; though the negroes will surely not thank them for bringing It about. Some of the Yankee States make a profit out of their State prisons. The Southern States must take a lesson in such matters from them. The shower bath, and other Yankee methods of prison punishment may prove more effective than the lash in getting the largest amount of work out of lazy or refractory negro convicts. Governor (diary's Appohrtments. General Geary, Governor elect, has appointed Colonel Frank Jordan, of Bedford, Secretary of State, and Hon. B. F. Brewster Attorney General. Brewster is a renegade Democrat, but Jordan has always been a Republican. Honorable (.') John Cessna has been left out iu the cold again. He might have had less cause to feel sore if any one except Jordan had been taken into the Cabinet. That Is piling on the agony. We hope he may find consola tion in his afflictions, which seem to be of constant recurrence. It is evident that his new political associates do not appreciate him as highly as he supposed they would. He is an object of pity. A Radical Canard Exploded. The Expo.:4B has been harping on the story which was telegraphed from Washington, in regard to the interview which it was alleged Congressman Eg gleston had with President Johnson. According to the report thus spread abroad, the President not only declared himself to be in favor of the Constitu tional amendment; but, more singular still, he took pains to pass a high eulogium upon the character of the grim old traitor who represents Lancaster eounty in Congress. The military ecii. for of the Express must be easily Im posed upon. Such a yarn as that tearcely needed, what it received, an immediate contradiction from the Vt0..114 ng ton correspondent of the N. Y. f . The EXpPCBB does not appear Ir/17e:teen the exposure of the canard, though it WIII4 made some days since. Will the military editor of that sheet be goon enough to make a note of the fact that Mr, Eggleston has long ago de elared the whole story to be without particle of foundation ; that he had no such conversatlon with the President as reported ; that President Johnson never avowed himself to he in favorof the proposed Constitutional amendments; and never condescended to praise the old traitor who represents this district n the Rump Congress. Two Pleturn—A Contrast. If there hi a painter in the . pnited, States who Is desirous of I u3niortallzin i rie himself, w ,think we yam suggestko hl '":1 ,aulajOts - two plcOil •Khichi prod'. perlY, trea dril!ould not f#l to Boat i his ftune as an:artist to tllnilatest elle ' atioN The er r ° phOresjaouldibe re ' resent,ationip(scenlPwlitel htivii' ac .'''' ally occurred lately, ' • The first would w'sketch of the sale at Annapolis, Dthiryland, of three or four negroes, convicted of larceny. One of them, a huge brute of a; fellow, wild, if he had been a vfrhite man, would have been seid to the periltentlary'for a term of years, bids himself in, paying the purchase money out of the pocket book he had stolen, and walks off' with a snug balance, chuckling over his escape from any punishment for his crime. The second picture snould represent the public square of a New England village on a chill November day. Prominently delineated should be seen the inevitable Puritan church, a school house and a cotton factory. In the back ground, beyond bleak bare hills, should lower a cold gray sky, from which a fierce wind shakes scattering flakes of snow. In the square, before the tavern conducted on Maine Liquor Law princi ples, must be sketched a group of Yankee philanthropists as they are seen at home. There must be present several prominent deacons of the ch urch,two or three negroes, and a crowd of sharp nosed and inquisitive young sters. In thef centre of the group must appear au old man and his wife dressed in clean garments covered with patches. They must be of Anglo Saxon blood, and not very distant relatives of the owner of the Cotton Mill which is paying a profit of fifty per cent. The faces of the old couple must be delineated as pure, and with the habitual expression of deep sorrow merging Into a sharp agony of burning shame. Between them must stand the town crier, reading off the conditions of a sale then and there about to begin. 'rhe old couple are to be sold, not to the iigliest but to the lowest bidder ; either together or apart ; to him who will take them and keep them from freezing and starving for the least money. A difference of one cent will decide who is to own one or both of them. The artist must be prepared to do justice to the anxious faces of the godly deacons as they cipher out with all a Yankee's shrewdness precisely how many farthings worth of victuals it will take to keep life in the frail old human bodies, then and there about to be put up at auction. On the other side of the street must be sketched a war preacher meeting a party of women, just while the bidding is at its height ; the wives and daughters of the calculating deacons, on their way to the " sewing circle." In the hands of this solemn pastor must he seen a copy of the New York Tribune, turned down at an article headed " ,Sluver,y in Maryland." The artist is left to depict at his discretion the expression of horror on the faces of the female members of this godly com munity, as the Rev. Smoothe Sneak reads to them about the recent sale of negro convicts at Annapolis. We hope some artist will take hold of our idea, and immortalize himself by putting on canvass these two scenes as they have actually occurred recently. For the lutelllgeocer The County Tax To the Editors of the Laitcader Ditelligencer GENTLEMEN : We notice by your late issue that you find fault with the County Commissioners for raising the county tax, stating that you have heard no reason al leged for it but the one of paying off the county indebtedness incurred by the erec tion of the new Court House, and that our debt was gradually being reduced by the old rates of taxation. The facts of the case are entirely differ ent. The county debt has been gradually increasing since the erection of that build ing, owing to bounties paid to volunteers, and relief to their families during the late rebellion, and, in addition, the Directors of the Poor had a special act passed by the Legislature lust winter, authorizing them to erect a new hospital, and draw on the County Commissioners for the expenses thereof; the estimated cost of which le sixty five thousand dollars. A tornado destroyed the bridge across the Conestoga at Safe Harbor, which had to be rebuilt at a cost of over seventy-six hun dred dollars. Twu other bridges, one over the Chiques and the other over Puquea creek, gave out, and were rebuilt ut a cost of four thousand dollars; also anew bridge was erected in East Earl, over the Cones toga, costing three thousand dollars. The pay of jurors, witnesses and asses sors has been raised ; the expenses of the Jail and Poor House increased, cud, in fact, in nearly every department the ex penses nave greatly increased within the past few years. The rate of interest on money loaned to the county has been raised. from three and four to live per cent., notice having been given us by many of' the parties to whom the county is indebted that they would de mand their money in the spring of 'SO, un less we advanced the rate of interest to five per cent. The amount of money borrowed by the county is about one hundred and ninety three thousand dollars, an increase of two per cent. on which would amount to thirty•six hundred dollars, The amount we propose to raise by increased taxation (about seventy-three thousand dollars) will leave a small balance after deducting the cost of the hospital and the Safe Harbor bridge. The greater portion of this outlay was occasioned by legislation, over which we have no control. In addition to the above reasons we deem it expedient to reduce the indebtedness of the county while there is un abundance of money on paper loan, as it will be more difficult for the tax-payers to raise the necessary anitaint when a specie basin ex: bits. The foregoing are the reasons we sub mit to the tax-payers of Lancaster county for [our course in raising the tax. We do not question the right of any citizen or edi tor to scrutinize our acts ; and if you are in possession of any facts or sinister motives on the part of the Commissioners, as might be inferred from your article, it is your duty to let the public know it. Our books and papers will be open to you for inspection during all business hours. Very respectfully, THOS. C. COLLINS, J. B. SHUMAN, SAML. SLOKOM, Commissioners. LANCASTER, January 1, 18137. The above letter of the County Com missioners has been called out by our strictures upon their action in advancing the rate of the county tax to five mills on the dollar ; and is in answer to our request to be favored by the Commis sioners with the reasons which influ enced them in making this increase. We are glad to note the tone in which the answer is couched, and shall en deavor to emulate it in any comments which we may have occasion to make upon it, and while " nothing extenuat ing" shall certainly "set down naught In malice," As facts are of the first Im portance in this inquiry, we may prob ably avail ourselves of the facilities which the Commissioners offer for the examination of their books and papers. IT IN .stated that the President will hereafter refuse the use of United States troops for the Southern States except in case of riot. This action is founded upon the recent decision of the United 'States Supreme Court. THE mouth of the Amazon river in South Americais said to be large enough to rake in the States of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Pity itcouldn't be stretched so as to take in all the New England States, and then be induced to swallow them. A Yankee Contribution to History. For downright, straightforward 4 shaoleless lying, commend us to the Retierend John ALI:. Abbot, wbo h k .7 3 . 1 ,u5„..,„,,:i Thetisiem 0f,1411e ' ' de r fro Vraehfayton fi. the ei a work whlati wilidpub bel w 11144 Lan ter acre da so pe4aler MI6 " tholub. E bod .. we presuine, has heard o? Abbot a "Life of Napoleon," a picture-book of ponder ous proportions published some years ago by the Harper's. There never was anything quite act ppposteleps illttief way of biography issued as that seine= what notorious work. Napelkm Wes described, from the fltst chapter to the last, as a sentimental philanthropist—a unifomed colporteur or Sunday-school teacher, and by the help of a white cravat, and a pair of spectacles, and a little aptitude for accumulation, would have made a tolerably respectable cleri cal delegate of the Christian Commis sion. His tender heart (according to the veracious J. S. C. A.) was constant ly being lacerated by the bloodshed and havoc of war into whioh naughty and pugnacious monarchs persisted in forc ing him, when, in truth, his taste and genius inclined him in the direction of ragged schools, soup societies and plans for the amelioration of the domestic discomforts of the Guinea blacks. He soliloquized after every battle in the fashion of Charles de Moor, and wept as copiously 'as Werter. At length brother Abbot, after fairly exhausting all the windy rhetoric and cheap senti ment at his command, consigned the ashes of his illustrious subject to the tomb, and sent his spirit to the next world overflowing with Christian hope. This was bad enough, but it was only silly; it made Abbot ridiculous, not Napoleon, whose character could be neither helped nor hurt by his sorit.- Wings, and it Injured nobody, because nobody believed it. But his last at tempt—" The Lives of the Presidents" —is of another order. It is crowded with base and malicious falsehoods. Abbot—reverend rogue that he is—com pacts and recondenses his fictions as the French delicate potatoes and solidify milk for Arctic voyagers. He saves marvellously in bulk by writing no sen tence which7is not freighted full with its proper Ile. As a specimen of his talent in this way, we make an extract from his life of President Buchanan, with certain spirited comments on it taken from the New Haven Daily Rey later. Let these be kept in mind by everybody who does not want to be swindled by a travelling agent into the purchase of a worthless book. The following extract will be found on pages 371, 372, 373: " As the storm increased in violence, the slavebolders claiming the right to secede, and Mr: Buchanan avowing that Congress had no power to prevent it, one of the most pitiable exhibitions of governmental imbe cility was exhibited the world has ever seen. As soon as it was known that Mr. Lincoln was elected, the slaveholding States, drilled to the movement, began to with draw. Mr. Buchanan had not a word of censure for them. All his rebukes were addressed to those who had wished to prevent the extension of slavery. The long continued and intemperate inter ference,' he said, ' of the Northern people with the question of slavery in the Southern States, has at length produced its natural effects.' He declared that Congress had no power to enforce its laws in any State which had withdrawn, or which was attempting to withdraw, from the Union. This was not the doctrineof Andrew Jackson, when, with his hand upon his sword-hilt, he exclaimed, "The Union must and shall be preserved!' It was an alarming state of things when the supreme Executive de clared that he had no power 'to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.' " Innumerable plans of concession were proposed ; but the secessionists did not hesi tate to avow their utter contempt for the Government of the United States, and to spurn its advances. Mr. Buchanan ap proached the rebels on his knees. They hastened to avail themeslves of his weak ness, and to accomplish all their disorgan izing measures before his successor should come into power. "South Carolina seceded in December 1530—nearly three months before the in. auguration of President Lincoln. Mr. Bu chanan looked on in listless despair. The rebel flag was raised in Charleston; Fcrt Sumter was besieged ; The Star of tie West,' in endeavoring to carry food to is famishing garrison, was fired upon ; aid still Mr. Buchanan sat in the White }louse, wringing his hands and bemoaning his hep lessness. Our forts, navy yards and arsends were seized ; our depots of military stoles were plundered, and our custom houses aid post offices were appropriated by the rebek ; and all that President Buchanan could 1.0 was to send a secret messenger to Charlet ton, to implore the rebels to hold back thtir hand a little until the close of his admino.- [ration. Members of his Cabinet beganto retire and join the rebels, after they hal scattered the fleet, and robbed the arsenal and the public treasure. "The energy of the rebels and the lit becility of our Executive, were alike mat velous. Before the close of January, tie rebels had plundered the nation of million of property, had occupied and fortifies many of the most important strategic points, had chosen their Hag, and organ. iced their government, while President Buchanan had not lifted a hand to check them. The nation looked on in agony waiting for the slow weeks to glide awa3 him the men and the money and and close this administration, so terrible it power to resist those movements? The its weakness. administration may have been "terrible "Gen. Scott, in view of the threatening in its weakness," but it was so because aspect of affairs, called repeatedly upon Congress refused to lift a finger to President Buchanan, and urged that stroll revise the men and the money to garrisons r fo i b r o w n . s m should an y o b fe thesesent to forte all l had d e lmperil ,no g ur make it otherwise. Did the Republican rlBOOB at all, and could at any time bi Party wish to force Mr. Buchanan to seized and appropriated by the rebels, roil commence a war on his own responsi dpring their teconquestoostly in both Woo( bility, and thus have it to say that they and treasure. Mr. Buchanan would no came into power after the country had permit them to be strengthened. Genera been involved in war by the Democratic Scott entreated that at least a circular migh administration ? be sent to the forts where there were garri We come next to the statement as to sons, giving them warning of their peril and urging them to be on the alert. 119 what Gen. Scott advised, and Mr. Ab request was not granted until it was to, bolt's opinion of what would have been late to be of avail. accomplised had that advice been taken. 'had (len. scott's plan been adopted, i It is true that Gen. Scott did recom would have placed all the arsenals ant mend "strong garrisons," premising it forts commanding the Southern rivers ant with a proposal to concee the right of strategic points so firmly in the hands o secession, and going on to propose, as the National Government, that the rebel " a smaller evil" than intestine war, the would scarcely have ventured to attaol breaking up the Union into four con them. In all probability, it would hay' federacies, the boundaries and capitals prevented the uprising. It would him of which hepointed out. But when saved the country four thousand million asked where were his men for the of money, and nearly a million of lives Whatever may have been the motive "strong garrisons," he confessed that which influenced Mr. Buchanan, no OD he had but five companies—only four can be blind as to the result of his conduct hundred men—for the nine forts he Probably history may be searched in veil named. And he concurred with appar for a parallel case, in which the chief rule ent cordiality in the arrangement of a great country, the suuretary of war adopted by Mr. Buchanan to 'hold and the secretary of the navy, all seems the Brooklyn at Norfolk, with three to combine to leave the most importan - hundred men, ready to be thrown into fortresses of the nation in as defenseless i„ DP umter on emergency. And he further condition as possible, when arrogant an armed rebellion was threatening their cat concurred in the propriety of nGt taking turn. Was this treachery? Was it ht any step that would be likely to pre becility ?" cipitate hostilities while there was yet We will endeavor to follow the lin hope that Congress would adopt meas of this extraordinary history. Wher ores for terminating the difficulty does Xr. Abbott find the authority fo f t, eaceably. The army of the United his assertion that Mr. Buohanai at es consisted of less than 18,000 men; "avowed that Congress had no powe ' t was chiefly stationed in small de to prevent "secession ? It is not Lob tachments along the frontier, to protect found in his published messages, or it the settlers and emigrants from the any other document written or author savages. Did Gen. Scott recommend its ized by him. In his message, at twithdrawal from that service? No ; ie opening of the session of Congress, De on the contrary, he had repeatedly comber, 1880, he made a most elthaus represented that the force was inade tivearg. ument against the right o f Becea quate for the service. Where then were the "strong garrisons " coming sion. He deCiared it not only Illegal but unjustifiable ; that it would destroj from, seeing that Congress refused to our Union, and probably put an end t 4 authorize the raising of more men ? the hope of free government in th, Buteven supposing Presidentßuchanan world. Mr. Abbott says "he declare 'had called in the whole of the army, ress had no ewer to enferct that Con and left the settlers at the mercy of the g p • its laws,' 45.-,c. We defy him to'produe. savages, and had made a hostile dem the authority for this assertion. We pro.: onstration, thereby putting an end nounce it untrue, and here is a bit ot to all hope of a peaceable adjust the evidence: ment of 'the controversy, is it reasona b " The right and the duty to use Military le to suppose that the Southern people, force defensively against those who resist who were able to raise armies and resist the federal officers in the execution of their' the whole power of the North for four legal functions, and against those who years—obliging the Government to call assail the property of the Federal Govern.' lad the field over a million of men— ment, is dear and undeniable."--Meesage, 'would have been terrified into submis read in Cbngreas Jan. 9, 1881. • 'Sion by so paltry a force ?Is it not pre- When did Mr. Buchanan " declare posterous to pretend that it could have that he had no power " to take carethat had anew such effect as Mr. Abbott pre the laws be faithfully executed ?" He tends to believe? Mr. Abbott is at a told Congress that the repretentativesi loss to divine whether it was " treach of the people alone could inaugurate ery" or "imbecility," and he leaves measures of pacification ; that he had' his readers to infer that it must have protected public property and executed' been one or the other, saying that the the laws as far as " practicable under' President and his Cabinet "seemed to existing laws ;" that it was his purpose combine" to leave the fortresses of the to continue to do so, butthattoCongress nation as defenseless as posible. But " belongs the power to declare war, OD Congress was in session during all this to authorize the employmentof military' time; a majority of both Houses were force in all cases Contemplated' by the " loyal" Republicans ;—the personal Constitution." On whom rests the' and intimate friends of the incoming change of " imbecility ?" Mr. Bu-J President were on the floor, and his in ohanan stood ready to " execute thel tended Secretary of State was in almost laws." What did Congress do? Did itl daily communication with the Rresi authorize him to call out the militia, or tol dent. His future Judge Advocate Gen e acceptvolunteers ? No. It did not vote ral was in the war office; his future a dollar nor amen forthe emergency. A i . Secretary of War was in the Cabinet; "force bill," almost identical with thel one of his future Major Generals was in one passed in Nullification times, was , the Treasury Office. brought forward,butdefeated. Another. Why did Congress refuse to give the 1 bill meta like fate. TheCrittenden Com , ..mise, which the South would have • • opted, was defeated; the recotnmen f-• flans of the Peace Convention were i jk a d with contempt. In,eve Osip , `.. anner, Congress marafes del' ' or "a little blood-1014w" did , .t • ng to avert the danger , nor re , . e the country for meeting it.; : : r. %'k. n was finally obliged to usurp the. ~ . ?,, i ttfter the confilete'had ttotuallt commenced, When Mr. Buchanan in formed Congress that he had no longer aTourt or a marshal in South Carolina ; that it might become necessary to col lect the revenue in an armed vessel ; /OW W 144 11l pollectbr refiiirtied, add Iff.'Huchanim nominated a successor, 'whitt"dict - Colistre& do? - Nothing. It not only refused to authorize any extra ordinary means for collecting the reve nue, but would not even confirm the collector appointed. Truly, there were ' " most pitiable exhibitions of govern mental imbecility," but they were not to be found in the White House. Who proposed "Innumerable plans of concession," and what " advances" were "spurned?" Did Congress tilt thorize any advances toward conces sion? Did not members write and tele graph home for Governors to send delegates to the Peace Congress—" stiff backed men "—to defeat concesslonand conciliation? "Mr. Buchanan ap proached the rebels on his knees." We have seen that statement many times in newspapers, but did not expect to find it transferred to " history." The secession leaders broke off social rela tions with Mr. Buchanan at the opening of the session, in consequence of his firm position against their doctrine, and two Southern members at once left his Cabinet. Mr. Buchanan did not lay " his hand upon his sword-hilt," for Congress refused to give him one ; but did he manifest any cringing to the secessionists? Mr. Abbott says he "looked on in listless despair." Where is the evidence? Is it found in his instructions to Maj. An derson, before the secession of South Carolina, to defend himself to the' best of his ability if attacked? Is it found in his refusal, as early as Decem ber 9, to even impliedly pledge himself not to use force against that State? Is it found in his letter of December 31, when he "peremptorily rejected the de mand [for the abandonment of Sumter] in firm but courteous terms, and de clared his purpose to defend Fort Sum ter by all the means in his power, against hostile attacks, from whatever quarter they might proceed?" Is it found in his indignant return of the letter (Jan.' 2,) of the South Carolina Commissioners, because of its insulting tone? or in his refusal to receive a similar communication from Colonel Rayne, Attorney General of South Caro lina? is it found lu the replies to the Commissioners and to Col. Hayne ? If not in any of these, where does Mr. Abbott find the authority for his asser tions and innuendoes ? He gives us none, and we pronounce his allegations absolutely false. Mr. Abbottgoes out of his usual course, and gives us his authority for the charge that Mr. Buchanan sent a secret mes senger to Charleston. It is " Greeley's Conflict" in which we are told Mr. Caleb Cushing was the man ; that "his errand was a secret one," but " he was understood to be the bearer of a proffer from Mr. Buchanan that he would not attempt to re-enforce Maj. Anderson," if they would engage to evince a like pacific spirit to.the close of his adminis tration. This is all the foundation for i this charge. The means of contradict. high wereat Mr. Abbott's elbow. They are found in public documents of the time. In Mr. Buchanan's reply to the South Carolina Commissioners, Dec. 31, he said, as to the claim that there was a pledge as to withdrawal or re-enforce ment, that " such an idea was never thought of by me. IVo allusion had ever been made to it in any communi cation between myself and any hu man being." Why did Mr. Abbott reject this positive assertion, supported as it was by documentary proof, so far as a negative can be supported, and adopt a contrary view backed only by the vaguest rumor? His peculiar style of making " history" would not per mit the production of public records. Into the same sentence he works three other old and exploded slanders that members •of Buchanan's Cabinet Lad "scattered the fleet, and robbed the ar senals and the public treasure." Each and every one of these charges has been refuted over and over again. We have proven, (and can again,) by the author (Greeley) just quoted by Mr. Abbott, that when Mr. Lincoln took his seat, the hi,me squadron comprised the largest fleet that had ever, up to that time, been assembled by the United States—many of the ships having been called home by Mr. Toucey. The charge that the arsenals had been " robbed," is disproved by a report of an investi gating committee of Congress, (Jan. 9, 1861,) from which it appeared that the aggregate number of muskets and rifles distributed to the Southern and South western States, during the previous year, was 2,Bl9—much less than they were entitled to by law! And the re port of another investigating commit tee shows that every dollar of the pub lic money remained in the treasury after the retirement of Mr. Cobb. What excuse is there, then, for the repetition, in " history," of these old electioneer ing slanders ? If Mr. Buchanan had not " lifted a hand to check " the hostile movements of the South, and " the nation looked on in agony," why didn't "the nation " spur up their representatives to give outgoing President men and money and require him to take the steps which Mr. Abbott says heought to have taken, 'out which he could not have taken, .WhileCoi i it ir ress Was 1113444 m, without inciiriin erniOnsibilitycif involfg the con in civil war? 1 hyi' id I , Gem . ' Scott 'Wet n se _, ing : he ."Sr of the IW," ith r niter ete,of ;the Brook ati,„/ , e . li ar ship wltErtdinstplin me 0'.•.",. . Ciiar es ton ? Why did Mr. Lincoln continue for more than a month to follow the pacific policy of Mr. Buchanan, and why did he even consent to abandon Fort Sumter, (on the advice of Gen. EisSott,), a thing which President Bu ihanan had repeatedly andperemptorily reftuied to 'do? • Not a' word of thititri Mr. Abbott's "history." He has not a word of censure for Mr. Lincoln for pursuing for six weeks the policy which Mr. Buchanan had adhered to because Compass was in session and competent to direct the whole question. If Mx. Buchanan "approached the rebels on his Juices." what did Mr. Lincoln do when herepeatedlypromisedthrough his Secretary of State that Sumner should be abandoned? Mr. Abbott makes no note of any of this part of the history of the time. He sneers at Mr. Buchanan for not commencing a war without the consent of the war-making power, but when Mr. Lincoln declined to take that responsibility, the circumstance is passed over in silence. is this "Im partial history ?" As we said at the outset, there are many things in this book we are tempted to review, as for instance the statement . of the vote for Fremont and Buchanan as follows: Fremont, 1,840,618, Bu chauan, 1,224,750. The actual vote (vide Tribune Almanac) was Fremont, 1,342,- 104, Buchman, 1,803,029, showing a difference between Abbott and Truth of 579,725 votes. In summing up the character of Andrew Jackson, he endorses as true the assertion of Parton: "His ignorance of law, history, politics, science—of everything which he who governs a country ought to know —was extreme." The record of An drew Jackson is too fresh in the public mind—there are too many men living who knew him intimately, to make it worth while to defend his memory from so gross a slander. His public service in almost every Wilda! station gives the lie to all the original and second-hand de famers. But we will not weary our readers further. The only value this work poe. sesses is to be found in its suggestions for research. Its statements, where partizan lineations are involved, may be presumed to be invariably wrong, and it will bee wholesome exercise for the "student of history'' to follow them up and learn with how little truth " his tory" can be made. Pennsylvania Legistature. The following is a correct list of the memberselectof the Penna. Legislature, including the Senators holding over. The political changes are—General Mc- Candless (Dem.) in place of Nichols (Rep.) in the Ist Senatorial district, and Col. Taylor (Rep.) in place of Hopkins (Dem.) is the 26th district. The Senate is thus left just as it stood last year-21 Republicans and 12 Democrats. In the House the Democrats gained two In Philadely lila, in the 2d and sth die tricts ; oas in Adams, and one in Union, where Marshall (Rep.) was beaten by Rouch (Dem.) by two votes. The Democrats have thus gained four members in thr HOUSe on their streneth of last year. Fifty-four of the Repre sentatives elected were members of the last Houle: SENATE 1 W. McCEmdlesig, 2 C. M. Donovan, D. 3 J. E. Rhk.lway, R. 4 Geo. (ioLuell, R. 5 Horace toyer, It. W. Wortillngton,"R, 6 0. P. Janes, D. 7 Geo. B. Srhall D. J. D. Dalls, 9 W. H. Randall, D. 10 C. Burnat, "D. 11 Geo. Laxdon, R. 12 L. D. Shoemaker, R. 13 Warren Cowles, R. 14 John Wills, D. 15 G. 1). Jackson, *D. 16 G. D. Caeman, Republicans, 21; Democrats, 12; Repub limn majprity, 9. Those Senators marked with a (~) are newly Waited members. 17 E. Blllingfelt, J. W. Fisher, 'R. 1.8 A. H. Glatz, 'D. 19 D. M'Conaughy R Al A. litutzman, .R. 2i L. W. Hail, It. Kirk Haines, R. 22 Harry White, R. .2:3 W. A. Wallace, D. 24 T. B. Searlght, *D. 25 J. L. Graham, R. T. J. Thgbam, R. 26 A. W. Taylor, F,. 27 R. A. Browne, R. 2S Jail. C. Brown, *R. 29 M. B. Lowry, R. norsE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Philadelphia. Green. IG. W. Clhegan, *R. John Phelan, 13. 2W. S. Gregory, D. Huntingdon Mifflin and 3 Sam. Joieplis,. D. Juniata. 4 W. W. Vatt,. R. Harry S. Wharton, R. 5Wm B.llood, D. James M. Brown,' R. , Jas. Freeborn,. R. Indiana and IVestinore -7 J ames tithers,..ll. land. 8 Jas. N. Larne,. R. Capt. W. C. Gordon, R. 9G. A. Qtigley,. 1). A. W. Kimmel', R. 15 E. W. Dtvls,. R. I. F'. Gallagher, R. 11 W.. 1. Denohough, R. Lancaster. 13 Alex. Mains,. R. David G. Stacey, R. 13 Michael Mallen, D. And. Armstrong, R. 14 W. M. Worrall it. Capt. E. D. Roach. R. 15 G. Dellaven, Jr., R. John M. Stehman, R. 16 D. Wallace,' R. Lebanon. 17 Ed. G. Ike,. R. Capt. J. B. Melly,* R. 18 J. N. Mirka,. R. Lehigh A cams. James Cline, 1), Nicholas Setzel, D. John H. Fogel, D. Allegheny. Lycoming, Union and Col. J. P. blase 'R. /Snyder. It. A. ColvUle, f R.Sam. 0. w ingitra,* R. Geo, S. M.l.ee,. R. Geo. Wilton, R. C. D. Rouen, D. John H. Wright, R. Wm. Petals, B. Lucerne. Sam. Chadwick, tR. William Brannan, D. Armstrong. David Koon,. 1). Lt. F. Mecillng, R. John MHenry, D. Birks. Mercer, Lawrence and Rlclin oud L. Jones, D. Butler. Federlek Earner,' D. Josiah M'Pherson,' R. Henry B. lhoads,. D. James A. Leech, H. Burka. W. C. Harrison, H. Luther Calvin,' D. Henry Pillow,' R, F. W. Headman,* D. Nlontgonzery. Bra Word aid nuaivan. A. D. Markley,. U. G. W. Kinney,' R. E. SatterthWalt," D. James H. 'Webb,* It. Northampton. Blclr. Oliver H. Meyers,* D. Samuel .M'esimant, R. T. D. Harrington,. D. Chndria. Northumberland. John I'. Linton. D. George W. Tharp,. D. Carbon and Monroe. Perry and Franklin. Allen Craig,' D. F. S. Sturnbaugh,* R. Centre. (8, A. Shuman* R. Frederick Kurtz, 13. bchuyUcill. Clarion and Jefferson. K. Robinson. D. William ''.:auks, D. Peter F. Collins,* U. Clearfle Id Elk and Philip Green, G. Forest. &merle& Bedford and John 13. Hunt, D. Fulton. (Xi/don, Onneron and John Weller, R. M'A'van, John K. Mallards, R. U. 0. Doke, B Hisquehonna and Wy- Wieder. outing. N. J. Sharpleue,. R. Jas. T. Cameron,' R. N. A. Pennypacker,'R. Jacob Kennedy, It. W. B. Waddell,. It. Tioga and Potter. CVaw.cerd. John es. Mann,' R. J. T. Chase, R. W. T. Humphrey,. R. J. Boyd Espy, R. Venango and Warren. Columbia and Montour. Dr. W. L. Whann,• R. Thomas Chalfant, D. Col. H. Allen,* R. Cumberland. Washington and Beaver. Philip Long...D. Col. M. S. quay,* R. Dauphin. J. R. Day, R. H. W. Hoffman,* It. Col. John Ewing, it, Dr. J. W. Seller,' it: Wayne and Pike. Delaware L. Westbrook,} 13. John H. Barton, R. York. &rte. Levi Mahal, U. D. 13. M'CrettrT,. It. Stephen U. Boyd, D. 0. 8. Woodward,. R. Payette. I .. C. E. Boyle,' D, Republicans, G 2; 11, tin majority. 2.1. on joint ballot, 33. lumocrats, 3»; Ropu b- Republican majority Nlenlbers of We lam ; of previous Hes session 'narked with •tons with a (f), Unprolltab 0 Curiosity About ten days ego a young man left his wife in Moore streeet, and said he would return in a short time and go to the Masonic Fair with her. As the gentleman did not return ut night his wife became much alarmed, and search was made to discover his whereabouts. The coroner's office was visited, likewise the Morgue at Bellevue Hospital, and the assistance of the pollee was secured. Inquiries wore also made of a brother of the m4isng man, living in lowa, but no tidings could be obtained. This morning the wife was surprised at receiv ing a telegram from New Orleans inform ing her that her husband was in that city. It appears that during his perambulations he went on board of a Now Orleans steamer to see how she looked, and while on board she sailed.—N. Y. l'Ust, Tuesday. The Man who Wanted President Lincoln Assassinated. During the closing days of the rebellion a man named George W. Gayle, a lawyer in Cahaba, Dallas county, Ala., advertised in a Selma paper that he would make one of a number who would contribute a certain amount of money for the assassination of President Lincoln. After the confederacy broke down and Northern troops commenc ed to garrison the towns of the Southern States, lawyer Gayle was hunted up and was charged with the above offence. Ms trial was set down for yesterday at Mont gomery, when he will be afforded an op portunity of proving his loyal intentions. Johnny Steele. A number of stories are going the rounds of the prime, about Johnny Steele, which, we learn from the beet authority, aro in correct. Among these is the statement that he secured $150,000 from Mrs. McClintock' s' safe, after her death. The largest sum be could possibly have obtained was from $BO,OOO to $40,000. Another false story is to the effect that " Hon. John Morrissey went through him at faro to the amount of $lOO,- 000 in two nights." He never lost any money by Morrissey, or if he did it was in small sums. The daily income of Steele is given at $4OO, which is far above the actual sum. His farm yielded him about 80,000 , monthly, for a time, but during the last year the sum has not been more than half those figures. These facts we learn from one who is intimately acquainted with Steele's affairs, and who would not tell us what was not the truth. Steele's wealth, like that of most fast people, has been hugely exaggerated in the public belief.— Brie Observer. The Negro Sale In Maryland. A prominent gentleman of Annapolis has written a letter to the papers, fully plaining all the '4lrOtitinitances con. 1 • ‘telr /Mtn 'the Sale otfthe negro cob. iota the city.We Make the follow "g. eZtractigo, Vendaient..to the law of the *Cita whieti..the sale ; occurred was •ataieci in' e interest of theTelleillon, or with a view to oppress the negro; will hardly be credited, when I State that Governor Bradford succeeded Governor Hicks during that \ session, and that the law was adopted by the same overwhelming Union Legisla ture that passed the treitatm bill and the de fence loan bill. • In the House the Vote was 48 yeas to a nays, arid among the names of the conspicuous Union men who voted with the majority are to be found those of Mr. Eusor, of Baltimore county; the present Senator, Cresswell; Mr. Kerr, of Talbot county ; and Thomas . J. Alexander, Esq.,of Baltimore city. In the Senate it receivd every vote cast except itvio including Judge Henry H. Golds borough, Judge John F.. Smith. and Messrs. Firey, and Willis, all of whom, with all I have named as having voted for the acts of 1858 bud 1861, are recognized Its men of un questioned loyalty by the moat advanced Radicals of the present day. It any fur ther proof upon this point were required, :it might be found In the fact that one of the • two Senators who voted against the act of 1861 was Mr. Heckert, of Cecil, who had just been released front Fort 'Warren, where he had been imprisoned upon a Charge of disloyalty. Dick Harris was indicted for larceny of twenty pounds of beef from a butcher's shop in Annapolis. The offence was fully proved by two of his colored companions who saw Mtn take the property, and it was found by the owner where Harris had concealed it. The judge bolero whom the case was tried, after a patient hearing, pronounced him guilty, which was nu news to Harris, as he Lad admitted that he took the property, but insisted that he was so much intoxicated at the time that he won not responsible for his act. If he had possessed a white skin the judge would have been forced to send him to the penitentiary for u term from one to fifteen years. But availing himself of the discretion committed to him by the act of 1861, he ordered Harris to bu sold within the state for six mouths. The awful sun. lance was curried into effect, and the in nocent sufferer was bought by his brother for $5O, and is now at large working us his own master in Annapolis tit .1,8 a week. The practical result of the whole utihir is, that for a crime which would have consigned a White man to the penitentiary, Dick Harris was lined Pi, more than one-half of which he says he has repaid Mills brother already from his earnings. When the sentence was announced he was greatly delighted, and I suppose he would baldly thank any super• serviceable friend who should contrive to have his sentence changed to confinement in the penitenthiry. At the session of the court at which this sale wits ordered, a prominent member of the bar, who is distinguished for his zeal in behalf of the negroes, and who Is believed to be the retained counsel of the Freedmen's Bureau here, repeatedly appealed to the court to order the sale 01 sonic of his free negro clients who had been convicted, and the prisoners earnestly joined In the re qnest. It was represented that the peni tentiary was tilled to its utmost capacity; that there was no way of employing a large number of those already there; and that a further addition to the number would en danger both the health and safety of the Inmates. In pronouncing sentence, the judge, lu addition to these considerations, stated that us there were circumstances of mitigation In the case, and as Harris was the son of a very respectable old color ed woman well known in this place, he would save hint from the contagion of evil association in the crowded prison, and affix the lightest punishment in his power. This provision of the law has always been regarded as a merciful one, and the late Judge Brewer, whose worth and uncom promising loyalty are known to every one who knew him, constantly ordered such sales where there were mitigating circum stances authorizing the exercise of lenity towards the prisoner. At the same session of the court I saw an elderly white man, with a wife and five children, three of them of tender years, sentenced to the penitentiary for eighteen months, un a conviction for larceny—the only proof of his guilt worthy of notice being his possession of stolen property one week after its loss. Confiscation of Race-horses in Michigan The Detroit Post says : On December 15th, General Morrow, collector of customs, caused the seizure of two celebrated race horses, Dun Rice and Lamplighter. Alan eon C. Sheley, of Windsor, a jockey, owned the horses, and frequently came to this side, ostensibly for the purpose of taking pleasure drives. This was carried on to a great extent, the well-known animals being seen in Detroit daily. It soon was ascer tained that the horses were the property of a Canadian, and were kept and fed on British soil. The information necessary to warrant a seizure being obtained the horses were con fiscated. Mr. Sheley subsequently tiled an affidavit to the effect that Lamplighter had not been smuggled, and alleged that she had never been in Canada. On this side of the river Sheley sold the horses, and this turned out to be the prime cause of their confisca tion. A day or two since bonds were given for Lamplighter. Dim Rice will be sold at public sale in about a week. IiEMMM The developments arrived at respecting the Salt Mines of Nevada are almost start ling in amount. A single bed there is com puted to cover fifty-two thousand acres. It is solid rock salt, ninety-live per cent. fine. It now yields at the rate of two million bushels per annum. The water rushes up from a distance of about thirty-five feet, and makes a constant deposit of the finest rock salt. It is proposed to sink shafts at various points, in hopes of striking HOMO spot where water will not be touched, and where the salt can be quarried, as in Hungary and Poland. Whether this is attained or not, it is settled that Nevada has au abundant available supply for the uses of all the regions lying west or the Mississippi; so accessible and so pure that there will bo no need to depend upon foreign production. The ad vantages flowing from this discovery to the future of Nevada and the contiguous Status are great, and too plain to require commen t. The whole region Is adapted to grazing and stock raising, and every year sees an Increase in the census of stock. The busi ness can now be rendered more profitable than over, and our salted meats may in no great time boar the brand of the extreme west, with mutual profit, where without such a supply the trade would at least be more costly to the consumers and less profi table to the producers. The work which is being done in this territory, in the teeth of a reasonable mining fever, indicates the demand, which Is happily met, and the great advantages which aro to be expected. Longevity and Fecundity ---A iteniarkm ble ntrulli, irrom the Montezuma (Iowa) Republican.l Perhaps it is not generally known that that veritable old gentleman known SA the "oldest inhabitant," resides in our county. His name is William Prosser. Be resides in Washington township, about four miles from Grinnell and is now In his ninety fourth year. He was one of the first settlers in this part of the county, and from present appearances bids fair to be a resident of the county for some years longer. Mr. Prosser served as an artilleryman during the war of 1812, a n d was in the bat tles of Lundy'e bane and Fort Erie. lie is quite vigorous, and will walk three or four miles with ease. Ile has never received a pension but now thinks of applying for one. Ills mother's family were not long lived, but on his father's side they lived to a great ago. His father's mother was mar ?led twine, and her second husbana's name was Van Camp. They lived In North Hamp ton, Pennsylvania. She lived to the age of one hundred and fourteen years, and raised to manhood and womanhood twenty chil dren! Among them were three pairs of twins! the latest pair being born after she was sixty years of age ! sow If anybody's grandmother can beat that, Just let them speak out. The old lady evidently had a penchant for twins, which appeared to run into old age. She was undoubtedly a de scendant of Mrs. Sarah Abraham, who Is spoken of in ancient history as being the happy mother of little Isaac in the ninety first year of her age. It imsaid that wonders never cease. Perhaps some one can record parallel cases at the nineteenth century. The Late Indian 31amtaere. W AsxINATo N, Dec. 31.—The Commission er of Indian Affairs has received the fol lowing telegram: FORT LARAMIE, Dee. 29. 7b the Hon. Lewis Bogy, asonmiasioner of _lndian 41)i:tins: An Indium arrived from Tongue river, repot ts that a large party of Menuecojoes, Brutes, Ogaßailees, Crows, Unkaphaphas, Bluckfeet, and Samaras, left Tongue river on the 12th instant for Fort Phil. Kearney, and on the 22d they were discovered near the Fort. Brevet Lieut. Col. Fetterman, Capt. Brown and Lieut. Grummond, with 90 enlisted. men, left the fort to give Kattle. Nothing more was heard from them until a party sent out from the fort found them, at a distance of four miles lying dead, Col. Fetterman and his entire command having been massacred by the Indians. (Signed) M. F. PATnicx, Upper Platte Agent. Result of Adverttring Stephen Girard, than whom no more shrewd business man ever lived, gives the following as his experience : "I have always considered advertising liberally and long to be the great medium of success in business, and the prelude to wealth. And I have made it an Invariable rule to advertise in the dullest time as well as the busiest, long experience having taught me that money thus spent is well laid out; as by Seeping my business con tinually before the public, it has secured me many sales that rwould otherwise have lost." . :news Deno. Gen. Grant has recovered from his illness Gen. Sherman arrived in St. Louts yes terday. The Maine State Prison was managed at a profit of $lOO last year. Gen. Grant has been confined to his house by indisposition for a day or two past. M. Berthemy, the new French Minister, is ill of erysipelas in Washington. The Washington Navy Yard will be pro posed to Congress as a better place for the iron clads than League Island. Representatives of the woollen interest are' in Washington, strongly urging the adoption of a high tariff on imported wool. Near Cleveland, Ohio, a father shot ono of three persons engaged in taking up the body of his daughter, recently burled. The Sacramento river was twenty-two feet above low water mark, and still rising on the 24th. A St. Louis gentleman lost his wife by death, and refused to let her be buried, Thu Board of Health had to interfere. - -• The North Carolina Insoivuut Debtors' bill has passed the House, securing 100 acres of hind and the house to the insolvent, During the last year, 97,000 arrests have been made in the city of New York. Eighty-three wore for homicide. The Pennsylvania Legislature will moot on Tuesday next. A number of the mem bers have already arrived In Harrisburg. Col. Sawyer, Adjutant General on Sher man's staff, died in St. Louis on Wednes day night. There was a severe snow storm at Al bany, N. Y., yesterday, and railroad travel was interbred with. Three persons were drowned by- the up setting or a canoe while crossing the river at Quebec, on Christmas evening. Since January let, 170 lives have been lost upon the Lakes—about the same num ber as last year. Among the recent pardons granted by the President is that of lieu. M. W. Ransom, of North Carolina. The Republicanm of the Second tiongres sional District of New Hampshire have nominated linnet al Aaron F. Stevens for Congress. The Congressional excursionists arrived in New orieutis int Thursday night, and wore entertained yesterday by the author ities. The absence of Cable IIVWN Mina. Tuesday last In accounted for by the Now fountlland telegraph line being prostrated by the storm, Which prevents It transmission. Three fatal cation or cholera appotrod lu Chlalnuall litst Monday. 'rho vit.tint all bulonged tootle Ilunlly, and two tailor mum born are quite mink. A Wusterti railroad mulairintendatit (Un charged it conductor who refuned adinismlon to the thlit-ultuel ear to a guntlutnati holding a first-clam ticket. Jamem Semple, Formerly United Staten Senator from Illinois, und afterwariln United States Minister to Bogota, tiled on Lint loridayi The ea4h In the U. S. Treasury twiounta to about b 06,000,000, ut which $80,000,000 are gold. Thu gold reeolpta fur the current month have Wen very light. Gov. Curtin has appointed a connninsiun to Inquire into tho alleged lunacy orNowton Champion, couvictod of warder in Philo dolphin. The collecUon of internal revenue in the disaffected counties of Missouri in suspend ed and thu collector is a fugitive in St. Louis. A wall of the burnt building at the N. W. earner of Twelfth and Alarkut streets, in Philadelphia, fell yesterday morning, kill ing one man and Injuring two others. In Cincinnati, on Monday, three persons of one Madly died from eating diseased pork, and two others are now 11l front the same cause. The President has revoked the exuquatur of Uerhurd Jamison, Consul of Oldenburg at New York, Janssen having refused to appear in the Supreme Court of New York in answer to a suit against him. Extensive arrangements are being made for a grand convention at St. Louis of the people of the Mississippi valley on the first Tuesday in Febuary, to consider measures for improving the navigation of the Missis sippi river. Senator B. (irate Brown has declined a re-election from Missouri. Gov. Fletcher is also reported to have retired from the con test, so that the successful party Is expected to be Henry T. Blow. Frank Cowan, a son of the Senator from Pennsylvania, and until recently a clerk of the Senate, has written and published] a play, entitled "Three-told Love," in live acts. The President has received from James Lyons, of Richmond, a cane made of a piece of the old frigate "Constitution." The inscription on the gold head of the cane compliments Johnson !Ls " The Restorer of the Constitution," An Indianapolis journal noticing the per formanca of the tilhioni Opera Troupe, at the Morrison Opera House, in that tiny, Saw r day evening, says: " L'A friction is more popular with our citizens than II Trovatore." Very likely. The African is now the popu lar card all over the country and drawn immensely. A wagon containing four men ran ill w bridge near St. Paul, Minn., on Monday night, and was precipitated with its occu pants a depth of one hundred and tlfty feet. All the men were Injured, but only one was killed, The girl-flogging schoolmaster of Cam bridge, Mass., has been presented by his friends with P5O. A lady school teacher in Louisville has been lined for punishing a boy. Does Kentucky outrank Massa chusetts in President Johnson has Is- tied a proclama tion for the admission of French vessels Into our ports upon payment of the same rates of tonnage as are imposed upon Vessels of the United States. nip, is done In pur suance pf acts of Congress, the slime privi lege having been accorded American vessels entering French ports. The government 1/1 muppomed to be hi pommemmion of advicec which leave no room to doubt that the British Cabinet will fully recognize the Alainuno chtim e, and, In return, our own Cabinet will recognize the British claims ugulnst this country. At Minneapolis recently two young girls were kidnapped while on the way to church. Their mother afterwards received a letter Prow her Lambent!, from whom /1110 had meliorated, Informing her that he had the children and mite would never again see them. The flow:nut - lent has bean informed by Sir Frederick Bruce, that the English man of-war Bolivar, while ut Luguayra was taken possession of by her crew, and had cleared for parts unknown. Efforts will be made to detain her should, Mau visit Ameri can waters. The Columbus (0.) Journal reports that the packers of that city are hard at work, and are daily salting down a largo number of hogs. They report that the pot. cent. of lard NO tar this season has boon largo; that it will equal, If not exceed that of last sea son. Govornor Patton, of Alabama, rneently addressed a mess meeting In Lauderdale county, in that State, and strongly urged the propriety of accepting tho eonfititut lona I amendment. Senator Parsons, on theother hand, advises the people of the State to shunt firmly by President Johnson and reject the amendment. Early yenterday allernoon, the office of Mr. C. P. Bayard, in the Coniniurch,l Bank building in Philadelphia, wan robbed of railroad and Government mocurities to the value of over $lOO,OOO by three men, who entered apparently fur bucincea. The money wen taken by one of them front the safe, while the others hold a brother of Mr. Bayard in converaation. The thieves have escaped. The Chicago Times Kaye: "Two cities which desire to be considered rivals of Chicago have each made another attempt to get up metropolitan Konsation. Milwaukee has Another case of in taticide, and Cincin nati has opened a drunishop which cont three hundred thousand dollars. Try again, gentlemen." Chicago can truthfully boast of pre•emlueut in crime. Frauds upon the revenue are not confined to whiskey distillers alone. It is known that some of the silk and lace Importers have perpetrated huge swindles upon the government by means of undervalued in voices or other ixiutrivances which they have invented to meetpreseut emergencies. One importing house alone In Now York was compelled a few weeks ago to puy 880,- 000 in gold for an attempt to evade the law. It is understood a general order hi ha course of preparation, to be directed to De partment Commanders, acqaainting them with the decision of the Supreme Court against the illegality of courts martial for the trial of civilians, and directi❑ them to confine themselves strictly to military du ties, leaving Judiciary questions to the de cision of the civil courts, or something to that effect. Thu three contestants for the grand ocean sweepstakes have now boon at sea nearly fifteen days, and yet nothing definite or satisfactory has been heard of them. The steamship City of Paris, which left. Now York on tbb 15th, luta arrived out, and re ports nothing concerning them. Captain Judkins, of the steamship Scotia, at Liver pool on the Zith reports west winds during the passage. Ho thinks the New York yachts will make the run in about sixteen days. %. despatch from Fort Laramie says there Is no reason to doubt the full truth of the report of the wholesale massacre of three officers and ninety privates of the Second United States cavalry and Eighteenth United States infantry at Fort Kearney on the 22d inst. The massacre took place at Fort Philip Kearney, in Dakota Territory, and not at old Fort Kearney. It is further reported that the Indian tribes had Muster ed- to the number of eleven thousand for common cause against the whites in Dakota' and Montana Territories.
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