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Het been of any Very , t peel iiitelient. e Uteri , fore htet , out I.lu• knig reporiv wblell have cotite to t., by telegraph, Roil give our readers wittier of much imat. 1.,, them. I tereafter Nl• \V 0111' \Veek l'y .Itort tied L.:irefully prepared abst utitlttilig snu•ll wallet . it will lint ht. or general nell.latlons on the Senntorlitl Questlon IVegiceelru•tcherelLN4nlewlint lengthy .teito(1111. of the futinnt•t• iu mitit.ll Sitnon llic Juri Iy or Iht• Le g kiutur, The :u•cotwl ul 1111 vurresimiident uf 'O,/ine(l.o/1.1( 1 4 114. ' 4 Inv'A •ctlY \VIII , ' lll r u t c nvit.ve prpmptitt,tl. It U 111 In• rt.11(1 ((ii II Ititt.o,l Icy ttll. Senator l'oit fri.ll.l , of t 4 ornitio• l'uwan 1%111 Owl to 1,.• lit.iot wool )liiii4ter In AiNtritt. prt.• in the Stlittle will ri.lomi• to confirm Iris appoint- Cameron Elected Carnerini wits eleult,l Su:tutor }eqturday. Thu Demurah.vitmt a tinitutl ,(au for I hffl. I..dgar The President to be Impeached and a !inanition Inaugurated. Tilers in reason to believe that the Radicals in Congress have determined to inaugurate a complete revolution. When the impeaehment of President Johnson was tirs't moved in the House, ac hoped enough men would be found there to save the nation from the mud designs of theextreine fanatics. We are being Pureed to the eonviction that our hopes in that regard were without foundation. Tlw revolutionary ealed at Washington see very plainly that while the President and the Supreme Court of the United Staten remain as barriers in their way, they cannot suc ceed In carrying out their projected de signs. They cannot remodel the Supreme Court until they place in the Presidential chair some one who will do their bidding, regardless of the ( 'on stitution;and of the bent Interests of the nation. To maintain the nupreinaey of their party they scent willingto proceed to any extreme. soon after the adjournment the last session of I 'ongress, a distinguished lien:dor from this Stale laid down to us the plan which he deelared the Radical majority would pursue. lie said, with truth, that these fanatics (lured not stand null ; that to do so was to sash' inevitable defeat; t ha t they must ad vance or see their party perish. When asked if they would impeach the Presi dent, he replied by asking the question What else can they do ?" Ile saw that they would be placed ill the exact position in whieh they now stand, II :11:0117 t.O I dish their purposcH h oot, getting rid of both the President and the Supreme Court. lie laid down 10 us in advance the precise programme on which these revolutionists are now boldly entering. The movement of an impeachment is the first. step. Before the close of the present neasl , in ILke House Coturnittee on the Judiciary will report in favor of • impeaching the President, and the re port will be adopted. A committee will then be appointed by the House to go before the Senate, and, in the name of the House, Min/peach Andrew Johnson for certain alleged crimes and utisde• meanors, and to demand his immediate The ,4enatc will proceed to make preparations for the a ial of the Presi dent, and, in the mean lime, a decree Will be passed by both houses deelarll4, that, gentling the result of the trial, the official functions or the chief executive Mike of the nation shall ISe discharged by the Speaker or the Senate . This work will all he done up during the last hours of the present session. The new l-3,enate and Ilouse will be eon Cenci' oil the 4th of \l arch. As soon as the pre, sent Congress adjullrllS, the next will at once eollllllellee its session. Item \Vade, of Ohio, has already been designated as the new Speaker of the Senate, and from the time lie takes his seat, he will be virtually President of the United States. The trial of President Johnson will be vigorously pushed forward, and a very few days will suffice to depose him from office. With Ben. \Vade in the Executive Chair there will be no barriers to restrain the revolutionists. A law increasing the number of •f udges of the Supreme Court will be passed at mice, and, of course, Wade will norni• nate the (Host iiiiiierLlpLllol/H 1111 . 11 pecan find. Then the revolution Will be com plete. Such We believe tfi L.: the Radical pro. gratnine. How eau it I n defeated and the Republic saved We fear nothine: will be I( It l'or the People hut the in auguration 01' a counter revolution. They must prepare to reshil and• much revolutilinary chauge hi the thrill of our owie,rni f ient by force. It will conic to that inevitably, unless the Radicals shall desist rrorn their 111 falllol.lB dertignm, Let every lover of his country hold himself ready to respond to her call at moment's notice, If there should be need of him, as we verily believe there will be, in such u contest we should have no fear of the result. The fate of the Radical revolutionists would set an example which would not be forgotten to a hurry. Let the people be prepared. Ilow Cameron Secured the Nomination For mouths past there has been great commotion In the ranks of the Radical horde of Pennsylvania. Ever since the 9ctober election the Senatorial question has been a source of intense excitement. No one of the numerous candidates named was such a man as Pennsylvania should send to the Senate of the United Stated. Against three of them, Curtin, Cameron and Forney, the greatest dliarges of corruption had been made In terms so explicit as to destroy belief in their honesty. The masses of the Republican party of this State had been so much accus tomed to hear Andrew (3. Curtin lauded as a great man, and so much flattered as "the soldiers' friend," that it is safe to say a very large majority of them favored his election to the U. S. Senate. Next to Curtin, Stevens was the popular candidate. There is beyond ques tion a considerable element in the Republican party of Pennsyl vania which would haverejoiced in the election of Thaddeus• Stevens, because he is the representative of the most radical doctrines. Simon Cameron, the successful candidate, entered the arena with comparatively few adhe rents among the threehundred thousand men who cast their votes for John W. (eary. Certainly nine out of ten of these, and probably a much larger pro portion, preferred one or the other of the candidates named in opPosltion to him. Wherever the contest was fairly made before the people, Cameron's represen tatives were almost invariably and overwhelmingly defeated. Those who claim that a clear and very decided majority of the members of the Legisla ture were elected i n opposi don to Simon Cameron are perfectly correct In their assertions. There is and can be no doubt about it. With the condemnation of the Re publican masses so clearly set. upon him, unit n large majority of this Legislature elected in opposition to him, any other man than Cameron would have de spaired or um i.h.coon, and hay.. to matt! . thi. contest. Not HI) Willi killd Or material he had to deal with, and knew very well that IC majority 11/U of the present Legislature had sotc2 lit calve with the single idea of !nuking, money by Selling 1111 . 11' N'ollB and their influence. linowlng this he deliberately proceeded to purchase a sullirient number to ensure him the cilium)) nomination. At first the Itepub- Ilea!) newspaper press professed not to believe that such a thing could he ac hilt, us tilt• day for the ilweling of the Legislature approached, they began to realize the extent to which Cameron had succeeded in cur• rupting theme libel's elect. The choice (il(.(lass, I heavowed Cameron eandidate, Spealter or tilt. 11011,112, NN'llS justly re garded as the extinguishment of all hope or heating the great corruption ist. In vain did Forney and :\icClure rage, In vain WaS Thaddeus Stevens brought liver front \Vashington. The majority of the Radicals In the Legislature were not, to be moved by newspaper appeals, Ilot• to he terrified by the voice of the leader of the lower I louse of Congress. 'They refused to recognize any hut the most substantial motives for their con duct, and having sold themselves to Cameron, boldly did his bidding in de• llama- of all opposing influences. Never was any State so disgraced as was Pennsylvania by the result of this contest. IL Is manifest to the world that the representatives or the dominant party in this State, men chosen to make I:I.WS for the people, are ready to take bribes even in a case of the great• est importance, and to sell out them selves and their colistituents whenever money enough Is offered. I.'or the existence or such a state of public sentiment among the Republi ean members of the Legislature, the leaders of that party are to blame. or t he candidates prominently put forward at least three out of the four most prom inent were known to have been about equally corrupt. If the facts were set birth to public view 11. would be seen that neither Curtin 111,1. Vorney are any better than Cameron. Nor are the tnassen of the Republican party clear of reproach in the matter. They have persisted in supporting' inen after their corruptions have been made such u thing has ceased to be regarded us any stain ul, the character of public men belonging to that party. Indeed it is not strange that the Radi cal members of the Legislature should Lave sold themselves to Cameron. 'They had seen corniption nourish In their party to such an extent, that it is no longer regarded even US disreputable among them. IL wits never so In the Democratic party. The tone or public sentiment with It has always been higher and purer. The moment any member of it was known to have taken a bribe In any puldie capacity, he was disgraced forever. We might adduce In stumps, might bring forward as ex amples 1111'11 IlVillg ill the same county, to prove the entire truthfulness or whitt we assert, but Nye presume no one will dare to deny it. Years ago the whole hotly of Repub. !leans in the Legislature of Pennsylva nia made Simon Cameron the caucus nominee l'or I:nited States Senator for ,Ole reason, and for one reason only. lie declared that he could purchase a single Democrat and thus be elected. This infamous proposition NVIIS discussed, ap proved by theentire body of Republican Senators and Representatives, and I'anieron was made the choice Of the caucus, hot a single member refusing to endorse the scandalous transac tion, and lie dissenting only from personal preference for Mr. Wilmot who was repudiated for no other reason than because it was be lieved Cameron could secure an election by bribery and corruption. They en dorsed and approved just such a piece of rascality as that by which he has now succeeded in defeating the desire of a great majority of his own party. having unanimously approved of cor ruption :111,1 bribery when it was to be employed against the Democracy, they Bane no tight to complain now that such means have been used against themselves. Curtin may writhe and Forney may howl, but the judgment of all honorable men a ill be that they de served no better fate. We hope the lesson taught by this senatorial struggle may not be lost upon the people. It is high time there was an end or the rule of this infamously corrupt political or ganization ILI PellllSylVallia and else where. The Ohio Democracy t ndannted, the Democracy of Ohio enter •upon another contest with the Lest. of candidates, and steadfastly faith ful to the best of principles. Judge .\lien Thurman, one of the pa triotic Democrats of Ohio, an able, up right Milli, respected by men of all political parties, is their nominee for Governor. When quite a young man , Judge Thurman was sent to Congress from the old Chillicothe District, and being a nephew of Senator Allen, who Wits then the leading Democrat from Ohio, he enjoyed an early opportunity to make Lis mark In public affairs. His talent in debate is considerable, and his learning in his profession and out of it is beyond the standard or our Public men. 1121:1= Vulgarity an Evidence of Vigor The Express of last evening has a sort of half-hearted endorsement of the claims of Thaddeus Stevens to the Sen atorship. In one article It 'attempts to refute the charge made against him on account of his age. It has the Indecency to refer to the debate which . took place In the House on Saturday as an evidence of his unabated vigor. We are almost tempted to believe the Express design edly meant to damage his prospect by that allusion. Nothing so wretchedly disgraceful has ever occurred within the walls of the Capitol. We could not have imagined without proof that even Thaddeus Stevens could have shocked public decency by such bragging comparisons as a. remnant of shame would probably exclude even from a secret synod of Brigham Young's saints, though they are reported to have some addiction to the kind of husbandry which Mr. Stevens thinks so pictur esque. We should be sorry to think that Stevens exceeds the Mormons as much In looseness of life as he out-does them in grossness of language ; but the disgusting double entendres by which he repeatedly provoked " roars of laugh ter "in the House, on Saturday, sul t only with a husbandry which plants its roots promiscuously in soils of every colorand finds them not " ungrateful to the til ler's care." This is the first exhibition so grossly indecent which has ever de filed the House of Representatives, and we trust it may be the last. It is dis graceful to the House that It greeted it with demoustrationsof delight. Would that a copious stream of healthful pub lic sentiment might be turned into that A ugeun stable and sweep away its filth! For an assembly which holds its sit tings with a gallery of ladles looking down upon It, to tolerate such language as was used on Saturday, Is an Insult to the sex and an affront to civilization. stir Earn .vouf paper. I /et your neighbor to subscribe. The Veto Menhage. We wish we could be sure that every voter in the Ndrth would sit down and read calmly and dispassionately • the message of President Johnson vetoing the 11111 by which the right. of suffrage Is granted to every adult male negro who has re,ided within (lie District of Columbia for one year. Were we sure that this mingle document would be universally read by the voters of all the Northern Stales, we should confi dently expect a change of political °Millen sufficiently great to insure the defeat of the Radical Revolutionists at the next election. There Is in this mes sage an accumulation of argument and of authorities sufficient to open the eyes of any honest citizen who muy have been beguiled into Mllow log the lead of the hold, ',el well, who are now domineering: over the nation through the agency of an usurping Congress. Not only will the honest reader of this able message be convinced that our free institutions would be endangered by granti,pg unrestrieted suffrage to an Ig norant and an inferior race, hut he can not help being Impressed by the great weight of the authorities which are ad duced to prove that usurpations tend ing to despotism are Infinitely more likely to be attempted by I 'ongress than by the Executive. No man who reads the document to which we refer in the light of current events, can fail to feel the force of the declaration of Mr. Mad ison, that: "In a representative republic, where the Executive magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent and the duration of its power, and where the legislative power is exercival by tut assembly which Is inspired by a suMiosed 'inhume° over the people, with an intrepid conlithpnce In Its own strength; which is sll ly 1111merous to feel all the passions which actuate a multi tude, yet not so 111111101'011S its to be incapa ble of pursuing the ol,,jects of its passions by means which reason prescribes—it is against the enterprising ambition of this depart ment that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy :mil exhaust all their precau tions." The events of every day which passes are calculated to convince all of the wisdom displayed by the 'founders of our Republic in devising a system of constitutional restraints upon the dif ferent brunches or the general govern ment. Jealousy of kingly power,• a belief In the Illness of the people for self government, led them to rest very extended powers I u the Legislative branch. They could not have foreseen fully the dangers which DOW beset our free institutions. NU one of them would have believed that the people would even submit to see the plainest and most expllcite provision of the written Consti• :Ilion violated by a Con gress elected by the people. The argu ments voutained In the Veto Message which we publish to-day v.lll be duly pondered, and the sober second thought of the masses will prove that In their calmer moments the people can be trust ed to repair the mistakes they have made under the influence of passion The message Is very ably written, and Is clear and dignified throughout. It avoids narrow technicalities and rea sons from broad general principles and the vital spirit of our institutions. It concludes wit h the following paragraph, which will be found to be in accordance with the political sentiment of a large majority of the voters of Pennsylvania: After full deliberation upon this ulOll - I cannot hring myself to approve it, even upon loran considerations, nor yet as the beginning experimenl on a larger scale, I yield to no one in attachment to that rule - of g,oterai igittrugu which dis tinguishes our policy as a nation, But there is a Ilium, wisel ohqurved hitherto, which makes the ballot a privilege and u trust, and whieh retinues of some classes u time suitable for pr..liation mid preparation, 'fa give it intik, Mon,tely to a new elamm, wholly unprep.red, by previous habits and opportunity, perform the trust which it, demands, is to•degrude it, and finally to de stroy its power; for it may be Safely as sumed that no political truth is better es tablished than thutsuch indiscriminate and all-embracing extension of popular suffrage must end at lust iu its destruction. 1119_ Earn your paper. (;et your neighbors to subscribe. Test Oaths Unconstitutional. Yesterday the Supreme Court of the United States decided that Lest oaths are unconstitutional. The decision of the Court, which is most able, was pro nounced by Mr. Justice Field, Promptly at 11 o'clock the court was opened, and Mr. Justice Field proceeded to deliver the decision of the majority of the judges in the test-oath case of Cummings, a clergyman from the State of Missouri, on the constitutionality of the test-oath law of that State. In an elaborate and learned opinion, the Court held the law to be unconstitutional, be cause it was ex post facto, and in the nature of a bill of pains and penalties, which is contrary to the Constitution °Nile United States, and in the case cd. pate Garland, application for ad mission to practice before the Supreme Court, IL wns held by the Court that the test oath prescribed by act of Congress, for practitioners at the bar, was illegal and therefore void, and the rule of the Court requiring them to take It was, by order, rescinded. These decisions have created great enthusiasm among all friends of the Constitution, both in and out of Con gress, and it is hardly possible to over estimate their importance, especially at this particular time: They have struck terror to the hearts of the Radicals hereabouts l and their denunciation of the court is unmeasurable and exceed ingly bitter. We will give the deelelon In full in our next issue. One of fie Were ifief"tifeiti. Innumerable are the devices by which the Radicals manage to filch money from the public treasury. One of their favorite dodges is to allow any number of their defeated candidates• to contest the seats of Democrata in Congress or State Legislatures. Of late':theyhave unseated nearly every Democrat Whose election has been contestect 'But When unable to go so far as that, they invari ably vote thecontestant ahandsomesum of money to pay him for his rascality in endeavoring to perpetrate an outrage so gross that they could not sanction it. The loyal. majority of the lower House of our Legislature have just given us an exAmple of their willingness to aid men in thatkind of stealing. They have entertained the proposition of John J. Glass, of Cambria county, to contestthe seat of Colonel John P. Linton. Col. Linton received 3,375 votes at the late election, and Glass only 2,5(15. Glass has gone at the thing with the most sweeping allegations. In his petition he asserts, among other absurdities, that In one district "one hundred and seventeen illegal votes, or more," were cast for Colonel Linton. Colonel Lin ton's whole vote in that district was only 117. If there were more than that number of illegal votes cast they must have been cast for Glass. That instance will suffice to show the character of the specifications on which he bases his contest. The House will hardly dare to unseat Colonel Linton, but they will give Glass a thousand dollars or so out of the public treasury. That kind of thing is well understood. him come to be recognized as one of the ways the Radicals have ofrewarding their friends. The day was In Pennsylvania when the people would speedily have hurled from power any party which would be guilty of such rascality. 4011. lief" Earn your paper. Get your nolghborm to mubscribe. Tit! Source of the Impenchinent Project. The Nationnt Itepablicun l at W unlilinVon , walcum such !In exhibit 01 the would•be impeauher or the President as Indicates that ho himself Is not wholly lIMMICLIIIIIO nu IL public 1111111, and seeing the position In which he is himself placed by the following, It probably is on the theory that "misery loves company" that he seeks to draw Mr. Johnson Into the category with himself: The Oh io inp cue her .—" Ilu that Is without slu among you, let hint cast the first stone." lin Monday Mr. Ashley, or Ohio, arose In his Wave in the House of Representatives and charged the President with high crimes Old misdemeanors, and asked that lie be impeached. "It was a painful duty," and he had, during the recess of Congress, be sought various o 'mbers of the House to perform it. We suppose he sought to trod one who could meet the requirement we have quoted at the begi lining of thin article. We presume that that which rendered the duty so painful to him was the fact, well known to the !louse and to all who have road the records of the Thirty-Seventh Congress, that be could not meet that requirement which our Saviour denuinded of those who would take the reputation and life of their fel low•being. We had read the record, when It was made by a committee of the (louse, proving the lion. .1. M. Ashley guilty of °Metal conduct that ought to havedisgraced him in the eyes or Ills constituency forever. This record is to be found In Report No, 17 of the 3d ses sion of the 17th Cungress—t he report of it select committee, made on Pebruary 18, 1533, by 11011. 11. G. 11Illk13, chairman. It appears from this document, which is quite voluminous, that Mr. Ashley was only saved from " impeachment " by a flaw In the indictment. lie was charged with cor rupt official conduct " In procuring the ap pointment of F. M. Case as surveyor gen bral of the Territory of Colorado fur a con sideration previously made." The letters of Ashley and others, produced before the committee, and the testimony of witnesses, printed in their report, develop as much corruption as a large sized Con gressman's skin could hold ; but the com mittee came to the conclusion that " the consideration" was not exactly proved to have been "previously agreed upon," and therefore the charge was dropped. This was during the rebellion, and at that time Mr. Ashley was very zealous In the cause of the war "to preserve the Union." Ile managed under those circumstances, to get a re-elect ion. We have not the space to-day to give that amount of the testimony bearing upon the case which ought to be republished in view of the action of the great impeacher. Among the letters which appear in the committee's printed report is one from Ashley to Case, dated February 2d, 1861, in which he dwells upon the Importance and advantages of the offick (Surveyor 1 Femoral of Colorado Territory,) saying that it would enable a good business mall to make a fortune of e 00,060 l 81,001), mod In this letter he (Ashley) says: "I want toy brother us chief clerk." In a letter dated March 12, 1801, Ashley inlbrins Case that he had mach, mome pro gress, and that "In order to secure the Indiana delegation and Senator Lane to operate on Smith, he had promised that the sub , appointinents should be made jointly, he giving them their tirstelloice." Utensils for a letter authorizing him to make such a pledge. lie also says to Case, In his letter, that he wants to unite with him as a full partner In all land speculations and town sites. Here, Indeed, is an immaculate im peacher. Earn your pappr. (;ot your nolgli- JOrM Co 14111.P4C.1111e: .01110. ..- I.et ter from Gen. Bennreenril—lle Defines Ntsw Oni.k.txm, Jan. 10, 18117.--W. H. C. King, Esq., editor it the New Orleans Tinie.9-1/our Sir: In your paper this morn ing you publish an erticle from the New York Heraid, containing some remarkm relative to a mpoech I tun reported to have mode at Canton, Miss., totho Congressional excursionists lately in that Pity. The Irerrthl Is in error, for 1 :natio no speech et Clinton or eloowhoro to those ox- eursionints, but conversed with them freely and openly told them the South had fought the North so desperately because It wits de fending what It conceived to bo its consti tutional rights; that having appealed, how ever, to the a bitration of arms, it yielded to the decision which was Oven against it; that I believed that the people of the South were now willing to accept the Constitution us made by the war and understood by the Supreme Court of the United States. I said, also, in my opinion, the questions of secession and slavery were forever set tled ; and, so far as I was concerned, tinder no circumstances, would I countenance any effort to revive them; that we most now direct our energies and our vitality to re pairing tile damages of the war, and restor ing to our homes some of the coot torts and that prosperity which they formerly en joyed. In answer to the question of some of the excursionists, it 1 thought the South would accept the constitutional amendment, I replied that, eschewing politics, and atten ding strictly to the private business and duties of my position, I had little oppor tunity, except through newspapers, to as certain public sentiment on the subject; but, if they desired to know my individual opinion, I. would say that the South would not or should not accept the amendment, even if presented as a finality, for its in terests and manhood forbade it; that we feel we are now at the mercy of the North, but that the South would neverdo anything which its honor could not approve to pro tect its interests. 1 believe they would re main passive spectators of the struggle going on at the North, relying on the sober second thought and sense of justice of both parties to protect us. Therefore, at the fall of the Confederacy, instead of going to a foreign country to swear allegiance to its government, 1 pre ferred remaining in my own, and swearing allegiance to what I conceived to be its new Government. If, in conversation with the excursionists, I used the words consolidated government when speaking of the United States Government, I meant, of course, common Federal National Government, operating under the Constitution as inter preted by the Supreme Court of the United States. I remain yours, respectfully, G-. T. BEAUREGARD Earn your paper. Get your neigh bor to subscribe. Report on the California Riney The San Francisco Bulletin gives its an nual summary of the gold and silver mining interests of California and Nevada. The Gould tic Curry mines produced $1,600,000 in bullion last year; dividends $252,000. The Savage since July last yielded $l,lOO,- 000, and their dividends are $ 1360,000. Hall & Norcross, the past year, $1,200000, and their dividends are $350,000. Yellow Jacket yielded $1,300,000, and their divichinds are $300,000. Crown Point, $1,273,000, and their dividends are 5234,000. Ophir yielded 8450,- 000, and no dividends. Imperial, for the eighteen months, $1,525,000, and their divi dends are $370,000. The Eureka, in Grass Valley, produced last year $600,000, and earned $520,000. The Eureka of Amador county, yielded $485,000, with a profit of $132,08'J. Sierra Buttes claim last year $225,000, with a net earning of $138,000. For the last five years this mine has averaged about the same results, and was recently sold for $575,000. Hon. Fernando Wood, of New York Is on a visit to Savannah, Ga. A deputation of the city councils and citizens waited on him awl escorted him to a fireman's supper and ball. NINON OARENON FOR SENATOR. How He WaeiNominated E► Loyal Legislature Bought Up IRePorted Expressly for the Intelligancer.) Thursday was a day long to be remem :hered by all who caught an inside view of the political movements at. Harrisburg. For days past the excitement on the Sena torial question bad been gradually on the increase. From all parts of the Common wealth the Radical clans had been gather ing at the call of their various leaders. The crowd about the headquarters of the op posing candidates increased with the ar rival of each train, until all the hotelswere uncomfortably full. At noon yesterday the excitement was intense. The morning trains had arrived, freighted with adherents of the different candidates. Lancaster sent up a full dele gation. The bar-rooms of the different hotels were crowded with a set of thirsty, loyal Radical patriots, eagerly en gaged in a discussion of the claims of the various candidates and a canvass of the situation. The Lochiel was tilled. Every where throughout its spacious apartments were gathered groups of cheerful and self complacent individuals. Everybody about the premises appeared to be in u good hu mor. The bar did a smashing business, and the barkeepers were extra polite. The liquors furnished were good, and not a dis• satisfied lace eoulclove«ee except two or three Stevens mon. They looked solemn as the occasion demanded, considering they were putting up at the Cameron headquarters. One of them, whom we approached with a feeling akin to sympathy, remarked "My voice Is still for Stevens." His voice was subdued and seemingly hOttrBo. Be fore we could frame a suitable reply, he added, " tapw d—d still." Then we under stood what he meant and why, in spite of his heavy visage, he stopped at the Lochiel. He was a Cameron man in disguise. Reflecting on the deceitfulness of poli ticians we left the Cameron headquarters In disgust. 'Aiming In at the Jones House, where Cameron had rented all the best rooms lu advance of the coining of Old Thad, and compelled that youthful repro• bate to put up with a cut In the garret, we saw a remarkable contrast to the scene we had left. A half dozen unic loon looking In dividuals from Lancaster stood at the bar endeavoring to mile amid their grief, while an es•U, S. °Melia had a guilty looking wretch cornered whom from his appearance we took to be one of the members of the Legislature whom Simon had bought. We saw at mice that there was to be no scrub race for Congress in the Lancaster district --at least not Just Immediately. Hence the gloomy look of those who cut in moody silence or stood drinking apparently with out enjoyment at the bar of the Jones !louse. At Bolton's comfortable aml ad nilrably arranged hotel we found a pleasant group of cheerful gentlemen. They seemed to be en tirely free from cure, and we are sorry to say seemed to have their Jollity much Increased by a knowledge of the disagreeable snarl over the Senatorial question which was producing so much excitement elsewhere. On inquiry we found that this was DUIIIO • erotic headquarters, and that most of the crowd assembled were consoling themselves by reflections on the misery or their oppo nents. At thu State C'apital thu !Ault:ll,4l(3r Ilium bore of the Legislature make their home. They were not visible. Though we watch ed and waited we could nut catch a glimpse of one of them. Whether they were coop ed up with Old Thad. in his garret, or dodging about in more suspicious quarters' we did not learn. The State Capital had been selected as the scene of an interview between the factions opposed to Cameron, and the crowd gradually became more dense. We embraced the opportunity to step out and go to the Brady House, where ('ol. McClure dispensed the hospitalities and urged the claims of Governor Curtin. liars all looked dreary. Descending to the base ment, where the bar Is kept, we found a crowd of portly Philadelphians in most irritated mood. 'Lord, how they were cursing Cameron. So, at noon it looked as if the gunge was up—unless something miraculous should take place Cameron would inevitably be nominated. Curses availed nothing, and consultations fulled to effect anything. In the language of a portly friend of Curtin, it was the old fight of labor against capital, and of course capital triumphed. About o'clock P. i\l., well known rad- teal politicians and members of the Legis lature might he soon wending their way to the Stale Capital If otol. Their 1.11,1111001 was well known. They were going to For ney's rooms to hold a consultation, brim wore the looks and sad the thous of tie du• voted few. There was not a ray of hope In a single countonauco. All looked forlorn, and he who undormtood the situation might swear that not IL single one of them hod been bought. They were the virtuously Indignant adherents of the impecunious candidates. Forney says there were present HOMO thirty-two members of the two branches of the Legislature and a number of prominent citizens, including the lion. Thaddeus Stevens, Governor Curtin, Hon, ()akimbo A. Grow, Wm. B. Mann, Hon. A. N. McClure, Hon. J. Kennedy Moorhood, General Hartronft, lion. Jacob Hoffman, of Burks, lion. A. E. Roberts, 0, .1 Dickey, Major Lemuel Todd and 1,. Kauffman, of Cumberland; Dr. Joseph Gibbons and J. M. Willis Geist, of Lancaster; Major Geo. M. [Amnon, General Collis, and represent atives from runny sections of the State. The meeting was organized at three o'clock, by the appointment of Hon, T. J. itighain,:Sonator front Allegheny, as chair man, and L. 20, Lee, one of the Philadel phia members, us secretary. Bighorn, In u voice that resembled the agonized squeaks and grunts of a pig fast under a .gate, explained the object of the meeting to be to preserve the integrity and organization of the party, both of which were about to be stolen by Cameron, whose character for honesty had once beer. aptly described by Mr. Stevens when lie declared that he did not believe he (Simon) would steal a red hot stove. General Joe. Fisher then ventilated his views and introduced "Old Thad." The grim old reprobate took occasion to pitch into Cameron in his usual spicy style. Old Thad. was followed by Andy Curtin. Lem. Todd of Carlise came next. Grow succeed ed him. Forney followed in a characteristic speech, and the performance was concluded by a few remarks from Senator Billingfelt, of Adamstown, Lancaster county. It was a very dreary assemblage indeed. Without coming to any decision, the great men re tired and left the members to themselves. Forney is reported to have staid behind, and to have urged that an election should be defeated, but the unpaid patriots could not see it in that light. Without coming to any conclusion, the meeting dissolved. Immediately after concluding his speech Old Thad gathered up his traps and left in disgust for that domicil in the city of Wash ington which is presided over so appropri ately by his colored housekeeper. We hope she will find :30 n e way to soothe his ruffled spirit. About the same time there was a general flitting of the Lancaster dele gation. Not a single aspirant for the seat Old Thad.now fills was left in Harrisburg after 4 o'clock. About 7i o'clock in the evening some forty odd men were seen to leave the Lochiel House in Indian file. They were marshal ed by George Bergner, and all wore mocca sins that made no tracks. With knowing looks they entered the Hall or the House. We noticed that mysterious whisperings and cabalistic signs were exchanged among them, but before we could get any Insight Into matters the Hall was ordered to be cleared and we left. What occurred Inside thereafter Is thus reported by telegraph: speaker Hall was called to the chair. A resolution to admit reporters was voted down, as was also a resolution offered by Mr. Bighain to adjourn until Monday evening. Nominations were then made, and the first ballot resulted in the choice of Simon Cameron by the following vote: Cameron, 4i ; Curtin, 3; Stevens, 7; Grow, 5. The following is the vote in detail For Cameron.—Messrs. Brown of Mercer, Coleman, Connell, Cowles, Graham, Haines, Landon, Barton, Brown of Mifflin, Camer on, Chadwick, De Haven, Donohue, Free born, Ghegan, Harbison, Hoffman, Hum phreys, Kennedy, Kerns, Kemmel, Kinney, McCament, lifcßee, Lowry, McConnughy, Ridgway, Stutzman Worthington, Hail, Mann, Marks, Madding, Melly, Stutn baugh, Seiler, Suders, Sharpless, Waddell, Shuman, Weller, Whann, Woodward, Worrell, Glass and Wright. Total, 46. For Curtin.—Messrs, Adair, Espy, Mc- Creary, Allen, Ewing Royer, Chase j Gal lagher, Taylor, Colvin, Gordon, White, Davis, Lee, Pennypacker, Day, Peters, Pillow, Quay, Wharton, Wallace, Wingard, Watt—Total, 23. For Stevens.—Messrs. BI ham, Roth, Armstrong, Stacey, Richards, Stehman, Wilson—Total, 7. For Grow.—Messrs. Brown of Lawrence, Leach, Shoemaker, McPharrin, Webb. To tal, 5. The absentees were Senators Billingfe and Fisher of Lancaster. On motion of Mr. Quay the nomination of Simon Cameron was made unanimous, and the caucus adjourned. Outside, in the Rotunda, there was gath ered quite a crowd anxiously awaiting the announcement of the result which had already been settled beforehand. Among these wore u number of prominent Phila delphia politicians of the }tactical:persuasion , ' all Curtin men. Two of these were bois terously indignant. One of them, an ex clerk of the Court of Quayter Sessions, made quite a running speech. In a loud, clear voice he began us follows: " Bring me a bell ! I say some body bring me a bell. There is an auction going on here, and I intend to cry it. 'I he Republican party pro fesses to be a party of great moral Ideas, and boasts that it has stopped the side of negroes, but here is a sale of white men going on in the Capitol of,the Keystone State. Somebody bring melt bell! Talk about Republicanism, and love for soldiers, and patriotism ! Why such a party de serves to be damned. The men it sends to the Legislature are only tit for the basest uses. 'Yet they are the pick of three hun dred thousand. Bah ! The worst things the Copperheads ever said of us are not half bad enough. These scoundrels profess to be voting for Cameron. It is a lie. I will show you the ticket they are voting. I fern (pull ing a greenback out of his pocket and hold ing It up,) here is the ticket they are all voting—and the candidate's name is written on it—Spinner by I.4—d. That's the fellow they are all voting for, nod this (Bourishing the greenback) is their ticket." Tie held hull) for some time, amid the forced laughter of the crowd, no one during to eontrudlet Win, or to may one word In favor of Cameron, Almfut twenty minutes alter the caucus had assembled :%1 arrow li. Lowry, looking Ilku a black guard In clurleal garb, runite out with a slip of paper In his fingers and hastened to telegraph that the sale of the loyal majority of the Pennsylvania legisla ture hail been perfected. Tho announco- Merit that Cameron had been nominated on the first ballot was whimpered through the crowd. There was nu enthusiasm, no cheers for the successful 'candidate. Ills opponents cursed, and his friends knew too well the base means by which the vie• tory had been won to rejoice at it. X+,4- Earn your paper. (;et your neigh born to subscribe. NEN ATOIIIAI, CON TENT Vlow."—What wan Done and llow—hulloiequent Neenee. Ispetmai Cur, or the Pittnhurg commercial ) HARRIS/It:1W, Jan. 11, 18(17. You ask the to describe what has occur rod in Harrinburg since the meeting of the Legislature and which cul initiated in the caucus nomination for United Staten Sena tor of Mr. Cameron last night. 'Po describe it is impossible. Dickens, with all his ability to depict low life, could not describe the degradation of the scone, nor tell you of the mental and moral depravity 01 those who have figured. Warren, with his mas ter stroke of " Gammon," could not por tray the tortuous movement of the reckless pulitichin who lots triumphed. Ills path to office has not been, as other politicians, strewn with broken promises and violated pledges, but he paved his way upon a solid basis and moved to victory amid the plaud• its of his hired adherents. From the Instant that Mr. Stevens' adherents madly aided to break down Governor Curtin by aiding Mr. Cameron's friends in the organization of the House and the election of Speaker blase, it was apparent to Curtin's friends that the responsibility of the election of Mr. Cameron must rest upon Stevens, as this move had been made under his direction, and when the fatal error was plainly seen in the rapidly advancing fortunes of Cam eron, the Stevens men eagerly en deavored to undo what had been no stupidly done. They vainly endeavored to recover their lost ground, but the now known betrayal of their members in the House rendered this almost impossible. In haste, Mr. Stevens was called trom Wash ington, and notwithstanding his letter of the day before, declaring that he would not come, on Tuesday he arrived. General Moorhead, from your district, also arrives, and as the avowed friend of Mr. Stevens and the bitter personal opponent of Mr. Cameron, anti feeling that with him also will rest the responsibility of aiding to de feat the only man who could have beaten Mr. Cameron, goes to work to recover the lost ground. ilopen aro now entertained that the combined voice of the potential counties of Allegheny and Lancaster will not be utterly disregarded Ina Republican caucus. The known power of their vast majorities, and the sagacity of their leaders, gives encouragement to the belief that some thing can be done. What does it all amount to? Mr. Stevens has an interview with him delegation ; charges the 1110ITIbere of the House with it bought betntval anti denounces Lien. De bandy, In answer, they say, that "nobody known it." The Old Commoner declares that " the boys in the street know it." lie sends for it Senator from a southeastern county, instructed for him, and tells him he Is young, and has u character yet, and that he "ought to take it back to them." The youthful Senator, with education, a family name, and bright prospects, retires unlin• *reseed by Mr. Stevens, and subsequently votes for Ai r. Cameron. Mr. Stevens has an interview with Governor Curtin, de plores what his men.have done, and =gen the Governor to loin lilt,, in a revolutionary movement. " Break up the Caucus ;" "go to the people," cries the enraged old hero from Lancaster. Thu Governor calmly re plies " The tmoiditlon of things may be new to you, sir; but everybody here has known it for a week, and I cannot aid in any movement which will break up the party. My mune is with my friends, and I must abide the issue, whatever I may believe as to the tneans which have been employed to produce this result. Thu people have already elected enough mem bers to elect me, and if they don't vote for me, their responsibility is to their constitu ents. I was done when I aided, with what humble powers I possess, to carry the State lust fall in a canvass of unusual bitterness and requiring great exertions on my part." And so waste away Tuesday evening and Wednesday, Cameron's adherents still ac tive, and defections in the Stevens and Cur • tin ranks still being made, and the means openly talked of on the streets anti in the bar-rooms. " Bad! bud !" exclaims a De mocratic member ; "no show for us. Well ! well! I'll vote once for Cowan, and then I'll fp) for Spinner, like the Republicans." ednesday night. Mr. Forney has ar rived. lie comes, he nays, to protest against thin great wring. Ile will characterize it as it deserves in " his two newspapers, both doily." He has his adherents along. He has no members, therefore can't do much in the way of votes, but as the embodiment of two dailies his thunder is feared as is supposed. He speaks of his stake in thin matter, i. e., a vote on the Secretaryship, and takes credit to himself for his patriot istn in opposing Mr. Cameron, who is now likely to be elected. Now, all go to work— Stevens, Forney, Moorhead, &a., tc. What does it all amount to against the almighty Thursday afternoon a canons is held—a sort of a caucus within a caucus—Stevens, Forney, Curtin, and all the lessor lights talk, and men sit In that caucus as their de _voted friends, who four hours afterwards vote for Cameron. Stevens continues to be revolutionary, and asks his friends to stay out of the caucus that evening. His two Senators alone obeyed him. Curtin is urg ed to join in the proposed uproar. As be tore he smiles at the want of knowledge of the Senatorial aspirants around him, and tells them it is too late. The bargains are completed and the sale will be made. The caucus meets at 71 on Thursday evening. The vote is soon over ; the scoun drels are impatient for their pay. A mem ber from Philadelphia, who that morning had assured Curtin that he would obey his instructions and vote for him, votes for Cameron. The Delaware members vote for Cameron, with their instructions made only two days before to vote for Stevens, then for Curtin, and never for Cameron in their pockets. Betrayal is everywhere around. Men who had grown grey in respectability and honor, and in a life of professional toll, yielded to the "tnamtuon of unrightousnoss." Men young in life, with every professional prospect bright before them, went down under the wand of the enchanter. A Senator from the Northwest declared his determination to vote for Cameron, although he did not be lieve twenty of his constituents were for him. A member of the House from the same region was allowed to vote for Cur tin, notwithstanding he bad betrayed him in the organization. A member of the House, from a district adjoining yours on the north betrayed his constituents and went for Cameron, although he had declared within a week that he owed his election to Curtin and Curtin's friends, and notwith standing the fact that several of his person al and political friends were near him, be seeching him not to falsify his former lite and commence a career of infamy. Philadelphia and Allegheny seemed to be the most flagrantly betrayed of any. In your county, it was asserted and not denied that Mr. Cameron had scarcely any adhe rents, and of all the crowds that came from your city but one gentleman wee here to urge the claims of !Kr. Cameron, All the °then+ were either for Curtin or Stevens. Your Mayor was here, warmly for Stevens. Other gentlemen of equal respectability were for Curtin, and all united in asserting that Mr. Cameron was not acceptable to the teople ofyour grand old Republican county, with its swelling majority. It was of no avail. Four of your members went for Cameron. The Philadelphians who were here seemed to regard the violation of instructions and the infamous conduct of their members as unparalleled, and their indignation broke forth in every assemblage in town. Men's names and amounts paid were spoken trumpet tongued. Mock auctions were held in the Lochiel, Jones, and State Capi tol Hotels, and members were auctioned off amid the cheers and plaudits of the crowd. The impromptu auctioneer would name his man, state his office, describe his district, specify his instructions, proclaim his violation of them, and all this in unvar nished vernacular, and then ask for bids, which were made, and would vary from a chew of tobacco to a kick a posteriori, and the poor devil would be knocked down, branded for life publicly as a man who had forfeited all claim to the consideration of honest men, and must go down to a life of infamy " unhonored and unsung"—and all this personal and political infamy, all this aggregation of personal corruption to accomplish the election of a worn out, polluted political hack to the United States Senate. Meantime, the Democrats are Jubilant. Many of the leaders are here, and express their unqualified.delight at the whole pro- ceeding. One of them, a distinguished gen tleman front the Northeast, declares that this "gives us" the Judge of the Supreme Court next fall, and the prestige of that election to commence the Presidential can vass. The gratification of the Democracy Is evidently outspoken and unfeigned. Governor Curtin's house Is besieged with his personal and devoted friends. Ile is surrounded now by those who tiro and al ways will be for hint. Ile has no patronage to dispense, no money to bestow—but see his friends! The (inventor is cheerful, re grets that the wishes of the people have been frustrated, is grateful to his many real friends, and will seek retirement and repose amid the people from whom he lnui hail so many evidences of confidence and regard. How proudly he looks, though worn and Jaded with hinceaselefsexerticins during the rebellion, with a record pure, bright and 111181.1041(A, anti the prayers and blessings of the soldiers' widow and tin) soldiers' o r phan hourly ascending or him. Cameron's friends! Where are they? They have vanished. Ily every train they leave. Simnel lines under protection, lest the indiention of their vonstititents should be visited upon them physically 1111 W at one°, Tine morning Cnnieron Is In the streets bowing to nil allko, friend iind link. I row Mon, however, are seen near him. Few num dare be so seen. An ex•stanitor front Philadelphia is Ulu only one a > n amttly iti thnate. Cameron Is ached if he does not fear Forney's denunciations. Ile forcibly replies: "I will sue that Forney becomes my friend." A bold declaration, but after the history of the past who can doubt it. Thus you have a meagre outline of events. Now comes the grave question. Is the Ito• publican party able to bear all this? Can it be done and the organization survive Will Nlr. Stevens press his bill and have these things Inquired into in Washington, or will the people not redress these wrongs at the polls? clue or the other will co done. From Another Correspondent. The form of nominating Simon Cameron to the office of United States Senator was gone through with at s o'clock last evening, but every one hereabouts felt for several days previous to the canvass, that the re• su it \ v“,., a forpwiniu conclusion. If hu had needed more than forty votes, they would have been forthcoming. Thu fatal errors of the whole business were made lung beibre the day of nomination. The Senatorship was Imprudently dragged into the contest for Speaker of the House. Hon. Thad. Stevens was originally instrumental in taking the !Alicanter county votes from Mr. quay, and when too late sought to remedy the mistake. Chester county's delegates were lost with this hill. With Mr. quay's defeat, the whole opposition element became disorganized, and the cry was, like that of the French retreating forces at Waterloo, Nam,• gat peat, which here was rendered, "Well, we may as well be in," meaning, of course, "to make to themselves friend of the loon of iniquity." I have seen letters to members front notoriously Curtin districts, urging them not to vote for Cameron. They would laugh about them, and say, " 1 was not instructed, and may do us I please." Only eleven members would pledge them selves to stand out, and prevent a nomina tion, seventeen being necessary. The re marks made at the informal census on Sat urday afternoon by lion. Thaddeus Stevens, John W. Forney, and others, showed there was no hope. At no time during the cam paigu was Cameron's claims urged on any public grounds. His voters were always reticent, but Immovable. They were at all early day satisfied by considerations too weighty for popular remonstrances. tom,. Earn your paper. (;et your neighbors to subscribe. The Impeachment Movement. The Washihgton correspondent of the Philadelphia Age says: Mr. Latin, of Missouri, renewed the im peachment ligitution in the house by .t violent speed' on his resolutions introduced on Monday heft. Ito intimated that the President wan guilty of complicity in the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, For this he was culled to order by Mr. Hale, a Republican member from Now York. After some din cusnton the speaker decided that the re marks wore in order, and Mr. I. proceeded and finished his speech. Before any vote wan taken the morning hour expired, and the resolutions went over tinder the rule. Nothing is known of the pro ceedings of Messrs. Wilson, Bothwell, and Williams, Rho Sub-Committee of the Judi clary,) on the Impeachment question. There is no way of ascertaining when and where they moot. Nor is there oily ncressible re cord to show what witnesses they examine, The whole affair in conducted In strict secresy and will no doubt be no continued. Eliot, of Massachusetts, Chairman of the New orleatei Investigating Committee, appeared in :the House this morning, and had a long consultation with Bothwell, doubtless in regard to impeachment. It Isperfectly apparent that the leading Radicals of the !louse are pushing thu investigation rapid ly, autl . time alone can show the result. The Gentile Merenoun' to A b iiiiii on Solt Luke city. A report comes across the plains that Brigham Young has forced his followers to cease all trade with the tientlle merchants in Salt Lake City, and that, In consequence, the latter to the number of twenty-three have united in an ligreetnent to shut up their shops and leave the Territory, on con dition that Young secures them.cost prices on their accounts against the' Alormons, and 75 per cent, of the cost of their stocks of goods. Should this prove true, and the propo sition be accepted, it would cause a great reduction in the strength and wealth of the anti-Mormon residents of the city and territory, though not of the most ener getic and aggressive influences. The (ion tile merchants have generally been neutrals, certainly not active in working against the church. Their retirement, though a tem porary embarrassment, would not give Brigham Young and his party a much surer or much longer lease of their loon - nation. An aristecracy like theirs is an impossibility in the midst of a democracy like ours. To dream of maintaining it is fanaticism ; to fear its permanent supremacy is absurd cowardice. After the buffaloes and the Indians go, then will go Mormon ism. Earn your paper. (:et your neigh bors to subscribe. More Sults Against Gen. Butler. A letter from New York, in the Philadel phia Ledger, says:. Another batch of suite for the recovery of damages has been instituted against Gen. Butler, in the Supreme Court Chambers. The plaintiffs are in some cases citizens of New Orleans, and in others citizens of Vir gi❑ia, and all claim to be and have been loyal. The roost serious of these complaints or suits is based upon the allegation that (;en. Butler had, by virtue of his power in New Orleans, compelled a Mr. I loniwell to trans fer the steamer Carlotta, worth $ 4 ;0,000, to himself personally for $40,000, in a currency worth but $28,500; had, through his agent, sent this vessel on a pnvate venture for his own advantage, which it was insinuated was to supply the rebels with quinine, ‘to., and then, through his agent, chartered it to the government for $.3.50 per day, though the original owner was willing to charter it to them at $.50 per day, and had ultimately "run her under" near the end of the war and obtained for hers4o,ooo. It was claim ed, therefore, that in no sense could it be said that this had been done under autho• rity from the President or Congress. General Butler's counsel contend that these acts were done In accordance with government authority, and moves, there fore, thot they be transferred to a federal court foradjudlcation. The court promised a decision in a day or two. Robbery at Wilkembitrre WILKESBARRE, Pa, Jan. o.—the wagon of the Hope Express Company was robbed, between Wilkesbarre and Kingston, at about half-past six this evening, by six men, who caught the horses and held load ed pistols at the heads of the two messen gers, and carried off the express pouch, containing $5OOO in live twenty bonds, of the new issue, addressed to Edward S. Loup, the Cashier of the Wyoming Nation al Bank, Wllkesbarre, and one package of $lOOO and several smaller packages. During the year that has just closed, an exchange states, there have been drowned and killed by accidents on lake Erie, /70 persons. News Itenis Horse stealing Is a cantle.' offence In Arkansas. Twenty Baptist churches in Illinois aro preached to in foreign languages. The Internal revenue receipts of the past week were 83,459,140. The ex-rebel Gen. Sterling Price and family have arrived at St. Louis. Three hundred and seventy-one applica tions for patents wore received in Washing ton last week. The steamer " Sutin . y South," with 1040 bales of e , aton, wax burned near Selina, Ala., on Friday night. One of the passen gers is believed to have perished. General Crook, with a party of U. S. sole diets. has killed thirty Indians on the owy bee river, Oregon. The Idaho Legislature EMI passed a bill appropriating $300,000 for the Catholic schools of the territory. Goy. Curtin has signed the bill repealing the five per cent. penalty on delinquent tax • payers, and it is now a Inw, It is stated that the President has nomina - ted Senator Cowan as NI Mister to Austria. Senator Cowan's term will expire on the 4th or next March. The total receipts of Internal ltovenn by the Government from the Ist of July lam to Saturday, the I2th instant, amounted to 8175,471,1 M. General McClellan is expected back from Europe early in the spring. The Senate, it Is believed, will pass the Bankrupt bill with an amendment respect ing the appointment of a Commissioner. The Port land Fire Relief Com mittee have decided not to apply any funds received to the rebuilding of the destroyed churches. A thtivesten editor lately heard n meek ing bird whimtling " Dixie" with witch tint nation. General Poll Sheridan denies that he In about to get married or run for the Preai• dunes.. The Hoskin ./earno/ says many formerm In Massachusetts having ponds, find the propagation of firth a paying business. 0. 11. I /hike, an ex-gum illa of Kentucky was Shot dead on the 'list ult., by a man whom he had threatened to kill. Ex•f/overntirgllarris, or Tuntiemsee, It Is ranted, will leave Mexico to become a mer chant in Liverpool, England. A $:1,000 monument to tho Confederate dead of Amity county, Miss., is to be inan• gunned on Wwihington'm birthday, It I', said the Naval Conunlttve of the I louov have gone to Philadelphia loin quire Into the rack of Me burning or the Now I rtitisitliiK. . Tilt , Ctitii in il too on the Now Orleatim Riots will not prepare their reports for ovveral weeks, the entire testimony not yet belng written out. At the preoent term of t h e Signora° coral tit New I lit nipmhi re, three parties were lined srion each and coots fur fraud by moons of a Litattio oil to impany, Loot month the Tronsury I iepartmeni retlevinod and canceled National Bank notes a moo Ming to itOo, MO, tit 12,500 of which belonged to Now York banks. Moran, who was flelllolllloll 10 be hung on the 25th inot., for the murder of Mary Ellen Kearney, In Roxbury, Nlll/414., about ten months ago,i has had his sentence coin • muted to impri4oninent for lire. Mr. \V, A. Jones, until agenton the west ern section of the Bellmore and Ohio road, has been arrested and held to ball In the mum of sl,nue for robbing pouches lit his charge. Eleven prisoners in the Wheeling fail, Monday eveningp, last, undertook a general delivery ti. 'rushing In a body upon Jailor Ferris, w - 'tilled them by lushly closing the door Ili locking R. The chit r that ('resident Lincoln occupied in ) li in Ford's Theatre at the time of his aomuo oinittion has been presented to Secretary Browning, who has tra n sferred It to the Museum or the Interior Department. The number or lumber yards now In Chicago is 107, against .`al at this time last year; and the estimated amount of lumber now piled up in the yank is 1110,(H10,000 feet, Itgninsa 1:14,000,000 at the same Uwe loot year. The Committee on Internal Revenue frauds will be 111 Philadelphia to-morrow, in prosecution of their busk:tisk, and will soon go to New York ; and the Committee In relation to Southern railroads were in mession to-day. (ion. 1: lapka has arrived in Perim, and has gi von /4111110 curious details of the Into w,r in which 11U participated. lit status that no fewer than thirty•seven thousand unWollll[llo A ustrhino were taken prison ers at the battle of Sadowa. The Painters' National Union met in Buffalo on Wednesday. .lames Bourk of New York, was chosen President, and W. 0. Creney, of Baltimore, Secretary proem . Delegates wore present from Chicago, Mil waukee, Philadelphia and other places. 'rho following regiments awl battery are in the Department of the South, vivo: The Sixth U. S. Infantry at Charleston, Ile recruits; the Eighth U. S. Infantry at Raleigh, 170; Battery E, Third U. S. Artil lery, at Hilton Iliad, Ft. ( ieneral Scat, the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina, has Instituted it iarict search into the death, by burning recently, or twenty-three negroeo in the conflagration which destroyed the King street. Jail. A French newspaper oilers to give an nually .010 as a wedding portion to the "poorest rind most virtuous girl" Indicated by its subscribers, and also to give .C 2 a month to such as give the boot monition of a riddle. plow will the fact be found out? (len, (Irani has won a law stilt In the St. Louis courts, whereby 110 has secured poomesolon of the farm he Hold several years ago, but for which lie got no pay. 14l the first trial ho fulled, but, continuing to light it OW 1/II 1.11111 11110, 110 has, as usual achieved the victory, Gen. Tom Thumb and faintly are In Mina:hunter, England. A local Journal deelarea that " Mre Stratton In a perfect little lady to all appearance, and those who knuty her hunt Nay mho la Ho in reality. She posme.Hem n Meyer woman'a Imagery of the art , If dream, and her Jewela are very rich." A elleek for ft 41,9011, purporting to have Lowe drawn by day Cooke S. Co,, was pro- Mented to the Fourth National Bank In Now York on Monday, but was linnuallutely pronounced a lorgory, and the person who presented It, an Irish boy, but recently ar rived in tills country, was di:NINA. says It wits handed to hint by a 101111 to take to the bank, and Ills story Is honeyed. The funded debt of the elty and county of New York is $42,1.12,176. or this NOW a little less than twenty millions are payable from taxation, and about twenty-two and a half millions front the sinking fund. Thu temporary debt. Is Et:1,033,60r Of the funded debt, slo,t's2,xoO Is for the Croton Water works; 89,92:5,571 for the Central Park, and $1.1..145,000 for expenses growing out of the war. On Wednesday lied Sir Frederick Bruce, British Minimter, had an informal Interview with Mr. Seward of an hour or two, ut which time the former gentleman advised the Secretary that England would be wil ling to submit the Alabama claim.] to lioard or A rbitra tian. It la probable that the ratification will be made the aubJect of to-morrow's Cabinet meeting. A complete list of prizes captured by rho United States Navy during the Hebeilion, adjudicated by the Navy Department, hum been prepared by the Fourth Auditor for apportionment and distribution. Over 1,000 captured vemmelm and the muccemsful cruiser, arc enumerated. It fa estimated that not lean than live thousand meanie!' arid officers are interested In theme prizes and that from 85,000,0110 to $6,000,00 are involved. A story is told of a soldier who, about one hundred and fifty years ago, was frozen In Siberia. The last expression he made was, "It is ox—." He then froze as stiff as mar ble. In the summer of 1860 some French physicians found him, after having laid fro zen for one hundred and fifty years. They gradually thawed him, and upon animation being restored, he concluded his sentence with " ceedingly cold." A letter from Leavenworth of the 4th says from all accounts the troops so horribly massacred by the Indians were en route for Fort Laramie for escort duty, and after marching a sufficient distance from Fort Phil. Kearney to prevent the successful escape of any of the party, the Indians, who had been notified of their departure by squaws and spies at ad, post, followed the continent', and while they were peacefully reposing from the fatigues of the march, surprised them just before daylight and butchered the whole party. By the disobedience of a lad in 1809, a garden gate in Rhode Island was left open, a pig got in and destroyed a few plants, a quarrel between the owners of the pig and the garden grew out of It which spread among their friends, defeated the Federal candidate for the Legislature and gave the State a Democratic Senator, by whose vote the war of INN with Great Britain was de clared. Isaac V. Fowler, former Postmaster of New York City. Is in Washington, prepar ing to return to Mexico, which may be now said to be his home. He gives It as his opinion, after MIX years close study of Mex ico, that the only influence that can ever establish a stable government over that splendid region is the United States. The failure of France will forever prevent in his The quality of wool Is tested by taking a lock from the sheep's back, and placing It on a surface representing an inch in length. If the spirals count from thirty to thirty three in that space the wool Is equal to the finest "Electoral" or SiXony wool. The staple is inferior accordingly as it takes a lesser number to fill up the same space. A Toulon paper gives an account of the capture of a sea serpent, thirteen feet long, on the coast of France, December 22d, was exhibited alive in Toulon, and viewed by thousands of people. It was four and a half Inches in diameter, the upper part being of a gray color, and the lower a yellowish. white. The jaws are about eleven inches. long, and the eyes bright, surrounded with, a fine thread of a flaming' red color,
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