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Oh I the snow, the beautiful 81:10W, Filling the sky and earth below; Over the housetopm, over the street, Over tile beds of the people you meet, Dancing, Flirting , Skimming along; Beautiful snow I It, can do wrong, Flying to kiss a lair lady's cheek, Clinging to lisp Ina f. olicsome freak, Beautiful snow from the Heaven above, Pure as an angel, gentle us love! Uh ! the snow, tile beautiful snow, Hot' the flakes gather and laugh as they go, Whirling about In the maddening fun, It plays in Its glee with every oue. Chas'. g, • Laughing, Hurrying by ! It lights ou the face and It sparkles the eye, And Lee merry dogs with a bark and a bound Hnup at the crystals that eddy around— The town is alive and Its heart I u a glow, Tu welcome tile coining of beautiful snow! How wild I he, crowd goes swaying along. Hulling each other with humor and song! How the guy sledges, like meteors, pass by, Bright for toe moment, then lost to the eye— Ringing Swing ng, Dashing they go, I /tor the crust 01 the beautiful snow; Snow so pore Hull It fulls from the sky, To be trampled In mud by the crowd rushing by To be trampled and tracked by thousands of out Till It blends With the 111th In the horrible street. Once I wos pure as the snow—but I fell ! Fell like the snow-flokee, from heaven W hell! Pell, to be trampled filth In the street; to be scoffed, W be spit on told beat; Pleading, Cursing, • Dreading to die, Selling toy soul to whoever would buy, lieuling In shame for a morsel of bread, Hating the living, and f. aring the dead ! Merciful (lad! have I fallen HO how! And yet I was once like the beautiful suuw ! Once 1 wits fair as the beautiful snow, With ,ye like the crystal, a heart like Its glow ; (hire I was loved for my Innocence grace— P latiertl and mllttg,a for the charms of any lace! Ranier, Monier, I-liters, all, GOLI turd lilySvir, I've lost by my full; The veriest. wretelithat goes shivering by, Will :Hake ow Ide swoop,lest I wonder too nigh; For all I. hot is ull, or . hut.•. me, l know, There Is nothing as pure as the beautiful snow. How strong° It should be that this beautiful 51.10 W 51161141 fan Oil 0 ginner with nowhere to go! How strange IL should be when the night COIIIBB again, If the snow and the ice struck toy desperate brain, ' , attain g, Freezing, Dying alone, Too wicked to. prayer, Loo weak for o moan To be heard in Lie; streets of the crazy town (10110 mad In the Joy of the snow coining down, To Ito, and to tile, In my terrible woe, With a bed and a shroud of the beautiful snow! pirallattroto. The Ice Me at MOlltlllOrellel Quebec, and Quebec in the depth of winter, with the thermometer at any degree of depression you may choose to imagine; with the St. Lawrence frozen feet deep ; with all nature bound fast In an icy chain for mouths, till spring presses her fetters with his rosy fingers, and at the magic touch she bursts forth once more into life and verdure, may be considered by shivering souls as a place to be avoided ; yet in spite of all this, really, a Canadian winter is not a bad thing in its way. Frost-bites are un pleasant, but there is an exhilaration hi the clear frosty air, and a music in the sleigh-bells, which leads one to brave them. A flushed young face, and a pair of bright eyes beaming out from beneath a fascinating fur-cap and snow veil, are not bad things to look upon now and then ; and with the fair crea ture to whom these charms belong by your side, snugly tucked iu, and other wise enshrined in buffalo-robe aud bear skin, with two good horses tandem fashion in front of you, and half a dozen other men similarly fitted out around you, slashing along some ten miles an hour over the hard crisp snow,—sleigh bells jingling and plumes waving,—a man may be passably happy, though he be some three thousand miles from Market Harborough, and the thermom eter is a dozen degrees below zero. Or, again, what pleasanter place to while away a' few hours in than the Skating Kink? This, an enormous wooden structure with a floor of ice, caused by flooding its area, and a slightly raised platform all around it, on which chape rones rest and mammas mount guard, the skaters rest and musicians play, is thronged by youth of both sexes all the winter's day, who skimming lightly hither and thither over the glassy sur face, go through all the wonderous evolutions of the "inside" and " out- side" edge with an easy grace that might astonish the most accomplished mem bers of the London skating Club. Ah me ! Those mad circlings round the ring, when the band of the Rifles, strik ing up its wildest galop, would send off a hundred or so of young men and maidens flying hand-in-hand in perfect time and cadence to the music, round that icy hall ! Or what would you say to an after non's " toboggi n?" A " Toboggin "is an Indian sledge made of birch-bark and slender rods, exceeding light, yet strong. The Indian uses it to dray his game, &e., in winter expeditious over the snow. We put them to a different purpose. Bear me back, dear memory, to the snowy slope of the glacis of the citadel. I am one of a little group of both sexes clustered on the rampart; we have each our toboggin ; one of us As on the point of starting; lie seats himself and is pushed gently over the edge, (the ditch is full of snow it and the glacis are as one,) away he files, like an arrow from the bow. He steers his vehicle either with his hands or with two short sticks, the slightest touch from which is sufficient tCi turn him to the right or left, as may be desired ; but let him beware of bearing too heavily ; 43n the snow, or he will spin round at right angles to his course, be ejected violently from his ticklish conveyance, .and roll head over heels down the slope, an object of laughter and derision to those above. 0, rare memory ! do I not now, in my mind's eye, see the deftest and most graceful of Canadian girls about to .tai t? But she disdains to sit. Erect, and holding a couple of cords or reins which are attached to the head of her toboggin, she makes the exciting rush, her escaped tresses waving be hind her, her lithe figure swaying in easy and graceful balance. Not more swiftly dues "swift Camilla scour the plain." But of all the many amusements of the long Canadian winter, of which these are but a few ensamples, commend ore to a day's sliding down the Ice Cone at Montmoreucl. Few things are more exciting, more amusing, or more de lightfully alarming. Come, let us make one of a picnic and sleighing party to these Falls of Mont morenci. "A picnic ?" you ask. "And in the depth of winter!" Precisely so. This is got up by the officers of one of the regiments in garrison at Quebec, to which the invited furnish nothing but their company. Betimes in the day the eatables and driukables haite been des patched to the scene of action under the charge of the mess servants. It is a glorious morning, and we shall have some splendid sliding down the cone ; and the clear blue sky is without a cloud; there is not a breath of air, luckily for us, for a nine-miles' drive against the wind to-day might render, on the ho inceopathic principle, an application of snow to the noses of some of the party necessary. "Sleighs will parade in the Place d'Armes at half past twelve, and will start at one precisely." These are the orders for the "Tandem Club." We will drive early to the rendezvous, and see this gathering of the clans. Hark! the. jingle of bells, and up -drives -Danvers, the - president for the •day of the " Club,"' which musters strongly this morning, with a hand- •, . 1 : ,-. 1 ,0 •W',,1 , '-, .' - f, ,•,': Ir.! , : ~.... , .. . ' _ . .... IF f . . . . ~ ~ t ' f ' .. ~ i• • • ''' , / ti - • . ‘ ' ,. ' :: ~. ~. ... '''-''' i ''''': ' . - . . :. ; •• • ttt , • ~., ~ ' . "::.,.... a. ',•:..;-...:. . • . . . • tt• . ...”3 &CS' ti 1 ._ 0 .1 ~ • ~(2,• ' ' ' ..C. . 3.0 I • tZt.,l .. •C 6 ,1!( . . , ~ ~ 1., , ~.1 .7t Lit) , f', -.:1: '' ,l 'e , `:i Ii ... : .i.j; ._,,..., 1 . ...Th •• . 1 :; : : : : ',i! 1, r, :1 : '. :.: 1 .... :: ' ... r.::. . • : . " ' .' . lI CIII"liff • .'.. 1 . 0 , . . . •t' ' - .I:ri ;.. .•. •.1:. i . . VOLUME 68. some - pairs of black Canadian ponies, green plumes (the regimental color), and silver bells tinkling on throat and headpiece. He is not alone; one of Quebec's fairest daughters site by his side. He is quickly followed by Mr. Brownwig in a Russian sleigh, with a pair. of " two-fifty" chestnuts, and a bewitching little hazel-eyed beauty under his escort. Here comes another, trotting down from the Governor's gardens ata break neck pace. That is Joss,—the immortal Joss, who drives like a butcher, and fights like a hero,—bear witness his Victoria cross,—and who appears now, making noise enough for half a dozen ! The "Hatter" by Jove ! who will play billiards with you, or shootwith you, or fish with you,or fight with youifor any thing you like, and back himself at all; he too, has turned out in a Russian sleigh, and has the prettiest little "Muffin possible for a companion. The starting rapidly approaches, and the arrivals are frequent. Here is Lieutenant Wattel and Miss Partridge, and Captain Poma turn In his one-horse sleigh, with some thing nice nestled under the robes. It is too cold to stand still, so we circle round the "Place," horses prancing, bells tinkling, plumes—scarlet, green, black, &c.—fluttering, cheery laughter floating around us, and " chaff" pretty thick in some quarters. And here, while waiting for the start, it may be proper (en parenthesis) to ob serve that, though Canadian girls are less under the eyes of chaperones, and hays perhaps somewhat more liberty of action than their English sisters, yet that they too possess "the wild sweet briery fence that round the daughters of Erin grows "; and woe would quick ly befall the luckless and ill-mannered wight who attempted to presume upon, or to take adyantage of the innocent confidence which trusted itself to his care. It wants five minutes to the hour • the president drives out of the ring and prepares for the start. "Now then, gentlemen ; all here? Time'sup I Off!" And away he goes up Louis street, fol lowed in hot haste by all. Up Louis street—down the Esplanade—along John street—down Palace street—past Russell's Hotel, where Yankees come to the door to watch us pass, turn the never-failing quid, spit, and swear a little at those " darned Britishers "—out through Palace Gate, and along the level to Dorchester Bridge. No delay at the toll-bar, for the last man pays for the party. And now we are in the open country the other side of the St. Charles River, the horses well down in the collar, spinning over the crisp and dazzling surface in flue style. The road lies parallel to the left bank of the St. Lawrence. On our right is the mighty river, its bosom heaving under fields of floating ice, The river has not yet "taken," as His called ; that is to say, it is not completely frozen over, so that uninterrupted communi cation may be carried on between shore and shore ,• but solid ice stretches for upwards of 'a mile from the bank into the stream, and the track from the Island of Orleans to Quebec is over it. That black line of dots is so many sleighs and carrioles returning from the city to the island, or to Montmorendi. The village of Beaufort is quickly reached and passed, and some two miles beyond it we turn into a field on our right for the short cut down to the inn. A canter across it brings us to the brow of the precipice that looks over the river, down by the side of which the horses must slide and scramble as best they may. Divers little screams attest the fears of the ladies, but Canadian horses are sure-footed, and there is little dan ger ; even if I/12 upset occurred, we should be quit with a tumble in the feathery Snow; though if a horse took it into his head to bolt over the cliff it would be decidedly unpleasant. However, with a firm hand, and a quick eye, we are all safe. Safe, did you say? What does that louder shriek than usual mean? We look round, and there is the Colonel's sleigh on its side, and its two lady occupants ou their heads! He has driven into a drift and turned over, but nobody Is hurt. The horses stand, the • sleigh Is righted, and the girls, whose Bloomer-Turco-Canadian trou sers, fastened at the ankle, have pervented any embarrossing revela tions, resume their seats, laughing, blushing, and shaking their ruf fled plumes. We reach the foot of the hill without further disaster, and drive up to the inn, whose ready doors are open to receive us,—an old and time worn dwelling, coeval like enough, with Wolfe and Montcaim. It may be that-those walls witnessed the repulse of the British when the French swarmed out of their iutrenchments above, and drove, with heavy loss, our Grenadiers back through the ford 'below the Falls. Many a poor fellow parted company with his hair that luckless day, for scalping was anything but rarely prac tised by Canadian Militia and their In dian allies during the war, as contem porary records show. Its shingled roof is white with snow, and icicles hang from the eaves and glisten 'in the sun. A gallery runs along the front of the house, which is rapidly filling with our party. A score of young " habitants," ating/icc French Canadians, are round the door; these take possession of the horses and lead them off to the stables. We enter the inn to " liquor up "; a glass of curacoa and brandy is not a bad thing after such a drive, and on this occasion even the ladies are prevailed upon 'to smile." The inn's best room is a large, low chamber, scrupulously clean, the walls decorated with the effigies of saints in all sorts of impossible devotional atti tudes, and the inevitable plaster cast of Napoleon in a corner; but, sight more pleasing than saints or the fat first em peror, the tables are being rapidly cov ered with the good things that the gal lant —th have furnished for our refec tion, and which we are to fall upon on our return from the Ice Cone. So now for the Cone: the ladies are ready, anti we sally forth from the inn, —a lively, happy, noisy company,—to wend our way to the frozen falls. Some twenty or thirty men and boys await our coming, each with his "traineau" and services as guide, for hire. The traineau is the vehicle that conveys us down the Cone; it is a small sledge, some four feet long and two feet wide, mounted on low runners shod with iron. The in tending voyager sits on this if he goes with a guide, or lies on it (If skilful or foolhardy enough to dispense with one) his head in advance, the legs and feet hanging over.the stern of the traineau. These quaint contrivances, which re mind one somewhat of a butcher's tray, except that they are not hollowed out in the centre, are dragged along by a cord; they are gayly painted and each has a name : " L'Empereur," "La Refine Victoria," " L'Alliance," and other suggestive appellations, show the bent of " habitant" politics. Seduced by the bright color of a red traineau with the promising name of " La Bonne Aventure," whose proprietor informs us he is " good for slide, sare," we engage him for the day, a skilful pilot being a reassnrink possession, as we have not the slightest idea of making the peril ous descent alone. But here we are at the foot of the Falls of Montmorenci, and the Ice Cone is before us. " What is this Ice Cone ?" some one may ask. It is simply the frozen spray from the solid mass of ice, and before the winter mouths are over, reaches the height of seventy or eighty feet; in shape something like an in verted wine-glass without the stem. It is ascended by a series of rough steps cut in the side. Atits base several, chambers have been hewn out. One serves as a retiring-room for the ladies : another is devoted to the uses of the men, and here, from a speculative Canadian,, may be procured brandy, and divers "drinks," by all who choose to buy. Snug enough rooms they are, too, though the wall are of ice, and the floors of the same. Near the large cone is another, formed by the same agency, but smaller, through being more remote from the fall, down which the ladies disport themselves. Few try the large one r albeit we have seen one or two who 'were bold enough to do so. But now for the ascent and then—Q horror I—the descent. 'Several are al ready climbing the rouglystepa, and we join the toiling throng. Ina few .min- Mee we are at the summit, and, arrived there, we take a glance around. Far away, the eye ranges over a snowy des ert to the distant bank of the St. Law- rence and the gray hills of Maine; while nearer the white roofsof Quebec glisten in the cold rays of the wintry sun. Be fore us, in the middle distance, lies the island of Orleans, ita woody summits leafless, gaunt and grim. Immediately beneath us traineaus are darting in all directions, or are being dragged back for another slide. Behind us is the cat- araet, its spray is falling in hara little pellets on our coats. Have a care! go not too near the Fall side of the Cone, lest you chance to slip over ; so, heaven rest your soul. for earth will never see you more; you would drop into the deep water at the foot of the Fall, and be carried under the ice no man knows whither. Some half-dozen unfortunates have in fact thus slipped, and so disappeared forever. And now to business. The " Hatter" is just off; he slips over the side, and in an instant is out of sight; a few mo ments more, and he reappears, shooting across the plain at a tremendous rate ; in about half a mile his course is finished, and he and his guide (two little black specks in the distance) are seen return ing for another trip. Danvers, his black whiskers white with rime, and his nose blue with cold, is about to start. It is our turn next, and before it comes, just a few words as to the emotion of a novice on making his first journey down the Cone. Its shape prevents a glance down the sides ; except the limited arena of its summit, no standing room is visible within a circuit of perhaps three hundred yards; "cran ing," therefore, is impossible. You are not in the habit of amusing yourself by sliding down the roof of a house, and you feel that you are on the eve of going through an exaggerated performance of that nature. Did not honor forbid, you might prefer returning by the ignomin ious, but safer, route you have just mounted by; but that is out of the question; in another minute, quitting your scanty foothold, you will be launch. ed into space; there is no help for it— you must make the best of the inevita ble ! There is no time for hesitation, more sliders are arriving, and we must make room for others. " Now, sare ! all ready sare ?" inquired my red-capped guide. He is already seated on the front part of the traineau, his legs projected on each side, his heels dug into the ice, to prevent an untimely start. I seat myself behind him, curl my legs round his waist, and place my feet between his knees, take a firm hold of the stern end of the traineau, and commend my self to the care of Providence and my Canadian friend. He lifts his heels; a slight push is given us behind, and— we are off! Ha, ha! The traineau starts, and bounds clear into the air. I involun tarily tighten my hold. We fall some ten feet, and again touching the slip pery surface, bound off again. Another. drop, and we are on the more sloping side of the Cone ; we fly down it breath less. In another instant we have reach ed the bottom,—sharp icy splinters, ploughed up by the iron runners, hit us in the face, and sting as shot would, —but nothing stops us; we skim over the level at railway speed for some quarter of a mile or more, when, the acquired velocity exhausted, we roll off our quaint conveyance, shake the snow from our coats, and prepare to return. On our way back, the " - Hatter" passes us wildly screaming ; he, scorning a guide, has made a second trip alone, and with the usual good fortune that attends his madcap adventures. Not so Rand, a young guardsman, nor Bor don, of the—th. They, equally brave, but not equally lucky, have come to great grief; both have been thrown from their traineaus. Rand is sticking headforemost in 'a snow-drift, and is . _ lugged out wellnigh black in the face, with his nose nearly broken. Bordon was split almost at starting, and has consequently slid down on the seat of his trousers, to the utter destruction of that garment, and with considerable abrasion of the part it covered. He binds up his wounds with his pocket handkerchief, despatches his servant for another pair of continuations, and slides no more that day. Reader, did you ever dream you had slipped over a cliff, and were helplessly falling—falling—falling—until, with a violent bump, you awake, as it were, at the bottom, more frightened than hurt? If so, you have experienced a very similar sensation to that of the first slide down the Ice Cone. The sport, as I have said before, is not en. tirely without danger; one man was killed and another had his leg broken during one winter I passed in Quebec, by collision with the iron runners of the traineau. Still, accidents do not often happen, and after the disagreeable novelty of the first attempt is over, the bound into the air and lightning-like rush become wonderfully exciting, and the Cone is a favorite resort all through the winter. ' With us, in this instance, the gave grows fast and furious. The cone is alive with an ascending and descending string of sliders ; traineaus are darting in all directions over the plain, and tumbles in the snow are numerous. The ladies too, on their lower emi nence, are as busy as we are, and are attended by the less adventur ous, or the more gallant, of the men. Two Canadian gentlemeg of our party astonish us. Not content with the ex citement of the Cone, they climb up the precipitous cliff, which, rising*, to a height of between two and three hun dred feet, bounds the left bank of the Montmorenci River below the Falls. About halt way up the rock they launch themselves on their traineaus. Good heavens! they will be dashed to pieces! Not at all. Rushing.down with frightful speed, the impetus they have acquired carries them over the lesser and nearly to the summit of the principal Cone, when, turning, they slip down the side and glide like birds far away over the plain. This is a feat we are unable to emulate, but to Canadians, who are as handy with a traineau as a Madras Indian is with his catamaran, it is a trifle. After a couple of hours of this, it is time to think of dinner, or, to speak more correctly, dinner will be thought of; so with tingling veins and flushed faces we stroll back to the inn. Here a goodly repast is ready : tureens of steam ing soup, mighty joints and pasties, savory curries and dishes of snowy po tatoes, deck the board. A side-table bears an array of sundry sweets in re serve. A whole army of bottles invites attack, and mulled port and claret dis pel delicious odors. All are quickly at table, and the assault begins, but in stead of the jar of bayonets, the boom of cannon, and the groans of the wounded, we have the clash of knives, the sharp popping of champagne corks, and the lire of motto bonbons, and merry laughter. The viands stand the attack bravely, but suffer enormously. The Amazons present during the heat of the fray shortly retire, but the men continue hostilities yet a little longer, and dozens of luckless " marines" are victims in the fight. The rage of hunger and thirst ap peased, the field is cleared of all traces of dontlict ; half a dozen of the regi mental musicians make their appear ance; the soft strains of a valse draw ' forth the ladies, and soon manly arms are encircling slender waists. Quadrille, polka, and galop follow in quick suc cession till midnight, when the moon, rising over distant hills, gives light enough for our return. The sleighs are at the door ; one more " good-night " galop, and we start for home. The merry bells ring out once more ; the horses paw and champ the bit, im patient to be off. We wind up the hillside,—a long black line against that snowy background. The level is soon reached, but we do not drive back at the reckless pace we capae. Songs from fair or bearded throats, and joyous choruses, swell on the night air. The drowsy peasants of Beau fort are roused by the clatter, and watch us from their easem en t s as we dash through the village street, their dogs yelping savagely at our horses' heels.B4liiinimt succeeds to song; a LANCASTER PA: "WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6,1867 ,creeps oier , ,pur;; party, and low Whistlers tell . deetly some hearts are feeling. But be that - as it may, we are now nearing Quebec. The bridge is past and we are in the city. The sleighs here begin to disperse, for we must drive the ladies we escort home All are soon safely deposited with papa and mamma; all, with the exception of the luckless young lady under the charge of our friend the "Hatter," who, more intent, perhaps, on flirting than driving, lags behind, gets into a snow drift, breaks both s hafts, is without the means of mending them, and has to trudge home some two or three miles through the snow, with his horses reins on one arm, and his poor little " muffin" on the other. Our adieux made, and our partners fairly housed, by kind invitation of our gallant entertainers we drive up to the citadel. Here blazing fires, grilled bones, and a snug billiard-room await us ,• and after supper, grog, cigars and a chatty game of pool, we retire to bed to dream of bright eyes, flushed cheeks, sleigh bells, and our happy day's sliding over the snow. • The iron Horse Among the Sierra Ne• Vadas. [Fr.'s' the Sacramento Union, December MI Within five hours' ride of Sacra- Mento, where roses still bloom In the garden, and the air is balmy as the breath of spring, snow has fallen to the depth of three feet on a level, and the sleigh-bells are making music along white highways, fenced with spears like pines. One can breakfast here in the valley, where ice is chiefly known as an imported luxury for cooling drinks on sultry days, and where snow Is a tradi tion ; dine where frozen lakes tempt the graceful skater, where cutters and buf falo robes and bells offer the swift and rollicking satisfaction of New England sports, and not far from the spot where the snow walled in and shrouded the Donner party to death ; and sup in time to see the curtain rise at the theatre in Sacramento on the same evening. The locomotive makes this concentration of seasons—this transition from spring flowers to wintry delights—ou the same day, a possibility. The Central Pacific railroad company now run four passenger trains daily for a distance of twenty-three miles within the snow belt of the mountains—that is, from Alta to Cisco—and are already testing another of those "insurmounta ble obstacles" which are conjured up to destroy confidence iu the enterprise, but which have peen vanquished from time to time, in the progress of the work, by energetic attack. The experiment is of great interest to the people of this coast, as well as to all others who realize the importance of regular communication by the continental highway; but it should be said that the officers of the company have little or no doubt operat ing the road up there during the season of storms. Something may be learned foreshadowing the result from the equipment of the railroad for the contest, and the manner in which the snow has been handled thus far. The snow-plow placed in frolit of each locomotive is the one usually employed on the roads in the Northern states on the Atlantic side of the continent, calculated to clear the track of the white obstacle, immediately after a storm, provided the depth is not more than two feet. If the trains are frequent during a storm, ac cumulation to a greaterdepth upon any considerable section of the road is hard- ly probable. Heavy drifts might occur, aud, be heaped to a greatheight on each side of the track, but to prevent delay from such obstructions a large force of laborers are ready for service above Alta, and a huge snow-plow—an inde pendent machine—has been built for throwing the snow over the ravines, away from the line of the road. The firsti heavy storm of the season, leaving, as we have intimated, a depth of three feet ou a level, was easily dis posed of without having recourse to the big machine. During that tempestuous visitation, it happened that a train was stopped by running against a bowlder, but the snow itself did not delay the regular passenger trains an hour. The section of railroad within the snowbelt is a wonderful monument of energy and engineering skill, and the region through which it passes is asuc cession of the grandest scenes the Sierra can afford. A stranger, coming from the eastern slope and finding a locomo tive puffing amid the snows in the shadow of the Black Butte and Rattle snake Peak, six thousand feetabove the sea, cannot fail to be startled by such an apparition, and his wonder will not diminish as he descends and looks at the precipitous mountains and stupen dous gorges over which the way has been smoothed for the track of the Iron horse. There are but two tunnels on this section—one through Grizzly hill, 600 feet long; and the other through the ridge that divides the waters of the American from those of the Yuba, at Emigrant Gap, only three hundred and fifty feet in length. The line has been so skillfully run that the ascent is ac complished by cuts, embankments, and blasting a road bed in the solid rock of the mountain side, where an experi- enced hunter would be troubled to climb. The deepest cut is found at Prospect Hill, ten miles above Alta, and measures one hundred and twenty eight feet. The embankments are many and huge, and the settling of these during this, the first season of their use, is the point that requires of the superintendent more constant Eaten- tion than the obstruction of the snow. The construction trains are continu ally employed in restoring them to the proper grade. From the tunnel at Em igrant Gap to Cisco the road Is blasted out of granite in a mountain side over looking Bear Valley and the canon of the Yuba. Here, and at a point below, whence may be seen the forks of the American and the Giant's Gap, (lately Jehovah Gap,) are the grandest views to be obtained on the line of the rail road. Towering heights and dizzy depths—craggy cliff and velvet sward —forests of fir and pine and summits of glittering snow—are the chief elements of the scenes which artists of the future will delight to paint. At this time, flecks of snow are first seen by the trav eller ten miles above Alta, and thence to Cisco it gradually deepens, until it clothes the earth with a thick and far spreading robe of white, and gracefully festoons every tree on the mountain side. One may see at Cisco the sleighs of the stage company waiting for their daily freight of migrating humanity. To those who have pursued the routine of life in the valley for years, and have caught only distant glimpses of the winter on the summit of the Sierra, a visit to this Artic land at this season gives a strange and delightful sensa tion. We have the best authority for asserting that snow is very white, very pure, and very cold, and for adding that sleighing in California is just as good fun as ever it was in the East. Cotton Culture lu the South A distinguished officer in the army, un duty at New Orleans, takes a gloomy view of the prospects for the cotton crop for the present year, in a letter to a friend at Bos ton: "The same story is told everywhere about the crops. Major Gunkle, a Cincin nati man, planted 2,800 acres in cotton, and made 300 bales a loss of $BO,OOO by the operation. Still he told me he bad done better than his neighbors, and will try it one year more. Another man told me he had worked 48 , hands and glade ia bales. An other northern man, Col..Msbie, bad plant ed some 4,000 acres and was completely ruined. A merchant in this city (New Orleans) who travels much up the river and through the State, and advanced supplies to many planters last year, told me he knew that nine out of ten had lost all they invested, and he says it will be impossible to plant as much this year as last, because the means are wanting. Credit was ex hausted last year, and the merchants who advanced for planters will ! in many cases, not be able to collect their bills. There are splendid farms on the Mississippi, bn the risks are greater than in North Carolina.. As to the price of cotton, I find the general impression is that from two thirds to - three fourths of the crop is now in the market. A majority of planters have been obliged to sell to meet their bills. The crop will hard ly go above a million bales. Therefore the price muet go up by and by. *ENLOE OF THE PRESIDENT. Veto of the Colorado MIL The President yesterday sent to the Senate the f?llowlng message, assigning his reasons for objecting to the bill to admit Colorado into the Union: Tb the Senate of the United States : I_return to the Senate, in which house it originated, a bill entitled "An act to admit the State of Colorado into the Union," to which I cannot, consistently with my sense of duty, give my approval. With the ex ception of an additional section containing new provisions, it is substantially the same as the bill of a similar title passed by Con g.resa during the last session, submitted to the president for his approval, returned with the objections contained in a message bearing date the 15th of May last, and yet awaiting the reconsideration of the Senate. A 'Second bill, having in view the same purpose, has now passed both houses of Congress and been presented for my signa ture. li§ving again carefully considered the subject, I have been unable to perceive any .reason for changing the opinions which have already been communicated to Congress. I find, On the contrary, that there are .many objections to the proposed legis lation, of which I was not at that time aware, and that while several of those which I then assigned have, in the inter- val, gained in strength, yet others have been created by the altered character of the measure now submitted. The constitution under which this State government is proposed to be formed, very properly contains a provision that all laws in three at the time of its adoption and the admission of the State into the Union shall continue as if the constitution had not been adop.ed. Among those laws is one abso lutely prohibiting negroes and mulattoes from voting. At the recent session of the Territorial Legislature a bill for the repeal of this law, introduced into the council, was almost unanimously rejected; and the very time when Congress was engaged in enact ing the bill now under consideration, the Legislature passed an act excluding negroes and mulattoes from the right to sit as jurors. This bill was vetoed by the Governor of the Territory, who held that by the laws of the United States negroes and mulattoes are citizens, and subject to the duties as well as entitled to the rights of citizenship. The bill, however, was passed, the objections of the Governor to the contrary notwithstand ing, and is now a law of the Territory. Yet in the bill now before me, by which it is proposed to admit the Tee ritory as a State, it is provided that " there slain be no denial of the elective franchise or any other right to uny person, by reason of race or color, excepting Indians not taxed." The incon gruity thus exhibited between the legisla tion of Congress and that of the Territory, taken in connection with the protest against the admission of the State, hereinafter re ferred to, would seem clearly to indicate the impolicy and injustice of the proposed enactment. It might indeed be a subject of grave in quiry, and doubtless will result in such inquiry if this bill becomes a law, whether it does not attempt to exercise a power not conferred upon Congress by the Federal Constitution. That instrument simply do- dares that Congress may admit new States Into the Union. It nowhere says that Con gress may make new States for the purpose of admitting them into the Union, or for any • titer purpose; and yet this bill is as clear an attempt to make the institutions as any in which the people themselves could engage. In view of this action of Congress, the House of Representatives of the Territory have earnestly protested against being forced into the Union, without first having the question subtnitted to the people. Nothing could be more reasonable than the position which they thus assume; and it certainly cannot be the purpose of Con gress to force upon a community, against their will, a government which they do not believe themselves capable of sustaining. The following is a copy of the protest al luded to, as officially transtnitted to me: " Whereas it is announced in the public prints that it is the intention of Congress to admit Colorado as a State into the 'Union ; therefore "Resolved by the House of Representa tives of this Territory, That representing, as we do, the last and only legal expression of public opinion on this question, we earnest ly protest against the passage of a law ad mitting the State without first having the question submitted to a vote of the people, for the reasons—first, that we have a right to a voice in the selection of the character of our government; second, that we have not a sufficient population to support the ex penses of a State government. For these reasons we trust that Congress will not force upon us a government against our will." Upon information which I considered re liable, I assumed, in my message of thelsth of May last, that the population of Colorado VMS not more than thirty thousand, and ex pressed the opinion that this number was entirely too small either to assume the re sponsibility or to enjoy the privileges of a State. It appears that previous to that time, the Legislature, with a view to ascertain the exact condition of the Territory, had passed a law authorizing a census of the popula tion to be taken. The law made it the duty of the assessors in the several counties to take the census in connection with the an- nual assessments, and in order to secure a correct enumeration of the population, al lowed them a liberal compensation for the service by paying them for every man re turned, and added to their previous oath of office an oath to perform this duty with fidelity. From the accompanying official report it appears that returns have been received from fifteen of the eighteen counties, into which the State is divided, and that their pop- ulation amounts in the aggregate to twenty four thousand nine hundred and nine. The three remaining counties are estimated to contain three thousand, making a total population of twenty-seven thousand nine hundred and nine, (27,909.) This census was taken in the summer season, when it is claimed that the popula tion is much larger than at any other period, as in the autumn miners in large numbers leave their work and return to the Ei.st, with the results of their summer enterprise. The population, it will be observed, is but slightly in excess of one-fifth of the number required as the basis of representation for a single congressional district in any of the States, that number being 127,000. I am unable to perceive any good reason for such great disparity in the right of repre sentation ; giving, as it would, to the people of Colorado not only this vast advantage in the House of Representatives, but an equali ty in the Senate, where the other States are represented by millions, With, perhaps, a Single exception, no such inequality. as this has ever before been attempted. I know that it is claimed that the popula- on of the different States at the time o their admission has varied at different periods; but it has not varied much more than the population of each decade, and the corresponding basis of representation for the different periods. The obvious intent of the constitution was that no State should be admitted with a less population than the %tic for a representa tive at the time of application. The limi tation, in the second section of the first ar ticle of the constitution, declaring that " each State shall have at least one Repre sentative," was manifestly designed to pro tect the States which originally composed. the Union from being deprived, in the event of a waning population, of a voice in the popular branch of Congress, and was never intended as a warrant to force a new State into the Union with a representative popu lation far below that which might at the time be required of sister members of the Confederacy. This bill, in view of the pro hibition of the same section, which declares that "the number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand," is at least a violation of the spirit, it not the letter of the constitution. Itis respectfully submitted that however Congress, under the pressure of circum stances, may have admitted two or three States with less than a representative popu tion at the time, there has been no instance in which an application for admission has ever been entertained, when the population, as officially ascertained, was below thirty thousand. Were there any doubt of this being the true construction of the constitution, It would be dispelled by , the early and long continued practice of the federal govern ment. For nearly sixty years after the adoption of the constitution no. State was admitted with a population belleved at the time to be less than the current ratio for a representative; and the first instance in which there appears to baVe been a depar ture from the principle -tas in 1.845, in the case of Florida. Obviously the result of sectional strife we would do well to regard it as a warning of evil rather than as an example for imitation; and I think candid men of all partiee will agree that the in spiring,canse of the violation of this whole some principle of restraint is to be found in a vain attempt to balance those antago nisms which refused to be reconciled ex cept thretigh the bloody arbitrament of arms: The plain facts of our history will •.1 .1 that the great and leading States ad ngtfed since 1845, viz: lowa, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota and Kansas, includ ing Texas, which was admitted that year, have all come with an ample population for one representative, and some of them with nearly or quite enough for two. To demonstrate the correctness of my views on thisquestion, I subjoin a table— containing, a flat of the State admitted 'Since the adoption of the Federal constitu tion, with the date of admission, the ratio of representative population when admit ted, deduced from the United States census tables—lhe calculation being made for the period of the decade corresponding With the date of admisaion : Admitted. Ratio. Population. 33 . 000 . 82,820 States. Vermont-- -.1792 33,000 95,6&S -1796 33,000 73,864 -.180 1 33,000 82,443 Kentucky Tennessee 0hi0.......... _lBl2 35 . .000 75,212 .--1816 35,000' 98,110 -...1817 35,600 53,1177 .....1818 35,000 47,274 ~.._lBl9 35,000 111.150 .....1820 MAI 1'98,831 --DV' 86,000 69, 60 !NW 47,710 65 175 1e37 47,.00 168,073 1845 70,680 57,.61 1815 70 680 189,32, Louisiana.. Indiana .... Mississippi Illinois_ Alabama... Arkansas.. Fl Michigan .. ori Texas..... 182,572 „1948 70,690 • 2.i0,497 -1850 79,6 92,597 -.1658 93,492 44,630 ...1859 91,492 138,V09 .....1 . 1861 93,492 107,206 .... Wisconsin. California.. 0reg0n....... Minnesota Kansas .1882 91,492 319,(LN 1894 127,800 Not known West Virginia Nevada —• In 1850. Colorado, which it is now proposed to admit as a state, contains, as has aireti.ly been stated, a population less than twenty eight thousand, while the present ratio of representation is one hundred and twenty seven thousand. There can be no reason, that I can per ceive, for tits admission f Colorado that would not apply with equal force to nearly every other Territory now Organized ; and I submit whether, if this bill becomes a law, it will be possible to resist the logical coo elusion that such Territories as Hamlett, Montana and Idaho, must be received as States whenever they present themselves, without regard to the number of inhabitants they may respectively contain. Eight or ten new Senators and four or five new members of the House of Representatives would thus be admitted to represent a population scarcely exceeding that which in any other portion of the nation, is en titled to but a single member of the House of Representatives, while the average f,,r two Senators in the Union, as now comettuted, Is at least one million of people. It would surely be unjust to all other sections of the Union to enter upon a policy with regard to the admission of new States which might result in conferring such a dispro portionate share of influence In the National Legislature upon communities which, in pursuance of the wise policy of our fathers, should, for some years to come, be retained under the fostering care and protection of the National Government. If it is deemed just and expedient now to depart from the settled policy of the nation during all its history, and to admit all the Territories to the rights and privi leges of States, irrespective of their popu latiou or fitness for such government, it is submitted whether it would not be well to devise such measures as will bring the sub Ject before the country for consideration and decision. This would seem to be evi dently wise, because, as has already been stated, if it Is right to admit Colorado now, there is no reason for the exclusion of the other Territories. It is no answer to these suggestions that an enabling act was passed authorizing the people of Colorado to take action on this subject. It is well known that the act was passed in consequence of representations that the population reached, according to some statements, as high as eighty thous and, and to none less than fifty thousand, and was growing with a rapidity which by the time the admission could be cons= mated, would secure a population of over a hundred thousand. These representations prove to have been wholly fallacious; and, In addition, the people of the Territory, by a deliberate vote, decided that they would not assume the responsibilities of a State government. By that decision they utterly exhausted all power that was conferted by the en abling act; and there has been no step taken since in relation to the admission that has had the slightest sanction or war rant of law. The proceeding upon which the present application is based was in the utter absence of all law in relation to it, and there is no evidence that the votes on the question of the formation of a State government bear any relation whatever to the sentiment of the Territory. The pro. test of the House of Representatives pre viously quoted is conclusive evidence to the contrary. But if none of these reasons existed against this proposed enactment, the bill itself, besides being inconsistent in its pro visions in conferring power upon a person unknown to the laws, and who may never have a legal existence, is so framed as to render its execution almost impossible. It is, indeed, a question whether it is not in Use)" a nullity. To say the least, it is of exceedingly doubtful propriety to confer the power proposed in the bill upon the " Governor elect;" for as, by its owu terms, the constitution is not to take effect until after the admission of the State, he in the meantime has no inure authority than any other private citizen. But even supposing him to be clothed with sufficient authority to convene the Legislature, what consti tutes the "State Legislature," to which is to be referred the question of submission to the conditions imposed by Congress? Is it a new body, to be elected and convened by proclamation of the "Governor elect;" or is it that body which wet ?more than a year ago under the prosisions of the State constitution. By reference to the second section of the schedule and to the eighty, oth section of the fourth article of the State Constitution, it will be seen that the term of the members of the House of Representatives and that of one-half of the members of the Senate expired on the first Monday of the present month. It is clear that if there were no intrinsic objections to the bill itself in re lation to the purposes to be accomplished, this objection would be fatal; as it is ap parent that the provisions of the third sec tion of the bill to admit Colorado have reference to a period and state of facts entirely different from the present, and affairs as they now exist; and if carried into effect must necessarily lead to confu sion. Even if It were settled that the old, and not a new a body were to act, it would be found impracticable to execute the law, because a considerable number of the members, as I am informed, have ceased to be residents of the Territory, and In the sixty days within which the Legislature is to be convened after the passage of the set, there would not be sufficient time to till be vacancies by new elections, were there any authority under which -they could be held. It may not be improper to add thatirthese proceedings were all regular, and the result to be obtained were desirable, simple j ustice to the people of the Territory would require a longer period than sixty days within which to obtain action on the conditions pro posed by the third section of the bill. There are, as is well known, large portions of the Territory with which there is and can be no general communication, there being several counties which, from November to May, can only be reached by persons traveling on foot, while with other regions of the Ter ritory occupied by a large portion of the population, there is very little more freedom of access. Thus, if this bill should become a law, it would be impracticable to obtain any expression of public sentimentin refer ence to its provision, with a view to enlighten the Legislature, if the old bo-ly were called together; and of course equally impractica ble to procure the election of a new body. This defect might have been remedied by an extension of the time and a submission of the question to the people, with a fair op portunity to enable them to express their sentiments. The admission of a new State has gener ally been regarded as an epoch in our his tory, marking the onward progress of the nation ; btii, after the most careful and anxious inquiry on' the subject, I cannot perceive that the proposed proceeding is in conformity with the policy which, from the origin of the government, has uniformily prevailed in the admission of new States. I therefore return the bill to the Senate without my signature. ANDREW JOHNSON. Washington, January 28, 1867. Important Arrest..-A 850,000 Haul A Mr. Wykoff, from Sharpsburg, Monroe county, Pa., says the Manhattan (Kansas) Radical, last Tuesday, placed in the hands of Deputy Sheriff Thompson an order from Governor Crawford for the arrest of Depue S. Miller, of Riley county. The order for the arrest was given at the request of the Governor of Pennsylvania. Mr. Miller is charged by the Grand Jury of Monroe county-, Pa., with having embezzled $50,400 from the bans in Stroudsburg, of which be was at the time of the commission of the crime President. The offense was committed last March, and immediately thereafter Mr. Miller came to Kansas, formed some agree able acquaintances, bought a farm from Mr. John Randolph, in the Blue Valley, about twenty miles above Manhattan, married a respectable young lady, and altogether seemed to be getting along finely. He is upwards of sixty years of age, has always stood well in society in Pennsylvania and since his arrival here. Deputy Thompson arrested him Tuesday afternoon, brought him to town and delivered him into the keeping of Mr. Wykoff and another gentle man, who had come all the way from Pennsylvania upon this mission. Mr. Miller was very much surprised at being arrested, and his wife was almost frantic at underparting with him on such short notice ctud such cdrcunurtauves, NUMBER 5. THA NKBILIBKA BILL. Another Veto Message The President yesterday sent the folloiv ng message to the Senate: 7b the Fenate of the United &wee : I return, for consideration, a bill entitled "An act for the admission of the State of Nebraska intothelJnion," which originated in the Senate, and has received the assent of both houses of Congress. A bill having in view the same ob j ect was presented for my approval a few hours prior to the ad journment of the last session; but, submit ted at a time when there was no opportu nity for a proper consideration of the sub ject, I withheld my signature, and the mea sure failed to become a law. It appears, by the preamble of this bill, that the people of Nebraska, availing them selves of the authority conferred upon them by the act passed on the 19th of April, 18114, "have a constitution which, upon due ex amination, is found to conform to the pro visions and comply with the conditions of said act, and to be republican in its form of government, and-that they now ask for ad mission into the Union.' This proposed law would therefore seem to be based upon the declaration contained in the enabling act, that, upon compliance with its terms, the people of Nebraska should be admitted into the Union upon an equal footing with the original States. Reference to the bill, however, shows that while, by the first section Congress die- tinetly accepts, ratifies and confirms the constitution and State government which the people of the Territory have formed for themselves, declares Nebraska to be one of the United States of America, and admits her'„inta the Union on an equal footing with the original States In all respects whatso ever, the third section provides that this measure "shall not take effect except upon the fundamental condition that within the State of Nebraska there shall be no denial of the electiv franchise, or of any other right, to any person, by reason of race or color, excepting Indians not taxed ; and upon the further fundamental condition that the Legislature of said State, by u solemn public act, shall declare the assent of said State to the said fundamental con- dition, and shall transmit to the President of the United States an authentic copy of said act, upon receipt whereof the Presi dent, by proclamation, shall forthwith an nounce the fact, whereupon said funda mental condition shall be held as a part of the organic law of the State; and there- upon, and without any further proceedings on the part of Congress, the admission of said State into the Union shall be consid- ered as complete." This condition is not mentioned in the original enabling act, was not contemplated at the time of its passage, was not sought by the people themselves, has not hereto fore been applied to the inhabitants of any State asking admission, and is in direct conflict with the constitution adopted by the people and declared in the preamble " to be republican in its form of government;" for In that instrument the exercise of the elective franchise and the right to hold office are expressly limited to white citizens of the United States. Congress thus under takes to authorize and compel the Legisla ture to change the constitution, which It Is declared in the preamble has received the sanction of the people, and which by this bill is "accepted, ratified and confirmed" by the Congress of the nation. The first and third sections of the bill ex hibit yet further incongruity. By the one, Nebraska is" admitted into the Union upon an equal footin with the original States, in all respects 1. titsouver ;" while, by the other, Congreit demands, us a condition precedent to h r admission, requirements which in our history have never been asked of any people, when presenting a constitution and State government for the acceptance of the law-making , power. It is expressly declared, by the third section, that the bill "shall not take effect except upon the fundamental condition that with in the State of Nebraska there shall be no denial of the elective franchise, or of any other right, to any person, by reason of race or color, excepting Indiansnot taxed." Neither more nor less than the assertion of the right'of Congress to regulate the elective fran oof any State hereafter to be admitte this condition is in clear c s violation oft o Federal constitution, under the provisions of which, from the very foundation of the government, each State has been left' ree to determine for itself the qualifications necessary for the exercise of suffrage within its limits. Without prece dent in our legislation, It is in marked con trast with those limitations which, imposed upon States that from time to time have be come members of the Union, had for their object the single purpose of preventing any infringement of the constitution of the country. If Congress is satisfied that Ne braska, at ale present time, possesses suf ficient population to entitle her to full repre sentation in-the councils of the nation, and that her poople desire an exchange of 0 Territorialfor a State government, good faith would seem to demand that she should be admitted; without further requirements than tho4i expressed in the enabling act, with all of which, it is asserted in the pre amble, her inhabitants have complied. Congress may, under the constitution. admit new States or reject them, but the people of a State can only make or change their organic law, and prescribe the qualili cations requisite for electors. Congress, however, in passing the bill in the shape in which it has been submitted 6,r my ap proval, does not merely reject the applica tion of the people of Nebraska for present admission as a State into the Union, on the ground that the constitution which they have submitted restricts the exercise of the elective franchise to the white population, but imposes conditions which, if accepted by the Legislature; may, without the con sent of the people, so change the organic law as to make:electors of all persons within the State, without:distinction of race or color. In view of this fact, I suggest for the con sideration of Congress, whether it would not be just, expedient, and in accordance with the principles of our government to allow the people, by popular vote, or through a convention chosen by themselves for that purpose, to declare whether or not they will accept the terms upon which it is now pro posed to admit them Into the Union. This course would not occasion much greater delay than that which the bill con templates, when it requires that the Legis lature shall be convened within thirty days after this measure shall have become a law, for the purpose of considering and deciding the conditions which it imposes, and gains additional force when we consider that the proceedings attending the formation of the State constitution were not in conformity with the provisions of the enabling act; that in an. aggregate vote of 7,776, the ma jority in favor of the constitution did not exceed one hundred, and that it Is alleged that, in consequence of frauds, even this re sult cannot be received as a fair expression of the wishes of the people. As upon them must fall the burdens of a State organ ization, it is but just that they should be permitted to determine for themselves a question which so materially affects their interests. Possessing a soil and climate admirably adapted to those in dustrial pursuits which bring prosperity and greatness to a people, with the advan tage of a central position on the great high way that will soon connect the Atlantic and Pacific States, Nebraska is rapidly gain ing in numbers and wealth, and may, with in a very brief period, claim admission on grounds which will challenge and secure universal assent. She can, therefore, wisely and patiently afford to wait. Her popula tion Is said to be steadily and even rapidly increasing, being now generally conceded as high as forty thousand, and estimated by some whose judgment is entitled to re• spect at a still greater number. At her present rate of growth, she will in a very short time•have the requisite population for a Representative In Congress ; and, what is far more important to her own citizens, will have realized such an advance hi material wealth as will enable the expenses of a State government to be borne without op pression to the tax-payers. Of new com munities, it may be said with especial force —and it is true of old ones—that theinduce ments to immigrants, other things being equal, is in almost the precise ratio of tax • ation. The great States of the Northwest owe their marvellous prosperity largely to the fact that they were continue 4as territories until they had eown to lid wealthy and populous communities. ANDREW JOHNSON Washington, Jan. 29, 1867. The Senate's Rejection of Soldier Ap pointment. The Senate on Saturday rejected two of President Johnson's nominations of sol diers in this vicinity for collectors of internal revenue, viz: General Calvin E. Pratt, of Brooklyn. He was a Brigadier-General in the sixth army corps under Sedgwiek, and made a good record everywhere. Major General Eagan was also rejected, who ,has been in the whole war. He went out in the 40th Mozart regiment, and fought his way up to a Brigadier-Generalship by gallantry on the field, and he was In the army of the Potomac all the way through from beginn ing to end. He was severely wounded, and for his gallantry President Johnson gave him the collectorship of the ninth New York district, for which the Senate has rejected him. It may be added that he was by letter complimented by President Lincoln, Lieu tenant General Grant and Major-General Ranooek, forhia great servioes to his country in t4twar.—N. Y. /Apra% EAMES op _ Btrameeel Tzeiticeine colt. rear / 9 eqnSre or ten lines; ten per , . inareeeeto 2 r emotions of ajear. BALL ZffrATE. raucous', Paorarry erai (inn dinannetno, 7 cents a Itils % ki r aut,'and cents for each subsequent - tion. Bremer, Houma inserted Local 15 °ante per line. SPLOCAL NOTICES preoeclina rearrolaaat and deaths, 10 - cents per line far nut Insertion, and 5 outs for every initaNnent Insertion. IMMO! CULEDB, Of ten ones or leu, one 10 Business Cards, five lines or less, one LIGAL aim orn h a NOTICES— Executors' 241 nottoes,--... 2.00 2.00 rtVors'eee' 1.50 Other "Notices," ten lines, or lees, three times 1.50 The Republican Press on Simon Cam• eron. We have already given some extracts from leading daily Republican news papers, showing how openly they ex pressed their disgust at the means by which Simon Cameron secured his elec tion to the United States Senate. We find the following in the Pittsburg Commercial, which is well known as the ablest and most widely circulated Radical Journal in Western Pennsyl vania. The Commercial, in introducing the extracts which follow, says: To print all that has boon said by the Re publican press of the State on the election of Simon Cameron to be United States Senator, would require more space than a half dozen daily newspapers could afford; but in order that the public may have some idea of how Mr. Cameron's election is re ceived by the Republican press, we give the following quotations from some of the leading journals of the party: [From the Indiana True Americam.] * • * " There can be no doubt what means Were employed to secure this nomi nation. We feel entirely confident that the wishes of the great body of the Republicans of Indiana county and the State have been flagrantly disregarded, and a deep and iast• ing injury indicted on their party organiza tion. They who have done this great wrong —at least those who have proved faithless— independent of the suspicion which nece"-- sarily attaches to their action, have incurred a degree of responsibility which men soldom venture to take upon themselves, and it is not for a moment to be doubted that they will be held by their consma wag and the people at large to a rigid account for their glaring moral and political delinquencies." iFrom the Sharon, Mercer County, Herald.] "The news of the nomination of Simon Cameron for United States Senator from thin Slate, struck a vein of indignation in the popular mind which perhaps no other single art of the Legislature could have reached. Could the question have been settled by a vote of the people of the State hardly ono In five would have voted for Cameron, and yet he gets enough of the votes of the people's representatives to more than balance those received by his three competitors, either of whom would have been preferable. And how will those representatives justify their course before the people?" !From the Meadville Daily Republicaml " By n sp, clad dispatch from Harrisburg we learn that Simon Cameron has succeed ed in securing the nomination for the Sena torship. Tlik intelligence will be anything but cheering to the Republicans of this sec- tion of the State. Indeed it will be a sore disappointment to the great muss of earnest Republicans everywhere. The nomination of any of the other candidates would have given great satisfaction to our people, but the selection of Cameron will excite their heartiest indignation. It has been the mis fortune of Pennsylvania to be represented most of the time in the Senate by pigmy statesmen. It is not to her credit now that she rejects three of her best men and pre fers a politician whose name has become a synonym or all that is rascally in politics. ' We can only express our sor row that in the face of the overwhelming sentiment of the party the small politicians should havesueceeded in selecting Cameron, and in placing the Republican organization in the same disigracorn I predicament that receded the overthrow of the old time emecratie and Know-Nothing pirrtles." [From the 1)11 City Daily Register I "The members of the Legislative body of Pennsylvania, assembled In caucus on Thursday evening last, crowned themselves with everlasting infamy, by nominating to the high position of United States Senator, Simon Cameron, whose name has been for many years synonymous with all that is corrupt. It is plain to every ono what means the old Winnebago used to secure his nomination. All who thus sold their votes and outraged their constltuonoy should be held to a strict accountability. Mr. Whann, the representative from this county, voted for Cameron. [From the Titusville Daily Herald.] " It seems altogether probable that the success of Simon Cameron has already oc casioned a breach In the Republican party which may be difficult to repair. '• • • What then are the influences which have wrought the eleclion of Mr. Cameron? The stories of corruption cannot be altogether silenced by the 'reports of the investigating comMittees. Representatives who were elected under pledges concerning this issue shamefully violated their obligation and betrayed their trust, and It will be impos sible to convince the people that improper means were not used to accomplish such results. It is our hope that the unfortunate dissensions of party leaders may not extend to the rank and file." [From the Tidloute Journal.[ " It is a spectacle saddening to every true Union mall. That money has brought about this end is beyond question; that legislators have sold themselves for the 'al mighty dollar,' and voted contrary to their expressed pledges, and the well known wishes of their constituents, is also cer tain." iFrom the Erie Dolly rasp-itch.] " Yesterday morning we gave by tale graph the result of the ongresalonal nom - Mating caucus, held In Harrisburg on Thursday evening. Simon Cameron was the choice of that caucus, against, we ven ture to say, the will of at least seven-alghthm of the people of the State. He was selected in preference to A. G. Curtin, whom the people wanted and demanded should be chosen." " T • But one thing can be deduced from all this, That one thing Is, that the Pennsylvania Legislature is fearfully and hopelessly cor rupt—that it is a disgrace to the Common wealth, and a foul blot upon the face of the country. Not simply UCCaIIHO that caucus nominated Simon Cameron—a crime suf- ticient In itself to hang any man, in a Just country—but because three out of every live votes which were cast for Cameron were iu direct opposition to the will of the people, contrary to their instructions and expectations, and because no reason what ever existed that would entitle Cameron to the nomination over Curtin. flow all this will result in the end cannot now be told. The Legislature has gone through the formality of milking nominations for Sena tor, but this will not affect the premeditated result. But if the reasons for the selection of Cameron aro not eventually traced to corruption of the vilest and most disgrace ful character, four fifths of the peoplo of Pennsyl van in will be happily disap pointed." (Harrisburg Correspondence of Butler Citlzen.i " Considering General Cameron's past history—in connection with this office—to say nothing of former occasions,the re membrance of his arrangement with Boyer by which lie agreed to pay him twenty thousand dollars for his vote, the public judgment will unerringly settle on the conclusion that the people's WV was overcome with his money." [The clecres pondent then recites the perfidy of the Rep resentatives from his District, except Mr. Pillow, who obeyed his instructions.] Had the voice of the people been fairly reflected, Curtin would have had two-thirds of the whole vote; as It was, he had a little over one quarter of the vote. I am not of those who fear him becoming another Cowan. lie may be a knave, be is certainly not a fool. For one, therefore, I will in dulge the hope that ho will so act us to re deem, at least In part, his past errors. My greatest objection is not to his election per sonally, but that, as a precedent, it estab lishes the fact that brains Is no passport to honor and power when brought In contact with wealth." [From the linnthur4q4,4lo6sl.l - " Where is ' The Soldiers'' , Eriend' now ? The people are with him still, but the poli ticians—the honest Representatives of their will—have gone back on him and them. The father of the soldiers' orphans is cast aside as readily 11.9 the old clothes off the back of a successful gambler. Curtin is, not the only 'Soldiers' Friend,' who has re ceived a double dose of ingratitude." yrom the Waynesburg Republicand "Cameron's friends had a committee ap pointed by the Legislature ostensibly to in quire into the charges of corruption so widely circulated, concerning his nomina tion. They failed to produce evidence cor roborating the charges. Green le a salutar y protection for the eyes—in some cases it might dim the perceptive faculties. [From the Sharon Herald.] "The Committee appointed by the Legis lature to investigate charges of bribery in the nomination of Simon Cameron, report as they voted. With M. B. Lowry, a scarce ly less notorious man than Cameron him self, as Chairman, It would hardly be ex pected that any one on that aide would be so deeply implicated that money could not get him clear." The French steamer Rocan sailed from Vera Cruz on the 21st with .1,200 Austrian infantry. The .French were to have com pleted theirevacuation of the city of Mexico on the 28th. • A letter received in Washington from an officer at Fort Phil. Kearney, says the three forts, Kearney, Reno and Smith, are be sieged by the Indians.. Senor Don Alberto Meet Oara.tuta:pre merited his credentials to Secretary Seward as Charge d'Alraira from Choi.
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