- c gatzenter Nuteltignar. WEDNESDAY; FEBRUARY 6;1867 TO the Demi:seises of Pennsylvania. The Democratic State Committee at its meeting, January 29th, at Harrisburg, adopted the following resolutions: • Ist. That the regular Convention of the party for nominating a candidate for the Supreme Bench be held at Harrisburg on the second TUESDAY ofJUNE, 1867, at 12 M. and that the Convention shall be com posed of the.usual number of delegates. 2nd. In addition thereto, it is recom mended to the Democracy of Pennsylvania to forthwith elect in the usual manner two delegates of recognized position and in fluence in the party for each Representative and Senator in their respective Districts who shall meet in .111 - cm Convention at Harris burg, on a day to be fixed by the Chairman of the State Central. Committee. By order of the Democratic State Com mitee. WILLIAM A. WALLACE, B. L. FOSTER, Chairmuu Secretary, Row the Masses are to be swindled by the New Tariff. The monopolists have succeeded by a well arranged combination, in pushing through the United States Senate a tariff which exactly suits their purposes. We give below a synopsis of some of the changes made by it. It will be ob served that they are decidedly protec tive in their character. It seems a very small Increase to advance the tariff on certain goods u few cents on the pound or yard, but it will be seen that on very many of the articles the cost has been more than doubled, The bill was put _through by a combination of greedy monopolists, who are determined to make enormous profits, no matter at what cost to the consumers, In hardware the cheaper kinds of cutlery are made to pay from 100 to 200 per cent. duty ; that is to say the farm ers, mechanics and working people generally are to be made pay by this atrocious tariff twice or three times as much as the articles can be imported for, for of course the home manufac turers will at once put up their prices to the highest limit at which they can un dersell the importer, who has these du ties to pay. A nd they will not reduce the price so long as they can secure special legish i ttion in their favor by combining to force the passage of just such a tariff as they demand. If prices should begin to fall, as has been the case to sonie ex tent within the past twelve months, the monopolists will at 011(13 combine again, and under the cry of protection to home industry will secure atakher advance of tariff rates. But it is not on hardware alone that. this new tariff scheme seeks covertly to injure the poorer people of the land while it favors the rich. Take the case of woollen goods for instance, of which every working man has to buy a con siderable quantity for himself and family on the approaching of each suc ceeding whiter. 'l'lle table which we print below will show how certain schemers have managed to secure the passage of a law by which the mechan ics and the laboring men of the country are to be victimized. It will be seen that the cheaper quantities of cloths and other woollen goods which are used by the poorer classes are to have a much higher proportion of duty laid upon them than the high priced goods which the rich wear. Thus Woollen coatings, the gold cost of which is $l.OB per yard are to be raised 21 per cent. liighec ; but the line and costly qualities, the gold cost of which is $2.40 are raised only 11 Per cent. ; and still liner qualities, of the gold cost of $:2,1;0 are raised only 10 per cent. The coarser coatings, such us mechanics and laboring men wear are to pay from SO to 100 per cent. in duties, but the finer and more costly, being bought and worn by the rich, are only burdened with from Ito to 70 per cent. Let any man in Pennsylvania who imagines that a high tarinnust necessarily be a blessing, examine the following table carefully : MEM M== Ladles' dress goods - - - LWlex' dress goods i ts Ladles' dress goods '22r Woollen coatings it .', Woollen coatings Woollen doeskins,ll I d lo Wool lon overcoat.) nits_ , Woollen overonatings...!sll2 Woollen overeoutl 1! Woollen overcoal.lngs '5l 2 I Woollen ,/vervoitilugm... 51 1; Woollen mal.lngs. :1 11.5 Woollen broadcloth 31 Woollen broluteloi h . . . . 11....i11eti 15, broadelolli. 61 1 5U ,117 Woollen U. hroadelotll.lsl I 11,1r1 Or; Hunting , Is 11, 2-17,11 Union th.llllll/110i F,l) ~, 151 511 to Worsd reps 59 1 I nn , 511 WOrNLOII tlll.lllll.lilis 51 ,•,: 111 511 Worsted p 11.11411 21 1 ., 1.211150 Worsted plush 21 !,:, 1111 1 . - .0 Union damasks .I.IS, .. 11 ISO Figured reps 'l'lle name is true of carpets. The duty on high-priced carpets is not raised at all ; that on low-priced carpets Is raised hi cents per yard, about r, per cent. of the cost In gold. In the same manner there Is no increase on silk dress goods, which are bought by the wealthy ; but on small articles of silk, such as ribbons, which are used by the poor as well, there is an increase of 10 per cent. High priced linens are put under a diminish ed duty—they are to vay 5 per cent. now—while all lower-priced linens:have the tariff greatly increased, and on sonic styles of goods more than doubled. Thus it appears that these pretended protectionists seek to oppress the poor, the farmers, the mechanics and the workingmen of the laud in an especial manner. Is it strange that our Sena tors, neither of them being ready to be bought or deceived by the greedy Yan kee monopolists, should decline to vote in favor of such an infamous bill Many of its most atrocious features are most artfully concealed, so much so that a leading Republican paper, which cannot help denouncing the bill, declares that none but au expert can discover them. The people will, however, discover them very quickly should the bill be passed substantially in its present shape by the House, as we have no doubt it will be. When they fled that the poor man's overcoat and the poor woman's cloak is made to pay a much heavier duty than the rich man's, they will begin to inquire who voted for this bill of iniquities. Then, the ErprcBs will need to defend Its party friends, and the people will approve the course of senators Buckalew and Cowan. No manner of sophistical argument can show that the people of Pennsyl vania will be benefitted by the proposed tariff. Millions of dollars will be wrung from the working men by It, for which they will receive no equivalent. It will greatly increase the price of all the necessaries of life ; will make home 'pro duction more costly than ut present ; will disable us from selling either our manufactures or our agricultural pro-, duets abroad, except at a loss ; and will make' the whole nation poor. PAteillge of the Tariff Bill The hill of abaminations which has juikpassed the Senate, Is the same tariff bill which passed the House the last session, so altered by multitudinous amendments as to make it, In many - particulars, more unjust and oppressive than the original. We hope the amend manta may be concurred in and that the bill, in Its present hideous shape, may bedomeli law. From the now. Lts• , certained views of the two Houses, we are certain to have a high and oppres- Ave tariff anyhow, and the best thing •to be hoped Is, that absurdity may so overleap Itself as to hasten the inevita .ble,•the overwhelming reaction. Purposeless Discussions The special Washington correspon dent of the New York Tribune tele graphs to that paper ss follows: The Committee , on Reoonettnetion on the part of the House have held; several meet ings recently, but they have all resulted in purposeless discussions, each member hay ing his own ideas - and propositions t neither of the latter being favored except by him self. - Is not that cool? The second session of the Radical Rump Congress about closing and still no plan for a restora tion of the Union. Nothing but what is properly designated as "purposeless discussions." All the most vital in terests of a great nation in peril; busi ness at a stand still; its finances in most unstable condition ; its commerce al most ruined; the manufactories of the North closed ; merchants lounging in idleness over their counters; the rich agricultural region of the entire South not producing enough to keep her peo ple from starving, ruin staring us in the face, and still nothing but "purposeless discussions" in the Radical Rump Con gress, which arrogantly sets itself up as the government. Unable todo anything better than to treat a prostrate people to "purposeless discussions," Congress ar rogantly proposes to depose the President and to destroy the Supreme Court of the United States. If it had shown itself to be the wisest legislative body ever convened, the people would be justified in resisting to the last extremity any such attempted revolution. But when the apologists and defenders of the Rump Congress admit that it is utterly incapable of anything better or more practical than a continuance of these " purposeless discussions," what would be thought of a people who wouldper mit such a body to absorb all the pow ers of the other co-ordinate branches of a free and constitutional government? Better resolve ourselves back into the original elements. Better by far dis pense with all forms of government at once. Then the people might build up again from the foundation. Better any- thing than the proposed usurpations of a set of fanatical fools, who admit that all their wisdom can. produce nothing but Interminable " popoßclesx divcus• Repudiating One of Their Orntorg For some years past the Radicals have been in the habit of employing a set of itinerant spouters to travel over the North delivering lectures in .support of their peculiar theories. Some of these windy characters have been male, others female, some black, others white. Not un frequently the genders and races have all been combined at grand demonstra- Lions of the party of great moral ideas. Wendell Phillips, Anna Dickinson and the negroes Fred. Douglass and Wm. Howard Day have repeatedly made Re publican speeches from the same plat form on the same evening. Here at Lan caster we have been favored with the presence of specimens of these varying varieties. We have had the gentle Anna and the pompous Professor \Vil. ham Howard Day, both within a year. To the " colored gemman" our patriotic and intensely loyal County Commis sioners gave the use of the Court House, though refusing it to the Democratic soldiers when they desired to hold a Convention therein. Some weeks since a specimen of the negro race made his appearance in our city and announced his intention to lec ture on the question of reconstruction. Of course the leaders of the Radicals were in ecstacies. From every loyal pulpit the lecture was duly announced, and the Exprtss gave the sable orator the benefit of a first-class notice in ad vance. Out of curiosity we went to hear what the fellow had to say, and gave our readers a correct report of his speech. He denounced Democrats in the same slang-wiianging terms con stantly employed by his white political friends and associates ; he got oil all the stale lies which the Republican news papers constantly reiterate ; he talked glibly about traitors and sympathizers with treason; he eulogized Thaddeus Stevens in words of the twilit abject ad miration ; he even went so far as to pause In one of his flights to pay a pointed personal compliment to our neighbor of the Express on seeing one of Its attaches enter the Chach. We were pained to learn from the I;,ln•exx that this bright and shining light of Radicalism has fallen Into bad practices. It seems he has actually taken to stealing and getting drunk. lle has had the audacity to attempt to emulate Simon Cameron, Ben. Butler and other high Republican officials in dishonesty, and Senators Yates, Sprague and others in debauchery. What is esteemed honorable in white leaders of the Republican party appears to be re garded as inexcusable In a poor negro. The fact that he has been disguising his hair• Is even paraded as a fault In the "Spanish Creole," when it is well known that it costs the great Cleary no little time and a modicum of money to perpetuate the sable color of his locks and the glossy line of the hirsute appendage which hides to some ex tent the vacuity of his stupid face. Was there ever a more palpable exhi bition of. a disposition to make au un fair distinction between men merely ou account of color? For shame! What has become of your theory of equal rights? Where is the great principle of the Civil Rights Bill? But the most laughable feature in this whole ailkir is that a deliberate attempt has been made, both by the ElpICBB and the Harrisburg Telegraph, to show that this drunken and dishonest disciple of the party of great moral ideas is a Democrat in disguise. When he was here he looked like a Radical, talked like a Radical, and we have no doubt smelt like a Radcal. It wont do gen• tlemen. You must father• your own progeny. The fellow was a sound Radi cal teacher, and as such was received with open hands. If he has taken to stealing and to getting drunk he is only patterning after prominent white lead ers of your party. Then why this de null elation r; 1 ^. 5 1 5 r Yu-I, I II .12" LOY , - 1 I II 1 The Petticoat Story Officially' Disposed of. The story about Jefferson Davis having been disguised In his wife's clothes at the time of his capture has at last been officially disposed of. Secretary Stanton has sent to the Senate u full copy of the report of .Major Wilson, the officer who was in command of the troops who made the capture. Major Wilson's re port Includes the reports of slihordinute officers sent out to prevent the escape of Mr. Davis across the Mississippi river, including that of Lieut. Col. Pritchard, of the 4th Michigan Cavalry, who made the capture. Not one word is said in these despatches of Mr. Davis having been taken in any costume but his own. Had it been otherwise it would cer tainly have been stated. Thus isa miser able slander, promulgated at the time, now refuted by au official report from a quarter where it was known to be false from the first. This makes Stanton look exceedingly small in his malicious mean ness. The Indiana Democrat comes to us this week much enlarged. It has a good advertising patronage, and looks de cidedly prosperous in a handsome new dress. We wish our .friend, the pro prietor, abundant success in every way, Oh the rarity . Of Christian charity The Indiana Democrat. Capital Alarmed. On Wednesday Mr. Raymond, Rea, publican, from New York, presented to:: Congress a memorial, which wassigned by a large number of the.most proini 7 nent business men of New York city, remonstrating against the movements. being made in the impeachmentof the PreSident, and urging the necessity of adopting measures to strengthen the public confidence, allay excitement, re vive the i u tercats of labor and capital, and promote the peace and prosperity of the country. They deplore the fact that, although the war is ended, peace is not restored while the public coun cils of the nation are disturbed. They deprecate the effect upon trade and all business relations of a political situa tion in which, instead of friendly de bate and action in Congress on great questions of National policy, acrimo nious discussion prevails, while har mony seems to have fled from the Capitol. This petition, thus presented from the first great commercial emporium and financial centre of the country shows how dangerous is the course pursued by the Radicals. In their eager desire to make sure their continuance in power, the leaders of the Republican party have displayed au utter disregard of the indus trial and social interests of the nation. Since the termination of the war they have persistently pursued a course cal culated to impair the material resources of the country. At a time and under circumstances that imperatively de manded the development of the indus trial energies of our entire population, both North and South, they have de liberately adopted a fine of action which almost annihilated the vast resources of that section upon which we have always been dependent for the great staples which gave employment to our manu factories, and formed the principal basis of our commercial prosperity. In ordinary times a tithe of the misdeeds of which the Radicals have been guilty would have roused the masses of our peo ple to active resistance, and would have ensured the utter defeat of any party. Only by constantly appealing to the animosities excited by the war have the Radicals been able to maintain their hold upon power. Had the people reflected calmly upon the great questions now agitating the country, the elections last fall would have shown an entirely dif ferent result. It is safe to say that thousands of bondholders In Pennsylvania voted the Radical ticket, and that a majority of the business men of the Mete were found supporting the same party. It may be these parties have not been sufficiently enlightened yet in regard to the mis take they made. if the Radicals pur sue their policy to its legitimate conclu sions, they will all regret the day they allowed passion to blind their better judgment. The completion of the Rad- cal programme must inevitably result in financial disaster. Under it business must be deranged and national securi ties will he greatly depreciated. The most sagacious business men of the country see this plainly, and they are boldly entering their protestagainst the mad schemes which are engaging the attention or Congress to the exclusion of its legitimate duties. Capital is justly alarmed at the action of the Radicals in Congress. A National.Denweratle Convention The proposal for holding a Democratic National Convention during the coming spring has not been responded to favor- . ably by the more thoughtful and influ ential newspapers of the party. This shows to us that the safer counsellors of the party are convinced that such a convention would not result in any good. That has been our conviction from the time the question was first agitated. There is nothing fora Na tional Convention to do just now, and therefore not the slightest necessity for the assembling of such a body. The Democracy of each State in the Union should, however, prepare to meet any emergency which may arise, either through an attempt to overthrow the form of our free government by depos ing the President and abolishing the Supreme Court, or otherwise. The De mocracy of Pennsylvania have already done so. The proposal to select delegates to a Mass Convention, to be assembled at any time when the Chairman of the State Central Committee shall deem that the public safety and welfare de mand it, Is being complied with. In Pennsylvania no emergency will find us unprepared to meet It. Let the De mocracy of other States follow our ex ample. If el , vn instances should render necessary or appropriate the assembling of a Democratic . National Convention, such a body could be got together at very short notice. Let us attend care fully to our organizations at home for the present. Ily so doing we shall most surely be prepared for any and every future contingency. One or Forney's Lles If the people of Pennsylvania did not know that It Is a moral Impossi bility for John \V. Forney to speak the truth intentionally, they might be sur prised at sonic of his utterances. He Is the most brazen and unblushing politi cal liar in the country. Many of his falsehoods are paraded to the world through his two newspapers, both daily, in high sounding phrases. Take the following extract from his last " Occa sional " letter us an example: The ideas for which the Republican party is coutendint , are in themselves so Demo cratic as to have reached the hearts of hun dreds of thoiccinds who voted against Lin coln in 1860 and 'lll, but who have been im measurably tilt- 4 01,41Pd by their experience under Andrew Johnson. These men are not willing again to follow' the lead of Cly iner in Pennsylvania, Fernando Wood in New York, \'ullandighnm in Ohio, Voor hees in Indiana, Bigler in California, and Swann in Maryland ; they look rather to the day when, under the banner of universal suf frage, they will compete for the palm of pre emption even with the Radicals themselves. Where are the Democrats to be found who are looking to the day when they can array themselves under the banner of universal negro suffrage? We have never heard of them. The Chicago 7 imes broached the idea, but it was In dignantly hooted down. Forney and such renegades as he will strive in vain to drag Democrats down to their level of degradation. The Democratic party be lieves that this government should be administered by white men alone. To the negro every right to which he is en titled will be granted and assured ; but the privilege of voting and of holding office will not be surrendered to him if the Democracy can prevent it. Forney has an object in view in penning such lies as the one contained in the extract we have quoted. He is laboring F.ealous ly to educate the masses of the Repub lican party up to the ideal standard of extreme Radicalism. He thinks it will he a point gained if he can induce his readers to believe that the Democracy are likely to favor negro suffrage and negro equality. There may be some fools who will believe hint. If such there be, we pity them for their cred ulity. Negro Mulfrage In Kansas. The Legislature of Kansas has passed a joint resolution striking the word white from the Constitution of the State. The majority in favor of the measure was precisely the majority of the 4tidl eals over the Democrate In the two houses. An amendment allowing, fe males to Vote was defeated. More than ono thonaand sheep perished near son AniOnla; . Texas, (luring a recent snow storm The Radicals Have No Polley It the restoratioa.of the Union werea• matter of minor iniportance, thedelai of the I;adicals hi.Congreair , might ad= . " mit of some excuse. Honest and: otie Men would be forced'to condemn a party. whiclitam pered for years tegether with any public measure in which thO people were interested, merely for the sake of manufacturing political capital; but there are questions constantly coming up in every government which are not of vital importance. Not often in the lifetime of any nation have ques tions of such magnitude as those now agitating this country presented them selves for solution ; and never has any political party displayed such an utter unfitness to meet a great emergency as has the party now in power. With every material and social interest of the Republic depending upon their action, the Republican party has shown itself to be utterly unable to decide upon any line of public policy. Actuated by but one motive, a selfish desire to insure their continuance in power, the Radicals have been forced to tamper with the Constitution, and compelled to resort to such shifting expedients as have shown their entire unfitness to be trusted with the management of the Govern ment. What is the policy of Congress.? Can any man define it? Does any one know what it has been? Can any one tell what it will turn out to be? For two years they have had the same questions before them, and they are no nearer a solution this day than they were when the war closed. After months of de bate, the Directory Committee at the last session of Congress submitted cer tain Constitutional_amendments to the people, but before the campaign of last fall was over, many of the Radicals who voted for them in Congress de clared their determination not to admit the Southern States Into the Union even if they should adopt them. The present session of Congress is near its end, and we have neither had an en dorsement of the policy adopted as final at the last session, nor the sub stitution of any new plan for a resto ration of the Union. The Radicals daily prove their utter inability to re store peace and prosperity to a divided and distracted country. With every material and social Interest of the nation demanding a speedy restoration of the Union it Is still delayed. Why? Need any one ask ? Is it not plain that noth ing stands in the way, except the re solve of the Radicals to maintain their hold upon power regardless of conse quences? They have adopted no policy because they have been utterly unable to devise one which will ensure the per petuity of their rule. That it is, and that only, which stands iu the way of a complete restoration of the Union, and a return of peace and prosperity to the whole country. Death of lion. Philip Johnson. lion. Philip Johnson, Representative to Congress from the Eleventh District of this State, died in Washington on the 31st ultimo. Mr. Johnson was a native of Warren county, New Jersey, and came from a revolutionary stock, his grandfather having participated in that memorable struggle. In 1839, Mr. Johnson removed to Northampton coun ty, Pennsylvania, and entered Lafayette College, where he spent two years. Sub sequently he taughrschool in the South, and also studied law. Having returned to Northampton county, in 1843 he was admitted to the Bar, and soon after elected to a county office, which he filled in such a manner as to add to his popularity with the masses. Mr. Johnson was chosen to the State Leg islature in 1533 and 1854, and in 1857 w•as made Chairman of the Democratic State Convention. In ISIJO he was Re venue Commissioner for the Third Ju dicial District of the State, and also elected a member of the Thirty-seventh Congress. He was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Con gresses, and near the end of the latter has ended his career. Mr. Johnson was not a brilliant man, but possessed of sound judgment and admirable business qualities. Thaddeus Stevens and Ills Policy Sub stantially Defeated. Our tyranical and notoriously ill-tem pered representative was routed, horse, foot and dragoons, when his bill for re• diming the Southern States to Territo ries came to be voted upon in the House. His plan for reorganizing the govern ment of the Southern States on the basis of universal suffrage, was quietly killed by being sent to the Committee on Reconstruction by a majority of twenty-three. Mr. Stevens had done everything in his power to prevent this result. He had modified his bill to suit tire demands of the extreme men, and had accepted all the amendments offer ed by members which lie thought likely to give the bill additional votes. He accepted Mr. Spalding's amendment to declare martial law; changed the pre amble to the bill at the request of an other member; modified it still further at the request of Mr. Paine, and finally accepted a long amendment which Mr. Shellaberger had prepared after consulta tion, and which was in fact regarded as a substitute for the wholehill. He finally made an urgent appeal to Mr. Bing ham to withdraw his motion, to refer and allow the bill to be amended in the House before sending it to the Committee. This Mr. Bingham, being a man of some pluck, refused to do. Thereupon the ancient scold shrieked out to Mr. Bingham that lie would neither accept his counsel, respect his authority, or believe a single word he said. This giving of the lie direct called forth a very mild request for order from the chair. What was a heinous of fense in a Democrat was only a slight indecorum in our billions and belliger ent representative. When the vote on his bill was taken, immediately after the scene with Mr. Bing ham, Mr. Stevens found himself and his bill defeated by a majority of twenty three. The affirmative vote to refer the bill to the Committee on Reconstruc tion, where it is conceded it will sleep for the balance of the present session at least, was composed of fifty-one Re publicans and thirty-seven Democrats. The nays, sixty-five, were all Repub licans, mostly the extreme men of the House. The result is a sure indication of the loss of influence on -the part of Mr. Stevens. Since the disastrous re sult of his Senatorial campaign at Har. risburg, he has lost prestige in the House, and men in his party are showing them selves ready to beard him who, when he was believed to have power and in fluence, once trembled before the lash of his vile tongue. By the defeat of Mr. Stevens and his pet bill, the Radicals in Congress have lost the prestige of unity. The domi nant party now stands face to face with a great crisis. Their wild and visionary theories will not avail them much longer. Momentous questions rise up before them, imperatively demanding to be met and answered, while practical necessities dog their heels at every step. In the meantime the people are looking On and belpg daily more thoroughly convinced of the necessity for rescuing the Government from the hands of such set ,of reckless destructives. It Is reported thot the 'orths has deter mined to' make eohcesskin to the Ctetes, end will appoint aChristiau Uoveruor of Canada, The Des en the Door4lteps. -7There is in Philadelphia a very snug .and most respectable private house, Bitya,the New York World, of which, the proprietor is Mr/Petet,Artipistiti: And his father before'hftn_; has ;always held a respectable social posigon. and followed a useful calling. Here, if "a:gentleman, or more Than' one, wishes to give,. private dinner -party, ,he; can d'o't.i Here, bank directors and tnrnL ' pike managers dine ; and there is, or at least was supposed to be, over it all the shield of privacy which protects social intercourse. • Last week a few gentle men invited Mr. Buchanan, once Presi dent of the United States, to meet_ them at dinner in -the most sociable and un ceremonious sort of way, and he came, and doubtless the dinner was a good one, and all the better because it was not disfigured or interrupt ed by speeches or toasts or any thing of the kind. It was strictly a private entertainment. But now-a-days, and especially in the City of Brotherly Love, there is no security. If people don't choose to dine at the League, they are not allowed to dine in peace any where. On this evening, it seems, Mr. John W. Forney, Secretary of the Sen ate and editor of the Press, was in the city of his adoption. He was, that night, vagabond. He had been at the Union League and found it dull—as who does not ?—and was wandering down Wal nut street, uncertain to which of his homes he should repair, the lively one up, or the decorous one down town, (each of which is presided over by a daughter of Lancaster) when he espies the lights in Mr. Augustin's dining " room. Surely," thought he,"loyaltyi " banquetting here, and where loyalty Ist "there I must be welcome. It is too "soon to go to either of my beds." He crossed the way and rang the bill, and, when Mr. Augustin appeared, he boldly asked who were the company up stairs, to which, it is said, the reply was given in courteous but emphatic terms that it was none of his ousiness, and he turn ed away and sat, desperate and thirsty, on the lower step and wept. G'anis ululat acute. He tried the bell again, and this time with better success, for a subordinate negro answered it, and gave Mr. Forney the names of the company, and possibly a copy of the bill of fare, and perhaps some of the remnants of the feast ;° and, armed with this he rushed down the street to the .Press office, displaced his Literary editor, who was preparing a Sunday article on the family relations of the royal family of Prussia or Saxe-Gotha, and wrote the following "decent " editorial for the de lectation of the ladies and gentlemen of Philadelphia. We have no other com ment to make on It than this, that we do not believe there is another com munity which would tolerate such a social outrage or stich a fellow. In Philadelphia, Forney is a loyal gentle man ! THE SAINTS IN COUNCIL.—The event of a formal "State dinner" to ex-President Buchanan, by his disciples, at Augustin's, In this city, on Tuesday evening lust, must not go unrecorded. The following persons composed the company • James Buena nan, Edward Ingersoll, Richard Vaux, J. B. Baker, (ex-Collegtor), Henry M. Phillips, Dr. Evans, of West Chester, George Share wood, J. T. Montgomery, Dr. Biddle, Mr. Savage, Dr. McCrae. It would be hard to find a Fiore complete representative body. It was the creme de la creme of the sympathizers. The exploit of Mr. Ingersoll at New York, where he insult ed the government that protected him— the speeches of Mr. Vaux in ranting apology for the rebellion—the steady af fection of Dr. Evans for the " lost cause"—are as well known as the obe dient following of J. B.'s example by the other patriots in the feast. What a happy reunion it must have been ! Nothing to interfere with the flow of congenial feel ing; no discordant voice of intrusive pa triotism; no loud iteration of offensive loyalty; no reminder of the death of slavery ; no vulgar allusion to the defeated confed eracy , above all, no " Lincoln hireling' in the shape of a Union soldier. If the 0. P. F. was not happy, it was his own fault. Noth ing could have been more agreeable to him, save only the presence of such dear friends as banished Slidell, Mason, Breckinridge, and Toombs. But who knows that the next banquet may not be given-in their honor under the classic roof of Wheatland? Andrew Johnson is doing his work so well that we should not be surmised if Mons! Augustin is compelled to hire the Academy of Music when these illustrious brethren next assemble to do honor to his illustrious predecessor and himself. A Plan of Reconstruction It seems that the rumors which have been in circulation in regard to a newly proposed plan for restoration have some solid basis. The Philadelphia Ledger has a special telegram from Washing ton, which gives the following account of this new scheme: WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 1867, During the past two weeks, a large mini tier of prominent Southern men, who may ue taken as representative men of the South ern States, have been here, and have had daily consultations with the President upon this important subject Among these gen tlemen may be named Gov. Sharkley, of Mississippi, Gov. Orr, of South Carolina, Gov. Parsons, of Alabama, Gov. Marvin, of Florida, and Gov. Worth, of North Car olina. The aim of the deliberations of these gen tlemen has been to agree upon some meas ure as a basis of reconstruction, which will be adopted by the Southern people, meet the views of the President, and at the same time receive the approval of the majority in Congress. The result has been the pre paration of the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and also an amendment to the Constitutions of the several States. The gentlemen named will at once bring the subject before the Legis latures of the Southern States for their ac tion, and it will also be submitted to Con gress. The President of the United States ully approves the proposition. WHErtm.ks, It heel been announced by persons high in authority, that propositions from the Southern States having in view.the adjustment of our present political troubles would be received and considered, &c.; therefore Re.solved, By the Legislature of the State of , That the Congress of the United States be requested to propose to the Legis latures of the several States the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States: Article 4, section I. No State under the Constitution has a right of Its own will to renounce its place in or to withdraw from the Union; nor has the Federal Govern ment any right to eject a State from the Union, or to deprive it of its equal suffrage in the Senate or of representation: in the House of Representatives. The Union un der the Constitution shall be perpetual. Section 2. The public debt of the United States authorized by law shall ever be held sacred and inviolate; but neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the Gov ernment or authority of the United States. Section 1. All persons born or naturalized In the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the Slates in which they reside ; and the Citizens of each State shall be entitled Ito all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States. No State shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within itsjuris diction the equal protection of the laws. Section 4. Representatives:shall be appor tioned among the several States according to their respective number, counting the whole number of persons in each State, ex cluding Indians - not taxed. But when any State shall, on account of race or color, or previous condition of servitude, deny the exercise of the franchise at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representa tives in Congress, members of the Legisla ture and other officers elected by the people to any of the male inhabitants of such State being twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United Slates, then the entire class of persons so excluded from the exercise of the elective franchise shall not be counted in the basis of representation ; and whereas, &c., Be it further resolved by the Legisla ture of—, that the following article shall be adopted as an amendment to, and be come a part of the Constitution of the State of—. Article—Every male citizen who has reel ded in this State for one year, and in the country in which he offers to vote six months immediately preceding the day of election, and who can read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States in the English language and write his name; or who may be the owner of two hundred and fifty dollars' worth of taxable property, shall be entitled to vote at all electious for Governor of the State, members of !Ea Legislature and all other officers, the election of whom may be by the people of the State i Provided, That no person by reason of this article shall be ex cluded from voting who has heretofore ex ercised the elective franchise under the con stitution or laws of this State, or who at the time of the adoption of this amendment may be entitled to vote under said consti tution and laws, ===l American actors and actresses are all do ing well in London. Mrs. Charles Mathews is quite the pet of the audience . at the Olympia, and is playing Ludy gay liipanker to crowded houses. Mrs. John Wood has made a great hit at the Princesses in the Invisible Prince burlesque. Mr. Sothern has a croWckar house every night at the Haymarket, anddivides loud plaudits with Miss Tone Burke who is getting very popu lar, and is' shortly to play'Pauline to Mr, Solitaries Claude in the Lady of Lyons, The Freedman as Home. iBpecnal Correspondenoe of the N. Y. Herald.] ON A PLANTATION, SouTHw'N ALA., 1 _I • Jan. 25, 1867. In order-to arrive at anything. like a ocrkt red estimate of theevalue of the • freednian as a citirenZ-as eocurtpunent of the tremeu- Vona aggregate WhiCh goes to mirke up the prowess, the enterprise; the wealth and the strength of the non--'oils needs to know 'him In his home, cultivating his own patch of ground, managing the affairs of his family squatting in the ashes of his own cabin tire, and sleeping upon its bare floor. All these conditions, it is true, may be but incidents of the circumstances by which he is surrounded ,• but they are incidents, nevertheless, which could occur only in the life of a race which, grovelling by instinct, had been made still more stupid and shift less by education. I speak of him as I find him here, and not of the modified form of his character which is seen in the border States. An average of about one hundred negroes were employed on this plantation last sea son. Every grown up hand, whether male or female, was allowed half an acre of land, and every man with a family a full acre to cultivate for his own use and benefit. Seed was furnished them gratuitously, and they were permitted to have a half day week to themselves. Out of the whole number, between twenty-five and thirty selected their "patches;"but of these no more than six made any kind of a crop, and half of the six were very indifferent ones. Several others went so far as to wholly or partially plant their ground ; but here their ambition seemed to ooze out, and as they gave it no attention thereafter, it came to nought. The most aggravating feature of this business is yet to be exhibited, and that is, that the moment the fruits of those few who did labor manifested any signs of maturity they were stolen with out remorse by the many who had refused to make any effort for themselves. The re sult was that notwithstanding the liberal opportunities afforded by the planter, all were confined the entire season to the meal and pork supplied by him, and compelled to purchase of hint from to week or starve. At the beginning of last year all the freedmen who would not make con tracts with their former owners and mas ters were turned out into the world utterly destitute of food, clothing, bedding, cook ing utensils, dec. This it would seem should have constituted some little incentive to them to make an offdrt to better their con dition. But the lesson was thrown away, less to the disadvantage of the planters then to the negroes themselves. The man who employs them this year will find—as was discovered last year—that he will be under the necessity of paying theme month or two in advance, in the shape of clothing and other indispensable articles, or else not make them available for this purpose atoll. The larger proportion of them, expenses of living and loss of time considered, will not even repay these advances, to say nothing of (Well mutating a credit in the hands of their employer; and so, will have no mo tive for fulfilling their contracts beyond what their variable fancies may suggest. The very best of them that I have over seen recognize no obligations beyond what are made Imperative by the physical.superi ority of the whites. While the men are almost withoutexcep lion opposed to labor on account of the bur den and inconvenience It imposes, the women alike stronously object to it because it is humiliating! They will engage cheer fully enough in housekeeping, cooking, washing, etc., but it Is rarely the case that one will go with regularity and promptness to work in the field. This, it might be re marked from a fashionable standpoint, is the best indication yet noted of the progress of the race! A single year of unrestrained freedom of action has been sufficient to overthrow the very foundation of the struc tare reared with so much care and anxiety and sacrifice by their life-long masters! Put labor beyond the power of annoying , him by its insatiate appeals, and the freed man finds the realization of supreme earth ly felicity in the possession of a gun, or at least some kind of instrument that he can shoot with. It matters little to hint what its quality or condition may be, or whether it be a rifle, shot -gun, revolver or common pistol, it' it be capable of performing the one grand function of making a noise he is satisfied. With this. if ho is permitted, and can get possession of the necessary ammuni tion, he will idle away his whole time, scarcely ever bringing in anything, and never thinking where his food is to come from until he is ready to put it:in his mouth. The woman finds her heaven below in free dom from toil, gaudy apparel, hoop skirts and cheap jewelry. Give her these, and she " will not call the Queen her aunt." In their houses everything wears a sloven ly and disordered look. Even the few things they have are permitted to remain disgust ingly filthy, and are thrown about without the slightest regard to system or taste. And in their cooking they are not more cleanly. Squatting before the fire in the ashes of their capacious hearth, whether male or female, they manipulate a skillet, in which their frying, baking, and washing of dishes and hands is done by turns. Without ex aggeration, I may say that I have seen the same thing done in some of the best regu lated families of poor whites. They do not sit at a table when they eat, but each takes his dish in hand and makes his meal of the invariable meat and bread. Occasionally, at some seasons of the year, bacon gives place to opossum, and rats, when they can be had, are esteemed a great delicacy. 'Choir children are rugged and hearty as a general rule, and grow up without any apparent care, many of them with scarcely a rag of covering. Talk to a negro about government, and you will find that he has not the slightest idea of its functions or its purpose. The only government he knows anything about is that of the lash or the will of his master, and beyond that he has never troubled him self to think nor inquire. The system un der which helms grown up has dwarfed every faculty of his mind, and his only as piration is to do the bidding of his overseer with as little exertion as he may, and then to eat and sloop. In this State he has never hoard or dreamed of the possibility of es caping from his bondage; he has never heard of a North until since the war; and his running away under the spur of some extraordinary grievance has been limited to theitwampm and canebrakes in his vicini ty. The whites, whether intelligent or otherwise, have never permitted a single ray of light in regard to the world and Its doings to illumine the dark intellect of the negro. Physical facts as they exist and transpire around him are all he can appre• elate, and, as may be supposed, ho inter prets these in the most literal manner. In vocal music the !legroom excel. Singing it can hardly be called, for the words seldom have either connection or soiree; but the melody of their voices surpasses anything I ever heard. Some of their funeral chantm, though exceedingly simple, are more solemn and affecting than anything heard on simi lar occasions at the North. Notwithstanding the gratitude °Ot(' freed • man for his deliverance, and the uniform sympathy ivid kindness manifested for Union soldiers during the war, he is still disposed to regard the Northern man as his companion; his associate, his fellow rather than as his superior. Ile listens to him, trusts him, confides in him as he would one of his own race ; but he does not recognize his authority to commend him, to dictate his line of conduct nor to control his action. To his former roaster, to any man who speaks with the authority of the slave holder before the war, he is still ready to yield implicit obedience, in accordance with all the lessons of his life. He cannot forget in a year—perhaps not in the present gen eration—the catechism which he has beep a century in committing to memory; and it Una h is not natural e should. The North ern man finds, then, as a necessary conse quence of this state of things, that, though he can draw plenty of help to his aid in the absence of other active forces, he is still at the mercy oft k. n 3 Southern planter when ever the latter chooses to make an authori tative appeal. The freedman, although nominally free, still fears and obeys the power which he has always been taught to respect, and simply loves and confides in the power which itympathized with him in his oppression, and contributed its treasure and blood for his relief. This is the extent to which his appreciation goes; and it may not be improper to remark that the result is in perfect harmony with the uniform teachings of his too kind friends. The loreedmen's Bureau, while beneficent in its inception, I regard as practically al most worthless, from the impossibility of administering it with honesty and discre tion. It is true that some sort of protection is indispensable to the freedman in his pe riod of slow transition from infancy to man hood, as It were; but 1 am satisfied he does not find it in this institution. It may ex ercise a salutary influence by its name upon some Southerners who have not the Yankee ingenuity to suspect that It has no real ter rors for them ; but I have not heard of an instance, out of several applications made by freedmen, where the slightest attention was paid to the complaint. Theapprehend ed reason of this in the ease in mind was that the agent was a Southern man, was rather gratified than otherwise at the diffi culty of the freedmen with his employer, us it would "learn him to have nothing to do with the damuetlYanicees hereafter." The labor question, particularly In the farming districts of the South, and in view of its bearing upon one of the most Impor tant staples of this country, is certainly a very important one. My own opinion is that never so large a crop of cotton by half will be raised by negro labor as was done under the slave system, True the freed man may, after the novelty of ) 1 . ; , f now, re lations shall have worn off, gin more seriously to realize the responsibilities of those relations, but the inevitable tendency of his mind will be that in proportion its ho becomes ecquainted with the world, it shifts, its de/ices end its subterfuges, in that same proportion will he grow restive •attd impatient and unsatisfied with the monoton-' ous routine of plantation life. This tendency is manifest even now in the anxiety of so many of the more intelligent ones to keep store," to peddle" and to "speculate," in short, the practical education • which is necessary to make the freedman a valuable citizen will altnest certainly have the effect of sending him away from the fields of whose labor he holds a monopoly. This is not intended as an argument against 'the propriety of educating him, but rather as a warning to those interested tet,,t prepared for such an emerfpnsitto,y, 'prOMh3g for the contingency. Dotthtlolo',;mtich may be done to counteract thigidfeottuf sucn a ten-, d 4 87 1 / 2 14.1have desetitiedle-Tencouraging the_ . tion of White laborers. I am , .sausnott mmy own': experience that the' class of men-who hula the. - ,canals and rail-, Wads of the North would, in a year or two, :become so you acc li mated that they could perform nearly twice the labpr that a black man will ; or , if he &doses to work his own land, that he can make it much:more profi table than he can by farming it in the cus tomary way in the North. News Items Nine snow storms this season in Rich mond, Va. The yellow fever is raging at Demarara, in the West Indies. Valuable salt springs have been discover ed in the town of Lawrence, Kansas. The internal revenue receipts for last week were $5,E75,848. Steamers have stopped running on Long Island Sound, owing to the ice blockade. A severe storm of thunder and lightning prevailed on Saturday night in New York. Boston paid $157,583 internal revenue tax during the month of December. A fire at ;536 Broadway, New York, last night, destroyed $38,000 worth of property. Largeherds of Buffalo are steadily ap proaching Denever. Santa Anna is stall in New York, or Elizabeth, New Jersey. Ten convicted Fenians have been sen tenced at Toronto to be hanged on the sth of March. Garrett Davis has been re-elected United States Senator by the Kentucky Legisla ture. Don Luis Arrayo has arrived at Havana, en route to the Called States, on a mission from Maximilian. The ice gorge in the Ohio river, at Wheel ing, broke on Sunday, carrying four steamers down the stream. The carrier of the mail from Falmouth to Fredericksburg, Va., traveled between the two points on skates last Friday. There are about forty candidates for the nomination for Governor of Virginia, in cluding " Extra Billy Smith." General Custis Leo has declined the Presidency of the Maryland Agricultural College. James S. Blaine, of Maine, is said to be the handsomest man in the United Stales House of Representatives. Hon. W. T. Hamilton has been elected president of the Hagerstown, Md., Bank, vice Hon. J. Dixon Roman, deceased. The lee was thick enough on the Rappa hannock river last week to allow loaded wagons—four horses attached—to pass over safely. Thu Newborn Cimonercial says More wore a few fresh whin) shad in Mu Newborn market on Friday lust, which sold at $1 each. The mho, ion of a un. Kalorgin to the United States is thought in Paris to be a Russian Intrigue to involve the American Govern ment in the Eastern question. At Vicksburg, Miss., a negro threw an old bombshell into the the to coo if the powder was good. The experiment cost him an arm and one side of his face. Large preparations for shad fishing are being made in the waters adjacent to Nor folk. The fishermen anticipate an early and a profitable season. The Memphis Appeal hue been purchased by the Hun. John Hogan, ex-member of Congress from St. Louis, Missouri, and others, and is to be edited by Albert Pike. The Fenian loaders in New York adver• tise two thousand stand of arms, princi pally muskets and Springfield rides, all ready for instant use. • The ice gorge in the Mississippi, below St. Louis, is broken, and a speedy resump tion of navigation is expectedJ Tho James river, Virginia, is now clear of ice. At last accounts there was much conster nation in Hilvana, iu consequence of a re port that the combined fleets or Chili and Peru were approaching the city. It will surprise some people to learn that the Federal military still occupy the execu tive mansion at Raleigh, N. (2., to the exclu siouof the Governor of the State. Mlle Georges, a noted French actress, died recently in Paris. She was a belle in the time of Bonaparte, and ruled on the stage for thirty-eight years. At one period of the lute freeze the country mills in Virginia were closed up to such an extent that farmers sent grists of corn to the Fredericksburg mills, a distance of twenty miles. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is about to send a commission of five citizens to Phil. Kearney, to make investigation of the recent massacre, and the causes of the Indian hostility. The internal revenue receipts of New York for 1886 were $35,000,000—a decree:se of near $1,400,000 as compared with 1855. The aggregate receipts sincelBo2 have been nearly $100,000,090. There is a report that nearly 1;0 men were massacred by Indians on the Smoky Hill river, a few days since. The Indians still hover threateningly in the vicinity of Fort Kearney. General Grant has called a council of the general officers of the army to consult as to the propriety or keeping up the garri sons iu [he South. (lens. Sheridah and Sherman aro expected In Washington this week. A building in Millville, Mo., was robbed on Thursday night of several hundred dol lars, and then sot on lire and burned with its contents, including the Jewels and records of a Masonic Lodge. Cincinnati will be Cincinnati. An ex change says that some admirers of Histori in that city recently got so frantic In their appreciation of her line acting, that they presented her with six large hogs as an evidence of their affectionate regard, Information from the cit . ,' of Mexico Is to the effect that Maximilian intends to issue anew proclamation talc Ingstrongergruunds titan those assumed at .k rizaba. The Cab'. net. decided in favor of its remaining in Mexico. The Paris Meal/cur Kays that nearly all the wood necessary to build the temporary covering to protect the Holy Sepulchre during the restoration of that holy edifice has reached Jerusalem. It is intended to complete the work before Easter. =Under the equalization bounty bill, 110,- 000 claims for lidditional bounty he vu been tiled in the second auditor's office, and 100,000 more in the paymaster general's office. Applications for bounty are still flowing In at the rate of over 1,000 a day. The negro lawyer Bradley, who instigated the recent negro riot on the naives planta tion, In South Carolina, was arrested by the United States authorities. Lieut. Lemon who was shot and badly wounded by the rioters, is doing well. A number of boot-blacks wore arrested in New York on Saturday for violating the Excise law. They polished boots for twenty-live cents, and gave drinks of whiskey to their customers from small bottles which they had about thorn. The case of the State of Georgia versus John E. Hayes, editor and proprietor of the Savannah Republican, Indicted for libelling Solomon Cohen, Congressman elect, by charging that he was n defaulter as post master to the United States government, was decided by a verdict of guilty. The Hopkins plantation, LIOUIIIIIM Parish, Louisiana, containing 3,000 acres, was sold by the United States Marshal, a week ago, for 625,000. 'fhe seine place sold borone the war, with negroes and stock, for $210,000. A collector of wulking-disks, M. Henri de Meer, a Dutchman, attracted attention to his collection by going mad and dying with a walking-stick in each hand—feeble imita tor of Dr. Morrison, who breathed his last grasping a box of his own pills, and calling loudly for more. An English paper says: " During the last few weeks several ships arrived at Liverpool from the United - States have brought over as portion of their cargoes, barrels containing turkeys, geese and other birds, sufficiently pickled to enable them to reach the "old country" in ediblecondltion." A letter has been received from an officer of the steamer Swatera, who writes from Lisbon that Sutratt is very reticent, speak ing only in answer to questions, and then in monosyllables. He is still clad In the Zoller° uniform. He seems to be in good health, and is entirely seit-possemed. The Times' Washington special says that some Idea may be formed of the frauds per petrated by smugglers, from the fact that a special agent sent to the frontier to invests• gate them, was able to make arrangements with twenty two custom house officers out of twenty-three in the district, for smuggling goods into the United States. The Norfolk Journal says fresh herring appeared in our market on Monday, and were selling fbr forty-five cents per dozen. It Is remarkably early in the season, yet, for fresh herring; they generally do not be gln to run in our waters until about the first of March. Those we saw were very large and fat. . A New York letter says: Coming down town this morning, about seven o'clock, I noticed a crowd of some thirty or forty boys, between tho ages of ten or fifteen, besieging a store at the earner of Eiroome,stroet. An advertisement had appeared in one of the morning papers, for " u boy wanted," and this the result. The straggiLng Frenchman named Frog oho, who was arrested ou suspicion of having murdered the two old ladies near /40whitelf Me., has been discharged from custody, be bating been able to establish an alibi-.-{lespito the fact of the heelless boot print, In the snow. The murder is now a greater mystery than before. Shipbuilding in this mu ntry lent a stand stM. A New York paper says , A there is not a single new merchant ship or steamer building at any of the numerous shipyards of either New York, Brooklyn or Jersey City eyed only two, it is said, .41 th e yards of che country;cilktber, Wet there is no prospect of any being until the present condition of affairs is altered," tragenie eff great Inter est in the Holy 'Places at Jerusalem, and French : diplomacy, animated' by'Her Ma jesty, bits succeeded in persuading the Turka to permit the Holy Sepulchre to be repaired, the roof of which has long been in a deplorable condition. The head of the Dutch telegraph system in the East Indies reports that, notwith standing great hindrance from the natives, he has succeeded in establishing 148 miles of telegraph in Sumatra, in the interior of which island he is now working. It will not be very long before Batavia is telegrph artily connected with Singapore. A London letter says: Strange things do get into men's brains sometimes, but the strangest of all were taken from the brain of a man who died suddenly this week. The Doctor's official report, after a post mortem examination, states that to his astonishment he "found two pieces of ice inside the sk till, upon the substance of the brain." The faculty are discussing and theorizing upon the marvelous fact. The favorite pet of the animal creation in all Parisian households is gold and silver fish. You see them in every drawing room, on every shop counter, in every window. Last year 90,000 francs worth were sold In Paris, the current price per fish being tiny centimes. It is easy to calculate that 150,- 000 cyprms have been disposed of in that metropolis. If you add to these 150,000 those sold In previous years we shall arrive at a sum total of 400,000 fish ; that Is one for every six Parisians. The yield and profit of surface mining in Missouri may be Judged of from the fact that it has, in the last forty years, produced largely over one hundred million pounds of pig lead ; and according to the best data that can be obtained, has averaged nearly twenty thousand pounds of ore to the mine per an nual. The surface d iggings that have given these results embrace but a small part of the lands that science points out as rich in such deposits. An English paper has the following : '• It has been discovered at the General Post tithes that many persons in A merica are in the habit Of sending over to this country• SUMS of looney wrapped in newspapers. Notes lin various amounts of dollars are the ntedia. Lt consequence of the .xistenee of this practice, American papers are now examined at St. Martin's-le Grand. It is Impossible to examine every paper; but selections are made at London, and frequent seizures are the result." State Items Snow lay to the depth of 100 r feet on s level In the forests 01 Centre county lust Week. A young num wiw drowned near UlllOll - Berns county, last NVOCk, by Mllpplng Into un air bolo In the leo on which hu mu. kikuting. J. E. Smith agud .111 years, left him home at Fort Wambington, on the North Pennsyl vania Railroad, on Saturdity morning, tho 12th of January, and has nut shim lawn hoard of. A largo brown owl, measuring t hroo toot nine inches, from tip to lip of dm wings, was sh u t on t h e largo beach troe, in front ot the Odd Follows' nail, In Heading, on Thursday morning, by Mr. Rork, William 11. Van A rsda lu, lto agont of the United States Commission for t h e Paris Exhibition, IN 110 W ill 010 coal regions of the Lehigh valley, colleeting nativo ores and metals, to be exhilmod it Paris next spring. The dwelling nouso of Daniel NVithrow, at Morgan's factory, in dimmer township, Somerset county, wits consumed by lire last week. Mr. Withrow lost :ill hisellects, including $1,500 of tho;orninont securities. No insurance. William Cooke, of NI ilesburg, l'a., last week shot three men, who, with lb roe others, had dragged him from a lawL.Tiymile he was visiting some female frieMl74, - with the Intent of ducking hint In the canal. It Is stated that one of the men shot by Mr. Cooke has since died. Wednesday night, about half-past live o'clock, a mad accident (WOUrrd on a freight train of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, near the depot at Cutasanqua. A man named Stephen Fronitiser, trying to go trout one car to another, fell between two curs and had his legs so terribly smashed that imme diate amputation became necessary. Fron heiser lives in Lehighton. The trial of Mrs. Miller, for the murder of her husband in Clearfield county, has re suited in her conviction of the crime of mur der in the first degree. The trial lasted for eight days, and cost the county a large amount of money---the fees given to the physicians alone, amounting to SINN). A man named Wilt, with his wife and three children, residing on the Allegheny mountain, about four miles front Lilly's Station, were frozen to death week before last. They wore snowed up In the house, and being unable to dig their way out died of cold and hunger. Wilt wits a cripple, and a shoemaker by trade. On Thursday of last week, Jos. M. Feger, of Pottsville, left with his family for South Carolina. There is now a Schuylkill county colony established in South Carolina, nine miles front Charleston, composed of Mr. Feger, Ex-Sheriff John Haush, and J. S. Keller, Esq., with their families. They-are engaged in working cotton plantations, and appear to like their now location and bust - ness very well. The Scranton Republican says: A young man from Hawley was out fishing on one of the ponds in that vicinity, last week, when he discovered some kind of an 11111- mal on the ice. lie started for it and the animal started for 111111. After a slight lus• sel it was killed, but not until it had se verely bitten and scratched the man. It proved to be a magnificent specimen of ot ter. They aro very rarely met with In this section. Three children belonging to Mr..lacob 'l'. Lewis, in New ville, Cumberland county, wore He1:W0111.1111y poisoned last week, from eating Jelly that had been put up in crock, glazed with red lead. It was reared that the cases would prove fatal, but we learn they are reeovering. It is supposed that the essence of lemon which had been Introduced for the purpose• of flavoring, had decomposed the glazing and produced the poison. Benjamin Mel ;Hughey, an old man who lived alone, In Liberty Valley, Madison township, Perry county, was burned to death on the night of the tali ult. Ile had been in bad health tbr sonic time and was attended by the neighbors, sonic of whom had put him to bed the evening before he met a terrible death. Sometime towards morning his house was totally consumed with all It contained. Some cluu•red bones remained to tell that the old gentleman bud perished in the lire. A .1. Null, of Youth Huntingdon town ship, met with an accident on Wednesday last, which resulted In his death on Friday. (In the first named day he wont out In com pany with a hired boy to cut wood, and chopped a leaning tree which split Up 501110 distance, and Poll. lle sent the boy home for horses to haul Mu wood, and commenced chopping at the other half. When the boy returned, the tree bad rebounded, and Mr. Null sus found with the upper part of his skull raised, and insensible. He lingered until Friday, when he tilts!. Hu was forty years old, and leaves a wife and children. The town of Carlisle seems to be infested by Incendiaries, and there hits been a large amount of property destroyed lately. On last Sunday evening a large barn belonging to the heirs of William Alexander With to tally destroyed. The flames spread so rapid. ly that all the live stock except one horse [wished. 'rhe fire plugs being frozen up ii was with diffieulty that surrounding prop. erty was saved, and but for the snow on the roofs of the 1101 1 / 4 024 the conflagration would have been a most disastrous mu.. More I , no doubt It was the work of an incendiary. A boy named Patrick Gillen, aged nine years. who resided with his mother at Gal litzin, was killed on Saturday last, by a train going east. His body was lirst found fast in the brakes, a short distance front ilininington and was , almost torn to pieces. His sled and a pair of mittens were found where the train had stopped, at Gallitzin. It is supposed that he had got upon the train for the purpose of getting coal, and 01 haul ing it on the sled, as ho had been seen doing this at ditlhrent times before. No person, however, observed him getting on the train on this occasion. Ills sad tutu should be a warning to others. In the criminal court of North:unpin:l, last week, came MY the cane against Ele nora Mobil, accused of being a common scold. This was a case which was brought into court at the November sessions, 184,5, when the indictment wan quashed for cer tain reasons—one of which was that the ottence was not indictable. The rase was taken to the Supremo Court when it de• cideti that the offence was Indictable, and hence this prosecution. Thu defendant in quite a good looking young lady, and does not strike one as being of that tempera- Went which would constitute a person who is guilty of being a common scold. Dis trict Attorney Benet asked the permission of the court to enter a null. pros., which was granted. The case in therefore abandoned. The Titusville Herald Is responsible for the following: A man writing from Oil City tells this story: On January lith, 1867, .Inn. Franklin Worley, a resident of thin play, for about two years, died from the effects of a wound received ut the battle of Antietam. On his dying bed he stated that four years ago he left a wife and two children near Janesville, Clearfield county. And now he leaves another wife and two children in thisplace, she nut knowing that he was married before. He could not die without revealing the hicta to her and asking for forgiveness, as well as that of his tirst I thought It right to publish this statement for the information of his widowed com panion and fatherless children. The Heaver Argus says : A few days ago a woman died at Darlington very suddenly under the following circumstances: Her husband was an artist by occupation, and with his family had recently moved to that place from Pittsburgh. lie wont out in the evening, as was supposed, to procure pro visions, and on his return found his wife dead in her ohuir. A post raortem examin ation talmn with the fact, that nothing.in the line of food could be found about the house, save a small qua:Ally of corn meal,, lead to the conclusion 'that she died of star vation,
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