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riiriDNESDAYi APR 4: .101.3.7.,
*augur or the heetleiratie eioriorropi.
iiiititee.
The Democratic County Committee will
meet at the Democratic Club Booms,
this city, on, MONDAY, APRIL 16TH, at,ll
o'clock A. Ma. A full attendance Is re
quested. A. J. STICINMAN, ChOrlllan.
B. J. MOGRANN, Sooretury.
The Connecticut Election.
By both political parties the State elec
tion, which took place yesterday In Con
necticut, was regarded as the Inaugura
tion of the Presidential campaign of
1888. The conservative citizens of that
gallant little State felt that a great re
sponsibility rested upon their shoulders.
Firm as adamant, as true to the Consti
tution as their fathers were before them,
and as devoted to the Union as were the
men who formed it, the Democracy stood
up shoulder to shouldei, battling for the
triumph of the right with all the might
of their manhood. Side by side with
them, were to be seen sagacious and
patriotic men who had heretofore
never acted with the Democratic party.
Thus composed, they constituted as
heroic a body as ever went into
any contest. They had all the odds
against them. - Time and again they
had been defeated; and that so dis
astrously that nothing but a living,
abiding and inextinguishable love for
what is true and right could have nerved
them anew for the battle which was
before them. But, when were the De
mocracy known to despair? When did
they refuse to do their duty? Where
were they ever known to falter. In
what hour did they ever prove recreant
to principle ? lu spite of treachery In
their ranks, regardless of the desertion
of chosen leaders, In the darkest hours
which this republic has known, the
great body of the Democratic party
have always beeu true to the great lain,.
elide: upon which our governmental
structure rests.
The glorious result of the election lu
Connecticut is due to two things.
Among the more sagacious and thought
ful men of the State quite a number
were found ready to take their stand
openly and boldly with the only politi
cal organization which has shown Itself
able succensfuWqtLLia4 age the affairs
of this great nation, Tili4 was a decided
element of strength)Aut the chief
power In the campaign were the work
ing men of the State. They had tried
the Radical party effectually. Time
and again they had been duped into
voting for Radical candidates, and they
had paid the penalty. With a sagacity,
which men of their class would do well
to imitate everywhere, they saw that
their best interests demanded a change,
and they resolved to secure it by their
ballots. In vain did capitalists and
monopolists attempt to control them.
With the resolute air of freemen
they marched to the polls and.
voted against those who are heap-
lug increased hurthens upon labor
ing white men, while expendingl
all their sympathy and lavishing mil
lions of the people's money upon the
negro.
The triumph in Connecticut is a Un ion
triumph, a triumph of the friends of the
Constitution, a triumph of saving ConH
servatism over destructive fartatichm,
a triumph of the working white
men over their selfish and heart-
less oppressors. It is the inaugu
ration of the presidential campaign s,
of next year, au augury of glorious and ;
complete success, the dawn of a new
and better era. It gladdens the hearts
of millions throughout the nation, all
of whom unite In returning thanks to
the gallant men who erected in New
England this first barrier against the
fanaticism of that politically benighted
region.
President Monroe
An item in regard to the - fortunes of
the different Presidents of the United
States has been going the rounds of the
newspaper press, and appeared in the
Express of Saturday evening. It has
evidently been made up by some one
nut conversant with the facts, and is
i uacurate in more than one of its state
ments. Among other mistatements is
that declaring that "James Monroe, the
sixth President of the United States,
died so poor that his remains found a
resting place through the charity of his
friends." The truth is, that Mr. Mon
roe, though not a wealthy man, was
never in want. An aged gentleman,
who long lived near him in Virginia,
Informs us that he knows such to be the
case from his own personal knowledge.
Mr. Monroe died amid kind friends, at
the hospitable home of his distinguish
ed son-in-law, Samuel Governeur, of
New York. Mindful of his greatness,
and proud of her 8311, the State of Vir
ginia claimed his remains, and by act
of the Legislature they were removed
to Richmond, and deposited In the cap
ital of the State, with u suitable . umn.u
meat to mark the last resting place of '
the illustrious dead.
Negro Suffrage.
The proposition introduced in the
Senate a few days ago by Mr. Wilson,
to establish impartial suffrage in all the
States of the Union, meets with strong
opposition from the Republican mem
bers representing the Middle and West
ern States. Senator Sherman, of Ohio,
declared in private conversation the
other day that such a measure would
be resisted by the people of his State,
and he did not believe Congress cool
force them to accept it. This is the
way Northern Radicals talk of negro
suffrage in their own States. How did
they voteou the so-called reconstruction
bill which forces it upon ten States of
the Uzliou?
now It Works
General Sheridan lies issueu an order
removing from office, in Louisiana,
Andrew J. Herron, Attorney General;
John 'l'. Monroe, Mayor of New Orleans,
and Edmund Abell, Judge of the First
District Court. He has appointed suc
cessors to these officers.
That is a specimen of the practical
working of the military despotism in
the South. The time may come, if
negro suffrage and their other devices
do not insure complete control to the
radical revolutionists, when similar an
nouncements will be made regarding
officers elected by the people of Penn
sylvania. Our turn must come if this
state of affairs is permitted to continue.
EnUlushlng Plunder
The Lill to increase the pay of mei:o
bis= of our Legislature to thirteen hun•
dred and fifty dollars has passed the
lower House. This is a piece of un•
hlushieg and inexcusable plundering of
the publle treasury. The members who
voted for It ought to be visited with
prourpt . puulahmetit by their constitu•
eats.
PrepplitibribefresideattsElleetlinw
The Radicals throughout the country
are endeavoring to make sure of elect
ing the next - President. In- Con
they are; determined to pao a getieral
law giviiitto nekroesorWto vote
in every State*thelliti
~ Ofiilturse
any such law. oilld be e jlrely oeore.i
I lk
stitutlonal, and*ould be, dealdedfio be
so by the Supreme Court of theilf*.
out Statei, and by 'the Auprethe Court
of the United States. But, before any
such decision could be had, the election
would have taketi place,
the electoral
votes thus secured wou ld, have . been
counted, and a President thus elected
would be inaugurated, unless the people
should rise up in armed resistance to
prevent it. That this is part of a
well digested scheme we have
no doubt. Democratic election officers
might refuse to allow negro votes to be
thus cast In Pennsylvania and else
where, but wherever the Radicals had
control of the boards they would be
gladly received, the Constitution and
the laws of the several Statek to the
contrary notwithstanding.
But this wholesale innovation is only
a part of their plan. Wherever they
have control of the State Legislatures
the Radicals are deliberately devising
restrictions upon the elective franchise
as it now exists. Every impediment is
to be placed in the way of laboring
white men: The Registration Law
about to be enacted in this State, a syn
apsis of which we give elsewhere, is in
tended to strike directly at the •poorer
classes of wli Ite voters. The leaders of the
Infamous party now in power know very
well that the Democratic party Is largely
composed of the working men of the
cities and towns. To impede these In
voting in to lessen the Democratic vote.
It is for that very purpose that the
Registration law of New York is to be
ro enacted in this State. When the bill
was on Its passage Senator McCandless
moved to amend It so that the meetings
of the boards of registration be kept
open from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M., so as to
allow the working men an opportunity
to get registered without losing time from
work.. The Radicals voted that fair
proposition down, the vote standing,
yeas 12 Democrats and one Radical,
nays 15, all Radicals. The hours now
stand from 9 A. M. (after laboring men
have gone to work) to 6 P. M. (before
they have returned from work.) Mr.
McCandless also moved that the polls
should be kept open from 8 A. M. till 8
P. M. Thls also was voted down by
the Radicals,- 20 of them voting against
It.
Under pretense of preventing the
commission of crime the Radicals of our
Legislature have also concluded to or
ganize a mounted and armed police force
of one hundred men to be sent intoeach
of the mining counties of the Common
wealth. These troopers are to be ap
pointed by the Governor, and to be
answerable only to him. On the appli
cation of one hundred citizens of any
county, these bands of one hundred
armed men are to be organized and sent
out fully equipped for the purpose of
raiding upon the Democrats and Cath
lics who compose a majority of the
working men of the districts which are
to be thus subjected to military rule.
When the bill which outrages liberty by
Its provisions was under discussion, the
Democratic senators tried in vain to
have it so amended as to put the police
force thus called into existence under
the control of the Courts. All such pro
posals were at once voted down by the
Radicals, who know that by thus con
fining the troopers to the proper duties
of policemen, or officers of the law, that
the political object for which they were
striving could not be successfully ac
complished.
Verily we are advancing. What with
the prospect of a Congressional enact
ment giving to all negroes the right to
vote, and our State Legislatures devis
ing every possible means for keeping
laboring white men away from the polls,
we are likely to have a good time of it.
If the white men of Pennsylvania con
tinue to support such a party they de
serve to be made slaves, and to be de
graded to the level which the negro has
occupied in the past.
Lessons from the Past."
Under this head the Press of yester
day reminds President Johnson that
King Charles of England lost his head
on the scaffold for daring to differ with
his Parliament; and that King Louis
of France "went against the National
Assembly, and the end was the death
of himself and wife on the scaffold, and
the dispersion and banishment of his
family." The Press thinks, in view of
these historical facts; that " the hero of
a dozen Vetoes must needs be a bold, if
not a sensible man."
The scattbld appears to have peeuliar
charms for the Radical hangman who
conducts the Press. Almost every num
ber of his paper has some allusion to
it. His purpose is to fire the Radical
heart up tothe point of violently taking
the life of the President. He is the
second Booth, but without the courage
of Booth the first. He wants President
Johnson killed, but is unwilling to use
the pistol himself, for with all his fond
ness for the scaffold, he has no desire to
mount it.
The President's right to send in "a
dozen vetoes" is as clear and unques
tionable as the right of Congress to pass
a dozen bills. He derives his power to
veto from the same instrument that
gives them power to enact. If the Con•
stitution is worth anything, It must and
will piotect him In the right it confers
to veto any "bill that does not meet his
approbation. The editor of the Prenn
knows as well as any man living that
the President acts clearly within his
Constitutional authority when:he with
holds his sanction from au act of Con
gress. He knows that the President
cannot be brought to the scaffold under
the Constitution and laws for vetoing
acts of " the popular branch" of the
government, and his repeated references
to the taking of the lives of rulers 'in
other countries can have but one object,
and that is, to put It into the hearts of a
Radical mob to murder President John-
A False Witness.
The Radical press are making a howl
just now over a piece of evidence said
to have been given before the Judiciary
Committee by Ben. Butler, to the effect
that President Johnson pardoned about
two hundred desertersou condition that
they would vote the Democratic ticket.
An investigation of the charge shows
that there is no truth in it. The cases
reported were all carefully examined,
and the order for their pardon came
from Secretary Stanton himself, and
was not issued until after the election
had taken place. Not a shadow of
blame can attach to President Johnson,
as there was positive proof that every
one of those pardoned had been wrongly
marked as guilty of desertion.
Adjournment of Congress.
Congress has decided to adjourn until
the first Wednesday in July, when if
either House should lack a quorum,
there is to be a further adjournment um.
til the first Monday in Difeember.
Unless something more than ordinary
should occur, there will be no quorum
present in July. The country will have
a little quiet in the meantime, and the
public will be glad to have silence pre
vail, for s tiime in the Capitol.
ee liblblfithrof
There is one thing which espeobily
distinguishes the Republican nevkspup ~
press of the entire country, and7That f . j4
~mall, ity th. Frouli th highetit. : . th ".zi
lb , often , rad t . xspa . , .;'4,
to inoapab eo t °Erg WI 4 .,
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vpouent. , ng _ .
t erabltkilly ttli:
'Perier, t treat '} ortfi aNhiriniggf
dupe the masses into even a temporary
support of their misoligious doctrines,
the newspapers of the Republican party
have learned to lie with a glibness that
would be shocking if it were not-so
universal with them. One Radical 'edi
tor invents a slander on seine profoinent
• political opponent, and straightway it
goes the rounds of the whole party press.
It is useless to attempt to refute it. As
"if by common consent Radical news
papers refuse to retract any falsehood
whioh they may have uttered. The ex
posure of its untruthfulness may be as
clear as the light of the noonday sun,
but they will still persist In the reitera
tion of the lie they have forged or ut-
tered. There is not a prominent sap
porter of the Constitution now living
who has not been slandered and reviled
during the past live years. No man who
was well known in public life before the
rebellion has escaped the calumniations
of a malignant and feckless newspaper
press, unless he has chimed in with
every heresy which has originated in
the brains of a set of crazy fanatics.
The modest aid patriotic letter of Ex-
President 1311C1111111l11, written to a num
ber of personal and political friends,
has been seized upon as furnishing all
excuse fur renewed assaults upon him ;
and strange to say i lie N. Y. Tribune, a
paper which has heretofore refused to
coutenance the base slanders of its
cotemporaries upon our distinguished
fellow-citizen, now leads off in this new
attack. We think we know how to ac
count for this. The gentleman who Is
now managing editor of the Tribune
graduated under John W. Forney.
Coming from such a school he could
not be expected to be capable of acting
with decency toward any political op
ponent, and would naturally be
especially eager to revile Mr, Bu
chanan. It is a sufficient refutation of
the chanre now made in the Tribune,
and maliciously republished in the Ex
press of this city, to say that It has
scarcely been two years since Horace
Greeley, in an article written with his
own hand, expressed his disbelief of
the charge, now so oinnsively repeat
ed, that Mr. Buchanan favored secession '
in any way. The bitterest review of
Mr.' Buchanan's book which we seen
appeared in the Tribune, and even in
that the writer exonerated the author
from any complicity in or sympathy
with the secession movement. We ven
ture the assertion that Horace Greeley
never saw the article which the Express
copies. If he had it would not have
appeared in print.
Bitter and radical as he is, he has
some regard for the truth. For a year
or more he has ceased to exercise that
careful supervision of the 7 ribune which
gave it so extended a reputation In the
past, and the result is a verge marked
deterioration in many respects, and in
none so much as in candor and truth
fulness. It has of lute frequently de
scended to the lower level of such un
scrupulous, untruthful and scurrilous
sheets as Forney's Press. The case be
fore us Is but one of many such in
stances which have fallen under our
notice.
An Important Subject
The Federal House of Representa
tives spent a portion of its valuable time
the other clay in discussing a resolution
prescribing the sort of clothing to be
worn by our representatives at foreign
courts. It seems that some of our For
eign Ministers, not wishing to appear
as black sheep in the diplomatic flock
surrounding the courts to which they
are accredited, have, on State occasions,
laid aside their plain clothes and put on
the costumes in vogue at these courts.
To prevent in the future such depar
tures from the " Republican simplicity"
which our representatives abroad should
affect, the House debated and passed a
resolution requiring them henceforth
to pay their respects to Kings and
Queens iu the ordinary dress of Ameri
can citizens.
If ever there was a time in our his
tory when a regulation of this kind was
demanded, that time is now. Engaged
as we are at home in breaking up the
foundations of nor Republican Govern
ment, we need to do something des
perate to convince the world abroad
that we still respect Republican institu
tions. What better plan can we take to
accomplish this purpose than to flout in
their face our" Republican simplicity"
in the matter of dress?
But havinggone thus far in vindication
of the right of the American Eagle to fly
into the presence of royalty with none
but his own feathers on, ought not our
Republican Congress to go a little fur
ther? Having restricted our Foreign
Ministers to plain dress, why not re
strict them to plain food and drink?
If this thing of holding our " Repub
lican simplicity" up to the admiration
of the world is worth doing at all, It is
worth doing well. Let us "go the
whole hog," and not only bring our
Foreign Ministers down to Kentucky
Jeans in clothing, but to "hog and
hominy" in diet and corn whiskey in
drink. Their example in the matter of
dress will produce but little impression
so long as they load their tables with
French dishes and French wines. These
suggestions 41e rc-.pe(iiOily submitted
for the consideration of the wise men
who are now overthrowing our Repub
lican government at Washington.
A Registry Law In Pennsylvania
The Radical majority in our State
Legislature have got up a registration
law, which will in all probability be
passed. It is true that the Constitution
of the State stands opposed to any change
of the qualification of electors, but that
is no impediment to legislative enact
ment in these days. The registration
law as reported is as follows :
It requires Assessors to keep a registry ,
of voters with their private residences, and
produce the same at the place of election,
fourteen days previous to the election, M
the judges and inspectors, who with the
assessor, shall meet on the twelfth day pre
ceding the second Tuesday in October, and
continue in session from nine tosix o'clock,
to receive the names of persons not before
registered, and hear and decide upon claims
to vote; and no person shall be allowed to
vote whose name does not appear up
on the registry, but any registered
name may be challenged, Just as If no
registry of the name had been made, and
the election board may pass upon sack
challenge; penalty for receiving non•regis
tered votes shall be fine and Imprison
ment, at the discretion of court. The same
meeting of the Board and registry shall
be bad twelve days preceding every Presi
dential election. At every special, and at
every city, borough and township election,
the registry may be used as proof of the
right to vote, unless satisfactory rebutting
antimony titian be produced. On the peti
tion of five citizens that they believe that
frauds are about to be perpetrated at the
polls, the courts of the county, or the
Judge, in vacation thereof, may appoint
two Judicious, sober and intelligent citizens
to act as overseers of any poll or polls, who
shall be soleeted from different politimil par
ties, where both Inspectors are of one politi
cal party, both of the overseers shall be
taken from the opposite political party ;
the itspeotors to furnish such overseers
with every facility for understanding and
taking notes of all decided on by the Ward,
and to challenge votes. The bill also pro
vides heavy lines for any clerk or prothono
tary, who shall issue any fraudulent natur
alization paper or pimp such paper or blank
to be used by any Person gt the pope. The
bill is the special er,thr Tor Thursday morn
.
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Ir6OCtlikaireliiiielOititalftiOn ' iiii"
People of Penney!Tanta by• Act of Con
s.
have constiy warned our -, p .. ,
ers at the establ went of a mill
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in nd to force 'negro 'infringe upon'
other States than the ten which they
have reduced to the condition of terri
tories. The following bill, introduced
into the Senate by Wilson of Massachu
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sate; Is designixi tci'efleet that result,
and Indicates both their ptirpose and
the methods they intend to employ :
A bill to regulate the elective franchise in the
United States,
Whereas, the fourteenth article of the
amendment to the Constitution of the United
States bus been retitled by a suftleient
number of Staten, and is therefore a part of
the fundamental law ; and whereas, the first
suction ofsuid article of amendment declares
that "all persons born or naturalized In the
United States, and subject to thejuristi !Won
thereof, are citizens of the United States
awl of the States wherein they reside;"
and that "no State shall make or enforce
any law which shall abridge the privileges
or immunities of ultlautin of the United
States; and whereas, the said fourteenth
article of amendment to the Constitution
empowers Congress to enforce by appropri
ate legislation the provisions of the said
article; therefore,
Be it enacted by the ,Senate and House of
ReprexentativeB of the United States of
America in congress assembled, That there
shall bu no denial of the elective franchise
to any Mule citizen of the United States by
ally State on account of color, or race, or
previous condition, anything In the Con
stitution or laws orally State to t hu contrary
notwillintanding.
Sim 2. And be it farther enaeted, That
each and every person yvho shall violate the
provisions of this act shall, on convictioirln
any court of the United States, be titled for
each and every offence not loss than $l,OOO,
or be Imprisoned not less than nix months
or both, at the discretion of tile court.
The Radical newspapers of Pennsyl
vania are strongly endorsing thescherne
of Mr. Wilson. Forney in one of his
"occasional" letters to the Press says :
_amoral Wilson's bill rests on the ground
that the fourteenth article amending the
Constitution of the United States him been
ratified by a sufficient number of States,
and that the first section of that article de
clares "that all persons born or naturalized
in the United States, or subject to the juris
diction thereof, are citizens of the Onited
States, or of the States wherein they re
side," and that "no State shall make or
enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or Immunities of the citizens of
the United States." A. bill securing the
same inalienable franchise was introduced
on the 29th of January, 1866, by the eloquent
and intrepid Senator Yates, of Illinois.
Mr. Sumner took the same ground in Ills
two great speeches of February 6 and March
7 of the same year, and on the 29th of
May following introduced an elaborate bill,
which he has just presented in an amended
from, so us to inset the views alike of those
who believe that Congress had the power to
to settle this question before it was amend
ed, and of those who think that power In
given in the new or fourteenth Article. The
reasoning In support of these several prop
ositions remains unanswered, save by the
general denial, originating with Andrew
Johnson, that the constitutional amend
ment could never be adopted without the
votes of the seceded States ; but now that
this pretext Iwo been removed by the complete
submission of the Southern people to the new
act of reconstruction, which practically de
clares that the rebellion destroyed the oldslave
States, and that they must be reorganised
under Republican forms, the argument in
favor of universal suffrage becomes irresist
ible.
The Soul,ll being now reduced to sub
jection, our turn has come. The votes
of the negroes in Pennsylvania and
other Northern States are needed to in
sure the continued triumph of the Re
publican party. To waltuntil the State
Constitutions could bo altered. so as to
admit the negroes to the ballot box
would take too long. A shorter method
is to be employed. The interpretation
which the Democratic party insisted in
putting upon the Constitutional Amend
ments during the canvass last fall, is
now accepted and openly proclaimed by
the Radicals. They admit that all their
former denials were lies, and insist,
with brazen effrontery, that no State
has any longer a right to exclude ne
groes from the polls. The Pittsburg
Commercial, a paper which now and
then makes a pretense of being conser
vative, indulges in such reasoning as
the following:
The revision of the New York Constitu
tion will secure the abolition of a property
qualification in that State, and let in about
5,000 colored voters to strengthen the Re
publican column. As there are more colored
people in Pennsylvania than in New York,
the exclusion of the word "white" from the
Constitution would open the franchise to
some eight or ten thousand colored citizens,
and place the Constitution in this respect
in harmony with the spirit of the age and
the new order of things, evolved by the
rebellion. This great Commonwealth should
vindicate its character for consistency, and
push to their ultimate fruition, the issues
for which she sent her hundreds of thou
sands into the field, by expunging from the
fundamental law all disqualifying provis
ions based on color or race. Cowardice is
never true statesmanship; Justice is the
basis of all moral strength. When col
ored regiments from Connecticut were
marching into Richmond just after its fall,
the white people of the State were tilling
the ballot boxes with votes against negro
suffrage. Now Republican speakers are
canvassing that State in every direction, to
save it the imminent disgrace of falling into
the hand of "My Policy," on the Ist of April.
Whatever the result, it is conceded that the
vote in the Nutmeg State will be close.
Should Governor Hawley and his associ
ates be defeated, Johnson's hands and heart
will be strengthened, and the work of
reconstruction further embarrassed and
delayed. The cowardly or bigoted Repub•
licaus, who two years ago allowed the
negroes to be disfranchised, need and would
ladly have their votes, now. The loss of
the State with the moral effects elsewhere,
may be compensating punishment for the
previous wrong. The Republicans are not
so strong in Pennsylvania that they can
afford to undervalue these considerations.
At the last gubernatorial election, the
majority, in view of the large vote polled,
was not so pronounced, as the friends of
progress could have desired.
We do not know that any comment
from us is necessary. The bill which
we print, with the comments from such
leading papers as the Press, of Phila.
deiphia, and the Commercial, of Pitts
burg, ought to be sufficient. If there be
any honest Republicans who are not
ready to bow to the decrees of the fa
natics who control the party to which
they belong, their duty in the premises
is very klain. They should at once take
their stand with the conservative men
of the country. The time for decision
has come. No honest man can hesitate
That Oath.
"I am sincerely and earnestly attached
to the Union and the government of the
United States, and will steadfastly support
the Constitution and obey the laws, and in
duce others to yield support and obedience
thereto."
That is the registration oath ordained
by Congress for the people of the South
ern States. We believe the vast ma
jority of those who were in the rebel
armies could take it with a clear con
science. No one who reads the letter
of General Beauregard, can fall to be
impressed with the belief that he who
fired the first gun in the rebellion could
subscribe to the above oath without
hesitancy and without any mental re
servation. But, how would it be with
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens,
and the horde of fanatics who follow in
their wake! Could one of them con
scientiously take the oath they pre
scribed? Not, we believe before God,
without staining their souls with the
crime of perjury. When they are
doing all they can to prevent a restora
tion of the Union, how could they
swear they are sincerely and earnestly
attached to it? Row could they take a
solemn oath that they are attached to a
form of government which they are
constantly laboring to destroy? What
one of them could pledge himself un
der the sanctions-of an oath to support
the Constitution of the United States
and continue to act with the party in
Cpngress ? Not one. The great majority
of the rebels in the South, if judged by
the very standard prescribed by the
Radicals in Congress, are more loyal
to-day than any man among them in
Oilier he ffouse or the Senate.
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If the people of the United States are
`so utterly blinded .by passion and
.
zan prejudice as to be unable to
cr tm
:--ive what is for, their t ikeres t
~
koesses of the Itidi m0,19/0 r '
t!,iipeedy revolution i? sintilient
i' ~ roughout the North. by dsi the
li l Ft i y In power shows Its niter disr , ogard
,for2silllaw, for liberty, and for Ilievestit
ed rights of individuals and communi
ties. In the mad work of destruction
Congress leads off. That body Is con
trolled by a set of crazy fanatics. Here
and there among the Repuhlloan' ,
mein;
bars is to be found a man of correct
lOdgment and properprinciple; but such
a one can scarcely secure a decent
hearing, If he should attempt to
utter a mord In opposition to
any of the infamous and most per
nicious schemes which are being con.
stoutly put forward. Under the whip
and spur of such leaders as Sumner and
Stevens, the most revolutionary enact
ments are hurried through Congress,
and if the President sees lit, in the ex
ercise of proper constitutional power, to
veto any one of them, its passage In hot
haste by a two-thirds vote is the Imme
diate and inevitable result. How long
our Institutions can stand the strain thus
put upon them, is a question which Is
agitating the minds of all thoughtful
and patriotic citizens.
Each new day urings some new and
startling violation of the Constitution
of the United States. The work of the
fathers of the Republic is no longer re
vered, and all their wise teachings are
scouted and scornfully repudiated. To
secure the continuance of their party in
power the Radical leaders are ready
to employ the most desperate expedien ts.
They overturn State Governments with
impunity; they abrogate State Consti
tutions and nullify all State laws at a
moment's warning; they depose Gov
ernors, Judges, and other officers elect
ed by the people, and put their own
minions in the seats thus summarily
made vacant; they forbid the holding of
elections except under such restrictions
as they see fit to lay down ; they declare
all men who are likely to vote against
them to be disfranchised, and confer the
right of suffrage on the entire mass of
ignorant and incompetent negroes.
Their pretense is that the people of those
communities were engaged in rebellion.
Buk does any one suppose they are
going to stop there?' If he does, he cannot
have read the history of the last few years
aright. Having reduced to the condi
tion of territories ten sovereign States,
they stand ready to subject all the rest
-to their domination. They will not
permit any State to array itself against
them. In Maryland, where the honest
sentiment of the whole population is
overwhelmingly against them, the Rad
icals see no chance of securing control
of the offices, Public plunder being the
motive power of all their actions, they
are now busy devising a scheme to rev
olutionize that State. A day or two
since an assemblage representing a mere
fragment of the legal votersof Maryland
assemtled in Baltimore and passed the
following resolutions:
Resolved, That we call upon Congress to
protect the loyal majority of the people of
Maryland, both white and colored, by defeat
ing the scheme of the revolutionists In the
Legislature, and to aid us in forming and to
guarantee to us by act of Congress arepub
lican State government on the basis of im
partial manhood suffrage.
Resolved, That we will oppose any new
constitution set up In subversion of the ex
isting constitution, under the Convention
bill, which does not express the will of the
majority of the people, without regard to
color, and that we will, with the aid of the
loyal representatives of the nation, and by
all means in our power, resist and destroy
any such constitution as a resolutionaty
usupation.
Resolved, That we will take no part in the
approaching election of delegates to a Con
stitutional Convention further than to re
commend a general vote of the Republicans
of the State against the call for a Conven
tion, and to use every lawful means In their
power to defeat the call.
Resolved, That the State Central Commit
tee issue a call for district meetings, to be
held in every election district irrthe State,
for the choice, by ballot, on the basis of
universal manhood suffrage, of delegates
to a State Constitutional Convention, each
county and the city of Baltimore to elect
the number to which they tnay be entitled
under the present Constitution of the State.
Resolved, That said State Constitutional
Convention, if called, shall assemble In the
city of Baltimorejon the first Wednesday in
June, and proceed to form a constitution
based upon universal manhood suffrage.
A committee was appointed to carry
these resolutions to Washington. That
committee was cordially received by
the presiding officers of both Houses,
and assurances were given them that
the Radical majority 4vould attend to
the matter. That Congress will sustain
an attempt to inaugurate a revolution
in Maryland we have no doubt. How
much longer shall the Radicals at Wash
ington be permitted tooverride the will
of a large majority of the people of this
country'?ln our ludg - thent it is high
time there was an end of their misrule.
The people must organize in opposition
to these tyrannical usurpers, and the
sooner it is done the better. Our rights
and liberties are in peril. and they can
only be saved
. by prompt and vigorous
action.
Fraternizing With Sambo
Our opponents are literally getting
down on their knees to Sambo. It is
true that they have been worshiping
the negro for some years past, but that
has appeared to be a sort of frenzy of
fanaticism. It is only of late that we
have seen. substantial practical evi
dences of their full belief la perfect
equality. In Washington they are
busy getting ready for the coming mu
nicipal election. At their ward meet
ings a white radical is made chairman
and a black radical Secretary, or "wicey
wersey." All hands fraternize most
pleasantly and all colors and com
plexions blend into one harmonious
hue.
lu North CaroUnita Union State Con
vention was held at Raleigh on the
28th. Lest we might be accused of
misrepresentation, we take the follow
ing description of it from the New York
Tribune :
'By Telegraph to the Tribune.l
Raleigh, N. C., March 2.8.—A Union Con
vention composed of equal .numbers of
whites and blacks, after two days' session,
adjourned to-day. The Convention adopted
the name of "Republican." Resolutions
were adopted eulogizing the party which
overthrew the Rebellion, and asserting that
it should command the respect of every
candid man. They declare that Congress
is entitled to the thanks of the world for
its persistent devotion to human rights
as proclaimed in the Declaration of Inde
pendence; cordially accept Congress's
plan of Reconstruction, and rejoice
at the overthrow of the sympathizers
with the late Rebellion. They declare
that supreme allegiance is due to the
Federal Government, and not to the States,
indorse the Civil Rights bill, and favor im
partial suffrage, without property qualifica
tions or distinction of color; praise the late
President Lincoln, invor universal educa
tion, and demand free speech and free dis
cussion of public matters. They pledge.
themselves to the maintenance of the public
credit, and invite men of all political
per
snations to unite with them in behalf of the
principles avowed by the Convention.
Fifty-three counties were represented, and
the Convention was unanimous.
If any one can see any difference be
tween that report and the report of or
dinary Republican State Conventions
they must be shrewder than we are. It
reads exactly as if the gathering might
have been held in Harrisburg. The
only difference is that in the Raleigh
Convention the ' negroes were really
present in person, one white man to
one negro,
In Tennessee the nezroes have been
cordially and earnestly invited to send
delegates to the coming Republican
State Convention, which meets In Nash
ville on the 16th day of May next, Of
course Sam bo will be on hand.
What do the white men of Pennsyl
vania think of these things? Is it not
about time there was an end of it? Are
we to allow the lust for office thus to
degrade us politically? What say the
masses of An glo-Baxon and Celtic blood?
C
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Damrw,Breaks In -
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ALL 'HAIL CONNECTICUT
•• :
A Glorious Democratic Victory !
CROW, CHAPMAN ! CROW ! !
The gallant Democracy of Connecti
cut have won a complete and most
glorious victory over the enemies of In the Second District Hotchkiss ,
the Union and the Constitution, elect- Democrat, is elected over Northrop,
Ing for Governor the patriotic states- Radical.
man, James E. English, three out of In the first Congressional District,
four Congressmen, and a majority of Hubbard, Democrat, is elected over
the State Senators. The following de- Deming, Radical.
spatches sum up the cheering result: The Showman Barnum runs behind
NEW YORK, April 2-1.30 A. M. everywhere, and loses largely In his
English Is undoubtedly elected Gov- home district. So much for the Joice
ernor of Connecticut by 500 majority. Heath and Feejee Mermaid candidate.
Professor Cyrus Northrop, Radical, [Special Despatch to the I u telllgeucer. I
Is defeated in the Second Congressional NEW YORK, April 2-3 P. M.
District by over 1,800. English, so far as the official vote has
been received, leads Hawley B.3G—his
English's majority will probably be
about 600. majority will reach 1,000.
The Republicans elect Stark weather The State Senate stands I•' to 9—a
o Congress in the Third District. gain of 7.
The Democrats will have one ma
orlty in the State Senate.
Flow They Love the Soldiers.
The loud protestations of love for the
soldiers which so constantly falls from
the lips of the Radicals has been re
peatedly shown to be mere lying pre
tense. Where they think they cannot
succeed, except through clap-trap, the
leaders consent to put forward some
soldier for office. generally taking good
care that he is oue whom they can use
as they see tit ; such a humbug as Geary,
for instance.
Within a few weeks past the " loyal
patriots" in Congress have given abun
dant evidence of their appreciation of
the services of the soldiers of the war.
One after another some of the most
worth officers have been rejected by the
Senate. It mattered not how faithfully
they had served the country. All their
services were of no account in the eyes
of such men as Sumner and his fol.
lowers. Speaking of a recent rejection
the New York Herald says:
Major General Henry W. Slocum was
named by the President for the vactint, 'Zspo
sition of naval officer of the port of ew
York, and the United States Senate has re
fused to confirm this admirable nomination.
General Slocum was educated at West Point.
He went to the war as Colonel of the
Twenty-seventh regiment of Now York
Volunteers, and served In the battle of .131.11 I
Hum Prompt thus to be present In the first
possible battle, there was scarcely after
wards a great held on which the national
cause was to be upheld from which he was
absent. He went to the Peninsula with the
Army of the Potomac and did heroic ser
vice through all that terribly destructive
campaign, He went through the memora
ble seven days around Richmond. At
Cranipton's Pass on the South Mountain
he stormed and carried by assault
a rebel position on a hill side, so rough
and of such difficult access that the men
who voted against him would probably re
fuse to climb it in even these peaceful,
pastoral days. He was at the battle of An
tietam ! He was at the Chancellorsville
tight, commanding the Twelfth corps, and
when the Eleventh corps broke Slocum's
ines were what the enemy found in their
way, and what kept them from sweeping
like a deluge down the rear of our lines.
There Slocum saved the army, Slocum
also commanded the Twelfth corps through
the glorious three days of the Gettys
burg battle, and opposed immediately
all that magnificent fighting by which
enemy endeavored to turn the right—
fighting their way all along his front
from Spangler's Spring to Cemetery
Hill. Stocum next went to the Western
Army, and did such efficient service, that
when the force was made up for Sherman's
march from Atlanta to the sea, lie was giv
en the command of one of the two columns
into which Sherman's force was organized.
Thus from the first fight to the field of Joe
Johnson's surrender, Slocum was in the
front line of glorious service. He was tit for
that service, but his opinions do not suit
certain United States Senators, and he can•
not have office. Does not the party that re
jects such candidates write its own sentence.
From that case let soldiers learn how
they are appreciated by the leaders of
the Republican party.
Enßaton Americo Ceded to the United
States.
WASHINGTON, March 30.—The Pres
ident sent to the Senate to-day a treaty
with Russia, by which that power sur
renders to the United States its sover-
eignty over all Russian America and
the adjacent islands. The price to be
paid for this territory is about $7,000,000.
This important negotiation was fully
discussed at the Cabinet Council yester
day, and last evening, at about eight
o'clock, the Secretary and Assistant
Secretary of Slate received at the State
Department the Representative of Rus
sia, and it was not till two o'clock this
morning that the trealy was brought to
a satisfactory conclusion.
The treaty will have to be ratified by
the Senate, and both houses of Congress
must concur In making the appropria
tion for the payment of the purchase
money before the treaty becomes an ac
complished fact. The amount of the
purchase money is so small, when the
size and value of the territory is consid
ered, that,the transfer is regarded as a
cession rather than a sale,
and sug
gestive of the sympathy of Russia for
America.
It is looked upon as an important
step towards the absorption of the whole
continent by the United States, and,
considering that the possession of Rus
sian America hems in the British Ame-'
rican possessions, it is thought by know
ing diplomats here that the transaction
will probably be regarded as a hostile
measure by Great Britain, and may
possibly meet with remonstrances on
the part of that power from its point
of view as a belligerent in case of war.
The purchased territory covers upward
of four hundred thousand square miles,
and though now containing only one
hundred thousand inhabitants, half of
whom are Esquimau', it is believed
that, under American auspices, it would
at a comparatively early period, contain
a population sufficient to increase the
number of States in the Union to fifty.
The fisnerles are very extensive, but the
principal commercial wealth of the
country is in its fur trade, which would,
henceforth, be altogether controlled by
American merchants.
The acquisition of Russian America
is viewed here as of far-reaching im
portance, in a commercial as well as a
political and strategical point of view.
Not the least advantage thus gained
would be the entire control of the pro
jected Russo-American Asiatic Tele
graph, which promises to link the
United States to India and China by
the way of Russia.
Beath of Senator Riddle.
Senator Riddle of Delaware, died yes
terday at his residence In Washington.
He was a man of ability and of high
character,
The Fourth District elects the Demo-
crude Barnum
In the lower house the Democrats
gain 2:3:
Interesting Correspondence
I From the Age. I
We print with pleasure the following cor
respondence between a number of promi
nent Democrats of this city, and other sec
tions of the State, and ex-President Bu
chanan. The proffered testimonial was
well deserved and the letter declining the
same is dignified in tone and patriotic in
sentiment.
FEERVARY 27, ISII7
To Bx•Preaidenl James Buchanan :
DI: AR SIR: The undersigned, citizens of
Pennsylvania, think it a matter of simple
duty moan you front your retirement and
to tender you In this form the expression of
their continuing respect and admiration.
They have another and less disinterested
object In view. They believe the immediate
future of the country to be lull of peril, and
they desire to hear words of counsel, of
consolation, and if possible of hope, from
one who now survives,
as the lust of Amer
ican statesmen of the olden times—the only
living contemporary, with perhaps one
exception, of Webster and Clay, and Ben
ton and Calhoun. In the days of your
power, when you dispensed favor and
patronage, you had many friends. The
undersigned desire to be ranked among
those who esteem you now in your privacy,
who honestly think that no responsibility
for the years of blood and sorrow we have
endured rests on you, who tried in a mo
ment of terrible exigency to do your duty
under the Constitution. We earnestly and
respectfully invite you to accept of this In
vitation to a public dinner in the City of
Philadelphia at such time as will hest suit
your convenience.
Asa Packer,
master Clymer,
Owen Jones
Hanel. R. S. Sm I th,
J. Glancy Jones,
G. R. Fox,
Juhu Dumont,
Edmund C. Evans,
Adam slemmer,
E. L. Acker.
Jacob F. Quillinan,
A. D. Markley,
E. N. Beyaher,
.L.coh Slifer,
Henry Longaker,
Jesse B. Davis,
, Rufus B. Lougaker,
H. Charles Rogers,
Philip S. Gerhard,
A. P. Eyre,
0. P. Morris,
Joseph Rex,
James C. Burnside,
Thomas B. Hillegas,
Andrew Hart,
Daniel Yost,
Charles Rile,
G. W. Jacoby,
George a heels,
Yates Y. Evans,
Jos us Ward,
Zeno F. Gerhard,
Andrew C. Craig,
Joseph Danehower,
Sylvester Solliday,
Benjamin Baker,
H. D. W. Pawling,
George Northrop,
S. W. Woodhouse,
John P. Montgomery
Manlius G. Evans,
Charles Rogers,
Joseph H. Dulles,
John McLaughlin,
W. H. Welsh,
W. C. Patterson,
W. P. Chandler,
C. N. Hagner,
J. Henry Askin,
J. M. Robb.
John Miller,
John D. Evans,
J. B. Baker,
Richard A. Gilpin,
W. W. Davi, Cites co
John M. Jones,
John R. Gregg,
W. Lyttleton Savage,'
Jacob F. Hoover,
and many others.
W. B. Reed,
John Cadwalader,
John 0. James,
Chambers MeKibblo
J. Rinaldo Sank,
E. C. Mitchell,
H. G. Gowen,
S. D. Anderson,
Wm. H. Freeman,
George Sanderson,
Isaac E. Hiester,
H. M. North,
Abraham Peters,
James Patterson,
H. B. Swarr,
J. M. Cooper,
A. J. Steinman,
H. G. Smith
Char is S. Keyser,
Henry Carpenter.
/Newton Lightner,
W. W. Brown,
Robert Crane,
E. Ha•deman,
Fred. S. Pyfer,
C. J. Rhodes.
George Young, Jr.,
John L. Lightner,
Robert B. Patterson
Geo. L. Eckert,
David Kurtz,
Wm. Carp nter,
Henry E. Leman,
Henry Dickinson,
Abel Mumbo,
John Y. Fritz,
Alexander 'upplee,
M. Newberry,
B. S. Haldeman.
Wm. A. Morton,
1). G. Eshleman,
Arm. Patton,
Wm. R. Wilson,
H. 8. Kerns,
Paris Haldeman,
Franklin Jenkins.
Henry Eckert,
T. W. Henderson,
Ellmaker,
John McSparras,
Henry Hoffman,
D. A. Brown.
John Brandt
J. W. F. Swift,
Isaac 'Walker,
Amos Yost,
Charles Stout,
Joseph Mitchell,
Wm. Rittenhouse,
WHEATLAND, 23c1 March, 1867.
GENTLEMEN : I have received, with grate
ful emotions, your very kind invitation to
a public dinner you propose to give me, in
the City of Philadelphia, on any day I may
indicate. Nothing,l can assure you, could
afford me greater pleasure than to meet
you around the festive board, and with you
renew the pleasant memories of long past
years.
I deny myself this gratification, only in
deference to what I consider the wise ex
ample of my Democratic predecessors in
the office of President. After having ad
ministered the most exalted office which
the country could bestow, they deemed it
expedient to rennin' in the retirement of
private life; and whilst holding their own
opinions on the political questions of the
day, they left the public discussion of them
to gentlemen, like yourselves, on the
busy theatre of active life.
If any other reason were required for my
self-denial on this occasion, I might refer
you to my advanced age, of which you re
mind me by stating that I am now the last
survivor of "American statesmen of the
olden time, the only livingcontempontry of
Webster and Clay, and Benton and Cal
houn." In passing, permit me to say, you
might have justly added to these distin
guished names, that of Silas Wright. lie
was a statesman, who, for sound practical
wisdom, for far-seeing sagacity , ,and for lucid
and convincing argument, had no superior
in the Senate, even at the period when it
was the greatest deliberative body in the
world. You have my cordial thanks for
your opinion "that no responsibility for the
years of blood and sorrow we have endured,
rests on me, who tried, in a moment of ter
rible exigency, to do my duty under the
Constitution." Proceeding, as this does,
from a large number of my fellow-citizens,
equal in intelligence, character and patriot
ism, to any similar number ofgentlemen in
the State, may I not, with much confidence,
indulge the hope that you but anticipate
the general sentiment of future times? Un
der this impression, and always firmly re
lying on Divine Providence, I have borne
wi. h a tranquil and contented spirit all the
harsh criticisms which have been published
on my official conduct throughout the last
unhappy years. Assuming, as you do,
"the immediate future of the country to be
full of peril," you ask me " for words of
counsel, of consolation, and, if possible,
of hope." Consistently with my self-Im
posed reticence, I may say to you :—ad
here steadily to the Constitution of your
country; exert all your power and influ
ence in disseminating and enforcing its
genuine principles, by means of the press,
public speeches, private conversations, and
in every other honorable manner; and em
ploy tbesame untiring energy in exposing
and condemning every departure from its
precepts. Never despair; for the time will
surely come when these shall triumph and
control the administration of the govern
ment.
With sentiments of grateful reaped, I
remain,
Your much obliged friend,
JAMES BUCHANAN.
Hon. Asa flicker,Smith,
G,
Owen Jones t Hon.
.Totin Cadwalader, Samuel R. S. mith,
G, R. Fox Andrew C. Craig, Esquires,
and Hon. Mester Clymer, with many
others.
Miami& ;
some at last advice's.
Kerr amity, Texas, is overrun with
grasshoppers.
Peuehea are grown in' Philadelphia cue.
manfully, In fifteen and eighteen Inch pots.
Te funded debt of Philadelphia IN over
015,000,000
The President and Congress el Columbia,
South America, are still at variance.
190 patents will be issued for the week
ending Tuesday next,
Ex-Rebel General Smith I'. Bunkheild
was beaten to death by an unknown man,
In Memphis, on Saturday,
The steamer Alabama, with 1,200 halos Of
cotton, has been burned near New °Heim,
The boat walk valued at $.12,000.
Tho House Judiciary Committee IN NMI
In session, taking Impeachment testimony.
but expected to adjourn this week.
Less than a quorum of the Judges of the
17. S. Supreme Court were present on Mon
day, and the Court adjourned until tmday.
A New York paper states that Honore'
Banks will accompany the party now or.
ganixlng Iu that city to visit the Holy Lend.
The IMO (summit on 010 Pany4l IN u
soldier, Ns ho says this in not
ii
forw b a y
rd
March.
The Poo mum linherles haye beim y
isiorly up to the present. II takes h% hlllll,
to till a cart,
During the punt year Frani.° exported to
England 11,054 waterfalls, with hair enough
make 7,0 . 00 more.
Thu health of the French Prince Imperial
' Iv reported to he "unsatisfactory to his
doctors."
"TiFon Jones has challenged Michael Me-
Coole, of St. Louis, to light within two or
three 11101111 H for $l,OOO,
Denver, In Colorado, has soya,, h
dogs. The question arises How on earth
did they all get out there?
It is staled that the prison grounds at
Salisbury, N. C., are to be planted with
cotton the present season.
Father Webb, said to be to the oldent
Methodist preacher in the country, died lit
Barnstable, Mass., on the b a th, aged
It Is said that General Carl Schurz I'.
lllmut to resign bin editorial connection wit h
the Detroit /bat, and assume the control or
the St. Louis Weglliche Polt.
The steamer H. 11. Cityler has taken on
board at Panama six torpedo Issue, tint
called for Jamaica. It In believed at Pana
ma that she is a Chlllan privateer.
The health of the Primsain of Willem had
shown some slight improvement, but she
was still believed to be In it very low state.
The queen of Denmark was with her.
The hi& for the State loan were opened
at Harrisburg on Monday, and amounted
to about $31,000,000, ranging trout par to
per cent, premium.
(In the 2-nth of February Daniel Jackson,
au old servant of the late Henry A. Jinni -
son, died near Filmdom., Md., at the ad
vanced age of 114 years.
John B. Gough has received an offer from
Englund of $1,500, gold, for one lecture a
week In London, the course to be kept up
for a year. That would make hint $02,400.
The locomotive now runs four hundred
and fifty miles west of St. Louis, and the
truck Is being laid at the rate of a mile
every day.
Theodore Clay, son of Henry Clay, ham
for over thirty years been an inmate of the
Lunatic Asylum at Lexington, Ky. Ire
became insane front disappointed allection.
The value of the timber, logs, boards,
shingles, staves, c., annually exported
from Clearfield county, is not less than nine
millions of 'toilers.
A large and handsomely-painted portrait
of General Jackson, executtsl by the pupils
of the Philadelphia School of 'Design, has
been presented as their contribution to the
State gallery of art.
A Conservative convention tuet at Nash
ville on Monday. one of the speakers was
a wlored man. Resolutions were adopted
urging the people to send delegates to the
Slate CoEimer Vial ye
A New York special says that C. A.
Dana's new evening paper is to be Issued
in May. It will advocate Chief Justice
Chase for the Presidency, and La to he only
moderately radical.
The Utica Ob.verver says Mr. I.,e‘ i llol
coin h, of Rome, recently shot two panther,
In John Brown's tract, one of which is the
largest ever seen in Utica, measuring S feet
and it inches from tip to tip.
A big rat hunt in Zanesville, Ohio, last
week, resulted in the capture and massacre
of twenty-seven hundred ofthe "varmints
by one party, and twenty-three hundred
by the other.
An act of the Legislature of the State of
New Jersey went into etrect yesterday, pro
hibiting the whipping of children in the
public schools. Did they do anything about
the cayenne pepper feature?
Mr. P. D. Walker, the State Secretary of
the Uood Templars in Minnesota, stated the
other day, at the rate of increase.within the
past year, the Order in two years would
have a majority of all the votes in the State.
The forthcoming orange crop in Florida
will surpass any that has been hail for
years. The trees are loaded with bins
souls, and some of the groves are expected
to bear from one to two hundred thousand
each.
Ist
r. E. t Souler, an A merieun, appointed
to act us it
.juror the Paris Exhibition,
was arrested in ruute through England for
some liabilities in connection with his
former interoceanic scheme, and detained.
as a prisoner at Lancaster castle.
A mass meeting, chiefly composed of
freedmen, WILY held on Monday in Savan
nah. Ex-Governor James Johnson and,
others spoke, and resolutions were adopted
recognizing the reconstruction terms of
Congress.
A prize fight between Frank Drew, or
St. Joseph, and .latnes Brainard, of Mon
tana, occurred in Kansas, opposite St.
Joseph, yesterday. One hundred and si sty
five rounds wen• fought, occupying over
two hours. Drew was the victor.
A dealer in fire arms advertises in the
Rio Grande t.'ne /*le, that the pistols used on
the occasion of the recent " dowel " were
from his establishment, and advises all who
wish: to do likewise, to give him a call and
supply themselves.
Some of the best insurance companies in
Boston refuse to issue policies to the churches
in that city and vicinity. It appears that in
a very few years thirty-live churches In the
city or its immediate neighborhood have
been destroyed.
The extra session of the U. S. Senate
begun yesterday. Henry P. Linderman
was confirmed us Director of the Philadel
phia Mint, and George F. Harvey as Post
master at Doylestown. The Senate is under
stood to be at present opposed to ratifying
the Russo American treaty.
A meeting of merchants, bankers and
planters was held on Saturday to determine
whether United States gold shall be received
in Havana as a circulating medium at par.
The question was decided In the anima
tive, and the signatures are being taken or
those who are willing to bind theinseivee to
the measure.
The Jury investigating the circumstances
connected with the death of Mrs, Noble,
who died In New York from the eihwts of
an attempt at abortion, returned n verdict
charging Dr. niters with being instrumen
m! in producing her death. Dr. Thiers Is nt
present in prison on another and similar
charge.
Owing to high winds In the Adriatic,
Venice has been inundated to un extent
which has never been equaled within the
1111,IPOry of any of the inhabitants. The
niaxxa of San Mark mus 80 flooded Mai
boats and gondolas passed over it, and the
space had the appearance of avast lake.
The New York Herald says: " The
third instalment of $lOO each for the fight
for the championship of the light weights,
between Sam Collyer and Barney Aaron,
for $3,000, to come off early in July next,
was put up in the hands of the stakeholder
on Thursday. They will both shortly go
into training,
The large lioness belonging to Thayer ct
Noyea' circus gave birth, on Thursday, at
Girard to live whelps, three of them male,.lt is said to be a difficult matter to rear
young lions la our country, but the keeper
of these is confident of success, and if his
anticipations prove correct, Thayer A: Noyes
will have an interesting addition to their
menagerie,
A piece of the Liam eaten raw by the
family of Mr. Hall, in Springfield, :S1
has been examined microscopically, iind
proves to be infected with the trichina. A
piece of the muscle of the limbs of the de
ceased girl has also been examined with tho
microscope, and proves to be full of trichina
Gerrit Smith, the well-known Abolition
ists, has written a letter to Wm. Lloyd Gar
rison, advocating the liberation of Jefferson
Davis, and holding the North responsible
with the South for thecrime of slavery, and
therefore of rebellion. Ile asks why, i f
Davis is Imprisoned, some representative
of the North should not be confined with
him?
The original basis of the treaty by which
the Russian American lokoigewitous h ave
been ceded to the United States is found lu
a memorial from the Legislature of Wash
ington Territory, dated over a year ago,
praying that rights and privileges be oh
tamed from Russia to enable Americans to
fish in the waters adjacent to its possessions.
The General McCallum, an iron war
steamer, designed for the service of the
Mexican liberals, sailed from New York on
Sunday for Tampico, Mexico, with two full
batteries of artillery, ten thousand stand of
small arms, four tons of powder and a large
quantity of fixed anutunition on board.—
The vessel carried also several otßcers of
the liberal army.
Hon. Amasa Sprague, of Rhode Inland,
elder brother of Senator Sprague, is erect
ing, on his own estate at Rocky Point, on
Narragansett Bay a building- for the so
commodation of visitors to the New Eng
land Agricultural Fair, with a capacity for
5000, people. This gentleman is said to be
the owner of a stud rivaling that of an
English turf hunter, Ills stables nolitain
280 horses.