if,EDNE,Ekkt At 4 t a'l6 .-:1867. Breatigg of the Democratic County Com , • mittee. The ,VeliicOatio . Ottity Committee will meet. et the Dentoomtle Club ROOMS, in this city, be 'l,4"charisy, APRIL 15TH, OL 11 CeelOCk A. it: -4. full attendance is re quested. A...T. STEINMAN, CRIIITITIOU, B. 3,IitoGnANN, Secretary. • ' Paying Themselves Well. The wise and honest men who com-' posOfhe distinguished deliberative.body known iii the Pennsylvania Legisla ture,- have before them an appropriation bill which proposes to dispose of four million seven hundred thousand dollars of. the pu bile money. Among the items which go to make up this enormous sum is one fixing the pay of members of the Legislature at $l5OO for the ses sion. There has been some little dis agreement between the two Houses about this as well as other sections of the pin, which will have to be adjusted by committees of conference; but the probabilities are altogether in favor of the adoption of the $l5OO clause. As the session lasts only about three months, the members will be paid at the rate of six thousand dollars a year! What will the plundered people say about this? Nothing at all, we pre sume, for "no outragb that can be per petrated by our Nationalor State legis lators seems sufficient to arouse them from the stupor into which they have fallen. They have seen our members of Congress run their own pay up from eight dollars a day to five thou sand a year without a word of disapprobation. They have—seen our members of the Legislature increase their own pay from three dollars a day to one thousand for the session of three months, without a word of condemna tion, and It is fair to infer that they will submit to the increase to $1,500 with the same exemplary patience they have heretofore displayed. There was a tints In the history of this now demo'ralized country when the people exercised a deeper care for the interests of the public treasury. Then it, was accounted no light offence for the people's servants to attempt to increase their own pay. At the session of Congress held in 1810, air act was passed fixing the pay of the members at $1,500 per annum, or about double the amount they had previously re ceived under the old per diem allow ance. This was just the sum that our Radical Legislature proposes to pay its members for three months service, and yet it raised such a storm of indigna tion throughout the country that most of the members who had voted for It fulled to be re-elected to the succeeding Congress. Henry Clay, with all his popularity and all his eloquence, was barely able to sustain himself, his con stituente ) being highly displeased with his vole in favor of the Increase. IL was when he was canvassing his district the succeeding HI/turner, that an Incident occurred which has often been related, and which showed bow aptly the great Kentucky orator could meet emergencies on the stump. Among the auditors at one of his meetings was an old hunter who had always been his enthusiastic friend, but who now leaned silently on his trusty rifle and gave no token of approbation to what he said. Finally raising his head and stretching himself up in the crowd, as he inter rupted and addressed the orator, the old hunter said—" Ah, Harry, I have always supported you, but I can do it no longer—you voted to pay yourself fifteen hundred dollars a year." The emergency was critical. The hunter was known in all that region, and was admired for his skill and courage as a woodsman, and as he went at the elec tion, hundreds of,others would go. But Clay had before him a man and a crowd whose weak and whose strong points he was well acquainted with. "'fell me," said he, suspending his remarks and ad dressing the old hunter in turn, "did the trusty rifle on which you are lean ing, and which has been your faithful ally in many a fearful encounter with the Indian and the bear, never miss fire ?" " Yes, she has sometimes missed fire," was the candid answer. " What did you do then queried Clay. " I picked her flint and tried her again," said the hunter. " con tinued Clay, " I have represented you in Congress several terms and have missed fire only once-1 pledge myself to vote for the repeal of the 81.100 law, and I want you to do with me as you have done with your rifle-1 want you to try me again—won't you do it?" An affirmative response from the captivated olti hunter, and a concurring shout front the crowd, assured " Harry of the West" that he had won a re-election. But he won it by the skin of his teeth, and only restored his previous popu larity by redeeming his pledge to the old hunter. At the very next session of Congress—in February, 1817—the $l5OO law was repealed. What a change has taken place! T,lme after time the people of the United States have seen their representatives in Congress raise their own pay till at last they have got it up to $5,000 a year. Time after time the people of Pennsyl vania have seen their representatives in the Legislature add to their compensa tion, till now they boldly propose to take $l5OO for their service of three months. And yet they return to Con gress and to the Legislature the very men who engineer these and other plundering schemes through. Do they think there is no bottom to their treasury? Do they imagine there is no end to their wealth? What Sumner Thought of Military GUT ernment two Years Ago. Charles Sumner, who is now dissatis fied with the military despotism es tablished over the Southern States, because it is too lenient to suit him, during the session of 1865 offered in Congress a series of resolutions, of which the following is one: And be it further resolved, That a govern \ men founded on military power, or having its o Igin in military orders, cannot be a " rep blican form of government" accord ing to the requirement of the Constitution ; and t at its recognition will be contrary, not only to the Constitution, but also to that essential principle of our government, which, in the language of Jefferson, es tablishes " the supremacy of the civil over the military authority." Such a sudden and complete change of opinion, us is exhibited by Mr. Sum ner, would Lie astonishing were not the country so used to gross inconsistencies on the part of the Radical leaders. They seem to Lake peculiar delight in turning political somersaults. Because they have zealously advocated a mea sure to-day is no reason why they should not as enthusiastically ad ii-ocate the re verse to-morrow. Being destitute of true statesmanship, and utterly regard less of anything except partisan suc cess, they are ready to adopt any ex pedient, no matter how dangerous and revolutionary, if it promises to Insure them a continuance in power. How much longer will the musses continue to follow the lead of these political quacks, who are constantly violating the Constitution, outraging liberty and endangering all the material, political and social, interests of the nation? We Are glad to see signs of returning reason even In New England. • THE only English victory, over which true Americans were ever known to re p was the receutone in Connecticut. The Downtrodden. :The Nestorian Priest on Sunday ad- ii.tessed issge and. sympathizing andi ences in the churches of our pity, upon the oppresslOikviAtiOtrktiditcov ernment is exereadng overtl>e Ch*-- thins in the East' ; and the,jo,rhariii. Which it preeticeSln its witewith'l,lie Cretans. Tir Piled is endeavoring to enlist the sympathies of the American people in behalf of his downtrodden fellow-countrymen, and also seeks from us material aid for them in their im poverished condition. The - Cretans are certainly fighting against fearful odds, contending as they are, unaided, against the whole power of the Turkish Gov ernment. They deserve our most ar dent sympathy, not only because they are Christians, but because our hearts should be open to the cry of the oppres sed of every nation and clime. But it struck us rather forcibly while listening to the eloquent narrative of this Servian priest, that as apolitical body, we of the North, were hardly in a position to allow ourselves, without gross inconsistency, to be very open and loud-mouthed in our expressions of sympathy with his countrymen, or to indulge in vitupera tion of the Turkish Government, be cause of their acts of barbarity and op pression ; and we could not but feel mortified to think how undeserved was the high eulogium which this priest lavishly pronounced upon the American people, as the friends of political, re ligious and social liberty everywhere, and as the alleviators of human suffer ing in every land. Ah! It is true, in every land but our own, in every coun try but the South ! Our fellow-citizens there are starving, and we Wend a reluctant and niggardly hand to their relief. The war is over, the South is conquered, Its people are submissive, and every high and holy attribute of our nature calls upon us to ex tend to them the brotherly hand of friendship, to forget ancient an imosities, and with a generosity which would be so graceful in us, •a conquering people, to assist them not merely to live, but to return to their former condition of prosperity and to resume their ancient political equality with us. Our own self-interest would seeial to dictate this, for if our country is one, the prosperity of each portion of it must redound to the benefit and glory of the whole. But what have we done? We have not only left the Southern people to starve, but we have deprived them of that right of self-government, which we have always declared to be inalienable; we have reduced them to a condition of vassalage, and placed them under the absolute control of mili tary satraps ; we have placed their lives and liberties at the uncontrolled dis posal of a shoulder-strapped dictator, to whose mercy and discretion, they owe whatever of either, they may enjoy. What worse than this have the Tully done in Moldavia, Wallachia and Crete? We cannot speak harshly of the Turks for endeavoring to subdue the Cretan rebellion, for we have fought a broody war to subdue our own. We cannot de ny the right of the Turk to force the Mahommedan religion upon his sub jects, for are we not endeavoring to thrust the doctrine of negro equality down the throats of the citizens—no ; not citizens, but inhabitants of the South ? Oh ! consistency, thou art a jewel ! Friendly priest! Thy moving tale bath touched my heart! The har rowing picture thou hest drawn bath moved my soul to its inmost depths! I would weep with thee, but I cannot! There is another people nearer to me than thine ! A suffering, starving, op pressed people in this, my native land. Desolation reigns, ruin prevails, hunger stalks abroad in our own, our sunny South! The land which once flowed with milk and honey is now a desert! The countrymen of Washington, of Jefferson, of Jackson, have been, it is said, traitors—they now are slaves! The Cretans are traitors; and if they are in danger of becoming slaves, although we may be moved at their sufferings, can we tell of it, can we acknowledge it, without bringing the blush of shame to our cheeks, that we permit, unmoved. a like condition of things to exist in our ewn country? Is the Tut the only tyrant in the world? Can we Curse him without cursing our own Government? Alas ! no ! and, Priest, ask not this of us; for our country, right or wrong, is still OUR COUNTRY ! The Connecticut Election We doubt whether au election has ever occurred, the result of which has been more gratifying to one political party, or more disheartening to the other, than has been that of the one which has just taken place in Connec ticut. The event brings to us glad tkings of great joy, while to theßepub limn party it affords a gloomy presage of 6oming disaster. Nothing of great ira l portance in itself has been accom plihhed by the triumph of the Democra cy in that State; for the Governorship of Connecticut is a position of little con secence, and gives us no political po er ; nor is the gain of three members of Congress of any value to us, inns much as the Democracy in the present Congress is in au overwhelming mi noi•ity ; and; o wing to the unfair di vlion of the legislative districts, we ha L ve not even obtained a majority of the Connecticut Legislature, nor would it have been of any value to the country at large had we done so. Why then are the Democrats so jubi latt and the Republicans so despond ent? It is because of the very fact that the election involved no local issues of i: pe ullar importance to th4eople of C nnecticut, but was contested upon gr at National issues, that it has so gr at significance. The result conclu sl 1 ely shows that a great many of the pe pie of Connects hut, who have here to ore voted with the Republican party, ar now acting with the Democracy. It in icates that the policy of the present Congress is not endorsed by many of those who helped to elevate It to power. It shows that the war being over, the unijority of the people of the country de6 that its natural fruit should be the restoration of the Union, and the maintenance of the Constitution. For people are the same everywhere, and, therefore, it may be naturally presumed that the same sentiment which prevails in Connecticut will prevail in other States, and that the same change in party allegiance which has occurred there will occur elsewhere. We Democrats have waited tong for this day ; we have been au oppressed and down trodden body of men for many a long and weary year; confident however, of the truth of our principles, we have have stood up nobly under our burthen, and now we see our reward. We almost despaired, when the elec tions of last fall resulted so disastrously to us; but they only demonstrated the truth of the old adage, that it is always darkest Just before the dawn. This year, away up in the East, in New Hampshire the dawn first became ap parent to us, and now in Connecticut the sun has burst forth "on the wings of the morning," and will be vouch safed to us, in October, In all its noon tide warmth and splendor. The time of our deliverance draweth nigh. We have our enemy by the throat and it will be our fault if he escapes from our grasp alive. IV way of a foretaste of the Joys In store for them, we give our pity Republicans notice that we intend to thrash them so bady in the coming Municipal election, notwithstanding their gerrymandering of the wards, at in their mortification they will feeftlike calling OA thamoun tat na,and the plis tftcoolli4ll4MlN, o 4' Z b 0 ha Sa t ertil usid :Sunk in melancholyproyped in 4e *dr, and dres,log theriglffeusNOeth of an butrageitreople;;thiefildicaklelifi-^ ere exclaim, in bittern . er, of soul, "if thou, the negro voter, Wet been there we had not lost Connecticut." Sorrow ful indeed is their wailing, and deep and bitter their curses, as they think how Satnbo might have saved them. Alarm ed at the turn which affairs have taken; feeling and knowing that they cannot continue to control a majority of the white vote's of even the New England States, they turn with repewed devo tion to the negro. In, him their last hope is centred. Unless they can suc ceed in forcing negro suffrage on all the States, they feel and know that there must be a speedy end of their misrule. Only on the shoulders of Cuffee can they manage to ride into place and power at the coming Presidential elec tion. They confess their weakness, and appeal with frantic cries to the North ern States, urging them to give the negro the right to vote without delay. Forney indicts an "Occasional" letter to his Press. Hence what he says while smarting under the sting of the Con necticut disaster: This warning could not have come at a better time for the Republicans of Pennsyl vania, New Jersey, New York, and Ohio. Let them remember that if the Republicans of Connecticut, a little more .. than a„year ago, had not voted against 'allowing the colored men of the State the right'cif shffrage, they would not to-day be millet! upon to acknowledge a defeat. The same vote cast for the gallant General Hawley yesterday, thrown at that tune in favorof equal justice, would have saved the State from Copper head rule. We must take care to avoid this fate by avoiding the mistake of Connecticut. Our only safety, and the safety of our great interests—linandkil, commercial, moral and political—depends upon grappling with error wherever we find it, and manfully asserting our supreme attachment to demo cratic freedom. (Meaning by democratic freedom universal and unrestricted negro suffrage.) " Here is our shield and our buckler." The defeat in Connecticut is to mark a new era. From this day forth the Republican party Is called upon to de vote itself to the task of securing the right to vote to the negroes of every State. Hear what Horace Greeley says on the subject: A minority of the people of Connecticut have carried this election by a prodigious outlay of money and effort, because a part of the majority are most unjustly disfran chised. In October, 1865, the voters were called upon to decide upon the question of impartial suffrage. An amendment per mitting the negro to vote was submitted. The issue was plainly made. There were in the State about 2,000 colored men, Amer icans by birth and education—freemen who had borne their part in the war, and of whom nine-ten ths were Republicans. There was no excuse for the denial of suffrage— not even the shadow of a reason—but it was refused in a poll of over 70,000 votes by a majority of 6,272. Our friends polled about 27,000 votes, although in the Spring they gave Gen. Hawley nearly 44,000. In other words there were 16,000 Republicans who were willing to make Gen. Hawley Gover nor who did not think enough of the honor of Connecticut to give the ballot to the negro. The amendment was lost; and the apathy, we might as well say the cowardice, of a fragment a our friends in 1865, dis franchised vote's enough to have elected Qen. Hawley on Monday. And now we urge our friends in ( lonnec tient to begin this day tke work of regen• oration. Connecticut Is Republican when ever Republicans choose to make it so. "The fault is our "own," says The New Haven Palladio/a. "The whole Stale has been timorous, time-serving, conserva tive." Let there be an end of this. The defeat of Gov. Hawley is the punishment of the Republican Union party for the infidel ity of a fraction of its members to the be nign principle of impartial suffrage. But for this, we could have enjoyed the defection of Dixon, Babcock, Cleveland, and their fellow-renegades, and carried everything but one member of Congress. The lesson must not be lost. Henceforth, the Republi can party from the St. John to the Pacijicisu unit for Universal Liberty and impartial Suffrage, regardless of caste, race, or color. Those who are hostile to this principle will go to their own place as Judas did. What little we may lose temporarily in one sec tion will eventually gain a tenfold recom pense in another. " With malice toward none, with charity toward all," the Nation al Union party, proudly proclaiming itself Republican in faith, and works, and name, devotes itself amens to the achievement of All Rights for All. There are many sensible and moder ate Republicans in Pennsylvania, who have sworn they would abandon the party whenever they were convinced that it was fully committed to the odi ous doctrine of negro suffrage. Its leaders now openly confess that the party has no possible hope of future success, unless universal negro suffrage is made the rule of this State, and of the entire North ; and they pledge themselves not to rest until the work is accomplished. The lines are clearly drawn. Ou one side the white men will take their 'land, on the other the negroes and their allies. Let every voter make his own choice of position. $6,000 a Year Nothing illustrates more clearly the demoralization of the public mind, and the absolute want of honor and honesty which prevails among the servants of the people, than the openness and free dom with which our Legislators put their hands into the public purse, the strings of which they hold, for the pur pose of increasing what is facetiously called their " compensation." " Com pensation " for what, we wonder. Cer tainly not for their legislation, for that would be very dear to the State as a gift The House of Representatives, after pro posing to pay each of its memberssl,soo for their three months service, or at the rate 0f56,000 a year, finally compromised by agreeing to take $1,350, and so passed the bill and sent it to the Senate; but we shall not be surprised if, after both Houses get through with the question, the members don't thud themselves voted $1,500 or $2,000 apiece. Honesty is getting to be a thing en tirely unknown iu our public bodies at least according to the definition of the word given in our law books and by our lexicographers. This seems to us clear; either "Honesty " must be differently defined to suit the changed circum stances of modern times, or the majority of our Legislature should be drafted•en masse at the close of the session, into the Dauphin County gaol. Fasting and 'Prayer. The New York Tribune is evidently in au exceedingly collapsed frame of mind over the Connecticut election ; it mourns and refuses to be comforted. Read this melancholy howl : Governor Hawley, a day or two before the election, issued a proclamation to which un welcome, though not unexpected events, have given especial significance. It ap pointed Friday, April 19 a day of public Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, and we sincerely hope the people of Connecticut will observe it. Humiliation they cannot help—what they did on Monday ought to keep them humble tor months. Fasting might clear their minds, and more than one day should be devoted to Prayer, for there is no State which has more to pray for. Therefore, we advise all welt-disposed per sons in Connecticut to heed the advice of their Governor, and " suspending their usual labors," to engage in the unusual labor at' serious meditation and prayer that they may lead better lives, We sympathize with the Tribune. It feels that the Republican party has but one curd left in its hand, and that Is a lusty call upon the Lord for help in this its hour of sore trial and humiliation. Saltpetre will no longer save it, although In gunpowder it has preserved and up held it through the past weary years of bloodshed and war. Some of the more lively and mar curial of the Republican Journals re gard the result of the Ow:Roues merely an unpleasant medicine administered for their health's sake, seeing hid be hind this frowning provfdenite asmlling - face. They are welcome to all the com fort they can draw from this ghastly hope. We believe the result to Jodi catelhat the people have learned that the Republican party must die if LIB ERTY is to live. Not a Little Thla thThe adicals are making light of their.• e lining defeak„ in Connecticut: . ey ' y the litat4mot mph bigger than f v g4ariolzeelietato pit c h Obat Ake Deinociatabougl4np the warking lien, ;and 'ma *many other equally; ;lime eicuseE.L . O . conceal the Teal cause "Of their defeat'. ThaY'tryte:hme from themselves the fact that the true reason for the change is to be sought and found in the good sense and the sober convic tion of honest and conscientious voters. The people have been forbearing and long-suffering toward • the men' now in power. They have given them a fair trial, but hive found them utterly unfit to manago the affairs of this nation. The masses love the Union, and do not desire to see the Con stitution destroyed and the form of free government bequeathed to them by their fathers overturned. They see the tendency of the wild and impracticable schemes of the Radical leaders. Men of political sagacity are alarmed at the recklessness displayed by Congress ; the capitalists of the country see that finan cial ruin will be the legitimate fruit of their legislation ; the holders of Govern ment securities have sense enough to know that their Investments can only be safe under a stable and equitable ad ministration of the Government ; busi ness men are assured that they cannot prosper so long as the States which produce the great staples of the country are kept in an impoverished and de pendent condition ; and the masses, di rectly affected by all these considera tions, and borne down by a burthen of taxation which is being constantly in creased by a reckless expenditure of the public money for partisan purposes, are having their eyes opened. The triumph of the Democratic party in Connecticut is the legitimate result of returning reason. It Is not a little thing. It is "no cloud the size of a man's hand." But, if it were, it would be like that spoken of in the scripture, which spread until it overshadowed the whole land. It is the beginning of a glorious end, now not far distant. We have no doubt that Radicalism will be speedily overthrown. To doubtit would .be to lose faith in man's capacity for self-government, and utterly to despair of the republic. The people have re solved to rescue our free institutions from the hands of those who would de stroy them, and the Connecticut elec tion shows that they are in earnest. Never were more desperate efforts made by any party than were put forth by the Radicals to carry Connec ticut. They imported the most distin guished speakers of their party from distant States, flooded every election district with documents, expended im mense sums of money, hurried home every clerk from Washington and every man who was absent, and polled their last vote, only to be overwhelmingly beaten. They felt that they could not afford to lose a New England State, be cause they knew that it would tell with tremendous influence against them. They were well aware that all men would regard it as a sure indication of their coming downfall, and the stamp ing of their destructive policy with the seal of popular condemnation. Being everywhere received and recognized as such, the triumph of conservatism in Connecticut is no little thing. Mayyland. The application of the Radicals for au injunction to restrain the Baltimore Board of Police Commissions, from hold ing an election for a Constitutional Convention, authorized by act of the late Legislature, has been dismissed by the Court, for want of jurisdiction, as a court of equity, to decide questions in volving the Sovereignty of the political power of the State. The Victory in Connecticut H A RTFORD, April 2.—The returns are nearly all in, and the result willibe as fol lows: The Democratic State ticket is elected by 700 majority. The net Democratic majority on the Congressional vote Is 1,800, and the average Democratic vote on the whole ticket,'l,2oo. Hotchkiss (Dem.) is elected to Congress in the Second District by 2,500 majority. Hubbard (Dem.) is elected in the First District by 500 majority. Wm. H. Barnum (Dem.) is elected in the Fourth District by 500 majority. The Radicals elect Starkweather in the Third District by 1,700 majority. The Senate is still in doubt. The House will be Radical by a small majority. The Democrats elected the following State officers: Governor—James E. English. Lieutenant• Governor—Ephraim H. Hyde. Secretary of State—Leverette E. Pease. 'treasurer—Edward S. Moseley. Cbmptroller—Jenne Olney. The following are the Congressmen 1. Richard D. Hubbard, Pew 2. Julius Hotchkiss Dew. 3. H. H. Starkweatber, Rad. 4. William H. Barnum, Dem. HARTFORD, April 2.—The following Is the address of the Democratic State Committee to the people of the Union: The Democratic State Committee of Con necticut greet you with the result, of the election in this State. The Democratic and Conservative electors have achieved a signal triumph on these issues: In favor of representation in Congress by every State. Immediate union on the basis of the Con stitution. No usurpation of undelegated power by Congress. No military despotism in this Republic. No Congressional force bills to establish negro suffrage. On these issues they have swept the State by seven hundred majority on Governor and a net majority of eighteen hundred on Congressmen. We gain three of the'four Members of Congress. on national Issues was the battle fought and won. (Signed) JAMES GALLAGHER, Chairman of the State Committee HARTFORD, April 3.—A1l of the towns of the State are in but two, and English's ma jority will be over seven hundred. The net Democratic majority on Congressmen will be about eighteen hundred. We gain twenty-four Democratic and Conservative Representatives and four or five Senators. Each house will be pretty closely balanced. The people are full of heartfelt rejoicing over the result, and passed last night in rejoicings', with music, banners, proces sions, and the firing of cannon. [SECOND DISPATCH.] Full returns from every town in the State have been received. The vote is as follows : English, Democrat 45,787 Hawley, Radical 44,808 Democratic majority 117 0 STILL THEY COME A Democratic Gain of 1197 In Sprague'. PROVIDENCE, R. I. April 3.—The State; election to-day resulted in the complete sue cess of the Radical ticket for State officers, members of Congress, and the State Legis lature. The vote was very light. Mr. Dixon is re-elected to Congress in the Second District by about 1,200 majority; a Democratic gain of 200. - In the First District, Jenckes is re-elected without opposition. The State officers elected are as follows Governor—A. E. Burnside. Lieutenant-Governor—William Greene. Attorney-General—Williarel Payles. Secretary of State—Jno. R. Bartlett. General Treasurer—George W. Taw. The Senate will stand 27 Radicals and 6 Democrats, and the House 62 Radicals and 10 Democrats. Last year they stood: Senate, 28 Radicals to 5 Democrats ; House, 65 Radicals to 7 Democrats. [SECOND DESPATCH.] The Journal fias returns from all the towns of this State but one, which give Burnside's majority at 4,184. The vote stands: Burnside, (Radical,) 7,372; loss, 825. Pierce, (Democrat) 3,178; gain, &M— -ilk Democratic gain of 1,197. Jenckes, (Radical,) for Congress in this district, has 4 811 votes to 101 scattering. Last year, 5,683 to 53. The Radical Assembly ticket is elected in this city by 000 majority. Great Gains In Ohio COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 3.—At the elec tions on Monday the Democrats carried Chillicothe by 500 majority ; a gain of 182. In Newark they gain 651. Zanesville 75 majority; a gain. Cleveland 300 majority; a gain of 758. Fremont and Bucyrus went Democratic. The Stoop of illkitria m e' izt to the Suprem '.. - IssivevrosT, April 4.—The bill to be ' by .Judge Sharkey, and Robert J. 10•74_, er, in the Supreme Court of the Uni. : • to-morrow, isJbe . plaint of the;:;." in stud:** other States as may Wirderested in. t premises, who shall by•tooneenrof Ihtroburt, properly make themselves part* ;hereto, against Andrew Jotuison, a citizen •of tlioßtate of Tennessee and, 'President:of the United 'States, and also against General E. 0. S. Ord. The petition sets forth at length the his tory of the formatiod of the State a Mis sissippi, claiming, besides the protection of the constitutional rights of a State, that there 'ate ' .compacts,; compacta," fundamental • " revocable,"and - "unalterable,", 'securing forever to theStataol Mississippi her rights as a state of this Union. Such oompacts, and the rights acquired under them, the petitioners believe' this court will regard it as its daty to maintain and protect, m the same manner at least, as it would enforce between individuals, by injunction or otherwise, the specific per formance of contracts. The averment is made that the Congress of thb United States cannot constitutionally expel Mississippi from the Union, and that any attempt which practically does so is a nullity, and that there is no provision in the Constitution of the United States which subjects her, asa State, to any pains, penal- ties or forfeitures, as a consequenceof such void attempt of a portion of her people to withdraw her from the Union, all powers to punish a State by expulsion or otherwise, for any cause, having been expressly re fused in the convention which framed the Federal Constitution. She avers that her citizens lost none of their political rights, nor incurred any pen alties, except what might be inflicted on them as individuals by the ]process of law, after trial by jury in courts having jurisdic tion of their offences, and that disabilities attempted to be imposed upon her or upon her citizens, otherwise than as aforesaid, by any , body of persons, are void and violations of the Constitution of the United States, as well as of the compact with Georgia of 1802, and with Virginia of 1787. She avers that she has exhibited her good faith and adhe sion to the Constitution by electing Senators and Representatives to Congress, and com plains that they have been wrongfully ex cluded, and that her people have been com pelled to pay the taxes and bear the burdens of Government without representation. The act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States, and the act supplementary thereto, utterly annihilate the State end its government by assuming for Congress the power to control, modify, and even abolish its government; in short, to exert sovereign power over it, and the utter destruction of the State must be the consequence of their execution. The scope of power vested iu the military comman ders, so broad, so comprehensive, was never before vested in a military commander in any government which guards the rights of its citizens or subjects by law. The bill of the complainant concludes as follows: Now, the complainant expressly charges that, from information and belief, the said Andrew Johnson, President, in violation of the Constitution, and in viola tion of the sacred rights of the States, will proceed, notwithstanding the vetoes and as a mere ministerial duty, to the execution of said acts as though they were the law of the laud, which the vetoes prove he would not do if he had any discretion; or that in doing so, he performed anything more than a mere ministerial duty, With the view to the execution of said acts the said Andrew Johnson has assigned military commanders to the several districts to carry them into complete and full execution, and for this purpose has assigned Gen. E. 0. C. Ord, a citizen of the State of Maryland, to the com mand of the States of Mississippi and Ar kansas, whom complainant prays may be made a defendant to this bill, and served with all proper process, etc. ; and complain ant further avers that the said lieu. E. 0. C. Ord will speedily enter on the discharge of said duties, unless restrained by this honor able court. And complainants would further show that many legal questions must arise under these bills if the government contemplated by them be carried out, which sooner or later must comb before thin court for adj udi cation, and it is believed these bills will ultimately be decided unconstitutional in their whole length and breadth, and, as a consequence, all acts that may have been done under them must be declared void, even to the constitution which may be formed under them. The mischiefs that must result from such a state of things are incalculable, suits without number, not only in regard to rights of property, but for punishment inflicted without authority, a total disorganization of the present govern ment. Inasmuch as no elections can be held to fill the State offices, a state of anar chy-must intervene until the Government can be again reorganized by the people, and therefore public policy, the good order of society, and the safety of a people call loud ly for speedy redress; and the complaint also charges that this bill is filed as a bill of peace, and to prevent endless suits and con troversies, inasmuch as the execution of the acts must produce such an endless variety of litigation as to disturb the good order of society, by driving aggrieved pa:- ties to seek .redress against officers and others, who maycommit trespasses against the innocent. To prevent such evils is one of the com mon grounds of equity jurisdiction, and the complainant avers that this appeal is made to the honorable court in good faith, and not from factious motives or from a spirit of insubordination to law, but under a fixed belief that these acts are in violation of the Constitution and of the compacts aforesaid, and impose no obligation on her people to observe them, unless decided to be valid by this honorable court, and therefore claims, as she has a right to do, the deliber ate determination of this court, as the tribunal organized under the Constitution to preserve it inviolate, and to keep all the departments of the Government within their appropriate spheres, by trying their acts by the test of the Constitution ; and she claims the exercise of this undoubted right in advance, for the purpose of pre venting irreparable mischiefs, so gigantic and intolerable as those which are threat ened. If she should be mistaken in this, and the nets should be decided to be constitutional, she will most cheerfully yield implicit obe dience to all their behests, whatever the (.011SeqUELICO may be. All she desires is to guard her rights and the rights of her citi zens, and this boon she hopes may be ac corded her before it is too late, and without being subjected to the imputation of im• proper motives. If either the State or the people have constitutional rights, it is a pa ramount duty to preserve them by all legi timate means. This court the State believes to be the great tribunal for the peaceful settlement of all constitutional questions, and especi ally in all cases in which a State is a party, as expressly provided in the fundamental law. In consideration of the premises, and inasmuch as complainant manifest ly has no remedy whatever at law, as must be apparent to the court, and can have redress as a State only through this court as provided by the Constitution, complainant appeals to the preventive power of this honorable court, exercising the jurisdiction of a court of equity, and humbly prays that the said Andrew John son and his officers and agents, appointed for that purpose, and especially General E. 0. C. Ord, above mentioned, be perpetually enjoined and restrained from executing or in any manner carrying out said act, and that process of injunction and subpoena issue, directed to the parties aforesaid, and that all other requisite process deemed necessary, may be issued, and for such other and further relief as may he deemed proper by tlik court ; and that the defend ants be required to answer this bill of com plaint; and as in duty bound, complainant will ever pray, etc., etc. W. L. SHARKEY, R. J. WALKER, Counsel for Complainant. Terrible Exploelon Inn Coal Plt—Three Wednesday morning, at 7 o'clock, a ter rlille explosion occurred at the coal pit of the Rush Run Coal and Iron Company, at Rush Run, on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad, eleven miles below Steubenville. The Steubenville Herald says the curbing sixty feet from the mouth of the pit was out of order. Thos. Payne, Luke Harris and Thos. Paton descended with tools to repair the curbing, and in five minutes after they had announced their safe landing on the platform, a most terrible explosion occur red, blowing the beams of curbing, stones and dirt out of the pit with such force as to lift the roof off the building. Paton was blown out of the pit against the root', and fell with a mass of timber directly across the bunton over the mouth of the pit, en tirely dead and very much burned and disfigured. Several of the workmen stand ing near the pit were slightly injured and stunned by the falling timbers. The smoke and gas for a time made it impossible to approach the pit. A stream of water, how ever, was 'quickly turned in, which purified the air in an hour sufficient to allow work men to descend. On examination it was found the platform and curbing had wrecked the shaft so as to prevent a passage to the bottom, some two hundred feet below the platform, where the other men had fallen. Up to noon, Wednesday, the bodies ofPayne and Harris had not been recovered. It is supposed the explosion was the result of carelessness on the part of the workmen in removing a part of or making a'vent in the platform, through which the gas became ignited by the lamps. A Few Foxes The Martinsburg New Era says: "Last week oue day, Mr. Thornton Henshaw re siding a short distance from town, killed fifteen foxes, and it wasn't a good day for foxes either. He discovered a den and dug them out." Tide reminds us of our trip to Western Va., with Jones' Brigade, in the spring of '63: Whilst traveling through Wirt county, we saw several uundred snakes dead in the road, whilst in a grass lot near by were three young men busy killing the reptiles. In answer to an inquiry as to how many had been killed, a youth replied : "Seven hundred, and we call this the poorest lot we have for anakes."—Winchoter News, A-Ino1=1: i olut Soroott—laterestimis piles of tile erloonor. iCorrespondence of the Baltimore l3and WAtinnterrOn; April 3. ". interest attaching to, the prisoner tt, eeiggathledth - the Washr tf, '.n j - !lath complicity-in the, met enttLinooln, *lanced Ytkir correspondent to seek and obtain an interview and conversation with him. It illitimaCewuy to dviallbennitpori thnMee= . used to obtain = thittfinterttieW, deeidte the stringent regulatiOns whibh forbid any in tercourse with Barrett by others than the officials of the jail, and his sister, when admitted under surveillance. Suffice It to say that in' the case of my admission the officers of the jail in no wise exceeded their authority or instructions in the premises. Contraarry to the current reports of the "died cotafinemetit - and . carehil obscurity in which this important prisoner is held, I found him occupying, temporarily, the watchman's lodge in the jail-yard, accom panied by a veteran k eeper who looks as if he might have seen a half a century's ser vice in his present vocation. The morning was beautifully clear and mild, one of those charming spring morn ings that make the open air so enticing to such as are compelled to close confinement within doors. The little building in which the keeper and his charge were enjoying the refreshing and invigorating air of an almostliday morning was a small octagonal structure of wood, with large, open windows on seven sides, and a glass door on the eighth. The nirniture consisted of a stove, a small deal table; two chairs, a bench, a water bucket and a variety of old rubbish. The yard in which this rather loose prison is situated is enclosed by a brick wall eighteen or twenty feet in height, having two gate ways leading into other yards, surrounded by walls about ten or twelve feet high. I did not examine these gateways to ascertain if they could easily be opened, but they ap peared to be fastened simply by a baron the inside. If this was their only fastening, and they could be opened as easily as appear ances indicated, the security for prisoners was not very great, as the outer yards were filled with rubbish that could quickly and readily be brought into requisition to aid one desirous of scaling the walls. ' The prisoner was innocent of any en tanglement for his security whatever. He sat in a chair by one of the upper windows, reading a small volume, the character of which I did not inquire. On my entrance he rose and advanced towards me with ex tended hand. Not expecting to meet so distinguished a character in such a place, I was somewhat taken by surprise when the name was pronounced, and after shak ing hands, ventured to inquire once again the name. "Surratt" replied my new ac quaintance with a smile. " I think I have heard of you before," I remarked; to which he quietly responded, " Very likely." He was dressed in a suit of dark mixed goods, cut in the prevailing fashion of a walking ' suit, evidendy new. Upon his head he wore a black soft felt hat, also new. In stature I should judge him to be five feet nine or ten inches high, rather slender In form—al most delicate, perhaps—and apparently twenty-eight years of age. His hair is a very light auburn, nicely out and trimmed, parted behind and combed forward. He wears a mustache and goatee, rather more positive in color than the hair on his head. The rest of his face was carefully shaved. Altogether his appearannce was that of a well-dressed and very presentable young man—and certainly the last one that would be selected from a crowd as a desperate character or a villain. He has a very plea sant voice, in conversation uses good lan guage, understands himself perfectly, and usually wears a smile upon his face. My conversation with this somewhat re markable man was not so full and tree as I could have wished. He evidently was in no mood to talk on the topics that wore most prominent In my own mind, and the witnesses to the interview precluded me from making an efforts to get his confi dence. After a f ew commonplace remarks on the state of the weather and such gener alities as usually 4.1. in up a conversation,l ventured to ask hi. a leading question n regard to his escai 0 to and concealment in Canada, to which, with a smile only, he re plied, "I have nothing to say about that ; " but," he added, " there was no secrecy about my leaving Canada. I went on board a steamer in midday, wholly without dis guise, and with hundreds of people on and about the wharf. The steamer had fully two hundred passengers, with whom I as sociated freely during the voyage. Nobody recognized me, though there were those among the passengers that I recognized." He would not say what steamer this was,nor from what port it sailed, more than it was one of a regular line leaving a large city. lie spoke of meeting St. Marie in France. He claims that he recognized St. Marie first, and that they traveled to Italy together. He manifests no vindictiveness towards this witness for having discovered him to the authorities, but considers him a" treach erous" fellow and thinks he was mistaken in his character. Surratt says that he had information of St. Marie's treachery before it was fully accomplished, and was kept advised, from time to time, of the steps taken to secure his arrest. Had the actual arrest been delayed one day longer, as Surratt had reason to expect it would be, he would have been beyond the reach of his pursuers, his arrangements for deser tion and flight being nearly perfected at the time of his arrest. He is caretul to abstain from saying what those arrangements were, who were his accomplices and informers, or where he was to find a place of refuge. He has read with great apparent interest the publishe4 accounts of his capture and escapes, and , the official correspondence bearing on those points, and takes great pleasure in criticising them. The wonderful leap of the precipice in Italy, of which so much has been said and written, is a scource of great amusement to him. The height from which hejumped he describes as about equal to an ordinary second story window, or say twelve feet. But he tells a story of descending more dangerous declivities than this in his flight. In one instance his only available mode of descent was to lie upon his back and to slide down a steep and rocky declivity, full a hundred feet in height. Of scarcity of food, ignorance of the country and consequent danger of recapture in ex posing himself by asking information by the way, of the constant alarm and similar sub jects, he is free and seemingly anxious to talk, and always in something of a boastful vein, but his lips are sealed in respect toad matters bearing in the remotest degree upon the great crime with which his name is associated, and of which he stands charged. Surratt's prison hours are passed very comfortably. An entire corridor, full thirty feet in length and eight in breadth, with three large cells, are placed entirely at his disposal. In this corridor he is excluded from the gaze of the common prisoners and the curious visitors by a common door or inner grating, whenever it is not agreeable to him to seek the open air of the prison court yard. At night only does he have occasion to feel the rigors of confinement, when he is locked in the central of the three cells, a commodious appartment at least 1-en feet square. True, the furniture is scant, consisting merely o f a stool and a mattress laid upon the stone floor, though amply provided with coverings. To while away the sometimes tedious hours of the day he is provided with a plentiful assortment of books, embracing the field of literature, from Divine truth to the silliest human trash. Comforts, and even luxuries for the toilet, are also abun dant. His cuisine seems to be carefully looked after by outside friends, and no re striction is placed upon the amount or variety that is sent him. In the frequent and protracted visits of his sister, who calls at least each alternate day and spends the time with him, cheer ing him by her presence and ministering to his comforts, lie finds a constant source of pleasure. True, on these occasions the keeper shares the apartment with the brother and sister, but the surveillance he exercises is merely a matter of form. Fearful Accident—Three Children Burn. ed to Death. - • • On Friday last one of the most frightful accidents that we have ever been called upon to record, occurred near the Washing ton Iron Works, in the lower end of this county. From the many reports that are afloat, we gather the following: Some time during the day the barn of a Mr. Krape, residing in the neighborhood of the works, was noticed to be on fire, and before any one reached the scene of the disaster, the flames had made such headway that it was impossible to save anything. The day being exceedingly windy the fire was communi cated to the house, and it was with consider able effort that it was saved. During the excitement of the fire, but little was thought of the children all of whom, were large enough to run around and play, and it was nut for some time that the anxiety of the parents induced them to make search for the little ones, when, judge of their horror, the charred remains of all three, were found amid the smoking, timbers of the barn. They had doubtless gone In there to play and having matches about them unwittingly set fire to the building, from which they were unable toescape, and into which no one seemed to know that they had gone.— Bellefonte Watchman. A Subterranean City Discovered in Cen• teal Xiia. Foreign journals report that a subter ranean city has been discovered in the vicinity of Fort No. I, on the 81r-Darya river, in Turkistan. Kirghlsian settlers having undertaken to furnish bricks to Major Yuni, the Russian commandant of the fort, brought him such curious speci mens of the required article that he was led to inquire whence they had procured them. On their taking him to the place, the existence of a subterranean city of vast extent was soon apparent to the astonished Russians. The place seems to have been originally built on the Lake Avel, but by the receding of the water is now at some distance trom its shores, and in the course of time has been covered up by sand and alluvial deposits. Whether it belongs to the ancient Parthian, or; comparatively speaking, modern Dshungarian period of Turanian history, has not yet been ascot.. tabled. A guard has been stationed on the spot to protect the mysterious city from de predations, until the arrival of further orders from the Governor of Orenburg. Suicidal! Kuala, (From the Detroit Pout*, On Wednesday night Ordleft the city and went to •Ypillilantkult, e night ex press train, but returneanDsisrls?rn on the Thursday morning train4iShOlint to the IkairliertalOnse and callad Ib fsrOom at 11 o'clock otsthat,day, and leenied.tobein the beet of sphita, • She atetibeenty dinner and afterwards, sat down in the 411011311. room . 11 d wrete a ninnberof letters, 7 lkfto doing this, meanwhile betraying 'hi noway any agita tion, she called the landroed's daughter and induced her to mail the letters she had writ ten. She talked pleasantly wtth the ladles of the house, and gave them no reason to suspect that she was a questionable charac ter. After dining she went to her room, fastened herself in, and then, at 8 o'clock .P. M., shot herself in the left breast, alter taking a-farewell glance at the scenery through a small window. Her story is that, having fully determined to finish her earthly career, she shot herself after feeling for the location of her heart, hoping to as certain its exact whereabouts and inflict in stant death. After satisfying herself as to the proper place at which to aim the pistol. but having miscalculated the spot, the shot railed to take mortal effect and only inflict ed a dangerous and ghastly wound Just about an inch from the apex of the breast, For two hours she lay upon the floor in her room, conscious but unable to move or cry out for help. None ofthose below stairs heard the report of the pistol, and nothing , was known of her attempt to destroy her self until 8 o'clock in the evening. A little girl, daughter of the landlord of the hotel, was sent up at tea time to call the unfortu nate woman to supper. She rapped on the door and called several times, but the only reply she could get was, " I am sick; bring me water." The water was brought imme diately, and Miss Ward drank it in the presence of the girl without telling her that she had shot herself. She had lain on the floor in her room for two hours unable to help herself or stir from the spot. At length she had dragged herself to the bed and suc ceeded in getting under the blankets, leav ing a bloody trail on the floor from the window to the bed side. At eleven o'clock at night she called for help and asked for morphine. The landlady , refused to give her any or send for it, but finally considered it prudent to send for a physician, though Nellie Ward had not exposed the fact that she had shot herself. Dr. Hume was called, and to him the woman showed her wounded breast, beg ging him not to tell any one until she died, as she expected to do, and praying for a dose of quick poison to end her sufferings. Mrs. Johnson, the wife of the proprietor of the hotel, at length began to suspect that something was wrong, and by questioning found out from the doctor the real state of the case. The miserable girl had for eight hours suffered the most intense agony, and kept concealed from several persons who visited her during the evening the cause of It. Sensible to a wonderful degree, tortured awfully, she bore up and WWI lucid and even cheerful in her conversation, hopMg only for aspeedy termination of her misery. She sent for a priest and refused his ser vices with a fastidiousness:us to the:manners of her confessor. He talked with her and was coldly repulsed. She had nothing to tell him, and his services were useless. She declared that, no matter bow wisely or well he talked, she would take her own life at the first opportunity. At - Ypsilanti she had purchased a dose of strychnine, but fearing that it might tail to produce death, she burned it, fearing to throw it away lest it might fall into the hands of some other person suicidally dis posed. She intended the little Sharp's pistol, four barrelled, which she had pur chased in Detriot on Wednesday to take its place. The consequence of this declaration was that she was not shrived to any remark able extent. The priest, with a sorrowful race, left her, after exhausting all the eloquence of his calling in persuasion. The doctors of the village attempted to persuade her to have the ball extracted, but she stead fastly refused, preferring rather, she said, to die than have an effort to restore her to health. But it was decided, after a consul tation with Justice Daly, that the bull should be taken out this morning, even If it should be found necessary to give chloroform and adopt the most extreme measures to save her 111 e. This course was adopted, by reason of the fact that the doc tors, after probing the ball to the distance of about an inch and a half in it direction parallel with one of the ribs, found that it had not penetrated into the cavity of the lung, but glanced in such u way as to make the course of the bullet apparent externally, and, if permitted to remain, it might cause extreme irritation and pain, but would not be likely to prove fatal. Under the girl's pillow was found, among other letters, one directed to the landlady of the hotel, in which she made a gracefully worded apology for attempting to commit suicide in the house of a total stranger, and left directions for the disposition of her body after death. She begged piteously that no Indignity be put upon her corpse, but that it be decently burled at the expense of several persons whose names those inter ested know best themselves. Atrocious Torture of a Child At Warsaw, Indiana, about six weeks ago, one Lawrence Hart took from the poor house, a boy four:years old, named Winfield Hines. Three weeks afterwards the child was missing. Its mother made inquiry as to what had become of it, and was told that it had been given away to a man living in Ohio. Not satisfied with this she succeeded in interestingsome prominent citizens in the matter, who began to make an investiga tion, whereupon, Hart flaying tied, after a long search, the mangled body of the child was found in an old well. At the coroner's inquest, Hart's wife tes- tified, and others testified, that, from the very first, Hart's treatment of the child whe brutal and cruel in the extreme; that as whipped and beat it without mercy almost, if not quite, every day, and that, on one occasion, he spent nearly a whole day in torturing it in every way the most hellish wantonness could suggest, first whipping it with a leather strap, then with a strip ol board, until it was not able to walk, and then put it down in the cellar, where it laid down in the damp and chilly air and went to sleep. Then he removed it from the cellar, and took it out of doors, and plunged its head into cold water, and compelled It to remain out of doors until its feet were frozen ; thou took it into the house, hung it up by the stairway by means of a strap passed around the body, and held coals of tire on a shovel under its feet. After tor turing it in this manner for awhile, he took it down and made it walk the floor backward and forward, occasionally strik ing it with a plaited leather horse-whip, until it fell at last, exhausted and senseless, on the floor. It further appeared thatthe day the child died Hart whipped it first, out of doors, with a stick of some kind, until it was so exhausted that it tell asleep at the tab:e while they were eating breakfast. Upon this, Hart flew into a rage, and said: " D—n you, I will see if I can't keep you awake," and thereupon seized a horse-whip and whipped the child for some time, and finally struck it a severe blow on the temple either with his fist or the butt of the whip, and knocked its head against a stairway, caus ing two more severe bruises on the back part of its head. He then allowed his wife to put the child to bed, and she states she tried to restore it, but it died that night, when Hart took the body away. There was a great excitement in the neighborhood, and a public meeting was held, and a commit tee appointed to secure the demon. The county commissioners offered a reward of $5OO for his apprehension. Hart was ar rested on Friday at Independence, near Mount Vernon, Ohio, and has been taken back to Indiana. flatting by Telegraph The latest novelty N the use of the tele graph in the Norwegian herring fishery. The deep sea fisheries from the Naze to Varanger Fjord extend over a range of 1,200 miles ; and some of them are variable, both as regards time of year and locality ; others recur at stated periods, but with lesser oscillations with respect to time and place. The population directly and indirectly interested in the fisheries is probably not less than 150,000 ; and the fishermen actu ally engaged in them at one time not less than 60,000. These latter move to and fro with their boats along the coast, and formerly—before the telegraph was im pressed into their service—the inability to test the accuracy of the reports they heard, and the great distances they had to traverse before reaching the neighborhood of the shoals, were the cause of endless disappoint • ments and failures, and the catch was frequently lost for want of hands to capture the fish. This is now all changed as tar as the herring fishery is concerned. Telegraphic stations are erected at differ. ent points on the coast, and the inspectors cause daily notice to be given of the appear ance and position of each shoal. "Field" telegraphs are kept in readiness to be joined on to the main line, and thus the slightest movement of the shoals is carefully watched and communicated; and it is a curious sight to witness the sudden exodus of thousands of fishermen, with their train of buyers, salters, Jzo., with boats, barrels and appliances, hastening to a distant place at the call of the wire. The men seem to prize highly this valuable coadjutor, and when the catch is chiefly attributable to its agency they call the fish "telegraph herrings." And thus the benefit likely to accrue from the use of the telegraph is incalculable. Utilising the Dead It seems a serious thing to "make light" of death, yet some disgustingly practi cal French Sayan proposes to literally perpetrate that enormity. His theory— advanced through the medium of La Gazette Medicate de Ly ona—ls that human bodies are at present wasted, when they might us well be utilized by distilization intogas to be used for illuminating purposes, He remarks, in a sort of grimly httmorous vein : " Coal le being exhausted, and since the human carcass is capable of supplying a gas of good illuminating power, why should it not be employed to this end? In India, they say, the icipa isalready realized. By a process of combustion in retorts, a corpse of ordinary dimensions may be made to yield twentrtive cubic metres of illu minating gas, which, at a oost oftwenty , five centimes per cubic metre, would give a value of about eight francs fora deceased friend of about medium size." ~ e fia ; A Young tidy, seven het high, resides in Memphis. • • -• In Pulaski county, Ga., a freedman em ploye his Ibrmer master as overseer. The death penalty has been restored in Michigan. George W. Randolph, es-rebel Secretary of War, died In Richmond on Wednesday. The Boston Post thinks the Democrats of New Hampshire had great cause for jay, but the Nutmeg State furnishes a greater. The National Democratic Convention, to meet in Louisville, has been postponed until the 4th of July. Seventy-five new buildings, twenty of them saw milli, have been built in Pensa cola, Florida, since the war. Gen. Schofield has Lssned an order for a registration of voters is Virginia under the Reconstruction act. The of nomination ex -Senator Nesmith, of Oregon, as Minister to Austria, has been rejected by the Senate. Governor Geary has signed the bill vest ing the appointment of School Coctroliers in Philadelphia in the courts. Hon. George Evans, formerly U. S. Sen ator from Maine, died in Portland on Sat urday, aged 70 years. The Ohio Legislature has finally passed a Suffrage bill, giving the franchise to all male citizens, excepting rebels and desert ers. Joseph R. Hawley, who was the repub lican candidate for Governor at the recent Connecticut election, is a native of North Carolina. At Evansville, Ind., a few nights since, a little boy was playing with a unable, and it got into his throat and choked him to death. A Society out West are discussing the question : " If a man deserts his wife, which is the moat abandoned, the man or the woman ?" Chief Justice Chase is about to issue a printed circular, stating the qualifications to be required of registers under the Bank rupt act. The levee along the Mississippi, lu Con cord Parish, La., opposite Natchez, has given away, and the upper parishes will be flooded. Edward D. Neill, for three years secre tary to the President, hits been appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Education. A party of Indians recently attacked some miners in Arizona, killing one of the miners and wounding several others. Among the wounded is a nephew of Sena tor Buckalew. A military company has been sent from Harrisburg to Lucerne county to quell a riot said to have grown out of a workmen's strike for higher wages. At last account, all was quiet. General illeeson's father, aged about meventy years, has been arreatedtor Fenian treason In Ireland. Ile proclaimed that "he had seven sans Fentuns, and gloried In the feet." On leaving office, Mr. Monroe Is reported to have remarked that "this was the fifth, and, undoubtedly, last time, lie had been deposed from the Mayoralty of New Orleans." The largest paper mill in the world is about to go into operation at Greenville, Connecticut. It will turn out 35,000 pounds of paper per day, and is expected to pro , duce a decline in price. The Memphis nogrocs are about starting a newspaper with negro editors, negro prin ters,negro devils, and negro carriers. Every thing Is to be as black as the hinges of Erebus. Nitre Indian outrages are reported in Idaho. A Station was attacked recently and a stage driver and two passenger:in were killed. The Indians continue hostile on the Texas border. One reason why the Southern papers do not make so much "Jubilation" over the Connecticut election 1114 some of their con servative contemporurlue In the North du, the Richmond Whig says, Is "because they have forgotten how to (Tow over election co sulk." The tobeeeo now ou hem' In thu counties of Ilulilita , Pittsylvania, Franklin and Henry, In Virginia, and Rockingham find Caswell, In North Carolina, is estimated to be worth $12,000,000. Tho crop of PlLtsyl vaniu alone is placed ut $3,000,000. We doubt this estimate. On Saturday, uL Rochester, us a lire en gine, returning from a fire, was crossing one of the Erie Canal bridges, the flooring gave way, letting the engine, horses and throe men into the canal. One of the horses was killed, and all the urea were more or less injured. IfflAn express train on the Pennsylvania Railroad was thrown front the track near Pittsburg yesterday, and the engine and several cars were wrecked. Four men were injured; William Wilhelm baggage master, of this city, slightly. The train was thrown off by a man, who was arrested. The raid on the " chignons" still continues. The London " Lancet" says it Is certain that many ladles carry about with them in In their chignons the seeds of ringworm, which it calls an "intractable malady." It alSo says that much of the hair used for chignons is " churchyard hair," pulled from the scalps of the dead. A little girl, daughter of W. Bankehaw, died suddenly in Chicago on Sunday night —said to have been whipped to death by her father. The body of the poor child when examined was found to be literally cut to pieces, the fiendish pnnishment which caused her death having apparently been inflicted with a leather strap or heavy raw hide. A Maine paper asserts that the oldest Masons in the country are Nathaniel Ful lerton of Bellows Falls, Vermont, who 1892 rears of age, and Moses Wingate of Haver hill, Mass., aged 98, woo has been a Mason 9-1 yews. To these may be added John Foster of Boston, nearly 95 years of age, who has been a NI awn' 97 years. The Senate yesterday confirmed General Lovell H. Ro Ilt.(111n to be Brigadier General of the regular artily in place of Rosecraus, resigned; also, Alexander Asboth to be Minister to Uruguay, and General Thomas Kilby Smith to be Consul at Panigna. It Is understood that a motion was entered to re consider Gen. Rousseau's nomination. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, In a late letter upon the subject of the first battle of Bull Run, says the victory there was regarded by the Confederate troops as having decided the question of Southern independence, and ended the war, and thousands of them left the army and went home. The Union army, ho says, " was less disorganized by defeat than the Confederate army by Its triumph." Numerous expedients are reported from Massachusetts to get round the prohibitory liq in law which is now being enforced with rigor n that State. The latest expe dient is the sale of mince pies with a large quantity of brandy in them, or, us a Boston paper expresses it, "about one drunk la each mince pie." These are known as "anti prohibition pies," and are chiefly sold in the highly exemplary and moral town of Boston. Dank, the Hungarian statesman, has an income of not more than $1,250 a year, and yet he has invariably refused to accept any office of emolument or any material testl moninal of the gratitude of his country mon. During the Parllainentarysesslon ho lodges economically at one of the hotels of Pesth, and dui Mg the recess ho lives with relative in the country. Hodevotes a large share of his income to charity. Has anybody a nicktd penny of 1&;61 The Washington Star says there's an active search fur them, and that they are consid ered worth twenty-llye cents each, because they have been almost wholly withdrawn from circulation, and will be very valuable by-and-by in completing collections. The penny in question will be remembered as bearing on one face the representation of a nondescript broken-backed bird, supposed to represent the American eagle, The editor of the Stale-Line Gazelle (Bris tol,) desiring to uccomodate himself to the new political dispensation, offers for sale: "A well bound volume, containing the Constitution of the late United States, the Constitution of Virginia, now Military Dis trict A, No. 1, also the Virginia Bill of Rights, the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798. Any one desiring to preserve these relics of the barbarous age extending from 1776 to bB6l will do well to call. Also a copy of the ible will be exchanged for the life and writings of John Brown, deceased. Shocking Murder on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad. The Wheeling Intelligenoer of Saturday gives the following details of a horrible murder, and swift and terrible retribution, reported to have taken place at Sallneville, 0., on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Rail road. An old man who resides at Bonne ville, on the C. dt P. R. H., In Columbiana county, Ohio, recently received some 81,500 in money—a fact that became known in the neighborhood. On Wednesday last he went in company with a son to New Lisbon, the county town, some fifteen miles distant, to deposit this money in bank, leaving a wife and daughter at home. They arrived too late to get In the bank, and went to a hotel to stay over night. Early In the night the young man awoke In terror and told his lather that his mother had her throat cut. The son prevailed on the father to return home Immediately. Approaching their house, they were surprised to see a light in the windows, and approaching cautiously and looking n they were horrorstricken to see the mother lying on the floor weltering in blood. Separating, one went to the front and the other to the rear door, when Just as they were about to enter, two persona at. tempted to escape, one from each door. and were shot down almost simultaneously, by the father and son. A third person still In the house, up stairs, leaped out of one of the upper windows, and was also allot almost as soon as he touched the ground. On en. tering the house and priftreedlug to another room, the father and sou were still MCA* horrified to find the daghter lying gab. and dead, and covered with bloo& t all three of the imirdemts w ere 811 right or not our intnrmant tv*Sra wOt The Intelkqefteer vouolmi **Vire sibleerrity ftud truthfulness or their inbablirtabb
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