fatroottr= lideattPor. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, , 1867 Greeley. Horace Greeley is being soundly abused by hits Republican cotempora ries because of his generous action in signing the bail bond of Jefferson Davis. Why he is thus abused, it is somewhat difficult to say. The only reason which - we know of that should induce one man to refrain from becoming responsible for the appearance of another at the time fixed for his trial, would be an appre hension of the risk which he was run ning in making the engagement ; yet, surely, if Mr. Greeley chose to incur this danger, it is nobody's busines& but his own. Mr. Greeley undoubtedly at tributes the rancor exhibited towards him in this matter, to its proper cause, when he credits it to the Pharisaical spirit of his cotemporaries, who think that in howling thus violently against the release of Davis, they are pandering to the prejudices of the people, and mak ing Greeley the scapegoat of an act, which they really approve. That they do approve it, we must conclude, or else accuse them of advocating a continued and palpable violation of the law. Jefferson Davis has now been con fined by the military power of the United States for two years in open defiance of the plainest and most fun damental principles of law, and no good citizen can either fail to commend the action of the President in at last di recting his surrender to the civil au thorities, or fail to condemn our her maphrodite Executive for his tardiness in recollecting the sworn obligations of his position. The demands of the law, however, have at length been respected, and Mr: Davis is held to answer before a proper tribunal for any offence which he may have committed. Horace Gree ley has signified his appreciation of this triumph of law, by becoming responsi ble for the forthcoming of Davis when ever the legal authorities may call for him, and in so doing he has earned the respect of every citizen whose respect is worth possessing. Nor has he de meaned himself by having his name connected with that of one who is ac cused of an infamous crime. Treason is a political offenee, and one which the stability of nations requires should have a severe penalty attached to it ; otherwise civil counnotious might be of constant occurrence. And yet,who is the traitor in a civil war? That cannot be told until the war is over. In the South, wl.ile the late contest continued, he who opposed the de facto govern ment established there was a traitor to that government and might have sulll.red for it; but if hr lived until the South was conquered, lie suddenly found that, instead of being a traitor, he was a patriot of the first water. Ir, however, the Confederacy had main. tained itself, he would have continued a traitor, and have been so recorded ILI history. In civil wars, therefore, success is the crucial test whereby to determine pa triotism from treason. l' , uccess makes the patriot, the want of it the traitor. George Washington is written down in history a patriot, Benedict Arnold a traitor ; but if our Revolution had tailed, history would have declared Washington's patriotism to have been treason, and Arnold's treason to have been patriotism. A Righteous Decision The Radical Legislature of last win ter undertook to strip the courts of Dauphin and Lebanon counties of their proper constitutional jurisdiction by taking from them all jurisdiction over felonies and misde meanors, and vesting it in another newly-created tribunal which they pro posed to set up. The act required the establishment in each of the named counties of a court of record with crim inal jurisdiction ; created a president judge to preside; empowered him to order extra sessions, and to dispense with jury courts whenever he might deem it expedient; authorized the Gov ernor to appoint the president judge and jury commissioners until new ones should he elected ; and made it unlaw ful to summon grand juries after the usual method for Schuylkill county. Such a stretch of power naturally led to an appeal to the Supreme Court of the State, and that tribunal has just rendered its decision in the case. The court, without a dissenting voice, sub stantially declares the law creating a court of exclusi've criminal jurisdic tion to be unconstitutional, but reserves the question of concurrent jurisdiction to be determined when that question shall be properly brought before it.— The Supreme Court granted an order requiring the established courts of Schuylkill county to resume their jur isdiction, and to attend to their duties as if no such law as the one to which we refer had ever been passed. This is only one instance of the mauy assaults which are being made by cor rupt and venal Legislatures upon long established usages and the most firmly settled constitutional rights of the peo ple. But for the timely interposition of the superior judicial tribunals which have been established by the Constitu tion of the United States and of the several States,‘,there would be no re straintupon the fanatical revolutionists who seem to delight in destroying the most valuable and well-established of our social and political institutions. The suppressed diary elf Wilkes Booth has at length, by direct command of the President, been published. It clear ly indicates that Lincoln's murder was Booth's act alone, and that he was in spired to commit it by the notion that he was doing a deed, such as that for which " Brutus was honored," and that which "made Tell a hero." It atlbrds not the slightest ground fell the chargf, made by Stanton and Hort that Davis was privy to the crime, and this doubt less was one of the reasons why those miserable wretches concealed the Diary. Booth was a murderer, aid offers no other excuse for his offence than that he thought he was doing right ; but we should like to feel far more certain than we do now, that those who, without the justification of a lawful condemnation, took the life of an innocent woman, can truthfully offer the same excuse in pal liation of their crime. The Richmond Examiner The Richmond Examiner has changed hands, a company having been formed (of which T. H. Wynne is President) whfch becomes the owner of the Ex aminer at a stipulated price—the entire cost being divided into shares, which have been taken by many of the old employees of the establishment, in numbers to suit their respective abilities or desires. The paper has been some what reduced in size and in price; and like;lvise proposes to drop its political character and to devote itself solely to the effortto advance the material inter ests of Virginia; believing that in the present condition of the State its ener gies will be thus better devoted than in .olitical discussion. Tag Pennsylvania Railroad Company ;has recently purchased a controlling in terest in the 'West Branch and Susque henna Canals, and, at an early day, ,intend greatly to improve the line as far as Northumberland, widening it to that point, and also inpreaslng the depth to six feet. The Tenipeenn• the league. The furious state of anger into which Horace Greeley has thrown the radical Republicans by simply signing the ball bond of Jeff. Davis .has .astonished everybody, espeoialiY::" as it is well known that Grealey has repeatedly de- 5 dared himself to be in favor of tha.un conditional release of Davis and the, declaration of a general amnesty ,to all the political exiles of the South. But this last act of Greeley's is, we think, but the pretext and not the cause of the war whihh has been declared upon him. His views upon the question of recon struction do not suit the major por tion of the leaders of the Republican party ; they are afraid of them, for they see in them the ruin of their party ascendency. He favors the admission of the South to representation in Con gress upon the passage of the Constitu tional amendmemt ; they do not, be cause they fear the Southern States will conform to this condition precedent and thus force the Republicans to acknowledge their right to participate in the Presidential election of '6B. Greeley doubtless sees this danger to his party as well as they do, but he happens to be an honest man, who believes . honesty to be the best policy, and that it is always expedient for a party' to act upon principle. That he is right, the history of parties in this country demonstrates, for it is seldom that ultimate success has attend ed the sacrifice of principle to the dic tates of expediency. The " narrow minded blockheads " of the Union Leagues do not comprehend this fact however, although the very felicitous simile, by which Greeley illustrates the position in which they would put their party, should open their eyes to their folly. Says he, " your attempt to base a great, enduring party on the hate and wrath necessarily engendered by a bloody civil war, is as though you should plant a colony on an ice berg, which had somehow drifted into a tropical ocean." The force of this com parison cannot be gainsayed ; but we do not believe that he will convince the "blockheads" who are the numerous branch of the Republican party, and who VIM grasp at the prospect of present success at the expense of inevitable fu ture defeat, and who are determined at every cost to keep out the Southern States until after the decision of the Presidential contest of next year. Time will show whether they will be able to achieve their ends. It will be well in making the calculation as to its probability, to take into the esti mate the fact that the Democratic party will have a candidate in the field who will be voted for in every State both North and South, because that party believes the United States to consist of ALL the individual States. It will be well to recollect, too, that the Democracy; have a well grounded ex pectation that they will carry a majori ty of the States, and that they will have a majority in the Electoral College. Should these expectations be verified, it will naturally result that the Demo cratic candidate for President will be elected, inasmuch as the Constitution says that " the person having the great es number of votes shall be the Presi dent, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appoint ed." And there is one thing which we feel authorized to state with absolute certainty; viz: that if the Democratic candidate is elected President, HE WILL BE I NA UG URATED. It has been very unfortunate that An drew Johnson, though a man of honest intentions and excellent judgment, has proved himself absolutely incapable of enforcing his judgment by his action; else representation for the Southern States, which must be battled for and won in the future, would have been a conquered difficulty of the past. Mr. Johnson believing the South to be en titled to this inalienable right, should have exhausted every physical power in his hands as President to secure it. He had the power, for he had only to declare who composed the United States Congress, and he could have rallied around him the mass of the people to support its decrees. He is a great man, perhaps, but at any rate, a great Zero, and we can look for no assistance from him ; yet the Democracy knowing the work that is cut out for them, can ac complish it without the aid of either President or Congres.s. Stevens and Belle)' That history repeats itself has time and again been illustrated, but nowhere more strikingly than in the recent af fair at Mobile, where Kelley, according to the New York Tribune, "laid down flat on his face" at the first fire of the mob. Centuries, however, generally intervene between these repetitions, and it must be a fast age and a fast peo ple that can boast of twosimilar historic events Within a little more than a quar ter of a century, with two such redoubt able heroes as Stevens and Kelley for their leading actors. Stevens at Harrisburg, cracking his lash over his subservient partisans, ad vising them to throw "conscience to the devil " and trample upon the will of the people; Kelley at Mobile with the 15th United States Infantry at his back and the whole army besides, insulting his white fellow citizens and inciting a motley crowd of negroes to deeds of violence and plunder. Stevens driven from the halls of the Capitol through a back window by an indignant and out raged people ; Kelley falling " flat on his face" at the very first fire of a mob of his own creating, provoked beyond endurance by his insolent and boastful harangue. Ye Gods! What heroes! What a theme for some loyal poet and for Harper's pictorial. Can not the Poet Laureate of the Union League invoke the muse to aid him in record ing the deeds of these valorous men in rhythm? Can not Harper find an artist who can give the proper expression of the "(treat Commoner" when leaping out, of the back window of the State Capitol, and who can portray the beau tiful physique of Kelley "lying flat on his face" with an imaginary crowd of excited negroes rushing to his rescue. Certainly these similar historic events, in which so great bravery was displayed, ought to inspire the most melodious strains of the Poet, and call forth the finest penciling of the Artist. 'By all means let us.have these redoubt able heroes and their heroic actions done up in poetry and painting. Per. haps too, some Sculptor's chisel might be brought into requisition and the cold marble be made to speak of the courage of the hero of the "Buckshot War," and of the intrepidity of the chivalrous Knight of Mobile! Why Davis Was Not Tried The Washington correspondent of the New York World says: The ultimate release of Jeff. Davis has been an exciting topic of discussion among the Cabinet; and his present freedom, will result in a few days in eliciting the fact that he cannot be tried on tbe,charge of high treason. The Attorney-General is said to take this view of the case; and Judge Chase, he holds, is responsible for the result, as the Judge, during the war, decided that the rebels were belligerents, in order to justify the disposal of the blockade runners in prize courts, and belligerents cannot be tried for treason. To reverse the decision would be to declare all the sales of prize -vessels unlawful. It will be remembered that the South claimed such vessels should be the subject of adjudication in Admiralty Courts; but to overcome this objection, Judge Chase declared they were belligerents. This is the true cause why Jeff Davis hes not been tried. "'t~btro~ttou: We are all so used to tales of corruption in our public officers and public bodies, that we presume the latest developments:: in relation..to the cltkte union existing .between the detectiyepoliceforce of the . city:Of New York arid . its biggest thieves, will hardly excite in the :breast of any one an emotion of surprise. We have been made.ftimiliar during the past few years with the details of numerous frauds and robberies, principally of Government securities, in which the New York banks and the wealthy bankers of that city have been the chief sufferers; and very seldom have the crinchials been arrested. A few have been, however, and certain officers of the United States Government have been lately examining them in relation to some of the more notorious of the robberies. One C. E. Sinclair, who was concerned in obtaining $20,000 of U. S. bonds from the Ninth National Bank of New York by means of a fraudulent check, and in various other transactions of a similar nature, has freely answer ed all the questions proposed to him, and states that the party with which he operated paid ten per cent. of the face value of the stolen bonds to five of the principal New York detectives, one of whom is the Chief of the Force. There does not seem to be any reason to doubt the fact of this league between the thieves and the police. Thieving now is being rapidly reduced to the con dition of a perfectly safe as well as pro fitable, and even respectable business. United States Bonds are now quoted among thieves as being worth 50 cents on the dollar. This is the price they get for them; the purchaser incurring what little risk there may be of being compelled to restore the stolen bonds to their owner. Out of the 50 per cent. received' by the thieves they pay 20 per cent. to the police, and the Com pany of rogues retain the moderate compensation of 30 per cent. as a fair profit for their trouble in the transac tion. Notwithstanding the prevalence of this mode of making money, and the openness with which it is carried on, we cannot quite satisfy ourselves that it is a legitimate way of amassing wealth. And yet it is very difficult now-a-days to draw the line between what is proper and what is improper to be done to win greenbacks. Look at the stock boards of the large cities, where the most prominent and highly respected men, daily endeavor to fleece the unwary by depressing the value of a certain stock below what they know it lobe worth, or by raising that of another far above what they are aware is its in trinsic value, and do this, too, by the falsest representations, and the most unscrupulous methods; how are they better than thieves? Look, too, at the conduct of our most distinguished men in political life, iu selling the influence of their position for filthy lucie, obtain ing valuable grants for nothing, from the government they are elected to serve, thus robbing their fellow-citizens, lining their own pockets, and violating their oaths. Certain parties wanted to get a charter for a Railroad, and to secure the influence of the Secre tary of the Senate they gave him a large interest in it. Well, they got their charter, and Forney the other day sold his interest in it for some $200,000. He had given no value for this large sum, so that it seems evident that the somebody was robbed of it, as we do not believe that it was a legal perquisite of his official position. But if these are honest ways of get ting a living, as we would naturally presume them to be from the character of the persons employing them, we are entirely unable to distinguish honesty from dishonesty ; the two things seem to run into one another, and the place of juncture seems to be very much serrated and very un even. Certainly our dictionaries or our morals want revising, and as we despair of the morals, we look hopefully to the dictionaries to relieve us from our muddle. Will the publishers of Worces ter and Webster please take note in. time for their next editions? Stanton for President The St. Louis Democrat, (extreme Radical,) in an elaborate editorial, brings out Edwin M. Stanton for the Presidency. It refers to Generals Grant and Sherman, and pushes both of them aside on account of the uncertainty of their political views. But in Mr. Stan ton it finds " a statesman who has been the military superior of all our generals, and whose part in the war has been not less deservAAg of honor than that of the bravest hero that ever slept on a hard fought field." People who know Wilt- the Secretary of War is merely the clerk or aid-de camp through whom the President, th A e constitutional commander-in-chief of the army, transmits - his orders, might be puzzled to know how Secretary Stan ton happens to haVe been " the military superior of all our generals," were it not for an interesting bit of information furnished by the Democrat to prove Mr. Stanton's claim to Radical grati tude. It states that " when Mr. Lin coln summoned the rebel Legislature Of Virginia to assemble, Alr. Stantoncoun termanded the order by telegraph, and at the earliest opportunity convinced the President of his error." Poor Lincoln! So little regard for his fame have the Radicals who eulo gized him so warmly when he lived and pretended to lament him so bitterly when he died, that they do not hesitate to reduce him to a mere nose of wax in the hands of his Secretary of War. Mr. Stanton would have had a lively time of it if he had been a member of Cien. Jackson's Cabinet and had ventured to countermand the President's order. Old Hickory would have seized " the earliest opportunity" to take him by the beard and jerk him out of his skin. It shows the temper of the Radicals, that they desire for their candidate a man who is noted for obstinacy, tyran ny, impudence, selfishness and total disregard of the rights and feelings of others. Mr. Stauton's countermand of President Lincoln's order was an offense for which he should have been expelled from the Cabinet. Any Presi dent who had a proper sense of self respect would have expelled him for it. Any party who had a decent respect for the Presidential office would condemn. him for it. But the extreme Radicals want to put a brute in the Executive Chair, and Beast Butler not being avail able, Edwin M. Stanton is looked to as the next best specimen of a political A Compliment from Slam Commodore Goldsborough, cruising in the East, writes home that he has recently had an interview with the King of Siam, at which his Majesty kindly informed him that, out of com pliment to this great country, he had called his youngest son, George Wash ington, and requested the Commodore to officially acquaint his Government with the high honor he had done us. The latter, overcome by so flattering a compliment to his country, eagerly consented, but his enthusiasm suddenly subsided, as in the course of the conver sation he ascertained from the King that George Washington was his forty first son , and, inquiring as to the num ber of his daughters—" Ah!" said the King, "they are innumerable ; I never counted them." It is perhaps needless to remark that the archives of the State Department are not graced with a record of the honor vouchsafed us by this vigorous monarch._ Deifriellon - of theillierkan &Mlle. The Old Capitol Building at Wash ingtop is being demolished. Strai# and*onderfally (Weise are the seen& whia have beell::k44 l eteP,within walla; the earliF andihisasiEH theiepublio;:,they rerecho4dtheikii4 and'eloquerit utte*nees thoo haye been -justly ranked among the , greatest statesmseithe world efth. saw. These have passed away. Happily for them, nearly every one of them died be fore their eyes had seen the fulfilment of the predictions they had repeatedly mafie concerning the evils to be apPre hended from the donainance of a purely sectional political party in this country. They were true atriots. They loved liberty for its ow .-Wke; they reverenced established law, because they knew that in a government such as ours, there, could be no sudden and violent depar ture from long established principles without great and disastrous convul sions ; they impressed upoii all the ab solute necessity of implicit obedience to the requirements of the written Con stitution, because they recognized in it the great charter of our freedom. How sublimely eloquent were many of the appeals made within the walls now be 4ng demolished. How fortunate it would have been for us had they been heeded. The Old Capitol Building at Washington has very many pleasant and patriotic recollections associated with its earlier history, recollections which every true American recalls with a thrill of pride. But therere other associations of a later date connected with it. It has taken rank in history with the French Bastile and other detested dungeons of the despotic past. The same walls which echoed the eloquent appeals of the purest and most gifted statesmen of the Republic in its earlier and purer days, have since heard the indignant utterances of innocent men in chains. Where wise and wholesome laws were once framed, all law has since been most ruthlessly violated; where in other days sat the chosen law-givers of a once free Republic, the free citizens or that same Republic have afterward gazed through dungeon bars, pleading in vain for the protection of the laws of their country ; where the name of lib erty was formerly most revered, liberty has been most shamefully outraged ; where freedom had reared her home, the most cruel despotism afterwards made a loathsome haunt. In history the building now being destroyed will be remembered principally as The Old Capitol Prison. We had occasion to visit it once on official business. A citizen of Pennsyl vania had been carried away by military force and incarcerated within its walls. We.applied to Governor Curtin, asking him to sustain the majesty of the State of which he was the chief executive officer. He did so in his own timid fashion, and after two or three weeks of delay we were informed that the Secre tary of War would consent to the re lease. We went to Washington, and presented our credentials at the War Department. A General who presided over the outer audience chamber took the papers and told us to !call the next day. We did so and were informed that nothing had yet been done, but that the documents would be at once referred to Judge Advocate Holt. We called the next day and were informed that the case was in the hands of Mr. Holt, and that nothing could be done until his opinion had been rendered. Next day we called again, and still nothing done. Called on Mr. Holt and had an inter view which was tolerably satisfactory. He promised that the case should be ready for Secretary Stanton on the morrow. To-morrow came and we called again. Were informed the Sec retary was not at lionte—no furtherinfor 'nation could begot out of thesubordinate general. Called the next day and were informed that Mr. Stanton was at home, but that he could not be seen. Happen ing to have a newly-elected member of Congress with us, he called for a card and sent in his name without stating his business. The messenger returned in a moment bowigg obsequiously, and informed the embryo M. C. that Mr. Stanton would be happy to see him. We were ushered with him into the august presence and made our mission known. A lieutenant was sent for the papers, which hadibeen returned from the office of Judge Advocate Holt. The case was too clear a one to admit of doubt or hesitation, and his report was in our favor. We got a sealed envelope of huge size marked " official business," and addressed to " the Military Gover nor of the District of Columbia." Went to his office and found it closed for the day. Returned early the next morning and were forced to take our place at the end of the long procession of applicants for passes and other favors. Stood two hours in the mud with a fierce snow storm beating on us before we got a chance to approach the dignitary iu our turn. Got from him another sealed en velope directed to " the Keeper of the Old Capitol Prison." Went post haste to that notorious bastile. There were guards outside, but our big en velope was an open sesame. We were admitted within the gloomy portals. In an ante-chamber paced more armed guards, while a num ber of others were lounging at the fire. Were directed to an inner room. Found a. shoulder-strapped official with his feet up on a desk smoking and chatting gaily with a couple of comrades. Pre sented our huge envelope. Official fingers soon drew forth the contents. T•d:ing down from a shelf I.•!.ind him a iwok in appearance and size similar to a country nierchaut's blotter, or day book, he asked us when the party was Incarcerated. Told him as near as we could. Turning back some thirty or forty pages, every one of which was filled with names, a name to a line, with short notes mark ing number of dungeon, &c., he found that of the party he was in quest of, and ordered a sergeant to bring him down from No. 39; to permit him to bring his clothes, but not to permit him to bring any books or papers. When the sergeant had left the room, the pre siding genius of the place coolly said: "Will you know this man when you see him ?" and on our answering the interrogatory affirmatively, he jocosely added : "We sent a fellow away some three hundred miles the other day, on a requisition, and when he got there he turned out to be the wrong man ; two of the same name having been put in here on the same day." When our man presented himself he was touched to teats in his joy. In his hand he bore a bundle of clothes, wet from washing. He had tried hard to keep 'Mimed clean,. but found it impossible to.pre vent the vermin which infested the' place from finding a lodgment in his garments and on his person. We went out of that bastile into the wild wintry.storm that prevailed with a feeling of relief and settled conviction that, for the time being at least, despot ism 'had firmly enthroned itself upon the ruins of the Republic. So it had. Never did any tyrant more recklessly outrage every principle of liberty than did Abraham Lincoln and the men who surrounded him during the war. There was no protection, for the life or liberty of the citizen: All legal barriers against outrage wsire hroken down,, and the "one maii:,poWEn o reigned supreme, and wiihl.a,rod of :iron. The,. prisons may be'deniolished, but the mebiory th; outrages perpetraied under the of pretended patriotism will never be forgotten. They will remain as a attdn upon the fair fame of our country Wthe latest generation, anq, if this pl** not forget that thi4r — ever were freiv;their mention will always cause' a blush of indignant shame. to mantle the cheek of every American whojs worthy of the name. • • The New York Herald Upon the Radicals. The New York Herald has long been distinguished for sagacity in detecting changes ,in , public sea and for , . alacrity In falling in with the pular - current; For the last six or eightears it has been howling with the Radicals, but it now sees signs of a political revo . lution which is destined soon to number the Republican party among the things of the past. Read the following from its issue of Saturday last : Counter Revolution ha New York and All Over the 'Country. The movement of the Union League Club of this city over Horace Greeley's relations with Jeff. Davis is another indication of the counter revolution. It shows at once the protest of the popular sentiment and the consternation of party managers over the bomb that has burst in their midst. Jeff. Davis' liberation was only the natural result of the views of the war held by those leaders of the Radical party who control its acts. It was an inevitable corollary of the Radical doctrine that the war was only a party contest which a great blunder of the opposition had caused to be canvassed with bullets instead of ballots. Holding these views the Radical leaders would have released him long before, no doubt, but they were afraid of the people—they feared to undeceive the earnest masses. They kept him two years, supposing that the people would forget in that time all those terrible sacrifices of the war that the politicians forgot in two days. This expression of the Union Leaguers, however lame, has two distinct declarations in it—one from the members who sympa thize with the masses, and one from those who represent the thoughts of frightened party managers. The last, feeling that this act has, even after two years, let too much light in upon the insincerity of the leaders, fear to touch it; the former see that they have been trifled with, and move to free themielves 'from the thraldom of heartless and incompetent leaders. But this is not confined to the Union Leaguers ; it is a feel ing that is unsettling the political elements everywhere, and foreshadows that deep, positive change in public opinion that will carry the election against the republican party in this State next fall. .411 over the country there is the same change, the same unsettling of popular thought, the same evidence that radicalism has reached the turning point in its destiny, and that national disgust at the ridiculous conduct of the leaders and at the hollow ness, pretence and sham of party acts, is moving the counter revolution that will not only hurl radical leaders from power, but will go far to obliterate such traces as they have left in the history of the country through partisan legislation. Within the Republi can party, even in the small circle of the men recognized as leaders, all is chaos. Be tween the Republican National Committee, the Union League Club, and Phillips, But ler, Stevens, Wilson and Greeley, who can tell what are the real purposes and plans of the Republican party with regard to recon struction? Nothing was left to be done but to settle the country upon the practical basis of making South and North political ly and socially alike ; yet the simple ques tion of how this result might best be brought about, the determination of the question that was the real sequence of the war, is not attempted by any, but each one is eager only to secure the pre-eminence of his own extreme views. Republicans have so managed affairs in the South since the collapse of the rebellion that the result of an election there will be to return a repre sentation composed of six niggers and sun dry uncertain white men—perhaps all orig inal secessionists. All will be as it was before, except for the six niggers, and these represent the results of the war- No radical seems to comprehend or to be willing to acknowledge that the war had any other or higher purpose. There was no great issue of national life, only political difference; and opposition was, of course , no crime. Hence there was no treason. Nothing was sought but to get these six niggers into Congress. For that the nation spent three thousand million dollars, and thus our nigger Congressmen will cost us $500,000,000 apiece. Did ever a people before give so. much for so little? Have we not shown a prodigality of extravagance in paying such a price to secure these privileges to a race that had no other title to our attention save the clamor that it was oppressed? By its absolute failure to; carry out the great purposes of the war, by wasting the energies of the nation in making its expenditure con duce only to securing unworthy results— results that the people did not care for—that are ridiculously incommensurate with the sacrifices made, the radical party has incon testably shown its unfitness for a great trust, and has demonstrated to the people that their only safety lies in repudiating it altogether— plans, theories, delusions, leaders and all. There is no other course. It is no longer the party of the people, no longer the vital exponent of the will and thought of the nation. Formed in a time of great danger, compacted into firm political unity by the necessities of a tremendous struggle, that party carried the war to a glorious issue because its yews and purposes were the views and purposes of the people, because the spirit of the people filled and vitalized all its acts. But its leaders misunderstood the result. They thought the victory was not the people's victory,- not the great ultimate aspiration of the country, but merely the triumph of some pitiful party plans. In that thought they set about prostituting the national success —appropriating it to their small uses—at tempting to make it subserve purposes of personal ambition and partisan tyranny. Having attempted to steal the national vic tory and brand it with a party name, these leaders are now quarrelling over the spoil. Going blindly away from the people, they have gone too far; going beyond the real purpose with which the people waged the war, they have lost the great bond of unity —lost the great guiding purpose of popular will, and, like the babblers of Babel, con found one another with strange utterances. But they confound no one else. Thepur poses of the people are unchanged. They waged war to preserve the nation, and it is their purpose that this shall be a Union of free and equal States; that no great commu nity of American citizens shall be trampled down in order to secure the supremacy of any party schemes. Strong in this great purpose, with the same power with which it waged war the nation will rise in counter re-volu tion against those violent party leaders— against any and every party machine, plan or platform that would divert or urge for ward the great war and great succass to any other object than that of securing the na tional welfare—the happiness, prosperity and peace of the whole Union—the freedom of every part of the people. This the poli ticians already feel, and this the next elec tions will show. Greeley to the Union League The New York Union League feeling disposed to expel Horace Greeley for having signed .Davis'' bail bond, sent him a notice to appear before them for trial. They will doubtless wish they had let him alone, for in this morning's Tribune he demolishes them in a scath ing letter of which we subjoin the con cluding portion * * I shall not attend your meeting this evening. I have an engagement out of town, and shall keep it. Ido not recognize you as capable of judging, or even fully apprehending me. You evidently regard me as a weak senti mentalist, misled by a maudlin philosophy. I arraign you as narrow-minded blockheads who would like to be useful to a great and good cause, but don't know how. Your attempt to base a great enduring party on the hate and wrath necessarily engendered by a bloody civil war is as though you should plant a colony on an iceberg which had some how drifted into a tropical ocean. I tell you here, that out of a life earnestly devoted to the good of human kind, your children will select my going to Richmond and signing that ball-bond as the wisest act, and will feel that it did more for freedom and humanity than all at you were competent to do, though you had lived to the age of Methuselah. I ask nothing of you, then, but that you proceed to your end by a di rect, frank, many way. Don't sidle off into a mild resolution of censure, but move the expulsion which you purposed, and which I deserve if I deserve any reproach what ever. All I care for is, that you make this a square, stand-up fight, and record your judgment by yeas and nays. I care not how many vote with me, nor how many vote against me ; for I know that the latter willrepent it in dust and ashes before three years have passed. Understand, one for all, that 3 dare you and defy you, and that I propose to fight it out on the line that I have held from the day of Lee's surrender. a a * * HORACE GREELEY. The Liquoi Law. The following was the vote upon the liquor bill in the Senate, upon its final passage: Ynes—Messrs. Bigliam,l3rowne, of Law rence; Brown, of Mercer; Coleman, Con nell, Cowles, Fisher, Graham, Haines, Landon, M'Conaughy, Royer, Shoemaker, Stutzraan, Taylor, White, Worthington and ' Hall, Speaker-18. ' NATs—Messrs. Burnett, Davis, Donovan, Glats, lames, Ridgway, Randall, Searight and-Wallace-10. The yeas are all Radicals and the nays all Democrats, except Ridgway. The , new Catholic church at Port Deposit, Md., will, it 41 expected, be dedicated on the 9th'ofJnne. 'Rev. Dr. FoleY, of Balti more; is to officiate. . - ' - - A - titter — from ... er.- Dr. Butler writes to the Boston Traveller • ' as follows: Let me examine the assertion that the story that 18 pages had been taken from POotit's diary is also an invention. -:":AlOottea diary has , been. -beteret ; the Come, i r =Mee, and',lB pagie•are carefiilly' nt Out; tisingthepages down to-the very of the assassination: TWonly4nestiori . raised was f'Whoin and birwhowwere these lea** out ant? __Booth i widletvinted foi".his life :througti - swempeSiid Itoifater the ' as sassinatlim, world hardly have leisure for such amusement; beside, on horseback, with one leg - broken, it might be difficult to get aruleror straight edge by , which to trim the leaves as nicely as it is done. Every thing taken from Booth's person was put in evidence on the trial of Mrs. Surratt—even to a bill of exchange taken out of the same diery—except Mit aary itself and the vain , ble diamond pin which he wore. . These alone were kept back. Why cannot 18 leaves of the diary and the pin now be found? Until those having had "custody of the articles taken from the body can account for all of them I must be excused from be lieving the testimony that the articles are all now in the same condition as when found. If the witness can be found who ' has got the pin, perhaps he can tell us who has the missing leaves. Upon the whole, do you really think that the missing leaves are an invention? As my hand is in, per haps it will be well to look up the origin of the phrase which nninventive persons have appropriated to themselves. Y.tiur article says: " Gen. Butler must be more careful; or he'll get 'bottled up' again." True, he may be—in the same way as be fore. In May, 1864, when operating against Richmond and Petersburg, Gen. Butler re ceived orders from Gem Grant to send away all the troops he could with safety spare to reinforce the Army of the Potomac on the Peninsula—then about to fight the battle of Cold Harbor. In obedience thereto, Gen. Butler sent Gem Grant 17,000 picked men of the 25,000 effective men, including black troops, then under Gen. Butler's command, Whereupon, Gen. Butler com plained that tbe necessities of the Army of the Potomac had " bottled hilt up in Ber muda Hundred." That complaint was re peated about his headquarters, and the very words will be found to have been pub lished the correspondence :from thence of The New York Mites of that date. Eighteen months afterward Gen. Grant.tncorporated the words in a grave official report, without giving, as I have done, the reason for their pertinency; and the phrase thus used by him Wei deemed a scintillation of genius. The inventor did not think as highly of his own production ; 14owever t even a borrowed rushlight shines widely in a thick mist. Respectfully, your obedient servant, BENT. F. BUTLER. The Burial Place of Booth General L. C. Baker has published a di ary, in which he details his connection with the "secret service" of the War Department during the war of the rebellion. He makes the following statement in regard to the disposition made of the body of John Wilkes Booth : - . General Barnes, Surgeon General United States army, was on board the gunboat where the post mortem examination was held, with his assistants. General Barnes cut from Booth's neck about two inches of the spinal column through which the ball had passed ; this piece of bone, which is now on exhibition in the Government Medical Museum in Washington, is the only relic of the assassin's body aboveground, and this is the only mutilation of the remains that ever occurred. Immediately after the con clusion of the examination tho Secretary of War gave orders as to the disposition of the body, which had become very offensive owing to the condition in which it had re mained after death; the leg, broken in jump ing from the box to the stage, was much discolored and swollen, the blood from the wound havingsaturated the under clothing. With the assistance of Lieutenant L. B. Baker I took the body from the gunboat direct to the oh , enitentiary, adjoining the old arsenal groi .ids. The building had not been used as a ',lsola for some years pre viously. The Ordnance Department had filled the ground floor cells with fixed am munition. One of the largest of these cells was selected its the burial place of Booth. The ammunition was removed, a large flat stone lifted from its place, and a rude grave dug; the body was dropped in, the grave filled up, the stone replaced, and there rests to this hoUr all that remained of John Wilkes Booth. A Poor Rule that Don't Work Both Ways Last year a widow lady and her daugh ter, doing a brisk millinery business on one of our leading thoroughfares, returned a very handsome income to one of the asses sors. The other day the daughter, a neat bit of femininity, called at the same office with the income report for the present year. The report was neatly made out, perfect in t'orm, but showed that the millinery busi ness had not paid: indeed, there was a dead loss of $1,900. The lady gave in the return and sat down. The assessor and his clerks kept on with their business. After a long wait she timidly asked if she "should get it now, or would it be necessary to call again ?" "It ?" inquired the assessor, "I don't understand you." "Why," said she, "the $1,900 the Government owes ma!" She had to be cruelly undeceived. The poor souls thought that if the Government taxed incomes in prosperous times, it ought to make good the losses of an unsuccessful year.—Louisville Journal. .11obile—Kelley Under the Table " While Judge Kelley was speaking a po liceman was having a verbal altercation with a drunken fellow who was misbehav ing, and seized him for arrest. The crowd immediately around was excited, but not noisy nor violent. At this particular time the horses - attached to the ambulance of Colonel Shepherd's 15th infantry were frightened, and started to run through the crowd. Of course every person tried to get out of the way, and rushing furiously in every direction pressed against others; and some person, believing it to be a riot, fired a pistol, whereupon there was a general firing—some towards the speakers' stand and some from it. Lights were blown out. Kelley got under the table and then got away to the hotel, no one attempting to mo lest him. There was no person on the stand hurt. The only persons wounded and killed were opposed to the Radicals, except one negro, who was found dead some distance from the scene. The whole affair sprang up in a moment. There were no prepara tions for it. The party mostly armed were. the negroes. There is not a respectable' man here who does not greatly regret the occurrence. Many, of course, do not like Kelley's radicalism, but there was no dis position to prevent his speaking or break up his meeting by any leading man here. I was at the meeting a while, and all there seemed attentive and quiet. Judge Kelley came very hastily to the Battle House, and a guard of soldiers were thrown about the house to guard hint. He was taken to his meal by military, and seemed afraid to leave here for Montgomery in the regular steamer, having a special boat to carryhim from this wharf. He was in no more dan ger than I was, and could walk the streets with just as much safety. He did not need military protection any more than I do, but he called upon the military for effect. It seemed more martyr-like to need protec tion. It would create more sensation North. The Galveston Riot. The Galveston News of the Pith instant gives the following account of the riot in that city at a negro meeting the night be fore. It says: About five hundred negroes assembled last night on the lot in front of Turner Hall. The band played the Star Spangled Banner, after which Dr. R. R. Smith, of United States direct tax notoriety, nomi nated 0. F. Gunsacker President of the meeting. After several speeches by white Radical orators Stephen Paschal, negro, was introduced and commenced speaking, addressing himself to the whites, stated that if he had bad the same opportunity they possessed he would have been one of the smartest men under the heavens. "The colored man was the smartest man on the globe." [Voice in the crowd— " You're a liar."} Cries here arose of "put him out," "put him out." Paschal said, "Yes, put him out." Several women made for the party who had interrupted the speaker. The confusion became general and about fifty pistol shots were fired, which caused the crowd to disperse in all directions, even to the speakers on the stand. The greater, together with the lesser lights, ignominiously fled the field. We saw a medical gentleman, with a plug bat and eye glasses, under a bench along side of a negro woman, each trying to get as close to the floor as they possibly could. Such confusion, such excitement, we never saw before. The man who cried out "You're a liar" was a United States soldier. This the negroes all agree in stating, as well as a gentleman well known in the city, who was standing by him and not only saw the man, but heard him cry out.— There were only two persons injured, one negro shot in the thumb and one white man shot in the shoulder. The firing was mostly in the air and done entirely by negroes; this we saw ourself, are willing to swear to it; and we had the best pos sible position for seeing what was going on. A Calf on Stilts. The Zanesville (Ohio) Courier (Rad.,) thinks Judge Kelley's conduct at Mobile, his defianceof all attempts to prevent him speaking, and his bold declaration, that he had the army o f the United States at his back to protect him, and then retiring, frightened and demoralized, was such as to hand "him dewn to posterity as a craven to principle, a disgrace to the Union party, acowardtohina self." The Courier has the correct estimate of Kelley : He is a calf on stilts.—Cineinnati /Enquirer. Southerners in South Ame , lee. A Rio Janeiro letter says:-Some South ern planters have purchased land in the district of Citampinas, and are attracting the attention of the Brazilians by using the plough Bud other implements, and the: dealers in these articles are driving a brisk trade. Those America* who settled., on tae coast south of,Rlo have erected sawitills, andsirenaivenpplyingtheßiomarkni , xeo excellent timber. —2il Qbac eldvert aer, ay, litirsiersi On: FOgler, the murderer of Mr.'Dlusmore,in December last, who was.hung at Washing ton, Pa., a few dayik before 'his execution made a lengthy , confesam, occupying sev 4columns of fine prlnt, in which he de iNety mintit=irtPular in relation to crimtklisan etitnimunistances, and I,oisresulta. Fogler's""ccnifesaion is true, tnetbreeSons'of Mr. Montgomery were of thit modt.harcle'ned character. One of them, James,!_whn'kept a ; -store, suggested the robbery Dinsmorii,..after planning other crimes which failed through the scru ples of Fogler, who was a laborer in the employ of the senior Montgom ery. James Montgomery arranged that his younger brother, :globe," as he was familiary called, and. Fogler should commit the crime, and was impatient at their delays. At length the plot was car ried into effect, the two confederates in crime having blackened their faces. The first 'blows were struck by "Babe" Montgomery, who knocked Dinsmore down with a chair, and stabbed him, Fogler doing the shoot ing. Becoming alarmed at the disturbance created, the two ruffians ran off, leaving their victim to die, young Montgomery saying his brother James "could not call us cowards after that," and that it was one of the noblest acts he ever knew of." On their return to the village, James Montgomery assisted them.to hide the evi dences of their guilt, and gave directions how they were to act, offering the aid of himself and his wife to "swear them out of it." After the arrest of the criminals, law yers were procured by the Montgomeries for Fogler, who entrapped him by specious promises into a denial of "Babe's' com plicity with the crime, and by his silence, and the false swearing of some of the Mont gomery family, procured the acquittal of young Montgomery. Gogler was then left to die the death of a murderer. On the scaffold he solemnly reiterated his asser tions that the confession he had made was the truth. As may be imagined, the publication of the confession has created intense excite ment in Washington County, and through out that portion of Pennsylvania. Hon. Wm. Montgomery, the father of the A boys, William, James and A. J., accused by Fogler of a knowledge of, or participation in, the murder of Mr. Dinsmore, publishes a lengthy communication in the Washing ton Review, of this week, in which he goes into a close and searching analysis of the Fogler statement, to show its utter untruth fulness. Mr. Montgomery—who in this deplorable affair cannot but have the sym pathies of all reflecting men—urges that the Fogler confession was the work of several hands, and was gptten up for the purpose of injuring everybody who had taken any friendly part for the unfortunate and guilty wretch who purports to be its author,whilst those who arrested, convicted and hanged him are made the subjects of special lauda• don. Mr. Montgomery asserts that by this means Fogler hoped to gain a pardon, and save his life. He charges Fogler with beiflg a most abandoned liar. The main points in Mr. Montgomery's statement are—that the confession was com posed or dictated by others, impelled there to by personal hostility to himself and family; that the confession is totally un worthy of belief; and that the motive of Fogler in assenting to such statements, was to secure his own pardon by implicating those whom ho supposed would exercise their influence to that end, in order to silence him ; and, at the saute time, lie was obeying those personally hostile to Mr. Montgomery, and who were instrumental in getting the confession up. A Ship of Death Flouts into a Port of the Shetland Islands Since the tine when the Ancient Mariner told the terrible tale of the curse-laden ship with her crew of ghastly corpses, no more thrilling story of the sea has been related than that of the whale ship Diana, that re cently drifted into one of the Shetland Islands. A year ago she left the Shetlands on a whaling voyage to the Artie, regions, hav ing on board fifty men. From that time nothing more was heard of her. The friends of those on board became alarmed. Money was raised and premiums offered to the first vessel that would brine tidings of the miss ing ship, but all to ne avail. Hope was al most abandoned. On the 2cl of April the people near Rona's Voe, in one of the Shetland Isles, were startled at seeing a ghastly wreck of a ship sailing into the harbor. Battered and ice crushed, sails and cordage cut away, boats and spears cut up for fuel in the terrible Arctic winter, her deck covered with dead and dying, the long lost Diana sailed in like a ship from Deadman's Land. Fifty men sailed out of Derwick in her on a bright May morning last year. All of the fifty came back on her on the 2d of April, this year; the same, yet how different! Ten men, of whom the captain was one, lay stiffened corpses on the deck ; thirty five lay helplessly sick and some dying; two retained sufficient strength to creep aloft and the other three crawled feebly about the deck The ship was boarded by the islanders, and as they climbed over the bulwarks, the man at the wheel fainted from excitement; one of the sick died as he lay, his death being announced by the fel low occupant of his berth feebly moaning, "Take away this dead man." On the bridge of the vessel lay the body of thecap tam, as it had lain for four months, with nine of his dead shipmates by his side, all decently laid out by those who soon expect ed'to share their fate. The survivors could not bear to skin the bodies of their comrades into the sea, but kept them so that when the last man died the fated ship that had been their common home should be their common tomb. The surgeon of the ship worked faithfully to the last, but cold, hunger, scurvy, and dysen tery were too much for him. The brave old captain was the first victim, and died blessing his men. Then the others fell, one by one, until the ship was tenanted only by the dead and dying. One night more at sea would have left the Diana a floating coffin. Not one of the fifty would have lived to tell the ghastly tale. The Steamer Santiago de Cuba Ashore near Atlantic City—Several Passenger Drowned. The steamship Santiago de Cuba, Capt. Behn, having on board 350 passenger*, from California, went ashore, at quarter before four o'clock, on Wednesday morning, about five miles south of Atlantic City, and how lies within thirty rods of the shore. While getting the passengers ashore, seven per sons were drowned. When the steamship struck the passen gers were in their berths, but the blow shook the vessel so violently that all were aroused and soon on deck, and to their as tonishment they found the sea not very boisterous and the land in full view, though it had been foggy early in the night. The vessel struck first when about 300 yards from the shore, and then struck a second time and broached to, and went on towards the beach sideways until within about 150 yards of the shore. Three boats were lowered, and Capt. Kelley, an experienced seaman, a passen ger, took charge of the first boat. The three boats were filled with the lady passengers, and all reached the shore in safety, but un fortunately, as Capt. Kelley was making his second trip to the shore the boat was overturned in the surf and all were thrown in the water. There were in the boat about a dozen ladies, one child and four men row ing. The people gathered on the beach ran into the breakers, and by joining hands, managed to get thei passengers to the shore, but not in time to save all their lives. Sev eral persons and the child were drowned. These were Mrs. Ricker, Mrs. Mary Wal kins, a sinle woman; Mrs. Gross and child, and John Smith. The life-saving raft was also launched and a load of passengers safely landed; but on attempting to haul back to the ship by a line stretched from the vessel to the shore, three out of six of the crew of the steamer then on it were swept off, and one of them, the quartermaster, named McNulty, was drowned. All the passengers were safely landed, together with their baggage. The bodies of the drowned were recovered and taken to the Mansion House at Atlantic City. Capt. J. Townsend, Wreck Master, and his crew, took charge of the vessel, and expresses the opinion that it will bo got off without material damage, as it now lies easy in about ten feet of water at low tide. A,Strange Freak of Nature There were in this city not long since three children, all of whom were joined to gether at the hands. One hand on each of the right and lett figures was perfectly form ed as far as the finger joints, where they united with those of the central figure—the bands of the three being thus firmly clasped together. The central figure had no fingers, the end of the arm resembling a ball when clasped by the hands of his two companions. The arms of the trio were boneless from the shoulder to the finger ends, and could be bent or twisted into any conceivable shape. The limbs from the knees down were also boneless. At the knees there is said to have been a large protuberance, as if nature had intended them to act as substitutes for the boneless leg and useless feet. They are en tirely blind, the whole surface of the eye ball being of a deathly white color, and con tained no pupiL Their heads and bodies were perfectly formed, and the organizations and functions appeared perfect in each. They wore visited by a number of persons, among which was our informant, who says they were still-born; and vouches for the assertion. There was, we understand, no medical examination of the case, which is to be greatly regretted. The parents haveleft the city, taking with them the remains of the children.—Sandusky Beguter. A Human Wolf. • - A. foreign journal states that a man, with the instincts and habits of a wolf, has lately been discovered in a pack of wolves, in the kingdom 'of Oude, India. Wolves abound in that country and children are often car ried off by them; and the theory in this case is, that an infant was carried off by a she-wolf, adopted and raised to manhood, and now presents the appearance of a human wolf. The creature as been caught, clothed, andie now some by a gentleman living in a town some eight hundred miles Of Calcutta., Ere 'does not speak, eats his food int the gralutd, and avoids the gaze of the Mu= eye. Joel 'inditeSr, i'Valcv $441 4 1)j0d• 1 : 01 4 ur n death, has been released on bail at Auburn, to stand a nErw The Mayor and Chief of Police of Mobile have been deposed by order of .Gen. Pope, and other officers appointed in their places. A young lady in New York hang herself with the cord of the bridal bed on the morn.; ing after the marriage. A farmer in Smyrna, Del., is reported to have sold his strawberry crop of four acres for $4,000, the purchaser to do the picking. Mr. Bonner assures the Springfield Re publican that Beecher's Norwood is North ampton. Pio Nono gets fifty-eight thousand dollars from tka private contributions of the Roman Catholics of Philadelphia. Owing to the late frosts the peach orchards • In Delaware, along the bay shore, are not expected to yield more than a quarter crop. Twelve or fourteen men entered a bank ing house in Richmond, Mo., killed three men and carried off $4OOO from the money tray. A scriptural student, who has just heard of the Russian treaty, says Uncle Sam is like the prodigal son, because he is wasting his substance in a fur country. Cardinal Cullen, in a recent pastorial ad dress, speaks forcibly of the declining con dition of Ireland, saying that "-nearly 3,000,000 of the inhabitants have emigrated." Santa Anna, now an old man of seventy years, has been spending the winter on Staten Island. He is said to be worth n little less than a million. A Baltimore lad got his head fast between two iron railings upon a pair of steps the other day, and the rails had to be cut by a blacksmith before he could be extricated. Gen. Pope has issued an order districting the States of Georgia and Alabama for re gistration, and appointing a freedman 9n every board of registers. The Buffalo papers are excited over the appearance on the street of a husband of ninety carrying his infant of eight months', while his wife of seventeen walks by his side. Turkey being bankrupt, and having im posed taxes on every other imaginable thing, has at length resorted to a tax on babies, be cause they are " exempt from military ser- A man caught seven salmons in Main, last week, weighing one hundred and twenty-five and a half pounds, and sold them to the Parker House at Boston for 81.15 A Philadelphian says that the invitations of Jay Cook, the Government banker, to a party lately given by him, were as follows: " Guests received at 5-20 ; (lancing com mences at 7:30; supper at 10:40." The Thames Tunnel, Mr. Brunei's great work, which cost half a million of money, has been sold to a railway company for £lOO,OOO to be paid In ten annual instill- The newspapers of New York complain that that State this year pays in taxes twice the amount it cost to administer the Gov ernment of the United States for the eight years Thomas Jefferson was President. The constitutionality of the act of Assem - bly creating a new criminaljudicial district in Schuylkill, Lebanon and Dauphin coun- ties, was argued yesterday before the Su preme Court of Pennsylvania. Among the income returns in Washing ton, this year, the largest is that of H. 0. Cooke, banker, $89,000; W. W. Corcoran, the well-known bunker, returns $35,333, and G. W. Riggs, his partner, 57,058. Mr. Youatt, the famous veterinary sur geon, who has been bitten eight or ten times by rabid animals, says that crystals of ni ti ate of silver, rubbed into the wound, will positively prevent hydrophobia in the bitten person or animal. The latest invention reported from New England, so prolific in inventions, is an "automation hay-pitcher" for loading hay upon the cart in the field, the movement of the cart-wheels furnishing the motive power. Ex-Governor Hawley, of Connecticut. asks of the Hartford Courant : " Who knows but that a good many of us may yet have to pas our respects to an occupant of the White House, who traces his descent down from some wild and savage African chief!" The people of the Southern States want money, and it is represented to be so scarce in some portions of the South that planters who, in order to secure their crops, have been forced to borrow, have paid as high'as 10 per cent. per month for its use. A few nights since, six car-loads of oil took lire on a train which was coming down the mountain near Kittaning Point, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, andabout two hun dred barrels burned up. The flame illumina ted the whole valley between the Allegheny and Brush Mountains. Eggs with iron shells, it has already been announced, have been laid by the highly educated hens of Prussia. A Berlin chemist, who caused his hens to lay them, did so by teaching the hens to eat a preparation in which irop was used, and by compelling them to abstain from lime. Mary O'Gorman hanged herself in Jersey City one day last week. She was driven to commit the act by the cruelty and abuse of her sons, who were in the habit of beating her to compel her to give them money. After the deed one of the wretches stole 245 from the person of his dead mother and escaped. The next monthly statement of thepublic debt will show a slight Increase in the bobt since last report. The rumors about a July session of Congress to relieve the Treasury are declared to be mere speculations, as there is no probability that the Treasury will be embarrassed. In Boston harbor, on Monday, the divers who set about removing the pleasure yacht which was sunk on Sunday, found two of the women who were drowned when she went down, clinging to the rigging, holding on with a death-grip. Had they let go they would have come to the surface and might have been saved. The loss of the Santiago De Cuba is se verely commented upon. It is said that the loss of the ship was purposely arranged by the captain in pay of an opposition line to California. It is reported that an at tempt was made to wreck the steamer oil Hatteras. Thus spite has caused the loss of ten lives, a fine steamer and a valuable cargo. Mr. Daniel Gardner, of Lancaster, having lost several head of sheep recently, went wolf hunting, and soon found a borrow ing place, wherein were seven as fat and sleek wolf pups as eyes ever beheld. These he slow on the spot, and laking the ears to Lancaster, and duly filing the sworn proof, was handed bounty vouchers amounting to $126. It would seem, as the result of a long series of experiments conducted by Pro fessor Bellini, that the best antidotes against poison are tannic acid and tannin, chlorine and the tinctures of iodine and bromine. The agents do not, however, act chemically on the poison, but only through the astringent effects produced by the acid on the mucous or inner surface of the stoned). New York has some curious rain storms. A Waterford (N. Y.) paper announces that on Saturday it rained twenty seven times, and that ono man was workin gon the west side of a street when a shower came up which in three minutes wet him to the skin. Another man, working directly opposite, did not get wet at all, nor was ho aware that any rain had fallen in the vicinity. Chief Justice Chase has granted a writ of error in the case of Joseph Bruin, whose es tate was sold under a decree of the United States Court at Alexandria during the war. The writ is based mainly on the fact that the absolute estate was sold, which was be yond the power of the Court, and that the condemnation was for treason, of which the party could only be adjudged guilty by a Jury. An interesting pamphlet, embodying some curious facts in reference to the inter nal revenue, has just been published, from which we learn that out of the whole popu lation of the United States only 460,000 persons paid a tax upon incomes—in other words, that out of the thirty-five millions° our people, less than half a million have incomes of more than $6OO a year. In the Presbyterian General Assembly, at Cincinnati, yesterday, tesolutions were adopted urging measures for the liquidation of the debt of the Board of For eign Missions. A proposition was made to extend Home Missionary operations to Russian America. A committee was appointed to report measures looking to a more devotional style of church service. Among the names of those recently called to the bar in the Middle Temple, London, appears that of Budroodeen Tyab- Joe. This gentleman is a Mahomedan, and the first ever called to the English' bar. 'rho oaths of allegiance, &c., were admin istered to him in the usual terms, but he was sworn on the Koran. He intends to practice at the bar in Bombay, where he will be the first disciple of the Prophet who has ever'beld such a position in ~ntlla. A gentleman writes to the London Times in reference to hydrophobia, which Is now agitating England as well as this country, that the late Sir Benjamin Brodie recom mends caustic potash to cauterize the part bitten by a rabid dog. Sir Berdamis' reason for this, as given in his works, is, that dissolved caustic potash penetrate farther than nitrate of silver, and is, there fore, preferable to the latter, as more like ly to follow the course of the poison and neutralize its effects. During the past year a large hotel his been built in Georgetown, D. C., which'is about to be opened under the auspices of no leas noted a personage than Robert J. Walker. He is to be assisted in this new business by ason and son-in-law, and their intention is to make the house the' most quiet, comfortable and fa.shionablehomefor families to be found in' the District. Fifty years ago the great tavern which stood upon the site of the present edifiCe was fre,quent ed by John Randolph, who, with his nu merous servants in livery, and horses and carriages, gave place a celebrity , which will mot soon be forwitten: , Toolay r an ax- Secretary.of the Treasury, and au ea-Sena tor is about to, prove to. Eke .world that, nate can kee p a I}etel,'!
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