410.4kowtr. ESDAY' VZTE 5, 1567. • • Old Thall's,Pprnaeo, El s ewhere ,'we pnbliSh anotheriletter on conilicaticin froth the maliCiouti old pan who, we' believe; misrepresents this district in Congress. It will be seen that this letter is less sweeping in its demands than the one which pre ceded it; Ile has abandoned the seldier bounty part of his , scheme, and now proposes to confine his attention . prin cipally to such " mild confiscation" as will enable him to secure payment for property along the border destroyed by rebel raids and invasions, and 'ensure "small homesteads for the freedmen, to be furnished by the rebel masters, whom they conquered at our request." Perhaps the assertion that the negro freedmen conquered their rebel mas ters may sound a little strange to the million and a half of white sol diers who were disbanded at the end of the rebellion, to the many thou sands of maimed l white veterans who wear about do their persons the evidence of their gallant bravery and self-devotion, and to the white friends of the vast multitude of dead heroes who sealed their devotion to the Union with their blood. It may seem a little ungrateful, too, In Mr. Stevens to aban don his idea LC giving to the soldiers the largest slice of the moneys proposed to be raised by confiscation, But white soldiers must remember that just now the Radical leaders all feel that the very existence of their party depends upon securing the votes of negroes. Without that aid Thud. Stevens and his followers know that they are irrecover ably lost. Hence their disposition to make most liberal promises to that class, Their 'Tressed love for the sol dier has always been the veriest chain. Thaddeus Stevens showed his appreci ation of their cervices by securing the rejection by the radical Senate of two of the most worthy soldiers of this city, when they were nominated for Assessor and Collector of his district. But there is one other point in this last confiscation letter of the vindictive old erentUre to which we wish to cull attention. He says: "I demiro a lair valuation to be placed on all the property, whether pormonal property abstracted, or real property destroyed, ex cept Caledonia Iron Works In the County ()I' Franklin, which will not bo appraised, Ito I o remuneration is claimed tar That at first game° looks like a dis play of generous self-denial. One would suppose Thaddeus Stevens would be the lust man to forgive the rebels a farthing of any damage they might have none him. We are sorry to spoil the high moral effect of such an exhi bition of magnanimous disinterest edness. The secret of . Mr. Stevens' refusal to put In a claim for loss sustain ed by himself, is readily accounted for. f report lie true, lie has found in the ruins of his old, tumble down furnace, a greater source of profit than ever it was when in full blast. We have it, on the authority of his party friends in his own home, that lie has rented the charred remains at an ex horbitan I price to certain very wealthy parties, whom he helped to get out of a tight place in the whiskey business. If the figures have been correctly reported to us, he receives the snug little sum of (ii thousand dollars a year ren tal; with the further stipulation that the aforesaid rich distillers are to rebuild the concern in a substantial and work manlike manner, at their own proper cost. What per centage of the amount supposed to be due the Ciovernment will remain in the pockets of the cl ients of Mr. Stevens, after they have thus compen sated him, we have not learned. That he has been a shrewd lawyer all who know him admit; and we are assured that he always demanded all I received liberal fees. In the instance to which we refer he has shown that he still puts a very fair valuation upon his professional ser vices. We are informed, however, that his clients are not only well satisfied, but delighted with their bargain. In asmuch as his furnace was not worth ten thousand dollars as it stood at the time of the burning, Mr. Stevens can very well aflbrd to except it from prop. erty to be paid for out of the fund he p.roposes to rake by " mild confisca tion." The Military Reconstruction 11111 We publish elsewhere a synopsis of the opinion of the Attorney General of the United States in regard to the inter pretation of the bill providing a method of reconstruction for the States recently in rebellion. The act was so loose in its structure and so illy framed as to be al most unintelligible in some of its parts and peculiarly liable to misinterpreta tion, especially in the hands of men un accustomed to coustruirtg laws, as are l the Generals who have been placed in command of the territory which composed the Southern States. The opinion of the Attorney General is of immense importance to the people immediately affected by the act of Congress, and scarcely less so to us of the North. We are all alike interested in securing a speedy and permanent ad justment of the difficulties which are retarding the growth of the nation and crippling all our material interests. The various points raised by the Attorney General are discussed with clearness. and ability. 'He takes the law as he finds It, not touching the question of its unconstitutionality, but reviewing its provisions and laying down explicit instructions for the guidance of those whose duty it is to administer it, and of those who are to be affected by its ad ministration. His opinion specifies clearly who are to be regarded as qual ified under the law to take part in the reconstruction of the Southern States, and who are disabled either as voters or holders of office. By the terms of the act, as interpreted by the Attorney General, very many of the best and most intelligent of the whites of the States recently in rebel lion are disfranchised. They are plainly specified and cannot participate In the political affairs of their section. Still the mass of the whites can vote and bold office under the law. If they should accept the situation and use the influ ence they possess they may be able to control the coming elections in spite of the at tempt of the Radicals to succeed by inflamatory appeals to the uegroes. The functions and powers of the Military Governors and the various subordinates created by this anomalous bill, will be defined in another opinion which will be made public in a few days. The State Convention The Democratic State Convention to nominate a candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court will assemble at Harris burg on next Tuesday, the 11th day of June. AMONG the many good things said by the Louisville Courier is the sub joined : When a mob of Northern Radicals in sulted and tired upon the President at Indianapolis last year and would not let him speak, it was considered a good But when a little disturbance occurs at Mobile, caused by the intolerable insolence of a Congressional 'Jacobin, it is a matter worthy 01 investigation by a Congressional committee, backed by an army. It makes a difference whose os is being gored. BEN Bum En. says that the diamond pin that Booth wore wnen captured cannot be found. We are astonished. It could net be that Baker or anybody connected with the party that hunted him down could have stolen it. We should as Boon suspect Butler himself. The Cause of 'our Financial ;Troubles. ;. _The3etterwf : P .. t3eoebsryo,rsilongb= to the Beaton eapittilista - has given `radical riwspapersmuchtrouble. Their efforts to counteract the effeuits , ' , of its :plain unvarnished statenietits are diversified bt t prec4„___KY;*... and unsatisfaetOry. ,43:"Lallg , fliboi#Jher high prices whOt work of hard Ittitaited sPaCtilatorki,atry to makelikht k otthit ugi3i::*it,tbak all the heavi!' taiatlon efidtitia..W the' people is utterly insufficient to meet the current expenses of the government under their wasteful and extravagant management; assert that it is not de tiirable . that the ..present generation should pay any partof the:princlpal of the. enormous public debt which .has been created; and inddlge in any amount of loose and Oily twaddle to blind their credulous readers. 'They dare not speak the truth, dare not 'ad mit that the one great cause of'our financial troubles is the impoverished condition of the South. To dO so Would be to set the seal of condemnation on the course which Congress has pursued, and to furnish to every, voter in the in the Northern States the strongest inducements to repudiate the Republi can party. In the meantime the people are quiet ly reading and thinking. They know hat the South produced the great bulk of all that we exported before the war; that it consumed the bulk of our manufactures, and a very large per centuge of our agricultural surplus; they see that under the present state of affairs the industry of the South is crushed to the earth, and must continue prostrate until the people of that section are left free to manage their local and domestic institutions us a wise policy shall dictate to them.- The masses of the North know, or If they do not, must soon learn that the establishment of a military despotism over the South and the encouragement of the negroes to desert the labors of the field and to devote themselves to political excite ment Is fatal to the industry of the most productive section of our country. He is very stupid indeed who cannot see that we must go on from bad to worse until the Southern States are perma nently restored to their places in the Union, the negro population induced to engage quietly in labor, and the fields laid waste by war made to yield their rich return for labor. Generosity, magnanimity, Christi anity and statesmanship all demanded that we should pursue a humane and conciliatory course toward the South upon the termination of the rebel lion. We refused to listen to the teachings of wisdom, and disdained to follow the dictates of kind ness. We demanded the pound of flesh, forgetting that by the inexora ble laws of political economy, we should be compelled to pay a most enormous price for the gratification of our revenge ful feelings. We are just beginning to suffer for our folly. We must and will retrace our steps, but it willtake years to repair the disasters which have resulted from the unwise course pursued by the fanatics in Congress since the war end ed. The people of the North refused to listen to the voice of wisdom, and they are now being taught by rude experi ence. They declined to heed the dic tates of a generous humanity, and they are now being appealed - to by the most selfish motives. They see and feel that they can not longer afd in oppressing and impov erishing the South without suffering for it in their pockets. That is a pre veiling argument. Few men are proof against It, and in this case none should be. Self-Interest now combines with all higher motives to induce the masses to repudiate the corrupt leaders of the Republican party. Can any one doubt what must be the result? The late elections are only straws which show how the wind blows. The Republican party has had its day, and it must go down ; neither negro suffrage nor any other device can save it. Greeley's "Mlle Creatures." Horace Greeley hit It exactly when he styled the mass of those who conduct radical newspapers, "the little creatures whom God, for 80711 C MS CrUtablepurpose, permits to edit a majority of our journals." He caught their likeness at once and painted their portraits with photographic accuracy and rapidity. They, are the most infinitessimal "little creatures" now living. Greeley knows them well. As an editor of a Radical journal he is doomed to read much of their silly and stupid vaporing as he glances over his exchanges. We do not wonder that he burst out In one sharp utterance as full of truth as it is of bitterness. We know something of the character of Radical newspaper editors in Penn sylvania. Some of them are clever men, and a few are men of ability, but their editorial columns are a disgrace to the profession. For years past they have constantly and persistently indulged in the perversion of all political truth.— They have not dared to discuss in a fair and impartial manner any of the great questions before the people, and upon a right settlement of which the best in terests of the nation depend. .They have all the time acted as if they fear ed-to allow any appeal to be made to the reason of the masses. Their columns have been constantly filled, to the ex clusion of everything better, with ap peals to the baser passions of their readers. While the war progressed, and since it ended, their sole aim has been to kindle and keep allyeanimosity between the two sections of the country. They have preached nothing but hatred from day to day, and from week to week. On the continuanl of such an unnatural condition of public senti• ment, and on that alone, they have shown that they regarded the very existence of their party as entirely de pendent. They have vied with each other in the invention of terms of abuse and in the application of harsh epithets to all who have differed with them in opinion. Take away from the Radi cal newspapers of the North their stock of foul slang and their editorial columns would be left blank. Never was their such an exhibition of combined weak ness, stupidity and malignity as they constantly present. We do not wonder that Greeley was forced to cry out against them. In their eagerness to seize upon the present ad vantages of power they have not only shown au utter disregard of all the best interests of the nation, but even of the more enduring interests of the party they have . been prgfeesink, to serve. They. have cared only, for the advance ment of their immediate selfish ends, and have been utterly reckless of the great future. The people are beginning to estimate them as they deserve, and the Masses will agree that they have beeri rightly characterized as, "the little creatures whom. God, fororne inscruta ble Purpose; Permits to edit our jtadi cal) journals..." THE New York Evening Gazette is responsible fOr' the following: Rev. Joel T. Headley, author of the sky rocketty "Napoleon and his Marshals," and other extravagantly florid books, is declared to be the writer of Detee4ve ,Baker's sensa tional assumed-to-be Autobiographic vol ume. Portions of the volume look as if they might have been prepared by the Rev. Serenck Howe, late . of the Mima ohusetts Legislature. Laws Made alacalneri; AgbP.4O4IIMOMIXEMINCIOE:Ai late Legislature of this State was so marked, notorious and open that, Red publican newspapers have beetl.:Com-, 6 1 Riled:to denounce it„, in the plidneett f ms. .E3pih.a. iietitt*encl44llsti $ liar bigh ;adduced' which may be : ,addefi !gardedascumnlittive:Watave become', weacief publishing therecord ofeliame, been niadeittity theltadicid majority of the late &Mite and House of Representatives, but almost daily there are new developments of their iniquity requiring to be chronicleft. A Harrisburg reporter, whose factiltiee •for observing; ,the condition„cif Wafts. during tlmeesslon, were equal to those of any one, writes, to a Radical news paper,' the; Philadelphia Inquirer; a lengthy accoun't . of themanner in which laws vim ma,nufaettved. Forgetting the Sehatoriatharvest, the writer says that the iarospeots at the opening of the session looked gloomy for a return to the membere of the money they had expended. in securing their election, and their only recourse was— " If the people would not seek the law makers, the law.inakera could seek the people." Forthwith atiyitemof making business was devised, which resulted in the appointment of committees with varied powers, known as "smelling committees," These perambulated the State, investigating a variety ofsubjeots, "To prominent railroad managers they came like hawks upon a brood of chickens." Says the writer: "If they were really appointed for any legitimate purpose, they never once achieved it. If they found any evil IL stlll exists, for in no single case did they ever remedy it. If they were designed to secure good legisla tion on any subject, they never succeeded in the effort. They wore of no possible use to the people, whatever benefit may have accrued to the committees," Another equally bad form of lesiola- Om was the enactment of special bills of incorporation, for mining and rail road purposes, with the names of friends and relatives of the members Inserted as corporators, which measures not un frequently interfered with the vested rights of other parties. Passing from the above illustrations of "how to raise the wind," the writer gives the manner in which the laws were made : "The legislators of 1807 actually passed laws at the rate of thirty to the hour, without reading theta except by their titles. To ap preciate the enormity of this transaction it must be remembered that these laws were to govern the widow and the orphan, the beggar and the capitalist, men of all re• ligious creeds, business interests and con nections. A solemn duty, that of protect• ing the citizens in every right that human ity holds dear, thus degenerated into a farce. Day after day, whole pages of print ed titles were enacted_into laws, without the contents of the bills being read I But this farce was rendered even more ridicu lous. To give a color of deliberation to the transaction, it was required in some cases that the person representing the Legislative District to which the bill (by its title) was supposed to refer, should say 'All right l' Whereupon it passed. An immense ma jority thus delegated to some one man the exercise of all their own duty, ability and judgment. "This system produced its unavoidable results. Members, officers and reporters, became entangled in the maze. Nobody knew exactly what bills had passed, or what ones had fallen.. The duty of the speakers and officers was merely executive, and they had neither the power or ability to resist the wishes of a majority which seemed determined to transform a deliber ative body into a machine lor turning out laws with lightning rapidity. "Not unfrequently after some apparent ly trifling bill had been printed for weeks, it would be modified two or three minutes before its passage by the substitution of an entirely new bill, with new provisions. It was quite common for a measure which had passed one House in a harmless shape, to have some objectionable amendment quietly attached to it in the other branch. 'the English language was tortured to sup ply apparently harmless phrases which could afterwards be construed so as to con for immense powers. In one case a local corporation, nominally to operate in a little township, came very near being trans formed into a mammoth organization, by adding the words, "and elsewhere." In another case, under cover of a city railroad in a Western village, was concealed a pro ject to Willi a steam railroad anywhere in the State. The members of the Legislature of 1867 unquestionably knew that such practices wore common at the very time they allowed bills to be passed by their title, under the 'all right' system ; yet they took no warning. " This is the way that laws were made at Harrisburg, and this is the reason why many bills escaped the attention, not only of interested parties, but of the newspaper press at the dine of their passage. Does any man wonder at It?" We ask the honest voters of Pennsyl vania to reflect seriously upon the facts as set forth above. Let them remember at the same time that such abuses have only been known since the advent of the Radicals to power. Never were any such charges made against a Democratic legislature ; and it is admitted to-day, even by Radical journals, that the cor ruption and razioulity of recent legisla tures has been almost entirely confined to the Radical majority. Relief for the South. As an effort is about to be made in Lancaster to raise funds for the relief of the starving people in certain districts of the South, we have thought this to be an appropriate occasion-to publish the beautiful speech delivered by Rev Dr. Boardman, at the meeting in Phila delphia on the 15th of March. We will not undertake to add anything to this eloquent appeal, which covers the whole ground and leaves no one who reads it in doubt about his duty. The needs of the suffering people of the South are perhaps greater now than they were in March. Their scanty sup plies have been di min ishedNy consump tion, and their harvest, though earlier than ours, will not be cut till late in June. This is a critical time with them —the most critical, in all probability, that they have had to pass through— and relief now will be most opportune and serviceable. Other sections of Pennsylvania have contributed liberal ly, and we trust the " Garden of the State" will not be found wanting in this emergency, but that her contribution will be in proportion to the botinties with which a kind Providence has blessed her. Farewell to Cheap Goods The editor of the financial and coln• mercial column of the Philadelphia Ledger thinks we may bid a long fare well to cheap cotton goods. This will be bad news. to poor people, who will sigh, but sigh in vain, for a return of the good old Democratic times when gold and silver were plenty, when taxes were low and almost unfelt, when mus lins and calicoes of good quality could be bought for eight and ten centsa yard, and when a coupie of dollars would till a large basket with marketing. The Ledger says : Cheap cottons will probably never be known again in this country. The high price of labor, as compared with prices be. fore the war, forbid it. In the days of slavery, tlfe negro women of the South con stituted fully one-half the field force in the light labor of cotton culture. Even last year they worked in the field to a'consider able extent; but a Southern correspondent writes that this year they have'alniogt en-'' tirely withdrawn Flom' They declare that" the white women never work out; but are supported by their men'; thatit ought to be so, and 'that they (the blacks) will not submit anymore to out door work." We have no doubt that they Will adhere to • this.determlnation. So the cotton planters must give up all hope of seeing thiim again in the field. The increase of wages in' ,the South may, and'probably *ill' be, in .some *mum soinpeisated:for, in'extending , tlie cultivation of cotton to new fields of opldia dons. In California' much interest isfeltin the attempts' making there to cultivate this great staple on a large Scale, and it is be lieved a considerable breadth of land- will 'be devoted twit the current .3; , ear. Mean predation lathe price slimethe 'prostration 'of 'Southern industry, and the establish dient•of cotter' mills nearer • to' the -seat of• o posumption of-manufactures, haVe created •indlitements to wow the raw Material not' previously' existing, While this will tend somewhat •tioheapen the product of cotton;' thereierlittle probability of ever iieblng;bB-.' Ore-thelwar•prioes current here, Secretary jinhanclal We publish elsewhere the material 4 point k pf a letter from Secretary lifcCpl7 flouglfl to a number of distinguish'. C '.t) 3 0 8 0, 11 m,erchallif- : beisisto th Rhe ikidoiOge! sei-h4eftil 6tok4littare,, {offal s itu ssw.he fle He, 11$d' Aveiy, eagadoile Of theslaybeglitsf to see plainly t* l troubles •- • whiiill ) ',threaten to come npiarns right speedily:: That the National debt will be increased instead of being diminifilied during the present year Mr. McCul ough candidly confesses.- Enormous and burtheftsfe • as is the taxation now. pressing Su n the' people, it will- fail to meet the 'our:- rent_expenditOreit'.atithorlied vby a cor -rypt ,and reckless . Congress. This is not a,pleitilant.picture and ; its contem plation is well calculated to oast a gloom over all financial circles. We are be 'ginning to reap the fruit of Radical folly. The exercise of ordinary politi cal sagacity since the conclusion of the war , would have saved us from disasters and diflicultlea" which now seem to be inevitable. • When tae fanatics in Con gress deliberately chose to "Pursue a line of policy calculated to impoverish the South and to throw all the burthens of the government upon the toiling masses of the North, they deliberately paved the way for financial disasters of the most formidable °Wader. Had the people of the North been wise they would have repudiated the Insane policy of the Radical loaders at the last elec tion for Congressmen. They did not see clearly what would be the result of their action, and instead of followlpg the dictates of reason allowed thefh-• selves to be influenced by passion and blind prejudice. The day is coming however when the masses will rise up against those who &mei ved them. Then they who have brought the Republic to its present unfortunate condition will be called to "a strict account. The hour of retribution draws nigh. In the meantime there can be nQ contraction of our inflated paper cur rency, no return or approach to specie payments, no lowering of prices and no diminution of taxes. Trade must con tinue to be dull, production must be checked, mechanics must be thrown out of employment and distress must ensue. Our troubles can only have an end when the Republican party is driven from power, the South restored to the Union and the present reign of extravagance which now distinguishes our legislation replaced by a rigid economy in the management of the finances of the Nation. Row the Radicals Make Laws. We publish elsewhere an account of the manner in which the Sunday Liquor Law and the Gettysburg Lottery Swin dle were pushed through the Legisla ture. The people will read this expose of the manner in which laws are made by the Radicals with astonishment.— Such an exhibition of reckless careless ness on the part of legislators was never before known. I.' he truth is, it has come to pass that a majority of the members of both branches of our legislature are chiefly employed in looking after pay ing jobs. If there is a private corpora- i tion seeking legislation the eyes of every member• of " the ring" are wide open, and each one takes especial good care to secure his " divy." Business of a pub lic character is left to the care of a few honest men in each branch ; such men for instance as Wallace, and a few others in the Senate, and Boyle, Jen kins and a select dozen or so in the House. The rest give all their time and attention to the manipulation of remunerative private bills. It is no torious that during the last session the few public bills of a proper character which were passed were put thokugh the exertions of the Democratic minor ity. If they had been left to the care of '• the rings," which were made up from the dominant party, they would in all probability have been left to sleep in the several committees. We ask every one to read carefully the account to which we refer. It is high time the people should seriously reflect upon the conduct of the legisla tures which have assembled at Harris burg for several years past. The State is being annually disgraced by the cor ruption and venality which prevails, and the interests of the people are utterly disregarded by those who are selected to make our laws. Let all honest voters resolve to effect a speedy and perma nent reform of the gross abuses which have been introduced by the Radicals now in power. Radical Assertion of State Rights. The Radicals have assailed the doc trine of State Rights most bitterly.— From the very beginning of the rebel lion they have made persistent and un ceasing warfare upon all who have dared to stand up for the reserved rights of the States in the Union. By dint of the most unscrupulous misrep resentation, they have managed to in duce many simple-minded people in the North to believe that the preserva tion of the reserved rights of the sev eral States was incompatible with the maintenance of the power and sov ereignty of the general government. They have time and again asserted the right of Congress to exercise supreme control over the affairs of the several States. When it was proposed to foist negro suffrage upon the Northern States, the friends of the bill, Sumner, Wilson, Thad. Stevens and their fol lowers, pretended to derive the power from that clause of the Constitution which 'relates to a Republican form of government, and from the amendment Nl2tvery. Then the power of Congress was :yokel' of ,13.t3 supreme, and the right of the several States to regulate the election franchise was com pletely ignored. But they have already shown how inconsistent they can b e on this, as on other questions. In I,lissouri, a Radi cal State court has decided that neither the Supreme Court of the United States nor any other bran( di of the General Government can pr event a sovereign State from determining the qualifica tions of voters therein. In deciding the case of General F. T. Blair, a decision has been rendered by the Supreme Court of Missouri which deprives him and a large class of white men from voting. Such a decision was necessary to insure a continuance of the Radical rule with which the people of that State have been cursed; and it was forth coming, all the (apposition of the party to State Rights to the contrary not withstanding. lEn rendering' its deci sion the Court said: prior to the adoption of the Federal Con stitution, the respective States possessed unlimited and 'unrestricted sovereignty, and retained the .same, ever afterwards, ex , oept so far as they granted' certain powers to .the General G overnMent or prohibited themselves from doing certain acts.. Every State reserved to itself the exclusive right of regulating its !own -internal , govermpent and police. „ , , That is as une.q,uivocal an announce ' rhenfrof the doctrine of State rights as was,ever made sit any.. political' aSasni blage in the crown:try. 'We Pkit it uPori record "as4he boldest and broadest asser t:ion of State rights made by, any court since the war begun. It serves to mark the inconsistency of the Radical leaderis; ' and, the disposition to resort to any pedient ,to: maintain their hold on. Power. • ' The, Gtoverrunent a vices from New Or ' feanashows that the Government is fully. `secured in its account' with the• First Na ,tinnal Bank of that city, and private .Rositeus vOrt get a large Blare , of that', money:" ' To the PaKot-lioughto!.!,_ .4. eyed at a euggelition which we e - on Thursday that you should . an account of your ateirardship, s u tiPlans of some,slB,oo4„whl4L 04irstood had beenvair#ll4,o26 Vfle ligaln this city in Febru(o, 1884,japd ilia you should pay over,Ahe balatice which mizht be in ~yodr: hands , sb We managers of the Hbikiktilop less Children, an institution which we believe to be exceedingly worthy of all the pecuniary aid that it can obtain.— We yeaterday, ladles, by theiff wI lusitinied to, Spealt."l6r , yoii, `-'11:11t you had priblishidanchtui account' _ all we desired, in one of the newspapers" . of•thls city, about a year ago. Ai you never furnished this account ,to.us,for publication pia can hardly be surprised: that it had not come under our obserfli- tion, or that of the class of this Vona naunity, among whom our paper alone circulates. We find the account referrefii to in the Express of May 6th, 1866, (a newspaper published daily in this city for the edification of a small circle of admiring friends.) The only portion of this 80-called re• port, ladies, which at all refers to the moneys received and expended by you, is the following: To fair for Soldiers' Home, $300; groceries for soldlors' families, and others in need, $7OO 02 ; coal for soldiers' families, $107.80 ; shoes for soldiers, $87,55; clothing for sol diers and families, 1.381010; moat for sol diers' families ,$ 87.01 ; room runt for one year, $B5 ; sowing and knitting, $105.10 ; to disabled soldiers and funeral expenses, 01, $303,04 ; total amount of expenses in mak ing the hospital clothing and other stores, in paying their freight, in buying provision, and in paying the expenses of nurses, eta., $12,103,88 ; total amount of receipts of the Society, $14,500.00 ; total amount of ex penses, Including the above bills, $14,482.30; balanco on hand, $18,30. You yvill pardon us, ladies, for Baying that such a loose lump statement as the above must necessarily fall to satisfy the public. It is not such an account as should be rendered of auy business transaction. You were obviously aware that this was not an "account " at all, for you yourselves style it simply a "report." You will observe that it is not very specific in its statements. You state your total amount of cash receipts to have been $14,800.60; but do not give a single one of the items making up that amount. Your Society was organ ized, as you say, April 22, 1861. On February 22, 1864, and the ensuing week, you held a Fair, which we be lieve realized nearly $lB,OOO ; so that, if this amount is included in your state ment of total receipts, you received in the first two years and ten months of your existence, less than $2,000. If you say the receipts of this Fair are included in your statement, we shall have no hesitation in believing such to be the fact; although we had not heretofore fully understood you to state that this was so. As you remember, about the time the Fair was held, the Sanitary Commission was holding Fairs all over the country, and there was talk of your Fair being somehow under their au spices; so that we thought there might have been a separate account opened by you for the large receipts of this Sol diers' Fair. Again, in your Report, you specify the special purposes for which you ap propriated $2,288.42 of your fund; but, you simply state that the balance of the fund paid out, $12,163.88, was expended " in making the hospital clothing and other stores, in paying their freight, in buying provision and paying the ex penses of nurses, &c ;" this was a lump ing charge, which only your very natural ignorance of book-keeping, would Justify you in expecting would be entirely satisfactory to the contribu tors to the funds of your association. We believe, however, that we now Understand your friends to say that you have embraced in your Report, all the moneys you ever received from any source, and can readily satisfy any doubting mind that they were all ex pended for legitimate purposes. Have we understood your friends aright ? If so, we regret that our hopes that the "Home for Friendless Children" or some other equally worthy charity, would be benefltted by the reception of a handsome sum from you, are doomed to disappointment. We have endeavored to talk to you frankly ladies, yet courteously; we would deem it base indeed, to take ad vantage of our position as Editors and as men to treat you otherwise. We know it would be utterly impossible for you as women, to respond roughly to rough treatment, and that you are therefore practically defenceless ; we respect too much that one of your sex, for whom we have the least respect, to take advantage of her helplessness. We know it is disagreeable to you even to be alluded to in public prints ; yet you are often called upon to occupy public positions as patrons of public charities, and you, very properly, often assume the disagreeable responsibilities which are thus cast upon you. The most re sponsible of these offices,lis that of the proper, disposition of the moneys en trusted you, for the public will require an account to be exhibited to them of their disposition and . amount, even when they have been placed in the hands of "angelic woman." You were not angelic during the war, dear friends; but now that Peace has unfurled her snow-white banner, we trust that you read your bibles more attentively, and have attained a heavenly frame of mind. Thus as the public did not seem to understand the state of the fund in your h.ands, Patriot Daughters, we have been compelled to call upon you for an explanation, and we think we, have done you a real service in so doing, be cause we have given you an opportu nity for explanation, which you, may still further improve through our col umns, should such be your inclination. In suggesting that you publish a de tailed statement of your receipts and expehditures, we have only given ex pression to the wish of the community, which it might be as well that you should heed. We regret, ladies, that a scurvy fel low who edits :a scurvy sheet in our town, should have assumed to be your chainipion in this matter, and we feel, qudte sure that he has made this assump tion with Out your authority. To be championed in such a way, is worse than not to be championed at all; for even you ladies, we fear, cannot touch pitch without being defiled. Two Currencies. ''Phe Cincinnati Enquirer says We have two currencies—one for the peo ple and one for the bondholder% The peo ple aret obliged! to :take legal, tenders for their debts, while the bondholders have gold. The legal tenders are good enough for the masses but the bondholders must have something, better The money of the people is anbjected to, State and local taxa tion, while that 'of the bondholders, de rived fromitheir bonds, is exempted from it. The bondholders theiefore, have the gold currency and no taxtitlon; 'and the people have a paper 'Currency ' with 'heavy taxation. We have 'a computabry''papef Wttr. reney for the people andagOld eArrency for the owners of ,the _Government bonds—the latter, eurreney.is at pan and the former is now thirty-eight , percenti beloW par. The people .are taxed and the capital in hOnds!is not taxed. It is thus that we have .a , method, provided by which the aa - pitalistoin escape bear ing any share of theTublio' bitrtheina h but there .no such', provision for the laboring Min. • . . . The New -York Constitutional COuveu tion has began itauengOus ffi Albany: I to ' The diaQUoir - OT n of Henry Clay in the oitg of Louisville haadrihere ,Ottintio'nwto: l thiki gre at , and alider./Wejlublish •114krewith, as opr9priat4i, ,t 2 "!he time, memorable;the AM* o f Mr. cia'Ye as fo the, nj4ilotu3! .. Oote of the 4)::ollibin rtiOeliveto in the Senate ofthe United ijitates 4 1n18891a saViifuran'd melancholyl a realization. Looking down the Vista of the future with the glance of the sun, the statesman of Kentucky predicted what would be the 'cOrisEquences if Abolitionism organized a tiectiobal.N . orthernparty.. How truly it bielal Oipvto pass, and .how unfor tunate that 'his Warning was not re garded, any man can perceive, at a glince. Aare it is in hie speech.iipon the Abolition question, made, as we have .befOrc said, in 1839. We quote from golton's life of Clay, page 157, volume 6. He said: !'Sir: I um not in the habit of speaking ' I lightly of the poSsfbility of dissolving this • happy, Union. The Senate knows that I have doprocated allusions, ou ordinary oc casions, to that direful event. The country will te stify that if there be any thing In the 1 histdry of my public 'areer worthy of rec ollection, it is the truth and'sincerity of my ardent devotion to its lasting preservation. But wo •should be• false to our allegiance to it, if we do not discriminate between the imaginary and real dangers by which it may bo assailed, Abolition should no longer be regarded aeon imaginary danger. The Abolitionists let mo suppose, succeed in their present aim of uniting the inhab itants of the tree,States, as one man, against the inhabitants of the slave States; union on the one side will beget union on the other, and the process of reciprocal consolidation will be attended with all the violent preju dices, embittered passions, nod implacable animosities which ever degraded or do formed human nature. A virtual (111480111. tion of the Union will have taken place, while the forms of its existence remain. The inoSt valuable element of Union, mutual kindness, the feelings of sympathy, the fraternal bonds which now happily, unite us will have been extinguished forever— one section will stand in menacing and hostile array against the other. Tho col lision of opinion will be quickly followed by the clash of arms. I will not now at tempt to describe scenes which now happily lie concealed from our view. Abolitionists themselves would shrink back in dismay ' and horror at the contemplation of desolated Holds, contiagrated cities, murdered inhab itants, and the overthrow of the fairest fabric of human government that ever rose to animate the hopes of civilized man. Nor should those Abolitionists flatter themselves that, if they succeed in their object of uniting the people of the States, they will enter the Contest with a numerical superiority that must insure victory. All history and experience proves the hazard and uncertainty of war. And we are admon ished by Iloly Writ that ' the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.' But tf they wore to conquer, whom should they conquer? A foreign foe, one who has in sulted our flag, invaded our shores, and laid our country waste? No, sir; no, sir! It would lie a conquest without laurels, without glory ; a self, a suicidal conquest; a conquest of brothers over brothers, achieved by one over another portion of the descendants of common ancestors, who nobly pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor; and fought and nled, side by side, in many a hard battle on land and ocean—severed our country from the British Crown, and established our inde pendence." Relying U; yin the Negro Vote. We find the l .flowing item occupying a prominent place in all the Radical newspapers of the country : The Republican State Central Committee of Maryland has issued a call for a Border , State Convention, to be held on the 12th of September next, in this city. The States of Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ten nessee, and Missouri are invited to co-ope rate in the movement with Maryland, and to send to the proposed convention as many delegates, without regard to race or color, as each State may deem expedient or find convenient. The object of the convention is to organize and make an influential ap peal to Congress on the part of the Border States for the passage of the Sumner-Wil son bill, or other efficient legislation which may lead to the establishment throughout the Union of the grand principle of man hood suffrage. 1 1 The Radical leaders frankly admit that they can not maintain their hold on the power they have so flagrantly abused without the aid of negro votes. Unless they can summon to their assist ' ance that class in the North and the South they very well know that they have no hope of succeeding at the com ing Presidential election. Every elec tion which has been held for months past proves that the mass of white 1 voters in the North are falling off from the corrupt and fanatical party now in power. Another despatch from Wash : ington says that, Senator Sumner and others of his class are busy at the Na tional capital writing letters to Rad ical Congressmen, urging them to be present in July, In order to pass a law conferring the right of negro suffrage upon the negroes in the dif ferent ;Northern States and territories. The work they say pill not admit of delay. They have abandoned all hope of being able to succeed without the passage of some such sweeping enact ment. What a condition for a political party Is:that ! How can white men with a sense of proper self-respect continue to support it? It is confessedly left without hope of success unless it can succeed In defeating the will of a vastmajority of the white men of the country, by stuff ing the ballot boxes ivith negro votes. Previous Pardons. When Gegry was inaugurated Gov ernor he endeavored to attract attention by making a grand flourish about the pardoning, power. With much parade he announced certain rules by which he said .he intended to be governed in all cases of the kind. Whether this was done to deceive the public as to his real intentions is not definitely known, but his conduct would lead to the supposi tion that it was. Since he has been governor he has made most reckless use of the pardoning power, not refusing in any instance to pardon numerous ap plicants of the Radical persuasion. In a number of counties Radical offenders arraigned for crimes and misdemeanors have produced previous pardons and been discharged upon them. At the last criminal sessions for York county no less than four such pardons were ex hibited and the accused thus sheltered from the punishment they deserved. One of the rules voluntarily laid down for himself by Geary, if observed. would have prevented nis granting any previ ous pardons. We agree with the Age in expressing a hope that a tall history of all of that character will be given to the public, to show how Geary's preach ing and practice differ. Booth's - Diary. Grave doubts are expressed as to the authenticity of the diary which. has been published as' that of J. Wilkes Booth. Gross inaccuracies of statement are detected in it for which Booth could have hadmO possible motive. It does not tell the story of the assassination correctly, for Booth exclaimed" sic Bern per t,yrannis" after he leaped on the stage And not as he fired at the Presi dent. Baker repeated several circum stances as being mentioned in it which do not appear in what was pUblished. As a whole it is thought to be unlike Booth's habitual style of expression.— It is getting_to be generally believed that for some purpose Stanton and his tool Baker have palmed off a forgery on the public. Ohio Politics. The Republicans of Ohio have been htinting all over .the State for a candi date:for Governor, and haVe had no little trouble ,to find a man willing to. run on their. negro suffrage and negro! equality`platform. They- have at last incoteded in inducing, General R. 13; Mayes, of Cincinnati; to, consent to be .beaten. The,Demotrats .of that. gtate-, arein high hcipes, and. are organizing, for agrand , ,?truggle. 'They, expect to rode* tlie:•B,4okey.St4ite• 41ialliumh Wasti on. I • Waitticgr ton i litta resulted in a triumph of the negroei over the it'hite•tipst;ekths cap ital of the nation. ft. "0001111 telegraph to,Forney,'s PRESS inntruilees the re-' ,11(ilb#3 follows ' 131 ) /. W.sailii*Zei:lnneil; 1867: * ekectidithere to-dkyjiassed off very ,and, althoughlhere was some ex arfrement, ,no. , disturbanhe , :clocurred. The &Noe %o perfect for cpreserving order Wire So perrect that any attempt at dis turbance was hopless. The Copperheads used every effort to deceive find mislead the colored voters. They had prepared five different kinds of bogus tickets, andso com pletely counterfeited the regular Repub lican ticket that the cheat could only be discovered by the closest scrutiny of the names -of the candidates.— The wrilie Repulloans and the more intelligent of the colored men were every where active and vigilant. They hadivig- Rance committees at every precinct, and each colored man's ticket was carefully examined by members of these committees before he voted it.. The Copperhead judges of elections, in several precincts, endeavor ed to defeat the' 'Republicans by delaying , votes. In this way hundreds were prevent ed from'voting, and this has had the effect of lessening the Radical majority. It did not, however prevent the Republicans from carrying the city. They have elected the general ticket, consisting of collector, regis ter, and surveyor, by about two thousand majori,y: They will have a majority in the City. Councils. The fact that only a portion of time Board of Alderman were elected this time, will leave that body still in the hands of the Copperheads. It is a groat triumph of freedom and universal suffrage. Next year the Republicans will elect ovary city official from the Mayor down; and thus re deem the national capital from Copperhead rule. The Prom has au editorial glorying over the result, in which it says: The news from Washington this morning proves conclusively which way the colored matt will vote. livery effort was made by the Democracy, that to prevent their regis tration, and, then to delude and deceive thorn, but they wore not to be defrauded out of their votes or ticket, They catno to the polls fu early morning, In large bodies, and patiently camped there until it canto thole turn to vote, when almost to a men they threw their ballots for the party and the thug that made thorn free. Being now confessedly dependent upon the negroes for future success the leaders of the Republican party all hail the result of the election at Washington as a grand triumph for their party. IL is the only place they have carried for months. Wherever white men voto they are badly beaten. Letter from Thad. Stevens The following letter from Thad. Stevens appears in all the city papers this morning. It is addressed to Hon. Ed. McPherson, of Gettysburg. It will , be seen that the sickness of the old man has not lessened his malignity : LANCASTER, Pa., May 28, 1867, DEAR SIR: Short its your letter is, I fear I cannot answer it without violating an in junction of toy medical adviser not to be come excited. You live in a region which was two or three times invaded by the armies of Jefferson Davis. In the counties of Bedford, Fulton, Franklin, Cumberland, Adams and York they visited almost every farmer and other inhabitant, and plunder ed them of their horses, cattle, provisions, wagons, and money, when found, beside some detached cases. They laid in ashes one thriving village of 6,000 people, and turned the inhabitants houseless into the streets to seek shelter in fence corners. No provision has ever been made, or is now making, to reimburse tho plundered citizens. By the law of nations a govern ment makes no compensation f6r damages done by an invading army, unless such government be victorious, when it always provides by treaty for the payment by the vanquished enemy. A government which neglects to make such provisions on be half of its plundered citizens is basely neg ligent of its duty. A quasi peace exists between the late belligerents, the terms of which are dictated wholly by Congress, which is under the control of the Republi can party. Nothing but the proceeds of the confiscation of a small portion of the prop erty of wealthy Rebels can be applicd to pay the damages inflicted by the marauders, unless it be paid out of the Treasury of the United States. A few Republican meteors, always erratic in their course, are flitting through and ex ploding in the Republican atmosphere. They attract sufficient public attention to enable them to assure the amiable Rebels who inflicted this injury that they need fear no confiscation ; that nobody of any note in the North is in favor of imposing such pun ishment for the sake of remuneration, or of Justice. They assure them that nothing shall be taken from Aiken's estate of mil lions, from Hampton, Davis, Orr, Faulkner, or from a thousand others who are still worth their hundreds of thousands, to re imburse the loyal men, North and South, who were plundered of their estates, and to aid your poor neighbors to rebuild their humble tenements. Itis scarcely to bo endured that Congress for two sessions should sit indifferent to these sufferings, and take no steps to inforce these rights. These remarks apply to large portions of Maryland, of West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri, as well as to the Slave States. He who can patiently listen to that patent humanity which we now see propagated, has more command of himself than I have. Indeed it looks as if we were still to add to the burden of our taxation to defray the expenses of transpor tation, and the ovation of triumphant traitors. But I must stop, or I shall com mit the fault against which I have been warned. With great respect, your obedient servant, THADDEUS STEVENS. Amither Letter from 'Thaddeus Stevens. LANCASTER, Thursday. May 23, 1867. To the Chairman of the County Committee and the Assessors of the Townships of the Counties of Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford, Somerset, Perry, Cumberland and York: GENTLEMEN :—As I am about to prose cute the claims for confiscation at the next session of Congress, if I should be permitted to appear there, I esire to ascertain certain facts. Will you aid me in procuring them in a small part of our own State? Invite returns from all the people in each township of the amount of property which the Rebel raiders, or the armies of the so-Called "Con federate States," destroyed or appropriated to their own use during their several incur sions Into Pennsylvania and hand the same to the Assessors of the different townships, who are requested to return the aggregate for each township to the Chairmen of the respective parties of the different counties. May I here ask that the various newspa pers of the counties above named pub lish this notice for a few weeks in aid of the object specified, as I intend to press the payment of the damages done to loyal men out of the con fiscated property of the conquered belliger ents; I desire each and every persorOwho resided in the above-named counties to make out a list of the amount of all prop erty of which he was despoiled by the Rebel raiders or the Rebel Government ' and re turn the same to the assessors of his town ship, who, I hope, will forward the same to the Chairmen of the County Committees et each party, who, I hope, will take the trouble to aggregate the same and return it to me. ' I desire a fair valuation to be placed on all the property, whether personal property abstracted, or real property destroyed, except Caledonia Iron Works in the County of Franklin, which will not be appraised, as no remuneration is claimed for it. This may seem to bo asking our friends to take considerable trouble, but as a small part of the labor only falls to each person, it will be found light. I hope It may finally prove profitable to the injured people. Yours, TRADDEUS STEVENS. P. S.—Were it not presumptuous in me, I would invite all the loyal men of all the States who have been plundered by Rebel radicals or confiscated by the Confederate States, or either of them, to form associa tions and furnish statistics, such us are above solicited. ' Claims so Imperatively just must be finally allowed and paid, but the funds to pay the same will certainly be raised nowhere except out of the fines and confiscation of the richer and more atrocious malefactors. Feeble as my powers are, if I had five years more added to my We, I should not.doubt but that this would be come an accomplished fact. Such justice urged by a determined will, though feeble intellect, cannot fail. If I should be denied that extension of life, Providence will raise up to the work some younger and abler man to whom these facts would be of great assistance. I trust it will not be supposed that I have abondoned the determination to procure small homesteads for the freedmen, to be furnished by theßebel masters whom they conquered at our request—homesteads earned by the the late slaves and annexed to their master's estates. Let them now be severed by partition. All the newspapers in the several coun ties named are respectfully requested to publish this article. Plamitlus Commercial advice's received in Liverpool from Mauritius give a mostalarming account of the mortality from fever. Upward of 6,000 persons died in March, and from the lstto the 15th of April more than 5,000 deaths had been registered. Of this number one• half died in Fort Louis. The population of Port 'Louis. is 80,000, and according to the circular of Messrs. A. Duff& Co., the deaths have averaged over 200 per day. It was . hoped that the approach of cooler weather , woald have the eftect of causing the epidemic • to subside. 'The 'lndhins afong' the Platte river are Bald :c9 matte, hiPlide, a general and ahhul tapers:Sr. atta,Fl apeal the whites early this month.' • • ; Theililtmwes....irineortaii4Ut s. a. miAAiersue 4000 kotbtibehi'litt iiplY to an in vitation frOm a ntimber,,of prominent Boa toniaMl, / 1 1441Pg.h0n , to ' IP ?at rhas fi t writteut a letter d:,.1 . c'l be' nvi on on accutint of, etgsi : ,_F , ' , .170y.'' . . - 1 , . zuts. ,'bu ving at soniejlen • . VAT,: : 7 f. T.' relptitm the . es:lntim , : '' a quote the ~I , . .ftt f - 1,4t ...," kris/ante AWN 'you ''....• ' l'r man;lthtli. it: shall be my earneet,pn 0.4 . omitinne to so administer my officei asetci itistlfy the confidence you have so, geperomily given me. You must nbt expectt;._hOWeYett th at ~ our monthly statements ibr thEi rest of t he ' present and early part of the next fiscal year will be as satisfactory as they: have been for many Months past Thedonatione or bounties to soldiers, preparations for a threatening Indian war, even if the war itself should be avoided, and very liberal appropriations Of a miscellaneous charac ter will cadse unusually heavy drafts to be made upon the Treasury; while on the other , hand, the general failure of the wheat crop and the partial fail ure of the corn crop last year, slow progress in the restoration of the Southern States to their proper relations with the Federal Government, the dullness of trade throughout the country—partly tho result of a decrease of production, and partly of tho'natural reaction which always follows periods of excitement and speculation—to gothdr with reduced taxes, will very con siderably affect our revenues. This combi nation of adverse circumstances may retard a return to specie payments, and with large issues of bonds to be Lunde to the Pacific Railroad and its branches or divis ions, will prevent for a brief season a reduc tion of the public debt, and may oven render it temporary increase of it unavoid able, but it will not weaken my faith In our ability to move on again In the right direc tion at an early day. On the contrary I believe that this chock to our progress will lead to improvements In our revenue laws and to an increase of-efficiency in their exe cution, hasten the representation In Con gress of the Southern States, and secure greater economy in all branches of the pub lic service. Some surprise may exist that I have not for mom months past reduced the circuln- Unit of United States notes according to the authority conferred upon me by Congress, and an inference may be drawn from it that my opinion upon the eubJect of con traction ham undergone it chauge. Permit we to say, therefore, that I 11111 as much persuaded as ever of the importance of an early return to specie payments, and of a reduction of the currently, as it moans of chocking extravagance and speculation, anti of increasing production, without which all efforts to restore permitnentlntile specie standard will be ineffectual. What the country needs, in order that spools pay monte may be resumed and maintained, and reel prosperity secured, is an Increase of industry and a restoration of our former habits of economy, As a people, itinong ourselves, we must earn more and spend less. In our trade with foreign nations we must sell more or buy leas. Any different proscription for existing financial evils is, in my judgment, quackery. That contrac tion will tend to bring at out this desirable condition of things I have never doubted, but I have nevertheless suspended the re duction of the circulation of United States notes, and for the following reasons either of which' would perhaps have justified my course, and all of which have had more or less influence in determining it: First. The views of a majority of the members of Congress as indicated by it nuinbor, of votes last winter, wore adverse to immediate contraction, and I halve not folt at liberty to place myself in practical opposition to the law-making brfinch of the Government, without whose support I must be powerless. Second. There have existed for Nome months past anxiouttforebodinge of financial troubles, and while they continue I have been apprehensive that a contraction of the currency, the object and effect of it being misunderstood or misinterpreted, might produce a panic in the commercial cities, which, extending over tile eountry and beyond the speculative interests, would injuriously affect legitimate business and the revenue dependent upon it. Third. Large amounts of interest-bearing notes are to be paid or converted within the present and next fiscal year, to which It seetned prudent for me first to direct my attention, leaving the question of a curtail ment of notes to be determined, front month to month, by the condition of the country and of the Treasury. Fourth. Anticipating that the failure of the crops and the other circumstances allu ded to would seriously affect business, I have considered it important that the public mind should not be diverted, by the criti cisms and complaints of those who aro op posed to contraction, from the real cause of trouble; that a sound policy should not be put in peril by being made the "scapegoat" for evils resulting from different causes. You will not infer from what I have written that I am not hopeful in regard to our financial future. It has heen my con stant aim so to manage the national finances as to aid in bringing the country to a healthy financial condition without being subjected to thesevere disasters which many judicious persons hove supposed it large debt and the derangement of business, and the diminu tion of industry occasioned by the war, and a redundant currency would render Inevita ble. My faith that this con be accomplished is unshaken. The causes which are now oper ating against us are exceptional and tempo rary. The prospect of a good crop of winter wheat was never better. More spring wheat has been sowed and more corn has or will be planted title season titan ever before. The people are beginning to comprehend again this important truth, which seems to have been disregarded for some years past, that prosperity is the result of labor, that indus try and economy are as indispensable to national as well as to individual wealth. I shall be grievously disappointed If another year does not witness a largo increase of industry, of enterprise and of revenue, de cided progress towards a resumption of specie payments, and a steady reduction of the public debt. Please pardon me for writing so long a letter, and believe mo to be, with senti ments of the highest regard, your obedient servant, 11. McCur,Locit. Hon. 'William Gray and others. Heavy Damairea AgaAnat the Penusyl Cl2:l==t2l!B The tipurt of Common Pleas, of Snyder County, has been ornfaged for the last four days in the case of the heirs of Wm. But ler, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in which suit was brought for damages for the killing of Col. Wm. But ler, of Lewistown, on the occasion of the great acccident on the Pennsylvania Cen tral Railroad, on October 14, 1865, near Landisville, about four miles west of Lan caster, by which nine persons lost their lives and a number of others were wound ed. The accident, it will be remembered, was caused by the giving way of ono of the wheels of the front-truck of the third pas senger car, and the broken axle tearing out the bottom of the car, throwing to the ground the persons occupying three seats on each side. The wheels of the roar truck passed over them and mangled them in a shocking manner. The car was dragged some distance, and the dead bodies strewn all along that part of the traok. Among those killed wero Col onel and Mrs. Wm. Butler of Lewistown ; Mrs. A. D. Barr, wife of lon. James P. Barr, of Pittsburgh, then Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania ; William 11. Butler, of Williamsport ; Mrs. Willer, of Cumheriand County ; Mrs. Gette, of Wisconsin, and three unknown females. Col. Butler nt the time of his death was Whisky Inspector at Philadelphia. The suit for dam RCM by the heirs of Col. Butler was first brought in Mifflin county, but the venue wee changed to Snyder. The case excited great interest and was hotly contested on both sides, and was given to the jury on Satuday. After due consideration, the jury returnell a verdict for the plaintiffs of eighteen thousand dollars. Another suit will be brought by the same parties to recover for the killing of Mrs. Butler. Withdrawal of the Nickels The Secretary of the Treasury has au thorized the Director of the Mint, with a view of reducing the quantity of cents In circulation and obtaining a supply of nickel in convenient form, to purchase the nickel cents, paying their nominal value In three and fi.vo-cent pieces, which will be com menced on the lfith of June under the fol lowing rules: First. Persons sending or bringing the nickel cents will receive a certificate of the weight thereof, and the amount payable in three or five cent pieces, or both, as they may desire, and with the indorsement thereon ; such certificates will be paid us soon as the coins aro ready. Second. They must be careful not to send any but the kind mentioned, which are readily known by the color and size, and by the dates of 1857 to 18414. Third. The pieces will be taken, not by count, but by avoirdupois or grocer's weight. No lot will be received under 10 pounds, and no spoiled, illegible, or doubtful pieces will be taken. Fourth. The reasonable expense of the transportation of three cent pieces in sums of $3O, and the five cent coins in sums of $5O or upward, to any point accessible by rail road or steamboat, will be paid by the Mint. Fifth. This arrangement will be revoked as soon as it is found the issue of three and five cents is likely to become too large, or that the abatement of cents is sufficient. The sole object of this operation's to confer it public benefit, and none of the cents herein mentioned have any special value. Shocking' Accident. On Friday, the 10th inst., while Mr. An tonio Ponce and his two eons were hunt ing, Just north of the city, they started up a deer. One of the sons fired at the ani mal, which then crossed the road. Think ing that his father was behind him, be fired again ;• on advancing to see the effect of his shot, he was surprised to discover his ilither in front of him. The old gentleman was standing perfectly erect, and on being asked by his son why he did not shoot at the deer, he merely said: " My son, I unwounded," and then laid down and died. A single buck-shot bad penetrated his breast, Just ahov i tlie heart.- , IZ ANNUM° `Fla.! amin
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