gancastar inttlitgtuctr. -'WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1861. FOR JUI GE OF SUPREME COURT: Ron, GEORGE siutswoon, or Aim. The Weekly intellhreacer for the Cam. Phig n • Last year, about this period, we offered to send the WEEKLY INTELLIGEN% during addres for the political campaign, to any the sum of FIFTY CENTS. The result - was that we had about a thousand new names on our listwithin two weeks many of who booed permanent subscribers. We now make a similar offer. THE WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE% Will be sent singly, or to clubs, to any address, from Wednesday, July 3d. until Wednesday, October 9th inclusive, for the merely nomi nal sum of FIFTY CENTS. • This puts within]the reach of all one of the best and most widely known Democratic newspapers in the country. Let each of our readers make au effort to extend our circu lation. By so doing they will help forward the good cause. A little effort on the part of each will accomplish much In the aggregate. To you who are just now reading this we make a personal appeal. See your neigh bors and make up a club at once. You can gut five, or ton, or more subscribers in an hour or so. Can we rely upon you to do that much for us? We are sure we can. Fetr• Our numerous exchanges will great ly oblige us by making an editorial note of the above. The Coming Session of Congress The disposition of the destructive Radical leaders of the Republican party completely to demolish our form of free government is abundantly evidenced just now by all their newspapers throughout the country. Since the publication of the opinion of the Attor ney General, defining the powers of the military Governors whom they have set up over the territory of the Southern States, there has been a united assault upon both the judicial and executive branches of the General Government. The opinion of the Attorney General is admitted to be strictly in accordance with the terms of the law. He neither adds to it nor subtracts from it. All he has done Is to interpret it precisely as any sensible lawyer would be compelled to do, if culled upon to give an opinion as to its provisons. In removing Governors and Other civil officers In the South, General Sheridan and his associates have violated the law, stepped beyond the Ilse of their duty, and assumed dangerous powers not granted by the reconstruction bill passed by Congress. For saying so, the Attorney General is most bitterly :assailed, and the whole radical press Is loudly threatening the Impeachment of the President, In case lie should discharge his plain and bounden duly under the enactment toad( by Congress, A July session or Congress Is called , • for, toil] the probabilities lire that a quorum will assemble at Washington early in July. What will he done by the distempered crowd which will be collected together we can conjecture from the tone or Hp(whes math! by some of the leading men tunong them, frmn the malignant letters of Thaddeus Sil!V• I.IIH, 11.11 d frolll Ole editorial of their newspapers. Tile whole question ()I' reenlist ruction (so (tailed) will be opened up again, lin(1 the vountry will be con vulsed anew by an excitement which will have a most deleterious effect upon all its interests. The delugn of the Radicals is too plain to admit of a doubt,. They have but a single objection in view. All their legis lation is fa one and the same purpose. They are resolved that there shall be no restoration of the Union, except upon such terms as will make the negroes masters of the politioal situation in the South, and ensure them control of the negro vote. The real objection to the opinion of the Attorney Ueneral, and the true cause of their denunciation of the President is to be sought and found in the fear that the agencies they have already adopted for defeating the will of a majority of the white voters of the United States, by driving a horde of barbariatijnegroes to the ballot boa, nay not prove effectual. What, new outrages upon the Con- stitution, what further assaults upon Lhe rights and liberties of the people, will be attempted by the faction of fanatics which will gather in wildanger at Washington in a few days, can be safely predicted. To what extremes of madness and folly they will go remains to be seen. The people await with trembling anxiety and indignant im patience the action of this gathering of conspiring traitors. Petty Thieving The late Radical Legislature of tins State increased largely the number of useless officials, who are expected to do nothing hut loaf around the public build. ings at Harrisburg, and draw their sal aries. In the absence of the more prom inent thieves, who disgraced the State last winter, their subordinates have been exercising their wits in devising some method for plundering the public. They searched the capitol buildings horoughly. Of course new carpets, new chairs, new tables, new desks, and a complete new outfit will be the first thing wanted when the time conies for the assembling of a new Legislature It was to be expected that old things should have passed away. That has been the order ever since the Radicals have had control of the Legislature; but such pickings were not sufficient to satisfy the new gang of loafers, They have taken to stealing all the books and reports they could lay hands on and selling them for old paper This industrious gathering up of the crumbs about the Capital is only of a piece with the whole course of affairs under Republican rule. It is a bit of petty thieving. There is no need for making a loud outcry about the matter. 'We only record it as one of the ordinary occurrences of the day. It would have been strange indeed, if anything which could by any possibility have been con verted into money should have been left. The people of Pennsylvania will not regard so small a matter as this. They have been plundered in every way until they resemble the old woman's eels, which eventually got used to being skinned. The masses of this State are patient—very patient—as patient as beasts of burthen. Death of John K. Raub In another column will be found an obituary notice of Dr. John K. Raub. None who knew him in life will read it without deep and sincere regret at his departure. He was a man of decided talent, a most skillful physician, a genial and wholesouled gentleman, a warm and disinterested friend, a public spirited 1 and useful citizen, a kind husbar / d parent, and was unividrsallzpil l .' II k sr. who knew him. 21.)r e i ' c.ir , ,14ii in Lancaster county vt,', 4 e more missed than the to; ay i ° 'Widely known and universall poi far, he had .a multitude of friends, all o whom loved thim devotedly, and all .of whom sincerely regret his decease. Dr. Raub was apromlnent, consistent andlutluential Democratic politician, and an excellent public speaker. In professional and social life, as well as in business and political circles, he will be much missed. Peace to his ashes. THE small-polc le said to be raging in Williamsport, and the Radical State Convention is advertised to assemble there on the 26th. We hardly know which of the two plagues is to be i,oost 'dreaded. Tote ter irownlow or Die t The bitterly malignant character of those oath-bound political associations which styled themselves Union Leagues is well known. Their leading members were murderers at heart. Not:only did they constantly deMand the. lood of the entire white population of the South, but "hemp for home traitors" wag, one , of their favorite cries. WhOever" Oared to differ with them, to the slightest ex tent, in political opinion, was at once de nounced as a "traitor," to kill whom was to do God's service. In their cowardly hearts they deliberately com mitted murders daily. The spirit of the . murderer was the prevailing sentiment in their midnight assemblages, and the animus which inspired their daily life. The Thugs of India only excelled them as assassins by carrying into execution their bloodthirsty desires. A whole some fear of retribution, and the personal cowardice of their enemies was all that saved the lives of multitudes of Demo crats throughout the North. These Union Leagues fostered a spirit of mur der, the leaders of them were constantly actuated by a spirit of murder, and a vast majority of those who belonged to them were murderers in all except the overt act. Many a one will feel self convicted as he reads what we now write, and will be forced to admit that the foul spirit of murder was a habitual occupant of his bosom. Since the termination of the war these organizations may have lost some little of their bitterness, though God knows they are sufficiently malignant still. In the South, however, they have been ex tending themselves among the negroes in a form more repulsive, if possible, than they ever displayed elsewhere. A Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, says: " A secret society has been started in Memphis, Tenn., which is said to be but one of ninny hundreds existing through the State among the colored population The organ ization is ostensibly for benevolent services, but in one of its degrees its requires the in itiated coiorod man to take a fearful oath to murder those who abandon its ranks and oppose Brownlowism." That is the very spirit of the Union Leagues. The method of carrying elec tions and influencing votes adopted by the negroes or Tennessee, is of a piece with that employed by their parent so cieties in the North. We do not know that ever the parent society of Phila• delphia went quite so far as the sable leaguers of Nashville have done, but the very swine spirit was repeatedly mani fested. Time and again it cropped out in riotous demonstrations and actual murders, while by proscription in busi ness allitirs, and In a thousand other forms it made itself manifest constantly. The existence of such secret oath hound political societies among the Ignorant negroes of the South must in the end be attended with the most dls• astrous:misequencen. That they have been spreading hmong them rapidly since the passage of the nut of Congress entire:7lm; upon them the right of suf frage is true, If Radical newspapers are to be believed. They ail openly boast that such Is the case. It is by such agencies, by oath-bound bands of ignor ant blacks, sworn to carry out their purposes, that the Radicals hope to control the political future of the South ern States and of the country. The negroes are all to be driven into the Union Leagues by promises and threats, and then to be forced to vote the Radi cal ticket under the imiminent fear of being murdered if they dare to refuse. How any white nfau in Pennsylvania can be induced to act with such a party is something we cannot understand. Their watch-cry in Tennessee is, " Vote for Brownlow or die!" That Sheridiu► Resolution The Radical newspapers of Pennsyl vania, not being able successfully to as sail a single one of the resolutions adopted by the Democratic State Con vention, have with great unanitnity engaged in publishing a report that a resolution thanking General Sheridan wasoffered and indignantly voted down. Now mark how completely that lie can be exposed. At a late hour in the day, James Bu chanan, Jr., a delegate from Warren county, and a nephew of ex-President Buchanan, offered a humorous resolu tion intended as a burlesque condolence with Governor Wells of Louisiana, upon the fact that Geu. Sheridan had admin istered to him " a dose of his own medicine." Wells has long been known as au advocate of the very course pur sued by Sheridan ; but does not relish his doctrines when a practical applica tion is made to himself. Mr. Buchanan's resolution was only intended to be taken as a joke, and as such it was well re ceived, the whole convention uniting in a roar of laughter. Before any action could be taken upon it, Mr. Buchanan withdrew it, and so the matter ended. The lying rumors in regard to this matter which are being so industriously circulated by the Republican press only furnish an evidence of their utter disre gard of truth, and their entire lack of decency and ordinary political honesty. The Radicals are perfectly welcome to all the capital they can make out of this matter. The course of General Sheridan elm not he successfully defended by any party ; and while there are none likely to sympathize much with Governor Wells, all right thinking men must condemn the high handed action of the commanding General, because no warranrfor it is to be found anywhere, and because it Is a direct blow at the most sacred constitutional rights. Not Such a Little Thing We are not sure that we were right in stating that the robberies committed a the State Capitol are only a little thing They begin to look large, and are cer tainly very ugly, What a commentary on the " God and Morality party" do these developments present. Never was there such unblushing theft, and such a carnival of all kinds of corrup tion as has been developed under the rule of the Radicals now in power. It pervades all classes of their public 0111- cods; and from the highest to the lowest of them, they seem to be ready to plunder the public on all possible occasions. To steal when in office is apparently the only law of public ac tion which they recognize. Is it not about time for the people to make a complete change? California Democracy The Democracy of California have nominated H. H. Haight for Governor, William Holden for Lieutenant Gover nor, Henry L. Nicholas for Secretary of State, Robert Watson for Comptroller, Antonio F. Coronell for Treasurer, and John W. Dast for Surveyor General . The convention adopted resolutions condemning the reconstruction policy of Congress, opposing impartial suffrage, recognizing the obligation for the pay ment of the national debt, and favor ing the eight-hour law. IJENERAL SICKELS, Whose letter of resignation has been received, writes to the department at Washington, stating that the whole amount of money ap prOpriated by Congress for the purpose of putting into operation the system of military reconstruction will not be suffi cient for the Carolinas alone. He com plains that the department will not furnish him with the funds necessary. The people will find out before very long what a sum of money will be needed to enable the Radicals to carry the elections to the Southern States through the agency of the negro vote, Sensible Speech on the Indian Qaestion. George Francis Train is an original genius. He is the boldest and pAick iest talker in the country. Bound by no party, ties, when he goes into a point nil contest he goes in On his own hook ; , and it is a remaTkablip fact that lie sel i/Om wholly agrees with any.party. He .has been found • consistently opposing the extreme litidicalg'; and that Proves that he is honest as well s sagacious, We, publish to-day his speech on the Indian question. It is by odds the most sensible speech which has been made upon that much vexed question. He puts the blame of the present strife upon the greedy and rapacious sharks who have acted as agents of the Government in its dealings with the red men. Just where we have no doubt it belongs. We believe Simon Cameron was present at the delivery of Mr. Train's speech—at all events he was one of the party of excursionists before whom it was made. If the Winnebago Chief was doomed to listen to the nervous utter ances of George Francis, he must have felt very decidedly queer. From the earliest days the Indians have been con stantly robbed and cheated. Simon's sharp tricks of paying off the annuities of several tribes in notes of the Middle town Bank, and getting his partners to effect an exchange of beads and trinkets for his bank bills at a merely nominal value, is only one glaring instance of the meanness and unblushing rascality of our Indian agents. It is not strange that the Red Men should be in angry mood. They have been constantly cheated in every possible way. We have never kept any treaty we made with them. They have been outraged BB no other people ever were. Train told nothing but the truth when he said " the Indians always kept faith, the whites generally lied." He did much to enlighten the country, when he showed that speculators along the fron tier and elsewhere are directly interest ed in getting up another Indian war for the purpose of plundering the public treasury. We know nothing sadder than the story of the Indian race. One does not need to believe in the romances of Cooper to have his indignation excited by the outrages constantly practiced upon the children of the forest. It is high time a wiser and more humane policy should prevail. We hope the cry for extermination, which comes prin cipally from rapacious speculators and other selfish parties, will not be listened to for a moment. The whole difficulty can be properly and permanently ad justed by dealing honestly and fairly with the several Indian tribes. Not only Christianity, but other and baser mo. tives demand that such a course be pur l sued. Mr. Train might have quoted better authority than " Glory to God " Covode ; but, In the characteristically ungrammatical language of "Alligator' , John, we have no doubt a general In dian war would "bust McCullough." It is noticeable that the war:cry of ex termination comes from the mouths of the Radicals. The same tongues which have been persistently portraying the woes of the negro and exciting sympa thy in his behalf, now join in a howl for the blood of the poor Indian. Such is Yankee philanthropy. It whines and sheds crocodile tears over the pretended miseries of one race of barbarians, be cause it can make money thereby. It snuffs the scent of plunder in an Indian war, and straightway demands the ex termination of a whole people. From the hands of such harpies may the good Lord speedily deliver tins country. Iv has been decided theta District At. torney is not eligible to the office of School Director in Pennsylvania. The two offices are incompatible. Forney Dead-(leading on Hotel Keepers. John W. Forney is a born toady. In that capacity he shines as he never did in any other. Since he has been in England he has been busily engaged in au earnest endeavor to find an English man of some little notoriety with vanity sufficient to submit to being beslimed with fulsome flatteries, to be published on this•side the Atlantic, "in my two journals, both daily." We record it as an evidence of their decency and self respect that no such Englishman has been discovered as yet. The chagrin of Forney thereat can be readily con ceived by all. He seldom writes anything much worth reading, except it be of a personal character. He is good at abuse, being a combination of the born blackguard Find toady. Without some one to fawn upon with sickening syco phancy, he is completely lost. Finding no Englishman in want of the services of a parasite like himself, he has taken to licking the hand of his hotel-keeper. That may seem like very small business for the Secretary of the United States Senate, but it suits Forney's capacity exactly. His last letter to his "two papers,both daily,"isalabored laudation of one Sanderson, an American Col. by title, and manager of the Laugham hotel Loudon, by occupation. Any one who wants to read a column and a half of puffing, str6h.as Is frequently gotten up by " deadheadscan find it In perfection in the last issue of th 9 Press. We sup pose the Secretary of the Senate of the United States congratulates himself on having hit upon a cheap method of dis charging a hotel bill. The readers of Forney's letters from Europe, If any people there be with patience to wade through his twaddle, can tell how he pays his hotel bills In London, by read ing his last letter. It is to be hoped he has dined and wined well. If he has not, his "two iii.wslittpers, both daily," must be held in as low esteem by the American manager of the Langham Hotel, as they are by all decent people in this country. • The Registration in Louisiana Satrap Sheridan has been doing his work well. He has so managed affairs in the military district of Louisiana, that the Re.ters lists foot up as fol lows: negro voters 49,822, white voters 21,829; a clear negro majority of 28,000. No wonder the leaders of the Republi can party are ready to revolt at any pro posed interference with the model Mili tary Governor—no wonder the Rump Congress deems it necessary that it should reassemble in July, to amend the Reconstruction Bill, so as to prevent any interference with their military satraps. If they all do their work as well as Sheridan has done his, there will be only one thing more needed; and that is to have the Radical tickets print ed on colored paper, say yellow, and to march the negroes en masse to the polls, with a yellow ticket in their black fingers. That will ensure the success of the Republican party beyond a perad venture. Of course Congress will in crease the powers of Sheridan and his fellows, and will shield them from any interference on the part of the Presi dent. That is precisely what the July session is called for. GENERAL SHERf k I3AN is determined not to act with even ordinary fairness and decency. He has telegraphed to General Grant, peremptorily declining to extend the time of registration in Louisiana, so as to allow the whites a chance to register. He denounces the opinion of the Attorney General, and shows a disposition not to be controlled by any authority except his own wrong will and the evil desires of a set of radi. cal fanatics. taw Relating to ilidlolalsNlisi; . . Between the Localities and the :plunders of the last Radical Legislature, of thleState it has made itself a repu. :cation ' for dishonesty and • stupidity:; Which. will endure fOr some time to come.. When. in the future any one. may `Wish to stigmatize a. Legitdativa; body. as mean; mercenary and ineempe, tent; it will only bEiiiecesserY to lay it' resembles the Radical Pennsylvania Legislature of 1887. The few laws of general interest which managed to get through amid the pressure of a thous and and one paying private bills, turn out to be not only , useless, but almodt without exception of a pernicious char acter. An act passed relating to judicial sales and the preservation of the lien of mortgages is excitingconsiderablealaini among purchasers of real estate sold by order of the courts since the approval of the law by wise Governor Geary. We print the second and third sections of the act : SECTION 2. Thatprivate sales made by order of court, under the said act of the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, shall discharge the premises sold from the lien of the debts of the decedent, except debts of record, and debts secured by mortgage: Provided, That the security required by said act shall have been duly entered. ISEcrtox 3. When the lien of a mortgage upon real estate is, or shall be, prior to all other liens upon the same property, except other mortgages, ground rents, purchase money due to the Commonwealth, taxes, charges, assessments, and municipal claims, whose lien, though afterwards accruing, has, by law, priority given it, the lien of such mortgage shall not be destroyed, or In any way affected, by any judicial or other sale whatsoever, whether such judicial sale shall be made by virtue or authority of any order or decree of any orphans' or other court, or of any writ of execution, or otherwise, how soever: Provided, That this section shall not apply to cases of mortgages upon un seated lands, or sales of the same for taxes. The Harrisburg Telegraph mentions a case as having occurred in that city, in which, only one day after the law went into effect, a party bid $5,000 on a certain property, against which was a mortgage of $5,000. Thus by the terms of the act to which we refer the pur chaser became responsible for the sum of $lO,OOO in bidding at a judicial sale for a property which was only worth 55,000, and which he supposed he was buying for that sum of money. Re garding the equity of the case, Judge Pearson set the sale aside. The Telegraph says there is no doubt the next Legislature will repeal the law. But how did It happen that the Radical majority ever passed it? Was it one of the bills which were put through with out being read? What was Governor Geary about that he did not return it with objections? Would it be uncharit able to assume that he did not under stand the bill after reading It? Proposed Outrage Upon Virginia. In Virginia there Is so large a pre ponderance of white men that even counting out all those disfranchised by the sweeping military reconstruction bill, the Radicals can have little chance of carrying the State. But they are not to be defeated in their desire of seizing upon positions in which they may bu enabled to thrive upon public plunder. W hat is called the "A lexandria Constitution" is now to be resurrected and its provisions made to apply, By Its restrictions nine out of every ten white men of Virginia are disfranchised. Two prominent and well known citizens of Richmond have been arrested for regis tering in opposition to the provisions of that pretended State Constitution, an instrument which never had either legal existence or vitality. The cases will be tried before Judge Underwood, it is supposed, and a decision rendered which will give over the State into the hands of a mere fragment of whites and the negroes whom they can control. The state of feeling excited is calculated to do great injury to the cause of re construction. A Black Snake in the Capitol Groundo. A morning or two ago, as a couple of me chanics were passing through the Capitol Grounds, ut an early hour on their way to their daily labor, they discovered a black snake lying on the board walk. The men at once attempted to dispatch the ugly customer, but his snakeship escaped to his hidinglace under the boards. This is not a "snake story," but strictly true.—Har risburg Telegraph. A single snake seen about the capital grounds at Harrisburg in summer seems to excite much wonder ; but " snakes " swarm there every winter and are not dreaded in the least. The black snake seen to glide under the boards at Capi tol Hill must be the ghost of one of those that failed to slip quietly through the Legislature last winter. Still Stirring' Up the Banks The New York Herald, good and much quoted Radical authority, is still after the National banks with a very sharp' stick. Its last effort is as follows : The apostles of the " advanced ideas of agrarianism, confiscation and repudiation are rather behind the age. The conglom erate party of Pacific Railroad excursion ists, under the inspiring illtillel3Co of prairie air, mountain dew or whiskey, gave vent to some startling, though not new ideas, on political, financial and social matters. Ben Wade was quite progressive in his views of redistributing property—of taking from the rich and giving to the poor— and of reorganizing society on the basis of agrarianism. The Chevalier Train laid down a platform, striking In character and sulphurous in small. Ile was for" woman's suffrage, repudiation and hell-fire." Thad Stevens is for confiscation, to make himself rich for the destruction of his small iron foundry by the rebels, and to build up the radical party by seizing and parcelling out the lands of the South to hungry partisans. Wendell Phillips, with all the New England land stealers and lazy negroes of the South at his back, go in strongly also for confisca• Lion, Everywhere the apostles of agrarian ism, repudiation and confiscation are active ; but, as we said, they began too late—they are behind the times. The government is in advance of them. It will take all the property of the country and leave only the husks for the men of "advanced ideas." The entire property of the nation may be about twelve thousand millions. The government takes five hundred mil lions a year, which in twenty-four years will absorb the whole wealth of the nation. But if the national banks remain in exist ence the property of the country will be devoured by them and the government together in much less time. Confiscation is going on now at a fearful rate, so that Ben Wade, Thad. Stevens, Wendell Phillips and all the rest of the radical agra rians and levellers may save themselves any further trouble ; there is no room for them to come in, As to repudiation, that must follow, of course. from the enormous burdens piled upon the people, which they will be unable to hear, and from the gov ernment leaving them nothing wherewith to pay taxes. This is the way we are go ing. Where we shall bring up remains to be seen. The Witnesses Against Surratt The Washington correspondent of the:Sunday Mercury calls attention to the character of the men who have testified to seeing Surratt in Washington on the day of the assassination. Some of them are not at all reputable. Dye has been arrested for passing counterfeit money, and another of them is thus spoken of: Another delectable witness was' William B. Cleaver, the man who outraged the little beggar girl of the Seventh Ward, until she died from his lust, and for which he was convicted and sentenced. For some reason •best known to Gen. Carrington and Judge Fisher, this damnable brute and murderer was ordered a new trial, and the benefit of bail extened to him, about two weeks ago, and now he appears in a new role—a wit ness against Surratt. Now is not this a picture to be commented upon by honest people? Upon the cross•examination of Cleaver, it came out that both Impeacher Ashley and Conover had had a talk with him—Cleaver—and it was through them that he was summoned as a witness. Here is a man with the halter almost around his neck, and with the gallows star ing him in the face, brought into court to bear false witness against his neighbor. Who believes that Dye, or Cooper, or Dave Reed, the gambler, or this blood-hound, Cleaver, ever saw Snrratt in town at the time of the assassination? No one in this community. John Surratt was known to thousands of people here, and yet there is not one of our populace who saw him, but mere sojourners and strangers, who never heard the name of Surratt until after the murder, now state they saw him muffled up and 'disguised at the theatre, and in two years after they are able to swear to him in open court as the mall, 11e61 i orall ßM. • the Illettliet: strolls= IN °swam Cottscm, ll Wesinsterroa, June 18, 18:17. -The Cabinet met in council to-day. There wars present:— , Mi. Andrew Johnson, President of ,the ;United States. Mr. William H. Seward, i Secretary, of State. Mr. Edwin M. Stanton, SectOtary of War. Ms: Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the T reas Mr. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Alexander W. Randall, Postmaster General. Mr. Henry Stanbery, Attorney General. Mr. William T. Otto, Assistant Secretary .of the Interior. . ' The President announced that he Thad under consideration the two opinions from . the Attorney General as to the legal ques tions arising upon the acts of Congress com monly known as the "Reconstruction acts," and that, in view of the great magnitude of the subject, and of the various interests in volved, he deemed it proper to have it con_ sidered frilly in Cabinet, and to avail him self of all the light which could be afforded by the opinions and advice of the members of the Cabinet, to enable him to see that these laws be faithfully executed, andto de cide what orders and instructions are neces sary and expedient to be given to the mili tary commanders. The President said fitrther that the branch of the subject that seemed to him first in order for considera tion was as to the instructions to be sent to the military commanders for their guid ance and for the guidance of persons offer ing for registration. The instructions proposed by the Attorney General, as set forth in the summary contained in his last opinion, will, therefore, now be considered. The summary was then read at length. The reading of the summary having been concluded, each section was then discussed, considered and voted upon as follows: First—The oath prescribed in the Supple mental act defines all the qualifications re. quired, and every person who can take that oath is entitled to have his name entered upon the list of voters. All vote Aye except Mr. Stanton, Secre tary of War, who voted Nay. Second—The Board of Registration have no authority to administer any other oath to the persons applying for registration than this prescribed oath, nor to administer any oath to any person touching the qualifica tions of the applicant or the falsity of the oath so taken by him. No provisimi is made for challenging the qualifications of the applicant or entering upon any trial or investigation of his qualifications, either by witnesses or any other form of proof, All vote Aye except the Secretary of War, who voted Nay. Third—As to Citizenship and Residence —The applicant for registration must be a citizen of the State, and of the United States, and must be a resident of the county or parish included in the election district. He may bo registered if he has been such citizen for a period of less than twelve months at the time he applies for registra tion, but he cannot vote at any election un less his citizenship has then extended to the full term of one year. As to such a ' person the exact length of his citizenship should be noted opposite his name on the list, so that it may appear on the day of election, upon reference to the list, whether the full term has then been accomplished. Concurred in unanimously. ' Fourth—An unnaturalized person cannot take this oath. An alien who has been naturalized can take It, and no other proof of naturalization can be required from him. All voted Aye, except the Secretary of War, who voted Nay, ./qth—No one who is not twenty-one yours ol' age at the time of registration eau take the oath ; for ho must swear that he has then obtained that ago, Concurred in unanimously, ,Yizth—No one who has boon disfranchised for participation in any rebellion against the United States, for felony committed against the laws of any State or of the Unl• ted Stitt" can take the oath, The actual participation in rebellion or the actual commission of felony does not amount to disfranchisement. The sort of disfranchise ment hero meant Is that which is declared by law passed by competent authority, or -which has been fixed upon the criminal by the sentence of• the court which tried him for the crime. No law of the United States has declared the penalty of disfranchise ment for participation in rebellion alone, nor is it known that any such law exists in either of these ten States, except, per haps, Virginia, as to which State special instructions will be given. All vote Aye except the Secretary of War, who dissents as to the second and third clauses. Seventh.—As to disfranchisement arising from having hold office, followed by parti pation In rebellion. This is the most im portant part of the oath, and requires strict attention to arrive at its meaning. The ap plicant must swear or affirm as follows: That I have never been a member of any State Legislature nor held any executive or judicial , office in any State, and afterwards engaged in an insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or gave aid or comfort to the enemies thereof; that I have never taken an oath as a member of Con gress of the United States, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the constitution of the United States, and after wards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. Two elements must concur in order to disqualify persons under these clauses. First, the office and official oath to support the constitution of the United States; sec ond, engaging afterwards in rebellion. Both must exist to work disqualification, and must happen in the order of time men tioned. A person who has held an office and taken the oath to support the federal constitution, and has not afterwards en gaged in rebellion, is not disqualified. So, too, a person who has engaged in rebellion, but has not heretofore held an office and taken that oath, is not disqualified. All vote Aye except the Secretary of War, who votes Nay. Eighth—Officers of the United States—As to these the language is without limitation. The person who has at any time prior to the rebellion held any office, civil or mill tar v . , under the United States, and has taken an official oath to support the constitution of the United States, is subject to disquali fication. Concurred in unanimously. Ninth—Military officers of any State prior to the rebellion are not subject to disquali fication. All vote Aye except tho Secretary of War, who voted Nay. Tenth—Municipal officers, that is to say, ofilcors of Incorporated cities, towns an villages, such as mayors, aldermen, tow! council, police and other city or town officers are not subject to disqualification. Concurred In unanimously. Eleventh—Persons who have, prior to the rebellion, been members of the Congress of the United States or members of a State Legislature, aro subject to disqualification. But those who have been members of con ventions framing or amending the cionstitu litni of a Stat, , prior to the rebellion are not subject to disqualification. Concurred in unanimously. Twelfth—All the executive or judicial officers of any State who took an oath to support the constitution of the United States are subject to disqualification, including county officers. They are subject to dis qualification if they were r, quired to take, as part of their official oath, the oath to support the constitution of the United States. Concurred in unanimously. Thirteenth—Persons who exercised mere employments under the State authority are not disqualified, such as commissioners to lay out roads, commissioners of public works, visitors of State institutions, direc tors of State insi itutions,ex aminers of banks, notaries public, commissioners to take ac knowledgements of deeds. Concurred in unanimously; but the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of War express ed the opinion that lawyers are such officers as are disqualified, if they participated in the rebellion. Two things must exist as to any person to disqualify him from voting. First, the office held prior to the rebellion, and after wards participation in the rebellion. An act to fix upon a person the offence of en gaging in the rebellion under this law must be an oyert and voluntary act, done with the intent of aiding or furthering the com mon unlawful purpose. A person forced into the rebel service by conscription, or under a paramount authority which he could not safely disobey, and who would not have entered such service if left to the free exercise of Ms own will, cannot be held to be disqualified from voting. All vote Aye, except the Secretary of War, who votes Nay. As the proposition is stated, mere acts of charity, where the intent is to relieve t . wants of the object of such charity, ant done in aid of the cause in which hig.4s ' have been engaged, do not disqualify., bat organized contributions of food and clotmxi for the general relief of ,arsons engaged`, the rebellion, and not 01 a merely sanita • character, but Contributed to enable them to perform their unlawful object, may be classed with acts which do disqualify. Forced contributions to the rebel cause, in the form of taxes or military assessments which a person was compelled to pay or contribute, do not disqualify ; but voluntary contributions to the rebel cause, even such indirect contributions as arise from the voluntary loan of money to rebel authority, Or purchase of bonds or seourt#es created to „ word tbe Means of carrying on the rebel lion, will work disqualification. Concurred in unanimously. All those who, in legislative or other official capacity, were engaged in the fur therance of the common unlawtal purpose, where the duties of the office necessarily had relation to ths'impport of the rebellion, such as members of the rebel conventions, Congresseit and Legislatures, diplomatic agents of the rebeloonfedioraoy, and other officials whose offices were created for the • purpose . . of more . effectually carrying on hostilities, or whose duties appertained to the support of the rebel cause, must be held to disqualify. But officers who during the rebellion discharged official duties not in cident to war, but only such duties as be long even to a state of peace, and were ne cessary to the preservation of order and the administration of law, are not to be con sidered as thereby engaging in rebellion or as disqualified. Disloyal sentiments, opin ions or sympathies would not disqualify, but where a person has by speech or b y _ writing incited others to engage in rebel lion, he must come under the disqualifies , Don. All vote Aye, except the Secretary of War, who dissents to the second paragraph, with the exception of the words, "Where a per son hassby speech or by writing incited others to engage in rebellion lite must come under the disqualification." , The. Duties of the Board Appointed to Su perintend the Elections.—This Board, hav ing the custody of the List of registered vo ters in the district for which it is constitu ted, must see that the name of the person offering to vote is found upon the registra tion list, and if such proves to be the fact, it is the duty of the Board to receive his vote if then qualified by residence. They can not receive the vote of any person whose name is not upon the list, though he may be ready to take the registration oath, and although he may satisfy them that he was unable to have his name registered at the proper time in consequence of absence, sickness or other cause. The Board cannot enter into any inquiry as to the qualifica tions of any person whose name is not on the registration list, or as to the qualifica tion of any person whose name is on the list. Concurred in unanimously. The mode of voting is provided in the aet to be by ballot. The board will keep a record and poll book of the election, show ing the votes, list of voters and the persons elected by a plurality of the votes cast at the election, and make returns of these to the commanding general of the district. Concurred in unanimously. The Board appointed for registration and for superintending the elections must take the oath prescribed by the act of Congress approved July 2, 186 . 2, entitled "An act to prescribe an Oath of Office." Concurred in unanimously. The President announced to the Cabinet that, after full deliberation, he concurred with the majority upon those sections of the summary upon which the Secretary of War expressed his dissent, and that he con curred with the Cabinet upon those sections approved by unanimous vote ; that as it appeared the military commanders enter tained doubts upon the points covered by the summary, and as their action hitherto had not been uniform, he deemed It proper, without further delay, to communicate in a general order to the respective command ere, the points set forth in the summary. Interview with Old Thad Mr. Drake, editor of the Union Springs (Alabama) Times who was in this city a few weeks ago, gives the following report of a visit which it seems ho made to Mr. Stevens' : Mr. Stevens was in his fine library, quite feeble physically, but intellectually more vigorous, prompt and lucid than is usual in men or seventy-four years old. Ile is tall, and has the bone of a large man, but is now very thin in flesh. The face and hood are both good—tile eye uncertain} the mouth, with its thin, clod Ilp., and the strong Jaw tell the sec t of the bitterness :and despotic power cud revenge that fills his heart and keeps the man alive. Upon first entering the room by a door, which gave inn a full view of the man, there was some thing so like a smile on his face, that I thought his heart and his speeches, his con science and his words, were not in harmony. This noon flitted, and from that time to the close of the interview, the whole counto nanee—froin the grand, arched forehead to the hard chin—was the very ideal of cold, pitiless intellect. I told him who I was, the views I entertained, and requested that ho would say nothing to me which he would desire kept secret. As he had been talking a great deal and was quite ex hausted, I was forced to question rapidly and confine myself to leading topics. The most of the conversation was heard by a gentleman who called with me, and who can vouch for its correctness, which is al most verbal. I told him I had come to hear from him, whom I regarded as the great head and master of his party, just what his party de manded and where their demands would stop—upon what terms and at what proba ble time his party would recognize the Southern States as equal members of the government—and to ask his interpretation of the present measure of-seconstruction. Then prefacing the question with the re mark that it was an indelicate ono to put to a gentleman, I asked : "Do you pursue your harsh policy as a party measure for the purpose of in timidation?" He answered at once. "I do nothing merely for party purposes. I regard my proposed action as equitable, and resting upon principles of law." "But, Mr. Stevens, by what provision of the Constitution are you warranted in per verting a war made to resolve a doubtful question, and the right itself to make which was doubtful, intofm excuse for going be yond its purposes, in treating the defeated so harshly as you propose?" "The Constitution does not enter into the question—has nothing to do with it at all. You made an issue of war. The North— whether wisely or unwisely it is no use now to inquire--accepted the issue and conquered you. By a thousand acts, which some of my party seem now to forget, the govern ment recognized you as a belligerent na tion, and your defeat left you no rights under the Constitution nor any claim to be treated by its provisions. While you were belligerents, I regarded you also as great criminals, who had forfeited all rights of person as well as property. I propose to deal with you entirely by the laws of war, and though not caring to have those laws executed to the full extent of hanging the poor devils, I regard it as a matter of the simplest equity to punish you by fines at least sufficient to indemnify loyal men for the damage sustained at your hands." "Will you persist in your confiscation measure, Mr, Stevens—will you be satisfied with no less ? ' "No sir! Anything less would be unjust to those wronged by your crime." " Will you be able to bring your party to your support ?" " I do not know—we bad a hard work to secure the passage of the Military bill—but I shall take care of myself, and devote all of my strength and ability on this measure of justice." ;' Well, Mr. Stevens, there are good men in the South ; honest men, who took an oath of loyalty to the United States government in good faith, upon the assurance that they would be treated us citizens. The unsettled condition of politics bears hardly upon them. Lands are valueless, and industry is discouraged. If you—and I say you, because you are your party—intend to per fect the proposed confiscation, do it quickly. Do not torment the South by delay and deception. Bring Wilson home, and don't let him tell any more lies to honest people. Let the issue be distinct and well under stood. You are consistent and have been frank, at least." Mr. S. now complained of being overwork ed. I begged him to answer one or two more questions. " Would you be:pleased to see organized in Alabama a government similar to that of Tennessee under such men as Brownlow, a few of which I am sorry to say we have among us, Mat, Safford for instance ?" He replied hesitatingly, " It is not a mat ter of men at all : It would depend upon circumstances and principles. We would inquire whether you had a State, and—" I here interrupted, seeing that he was dodging, and asked the following question : Suppose, sir, Alabama should organize a government enfranchising the negro, pro viding for his education, and giving ample guarantees for his protection before the courts and in society, and under that government should send good men, who could take the ' Test Oath,' to Congress, would you admit her to representation?" Without a moment's pause, he answered with strong emphasis, "No, sir," and thus closed the interview. THE Carlisle Volunteer, quoting the ac count of the late sale of Mrs. Lincoln's furniture at Chicago, remarks: It is a fact on record, that more money was expended to furnish the White House during the four years that the "late lament ed" and his family occupied it, than had been expended during its occupancy by Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Filmore and Buchanan combined. And yet when President Johnson took possession of it, it bad to be refurnished again from top to bottom, as everything had been carried off. Prospect of Pruitt. ,Notwithstanding the unusually cold win which we experienced in this region, ;?, gre is still a tolerably fair prospect of f•uit. The peaches to a material extent . •aye been killed, but other fruit of a more hardy nature, although affected, presents quite a promising appearance. The uni versal testimony is also that the wheat crop never looked better or promised a larger yield.—Carlisle Volunteer. HAVE you a Cough, Cold, pain in the Chest, or Bronchitis? In fact, have you the premonitory symptoms of the "insatiate archer," Consumption? If so, know that relief is within your reach in the shape of Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, which in many cases where hope bad tied, has snatched the victim from the yawning grave, The Talley of Virginia. ',Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.] LEXINGTON, VA., June 17th, 1887. This pleasant little village of two thousand inhabitants is now thespene of unusual in terest, excited by the approaching corn menoeMent at Washington College, of which eken. Le4is Ppaldent.. - This.is an old col I egi - ate institution- ..under the auspices of the Presbyterian ,Cliurch, and was handsomely endowed by General Washington in re cognition of whose munificence his name was given to it. The college has never had a large number of students till the Presi dency of Gen. Lee, whose popularity has increased its numbers three-fold. The pre decessor of Gen. Lee, who resigned I be lieve daring an early period of the war and went North, was Rev. Dr. Junk in, of Penn sylvania, father of the first wife of Stone wall Jackson, who was a devout member of the Presbyterian Church of this place.— Since Dr. Junkin's resignation, the presi dency of the college remained vacant till the accession of Gen. Lee. Among other visitors hero on this inter esting occasion is the venerable Dr. Plumer, well known to the Presbyterian communi. ty, who appears to be in excellent health. No man could bo more cordially welcomed here, where the great mass of the popula tion, both in town and country, are familiar with his person and character. This por Lion of the Valley is mainly occupied by a people of Scotch-Irish descent, who are so generally of the Presbyterian faith that one might imagine himself among the true blues of the Scottish Highlands. Dr. Plumer is at home when he gots here, and his tongue is unloosed by the genial sympathies of the ecclesiastical and Virginia surroundings, though when he speaks of the changed con dition of the South, then there Is a pathos In his sentiments which is touching. The law class of Judge John W. Brockeu brough has become one of the institutions of Lexington. The graduating class, which has Just passed successfully through its ex amination, numbers twenty-one young men, a good many of them from Western Virginia, where the eminent legal reputa tion of the Judge, who once presided over the United States court for that district, is well known. The Virginia Military Institute, which furnished the South so many of its skilled officers in the late war, is also situated in this town. It was established in 1839, the Legislature of Virginia having determined to convert the old arsenal at Lexington into a military school. A certain number of the cadets was educated free of expense, and expected, in return, to teach iu the schools of the State. General F. H. Smith, the original superintendent, whose great energy and tact have contributed so much to its success, is still the presiding officer. It was this instltu , Lion of which Stonewall Jackson was a pro fessor before the war, but his military abilities were not known to the public, possibly not by himself. I visited the in stitute at that time, and heard the names of various officers, but do not remember any mention of that of Jackson. Gov. Letcher, a citizen of Lexington, who was Governor of Virginia at the beginning of the war, and who first placed Jackson in an important military position, was one of the fI3W, per haps the only man in Lexington, who sus pected the genius for war that slumbered under a remarkably plain and unpretend ing exterior. luillan NonniMem. OMAHA, ,111110 19.—The superintendent of the Union Pacific railroad says that work on the road will have to be abandoned un less there le more protection from Indians. The following dispatch has been sent to Gen. Grant and the Secretary of the In terior : "OMAHA, June s.—lf Gen. Buford has reported what the telegraph attributes to him in regard to Indian affairs, ho is guilty of reckless misrepresentation or criminal stupidity. 'A warfare is now being carried on upon the plains by savage Indians, in small parties, against defenseless settlers, milrond surveying parties and laborers, barbarous and unprovoked. The govern ment must not be deluded by any such re ports us Buford's. J. M. THAYMII., United States Senator." JUNCTION City, Juno 11).—A !otter (fated Port Wallace, 12th Instant, reports It num ber or Indian outrages In that vicinity. (Jr the 3d a farmer named l'honiumen, of Pond Creek, was It lit d and scalped butwoon Pond and (loose creeks. Ou the 11th, two 'nen from the in tee, names unknown, were killed within a mile of the HUIIIO place. Ou tho 11th, a conch from the west, having on board Lieutenant Bell, three soldiers, lady passengers, the driver and guard, was attacked by about twenty-live or thirty Indians, twenty-five miles from Fort Wallace. One soldier was killed, and the others dismounted and fought the Indians for four miles, and finally repulsed them, killing two. It is reported that on the 17th a govern ment traia was attacked eighteen miles west of Fort Harker. One man was killed and his body horribly mutilated. The In dians are so troublesome that the stage drivers refuse to go out, and eight of them have deserted their coaches. At Pond Creek, it was rumored that Oen. Custer had been defeated by Indians who came down in largo force from Platte Valley. Tne Shooting of the Mexican General 12712 CM A correspondent who was in Queretaro, Mexico, before and at the time of the sur render, gives the following particulars of General Mendez's capture and death: "I have mentioned that Mendez was not captured with the other Generals of Maxi• millan's staff. He was known to be in the city, and the authorities were sure of cap turing him. On Friday, the day after the betrayal of the town, Escobedo issued an order that all officers of the Imperial army who did not surrender within twenty-fours would be summarily disposed of when captured. On Saturday evening, between eight and nine o'clock, Mendez was found concealed under the floor in the house of a citizen named Barton. Then he knew his doom was sealed. He occupied the night in writing letters to his family. Next morn ing, between nine and ten o'clock, (pleasant scene for a bright Sunday morning,) he was marched down the Alainela and shot. He met his fine without a sign of fear. According to the custom in this country with what are called traitors, he was shot in the back, Mendez protesting against it, declaring that he was no traitor to his coun try, and was not afraid to face death, but the officer in charge of the shooting party declared that his orders were etplicit on the point. " Very well," said Mendez, " shoot away." He knelt down, his back to the regiment, and four men stepped forward and fired. Front nervousness or some other cause, their aim was very bad, and tho wretched man was nothing like fatally wounded. Raising himself up, he pointed to his head, (previous experience in such scenes bad made him familiar with the routine,) and the corporal put the muzzle of the piece to his ear and blew out his brains. So died Ramon Mendez, than whom Mexico has produced many bettpr and many worse men. An Indian, with much of the Indian cruelty and Indiffer ence to life In his composition, he had also a, large share of Indian honesty and trust worthiness. With many opportunities of enriching himself fraudulently, ho re mained poor to his dying day, and was true to the cause ho espoused." The Crops at the West. Of the Western harvest, the Chlcdgo Re publican says: "The uniformity of the fa vorable tone of these reports with reference to the prospective harvests is somewhat re. markable. Spring grain uniformly looks well. All the varieties of fruit promise abundantly, except cherries. With one or two exceptions, winter grain, when spoken of at all, receives favorable mention. There is manifest no tone of discouragement con cerning the cora crop. Though late, it is starting finely under; the influence of the June heat, and there is plenty of time it to grow and produce a heavy harvest if the season is favorable. In the more west ern sections of the State the potato crop is seriously endangered by the presence of the new potato-bug, which seems to be moving eastward slowly. but steadily devastating the crop wherever it appears." Power of a Horse's Scent " There is one perception that a horse pos sesses, that but little attention has been paid to, and that is the power of scent. With some horses it is as acute as with the dog; and for the benefit of those that have to drive nights, such as physicians and others, this knowledge is valuable. I never knew it to fail, and I have ridden hundreds of miles dark nights; and in consideration of this power of scent this is my simple ad vice; never check your horse nights, but give him a free head, and you may rest assured that he will never get off the road, and will carry you expeditiously and safely. In regard to the power of scent in a horse, I once knew one of a pair that was stolen, and recovered mainly by the track being made out by his mate and that after he had been absent six or eight hours." The August Interest. The transfer books of the old loan of the Commonwealth will close, as usual, on the Ist of July, preparatory to the payment of the semi-annual interest on the Ist of August. The State Treasurer, however, states that this rule does not apply to par ties desiring to transfer to the Common wealth for the use of the sinking fund. Such transfers may be made at any time. The transfer books of the new 6 per cent State loan will remain open for the greater public convenience until the 15th of July. Hon. Isaac Newton. The Commissioner of Agriculture, who has for many years had a residence in our midst, died yesterdayof a complication of diseases, from which he has long suffered. A plain and unpretending farmer of Penn sylvania, he was selected by President Lin coln, for his integrity and practical experi ence, as the head of an important bureau, the duties of which he has faithfully and industriously discharged until the day of his death. Whatever opinions may have been entertained of his capacity, it cannot be doubted that he was in earnest and faith ful and indefatigable, to the beet of his abil ities, in the discharge of every public duty, while his private life was without reproach as a true and consistent Christian in all the relations of humanity. Mr. Newton was in his s ixty-eighth year.—/Vational Intel. Negri Itsznig. The Houston (Texas) Telegraph approves of Horace Greeley for next Preeldent. The Prince of Wales has been admitted a member of the Paris Jockey Club. In Norfolk, Va., thus fitr, the registry of voters stands 849 whites to GO negroes. Three workmen wore suffocated to death In a well in Brooklyn, on Saturday. The yearly take of shad In the Connect'. out river is about 500,000. Clnelnnati'a new boulevard is to coat /A, 000,000. The rinderpest continues to prevail badly in Holland. The Indians aro attacking' tho grading parties on the PacWc Railroad. The sum of $BOOO, a gold watch, and other property, were stolen from a steamboat at., St. Lords on Saturday. Great part of the village of Camden, near Utica, New York, was burned yesterday. The loss is $75,000. More pork disease has been developed in Springfield, Mass., from eating ham, but no deaths as yet. The wcrkships of the Nashville Peniten tiary were burned on Saturday evening. Loss, $BO,OOO. A wealthy banker of San Francisco died recently,: bequeathing twenty thousand dollars towards paying the public debt. Twelve deaths by yellow fever recently occurred on board a steamer which had ar rived at Hilton Head, 9.. C., from Havana. A girl has been arrested in Newark.N. J. for trying to steal a waterfall from the hettd of another girl on the street. The tallest policeman in Great Britain died recently of consumption, at Kelso. He was six feet ten inches high. A minister walked fifty miles to be pre sent at the Baptist Convention in Lynch burg, Va. News from the Plains shows a continu ance of Indian depredations. Gen. Hancock has gone to Denver, Colorado. Gon. Thomas is at Omaha. The Union Congressional Committee at Washington has heard from enough Con gressmen to form a quorum of their lnten• tion to attend the July session of Congress. Messrs. Bartell, Coffroth and Johnson have been nominated for Congress by tho Democrats of the First, Second and Third Districts of Calforula, respectively. In Now York, yesterday, one John Schmidt tried to murder Elizabeth I.:matir,' and then cut his own throat, making a, wound from which ho died in a few hours. In North Carolina, the Crops on many of the plantations have been utterly destroyed by the rains. There has been no stoppage of railroad trains by the freshets, however. The express train which left Cleveland for Cincinnati on Saturday morning, ran over a wagon near Gallon Station, dining a man and woman and injuring 3 Alldron. The French steam frigate Ribourt, from Martinique, arrived at New York on Wed nesday.—She has a crow of 480 men, and mounts thirty-two guns. General Sherman telegraphs to the Gov ernor of Colorado, " I don't Wive you will have trouble with the Indians if your people will be arduously prudent." The Presidential party arrived at Boston on Saturday evening. The President was received by th Mayor on behalf of the city nt d.,,,, ,,, authorities, a by. Governor Bullock on behalf of' the Stat of Massachusetts. A. mail train fell through a trestle bridge at Peaeoek's Station, N. C., on Saturday night. Two men wore killed and several others injured. The bridge had boon weak ened by rains. The U. H. steamer Winooski arrived at Fortress Monroe yesterday from Matanzas, with over forty oi' her mon Hick of yellow fever, Joseph Cooper, a seaman, died on the passage. Nine buildings were destroyed and twenty others damaged by fire in Chicago, on Friday evening. Loss, $lOO,OOO. A wolitan In ono of the houses was burned to death while trying to save other persons Skidmore, the air gun murderer, com mitted suicide in the Brooklyn ,)al I Thurs day. Ile wrote several letters beton) cutting his throat, confessing his crime, bidding farewell to his mother, and asking forgive • 110 MM for his sins. of the Surratt Jury ono is a wood (Junior, another a real estate agent, another it hat ter, two are paper hangers, another an extensive hardware morehant, two have retired from active business, two are gm corm, and ono Is a dealer in fancy dress goods. Samuel (Iregory, of Delaware county, In this State, recently hung his "warmth.'" on a bush, while repairing a worm fence. An old now came along and " chewed" the gar ment, lacerating a roll of greenbacks In ono pocket, containing seventeen hundred dol lars. which were rendered worthless. The longest train of cars that ever passed over any railroad is said by the Easton (Pa.) Argus to have recently passed over the Lehigh Valley Railroad. It consisted of 275 loaded cars, averaging slx tons weight each, making 1,650 tons in all. The train extended 3,850 feet—over two-thirds of a mile. A box containing Government bonds, mortgages. certificates of stock, and other valuables to a largo amount, deposited in the National Mechanics' Bank of Baltimore, is mysteriously missing. It contained nearly the entire fortune of a young lady. The bunk is not responsible, us it was de posited by courtesy. East Boston Locomotive Works aro tnuk• ing locomotives for Pennsylvania. Lately when an order was received they had not a single sheet of iron in their works, but in three days the Bay _State Iron Company furnished all they required, and in forty days the locomotive was completed front the rough, with its tender and other accom paniments. Reports of the intended resignation of Mr. Stanton. Secretary of War, are again cur rent. Variance of opinion with the Presi dent and members of the Cabinet as to the instructions to military commanders in reference to the Reconstruction acts is alle ged us the immediate cause of Mr. Stantou's. retirement. i•t is stated that the frequent and late rains. o•the present season have bred, In the N, cinity of New Haven, Conn., blue black bugs, about a quarter of an inch long, whose. appetite for green things Is quite terrible to• behold. They go through everything, from the most delicate plants to the largest trees, and are driving farmers and gardeners. distracted with their ravages. ' The Coolie trade seems to be flourishing at Havana Just now. The correspondent of the Journal of Commerce reports the arrival on the 12th inst., of 282 coolies from Macao and Marini, and on the 13th of another In voice of 274 celestials for the cane fields of Cuba. Of those who survive their contract time, many may ultimately find their way to the United States, to aid in the cultivation of our sugar and cotton fields. James Stephens, the ex•doenlan, has again come into public notice. A correspondent In Ireland states positively that Stephens had paid a visit to Dublin, and returned to. France after attempting to defend his course in a Fenian council In Dublin. There was no sympathy expressed for him, however. The writer states that as a result of the Fenian movement the United Stator will this year gain an abundant supply of the most valuable emigrant labor from Ireland. A frightful accident recently occurred at Tole, an Austrian seaport on the Adriatic, in experimenting with nitro glycerine for military purposes. The first shell, tilled with this substance, burst in the gun, des troying it and blowing to pieces two men who were loading it. It also frightfully disfigured the face of the corvette captain, Count von Kielmansegge, fractured the leg or a captain, and rendered the colonel and another official deaf. Omaha dispatches state that on the 12th, at Fort Sedgwick, Colonel Dodge had a citizen named Hendricks flogged onehun dred lashes on the bare baok for selling whisky to the soldiers. On the same day and at the same place, a soldier received twenty-five lashes for stealing a gun. On the next day a soldier was "spread" for two hours for getting drunk, mosquitoes and buffalo gnats torturing him terribly. Some time ago a "sink hole" occurred on the Michigan Southern Railroad in North ern Indiana. It was about two hundred and twenty yards long, and in order to fill it the company have thrown in two acres of earth, averaging ten feet in depth, three acres of timber and brushwood, the ditch ings and scrapings of fifty milesof railroad track for about eight years past the old ties of about ono hundred miles of track, and about three thousand cur loads of gravel, besides the forty rods of embankment, from four to six feet high, that was made before the sinking occurred. Al last accounts the hole was about filled up. Another Horrible Murder by Negiroee The following account of an atrocious murder we clip from the Savannah (Ga.) Republican: On Friday night last, between nine and ten o'clock, two colored men entered the little country store of Mr. W. S. Flynn, on the Albany and Gulf Railroad, on the pre tence of purchasing some goods. While one engaged the proprietor's attention, the other came up behind and struck him a terrible blow with a hatchet,lwhich the vil lain had concealed on his person. So pow erful and well aimed was the blow of the assassin that their victim never spoke, the weapon of death cutting the skull almost. in twain. They then out him almost Into pieces, and. searching his pockets, taking all his money and afterwards Betting fire to the store. Before any progress had been made by the fire two colored men entered the store, but fled horror-struck at the sight of the mur dered man. The alarm was soon given,, but the body was consumed in the flames. The axe with which the bloody deed was committed was found and recognized as,the one which had been used by Jackson and Williams, who were employed on a tarpen tine plantation in the vicinity of Mr. Flynn's store. This was deemed sufficient evidence to warrant the arrest of both parties, and under threats they acknowledged the crime and were immediately imprisoned in the. court-house.
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