Sumter itttelliiimer, WEDNESDAY, .N9YEMBEtI . 27; 1867 Add One to Our List' Our friends are doing right ltt adding to the circulation of the WEEK. LY ItiTrEr.LIOEN'OEn. We 'are conSant' ly in the 'receipt of new subscribers. That is as it nheuld be. The DimELLI GENCER ranks second to no paper pub lished in Pennsylvania. It is cheap, reliable and soundly Democratic. It is just such a paper as should be in every family. We are glad that our friends appreciate it, and thank them'cordially for their aid. We hope none of them will relax in their efforts. There is a duty which each one of our readers should recognize. That is to spread po litical truth. Let each one of them re solve to add at least one new subscriber to our list before the first day of Janu ary. That can be done. Do not say it can not. Try it! See your neighbor who does not take a paper, and see that he subscribes. Do not stop at one if you can possibly do ,better And you can. Remember, money for subscription can be sent by mail at our risk. A Word of Caution The Express seems to have formed a decided opinion that we are guilty of libelling .Itev. Gotwald, as charged by the Committee of his church. All good citizens will , be careful to avoid follow ing its example in this respect, as the case against us will be tried, and they may be summoned as jurors. They should, therefore, bring unbiased minds to the consideration of the evidence, and avoid formingandexpressingan opinion iu advance, either for or against us. A Terrible Lash We transfer to our columns a most re markable communication which ap peared in the EapresB of yesterday evening. The editor in his introduc tory note says it is " from the pen of one of our most excellent and highly esteemed Christian citizens." That compels us to conclude that the author believes in the truth of what he has as serted. But for that we should have regarded it all asa hoax, or a joke. The revelations made by this "Christian citizen" are certainly most astonishing to us. Ifheis to be believed the whole body of the Republican party in this city and county tremble before us, and many are ready to "fawn around us" to "avoid our lash." We think lie has made the mistake of vupposing that all his acquaintances are infected with the same fears which have taken possession of him. We have many friends among our political opponents in Lancaster. Our intercourse with the leading men of the Republican party has been pleasant.— There are manygen ialgen Omen. among them, men of honor and integrity, for whom we entertain sincere respect and the kindliest regard. We neither fawn on them, nor they on us. We meet ; on the common plane of social and business intercourse, where politics is never in troduced by us, and where it should never be allowed to obtrude itself.— That is the creed of all intelligent gen tlemen, and we have always adhered to it. Not a line has evervappeared in out• paper reflecting upon the character of any private citizen, and in our strictures upon the speeches and acts of public men we have never been inure severe than we thought proper. We have no apology to make for anything which Las appeared as editorial matter in the columns of the INTELLIGENCE{. This "Christian citizen" alludes to the castigation we gave the Rev. Hr. Cronilish. That fellow deserved all he gut; and we are pleased to know that we were instrumental,:to someiextent, in relieving the church at Columbia or a [mallet]. Quite a number of the most intelligent and respectable citizens of that place have assured us that they are under• decided obligations to us for what we did, So Min; as the preachers con fine themselves within the sphere of touir calling, they will be sure al ways Lo meet with the must kindly and courteous treatment at our hands; but, when they lay aside their sacred character and come down from their pulpits to drag their ministerial robes in the filth and mire of partisan politics, they invite the severest criticism, and the closest scrutiny into their lives. Their present and past conduct then becodes proper subject matter for news paper comment. Having made most unseelnly exhibitions of themselves in public, they cannot expect to be treated otherwise than as public political prop• erty. If their lives nave been ituptire the public, h a/a right to know the fact. It is mutter especially proper for public information. For all such We have a lash, which we shall not fail to use. This " Christian citizen" must Love taken his idea of the INTELLIGENcEn entirely front hearsay. He certainly has not been a habitual reader of it. Had lie been, we are sure he would not have made such a foolish exhibition of him self. He would have known that not. a 'single word derogatory of any meri torious soldier ever appeared in our columns. He might have found c•iti• cisms of the political acts of certain gen erals and others, but never a word de rogatory of the character of any soldier as such. "We du hope this "Christian citi zen" has greatly exaggerated the con. dition airlifts. We sincerely trust there is 110 such quaking and trembling among his friends and acquaintances, as he rePresents. The picture drawn by him is calculated to excite an emo. limier pity in the most unsympathizing hearts, The idea of any number of peo• pre, be they many or few, cowering and trembling like whipped spaniels before us is not pleasant to contemplate.— Somebody has been imposing on thill "Christian citizen." Let him subscribe for the DA I,l' I NTHIJA(IENCEIt, 11,1111 1'011.,1 It regularly and devoutly, and we are sure he will nut only conclude that he has been betrayed Into making an epistolary goose of hitnself, but will be ready to beg our pardon for having spoken evil of us, We hope the Express will furnish the public with a sight of the whole series of communications It has "received on the subject." it is hardly possible It can have another so amusing as the 0110 it published, but there might be something worth seeing in them. By all means let us have the entire batch. Another Libel Milt. Col islable Baker waited onus on Wed nesdoy, and, lu his blandest manner, informed us that he hail another war rant for 118. The Committee of Mr. Got wall's Church have prosecuted us for publishing the same matter in our Week ly which appeared In our Daily. They seem to be delortutued to probe ,that little ontWo• to the bottom. Again we commend their Christian energy, and assure them that we will aid them by all the means in our power. We are collecting documents and other material of an Important character, all of which We Shall be happy to furnish to them xnd WI appreciative public when the proper Orne comes. Our readers may look uut.fer some rich developments. Is New Jersey the Democratic ma. jority ix at last definitely and officially amcertained to be over 18,60 D. In New York tUe official returna fillOW a Dem- Pcratic majority of 49,800. Big figures, .Lbose. Impeachment. Yesterday three different reports were presented by members of the Judiciary Committee tolla s o U. S. House of Rep resentatives on the.suhject o*peacii ing the Presi'deVt,. Thfin4orily report favors impeachment, ati4 stork by Messrs. Boutwell ThornrieLawritnce, Williams and Ckirirch 4dlyte minority_ report, agiffnsilinpeachriie - ni, 'resigned" by Messrs. Wilson and Woodbridge, Messrs. Marshall and Eldridge concur ring. On motion, the subject was post poned until_thelet Monday in Decem ber, when come upfor discussion. It is generaLly believed that a majority of the House will vote against instruct ing the Senate to proceed to the im peachment of the President. There is not the slightest :probability that the President could be convicted before the Senate, if anything like a fair trial is given him. There is nothing In all the testimony given before the Committee to cast any serious censure upon Mr. Johnson, much less to justify a report in favor of impeachment. The whole thing is an outrage against which even the more decent Radical members of the Committee are forced to enter a strong protest. The mere presentation of the report. and the debate which will follow in the House, must necessarily be damaging to the best interests of the country. There is one consoling reflection connected with the matter however, and that is to be found in the fact that the Radical party will be greatly damaged by this bold and reckless outrage. It will in evitably suffer for the folly of the fanat ics who lead it, and the immediate tri umph of Conservative principles will be rendered absolutely certain. So out of the follies of fanatics good will come. Iu case au attempt should be made to remove the President before conviction, it would be his duty to resist any such reckless attempt at usurpation on the part of a fragmentary Congress ; and in so doing he would be sustained by all the manhood of a vast majority of the white men of the whole country. Let him rest assured of that and act accord ingly. In Ills Dotage Some ancient booby is complaining bitterly in thecolumns of a neighboring journal that we on a late occasion charged the Patriot Daughters with dis honesty. The old fellow is mistaken ; he manifestly can't read. The managers of all public institu tions and charities which are supported by the contributions of our citizens, should render to the people au account of their stewardship, „and should give them an accurate and detailed state ment of the expenditure of the moneys which have been confided to their care. We publish a newspaper for the information of the people, and we intend that all these amounts shall appear in our columns; if they are not handed to us when we think they ought to be, alter waiting a reasonable length of time, we take the liberty of calling for them. The managers of the " Pa triote Daughters" were the recipients of large sums of money, freely contri buted by both Democrats and Republi cans, for the relief of our soldiers in the field, and as, after, the close of the war, we were not furnished with a detailed accoUllt of their receipts and expendi tures, and our Democratic readers were in complete ignorance as to where the money hail gone, but little of it having ever flown iota, Democratic channels or gone into the coffers of Democratic merchants, we could not allow ourselves to be deterred from de manding information for our readers by the fact that the accountants were women. The ladies, sensibly appreciating the justice of our demand s , promptly furnish ed us with a detailed statement of their expenditures, which we published. It correctly accounted for all the money they had received, and stated to whom it hail been paid out. ighorance of Democrats as to its 12X penditu r,; however, very clearly explained; for we regret ted to observe that the partisan bias of the ladies had induced them to bestow very nearly all their patronage upon Republican merchants, notwith standing Democrats had been perhaps the most liberal contributors to their fund. It was thus the unfairness, par tiality and political bigotry of the Daugh ters which we had reason to assail and not their personal integrity. The "Christian citizen" is in his dotage. Heiner on the Present Crisis All our readers remember the intense excitement created by the publication of a book called "The Impending Crisis," by Hinton Rowan Helper, of North Carolina. It was adopted as a campaign document by the Abolition ists, and was spread bmadcast over the laud. Every Republican member of Congress united in an address recom mending it to the consideration of the people. It was a bitter anti-slavery document, and was an efficient agency in the election of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Helper Nfas rewarded by " the lute lamented" for his services, and during the war his loyalty was unquestioned. Since the termination of the rebellion he has returned to the South, and has been busy examining into the condition of affairs in that section. The attempt to reconstruct the South on the Radical Congressional plan olrer ed Mr. Helper an opportunity to become a leader in the movement. lie could 1111 W put himself at the head of the Radical party in North Carolina, and he would have been in high favor with the authors of the reconstruction seh eme. That he did not do so is proof that he is au honest loan. lEe was a bitter oppo nent of shivery, anti sincerely desired to see it extinguished ; but he is not pre.. pared to surrender the destinies of his native State, of the South, the entire country into the hands of the lgnoran t anti degraded Africans whom he 1111,1 (10110 so much to release front bondage, We publish eupidlis extracts Iron ell able communication addressed by hint to the National hacleigenctr. \Ve ask our readers to give the document a careful perusal. After they have read it let them put it into the hands of their Republican neighbors. It is the testi mony of an honest anti-slavery man, one whose loyally was endorsed by Mr. Lincoln. It shows up the Iniquities of the Itadieal scheme of reconstruction In Its true colors, and lays bare the dan gers which are now so imminently threatening. The present crisis Is much more terrible than the 0110 of which Helper formerly wrote. Itead what he says In regard to It. PRIcEs of tunny things are going down, down. That has been the ten. decoy ever since the Democracy began the victory business, (.1 old has tumbled, and dry goods have had a terrible de- scent In prices. Only let us keep up the run of DemeeraLle victories, and it will not be very long until we can get back to the "good old Omen" we remember and regret. Mits. Li Nroim once procured the ar rest and incarceration as a state pris oner of a person who spoke disrespect fully of her, if she were the wife of the Government now, and were ecivally vindictive, the nether garment, of every Republican editor In the land would flutter from the casemules of Fort lA faimtte or the windows of Life Old no. tol prison. How Natlonar flaffksare Established and Conducted. Te establishment of a nationalrbank, is a simple matter. ,A set of capitalists 4ke, say one hundred,4,l4ousand dsd ‘ larsi fit non dalath at ;amoOt are honed *i then), andi also ninety thousand dbflars 'lll national' ourraucy, engraved and Aoiinted the me of the bank,r2at tbei expense. The bonds are left in the United States Treasury,"an security for the redemption of the national bank notes. The bankers return home, with as much money as they took with them; less ten thousand' dollars: In reality thd have only invpted ten ttiousand' dollars in bonds. But they receive in terest in gold, six thousand dollars, on the one hundred thousand dollars of bonds left to their credit in the United States Treasury. The ninety thousand dollars received trom the treasury in notes, the bankers lend out at an inter est of from nine to fifteen per cent. This, with the gold interest on their bonds, gives them an annual iuterestof about twenty per cent. on the original investment. Such is the national bunk ing system. To sustain such a system the people are taxed at least twenty-five millions a year. If there were no suchhanks, and the paper money in circulation was issued directly by the Government, the twenty-five million dollars which are annually paid in gold to the National Banks would be saved, and we should have a better and more uniform cur rency. Now the notes of all these banks are taken without suspicion, because they are regarded by the people as Na• tional currency. Very few who handle them ever look at the name of the bank which is printed on them. They are all taken on the credit of the United States. Then why should they not be issued directly by the United States? Why should they be circulated through the medium of National Banks at au annual expense of $25,000,000. Ought not such a system as this to be summarily abolished? It costs, as we have said, twenty-five million dollars a year, and has no single compensating advantage to offer in return. This Na tional banking system is not only worse than useless ; it is extremely dangerous. It combines an immense amount of capital, enables those who control it to make large sums of money almost without effort, and absolutely gives them twenty five millions of the money wrung from the toil and sweat of the masses without ever• asking for an equivalent in return. Is not such a huge and favored monopoly dangerous? Will not all the ,National Banks be found combining to perpetuate them selves, and to purchase still greater pri vileges from a Congress which is k now n to be corrupt and venal ? The pecuniary interest of the tax-ridden masses, and a proper• regard for the liberties and rights of the people, alike demand that the whole system should be speedily (lug up by the roots and forever destroyed. Let the people see that this is done at once, and done effectually. Such a gigantic monopoly would be unsafe even if it cost nothing. Negro Suffrage In Minnesota It is said there are not more than fifty adult male negroes in the State of Min nesota. Surely, if negro suffrage would be safe anywhere, it would be so up there, where a six months winter de ters the darkey from intruding. That State has been strongly _Radical in its politics for• years. If negro suffrage could be adopted anywhere in the north we should have supposed it would have been endorsed in Minnesota. Yet the people of that State repudiate the odi ous condition by a decided majority.— They have determined that' the two• score negroes in the State shall not vote. Time Radical State Officers are all elected, by a majority of some five thou sand, but the great fundamental doc trine of the party is repudiated. The hostility to it springs from devotion to principle, from a conviction that our fathers intended that this government should be always kept under the exclu sive control of white men. We do not believe the people of the north will ever impose upon the whites of the south a degrading condition which they are un willing to accept for themselves. If the people of Minnesota refuse to permit two-score of negroes to vote in that. State, they will certainly decline to sus tain any party which gives up the con trol of half a score of Stales to a set of ignorant and brutalized blacks just freed from the thralls of slavery. A \*l w 'fest for Voters Radicali,m advances with unfettered steps in the Boutin. The Alabama Con vention has formed a hew Lest oath, to be taken by every one offering to vote. - Not only is the applicant to swear that he is not excluded from registering by any act of Congress, but he is also re quired to take a solemn oath in the fol lowing terms: "I accept the civil and political equality "of all men, and agree not to attempt to " deprive any person or persons 011 account "of race, color, or previous condition, of "any political or civil right, privilvge, or "immunity enjoyed by tiny other class of " men." Thus it is expected that the right of the negroes to vote, to hold office, to sit on juries, and to he in all respects re garded and treated as on a perfect equality with white men, will be made the fundamental law of Alabama, and irrevocably fastened upon that State for all time to come. We ask the people of Pennsylvania whether they are pre pared to sanction such a procedure.— They will vote on that very question in the pending l'r;2,- , i(lenti,ll r.ont,.!-,t. It will be throaty in issue. It must be met squarely. It cannot be evaded.— Then let all white men prepare to vote intelligently. That kind of thing must be crushed out by the votes of the white men of the North. It eau be done in no other way. heath of FlLz•tireen I:allot:1c. There are few who will not hear with sincere regret the announcement that Fitz• Green HaHock died at his residence and birth place, Clullford, Connecticut, on last 'Wednesday night, lu the 7:3d year of his age. He outlived nearly all Ills cotemporaries, and departed this life full of years, honored by his coun trymen, respected by the intellectual of all countries, and much loved by those who knew 111111 personally. lie was one of that goodly company of Atnerican authors which Included Irving, Cooper, Paulding, Long and Drake. He began life as a clerk In the banking house of Jacob Barker, in New York, and after wards was connected with John Jacob Astor, which connection lasted until the death of the latter. He held a posl -0011 as Trustee of the Astor Library until 1549, when he retired from all business and Went to live at Guilford. Some of his poems are familiar as house. hold words to all Americans. Iu com memmoration of the death of Drake he wrote the poem beginning: Urrun be the tart' above thee. Friend of my better clays! None knew thee hot to lov., thou, Nor maned thee but to praise. Every school boy Is fascinated by that stirring martial lyric "Marco Bozaris ;" and, us the thoughtful and cultivated man analyzes it in after years, he finds that he was not caught by mere "sound and frenzy." In elegance of diction, symmetry /43 „a . work of art, and noble poetic fervor, it will hear the test of the severest criticism. The entire series of Mr. HaHack's ;poems was published by Harper & Brothers in 18411. Since that time the author has rested from his labors. He was a man whose genial temper and fine conversational powers endeared him to all whom he met. The editor of the Express is laboring -siduously to produce the impression bate desire to 'firing the Christian • qeligitin luto c0n0 . 644. ~Hydeenis;ou - eritiOlsmS Of politipreaetrffise7iidenci ?of such an intention. , Wep notthink. any sensible.tnan ofivomarreati be id=', 'ducelk,to take_such iyiewpf the matter Indeed it .sourrespeet fertile Christian religion, our appreciation of what a true minister of the gospel should be, which draws from us such strictures as we feel compelled to make from time to fitne upon the conduct of .urtwooby members of that sacred calling. For the ptireManof Clod; the conscientious upright Christian minister of the gos pel, we have the most profound respect. In his presence we feel that we stand before one who should com mand our reverence more than any other mortal. But, when such men leave their high and holy position to descend into the political arena, and be come the hired or willing defenders of doctrines which we deem subversive of the best interests of the nation, they in vite criticism. Having laid aside their sacred robes, they are no longer entitled to be treated with greater consideration than other political demagogues. If they meet with severe rebukes they have no one to blame for it but them selves. We have never stepped aside to as sault even apolitical preacher. We have refused to comment upon indiscretions of that kind when confined to their own pulpits; but when they have obtruded themselves upon the general public, and have outraged propriety by making an unseemly exhibition of themselves, we have on several occasions been com pelled to administer an appropriate re buke. We know no subject more properly with in the domain of editorial comment than the conduct of such men. We feel bound to notice them. Their very po sition renders it necessary that we should do so. Political falsehoods from their lips are especially dangerous, if permitted to pass unnoticed. If they will persist in prating about politics, they must expect to be treated with as little consideration as other political speakers are. They cannot shield them selves:from criticism by folding about them rubes which they have soiled, and by seeking reiuge in a sacred office which they have disgraced. We regard all such men as challenging comment, and, so long as we control the columns of a newspaper, we will pay our respects to them whenever they invite criticism by entering the political arena. We shall do this freely and fearlessly, be lieving that we shall thereby be doing good service to the cause of true Chris tianity, which has suffered so much in jury at the hands of political preachers. They have brought religion into con tempt with many, and have done more of late years to aid in building up the kingdom of Beelzebub than all other agencies combined. We shall have more to say on this subject hereafter. Touching their Pockets. In spite of the efforts of the Radicals to avoid it the financial condition of the country has become a most absorbing subject of public attention. The peo ple believe that a considerable portion of the burthens imposed upon them might be lifted from their shoulders. They are heartily tired of enormousand useless expenditures of the public money. They see that with about one thousand millions of tax, annually wrung from their toil and sweat, the enormous national debt is not reduced, but on the contrary is increased. They have grown restive, and will not be satisfied until a change is effected. Their eyes have been opened to the enormity of maintaining a standing army in the South et a direct expense of a hundred millions a year, and an indirect expense of many millions more to keep the white race in subjection to the negto. They know and feel that the only safe and directnroad out of our financial dif ficulties is to be found in a policy which will ( restore peace and assure the pros perity of the States recently in rebel lion. The masses of the North have tried the Radical plan of keeping alive the passions of the war. They have found that it does not pay. They might consent to put the whites of the South under thej feet of the negroes if they could make money by so doing; but when such au infamous course takes money out of the pocket of every tax-payer and producer in the Not th, it is not strange that agreat revolution should take place in public sentiment. The end of mili tary establishments, freedmen's bu• reaus and other costly appliances for perpetuating Radical domination through the agency of African suprem acy, is rapidly approaching. The eyes of the people have been opened. They arc ready to endorse fully the wise words of that sagacious statesman, Ho ratio Seymour, who struck the key note when he said : "iti , sioce the South and reshire commerce, and thi' the greenback will be equal to the gold dollar in value, and it will lie a point id no practical importntwe whether you pay the bond, in coin or legal tenders." The exigency is so great that Congress will be compelled to give some attention to the financial situation. That they will begin in the right place or attempt to go to the root of the evil no one be lieves. They will attempt to bridge over the difficulties until after the Presidential election, but they will find that tinkering will do no ‘ good now. Things have got past that point. In the meantime, as the pockets of the people are being touched, their eyes are being opened. The Preqiiential Election to be Deckle( on Principle S. Y. Tribuitc says A. to I;en. I:rant, we hope to find hini on the Republican platform of Equal Rights to all citizens of the l:nitod Staten; but wo cannot now point to any act or doclaraticm which plaees him Moro. When (.1011. Grant demonstrates 111 this point, we hope he will ho found standing square on the platform 111 . Equal ltightn. And when hu doom, we mlntli very beertily support 111111 for I'renl• dent, ho bo thu Ropublican cantlidato ; but No suspect lie w•III then be no Kllllll4l'l' haul 11110111P1' ellp111)10 11,11 tvnrlhy Rept:1101- elm. Ile may got sotno votes on persottal grounds, lu %low of his eminent 11111)11C 1401' V1C4114 but HO would Gov. C 1111140; mu would Spoitkor Colfax or Sonntor NVatle. 'I Immo who nntc mom dovotod to him on tho as. sumplion that lie Is not n Itepublican will of course be off whomever il shall be 0,4111, Indied boyealil aavll that he is. Be 3(110 Chi ll )11 . 111Cirle, llOt pC7Vloltai (Voice, will govern the 180110 of the pending Presidential CO/L -11,1. •I'hot•c' will, I Iltirt , cull, ho nu mhirliing the'lSlrlin Question. We agree perfectly with Mr. Greeley. "Principle, not personal choice, will govern the home of the pending Presi dential contest." We are also very sure that there can be "no shirking the Main Quetttion. We feel confident that Gen. Grant will be "no stronger than any other capable and worthy RepublWan," provided he accepts a nomination from the Republican party and undertakes to run on their platform. That he will be overwhelmingly defeated, should he place himself in such a position, we verily believe. Black Republican ntatesnien. Two a the negro candidates for seats In the North Carolina State Convention both of whom were elected triumph antly, issued a circular to the negro voters of their district, of which the following:is a verbatim copy : if thar' should Bee any Collared Person that wants to vote A Democratic vote, frail, (beat) him until he Knows Nothing. If you 1)o that Will Bee Just Bite they served them in Virginia, and if tbar should Bee a man of such Carreoter, ntalce him sure for a while. This is at the same time a fair sample of negro intelligence and of the evil spirit which the Radicals have succeed ed lu into the negro's mind. reinarktibleeOrnionz nication appeared in the Express of giiterday evening: The Lash of a Political Pariah. Vile following communication (one of a mbar received on thelainoimbj§pt), from the pen of one of our 4teist eXcelimit Mid highly respected Chrlstianoitizens,.7ho la in no wise connected with Mr. Gotctiald , hts- congregation. What - ',Ale says, is promptdd solely by a senAl;bf duty as a Christian' citizen.—Ed. Ex.] The Lash of a Political Pariah Over a Whole Community The Pariah, controlling the Intelligencer, editorially, for some time past, holds the nomtnunity so :coMpletely in awe, 1* his - vulgar attacks upon every one hissuperior, who ventures to differ with him impolitics, that the leading citizens of our city and county have remained dumb like sheep, through fear of bringing upon themselves his slimy effusions. It must afford him a sort of satanic satisfaction to see the power be wields by his imitation of the style of Brick Pomeroy, one of the most vulgar writers oftbe W est. Our citizens remem ber his cowardly attack upon Rev. Mr. Cromlish, because that man with a heart full of patriotism and love of his fellow man, was on the side of his country, and active in the temperancecause. The mean and ungentlemanly attack upon the most respectable ladies of our city, connected with the Patriot Daughters, is still fresh in the minds of all, and the quiet-and cower vatme submission of the fathers, husbands and brothers of these patriotic ladles, to the insults heaped upon them by this Pariah,. gave bird all the encouragement a creature' of his caste desired, for the perpetuation of similar outrages upon a community of his betters. He has used this advantage to such an extent, that persons of both parties fawn around this Pariah, and endeavor to obtain or retain his favor, and avoid his lash. Finding himself, though a stranger, an object to be courted, and having the re spectuble portion of the community tremb ling before his bold vulgarity, he strikes at every Christian minister who boldly steps out among the people, and gives his voice and counsel upon questions relating to their welfare, and instead of criticising their opinions, attacks their personal character, and attempts to weaken their influence and bring into discredit the cause of religion Men most prominent in the cause of educe tion, are held up before the public in lan guage which no parent would read to his children, because the education of the masses is death to the party of which this Pariah is such a relined (?) advocate. The greatest soldiers of our nation are de nounced in the sante vulgar Pomeroyian style by this Pariah, and the soldier who honors these bravo men, and has fought under them, is not forgotten, as au "ulcer on the body politic." Our greatest statesmen receive his most vulgar notices, and none more so than our fellow citlzen, lion. Thaddeus Stevens.— Not content with his vulgar assaults upon persons of his own sex, but in character with his caste, his principles do not prevent him from attacking ladies of the highest respectability. It would be a display of shameful sentences, to reproduce all the vulgar attacks made from time to time upon the clergymen, soldiers, statesmen, scholars anti ladies by this Pariah, since his short residence in this intelligent cotninunity.— We owe it to ourselves, and our families, to take a stand against such an enemy to our peace and happiness. No one knows who will be the next victim of the malig nity of such an outcast. The thanks of an appreciative public are due to the Express, for taking this liindoo by the horns, and the corn ittee who brought action against Min for libel did the community a favor. Realizing the Magnitude of their Defeat. The Radical leaders are beginning to realize now the full extent of their late unexpected and unwelcome defeat, though they are making desperate ef forts to make every one believe that they are neither disheartened nor dismayed. The New York „Vat ion thus sums up their losses: The Republican party has sustained a series of defeats this year scarcely equalled iu its history. When, on the 17th ultimo, we pointed but that it had lost 107,000 of its majorities last year, and predicted that it would lose the New York election, we were severely denounced both as false prophets and enemies to the party. But our predic tions are much more than verified. We foretold 15,000 Democratic majority in New York, desiring to make the figure as no,d. crate as we honestly could. As soon as the registration was completed we estimated the probable majority at 35,000. In feet, it exceeds -10,000. The returns from other States are yore imperfect, but seem to indi cate 23,000 Republican majority in Massa chusetts, 10,000 Democratic majority in New Jersey, 10,1U0 Democratic majority in Mary land, 5,000 Repuldican majority in Wis consin, 1,000 in M innuseta, and perhaps 5,000 in Kansas. The returns from Illinois and Michigan, where county officers only were chosen, are so meagre as to afford nu Indication of the results. Estimating the loss in these States ;it half the proportion shown by other States, the Intel loss upon the Republican majorities of last year, in the various elections of 1007, cannot be reckoned at less than 320,11011, or three ourths of the party's entire majority. Democratic Gains this Year Summing up the Democratic gains iu the Northern States this year, we have the following astonishing and pleasing figures: New York GLOW New Jersey Calitotnia "0,000 Ohio 40,000 Pennsylvania 18,000 Indiana "5,000 Maine 15,000 Connecticut 1,000 Massachusetts 45,000 New Hampshire. 3,000 Wisconsin "1,000 I:ansas 10,000 lowa S,OOO Minnesota 0,000 Here is a Democratic gain of nearly 300,n0u in fourteen States. If we were to include Maryland, Kentucky and West Virginia, many thousands more would have to be added ; but the above will do. Vote of Ohlo.by Congressional District on Negro Suffrage. Below is a statement of the majorities for and against the amendment giving negroes the right of suffrage in Ohio. It will be noticed that only three out of the nineteen districts gave majorities for the amendment: Against. Et Ist District Eggleston's :1510 '.2tl ,' 11 ayes' 2.137 nl " Schenck's 'l3lB t " w renctos 1711 51.11 " Mungen's 7735 lith •' l'larke's 3109 7th " Shellabarger'. 2727 hth " Ilandlton's 1912 oth " 1 Siwkiand's 1080 lOth " Ashley's 2401 11th" (30(31 12th " Van I'rump's SSW) 13th " I\lorgan's - )17i3 I.lth " NVel ker's ~ 1192 17th " 7130 10th " 2730 17th " Eekle;.:'s lsth " Spalding's 111111 " (;nrtiold's All of these Republican representa tives are said to he in favor of forcing negro sutrrage upon the people of the South, though their own Constituents, by decisive majorities, have repudiated It In Ohio. If they persist In violating the will of the people they represent, their heads will tly In October next.— Clerclwal Tin.; declared official vote of Calif° lila at the September election Is us fo ROI , . Pcirt, (MC0,101%. ...... .(101 . 1,11111 .....PC-I!1 11111{ IIL __NM), (1111(11,...im.i i'lluli. 1;1!rn11 A xll.l 18 1J:1 tbiggrev,ll II Iµ6y Itioi:1 (2 , ,ffin111....117•6 C0nurt . .0.111....1.1iirl stn.) ......11:LiU Ju:)11,1.11...,117b7 Haight has 9,511 over Gorham, ant 7,•1511 over both. Axial, Dem., for Con gress,Jins 4,804 rnajorlty ;Itchy, Rep. has 1,2(17; Johtwon, Dem., has 37:1 ma, Jorlty. Retinal Of the Now York 'Election Wu Inivo of last Um toll vote of this Soap, all the contalos oxeopt Binge bolloved to be offload, 'rho result Is as follows: 1811.1—(Jov KILN , %n, ni. STATIC. Fenton, /Up5...300,05 MllKeall, Rep '711,e13 Hulramu, Neleon, Dem ...... Rep. tria1.........1:1,789 Detn. mai 40,800 Total vote 718,811 Total Vito ~......017,W3 oil In total vote, 211,11:34, Republican loge from IM 111 41,418; Democratic gain Irma 1111, 21.3111.—N. I. 'Tribune. The 31111110110 M Ileetlon. A. (1011111leil I'l'olll St. Paul to the Chicago Tribune Witten Mat °Mehl' reports from all but one county give the Itepublicati candi date for tiovernor at the recent ('hellos 5,364 majority, whilst the (spud suffrage amendment la defeated by 1,248 majority. The total vote is stated at about 64,000. At the Congressional elections In 1866 in Min nesota the Republican majority was 10,208 Inn total vote a 41,750. In 1865 tattle Gov norla election the Republican majority wits 3,4761 n a total vote of 31.100. The Momenelituietts Election The official result of the Massachusetts election hi November Ic announced. For GoVernor, A. H. Bullock, Republican, re ceived 98,306 votes, and John Quincy Aciams, Democrat, 70,366, whilst 12i scat tering votes were east. The Republican majority was 27,946. As compared with last year the Republican vote has increased 6,326; thci Democratic vote bits Increased 13,689; and the Republican majority, which In 1806 was 00,309, has decreased 37,303. Zxtraccfhirif tektilatife' Ree,oid er 1865, Page 49. Proceedlnca In the ionic • r • .• ..,111 • 6 • In justice to Himarend Wthlitington Gl:Awaitl ant ottriftlives;we publith°the fol- Cowing froth the I.;egiallsve Beccird, in ye ` • bltionto the chan ge f *ne. Agresilaily to order,'o4lHoutlkiproceederl to the third reading and oansideratihn of an act to change the venue in the case of the Commonwealth vs. Washington V. Got wald, No. 12 of August term, 1864, in the Court of Quarter Sessions, in Adams county to.the county of Franklin. The; hill was read a third time by its title. Mr: M'Clure moved that the House re solve itself into committee-of the whole on the bill for the purpose of inserting the fol lowing special amendment: To strike out all after the word " that," where it first oc curs in the first section, and insert the fol lowing:" The venue now pending in the Court of Quarter Sessionsin Adamscounty, of the Commonwealth vs. Washington V. Gotwald, No. 12 of August term, 18(x4, be and the same is hereby removed to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Dauphin county, to the April term of said court, where it shall be tried and judgment and sentence had thereon, with the same effect as if it had been tried in the county of Adams ; and all records in the case shall be served and transferred by the proper officers of said county of Adams to said county of Dauphin, and all expenses incurred by the said county of Dauphin, by reason of said change of venue, shall be paid by the com missioners of said county of Adams." Mr. Pershing. Mr. Speaker, I was not present when this bill was previously con sidered, and • I do not know what are the reasons for this amendment. The original bill, I believe, proposed to transfer this case to Franklin county. There may be good reasons tbr transferrino- 6 it to Dauphin county, but I perceive, from reading this amendment, 'at least ;is I understand it,) ' that it is to be tried at the April sessi,ms of the Dauphin county court. Now, it seems to me, sir, that this is not a proper amend ment. The time for the trial of this case, if it is transferred, ought to be left to the judg ment of the court itself. There may be good reasons why it should not be tried at the April sessions. Witnesses may be ab sent, or something else may occur. It seems to me that this amendment is going farther than we ought to go. Mr. M'Clure, Mr. Speaker, it is usual in change of venue to name the terin in which the case is to be entered, and April being the next term of the Dauphin county court, (the court is now in session,) that term is trained. Of course it is competent for the court to continue it on the usual grounds on which cases are continued. 1 would state, for the information of the gentleman front Cambria, (11r. Pershing,) that the reason why I have made the motion to change it from Franklin to Dauphin county is on account of a publication touching the case which has appeared in one of the news papers of Franklin county. That pi: :,ca don was favorable to the defendant, „tot it would be unfair to ask the prosecm ton to go there for trial. It is merely done to meet toy own sense of what is Mir and just. The motion of fir. M'Clure was agreed to, and thellouse accordingly resolved itself into a committee of the whole (Mr. Brown in the chair) on the bill. The a UW11(1111011( as given above was read and agreed to. The committee rose and reported the bill as amen(lNl according to the instructions of the House. The question recurred on the final pas sage of the bill. Mr. McClure. In order that the House may understand why this change of venue has been applied tor, I ask fur the reading of the petition and affidavit of the defendant in this case. The Clerk read as follows: To the Senate and House of Represeatat of the OJlnutonirealth of Pennsylvania in General As.sembly ?net : The petition r Washington V. Got wslil ' humbly show( . that at the August term of the court of n .trier sessions of Ads ins county, all imb...tment for torn Hiti-it and has' ardy was found against to 111, sod con tinued tor trial to Novienla•r 111 of said court; that some dine Lieiore ‘lte court in November he was info.... I lota certain influences were secretly (merating against him, that would prevent hint from having a fair trial in Adams ; that on the trial the prosecutrix s ore tita.itively tll the time when, and the place where the offence was conimitled, and I nituuc.mucction was ever had with ileteinlant at any other time or place. That on the part ot the defence, it was proved Uy several unimpeachable witnesses, corroborated by written entries and facts and circuntstences that did not admit Many mistake, that at the time, and for several days before and after the time, when it was alleged the ()deuce was coin indica, he was absent from Adams county, in it distant part of the State, more than one hundred unit fifty mites front Gettys- Mirg—the residence of the prosecutrix ; that notwithstanding this clear and conclu sive proof of an alibi:, the jury could not agree and were discharged by the court; and that, as he has since been informed, every Malt in the jury belonging to a tier min organization, stood tut to the end in favor of his conviction. Your petitioner, therefore, believing diet the saute influence will be made to operate against him on any I uture trial, and that, in consequence thereof, be cannot have it ' fair trial in Adams county, humbly prays taut an act may be passed changing the . venue in his said case, so that a trial may be had in sonie other county, and he will pray, W. v. UO . rNALD. state of Pennsylvania, County of Admits, so.: Washington V. (Mtwald, being duly sworn, sayeth the facts set forth in the above petition are true. W. V. IJOTWALD. Sworn and subscribed before me, Janu ary, tEll. „ A. J. COVER, Justice of the Peace. Mr. M'C'ltire. fir. Speaker I do not as sume that the defendant in this case is in nocent, and for that reason ask this Legis lature to change the venue. I do charge, however, that in consequence of the pecu liar relationship of the parties in this suit , that such a degree of prejudice has arisen, in which the political prejudices of the county have also become interwoven, that it is utterly impossible, whether lie be guilty or innocent, Mr this titan to obtain a fair trial in Adams county. I do not know nor do I know the prosecutrix. I 41 not know that such persons lived until the case was brought here. I feel no personal in terest in either. The facts presented in his petition are conelusive to the fact that it is not possible to obtain a Mir trial in that county, and I submit, sir. that if there be a reasonable doubt upon this subject us to whether this man can be fairly tried in Adams county, it is due to him, and due .0 ,justice, that this velitto should be changed. Ile is it minister of the gospel—it man to whom his reputation in everything; it is all to him. Although the importance of this case has been ridiculed, nevertheless no :natter how slight it May appear to those who casually view it, it is it matter of the utmost moment to the parties concerned in the suit. If ho cannot obtain justice in Adains county, it ix the first thttyor this Legislature to change the venue to some county Whereitistiee can be obtained. A stelement is here made by the petitioner, under oath, condrined 1)Y his counsel, ton gentlemen of thin highest possible character, that by reason of the political prejudices of the county Witten Inive become connected with this case, he cannot obtain ,justice in that court—that the jury drawn for the trial in the ease deckled upon it precisely as they were divided in their p.ditieal nl ~,inns, and stood out reso lutely imon the question of eonvietion —a inal , ,i•ity being ol n parlietilar persuasion, it, staled !bele-11ml is, of the DetnOcratic party. Ile says, also, that lie fears that in it future trial or Lite case he will meet with the same injustice. I will submit, as a question :it' Met, to the gentlemen who represents Adams county mein this Iloor—who has more knowledge ()I thesaled than!MVP, but who will vote 'lgnited this bill, that the jury which has been drawn tier the present term of thitt court Is almost entirely of one Inlilicul feel). Mr. M'Clear and Mr. Bueh ler, gentlemen who aro respected wherever they are linoWn u.. Men of the highest char ti -Ins I'M' I nuill, deelitre that there are not lour men out of the forty• eight who are not mot, or the I)eitioeralle party. It 'Enlist be borne in mind that the brother of die proseentrlx lii this t,a , 10 Is now, and 11/111 11‘,11 1 . (11 . Fil,lllo years, the clerk of the county commissioners, who has, as Is well known, more control than nay other man In the county over the selection of jurors, if he vi to o...es to exercise It. It Is charged (I know not whether truly or not) that in this way the prosectitrix has obtained control of the jury, and that accordingly a panel 11118 bwu drawn I /V Whilth this else cannot pus slily be tiled In env other way than by a tiry entirely or the Democratic faith. Now, sir, I do not know that this is true, but It Is sn represented to me. It IN true that the case has run Into the political feeling of the county, and that stoning when It did, In the Presidential conned, men have taken sides in the MOO., mildly of Mein linporcep. ably)—immu with the 'Munster und Koine witri the prosecutrix ; end of all things It Is the most difficult to divest men or their politteal prejudices In the jury hox. I know, and every man who IS familiar with the local politics of the southern counties of this State knows, Unit In Gettysburg a very large preponderance of votes are of u ditlerent fa th front the Denim:rude party, and yet not one of the jury drawn Is n Itu• publican. It would seem that the Charge made, that the panel ham been drewn with reference to this case, is settled by the fate that whore there should be prepontlerence of Jurors of the oilier faith, there are none whatever. And before this jury the Rev. Mr. Gotwald Is to go for trial. I say that will leave it to the gentleman from Adams county himself whether the jury Is not as I have represented it—largely, overwhelm• ingly, exclusively Democratic, and whether the gentleman who Is clerk of the county commissioners In not a brother of the prose eutrix in this case. This is the ground on which It is charged by those who arc ask ing for a change of venue—that this ques tion cannot be fairly tried in that county. I know nothing further about this case than any other gentlemen in this House who has chosen to examine it. 'rho reasons I hays aubltitteld MAW Mill reascilik T have for taking an interest In this case. Mr. Marshall. Mr. Speaker, I am not able to make any statement as to the poll tics of the jury drawn in this case, but the clerk of the county.commissioners, I think, had nothing to do with drawing the jury. lhold in my hand an affidavit of the clerk himself, which I ask the Clerk to read. The Clerk read as follows: Adams Count.% 88 . .:Personally appeared,bifforer me, the sub aittlber, prothonotary of the Court of Com mon Pleas hi and for said county, Jesse M. Walter, Esq., who, on his solemn affirma tion, doth depose and say that he is the clerk to the board of commissioners of Adams county, and has held the samesitu ation for a period of nine years • that a se lection of jurors to servo in the courts of said county was made by the sheriff and commissioners of said county, in the month of December last, for the current year; the day upon which the board of commissioners and sheriff met for the purpose of making selections of jurors, this deponent took sick, was not present with the board when said selections were made ; deponent was con fined by reason of sickness from the sixth day of December last until the twentieth day of same month; that the selections for the current year, and also the drawing of the grand and petit jurors of January ses sions, 1865, were made in the absence of deponent, who was confined at his own house, said drawing havi ug occurred on the thirteenth of December, as deponent was informed; that deponent had no knowledge of the persons selected as jurors for the year, nor of those drawn for January term, until he saw the list in the commissioners' office on his return upon the huh Decent. ber, and deponent did not counsel or com municate with said board about said selec tion. JESSE M. WA ',TEE. Affirmed and subscribed before me, Jan uary 16, 1.865. JACOB BUSHEY, Prothonotary. GETTY - spurt°, PA., January 16, 1565. I hereby certify that Jesse M. Walter was attended by me in his late attack of inflam mation of the lungs, and that he was con fined to his bed in his own house from the 6th day of December, 1564, to tile 20th day of the same month. J. W. C. O'NEAL, M. D., Family Physician Mr. Marshall also presented the stale went of the prosecutrix, which was read as follows: The statement in the defendant's petition and the letter which has appeared in his interest in the Franklin Repository and been sent to members to influence their opinions, contain such large departures from the truth that silence on the part of the Commonwealth would lie unjust to the House and suffer a great, wrong to truth and justice. It is not true in fact that the jury divided politically or that those in favor of convic tion belonged to a certain organization. Nine of the jury were for conviction and three for aconite!. There were four Re publican jurors, two of whom were for con viction and two for acquittal. The under signed being of both political parties, state a* their careful and deliberate conviction, that no political conviction operated with the jury in the trial of the ease, and that it was wholly impartial. In his petition the defendant does not state that he is innocent or not guilty, but that he proved a perfect alibi. That was a question of fact f.,r the jury, and on it rested the defence. Three fourths of the jury found that he failed to prove an alibi. The prosecutrix testified that the connection occurred at her house on a certain evening in the mouth ‘if April, 1863, on which defendant made her a visit, having been previously intimate. If the weight of testimony proved that he was at her house on that evening, the opportunity for the connection existed, :Ind the attempt to furnish an alibi tailed. As to that fact the prosecutrix's statement wits corrobo rated by the testimony of ('our credible wit nesses—of Whom one was the wife of Pro fessor Muhlenberg, of the Pennsylvania College, all testifying to having been in the house and seeing hint visit her there on that evening. In support of his asserted alibi the defendant did not prove that at the time of the connection thus proved lie was one hundred and fifty miles distant, nor even that he was out of the county of Adams. He undertook to bridge over the month of April in piecemeal, vie:—pruving that he was out of the county twice at intervals, (for perhaps fifteen days;) that during all the rest of the month ho was in the county, at times distant eight miles from I;ettys burg, at times returning to it and again ten miles from it, but coining and going and making up a period in parcels by the pro or of one or two witnesses as to this and that day. Against all this as to the par ticular evening, was the testimony of the prosecutrix and four witnesses who power fully corroborated her as to it. The Com monwealth alleged that the mere slip in mistake of recollection of a witness as to a single day would serve to reconcile the tes timony M . the defendant's witness, with the prosecutt ix's proof, and that of the four corroborating witnesses, and thus relieve the case of all seeming conflict of testimony —in tither words, that the defendant has failed to establish an atibt. There N,as no evidence before the Committee, and there is nooe before the House in support of the petition-11011e 111,UppOrt of the defendant's assertion Unit he cannot have a lair trial in Adams county—none to prove that there is any popular feeling or excitement ul Ad ams entility. There is no unusual interest ill the pl ice—Gettysburg--where the prose cutrix 11101 the defendant lived—and among the aleleiolaii, • , congregation—and no pop ular exentino ut as to the ruse 0011 M', to prejudice the jurors drawn for the approaching court, nor any :11811 exist ing in Adams county to oleprivethe defend ant of an impartial trial by a jury of its citizens. A very unfair and partial, and generally false statement of the facts ()I' the ease, has appeared in the Franklin lfrposilory—pre judicing the popular mind in Franklin county and the litunbel land Valley. On the contrary, all political papers in Adana; county hive Maintained a prudent and entire silence in regard to the case. IL was proven on trial that in the extrem ity of her labor, when about to be delivered by instrUments, and her life in a critical condition, ands() advised by her physicians, the prosecutrix stated that the defendant, Washington Gootwahl, Was the fattier of her child. It was also proved that when she discovered her condition she sent for the defendant, stating that he was the father —that lie thereupon proposed to send her away secretly to Philadelphia, but she re fused; that be then stated that he would go to see his brother Luther--tliat on his return he proposed to send her to Cincinnati—that his brother, Hey. Luther fhawald, should accompany her, and another brother—a physician in the ]Pest—would meet her and deliver her, and the child should be put away and taken care of—and thus the whole afhtir be covered up front the knowledge of the public, w•hlch as yet know nothing of it, —that the defendant afterwards calll4l and st tell that the arrangements were now all made, and the One brother would accom pany her and the other would tend on her uccouchment, and lixed a day fur their departure. After some weeks after his original offer of this arrangement he wrote her—after retaining counsel—and declined to carry it out. The prosecutrix is an orphan and in moderate 011'01.1t18tanc118. IM'CONAUGLIY, AVCI,EAN, Attorneys for Commonwealth. I). : , ,Icentittlegliy, whose name is append ed to the above, is the Radical State Senator from the Adams and Franklin district. A'lthin two years the population of Tyrone, lilnir cuutlly , Law neariy doid,lnd and 11,1,4mnd:1in4 am numli liirger dimension. A bear NVOigliing 2:i5 pottmlw, will llletlN tiring Revyri feet tw.) inrht t 1.,m tip to tip, witm Wecinumlily in Blair county by threit A few clays ago, ex•Sherlfr Allen, of Dun bar township , Fayettecnonty , wits:lunched by it ferocious bull, belonging In (k.orge Paul, and gored and trampled A., severely that his Ilfe Is despaired The bull was subsequently shot. The barn belonging to the Fayette coun ty Poor House, containing two hundred bushels of wheat, n quatillty ..f hay, lel ngrlcultural Implemetus, was destroyed by lire on 11'..111(...a1ny morning, the work of an Incendiary. The Montgomery County Commissioners at their last meeting resolved to itmse.s property at Its not vuluution, the sum., us Is tic done In 111111.11k11)11111. W(3 beliovo It has heretofore been assessed In that county at hall us value. We suppose the rates of taxation will be fixed at half the rates heretofore levied, which will keep Ilse taxes about the same. Many of the fertners In the lower section of Montgomery county have their crops of corn husked by Gorman women from Phil adelphia, who take the corn husks am pay for their work. They commence operations early in the morning, and by evening each ono hum an Immense sack of husks, with which, balanced on their !tends, they trudge Into the city. Husks being in greet demand for bedding, It is said that they realize from 81.50 to $2 per day l'or their work, A very chestnut ye tire hum been raging In the mountains north of the Cumberland valley for several days past, cud an im mense amount of property bus been de stroyed. A farmer living a few miles from Sterrotts Gap, in Perry county whose name wo could not learn, has been burned out of his burn, house and all his furniture, and only saved the lives of his faintly and self by hasty retreat. There Is no prospect that the tire will be extinguished until we have rain.—Patriot and U 71.1071. A Neene at Bedford Loeu in quo—Court [louse; time, Tues day night, during progress of Radical meet- In g ; John Cessna loquilus: "The Copper heads rejoiced once before ln 'O2 and brought out their rusty cannon and"—lndignant Copperhead breaks In with, " Yes, and Jolni Cessna made a speech at that Copperhead Jubilee!" A ghastly paleness overspread the countenance of John and he aputtered and spat like a tallow candle half oxtlnguifdind with a drop of water.—ciazale. SevettLattetir — Ctitintesillitliir - Airested. 'twits recently, stated ,in• the Herald that arrests had'been made hi then - tilted States - Government officials which were of an ex ceedingly important character, but the par ticulars of the affair were for various good reasons withheld. It can now be Subtly stated that the counterfeiters of seven. thirties and five-twenties who have catrsed trouble throughout the country are now in custody. Since the counterfeiters were dis covered at Washington, Mr. William I'. Wood, chief of the secret service division of the Tremsory Department, has been actively engaged with his subordinates in endeavoring to apprehend the counter feiters. His attention had been called, previous to the discovery named, to coun terfeit issues of $lOO compound interest notes, and $5O legal tenders. After weeks of persistent and earnest labor , in which he was assisted by United States Detective Nettleship, residing in Newark, he was enabled to trace the authors of the latter counterfeit to the small village of Pauls boro, Gloucester county, New Jersey, ti.l subsequently ascertained that the work or engraving and circulating the legal tenders was done at that village, as is alleged by William Spencer, alias William E. Brock away, and seven confederates. He then proceeded to gather sufficient evidence, with a view to fasten the guilt without doubt upon the parties named, and while engaged in this latter work, tie discovered the corm teriet t seven-thirties and live-twenties, and compared the work upon the fraudulent bonds with that of the other counterfeits, a tit bees me satisfied that both counterfoils were the work of the saute artist. Acting upon this theory, he went quietly to work to fasten tile crime upon the suspoeted parties. Havnig lints been fortified by evidence sufficient to corrobor ate the allegations, \I r. Wood made affida vit on the lilth instant, before U. S. Com missioner Whitehead, at. Newark, against Spencer, and !faunal), his reputed Wife, alleging that they were the principals in the extensive frauds upon the Govern ment, and th a t they had been assisted by five other persons whose names are with held. Warrants were at once issued tor the arrest ti Specter and his wire, who were haunt liv the officers or the law at St. Intel, in New York, tin Friday No vember where they were preparing to leave for Europe. They were taken to Jer soy Pity and played in a room in Taylor's Hotel, at that place, where they were guard ed the authorities not being able to make the examination in the case at that time.— On Tuenday morning last they were taken to Newark, before United States Cominis• shiner Whitehead, rind bailed in the sum of r 3-10,000 to appear Mr an examination during next week. The woman had the amount named on her person and readily produced it as hail. The Paulsboro establishment was in op eration as long ago as July, 'SID, and it is estimated that the parties engaged in the business have netted upwards of one mil lion dollars. The spurious lashes of the notes and bonds were flunk from a lead impression of the "Vllllllll3 phat'S Alt Wash ington, secured by a conniderate of the counterfeiters, and the several branches of the transier work inPre :'S, the work of confederates. All the parties engaged in the counterleiting have become tVlqiitlly, Its a matter course, and now reside in differ ent parts of the country. I itivernment officers have IJPOlldetiptitelltAl to:wrest them, and it is probable that they are now till in custody. Spencer is the owner or a mag nificent residence in Philadelphia, and is said to lie worth at least $200,010, When taken before the United States Commission er at Newark Ito 1111,1 his wile were lashion ably tiressisi, accompanied by a colored nurse, who bore in her 111.111,1 all ill Villa Child Of 0110 tit the alleged counterfeiters. The appearall,, tit' the Man aunt WOlllllll nuts very respectable. Spencer is a tall, iulultl gent, and gentlemanly looking 111:11I, Rita his wire, in appearance, very ladylike. The Government officials are ram engag ed in searching Mr the presses, Lief..., upon which the work was executed, and the probabilities arc that they will be found to day or to morrow. There are still many items of interest connected with this crime which are within id and which will astonish the public. Spencer when -r—ted maintained great composine, and as sign or guilt Mani fested V, ill II taken before the Coln missioner he appeared not in the least excited or de:omit...God, and coolly took from his pocket it ',Mali comb, with which he !masted.' memo') his whiskers and hair. After brushing the dust from his coal and arranging his necktie, he seated himself in a chair and patiently walled for ffirther proceedings. ant 11,a fumiliur with the surrounding circumstances, he would have appeared to be as retired Broadway merchant. Ile was not, however, unprepared fur the ditthiliiy iu which he found himself, for he was ste companwil by his counsel, Judge Stewart, of Nov. York, and immediately upon ar riving at Newark he summoned William 11. Guild, Esq., tit' that city, to his presents:, and after a short conversation retained his legal survives in behalf of himself and wile. —Scw York. Herald. Ace on Ilse Cincinnati, Hamilton I Day 111.11rontl. CINI'INNATI, Ni,'. 2I.—A terrible acci dent occurred this more ing on the Cincin nati, 111111111 ton anti Dayton Railroad. The Itrottil Uaage express train clue at o'clock, was detained at Loci:hind by a freight train caning South. While the express IrIIIII ties limning tin' the freight 11'11111 10 take the iiiiiither freight train that had been following it, ran into the rear of the ex pri , ss befiniti It 1111111 could get out to ling them. Four belies and one tuna were burned to death, mei nearly all the train burned to ashes. The rear cars \siert, 1110 'Toledo train that the express takes to Day 1111t1 the lust car being the sleeping Cult front Toledo. The names or reutiliiiiiiem of the victim , . hilt, not been Hseorleined. 'lNct Nan, Nnv. 22.—Further details of the rai Rote I accident at Lock hind, represent the scene its horrible in the extreme. Thu crash was terrible, and the cars of the pas senger train were Jammed into each other. 'rho hellos in the sleeping cur were crush ed betwetai the timbers, one having her head completely taken oil', and another had her eta'. .11, torn ”lit, ThQ 'wawa °llio ladies a ere Harriet, Rebecca, Sarah and Elizabeth NI, of New Orleans. The other vie! till, 'ltat.t. Jackson, nf Boston, lost his lift, while entleavoring to save the ladies. 11=I!! The report of ;rant intuitions Iflo remarkable fact Ilea liOring the past yl , lll . 110 frier than 13,1 . 00 un•tt hurt dr+ortt•+l front th.• artily. The greater part or !be., desertions, st•e presume, °raw-roil on the whore it Is well It no%vii that nu•n often enlist in NVestlvard hound regiments for I he express purpose of got tingclienii and safe eon Vey:1111'0 10 the mining regions. During the lust season, for example, more than half of the Seventh Cavalry (Custer's) thicsinipoil with lhoir horses, 111111,1, 111111 accoutronionts, and probably made their way to the guild regions of Colorado mid :\lontana. A desperado, who wants Wrench the diggings, has only to enroll himself . in some command hound for the Indian coun try, and lie Is pretty sure of an oni)ort unity to !nuke ntr when he has wan:lied is, far us la chooses It go. Till. 11111111/Hr Of recruit, Wiring the was :W,OOO. so that the 110- SUrtiOllS ruuuh Lhu auunnnuus nail/ of nearly -111 per cent • of the onrolinionts. Churches In the United Mules The American report minion) the General Evangelical Alliance, it Holtenlan), gives the thllowing tum her of eh nrches and com municants in the United Slates: Churches. Otannlaulcants, truth 1.000,1101) 10 110 .-1 '1,010,01 /1) Catholic Ah.ihodhit, Mirth , ls Pr.byterlunr Lothcrum, CmurrelmtronalNlK Protestor] I EillMcop'll.l, . 2, . If) 0,1111111 11l form 1,1 1 41 Dutch itcform 1111 tinned lircthrtm ithout MoraViami about. 12,01) , Mlllllllllll tell Milt/U . 111114 uhout 3 u church.. Uti I vernallmth I itcluio ultuuL 6/0,1X:0 of ho pop tilo Priondm or quakerm, orthodox, about 111,0uo. mmlllloll4. Friend,. or qualuam, if lcicxltuw , about, 10,000 members. M v 4.11114. of Ilw I oulml n vent lon— 'rho Newrocoo hove n Imriu Mujority. Nim t titt.E.‘Nn, Nov. ,:':l—The convention met ait noon 10-day, and elected a negro an temporary chairman and secretary. No per manent organization was arrived tit, and the convention ittlfourned until Monday, Forty-lour negroes and twenty-11v° whites were present in caucus. Judge Tallitfarre seems to he the choice Mr permanent chair man, lan it Is probable the negro members will e;eet one or their own color. It Is un derstood that It wits resolved In caucus hint night mat the first step of the convention would be to declare all Die Slate offices va cant, and fill them with appointees accept ali/e to the Radical party, The recent ap pointments by Cmore! Mower, whit one or two uxcept loom, do not Hut Day thu monition.' of the convention. Ito, Avery, the newly appointed sheriff, is In (pilot posses.don o r the °lnce, anti to day swore In most of his deputies. AMP TW, - n lnbnm l Courcution oNToom bar, Nov. 23.—The frunchlee article provides that Ultimo who nhall be con victed or treason odiall not be allowed to exiireleo the right °Feu Ifrrge. It le believed that all persons who come within the 820,000 Mamie of President Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation, and against whom proceed ings were in/diluted In the United States loetriet Court, who, on being pardoned by the President, had to appear In court and enter the plea of pardon and guilty, are die franchised by thonew Constitution. If this le correct, 10,000 to 50.000 whites are dis franchised at ono blow In thin State. At the evening session of the Convention an amendment to the bill of rights was of fered, that common carriers shun not make any discrimination on account of color, be tween persons travelling in public convoy ances, which caused grout excitement- Several black delegates delivered national matory, speeches demanding entire soda. equality, and the right to ride in Bleeping care, etc. Two whiten favored the amend- Messre. Griffin and Keifer, making violent /poaches, and after a heated and protracted debate, the subject wumpostponed until Monday next. 1 Cd . )% i 7( ,i i ). I- 1 21,7, II NI Jill ~, H) 11 ,01M1 10,1 X)
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