_ luttony, x~VEDNE ~AY, EE U1, ' 4867 'Liberal Democrats. Within the last month several Demo ` prats ,haVe sitepped l into our office and directed the WEEKLY INTFT.LTGENCER to be sent to some of their neighbors,payt ing for it out of their own pockets. That is a specimen of generous liberality which is most commendable. One of tie open hearted fellows remarked to us yesterday, "I shall not miss the - money - during the year, and my neighbor . will be benefited." Such *Democrats are made .of the right kind of material. It does us good to meet them, and to take them by the hand. The little sum of money they leave with us is but a trifling matter compared to the emotions excited by their generous and manly conduct. Their devotion to the great principles of the glorious old party is a living faith which prompts them to active exertion, and they show their faith by their works. During thecoming all-important Presidential campaign the result will depend upon the wide circulation of Democratic newspapers more than upon any other agency. Now is the time to begin that work. Let our friends see to it that the INTELLIGENCER is spread broadcast. It will prove to be of vast use wherever it goes. Public Documents We acknowledge the receipt of pub lic documents from Messrs. Getz,Gloss brenner and Woodward. We are com pelled to rely upon Democratic Con gressmen from other districts for such favors, and our friends will oblige us by sending copies of all important public documents to the INTELLIGEN CM We need them for present and future reference. Compliment to Judge Woodward. On his retirement from the bench of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, which lie has so long occupied with the most marked ability, Hon. George W. Woodward was tendered a banquet by a large number of the leading lawyers of Philadelphia. It was a professional compliment and in no sense a partisan afiltir. The names of the most promi nent*lawyers of both political parties appear among tie signers. The letter of invitation to Judge Woodward is highly complimentary, but not a bit more so than is consistent with his high character and very distinguished ability. He declines the proffered civility in an admirable letter. There have been very few Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania who have been the equal of Judge Woodward. His decisions have commanded not only respect for their correctness, but admiration for the elegant legal diction in which they have been uniformly clothed. He goes into a new and important field of labor where he will have abundant room to make his knowledge and his personal influence felt. It is a pleasant reflection that his place op the bench will be filled by a man so able and a Judge so well tried as George Sharswood. Increase of the Public Debt I\rever were any people on the face of the earth so taxed as are the masses of the United States to-day. Every arti cle which they use bears it trebled or quadrupled burthen. The amount of revenue derived from the toil and sweat of the laboring men of the North is literally enormous. Yet, quarter after quarter the national debt is being stead ily increased. The report which we publish elsewhere shows a deficit of marlg ten millions for the last quarter. How could be otherwise when we are paying four times as much as any Democratic administration ever expended for the purpose of subjecting the whiles of ten States to the accursed rule of a set of barbarian negroes? A large majority of the white men of the North see the criminal folly of the Radical policy; but there are multitudes who are still stupidly fol lowing the lead of the men who are so rapidly sapping the strength of the nation and undermining the very foun dations of our free institutions. HoW auY mail of even ordinary capacity, un less he be au officeholder, can support the Republican party for au hour longer is something we cannot comprehend. • Is That All? Forney concludes his letter to the Press on the failure of impeachment in the following words: spceie imyments will finally supplement the whole by so easy a process, that our happy people will everywhere cherish a greonbach as the symbol of the vindicated credit of the grandest Government (IV earth; and foreigners, captivated by the spectacle, will hasten to prefer our bonds 1. , their own, or will come to live anion , us to share the blessings of a Repurdie which, in less than a decade, hits :iolved the two grandest problems of politics and tinance—by giving the ballot to four millions of people, who had been two centuries and a half in slavery—by incurring a colossal debt to prosecute a colossal war, awl by proving their readiness to pay it oil; dollar for dollar, principal and interest, In their own gold. And this will be the harvest of the seeds sown by Republican soldiers and statesmen. The italics are Forney's. As we read that paragraph we are forced to ask, is that all? Did the waste of war, and the drain of the nation's best blood bring us nothing better than the ballot for four million barbarian negroes, and a huge debt, which is to be paid in gold and kept standing, for an ingefinite period, at a rate of interest which will cause rich and mercenary foreigners to prefer our bonds to their own, or to come and live in ease among us on the interest which is to be annually wrung from the sweat and toil of the laboring masses of our country? Is that all? If Forney is to be believed, so it is. That is the grand boon conferred on the people of this country by the Republican party, " the harvest of the seeds sown by Republican statesmen and soldiers." What do the white men of the North who toiled to raise this harvest think of the result of their labors? Was it for such purposes the private soldier shed his blood? Let them answer henceforth at the ballot box! THE Pittsburg Commcrcia/ quotes our note of thanks to the President's pri vate Secretary for an advance copy of the Message, and insinuates that it got out before the proper time through him. We received © in reply to cation made, with the express stipula tion that we should not publish it until after l 2 o'clock M., on Tuesday. We scrupulously observed the obligation thus imposed upon us. Had other pub • fishers done the same, there would have been no difficulty in securing copies of all such State papers in future. The i;oninicreial was not one of those which ~ l olated faith in this matter. We pre sume it had an advance copy as well as the INTELLIGENCER. THA.DDEUS STEVENS was too ill to be present in the House on Saturday dur ing the agitation of the impeachment question, but, when informed that a vote was about to be had, he insisted on being carried in and was the last one to vote for impeachment. The old man is wonderfully feeble in body, but as strong in vindictive bitterness of spirit as ever he was. CiENERA.L HANCOCK has revoked the .order excluding non-registered citizens frornj u ries in Louisiana. That is right, -and will be approved of by every right „Winking man in the North. The Impeachment. The history of the attempt tolnipeach Andrew. Johnson will form-Ono-of the most remarkable and Inetrictlve ,eirents in the hititoryollhollniteitStates. e; who calmly writes 114 record orl%these - : days, after pasidon has - 01baidelk will' characterize it as the wildest piece of folly and tinitrossest -Outrage against all law and justice which was ever at• tempted in any government. Because the President stood in the way of the accomplishment of unconstitutional de signs, calculated to destroy the very fotm of Otir 'goirernment, a set of bold and reckless fanatics in Congress deter mined to remove him from officei..and to appoint a willing tool of their own in his stead. They had already selected the successor of Mr. Johnson. The vul gar, mendacious and profane political demagogue of Ohio, Ben. Wade, was chosen President of the Senate with a view to his transfer to the White House. A move was made to impeach the President. The subject was referred to the Judiciary Committee, and almost superhuman efforts were made to man ufacture some evidence which would justify the lower House in directing the Senate to proceed to arraign Andrew Johnson. As was usual with these Radical fanatics and corrupt leaders of the Republican party, the hue and cry was at once taken up against the ac cused. The President was denounced as a traitor, and the most improbable crimes were 'laid to his charge. Never was any Dian so vilified and abused in public prints and from the stump. In the meantime the Judiciary Committee proceeded to take ex parte evidence in the case in the absence of the accused. The gaming hells, the brothels, the pen itentiary, 'and all the filthy purlieus of Washington and other cities were raked for perjurers and spies, in the hope that a case might somehow be made out.— The leaders of the Republican party felt that the very existence of their cor rupt political organization depended upon the summary removal of Mr. Johnson from office. The spoils, the only thing they deem worth striving for, were all at stake, and they strug gled with desperate energy to retain their hold on power. In many things a large majority of the Radical members of Congress have shown a complete willingness to tram ple upon law and to violate the Consti tution they have solemnly sworn to support. The dictate of party has been the highest law they have known, and iu obedience thereto they have been ready to go to any extreme. Had the same report been made one year ago tram the majority of the Judiciary Com mittee, there is no doubt the impeach ment of the President would have been attempted. The result of the recent elections will account for the change. The people have spoken, and the politi cal bigets and desperadoes, who feared nothiuy else, do not dare to brave the popular will. They knew that it would not besafe to follow up their mad designs, and so a majority of them were found ready to retreat when it came to the test. It is true that among the sixty-six Re publicans voting against impeachment there are some few comparatively con scientious men, but when we remember how they were driven to cast various infamous votes by the lash of Thad. Stevens and other leaders of the Haase, we cannot give them credit for much of honesty or independence. We are fully convinced that nothing but a wholesome fear of the people prevented a further attempt to break down the last barrier that stood in the way of the pro posed usurpation by a fragmentary Con gress of all the prerogatives which be long, under the Constitution, to the Executive branch of the General Gov ernment. The people have thus speed ily reaped substantial fruit from their almost universal repudiation of destruc tive and revolutionary radicalism. The prompt and decided defeat of impeach ment is the direct cud legitimate result of the recent Democratic victories. Au analysis of the vote on impeach ment shows one significant fact. The Republican votes against it came main ly from the manufacturing and com mercial districts. The great depression in business has had its effect, and the vote is a confession by the Radicals themselves that their policy is calcu lated to do great damage to the material interests of the nation. The President has emerged from this contest, thoroughly vindicated iu his personal and political course, and his enemies have voluntatily retired from the same in shame and confusion. Let us hope that they will learn wisdom from defeat, and that during the brief term of rule still allotted to them, they will endeavor to repair by wise legisla tion the many and great injuries they have done to the nation. Female Lobby Members The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says: It has been a subject of remark that an unusual number of lobby members of the feminine gender have niade their appear ance here this winter. Some of them are old hands at the business, (not in years but in experience,) while others are just making their debut. One of the new importations promises to eclipse all rivals, if beauty and grace of manners, winning ways and ex travagance of dress can secure the greatest influence. It was rumored that the female lobby members present last winter were won derfully successful iu influencing the opinions of loyal Congressmen, that they could get any bill through which paid well. We believe this new ar rangement has not been introduced at Harrisburg yet. THE UNION LEAGUE of Philadelphia met in their Hall last night, and held a round of solemn exercises. After lis tening to a most lugubrious report of in terminable length, in which George Boker tries to account for their late de feats and the seemingly near dissolution of the Republican party, they resolved to.,stand by their colors, and nominated General Grant for President on a straight-out negro-equality platform. Should Grant consent to run on such a platform he would be beaten worse than poor old "hasty plate of soup" Scott was. The annual report of the concern shows a decided falling off in the num ber of members during the past year, 187 having resigned, and 87 being ex pelled for non-payment of dues. Only ninety-one candidates were proposed for admission during the year. The concern is evidently on its last legs, and the day is not far distant when it vi ill be bankrupted and sold out by the Dem ocratic Sheriff Lyle. BEAST 131_711.En, in his recent speech in Congress, illustrated how the Na. tional Banks made enormous profits at the expense of the Government. A/ shrewd business man, he said, whom( he might name, had taken to the Trea sury $lOO,OOO which he invested in bonds, then got a banking charter and $OO,OOO of currency. This currency he again invested in bonds, went home, and remarked that was all the banking business he wanted to do. He thus got interest on $190,000, which when gold was 200 per cent. premium, brought him in $22,000 a year for his investment of 100,000. That was the way in which ,his National Bank system worked. OLD THAD's proposition to divide Texas into two or more States does not meet with much fawn' among ()ongress• men. The Radicals are said to be very doubtful whether they cOUld reap any political advantages by such a move ment. Sensuality In the Pulpit. In another column of our paper will be found a mostremarkable article from. "The Pulpit," a professedly religious' .. magtthr. It Will be read with aston ishmentby all, for it is neither morenor leis than an attempt to excuse the grossest and basest Crimes in a class of men who assume to be the teachers of moality. The charges made against many clergymen' within the last few years are admitted to be true. That ad mission is made because the instances of criminality have been too'numerous, too notorious and too well authenticated to be denied ordisproved. Almost every week brings its storyof shame, its reve lation of rascality, orits disgusting reci tal of sensual crime in which the crimi nal is some unworthy wearer of clerical robes. It is true that the offences of these hypocritical rascals are oftener Grimes of sensuality than of any other character. The reason is that such offences do not require any great amount of boldness to commit, while the chances of detection are not so certain as in theft or other crimes. But are such crimes more excusable in the clergy than others? It is true, aa is asserted in this professedly reli gious magazine, that they are "the most excusable sins the clergy can com mit. With all due deference to " The Pulpit," we do not so believe. It is true, as is asserted, that the most unbounded confidence is reposed in the clergyman. " His passport to social life is almost a carte blanche." :Not only women, but husbands and fathers have been in the habit of reposing the most unlimited confidence in them as aclass. The rules of social intercourse have been suspend ed so far as they are concerned,and they have had the freest possible access to the houses and apartments of the female portion of their congregations at all times and under all circumstances.— This is a generous trust, one warrant ed in better days by the pure character of the ministry, and now only rendered obnoxious by the rascality of certain profane and dissolute men, who hide corrupt hearts and cloak evil designs under the sacred robes they disgrace. The violation of confidence reposed is criminal in itself—and the violation of a confidence so sacred in a matter so important is a crime of the most dam nable character. It is not true, as "The Pulpit" assertS that the reverend ras cals who have so frequently disgraced a holy calling within the last five years have had "the door of temptation thrown open to them, and then closed behind them." The records show another and entirely different state of facts. Their victims have been tempted by wily arts. They have found adestroyer when they looked for a protector, and have been seduced on the very threshold of the church door. Is such crime excusable? Can it be palliated? We are sure there is not a man, worthy the name, in any community who will say so. The article which we re-publish is simply infamous. It reads like the pro duction of some reverend but hardened debaucher of female innocence, and sounds like the special pleading of a professed libertine. The covert assault it makes on the women of our country is calculated to excite universal indig nation. It is not true that women, un less they are already fallen, solicit men to commit evil. They do not inveigle preachers, or others, " within the doors of temptation and then close the door behind them." The experience of men of the world proves that to be a base slander on the sex. In ninety-nine out of a hundred cases, where a woman who has been decently brought up lapses from virtue, the fault is that of the man who tempts her. The published ac counts, so numerous in this country of late, of the sensual sins of these base de filers of clerical robes, show that they are not to be excused. The details of such disgusting affairs have furnished abundant evidence that these reverend rascals have deliberately planned and coolly consummated the ruin of their unfortunate victims. Who can estimate the injury which has been done to the cause of religion by these unworthy members of the ministry ? We believe that they are to a great extent responsible for the spirit of infidelity that is abroad in the laud, for the growing disregard of sacred things, for the loose ideas in regard to chastity and for the open debauchery which disgraces our country. We know and believe that the vast majority of the ministers of all denominations are men of pure lives, men who are really and truly devoted to the highest and holiest callings i n any mortal can engage. We are confident that the intimate social relations that exist between pas tors and the female members of their congregations are not often abused, but we do insist that no man who has been guilty of sensual crime should be tol erated for an hour in any community as a pastor. " The Pulpit" is right when it says: Let these putrid brethren be cut off and put away, and let there be u rigorous en deavor to lift the standard of clerical purity in the above, us well as in every other re spect. But it is wrong, criminally wrong, when it attempts, in the very next sen tence, to plead in extenuation of their crimes. There is and can be no excuse admitted in such a case. No such man should be permitted to ascend the pulpit or even to enter the door of a church in any official capacity. We cannot conceive how any woman, possessing proper modesty can look upon the face of such a man in the sacred desk with out having every better emotion of her nature outraged. That there are such men still iu the ministry " The Pulpit" admits when it demands that " these putrid brethren be cut off."— " PUTRID !" That is precisely the adjective which best describes them. They are not only morally dead, and therefore utterly incapable of accom plishing any good, but their festering carcases are a stench in the nostrils of a not over sensitive public. Away with these "putrid brethren !" Let them be promptly driven out of any community where they may desire to show their brazen faces. Public morals and public decency alike demand their expulsion. Therefore, away with them! And when they are gone let the churches they have polluted be disinfected. Edward W. Dunbar, a preacher of the gospel in Minnesota, has been convicted of polygamy. We will bet one hundred dollars that he was a blatant Radical, advocating negro suffrage, and especially fierce in assailing the Catholic Church. That is sure to be the case with those sleek scoundrels, who have so repeatedly been guilty of seducing and ruining unsus pecting and trusting women within the last five years. They seem to have an uncontiollable weakness for the sex. It is said that the United States bonds have already paid as much to the holder in the Shape of gold interest as the Govern tneut got for them, counting the premium on gold at the time the bonds were issued. We clip the above Item from a thoroughly Radical exchange. It is calculated to set the laboring men to thinking seriously. By and by thought will take shape, and action will speedily follow. THE Rev. Julius Degmeler is now in the Erie jail. He was arrested on the charge of alistractipg money while em ployed in the U. S. Collector's Office in that city. Of course he is loyal and Radical. Such fellows always are. The Bight Candidate. The New York Church Union comes. out strongly id favor of Fred. Doug "fug as the Republican candidate for Presi , dent. It gives its reasons for urging his nomination; and thinks he can be more easily elected than any man who has been named by the party. It says" the white man cannot be trusted in this emergency." It thiriks Douglas would not only be sure to receive the entire negrci vote of the Southern States, but the whole of the New England States, except Connecticut, and a sufficient number of the extreme Northwestern States to insure his election. We think the Church Union is right. The bulk of votes received by the Radi cal candidate at the coming Presidential election will be cast by the negroes of the South. They will constitute the bulk of the party, and they have a right to demand that the candidate shall be one of their race and color. If they are fit to vote they are fit to hold office. Fred. Douglas has been held up as a magnificent specimen of manhood by the Radicals for years. They declare that there should be no distinctions made on accoun tof color. Theilet them testify their sincerity by nominating as their candidate for President a man who is the acknowledged leader of the race upon which they must rely for the most electoral votes. If the negroes of the South are to elect the next President he ought to be a negro. Fred. Douglas is the right candidate. Impeachment Dead. The impeachers in the House of Rep resentatives, headed by Schenck, Lo gan, Bill Kelley, :Ashley, et id omne genus, were virtually killed off and for ever disposed of yesterday. When Bout. well had finisl€d his speech in favor of Impeachment, Mr. Wilson, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, replied in au able and convincing speech against it of an hour. At the end of his re marks ne moved the whole subject be laid on the table, and called the pre vious question on his motion. This would have been carried promptly by a large majority, had not the extreme Radicals resorted to what is known as filibustering. Motions to " adjourn," " adjourn over," and for a call of the house was kept up for hours. In vain did they beg for a chance to make five minute speeches. The majority op posed to impeachment were inexorable. At last an adjournment was effected without coming to a vote. The largest vote obtained by the impeachers on any vote was fifty-four, and in that number were several who merely voted for an adjournment because they desired to make speeches. Impeachment is dead. "Occasional" Letters Forney is out in an eight column let ter over the signature of "Occasional," in which he assails President John son's Annual Message very bitterly. and renews his denunciations of his plan for restoring the Southern States to the Union. It would have added great effect to his querulous complain ing, if Forney had republished in his interminable letter the following ex tract from a former "occasional" epistle, contained in the Press of 22d December, 1866: ."While Mr. Sumner and Mr. Stevens may be for the time dissatisfied that their expectations have not been realized, the sterling and gratifying fact remains that under the lead of Andrew Johnson the States have bent brought back to the national fire ante with such indemnity for the past and security for the future;as more than real ize the purposes to accomplish which the people went to war to put down the re bellion." Forney was"then an obsequious toady of Andrew Johnson, and he only turned against him when in the February fol lowing the President contemptuously sneered at him as "a dead duck." Negro Officeholders On the very first day when Congress re-assembled, and at the very first min ute of the first hour of that first day, Sumner presented a bill in the United States Senate repealing the clause in the charter of Washington city which has heretofore prevented uegroes from hold ing office therein. Yesterday that bill passed the Senate by a two-third vote. A similar bill had passed both Houses at the last session, but President John son pocketed it. If he vetoes this one, the Republican majority will no doubt pass it over his veto. So we see there is a chance that the Rev. Washington V. Gotwald may yet have his wish gratified by seeing some negro made Mayor of that city whose name he bears. And should he chance to get over there, and fall into any little scrape, lie might en joy the extreme felicity of beingarrested by a loyal negro sheriff, and tried by a jury of loyal negroes before a loyal negro judge. We have no doubt that would suit him exactly. ' Emigration to Virginia The emigration of Pennsylvania to the Valley of Virginia continues. Sev eral valuable farms near Winchester have just been sold to farmers from Southern Pennsylvania who will take possession in the spring. The soil of that section of Virginia is the most ex cellent quality of limestorretand. The mildness of the climate, making the winters much shorter and less severe than they are here, is another induce ment to persons looking for agricul tural investments. The readers of the Litclligcncer will find many valuable Virginia properties advertised in it ; and they can rest assured that there is no finer agricultural section of country in the United States, none where farm ing is a more profitable or pleasant pur suit. Temperance Lecture The Coatesville Union says: Rev. W. V. Gotwald, of Lancaster, will deliver a lecture on Temperance, in the Presbyterian Church of this place, on next Friday evening. Rev. Mr. G. is an able speaker, and is calculated to do much good in this great reform. He is in the employ of the Grand Lo.lgeof Good Templars ; and his expenses being defrayed by that asso ciation, it will be a free lecture. We trust that there will be a large audience, as we Lave no doubt that the address will be both interesting and instructive. The audiences of the Reverend gen tleman at his Church in this city h;ve largely increased of late, if we are cor rectly informed. People sometimes go to church merely fr6m curiosity. AmoNo the proceedings of the House of Representatives on Wednesday last the following paragraph appeared : Mr. Schenck, after a preliminary expla nation, offered a resolution to renew the contract with Penny, the colored man who keeps the House restaurant, at $2OO per year, and that he be allowed to sell beer and malt liquors. The New York Times is quite a Radi cal paper, but it fears if this loyal negro is allowed to sell beer to the loyal members of Congress, that some other equally loyal negro will shortly be al lowed to sell whiskey. Very likely. THE Radicals find that the acts of their new allies, the negroes, now as sembled in Conventions in the different States are likely completely to destroy the party. Pope urges the Alabama Convention to adjourn, and Senator Wilson writes letters Imploring it to disperse at once. Wilson alleges that its action is ruining the Republican party. That is a specimen of retribu tive justice. A LEADING negro elected to the Con stitutional Convention of Virginia, can neither read nor write, and he has been five times imprisoned for stealing. Hp is a good member of the "God and mo rality party." That darkey would shine /A Congress like a patent leather boot. Emigration to the South. One of the lies most persistently re peatelby Radical newspapers is the as sertion that Northern men cannot safely settle and live in the South,. The Hat risburg Telegraph, a paper which has long been the central organ of the Re publican party in Pennsylvania, has an editorial in its last issue repeating that exploded falsehood in a manner calculated to deceive any uninformed reader. To give plausibility to the un truth it utters, an instance, more probably imaginary than real, is given of a young man of wealth, &c. from New York, who settled in Vir ginia, but was speedily driven out by the native whites of that section. The propagation of such a lie is inexcusable in the Telegraph. That paper is pub lished in a county from which numbers of farmers have emigrated to Virginia since the war. The Telegraph knows perfectly well that many of the best farmers from all the southern counties, of this State have 'purchased lands in Virginia and removed to that State. It knows, too, that those who have done so are delighted with the change, and that this tide of emigration is stronger to-day than ever it was before the war. The men who have gone to Virginia from this State have been most cordial ly welcomed, and the columns of our paper, and those of other journals pub lished in Southern Pennsylvania, con stantly contain numerous advertise ments of valuable Virginia farms, which are thus offered to Northern pur chasers on very reasonable terms. The truth is that instead of being discour aged from settling there, Northern farmers are constantly invited to Vir ginia, and the strongest possible incen tives are offered to induce them to emi grate. It may be that a Radical fool, who would insist upon making himself ob noxious to all the white men with whom he might be brought into contact, would find any part of Virginia rather an uncomfortable dwelling place. If he should ally himself with the negroes against the whites he could not expect to be respected, and ought not to calcu late upon being treated with any extraordinary courtesy. But, even if he did that, the worst that could befal him would be to be left to companion ship of those whom he had selected as his associates. He would be permitted to plow the fields he had bought, to reap the bountiful harvest they produced, to dispose of his crop and to enjoy the proceeds in his own way. If he engaged in business his success would depend, as does that of every other business man, on his per sonal popularity, and on the induce ments he offered to purchasers. He would neither be killed, mobbed, nor molested in any way, even though he might choose to array himself with the negroes against the whites; but he could not expect to be received into de cent society. The truth is that the people of Vir ginia, and the entire South, are anxious to have Northern men to settle among them. They extend toe invitation to them, and hold forth strong induce ments to prevail upon them to do so. The constantly increasing tide of emi gration from Pennsylvania to Virginia gives the lie direct to the assertions of such reckless papers as the Harrisburg Telegraph. We receive in exchange most of the county papers published in Northern, Mid dle and Western Virginia, and we know that the Pennsylvanians who have located iu that State are respected and esteemed. Those who have gone are delighted, and many are preparing to follow them iu the spring. They go encouraged by the reports retei ved from friends already there, and td us the false and malicious assertions of all the un scrupulous radical newspapers in the country are exploded by well known and undeniable facts. Pope Worse Off Now than at the ,Second Bull Run The very latest intelligence from Gen. John Pope indicates that he hasgot into a scrape worse than the second grand Bull Run disaster, He has telegraphed to Geu. Swayne, asking the latter to induce the Alabama Convention to ad journ. Gem Pope says the Convention is doing "incalculable injury" to recon struction by its late action. He finds the negroes in Convention a more terrible foe than their masters were in the field, and being unable to make a "safe ruu of it," with "hindquar ters in the saddle," is fairly compelled to bee for quarters. We do not pity this miserable humbug, nor do we sym pathize in the least with his masters, the discomfitted Radicals. They de serve to be defeated and brought to utter route and the most shameful confusion for their crimes against liberty. The negro conventions promise to be more fatal to them than the Second Bull Run was to the pretentious of the military failure Pope. Greeley's Mission Horace Greeley says that not having received any official information of his nomination to the Austrian mission, he is n,ot at liberty to decline the office ; but he promises not to leave this coun try until after the next Presidential election. Greeley thinks probably that his mission iu this country is not yet finished, but lie will probably have changed his mind on and after Novem ber, 1869, and will be glad to retreat to Austria, Alaska or Siberia, or any Salt river port. ONE of the delegates to the Virginia State Convention is a huge, ignorant, and beastly buck, who has five "wives," only one of them married to him, but all fruitful. He lives with them time about. He comes from one of the old est counties in the State, and is unques tionably a fair representative of the material of which the Republican party in Virgiiia is composed. It is the " God and morality" party you know, and boasts loudly of its intelligence. THE white and black negroes com posing the Georgia Conventien have as sembled at Atlanta, and have got into a bitter quarrel on the day of the or ganization to begin with. A whole day was spent in a fierce fight over the election of a President, without any result. We suppose the mongrel mass will managg to effect some sort of an organization after a while. A resolution has been offered in the Louisiana Convention declaring that no Legislature shall have power to amend or alter any part of the Constitution, and that no other Constitutional Con vention shall be called forseventy years. There is a specimen of negro legislation for you. Think of the people of any State being tied up In that fashion for three quarters of a century. THE official canvass of the New York State election has at last been made, and the majority for Nelson, the Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, is offi cially announced to be 47,933. Ham mond, the Democratic candidate for Canal Commissioner has a majority of 49,277. Big enough for all practical purposes those figures. Next fall the, State will give the Democratic candi date for President between seventy-five and one hundred thousand majority. THE Louisiana Negro State• Conve ntion proposes to raise money to pay is members the sum of $lO a day and 20 cents a mile mileage, by putting an extra tax on whiskey. A spirited de bate is said to have been had on the question. IMPEACHMENT How It Was Vote .On Saturday the attempt to impeaeh the President was finally killed outright, by laying the subject on the table, The follow ing account of the proceedings is interest ing: The Speaker. stated that the next business in order was the resolution for the impeach ment of tho President, the pending question being on the motion of Mr. Wilson, oflowa, to lay the subject on the table. Mr. Logan asked unanimous consent to make a proposition. Mr. Spalding objected with an air of de termination. Mr. Logan initiated filibustering for the day, by a motion for a call of the House, and demanding the yeas and nays on that ques tion. Mr. Ingersoll, of Illinois, inquired wheth er, if the motion to lay on the table did not prevail, it would hein order to move a post ponement of the subject. The Speaker replied that it would be, and the Clerk proceeded to call the yeas and nays. The call of the House was refused by a vote of 46 to 98. The members who came to the aid of Mr. Logan, on his motion for a call of the House, are shown by the following list of those voting aye: Messrs. Allison, Anderson, Arnell, Baker, Benjamin, Benton, Boutwell, Broomall, Churchill, Cobb, Coburn, Covode, Eckley, Ela, Harding, Higbee, Hubbard of lowa, Hunter, Judd, Julian, Kelley, Kelsey, Lawrence of Ohio, Loan, Logan, Lough ridge, Maynard, McClurg, Mullins, New comb, O'Neill, Orth, Pike, Schenck, Shanks, Stevens of New York, Stokes, Thomas, Trimble, Trowbridge, Van Horn of Miss ouri, Ward. Williams of Pennsylvania, Williams of Indiana, Wilson of Pennsyl• yania. Mr. Butler not being in the Hall when his name was called, was not allowed to vote. Mr. Logan, holding a newspaper in his band, said that he rose to a question of privilege. The Speaker informed him that there was already a question of privilege before the House, and that another could not be en tertained except by unanimous consent of the House. Mr. Logan thereupon asked unanimous consent, but did not get it. He then re newed his proposition of yesterday, that the minority in favor of impeachment should have ten minutes to discuss the question, and to give their reasons for what they were doing, when they would withdraw all fur ther opposition. Mr. Spalding, of Ohio, objected, declar ing to a member near him that he would not yield them one minute. Mr. Logan then moved an adjournment and had.the yeas cud nays called on that with the same result. Mr. Logan then said that if the chairman of the Judiciary Committee would with draw his motion to lay on the table•, and allow the vote to be taken squarely out the impeachment resolution, the minority would withdraw all opposition. Mr. Wilson, of lowa, assented to that proposition, withdrew the motion to lay on the table, -and moved the previous question on the resolution. Mr. Logan said that was perfectly satis factory, and that the minority desired to take no advantage, although they had the power to obstruct the vote as long as they chose A voice—Go ahead then. A Waterloo Defeat. The previous question was seconded, and the main question ordered, and the House proceeded to vote, by yeas and nays, on the following resolution:— Resolved, That Andrew Johnson ' Presi dent of the United States, be impeached for high crimes and. misdemeanors. . The Speaker repeated his„caution to the spectators that there should he o manifes tation of appro,tl or'disapprova at the re sult of the vote. The vote win- :hen taken, and resulted— yeas 57; neys .luB. There was no manifestations of any kind on the announcement of the result. Pend ing the vote, statements were made as fol lows: That Mr. Cornell, of New York, was paired off with Mr. Cake, of Pennsylvania, the former against and the latter for im peachment. That Mr. Morrill, of Pennsyl vania, was absent, otherwise he would have voted fur impeachment. That Mr. Van Horn of New York, was absent through By Mr. Myers, of Pennsylvania, that being prevented from offering a resolution of censure, he would vote aye. By Mr. Broomall, of Pennsylvania, that his colleague (Schofield) was absent, on ac count of sickness 01 his wife. If present, he would doubtless have voted right.— [Laughter.] That Mr. Shellabarger, of Ohio, was at home on account of sickness. By Mr. Miller, of Pennsylvania, that he voted no because he did not think the evi dence strong enough to warrant impeach ment. [Loud laughter in all parts of the house.] By Mr. Eldridge—That that was the very reason why he had voted no. [Continued laughter.] By Mr. Hooper, Mass.—That his col league, Mr. Twitchell, was necessarily ab sent. Mr. Washburne, 111., asked Mr. Hooper to state how his colleague would have voted. Mr. Hooper replied that he would have voted as Mr. Schofield would have voted. [Laughter.] The following is the vote in detail : Yeas—Messrs. Anderson, Arnell, Ashley of Ohio, Boutwell, Broomwell, Broomall, Butler, Churchill, Clarke of Ohio, Clarke of Kansas, Cobb, Coburn, Covude, Cullum, Donnelly, Eckley, Ela, Farnsworth, Grove ly, Harding, Higbie, Hopkins, Hunter, Judd, Jordan, Kelley, Kelsey, Lawrence of Ohio, Loan, Logan, Loughridge, Lynch, Maynard, McClurg, Mercer, Mullens, My ers, Newcomb, Nunn, O'Neal, Oral, Paine, Pile, Price, Schenck, Shanks, Stevens of New Hampshire, Stevens of Pennsylvania, Stokes, Thomas, Trumbull, Trowbridge, Van Horn of Missouri, Ward, Williams of Pennsylvania, Williams of Indiana, Wil son of Pennsylvania-57. Nays—Messrs. Adams, Allison, Ames, Archer, Ashley, of Nevada, Ax!o, Bailey, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barnum, Beaman, Beak, Benjamin, Benton, Bingham, Blaine, Boyer, Brooks, Buckland, Burr, Carey, Chanter, Cooke, Dawes, Dixon, Dodge, Driggs, Eggleston, Eldridge, Eliott, Ferris, Ferry, Field, Garfield, Getz, Glossbrennor, Golloday, Griswold, Grover, Hight, Halsey, Hamilton, Hawkins, Hill, Hollman, Hooker, Hotchkiss, Hubbard, of lowa, Hubbard, of West Virginia, Hubbard, of Connecticut, Hulburt, Humphreys, Ingersoll, Johnson, Jones, Kerr, Ketch um, Knott, Kontz, Laflin, Lawrence, of Pennsylvania, Lincoln. Marshall, Marvin, McCarthy, McCullough, Miller of Pennsylvania, Moorehead, Morgan, Mun gen, Niblack, Nicholson, Perham, Peters, Phelps, Pike, Plantz, Pollard, Paisley, Pruyn, Randall, Robertson, Robinson, Ross, Sawyer, Sitgreaves, Smith, Spalding, Stark weather, Stuart, Stone, Taber, Taylor, Upson, Van Aernan, Van Anken, Van Trump, Van Wyck, Washburn° of Wis consin. Washburn° of Illinois, Washburn° of Indiana, Washburne of Massachusetts, Walker, Wilson of lowa, Wilson of Ohio, Woodbridge and Woodward-108. That Good Zinn, the Political Preacher, at It Again In Sebuwing, Mich., criminal intimacy was kept up for some time without sus picion, between J. F. Auch, a clergyman, and a woman wbose name in not given, the minister visiting the girl professionally, and and her friends rejoicing in the favoiable indications of piety which they imagined to be apparent. Soon, however, it became ap parent to the parties interested that their reckless indiscretion was soon to bear fruits. 'the fact created some apprehen sions in the mind of the ministerial swain, but an abortion was effected and the mat ter hushed up. Time wore on, and matters became more complicated, and the danger of asecond ex posure imminent. Perhaps struck with remorse at the perpetration of the second great great crime, or perhaps fearful that a repetition would prove fatal, this idea was dismissed, and be set about to devise some means to clear his sacerdotal robes of the stain that would ultimately follow. In the neighborhood lived an honest, industrious farmer by the name of Ruehl. Him he ad vised to marry the girl, and with but little difficulty succeeded iu accomplishing his designs. The nuptial vows were consum mated, and for a time everything moved on smoothly. Soon, however, a little stranger was ushered into the family which bore no resemblance of its father's features. The injured husband swore and raved, and finally elicited u full confession from the woman of her injuries. He visited the dotninie, full of wrath, but after a brief in terview his Ire had sufficiently abated to allow him to name a sufficient amount to compensate him fur his wrongs. The con sideration was in property, for which he gave a contract or written promise, signed, but not stamped. Ho was requested to at tach a stamp, but, for some reason unex plained, be failed to do so. Apprehending a non-fulfillment of the contract, Ruehl ap plied to the United States Court or its com missioner, for a warrant for the arrest of the minister for a violation of the revenue law, in not affixing a stamp to a document requiring it, which was issued and Auch notified to appear and answer to the charge. Anal] did appear, pleaded guilty to the charge, was lined accordingly and returned borne, rejoicing that he escaped with so slight a punishment. The greater crime is still unpunished, and the ravisher is still at large. The Negro or Nothing The New York independent gives the whole programme of its party thus: " Every national question, save the ques tion of the negro, might be Just as safely trusted to the Democratic party as to the Republican. If therefore, the Republican party threw overboard the negro, we shall straightway move to throw overboard the Republican party," Members:of the Fortieth ,Congress The following is a full list of the mem bers of the Fortieth Congress, now in sea! sion,;the Democratic Members being mark ed D., and the Radicals R. Benjamin F. Wade, Is., of Ohlo, President. John W. Forney, It, or Pennsylvania, Seey. Ohio. Term expires. Term expires Lot M. Morrill, 8...1869 Beni. F. Wade, 8...1839 W. P. FesSendenß 1871 John Sherman, R... 1873 New Hampshire. Aaron H. Cragin,R 1871 T. A. Hendricks,D..lB69 J. W. Patterson, 8..18 7 3 0. P. Morton,. 11.......1873 Vermont, 17/inots. G. F. Edmunds, 11..1869 Richard Yates, R... 1871 J. 8. Morrill. ......1873 L Trumbull, 1t........1873 Massachusetts. Michigan. Charles Sumner, R 1869 Zach Chandler, 8...1869 Henry Wilson, 8...1871 Jac. M. Howard, R. 1871 /diode Island. Wisconsin. Wm. Sprague, R.... 1869 J. R. Doolittle, D ...18611 H. B. Anthony. It -1871 Tim'y 0. Howe, 8_1873 Ctornecticut. /Minnea. James Dixon, D.-._1869 Alex. Ramsey , R...18P Orris S. Fern', 8 -- 187 3 1). S. Norton, D 1871 New York. lowa. Ed. D. Morgan, R.... 1869 Jas. W. Grlmes, R.. 1871 R. Conklin g, R ..1873 James Harl an, R... 1873 New Jersey. Missouri. F.T.Frelinghuysen 1869 B. Henderson 8_1869 A. G. Cattail, R....... 1871 Chas. D. Drake, R 1873 Pennsyhmnia. Kansas. C. R. Buckalew, D.. 1869 Edmund G. Ross 81871 Simon Cameron, 81873 S.C. Pomeroy, R..._1873 Detau:are. Nebraska. Geo. R. Riddle, D... 1869 Thos. W. Tipton, R 1869 W. Saulsbury, D.... 1871 John M. Thayer, R. 1871 Maryland. Nevada. R. Johnson, .13 1869 Wm. M. Stewart, R 1869 P. F. Thomas, D..._1673 James W. Nye, 8...1571 West Virginia. California. P.G.Van Wluale,RlBtZ John Couness, E.... 1869 W. T. Willey, R......187L Cornelius Cole, 8...1871 Kentucky. reon. James Guthrie, D... 1871. G. H. Willi O a g ms, 8.1811 Garrett Davis, D..... 1873 H. W. Cornett, K..._1873 Tennessee. • tblorado. D. T. Patterson, D.. 1869 John Evans, R Jos. S. Fowler, R.... 1871 J. B, Chaffee, is ~ N ot admitted. LATIOW. iDemocrats... 12 • RESNTATIVES. f Indiana, Speaker. ~ of Penna., Clerk. 2. IlorseeMaynard,R. 3. Wm. B. stokes, It. 4, Jas. Mullins, it. 5. John Trimble, R. it Stung M. Arnell, R. 7. I. R. Hawkins, It. 8. David A. Nunn, it. Radicals_ HOUSE OF HE Schuyler Colfax, R., liMward McPherson, 1. John Lynch, H e. Sidney Perham, IL 3. James G. Blaine, H. 4. John A. Peters, H. 5. Fred . A. Pike, K. New Hampshire. 1. Jacob H..Ela, K. 2. Aaron F. Stevens,ll 3. Jacob Benton, R. Vermont. 1. BenJ. Eggleston, R. 2. Samuel F. iirey, R. 3. Robt. C. Schenck,R. 4. Win. I awrence, K. 5. Wm. Muugeu, D. 6. Read'r W. Clarke ,R 7. S. She labargor, R. 8. C. S. Hamilton, K. 9. It Y. Buckiand. K. W. Jos. M. Ashley, R. 11. John T. Wilson, R. 12. P. Van Trump. D. 13. Geo. W. Morgan, D. 14. Martin Welker, K. 15. Tobias A. Haute, K. 16. J. A. Blughain, It. 17. Epli'na R. Eolcley,K 18. R. P. Spalding, It. 19. Jas. A. Garfield, H. 1. Wm. E. Nlblack, C. 2.-Michael C. Kerr, D. 3. M. C. Hunter, R. 4. Wm. S. Holman, D. 5. Cleo. W. Julian, K. 6. John Coburn, K. 7. H. D. Washburn, R. 8. Godlove S. Orth, R. 9. Schuyler Colfax, St. IS. Wm. Williams, IL 11. J. P. C. shanks, R. Illinois. 1. Frede.lek E. Wood bridge, li.. 2. Luke P. Poland, P 3. W. C. Smith. R. ==M 1. Thos. D. h.IIOL, R. 2. Oakes Ames, R. 3. (4 Twitehell, R. 4. Samuel Hooper, IL 5. BenJ. F. Butler, R. .3. N. P. Banks, R. 7. (leo. S. Boutwell, R. 8. Juo. D. Baldwin, It. 9. W. B. Wasnburn,lt. 10. Henry L. awes, It.. .[bode I. Thos. S. Jeuckes, R 2. Nathan F. Disou,R ff=flEll 1. R. D. Hubbard, 11. 2. J. Hotchkiss, 1). S. Henry H. Stark- weather, H. 4. W. H. Barnum, D New York. 1. Stephen Taber. D. 2. Demos Barns, D. 3. W. E. Robinson, D 4. John Fox, D. 5. John Morrissey, D. 0 Thos. E. Stewart, U. 7. J. W. Cnau ler. D. 8. James Brooks, D. 9. Fernando Wood, D. 10. W. H. Robertson, Ft 11. C. H. Van Wkok, R. 12. J. H. etcham, 13. Thos. Cornell, R. 14. J. V. L. Pruyn, D. i 5. J. A. Griswold, R. 12 Orange Ferris, R. 17. C. T. Hubbard, R. Is. Jas. M. Marvin, R. 10. Wm. C. Fields; R. 20. A. H. Caitlin, H. 21. Alex. H. Bailey, H. 22. J. C. Churchill, R.. Z 3. D. McCarthy, R. 24. T. M. Pomeroy, R. 25. Win. 11. Kelsey, R. 26. Wm. S. Lincoln, 8., 27. Hamilton Ward, R. 28. Lewis -ely e H. 20. Burt Van Horn, H. 80. J. M. Hum ohrey,D. Si. H. Van Aernum, R. At Large—John A. Lo gan, it. 1. I•ormail B. Judd, R. 2. J F. Farnsworth, It. 3. E B. Wealtburn, It. 4. A. C. Harding R. 5. E. C. Ingersoll . , it. 6. Burton C. cook, R. 7. ll'y P. H. Brom well, R. 8. Shelby Id. Cnllom,R 8. Lewis W. Ross, D. 10. Albert G. Burr, D. 11. Satu'l S. Marshall). 12. Jehu Baker, R. 13. Green B. italllll, Michigan. 1. FernanUo C. Bea man, R. 2, Charles Upson, ,11. 3. Austin Blair, R. 4. Thos. W. Ferry, R. 5. R. E.Trowbridge,R. U. John F. I)rlggs, R. Wiscomin. 1. Halbert E. Palne,R. 2. Benjamin F. .aup k ins, R. 3. A masa Cobb, R. 4. Cbas. A. ElLlrldge,l) 5. Philetus Sawyer, 6. Cad NV. C. vV as - burn, R.. „Itirinesota. Aew Jersey. 1. William More, It. 2. Charles Haight, D. 3. Clots. Sltgreaves, 1) 4. John Hlll, It. 5. Cieo. A. Halsey, It Pennsylvania. 1. Semi. J. Bandall,D. 2. Chas. O'Neill, R. 3. Leonard Myers, R. 4. Wm. 1). Kelley, R. 5. Caleb N. Taylor, It. 6. _Beni. M. Boyer, 1). 7. J. M. Broomall, It. John L. Getz, D. D. Thad, Stevens, R. 10, Henry L. Cake, R. 1. D. M. Van Auken,D 12. U. W. Woodward,D 13. Ulysses Mercur, it. Geo. K. 15. Adam J. (ilossbren ner, D. 16. Win. 11. Koontz, R. 17. Danl. J. Morrell, R. 18. sand..F. Wilson, K. 19. G. W. Scofield, It. 'M. D. A. Finney, K. 21. John Covode, It. 22. J. K. Moorhead, It. 23. Thos. Williams, K. 24. G. V Lawrence, It. 1. Win. Windom, It 2. /011.. 1. Jamee F. 2. Hlrein Price, R. 3. Win. B. Allison, R. 1. Wrn.Louglirldge,lt. 5. (leo. M. Dodge, It. 6. Asn'lW.llubbard,R 2114xsouri. 1. Wm. A. Pile, K. 2. Charles A. New comb, It. 3. James 13. McCor mlek, 1). 4. Jus. J. Gravelly, 11, 5. Jos. W. McClurg, IL 6. R. T. Van Horn, IL. 7. BenJ. F. Loan, R. 8. J. F. Benjamin, It U. U. W. Anderson, It. Nebraska. 1. Sohn Tulle, IL INurcula. I. Delos It. As 1ey,13. th/ifornia. 1. Sam% B. Axt. , ll, D 2. William Hlgby, it. 3. J. A. Johnson, D. Oregon. I=MI Murytund. 1. H. McCulloch, D. 2. 8. Archer, D. 3. Chas. E. Phelps, D. 4. Francis Thomas, R. 5. Frederick home, D. . 1. Rufus Mallory, It .Colurculo. lIMMMM MN= 1. C. D. Hubbard, It. 2. B. M. Kitchen, R. 3. Daniel Pols; ey, R. Zentucky. 1. L. 6. Trimble, D. 2. John Y. Brown, D 3. Joon S. Clolladay,D 4. J. Proctor Knott, D. 5. AWL P. Grover, D. 6 Thos, L. Jones, D. 7. James 13. Beck, D. 8. Geo. M. Adams. D. U. John D. Young, D. DELL GATES. A rizone.. Coles Basblord, R NV alttx A Montana. M. U.A.vaultugn, 1). New 211extco. C. I'. Clever, I), (roil tented. Kanars. 1. tildney Clarke, William H. Hooper, 1) Washington. Alvin I , laudere, R. • Wyoming. James S. Casement, R. •Not admitted. thout Delegatee from ortee.) ,;Uenmerat/i 19 Tennessee. 1. Rod'R. R. Butler, R. RECAPITULATION (wit MEE The Lebanon Paper Company have agreed with the other steam straw board mills to stop their works during [no winter months. An attempt was made on Friday night to rob the County Treasury ut Middleburg, Snyder co. The burglars blew open the safe, but there was no money in it. The people of Johnstown and vicinity, on Monday last, were sleighing to their heart's content, snow having fallen on the two procediug days to the depth of live inches. At Stoddardsville, Luzerne county, dur ing the past week, the branches of trees for acres around were loaded down with wild pigeons. They were feeding on the beech nuts. The Union store and offices at Taylors yille, near Scranton, owned by the Dela ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, were burned Sunday morning. The loss on buildings was $9,000 and on stock $lO,OOO. On the latter there was an insurance of $43,000. There is an old negro woman living in Milesburg, Centre co., who is said to be 110 years of age. Her name is "Janter," and she is yet quite brisk and strong. She was formerly a slave in the Old Dominion, and states that she has often seen Gen. Wash ington. A recent letter from the family of her former master seems to fix her ago at 110. Twenty-three out of a train of some ninety coal cars were thrown from the track arid wrecked by the breaking of a rail on the Shamokin Division of the N. C. R. W., near Snydertown, last week. The rail broke under the weight of the engine, but it and four cars passed over before the piece be came displaced. The Northern Central Railway Company are rebuilding four bridges between Sun bury and Shamokin,preparatory to runing a through passenger train from New York city to Sunbury via Shamokin. One is nearly complete, and the other three are under contract to be finished during the winter, when it is expected that the through truin will be put on. Col. R. H. Ricker, late superintendent of motive power and machinery on the Penn sylvania Railroad, has accepted the ap pointment Of General Superintendent of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and taken his position. Mr. A. J. Cussatt, late Super intendent of the Warren and Franklin Railroad, has been appointed to the post. tion vacated by Col. Ricker. The York Press says: During the past week large quantities of wild pigeons pas sed over our town, in a southwesterly di rection. On Tuesday morning last, a large number of flocks passed over in rapid sue. cession—one of our citizens tells us that he counted some thirty flocks, some of which extended for miles in length. They were very high, and we have not heard of any being killed by our gunners. Various con jectures were given as to the cause of their migration at this late day. One version was, that they were driven northward by the recent terrible hurricanes on the islands of St. Thomas and Porto Rico, and that they are now returning, which, to our mind, is quite reasonable. Others say that it is a precursor of coming storms and a severe winter, which we hope will not come to pass. A charter was granted by the Legislature of Pennsylvania last winter incorporating a company to build a railroad from Rend ing along the valley of the Tulpehoccon, via Bernvllle, Rohrersburg and Millers• burg. Berke county, crossi❑gg the Blue Mountain at the gap near the letter place, to Tremont, Schuylkill county, and thence via Gratztown, to Port Treverton, on the Susquehanna, there to connect with other railroads passing through the oil and lum ber regions of Western Pennsylvania. The capital of the company is fixed at $1,000,000, $700,000 of which is guaranteed by wealthy corporations Interested, and $05,000 is al ready subscribed, only $200,000 to be sub. scribed. A meeting to organize the cora nany will be held in a few weeks, The length of the road will be sixty-flue miles, and its estimated cost for grading, its.; is $15,000 per mile, iFor l thelplt for November.l The:Seieinfil :Sins ot'ther'4ol_emy—A Moue Argument for a Bellgtous Mag . We infer from What we hear in private conversation, and what we read in the pub lic journals, that the public think it very marvelous that so many of the clergy aro wrecked upon the rook of sensuality. The astonishment is not astonishing. People who do not make a habit of thinking, will hardlylbe thoughtful enough to know the fact with reference to this matter. The fact is that there:is no profession, class, or avo cation, so exposed to or tempted by the devil of sensuality as the ministry. The very sanctity of their office is an occa sion of their stumbling. The office is con founded with its occupant. The sanctity of the former is made the possession of the latter. Now, the of is an invulnerable myth; Its occupant is a man of like pas sions with other men. • No temptation is sufficient to overcome the office, while so stout-faithed an occu pant of it as Peter, the apostle, may fall grievously at the first approach of the ad versary. Unthinking women may seem to be only tempting the office, when they are unwittingly laying snares for its occupant. By their persistent exhibition of confidence in the office they are confiding persistently in its occupant. And so it came to rums in this way that the minister, with all his flesh and blood about him, has the door of temp tation thrown open to him and then closed behind him. Blind confiding on the one side, and the ungarded sociability on the other, lead to equivocal circumstances as to both. No man in the world has so few conditions imposed upon hint at the threshold of society as the clergyman. His passport to social life is almost a carte blanche. Women of both states and all ages are his companions,. socially and professionally. The rules o f social interconununion between the sexes are, in his case, virtually suspended. What would be an indirection with other men is a matter of course with him. Ife shares, or is alternately admitted to the privacy of the sick room with the physician. Whatever spiritual advice is called for, there he reigns alone and unmolested. And he is a seden tary man, of nervous sanguine tempera ment, and, like all men of thts sort and life, feels the law of his flesh warning against the law of his religion. None have such its those of sedentary life. In proportion to the idleness of the muscles, is the activity of the passions. The devil tempts the in dustrious; idle men tempt the devil. 'nu clergy should give more earnest heed to muscular Christianity." But not only is thehilife afflicted with deficiency in bodily exercise, it is addition ally accursed with the temptations that take advantage of this physical feebleness. Half the crimes of sensuality come of physical feebleness. Considering, then, this sandy haired composition, this nervous combusti bility, this superabundance of sexual heat from a deficiency in physical exertion and this extntordinary exposure to the wiles of the wicked, and the insinuative influences of unsuspicion, the marvel, nay, the miracle is not that so many but so few of the clergy fall into the sins of sensuality. The wonder , is, not so many yield, but that so many stand firm. And so far from these clerical sins of sen suality being the inexplicable lapses they are represented to be by the public press and the private Grundys, they are not only the least surprising but the most excusable sins the clergy can commit. But we do not excuse, we explain them. We are giving their comparative and not their actual criminality. While we regard a sudden trip into sen sual sin as comparatively the most excusa ble of the obliquities of which the clergy can be guilty, we certainly advise all those who are thus guilty, or teal themselves in danger of being, to quit the pulpit et once and forever. And let none go to the sacred office who are not strong to the Ilesh as well as in the Lord, and let the physically feeble who are in it leave it, lost a worse fate come upon them. Divine grace will not make amends for physical infirmities. As for seduction, that is a crime than which none are more heinous, infernal and damnable, let who will commit it. The man who is convicted of it deserves every twinge of the torture to which he can be subjected by the retributive laws of the Di vine Government. Nor is Meru any ex planation to be offered for that horrible species of the genus sensuality, of which several clergymen in this country have re cently been found guilty, and which shall be nameless here. Such offenses are very peculiarly odious and abhorrent, In view of the fact that sensual gratification is possible without adding more than one to the num ber of the debauched. Let these putrid brethren be cut off and put away, and let there be a rigorous en deavor to lift the standard or clerical purity in the above, as well as in every other re spect; but let it be remembered also that the steadfastness of the clergy is a matter of amazement, when the considerations, we have named are taken into the account. Statement of the Public Debt The following is a comparative statement of the public debt of the United States up to the Ist of November and tat of Decem ber, just issued from the Treasury Depart ment : DEBT BEARINO COIN INTEREST rsper cent bonds, &per cent bonds of 1.607 and tens. 1.1,6;40,1111 NI 19,690,911 411 6-per cent bonds of ,' 1661, .::12,7:(i,M1) 01) 2 , 13.1i714101 110 6-per cent 5-26 tutu., IXI,-112,6:4)1 1,207,461 s 0X) ICI Navy P12111,11/11 fund, 130))),(100 00 13,u0t1,0(k) 111 y11,w1n,847,M71 NU sl,77ti,llo,fifit `lll DEBT II E,‘ ICI Nil CURRENCY INTEItEsT. ;-per c.nL I,IJIIIIY, tiimi,o,w) isski2,,x.) iyear romp. 02;Col,iiiii al I-year 7-I) nut., COAL certificate, 12,itiii,coU 1.0 11,4111,M) too MIIMEME P79,^..92,,M) gel tT2.11,761,G111 tx, StATU RED DEM' NOT PRESENTED FOR PAY- 3-year 7-. V notos due August 2 . 5 , 10 ; 7 ,'.!,:.4,1,10.) 5) 3,:171,1im 5) Uornp'ml Int. note., matured June In, July 15, August I.), and October 1,10)7, 7,00.1,7;0 011 9,316,10(:1 I)) Bonds of Texas In demnity, 50.000 5) 761,10) OU Treasury notes, acts July 17, Si,l nod prlr otherets. 1G3,011 111 143141 ill Bonds April IS, 1.512, 51 otil ilI 5 , 1,061 11l Tress. notes, March 3 1883, Temporary loan, Certlf. of ludelAdn's $11,17n,363 118,M7,5:1J nt DEBT HEARIN() NO INTEREST. United State!, note. Fractional currency. Uold ,certillcates of depoatt, Total debt, AlllOlllll in treasury eoln, 10e,0!q.G.11 69 111,540,317 11 Currency. a7.11H1,175 2 . 2,1M,R10 07 Total, $138,176,820 JJ $133V11,398 vt Amount of debt, ImB 4TtIT The foregoing is a correct statement of the public debt, as appears from the books and Treasurer's returns in the Department, ou the Ist of December, 18417. In comparing the above with the state ment for November 1, it will be seen that the debt bearing coin interest has Increased $62,256,000. The debt bearing currency in terest has decreased $47,476,180. The ma tured debt not presented for payment has decreased $4,059,175 The debt bearing no interest has increased $3,158,179.66, making an increase in the total debt of $13,879,794.66. The amount of coin in the Treasury has decreased $49,651.66; the amount of cur rency Increased $15,028,094.57: making an Increase of the total debt, less cash in the Treasury, $9,701,301.75. A Democratic Town The town of Jack Son, Auglaize county, Ohio, at tho recent election, polled Jour hun dred and nine voles, all for the Democratic lcket. This fact has called forth consider able criticism as to the character and intel ligence of tho citizens of that town, and the Auglaize Democrat gives this account of its people: There is not one voter in Jackson who cannot read and write. There is not a per son in that township, male or female, above the ago of fourteen who cannot do the same There is not another rural township in Ohio, or anywhere else, with the same ago of set tlement, that has more Industry, wealth and general intelligence. Besides the best of schools, the town has a tine Academie Institute, kept in successful operation ten months in the year, that accommodates two handled students. Among the church buildings one Stauds there that cost forty live thousand dollars. In that township are model farmers, manufacturers and thrifty and accomplished merchants. Why should such people vote arty other than the Demo cratic ticket ? Abundantly antisfactory. Such n peoplo would naturally vote the Democratic ticket. The Negro Creating Ihmuenedonis Among the Good Templora. 7 he Inevitable negro has inspired a spirit of dissension in the ranks of what has been hitherto a united and an exemplary frater nity, called the Society of Good Templars, at the national Capital. Some radical mem bers of the body thought to give variety to its complexion by introducing colored folks end the result has been that a secession movement has begun on the part of those whites who are averse to social equality doctrines. Several lodges have already surrendered their charters, and a large number of members have withdrawn from the society. A new order of Templarn is about to be started, one of the fundamental rules of which will be the exclusion of the American citizens of Ethiopian descent. One Wiggins was recently hung in Lon don, for the murder of his mistress, ho all the while protesting his innocence and in sisting that the woman committed suicide. New facts make it probable that poor Wig. gins was judicially murdered, simply ho.. cause he bad not enough money to pay counsel and hunt up v,Mtnesses. One can pow understand why the unfortunate man fought his executioners upon the scaffold and - died struggling said shrieking. December. November. tIO -, ,532,N5 11) i,198,M5,:rdl N1:4;!-10 I I .^.,RtiI,INXI 5., 11 I ) UV N'4,410 111 4,108,47) . 31,01 q 00 C 06.2 1 42,47 i ix) 1 , 357,144,8-I-I ix) 30,70q,1=1 13,101" of) 14,514,M) (X) .4(41;A 1,m57 0 , 1 $1,72.3M,677 .772 C. f2,625,502,84s 03 e 2,501,1.111,751 75 t2,491,5mAz43 uo HUGH McCuLLoctr, Secretary of the Treasury
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