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'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
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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