gamier intdttionat -WEDNESDAY, SANDABY 22, 'lB6B (bunly Committee /Meeting. The Democratic County Committee will meet on SATURDAY, JANUARY 25th, at 11 o'clock A. M., at the Democratic Club ROOMS in the City ofLancacter. A. J. STRINMAN, Chairman. 11. J. McGBANN, Secr9tary Democratic State Convention PEnanianuna, PA., Jan. 8, 1868 The Democratic State Committeeof Penn aylvania have Oxed WEDNESDAY, THE FOURTH (4th) DAY OF MARCH, 1808, at 12 o'clock, M., as the time, and the Hall of the House of Representatives at Harris burg as the place, for holding the annual Convention of the party. It is ordered that this Convention be com posed of ono member for each Senator and Representative, who shall be elected in the usual manner; and they will moot at the time and place aforesaid, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the office of Au ditor General and Surveyor General, and of selecting delegates to the National Con• vention for the nomination of candidates for President and Vice President. The members and committees of the or ganization, and all conservative citizens who can unite with us in the support of Constitutional principles, are requested to proceed to the election of the delegates In their respective districts. By order of the Democratic State Com mittee. WILLIAM A. WALLACE, Chairman G. 0. DErsn,.S'ecretary 0131'1'U A,n:‘ REV, Aero SMITH died at his rest• denco in McConnellsburg, Fulton coun ty,Pa., at 3 o'clock A. m.,on Monday lust. in the 73rd year of his ago. The de ceased was a native of Frederick county, Virginia. Uniting himself to the Metho dist church in early youth he felt, us he grew to manhood, that it was his duty to enter the ministry. Availing him self of such advantages as were offered by the only Methodist Institution of learning then in operation in the United States, he entered Asbury College, In the City of Baltimore, and pursued his studies there. On being admitted to the ministry ho was first appointed to what was then known as Greenbrier Circuit, which embraced a large terri tory in Western Virginia. He was afterwards stationed in Kentucky, but on some change being made in the boundaries of the Baltimore and Ken tucky conferences, asked for a transfer to the former, with which be remained connected until the time of his death, and in active service until some five years ago. At •an early period he had charge of the Lycoming, Bellefonte, Hunt ingdon and other circuits in that section of Pennsylvania. The terri tory embraced by each of them was then very large. The writer of this was told recently by a gentletnau in Centre county that there are now about thirty Methodist ministers regularly employed on the ground which at that time made up the Bellefonte circuit. The Ly coming circuit was still larger. Yet over all that extent of territory, in the days when roads were very bad and ac commodations poor, the subject of this obituary traveled in connection with a single colleague, preaching frequent), at three appointments, miles apart, every Sabbath. Nor were the inter- vening days periods of rest, for, either I in the afternoon or at night, on almost every day in t e week there were ap• pointments to b filled, and very rarely indeed did the letnodist preachers of those days fail to meet an engagement. They were men whom no hardship daunted, and no ordinary obstacles im peded in what they regarded as the dis charge of a sacred duty. They then laid the foundations of the future pros perity of the Methodist Church on a broad and firm basis, and its present power and influence aro greatly due to their unwearying zeal and untiring de votion. The deceased afterward filled many Important stations iu the bounds of the Baltimore Conference, both in Pennsyl vania and Maryland. He was at one time Presiding Elder of the Chambers• burg district. Wherever called to dis charge the duties of pastor, under the itinerant system of the church, he was cordially received. Possessing a strong and vigorous intellect, well trained by careful study of the subjects connected with his calling, he was always re garded as an able and acceptable Preacher, and wherever he labored the church invariably prospered under his care. He was a model pastor, and the attachment or his congre gations to him was remarkable. The law of all his actions was LW enlighten ed sense of religious duty. His life WEIs one of spotless purity, and iu all that he (11(1 Ito seemed to be constantly actu ated by vonselentious convictions. Of those who entered the lialtimore Con ference in the Krone year with hint, we believe, but a single 011 e Is still living. About IMO year ago disease or the heart developed Itself in such a shape as precluded hope of recovery, Though sullerlng intensely the greater part of the time, ho bore all with eltristian resignation, and, after quietly waiting for the critical moment, he composedly resigned life without a murmur or a doubt about tilt) future. He has left to those who remain behind, as a priceless legacy, the example of one of the purest lives ever led by any mortal. That the world is better for his having lived in it. many can testify. The 'deemed wns the father of the senior editor of thin paper. Our Inexhaustible Resources The fools who prated so learnedly about the advantages of our possessing u National debt, and the known who styled It "a National blessing," also talked in most Inflated tones 111,101 IL Out• "Inexhaustible resources." We were told that we should never feel the weight of the few thousand millions of debt they were piling ; that it would be no burthen upon the people, no clog on our industry, and no check to the de velopment of our "inexhaustible re sources. Only a short time has elapsed since the country professed to believe the ridiculous falsehoods of these knaves and charlatans. We have very speedily discovered that the priors of bunkers, Mr. Jay Cooke, lied most prodigiously when ho styled a national debt "a na tional blessing." We reel it pressing upon us sorely at every turn. 'Thous• ands of laboring men In every State know that Rim a mostgrievous burthen. They bee, too, that our " inexhaustible resources" are being very slowly level • oped under the present reign of political imbeciles. Everywhere the factories and shops are idle. One-half the coun try, and that the richest and most pro iltmtive half, is paralyzed and the rest of the body politicsympathlzes. We are doingverylittle indeed Just now to (level .ope our " inexhaustible resources," and we will continue to do still less unless wiser counsels prevail in Congress. The Jlrst thing that is needed to enable us to develop these "Inexhaustible resources" about which we have heard so much, is to turn the whole brood of crazy, Radi cal fanatics out of Congress, to elect men of sense in their places, and to put In the Presidential chair a sagacious states man. Then we shall enter again upon ''career of prosperity, but not then. GEN. HOWARD reports that there is great destitution among the negroes In Washington, and he has been forced to caution others against crowding into that city, as many from the surround ing country are doing. Thus it is every where throughout the South. The negroes have the ballot but want for breiltd. THE LAX° ASTER- W EMI:KEY:LIN" TELEIGEN C 1 WEDNE SD A - Y - *; - ir- - Al ' VARY 22, 1868. A Despotism There Is no disguising the fact that an absolute despotism. is the form .of Govemnietit •pOsivailifit; ovei:` 'a large portion of onr ituntrY, the Or hole; is imminently t eatenedNrith The written Conktitutionwhiati we. used to bbist, altd,whick4as Oaf our, glory and our safeguard, is railed at; spit upon, and violated with impunity by the law-makers of the nation. Con gress claims for itself supreme and ab solute power, and exercises it in all the Souther? States, placing them under the control of military commanders, whose word is the only law vouch safed to the people 'confided to their tender mercies. To be sure Courts of Justice are established and kept open, but what is it but a solemn mockery that the institutions of the law are offered to the people, when their fruit, as the Dead Sea Apple, turns to ashes in their lips ? So long as the decisions of the Judges and the juries are agreea ble to the General commanding, they may be allowed to stand; but should they be otherwise, is he not empowered to reverse them, or;modify them,or treat them as though they had never been given ; to remove the Judges, imprison the jurors, or play any other trick of the kind which his fancy may dictate to him as the proper thing to inflict upon a subjected people? He removes Gov ernors, too, and State Treasurers, who may have a different idea of the duties which they have sworn to perform, from that which seems pleasing in Iris sight. General Meade wanted the negro ragamuffins of the Georgia Con stitutional—God save the mark !—Con ventlon to be paid the wages of their labor, and orders theofficersof the State 'to pay them, but they decline to waste 1 1 the money of the State upon the black trash ; whereupon, "off go your heads," says Mr. Meade ; "so much for Jenkins and Jones, and let all others take warn ing by their fate, and know that fu my kingdom I am sovereign, and that the acts of every Individual there in must square not with his own, but with my ideas of what is right."— Can any body point us on the pages of history, to uuy age or any country, where more absolute and despotic power was ever claimed and exercised than that which Is assumed by this shoulder strapped satrap and 'his fellows in the South? And who can tell how soon the field of operations will widen, and this Congress of ours will attempt to set over the States of the North also the absolute dominion of military power. Aro we told that It can only be exer (deed over the States which were in re hellion? Flow so? If Congress is the supreme Judge of the constitutionality of Its own acts, If the Constitution Is, as It is claimed to be, " played out," what Is to hinder the National Legislature from giving a Military Governor to Con necticut or California under the pretext, for Instance, that the elected Governor is a Copperhead and disloyal': Iu a word if they are not restrained by the Constitution and have the military un der their control, they can do what they please, and from present Indications, it Is Impossible to say what outrageous act they will not please to do, and we can only hope that they will not please to try the temper of the people beyond en durance. They are endeavoring now to get rid of the little restraint which the Consti tution imposes upon them. They re quire two-thirds of the Supreme Court say that their acts are unconstitu- Li •ITl ,,b before they will agree to respect the decision, and should it be neces sary ey will enact that u unanimous decision only can abrogate their laws. The people can set things right when ever they feel disposed to doso, but they are long suffering and give their op pressors a great deal of rope. If the Radicals are smart enough to know just how far the endurance of the people can safely be tried, they may get through safely ; but they are playing a dangerous game, in which the welfare and prosperity of the country is staked against their continuance in power, and but few van doubt the restilt of the contest. Whom the Gods Destroy." The results of the recent elections in the North, indicating, as they do, the spread of conservative feeling among the people, Instead of teaching a lesson of caution and prudence to the Repub lican party, seem to have had n direct•. ly Contrary effect . , and to have deter mined them, rendered desperate at the prospect of being compelled to relin quish the reins of power which they have handled so long and so vilely, to endeavor to sustain themselves by the adoption of the most violent and cx• treme measures, legislating the whole country into a military despotism, which they expect to control for their own advantage. So Incredible und out rageous are the schemes which they have, within the past few days, intro duced Into Congress for the accomplish ment of ,their ends, that the nation stands aghast at, their contemplation, They have brought forward n further supplement to the Reconstruction 11111, the object and effect, of which Is to supersede the President and place all power In the hands of (immoral (Arent, their cumuli date for the Presideney, being In reality whatThaddens Stevens frank ly calls it, " a bill to create a President." They have restored Edwin 111, Stan ton to the position of " confidential ad viser" to the President, notwithstand ing they know full well that It Is utterly impossible for him to act in that rela tion to the Executive. Finding that their pet measure, "the Reconstruction Act," upon which hangs the slender thread of their political life, Is In danger of being declared uncon stitutional by a majority or the Supreme Court, they have determined to enact that IL shall require two•lhirde or that Court to decide that their legislation he void. And for the purpose of getting rid of Generals Hancock and Rousseau, mid having the whole army as a unit at their command, they have brought for ward a bill to deprive these two officers of their positions. The patience and endurance of the Americsu people Is wonderful, but it is not without limit. As the stoutest cord will at last break under extreme ten sion, so there Is a point beyond which the people of the United States will not suffer their will to be defied and their rights to be disregarded. Who that wit- I nestled It will forget the Instantaneous ness with which they sprang to arms at the call of the President for the de fence of the Union on the 10th of April, 1861? Before that day all had been I serenity and calm ; not one man In a thousand believed that the North would fly to arms; Gen. Scott said, "Way ward sisters depart In peace ;" Horace Greeley echoed the sentiment. Yet In a few hours all calmness and quiet had disappeared, the most violent agitation I took its place, the people badithaken off their lethargy, and arisen to their work. j What caused this sudden uprising? A I cannon shot bad been fired in Charles ton Harbor, and the telegraph had flashed It over the country. This was the hair which, placed in the balance, had so violently turned the scale. We think there Is a lesson in this episode in our history which the Radical leaders in Congress would do well to note. The people will not quietly permit them, I unless we are gravely mistaken, to up root the Constitution, abrogate the Su preme Court, strip the President of his authority, and erect a military despo tism for our government, but will sternly teach them that to thus meddle with their liberties merits a speedy translation to another world. The peo ple are quiet now, but they read and they think, and at the proper time ft will need but a spark to „kindle them to notion. President. Johnson hold's the watch-tower and handles the signal flags ; If he is a wise man he wiltknoW; the time to , throw them out, and the, *Thwiriag signals Atitill flash from a ihotiaind hill4ops ; ; t he people will rise:. MweasenUt. The New. York Tribune declared In its Friday's issue , that negro suffrage must be established by the Republican Congress, and that "if President John. son Is an Impediment he must be re moved. This is the logic of the hour." This announcement may fall very plea santly on Republican ears, but we won der how it would sound to them should we, on the other hand, say that negro suffrage must not be imposed upon us, and that "If Congress is an impediment it must be removed. This is the logic of the hour." And yet we presume that we have quite as good a right to make the one announcement as the Tribune has to make the other. If Re publicans can claim the right to depose the President because he is an impedi ment to the accomplishment of their wishes, they cannot refuse to us the right to eject the present Congress from the capital because it is a "rock of offence " in our path. This being conceded it would not be difficult for us to make up a bill of in dictment against the present " infamous Congress," as Fernando Wood justly styles it, asan enemy of our country and its institutions. We would start out with this advantage; that Thaddeus Stevens and other of its leaders openly declare, that their legislation is in op position to and entirely outside of the Constitution, which is unquestionably the foundation upon which are based all the rights and liberties which the peo ple of this country enjoy. If that is swept away or disregarded, might will become the only rule of right, and the weak will be under the absolute do minion of the strong; therefore, they who knowingly violate it, are guilty of the grossest crime and are worthy of the .most condign punishment. Then again we have good reason to believe that the Supreme Court, which is the expounder of the Constitution, is about to declare that the act which Con gress has passed for the reconstruction of the Southern States, and upon the successful execution of which depends the whole fabric of the Republican party, is unconstitutional; thereby en dorsing the opinion to the same effect given by Its chief author, Thaddeus Stevens. So conscious is Congress that its measures will not stand the test of law, that it is meditating the pas sage of au act requiring a unanimous or nearly unanimous opinion of the Supreme Court to declare its legislation void ; which act would also be unconstitutional. Iu fact it seems as though these men were unable to digest a constitutional measure, and this signiffnutly Indicates that the ob jects which they are aiming to attni9 by ,their legislation, are them selves radically wrong. We have in truth the best reasons for believ ing that the aim which the Radicals have in their various reconstruction enactments, Is to wield the political power of the Southern States for the ad vantage of their owu party in the corn ing election. To this end they have disfradChised the white citizens of the 1 South, and put the suffrage in the hands of the negroes, whom they, through the military machinery which they have ' spread like a net work over the coun try, can manipulate as suits them. For this purpose, also, tifey strip the Presi dent of the powers vested in him by the constitution, and give them to General l i Grant, whom they make their candi date for the Presidency, and who is ex pected to use the power conferred upon him, to secure his election. For these and many other reasons, we conceive that the present Congress ' amply deserves to be deposed and dis persed ; we should prefer that this be done by the people In the regular way ' and through the expression of their will by the ballot. The Democracy are law abiding, and seek remedies for their wrongs peaceably and lawfully. They thus propose to remove the impedi ment to the welfare of the country j which they believe this Congress to J present. But should the Tribune and its friends prefer another mode of set tling our differeurtes; should they pro- j Pose violently to remove "the itupetll- ment" which they find In Andrew j Johnson and Impeach hiin for no cause but his faithful defence of the Coned tution, the Democracy will not refuse the gage thus thrown down. If a violent mode of settling the dis pute between us is more acceptable to our opponents than a peaceableone, we , will not refuse to satisfy their desire.— j Our party has never had the reputation of being backward In a fight, nor are ; they disposed to think they can easily ' be whipped. One thing can be relied upon with perfect certainty, which is, that good and legal cause must he shown for the retnoval of President Johnson or /it /mat be re:moved, That he is an " Impediment " to the Republican party will not, by the Democratic party, be taken as an indication that he is an un- I lit l'resident of the United States. Train's Last Sensation, The irrepressible cud eccentric Cleo. Francis Train, created quite a sensation In England a few years ago by his speeches. Whether his present trip to that country was made with a design of indulging in some more of those queer and disfolnLetl, but very pungent and striking harangues with which he ex cites the plaudits of those who hear him, is not known. But sure it is that his approach to the British shores has chsed a greater sensation than any of his former nets. Train has been ar rested on the coast of Ireland, seized upon at a point where the hub , as C07:1)124 is suspended, and is under duress, if not in prison. The Cable has Hashed the news across the A thmtle, and straight way there Is a storm of righteous indig nation throughout this country. We may not all admire lieorge Francis. Many of us think lie is an eccentric nuisance; but we all agree that the person of every American citizen Is sacred, wherever he may go, until by the commission of HOMO crime he ren- ders himself amenable to the law of the land which he visits. We are sensitive upon that point, and rightly 80. Ameri can honor prompts us to resent any in jury done to the meanest citizen as a wrong done to the whole people. We do not apprehend that we will be drawn Into any difficulty by the acts of the officious and meddlesome officers who laid hands wrongly on the notable Ne braskan, but if proper amends are not made the results might prove very se rious indeed. We wish George Francis and the country a peaceful deliverance, with ample apologies to soothe the pride of all who Imagine themselves to be injured. Very Little. The Radicals have been guilty of many very mean acts, but one of the smallest and most contemptible things of the kind which has ever come under our notice is the aewion of the Union League of Harrisburg. At a recent meeting of that concern, a resolution was passed condemning the officers of the Legislature for having appointed a few orphan boys whose fathers had been Democrats as pages, and for allowing a few very poor women of Democratic connections to earn a pittance by sweep ing out the rooms of the Capitol. In a number of instances the little pages upon whom war is being made are the orphans of Democratic soldiers who fell In the late war. What infinitesimally small business this is. Yet it is of a piece with many of the acts of those proscriptive and "narrow minded block heads" who make up what are known as Union Leagues. The word Union is desecrated by being applied to them. The Advancing Revolution. Ttia revolutionaq cable of Radics4 Congrasshavatblawn aside all heal" 'tangy ,With bold :40d *lug arideo . they.are:marchingTho boaltingip• declare thatihey vO I takeiio step back-i ward,' and by their 'notions they shon 7 : that they intend j .to good, their , deciaratiOn. The 'Constitution 'is no barrier in their path. They have shorn the Executive bianch of the Govern ment of its legitimate powers, and, after several attempts to tamper with the Supreme Court, have determined to place that august tribunal in a position I where two or three unscrupulous parti zans whom they have succeeded in ' having appointed to seats on the bench, can prevent it from exercising its legiti mate functions. To maintain their hold on power they seem willing to risk the most desperate expedients. By their former acts they brought down on themselves the condemnation of the people. The elections of last fall were full of meaning. They 'showed the revolutionary fanatics that the masses of the North were weary of the rule to which the country had been subjected. But one of two courses was left to the radicals, either to retrace 'their steps before entering upon the , Presidential contest, or to so order affairs that'the popular will should no longer be supreme. They have chosen the latter alternative. Tne next Presi dent will surely not be a Radical if the election is ,conducted according to the ' requirements of the Constitution. That is a foregone conclusion. Gen. Grant would be ingloriously defeated In a fair and free' election, If placed on a Radical platform. That Is no longer doubtful. It is conceded to be a fixed fact that neither he nor any other man who favors the schemes of the Rump Congress can be successfully carried through the coming contest, except by the combined powers of bayonets and the votes of the barbarian negroes of the South. The Radicals are ready, apparently, to meet the situation. They have on several occasions succeeded in forcing the people of the North to an acqui escence in measures at which it waspre dieted they would revolt, and, thus em boldened, they are moving forward in the line of a new revolution. They propose to make Grant Dictator, and to run him as a candidate for President after committing almost supreme power into his hand. They take It for granted that he will not scruple to employ the extraordinary powers conferred upon him for his own advancement, and for the purpose of keeping in place the set of greedy officials who have grown fat on the spoils of the public treasury. That Grant will consent thus to be shaped into a willing tool there is good reason to believe. Ho has shown him• self capable of such prevarication, to use no harsher term, as no honorable man could be guilty of. In vain will attempts be made to shield him from the scorn which attaches to such con duct as he has been guilty of. What• ever reputation he had will be black ened, and he will be regarded as destitute of one of those characteristics on which truesoldiers especially pride themselves. But he Is to be set up as Supreme Mili tary ruler over ten States, with enor mous powers at his command which may be applied elsewhere as well as in the South. We are to present to the world the old spectacle of a soldier with sword in hand and au army at his back demanding the votes of the people. Whether we are ready thus to follow the fate of former Republics remains to be seen. lion. Win. F. Hamilton Hon. Wm. F. Hamilton, who was elected United States Senator by the Maryland Legislature, after an exciting contest, is a gentleman of decided abili ty. He is about 48 years of age, has long been known as a prominent lawyer in Western Maryland, is President of the Hagerstown Bank, and served three consecutive terms in Congress. He has always been a consistent Democrat, though not an extreme man in his views. The Baltimore Sun says, the most bigoted partisan could find no excuse for objecting to his admission to the Senate. He will not take his seat until March, NCO, and in the meantime the State will have the services of that great constitutional lawyer and states man, Hon. Beverdy Johnson. Gov. Swann, who was Arr. Hamilton's prin cipal competitor, will continue to hold the position of Governor of Maryland for is year to come. Beath of Westley Frost, Doi Major Westley Frost, a prominent citizen of Fayette county, and well known to our citizens as United States Marshal for the Western District of Pennsylvania, under I3uchanan's ad ministration, died on the 14th inst., of dropsy, nt Me residence in Fayette county. He held the office of Sheriff In Fayette for a term, and was Internal Revenue Assessor for the 21st, District at the time of Ills death. Ile was sixty four years of age.. More Negro Min ler ►he District. Senator 'Mau, of lowa, hue prepar ed a bill embracing a charter for the District of Columbia, to take ell'eut on the expiration of the present charter of the City of Washington, in May next. Georgetown will be incorporated with Washington, and no distinction shall be made in regard to eligibility on account of race or color. All the District offices now tilled by appointment of the Presi dent will be made elective, In order to give the Negroes a chance to obtain them. The bill will be urged us a party measure, and on that ground It will uo doubt receive the unanimous support of the Radicals in both houses. Grant DCCCIVeti the President The correspondent of the N. Y. Wortd has had an Interview with the Presi dent on the Stanton matter. Mr. John son In reply to his Inquiries, said: "General Grant, with General Sherman, was here at the NVelte House on Saturday, when the old understanding was reiterated that he should either resign his office as Secretary of War nryl burruuder it to me in time to anticipate the Senate't; action, or announce his intention to retain the office until the right of the Senate to reinstate mr. Stanton could he put to the proof, On Sun day it was suggested by Senator Reverdy Johnson, with the concurrence of Senator John Sherman, and the understood con currence of a number of Radical members of both Houses, that if ex-Governor Cox, of Ohio, should be nominated by me forthwith us Secretary of War, the majority in Con gress would be willing to let Mr. Stanton's grievance go by the board. I listened to these suggestions without assenting to them. On Monday I had expected to receive an other cull from General Grant, General Sherman called, but General Grant did nor. The latter was here at the reception in the evening. He made no reference to the ac tion of the Sen,te in respect to the Secreta ryship of the Department, of which I my self had not been apprised. It was not until about Tuesday, that, I received the note from General Grunt, which has been published, advising me that ills functions as Secretary of War had ceased." I asked th President whether Mr. Stan ton was or vould be recognized by ilirn (the Preside t) as Secretary of War, iu con sequence of Monday's resolution by the Senate. Mr. Johnson firmly replied, " No. The Senate," said he, "has passed a resolution In which it says it "does not concur" In Mr. Stanton's suspension ; but this does not reinstate Mr. Stantom according to the law. The ;ace of Secretary of War Is liable to be reduced to o mere clerkship. Macon issue no binding orders except by thd di rection or with the concurrence of the Pres dent ; and as Mr. Stanton will not receive instructions from the Executive, it Is appa- rent that his reassumntion of a chair in the War Department amounts to that and noth ing more." ' Donavan, the Murderer, Sentenced. On Monday afternoon last, the 13th inst., between the hours of two and three o'clock, Wlaim Donavan, who has been twice con victed of the murder of George Squibb, was brought Into Court to have the death sen tence passed upon him. At a few minutes before three o'clock the prisoner entered the Court Room, accompanied by Sheriff En gles, and having taken his position in front of the Judge's desk, the usual question was asked him, as follows: "Have you any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon you?" The prisoner with ouch, feeling, protested his Innocence of the muder and all knowledge of it, saying that he had never taken the life of any one. At the conclusion of the sentence the prisoner approached the Judge, Hon. Robt. J. Fisher, shook him cordially , by the hand and said, "I will meet you in Heaven.— Yoolc Prem. „ . .regry and the Philadelphia Judges. On Thursday last Judge Allison, the I 6464: Judges of the Quarter Session be: on the timel:o44oe4eXis obilme to the Grand Jury i r kln ilia)” he severely berated Goverper Gee* for swing in his recent mesegge to reflect on'thbFactice prevaillngin thili,dourt of idieritig and remitthag sentences of criminals after the sentences had been pronounced. Governor Geary said that If this practice was legal it should not be confined to Philadelphia alone, but that the Judges of other parts of the State 'should enjoy like pardoning powers. The Judge don't take this in terference upon the part of the Governor in good part, and thus "pitches into him That which we except to is the manner in which the Governor has sought to inter meddle with a co-ordinate department of the government of the States, whichhas the highest authority for the exercise of Its powers, and for the performance of Its du ties, which exists by the will of the people, as embodied in the Constitution of the State. The Governor of Pennsylvania can claim no superior authority for his acts, as the head of the executive power of the Com monwealth, over that by which the judges hold their office, and by which they perform the duties which belong to it. The Constitution which, by its second article, section first, creates a supreme ex ecutive power, by section first, article fifth, declares that the judicial power of the Com monwealth shall be vested in the courts therein named, among which are the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery and gnat ter Sessions of the Peace. This department of the government, in the performance of its duties, is in no wise ac countable to the Executive department, and is in no respect subordinate to it. It is wholly independent of the executive con trol, while, ou the contrary, the Governor is himself subject to Its authority, and requir ed to pay respect and obedience to its de crees. 'show you that the relator was wise; because it his usurpation of authority It was therefore as unseemly es it was un- record will accused of a criminal offense, arrested with for the Governor, in his message to the Log- out any judicial warrant, held for along islature, to arraign the Judges of this Court time in close custody, and then brought be for the performance of their judicial acts, as tore what they may call a Military Corn though he was authorized so to do, or coin- mission, organized to convict him. Ho could not foresee his doom for potent to form a correct legal judgment if they could upon the question of the power of this Court try him they could hang him. His friends to reconsider a sentence after the expiration FI ot a writ of habeas corpus, lie was of the term at which it was imposed—both urough[ before the Circuit Court and was of which propositions we deny. remanded but the Judge, manifestly in Wo feel that wo have additional cause ot' doubt, facilitated the appeal in a way which complaint in the fact that the Governor haft showed his own desire to have it decided misstated the case us lie know it to exist, in by the court of last resort. Yet you are told that ho omitted all mention of that which that this is not a criminal case, was most material; that upon which the ls.tr. Trumbull—l did not say an ; I said the habeas corpus was not a criminal pro itwhole question hinges, and without which is not pretended, nor has it ever been cmdintl• claimed, that the power to reduce a arm- Mr. iLacir—Cortainly it is nut, but the n tones after term could be exorcised. That nature of the case does not depend on the which tho Governor does not state, although form of the writ, neither is a writ of error a fully advised of its existence, is the fact criminal proceeding, but a writ of error like that in every case to whicA sentence was re• habeas corpus may bring a criminal cause considered, a rule to show cause was entered into this Court. Judge Black continued, at the term, and that the question beingopen Iwe ask that you hear the case now, It is and undetermined, was carried over to be not at the foot of the list. By the statute , finally disposed of at a subsequent day, law of the land, by the immemorial custom The Supreme Couit exercises the powers of the Court, and by your own writtenrules by legislative authority of altering and re made so lately as last year, it stands at the imposing sentences upon cases taken up on head of the docket, and claims your imme certiorar(Bate attention. As a criminal case, the act vention of more than ono term. In one case i, or writ of error, after the inter -1 of Congress says you shall hear it in pre the question is kept open by writ, and in ferenso to others that are pending, but the the other by a ruleito reconsider. Upon the preference always was conceded to such 1 right to carry a case over the term by the eases. No criminal cause was ever allowed entering of such a plea, the power denied to be staved off or put by on the ground by the Governor to the Court depends; upon that civil causes, whether older or later, this, and upon this alone, it reels its vindi- should be heard first. Such has been the cation, and of this fact the Governor had universal practice of this Court for inure the fullest information. In u communion- than three-quarters of a century. It Linn addressed to the Attorney General by is the practice everywhere else. In all the Clerk of the Court, December 17, 18e7, the Courts, State and Federal, the in compliance with a request made by that rule is to give criminal cases the pre officer at the instance of the Governor, he ferance• Your administration of criminal says, the records was desired: " I find that justice cannot afford to wait. If the ac rules to reconsider the sentences of the di. cased party is guilty and the proceeding fondants named in the foregoing letter were against him is legal, the highest interests of society require that he should be punished without delay. If he is lawlessly prose duly entered by the Judges who tried them cuted by a tribunal that has no jurisdiction, within the terms In which they wore tried or it' he la suffering frotu the false judgment respectively, and that subsequently the sentences were ?educed and the defendants discharged.' of a Court which has authority to try him, Having this information in his possession he must -be immediately relieved. Relief long before his message was tent into the postponed is not relief at all. In no case win any court permit the sword of public Legislature, it was wanting in candor to the judges, whose action in this irregular vengeance to be doubtfully suspended over way was brought in question ; it was want- the head of a citizen for an indefinite time. ing in fairness to the Legislature, to which But there is another reason which would he professed to give information, to with- induce you to take this case up immediate hold a statement so essential to a full and ly even if It were at the foot of the docket. satisfactory understanding of the subject of In the exercise of your great power, you do which he professed to treat ; because It was not merely decide cases, you lay down rules for the conduct of others who may find not only keeping beck a fact that ought to t have been made known, but the fact most themselves in like condition. You never material of all others to the consideration of give a nuked judgment. You accobapany the question mooted in this pert of his an- it with the reasons, so that all men may nual message. know how fur they are within the principles you sanction. You are the great teachers of the people in regard The Judge then goes ou to say that their powerto change a sentence during to those things which concern their the term is Indisputable; that it is found- temporal salvation, and in proportion as rig you perform i that duty, well or ill, in that ed upon a common-law ht ; that in proportion are you dt or unlit for the high England it could not be dose after the places which you fill. Hero is a subject on which your lessons are most especially term, because the COMMISSiOnti of the needed This is not theonly Military Corn- Judges, and their authority to adjudi- mission that has been set up. In all that cate cases, expired with the term, and large region of country from the Potomac to the Gulf of Mexico Military Commis sions therefore their record could not be have become so much the fashion that changed by them after the term ended; they have almost entirely superseded courts but the reason of this rule not existing and juries. They inflict all manner of pun in Pennsvania, the Judge argues that ishments. Three men are now held by them yl under sentence of death, and hundreds are the rule itself falls. This may all be, languishing under their orders in various but if it le lawful 1 n Philadelphia, it is kinds of imprisonment. Every officer who is or may be engaged in carrying out these lawful all over the State ; but we are proceedings is deeply interested in know quite sure the practice exists nowhere ing, as soon as possible, how the law re ards him. From the President and the g but In Philadelphia. The charge con- General of the army down to the lowest eludes defiantly as follows : Jack Ketch in their serves, it is to the last Whilst we believe ourselves po.sessed of degree Important that they should know this power, we will maintain and exercise wfien they hang a man whether their net is it. It has never been used but for the car- Juatitiable homicide or felonious murder. rection of errors in our own judgments, or If they aro engaged in the performance of a in relief of suffering by lessening punish- lawful duty it will surely be an infinite re ment—never to Increase it ; arid, we repeat, ]lei lit be assured of it by a decision of this that unless we can exercise this authority, Court. The people ought to know it, too, the criminal idsv in Philadelphia will in so that they may learn to submttquietly to many instances be the instrument of in- evils which cannot be cured. Then if they Justice and of inhumanit.i. Constituted as do not enjoy the blessings of liberty they our Court is our work s constantly per- will ut least have the repose of despotism, formed under pressure ; often disposing of which is perhaps the next best thing. But from fifteen to twenty-tive oases in one day, if it should be tinnily held that these cont our former terms of - two months ranging missions ere all wrong and void, it is horrid from two hundred and fifty to live hundred cruelty not to say so at once. Would my cases in a term, learned brother, for any more political con .. There le, perhaps, to be found nowhere the parallel to our Court in any city In Chrlntendotn. And it is impossible toevoid frequently ralllng into error and mistakes, often on the last hour of tho last day or the term, Is there no remedy for this in the Judges of the Court. Must every defend ant, however poor, or helpless, or Inrocont In fact, be without, relief when tumble to incur the expense Inoldent to the employ intuit of un agent or a pardon broker, to visit the Exeoutive Chamber at Harrisburg? If such be the law, it calls for speedy cor rection at the hands of site Legislature, Fuel leg satisfied that courts have the right to exercise the power of reconsidera tion of sentences, in cases in which . rules to reconsider the mute had been entered at the term at which sentence was Imposed, we are ready to make a alum now, on which the Governor can instruct the Attorney General to have the question speedily sot tied by the Supreme Court. At the last July Kinston, held by Judge Peirce, Joseph Malloy and James Keating pleaded guilty to the charge of larceny, and were sentenced to twelve months Imprisonment in the county prison. At the term a rule wax entered by my brother Peirce, which he has determined to make absolute, so that the term of impris onment shall expire on the let proximo.— The court now dispose of the rule by order ing It to be made absolute, so that the term of Imprisonment will expire upon the lot of February next, Progreme of the Radical Mincer It hlteu Proceeei Down noun). The reports of the proceedings of the South ern Radical Constitutional Conventions con tinue to be diverting and characteristic both of the humor, ignorance and desperation of Mambo. ft is evident that the nigger whiten ing process is meeting but equivocal suc cess. The axtromo is attempted in the Lou isiana Zebra Convention, whore the blacks, encouraged by their white allies, are grasp• lug more than the privileges extended to whites, In the Virginia Convention two remark able events have just occurred, and nearly at the same time—the recognition of the Deity and the appearance of Ben Butler. The conservatives made u cull for Henry A. Wise, but he did not appear, The Con vention has also just decided two other matters, both of which have already been settled and clinched by the Union arms— namely, that secession Is null and void and that slavery Is forever abolished. The opening vapors of the North Caro lina Convention begin to arise, but nothing of a tangible shape has yet appeared. The South Carolina Convention, in which the blacks have some ten majority, islabor log which of two evils to choose—a South Carolina or a Massachusetts man for pre siding °nicer. The latter is said to be the blackest. The Georgia Convention Is both hungry and desperate. Things are becoming more and more gloomy and Intricate in that State. The presence of General Meade does not ap pear to have smoothed the ruggedness of the situation or softened the asperities of party feeling. There is no money either in the State Treasury or in the pockets of the delegates. It is a beggarly show all around. A call is made to Congress . to donate the public lauds to the negroes in order to test their capabilities of seltgovernment. It would be a good way of getting rid of them. Tho Mississippi Convention is flounder ing between going on with its business and smashing up altogether. The proceedings thus far are exceedingly farcical ; but the negro element predominates, at twenty dol lars per day each. • We have nothing from the Arkansas Con vention which was to have assembled on the 7th inst. The Florida Convention meets on the 20th. Meanwhile the starving darkies in the in• terior, as well as in cities, are awaiting the results of all these efforts to hasten them on the road to civilization; and, when not engaged in pastimes of amore lively and desperate character, they pm their time in catching catfish and stealing sweet potatoes. They are too lazy to earn even their salt.— New York Herald. A letter on Friday evening, received by the Eagle, from Havana, gives a fearful account of the ravages of oho era at Havana. There had been, as many as three hundred cases a day, nearly half of which proved fetal. On the 10th Instant there were flity_- two cases and twenty-one deaths.--X Y. annmercial. UNITED ISTAVIZS 817141.101131 0017 RT 'Case of Col. W. N. WCardliti.../airomerata atallae Black awl Ileums? Trumbull. :1"" Waszue4rmiraan.l7.—ln thejluptitine Court:of the United States, in the este of cCardlit‘this morning; alter tits; trammel. Boa of some other buslnen Mr.. Black, the Coaneel MoCardle. Ca ll thillithmtiori of the Court to his motion ' in this case to fix an early day for the argument. He said that Senator Trumbull who bad some oh. potions had been wait i ng to make them, and he ('Mr. Black) desired to bear them. Mr. Trumbull said he knew no reason why the cause should be advanoed, and en early day assigned for the hearinof it. ' The re lator had been brought before a military commission for trial; but the habeas ear. wus had suspended the proceeding, and he as now out on bail. No harm could come to him or any one by letting the cause stand without a decision for a year or two. Mr. Trumbull took up the written reasons filed with the mo tion and answered them severally. He said this was not, properly speaking, a criminal case; It was a habeas corpus. ' The other two reasons, instead of being grounds to sustain the motion, were strong against it. They allege that the United States are interested in the question, and that it concerns the rights and liberties of every American citizen. This shows that it is a political case, and the Court should not voluntarily take , , upon itself responsi bilities of that kind. Mr. Trumbull did not expect or desire the Court to shrink from its duty, but he believed that it should not go aside from its regular coarse to seek oc casions for deciding questions like this. Judge Black replied. He denied that this was a political case. It was purely judicial. "It has come," said ho, "in the form of a legal appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Mississippi, and it comes here with technical regularity. I represent no body hut my client, and ask for the vindi cation of no rights except his." The At torney• General makes no opposition. If Mr. Trumbull comes in to take up the case for a political party, I submit that he is out of his proper place, for the Senator should know that in the courts of the country we practice law, not politics. A glance at the re IN sideration, encourage publici officers to rush on In headlong ignorance at the risk of be ing branded as criminals in the future. If you decide hereafter that their acts aro no protection to them against the charges of kidnapping, robbery, and murder, how will they Teel toward those who prevented a do. vision in time to save them from those crimes? If the blood be Hutibred to accu mulate upon their heads for two or three years more, there will not be rain enough In the sweet heavens to wash them white again, This ques tion, no doubt, seems at very clear one to Mr. Trumbull, and he can doubtless make it as clear to tho Court us it is to him. Wo suppose it at least possible that he may be mistaken. Wo know that the Constitu. lion makes a court and Jury the exclusive judges of guilt or innocence in every crim inal ease, and wo know, also that the Con stitution Nuns in full force about ono year ago, for this court then said so in very plain and unmistakable language. But Mr, Trumbull and other jurists suppose them selves to have discovered an act of Con gress passed since the decision referred to by which the Constitution is repealed, or, at least, they have learned that the Amer!. I can people have in some way lost the right of trial by Jury. Now the presumption is a strong one to bo seen that Mr. Trumbull Is right and I am wrong. If he comes with his act of Congress, and I oppose him with the Constitution, and the principles of public liberty, the odds will be against me. Still, he cannot say that tile point is absolutely free from doubt, when he remembers that the Attorney General, who stands ofllcially atthe head of the profession, and deserves to stand there, is against him tote Ca3lo. The question cannot be clear in his favor, when the conviction of a lawyer like Mr. Stanbery is clear the other way. If it be doubtful, and that is all I ask you now to concede, It is inhuman to leave it unsettled when the ease is before you in which all doubts can be resolved. I repeat that this Is a judicial question merely. If by the suggestion that it Is connected with poll- ' tics, it is meant to say that you may be assailed and slandered for your decision by partizans, I admit it free ly. That may be true in this case as it has been in tnany others, I cannot promise you exemption from a fate which the best men in the world have suffered when they performed their public duties honestly. That is the rough brake thatvirtue must go through. But if the statute laws, the rules and constant practice of this Court are not to be violated, the cause before you will be heard without more delay than what may be necessary for its proper preparation. Judge Sharkey spoke briefly on the same side, enforcing What bad been. said by his colleague, and statingtheconditionof things in Mississippi as an additional reason for an early decision. Mr. Hughes thought there was no reason in the circumstances of the case Itself for taking it up soon, and the Court ought not to consider the extraneous facts which had i been mentioned. The speech of Judge Black and the profOund sonsatien mani fested were in themselves enough to show that the subject was one which could not bo handled without producing excitement. At all events, he hoped that full time would be allowed for counsel to consider their argu ment. It ought not to be hurried. In the course of the debate, Mr. Attorney- General Stanbery defined his position. He said that a case had been laid before the President in which a military commission had sentenced a person to death. The question had beed propounded to him by the President whether the condemnation and sentence were legal. He had, in ac cordance with his convictions, answered that they were illegal and void, and had advised the President not to approve them. This being his 'opinion he could not of course, take the other side of the question. Therefore he had declined to argue it here. He had left It to be argued by those who believed lithe doctrine, He bad given no tice to Gen. Grant, in consequence of which other counsel had been employed. The celebrated sheep Green Mountain, owned by- Hon. Edwin Hammond &Son, of Middlebury, Vt., died on Tuesday, the 7th inst., of inflammation of the kidneys. This ram was the progeny of the celebrated Gold Drop, was three years of ago last spring, was probably the best stock sheep in the world - , and constantly increasing in value to his owners and to the breeders of Vermont, He could not have been pur chased for 15,000, The Detreeeedlii, eft War Depart. meat to. =win* ton. . • ONO the leatiat *ft In card ::...FViebollate from the' *irrid Express of Z:343Z afternoon 1 , th e cfteeiniption of the on of theWarpfnartment to Hon. I,ftderbs,M. Stanton. Thappfars that at nin o'clook yesterday matting the then Acting; e 'Secretary °Mar,' General Grant, came to the War Department as usual and, after arranging some papers, locked the door of the private office of the Secretary of War, and taking the key with Ihim proceeded to the Headquarters of the Army, nearlyop_. paella to the War Department. About hall past ten o'clock Mr, Stanton appeared at the War Department, and proceeded im mediately to the office usually occupied by the Secretary of War.. Finding the door, locked, he'took a seat in the ante-room, where he was the recipient of many warns congratulations from Senators and mem bers of the House of Representatives, who had assembled apparently to see what would take place. Mr. Stanton appeared to be in unusually fine spirits, and convened freely with all around him. 17pon the arrival of Mr. Stanton,peneual Dent, the Acting Adjutant General of Gen eral Grant as Secretary of War ad interim, hurried over to the headquarters of the army to inform General Grant of the fact, and to obtain the key to the Secretary's office. In a few minutes he returned, and placed the key in the hands of Adjutant General Townsend, who in a sort of " present arms" style, delivered it up to Secretary Stanton. As coon as the reinstated Secretary was fairly ensconced in hie office, the Radical members of the Tennessee delegation in Congress waited upon him in a body to present their congratulations, and to ask him to use his influence to continue the operations of the Freedmen's Bureau in the States of Tennessee and Kentucky after the 15th of February next, at which time, by order of the President, it ceases lu those States. Mr. Stanton replied that so long as he had any power he would use it to pro tect the weak, and would do his best to have the request carried out. He further stated that it would be a few days before mutters ' would commence to run right in his office. As the Tennessee delegation were with dewing, they were met by General Grant in the hull. After exchanging salutations with them and General Howard, who wue present, and expressing satisfaction at the action of the Senate in restoring Mr. Stan ton, he walked towards the Secretary's office, when the latter appeared at the door and shook the Genet al warmly by the hand, and both passed In. It is understood that General Grant and Mr. Stanton were closeted together on Mon day evening, after the passage of the Senate resolution. During the Interview between General runt and Mr. Stanton, General Dont trans ferred his desk to General Polouzo, who had occupied It during the latter part of Mr. Stanton's former administration of the Do pertinent, and General Hardie gave up his position to General Shriver. At half-past two o'olook Mr. Stanton was locked up in his private room with several persons, whose names were not ascertained. At a few minutes past three o'clock an or• der was issued by Mr. Stanton, informing the employees of the War Department that be (Mr. S.) had again taken possession of the portfolio of the War Oflice. At four o'clock Mr. Stanton loft the War Depart. ment for his residence, giving, in his usual way, various orders to the messengers who have usually attended upon his particular office-rooms, showing thereby that he had quietly settled down for a continued stay. Title statement, which wo take from the afternoonpapers, of the circumstances of the reoccupation of the War Department by the deposed Secretary, astonished no one more than President Johnson, who was greatly surprised at the surrender by General Grant of the trust reposed in him us Secretary of War ad interim. The people of the:country will doubtless be startled at the annuncia- Hon that Mr. Stanton has so quietly resum ed possession of the War Department, and will be curious to know how it was effected. In Justitication of the President we are at liberty to state the following additional cir cumstances, from which our readers will draw their own conclusions : Some time after the appointment of Gen eral Grant as Secretary of War ad interim, he had a conversation with the President upon the subject of the probability of the refusal of the Senate to recognize the sus pension of Mr. Stanton, when General Grant stated that in such event he might not wish to identify himself with either party in the controversy, but added, In ef fect: "I shall in that event either band you my resignation as Acting Secretary, or let a mandamus be issued against me to sur render the Mike." This conversation was renewed from time to time, and, on last Saturday, when Serai -1 for Howard's report from the Senate Com mittee on Military Affairs in favor of Stan ton was under discussion, General Grant was pointedly asked by the President if ho had changed his mind in reference to the course he would pursue if the Senate should refuse to make Stanton's suspension final, when he reiterated the promise previously made, that he would either band in his re signation as Secretary of War ad interim early enough for the President to appoint his successor or take any other action be might deem requisite, or allow a manda mus to be served upon him for the surren der of the office, adding a promise to the President, that he should hear from him on the subject on Monday. Monday passed without the promised communication. On Monday evening, after It was known that the Senate had passed Howard's resolutions refusing to recognize the suspension of Stanton as Secretary of War, General Grant was present at the re ception at the Executive Mansion, where he greeted the President, but mentioned nothing of any change in the determination previously declared, The President heard nothing whatever from General Grant upon the subject until twelve o'clock Tuesday, two hours after Mr. Stanton had taken pos session of the War Office, when the follow ing communication was delivered to him by Major Comstock, one of General Grunt's staff officers: IEADQS ARMIES UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON, D. C., January 1403 1808. His Excellency Andrew Johnson, 11 rrsldcnt of the United Mates: SIR: I have the honor to enclose here with, copy of official notice received by me last evening, of the action of the Senate of the United States in the case of the suspen sion of Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary, of War. According to the provisions of sec tion two of " An act regulating the tenure of certain civil offices" mv functions as Seem- Cary of Wet . ad interim ceased from the moment of the receipt of the within notice. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, U. S. Li RANT, General. IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, SENATE OP TUB UNITED STATE?I, January 13, 18118. ) Iteaohped, That having considered the evidence and reasons given by the Presi dent in his report of the 12th of December, 1887, for the suspension from the office of Secretary of War of Edwin M. Stanton, the Senate do not concur in such suspension. Jour( W. FORNEY, Secretary, I IRA IN' Re ARMIES UNITED STATEN, January 14, 18118. Attest : Gm. K. DENT, A. A. G. Soon altar the delivery of this communi cation (lon. Grant called in person upon the President during the meeting of the Cabi net, and upon being reminded by the Presi dent of his reiterated promise, and especial ly of the promise made only on Saturday morning last, Gen. Grant admitted lithe promise in the presence of members or the Cabinet. A Trap for a General The now amendment to the Reconstruc• tion acts, which hnvo been BO often amend. ed before, proposes to put aside the Supreme Court as an interpreter of the laws, and the President us the Executor of them, in order that Congress may absorb luto itself an the functions of Government, It has heretofore evinced such superior wisdom, in the roe toretion of the late insurgent States, and In the management of finance and taxation, that it thinks nothing loss titan universal power Its duo. While it proposes to forbid the judiciary to pronounce an opinion on certain subjects, It also declares the number of votes in hooch by which any opinion is to bo held as valid. Two• thirds of the judges—not a majority of them—must concur in pronouncing upon the constitutional merits of any law; that is, two• thirds this month,but as Congress regu lates the matter, it may bo three-fourths next month,and the month after unanimity. In other words the decisions of the highest judicial tribunal will be made to take their complexion from the politics of the legisla tive department. By the organic law, the President of the United States is made the Commander-in- Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States; but that is an antiquated law, and Congress proposes to set it aside by enacting a law of its own "sovereign will "—as the impeachment report would say—conferring thepower upon Our principal general. Asa soldier of great distinction and merit, he is ordered to begin with enact of insobordlna tion towards his chief whose authority he is to disregard, and assume the character of military' dictator in ten at least of the States of the Union.—N. Post.(Republican;) Thaddeus Stevens on Suffrage WARRINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6,—Dear Sir; So far as I took any position with regard to negro suffrage, it was and is, that universal suffrage is an inalienable right, and that since the amendments to tho Constitution to deprive the negroes of it would be a vio lation of the Constitution, as well as of a natural right. True, I deemed the hasten ing of the bestowal of that franchise as very essential to the welfare of the nation, because without it I believe that the Gov ernment will pass into the hands of rebels and their friends, And that such an event would be disastrous to the whole country. With universal suffrage I believe the true men of the nation can maintain their posi tion. Without it, whether that suffrage be impartial, or in any way quolified, I look upon this republic as likely to, relapse into an oligarchy, which will be ruled by coarse copperheadism and proud conservatism. I have never 'misted that the franchise should be unjustly regulated so as to secure a Republican ascendancy; but I lave in sisted, and do insist, that there cfn be no unjust regulation of that franchise which will give to any other party the power ifthe RepUblicans ere trite to themselves, and do not fall into their usual vice of cowardice. The Republicans, once beaten into a mi nority by the force of negro prejudice, will never again obtain the majority, and the nation will become a despcdsm. Yours, very res=fully, DENS STEVINI3. - ' The trurrengse of Glen sal Grant. • - Waerteentron Jan. 15. The great captainof the age—the man who In the U. Si,l3enate, yesterday, the report whipped .Lee and flubbed the rebellion -4:4 the COMmilidonerPatente was presort- has surrendered - at last ; yes, ingloriously and ordered to be printed. A petition surrendered to another rebel force equally loran appropriation to aid the sufferers by I as destructive to the Constitution and H9T theSweMeh &mine was presented. A bill ernment as that of the South. He hastier was introduced tq regulate steam passenger rendered to the Radical revolutionists. So vessels, and referred. The,.House resole- remarkable and surprising was this event lion relative to whlek,ymeterewas reportedthe newsboys shouting' te strts of Waah from committee, with an amendment, but ' ington 'Were board The surfeit no final action was taken. Mr. Williams, der of General Grant!" as they ran about of Oregon, offered a set of financial resole. with the Papers containing the news, just dons. Tho bill regulating the Supremeas these sharp-witted fellows shouted the Court came foam the House, and was re- I surrender of Lee when he gave up, They tarred. The anti-contraction bill was con- Instinctively seized the very expression, sidered, but not finally acted upon, which forcibly showed the conduct of In the House of Representatives an un- Grant in giving up the War Depart• successful attempt was made by Mr. Mc- a meet at the demand of Stanton and Cartby, of New York, to introduce resole- the radicals without consulting or ra tions. relative to the naturalization ques- tarring to the President of 'the 'United tion. The cotton tax repeal bill was con- ; States and Commander-in-Chief of the Ar • sidered, the Senate amendments were my. The glorious and deserved fame of concurred in, and the bill sent book to the ; General Grant In conquering the rebellion Senate. Resolutions relative to drawbacks is tarnished by this surprising conduct. on certain kinds of copper and the direct Our Napoleon has not shown the skill of tax werereferred. lissolutiona wore passed Napoleon Bonaparte. The Talleyrand of ordering the Committee on Ways and our War Office, backed by the Jacobins In Means to Inquire , into the expediency of Congress, has outwitted the great American selling the right to manufacture spirits to General. Napoleon Bonaparte on the 15th the highest bidder. Mr. \ Wyck made Brumaire proved himself superior to all the another explanation about the Gettysburg Jacobins and plotters. The fact is, General lottery scheme. The amendatory Recon- Grant has little knowledge of politics or struction bill was then taken up, and Mr. politicians, or of anything else outside of Brooks presented a report against it from his military profession, and he has permit the minority of the Reconstruction Commit- ted his ambition and the clamor of the dont tee. The bill was then debated, but, with- Mont party to overrule n sense of duty and out final action, was laid over until tamer- respectful behavior to his superior, the Pres row. Numerous unimportant bills and Went of the United States. resolutions were introduced, and a tele- General Grant received his appointment gram from Gen. Meade to Geu. Grant, role- from the President. The °nice was purely dye to the test oath, was read. executive and under the Chief Executive of WAsautorox Jan. ld. the republic, the President. He had noth- In the U. S. Senate, yesterday, a memo- mg (10;with Cougros and should have re nal was presented from members of the culvert no orders front that body, lie should Board of Registration in Mississippi, asking have kill/W U nothin about what Congress an advance of supplies to the planters, to did with regard to the Wur Department or relievethe prevailing destitution. The Ant- his duties in It except through the Preei• Contraction bill was passed, with an amend- dent. congress le not the Executive. The ment that " the amount of such notes now inert. resolution of the Senate that it did not existing shall not be ;educed until Congress approve of the suspension of Stanton was shall otherwise provide." not en order for Grout to vacate the Wm. In the House, Mr. Fernando Wood, of Department, and if it had been he should Now York, proceeded to speak In opposi- not have recognized It; he 'Mould, have Te flon thereto, and in the course of his re- eeived no orders but from tiorPreeldent. marks he characterized the bill as " a mat- But the manner of rotating the poeition atrocity—(he most infamona act of the many to which the President hint appointed in amens acta of tins infamous Glint/rem' him without consulting with or refer- He was loudly called to order from the Ito- ring the matter to the decision of his publican aide of the Hall, end Mr. Bingham chief woe tinicreditable. It shows plainly demanded that the words above quoted Glut General Grant did nut understand his should be taken down by the Clerk, atm duty and the respect duo to the President. objected to Mr. Wood continuing his re- It Is not to the individual Mr. Johnson tine marks. A vote was ordered on a motion to tide wrong is done, but to the President of allow Mr. Wood to proceed, and it eves lost the l'nited Slid es a nd t o th e p e ople as rep. by a strict party division—yeas 311; nays rounded by him in Mut high office. There lON, Mr. Dawes of Massachusetts, then wee metalling No unworthy of Grout—we offered a resolud )( on requiring the Speaker might 'demo say tricky. In his slipping to censure Mr, Wood for the language above out of the back door to let Stanton come In referred to, A motion to lay this mole- at the front, without notifying the Pried tion on the table likewise toiled by a strict dent, that it cannot fall to damage hint so party vote—yeas lei, nays 115. The resolu- Homily In the tedimation of the Americuil lion was then adopted—yeas 114, nays 28, people. All the rigmarole, trash arguments and the Speaker proceeded to deliver 11 and epecitti pleading about Ida previous brief lecture to Mr. Wood on the alleged conversations with Mr. Johnson on the enL impropriety of his conduct. Thu •now ro- feet of Stunton'e position amount to nothing construction bill was debated at length but in view of the great fact that in his conduct not finally acted upon. he Ignored the Executive of the nation, did WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. not act with proper respect to him and neg- SENATE.—In the l'. 5, Senate, yesterday, locked the plain dictates of duty tower,' on motion of Mr. Sherman, the Commie- him. sioner and Assistant Cotnmissioner of In- All this looka as If the General had thrown ternal Revenue wore allowed the privilege himself into the arms of the Jacobin Radi o( the floor during debates effeeting the cats, and is ready to go with them in their revenue. A commuuication giving a list : revolutionary course of destroying the Con. of volunteer officers was rectived from See- tditution and Government. What a change rotary Stanton, and ordered to be printed. must have come over Wm I lie was a Dem- The bill repealing the cotton tax was re- occult 111 former times•, he exhibited groat calved back from the House, that body liberality and broad views in his treattnent having rejected the Seunte'm amend- of the rebels when they surrendered, and mot. The House bills relating to he hue been regarded am conservative all the public lands wore referred. The along up to within u recent period. What bill re-enacting ,the Legal Tender Act, has turned Iris head Al and thrown hint and providing for confracte payable lu gold, among the revolutionists? Westill believe was tabled, on the recommendation of the 111,4 liana Is right and 'that ire is a Finance Committee, Mr. Feemenden, of sincere patriot, but evidently he has beet' Me., introduced a bill, which wee referred, under baneful Influences, The politielans reorganizing the 'l'reasury Department. have befogged hint, either to kill hint off tar The resolution relating to the uppolnunent to 111lIk0 use of Mtn for their own purposes. of retired navy oflicers to consular position's If he would keep him bold on the esteem was considered, 'rho House Deficiency Bill and affection of the American 4)ouplu ho Was considered and passed with soma will retrace his steps at once as tar as 110 I amendments. After nu Executive ...beton, can, allow that ho is conservative id heart the Senator adjourned. and give the cold 'Moulder to his radical In the House, on motion of Mr. Arnett, of advisers. Nothing else—no, not (Well his . Tennessee, the Library Committee were di- grout military fllllll4-01111 faly4 , Limo from reeled to inquire into the subject of Interne- ruin es a public man.—N. //crab!. Mona' copyright, whit a view to the protec lion of authors. Executive communication's (Arcot Skating Faat444liVlssnlng. it Waal, were received, including two from Score- of 5000. tory Stanton. The Senate amendments to The Detroit Post says: the Anti-Contraction Bill were referred, "Un Saturday night, at Itt o'clock, Mr. with the understanding that they would be 'Charles Ockford, of this city, concluded, at reported back to-day. The new Recon- Whiting's Jefferson avenue park, the groat struction Bill was debated, Mr. Bingham, feat of skating for sixty conmocutive hours of Ohio, giving notice that he would move without sleep or rest, thereby winning a the previous question on Its passage today. wager of $5OO. Ile commenced on Thure- An evening session was also bad, when day morning at 10 o'clock, and kept in con speeches were made upon the bill. tinual motion, with the exception of twelve WASHINGTON Jun. 111. minutes in each twelve hours, until 1U The U. S. Senate was not in session yes- o'clock Saturday night. His gait was slow, terday, having adjourned until Monday. and he moved with as little exertion an In the House, the Senate amendments to possible, sometimes sliding, at others 'step the Deficiency bill were referred. It was ping and resting himself by varying his agreed, at the suggestion of Mr. Bingham, gait. lie was continually accompanied by that the Reconstruction bill should be do- two referees, who walked one on each side bated until Monday, when the previous ; of him to see that ho kept strictly to the re question should be resumed at the expire- , (tenements of the wager. During the liret tton of the morning hour. The Senate day , and night the weather was very favor amendment to the Anti-Contraction bill Mile, being clear and pleasant, and the Ice was rejected, and the bill goes back to the was in excellent condition. On Friday a Senate. Debate on the new Reconstruction drizzling rain, mixed with snow, sot in. bill wee then resumed, and continued until The moisture penetrated to the skin like a the adjournment. November fog, causing altogether tut die- WASIIINOTON, Jan. 20. agreeable a day and night as could well bo The U. S. Senate was not in session on imagined. The rain also softened the ice, Saturday. The House was in Hesston but making the skating much more difficult. no business was transacted, the day being On Saturday morning the rain had turned devoted to speech-making. Judge Wood- to snow, which continued to fall throUgh ward made a very able speech on the Ft- out the day, mostly molting as It cams, nanclal question. and accompanied by a strong west wins!. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. "Through all this nasty weather the In the I:. S. Senate, yesterday, bills were plucky skater held his course and kept up introduced prohibiting the payment of that nioncitozious motion, accompanied by bounties to deserters ; "to facilitate the ad- his referees, Lie never lost hie courage, ministration ofjustice," and to regulate the but on Saturday afternoon he became so foreign coasting trade on our northern fron- weak that it was necessary to put up blen ders. On motion of Mr. Sherman, confer- trots to prevent the wind blowing him once committees wore appointed on the over. About nine o'clock his senses ware disagreeing amendment's to the Anti-Con- fast failing him and ho nearly full. Some traction and Cotton bills. The Case of stimulant was given him, when he threw Senator elect Thomas, of Maryland, was off Ids coat and darted away liken wild. debated until adjournment. man, and be had to be caught and bold In the House, bills were introduced as fol- until hilt momentary delirium putted. He lows: by Mr. Miller, of Penna., exempting soon cooled down and resumed his old industrial production from taxation ; by gait, which he kept up until time was Messrs. Myers, of Penna., and Coburn, of celled, when he dropped insensible on the Ind., relating to the bounties ; by Mr. ice. He was conveyed to it room prepared Thorne's, of Md., authorizing the construe- for him an put to bed. Ills lower ox tionof a railroad from Washington to con- 1 tramitios were found to he much swollen neat with the Northern Central Railroad; and black and Lino. Hu was properly Various resolutions In relation to the rights I treated, and, In about an hour, was com of Aineriern citizens wore Introduced and fortuble, and had dropped oil' Into an easy referred. The new Reconetruction bill wits sleep. considered, and the previous question se conded, but the House adjourned without voting on the bill, Proeethlinirs of the Leggelntim HARM/311171M, inn. 15.—1 n thu Foamy'. vania Senate to day Colonel Klenkner, of Philadelphia, offered thu following reaolti lion : Roobed, That the representatives of Pennsylvania endorse the action of the United States Senate In reinstating Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, whose suc cessful administration of his department during the gloomy period of war and na tional peril has endeared his name to every lover or liberty In the lend. Jones, Democrat, of Burks, moved to amend by condemning instead of endors ing, and insert, after the words "E. M. Stanton," "an unscrupulous enemy of con stitutional liberty and a man unworthy of the confidence of the American people." Mr. Jones also denied the Inference In the original resolution that congress hurl any power to reinstate. The amendment wee lost by yearn-15 Democrats and nays-53 Radicals. Tho debate was Interrupted by the en trance of the Speaker, who came for the purpose of holding a Joint convention to elect a State Treasurer. For treasurer, W. W. Irwin received 73, (Lod Wm, V. Mcl/ math 58 votes. HA anointing, Jan. 17, In the Pennsylvania Senate, yesterday, the Stanton resolutions wore considered, and an amendment was adopted approving of Gen. Grant. Tho subject was then post poned until Tuesday. Similar resolutions, including Grant, were passed by the House. In the Pennsylvania Senate, yesterday, bills wore Introduced for a registration of voters, repealing the net punishing conduc tors for assigning special places in cars to negroes, and relating to judgments in for eign attachments. In the House, bills wore introduced for a free railroad system, estab• Itching an insurance department, repealing the act allowing colored people to ride in the cars, and repealing the Sunday liquor and license laws. General Irwin was nom inated for State Treasurer by the Republi cans, and Mr. McGrath by the Democrats. A resolution was offered instructing our Representatives in Congress to vote against appropriations for foreign territory. HARRISBURG, :Jan. 18. ' The Senate was not in session, and the House spent an hour or so in rescinding a rule which called for the reassembling of that body at 11 o'olock on the 3d Monday of January, and having got rid of this slight impediment, adjourned until Monday eve ning at 8 o'clock. limit:mm:lm, Jun. 21. SENATE.—In the Pennsylvania Senate, yesterday, bills were introduced authoriz ing the use of Penn Squats for public pur poses, and extending the mechanics' lieu law to workers on stone steps and pave ments. In the House, a resolution declar ing it the true intent of the law that parties not having stores separate from their man ufactories are exempted from payment of license, as now required. More Little White girl Outraged by a Negro. One of the most infamous ontrages that over occurred In this city was perpetrated In Cherry alley very recently. A black fiend named Charles Henry, who was In tbo habit of visiting the house of James Maloney, during the latter's imprisonment for violation of time license law, took adv an. tap of his absence to violate the person of his daughter, a little girl between seven and eight years of age, and communicated to her a most loathsome disease. According to the little girl's statement before,. Mayors awards yesterday afternoon, the black skinned and blank-hearted scoundrel re peated tho monstrous nse on last Tuesday night, having in the meantime allenceclVß victim by threats. Tho child's condition led to a suspicion, that she had been out raged, and upon being interrogated, she made developments which led to the negro's arrests Atter It bearing Mayor Edwards demanded two,' thousand dollars ball for. Henry's appearazicsi at court, in, default of which he was committed to prison.—Har riaburg Patriot and Union. • - - • A young man went Into a Bowery (New York) jewelry store, on Friday evening, and upon being shown some Jewelry seized the tray, containing diamonds and pearls to the value of aboutllB,ooo, and ran like a good one. He was pursued and the die. monde and pearls were all reoovored. IMRE= mio 011ie* of Me Union Priollio Railroad. To-day the locomotive le within tea miles of tho hlghost summit In the mountain chain that Hoparatos tho Atlantic and Pacific States, and during Oda year of our Lord, I HO9, much more than half the Mailmen be tween the Mineourl River and the Bay of Sun Frnnuioeo will be spanned by n three (*MI Railroad. The California mails and passongorn huvo ulroady boon carriod through to Now York and Viillatielphia In !Moon days, and it Is expected that during the coming nun son the regular limo will be reduced to nine days, and that morn than half the coast travel will talco this route, Instead of the long, Wiliam Journey of twenty-two to twenty-four days by non, Tho inter vetting stop trip between the two ends of tiro Pacific Railroad lino will be but a ro mantic holiday excursion, and wo hays no doubt that the prison or traffic, in that di rection this your will bu a tall earnest of the 1132111011H0 business that must follow t h e completion of the work perhaps two year% later. Tho Union Pm Ilse Railroad Is espocially fortunate In many ways. It In true that, unlike any other lino, It will boa monopoly. but nothing loss than a monopoly. could have commanded the largo resouroesnecos nary to carry it through, and as it wan,—all. but a fow far•aooing capitalists declined tc. stake their fortunes on the result. . . . The stockholdors have already paid lit eight millionn live hundred thousand dol lar; upon the capitol atonk on the work already done, and thin num and the gov ernment aid, and their own First Mortgage Bond., have given them ample moans for the most vigorous prosecution of thole groat undertaking. We can perceive no 11/101011 to doubt that title greatext of modorn worka will go on an vigorously an It has boon bo gun, and that 1870 will ace the two laden of the ltepublio for the first time really united, to be,—let us hope, forever inseparable. A Meiling() From Gineral Grant General rirant on Tuesday sent his first message to the Con groat; of the Hui sod States. Hitherto there has boon a prejudice against Congress receiving messages relating to the administration of the government from any but the President of the United States. Usage. moreover, has given a color of right to dela prejudice ; in fact, both usage and prejudice originated in a foolish regard people hacl for that old-fashioned piece of political thrill nituro, the Constitution: But we are grow ing too great to be controlled by trifles.— Congress can make all the lawn we want; then why care for a Constitution? Con gress, moreover, can pass a law Motive Into the hands of a man who is not President all the President's duties; and thus the people may bo spared the trouble of Presi dent making. This would be economy.—. As Congress actually has such a law before it, and as General Grant lass already taken upon his shoulders the President's duties, and sends his messages to Congress, utterly ignoring the President's existence, it is clear that there will not much longer be occasion for Mr. Johnson to stay In Washington.— Ho may go to Tennessee. Whata parcel of old ninnies the founders of the republic wore to bother their hands as they did about making a Constitution when a nation can got on so well without ono I Have we not Thad. Stevens and Boatwell and Bingham ? What is the use, then, of our listening any longer to Kent and Story and Hamilton? Let the 'people burn all that old trash.— N. Y. Herald. The sureessior of Bishop napkins. By the death of Blab op Hopkins, the place of presiding bishop in the Protestant Epis. copal Church of the United States now Itle longs to the Right Reverend BeloyambE Boa worth Smith, D. D., of Kentucky. Both ha and Bishop Mt:divans°, of Ohio, were oon., secreted at tho same time with Bialsop.Hop; king, October Si, 1832; but the Cooseorati9P ofßishop Smith was second la theserikkao the occasion, and he is consequently next i the order of hie succession. He reiddia' Frankfort in Kentucky. He be a ratthie' Rhode.laland, having been born LW Briattd in 1734; Ind aduated at Brown Unilreriaty in the clam o f 1818., He studleatheology with Bishop Grbswold, who t o to Bristol, anti Wm ordehleditig Its , l,g and presbyter in - 1813. He ma" i(or, years settled in Middlebury t yt, wards Vir&ia, whence he Kentucky. Be is a man ofgriat )1. of chanmter, and belongs to, the calor Low Arm% party.—AMr. • t.,44«
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