11111101221====M - ova twzr-/z7;. - u gasiit'''liti*Oiii..•"::, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1888 To the Doniof the My . an,dt Ooaup In pursuance of authority given the un dersigned, at a meeting of the County Com mittee, held on SercrenAv, Jitnualy '2stli, You are requested teassembletntheseVeral Wards of the city of Lancaster and borough of Columbia, and lin 1 the several, Election iMetricta of the county, on SATEEDAY, the 15th day of Famirrerrr, 1858; to' eliict not more than five delegates to represent such Ward or Eistricein a general County Con vention, tobe heldon WEDNESDAY, tho day of FE.BRITAIGY, at 11 o'clock A. M., at Fallon Hall, in the city of Lancaster, for the purpose of electing six delegates to rep resent the Democracy of the county of Lan caster in the State Convention, to beheld at Farrieburg on WEDNESDAY, the 4th day of MARCH, 1858. Each District will nominate one person to serve as a member of the County Commit tee for the ensuing political year, and will also elect a President and Secretary of the District organization, by whom an Execu tive Committee-of one in each sub-division will be appointed as soon as possible. These names should be placed upon the credentials of the delegates to the County Convention. The most active and efficient man should be chosen. A. J. STEINMAN, Cbairrnan B. J. MCGRANN, Secretary. Lancaster, January 28, 1888. TEMPORARY CLUB BATES Believing that in the pending all Impor tant political contest no agency can equal the newspaper press in efficiency, and be ing impressed with a conviction of the ne cessity of extending more widely the circu lation of sound Democratic journals, we have concluded to offer the WEEKLY IN TELLICIENCEIL to now subsaribers, for a limited period, at the following greatly reduced rates: 6 copies, 1 year 10 " " " 20 " 3 0 1111 AI til An oxtra copy will be sent with every club of 20 or 30. Each club must be ad dressed to one post office. THE WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER IS THE LARGEST AND CHEAPEST DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL PUBLISHED IN PENNSYLVANIA. The rapid increase In its circulation dur ing the past year shows that It is properly appreciated by the people. We ask:every ono of our readers to make un effort to add to our list. In no way can they do more to further the spread of political truth, or to combat error. Let there be an organized effort made to get op clube. The terms which we offer are MO very low that we do not nroposo to make thorn per manent. The arrangement will only be temporary one, and will nut be extended beyond the first day of next April. Each subscriber will find his name and the date at which his subscription expires printed on the paper. Our terms are (.Itona IN ADVANCE. Money can be sent by mail from any par of the county at our risk. Parties at a die lance should send checks or post otllce or dorsi Single copies $2 a year, in advance . . Advertisements inserted at reasonable rates. IT is reported from Atlanta that Gen. Meade has asked to be relieved of his commaud. THE President has nominated It. 1{ Kerr to be Marshal of the Western Die trlet of Pennsylvania. BEATY'S majority in the Eighth Ohio District is now whittled down to 700, with a chance of being reduced still lower by the official count.- Not much to encourage Radicalism in that. T.nr. bill repealing the cotton tax has been sent to the President and only awaits his signature to become n law. The Internal duty is not only removed, but the import duty on foreign cotton also. THE 'Republloari State ticket of Louisiana Is composed of a white ad venturer for Governor, a very black ne gro for Lieutenant Governor, and a mulatto for State Treasurer. That ticket Is admitted to be loyal. Thulium WEEu says the pending measures of Congress to wipe out all vestige of civil authority In the South will accomplish two objects, vii: " In augurate negro supremacy at the South and overthrow Radical supremacy In the North." Tun presentation of the resolutions of the Ohio Legislature, rescinding the assent of that State to the constitutional amendment, created quite u breeze in Congress on Friday. Sherman de nounced them in au excited strain, and asserted that Ohlo would vote for negro suffrage next fall. HORACE GREELEY said at a meeting of the Congressional Temperance So ciety, that "more men lost their lives during the war on account of drunken officers in command than were lost by rebel bullets." Heracelms been saying some rather severe timings of Gen. Grunt lately. THE Mississippi Convention spent half a day discussing a motion to expel all reporters who did not prefix Mr. to the names of the negro members. The excitement among the sables was In tense, but the motion was finally laid ou the table. COMMODORE VANDERBILT t of New York, withdraws from the Cooper In stitute movement which nominated Grant. The reason assigned by tho Commodore is Grant's action in the .Stanton affair, and abundantly good reason it is. GEARY has Just pardoned a batch of four criminals who were convicted of different crimes at the late session of the Clearfield county court. Had'nt he better Issue a general amnesty procla mation to all the scoundrels in the Commonwealth at once. It would be only a slight stretch of the system of granting previous pardons, on which he has so repeatedly practiced, In the face of his own declarations. BENJAMIN WHITMAN, Esq., hits been appointed Senatorial delegate from Erie county, and Capt. D. W. Hutchinson and W. W. Lyle representative dele gates to the coming Democratic State Convention. Mr. Whitman is editor of the Erie Observer, ono of the ablest papers In the State, and served an ap prenticeship in the IN.TELLMENCER office. IT Is said the Radicals lu the Senate Intend to confirm Sunset Cox as Min ister to Austria, in order to get him out of the country during the coming Pres idential contest. Cox's telling speeches have done them considerable damage In the past, and they will pay him a very high compliment by thus getting rid of him for awhile THE next electioniwill be that which is to come off in Alabama. As a large portion of the whites are disfranchised, and those who are not decline to vote, the Radicals expect a grand triumph. Forney's Prate is jttbilant over the pros pect, but says it will not make a parade of chicken cocks and such things. We would suggest that it illuminate its columns with the picture of a plantation negro with a ballot in his hand, having the out of a broadaxe on the back. That would be appropriate and suggestive. A CHIEF JUSTICE and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Wis consin are to be elected in April to fill vacancies on the bench, and both pir ties are preparing for a vigorous and ac tive canvass. The incumbents whose Beate will be vacant are Chief Justice L. S. Dixon and Associate Justice Byron Payne. The Democratic State Conven tion of Wisconsin will be held at Madi son on thel9th of February to nominate a candidate for Chief Justice and a can didate for Justice of the'Supreme Court ; aleo, to appoint delegates to the National state Convention," and nominate elea .tein fm• President 'and. YioerPreeident. How the People Have Impoverlalted the - People._ _ . , ; No one *Io ever read Helper ' s "Im pending Ch#o, l ' iilipek *bleb lAgnituch' to excite the gitkivinilaratllositYtte te tunt tween the two editions, y72lorget*p description of thiYentire e nden of the Southllport* m a . -Of. the North . Hie " sketch e a tlolitherit planter's establishment was very graphic. In the morning he rose from a bed, the mahogany woodwork of which had been shipped from the South in the 10g,,t0 .be.csryed and fashioned in some . Noit4iii eabinet.inaker's shop. The mattress was of northern make ; the ootton'elfeefs may have . grown on , his own plantation, but the material was spun and woven in a northern ' mill. .As he stepped out of bed he thrust his feet into a pair of slippers of northern make, walked across a northern carpet to a wash stand of northern fashioning or plunged into a bath fabricated in the North, using soap, toothbrushand other tolletdevices which had paid theirtribute to Northern pockets. Clad in garments from a Northern tailor's shop, he went to breakfast to make his morning meal in a room which was filled with articles purchased in the North. The bread he ate was frequently made of wheat grown in the South, but ground in Northern mills and shipped back again. Break fast over, he rode out on a Northern saddle to look at his slaves cultivating cotton with implements from some 'Northern manufactory. The shoes the negroes wore and even the cotton clothes upon their backs were all made in the North. ;fin short, you could scarcely find an article in the entire South which had not helped in some way to enrich the merchants and manufacturers of the North. The planters and the people of the South in general were most liberal buyers. They never stinted them selves, and never haggled about prices. The wholelndustry of that wonderfully productive region was devoted to the growth of the great staples which were sold In bulk. Northern energy and Northern capital furnished the means of transportation, and the commerce and manufactures of the Union were almost exclusively in Northern bands. The South was so rich in its agricul tural resources that her people could not be induced to engage In any other enterprise. From year to year some of the more sagacious among the Southern leaders endeavored to turn the capital and industry of their section at least partially in other directions, and lines of steamers to Europe were project ed and manufactories talked about, but little advance was made. So long as they enjoyed almost a complete mono poly of the cotton and tobacco markets of the world, and furnished the sugar and rice consumed in this country with a large surplus for export, the people of the South were satisfied with the con dition of their affairs. Even their sec tional pride could not induce them to turn aside from the easy and pleasant path in which they had learned to walk, and the North was permitted to enjoy a monopoly of the commerce and the manufacturing of the continent. The partnership business which was thus conducted by the two sections of the United States, was one which gave to us the most unexampled material prosperity. The South furnished the great bulk of the exports which paid for the importations and kept the balance of trade almost oven. The disparity between the two sections in this respect was absolutely startling. The North never furnished from its own resources one-fourth of the exports of the country. The South seemed to be greatly depend ent upon us, but the dependence in reality was mutual, and we had no advantage over which we could safely boast. Wo aro beginning to find out how necessary - to our material interests the former indusry of the South was. During the war we enjoyed a season of seeming prosperity. With a couple of million of men withdrawn from pro duction, those who remained at home never wanted work. While the Gov ernment was spending three millions of dollars a day, paper money was plenty and wages were high. Our manufacturers were all busily employed lu producing wares to be worn out and destroyed by the waste of war, but they seemed to be just as well contented as if their products were intended for more peaceful and permanently useful purposes. The North reveled In appar ent wealth, and the foolish boast that we were more prosperous than we had ever been when connected with the South was constantly heard from the lips of Radical speakers. The people forgot the old and well established rules of political economy, and were silly enough to believe the blatant bankers and interested demagogues who told them that a National debt was a Na tional blessing. It did not take very long for the coun try to waste up to the reality of its situa tion. When the war was over and the negro free, the millennium which had been promised did not come. It could not be expected that the South would be as prosperous as It had been. With the best possible management, it would have taken years to adjust the industry of that section to the new order of af fairs. The experience of the world has shown that the negro is fond of idle ness. Wherever found he only labors from compulsion. So long as he can manage to exist without working he will resort to every possible shift to avoid It• Had the slaves of the South been left to the control of the people Of that section, after being emancipated, the beet results possible under the circumstances would have been witnessed. Their former owners would have made such terms with them as would have led to at least a moderato revival of their former pros. perity, and instead of being fed and clothed at the expense of the North the negroes would now have been adding to the wealth of thenation. The moment the Freedmen's Bureau was established the mischief began, and when Congress undertook to place ten States under the domination of hordes of black barbari ans, not only was the industry of the South completely prostrated, but a blow was given to all the material interests of the North from which they will not soon recover. The distress now prevailing through. out the country Is the direct and legiti mate effect of the suicidal policy pur sued by the Radicals In Congress. Our manufactories are idle because there is no market in the South for their wares; our commerce has not begun to recover from the blows inflicted on it during the war, and the American flag is still a stranger on the ocean ; all branches of trade are suffering without any rea sonable prospect of a revival of bust nese ; hundreds of thousands of North ern working men are out of employment, with no likelihood of seeing better times so long as the Radical party continues in power; the fertile fields of the South lie waste while negroes jabber in political conventions; our former unexampled prosperity is gone, never to return until wiser counsels prevail at Washington. Let the Northern masses contrast the present condition of this country with its former state of productiveness and peaceful prosperity, let the laboring men examine into the true cause of the distress which prevails, let each voter quietly sit down and compute the weight of the burthens which the Radicals are laying on the backs of a people already borne down by the cost of a war which has so far utterly failed to restore the Union. If that is intelli gently done, the defeat of the corrupt party now in power will be perfectly overwhelming at the coming elections. Not only will a conservative President be elected, but there' will he a ma jority of conservatives in thq Lower House of Congress, and members of the State Legislatures will be chosen with especial reference to the election often aeEvative men to the United States li tallat we Lure eve of*lfeh Torevoliipon p firthly believe. doUht it would tedonbitithe tpaco of thepbophi Of thiß cop try mange trOt - P 42l 9 l eWatraizepirtth. even ordinary sagacity., The General Judiciary Committee of the State Senate have been evAminiug Into the power of the Legislature to control the railroad corporations of the State, by direct legislation in the sub- JoOt Ottikelt ollargea for passerritera.and. freig4tt.Testimony as, -.taken and a report -made; in' , pursuance of a resolution passed at the laet session. The report *de is brief,' but the testi mony covers over two hundred ..pages. There are defects in the managerrientof some of our rains& which need correction. Discrimination in favor of large shippers • and againit ship pers of small amounts prevails on some of our railroads and canals, but not on all of them. The Senate Com mittee say very truly that the charges on freights should be the same to all between the same points, inasmuch as such charges constitute a large part of . the cost of prominent articles of produce and merchandize. To make discrimi nations in favor of large dealers has a tendency to build up monopolies, and to drive from the market men of mod erate means. Such a course is anti republican in its tendencies, and ought not to be tolerated at the hands of com mon carriers. The committee recom. mend that all such discrimination be prohibited. The Committee refer to the evil exist ing on some roads, the Cumberland Valley particularly, of allowing the agents of the company' to engage in business on their own account, and ex tending to them facilities which are withheld from the general public. Legislation is recommended to prevent the continuance of such evils. The charges on local freights have been a cause of serious complaint throughout the State, and it has been regarded as a matter of hardship and injustice that our own citizens are forced to give, higher rates than the through shippers' of the West. It has been urged that no such burthen should be thrown upon the shippers of local freight, On ex amination of the charters granted prior to 1849, the Committee find the Direc tors of different roads clothed with power to fix a maximum rate of freight, even higher than that now actually charged, and it is thought this power cannot be taken from them without an infringement of their Charters. So long as they keep within the maximum it is a question for the Courts to decide whether the people can have redress, provided they do not transcend their Charter limits in other respects. The case is thus illustrated: A barrel of flour is shipped from Chicago to Phil adelphia for one dollar, of which the Pennsylvania Railroad Company gets 44 cents, and thePittsburg,Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Company gets 66 i cents, pro rata. A Pittsburg miller, shipping a barrel of flour to Philadel- I phis, on the same train is charged sixty cents—a difference of sixteen cents against the Pittsburg miller. The same system prevails along the entire line, and home shippers complain that al though the road was built by home capi tal and enterprise, non-residents are served on better terms than they are. The managers of the road answer, that they aro doing the best they can—that If prohibited from competing for this through trade, oven at lower rates than they charge for local freights, a large source of income would be cut off, and that to make up the deficiency they would be compelled to charge higher rates for local freights than they do at present. The committee say, therefore, "they are not prepared to recommend the passage of an act which would result in driving the whole of this through trade out of the State to rival lines, and per haps, in thus ultimately increasing the existing charges for local freights." They refer the testimony to the Legis lature and, with the suggestions men tioned, leave the whole matter In their hands for such action as may be deemed ust in the premises. The Virtuous Nine When the nine refractory Republican members, who delayed the organization of the Legislature for a week, refused to vote for the regular caucus nominee of their Radical brethren, they undertook to place themselves on high moral ground. With more than usual so lemnity they avowed that they were actuated solely by: a. detestation of the disreputable practices of the Legislature of last winter. They denounced Mr. Davis as corrupt and mercenary, as a leader of the "ring," and as an utterly unfit person to preside over the House. With a peculiarly solemn visage An drew Armstrong led off in one vote after another against the election of this leader in legislative iniquity. Day after day the fight was kept up, and still the sonor ous voice of our representative rang out In what seemed to be tones of virtu ous indignation. At last the whole thing ended in a manner which was calculated to induce suspicions that the gravest charges which !had been made against the bolters were all true. No one who read the manifesto which they put forth on finally voting for Davis, could help thinking that their boasts of greater purity were all a sham. This suspicion has been fully confirmed. Mr. Armstrong, at least, has clearly admitted that he was acting the arrant hypocrite all the time. A couple of days since he made an attempt to have two additional transcribing clerks appointed, and, when the motion met with opposition, he boldly declared that part of his bar gain with the supporters of Mr. Davis was that at least one additional clerk should be appointed, and that he, the virtuous and patriotic Armstrong, was to name the man. Here is an exhibi tion of unblushing rascality which is almost unexampled. That the Radical majority did promise Armstrong what he claims we suppose to be true, and that they now intend to cheat him out of the wages of his Iniquity we have just as little doubt. I It would puzzle the most subtle casu• let to distinguish between the degrees of rascality displayed by the two fac tious. The Davis party have the ad vantage of Armstrong in strength of numbers, but In corruption and base ness they are all on an equality. A significant fact in connection with this matter was the appointment of Arm strong as a member of the newly con stituted Committee on Retrenchment and Reform. He has shown his fitness for the position by urging the appoint ment of two Clerks, for whom there is no earthly use, and who would have no duty to discharge except • draw their pay. THE Congressional Committee on Appropriations have provided for the payment of one million two hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars for the public printing of the government. This is a snug sum, and it will be In teresting to know for what It is expend ed and who are the lucky fellows who are to finger it. It is altogether a big thing in view of the loud mouthings now indulged in concerning "retrench ment and reform." THE Freedmen's Bureau expires by. law in July, but the Special Committee in the House have agreed to report a bill for continuing it for another year. The Radicals expect to need it to control the neg roes at the conskriK ?residential elec. tion, and they are .pfeparing to-spend a few millio'nh of the;Money - wring from the taxpayers of the; isroith for that iiur- t'..; kl Hyenas. 3 for Investigation. Grant's Drunkenness. ' 4 4 To their eternal • • •-• iin Congress raised al' So a dishonest Republican, who is P 4 , majority o l' Rs w ed eriogAinf thetP - %11 yl are k; oted nets :i Jol ;,... hikieterm tion Ft? ref I a othef clay o era o o . ~. ed to h ear the trtd,h _., told, has ld, on Ft ... talr hottericithntitt* Iles Su re ' attA t kad tOulinia' , Eldladelp - Pak, dinner tabl , . hat t her e , Ft ßom de ctid The m rii i ..: iti lz 4 I f a ' ° • hill pent the ' amisprit .Its were unclastittiti9mu. 1 agititig ,. 6 t b endell,c4. 12ttatt6 \ tbiftlintiet#s2 *is, was appolg t Odsto 1 4i0iii .- MI& e,..tva liiims max, or cause the remains otrebels .. •, and there was loud talk upon rumor? 'fs it oo t 111 peal; 1 up on win nottheeffeet Mit beexactiy in one corner of this last hment. It now turns out • th e ernes . the, pre di c t e d ey Th e p u g oi , to of the dead. The bones ty who started the report . is Ll,L=T i n°tlttr a r t° guided and erring men are laid to rest I was mistaken as to the identity of the I NoT yxr roe Grumx. apart from those of our own soldiers, I individual. The person who so spoke ' Friday' sana ""' 1861 To which the Post makes the fpllow. and neither me,ride slabincf ,moorgnenit - vvr?rop .lldge Yield, pnt4,prominent, ' g Unequivocal reply. • ' tal:•Pillar Marks' t-the -spa.- Nothing Demdenitie lid ti h. The' rt. u di- ' - "' ea ' , in lf tl . l charge that Gen gra nt has been but the ridge , of mother earth tOla ..... ylAugAwilacj,no j r ,,,,,, r idi cu lous j ab... imen drank ci..the„.amis,,o,washing,ton 'tileiirtliiy - rittai:' ifiiiirerriOr F i tiihin,, tvde,,defdre to back down, but the Con- were made merely upon a single rumor we of New , Ork,' trtert written to on. t h e. serrOtlifes . insist that " the committee aildra not' are nave ' 7 r th V . h ih i ' t ; s r , th t, ri samesubject,. replied in words otindig- shall proceed to investigate the matter. reach him from m any : M; ' and p rlusarthy nant scorn to those who'supposed him I - Had the Conservatives ' the pOwer to scmtemt• ThttintrOndew of this week te ns capable of extending , his animosity to control the CoMmittee, they could the unoffending dead. It remained for turn the movement to good account, his time." More than this, we have repeat runk. haft that narrow-minded creature, John. W.' Chief Justice Chase has devoted edgy and recently rerAdved similar informa 11.11eZna'teht37dert.Tratrir-deliberat:i Geary, to give to,the world a specUtele , himself . principally to polities ever eu:42Plantrocrretthritr , hitt 4 ,)::l of such unexampled littleness of soul since he has been on the bench. publicly intoxicated, With Mr. Phillips and malignity of nature, Governor ,He has not hesitated to express his w ße T v ea ea n o c r il r e mtQl‘,7fetZ'n°w nothin go,,,,i oar selves truly said, " the hostility of the 1 opinion on the subject of the constitu- the question is not one of personal se r knowl generous and heroic ends with death." , tionallty of the reconstruction acts, and ed . ge , but of public report. It is only the ignoble and the deeply lon other questions which will no doubt ml`dia.fa,:,!' so oftenh ri s t hiet, repea t ed, earg been depraved who are prepared to descend, be brought before the Supreme Court so many melts believers, that it amounts with the brutal instincts of the hyena, for adjudication. If itis right for Judge now to a deliberate accusation, which the . to the grave to gratify instincts so brutal 1 Chase to affirm in advance that a certain rzetiPigtpaZGZemattGer solely l o x il the that they cannot be regarded as hn- act of Congress 1s constitutional, by high ground that the people have a right to man. We were glad to notice that sev- what logic can it be proven wrong for know whether a Presidential candidate is sober or i intemperate. baswe llg t i: , i l nc i i n t Matim,t eral manly Republicans, in spite of the any of his associates to express a con -ifused to ite to sustain trai " nninio , W - glad, ho'" iv Lblio,Senator Wile( - or? - ,Kellry Auty lash, rei vol ry opinion. , e are glad, however, Geary in his unmanly course. That that it has turned out that Judge wretched creature is no doubt influ- Field did not so far forget him enced in his action by a remembrance self as to make a question which is be of what occurred at the dedication of i fore the Supreme Court a subject of dis the Cemetery last summer, when with j cussion even in the comparative privacy that inordinate vanity for which he is of a dinner party. Let the odium of distinguished, he insisted upon inter- dragging the judicial ermine through rupting the solemn ceremonies of the 00- the filth and mire of partisan politics casion, by breaking in upon the pro- I attach to Chase, and to him alone. He gramme which bad been arranged is the first Judge of the Supreme Court with one of his silly speeches. He, and so to disgrace that high position, and those who supported him in the Legie- we hope he may be the last. He never lature, resemble the hyena in brutality, ' occupied even a respectable position as a and we know no better name for them lawyer, and his practice and reading than that. were alike limited. He was and still is None of that, If Yon Please. A prominent Radical paper, profes sing to be.a religious organ, suggests that " we have a day of fasting and prayer to deprecate the Divine anger, in view of the present condition of our financial affairs." If the Radical preachers, who ' would bawl themselves hoarse on such 1 an occasion, could be Induced to tell I their hearers what is the real cause of our flnanolal,distress, the Idea would be a most excellent one. If they would , let it be known that the one great rea son why our trade is so dull, our mann- Negro Suffrage by Congressional Enact factories standing still, and our corn- ment. merce dying, Is that the South is kept Thad. Stevens' bill for forcing negro out of the Union and all her industry suffrage upon the North by Congres paralyzed, they could do a deal of good. ! sional enactment is fully endorsed by But not one of these political preachers the Republican Phu. The Morning would do any such thing. On the con- Poet, the ablest paper of its party in tufty, they would only stir up the old ' Philadelphia, says : fires of hatred and by exalting expiring "Mr. Stevens' bill giving the right of a vio l ti n nL o in nu a l ll P u re i s t i o d n e s ntis i l elections and in animosities between the two sections iso a e s v t e e ry citizen, forua r d give the country a new shove toward without regard questions, political perdition, and the ultimate 'We do not want Congress to abandon ' its g i n o 7 th. to p t it a st d a i t /fr m ang e i rs se a d sie tiz a e o n s universal bankruptcy which is sure to i o c f o i t o h r e come, if the Radicals are permitted to ' ed man has Just as much right to vote in carry out their suicidal policy. Under Philadelphia for President or Congressmen i m t s much, colored el least, r s r t i ,, a ( n 2 o b n a g s r e l n ss N h e u , .: O t f i l e e agi i; B at . such circumstances we should regard the appointment of a day of fasting and clonal power to give him, let State laws be prayer for such a purpose as a national what they may. calamity. It would send gold up to, the Congress may hesitate to pass the bill Lord only knows what extravagant at the present session, but it can only be figure. None of that sort of thing, if prevented from being eventually enact you please, gentlemen. ed by the defeat of the Radical party at the coming election. If they should suc- The March of Despotism The Radicals seem to be ready to jority of Congress could pass it, and it throw off the last disguise. They open- would be in no danger of being vetoed. ly avow their determination to sip the Let the people of the North remember very foundations of our Government, that. and to change it so that It can no longer No Step Backward. be recognized as a Republic. The Phila. The Radicals in Congress boast that dolphin Poet says "the new reconetruc' they will " take no step backward," on Lion bill reduces the President to a mere I the negro, policy/ and their brethren in nullity." So It unquestionably does. It Pennsylvania Legislature seem to be makes General Grant absolute Dictator, actuated by the same feeling. The other with the most unlimited powers over day a Democrat introduced a bill into one-half the country, and transfers all the the lower House for repealing the authority over the remaining por- law which gives negroes superior privi tion to Congress. The Supreme Court loges in the railroad cars, but it was at is to be deprived of all jurisdiction, and , once thrust aside by a strict party vote, all the safeguards and checks upon ab- the Radical majority voting in solid solute power are to be removed. If the' phalanx to continue the rights of the American people submit to these high- negroes to go into what car they chose handed usurpations, they ma y aki well and to occupy such seats as are most to at once bid a long farewell to a Repub. their liking. The lesson of last fall will limn form of Government. The shadow have to be repeated with greater em may remain fora while, but all the sub- phasis at coming elections before these stance and vitality of our former free fanatics who lead the Republican party Government will have departed, perhaps will learn to heed the wishes of the never to return. We stand on the brink white men of Pennsylvania. of political ruin, and the Integrity of the Republic and the liberties of the The Beading Daily Gazette. people can only be saved by a grand up- We have received a sample number rising of the Northern masses at the of the Reading Daily Gazette. It pre coming Presidential election. We be- sante a very neat appearance, is a good Hove we shall see that, and we are, sized paper, opens out with well written therefore, not yet without hope. and appropriate editorial matter, has a full and lively record of local affairs, and shows well in all respects. We hope Reading will be found to be able and willing to support two such Demo cratic daily papers as the Gazette and the Eagle, whose appearance we no ticed a few days since. They both de serve to be sustained. Alfred Sander son, Esq., one of our former partners In the INTELLIGENCER, is connected with the Gazette. He had considerable ex, parlance In this office, which whl no doubt be of value to him in his present position. Hon. J. L. Getz, the propri etor, represents old Berke In Congress. Rewarding a Murderer. Wm. J. Ovens, a miserable, drunken, rowdy rumseller of Philadelphia, shot and killed Col. William Riddle some months since. We saw nothing in the affair at the time it occurred to indicate that it was anything else than unpro voked and unmitigated murder. He is now on trial for his crime In Phila delphia, but the most remarkable thing is that he was chosen as an officer in the Legislature by the Republican ma jority, and now holds that position. At the time he shot Colonel Riddle he also held the office of assessor for one of the Wards of Philadelphia, and his victim had gone to him In a peaceable manner to see about a matter of business. The men who elect ed him to fill an official position in the Legislature knew all about his former character and conduct, and they sup ported him with open eyes. What a commentary this is on the " God and morality party ;" even murder seems not to disqualify a man for holding office in it, but rather to entitle him to a re ward. A Logical Radical Old Thad is a logical Radical. We are not absolutely sure that he is honest In anything, but we do know that he is logical and bold. He knows and feels that his party can never succeed in forcing negro suffrage upon the South by Congressional enactment, without submitting to the same condition throughout the North. The bill which he has introduced coo be as lawfully applied to Pennsylvania as the recon struction acts can bo to South Carolina. One is no more a 'violation of the Con stitution than the other. Let him push It to a vote, in order that we may see whether his Radical brethren wail go to a logical conclusion with him. If they do not, the old man will have another opportunity to predict with certainty that such a cowardly party will again meet with a coward's defeat. The Lobby of Washington. The notorious "lobby of Washing ton " has been having a very quiet and it is said an exceedingly profitable time during the present winter. Numberless plundering schemes are before Congress, and the business of "snaking them through" is said to be going on to the entire satisfaction of those who are in terested. The people have no idea of the extent to which oorruption prevails at Washington. If the whole truth could be known, even the Pennsylva nia Legislature would not seem to oc cupy such a marked distinction for baseness. Its comparatively pe,tty plundering under "loYal" manipula tion would be thrown into the shade by the 'greater villainy of the Radlcal Rump Congress. Meantime the tax paYers bleed forit all. .TH.E bill restoring the charter of the Conneliaville Railroad has passed both Houses of the Legislature, been signed by the Governor, and is now a law. The Completion of this road will open up communication with a section of this State which has long been deprived of any facilities for, proper development. We are glad, no iestriotion upon this needed imprdtrement any longer exists. nothing but a bitter partisan politician, and his appointment as Chief Justice was one of the gravest errors of Mr. Lincoln's life. He has shown a com plete want of fitness to occupy his present position In many ways, and if the committee which was appointed to investigate the baseless rumor about Judge Field would take Chase in band, they could find plenty of good reasons for impeaching and removing him. Let them proceed to the discharge of their duty. ceed in electing a President a bare ma- The Reading Daily Eagle We cordially welcome to our exchange list the Reading Daily Eagle, a new Democratic paperjust started by Messrs. Ritter & Hawley. It is an offshoot of that well•known and prosperous Ger man paper, the Adler. The Eagle is a very handsome little sheet, presenting an extremely neat typographical ap pearance, and starts with a fair adver tising patronage. J. Warren Conrad, Esq., for some time past employed on the Pottsville Standard, has been en• gaged as editor. The first number of the Eagle is calculated to make a very favorable impression, and we have no doubt it will prove to be a complete success, both politically and pecuniarily. Its managers have our best wishes. Tax• Payers, Look at This. In the District of Columbia over two thousand able-bodied negro men are supported by the Freedmen's Bureau, at the expense of the tax-payers of the North. General Howard has been making efforts to ilnd employment for them In other sections, but the Radical politicians insist upon their remaining to vote at the, coming municipal elec tions in Washington and Georgetown, and the lazy suffragans are perfectly content to be supported in Idleness un til the time comes for them to do the voting. We ask the tax-payers of Penn sylvania to look at this matter, and to remember that a similar state of affairs exists throughout the South. IN the debate on the new reconstruc tion monstrosity, which has been going on in the Senate for some days the Radicals have been completely worsted. The great speech of Senator Doolittle remains unanswered, and that of Rev erdy Johnson is equally as unanswera ble. The line of argutrient which will prevail in the pending greeldential contest is foreshadowed in this war of words in the Senate Chamber, and there is no doubt about which side will con vince the reason of thoughtful men and and appeal with moving power to the sympathies of the masses. The Radi cals cannot present their policy to the people of the North in any other than an odious aspect, and its repudiation is absolutely certain. THE Democratic Watchman says: Of the three principal witnesses had to testify in the Shugart—Patterson election case, one of them, a dozen of men from this place will swear they would not believe on his oath under any circumstances, an other was kept out of the Western. Peni tentiary forforgery, by his father swearing that he was crazy, and the other was saved imprisonment for embezzling money be longing to the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, by a Remotest paying up mouecations, and trusting him for th in public, Senator -1011, onindge _ _ or Mr. Washburne—gentlemen who want him to be the next President—should put an end to the calumny. They cannot continue to treat these rumors as mere idle tattle, for they must be aware that silence will in crease the uneasiness of the public, and in jure the political fortunes of their candidate. We feel it to be our duty to call the attention of the Express to this matter. It professes to be the Temperance organ of Lancaster county, and one of its pro prietors is always active in every move ment which is made by that organiza tion. These charges against the man the Ezprees has been favoring as a Pres idential candidate come in such a shape that they cannot be denied or ignored. What has the Express to say in regard to the matter? We have no doubt the Temperance men of this county are anxiously waiting to hear the voice of their organ. Let it speak out. It has repeatedly heaped abuse upon President Johnson because he was not temperate at all times. Does it intend to continue to support for President a man whose failings in that respect have been and still are infinitely grosser than those of Andrew Johnson ever were? Grant's Duplicity As to General Grant's participation in what must now be regarded as the Stan ton fizzle, facts accumulate which fix fully upon the General the previous charges of his treachery to the Presi dent. The name of Secretary Brown ing is now given as the secretary who took a full record of Grant's statements in the Cabinet meeting which the Gen eral attended immediately after he sur rendered his trust to Stanton, and it is now stated that in addition the Presi dent, Secretaries McCulloch and Welles, and Postmaster General Randall, unite in and are ready to subscribe to-day to the following allegations: First.—That General Grant himself ac knowledged in their united presence, the day after he quitted the War Department, that he had promised on the previous Satu rday either to retain the office or to tender his resignation in time to enable the Presi dent to appoint his successor. Second.—That General Grant admitted that he had assured the President Saturday that he would see him on Monday, and fulfill the aforesaid promise. Third. That General Grant tried to ex cuse himself for the non-fulfillment of these obligations by saying that he had been "looking over the law; that he was very much engaged with General Sherman and many little matters." Fourth. That the President instantly re minded General Grant that the law had been sufficiently discussed between them on Saturday, when General Grant made his promise; and Fifth, That General Grant's other ex cuses were much confused and "had in them no intelligibility." Gen. Grant is In tact described as having, alter these essays on Tuesday, the 14th, to explain away his tergiversation, retired from the apartment where Mr. Johnson and his Ministers were sitting, in an embar rassed and undignified manner, which re vealed his keen appreciation of the strait in which he had put himself. It is with a good deal of reluctance that the World corres pondent enforces the power of all this evi dence by adding that one Cabinet officer is reported to have branded the the General as a "liar" and a "sneak." Grant's Unsteady Habits. We give below a couple of extracts from prominent Radical papers in rela- tion to General Grant's unsteady habits. It will be seen that the charges are made with that circumstantial minuteness of detail which leaves no room to doubt their entire truthfulness. When such allegations are openly made by the more conscientious Radical organs there can be no doubt . of their ability to prove the truth of what they charge. Read the following : A Covert Thrust by Theodore Tilton— A Presidential Candidate Fuddled in the Streets. [From the Independent, January 29.1 Under the roof of the Capitol there is now very little intemperance, whether among Democrats or Republicans. Occa sionally a Presidential candidate is seenfud died in the streets; but as this happens only on a Sunday, it cannot be said to interfere with public business, and does not striking • ly challenge public attention. Resides, if a Vice President is drunk with a view to hie inauguration, what shall restrain a Presi dential candidate from a little tipsiness with a view to his nomination f One glass of wine poured down the throat of the next Presi dent of the United States, and making a hell in his blood, may give this whole nation the delerium tremens. We suggest a pro hibitory law to take effect on nominating conventions, and a temperance pledge to be signed by their nominees. A Word from the Woman's Rights Or gan—Grant Reported Drunk Half the From the Revolution, January 29. The talk Is that a Cabinet officer called General Grant a "liar" and a " sneak ;" that General Grant is drunk half the time, and has been seen steadying himself on an other's arm in Pennsylvania Avenue; that Stanton and Washburn have hum bugged him, and that he feels hts degradation, and don't look anybody In the face. The talk la that Jay Cook goes in for killing General Grant and nominating Chase; that Chase don't get drunk, Is a moral man, and liberal to loan agents and national bank men. The talk is that the people are sick of all politicians; that they don't see their temperance or mor ality in Washington ; that they want a fresh deal now. Batter Attorillyooes The Washington correspondent of the NI Y. Herald says : Talking of Grant, the stories of the Anti. Slavery Siaudard and New York Indepen dent about his social habits and certain al leged "unsteady" exhibition/ft the public streets, have occasioned quite a noise here. The same subject had been talked of some weeks ago privately, but its introduction into print has startled the Washington community. lam informed that Ben But ler is on tho Warpath again, and that ho is actually engaged in gathering allidayits relative to Grant's before mentioned alleged "unsteady exhibitions." This bottled up general will insist upon being uncorked at no distant day, and there will be a great explosion when that event takes place. Won't it be tunny and won't somebody be hurt. THAT virtuous legislator, Andrew Armstrong, has been making a speech in defense of Geary's proposition to barrow up the graves of a few rebel dead who are bUried in an obscure cor ner of the Antietam Cemetery. That is Just the kind of loyalty which might be expected from amen who, while a mem ber of the Committee on Retrenchment and Reform, gravely proposed ,to ap point two clerks for, whom there was no use, and to pay them a big salary, al leging at the same time that there was a bargain with the Davis men that he was to have the naming of one of these sinecure clerks, We wonder whether the immaculate Andrew was to get part of the salary ? Connecticut The gallant Democracy of Connecti cut are again in the field fully organized for the achievement :of another great victory. They renominated the entire State ticket which was elected last year. Notwithstanding a terrible . ,snow storm prevailed,the convention was one of the largest and most enthusiastic ever as sembled-in the State. The resolutions adopted are eminently sound and na tional, and the platform and candidates will both unquestionably be endorsed by the people. Extravagance In .z . ta;a"Elature. • How thebbaL • entot . limes, Harris.— • some orfle ; of majority iikthe t : pityelikLegislature ifl4 ne e ..awittilimtp the eyes of the .x-pii,yers. 'tet theuViread the following statement of the ' reckless manner in which many thousands of dollars of the public money are being ' recklessly squandered, and then let them decide for themselves whether they will continue to support a party whichisao thoroughly °unapt:, In my yesterday's letter L referred , to. the subject of Retrenchment :and itefordi;" which is beginning to' attract some atten tion here. I also stated, in a former letter, that a. resolution was adopted directing the Clerk to inform the House ante the number of efficerer now eraploy_ed..which resoln dea was offered by fir. (Dern.;) of Phila . ., and adopted by the Democrats with aidof asufticientnumber ofßepublicans to constitute a majority: When the Clerk came to make up the list, it was evident that it would be pronounced simply outra geous by ninty-nine hundredths of the tax payers of the State: I did all inamV power to ascertain in advance of the Clerk's state went, how many there are, but could. only succeed in getting the number employed ae "pastern and folders," and this figure is truly startling, there being now no less than thirty-eight able-bodied men an the list, who, at lest year's rate of compensation (about $BOO average,) will amount to over thirty thousand dollars, for doing the work of folding, wrapping and patting up about 4,000 copies of public documents daily. I know that responsible parties would be glad to do all this work by contract for $3,000, and yet $.30,000 is taken out of the Treasury for,this petty item alone. Last 3'ear the a ara required topay these pastors and folders was $20,600 , (see Auditor General's Report, page 112.) The amount paid the officers of the Sen ate, last session, Including passes, was $32,- 671. Although, in 1866, the Capitol exten sion was put up and everything in and about the senate Chamber newly furnished, painted and repaired, we find that last year there was paid, for furniture, material and labor furnished Senate Chamber, tho sum of $2,040 75. George Bergner's stationery bill, for the Senate, amounts to $3,522 17, being at the rate of a little over a dollar a day for each Senator, although the law allows each mem ber (r 2.5 for stationery during the session. But the House account is the interesting one. Sixty-four thousand, three hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty cents, (04,396.80), were paid to the officers of the • House, during the session of 1867. The postage bill amounted to $15,463.40. The contingent expenses of the House, includ ing $4,203 paid to George Bergner for sta tionery, Pardon's Digest, et:c., amounts to $23,689.00. Among other Items of interest Is ono of $782.10 paid A. NV,Benedict for services as "assistant fireman," and I have a very good authority for saying that Mr. B. did not serve in the capacity of " assistant fire man" or in any other way, for a single day —that no one knew of such au " assistant fireman" as A. W. Benedict, anthills name was certified as such and paid by the State Treasurer upon the certificate. Among the pesters and folders is Wm. P. Small, who received a salary of nearly $BOO for doing —nobody knows what. Ho certainly did not serve in the folding room at all. The items of painting the Senate Chain her and Hall of the House, one coat of paint, and the whole Job not more than two weeks work for about three or four painters, amounts $2,305. For this sum, the :cost of painting the wood work of the two cham bers, one coat, which is very little, a large and comfortable brick dwelling house can be erected. And it is a singular coinci dence, that there is only five dollars differ ence between Mr. Crulkshank's bill for painting the Hall of the House ; and that of Messrs. Fleming k Brown fur painting the Senate Chamber—the former being $1,150, and that of the latter $1,155. Mr. Bergner appears to be particularly favored. According to the Report of the Auditor General, his honest share of phblic patronage, for stationery, printing Record, "on account," (it is noteworthythat nearly all his big figures are "on account,") amounts to the very snug sum of $25,245 67. This does not include stationery furn ished the Executive Departments. The public buildings and grounds are also an Item of very great financial impor tance, as no less than $39,281 85 are " put through" Just to keep them—from running away—or in order. Still After the Stealing Scamps The Harrisburg correspondent of the Reading TimeB, which is not a Demo cratic paper we may say, Is keeping up the fire on the extravagant Radicals who compose the majority of the present Legislature. Ho gets off the following good hit in his last: I was considerably amused to-day on meeting an esteemed old friend from the northern part of the State, and formerly a member of tho house of Representatives, who, after shaking hands end exchanging a few wordel about our doings at the State capitol years ago, wanted to know what's going on—whether there's a convention go ing to meet in Harrisburg to-day, or, per haps a Grand Lodge or something of that sort. I told him that I didn't know, and asked why he thought so? Ho said thatthe large crowd about the capitol induced him to believe there must be something—that it almost reminded him of the time when Governor Shunk was inaugurated. Unable to see any " crowd " I said so, when he pointed to a large number of mon in and about the rotunda, and filling up the gal leries. It at once understood my friend, and told him that these wore some of the officers of the Legislature. " Officers l What do you moan —what kind of officers?" ho asked, and I explained to him as well as I could, and to give him a more perfect idea about the new state of things hero. I wanted him to go with me into the folding room where we seen about twenty men—all pesters and fol ders, of which number six were at work and fourteen sitting around looking on, each re ceiving about $B,OO per day. lam told by one of them, a very clover follow by the way, that they aro going to divide off into six sets of six each, and one; of these sets is to do the work ono day during the week. In this way each one will be able to say that he folded some documents, and that he was not appointed merely for the purpose of drawing money out of the Treasury. The astonishment of my friend can best be im agined, when he learned that now there aro ninety eight officers of the House of Repre sentatives, and that an additional number of Sergts-at-Arms are talked of, to keep the others in order! Forney on a Stealing Expedition. That John W. Forney left the Demo cratic party with the declaration that he intended to get rich is well known. With vulture like keenness he scented the plunder from afar. That he is mis erably corrupt is the generally received opinion, but the following letter to the New York Tribune shows up such a barefaced attempt at direct stealing as ought to Induce Senators to kick him out of the position he occupies without a moment's warning. They will do so if they have any respect for honesty, or any disposition to repress the most dis reputable plundering of the public treas ury. The following is the statement which appears in the Tribune: • To the Editor of The Tribune. Sin: As an officer of the Government in the employ of the post office, I feel bound to lay before yon the following statement of facts. Thernost impudent attempt at whole sale robbery of the Treasury is being made by The Chronicle newspaper of this city. It seems a law was passed in March, 1867, re quiring all Government advertisements of contracts, proposals, etc., to be published in two Washington papers, at u price not greater than that charged for individual advertising. Tho Postmaster General sent the usual circular to The Chronicle reques ting the publisher to advertise proposalsi for mail contracts in Maryland, provided it. could be done for $315. The Chroni cle published the advertisement and presented a bill for $1,500, which the Lion. H. .1. Anderson, Sixth Auditor, very properly refused to pay. Mr. For ney now appeals to the First Controller, but it is not probable that he will succeed in his application, for Mr. Taylor Is noted as a strict constructionist of all laws rela tive to the payment of money out of the Treasury, and be is too good a lawyer to be convinced against his mind by the eloquent Secretary of the Serrate. Mr. Forney was offered the advertisement.at a fixed price and he published it. The Auditor is at a loss to know by what law hce.oherges five times the contract price. The mischief threatens not to stop here, for I understand that D. C. Forney, publisher of the Chronicle, claims the right, under the law to publish any and all Government adver tisements, at his own option, for proposals, contracts, &c., all over the country, and to charge full rates for the same; and that ho has already commenced, without any order from the: Postmaster General, the aclver !gement of a list of Pennsylvania routes. This little game will of effectually stopped by a bill which has passed the House and will pass the Senate, to meet this particular emergency. Instances can be cited where advertisements for proposals for Quarter masters' stores have been published in the Chronicle only the day before the_proposals were to be opened at Santa Fe. They were taken from exchanges, and there is no doubt that the bill for them was presented. I am respectfully_ years, R. POST OFFICE DEPAIIMENT, WASITING TON, D. C., Jan. 29,1868, gore or the Pollards—Wes. P. Does a Llt • tle Shooting. BALTIMORE, Jan. 28.—Dr. A. G. Moore was shot by Mrs. E. A. Pollard at 10 o'clock to-day. Pollard left the Maltby • souse some weeks ago and Mrs. P. has been un able to obtain his whereabouts. To-day she called on Dr. Moore, an intimate friend of Pollard, to learn where her husband waa, and during 'the interview a difficulty oc curred, resulting in the shooting. The doctor's wound is not dangerous. Mrs. Pollard refused to give bail and was com mitted to await the action of the grand jury. The aratiol i nis i c ti irAtimerity. The Radl resii, in their revolutionary, ernes tot - overturn the gpvernmeht, Wm the pbm, that they are IVie im.e and in the - behalf of the" , eo ofil e ie Unitail (hates; that le, •, osa ;; ,Sta . that, here notin rebel ' llon,'andiltis ' talon. *.Tii -.show the 'Way tic, thhitileii;iiva,giViithe vote of the seventeenloyal Shitovvihich held ' elections in 1867., We take the figures from Radical authority, the Tribune Almanac; State. Democratic. Radical. , California 49,905 42,477 Connecticut 48,565 46,578 lowa ......... .......... .... . . ..., 58, 543 • i 90 , 173 Kentucky ' - 90225 ' • 47106 Maine 45,644 57,462 • Maryhind ' ' - 63,602 11,890 Michigan 1 55,865 89,819 I Minnesota ' ' 5,543 34,870 New Hampshire • 32,657 35,809 1 New Jersey 67,468 51,114 New York. 573,029 325,099 Ohio 240,65 243,55 Pennns,ylvania 207,746 266,ff24 Rhode Island 3,350 7,554 Vermont • 11,510 31,694 Wisconsin 68,873 ' 73,637 1,576,507 1,5.54,945 Democratic majority over the Radicals In seventeen States... 21,662 These 1.576,507 Democrats are repre sented in the United States Senate by seven men, and In the House of Repre sentatives by thirty-three, while the 1,554,945 Radicals have twenty-six Sen ators and 104 Members of the House. Pray whom do these Radical Senators and Representatives represent? Local elections were held in Indiana, Illinois, Delaware, Missouri, Nevada, Kansas, Nebraska and Oregon, and the result In them proves that if there had been a general election the Democratic majority in the ",loyal States " would have been increased. General Grant has put himself on record as believing that ' the wihof the people is the law of the laud." If he still adheres to this opinion, he might lose nothing by examining the figures given above. :ridge Block for President The Lyeeming Standard, edited by that veteran Democrat, Col. Levi L. Tate, pro poses Lion. J. S. Black for the Presidency, and urges his nomination in a very able article. We do not know with what degree of fa vor Judge Black himself would look upon a movement in his behalf at the present time, but it is safe for us to Bay that no other nomination that could be made for the Presidency would be received by the Democracy al this section of Pennsylvania with half the enthusiasm that his would awaken. Our people are bound to him by the strong ties of old and most pleasant as sociation. They remember in him the genial friend and the upright Judge. They know both the qualities of his heart and the qualities of his mind. At a time when he was but little known outside of the Judi cial District over which he presided, they discerned in him that great intellectual su periority which has since made his name familiar to every inhabitant of the United States and beloved by every man who knows how to estimate the value of Consti tutional liberty. They are proud to see him stand before the country to-day be yond dispute the boldest and best Defender of the Constitution and of Popular Rights now living. They believe—and they are right iu believing—that to his tongue and pen we are indebted far more largely than to any other source for the reaction In Northern sentiment developed at last fall's election. The Great Oration that swept even the Radical Judges of the Supreme Court before its resistless torrent of argu ment, leaving them no choice but to strike the shackles from the feet of an unlawfully imprisoned citizen, or be damned in the oyes of all civilized mankind forever, pro duced an effect upon the country as well as upon the Court. Whilst it rose to the full height of the grandest legal and constitu tional argument that ever fell from human lips, it was not beyond the comprehension of any man who could read the first sen tence in the Bible and learn from it that "in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." The country has need of a statesman like Judge Black In the Presidential chair. Never before, in the whole history of the United States—not even In the " Reign of Terror" under John Adams—wore the Constitutional Rights of the Stales, or the Constitutional Liberties of the People In such deadly peril. Clear heads and stout hearts aro all that can save them. And who that has reed his luminous exposition of the principles of the Constitution, and his scathing denunciation of the Radical conspirators, delivered within a stone's throw of the place where they sat plotting the subversion of the government, can doubt that the clearest head and the stout. est heart In all this land are the head and the heart of Jeremiah S. Black ?—ircelley Spirit. The Alr-Line Ballrond Nehomo In the House yontoray, Mr. Kolsoy, of Now York, reintroduced the bill which passed that body during the first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress, to authorize the construction of u railroad between Wash ington and New York, " for postal, military and other purposes." The names of the corporaters mentioned inthe ..... hill are He fol lows: Simon Cameron, Thomas A. Scott, John MoManus,, D. R. Jackman, P. Mc- Evoy James Duffy, James Andrews, Wm. B. Wiley, James D. Cameron, and J. Edgar Thompson, of the State of Pennsylvania ; E. W. Madden, E. B. Richard Franchot, and Erastus Comma, of tee State of Now York; William Walters, of the State of Maryland; G. M. Dodge, of the State of lowa, and JUL.!, U. Kennedy and Charles A. Sherman, it rue District of Co lumbia. An effort visa tuna° by Mr. Rol. soy, supported by several of his friends, to have the bill referred to a special commit tee, but on motion of Mr. Spalding, of Ohio, It was sent to the regular Committee on Roads and Canals. Marshal Brown's Pups. The Now Hampshire Onion gets off the following good hit: The latest news from Washington, is, that Grant has " changed his base" and gone to talking " dog I" To a question of grave public importance, the other day, ho Is said to have renponded, enthusiastically, " have you seen Marshal Proton's pups—the likeliest pups In the District of Columbia?" The Grant clubs should call early meetings, and commence learning to bark, In response to this new movement of their great leader. It doesn't require as much zoological acu men to "talk dog," as it does to "talk horse." We merely suggest- it is none of our business in fact—but wouldn't it be a "good dodge" If the Grant clubs should conclude to be known hereafter, as "Mar shal Brown's Pups?" Wouldn't it knock copperheads higher than a kite?" A Lively Coon Hunt The Dayton Journal mentions some of the incidents which enlivened a coon-hunt at Phillipsburg. in that vicinity, on Sunday morning. A. coon was treed, the tree felled, and a coach dog belonging to a young man named Skyles seized ttie coon. The latter was getting the beat of the fight when Miner Walker in attempting to make a diversion in favor of the dog with a stick, struck the latter accidentally and killed him. Skyles was (foraged at the death of his dog, and felled Walker with a club, knocking him senseless. Jacob Milton. a friend of Walker, seized the axe with which the tree was felled, and chopped into Skyles' shoulder. Where pon Daniel Crow drew a revolver and shot the shoulder, wounding him severely. Thu party were subsequently arrested. Advance of Onion Pacific Bond■ We learn from officers of the Union Pacific Railroad Company that the price of the Company's First Mortgage Bonds bus been advanced from 00 to 05 COOLS on the dollar, and that they will probably bo placed at par before long. The sales of these bonds during the past few months have been very large; ten million dollars having boon al ready disposed of to parties throughout the country. do active was the increasing de mand for those securities that it was pro. battle that five millions moro would bo sold In the first week of February, if the price had been allowed to remain at 90. It has boon frequently assorted in the advertiso meats of company, and in our editorial columns that the price would probably be advanced, and those who took tho hint, and bought at 00, may now see the wisdom of so doing. The Company is now in high credit, Ishii has a handsome surplus of cash on band for the future prosecution of the work of construction. We aro gratified at these evidences of complete prosperity on the part of this great corporation. A White Woman Attacked by a Negro Last evening a young white woman, whose name we did not ascertain, while passing, along Filbert street, between North and State streets, on her way to a store, ,was approached by a negro, who accosted her with the remark, that "she should not be afraid, as he (Minot intend to harm her." Tho girlmade an effort to get away, when the negro struck her on the head with his fist, and laid violent hands upon her per son. Her screams attracted the attention of some persons in the neighborhood, and caused the black reflian to run away. In formation of the outrage was communicated to the Mayor's police, but at the time of penning this item they hhd not succeeded in finding the ebony-colored scoundrel.— Patriot and Union. Central Pacific Railroad Ronds—Change of Price. The sales of the First Mortgage Bondi of the Central Pacido Railroad Company have recently been so rapid and extensive that the fall amount Which the Company had propose. to sell at the original price of 95 and interest; has been marketed, and the price has been advanced to 98 and accrued interest. • WISTAR'a BALSAM of Wild Cherry and Grace's Celebrated Salve have stood the teat of long experience, and have come into general use. These articles are no quack nostrums, but genuine preparations ' skill fully compounded, and well adapted to the class of diseases for which they are recom mended. Beth W. Fowle & Son, Boston, Mass., are the proprletere.—Ctmtmunicated. === Gen. Meade has issued an older allowing the giving of official advertisements to Con servativepapars la Certain instances. The Popo has this year sent to the Queen of Spain the golden rose, which he blessed, as Usual, at the mass, on Twelfth Day. Fine foreign fabrics, especially silks, have fallen twelve or fifteen per cent. In New York. The aggregate of commercial failures In New York for the current year foots up close upon three million dollars. Another death wee caused by the oxplo- Mori of coal 01l at Chattanooga on Wednes day—the third from tho same cause within a week. The celebrated horse, Skedaddle, owned by General John H. Morgan at tho time of hie death. has been purchased for saooo by C. W. Walker, No young man In:the Cyclades, where the principal business Is dieing for sponges, is allowed to marry until be can descend easily to a depth of twenty fathoms. The telegraph lines worked Saturday morning direct from Sun Francisco to Heart's Content, and a message was sent from London to California in iwo minutes. it is related that near Dantzig a young man of twenty-four, who has Just married a widow of forty - two, has discovered since the marriage that his wife was his wet-nurse. The Virginia Convention has udopted nn ordinance fixing the Governor's term at four years, he being ineligible for two terms In succession. There Is now standing in Marshfield a portion of a houso built by Peregrino White, the first male child born of English parents In New England. Ono of the delegates to the Georgia Con vention wit-sabot and dangerously wounded by ni a 'Radical politician of Savannah, last ght. The Loulsana Convention has adopted articles of the new constitution providing for the wholesale disfranchisement ofa large class of ex-rebels. Rev. Mr. Ryan, of Maryarille, Union County, Ohio, killed himself, on tho 25th instant, in a tit of lunacy, by cutting his throat, As the result of a single appeal the con gregation of Rev. It. L. Collier, In Chicago, on Sunday last raised 8110,000 to get the hurch out of debt. According to a correspondent of the Avenir National, the mortality from fatnlnu to Algeria to so great that the dead are thrown into trenches, no on the day after a battle. The revision of the registry lisle in TOXIIS ended on Friday last. Uen. Hancoek hue ordered the revised lists to be published in the county papers, and distributed by post ers and handbills. During the year 18437 the receipts for cus toms collected at the port of New York were $114,085,984. Seven-eights of theentiro tariff revenue of the country are collected at t hat Custom House. A policeman of Chicago, named Cald well, drank a glass of cider Ina saloon In that city last Friday, and died within two hours. 'rho barkeeper has been arrested on suspicion of having poisoned him. "Miles O'Reilly," says that if General Grant casts his lot with Congress, "he will be the most disgracefully beaten candidate for the Presidency that ever ran In the United States." A passenger on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad was robbed on Priday last of $4,000 by three man, who Jumped off the train as It entered Chicago, and escaped. General Butler, whom 0 raut named the "Bottle Imp," is engaged in getting up proof that the contents of a vermin other bottle, which he (Butler) was not " corked up" in, have made Grant stagger through the streets of Washington. Dickens, It is reported, has sent ono thou sand dollars to Mrs. Clemm, the mother. In law of Edgar A. Poe, who Is an inmate of a charitable institution in Bultimore, and has been for many years in ',extremely Indigent circumstances. A Democratic clubfoot formed ut Clarks ville for Calumet township, Pike county, Mo., has over two hundred members. Tin, St. Louis Republican says It is believed the Radicals will be beaten in that connty in November next by a majority of fifteen hundred votes. The schooner Lone Star, from Ssvennali for Hilton Head, was blown out to sea in it gale on Tuesday, and was found with three persons, leaving ton persons missing, the remaining three being too much worn out by exha)tstion to tell what became of their companions. Mr. Daniel ('oolt, of Somerset county, u few days ago shot, wounded and calumet' a grey eagle, measuring six feet tun inches from tip to tip of its wings. The body Is very largo and heavy. The claws are oftho thickness of a finger, and the ankle,' the size of a man's wrist. One of the most celelirnted actresses hi Paris, Thuillor, is [bout, to felts li, veil at the convent of the Carmelites, and Madame Arnould Plemoy is likely to tallow her example. It appears that Father Hya cinthe, the celebrated Lent preacher, eilhet ed these conversions. Mrs. Jane Wllsou, one of the pioneers of Venutigo county, died in Cherrytree town ship on the Hilt inst,, In the 70th year of her age. On one 011C11111011, during the in fancy of her flrst child, she made a voyegt, with him to Cincinnati upon it raft to visit somerelatives there, and returned on horse back, carrying the child in her arms. An attack was made on Major Linnet, a United States revenue agent, eta hotel in Pittsburg on , t•iiiturclay morning by two persons who are unknown, but believed to be parties in the pending Lycoming whis key cases, intending in this manner to debar Major Linton, who Ise witness in the case, from armouring against them. Dale City, like Cheyenne, has sprung up as if by magic. About six weeks ago there wore only two houses in the place. Now there are nearly one hundred. It stands on the summit of the Black hills, on the Union Pacific Railroad, and will be the supply depot for timber, wood, rock find coal for its use, east and west. A fatal affray occurred in Downs town ship, McLean county, 111, a few days ago, A man, named J. W. Smith, with his two brothers, called at the house of Cruyton Vun Horn, at that place, and made an as sault upon Van Horn and his wife, when Van Horn defended himself with a revol ver, klllit4Smith and driving the brothere from the promises. A man named Yonson, a shingle maker, loft Philipsburg on Friduy January 17th, partially Intoxicated, with a borsu an sl e igh; and on Saturday the 18th, lie wits found, in the Allegheny mountains east of Philipsburg, frozen to death. The horse was also dead and stiff. This Is a terrible warning to those who are in the habit of indulging freely in intoxicating drinks. The ladies have, for the past eighteen con turies,enjoyed special privileges during leap year. In an ancient Saxon law, it is enact ed " Albeit, as often as leaps years doth occurs, the woman holdoth prerogative over the merino in matter of courteshipe, love and matrimonee ; so that when the ladle proposeth it shall not be lawful for merino to may her nae, but shall receive her pro meal in all good courtiste." Another ornament to the French stage has not taken the veil, but the mask. A cantatrice, said to be of rank and fortune, has been announced to sing at the DeJazet Theater the Bade and Madame do Itoths child's "Si voua Waves non a me dire." She stipulates to be allowed to sing in a mask, and that no attempts shall bo made to discover her name or domicil. Tho Titusville (Pa.) district has been un fortunate in its representative to Congress. The lust one, C. V. Culver, what TIMOLIO was not in jail for debt, was dodging the sheriff or making peace with his creditors. The present representatives, D. A. Finney, Is in Europe for his health, with no prospect of recovery or returning to usefulness Going further back, the predecessor of Culver (Amos Myers) was deaf. A Washington despatch states that there is every reason to behove that tho Rev. John McMahon, who is now in prison in Canada for the part he took In tho Fenian invasion, will leo very soon liberated. Cer tain Influence, the correspondent states, has boon at work which can hardly tall to se cure that object. By this mysterious lon • allOgo ho probably moms that the Presi dent has interceded for him, as instructed by u recent resolution of the lionse. About ten o'clock on Tuesday morning the oil in a seven thousand barrel tank, owned.by Mr. James Parshall, at Tidloute, caught lire from a spark made by the strik ing of the stop cock with a hammer. There were about four thousand barrels of all in the tank at the time, and about ono thou sand barrels were run out of the tank and into tank cars and saved. The remainder, three thousand barrels, were slowly burnotl up. Loss between $lO,OOO and 812,000, A terrible accident occurred, a row even ings since, near Winesburg, Ohio. It ap pears a number of persons wore congre gated together for some purpose, and it is supposed the coal oil lamp burned out, and while attempting to 1111 it from a can, con taining about one gallon of coal oil, the can exploded, resulting in the death of live persona, and seriously burning six more, so that the lives of ono or more ure de spaired of. The oil le supposed to have ig nited from a lighted candle, held by the party tilling the lamp. Commissioner Capron, of the Department of Agriculture, has sent a oommunication to tbo House of Representatives asking that a resolution might be passed repealing the duty of twenty per oent. Imposed by the revenue lawn on the importation of foreign cattle for breeding purposes. The commissioner states that the duty now re• quirod, together with the difference of ex change, amounts almost to prohibition ; that the foreign stook that has hitherto been imported has effected a very important improvement In our breeds of domestic animals, and also mentions that an act of the same kind was passed by the Govern ment of Canada on the 31st of last Decem ber. A. singular accident occurred a few days ago at one of the iron.foundries In Chester county, Pa. The workmen, after having the furnace previous to casting, threw a quantity of iron scraps, covered with snow and Ice, upon the stocks, which prevented the'escape of the g e e generated at the bot tom of the furnace, causing It to flow back into the (*cambers leading to the fan. An explosionrWas the immediate result. The cast-iron fan atm shivered, the...staples and hinges torn trent the do(4thirwindows taf the engine •roo ut were blown out,/ thq web. eer going through one ofttnn, bat without receiving any injury. Nobody,. was hurt, but the damage' done to the foundary Was considerable.
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