gancaota gutelligum. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19,1888. TEMPORARY CLOD RATES 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 Is- TELLIGIENCER, to new subscribers, for a limited period, at the following very low rates: Single copies, 1 year $2.00 6 copies, 1 year 9.00 10 17.00 20 It II 41 32.00 30 ti 45 00 ,An extra copy will be sent with every club of 20 or 30. THE WEEKLY INTELLIOENCEIt IS THE LABOEST AND CHEAPEST DEMOCRATIC TOURNAL PUBLISHED IN PENNSYLVANIA. The rapid increase In its circulation der_ log the past sear shows that it is properly appreciated by the people. We ask every one of our readers to make an effort to add to our list, In no way can they do more to fdaher the spread of political truth, or to combat error. Let there he an ~rgani:ed effort made to get op clubs, The terms which we otter are so very low that we du not propose to make them per manent. the arrangement will only ha a temporary one, Lind will not be extended beyond the first day of next April, 'Each subscriber will Lind his name and the date at which his subscription expires printed on the paper. oar terms ore ensu ix ADVANCE. Money can be sent by mull from any purl of the county at our risk. Parties at a dis tance should send checks or post office or ders. We will send the WEEKLY INTEI.I,RIEN CER for one month free of charge to any One likely to become a permanent sub. Scriber. Any of our readers van have papers so sent, by writing to us. We will send na many as they nee lit to order. GOVERNOR GEARY ham pardoned Meeker, Eby., the proprietor of the Su • day Mercury, who wile recently con victed of libeling li. Mann, of Philadelphia. THE Me City Council have been compelled to abolish the Fire Depart ment. Cause—the stealing and wasting of all the public 11101.1ey by the mongrel city officials. 'PILE story which was put In eireula tiouin regard to Mrs. Lincoln's Insanity Is now said to have been started by the Radicals, who dread the effect of the book she is reported to be preparing for publication. THE Republicans of Florida have nominated Uellings, a disreputable white man, for Governor, Sandera, negro, for Lieutenant Governor, and Gibbs, a negro, for Congress. How long will moderate Republicans in the North continue their connection with such a party • THE charter of the ( tettysiturg lottery scheme, which wits granted by the Penn syl slants Legislature last winter, and under which the managers of the lot - tery have been for some time operating, has been taken away. 'chose who have been duped into taking chances in the scheme can count the cost at their leisure. TILE Negro Convention of North Car olina has passed all ordinance allowing every tutu to practice law with no other qualification than proof of moral inter and payment of a license fee. 'Pile crop of new attorneys who spring up under that law way possibly be found fit to practice before negro Juries. THE President has HO at the name of Lieut. lien, Sherman to the Senate, for confirmation as Brevet General. It In said Mr. Johnson Intends to create a now Military Department, and to Issue his ordein In future through Humeral Sherman. There Is said.to he great ex citement In the Radical varmint Wash inglim over the matter. Dvnmeracy of Bedford county , held a very large and enthusiastic lure lug In the Court House last week, Able Laid eloquent speeches were 0111110 by Hun, F. M. Kimmel!, 11. F. Meyers, Esq. and others, O. Shannon, Esq., was appointed dolegate to the State Colleen. thin, with lostruotions to support John M. Cooper, Esq., for Auditor lieneral. A very large number if prominent pa pers have declared in favor of Mr. Cooper, and front all parts of the State eonui assurance that he will be warmly supported In the Con ven [lon. Jr Is meld that John W. Forney is to be made a member or I general (/runt's Cabinet in ease the Radicals should suc ceed in electing him. However that may be it is sure that ( ;rant is a mere tool In the hands of the most disrepu table and desperate Radical political tricksters in the country. lie la em phatically the candidate of the gang of thieves and plunderers who are eating out the substance of the people. The more honest and disinterested Republi cans, those who act from principle, do not favor his nomination. The rascals of the party are largely hi the majority, however, and will control the conven tion. No•r less than 7_,7.16 white voters were permitted to register in Alabama under the new Reconstruction regula tions, which were expressly designed to exclude as many while voters as pos• alhie in every Southern State. Of these more than seventy thousand probably not one thousand voted for the new Constitution. This shows that in the first election of the kind under the Re construction :lets the boasted "White Republican party " at the• South Is no where; there is no such party. Radi• calism In Alabama, and in the South ern States generally, is limited to the newly• manufactured negro voters, who were manufactured expressly to be Rad leal voters. GENERAL HOWARD, the chid of the Freedmen 'a Bureau, has come out open ly and decidedly in favor of amalgama tion. Thu matter has caused tin little excitement among the lenders of the Republican party IA Washington.— While they cannot and do not deny that the tendency of all they are doing is to break down every political and social barrier between the two races, they regard General Howard's open ad• vocacy of amalgamation as "a little ahead of time " They are trying to keep the matter quiet for the present, fearing the effect It may have on the coming THE editor of the Washington Re preee, who so resolutely and properly refused to reveal the name of the party who had given information to • that paper In regard to the alleged conver sation of Judge Fields is F. A.. McCart ney, Esq. We have known him as boy and man, and we know that when a principle is at stake he never yields. Ho. peremptorily declined to give the name of the author, and It is now said he will be summoned before the bar of the House, with a view to compelling him to answer. If he has resolved not to do so, he will keep his resolution at every hazard, and the inquisitorial con clave will have to seek elsewhere for the information they covet. Mr. Mc- Cartney was the principal political edi tor of the Chronicle during the war, but when the Radicals showed their deter •minatlon to prevent a restoration of the Union, for which such great sacrifices had been made, he abandoned them, and has since been ably defending the slight, part of the time as editor of the Intelligeneer and latterly as editor of the ,Earreaa. THE LANCASTER WXETKLY INTEIAIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1868 The Presidency. We =Tit again catition'ttir, Demo cratic friends *dust tka mistake of, over-confidenca.: The. results Of. last year's elections •were grind, and ex tremely.gratifying in revealing a deep reaction'of public sentiment. 'But that reaction did not progress far enough to ensure the success of the Democracy in 1868 We are by no means " out of the wodih„ ,l And we have moreover before us the comparatively recent warning of the Democratic successes of 1862, fol lowed by the severe reverses of 1863. The Radicals will secure the electoral votes of the ten slave States,—we call them so, because their citizens are en slaved,—through the agency of the negroes and the bayonet. They hold Tennessee, MiSsourl and West Virginia by the disfranchisement of a majority of their people. The Radical majorities in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Michigan, lowa and Kansas, are so immense as to preclude any reasonable hope of a change in them. The Democracy will, therefore, require the electoral votes of nearly all the remaining States to elect their can didate. It is almost certain that Gen. ( /rant will be the candidate of the Republicans, upon a radical platform. Ho will com mand the support of both wings of their party, and will draw materially upon the floating vote of the country. The alacrity with which both factions of the party flocked to the standard of (hunt is an example to be recommended to the Democracy, as the Lord commended the conduct of the unjust steward. We therefore entreat our Democratic friends to direct their most disinterested eflbrts to the choice of unexceptionable and popular candidates for President and Vice President. It is desirable that these should be positively popular, but It le essential that they should be free from objection. As we have already said, our candidates must not carry weight in the race, It is not enough that they should be thorough Demo. crate, they must likewise be Democrats who, can be elected. The Eighth ('on• gressional district of Ohio, in which the Democracy have lost .111() votes since October, utters Its warning in this con nexion. It Is a sad response to the pro ceedings of the recent Democratic ('ou• vention of that State. A single reminiscence and and we have done. In 1862 the Democracy carried Ohio by about four thousand. This encouraged them to nominate Mr. Vallandigham for (lovernor In They went on to the very day of elec Lion with the utmost confidence of suc cess, and were beaten by a majority of enie hundred thuturand. The Row In the Radical Came The row among the Republican lead ers of this county, whiell caused such a stormy session of the County Commit tee, promises to be kept up with Intense bitterness. A decided majority of the Committee favored the action which was taken, and are ready to stand by the nomination of delegates to the Na tional and State Conventions as made by them. A minority of twenty-odd, fol lowing the lead of Messrs. Dickey and Hillingfelt, will Issue a call for the elpe• Lion of delegates to a County Conven tion, to be held early in March. The Convention so called, if the people should sanction It, will put In nomi nation an entirely new set of delegates, both to the National and the State Con vention. The light is said to be made with a double view. The bolters favor the nomination of Curtin for Vice Pres ident, and the majority are opposed to committing the delegates to the State Convention in favor of any particular candidate for that °dice. There is also said to be an Impending light for tile Congressional nomination. There are quite a number of gentlemen who are said to be t Impatiently waiting to as sume the mantle of Old Thad. as moon as it drops from his shoulders. They are jealous of each other, and when the "Old Commoner" is safely collined first-class row will take place over his grave. The quarrel now going on is maid to be made more bitter by the aspirations of the dim rent candidates for Congres -donal honors. It is a very pretty tight as IL stands, and we charitably wish the contending factions the nite of the cele brated Kilikenny cats. yestlgation or Legislative Estrin a gitnec. In the senate of this <tute lk WHO I 11.. Lion has beempasmed, after at tempts on the part of several Radicals to prevent, action, directing the appointment or a eounnlttee of dire., to ascertain and re- port to the Senate the name and occu - Patton of every employee around the Capitol, which of them can be dispensed with In future, and how many of them were soldiers during the war. That is a step in the right direction, and we hope the committee will make a full report, not only of the number of em ployees, but of the amount of looney paid to each of them. There is 110 doubt that their are a large number of useless officials hanging on about the two houses, fellows who have been ap pointed through the Influence of 1110111 - tiers to snug berths, where they do little or no work for very good pay. We had au illustration of the way this thing is managed under Radical rule when Mr. Armstrong, the Incorruptible member from this county, loudly Insisted upon having two or three ranscribing clerks appointed, saying that it was part of the bargain when he consented to vote fur Davis that lie was to be allowed to name one of these extra officials. Let the Senate Committee see to it that they make no whitilwashing report. We shall look for their action with con siderable anxiety. Great Democratic Victory at Reading. At the municipal election on Friday last, the Democracy of Reading achieved a great victory, They elected Dr. 1I tester M. Nagle City Auditor by it majority of CC, a gain of ;Cln on the vote of last fall. They also elect a large ma jority of City Councilmen and other municipal officers. This triumph is greatly due to a change of political sen timent among the working men of their city. The laboring men of the North begin to sue very plainly how they are being robbed and oppressed by the party ; now In power, and with great good sense they are casting aside the fetters of partisan prejudice and voting the Democratic ticket. In the coining Presidential contest they will array ' themselves against the Radicals, and j will demand a oomplete change In the pulley which has brought ruin upon the country, and disaster to all its indus trial pursuits. They will not only de• round a change; they will make the ; change they desire and need through the peaceful agency of the ballot box. The municipal elections show which ' I way the political wind is blowing, The McArdle Case The Supremo Court have decided that ; they have Jurisdiction In the MeArdie case, and have overruled the motion to ! dismiss it. It will be argued on its i merits on the 2d of March. The Radi cals are much alarmed by this action of the Court, believing that their plan for Africanizing the South will be pro nounced unconstitutional. We may lobk for hasty and desperate action on the part of Congress. An etlbrt will be made to restrain the Supreme Court ; from the exercise of Its undoubted con stitutional prerogatives, but we have no doubt it will fall to accomplish that purpose. Death of a Distinguished Editor 'illiam M. Swain, Esq., one of the , firm that founded the Public Ledger, , died at his residence in Philadelphia, early yesterday morning, In the 58th year of his age. He was one of the ablest 1 and most successful newspaper men In the United States. The Sianding Army Again. e , . A ; week ego we adtocated the 0°14% thestandingermVor enimoml. cal !Anasonli. ' 'cogent as Riese sie, they . .do not embrace the strongest objection's'' to the continuance of the army. The arm has becothe an Initiument of despotism. It is employed to subvert civil government, and enslave the peo ple of our race, in a large portion of the country. It is now binding the unarm ed citizens of ten States, and handing them over to the dominion of the negro. Many of the individuals who compose the army may be unwilling instruments in this tyranny, but the fact neverthe less exists that they enforce it. And the fact also exists that many promi nent officers of the army are zealous in the performance of their new duty.— But, however the army may stand af fected towards the abuse of Its power, that abuse of power exhibits the danger of an army to the country. The scheme of negro government in fense of General Grant from the grave I the South Is based upon the standing charges of duplicity of conduct and un army. Built on this foundation, It can . truthfulness of language, under which rest upon none other. Reared by the .he rests. After a column and a half of bayonet, it must be supported by the stuff that has not uu idea or a point bayonet. It will fall to pieces the very worth noticing hr it, the editor breaks day the supporting bayonets are with. out as follows: drawn. Remove the pressure of the ! But, trifling aside, this question of ye army, and the superior race will resume racity is a serious ono, and must be mot its natural position as rapidly an k seriously. Andrew Johnson smoothly as oil ascends to the surface , rtadiettelby to years ofpractice bar before th ot i. Greenville, e and tlegal of water. If the Radicals remain in tribunals of Eastern Tennessee. He knows power, the chief employment of the or n ou i tht H l i c e n d o Nii n tli a at b nAts r ti O w a i s , o than by army for years will be to uphold the ( I . :. a andying words and giving the y rough negro governments of the South. If the however neatly it may be worded. His Democrady succeed, the army's °coupe- rGecneenrtanrmart to co impeach rsse the the weaknessrideevidence ol Lion will be gone, and It will remain a his ease in avoiding the legitimate method useless pageant In time of peace. provided by law for reaching such an end; The abolition of the standing armyfri Johnson, u vr . ;t that a when lie put would lawyer,knew or ought l ht t tonavoeo would terminate all conflict between Secretaries Seward, Randall, Browning, civil and military powerin the country.. Welles, and McCulloch on the witness If there were no army, military author- stand k t e o d b j i e e a rri k i d n o t hise i r e c e u Li e r vidence e r o r f og G u r t a o n ry t , ity could not prevail anywhere. In that letter improper and illegal questions ; and event, soldiers could not invade courts, they, us lawyers, knew that they were In teTgalao,,,rlestl:cotcsottcathi,l% to w is l o u m ns o w f e a r g e e d E . 4 lieutenants usurp the functions of judges, and shoulder strapped officers tested arid proved by experience—has pro• displace governors of States. Orders vided a formula to be used exclusively in the impeachment of witnesses. For good front headquarters would not then en- , reasons, grounded In the very nature of ovi act, suspend and repeal the statutes of dense, It does not allow direct and loading lu r e t s a t i i t o i t,tlstuti fl o x b e e d p f i r, l r t, in b t t o tt b lr o s bm ln e ti r d ve dru freemen. Courts martial and military vonitnissions would not disgrace and 'the questions which should have been Millet the country, and sacrifice the life asked of Seward and the other witnesses or liberty of the citizen. 'Pile sacred ri ‘‘ v .h li n c„c ti e u l ri u e r n t er c u .n l " ri l ra () „ " t t( i ) ir i e w t r lr e e n s c e h a t i h iC3 legacies of Anglo Saxon freedom. trial only these; and any other would be ruled by Jury and the writ of habeas corpus, out as improper by any county Judge: could could not be abrogated or suspended, for 1 2 int rg,e', the \ Aeyes with 1711. N BuB S. 'lt is, who has last testi.. want of an instrument to accomplish tied? the purpose. Seroild. How long have you known hint? Third. What is hie character for veracity In the standing army, and you in the country to which ho belongs? extinguish the incipient imperialism of Fourth. From his general reputation for our new system of dictator and satraps. truth•tolling, and what the people say of You will then have no General of the hi Ti le ' s v e m i l i l r ` o t •yon the ü b u e e l s iE t t l ' C e n. l s ri Vi which Mr. John. Army to disobey, defy and Insult the son should have asked of his willing wit ,rrsxes,b,mulmcentted confessedly to break Constitutional Commander-in-Chief.— The soldier who admits that he de- n o ntio n n—the - I t 'l r y e s4 t . i s r :. ‘ 4. t o r f ra t n h t e . liberately deceived and betrayed his I This is the line of procedure in such cases ; provided by law. This Is the formula fixed superior officer, aud through him de titilitortectenr,,iniuntnuitn(smoiyf discussion u m d e t t ranived and betrayed one.half of the people of the country, will no longer eliciting the truth whore there arises it con wield the authority and influence of a l i i s ie t t lre o g r nsi.r e tffS i l t ri v si test betw by which the chunu•- (':Maur. Disband the praetorian guards, ter of a witness for veracity is to be deter and you will ire ill less danger of having mined. Direct questions, for good reasons, ! are not to be put, and it is the duty of n ! an emperor. court not to allow or suffer them to be ! Per their brilliant, and effective set , asked. When they are put by a layman vices in the war' JUNI, ended, the officers they may lan ascribed to ignorance; when ! t h t , rz s a t re put by a lawyer they become ills and privates of the regular army de. ! serve and will receive the lasting gnat- at the law and taken to the still more I Thu writer of that must have failed ! tilde of the people. But this does not imply that they should be retained hi the pay of the country, when their ser- di/limit taak of odiung a daily news paper,We eau imagine the smile of vices are no longer needed. The officers - supreme contempt which sat upon the aud privates of the volunteers bore them face of every Philadelphia lawyer who selves as bravely and nobly in the con , read the article. It shows such ignor- Ilia. Yet, when it ended, the latter once of the plainest rules of evidence were paid off and discharged, and no as ought to make the dullest and least one supposed that they were wronged or advanced student blush. There are some officers of the army It Is true, as is asserted, that " this question of veracity Is a serious one, who should be mustered out of the ser. vice of the country, for the country's and that it trust be met seriously."— good. Such are those who have recent- Mere pettifogging, even of a sharp kind, ! ly prostituted their military authority will not do. The American people can In the South to the interests of the Had• not regard with Indifference the fact Ica! party. And of such Is General that the man who is put forward as the Presltlentittl candidate of one of tire Daniel E. Sickles, who Is now drawing great political parties of the country the pay of the Government, and stump- Mg the State of New Hampshire for stands charged with gross duplicity of the Radical ticket. Whether the army conduct and downright and disgraceful Is disbanded or not, these partizan untruthfulness of language. lepers should he promptly expelled If the editor of the Press knew the Trout the service. first principles of law, lie would know that he has made a laughing stock of st. Change of Culture In the South. himself, and that he has, at the same time seriously damaged the ease of Gen. All accounts front the Southern States Grant. The form of questioning of indicate a determination on the part of which he makes parade Is only cm• the land OWIIOII4 to do very little in the ployed to Courts of Justice when an way or cultivating cotton, augur and attempt Is made to break down the tes• Nee during tire coining season, They tiniony of it witness, by proving him to have tried the negro in u state of free- be such a toninion and notorious liar dons, and flail the majority of the race that his neighbors told acquaintances 1 1 to be entirely unreliable as laborers.— are willing to swear in general terms 1 1 The great staples of the South required that they would not believe him on the steady application of a large num- oath• ben of hands to make their production If that had been the object of Prod profitable. The sugar plantations are dent Johnson, and If the ease had been nearly all abandoned, We only raised removed into a court of Justice, and it few thousand hogsheads last year, and Goleta! Grant put on the stand as a will produce still less the coining sea witness, the Interrogatories suggested sou. Englund has succeeded in placing by the ° tyr of the 'Was might have the tnotton culture of India and Egypt been properly put at some stage of the on :t basis which makes the world almost indepundent of th 4. we cues had a proceedings. The question was not, however, is General Grant such a com monopoly of that, great staple. Last mon and notorious liar that he can not year 'nearly every planter who engaged be believed ou oath, but simply, did he in its culture lost money, aud not a make an agreement with President few were bankrupted. Johnson to deliver the War Depart- So, as we have said, the Southern meat into Irk hands, in time for him to landholders have determined to aban don • the eulture of cotton, sugar and Cabinet against his wish and will? rice. They express their resolution to sow their lauds in grain and to turn The President insisted that such a eon their attention to raising stock. Thus tract had been made between him and General Grunt. ([runt plainly anti un we see Lite North is not only to lose the profits its merchants and manufacturers quivocally denied it, saying in express terms, " /made no such promise." To formerly derived from the great staples prove this contract, an not for the put._ nit the South, but there is to be direct competition with our farmers. We pose of directly assailing Grant's verac have not yet suffered one-half the pen- sty, the President called on his Cabinet alties which the folly and the crimes of to state there understanding of the affair, and every one of them cor the I tad icals are sure to bring upon us. There are worse days in store for us than roborates Mr. Johnson's assertions in the fullest, clearest anti most positive any we have seen. Had we wisely en manner. When the last letter of the deuvored to help the South to recover President, and the accompanying docu from tire prostration of the war, both meats appeared, even the Press admit been of the country would now have ted that Grant was placed in a bad pre been ills prosperous and peaceful con- dicameut, while the Post and other di ti on. When the Radicals undertook Radical journals avowed their convic to taktn the negroes from the cotton don that he had not told the truth. thdds and tine rice swamps and to Wake 'Thus the matter goes forth to the coun• them Line rulers of ten great States, they try and to the world. On the one side laid their axe at tine root of our material Is the word of General Grant, alone and prosperity, and the prostration in bust- unsupported. Ott the other that of the tress, want of employment and President, sustained and corroborated consequent distress which p revail by five un inpeached witnesses, whose throughout the entire North are but testimony is not of a negative but of the the first, fruits of much political mad- most positive character. What Jury, ness. with such evidence before them, could ' fall to find General Grant guilty of a breach of contract, and of barefaced lying when he attempted to repudiate It? None are so blind as those who will not see. For years thousands of men hi the North have been risking, not only the political prosperity of the nation, but their own private and pe cuniary interests by blindly and stupid ly voting the Radical ticket. During the war there was some excuse for men who allowed themselves to he controlled by passion and prejudice. For three years there has been none. The mer chants, the mechanics and the farmers of the North are all directly interested In effecting a complete political revolu tion. At the elections of last fall they gave evidence of a determination to do so . . If they would save the country and themselves from ruin they must complete the good work at the coming Presidential election. Row In the Radical Wigwam There was a grand row lu the Radi cal County Committee which met this morning to appointdelegates to the Na tional and State Conventions. It seems that Col. 0. J. Dickey, Senator Billing. felt, and a few others of the Committee, were in lavor of calling a Convention to select the delegates, but a majority held that it was In accordance with Radical usage for the Committee to ap point them. The majority would not Pelt' and the following gentlemen were appointed : Delegates to the National CUnvention—R. J. Houston, J. A. Hlostand. Delegates to the State Convention—Dr. .7, M. Dunlap, .7. G. Peters, Wm. M. Wiley, M. H. Shirk, .1. C. Stubbs, John E. It is said the minority intend to' pro test, and to call a Convention 'of the people on their own reisliotielhillW: ' - t -- 17 -- Ferfiy's Press Attehpts to Defend Grill% lbw Republican Journals Conceal the 'fil 1 . 7 y the VLSO7O OfAllfiß ? :, 'en T.- 1,- ,, Truth. - .". '''.: - .9,#n&V"s p.m bitapid*doslijfinfl 4 ,6 Radical newepispepiOf tfUs State, ence and 43 iriirdatic It Vas b•rropinejo 1 I =s° the entire country, sYsteMatl utterly stupid that Oven those who have : billy endeavor to deceive their readers. long takeplearedl3ipplug it. there i t , They. not only misrepresent political no paper any pretensions in thq,coun'i events;-but very manrof them persist try which is so poorly edited. He who en tly refuse to publish public documents reads it for a week will be very weary : which may have a tendency to enlighten of winnowing so much chaff without 1 the minds of the masses. The cones finding any grain. Its editorial columns • Pondence between the President and are filled with the weakest and most , General Grant furnishes an instance vapid Waddle.' It is neitherstrong nor .in point. Scarcely a weekly Republi sprightly, and there is nothing in it to can paper in Pennsylvania has had the commend it to the favor of the reading 1 honesty to lay the letters of Mr. John public. Nobody ever quotes it as au- . son before its readers. Instead of pub thority on any subject, and it is safe to 1 lishing the whole truth they have con say that it exercises less political influ- ' tented themselves with making a few ence than any daily paper in Philadel-; garbled extracts from the letters of phia. ' Grant and Stanton. The same course We have been led into making these is pursued whenever any document ap remarks by noticing the leading edito- pears which is calculated to enlighten rial in yesterday's Issue. It is a labored the masses in regard to the conduct of the Republican party and thecharacter and lengthy article, meant to be a de- But thecase is not left to depend upon the word of the President, backed up as it Is by the testimony of his Cabinet. Grant himself confesses that he did lie. He does not dare to deny it, nor does he attempt to do so after being con fronted by the statements of the other members of the Cabinet. Ris no won der the Fires and other Radical jour nals are driven to desperate devices in their attempts to rescue their candidate from the disgraceful position he occu pies In the eyes of all honorable men. This is not the- first time Grant has been accused of lying. General McCler nand lately published a carefully pre pared statement, in which he charged Grant with inserting gross falsehoods In his official despatches, concerning operations at Vicksburg and other points. The charge was clearly and explicitly made, and it was backed up by the affidavits of some of the best soldiers in the West. It is sad to think that such charges should be made against Grant from different sources, and It is Unfortunate indeed that they should all be proven by the most Indisputable testimony. If new developments con tinue to be made, It is possible a time may speedily come when the interogatorlee of the Frees may be_ asked with acertainty of their being unhesitatingly answered Iti the affirmative. THE New York Ledger le for Grant. On the principle, we suppose that 13kant, and Bonner are both great on fast horses. The Florida Convention. IMPEACHMENT .44.1071FrEATED. - • -'•.• Ti.l; l .ttadical newepipe*Of . _ ibailillbtevens Foreiellalhe Death °rine ,d'-of the entl , — Republican Platir. .. _ .uttvention:Which‘as -vied in TallahasseeQ to:Afrfeanizethe The Philadelphia Mbrning Post has the IState. On his arrivalithe knight of the following account of the last defeat of Irn theta persist- quill was ln raptures. He could scarcely peachmeat .exase to publish public documents i find terms sufficiently laudatory of the WAstalsozox,4Feb. 13. - which may have a tendency to enlighten members of the Convention. 8 1 . ' the minds of the masses. The corres- were there who could rival pondence between the President and ster and Demostb.- - General Grant furnishes an instance the carv , " - in point. Scarcely a weekly Republi- I - eau paper in Pennsylvania has honesty to lay the left- - , son before D- I lips` of its leaders. The organization Is so thoroughly corrupt, and its acts are so little calculated to commend themselves to the bulk of voters, that this syste-. matie course of deceit is necessary to prevent its utter annihilation. The course of the Democratic editors of the country presents an honorable and striking contrast. They do not seek to deceive, but rather to enlighten the masses. They feel and know that all that is necessary to ensure the tri umph of the Democratic party is a fair, full and unbiased presentation of oc curring events to the people. In fact, they draw the bulk of their arguments from the mouths of their opponents. They publish in full public documents, and leave their readers free to Judge from the record as to the claims of the two parties upon them. Hence their advance is of that permanent character which is destined to endure, after the triumphs which their opponents tempo rarily gain through deceit and misrep resentation are forgotten. In the present important political contest all that. Is necessary to ensure our success is to put the truth fairly be fore the people of the North. If that Is effectually done there can be no doubt about the result, Here, then, Is work for every Democrat In the country. Let each man see to It that his neighbor has a chance to read both shies. Let con servative newspapers and public docu ments be circulated from hand to hand. Your neighbor will not refuse to read if he Is furnished with the material. Let every Democrat systematically devote himself to spreading political truth, and our triumph in the coming Presi dential contest will be overwhelming. Grant Admits his Mick or Truthfulness. The concluding correspondence be tween the President and Gen. Grant, which we publish elsewhere, will be , read by every intelligent voter In the I United States ' and each man who peruses it will make up his own opin ion on the controversy. No one can deny that lien. Urant figures in It to great disadvantage. lie no longer at- I tempts to deny thechargeol duplicity of conduct and the accompanying one of falsehood. lie stands self-convicted of having basely and treacherously de• ceived the President for months to gether, anti of having told downright, barefaced lies at the ends to Insure the reinstatiou of Stanton lu the War De partmnt. Even Republican news papers are compelled to admit both the charge of dishonorable duplicity and the still more damaging one of lying. The Philadelphia Mernin,y Post says: General Grant's letter will disappoint Its renders. It Is a reply to one of the least Important parts of the President's argu ment—the charge of insubordination. Thu question to which the people ore especially Interested, is whether Mr. Johnson is at all correct in his statement of iirolit's position I while noting ns Secretary of War. General Grant himself challenged Mr. Johnson to make good his word, when he accused Min of many awl gross misrepresentations. Mr. Johnson accepted this challenge, aud un• dertakcs to prove that General Grant did make certain promises which heafterwards violated. Ile brings forward his witnesses —they are five members of the Cabinet— they all sostaln the President's assertions. Forney's PitsB admits the lying, and, with its utter want of principle, pro• cods to defend it. Other leading Re publican papers are forced to make similar damaging admissions. (ion. Grant's chief hold un the confi dence 01 the people consisted In a belief that Its possessed the honesty, the truthfulness, and the manliness that has heretofore characterized American soldiers, Ile has been shown to be des titute of all these, and now stands lie fore the world convicted, on Ills Own admission too, of the grossest duplicity and the most shameless lying. Will the Republican party have the hardi hood to go before the country with much a candidate? To do so would be to out rage every sense of propriety, the moral sense of the entire nation. We shall wait to see how they will meet the difficulties which surround them, with a confident belief that they will be utterly routed In the coming contest. IN the House a vote was had the ether day on the question of removing the National Capital from Washington to the Mississippi Valley. The vote stood 77 ayes to 97 nays. That is significant, and shows the growing pow•er and aspir ing disposition of the Great West. The little Yankee States of New England, which have been domineering so long by reason of their disproportionate in fluence iu the Senate of the United States, would do well to take warning. It will not be long until they will be compelled to advocate most vigorously the ultra State Rights doctrine to pre serve their States 'nit:Detroit Tribune, a Radical paper, undertakes to explain how Grant was lately found reeling drunk in the streets of Washington. it says Phil. riheridau was down there, who is known to be a stout drunkard, and he and Grant got at a bottle of whiskey together, and Ulysses, not being us strong in the head as Irish Phil, found himself very weak in the knees when he got into the street. That is, In brief, the explanation grave ly tendered by a leading "God and Morality" paper. We commend It to the consideration of the Good Templars and other cold water people. Girard College It seems that the objects of Stephen Girard in establishing his great charity college are being seriously interfered with by the introduction of narrow minded politicians as directors. The Supreme Court of the State is asked to rescue the institution from this baneful incubus, by taking itsmanagement from the present political guardians, the Councils of the city of Philadelphia, and to give It to a permanent board of direc tors to be appointed by the Court. It Is to be hoped the Court will do so. We have no doubt that body would always choose men with the qualifications in dicated in Girard's will. THE Radicals In the Rump Senate have just spent nearly two whole days in loud speech-making over the case of a young and comely mulatto wench who, with a dusky beau, was subjected to the extreme hardship of being com pelled to ride in a railroad car set apart for people of her color. The storm over this outrage was furious indeed, and nothing could be done until the case was finally disposed of by being referred to an appropriate committee. It seems that this tau colored damsel is employ ed in some capacity about the Senate Chamber. What her duties are we do not know. Negroes to Vote and Hold Office In the Territorlee The new Senate bill, creating the Ter ritory of Wyoming, from the western half of Dacotah, provides expressly that negroes shall vote and hold office.— Should a Radical President be elected, two years will not elapse until, by Con gressional enactment, similar privileges will be conferred on the negroes •In Pennsylvania. Tire New YothTribunesent a special ;ciirrespontjenq4eWn to Florida to write up the ntongrel Convention: Which"as semble'd in Tallahassee to:Afrliranize the State. On his tirrlvallthe knight of the quill was in raptures. He could scarcely find terms sufficiently laudatory of the members of the Convention. Blacks were there who could rival Daniel Web ster and Demosthenes in eloquence•, and the carpet•bagYankees were pronounced equal to Henry Clay in statesman like sagacity. It was not long, how. ever, until the mongrel gang got by the ears, and there was the very mischief to pay. Then came letters of another tone. He saw the State Capitol converted in to a veritablepandemonium—to use his own words, "a hideous gladiatorial arena," in which the factions " fought like mad bulls." He denounced the Radical " lobby" for " bribing mem bers of the Convention," and declared that " many of the delegates were steep ed in whiskey." Taking the account of the Tribune correspondent, the Flori da Convention shows that nothing but disaster can be expected from the in sane attempt to put the control of the Southern States into the hands of a horde of barbarian negroes and a few disreputable white adventurers. Yet all the Republican leaders continue to uphold that policy. The only remedy Is In the votes of the Northern people, and we have no doubt they will be speedily and effectually applied. Praying a Continuance or Military Doi- In the Senate of the United States, on Thursday last, Mr. Doolittle, of Wis consin, presented a memorial signed by over one thousand citizens of Alabama, protesting against negro rule, and pray• ing for continuance of military govern. ment in the State. It sets forth many grievances, and concludes as follows : Continue over us, if you will do so, your own rule by the sword; send down among us honorable and upright men of your own people, of the race to which you and we be long, and ungracious, contrary to wise policy and the institutions of the country, and tvranous as it will be, no hand will be raised among us to resist by force their au thority ; but do not, wo Implore you, abdi cate yuur own rule over us by transferring us to the blighting, brutalizing, and un natural dominion of an alien and inferior race—it race which has never shown ad ministrative capacity for the good govern ment of even the tribes into which it has always been broked up to Its native state, and which In all ages has itself furnished slaves for all the races or the earth. Never In the history of the world has any more touching appeal been made to their conquerors by a subjugated people. Let the white men of the North read it and ponder over it. Here are a people of our own race, men with the proud blood of the Anglo• Saxon in their veins, men accustomed to all the rights and privileges of freemen, appealing In tones of supplication for the poor privilege of being allowed to live under the rigors of an irresponsible military despotism. They ask the continuance of what all free people have regarded as an unsup portable form of tyranny, In order that they may be saved from the still more horrible condition of negro domination. Will the people of the North prove deaf to such an appeal? Not if they have a spark of manhood and decency left. Should the Radicals In Congress dare to force through the rejected constitu tion, and to subject the white people of Alabama to the rule of a horde of bar barian negroes, they will earn the de testation of every man who has the spirit of a freeman in his bosom, and will richly deserve the fate of tyrants. The "Inquirer' rated the "State Guard." The fight between the Lancaster In quirer and the Stale Guard grows Inter esting. The inquirer has the last word as follows: The Stair Guard, utterly foiled lu Its lame and silly attempt to misrepresent the Republicans of this county, with the true instincts of a blackguard, endeavors to mask Its disgraceful retreat by malignant abuse of certain individuals, whom It has not the couago to name. In this It resem bles the schoolboy, who, after making an attack on ono of his fellows, and being sig nally repulsed, blubbered out as he ran away, currying with him a pair of black eyes and a bloody nose, if I can't lick you I'll make mouths at year ." If that journal knows of any Lancaster county Republicans who are amenable to charges of corruption, as it Intimates, it is its duty to name them ; falling tb do this, Its Idle vnporings answer no purpose but to gratify its own petty and powerless malignity. If It has light on this subject, let It give It to the public at once, and,not Oct the port of a contemptible coward, by shining the responsibility on some ono else —lilt 11.4 not, lot it keep Cont. II the Slate Guard means to Insinuate that the Inquirer has been In any way connected with the corruptions and mal practices which are said to exist at Harris burg, we tell It simply and squarely that it lice, a business to which, If common report is to be believed, it is nu stranger. As to that paper's Informant, whom ii puts forward In such a boastful manner, we cannot be mistaken in our conjecture with regard to him. That political mounte bank is no doubt perfectly nt home in re telling slanders to eager listeners about men who are his superiors, both mentally and morally ; but his dupes will find, when it baronies necessary for hint to face the music, that they have leaned upon a broken reed. Try him. In conclusion, we would advise our young and somewhat ardent friends, who control the journal in question, never to resort to abuse when they Mil In argument, or to make charges, unless they are prepared to prove them. It don't pay. • Os the 13th intant Mr. Linton, Dem., of the Pennsylvania House, introduced a resolution, (which was laid over,) re quiring the Auditor General to inform the House by what authority money was "paid to divers persons as mem , bers of special committees and to others as clerks thereof," contrary to law. A hasty inspection of the Auditor Gen eral's report discloses the fact that $lO,- 715.03 were received by special com mittees; $5,004.73 by clerics, and that the Sergeant-at-arms received $1,979.50 in connection with such committees. It is to be hoped the resolution may not get smothered in one of the Radical loopholes provided for covering up Radical fraud. AT the Commercial Convention, which has been holding a session in Boston, a resolution was adopted with much enthusiasm and complete unani mity, calling upon Congress to adopt measures tostimuiate the industry of the Southern States, and restore prosperity to that section. The convention was composed of prominent merchants end business men from a❑ parts of the country. The business and commercial men of the North aro beginning to die cover the secret of the great depression which prevails. They see that ruin must result from a continuation of the insane and destructive policy of the Radicals, and in the coming Presiden tial contest they will seek a change. A. Soldier's Opinion Gen. W. W. H. Davis, the talented editor of the Doylestown Democrat, as gallant a soldier as Pennsylvania ever sent forth to battle, expresses his opine ion of the Presidential contest in the following vigorous language : We look at the Presidential question from , the civilian stand point, which we believe is the proper place to view it from. We do not think the country expects to see a mill : Lary man placed in the White House for 1 four years, from March 4th, 1869. The hopes of the country are turned toward a statesman for theinext President, and the people will not be satisfied with a man who has no other claim to their support than having been a successful soldier. Camps . and battles are not the best field for suc cessful statesmanship, and this is particu larly the case when the aspirant for Prefil• dential honors leaped at ono stride from the tanner's shop to the tented field. With such training in civil and military life, how can it be possible that any man could be qualified to grapple with and adjust the : momentous questions that must arise un der the next administration? Hit requires four years to make u docent carpenter or printer, how can a man become u states man by tanning bull hides for ten years and fighting four? It cannot be; and a clumsy blacksmith might as well try to re pair ft lady's delicate watch, us a soldier to handle affairs of state with such schooling. : If we understand the temper of the Arnett- I can_people, they will not trust the destinies of the country in the hands of any man who does not possess experience as a states man, and understand the great questions that must come before him. The sub-committee on Reconstruction met this morning. Alter the impeachment testimony was submitted, Hon. Thaddeus Stevens submitted the following articles of Impeachment: "The Committee on Reconstruction, to whom was referred the correspondence of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, and U.S. Grant, General Command ing the armies of the United States, having considered the same and the evidence, do report that, in virtue of the powers with which your committee has been vested, they have fully examined the evidence be fore them, and are of the opinion that An drew Johnson, President of the United States, is guilty of high crimes and mis demeanors, and -therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolutions : Resolved, That Andrew Johnson, Presi dent of the United States, be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors. Resolved, That the Committee go to the Senate and at the bar thereof, in the name ' of the House of Representatives and of all I the people of the United States, do impeach Andrew Johnson, President of the L nited States, of high crimes and misdemeanors, and acquaint the Senate that the House of Representatives will, in duo time, exhibit' particular articles of impeachment against him, and make good the same. Resolved, That the said committee do demand that the Senate take order for the appearance of said Andrew Johnson " to answer to the said impeachment." After some conversation on the subject, Judge Bingham moved to lay it ou the table, which was carried by the following vote: Yeas—Bingham, Paine, Beaman, Hubbard, Brooks and Bock. Nays—Ste vens, Boutwell and Farnsworth. Before the vote was taken, Patna, who was in favor of Impeachment last year, attempted to dodge the vote; and, as he was moving to the door to go out, Stevens called to him : "Stop, Paine; you have got to face the music !" Paine hesitated ; when Stevens said, "Clerk, put him down against im peachment." Mr. Stovenm, after the veto was declared, said: "Sin: The Republican party has been killed to-day by the action of this Committee, at the instance of General. Grant and hie friends. I have found that for the last two or three days the men who shouted the loud est, and throw their hate the highest, for U. S. Grant, have been using every exertion to influence what Impeachment the other members of this committee who were sup posed to favor it ; that Grant has bemusing hie influence everywhere to (Veal the scheme, and that Andrew Johnson has to thank the General that he remains undisturbed lu the White House. I have been in public life for forty years, and though 1 do not pretend to any gilt of prophecy 1 have seldom been mistaken in any political predictions. I now toll you that to-day's cowardly action will cost us Now York, Peunsylvanla, and probably three or four other Northern States, The minority remained in session for about thirty minutes after this, when it was resolved to let the matter drop. Mr. Stevens said it was no use, In the face of the opposi tion of the edwurdly House of Representa tives, to try to revive It; it would be only making themselves ridiculous In the eves of the country. AN INTERVIEW WITH OLD THAD He Is Out of Temper, end Declares Ile Is Done With Impeachment. The special correspondent or the New York World has had an Interview with " Old Thad." The old man wan Ina hitter bad hu car, us the following shows: • After the rush of members and politicians into Mr. Stevens's room at the Capitol had ,ceased, and very noon after the defeated " great commoner " had been borne In his chair from the Capitol to his home, the writer of these despatches, who had also been a witness examined in the presence of Mr. Stevens, culled upon bloc lie was received In a chamber where Mr% Stevens, the dying leader of nonce powerfulbut now fallen national party, leaned back in an easy chair atone, looking almost utterly ex haunted. Nevertheless his welcome was cordial, and his expressed regret that Mr. Stevens might not feel himself strong 1 enough to converse upon the subject in view, was alleviated at once by Mr. Stev ens's outspoken frankness. "I'll say this," proceeded Mr. Stover" "Not particularly for publication. Aud yet," he continued, " I don't object to your publishing anything I soy, I'll say this, that the whole question of impeachment lies almost in. a nutshell. As to the first part of the Grant and Johnson correspond• ence, (Johnson's letters I chiefly allude to,) I consider that there is enough evidence to Impeach a dozen men. Tho main point is, ' was the President guilty or not guilty of a violation of the Tenure-ol'.olllco act'? He is explicit enough himself on this subject. I Although he states in one place that ho did not remove Stanton and put Grant in with any reference to the Tenure of-Office act, 1 but upon the authority granted him by the Constitution, what is to he said in his defence for his requiring Grant, us they both [(glee In all their letters, to arrange with him (Johnson) to keep Stanton out of office against the will of the Senate? The Senate had confirmed the Tenure-of-Office law. What right bad a President to deny, defy, or seek to disobey, or circumvent that law ? Damn it, don't both the President and Gen eral Grant subscribe to this vital fact, that Grant had at least considered, and that Johnson had insisted upon, the proposition that Grant should help Johnson to keep Stanton out of office anyway notwithstand ing the Tenure-of-oillee act? If this direct attempt of the President to violate n law made by the Congress of the United States doesn't render him liable to be impeached, what does?" " I nut, as you nee, Mr. Stevens, only a respectful listener." "Well, then, there's the whole thing, It's us simple us day. What the devil do I cure about the question of veracity, as they cull It, between Johnson and Grunt? That's nothing to do with the law. Both of them may cull ouch other liars if they want to, perhaps they both do lie a little, or lot us say, equivoente,, though the President certainly has the woght of evidence on &I side. But Johnson being right or Grant being wrong, It makes no difference. It' they want to settle the question ho tween them, they may both go out in my neck yard and settle it alone. of course I have a slight objection to having that area soiled by either of them, but I wouldn't object, If they would only tlx it so that we should have no more talk. What I nut after is, that the law of these United States, us crude by the Congress of these United States, shall be obeyed by the President as well us by all men beside. There was plenty of evidence, God knows, to convict Johnson last year. It's all nonsense and folly to argue against the neltevident pro position that there Is more than plenty of evidence now." "I suppose, Mr. Stevens, that you may have been a little disappointed at my testi mony." "0, not at all. That was right enough. I've told you already that the question be tween Johnson and Grant has nothing to do with my Idea of impeachment. They may light that out themselves. Grant may be as guilty as the President of a violation of or an admitted attempt to violate the law, tut Grant isn't on trial : Johnson whom we have to consider; and, while we are not talking of crimes, misdemeanor le enough, and that is proven against him." " Well, were you disappointed In the vote this morning by the committee ?" Not a 'bit, sir. I know all the cowards in this Congress. hong experience has enabled mo to black murk every one of them, datnn them !" " What, then, Is at lust your opinion on the question whether Mr. Johnson will ever be Impeached." "Sir,'' said Mr. Stevens, with a bitter smile, "I shall never bring up this question of itnposchtnent again. I am not going to daily with that or any other committee In regard to It any longer." At this momenta secretary entered the chamber, and I bade the groat commoner good-bye. He said, as I took his hand, " comer sir, at any time. I shall always be glad to see Vi and speak with you upon this and other isubjects. I shrink from no revelation of my opinions or convictions." Sergeant Bate., the Pedestrian, and the American Flag in the South. SELMA, Ala., Feb, 13.--Sergeant Bates, the pedestrian, and bearer of the United States flag from Vicksburg to Washington, was publicly received at the Watts Hotel last night by n crowded house. Speeches were made by Ex• Gov. Parsons, Ex-Gov, Moore, Hon. Alex. White and Judge W. M. Brooks. Many ladies were present. To-day at a public meeting of citizens the following was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That we heartily approve of each and every principle embodied in the Constitution of the United States; that we regard the flag of the Union as the symbol of those principles, and wesolemnly pledge ourselves to support the one and to uphold and defend the other. Let any sensible and reasonable man contrast the temper of the rebels of Vicksburg, as displayed in the above account, with the mad and destructive treason of the Radicals in Congress. Greeley's Opinion of Mr. Kemblo. The New York 2riOunc has the fol— lowing first-class notice of Mr. W. H. Kemple: The correspondence between Mr. August Belmont end Mr. W. H. Kemble, Treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania, which we published yesterday, ought to be read by American gentlemen with mingled shame and satisfaction ; with shame that an official of Mr. Kemble's rank should have filled an official business letter with gross and un provoked Insults, and with satisfaction that Mr. Belmont should have administered in his reply a severe and well-merited casti gation. The tone of Mr. Kemble's entire letter is coarse; but the vulgarity or the concluding sentence, In which ha alludes to the religious faith of the Rothsehilds, is atrocious. Mr. Kemble had better resign. He may have frequent occasion to aasoclate officially with gentlemen, and the inter course could hardly fail to be unpleasant. The New Arkansas COMIMUIIOII. News items, The negroes and their white allies in The births in Boston last year numbered Arkansas have completed the new State 1 5,893; deaths, 4,421. NeAbgrgzzlt;arremasseninamreespinanittienwg forest in Constitution. It Is a fair specimen of what might be expected from such a [ The severe cold In St. Louis on Monday night extinguished 500 street lamps. source. We defy any decent white man to read the following summary of its In Nor charity soup at the various w ith n, on Monday, 1,003 persons were provisions without a sense of indigna• ,a s t u n P t Fo n e s . . tion and alarm. The following are its 1 It is stated that the New York Central main features : i Park has already cost over 810,000,04 A It provides for twenty Senators and eighty. The finest street in the city of Constant). Representatives ; the Executive officers to noplo is only 20 feet wide. be elected every four years; no Incumbent of 1 Charlotte Cushman sends from Italy three one officer to be eligible to another during beautiful works of art to the Boston Music the period for which he washrst elected ; for , lialL are,election by the people of four Supreme The Philadelphia Germans have raised Judges; the appointment by the Governor 5t17,000 for their theatre. of a Chief Justice, to hold his officefor eight Gen. Burnside has consented to be a can:- years, at a salary of $1,000; authorizes a dictate for Governor of Rhode Island for State poll tax of one dollar for educational another term. purposes, compelling three months' attend ance annually at the schools without die- At lest accounts the cholera continued to Unction of color or sex; enfranchises females rage in Buenos Ayres, the deaths number and negroes, and makes them competent lug from 150 to 180 per day. jurors; disfranchises all those disfranchised Mrs. Mary Monteau was burned to death by the Congressional military bills, and • at Burlington, Vt., yesterday, by her clothes who vote against the constitution; appoints taking fire from a match. March 13 next as the day for the vote The city authorities of Philadelphia talk on the ratification of the constitution about stiending $160,000 for a new ice-boat and the election of officers made under to clear the Delaware river. this constitution; authorizes Mr. Ilowen„ ytinethinly there The New Orleans Pica tl the President of the Convention ; Mr. Brooks year Louisiana. - v of Phillips county, and Mr. Hodges, of will be comparatively little cotton planted Pulaski county, to appoint judges to ascot.- this . Cain the result of the election, and if adopted 'Vito fruit growers throughout Indiana to present the constitution to the President report that thus far not 0110 peach bud in a of the United States; directs how the elec- hundred has been ihj ti red by frost. tion Is to be conducted; voters are required Tile Wisconsin !legislature ham passed a to swear they will support and maintain law to prohibit the locking of care while in the constitution and laws of the United motion, and prohibiting the use of kerosene States and Arkansas; that they are not ex- In lighting ears. eluded iron registration by any of the Thu Washington correspond, nt of the clauses of the second suction of the State radical Chicago Republican says that Mr. constitution; that they never gave aid in ,:xt 1 i as.i.irin, wrote all t leneral Oratit's letters secession to any State; that they will accept to the President. the civil and political equality of all men 'the Raleigh (N. C.) Standard says thur before the laws, and not attempt to deprive tire live hundred persons in Wake county any person of the right, on account of race, who are "suffering the most acute pangs of color, or previous condition, to vote for or against the constitution, and for the election cold and hunger." of officers tinder this constitution, Twentl nt y Admiral Bell, Lieut. Reed, anti ten men thousand copies were ordered tu he printet . from the U. S. ship Hartford, were drowned The Convention will adjourn on Thursday. while crossing the Osaka river, In Japan, oti . .11... - t h e 1 Bit of January. .. _ . . . . Au Ainhama Radical Ticket. Two ingenious tnechanles In Bridgeport, A correspondent of the New York (('arid, Conn., claim to have Invented a machine writing front ioutgotnery, Alabama, gives for cutting tiles, which will cut one hundred heir the following account of the antecedents of l et ' s ' l r t ic ' i lsalic,. so line and regularly as to d • the candidates on the ticket recently voted Know and strawberries seldom come 0,- by the negroes In that county: gother. on January . .iti the editor of the Coining from the polls there oune to hand New Orleans Picayune tutu on his table it certain mangy looking little slip of paper snow-balls and strawberries, the latter —the "Republican ticket," as its heading raised lit the open air. declares, fur this county. Let us look at It. The annual report of thu Idaho territorial For It.OprIPILOItUtIVO to CollgreMS—Charles treasurer plaves the territorial debt at some- W. Buckley. This Buckley is a bureau what over tt1:1,00o. I* tali, on the contrary, chaplain front Massachusetts, and was a owes nothing, but lots $16,000 In Illi , trees 1110111 bar oh' the Alabama Black Crook Cott- itry. volition. tie Is a paltry creature of no A Young liiit's Coristlati Assoolittion oi special note, For Chancellor on this ticket sr 1 ..ortittimpton countv has been von verted collies Adam I'. Felder, a former motor In into an Ethoplan Minstrel Troupe and Is the Confederate army, and now a henna giving concerts in that county for the bun, out-Ileroding Herod and regarded as lit of the poor. the worst man in Alabama. For Ch. 'Cho iieorglit Convention has authorized cull Judge, John Quincy Smith, u the negotiation of a limn to defray Its ex " truoly loll" Alabamian, who Was for that . . penses. it 11114 reronAlderuEl its franchise reason made United States District-Attor article and omitting that part illsfranclils ney. For the Board of Education,:two non- I n '. i , on /et , 1 , g pell,o Pi ( V (01 larcen,,. entitles. For representatives from the County of Montgomery, In the State Leg's- Five 'legroom have been arrested at Beau lature, ll previous quintette. Willard War_ fort, S. C., charged with the brutal murder tier was floneral Shorman's chief of stair, or 111 r, .1. Frazer Matthews several days and what could have gotten him on this since. Several negroes on Mr. M.'s plant ti sneaking ticket Is u mutter that may excite tion were with ditilunlty prevenient from wonder in the North. Paul Strobach Is un lynchi n g the prisoners, Austrian, whose oath of citizenship, ha not Ponds near Montgomery, Ala., were having been In this country three years, is frozen over sufficiently the other day to now muter Judicial investigation. A tall, allow skaters it chance to show their skill. hap-bearded, red-republican earbenuri is It is so seldom that such a thing happens the said • Strobnch, whom a vile rebel there, that the whole city could simply onii sheet advises to "go back" to Austria One pair of skates, and be done with It. L. J. Williams Is a The editor of it western contemporary re yellow negro front the North motnowborom, marks that he is glad to ri , colye unirrlitge who has never been seen hurt till the past notice+, but requests that they be sent soon few weeks. George IVashington Cox is it after the cormeony and before the divot-is. negro 111S0 11111(110M:11 to the oldest iambi- Is epplied fora lie has had several notices tent. Holland Thompson, the last of the spilled In this way. live candidates for representative, is a broad- ,ledge Underwood, at Itiehniond, lion ri , shouldered, pock--marked, deep•-brown mended Churchill Coombs to the custody negro, formerly it waiter In one of the hotels of the military, deckling that Congress Hilt here, 1111(1 very, very dingy, as to Ills linen, , naving yet declared peace, the courts have and unaromatic as the odor thereof. For no right to take prisoners Irmo military member Probo f a the Blackte, Judge cCroo onies k I,leor and known c go Ely, a ust ' oily The ease I 1 list to the . ae will mii d, .ocu Irreveutty as Old Specs. This candidate Is Supreme Court. from Massachusetts, and brother of the Toxin-11111a 1111111114 are gel thing up a large Congressman captured at the first Man- mutual traffic which will greatly 1,12111.111 asses. For Clerk of the Circuit Court comes both. Forty thousand head of Texas cattle Mark 1). Brainerd, 01 New York, it dole- were slaughtered In Leavenworth alone, gate in the Black Crook. For Sheriff, Rob- last year, and the merchants of that oily ert Barbour, Secretary to the Black Crook made sales to Texas dealers, exceeding hail and a Bureau man from the North, For it million of dollars. Tax Assessor, one McDuff°, of whom the M. , , 1 in .1 ...... ...it aa...u, wit., lrevoter, in it recent only information I con gather In the one lecture, slated that while sojourning in the curt phrase "carpet-bagger." Then came liihogs country, Africa, he hail several offers Just a dozen and a-third of putty officers of marriage, and one ii hid chief, to avoid (for all, even to constables am made elec. jealousy, wanted him to marry all the tivo by the bogus constitution) of whom 1 marriageable women of the tribe, n millwr say nothing, nave that ono Is currently ac- log shout MSU. coned an crimes() horribly appalling that, for the honor ofhninan nature, I will neither The Meech 7 ' , lrgrard , ,01 5'.; " ineol' believe nor repeat it. Thompson, ono of the ox !ammitt rebels Such is the lint presentud to the peopleed II bread, recently rocelved it reinittanco ‘if this populous county for their support, an $BO,OOO In gold, the proceeds of a sale or his ~,nni f i won d er th e y, b e i ng men, refine t o lands lying along the Mississippi River. vote for such a string of worms. S. It. Before Cho war he was the richest nom in Mississippi, his wealth being over 4,000,- 000." Rumor. About General 'Merman 'rho Washington Correspondent of the The wife of Jacob McCloskey, of Fox township, Elk county, froze to death be- Philadelphia Ledger says: twoon that place and Centreville, on Therm- The Report that General Sherman has day night last. She was on foot'und within telegraphed to his brother,StiontorHherman, a snort distance of her home, when, evident. that he wishes the Senate Military Commit- ly overcome by the cold, she laid down try tee to refuse to favor his nomination for " sleep the sleep that knows no waking, Brevet General, and that if ordered to come to this city to assume command of the new A correspondent front De Witt county, military department, he will resign rather Texan, says that the people In that section than take the conimand, is probably incor are beginning to diversify thole crops. Cm.- rect,buted to Um Sherman in the &vel at tenet as to the tone and phraseology for beans, broon-corn and sorghum are tak • ettri log the place of cotton. There will proba• dt, Up to a late hour to night the President hod lily be seven thousand acres planted In the not received a word on the subject from Gen, I castor been In Victoria. Du Witt end Goo. Sherman by telegram or othorwino ; and It rates "multi" thi s "u s ". is not believed In edictal circles that Omelet- A gentlemen who wanted to make a speech for would piece hlmmulf even In mourning en- to a Sunday school thought ho would adopt tagonimm with the President In such a met• the eallogul a l style, I,„d - this is what hap. tor, without eutumunluating dl really and at ironed : '-' Now, boys, what drain 0 110111 011 CU With /11111, 011111 l Whelk 110 goes limiting f" A shrill Tho order milking the department of the voice In the crowd went d trout to the ;whit Atlantic or a department of some kind, in ' with, "NVlUltil a bite." keeping with the dignity of Gen, Shermen'm A Domoern tie 11111014 meeting. Was held rank with heedquerters et NVanhington, was several weeks ago determined upon by Saturday night in the St. Charles Theater, the Executive, as also was the Brevet Gen- New Orleans, which was &wady crowded. eralship decided upon about the same time, .1. N. Loachow was President. Resolutions were adopted indorming Pronldent.lohmem, and It was talked over between the Premi dent and Gen. Sherman on soveraloccasions, i and Militating with the Northern Demo the last being the day on which Sherman 1 eritcY• Ex-Governor John 11. NVetter, of loft for the West. There was no Indigne- California, and E. M. Tomer, of Missouri, Lion manifested by Sherman at the propos- addressed the meeting. ed compliment, nor any question raised A gentleman entered a Detroit street cur about the legality of the proceeding. November I. Ile was followed by a dog Gen. Sherman, In those eonversetlons,dld who followed the car to the end of tile route, not refuse to except either the brevet up- nut observing his master when he quit the pointment or the command of the proposed car. Since that time lie has followed the note Department, and the tenor of the al- same car day after day, apparently never leged despatch to his brother, if correctly losing sight of it, and no amount of coaxing reported, is at variance with the tone and ' can induce him to abandon his self•imposrmi temper evinced by the General in those hi- task. terviews with the President. The school teachers of 'Williams township Northampton Co. have quit teaching be .lli egro outra ges In Chester County. cause the Board oeDirectorm put down their The Afferannian records the following salary from $.lO to 83.5 per month. The instances of outrages committed by negated directors originally contracted to pay them In that county last week : Pri per month, and afterward Increased their A daring attempt was made by a negro salary to 840, and on lust Saturday they fixed the salary again at VII, and the result named Emanuel Brant, to tire the barn of ' Mr. Thomas Warrington, on the north edge wits as stated above. of Westchester. Mr. Warrington and Dr. The people of Florida aro beginning to Rayner had been up all night doctoring a turn their attention to the gjowing of fruits sick horse. About 2 o'clock on Wednesday and vegetables, which there Rourikili to pet morning as Mr. W. was about leaving the fectlon, Green peas, radishes, lettuce, ,tc., barn he observed a light; upon investiga- can be bad In abundance, even in mid lion he discovered tirant. striking u match. winter. Strawberries ripen In February Upon Mr. W. endeavoring to secure him, , and continue to produce fruit until .11100, he was violently assaulted, and severely when peaches are ready for market. cut by the villain with a knife he had con coaled, lie was afterward arrested, An Irish priest died a few days ago at the extraordinary age of 107 years. It was Rev - Mr. Wm. Lewis, an aged and respectable Malachy McMahon, born In 17W, in Bag citizen of Waynesburg, this county, while , nalstown, County Carlow, who Ices been returning home from the vicinity of Cam- parish priest of Suncroft, County Kildare, bridge, a lbw days ago, was attacked by a .17 years. cnly the Saturday before Its negro, and knocked down walla club. Ito death he sat In the confessional for several was struck ou the side of the head twice. hours, and performed his duties almost t .. ln falling, Mr. Lewis' shoulder was dislo- hi s last hear, rated. The negro then dragged him to a 11. F. Downing, of Lexington, Ky., an large tree near the road anti threatened to hang him. He then left and took his wayen ent c , nounees himself tin indep andidate d . across the fields. Mr. Lewis managed to for Sheriti, and considers his claim India get home and make complaint, when the entable, as he "once slept with Andrew negro was traced to a 110111111 In the neigh- J ack. On. 4 " The Kentucky Yeoman suggests burhood, and arrested and committed to that politiclunn should keep a record of tiu• I prison. bedfellows now ; In view of the enlargement Somebody ought to cull the attention e l f m nge t h e l i s l e irig pr l T , i , sed by Mr, Train. o th f or th e of John Hickman to the manner in which record may become. Important such a the negroes are behaving, while ho in on- According to one Prof. Delisser, a curies deavoring to have their right to vote ree- of celestial and terrestrial phenomena is at ognized In Pennsylvania. hand. On the nlghtof theLlth of February, in the western heavens, there will bo conjunction of the moon with Jupiter and Venus;' and three nights later. Jupiter will pass Venus by only twenty•three seconds of a degree. The result of these eonjune- Lions and perturbations will be atmospheric I commotion—electrical discharges, heavy gales, high tides earthquakes, and nobody knows what besides. Moreover, the whole year will be fearful for Its storms, InUuda dons, eruptions, quakings of the earth, Ac. At midnight on Thursday the East river, between Now York and Brooklyn, was effectually bridged with Ice. Prior to this event an Immense field of lee, which broke at the southern extremity of Governor's Island, sweeping round on both sides mot anti reunited in the basin, between White hall and Hamilton ferry, completely block ing up the river from dock to dock, pre senting an unbroken surface nearly a mile in diameter. The ice was between fifteen and twenty Inches thick, and with very little snow upon it. Alniotd n Final Accident A somewhat singular accident, and one which came near being attended with a fatal result, occurred to an elderly lady named Simons, on Wednesday evening, residing on Crease street, between ()Irani avenue and Wildey street. Attompting to put up a clothes line. she had att:fthed one end of the rope to a fence-post, having the remainder of the line around her elbow and hand. While walking across the yard she trod upon u hillock of snow, and im mediately felt something give way under her feet. Supposing that it was the snow, she paid no attention to the matter; but be jfore she had time to take another step she found herself sinking down into the earth very rapidly. She clung to the rope, and called lustily for help for nearly three hours.. Some of the neighbors were startled by her cries, but none of them could discern from whence the sound proceeded. Finally her Call for help led the lady living In the ad joininehouse to look Into the yard. There she discovered 160 top of Mrs. Simons' snow, and traced the clothesline to the head projecting an Inch or two above the same place. Assistance soon arrived, and the unfortunate woman was dragged from her perilous position. The rope was tightly twisted around her arm, and she was com pletely exhausted, anti swooned away im mediately afterwards. It seems that the hole through which she was so suddenly precipitated was formerly an old well, and had been floored over with boards, then a 1 coating of dirt laid with bricks. Of this fact the family were not aware. The rope I that was attached to Mrs. Simons, no doubt saved her from a dreadful death. The well is ten or twelve feet deep, and had she gone to the bottom she would have either suf focated ordrowned.—Pltiladelphia. age. THE Legislature of 1866 paid $14,410. 7 50 to eighteen posters and folders, as per Auditor General's report. The Radical Legislature of 1867 paid for pasting atitl folding (number employed not stated) $20,612.10—an increase of $6,201.60. These sis thousand dollars evidently went to pay the fellows whose names were on the pay rolls but who never reported for duty. Thu streets of London appear to be more dangerous for pedestrians than English rail ways aro for passengers. In the seven years ending in Ma, only one passenger in nine millions was killed from causes be yond his own control. In the streets of 'London, in twelve months, ono hundred and fifty-four were killed out of n popula tion of three millions. So it is safer to ride on a railroad car in England than to walk in London streets. What a blessing it would be If the American railways were as free from perils us those in England. Fire and Explosion at Harrisburg. About 7 o'clock last night, a boy employ ed in the hardware store of Anthony king, went into the collar to draw coal on. The oil in tho vessel he was holding caught fire from the lamp ho had in his hand and com municated with the barrel, the stream from which was still flowing. The boy ran up staitg and the alarm of tiro was raised, The firemen wore promptly on the grodnd and turned ,wator on the cellar. The fire seemed to be' speedily extinguished, when an explosion occurred .whioh' tore the front out of the building, injuring a number' of persons, some of them quite seriously. some twenty odd firemen are reported as having antlered from burns and b No one was killed, and no one my wounded according to the Slate Guard, the reporter of which was among thoseblown up
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