gannota inttiligattv. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1868. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL BOYLB, of Fayette ettuity. FOR BURVEYOB_GENERAL: Gen. WELLINGTON 11. ENT, of Columbia co TEXPOBABY OUJB 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 Ix- TELLI6ENCEB, to new subscribers, for a tuned period, at the following very low rates: • $2.00 9.00 17100 32.00 45 00 An extra-copy will be sent with every club of 20 or 30. ' Single copies, 1 year 6 copies, 1 year 10 2 0 , 41 30 a 41 CI 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 ode of our readers to make an effort to add to our list. In no way can they do more to further the spread of political truth, or to combat error. , Lee there be an organized effort made to get up clubs. The terms which we offer are so very low that we do not_ propose to make them per manent. The arrangement will only ho e temporary one, and will not be extended beyond the first day of next April. Each subscriber will find his nnmo and the date at which his subscription expires printed on the pnpor. Our terms are CASH IN ADVANCE. Money can be sent by mall from any par , of the county at our risk. Parties at a die tattoo should send checks or post office or dors. The Radicals of the House in the Court of Impeachment. Punctual to the hour, whenever Chief Justice Chase takes his seat in the Speaker's chair, and the Senate is re solved Into a High Court of Impeach ment, the Radical members of the lower House of Congress are seen entering the Senate Chamber in a body and taking seats prepared for them. This is done in pursuance of a resolution to that ef fect regularly adopted. It is something entirely new. During former impeach molt trials the House continued in ses sion, transacting business as usual. But, there is a purpose now to be subserved, by this movement on the part of the Radicals. Thad. Stevens has openly threatened any Senator Who shall dare to regard his solemn oath, and the law and the facts in this trial. He Insists that every Republican Senator shall act In accordance with the advice he gave to Penrose and others in the Buckshot War ; that they shall "throw conwit to the Dolt and Nfiniellw purty." The Radicals of the lower House will enter the Senate Chumbe• from day to ) day during the impeachment trial, for the purpose of watching the course of Republican Senators. They will be there in a body to Influence the action of those who sit as judges. They ex pect thus to bring a strong pressure to boar upon the minority who may have some regard for the oaths solemly taken by each of them at the commencement of the trial. Their presence will be a continuing menace to the Court. It remains to be seen whether• Repub lican Senators will basely cower before the eyes of the reckless leaders of their party In the lower House. The whole proceeding Is, from list to last, a shame less exhibition of partisan malice; and, if President Johnson Is removed, two thirds of the Senators will have to dis regard the law and the evidence, In de• liberate and wilful violation of a solemn oath solemnly taken. We can scarcely believe they will do that ; but, there is no telling to what extreme passion and partisan motives may carry them. We have lived to see the Constitution ruth lessly violated by those who were sworn to support It, the law recklessly tram pled under foot by those whose duty It was to uphold it, and right aid Joe. Dee so frequently violated by a usurping Congress that we are prepared to wit ness any new outrages without being much surprised. The New Alabama Bill By the usual process, with a regularity and machine-like movement that re minds one of the prevalence of military rule in this country, a bill touching the Constitution of Alabama has been passed through the lower house of Congress. Old Thad. Stevens mounted the Clerk's desk and issued his order to the rank and file, and with a precision that showed how perfect was their• drill, the Radicals voted aye unanimously, and now Alabama only awaits the action of the Senate, where similar tactics will produce'a similar result, before passing under a new form of government. The constitution framed by negroes and carpet-bag adventurers was defeat• ed. Large as is the negro vote in Ala bama it was found to be insufficient to enable the darkies and Yankee adven turers to obtain control of the offices. So Congress, its first Hellenic having failed ingloriously, tries a new one. By the act just adopted the old State gov ernment is annihilated, and the State offices are transferred to a gang of ne• groes and despicable and disreputable white adventurers. But is Alabama , t4lereby restored to the Union. Not at all. The new gov ernment thus set up Is only aprovisional one. Representatives front that state are not adlnitted to Congress; military rule he to continue; and the people of Alabama are to be subjected to the triple abomination of negro supremacy, mili tary despotism, mid ex elusion from the Union. Th u Radios.is do not Intend to permit the people of Alabama to take part in the coming Presidential election. Out of 170,1100 registered voles they were only able to bring 70,000 to the polls. Warned by this failure, they are con vinced that if they should ',emit an electoral ticket to be run hi Alabama the Democracy would carry the State. This accounts for Thad. Stevens' oppo- MUM] to her admission, and is the reason why Congress is determined to keel' her out of the Colon until alter the Presidential election. It is not likely that the reconstruction policy of Con gress will meet with better Stlevess else where tlian lu Alabama. The thing is a dead fsildre, and the people of the North must make up their minds to re pudiate the radical party by an over whelming vote, if they wish to see the Union restored, and to witness a return of peace and prosperity. The Township Elections The township elections in this county show decided and remarkable gains. In the Boroughs of Marietta and Elizabeth town the Democracy made a clean sweep. In West Donegal, Brecknock, Coleraiu, Burt, Eden, Ephrata and Washington townships the Democrats made large gains, electing either the vhole or the more important parts of their tickets. Such a result tells that even in Lancaster county the honest masses are getting tired of the extrava gance; the usurpations and the unwise legislation of the Radicals. TEIF. Republicans in many of the counties of this State huvo already effected strong organizations for the coming campaign.— State Guard. The Republicans failed to make the influence of their organizations felt at the recent municipal and township elec tions, the Democracy having made the most remarkable gains everywhere throughout the State. GOVERNOR GEARY has vetoed the so . called free railroad bill, on the ground of its. doubtful constitutionality and the tnexpediency of the Sixth Section. The Ilump Senate. The Ruinll•.Seifikte le amlOms of infamy. It commenced, iti;db 3 gisOeftil treatment of the'-subjet before it . lby censuring the Preeldent for the re moval of Stanton; when -every Seimtorknew that the latter was not within 'the pro tection of the Tenure-of-Office Act. It thus invited the malicious and ground less prosecution now in progress, and gave the pestilent drill-sergeant of the House occasion to crack his whip over its flanks. He - saw that the charge was absurd, but that the Senate was absurdly committed to it and applied the spur. The Senate adopted rules to govern the trial, without consulting the Chief Justice who was to preside. These rules are contrived to gag discussion and stifle debate. They are designed to exclude every possible ray of light from the transparent emptiness of the charge.— They are intended to protect the ears of Senators from too frequent repetition of the language of the law, which is so plain that " a wayfaring man, though a fool, cannot err therein." In short, they are intended to soften the task of premeditated perjury. The Senate has refused to allow the President one half the time for prepara tion always accorded by Courts to the most trifling offender. Not that the charge requires time or effort to meet it, but that it requires time and herculean labor to surmount the frenzy of the Court. No, not the Court, for the Sen ate disdains the name, and insists on calling the Chief Justice "President," so that none may mistake the caucus for a court. A fit tribunal for the prac tice of the prosecutor of Mrs. Surratt, who heads the managers of Impeach ment! The Senate qualifies for trial, and every day receives resolutions of Negro Conventions and Legislatures endors ing impeachment. The sworn jurors publicly and shamelessly ridicule the Secretary ad interim, who Is, they know, entitled to Stanton's place. The creature designated by the conspiracy to succeed the President sits among the judges. And a Senator of New York, who recently proclaimed impeachment as his platform from the chair of a par tizan convention affects to administer impartial justice. No matter that his state rejected the platform, as it would now repudiate the Senator, by fifty thousand majority; he will respond when the vote is taken, and himself has told us bow. It is manifest that the Senate will make short work of the Impeachment trial. The President is au " obstruc tion " to the. schemes of the Radicals and the designs of the Senate itself, and must be removed. The Senate wants to monoplize the powers and pa tronage of the Government, and will not forego this opportunity to promote Its tool. Wade is to thrust his creatures Into office, when the new law will close upon them, and keep them in place for years. Then the people may be safely sullered to elect a President whose only business will be to servo the Senate and its understrappers. This Senate is ambitious of infamy, and will attain the pinnacle of its am bition. It will secure a brief lease of unlimited power, to be followed by an eternity of public execration. It will be distinguished from all other Senates In our history as false, perjured, revolu tionary, usurping and traitorous. The present generation will strive to disown It, and posterity Will spit upon It. The very children of these unjust jidges will deny their fathers, and dispute the virtue of their own mothers, rather than acknowledge descent from the rep . tiles that defile our Senate Chamber. Grant's '• Biography by his Father." The Cincinnati Uazatc, a Radical or- I gun, says General Hiram Ulysses Grant ! issued a military order peremptorily di - reeling his old father to quit furnishing I3onner with sketchesof the life of him, the said Hiram Ulysses. Old Jesse has thereupon incontinently " dried up."— , We are to have no more stories of the wonderful youth who rode the mule in the circus while the monkey rode him• The world is not to be informed when Hiram took his first toddy, not to know when he first began to smoke, not to learn from paternal pen the reason why he had to leave the artily. What a hiatus will thus be created In Ameri can literature. Evidently Hiram thinks his only chance of being considered great is to be found in a judicious and impenetrable silence. The Radicals seem to regard his taciturnity as a con vincing evidence of his wisdom—, In our judgment this opinion is niorhalf as sagacious as was that of the negro, who, after trying for half au hour to get the baboon in a menagerie to talk to him, stepped back a pace or two, and viewing his simian brother with ad miration, exclaimed: "Dat'S right— jest you keep mum—the minute you says a word, white man clap a hoe in your hand and set you to work in de cotton field." The negroe's admiration of the ba-, boon's silence was altogether similar to the Radical view of Grant's tacitur nity. The baboon had not a word to say because Nature had denied it the ability to talk. Want is in the same fix. He is incapable of forming politi cal opinions, and has none to express— so he keeps a cigar constantly between his lips, and,only opens his mouth to let out a cloud of smoke or to " talk horse." We do not wonder he put such a sudden stop to the literary labors of his father. More Special Legislation for Lancaster City. Not content with the ill luck which has attended all their efforts to gerry mander this city, the Radicals are still busy at their legislative tinkering. Yesterday their honest Andy Arm strong in troduced.a bill into the House, providing for au Increase of the number of Select Councilmen, so as to elect two front each of the nine wards. We are not at all sure that the proposed amend ment would not result in giving the Democracy a larger majority in Select Council than they now have; but we are satisfied with affairs as they stand. We hope our Democratic friends in the House and the Senate will oppose it an principle. All such special legislation is wrong, and ought to be discouraged. Photographed The telegraph has announced to the world, as a matter of general interest, that the Managers of the Impeachment have had their photographs taken "in imperial Idyle." Thad. Stevens and Ben. Butler are most promirfent In the group, and the others are arranged so as to make the best show possible.— There will be another photograph taken of these fellows some day. Impartial history will be the artist. Then they will be exhibited in their true charac ters, and all who look upon them will turn away with loathing and contempt. This historic picture will be held up as a warning to all free people, and the names of Stevens, Butler and their as sociates in crime, will be remembered as are the names of those who have lived to curse the earth. The Prospect In Virginia The Radicals are abusing General Schofield in unmensure 1 terms, be cause he has shown some disposition to allow the coming election to be con ducted with a show of fairness. They know that the grand old State of Vir ginia can not be subjected to the domi nation of the negro, except' by the di rect interposition of military force. The white men of that State are organizing in a manner which will certainly defeat the reconstruction Conatitution, if they ure permitted to avail themselves of the provisions of the sufficiently harsh acts of Congress. The Radicals see this and their anger thereat is unbounded. The result InArkansas has exalperated them beyond measure. THE LANCASTER WRTIN_LY ITZLLIGEN - CER; IV - FIT)NESDAY, APRIL 1, 1868. Grant and the Radicals. liVtiyi the Radical pads desertedthe planA'restoration ailpptelt.by gFesl itiintsbiricoln and JokiitsoiViind it4ep iiratlon! ensued; etWlot Johiison and hießarty, General: Grant. appeigecl. to side' with "the Prealdiiit. He stood' beside the President when. the latter re ceiv'ed and replied to the Committee from the Philadelphia Convention of August 14th, 1866. He accompanied the President in his memorable electioneer ing tour to Chicago in the same year.— And when the President removed Stan ton, General Grant accepted the .ap pointment of Secretary ad interim, as every one thought in order to facilitate a change. The testimony of General Grant be fore the Impeachment Committee more• over indicates that he approved the programme of Messrs. Lincoln and Johnson; and his celebrated report upon the condition of the Southern people, made shortly after the close of the war, exhibits a feeling of kindness for them which is utterly irreconcile able with a support of the Congressional scheme of Destruction. How, then, does it happen that Gen. Grant has deserted the President, and given his adhesion to the abominable plan of Negro Reconstruction? Has he deliberately deceived the people for three years, or has he been corrupted by the promise of the Radical nomina tion for the Presidency? His corres pondence with tho President about the removal of Stanton betrays a desire to create the impression that he was de ceiving the President and people. But In either aspect of his course, we wish the Radicals joy of their candidate.— If he has deliberately deceived the American people for three long years, and perfidiously betrayed them at the end of that time, the Radicals cannot expect him to keep better faith with them than with others. If he has been corrupted by the promise of office, the Radicals may reckon his deserting them as soon as he finds their party losing the power to confer office. The willingness of the Radicals to accept a candidate of Grant's equivocal antecedents, exhibits their fear and des peration. A year ago they would have disdained to support any less pro nounced candidate than Chase, Wade or one of that stamp. Now, they grasp at the candidate who promises to afford them support In the hour of their ex tremity and danger. And they do this in the face of their experience of An dre* Johnson and two of his predeces sors. But they flatter themselves that Im peachment and the Tenure of Office Act will secure the President, whoever he may be., The Impeachment of Mr. Johnson is not only intended as a pun ishment for him, but as a warning to Grant, should he be elected. And after Mr. Wade has distributed the patronage of the Government, the Tenure of Office Act will prevent Grant or any one else from disturbing his arrangements. The new President will find it his principal business to draw his salary, and expend it in entertaining his constituents. The .Radicals do not want Grant as the pilot, but as the flgure•head of the party. They propose to use him as a decoy to catch votes. If under his name they can pump up enthusiasm enough to carry majorities In the Electoral Col leges and Congress, Stevens, Sumner and the negroes will rule the country four years longer, and Grant will have their full permission to smoke and talk horse throughout his term. The Charge and the Proor. \Vu charge that the Radical party is in favor of Negro Suffrage in the North, and support the charge with the follow lug evidence : The Radical States of New England now allow Negro Suffrage. The Radicals last year attempted to introduce Negro Suffrage into Ohio. They attempted to introduce it into Kansas. They attempted to introduce It into Minnesota. The Radical State Convention of New Jersey last year recommended Negro Suffrage in that State. The Radical Legislature of Connecti cut last year passed a proposition to amend the Constitution of the State so as to permit Negro Suffrage. There is at present pending before the people of Michigan a Radical amend meat to engraft Negro Suffrage upon the Constitution of the State. There is a similar Radical amendment now pending before the people of Mis souri. The Radical Constitutional Conven• tion of New York has submitted a like amendment to the people of that State. Congress requires every Northern Territory applying for admission into the Union to present a Constitution al lowing Negro Suffrage, before it is re ceived into the family of States. And last and least, every Radical newspaper in Lancaster advocates Ne• gro Suflrage in Pennsylvania and through the North. We have been requested to return the thanks of the Democracy of Lancaster city to General Joseph W. Fisher, of the Senate, and Major A. C. Reinoehl, of the House, for the special act they so kindly had passed, whereby the Demo crats were legally entitled uud enabled to elect twent2pone School Directors out of a board of thirty-six. This considera tion for the rights of a Democratic ma jority is so unusual In these days, tbatwe cannot help regarding it as very:remark able Indeed. The act Is to be regarded none the less a kindness to the Democ racy of Lancaster city because It was the result of stupidity. We are obliged to Messrs. Fisher and Relnoehl for pos. ‘ sessing so little legislativeability. Had they been as smart as they are malig nant they would not have been entitled to the thanks of the Democracy which we hereby tender them. Very Luminous Tile explanation contained In the Ex preßs of last evening as to how the De mocracy Intended to secure a majority of the School Directors was wonderfully luminous. We are sure no one could possibly understand It. The editor evi dently was completely bemuddled. He was In a terrible passion—blind with rage, in fact. That may account for such a display of stupidity. We make this excuse out of charity for the poor fellow. The .Express gave an exhibition of very ill temper and exceedingly bad manners yesterday. In its impotent rage at the prospective defeat of the nice little scheme which the Radical leaders had set up for manipulating the School election, it fell to abusing the Germans In the coarsest style. The Express cannot conceal the virus of Know-Nothingism which still rankles and festers in its party. It will break out like an old sore. It is in the blood of the organization. THE New York Times is almost the only Republican paper which rises above mere partisan motives In dis cussing the Imp s eachment of President Johnson, but being very ably edited, what it!says is the more marked and effective; because it stands so entirely alone. Elsewhere we republish an ed itorial from the Times, which will be read with interest by men of all parties, and which must commend itself to thoughtful consideration and unquali fied approval of all who are honest and truly patriotic. FORNEY fairly raves over the defeat of negro supremacy in Arkansas. Ife , charges President Johnson with, being responsible for it, and urgei thle,es.a reason why, not an hour should A lost in removing him Al 4 .' 4 . - Ith a 1110 •I. ' %.!,,, 'Want Appropriations of the State ~ Jay Cooke on the FlrelWenties. , The:44A* 1, -. : - 4 [4iavOleew_te.x... :_,, t ~,,- ?;?„ I misbilaFe• 4_4.. ' - - Ipe, the sailie sapharafinanciek. ;iied, it*lyitrilOirky .nA. sir tlitemOs to . 1:1 ~,.. last Radical 134*Psgt!lia_We Ijthe , ?Levi* niiiie milliona'otmorialr toreak4Own t.lrrDembblaticrinajorgy ill; _ teelf With -Infalp*Y tirg OitAt etch Sale 9f . GliegrnmenVbonda, I roactiger by items iif special liOla-; arpost extravagant applPPrietlf Oortliurtite a great N onal xiiit to be ion. Zest winter they fried' to ery.: I ,_ kuridje money. To suckt: an s ..,!-- t 441rett Nationallilwiteir' ,has iriittela mender its'Ont of our rightful contfol of witallila etirried that markfßepnolican iiSi g a kiWut,„ ik,i ve tgia the five-twenty the municipal government by dividing papers were compelled to denounce it.bonds can nbt be legally paid In any the city into nine wards, cut out an- There - were promises of amendment I thing but gold coin. In this pronuncia cording to lines of their own marking. made this year, but, as yet there are no mentohemakesmanystatements which The result at the first election under the signs that they will be kept. When the cannot be substantiated by the facts in new law was a larger majority for the appropriation , bill is finally passed we the case. Among. other thinga he as- Democratic , Aandidate, for MAYO that' , i li all'llelnoittagreebly. dieaPPAltit4 _lf serfs that "Ahacustom of other nations, it doesnot foot up a much larger aggre had been given for many years, and theas well as our own, has been to pay their election of two thirds of both branches gate - than , even.that of last year.. The we ebtti in 7 Oblit`.” Has 'Mr. Say of the City Councils by our party. One spirit of reckless, extravagance ' which Cooke already forgotten the action of would have thought that experiment prevailed during the war has not Pennsylvania? would have satisfied the Radical beembheeked. 'Wherever the Radicals Can it he pOsaible that he is ignorant . . leaders. But they were not content to have control, w h e th er o f Natiorial or of the fact that the Radical par the en ty in this met give it up so. They concluded to ger- State administrations, government is State passed a law, which rymander the SchOol Board. A. bill made a mostcostly affair. Not only are tire approval of his party, under which was put through the Legislature which the salaries of officials greatly increased ! both principal and interest of our State its authors thought made all sure. We but multitudes of new offices are created bonds were directed to be paid in paper do not wonder they are astonished and to provide places of ease and profit for currency, and that at a time when the chagrined to find that their attempt to greedy and needy party adherents. premium on gold was treble what it is legislatethemselves into control of the We have seen to what an extent this now? Is it possible that Mr. Cook never Sbhool Board is as great a failure as was hasbeenearried in our State Legislator% saw the correspondence between the Radical State Treasurer of Pennsylvania their attempt to secure a majority in the where the number of officials has been and August Bel mon t? It may be tru e that City Councils. increased until they equator exceed the other nations have paid their funded We do not wish to hurttheir feelings, number of members in the House and deb ta'in coin, but under Radical rule an and would not laugh at them in this 1 the Senate. There was some talk about the hour of their discomfiture. To do reducing the salary of the members, other policy has been sanctioned in this country. The Radical Legislature of so would not be generous. But we are which is only $750 by law; but it has Pennsylvania refused to regard even an sure they will excuse us for calling to been fixed at the high figure of last their recollection an old story, which year, $l,OOO. And while the salary of expresscontract to pay in coin, and forced illustrates how apt stupid people are to members is thus kept up, the working foreign holders of our funded debt to blunder when they undertake to make time is diminished. The Legislature take greenbacks when they were only laws. 1 rea has regularly adjourned over from Fri n night, which worth fort y ßen. Butler and other leading cents on the dollar. Thad. Stevens, It is said that, once upon a time, be- day l l afternoon Tuesday. Monday fore gas monopolies had an existence, ymeanssd The people can get some idea of th e ßadicals have proven that it was never the rulers of a certain city, desiring tointended that the five-twenties should spirit of extravagance which now p r e be some light, passed a law de- be paid In anything else than green , veils at Harrisburg, by looking at the e Oaring that no one should appear on backs, and Mr. Jay Cooke has utterly proceedings of the Senate when th the streets after night without a lantern, failed to refute their arguments. under pain of fine and impr i sonmen t, , general appropriation bill was brought before it. A statement thereof from the The next night the police were on the lookout, as policemen are general- Pittsburg Commercial, the leading Rad ly supposed to be, and it was not lest journal of Western Pennsylvania, w long until they spied au individual will be found in another column. We venture to say no tax-payer in the State stalking boldly along without a sign of a light. Of course he was nabbed. can read it without being convinced But when taken before the authorities that there is need of a complete refor he was found to have a fine new lantern mation. Such a reformation cannot be in his hand, but with no candle in it. I expected, however, so long as the Radi ' The law as it stood had been complied 1 cal party have control of the Legisla with, and the prisoner had to be dis- ' ture. That party must be rebuked by charged. The law was amended at the I the people. So long as it is endorsed by next session of the city Solons, and was 1 the tax-payers, it can justly claim that made to read that no one should appear it has been licensed by them to con on the street after night without a lan- tinue its course of profligate extrava tern with a candle in it. A ga i n th e gance vigilant police found an offender, and on producing him before the authori ties it was found to be the same fellow who had been arrested before, and to the astonishment of police and,magis -1 trates, he.produced his lantern with the J required candle in IL, but the candle I was not lighted. Again the law had to be amended, and again the same re fractory individual was found on the street, going along with no sign of a light about him. On being again I brought before the authorities, he threw I aside a cloak, under which was conceal ed a lantern with a lighted candle in it . So he again escaped. We commend the above story to the consideration of the wise Radicals in Lancaster, who have been engaged in I getting up acts of assembly for the pur pose of disfranchising the Democratic Majority. Let them study it well. They will riot find Ras difficult to cana -1 prebend, as they did the plan adopted I by the Democracy for the election of a 1 majority of the School Board It is reliably stated that the currency bal ance in the Treasury is growing "smaller by degrees and beautifully less." The Sec retary Is puzzled as to how he shall " raise the wind" to meet the current requisitions upon his department. He can and no en couragement In the daily receipts from in ternal revenue, nor from any other source. Altogether affairs at the Treasury Dmart went look " decidedly blue." The above.extract from the letter of a newspaper correspondent exhibits the present state of the National Treasury It has been for some time foreshadowed by a steady monthly increase of the Public Debt. It is the consequence of Radical reduction of taxes without any reduction of expenditures. Since the Senate passed the bill re pealing the taxes on manufactures, that body has considered the Army Appro priation bill, which provides for a stand ing army of 30,000 men. Mr. Davis (Dem.) moved to reduci the army to 20,000, but the motion s rejected by a a party vote. Mr. Bu kalew (Dem.) then proposed to make the number 30,001), and this proposition was defeat ed by a majority of more than two to one, the Democrats and three Radicals voting for it, and all the rest of the Radicals voting against it. Thus the Senate, which hastens to reduce taxes in order to gain popularity, refuses to adopt the measures which are necessary , to justify a reduction of taxes. The Radicals opposed a reduction of the army upon the ground that the present force is necessary to maintain government in the South. True, an• swered Mr. Davis, If you intend to gov -1 ern the South as Philip II governed I Holland. If the South were restored to Self-Government there would be no army I wanted there. And it is precisely be cause Self-Government is denied to the South that an army is needed to keep It in subjection. In the debate on . the Army Bill Mr. Hendricks showed that the present cost of the army is $2,000 per man, amount ing altogether to more than One Hun dred Millions of Dollars a year. A gentleman, who has recently taken pains to investigate this subject at Washington, reports that the actual payments by the Treasury on account of the Army have for a long time past exceeded $12,000,000 per mouth. This is part of the price the people are com pelled to pay for the luxury of Negro , Reconstruction! And so long as the ISouth continues pinned bottom upwards to the Hovernment with bayonets, so long will this expense continue. It Is idle for the people to expect any puma { nod reduction of taxes under the man• I agement of the profligate party now in power. ,to Old Sore Condition or the Treasury Lineloos Religion in Boston In the Boston letter of the New York Independent, a Radical religious Jour nal, we flod the following choice mor sel: In art we have several novelties. John Brown Blessing the Slave Child on his way to Execution has gone Now Yorkward. It is not equal in variety and vitality to the Slave Sale at St. Louis, by the same artist, but is still n powerful composition. The great martyr, with his aureola around his soul gleaming sacredly from his eyes set on eternity, puts his hand—his arms being tied hehind him—with difficulty on the pretty baby's head. It has a handsome mother, with that full, voluptuous farm of soft, luscious flesh that so stirred the hearts of their white kindred with fervent hope and warm desires, and that will henceforth win them, from the same class, honorable love and marriage, That Is truly luscious. We commend it to the serious consideration of such clergymen in this latitude as are accus tomed to Inject radical stump speeches into their sermons and platform per formances. It comes from Boston, the capital of that State which the followers of Thad. Stevens regard as the model one of our republic. It is part and par cel of the religion of the leaders of 'the Republican party, and, as such, •Is worthy of study. State Elections. The State election of Rhode Island takes place on Wednesday, April Ist, that of Conaeoticut on ,Monday, the oth. In Rhode Island the Democracy are making a gallant fight, but without hope of i success. In Connecticut the battle is" being waged vigorously, and the Democrats are confident that they will carry the State. Gond Arithmeticians. General Fisher took occasion to stig matize the School Directors elected by the Democracy o'f this city as t " Pot house pOliticians." How does he like their cyphering? There is one rule in arithmetic hi which we• think they could teach the Senator something. The Radicals seem to be pushing one of their electioneering schemes with considerable vigorjust now. There is a marked Increase in the rumors about outrages committed by the whites iu the South. Special correspondents of Radical papers are busy manufacturing horrible stories. These are generally !located iu out of the way places, so that contradiction will be dif ficult. Ever since the agitation of the slavery question began, a systematic method of lying about affairs in the I South has been one of the main in struments employed to arouse the fury of the North. It was kept up diligently A Reverend Ghost. during the war, and is to be employed A correspondent sends us the follow-lug note of inquiry. as a chief agency in the coming Presidential campaign. Forewarned is Editors Lancaster latelligenecrt , - - re- At the conclusion of Volume XVI of the Nos 1 f orearmed, Let' all such stories be lAmerican Cuelopeedia. among toe list of con- ceived with caution. In nine out of trlbutora to that valuable publication is tue name of Rec..1.P.1. W. Geist, Lancaster, Penna., 1 ten cases they are lies out of the whole orations of the grossest as the author or the article to Vol. VIII, eu- , cloth, Of undersigned whetherH w a h r e a th a e u r gh t . h. Ca aw n a yo , u a l e n , f . or, inform the 1 character. exa The truth is there is peace same pious individual known to our commas , laity as the editor of the Express? and quiet in the South, and the diflicul- Knowing that you are posted as to the do- I ties which have occurred there since the Inge of moms of these " Rev." gentlemen, and , us to what la done for them by Convocations, ' close of the war have, in most instances, Synods, and Courts, you will also please state In which of these three russemblics the " Rev." ' been directly traceable to the bad con wasorders came conferred t I o Trail fromtit the 1 testd. b bi a . ,.. N i V n . g G. ~ I I fe hielegal duct of the negroes and the miserable I Northern adventurers who have been character, then we, as earnest sticklers tor un adulterated apostolic succession, do most sol emnly protest against the clerical prefixture. using them as tools to secure office. Isuciasa. We fear we cannot satisfactorily an Is Grant In Favor of Universal Negro ewer the queries of our correspondent. Suffrage? We know that some very queer speci- The New York Herald having ex ' mein of the Rev, have been figuring in pressed a doubt as to whether General public within the last few years ; but Grant fully endorses the Radical doc we have never encountered the Rev. J. , trine of universal negro suffrage, the M. W. Geist, either in Lancaster erelse- 1 Philadelphia Poet takes up the matter where. Our editorial friend of that and expresses its opinion In language I name we believe has never aspired too plain to be mistaken. It says: General i Thero i s ra t n hl t s is a n rougd for believing that higher in a ecclesiastical way tLau to : in one —he Is willing pass around the hat, or basket, or o f f li n e eg lte Pull r i ' Xi of our churches. He 18 said to die- nomination. We cannotsupposethat Grant 1 i w s i r h or i : e tn e r x of e t c h t e p to rineples of the d pit o r i ty th b l y e fo tt r u t p h p e o a r charge that duty gracefully and honest ly. It may be, however, that he desir- , lie could drXtun s that, Lilt:it:lgo O t t* ed to go down to posterity with au odor , his popularity as ueamildate,lt would give of extra sanctity attaching to his name, 1 that i s i 0 phirlinne Bayer . of .N n ' &t o a r o s s ,, u n le r , u LI.I e t c , e o i u o ro l , and that he prefixed the Rev. to it with ' we should like very, much to halt his word that design. Or It may be that he for it. In any case, he could not expect thought three initial letters not suffi- i l T o t p li t u o ts a t n i o s flitillitlinlpliatregaluspupa9rratg suffrage front sho , %3 (dent to identify the unsubstantial patio- ' not be placed in the Chicago platform. We mymic of Geist, which, as our readers I hope some ono will take hint u copy of this n know is the German for ghost. These ' g is r s „ upeh f The Post and show Win this pars would be literary people have strange 1 —_— --....... fancies, and their vanity is sotuetlutes ' IT seems probable that the House of prodigious. Representatives will refuse to apprc , print° the money necessary to pay for ' The Arkansas Constitution. the barren rocks, and uninhabitable The Arkansas Constitution, which icebergs of Alaska. We are opposed to has been fairly defeated, 'but which hauling down the American flag, but the Radicals are trying to fasten upon we really shall not be sorry if it has to the State by false returns, disfranchises be done in this case. We have yet to a large proportion of the whites for see any evidence that this territory will varicus causes But the concluding ever be worth to us what we are asked ' part of the disfranchising section pro. to pay for it. That all persons disfranchised above, who have openly advocated, or who have voted for the reconstruction proposed by Con gress, and accept the equality of all men before the law, shall be deemed qualified electors under this Constitution. The result of the spring elections has been the same throughout the entire State of Pennsylvania. The Democracy have made gains in every county. Even in the strong holds of Radicalism they have carried many districts for the first time. We continue the summary of Democratic victories as we find them reported in our country ex villains who are not to be allowed to changes So long as the white men of Arkansas decline to recognize the negro as their equal they are to be regarded as Seces sionists, rebels, traitors and perjured vote, to hold office, or to be entitled to any civil rights. But the moment any of these men, no matter what their crimes may have been, agree to acknowledge the negro as their. equal, that moment, without any other atonement or qualification, they are to be recognized as LOYAL. Are the people of the North such fools as to encourage the insane at tempt to establish governments in ten States on such a basis as that? We can not believe it. Passed Over the 'Veto Yesterday the lower House of Con gress passed the amendment to the Ju diciary bill over the veto of the Presi dent. Debate was not allowed, the Democrats being grouted only thirty minutes todiscuss it. Thus, a bill which deprives the citizens of the United States of their right to appeal to the Supreme Court when their lives and liberties are involved, was rushed through under the gag law. Of course it was done by a strictly partisan vote. The Radicals do not dare to permit the Supreme Court to review their actions. They know very well that many of the laws which they have passed are un constitutional and therefore void. They are ready to vote away the most sacred rights of the citizens, but they will neither allow free dis cussion in Congress, nor a judicial re view of the acts of that body. Hence forth citizens of the United States may be arrested, imprisoned, or hanged by the military commanders without the courts of the country having any power to restrain them. And on the passage of ouch a bill as that debate is not al lowed. What answer will the Ameri can people give when asked If they ap prove of such action? The Oren Scare at Washington It turns out that the great scarce at Washington among the Radicals was caused by the influx of hordes of office beggars to importune Ben. Wade for positions under his administration that is to be. They mistook this army of "loyal" and patriotic mendicants for the friends of John Son and constitution al liberty, and were sore afraid. They had better wait until the-impeachment business is disposed of, and Mr. John. son is fairly out of the way. Then a carpet-bag invasion of Washington will be in order. THE quarrel between the friends and enemies of ex-Governor Curtin in this State is still kept up In all Its bitter ness. Those whO oppose him have effectually destroyed all the chance he had of receiving the nomination for Vice President. A great majority of the Radical newspapers of the State de nounce the action of the State Conven tion. It looks as if Wade would receive the support of Pennsylvania at Chicago. RACHEL once*aid that biography ad ded a new terror to death. Can a man's bitterest enemy . wish him anything worse than the living death that would be bestowed by such literary attempts as the " 'Early Life of General Grant" —by hie Father? An Old Game ISMMIIIMEG I=l IDEEMt! York County In York county the Democracy made al most a clean sweep at the recent town elec tion. They not only carried every district which had formerly been Democratic, hut a number that had been steadfastly Re publican. In Wrightsvil/e borough, where Williams, Republican candidate for Su premo Judge, last fall, had 23 majority, the Democrats, at the late election, elected their Chief Burgess and the whole ticket by some 27 majority. In Lower Windsor, where Williams had 165 majority, the De mocracy, on Friday, elected a number of candidates on their ticket. In Ilelltuu, al ways close, and mostly carried by the Re• publicans at the township election, the De mocracy were thoroughly successful. And so it, was throughout the entire county. Washington County The Democrats not only carried the bo rough of Washington, but Monongahela city, from time immemorial opposition, elects a majority of the Democratic ticket. West:Brownsville, heretofore Radical, goes Democratic. Donegal, which last year elected n Radical Judge, gives a handsome Democratic majority. The strong Demo cratic townships of the North increase their majorities. North and South Strabane, though claimed by the " Rads," elect the Democratic ticket. Amwell makes a large gain. Buffalo increases her majority. AP. Pleasant shows a larger Democratic vote than ever before polled at a Spring election, and so it went all over the county. It will be redeemed next fall. Dauphin. DAUPHIN, March 24.—At the election held here on last Friday, for borough and town ship officers, the entire Democratic ticket was elected. There were three candidates for Judge In the field—Democratic, Radi cal, and independent. The Democrats elect ed their candidate by a majority of 71 over the Radical candidate, and 54 over both. As the independent candidate was also a Democrat, this would increase the majority to 88. The Democratic majority at the last election was only 4. Westmoreland County In gallant old Westmoreland the De mocracy not only held their own, but they rescued several districts from the Radicals, carrying their ticket in /MT y close or doubt ful district. They have begun the next campaign right. Franklin No county In the State did much better at the recent elections than Franklin. In Chambersburg the Radical majority was reduced from 201 to 20, and the Democrats carried two thirds of the townships. Columbia County In Columbia county, the home of the gal. lent and talented General Ent, the Demo°. racy carried every district except two, an unprecedented gain over any former elec tion. Juniata. In Juniata the Democracy carried some districts which had been Radical for years, and did not lose one of their own. They are ready for the coming battle. Somerset. Even in the dark region of Somerset the light is beginning to break, and at the town ship elections the Democracy- wero unusu ally successful. Northampton In Old Northampton the Democrats car ried every township except one. It would look greedy to wish they had also secured that one. Even in Delaware county the Democracy, made gains, carrying Birmingham town ship for the first time in seven years, and a number of other districts. Vennugo. Last fall Franklin, Venango county, gave a Radical majority of sixty. On Friday of last week it went Democratic. There were large gains all round the county. Bedford Iu Bedford county some 4,000 votes were polled at the township elect ions. The Dem ocracy had a majority of over 500 and gain several election judges. In Perry county the Democracy gained five Judges of Election, and that was doing bulley. Fulton County In staunch: little Fulton the'Democracy carried every township. That was the cleanest sweep made in the State. imp 14:1 • • ThfkinFill Dar ,if thatiOnatfralite Trial. A.. ..t. Zfe ltitiageisitrinwrikriA r ti . 4.Thelr Ev try, ideneek • ,WstsuiltriAF, March 30. r tibia . greal*lta:suf the United s exit:rider 'the artittlet3'.hf impeachment priferied ag Dist hit:l3'l3y the Hopse, com menced to-day. The Senate meta at eleven o'clock for the transaction of ordinary busi ness • and at half.past twelve the President pro tempore (Mr. Wade) vacated the chair for the Chief Justice of the. United States, who soon after entered and called the " High Court" to order. The House man agers, with the exception of Stevens, then appeared and took seats at their table. They were soon followed by the other members of the House, preceded by their Speaker, Clerk, and Chairman of the Commit tee of the Whole - (Mr. Washburne, of Minois), who took the seats pre viously occupied by thorn. Th counsel of the President, vii: Messrs. Stanbery, Cur tis, Evart% Groesbeck and Nelson, were In attendance at their table. The journal of Thesday last having been read, Mr. Butler, on the part of the House managers, rose and opened the argument for the prosecu tion, reading his speech from a printed copy. The floor and galleries, which were at first well filled, soon began to thin out under "the infliction," and no one seemed to pay any attention to the disjointed barrangue of the unscrupulous Jacobin. He addressed the Chief Justice as "Mr. President," and theutembera of the Court as "Senators." Told them they were not a court and were bound by no rule of law, and ought not to consult any precedents.— They were a law unto then selves, .k.c. A. large portion of his speech was devoted to a discussion of the right of challenge in an impeachment trial, evidently anticipating the question in the ease of Mr. Wade. Ho referred to a number of English precedents, in so far as they seemed to favor his view of the law, and road a latter, psrporting to have been written by Hon. Reverdy John son, wherein that gentleman stated that he should sustain the President when he be lieved him to be right. He (Butler; sought to raise the inference from this, that if the . right of challenge for cause shown were allowed, it would be proper to challenge Senator Johnson, for the sentiments ex pressed in this letter. The harangue con tinued until two o'clock and fifty minutes, when Senator Wilson moved a recess, for ten minutes, which was taken, in order to allow Butler to refresh himself in the res taurant below stairs, or in some committee room. Upon the expiration of the recess, that individual resumed his remarks, con cluding at ten minutes to four o'clock, having spoken just three hours. When ho sat down, there was evidently a feeling of relief all over the Chamber, us well as In the galleries. The counsel of the Presi dent, who had remained in their seats during the entire delivery of the speech, still kept their places unmoved. It was ex pected that one of them would reply, but it seems that they chose to reserve their open- Mg argument until after the prosecution I had gone through with their case. This being tacitly understood, Mr. Wilson, on the part of " the managers," rose and offer- i ed in evidence a copy of the oath of office taken by President Johnson on the 15th of April, 1865, and certified to by the present Chief Justice of the United States. This was, of course, admitteil without objection. Ire next offered in evidence a copy of the original appointment and confirma tion of Mr. Stanton, as Secretary of War, In January, 18132. This was likewise ad mitted. He then proposed to offer the mes sage of the President to the Senate on the 12th of December last, giving his reasons for the suspension of Mr. Stanton, which he said was quite lengthy; and he would not read, unless requested to do so. Mr. Rev erdy Johnson asked that tho document be read, whereupon Mr. Wilson proceeded to read the same. After getting about half I through, he was interrupted by a motion from Mr. Sherman that the " High Court" adjourn, which was agreed to, and there upon, at four o'clock and twenty minutes, the Court adjourned until to-morrow at noon, the counsel for the defense agreeing to admit the message above referred to in evidence, without the further reading of the same. Why SuageHlnFk Fenger! to ACt nn Conn mei for Andrew JOlllOlOll, The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald gives the following ex planation of tho causes which induced Judge Black to decline to act as one of the counsel of President Johnson: I am authorized to state that it is not true that Judge Black advised the President to resign; nor is tt true that ho ever expressed I any doubts about the Justice of the de• fence. lie has, and has always had, the fullest confidence that the President would be acquitted if he got a fair hearing and a decision according to the law nnd the effects, Nor is it true that Judge Black over differ ed in opinion from the other counsel of the Presiden t or had any controversy with them. The despatch In a Baltimore newspaper of this morning is, as Judge Black asserts, totally untrue lu regard to the Alta Veto case. The Dominicans never pretended to have any claim to that Island. TheAmert can owners, he says, were there under a title clear, unquestioned and undisputed. The outrage of driving them off when their force happened to be weak and there was no American vessel in those waters to pro tect them was a naked wrong which the perpetrators never tried to excuse by al leging a title in themselves. But Mr. Seward set up a titiefor them, nud forseveral years,by one device and another, he preven ted the truth from appearing in a tangible shape. The delay caused the Dominicans to suppose that the United States would never vindicate their honor or the rights of their citizens, and recently, under the encourage ment of Mr. Seward, they began to sell the guano. Mr. Seward's defence of them is one which they never would have set up for themselves, nud which they did not even adopt when he made it. When the Presi dent, seeing the case, but acting under the influence of Mr. Seward, refused to do the Justi , n3 which the owners bad a right to expect, Judge Black, finding his friends, clients and partners determined to proceed and take other measures to secure their rights and expose Mr. Soward's con duct, told the President that ho found him self so situated that ho could only relieve himself from unendurable embarrasstuents by ceasing to be one of his counsel; and he claimed to bo released from his obliga tions as such, assuring the President at the same time that he was much grieved at not being able to servehim longer in that capacity. I further understand that Messrs. Thaddeus Stevens, Bingham, Butler, Lo gan, Garfield, Blaine, and other prominent Republicans, having expressed very de cided opinions of the President's duty in regard to the Alta Vela case ' it scented probable that Congress might take sonic measures which would bring the Interests of Judge Black's clients and those of the President into conflict. To ovoid soot a contingency the Judge asked to be re lieved from further service as counsel for the impeachment case. The Au4Clux•Hlnn The advent of the " K. K. IC." into this city has created great excitement amongst a portion of our citizens. The " head cen tre" of this organization is a a keleton, nine feet high. Night before last, at twenty minutes before 12 o'clock, he went into a lot in the upper part of the city to get a drink of water front the hydrant. II drank nine horse-buckets full. An old negro woman, who stepped out at the time to get a bucket of water saw him drinking and counted the number of buckets-full drank by him. She ask ed " For (hod's sake what makes you drink so much water?" The head•centre replied in a hoarse, sepulchral tone, "If you had been in 11-11 as long as I have you'd drink double as much." lie had a long bow in his hand and a quiver full of long arrows on bis back. lie is said to make night ly raids on the houses of quiet end sleeping citizens to enter through the keyholesof their doors, and when In their houses to out the most " fantastie capers." Many "little folks" won't go on the street for fear of meeting him, having hou,l such wonderful tales of his ferocity, but we can tell all good little folks" that his letters of Introduction assure the public that lie means them no harm. It Is said he Is having tot ty five hundred horses shod with felt, and that a parade of his brigade will mane oil some night next week, between the hours or mid night and daybreak. Persons wishing. to see it can assemble on the corner of it and Fifteenth street—and wait milli 11 comes along I—Richmond /ay, miner, Largo Immigration to The late Confederate Cavalry tiauetal Imboden is now Dotnemtht Agent of taunt. ghttion for the State of Virginia. Ile was recently waited upon by a Mr. Van Doane, of Holland, who is seeking a site ihr the settlement of several hundred families from' his conntry, who are mobil for Virginia this spring. Ho Is attracted by the law lends of the York and James rivers. Capt. E. 11. Plumarcher, of the Swiss Army, COllllllll. stoner of the, Swiss Emigraut Society, is also in Virginia Idoking for lands. Dotterel Imboden hassuggosted the Piedmont coun try near the head waters of the Dan, of which Danville is the principal town, and also several localities In the southwestern part of the State. His report may draw many thousand settlers. Two Rifting Sun " I won't give you a ticket to the trial, sir! Your paper is the G—d damnedest meanest paper in Ohio. It's a Chase organ all the time. I don't owe it nothing, and its recommendation don't amount to nothing with me, sir." With those, otnate, courte ous and strictly grammatical sentences did Senator lien Wade, a few days since, greet the respectful application of Mr. George Alfred Townsend, a Radical correspondent of a Radical paper, for a ticket of admission into the reporters' gallery of the Senate. To the literal and exact truth of the above lan guage he announces himselfready tBverity, and two other God-fearing gentlemen are equally ready to do the same. An Article Left Out. Tho Impeachers committed a great blun der in not embodying in their Indictment a.gainst the President a "count' for calling Forney a " dead duck." We see it stated that this " defunct drake" is offended at their neglect and oversight. It is too bad that the man who runs " two papers, both dailylland who has done as much to cause the .rebellion as Stevens,: Sumner or Jeff. Davis; should not have his wrongs avenged in the conspiracy to depose the Chief Exe- cutive. We pity Forney. We also pity Mrs. Forrest.—Hillaning Sentinel. LEGISLATIVE lIXTiLL"*AGANCEI abet Appropry4 . ton 8111 in the Senate wa laeite■se of OSOO,OOO Special Oatreapeindence Pittsburg fkanmerelal Ellintifaittity, Ps March 24, 1868. The Senate took up the general appro priation bill this morning, Serfator Randall, of Schuylkill, in the chair, in Committee of the Whole, and has been engaged all dayin Re consideration In Commitieeof the Whole. The Finance Committee of the Senate re ported several amendments to the bill as it passed the House. Amongst these amend ments are the following; Salary of the Au ditor General raised from twenty-three hun dred to thirty-five hundred dollars; salary of Surveyor General raised irons two thou sand to two thousand five hundred dollars; and the further sum of flue hundred dollars as compensation for his services In the sale of the agricultural land scrip. The salary of each messenger in the several depart ments was raised from eight to nine hun dred dollars. The Governor is authorizea to employ a temporary clerk at a salary not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month. This is in addition to his Private Secretary. The Senate also ad ded a messenger to the Attorney General's office, and attached six hundred and fifty dollars salary to it. Also made an appro priation of eleven hundred dollars for some kind of Paris Clock that is stuck up in the office, and a new heating apparatus that has been introduced at somebody's suggestion. Six thousand five hundred dollars were also added to the tenth section for the his torical department, two thousand of which is for the salary of the State Historian and the balance for clerk hire. The salary of the Deputy State Superintendent of Com mon Schools was raised from eighteen hun dred to two thousand dollars. Fifty thou sand dollars were added to the appropria tion for the soldiers' orphan department, and one hundred thousand dollars taken off the appropriation to common schools— making the former four hundred and fifty thousand and the latter five hundred thou , sand dollars. The Senate committee raised the salary of the assistant and transcribing clerks of the Senate and House one hundred dollars each, and the Sergeant-at-Arms, I Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, Chief Door keeper, messenger and assistant messen ger, Postmaster and assistant, each rive hundred dollars. It also added seventeen thousand dollars for bgii,ors, and for hos pital bathing room and chapel for the West ern Penitentiary, and forty-five thousand dollars additional for repairs and altera tion of block number one in the Eastern Penitentiary, making the entire amount of appropriation to the Eastern Penitentiary sixty-five thousand, and to the Western thirty-eight thousand dollars. Several other additional appropriations wore made by the Semite Committee, but they ale comparatively unimportant. The foregoing are the principal. In Committee of the Whole the Senate increased the salary of the judges of the Supremo Court, front jive thousandfive hundred to seven Thousand five hundred dollars. Without adding up the several items I would suppose the additional appropria tions made by the Senate will amount to one hundred and fifty thousand, if not two hundred thousand dollars. I presume the bill will pass the Senate finally pretty much as It passed the Committee of the Whole. The section appropriating twenty-tivo thou sand dollars to the school for feeble-minded children, at Media—which, by the way, is an increase of nine thousand dollars over the amount agreed to by the House—gave rise to a protracted discussion. Serious charges wore made both in the House and Senate In relation to that institution. With out knowing anything, personally, about the matter, I would suggest that there has been too much smoke about that institution this session to justify the belief that there is no tire. .in old Lender of the Opposition to the Democracy Prophesying. Thurlow Weed, the old veteran editor of the New York State opposition to the De mocracy, through all the various names and changes it has assumed for the past half century, draws now upon his stores of historic reading for the purpose of holding up to the public view the inevitable out come of the revolutionary Radical mana gers at Washington. He cites the case of France, that only obtained repose by the extirpation of the leaders that had brought on and continued the civil war—the haugh ty Aristocracy and +he blind, cruel, and vindictive Radicals—and by falling into the embraces of an Emperor. Die Aristocracy and the Radicals were both brought under the guillotine, as if retributive Justice re quired that both should perish. Re then 111l881.'S to the lenders of our late war, and says: "'fits rebellion provoked, fur its leaders, the abhorrence of the American people* They will be held in enduring execration. The political, excesses and rapacity of the Radical leaders will both emphasize and shorten Choir history. The leaders of im peachment are digging a pit largo enough for the slain and the slayers. Davis, Slidell, Toombs, Mason, Benjamin, te., are held in abhorrence now for four years of rebell ion and war. Sumner, Chandler, Butler, Boutwell, Stevens, Ashle, loyal an they were during the rebellion, will lie hold re sponsible for theconsequences of four years of civil strife--consequences fatal to the union, prosperity, and happiness of the American people. These mon, like the ' Red Republicans' of Madam Rol ad's day, have been perpetrating outrages In the sacred mimeo( freedom. lf, as it now seems probable, the President shall be convicted, every member of Congress prominently re sponsible for his ' taking off,' may exclaim with Cardinal Wolsey, ' a long farewell to all my greatness,' for not ono of them will survive politically beyond their present terms." But before the country can reach the graves of the Radical leaders, what will it not have to endure of uneertaluty,strife and convulsion- , -of contidence destroyed, busi ness deranged mid honesty demoralized— "consequences fatal to the union, prosper ity and happiness of the American people." —Cacinnatti hiquirer. What It Costa to Matiotala the Negroes A Mcbruond correspondent of. the Hart ford news says: To those of the 'North who are interested In paying the tiddler" by way of taxation for the negro politicalJolliticntions hero in the South, I will give the amount of n ne gro's weekly rations for self and family ra tions from that charitable negro magazine, the Freedman's Bureau; and you can Judge whether or not Sambo is not good at the "draw game," viz:-30 pounds of corn meal, 30 pounds of flour, 15 pounds of pork, 15 pounds of fresh beef, 15 pounds of fish ; with wood, tto.,,,tc. Ono corn mill alone furnished tho Bureau, last week, the enor mous amount of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight 11,SSS) bushels, equal to nine ty-four thousand pounds of corn meal— costing the Government $1.53 cents per bushel, when corn can be had anywhere in this market at $1.12 cents per bushel. There is no need to point out the fat pickings of the Government contractors in the differ ence of price between the corn and meal; besides, corn is sold 50 pounds to the bush el, and meal is delivered to the bureau at the rate of 50 pounds per bushel. Can it be wondered nt that the officers, as Gen. Grant says, are all against the President, when such rich speculations abound in the drawers of the Bureau, In the way of !deal ings in all sections of the South, where that national curse exists? is It not a shame m the charitable North to behold th, etjli wart, Idle negro paupers, with bereulauman frame, staggering under the immense bur , den of provisions (which their labor newt (lurchased), as a reward for Idleness, The Bureau was, no doubt, originally intemi,.l for good, but as now conducted it is a poll t• cal machine, of huge dimensions, and %last cost to the people, Inc the special benefit of the Radical party for selfish purposes. How can It be possible for a country to be prosperous, when one-half of the nation Is Inhering to maintain the other half in idle ness? As to those old fanatical hacks,— Stevens, Sumner, Wade, Wilson and the like, who seem to derive enjoyment In hav ing their till of private revenge over their Southern antipodes in politics, while the whole country verges upon starvation and hankruptey;—it Is useless to appeal, as reason anti clemency form no part of their natures. Whenever the eyes of the North aft' imillelently opened to the real situation of thitura pertnlning to the general welfare or tho whole nation, instead of following a ottentaial party In its ruinous policies, then we eau hope fur bettor times and for ['utter 1110.11 it , it , us. Cam lieu. It nib!, bo Pretadent ? rho Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette Bays: A question of some magnitude and one of especial interest to the Hon. llen. Wade, President pro tem. in the Senate, is TIOW being privately discussed among the Radi cal Congressman of the anti-Wade stripe. The sixth section of the second Article of the Constitution says that Congress may by law provide for the case of the removal by death, resignation or Inability, itc., both or the President and Vico President, declar ing what officer shall then net as President, itie. A question is now raised by those op posed to Mr. Wade, whether the President pee tem, of the Senate is such an officer as Is contemplated by the Constitutition. They contend that the officer must be an officer of the United States, and not an offi cer merely of the Senate or House. This dame question was raised in the win ter of 1793, anti was debated during llie entire session without a decision. The same dis cussion was continued in 1704, when Mr. Madison; then a member of the House of Representatives, spoke and voted against the proposition that an officer of either House ofCongress was eligible to the Pres idency under the clause of the Constitution quoted above. The bill as from the Senate passed the House by amajority of only one vote, Mr. Madison voting against it. The hostility to Mr. Wade in the Radical camp is very great, and no stone will be leftuntnrned to prevent his reaching the Presidential chair. It Is a fact that eminent counsel have been consulted. Hon. Rey et ly Johnson has given the opinion that tlib President pro tem. of the Senate is such an:officer as is contemplated by the Constitu tion, and In this opinion Judge Woodward fully concurs. The question is undergoing a lively in vestigation by the parties in, interest, with the advantage of the law as it now_ standt in Wade's laver. Nevertheless, from 'e facility with which laws are now alteredlb th r repealed, Mr. Wade wilt not feel secure until hots in actual masession of the much coveted chair The Lebanon Valley Railroad. Company havo paid the holm of S. Zingst, of -Dau phin county, who was killed last fall QII thole road, the sum 0(54,500. ifil . Veto of the Bill Restricting. the Jurlle;" Mellon of the supreme Court, Weasirterrow, Marsh 25. The President this afternoon sent to the ?mate thefollowing veto message of the bill lately passed amending the judiciary act : To the Renate of the UnUed States I have considered, with such care as the pressure of other duties has permitted, a bill entitled, " An act to amend an act entitled an act to annul the judiciary act," passed the 24th of September, 1789. Not being able to approve all of its provisions I herewith return itto the Senate, in which it originated, with a brief statement of may obleotions. The first section of the bill meets my ap probation as, for the purpose of protecting the rights of property from the erroneous decisions of inferior judiciary tribunals, it provides means for obtaining uniformity by appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States in cases which hove now be come very numerous and of much public interest, and in which such remedy Is not now allowed. The second section, however, takes away the right of appeal to that court In cases which involve the life and liberty of the citizens and leaves them exposed to the judgments of numerous inferior tribunals. It is apparent that the two sections were conceived in a very different spirit' and I regret that my objections to the one im poses upon me the necessity of withholding my sanction from the other. I cannot give my assent toe measure which proposes to deprive any person, restrained of his or her liberty in violation of the Constitution or any treaty or law of tho United States, of the right of appeal to the highest Judicial authority known to our GoVernment. To secure the blessing of liberty to our selves and our posterity is one of the de clared objects of the Federal Constitution. To assure these, guarantees aro provided In the same instrument, as well against unrea sonable searches and seizures as against the suspension of the privileges of the writ of habeas coqmcs, unless when, in eases of re hellion or invasion the public safety may require It. It was doubtless \to afford the people the means of protecting and enforc ing these inestimable privileges that the jurisdiction, which this bill pro poses to take away, WILY conferred upon the Supremo Court of the nation. The act confirming that Jurisdiction was approved on the sth day of February, ISO 7, with a full knowledge of the motives that prompted its passage and because it was be lieved to be necessary and right. Nothing has since occurred to disapprove the wisdom and justness of the measure end to modify it, as now proposed, would bo to lessen the protection of the citizens front the exercise of that arbitrary power and to weaken the safeguard of life and liberty which ran never be made too secure against Illegal ni croachtnents. The bill not only prohibits the adjudication by the Supremo Court of eases in which appeals may hereafter be taken, but interdicts its jurisdiction on rip. peals which hove already been made tot hat high judicial body. If, therefore, it should become a NW it will, by its retroactive op oration, wrest from the citizen a remedy which he enjoyed al the time of his appeal. It will thus operate least harshly upon those who b,lieve that Justice has been de rfflid then in the inferior courts. The legis lation proposed In the second section, It seems to me, is not In harmony with the spirit and Intention of the constitution, It cannot fall to ulna most injuriously the Just equipoise of oursysteni of government, fur it establishes a precedent which, if fol lowed, may eventually sweep away every check on arbitrary and unconstitutional leg islation. Thus far during the existence of the government, the Supremo °caul of the United States has been viewed by the peo ple as the true expounder of their constitu tion, and in the most violent party conflicts Its judgment anti decrees have always been sought and deferred to with conlidence and respect. In public estimation it combined Judicial wisdom and impartiality in a great • er degree than any other authority know ;I to - the Constitution and any act which may be construed into, or mistaken for an at tempt to prevent or evade Its decisions on It question which nlToctn the liberty of the citi zens and 'wastes the country entinot fail to beattended with unpropitioumeonsequence.. It will be Justly held by it large portion of the people us an admission of the II licmisti tutionality of the act on whieh its Judgment may be forbidden or forestalled, and nifty Interfere with that willing acquiescence In its provisions, which Is necessary fur the harmonious and efficient execution of any law: For these rensomi, Mom briefly end porfeetly stated, end for others of which wont of limo forbids the enutitermlon, deem It Inv duty to withhold my tinmeitt from thin bill, and to return It for thu recoil oldoration of Congress, (Signed) ANiint:w Jon smiN. Cluirgen Agsllnst Judge Cumicrouoa Tho Richmond Dispatch contains a letter from John Hawxhurat, of Alexandria, charging Judge Underwood with an at tempt to bribe and control the Radical vote of \ irginia for Judge Chase for President. Tho mutter, we are informed by telegraph, was prominently Wore the convention yes terday, based probably upon Haw hursra letter. Ilawxhurst declares that the fol lowing took place at a small private meet ing to which the narrator had been Invited : 'Judge Underwood said •`,Pe can have money enough if weary In favor of a certain man for President.' A silence or a lbw mo ments was broken by somonne asking who that matt was? Judge Underwood replied 'Chase ; that he bad no money, but Sprague had, and would give ono hundred thousand dollars for the use of the party in that State. I do not think any one expressed assent or dissent. After a short embarrassed silence, and a still more etnbarrnssed attempt et conversation, the company broke up.- I was afterward told that It was understo o d that if Chase should loecome Prealdont, Judge Underwood was to take his place Its Chief Justice. With all Justleu to Chief Justice Chase and Senator Sprague, I will here state that I was never satisfied that they know anything of this offer, holleving rather that It came front the Inordinate ambition of Judge Underwood, who thought to recommend himself to the good graces of Chase, and in t his way might pos sibly got the nomination to the Senate for Chief Justice, or at least continuo his al most unlimited control of federal appoint ments In Virginia. JOLIN HAWXIIUIts'r March of tho Ihrillati Army for the fl iich Mocha of Abyssinia. QUEEN'S norm., London, Mareh 27. Despatches just to hand from the British military expedition In Abyssinia report Mat the entire force,with the exception of 0 Intel a - min battery and four companies of the 4etli regiment of infantry, bad Just left Zonlit and commenced the march for the high lands of the country. . • . • The army was In good health inn! Me general salutary report Is favorable. The ascent to the highlands of Abyssinia Is regarded here as n very difficult under taking; but It Is understood that general Napier's advance Is by the safest and mnst easily traversed route—that on tho east by Senate and Dogmas. The country Is rep resented as being very variable in appear arme—tertile .and extremely barren alter nately—and some or the mountain passes tbruMisble. The (\nominee on Elections have vir tatC.ly derided the election case of Hooper, delegate (Tom Utah, to-day. Hooper will lose his scat on the general ground that the Mormons are organized Into it community to the government of the land. In to:gummy w hieh was offered In the rase as pr,rett t h at peeper Is on older I❑ Mormon Church, and:that all ouch 011 l ere obligrd to take what In termed t h e eimiewment oath. Affidavits were road of Mon Who bail taken It to the effect that In enbiganco all taking It swore to halo the United States government, nod to do all in their pourer to overthrow It, and to (lamb It to their childred, and Impress It on them ou their dying had. Mr. Itooper WIN given challis , by the Committee to Mato that he had never taken it, if ouch won din ilia, but ho doolined. Mr. Chanter, of Now York, hits been selected to draw up the report, nut he in known to favor tho uprooting of Mor• mon rule entirely. The Exclusion of General Georgia W. Morgan from Efts Bent. There ham boon no grouter outrago porpo• !rated In the rump Congress (and that In View of their atrocious conduct la saying great dual) than the report of the Comiant toe on Elections In favor of turning 0111 General George W. Morgan from hie seat In the Howie, and confoiring It upon unsuccessful competitor, Columbus - Del Mr. Morgan was elected in October, IS 00, Dom the counties of Coshocton, Licking, Knox and Muskingum, by a majority at nearly three hundred votes. The district is strongly Democratic, and last year gave nearly 2,000 majority for Judgo Vliurtim. It tbo Ilona° sanctions this report. It had bettor elect all tho Democratic and Connor- VIILIVO members at once. It will he use less hereafter to alert n Detnnentt to Con• grass, unless there ten majority to sanction him after ho Is chosen.—Dincitinati /Nilo irec. narration of •ne English Poor tin the sth of this mouth, un Inquest was held, in the Holloway road, on tho bodies of two boys, of live and seven yours of age, both of whom had died of starvation. The parents of these children were quite respect able mechanics. About a year ago the father's health failed him, and ho lost his work as a whltesmitb, which had brought him in comfortable wages. But the elder children earned enough to pay tho rent and leave about three shillings a week over. They had been long living at a starving rate. Slut the whole housewas kept by the mother in such good order that the ( parish surgeon said, "You might have eaten your food from the boards; everything was beautifully clean." Thu two boys wore seized with convulsions, one after another, and after their death the surgeon made au examination of their bodies, and thandthat their intestines were completely empty, and that they died of convulsions, the effect of starvation. The poor laws do not keep the poor from starving. A Clergyman Bobbed by Ma Wife VINELAND, March 24.—The Reverend David Root, formerly of Cheshire, Conn., and recently of New Haven, was robbed a few days ago by his wife of IPIO,OOO worth of bonds. The wtfe has not been heard from nce, and no clue can be obtained as to her hereabouts at the present time. Mr. Root has been unfortunate in matrimony. His first wife obteined a divorce from him last fall, after-nine monthsof marriage, with an alimony of $l,OOO. His second, the present. alleged culprit, was the' divOrced wife of Mr. Hadley of New Haven, andpe mother of the young man who, In DecoinhOr,- last, was arrested for having robbed the Mer chants' Union Express Company.
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