gan'ootev inuniganza. WEDNVSDAY; APRIL 15, 1868. • FOR AUDITOR GENERAL: MARLIN E. BOYLE, of Fayette county. -FOR SURVEYOR ORNERAL Gen. WELLINGTON 11. ENT, of Columbia co breakers Ahead. Michigan has given a majority of more than thirty thousand against. N egro Suffrage. Ohio, Kansas and Min nesota last fall voted the same way, the first two by overwhelming majorities. These results indicate the breakers upon whiph the Radical craft will inevitably perish. The vessel is boldly headed to wards the reef, and her caritcat pilots will hold her to the course. They may possibly disguise their purpose long enough to win the Presidential election ; but that accomplished, they will tear off the mask, and invite their fate. The doom of the Radical faction Is sealed, and the sole remaining question is how soon,it will come. We believe it Is at hand. The experimental elections of the past and present year have demonstrated that a majority of the people of every State from Connecticut to the Pacific are opposed to Negro Suffrage. This is now the central, or rather the sole idea of the Radical organization. Remove this, and the party will fall to pieces, or its fanatical members will tear it to pieces. Pursue this and make it an issue before the people, and the masses of the North will grind Its advocates to pow der. The people of the North accept the distinction of races made by their Almighty Creator, and respect the teach ings of history that the African race is unfit for self.govt;rnment or any other kind of government. They are suc cessively proclaiming their resolve to exclude this Inferior race from partici pation in the government of the coun try. Having made Negro Suffrage the foundation of their scheme of Southern reconstruction, the Radicals can no longer blink this Issue before the peo• pie. The intelligent North will soon perceive that It le In far greater danger of Negro Supremacy from the votes of Eight Hundred Thousand adult male negroot in the South than from the votes Of lees than Fifty Thousand in the North. IL will speedily discover that the real danger of negro rule proceeds from the approaching tchnission to Congress of twenty Senator?' and tiny Representativtim electod by negro voles. The people of 014, Michigan and Kan- BUM will rettlize that It Is useless to dis• franchise the few negroes among lien- Helves, unless - they go farther and Hu etch the ballot front the halide or the bar barian hordes at the South, whose elec toral voice are even now reckoneti upon to decide the contest for President. The people of the North will ask themselves, What do we gain by excluding our nu groes front the polls, when we permit Electore, Senators and Representativem chosen by Southern negroes to vote down the heelers, Senators and itepre mentatives cllO5lOl by oureelvem'.' AH 11101'0 Was till /r/TprrNNihh; CONliect between Freedom In the North and Slavery in the South, HO there will be lLll irropreeslble conillet between White Dovornment at the North and Negro Suffrage at the South, Either the Northern people will accept negro etarage among themselves, or they will not tolerate it In the South, 'Pilo; will never commit the unepeakable mean noes of forcing upon the South a system which they epurn at home, The Rad!. calm Intuit convert the people of the Northern States to the prhiciple of Ne gro Equality, or all of them which reject negro Huffrage will become Democratic. We believe that the more the subject le agitated and dincuemed the more will tile North he confirmed in Ile hostility to negro euffrage; and as tile fooling he developed, It will rapidly bring the whole North, except part Of NOW I.lllg -111,1111, Into the Democrktilo fold. A Slow Old Coach Tlie Exton/nor Is rather a slow old couch, and seems to Inek enterprise In more respects than one. it is often be hind time In its news department; but the most remarkable instance of the kind wo have noticed lately Is its.en tire failure up to date to learn anything about the elections which took place in Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, lowa and Kansas. Twenty-four hours after the polls closed, eighteen hours after the result had been telegraphed all over the country, and twelve hours after the arrival of the morning papers In this city—papers with all the news plainly printed In readable type, the Lancaster Exam i ner went to press with- out the first word or figure to indicate that important elections had been held In five different States. Where were the editors of our old fogy etnemporary ? Were they all asleep, or gone on a jour ney? Was there no one left about the establishment competent to clip hot. portant news matter? How did it hap— pen that the I.,'.vaininer failed even to hear of these important elections? Per haps its editors have concluded to alum don politics altogether. If that be so, what Is to he the future course of the paper ? Is it to be a religious journal? It could not even be a radical religious newspaper, in these days, without de voting a large share of its attention to politics. And what in all the field of polilles is so important no election re turns? Our friends over the way will have to wake up. The time has gone by when a newspaper can decline to publish the news. Any Journal which doesso !mist speedily die. People wontt, take it—nut even its , party adherents. Every body wants to read the news. That must be given whatever else may he omitted. Good or bad, people will have the news. If they cannot get it iu One paper they will abandon that for another. We have been adding numbers of in telligent Republicans to the subscrip tion list of the INTELLICIENCER Such people take it because it is admit• ted to be the best news paper published in Lancaster county. They are right. If the Examiner dues not do better we would not be surprised if a large pro portion of its subscribers should be transferred to the INTELLIGENCER be• fore long. Let it wake up, if it does not Intend to die outright and leave us to administer on its effects! Does It sup ' pose the masses of the Republican party in this county are so ignorant as not to know when important elections take place, or that they are so dumb as not to. guess why the Examiner declines to publish the returns? Its conduct is an evidence of such downright stupidity on the part of our cotemporary that not even the stupidest of its readers can fail to see it. Let the editors of the Exam iner start up their slow old couch If they do not intend to be left completely be hind in the march of modern improve / meta. The Issue In Connecticut The Republican papers announced to the world that the election In Connecti cut was to be the test as to popularity of the Radical and Democratic platforms for the Presidential campaign. The New York Times stated the case as fol lows : Everything Is to be reduced le a direct and simple arraignment of the policy of Congress in regard to the Southern States. The Republican party is to be Indicted as an unconstitutional party, and the Demo oratio party is to be exalted as that alone -"which will administer the Government on constitutional principles. • On this Issue the campaign In Connecticut is conducted by the Democrats, and on this Issue they propose ta tearry on the contest for the Presidency. Exactly. Upon that issue the war in Connecticut was fought;atci the coun try knows with what result. Progress of the Impeachment VIM. Ben. Butler Opened the cape of the Radicals against Andrew Johnson, by, devoting a very large portion of his speech to show that the Senate, when sitting to try' a case of impeachment, was not a court. He declared that Senators were not bound by the rules of evidence which have been adopted by Courts of Justice, but that they were "a law unto themselves." Having taken up this as the line of the prosecution he proceeded to put In the most irrelevant testimony. All the loose conversation of witnesses who had been gathered from far and near was admitted. In vain did the counsel for 'the defense ob ject. Butler was sustained by the Radical majority, and not in a single instance was he overruled. But mark the change which took place when the defense began to introduce their testimony. Butler straightway abandoned the position under which he had claimed and secured the widest lat itude asked for. He now turned right about, and insisted that the Senate was a court; that it was notu law unto itself, but that It was bound by all the strict technicalities of criminal courts. Gen. Sherman's testimony would have com- pletely exonerated the President from any design to use force in ejecting Stan ton, and would have proven that the object of Mr. Johnson was to bring the Tenure•of•Ofce bill before the Supreme Court, in order that its constitutionality might be decided upon by the appoint ed tribunal. Judge Chase declared that the proffered testimony Was clearly ad. missible, under the rules of evil:lance which govern courts of justice. He said : "Senators, the Chief Justice has express ed the opinion that the question now pro posed in admissible within the vote of the Senate of yesterday, He will state briefly the grounds of that opinion. The question decided yesterday had reference to a con versation between the President and lien eral 'Thomas after the note addressed to Mr. Stanton was written and delivered, and the Senate decided it admissible. Tim question to-day has reforenceto a conversation relat ing to the came subject mutter between the President and (;anent Sherman, which oc curred before the note of removal was writ ten. Both questions are asked for the pur pwie of proving the intent of the President In the attempt to remove Mr. Stanton. The (thief J entice thinks that proof of a conver sation occurring before tlm transaction Is better evidence of the intent of an net than proof of a conversation occurring after the transaction." Yet Butler resisted the admission of the testimony, and on an appeal to the Senate, a majority voted to reject It. That act will stamp every man of those who voted to reject the testimony of (beneral Sherman, with eternal Infamy. So long as Governments shall endure, and precedents be quoted to sustain legal arguments, WIII the names of the men who thus voted be handed down, as an example of the little regard which it majority of the United States Sendte paid to the requirements of Justice, and the solemn obligation 01 their oaths, In the year of our Lard, Ises, A grosser and more glaring outrage was never perpetrated. It. Is pleasant to re member that quite a number of Republican Senators refused to ',Act , late their oaths, and to disregard all law and demands ofjustice, at the dic tate of partisan passion ; but, it is hu miliating Indeed to know that a majori ty of the members of what was once considered the most august legislative body in the world, regard neither jos ; lice nor their solemn oaths when a party advantage Is to be gained by violating them. . I Should President Johnson be declared guilty after such a mockery of trial, a vast majurity of the people of the North will feel that a gross outrage has been perpetrated. And this conviction will not he confined to those who sympa• thin with hint. Thousands and tens of thousands or those who have no re spect for 111111, and no especial regard for his policy, will (condemn the outrage of his removal in this way, be muse they will feel and know that a precedent has beet set, which may result In the sun limy dismissal of i a President, when(or he may happen to he unaeeeptahle to IL majoilly of Congress, The clangers to the Republic front such a source cannot bu over estimated. The very form of free government bequeathed to us by our fathers will have been changed, and, by the boldest and most during usurpations, the Executive and Ju dicial branches of the Federal Gov ernment will have been deprived of all power, and the majority of a Con gress In which ten States are not repre sented, will have set itself up as supreme in all things. There are multitudes of honest Republicans who will refuse to sanction such a course of procedure by their votes, and the people of the North will-see to It that the next Congress is composed of men who will protect, pre serve and defend the Constitution, as they are sworn to do. The election of a Conservative President Will be regard ed as a necessity, and party ties will not prevent its being accomplished. By their bold usurpations the Radicals will dig their graves, and the people will I bury' them so deep therein, that the sound of the trumpet of political resur rection shall never reach their curs. We can not believe that the President will be convicted. No intelligent man, Iwho has read the testimony, can help being convinced that the prosecution 1 has utterly failed to malteout their case. If Andrew Johnson should be removed the whole country will know that it was done without cause, and that two thirds of the member's of the United States Senate deliberately prepared themselves to bring about that result. j That they are ready to do so we shall I refuse to believe, until, by their votes, 1 they show themselves willing, with eyes wide open, to plunge into this bot tom less abyss of infamy. Adjournment or the Legislature According to agreement both Houses of the Pennsylvania Legislature ad journed at noon to-day. Ninety days, have elapsed since this Legislature as). sembled, but of that time only less than fifty days were devoted to business, the balance being consumed In "arUourn nzentB over," as they are called. The people of the State will look in vain over the proceedings of this Legisla ture for any evidence that it was nn Improvement on those which have late ly preceded it. A loud outcry about retrenchment was made by Radical papers last fall, but the appropriation bill adopted at the session just closed shows a more reckless expenditure of , the public money than at any former session. The Radicals seem to have acted as if they thought this year was to bring with it the end of their rule In Pennsylvania, and we believe it will. Admitted at bast Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, one of the ablest lawyer's and most distin guished statesmen in the country, suc ceeded 16 putting in the proposition to allow General Sherman to testify in such shape that it was finally agreed to, by the very close vote of 26 yeas to 25 nays. Mr. Johnson stated that he desired to hear the testimony, in order that he might act intelligently as a Judge. Twenty-five Radical Senators voted to exclude the testimony of General Sher man, though they profess to believe he is with them in sentiment. They were prepared to condemn without a hearing. Was there ever such an exhibition of disregard of juidlce and decency seen in the world before? ,Negro Voting Stopped In Ohio In Ohio the Supreme Court of that State decided that the clause of the Con stitution which restricted the right of suffrage to white men, did not preclude those negroes who had a preponderance of whlte blood from voting. Under that decision Radical election boards allowed simon pure Guinea nlggers to 'vote last fall. The Democratio Legislature has decided to put a stop to that, .bypassing a law declaring that no one with negro blood in his veins shall vote. Thais exactly right. THE LANCASTER WTTRIKLY INTA,T.ALIGENCR, WEDNES I AY, APRIL 15, 1868. How a Democratic Senafor was De prived of his seat. The Radical Majority . in our State Senate have again violated all right, by depriving Democrat of seed, to which he was fairly and-legally elected. This outrage was perpetrated because it was deemed to be necessary to prevent the Radical majority in that body from being overcome at the next election. With Samuel T. Shugert in the Senate, it stood 14 Democrats to 17 Radicals. It is certain that Democrats will be re turned in the Adams and Luzerne dis tricts, whichare now misrepresented by Radicals, and the prospect is very favor able for a change in at least one of the Philadelphia districts. That would give a Democratic majority,f with Mr. Shu gart in his seat. The political necessity was urgent. If justice were done, It was almost certain that control of the Senate would pass from the hands of the Radicals at the coming State elec tion in October. Hence it was resolved that I.fr. Shugert should be ousted, he having been elected by a smaller ma jority than any other Democratic Senator. The first wrong act done by the par tisan committee to whom the contested election case of Robinson vs. Shugert was committed, was in allowing the contestant to amend his petition so as to permit unlimited latitude in the ad mission of evidence. This was contrary to law and usage in such cases, and put the sitting member to the great disad vantage of being compelled to meet new Issues as often as they might be sprat% by his opponent. The usual course has been to confine contestants to the peti tion which Is presented by them, sus tained by proper affidavits, at the be ginning of the contest. In violating this wise rule the door was purposely opened to injustice. Both parties agreed at an early period that the Issue raised on deserter votes should be abandoned, as it appeared that each had received about an equal number of such votes. When scattering illegal votes came to be counted up, it was proven that Rob inson, the Radical contestant, had re ceived (IS such votes, and Mr. Shugert only 22. That in itself is very strong evidence of the honest manner in which the election was conducted by the De mocracy. Three times as much fraud is shown to have been practiced by the Radicals as by the more decent and conscientious opponents. Much noise has been made in Radi i cal newspapers about certain transitc ' tlMis alleged to have taken place in Philipsburg, Centre county. Some of these Journals have charged that hun dreds of unnaturalized Irishmen were sent to that place and voted on fraudu. lent naturalization papers, which were said to have been colored by being steep ed in (mine to give them an appearance of age. Let us see how much truth there was In that charge. The report made by the minority of the committee says: The iiiwnship of Rush and district of Philipsburg, are connected and vote in the same building, and contestants alleged that frty-two persons whose names they gave, were unnaturalized foreigners, and voted at those polls. Thu poll list of both of these )1 kt riots hero produced, and established the filet that but fifteen of the persons named, voted at those polls, three, thereof to wit: Mathew Smith, Michael McDonough and Michael Feeney, in Runit township, and the remaining twelve in the borough oiThillps ourg : two of these twelve, John II ibbons and Martin hallow, wore proven to be ulti mata of Philipsburg, and did not belong to the railroad gang. Certificates of naturalize- Lion were produced tinder the seal of the proper officers showing that six of those voting.in Philipsburg, and alleged to be un naturaNzed, were naturalized citizens. It wits prkvon that IVIIIhun Carrigan, who was alleged to be unnaturaliztal, did vote and vo. led the Republican ticket. Of the remaining six who voted in these two districts, there was no proof as to bow they voted, nor for W Limn they voted, but the poll list of Rush township shows that Sllllllll.l T. Shogun had nine votes loss for Senator than Sharnwood had for Supremo Judge, and It was proven that In Philipsburg, two mon voted on naturalization papers grunted In the Slate of New York, and several others Oil papers granted In Cambria and Elk counties, It was ids)) shown that one of these voting. In Rush township voted 1111 It paper. Certified I'l'olll the Setae of Now York. Chu sweeping allegation of fraud charged In referent:l)m theme two districts are not sits. mined by the proofin the ease, bemuse the whole number of votes polled In 18(17 was but six more titan those polled In ISM, while the locality is the terminus of a re. (amity completed railway, and is a growing and thriving village ' they art) based upon the statement of one M ichaul O'Meara, who Is shown to have boon In cothittunication with ono 11, li, Swope, before the election, In reference to this vole. O'Meara wits a boss upon the railroad, and was discharged for misconduct, on the 24th of September before the election. His testimony was mainly hearsay, except that he swore that he aided in bringing to the pollen number of Irishmen, whose names he gave. He was flatly contradicted by proof, th‘A live of the persons he said had voted at Philipsburg under his three don, did not vote there, and wore not upon the lob at the time of the election, but bud been discharged weeks before, and were not in the neighborhood, at all ; James McDonald, who was one of them, was called to the stand and testified that he did not vote In Philipsburg or Rush township. but that he did vote in Bradford township Clear field county, and voted the Republican ticket. ' Witnesses were produced from every locality In which O'Meant said he had lived, all of whom—fifteen lnllUMberprove him to be a man of bad character and utterly unworthy of credit. It was also proven that he, O'Meara, received money in pur allanCe Of the arrangement made with 11. It. Swope, the counsel of Robinson, helot.° the election. That is the truth about the whole matter over which the Radical papers of this State have made so much noise. Ou loose statements of this perjured wretch O'Meara, who was not only proven to be unworthy of belief by many unimpeachable witnesses, but also clearly shown to have sworn falsely in this very case, the Radical journals of Pennsylvania have proceeded to de clare that the Democratic State Central Committee was directly engaged In an attempt to perpetuate a gigantic fraud. No man, not even O'Meara, who was ready to swear to almost any thing, tes• titled before the committee that the Democratic State Central Committee, or any member thereof, had any know. ledge of the occurrences at Philipsburg. O'Meara was proven to have been the hired tool of Robinson and his counsel before the election, and to be acting iu their interests. This cry of frauds at Phillipsburg, which was so industriously circulated by the Radical press before the decision of the Committee had been rendered, was started and kept up for the deliber ate purpose of thus covering up the gross outrage which it was predeter mined should be committed. The calm and clear report of the minority of the committee effectually disposes of this whole matter. Robinson In his petition only claimed that forty•two illegal votes were polled at Phillipsburg, and it was proven that but fifteen of the railroad hands voted there. Nine of these were shown to be duly naturalized citizens, and the remaining six it Is only fair to suppose were voted by O'Meara for Rob inson, as it was proven that he was employed and paid by them for that purpose. So fades away before the light of truth thefabric of lies which the Radical journals of this State have been busily building up for weeks. Mr. Shugert was declared to be elected by a majority of 22 votes. If then three times as many illegal votes were cast for Robinson as for Shugert, and if the Philipsburg affair stood as we have shown it did, how did the Radicals manage to count Mr. Shugertout ? By this process. They deliberately pro ceeded to throw out the entire vote cast in Carbon township, Huntingdon coun ty, because a drunken man was seen in the room where the election was held, and then counted the votes of five Rad ical townships in the same county,where greater Irregularities were proven to have occurred than in Carbon ; and they refused to'reject the vote of Taylor town, ship, in Blair county, where Robinson had a majority, though it was proven that the election officers were not sworn: By such a process as that the °nett of Mr. Shueort was made an easy, mat ter:' It Was only a question of *es. Evidence went for ',nothing, 'and!rnps appeared'not to haVe' - atiy 'el/natty 'or binding force. That a most infamous wrong hae been , perpetrated in, 'the ex 7 elusion of Mr Sliugert from till snit no candid man can The cry of frend recoils upon Witte who started it, andl.t has been clearly proven that neither justice, nor honesty, nor decency, nor the sanction of their oaths are regarded by the Radical leaders when a partisan advantage is to be gained. This outrage is of a piece with that per petrated when Mr. Duncan, of Frank lin, was deprived of his seat, two years' ago, to make room for McConaughy, of Adams. A leading Radical on the Com mittee which decided that case . has since admitted that he perjured himself. Another taunted McConaughy during the present session, by telling him to his face that he owed his seat in the Senate to an outrage and a wrong; which he had helped to commit. When the state of morality among the Radicals In the Senate of Pennsylvania has got to be so low as that, we need not wonder that Mr. Shugert was deprived of his seat, though he was clearly proven before the j committee to have been legally elected I by a much larger majority than ap peared on the face of the official return. The Michigan Election If there Is a State in the Union, out side of New England, where the dis tinctive Radical doctrine of negro suf frage ought to have carried, that State is Michigan. The Republican majority there has been overwhelming for years, and the representatives of that State in Congress had been the very embodi ment of Radical fanaticism. It was only reasonable to suppose that Chand ler and Howard represented the senti ment of their party. Yet we find that a State Constitution, unexception able In all respects, except its recogni tion of the right of a few negroes to vote, is defeated by twenty-five thou sand, or over that. Here is food for reflection. If a Radical State like Mich igan will not allow a few scattered no ' 4oes to vote, by what right does the tepubllcan party Insist upon making t e barbarian negroes who aro just re leased from slavery the absolute rulers over white men in ten States of the Union? How can Michigan Congress men continue to vote forimposing upon the white men of other States what their constituents reject with loathing? is it not time for the people of every North ern State to be just in this important matter'? How much longer will they agree to be taxed at the rate of $14,000,000 a month, for the purpose of keeping up a standing army, which only finds rinployment in propping up negro supremacy lu the South with its bayonets? The result of the election In Michigan is another most decided defeat of the Radical pal• icy , and upon the coming Presidential election it will exercise an influence ful -1 ly as great as the important. Democratic victory In Connecticut. The Republi can party lILIS SU completely committed itself to the doctrine of negro equality that any defeat of that policy must no• cessarily prove very disastrous to It. The Income Tax Those who are now engaged in pre paring their returns of Income for tax ation, mhould remember that the whole product of the Income tax doom not pay mlO4llO f of the coat of the standing army; and that the sole employmeht of the army Is to keep the people of the South In subjection to negroec and Yankee adventurers, It is for this purpose only that the odious, inquisitorial and oppressive in emne tax Is continued. Being peculiar ly a war tax, it should have ended with the war; but it is prolonged because the expenses of war are extended Into a period of peace. This grinding tax Is assessed upon the product of labor an well an of capital, It in levied upon the flying of the people, and tolls the food that ()MAN the mouth of the citizen. It conilscaten the gross product of the twentieth your of every man's life to the government. The citizen must work one year of every twenty for the gov ernment, and lind himself. And ho must do this to contribute to Vic support of despotism in thc South. no Income Tax Is needed for no other purpose. It has also been recently shown, by the opinion of an eminent New York lawyer, that this tax Is unconstitutional. It is, If possible, even more clearly so than the Legal 'render, Reconstruction and Tenure of °dice Iniquities. And it - is quite as "useless, inconvenient and burthensoine" to the people of the country. The fact in, that tinder an economical administration of govern ment we should need no taxes, except customs, excises on liquors and tobacco, and stamps. These would furnish ample means to pay the interest on the debt and support the government as the fathers left it. Fitting Witnesses The principal witnesses produced by John Cessna to bolster up the claim of the•Radlcal claimant to Senator Shu• gert's seat were O'Meara and a fellow named Elias Hale. O'Meara was proven to be unworthy of belief on oath, and Hale has since stolen two thousand dol lars and eloped with a prostitute, leav ing a respectable wifebehind him. With such tools, and John Cessna and H. B. Swope to use them, a case was easily made out to satisfy the Radical members of the Committee, they being ready to decide without any testimony, if need be. All our city readers will be rejoiced to learn that the Senate finally passed the bill allowing the Council to borrow money to improve the Water Works and increase their capacity. We have no doubt the necessary Improvements will be undertaken at once. There Is no town or city in the State which stands more In need of au increased supply of water than Lancaster. A Republican Victory. It will no doubt rejoice some folks to learn that the Radicals have achieved at least one victory recently. In David son county, Tennessee, on Saturday an election was held for County Commis sioners. The Republican candidates, two white men and one negro, were elected. The E./press ought to parade Its cannon. AMONG the Democratic gains in Ohio, over the vote for Governor last year, the following are the largest: Cincinnati gains 2,000; Toledo, 116; Hamilton, 100; Mansfield, (can this be the home of the Veteran Observer ?) 108 ; Urbana, 100; Lima, 64; Delaware, 200; San dusky county, 300—but the pen tires to recapitulate the scores of other towns with equal gains. The story is the same all through the State. It is notice able that in the country towns a syste matic circulation of Democratic papers has produced this result. THE Radicals bought up the Fenian Head Centre in Connecticut. He tried to coax the Irish from the Democratic faith. Result, 1,600 Democratic majority. When the Hudson flows into Lake Champlain, the Radicals will succeed in inducing the Irish to vote for negro equality and white slavery under Con gressional rule. SOME of the Republican papers in Illinois are calling upon. Senator Yates (Radical,) of that State, to resign, on account, as they allege, of his intem perate habltil:, Yates declares he will do so, provided that if he resigns, Gen eral Grantshall do likewise. This would seem 'to be a fair proposition, Will Grant accept? `THE Radicals of this State are still quarreling over the action of their State Convention. The conferees of the 21st District met at Freeport on WednesdkV, and elected delegates to the Chicago Convention. Resolutions were adopted denying the right of the State Conven tion to appoint delegates for the district. The Ka-Klux We:have always been Apposed to - the formationof Secret associations,. We fonght the Know-Nothing PartY With every energy we posseeged. We detested. - its narrow-minded policy which propdeed to cripple the energies of this growing nation, by proscribing the foreigners who annually bring to our shores vast supplies of muscle and brain, the vary material which is needed to develop our unlimited natural re sources. Weregarded with utter loath ing the attempt to discriminate against men on „account of their religions belief. And, while hating every distinctive principle on which the party was found ed, we considered its oath bound secrecy to be icronsistent with that freedom of discussion and of action which are es sential to the very existence of Repub lican institutions. We believed, and still believe that where truth is left free to combat political error, secret associa done, having for their object the main tenance of a party organization, should be discouraged. That has been and still is the creed of the Democratic party. Know-nothingism was so despicable an organization that it speedily broke down. There, was too much generosity and decency in the minds of a majority of the American people to enable it to continue to hold the power it bad sud denly seized in many of the Northern States. But, much of the old spirit still lurked in the Republican party, which was the offspring of a union between know-nothingism and fanatical aboli tionism. So we had secret political so cieties organized everywhere through out the North during the war. A new title was adopted, and under the name of Union Leagues the dark len terrig of the Know-Nothings were again brought into use, and secret oath-bound political organizations existed every where. With the end of the war the Union Leagues began to lose their powerin the North, but they still exist, and to a great extent control the nominations and the action of the Republican party. As soon as it was determined to give the right of suffrage to the negroes of the South, the entire machinery of their Leagues was transferred to that sec tion, and the blacks were sworn as a body into these secret oath-bound po litical societies. Any one who bas read radical newspapers cannot have failed to see daily or weekly announcements of how effectively the Union League was doing its work among the negroes. If any one of them was disinclined to join he was threatened with the ven geance of his fellows, and by the aid of coercion and extravagant promises of land and mules they were banded to gether, and made a practical uult In support of the destructive policy of Congress. Was it to be supposed that the white men of the South would submit to be completely ruled by those who had lately been their slaves, without a strug gle to prevent it? When Ohio, Michi gan and every Northern State In which it Is submitted, rejects negro suffrage by overwhelming majorities, can It be ex pected that the people of the South will quietly consent to the transfer of all political power into the hands of a horde ' of barbarian negroes ? If they see the blacks banded together in Union Leagues, is it not natural that white men should combine in Ku-Klux Klaus, or some other form of close political organization? The truth Is the despotism of Con gress has furnished an excuse for the organization of secret political societies among the white men of the South, which does nut and never did exist any where else In this country. When tyrants rule, those who love liberty are necessarily drawn more closely to gether, and where the sword and bayo net prevent free speech and freedom of political action, secret political societies naturally spring up and nourish, Wu publish elsewhere a letter witioh gives an exposition of the objects of the now notorious Ku-Klux IClan, the prin ciples which it professes to advocates:ld the method of Initiation, It roads much as if the form had been copied from the Union League or the Grand Army of the Republic. We do not see how any white man, who does not favor negro equality, can object to the principles enunciated, Uwe would not grant the negro the right of suffrage In Pennsylvania, can we blame men of our own race in the South for doing all lu ,their power to Prevent him from being made ruler over them ? If it be right for Northern and Southern, black and white Radi cals to band themselves together in oath-bound secret political societies, is it a crime for Conservatives to do the same thing? To ask that question is to answer it. So long as the Repub lican party relies upon the Union League and the Grand Army of the Republicit dare not condemn such secret political organizations when formed by others. Oh, but these Ku-Klux-Klaus are a terrible organization! They have sent threatening letters to Ben. Butler, and Thad. Stevens, and Stanton, and 'other Radical miscreants. Have they? For ney says so, and the telegraph Informs us that a meeting of leading Radicals was held in the War Office, where Stanton still eats and sleeps, to consult about the matter. We could pity any one who is coward enough to be disturbed by such palpable hoaxes. That the Ku-Klux- Klan has anything to do with the raw head and bloody bones circulars which are posted on dead walls and stuck through key holes, we do not believe. • In our estimation, there is no more danger tilat one secret political society will violate the law than that another will. If the Ku-Klux-Klan be repre hensible so is the Union League, and so Is the Grand Army of the Republic. The latter is an armed organization, and during a recent excitement it was announced that its members were pre pared to march with arms in their hands to Washington. When Radical news papers rail against the Ku-Klux-Klan let.thera remember that, if such an or ganization exists, it is but a copy after those societies which are the chief agency of their own party In the North and the South. When General Meade or General Grant issues orders In regard to secret political societies, they should see to it that their orders are applicable to all such associ ations. One has no more right to exist than another. Negro Leagues are just' as unlawful in the South as similar combinations among white men, and they are infinitely more dangerous to the liberties of the people, and more likely tO lead to the commission of crimes.- If the Ku-Klux Klaus are to be put down by military force, let the Negro Leagues and the white Radical Leagues, and the Grand Army of the Republic go down with them. omclal Figures The following payments were made at the Treasury during the month of March, and are worthy of particular, notice at this time: Civil, miscellaneous and foreign in tercourse $3,715,000 Idier . es7,3ll the public debt ~C,482 000 War 13 060,000 Navy 2,365,000 Interior (Pensions and Indians) 5,508,000 We respectfully suggest to tax-payers the propriety of a careful examination of the above figures; and would call their especial attention to the, cost of keeping up a huge standing army, which is of no earthly pee except to maintain the supremacy of barbarian negroes over our own race in ten States of the Union. All who wish to see that kind of thing perpetuated, at a cost of fourteen mil lion dollars a month, will vote for Grant. He fully approves of the costly despot fern which has been established by Con gress, and is pledged to carry it one to its fullest extent. Let the millions of the North who are ground down by tax ation vote for him, if they wish to be burthened and oppressed as no other people ever have been. Is 'the Relubllcan .Party of Peunsylva :-Ma Committed to.liegro., Equality ? . - To - proire how completely the Repub. limit party of.Penrisylyarda is conimit• red to the odious docteln - e of negro equality, and how resolute is the deter mination of the leaders of that organi zation to force negro suffrage upon all the States of the Union, it is only ne cessary to refer to the comments of prominent Republican journals in this State upon the result of the election in Michigan. The Pittsburg Commercial is one of the most Conservative Repub lican papers In Pennsylvania. It is in the habit of councillng moderation, and seems to desire that its party should not be hurried to extremes on any question. It has a characteristic article on the Michigan election. It advocates the abolition of all distinctions of color, but desires to set up some test of intelli gence, and says : Neither the word white nor the word black has anything to do with the proper definition of an elector. Has ho the requi site intelligence and character? Is the only question to be asked and answered; and ' it can be as readily answered as whether a man Is white or black. Fitness attaches to the mind and character, but no more to I the color of the skin than the color of the hair. If' you decide that no negro shall vote, do you do so because of his skin, merely, or because a dark skin is evidence of the want of capacity? If the former, the test is absurd and will not.stand a moment. If the latter, then many a so-called black man will be a good voter, and many n 'to talled white man will be counted out. The test of Intelligence incorporated in the Mich igan Constitution, we doubt not would have carried. The first real objection to such a test has not been raised, only to the prac ticability of applying it. But on examina tion that objection will vanish. This test of I color opens all the sluices of ignorance and crime on the ballot box, floating into the offices, high and low, congenial characters. Michigan has done an inconsistent and an unreasonable thing, just us will other States under similar circumstances do, because the question was put in a form to rouse all the prejudices of generations, and give to thorn the determining of the verdict. Let the question embody the principle of equal suffrage, based on intelligence, and ..11 ichlgan and those other States which, like her, will re ject negro suffrage, squarely put, will promptly accept it. The Commercial would disfranchise numbers of white men, in order that a certain number of negroes might vote. That is the position of one portion of the leaders of the Republican party. The out-and out Radicals, and they are the real leaders of the party, take a dif ferent position. The Philadelphia Pod( speaks for them. It says : It Is not to be taken for grunted that the Republican party is opposed to Impartial suffrage because of the votes :against it in Ohio and Michigan. In each of these States it was defeated by a union of a small motor, ity of our party with the Democracy. In Ohio over 200,000 Republicans voted for the measure, and In Michigan we presume tot less than 50,000 out of 70,000 were ready to strike the word white from the State Con stitution, These statistics show the progress the idea of equal rights is making, and the folly of declaring that it it not a part of the Republican creed They shoulu teach the Conservatives that, while they may defeat linpartial Suffrage by joining with our enemies, they must not attempt to bully rho overwhelming majority of the party into political apostacy. Now, we ask such Republicans as are in the habit of asserting their opposi tion to negro suffrage, to read and reflect upon the extritcts we have made front two of the most prominent Republican papers In Pennsylvania. We do not ask them to take our word, We give them the proof of the position occupied by the Republican party in this State from sources which cannot be cities tinned. If any man is honest in his opposition to negro equality, he must of necessity cease to act with the Republi can party at once; fur to that doctrine it is fully and completely committed. What the Rank and File of the Army Forney's Prom has been thrown Into spasms again. It says the spirit of An drew Johnson Is breaking out among the rank and file of the regular army. It seems that the private soldiers at Carlisle Barracks had a meeting the other day, at which the following reso lutions were adopted : Wit:nu:An, The present grout crisis In the affairs of our Government fIUVIIII4 to (IV mond Lim attention and earnest considera tion of all goad (Admix, and fur obvious re(1,10101, especially of tho citizen soldiery of the Republic, and in order by our unaultm Ity ever to Millman to the world smoothing a the sentiments of the rank and file of ItIO army, be It Reseturd, That the first groat duty of an American soldier Is to support the Cons/da tion of the United Slates against all its ene mies and opposers whomsoever. Resolved, That we recognize in its fullest signification the feet that the constitutionally elected President of the United States Is the Commander-In-Chief of the Army and Navy, and the person to whom our first and paramount allegiance Is due. The Press scents the odor of lurking treason in those really patriotic and sol dier-like resolutions. We see in them evidence of a love of country and a dis position to act us all American soldiers should be expected to do. •Is it not true that "the first great duty of an American soldier is to support tile Constitution of the United States against all Its enemies and opposers whomsoever?" Is it not also true that " the constitutionally elected President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and the Navy, and the person to whom their first and paramount allegiance is due ?" Until Congress attempted to usurp all the powers of the Executive, no man In the country would have doubted the patriotism of the excellent resolutions adopted by - the soldiers at Carlisle. But we do not wonder that the Press Is agitated over this matter. The Rad— ical leaders have been acting as if they were sure that the regular army would back them up in all their treasonable designs. We have always believed they were counting without theirhostin this matter. Should a conflict occur in this country, the rank and file of the regu lar army would refuse to sustain the Radical usurpers and traitors who seem to be determined to support themselves In power by the use of military force. The muskets of these very men would be turned against those who would be found marshaled under the lead of Ste vens and Sumner. This may be an ugly fact for the Radtals to recognize - , but they have only to advance a little further In their revolutionary designs to test the truth of what we say. They might find the negro regiments ready to sustain them, but not those composed of white men. Grant's Pastor Ole Bull gave a concert in Washing ton a few evenings since for the benefit of the Lincoln Monument. It was a decided failure, and did not pay ex penses. The Rev. Byron Sunderland, whose church Graut has joined since he became a candidate for President, tendered his services to open the con cert with prayer. He prayed that the Almighty would forever deprive the Democratic party of power, mentioning it by name. We wonder what Grant's pastor thinks of the efficacy of his prayers since the elections in Contlecti cut and elsewhere. Perhaps he may come to the conclusion that he and the Almight differ somewhat in the esti mate of the Democratic party. The Lord appears to be fighting on the side of the Democracy, and the chances of the Rev. Byron Sunderland's prayer being answered seem to be very slim indeed. Row the Express Comforts its Readers, In its humiliation at the defeat of the Radical party at the State elections in Connecticut and Michigan, and at im portant municipal electiops in Ohio, In dikna, lowa and Kansas, the Express endeavors to break the news gently to its readers by informing them that the negroes have elected a Legislature in Arkansas. That is truly a Radical tri umph. Only where white men are dig franchised, while barbarian negroes do the voting, does the party seem to be able to hold its Own. And even in Arkansas the polls had to be kept open seventeen days, and the negroes march ed from one precinct to another and voted repeatedly to secure the victory over which the Express crows. When the election for President comes off, un less the polls in the South areltept open a month or so, the Democracy will carry a majority of those States. Mark that! $32,010,000 Drinks All Round. The examination of General Lorenzo Thomas:: before the High Old Court of Impeachment eliclted:a. rich piece of testimony. After the. General had re lateEwhat paesed between him and Stanton in presence of a batch of Radi cal Congressmen, who had called to stiffen up Stanton's backbone, the ex amination proceeded as follows : Q. Tell us what happened between you and the Secretary of War after they (the Congressmen) withdrew? A. Ido not re collect what first occurred, but I said to him ; "The next time von have me arrest ed"—for I found it was at his suit I. was arrested Mr. Butler—l object to the conversation between the Secretary of War and General Thomas, at a time which we have not put in ;because we put in only the time when the other gentlemen were there; and this was something which took place after they bad withdrawn. The Chief Justice—lf it was immediately afterwards it was a part of the same con versation. Mrßutlei--Does General Thomas say it was the same conversation? Witness—Mr. Stanton turned to me and got talking in a very familiar manner with me. I said: "The next time you have mo ' arrested, please don't do it before I get something to eat." (Laughter.) I said: "I have had nothing to eat or drink to day." (Continued laughter.) He put his arm around my neck as ho used to do in a familiar manner and ran his hand through my hair, and turned round to Gen. Schrie ver and said: "Schriever, have you got a bottle here? Bring it out." (Roars of laughter.) Schriever unlocked his desk and took out a small vial. The Secre tary then proposed all should have a spoon ful of whiskey. I said I would take a lit tle. General Shriever poured it out into a tumbler and divided it equally• Mr. Stanbery—He shared it evenly? A. Yes, be took the glasses up this way (indi cating,) and measured it with his eye. Pre sently a messenger came In with a full bottle of whiskey, and the cork was drawn, and he and I took a drink together. Q. Was that all the force exhibited that day? A. That was all. Q. Have you ever at any limo attempted to use force to got Into that office? A. At no time. Q• Have you ever had Instructions from the President to use forco, Intimidations, or threats? That needs no comment. A Battle for Principles. The Philadelphia Post sap "The Connecticut election does not prove that Grant is unpopular, as the Democrats claim, but it is certainly evidence that his popularity alone is not sufficient to ensure victory to the Republican party. The peo ple take a deeper interest in the great po litical issues than in men." The Post Is at last halt' right. We are not exactly prepared to admit that the Connecticut election does not prove that Grant is unpopular; but we agree that "the people take a deeper interest in the great political issues than they do in men." The pending political contest will be pre-eminently a battle for the establishment of great principles. The Radicals are squarely committed to the odious doctrine of negro equality. They are pledged to maintain negro supre many In the South. On this and other Issues their can be no dodging. The people understand the position of the two parties, and the flosses cannot be carried away by the glitter of Grant's epaulettes. They will vote for principles, and not for men. Believing that, we do not;fear Grant as a candidate, and confidently expect the triumph of the Democratic candidate for President. A Lively Caricature The Belfast Journal, published away down East, in Maine, is ono of the best Democratic papers in the country. Its last Issue comas to us highly Illustrated in honor of the Connecticut °lntim]. It not only displays half a dozen de ilant roosters, but has the best Barlett ture we have seen, In a boat sits a darkey pulling for dear life at the oars, ono of which is broken. In the stern is a military looking white Individual representing the Republican party. Tho boat is on the edge of a dam, and in a moment must inevitably be drawn over the full. Looking to see what has brought It and its occupants so near ruin, we see n liquor cask, labeled (]rant, already carried over the dam, and pulling the Republican party and the negro after It. This picture is en titled " Radicalism going over the Con necticut Dam;" and underneath appear the expressive words "Sambo could'iet tow Ulysses against the current of pub lic opinion." Perhaps some people might think the picture ought to be reversed, and that Grant would appear more properly as oarsman, and Rambo as the dead weight behind. But It Is good as it Is, and we are indebted to Brother Simpson for a hearty laugh. We hope he is receiving the support he so richly deserves. Setting a Good Example. We are glad to notice that the New York Timcs has the decency to give place to the following paragraph in its editorial columns: Tho single murder of Mr. Ashburn in Georgia hue called out the prompt and stern application of military force. In the vicinity of Selina, Ala., five white men, once of the rebel army, have boon mur dered and no arrests made. Has impartial Justice anything to do with the pacification of a disturbed land, or is impartialsulfrage supposed to'be all sufficient? The Times sets a good example to its Radical cotemporarles by publishing the above, put it is not likely that many of them will follow lt. They prefer to indulge in laudationnf the ne groes and wholesale denunciation of the white population of the South. The Connecticut Legislature The Radicals are making much of the fact that they have a majority in the Connecticut Legislature. The Hartford Times explains how it happens that the Democratic majority failed to secure it. It says: "Under our rotten borough system, the result could hardly have been otherwise. Democratic majorities of 3,000 elect only live Representatives—with no aggregate vote of near 20,000. Three Radical counties, with no more votes and no more popula tion, elect sixty-live Representatives. No comment on this Is necessary." The people of this State are familiar with the Radical system of gerryman dering Legislative and Congressional districts. In Connecticut it seems to be much worse than even in Pennsyl vania. All that sort of thing will be remedied before long. The Native Radicals or llininia The recent action of the military au thorities in removing Governor Pier pont, of Virginia, and other State 0111- cern, has raised a storm of indignation among the native Radicals of the State. Wells, who Is named to succeed Pier pont, is a Northern adventurer. and the best offices In the State are all being transferred to thutclass of men. We do not wonder that those Virginians who ate dirt and condescended to put them selves on the level of the negroes for the sake of office are highly Incensed at the action of General Schofield. They have a right to be indignant, but we du not suppose they can expect any sym pathy In their misfortunes. The re creant Trojans who helped the Greeks to introduce the wooden horse Into their native city, were among the first to fall by the sword of their country'senemies ; and we never heard a word of pity ex pressed at their fate. ' • Parties In Louisiana. The Harrisburg State Guard says a tierce conflict for the political mastery is now going on in Louisiana between the regular Congo negroes and those who have a mixture of white blood in their veins."' It says there are three dis tinct parties down there, the white man's party, the quadrotat party, and the simon pure Guinea! nigger party. With such a state of affairs, our radical cotemporary thinks the political future of the Pelican State ienot at all cheering. How can anything else except disaster result from such a condition of affairs? It is not. strange that even the State Guard should show symptoms of alarm. MICHIGAN rejects negro suffrage by a majority of 80,000, and the very next day her Senators both vote to allow ne groes not only to vote, but to hold offices in the District of Columbia. They are evidently anxious to show that the Re publican party has no intention of abandoning the doctrine of negro equal ity, or of confining it to the rebellious States. Now for the Presidency The Radicals having staked their all on Connecticut, and proclaimed far and wide that the election of Jewell would be an in dorsement of General Grant for President; and, still further, having adorned their bal lots with the head-line " Grant and Jewell," under whighwerepictures of theseworthies, it becomes interesting to forecast the prob able result of the Presidential election, based upon that of the recent contest in Connecti cut. We have, therefore, collated a few figures bearing upon the point, showing the majorities given by the States to be enumerated at their last general election, their probable majorities next fall, based upon the vote of the two contending parties in Connecticut, and the electoral votes to which they will be entitled, and which they will be likely to cast for the Democratic candidate: LAST VOTE. E,. .---.-----. E a t Elec. STATES. ---.—. Loral Dem. Rep. mat • mai. ma). 1668. Vote. California 7,1:57S - 11,137 - 6 Connecticut 1,600 2.308) u Delaware 1.212 1,800 3 Indiana 11,W2 4,500 1:1 Maryland 41,0:11 82.113 7 Kentucky .. ....... ........... 56.288 ...... 81 42c 11 Nebraska ..... ............. ... 115 2111 3 New Jersey 14351 24,531 7 New York .17,9211 70,955 33 Ohio 2,983 1,423 21 Oregon 327 159 3 Pennsylvania , 9221 I 1,3531 28 Total electoral votes.. Necessary to a choice Several Slates which the Der rats will contest closely with the Radicals, and which they hope to carry for their candi date in the fall, are omitted from the above table, to wit: Minnesota, Maine, Nevada, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and possibly Kansas, inasmuch us this latter State Is gradually approaching the Democratic lino. The calculation is made without including the electoral votes of the Southern States, since at the present rate of reconstruction (if the Radicals should have a perpetual majority in Congress) they would not be readmitted to the Union in time to partici• pate in the Presidential election of 1872. Our Democratic friends throughout the country will please bear these thtures in mind, and remember that they are to strain every nerve to make what Is a forecast-In April a reality In November. To nccom• plish this they must begin to work now.— , New York It arid. Thonnui WArey McGee, Whose assasslnfition has canned such great excitement in Canada, has boon for smile years past a prominent citizen of Canada, and at the time of bin death he was a dis tinguished member of the tiovernment of the Dominion. lie was n man of great talents, and was conspicuous an an able Parliamentary debater. He was born in Carlingford, Ireland, in 1825, and was edu cated at Wexford. At the age of seven teen, he emigrated to the ljnited States, and learning the trade of printer, worked in the composing room of the Boston Pilot. From this his advancement was rapid, and ho ul timately became the editor of that paper. After remaining a few years in Boston, he returned to Ireland and became attached to the war of the Dublin Nation. Ile was con nected with the revolutionary movement of 1848, and being compelled to leave Ireland, canto again to the United States, and land ing at New York, ho started, with John Mitchel, the American Colt, an organ of Irish feeling and sentiment. Abandoning this enterprise on account of financial dllli mltten, alter remaining a while longer in New York Lin IL tent of political leader alibi countrymen, be went to Canada and nettled lit Montreal. There his political opi n io n s seemed to have undergone a decided and radical change. Ono , an ardent republican, ho now became a strong royalist, and wits soon taken In band by the lioyerninent and placed In the path of polltieal preferment and litleCeSU• lie was President of the Executive Council In Canada. trout 1831 In 1857, and hold the °Moe of Minister of Agriculture, wan Wadi) Chia I . olllmlnsionor I to the Paris Exposition In .185 - , and to the Dublin Exhibition In 186 1. and also to the lute Perim Exposition. Ile was also a dele gate to all the conferences held to piomoto the union of the colon len of British North America, which has culminated in the Do minion. III) wan a leading speaker in the (lovernment party, and his piercing cadre and bitter invective made hint many strong personal Lineation. Ila+ idetui,uf republiean him of late yearn were never acceptable to the great titans of his eountryinen. lln was too ardent Lin admirer of the Devine right of Icings, to boom() popular with theme of his fellows who had experienced something of the unpleasant influencem flowing from the vicereine of that right. Supported by the (MI/eminent, he attained honorn that he probably would not have gained had he clung to Mx earlier and butter principles. Mr. Mattes represented the west division of Montreal in the Canadian Parliament. Ile wan prominent In literature as wall as poll. tics, and wrote a very able and thorough "history of Ireland," and also Lives of Irish Writorm." flu was also a gifted poet, and nocially was even more popular than its fi politician or literatuer. Ills wall. known qualities, his high position and the horror attached to his death, make his lons an event that will be deeply mourned throughout Canada.—P.Philadelphia Ledger Amsnsanatlons In the South. The telegraph brings ti.newm of the as• massination of a one•armed ex• Con [odor ate moldier, near Selma, Alabama, lie wax shot front his horse on Thursday, the ULII Inst., and instantly killed as he was riding along the road. The tuisasln has not been arrested. The same do spatch Hays this Is the fifth white man who has been assassinated in that im mediate vicinity within a year; and no one has been arrested. Southern papers frequently bring the news of Just such cowardly murders of Southern white men Yet we hear no clamor made over these outrages by• Radical news papers. But let a negro, or some car petbag adventurer be killed, and straightway there Is a howl throughout the entire North, and It Is openly charged that the white populatim are responsible as a body for each recurring transaction of the kind. There le good reason to believe that there have been five white men assassi nated in the South since the war ended to ono negro or Northern adventurer ; and there is no reason to doubt that negroes have been the murderers. Why do these things fall to be heralded to the country? Does any ono need to ask? It is because the Radicals have a politi cal purpose to serve by misrepresenting the condition of affairs at the South. They consider it to be essential to the existence of their party that the North ern people should believe that the lives of negroes and Northern white men would not be safe for a moment If the Freedmen's Bureaus were abolished and and the army withdrawn. Without these two potent agencies, which cost the tax-payers of the North nearly twenty million dollars last month, Negro supremacy could not be main tained in the South, and multitudes of Radical officials would not be supported at the public expense. The Induce- meats to lie about the condition of affairs In the south are too strong to Le resist ed, and murders and blood and thunder stories of every description are the food on which the passions of those who read Radical newspapers are constantly fed. A Thongla for:Working Men The Pittsburg Evening Advocate, the workingmen's organ, calls attention to the fact that the depreciation In farm lands In the South, since 1860, has been $036,000,000, every dollar of whiciLis permanently lost to the nation. It urges the working classes to vote against the Radical policy of Congress which has produced such disastrous results, and assures them that depression in business and low rates of wages must continue until wiser councils prevail at Wash ington. The working men are begin— ning to see that every vote castby them for Radical candidates Is a vote against their own interests. The elections show that. Very Significant That sprightly little Radical sheet, the Philadelphia Post, the morning after the New Hampshire election, when it was reported that its party had gained 800 instead of losing about 1,000 votes, jubilantly exclaimed : "As a general thing, small gains prove little either way, but a gain of eight hundred voles at this time has a glorious significance." In view of the fact that it was the Democrats who made the gain in New Hampshire, and In view of the same kind of a gain in Connecticut, does the Post still hold to its opinion that these things have "a glorious significance 1" We do. Grant Tried and Found Wanting. All / the leading Republican papers of the Country united in proclaiming be forehand that the Connecticut election would be the test of General Grant's strength as a candidate for the Presirc dency. The doubling of the Demoiiittle majority of last year shows exactly what it is. If the Radicals want to elect the next President they Will have to hunt up another candidate. It is de monstrated that they cannot succeed with the man they have selected. Rirant has been tried and found wanting. ,I .,v t News Items. Less than two thousand white men voted for the Arkansas "conatltution." Queen Victoria has over thirty tons of silver and gold plate. Yale College has challenged Harvard for a six-oared boat-race. It will be accepted. G. W. George, of Indianapolis, has com mitted suicide. The wrecked ship Autocrat has been sold at San Francisco for $10,500 in gold coin. Dent, n night watchman of tho Canadian Parliament buildlng,has committed suicide. The early crops in Tennessee have been blighted by a heavy frost, Judge 'William M. Semple ' of the Now Orleans Crescent, died on the 10th inst. Gen. Longstreet has taken up his resi dence in Huntsville, Ala. The Haytien GoVernment has sent ilfty bronze cannon to the United States. Asphaltum sidewalks aro being laid In Chariaston, S. C. Paris now imports blonds hair from America. :rho Western gold fields aru expected to yield $417,000,000 this year. Forty-four post-offices In New York Stato are now conducted by wonted. Thu health of Uen. Robert E. Leo Is re ported to be failing. Tho corporation limits of Louisville have been extended. Uov. Geary has signed the bill repealing the liquor law of last year. The new Methodist Church to bo built in Washington will by un elegant Gothic edi fice, costing $200,000. Young Jerome Bonaparte, son of Mudamo Bonaparte, of Baltimore, has beou appoint ed orderly to the Emperor Napoleon. The Providence Journal says there will bo little or no opposition to the re-election of Senator Sprague. Alabama, In ISaa, had 108,410 adult male whites and 00,602 blacks, the whites having a majority of 17,800. Five hundred dollars is the entrance fen to a London Laub called the " Creme de la Crone." Mrs. Front, the widow of a revolutlnnoty soldier, liven In Harrison county, Indiana. She In 0110 hundred and two yearn old. Business in Boston being prostrate, 1200 mechanics have token passage for Callfitr nia. The English motrhuonial law forbids the solemnization of any morrlogu after twelve o'clock In the day, There Is no cotton In Alabama except in the Montgomery whorehouses, which von. tint only about 2,500 bales. Upper Sandusky, tiro local paper says, has twenty whisky shops, but no book stores. Jetties Tearc, kimwn as the father of It e totalistn in England, died Mareh hi, In his alai your. The mvannddp Ocean Queen, front Ampin well, has arrived at New York with KITS, 000 in treasure. ' At t h e close of Charles Dickens' larowell reading In Boston the audience gavo hint three cheers. One hundred guns wore tired In the lily Hall Park Now York, In honor of thu Dem ocratic victory In Connecticut. The corner stone of Edwin Booth's now theatre in Now York was laid yesterday afternoon, A tire In extensive 'umber yard at San dusky, Ohio, has destroyed $75,000 worth of property. litawit and Lindsey fought a duel at Ko komo, Indiana, on Tuesday. 'Finer feelings only were hurt. The water in Luke Michigan is now tiro Inches lower thou at tiny limo for the post o ighteen years. TM. ono() Minotts Mrs. Bloomer now 7Slrs. Looney, Is reported to 1,0 lootorlint to the Mormons. Uon. 11. 11. N' , 11t., the newly uppolntril (lovornor of Virginia, WWI mworn into Milne yeHtorday. Whim the railroad lee traveller can go ntottud the world in throe menthe+. 1 . 11,111, 010 WitkW of a ro valulloulry Moldier, liven In llnrrinnn county, mho In lilt hundred nod two yen. II r. Prithodytm dwelllngra for tile London poor have it population of 1,58.1, tool 11111111 ore to ha erected, A Proniiii woiniin in Nitration, N. Y„ hen given birth to flee children In le. Ibnn twenty-two muting. Thu tutu! number or !tumuli lovlng,t o❑ till , earth In nomputott to bil 3,000,000,000, 1111i1 !Amy npunlc knOWII tonguthi. 'rho dwolllng boom. of .lomoph .lowol I, of IVurner, Music, WIIN burned recuntly. Au hltntle Hon, who WLI4 II grown up 1111111, pur- Inhed In tin, ihnnum, la connequuneo lidu high prices, ninny TC111.1004110 planters; have mud° or runinenunte fur putting In larger crops than was Intended. Robert Honour of thin Now Yorlt Leriger ham porchanud nix loin ut thin corner of Firth ILVPIIIIO nod Mlily•nlxth mtrunt, for which in payn $1.17,000. no °Woo of.l. C. Abbott, hiwynr, w•un robbed of mocuritinn to thin 01000ot or (425,000, oil Wnilionulny 11(km :w0n. Brigham Young lutm JUNL Hunt nn orilor to Ilrm In mlxtuun complain Hutto Inirnomm, to ha gorgootnily ornn• Inontutl, 'rho grunt) Jury huvu brought, Intliolanunim ttguinnt ill thu priNonorn linplivatod in tit° oxpluylon oxeout 'Phu Lid will coullnoneu nazi, wook. A nun namod Hwoony, n convlot In tho Wont Virglnkt ponituntlory, but fallon holy to n fortune of $35,000 In frolontl. Ito hun fourteen monthe yot to norvo. It Is understood that the President's counsel expect the Impeachment trial to be concluded by next Monday week ut the farthest. A cold has been made on real estate and lottery schemes In It. LOllO for violating the State law. All the gift enterprises are to be broken up. George W. Ramsey, conductor of a freight train on the Concord and Montreal Rail road, was killed on the 11th inst., by falling front a car. Au old woman, °vat' ninoty yoara of ago, passed through Charleston, a low days ago, on a pedestrian trip from Mouth Carolina to the mountains of Virginia. A medallion carpet, from tin, Paris;Expo sition, is to be pot down on Om parlor of a ludy residing on Fifth imam), Now York, who paid 811,000 for It. T. S. Pitch, a prominent cilizon of Chicago, has boon fined $5OO for allegad false swear ing in it suit five years ago. A motion will be mado for a now trial. The New Jersey Legislature has passed over the Governor's veto a bill to repeal the registry law. Also to create n MOreall. tile court of Newark. A bill to re•dlstrlct Newark was lest. Information bai been lodged, at Ottawa, Canada, against Wm. Mitchell, John Doyle and Ralph Slattery, of Philadelphia, for complicity to the murder of Themes D'Arcy McGee. A servant at the residence of It. Mor ris, in Nashville, recently attempted to start a lire with coal oil; an explosion en sued, and the girl was shockingly and fatally burned. 'rho Mascomy House, al Enfield, N. 11„ owned and occupied by J. B. Valentino, was destroyed lately by fire. Thu properly was insured in the following named com panies :—Pluonix, of Hartford, $3,150 ; Ger mania, of New York, $2,200. The flouring mill at Breeze, Clinton coun ty, lit., on the Ohio and Mississippi Rail road, was recently burned. It wee one of the largest mills In the State, and wee val. nod ut $70,000 ; Insured for about $20,000, thongh in what offices is not known. Rev. Homan M. Johnson, D. D., Presi dent of Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pa., died on Sunday, after a brief Illness. Ho had been Presidentof the College since 18110, but had been connected with the Institu tion since 1850. J. F. Tracy, President, and Ebenezer Cook, Secretary, of tho Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company were arrested. in Davenport, lowu, by the 'United States Marshal upon a writ front the Cir cuit Court, for violatingan injunction Issued by that court. The somi-annual sale of books commenced yesterday at Now York. An immense number of books aro there stored, con tributed by booksellers in various parts of the country. There wore present, yes terday, buyers from all directions, and a considerable number of volumes were dis posed of at low prices. Most of the Southern elections aro to take place this month. In South Carolina, on the 14th, 15th and 16th; In Loulsana, on the 17th and lath ; in Georgia, from the 20th to the 25th ; and In North Carolina, on the 20th, 21st and 22d. Florida closes the list on the 4th, 6th and 6th of May. Civilization Is advancing with rapid strides In the young Territory of Montana. They have Just selected grounds for a peni tentiary at Deer Lodge City, and the neces sary buildings are to be erected at once. It is now costing $30,000 a year to maintain tho convicts. General Buchanan has issued an order requiring the Immediate inspection of the Dlississippi levees by the police Juries of each parish, and weekly Inspections and reports of their condition hereafter. Ho prescribes regulations for the protection of the levees, and repairs in case of cravtuises. Reports recolved at General Sherman's headquarters Si. Louis, from Forts Lara mie, Randall, Lamed, Dakota, /tiployi! Riley, Snelting, and Kearney, states Mat no events ocimportance have occurred dur . log the month. A letter from Fort Bert-: hould says the Indians in that vicinity are starving. The corner.stono of Booth's Theatre, New York, was laid by the veteran Shakspear inn, James H. Hackett. The trowel used was the same which did like service at the laying of the corner-stone of the Bhakspearo monument in Central Park. Mr. Booth showed his sense of the importance of the occasion by staying away. His absence ,was explained by the plea of engagements Ashley and Mackey, two of the Radical candidates for Congress in South Carolina, addressed a piebald meeting of their con stltutents at Columbia on, the 10th inst. They Were challenged - ta a' discussion with' mominent Democratic speakers at the same place list evening and 'accepted the challenge. When the hour arrived norther appearinoe they were neither of thent , to..be found. . '
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