punter WEDNESDAY, DEC. 9, 1888 The Meeting of Congress. . The Radical Congress is again in ses sion. Washington is filled with a horde of political nondescripts. The long haired, lantern-jawed Yankee fanatic is there; the sleek, Oily-tongued lob byists are on hand, the fellows who put through all manner of jobs, who run the whiskey ring, and act as agents of every rascally scheme which can be de- vised for depleting the public treasury ; there too are gathered the carpet-bagger, and the scarywagger, and the negro law,Maker from the South. You can see them and scent them in the corri dors of every hotel and In all the passages about the Capitol. Such a gang of thieves and reprobates could not be collected together any Where else under the sun. They swarm like the noisy flies which buzz about a festering carcass; they come singly, and by twos and threes, from all points of the corn pass;like vultures flocking to feast on carrion. The gamblers are on hand in force, and " the strange woman " flits up and down, flaunting silks and decked out lu gorgeous attire. The rum shop in the Capitol has been refitted and furnished with ail the material neces ' sary to fire up Congressional orators. The papers announce that the season is expected to be unusually gay, which means that there is to be more than the usual amountoeall kinds of dissipation. The Nation stands greatly in need of wise legislation. Trade of every de scription is In a languishing condition and business is dull everywhere. The country groans beneath the enormous weight of taxation, by which the leu &use sums of money squandered b 3 Congress are wrung from the sweat of the toiling masses. And, while this is so, the Secretary of the Treasury an nounces that within the past year there has been a large iucrease of the national debt. Ever since the war ended the Radicals In C 'ogress have devoted all :their energies to devising means for keeping themselves in power. To ibut end they deliberately refused to permit a restoration of the Union, established a costly military despotism over tell States, disfranchised their white citl zens, and gave the ballot to the degraded and barbarian blacks, whom they fed in Idleness through the agency of the Freedmen's Bureau. They Dever found time to attend to the real wants of the nation. And now, the Fortieth Congress assembles aga u with the finances of the country In a condition ofytter, disorder, with a revenue system that seems to have been devised for the benefit 01 thieves, with an empty treasury, and witthe national debt increasing at a rate , renter than was the entire expetb ditur of the Government under Demo craticl,tklez, One NV . 6 d suppose that a legislative body meeting under such circumstan ces would show some appreciation of the public necessities by addressing itself at once to the urgent wants of tile Nation. It would seem probable that the first acts of Congress would have reference to those great questions in which the capitalists and the day la borer are alike interested.. But, not so is it. 'rite Radical leader of the Senate wastes the first hour of that body in presenting and reading a bill to enforce Negro Equality upon all the States by .Congressional enactment, and making it a highly penal offense to oppose the operation of such a law. The next thing is an act abridging the facilities for the naturalization of white foreign ers. These two questions, both devised for the purpose of increasing the nu merical strength of the party which has brought the country to the verge o! bankruptcy, may be expected to occupy a great Koportiou of the present session of Congress. It is useless to expect any relief from the Fortieth Congress. It will go on legislating for mere partisan purposes, as it has done from the begiuuing. IVe wish '-we could be sure that the next Coudess would be an improvement. 'We are sorry to believe that it will not be. It is made up of very much the same tumefied. The Radical majority is not quite so large, but plans are al ready on foot fur turning out enough 01 Democrats to give them two third: of the Lower House. The people have committed the destinies of the Da- Bon to these impracticable fanatics, ane they will have to suffer the penalty due to their folly. On Hand. • The negro Congressman from Louisi ana was on hand at the opening of Con gress, but was not sworn In. He was however, recognized as entitled to lA considered a Congressman elect, with a contest pending for his seat. Whether the Radicals Will manage to get him quietly out. of the way remains to he seen. They are much puzzled to know exactly what to do with him. Loial MurdererK We publish elsewhere a correct and full account, of the outrages and brutal murders recently committed by the loyal military of Arkansas. When the that report was telegraphed leading Republican newspapers throughout the North paraded it as a Ku Klux deed of blood; and they have not yet corrected the fult•ehortd. It Is by such rasculit that they manage to keep up animosity against the South in the minds of bun row minded and bigoted partisans. Expenses of the Electoral College; The Radical Electoral College of this Slate was in session a couple of hours. They appointed three Secretaries, 1101 mombeis of the body, and voted them $5O a piece out of the State Treasury. Besides these three Secretaries .th, twenty six Electors were attended dur Rig their brief session by a Sergeant at-Arnie, an Assistant Sergeant•ut Arms, a Messenger, two Doorkeepers two Incidentals (whatever they may have beet)) and three Pages, to all m whom llberalpay was voted out of the State Travury. In little as lu big things the Radicals show their extravagance, and diepositiou to squander the public money. A Revenue Collector Convicted Geo. W. Alexander, recently revenue collector to Berke county, hue been convicted of receiving bribes from several' distillers, who defrauded the Government out of the tax ou whiskey. The,parties to the-crime were tne prin ciple witnesses in the case. There is still another indictmentpendlng against him. GEVRRAL KILPATRICK, Minister to Chill, instead of attending to the bush nese of his official position, and earning a portion of the $lO,OOO a year paid him by the United States Government, is travelling through the country lecturing on "Sherman's March to the Sea." The Rochester Union says, " a recital of Kil patrick's tr,ip to Santiago, with 'that woman,' would doubtless draw better." ON Saturday afternoon a report ob tained currency in New York and other Eastern cities that a revolution bad broken out in Paris, and that the Em peror Napoleon had been killed, In tense excitement was caused by the rumor, which was afterwards ascer tained to be entirely without foundation. No doubt it was started by stock gam blers. A. OAELY HALL was elected Mayr of New York, by 74,942 votes, his Rad ical opponent only polling 20.823. Mr. Hall is universally commendad by the newspapers of New York kb a man eminently well fitted for the position. Buell universal praise of a candidate is Very rare. THE LANCASTER - Nc r EEIKLY INTELLIGENcER,; The Congress Power. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, is reported to have given the opinion, that Con-. gress, under the Consign:4)nel grant "to regulate commerce;", can assume, control over, in short, can govern all the Railroads of the country. • The Telegraph Companies, others assert, are amenable to the same Con gressional Power. The Insurance Business has already been taken control of, by Congress,— in an act of the last winter. The Banking Power has been already monopolized by Congress. The Militia Power, (Conscription,) it Is settled by precedent, Is in Congress, despite the States. Sword, Purse, &c., &., these are' al; ready concentrated there. The Senate assumes, and diyides, the Appointing Power, with the President, under the Official Tenure Act. This Government of ours, which was once a beautiful Republic of States, as founded by Wabhington, Madison, and Franklin, has thus become a Consoll• dated, not Monarchical as yet,—for, in order to put down Johnson, Congress Mole all powers from the Executive,— but Oligarchic, the very worst sort of a Government, Sin and Satan ever devis ed. Gen. Grant, even as a despot, would be Infinitely preferable to the Oligarchy of Butler & Co., for the North, or the Carpet-Baggers for the South, re presenting nobody, even themselves,— is they are the chattel property of others. Ilegter Vaughn We publish elsewhere a full account of the proceedings of a large meeting held in New York, under the auspices if the Wi?rkifigwomen of that city, to 'Aid in the release of a young English woman named Hester Vaughn, who now lies in Moyamenslng Prison, at `Philadelphia, under sentence of death, for the alleged crime of Infanticide. It would seem from all the circumstances, as set forth, that she was convicted on circumstantial evidence alone, and that she was not properly defended. The at torney who took the last cent of money the poor creature had, and then neglect ed the case, is a dapper, dandified Hale fellow, whom some of our citizens will remember to have heard attempting to address a Radical meeting in the Court House of this city a couple of years ago. Another remarkable circumstance de tailed in the exposition made by the women whose speeches we publish, is the fact that a negro, convicted and sentenced to death at the same Session with Hester Vaughn, has been re spited, and is now going about the prison yard In a condition of com parative freedom. The murder com• mitted by this negro was most wan- on and brutal; and, so far as we can learn, without a single palliating cir eumetance. The victim was a mu- latto woman, his paramour, and the Moody deed was done in a lit of drunk en jealousy, with no apparent provoca Lion. Yet twenty thousand of the elite (men and women) of Philadelphia pe titioned for a remission of the sentence of death in the case of the negro mut , derer, while the poor and probably in (Tut white woman heard not a single voice pleading for mercy upon her—not one in all the City of Brotherly Love.— We do no twouder the working and talk - - ng women of New:York were roused to a pitch of excitement by such a state of facts. The interest now aroused iu be- half of Hester Vaughn will he likely to result in her pardon, and In view of the facts lu the case, the Governor would seem to be completely justified in ex tending to her the fullest measure of Executive clemency. Lincoln as a Peacemaker The Radical newspapers are parading , a discovery, which they have made, to the effect that Abraham Lincoln was the author of the generous terms of surrender offered by General Sherman to General Johnson. They are con gratulating themselves that the liv ing warrior is not responsible for the merciful and sagacious plan of settlement proposed. They seem to think, this a stain on the char— acter of the dead President. His tory will not so regard it. The time will come when Mr. Lin coln's charity and humanity, as thus displayed, will be looked upon as the wisest act of his administration. Had ,Ir. Lincoln lived we have no doubt Lie would have been made the object of Radical vituperation, just as Mr. Johnson has been. No doubt Ails un timely death saved him from being wounded by the shafts of vilification. ft may be a source of joy to the Radicals to know that Sherman is not the noble hearted and generous soldier the nation -upposed him to be, but the world will not hold him in higher esteem for the announcement of the fact. • The Back Track The Radicals are likely to be put In an awkward position, by the extraor dinary legislation they adopted for the purpose of curtailing the cbnstitu• tional authority of President Johnson. It would be a most ungracious act fur them to fetter Grant with all the aibsurd and improper restrictions they have, from time to time, imposed upon the present inctumbeut by improper Con• irresston action. Vet, bow to take the buck track, how to make the change, is a serious question with them. Some of them do not trust Grant, and others think they can secure a larger share or -public plunder for themselves and frientlif under the present arrangement. phey ure in serious trouble, from which they are not likely to extricate them selves without much difficulty, and an exposure of their base selfishness and great dishonesty. Coot of Indian Wars An industrious arithmetician Las compiled statements from official re cords, showing that our various wars with the Indians, during the past forty years, Lave cost us $1,000,000,000, be the loss of human life. The Sem inole war lu Florida lasted nearly seven years, and cost 15,000 lives and $100,000,- 000. The Sioux war, from 1852 to '5O, coat 300 lives and $40,000,000. The Cheyenne war of 1804 cost 1,000 lives, and, with We Sioux war about the same time, $00,000,000. Other wars - of no greater ,mportauce have been equally expen e sive, and the indications are that we are yet far from havine secured tr per manent peace with our savage, neigh bors. The Corrupt Money Power The corruption, which has grown so prevalent since the Radicals came into power, has alarmed even some of the political preachers of the day. Henry Ward Beecher recently concluded one of his characteristic sermons with the following strong languarge : "The community is. so low in its moral tone that indignation cannot rise in. thou tier against them. I hay we are in more danger now than befme slavery was wined away; fur truth. justice and honesty have departed. Our most sacred liberty nod in stitUtlol3B are being destroyed. Money rules supreme and our Legislative bodies and courts of justice stink with corruption. We are in more danger now than by beingover w !mimed by slavery. Money is our danger and the corruption which follows it. True, every word. of It, Brother Beecher. The curse which the Radicals brought upon the country threatens the destruction of our free institutions. THE New York Tribune now admits that the expendituree for the drmy during 1868 will be at least $123,000,000- Before the election all the Radical news papers in the country declared that it would not amount .to one half of that THE outstanding circulation or legal tender notes le nearly 5336,000,000, and of fractionalowreocy, $32,000,000; total $388,000,000. 'The total out of use as a circulating medium, $120 0 000,000 ; total amount of all kinds outstanding, $506,- 000,000. Row to Defeat Negro Suffrage. ; The Radicals have fully resolved Au force Negro Suffrageari d Negro..qualitat up6p all the States by an amendMent the Constitution of the ITUlted States, to be passed by tin eXpirine Congress and ratified by State Leg).Statures elected without any'authciity,t6 decide strobe question, or any reference to it. This outrage they have determined to com mit, notwithstanding the expressed op position of the people at recent elections, and In despite of the second resolution of the Chicago platform, on which Grant was elected, and which reads aitfollows : Second Resolution: The guaranty by Congress of equal suffrage td 'all loyal men at the South was demandetl by every con sideration Of wattle safety, of gratitude and off ustiee, and . Inuit be maintained; while the question of suffrage in all theloyal States properly belongs to the people of those States. If " the question of suffrage in all the loyal Stales properly belongs to the peo ple of those AStates," they lave the right to be consulted before Negro Suffrage is forced upon them; and they should de mand the right which belongs to them. This infamous scheme of the Radicals can be defeated. The people can express the& wishes through petitions, emit to the State Legislatures. On the same day that the proposed Constitutional Amend- I ment is offered in Congress means must be taken for the universal circulation of petitions protesting against its ratifica tion by any State Legislature, until it has been submitted to a vote of the peo ple. There are many thousands of conser• vative Republicans in Pennsylvania, and most other Northern States, who will gladly sign such a protest, men who will not forgive any party which shall dare to violate the great principle of the right of the people to instruct their Immediate representatixes. If time is given, such petitions might sent to Congress, but the surest meansellect , lug the desired result will be barnest protests forwarded to the State Legisla tures. Republican members will recog nize the signatures of their Republican I constituents, and will not refuse to heed their protest!. In the way we have suggested the ! people can be thoroughly aroused, and the contemplated outrage prevented. Letsuch petitions be presented to every voter in each school district. Every Democrat will sign his name, and a very large proportion of Republicans will do the same thing, if properly ap proached. There must be no half-way work about the matter. The whole State must be thoroughly canvassed, and that promptly. If that is properly done, the present Legislature of Pennsylvania I will not dare to consummate the con ; templated outrage. If they should refuse to grant the people the right to express their views at the ballot box on this im portant question, they will not only dig their own political graves, but will bury I the Republican party of Pennsylvania so deep that its resurrection will be im possible. Let the people boldly demand their !right to be consulted. Let them insist upon having the opportunity to decide this question for themselves, at the ballot box. It is their right as freemen to do so, and heir demands will be heeded, if properly expressed. Radical Thieves The Harrisburg Telegraph, in an arti cle relating to the duty of Congress, speaks as follows : It is safe to say that men of all parties, who do not live by stealing, earnestly desire that some plan may be devised by which manufacturers will not he stile to cheat the Government out of one-third of its revenues before they are assessed, and by which officials cannot rob it of another third alter it is collected. If possible, let the Treasury be relieved from the depredations of this double headed monster of iniquity. The confession on the part of the Tel- ; egraph that such a desperate state of, affairs now exists confirms the truth of the charges made by the Democratic party. We hope our Radical contem porary will continue to urge reform. Let it keep up the fire upon the thieves in the Radical party. Their name is legion and their rapacity is wonderful. They hang like leeches upon the body politic, and gorge themselves with the greediness of vampires upon the money wrung from the toil and sweat of the laboring classes. We bid the Telegraph God speed, iu the good work it seems to have undertaken. Let it see to it that there is no attempt to swindle in the matter of public printing, and otherjobs of a like character, at the coming session of our State Legislature. Let it watch George Bergner with asharp eye. There have been many damacing reports in circulation about him, and the Tele graph ought to be able to ascertain whether they are true or not. He is the reputed owner of that paper. " The Vulture's Feast." The New York Tribune heads an article, announcing the meetin.r of the Radical Congress, with these signifi cant words—" The Vulture's Feast." In the next Congress the Democratic minority will be sufficiently large to break down the two-thirds majority, by Which so much unwise and unconsti• tutional legislation has been pushed through, and under the sheltering wing of which such extravagance and cor ruption has been fostered. If General Grant desires to check the extravagance which hag been fostered by Congress, the Democratic minority will sustain his veto, and prevent him from being overruled as Andrew Johnson has con• stantly been. But the present session will afford the Radical vultures a chance to gorge their greedy maws, and they may be expected to make the most of their opportunity. Rail road and steamboat subsidies, land grants, bogus claims and plunder, schemes of every description will be pushed .with the energy of desperation ; and tile, with deficiency bills, em bracing appropriations left over from the last session, to make a show of I economy before the election, will add at I least a hundred millions to the debt, and leave the National Treasury "a beggarly account of empty-boxes" by the 4th of March. Radicalism is a lux ury for • which the people must pay dearly, and the taxpayers who have voted another four yearsof it will doubt lees enjoy the spectacle of " the feast of vultures') which begins with the open ing of Congress. lieorgla. The State of Georgia gives, even un der the negro suffrage usurpation, a majority for t..teymour of 4.5,688. The N. Y. Tribune remarks that "the document may be of some value, although it little indicates the will of the people of that State." Perhaps not, but forthis reason: that if the real people of Georgia—the people who alone had any right to vote, and who alone do vote in most of the Northern States— had voted, there would have been almost a unanimous poll for Seymour. There are not a thousand legal Grant ballots in the whole State, which can legally poll 120,000. Al though they have scarcely any legal Grant electors, and were badly beaten upon their grab•game of thrusting tens of thousands of Illegal suffrages Into the ballot box; the Tribune evidently de sires that the swindle should be per fected by the rejection of the electoral vote of the State. It will probably be done, and will add another to the long chapters which chroniele Radical vit a:thy. A Negro Elector One of the Radical Presidential elec tors of South Carolina having resigned, on account of disqualification, under the fourteenth amendment, Wilson Cook, a negro, was elected to All the vacancy. South Carolina only casts six electoral votes. What must be the condition of the Republican party of that State when six white men cannot he found in its mks qualified to antes Presiden tial electors Sr Tiettrength of the Democratic rim. While Fornees Press, and other, Walking and untruthful Radical neve ' papers, aropublis g obituary. notices of the Democratic, party,. the N. Y. Sun very sagttolously intimates to them that' gere is little ground for such , extrava rit jubilation." It sums up the result of the late election as follows : Though the Republicans obtained In the recent contest nearly three-fourths of the Presidential Electors, the Democrats are in a minority of only about27o.l)Do in a pu lar vote of 6,000,000; e., only four and a half per cent., Thie -statement exhibits in a Wraith:4f light the important fact that the dis Parity between the two parties is far less than would seem to be indicated by the nrimberofthecieetors chosen by each. Despite their overthrow in the late cam paign; tbe Democracy remain a very pow erful party. No political organisation in our history has passed through such Severe triers- and been compelled to bear such odious burdensashas the Democratic party during the past fourteen veers. Nevertheless, in spite of these adverse circumstances, and of the dead weight they coded in the revolutionary policy of their candidate for Vice-President, the Democ racy exhibited unexpected strength in the late coolest, and now stand upon the edge of the battle field in powerful numbers, and under a remarkable elate of discipline. A fair estimate of the number of white men disfranchised by tyrannical legislation shows that they amounted to nearly half a million. Had the peo ple been permitted to vote according to the provisions of the Constitution, the popular majority for Seymour would have been as large as it now is for Grant. The election was controlled by despotic acts of Congress, enforced by a standing army. In some States the right to vote was denied to all the inhabitants, in others to a considerable portion of them. The Democracy were beaten by brute force alone. They know how they were treated, and are able to see how victory was wrested from their grasp. They natur ally feel indignant, and their resolute ness of purpose is consequently entirely unshaken. The Sun very properly de scribes the present attitude of the Democratic party as "standing upon the edge of the battle field in powerful numbers, and under a remarkable state of discipline." There is no demoraliza tion in our ranks, and our hosts will en ter upon coming contests with the same Indomitable energy which has always distinguished them. Believing in the immutability of the great principles upon which the creed of the Demo cratic party is based the leaders and the masses are alike confident that they must triumph as soon as a free expression of public opinion takes place in this country. Nothing can prevent the speedy overthrow of the corrupt and tyrannical party now in power, except such a change in the organic constitution of our government as will deprive the people of control over it. So soon as elections become perfectly free again, the reign of Radi calism must end, and with the triumph of the Democracy the nation will enter upon a new career of prosperity and glory. Important Newspaper Change The Reading Daily Gazette and Bead -0 Gazette and Democrat have been sold by Hon. J. Lawrence Getz to. Messrs. W. S. Ritter and J. G. Hawley. The Daily Gazette will be merged in the Daily Eagle, and the Gazette and Democrat will be continued. The Adler, (German,) Daily Eagle and Gazette and Democrat will hereafter be published by Ritter and Hawley. The Daily Eagle will be edited by J. W. Conrad, Esq., the Gazette and Democrat by Alfred Sanderson, Esq., and the Adler by J. M. Beck , Esq. f Mr. Getz has long been engaged in the newspaper business in this State, and he only retires now because his duties in Congress prevent him from giving proper attention to his paper. The combination made by Messrs. Rit ter 5: Hawley gives them control of one of the largest and most valuable news• paper establishments in the State. With their English Daily and their German and English Weeklies, all having a large circulation, they will oc cupy a very important and responsible position. With the talent at their com mand we have no doubt they will abundantly satisfy all the wants Qf the public. The Penney Ivunla Railroad The N. Y. Tribune of Saturday says The Pennsylvania Central Railroad has at last effected the actual consolidation with it of its two main Western connectingruutes. The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, and the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Roads thus become practically a part of the Pennsylvania Central, and over one thou sand miles of railway, stretching from the seaboard to the great cities of the Mississippi Valley, pass under the control of a single corporation. The nature of this gigantic combitiatiou, effected by the great Pennsyl vania line, while ours are busy teeing law yers and procuring injunctions, may be better comprehended in the light of the fact that it brings under one management prop erty valued at two hundred and eighty mil lions of dollars, and reaches for freight and passengers from Philadelphia to Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis. There Is no doubt that the Pennsyl vania Central Is one of the most saga ciously managed railroads in the coun try: Its board of officers and directors deserve great credit for the skill with which they have conducted the affairs of the corporation. flow Radical Nominations are Made. The Fulton county Republican asks the following pertinent questions: Why is it that we must pay trebble the amount to our Legislators of all branches than we paid yews ago. Why is it that now in one year there is more stolen than formerly would have paid the expenses of the government? Why Is it that honest men cannot be elected to Milne and represent the wants of the laborilig classes, who have to pay the taxes? And It answers then as follows: Because having to buy their elections they must hove larger salary—they must steal from the public Treasury, to cover their il legal expences. Because honest men have not the meanness to go loto the market, and buy the opinions of men like cattle dealers do droves of stock, and therefore cannot compete with those who do. Somehow that little Radical sheet seems to have a clear comprehension of the corruption; which prevails In Its party. It asserts that such a condition of affairs exists in the Republican party In that section of the State, and we have no doubt It speaks the truth. - THE Harrisburg Stale Guard an nounces that Morrow B. Lowry, Sena , tor frond the Erie district, has written a letter in which he declares he will not vote a dollar of the State's money to educational institutions which refuse to admit, without distinctions, students of all sexes, race and color. Lowry is a consistent Radical., He leads his party in this State, but they always managed to come up to his standard a year or to after he has made an alance. A PEW YORK correspondent main tains that the gambling at Baden Baden Is not nearly so reckless as that observ able lu Wall street. He alludes to an elegant Church building in this city— towards the erection of which one young man gave 540,000. This young man owned a fine country seat on the Hud eon ; and elegant establishment in New York ; had his fast team on the road ; made, it was said, seldom lees than $25,000 a day. Thirty days ago, his name was good for any amount at the banks. His country house has gone; he has given lir his city establishment; and he has not now money enough to buy a bag of oats for his fast team. Erie and the Pacific Mail carried them under. Begaieecat in pace. AT the meeting of the Electoral Col lege of Pennsylvania, Tom. Marshall, the president, made a speech in which he claimed that the election of Grant meant universal negro suffrage. All the Republican newspapers in theStAte are talking the same way. • A special despatehfrom New Orleans says negroes ill Jefferson Parish, Louis. Irma, "refuse to be tried by colored Jur ors." Same thing happened the other day in an. Alabama county. Yon, see the Man and Brother rather likes "rebel .barbarity." Agrees 1044 433. ;' • The Last Rebel Outrage. In the local columns oh Flake's lean, published at. G4Veston, Triisr c the following item Sppeitie'dm daye since : ; •1 - 4 cargo of Coolies renently arrived dd this city, consigned to merchants 'here, by ordtetuy bills of lading, as teernbatgise, and are announced to be sold at nuctioruto pay freight and charges. Two-thirds of the cargo are females." The Philadelphia .North American, Forney's Press, and other truly loyal journals were straltway thrown into a spasm of excitementJ They atainted: glowing pictureis of the litrrfori of thid sale. The,females „were . ,repre_sented to be beautiful, and the terrible fate in store for theni was dwelt upon in terms calculated to excite the dullest imagi nation. Congressional intervention was loudly demanded, and the President was reminded that the " Fourteenth Amendment" provided fortheae " help less creatures." He was called upon to visit the vengeance of offended majesty and violated law upon the Texan bar barians. The remarks of the North American were in the following fervent strain: " It will be observed that this importa tion has all the characteristics of the worst forms of the slave trade. These were not immigrants. Nobody pretended that they were. They were not laborers. imported under contract, for it appears that they were to be put np at auction and sold to the high est bidders. The Bulletin candidly says that the importing firm regarded the hu man cargo as " simple merchandize." This is chattel slavery. These Chinese were put upon an ordinary bill of lading, like so many chests of tea, and " freight" was charged upon them as upon all kinds of goods. The worst feature in the affair Is that two-thirds of these unhappy Chinese are females, some of them beautiful. Of course they were bought in China on spec ulation and sent to Texas to seek a market, just as the same kind of live stock of a dif ferent race used to be sent to New Orleans. This development is nothing new in regard to the Chinese coolie trade, except in so far as the importation of women goes. That is a novelty. Fortunately the Constitutional amend ment and the Civil Rights act afford ade quate protection for all such helpless ones, and although we do not expect much from Andrew Johnson in the way of interven tion to prevent their enslavement and sale at auction, we know that Congress will soon set the matter right. The whole affair is shocking to the moral sense of a civilized and Christian nation, and it could only oc cur in a region where men's sense of right and wrong had been blunted by the hor rors of slavery. We trust that our breth ren of the press will have no hesitation in denouncing the movement in the terms it deserves, and in demanding redress from the national authorities, since it is only by constant vigilance that we can counteract the efforts of these southern communities to sneak back again into slavery by some underhand way. We have effectually baf fled all attempts to re-enslave the negro, and now the attention of the late elavehold era is turned to other races. The move ment no doubt originated in New Orleans, where it was openly discussed and ad.voca- Led just after the close of the war•" Having enjoyed the effect of his joke, the local editor of the Bulletin announ ced that the Coolies in question were " cast iron figures, designed as signs for cigar, tobacco, tea and grocery stores." We believe not one of the Radical jour- nals which went into spasms over the supposed outrage, has yet informed its readers how it came to be sold so badly. We expect that Congress will be asked to pass a law at the coming session to protect Radical newspapers from being gulled by rebel reporters. Great Increase of the Public Debt A special telegram from Washington to the Philadelphia Ledger says: The Northern journals generally publish what purports to be a synopsis of the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury, and probably without an exception, make the Secretary say that the public debt has been decreased, some journals giving the decrease at•thlrty-tive millions of dollars. THE FACT IS, THAT THE SECRE TARY'S REPORT SHOWS AN IN CREASE OF THE PUBLIC DEBT FOR THE YEAR ENDING OCTOBER THIRTY FIRST OF OVER THIRTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS. AND THE PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT SHORT LY TO BE PUBLISHED WILL SHOW AN INCREASE OF THE DEBT FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER JUST CLOSED OF ABOUT ELEVEN MIL LIONS, MAKING A TOTAL INCREASE OF DEBT FOR THE PAST THIRTEEN MONTHS OF FORTY-SEVEN MIL LIONS DOLLARS. The above announcement will furnish food for serious reflection to all classes of the community. The bondholder can sit down and try to cypher out what his cherished securities are likely to be wortb,with the national debt increasing at the rate of nearly fifty million dollars a year. The taxpayers may figure out, if they can, the time when they will be relieved by Radical rule from the bur— thens which are now resting so heavily upon their shoulders. Business men will have time, during the prevaling dullness, to calculate how long it will be before the incubus which now rests upon trade will belifted. All who voted for a continuance of the extravagance which has prevailed can employ their leisure in endeavoring to sum up what their folly is likely to cost them. "The truth is that national bankruptcy and eventual repudiation stare us in the face. And it is all the legitimate result of Radical misrule. A Word of Correction The New York Freernan'a Journal is an excellent paper, and its editor is a man of decided ability and very positive character. We fear, however, that he sometimes permits his prejudices and partialities to get the better of his judg ment. In his last issue we find the fol lowing,contalned in a vigorous editorial: In the October elections thirty thousand Democrats in Pennsylvania, twenty thou sand in Ohio, and fifteen thousand in Indiana, would not vote, because it would he to commit the Democratic party, in those States, to the support of Mr. Horatio Sey mour, whom they considered, by his speeches against Mr. Pendleton's financial man, committed to the interestsof the Bond• holders. Many men, of great political in fluence in their several districts, wero ob durate. They said they supported Mr. Pendleton on account of the principles they recognized as identified with him—but that Mr. Pendleton could not carry them over to the support of .Mr. Seymour, whom they had reason to believe, not in favor of the same policy and principles. So far as Pennsylvania is concerned we are sure that Mr. Matasters has been misinformed. That the full Democratic vote was not polled in this State In October we know. That so many es thirty thousand Democrats failed to discharge the important duty that de volved upon them we do not believe. Still lees do we believe that any con siderable number were influenced by the motive attributed to them by the Freeman'a Journal. The feeling in favor of M,r. Pendleton in this State was no where strong enough to produce such a result. The Democracy of Pennsylvania were not antagonistic to Mr. Seymour. We believe we polled fully as many I votes in October as we should have done if Mr. Pendleton had been our candidate. The dereliction of voters in this State is to be attributed to numer ous causes, no one of which controlled so many as live thousand votes. We assure the editor of the Freeman's Jour nal that he over-estimates the influence of which he speaks, so far as Pennsyl vania is concerned. DURING the recess of Congress a large number of the employees of that body were engaged in folding and sending off political documents for the Radical party. There is now a deficiency of ten thousand dollars in that branch of the appropriations for the current year, which Congress will be called upon to pay. This is the way . the people's money is used by the party in power. THE leading Radicals of Virginia are now petitioning Congress to continue the Freedmen's Bureau there, as a mess .ure of absolute necessity for the protec tion of the blacks, until the reconstruc tion of the State can be accomplished. Are these buzzards not gorged with plunder yet? Gov. GEARY has appointed a negro policeman for the town of Regenstein, gchuylkill county. This is a bid for the votes of the extreme Radicals. The "humbuggedest Governor" Is resorting to every concelyable device tq pecnre a renomination. DECEAtiER 9, 1868. Meeting of the Pennsylvania Electors. „The.* lectors of Pennsylvania convened Sn the Renate s,hamber at twelve o'clock hit_lVeslnes`day;f4rthe - Pt*ase of . dotiiig for the Preilidentrinsr : Vice Icesiderit• of the `"He C. r Harry C. gOtinsoli 'moved the organize , tbmoftheC,olltigerhe election of Thomas 3.1%. , - . cjltitrahrillr of jitabuit,, , as PreSident. The motion was agreed to. Mr. Min-shall was conducted to the chair by Messrs. Johnson and Coates, when he addressed the college in a brief speech, in which he congratulated the members on the , result, , concluding by declaring that henceforth the only requfrement'of citizen. shlpin this country_would be " manhood. Geofge Hamerely:of Philadelphia, J. Robley Dinglisen, of Dauphin, and George F:lllorgin, of ' Allegheny, were requested to act as secretaries of the College. Rev. Mr. Mitchell, of Harrisburg, opened the Proceedings of the Electoral College with prayer. Messrs. Silt Pollock and Johnson were ap pointed a committee to wait on Gov. Geary and inform him that the Electoral College was zeady to receive any communication from him. The ,Secretary of the Commonwealth, be ing introduced, presented a communication from the GOvernor certifying the election of the persons whose names appeared upon the Republican electoral ticket as voted for The electors, therefore, proceded to cast their votes for. U. S. Grant for President and afterwards for Schuyler Colfax for. Vice President of the United States. Three certified lists of the votes, signed by the elebtors, were then made, one being delivered to Mr. Rutan to be placed in the hands of the President of the Senate of the United States, to be opened and read in the presence of the Senate and House of Repre sentatives; the second was entrusted to John H Beingburst, to be delivered to Hon• John Cad waled er, J udge of District Court of the United States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania; the third being transmitted to the President of the United States by mail, B. F. Waggenseller being appointed to deliver it to the post-master at Harris burg. Copies of the proceedings were ordered ti be prepared by the Secretariesi- to be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and transmitted to the Legislature by the Governor. Four hundred copies of the proceedings were ordered to be printed for the use of the members of the College, at a cost not exceeding one hundred dollars. The Finance Committee made a report of the expenses, which were. ordered to be paid, and the papers prepared being pro perly delivered, the College adjourned sine die. Whnt Constituten Lnwful Marrlnge—The Taylor Case A remarkable case has just been tried In Westchester county before Justice Gilbert. Some years ago, William Taylor. formerly a resident of New York, and subsequently of Rye Neck, in the town of Rye, and in the same county, died, and was buried, leaving the whore of his property, amount ing to more than half a million, to three daughters and one son, as his heirs. In ad dition to these, however, there appeared other claimants, in the person of Mrs. Cath• Brine Pauline Taylor, whose maiden name was Kate Aylward, and her two children, as the widow and offspring of the deceased William Taylor; and to test the validity of this claim, Mrs. Mary Van Tuyl, one - it - the married daughters ot Mr. Taylor, corn inen ced a suit against Otto M. E. Van Tuyl and others, for a partition of the property. The deceased, it appears, died intestate, and hence no other course than this was open to the claimants. Eminent counsel ap peared for both the contestants, and the leading feature of this perplexing case having been presented to the Court, it was decided that the defence should .pro ceed to prove the legitimacy of the children alleged to be the offspring of the deceased. The case was opened by Mr. Samuel E. - Lyon on behalf of the children, and Mrs. Catharine Taylor deposed to the circum stances which led to her intimacy and sub sequent marital relations with Mr. Taylor. She was engaged in his house as a seam stress and chambermaid, and first made his acquaintance in March, 1855, in New York. After the death of his wife, and in May of the same year, when the family removed to Rye, she accompanied them. She was then 17 years of age, and Mr. Taylor about 50. He began his courtship by paying mark ed attentions to her, anti as he did not live very happily with his fami ly, he came to see her very frequent ly, and finally made proposals to her in her own room, telling her that be wanted some body to be more of a companion to him I than his own daughters were. He spoke of marriage, and she said she did not think rich and poor should go together. He was vary urgent, and very affectionate, insisting that the marriage ceremony was not neces sary in their case, that the fact of their in timate relations would be sufficient proof of marriage, and that to rich and poor, he married his first wife in a calico dress, and so she finally consented to stand in those relations with him, especially as he offered to have the marriage solemnized at the ex piration of two years if she should then desire it. She bore three children to him, one of whom died. He visited her regularly two or three times a week, taught his chil dren to call him " papa," and was very fond of them. She bad introduced him as her" husband" to friends, and be never objected—and he frequently called her wifo" and "Kate." He bought a house at Harlem for her to reside in, and she received him there a few days before his death. He was very weak, and she had to support him on her arm across the bridge. She heard of his death through an anony mous hand. Ile was always very kind to her, and provided her with every necessary she required. The Jury returned a verdict to the effect that Mrs. Taylor was the lawful wife, and is the lawful widow of the late William Taylor, and that the children are his issue by her. Ex-Judge Nelson asked to have proceedings stayed to give time to carry the case to the General Term of the Supreme Court, and thirty days were allowed for the purpose. Mrs. received the congratula tions other friends on the result.- N Y. Destruct:re Fire In Fhllndalphia PIIILADELPLIIA, Dec. 4.—A destructive fire occurred on Market street last evening. The buildings destroyed and damaged were five stories high and ran through to Com merce street, that of Perot & Co. was brown stone to the third floor and brick above; Kilburn & Gates' establishment was or brick, and the store of Sellers & Bro. and Lloyd, Suplee it Walton were of iron.— The building occupied by Perot & Co. was owned by the Thomas' estate, loss $35,000, nearly covered by insurance; Perot & Co., lose from $150,000 to $200,000 on stock and fixtures, about two-thirds of which is cov ered by insurance; Kilburn. Gates 6: Co estimate their loss at $50,000, two-thirds covered by Insurance in New York, Phila delphia and New England companies; Sel lers ,ti Bros. lose from $BOOO to $lO,OOO, in sured In the Enterprise $2500, Mutual 82000, Reliance $O5OO, Royal $4OOO. Fame $2500. The building is owned by W. W. Paul, the loss on it is fully covered in the Franklin. Mr. Paul loses $45,000 on stock, Insured in the American Delaware Mutual Manufac turer's and Union Mutual to the extend of $45,000. Groff & Garden, 615, wholesale grocers, lose front $lO,OOO to $20.00: insured in the North American for $20,000; Royal $5,000 ; Rellancess,ooo; Philadelphia $5,000 Enterprise $lO,OOO. The building Is owned by the Isaac Winslow estate. It is damaged to the extent of $3,000, insured. The tire originated from the vapor arising from tur pelitine. A lad who had been drawing black varnish, and who had his hands cov ered with the liquid, went into the cellar with II lighted candle, and while drawing some turpentine, the vapor took fire. He barely escaped with his life. .iiegro Riots and Murders in Georgia. SAVANNAH, December 6.—A special po lice force was appointed and commissioned by the Mayor, two weeks since, for patrol duty on the outskirts of the city, composed mostly of German farmers and gardeners, who relieved each other nightly patrolling the roads and guarding farina from negro depredations. Last evening Mr. Broad backer and seven others were patrolling the Thunderbolt shell road, when about eleven o'clock they heard loud calling, and approaching the pasty demanded to know the cause of the disturbance. The negroes, half a dozen In number, replied in a threat ening manner, when Broadbacker arrested one and giving him in charge, the party advanced to make another arrest. At this moment they were suddenly fired Into by a party of negroes, some 40 in number, who had been concealed. Some 60 shots in all were fired, the patrol retreating before superior numbers. Mr. Brodbacker was killed by the first fire, and three others of the party were wounded—two of them mortally. This afternoon a Coroner's Jury rendered a verdict that Brodbacker corns to his death while discharging his duties as special Policeman, on December sth, from gun shot wounds in the face:and head, from the hands of a negro, one of a party who were disturbing the peace on the Thunder bolt Road, and we earnestly recommend that the State and County authorities will take action, in order to protect the citizens of the county from the brutality of the ne gro population. About thirty arrests have been made in connection with the case. The Cuban Insurrection The New York Sun says :—We publish this morning important telegraphic news from Havanna, which indicates an early close of the Cuban rebellion. Several chiets and agents of the Insurrectionists have ar rived at Havanna as prisoners of war. Dr. Felix Figuredo, a Rebel Chief, addressed his band after the battle at Cobre. He as sured them that the cause was lost, arid urged them to accept the amnesty offered them. Ills followers, however, declined to act upon his advice, ly hexe u pp he, ek claiming that he did not wish to aid in the ruin of his country, pointed a pistol at his head and blew out his brains. It is not im probable that the next news from Cuba will bring intelligence of the end of rebellion. Trial - of Jefferion. Iloods ler Tremens— Argument °Welke itleitiost tat gnash the indictment ---111speeeeezoent of the Dead. r RlCCinfOritc Dec. del-4030 United States Circuit Court, Chief,'J - ee Chase predd ingou the motion, tO qteyth the proceedings againet Jefferson Davie, R. H. Dana, for the government, opened this morning. He proceeded to show that the fourteenth 'amendment was not' a penal statute, but was merely a change in the political system, adopted to secure trustworthiness in office and preserve purity in the administration of the government. It was a measure of precaution, to secure the country against filling offices with persons who once before filled them and broke their oaths. If it had been intended to inflict punishment it would have been the utmost folly of legislation, seeing that while it would, viewed as the defendant's counsel viewed it, lighten the punishment of the leaders, who had held office and broken their oaths, it would leave the people, who never held office, exposed to penalties of death and imprisonment, as pronounced by theConsUtution before the adoption of the amendment. It was an ex pression only of the fitness of persona who engaged in the rebellion, after breaking their oaths, to hold office again. It was not intended, as alleged by the defenses, to act as an amnesty, nor was there a single word uttered in the Congress that framed, nor the- Legislatures that adopted it, to war rant such a construction. So far from that, it was intended as a test by which those men may be reached and guarded against who had proved unfaithful to their pledges to the government. It could not be plead in the case of conviction for treason, seeing that it applied to those only who , had taken often the oath of office and en gaged in insurrection and rebellion against the government. Now, treason is some• thing more than engaging in insurrection and rebellion. It is levying war against the government, end of this the defendant stands charged. It would be strange, in deed, if Jefferson Davis could, as he might, under this plea, come to the bar and ac knowledge that he was guilty of treason, deny his liability to be punished because of the Fourteenth limenduaent. Mr. O'Conner follow Mr. Dana. He showed from the very nature of the great civil war that it was impossible to follow it up by trials for treason conducted with the fairness required by law. How utterly repugnant to the world's idea of humanity it is that after being recognized during the war as in all respects equal and as honorable men, the leaders of the con quered forces should be searched out in peace to be hung as traitors. The government hod the people bad never intended to do this, and it was for this reason that the fourteenth amend ment had been adopted, It was n con stitutional provision, and executed it self, and those who fell under it were now suffering the punishment. He asked the Court to give the construction to the Four teenth Article that the American people in tended it should fear, and to accept the grea t and beneficent act of mercy in the construc tion which they had put upon it and which tends to advance all good men who are be lievers in universal suffrage. The Court adjourned until to morrow. After,the adjournment of the 'United States ircuit Court to-night, the counsel were recalled, when Chief Justice Chase announced that the Court was divided, he, -Chase, being in favor of quashing the in dictment, and District Judge Underwood opposing It. This division of the Court was certified to the Supreme Court of the United Slates. The National Inteltigvicer is of opinion that it will be one or two years before the Supreme Court reaches the Davis case. in an article in Monday's issue upon the result at Richmond, it uses the following lan guage: "In the very noyel and important issue joined the court appears to have divided, Chief Justice Chase sustaining the motion to quash, but his vote tied and offset by that of Judge Underwood, so that the Case is certified to the United States Supreme Court for its decision. According to the usual order of causes it would take one or two years for this cause to be reached. The very important cause of the test-oath for suffrage in Mfssouri, appealed by General Frank Blair, has already been pending for years before the Supreme Court, and still is not reached. We may, therefore, assume that the case of Mr. Davis in its present shape, will not be hurried either here or at Richmond," The Memorial Number of the Southern Opinion. The last number of the Southern Opinion —a memorial number—edited by B. A. Pollard, Esq., brother of its deceased editor, appeared in Richmond on Saturday, ac cording to announcement, with sixteen of its wide columns devoted to the details of the late homicide. The paper was appa rently gotten up wholly by Mr. Pollard, and contains no reading matter not con nected, directly or indirectly, with the late editor and the sad affair which resulted in his death. The issue is presented in the heaviest mourning known to newspaper publication, with the various headings in the largest type. Among these are the fol lowing: " Assassination of H. Rives Pollard— Mockery of Justice in Richmond—Sketch of the Life and Character of the Deceased— The Neglected Corpse—Refusal of Rich mond Lawyers to Appear Against the Mur derer—Full and Detailed History of the Fatal Article—A Postmortem Vindication of the Grant Family—Comments of the Press on the Assassination—lncidents of the Burial of the Deceased—Various Letters on the Assassination-The Neglected Corpse in Richmond—Extraordinary and Horrible , Experience of the Brother of the Deceased He is refused Counsel—Cruel Misrepresen tations of the Newspapers—The Feast of the Assassin—Singular Conversation the Night be:ore his (Pollard's) Death—Who Wrote the Fatal Article—Tribute of the Typographical Profession—Touching Story or Fidelity—The Grave at Oak Ridge," Scc., In the narrative Mr. Pollard says that a warrant had been gotten out for his arrest on arriving at Richmond after learning of his brother's death, "by the cowards who had murdered his (my) brother. He also says that " through a whole day and until midnight I walked thestreetsof Richmond, from door to door, to obtain legal counsel against my brotherls murderer," but was refused, and that there was no quertien of fee, that being assured. Ho says : I went to a man whom my murdered brother, when an editor, had raised to pub lic office, who had formerly been the' coun• eel of my brother in other cases, and who had expressed great friendship for myself; when in the conduct of the old Examiner, had been in a position to do him favors. That man refused. More than this, (and there is a witness to iv he allowed me to unburden my whole case ; to tell who were my witnesses, to exjose what I expected to prove, and after thus possessing himself of all the points against the murderer, he then (after the lapse of a half hour's conversa tion) coldly told mo that be was the friend of the murderer's family and could not, ap pear against him. Yet another lawyer was applied to. He had been a college mate of mine. I appeal ed to him, almost with tears in my eyes. Thla man answered " Mr. Pollard, if I was you, considering the state of public opinion, would not bo active in prosecuting the murderer. Public opinion, air, would not sustain me." " Sir," I replied—and the mist of leant in my eyes most have broken with a blaze of scurn—" publicopinion may have Its weight; but there is a time when the true and the brave man In the execu tion of duty—the honorable advocate— throws It from him as a contemned and despised thing ; throws It as a base fetter into the gutter I" In regard to the " fatal article" Mr, Pol lard admitarlt was "Improper," and does not attempt to defend It, though he thinks there were.paillating circumstances—cer tainly enough to have saved hie brother from the " doom of being shot through the back with a load of buckshot from the gar ret of an iisassin." In view of the card of Mr. Hanna, to the effect that he (Hanna) objected to the pros titution " of the Southern Opinion, and that he (Hanna) had at times prepared para graphs for insertion that caused him (Hen na) keener pain than It did those for whom they were intended, &c., Mr. E. A. Pollard recal:s and annuls any excuses made In behalf of Hanna. Of the burial of the remains he says : " It was Inexpressibly touching to those who mourned :he dead to notice, when the remains passed out of Richmond, what marks of respect were shown all along the road. At Charlottesville, where the re mains were delayed over night, many of the leading citizens called to express their deep sympathy to the brother, E. A. Pol lard—insisted on sitting by the corpse through the night, and the next morning when the remains wore placed on the Orange and Alexandria train, to be con veyed to their last resting place In Nelson county, they were borne to the cars by a committee of citizens, and a large crowd looked on with respectful sympathy. They were buried in the cemetery at Oakridge,' once the property of the Rives family, now owned by William Porcber Gold In New York The party o f capital ists, mining engineers, experts from California, Colorado, and Montana, ournalists, and others, who left New York on Monday afternoon to exam ine the gold fields said to have been discov ered; near Rhinebeck, llutchess county 'lave returned. They speak with satisfac tion of the result of their examination. The evidence of the presence ofgold is con sidered indubitable and experts who have made extended investigations, pronounce a strong opinion ofthe result'expected from the indications. It is claimed that the Dutcitess county gold fields are portions of the A pallachian chain of auriferous deposits extended from Georgia to Nova Scotia. It is also claimed that these veins are more extensive than those of North Carolina. The beds examined are situated about four miles east of the village of Rhinebeck and six miles from the river and accessible by good roads. The veins, of which there are tour princlple ones, run 25 deg eastof north, and drift about 5 deg. to the east. It is stated that these veins have been traced several miles in a northeasterly and south westerly direction. Tne ore Is described as a ferruginous quartz, Carrying free gold. The three and Live cent pieces, It is stated, have received the condemnation of the an. thorities at Washington, and a recommen dation will be made in the report of the U. S. Treasurer that these coin be called in, and that the further Issue of them be die continued. Complaint .15 Made that post- Masiers are required to take theAe tokens in large quantities in payment of stamps, but that the Post•ofce Department refuses to reoetve them In the settlement of accounts Abstract of the President's Eh usage The Wanbington, correspondent of the Boston Herald, under Saturday's date, The Freeident's message covers the follow ing points and conclusions t First, that the Southern States remain prostrated in in dustry, their resources having been cut off, and a goodly portion, or their population disfranchised., their constitutional privi leges denied through Congressional enact ment:and moat of them remaining under military rule. Second, commending the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, and approving its views relative to a return to specie payments through re duced taxation, and. a- gradual contrac tion of 'Paper" eircttlatlOll4 , pith sug gestions for legislation for one currency only, and that the national bauka.alvauld. have their power restricted. Third, that our foreign affairs are in a favorable con dition. The negotiations with: °het taro regarding the Alabama Claims, 'so called, nave not reaobed an end, certain portions of the proposed protopol of orb'. tration not having been approved by this Government, and having been returned to Minister Johnson. The resignation ortbe British Ministry is regarded as only a tem porary hindrance. Many of the details re lative to the claims it Is not deemed proper to communicate to the message. Offers of , arbitration between Paraguay and Brazil have been declined, and the course of Para guay is commented on, though there is an absence of official dotal about the outrages of Lopez. The Government has made new treaties for the protection of naturalized citizens abroad. It has recognized the new. Provisional Junta in Spain as a de facto government, but has received no formally accredited Minister from thesame. Affairs with Mexico aro satisfactory. Arrange ments for a mixed commission to settle the claims of Americans in that country arein progress. The Government has failed, so far, in its negotiation for the purchase of a ' naval station in the West Indies, and the President learns that the French are trying to get the Bay of Setnuna front the Domini I can Government. Fourth, that official facts show enormous frauds on the revenue, which must be corrected or the revenue will fail and the nation will be Involved in ruin. The President calls ior strong legis lation, and urges the repeal of the Civil Tenure act, which horegurds as a littelrautst to the removal of corrupt officials. Fifth, the President touches upon our Indian I troubles, noting the views of the Peat. Commission, and fears that the military establishment expenditures will be largely increased on the plains. Sixth, the Presi dent favors the withdrawal of the troops from the Southern States and a reduction of the army, and gives a rcamse of the ope , rations of the land and pension system. It is not pretended that the message dis cusses the above points In the order named, or in the language given, but the general tenor of the document will prove to be as here indicated. Burning of 'Fort Lafayette Fort Lafayette was destroyed by fire Wednesdey last. The tire was caused by some workmen, who were nicking much needed repairs, kindling a tire in an old 1 chimney to warm their dinners, which took tire, and rapidly communicated the flames to some old sheds near by, and the high j wind blowing soon spread the devouring element through the whole structure. The entire force on the fort were the carpenters and two soldiers, detailed daily from Fort Hamilton to take charge of Lafayette, and these did their best to escape as soon as pos sible, by ropes thrown over the wails. Tug-boats, with powerful tiro engines, were soon on hand, but could do no good. One hundred thousand feet of pine lumber , and many thousands of shingles were in , the fort, and all ablaze. A rumor arose ' that a great quantity 01 powder was in the ' magazine and a scattering of the boats soon ' took place, and the fort loft to iLs fate. As I the shells scattered around, ignited and ex ploded, great consternation sett d the crowd on the shores near by, and a general stampede took place, hundreds of people living on the islands abandoning their habitations in their terror, some taking their effects and others hastily seizing their clothing only. Fort Lafayette was built subsequent to the close of our war with England, for the ' purpose of more effectually guarding the entrance to the metropolis. It stands on the Long Island side of the bay, about six miles below the city, and almost directly opposite Fort Wadsworth, on Staten Island. It was built on a reef about three hundred yards from the shore and at low tide it is surrounded by about six feet of water The structure was quaint in appearance front the outside as well as within. The inner wall ie diamond-shaped, and rises five or six feet higher than the wall surrounding it, The top surface of the inner wall slopes towards the centre, and It is upon this strong rampart that the heavy guns of the fort were mounted. For a long series of years this fort has stood like a sturdy seal- I nel guarding the gates to the Empire City, without once having had the satisfaction of discharging a hundred pounder across the bow of a hostile man-of-war. But it has done other service. During the late civil war it was made to help Secretary Stanton disgrace the land it was made to protect, and the name of the distinguished soldier under whose name it was christened. Dur ing these four years of strife, hundreds of men who, had they been granted a fair trial before any tribunal, could have been found guilty of nothing, suffered confinement for months and years In Its dungeons. There will be many victims who will rejoice when they hear of the demolition by tire of this American bastile. About forty-four years ago Fort Lafayette presented a very differ ent appearance than it tit as to-day. Then the gallant Lafayette, from whom it subsequently took its name, was revis iting the country for whose liberties he had fought, when its government was in course of inception. Then its walls and cannon had changed fora time their warlike aspect, and were decked with wreaths of flowers and French and Ameri can flags; and mottoes that were typical of freedom of speech and thought, a part of the grand old principles upon which the new republic had but recently been founded. On that glorious occasion, when Lafayette, in presenting to Washington the key of the bastile as a token of that tyranny and intolerance which lie hoped would never disgrace this fair land, gave utterance to the following words: " Permit me, my dear general, to offer you a picture representing the bastile, such as it was some days after I had given orders tbr its demolition. I make you homage also, of the principle key of this fortress of des potism." The historian relates that Wash ington received the key with reverence, as "a token of the victory gained by liberty over despotism." The friend of Washing ton little dreamed at that time that the very fort which It was intended should commem orate and honor his name, should at last become Itself a bastile, the thing which he held in such utter abhorrence.. The Cuba Revolution The New York Post publishes a letter from a Cuban gentleman, who analyzes the re ports sent to this country from Havana of the political condition of the Island anti the movements of the Spanish troops. Lie shows that the authorities have been much more embarrassed by the vigor of too In surrectionary than they have confessed and it seems probable, even, from this analysis of the government reports, that the Spanish troops have met with serious reverses, and that the insurrection is extending to all parts of the island. Thu writer says: One object of the Insurrectionists, as they profess, is to extirpate slavery, which has long been opposed and regarded es an evil by the Cuban party, as it Is called, to dis tinguish It from the Spanish party. An other of their objects Is to establish the Independence of Cuba. They complain that they have suffered from Spain prectse• ly the wrongs which the American colonies suffered front England. They have had Spaniel 'ls of no character put over them: every avenue for an honorable publiio Ca reer has been closed to men of Cuban birth ; all the offices of honor or profit are monop olized by Spaniards, and they have to hear an opprossive burden of taxation, without receiving any benefits. For these reasons they intend to assert their Independence, to expel the Spaniards, and to set up a republic of their own ; and Cubans in this city who ale in correspon depot) with the insurrectionary leaders express a belief that the movement will succeed. Bold Proud " Data " gives the following account of a fraud on the Treasury which was detected the other day : An individual who has been moving In respectable society here, and who has evinced a penchant for mingling in diplo matic circles, obtained a position in the Treasury Department upon what appeared to be au order of the Ptesident. Ile con tinued in Mike, ut a salary of about $2,000, for some months, and Wee recently dis charged. A few days ago be presented to Mr. M^,Culloch another order from the President, directing that he be rein stated. Mr. McCulloch showed the paper to the President, when it was found that:the order was in a strange handwrit ing ono that could not be recognized by anyone engaged about the White house, and the President does not recognize his signature, nor does he recollect that such an order was requested. Besides, it is not Mr. Johnson's custom to order persons to be employed In the department, but be leaves that matter to the discretion of the members of the cabinet. The IndiVidual Is expected to put in his appearance, and explain, If possible. Yellow Smoke, Chief of the friendly Omaha Indians, visited Dunlap, lowa, on November 27th, and fell in with toughs, who plotted to rob him. A quarrel result ing, Yellow Smoke's skull was fractured, but he succeeded in getting to an Indian camp near the town, where he died do Wednesday. The warriors of his tribe, numbering fifteen hundred, are reported to be gathering for revenge. Several of his assailants were arrested on Thursday night. Venice, since her annexation to the 'King dom of Italy, it is asserted, has greatly in creased in prosperity. Tho annual value of her trade has been raised from $52400,000 to $45,800,000; and the tonnage of th I e nward and outward bound vessels, from 223,776 tons, has become 3&1,764, Direct communi cations vOth foreign countries have been promoted by associations formed for that purpose s and a line of steamers to Aiexan. dria, in Egypt, has been established, A commercial college is shoot to "lfq. nkaned,. in which the languages, bank Big,: book /4eeping, excliangsand commercial law will be taught. In the 'primary schools, ten thousand, or one-half coL the children In the city, were In attendance in 1807. News Items. Seven hundred trains pass each other daily At ;ho.!_liapham o •London, Junction. Louis Ulbach has the largest salary of all editors in Paris, 80,000 francs. The payments to the army during the present year were $123,000,000. Maine gets a largo anima of her cattle for slaughter from Kentucky, N'irw'llampshire has ono mile of railroad to each fourteen miles of territory. The New York Times refers to the Erie speculators as" gentlemen of the road." Madatne Parepa-Rosa has taken up her pen In vindication of theatres and actors. The workingmen's party in England has not. elected a member of Parliament. All the post-office clerks in Cleveland are Marshall 0. Reiberts has 180,000 worth of pictures hi his gallery. Postmaster Kelley, of NOW York, has 424 soldier clerks in his office. Jersey City letter carriers have been uni formed. Tho Nation says Florida waa not lucky in her importation apolitical Northerners There were 210 deaths In Philadelphia last week, a decrease of twu compared with the preceding week. The Cuban revolutionary flag has blue and whlte ati I pea and a triangular field with a largo white star. In California, oats, barley, rye and buck wheat are as dear as wheat, and corn is dearer. New Lisbon, Ohio, otiors $15,000 to tiny manufacturing compuny that will locate lla works there. Four brothers In Now Hampshire WOlO lately e.bristened Europe, Asia, Afriva and America. Norwich, Connecticut, claims to halo invented the two•wheel d velocipede sixty years ago. Hartford, Conn., is to have a iirocien Bead Ball, wall a preinitini 01 CIO for largest baud, There Is au nhl lady in Columbus, Ohio. eighty years old, who is cutting her third set of teeth. A firm iu Boston publishes twenty twii directories of cities and large tootur, nine teen of which are in New Englund. Thu Alabama Serrate yesterday p.m.. I tlw Wll,pun iz,ll ng the wearing of nooks or (lir:guise with fine and imprisonment. A Pretty waiter girt In New Orleans Hilts one of the young bloods of that city for breach of promise or marriage. The newspapers having announcol every thing else about Reyerdy Johnson, now soy he has forty grandchildren. , The Ohio papers ore quarreling about the ' location of tho State Lunatic Asylum. Kaell editor wants It near his own °Mee. Travelers say railway traveling is slower end less comfortable in Italy than anywhere else in the world. Black tights and black silk stocking• form the regulation evening dress at the French court at Campeigne. The Boston Port thinks we might scion resume specie pay tnents from the number of "silver weddings " announced. A delegation or Sac and Fox Indians coifed upon the President on Saturday, to complain of the conduct of their agent. An Omaha despatch says, the temporary railroad bridge at that place way not swept away, but badly damaged. Additional bonds, amounting to .liainfino, for the completion of another smitten, worn issued to the Central Pacific Boil road by the Secretary of the Treasury on Saturday. Fox•hunting has begun in England, and already one Lord and two or three gentle men have ridden into eternity over a Mime that WIN a few inches too high. The customs receipts at the Oder Atlantic port, from Nov. 2S to N0y.30, amounted to at San Francisco, front the _l•t to the list of October, they were e 111,017. The North Carolina House concurred in the Senate resolution for lilt investigation of bribery charges, and grave disclosures are expected. The Erie ComliallY 1194 nlnvul p❑id lawyers tied legishliora nearly a mil lion, and it Is by no imams srpna:zed dry yet. At Lewistown, Maine, the other day, little girl of ten years was tined ton dollars for stealing, and was Committed for want of tho money. A number of " elegant and refined young gentlemen" in Missouri, it is ssid, adver tise for situations as eons-In-law to wealthy A collision took place on the Fitchburg, Mass., Railroad, on Friday night, result ing in an explosion of petroleum on a freight train. Five cars were smashed aunt the conductor was burned to death. The total expense of assessing and col tenting the Internal Revenue during the last fiscal year wits t 15,519,101), assess ments were $ . 270,089,801, and the total $254,509,014. The sedate and dignified students of Edinburg University whilst, engaged in electing their Lord Rector recently amused themselves by throwing peas mid flour at each Other. The Mayor of New Orleans has appointed a Board of Engineers, at the head at whirb Is General Beauregard, to devise a plan for the thorough drainage of that city and Its protection from overflow. A process to open oysters Is to inclose them In tin air-tight box, when steam is introduced, and the work Is done. For on• establishment on the Chesapeake Bay, 5,500 bushelo are opened and canned a day. The average salaries of the New Haven (Con.) clergymen are as follows: Episcopal, $3,500; Catholic, $OOO. with parsonage; Con gregational, $3,283 ; Methodist, $l, 500, with parsonage. The tobacco inspections In Lynchburg, Virginia, from January Ist to December let, 1808, were 0.701 blab. averaging 71/II pounds each, and 8,457.100 pounds loose tobacco:total pounds, 13,1.11,800. Iu excavating'for the loundatlon of the dome of the now State llouseat Springfield, Illinois, recently, the workmen struck it bed of coal IS inches in thickness, at a depth of about 15 or 'Sleet below the surface. It Is claimed that the Democratic candi date for Congress In the First Arkansas district In elected by 3000 majority, notwith. standing the rejection of the vote of five counties. In the trial of Deacon Andrews, for the murder of Holmes, at Plymouth, Mlles., .1.110 friends of Andrews are endeavoring to prove him Insane. It is stated that At, drown Will be allowed to testify In his own defence. The stores of Itinn a: Marshall, and .1. F. Sloane and sons, at Lock haven, Pu., were burned on Friday. The end of Keller's brick building was crushed in by a tailing wall. Loss MAO. The fire is supposed to have been incendiary. 'rho Now York Herald says the expos sive mummery of going, through-Ailth the ceremonies of seeing enjoy in frolic In Washington, by currying thither the Presidential electoral vole, Is going 0.1 In the several Staten. The New York Bpiril of the Tune., slays the terms of surrender tittered to General Johnston by General Sherman, and for which General Sherman was so ruthlessly assailed, were dictated by President Lin coln with the concurrence of General Grant! Captain Alien B. Snow, n veteran sea captain, died in Boston on Saturday. It.. had long been engaged In trade with Cuba, and had made one hundred and thirty•one voyages In succenslon to the port of Cleii fuegos. IS. tax collector at Waterbury, Cl/1111, been fined e 250 for having foci: ed up man who refused to pay his (oxen. Alter having been locked up awhile, the 1111111 produced n receipt for the payment of th.• taxes in question. Dennis Cr'onan was murdered in a sau sage factory, et Charleston, M 11,114., yeater • day morning, by having his head chopped oil. Dennis Beene, his brother-in-law, who 1s suspected of the crime, has surrendered himself, but asserts that he Is Innocent. In the upper portions of IffiasittoilliM county, Maine, the anew is maid to be very de'p and badly drifted• Between Monson and Moosehead lake it Is piled up even with the fences, and ft Is with difficulty that stage teams can force their way through thy. drifts. The southwestern counties of Missouri, havitfg been flooded recently with counter feit greenbacks, a trap was laid for the counterfeiter, who proved to be Perry Randolph, a farmer of M Whitten. fie woo arrested at Kansas City lust week, and confessed his guilt. In the U. S. Circuit Court at Richmond on Saturday morning, the Chlyf Justice gave the certificate of division oh quashing the Indictment against Davis. The Davis case wins then continued until May, that the motion to quash, might be decided by the U. S. Supreme Court. la the U. S. District Court, at Richmond, yesterday, Judge Underwood ordered the the discharge of Cramer Griffin, sentenced in Judge Shelley's State Court to imprison ment for attempt to kill, on the ground that Shelley was ineligible, under the Four teenth Amendment, and therefore no Judge at all. General Cole, on trial for, the Murder of Hlscock, at-Albany, was acquitted yester day. The jury found that Cole was sane Immediately before and after he killed cock, but doubted his sanity at the moment of Me homicide. The Judwo said they must give Cole the benefit of this doubt, whore. tippn they rendered a verdict of not guilty.. A rakish looking cralt has arrived at Queenstown from Labrador, with the an. usual appellation of the Devil, and has for a figure head a full sized representation of his Satanic Majesty. When entering the harbor an exciting contest took place be tween her and the Cunard mail tender, Jackal, resulting in the deleat of the Devil TIM Vicar of Windsor told all his female parishioners and non-electors to stay from church the Sunday betoro the English elec tion, so that them might be room for the 'voters, to whom ho was to preach a political sermon, It would seem from this that English electors are not in the habit of at ' tending church regularly. The Commissioner of Agriculture report .'lhat a system of international agricultural exchanges has been established between bin department and the most celebrated Botanic, Gardens and fluseurns of the world. In, this-country over 30,000 plants have heen, sent from the experimental garden at Washington to all parts of the United States, As to the disposition of needs, imps pack-. aget,inelnding 82,129 eat* of winter Wheat, beNc been Olet t rlbuted, .
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