ipmittt guteUigm. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20,1869. legislating to Defeat Elections. One of the most alarming abases which., has) grown up in this country under Radical misrule is the Bystem of special legislation for purely partisan purposes. Legislative and Congres sional districts have been gerrymander ed so as to prevent a proper representa tion of#ie people; laws have been passed depriving the President of the United States of the powers guaran teed to. him by the Constitution ; the Supreme Court has been bound down s and restricted in its judicial Junctions ; some States have been deprived of the right to vote at the Presidential elec tion, and the votes of others have been controlled by military force; legally elected Congressmen have been* turned out of their seats, and their places filled with defeated Radical candidates ; the same game has been practised in State Legislatures ; the National Capitol has been filled with carpet-baggers and scalawags from the South, who repre sent nothing but their own needs and selfish wants ; and by every conceiva ble and disreputable device the Radicals have, maneuvered to hold on to their illy gotten power. In this State we have had one exhi bition after another of this shameless sort of legislation. The Radicals give two Senators and four Assemblymen to Lancaster county, while Luzerne, which casts a larger vote has only one Senator and three Assemblymen. In that way the Republicans manage to secure a majority ot Congressmen from Penn sylvania, and majorities in both branches of the State Legislature. But they are not satisfied even with the commission of such outrages. — When they are fairly defeated'in mu nicipal elections they proceed at once to pass special laws for the purpose of overcoming the popular majority and giving to their adherents the spoils of otlice. They have had some half dozen bills and amendments put through the Legislature in relation tothestauueh old Democratic City of Lancaster, and they are not done yet. We uotiee that Senator Fisher lias another supplement uj) for consideration. The Democracy elected a Mayor in Philadelphia last fall by a majority so •large as to silence all attempts at con testing his seat; hut no sooner is the Radical Legislature in session than a hill is read in place, the design of which is to deprive him of all command of the .police. The provisions of this bill are of the most objectionable character, and should it pass the evil cll'ects will be . speedily seen, Radical politicians are to be given supreme control of the’ police of the city, and each of these Commissioners is to rule supreme in his own district. Any honest man, who is gifted with ordinary sagacity, would refuse to he driven by the lash of parly discipline into the support of BUCh a measure, and we can scarcely behove it will ever be sanctioned by the .State Senate. It is high time there was an end of this hasty and 'IJy-devised special legis lation, for the purpose of forcibly keep ing in power men who have been repu diated by the people. It is not only dishonest, hut it must end in very seri ous evils unless it is speedily checked. It creates contempt foiiaw in the minds of the illy-disposed, leads men to regard partisan advantage as of superior impor tance to the public safety, and encour ages a reckless disposition winch threatens great misfortunes in'” the future. ‘We hope there is wisdom and decency enough in the Senate of Pennsylvania to prevent (he of this purely partisan measure. It can only result in evil to Philadelphia, and that without aidingthe Republican party. The result of it will be an increased Democratic majority at. succeeding elections. The Radicals tried a'similar plan in New York city, and the result lias been an enormous,and overwhelming increase in the Democratic vote. Let the Re publican members of the Legislature look at the figures presented by that city before they attempt a similar game in ..Philadelphia. Hie lus and the huts. Tlie prompt repeal of the Tenure <>f Office Act by the House has created the greatest consternation among those who hold Federal odices. Many of these fellows imagined they would be able to hang on to their snug berths under Graut. Ju fact not a few .Radical Congressmen drew largesums of money from the officials of their districts, with which to secure their election. The money was given in considera tion of a promise that the con* tributors should lie continued in office. iS’ow that the Tenure of Office Rill is certain to be repealed, there is much tribulation in the Radical camp all over the country. The Outs are ten times as numerous as the Ids, and they are the hungriest pack of cormorants that ever bowled in concert around the public crib. There will be a general turning out after the 1 tlx of March, and Grant will have his hands full of the most disagreeable kind of work. He will find it impossible to satisfy the wants of the multitude of expectants. The olfices to-be tilled number some six ty thousand, and the aspirants six hun* dred thousand a! least. So nine out of ten must bedisappuinted. The X. V. Senator. Contrary to nil expectation Ex-Gov ernor Kenton Ims been elected to sent New York in the l'nited Slates Senate. The result astonished the Rn<ii cals of the Km pi re State as completely as the sudden selection of Johu Scott did those of Pennsylvania, Up to the very hour when the caucus met it was supposed that Senator .Morgan would he re-elected. Now that the resuit is known many Radical newspapers of the State are openly charging that tin* grossest bribery and the most disreputable means were used to inlluenee the votes of members of the Legislature. Tf is not strauge that such confessions ami accu sations should be made. Radicalism is the same everywhere. Look at it where you will aud you can not fail to iind the party reeking with corruption ami stained with all manner of politira! im purity. There is no hope of an honest government, cither in the nation or in the different States where it holds power; and the only hope for the emm- j try is in its speedy overthrow. Let the people look at the hideous aspects of moral and political depravity which it exhibits, and then Id them say whether such a party-ought.* to he permitted to | live in a nation like ours. j Hon. John r. Sloelilon Hon. John I*. Stockton will* lie sent back to the L. S. Senate from New Jersey. This act is a just, vindication of the rights and honor of that Slate, which were so wantonly assailed a few years since, when the Radicals most un justly deprived Mr. Stockton of his aeat, to make sure of the two-thirds ma jority, by means of which they have been enabled to do so much mischief. Mr. Stockton is in every way worthy of the honor conferred upon him by the gallant Democracy of New Jersey. An lulidci Senator. Carl Schurz has received the .Radical nomination for United States Senator from Missouri. He is an avowed and outspoken infidel. Amongotherpublic utterances; he said, “God is only an i m . aginary-gentleman who diuclls heyoncl the clouds.” “The Bible is a book only Jit to amuse children .” “7 he Sabbath is a relic of barbarism .” Such is the man whom “the party of great moral I jeas” choses to repressnt it in the United States Senate. The choice is eminently proper and fitting. THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTTELiLiIG-EN'GEE. WEDNESDAY. JANb AEY 20, 1869. t The Investigation or the New York Election. A Congressional Committee went to the city of New York the other day with a flourish of trumpets to examine into certain alleged election frauds. The business was to make up a case against the Democrats of that State.. The Democracy asked that the. investi gation might be made thorough and searching, knowing well that they could fasten the grossest frauds upon their Radical accusers. Governor Hoffman and other distinguished Democrats were willing to lend their aid to the Commit tee in enabling them to probe the al leged iniquities to the bottom. They were not given a chance to do so, how ever. On the contrary, the Committee entrusted Col. Wood, Chief Detective of the United States Treasury Depart ment, and the getter up of the bogus testimony against Mrs. Surratt, with the work of hunting up willing witnesses. The acquaintance of this Col. Wood with the counterfeiters of the country is very extensive, and he concluded to summon a gang of the worst fellows of that description within his knowTedge, believing that they could be induced to swear to anything he might desire. Some of these graceless wretches testi fied-that they were employed by lead ing Democrats to go from poll to poll and vote illegally. Having been en gaged in shoving counterfeit money they stood in great dread of Wood ; and were ready to swear to anything, but they took cure to secure a written pledge from him that they should not come to harm by the course they were pursuing. Judve of the surprise of the rascals when they found that the Democratic State authorities had determined to pros ecute each one of them for violating the laws against - illegal voting. This brought them to a realizing sense of their situation, and they concluded to adhere to the truth, instead of repeat ing the lies with which they had been crammed by Wood. Some unquestionably correct infor mation has been gleaned by this com mittee. It has been proven that Marshal Murray hired gangs of men to vote the Radical ticket as repeaters at the differ ent polls, paying those who took charge of them seventy-live dollars a piece. It also appears that Marshal Murray, Dan. SickeJs and other Radicals had head quarters at the Fifth Aveune Hotel, where they dispersed large sums of money to pay for the perpetration of frauds. The Democratic papers of New York are urging the continuation of the investigation. Robbing the State Treasury The present Legislature has already given alarming evidence of a disposi j tion to indulge in reckless extravagance, i Not only did the Radical majority re j fuse to consider the proposition of I Messrs. Rauch and Cochrau, to do the | pasting and folding of both Houses ! for the sum of $-1,000, hut a resolution has been pushed through the House in creasing the number of employees in that body to si.rty-07ic . That is exactly one to ecu-h Padh-al in the House. The salaries of these ollicials will be about equal on an average to that of the mem bers, and we shall thus have an ex pense of sixty thousand dollars entailed upon the taxpayers for doing what a responsible party offered to do, perfectly ami satisfactorily, for less than one-tenth of that amount. This is one of the boldest and most unblushing pieces of public robbery ever attempted. The Radicals do not pretend to disguise their rascality. Some of these sixty odd use less employees will loaf about the base ment of the Capitol a week or so in each month, and others will never be pres ent for a day ; but all will draw full pay at the etui of the session. Surely this is enough to arouse the taxpayers of lYiinsylvania’to serioustreflections. | We are sorry to say that three or four j Democrats were found ready to vote for I this infamous proposition. It is true i that the odium of the measure will j justly,attach to the Radicals- but the few Democrats who voted for it ought; to be marked as dishonest aod disrepu- : table men. They are utterly unfit to be j trusted iriauy responsible position,and j have shown themselves to be as cor- j nipt as the most mercenary Radical in I tlie House. We call upon the Harris-j burg Patriot to publish their names, so that the Democracy of the State may | know the men who have thus disgraced ! themselves, and brought shame upon the ! proud old party to► which they profess : to belong. It is no excuse for these re-1 creants to say that the proposition would I have been adopted by a large majority | without their votes. The Radical ma jority ought to have been left to bear the burthen of their infamy alone. The three or four Democrats who voted with them ought to be marked for certain defeat should they ever dare to solicit the suffrages of the people for auy offi cial position hereafter. Restriction of Xalurallzation. While the Radicals in Congress are busy devising ways and means for securing to every degraded and ignorant negro in the country the right to vote, to hold oilice, to sit on juries, and to en joy and exercise in all things full political and social equality with native born white citizens, restrictions are being put upon all foreigners. Not only are bills before Congress bearing heavily upon all the white Europeans who may come to our shores, but every Republican •State Legislature is engaged in the same disreputable business. The Radical Legislature of this State has not been in session four days, and yet we have already on file a bill which strikes directly' at the privileges heretofore granted to foreigners. We publish it elsewhere. After examining it carefully i we can not see that it suggests a single I improvement upon the practice now in j use in our courts. The only portion of the hill which amounts to anything is the fourth section, which provides that no certificate of naturalization shall be issued by a i’rothontary until three months after it has been granted by the Judges, and that none shall be either granted or issued daring three months 1 preceding a general .or Presidential j election. As we have a general election j nearly every year in Pennsylvania this i bill {imposes in effect to restrict natur- | a!iz:iliu:i to nine months in the year. I This is done with the expectation that j many foreigners will neglect to take the , proper steps to secure their rights as citizens in time to entitle them to vote. It is a mean and underhanded blow at intelligent white men by a party which requires no preparation for the exeredse of the rights of citizenship from the most ignorant, and degraded negro, and as such the bill is only worthy of con demnation ami contempt. Horrible Outrages or the Negro Militia. The negro militia in Arkansas are committing the most horrible outrages. On Friday night last nine of them en tered the house of a respectable widow lady, and outraged the persons of her three (laughters. The Radical news papers of the North publish such intel ligence as this in obscure corners, with out a word of condemnatory comment. If the case were reversed, aud some slight outrage were committed upon a negro by white men, we would hear a concerted howl from every Radical journal North of Mason and Dixon’s line. Such is Radical justice and de cency. The Radical Governor of Missouri recommends another submission of the negro suffrage amendment, and the continued disfranchisement of a major ity of the white men of the State. That is the Radical idea of republican gov ernment. Beecher said, in a lecture in Bos ton, on Wednesday, that “amusements are God’s ordinances.” He thinks that amusements should l>e eDjoyed always at home, but when this is impossible the whole home circle should go to gether to the place of amusement. That’s the doetrine to suit the theatri cal managers. “Reserved seats 50 cents extra.” BolsteriDg^uFEascallty. The Harrisburg Telegraph under takes to defend the extravagance of the Radical Legislature. It asserts that the whole army of pasters and folders which the House voted to employ are needed, and ridicules the proposal of Messrs. Rauch and Cochran for $5,000 what will cost the State at least ten times that amount under the pres ent system. Ridicule will not do away with the fact that the Radical members of the House not only rejected the pro position of perfectly responsible parties to save the State some $40,000, nor will it in any manner relieve them from the opprobium which properly attaches to them for having deliberately voted to double the number of useless employees, in order to give each Republican mem ber a chance to appoint some favorite to a sinecure position. The damning fact’still remains that the Radical mem bers deliberately entered into a scheme, which was devised for the express pur purpose of robbing the State Treasury of between thirty and forty thousand dollars. The Telegraph abuses such Republi can newspapers as have had the honesty to expose this unblushing rascality. Will they meekly pocket this insult? If their editors have a particle of spirit they will reply to Bergner in such terms as will expose this apologist of corrup tion and fraud to the full gaze of an in dignant people. The Telegraph has the impudence to assert that no more officials are now employed about the Legislature than were appointed under Democratic rule* That is simply a.huge and unmitigated falsehood. The number has been doubled, as the editor of the Telegraph ought to know. It is time there was au end of these attempts to bolster up fraud and corruption'. It is high time that newspapers of all parties should unite in condemning extravagance, and in holding public men to strict account for their use of public moneys. The prevailing rascality of officials must be checked by exposure. Hie Alaska Frauds. j The story about the Alaska frauds is i being renewed in Washington. It is i now currently, reported that a person ! who was employed in the State Depart ' weut to translate documents from for i eign languages into English discovered i the whole transaction, with the names 1 of the parties implicated. The Russian government it is alleged only received I $5,000,0011 out of the $“',200,000 paid by | the Uuited States, and the rest went to j different Congressmen and lobby mem ' bers. The following are men tioned as having been paid out: To an ox-public printer, §5,000 ; to a near relative‘of the Great Commoner, §-10,000 ;to an ex-C mmissioner of Pensions, §10,000; I to the Washington correspondent of a Now ' York radical morning paper, §5,000; to a j Washington correspondent, who is on the I list as belonging to the Herald, but who is ' known to be utiauhedto a Cincinnati paper, | §lo,otnt; to a conservative morning paper j in Baltimore, §20,000; to the Washington ' special correspondent of the same paper, i §5,00U; to a Chicago democrat morning : paper, §5,000; to a representative of the ! Joues family, §lO,OOO ; to an Eastern Seun | lor who had influence with a prominent i journal, §20,000 ; and the Eastern member , before alluded to as No. 1. §250,000; to ' Eastern member No. 2, §150.000. The rii ' plonmlic chief fell heir to §200;000, and the : great king of tho New York lobb} 7 , who had the general management of tho job, received the modest little sum of §500,000. The party who discovered the facts on which the above statement is said to be made has been sent to Mexico on some special mission, but a man named Mar tin, to whom he communicated his dis covery, is said to be ready to testify before the Congressional Committee which lias been pretending to examine into the matter. Martin says there is evidence ready for the Committee to show 7 that an acquaintance who called upon Barou Sloeckel soon after the ap propriation was made, saw lying on the Minister’s desk a draft for $5,000,000, which the Baron handed him to look at. The gentleman asked what it was for, and was told that it was the pay ment for Alaska. “ But this,” said he, “is only for $5,000,000. I thought the United .States were to pay $7,200,000.” The Baron answered No, sir; that is all we asked for the Territory. You Yankees got all the rest.” "We hope the matter may be probed to the bottom. We would like to know the name of the “ near relation of the Great Commoner” who received the $40,000. We know that rumors pre vailed at the time to the effect that cer tain persons connected with Thaddeus Stevenß had received a comfortable slice out of this Alaska appropriation. Relief for Mrs. Lincoln A bill has been introduced into the United States Senate, the object of which is to afford relief to Mrs. Abra ham Lincoln, who failed to make money out of the sale of the rich gar ments which were presented to her by army contracted and others who sought thus to curry favor with her husband. It is proposed by this bill to pension Mrs. L. as the widow of the Coraman* der-in-Chief, he, by some legal fiction, being supposed to have been killed in battle. Upon such reasoning Congress might patriotically determine to pro vision the White House by ordering rations for President Grant, aud in crease his salary to any extent by al lowing him to draw money in commu tation for the rations. The skill with . which the Radicals devise ways aud means for depleting the treasury is really remarkable. If they want to j give Mrs. Lincoln five thousand dollars j a year, let them vote it straight out, without resorting to any silly subter fuge. A Contested Judgeship. For the first time in our history, since the adoption ofour present Constitution, the Legislature of this State has engaged , in the trial of a contested seat in the Ju diciary of the Commonwealth. Thomas Greenbank, Esq., Democrat, having been duly elected a Judge in Philadel phia last fall, the Radicals have trumped up chargc-s of fraud at the election. The j tribunal before which a trial is to he had ! is not an impartial one, and the uniform | ity with which the Radical members of ! the Legislature are accustomed to decide j all contested election cases in favor of j those of their own faith, would not lead ! us to expect justice at their hands. We j hope they will show a proper regard to ! their oaths in the important trial now before them. Cue of the members of the Senate who is on the Committee was heard to remark that he perjured himself on a former occasion to give a seat in the Senate to a Radical contest ant. It is to be hoped he has suffered sufficiently from the stings ofconscience not to be again guilty of a similar of feuse, and that he may servers a warn ing to his fellow Radicals on the Com mittee. It is sad to think that the tone of morality among public men has been so lowered that such contests are ex pected to be)decided on partisan grounds, rather than in accordance with the law and the evidence. Newspapers for the library. On motion of Senator Fisher a reso lution has been adopted directing the Committee on the State Library to in quire into the propriety of purchasing bound files of the New York Herald , Tribune aud World, the Philadelphia Press , and one or two other papers, now in possession of J. E. Barr & Co., of this city. These are complete flies for the last ten or twelve years, embracing the entire period of the war. That the State Library should contain such a set of newspaper files no one can deny, and if they nan be purchased at a reasonable price they should be transferred to its shelves. A nolle prosequi has been entered in the case of John C. Breckinridge, in dicted for treason, and he may be ex pected jto return home shortly. Mr. Breckinridge Jost all he had in the war, and will be entirely dependentupon his profession for a livelihood^ How the People are Bobbed by an Im proper Tariff. Under the specious cry of protection to home industry the Radicals have been robblDg the people of this country in the most shameful manner. Instead of enacting a just and judicious tariff, which would rea’i. encourage home in dustry without burihening the masses, Congress has devised one scheme after another for the purpose of building up monopolies and enhancing the prices of commodities which enter into the daily consumption of the people. The tariff upon salt, for instance, is, according to Commissioner Wells, from 100 to 170 per cent, ad valorem. That would appear to be high enough in all conscience. In fact it is an outrageous imposition os it stands. But, there is a bill now before Congress in which it is proposed to raise iheduty a third higher. Salt is one of the necessaries of life, but is manufactured in the United States chiefly by two great corporations—the Syracuse Sal t Company and the Baginaw Salt Company. These monopolists have persuaded Congress to let them oppress the people ever since 1862, a period of nearly seven years. They now want to turn the screws a little, or rather a good deal, tighter. Mr. Wells remarks in his official report: “When we consider how, through the indispensable use of this article, an increase of its price ffrom twenty-three cents per bnsbel in IS6I to forty-eight cents in 1868) has come home to the whole people; bow such increase affects the great industrial interests involved iu packing of beef, pork, fish and butter, and consequently the dis tribution aud price of food at home, and its exchange for foreign commodities abroad ; and especially when we consider that the internal tax on this article, which in 1865 was collected from one company to the ex tentofabout §200,000, has been entirely re moved ; in view of all these circumstances, may we not well ask whether protection to American industry ami a regard to the interest of the whole people does not demand, not only that there be no further Increase of the tariff and the price of tait, but that a reasonable anil moderate reduction of the existing duties be promptly conceded." This legislation in favor of monopolies is the general rule with the Radicals in Congress. It seems to be an easy mat ter for rich corporations to secure legis lation by which they may reap enor mous profits at the expense of the great mass of consumers. The New York Post calls attention to another gigantic swindle in what is known as the “ cop per bill.” It says: j Several of the States have deposits ofcop per ores. These ores are sulphurets; when | mixed with carbonate ores they are profit- i ably reduced; and this has become a large and useful industry. But it is found that this country does not produce the carbonate ores in sufficient quantity for this use; and the demand is supplied from Chili, in part; and the con tinuance, the life, of this whole industry depends upon tins foreign supply, bocause we have not the carbonate ores in this country. Now, the result of tho passage oftho cop per.bill will be to cut offentirely this supply of foreign ores, and thus to crush at a blow this whole industry. The workmen engaged in it will bo thrown out ot employment; the supply of copper in tho country will be much lessened ; a branch of natural wealth, now usolullv invested, will be made value less ; and all for what? Because certain Lako Superior companies have beds of quartz containing native cop per, which, at the exorbitant prices artific ially produced by a high tariff, can be worked at an enormous profit. They can not supply the demand oftho country for copper, but they wish to have a monopoly, and so the price of this necessity of civiliza tion must he raised by law. Is this pro tection ? Is it not robbery ? Of course it is robbery of the most shameless and uublushing character. The bill is so framed as to crush out of existence a large and important indus try, iu order that these Lake Superior companies may have a complete mo nopoly of one of the most important mineral products. The power of mo nopolies over Congress iu these last days is easily accounted for. It is well known that Radical members have matfe enormous fortunes in a few years. They have not saved it out of their sal aries, for they have fared sumptuously and lived in line houses. They have sold their votes aud influence to mo nopolies for money. No one doubts that such is the case auy more than we doubt the venality of the Pennsyl vania Legislature. History or the Pennsylvania Volunteers. We have received from the State His torian. Mr. Samuel P. Bates, a copy of the first series of the History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers. It is a hand somely bound volume of 1327 pages, and is to be followed by two others of equal size. It.embraces accurate sketches of the organization of the Pennsylvania regiments, with the battles in which they were engaged. The rolls of each regiment are given with precision, showing the career of every Pennsyl vania volunteer, the battles in which he participateil and the facts connected with his service. The Harrisburg Patriot takes excep tion to the manner in which the work is gotten up and also to the amount which it is likely* to cost, and we must say that there seems to be considerable force in its strictures. Still these are objections which can be overcome by those who have the matter in charge, and they should see that no such cause for complaint is allowed to exist in re ference to the future volumes. Forney and McClure Among the Negroes. The negroes have been holding a Na tional Convention in Washington, and they have taken steps to organize a regu lar political party. Certain favored white men have been admitted to honorary membership; among others Col. John W. Forney and Col. A. K. McClure. Both these gentlemen have figured somewhat largely in Pennsylvania politics, but both of them arejustnow underacloud. On being elected honorary members of the negro convention they both made speeches highly laudatory of their new associates. It is currently reported that they intend to emigrate to strong negro districts in the South, with the hope of being sent to Congress by negro con stituencies. They would make admir able carpet-baggers. Their peculiar talents would just fit them for such a career. Amnesty Signed, Sealed and Delivered, A despatch from Washington informs us that United States Attorney General Evarts lias issued instructions to all the District Attorneys in the United States ordering them to discontinue proceed ings against “all persons accused of treasonable ofleuces for acts committed daring the late rebellion.” This, of course, covers the case of Jefferson Da vis and all the rest of those distinguish ed ex-rebels about whose slatus under the amnesty proclamatieu of President Johnson there has been expressed some doubt. Acting upon the instructions of the Attorney General, the United States District Attorney at Richmond, has en tered a nolle prosequi in the case of Jef ferson Davis. The Senate has very properly refused to concur in the House resolution grant ing the use of the Natioual Capital for the holding of a ball on the inaugura tion of Grant. These assemblages have so degenerated of late years that it would be well to dispense with them entirely. Any one who pays ten dollars can pro cure a ticket entitling him to entrance with two ladies, or females who are not entitled to be styled ladies. To throw open the Capitol to such a gathering would be an outrage. Yet the Radicals of the House voted to do so. When the proposition was up in the United States Senate to grant the use of the Capitol for a ball on the 4th of March, Mr. Patterson, of New Hamp shire, asked Mr. Nye, of Nevada, if he would be disposed to allow the show of the “ Black Crook” there. There was no need for putting such a question. The “ Black Crook” and crooked blacks are old farces on the Capitol Boards, and the sooner the curtain is rung down on them the better. The bill for establishing a territorial government in Alaska has been killed. Those who seek a home in that inhos pitable clime will have to live in a prim itive style, without any regularly constituted government. A Clerical Defence of Miscegenation and. Adultery as Practiced By Thaddeas Stevens. There are many indications that the pnlpit bas been seriously demoralized by the events of the past few years. It is true that a majority of ministers of the gospel are still true to their high calling, that their lives are honorable and of good report among men, and that their teachings are in full accordance with hoJy writ; but very many have allowed themselves to be seriously af fected by the moral leprosy of the times. It has become customary now a-days to wink at crime in high places. Too many preachers undertake to white wash the leaders of the political party to which they adhere. The pulpits of the North have been filled with those who appear to be equally ready to flatter even the most impious men while in power, and to canonize them when dead. These Radical retailors of false doctrine have been the most sycophantic apologists for acts which are condemned by the Bible. The latest instance of the kindHvhich has fallen under our notice is the following extract from an article, entitled “Personal Recollections of Thaddeus Stevens, written by Rev. J. Blanchard, and published in the Cin cinnati Gazette of the 9th inst.: I begin this article on Mr. Stevens (the last I may ever write of him) with precisely that point in his life on which two or three religious papers have assailed his memory, and in which his Southern enemies most resembled, and, at the same time, most maligned him. 1 meau his domestic rela tions. The colored Bishop Payne, a shrewd and pious man, who hud the means of knowing, said to me : “ He lived with a colored woman as his wife; that was all there was about that.” And I suppose it was true. I once in Cincinnat, married a man of prominent family iu Alabama to his brunette slave, while throe bright chil- I dreu stood up by their mother, the bride. : His whale mind uad soul, heart and life, , seemed absorbed and concentrated in the ■ one thought ofsaving that mother und cliil | dren irum tbo block of the auctioneer, and j the living hell beyond it, alter keshould bo ' dead. For this he hud ruu the gauntlet of his relatives, who had divined his purpose, and come up from Alabama to Ohio. Mr. Stevens, last winter, reminded me of that Alabamian, by his determined zeal that his bones should not lie iu death in a burial ' ground from which caste spurned the col- I ored ruco. J will not profane the memory of Mr. Stevens by apologizing for his fidel ity to the woman whom lav/ aud custom, stronger tbun law, forbade him to marry, nor by reminding the reader that be differed ; from Henry Clay and the mass of Southrons j only iu the fact of that fidelity. I will do a I much bolder thing, I will remind those I technically religious editors that God him- I self ouco commanded an inspired prophet, [saying: ‘‘Go tako thee a wife of whore doms, and children of whoredoms. (Llosea, 1,2.) I remind them that He did this for the very purpose of reaching and reclaim ing tbo land whose general debauchery had degraded the woman whom His prophet married, as his inauguration to' his pro phetic otlice ! And if we suppose that God, who works by precept or by providence, as He pleases, providentially connected with the mysterious race, as, j Ho connected Rosea, by precept, with a de graded caste iu his day, and for a like pur pose, viz, to repeal land reverse the degra dation by wiping out the crime that caused it, we shall only be supposing what has happened iu fact. And this supposition will give us the key to the contradictions oi Mr. Stevens’ character. Early poverty, pride, and a club foot may have prevented i his marriage with tbo beautv and brilliant , culture he was so iormed to relish and en -1 jcy. Hotel life .and human passions may have chosen lor his companion the bright eyed brunette whom I saw last winter; agreeable in spile of old age—of once his house-keeper and presiding genius, and ' whose talents made her at the same time the mistress of his business and his earthly ; destiny. Shut oil'by circumstances such as I these, from that honorable domestic life which has saved all that was saved of such men us Prentiss, of Mississippi ;'Benton,of Missouri; and a host of their peers; des pising that religion which could wiuk at .-lave-holding cohabitatiou, while horrified with fidelity in concubinage; retaining | enough of his mother’s religion to make i him despise himself; strong as the ; fabled giants, yet in religion blind as Polyphemus, their chief-; bold fear ing nothing but God, and really fearing Him; loviug justice, loving truth, and Christ because, us he said, “Ho was the truth.” In these elements you have the great and wonderlul man who has just left the stage ; a modern Sampson Agonistes; I abhorring slavery ; abhorring vice, yet lay ing his head.on her lap till the locks of his streugth v/ero shorn. Like Sampson, he prayed and cried to God; like Sampson, i too, ho was connected aud counted with slaves—at once the champion of the true God and the violator of His laws ; even in his Gaza, he heaved at the pillars of our ! national idolatry with a strength above hu | man; and like Sampson, sunk into death i with the ruins of that temple tumbling about his head! No lurther seek Ms merits to di?cl -fir, Nor draw his frailties iroru llieir dread abode; i There they nuke in trembling hope repose j The bosom or bis rather ana his Goa. | The facts set forth in the above ex tract will not startle any of our readers. The relations of Thaddeus Stevens to the mulatto woman, with whom he lived, were more than suspected to be such as the Reverend reprobate who penned the above slates them to have been. But we do hope that the conscience of even the most extreme Radical in Lancaster has not become so complete ly seared as not to be shocked by an open defence of adultery in its foulest form by a professed minister of the Gos pel. She, who is thus shown to have been the mistress of Thaddeus Stevens, was the wife of a negro barber in the town of Gettysburg, and, if his rela tions to her were such as Mr. Blanch ard declares, the life of Thaddeus Stevens was one of unblushing adultery of the grossest and most repulsive char acter. What a sad commentary upon the morals of the Radical party is exhibited in the revelation here made. What a spectacle is presented in the person of this defender of the foulest immorality. He is not only a professed minister of the Gospel but the President of a college in one of the principal States of the Union. What must be the effect upon the young of such infamous teachings? Is it strange that vice runs riot in our land when such apologies for lewdness are poured in a filthy stream from the pul pits of the country TK' AMNESTY PKOCEAMATIO.V Special Alossnge from the President. Washington, Jan. 18.—The Presiden transmitted the following to-day: To the Senate of the United States: The resolution adopted on the sth instant, requesting the President to transmit to the Senate a copy of any proclamation of am nesty made by him since the last adjourn ment of Congress, and also to communicate to the Senate by what authority of law the same was made, has been received. I ac cordingly transmit herewith a copy of a proclamation dated the 2511 i day of Decem ber last. The authority of law by which it was made is set forth in the proclamation itself, which expressly affirms that it was issued hy virtue of the power and authority in me vested by the Constitution, and in the name of the sovereign people of the United States, and proclaims and declares, unconditionally and without reservation to all and to every person who directly or indirectly partici pated in the late insurrection or rebellion, a full pardon and amnesty for the offence of treason against the United States, or of ad hering to their enemies during the lute civil war, with the restoration of all their rights, privileges and immunities under the Con stitution and the laws which have been made in pursuance thereof. The Federal Constitution is understood to bo and is regarded by the Executive as the supreme law of the land. The second section of article 2d of that instrument pro vides that the President shall have power to grant reprieves and pardon lor otlences against the United States, except in cases of impeachment. The proclamation of the 25th ultimo is in strict accordance with the judicial exposi tions of the authority thns conferred upon the Executive, and, as will be seen by ref erence to the accompaning papers, is in con formity with the precedent established by Washington in 1795, and followed by Pres idents Adams.in 1800, Madison, in 1815, and Lincoln in 18G3, and by the present Execu tive in 1805, 1867 and 1868. Andrew Johnson Washington, D. C., Jan. 18, 1809. The Remains of Hon. Darwin Finney. New York, Jan.lG,—The Congressional Committee appointed to take charge of the remains of Hon. Darwin Finney, late a member of Congress from Pennsylvania, which had lately arrived from Europe and to convey them to Laurel Hill Cemetery, left this city this morning and will arrive at the West Philadelphia Depot about two o’clock. The committee consists of Judge Pettis, Hon. Chas. O’Neill, Hon. A. J, Glossbrenner, Hon. S. J. Randall, Hon* Geo. W. Woodward and Hon. Geo. V, Lawrence, of the Pennsylvania delegation ; Hon. J. G. Blaine, of Maine; Hon. J. B, Beck, of Kentucky; Hon. McCullom, of Illinois, accompanied by Harrison S. Links, Deputy Sergeant-at-arms. One of the most cogent reasons eyer given why a married man should get his life in sured is, that the money would prove a great help to his wife’s second husband and might be the means of starting him in business. A TRIP TO THU SOUTH. £DITOBIAI. HOTES, X. Columbia, before its destruction by Sher man’s army, was considered the most beautiful city, in the South. It is hand somely situated on the Broad River near its junction with the Saluda, and for its population, covers a largo expanse of ground that is generally level, except to towards the river, where it rolls up into a hill of moderate height, but commanding a most beautiful and extended prospect;* the great Blue Ridge chain really very distant but apparently near at hand, and whose snow-clad summits are distinctly Visible, alone bounds the view. The hill of course is covered with handsome resK dences, and so beautiful a situation as they enjoy, we have never met with in any other city. It was surprising to us that so com manding an ontlook coaid be obtained at so alight an elevation; it indicates the gen eral levelness of the intermediate country up to the base of the mountains. We could form some idea of the former appearance of the city, in looking at the few handsome residences with beautiful grounds attached to them, which had escaped the ravages of the fire. The wide streets were bordered with fine old trees and the dwellings standing back from them and far apart from each other, were buried in‘evergreens and trees and shrubbery, amid which birds sang and flowers bloom ed and fountains played; they were the abodes of wealth and were rendered as at tractive as time and money make them. The Preston place, belonging to the mother-in-law of Wade Hampton, escaped the conflagration by reason of its being temporarily occupied at the time by a Cath olic Orphan Asylum, or some benevolent institution of that kind. It occupies a whole square of ground and is fairly smothered amidst a wealth of evergreens and flowers, presenting a striking con trast to the desolation and barrenness out side Us walls. The residence is a large double house, handsomely built of stone and bearing au appearance of venerable age. Wade Humpton, by the way, we great ly regretted to learn has been unfortunate in his planting operations since the war and is irretrievably insolvent. Fourteen hundred houses were burned in Columbia, comparatively few of which have . been reouilfc as yet, and the town presents a melanoholy aspect. Whole blocks in its very heart are without a house or tree or fence to relieve their barren dreariness, and are burthened only with the bricks of iallen chimneys or the crumbling stone walls of what once were churches.. The city is a common, cut up into parallelograms by streets and sparsely studded with the few buildings that escaped the fire, and a num ber that have been erected since. It is not difficult for a stranger to find his way through it, for*, the place he seeks may be pointed out to him “across lots” a goodly distance off, and there will be nothing to interfere with his view of it as he travels towards it. As Southern houses are nearly always built of wood there are few fallen •walls to tell you where houses have been ; nor are there any cellar excavations to mark their sites, for the very good reason that cellars are entirely unknown in the South. The only reason we heard assigned for this was the desire to have a free cur rent of air beneath the buildiDgs; they therefore raise them a couple of feet from the ground, supporting them on brick pil lars. This manner of erection has the ad vantage of saving a good deal of expense, but it certainly does not look very substan tial. The bouses present such great facili ties for the evil disposed to break into, upset or burn them, that it is perhaps no wonder that Sherman’s men could not resist the temptation. It is very certain that Columbia was burned by our soldiers, audit is equally certain that the officers of our army knew that it was going to be burned, and did nothing to prevent the execution of the de sign. It was permitted, although probably it was not ordered. Our forces occupied the city in the morning, and at nine o’clock that night,signal rockets being let off,it was simultaneously fired at points far distant from each other, and within half an hour was in a blaze trom one extremity to an other. Our soldiers went in squads through the streets ; some bearing arms full of tur pentine balls, which others with torches would Light and cast into doors or windows; ugain they would build fires under houses or apply the torch to combustible furniture piled up within them. The citizens were not allowed to quench the fires or save tbo contents of their houses ; without previous warning to them, everything was destroyed and they were left destitute and homeless. A fortunate few who bad friends in our army were protected by them and escaped. Mr. McCarter, of the firm of Bryan & McCarter, Booksellers, although their store was burned, saved his house in which he bad stored $25,000 worth of “South Carolina Reportshe had been in the habit of visiting a number of Union prison ers confined near Columbia and relieving to some extent their wants; it happened that the man in command of the squad that came to burn his house recognized him,and in consideration of his grey hairs and his kindness to the prisoners, ordered.that his house should be spared. So, another gentle man told us that a friendly captain to whom he had given quarters, not only saved his dwelling for him, but told him before the fire broke out that if ho was in want of any provisions he should go at once and take them out of a neighboring grocery store, as it would shortly be fired ; an incident which shows very clearly that the fire was pre meditated and the design was known to the officers. An officer of the regular army who is now attached ta the Freedmeh’s Bureau iu South Carolina intimated to me that lhere;could be little doubt about this, as it was a common thing to hear the sol diers, alter they crossed from Georgia into South Carolina and were marching upon Columbia, singing— “ Hall Columbia Happy Land, If we don’t burn you, we’ll bo damned. As may be conceived, after the fire the citizens were in the utmost distress. They had no roof to cover them ; they had noth ing to eat, for the stores were all burned and their own provisions were destroyed wHhjtbeir houses; they had no money with which to buy anything if tiiey could find it, for the Confederate money, which -was all they had, was nearly worthless; it cost $3OO to buy a little salt. They had no per sonal property of any description with which to trade; nor had they any horses or vehicles left, with which they might carry to the town the scanty provisions still left in the surrounding country. Many went away .to adjoining towns on foot, and never returned. Mr. Cohen, a wealthy broker, whose hospitality we enjoyed at Augusta, told us that he took his two little children, one by each hand, and walked with them all the way to Augusta, 70 or 80 miles. Various devices were resorted to by those who remained, to earn their daily bread. Onfe gentleman told us that he set to work picking out the nails from the ashes of the houses, and found them to be aa excellent circulating medium; bo secured a horse and cart with them before long, and soon did a thriving trade with the country, converting his nails into corn. Many of the people must havo starved, if Sherman’s cold heart had not been so warmed over the embers of the fire, as to induce him to direct that a certain amount of commissary stores should be left with them for their sustenance. The State had commenced long before tbo war, the erection of wbat will be, when it is finished, the handsomest State Capitol in the United States. It is built of cut stone, and is entirely fire proof throughout; the elegant outside walls, the pillars of polish ed marble, the division walls and stone stairway are completed ; the iron girders of the floors are in their places as well as many of the marble columns which are to grace the interior. When the war broke out a temporary roof was thrown over the building and work upon it ceased. A vast number of beautiful capitals for the col umns, that had been imported already cut from Italy, were housed in sheds erected on the Capitol grounds, as were also many fine blocks of Tennessee and other marbles in different stages of preparation, and thousands of marble tiles ready to be laid upon the floors. These sheds were* fired and their contents utterly destroyed ; the finely wrought marbles lie crumbling to pieces on the ground, of no use now except to make into lime. The old State House standing beside the new Capitol was like wise burned; but the latter structure, al though in some places damaged by musket balls whioh had been fired against it, defied the fire, and could only have been destroyed by being blown up with gunpowder. Three million dollars worth of property was de stroyed in the Capitol enclosure alone, A handsome monument to the soldiers of South Carolina, killed io the Mexican war, escaped damage; it is a Palmetto tree ris ing from a pedestal , inscribed with the names of many soldiers upon copper plates; £he tree itself is cast in oopper, but looks so exceedingly natural that it was difficult for ns to persuade ourselves that it was not so. It is scarcely worth while for us to in dulge ourselves in the expression of onr indignation at the conduct of those who were gnilty of the burning of Columbia; the fact is recorded; it speaks for itself, and will speak trampet-tongued through all coming time. It was a useless, cruel and savage act, which would have been con demned even in barbarous ages, and history will not fail to register it as a crime that 1 can not be palliated and as a stigma upon our arms that can not be effaced. The burning of Paita, over a hundred years ago, darkens the lustre of the fame achieved by Commodore Anson in his otherwise splen did career upon the Pacific; and will not the bnrning of Columbia in these more enlightened days, suffice to wither upon Sherman’a brow the victor’s wreath earned by his great march to the sea ? The eveningof our arrival in Columbia we passed very pleasantly at a Fair, held un der the anspices of* the principal citizens of the place, for tho benefit of an Orphan Asylum, which is under Catholic manage ment We met there Mr. Hardy Solomons, Colonel Preston, Gen. Haskell, (a gallant grandson of Langdon Cheves, formerly of Abbeville, near Lancaster), and other gen tlemen, who placed us under great obliga tions by their profuse hospitality. The fair was excellently administered by Mrs. Preston as manager in chief; but we felt a little aggrieved that we could spend no mo ney. The ladies performed their novel duties as waiters with great attention and carefulness, speedily filling our order for an abundant supper, but to our great con fusion would not allow us to pay for it; and a donation, which we surreptitiously cast into the treasury for the benefit of tbo Orphans, was promptly returned to us. This was but a sample of tho generous hospitality which was showered down upon us in Columbia during ourstay. The burn ing of their town has not dried up the gen erous instincts of as noble a people as grace God’s foot-stool. In sunshine and in shadow they are the same. r lhe United States Court was iu session while we were in tho city, in a hall in the Nickerson House, which was probably the Chapel when that structure was a Semi nary ; and wo introduced ourselves to Judge Bryan, tho lately appointed Judge of tho U. S. District. Court of S. C\, who is a native of tho State, but whose ancestors were from Lancaster county. The Judge is a very suave and dignified gentleman, whose hair is silvering with advancing: years; he is considered an excellent lawyer and judge, and is very popular with tho bar and the people. It is fortunate for the State that the administration was able to find so good a man, who was sufficiently-in unison with it in sentiment, to induce It to confer upon him this important office. Tho Judge is one of the very few respectable men of the South who look with a favoring eyo upon the experiment which is being made there, of admitting the negro to a share of political t*J?wer. He was the only decent Southern man whom weymot in onr travels, that looked upon tj/e attempt with anything like approval; and as a faithful chronicler of facts, we record the opinion of the Judge and beliovo it to be honestly entertained. EDITOBXAL KOTES, XI. Haying accepted the invitation of Col. Johnston, President of the Columbia and Augusta Railroad, to take a trip over bis road to Augusta, we started from Colum bia at noon on Friday, Dec. 4tb, in the midst of tho first rain which we had ex perienced since wo had left the James River in Virginia. The railway we travelled on had just been completed to a point be yond Granitoville, whore it meets the Au gusta and Charleston Railroad, some ten or twelve miles from Augnsta, and its exten sion had been temporarily suspended by an injunction obtained by that road, which, however, has since been dissolved. Tho new road lessens the distance to be travelled between Augusta and Columbia at least - one-half, and will accommodate all the travel andfreight between the southwest and northeast which has hitherto gone around by Branchville, on tbo Charleston line.— The road has been pushed through to com pletion by the Charlotte and South Caro lina Railroad, and both roads have now the same set of officers. It passes through a level region along the southern lino of the good cotton country of South Carolina— We saw some fine plantations on the way, particularly at “the Ridge,” a district which is somewhat famous for the wealth of its planters and tho quality of its lands. It was dark when we reached Granitoville, the site of a largo cotton factory, of whoso size we formed some idea from the lights shining out of numerous windows; the mill is driven by tbo fine power of an adjacent stream add is owned by South ern stockholders, whom it pays quarterly dividends of five per cent, on tho par value of tbeir stock. A mile or two farther on we took the cars of the Charleston railway, and late in the evening found ourselves fiuely quartered in Augusta at tho Globe Hotel. Augusta is a large and beautiful city, situated on a level plateau of land along the western bank of the Savannah river, and elevated so slightly above the water that it is sometimes overflowed. Its streets are wide; some of them very wide and adorned through their wholo length with double rows of trees down the centre of the roadway, forming an avenue in the middle of the street; a stylo of boulevard which the Philadelphians are about adopting for Broad street. Many very beautiful resi dences fringe the Btreets, all surrounded with ample grounds, brilliant with flowers and roses iu full bloom amid the evergreen. In the business part ,of the town we saw many handsome stores and much bustle of trade. It was manifest that “ hard times ” were not knocking at these doors, but that the place was prospering. Mr. Schley very kindly offering to show us what was to bo seen in the city and its vicinity, we drove out in carriages to view its wonders. We noticed as we passed along under the trees, small clumps of evergreen clinging to their otherwise baro branches; this, we were told, was the mis tletoe, and that it indicates that the trees from which it grows are diseased, as it never upon healthy ones. We passed by many elegant houses and, as we looked upon the luxurious vegetation in which they were buried on that warm and sunshiny day, we could scarcely realize that the month was December. W T e drove to a plantation which Mr. Schley was farming, adjoining the city and near the river. The land was very rich as it is the fashion of river bottom land to be, and the cotton plant grew very luxuriantly upon it, as did everything else. Sweet po tatoes weighing seven pounds and turnips as large as a man’s head were a not unusual production. Two crops a year are gener ally grown on the same piece of ground; unless it is in,cotton, which employs tho land during the whole year in its produc tion. A crop of roofs may be raised after the corn has been gathered, or beaDs, which are also planted with corn. The bean is a peculiar variety, with very long pods; the whole plant is harvested and is very highly esteemed us food for horses and cattle; they are said to eat it in preference to clover or timothy hay. On an adjoining farm of a hundred acres nothing but grass is grown, and three crops of hay are made in a year ; one of clover, one of timothy and another of native grass. As we passed by it we saw a colored man Bowing the grass seed upon it broadcast upon the top of the sod, which had been merely scratched over with a harrow. Mr. Schley’s farm,of oyer three hundred acres cost him to cultivate, he told us, about two hundred and fifty dollars per month after it was stocked ; a hundred dollars for wages, and a hundred and fifty for grocery, feed and manure bills; he used fourteen mules,although aproper complement would be twenty. The value of the yearly pro ducts was about twelve thousand dollars, and of the farm, bordering upon tho city as it did, some fifty or sixty dollars per acre, The-colton gin upon the place was driven by a small steam engine, and we were much interested in observing the process by which the seed is separated from the wool. The gia itself is not much larger than a thresh ing machine; tho cotton la fed into its front and falls into a trough extending along Us width, the front side of whioh falls inward toward the machine and is made of wires set side by side, just far enough apart to let the seed fall through to the floor .below, after it has been freed from the wool; the rear side of the trough or box, meeting the other side at the bottom at an acute angle, is likewise made of straight wires, but set near enough to each other to preyent the smallest seed from passing through; behind this a ahaf ra pidlyrevolvesarmed ‘with sharp steel teeth or hooks which pass between the wires of the trough and, tearing away tho fibre* of the wool from the seed which is detained by the w:ireg, carry them arouud to where they meet a shaft covered with long bristles, which, revolving in an opposite direction still more rapidly than the shaft bearing the hooks, sweeps off from them the cotton, and its rapid revolution creating a great draft, the lint flies off from it in turn os it gets opposite a short chimney which con ducts the cotton into a room behind tho gin, upon whose floor it settles down at its leisure. The process ia a very simple one, but is very effectual. Tho door of the cot ton room was opened for ns a moment, to show ns the beautiful sight presented by the flakes as they pour into it and float through the air, just as would the snow In a heavy storm. The cotton seed 13 worth about 22 eta. per lb., and is generally broken up and used as manure, though It is often sold for the manufacture of oil and then brings 25 cents per lb. The seed degen erates in several years planting and re quires to bo renewed ; choice varieties for seeding, obtained by careful culture, are worth as much as four dollars per lb. We visited some lino plantations on tho river, along which runs a levee to guard against Its overflow ; one place of 2,000 acres pre sented u broad expanse of fertile bottom land as far as the eye reached and was worth perhaps §2O per uoro; it was lor sale, but we did not ascertain tho price. By tho energy of its citizens, Augusta is supplied with unlimited water power; a canal has been made to tho city from a point on the river nine miles above it, which avoids some rapids in the stream, and enables tho produce ot the up river country to be brought safely into the town; the boats in which it is carried look like very large cauoes, and can lake at a load eighty bales of cotton. The canal when it reaches the city has a Tali of 2(5 feet to the river, to which it is led in a serpen tine course; it is divided into two levels, each with a fall of K 5 feet, and has room enough 011 its banks for all the mills of New England, and power enough to drivo thorn. Tho canal bus still a third use, as the water is drawn ofl' into a reservoir by which the city is furnished with all it needs, except drinking water; this is supplied to the fas tidious citizens, hv another set of wooden pipes leading from a spring s mo distance away, so that each house has two hydruuts. A very lino largo cotton mill is erected on this canal, which Senator Sprague, who saw r it a day or two before us, pronounced one of the finest in the country. White fu male|lnbor is employed in it, and wo under stood that this labor was very abundant and could bo had iu s&flioiout quautity to sup ply any demand that could arise. This be ing so, it is manifest that Southern mills can make cotton goods cheaper than those located in the North. Labor ischeapernnd tho cost of living less ; the cotton is much cheaper since it cannot l>« taken from here to New England for less than three cents per pound' including freight, commissions and insurance ; in wiuler tho coat of luel saved by not being compelled to heat tho im* monso mills is no trifling sum; then the water power costs but litllo and is abun dant everywhere; there is enough power 1q the streams in tho cotton States to drive all the machinery in tho United States, if not in ibe world; in addition to all which there is a large homo market for the manufactured goods. Tho mani- fest advantages which tho South pre' sent* for the manufacture of cotton, cannot ©scape the quick discernment of capitalists and it will not be long before mills will spring uj) on all its streams and tho pre eminence of the New Euglund manufac turer will bo lost. If any of our readers have got stock in the Yankee concerns, wo advise them to sell out, for the days of big dividends for them uro very near at an end. 111 a few years their only market will bo their home market, for the Soulhorn goods will surely undersell them in evory other. The pious New England deacons can now exalt themselves and sing hallelujahs in praiso of the self-sacrificing spirit witii which they urged on tho abolition of slavery to their own great earthly detriment nnd loss. They may do this by way of making the best of a bad bargain ; but we greatly fear that if they hud anticipated that tho abolition of slavery was going to have this result, they would havo beeu pro-slavery to a man. Tho powdormitl of tho dead Confederacy, *is situated ou tho canal near Augusta ; tho buildings are handsomely constructed of brick and tho mill seems to bo very com plete ; it is iu possession of our < Jovernment and is not now in operation. Wo drove out an elegant gravel turnpike, along which ran a street railwny, to Summerville, lying on the bluffs back of tbo city ; it Is a village of elegant dwellings mainly tho summer resi dences of citizens of Augusta; embosomed among frees and gay with flowers, pleas anter abiding places could scarcely be found We visited tbo grounds of tho United States Arsenal located here ; tho Confodoruto authorities had groatly improved tho place, putting up many substantial shops and much machinery for the manufacture of arms; but before they had got fairly into operation tho war had come to an end. Driving back through tho town wo had abundant opportunity of judging that tho Augusta darkies had the same idea as nil tbe othor negroes wo had come across, of the “chief end of man,” and that was—to nit in the sun and do nothing. At every shanty we passed, the entire family, men, womon and babes in arms, were lolling at the door, not a soul of them doing any thing except tbe old woman, who was generally engaged in somo very spasmodic knitting; and so they had been sitting pro bably since eight o’clock in the morning, at which remarkably early hour they gener ally condescend to arise from their couch of j soft plank. As we passed down by the mar- | kets and into tho business part of the town, ! wo saw muny specimens of tho vehicle of tho negro traders of tho adjacent country, ranged along the sido walk. It is a small go-cart, with capacity equal to that of a re spectablo wheelbarrow, and was piled full of a miscellaneous assortment of merchan dize and drawn by a horse or mule whoso visible ribs told loudly oi his limited ac quaintance with food. Tho negro voters and their few while allies aro in tho majority In Augusta ; not withstanding which the Democracy a day or two before our visit carried tho city ai tho municipal election by a majority of eleven to twelyo hundred, and ejected that highly moral friend of the negro, Foster Blodgett, from the Mayoralty. They did it of course, with negro votes, and the fact il lustrates the ease with which the white people of tho South can control the negro vote whenever they mako the uttompt. Anotner Horrible murder in Pblliuld' phi*. About 10 o’clock, last night, a difficulty occurred in the bouse No. 1512 Arrlson’a avenue, below Chesnut street, which re sulted In tho death of James Dempsey. The house in question comprises three rooms, one above the other, and a back kitchen. The first and third floors were occupied by the deceased and family, con slating of a wife and two boys, aud the back kitchen and second story room by Joseph Donohue, wife aDd two children, ono of which is an infant. It appears that ill-feeling has existed be tween the two men for some time, which resulted last evening in Donohue stabbing Dempsey in the neck with a large-size pocket-knife, its blade being from two to three inches in length, the stroke severing the carotid artery and tbe jugular aud all the veins in the left side of tho neck, from tho ofiects of which he died within a short time. The decedent’s son brought intelligence of the occurrence to the Finh District Sta tion House, and officers Lawrence and Ross being detailed arrested Donohue and took him to the Stntion House at Fifteenth and Locust streets. When ho reached there bo said, “ I did it, and I don’t deny it; there is the knife I did it with.” Upon being further questioned, ho said, “ I took out a Sheriff's writ for Dempsey some time ago, but it was never served. lie came to the landing to-night, and called me a , and everything but ogeDtloman, until he angered me. and I could not con trol my pussion, and rushed forth and did the deed ; but am sorry for it now. He had been drinkiDg, I think. I had taken two drinks of whisky early in the evening. He did not strike me to-night, nor ever struck any of my family, to my knowledge.” Upon being asked whether he thought the man could live, he said, “I do not know.” He was dead at that Lime. Immediately after tbostabbiog.Dr. Hoop er was called in, who found that it wus tm possi ble to save the life of the woanded man, tho blood from whose arteries had sprinkled -the door and wall. The prisoner's hands were covered with blood, and bis shirt was deeply stained. He manifested no more in terest or excitement than would be ejcblb- 1 ited by one engaged in an ordinary quarrel. Ho is a carpenter by trade. The deceased was a carriage driver. Upon being still farther questioned, the prisonor said “ he made for me, and I made for him.” Demp sey, after receiving the wound, fell Into the room*of Donohue, where he wus suffered to lie, awaiting thp action of tho Cojroner.— Philadelphia Ledger. ing.Tt Ottawa: 6 in! *»t- Shall the Legislature Kill the Republican Uuder the above significant caption the Philadelphia Morning Post publishes the following strong and significant ed itorial. The Post is noted as the most Radical newspaper in Eastern Pennsyl vania, and while we might wish the present Legislature to kill the Republi can party, thtfbllls now before it aro so odious, and so utterly violative of all justice, that we have already earnestly protested agninßt them. The following article substantiates the objections we have urged, and itoughttobo sufficient to prevent the passage of the proposed acts. We commend it to the careful perusal of all classes of people: Let tho Republican party of Pennsylvania loojj to tho Legislature. There is its weakest point. We do not want tho Legislature to injure the party in as it threatens to do ; to ruin it in this city as it is already attempt* ing. It should not be permitted to rule the party, for it has already .shown that it is unfit for tho charge. The eullro Republi con press of the State should at once pro test ugainst ihoh-uinous legislation which is announced at Harrisburg in the name of the Republican party. Kvery Independent paper that sincerely desires the success of Radical principles, and wants to avert ter rible defeat nest fall, should declaro in the strongest terms the truth— that the Republi can party repudiates and condemns the. un just legislation proposed; that it tcill m>t consent to be held responsible /or partisan bills passed by men who vxav desire, its tri umph, but are really working for Us destruc lion. The hill which passed the Senate Inst Fri day, ottered in tho nbsence of eleven of the hfteen Democratic members, declaring that Mr. Richard Peltz, thodefeuted Republican candidate for re election ns Receiver of Taxes last fall, shall continue to hold tin. l otlieo, is a direct blow at tho Republican party in Philadelphia. We acquit Mr. (‘on uell of auy intention to injure the party, hot the blow is feltall tho same. The only pos sible excuse for tne bill is given in the pre amble—“Kidmrd Poltz is believed t>. have received a larger number of legal votes polled than did John M. Molloy,” and “the interests of the entire taxpaying communi ty would bo prejudiced by'any change in office at this particular time.” these are actually tho only reasons why the Legis lature is to set nside n certificate of election and keep the defeated candidate in otfice’ Whoso belief is entitled to such considera tion ? Xo man’s. We do believe that Mr. Feltz received the largest number of legal votes polled; nearly every Republican in the State believes it; but if our faith were oven as strong as that of Deter*when In* walked on the wavos of the f-ea, it would not justify such a violation of justice ns this bill solemnly enacts. Rut tho law is open to us to make our opinion good. It provides that the legali ty of the election of any olficer nmv be contested in the courts. Mr. Poliz now contents the right ut his opponent to hold tho office, and upon Mr. Peltz tho burden ol prooi is laid. The votes polled in Oct<> her have been counted, ami the olficers ap pointed to that duty by law have given Mr. Melloy u certificate of election. Mo fur as tho Legislature knows, tho will of Un people of this city is expressed in that eer tificate. How dare it streleh-ils authority so far as to ijhilt the door of* tho office-in* tho face of Oro man who comes armed.: with the certificate, merely because 14 it is - believed” that the man .without a cer tificate received more llega'l votes ? This is the error that .Wdgo Head committed when, without investigation of a single case, ho declared null and void the seal of tho Supremo Court in six thousand sepa rate cases. And what becomes of the pro tenco that the interests of lax-payers de mand that tho election shall bo overruled, and Mr. Peltz shall continue to act as Re ceiver of Taxes till the contest is decided, when we remember that the law provides that during all contests a receiver, shull be appointed to tako charge of the foes ami emoluments of the otlieo, and hold them in trust for tho person who shall be declared elected T llow are tho interests of tax-pay ers protected by this bill, which puts Me. Deltz in office without requiting him to give security, while Mr. Melloy must give it, and hashissureties ready? Tho Repub lican party cannot submit to be made re sponsible for such a revolutionary act as this—a precedent lor abuses and interfer feronces by partisan Legislatures, which would turn all future elections into a miser able farce. Tho Philadelphia Police bill, introduced into tho House by Mr. Hens/.ey, is another blow at tho Republican party. The prin ciple of a permanent police system inde pendent of a parly, is one thing, and this hill is another. It provides that five gen tlemen, who are named, shall bo till De cember 1, a Hoard of Police Commis sioners, and shall appoint for live years each a .Superintendent of Police, u Fire Marshal, a Committing Magistrate, High Constables, and all tho police officers of Un city. For fivo years these officers aro to remain in authority, und cannot bo re moved, except for incompetency or misbe havior. After the Ist of December these five gentlemen aro to bo succeeded by others, who aro to elected respectively from five city districts,, which tho hill creates. The new cotnmissiouoro have no power over the police force. It is to l»e tiio creation of Messrs. Henry Rumtn, Kdwin A. Merrick, Charles Thompson Jones, Kdwin 11. l-'lth-v and George Truman. Whut thoy doiu this present year is to remain unaltered for five. Such a bill as«this should not bo passed id any time ; Lhut it would bo a political blun der to puss it now, wo shall briolly show. Tho Republican party cannot all'nrd in do during Mr. Fox's administration what it would not do during Mr. McMichael's. It cannot honestly make a principle of re form the pretext for a measure bad in itself, and partisan in its purpose. Tho time may como when, without respect to party, it may bo well to uppoint a Hoard of Commission ers, but to doit now would bo to risk the loss of the State next fall. Say what you will, gentlemen of tho Legislature, tho peo ple will bolievo that this bill is intended to cripple Mnyor Fox’s administration, and to keep tho political patronage of the city in the powor of a Republican monopoly, Thus far, Mr. Fox has givon no cause lor interference. Ho may have dismissed some good officors and appointed some un worthy ones, but thut ho is not seeking to serve the public honestly thoro is no evi dence. ilis Chief of Police is a man who voted for General Tyndule, und General Mulholland's published orders indicate an administration of increased strictness ami efficiency. It may bo a failure, but it does not promise to be. Now before the new Mayor is scarcely two weeks in office, to sweep away all his power, ut a blow, by such a bill as this, would bo 44 worse than a orime—it would bo a blunder." Public opinion would condemn it. It would lose tho Republican purty tho city next full, and with tho city probably tho State. Many Democrats would favor a good Metropoli tan Police system, but few Republicans even will approve this partisan bill. Then there is the bill providing that the Commissioners of Highway, now olected by Councils for one year, ahull bo elected for three years. At the caucus held lust month the present Commissioners were re nomin ated, and will, no doubt, bo chosen in March. Wo cun see no reason fof the present bill unless it is feared that tho Peltz bill and'th.- Police bill will give the Democrats a major ity in the next Councils, and that the High way Department may pass out of Republi can control. Wo want Mr. Pelt/, to havo tho office «o which we believe the legul voters of the city elected him; we want a reformed poii<-,. system ; we wunt every fraudulent certifi cate of naturalization canceled. But we do tint want the Legislature to ruin the Repub lican party by committing political crimesau great as ilioho of which tho Democracy lias been guilty. As it was in JW7 so will*it la in 18<W t if thus suicidal legislation Is accom plished. Wo see certain defeat for tho Re publican party in Philadelphia next fall, if these bills are passed, and therefore we speak in time. Persist in this uttempl, gen tlemen at Harrisburg, and the party will lie compelled to throw you overboard like Jonahs, to disown your acts utterly, and even then.it may not escape tho evils of a policy which it never approved. To the Republican press of the Hlato wo appeal ; we urge it to hill these bills, or the bills vill hill the parly. An Innocent Han Convicted or Murder —Singular Case of Mistaken Identify. Tho Detroit Tribune tells tho following curious story of a convict recentfy pardoned by tho Governor of that State : “ Thopurdoning of Kdward Murphy,who had been convicted of murder at Mackinac, from tho State prison, und tho upplicution made by him to tho Legislature for com pensation for services during tbe time nf his incarceration, has given rise to somo news paper gossip. Tho person who committed the murder whs known as Patrick Keuruej\ Ho committed tho deed ou November Hub, 1851, ou’the steamer Globe, and was brought to Dolroit ou that steamer and placed in jail, two or three days later, too lute in tho sea son to bo taken back to tbo scene of the murder to be tried. “ On tho night of March 3d, 1832, Kear ney, in company with eleven others, es caped from tho jail. After the jail-break ing had occurred the then sheriff offered u reward of twenty-five dollars for the cap ture of tho escaped prisoner, and this amount was paid for tbe arrest of Kdward Murphy, who was afterwards convicted of tho murdor, and, nithough iniibcent, as it now turns out, was sentenced for life to the State prison. “The arrest of Murphy was effected in this manner. At tho time the mdrdor was committed a plan named Cummings was pretty badly cut by the criminal. Cum mings afterwards went to Chicago and be came a policeman, or some sort of an offi cer. Eight years after the crime was com mitted, Cummings saw’a person in that city whom hebelievea to be tho escaped murder er. This man gave bis name as Kdward Murphy, after being arrested at the instance of Cummings, but so firm did the informer appear to be in his conviction that the pris oner was really tbe criminal, that the,Detroit authorities were notified ofthe arre'sj, and Peter Laderoot, who wqa turnkey at tbe JaU when the prisoners nefore alluded to escaped, went to Chicago to identify 'him. Both Laderoot and Cummings were of the same opinion relative to tho man,dnd upon the strength of their testimony be was taken back to Mackindoahd'convicted ofmurde r. Murphy, on bis trial, put’in' no defense, b ut protested his innocence Jo the last*. The re was certainly a striking resemblance be tween Murphy and Kearney.”
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