WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24,1869 The Suffrage Amendment. The Radicals in. Congress have met with unexpected difficulties in arrang ing a programme for universal negro suffrage. The House put forward a con stitutional amendment debarring any State from restricting the right of suf frage on account of color. This it was argued would confer the right to hold office upon negroes by implication. The Senate proved to be more Radical than the House in this matter, however, and it added to the House proposition a clause expressly asserting the right to hold office, and another preventing any State from setting up an educational or property restriction. The House refused to concur, and a Committee of Confer, ence was talked of, but no such action taken. On Saturday the House ad vanced so far as to pass the following: Art. lij, Sec. 1. The right of citizens of the United Staten to vote and hold oflice shall not bo denied or abridged by any Stato on account of race, color, nativity* property, creed, or previous condition of servitude. Skc. 2. Congress shall havo power to en force this urticle by appropriate legislation. The Senate has not yet acted upon this new proposition, and the Radical newspapers of the country are freely expressing serious doubts whether the proposed amendment • can be pu through the present Congress in any shape. The New York Tribune says: There is great fear that tho measure is dead. It is said that Nevada will reject ii on account of the prejudices oi their people against the Chinese. Khodo Island and West Virginia are also spoken of as hostile. Still the Iribunc claims that the de feat of negro suffrage in the present Congress does not necessarily kill it. It says: If tho amendment should fail to gel through the present Congress, it can be passed in the next., which will, on assem ’hling contain a majority of two-thirds for tho Repo Oilcan party, viz ; U 'j Republicans to Dll iJomocrals. That is an incorrect statement of the relative strength of the two parties. The returns show that the next Con- gress will be composed of 1.1 l Radicals and 71 Democrats. Rut that the plan of turning out a sufficient number of legally elected Democrats to insure a two-third Radical majority, which has been so successfully practiced, will Re again adopted we have no doubt. The Radicals do not feel safe witli (Jrant, and they will stop at nothing which stands in the way of their cherished revolutionary schemes. There are, however, indications of dawning reason even in Radical circles. Some newspapers, which have always held extreme views, are not prepared to vmlorse the outrage which is contem plated in the adoption of tho proposed suli'rage amendment. They see that it is lime to resist the encroachments of ('ongTess upon the rights of the States. The tendency toward centralization ex cites well grounded alarm, and the pro posal to strip the Slates of all control of the elective franchise is so daring an advance toward unrestrained and cen tralized despotism, that a number of prominent Republican organs havebeen forced t» speak out. The Providence ! 1 1(. I.) Jnuntu! says : “ Should this amendment be confirmed by 111'* Slates, and go mm effect, it cannoi lad 10-Avoi'k a very important change in the governinentaiid institution* of the country. Thu art iclo annuls Jorever all .special quaii lieatiiiiis for bolding oJlire in any of the Slates, and wilt iin-vilablv require very important alterations in several of the State constitution.-!, as well as in the relations of al 1 the Slates to the general govenmn-nl. It will prove by far the longest [step that li; s thus lar been taken toward the consult ■ dat ion of our political power and the virtual ovi rlhrow ol Stale institutions. “A change like UiH which is proposed fv l lies,.date is | uni lament, d and I nr-reaching. As was earnestly contended hy several lean ing members of Unit body, it is oscnlmlly revolutionary m its tendencies ami lesints. <>ur political system will be givailv nmdi lied by its opetalion, and with the” facility which will Uius be introduced of making Midi lurtiier changes, it is impossible lully to i sli mate or e\en to anticipate the in terior consequences that are likely to fi.,w lioiu it. out of a necessity which the re bellion forced upon the Sltfles of tlieSouth, mid which realiv pertained only to them’ the champions oi a particular' theory of somd rights have curried through the Seu alt- a change in the fundamental law which strikes down everything like local indepen dence in Slate ivtl'atrs, and abolishes ail power in a Slate to protect liseli against any .social or political evils to which it mav be especially exposed. The constitution n[ l lie l nili-il Slates, as thus amended, wii; deal ly no longer he the constitution which was adopted by our lathers. With sudi •provision, even as; a possible aniiripalioii, it could never have passed the convention of 1 7>7 ; Mill le-s naild it have been ac cepted by the popular conventions of any ol the States. Jf it is now confirmed, it wdi In- only an overthrow of Stale consti tutions, under tho spurious guise of a con stitutional amendment in invurot iVci-duinT • The Chicago Tribrnu also has a bold article on the .subject. Jt says: "Sin!.' oliji (,*rs iiri> not, like voU'ih, c uiMi tiii'iil ol ihf national pivi-i niiunit. 'llu-.i -i]Halila-;:11:jii-i may In* miMv N-tt to iia> p,.0-plfol plfol ih.- Main. Th<* ot tin; M.ivcral Slatns provnl..* various «|ualilica - t mii.s hif iheir oliii'ciH. Tin' liovwnor.s <»|‘ somi' Siatns arc iiquircci to I,c unlive* l-oni citi/cns. I mlcr cadi State \vc have a va riety ol o|]ice.slo lie tilled I.v persons having a knowledge n| pai tietilar seiaiiees; urn have Judges and attoi ney Ljcncrnls, we have pr..M ctUliig attorneys, State gcoli.ginls and surveyors, \ve have ImspitulN lor tin- insane ami lor the t real men t ot other forms of dis ease, Wiry should not the State of Illinois tV'juiiv that persons elected or appointed to the-e places shall be aide to read or write ? that her judges and attorneys shall be edu- cated m tlie law? that her public* physicians and sti|ici inlenilents of hospitals shall have a medical education ? Vet the amendment proposed by tho Senate prohibits the State l rum cMialiliMiing any Midi <[Ualilieations, and makes eligibility lo oll'toe coextensive with the riithl to vote. All citizens, of all colors and races, whether they read or write, or sneak the language, or hold prop erty, arc made riigihlo to all olllces in the .state, (’an any person "ive anv good rea son lor t his propo-ition ? “ e In not think such a.i muendm.-m ‘"ill 'a' ralilied at the present lime. We do not believe that it will secure* the u-qiiisile milliner ot votes in Illinois, Indiana or nino; we do md think (’oiiiiecticut, or Khode l dnnd or Xew Hampshire will ratify i:, and it may fail in New York ami IVmWlVnniu. 'l'lu* I'nc.iiic States v, ill nn douhteuiy njort it. The universal clalisi* ciitmt carry it-clf amT the oliicc lloMing I'laime. ' That the present Legislature of I Vnusylvanin would dart* to nut nigc Hu* );trills ami the wishes of the people of this great. Stale by hurriedly surrendering all control of the elective franchise to Congress, we utin scarcely believe, The .Republican majority know that Mich an act would certainly produce u complete political revolution next full* That it would give the Democrats a (inventor, ami a majority of the next Legislature, can not be doubted.' The proposed amendment would not have received the endorsement of a sufficient utimber of the .States by next October, and the negroes could not be brought up as a reserve force to coun terbalance the ouium \v Inch; won Id just ly attach Lo the attempt thus to confer upon them the right both to vote and hold olllce. We regard the apprehen sions of the Xew York Tribune as just ly founded, and think with the Chicago 'Jnbune that their is a fair chance of defeating this most infamous propo sition. Tin: Xow,\oik Tribune approves of Central Grant’s refusal t p ride with 1 resident Johnson in the procession on inauguration day, on the ground that President Johnson once attempted to convict General Grant of falsehood. As the incidents connected with the trans action above referred to are yet fresh in the memory of the public, the less said upon the subject the better, we think, for General Grant’s reputation. What ever may have been President Johnson’s intentions, it is a well known fact that lie was sustained in his allegations by lour or five of the most distinguished men of the country. Westmoreland unty goes for Geary. Covode is the Senatorial dele gate, and will vote for the “ humbug gedest.” Why not? Didn’t Geary-re fuse to give Henry D. Foster the certi ficate as a member of Congress to which he is entitled, at the demand of Co vode? Doesn’t one good turn deserve another. THE WEEKLY IHTELEIGKENTCER, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1869. The Hackman Whiskey Case. It is now over three weeks since we first called attention to this mysterious subject, and since then we have not ceased to demand in the name of an outraged public, light from those whom we deemed best able to give it. Some of our contemporaries have aided us in this search after knowledge, while others are unaccountably careless and apparently seem fearful lest there should be farther developments. Mr. Musselman, oneofMr. Hackman’s Administrators, has felt called upon to speak. Tho substance of his defense is that he knows nothing about it; that ho employed Mr. Dickey as counsel and did as Mr. Dickey told him. Mr. Warfel, the Assessor, has also been compelled to loose his tonguo. He talks of letters from the Department of special Agents and of Deposition No. 1, subsequently amended and improved by Deposition No. 2, from the “late Col lector.” But ho neglects to state whether No. 2 tame to hand before or after Jacob Kreybill, Esq., employed the “ late Col lector” in this case. Mr. Warfel knows very little about the matter except that he had nothing to do with it. This is the point to which three weeksof investiga tion have brought us in this case. It is very discouraging it is true, but we are patient and propose to kefip on, in hope of some day getting through with these “know nothings,” and find ing Homebody who knows Homclhiny. We propose to conduct the exercises somewhat differently, and shall there fore propound a few questions. Any boy who can answer better than the one we ask, is at perfect liberty to do so, and can then walk up head. Mr. Warfel has been our brightest und best behaved pupil in the past, we therefore give him tiie first place. Mr. Warfel, will you please inform us whether, after the testimony in this case was stolen from Washington, Hon. O. Dickey did not inform you that he “had a copy ofit hut was not fool enough to show it?” 2d. Do you know that the testimony in this case was seen in possession of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens after it was stolen from tho Department*.’ :trd. How large a fee did Mr. Dickey tell you lie had contingent on this abatement ? Collector Wiley isj absent, but he knows a tiling or two, ami perhaps will not be so reticent. Mr. Wiley, we understand Mr. War fel to state that you received orders from tile Commissioner to sign a recommen dation for the abatement of this tax, which you obeyed, ami he disobeyed ; if so, haven’t you got the order? it would be in Leresting feruling, and would relieve you from a considerable amount of censure. «, Mr. Musselman is a very good boy, and we know he will take pleasure in answering whether the widow Hack nmti gets any portion of this £11,22)1, abated by the (iovernment, or whether the report is true that .somebody htul bought her interest in it b</i>rr jt was abated ? Will Mr. Musselman also be kind enough to tell us, in the strictest confi dence, of course, hum Tintch his counsel charged him for putting this thing through? One-hall’is the usual Charge in whisky eases. We hope you didn’t pay more Mr. M. We should be sorry o hear that you had been cheated. Mr. Jacob Kreybill is a promising youth, and we should like to know from him whether when he employed the “lute Collector” as counsel for the widow in this case he required him to amend and improve his former sworn testimony? You have hail lots of trouble in the ease Jacob, you managed the special agents didn't you? We hope you have been properly rewarded. Rut we must hurry on to Dickey, the sharpest boy of the lot and the one that knows tlte most. l.*t. Mr. Dicky, do you know who stole the evidence on file at Washington ? The public want the information ami of course you will give it, if you are aide. 2nd. Where did your copy, that you were “not fool enough to show,” come trmn? drd. Is Commissioner Rollins high-priced, and what, if anything, had you to pay to get the thing through ? i/astiy and con* lidentiaily, Have you got your fee yet, how many associate counsel did you share with, ami can you make another nomination on your portion? We trust the class will answer promptly and that we shall soon be reaily for the second lesson. Deduction of the Army Ren. Rutler moves some very sweep, ing amendments to the Army Rill, and among them that the grade of General s n till be Abolished after tlielth of March; that of Lieutenant-General on the first vacancy ; that brevets he conferred only for distinguished service before the ene my ; that after July next there shall be three Major Generals, five Rrigadier . Generals, twenty-four regiments of in i fa.ittry, six of cavalry and three ofartil j lery. Rutler «ays*this will save ?7,-l?s,- J (><>t) annually in the pay of otficersulono, j and reduce the expenses of the military | from Mxty-eight to thirty-three mil ] lions of dollars. The proposition of I General Rutler net with decided oppo sition in the House, Mr. Sbellabarger jin.-isting that General Grant’s views [ si ton Id be regarded. That Rutler is right, i as far ns he goes, the entire body of tax payers will at once admit. The only I properobjeclion to his suggestion is that l it does not go far <. Dough. 11 leaves the | army entirely too large. We have no I use for such a force in lime of peace, I ami, if war should come, we shall have lo rely upon volunteers, as we have al -1 ways done heretofore. The present ('(Digress may refuse to reduce Lite army, and future ones under Grant muy con tinue this great and ii.-clr.-s burthen, hut the time is speedily coming when the people will demand a complete change of policy in this and other mailers. We must retrench expenditures wherever such a thing is possible, and the masses will uot long he content to pay from thirty to fifty millions a year, beyond, what is necessary, to maintain a host of. unity officers in idleness, and to keep up the skeletons of regiments for which the country has no need. The reduction of! the army may uot me* t with favor in the Radical Congress, hut the people i will yet enforce the adoption of a still ! more complete depletion of it than that \ propo-ed by Rutler. | The New YorK Election Frauds. The investigation into Lite conduct of the election in Xew York city was in stituted hv the Radicals with the hope that they would be able to find a pre text for counting the electoral vote of the State for Grant instead of for Sey mour. They utterly and ignominious* !y failed in their scheme. The report of the minority of the investigating com mittee will show not only the existence of frauds in Xew York, hut the fact that these frauds were arrauged iu Radical councils before election, sprung by Rad ical agents during election, and that they have been divested iu evidence by these themselves, from them selves, and towards their opponents, by the most persistent and dee}) laid system of perjury and subordination of perjur ers that ever was known in the history of testimony. Xot only is this demon strated but the career aud character of the Radical agents in these measures are exhibited with a thoroughness and i fidelity which are only too true and too deserved. In view of the facts of the case aud their intelligent handling, the Radicals are proved to be the criminals; the indicters are indicted aud convicted* and the Union League engineers have been “ hoist by their own petard.” An Ohio lady, of no “prejudices,” has lately sued a negro for seduction under promise of marriage. Away with “ caste!” Gold Contracts Valid. The Supreme Court of the United ; The time was, and that not so long States has not met the question of the ; ago, when every American was justly constitutionality of the legal tender act ■ proud of the fame of the Senate of the as squarely as it was expected it United States. Every mature man in would do. It has in a manner the country can remember the day dodged the main question, but the de- 1 when we boasted,and with goodground clsion just rendered in the case of Bron- 1 for our vaunting, that the more select son vs. Rodes is important, and settles I branch of our National Legislature was the principle that contracts to pay in : the most august body of the kind in the coin can only be discharged with coin. ; world. Lot only were our Senators In this ease a New York Court had de- men of the highest intelligence, and cided that a specific contract to pay a gifted wiili all the gracesof oratory,but certain sum in gold coin was satisfied by they were noted for their untarnished a tender of United States notes. Similar honor and strict integrity. Up to the decisions have been made by the Courts time of the rebellion no charge of cor of other States. The Supreme Court ruption had ever been made against a now puts this question finally at rest, i United statea Senator. How different by deciding that where a party engages :is the state of affairs to-day. Even by lo pay gold he will be held bound to Radical newspapers the charge isgravely fulfil his agreement. This decision is j made that bribery andcorruption isnow in perfect accord with the maxim that | the order of the day in the Senate of the I “Law is the 'perfection of common ! United States. Instances are freely j sense,” and it ends the discussion in : given of members who have acquired Congress of bills for the legalization of vast fortunes by the infamous system coin contracts. of jobbery which has grown up under The effect of this decision will be that the auspices of the Republican party, merchants, banks and capitalists will The Benateisopeniychargedwithbeing begin to mako their contracts, and to more venal than the Lower House, and keep their accounts on a coin basis, j the taint of dishonesty is supposed to be The advantage of gold contracts will he i almost universal. The N. Y. Herald seen at once, when we consider that! says: parties will thereby he exempt from the , The facts are patent that the Senate is to - I day the great ring which coutrols the for risks that attend the fluctuations of a ; tunes of many thousands of leeches upon paper currency, which is continually I the public purse. Whiskey, railroad, rev shifting iu value. Debts having a long ! enUB * frontier and other contractors swarm , . ® ... . , f . 1 and buzz about Senatorial ears, with a cry period to run, as State loans, ioaus of , like a pack of wounded wolves, becatßO corporations, aud debts incurred in the they fear that the incoming administration purchase of real estate, will almost iu- | Ib ‘ the hounds of justice upon . them. They fear that they will be driven variably be made in gold hereafter, siuce I from their prey; that the magnificent wealth the value of gold changes In long pe- • of the United States Treasury will no longer riods so much less than paper currency. : It is but reasonable to conclude from 1 will not descend tP the low level of Wall the tone of this decision tliat the ; Hlr ? et anti tr y lo ila “ corner ” like a l i , . 1 petty .speculator; that the laws will cease supreme Court is prepared to affirm to. administer lo the wealth or those who the Constitutionality of the legal tender ebooHu to defraud; that brainless and ig law, so far as it relates to contracts P o^ a ' u ,V lo^,^ vill 1101l 101 permitted to bur ,, , , ' lesquy Republicanism by holding offices to which do not specifically demand pay- i the public disgrace; that foreign ministers ment in coin. All present debts will be ; : *hull no longer be sent nbroad on account . . | of their gastronomic, bacchanalian, lobbing, discharged m the medium in winch ; iiiibu-ileri revolutionary or bleating they were contracted, gold only being j powers; thut appointments for all offices the medium when the contract so to cease to bo given to those who wade , , ~ ■ through the largest amount of political filth pay was expressly made at the time the , for tlju benefit uf the “ Conscript Fathers.” obligation was incurred. Future debts , What American can help blushing will be left to be paid according to 1 with shame us he reads such accusa* contract; and this decision will j tions against the United States Senate? encourage and gradually bring about | How sad it is to be compelled to believe a system of special contracts which 1 that the charges are all true? The will be bused upon the coin value ; friends of liberty may well despairof the of commodities. Tbe_ great mass of Republic when such corruption is con large debts will soon come to stand | fessed to exist. The most mournful upon a specie basis, andj the re- I indication is the faettbat thesestartliDg peal of the legal tender act will follow, ! exposures fail to excite the just iudig with the giving of such reasonable no- i nation of the masses. The people tice as will enable the payment of short themselves seem to have become cor delds to he adjusted to the new order of nipt. The greut heart of public virtue things. Thus, if the final repeal of the beats only with feeble uud convulsive legal tender law shall overtake debtors throes, und there is a luck of vitality iu with burthens to be discharged in a our political system which seems to more valuable medium, they will only : presage the death of the Republic. have to accuse their own want of cau tion and foresight. The Fish I.ttw Decided to be Inconstltu- Judge Pearson, of Harrisburg, has 1 decided that part of the Fish Daw of i JsiOfi, which required the Pennsylvania i Canal Company to alter its dams so as : to allow fish to pass up the Susquehau- J lift, to be unconstitutional. This will | cause delay in perfecting the improve . meats which were expected to be made, j but does not necessarily defeat the ob jects had in view. That means ought to be provided for insuring the passage l of shad to their natural spawning grounds upon the upper waters of our rivers no one now pretends to dispute. I If the law is unconstitutional let it be 1 amended. If there is no means of eom ; pelliug the Canal Company to erect fish | ways iu their dams, let it be done at the expense of the Stale, and so done as to insure the accomplishment of the de sired end. And while the Legislature is at this kind of business let them pro vide for stocking our runs with black bass. Thiseau hedone effectually with very little expeuse. The black bass is one of the gamest fishes, and the Po tomac and all its tributaries now swarm with them, though hut a dozen years 1 have elapsed si Lice a few pair were put in near Cumberland. We notice that black bass from the Potomac are now ; being sold in the New York market. Our streams : ■ peculiarly well fitted for their habit -n, aud it would cost but a few hundred dollars to stock any one of them. Let it be done at once. Tjik jobbers in Congress having ap propriated !?1,4('0,n(n) for Congressional printing purposes for the new year, and having moreover, doubtless, found it a most profitable arrangement for some body, are endeavoring to extend their lines a little. They now propose to priut the daily debates ami proceedings, which arrangement not having been provided for in the estimated printing expenses, will, of course, form a neat little item iu the next deficiency bill. Hurry up the cakes General Grant, or your economic resolves will amount to nothing. ►So.mk days since there was introduced into the highly colored Legislature of Louisiana a bill for the suppression of vagrants, whereof one thus writes : 11 A violent opposition sprang up, and the bill was threatened with summary de feat unless a proviso should be inserted barring its operation during (he reunion of the Ij( (ji.ihiturc. That delectable body foresaw that such a law would ruthlessly destroy their quorum. ppy li- the U-yi- lull ve nesi-ts Unit wear tin: wuul.’ " Tiii: Senate Committee on Foreign A Hairs has decided, by a vote of six to one to reject the Alabama treaty. Tlie Lien's of the action has been tele graphed to Reverdy Johnson. This virtually kills the proposed treaty and leaves the jquestion open for fu ture action. The Committee have re* commended for favorable consideration, for action, the naturalization treaty made with Knglaml; also, that leaving to the Government of Switzerland Lite arbitrament of the San Juan Island, a dispute between the United Stales and Great Rritain. Tjik Republican party of Georgia is either hieipitous or bifurcated. At any rule it is divided into two sections, aud the one opposes diametrically what the other proposes.* Thus we find the Rad ical wing of the party insisting that the work of reconstruction is not complete, and that it never will be until negroes are made eligible to all offices and a large class of whites disfranchised. The conservative Republicans protest against such measures, and a vigorous fight is beiug waged between them. The Con servatives deny that “loll” men are oppressed, and insist that if Congress will let tlie State alone, it will soon be as peaceful ami prosperous as Pennsyl vania. When Judge Sharawood rendered a decisiou in the Borie vs. Trote case, to the effect that coin contracts were valid, there was atremendous howl from Rad ical journals. Xow that the Supreme Court of the United States has con firmed the views of this distinguished Judge these same journals accept it as sound law, and see no lurking treason in the decision. Thus doe 3 time vindicate, one after another, the great principles laid down by the Democracy. The time is coming when the people will confess the superior wisdom of Democratic statesmen, and entrust power to their hands. Mr. George T. Downing, a nigger of JRgh degree, is an applicant for the Stewardship of the White House under Grant. He published a communication ih the Xew Yofk Tribune , in which he says he thinks the time has arrived when colored men should no longer be shut out from profitable and respectable positions under the Government. He demands the place as a reward for the support which negro voters gave to Grant. It remains to be seen whether this darkey’s claims will be recognized. Corruption of the U. S. Senate. Alaska as a Penal Colony The New York Sun gravely argue 3 in favor of converting Alaska into a Penal ('olony, and instances Australia as uu evidence that transportation is one of | the best methods of efiecting a reforma tion of criminals. It says : Let Congress pass u law to put Alaska to ; tins use, and provide that every State in the 1 Union may sentence all offenders above a l certain grade, mules and females—all va grants who linvo no visible means uf em ployment—to be Uansportkd tbitlier, such I trunportation to be made at certain speei ! lied periods every year iu Government vessels, at so much a head to bo paid by the States sending the convicts. In' this man ner tho community would get rid of its. robbers, burglars, thieves, incendjuries, aud stout, able-bodied, lazy vagrants and beggars, both domestic and imported. There is one great’drawback to this project, aud that is the climate of Alas ka. The criminals sent there would have to bo supported at public expense. They would have no means of making a living in a couutry which is a waste of rocks and ice, and where winter reigns . almost perpetually. If the desigu be to freeze aud starve these victims of the law, the thing might prove a complete success. If it is intended that they should be forced to make their own liv- : ing by honest toil, they must be sent elsewhere than to Alaska. Alaska is not fit even to be made a penal colony. , It is utterly useless and valueless. The Fish Question Both the Republican papers published at Harrisburg endorse our views upou the fish question, and urge the adoption of a law which will ensure the erection of proper passage-ways forshad over the dams of the iSusquehanua. They also favor the proposal to stock our rivers with black bass. This can be done with very little expense, and with the abso lute certainty that iu a very few years our rivers will abound with one of the finest of our American fishes. Less than a dozen years after a few pair were put iu the l’otomac near Cumberland, we caught Litem at the Great Falls, where the Aqueduct, which supplies Washington city with water, begins, aud as high up the stream a** where it emerges from tlie spurs of the Allegheny Mountains. They swarm in favorite localities all along the intervening course of the .stream, and abound iu all its tributaries. Let our rivers be stocked with this delicious and game fish. They are peculiarly fitted to become its habi tation. We hope a proper bill will be promptly put through the Legislature. Other Slates are devoting much atten tion to fish culture, and Pennsylvania should nyt lag behind. TiJi:i:]-: is an ancient adage which 1 reads : “ What everybody says must be true.” Xow, as everybody says the present Legislature is the worst ever | elected by the people of Pennsylvania why, of course, such must be the fact. , We believe it as firmly as we believe . that General Grant will utterly fail to head oil’ the corruptionists of the Radi cal party. Tm-: insurrection in Cuba is spreading ami assuming very formidable propor tions. It is said the iusurgents have been supplied with arms and ammuni tion from this country aud England. I a tlie Fastern Department they Hold the town of Tunas, and are gaming ground in the West. The probability is that the revolution will be successful in the end. There is a real idol temple erected and formally established in the United Stales, at Portlaud, Oregon. The build ing is completed, and the Chinamen are actively engaged in furnishing it. And yet the Radical leaders are trying to make voters of these heathen, as well as of the negroes. SknatokMorton, in arguingin favor of a pension or allowance of so,ono a year to Mrs. Lincoln, estimated the total cost of Mr. Lincoln’s funeral at 51,000,- OnO. He said: “Altogether it cost the “Government and the States not less “than one million of dollars. General Grant is reported to be opposed to the “reinstation in the army of any officer who may have been dis missed for just cause.” That is a good rule, but one which would have kept Ulysses out of command, and in the tanning business, or some other ob scure position. A delegation of clergymen and others is said to have gone to Harrisburg with a view ofinducingGovernorGeary to pardon Twitchell. The Post has an editorial strongly ’condemning the movement. The item of §1,400 for brushes, combs, and soap for a single session of the House of Representatives carries the cheering consolation that these repre sentatives’ persons must be considera bly cleaner than their records. So chivalry is not dead after all. The Tribune thin ks it would be ‘ ‘chivalrous’ ’ to give Mrs. Lincoln a pension. Alas! for this subtle, subtle virus of slavery. Why didn’t the Tribune say it would be loil The 22d of February. The Corruption of the legislature. The anniversary of Washington’s The infamous and unblushing cor birth is not celebrated ift>w os it once ruption of the Radical majority of our was. It passes by alnfost unnoticed. State Legislature has awakened much We haveceased to remember how much indignant comment in certain Repub we owe tothe founders of this republic, lican newspapers. Quite a number of have departed from the great principles them have spoken out boldly aud fear laid down by them, and are prpne to lessly. The Philadelphia Bulletin , one forget their teachings. The Constitu- of the mo9t Radical journals in the State tlon which they gave us has ceased to says: be a law to our rulers, and we have re- , The Republicans that pretend lo be rep peatedly Been it violated and heard it Resenting the people at Harrisburg, seem to F n L t, ~ . .be engaged in a reckless but determined scoffed at by a Radical Congress. The effort to bring odium upon tbeir party and admirablesystemofQovernmentwhich ! to secure a victory for the Democrats next was reared under the supervison of j ff 11 -, The Philadelphia delegation in par .... .. . , c 1 ticnlar,seemB lo disregard totally the wishes Washington has been ruthlessly hs- ( of their constituents. Scarcely a single act sailed, and one innovation after another , of any importance has been passed that has ho. i«an h«i,ii„ «. j tui** i been demanded by the public. Thelatest has bee oldly made. The very thing ] an( j mos j flagrant outrage was the preclpl which the fathers of the Republic 1 tate passage of the Twelfth and Sixteenth were most desirous of avoiding has • streets railway bill, which was. pressed . „ , ®. , i upon the Governor and sighed by him im been to a great extent accomplished, , mediately after its passage by the two and the executive and the judicial ' Houses. There was not a particle of neces branches of the government have | ! °T unseemly I huts; but it is . , . , „ ®. plain that the friends ot the bill feared that been deprived of the Constitutional therewouldbesuchindignantremonatrance prerogatives and supreme power cen- against it that the executive approval would tralized in Congress. Under cloak of a| b ? So they urged him to sign it b L uucl _ i at once, and be, very improperly, yielded, clamor against State sovereignty, the ; it is quite plain that the “ Rings ” at Har right of the people of each State to di- , risburg, in which the Philadelphia mem ,nnt , . ™ . . i bers are active, have supreme control. No own local affairs has been measure of public good, and do meritorious repeatedly curtailed, and even now a private bill, can receive the sanction of the proposition is'pending to take away ' . r f e ßi s ' al “ re ™ihout money being paid for tUn , .. r ® it. The fact is disgraceful to the Stale, and, from them the power of regulating the i wo repeat, if something is not done to check elective franchise, the most important the disgraceful business, the Republicans and valuable privilege possessed by s t "j e b ® e d / t f n ? d b k" 6 “ nd throughoin tbe them. a ,Dei c 0 er * . At such a time, when the very fouu-, They Profess Economy JJat Do Not dations of our government are being Practice It. undermined by a set of reckless fanatics, The Radicals profess economy but al it would be proper as well as profitable ways fail to practice it. TheNew\ork for the people to read the Farewell Ad- Herald says : dress of him who was “first in war, first R a significant fact that, with all the .... i a l t i * - professions about retrenchment und reform In peace, and first in tho hearts of his un j wa y the poor department clerks countrymen.” In that wise and torn* have been slaughtered, not a dollar of the perate document thev will find lessons expenses about the Capitol bus boon reduced , , , ... J ~ , ; by Congress. It is established that, even of wisdom which are peculiarly appro- u J ndur lho i, lW| tbe office of priate to tho present hour. The dispo- 1 Arnis of tbe House is worth $20,000 n Con- Billon of Congress to encroach upon gre,fl - f,". tho report of the Clerk of the b . i , House, this officer is put down as having other branches of the government is re- received sevoral hundred dollars in one day buked in the following memorable aud for arresting members under a call of tbe . .. , t House, llis mileage fees areeuurmous. A propueuc words : . computation shows that since ho has been “It is important, likewise, that the habits ' iu office he has traveled, in constructive of thinking in a free country should ins [tiro miles, nine times round the globe. It is not caution in those intrusted with its adminis- I pretended by any one that he has taken a tration, to confine themselves within their I cent more than tho law allows, and his ac respective constitutional spheres, avoiding counts are audited by various officials, but in the exercise to the powers of one depart- it is t-o much the worse lor the law that such ment to encroach upon another. Tho spirit an immense expenditure should grow un of encroachment tends to consolidate the , der tho eyes of tho House. Even Wash powers of all tho departments in one, aud ' burno, the great Eiibu, winks a*, it. thus create, whatever tbe form of govern- ment. a real despotism. Ajust estimate of Negroes at the Inauguration Dali, that love of power and proneness to abuse ... . . it which prJnminale in' il.e human lnwt, Au u PP er teD ue S ro barber bas is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of • addressed a note to Mayor Bowen, of this position. Tho necessity of recipro- Washington city, as chairman of the cal checks, in tho exercise of political, ... ~ , ~ power by dividing end di,tributing it into committee on the sale of tickets for tbe different depositories, and constiluungeach Inauguration Ball, stating that a num the guardian ot the public weal against in- er Q f s friends from Philadelphia vasions ot tho others, has been evinced by. ~ ~ , . * , experiments, nnciont and modern ; some of and New \ ork would be there on March them in our enuntryand under our own i-ves 4 ill, and asking whether any distinction To. preserve them must be as hetvssury as Bccmmt of co ] or is t 0 be matle in Uie to institute them. It, in the opinion of the people, the distribution of or .modification sale of tickets. Mayor Bowen, has ad of the constitutional powers be in any par- dressed him a reply in which lie says Uvular wrong, let it bo corrected by an . e . , amendment in tho way which tho Cuusti that auy peisou of respectability will tut ion designates. But let there be no ,be admitted to the ball, without respect change by usurpation ; for though this, in •to color.” It is likely to be a mixed one instance, mav be tho instrument of .... . . , , A , , , good, it is the customary weapon l:v which j a^air therefore, and no doubt black ireo governments are destroyed. The pre- | barbers aud boot blacks of degree will cedsnt must always greatly uverlmlance, in u ~e frcc] wllh wllile K a j icnLo . permamnt evil, any partial or transient' ° _ J benefit which the use can at any time J AVhy not ? Let the words of the immortal dead Tkoijii.e i 3 brewing in ( aro be heeded by the living. linaon the subject of mixed schools. ttpaae population iu most of the coun try districts of the South has always been a prime drawback to any effective school system, and now in the case of this particular State the obstacle assumes a new and aggravated shape. By the bogus constitution education is made compulsory, and, with the attempt to put this experiment iu practice, signs of resistance begin to appear. In the well populated districts separate schools are provided, but in the thinly-peopled dis tricts it is hinted that mixed schools must be estalflished, and at this the whites, who will have to foot the bill, very naturally revolt. Discharge or Tasters and Folders. S 6 long as there was any hope of ex tracting some thirty thousand dollars j from the State Treasury, for the purpose of paying the pasters and folders, the Radicals of the lower House of our State Legislaturepersistently adhered to their resolution to give to each Republican member of the House the privilege of appointing one oS* more of his adherents to a sinecure position, in which the only work to be done was the pleasant one of drawing their pay. Vain were the de nunciations beguu by the Democratic press and taken lip in turn, by a few Radical journals, such as the Rinludel- pliia ro.il, the Pittsburg Commu-cinl, The ClieDaugo tWon, published at and tiie Lancaster The vir- Norwich, New T ork, had the following tuous Itepublicau law givers refused to among others in its notices of marriages : i.,. -k„,j “ At the African Church, in this village, on bt admonished, and turned a dea. car Sunday evcniug by Rev. s. scoviiie (white;, to every railing accusation which was : * M - r - Lee i th ,n >' black) to Miss Kiiz-ibatn . , MeQuiro (wlnle, wiui led ban all of Norwich, brought against them. They have, No e-mls.” however, dually passed a resolution “No cards.” We should think not. discharging the extra twenty-seven The published announcement is enough, useless ollicials; but they have only ; Sumner says it is as senseless to object done so after being fully convinced that to the color of the hair as to the color of they could not force the payment of | the skin. So it would seem Elizabeth theirsalaries. They were not influenced alsothought. If Hose had no objections by any desire fur’economy. They start- : to the color of her hair, she had none to ed out with the deliberate intention of 1 the color of his skin. Against such robbing the State Treasury, an.d it was marriages there should go up only when they found that it would be , On nil sides, i o:u innumerable tongues, . . , A dismal, universal hiss, the souu.l of I'uLdic utterly impossible to secure the passage M-urn," of an appropriation through the Senate - -*■**•♦- to pay their lmugers on, that the Kadi- Inanguratlon-Tlic Colored Kolks. cal members of the House consented to ’ be Washington publican of yes dismiss them. They cannot claim any terday sa >' 5 the colored citizeDS are ller credir for what they have now done, feeling arrangements for getting up an They are none tlie less thieves because : > uau S urat ‘° D halloa *-lieir own hook on they failed to carry off their plunder. a sCale that wiH uot be il,fcrior to U,e They stand convicted before the people ° De „ to be S‘’;' en by . their “ >' ale faced " of Pennsylvania, and branded with the bretl,cu ' , The walter3at tlla whUebnll mark of public robbers. The Kepubli- ' are t 0 be Uack and cicc rcrm - 11 ia ex ‘ cau party is responsible for their mis- P ec , ted that the occasion "' in a deeds, aud it must be made to answer 1 full te3t of the re,ative *' a P ai -' it y ° f for them. two races ' Cost or >'C"ro Militia, lN tbe Supreme Court of the United The Xew York 1 Vorlil thus 'sums up ' State3 ’ ou I’riJay. 1 ’ riJa y. the last technicality the cost of the Arkansas negro militia, j in the oase of Jefferson Davis was com whose only warlike exploits were the i 11 1 . The Yew York 7 ri/iime raping of white women and the-, mur- ' comments upon the matter thus chari deriug of white men in cold biood. It ■ sa y g . *'The ex-President of the Confederacy is , How freed from even a semblance of prose- In© pretended (,l, vernnr Arkansas eution or trial. We do not expect to keur having heen lushed <ifl Ins prey by bis mas- clamor now that much simpler and more ters sit \\asnington, who I©a red lor the evidently just steps in the same cause further ellect ol the negro militia, looting evoked some time-age ; and vet we fail to the bid is now m order. Ii ns thus rendered | perceive why, if this thing were to be done, to the jocus assembly : J ay,_t< ; j u might not better have been done without quartermaster s stores, >10,•}(«)..»1 ; subsis- j the prolonged incarceration and the other j e ! lc . e \ ’, aiu * S SH».7O ; ; chapters of the discreditable history total. .Miperadded is an estimated deficit on pay account of $4!',071, which the pretended Legislature covered by an ap propriation of $75,000, and then passed the entire bill, $1.7j,1)04.41. Now if the reader will notice how small is the subsistence ac count, bu will be able to estimate how heinously these tatterdemalions must have stolen, end, if be will further consider the trifle expended for amm-unition.the absolute inutility of their ever having been called into service will appear. The inilitia, rank and tile, the rudest class of field-hand negroes, will, of course, never sou the huge pu.y appropriation. 'Hint is meat for their masters The Army of the Potomac. At the preliminary meeting of the Grand Army of the Potomac in Wash ington yesterday, General George B. McClellan was chosen president. Among the distinguished officers pres ent were Generals Huncock, Franklin, Slocum, Wright, Butterfield, Ingalls, Sigel, Newton, Gibbon, • Pleasouton, Heintzelman and French. The Grand Reunion will be held in New York on Monday, theoth day of July nest. Great harmony and good feeling prevailed among the veterans. The Tenure of Ofiice Bill. The Radicals of the Senate have de termined in caucus not to repeal the Tenure of Office Bill until after Grant shall have been inaugurated and his Cabinet announced. They do not trust Fiysses the silent, and will attempt to hold the reius over him as tightly as they ditl over Andy Johnson. It re mains to be seen whether (Rant will make a more successful fight with the Jocobinsthan his predecessor did. The House Committee on Census have in part matured a bill, which pro vides for taking the census by special officers to be created for that purpose, and not; as heretofore, by the United States Marshals. The committee has agreed upon amendments to former schedules. It is proposed to increase the number of members of the House to three hundred. So the bogus Governor of Georgia vetoes the joint resolution submitting the eligibility of the negro to office to the Supreme Court. How these fellows do hate a court! The Chambersßtirg Repository frank ly tells the Radical State Committee that, in effect, its.recommendation of the passage of the Philadelphia Police bill was impertinent dabbling in a mat ter that was none of its business. We think so. The Radicals of Tennessee are mak ing an effort to divide the State. They begin to fear that they may not be able to control it if left undivided, and the carpet-baggers and scalywags want to carve out a principality in which they can continue to rule. The Radicals in Congress may consent'to the proposed outrage, with the hope of addilig two more to their majority in the U. S. Senate. It is high time there was an end of this system of creating rotten borough States for the basest partisau purposes. The power of the great State of Pennsylvania is reduced almost to a nulity by such action. (Jenkral Grant says that if he does not get the right men in office on the first appointment, he shall try again and again until he does succeed. There he has an advantage over the people. If he does not turn out to be the right man for President, and the chances are rather that he will not, the latter have to endure him for his full term of four years. We wonder if he would not, for consistency sake, by resignation in tiiat e\;ent, let the public apply to him the rule he so rigorously insists upon for his subordinates! The Mauch Chunk Gazelle, a Radi cal paper, has found a new Gubernatorial candidate for Governor in the person of one General Win, Lilly. Fie was a sol dier and has been “« lift, long Democrat.” The latter qualification isindispensable; and, if Geary, who boasted just before his nomination that he was “ a Demo crat without affix or prefix , should be thrown overboard, we presume Gen eral Lilly will be made the Radical candidate. No old line Whig or straight out Republican need apply. Inauguration Ball Tickets. The ladies’ invitatian ticket to the inau guration ball is thus described ; In the cen tre is a bust of Grant, laurel-crowned, with his motto in rays of light behind his head ; 1 at the foot of the bust are sprigs of oak and : laurel, and American fiags on each side. On the rightsideisPeace.withherpalm branch and wings, strewing the earth blessings. ; Returning Commerce, represented by a ship under fall sail, and at her feet the plow and other symbols of agriculture covering up the effects of strife, represented by a deserted gun: at the opposite is Co lumbia, severe and assured, with the Cap of Liberty and the Horn of Plenty. In the distance the capitol, arched by the Bow of Promise, in token of better times. Gen. McConnell, recently assassinated at Jacksonville, 111., was immensely wealthy, probably worth from $500,000 to $750,000, aside from his claim to $4,000,000 property in Chicago. He owned considerable prop erty in Chicago, besides the tract in contro versy. The Franking Swindle* A correspondent of The Toledo Blade writing from Washington, gives an inter esting account of the various ways i n which the franking fraud is practicod : In the first place. Congressmen very sel dom refuse to frank any article that is pre sented to them for that purpose. To see Congressmen frank an ordinary packageof envelopes for some employeof Congress, or lobby member, is a matter of hourly occur ence during the sessions of Congress. Again, committeeclerks, who usually act as the private secretaries of theirchalrmen, are almost uniformly authorized to imitate and use their frank, and if Congressmen arc themselves thus heedless and reckless in the use of their frank what shall we ex pect of those who are intrusted with its pre rogatives, and! who have neither responsi bility nor reputation at stake. An instance occurred in 18G5, which will serve to Illus trate what is frequently occurring without attracting any considerable degree of at tention. A clerk in the Interior Department, who had formerly resided iu Ohio, determining to establish a collection agency here, de sired to distribute his business circulars throughout the country. Unwilling to in cur the expense .of such a transaction, he presented to a Congressman from his own State a box containing 500 envelopes, with tbe modest request that he would frank them. The honorable gentleman very cheerfully complied with this request, and received in return tbe assurance that he would be favorably mentioned in the next day’s communication of this penny-a-liner. From that time I havo read iu a Washington letter a complimentary notice of a Congressman, whose not of marked importance and value, without re volving iu my mind how many hundred envelopes he had to frank to procure it. Most Congressmen have a score or more of lady friends, for whose appearance iu the galleries they watch with ceaseless vigi lance whom they greet with courteous bows and bland smiles, and to whose cards they always respond with promptness and in jierson. These ladies are often about the Capitol, and at the private rooms of mem bers. They havo hosts of correspondents in every section of tbe country, and arc never without /ranked envelopes. Again, Congressmen visiting the depart ments on business often leave a score or more Trunks for the! use of tiie clerk who promptly attends to their wants. Thus the thousands of department clerks here are al most uniformly supplied with Congression al trunks, beneath which they conducttheir privule correspondence. But the most fruit ful source of the übuso of this privilege is the system of fac simile franking. Congress men, for a few dollars, procure a fac simile stump,with which franking can be perform ed with ease and dispatch. These articles are in trusted to tiie custody ot clerks or mes sengers, who aro thus supplied with tbo means of perpetrating enormous swindles upon the revenues of the Government. Muny persons wonder how franked enve lopes can be procured in such largo quan tities. It is e flee led in several ways. Some times a fac simile stamp is duplicated and used without the permission of the (toCner. Sometimes envelopes aro anti members or their clerks—meat frequently the latter—are subsidized to stamp them. When these are presented in large quanti ties, a fraction of the cost of postage is ex travagant compensation for the labor of using the stamp. / Again, members who are more cautious in the use of their franks, stamp largo quantities of their speeches, and then leave them to be directed by some irresponsible clerk. It requires but a little time for a not ove: scrupulous person thus engaged to become convinced that his labors will be attended with no good result, that very few, if any, of these prosy speeches will ever bo read, and having thus reached the “ Led rock" of his speculations he proceeds to carefully open tiie envelopes, (which is easily done) and remove the speeches— these he sells for old paper, those can be readily disposed offer from $dU to ?dU per 1,000. ; These are somo of the methods by which business liruis and lotteries ure supplied with franked onvelopes. Again, though the law is explicit in its demands that no person shall receive mail matter freo of postage, for another person, both Senators and Representatives, daily receive under their own names letters, books, articles of clothing for other persons—persons, too not connected with them by any consanguineous or other legal bonds. In the early part of my experience at the Capitol, I was requested by a distinguished Representative to receive and attend to his mail matter during his absence of a few weeks. During his absence there was re ceived a package of unusual size, which, supposing to be documents fordistribution, I promptly opened. Your readers could scarcely guess what I found. Not a package of newspapers, with a fluttering editorial marked ; not a voluminous petition to Con gress, praying fortke redress ofsnmS enor mous grievance; oh, no, but an elegant lady’s coat, beautifully ami richly embroidered, and beavilv decked with beads anti buttons. Unfolding this strange piece of “mail mat ter,” I found an open letter, containing tho request to deliver the coat to , and oblige her mother. With serious misgivings and ditlidence, I proceeded Jto tho residence of the lady mentioned, and presented her with the elegant garment, with an account of its reception. After many thanks for my ser vices, which I could not, under tbe circum stances, very fully appreciate, I was in formed that tiie honorable member had tendered the use of his name for the free conveyance of such articles, and that he was u verg kind indeed.'* Fish Culture. The light in which the business of lisli 1 culture is now viewed is solely with refer- ; dneo to the supply' offish as food. That our 1 streams may be re-stocked, it is absolutely ! necessary (hat spawn shall bo deposited - where the young can bo hutched and pru* ; served, or at least that a suflicient time : shall elapse for the propagation and growth : of those varieties wcich have not yet been exterminated. To efl’eot this tho economic i processes by which wealth is accumulated, and provision mude for future wants, must ' become established, and the wasteful, reck less habit, corresponding to the improvi- i denco of tbe dissolute and poor, must bo abandoned. < >f ihe profit of breeding and growing hah . the Commissioners above referred to state that the curd of the skim milk of a good cow is amply sutlicient for the production of .jUD pounds of trout. This will be worth, iu any market, twice the same number of puui.ds of pork, but the food mentioned would not produce more than one-quarter as much pork. Aside from this exhibit of profit, which cannot bo much below the truth, tho value of lish, and in particular of the hard and Rweet varieties of tiesh, such as in trout and shad, is of still greuter im portance, fur it furnishes in the phosphorus the .elements of brain lood, now becotn** an absolute necessity in the advanced intellectual development of our people. The truth is, and it is only becoming to bo ap preciated, that social and intellectual pro gress are based upon varied nnd abundant supplies of food, and it may be stated ns a law that thero will never be any high civili zalion where the diet ot a people is limited ton lew kinds of staple food, no matter how favorable these may bo for establishing what is called a condition free from disease. From this it is evident that the rice diet of the.people of Eastern Asm, and the limited elements contained in the acrid food of the people of the tropics, will not permit any of these nations to rise above the barbaric.— A T . Y. Tribune. Hrnjiimln F.^Wiule, It is admitted by the Washington corres pondent ot tho (Juzctte that Benjamin F. \\ ade will not be called into a place in the Cabinet of Gen. Grant. Poor Benjamin! Bike an old war-horse, he is turned out into t tie pasture to die ! Ho is seventy years old. Within the last year ho has been excluded from tho Senate of the United Slates, He lias been defeated in his aspirations for the Presidecy through tho impeachment of An drew Johnsou. ilo was beaten for Vico President before tho Chicago Convention. Now he is rejected for a position in tho Cabinet of President Grunt. Ho is a four fold defeated candidate. Nothing remains for him but to die decently. * After all, ho lias done an immense busi ness upon a small capital. He has been eighteen years United States Senator from Ohio. He has tilled a vacancy in the oflleo of Vico President of the United States. Vet his talents are of tho most inferior kind. His attainments are nothing. He is naturally and grossly ignorant—destitute of ordinary educational acquirements. The fact that such a man, without one single bright nat ural qualification, should have been the Representative of Ohio for nearly twenty years in tho Senate of the UiiitetfStates is not calculated, by’ any means, to increase our respect for Republican Institutions.— Cincinnati Enquirer. Mat us of tticfiuirVugc Ameml tucit ( The Washington correspondent of tho Philadelphia Ledger says: Washington, Feb. til, lSfib. Considerable canvassing of the members of the Senate has taken place to-day to test the sense of the Senate relative to the suf frage amendment as it passed the House yesterday. The result of this sifting shows that tho action of tho Senate is somewhat doubtful, the Republican Senators being pretty well divided upon tho House resolu tion. Senator Stewart, who takes charge In the Senate of the proposed amendment*has hopes of a sufficient number of votes to carry a motion to refer the resolution to a committee of conference, which motion he proposes to make. Rut failing in that mo tion, he will move that the Senate concur with the House amendment. There is much anxiety manifested by the Republicans on the subject, as they regard this opportunily the only hope ot carrying tho amendment. Left to a tuture Congress, the probability is that a two-third vote could not be obtained in favor ol the resolution. lie telegraphs as follows in regard to THK TENURE OF OFFICE. The fate of the Dill to repeal the Civil Otlice Tenure act is yet in some doubt, but the indications of sentiment to-day among the Senators corroborates the prognostica tions in these despatches heretofore, name ly, that the act will not be repeated, but it will be modified so as to give the President the right to appoint and remove Cabinet officers at will, and also make some changes in the mode of suspending officers during a recess of the Senate. A young couple in Rockport, Me., while courting, walked out together arm-in-arm, and fell through a hole in the sidewalk, each breaking a leg. Their fall proved a “ lilt ” to them, and set them up in the world, a jury awarding them a verdict of $12,000 against the town. Whose manners Bale Now T Radical letter-writers at Washington aro beginning to complain that profligate fe males are rather too innch attended to by Senators and Representatives for the credit of the country. The New Yoxk Thnbunc correspondent, in giving an account of the crowd in attendance on the joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes f r ! President, says: “The rules prohibiting the privilego of j the floor were suspended, and down there on lounges, and sofas, and Representatives’ ! seats, were ladies and children, wives and relatives of honorable members, relieving the somber aspect of the chamber. But there were others, too; noted lobbyists, and even strumpets of tho street, some wav or other, found admission. There was Mrs. Cobb, the pardon broker, and Mrs. So-aml- So, whose refutation is not doubtful. How they got there, who invited them, no one, perhaps, will care to tell, or acknowledge, but wero there, to the disgrace of our civili zation and the shame of the Bouse.'" That is bad enough, but whut shall we say of this from tho Washington corres pondent of the Chicago Republican (Rad.): "Immediately outside tho left-hand en trance to the Senate, looking from tho Vico President’s desk toward the main doorway of the chamber, is an olegant apartment. Ic is handsomely gilded nnd frescoed ; ele gant carpets cover the floor; luxurious arm chairs and lounges ure numuerous, and everything invites to repose and quiet and abaudon. It is tho reception room of ilic Senate. It is easy of access fiom the cham ber. 7his room is notoriously the greatest assignation place in Washington. At' auv time during the session of the, Senate, the visitor may see there, in brazen effrontery, i known women of 111-fumo. They nro attired . iu costly fabrics, diamonds and laco, and j the latest lashlons. Senators do not ln-si , tate to come from their scuts ami the work of legislation at their bidding. The officers of tiie Senate know them, or it they do not, they ought to; but ins loud of being debarred admission, they are allowed to ply their vocation in tho very Capitol of the nation. Ido not say that all the Indies who go tlioi o ; are of this character—but I do say that in 1 tho course of a binglo day more than a seoj e of this class of pooplo are to bo found in tii.it room.” lu the days when (we were constantly re minded) “plantation manners'' ruled at Washington, no such disgrace was put upon tho country, na tlmso letters tell us Is now being done by tho “party of moral ideas." We recollect on one occasion, a member of Congress introduced Into the ladies’ gallery of the House, a young female, about whom was some unfavorable whispering. Atten tion was immediately called to tho fact by another member, and quite a scene ensued. The young woman retired, and only through great exertions of mutual friends was a duel prevented. Now we are (old by Radical letter writers, that the reception room of tin* Senate—an ole gant apartment, handsomely gilocd and frescoed, with elegant carpet and luxurious arm chairs ami lounges —“ is notoriously the greatest, assignation place iu Washington,” and is visaed daily by “known women of ill-fame;" while oil tlie floor of tin* House of ('ongivss, on pub lic occasions, like that of last Wednesday, women “ whose reputation is not doubted" aro permitted to mingle there with the wives and daughters of members! Possi bly, the people have got so far along as to be incapable of blushing at such an ex posure of the manners, that a change of times Inis inaugurated at the Federal Capi tol. We thought so when we commenced this article, and rather hesitated about writing it, but concliuh'd to go tluough with it for conscience sake. Now, let the people blush if they are capable; the sen sution may do them and the counlrv good. Cincinnati Im/uirer. Hurst lug up of t lie Texas Convention Row in the TcxusConventiori. The thing lias burst all to pieces. Sumner ami the loil colored man did the work —not our head boy at Washington, but a fellow of the same name, who carpet-bagged into Texas from nowhere just in lime to he “elected" a delegate to the bogus conven tion. if seems that this creature, —as op pused to those favuring a division of Texas into divers Stales, and, the divisionists be ing in the majority, was exju lied the con vention. On this, up jumped the colons! man—who is, by the by, a late imported Boston negro—and took his brother Sum ner’s part by sending in bis, Cull's, resig nation oh the ground tlmt do convention had lost “all regard for dignity uml honor as a legislative assembly. Immediately following this act of secession, Cull - who m a man mighty among the brethren, lie it known, being, indeed, grand high president oi the gtand council ol the Loyal League in Texas—got him up an opposition conven tion, and of this Sumner, who would rather be a doorkeeper in a lull house than silting on high in a tabernacle of sin, was made sergoant-at-arms. This secessionist con vention, Cunby, now district commandant in Texas, recognized on the (ith inst, as the regular body, and at last accounts Cufl'and his crony Sumner hnd it all their own way, thanks to bayonets.—A'. >’. World. Shrewd .Tie(hud of fivadiug the Tnrltf One of the shrewdest dodgesyt.-t invented . for evading the payment of duty on impnrt -1 ed goods has just been roported'm tho treas ury. A Boston hotel keeper, wishing to i furnish his hotel with the very best of lur : nituro at tho cheapest possible cost, went to Paris, a short time since, rented a house, j bought about SOO,DUO worth of furniture ami | took it into tho house. ' A portion of ihe ! furniture, such as bedding, lovv«ds, carpels, i Ac., were made up in ttie house by work j men employed for the purpose. An officer I of the customs in New York cilv, who ’ happened to be in Puris nt that time, was t invited by the hotel proprietor to become his guest, to which lie consented, thereby .saving all expense of board, lodging, Ac. In a few days after the custom ofiicers Idt, the furniture was shipped for New York, nnd, it is alleged, was admitted free nfdutv on the proper evidence having been sub mitted showing that the goods wen* p<*r- : fional effects wnicii hud been in uso betore shipment. Oncy landed m New York, tho furniture wus forthwith carried to Boston, and the enterprising Yankee had achieved a success.— Washm-iton ('orresiiondcncr A'. J let aid. Unpublished Fads About the Murder of Dr. Parniuau. Tho Chicago Tribune , pointing out the re semblance between tho recent murder of McConnell by a debtor and Unit of Dark man by Dr. Webster, recalls some incidents in tho latter crime never before made pub lic. *'Within a half hour after leaving tils horrible work at the laboratory’, tho burn ingot tho remainsof his victim, on mo after noon of tho murder, Dr. Webster called on his way home at a matiluamaker’s and tried on, talking-nil the while in his usual plea sant way about tin* most trivial domils, a new dressing gown which was making ibr him. At tho same* limo he provided him self with strychnine, with which lie at tempt- take his own life when lodged in jail. But anoHier fact, known to very few persons and nevet before published K'ttml he con fessed to tmijutending physician in a liur ried whisper, when lie supposed his own death was imminent from the poison in had just tuken, that iiuhad killed Dr. Burk inan. The testimony of tins physician would have hanged him even had* there been no other evidence'; but he died before the Professor was brought to and up , to tho time of his death none hut his wile • knew that he was the repository of tins im portant secret. ’ Removal of Itnolii's Remains Some II in. toriral Recollections. Tho Washington aMr of last e\iiiing says : The filial shot which killed Pn-ident Lincoln u as lired at Ford's Theatre on ihe night of tho 1 Ith of April, Ni.‘i, and Booth, with Harold, immediately escaped Ironi Un city. They were pursued and overtaken at Garrett's farm, near Port Royal, on ihe Rappahannock, April 25, and on the ml- Icwmg morning the troops, having lirod tin barn m which they had sought reluge, Harold was captured ami Booth mortally wounded, dying about three hours after ward. About twoo'c4ock on the morning ol the 27th. the tug-boatlldu reached the Navy Yard iu this city, and|Harold was placed in confinement on the* monitor Montnnk, where Booth’s body was laid on a join er’s bench During the morning large numbers of persons visited the Navy Yard, anxious to get a view ol the body, but none were allowed lo get on board the monitor except such as held ordois from the Secretary of the Navy. Dr. .1. F. Mav, of this city, was called on to identify the body’, and did so by a scar on the neck where ho bad cut out a tumor. A c.jfiiin was made at the joiner’s simp, but was not used, and in the afternoon, alter an exami nation of tho wound, and one or two pieces of the back bone where tho fatal shot took effect were taken out, the body was wrapped m a gray blanket, in a boat in which wuh General L. C. Baker ami two of his detect ives, and carried oil. Subsequently, the re port gained credence that the body had been consigned to the waters of the Potomac, wiien j tho truth was that it was landed at the j Arsenal wharf, then placed in a box, I and between ten and twelvo o'clock on tho same night buried in tho wureroom of tho old penitentiary, in the presence of a repre- j sontative of the War Department (who took chargeof the keys of the room), ami General I Raker and a few officials of tho post. Here I it was allowed to remain, until tho removal j of the penitentiary building having been i determined on, made it necessary to change ■ its location, and Rooth's remains, es ulso the bodies of Mrs. fSurratt, Payne, Harold, Atzerodt and Wirz, were removed to No. 2 warehouse in the fall of ls«i7. Rooth’s body occupied tho lower end of tho row—a white painted board with the name “ Booth ” be ing nailed on the top of tho box—where the body remained until yesterday. A Horrible Scolding Case. Louisville, Feb. J9.— Tho Ann has tho particulars of a most atrocious crime perpe iruted by a colored woman, as follows : Moses Coward, who resides near Emi nence, was the father of two young, beauti ful and intelligent daughters. Tho little girls wore playing in the kitchen, where tho cook, a negro woman, was preparing din ner, when the family were attracted by the screams of one of them, and rushing into the kitchen she found the eldest of the little girls so badly scalded that she died in a short time. After the death of the little girl her younger sister related the following: She and her sister were playing together In the kitchen, and tho negro, being offended at what the little girl had done, threw her upon the iloor, took a pot of boiling bean sopp oil* the stove and deliberately poured it down tho child’s throat until she scalded her to death. Had not the younger of the two rushed out and given the alarm, the two would no doubt have been murdered by this inhuman wretch. State Items. Navigation will open on tho Schuylkill canal on the flrat of March. J Tho Zieglo Guards of York intend visit, ■ns Washington on thu Fourth of March. It Id reported that tho water will be let into tho Delaware and Hudson ennui about the first of March. istOD, of Lock Unvon, whs bnd* i tho lGth inst., by tho bursilnu alcoholic liniment. .. Greenback of Pkilnd* IpM,. t>.> wna fouml drunk on tbe Ntreet nmi removed to her homo wheroshe died. The Democratic Guard, published at ?. n .?- bU j-T* fa Y orH lll ° “omiimtion o' General A 1 landless for Governor. Tho sufferers of U.t- late liro at Trov Brtullord coHilly, arc busy .nuking propnr Rtions for rebuilding the burnt district. -„ The T Y""‘-' l l Chauk (-'u.-r/O- proposes He, " m - Lilly of L'nrbnn, ns the in xi I,] ■ enu candidate for Governor. A meeting of sufferers by tbe rebel i„,„. sum ol 1 Still wns belli nt Cbuuibersburg on tho.lStb inst. h Cion. \Y . Fatten, of Townmln, Ims nonrlv recovered from Ihoctrectsofn severe stroke ot paralysis. The Democracv/Of Westmoreland count, , nro bolding meelings, and milking nomtim - tions lor tbe spring elections. ; “Tbe people of Idgonler Vnllev bine token | steps towards building u railroad from I to Lalrobe. 1 lje contract lor building the waterworks at Lock Haven, was awarded on the inst., to .Messrs. Lambert, sbeild Jand Krl- Mr. Jasper It. ltaud, of t'arli.mdale I,u- I r.crno county, died on tho lolli inst ’ng, d tix. lie was the pioneer in the whip jnami lacture in this county ~ 'lhe proposed railroad from Frederick 1., l.ullc.stmvn, Adams couni v , lias bee localed as tar as Urueeville, and will shortly be pul under contract. Tbe Heading Railroad Companv is elect ing a stone wall along ll,eScluivliUll below 1 utlstown to prevent the embankment Inuu washing uwnv, A police nllhvr, on last Tue.sdav m.Ttiin u at Seventh anil Washington m reels, I’hjln liulpliia. picked up n htiumti linger’ huvine on it a plain gold rinj;. Tlu* Methodist rhurch in llydo Park, l.u >vnu* county, together will, two dwelling hnu-.-H, wore consumed by im* on l„st Monday morning. •100 W. Furey Ims withdrawn i rom u,,. Ouilon Han<n-r„(, ioavm- \\\ \\ K ur ,-v a solo editor and pmprhtnr of'that 'able paper. AN illiam Keder 101 l oil n enr throuiih im liostio work of a bruise at KiltaimiuK on Tuesday last, himself so s«nn roh that ono o| his arms Imd to bo amputated. A colored woman, in on tin boli iU"I., iiold hor i'liiiii. about ono your "Id, over a hot slow untilTt was so well roasted lhallitlio hopes an- entertained of its recovery. . The sidi-home and loliiiery of J. . Sot.tt A (’o,, on Trout run,-* m n’r-TitusviUe’ wore destroys] i.vlire, on W.diio*dav ITili HIM., to-etlier whl, the em;me liuu.m! and two Ol- throe houses,. The corporators of U„. ll,afford am! Bridgeport Railroad company held n nivcl ing on [lie 17,1, inst., and appointed a com miiieo to make urrant;eineiiis Mr npetdi.y the subscription books. <>u Tuestlay afteriMon, iho Idil, ii,sr. f J.ic.il, Veld, residing „1,., u[ two miles la-low *\ Hirer, unskilled by I lie itceummodal ion train, lie w;e wa lk I ml’ the t rack and struck l,y the online. The larp. baru of .ftthii i ires-w, near AJ ams In, \\ <-siiuoreland ot n,n ty, was bun •* etl .low non the Id: I, lost. A . plant u v ot wheat, Oi* rll ami oats was destroyed. lin sleep won- uls.) burned. Lows, jk',,unti .1. I-. t ani[)l oil A Son, proprietors of the Alloomi I ! nd.y;it,n\ winch was to ally ti. - stroyed by liro a low days aio mil in a card in w'liioh they promiso the reappear anco of l lie r/fNhro' ( ,r liy the lirst of .M ai oh. A yoiint;man namt'd Anson R. Fuller. a carpenter, while impaled in removing Uie old lower Jroru ihe dinmond mini', near Scranton, fm the i.Mh mst., fell from ihe .structure ngd was instantly killed -dea\ no a wife and three children. * I bi Monday last two odiivrs arrest'd a stranger ot, the chaise of stealing a watch m Hagerstown, and lonk him to MTm. nelshuiK. While there they received a dis patch staling tlint the real thief was a rreste< I at (ireelicastle. A mail named Row is altr-mph-d lorom nut suicide, m Meadville, on Saturday la.-l. but was disappointed by tin* ini-rfcr.-niv oi bis friends ; ami on Thursday lie lind I.« dispose o| himself by drowning, but his meddlesome triend.s interfered. «•" Tuesday last the residence of Mr. M tiimiis, in Allegheny eitv, was di-coy (.'red to have been rohiied of ihe silverware and valuable table furniture be|onf*liitf l" the family. Mr. M'Ginnis' business re rjiiire.s him to he much Irom home, and or this occasion Ins w ife had been stay In with her mother in and on visilinj.: la‘r homo tlio above uiscuvory was mad.-. The initials of the owner were engraved oh all tho articles. I lio least,in h.rprt .sa tells the story \>t r» youtiK man ol that {dace, and a voting )miy of Rucks county—both natives of the Em erald Is],*—who have been trying to p*t married for a lont; time Imt could not o»v -i n« to the hard limes, and that a few day,-, uno their dilliculties were removed by the lady receiving mlormation of Hr* death ol a rich rolative in Ireland, hej hfty thousand dollars, and llmt the de/erred nuptials aro arraneed to take plar,, next. Sunday. Williums|)Mrl iim.r.linc Id tin. ilultrt,,,, ••an also boast bf a first class malriimuiiiil excitement. A Unsound very inquisitively opt-m-d a letter addressed tobin wife, which mlornied him that she was (unexpectedly him) expected in Philadelphia. lie re turned thy letter to the post otlicu and awaited ovonts. A lew days aftorward she raised the wherewith to make a splurge by forging her husband's nnino (o a check for t2eo and drew the money, bought a trunk packed up her duds ami left —lie, like a true philosopher, letting tier go in search of that peace she is not likely to find. ’lhe Metrical Nj-stcni of Golimge. Washington. Feb. 17.--On the 2Ni m July, DfiH, the Hon. Win. I). Kelley, (’han man ol the House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, reported a bill ill! R. 1,11>) to promole tho establishment ol an international metrical system of coinage Tho .Secretary of the Treasury requested Mr. L. ID Elliott to examine this bill, ami give Ins views in relation thereto. Hi ar cordauey with this requost. Mr. Elliott hV made a very interesting and elaborate r port, which tlmSeeretary transmitted Ui the 1 louse on the tub inst., where it was refer red to tho Committee above mentioned mid ordered to lie printed. Tin- Ini] provides a follows: Ist. That the future gold coinage of U,,- l mted Slat-s shall weigh one and lw<> third grammes to tho dollar, and shall U nine tenths line-i. e., each dollar shall contain one and a half grammes of pm gold, and the remainder shall he alloy. 2d. Such coins shall he IcgaDlmnler* rr> payments after a specified fuiiirodato » and fcl.mH of this now coinage shall ho the’lego B equivalent of 51,n0n of tho obi coinage'oi the United .Slates. hd. That they shall have their weights in grammes ami fineness stamped upon them. Ith. I hat si I vi-r ha 11 - do] lars and sum i)i r -ilvcr coins shall, in future coinage, consoi of Standard silver, nine-tenths fine, nnd weigh 2-') grammes lo each dollar of value and shall have their weight and linen-*-’ -stamped upon them, and shall be legal t-n. d-r tor payment of all Hums not exceeding sln. K Mr. hiliolt indorses all Ihe features of iln bill, ami sets iorlh the importance of ns enactment by Congress, ,and tin* advan tages which would probably result ihen frora. He says the gold coinage of the l nited Stales is very nearly metrical. By reducing their standard weight about tlneo parts in I,non, or they wouM b.- strictly metrical, and would thus have ex act and simple relations to the coins of (ier uiany. It seems desirable that tho union crown oT Germany, the United States go d dollar, the gold frune of France, and the gold pound of Great Britain should have such simple relations to each other In point ol value that the followingequivnlents m-iy obtain, viz : Three union crowns equal *s2() (gold) equal ion irancs (gold), equal’l ,n<K) pence (gold), or four Irancs of 250 each After re ferring to the different standards that pio vail, Hie hope is expressed that the decision of commercial nations will be in favor of the (•ermun standard, i. o. .'{o grammes of line gold, rather than the French standuid. which is somewhat less, on the sole ground of metrical simplicity. Wo should then have gold coins as follows; d union crowns 2U metrical dollars ; pm metrical francs, li metrical pounds, or I.OUU metrical pence, each weighing ;m». grammes of standard gold, nine tenths tine, and containing lio grammes o( pure gold. Tho report contains numerous tallies which embrace much interesting and valu able inlorumtion ralatlvo to the monetary systems ol the leading nations of tho world, and is deserving ot tho careful perusal of the business portion of tho community, and ull others who are interested in the subject lo which it relates. Terrible A evident*—-•- Prcnmturo Dis charge of n Catinou Tho .Men fieri* ouMly Injnrcd. During the firing of tho salute from tho Capitol Park ut Harrisburg, ygslerday, In honor of tho anniversary of Washington’s birthday, ami while George Church ami Marshall Quay were engaged in charging tho cannon, it prematurely wont off, send ing tho ramrod a considerable distance. Tho thumb of Quay’s right hand wus blown off, and tho left hand so mangled as to ren der its amputation necessary at the wrist. His taco wus also considerably burned by the powder. Church’s right hand nnd wrist were injured to such an extent that they had to be amputated below the elbow. Mr. (Jeorgo Church is a nephew of Mrs. Gover nor Geary, and served faithfully during the war, losing u leg at Fredericksburg. Ho was a member of Co. C., Sixth regiment Pennsylvania Reserves. Mr. Quay was also in the sorvice duriDg tho war, and be longed to one of the Reserve regiments. He* was also a member of the police force undo? Mayor Edwards. The unfortunate men were taken Into the arsenal after tho acci dent, where the injured limbs were ampu* tated and properly dressed. Dr. Ruther ford, Drs. 0. and R. H. Seiler, Dr, H. R. Buenler and Dr. H. L. Orth wore present and rendered all the assistance in their power for the roliof of tho sufferers.
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