WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1869. COUNTY COMMITTEE MEETING. The Demoeratlo County Committee will meet on MONDAY, the 22d day of MARCH, 1869, at 11 o'clock, A. M., at the Democratic Club Rooms, in the City of Lancaster. The punctual attendance of every member is requested. R. R. TSHUDY, Ch’n, B. J. McGbann, Sec’y. Tlie Enforcement of Negro Suffrage. The Radicals of our State Legislature have determined to outrage the public sentiment of Pennsylvania by endors ing the Negro Suffrage Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. They have declined to permit the peo ple to vote upon the question. In obedi ence to the dictation of Congress they surrender the most valuable of the rights which were originally reserved, and over which - the people alone have sovereign control. Neither Congress, nor the Legislatare, nor both of them together have any right to force negro suffrage upon the people of any State against their will, or without their ex press consent given through the ballot box. If the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States should be ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States, it would still fail Jo be binding upon the people of any State, unless a ma jority of them voluntarily accepted it. The right to regulate the elective fran chise is one of those great rights which the people never surrendered. It re sides with them, and can not be right fully taken from them even by the method which is now proposed. The Legislature of Pennsylvania can not alter the constitutional provision which restricts the suffrage to white I freemen. Attempts have been made to restrict It, but they have all been pro nounced null and void by our Supreme Court. It was never pretended, and Is hot now claimed that Congress has any right to interfere with the elective fran chise. The framers of the Constitution of the United Slates never for a moment contemplated the possibility of such action as that in which tho Radicals are now engaged. Amendments to the Constitution, to bo within the purview oftlieclau.se providing therefore, must not invade the sacred circle of clearly reserved rights. The people In this country are the source of all political power. The creature can not be greater than the Creator, and any attempt to enforce negro suffrage upon the people of any State against their will is an out rage of the grossest character, a violation of the’fundamental principles which lie at tho very basis of our Republican In stitutions. Thepeoplowntild hojustified in resisting the enforcement of the pro posed Nem'o Suffrage Amendment, even if it should he declared to be ratified by three-fourths of thoproseutStato Legis latures. That the Legislature now in session Jit Harrisburg has no right to pttss upon this question is clear beyond a doubt. It was not only not elected witli any reference to this question, but the Itepublican party denied most strenu ously throughout tho last campaign that they had any idea of interfering with the right of the people of this and other States in the Union to regulate the elective franchise for themselves. The right of the people so to do, their sovereign power to control this great question, was clearly emaciated in the platform upon which Grant was elected. Tills makes the proposed outrage the more glaring, and ought to be sufiident to arouse a fierce storm of indignation throughout tin* length and breadth of Pennsylvania. It is certain that the proposed amend inent cannot be endorsed by the Legis latures of three-fourths of the States be fore next October. That will bring the question up before the voters of Penn sylvania. The present Legislature may refuse to permit the proposed amend ment to be passed upon directly by the people, but they cannot prevent a new Legislature from being elected and pledged to repeal the ratification. Upon that issue the coming political campaign will be conducted. The people will then decide the question for themselves, and we have no doubt that they will render a verdict which will condemn the subservient advocates of negro equality to merited oblivion. The issue between the two parties is now fully made pp. There can be no more skulkiug behind lying evasions. The people will vote for or against the repeal of tiie Negro Suffrage Amend ment, and the result is not doubtful. A Legislature will be elected which will undo the infamous work of the present one, and a (iovernor will be chosen who will not be the* mere subservient tool of the Radical majority in Congress, 'llien Pennsylvania will once more re sume her proud position as a State, and with a proper pride, and a due regard for her greatness and glory will again assume control of her own local nffiurs. Wo appeal from a corrupt and truck ling Legislature to the people, from a secret caucus of Radical conspirators to the ballot-box. How tlic Debt Increases, * H liL ' ellia *f Radical journals would exhaust the vocabulary in crowing over the decrease of the public debt as shown hy the statement for February. We are glad to see that t here has been one month in which the income was greater than the expenditure, but, as one swalloW dots nol make a spring, so neither does the exhibit for one month prove that we are really coining hack to economy, re trenehnientaml refottn. Notwithstand ing the reduction of last month the debt is still greater by forty-five millions of dollurs than It was in May, ISOS, only ten months ago. Thus the Nation has been spending at the rate of four and a half millions a month beyond its in come. Lest our statement should be questioned, we append the following table, which shows the amount of the debt at different periods and the in crease : ‘May 1, lsus Junol, ISiis August 1, isos Sopiembur 1, I.NGS October 1, ISOS November 1, ISOs.. December i. ISOS.. Junimry 1, 1500 February 1. March ],JSOO On the firsL of next May a large amount of Interest on the public debt falls due, nnd some thirty or more mil lions of dollars in gold will have to be promptly paid out to the bondholders. When that little account is settled we cau balance the books and see how we stand. The debt statement to be made on the first of next June will be looked for with interest by the toiling tax payers of the Nation. 18C3 and 1808. Iu ISG3 the Democrats had aruajority In the Lower House of our State Legis lature. Then the expenditure of that body for officers was $27,G20. In 18G8 the complexion of the House had chapged. Then the cost of officers was $86,3.13.80, In 18G3 the pasting and folding in the House cost 58,445.08; in 18GS it cost $37,723,10. Yet the number of mem bers was the same, and the amount of work to be dodo also the same. The cause of the increased cost is to be at tributed solely to. the extravagance of the Radicals, who robbed the treasury to feed a crown of hungry hangers on. Let the people keep that in mind. When Mr. Woehburne finally leaves the State Department, it is urged by several Radical Senators that some cal culation be made as to how much work he will have at the rate of $B,OOO a year t also for how many offices he has succeeded in drawing salary dur ing the last two weeks. The Official Documents in the Hackman Perseverantia omnia vincit / Our fenuous efforts, aimed at the exposure the Hackman whiskey fraud, are gradually being crowned with success, and slowly but surely we are exposing to the light of day, the dark mysteries of the transaction. The parties con nected with'the affair, afflicted with ex cessive modesty, stay in the background as carefully as foxes cling to their holes, or as rats to the trap from which they are about to be shaken into a water butt. We every now and then, how ever, get a good hold on the hair of one of these retiring gentlemen, and the pressure becoming too strong for him, drag him out before the public with a communication,'telling us something of what he knows. We succeeded in getting Assessor Warfel to exculpate himself from all connection with the fraud. Mr. Mus- Belman wrote a letter in w’hich he dis played an immense profundity of jgno* ranee. Now it is Ex-Collector Hood’s turn. As be has refrained from telling us of his connection with the transac tion,we baveprocured from Washington and publish elsewhere, his testimony on file in theßevenue Department, which was given .before that silent youth of melancholy aspect, Jacob Krey bill,made his acquaintance and performed in his presence his celebrated feats of Hood winking. The letter written subse quent to those performances, we hope to lay before our readers at an early day. Thisfinterestingaffldavitand accompany ing statement of jvir. Hood shows that by the sworn statement of Hackman himself, he failed to pay the govern ment tax on 14,890 gallons of, whiskey. The testimony of Brown and Draben- j stadt, two of Hackman’s employees ! showed that the number of gallons on which the tax remained unpaid, was the estimate which Mr. Hood made, allowing one-third for error in B. and D’s count, made the number of gallons on which the tax was still due, s2l,fi9(i; and the final return made up for tho government by Assessor Alex ander waß 20,(>H) gallons on which the tax assessed amounted to $41,2:20. Mr. Dickey’s persuasive eloquence however, induced Commissioner Rol lius, notwithstanding Hackman’s con fession, to decree that that deluded individual was mistaken in suppos ing that he owed the government anything and to order the release of his estate from the whole amount charged against it. Congressman Dickey is an able man ami is destined to have a brilliant career. Ho is a more persua sive man than Orpheus ever was, for that ancient individual simply succeed ed by his music in moving stones ; but Dickey, thegront uud wondrous Dickey, by his sublime eloquence in behalf of a poor widow, (who never afterwards got any of the money,) not only moved the proverbially stony heart of a govern ment official, but absolutely caused it i to melt and made Ills hands relax , their grasp upon a roll of greenbacks valued at over $40,000, which they had I strongly clutched. Tho official documents which we publish prove beyond the possibility of a doubt that the (Government has been swindled out of over forty thousand dollars. There is no longer room for doubting that the most shameless ras cality has been practiced in this busi ness. LetAhe taxpayers of Lancaster county look at the proofs, and as they scan the figures let them remember that every dollar thus stolen has to be made up by honest and innocent parties. A Keverend Flunkey Bishop Simpson of the Methodist Church must be a born llunkey. He has written a letter, over his apostolic seal and signature, "apologizing to General (Grant for the want of attention paid to him theotherSunday in church.” That was not the style of the old-time Metho dist preachers. Peter Cartwright was once denouncing profane swearing in deservedly bitter terms, when a brother in the pulpit behind him whispered to him to be a’little careful, as "General Jackson ir«s in the congregation .” (Old Hickory had gone in quietly, and not with the snobbish parade of the ex-Tan nen. Cartwright showed how he de spised the man-fearing spirit by crying out: “ Well, if (ieneral Jackson bo here, that is no reason why I should not tell the truth, lie will as certainly go to hell us any other man, unless lie isconverted.’’ General Jackson was so pleased with the independence of the speaker that he sought an interview with him after ser vice, and complimented him on his candor and boldness. What a contrast Cartwright presents to the cringing flunkeylsm of .Simpson, Sot for Money But for Principle. One office-seeker turned up who does not desire preferment from pecu niary motives, but for the establishment of a principle. The story is told In the following telegram from Washington: General butler to-day introduced to Sec rotary Boutweli a colored man from New Orleans, named Joubert, and recommended him for appointment as Assessor oi inter nal Revenue in tliut city. Joubert said he did not desire the office, from pecuniury considerations, but merely to test the dis position of the party in power us to the right of his race. That negro has a proper appreciation of the status of'the Radical party. He sees that it will bo compelled to pander to the negro for votes, and lie very cun ningly bases his application for office upon that theory. We have seen this party dividing offices with the negroes iu all the Southern States, Tlis blacks see and feel their power, and they will use it to elevate themselves to official position. Remonstrances Against Negro Kquallly. From every (Joutuy in me State re monstrances against the ratification of the Negro Suffrage Amendment are pouring into the Legislature. In many instances a majority of the names at tached to these papers are those of men who have heretofore acted with the Re publican party. Thousands of such persons in every part of the State are bitterly hostile to the proposed amend, ment, and very properly regard the at tempt of the present Legislature to force Negro Equality upon them as an out rage of Lhe grossest character. That the voice of these remonstrants will be heeded we do not believe. The necessity for passing upon the ameudmentat once is admitted. The Radicals know it would be overwhelmingly defeated if the people were allowed an opportunity ■to vote upon it. It cau only be put through by fraudulent means. .$2,500,52.5,527 . 2,510,245,850 . 2,523,534,-ISO . 2,535,014 313 , ‘3,f>31,013,715 . 3,537,12S . 2,545,330,004 Election for Postmaster. The Inquirer proposes that an election be held in this city- to determine who shall be appointed postmaster, and that the person receiving the highest num ber of votes be recommended as the unanimous choice of the Republicans of Lancaster for that position. We do not know how this may strike the dif ferent parties who are now contending for this coveted prize. We have no ad vice to give in regard to the matter, but, being largely interested in securing a competent and efficient postmaster, we hope the best man may be chosen. ; We care not how this result is obtained so it is reached. If our Radical friends choose to go through the excitement of a popular election to determine who shall be chosen, we shall look on with considerable interest. Grant is providing liberally for his own and his wife’s relations. Quite a number of fat positions will be gobbled up by them to the disgust of those who are not in the family. One of them has already been made Collector of New Orleans, and another Marshal of the *District of Columbia. Grant may not be muoh of a politician, but he certainly understands how to reward his friends. THE LANCASTER "WEEKLY INTELLIGENTCER, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17 Whiskey tfrand, Tho Georgia Legislature has promptly ratified the proposed Fifteenth Amend ment to the Constitution of the United States. It was supposed that after turn ing out the negroeU that body would de cline to aid iu forcing negro equalityupon other States. But, accordingto Blodgett, the Chairman of the Radical State Com mittee, they concluded, “since Congress had inflicted negro suffrage upon them, to try aud inflict in turn upon thed d Yankees.” If only the d d Yan kees were interested less objection could be made, but a 3 there are a good mariy Yankees who are not d d, aud a flarge number of white people who are not Yankees, the anticipation is not so pleasant. General Grant smoked and laughed over the proposition of the Georgians to do for the d d Yankees, what Congress has done for the people of the South. He regarded it as a good joke, and expressed his approval of fhe sug gestion. It will not be pleasant for the people of Pennsylvania to have negro equality forced upou them by the action of the bogus Legislatures of Southern States, which were elected by negroes dragged to the tolls by agents of the Freedmen’a Bureau, while white men were disfranchised. General Grant’s effort to enforce this outrage will not commend him to the white men of this State, and thousands who voted for him will curse him for it. The rush for office underGraJfl is un precedented. It is estimated that there are already, on an average, over forty applicants for every position under the Federal Government; and the number is constantly increasing. Members of Congress are so run down by the impor tunate beggars that they have no time to atteud to business. The House has had but few sessions, and these very short ones since Grant was inaugurated. Several Radical members of Congress have telegraphed home, and had it an nounced through their local news papers that they cau not possibly fiud time to reply to the multitudiuousletters they receive. The mails going to Wash ington are crowded to bursting with the petitions of hungry fellows who im agine that they have the best claims upou the party. A week will settle some of them, and Forney says “ there will be gnashing of teeth and despairing hotels among thousands before (hr show ers of April begin to fall." ! An effort is being made to secure the appointment of negroes to office under Grant. The New York Tribune insists that the Ministers to Hayti and Liberia ought to be black men, aud that the claims of those who made Grant Presi dent must be recognized. Wendell Phillips declares that the proper appel lation for thenew Executive is “ Grant the Negroe'a President lt remains to be seen whether this “ negroes Presl dent ” will- “go back on” those who elected him. He has so far shown him self to be more influenced in his ap pointments by an appreciation of services rendered to him, than by con siderations of a higher and public character. When he pays off his pecu niary obligations, we suppose Sambo .will come in for his share of the spoils. Andrew Johnson was impeached for attempting to eject Stanton from his Cabinet, and the whole fight turn ed upon the question whether he had violated the law in appointing a Secre tary of War ad interim. Grant appoint ed A. T. Stewart Secretary of the Treas ury, in violation of a well-known and well-established law, and insisted upon retaining him in office in spite of the law. Why wasn’t Grant impeached? He had unquestionably done more to deserve it than Andrew Johnson ever did. Not Guilty. Last September a rowdy Republican Masß Meeting was held in this city, the ardent young Radicals from all sections of the County swdrming in upon us, armed, uniformed and equipped, and animated with a desire, frequently boastfully expressed, to “cleau out” this copperhead town. They made the attempt and although they claimed to number ten thousand, they wereigno miniously defeated and put to flight by a few of the boys from the Hill. They retired to their homes in the country, many of them with broken heads and bruised bodies *h v d minus the beautiful silver capes and fgray trappings with which they had adorned themselves when they started out in the morning; they had learned a good lesson and probably made up their minds thatnext time they came to town they would behave themselveß with greater sobriety and discretion. But they told doleful tales to their fathers about the way they, innocent lambs as they were in the parental sight, had been set upon and maltreated by the^ wicked town fellows; and the anx ious papas believed every word of it and thought their dear cherubs had been grossly wronged. And so the Radical politicians pretended also to think, be cause they were terribly mortified to know that their valiant host of ten thousand had come to grief at the hands of a score or two of sturdy Democrats whom it had essayed to “clean out.” The Radical papers howled in chorus uninterruptedly for days and weeks, charging all sorts of naughty things upon the Democracy of the city ; they were rioters, murderers, thieves, &e., &c.; the Mayor and his police were j abused for not protecting the “ten ! thousand” roughs in their effort to ! “ckan out” the town; the Hill boys were denounced, the Jntclliycnccr was denounced, and so in truth was every body that was within our gates, who believed that Grant was a goose and that Seymour was a statesman. All this j was done for political effect, but they j did raise such an uuearthly din, that j mauy good people did think that there ■ was something iu it and that the City | Democracy might have behaved badly ! towards their country cousins. ’ I But unfortunately for the continued I existence of this belief, some foolish : Radicals caused au indictment to be found against thirteen Democrats of the City, charging them with having been rioters on that occasion. The trial came j ou this week, and the evidence having j conclusively shown that the boot was j on the other leg, the jury, a majority of ■ whom were Republicans, found all tho defendants not guilty; but thinking that they ruay have been somewhat in fault, in not obeying tho Biblical in junction of turning to tho aggressors the other cheek when they were smitten upon the one. they directed them to pay tho costs. : i Tho evidence showed that many dele- I gallons came into town eager for a fray. The Millersville company were all j armed with pistols which they dis charged in repeated volleys us they up i preached our limits. The authority of • the policemen was defied ; Olficer Mat i tern was knocked down and disabled, I Mayor Sanderson was abused and nar- I rowly escaped being beaten as he at j tempted to reduce to order the country ; roughs. Organized bauds arrayed in red breeches or grey capes marched to the attack of our citizens, but speedily retired with severe loss and in great disorder. The events of the day our readers will find portrayed with great particularity iu the testimony which was given at the trial. They will see from it as clearly as did the Jury, that the riot and disorder which prevailed i was due, in its inception, to the conduct of the youDg bloods from the country who sought to take possession of the town, and they will justly condemn the 1 attempt of the Radical orgaus to make ; our citizens responsible forthe lawless- ! ness of their own political friends. Punishing the P <1 Yankees, Swarms of Office Seekers. “Grant, the Kegroc’s President.” 1 Twc-Tblrds. Majority In tbe noose of BepresentatlTCJ. The Chicago Tribune , ultra Radical ob it is, rejoices that in the next Congress Its party will be far weaker than it is in the present. In speaking of the House of Representatives, it says: “ This shows that, while the Republican ascendency has been increased in the Sen ate, the two*thirds control in the House ex ists no longer. In that branch it has a re spectable working majority, bat it can no longer dictate its will to the purty, to the minority and to the country. It can no longer pass bills by contract, nor can stock brokers in distant cities be certain as to what bills will become laics, and what shall not. We think that the country has cause to re joice that the majority in the next House of Representatives, by no possible contrivance, can exorcise the overwhelming legislative control which it has exercised in the Fortieth Congress.” When a party organ is thus pleased, and assigns good reasons for it, that its organization has been reduced in num bers in Congress, the people ought to see that it is for their interest that the said organization should have no members at all. —OincinTiati Enquirer. These journals both were too fast in their conclusions. As soon as the vote was had in November, and the fact ascertained that the Democrats had over a third of the House of Represen tatives, we predicted that means would te found to curtail this vote so that the :adicals would have two-thirds. That they wereVeady for such iufamywe could not doubt, and time has demon strated the truth of our predictions.— The action of the Clerk of the House was not oDly unauthorized by law or precedent, but was such a stretch of ar bitrary power as ought to ensure the condemnation of all patriotic citizens. ABifSassion subsides there will be are turn of reason, and these outrages will awaken popular indigualion. Then there will bo an end of such things. Discussion or Uio Amendment. I The Radicals of the Lower House of I our State Legislature have graciously I consented to allow the negro sulirage amendment to be discussed. They made this concession because they knew the Democratic minority could ; delay the passage of the resolution of ratification for at least two weeks. On Wednesday evening (the 17th inst.,) the question comes up for discussion.— The Democratic side of the House has iu it several strong men who will be able to-do justice to this important subject. Let them speak out freely and fearlessly. They can not hope to de feat the infamous amendment, but they can show the people how false the Re pnbllcan party has been to all the pledges it made, and how ready it is to sacraflco the most sacred reserved rights of the people at the dictation of sup. posed party necessity. The Tenurc-of-Ofilcc Act, Senator Morton said the other day ”1 i\m unable lo see llmL the Toniire-of- Ollleo Act Jma done anything to purify the public depart tnoulM of onriupt and jiiolll dent nniivliolderK.*' , No one who knows anything about i the workings of the law doubts the truth l of that remark. In fact it lias only cov ered up corruption and protected rogues in their rascality. It has enabled Radi cal Senators to get up “a ring” which controlled the oflices ; aud it is that ring which now opposes the repeal of the law. The probabilities are, how ever, that Grant will force its repeal by refusing to nominate ofllcers until it is done away with. When it is wiped off’ the statute book there will be another endorsement of the wisdom of. John son’s policy and the folly of the Radi cals publicly will be recorded. Gkant offered to sell the house which ! had been given to him as a Washington 1 residence for $40,000. Thereupon A. T. | Stewart stepped iu and said the price was too low, being only about what he paid for It four years ago. So he put his hand in his pocket and presented tlrant with a check for $OO,OOO, and requested that the mansion be transferred over to General Sherman. It was done. Then Grant and Sherman got together and determined to pay Stewart for his mu nificent charity by making him Secre tary of the Treasury. That is how the slate came to be changed at the last moment, to the disgust of the Radical politiciaus. llow pure iu contrast is the course of President Johnson, who would not take a present of any kind from auy man. Tjiki’.i: is much ill feeling iu this I State In regard to the way the patron age of the Generul Government is to be distributed. The members of Congress have agreed in caucus to a programme by which each Radical member of the House controls the appointments In his own district, while Senators Cameron and Scott say who shall bo appointed from the State at large and from the Democratic districts. Forney is loud in his denunciation of this plan, andsuch papers as the State Guard are talking about the rights of active Republicans, and the propriety of consulting the peo ple. Such stuff as that amounts to nothing. The programme laid down will beadhered to, and thedlsappointed may howl until they arc hoarse with yells of disapproval, but they will not get even a smell at the public pluuder. Congressman Dickey has been in town, pnd declares that he has been’so in fixing up Grant’s bungling Cabinet work, that he has not been able to find time to tell us all about the Hackuiau fraud ; who stole the papers in the ca e, who got the money the gov ernment was cheated out of aud the other interesting questions in regard to tho matter, his replies to which the public are so anxiously awaiting. Con gress will soon adjourn, however, and ho then promises lo give us his atten tion. He proposes then also to file the in ventory in the estate of ThaddeuaJP|fc vena, if we will not criticise too sev|i& the nature of the assets, and willqttrc talking about that Pacific Railroad stock. The Georgia Senate has reconsidered its vote whereby the Negro Suffrage Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was adopted. This has thrown the Radicals into a paroxysm of rage. The New York Tribune demands that the Georgia Congressmen shall be kept out of their seats until that State ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment. If such States as Georgia voluntarily gave assent to this outrageous measure, it would still be hard for us to bear; but when negro equality is forced upon the people of Pennsylvania by the action of the Legislatures of other States the in famy becomes still more glaring, and the outrage more grievous. j There has been much wonder ex pressed at the appointment of General Longstreet to a lucrative office by Gen eral Grant. It is now ascertained that Longstreet is a cousin of Mrs. Grant, and the wonder Is subsiding. The Grant and Dent families are all to be provided for, all the poor relations made rich, and the remotest connections are at once recogDized as having paramount claims upon the new President. Such disgraceful and wholesale nepotism was never before witnessed. AVashburne has been studying French ever since Grant was elected. He had his teacher appointed clerk in one of the departments at Washington, and excused from duty. In that way he made the Government pay for learn ing him how to pronounce a few French phrases. He will cuts very sorry figure In Paris, however, in spite of that. The most magnificent Gift Enter prise of the day. GRANT’S CABINET. All who invested liberally Becured large prizes. The Radical City Treasarerof Lowell, Massachusetts, has run off with some $60,000 of the municipal fands. Dis honesty in office is now the rule among Radical officials, honesty the rare ex ception. Grant’s Nepotism. President Grant’BCurious notion that all the offices in his gift are his own, to dispose of as he will to relatives, depend ents, or personal friends, without any reference to party needs or public inter ests, is beginning to create a very dan gerous and ominous state of feeling among the leaders of the Radical party* An incident ha 9 just occurred in Cin cinnati which shows that, if Grant continues as he has begun, he will soon have every influential organ of his party in the country out against him. When it became officially known that Mr. Thomas H. Foulds was to be ap pointed Post-master of Cincinnati, it created almost a panic among the Radical politicians of that city. What the feeling is may be judged by the following significent extract from the Cincinnati Commercial , one of the first independent Republican journalsin the There are Bevoral things in this case to excite remark. In the first place, Mr. C. W. Thomas, the present Postmaster, has shown an aptitude for the place, and dis charged the duties of his office with a degree of intelligence and energy that has given funeral satisfaction; and the persons most argely concerned in the business of the office, and who have the most intimate knowledge cf its management, have felt that it would be well to have Mr. Thomas continued in office; and many of them have asked, for the sake of the service, that he should be continued. The Times, Gazette, and CoTnmemaJnewspapers bavecommend ed him in decided terms. Now, as it has been announced that tbejPresident proposed to retain officers who were doing their duty In an exemplary manner, and that he would wait until the repeal of the Tenure , ot-Office act before sending appointments to j the Senate, except in cases where charges j were preferred againstincumbents, thocon* ; elusion that he would let the Cincinnati I Postmaster alone for a little while did not seem unreasonable. J/roc are to understand that Presid&nt Grant makes exceptions to all miles in regard to his personal friends and (he friends of his family, we have to observe that his list of acquaintances is, perhaps, hardly sufficiently extensive to warrant him m supposing that he can select from them the best governing material in the country. We confess that wo cannot regard it as an au spicious symptom that the first chango in pn important office in this part of the Slate is the removal of an officer of recognized efficiency and the appointment of a gentle man who has, thoro is no doubt, many ex cellent qualities, but whoso promotion seems rather duo to tho circumstance that ho was a personal friend than to any endow ment or experience. We have not tho slightost objection to seeing Mr. Foulds in tho sorvico of his country in tho capacity of Postmaster, but, as ho is a resident of Covington and the Postmaster in that town is an old gentleman , and not able to give much attention to the of fice, and withal m comfortable circumstances we suggest to the President that he should re move Jesse E. Grant from the Covington Post office, and uppoint Thos. 11. Foulds to that place, permitting C. W. Thomas to bo Postmaster of Cincinnati while ho is pre ferred for that office by those interested most directly and lurgoly in Its good man agement. , This last shot is anything butconcill atory and bodes mischief for the Radi cal administration party. But Grant’s position is really disheart ening to all who hoped for some sort of administrative reform during his Presi dency. All really wise and great rulers regard official patronage as a public trust, to be used for tho best interests of the country. The hack politician’s ideal is far higher than Grant’s; for parties, even tho worst, do subserve some great public ends, But office, ns the reward of mere personal service or to add to the importance of a family, Is in this age simply infamous. * We might hope Grant would keep on in the course he has begun, if it should, in simple disgust, induce Congress to pass a civil service bill, by which effi ciency and good conduct may be made the passports to official position and promotion therein, rather than relation ship or personal favors toa President in obedience totbecorrupt behests of party leaders.— N. Y. World. Paying His Debts When Andrew Johnson became Presi dent some friends in New York sent him a magnificent carriage and a span of fine horses. He declined to receive them or any other presents, holding to the idea that no officer of the Govern ment should receive anything in the shape of gifts. General Grant has much looser notions on this subject. He is ready to accept any thing from a horse, or a check for $(>3,000, down to a box of cigars or a bottle of liquor. He has had four or five fine houses given to him, and enough of money and other things to make him a rich man. He is now in a position where he can pay off some of his obligations, and lie has been doing it to tho best of his ability. His action in this respect is in marked contrast with that of Audrew Johnson and other Presidents. The Democrats have a majority in the Ohio Leislature, and consequently the power summarily to reject the pro posed Negro Suffrage Amendment; but the Cincinnati Enquirer urges them to submit the question to a vote of the people. That is wise. That it will be voted down their can not be a doubt. Why should the Radicals of Pennsyl vania refuse to follow thp same course? Does any one need to ask? Does not every man know that Negro Suffrage would be defeated in this State by an unprecedented majority? The attempt to prevent a vote will detach thousands from the Republican party and give us a Democratic Legislature and Governor Some people were sorely puzzled to tell how Grant ever came to appoint Hoar Attorney General. The secret is out at last. Hoar presented Grant with a library, and Ulysses naturally con cluded that ho ought to know more law than anybody of his acquaintance. The books brought.the answer, and, another pecuniary obligation being thus dis charged, the great smoker puffed the cigars Mr. Boric gave him jvltli com plete complacency. A Lesson for the Da)’ A certain ruler was asked by tho chief of the people to sit in the receipt of cus toms. But the Scribes and Pharisees said unto him, “This thingcan tliou not do, unless thou sell all that thou hast.” “And when he heard this ho was ex. ceeriing sorrowful, for he was very rich.” And so another received the customs. Grant is bound to tako good care of his personal friends. Senators Schurz and Drake called upon him to get some appointments made for St. Louis, but Ulysses very bluntly informed them that lie had selected someofliis own friends to fill the offices there. The Mis souri Senators departed much cha grined. There are but two of the seven mem bers of General Grant’s Cabinet who have ever been in Congress, viz: Mr. Cresswell, of Maryland, aud Mr. Wash burne, of Illinois Gen. Grant seemed to consider the fact that Congress was now in very bad odor with the people, and that tho leas any of his appointees had to do with it the better. To send Sheridan to New Orleans against the wishes and in opposition to the protest of ninety-nine out of one hundred of the actual citizens of Louis iana, is the manner of enforcing tho “Let us have peace” doctrine in that section of the Union. There is a Democratic gain in the New Hampshire Legislature, and a fall ing off on the Radical popular majority This is more than should have been ex pected, with the whole prospective pat ronage of the general government turned to the account of the Radical candidates. Heavy Verdict for Breach of Promise A breach of promise case was recently decided in the county court of Warren county, Illinois* In which the defendant, a man of considerable wealth, set up the plea that the young lady was of African descent. Several medical witnesses testified that a personal examination disclosed indubita ble indications of African blood in her veins, although she was perfectly white and had moved in the best white sooiety in the country. Others, however, declared ahe had no African blood. The jury rendered In her £avor to the amount of 510,000, An Important Will Case. One of the most important will cases ever before a New York court has been on trial In Orange county, durlDg the past week. The gist of the matter in dispite was whether Mrs. Mary L. Powell, widow of Thomas Powell, the wealthiest man in Orange coun ty, was capable of making a will. The contestants took the ground that her belief In spiritualism was such as to render her incompetent as a testatrix. The amount of property In question is about $2,000,000. Official Document* In the Hncbman W hlshey fraud. Washington, D. C., 1 February Bth, 1869. j Editors Intelligencer ; I noticed in your paper a short time since an article in re lation to the Hackman case, and was a lit tle surprised to hear that it had been set tled by the Commissioner of Internal Rev enue, without tbe payment of the tax due the Government. In looking over tbe files of tho depart ment I accidentally came across tho evi dence of A. H. Hood, who X think was formerly Collector of your district. I say accidentally, because I had often looked before but could never find any of the evi dence in the case that had been transmitted here by Mr. Alexander, the Assessor, all of which had been stolen from the file of the Department. This evidence of Mr. Hood’s will enlighten your readers somewhat on the subject, and I may be able to send you other information in regard to it at Borne future time. I notice that the Examiner says that the Collector of the District recommended its settlement. There is however no such recommendation on file in the office here, but it is alleged that Collector Strickler did so recommend. Yours truly, Steasburo. TESTIMONY op A. ir. HOOD, ESQ. A. H. Hood, Esq., formerly Collector of Internal Revenue, for the 9th District of Pennsylvania, after being duly affirmed testifies as follows: In tbo spring of 18GG I was Collector of I lat * Reveuuo for the 9th District of Penn sylvania ; I was present at the examina tion in the case of A. S. Hackman, at the request of the Assessor, Mr. Alexander; about the Ist of March, ISCfi, a charge was made to the Assessor that A. S. Llackman of Rapho township, had between January Ist and May 31at, 1805, doiruudod the government out of a largo amouut of rev enue on whiskey distilled between thoso periods ; to the best of my knowledge this ebnrgo was made by a man named Brown, who had been in the employ of Mr. llack man at that time ; at the hearing ho stated with great particularity, under oath, that Hackman had mashed and distilled much larger quantities of grain during that peri od than he had made any return of; an other. witness,lnaraed Drabenstadt, testified that he had been omployed in the Distillery of Hackman during that period, that Hack man every day mashed and distilled a greater quantity of grain than he accounted for; ho produced a small book, originally a passbook, but the leaves torn apart aDd loose though they all seemed to bo there, which lie said contained a statement of the amount of grain mashed and distilled during that time, according to which statement the quantity of whiskey produced in said time was not less than 23,9-iO gallons ; there wore other witnesses examined, but I cannot ro memGer what they testified to; tho books of the Penn’a Railroad at Mt. Joy station showed that 15,702 gallons was shipped from theru during tbnt time; the hearing of tho casowasnot concluded in one day, thero was one, two, or more adjournments; tho parlies were present with their counsel; all the evidence given in the case was com mitted to writing by tho Assessor’s Clerks. Mr. Alexander told me that la- had sent it to Washington together with his report; Bnmo days after the hearing was concluded Mr. Alexander called at ray otlico to con sult mo concerning what construction, Ac., we would put upon the testimony; after considering tbo matter I proceeded to draw up a memorandum of my conclusions from the testimony given in tho case, which I have with mo ; after proceeding in it some distance Mr. Alexander suggested to mo that his opinion was that thero was u. good deal of spito on tho part of tho two princi pal witnesses against Hackman, and that their testimony though true in the main should bo taken with considerable al lowance; I asked him how ho would represent that allowance, and he replied ; I would strike off one third of tho amount of their testimony; I furnished tho calcu lation upon that basis, and handed him the paper, telling him to make such use of it as ho saw proper, and when he was dono with it to return it to mo, and this is the paper marked “A;” the assessment made by Mr. Alexander was somewhat less than the estimate I handed him ; a considerable portion of that estimate was based on Mr. Hackman's own testimony ; ho was sworn in tho case and stated that he had on hand on tho sth of January, DUS, the number of barrels, hogsheads and tierces ns given in tho paper marked “A;” the number of gallons contained in these casks was not stated by Mr. Hackman, but was estimated by Mr. Alexander and myself; Mr. Alex ander afterwards, without consulting me, reduced the amount of my estimate 756 gallons; Ido not know why ho did this, but suppose it was beenuso be thought the estimato of the contents of the casks too high; I gave Mr. Alexander tho paper marked “ A,’ 1 not as an official act of mine, but as u memorandum to aid him in aim ing nt his own conclusion; in my opinion from tho testimony, my calculations nt the time was prettj nearly right. Signed, A. 11. llood, STATEMENT A, A. S. Hackman, by his own sworn state ment, had ou hand January ;'th, 1805 : 5-12 bbls. whiskey at 40 gals, per bb1...21,ft50 gals. 6ii li.ids. •* “HU •* each 7 2to °•• 3 tierces “ “ •• *YI " Deduct quantity on hand tax juld, ' ‘ January Ist, ifc'o3, as per return of Dec. 31st, IStH _1(i,1.52 Distilled prior to law taking (on hand Jan. oth, istnj removed not over 100 bb!s. at 40gala, oach..., i.cuo Leaves pj ggy According to testimony of Urowii nnd Drabenstadt tlie amounL of whiskey made from Jau. Ist, JMtf, to May 31st, JWii, was not less than 23,010 gals 23.010 Deduct quantity on which lax was ’ paid ns per returns »,JM ; also tor possible error In testimony of llrown nnd ;Drnbenstadt 1 , of the whole, 7,»50 -iT ioi •* Leaves •>! .■ Equal at $J per gal” to X. —Xo reliable conclusion can bo drawn from the fact that but 1.7,702 gnllons appear to havo been shipped on tho Penn sylvania Railroad, as It does not appear how tho difference between this quantity and the quantity olhorwise stated was dis posed of. (Sißuod,) A. H. Hood, Murch /lb, 18(17. Corrected 20,(111) gals. In a Dilemma. The servile huato with which tho Radicals oi our State Legislature aro proceeding to obey the edict of the military President in regard to tho ratification oi tho XVth Amendment, is likely to get their party in to tho very trouble which they seek to avoid. Tho object of tho Radical politicians is to obtain a settlement of the shffrago question, in accordance with their own views and purposes,without permitting the people to have a voieo in the matter. This object they hope to accomplish by rushing tbe XVth 'Amendment through the Legislature snow in se-siou, tho members of which were elected without reference to tbe suffrage question. But they will be foiled. They cannot obtain the assent of tho Legislatures of three-fourths of the States prior to the October elections. The Legislature of Minnesota, which is over whelmingly Radical, has adjourned with out taking action on the Amendment. A new Legislature will have to be chosen in Tennessee before that State can act upon the question. These two States, added to £«ew Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Ken tucky, Ohio, Indiaua, California, and Ore gon, make up the number required to pre vent tbe ratification of the Amendment. Texas, Mississippi and Virginia notyoting must also, be counted against ratification because their silence is in effect and to all intents and purposes negative to the pro posed Amendment. Here then are thirteen States certain not to ratify before the next election in Pennsylvania. This 'fact will enable the people of the State to pass upon the amendment just as .effectually as if it had been submitted to \ them for ratifica tion or rejection. Nay, in this way the Representatives who have betrayed the people by refusing to submit the Amend ment to the popular arbitrament, and by slavishly registering the imperial decree of the General-President, will be brought to judgment. Thus the Democracy will pos sess the double advantage of having in is sue before the people the odious measure itself, as well as the record of the faithless Representatives who strove by fraud to impose that measure upon the country With such a load to cany, the radical party will sink Into the lowest ‘depths of defeat It might have saved itself by submitting the suffrage question to the people. At least it by such a course, have es tablished, in some sort, a claim to decent consideration at the hands of the sovereign masses. But to the great wrong of propos ing to take from the people the undelegated right to control and regulate suffrage for themselves, they have added the crime of attempting to do it by deliberate robbery. Such a record ought;to and will damn any party. —Harrisburg Patriot, The nomination of the rebel Long street, is not relished by the Radicals. Some of the papers are disposed to favor his confirmation as Surveyor of the Port of New Orleans, and others bit terly oppose it. Grant finds himself in constant antagonism with his party. Endorsement or the Nereo SnfTraee | Amendment* Habßthburq, March 10. EVENING SESSION Off THE SENATE. The Senate met at half-past seven o’clock. Speaker Worthington announced that the Senate tod met tor the especial purpose of I fifteenth amendment to the United States Constitution. Mr Duncan dwired to present a number , o{ Petitions on this subject, but the Speaker ruled that nothing but the consideration of the amendment was in order, and suceest* ed to Mr. Duncan that he could present them to-morrow. The clerk then read the following viz: Joint resolutions to ratify the amendment to the Constitution of the United States. #Tf H^REAS| TwMhirdß fof the members ® e ° at f£°d House of Representatives e P n te< * ® ta^es » In Congress assembled, cua adopt an amendment to th 6 United foUows^ 1 eDt^e< * ar ticle fifteen, as TTn?t2?S? t l ’ , The right of citizens of the SStlwih 1 *?!.* 0 £ ot , e “i 18 " not be dented or '-ho l.nited States, or by any C° ‘or: ° r pr ° TiOU “ Sec. 2, The Congress Bhall have power to tion™ UlB Brllole b y appropriate^ legists- »ht w}T. odment 1188 been submlt legislature of Pennsylvania for ratification or rejection; therefore Beil enacted 6 y the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Pennsylvania in treneral Assembly met. That the amend ment, as above proposed and submitted Is herohy ratified and adopted bv the State’ of Pennsylvania. The wboio session was occupied in its discussion. The Democrats of Pennsyl vania were most ably represented by Measra. Burnett, Soaright, M’Candless Da vis and Wallace. The Republicans agreed in their caucus to say nothing to defend their position, but Senator Lowry becoming restive under the lashing of the Democratic Senators, made as able a defence of the fraud about being porpetrated upon the people as his feeble condition would admit. During the dis cussion Senator Errett made himself so ob noxious to the wholeSenatothattlioSpenk er was compelled to call him to order. On the question, will the Sennto ratify the amendment, the yens and nays were requir ed by Mr. Errett and Jackson and were as follows: \ens~ Messrs. Billingfelt, Brown (Mer cer), Coleman, CounelL Errett, Fishor, Gra ham, Henszey, Kerr, Lowry, Olmsted. Os terhout, Robinson, Stinson, Stutzmnn, Tay lor, White and Worthington, Speaker—is. Is ays—Messrs. Beck, Brown (Northamp ton), Burnett, Davis, Duncan, Jackson Linderman, M’Candless, M’lntiro, Miller Nagle, Randall, Scorighl, Turnor, Wallace So the question was determined in llio affirmative. Tho preamble and title we're also agroed to. The Semite -then adjourned until to morrow at ten o’clock. Tlio Rnnp Jndfuicnt. 1 estorday, uuder the gag of the previous question, the Stuto Senate adopted a reso lution making tbo XVth Amendment the special order for last night’s session, und fixing half-past ten o’clock as the time at which discussion must cease and the vote be taken. The hot blood of shame will mantlo the ebook ot every truo Pennsyl vanian as ho reads of tbo reckless tyranny which muzzled dobato upon a question so gravo and so fraught with importance to the people. But the advocates of tho Snap Judgment meditated by the authors of tho X\ th Amendment, could not nlford to let thoir measure run tho gauntlet of free dis cussion. That would have boon its death. Ihoro was but one way to pass it, and thut was under the gag of the previous question and by tho parly lash laid upon tho shrink ing bucks, und tho caucus rowels driven into tho quivering sides, of tho poor, eon temptiblo cowards, who know tho incus lire to be wrong but incked the courage to do right by voting against it. But tho Radicals of tho Senate havo put themselves upon.the record in such a man ner as will surely draw upon thorn the wrath ot a betrayed and outraged people. Senator Wullaco (Dera.) offered a Berios of resolutions proposing to submit tho XVth Amendment to a vote of tho people at the election in next October, but this fair, demo erntic and liberal proposition was defeated by a strict party vote, every Democratic Senutor voting for it, und every Radical Senator voting against it. In order that Mie public may see the fairness of Mr. Wal lace’s plan of disposing of this XVth Amendment, we here insert tho resolutions offered by that gentleman : •‘Whereas, The CoDgress of the United States has proposed ah amendment to the Constitution thereof, to be known ns Article XV, which changes the rule of suffrage now existing in thia Commonwealth, and sub- ! stitutes therefor another and a different rule, which said amendment is now sub mitted to the legislatures of the different States for ratification, and Whereas, "All power is inherent in the people,” and it is right that they should have an opportunity to vote for or against the ratification of the said amendment and to determine whether they will or will not change the rule of suffrage now existing therefore Resolved, That the Judiciary Committee of tho Senate be and they are hereby in structed to proparo and forthwith report to tho Senate a bill /or the submission of the question of the ratification of the said amend ment to the people at the election in October , ISG9. 1 Resolved, That the Sonato will not uct upon the question of the ratification of the said amendment to the Constitution of tho United States at its present session, but will await the action onhe;peoplo nt Ibe polls thereon. Now, then, let the fact that a proposition ro fair, so honest, so Democratic, was voted down by tho unanimous voice of tho Radi cal Senators, be made known from one end of the State to the other. Let every freeman know that the Democratic Senators strove to submit the proposed Suffrage Amendment to a vote of the people, but that the Radical Senators defeated the proposition to submit and insisted upon taking SNAP JUDG MLN r, without regard to the wishes of the people. Let this PACT be the issue be tween the two parties. Let the Democratic press with one voice proclaim it, aud let the people hurl from place and power tho miserable caitiffs who have betrayed them. Moreover, let it be understood that the Democrats of the State Legislature made special resistance to the ratification of the -W th Amendment, because it is a base and traitorous surrender to the Federal Govern vxenl of a ripht which the people resowed to themselves at the formation of the Goveni menL The members of the legislature who vote for the ratification of this Amendment are guilty of treason to tho people of the State. They voto away one of the rosorved rights of tho people, without tho people's ' consent. This is treason of the rankest ; sort, and Dio men who are guilty of it are ' traitors of the vilest kind, As for tho ab- 1 struct principle of Negro Suffrage, which is Involved in ibis proposed amendment, it is overshadowed by tho groat fraud perpetra ted in preventing tho people from passing judgment upon that principle at tho ballot box. The base betruyal of the people by tho radicals in the legislature, baa convinc ed us that there are plenty of negroes who could fill theseatsoccupiedby thosetreach crous representatives, if not with rnoro in telligence, at least with greater fidelity to their constituents.— Harrisburg Patriot. Kissing II IB H ilo While Dying or Hydro Mr. Edcergon, who died of hydrophobia at Saddle river, had to beheld byfiveoraix men, and during his luold intervale begged to kiss h;a wife, who was very ill in another part of ihe house. Just before his lust dreadful lit he pleaded so piteously to kiss bor once more before he died, that, risking the consequences, they took bor to his bed. Tho dying man carefully wiped tho froth from his face, and compressing his teeth tightiy to prevent any of the poisonous saliva exuding from his mouth, kissed the lips which he had so often pressed in love and affection, and then resolutely turning away aftor bidding her adiou forever, relapsed I into a dreadful paroxysm and died. Tho 1 man who kopttbodog which bit Mr. Ecker- i son, after knowing that ho had been bitten ! by another tnad dog a week before Mr. Eckorson’s death, gayo him fifty dollars as a compensation for the injuries sustained, and persuaded Mr. Eckerson to sign a paper ot release from further claims. The neigh bora are very indignant, and talk about c.ubbing together to carry on a suit against the owner of tho dog in behalf of the widow ! and orphans. The neighbors think that the very least Mr. Hopper can do is to pay off a mortgage of seven hundred dollars rest rngon the Eckerson place, and they threaten a law suit if he does not lift that mortgage. —Trenton True Am.crica.7i. b 6 Attempted Arrest of a T>e«perndo-Two Officer* Shot. Memphis, March B.—Captain Haynes, of the Arkansas militia, accompanied by Ser pants Brown and Fincb, of the Metropoli tan police, with a requisition from Governor Clayton, of Arkansas, approved by Gov Brownlow went to Horn Lake, Miss., twelve miles below here, yesterday, for the £on P of arresting Cub Hailand, a noto i .t™ bon V! w Indlan ’ who bad fled from Arkansas. On approaching the house, Cub, mo? ? vldent “inspected their intention, met them at the door with a revolver in each hand and opened Are on the party, Sergeant Finch through the body d J lcl ?? a WonDd from which he has C "P tain Haynes was also shot twice in thegrom and dangerously wound ed. Cub then fled. Brown and Captain DDder 1110 Impression that they hud badly wounded the Indian, bat hUS?/™ 1 .. 0118 f’ ate JPat he returned to the house where the affair occurred last night “ d 8tl ? lo ( ‘wo horses in revenge for his sV posed betrayal.jFtnch was a native of Ohio and served in the Union army. A,vial Affair at Fom Uy Folnoned .^’S 0400 ' ¥ ar< * JO.—A revolting discov ery whs made yesterday evening ln tiT« Fifth ward, or what Is better SSL'™- Bridgeport, the details of which molt sickening. Near the corner of Farrell and Lyman streets lived a man “amid Mo?rtl nei bv h ? m P °J eil a lime kiln amf tv?! Choi fam "y consisted of a wife W 0 children, aged respectively three 8 81x months. These four persons discovered to be poisoned and the mother and two children quite dead, bnt the man was still olive. Prom him, at in tervals, between the spasms, intelligence waa gained that the woman and children died on Saturday night, but denies -know ing anything of the cause. The remains were fearfully swollen and 'covered with blood. The cause of death will probably remain a mystery, as the man Fonn is in sensible and sinking fast. Report of tho Olnorltj of the Committee on Federal Relations Recommending tlie SnbmisiloiT of tho proposed XTth Amendment to the Federal Constitu tion to a Vote of tho People. 2b the Senate of Pennsylvania : The minority of your Committeo on Fed eral Relations, to which joint resolution for the ratification of the amendment to the Constitution of tjbe United States, to bo IX3 arl l c l Q tifteen, was referred for consideration, cannot agreo with the con clusions arrlvod at by tho majority of tho committee and respectfully report that, in their opinion, the question of tho ratifica- I, 0:! or rejection of thej suid amendment should not now be acted upon by the leois lature, but should bo submitted to the poo pie in order that their desires upon the inb- J«wt may bo known and their instructions obeyed. We will not enter iuto a discussion of the propriety of the amendment itself but I waiving that,will confine ourselves to what 1 In our opinion, is of infinitely more lm tance-dho right of fhe people to determine for themselves who shall, and who shull not, vote. That governments derive tholr just pow ers from the consent of the governed, is u maxim as old a 9 our institutions, nnd tho violation of tho principle ombodied lu it I was, more than uuy oilier, tho cause of tho : Revolution aud tho establishment of our 1 , e _P o , ndenco * es true to-day as it was in L '>r ?inn Our own coustitu t ou exp icitly provides In tho second sec tion of the declaration of rights "ibut all power is iuhoiont in tho people.” it wns \sell said by Judge iison in the eonveti lion hold in this State to ratify tho Federal Constitution : “That tho supreme,absolute I and uncontrollable powor is in tho people before they niako u constitution, nnd re maius in them after it is made. To control tho power and;conduct of tho Legislature by an overruling constitution was au im provement in the science and practice of government reserved to the American •States. .When they have made a State constitution, they have bostowed on the government created by it a certain portion of their powor; but tho feo-simpio of their power remains in themselves. It resides in the people as tho iouutain of government; tho people havo not—tho people meant to— and tho people ought not—to pari with it to any government whatsoever. In their bands it remains secure. They can delo gato it in such proportions, to such bodies, on such terms, and under such limitations as they think proper.” This great power is not vested In tho Slat#, nor in tho United Stutos. Neither* a legis lature nor a convention can possess h.-~ Perhaps some politician, who has not con-'- sidered with sufficient accuracy our politi cal syatoms, would unswer that, In our governments, the supremo power was vested In tho constitutions. This opinion approaches a stop nenrer to Iho truth, but does not reach it. Tho truth is, that In our governments, the supreme, absolute, ami uncontrollable power remains in the people. As our constitutions are superior to our legislatures, so tho people uro superior to our constitutions, indeed, tho superiority in this last Instance, is much greater; for the poople possess over our constitutions control in act, ns well as right." Under our system tho work of a conven tion specially delegated to form u coustilu tion is iunperativo until it is passed upon by the nooplo, and rocolve from their hands its vitality. Tho Constitution of tho United States and that of our own Stato both passed tho ordeal of tho people uml been mo opera tive only under their approval. Tho ten dency ol public opinion is more and mum in this direction, for ol' the constitutions adopted in the United States, upwards of eight}* havo thus been submitted and an proved. Having thus seen that the consent of Iho peoplo Is a matter of theory, of right ami of practice, wo now eoinn to consider the ap plication of these principles to the question before us, Tho proposition contained in the amend ment is a fundamental otu\ By this wo mean that it was ono of those vital ami im portant rights that enterod deeply into the compromises of tho Const tutlnn and that power over it was given neither to the Federal nor the ,State government, but that tho right to declare who should exorcise tho power of election in tho .State was reserved to the peoplo and remains with them. Judge Wilson, before referred to, in com ; meuling upon tho character of this right, Bays : " All authority, of overy kind, m dc , rived h\j REPRESENTATION from the people, and the. democratic principle i.v carried into cveri/ part of the government. It secures, in the strongest manner, the right of Sntjnwe. Montesquieu, book 2d, chap. 2d, spi-aking , of the luwa relative to democracy, says : i "Inu democrucy tho people arc in some respects the sovereign, unci in others tho subject.” There can bo no exercise of their suv , ereignty but by their suffrages, which are their own will. Now, tho sovereign’s will is the sovereign himself. The laws, thore | fore, which establishes tho right of suffrage, j are fundamental to this government. And] indeed, it is as important to regulate in a republic, in what manner, by whom, to whom, and concerning whut, suffrages nro to be given, as it is, in a monarchy, to know who is the prince, aud after what manner he ought to govern. “In this system it is declared that the electors in each Stato shall have the quali fications requisite for Its electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature. This being made tho criterion of right of suffrage, H is consequently secured, be cause the samo Constitution guarantees to every .State in tho Uniou, u Republican form of government. Tho right of suffrage is fundamental to Republics.” We havejno power over this question. It belongs to the people, although a technical reading of the Federal Constitution on the subject of amendment seems to indicate ! that we have the power that really belongs to the peoplo. We nro of opinion that tho power of tho Legislature ol this State to ratify of its own motion an amendment to tho Federal Con stitution is to bo restrained nnd confined to those matters over which control has been vested by the people in tho Federal aud State governments. Our power cannot go beyond tLis, for Iho stream cannot rise higher than its source. Without the consent of the people of this Stato, a right that is uot granted by them to either tho Federul or the Stuto govern ment, cannot bo taken from them, uorcan the riglus’ofn minority of tlieStntes be taken away by tho majority, when tho right in vaded has never been within tho control of the Federal Government. If this attribute of sovereignty can bo taken from us by Congress and Legislature then'liberty of tho ; proas aud trial by jury can in like manner j bo swept away, and it is within (ho power of amendment to create' an established church and connect Church nnd State. The exercise ot this power bv the Legis lature, without the consent of the people, u not amendment, it is revolution. A further consideration of the struuturo of our government and of tho powers granted by tho people loads us to tho sumo conclusion. Tho legislature of tho Stale is limited and controlled by tho provisions of the Stato constitution. Its acts in vlolntion thereof are void, As au independent body, every attempt on its part to interfere with tho I right of suffrage, or to chango tho rule | thereof, is of no effect. It mny regis | ter the public will, but it cun never | act with power upon a subject beyond | its control. The Constitution of tho I United States is u part of the constitu tion of Pennsylvania, and tho constitution of I > onnsyl vanla is a part ot the Constitution of the United States. Kach Is supremo i within its sphere. The government of tho United States is ono ofonnmernted powers. I all powers not granted to It “ are reserved to the Stales and tho people.” Wo may for the purposes of this report consider it to bo supreme in its control of doubtful and con current powers, yet beyond theso wide fields and outside of thorangoof its author ity, is found the control of tills important subject. It is reserved to tho States, or tho people. It is a part of tho Stuto constitution, and m that respect the provisions thereof aro tho supreme law. Being neither un enumerated, a concurrent, nor u doubtful power under tho Federal constitution its control manifestly is in tho Stato or tho peo ple. This amendment would be futile if the subject of it were not beyond tho pale of Federal authority. No oue will arguo that its control la in the Stoto Legislature, I if the provisions of tho Federal Constitution I on the subject of amendment aro uot to bo considered, but we have already seen that it is in no manner controlled Ly Federal anthority. If it Is, then the State Constitu tion, the supremo law upon this subject, is mado inferior to the power of tho Stale Legislature, and they may by amendment override it. No such violation of the rights ot the people was ever contemplated by tho framers of our constitutions, but tho plain and clear Interpretation oftbe wholesubject is, that tUis right is one that belongs to the people nnd can only bo effected or controll ed by them. If by the voteof tho Legislatures of three fourths of the States this amendment bo ratified, and by the action of our State it is rejected, then our control of suffrago in Pennsylvania is taken from us by the votes of the Legislatures of Florida and Oregon. Surely such a result as this was never con templated by tho framers of the govern ment. If it had ever been supposed to exist, tho Federal Constitution would never havo been ratified. For these reasons wo conclude that sov ereignty upon this subject is reserved to the people, that the power of amendment in this form without their consent does not exist, but that it does exist as to all those mat tors in which powers and rights are vested by | the State or Federal Constitution in the ; Stato or Federal Government. The people of the State established this rule and it is their right to be consulted in Its change. We cannot err in going to them for instructions. The Legislature was elected ppon other issues; one political party in the late elec tion maintained that “ The question.of suf frage in all the loyal States properly belongs to the people of those States,” whilst tho position of the other has uniformly been, that the people of tho States are possessed of all power oyer the rule of suffrage. Both recognise the right of the people, and tho Legislature would be recreant to Us duty as well as to the dictates of common houo9tv to recant the express pledges involved in its election. The matter for us to determine Is not. shall this amendment be ratified, but It Is the far graver question, shall tho people be deprived of their right to pass upon tho question of its ratification or rejection Wo boliovo that they should not, and tluSifiw t r iXbVthe f S™a t ef reao " UloDB f ° r nd °F- Judiciary Committee r S S® nate bo and they are hereby In? stmeted to preparo and forthwith report to u bit for the submission of the question of tliu ratification of the said o“ober m °l?J £( t 0 thC PCOPI ° at ,be in Resolved, That tho Senate will not «»ri upon tho quoatlon of the ratification of iho Un?tedß?n < J mei ! t i. t 0 lhß Constitution of Urn nwntt th„ 0t itS P™ eat “salon, but will thßroon h nn l°m U>o peoplo nt the polln V.i^j°, on, , ond wlll nccept tho result there ns rutillcutlon or All ot whir), h* respectfully submitteil. Wn-LIAM A. Wat.i.a, }:, >vm. M’CandlsEsh. n V -?ir? Va l - eUcr * Iho following U Mr. Slowarl's loiter of resignation Washington, MjuHi !«, To (he President ,*}*; , A PP reci "ilUK Iho high honor eon. icrrod by your nomination, and tho unnn by Senate 'of n,'v - rhnthnf ’ ‘ ‘’ncu instances hoyond m'j, Hffl ,™ n, PBl nu. to decline, ut. | nor oven an amendment to nnv fmun>-i-I moasuro, during his whole career in <‘"i: Kress. If bo has ever participated in th- .!•• bates upon such measures, a Ims been m i manner ho leeblo, and with liitorinatii ii inadequate, as to have attrucled no nmi His efforts ot this kind (if be has ever am.l.’ any) cannot be said to have -Iq-pcd mu ~t pnbljo recollection, for men do net f rc i what they never thought it worth Un-i -whilo toattend to. Mr. HnutwcM’Mrin'iii---:.: speeches wore not merely too worth!* -,, i be remembered, but 100 mean to be pern-. -i, even with tbo cursory attention wbi- h . ’ bestowed on the miserable inanities «.f [' ,■ ordinary run and dead level ot ( , Congressional debates. Mr. lluiitw.:,- ■ mind Is Incapable of ib 1 class of subjects ; he feels too little 7nn-i. •: j in them to have broached evetnm Ingem-- | crotchet, much less a wise and sa*nii-n,u . i plan for placing' the {lnnnces on a s< i; ! oasis. He is no more tit for Secretary m ti,, Treasury lhau he is to be the chief oi'a ...n - mission for codifying the Kedorai law-, . > president of a college of physicians an.] surKeons. or Chief Justice of the Kupr.-m- Court. The idea of a man of his slender c.i. pneity and mental equipments proposing 1.0 Congress a practicable plun for tion of specie payments, or for refunding the public debt at a lower rate of iiT terest.or for revising our ohsurd and ehaoia system of taxation, is simply ridiculous. Ho can of course put forth feoblo and bur rowed platitudes on such subjects, u- In could on the methods of conducting tin- Survey, or medianiculjmpro veilu»n i- In the Mint, or on any other subject which ho does not understand, irhobnsnm qualifications for the great and rospon.sih:i ofllco to which ho has now been appointed no man over so perfectly succeeded In In I lng his light under a bushel. - I Jfesides the weakness of this appoint no- 1 ■ I on the score of competency, it necessii -i. he curly retirement of Judgu 11 oar from i olllco of Attorney * G unern I, as Mussai-hu setts cannot permanently retain two (’..ln not offices. Judgo Hoar Is its biller and bigoted a Radical os Rnutwell,himself, but ho Is nevertheless aVrnnn of vigor and ab:!:• ties, and altogether life finest officer for in place in the original cast of tho Cnbjn.-i. General Grant will lose a competent Aitor ney-Uenornl to gum a .Secretary of i)„ treasury whose qualifications lor. Lbat . protest. | The Rending- off heir Dcniti HarrmiK. Yesterday afternoon Sheriff Ryle with bi deputy,Thos. S. Smith, Esq., visited Geor".- S. Twltcbell, Jr., In his cell in tho counTv prison, to read tho death warrant just issue.i fixing tho day for tho execution of tho sen tonco on tho Hth of April. Tho two officer • named, together with Rev. Geo. H. lJrlng hurst and sovoral officers of tho prison en terpu tbo cell of Twltcbell uml made known to hun the object of their visit. To thi -1 vvitchell replied, •* I do not blame ymi I'm discharging your duty ns an officor of Un law, but feel that God will give mostrengi h to hear tho tidings with submission.” The warrant was then read to him with feelii g and solemnity by Deputy Sheriff' Smith. Daring the reading, tho prisoner at inter vals gavo vent to his feelings by pleading in tho Almighty for strength of faith. Atlln conclusion of the reading he said—** Tin- Lord’s will must bo done,” and taking Un hand of Mr Bringhurst, said—“ Pruy for mo tbnt God will give mo submission.” M r Brlnghurst then offered prayor, nnd thi was followed by an earnest prayer from tin prisoner, to which all those in the coll re sponded with a heartfelt “amen.” Tho in terview lasted about a quarter of an hour, the scene being most solemn and effecting throughout, the Sheriff in particular being deeply moved and solicitous to disch tr-'.- his painful duty as humantdy as It \ v 7- posslblo to do it. Sheriff Lyle rend the death warrant Gerald Eaton to tho condemned vestordn’ afternoon. When tho Sheriff- entered tin room, ho found Eaton standiug with In arm resting against ihe wall. Ho m-nb known tho object of bis visit, and tho pris oner sn d he was ready to listen to the rv«d w£n < !5t| IB Qi ar W t » rtmi txiuUuuod to stand while the Sheriff was parlortnlng tho mi ed mh« !n y ’ At ttXP 01080 Klllon «IHH'ar - ed to be in no manner effected, Mu \* „ upon ortil,mr y topics, Since tho conviction ho lias boon attended bv th. Rev. Mr. Mcllvatu. ofUiolWu, V, ssmsssssisat^ Booth-. Ult IniurMw, loli wWoh .W! .1 ho In.uwaico comptuio, Uv* »«Sr tho In.unuico on J, VviQtn nllhoußhhi. inothw oovor nnulo ,n,y o,n>lKXn