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A Ben of Thieves.
The final adjournment of our State
Legislature is on event upon which the
newspapers of the State of all political
parties are congratulating the people.
We breathe freer now, for we know the
extent of the damage which has been
done us and that no further injury can
be inflicted for nine months to come.—
Would that the Legislature did not
meet again for nine years! for the In-
stltution has got to be a common nuis
* atice, which, if it continues to grow in
intensity as it has been growing for the
past few years, will effect the utter ruin
of our country.
The late Legislature has left behind
it a record, compared with which the
foul acts of its predecessors seem almost
commendable. The acts which it pass
ed and the still more atrocious laws
which it essayed but failed to enact,
/ will brand it as infamous forever.
The personnel of the body was such
as to fill every one who saw it with
horror, to think that such a set of men
were the law-makers of the State.—
Philadelphia had a villainous delega-
tion in the body but there were plenty
of country members who were equally
vile. They looked like thieves, acted
like thieves and were thieves.
Thu rascality, we fire bound to say
was not altogether confined to the lie*
publican members who were in the ma*
jorfly, and who will therefore be held
responsible for the legislation. There
was a small body of Democrats who
wore in the Ring and who were up to
their eyes throughout the session in
every scheme of corruption that was
broached. One or two of them were
men whom we found it difficult to be
lieve were so base. Wo regretted in
particular to learn that one young man
from a neighboring county, had dis
graced an honored family name irfid
sold himself for money. The conduct
of other men did not surprise us. The
Honorable Samuel Josephs, of Rhila-
astonish anybody by
any act of baseness. But the democ
racy of his district are every bit as bad
as ho is, for they know what he wanted
to go to tiio Legislature for when they
'sent him, and they, every one of them,
deserve six. months imprisonment at
hard labor for voting for him. We un
derstand thal'he is the paymaster re
ferred to in the following editorial item
from the Harrisburg Jhanbl:
Wo are informed, upon good authority,
that one of tin) paymasters of the “ ring ”
publicly gave his cheeks, at tlio Holton
House, on Friday evening last, to a num
ber of members of the Legislature. Of
course none of those wily witnessed this
operation could swear in a Court of Justice
that these chocks were given in puymeut
lor voles in the Legislature. But all who
saw the performance, unite in saying thut
they lmve no doubt that such wus tlie case,
How Hhumeful beyond expression thut such
a thing can ho done in the broad light of
day in this city of Harrisburg ! It is the
duty of the gentlemen who saw this trans
action to institute a legal investigation.
What avails the denunciation of the news
paper pros, if the people themselves are
impervious to a just sense of the shame
which their representatives are bringing
upon thorn V There is a stringent statue
for the punishment of bribery and corrup
tion, Let it be enforced.
There was another paymaster, we un
derstand, sitting at the same time at
another Hotel in-Harrisburg, drawing
checks in-favor of .Republican Legisla
tors. But as to him we feel leas in
terest. it is nothing singular for
.Republican politicians to be corrupt,
and jtin; party seems to he able to endure
it. Blit the Democracy cannot. We
are the special champions of honesty
ami integrity in the administration of
the government, and we must not allow
any one whom wc put in ollice to belie
*>\tr principles by Am practice. Jtisour
duty to denounce ami cast oir all such
rotten members of our party, which at
till hazards must be kept pure and with
out reproach; for it is our mission to
check the wide spread corruption which
exists in all departments (if the gov
ernment, and which, if it continues,
will prove fatal to the life of the Re
public.
Ml lricnm[ni' Ineunipctrncy
Previous to tlit* .Presidential election
(Irani was represented by the Radicals
as being a Conservative, as Ihb people's
eamlidate, and not as a representative of
any ultra faction. Since bis election,
however, it seems that the great Hiram
Ulysses is completely in the power of
Sumner, Butler, and other New Eng
land fanatics and demagogues. At tiie
/nstunoe of such men—the vilest ami
most unprincipled of the whole .Radi
cal crew -Mr. pliant lias sent negroes
to represent the United States at Jluyti
aud Liberia as Ministers resident. To
one of tin* most lucrative offices in .New
Orleans lie appoints a negro. A North
ern strong-minded women is selected
lor the Post Ollicc u! Richmond. The
notorious scoundrel ami corruptionist,
Jim Ashley, who failed to ho re-elected
to Congress, from the Toledo OongreH*
slonul district in Ohio, is appointed
Uovornor of Montana. The men who
gavo him houses and lands ami cheeks
for large sums of money occupy promi
nent positions in his Cabinet. Impor
tant public positions are tilled by his
own and his wife’s incompetent and
needy relatives—in short, (Irani's ap
pointments alone indicate* bin: to be
the most incompetent man ever ele
vated to the exalted position of Presi
dent of the United States.
Tnr; New York World says “we
have now the patriotic rule of number
one. “ For thirty-five positions in the
gift of Superintendent Rice, of the
Treasury building, there were over
three thousand applications.’’ Just
patriots to a “ posish.” Aml all
1011.
Because Commissioner ’Wells 7 Re
port on the Revenue militated against
the interests of the New England man
ufacturers ami other capitalists, wiio
glow rich oil the labor of the people,
Congress, with characteristic meanness,
refused to appropriate money to pay
liis stipulated salary.
Grant lias ordered the registration
to he continued in T«.-xas, preparatory
to a vote on the Constitution. That
will add to the power of the whites, if
they avuil themselves of it, and may re
sult in a defeat of itadical candidate*.
It is said the same order will he applied
to Virginia and Mississippi.
Tjik Imperialist still lives. The news
ugentß refused to circulate its first issue,
but its publishers claim that it has al
ready a circulation of over Io.UCU. It is
run in the interest of the bondholders,
and impudently asserts that a complete
triumph of the Democratic party would
bo equivalent lo repudiation.
Charles A. Dana, of the New York
Aim, has been excoriating Grant severe
ly of late. Notwithstanding his severe
criticisms he has been appointed ap
praiser of the port of New York. We
are anxious to seo what effect this will
have upon the columns of his, news
paper.
TiiE Imperialist., the paper published
in New York advocating the establish
ment of an .Umpire in this country, in
dignantly denies the rumor ailoat that
it ladead or about to collapse.' The Im
pcrialist is right—as long as the Radi
cal party ia in power and have the con
trol of the Government they will not
fail to aid the advocates of au empire
in publishing their paper.
THE WEEKCiY' A.PRIL 21, ±869
A Secret Friend.
The best friend the Democratic party
has just now Is President Grant. The
beaten pariy is not . usually very san
guine of its ability toisweep the country
at the fall elections of the year succeed
ing a Presidential contest, but then it is
not <sften that the new administration
is magnanimous enough to aid it in re
covering from its defeat. With the
powerful assistance now being rendered
us by General Grant, we have every
reason to feel very hopeful of the elec
tion of our candidate for Governor.,
Grant used to be a Democrat, and we
presume that it is a lingering love for
our grand old party that Inspires him
to indirectly do all that he can to
promote our welfare.
He is making a clean sweep of all
federal office-holders, putting out with
strict impartiality old Republicans
and old Johnsonites, both good and
bad, and putting in new men, who are
always as bad as he can get; them. To
be sure, he promised in his Inaugural
to make ability and Integrity an essen
tial pre-requisite to appointment to of
fice, but he has changed his mind since,
as he thinks he can aid the Democracy
better by pursuing a contrary course,
and thereby disgusting the people with
himself and with the Republican party
whose President he is.
In our own county for instance he has
removed from the Assessorship Mr.
Warfel, who was too honest to aid Dickey
in grabbing $40,000 of Uncle Sam’s
money, and has putin his place a young
man who is appointed as the facile tool
of our great little Congressman. He
removes also Assessor Webster in New
York, a Radical who was just about
making millions of dollars for the Gov
ernment out of the Wall street brokers,
who have hitherto evaded paying tax
upon their capital. He appoints the
notorious scoundrel Ashley, Governor
of a Territory. He fills all the first class
foreign missions with third rate men.
He furthermore strives to alienate from
himself all the influential Republican
journals by treating their conductors
with ignominy and contempt. He not
only refuses to tender any position of
honorfo Horace Greeley, the great Cre
ator of the Republican party, but he
even refuses to oblige him by giving an
ofilce to a friend for whom he earnestly
asked it. So too he ignores the claims of
Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun,
and secures tlio hostility of that Toma
hawk and Scalping Knife, liven our
neighbor Hiestand of the Examiner ,
backed up as lie was by the Pennsyl
vania Senators and Representatives,
couldn’t secure the inconsiderable posi
tion of United States Constable, and is
therefore strongly and justifiably of the
opinion that Grant is a fool. The news
paperpress, both Republican and Demo
cratic, are commenting upon the strauge
appointments and removals of our dis
tinguished General President, ami are
puzzled to know what to make of them.
They don’t detect In his apparently
suicidal movements, the deep guihe
which we believe he has in view, of
bringing the Democracy back into power
as speedily as possible. The New. York
Express takes the following uncharita
ble view of his performances :
< ten. Grunt and the Departments in Wash
ington are sweeping out old Republicans
and sweeping iinicir.' (Nearly nil the ofilce
holders swept out, voted for Gram.) The 1
removals and appointments seem to be 1
made without unv reference to principles •
or the public welfare. The Internal Keve- 1
mu* ©dicers in this city have not been im- 1
proved, and in some cases worse appoint
ments have been made. Gen. Grant prob
ably knew little or nothing of nil this, lie
w swept about as others order. The duties
ol his office are too laborious for him to
attend to, and necessarily lie must bo “run”
in a good degree by others. What ho seems
determined on is to have as easy a time as
possible, and to smoke his cigar as much as
possible. In the very beginning Congress
whipped him out, both on the official Ten
ure Hill, and on the creation of his cabinet
—and ever since lie has "surrendered.” The
Senute arrogate to themselves all powers, ,
and to the two Senators alone from the
State whence the appointees come, have
been assigned the power ofdeciding whether
they shall be reported favorably on or not.
Gen. Grant is very like to follow in the
wake of his military predecessors, Gen.
Harrison und Gen. Tuylor, who did not so
much administer the government, ns bead
ministered upon on the principle of dc bonis
non.
But the IT.ipi'css must surely be mis
taken. Our great ..General, who suc
cessfully guided vast armies, would
never think of surrendering to others
the government of the country nor per
mit himself to be whipped by Congress.
Our theory is much more reasonable,
that his purpose is to so administer the
government as to destroy the Republi
can parly, in order that its effects may
be administered upon by the De
mocracy in whose fold he was reared.
Andrew Jackson ami U. S. Gram.
General Jackson, when President,
did not remove his old comrades in
arms, the men who had assisted him 10
make his reputation. President Mon
roe appointed Colonel Solomon Van
Rensselaer as Postmaster at Albany,
New Y ork. The Colonel was a veteran
and wreck of the war of 18IJ. When
Jackson was elected President there
wen* numerous applicants for the posi
tion of Postmaster at Albany, but Old
Hickory sternly refused to turn out a
gallant soldier, though a staunch Whig,
to make mom for any of his political
friends.
How complete a contrast does this
afford to the course of Grant. He has,
in numerous instances removed gallant
aud deserving soldiers to make places
for pot-house politicians, who never
faced Lhoenomy. AtHurriaburg, George
Bergncr, a man who made a large for
tune during the war by speculating
and holding lut ollices, has been
given the post office. General Knipe,
one ot the bravest soldiers who went
from Pennsylvania, a bold and successful
o dicer, a man who rose from the ranks
l‘> be a Brigadier General, who left a
sick bed to take part in the battle of
Gettysburg, who marches! with Sher
man from Atlanta to the Sea, aud who
bears on his body many wounds which
should have plead his course success
fully, was summarily kicked out of
ofllee to make room for a political
mountebank who is making thousands
of dollars every year out of contracts for
public printing and other jobs which
are freely given him by a corrupt Radi
cal Legislature. A widow of another
gallant soldier was au applicant for the
olllce, and she was recommended by a
majority of the Republicans of Hums
burg, hut Simon Cameron insisted upon
having his licU-spiltle appointed, and
Grant turned out a soldier, turned his
back on the-soldier’s widow, and com
missioned Bergner.
And now this political cormorant,
who gobbles up such au immense amount
of patronage, is making much ado about
his having offered a clerkship to the
soldier’s widow who was repudiated by
Grant. The widow very properly de
clined to be made an underliugof Berg
ner. Iu so doing she showed that she
was worthy to be the wife of a soldier,
and incapable, of sullying the reputa
tion of one who died for his country.
We ought to beg pardon for coupling
the name of Jackson with thatof Grant
but we ask every soldier and citizen to
contrast (he conduct of the two men.
Jackson was a Democrat; Grant is
Radical enough to suit even Wendell
Phillips.
Trouble About the Foreign Appointments.
There is serious trouble about Grant's
foreign appointments. Many of the
nominees are considered to be unfit for
the positions to which they have been
assigned, and the whole batch have
been hung up to await the result of a
conference with Ulysses. Here is a
hitch which may result in serious con
sequences. The.virtuous Senate has,
however, agreed to refer all revenue ap
pointments to the Radical representa
tives of different States with the under
standing that there is to be no inter
ference with local preferences. So we
go.
He Paster and Folder Swindle Finally
Consummated.
The Infamous scheme of enforcingthe
payment of the, twenty-seven extra
'pasters and folders was finally consum
mated by the passage of the appropria
tion bill, .with a clause in It providing
fbr paying them; It will be remem
bered that the-'Senate refused to pass
the appropriation bill with this clause
in it. A committee of conference, con
sisting of three members of each House,
was then appointed. The members
from the House refused to allow the
clause providing for paying the extra
officers to be stricken out, and the bill
was finallyreported backasit originally
passed the House. A vote was again
had on it in the Senate, anditwasagain
defeated. At the last moment, how
ever, one Democrat was Induced to vote
for it, and it only remained to secure
another Republican. In this crisis Gen.
J. W. Fisher changed his vote and the
.bill passed with the clause providing
for paying the extra pasters and folders.
Gen.--Fisher is defended by Mr. George
Connell, of Philadelphia, in the follow
ing letter which we find in the Express.-
Senate Chamber, 1
Harrisburg, April 15, 1869. J
To the Editors of the Express:
I think it due to your Senator, General
Fisher, that I shotild state the circumstances
under which he finally gave his support to
the General Appropriation bill, passed this
day.
As Chairman of the Committee of Fi
nance, haying charge of the bill in the Sen
ate, I was naturally anxious that the bill
should pass before the adjournment of the
Legislature, in order that the necessity of
an extra session of the Legislature might be
avoided. The Committee on Finance had
stricken out the item providing for the pay
ment of the extra officers employed by the
Honse, before the bill was considered; so
that question was never discussed or voted
upon in the Senate. When the Committee
of Conference on the part of each House
met for the adjustment of the differences
between the two Houses, the three members
of the House refused to concur in the
amendment made by the Senate, and in
sisted that the item paying their officers
should be restored. The Senate Committee
was forced to yield, or the bill would have
fallen in Committee of Conference.
General Fisher voted against adopting the
report of the Committee because it sanc
tioned the payment of the extra House of
ficers, and thereby contributed to the defeat
of the bill.
The question coming up again, having
been reconsidered to-day, General Fisher
again voted no : and when all the Senators
had voted, and it appearing that the vote of
one Senator would change’thel result, Gen.
Fisher yielding to the necessity, as the only
means of preventing an extra session of
the Legislature at a cost of perhaps a hun
dred thousand dollars to tne State, arose
and reluctantly changed bis vote.
The pay of the extra officers of the House
will be about §16,000, while the cost of an
extra session would porhaps have reached
§lOO,OOO.
Relieving that Gen. Fisher did all that
any man could to defeat the obnoxious
pigment to the extra officers of the House,
I think he did wisely in choosing the least
of the two evils, and thereby saving the
Commonwealth thousands of dollars.—
Very truly yours, Geo. Connell.
The editor of the Express is not atall
disposed to accept the excuses made by
Mr. Connell as valid, and he cuts up the
Senator in the following savage article:
General Finber Deserts.
Mr. George Connell, n member of the
State Senate from Philadelphia, and a gen
tleman with whom wo never bad any ac
quaintance or communication before, writes
us a letter which will be found elsewhere
in this paper, to explain and apologize for
the course of Gen. Fisher in finally voting
for the Appropriation bill, embracing the
item for the payment of the pasters and
folders unlawfully appointed by the House.
Why and through whoso dictation or
prompting this letter to us was written by
. Mr. Connell, it is not difficult to penetrate ;
! but it is very certain that he fails to make
j out a plausible excuse for the extraordinary
, course of Gen. Fisher. Gen. Fisher, accord- ;
! Ing to his apologist, was strongly opposed
to the bill and steadily voted against it un
til he found that the final decision of the,
question rested with him alone, when rather
than put the State to the expense of an ex
trn session, be changed his vote and went
over to the other side ; and this short state
ment embraces the whole sum aud sub
stance of Mr. Conuell’s wordy letter, ex
cept that he informs us that Gen. Fisher
"reluctantly" changed his vote, an expres- ,
sion which simply shows that Mr. Connell, |
lor the sake of getting his friend or ciieut ,
out of a scrape, is willing to testify to a ;
<thing it is impossible he could know any- i
thing about; for nobody but Gen. Fisher i
himself is competent to say thut his vote
was reluctantly given; though uo doubt he i
was sorry enough to be compelled in the :
end to vote in a mauner that would expose ,
the hypocrisy of his former votes upon tlio j
otborside. j
Mr. Connell fails to explain, and Gen.
Fisher with all his well-known shrewdness
will find it extremely difficult to make bis
constituents understand, consistently with
honest intentions on his part, why, if it was
so essential to have the bill passed aud so
injurious to allow it to fail, he twice voted
against it within two days, when his vote
the other side wou'd not have tiltercd the
result; but as soon as the Gill could be
passed by the aid of his vote he promptly
gave it. Did not the General know ju.st as
well at the lime he was professing to op
poac the bill as when he came round in its
tavor, whether iLs defeat would necessitate
an extra session, aud at what cost? Ifsueh
evil consequences were to How from its
luilurc why did he persist so long in op
posing it? What new light was shed upon
the subject in the course of a siugle half
hour, that caused him to desert iu the very
pinch aud crisis of the battle with the cor
ruptionists, and thereby earn the praise of
Senator Connell, who is well known us the
Ueml Centre and file leader in the Senate
of all extravagant expenditures and every
measure of doubtful honesty in legislation?
The truth of the matter, It cannot be
doubted, is just this: General Fisher,know
ing his constituents were opposed to the
pasting and folding swindle, and to the
payment of these unlawfully, appointed
“ officers’' out of the State Treasury, pro- i
fessud to be of the same opiniouXaud there- |
I'oro voted with Senator Billiuglelt against
the appropriation—no doubt earnestly hop
ing and praying that there would be votes
enough to pans it without his vote, when
lie would have received due credit as one
of (lie members of the LugUluturo who
could be relied upon in oppositiou to ex
travagance and corruption. Jlut alas for
the success of this cunningly devised scheme
to humbug his constituents, enough votes
could not be had, without Ids, to carry the
meusuru through, aud ho Was compelled,
very reluctantly no doubt, to throw oil
tbo musk and appear In his true colors, as
a member of the Grand Army of Corrup
doniHts.
Gen, Fisher’s present term iu the Senate
is about to expire, upd it is understood ho
intends to be a caudidute lor re-election. If
his constituents require u man of his stamp
in the position, they will now know just
how well he is deserving of their uupport.
We do not care to mix in this delight
ful family quarrel. Our Radical friends
will have a happy time settling their
next local ticket under the Crawford
County .System. We shall stand aside
and enjoy their light.
We would, however, like the people
to remember all that has been said on
the subject of this outrageous swindle
by the Express and other Radical pa
pers, and would respectfully urge every
Republican to remember that only a
single Democratic Senator could be in
duced to vote for it. It had its origin
with the Republican members, and
upon their heads must rest the op
probrium of this barefaced robbery of
the State Treasury.
General Taylor aud General Grant.
Grant has summarily removed fromja
small office in Greenville, Tennessee,
Andrew Johnson, Jr., a son of the late
President. When General Taylor be
came President he found a son of his
opponent, General Lewis Cass, the
Minister of the United States at Rome.
General Taylor declined to make any
chauge, declaring that it would seem
like au indelicate act for him to do so,
and would subject him to the suspicion
of being governed by personal motives*
The great Ulysses has no such delicate
scruples. Considering his past life such
a thing is hardly to be expected we
admit. The man who was forced to
resign from thearmytoescapedismissal
on account of grossly ungentlemanly
conduct, could not be reasonably sup
posed to be troubled with those nice
feelings which influence the actions of
true gentlemen. How mean, and con
temptibly little his conduct appears
when contrasted with that of a true
soldier and a real gentleman.
Dana, of the New Y’ork &un, de
clines the position of Appraiser of Mer
chandize at the port of New York. The
bribe is not big enough for him. He
says;
I already hold tin office of responsibility
as the conductor of an independent news
paper, and l am persuaded that to abandon
it or neglect it lor the functions you ofler
me would be to leave a superior duty for
one of much less importance. Nor is it
certain that I cannot do more to help you
in tho pure and efficient administration of
the Treasury Department by remaining
here and denouncing and exposing politi
cal immorality, than I could do as Ap
praiser by the most zealous effort to insure
the faithful and honest collection of the
customs.
Texas a State in the Union.
.. The Supreme Court has decided that
Texas was never out of the Union/andi
in rendering that verdict has in effect
pronounced the entire reconstruction
patchwork of Congress to be unconsti
tutional, and a mere inert of dead
legal rubbish. Those who held the
reins'of government in Texas during
the rebellion sold certain bonds issued
to that State in compensation for her
boundary claims, to procure material to
be used in aid of the Southern Confed
eracy against the United States.—
The injunction was desired to pre
vent the payment of the money
due on these bonds, and the pe
titioners alleged that Texas being
a State in the Union could not law
fully secede, that the government set up
after the act of secession was not such a
government as could bind the people to
allegiance or lawfully dispose of the
property of the State. The counsel for
the defendant set up the answer that the
State of Texas had severed her relations
to the Union so far as to be disabled from
prosecuting such a case as this in the
Courts of the United States. In render
ing the decision of the Supreme Court
the Chief Justice reviewed the question
ofjurisdictionatgreatlength. Headmits
that if Texas was out of the Union at 1
the time these bonds were sold the j
Court had no jurisdiction; and then]
proceeds to examine the relation which
the State bore to the Union when cre
ated, and its status under the Constitu
tion duringtherebellion. The following
extract will suffice to show the drift of
his argument. He says :
A State, in the ordinary sense of the Con
stitution, is a political community of free
citizens, occupying a territory of defined
boundaries and organized under a govern
ment sanctioned and limited by a written
constitution and established by the consent
of the governed. It is the union of such
a common constitution which
forms the distinct and greater political will,
which that constitution designates as the
United States, and makes of the people and
States which compose it one people and one
country.
The State of Texas was admitted to the
Union in the year 1845, being invested with
all the rights and subject to all the responsi
bilities and duties of the original States of
the Union, and whs represented in Con
gress, until, in 18(51. she undertook to break
up her constitutional relations with the
United Slates, and by a convention declared
herself a sovereign and independent State,
and subsequently united with the other
seceding States niid aided in the formation
of the Southern Confederacy. In all re
spects and so far as the object could be ac
complished by ordinances of the Conven
tion, by acts of the Legislature aud by votes
of the citiz.ens, the relations of Toxas to the
Union were broken up and new relations
to a new government wore substituted for
them.
Did Texas in consequence of these acts
cease to be a State ? Or, if not, did the State
cease to be a member of the Union ? It is
needless to discuss at length the question
whether the right of a Slate to withdraw
from the Union for any cause regarded by
herself as sufficient Is consistent with the
constitution of the United States. The union
of the States never was a purely artificial
and arbitrary relation. If began among the
colonies and grew out of common origin,
mutual sympathies, kindred principles,
similnr interests and geographical relations.
It was confirmed and strengthened by the
necessities of war, and received definite
form, and character, and sanction from the
articles of confederation. By theso the
union was solemnly declared to " be per
petual,” and when these articles were found
to be inadequate to tbe exigencies of tbe
country the Constitution was ordained ‘ to
form a more perfect union.’ It is difficult
to convey the idea of indissoluble uuity
more clearly than by these words. Whut
can be indissoluble if a perpetual union
made more perfect is not.
1 But the perpetuity and indissolubility of
, the Union by no means implies the loss of
; distinct and individual existence or cf the
; right of self-government bytheStales. Un
; der the articles of Confederation each State
retained its sovereignty, freedom and inde
, pendence, and every power,jurisdiction and
, right not expressly delegated to the United
j States. Under the Constitution, though the
' powers of tho States were much restricted,
| still all powers not dolegated to the United
, States nor prohibited to the States are re
! served to the States respectively or to the
; people. And we have already had occasion
j to remark at this term tlmt "the people of
1 each State compose a State, having its own
government and endowed with all die func
tions essential to separate and independent
existence,” and that without tbe States in
union there could be no such political
body as the United States. (Nevada.) Not
only, therefore, can ihere be no loss of
separate aud independent autonomy to the
States through their union under the Con
stitution, but it may be not unreasonably
said that the preservation of the States and
tbe maintenance of their governments are
as much within the design and care of the
Constitution as the preservation of the
Union and the maintenance of tho National
Government. The Constitution iu all its
provisions looks to an indestructible Union,
composed of indestructible States.
Whe£, therefore, Texas became one of
; the United States, she entered into an in
! dissoluble relation. All the obligations of
perpetuu! union mid all the guarantees ot
the Republican Government in the Union
attached at o*ee to the State. The act which
consummated her admission into the Union
was somewhat more than a compact; it was
the incorporation of a new membpr into the
political body, and it was final. The union
between Texas and the other .States was as
complete, as perpetual and as indissoluble
as the union between the original States.
There was no place for reconsideration or
revocation except through revolution, or
through consent of the States. Considered,
therefore, as transactions under the Consti
tution, the ordinance of secession, adopted
by tho convention and ratified by a majority :
of the citizens of Texas, and all the acts of
her Legislature, intended to give effect to
that ordinance, were absolutely null. They 1
were utterly without uperntion inlaw. The
obligations of ihe State, a! a member of the
Union, and of every citizen of the State, as
a citizen of the United States, remulned
perfect and unimpaired. It necessarily fol
lows tnat the Slate did not cease to be a
State, nor her citizens to be citizens, of the
Union. If this were otherwise the State
must have become foreign and her citizens
•foreigners. 7he tear must have ceased to be
a war for the sujqiression of rebellion and
must have become a war for conquest and
subjugation,
The above covers the vital points of
the question as to the perpetuity of the
Union, and from the premises laid down
the Chief Justice argues that the gov
ernmental relations of Texas to the
Union remained unaltered during the
war, and the rights of the tttate as a
member of the Union and of herpeople
as citizen's of the United States now
only temporarily suspended. That is a
recognition of the doctrines which have
been contended for by the Democratic
party, as opposed to the schemes of the
Radicals.
It is to be regretted that the Chief
Justice did not see lit to follow up his
argument to its logical conclusion. If a
State Government can legally sue for
and recover money, as this provisional
government of Texas has done, then It
is for all oilier purposes a complete and
valid Spate Government, such as is rec
ognized by the Constitution of the Uni
ted States ; and if that of Texas be such,
there were those in all the other South
ern States equally so, and the recon
struction theories of the Radicals are
unconstitutional and based on an ab
surdity. The Chief Justice weakened
his opinion when, iu dodging the grav
est issue before him, he said:
“ We do not inquire here into the consti
tutiODuhty of tins legislation, so far as it
relates to military authority or to the para
mount authority of Congress.’’
And again :
'‘Nothing iu the case before us requires
the court to pronounce judgment upon the
constitutionality of any particular provis
ion of these [the rt construction] acts.”
Still this decision is one which will
help to fix right views in the minds of
thiuking people; and it is but the be
ginning of the end. The time mußt
surely come when reason will assume
its sway over the minds of the Ameri
can people, and when law will be again
strictly regarded, and the Constitution,
with all its provisions, be held sacred
as it once was.
The reason that Dickey selected Rea
to be Assessor is rea-dily guessed to be
because he believed Rea would prove a
rea-per of the taxes, who would not ob
ject, as did Warfel, to his benefactors
rea-ching his hands into the treasury
whenever, as in the Hackman case,
he felt disposed to rea-lize forty thousand
dollars. That is the real reason of Rea’s
“ raise.”
“The Drummer Boy ” this week is
inflicted upon Harrisburg.
Harrisburg has our sympathy.
The Cincinnati Commercial advo
cates the removal of the National Capi
tal from Washington to New York.
The New York World is opposed to it
on the grounds that it would tend to
strengthen the centralizing tendencies
of the present time.
The McArdle Case.
The McArdlecase which haa justtbeen
disposed of by the Supreme Courljhae
excited much attention, Add waaihAde
the object of special legislation by Con
gress, an act being passed to deprive the
Supreme Court of jurisdiction, in order
to avert a decision which would have
adjudged the so-called reconstruction
acts to be unconstitutional. Mr. McArdle
was the editor of a newspaper in Missis
sippi, and was arrested by the military
authorities on charge of publishing a
seditious In order to test the
constitutionality of the law of Congress
under which the military commander
held the anomalous position of Governor
of Mississippi, and undertook to do away
with this civil law, a writ of habeas
corpus from the United States District
Court of Mississippi was demanded by
McArdle, and tpeing then denied, an
appeal was taken to the Supreme Court
of the United States. That distinguished
lawyer Jeremiah S. Black was employed
as counsel by McArdle, and under his
able management the case was carried
forward until the Court was just on the
eve of rendering a decision, which it
was generally believed would pronounce
the reconstruction acts unconstitutional
and void ab innilio. To prevent this
the act depriving the Supreme Court of
jurisdiction in such cases was hurriedly
passed, and now Chief Justice Chase
decided, in accordance with this out
rageous act, that the Court has no juris
diction, and tbe case is dismissed on
that ground. It is thus decided that
there is no redress for citizens who may
be subjected to imprisonment by an
arbitrary power created by Congress, a
decision which may well cause every
citizen to ask himself what protection
there is in this land for personal liberty ;
for this decision not only involves the
rights of a citizen of Mississippi, but
those of all tbe citizens of every State in
the Union.
Good Advice.
The following circular has been is
sued by the Democratic officials of the
State of New York. The advice it con
tains is sound and we urge it upon the
attention of our readers. Circulate the
Intelligencer. Get up clubs:
Albany, March 12, 1809.
The undersigned would urge upon the
Democracy the importune© of preparing
now for the next struggle with its enemies.
Such preparation is tuo commonly post
poned until the eve of elections. But we
must begin now to plant the seed if we
would reap the harvest of future victories.
A free press is the most effective weapon
for combating popular error, and achieving
tbe political revolution which it was never
more clear than now is indispensable to
the country’s prosperity, liberties, union
and peace. We would therefore recom
mend the immediate formation of news
paper clubs in your town, uud that you en
list the efforts of your friends and neigh
bors, with your own, to place a Democratic
newspaper, every week in the corning year
in the hands not only of every Democrat
who can afford to pay for it, but also of
those who canuot, and of every "doubtful”
voter whose mind is accessible to tho can
did, earnest, and able presentations of the
truths and principles of Democratic free
dom.
John T. Hoffman, Governor.
Allen C. Beach, Lieut. Governor.
H. N. Nelson, Secretary State.
W. F. Allen, Controller.
W. 11. Bristol, Treasurer.
M. B. Champlain, Attorney-General.
Van R. Richmond, State Engineer.
S. J. Tilden, Chair. Dem. State Com,
Au Unreconstructed Rebel Nominated
for Governor of New Mexico.
Grant has removed one of the most
gallant Union Generals from the Gov
ernorship of New Mexico, and appoint
ed C. C. Crow, an unreconstructed rebel,
in his place. General Mitchell, who is
displaced, bears on his body the scars
of no less than sixteen wounds received
in the service of his country. In one
of the battles of the West, General
Mitchell defeated a rebel force under
Crow, capturing a large number of his
men. Now Crow has captured Mitchell,
in the campaign which is being carried
on under Grant. General Mitchell is a
gentleman of high intelligence and the
strictest integrity. He has made a most
excellent Governor, and the affairs of
New Mexico have prospered greatly
under his control.
The Xew Assessor.
Col. Dickey has finished up the ap
pointments for this district. He came
to the conclusion that it would be pleas
ant and possibly profitable for him to
have his law partner in the Assessor’s
office, and so he appointed John P. Rea
to that position. Mr. Rea originally
belonged to Chester county, was a resi
dent of Illinois for some time, and, hav
ing studied law with Col. Dickey, has
just been admitted to the Bar. What
qualifications for the office he may
have, besides being a carpet-bagger,
and Dickey's law partner we know not.
We presume he was selected with es
pecial reference to Col. Dickey’s own ,
personal interests.
The Alabama Treat)
The Alabama treaty has been rejected
by the Senate, only one Senator voting
for it. This throws that whole question
opeu again, and the new Minister to
England will have some more serious
work before him than writing a history
of the Dutch Republic. YVe shall see
howhe will acquit himself. He did not
exhibit any marked ability at the Court
of Austria.
Tjik daughter of one of the white
Radical members of tho Washington
City Councils has eloped with a negro.
As the father professed to believe in
equality he ought not to complain.
The Harrisburg Patriot is responsi
ble for the following;
A slight shock of earthquake has been
felt in Lancaster county. No wonder. The
members of tbo Legislature from that
county have gono home.
Rqnibhlmr Grant.
Tho Now York Herald, a paper which
has beeu most obsequious in its fulsome ad
ulation of Grant, bus been compelled to take
another tack, in order that it might make
some show of political discernment. The
stupidity of the President and his nefarious
nepotism is too much even for Bonnet. So
we find the Herald engaged in squibbing
Ulysses. Tho following will serve as sam
ples ;
“ Yours Respectfully.”—An interior pa
per states ~that applications for office, ut
least those which receive the most attention
at Wa9hiDgton,are the ones'which assign
ed like occasional communications tonews
pers—“ Y'ours respectfully, A Subscriber.”
||“ A Chapter on Lamentations .”—Under
tnia bead the Detroit Pree Press refers to the
disappointments that have attended the
applications for office made by the proprie
tors and editors of radical papers in Michi
gan, to the new administration, and re
marks : “ The friends of Senator Chandler
alone are the recipients of Executive favor.
The bright dreams of the campaign have
turned to sad, dark realities. “Grant is
not President of Michigan,” but Chandler
is. So far as Michigan is concerned Grant
is only admitted to sneeze whenever Chan
dler takes snuff.”
The Advantages of Having Honest Rela
tives.—A Western paper remarks: ‘Grant’s
pledges that he would appoint only honest
tnen to office are being rather strangely re
deemed. He evidently thinks that all his
relatives are honest.”
Checks. —A Western puper wants to know
where General Lee comes in under the dis
tribution of good things, and adds that he
gave General Grant several checks inISOL
ii lnthe Hick of Time.” —An Ohio paper
states that a citizen of Covington, Ky.,
wanted to be Collector of the Covington
District. He was not so fortunate aa to be
long to the Grant family, but his wife bad
a baby in the nick of time, and he called
the little one, Jesse R, Grant, the name of
the President’s father. He got the Collector
ship. .Office-seekers who have unnamed
babies, having due notice of this fact, will
govern themselyes accordingly.
A Valuable Ring. —A South western paper
states that there are scores of political rings
of every character, but that the greatest of
all the rings ia Grant’s family circle.
Delegation of Quakers.
Yesterday a delegation of Quakers from
various parts of the Union, headed by Mr.
Samuel M. Janney, of Virginia, waited
upon the President by invitation, and had
an interview of half an hour upon the sub
ject of the moral reformation of the South.
It is proposed by them to appoint a super
intendent of the Quaker interest at the
South, whose duty it shall be to visit the
members of the sect in. all the Southern
States, and endeavor to work some im
provement in the condition of the people in
that section. President Grant received
them cordially, and the interview was a
very pleasant one.
An Interview With Senator Spragne—
What Be Says and Thinks.
A>correspondent of the New York Herald
has had an interview with Senator Sprague,
Md,&undfcim.?ery^noinmunicative. We
•make,the fallowing extracts from his re
portjof whafcKe saw and what was said:
A mild mannered man is the Senator from
Rhode Island.; not timid, not diffident in
asserting his opinions, and ridiculously in
different to the criticism of the whole world
andthe world’s wife combined. He haa one
of the elements of greatness—tenacity.
Those who suppose he intends to snbside,
Suit the busy stage and retire for ever from
le living drama after startling his audi
ence with one or two spoken pieces, are wo
folly mistaken. He has but iairly com
menced, as Samson, by a vigorous and per
sistent application of an assinine jawbone
to the heads of the Philistines, made ever
lasting smash of that nnhappv community,
so shall Sprague, (going forth on the war
path with the club of truth in one hand and
the State of Rhode Island in the other,
spread terror among the tribes of money
shysters and Shylocks.
"I have been to New York,” observed
the Senator, “to make arrangements for the
printing of my speeches, I shall have sixty
thousand copies printed, and if the people
want more they shall haye them—a million
for that matter must be printed. Ido not
think my money could be better spent. It
will go for the instruction and enlighten
ment of my countrymen, who want both
these things badly. A silent, sure and fear
ful weight is crushing them to the earth and
they do not know it, but they feel vaguely
that their life blood is ebbing fast; that
their substance is decaying, dying, melting
away; but as long as I think I know the
cause and the cure I am not going to sit
down, fold my arms and let the country go
to tbe devil. If I felt like acting such a
coward’s part, I would much prefer leaving
the country forever, and my means are
ample enough to make life pleasant in
whatever foreign land I might go to. Look
here,” he exclaimed, pointing to a long row
of bundles on the mantelpiece, " there are
letters from every part of the nation, from
men of all parties and all conditions, asking
for copies of my late speeches. Just run
your eye over one of these bundles,” he
continued, handing us a lot embracing over
one hundred and fifty letters received by
tbe morning mail.
We did so, and not without sincerely’be
lieving, thatin|spite of ail that is said to‘the
contrary Sprague has touched the most
yital chord in- the popular heart. One let
ter was brief, simply requesting fifty or a
hundred copies for distribution. "Just the
musio for the people” was the emphatic
endorsement, and then,by way of postcript,
" Let us know if there is any charge.” An
other letter might cover two pages of fools
cap, giving the writer’s views as exactly
coinciding with Sprague’s, and winding up
by an earnest request, in a Sumuer lacon
ism, to "stick.” A third letter comes from
a mem her of Congress.one of whose constit
uents asks him tn send along fifty copies of
Sprague’s speeches, and so on ad infinitum.
Every principal towu iu the country is
represented in the entire collection, which
might probably number two thousand let
ters, representing a total request for per
haps fifty thousand copies of the Senator’s
speecnes. Ordinarily Senators send their
effusions to the country without any spe
cially expressed desire from their constitu
ents, but in this instance the people sacri
fice their postage stamps to tell the Senator
they want to bear him. Most of the pamph
let speeches that leave here by mail find
their way finally into retail butter stores;
but Sprague’H, it is safe to say, will meet a
better and less unctuous fate.
"Well, Senator,” said we, "the work
ingmen of Washington call upon you to
night. What will youhave to say to them?”
" There it is,” he replied, pointing to
seven or eight pages of manuscript which
General Halsted, a gentleman with un iron
gray mustache as large as a cataract, wus
diligently engaged in copying.
“ Does that complete the series of your
speeches, Govornor?” we asked, using his
titles alternately for the sake of variety.
“ Yes, sir; that’s the first series complete.
I have got the Senate now, sure. I have
got’em ; yas, sir, I have got ’em right so,”
saying which the Senator laughed grimly,
held up bis hand and gave an illustration
by doubling up his fingers of the firm hold
he had on the entire body of the United
States Senate.
" Got Anthony, too, I suppose?”
" Yes, Anthouy and the whole caboodle.
Got ’em in a tight place, too. They have
no mercy to expect from me.”
“ Pray, Senator, what has been the de
meanor of tho members towards you re
cently ?”
“Well, before-this recent occasion of my
speaking in the Senate,iheselfellows treated
mo as if I was a puppy dog to be kicked
around and paid bo attention to. If they
wanted any favors from me tbpy came ancl
patted me on the back, said ‘Sprague is a
nice fellow, nicest fellow in the world, but
too modest and too generous to get along in
politics.’ The moment, however, I showed
them what I was and what I thought of
them I was puppy dog no longer. Mo, sir;
growled too loud for pnppv dog. I’m
mastiff now, and they are the puppy dog^.”
“Why don’t they put you on the Com
mittee of Finance, Governor?’’
“That’s it,” replied the Senator, “I trod
on Sherman’s corns, and there’s the trouble.
The last time when these committees of the
Senate were being made up I wanted to go
on the Finance Committee, but Sherman
worked against me, anil got such pukes
put on as ;Cattell and Warner. And now
what have these fellows done with that long
telegraph pole Sherman at their head? Not
a man of them knows the true science of
finance. Think of Cattell delivering an idea
out of that mutton head of his upon the
proper means of checking our financial de
cay ! The greatest blessingthat has befallen
the country is that the committees of both
houses which have anything to do with our
finances and taxation have had so few of
their bills passed. They know just enough
to be dangerous, but they will never know
enough to do the country any good. Well,
I was put, at my own request, on the Com
mittee of Claims and the Committee of Pub
lic Lands. On both committees I put the
brakes down very soon. You have no idea
what a rotten institution our public land
system is, and it’s very few people know
anything of how things are managed in
these committees that have charge of the
public domain. I found a claim before us
one day professing to date back twenty
years for a tract of land out West on which
improvements had been made and settlers
were living. This was only one case out of
many. Suppose this claim was passed,
, these settlers would have been made the
1 viotims of some imscrupulous rascal, with
friends in Cengress to share his plunder.”
“ Had you any brakes to put down in the
Committee on Claims,” we inquired.
“ Yes,” he replied ; “there’s another com
raittee that people know nothing about.—
Claims of tho vilest character come in there
and need careful watching to prevent them
from going out with an endorsement. But
: I can’t give my attention to- everything.
The subject on which I am now engaged is
enough for any one man.”
“ People say, Governor, that they do not
comprehend exactly what you ure driving
at. Some insinuate that you are bidding
for the Presidency 5 others, that you want
to cut loose from your party, and still more
state in downright terms that you ore
crazy.”
“Hold on!” exclaimed tho Governor;
“let me answer thejast charge. Yes—l am
cruzy—crazy ns every reformer has been
since the beginning of the world. BeoauseT
retuseto follow in the ruts of that set call
ingltself tho Senate of the United States
the cry is raised at once, • oh ! Sprague is
crazy.’ I will lot them know before Jong
exactly how crazy I am. I atn not bidding
ior tho Presidency either. If it were offer
ed to me to-morrow I should only take it
OP conditions of being at liberty to kick out
<sf the White House every office-seeker that
dare come into it. Not a man should be
appointed under me to office because he
was this man’s friend or that man’s support
er. I would have an incorruptible board of
examiners for every office under thegovorn
ment, and no man should be appointed un
less be showed the proper capacity to fill it
I would d isregard party altogether, and put
only the best men in the nation in places of
: trust, but as I know such a condition of
things can never bo attained, the Presiden
cy is not my ambition. Neither,am I
i about to cut loose from my party and at
tuen myself to the Democratic. Both as
parties are rotten, but I intend to build up
, a new party, in which politics will have
little to do. My party will have lor its one
grand principle the reform of our finances
, the rendering of money cheap, the redoc
! tion of taxation, the elevation of the work
ing classes, the protection of labor, the im
, provement of our cotton, agricultural
I commercial and manufacturing interests—
in short, the making of this country really
great, strong and prosperous. All vour
talk about the nigger, nigger suffrage, State
rights, women’s rights, rebels, and so forth
laonly fitfortheseold grannies in Congress!
Where is our shipping at this moment?
Who of those men pestering our ears all the
time about reconstruction, rebels, niggers,
and so forth, has ever lifted his voicfi in
favor of the broken down commerce that
was once our pride and glory ? I tell you
air, these men would drive this country
headlong to the devil in their greed for
power. This country to-day is intrinsical
ly weaker than apy one on the face of the
globe, not excepting Mexico. Now, let me
explain; but first let me enlighten you
upon the purpose of the speech, the open
ing one of the late series I made in'the
Senate. It was necessary I should draw the
attention of the people to Congress to invite
greater attention to the apeech I made upon
ihe finances and the bill offered in connec
tion therewith. I began by skirmishing
my objective point being the Treasury— the
great national curse. My scheme was no
hurriedly considered affair. For three
years I have devoted my mind exclusive
ly to this subject, and you will find, if I
am mad, there was some method in mv
madness, after all. You saw how that first
speech awakened a thrill of interest
throughout the nation. There is some of
the evidence (pointing to the bundles of
letters). Now, if 1 had made my proposi
tioll alone, without any preparation of
the public mind, it might have gone the
way of all like propositions. I hold that
the Treasury is the root of our nresent
evils. Forty millions of dollars, we will sav
are received there this month. This money
comes out of the pockets of the people. One
man whose taxes are large has perhaps to
borrow the money at a high rate of interest
PfY indebtedness to the government.
That money goes into the Treasury and lies
there hoarded up for a month or six weeks
without producing a particle of benefit to
the goyernment or the people. Twenty
m si 1 . 003 that amount, we will say, are
paid out by the government and twenty
millions remain. The market in New York
where the capital of the country is cen
tralized, is declared scarce. "When mone
is scarce those who have the least put their
stocks on the market atalow rate to induce
purchasers and procure capital to carry on
their business. There is always in New
York a class of speculators who buy up
all Buch stocks ana wait for the favorable
time—next month, we will say—when the
Treasury, in place ef $20,000,000, pays out
$60,0000,000. Then money becomes aonndant
and these stocks are rushed In upon tbe
market and the gamblers make their
hardest. You see there is no equilib
rium here. Our money market is all i
the time fluctuating, . influenced by
that vast overgrown corporation, the
national Treasury. Then, again, all kinds
of stockß are affected in this way. I can go
into the market in New York any day in
my business aud by the process that obtains
there smash by my superior force of capital
the small dealers that venture competition
with me. The whole country is affected by
this. Money is entirely too dear. Tbe cotton
glanters at the South pay almost twenty
ye per cent, for the capital to work their
plantations. England Is the chief market
for cotton, but she is every year extending
her purchases in India and Egypt, ana
finally by manipulating the markets she
will damage our cotton interests at the
South irretrievably. Agricultural interests
suffer in the same manner from this dear
ness of money. England will after awhile
buy less of our agricultural staples. Cap
ital is too dear, tne cost of transportation
too high, tbe taxes too many aud too crush
ing for our farmers. Same way with the
manufacturing Interests. Twenty years ago
our firm in Rhode Island was one among
twenty little ones, now we have the whole
field to ourselves; but then we crushed out
the others and are now engaged fighting the
big fellows, until finally New England will
have nothing but a small aggregation of
enormous monopolies, wielding |a power
dangerous to the State and to the liberties
and happiness of the people. But think of
all that money that goes into the Treasury
being committed to the charge of a boy,
formerly a secretary of mine, whereas iu
Europe the most responsible men in the
community are invariably selected for the
duty of receiving and looking after the pub
lic fund 9. Tbe Treasury, above all things,
should bejealously guarded, and all its in
comes and expenditures scrutinized with
exceeding care.
"Who are these people in Rhode Island
you alluded to recently in your onslaught
on Anthony?” we inquired.
"Brown and Ivers,” replied the Senator.
"They belong to that class of capitalists
that are tbe bane and the burden of the
country. They have Anthony for a cham
pion. They hold him, body and breeches,
and make him perform all theirdirty jobs.”
"That’s pretty hard on Anthony. 7 ’
"No; not half hard enough. That whole
State is iu the hands of these men. Now,
out of that big bundle of applications for
my speeches, only two come from my Stute.
The truth is unpalatable and they don’t
want to hear it.”
" Well, Governor, wh6u do you intend to
renew your attack on legislative incompo
tenev andjeorruption !”
" In due time I shall have my heavy ar
tillery in position, and shall blaze away at
every mark worth a shot. I’m not going
to waste any ammution. If lam attacked
of course I shall reply; but in a few days
I must go borne and recruit; and by the
middle of summer my health will be fully
recuperated, and by the time Congress as
sembles again my voice will be heard about
the ears of those fellows’ up there at tho
Capitol.”
Here we bade the Senator good afternoon
with a parting word of encouragement to
fight it out on that lino if it took him till
the return of spring.
Tlio Whiskey and Tobacco Tux,
Tho following is tho full text of tbe sup
plementary /tax bill passed by Congress
and signed by tbe President:
Be it enacted, Kc., That an act entitled
“ An act imposing taxes on distilled spirits
and tobacco, and for other purposes,” ap
proved July 20,1808, be amended ns follows,
to wit: That section Bbe amended so that
in case of a distillery or distilling apparatus
erected prior to tbe 20th or July, 1808, ou u
tract or lot ot land held under lease or other
evidenee of title less than fee-simple, which
was not required by the laws of tho State to
be recorded in order to be valid, at the timo
of its execution, or in any case where the
title was then and has continued to be in
litigation, or where the owner is possessed
of the fee, but encumbered with a mortgage
executed and duly recorded prior to the
said 20th of July, ISGB, and not due; or
where the fee is held by a femme coverle,
minor, person of unsound mind, or other
person incapable of giving consent, as re
quired by said act, a bond may be taken at
tbe discretion of the commissioner, as pro
vided for in said section, for a distillery
erected on land, the lease or other evidence
I of title to which was dnly recorded prior to
! the passage of this act; provided that noth
j ing herein contained shall be so construed
to apply to any di illery or distillery ap
paratus not created prior to J uly 20, 18G8.
That section 20 be so amended that in
case of distilleries having a producing ca
pacity of less than 100 gallons in 24 hours,
and in which grain or meal is mashed by
hand and without the use of steam, 60 gal
lons of mash, or beer-brewed or fermented”
from grain, shall represent not less than one
bushel of grain.
That section 56 be amended so as to ex
tend tho time for withdrawing distilled
spirits from bonded warehouses until the
30th of June, 1860, but subject to an addi
tional tax on each proof gallon deposited
and bonded in warehouse, at the rate of
one cent for each month after the 20th of
April, 1569, and until withdrawn. And any
distilled spirits remaining in bonded ware
house after tbe 30th of June, 18G9, shall be
forfeited to the United States, and be dis
posed of us provided for in said section.
That section 69 be amended so that on
and after the first day of May, 18G9, every
person who rectifies, purifies, or refines
distilled spirits or wines by any process
other than by original and continuous dis
tillation from mash, wort, or mash through
continuous closed vessels and pipes until
the manufacture thereof is complete, and
every wholesale or retail liquor dealer who
has in his possession any still or leach tub,
or who shall keep any other apparatus for
the purpose of refining in dis
tilled spirits, and every persou who, with
out rectifying, purifying or refining dis
tilled spirits shall by mixing such spirits,
wine, or any other liquor with any materi
als, manufacture any spurious Imitation of
compound liquors for sale under the name
of whisky, brandy, gin, rum, wine, spirits,
cordials, or wine bitters, or any other name,
shall bo regarded as a rectifier, as being en
gaged in the business of rectifying, and so
much of the act to which this is un amend
ment as relates to compounders of liquors,
and is inconsistent with the provisions of
the section hereby amended, bo and tho
same is hereby repealed. And said section
69 is further amended, as follows: Strike
out the fourth paragraph thereof relating
to retail liquor dealers, and the fifth para
graph to and including tho words, ‘‘shall
"be required to pay the special tux of a
wholesale liquor dealer,” and insert in lieu
of the portion stricken out the following:
“ Retail dealers in liquors shall pay £26 ;
every person who sells, or offers for sale,
foreign or domestic distilled spirits, wines,
or malt liquors, in less quantities than live
gallonAat the same time, shall be regarded
as a retail dealer in liquors; wholesale* 1H
quor dealers shall each pay $100; every per
son who sells, or offers for sale, foreign or
domestic distilled spirits; wines, or malt
liquors, in quantities of nut loss than five
j gallons at the same time, shall be regarded
as a wholesale liquor dealor; dealers in
liauors whose Bales, including sales of all
other merchandise, shall exceed $25,000
shall each nay an additional tax at the rate
of $1 for every 3100 of sales of liquors in ex
cess of such $25,000, and on every $l,OOO of
sales of other merchandise shall puy at the
same rate as a wholesale dealer, und such
excess shall be returned, assessed, and paid
in the same manner as required of whole
sale dealers ; but no distiller or brewer,
who has paid his special tax, as such, and
who sells only distilled spirits or malt li
quors of his own production at the place of
manufacture in the original casks or pack
ages to which the tax stamps are affixed,
shall be required to pay the speciul tax of a
wholesale dealer.” That section 69 be fur
ther amended so as to require that distillers
ofbraudy from grapes, peaches, and ap
ples exclusively, producing less than 150
barrels annually, shall pay a special tax at
$5O, and, in addition thereto, the tax ofs4
per barrel of 40 proof gallons on account of
such sale. That section 88 be amended so
that either the proprietor’s name or the
manufacturer’s name shall be printed on
tbe label for cigars provided for in said sec
tion.
, 1 -• -And be it Jurt/ier enacted, That
. section 15') of the act entitled “An act to
• provide internal revenue to support the
• government, to pay interest on the public
debt and lor other purposes,” approved
June 30, 1864, as amended hy the ninth
section of the act of July 13,1860, be further
amended by adding thereto the following :
' Sec. 3. And be it fur.thcr enacted, That
any person having in his possession any
tobacco, snnff or cigars manufac
tured and sold or removed from the
manufactory, or from any place where
tobacco, snuff or cigars are made since
July 20, 1868, or any person having in his
possession cigars imported from foreign
countries since July 20, 1808, or withdrawn
irom a United States bonded warehouse
since said date, such tobacco, snuff and
cigars having been put up in packages as
prescribed in the act to which this act is an
a £° e s^ men ti and all the other requirements
of said act relating to tobacco, snuff and
cigars having been complied with, and who,
on the hrst day of February, 1869, filed with
the assessor or assistant assessor of thejdls
trict within which he resides, or his place
of business, the inventory required by the
seventy eighth and ninety-iourth sections
of the act of July 20th, 1868, and who shall
prior to selling or offering such tobacco!
snuff or cigars for sale, affix and cancel the
proper internal revenue stamps, shall be
entitled to have refunded to him an amount
of tax previously paid thereon equal to the
value of the stamps affixed before sale as
aforesaid, and the collector ol reve
nue shall be and iB hereby author
ized, on appeal to him made, to
refund and pay back a sum of money
equal to the value of the stamps so affixed,
upon satisfactory evidence submitted to
Tobacco and snnff were actu
ally manufactured and removed from the
place of manufacture, and that the dears
were so manufactured and removed, or im
ported and withdrawn from a United States
bonded warehouse, and the several rates of
tax imposed on such goods by the act of
July 20, 1868, as aforesaid assessed and paid, '
and that the claimant had in all respects :
complied with the internal revenue Jaws
as far as they have been or may be applica
ble to such articles. The collector or inter- ■
nal revenue is hereby authorised and em- ]
powered to prescribe such rules and regu- t
lations for carrying oat the provisions of
this section as in his Judgment shall be
deemed proper and necessary; and the col
lector may In any case, at his discretion,
allow snuff and Hmoking tobacco, manu
factured prior to July 20, 18G8, not In
wooden packages, to be stamped and sold
mthe original packages, and the rate of du
ty oa cigars imported prior to July 20,
1868, and dow remain in bond, shall be the
same as on cigars imported after that date.
BOBIE
The Philadelphia Navy Yard
HOW IT IS TO BE MANAGED
Things that must be Done for tbe Beat
interests of the Government.
The following statement of the Foreman
Boiler Maker, Mr. James Patton, will give
our readers some idea of what Is going on
just now in the Navy Yard at this place.—
The order issued by Borie, to discharge all
mechanics, laborers, Ac., who are not Re
publicans, is somethiug unprecedented in
the history of our government workshops,
and is alike discreditable to the head and
heart of a man who it was supposed had
been selected by President Grant for his
character as a high-toned, honorable man.
mr. patton’s statement.
On the 27th of March last, I received or
ders from Chief Engineer Andrew Lawton
to make a survey or all work to be done by
the boiler makers and smiths necessary to
fit the sloop Juniata for service. I acted
accordingly, and recommended some of our
best mechanics, according to Navy Regula
tions, Sec. 16, paragraph 936, that master
workmen and foremen, when there is to be
an increase in the force, may name those
who in their judgment are most competent
in their respective branches, with the ap
proval of their superior officers.
Chief Engineer Lawton paid no attention
to my recommendations, and sent for a
man who was not in the employ of govern
ment, named Sargeant, and requested him
to make out the necessary recommenda
tions. The knowledge of this fact coming
to me, I immediately went to the com
mandant and stated to him the facts, also
directing his attention to the paragraph ul
luded to above.
Tbe Chief Engineer was summoned bo
fore the Commandant, who instructed him
as to the law governing tbe employment of
men ; alter which 1 was summoned into
the presence of Chief Engineer Lawton,
who interrogated me as follows :
Chief Engineer.—l find, Mr. Patton, that
by section 16, paragraph 93G, U. S. Navy
Regulations (producing a copv), foremen
and masters huvo the right to select and re
commend the workmen to bo under their
charge.
Mr. Patton.—lt has always been the
practice heretofore, us well as the law ; and
I hold that if meu are taken into the Gov
ernment employ without, und regardless of,
the recommendations of masters aud fore
men, they will not be subject to tho orders
and directions of such masters and fore
men. They would naturally say, “ You
did not employ me, therefore you cannot
discharge me.”
Chief Eng.—That mav be so; but T have
promised to put those men (showing a list
of names) to work, und if you will oblige
rue by recommending them, you muy use
your own pleasure iu future.
Mr. Patton.—Sir, lum sorry to suy that
your action in the matter, as well us your
request, is unprecedented in my experi
ence. I have invited some good mechanic*,
whom 1 know to be faithful men, to come
to work, and rather than break my word
by granting your request, I prefer being
removed.
Chief Eng.—This is very unpleasant.—
Would you support the present Adminis
tration ?
Mr. Patton Yes, sir.
Chief I-jog.— Are you u loyal man?
Mr. Patton.—Yes, sir.
Chief Eng.—Were you loyal during tho
war ?
Mr. Patton.—Yes, sir.
Chief Eng.—Did you servo tho govern
ment during the war?
Mr. Patton.—Yes, sir, for three years.
Chief Kug.— What ticket do you vote /
Mr. Patton.—The Democratic ticket, and
always will unless I havo some proof of a
better.
Chief Eng.—l like to hear a man tulk that
way. You will please remain hero while I
go and talk with theComtnandunt. I mean
to 41 settle this hash” justnow. [Returning
the Chief Engineer resumed.! Well, sir,
you may makeout your requisition, taking
cure, ol course, to interrogate eueh and
overy one as to whether they will support
the present Administration.
Mr. Patton.—l will answer for ull men
recommended by me. That they will sup
port the present Administration is beyond
doubt, for they are all law-abiding citizens
and are willing to abide by the decision of
the majority.
Chief Eng.—How do you reconcile the
double assertion—that ot voting the Demo
cratic ticket and supporting the present
Administration ?
Mr. Patton—l consider that a man who
performs his duty and is a law-abiding
citizen is supporting the present Adminis
tration.
Chief Eng.—Well, sir; you go and make
out your recommendations, and if you can
not get a sufficient number of names, enter
some of those on your list, [handing Mr.
Patton a list of names;] they are recom
mended by Mr. Myers, Mr. Kelley aud Mr.
O'Neill. We must try to satisfy those out
side politicians; and if you do not
go about blowing and telling everybody yoa
are a Democrat, and in the Philadelphia
Navy Yard, you may bo here as long as you
like.
Mr. Patton.—Sir, there isa circular letter
in our office forbidding political interfer
ence in the employment or discharge of
may.
Chief Eng.—There is an order now in the ,
office that no workmen be employed in the
Navy Yard unless they supportthepresent
Administration.
Mr. Patton.—l havo no official orders to
that effect and therefore cannot uct. The
men here upon my list are good workmen,
and will, like good citizens, support the
present Administration. I have promised
to put them to work, not because recom
mended by politicians, but because I know
they will be faithful iu the performance of
their duties.
• [Hore a Mr. Gegan who represents Con
gressmen O’Neill's interests in tho yurd,
and acts as the Chief Engineer’s adviser in
regard to appointsment, and perhaps other
matters, was called in.]
Gegan.—Well, Chief, I do not know a
single one of these men ; they cannot he Re
publicansi, or I would know them.
Chief Eng.—(To Mr. Gegun)—Tuke the
names ol those meu Mr. Puttou has recom
mended, and see tfyou can account for them
us Union men, aud as having voted the Re
publican ticket; If you cannot, I will scratch
every one off.
Mr. Gegan, (after examining tbo list,)—l
cannot find any one by whom they are
known, and I therefore believe them not to
be Union men. Tbe meu whoso names 1
gave you have been recommended by Mr.
O’Neill, and are good Union men.
Chief. Eng.—Mr. Patton, you must put
the names presented by tho gentlemen on
your list or recommendation. I will not
approve any other.
Mr. Patton.—Perhaps the men I have
recommondod may have voted lor the pres
ent administration; I will inquire.
Chief Eng.—lt is not worth while. I will
not approve any unless recommended by
Mr. O’Neill, Mr. Myers, or Mr. Kelley;
and it you cannot tell who supported the
administration by their votes, you must re
commend those'who nre madekuown to
you. If you will not act us I direct, In re
ference to the employment of men, you
may tender your resignation
Mr. Patton—l would much rather resign.
Chiei Eog.—You might as well resign us
to be kicked out, although I regret you can
not comply with the wishes of parties out
side, for 1 uudorstund you are a competent
man.
This was un “elegant sufficiency” for
Mr. Patton, and ho left the Chief Engineer
and tbe man Gegan to fix up mnltors to the
entire satisfaction of Messrs. Kelley, Myers
and O’ Neill, as best they could, with the de
termination of sending in his resignation,
which he did, as follows:
mr. Patton’s resignation.
U. S. Navy Yard, )
Dept. Steam Engineering, I
Philadelphia, March 30th, 1869. J
.S’ir.—ln compliance with your request
that I resign, “ if not competent to give as
surance and to certify that all men recom
mended by me supported by their votes the
present administration,” 1 hereby certify
that I am not competent for tbe task, and
therefore most respectfully tender you ray
resignation.
\ ery respectfully, James Patton.
Andrew' Lawton, Chief Eog. U. S. N,
Approved and signed,
Andrew Lawton, Chief Engineer.
Approved and signed.
J. B. Marchand, Commandunt.
State Convention of O. U. a. M,
A State Convention of the Senior and
Jnnior Order of United American Meehan
ica was held in Harrisburg yesterday. The
attendance was large, nearly every Conncil
being represented. The Senior Order held
morning, afternoon aud evening sessions in
the Fulton Council, No. 35. The
Junior Order held a morning session in the
Democratic Clab room, and sessions In the
afternoon and evening in the hall of the
House of Representatives, the use of which
bad been granted them previous to tbe ad
journment of the Legislature. The proceed
ings of both bodies were conducted with
closed doors. A grand banquet was given
at ten o’clock in the evening, at tbe State
Capital Hotel, at which Governor Geary
delivered an address, toasts were offered,
and a large number of distinguished gen
tlemen were present.
Terrible Siorzn in Illinois.
Chicago, April 19. —The storm of yester
day was one of the severest and most ex
tensive that has occurred for a long time
It extended nearly the whole length of the
State, and west as far as the Mississippi
river. At Bloomington, a Catholic church
not completed, was blown down and com
pletely destroyed. At Girard and VirdeD,
Macopin county, hall atones fell as big as'
hen’s eggs, and nearly every pane of glass j
was destroyed in the north west Sides of the
buildings. The surface of the country Is
covered with water. At Eeligen, tbe house
of Jerome Wiltse was struck oy lightning,
severely injurlnga man and boy. Dubuque.
tornado passed over the city. fTfce
residence of Mr. Kniester wad blown dowD,
Mr. Kniester was killed and his wife seri
ously injured. Several houses were un
roofed.
The severest hail storm known for manv
vjaited Bt. Louis yesterday afternoon.
Much damage is believed to have been done
to vegetation in the vicinity of the city
Reported Confession of Geo. S. Twitched*
Jr.
The Philadelphia Post says it will be re
membered that William B. Mann, in his
defence of George 8 Twitchell, Jr., Strenu
ously combatted tbe theory of the Common
wealth that the murder of Mrs. Hill was
committed with a poker, and insisted that
the character of tbe wounds indicated that
they were inflicted by some blunt instru
ment, probably by a slung-shot. Surgical
testimony to this effeot was produced by the
defence. It now appears that the counsel
for Twitchell had good reason for making
this assertion.
We have received information, on good
authority, that shortly after the murder,
Mr. O’Byrne, one of the counsel for the de
fence, was told by Twitchell that a slung
shot would be found hidden in a hole in one
of the upper rooms of tbe house at Tenth
and Pine. Mr. O’Byrue Instantly made llu*
search and found the weapon in'the place
described. It Is a heavy piece of lead, fas
tened by abort leather straps, which seem
to have been cut from belting, such as is
used in a mill. It Is encrusted with blood,
and imbedded la tbe lead are a few small
beads, exactly resembling those on tbe cup
which Mrs. Hill wore when she was killed.
The blows dealt by tbe murderer were *o
heavy that in crushing the skull these
beads were forced into tbe load.
It is said that this sluug-shot Ims ever
since been in the custody of Twitched**
couuaol, who were not bound to produce it.
That it was not discovered by the detective*
who seurcbed the house isjvery little to their
credit.
The following-statement is said to have
been made by Twitchell to his counsel, but
his counsel do not say so, though, if it t* a
fact,they must have consented to its publica
tion:
On tbe day previous to tho tuurder <>t
Mis. Hill, Twitchell, bont upou effecting
her death with his own bands, made u slung
shot at his placo of business iu Camden.
With this murderous weupou ho struck tin
old lady a formidable blow, no one hut the
uctors in the tragedy being present, and
then, uuassisted, threw tho body from the
window into the yard. Uo thou walked
down stairs into tho yard and proceeded
to wash the blood from bis bands at the h\ -
drant. While so engaged bo noticed that tin*
body of his mother in-law, lying near
him, still exhibited manifestations of life.
As soon us this discovery was made he
hastened into tho house, enteriugthe Utleli
en first. The first murderous weapon winch
he eucouutored hero was tho poker found
near tho body of tho murdered woman.
This ho seized, and, hurrying back to the
yard, dealt tho living woman another blow
on the head, tluishiug tho murderous work.
He then repaired to his room, and thedci-d
wus discovered in the manner with which
tho public is already familiar."
This agree* singularly with mu- of ih»
accounts of the murder which Twitchell
wished his wile to give as her own confe*
sion, and may be tho truth. Hut it cannot
receive full credit unless endorsed by sonic
responsible authority.
The (hid Fellows’ Celebration,
Tho Joint Committee on the Send CnL
tennial Celebration of tho I. O. O. V. held
an adjourned meeting on Saturday evening,
H. G. M. .1. W. Stoke* in tho chair. The
Committee on Correspondence reported
that tho total number ol brother* *.* hn
reported proposing to take purt in the ecn
monies amounted to about 21,0ut), exclusive
of over 12,000 belonging to Philadelphia
Lodges and Encampments.
Tho Committee on Marshals and Divis
ion* reported that they had selected a num
ber of gentlemen to ucl as divislou marshals.
The Committee on Street Music reported
that they had ungaged oightoen bunds, at a
cost of $2,999, and that twenty lodges had
alßo engaged bauds.
Tho route tor tho parade was also adopted,
after a long discussion.
Tho Committee on Invitationssiuted (hut
the Govornor of the Stale und the Muyor id
the city would participate in the eelchm
tion.
Tho parade will he the feature of the cele
bration in which the public are most di
rectly interested.
Tho Grand Encampment of Pemisyka
ilia will be represented by its officers in
regalia with jewels, past officers und mom
bers in regutta.
Tho elective officers of subordinate en
campments That do not participate us an
encampment will parade in lull regalia,
directly iu front of the Grand Encamp
ment.
The dress worn on the occasion will he a
black suit, black silk lull and black glove*.
Tho grand marshal and his aid* will be
mourned, and will wear purple silk sashes
with gold trimmings.
The marshal* of the subordinate Encamp
ments will bo on loot, and their dress and
regalia will lie the same as those of Grand
Eucampment marshals. Tho encamp mem*
may wear regalia and budge*, lint they am
not required to do so. They must, however
bo uniformly dressed.
The Graud Lodge of Pennsylvania will
bo represented by the Grand Lodge officer*,
clothed iu their regalia und jewels, and bv
tho representatives, who will wear ucurlet
silk sashes.
The marshals of tho subordinate lodge*
will bo ou foot, and will wear white silk
sashes with scarlet rosette and silver tassel
und fringe. Tho members of subordinate
lodges are not required to wear regalia, lint
must bo dressed uniformly. No doubt but
that ull tho Order will bo in regalia. All
must be dressed in black suits and wear
white gloves.
Congressional.
Washington, April 16.
A large uuraber of nominations were
confirmed by the Senate yesterday, includ
ing 11. Vuu Aernam, of Now York, n r
Commissioner of Pensions ; A. R. Calhoun,
Pension Agout, aud H. H. Blngbuui, Post
master ut Philadelphia. Among the nom
inations were Henry Buxtor, or Michigan,
for Minister to Honduras ; C. E. Delong, ot
Nevada, Minister to Japan ; Adam Badeuu,
Assistant Secretary of Legution ut London;
and E. M. McCook, Govornor of Colorado.
Washington, April 17.
Among the Senate confirmations yo.sti-r
-day were Ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin
as minister to Russia ; T. H. Nelson, ofin
diuna, Minister to Mexico ; Kobt. C. Kirk,
of Ohio, Minister to tho Argentine Repub
lic; Ebouezer D. Basset (colored) Minister
to Huytl; Leopold Mnrkbrolt. of
Minister to Bolivia; Eli K. I’urkor, of Un-
District of Columbia, to be CominiH.smnur
of Indian Affuirs; Guo. W. Wurts, of Pa ,
Secrotury of Legation ut Florence; Win.
H. Barnes, Collector First Pennsylvania
District; Cbas, A. Dunn, Appraiser ut Now
York.
The President yesterday nuuiiuutud Ex-
Governor Pollock for Director of tho Mint,
and Wilmer Worthington for Appraiser ut
Philadelphia.
Washington, April 19.
Tho U. S. Henute on HaturJuy confirmed
tbe nominations of W. A. Howard hh Min
ister to China; Edvvurd M. Mil Cook n*
Governor of Colorado; Charles C. Crown a*
Governor of Now Mexico ; Charles N. Hi.
otto us Minister to Costa Rica; and L. ]>.
Kellogg us General Appraiser for tin-
South. Among Iho nominations on Satur
day wore A A. Torbert, of Dela
ware, as Minister to Nalvudor; A. J,.
Russell, of Pensylvama, us Minister to
Ecuador; H, A. Millln, ot Arkunsun. u M
Minister to tho Sandwich Islunds ; J-’. n
Dumas (negro), of Louisiana, an Minister m
Llberiu; and Titian .J. Coffee, of Punnsyl
vuniu, as Hocrotary of Legation ut Suliit
Petersburg.
The Somite onSalurduy ultornoon, In Ex
ecutive session, spent Homo lime iu debut
ing tho motion which had been entered to
reconsider the British naturalization treuty.
Washington, April 20.
In the U S. Nunate, yesterday, before
executive business was taken up, Mr.
Chandler, of Michigan, ollorod u resolution
directing the President to begin negotia
tions with Great Britain lor the transfer of
her North American possessions to tin*
United .States ; and ho argued in favor ot
his proposition as the way to settle tho Ala
bama difficulties. Tho resolution wus re
ferred.
Among tlio confirmations by tho Senate
yoaterday, wore Win. P. Webster, c>rMus.s.’
lor Consul at Krunktort-ou-lhu-Maln ; K*l
wurd Robinson, of N. V., Consul at Ham
burg; Dexter JO. Clapp, of N. Y., Consul ut
Buenos Ayres; G. Henry Uorstmau, of
l ennu., Consul ut Munich ; Edward Scull
Assessor of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania
District; and J. J. Martin, of Alabama, for
Sixth Auditor of the TVeusury. The nom
ination of Edward Stephens as Consul ut
Leeds wus rejected.
The Ntate Legislature,
. Harrisburg, April 16.
The Slate Senate yesterday reconsidered
its vote on the Appropriutlou bill, and
agreed to the conference report upon it bv
oue majority. Both Houses huvo passed
bll a to prevent tho salting of the Passenger
Railway tracks, to authorize inspections of
milk, establishing a State Board* of Chari
ties, and in reference to the militia. Tho
latter leaves the militiu tux at two dollars.
The Legisluture adjourns at noon to-day.
Harrisburg, April if.
In the State Senate yesterday a vote was
taken for Speaker, the candidates being
Charles H. Stinson, of Montgomery, Ite
publican, aDd William M. Raudall, of
Schnykill, Democrat. The formor wus
elected by a party vote.
After the usual valedictory proceedings
the Senate, at noon, adjourned sine die. '
In tbe House the customary farewell
speeches and presentations took place, and
at 12 M., the House adjourned sine die.
The following la a summary of the con
dition of some of the moat Important bills
ofthe session on the day of adjournment:
Passed,—' The General Registry law
which includes Philadelphia; the bill giv
ing a salary to the portwurdens; tho Phila
delphia Trust and the State Board of Chari
ties bills* Exempting Sewing Machines of
Seamstresses from Levy; to prevent Salt
ing of Passenger Railway Tuxing
and Baylng Banka One Per Cent, on their
Capital, and Exempting them from Local
Taxation ; Allowing Parties to be Witness
es in their own cases; Relating to Crneltv
to Animals. J
Defeated.— The Cattle Market bill • Re
vised Tax bill; Inspector of Drugs 'bin •
Giving Port Wardens power to arrest Cap
tains; Militia bill reduoing the tax to SO
wn tos A l £ e ii ro i l ? >llt £ n Police antl Telegraph
bills; Abolishing Capital Punishment • Re
exem P ta ‘K property iromtax-
in the Revised
Tax bill, and died with it). The bill author
izing commutation of the death nenX
was vetoed by the Governor. penalty
For the Cuban Waters.
The United States steamer Galena, which
v“ out at Portsmouth
Navy Yard, is reported ready for sea. It
d« wnr b tr hat *oo will leave that place to
f°r sam5 am P ,on Roada i where she will
from 1118 Nav y Department.
The Saratoga, apprentice ship, will soon
leave for a cruise la Cuban watera