WEDNESDAY, APRIL 38, 1869.
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The Imperialist and the G. A. B.
People are. disposed to ridicule the
idea that this country can ever be
changed from a Republic to an Empire.
Many say that the Imperialist is merely
established to create a sensation and
that its existence will be short in dura
tion. But the Imperialist itßelf claims
that it is founded on a firm basis, and Is
supported by prominent men who were
officers in the late war. With a power*
ful secret military organization in our
midst, is the Republio safe ? Tht Radi*
cal political society, known as “The
Grand Army of the Republic,” meets
secretly at its different Posts all over
the country. This organization is well
armed and equipped, and might at the
instance of any ambitious and despe
rate military leader, take possession of
the arsenals, fortresses, and ships of the
Nation, and endeavor to establish an
Empire. Is not the danger imminent,
und should not secret military organi
zations meet with condemnation from a
free people jealous of their liberties.
The Grand Army is getting itself in
funds, it is at present filling its treas
ury by a series of theatrical perform
ances gotten up at the different Posts
throughout the country, such as Lan
caster was recently favored with. Peo
ple have been wondering what it all
means; they do not cleurly see why
these .young men should sacrifice so
much time and labor to get money for
an organization which has apparently
no need for it. What do these Posts
want with money? They do not In
tend to build monuments to those who
were killed in the war; they do not
even declare this purpose and certainly
have taken no steps to carry it into
effect. It is significant in this conuee*
tion, to note (hat the Treasurer of the
Ladies’ Monumental Fair in this city
declines to hind over to the G. A. K.,
the three or four thousand dollars real
ized by the lefforts of the ladies for
Monumental purposes. She very prop
erly distrusts the use they would make
of U,aud‘haH reason to believe that they
have no idea of spending any money
either in bui ding monuments or in re
lieving the w idows and orphans of the
victims of tl e war, who are abundant
ly provided I’or by pensions from the
government and in tho asylums of the
State. The Grand Army lias other
and very different uses for its funds.
Can our renders put two and two to
gether? If not we will aid them to a
compreheusi jn of the real aim, object
and end in v <iw of this secret military
organization.
It purposes to change our Republic
into a Monarchy. The Jinjic/'ialist, a
newspaper just started in New’ York in
advocacy of the establishment of a
Monarchy, and which announces that
it is conducted by men who were promi
nent officers of our army during the
war, is reported in well informed circles
to be the organ of, and to be published
by the leaders of the Grand Army of
tho Republic*. These men finding that
the control of a newspaper was essential
the accomplishment of their designs
and unable to find one which was rash
enough opei ly to endorse their view's,
were compelled to establish a journal of
their own. It is reported that a large
-contribution was made to them for this
purpose by n brother of the present Sec
retary of the Navy; ami large sums
were received from the various posts.
The successful carrying out of this
enterprise wi ll require a great deal of
money, and; a Large sum is likewise
needed lor
equipments
for use when i
“ Long live tli
energy which
subordinate i\
Lion in the rn!
hensiou is, le
not t»e equal
Tlio proeeei
projected ove
are Bought to
few even of t
/alien know <
are to he put
would not be:
tin* knowledy
organization,'
be likely at pr
horror ami <
ilie purchase of military
and supplies in readiness
the time shall come to cry
1 10 king;” butowiugto the
i is being displayed by the
Members of the organiza-
Using of money, no appre
>ll that the treasury will
o all demands upon jt.
dings of the leaders in this
erlhrow of the Itepublie,
be kept very secret; very
:ie members of the organ!*
of the use to which they
their cliiefs know that it
safe to entrust them with
jo ol the real object of their
,as many of them would
'.'exeat to recoil from it with
disgust. They therefor©
keep tin; i*Hcr<it ua fur uh possible within
their own breasts; nor do they propose
to do anything precipitately. The peo
ple are to he gradually habituated to the
idea of a monarchy, just uh they have
buen led to accept the doctrine of negro
equality; and then, when everything
in ripe for it, the blow in to be struck.
Wo do not ourselves believe that this
(-tiimiiigly laid scheme witf over be sue
eotiafully carried out. Hut \igijance is
(ho price uf liberty, und we must take
cure that we are not caught napping.
In any fair and open contest in this
country between the advocates of Im
perialism und of Republicanism, the
hitter will always curry the day ; but at
the same time, it will not be prudent for
them to allow their opponents such an
advantage in the contest as will be de
rived fruin the possession of a secret
military force ready armed and drilled
for tho fray. We submit therefore to
the friends of the Republic whether the
existence of secret, military organiza
tions in our midst is not daugerous to
its welfare, and whether their disband
mout should not be icquirod.
How are the mighty Fallen!
The V. ft. Senate had an experience
meeting on Wednesday, in which the
Radical Senators freely delivered them
selves of their pent-up feelingsof wrath
at the want of consideration that they
alleged they hud met w ith at the hands
of the President, in the matter of the
appointments to office. In Uiu course
of the debate Mr. Graut was handled
without gloves, and certainly was not
treated with distinguished considera
tion. It wan made very manifest that
there was no administration party in
the Senate, and that the President is
rapidly attaining the position of his
predecessor, namely, that of a President
without a party
The Senators compluined bitterly that
the good old customs established by
Democratic administrations had passed
away. That they were no longer able
to diguitiedly wait until they received
from the President a written summons
notifying them that he would be pleased
to consult with them as to the appoint
ments proper to be made for their States,
For this invitation was no longer ten
dered them and If they wished to obtain
any positions for their friends, it was
under Grant’s mode of doing
business, that they should themselves
personally solicit Interviews with the
appointing power and spend most of
their valuable time in the Bureau ante
chambers. Senator Fessenden plain
tively asked where ho would be, Ifhe re
fused to sacrifice his dignity and w ork in
dustriously.to got offices for hls constitu
ents, when the members of the House
were ready to do it. Ho would be called
the most disobliging fellow In tho world
and would stand no chance for re-elec
tion to the Senate. “Itis,” he said, “a
melancholy truth that we are the mere
agents to get office for ourconstituents.”
An agent to get offices! What a woeful
defidltion of the duty of a Senator I To
what a state of degradation has that
•one© honored office come!
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 38, 1869.
A BlacS.SnbJect. <
Tim inidmiyiilln to
quarreling among itheMteelyijß. Ersd
Douglasß, who is a pretty srhirt sortbf
a darkey, wanted to go as Minister to
Hayti, andtwaa generally/supposed to
have the Inside track among thecolored
boys for the prize. Our negro-loving
President, it seemß, had assigned to the
black folks thiß mission which is equal
in rank to those to England or France,
An earnest search was made for a
specimen of the colored troops that
fought bravely, In order that valor
might receive this prize as its due re
ward ; but as no representative of that
noble army of martyrs could be found,
the lists were thrown open to the Bons
of Africa generally. Whereupon a
great scramble ensued and the dis
tinguished Mr. Bassett, of Philadel
phia, dark mulatto, floored the champ
ion of the light mulattoes, F. Douglass,
Esq., and at the same time put out of
joint, sad to say, the nose of Mr. Geo.
H. Boker, whiteman, and poet laureate
of the Union League, who sued for a
mission somewhere, but was non-suited,
because It would never do to give Phil
adelphia two Ministers. ’Twas base in
Bassett to thus cruelly snatch the bread
and butter from his white brother, who
had so often sungjsweet pieanajin praise
of the black man. It was gross ingrat
itude in Bassett to thus use Boker’s
beautiful poetic fancies as instruments
with which to plague their inventor.
Then again the Indepcndant news
paper says Bassettandhisfrlendsdidn’t
“play fair; ” it accuses them of pulling
the wool—we presume his own—over
Fred. Douglass’ eyes, and while pre
tending to be his friends, circulating the
report that he did not want to go to
Hayti. The Independent says these
accomplished darkeys" borrowed some
of the meanest arts of whiter men ” in
order to perpetrate “the successful
knavery which hasdefraudedtheuatiou
of the service of one of Its ablest, noblest
and greatest men."' The adjectives
“ ablest, noblest and greatest ” refer to
Fred, Douglass ; we make this explana
tion to our readers, somewhat on the
same principle that induced the artist
to write beueath his picture “ This is a
horse.”
We think that the Independent
must be mistaken in charging this
dishonorable conduct upon our dis
tinguished Minister to Hayti. It
would be to us a matter of astonish
ment as well as of poignant regret,
If faots would warrant the belief
that our colored fellow-citizens would
do/anything that is vile aud wicked;
mean anythiug else beside stealing
whiskey and chickens and committing
rape, pecadilloes which they have a
constitutional prerogative to indulge iu.
We have sought to cherish the belief,
inculcated by prevailiug authority, that
the black man is better than the white
man and have been led to hope there
fore, as the negro is about being admit
ted to the right of suffrage and to a
social equality with us in all Lhe rela
tions of life, that the moral tone of the
country would be greatly elevated and
that it would cease to experience so
much of political chicauery aud of cor
ruption in high places, as it is now af
flicted with. So that we don’t want to
believe the story of the badness of Bas
sett, for its truth would dissipate the
bright anticipations we have enter
tained of the political niillenium that
will take place when the black man and
the white man shall be made to lie down
together. Still we cannot feel too confi
dent of the result of the union ; for Llie
negro character is essentially imitative,
and we have cause to fear therefore that
in the intermingling,he may be reduced
to the level of the white man.
Home folks argue that he is a good
deal above it now, for though he steals
much oftener he don’t take so much at
a grab. But these are prejudiced peo
ple who never could see any good in the
while man. We used to think that the
negro was not so good as we are, and
even now we canpot persuade ourselves
that he is a great deal better, although
recent events have certainly had a ten
dency to greatly increase our estimate
of his ability, aud have made us cau
tious as to expressing an opinion that
these ugly fellows can ever fail to ac
complish what they set themselves to
do. For have they not captured his
own country from the white man?
Have they not wheedled, coaxed and
seduced him against his will into sur
rendering to them his birth right?
One Stephen A. Douglass, a foolish
fellow, wlio lived some time ago and
was a great advocate of the rights of
poor white men, but wlio did not thiuk
much of the negro, once declared that
this country was made by white men
for white men ami their descendants
forever, and all the white folks up
pluuded and said yea and amen. But
the black men kept silence, and ufter a
while they commenced to argue with
the white folks, aud it has not taken
them very long to convince them that
they were wrong, and that the truth of
the matter is. that this country was
made by white men for black men ; and
so they have got the country,..but have
agreed to let the white men live in it
as long as they properly behave them
selves.
Thus we have been taught by ex
perience to entertain a high respect for
the talents of our distinguished colored
fellow citizens, if they will allow us to
claim the honor of so calling them.
We always do entertain a high opiniou
of the ability of anybody who can con
vince other people that their property
is his. It Is generally so hard to do,
isn’t it?
So we have a negro Miuister to Hayti.
Soon we may have a negro (Governor.
Walk up, brethren, aud accept our
homage.
Mji. Grant, although ne has been
President not quite two months, created
in the Senate, by the time of its ad
journment, a strong party which was
opposed to him. Among the Radical
Senators who were in unconcealed an
tagonism to life new President were
Senators Ross,Sprague, Fowler, Schurz
and Parson Browniow. The contest
between these prominent Radical mem
bers of the Senate and Mr. Grant was
about appointments, und it is also al
leged thatsomeof them do notapprove of
the prospective policy of the administra
tion. Al any rate great, animosity was
manifested toward the President, as was
illustrated by tbe published statement
of an interview had with him by one
of the above mentioned Senators, Mr #
Roes. So far in this contest we believe
Mr. Grant has come off second best.
This at least has been tbe case as far as
Mr. Ross is concerned, who secured the
rejection by the Senate of the person
nopaiuated by Grant for Postmaster at
Lawrence, Kausas. The vote in the
Senate stood 38 to B—a very decided
victory for the Senator.
The organ of the Radical office
holders, the Imperialist, which advo
cates the concentration of all the rights
and powers of the people into the hands
of the bondholders, and the placing of
tholr liberties into the keeping of an
Emperor, regularly makes Its weekly
appearance. A New York paper states
that the money to run the Imperialist
is furnished by the brother of a promi
nent member of Grant's Cabinet.
Horace Greeley bos got an office.
Hjj has been appointed, by tho kind
condescension‘of President Grant, a
Commissioner of the Pacific Railroad.
Salary, ten dollars a day and mileage.
We are fully of the opinion that this
exalted position has been very amply
earned by Mr. Greeley.
Read the article in another column
on the Republican party, taken from
the New York Sun. That leading Re
publican authority seems to see the
hand-writing on the wall.
Who Is BesponMble.
The jjroper way to judge of the pro
priety Jbf the priiiclpl« r advopated hy a
political party, la to examine into the
insults attained by their adoption as the
governihginfluenceinanation. If these
principles be right and just, the results
attained by their adoption as the law of
the land must be correspondingly good,
and the true welfare of the people
be thereby greatly enhanced. Bat if, on
the contrary, the principles of the party
having control of the Government be
pernicious, the greatest evil will ensue,
and in place of peace; prosperity, and
general content, dissatisfaction and in
ternecine strife will inevitably take
place.
The history of this country, since the
termination of the war for the Union
and the restoration of the Federal au
thority, has been made by a Radical
Congress. What good features dis
tinguish this history? Have the
fruits of the war for the Union, in which
so many brave soldiers perished, been
secured ? Are we now a united people,
powerful and happy? Is each State
represented in our national Congress,
and do all the citizens of the respective
States eDjoy a like right to personal
security, to equitable taxation, and to
the elective franchise? Unfortunately
for our country, these queries must be
negatively answered by every candid
mind.
The moat important in wealth and
population of the States, for whose
union with those of the North our sol
diers fought, are officially known as
Military Districts, are deprived of repre
sentation at Washington, and are re
duced to the condition of mere depen
dant provinces. The very graves of the
soldiers who so gallantly died to Bave
the Union are, four years after the ter
mination of the war, outside of its
limits—kept out by the proscriptive and
unconstitutional laws of a revolution
ary, fanatical and partisan Congress.—
Instead of a just and equitable system
of taxation,a vast majority of our people
pay the taxes of the rich capitalists.
The bondholder counts his untaxed in
terest in gold, while the workingman
counts the meagre sum doled out to
him by his employer iu a depre
ciated and taxed currency, whose
value fluctuates with each day’s
money market. The lands of the
South, instead of being populated by an
emigration from Europe and the North,
continue very much in the condition in
which they were left by the ravages of
the war. Our national debt, instead of
being decreased In amount, is now
greater than it was when the war closed.
At the Capitol of the Nation—even in
theSenatechamberonce honored by the
presence of Clay and Webster—bribery
is employed to secure the votes of legis
lators, and iu the language of a distin
guished Radical Senator, “Ourcountry
to-duy is intrinsically weaker than any
one ou the face of the globe, not except
ing Mexico.” Such is the result of
Radical rule in our country, aud it now
remains for the people to decide whether
i or not we shall recover from this degra
i dation, aud with our National Govern
| ineut in-,the hands of those who willsee
| that the will of the people, as embodied
! in the Constitution, is enforced, again
i attain u high position among the great
. and powerful Nations of the World.
What the Booth Needs,
Ever 1 since the termination of the
war the Radicals have been greatly con
oerued about the South. They have
never ceased through their newspapers
to maligu the Southern people, and to
threaten them with punishment the
most severe, iu the shape of oppressive
laws, if they did not promptly acquiesce
in any form of government that a reck
less and partisan Congress might frame
to secure their debasement, and to ef
fect.their utter subjection to the igno
rant negroes in their midst. The South
ern States, embracing a vast extent of
territory with a splendid climate and
fertile soil, have been subjected to the
management of needy New England
adventurers, and boldimpudeutNorth
ern negroes. This irresponsible element
in the North, at the instance of the
Radical leaders, went to the South at !
the close of the war and there remains a
curse to the bonajlde residents, as it de
votes itself to no useful pursuit, but on
Lhe contrary, by its active participation
in the State Governments, effectually
retards all effort on the part of the
Southern people to recover from tlio
impoverishing effects of the war. The
bad laws exacted by such law-makers
hinders emigration from the North and
from Europe, aud in the case of some of
the Southern States, wholly’prevents
It. The Radical leaders, knowing that
a direct appeal to all the people of all
the States would result in their com
plete overthrow, are resolved to retain
control of the government, even if the
South should become a wilderness and
a debt enormous in amount witli its at
tendent taxes be fastened upon the peo
ple. All industrial enterprises in the
South must be restrained tfiat a corrupt
political party may be in power.
But this state of affairs cannot long
continue. Numbers of moderate Re
publicans, men whoregard the interests
of their country more than the success
of party, are beginning to see that what
the South needs is firmly established
State Governments made by the actual
citizens of the different Southern States
to foster aud encourage private aud pub
lic enterprise. The people are begining
to realize, what the Democratic and
Conservative statesmen of the Nation
have urged, that the South needs no
more legislation, no more “exaction of
the honor and liberty of its people”—it
simply needs to he let alone, iu order
that its wonderful mineral, manufac
turing and agricultural resources may
be developed, and the whole Nation
thereby benefited.
' The States of New York aud Penn
sylvania are equally blessed with vile
legislation. There is this difference,
however, that while the corruption of
our State is thorough, the Governor and
Legislature acting together in fraud and
villainy of all kinds, New York, for
tunately, has a Governor in the person
of John T. Hoffman, who by the exer
cise of the Veto, prevents a like system
of fraud aud villainy from being exer
cised. We follow the Harrisburg Pa
triot when it says:
“We thauk Governor Hoffman for his
noble conduct. His course Inspires the
hope that we may again behold a return
of the days of honesty and faithfulness in
public office. New York, in the person of
her .upright Democratic Govornor leads the
way. May we not cherish the belief that
Pennsylvania will follow?”
It seems that David F. Williams,
Esq., has been appointed by the Presi*'
dent and confirmed by the Senate, As
sessor of the York County Revenue dis
trict. The contest for the office among
the Radicals of that section is repre
sented to have been fierce aud bittor.
Major Budding,Capt. McCall,andCapt.
Herman, three brave and meritorious
Boldiers of the lale war, were the princi
pal competitors of Mr. Williams ;*butin
this contest, as is the case all over the
country, “ the Boys in Blue ” were “ no
where,"
The U. S. Senate finally adjourned
yesterday sine die . This is good news
for the country, for it Is a lamentable
fact that the Congress of the United
States is fast becoming as grest a nui
sance os are our State Legislatures.
There was another disgraceful scene 6f
personal difficulty In the Senate on
Thursday between several wretched
Senators, who might well call upon the
mountains and the hills to cover them
anebtheir shame.
.The residence of General Sherman, on
Garrison avenue, near Franklin street, in
St. Louis, recently occupied by the Gener
al’s family, is offered for sale. The house
was presented to the General by some lead
ing citizen of that city.
q Arise, and FojUow Me.
: ,We read vei£3jsat pleasure the
otiier day of the eJectfim ofFrankß*
Gowan, fix President of the Phila*
delphlftfand ReadlDgißailroad Com
pany. To men : in this country, few
-positions offer more tempting objects of
ambition than the Presidencies of onr
first-class Railroads, and Mr. Gowan’s
elevation to the control of the Reading,
from the very honorable position of its
Solicitor, is rejoiced in by his numerous
friends hereabouts as a very wonderfal
advancement for a young man of his
yean, which we should judge do not
number more than thirty-five.
Mr. Gowan wdß for eome years a resi
dent of this city, being engaged as a
clerk in Baumgardner’s dry goods
store. Hlb father Is a man of wealth,
but was apparently of the opinion that
every tub should stand on its own bot
tom, and was disposed to have his bods
make their way in life by their own un
aided exertions. Some time about 1866
Mr. Gowan left us to engage in the coal
business in Schuylkill county, but as
his capital was limited, the crash of 1857
overwhelmed his venture and left him
under a heavy load of Indebtedness. He
then studied law and commenced prac
tice some ten years ago In Pottsville.
He was very successful from the outset;
was appointed District Attorney of
Schuylkill county, but was compelled
by the pressure of his civil business to
resign tbe office after a year’s tenure.
He soon took a high position at the bar,
exhibited great ability and energy in
the management of his cases, was short
ly appointed Solicitor of the Reading
Railroad at a high salary, aud now is
elected to its Presidency.
Mr. Gowan’a rapid rise, suggests for
cible reflections as to the influence of
place and circumstances upon the for
tunes of men In life. If his evil destiny
had induced him to select Lancaster as
the field for the exercise of his legal
abilities, his talents, great as they are,
would have been a desperate foundation
ou which to build a hope of relieving
himself from the $OO,OOO of indebted
ness with which he is said to have
retired from coal operations. NVe
have a good bar iu Lancaster—we think
a better one than most counties can
boast of; but no lawyer here has ever
grown rich at his profession ; presuma
bly because the interests involved in
litigation are not sufficiently great to
afford large fees.
Ability here too, is by no means so
essential to the success at the bar, as is
acquaintance with the people of the
county, skill iu attaching to your in
terests country Squires, a steady at
tendance at funerals, conciliation of
influential friends, an abundance of
distant relatives, or the inheritance of
the good will of an old lawyer's office.
Yet numbers of young lawyers, uiidis*
mayed at the prospect before them, are
annually admitted to out* bar, soon to
fade away as the mist of the morning,
and to be known no more among us.
’TIs true this is a pleasant and cheap
town to live iu aud a fair place of busi
ness for every class but lawyers, who
find it necessary to engage in collateral
undertakings, if they hope at the close
of life to leave a provision for thelrchil
dren. It is a pleasaut town ; it is pleas
ant for instance, as our friend Gowan
from experience knows, to drop in of an
evening at the saloons attached to sev
eral of our great lager beer breweries,
and be sure that you will meet a cou- ]
genial coterie of friends, with whonYyou i
may have agreeable converse, as you j
quaff’ tho noble beer for which our !
brewers are so celebrated far and wide;
and when mayhap, under the inspira- ;
tiou of a “ fresh lieg,” the mime may !
inspire the genius of a future Railroad ,
President to throw off* a pathetic poem !
upon “ Ye Barrister and his cane.” All;
this is very nice. Aud it is because our*
town is pleasant, that we find so many
youug men of promise in it, who are
wasting tlieir sweetness on the desert
air, when they should be up aud away
and doing on a theatre of action, which
wants their abilities and will reward
their labors. There is too much waste
power here ; the supply is too great for
the demand and the quality, as we have
observed, is unnecessarily good. This
market does not pay remunerative
price for the large quantity of good
legal talent, with which it is now fur
nished. Since it is so well supplied,
there is for our young men a lack of op
portunity, as well as a want of incen
tive to exertion, ami they do well,
therefore, who seek another field of
labor.
Mr. tiowau’a old friends here tender
him their hearty congratulations upon
his marked success In life, and trust
that he may live long to enjoy it. Ye
Barrister’s caue in particular sends
him greeting.
Getting Fastidious
“Sotiiolimo ngo— within the last few days
—anmn from Pennsylvania was nominated
for n consulate, without consulting either of
the Senators. It was found out that he was
u constitutional thief, und yesterduy his
name 'van withdrawn."
So said Simon Cameron in his attack
orf>Grant m the Senate on Wednesday.
The party referred is Ferdinand Cox,
Esq., of Philadelphia, who wasappoint
ed by Grant, Consul to Leghorn. Mr.
Cox is a member and director of the
Union League Club of Philadelphia,
and probably owed his nomination to
the distinguished position he holds in
that body, as he is not known to be a
member of the Grant “freundschaft.”
Mr. Cox, it seems, is a habitual thief,
and after his appointment stolea box of
cigars out of a grocery store to send as a
present to the President to propitiate
his favor. This was imprudent in Mr.
Cox, for somebody else who wanted to
go to Leghorn found it out aud gave the
little incident so much publicity, that
Mr. Grant was compelled to throw his
friend overboard.
The President probably knew of this
little failing of Cox—as such weaknesses
are to he expected in Directors of the
Union League—and for this reason he
did not think it necessary to consult
Senator Cameron about his appoint
ment, as he took it for granted that the
selection of a geutlemau of notoriously
thievish propensities, would be person
ally agreeable to that distinguished
Senator, who enjoys a world-wide rep
utation of a like character. Possibly,
however, Mr. Cameron’s objection to
Mr. Cox is, that the cigars he stole were
not pure Havana, but had a wrapper of
Connecticut Reed leaf; this displayed a
lack of taste and discrimination in Mr.
Cox which the Senator could not over
look.
If Mr. Cameron, however, has turned
over a new leaf, and is disposed now to
turn up his nose at thieves, he treated
the President badly in not giving him
notice of his changed yiews; thus
allowing Mr. Grant to commit himself
in this Cox business under the Impres
sion that he was doing Simon a favor.
We hope the Senator does contemplate
becoming honest, for he Is getting old
and cannot expect to live very much
longer. Ho has a deal to repent of, and
but a short time to do it in; and we
think he ought to get earnestly to work
at it, If he hopes to save himself in the
future from the unpleasant sensations
experienced at an undue height of the
thermometer.
The Hon. Asa Packer pronounces
the report that he has withdraws os a
candidate for Governor to be without
foundation. His letter is as follows:
Matjoh Cjiunok, April24th, 1809.
H. R. Llnderman, Esq., Philadelphia:—
You say that the Pittsburg Post, on author
ity of the Easton Express, announced my
withdrawal from the "Gubernatorial con
test. I have authorized no one to make
such announcement. My position is tbe
same as given in my Chambersburg letter.
Asa Packer.
Wm. Sturges, the Chicago bankrupt, has
made up the list of his liabilities, whiah
considerably exceed four and a hair million
dollars. Two items of the list comprise
debts amounting to $445,000.
- The CltyT "
, iWehave an officer in v this city called,
•tile Street Buperinteri(tenJ^hl^Utle f
naturally leads one to belis?B that lt-is
hlsduty to see that the streets and pave
ments are kept unobstructed, clean and
in a good condition of repair. , If this
is hlsduty, he does not attend to it and
has not done so for years; nor does any
body else do it for him, for our streets
and pavements are habitually iu a
chronic condition of filth and dilapida
tion, which is disgraceful to the city and
which would not be endured in any
other town in the country.
A Providential shower of»rain a day
or two ago saved us from being smoth
ered In clouds of dust, which would
have done credit to the great Sahara;
and in a day or. two we will be again af
flicted In like manner, for we do not
perceive that any effort has been made
to take advantage of the moist condition
of the mud, to scrape it off the streets*
These are, moreover, ornamented at ir
regular distances with monumental
piles of stones, ashes and oyster shells;
they are full of ruts; the gutters are
universally in bad condition, with holes
aud benches in them, as though they
had been expressly arranged to catch
gold and precious stones, expected to
flow over them.
But it laofthe condition ot the side
walks that we have specially to com
plain. The curb stones, water and gas
boxes, and the bricks of the pavements
are in so many stages of elevation and
depression, that it is disagreeable and
even dangerous to walk the streets;
nearly every pave needs repairs and very
many require to be relaid. On North
Queen street between the Square and
the depbt, there are but one or two brick
pavements that are lit to walk upon,
and it is nearly as bad in tbeotherprin
cipal streets.
This, to be sure, is the fault of the
property holders. It is a striking evi
dence of that great want of public spirit
for which our citizens have become
famous, that they are able to regard
with complacency the dilapidated con
dition of theirproperty and the discredit
which it brings upon their city.
It is, iu a small matter, an illustration
of that same lack of public spirit which
pei milted the Iteadingltailroad to make
Its terminus at Columbia instead of
Lancaster; which now prevents the
obtaining of liberal subscriptions tow
ards the building of the proposed rail
road hence to the Delaware; and which
allows to remain unutilized, our great
natural advantages for the establish
ment of numerous branches of. manu
facture, especially of lion; advantages
that he who runs may read, in the
proximity of the raw material, in cheap
ness of fuel, of labor, and of living.
But if the property holders won’t
repair their pavements, it is the duty of
the city to do it for them, and it can
then charge them therefor twenty per
cent, in addition to the cost of the work,
which will be a very handsome profit
to. enure to the benefit of the City
Treasury. Whose fault is it that this
is not done? It may be that the Street
Superintendent can throw the respon
sibility for it on the Street Committee,
in that they have not given him orders
to go to work. It may be that the Street
Committee, in turn may transfer the re
sponsibility to the Councils, in that they
have not authorized them to act nor
made the necessary appropriation of
money. But if the responsibility can
be cast about from pillar to post in this
way, there is a great defect in the or
dinances regulating the matter, and
they should bo amended so as to en
able us to hold some one party to astrict
accountability for the condition of the
highways. No one can doubt that they
should constantly be kept in good re
pair, and it should be the duty of some
one person to see that they are so kept,
for, notoriously, what is mauy people’s
business is practically nobody’s busi
ness. Let us have decent streets, and
let us know who we must look to, to
make them decent.
A Magnanimous Senator.
Senator Zuchariah Chandler proposes
to receipt the small bill we have against
England for whale ships destroyed by
the Alabama, if she will give us a deed
for the small tract of country known
as Britisli America.
But the people of the United .States
will not approve this excessively liberal
proposition of tho W'ise aud magnani
mous Michi-gander. He utterly mis
takes the spirit of his fellow-country
men, when ho suggests that they
will consent to accept so miserable a
compensation for their wounded feel
ings aud their outraged national pride,
as the bleak and desolate region lying
upon our northern border. It is not
only the pecuniary loss which she oc
casioned us, that makes us feel so wrath
ful about ftie Alabama, although it is
in truth very sad to think of the many
good, stout ships tlmt'ahe remorselessly
burned, and of the millions of gallons
of precious whale oil that she caused to
be poured out upon the ocean. But it
is the iusult to our llag which touches
us most nearly ; the banishment of our
mercantile marine from tho ocean aud
the defiance of our whole navy for
years by a single armed cruiser.
Our just anger at so gross a national
humiliation cannot be removed by the
tender of half of the continent of North
America. If Ireland in addition was
thrown in, tho proposition might be
come worthy of consideration ; for we
would sacrifice a great deal to relieve
our suffering brethren in that oppressed
islaud fro ru the cruel grasp of the British
liou ; and we mightpossibJy be induced
to give up our quarrel with England on
these terms. But we are justly entitled
to more than this. Equity and good
conscience demands that England
should, in addition, assume the pay-
of our national debt. If Senator
Chandler wishes to obtain the favor of
the people he should udd these two
small items to his demaud, and if Q,ueen
Victoria falls to see the propriety of as
suming our debt, it will then be,' time
enough for us to consider whether we
will accept the transfer of British North
America and Ireland, in full satisfac
tion for all ohr Injuries.
Althouuh Grant has appointed
thousands of clamorous Radicals to office
only one beside Dana, as yet, has refused
to accept the appointment. The person
who declines is a negro named Clay
claiming to be from Louisiana and who
was selected by Grant as his Minister to
Liberia. The New York Tribune com
menting on this negro’s refusal to accept
the appointment, refers in the following
complimentary terms to the probable
conduct of any of the white members of
the Radical party who might be favored
with appointment should negroes per
sist in not accepting it. The Tribune
says:
“Mr. J. M. Langston, another colored
man,whose capacity, education, and habits,
render him every way fit for the post, is
likely now to receive the nomination.
Should bo decline. tho President must be
careful not to tender it to any of tbe while
men about Washington—unless he wants It
promptly taken.”
Mr. Grant is constantly committing
serious blunders in his nominations for
offices. The more independent mem*
bers of the Radical party perceive this,
and unable to conceal their disgust,
criticise him savagely. The New York
Sun speaking of one of Grant’s recent
appointments Bays:
We are informed that Gen. Grant has
nominated a notorious bounty broker for
the office of Reoorder of Deeds for the Dis
trlctof Columbia. This must beortieedingly
gratifying to the veterans who visited tbe
office of Herman’s lawyer yesterday. It
shows that tho story or their wrongs has
created a profound sensation in the Execu
tive Mansion. It might have proved more
satisfactory if this office had fallen to one of
the victims of a bounty broker; but, as
Senator Wilson left the veteran defenceless
by not shoving through the Senate Gen. Lo
gan's amendment to the bill for their pro
tection from bounty sharks, he will un
doubtedly do bis besttoplease these unpro
tected soldiers by voting for the confirma
tion of the claim agent.
,\ AYoluntarj Tribute.
heading, Theodore Tilton,
w^-Y $ Radi*
dal paper ofshe darkest hue, gives the
notice of the
Pennsylvania Legislature. The 11 low*
legialafbrs do not seem to have
inspired him with any great admiration
and he came away from the house of
his friends wondering at the greatness
of our country, which even the terrible
misgovernment of our Republican rulers
is not able to ruin;
Happening to be in Harrisburg a day
or two ago, we made a visit to the
Pennsylvania Legislature. Our curios
ity io gaze upon that sanhedrim was not
prompted by the fine reverence which
inspires one to make a pilgrimage to
to some historic shrine. We were not
as powerfully drawn toward that con
clave as if it had been a convention of
the signers of the Declaration of Inde
pendence, or of the framers of the
Federal Constitution. Nevertheless,
finding ourselves within an easy walk
of the legislative presence, and the
weather belnggfalr, and there train not
due for two hours, we .saunted toward
the Capitol grounds, swung open the
oily hinged gate, roamed awhile np and
down the gravel paths, listening to the
singing of the spring birds, and then
entered the ungainly brick edifice, and
Bat down to compare the innocent tree
top notes out-of-doors with the human
jargon inside. More, than a common
bedlam saluted our ears. * The Keystone
Legislature was on that day a double
choir of discords. In both Houses there
was wrangling enough for ten taverns ;
but the lower House in particular was
lu an open riot of unruly tongues. The
speaker’s gavel gave passionate raps for
quiet, but only added to the hubbub of
nolße. A certain member’s personal
character had been wantonly assailed in
a public print, and he was tremendously
repelling the just aspersions.
In our travels we nave visited many
Legislatures, and never saw much de
corum in any; but we have never heard
such an incessant buzz of Babel in any
other so-called deliberative body os in
the Pennsylvania House of Representa
tives. But the chief dlsagreeableness of
the spectacle was the noticeable look of
inferiority which a large majority of the
members wore on their faces. Never
before have we seen so squalid an array
of low-brows grouped together In any
one legislative chamber, not even in Al
bany. Solid Pennsylvanian Bays freely
(and with many intersprinklea damns
tions) tb&t the present legislature is the
most corrupt that ever preyed upon that
bleeding commonwealth. We take no
part in this accusation—not merely be
cause we cannot substantiate the authen-
ticated facts, but because men may have
bad-looking faces without, having ill
meaning hearts. Far be it from us to
insinuate that the Pennsylvania Legis
lature Is corrupt; we simply mean to
characterize it as the most suspicious
looking public body we ever saw. After
sitting an hour among the Borrow
stricken spectators, wereturned joyfully
to the fresh air, the blue sky, the sing
ing birds,and the common people. And
we soliloquized as follows: “What a
country is ours! God’s bounty is
lavished upon it, Nature's smile dally
glorifies it, and even man’s misgovern
ment is not able to ruin it.”
Tli© Republican Party—Hn» It a Future ?
A Democratic party has existed in this
country since the close of the revolutionary
war; und it is a singular fact, worthy of the
serious consideration of Republicans, that
the opposition to that party has changed its
name, its principles, aud its leaders about
every eighteen years since our indepen
dence was achieved. Washington and Ad
ams led a (jonservative opposition to the
Democratic idea, as expounded by JotTor
son, from the termination of the revolu
tionary struggle down to the defeat of
Adams in ISOO. Then the opposition as
sumed the name of Federalists, and, under
the guidance first of Alexander Hamilton
und then of Rufus King, resisted the De
mocracy till the final overthrow of the
Federal party in 1818. The opposition then
changed their front, modified their doc
trines, and discarded their name, aud, un
der the leadership of John Quincy Adams
and Henry Clay, were called national Re
publicans for about eighteen years, when,
having been prostrated by the party which
rallied around the standard of Jackson, they
reorganized under the name of Whigs, and
followed the load and shared the fortnucs of
Clay and Webster for eighteen or twenty
years thereafter. In 1804, having lost hope
und courage, aud having dropped into a
powerless minority, the opponents of the
Democracy, taking advantage of the vicious
position which that organization lmd us
sumed on the subject of slavery, formed
the Republican party, and, following-tho
banner first of Seward and then of Lincoln,
became the dominating power in the coun
try through the secession of the Southern
Slates, which had previously been the
strongholds of the Democratic! party.
Tho Republican party has had a stormy
existence. It was created to prevent the
extension of slavery. Thu rebellion of tho
slaveholding States gave it an opportunity
to strike at the existence of an institution
which had aimed to give law to the entire
Union. .Slavery was whelmed in the con
vulsions of the lute civil war. The follies
and perversities of Androw Johnson ena
bled die Radical wing of the Republicans
to carry their Ideas of political equality to
tho extreme, and ere the next meeting of
Congress tho right of every inau to wield
the ballot, irrespective of color, climo, creed,
or condition, will become an irrepoalablo
provision of tho Constitution. The great
and glorious mission of tho Republican
party will then have been fulfilled.
Now, remombering these historic cycles
which have constituted the lifetime of tho
various parties that at different periods of
our natioual career have stood in opposition
to tho Democracy, it is a fact worthy ofcon
siderulion that tLo Republican organization
will have existed exactly eighteen years on
the occurrence of the next Presidential elec
tion. It would be in accordance with all
the precedents lfin the contest of 1872 the op
position to the long-lived Democracy should
then suffer a signal defeat, and Immediately
afterward change its name, its principles,
and its leaders. In view of the oue idea on
which the Republican party was organized,
tho incongruous materials iu respect to
other ideas of which it is composed, and the
complete fulfilment of its appropriate work,
It would not be surprising if it then follow
ed the fate of its predecessors and passed
into history. This, however, will largely
depend upon the wisdom, the liberality, the
common sense, and progressive ideas of the
leaders of the Democratic party. Their
folly has already confirmed the power of
their antagonists ; and it is possible that it
may do so yet again.— N. Y Sun.
Anisin? nmt Canceling ofStnmps.
Circular No. 73. just issued from the In
tornal Revenue Bureau, is as follows :
Treasury Department, Office Inter
nal Revenue, Washington, April 23,
1569.—1 n all cases where an adhesive stamp
shall hereafter be used, except us may be
otherwise provided, the person making and
delivering or giving the instrument, matter
or thing to be taxed shall so affix the stamp
or stamps denoting said tax tbat the entire
surface of each stamp so affixed shall be
exposed to view, and shall cancel the same
by writing with ink upon each stamp so
used the initials of his name and the date
upon which the same shall be affixed, or by
such mechanical means as the Commission
er may hereafter prescribe and require, in
order that such canceled stamp or stamps
cannot again bo used.
So much of the above order as applies to
the exposure of the entire surface of each
stamp nsed will apply to all of the stamps
prescribed by or under the internal reve
nue laws; but the cancelation of stamps for
spirits and tobacco will remain as hereto
fore prescribed by law or regulations.
The attention of all internal revenue offi
cers, and the public generally, is called $>
the provisions of section two ot the act of
April 10, ISG9, which provides “that section
155 of the act entitld ‘An act to provide in
ternal revenue to support the Government,
to pay Interest on the public debt and for
other purposes,' approved June 30, 1804, us
amended by the 9th section of the act of
July 30, 1860, be further amended by adding
theroto the following: And the fact that
any adhesive stamp so bought, sold, offered
for sale, used, or had In possession os afore
said, has been washed or restored by re
moving or altering the canceling or defacing
marks thereon, shall be prima facie proof
that such stamp has been once used and
removed by the possessor thereof from
some vellum, parchment, paper, lustra
meat or writing charged with taxes im
posed by law in violation of the provisions
of this section." The punishment imposed
by the above amended section Is a “fine
not exceeding 81000, or by imprisonment
and confinement to bard labor not exceed
ing five years, or both, at the discretion of
the court." C. Delano,
Commissioner.
The Htato Guard gives the following
names of honest members of the Legl*.
ture:
Senators: Wilmor Worthington, of Clies •
ter county; C. H. Stinson, of Montgomery
county; R. S. Brown, of Northampton
county; A. G. Olmstod, of Potter county;
G, Dawson Coleman, of Lebanon county;
E. Blllingfelt, of Lancaster cotinty; C. T,
Mclntire, of Perry county; w.A Wallace,
of Clearfield ; James L. Graham, of Pitts*
burg; James Kerr, of Butler; and M. B.
Lowry, of Erie.
Representatives: Spoaker Clark, of Phil
adelphia; J. F. Chamberlain, of Bradford
county; R. P. Brown, of Clarion county;
F. W. Ames, of Crawford county; George
P. Rea and John D. Stranahan, of Erie
oounty; W. H. Play ford, of Fayette coun
ty; 8, JB. Brown, of Huntingdon connty ;
John H- Walker, of Franklin oounty; John
H. Longeneoker, of Bradford county, and
the veteran Thomas Nicholson, of Beavor
county*
To which the Patriot adds J. R. Clark
of Warren and James C. Brown of Mer
cer.
It strikes ns that this is a remarkably
small list to get out of 133 members.
Charles Cadwallader, engineer on the
Central Paolflo road, has sounded the Don
nerlake to the depth of 1,600 feet without
finding liottom,
Then and How— I TbeXtlllV jitf'toe In
ter FVMldM|tli;
On, the fourth ofMarctylSOL Thomas Jef
fersem ftxteon horseback unattended to the
Capitol, hitched his sober/ gelding at the
ga&l asoeflded’ the step*. -took the oath of
office from the lips of John . Marshall* and
delivered that inaugural address which has
sinoe been the key-note of the Democratic
party. John .Quincy.. Adams, when his
Presidential term expired, mounted a quiet
nag, mailed a portmanteau behind him,
ana wended his way leisurely to Quincy,
declining to receive any pablio demonstra
tions from his admirers along the route. At
the closeofGien. Jackson’s long and remark
able administration, he.departed from the
Federal Capitol seated in the smoking car
of the railway, clad in a simple garb, wav
ing a graceful farewell to the mends who
crowded the depot, and drawing consolation
from a democratic clay. pipe,«
Each of these eminent men on several
occasions, some of them of historic celebrity,
refused to receive presents as testimonials
of regard for publlo services, both previous
to and when tilling the Presidential chair,
excepting that State Legislatures voted two
or three swords and medals to Gen. Jack
son while he was in private life, as tributes
to his gallantry in the battle of New Or
leans. Neither of them ever bestowed of
fice upon a relative, while both Jefferson
and Jackson especially declined to do bo,
the former In a letter which rebuked the
practice with marked emphasis.
We have fallen on other times. Are they
better times? On Wednesday, the 3d of
March, 1809. the President' elect
$05,000 out of a sum of money raised In New
York at his own pressing solicitation for
Gen. Sherman, to pay him (the Prosidoukt)
for a house which he desired to sell. On
Thursday he took the oath of offide, and ltK
his Inaugural address pledged himself to
the rigid execution of all laws, whether he
liked them or uot. He then spent nearly
the entire first week of his term In trying to
evade the plain provisions of salutary stat
utes, because they blocked the way for the
admission to the most important seat in bis
Gubinot of the almoner who had bestowed
this dazzling present. Bullied in this by the
firmness of the Sennto and the frowns of the
public, ho nevertheless installed among his
constitutional niivisors othor individuals
who’,though not obnoxious tothis particular
objection, wore cbietly distinguished for hav
ing conferred upon him costly nndvuluable
benefactions. Along with othor appoint
ments bearing this sort of trado mark, he
appointed as his Secretary of the Navy a
guntlomun wholly lucapablo of filling the
placo, who had taken the lead In giving him
a fifty thousand dollar house in Philadel
phia, some three years before; and ho sur
rendered the baton of General of the Armies
to n renownod soldier, who, with his knowl
edge and approbation, lifted one hand to
take the oath of ofilco, while receiving with -
the other a templing gift valued ut $lOO,OOO,
of which the sixty-five tbousund dollar
house in Washington formed a part. Not
to go back to Jefferson, or Adams, or Jack
son, for virtuous examples, even Andy
Johnson had sense and decency enough to
refuse the present of a carriage and horses
with the Presidential oath lingering on his
lips.
Such evil practices of men in high places,
whose punt achievements have dazzled the
popular imagination, tend to demoralize
the public service, and debauch public
opinion, Ostentatious displays and profli
gate expenditures come to be regarded us
necessary concomitants of official station,
and it is felt that the mala object of office is
not to discharge one’s duties to the country,
but to thereby attain Budden riches and
indulge in a shoddy magnificence. The
natural result of all this must inevitably
be, that 'corruption and venality will
walk unabashed and almost unrebuked
through every department of the Gov
ernment. Moreover, such evil examples
not only shed their pernicious Influ
ence through the place-hunting and
place-holding classes, nut reach the very
roots of society. Tney inflame the young mon
of the land with u passion for wealth as tho
great object of life. They lend to make lu
cre the badgo of honorable distinction, and
tho possession of riches tho solo passport to
power, eminence, or evon respectability.
Is it not high time that the masses of tho
people, who neither seek nor bold office,
should labor for the return of the good 010
times of republican simplicity, when states
men felt a stain as a wound ; when the
dispenser of patronago would scorn to feed
his poor relations from the public crib; and
when a President would cut off his right
hand ere it should| sign the commission of
a man who had bestowed upon him a gift?
—New York Sun.
Congressional,
Washington, April 21.
Tho Senaio yesterday confirmed James
Pollock, Director of the Mint at Philadel
phia ; Horace Ruble©, of Wisconsin, Minis
ter to Switzerland; Walter Harriraan, of
Now Hampshire, Naval Officer at Boston ;
11. B. Barron, Fifth Auditor of the Treas
ury ; uud John R. Breitenach, Collector of
tho Sixth Pennsylvania District. The Sen
ate has decided to bring its extraordinary
session to a close on Thursday next, and to
adjourn sine die on that day. Two treaties
remain to bo disposed of yet—the San Juan
and the treaty with the Sandwich Islands.
Present indications aro that the former will
bo postponed until next session, or sum
marily rejected.
Washington, April 21,
Tho Senate yesterday confirmed Titian .7.
Cofibe to be Secretary of Legation at St.
Petersburg; J. R. Partridge, Minister to
Venezuela; Adam Badeau, Assistant Secre
tary of Legation at London. The following
were confirmed as Ministers: Samuel
Shellabarger, of Ohio, to Portugnl; David
A. Nunn, ofTeun., to Ecuador; K. K. Rl
otto, of Texas, to Nicaragua; Charles E. De
long, of Nevada, to Japan; H. Baxter, of
Michigan, to Honduras ; Alfred T. A. Tor
bet. of Delaware, to Salvador; F. E. Dumas,
of Louisiana, [negro], to Liberia.
Senator Sumner called upon the Secre
tary of State and Informed him that the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
had authorized him to report adversely on
several nominations for foreign missions,
among that of Mr. Pile as minister to Bra
zil. and J. S. Carlislo as minister to Stock
holm.
Washington, April 2J
Tho U. S. Senate, yesterday, In executive
session, tabled tho nomination of Jos. R.
Jones as Minister to Belgium, and San
ford’s nomination ns Minister to Spain by
a vote of thirty yeas to twenty nays. Tho
nomination of S. A. Huribut as Minister to
Bogota, and S. A. Hudson as Minister to
Guatemala, wero confirmed. Late last
night John S. Carlisle was confirmed
as Minister to Sweden, and Wm. A. Pile,
rejected as Minister to Brazil.
Bofore theSenato went into.private ses
sion, Mr. Nyo made a personal explanation
In reply to some recent strictures of Sena
tor Sprague,and sharply criticisedSpragne’s
courso. Mr. Sprague replied, and the de
bate was participated in by other Senators*
Lato at night the doors wero reopened fora
time, and Senator Abbott, of North Caro
lina, had read some remarks of Mr.
Sprague, in which tho latter used “ a mon
grel puppy dog,” as an illustration. Mr.
Abbott said he had intended to ask If tho
term "puppy” was applied to him, bat as
the Senator from Rhode Island had skulk
ed out Chamber, be (Abbott intended
to “ have satisfaction out of the Chamber.”
Mr. Samner here rose to a point of order,
and several Senators demanded that Mr.
Abbott should explain his remarks. After
an excited colloquy, Mr. Abbott said be
was “ not a duellist,” and did " not mean
that sort of thing,” and the matter ended
there.
Washington, April 24.
Among the nominations not acted upon
by the Senate at its adjournment yesterday
were those of John H. Hutchinson as Min
ister to the Sandwich Islands, A. H. Mark
land as Third Assistant Postmaster Gene
ral James L. Foley as Secretary of Lega
tion at Madrid, D. B. Randolph Keim as
Consul at Kin Kiang, Jos. V. Schofield as
Consul at Hakodadi, Thos. McElrath as
Appraiser at New York, and James Kelly
as Postmaster at New York.
Sprngna-Abbott Fend Nettled.
Washington, April 26.
The opinion previously expressed In
these dispatches übont the agitation by the
Eublic of the Abbott and Sprague difficulty
as proved correct. At an early hour this
morning Abbott addressed a note to Sprague
demanding to know, if In bis speech in the
Senate on Friday lost, he rneuut to refer to
him (Abbott) as a puppy dog. and If so be
asked for immediate and full and public
retraction. Sumner, Sherman, Morton,
Anthony,Pooleand others have been work
ing hard all day to bring about an amicable
settlement. The rooms of the belligerents
were crowded by their friends during the
day. A reply from Sprague in the after
noon, however, spoiled the fun, he denying
thut he intended tbat the epithet should ap
ply to Abbott. On the receipt of this ex
planation Abbott immediately responded,
expressing great pleasure to find thowhnle
affair-a mlatake, etc., and thus the matter
stands. Friends of both parties unite in
saying that no honor waß sacrificed, and
they are much pleased with the result.
Treasury Orders.
Treasurer Spinner has issued a ctrculur,
Informing all national banks tbat have de
posited securities In the Treasury office, in
trust, to assure public moneys in thoir
hands, that all future applications for ex
change of snob securities will be declined,
under the instructions of the Secrotary of
the Treasury.
The following has also boen issued :
Treasury Department, Treasurer's 1
Office; Washington, April 24.)
Horoafler no United States notes will be
furnished from this office, except on tho
following terms, viz:
First. In return for defaced and mutilat
ed notes and fractional currency and con
vertible issue United States notes, forward
ed to this office for redemption.
Second. On the receipt of oertlfioates of
deposit of Assistant Treasurers of the Uni
ted States and United States Depositories,
designated by tho act of August 0, 1840,
Third. On the receipt and collection of
chocks on banks and bankors in tho cities
of Now York, Boston, Philadelphia- and
Washington.
In the first case, tho new notes will bo
forwarded by express, under tho Govern
ment contract, at the expense of this do
pertinent, provided tho amount be $5OO or
more, and does not exceed 11,000, or a mul
tiple thereof, by leas than $6OO. In the two
other cases the notes will be forwarded un
der the contract, at government rates, at
the expense of the consignee, the amount of
charges being deducted from the remittance
at this office. F. E. Sfotnib,
Treasurer of the United States.
The nominations of Sanford as ’Minister
to Spain, Jones to Belgium, and Pile to
Brazil,were not rejected"by the Senate, bat
laid upon the table, which allows them to
bo sent in next session.
Cabs llbin.
Havana, April 20.— The Dlario announ
ces that the Inaorgants aredoaely besieging
Trinidad, and hive oat off ill communica
tioawith the town on the land side. Troops
have been dispatched from Cienfuegos to
relieve Trinidad*
The same paper says that 1000 insurgents
were attacked and defeated by 150 volnn
teers.
Reports continued to be received of the
burning of plantations by the rebels.
It is reported that a steamer from Nassua
has landed a large cargo of arms and am
munition for-the rebels, at Puerto Samaon
the northern coast, Eastern Department.
Letters from Trinidad to merchants re
peat the reports that 160 volunteers defeat
ed a considerable body of the insurgents
near Trinidad* They state that the light
took place within hair a league of the town,
and reduce the number of the rebels to 800,
and add that eight of the latter were killed.
The latest report from Trinidad Is that
the rebels aro evacuating that neighbor
hood.
A column of 2000 Spanish troops has ar
rived at Nuevitos and will march Immedi
ately to attack the robels in the Puorto
Principe region.
It Is reported thatthe insurgent ehleftulus
Vlllaniel. Casanova, and Junoo, with GOO
armed followers, have voluntarily surren
dered to the Spanish authorities. A com
mission has been appointed by the Captain
General to receive the procoeda of eonusca
ted property, and bavo commenced to ox
ercise tholr functions.
Havana, A*'-”
""
Havana, April 21,—rsoueral Setonn has
jon appointed to the command in-chief of
le Spanish forces in tlio Central Depart
lent.
He has boon reinforced with 7000 troops
from llavanu, with which he will com
mence a vigorous campaign against tho in
surgents in that department. Ono of tho
principal objects of tho campaign will bo
tho restoration of railroad communication
with Nuovitoa.
A steamer arrived to-day with one thou
sand regular troops from Hpaln.
Havana, April fig.— I Tho following news
is olUcial: Tue ropbrt of tho surrender of
Villanell, Casanova ami Junco, with GOO of
their followers, is pretuaturo. At the last
accounts tho agreement between the rebels
uml tho Spanish General was not comploto.
Advices from St. Domingo to April 12lh
have been received. Gonerul Franco, who
was arrosted ou a charge of attempt at rev
olution, Ims boon oxocatud. Inconsequence
of CabraU's entry from thoHnytlenfrontlor,
tho .wholo republic hud been placed under
arms, and everything was in a voryoxeitod
condition. v 7
Havana, April 22.—Mr. Brink has ar
rlved from tho City of Mexico with import
ant, but peaceful despatches for tho Gov
ernment at Washington.
One of tho Peruvian monitors started from
Humana, and whs caught in a gale ontsidif
and foundered, and all on board lost except
four.
Havana, April 22.—The Gi»vi*rmnrnt at
Madrid has ordered the proceeds oi the pro
perty of disloyal parties confiscated iu Cu
ba, to bo applied to dofruy tho expenses of
the war.
A manifesto is published in the Gaccta,
signed by n large number of native Cubans
and influential and weulthy planters and
others, residents of the Jurisdiction of Villa
Clara, offering their personnl services and
property to assist tho Government in sup
pressing the rebellion, and condemning the
acts of tho revolutionists in the strongest
terms.
A Havunu special to tho Herald says tho
passengers taken from the Lizzie Mnjor,
have been plnced at the disposition of the
United States consul at Remedios.
A meeting of Cubans and their sympa
thizers was held in. Now Orleans last night,
which was followed by a torchlight parade.
A number of colored men participated.—
Dumas, the new Consul General to Liberia,
was one of tho signors of tho call for the
meeting.
Havana, April 2-i.— A Spanish transport
arrivod hero to-day with 1000 soldiers, to
reinforce the armies engaged in putting
down the rebellion. Nothing further has
beon heard about the contemplated surren
der of GOO revolutionists, near C'ienfuegos,
and it is now thought the story is untrue.
Advices from Nassua to April 17, state
that active military preparations wero in
progress, tho forts beiug strengthened and
the garrison reinforced, iu anticipation of
possible complications arising from the re
cent imbroglia with the Spanish officials ut
Havana relative to outragos committed
upon British vessels.
A demand had been received from Cap
tain General Dulce, for the surrender of tho
pirates who captured the steamer Com
minditario, and for the giving up of other
alleged enemies of SpaiD. This demand
was refused by the British Governor of
New Providence, and the matter was re
ferred to London for settlement. Tho Gov
ernor of New Providence had also instruct
ed the light-house keepers to prohibit tho
approach of foreigners.
Havana, April 25.— The Spanish frigate
Oerona sailed unexpectedly this morning.
Various rumors are in circulation here in
regard to hor destination. She has proba
bly lieen sent to intercept u filibustering
expedition.
Madkid, April 22. —The debate in tho
Constituent Cortes yostorday, ou the new
Constitution to bo adopted, was very in
teresting. Senor Figueras, one of the
leaders of tho Republican party, strongly
urged tho point that the only alternative
left to the majority of the Coftes was to re
store tho Bourbons to tho throne, or to in
augurate a republican form of government.
Senor/jorllla, of tho majority, repliod at
length, taking the ground that the restora
tions of tho Bourbons was absolutely Im
possible, and that a republic would bo »
national calamity. Ho assured them that
a majority would eortniuly succeed in ob
taining n king.
Tho projected loan to tho Spanish gov
ernment of JtS,OOO,OOO was introduced to
day in the London market, by J. H. Mor
gan, and met with groat succens.
Madkid, April -I.—Tu tho Constituent
Cortes, Friday, one of the Republican Dep
uties, introduced a measure calculated to
forovor exclude all tho Bourbons from tho
throne ot Spain.
An amendment was proposed and car
ried; by the majority, whereby ox-Quoon
Isabella and her children only wero exclu
ded,
A resolution condemning the conductor
the Patriarch of the Antilles was brought
up in the Cortes ou Saturday. Marshal
Serrano opposed It, intimating thut its
adoption would bo an implied censure of
the Government. Tho resolution wns ihen
withdrawn.
Olozoga, during tho ‘session announced
to tho members that France would respoct
tho future government of .Spain, whatever
form might he adopted.
London, April 2o. —Despatches from Ma
drid roport a great popular demonstration
thereon Saturday, In tavor of a Republic,
It is rumored that a dispute lias arisen be
tween Serrano nnd Prim.
London, April 23. —[Special to tho New
York Herald].—lt is rumored that the Brit
ish Government will adopt a new nnd bold
policy In the Spanish Cuban question. Bel
ligerent rights are to be oonoeaed to the Ca
ban Insurgents and assistance rendered,
and tbe independence of tho island assured.
This, it is argued, will prevent annexation
to tbe United States, and give a show of
consistency in tbe Alabama claims and bel
ligerent rights question, now ponding with
tho American Government.
London, April 20.—The House of Com
mons, to-day, in committee, resumed the
consideration of the bill for the disestab
lishment of the Irish Church. Mr. Pim,
Liberal, moved to amend the bill by strik
ing out those sections in which provision is
made for the maintenaneoof certain church
buildings as national monuments. Mr.
Gladstone accepted and supported the
amendment. After discussion at some
length the Houso divided with the follow
ing result: For the amondmont, 2-32;
against it, 131.
Madrid, April 26.—The conscription au
thorized by law has been completed through
out Spain. There was no riotlngordisorder
to any extent.
London, April 26.— Late advices from
Pekin and Hong Kong have been recelvod.
Sir Rutherford Aleoc c, British Minister to
China, positively; oontrudicts Mr. Burlin
game’s assertions that the Chinese desire
progress. Ills reported that the Catholic
missionary in tho province of Se-Chron,
with several hundred converts, have been
massacred by tho natives.
Paris, April 26. — The negotiation for a
commercial conference has been renewed
between France and Belgium on a satisfac
tory footing.
~ Florence, April 26.- The Mazzinlan
conspiracy, recently discovered at Milan,
seems have boen wider spread than was at
first supposed. Arms,
ments, <fcc., belonging to tbe conspirators,
have been discovered and seized in this city.
Tbe Floods In Mew York.
Tbe floods In New York State continue,
and the Hudson is now overflowed. Por
tions of Troy and Albany are inundated,
and the loss of lumber and other property
is heavy. The Hudson River Railroad fa
submerged between Hudson and Albany,
portions of the track are washed away, and
the trains have stopped running. The Rons*
salaer and Saratoga Railroad & flooded to
the depth of five feet, betweon Albany and
Troy, In the Mohawk Valley, the flood Is
reported to be the greatest ever known
there. No trains have passed over the Cen
tral Railroad since Tnesday. The freshets
in New England also continue, and the
Merlmao River is reportod to be higher at
Concord, N. H., than at any tlmo sloco
1802.
Cuba Aflalrs.
It is stated from Washington that our
Government has no intontlon of intorforlng
In Cuban affairs beyond what Is necossary
for tbe protection of American citizens and
their Interests. An Associated Press des
patch says tbat onr squadron in Caban
waters will probably not number more
than six vessel*! two than boretofore.
Admiral Porter.
Admiral Porter, yesterday, sent n com
munication to the Secretary of tbe Navy,
asking to be relieved from dnty at the Navy
Department, on the ground that owing to
the hostility which his measures for the
regulation of the service appeared to pro
yoke throughout tbe country, he wished to
relieve tbe Secretary from any participation
in his unpopularity. Secretary Borie de
clined to accede to Admiral Porter's wishes
in the matter, at least for tbe present.
Tbe Dayton Ledger , tbe organ of Mr.
VaUandigham, oomea out in favor of Gen
eral Thomas Ewing, Jr.,.for the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Ohio.
TbeGrsna Hfm|.CeaUialsl Celebration
—A isfalOcent Display.
The Order of Odd Fellows have every
reason to feel proud of the demonstration In
Philadelphia yesterday. The day itself
was everything that coaid be desired, the
air being cool and the sky clear. It was
evident from the appearance of the several
thoroughfares leading to the place of forma
tlon that there were many thousands of
strangers In the city anxious to view the
demonstration. On the streets over which
the procession passed, the side-walks, door
s'.eps and windows were thronged with peo
ple. There was a very general response to
the request to display flags. Chestnut
street, particularly, pAsented a fine appear
anoe, as flags were displayed from nearly
every bnllalng along its whole extent.
Broad street was also brilliant with colors.
Up to within a short time of the starting of
the procession, the trains coming Into Phil
adelphia brought delegations, and the
marching to and fro of the lodges, the music x
of tho bands, the rich regalias of theofflcom,
and the crowd of spectators, made up on
Broad street a scone of great animation.
While the Lodges were forming Into line,
the members of the Grand Lodge of the
Uuitod States, Grand Lodge of Pennsyl
vania, and representatives from Grand
Lodges of other States, assembled at the
Acadomy of Muslo, Tho proceedings boro
wore begun at half-past nine o’clock. On
tho stage were members of tho Grand Lodge
of tho United States In full regalia. Hon.
Daniel M. Fox, Mayor of the oily, was
among tho invitod guests. Members of tin*
Grand Hucampmout occupied tho parquet
circle, and in tho parquet was tho Grand
Lodge of Pennsylvania and members of Ihu
Gram! Lodges of New Jersey, Maryland
and Ohio. All of theso wore in rich regalia.
The performance of the overture to
“Ziinipu” opeued the proceedings, after
which tho anniversary hymn, composed
for the occasion, beginning
Lcltlioglml anthem ring!
lliihor bright otl'orlngN tuing.
Crowulng tilts day,
Was sung with very lim* effect, with ifto sfui
of a chorus ot ono hundred voice.* and oi - *
chestrnl uceotmmnhnont,
Tho Rev. *L >V. Vonublo, U. >V. Grand
Chaplain, dolivored an impressive prayer,
in which ho asked the eontlnuuiico of*Dl
vitio favor upon tho Order, which in fitly
years, from a small beginning, had spreml
over tho length and breadth ortho land.
An address of wolcomo to the Gram)
Lodge of the United Hinton was next mudo
by Joint W. Stokes, I’. G. M. of ISnmsyl
vaulii.
Ttio address of welcome was replied to by
K, 1). Farnsworth, of TemiesHoe, M. W.
Grand Hire, in which lie returned thank*
for the hearty and frutenml welcome which
lnul been extended to (he hrulhrou of iho
Order from other jurisdictions.
Jiimos L. Rldgefy, Right Worthy Ummf
Master of tho United Whiten, tho orator at
the dny, was then Introduced.
Tho spenkor alter referring to tho day a*
au occasion of general rejoicing to (Xld Fel
lowship, gnvo u history of tho rim and piv
grass of tho Order.
Following this address u jubilee hyuiu
was sung by tho chorus ami orchestra, tu
tbo tune of Old Hundred, whereupon tin',
exerolfies wero closed with a bouedletion.
By 1- o'clock, tho hour fixod for the niov
ing of tho procession, everything was In
readiness, and Grand Marshal Thomas A.
Rowloy desorvos credit for tho promptness
with which he gave tho order to move and
the easo with which he succeeded in gottiug
the immense mass in line. There was not
the slightest confusion, but tho various di
visions took tlioir proper piacosat l lie proper
time, uml without delay the route was
begun.
On Broad street tho lino countermarched,
and in doing so extended in double columns
from Übristiun street to Columbia uvonuw
The officers of tho Grand Lodge of V<**,
United States, in carriages, reviewed the.
procession as it thus couutennaroheu.
Tho gonoral formation of the Lodges wa j,
In the following order :
Marshal and Assistant..
Outside Guanlhuv
Hceno Supporters.
Members of the Initiatory Degree, in ordei*
ofjuniority, six abreast.
Members of tho White, Pink, Royal Ului\
Green and Scarlet Degrees, respective
ly, in like order.
Members of tho Royal Purple Dc>j««c».
Fust Grumls of tho Lodge, in order .if juni
ority, six abreast.
Tho Treasurer, Socrotury utul Assistant
Secretary.
Tho Vico Grand and Supporters.
Tho Chupluln, supported by tho Warden
und Conductor. ■*
The Noble Grand and Supporters.
Inside Guardian.
The procession consisted of twenty dfvitr
ions ; the division marshals heinjj decorutw)
with scarlot silk sashes and l»iue rosettes ;
and their aids with blue sink sashes ami
white rosottes.
Monterey Lodge, Na 212, of this city.,
with thoir bannor, wore in l lie fifth division.*
Tho .Lodge had 4(1 men Iu line, Dr. M.
Herr, Marshal.
Lancaster Ijodge, No. G 7, will* bourn*/-,
wns in the eleventh division.
Hebei Lodge, No. f)l>9v ot Lancaster,
numbering 25- men; AdamHchuh, Marshal:
was in the Soyenth Division.
Washington Encampment, No. 11, of this
city, lmu 75 men In line, M. J. Weaver,
Murshul, aud was in the Nineteenth Divi
sion.
The Twentieth Division was occupy)
with carriages containing tho officers c.V
Grand Lodge of the United (States, lru>luil -
ing the Grand Hire, with the Touiujsho**
delegation as au escort. The officers, of ilu.
Grand Lodge and Representatives of Ik'.
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania wore on foot,
preceded by the splendid luuifier belonging
to tho Grand Lodge. Officers of the Grand
Lodge of Maryland, Massachusetts, New
York, New Jersey, Tennessee, Ohio, and
District of Columbia, were in the line with
tho regalia of their olfico, presenting a vor\
imposing appearance, 'i ho several Slab-
delegations were indicated by largo whtk.
silk lings.
Throughout the lino music was distribu
ted by order of the Committee, hut in ad
dition to the bunds thus provided, n large
number of the lodges had ongagod music • >|
their own.
It may bo well to stnto that nearly every
Lodge hud either the square banner with a
representation upon its face, omhloiniitUi t.i
the Order, or the name, orcurrled Hags. AU
tho bannora weroof silk, handsomely Use
orutoci ami oruainentod. As tho procession
Ked over the route there woro frequent,
onstrallons of approval from the spec
tators who crowded tbeslde-walk and over*,-
place whore n vlow could bo had. When
the head of tho lino reached Sixth and
Chestnut, near the ond of the route, tlioend
hod not yot pussod Fillb and Chestnut go.
Ing north.
In tho ovening, the exercises at the Acade
my of Music drew u largo crowd. Grand
Master Peter B. Long presided, and a large
number of officers of tho Grand Ixxiges o',
Pennsylvania and tbe United Htutes, with
representatives from other. Jurisdictions, oc
cupied seats on tbe platform. A largo or
chestra, under Prof. Engelko, and a full
chorus, was present, and interspersed the
proceedings with vocnl and instrumental
music. Addresses were made by P. (1. M.
W. E. Ford, of Boston ; I\ U. M. TUoma*.
E. Smiley, of Tennessee ; P. <4. M. Rev. M.
Meredith, of New Jersey, and P. G, Slru
James Sanders, of New York,
Tho German lodges entertained Uieir,
visiting guests at Horticultural Hull.
An entertainment was gives In the wa
ning, at the Rink, Twenty-first and Race
streets, a large number of persons being
present. Thu members of tbe Grand
visited tho place ut
Odd FellaxMklp.
The following history of Odd FellowslUp
will prove interesting at this time, an u
shows the remarkable progress made
the Order since its first organization in thi>.
country fifty years ago. Odd Fellowship
was founded in England during the luttet
part of the last century, and on Ibe 2ftth of
April, 1819, Thos. Wildey organized the
first. Lodgo in Baltimore oily. It was called
“ Washington Lodgo, No. 1.” In 1821,
“Pennsylvania Lodgo, No. 1,” was organ
ized In Philadelphia, uud on Juno 27lb k
1823. the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania wuh
Instituted, with Aaron Nichols ns Grand
Master. Tho first session was held in Fol*-
ruary, 1824. Th 9 Grand Lodgo of the Uni
ted States was organized In Baltimore, on
the 15th day of Junuary, 1825, and was oom
{)osdd of the only Grand.lyxlges thon ox
sting in the States of Maryland, Pennsyl
vania, New Yoik and Massachusetts.--
Thos. Wildey was unanimously elected
Most Worthy Grand Sire, although. Umt
title was not conferred until April 25tb1826»
The first Encampment was created Jnly
Bth, 1827, In Baltimore, nnd tbe first En
campment organized in Pennsylvania date*
from August 13th, 1829, us “ Philadelphia
Encampment. No. 1."
During the half century just closed, 606,
327 members were inltluled and $20,153,592
were expended by tho Odd Fellows of tho
United Wtateß In tho relief of the sick, in
assisting widows and orphans, In burying
the dead, and in educating thejorpban. Tho
number of members relieved from this fond
was 684,189, in addition to 55,188 widowed
families. On the 30th of Jane. 1868, there
were 3195 grand and sutordinato lodges lu
the United States, aud 245,036 members.
Of this large number, Pennsylvania had
526 lodges and 06,235 members, or more
than double the membership of any other
State. The Initiations for tho year ending
June the 30th, 1868. were 4j0,080, brothers
relieved,! 21,344, ana widowed families re
lieved, 3911. The total amount paid for
reflof during the same period was $BBl,llB
- of which Pennsylvania contributed $207,
115,92, or nearly one-fourth of tho whole
sum.
x lndtiftir-
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From Utah.
Promontory Point, Utah, April 27.
The Junction of the Union and Central Pa
olflo Railways will probably be made near
this station some time daring the present
week. The associated press reporter now
here will dally chronicle the completion of
the great enterprise.