WEDNESDAY. DEC. 15,1869, GREAT INDUCEMENTS. 930 FOB 820. To any one sending us $2O we will send FROM THE PRESENT DATE UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1872, FIVE COPIES of the Weekly Intelli gencer, worth at the subscription price to single subscribers, $lO, and FIVE COPIES of the and Home,” a literary and farm journal of great ex cellence, published in New York, and edited by “ Ike Marvel" worth at the regular subscription price to single sub scribers $2O, or $4 a copy. Each paper will be sent to a separate address, and a fine opportunity is pre* sented for energetic men to make money in getting subscriptions. For every fiye copies of each paper they get subscribers for at the regular price, they will make slo—an average of one dol lar on each paper. It will be remembered that neither of these journals can be had at the Offices of publication, in single subscriptions, for less than $2 and $1 per annum respectively. Tricking the Republican Party. Ben. Butler the true reason the other day for the action of his party in ejecting Georgia from the Union. Her Senators and Representatives are to be denied admission to Congress, not on account of any personal disqualification, not because they were not duly and legally elected, but, in the words of the hero of Big Bethel and Fort Fisher, be* cause the State has “tricked the Repub lican party.” The conservative whites have obtained control of the common wealth, and the carpet-baggers who went down there to foist themselves into offices they aro unfit to fill are left out in the cold. At the Presidential election the vote of Georgia was cast agaiust Gran Land lie now revenges him self by recommending that the State be summarily thrust outof the Union, and kept out until the native whites sink their manhood and exhibit tho most marked self-abasement. The outrage contemplated iu the case of Georgia is so gluring, when all the circumstances aro considered, that we can not see how any decent Republican cun for a moment countenance the act. Upon tho report of General Meade, that the Slate had “ fully complied with the reconstruction acts,” Georgia was regu larly admitted to the Union in Lbeearly part of IMS, and members of the House of Representatives were granted their seats. The pretext for iutcrferenceuow is that the negroes have been expelled from the State Legislature. Ex-Gov ernor Joseph K. Brown and Foster Blodgett were the caucus nominees of the Radicals for U. W. Senators, and Joshua liill and H. M. Miller the nomi nees of the Conservatives. Hill and Miller were elected by decided majori ties, the negro members of the Legisla ture, who werestili silting, voting, with but a single exception, for Brown and Blodgett. Pending the State election Brown held, that negroes could vote, but not hold office under the reconstruct ed constitution of Georgia. After the Senatorial contest, the Conservatives, acting upon tho opinion openly ex pressed by Brown, voted to expel the negroes from the Legislature, and the white carpet baggers united with them. On the defeat of Brown for the Senate, Bullock, the Radical Governor, ap pointed him Chief Justice of the State, and made Blodgett Treasurer of the State Railroad. Now, Blodgett, find ing that lie is certain to be impeached for sundry violations of tho law's of Georgia and especially for alleged con version of a large sum of the State’s money to his own use, goes to Grant and urges him to recommend the reseating of the negroes in the Legisla ture, ami the expulsion of every white member who can not take the iron clad oUh; and Brown, after declar ing everywhere from the slump that no negro could hold office under the reconstructed constitution, turns round, and from his seat on the Su preme Bench issues a decree to the effect that tiie expulsion of the negro legislators was unconstitutional. Bul lock not only asks Congress to authorize him to call into being a defunct legisla ture, to seat the negroes aud lo uuseat the whites, but he goes still farther, and demunds that he he empowered to call iuto the field negro militia to enable him to carry out, to the fullest exteut, his iufamous designs. Grantsides with him in his message, aud the Radical majority in Congress are readyto thrust Georgia out of the Union, and to hand her white people over to the tender mercies of Bullock aud his negro Jani zaries. When a bill for the purpose of per fecting this last and crowning outrage comes up for discussion in Congress, lien. Butler, the professed leader of the House, gives no belter reason for its passugo than is to be found in the declaration that it is to be done,because, forsooth, “Georgia has tricked the Re publican party.” We are sure that even the Republicans of the North will fail to countenance such an outrage, and we hope the whites of Georgia will bear any burthens that may be placed upon them rather than to submit to the pro posed degradation. The SclhPppc Case. The case of Dr. Schceppe still contin ues to excite much attention. Meetings are being held iu different cities, reso lutions passed and protests against his e xecutiou forwarded to Governor Geary. The medical men are interesting them selves, and seem to be almost unani mously of the opinion that the evidences of poisou found in the stomach of Miss Steineeke were notsulllcieut to warrant a belief that her death was caused by such agency. The case has now got Into our Supreme Court, a writ of error having been issued which will be argued on the 2J day of January. The Keporls. The reports of the Heads of Depart ments, published in the Intelligen cer, will be found to be sufficiently full and satisfactory to enable every reader to gain a clear view of the workings or the Government. We always try to keep our readers fully posted on all cur rent events of importance, and we find our reward in the steady increase of our daily and weekly circulation. Report says that the Census Commit tee has concluded to fix the number of Representatives in the Lower House oi Congress at Three Huudred. If it was certain that, with the increase of mem bers, we should increase the efficiency of that body, or draw out better men, we might rejoice at the change. We fear, however, that the only result will be to increase expense without any compensating benefits. Democratic Victory in New York. The Democracy have made a clean sweep of New York city again, electing Mayor Hull and all their candidates. The vote polled was not as heavy as at the State election. Wjs call attention to an able editorial on Grant’s Message, which we clip from that well known Republican journal, the New York Sun. It will be seen that the Am coincides with us in the belief that Grant’s Message proves him to, be .unfitted to act as a political leader.^; fioraensome Taxation. Grain is selling at a very low figure, and the fanners of Pennsylvania are grumbling as people will do nnder such circumstances. Many who have gone in debt for land despair of being able to pay, and see nothing but ruin before them. Ordinarily when grain is cheap and abundant the community is pros perous, and times are easy. Why is it not so in this country at present ? Does any one need to ask ? Every one ought to be able to see the causes which oper ate to produce the difficulties with which the masses are now forced to contend. An inj udiclous system of taxation ließ at the very foundation of the evils of which the people complain. The inter nal revenue system is defective in its details. Instead of being confined to a few leading articles, as Is the case in England, it Is extended to a multitude of objects. The present tariff is an abomination. It was framed by the agents of a set of monopolists, who made up a big purse, formed a big ring and lobbied the thing through Congress by means well known to those who are initiated in the methods of influencing legislation which prevails in these de generate days. The people of this country are begin ning to find out that the Radical sys tem of taxation means something more than a sum of money to be paid to the receiver once a year. They have dis covered that every article of food and raiment, every necessity, every com fort, every luxury, every hour’s service rendered by any one else, are all raised to an unwonted high price by the sys tem of taxation which prevails. Not only are the ordinary profits of labor all swallowed up in the struggle to live, but persons having a moderate capital, find it dwindling away under the pres ent system. How aro the people to bo relieved, and from whence is help to come? — Congress might do something; but will it? We think not. Theprobabili ties are that the whole of the present session will be wasted in frivolous de bates, and that what is known as the Forty First Congress will pass out of existence, without passing a single act calculated to relieve the people from the weight of the burthens that are now pressing so heavily upon their shoul ders. Let tho masses scrutinize tho acts of Congress ; let them note its work ings ; and if such legislation as is need ed is not perfected, let them turn out the incompetent Radicals and put bet ter men in their places next fall. If they do not do so, they will deserve to suffer on, without hope or prospect of relief. The Tariff mil. It is not to be expected that the pres ent Congress will display any marked sagacity in dealing with the tariff ques tion. The Ways and Menus Committee are already at loggerheads over it. Every member is the advocate of some pet scheme, or the special advocate of a certain rule of duties on some class of articles. We have had well on to a dozen different tariffs since the war began, ami every ono of them has been a piece of patch-work, placed togeLher without regard to tho real wants of the country. Every large manufacturing interest has had its rep resentatives present, to roll up the log it desired to have inserted in the struc ture, and thus one tariff after another has been framed at the dictation of different rings and combinations. The interests of consumers have never been considered, and the community at large, the farmers aud the laboring class especially, have been burthened most grievously, in order mat monopo lies might flourish, and a few capital ists be enabled to make immense gains. The people are beginning to see how they have been swindled by thespecious cry of protection. Even in Pennsyl vania a great change is taking place in public sentiment. The farmers of this State will not long be content to pay the most exorbitant prices for every article they use, while they receive less than its actual value for the products of the soil. They will soon join with their brethrenof the West indemanaingopen markets and free trade with the world. The movements of the rings who have made the present odious and oppressive tariff will be closely scauned, and their schemes for plundering the public will be mercilessly exposed. A Radical Opinion of Uic Message. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune telegraphs the following to th:it paper : Members generally say the Mcssago in• jures nobody. The part best liked is that concerning our relations wilh England Resumptiouists aud Expansionistsare both happy over the view taken on the currency question, and Protectionists* uud Free- Traders also found much to approve. The opening is thought to be common-placenud dreary, and the second f-entenco a marvel for length. How to be all things to all men, how to carry water on both shoulders was what Grant evidently at in his Message. He is an avowed candidate for re-election, and he will not attempt to control the Republican party. He has shown a willingness to endorse any thing which the Radicals may do. All he asks is that he be re-elected and the Tenure-of-Oflice Bill repealed. With that stumbling block out of the way be thinks he will be able to organize a great'gift distribution in 1872, which will pay even better than that from which he has already profited so large ly. The Imperial Throne was put up at public auction in Rome ; things are managed a little more decorously with The Census. A complete Census, reliable in its fucts, and in which the country will have confidence, will be of the greatest importance to the country. It is pro posed that the Census of 1870 shall com prise the statistics of trade of every store and mercantile establishment in the country; statistics respecting min ing aud fishing, and their capital; giving a full exhibit of the internal transportation of the country and the capital employed, passengers, rates of transportation, and total cost; a full record of all charitable and reformatory institutions. These several branches were not, it is said, included under any former Census. The committee in Washington have revised old sched ules, dropping out the slave schedule, and enlarging the general scope of the others, and making them more specific. The subject, we learn, will be pressed upoD Congress at an early day. Kentucky, which is the most un flinchingly Democratic State in the Union, having never yielded to Radi calism, or allowed that pestilent party to obtain a foothold in her borders, has no State debt. Under Democratic rule her financial affairs have been honestly managed, while theßadicals have been piling up national aud State debts of the hugest proportions. There is a lesson for the taxpaying masses of States which are laboring under Radical rule. Let the voters of Pennsylvania lay it to heart. Tho Philadelphia Ledger holds a true and proper estimate of the financial policy laid down in the Message of the President and the report of Secretary Boutwell. It says: All that is said is unobjectionable to most readers—but ineffectual of substantial re sults. Nobody is wiser on reading wbat those high functionaries say on this subject than they were before, as to any practical fact, looking to the accomplishment or be ginning of the desirable result. Simon Cameron is reported to be the warmest advocate of Cuban Independ ence in the Senate. That is decidedly suspicious. There must be golden dust in the chest where that old cat hides himself* THE LANCASTER The people of Georgia complied with every requisition made upon them by the reconstruction laws at the time they adopted their present State Constitu tution. It was not demanded of them, as it was of the people of Vlrginia ( Mississippi and Texas, that they should ratify the Fifteenth Amendment before being readmitted to the Union. But now, at the dictation of aset of defeated Radicals, the Empire State of the South is to be thrust out of the Union, and kept nnder the control of negro militia until such time as Grant and a Radical majority in Congress shall see fit to pronounce themselves satisfied. The pretext for this tyrannical abuse of pow er is the refusal of the legislature to admit negroes to seats in that body.— That the members thereof had aright to determine who were entitled to seats, under the Constitution of the State of Georgia, can not be denied. In June last General Haileck gave expression to a very eound opinion on the status of Georgia, wheD, in a report made by him he said: After the recognition for so long a time of the State government of Georgia, by the President and highest military authorities, for theso officers to retrace their steps and declare their own acts illegal and void, would not only seem inconsistent, bat might produce much harm. Yet Grant, at the dictation of a few extremists, is ready to commit what cannot but be regarded by every right thinking man as the grossest possible outrage. If the President and Congress can thrust Georgia out of tho Union, on so flimsy a pretext as that now setup, what is to hinder them from imposing any conditions or restrictions upon Pennsylvania which they may see fit to devise. Should the right now so boldly claimed be recognized and sanctioned, there will be no barrier to the encroachment of a consoli dated despotism. Already Ihere is a bill before Congress prohibiting the Supreme Court from interfering with the action of Congress. That tribunal ones silenced, the way to usurpation and outrage will bocleared of every ob stacle. The only method of redress left will be that of resolution. The people of all the States are alike interested in restricting the usurpations of the Radi cals. 5b 2 11 Salaries Be Increased? General Grant recommends an in crease of salaries for the Judges of the Supreme Court, and the different Heads of Departments insist that the pay of their clerks and other emplo3 r ees is en tirely too little. We would be glad to see tho Judges paid properly, but, should Congress enter upon a general revision of salaries, with a view to an increase, the additional expense would be greater than any one imagines. There is such a vast army of salaried officials uow subsisting upon thepublic bounty, that even a moderate increase would foot up an enormous sum total. The New York Tribune protests vigor ously against the movement. It admits that officials may find it difficult to makjp ends meet, but points to the tax payers whoare so grievously burthened. It thinks the farmers ard mechanics of the country would not sanction such a movement. The Tribune insists that the only way to remedy the evil is to resume specie payments at once. It says: A Resumption ofSpeeie Payments would give all the functionaries, with very few exceptions, from twenty to forty percent, morecompensatiou than they have received for the last seven years. Such Resumption wo lmvo steadily advocated since IS6I> ; we call for it now, and insist that it may just as well bo effected now as at any future period. The considerations adverse to its present achievement will be just us fotcible next year, and for the next dozen years, as they aro to-day ; the interests which resist it now will be as strong aud as clamorous evermore as at present. If we ever resume, we shall doit over their heads, not with their concuirence. Yet there is just that one way to increase safely and equally the compensation of underpa.d officeholders— Resume! The Tribune doesnotagree with Grant in all things. The development of Baltimore since the war has been steady and very rapid. Its citizens have displayed marked energy and the most exalted public spirit. Nothing has been left undone to extend its Commercial connections that could possibly be accomplished, and the Monumental City is fast passing others which were far ahead of her in this respect only a few years ago. It now ranks third among the ports of entry on the Atlantic coast, and the Gazette confidently predicts that it will surpass Boston and stand second only to New York within a very short space of time. We are glad to note these evi dences of permanent prosperity, and rejoice iu the prospective greatness of tho beautiful and hospitable city of Monuments. Attack Upon the Supreme Court. The Radicals have already commenc ed their war upon the Supreme Court. Drake, of Missouri, has put in his bill to abolish the jurisdiction of this high Court over the acts of Congress, or to prevent the Supreme Court from decid ing whether any law of Congress is constitutional or not. Radicalism, bred in the bone,thus repeats itselffrom day to day. The President proposes to re construct reconstructed Georgia,which, if it can be dono in the case of Georgia, can be as well done against any other Democratic State, and if this can law fully be done now it can also be done in all future time. No wonder, under such an example that some of the worst Radicals propose a fresh manipulation and reconstruction'.of theU. S. Supreme Court. | Bceclicr Rebuked, The action of Henry Ward Beecher, in the Richardson case, has drawn down upon him the execration of de cent people everywhere. It is said that quite a number of prominent members of his church have abandoned his fash ionable tabernacle, and takeu pews elsewhere. The New York papers still continue their criticisms upon his course, aud his apologetical letter is not received as an atonement for his crim inal action. Mr. Pugh, conductor of the Star Course of Lectures in Philadelphia, announces that he has dropped Beech er from the list of lecturers. This he does out of respect to the moral sense of the public, and because he is con vinced that no paying audience could be got together in the City of Brotherly Love, to hear the Reverend advocate of free love, and the abetter of adul tery. We are glad to see that there is a sufficiently keen sense of right still existing to rebuke Beecher as he de serves. Nomination of Judges. The President has nominated and sent to the Senate for confirmation the fol lowing list of United States Circuit Judges: Geo. F. Sbeply, of Maine, for the First circuit; Lewis B. Woodruff*, of New York, lor the Second circuit; W. M’Kennan, of Pennsylvania, lor the Third circuit? Geo. A. Piercp, of Maryland, for the Fourth cir cuit; William B. Woods of Alabama, for the Filth circuit; George H. Yeaman, of Kentucky, lor the Sixth circuit; Thomas Drummond, of New York, lor the Seventh circuit; LoreDce Sawyer, of California, for the Ninth circuit. Mr. McKennan is a resident of Wash ington, this State, and we believe a relative of Grant. Simon Cameron is said to be mad about this appointment, but, we suppose, he will be allowed to chew the cud of disappointment. We are informed by a leading Re publican newspaper, that the g.aring inconsistencies in Grant’s Message are largely due to the fact that all, except the first paragraph of spread eagle stuff, was furnished by the members of the different departments. Ulyeses did not attempt to review what had been writ ten for him, but just tacked thediffernt pieces together, and sent the Message out, a thing of shreds and ragged patch es. mTELLIGENGEB. WEDNESBAY t L>ECByiBER 15 1869. It seems that the Indiana divorce law, which has made that State tiid resort of those who desire to be loosed from marriage ties, was . passed by a Legislature elected on the temperance issue. In that contest the women of the State, especially the strong minded class, wereaclive canvassers. The mem bers of the Legislature felt themselves under obligations to their female sup* porters, and when the strong minded demanded a complete remodification of the divorce lawitwas'conceded, andthe present infamous statute was enacted. The agitators for woman’s rights and female suffrage, the female orators who bawl themselves hoarse at the assem blages which are held to agitate these questions, are generally found ready to denounce the existing marriage code, and the generally received opinion of the religious obligation of the marital tie. The only law on the subject which many of them recognizs is what they style “ the law of elective affinity.” Since the developments in the McFar land-Rickardson case, encouraged by the utterances of Beecher and Froth ingham, the female enemies of marriage have become more bold and outspoken even than they were before. The con duct of the leaders in the course of fe male suffrage has not been such as would commend the movement to the sympathy and support of the true wo men of the country ; and it is not strange that the strong minded females who are engaged in its advocacy should find themselves avoided by the purer and better portion of their own sex. Baltimore. Fat her Abraham quotes section 2-lth of the general appropriation bill of last winter, and claims that the wholebusi ness of pasting and folding is thereby abolished. We have looked at the law as presented by if, and mustconfess we cannot see it iu thatlight. Certain it is that the coming Legislature will not so regard it. There will be the usual scramble for petty places, and the usual appointment of twice as many officials about the two houses as are needed. There is a large Radical majority, and the leaders of the ring will take good care to provide for their adherents. We shall be glad to find ourpredictions fal sified by results, but are sure they will not be. Mr. J. F. Campbell, former editor of the Altoona Vindicator, has sold out .his interest in that paper to Mr. D. W. Moore, one of the proprietors of the Harrisburg Patriot. Mr. Moore, is one of the oldest and ablesteditors connect ed with the press of Pennsylvania, a man of excellent judgment and full of resources. He intends to drop the un wieldiy title of Vindicator , and to christen the paper the Altoona iSim. — TbeiS'im will be under the immediate control of a son of Mr. Moore, subject to the supervision of his father. May it never cease to shine. Temperance Party In New Hampshire. The temperance men Iu New Hamp shire have organized themselves into a political party, and intend to contest with the two existing organizations for control of the State. They denounce both Democrats and Radicals, and have entered upon the campaign in earnest. The New York Tribune criticises the movement with great bitterness, and predicts that it can only lead to evil results. We publish elsewhere a remarkable letter to the New York Sun, in which Grant and bis Cabinet are 6poken of in plain but truthful terms. The Sun is well known to be one of the most prom inent and influential Republican jour nals in the country, and what it says in regard to the men and the measures of its party may be readily accepted as correct and unpredjudical. In consideration of our refusal to en ter into a reciprocity treaty, the author ities of the New Dominion of Canada have determined tolmposeaheavy duty upon American coal, grain and other commodities. Tariff rentriction is a game at which two can play. Free trade with Canada is oar true policy. Gov. Campbell, of Wyoming Ter ritory, has approved the female suffrage bill. Women can now rush to the polls In that section as well as mem Free love and \ A Sinecure, The Inquirer is after acertau member of its party who holds the position of Newspaper Clerk in Congress. It de clares that the aforesaid official “draws a salary of $175.00 a month without even pretending to render any equivalent therefore.” The Inquirer insists that the office ought to be abolished. Cer tainly it ought, If what the Inquirer says be true —but what a multitude of headless fellows there would be, if all the useless officials now fattening on the money wrung from the tax-burdened masses should be summaily decapitated. Thepoor-hou9es would have to be en larged. The Ring at Harrisburg. A correspondent of the Harrisburg Patriot, in an able and eloquently written letter, calls attention to the infamous corruption which has prevail ed in our State Legislature for some years. He does not lay all the blame upon the Radical majority, but admits that, year after year, a few rascally Democrats have been members of the Ring,and by tbeir conduct have brought disgrace upon tho party. That is, un fortunately, too true. While the bulk of the Democratic members have been honest, a few reprobates have done more to insure the defeat of our party than all other causes combined. The correspondent of the Patriot proposes that the Democratic members unite with the houest portion of the Repub licans to elect a Speaker of the House, and other officers, who will not be mere creatures and tools of the Bing» and that all the offices be conceded to the Repub licans, provided they will put up men of unquestioned integrity and capacity. We should be willing to see such an arrangement entered into, if the objects sought couldcertainly be accomplished. We do not believe enough honest R - publicans can be found to stand against theßingwhicli ha 9 already been formed. The Radical caucus will control the nominations, aud theßing will control the caucus. The Republican members who go to Harrisburg with professions of honesty on their lip 3 will vote for the election of the Ring candidates, knowing that they are such. Thus the session will begin with the triumph of the “ pinchers and roosters,” and they will have things all their own way to the end. McKcnnan’s Relationship to Grant. It is reported that the President will withdraw the names of three of the re cent nominations fur Circuit Judges, and the Pennsylvania appointee is said to be one of the three. It is well known that Simon Cameron is bitterly hostile to the confirmation of Mr. McKennan, but it is not likely that Grant will with draw his name. He is a relation, not very near, it is true, but still a relation, The Hews, a Republican paper publish ed at the home of Mr. McKennan, says, a daughter of the Judge is married to one Major Smith, who is a cousin of Mrs. Grant. That is almost as remote as.some of the relationships traced up by “Cousin Sally Dillard,” but it is near enough to influence a President who does not confine himself to lineal de scendants from Grants and Dents, but seeks cut the remotest collaterals, and when these are exhausted finds other objects of his bounty among those who have enjoyed the honor of a matrimo nial alliauce with auy member of the royal stock. Pasting and Folding. Newspaper Change. Grant and His Cabluet Let the FranfilDglPrlTllege be Abolished. We fully agree with the Postmaster General that it is high time the,frank ing privilege was abolished In this country. It has grown to be an evil of gigantic proportions. It cannot be car tailed ; its abuses cannot be lopped off; it must be plucked up and destroyed, soot and branch. When cheap postage was introduced into England the franking privilege was done away with. There it had led to abuses similar to those which now attend it in this conntry, bat it is safe to Bay that it was not half as costly in pro portion as we find it to be to-day. The number of officials in England entitled to the privilege was only about one hundred and twenty, while with us they nnmber over thirty thousand. Peers andmembersofParliament, about eleven hundred in number, were lim ited as to the nomber and weight of their letters, only beingallowed to send out ten and to receive fifteen a day, not to exceed an ounce each in weight— The privileged person was required to write his name with his own hand on the back of a letter, and also the name of the post office from which it was I sqnt, with the day of the month. | The transmission of public documents | was free, but the mails of England were ! not crammed with thousands of tons of buncombe speeches, and other useless political trash, as ours are. Printing, fortunately in some respects, was not as cheap then as it is with us to day, and the system of having speeches publish ed without being delivered, did not pre. i vail in the British Parliament, as it does in our Congress. There were no professional writers and compilers of j speeches to aid dull country members lin those days. That is an invention ; which has never been brought to such . perfection anywhere as in Wash -1 ington. yearly stupid members of | Congress get speeches M of learned and thundering sound ” reported in full in the Congressional Globe, not one line of ; wM'jk they ever wrote or spoke, and tii.s-e purchased specimens of oratory are sent free of postage to their credu lous constituents. There is nothing to prevent each member from mailing a hundred copies, free of postage, to every man, woman and child in the United ; States. Tue writing of the member’s name was abandoned of late, andstamps were used instead. The political mana gers of each party in the different States j had facsimiles of these stamps at their headquarters during the last Presiden tial campaign, and correspondence and political documents by the ton were sent through the mails free. But it is useless to enumerate the ways in which the franking privilege has been abused in this country. We believe the Post master-General is correct in estimating the cost at not less than five millionsof ! dollars. Of course there must be an allowance made to the departments and to Con gressmen for postage, but the use of stamps, as recommended by Mr. Cress well, will do away with very many of the abuses, and reduce the annual ex penditure of the Post Office Department several millions of dollars. That is the system which was adopted in England on the abolition of the franking priv ilege, aud it has been found to work ! well. Members of Congress will thus still be allowed to mail letters and docu ments free of postage, but there can be proper restraint imposed, and those who may write to Congressmen will pay, as they ought to do. We consider that* every Democratic member of Congress is bound to vote for the reformation of all abuses, and for every measure which proposes to effect any real and proper retrenchment of expenses. Our party stands pledged against all extravagance, and the prom ises we make to the people must be ful filled. We hope to see a solid Demo cratic vote in favor of abolishing the franking privilege. It is said that the House Military Committee is determined to recom mend a reduction of the army, in spite of the adverse report of Gen. Sherman. We hope rumor may not prove to be a lying jade iu this instance. A reduc* tion of the army could be made, would save several millions a year, without impairing ils efficiency. Let it be done effectually when it is done. Let hundreds of the unemployed offl-. cers, who are doing nothing to earn the wages they receive, be summarily dis missed. The avenues are open to them in which the taxpayers make a living, and there is no reason why they should be supported in idleness at the public expense. Tjie Secretary of the Treasury has sent in to Congress a long list of items, in which he asks for large appropria tions to eover deficiencies. These em brace almost every branch of the public service, aud show that the noise made about economy when Congress adjourned last spring was all bosh. The reduction of expenditures foretold by the appro priations has proved to be a barefaced cheat. A Temperance Petition The following is the form of a petitio^ 1 now beingextensivelycirculated by the Order of Good Templars throughout this State ; 7o the * v >' r e m■> Some of Repruentalioes of J'ennay . • The in •• citizens of respecilut'.y jupresent That oyer sixty millions of dollars aro annually spent by the people of Pennsyl vania for intoxicating drinks. That over Un thousand citizens of Penn sylvania annually die the drunkard’s death. Tho intoxicating drink is the direct cause of nearly all the crime, poverty and social disorder throughout the State. That a large majority of drinking house keepers throughout tho Slate do not ever pretend to keep inns or taverns “ for ac commodation of strangers and traveler. 3,” and cannot be justified by any plea of ne cessity. That these drinking houses are tho schools of vice and crime, and lead many thousands of young meu to druukenQeas, crime and death. These startling fucts, we respectfully con tend, demand the immediate aud earnest attention of the Legislature, and the pas sage of an act, under the provisions of which the evils referred to may be removed, or at least brought within reach of tho people. We, therefore, earnestly pray for the pas sage of a general law, to enable the quali fied voters of any ward, borough or town ship within the State, to determine, by ballot, whether drinking houses may or may not be licensed within such districts, under existing laws; and in all dist.-icts voting against such license, to prohibit the sale ol such drinks, except lor medicinal or mechanical purposes, under severe pen alty. By the passage of such an act, this ques tion will at once be removed from the arena of partizm politic. o , and placed in the hands of the people themselves. ICach petitioner will sign two—one for the Senate and one for the House of Represen tatives. Xewspapers and Caba. We clip the following from the Phil adelphia Post: The Lancaster Express is insinuatingthat The Post has been subsidized by the Cubans, and has received u share of an apocryphal half million of dollars raised to influence public opinion. But one paper in the United States has received any money from Cuban sources, and that is not The Post. It would be foolish for the friends of Cuba to offer us money to advocate recognition— for why should they pay for wbat they have always had for Dothing? They had better save all their money for such papers as The Press and The Express, it it is thought worth buying. We may say, however, this, and we re quest The Express to copy tne statement, that not long ago The Post was offered “a retaining fee," of no inconsiderable amonnt to advocate the side of Spain. But we have no opinions to sell. The Election Betnrns. New Orleans, December 13.—A Hons ton special says returns from eighty-seven counties have been received, and give Hamilton a majority in forty.five counties of 8,970. Davis’ majority in forty-two ceunties is 12,322. Davis 3,574 ahead Forty counties to hear from. Registered whites, 16,454; colored, 9,233. Davis leads tije colored registered vote one-sixtb. The Legislature now stands: Conservative- Senate, 13; House, 41. Radical-Senate 12 • House 24. Entire Radical State tickel, ex cept Governor, is elected. Hamilton’s friends claim his election by 2,000. Arm strong and Conners, Conservatives, are be lieved to be elected to Congress. Still later returns indicate the election of a Conservative majority In the Legislature, Letter from Governor Wells, or Virginia. It seems that H. H. Wells, the de feated Radical candidate for Governor of Virginia has sense enough to see that his party can not be benefited by delay in admitting the Btate to its prop erplaoe In the Union. He was whipped so thoroughly that the malice seems to have been beatenoutof him; and he has written the following letter: Richmond, Va., Dec. 10, 1869 —To Col B. A. Hughes, of Hew York— Dbab Sib : I bad hoped there wonld be at the opening of Congress no division of sentiment in Washington on the subject of the immedi ate restoration of Virginia, and am sur prised at what occurred before the Recon struction Committee yesterday. We have arrived, it seems to me, at a stage in the work of reconstruction when it is utterly idle to attempt the correction of any evils which may exist here, by a longer denial of federal representation to the State. No conservative, or Democrat, will be made a Republican, no bitterness assuaged, □or any spirit of amenity be encaurag ed, or oblivion for the past be secured, by either an exclusion of tbe State, or individuals, from any of tbe rights which belong to the most favored of States or citizens. Whether such desirable results were ever likely to be secured by test oaths or disfranchisement, or not, It is certain they can have no operation fgqm this time forward. If we are ever to secure prosperity in our material interests, harmony in our social relations, or justice and regularity in political rights and privileges, it must be done by such a universal act of amnesty as depri res every man of tbe 1 *st vestige of an excuse for Inflicting injustice on others in retaliation for wrongs,'or political disabili ties, suffered by himself One may doubt the issue, or even believe that such a meas ure of liberality will fail of any happy results, still it is tbe only refuge now left and wise men ought not to hesitate about making tbe trial. It should be done, too, in no ungracious spirit, but fully, freely and with the broadest generosity. It is idle to find fault wilb, or cavil at, tbe means or way by which we have been brought to this condition. It is utterly immaterial bow the Republican party was defeated, nor shall we be likely to contemplate its overthrow more graciously by loDger in dulgence in animosity, b ltern^fisorrecrim ination. I sincerely hope that Virginia may be restored before the week ends, with out a single dlaseqting vote, that before I tbe Christmas holidays, by one sin gle act of amnesty, the disabilities of tbe commonwealth may be removed. Tbe pol icy of selecting hero or thoro individuals for relief, not because of tbeir superior claims, but rather, on account* of tbe friends they had at court, or tbe diligence with which they move tbeir suit, is plainly unwise and manifestly unjust. It tends greatly to aggravate tbe irritation already existing. The two hundred men whose disabilities are removed, aro not thereby rendered any more the friends of tbe government than they were before, while all tbe oth ers unrelieved had iu this last act of un just congressional discrimination a new caqse of rpore substantial complaint, dis like and bitterness. It ia useltas longer to rely on balf-way measures. Ssver the knot by one blow. If this policy does not auo coad, there is no other that can offer any reasonable hope of a better result. I hope that you will do all in your power to secure the success and early adoption of lifls policy, I re main, rpy dear uir, yours, very truly, H. U. Wells. Hie I (Jcct of tlio Message upon the Ko publicnu Party. The message of Gen. Grant is delivered under peculiar, not to say uupiecedented circumstances. He Is the bead of a party as well as the Chief Magistrate of tho nation ; and the'qtiestioo, therefore, will naturally arise as to the effect of his utterances upon tho future of that party. It may be maintained that the President handles with discretion, though with limit ed ability, tho current and ephemeral topics which make up the staple of his message, and in which the whole people of the coun try, irrespective of party, are equally inter e-tod. But does be put forth any of those new and imposing ideas which make epochs in history ? Does he initiate any grand policy for the future on which his party can stand, and by virtue of whose attractive character it cau successfully challenge the support of a majority of the nation in the years which are to come? The cheerintz tone of the message in re spect to the early and satisfactory disposi tion of all tbe issues which sprung out of the rebellion, suggest tbe grave inquiry, wheather their peaceful settlement does not nearly use up the capital stock of the Re publican party, and terminate Us mission. A party winch has betn long in power and has accomplished great results, is sure to fall under the popular ban so soon as it fails to master the exigencies of the situa tion, and inspires no hope for the future. It was upon this rock that the Democratic party went to pieces at the close of tbe ad ministration of Mr. Buchanan. And if we are to accept Gen. Grant’s message as an exposition of the policy of the Republican party, then a like calamity will overtake tnut party at the conclusion of his present term of office. The message tells us noth ing new’, promises nothing which had not been promised a hundred times before, re commends no great measures to attract the public eye or kindle the popular heart; and Ib a word, proposes no policy in regard to the future to which the Democrats aro not just as ready to pledge themselves as the Republicans. The elections of this autumn should con vince tbe Republicans that their hold upon power is gradually relaxing. They swept the country last year because the people desired to see the reconstruction, measures completed, and felt certain that General Grant would accomplish this object. They partially triumphed iu tbe recent elections because this work was not quite finished. When it is done, then, provided the Demo crats will allow it to rest undisturbed, hun dreds of thousands of independent voters, whose suffrages aided to elevate General Grant to the Presidency, will search in vain for anything lo induce them to longer fol low his personal fortunes, or bind them lo a party to which they havo never owed aught but a conditional allegiance.— N. Y. Sun. TUE SCAFFOLD, 1 xerutlon of Three Murderers in One l>uy—• (execution or Jotm Field* nl W llllumtport-.-Hm> glng of Zach ary T. Kocklubcrry at Butler— Fxccutiou of a Parricide. Williamsport, Dec. 7.— Tbe execution of John Fields fur the murder of George Mathews, took place in Williamsport, Pa., to day. The murder was committed on tbe 18th of May last. Mathews, the murdered man, was the brother in law of Fields, and tbe two were engaged in cutting ties for the X. C. K. R. When the time for settlement with the railroad company arrived,'George Mathews drew the money, and John Field* sent his wife the day before the murder to Mathew’s housefor bis share. He was dis satisfied with the amount sent him, and sent her back for more. Mathews seut word that he would come over and see about it, and came to Fields’ bouse on tbe next day. He found Fields engaged in cutting potatoes for planting.— Just inside the kitchen door a heavy double bitted axe stood against tbe wall close by. The two men got into a dispute about the money, when Fields said, “I’ll put an end to this,” at oso, seized the axe and struck Mathews, who was standing in the door way, a terriblo blow on the left side of the head, just over the eye, making a cut about live inches long and sinking through the skull into tbe bruin. Bi;tlek, Pa., Dec. 7.— Zachary Taylor Hockiuberry suffered tbe extreme penalty ot the law, by death ou the gallows, at 12 liO P. M. to-day. The circumstances attending the com mission of tbe nftirder for which Hockin berry paid the penalty are of a most singu lar character. Hockinberry was a young man, not yet out of his minority, when the crimo the murder of bis sweetheart, Miss Annie McCandless—was per petrated. Tbe doomed man, since the failure of all efforts to procure a commutation of his sentence, has occupied his time in religious preparations for the dread moment and in •‘confessions,” which betray a vicious dis position, the misanthropic life he led, and the lack of early educational advantages. From these illiterate productions it is learned that he was born March 21, IS4S, in this county ; that his parents died while he was an infant, aud when thirteen years of; age, he went to reside in the family of tbe murdered girl, whose mother was a half sister to Hockinberry’s mother. Ho re mained with them until be reached the age of eighteen, when be hired out to a neigh bor as a farm hand. He frequently visited the McCandless family, and seems to have had something of an affection for Annie, the youngest daughter. He never asked her hand in marriage, but there seemed to be an understanding that if ever she married he was to be her husband. He was jealous of every attention shown her by other young men, while ho showed himself incapable of paying her any him self. This caused estrangement between them,.and with his revengefuldisposition, be soon concocted his scheme of murder. On the evening of the 3d day of October, 1868, Hockinberry, with a loaded gOD, crept up to a window at McCandless's house, and saw the family at the tea table. He raised the weapon and fired, and Annie fell back a corpse, her face and head horribly muti lated. Hookinberry went homo and went to bed, where he was arrested a short time afterward. His trial commenced in April, 1869, and on September 10 he was sentenced to death. Since his sentence he has con fessed to the murder, but claimed that he had no intention of killing her, that he only wished to disfigure her, so she could marry no one else. He has also confessed to firing at Miss McCandless on a Jormer occasion, and to the burning of her father’s barn. An effort was made a short time since by several reverend gentlemeD, residents here, to have his time extended. Revs. Galley and Fritz, his spiritual advisers, went to Harrisburg to have an interview with the Governor. While there two remonstrances were sent from here against any extension of time. The Governor, consequently, re>» fused to interfere. Goderich, Canada, Dec. 7.— Nicholas M. McCady. who murdered his father and stepmother about nine months ago, was hung this morning at half past eight o’clock. It is said he left a written confes sion of his crime. Chicago has about one hundred and thirty miles of sewers, which cost $2,665,000. The interest on this debt is $186,650. As $197,000 were expended in 1868 for nine miles of sewerage, a Chicago journal asks pertinently whether it is not time to stop borrowing and to apply the direct taxation to tbe construction of sewers as they may -be needed. HOW THINGS GO AT WASHINGTON What Sort of on Administration It is. [Correspondence of the N. Y. Sun 1 WAAHraoTON, Dec. IL—The entente cor (note between Robeson and Porter has been much disturbed of late, as may be seen in part by the report which the Admiral pre maturely published, and which the Secre tary failed to adopt* In truth, no Secretary or the Navy who respects himself can sub mit to the direction and assumption of power which the Admiral takes npon him self in the administration of the Depart ment Tbe Secretary became nothing more than a signing clerk during the regime of poor Boils, whose weakness ought to bo extenuated, because he did not pretend to conceal his incompetency. He urged thut disqualification npon the President as a reason for not accepting tbe place when it was first offered to him, but Gen. Grant replied that “ Porter would do the duty.” And so he did. Backed up by the Presi dent, he has continued to regard himself as master of the situation, and to carry out his ideas just as if there was no superior authority. This has at last become unbearable, and Mr. Robeson, lazy as he naturraUy is, has occasionally kicked in tbe traces with a feeble muscular effort, but without any material success. He is not the man for resistance of a determined kind, and the instability of Cabinet places as they now are constituted is not encouraging for the exercise of moral courage. President Grant intends that his Cabinet shall be a sort of military staff, who are to carry and execute orders, without having either discretion or opinion of tbeir own. They are rarely consulted in tho large and proper sense, though by canning and per tinacity any one of them can briDg the Pro sident to adopts his views on any difficult question where Gen. Grant has no re-tl opinion of his own. But on Cabinet days they merely make routine reports to their chief, and in matters of mere administra tion are of very little account, and have very little idea what the President meaus to do. When Gen. Belknap was recently appointed Secretary of War, no member of tbe Cabinet had tbe remotest knowledgo of the Presid-nt’s intention?, until the choice was made and announced in the newspapeis. Geo. Grant intei even in the small est matters which touch his prejudices, or partialities, or his family interest?, and in a manner wholly unknown heretofore. He and Butler have become reconciled fully upon the ground of reciprocal advantage. After that, anything else Is possible. Mr. Stantou will not be named for the Supreme Court vacancy because, the Presi dent says, “he insulted Gen. Sherman.” — That is a new reason for rejecting merit; but it is worthy of tho White House in these days. Gen. Sherman is a power behind the throue. He nominates Consuls by wholesale, aud does pretty much as he pleases iu other matters. His brotber-in law, Hugh Ewing, whom Andy Johnson appointed to a foreign mission, is retained (while many others more deserving have been dismissed for that alleged cause), although he is not at his post and is rarely in condition to be seen. This fuct is notori ous here, and yet tho amiable aud artful mediocrity at tbe State Department shuts his eyes, but does not forget to send his own kinsman as Consul to Rome, any more than on the vital question of Cqba he f >r forgets to control the President in the in terest of the Spaniards and his own s-m in law. The Government is run as a sort of family maohine, where hungry incompetents are fed, clothed, and uniformed at the public expense. It does not mutter in the least whether they have been rebel sympathizers Or not during the rebellion, like “ old man Dent.” To be of tho family, no matter how remotely, ia the first and greatest qualifica tion, which supersedes honesty, fituesp, aud capability. The President’s house is no longer what it used to bo. Tbe Chief Magistrate is ap proaobed only through a lino of‘‘Genera!a.” There is Gen. Dent, who is u sort of chief usher, and stands in undress to admit or reject visitors, as they may be of the faith ful or suspected stripe. One class is hapdltd by Gen. Porter, another by Gen, Babcock, and a third by Qeu. Homebody Else, until the President is reached. All these Generals are drawing pay, rations, horse feed, ser vants’ wages, and other allowances, in the most delightful way for tnemselves. Who cares, since Uncle yam pays the piper ? Tho Generals buy big houses, sport fine car riages, live on tbe fat of the land, and sing pruius to the as the King’s friends ought to do. Gen, Badeau who never sot a squadron in the field, but who notwithstanding is a full blown General, takes his ease at his inn, and lets diplomacy in London look after itself. While in England, be never pretended to do anything else tbau orna ment the Legation—a duty for which lie was pre-eminently qualified. In Wash ington be decorates the Pulaee, aud draws bis pay like a sensible and virtuous Second Secretary of Legation, who has nothing to do but to air his official graces at two Courts. ‘‘lnsatiate archer, would not one suffice?” Certainly no!, says the redoubt able General. When Mr. Motley was at Vienna he re commended that lus mission there should be raised to an embassy. But tbe remorse less Seward would not consent, and rather rebuked the suggestion in bisofficial reply. Now the cable sends over a rumor that tho British Mission here is to be put up to n higher rank, with the expectation of course that we are to reciprocate. The milk iu that cocoanut is Viennese. Let us have magnifi cent embassies by all means, with the ap propriate toggery, flunkeys, and swells to boot. And by all means let the elegant Mr. Sumner, in the pride of his Chairmanship of Foreign Relations, design the uniforms and order the gold lace for Motley, Wash burne, Jones (not John of the War Office), Jay, Rublee, iShellabarger (Phoebus, what names !), and Company. Tbe rnodeßt and retiring Sickles is partially provided in this line, but could be persuaded to undergo ad ditional decoration for his country’s good. Si* ECTATOU. Tf lio Indian Appropriations, An official statement has been prepared showing the disbursements made from the appropriation of $2,000,000 placed at the disposition of the President, by act of Con gress, to enable him to maintain peace among the various tribes and bands of Indiuus, namely: Supplies of beef and transportation to vurious parts of Dakota, New Mexico and Montana Territories and the Central Superintendency, for all ex penses incident to the servicesof the Whet stone, Cheyenne, Grand River, and Crow- Creek agencies iu Dakota, and for the pur chase of all goods und supplies which have been purchase! for the Sioux, $246,404; amount placed at the disposal of Governor Campbell lor general incidental expenses and service in Wyoming Territory by di rection oftbo££rehldeut, $lO,OOO ; for paying indebtedness created by General Harney in oxcosb of the sum of $485,784, appropriat ed by act of Congress in 1869, to pay ex penses incurred by him for the benefit of Indians with whom we have treaties, or made by the Indian peace commission, $99,970; total amount expeuded, $356,374; ballaDce remaining on hand, about $1,643,- 626. Of this $1,500,000 will be required to pay for subsistence furnished aud to be furnished bythe commissarydeparlmeut for Jeeding the Sioux, Pawnees, Camunches. Apaches, Cbeyenes, Arrapboes.and others; $lO,OOO will be needed tor the service iu Wyoming, and about the same amount in Montana and New Mexico. The residue, say $113,000, will be required for tbeservice at tbe different agencies in Dakota, includ ing the pay of employes, the completion of buildings, breaking land, planting, etc., in the spring, and for tbe general incidental expenses of agents at these places ; also, to meet any emergency that may arise at other agencies. New Designs for roning© Stamps. The Post office Department has complel ed the selection of designs for a new series of postage stamps to take the plaoe of those now in use, which were adopted by ibe late Postmaster Generul Randall about one year ago. Tbe new designs will be about one-third larger than the present stamps, or in other words, the same sizy of the old stamps, and consist entirely of pro file busts, takeu from standard and origiual marbles, executed by artists of acknowl edged reputation. Some of tbe stamps have already been engraved, proofs of which have been approved by tbe Post Office Department, as well us by the President uud Cabinet, as the mest appropriate and eiegaut iu all respects of any hitherto issued by any nation in the world. They will be engraved and furnished by the National Bank Note Company, from Photographs by Brady, takeu from the original statutes aud busts, and comprise heads of tbe following dis tinguished Americans : Oo the one cent stamp the head of Franklin, from the bust in tbe Frauklin Institute in Philadelphia; on the two cent stamp, head of Jackson, from the bust by Powers; three cent stamps, head of Washington, from the bust by Houden ; six ceut stamp, head of Lincoln, from the bust by Volk ; ten cent stamp, head of Jefferson, from the bust by Powers ; twelve cent stamp, head of Clay, from the bust by Hart; fifteen cent stamp, the head of Webster, by Clesinger; twenty-four cent stamp, tbe bead of General Scott, by Coffie ; thirty ceut stump, the head of Hamilton; and on the ninety cent etamp the head of O. II Perry, by Walcott. Tbe eugravers are actively engaged in their work uud it is expected the stamps will be ready for issue in the course of the next six weeks. The present stamps are almost universally ob jected to as inartistic in their design and wanting in nearly every particular required by popular taste. Horrible Murder of A Jewish InmlJy The Berlin correspondent of the Jewish Re cord. gives an account of a murder of extra ordinary barbarity, perpetrated in Russia in the neighborhood of Skud. Tbe victims were a Jewish family, consisting of eight persons, living at a solitary inn. The head of the familyr Jesse) by name, about a fort night ago went to go to Sknd to fetch his boy from school. In his absence 5 peasants entered the inn, ordered food, and after partaking of it refased any payment. Upon Mrs. Jessel remonstrating with them, one of the ruffians knocked her down, and not content with one victim, murdered each of tbe other five occupants of tbe honse, the children and sister of Mr. Jessel. They then piled the bodies up, and, and in order to destroy all traces of their work, set fire to tbe honse. The father and son, who ar rived at the time, whilst contemplating the bnming inn, were seized by the miscreants and thrown Into the flames to share tbe fate of the other sufferers. Tbe correspond ent goes on to state that one little boy es caped, and can bear witness against the murderers who, he remarks are well known. 2111. fICFABIASD’S DEFENCE. BeTel&ilos a Which Counsel Will Develop on (be Trial. What Drove the Husband to the Rndness or NhootloK—The TrlmlnmiTi mi, of the Indiana Divorce—-'The nllesed Falsehoods Told to Hr. Beecher—&ev and interesting Allegations, The Richardson-McFarland free-love tragedy is growing, if public in terest, and new fhctsare constantly develop ing themselves. These facts, however, as they are chiefly in favor of morality and against the views espoused by the advocates ol libertinism and unlawful marriages, are carefnlly ignored by those in the free-love interest; but as The 6tm shines for all, and not for any portion of mankind, we proceed to lay some of them before the public These facts, which will form part and parcel of the evidence to be submitted at the coming trial of Daniel McFarland are said to be derived from the most trust worthy sources, and will bo in due time substantiated under oath. They cover points of much practical importance and general interest, and are as follows: It is maintained that there is not the slightest shadow of truth in the assertion so strenuously made by the advocates of one party in this fearful drama, that there ex isted a wido and irreconcilable mental disparity between Mr. and Mrs. McFarland. The public have been led to regard the ludy in this case us yoked matrimonially to a man mentally far beneath her; but the facts are just the other way. Not only is Mrs. McFarland (on the testimony of Mr. Stuart, of the Wiuter Garden, and others competent to judge) a superficially educat ed woman,more showily than solidly gifted; but Mr. McFarland is, on the testimouy of educated geutlemen who have known him intimately for ten years,a man ofsolld cul ture, having graduated respectfully at Dart mouth. ana of varied intellectual acquire ments;especiaily notable as a Shakespearian sehUar and an elocutionist. Hl9 knowledge of English literature is varied and accurate; and instead of fulling behind his wife ho outstripped her, as be acted during the earlier aud happy days of their married lifo as her teacher in rhetoric, and she has at various times expressed her obligations to him in that capacity. Not only is it alleged to be false, that Mr. Richardson did not appear upon the scene until alter the breach between Mr. aud Mrs McFariand, but the defense will show, up u pon sworn testimony of competent wit nesses?, mutual friends of both the Me Far lands, that for some time after the forming of Mr. Richardson’s acquaintance the ut most peace and harmony prevailed, and that the lady—who was at lust received by the Sinclair family at Croton as the betroth ed lady love of Richardson—win ut first welcomed there as the happy wife of Daniel McFarlaud. Although Mrs. McFarland left her hus band’s bud and board for a year and more, and although her husbaud was aware that she had_ done so iu order to procure a di vorce from him, yet with such secrecy was the divorce suit managed by tho mauipula tors of Mrs. McFarland that her husband wus never even nble to a.-eertuin during all the time she was absent ut what place the was residing. Not only were no papers whatever served upon him ; not only were no direct charges ever brought against him, to his own knowledge ; not ouly was uo opportunity offered him to bo heard ; but he was kept iu such utter ignorauce that, although he mailed over five hundred dif fereut letters to various towns, their post master-, Ac., in Illinois, Indiana, ana tbo West geuerally, he was never able to defin itely uscertuin theexuct whereabouts of bis own wife. Our iuformant characterizes this secrecy of proceeding as “terrible.” It is certainly astounding and fearfully suspicious ; but he ia prepared to substan tiate it on oatli, uud will doso on the proper occasion. It has been said that tho assassination of Mr. Richardson was but the culmination of the first attempt; that there existed no greater cause for tho second than for the first shooting. We are informed thut the evidence will show these statements to be mistukes. Tho first shooting arose from u jealousy at Mr. Richardson’s interference between Mr. McFarland uud his wife ; but uflerwurds Mr. McFarland still uherisheda lingering hope that aocuer or later Mr. Richardaou would bee his error, and leave his wife alone, and that all would yet be well. But when he was informed, casually, by an acquaintance, of his wife's having obtained an Indiana divorce, und when ho learned oartuin other facts, this hope was dispelled forever. Mr. McFarland ascertained that his wife, after she had procured her ludiana secret divorce, was staying at the residence of her friend and udviser, Mrs. L. G. Calhoun, in Jersey City, where she (Mrs. McFarland) was constantly visited by Albert D. Rich ardson. The uuhuppy husband watched with his own eyes the house, aud saw its inmates. lie also made inquiries in tho neighborhood, und ascertained more than enough to show him that tho reports which had reached him were well founded. He also ascertained personally, by inquiries and investigations in Newark and else where, that Mr. Richurdson was going to sell his property and remove to the West with his 1 McFarland’s) wife. These signs of deli bf rate purpose in the man and woman drnva Mr-Kwrlnrut t.n his coonrul shooting. His first attempt was inspired by jeulousy; his last and fatal one by des pair. Mr. McFarland regarded Mr. Richard son not only as the robber of his wife, but of his child. Mrs. McFarland, during her absence from her husband, took with her one ofthe children, and it was the loss of this child as much ns tho loss of its mother that agitated Mr. McFurland. Nay more, an old and iutimate friend of both Mr. and Mra. McFariand asserts that the former was wont, duriDg his wife’s residence in Indi ana, to visit himdailj andnigbtly, to relate the story of his wrongs, and that in these wrongs, the loss of bis child he ranked as even greater, if possible, than that of his wife ; and one night McFarland remarked in the presence ol his host, that *• That man (Richardson) should never be permitted to debauch both the child and its mother.” Our informant also slated that ut the men tion of his absent child’s name, tears would spring into the father’s eyes, and that he has known Daniel McFariand, the father, to weep like a child. The charge of adultery, said by Mr. Beecher to have been brought against Mr. McFarland, is denied in toio by a relative of Mrs. McFarland’s herself, who asserts that “ there has never lived upon the earth a mere thoroughly‘family’ man than Mr. McFarland.” Men who have known Mr. McFarland since his marriage, meu who huveseen him under all circumstances for many years, deny emphatically that Mr. McFarland is a drinking man. They pronounce the notion that has got abroad on this subject as an invention and a slauder. That he has been crazed they admit; but that he has been a drunkard, never. (Jao of the developments of the trial will, it is said, be the proof of a conspiracy against Mr. McFarland for the purpose el securing a divorce in Now York. It Is averred that one of Mr. Richardson’s legal advisers offered $3OO to a lawyer employed in procuring secret und illegal divorces, for evidence proving adultery against Mr. McFarland. Mr. Richardi-ou’s friends ad mit that this offer was made, and that $5O of this money was paid down. The per jured witnesses were not forthcoming, and Mr. Richardson’s representative refused to advunce any more money. The affair was then dropped, and a divorce wus afterward obtained in Indiana. . It has been assumed bythe public that, whatever else Mr. McFarland may or may not have been, he has not been able to pecuniarily support his wife. This is an other mistake. Though never riob, Mr McFarland has never made less than $1,200 a 3 ear, on which sum a small family could live with a certain amount of decency but not in the stylo which Mrs. McFarland was told was befitting a woman of her talent and aspirations. It will be maintained on the trial that of Mrs. McFarland’s most intimate female frieuds and associates, one is a physician’s wife, who is at the present moment residing in Connecticut in order to procure a divorce from her present husband, after obtaining which divorce she intends to marry a cer tain artist, who has been courting her for some time (a Mrs. McFarland over again; ; und nnothor, the wife of a journalist and feuilletonist, who has recently married a well-known painter. Lastly, it is said on good authority that the heirs of Mr. Richardson have determin ed to contest Mrs. McFarland-Richardson’s claim to the property of the deceased jour nalist, whom Messrs. Beecher und Froth iugham pronounce her husband, but whom the world styles by another name. The Rlcharilrton-ncFnrtnud Case iu the The Riohardson-McFarlaud caso turns up in some new shape every duy. Re corder Hackett, of the General Sessions, has now takeu it in hand, and in a whv that is calculated to make the various par ties mixed up in it, besides the prisoner, feel very uncomfortable, to say the least of it—as witness the following extract from his charge to the Grand Jury : I ihiuk I should be derelict in the dis charge of my functions as an elected con servator of tbe peace and morals in this court, did I now omit reference to some of tbe incidents following the act which cul minated in the homicide just referred to. In vain shall conductors of influential newspaper?, and claimiug to be moral leaders, beneficially affect the community, if they convert their .homes into free-love asylums. In vain shall ministers of the Gospel bo heard when criticising public men, as well as warning private parish ioners, if they are allowed, unrebuked, to give benediction to bigamy,|or to consecrato lechery by prayers at the bed of death. If there bus been bigamy committed or aided or abetted by any person, no matter how elevated iu life they may be, fearlessly investigate the matter, and, arriving at ibe fact of probable guilt, promptly iudict. As to McFurland himaelt, the Recorder instructed tbo Grand Inquest that their duty was a very simple one. If he was of sound memory and discretion (to use the old Saxon phrase on the subject of homi cide) when he fired the fatal shot, then the act was murder ; but that was not the point for them to consider. All they bad to do was to determine whether McFailand fired the shot which resulted in Richardson’s death. Salcido—A’jTennnt Iloase Barnrd and Two Children Perished In the names. Boston, Deo. 10.—Granville D. Morritt, a Photographer, a native of Durham, N. H., committed suicide at No. 20, Lagrange street, last evening, by takiDg poison. lu temperance was the cause. A tenant house on CbapefJ Place, was burned this morning, turnlngjout into the cold a dozen of families. Two children were burned to death. Synopsis ofj.Congresslonal Proceedings. Washington, Dec. 7. Senate.—ln the U. S. Senate bills were introdneed as follows: By Mr. Spencer, of Alabama, to amend the Civil Rights act, by making colored persons competent to testi fy in State Coorts, eto.; by Mr. Carpenter, ofWte., to secure freedom of transit In tbo United States, by privileging persons pass ing through any State from arrest, if they do not tarry therein more than twenty-four hours; by Mr. Corbett, bf OregOD, exempt ing canned and preserved fish from inter nal tax ; by Mr Patterson, of N. H., to promote the International Exhibition at Washington, in 1871; by Mr. Thayer, re qulring the planting of trees on homestead settlements; by Mr, Sumner, to amend the banking act and promote a return to specie payments, which provides that so much of the banking net as limits the issue of bills to $300,000,000 is hereby re pealed, and existing banks may be enlarged, and new banks may be orguulzed, at tbo discretion of the Treasury, but no more bills than are now authorized by the banking act shall hereafter be issued, unless tho Secre tary of the Treasury, at tho time 01 their issue, can and does cancel and destroy a like amount of legal tenders ; and tho In crease of bank bills hereby authorized shall not exceed $30,000,000 per year, which amouut shall be so distributed by tbo Sec retary of the Tioasury, as to equalize, os near as possible, tho banking nuereais of the different States ; und bj Mr. Trumbull,, to relieve Congressmen froni tbo importuni ty of office seekers, by making it u mtsdo meanor for them to recommend applicants for oflioe. Mr. Morton, of lud., ottered n joint resolution for tho admission of Vir ginia, and the Chair prosontod a memorial from tho Radical Convention of that State, held receutly ut Richmoud, against admis sion. House.—ln the House, .ho portions of the President's message relating to the li uances, our forelgu relations, itc., were referred to the various committees. Bills wore introduced by Mr. Dawes, of Mass., reorganizing the Trousiry Department; Mr. Butler, of Mass., repoulingtbe Tenure of-Office act; Mr. Hill, of N, J abolishing the Franking privilege; Mr. williams, of lud., repealing the duty ou coffee, tea, salt, and writing und printing paper; Mr. Flll keluburg. ■ f Mo., relating to naturali zation; Mr. Wood, of N. Y., to prevent Congressmen from holding office under the President; aud bv Mr. lugersoll, of 111., to prohibit Treasury sales of coin, and provide for redemption of greenbacks in coin, at par. Tho credentials of Messrs. Huy?, Sherrer, llelfin and Dix, of Alabama, were reported back from the Election Committee, and those geutlemen were sworn in. The credentials of the Virginia members were presented ami referred. A bill to extend tbo patent for lino’s priming press was reported ami tabled. On motion of Mr Butler, the Postmaster General was direct ed to report upon tbo practicability of pay ing pensions through the postal money order system. Adjourned. Washington, Dec. S.. Senate. — lq the U. ti. Semite nomina tions for eight Circuit Judges wero sent in. Thu standing committees were announc-d, the chief changes being, thut Mr. Morrell, of Maine, is chairman of tho Approprmtiou Commute, and Mr. Crugin, of Now Hiiuip shire, chairman of tbo Naval. Carl Schm 7.- lills the vacancy in tho Foreign Committee, caused by Mr. Fessenden’sdeeenso. Mr. Ed mauds gave notice thut on Friday he would ask tho consideration of tho House bill reg ulating tho labor of government workmen. Mr. Williams offered a joint resolution pro viding that when a Sluto Legislature suuU have ratified a Constitutional amendment, auy other action in tbo matter by that Leg islature shall bo void. Referred to Judiciary Committee. Mr. Mierinau introduced a bill regarding international coinage, which wus. rotorrett to tho Finance Committee. Mr. Ferry introduced a bill to abolish the ad ministration of tho test oath. On moiiou of Mr, Cameron, tho President wus asked f.r information in regard to utt'uirs iu Cuba, and ou motion of Mr. Ramsey, was asked for information concerning ihe presence of Governor MeDougall in Dakota, uml the opposition to him in Winnipeg, Mr. Thurman ottered a resolution, asking whether there have been negotiations in regard to reciprocity, and for corn-spun dunce relative thereto, which was adopted. Mr. Stewart’s resolution, requesting the Judiciary Committee to inquire 11 equal protection is denied by nny Slate to any cluss ol persons, iu violation of the Four teenth amendment and treaty stipulations, wus agreed to. A bill was passed relieving tho disabilities of four or live hundred ix rebels. The joint resolution relieving ui! disabilities ufler tho adoption of the Fi! teen lb amendment was taken up und advo cated by Mr. Stewurt Tho Senate then went Into Executive sossion, and toon alter adjourned. In the House, bills wero introdneed bv Mr. Morrell of Ponmi., to fund tho debt at ’a. lower rate of interest, and make the bank ing system free ; by Mr. Duwesof Mats , to abolish the duties on coal ; by Mr. Finkehi burg, ol Mo., making a periodical reduction in the duties of 10 }i«r cent.; and by Mr. Mungen of Ohio, to exempt from taxation the property of ox-soldiers and sailors to the same extent as that of bondholders. Mr. Cobb of N. C wished to offer u resolu tiou of sympathy for Culm, but was pro rfriteti by Mr. Maynard of Telin.,calling for the regular order uf business. On motion, the Public Lands Commilleo wen* direeieu to Inquire into the expediency of authoriz ing soldiers uml sailors in secure Ido acr<-a of laDd instead of 80 under tho Homestead law, out of tho ulternuie sections embraced in railroad and other grants owned by the Government. Tbo Census bill was con sidered in Committee of tho Whole, Mr. Garfield explainiug its provisions, ami sav ing that it made the number of Keprcsmjf atires In Congress 300. Alter getting to tbo lourth sectiou of the bill, tho llmuo Ad journed. Washington, Dec. 9. In the IT.l T . S. Senate, tbe resolut’ons of the South Carolina Legislature, asking the re cognition of Cuba, wero presented. Mr. Carpenter introduced a bill giving the Chief Justice of the Supremo Court a salary orsl2.oooU und the Associate Jus tices SIO.(HJU each. Mr. Trumbull, from the Judiciary Committee, reported a sub stitute for Mr. Sumner’s bill, abolishing the appellate jurisdiction of tko Courts of United States, in cases affecting ibe con stitutionality of the Roeun-trucMon acts.— Mr. Drake, of Mo., introduce >. bill estab lishing a uniform time for holding I’resi. dentiul and Congressional elections. Mr. Stockton, of N. J., introduced a bill to ex empt from tnx all bequests of properly in trust exclusive for charitably purposes. Tbe bill to encourage to production of cot ton was referred. Adjourned until Mon day. In the House, Mr.lJrooks presento;! 11 po lition from the leather and bide import*-™ of New York, usking tbo repeal of iho duties on hides. Mr. Shanks, of Ind , in troduced a bill to perfect the reconstruction of Georgia, which was referred to the Ke construetion Committee. Mr. Stevenson, of Ohio, introduced a bill abolishing the laritTon various articles, which was refer red to the Ways and Means. Mr. Fox, of N. Y., desired to olfer » resolution to up point u special committee to investigate the gold speculations in New York, ami particularly to inquire if uny Government otllces was concerned in them, but objec tion was made, Mr. Inger.soll, of 111., in troduced u bill fur ull uddiliutnil d>nuh of legal tenders to the amount of $4 I.OOb.UbO, but discussion arising uj to the reference o I the bill he withdrew it. Thu Census bill was considered in committee. Mr. Law rence, of Ohio, introduced bills lo prevent election frauds and to fix tbetimo for hold ing Congressional elections. Mr. Davis. ol N. Y., introduced u billlo tax fictitious and gambling sales of gold. Adjourned. Washington, Dec. 11. In tho U. S. House of Representative-, j M r. Ingersoll again introduced liis fll OOIJ,- OUO additional legal tondets bill, and alter some discussion, nud tbo rpjeotiou of a mo tion to lay upon the table, it wus referred lo the Committee on Banking and Currency, Four out of six members of iho committee had voted to table the bill. Mr. 1 J line, from tbo Reconstruction Committee, reported n number of papers in reference to ihoHeu tion in Virginia. Gu motion of Mr. F.»x, the Ways and Means Corn ml Lieu were directed to roporta bill ropealing the man ufacturing tax on provisions, and a joint resolution relieving tho trade in provisions from tho Internal Revenue Commissioner's interpretation of the law. Various bills were introduced and referred. Mr. .Smith, Tenn., desired to olfer a hilt annulling the recent election in Tennessee, but oljcctioo was made by Mr. Wood. 'I he Census bill was considered. Mr. Knott introduced a bill to amend the laws relative to trial by jury in the FoJerat Courts. Adjourned. Washington, Dec. 11. The Senate was not In session In the House a resolution was adopted instructing the Committee on Foreign Attain* to Inquire Into tho conditions of the charter oi tho Frenoh Cable Company, und whether tiiero are any restrictions prejudicial to this Gov ernment ; several documents, including the memorial from the South Carolina Legisla ture, were presented, relative to the recog nition of Cuba ; the Census bill was consid ered and a number of amendments mude, Washington, Dec. 13. In the U. S. Senate, Mr. Carpenter, from tbo Judiciury Committee, reportod a bill lo perfect the reconstruction of Georgia. It reconvenes tho old Legislature, Including tho colored members, and excludes those disabled by the Fourteenth Auieudmeuf. Mr. Corbett introduced a bill to fund the public debt, which provides for 51000 bonds to the extent of $1,000,000,000, lo run for thir ty tlvo years, each bend to bear 0 per cent, interest for the first thrf»o year*, 5 per cent for tbo six years following, 4J per cent, for tho next six years, und -1 per cent, for tbo following twenty years. Mr. Wilson introduced a bill to regulate tho Importation of emigrants under labor con tracts. Mr. Carpenter introduced a bill pro viding for retirement of Judges Qftho Su premo Court, when Incapacitated from any cause at full salaries for life. flo also of ferred a resolution declaring that tho Span ish gunbnnte should uot bo allowed to sail from tho United States, which was laid up on the table by bis request, ho saying that he would call it up on Wednesday. Mr. Trumbull, from tbo Judiciary Committee, reported tho bill to relievo Congressmen from tbeimportunity of office Beekers. Tho bill to define tbo jurisdiction of Courtq of the United States was taken op, advocated by Mr. Drake, and referred to tho Judicia ry Committee. The bill restricting the pellato jurisdiction of the Supreme Court was considered and laid over. After an executive session tbo Senate adjourned. Iu 'ho Uouso a number of bills were in troduced and referred, among them two to amend the National Currency act, and one to amend the naturalization lawp. On mo tion of Mr. Peters a resolution was adopted concnrrlng with the President’s views in relation to reciprocity,and declaring against its renewal at present. Mr. Bader, of Mass., offered a resolution Instructing the Wayq
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