Lancaster 3itteltigencer.
'WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1870
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Senator Wallace's Speech
We publish elsewhere all the material
substance of Senator 'Wallace's speech
in defense of the transfer of the securi
ties in the Sinking Fund to the newly
projected railroads. As we have freely
denounced the bill we deem it only just
that Mr. Wallace's speech should be
laid before our readers. We have al
ways considered him to be a man of
strict integrity, and during his legisla
tive career he has not been accused of
complicity with the corrupt rings which
are annually formed at Harrisburg. He
asserts that he does not own a foot of
land along the line of the projected rail
road in Clearfield county, and repels the
presumption that lie was influenced by
mercenary motives. He assigns as a
controlling cause of his action the wants
of the people of his section. That could
only be regarded as a good plea if the
bill (lid no injustice to any other section,
and was constitutional and proper in
itself. Is it such a bill?
Senator Wallace devotes a very con
siderable portion of his speech to a con
sideration of the constitutionality of
the act. lie argues with decided skill,
but he entirely rails to couvince us of
the soundness of his views. The clause
of the StaliWonstitution pr iding for
the creation :out znaintena,, , of the
Sinking Fond reeds as follows:
Mariam XI, Siu'. 7V. To provide for
the payment of the present debt, and any
additional debt contracted as aforesaid, the
Legislature shall, at its first session idler
the adoption of this amendment, create a
sinking fund, which shall be sufficient to
pay the accruing interest on such debt, and
annually to reduce the principal thereof by
a sum not less than two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars; which sinking fund shall
consist of the net annual income of the
public works from time to time owned by
the State, or the proceeds of the sale
of tile same, or any part thereof, and of
the income or 'awash; of sale of stocks
owned by the State, together with other
funds or resources that may be designated
by law. The said sinking hind may be
increased fronMinie to time, by assigning
to it any part of the taxes, or other MVO
wies of the State, not required for the or
dinary and current expenses of govern
ment, and, unless in case of war, invasion,
or insurrection, no part of said si nkinyfund
shall he used or applied otherwise than in
C.,iinglaShinent of the public debt, MC
1110101 t of said debt, is reduced below the
.Nlllll efface millions of dollars.
In favor of the constitutionality of the
Lill Mr. Wallace makes au ingenious
argument, but he entirely fails to con
vince us that his views are correct. We
do not see how . the concluding clause of
the article of the Constitution which we
have quoted can be so construed as to
authorize the transfer of securities in the
Sinking Fund to any railroad corpora
tion. The plea that there is a difference
I etween such securities and money is one
that the people will not comprehend,
and one which we (I() not believe the
Supreme Court of the State would
sustain. The distinction is a very
narrow one indeed, and all the special
pleading of the advocates of this bill
have failed toconvince us that it is well
founded. If Governor Geary should
sign the hill, the only recourse left will
be an appeal to the Supreme Court, and
we hope such an appeal may be speedily .
taken. The question involved is one of
the gravest importance, and it ought to
he tested before the highest judicial
ribunal of the suit,
Senator Wallace argues that the pro
joeted railroaas gill prove a ,ouren of
',client to the entire State when they
I e eomplvhal. So would any rail
road throug,li any section of the Com
monwealth which inh4ht open up a neo•
fine of travvi or trattiv. But the consti
tution forhhls Iho date• from 1. utiing its
t in mig //iet/int r lu rely inr/iridma,
1,Mp,m , 11, col7,ooltioli (U rtsNocira ion
The section which follows the one
quotetlaheve Pcaild thus
'llll , credit t'onititf,iiw,qllll
,•11:11311t1t ill ally itoutooror of rnl ha pledged
nr 1 , ,an01l to ;my individual, conlll3ll . V. rirr
poratioll or :1.,,, , •iati011: nor -hall the t'ol
- hon.:ll'o . r owner
nr ~ t ooliliol(14. 1 . in anv a.,,ooialion or cor
poration.
hoes not this transfer of securities from
rile Sinking Fund tfunount to :inch a 101111
of the credit of the State? We can not
regard it in any other light, and no
amount of special pleading can make it
assume a diffirent guise in our sight. lly
the terms of the at the Stale parts for all
time with certain securities of recog
nized value, and takes in their stead
Bonds of railroads \Odell have la/ eX
ititellee eXeept eh paper. The Ponds of
these unconstructed roads are not likely
to he worth as much as those which
they receive front the State when the
payments fall due and holders of - first
Mortgage Bonds may tlnd it to their in
terest to keep the second Mortgage
Bonds which the State holds in a depre
ciated condition. It is not only possi
ble, hut exceedingly probable that when
the heavy payments to the State fall due,
execution will be sutrered to issue and
the roads be sold for little or nothing
more than an amount sufficient to sat
isfy the elaims of those who hold first
mortgages. In such ease the nine and
half -million dollars taken from the Sink
ing Fund will he forever lost to the State.
Senator Wallace rests his support of
this hill to a great extent upon the as
sumptiont.hat his duty to his immedi
ate constituents demanded such action
on his part. NVe think that view a mis
taken one. Even if there were no con
stitutional objections to the bill, we do
not see what right the Legislature has
to take nine and a half-million of dollars
from the Sinking Fund, mud to divert
that sum from the payment of the pub
lic debt, which presses as a burthen
equally upon the taxpayers of every sec
tion of the 'Commonwealth, in order
that one section may' be benetitted.—
The fact, that a measure will benefit
the people of his section is not sufficient
to justify a member of the Legislature
in supporting it, unless it be right in
itself and just to the people of the entire
Commonwealth.
If we grant all the postulates of Sen
ator Wallace We I nust noneede that he
was right in his- active support of the
hill; hut that is something we can not
do. We 4itier from him widely ott this
important question. Our readers are re
ferred to his speech for a full exposition
of his views, and are invited to give it a
careful perusal. Many of them are it..
capable of forming a correct estimate of
the strength of his arguments as we are.
Let them read the speech and make up
their own opinions.
"Cluingin' de Property 'Bout."
'the position of the Harrisburg Rug
and the Philadelphia Ay,: upon the big
railroad swindle, puts us in mind of the
plea of the negro who had eaten his
master's poultry. "Hof massa's—de tor
key and this nig,ga ; only ohanyin' rh
property 'bout." The Ayr and the
Patriot profess to see no robbery in ex
changing nine and a hair millions of
par securities for bonds of railroads in
the wild-eat region, which have no ex
istence except on paper. They Hay, like
the negro, it is only changin' dr proper
(y 'bout." The tax payers dont see it in
that light.
Tim only member of the House from
this county who stood up squarely all
the time in opposition to the robbery of
the Sinking Fund was Reinoehl. All the
rest voted for it at different stages, but
Herr and Wiley begged off on the final
vote. blodshalk brazened it out to the
end. As soon as we can get at the Jour
-pal of the House, we will publish the
votes of the Lancaster members as re
.oord9tl•
TIIE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1870.
The Soldiers' Orphans
We happened to be present in the
lower House of the State Legislature
when the general Appropriation Bill
was passed. The following clause,
which had been recommended by the
CoMmittee of Ways and Means, was
adopted after very full discussion :
That the parent or guardian of any child
or children who has or have been received,
or may hereafter be admitted or accepted
for admission into any of the aforesaid in
stitutions, who shall desire to take charge
of such child or children, and give them
each at least four months schooling in every
year, and otherwise properly provide and
care for, shall have the right to resume
control over any such child or children by
making application to the proper person
having charge of such institution; that such
application first be approved by the Board
of School Directors, where such parent or
guardian shall reside, as also by one the
Judges in said county; and for each and
every child who shall be thus provided and
cared for by any such parent or guardian,
shall be allowed one-half the amount for
each year that such institution would be
entitled to receive under the provisions of
this act, to be paid by the State Treasurer
upon account filed with and approved by
the Auditor General, on or before the first
days of June and December in each year.
As we have said the discussion upon
that clause of the bill was very full. A
majority of the best men of both parties
approved it, and it was passed by a very
decided vote. The men who favored it
stood above suspicion in the matter. They
put their arguments upon ground that
seemed to us to be impregnable. It was
urged as a measure proper in itself and al
so on account of economy. Several prom
nen t Republican members hinted very
plainly that no inconsiderable portion
of the large sums appropriated for the
maintenance of the soldiers' orphans
found its way into the hands of greedy
speculators. It was charged that the
managers of the State Homes had made
fortunes out of places to which but small
salaries were attached. We noticed
that the regular roosters, the fellows
who vote for every bill that has money
ill it, were opposed to allowing mothers
and guardians to withdraw ally orphan
from these institutions. Some of these
virtuous fellows went so far as to charge
that very many of the widows of soldiers
were immoral characters and unfit to
have the management of their children,
and one or two even hinted that a ma
jority of them might be placed in that
category. The advocates of the bill ably
refuted all the flimsy arguments of its
opponents, and gallantly defended the
virtue of the wives of the dead soldiers
of Pennsylvania.
We think every fair man who reads
the bill will at once approve of its pro
visions. The orphans are amply pro
tected by it. Any mother or guardian
applying for the removal of a child must
have the application endorsed by the
oard of school directors of the diStriet,
nd by a County Judgr. Neither the
'ehool Directors nor the Judge will en
orse the application of an improper
Jenson, and it can scarcely be possible
that both could be induced to do so,—
These homes may be all that their ad
mirers assert; they may be admirably
managed in every respect, but no public
institution can supply the place of a
mother to the child, no charitable refuge
compensate for the loss of a virtuous and
well-ordered home. Nothing call repay
a child for the loss of proper paternal
care in early youth. It is well known
that crowded schools are not the best
nurseries of morality. It is impossible
that each child in such an institution
shall receive the kind of religious train
ing which it may need. It is safe to say
that a majority will suffer by a removal
from the influences of home in the years
of infancy. Ilow many fathers and
mothers are there among our readers
who would willingly send their children
to one of these State schools if they
could possibly allbrd to support and ed
ucate them at home ? We venture to
say, not one in fifty.
But these Homes have not stood
above suspicion. Serious charges made
against the State Superintendent, which
were, however, declared not to be well
founded by an investigating committee
of the Legislature, and others, who only
receive small salaries, have also been
accused of ttccumulating money very
rapidly. these institutions have yearly
Leconte more costly. 'Pile report of the
i-Mperintendent for 180 shows that the
immense appropriation of 5300,000 was
utterly insufficient to keep them run
ning. Au extra appropriatioh of
:340,000 had to be made fur ISO,
and nearly twice that amount for 1870.
No regular - and satisfactory report of ex
penditures has ever been Made, and
splendid opportunities for peculation
have unquestionably existed. That
these chances have been well improved
t h,,, is good reason to believe. 'flat
bill which passed the House would
greatly lessen the cost of these Homes,
without doing any injustice to the Or-
Mans.
No sooner was the bill adopted by the
I louse then a dead set was made to de
eat it in the Senate, where the appro
:)riation bill is now under considera
ion. We hope the Senate will stand
iy the action of the House in this mat
er, and, if it does nut, that the House
will insist upon the retention or the
righteous clause which it inserted.
The Watt•lltamond Case
Some of the testimony in this case
has been of the most remarkable char
acter. The Radical claimant brought
three reprobates from New York city,
the other day, who swore that they had
visited Philadelphia and voted repeat
edly at difliirent polls for Mr. Diamond.
one of the siioundrels who thus boldly
admitted that lie had violatekl the law,
was arrested on his way home, and
aken before an Alderman in Philadel
phia, where he swore that he was not in
Philadelphia on the day of election, and
that lie had been hired by some agent
of Mr. Watt to go to Harrisburg and
testify as lie did before the Committee.
The Harrisburg Telegraph and certain
other Republican newspapers have
raised a loud outcry about this ❑natter.
They declare that a gross outrage lias
been committed in the arrest of a wit
ness on his :way home from testifying
Before a Committee of the Legislature.
It may lie that witnesses have a right
to conic and go on such errands tree
from liability to arrest, but that does
not in any way weaken the etrect of the
exposure which was made. The fellow
who admitted that he and his comrades
had been hired to go to Harrisburg and
perjure theMselves for a price, must be
believed to have sworn to the truth when
last examined, or else the entire testi
mony of the whole set must be rejected.
In either case the cause of the Radi
cal claimant is fearfully dainaged.—
We :have no doubt, from all that has
transpired, and Watt is about through
with his testimony, that the Democratic
contestant, Mr. Diamond, was fairly
elected by a very decided majority. The
desperate device resorted to by Mr. Watt
ought to be sufficient to convince the
committee that lie is not entitled to re
tain the seat which he now holds in con
sekkiletire of an outrageous fraud on the
part of the return judges.
The Ph Haile' ph ia Female A nti-sf a v, r y
Society has finally given up the ghost
and departed from the life that is led
by swill associations. It has dissolved
and disappeared. The fact was author
itatively announced by a formal resolu
tion at a small meeting. Lucretia Mott
shed a few tears, and Robert Pervis,
Esq., indulged in a couple of touching
ancedolcs. The band disbanded because
there was nothing left for it to do since
the adoption of the fifteenth amend
ment.
Tire Columbia //craft/ seems to ap
prove of the railroad scheme by which
the Sinking Fund is robbed of nine and
a half millions of dollars. It says noth
ing editorially, but publishes the lauda
tory article which appeared in the Har
risburg Patriot. Why didn't the Herald
also publish the article from the Patriot
of a weak previous, in which it bittert ,
denounced the scheme as an infamous
swindle? The Herald ta the only paper
in Lancaster county which even ap
pears to approve of the robbery.
The Oneida Disaster Investigated.
The official notes and evidence in the
proceedings of the Naval Court of. In
quiry, as to the collision between the U.
S. Corvette Oneida and the British
Steamer Bombay, heldat Her Britannic
Majesty's Consulate, Yokohama, Japan,
have been published. The document
is very voluminous and takes up much
space in the leading New York papers.
Some of the officers of the Bombay, and
the pilotgive evidence stronglyin favor of
Captain Eyere. Arthur Longman, chief
officer of the steamer, swore distinctly
that he did not hear any sound or voice
calling from the Oneida. He stated that
he was on the bridge until she cleared
the Oneida and could have heard if they
had been hailed. He swears he heard
no guns and saw no signals of distress,
and that "the collision was just a touch
—just a bound and a graze." The Pilot
swore that the Oneida was bearing
down on them and made the following
statement of what occurred.
"The captain rang a bell to stop the en
gines, and got hold of the bridge and said,
'My God ! there's going to be a collision
witness told him it could not be helped;
they had done all they could to get out of
her way; she was wrong; he thought it
must be a Japanese vessel, seeing she was
under sail, and they did not know what
they were doing on board of her; immedi
ately after that they came together ; he was
on the starboard side of the bridge when
she struck ; he heard no noise on board the
Oneida; ho sang out to them and asked
them what they meant; she had all canvas
set, and it was blowing a strong northeast
breeze, so she went out of sight in no time;
the captain then asked him in case the ship
came to grief whether there was any place
she could go to; he replied that there was no
danger of that, but if there was the spot seas
close at hand and she could ground there,
or the way the wind was, she would drift
ashore at Kanonsaki, for which she was
heading; the captain said then ' Surely if
there is any danger they will lire a gun or
a rocket;' they were both looking aft at the
same time; Captain Eyre asked him if he
saw any signals ; witness told him, 'No,
they can . t be very badly damaged, or they
would give a signal ;' the chief officer who
had been down below came on the bridge
again, and said there was a spar through
the ship's bow, atol she was making water
very fitst ; the captain asked witness what
was best to do; witness said if the other
Ship WaS in clanger she would have shown
a light, and the best thing to do was to go
to Yokohama • the bell was rung to go
ahead slog; afterwards it was full speed;'
the mate then canto aft and reported eight
feet of water in the hold."
'Phis testimony is in direct contriulie-
Lion to the statements made by the sur
vivors of the Oneida, who avow with
positiveness that they hailed the Bom
bay, kept the steam whistle sounding
the signal of distress,and fired four shots,
the fourth being somewhat smothered,
as the vessel was about sinking.
The court, in delivering its decision,
seemed to throw the blame on the offi
cers of the Oneida—while, as regards
the conduct of Captain Eyre, in keeping
on his course, it is condemned as
"hasty" and "ill-advised," though at the
sonic time they recognize the belief that
lie was "placed in a position of great
difficulty and doubt." They simply
found him guilty of a breach of a
clause of the merchant shipping act
and suspended his certificate for six
months. From this judgment his coun
sel announced their determination of
appealing to the Board of Trade. What
ever the decision of that tribunal may
be, it will be impossible for Captain Eyre
to escape the verdict of his fellow-men
which convicts him of great cruelty and
a great crime.
Proceedings of the State Legislature.
We would like to give our readers an
intelligible synopsis of the proceedings
of the State Legislature, but have found
it impossible to doso. There is no record
published, thu Harrisburg papers give
meagre and confused reports which are
al nost unintelligible and utterly with
out value, and the Philadelphia dailies
do not pretend to do anything more than
keep the run of the local legislation in
regard to that city. A leading morning
paper froni Philadelphia comes to us
with the following despatch:
ILA 11.IUS BU no, March iLs.—The Senate was
114 in session. The evening session of the
louse was marked by the most reckless
legislation that could be imagined. Bills
incorporating railroads and other compan
ies were passed by simply reading their
titles, and it was aseertained in one instance
that a company had been granted rights
which would enable it to construct a six
foot wide track almost through the entire
length of the State. This bill was after
wards reconsidered under the system pur
eed. It was absolutely impossible for the
.ontents of the bill to be known before the
passage.
That is all the news it contains in re
ganl to what was confessedly a very im
portant session of the House. What
were the bills which were thus rushed
through '.".rhe people will. never know
until au immense volume pamphlet
l a w s is publi s hed some thne next sum
mer.
SECRETARY FISII and Senators Car
penter, Patterson, Terry, Ross, Sprague,
Cragin, Buckingham, Revels, Rice, Ab
bott, Howe, Harris, Morrill (Vermont),
Pratt, Tipton and Gilbert were sum
moned to the White House last night to
confer with the President about the San
Domingo treaty. Grant is resolved to
put the job through the Senate at every
hazard. it is a villainous scheme, and
the action of the President is not only
without precedent, but utterly indefensi
ble. Grant has no opinions upon most
political subjects, but when interested in
a project like the San Domingo swindle
lie displays the most dogged and per
sistent obstinacy. He may induce the
Senate to yield to his wishes, but the
people will hold him responsible for
results.
The State Treasury
By the passage of a resolution declin
ing to call Gen. Irwin before it to answer
to the charge of contempt, the State
Senate has deliberately put an end to
the Treasury Investigation. Senators
have thus shown a dereliction in duty
which is decidedly reprehensible. Gen.
Irwin has proven by his conduct that
he dare not submit to an examination.
He enters upon office a suspected man,
and gives the he to the boasts of such
newspapers as prated about his honesty.
The course of Mr. Mackey was much
more open and honorable than that of
the man who beat him.
Tni: Western National Banks have
sent a protest to Congress against the
Funding Bill. They do not want to be
forced to take dj per cent. bonds for the
fl per cents. they now hold. If it be true
that a majority of the Radicals in the
lower House are interested in national
banks the protest will be heeded. Every
idling goes by favor in Washington now
a-days, and self-interest is superior to
that antiquated commodity called
patriotism. The good of the nation is
regarded as inferior to the good of the
individuals, who make the laws to suit
themselves.
Bex. BUTLER'S negro cadet turns out
to be too young for admission to West
Point, and has been quietly shelved on
that plea. His youth is a disqualification
Which Inllo Will destroy, and, if Butler
is in earnest he can reappoint him next
year. The army must not be allowed to
go back on the negro, and the aristo
cratic tastss of the military must be made
to bend before the idea of social equality.
Let Butler see to it that an example is
set in this matter.
THE Philadelphia Dag says:
Punchinello has appeared (dated April 2),
and looks exceedingly well. But after a care
ful readinu, we are compelled to pronounce
it a very teeble affair, if not a perfect fail
ure, as a witty journal.
Did the editor of the Day, who read
Punchinello so carefully, see the follow
ing decidedly witty item in it?
It is stated, though on what authority we
are unable to say, that the Philadelphia
Day is printed on straw paper made from
the surplus straw hats that formed an item
or a notorious government contract negoti
ated during the war.
THE Radical House Election Com
mittee has decided to turn out Reading,
Democratic Congressman from Phila
delphia, and to give his seat to Taylor,
Radical. Who would expect any other
result? John Cessna is Chairman of the
Committee, and his colleagues are al
most as scrupulous as he is.
An VeParalleled Outrage Contemplated.
Thetill for robbing the Sinking Fund
has not yet been sent to Governor
Geary. Contrary to rule it has been
held by the chief transcribing cleik of
the Senate. -We have looked in vain
for any explanation of this action in the
Harrisburg papers. They are as silent
as the grave upon the matter. They did
manage to give us some account of a
discussion had in the Senate, on Fri
day, but the report was such a wretched
and confused one, that an ordinary
reader would utterly fail to discern the
drift of the debate. The Philadelphia
papers seem to be completely ignorant
of what has been going on at the State
Capital. The only intelligible state
ment of the affair which we have seen
in print, appeared in the New York
Tribune, Of Saturday. The old adage,
that we have to go from home for news,
is abundantly verified In this instance.
The Tribune publishes the following
telegram:
HARRISBURG, March 25.—The bill passed
by the Legislature a week ago for building
a railroad from Buffalo, N. Y., to Jersey
Shore, had not, at a late hour to-day, been
sent from the Senate to the Governor for
signature. It is alleged by some that the
object is to keep it back until within ten
days of the close of the session, in order
that the Governor may not be required to
take final action in the matter before the
adjournment, and then be prevailed upon
to quietly sign it during the year, thus en
abling parties who want $9,500,000 of bonds
to secure them before the people have any
knowledge of the fact. Others allege that
the object is to have the Governor with
hold his signature till after the sessions of
the Supreme Court, thus overcoming any
mandamus till after the bonds are secured.
Parties favoring the measure passed assert
that the bill could not well have been sent
to the Governor this week, on account of
the absence of the Speaker of the Senate
until Tuesday, and the imperfect manner
in which the bill was first transcribed. The
Senate was a little agitated over the subject
to-day, lint nothing of a practical nature
was done.
Reliable intelligence received direct
from a well informed party in Harris
burg assures us that the object of the
delay in transmitting, the bill to the
Governor is to enable him to hold it
over until everything is ready for nn
instantaneous transfer of the securities
from the vault of the Sinking Fund,
simultaneously with the signing of the
bill, so as to prevent a mandamus from
issuing out of the Supreme Court to test
the constitutionalityof this act of assem
bly.
Here we have uncovered one of the
most rascally plots that was ever de
vised. Those who favor this gigantic
robbery are determined to make sure
of the nine and a half millions of plun
der. Even the Supreme Court of the
State is to be prevented from passing an
opinion upon the constitutionality of
the MI This outrage can only be con
summated through the joint connivance
of the ltuvernor with a majority of the
Senate. Senators seem to be ready to
assume their share of the responsibility.
Perhaps they think they can bear up
under the burthen, as it will be divided
among a large number. But who will
help Geary to carry his part of this
load of infamy? He will have to bear
it alone. Will he consent to do so? If
he does there will be no resisting the
conclusion that he has been bought by
the combination.
Any bill which is sent to the (lover
nor ten days before the adjournment of
the Legislature becomes a law unless it
is vetoed. If the Governor holds a bill
ten days without signing it, the clerki
of the two houses certify to that fact, and
it thereupon becomes a law without the
signature of the executive. If, however,
a bill is not transmitted to the Governor
until within ten days of adjournment He
can pursue one of three courses. He can
either return it to the next Legislature
within three days of its assembling, with
his objections; caltdeclineeither to sign
or veto it, when it becomes a law, as do
bills which he holds without signature
for ten days during the session ; or he
call sign it at any other period during
the recess, when it at once acquires the
force and effect of a law. The latter
course of action is the one which seems
to have been agreed upon by those who
have conspiredto rob the Sinking Fund.
With the consent of Governor Cleary
matters can be so arranged as to enable
the corporators of the projected rail
roads to remove the nine and a half
millions of securities from the vault of
the treasury within ten minutes after
the bill is signed. Thus would a snap
judgment be takeni upon the tax payers
of the State, and no possible chance
be given to test the constitutionality of
this act of assent blyunder cover of which
the robbery is expected to be consum
mated. Comment upon such a transac
tion would be utterly superfluous. It is
so gross an outrage that the bare expos
ure of it will be sufficient to awaken
universal indignation.
A Foregone Conclusion
Theacquittal of Pierre Bonaparte from
the charge of murder ought to occasion
no surprise, as that result must have
been very generally anticipated. A
French jury could not be expected, as
the case stands, to rise superior to im
perial influences; and when circum
stances obliged them to choose between
sending - a near relative of the Emperor
to the guillotine or the galleys, for kill
ing a Red Republican newspaper editor,
and a verdict of served him (the editor)
right, anybody that understands how
much of human nature there is in
juries generally, could have anticipated
their choice. Of course, the same im
perial influences which procured the
acquittal of the homicide could have
secured his conviction, had policy so
dictated. Some were of opinion that, in
order to mollify Red Republican clamor
against him and his government, the
Emperor would improve this opportun
ity, and play the role of the elder Brutus
—but " the nephew of his uncle," they
must now see, is not east in that heroic
mould. He stands by his dynasty, and
his name, through thick and thin, no
matter how Rome may howl. What
effect such a verdict, at such a time, will
have upon the Reds, we shall soon see.
It will hardly improve their temper. It
certainly will not strengthen their loy
alty.
JUDGE ADVOCATE HOLT gives it as
his opinion that the President can not
send troops to Tennessee, in compliance
with the ropiest of (.:ov. Senter. He
quotes the following clause of the Con
stitution :
"Tim United States shall guarantee to ev
ery State in the Union a republican form
of Government, and shall protect each of
them against invasion, on application of the
Legislature, or of the Executive when the
Legislature cannot be convened, against
domestic violence."
That would seem to be perfectly con
elusive of the want of power on the par
of the President so long as a State Legis
lature can be convened.
Tim Radicals managed to put Texas
so completely under control of bayonets
that only one DeMocrat, Captain Con
ner, was elected to Congress. Ile was
an officer in the Union army, and a cap
tain in the regular army when nom in-
Mated, but unlike Gen. Ames and his
contestant he resigned from the army
before being elected. He had a round
majority of twenty-five hundred,but one
Lieutenant Grafton proposes to contest
the seat and has been heard to boast
that he would get it, because Ben Butler
is master of the House. It remains to
be seen whether such an outrage will
be perpetrated.
BOTI t Houses of the State Legislature
have agreed to adjourn finally on the
ith day of April. The taxpayers of the
State will be glad to hear that, and all
honest people will rejoice when the
corrupt assemblage disperses.
THE negroes have broken out into
open revolt against the law near Hamp
ton, Virginia, ar.d Governor Walker
has called on the President for troops to
suppress the outbreak.
THE Democratic Convention of Ore
gon met on the 2.3 d. J. H. Slater was
nominated for Congress, and L. F.
Glover for Governor.
The Great Railroad Job
The Philadelphia Age and the Har
risburg Patriot have no doubt discover
ed by this time that the.. Democratic
press of the State is not ready to follow
their lead in support of the robbery of
the Sinking Fund. Had those promin
ent newspapers adhered to the position
they took at first, and boldly continued
to denounce the exchange of nine and
a half millions of good securities for
doubtful or worthless bonds of railroads
in the woods, which have no existence,
they would have been heartily sustain
ed by every honest Democratic journal
in the State. As it is, this sudden con
version from tierce opposition of this
gigantic robbery to the most fulsome
laudation of the scheme excites much
surprise and gives room for suspicion.
The Pittsburgh Post says:
The Lancaster Intelligencer is astonished
at the course of the Harrisburg Patriot,
which last week gave words of warning
against a gigantic swindle about to be per
petrated in the Legislature to capture nine
and a half millions of bonds and appropri
ate them to railroad purposes, and when
the bill was proposed advocated it. The
Patriot, being on the left wing of the watch
tower, is supposed to be specially well in
formed, being surrounded by Democratic
representatives from all parts of the State,
folks at a distance, like ourselves, have felt
safe in following this able journal in ques
tions affecting the people and our party.
But we shall be obliged to examine a little
more closely for ourselves hereafter if we
wish to escape the charge of inconsistency.
We have been long accustomed to look
upon Senator Wallace as clear and incor
ruptible in his oftlee, jealous of the rights
of the people, and as became the guardian
of their interests, un willing to lend his great
influence to any swindling operations of
selfish corporations. We will not permit
ourselves to believe that he favors the viola
tion of the Constitution in surrendering
these bonds fur the reason that his District
will be the gainer, or from any personal
motive. Whatever reasons moved his
judgment to advocate and endorse this im
portant measure, selfishness could not be
one of them, else he has taken a backward
step. We have not been favored with his
argument, and are, therefore, unable to
state whether lie satisfactorily reconciled
the constitutional objections. The great
haste and greater ease which accompanied
the passage of the bill shows management
and previous understanding, which we will
not allow involved any corrupt influence.
We merely certify to a fact, and await ex
ilanation.
The Reading Daily Eagle comes out
boldly in opposition to the bill, and
after praising the Berks delegation for
steadfastly opposing the swindle it con
cludes an editorial as follows:
Tampering with the State funds for the
advancement of the interest of lobbyists
has become entirely too fashionable, and
although this bill may be an honest one,
wo are not altogether certain that there is
not a very large "snake" concealed in it,
and we aro glad that Berks county is free
from all blame lithe proposed improvement
should prove to be a " job " of immense
magnitude, intended to cover an u.nexarn
pled raid upon the Sinking Fund.
The Sinking Fund of the State, establish
ed by the wisdom of a Democratic adminis
tration, seems to be fast disappearing. Not
that we are insensible to the importance of
thoroughly developing the resources of the
Commonwealth, for we perceive and freely
admit the groat advantages that would ac
crue to the whole State, as well as the coun
ties more particularly interested, by the
building of the above road; but the great
and overpowering objection is just this:
The bill violates the Constitution ; and we
are old-fashioned enough to believe that it
is of more importance to have a Constitu
tion and to honestly obey it and enforce it
than is any railroad that was ever projected.
The Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Butfalo
Railroad bill is a clear violation of the
Constitution, and no prospective material
advantage can justify it;
hence wo are
pleased to record the fact that lierks county,
through her Representatives, opposed it.
We commend these continents to the
careful consideration of the Age and the
Patriot.
A Blacker Legislature Than Ours.
The New Orleans Picayune, in bid
ding good-bye to the Legislature which
has just adjourned, says:
It would, we fancy, be difficult, if not
impossible, to Lind any traces of the exist
ence of a legislative body so thoroughly
corrupt, mercenary and infamous, as the
General Assembly of this State has shown
itself to be from the moment of organization
until that of final adjournment. We have
heard of the rank corruption, the shameless
misdeeds, of legislative bodies in New
York, Pennsylvania, and sonic of the
Northwestern States; we have witnessed
and been nauseated by evidences of cor
ruption in the Federal Congress; we are
informed of deeds of diabolic scoundrelism
in almost all the State Legislatures elected
under the regime of the reconstruction laws
of Congress—and though their acts were
disgraceful and abominable to a high de
degree, they were transcended by the out
rage perpetrated here.
We have been induced to insert the
foregoing extract out of pure compassion
for the present Legislature of Pennsyl
vania. They will be glad to learn that,
in the opinion of a respectable news
paper, one body more corrupt than that
now in session at Harrisburg has had
an existence. The only trouble is that
the Picayune is published at such a dis
tance from our State Capital, that it may
be doubted whether its information is
as full and accurate as it might be.
Marking the Lobbyists
In the Wisconsin Legislature the
other day the following resolution was
offered :
Resolved, That all persons acting in the
capacity of lobbyists shall, during the re
mainder of the session, wear a badge on
their hats or caps, or in a conspicuous place
on the broadest part of their person, with
the name of the scheme they represent
plainly printed thereon.
We have seen some fellows at Harris
burg who would be covered all over with
placards if such a resolution should be
adopted by our Legislature, and then
many of the jobs for which they are
lobbying would fail to be advertised ac
cording to law.
OLD TOM Nicholson is a clever fellow.
Everybody about Harrisburg Snows
him. He has little of the pugnacity of
a snapping turtle about him, but is gen
erally liked. He has been acting as Bob
Mackey's cashier, but as that official
will soon cease to loan out the funds of
the State to pet banks and private
friends, Old Tom's occupation will be
gone. In view of that fact the Radicals
of the House undertook to create a new
office, an Examiner of Pensions, with
the understanding that Mr. Nicholson
was to fill it at a salary of .i 42500 a year.
Sonic economical Senator exposed the
scheme, and the bill was withdrawn.
So Old Tom won't be pensioned off in
the snug sinecureship of Pension Ex
aminer.
A CINCINNATI DISTILLER has, it is
claimed, discovered a process of produc
ing the purest kind of whiskey. He
calls it a " prime necessary of life," and
says that his process of fire-copper dis
tillation and evaporation, (only now
discovered,) removes all the fusil oil and
the poison. About the fusil oil we have
but little to say. It does very little if
any damage in minute doses, and it is
seldom found in large quantities, even
in the worst of rye or corn juice. Ihrt
there is a poison in ordinary whiskey,
aside from that, which makes men mad.
If the Cincinnati distiller can take that
out we may us well reduce our jail ac
commodations, and decrease the num
ber of our criminal courts.
THE Tennessee negro who was skin
ned, testifies before a Grand Jury that
no rebel's knife has ever been applied
to his hide, and the white Union man
whose house was burned swears no se
cessionist ever approached his premises
with torch in hand. This testimony is
damaging to Butler's reconstruction
scheme, and the carpet-baggers and
scallawags who now misrepresent Ten
nessee in Congress, all despair of a re
election. So let it be!
GRANT pays tax on $llO,OOO worth of
property in the county of St. Louis, Mo.
A very few years since he was so hard
up, when he lived out there, as to be
compelled to cart wood to the city to
buy whiskey. The Presidency has
proved to be a very profitable gift enter
prise to Ulysses.
THE New York Herald, a paper which
never misses an opportunity of praising
Grant, says he appointed a Boston youth
to West Point without being paid for it.
We are glad to hear that there is one
little office which he neither sold nor
gave to a relative.
GRANT promised to issue a general
amnesty proclamation after Georgia and
Texas shall have been admitted. He is
lagging along in the footsteps of Andy
Johnson.
Congressional Bad Fait!'
The N. Y. Sun calls attention tithe
fact that the Funding,Mill now before
the House of Representatfies
. contains
a stipulation that the new bonds to.be
Issued by virtue of its authority shall be
free from the operation of the income
tax. It says : •
•
" It is doubtless supposed that this pledge
will attract purchasers:for the bonds; and
so no doubt it would if confidence could be
placed in such pledges. When the law im
posing a tax on incomes was first passed,
it contained a pledge, a solemn promise,
that this tax should cease with the year
1870, and be exacted no longer. That prom
ise was made with just the same sanctions
and wasjust as binding as this promise in
the Funding bilL And yet the :Senate has
now repudiated it; the Secretary of the
Treasury and the President have repudiat
ed it ; and if the House should pass the
Funding bill, the whole Government will
have repudiated it."
In view of these facts the editor asks :
" What cinfidence can the public have in
the pledge of a Government when it involves
the deliberate violation of another pledge
equally binding? If faith is broken in one
instance, who can guarantee that it will be
kept in another? And has the Republican
party the idea that it cmn safely ignore the
promise it made during the pressure of the
war? or that it can safely continue to im
pose the odious income tax r
THE facts in connection with the re
cent riots at Richmond, show that Gen
eral Canby is to blame for all the trou
ble which has been created, and for the
blood which has been shed. He under
took to back up Cahoun against the
civil authorities of the State, when he
must have known that Ellison was
legally elected Mayor, and fully entitled
to be installed as such. Had Gen. Can
by thrown his influence on the side of
the civil law, there would have been no
disturbance. By acting with Cahoun
be encouraged lawlessness and caused
bloodshed.
REPORTS from Washington say that
()rant has not only been busy during
the day lobbying at the Capitol to get the
San Domingo job through, but that he
has thrown open his sideboard and his
wine cellar to Senators every night fur
a week past. The White House has
been crowded, and the President's earn
est and varied appeals are likely to prove
effective. Report says two-thirds have
pledged themselves to put the swindle
through. Grant will be entirely respon
sible for the job.
Jr is rumored in fashionable circles
about - Washington that the military,
carpet-bag Senator from Mississippi,
General Ames, is shortly to lead to the
hymenial altar a daughter of Ben. But
ler. If the wedding presents are care
fully examined we doubt not the in
itials of once wealthy Southerners may
be detected upon the spoons and other
silver-ware displayed on the occasion.
GRANT has been decidedly unfortu
nate in the choice of officials. From all
round the circle come rumors of corrup
tion and reports of defalcations. The
stealings of the absconding New York
Collector amount to over one hundred
thousand dollars.
k'fT rwm!
Two aides-de-camp of Napoleon 1 . , are
still living.
A man in Minne,4ota has a 4,000 acre
wheat patch.
Cotton speculators have sunk S:kx),-
000 in Columbus, Ga., this season.
Peaches in the Kanawha region have
been all killed by the recent freezes.
Corn is far aboveground in Texas, and
fruit trees are in bloom in Georgia.
A fashionable party is now called a
daughtercultural show.
Sixty Mormon converts left Long
Island on Monday for Salt Lake.
An American is astonishing all Paris
with the use of the revolver in target
practice.
A Cincinnati firm spends sl,linn per
week for advertising, and they are grow
ing enormously wealthy.
Of forty millions of people in the
United States, only two hundred and
fifty thousand pay an income tax.
The first London edition of the first
number of Mr. Dickens' new novel will
consist of 70,000 copies.
I loratio Seymour is to deliver lectures
in Oneida county, New York, fur char
itable purposes.
The shoemakers are in favor of female
suffrage—they manufacture women's
rights—and lefts.
A woman in Canton, 111., received a
bran-new nose, last week, formed of
flesh from her forehead.
Mr. Frank Moore, of the United
States Legation, at Paris, leis secured
an autograph of Napoleon I.
Babbitt, the soap man, has presented
every member Of both Houses of Con
gress with a bar of his best.
Three silver and gold veins, assaying
from $lOO to $7OO per tun, have been dis
covered near Ogden, Utah.
Governor Clafiin , of Massachusetts,
has issued a proclamation appointing the
7th of April as a day of fasting and
prayer.
(ten. Joseph E. Johnston, formerly of
the Confederate Army, has connected
himself with a Texas real estate and
land agency.
There are 8,000,000 horses owned in
the United States, and their estimated
value amounts to something inure than
the national debt.
Three hundred lowa merchants have
resolved to use nothing but silver for
"change" in all their business transac
tions.
At Chicago, on Monday, 1000 pack
ages of tea for a firm of that city, and
11011 for a New York firm, were received
in 30 days from Yokohama.
Francis Lousada, English Consul for
Massachusetts and Rhode Island'since
ISaa, died at Boston recently, aged fifty
four.
Mr. Ames, Senator elect from Missis
sippi, is described as "a handsome, boy
ish-looking chap, with a nice black
moustache."
The quantity of wheat stored on the
line of the Winona and St. Peter Rail
road is said to be not less than 500,010
bushels.
The failure of J. W. Prentice & Co.,
wholesale hatters, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
is announced, with liabilities amount
ing to SBOO,OOO.
The feminine journalists at Washing
ton are importuning Congressmen to
have a portion of the public galleries set
apart for their exelusi ve accommodation.
A dwelling in Dunleith, 111., occupied
by a French family, was burned on
Wednesday night, and the father and
one of the children were burned to death
At West Point, the other day, the sons
of Generals timid and Gilmore had a
set to, in which the face of the eaglet
(.rant was disfigured.
If our earth presented a dry surface
around its whole circumference, and the
Railroads of the United sates were
stretched out in continuous lines, they
would reach twice around it.
The still house of the Naverick Petro
leum Works, in East Boston, was burn
ed on Monday night, with 5110 gallons of
oil. Patrick McLaughlin was burned
to death.
A Wisconsin thief has returned to its
rightful owner a $lOO bond, because it
" layed on my stummuck ever sense."
He must have wore his trowsers pocket
very high up.
At Jefferson City, Mo., Lafayette
Burns and James W. Long, postmasters,
have been sentenced each to ten years'
imprisonment, by the U. S. Court, for
robbing the mails.
In the Virginia Legislature yesterday
Walter B. Staples, It. C. L. Minecure,
Joseph Christian, W. T. Joquer and
Francis T. Anderson were elected) udges
of the Supreme Court of the State.
At Baltimore, Herman Fink commit
ted suicide on Monday, by drinking
poison. and Joseph Heatzen died yes
terday from taking a quart of whisky
at one draught.
A Maine woman applies to the State
Legislature for a pension, having sent
all her male descendantsto the war, and
been left by their loss in the army with
31 orphan grandchildren to take care of.
No character can be lastingly injured
by a fearless discharge of duty. Calum
ny or prejudice may obscure it for a
time, but in the end it will shine the
brighter for the clouds which obscure
it,
In the New York Assembly, yester
day, the Police bill for the government
of New York, and the new charter for
that city, were all defeated by the action
of disaffected Democrats, who voted with
the Republicans against them,
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company has borrowed eight hundred
thousand pounds sterling from English
capitalists, and is to devote the money to
the improvement of the road between
Baltimore and Wheeling.
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A new Catholic Chureh is to be built
in Waynesburg, Greene County.
Somerset. Countphas two hundred
and fifty school bonseti.
Washington County boasts a Sow
with a litter,of twenty pigs.
Westmoredand County has two hun
dred and eighty-Sefen school houses.
Chicken cholera is depopulating the
chicken roosts of Huntingdon county.
Allentown has 3000 children in school
attendance.
A new Masonic Lodge has been or
ganized at York Springs, Adams coon-
Not a single license to sell liquor has
been granted in Potter county for the
last nineteen years.
The income returns made this year in
Pennsylvania do not show near so large
an exhibit as those of 1869.
Mr. C. Alleman has been appointed
Postmaster at Highspi re, Dauphin
County.
The Legislature has changed the name
of the North Lebanon Railroad to Corn
wall Railroad.
A cow of Mr. Adam Laudermileh, of
Cornwall township, Lebanon co., gave
birth to a calf, which weighed 95
pounds.
The Machinists' and Blacksmiths'
Union of Reading, which is in a flour
ishing condition, recently gave a grand
ball.
Pittsburgh and its adjoining munici
palities, which are in fact part of the
city except in name, claims a popula
tion of 165,000.
The members of the Methodist Church
of Stroudsburg have presented to Rev.
Mrs. Ridgway, an elegant lady's gold
watch.
Mr. Levi Muthhart, residing near
Slate Dale, Lehigh county, caught a
large catamount in a trail one night last
week.
Pittsburgh has a brutal butcher who
is in the habit of cutting off the legs of
steers in order to get the steers into the
slaughter house.
Recently, Barney Ross, while engaged
in coupling ears in Harrisburg, had his
arm caught between two ears. The
arm was badly crushed and broken.
it. W. Downey, Esq., is announced
a_s a candidate for Congress, (in the 21st,
District) "subject to the action of the
Green County Republican Convention."
During 1869 there were shipped south
and west from Pittsburgh 40,000,004)
bushels of bituminous coal—the product
of eighty mines.
Jackson Levan, Esq., of Hamburg,
Perks Co., has been appointed by the
Governor and commissioned as a Notary
Public for the term of three years.
The name of W. W. Schuyler, Esq.,
of Easton, is mentioned in connection,
with the office of President Judge of the
Monroe Judicial district.
The Methodist church of Pottsville
contributed $BOO for missionary purposes
and $BO for church extension during the
late conference year.
The Baptists of the Bloomsburg au
Berwick congregations have extended
a call to Rev. Sharp, of New Jersey, h
become their pastor.
A number of fine canal boats were
built at Wilkesbarre during the past
winter, and will be launched at the
opening of navigation.
The people of Pittston have determin
ed to appeal to the law in order to force
a removal of the railroad track of the
Lehigh Valley road which passes
through their borough.
The wheat fields throughout Lehigh
county are said to present a line and
flourishing appearance,notwithstanding
the unfavorable weather which has
prevailed for sometime past.
The Evangelical Conference, recently
in session at Williamsport, voted unan
imously to meet in the Evangelical
church in York, on the :id of March,
1871.
On Thursday evening, the 17th, the
boiler at Stanton well, Parker's Land
ing, Venango county, exploded, fatally
injuring the engineer, Mr. DavidJ. Joy,
who died the same night.
A. Fifteenth Amendment residing, in
Hanover, York co., recently ate at one
sitting, three plates of stewed oysters,
one plate of fried oysters, four fried
eggs, three plates of beef tongue and ten
oranges.
The Tionesta and Clarion Railroad
Company, lately incorporated, author
izes the construction of a road from the
mouth of Spring Creek, in Elk county,
to the borough of Tionesta in Forest
county.
There are now working on the Pitts
burgh and Connellsville Road about 2,-
500 men, paying out from $125,000 to
$150,000 per month. The work is well
advanced, and the road will be in run
ning order before the end of December.
There are in Georges tow nsh p,Fayette
County, fifty-four persons whose aggre
gate age is 4,204 years, making an aver
age of seventy-eight years for each per
son. Twenty-five of these are males
and twenty-nine females.
Robert Burns Lodge is the name of
the new Masonic lodge to be constituted
in Harrisburg, on Tuesday next, by the
R. W. Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania,
R. W. Robert A. Lamberton, Grand
Master.
The tract of land on which Waynes
burg, Greene County, islocated, was pur
chased by Thomas Slater, in 1790 for one
quart of " Old Monongahela," and was
sold by him to the trustees of the town
company for $3,271. The property is
valued now at $374,100.
"Old Hawk," tile favorite (log of the
Humane Hose Company, of Philadel
phia, which was killed a few weeks ago,
and which was an active runner for over
fifteen years, has been stuffed and will
hereafter occupy a prominent position
in the hose house.
The Governor has appointed and the
State Department commissioned the
following notaries public for Philadel
phia ; (leo. F. Spicer ; W. H. H. Car
ver; James M. Id'Bride; Edward H.
Hunt; J. Elwood Jones; Wm. Nelson
-West.
The blessing of the new banner, re
ceived by the Brotherhood of St. Joseph,
Pittsburgh, from New York, was con
summated at the Cathedral of St. Paul,
on Sunday night, the 13th. The exer
cises were very impressing, and the mu
sic very artistic and appropriate.
The editor of a Pittsburgh paper
printed the following paragraph the
other morning for Miss Lydia Thomp
son's especial benefit : "Miss Thompson
may rest assured that the review of this
evening's performance in to-morrow's
Mail will be written without fear."
The Scranton Democrat has a report
that the body of one of the Avondale
victims has never been taken from the
mine, and that the subterranean caves
of the mines are haunted by the spirits
oftriose who died there ; lights are seen
arid strange and unearthly noises heard
there nightly.
A. J. Cassatt has entered upon the
duties of General Superintendent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona, suc
ceeding E. H. Williams, who fora numL
ber of years tilled the office very accept
ably. Mr. Cassat for several years filled
the position of Superintendent of Motive
Power and Machinery.
A disease something like whooping
cough has broken (an aiming, the chil
dren of Hun tingdon. The cough brings
up a greenish phlegm, which, if not all
thrown up, goes back upon the lungs,
causing inflammation, and often pro
ducing death. It seems to be conta
geous.
A man named Samuel L. Bowman,
residing in Mechanicsburg , w as stopped
in the Harriburg bridge, at Harrisburg,
the other night, between nine and ten
o'clock by two men, and his money de
manded. Mr. Bowman was' on horse-
back, and putting spurs to his horse went
cant such speed as to escape the inten
tions of the highwaymen.
Recently Wilson P. Miller left Har
risburg with the horse of Rev. James
Calder, for Hillsdale, Michigan. He
expects to travel the whole distance on
horseback, and to arrive at his destina
tion in about 18 days time. Mr. Miller
intends entering the collegeat Hillsdale,
(of which Rev. Calder is President) as
a student.
A great land slide occurred at Cypher's
Cut, on the Huntingdon & Broad Top
Railroad on Thursday of last week,
which precipitated from eighteen to
twenty thousand feet of earth upon the
track. A freight train had just passed,
when the elide came thundering down.
It will take a couple of weeks to remove
the debris.
The Oil City Timea, says : The Win
sor well, at Red Hot, which was struck
some six months since, and for a long
time produced two hundred barrels
daily, has dwindled down to about six
ty barrels per day. Last week it was
cleaned out and benzine put into it, and
on Friday was pumping at the rate of
one hundred and seventy-five barrels
per day.
The Lawrenceburg Independent says
the Cliff well, on Fowler Run, which
was doing only two barrels, was torpe
doed on Monday, and is now producing
fifteen barrels. The Niagara, on the
Wm. Parker tract, below Church Run,
which was producing about eighteen
barrels, was torpedoed last week., and
is now yielding thirty barrels daily.
The Williams well, on the river, on
land of James Parker, is now through
the third sand with a good show.
Correspondence of the liitelligeneer
The Condition of All:Ws-in Tennessee.
The following letter from a gentleman
who removed from this county td Tennes
see, gives a clear Pea of the true condition
of affairs in that . State. The writer is a
gentleman of intelligence, and was well
known as a consistent Republican. lie
speaks of what ho has seen and testifies to
that which he has learned from personal
observation in his new home:
WiNcuEsTER, Tenn., March 17, 1870.
MEssus. EDITORS :—Since Butler in the
House of Representatives, Brownlow
through the Knoxville Whig, awn the late
" ebony" assemblage at ICashville, are at
tempting to force again the iron chains of
bondage on the helpless Stato of Tennes
see, I would wish, through your columns,
to disabuse the public mind of the erron
eous impressions conveyed by the means
above indicated. Most of those who read
this may by taxing their memories remem
ber that sometimolast fall, there was a Gu
bernatorial contest in this State, which re
sulted in the election of Gov. Sauter, by
majority of somewhere near 75,000. That
majority was in favor of universal amnesty
and suffrage, and in favor of the Fifteenth
Amendment. Tho Legislature met. The
Fifteenth Amendment went the way'
of all the " earth," as it would have
done in any other Southern State, unless
forced down unwilling throats. But
why should Tennessee be made to pass
! through the humiliation of another recon
struction because she plainly indicated her
disgust at having that infamous measure
forced upon her.' Those who would elevate
the Southern negro to citizenship "know
not what they do." The negroes of the
Northern States are responsible creatures,
frequently educated and sometimes enter
prising business men. With the Southern
negro the case Ls entirely different. If there
be a virtuous negress in the South she is an
exception. But few can read or write.
They do not really seem to have a moral
sense. The father will cohabit With his
own daughter and neither esteem it wrong.
From the depravity of their nature the
Southern people do not consider them
morally accountable, and hence do not es
teem them amenab e to punishment. If
they did scarcely a laboring negro would
be found in our midst; while Our prisons
and penitentiaries would be crowded to
overflowing by a lazy, thriftless set who
wouid overburden us to support them.
Now were we to adopt Radical rule the re
sult would be that the whites would have
to support the blacks.
• This principle then t for it scents to be
adopted as a principle) of elevating a Moe
Without educating them seems fraught
with the most momentuous usasequence.
The policy of Ronne in her pristine great
ness was first to subdue, educate and refine
the neighboring races and then grant them
the rights of citizenship. It was only when
corruption and tyranny stalked through
the halls of the Cansars that she admitted to
her bosom of fellowship those rude Uneilll
rated hoardes from the North, W 110.4 they
were warmed by her 1'04(0611RO:1.re hate lint
struck the and blow at her greatness and
her glory.
What let its inquire is the animus of this
whole movement ? Your readers will
doubtlessly remember that a Convention
of the best and wisest men this State could
furnish, assembled with the object of re
forming the Constitution so as a adopt it
to the changed aspect affairs have assumed
since the tear. The right to do so 1 believe
has never been doubted. But a clause WILL;
introduced Vacating all the alleys on the
adoption of the Constitution, as We had all
undue hied right to do so. "Aye! there's the
rub." Those whose daily bread depends
upon their daily obsequiousness—govern
ment officials—all at cane discovered that
Tennessee was in astute of insurrection. Had
not such a clause been introduced into the
Constitutions no one would ever hats
drealnett of another rim•unstruction of the
State by Congress. The stories of insur
rection and outrages aro untrue from be
ginning to end. When Ben Butler arises to
sneak in theassembly of thunation,he makes
charges which he ealillot substantiate, and
when asked to specif? , one instance is una
ble to do so. This indicates a want of truth
fulness that is alarming when the wend or
woe of—not one man, nor one community—
but of a sovereign and independent state
depends upon the decision of those foreign
to her and to tier interests.
"But the State is infested by bands of
Ku-Klux," say one. These stories are
fabricated, annul are almost entirely the cre
ation of credulous negroes annul designing
white Radicals. The negro sees in every
party which may be out hunting opossums
after night a band of Ku-Klux marauders.
There are lawless men here, as there are
everywhere, but the truth is that. Tennessee
is to-day as peaceful a State, and as safe a
place to live as any other section inn the
country. The stories which are retailed in
Northern newspapers are almost invariably
lies manufactured fur politieinl effect. The
efforts• being made to secure Congress
ional interferenee are the work of disap
pointed men who desire to live without
work, to foist themselves into offices which
they are unlit to till against the wish of a
vast majority of the people. The bond
holders and men of property are all arrayed
on the side of order and good government,
and, if left to manage the domestic affairs
of the State in their own way will want sup
press whatever of turbulence may exist.
They will do so more effectually than Con
gress could with am army to back up its
decrees. The courts of the State must be
the great agency for the suppression of
crime after all. An army can not be sun
completely omnipresent as the rule of
civil law can be trade, and justice
is never so well meted out under military
rule as it is by Courts of justice. All that
Tennessee needs is to be let alone. She has
an intelligent population, with whom the
love of law and order is as. strong a it is
anywhere else in the Union. Let Congress
keep its hands off this State, and all will be
well. An attempt to overturn the existing
State government can only result in bring
ing about anarchy and confusion. 'l'.
Er-Senator Pierre Soule
The telegraph announces the death of
Pierre Soule at New Orleans on Saturday,
aged G 9. He was born nt Castillion, in the
Pyrenees, during the First Consulate of
Napoleon. He was originally destined for
the Church, and WILY sent to the Jesuits'
College at Toulouse, but circumstances
caused a change of plan and pursuit. When
very young he took part in a conspiracy
against the Bourbons, and the plot being
discovered, he was compelled to take refuge
in a little village of Navarre, where he re
mained for more than a year, following the
occupation of a shepherd. Finally he was
permitted to return, and, ill conjunction
with Bartholenty and Mcry, he estab
lished a paper in Paris, advocating
liberal republican sentiments. This soon
brought him under the eye of the
authorities, mid he was put on his trial.
His ad voilite appealed to the clemency of
the Court in behalt of the prisoner on the
score of his youth, but this line of defense
did not suit the prisoner, who rose from his
seat and addressed the Court, defending
his opinions and conduct. lii eloquence
did not save hint from banishment to St.
Pelagic, whence he succeeded in making
his escape to 'England. Disappointed in
his expectations he returned to France.—
At Havre he met a friend, a captain, In the
French navy, who advised him to seek an
Asylum in this country, and offered hint a
passage to San Domingo. He accepted the
proposition, and arrived at Port-au-Prince
in September, 182.5. From this place he
took passage to Baltimore, and finally
reached New Orleans in the fall of 1825.
Having determined to make the law his
profession, he first applied hitnself
assiduously to the study of English,
and passed his examination for the
liar in that language, and was admitted.
In 1847 he was elected a Senator
in Congress, and was re-elected in 18411 for
the term of six years. Ile took a promi
nent part in the debate on the Compromise
measures of 1830, and offered an importatit
amendn tent to the report of the Committee
of Thirteen, which, however, Wits not
adopted. Upon the accession of Mr. Pierce
to the Presidency, in 1853, he was appointed
Minister to Spain. Soon after his arrival
in that country, he became involved in a
quarrel with M. 'Forgot, the French Ent
bassador, and severely wounded him in a
duel. Mr. Soule, while Minister to Spain,
met Mr. Buchanan, then Minister to Eng
land, and Mr. Mason, Minister hi France,
at Ostend, in October, 1831, to deliberate un
the subject of the acquisition of Cuba by the
United States. The result of this meeting
Willi the famous "Ostend Man i lesto." In 19.55
he returned to the United States, and
took but little part in public affairs until
the secession of Louisiana, when he earn
estly opposed the ordinance. After itspas
sage, however, he sympathized with the
people of Louisiana, but did not take up
arms. Ile remained in New Orleans when
it was captured by Farragut, and when
Gen. Butler found it necessary, in 1862, to
Imprison Mayor Monroe in order to place
the city firmly under the control of the
Union authorities, and at the same time
Soule, who had been Monroe's adviser,
was arrested for disloyalty to the Govern
ment, but tinnily released on condition that
he would leave the country and not return
until the suppression of the rebellion. He
went abroad, and remained in England and
I France until a few months ago, when lie
returned to New Orleans. In person Mr.
Soule was of medium bight, good figure,
and dark complexion. Ile was highly ac
complished, being one of the best educated
men in the South, and was a man of the
most polished manners. His French ac
cent was plainly apparent In his converAt
don, although he had a perfect command of
the English language.
The Proposed Sinking . Fond Measure.
The following table, officially prepared
at the Treasury Department exhibits the
time it would take to cancel the entire pub
lic debt of the - United States—twenty-five
hundred millions—by a sinking fund, the
capital varying from twenty-five to one
hundred millions a year; interest at six
per cent., payable semi-annually:
Ctipital. Time.
Twenty-live millions "'P..: years.
Thirty millions ;ill;
Thirty-live millions
Forty millions Is "
Forty-five millions Itil "
Fifty millions 15 , 4 "
Fifty-five millions 1416 "
Sixty millions 13 "
Sixty-rive millions 12I', "
Seventy-five millions 11
Eighty millions IP.: "
Eighty-flee millions ll "
Ninety millions V
Ninety-five millions
One hundred millions 0 % "
There is a man confined in the Allen
town jail who has read the bible through
twenty-three times during the last two
years.
TEE ONEIDA DLO
OCUMnI Accounts—Statement of Surgeon
Suddnrd.
WAsut:icamv, March 2/3.—Surgeon Sud
dards, Acting Boatswain Anderson and
others, saved from the United States steam
ship Oneida, have sent official accounts of
the disaster to the department The ac
counts are all about alike. The following
is that given by Surgeon Suddards :
UNITED STATES SHIP IDAHO, 1
YOKOHAMA, Jan. 26, 1870. )
Sot t I respectfully submit to you the
following statement of the circumstances
attending the loss of the States
steamer Oneida, third rate, on the evening
of the 24th inst., as they came under my
personal observation :
The ship loft her anchorage at Yokohama
about five p. m., and on steaming out was
cheered by all the men-of-war in port.—
Atter getting past the bony, and heading
for the light on the Kauinsaki, and all
hands were called to make sail, the wind
being at about N. E., face 4to 5. Soon af
terwards the ward room dinner was an
nounced, at which time the ship was
running about seven knots, having the
head sails sot, with the foresail, top sails,
topgallant sails, maintop sails, spanker and
gaff toysail. We were almost through
dinner when a messenger boy came doss is
and told Mr. M uldauer, the navigator, that
Mr. Yates, the officer of the deck, wished
to see him. Ile went on deck, and when he
returned a few minutes later, told us that
there was alight ahead, probably a stcluner
bound in. Shortly afterwards I heard some
ono on deck forward call out "Hard s
port,,, and a moment afterwards another
voice, but whether on our own ship sir the
other 1 ~innot say, cried out "Ilan d a-star.
board.''
Almost i m cued iatel y came n fearful crash,
apparently at the after end of the ward room
on the starboard side, as if the whole sidr
of the ship was being crushed in. Every
body at once rushed ou deck. As I stepped
over the hatch combing I saw a large
steamer slowly going past us and in con
tart with our own ship.
Before she cleared us the executive sib
eor, Stewart, ealled out to her, "Stay
by us—we are out down," or words to that
effect. No answer wivs made front the
strange vessels. Ile repeated the sane ,
words again. 'there was still no reply, and
being by this time clear of us, slit' appa
rently proceeded on her course. f li o n
walked aft and saw that -the WhOel w:-;
gone; the spankers, boom and gaff carried
away, and the whole poor cut elf.
I looked over the starboard quarter, and
lv el 1 as I could make out iu the iJark
nees
thought t h e whole of that sido of the
stern was crushed tilt. she Wl,l settling
by the stern and I judged that she woold
nut float more than two or three minute,.
On looking up I observed the third ratter
hanging at the davits on the port quarter.
I eliinhed on the hammock rail and ask
ed the men, 111 wh.in there were twelve
fourteen in the boat, if there was an officer
there. They said no. When I got into the
boat and gave orders to eut away all the
fastenings, and for a man to stand by raft
fall, ready to lower away when the order
was given. During this limo the swain
whistle was blowing continuously. I kept
my eye on the strange vessel and she:seem
ed inn be rapidly leaving its.
The Oneida meanwhile had tuition ilp le
the kind,WaN headile , towards b
shoals 1111 the left shore, anti was in hopes
that she might get into shoal water, as the
propeller was still reviving anti the ves
sel Moving rapidly. A 'thin. While aft,-
wards nolairt riml heaver, got into
the boat. Ile told me that he had been sent
by :qr. Senter, engineer of the watch, to
report to the officer of the doe l: that the
fires were put out.
lie added that taken he left the engine
room the water wit Within a feel el the
platform, and pouring forward in a perfecf
flood. Almost immediately afterwards
feorge IV. Kauffman, landsman, jumped
into the boat. Ito infortned me that the,
were trying to get the first cutter elf, 11:1(
there were forty or fifty wen in her, and I e
did not think they would sifeeveil.
A gun wll-4 now tired. At this time the
ship commenced to roll front side bi sit
as if settling, causing the boat to be throw it
violently against the side of the ship, mid
threatening to break in her side. I 100k4,1
on board and saw that there was not an
officer or flout abaft the mainmast, the &el.
forming au angle of about thirty-live de
grees. I waited a moment to sec i 1 any
would come, anti seeing 110 One. I g.IV4 ,
orders to lower away and hang on by the
falls. As the burnt touched the water I
noticed that the stern of the ship was almost
on a level with the surface. At thislll.llllelit
the men in the boat called out that there
was a junk sailing close by, and demand, 1
to 'base hi . and bring her alongside.
The after-fall, by which we were hanging,
got jammed, and the coxswain tilt it stilt
his knife, leaving the boat free. We put
alter the junk, but sailing free she was soon
left out of sight. Wo then turned towards
the ship and found she had diseppeared.-
Not inure than three or four minutes had
elapsed since we left.
We pulled towards where we thought
she had been, but could make little head
say against the head sea. After remaining
sumo time in the vicinity and seeing and
hearing nothing, we turned towards the
shore, and after MI hour's pull landed
near a Japanese village. tWo immediately
proceeded to a house, and after a lbw min
utes' conversation, procured three guides,
and with them started immediately Mr
Yokohama, which plaee we reached after a
most fatiguing walk over the inountai us of
eight hours, at .la. m. cd . the 35th inst.
On arriving at Yokohama I called at Mr.
Carroll's who kindly pin his house boat :it
my disposal and aeeompanied me on hoard
of the Idaho, where I reported the loss of
the Oneida to Lieu tenantl 'ommandor, ml
lenn at live a. m. The collision oveurt . cd a:
ten minutes to seven, and about twelve
the sinking of the Oneida.
It is niv opinion that if the Bombay, the
vessel which sank us, had come to our res
elle When the Stealll-whistle \Vast blown, or
even when the first gun was fired, all or
nearly all hands on hoard of the t Illeeht
might have been saved,
Probable Reversal of the Reeeol Legal.
Te •r Decision.
[lt). Telegraph t 111., N. Y. Trlbiltio
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ASIIINOTON, Ntarch 27, 1870.-1 inport
ant action in ',femme to the legality of the
Legal-Tender art will soon he taken in the
Supreme Court, and it is more than proba
ble that the recent decision oY the court will
he reversed, although of this nothing,
course, can he known. A ttorncy-General
I on Friday moved the court to take up
and consider at all early flay two ruses
which had been passed early in the session,
and which are supposed to involve the en
tire Legal-Tender q section. It is u nderstm
that upon the opening of the court to-mor
row morning, the Chief Justice will ml
- that the ea.ses will be heard on the
following :%1 'rho cases are Dewing
agt. The United . States, and Latham :fgt.
The United States, and arc appeals from
the Court of Claims, which were passed
early in the session, without prejudice to
their right to be called at any time. The
decision will not be reached for several
weeks. Attorney (;eneral Hear will
the case for the Culled States.
The deelsion prom ulgatod some time ago.
requiring all debts and contracts made
previous to February, 15412, to be paid in.
gold, was signed by Chief Justice Chase,.
and Associate Justn•es Nelson, ci0r,,,,4
Fields and I:Her. l'he last-named le.
since retired. The dissenting opinion was
signed by Associate Justices Miller, Davis,
and Swaync. If the cases involve the same
questions embraced In the one alteady de
cided, it is fair to presume that m Court
will stand Chase, Nelson, Clifford, and
Field, against Miller, Davis, Swap...
Str ,, llll, and Bradley.
Infotuomi Conduct of n Sento. ag.
Governor Rebuked.
RA I. MOtr, :1i areil 20. —The ileneral As
sembly adjourned on:, die to-day, at
o'clock. 'rho Conservative members are
out in an address to the people. In alluding
to the Ciovernors's declaring Alamanie
county in insurrection and nsking far the•
suspension of the writ of /ett,o4 eorpeit,
the address recites:
--head and front of Radicalism, has seen lit
to declare one of nor counties in 11 state
insurrection, and to rail upon l•ongress 1,1
14111111011111110.Vrrit or through
out the State, we declare there is no suffi
cient cause fur this extraordinary action of
Governor Holden's. There is and has been
no armed resistance; no uprising of the
people; 110 outbreaks to disturb or hinder
the full administration of civil law. We
assert that there isnot a county in the State
in which any Sheriff or any peace officer
nifty not go unattended and with perfer•t
safety and execute any process upon any
citizen of tile State.:
It is true that murders and other out rages
have been committed, but they have not
been confined to any particular locality or
any political party, and when Governor
I [olden represents to the President and to
Congress that these acts are evidences of
disloyalty, he is guilty of a wilful libel upon
a people whose rightshe has sworn to pro
tect.
TILE MORMONS MIGRATING
The Long . Island Converts 31are 1111 l
toward the New Jerusalem—The Fas
cinations of the Mormon Proselytlng
Preachers.
The apostles of Mormonism who have
been intent in season a n d out of season, In
indoctrinating the people of Long Island
in the word of Brigham, counted it their
chiefest joy on Tuesday to convey a com
pany of about sixty, the majority of whom
aro women, to Malt Lake City. This the
elders believe to be an earnest of what is to
follow. They say the work is only begin].
The elders and bishops have been threaten
ed with violence by the eople of Long
Island. The preachers have received
anonymous letters warning them to quit,
and the bishops hare been burned in effigy
by the incensed people in some parts of the
island. The preachers have recently been
obliged to work secretly to insure them
selves personal safety, and it seems that
the same SUCCCSI4 has attended their endeav
ors as in the public administration.
From Patchouge and Babylon, from Islip
and Freeport the converts have gathered,
and the South Side Railroad has borne
them as far as It may to the New Jerusalem.
Their baggage tilled ono car while their
bodies tilled another, and with derisive
shouts from the old and laughter front the
young, the emigrants left Freeport.
It is said by the women who remain on
Long Island that it was love of the fair
sex for the men, and the captivating man
ners of the preachers that led so many
of the young girls to espouse the doctrines
taught by Brigham ,fc. Co. But they have
I gone and the virtuous populace mourn not
their departure.