Lancaster 3ntelligencer. WED SDAY, MAY 25, 1870 low the Fiftnth Amendment Is to tie Enforced. The leader; of the Radical party saw as soon as th War ended that they could not long Makitain their held upon power in a restored Union where white men alone were allowed to vote. That was as clearly fdreseen as any future event could possibly be. Thaddeus Stevens predicted the speedy triumph of the Democratic party; if some great change was not speedily made. To prevent party defeat, to devise means for keep ing themselves in office, to insure a con tinuance of their hold upon profitable positions has been the chief con cern of Congress since the war end ed, For that purpose the Constitution of the United States has been tramp led under foot, State Constitutions have been disregarded, laws have been violated, principles of public policy have been set at naught, and the Union has been purposely kept divided. The de crees of a cable of corrupt men have been carried out at the point of the bay onetrand military violence has usurped the place of a Republican foFm of gov ernment. Driven to desperate devices, the negro has been given the ballot, but those who expected to find in him mere tool of theißadieal party have been disappointed. in the South the South ern people, the natives of the soil, the owners of the land, the men who give the negroes work and pay them wages have shown themselves able to control a very large proportion of the black voters. The result promises to be a complete annihilation of the Republican party in that section, and the discomfit ure of every carpet-bagger who has gone there seeking office, and of every mean white native who had become sufficient ly degraded to join with negroes in an attempt to prescribe the best men of his own race. Nor does that gross fraud, the Fifteenth Amendment promise to be productive of inure profitable results in the North. Wherever an election has been held since Grant issued his lying proclamtion the Radicals have suftbred serious losses and overwhelming defeats. A crisis seems to have arrived, and the leaders of the Republican party are evidently puzzled to tell how to meet it. The latest and must desperate cxpedi eat devised for the maintenance of their decaying power is a bill for the enforce ment of the Fifteenth Amendment, which we publish elsewhere. It anni hilates the election laws of every State in the Union, c•reacs new crimes, magnifies misdemeanors into high of fences, attaches the severest penalties to negligence or neglect of duty, takes away the jurisdiction of Slate Courts and drags all offenders before the Federal tribunals, offers rewards for the institu tion of prosecutions, renders it extreme ly perilous for any man to accept the position of an election officer, creates a swarm of Commissioners whose duty it is to act as spies and informers, places the army and navy at the command of marshals and their deputies, and is in all respects violative of the principles upon which the law of this country has been based, and of the methods by which legislative enactments have been heretofore enforced. So infamous is this enactment that we have seen no Re publican newspaper which is sufficient ly foolhardy to commend its many harsh provisions, awl it is universally expect ed that the I louse will lop Mr numbers of the absurdities embodied ill the act which Passed the Senate by a strict party vote. There is not the slightest necessity for the passage Many such law. Fraudulent as the pretented ratification of the Fif teenth Amendment undoubtedly was, there will be no violent or forcible op position to it while it vontim,s to )li:tin t:tin the Milli of a regularly enacted law of the land. In the South the Demo cratic party will gain power by judicious treatment of the negro voters. They can be offered stronger inducement to vote with the native white population than the Carpet-baggers and scalawags can bring to bear upon them. This will be done then withoul any sacrifice of prin ciple. Accepting the c•ufurced enfran chisement of the blacks as something they have lel power• to prevent, the landowners of the south will convince their employees that the interests of the two races arc indissolubly united. This they can do more easily than the man ufiwturers of the North can persuade their hands to believe that a high pro- • tective tariff is calculated ho benefit the working man. The whitesof the South will nut need to exercise the slightest violence in ordwar to control a large pro portion or the negro vote. I t ran and will be accomplished by (he more potent agency or kiiiiine,s eimeinotioo. They moier,,taiiii the twgro character, how to play upon his passions, how 1.0 gratify his vanity, how to ildlueuce his action. Against the former masters or the negroes, the influence of carpet baggers mid scalawags will speedily be found to be utterly ineffeetive. n the Border States, and in the North the negroes will vote at first almost sol idly with the Radical party, but that will not beget any violence. In Mary land, Kentucky and Delaware, where the negro vote really amounts to some thing, the whites will still maintain their invincible superiority of numbers. Thereevery respectable:nut right-think ing white man is ready to forgive the negroes for temporarily uniting them selves with the Radicals. They admit that it is only perfectly natural that such should be the ease at the first elec tion under the Fifteenth Amendment; and there is no denial of the right of the negro so to act, and no hatred ()Flinn for so doing. Such was the feeling which we SaNe plainly manifested in Baltimore the other (lay during the cel ebration of the Fifteenth Amendment. Ex-rebels spoke kindly of the blacks, declared that their conduct had been commendable since they were emanci pated, and we heard not our harsh word uttered against them. Whatever of bitterness was shown vented itself upon the low-lived white demagogues who rode a part of the way over the route and then sneaked out of the procession, thus owning that they were ashamed of their position, their c induct and their company. In Pennsylvania there will be no vio lence, unless it should be provoked by Radical whites, and then it will vent itself upon their heads, and not upon the negroes. The people of this State know that the Fifteenth Amendment was never honestly and fairly adopted, and a vast majority of them are opposed to its provisions, but they will submit quietly to the wrong until it can be righted, and rely upon ti lIIC for a re medy. There is nothing in the present or the prospective condition of the coun try which demands the complete sub version of the election laws of every State in the Union, and the bill of abom inations, which we publish elsewhere, will only serve to deepen the conviction of every Democrat in the:correctness of the great principles of his party, and to add to our ranks thousands of dissatis fied and disgusted Republicans. Decoration Day We are glad to see that the Military Committee of the Senate has had the good sense to report against the House bill, declaring decoration day:to be a new National Holiday. The ground taken by the committee is that it would cause confusion in financial transactions, and also that the people can be trusted to at tend to such observance, without the formality of enacting a legal holyday. A Georgia Bill at Last The Reconstruction Committee have at last agreed to report a bill for the ad mission of Georgia, exactly similar to the Virginia, Mississippi and Texas bill. They also decided to report an additional section to the bill authorizing those States to organize and equip three mili tia regiments. THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1870. A Revival of Know-Nothinglam The Republican party holds within its fold the fanatics who believe in the proscriptive tenets of KnoW-lithing ism, and the demagogues who are ready to pander to the prejudices of these nar row-minded bigots who gave impetus to the wild crusade which was waged against every Catholic and every foreign born citizen. The spirit which gave rise to the most infamous political organiza tion that ever disgraced a free people still lives. It cropped out in Congress the other day, when the question of sending a Minister to the Court of Rome was under discussion in the House ; it is seen peering through the resolutions adopted by Radical Conventions and other gatherings of that party ; it is not unfrequently heard from the pulpits of sectarian preachers, and many of that class would be only too glad of an op portunity to display their hatred of the Catholic Church on the field of political action. In Washington city one wing of the Republican party has boldly unfurled the banner which was carried In triumph throughout the length and breadth of the Northern states, and which was first borne to the earth and made to trail in the dust hy the energy and eloquence of Henry A. Wise, of Virginia. One of the Republican candidates for the may oralty of Washington city is running on a:distinetive Know-Nothing platform. There, and elsewhere in the country, the Radicals appeal to the negro for sup port while boldly denouncing all white foreign-born citizens in the bitterest and most vituperative terms. The lying proclamation of Grant, declaring the Fifteenth Amendment to be adopted was no sooner promulgated than certain outspoken Radicals at once declared that with the help of the negro vote they could atffird to cut loose from all affilia tion with the foreign element. In In diana and elsewhere the most insulting language was used in Radical Conven tions in speaking of white naturalized citizens. That we shall soon have an other Know Nothing crusade we have no doubt. Some Republican newspapers have had the good sense to warn their readers against the folly of such a course, but they will soon yield to the storm of fanaticism when it bursts forth. 'Pile Democratic party is the only po litical organization which occupies per fectly sound and tenable ground upon this question. It holds all who have sworn allegiance to the government of the United States, no matter what may be their birth-place or religious belief, to be Americans, as touch so us those who are born on floc soil. It scouts as an unworthy prejudice that feeling which would discriminate against men .on account of their birth-place or their religion§ belief. It welcomes to our shores the emigrant who comes to cast in his lot with us, wisely regarding that act as the best evidence of a sincere at tachment to the country which he has deliberately chosen as the home of him self and Ids descendents. It secs in the muscle and brain of these many new la borers a unite of inexhaustible wealth, and the means for developing the vast resources of the nation. It offers them an equal chance Mall the varied fields of labor, and gives the assurance of a com fortable home to all who are willing to hew it out of the wilderness of the West. The policy of the Democratic party upon this question, as upon others, is broad and statesmanlike. It is not cramped by narrow prejudices, or ',Tallied by , creeds and the accidents of birth. 'fo all white ate❑ it offers the rights of citi zenship, without limitation. lit so do ing it lays upon the many thousands who annually ohne to us from Europe the most binding obligations of patriot ism and true loyalty. it has ever found the foreign-born citizen as ready to defend the national honor, and to do battle under the flag as those who have been born beneath its starry folds. All our wars have idtested this fact. Away then with that stupid and con tracted policy which would feller the growth of the republic and build a Chinese wall around this magnificent Western Empire; and away with that party which cherishes within its folds the men who are even now endeavor ing to revive the meanest and the most vindictive political organization that ever had all existence. ticuny Trick of a Radical Of Charles I iilibons, the fellow who sue cceded iu superseding Furman Shep pard as District Attorney of Philadel phia, for a period of a few months, took advantage of Iris brief tenure .d ullice, to gobble up all the fees derived ft•omt the tax on insurance companies for two whole years. lle pocketed the snug sum of .$4,0110 for 1509, and the same amount for 1870. Ile went into office late in 1000, and was ejected in the fifth month of the present year. By the unanimous decision of a set of Repub lican Judges, it has been decided that Mr. Gibbons was not elected District Attorney, and lie has therefore no right to a dollar of the fees which he pocket ed. 'Pte whole sum is really the prop erly of Mr. Sheppard. Mr. Gibbons must have had some intimation, or at least a very shrewd suspicion of what the eventual decision of the Court. would :tort so Ile utudc haste 1.” seize 111.1011 the revenues that he could possibly realize from the office which he wrong fully held. Ile was only (1, fa,to Dis trict Attorney, and held the office sub ject to the final decision of the courts. If he sets that up as his justification for taking the fees for 1509, which full due during the first part of the six months while he was in °Mee, how can he avoid recognizing in Mr. Sheppard an equal right to receive those for 15767 If Mr. Gibbons wore an honorable man, or possessed of common honesty, he would at onue refund to Mr. Sheppard the money he has wrongfully taken from hint. If lie does not do so, he must stand before the world eon victed in the eyes of all right thinking men of :t crime, greater in degree and more degrading character than that — ryf-a,' ny petty thief whom he may have helped - to send to the penitentiary. Mr. Gibbons is the representative of the Union League of Philadelphia—he was their candidate. If their representative is such a man what must his constituents be? Later developments show that the amount of money thus sequestered by Mr. Gibbons amounts to not less than $20,000. The Philadelphia Post, radical as it is, has the manliness to come out and denounce this piece of rascality in deservedly severe terms. Mr. Gibbons may keep the money he has pocketed, but he parts with the respect and con fidence of all honorable men. He has voluntarily descended to the lowest scale in morality, and has put himself on a level with the most disreputable swindlers in the country. The New York Election 'Phe result of the New York election Is another emphatic condemnation m the policy which the Radicals have been pursuing. First, after the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment, came the little State of Connecticut protesting against that outrage, and now the Em pire State speaks the same language in tones that can not fail to be heard in every nook and corner in the land. The New York San boldly proclaimed before hand that the administration of Presi dent Grant was on trial, and that the result was to be regarded as an emphatic approval or condemnation. The people of the greatest State in the country have spoken, and the verdict is one of decided disapproval. The negro vote was cast solid for the Radical candidates, but it proved to be a source of weakness rather than of strength. So it will be elsewhere in the North. THE New York Herald thinks that the result of the election on the lith inst., shows that the State of New York may be considered Democratic for an indefinite time to come. A Peannt Tariff. Since the war a number of persons have engaged largely in raising peanuts tVirginia, NOrth Carolina, and other arts of the South. Glowing accounts of the profitableness of the business have appeared in different agricultural news papers, and letter writers have set forth the chances of accumulating a fortune thereby in terms of the most seductive character. But who ever knew any man or any set of men to be content with doing well, if in any way they mightper chance do better. The South has not asked for much in the way of protection, but the peanut growers made a success ful effort in Congress the other day. A Mr. Platt, a Virginia Republican, de manded that a tariff of three cents a pound should be imposed on all import ed peanuts, and the provision was promptly adopted by the House. The peanut growers have been admitted into the band of monopolists, and every ur chin in the land, who buys peanuts, is to be compelled to pay over about one third of his pennies to support " the best government the world ever saw." Should this clause of Schenck's tariff be adopted, the probabilities are that the many old women who eke out a scanty living by selling peanuts at the street corners, will be compelled to seek a liv lihood in some other business, to go to the poor house, or to starve. We expect however to witness such a grand outburst against the peanut tariff as will compel the projectors of the measure to pause. The boys of a coun try are its nnist excitable and unruly population, and it will be dangerous to provoke them by the imposition of so heavy a tax upon that which lims here tofore constituted their chief and cheap est luxury. Let any one imagine, if he can the indignation which will pervade Young America when the measure of peanuts is reduced to one half its present dimensions. The hubbub will be terri ble, and every youngster in the laud will swear vengeanee upon the party which so ruthlessly invades the domain of his rights. If the Radicals in Congress wish to make free traders of all the boys in the country let them put a tariff of three cents a pound on peanuts. The adoption of that clause would sound the death knell or protective tariffs. It would get all the boys in the nation to thinking upon the subject, and would insure their adherence to that party whiCh was ready to do battle with them and for them against the monopolists. The Yankee cotton lords and the Penn sylvania iron masters would hind that they had paid too dearly for the support of the peanutlgrowers of Lower Virginia and Upper North Ciirolioa. The end of their rule will certainly be near at hand when all the boys of the country are set to studying the beauties and benefits of a protective tariff through the medium of diminished peanut measures. Defeat of the Tariff 11111 The Tariff bill, at which Congress has ',yen tinkering for some months has at ong last been virtually defeated. The dow dealt came from an unexpected ivarter, and was ufflookod for, but none the less successful. The immediate oc easion was a wiangle between Mr Dawes, as Chairman of the Appropria tion Committee, and General Schenck. l'hairman of the Ways and :‘reans, as to the order of business in the House.— Dawes uun•ed to postpone the Tariff bill until the House had disposed of all pending appropriation bills, and the motion was finally carried, after a sharp struggle, by a vote of yeas Pd to nays 77. Nearly every Democrat in the House voted for the postponement. In so (king they were unquestionably right. The present tariff has been before the coun try long enough to be understood, and the people will be able to vote intelli gently for or against it at the congres sional elections next fall. It will be one Of the principal iS,LIVS at the polls, and Western members especially will have their records closely scanned by voters. The bill which was defeated can not pos sibly be revived during the present session of Congress. Bullock, of Georgia The Senate Committee which have been overhauling Gov. Bullock, discov ered that he drew, during his few months' residence in Washington, 31.1,- 500. Of this, $4,000 was paid to the Chronicle, $lOO to the (Ibis, and the balance for It is personal expenses, and he refused to account for it. For the $lllO paid the Otolic, that establishment had done Illono work than the (Iwo/licit! for $.1,140. He paid the Chrimick $llOO for 1,000 copies of a pamphlet, and it was shown Ily practical printers that the or dinary price for such work in Washing ton was sl'2o. Many other like eases appear in the testimony. The people will watch with some interest the final disposition to he made of this matter.— Bullock has been so far completely suc cessful in the S. Senate, and hopes to be to the end. The slo,non which he has expended in wining and dining, and other personal expenses, and for which he refused to give any personal account, show what manner of loan it is which rules in Georgia, and whose rule Con gress an far 51'111115 to perpetuate for two years or more. Arc the people stone blind and deaf that they refuse to see, hear and comprehend such rascality as pervades in Ocorgia, and such perpetu ated injustice its exists in Washington over a great Stale and its inhabitants? The Equalization of Bounties A Washington telegram announces that the 'Military Committee of the (louse has agreed to report a bill giving to every soldier who served in the army a bounty of $12.33.4 per month, for the whole time he was in the service, boun ties already received to be deduct ed.— This is the saute bill fur equalizing homilies which was reported and passed by the House before, but the telegraph informs us that there is not the slightest hope of its passing the Senate. It would take more than 5100,000,000 out of the Treasury. The Radicals of the House know very well that it will fail in the Senate, but they will pays it through the House again, in order ,that candidates for re-election this fall may be able to parade their vote before the soldiers. It is a piece of political trickery. Du niNu the recent election in the State of New York, the only outrages committed in the City of New York, were committed by the Radicals them selves. Some of the negroes chose to vote the Democratic ticket, ad were immediately beaten by other Tiegroes and badly injured. There is no doubt but that the negroes, who did the beat ing, were instigated so to do by white Radical politicians. The public will not fail to remember this conduct of the "highly moral party," and such negroes as choose to vote for Democratic candi dates will not likely be converted to Radicalism through the medium of stones and clubs, however, impressive such arguments may seem to aspiring Radicals. The San Domingo Job It is the opinion of those Senators who have studied the matter closely that the Senate will postpone all action on the San Domingo treaty until next win ter, in order to allow the friends of the administration time to collate additional information about the condition of the island—political, financial and other wise. Senators Schurz and Patterson have made a canvass of the Senate, and find that there are thirty-two Senators opposed to it. This is eight more than enough to defeat it if the vote is taken this session. THE bill presented by Mr. Cox the other day, providing for a general am nesty, was defeated by the very close vote of 80 to 84. That shows that there is a small majority of Radicals in the Lower House of Congress who are op posed to giving the white men of one half of this country rights equal to those enjoyed by the negroes. By and by the negroes will shame these vindictive white Radicals into decency. Grant's Cottage at Long Branch The - other day a Stupid compositor made us say that .Grant had erected a magnificent 4 college" at Long Branch, and a heedless proof-reader failed to no tice the glaring error. Grant is not the man to found a college. What money he spends he spends on himself, and not for the public good, or for charitable and beneficial purposes. He has come into the possession of a magnificent cottage at Long Branch, and is in a great hurry to be off to that fashionable resort. It is doubtful whether be will wait for Con gress to adjourn, unless that body should abandon its interminable debates on the tariff; the currency, the funding act, the army bill, the many railroad projects, and the infinitude of other measures which have been projected to remain unfinished. Grant's cottage is a handsome struc ture, about sixty feet square with piazza all around. The interior is finished in black walnut and inlaid woods, the or naments are of elegant designs, and manifest a high degree of taste and skill. The house contains every convenience and luxury required for a gentleman's residence. The main hall, which is wide and roomy, is inlaid with colored marbles, the parlor is elegantly furnish ed, and the dining-room is large enough for a State dinner. The house is very elegantly furnished, and there is a fine under-ground ice-house and wine cellar, and a room for meat and provisions, which iscool even in thehottest weather. The lot is upon the grand drive to the ocean, and comprises four acres and com mands a superb ocean view. The names of those who presented the solemn smoker with this new proof of the generosity of expectant office-seek ers have not been made public, but we infer from the suevessof former ventures of a similar character that they will be liberally rewarded in due season. Grant makes it a rule to render a full return to those who confer pecuniary benefits upon him. That is well understood, and hence the great number and the magnificent character of the presents he receives. Ile does little work, and shirks the cares of office which under mined the health of some of his prede cessors. Ile takes it easy—and is al ways ready to take any gift that may be offered, from gold-tipped cigars to a palatial mansion. The only present he ever rejected was that Cleveland pup, on which the express charges were not How a Negro Editor Treats Ills Wife The Harrisburg Patriot says: 0. L. C. litighes, of the Progress of - 1,1 y, has been put under live hundred dol lars bail, on complaint of hfa wife, for neg lecting to provide fur his family. Mrs. Hughes is said to bean industrious woman and works laboriously to obtain a liveli hood. She asserts that her husband has failed to maintain her for a number of months, and that there] is no reasonable hope that he will do so until compelled by law. One reason assigned by his wife for the action of Mr. Hughes is that he thinks her intellectual accomplishments not such as to lit her for the company or entitle her to the support of an erudite scholar and a profound statesman. But for the prompt interposition of a white friend of the de fendant, who furnished the required bail, the Progress Of Liberty would have been temporarily deprived of its bead. Here is evidence that at least ono prominent negro has been utterly de bauched and demoralized by hnbibing Radical ideas. The rascal has been in itiated into the doctrine of affinities by Greeley, Beecher & Co., and he refuses to support the woman lie married, be cause, forsooth, he does not regard her as sufficiently relined to mate with him in his elevated position as a leader in the Republican party of Pennsylvania. Hughes made a speech from the same platform with Governor Geary and a white woman the other day. It is not strange, therefore, that he should suddenly have become tilled with an idea of his self importance. It was ru mored that Hughes was to run as a can didate for Assembly upon the Republi can ticket in Dauphin county; report said he had the matter all fixed up, but it is possible this exposure of him may prevent him from securing the nomina tion. Why did'nt he quietly get di vorced last winter? 'That the Radical majority would have relieved him from ties which have grown to be so distaste ful to him we have no doubt. There is where lie missed it. League Candidates 'inc Union League of Philadelphia is just now talking loudly about the ne cessity of sending honest men to_repre sent that city in the State Legislaritre. The "curled darlings" of that aristocrat ic body denounce Davis, _Bunn and the rest of the Radical ex-members in un- I measured terms, and declare that they intend to put up men of another stamp. That talk might have sonic weight but for the fact that the League has failed to find honest officials among its members heretofore. Gibbons was the League candidate for District Attorney of Phil adelphia, its peculiar pet, the chosen representative of its respectability and honesty. Beaten at the polls he man aged to creep into a dc, facto occupation of the office for a few months; and dur ing that brief period he pocketed more than twenty thousand dollars of fees, every cent of which belonged of right to his competitor. Of course he declines to refund, and will hold on to what he stole. Until the Union League of Philadelphia can show a better record the people of that city would be fools to trust any candidate it might name for the Legis lature. The rascality of Davis & Co. has been measured. They will undoubt edly steal, but there is good ground for believing that they are fully as honest as any men whom the League would select. THE Columbia republishes in its issue of Saturday a well-written commu nication, which lies just caught our eye, laudatory of :Messrs. Scott, Franciseus, Lockard, and other high officials of the Pennsylvanht Railroad, and claiming for our county the credit of their origin. The writer claims to Is , perfectly likill tereSiCli ill the expression of his opinion of these gentlemen, and we are quite willing to believe that he is so. They are all self-made men who have raised themselves to high positions and have therefore demonstrated their possession of faculties which may be fairly consid ered to reflect lustre upon the locality whence they sprung. But it is the very fact that they have Lancaster as their Alma Mater, and fully know what it has done for them and for the Pennsylvania Railroad, that adds strength to the feel ing aroused by the manner of our treat ment by then'. The writer in the Scty is in error in supposing that our strict ures upon the conduct of the officers of the railroad are prompted by envy of their rise in life ; as our professions are so distinct, it is a feeling which could hardly arise within us relative to them, were we ever so subject to the influence of the green-eyed monster. Our ani madversions, we think, had their origin in no other motive than a desire to have justice done to the people among whom we live, and a natured and proper indig nation at a wrong which has been done them ; anti, just as we believe our views to be, we do not propose to cease to give expression to them until the wrong of which we complain is righted. SOUTHERN negroes, by the aid of their carpet-bag allies, have discovered a way by which they can make their new right to sit on juries a very valuable one to themselves and their race. Through their "loyal leagues " they combine to prevent the punishment of any colored person for crime against the whites. The fact was developed in open court at Quincy, Florida, recently. A negro juror was asked by the State Attorney if he had taken an oath in any secret or ganization not to bring in a verdict, when acting as juror, against any of his color where a white man was interested, and he admitted that he had taken upon himself such an obligation. The chances of getting justice out of negro jury -boxes after this revelation, do not seem to be very good. The Land• Grubbers The land-grubbers in Congress have been doing their best during the present session to gobble up the greater part of the public domain. One scheme after another for transferring the heritage of the people to a set of railroad corporators has been put for Ward ; in these swindles Radical members of Congress have had a large and direct interest. By arrange ments with the parties interested in se curing land grants the members contract to receive 11 valuable consideration for their votes. One of the most outrageous schemes of this kind which has been before Congress is the Northern Pacific Railroad. The opponents of the bill freely denounced it on the floor of Con gress as the greatest swindle of the age, and averred that the land grants already made to this company were without precedent in the history of legislation. Ten votes were given in favor of it the other day by members from Pennsylva nia, but we are glad to say that not a single Democrat was to be found among them. Our Congressman, 0. J. Dickey, was one of the ten who went for the swindle. A few such votes would be sufficient to insure the nomination of some one else at the coming preliminary elections. Grant Wants Another Palace A 'Washington telegram says: "The President complains that the White House is very undesirable as a residence, and regrets having his I street mansion. Ho is in favor of the construction of a now mansion as a presidential residence some where in the northern suburbs of the city." Expectants of office have given Grant palaces in different cities, a farm in New Jersey, a magnificent cottage at the sea side; and yet he is not satisfied. He wants a new palace built somewhere in the Northern suburbs of Washington. Considering the fact that he spends only about one-half his time in the White House, one might think lie could stand it. He should at least wait until the taxes are somewhat reduced before de manding the expenditure of a few odd millions of dollars in the erection of the projected palace. With wheat at its present price the farmers of Lancaster county can not very well afford to pay their share of the expense, and such a tax would prove to be a severe tax upon their loyalty. Let Mr. Dickey take ground against this movement, if he de sires a renomination. Woman Suffrage In Vermont We have already noted the terrible defeat which the advocates of Female Suffrage lately sustained in Vermont. Itad the women voted the result would have been the same. This was tested by a careful canvass in the Royalter dis trict by a special cans MSS as follows: Number of women in the district In favor of sutli age Opposed to suffrage Having Ho choice... Not found at hound We have no doubt that a canvass of the whole country would show a like opposition on the part of the women of the United States to the measure. The sooner the agitation of the question is stopped the better. THAT was a very intelligent hog that exhibited his powers in one of the side shows of Van Amburgh's Menagerie. "Who was the first President of the United States?" asked his master; and the hog picked out the card bearing the name of Washington. "Who is the present President?" he was next asked, and in the same way the answer given "Grunt." The third query was "Who should be the next President ?" and the hog with great promptness selected a card adorned with his own picture. Truly that was a sagacious hog, fur who will gainsay his opinion that he is the only fit successor of Grant? THE Democratic newspapers in the State of Indiana are publishing the names of Republicans, who have come out against their'party on aceouut of the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment. Sonic of the men whose names are pub lished, are among the most prominent and influential citizens of that State.— The number of hitherto Republicans, who openly declare their purpose to vote against the Republican party, al ready reaches upwards of three thous and. An Irish razor sharpener in Tyrone swallowed a live toad for a half a dollar. A buttonwood tree in Juniata county measures thirty feet in eircumferenec. A grand parade of the American Me chanic's is to collie off in Ilarrisburg on the Sth of July. The Third Annual Commencement of the Muldenberg College will lie held on June 23d. There is to be a grand celebration on the Fourth of July at Meadville under the auspices of the Odd Fellows. In Berks county the collection of tax es in the various townships is awarded to the lowest bidder. An exchange says that there are eigh teen daily newspapers published in Philadelphia. Capt Frank Magee, of the 'Wrights ville Slur is announced as a candidate for the nomination of Assemblyman, in York county. Charles Sweezy, of Newport, was rob bed of over $2,000 while sleeping in his canal boat at Northumberland a few evenings since. The first - interment that took place in the Pottstown Cemetery was in 1534. Now there are eight hundred and six teen persons buried there. The people of Coatesville have placed a town clock in the steeple of the Bab list Church in that place at a cost, for clock and bell, of about $9OO. Jacob Seifert of Lower Saucon, Le high county, left home on Monday last on horseback, and was found afterwards hanging to a sapling by the ballet strap. The difficulty at Dickinson College has been settled by the recall of the or der for suspension, and the Junior and Sophomore Classes have returned to their duties. The deaths in Philadelphia last Nvevk numbered 355, hying 34 more than dur ing, the previous week. Searlet Myer caused 41 deaths, typhoid 15, and re lapsing. A swarm of bees last summer domi ciled in the cornice of Dr. Itamer's resi dence at Freeland, Montgomery county. They lived through the winter, and are now hard at work. The great well tin the Dalzell Farm, located on Oil Creek, is yielding a larger amount of oil than any other well in the roiled States. A test was made for the twenty-four hours eliding at 8 o'clock, A. M., on the 17th inst., and by actual count, the well pumped three hundred and forty-nine barrels. A laboring force of twenty-four hun dred men and four hundred horses is now engaged in the work of construct ing the Pittsburg and Connellsville rail mad, between Connellsville and Cum berland. The progress making is re garded by the officers of the road as in the highest degree satisfactory, and there is reasonable ground for the ex pectation that the close of the year 1870 will Witness its completion. Quite an extensive business has been doing in horses in Hanover, York county, recently, and some high prices have been obtained. As high as $2.50 and 30u have been paid for a single animal, and the supply of good horses, is not equal to the demand. Fine hor ses always sell well in Hanover, and it is noted for its superior stock. Some of the finest horses in the State are at pres ent owned in and near that town. The Hicksites'(Quaker) yearly meet ing held in Philadelphia adjourned on the 13th. Three thousand. members were in attendance. Among the last business transacted was the holding of the anniversary of the First day School, the report read on the occasion showing that there are in Philadelphia, under the care of the society, 23 schools, 3 Bi ble classes, 2 sewing schools for ,poor children, and 211 officers and teachers. They are attended by 1,483 children and 340 adults. The libraries contains 2,507 volumes. The Fulton (Fulton county) Demo crat says that, on the 14th inst., a son of Mr. Alexander Mayne, residing at the toll gate west of McConnellsburg, went down to the Ridge to get birch. After arriving at the tree he attempted to climb up, but was unable to do so, and in get ting down stepped on a stone and feel ing something hurting his foot looked down just as a large sized copperhead drew its fangs out of his ankle. The boy hastened home and Dr. Trout was sent for immediately. The boy is recover ing. SKETCHES OF TRAVEL NORTHWARD' No. VL—Fort Ticonderoga and Lage Champlain- The stage ride from the landing at the foot of Lake George to the ruins of Fort Ticonderoga, Is through a romantic and picturesque country. ' For a portion of the way the road winds along a small and tur bulent stream„) connecting Lake George with Lake Champlain. This little stream makes a descent of two hundred and thirty feet in two cascades called The Falls of Ticonderoga, the beauty of which has been greatly narrowed by the manufactories erected upon the banks of the stream. Fort Ticonderoga is upon the west bank of Lake Champlain, at the mouth of the small stream leading from Lake George. It was built by the French in 1755. Two years later it was attacked by the English under Abercrombie, but the attack was un successful and the English wore repulsed with great loss. The following year it was evacuated by the French and immediately taken possession of by the English, who held it until 1775, when it was captured by "The Green Mountain Boys" under the command of Colonel Ethan Allen, without the loss of a single man. The Americans surprised the unsuspecting garrison, and it is reported, that Allen made his way to the officers' barracks and arousing the com mander, demanded the immediate surren der of the Fort "in the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress !" General Burgoayne subsequently forti fied the summit of Mount Defiance, on the opposite side of the outlet of Lake George, and by that means forced the Americans to evacuate Ticonderoga. After the close of the Revolutionary war the fort was allow ed to fall into decay, and it is now a heap of crumbling ruins. A portion of the wall of the building used as the officers' bar racks is still standing, and the large ovens, which according to some accounts were used as powder magazines, aro still to be seen, though they aro rapidly falling to pieces. Bare the tourist may spend hours recalling the memories of the glorious past. Dining at the hotel near by we embarked on the Lake Champlain steamer Adiron dack, which in size, elegance and beauty i s unsurpassed even by the far-rained Hud son river steamers. Upon the Vermont side of the lake and directly opposite Ticonderoga is Mount In dependence, where the remains of military works still exist. The first place of pecu liar interest is Crown Point, on the New York side of the lake. Here are the re mains of the old fort erected by the French :in 1731, and captured by the English in 1759. Instead of repairing the old fort the English commenced to erect a new one on a grand scale, but after immense sums of money had been expended, the work was abandonet . Land the fort was never com pleted. I to portion of the ruins is all underground communication with the lake. The barracks were all built of stone and some of them are still standing. Port henry is a mile and a half north of Crown Point at the mouth of Ifalwagga Bay. \Vest Port is on the east side of the lake some fourteen nicks distant, and still farther north is Fort Cassin where Com modore Maelfonough fitted out his fleet in 1814. The most remarkable natural curiosity upon the lake is Split Rock, an immense mass of solid rock, about half an acre in extent which has been detached front the main cliff and separated from it about twelve feet. It is only when the lake is high that the water slows through this nar row gorge, at other times it is almost dry. The Four Brothers' Islands aro about seven miles south-west of Burlington, and four miles beyond Juniper Island. A little further north Rock Dundee rises from the water to the height of thirty feet, and near by, at the mouth of Shelliurn Bay, is Pot tier's Point where most of the lake steam ers have been built. The largest town upon the lake is Bur lington, Vermont, which rises gradually to an elevation of several hundred feet and presents an imposing appearance. Bur lington has a population of about nine thousand, in the centre of several import ant nu 'roads, has It large lake trade and is the seat of the University of Vermont. For the protection of shipping there is a fine break-water erected here. On the opposite shore some ten miles north is Port Kent, and in the immediate neighborhood is Trembleu Point, the commencement of the Clinton range of Mountains. We next pass Port Jackson, near which a severe naval battle was fought in MG be tween the Americans and English. The battle, w hi ch was undecided, began about noon and lasted until night. The Ameri cans had fought with their ships in a crip pled condition, and rather than risk an other engagement they made a bold dash through the lines of the enemy and escaped. Next morning the English gave chase, and the Americans finding that there was no chance of escape ran their vessels upon the shore near Crown Puint and set them on Our voyage ended at the village of Platts burgh. This is one of the chief military posts of the country, and the P. S. tfovern molt has here erected very extensive bar racks. It is a thriving place, containing about four thousand inhabitants and is memorable as the scene of ono of the se verest and most brilliant naval battles on record. The battle took place between the American Meet under Commodore Mac donough and the English fleet commanded by Commodore Downie, on Sunday, Sept. 11th, 1814. The contest, which commenced early in the day, lasted for two hours and a half, and the loss on both sides was very heavy. Commodore Downie was killed in the early part of the action, and Commo dore Macdonough, although twice wound ed, remained upon the deck of his flag-ship, the Saratoga, and fought bravely until the British struck their colors and surrender ed. So fiercely did the contest rage that at its close there was not a single mast in either fleet lit for use. The battle on land was fought at the same time and with the same result—the total defeat of the British. Lake Champlaiil is ono hundred and twenty miles long and raises in width from one fourth of a Mile to thirteen miles. In the vicinity of Platthurgh the scenery is very tine, the Adirondack Mountains being visible in the west and the Green Moun tains in the east. We subsequently tra versed the entire lake from Plattsburgh to Whitehall. Between Ticonderoga and Whitehall the channel is extremely narrow and very winding. We left the steamboat at Platt,hurgh about six ielock in the 111.111illg, tool: the Platt,- aigh A Montreal Railroad and at tell ,)'cloek, in the evening, re:irked St. Law rence Ilall, the principal hotel in the city of Montreal. A. 1,. New. and other Item.. Five hundred eow-bells are lured in Boston per day. St. Paul's Cathedral, in London, i 9 Said to be in danger from excavation of underground railroads. The Boston says "no panes were spared to make the hailstorm successful." A Cohoes, N. V., paper mill has lately turned out a sheet of paper -In inches wide, by 2.5 miles long weighing 10,n50 pounds. Seventy cases of (11/11aIllellIS bones were lately shipped from San Francisco to the Flowery Land. Ohio has 304 lodges of Odd Fellows, with a general fund of $715,554, and a widows' and orphan' of $. , 400,015. It is a little singular that every Cuban general officer of note is just now in New York. Doubtless there is less danger and privation in that city than on the Island. A number of young men have been apprehended for frequenting the Lon don theatres in female clothing, one of whom is said to have been mistaken for the Duchess of Manchester. The anthracite coal trade practically, is still in statu quo. The Lehigh and Wyoming coal regions are producing largely and keeping the current market demand fully supplied without any ma terial change in prices, to the greatly increased tonnage of their respective carrying companies over last year, and to the profit of both miners and opera tors. In the Schuylkill region the sus pension of nearly all labor connected with the coal trade continues. The number of deaths in Philadelphia during last week, was three hundred an seventy-three, or forty-eight more than the previous week, and one hundred and forty, or sixty per cent., more than during the corresponding week of last year., Ten of this large number of deaths are reported to:have resulted from re lapsing fever, and it is probable that all the deaths from rthis malady were not correctly reported. The Day says: "These figures are alarming, and should prompt our authorities to do everything possible, by cleansing the streets and alleys, and by every available means, to improve the_ sanitary condition of the city." A gentleman formerly ofLancister, now residing in Southern Kansas,writes a long letter to a friend in this city descriptive of that country. We publish for the benefit of our readers some interesting extracts from it: BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS, Stray 13th 1870. DEAR —: Your long looked for letter I found on my return home, recently, from a short visit to the State of Texas. The visit was a very pleasant one. I was absent some three weeks and four days ; I went with a party of three, one of whom furnished the wagon and the other two furnished each a horse. We were nine days going down through Indian Territory—a distance of 300 miles—we were provided with a regular outfit and lived quite comfortably while en route. The second night after leaving Baxter Springs, we encountered a storm, but no serious injury was sustained—the greater part of the time wo had pleasant weather. The portion of Texas visited by us is the most beautiful country I ever saw ; it re minds me very much of Lancaster county. Land there is very cheap. you can buy it from fifty cents to ten dollars per acre.— Two miles front Sherman is:, some of the richest land I ever saw ; it will grow 1,000 pounds of cotton to the acre. A new rail road is being surveyed through this section, of the country, and land consequently must rapidly increase in value. Deer and wild turkey were seen in pretty large numbers on our way through the Indian country ; our party shot no less than twelve deer while on the trip, and also secured some two dozen wild turkies. On our arrival home at Baxter Springs, from our Southern tour, we found we were just ono day too late to witness the first train of cars run into Baxter. Every body is in good spirits, and our people expect for Baxter a bright future as it has many advan tages favorable to its rapid growth. Build ings are going up in every part of the town; carpenters aro in good demand, and obtain from $3 to $5 per day for their labor, and even at these wages they are scarce. Bricks are in demand but will be plenty very soon, as they have started two brick kilos. !tricks sell fur $lO per thousand. Town lots in Baxter aro selling from $3OO to $2,000, and a number of lots have changed hands recently. Every train brings stran gers who come to see and invest, and many of them engage hero in business. Our winters aro not as cold as they aro with you in Lancaster county, and the country seems to be very healthy. On the completion of the Railroad to Baxter the event was duly celebrated in a novel as well as an amusing manner. The first thing on the programme was an Indian war-dance which came off in our public square. The said square is located in the centre of the town and is about four times as large as Centro Square in Lancaster. In the evening, about o'clock, the Indians arrived in town, on horseback and in wagons, to the number of 000, and proceeded to the square where a large tire was kindled. Around the tire a large circle was formed inside of which they danced. The Indians on their arrival divested themselves of the greater part of their clothing and were painted by ono of their number in the most grotesque and hideous manner. 'rho faces of the Indians were painted red, while their bodies and limbs were painted black. After being painted, and everything being in readi ness, they entered the ring single tile their musician leading the way. 'Tito music was made by beating a drum made out of a nail keg covered with a deerskin; upon this the musician poundetrivith a stick, ac companying his pounding With a sung in which the rest joined. The women parti cipated in the dancing to this odd music; the dancing consisted in jumping around the lire in single tile fr sumo fifteen min utes, when all the dancers would change front and jump back again. I wish some of my Lancaster friends could have wit nessed this Indian dancing, no pen can fitly describe its highly ludicrous character.— This dancing was kept up until long after midnight, when the red men and women adjourned. The citizens of Baxter duly celebrated the advent of the cars into the town by a first class ball—a " grand ball " for such it was called by the managers who issued the tickets. And, indeed, it was such for some very accomplished and handsome ladies were present. A large delegation from Kansas city was present, also a number of persons living north of here along the lino of the newly constructed railroad—in all some fifteen cars lull of excur sionists and the cars were tilled to their utmost capacity. Among those who were at the ball were a number of former Pennsylvanians, now residing in Kansas. The day following was a splendid one, and about 10 o'clock A. M. a grand procession was had through the town. I was astonished to witness the number of persons in the procession. There were in it some 500 Indians, about 1,000 persons from the tipper country, and a large num ber from the more immediate vicinity of Baxter. The procession formed on Mili tary street and marched out to Van Epp's Grove, a short distance from town, on the banks of Spring River, a most beautiful spot, where the citizens had a dinner pre pared fur the invited guests, among whom was the Governor of the State of Kansas, with many other prominent men, both of Kansas and Missouri. We were pleasantly entertained with speeches, ctc., until a Into hour, when the crowd returned to town and left for their homes much pleased with the clay's enjoyment. The country around. Baxter has many advantages; it is fertile, and possesses tine water power; stone coal is found in great abundance, wood is plentiful, and lead is found in inexhaustible quantities. Desira ble business lots in Baxter now bring - _ $l5OO, and aro rapidly increasing in value. The growing crops of wheat, oats and corn look well. Butter is selling for fifty cents a pound ; corn $1.50 per bus.; potatoes, twenty-live cents, per bus., and apples command $ 5 . Rents aro enormously high from $llOl to $2041 por month are paid for store rooms twenty by sixty feet. Farms near the town limits command from $2O to $lOO per acre. Gambling houses are too numerous in Baxter, but they aro gradual ly becoming Los numerous les the town grows older. There is a tine field hero for industrious, energetic young men from the East, and great opportunities are furnished to all such who may seek homes in our midst. Yours, &c. OUR BUNDLE OF NOTHINGS I =ll2llO Thu splecn with liudden Vlll.r eta h bruin." "Josh Billings"—whoever that distin guished intangible may ho—says, that ":some people think themselves pious, when in reality they aro only bilious." Billings may be a myth, nevertheless, there is a strong smacking of truth in his mythology. According to this dictum, the dreadfully sedate aspect:of many people who pass for pious, may only be the effect of a derangement of the stomach. Indeed their piety may not rest upon half as true a basis as that of Good Dame Tompkins, whom the boys considered the most pie-ous lady of the village, because she periodically pre sented them with such magnificent pies. That, see think, might be denominated practical piety, whilst that of the Billings mythology, must be regarded as pseudo piety at best. Looking at the subject soberly, is it net possible that much of the outward sem blance of piety which the face of society wears, is only skin-deep, if it is not the elicit of physical causes alone? There are many people who are absolutely too pious to lough, indeed they feel ter rified, ecru When they happen to , detect themselves smiling., and this austerity passes current for piety. It is sometimes a.stounding, and Oven amusing, to see some. mendicants awkwardly assume an external aspect of piety, whilst up from their gutterals arc flowing whining, whimpering streams, t.f (also let.ls. True piety is the handmaid ofchnr ity, and they practically make one, just an truly an oxygen and hydrogen make the fluid called water. Separated from each other, they resolve themselves into some other element which is neither piety nor charity. Although true piety isnot doleful and austere, neither is it boisterous or in decorous in its external manifestation, but on the contrary it is calm, placid, and approachable. It is pseudo-piety that is so severe, so crisp, and so repelling, driving off innoeent little children, like the negative pole of a magnet. This kind of piety re quires a re-establishment of the functions of digestion, before it can be a true reflector of the piety of a healthy action. There is sin much pseudo-piety in the world, that, we confess, when we hear of cases of excessive pietie nianifestation,we always fear there is something sinister behind it, or at the bot tom of it. Pseudo-piety contents itself with the mere outward observances of re ligion and morality, without regard to the purification of the heart, the intents, and the purposes of life. It regards religion as merely a speculative sentiment, that be longs to the insides of churches, and may be carried through an entire Sunday, but that it is put aside on Monday morning, along with the Sunday clothing. If an ox should fall into a ditch on the Sabbath day, it would:be sacrilegious to pull it out; or, if front motives:of self-interest it lends a helping hand, it would do so with many sighs and groans. It entirely forgets, that, " inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of these, ye have done it unto me." Aye, " there's the rub"—true piety finds some thing to do, whilst pseudo-piety Is content to feel. " 011,low happy, how extatic feel," exclaimed the pseudo-pietist, while his house may be burning, and his chil dren be perishing, if they are not vaga bondizing on the streets from his neglect. He won't smile himself—he won't let any body else smile about him—at least not un til after sunrise on Monday morning.— ; Genuine piety may be practically carried into the counting-room, the factory, the machine shop, or the street, during the whole week, without detriment to either it or any of those Occupations. We know that pseudo-piety is carried there, bat It is only as an advertisement—as a convenient means of accomplishing selfish ends. There are few people in business—especi ally if they have been long and extensively in business—who have not suffered more or less from pseudo-plethea"`These people may be sincere—at least they may think they aro sincere, but they have need to renovate their stomachs, and examine their motives, before they can lay any claim to true piety. The "pious frauds" of the world, must be traced, as a general thing, to pseudo-piety, and not to real, or true piety, although many of them may be per petrated through sheer ignorance, or false and erroneous instruction. There is a dreadful responsibility resting some whore in regard to what is real and what is only pseudo •piety. BELLE VIEW. NEW YORK ELECTION 80,000 Democratic Nnjorlty In New Democratic Gains Everywhere-The Col ored Vote Strongly Radical-The Dem ocratic Majority in New York City Sixty-five Thousand-The Vote In the State Light- Nnw Yong, May 17.—The election for Judges of the Court of Appeals and for coun ty officers under the new charter took place to-day. There was very little excitement. The colored vote was small, but strongly Republican. There worn but two tickets in the field—the regular Republican and Democratic. Tammany swept the field. The vote in this city was heavy on the part of the Democrats, but the Republicans fell off very much compared with the vote for Secretary of State in 18139. It is estimated that Democratic majority in this city is G.l The entire Tammany ticket. Is elect edby majorities nearly the same as those on the State ticket. The Aldermen were on the general ticket and every voter had the privilege of voting for each man on the ticket. heretofore the Aldermen were elected by the voters of the wards respect ively, and the Assistant Aldermen were voted for by assembly districts. The vot ing in many districts was very evenly bal anced. The colored men voted, in nearly every instance, the straight Republican ticket. In the Ninth ant Sixteenth dis triets the colored vote told most. In all other district I the 'fiat litany nominees were successful. The following Demo eratie Judges for the Court of Uonimou Pleas were elected: Itobt S. Hall, 11. W. Robinson, Jos. F. Daly, Richard 1.. I.ara- Chas. 11. Vanbrunt. Tammany also elects Judges Marvin, Geo. Shea, \Yin. 11. Tracy and Philip J. Irachimsen. The returns from the State indicate very light vote polled in most of the coun ties. Columbia county—l ludson City, Democratic majority, 11.si, a gain of 76 over the Presidential vote; men! tort, 41 ; K en derhook, 190. Estimated majorities from all the towns hoard front indicate Church's majority at 700, Democratic gain of about 200. Albany county elects the entire Demo cratic ticket; Albany City,Democratio ma jority of 1,400. Schenectady eon nty, Schenectady, Demo eratic majority 1159, carrying every ward Vote light; Oneida con my, Rome, Demo cratio majority '2.37, gain 7; Riehmont county, Patterson, Republican majority 36 Duchess county, Poughkeepsie, Republi can majority 136 ; Saratoga county, Sara toga, Republican majority :k). N Yount, May 17.—The voteim,thi. State has been unusually light, and Me re turns received indicate that the Democrat. have swept the State by perhaps 75,01/0 ma jority. The following ara the nominations upon both sides: 1011 COURT oF APP EA DentoCrat. Repithil c , / .111.111 r, Sanford E. Church - . dlenry H. Sodden .18sucinte F. Allen, , Charles Mascn. Rufus W. Peckham, Charles Andrews Charles A. Harmlin, Charles .1. Polger Martin:6 rover. .Robert ti. hale. New YORK, I\lay 17—Midnight.—From present indications the Democrats have swept this city by 70,000 majority. Thir teen of the twenty-two wards thus far re ported, give Church (Democrat), for Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, 55,943, and Seldom, (Republican,) 11,n15. The Eighth ward in which the colored registration was the heaviest, gives the largest majority of any, viz: 7,430 in a total of 9,512 votes. All the Tammany candidates for minor offices aro doubtless elected. The indica tions are that Brooklyn has also given 15,- 000 Democratic majority. Nelson's major ity was 0,855, a Democratic gain of 8,000, and has elected a Democratic city ticket by 8,000 to 10,000. 100 cities and towns and districts scattered through the State give total majorities of 9,305 for Church and 3,204 for Selden, indicating that the State outside of this city has gone heavily for the Democrats. Among the cities giving ma jorities for Church aro the following: Elmira, 441, a Democratic gain of 2.17. Morrisania, 575, Damocratie gain 547. Newburg, 71, Democratic gain 132. Cohoes, 275; Hudson, 257, Dmunrratic gain 85. Canandaigua, 152, Democratic gain 200. Oswego, lilt, Democratic gain 400. Rome, 272, Lockport, 248, Democratic gain 301. Utica, 100, Barr,', 377 ; Rochester, Poughkeepsie gives 130 majority for Sei del:. The returns front the country are still discouraging to the Republicans. In this city and Brooklyn the Tammany candidates are probably elected down to the very lowest offices. 2 A. M., May total vote of this city is: Church, 82,101, Seidel], 22,186. Brooklyn gives about 11,800 Democratic majority 011 the State ticket, and elects a Democratic city ticket by O,uoo to 7,000 ma jority. . . I3ulFulo gives Church, 1,191 majority Democratic gain of 1,!1.12., and Troy, 1,7111 Democratic gain, 1,449. 'rho indications are that the Donmeratir majority in the State will exceed 75,000, am perhaps reach 100,000 majority. Albany gives 1,300 Democratic majority ALBANY, May 21,—The rgax of to-day figures up a majority of over 80,000 votes for the Democratic ticket on Tuesday last. The reaction against Radicalism is sweep ing and complete. Every despatch front the rural districts is better and better. The farmers •of Cayuga, Jefferson, Cortland, Wayne, Schuyler, Erie, Gennesee, Orleans, Monroe and in fact everywhere, gave tiov ernor Church their solid strength. lu ono rural district intfayug,a county whore fifty, three farmers voted, only four of them vot ed the Republican ticket. The New York World says; As the returns of the election are received front the more remote counties, the Democratic majority steadily increases. Districts that have heretofore polled heavy Radical ma jorities have come over to the Democratic side. For example, Jefferson county, which has for seventeen years boon one of the strongholds of the opposition, has this time given a Democratic majority of nearly 100. If the process of conversion continues with the saute rapidity with which it has com menced, we may next year expect the rafts men of St. Lawrence county—who have heretofore been the firmest supporters of the Radical ticket, and the most persistent subscribers to Radical newspapers, Radical strawberry plants, and Radically reliable histories off rebellion—voting the straight Democratic ticket, and turning a deaf car to the most impassioned Radical appeals to men and brethren. General Hancock Inmn!led On the 13th of April last, Major-Goneral IV. S. Hancock addressed the following telegraphic despatch to leneral NV. T. Sher man, dated St. Louis: "If my rank will not entitle me to a Di vision, and the changes in departinent, aro such as to mako it practicable, I would pre fer this (St. Louis) station. I leave at once for St. Paul.•' The next day the following telegram was sent in reply: ILEA Mi UNITED ST/cr Es AUM Y, WASH I N(11,,N, April 14, 1570 j IV. N. Hancock, Commanding De partment of I tkot a, 01. Paul, .1f inne.rola. Your despatch frosts St. Louis has been received, and 1 Nllll answer you by mail.— In the contemplated changes, your post will not be altered. [Signed] W. T. SnsumAN, General. IIF:Anl(ICY UNITED STATK4 ARMY, WASH INOTON, April 14, 1070. Gracrui IV. S. Hancock, Commanding De partment of Dakota, St. Paul, Minne.vota. GEssast. : I have laid your despatch of the 13th, from St. Louis, before the Presi dent, who authorizes the to say that your wishes and claims for the succession to the command of the Military Division of the Pacitic, made vacant by General Thomas' death, were fairly considered, and also your preference for the Department of the Mis souri in case of a change In its commander were also made known to him, but he has ordered otherwise. The President author izes me to say to you that it belongs to his office to select the Commanding Generals of Divisions and Departments, and that the relations you chose to assume towards him, oflicially;and privately, absolve him from regarding your personal preferences. The order announcing these changes will be made public in a very few day, and they will not touch the Departmentof Dakotaor the Military Division of the Missouri. I am, with respect, yours truly, (Signed) W. T. SHERMAN, General. HEADQUARTERSI DEPARTMUNT OF DAKOTA, ST, PAUL, MINN., April 27, 1870., ToGeneral W. T. .Sherman, anninanding the Army of the United Stales, Washing- tun, D. C. GENERAL : Your letter has been received, detailing the reasons the President gives why my claims to a more important com mand should not be regarded. I intended, by my despatch, to ask for a Division, if the existing Divisions were all continued, otherwise for the Department of the Mis souri, if changes made it practicable, notes a favor but as a claim ho a command to I which thought my rank entitled me. As the President leads me to believe that, because I have not his personal sympathy, my preference for command will not be regarded, notwithstanding my rank. 1 shall not again open the subject, but will add in conclusion, that I think it Is an un fortunate precedent to establish, that mili tary rank in time of peace, especially in the assignment of General officers to com mands of divisions and departments, shall nothave the consideration hitherto conce ded to it. lam very respectfully your ob'lliservant, [Si gn ed] WINFIELD S. iiiNCOCK. Major-General United States Army. An Attack on Catholicism The following animated debate took place In the lower House of Congress on Thurs day on an amendment to the Diplomatic Appropriation bill, providing that a Minis ter resident should be sent to Rome. .. • . . Mr. Dawos said ho was opposed to the amendment, because none of the purposes for which Ministers were sent abroad, seemed to require it. The chief ground on which his colleaguo (Mr. flanks), urged his amendment, was that Rome was a spiritual power, but the only method of preserving peace and harmony with such a power WILY to abstain from all political connection with it. Mr. Brooks, of New York, remarked that the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Dawes) had developed the real sources of his opposition to the amendment in stating that his resistance arose from the fact that Rome was a spiritual power. This was the whole secret and source of the opposition. He was glad to have so frank an avowal from him made. The gentleman from Massachusetts did not hesitate at all to make appropriations for Turkey, which was almost altogether a spiritual power, and quite as spiritual as that of Rome, governed as much if not more by religious authority; and he show - ed by his assertion and his action that ho preferred the Moslem in point of tact to the Christian ; that in his mind Turkey was preferable to Rome. That WILY the whole source and foundation of the oppo sition which had sprung upon the other side of the House to the authority of Rome, because it was a spiritual power, ISM Homo was a temporal power as Well as it spiritual power, and there was noire busi. ness done with the city of Home through the artists of this country than there were with Costa Rica ur several other places to which ministers were allowed by this hill, and perhaps more than there Was with Greer°. He thought the gentleman flom :1\ eillthet.L4, Who represented the Puritanical element in the House, from which element this opposition sprung, ought to throw by, he himself 11th, his religious education, and look to higher motiVi, and intpuh, titan those which ho had suited h. the House. Nlr: - Atinghato. I regret very inueli that the gentleman from New York has ,1,11 lid ill replying to the objertions made to the proposed amendment, to impute to th, side of the I louse any ilispositbin to perse cute 'balloon avemint of the peculiar reieg ions notions entertained by the See of the Papal States. syllabus rei.taitly altera oil by the Pope is a deolaration of principles which I venture to say the gentleman Iron, New York thuleinot endorse :Ma h.nur LLILItItIg ILLS IRS/pi, It is all LILLeIIII4 1.0 tlt (L1'0(111111 of tS/LISISISII . C. it is till tuttrm p l 111 fetter the freedom of sliver lt. It is tin at tempt to letter the freedom of the press, Talk to me at this time of day :Moot hi b e i ng the patron of seienee laid the !milli, of art.. Why, sir, there is this day more of that genius which makes Illarhk• itself were the divine beauty of lire, more or that power to-day in lit Mg A inerica than ever was dreamed ..f I.t dead. l'uder the omnipotent pets . , of that it«, or, every tyrant, whether in ittelieon' of it, holds to-day the reins of 'tower it nth a tremulous amd unsteady trawl, lint! ilic day is nut far tiNtant when the spry 'Miele of that pew, shall ttiru to dust :net ashes before the iseisiliningtbrealli orig, solids cued public opiinoli of the t•i, ilizrJ o il.l, which declares for free ges er litilents, churches, free schools, free 1.... 111011. Mr. Dawes, in reply to NIP. I ',rook., at t(I he supposed it was tiece ,, ary Ln thal denial, to Misrepresent the opposite.. the :1111011.111ient.. lie i I Irweso hail cer tainly lint his opposition on no sale groniol as tin, peculiar religions tenets hold hy the power to Which this pr..• poSed to ho sent. lie then rect•rrt•cl by M Itrooks haring . belonged Ii the hi malting Order. Mr. Voorhis, tool: hi r. Dawes to task to :nuking the charge of It: it..w.11.,thing.,.. against Mr, Brooks, Nvell 1111ioving that that gentleman had nits! the charge three times in his presence. The gentleman from Massachusetts hod said that he hail not laid aside his religion, Lot it ht , had brought to the Ileum] any of the wisdom tvhicla the Saviour pre:wind on earth, :tn . ,' el' the charity or Christian forhearaitee, it hail not been strikingly exemplified. Tle• religion which he hail not laid toad,', lie presumed tvas that svilich he had inherited from his ancestors, who burned the witches in Massaelnisetts. Ile presumed that the reflected glitro or the burning convents, ! which the Know-nothings 5et...11 lire in Slate, in 185-1 and 18:d:, 'fins was an uul burstuttheuhf ii now-nothing spirit., which broke up convents and burned Catholic churches, and would have burned I 'athithisi themselves at the stake, as it burned flit. I witches or New England, had it dared to do I so. 'rile declarations of the gentleman From (Mr. Jinn:Ll:am) had not surprised him, for he had every rea.son to believe that that gentleman hail no friendship liar 1 'to Indic. or for the l'atholic. religion. Ile I I Air.. no reason to believe that, the charity tit * his heart ever extended to one of them in suf• hoeing or in sorrow. 'There was nothing in. his record, public or private., that would lead one to suppose that I 'atholtes were oL- Jec•ts or his cluirity or his kindness, and consequently he was not surprised 0o hear his lien . ° and bitter declamation against Itarllo. [ EXcitetliont.] 'l'llere NriLs no rea,ion. in Liu] past history - of Homo Nvlly this coun try should not hold diplomatic relations with her. It wits sit full of glory that children of the schools spol.it ul 11., and the ancient bald-headed professitrs spoke of it, riot the Hai:ails through the earth spoke of it. 'rho colitary of ricer.. and Clesar certainly commended itself st. far as history seas voneerned. It ivas it. present title, its religious aspect that sits arraigned and ...Heti, and the Amp clean government should be advertised all os er the earth, as sundering diplomatic rHa- Lions with a goverlilliMit lasause of its le ligiotis faith. Gentlemen on the other sett :night flatter theniselves,notv that they Imp the negro to take the place of the foreigner. In his own State it was already heralded ] "Let the Imtch go, let the Irish ; tie have got the negro iu their Net er had they lOred the foreigner, parth•iilai the foreigner of the Catholic faith. Bingham replied indignantly to Mr. Voorhees, and demanded to It Wow by what assumed or conferred authority that gen - tletnan undertook to say that he had never felt fur litanati ( ( Lain:tics any of that charity which was the glivittest of all the graces. Did that gentleman propose constitute hilliself his father conres.siir? Ind he preSlllrie to asstinie to himself the nine Lions of Peter, and to clutell in his hands the keys that wore to open ..r shut the gates of deliverance. Ile Wits lea as,. e that the poor were ever turned from los door empty. 3.1 r. Dawes, referring to Mr. Brooks, saitl Ito knew that he denial having ever been in in Know -Nothing Lodge, but that did not alter the fact of his having been an at Ive cute of the Know-Nothing doetrines. Mr. Itrooks. It Is not ,10. It is not lone [Excitement.] Mr. Dawes not noticing the interrilption, said that Brooks Mel imilurtaken Li, derive all the benefit from the I:laity-Noth ing orwtnizattion, idle keeping his head out of the water. An to the gentleman henna ( Vorhees,) aid his tall: I:htnit tile burning of Alassachusetts /II ell' and WitelleS, hit would 11,1 lie provolied into a I eply. was an old store all worn tll. Mr. Voorhees hi reply to r. Bingham, remarked that he 01r. Binghalm) had charged the Democratic side of the House with trying to gain votes by their position on this subject, and that in deliberative bodies, when blows are struek they lire to be returned. As to tho remarks of the gentleman fn.ie ISfassuchusetts, I Mr. Hawcs,) that the burn ing of Massachusetts convents was a,, old story, and that it did not lei prove time. When gentlemen representing 1•,1.1. munitics which had signalized their Intl ry in that way, came hero to put that big otry into practical union, he thought it 1.1, to remind them of their previous history. As to the syllabus, he said: " what c“ro for the syllabus, that the Pope of Home has promulgated for his followers. It is his right to do so, and it is their right to be lieve, and it is not my right to sit in judg• meat on them. Mr. Brooks, of New York, referring, to the charges of Know-nothingism, sail alai he had statist over and over again m the !louse that he never had been in a 11" w - nothing lodge—never had holongial to the Know-nothing party, never had advocated, its principles, never had believed in them, and had been journeying in foreign lands during a large part of 11w time cut Unit un happy agitatn.l. Mr. Hoar declared the statement as to the burning of witches in Mill,eleillli•eaA utterly false. NO woman had ever been burned at the stake within the limits of that State. Mr. Voorhees (excitedly). 'Phut in fmt true. Mr. Boar went on to say, that two hun dred and forty years ago, when the whole civilized world believed in witches, on the authority attic, (Ad Testainent, the Court, Of Massaglinsetls had even condemned and executed sonic) nineteen or twenty persons of both sexes ; hut it was also true, that first among civilized people the people id. . _ . Massachusetts had first seen the error. It was here the love of liberty a n d here intel ligence (sneering laughter on Übe Demo cratic side) that nrst exposed the error and and wickedness of punishing human be ings. For that the ministers of the (luspel, the jurors and the counsel had formed al most a repentant procession, and had asked pardon of God and of their neighbors for it. [More laughter on the Democratic sitlel. The distinguished Chief Justice Sewell had stood up in his place in church and ac knowledged the error, while his ,ontem porary, Sir Matthew halo, never saw the folly and wickedness of his proceeding in the Court of England. As to the burning of the convents in Massachusetts, that was the act of a mob. But what had Massa chusetts done? She had arrested, tried, sentenced and punished the criminals, anti the crime was no more to be imputed to her than any crime ever coMmitted within the limits of any eiVilized community. In conclusion, ho said it did not become the political friends of the men who had burn ed alive our soldiers at Fort Pillow, or of those men who had burned the Orphan Asylums at Now Yurk and had hung nu groes to lamp posts to talk of cruelties in past ages.: Before Mr. Hoar could finish his sentence Mr. Voorhees and several Democratie members were vociferating " Order I" and Mr. Voorhees exclaimed, at the top of his voice, and in a highly excited manner : "Every word he says is false, and he knows it." Mr. Stevens demanded that the offensive words be taken down and reported to the House. At this time many members were on
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