Lancaster 3ittelligencer. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1870 Tho San Domingo Job The San Domingo investigation has resulted in some very curious develop ments. A large number of papers and letters were produced before the com mittee, the most valuable of which is a protocol agreed upon last September and signed by General Babcock on the part of General Grant and by Gautier, Secretary of State, on behalf of San Do mingo. The first thing which strikes us in the document is that it is made between General Babcock, Aid-de- Camp of His Excellency General U. S. Grant, President &c. The idea of a treaty for the purchase of an island be ing entered into on the part of the United States by an Aid-de-Camp is re freshingly novel, particularly when we consider that the relations between the United States and San Domingo are perfectly peaceful. One naturally asks what is the use of keeping up an elaborate corps of civil representatives, such as Ministers, Consuls and Commer cial Agents in foreign States, if their functions are to be thus usurped by Mil itary Aides-de-Camp; and further, what i; there in the office of the Aid-de-Camp —whose duty has heretofore been consid ered to be to bear the orders of a General to his subordinate officers—which ren ders a lit and proper person to inakc a treaty on behalf of the United States? A nd then, why is the President styled in this treaty, "His Excellency General S. Grant, President, &c'."' We are aware that Grant, when he became Pres ident, refused or neglected to resign his oilier of General; but we were under the impression that he (lid not do It, be cause he believed that his inauguration :is President in itself vacated his COMllliti shin as General. But if this was his opinion we are totally unable to under stand why his " Aid-de-Canip," and apparently most confidential friend, should cause din to be styled in a State paper both General and l'resident? Can it lie that I :rant contemplates re-assum ing the office of General when he ceases to he President, and considers that he has but ceased to exercise its functions for a season, while he fills the higher position ? (living the President the title of General was evidently not 'all inadvertence upon the part of Gen eral Babcock, for he styles him self his Aid-de-('amp; and our Presi dents do not have such officers attached to their persons; their assistants are called Private Secretaries. At least this used In he the ease, but things SCUM (0 have got wonderfully mixed in the household of our present chief rider, whose Private Secretaries at the same time appear to till the different. posi tions or Clerks, Ushers, I ienerals, Mail Agents, and now even of Foreign M M isters. This Salt Doniiinv, treaty of I iratit's \V 11s 11, have 110011 a secret affair, to be kept :a; still us death until Congres:4 had 'wen - br.uglll into n proper frame of 111 . 111.1 to ratify the treaty; and the pro jeut would probably have been car ried through to the entire satisfaction of the conspirators, had they not carried things with too high a hand. They imprisoned an A inerhatti named I latch, beeause they {Vert , apprehensive he would oilllool their scheme. I'lle conimervial agent at San 1/inningo (Vila 1111 willing to permit this unjust lim pid:oilmen( of lii; comitryntan, and through tile e.ll . lrts nettle for his release, the whole scheme was brought 11l light. 'There is :1 ,ppf•ial llgreelllolll ()lady in till. 111,1.411 111111 tile paper should re main a seereet forever in ease the an nexation project failed of success; alit' Pre,ident Brant pledged Limsclf ill it 1.1)10;1./friptNeliii 111, iullneneo 1 1, oallo the idea of annexing San thitningo slit popular:mount the member:4a I . t,l,grczis I, ell,t111.• iti filli , oWilll4 is the remarkable lan yowl, 411 . protiwoi recording tLis plcilgy : 4 . ,/. II i, ,o 1 the States, pr ,r ' er(rlq 1 , . 11, 11(1 Ili': i1111110 • 11,' , Ord , Nml 11, 4in iv rtmi the 1: ,. - roblei• I,i th, 1 ',Wed .S7 , elr, ~,ty,re,rtire• s,ch rlylre• fr t0e,,?!1 mr•nolocrs ui (1, if 111 . ne,,Sal . ll /Or it, 01 . 1 . 1,11- rll lnn , vd, roillir el!roi..s to met I, t . 11 , , COI/01111- )1:1 , 1 1,, Ihell l , odq o, the ~,ivect matt /H. .A.,11 i . l•e gill lii ~,,p,,vot Lq Elie//. I , under I hat ir twitho.r of the Irises referred to shall earried into effect, they , hall be regard ed a, mill and of 110 value or f,' roe, and they ,ial I, throtluivotit all time, pre4erve their eharaeter inviciable seerecy. In accordance kith the pledge here (runt is using all his influence idol power to force through this annex ation ,scheme; but lie will miserably fail. I lonoralthi Senators, much as they may Lc willing to do to hand: in the favor it( those in authority, can ant stoop so low as to endorse this now thoroughly exposed job, with whieli it is proven that the President of the United ~tales is so ili.loinitraltly connected. I)ceds t lark ties. shun the light, and Ito amount argument or \Odle washing with 0011- 1),,j)1t , that this Seurct prcjeet Wa-11 ,, 1 a scheme conceived in iniquity to enrich it-t projectors. The Comuesslonal Elections In Penns) I Thi- i- emphatically what is called "an 4.llyear" in Pennsylvania polities. Por the first time since frail there trill be no State tie1:01 in the field, and the ;quid will he purely a local ; unless Congress, as it lull' talk-, of doing, increases the total 11U111- bur of IllelliberS Of the next 1 [wise of Itepresentativc.: to :MO, iu which rate I', 11 trould he entitled to f•uur 1/I . llVe adllitiOnal 1110111LerS, Who WoUlti probably have to be elected at large on a. State liela•l at the election this ; Lul we 111, not think that there is any great likelihood of this increase being In ulc,ll least to affect the next Pon gees;. The fUel 1101 V appOrtioll - of the State is to be made by the next L e gislature will give considerable importance to the contests for State Senators nut Pt;presentatires, but neither that our the Cottgresion al elections hi the Districts will call .mt, n full vote. Each party may expel M fall oil• largely Iron' the vote pMhal la-1 fall, and not even the negro vote eau swell the Itadic•al poll to any thing like that given toliovertmr (Mary. The infamous and unequal apportion wont ()f the State will prevent the l)e- mocre• . v front electing as many mem bers of Congress and the l-itate Legisla ture :ts they are justly entitled to, but 1.11( , y ..:111 redeem numerous districts which have been tarried against them if they make a vigorous and united court. The present Pennsylvania del gation in Congress consists of IS Republicans and G Democrats. If the state were fairly districted the delega tion would be evenly divided between the two parties, the difference between them in numbers not being sullieient to entitle either to claim the preponder ance ~fa , inglemonther. Positiveproof ~1 that WaS to be found in the State election of 1555, when each party put out its full strength. The vote then stood Itepublican 331,005, Democratic 321,201. The difference was still less last fall. The Democracy can not expect to elect as many members of Congress as they are entitled to at the coming elec tion, but they can carry several of the districts which are now represented by Radicals. THE Rept/bile:Ill 1)111)(31.6 are eagerly rlprodueing some testimony of one J. F. Jaquess, taken before some Congres liional Smelling Committee a long while ago, in which he charges that ex-Presi- dent Buchanan was disloyal in 1804. 'Phis story deserves no further notice from us than to remind our readers that this Jatiuess, who prefixes the term Rev. to his came, was during the war the paid spy, at the same time, of both Abe Lincoln and Jeff Davis, and per jured himself to both of them. After the war he was imprisoned for seducing a young lady, and then killln her by 411 attempted abortion, • Butler's Exposure Everybody knows that Ben Butler is one of the most unscrupulous and dis honest men in the world, but it is not always that his schemes are so fully ex posed to the pnblievlew as has been the plan by which he stole $2,000 from the Smith and Wesson pistol man.— General Farnsworth, who laid out Ben . Butler so cold in the House on WedneS day, may not be better than his victjm, but nevertheless the country is under obligations to him for showing Butler up in his true colors. The Honorable Butler it seems keeps a vigilant eye upon the Pat Ont Office and 'when he sees a valuable patent about to expire, he writes to the Commissioner of Pat ents to suggest " that the patent be not renewed without careful examination." The patentee is then told by the Com missionef of Patents that Mr. Butler, an influential member of Congress, has in timated to him that it may not be ad visable to renew the patent. The poor fellow in great alarm goes to see Mr. Butler to know what is the matter; when the Honorable member of Con gress gives him to understand that if his professional services are secured, he feels confident that he can secure a re issue of his patent. Mr. Butler pockets 2,000 as the result of his labor ; and the labor consists in writing the letter be fore mentioned to the Commissioner of Patents, directing his clerk to file a fools cap sheet of writing in the Supreme Court, and—most important but most illegitimate of all—making a speech In support of the patent on the floor of Congress. The Honorable Ben claims that he got the fee of 52,000 for arguing the case in the courts; but the fact is that he never argued it at all in any court. He does nut attempt to explain why he wrote to the Commissioner of Patents, warning him not to extend the patent and how he happens afterwards to be found for a consideration of $2,000, ad vocating the extension which in his great regard for the interests of the United States he had volunteered to protest against. . . The Honorable lien is an unmiti gated scoundrel, and the facts as devel oped in this case conclusively show that the opinion which the peo ple have long entertained of his character is just and true. He was a robber at New Orleans and he is a thief now; and it is to the everlasting disgrace of the Republican party that it should have a num for leader and chief advocate such as he has been repeatedly proved to be. It is a disgrace to the civili zation of the country that such a man should be allowed to be in high position in its government, and the fact that he is the main-stay and strong reliance of the administration in the lower House will cause the people to look with ad ditional distrust upon the motives and conduct of President (lrant,and will still further incline them to believe in the venality and corruption which is charg ed upon him in connection with his course as to the Cuban rebellion and the projeetvil acquisition of San Domingo, which course has its chief advocate in Butler. In Trouble The E.-press is netting into trouble with the Republicans of the eounty, be c•ause of the free trade opinions to which it has been lately giving expression. A Republican meeting uvls held in the Town Ifall of Columbia on Saturday evening, which was addressed by a number of prominent Radicals iu ad vocacy of a high protective tariff The speakers handled the Efelf without gloves turd oddly enough, did not seem to have the slightest idea that its opin ions were honestly entertained. They credited them to the contaminating in fluence of "British gold" meaning there by that theconductorsolthat excessively honorable journal hail been bribed by the Free Trade League. 'The Columbia Radicals intimate that they had been negotiating With the E.(7n•rs.c to advo cate a high tariff for a consideration, but that the Free Trade League had over topped their offer. deduce this front the declaration 40,1. EaUirillall that the proprietors of the t.'xifrc...a had struck a balance sheet to ascertain the exact pro fit of the different connections, and the result fit' it was that they determined to " pitch in" for free trade. It seems natural that the Columbia Radi cals. having a more accurate knowledge of the value of the influence exercised by our cotemporary than could be ob tained by persons residing outside the eounty, should not be willing to pay as much for it as might be offered by strangers. But we are inclined to think that Col. Kauffman has been slander ing the Free Trade League, if not the Expres,; for we have no reason to be lieve that the former association would bribe anybody, or that if they did, they would pay out their money for a value less commodity. Grant Fears An Investigation After the Semite hail decided to in vestigate the serious charges of corrup tion in regard to the San Domingo trea ty, a meeting was held at the Executive mansion at which a number of Senators and others interested in the project were present. After a close conference it was decided to make an effiirt to prevent the investigation, General I hieing bit terly opposed to it. If there is nothing wrong about the proposed treaty, why all this opposition to an investigation trant would not shrink from an exami nation of the matter if there was noth ing wrong about it. The fact that he quails ut the thought of all investiga tion is good o'llsoll for believing that the transactions of himself and Cabinet will not bear the light. That this treaty is a big job, in which corrupt specula tors have an interest is now the prevail ing, opinion, and the public mind is fast being led to believe that Grant is in complicity with a gang of fellows who desire to plunder the public. treasury. If he is not, why should he fear all in vestigation No Amnesty The other day, just after the Radicals in the lower Ilouse of Congress had pushed through a bill designed to ren der it more difficult for white emigrants M be naturalized, Mr. Stokes, of 'Ten nessee, offered a general Amnesty bill restoring the white people of the South to their rights as ch izens. This humane and statesmanlike proposition was summarily voted down by the Republi cans. When it is remembered that Mr. Stokes has been noted for his bitter hos tility to the rebel element in the South the presentation of such a ',.ineasure by him is calculated to excite surprise. He knows and feels that the disfran chisement of while men in the South is working ruin to the States which have been given up to the control of carpetbaggers, scalawags and negroes ; and knowing that lie is ready to forget the past, and to restore the whites to the full right of citizenship. Titi: Radicals are already trembling in their shoes at the certainty of defeat that awaits them in the next Presi dential election, and their newspapers are canvassingthe chances of the Demo cratic candidates. One thinks "Chief Justice Chase the most promising can didate in point of capacity." "Hancock would be strong." "Groesbeck and Pendleton, of Ohio, and Hendricks, of Indiana, will make a strong show." "Governor Hoffman, of New York, seems to be the coming man." "Thur man will be the choice of " Ohio." Gen. McClellan is being worked as a candi date" &c., &c. If these impatient Radi cal newspaper men will wait about two years, the Democratic National Conven tion Will resolve their doubts and plabe before the people, without Radical as sistance,a candidate whose name will be the death-knell to their present pecula lions and future hopes, and whose elec tion will put a stop to' their gigantiC swindles and outrageous despotism. THE MA_NCA.STEII WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1870. The Competition of Railroads. There is at present great competition between the Pennsylvania Railibad and the Erie and Central Railroads of N EiVi; York, forthe trade : between the.'City of New York and the ; West, which is re= suiting in the adoption , of extremely low freight and passenger rates, and very great increase in thespeedof trains. We notice by the newspapers that the Pennsylvania road: , proposes to run a train through from New York to Chica go in twenty-four hours. In this con test for the securing of through business, the local interests along the line of our own road, and probably those along the other roads, are severely suffering.— Trains are driven at a fearful and reck less speed across our highways and through our crowded cities, without thought or care of the peril they are causing. Philadelphia, Lancaster and other large places along the road are passed by without stopping, no solici tude being felt to accommodate the pop ulation of these places, which by their locution have no choice but to give their trade to the road, and to accept any terms and use any trains which may be condescendingly vouchsafed to them. We cannot think it right that the Di rectors of the Railroad should refuse to grant to the trade along its line, upon which its prosperity mainly depends, but which it has at its mercy, the same facilities which it concedes to other places, for whose trade it is compelled to compete with rival lines. We express ed this opinion not long since to Vice President Dubarry, of the Northern Central road, who thought that there was no soundness in it, but on the contrary expressed the opinion that every Penn sylvanian Should be proud that the Pennsylvania Railroad was able to com pete with the New York roads for the trade of New York and should be will ing to do all in their power to aid it in making as speedy time between New York and the Northwest as do the roads witidt traverse the State of New York. And why so? Why should we be proud of our own undoing . ? Why should we rejoice that trains run through our State at lightning speed conveying New York passengers and not stopping at our large towns tit take up Pennsylvania passen gel's? Philadelphia, the chief city of our State, and hi whose prosperity we feel a natural State pride, used to be the East ern terminus of the Pennsylvania Rail road, and as such received all the benefit which would naturally accrue to the depot of this great artery of commerce; but now New York has robbed it of touch of this advantage and there is too much truth in the reproach which is east upon Philadelphia, that it is situated on a siding of the Pennsylvania Rail road. Should we be proud of this?— Lancaster, the earliest friend and an im portant feeder of the trade of the Penn sylvania road, is likewise treated by it with little consideration in the carrying out of its policy of grasping at the trade of the whole country ; and we decline to be proud that we are trodden upon. We are proud of the Pennsylvania Railroad, because of its location and because it is a noble read, by far the best of the four main lines that connect the East with the West; but we are not proud of the management which gives to citizens outside of the State ad vantages and facilities superior to those which it concedes to Pennsylvanians, and expects the latter to submit to the injustice loccause of their Mate pride in the road. We cannot be proud of a policy, the effect of which is to build up towns outside' of our Stale, at t h e ex tense of business communities in it ; we think the latter have a right to expect from their iiWll road a fostering care, which will moreover eventually re dound to the benefit of both parties. The Pennsylvania Railroad has not only branched its main line to New York to secure a trade which naturally would flow wad by the New York roads, but in concert with the 'Northern Cen tral, it is now extending a strut I l •ont Baltimore to \Vashington, :old even as fa r South 115 Richmond, to obtai n egS which naturally belongs lu the Baltimore and I tl,io and other simthern roads. The policy which induces it to send out its roots so wide, for the sus tenance of the main trunk, may be a shrewd:mil prolital,le ; we certainly shall be• glad to see the road get all the business which the energy of its mana gers can obtain for it, so long as iu get ting it, they do uo injury to interests which it is the duty of the road to care for, and so long as they give to their old patrons all the facilities which they oiler to their new. There is justification for the etliirt of the road to obtain additional business to that which their location naturally gives them. All our ,great railroads received a forced growth and impetus during the war; and 110 W that it is aver, they find themselves possessed of all amount of rolling stock awl other facilities suffi cient to enable them to do a greater bus iness than is at present furnished by the localities which it is the special mis sion of each to provide for; and so they seek to grasp each other's trade. Itut it seems to us that in the end it would be the wiser polio• for each road to confine itself to the accommodation of its own special trade, and to seek to build up ;thing its line by reasonable rates of freight and otherwise, manufactories and other business industritis, which in the future will provide it with a certain and over-increasing income. Cuba In the C. S. Senate The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations do not agree with President Grant in his views (m the Cuban question It will be remembered that the House, a few days ago, adopted an exceedingly mild.resolution relative to Cuba, which did not mean anything in particular; being induced to do so contrary to its real convictions, by a message front the President, in which he took strong ground against the recognition of Cuban independence. The Senate does not seem to be equally under the thutnb of the President, for its Committee has unani mously in troduced a series of resolutions as a substitute for the House resolution, which protest against the conduct of the war in Cuba, demand the inimediate abolition therein of slavery and declare that the United States regrets to witness the extraordinary efforts of Spain, through violence and blood, to main tain an unnatural jurisdiction in Cuba. \ itirry.mottE has again come to grief and has been refused admission to a seat in the House of Representatives notwith standing a majority of 5,000 of his sable constituents in SonLii Carolina endorsed his conduct and declared him to be their worthy representative. This is a very emphatic declaration on the part of the Radical members of ( 'ungress, that their negro friends in Carolina don't know enough to determine who is lit to be a member of Congress; but it is decided ly inconsistent with their cherished belief that the negro is lit to be en trusted with tic right of suffrage, with which they have succeeded in invest ing him. 'fins House of Representatives on Friday, after a spirited contest over the Georgia bill, which was pretty much the same in detail as those that had preced ed it en the same subject at various stages of the present session, agreed on a bill to admit the state to representa tion at once in Congress; to repeal all laws prohibiting the organization of the militia, and to declare that the bill shall not be construed so as to prevent au election, as provided by theconstitution of said state. This leaves the status of the present Legislature still an open one for itself and the courts to decide, and is in effect a perpetuation of what is known as the Bullock Legislature in Georgia. An amendnient for a new election this fall was lost by Some forty majority. The bill now goes back again to the senate, Amos ! T. ACKERMAN has, been con firmed:by:the Senate as Attorney Gen eral ot:the United States.: Coming, A%Yankee manufacturer of shoes -at Noirth Adams, Mass., has imported' a hundred • Chirnfese workmen. He was moved.,to; take this step beeause his former employees, who belonged to a Trade Union, refused to work at a re duced rate of wages and combined to gether to maintain their position. The employer immediately sent an agent to California, who soon returned with the hundred Celestials. The experiment is said to be working well; the Chinese showing themselves to be very quick at acquiring a knowledge of the work they are expected to do, and in a few weeks many of them are expected to excel in skill the old workmen. ' The Superintendent of a Southern Railroad now in course of construction has just telegraphed to Koopmanschap & Co., the Chinese importers of San Francisco, to send him fifteen hundred Chinese to be employed as laborers on the railroad. So that the Chinese immigration into the Easteru States seems now to have really commenced and as the experiment of their employment seems to bid fair to be successful, the movement will proba bly increase in magnitude and we may reasonably expect before long to have this foreign people domiciled in large numbers in every section of the country. They will come amongst us_to be em ployed chiefly as laborers and servants ; and the qualities which will make them valuable are their cheapness, their d ocili ty, and their willingness to work. Into the skilled branches of labor, we do not expect that they will enter ; they come here with the expectation of staying but a few years, and gathering together the small amount of money which will enable them to live at ease in their na tive country ; when they have got this they will go home again to enjoy their competence and lay their bones in the sacred soil of China. The contracts which tln enter into are all for a short term of years, and provide that at the end of their period of service, they shall be provided with a free passage home. It will not therefore pay to learn them a trade Which it will take them several years to attain a competent knowledge of, inasmuch as too large a proportion of their short period of service will be consumed before their labor becomes profitable. The North Adams shoe manufacturer does not intend to use those that he has imported in the branches of his business requiring high ly skilled labor; in these lie gets along with a small number of white workmen who have stood by him. It is difficult to say what will be the effect upon the country of the introduc tion into it of this new population. If these people came to stay and settle dow n and marry among us, we should be in clined to say that it would be far better for us that they should stay away; for we are bitterly opposed to the inter mingling of the white with inferior races ; and the Chinese are inferior to us, at least physically, and moreover are of entirely different habits of life. We have suffered from this mingling of to tally different races, in the imposition upon us and the elevation to equality with us of the inferior African race, and we are destined to suffer still more. We therefore want no more inferior foreign races domiciled among us and inter mingling their blood with ours to the great detriment and degradation of fu ture races of Americans. The redeeming feature of lids Chinese immigration, therefore, in the view we at present take of it, is the fact that the immigrants propose to sojourn but tem porarily among us and du not intend to raise their family altars upon our soil. They have IM ambition to become citi zens of our country nor will they take advantage of the privileges we have given them in the Fifteenth Amend ment to place Chinese rulers over us They do not wish to sit under their own vine and fig-tree in this barbarous land ; they simply design to pay us an extend ed visit ; but during their sojourn with us they will work in our vine-yards and saving up the moderate share of the profits of their labor which we give them, will go to their own country to spend it, finding that a dollar there will buy as much as would tt hundred here. The money will go out of the country it is true; but the inure valuable results of their labor will stay with us. BuTi.mt hue been guilty of an other oll'enee; this time it has the aspect of a forgery. It seems the Hon. Sam. Randall told the Hon. lien., during a speech the latter was making in the house the other day, that lie was not honest. The Iron. lien afterwards got hold of the manuscript report of the reporter fur the Globe to revise his speech, and undertook to revise Ran dall's by striking it out altogether; liberty which the proprietors of the WO( say is without precedent. The het. Butler seems to be a law unto himself. Tut: United States Senate has adopted an amendment to the tax bill striking out the income tax altogether by a vote of :14 to f;. If the liiuse of Representa tives CWICUIS in this action, which is probable, the collection of the income tax will cease at the end of this year, as the tax by a limitation contained in the present law expires the 31st of De cember, weekly L/ o published by Taylor and Foster, in' the thriving town of Charlottesville, Va., comes to us this week enlarged to double its former size. It is now a nine column paper, and claims to be the largest sheet in Vir ginia. The ('bromine is a good paper, published by very clever gentlemen, under the shadow of Monticello and of the University of Virginia; we wish it the success which the enterprise of its conductor , amply merits. Ohio Congressmen The probabilitic; are strong that lien. Morgan, Judge Van Trump, Mr.:Sir:Mei . and Judge Dickinson will be re-nom inated in their respective districts for re-election this fall. They have served their constituency with rare fidelity and deserve the compliment which will be accorded them. In Mr. Mungen's dis triotthere are several candidates an xions to be his successor. R. SA:urso.N, the North Adams (Mass.) :shoe manufacturer, who he. ported aml now employs coolies in his factory, is an avowed protectiouist. lie is in favor or a high tariff un shoes to protect Chinese industry. lie thinks, however, that free trade in coolies ought to lw allowed. THE bill for tie al nn,sion Ge,:rgia passed by the II oust , on Friday. Section I. Be it enacted, That the State of f leorgia having complied with the recon struction acts, and the fourteenth and fif teenth articles of amendment to the Consti tution of the United States having been rat ified ill good flab by a legal legislature of said Slate, it is hereby declared that the State of I,:eiirgia is entitled to representation in the Congress ,if the United Slates ; but nothing in this :wt contained shall be con strued to deprive the people of 6 ieorgia of the right aim election for members of the general assembly of said State, as provided for in the Constitution of said State. Section 2. That so much of the act enti tled an act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending rote 30, 1668, and for other purposos, ap proved March 2, 18fiT, as prohibits the or ganization, arming, and callinginto service of the militia forces in the States of Georgia, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia, be and the same is hereby repealed. From Wi.lsimrton The British Government having an nounced to the. Secretary of State the death of the Earl ofClarendon, the President di rected a message of sympathy and regret to be transmitted through our Ivlinister at Loudon. The following despatch was therefore sent by telegraph to Mr. Motley: DEPARTIIENT OF STATE, Washington, June 27, 1770. Mr. Motley ' Minister at London: The death of the Earl Of Clarendon re moves a statesman whose fame belongs to the world, whose loss be felt by other nations than that in whose behalf he labor ed for the advancement of eiyililation and in the interests of peace. The President tenders the sympstby the United States to bar Najesty and to the Brltistrpeople, and condolence to those to whom the loss brings personal grief . . htAIfILTOR FISH. =El= Governor Geary is absent from Har risburg In the Western part of the State. Grass sold near West Chester, on Wednesday last, at from $7 to $l3 per acre. Shippensburg is to have a State Nor-, mal School, and the ground for Its erec- , tions has been already secured. - One hundred and twenty-eight re emits left Harrisburg, yesterday, for Omaha. There were two cases of stabbing in the borough of York, last week, but nobody killed. There was a heavy hail storm at Oak ville, Cumberland "county, on Sunday evening. Extensive damage was sus tained by the grain. The rebuilding of Aston Terrace," the magnificent hotel recently destroy ed by fire, at Downingtown, is to be immediately commenced. The ill'.tiair oil well at West Hickory fills a four hundred barrel tank in forty eight hours. When forced it will pump ten barrels per hour. Joe Jefferson, the well known flip n Winkle actor, will summer at his arm in Paradise valley in this State. He will take his dog Schneider along. Of eight prisoners at present confined in the Mercer county jail, five are wo men. "Women's rights" flourish in that excellent institution. Thenumber of deaths in Philadelphia for the week ending Saturday, June 23, was 320. There were 7 deaths from re lapsing fever, and 19 from scarlet fever. Lewis Hopper, of Allentown, has not been seen since Monday last. At that time he was drunk and had with ii in a silver watch and $25 in money. The remains of S. J. Koontz, a notice of whose death appeared in our columns, have been taken to the residence of his mother, in York county. Mr. Henry Backenstose, of Shieffers town, Lebanon county, was kicked by a horse in the abdomen, week before last, from the effects of which he died. What answer? If Andrew Johnson had nominated a rebel officer for his Attorney General, what would Congress have said and done about it? A. Philadelphia gentleman is anxious to buy one-half of the bell on Bev. Al bert Barnes' church, so that he may have the right to smash his half of it into smithereens. The Fulton County Republican Con vention met on Saturday, and resolved in favor of the nomination of John Cess na for Congressman, and S. I'. Wishart, for Representative. F. H. Braggins, Esq., of the Mercer Dispatch, was recently thrown from a buggy, fracturing his skull and inflict ing a dangerous and probably fatal in jury. Mrs. Frick, the wife of John P. Frick, Esq., of York borough, was struck with paralysis on - Wednesday last, and is now lying, at her residence, in rather a critical condition. The machine shop and blacksmith shop, connected with the works of E. and G. Brooke, at Birdsboro, Barks county, were destroyed by fire on Tues day night. 'rho depot at Mt. Carmel, Schuylkill county, was entered by burglars on Thursday night, the 16th inst., and rob bed of a barrel of whiskey, a barrel of flour, and sundry other articles. Bill Carney, a modern Republican, got shot and killed by a jealous negro of the same party, in Philadelphia, on Satur day last, for interfering with a colored wench at a fancy ball. Jealousy was the cause. It is a fact worthy of mention that W. 1). Kelly and John Cessna are amongst the few who voted for the admission of the cadetship-peddler, Whittemore, to a seat in Congress yes terday. On Monday evening,the 13th inst., an interesting little child of Peter Rhoads, of Bottstown, York county, drew a cup of hot coffee from the table upon its person, which produced painful and 'night have been fatal results. The Democrats of Indiana county will hold their convention on Saturday next and will unanimously instruct for Hen ry D. Foster, who was elected two years ago and defrauded of his seat by the in- famous cadet broker, Covode. Mrs. Faust, who was so brutally beat en by her husband on Monday, the 13th inst., at Wernersville, Berks county, died yesterday, about noon, front the injuries received at his hands. He is now in jail awaiting a trial for the crime. Judge John A. Conyngham, of lu zerne county, in a conununication to the ;Serail ton Republican, announces to the people of that county that he has forwarded his resignation to the Gover nor, to take effect on the Bth of July. Dr. M'Clellan, a new Radical candi- date, is contesting the Senatorial chances in Chester county. The prominent can didates now are Pomeroy, Evans, Pen nypacke r and M'Clel lan. Roberts, Dar- Ii midon and Keeeli, the old members are all candinates for re-nhmination. There are now c/ile hundred and seventy inmates :it the Chester county Alms House. The number has not been as small during the last live years. There are large numbers cif "trainpers," who stop over night, or fora day or two at a time—mostly foreigners. The Allentown Dento,rul statc:i that the Rev. E. 11. Warner, of Texas, who, it will be remembered, made several appeals in this city for aid for his suffer ing family, is an impositor, the fact having been discovered in New Jersey, where he was lecturing. As George Miller, a carpenter, resid ing in Pottstown, was sawing:a piece of lumber with a circular saw, the timber turned on top of the saw, and was thrown off with great force, striking Mr. Miller in the lower part of the stomach, and producing such serious internal injuries that death ensued. On Friday evening last, a man by the ntune of \Vm. Boden, a miner in the Hartford slope, at Nanticote Junction, while "attending foot" was struck in the head by a large piece of coal and in stantly killed ; the man working near him alleges that the coal rolled front an ascending car. Prof. John A. Light, the teronaut, made his one hundred and fourth bal loon ascension, from the Court House, Carlisle, on Saturday afternoon last. The greatest elevation he attained, was 5000 feet. He descended safely about three miles irom the starting point, after having been in the air thirty-two min utes. Bennett & Lear, of West Chester, dis posed of their Early Rose and other pota toes last week at 20 cents per bushel. A nursery firm of the same place, sold 2011 bushels of the Early Rose at 1°.4 cents per bushel. This firm raised three thousand bushels of this variety last year, and ut the time they were planted, they were worth front S 3 to Sid per pound. On Monday morning, the 2oth the 8:::u train leaving Tamaqua, on the Little Schuylkill Railroad, ran over a girl named Annie Jones, who was walk ing on the track, between the depot and foundry in that borough. The left arm was so badly lacerated that it was found necessary to amputate the same at the shoulder joint. 'the public noose on the t:ettysburg turnpike, in Jackson township, York county, owned and kept by Mrs. Sarah Spangler, was entered by some prowl ing villains on Monday morning, the 12th inst., before daylight, and a num ber of hams, and other provisions car ried off. They also helped themselves o Isegars and some of the liquor at the bar John Y. Woodward, of East Fallow fichl, Chester county, having suiferol serious loss from sonic ine , Ognit'o, in his hen roost, set a wolf trap, the other eve ning, in hopes of catching the intruder. The next morning on repairing to the hen-roost, he settled the fate of a large coon which measured d feet -I inches in length, and 1:i inches across the shoul der,. Mr. Arundus Tiers, a well-known cit izen or Philadelphia, W :Li run over and illed,Wednesday afternoon ,about three o'clock by a train on the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, near Wayne Statian. Mr. Tiers was quite advanced in years. It is supposed that he became exhausted while walking along the road and fell across the track but a few minutes be fore a frehrht train coining east reached this point. During last winter Mrs. Catharine Kennedy, of New London,Chester coun ty, who is in the 75th year of her age, sawed and split two curds of hickory wood for the stove, and shelled about 'NU bushels of corn with a spade. She is a widow and is quite strong andautive with the exception of occasional attacks of rheumatism. She is the owner of a farm, and does this work front choice and not from necessity. A fine old lady Mrs Kennedy must be, and very con venient to have about the house.. Mr. Aleander W. Blackburn, the Fire garshal of Philadelphia, one of the most energetic and valuable officers of the City Government, has tendered his resignation to Mayor Fox. The rea son assigned for this course is that the condition of his health is such as to mak,a him AP longer able to'disch‘arge the duties of the position with justice to the public,or satisfaction to hitrtself. The resignation has not yet been accepted, the Mayor haying he'd the subject under advisement for severnl days past, OUR BUNDLE OF NOTHINGS Thinking vs. linos's-lug "This world's n bubble, all things show It, Once I thought so, now I know It." There is a mighty difterence between thinking we are right,. and knowing we are right--fhinkingiwe are wrong, and knowing we are wrong-th inking that we seen thing, and knowing that Ike see it—thinking that wo understand a problem, and knowing that we understand it. The brief address of the old Quaker, on this subject, is very significant, and embraces a volume in a nut-shell. "Young folks think old-folks fools, but old-folks know young-folks fools." Youth, backed with wealth and in telligence starts out into the world, pre snmpteously thinking it knows everything necessary to succeed and make a splurge in it, and at the close of a long life, of perhaps "dear bought" experience, it final ly concludes that it knew nothing when it started out, and even when its race is suc cessfully run, it is forced to acknowledge, that there are many things it knows very imperfectly. Of course this result will be in proportion, as to whether it has been practical, or only theoretical, in its acquisi tion of knowledge—as to whether it has been satisfied with thinking that things are so and so, or in knowing that they are, or are not. A man may commit perfectly to memory a whole learned disquisition on the art of swimming—may know all about his own specific gravity, the specific gravity' of water, and the buoyant and supporting relations they bear to each other—may be acquainted with all the muscular powers of his physical sys tent, and their propelling and retarding forces, all the laws of action and reaction, and of velocity and resistance, and yet may not be able to swim ; and if he has never swam himself, he practically knows noth ing about the art of swininiingomd is great ly at odds with the most illiterate bump kin, who can .fermi—who has swam.— Thodistinet ions between thin king and know ing become manifest—sometimes painfully manliest—in regard to the "bubbles" of this world; fur, although the world itself, as God gave it—distinct from the perver sions of human society—may not be a bub ble, yet in our life's experiences we often painfully realize that there are inany hub tiles in it—bubbles that are daily exploding all around us, if we have eyes to see them, and ears to hear them. In our youthful sheen we play with these bubbles, like a kitten does with a ball of thread. We only think them bubbles, and when we indul g e in a thing from tnere thinking, we do it with the mental reservation that it now be so and so, and it may not be so and so. But when, like the kitten, 'co have unwound the ball, and our hands and feet have be come entangled in a labyrinth of almost inextricable threads, we then know that we have been playing with it bobble—if it does not turn out a glittering and de ceptive bauble. The reason there are so many bubbles in this world is, per haps, because so many people are always looking for them, and whatever they are always and affectionately looking for, they are likely, ultimately, to tied; because other "sharper" votemporaries, know they I are looking for therm and hence the de mand is always supplied. It' we looked with half the patience and perseverance, for the solid and substantial things of this world, that we do for its bubbles, we per haps would also tied them ; innd when found, this same patience and perseverance would enable us to determine whether we know we have found them, or whether we only think we have. IMbliles, it is presu mable, are permitted for some use which they may perform in man's moral and ex perimental economy. By them he may be enabled to make a just comparison between the bituginary and the rl".li-11, =IIII!IIMIIIIMITIMMIIII between the elevating and the depressing —the ennobling and the degrading—the knowing and the merely thinking that he knows—and this is a very important "stick — in our I.lnolle j nulhingN, and be comes transmuted into something. BELLE- V Ew. Ftor tht• Intvlllgt•nt•cr. fesxes. Edihiexi—The duties of my of hoe called me fur a few Oily,: about fifteen miles Southward from the city, within the limits of ilartie biwhship. It WI. a plea sant and must exhilerating rile, Whivh Brought me among, uyer and :U . Ollllll the lMartie Your city " lops" of indoor tug and toil, need not he envied in their suripti,ed more favoralde situation, by those wintry " nods" of the river district. Your genial townsman, ❑;en. ucurge M. Steinman, Las sho‘vii much good ta,,te and sound cultivated feeling for the beauties of nature, in selecting fur his country resi dence a place in this pictir - esque seetion of the eountry. Here are blended hill allhi dale, light and shade. wood and field, and every variety ~(f natural licanty that the imagination could picture, nece , sarv" to make a place of beau ty and delight. I fere, in every half-toil,', you are thrown into eestaeies of joy , at the sight of crystal springs and dancing streams. Through the kindness of my warm friend 11r. Thomas Robinson, I was conveyed 1 from the city and around to my points of engagement. The people of this district aro kind, liberal, industrious and ; ani I had the pleasure of preaching on last Sabbath, to large and attentive au dicnees, nt Spring Valley Hall in the learn ing at In o'clock, and in the Brick Church of Mount Nebo, in the afternoon at 1 o'clock, where I expect to preach again on the 17th of July, at the same hours in both places. Though this section is regarded by the farmers of Perinea Valley as rather a poor district, yet I will be very much mistaken if the Martie farmers not reap a better crop of grain this season than their friends of the lower lands. The wheat in the more rich lands is more damaged by the late rains and wet weather, than that located higher. The general judgment seems to be that the wheat crop will scarcely be an average one. But I ant sure that Marti(' and Con estoga townships will have the best yield and quality of wheat the present season of ally I have vet seen. And the finest corn now growing can lie seen between this city and Conestoga Centre. In travelling through the river district of Mantic township, your eyes are delighted with the picturesque scenery and magnill ' cent views. the liright, lively and striking Susquehanna ean lie t hh i cleat . , waters on, from almost every hill lop. At one time you look c rll,o cot and see its 'meld surface by Turkey Hill up to C0[11111163 allth Marietta; and atraill pill look southward and see its iv:detest surface at Peachbottom. Tlitis alternately as you pass over the hills you hale thinhoh „yieWS. The spire. of the church steeples of Lancaster can ads, seen from nearly every elevation, :gel the whole landscape exhibits the most agreeable beauty, strik ing the mind with great power a n d pleas ure, and filling the imagination with the m os t e lev a tin g CaHrus and lie thin oiilll, that a ramble over these hills will not benefit, and cause to catch higher th,,t2:llt , of Living w i sdom, pc.l) , or and go,,dne , ,. .1. V. E. June ddil, 1,70. De.truetion of the Rending Railroad l'ompuny'm Cur Shops—A. Building 700 by 160 Feel in Extent In Ruins—Three Million Feel of 1.111116er Horned-I.w. $llO,OOO. IlEioixti, J11111'26.-111, ino.t disa.f rein.; conflagration that ever visited tin , . cit\ tool: place thiß iimrning, involving the entire 4 1, s trurtion or the incur and extensive ear shops nl the Heading Itail road,t'unipanv. t,ll North Sixth ,treet. The lire originated in an oil and cotton-wa,te closet situated about the centre of the ,vorks. Shortly before three o'clock, the the was discovered by a watchman, wh o gu y, t h e alarm, but in half an hour the entire build ing was enveloped. The Ste IpS Were erect ed in 1803, and were the finest in the coun try, being 710 by 108 tent, walls of ston e spanned by three roofs of slate, and cost about $llO,OOO. They contained wood plaining, cutting, and dressing machinery of the newest and most improved pattern, which were totally destroyed, together with 100,000 feet of finished lumber. 4 passenger cars, 18 wooden coal ears, and 0 freight cars were destroyed, Three hundred workmen were employed, nearly all of whom lose their tools. The boiler-house is uninjured, and the engine but slightly. 41,000,18)0 feet of lumber in piles adjoining the shop escaped destruc tion. The loss is estimated at :3110,000 to sll+l,- 000 ; insured for $:.;6,000. The origin of the tire is not positively known, but some facts warrant a strong suspicion of incendiarism. There , erection of the building will be rout menced at once. With the advantage of extensive workshops in this and other lo calities; the company will not be delayed In the work of repairing and constructing their cars Joshua Keen, a well-known ship cat. pester, of Savannah, Ga., but a native of Portland, Maine, committed suicide on Thursday, 33rd inst., by 'shooting himself twice in the breast on the pul - ofPavana, An Address to the Friends of Constitu tionnt. Economical and. Honest Gov ernment Issued by theDelmocratic Members Ofeonirress. WASHINGTON, June 24.—The Democratic Senators and Members in Congress at a cauena hold last night, agreed upon an ad dress which was to-day signed and issued as follows: To our Falow-citizins of the United .Friendsof Cblistitutionut,Ecouuntical, rued Honest Government. The undersigned beg leave to call your attention to the peculiar importance of the elections which take place this year, and respectfully to submit some suggestions for your considerations. By the State Legis latures to be elected, nearly one-third of the Unit-...d States Senate will be chosen ; near ly all the members of the next House of Representatives are to be elected next tall. Upon coming elections, then, depends the question whether the Democratic and Con servative element in the Senate shall be in creased, and whether that element shall have a majority in the House of Represen tatives, and, as a consequence, whether wo shall have a constitutional, economical and honest government, or a continuance of revolutionary, extravagant and wasteful partisan rule. Whether we shall have gen eral, uniform, just and constitutional legis lation, with reasonable taxation and frugal expenditure, or unconstitutional, partial, unjust class legislation, with oppressive and unequal taxation and wasteful expen diture. That we have strong reasons to hope fur a favorable result is plainly apparent. The elections already held clearly show that the tide of reform has set in with a power that cannot be resisted, if no blun ders be committed by the friends of reform. If they do their duty and act wisely, if they throw off all apathy and act with vigor and steadfastness, there is every reason to hope that their efforts will be rewarded by suc cess, Let there be no dissensions about minor matters ; no time lost in the discus sion of dead issues; no manifestation of sor row or proscriptive feelingno sacrifice of the cause to gratify personal ambition or resent ment,and let Ilse best men be chosen far can didates and we may hope to'i-,ee our country redeemed from misrule. And in this con nection we beg leave to say a word to our fellow-citizens of the Southern States: Ito not risk the loss of Senators or Represen tatives, by electing, nett who cannot, take the test oath, or win) arc under the disabil itv imposed by the Fifteenth Amendment. Whatever may be said as to the validity of that Amendment, or of the 'rest Oath act, you may rest assured that Senators elected liy the votes of members of Legislatures who are held by the Radicals to be thus disqualified, will not be permitted to take their seats, and that members of the House , of Itepresentati yes thus disqualified will also be excluded. It is the plainest dictate of practical wisdom not to incur any such risks. We hope soon to see the day when till disabilities will be removed, but, in the meantime, do not, we entreat you, lose the opportunity to strengthen the Democratic' and Conservative force in Congress, and the possibility, nay probability, of obtaining a I majority in the next House of Representa tives, by putting, it ill the power of our tut versaries to overthluW or disregard your elections. (Signed,) A.l/. Thurman, Milo, E. l'a,erle. H \Vac. T. amilton, Md. Tito., C. McCrrery,Ky W. Johnson, Va.W. Stmlsbury, Del. Garret Davis, K I y. Datil. S. Nal ton. Minn tieorge Vickers, Md. ,J. I'. :sto,.l:lon, N. 'l'. F. Bayard, Del. 11l the United And Icy the lullowlng 1 of 111 '1 11,, IIIIIlivc , Randall, Pa. ; 11. W. Pa. I'. Van Trump, Uhl, iiscin Archer, Md. E. J. Ilatilletnall. Pa. .1,1111 D. Slides, Lawrence Getz, Pa. It. Mcl'ertnlek, Boyd Wincliciacr, \V, I:. Nllilack, Ind. y. N. V. John Murrissoiy, N. V. John Fox, N. ! Wiii. v. If ni man , Tie!. I M. C, Kerr, Del. D. M. Van Aitken. l'a. James Brooks, V. Albert tt. Burr, 111. Wm. M innten,(niiih U. w. I Intl, Peter N. Dux, Ala. W. U. Sherroil, .1. I'. Soliumaker, N. V. W. 11. Barnum. Punch .1. r.l'onllcr, TeXies. W. N. Sweeney, Ky. Jit, H. Lewis, 1.. S. Trimble, ICy. T. Boyd, N.J. CaHlialoN commITTEt At an adjourned caucus of the Democratic and Conservative Senators and Represen tatives, the following, Democratic and Con servative Congressional Campaign Com mittee was selected to consist of two Senators M large and one Representative from each State represented in the Senate and House by Democratic or Conservative members. This committee had power given them to appoint a Democratic and onservat i ve resident committee to consist in part of their own members together with citizens of this city to the number that may be hereafter agreed upon. The following is the Democratic congressional Connuittee Eugene Pai,scrly, l'al, A. G. Burr, stockton, N. .1. .131,y,1 Wlnetnistrir, 1:y W. 11. liarlllllll, l',llll. A. Sharp, Timm H. W. sham al, N. V. Erastus W. ells, Mil. ,t,11„ p„ya, N. A . liki r ta w . sacol, Itanda fi, ita. E. N. Wilson, Minn. T. Reiss , 1,1. .1. S. Smith, hirogil. I. Stone Ma, .1. A. Johnson, l'al. .1. \v. v,„. .A.:\. .1 ,;k; P. E. sholicr, N.l'. A laliaina• I'. Van Trnmp,lllll, Adolie ttaltc, 1.2 t. d 1 tit. E. Nihlitcli, Incl. St•lvetcti States St.nate, ....tubers el the new, Ferttantt IVood, N. Y. Pvtg. \Vllson, Mi n n. .1. S. Multi!), Oregon. E. F. Inv]:ln.., 0100. ;, W. Nlorgan, toter :strutter, ohlo. 11. NV. Slocum, N. Y. I.lohn M. Crehs, 111. C. N. M . Neely, 111. l'alrlclt Hamill, Mil. Ernstus \Veils, Mo. .1..5. Johnson, Cal. Ilenre Iteeves, V. .1. E. ilrh4gs, Delaware .i,11114, tt. B a rk, Kr. NV, Potter, N. N . sand. llntohleton. 11.1 .1. I'. 1: not, Ey. S. S. Cox, N. V. SIZZIBIE 18ID 11. Callclti. N. Y flit...Swann, Md. =MEMO sand. B. A 'civil, cal. A. Eldridge, \V Is. M. Adall., Ky. .r. NI. Cavanaugh, Nlen IC Share, Mahe. Nuekalls, Wy. A. A. C. Itegerli, .krk. El= leM=lStlll The ease of Whittemore, of South Caro lina, was disposed of very promptly by the llouse to-day. There was quite a large at tendance in the galleries, but as the debate was not prutn acted there was no scene id' unusual interest outside of the vote refus ing him adlnission and returning his cre dentials, ochioh resulted 21 in his laver to 131 against Min. Among the former mem hers were flutter of Mass., Coburn of 111.1., Maynard Wrenn., Poland of Vt., Kelley of Penn., Whitni.re of Texas, I of Mass., Cessna of Pa., Brooks of Mass., Farnsworth and Morrill of e.—all Republicans. Whittemore occupied a seat on the outer row, and did not seem at all embarrassed by the result. As soon as the vote was announced he rose and left the hall. Ile complains very much of General Logan's course, as he charges that it was mainly owing to the ;otter's representation that he run again for Congress and was re-elected. General Logan to-day made a tierce speech against NVittemore's admission, say ing, among other things, it was a question for members to decide for themselves whether they admit a man who MO resign ed to avoid expulsion for a penitentiary of fence. Isl r. Whittemore therefore states that he is willing to make affidavit that on the day lifter 110 resigned, in February last, (ten. Logan said t, him : he (Logan) was sorry that the committee did not report a resolution of censure instead of expulsion; that he did not believe my intention wrong; that he hoped I would be returned to Con gress, and he would be the first onus to wel come my return." Samuel Lee, of the count y of Sumter, S Ivho is ill Washington, - made an alfida V it, (11 -day, to that effect. A Little Forgery by Butler In the house of Represensntives on Fri day, Randall, rising to a question of privilege, sent to the clerk's desk and had read a correspondence between himselfand the proprietors of the (aobc, in which he complained of an omission front the pub lished debate on the Cuban question—the retort which he had made to a remark di rected at hint by NI r. Butler, of Massa eltusetts, that " fools often ask questions which philosophers cannot answer;" the retort being, ''tools are sometimes and that is more than you are." The reply of the proprietors of the (i/o/or was that the paragraph was inverted in the reporter's manuscript, which was soh:tinted ts.i Butler, mid it was stricken out ii,N‘ hunt. The assistant foreman had, with a singular lack of appreciation, let it pas:, btu that it wntild Le unsorted in the quarto edition of th e (ilobc. The pisiprictio, nay' that they . Iles's, have admitted, and never can admit, the right of one inefolwr to rewire to the estont M . a ,inczle ,yllahlo the remark of another. Tht! eol,o,pialdellee having been read, .Nlr. Randall said he had not introdueed it with :my intention to reopen the line of I iscussion with the gentleman from lassa chusetts and hinorelf. Ile hail no wish to reopen any personal controversy with hint weep I he cc err necessitated to Cl,, it by what might oeeur in this discussion. lie intended to move - to refer the subject to the Commit tee on Itul, to inquire whether any mem ber had a right to leave his own remarks in and strike out, without notice, the reply of another member. Ile was willing to leave the subject where theseletters put in, and moved their rcierence to thecut n miner on rules. Air. Butler called for the um=rript of thr report. Air. P.:Ind:Ill sent it to the Clerk', tlesl:, and cori,ented that tho gentleman Wight hav e it; hoping, hmercrr , t h at he would not Chang,' it n. r. Butler read tho paragraph in (pies tinn, and said that he had ,frawn his pen through the remark aseri lied to >I r. Ran dall with the note: 'here is a mis-report, as all that panned between the speaker and Mr. Randall is omitted. I heard no such statement or I should have replied to F. B. Ire had done this so that the manuscript might lie sent hack to Mr. Randall to see it' he desired to correct it. Aekermaan's Political Disabilities The petition of Antos T. Ackerman, of f:eorgia, lately nominated for Attorney fieneral in place of Mr. Hoar, written by himself, asking for the removal of bis disa bilities, remained on file with the House Reconstruction Corn mince, and was exam load on Saturday by persons Interested in the fasts, The petition sets forth that Mr, Ackerman was a Union man at the outbreak of the war, and strongly opposed the war, remaining quiet but firm in opposition to rebellion for some time after hostilities begun, bet after the Confederate government had established itself lie entered its service, remaining therein for about eighteen months. Mr. Ackerman states that not having held any office before the sear, he was not subject to the disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth amendment, but that having, as he writes, voluntarily served the Confederacy, he could not take the test-oath. He wished his disabilities re moved in order to accept office under the reconstruction policy. The contents of the petition have aroused an unfriendly feeling towards'Afr. Ackerman among the more radical Republicans. A Scene in the House—Exposure of But. The President.having vetoed the bill for the renewal of the patent of Rollin White for improvements in the "Smith and Wes son" pie tot , the question of the passage of the bill over the veto came up in the House of RepresentatNes on Wednesday. Gener al Butler took Vie lloca - to advocate the bill, but General Farnsworth objected to his speaking, es he was pecuniarily interested in the extension of the patent Ile charged that Butler had at first opposed the exten sion of the patent, and then, in consideration of having received a foe of $2,000 from Rollin White, had come over to the other side. At this statement Butler became livid with rage. Had ho been struck with a thunderbolt he could not have exhibited greater demoralization. Ho declared that there was no such evidence. • Mr. Farnsworth allirmed that there was, and said it was contained in a communica tion of the Commissioner of Patents, which he had asked to have read ut the Clerk's desk, but its reading had been objected to. Mr. Butler. There is no such evidence, never can be, and never will be. Mr. Farnsworth. I insist upon its being read. Mr. Butler. The point between the gen tleman and myself is this: He charges that a fee of '2,01X) vas furnished me to advocate the extension of the patent on this Boor. I say that 1 received the fee for arguing the ease in the Supreme Court. Mr. Farnsworth. 'the statutes of the United States declare that a member of Con gress who receives any fee for a matter pending before Congress, or in any of the departments, commits a misdemeanor pun ishable by indictment, and it is in eviden :0 that the member from Massachusetts vol untarily stated to the Commissioner of Patents-- Mr. Butler, interrupted. I do not give way to be abused by a Mall who has more beard than brains, Mr. Farnsworth. That is a most excel lent retort, as :IA the member is capa ble of making. Thu member may curse my beard, but he cannot steal under the shadow of my beard. My point of order is, that the gentleman the member front Mas saehusetbo has no right to adVireate a claim hero for a fee of V,OOO. 'rho tieaker directed the rule to he read, which directs that no member shall vote on any question in that event of which he is immediately or personally interested, and stated that it this rule were enforced in its utmost stringelieV it would not prevent the gentleman front Massachusetts front dc bating the question. The rule was limiteJ entirely to the question of voting, and it was tar the gentleman himself to decide, upon his honor and his oath as a member. 'rile Chair could not be the conscience-keep. er of members. Mr. Butler said he wanted the reeord to be read, which %void(' brand the statement of the g,entlonian train Itlttolsas inaliclolls, false, and infamous. [Sensation] )Ir. rarliSWorni. hiaN't, it read. r. Butler. The entry lo eon t 12,000 for vounsel fees, paid to nie in January. 1000, when I argued the fuse before the Supreme Court, where my brief is tiled. It was for counsel fees, and nothing else. The paper was sent to the elerk • s desk and read, from which It appeared that Mr. lim ier awl written to the Commissioner of Patents, suggesting that the patent shall not be extended without examination. and that he afterwards received a counsel feu of ',nun from the applicant. Mr. Farnsworth obtained the floor and saint that there were t wo farts prominent in the !natter. Tile first was that, in 1,47, there was pending an applieation from Rol lin White for an extension of his patent that that fact became known to the member from Massachusetts, and that he volun teered to protest against it. Whether that seas fur the purpose or courting the offer of a counsel fee, he did not know. The second fact was that when White tiled his schedlile of expenditures in lotto, in order to sitar that he hail not made as much out of his patent as Ile should have made, he entered 11.4 one item of ex penditu re that, in January ISne, he paid the member from Massachn setts i.::2,non for eounsel fees. Lie would state further that the member did not litters word in the Supremo Court in behalf of Rollin W kite, though he did till, a very small :Sid insignificant (girt, sin that it might appear that he did something in a law court to ' wards earning his $2,000. Itut he (Mr. Farnsworth) would leave t to the !louse and to the country to determine what was the motive of White in paying 92,0U0, and what it was if not the $2,000 that inducod the gentleman from Nlassachusetts to ad vocate on this floor the extension or that patent? The member had spoken of the length of his 'ward, amt he iFarnsworth,) had told him, as he did now, that, long or short, no member of Congress should, with his knowledge, steal under the shadow of his beard. No member of Congress should with his knowledge perpetrate a fraud like this on the people of the States, whose intere,ts would be violated. Ile believed the House and country would ar raign the member from Massachusetts for being an both sides of the question: tir , t, One side without a fee, and thlal on the other side ti ith a r. Butler replied to Nils. Farnsworth, and as he Wrl, Miieaking, the members gathered around him, c i that 11 . 14 remarks mere, at times, VOI - V indistinctly heard by the reporters. lle denied having maim Jested any intere,t in the hill Hokin. the I holes in 'the way ,A I“rwariling its pa,sage, :1181 explained :it length his :sonnet:tom with the matter, Speaking of the brit f lilcd Lefore the Sulu:eine Court, he said, he would assure the member from Illinois that never would he make such a brief as that; never would he argue such a ease as that ease was argued, and he was perfectly safe front ever receiving a fee of I laughter.) lie hail heard that this thing was to he brought up against hint in the house, hit he felt that 111111 . 1,0 aided by weakness Was mnteniptible, but there had Lech now pre,enlecl liePtre the ..onntry a singular spectacle or an attempted arraign ment. "f a member by amain, member, who attacked him unawares in the manner that the bloWs of ,swards :old assassin; are ever inaile. If there be any man here who thinks that I have been in any way false to nay people, I pray and invoke a Vote of censure from this I hinse. As to the insinuations that be had tiled a brief in the Supreme Court, Inerely US a preu•nse t.ll obtain a fee, he could only sap: Father A hrahani, what these Christians are WilaSl! (Ma hard dealings teach them to suspect the very thoughts of others.' Air. Butler took his seat and the !louse was gradually restored to order. The rote W. taken on the passage Of the bill over the President's VIA°, and the bill was rejected-yeas nays 11 Eire in rhilndelphin.—A Fire 1111 l Killed and Severn! Injured. Saturday morning about live o'clock a lire broke out 4iti the first floor of a three storied brick building, No. 107 South NVa ter street, occupied by .1. ii. Bossier f,u - the storage of fireworks. 'File flames spread rapidly, :111,1 the building was com pletely gutted. 'There was :1 pretty hea.vy stock of fireworks on hand at tine time. This was all destroyed. The loss of Bus sier Co. is estimate(' at $11),(K/0. Upon this there is insurance or ,55,00). The building is owned by Morro Phillips. It WIL9 damaged to the extent of about ;1-1,000. Insurance 33,000. No. I South Water street is fleet, pied by Phillips& lien., dealers in foreign frni Ls, etc. Their t•aluablo st , irk was considera bly damaged by water. It is insured for $2 , 1,n00, which will more than (.over the luny. The building belongs to the estate fit' Robert Burton. It was only slightly damaged and the loss is insured. No. 103 Water street is occupied on the first floor by Wm. G. Porter A: Son, com mission merchants. The stork seas mostly removed by the Insurance Patrol. hoss by water about $l,OOO. Insured. The sec ond and third stories of this building are occupied by 11. Kellogg 4: Co., whole sale grocers; stork injured by eater to the extent Mahout Inured, No, Hu livlaware avenue is in the rear of the structure burned. The shutters, doorways, ,Vc., of lice building were greatly damaged. Loss about $l, O O O . In s ured for *4; non. The building is owned and occupied by Mori Phillips. Tln,toel: was somewhat damaged by water. :No. Ms Delaware avenue is owned by :slim, Phillips, and occupied by J. 11. Bus sier Uo. The building was somewhat damaged in the rear. It is insured tor . :32,1siu, which will more than cover the loss. The •rigin Or the tire is not known, but it is supposed that 441111 e of the bad boys who infest that locality threw some matches into the store, and thus set it on tire. About ten minutes titter the discovery of the lire there was a tremendous explosion of tirmworks. The concussion shattered all tin glass in several of the buildings on the opposite side of Water street. and was distinctly tilt in Camden, and in this city as far south a s s the Navy Yard. Charles Ithoades, a inember of the I lope Hose Company, was standing in the door way M . 0 ., building :it the time or the ex plosion. Ihe had a branch in his hand. lie was struck on the side of the head lov a rocket, and also received .several scratches from smaller explosive articles. Ile was removed to the Pen n.syl vania I lospit.al, died in a short time after his 1,1111 - e svmvs a single man, alum's.years of age, and re,ided :it No. tot Cuion street. James Walton, a 1,,y, aged IS years, wa, badly injurol about the head. Ile wa, thrown across the street by the force of the explosion. Ho was romoyed to the Penn sylvania Hospital. ill° following members of the I i ihernin Fire Engine Company, No. I. Were also in ured:lml are at the Penusylvania lospi al : John Ward, taco, (orchead au l breuit badly cut. Daniel Foley, badly hart aldeut the arias anti breast. Miehael Buckley, breast injured The Parkersburgh, West Virginia, (;a zettc learns that a horrible affair took place last week on the Middle Fork river, in Randolph county, some 111 or 20 miles from Beverly. Two Able boys, aged ten and six years, sons of Mr. Samuel Currence, went out In the evening to drive home the cows. When but a short distance from the house they were attacked by a very largo panther. 'rho eldest boy immediately gathered up the younger one in his arms, but the pan ther seized him and tore him loose. The boy seeing that he could not save his little brother, ran to the house. The father hastened back with him, and when lie got to the spot, found his child almost entirely devoured. A Brakeman Killed FlsullLL,June22.—William Townsend, a brakeman, was killed on the Dutchess Columbia railroad yesterday, by his head coming In contact with an abutment. The Chinese Shoemakers Corresrnndenee of the Boston Advertiser. NonTri Arians, Mass., Juno 17.-4 t is only in the bottOmer's room of his factory that Mr. Sampson proposes to use his Chi nese labor. For the other departments, the cuttimi, the fashioning, and sewing the up pers of the shoes, ho intends to depend on the few white workmen who hare stood by him, and the force of girls long In his em ploy. The Crispins are striving their ut• most to get these away from him by every argument, falsehood, persuasion, and threat in the power of men to invent; but should they succeed, they will only precipitate the suicide of their own order, for Mr. Samp son will at once divide his corps of China men among the different rooms, teach them the other departments of the trade, and then till up the ranks by fresh recruits from California. Let us then go to the bottoniers' room.- The room seems nearly empty: for in this difficult and delicate business of teaching a trade to the pupils who Call neither ask questions nor receive explanations, a mu' - titudo makes confusion and obstructs pro gress. so it has been thought Whit) to in struct a few at a time. Two "gangs" or "teams" have been selected to begin with, and the rest of the colony are left down stairs, as we have seen in a former letter, to 1111111S0 and instruct themselves In their own way. The dozen men chosen crowd round the two benches at which the in structure stand, all eagerness and silent at - tention. I have said that the new pupils look on silently at the work of lasting, pegging, trimming, done for their instruction. The, say very little, but seem all eyes and atten tion, lisle of them scents particularly gulch in catching the ideas the teacher striVes impart in dumb show. It is our yonim friend, Ali \I y. " That is a ;mart boy," whispers the I, slrllclor 1.0 Ils, behind its hill( Ah Z%l V'S quick ears emelt the ; till.' Alt My has made such rapid iirligri,s in English stilts , yesterday, that he 01111 1111- derSiallti then,. There is an evident sin cerity it modesty In the Nvay I,r shalt es 1., head. "Nn solart ; mr fooloo. You v oily NouirL" They ha \ o all caught the lutines of Ilic tools, ton; and if It call is made for ILc hammer, or the knife, they repeat the somid very correctly, and dive after the imp:, anent with the eagerness of 'hil terns These two gangs are hauling to last, trill,, and finish the shoes. In another ...oi lier of the room three have t thionselyi , n the task of mastering the peg ging machine. 'tints I,ll,llllllllate 1.1,1111411 lif Yankee invention needs a gooddeal ui skill in the handling, as all lan tell stho have seen the devious 'ours,' in ss hich the curves a the sole are carried around this st, ill-falling 'witching :Ind trio ing appal a tus. The toot and both hands need lie busy, and this eyes 011 the alert. But to learn the conthined 1111,1.111,11, prartlce , Illoro 01111.110h/114 1111111 [111,0111; Sil three apprentices, having been shaven the rtitlintonts, are working at% ay at their to by themselves, taking turns at the timeline , . The way in so hieli the last will fly out at the wrong moment, front tinder thin awl, seems enough to ilbeiourage anybody; Lit they are nut diseountged, but indicate apprelia lion or disapprobation at each other's va rying success with loss' exclanuttions, and slick t o Ito, Job alier 11101'0 lailllreS (11,111 Ilrure's famous spider, with a persistency so hill, promises the spider's tiltimitto success. Theyy 1111V0 11110 gran„ which the Spitler is nut sltmvn 11. y the ',cord to have possessed, in a 1110410,4ty 311111,..4.11 11114 to shyness, so that. While too stand watching close by, lir While a friendly Loty of girls front Upstairs are oil, 1110 unruly 1/1:11.1111113 use i11i4,11110111. more than ever. lint withdraw to the other I'll4l or the room, and look ilt 11114111 fllrtlN el) 11ONV 11011 OWII,IIIIII sou Nllllll See that will, every trial they tr1..1 the 1111111 of 1111proN anent toward perfection. Your eorr,pondent hest t iNitedLtlic workshop on Thursday morning, two', three hours after the tvorn of leaching had boon begun, and saw the slate al airs tin 1111,1 endeavored It/ 410.111/0- the insti•tielor. working slowly and silently, the Omits silently 55.1.1.0,14 1, ery uautiun. Think` looked encouraging, iudnrd, toil they lieik • 'al a" if a lung job had the lack 51 language h. t•iiitillinicato th.• simplest ideas would make tot ions and difticult. Ile was there again on Tuesday afternoon six hours later in 1110 day; um behold, the tool, "teams" shier° Ivorlting at their benches, each man Wittig his appoint oil part in the completion of the shoe, and a heap of finished shoes tiatitiying 1.. I k , StleeikliS of their first essays. I tseenis later enough in the Lilting, Lot to the observer it appeared almost 1111111111'1e. All Nly and his friends no longer witteli th, teacher; they work away themselNitio ill a business-like (1,1111011, While 1110 te114.111•1 Watc.llo,l t. 111,111, lola are ready Lt accept the slightest pantinnimie hint front him any ingwehraes• nr a‘tikward 11111014111 in 111.• Work, 111111 Sllre to currret the err., th.• next time. The inhtruetor's brows no longer 4,11. traet with anxiety and doubt :it the obstaele. to be overeonie, but his eyes gleam will pleasure as ho points LO this or that Coli•vtia tneehanie 11.111.1 "That hi llow, sir is going. to miLko IL splendid Wiirli wan Mr. Sarnpsati in natti rid ly exultant al iili SUCCOSS, su bvbudiully assured thus early ii 010 Naillillro NV rem.• weeks ag.l Sec lilts to ill Vol or Mn) 111110i1 ride and required 111114.11 n,luragt.. . . " That. SI11,1', •• lie Say., handling tam whi,h has Lieu ready for market; "that shoo is :Is 1,,,qu1 a Itlls 1,111, y,m rould mold Mel; nut ot llowm ,hairs mid, h the crt,i.h. made." It is sail! that nine thorn this nuavnln• lutvinut seen the tr:a•her bend by iiciaden into ut the Troll pegs at arertalti point ii the circuit of lbn stile, himself hia t i a p.•• at the same point in itinkinitt his nest ,bite I tit forma NV !tat I hacc ,eOll I :1111 I urli IWI to think many of the hlories which c , ,Lito.l. its or the shtvishues, it Chinese intitatna are the of the exhuberant Inium ,•1' the coast, and that the coneeien lions faithfulness in the perfermanee every detail of an assigned task, 'xvhiel gives rise to these tales, is net inemisisten with a good degree of independent jiidg went and sagacity on the part of the worlc men, prontieang the beet results ni the .mality of his ,%,)rk. The sort of slow Will,•ll,Nll.SalllpS ,, ll LIIIIIS Oral ItPr la \year, laved or buttoned high about. th ankle, which would be called boots in the retail chirps by clerks and eus'omers an particularly adapted for this himd of lob., and I shall be mistaken if the Chinese made goods do MA presently take rank a the niost desirable in New I;:ngland. As wo pass out Of the bottotners' 1 . 55,11,1 ice notice that MU' three friends tire sill taking turns at wrestling with the I,egger cheerful and undaunted as ever, amt is ill great progress since the Innrnlng trials. North Adams, ILS is whole, Iv nluuist as much interested in the contending influ ences rinse at work hero its are the 'rispins a class. Mr. Sampson's pay roll in past days has averaged two thousand dollars a week, and the money disbursed by the other SllOO Mafia facturers has made the amount paid out here for labor in this branch of industry five thousand dollars per week. All this has been spent at once in the, town- -most of the unthrifty Crispins, indeed,;being in. uch hasten, get rid of their earnings that they have worked hut about four clays of the seven, devoting the rest too generally to dissipation. Naturally thesmall trailers of a certain class see n very dark prospect in the possible substitution for these lavish fellows ore class who spend no money for whiskey or fur tobacco, or Pir the various groceries which sue the laaais siiies of a family of Caucasian stock. Both sexes are interested; for there are girls in North Adams who earn a hundred dollars a month in the shoe shops rind have leisure for amusement besides, and there is little doubt that a Chinaman °mild Chi the Sailae work as deftly and us swiftly fun quarter of the wages.. Tragedy In Whill• I'llodna lin Monday morning, as John SM•1•••r, .Ir., and Fraidc Schirmer, of \Vitjte N. V., were driving into NVlnte Plains from Rye Beach in all lipell wagon, limy were met on the road, near Mr. Reed's resident., by 'Timms M urphy, a ilegro, who, with a common that aCeillapanied him, refused to stand aside and let the wagon pass. titterer called out to Murphy to "get out of the road, or I'll run fiver you." 'rho colored rum replied, •' VI/11 be 11-- ---, you pier white trash ; you don't knew its Imieli your d---• - old horse knows." At this .`ilierer, very inuch exasperated, would net listen to the entreaties of his companion iSchiriner) to drive on, but jumped out of the wagon amt) threatened le whip Murphy. Blows followed worth:, arid the negro suddenly whipped out a razor and in a twinkling cut his antagonist en the MU side of the neck from the back of the ear to the Ain, intlietint; a long, dangerous, and deep wound. The woman tied when the affray bewail. Murphy, as soon its he had committed the bloody deed, dropped the razor :Ind ran toward souse negro shanties en the right of the road and close by, pur sued by young Schirmer. The desiierado being very !Met-looted, soon distanced his par,raer and eseapeol. Schirmer returned to }IN Wolllllhalrriliall, arid found 'link lying in the road e tt y..r e d with blood front the ghastly gash in his throat. \Vitt. the assistance of some by slanders the sufferer was borne to the neigh boring office of Dr. Ernest Schmidt, who dressed the wound. Schniidt has very little hope of Sher er's recov ery. Several arteries were sev ered, and the loss of blood was fearful. The weapon lacerated the flesh to within a sixteenth of an inch of the jugular The wounded man seas taken to his rooin in the Union Hotel, and up to late hist evening was considered by his attending physicians beyond hope of recovery. Young Sherer, who is about twenty three years of ago, is a butcher in the em ploy of Mr. Janice L. Shute at White Plains. He has always been known as steady workman, and a quiet, inoffensive young man. He is unmarried. Thomas Murphy is between twenty-live and thirty wears of ago, very black, with a sinister, dogged expression. Ito liar, been lately In the service of Dr. Clarke at Greensburgh, an adjoining village to White Plains. lle made his appearance in the neighborhood of White Plains some years ago as a body servant for a gentleman front Louisiana. For a long time he has been a conspictious member of a gang of radians who dive in and near:Tan Bark row. They have the reputation of being notorious alley* apq alt carry razors and othar (Madly weapons, Although a'warrant was at once out for the arrest of Murphy, the Officer had not caught him at last accounts. The New York .4'E:ening Ma U.gallant ly says : The sweetest things iu ladies' hats we have seen this season are their faces.
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