Lancaster 3titelligencet. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1871 Amnesty Killed In the Senate Of late years the United States Senate has completely changed its character. The time was when It was distinguished for calmness and moderation—when it was a check upon any undue exhibition of partisan spirit that might be shown in the House. But, when Pennsylvania is represented in the Senate by one man, Who bought the seat he occupies and by another for whom a seat was purchased by a powerful railroad corporation, it is not to be expected that the high tone of an honorable past will be kept up. Many other Radical Senators haveantecedents as bad as the men who misrepresent Pennsylvania. We have fallen upon the day of small men. There is little of greatness or magnanimity in the higher branch of our National Legislature. A large number of .Republican Senators are confessedly corrupt, and jobs of a pay ing character call be put through the Senate more easily than through the House. With the corruption which has made the Senate infamous is joined a degree of partisan malignity that is shameful. The members of the new House, being fresh from the people, are aware that the bitterness of feeling engendered in the minds of the people of the North by the whir is, tort great extent, worn out. An evidence of that was given in the vote on the Amnesty Bill, which was sup ported by one-half the Republicans 01 the House. The Radicals of the Senate, being farther removed from the people, have not felt the popular pulse. So they are ready to make the Ku-Klux Bill more unconstitutional and anti republi can, and, :It the same time, to kill the Amnesty Bill. Ac Democrats we might view such action with claire eomplacency, if we could be brought to look upon it merely from a partisan stand-point. The ac tion of the Republican majority in the Senate, must inevitably weaken the I ower of the party which it is designed to aid. The passage of the Ku-Klux Bill and rejection of Amnesty by the s...•nate will not strengthen the Repub lican party in the South, nod will great ly weaken it throughout the North. - -1 vast majority of the people in every Northern State, look with jealousy upon each new measure, which is devised for hrealting down the constitutional bar- viers which NV, re wisely set up by the fathers of the republic, to prevent a centralization of power in the hands of the Federal I lovernment and an equal ly large majority are opposed to a eon tinuanee that system which debars the nitre intelligent nn•u of the t-iouth ern Mates trout a participation i❑ pub lic allairs, and commits the destinies of their States to ignorant and impecuni ous carpet-baggers, scalawags and ne groes. The native whites of the North are perfectly willing to trust the native whites of the South, and lion. Carl !--hurz spoke the sentiment , of the great I icrman clement when he so eloquent ly denounced the Ku-Klux and itilvocated general A innesly. I laving put it right upon the rec ord, the Ucntoeratie party appeals to the future with an abiding confidence in the triumph of it, principles at the coming Presidential election. It will not com mit itself to any re-aetium:u•y movement, but trill present a platform upon which ill right-thinking and generous-minded eitizens of tile whole uatiuu can stand. Putting aside all dyad issues of the past it trill ni.ilte it , appeal to the great fu ture. It trill tell upon nien of all parties to (mite in crushing o u t that mischievoug spirit which actuates the n: u •row-utiuded inalignimts of the Senate, and the 111 a, ,, will respond to its iiall as they did in the days of Jefferson and Jack- people will their mind iu ri•Mrioni, to immesty, unntridization national iitmdiom+. I,o%errior Alcorn to Horace lirteley ertior Alcorn, of :\lisst-sippi, has e.l 'Veil I,ng leth.r to I lora , e ;Feeley. The( ;overnor takes 11oree right sharply ;r the persistent misrepresen tatioli: which have appeared in the New York hat paper, influenced by a do-iro to oreale a be that great outrages art continually perpetrated in all the Southern states, has published nunto , rolN reports or murders and rni , - deeds %vlio•li \VITO 111•Ver ci,llllllittell. It ni•ci.pl% the 11•1.1 , 14 Of parties wlto,te 11:111It, it decline, to bake tat hlic, and parades the t o ast highly colored La.- counts of I,lood•and-thunder stories Nt . blob have no exi.tence except in the fartllll:l'S To that sort of thing Governor Alcorn, who claims to t o ' a true-blue Republi can, object.: very HI ren tu,usly. Ile proves conclusively by a convincing array of facts and ligures that crime has greatly diminished in Mississippi since military rule gave place Lo civil govern ment. The increase of order hue not only been rapid but it has heen cumula tive, each succeeding month showing fewer outrages than the preceding one. t.luveruur Alcorn tcoti tics to the filet which is noticeable in every Southern Slate, that there is no apparent animos ity to the Federal I ;overnment. NVhat ever of hostility is exhibited toward 01- ticials is directed against t h e men who have been plundering t he people through the acts of corrupt and mercenary Legis latures. \Vhen We 11'1111'11111er how the debts of the Southern States have been ..welled and how taxes have been treb led and quadrupled to furnish rich stealing, fi n • a set of worthlessscalawags, carpet baggers and negroes, it is not, to be wondered at that the taxpayers are excited, or that some of the worst of their oppressors are roughly handled. Gov. Akorn forwards to the Tribunc :1 letter from Senator Antes to a negro member of the Legislature of Mississip pi, which is of a highly improper and incendiary character. Ames shows himself to be a 111:111 worthy to become the sonin-law of lien. Butler. He us sails the Governor of the State he rep resents, and declares Unit Republicans are being killed by tens and hundreds— and this in the face ,t 1 facts which show that not one-half as many murders have occurred since the restoration of the civil authorities as happened during the same number of months, when he ruled the State by means of bayonets and martial lute. Governor Alcorn disposes of till the charges which have been made in different shapes, and proves conclusively that the Slate is fast becoming perfectly peaceful un der the mild rule of the civil law. lie concludes by declaring that he is a faith ful Republican, and that, he expects to use all his power to carry the Stale for the Republican candidate for President hi 187::. Toe dechinitoins of such a man ought t/ be a answer to the fulsu r 41,11, Wlll , ll the Trible/It mid other Itepuidic n uelcspapers live heel tilled. Abbrntee loll6lThhlllell Too many Demociut, lull to answer to their 11111111q1 when there is a cull fur the yeas and nays in Congress. IL In alto bounden duty of every man to he ut his post. Only by presenting a united front cult the uuuut ny hope to hold the Radical majority In check. No less than twenty Denim:ruts were absent When the vote un tile amnesty wit was taken. Among the absentees were Messrs. Ceti., iluldenian and Speer, of Pennsylvania. Mr. (jell was reported sick, and Mr. Speer was paired with Dlr. Dickey. TtVo others or the twenty were reported sick, and fifteen were ab sent without pairing or rendering any excuse. There can be no excuse for such neglect of duty, and the constitu ency of every Democratic Congressman should hold him to a strict account in this Mutter. There should be little phdring off. thAnueratic Congressmen should not desert their seats except when absolutely compelled to do so. THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIG-ENCER, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1871. The Duty of the Democratic State Con , vention. A week or two before the Conneeti cut election, we called the attention of the Democracy of Pennsylvania to the importance of nominating strong and unexceptionable candidates for Auditor and Surveyor-General. In an article entitled " Shall we Carry Pennsylvania Next Fall';" we expressed our opinion as to the manner of men who should be selected to lead us in the coming con test. Having no favorite to urge, we spoke out freely and emphatically, tak ing such ground as we felt sure the in dependent press of the State would be inclined to endorse. The result was very gratifying. Our views have been approved by a majority of the best Dem ocratic newspapers in the State, and we are sure that the comments which have been elicited must have a beneficial in fluence upon the State Convention. As an evidence of the temper in which our suggestions have been received, we clip the following from one of our ablest country exchanges, the Bloomsburg Columbian: We last week copied from the Lancaster INTELLIGENCER an able article on the sub ject of the next Democratic nomination for Auditor-General, which, we observe, is copied and approved by the Democratic papers generally. That article detnanded the nomination of a candidate of unspotted character, of acknowledged integrity and undoubted ability—one who would confer honor upon the office and upon the party that elected him. such a candidate would insure success. ai.d if our State Convention have sense and patriotism it will nominate just such a candidate. The fact that at such a time any man would press his own nomination ought to be sufficient to set him aside. Such eon duct at once establishes that set f-gloritica tion is held by such individual as para , mount to party success, and a man who proffers himself in such an emergency thereby proves his unworthiness and gen eral unfitness. Let all such be thrown Aside, and that man selected who can give greatest siren gtu to the party. There need no no inquiry whether such a man will ac cept—a proper man nominated under such circunistanees still of course not decline. The intelligencer well says that such a candidate would add ten thousand votes to the party, and of that fact we can not eon -'rite a reasonable doubt. While no man is tit Mr the office or or a candidal e who will scramble for the nomination, no one that is really tit will decline it if tile 'mini nation is confered upon him for Inc reason that the interests of his party demand it. one who accepts of such grounds alone will command the confidence of the public to such extent as to secure him hundreds of votes that would never he carat or a seeker of the place. Let the Democratic press, therefore, continue to appeal to the dole .sates to east aside all coltish aspirants and select the fittest and strongest candidate that can be obtained. A Democratic vic tory in Pennsylvania this fall is of inealeu .abie impoi tones and every other object ought to be merged into the grand one of ,access. Writing as we did after the unexpect ed victory in New Hampshire, and be fore Connecticut had been heard from, we felt that it was necessary to counsel caution and moderation. There was danger that the Democratic party of l'ennsylvania might count too confi- • dently upon success at the coming State election, and pay too little heed to the means by which a substantial victory may be assured. We are disposed to believe that the close contest in Con tiecticut will have a beneficial effect. If we had swept that State, us we did New Hampshire, there would have been a tierce fight for places on our State ticket. A nomination would have been consid ered equivalent to an election, and the proper amount of discrimination might not have been displayed in the prepara tion of a platform and the selection of candidates. The Connecticut election shows that the administration imends to make a desperate tight over every State ill which an important election occurs between this and the Presiden tial contest. grant and Ills supporters will feel that they cannot alllird to loose Pennsylvania, and the most desperate efforts will be put forth to carry it at each of the State elections which pre cede the Presidential contest. That the Democracy can elect their candidates for Auditor and Surveyor- General next Fall, and secure the State for Governor and President in lin72, we lotve no doubt; but, they can only do so by laying down a proper platform of principles, looking perfectly unexcep tionable nominations and putting forth vigorous elliirt. The first requisite of success is the prevalence of the right -pith in the coming State Convention. Its mein e•rs must come together pre pared to lay - aside all prejudices and all personal preferences. There must be no facing toward a dead past. A plat form composed of live issues must be framed, and two of the best and purest men in the State placed upon it. The Republican party will attempt to revive the acrimonious issues of the war, but the people are tired of all that species of political clap-trap. We must force our enemies to abandon their Indian meth od of warfare by bring them out into the open field of reason and argument. We must address ourselves to the living is sm•s of the future, and cordially invite all who are opposed to the centraliza tion of unconstitutional powers in the hands of the President, and to the in judicious and corrupt course of the Ad ministration and of Congress to unite with us. The coming Democratic State Convention will be the most important oolitical gathering which has assembled ill Pennsylvania since the war ended. It will either confine the party to the ruts or the old road that has so often led to defeat or make a new departure it Mich Will certainly lead to victory. It is fur the delegates and the Democratic press of the rstate, to say which shall be ON Saturday the 1 louse acted upon the Senate's amendments to the Ku-Klux The 'list amendment extending the right of the President to suspend the writ Of ii,[6(1.01 v017)1/8 Wail the end of the next regular session of Congress, instead of till the first of LLIIII., 1872, was rejected by a decided vole. This indicated the temper of the House. The second amendment imposing the iron-clad oath upon jurors was repudiated without even a call of the yeas and nays. Mr. Sherman's amend ment assessing damages upon localities where disturbances may occur, was also rejected by forty-five to one hundred and thirty-one votes. A Committee 'of Conference was murdered, and Messrs. rihellabarger, Scofield and Kerr hawed upon the part of that body. It lA now evident that the Senate must comedown from its high perch, or no Ku-Klux bill will be passed this session. The close votes in the elections fur Governor in New Hampshire and Con necticut have caused an inquiry as to former memorable instances of that kind, of which there arc loony 18311, Marcus Morton, Democrat, was chosen Governor In Massachusetts by I major ry. In 1840, Edward Kent, a NN'hig, was elected Governor In Maine by US majority over John Fairfield, Demo crat. In 1548, Secretary Ford beat John Weller, Demovrat, for Governor of 01119, by about T.:O votes. In 1850, Ho ratio Seymour was defeated for Gover nor on the popular vote In New York by Mollie 250 Votes; and lu 1554 he was beat en itAain by the "fusion,' candidate, Mr. Clark, who had inn :none votes than Mr. Seymour. Ti if: dead-lock in the New York Leg islature has ended. Mr. Winans, Re publican member from Chautauqua, an nounces his intention of voting with the Democrats hereafter. There was an agreement between the two parties that the Republicans would not cause a dead lock if the Democrats agreed to expel Irwin for knocking, another member down. Mr. Winans no doubt thinks a bargain is a bargain. Tilt: New York Tribune announces that the government wrung from the people eighty-four millions, nine hun dred and ninety-four thousand dollars in taxes, In 1870, in excess of the amounts paid in 1868 and 1869 ; and yet the Rad icals are boasting of the manner in which they have reduced taxation. Grant at the Tomb of Washington The unusually fine and warm weather which has caused the trees to blossom and to put forth their leaves as if they had been touched by a magician's wand; was calculated to draw people out of their houses. So it is not to be wonder ed at that our President began to feel the need of " a little trip." As the sea son was not sufficiently advanced for horse-racing, for trouting, or for Long Branch, he was somewhat puzzled to know where to go. After racking his brain for some time, It occurred to him that he had never visited Mount Ver non. The thought had all the charm of a sudden inspiration, and be pro ceeded at once to make preparations for his pilgrimage. Orders were instantly dispatched to the Navy Yard, com manding the officers of a United Statr i s war-steamer to have all things in readi ness to receive the royal family and their guests immediately after breakfast the following morning, with steam up for a day's running down the Potomac. At their own convenience, after a hearty breakfast, the select party made their way to the wharf and boarded the ves sel. The sun shone with glowing bril liancy and soft airs came from the South laden with the perfume of flowers, as the stately steamer cut its way through the placid waters of the Potomac. We need not trouble our readers with the incidents of this pleasure-trip, de lightful as the young ladies of the party found it to be. Our business is with Ulysses S. Grant, as he stands puffing his cigar beside the tomb of George Washington. Ills face wears a look of more than usual stolidity, and, as he munches at the end of his "weed," he seems to be ruminating. We would like to fathom his thoughts as he chews the cud of fancy. If he thinks at all, his mind must be tilled with thronging iur ages, as he, the last President of the United States, stands before the vault,in which lies the coffin of the great ma u l who first ruled over this nation. What a throng of remembrances must crowd upon Grant if he has any sensi bility. I low vividly memory must bring back the events of his past life— his school-days at West Point; his dis graceful dismissal from the army; the years of poverty and debauchery which followed: his humble entrave into the army ; his wonderful tvaneement over the heads of better soldiets ; the terrible slaughter in Virginia, where he sacrificed multitudes of men with a stern recklessness of human life; the final surrender of Lee; the terms which were granted; his trip to the South, and his favorable report to Andrew Johnson ; his connection with the Stanton affair; the despicable means he employed to buratiate himself with the Republican party ; his candidacy; his election ; his inauguration amid the loud acclaim of all those who voted for hint; the selling of Cabinet positions and other high offices to those who gave him rich presents which he so greedily grasped ; the apporticnment of paying posittonsamong his numerous relatives ; his sole stroke of policy, the San Do mingo Job, and its annihilation. As Grant stands by the tomb of Washing ton he must wonder how he ever came to be numbered among the successors of the illustrious dead. No greater mil -1 trust Is to be found in all the annals of history than that between the first and the last President of the United States. We wonder whether a suspicion of that fact entered Grant's dull mind.— Did he call to remembrance the charac ter of him who is justly styled The Father of His Cuuntry—his great purity of life;.his high sense of honor, his un selfish devotion to duty, his unniereen cry spirit, his lofty love of country, his elevated and enlarged patriotism Did he contrast his conduct in office with that of the hero who slept in the vault beside him? Mid he realize for a moment what would have been the scorn of Washington fur a President who greedily grasps at every pres ent which rich nien offer him?— Did lie reflect upon the spirit with which Washington would have endeav• ored to heal the animosities engendered by the war, and to wipe out all traces of the bloody conflict? Who can tell what Grant may have thought as he smoked Lis cigar in the quiet shades of Mount Vernon ? Let us hope that he saw his own life set in the true light by a con trast with that of Washington—that he caught something of the spirit of the great dead, and that he was able for a moment to realize that the office of President is something more than a con- venient contrivance for enriching him self and a crowd of avaricious relatives and flatterers. The contrast between the first and the last President of the United States is so great that even rant must have been struck by it. Review of the legal Tender Derision. Judge (trier is dead, Chief Justice Chase is too ill to attend to his duties, and Judge Nelson is absent front the bench, attending to the business of the Joint MO Commission. Seizing upon the occasi&t, a majority of the Judges, at present sitting as the Supreme Court of the United States, have determined to re-open the decision which was made in reference to legal-tenders. The value of a decision rendered by a Court of last resort, lies in its permanency. The legal-tender decision was freely acqui esced in by the people, and the only op position to it came from railroads and certain other powerful corporations.— There wan a rumor that two of the Judges who were appointed shortly af ter the decision had been rendered, were likely to be influenced by their former connection with railroads, and it was said that they would vote to open the question They have not moved in the matter until lately, and there is good ground for believing they would never have done so but for the fact that Chief Justice Chase and Judge Nelson are absent. A reversal of the former decision, if made under such circumstances, will not command the respect of the people, and the effect of such action will be to destroy the dignity of the Supreme Court, and to impair confidence in its integrity and impartiality. It is to be hoped the country will be spared the disgrace of such an exhibition. Destruction of Game The pot-hunters of Illinois have com mitted great havoc among the grouse and quail this season. The superabund ance of prairie-fowl and quail has been so great in Chicago that It is said nearly ten thousand of them were fed to the hogs in one day. Well may the Chicago Tribunc call upon the Legislature to pass laws to protect these fine birds against such wholesale and shameful slaughter, not only out of season, us has been the case, but in season also. The Pittsburgh Pon We have to apologize to the Pieta burgh Potit for not noticing the fact that It appeared in an entire new dress last week. The old Poe is one of the ablest and one of the most firmly established Democratic newspapers in the country. It has a very large circulation, not only throughout Western Pennsylvania, but in Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia.— We congratulate its proprietors on the success which has attended their efforts. A SOCIETY of workingmen has been established in New York for the pur pose of testing the right of Congress to donate public lands to railroads. They deny'that any such right has been con ferred upon the Federal Congress. The most effectual way in which the work ingmen of the country can put an end to legislation which is putting the lands that belong to the people in the hands of speculators and monopolists, is to put an end to the party which passes such laws. A proposition was made in the House yesterday, to add ltsoo to the salary of members of the Legislature. We hope no Democrat in either House will vote to do anything of the sort. A Geological Snake The Harrisburg Patriot calls the at tention of the independent press of the State to the obnoxious features of a bill which is now before the Lower House of the Legislature to create a bureau, which is to be entrusted with the mak ing of another geological survey of Penn sylvania. The bill is certainly very loose in its provisions and promises 'to entail much unnecessary expense upon the people of the State. Under its pro visions Prof. J. Peter Lesley Is appoint ed State geologist, and authorized to employ other persons to assist him In making a survey of the ores, minerals, oils, limestones, building stones, &c., of the State, He is given discretionary power to publish descriptions, drawings and maps. Fifty thousand dollars are appropriated to defray the expenses for the year 1871. The Patriot very properly objects to the naming of the party to be employed as State geologist in the act, and thinks the Governor might find some one bet ter fitted to do the work than Mr. Les ley. The salary which the State Geolo gist is to receive is not stated, and Mr. Lesley might pay out such portion of the $%50,000 a year as he pleased to as sistants and pocket the balance. ' The Patriot very appropriately says, that while the State will be fleeced and swindled under this bill, it will be of great convenience tospeeulators in coal oil territory, and In mines of zinc, nick el, chrome, manganese, etc., to have their property extensively advertised under the authority of the Common wealth. When in search of victims they need refer only to the geological report. If it he true that genii wine needs no bush, it is equally true that good land and valuable minerals need no State geological report to bring them into market. The shrewd and intelli gent Germans discovered the limestone formations of Penr.sylvania without the aid of geology. Ito t the report would be used as a 'octets of passing oil; on the credulous, lands that are worthless, and that contain mines which cannot be successfully worked. To purposes of this kind thesanction of this great State should not be given. Speculators in the wealth of zinc, nick le, manga nese and other minerals, should do their own advertising. Such mines as are valuable will find a market, and the owners of such as are not should not have the aid of a State re port. As to the contributions to science; there are volunteer search ers into the hidden mysteries of na ture who will elicit more truth concern ing the geology of the State than Pro fessor Lesley and his assistan ts, with the proposed patronage of the Treasury.— Hugh Miller and Professor Lyell never asked any appropriations for their con tributions to the knowledge of geology. Geologists, like Lesley, and historians like Bates, must have patrons, but they will never command readers. From the first section which names Prof. J. Peter Lesley for State geologist, to the last paragraph, which gives him the control of $50,000 for the first year's operations, without fixing his salary and that of his assistants, this bill is a fla grant job. It is the work of speculators, who seek to put off their wild lands by means of a State advertisement. It will fasten on the Treasury a bureau which will cost the people a vast sum of money, and which cannot be abolished for years. It is the creation of a new ring at the State Capital to:assist the operations of monopolists. The impudence of this bill is only equalled by that of Bates' History, which should stand beside it, as a monument of the extravagance and improvidence of the Legislature.— But we have no fear that this geological swindle will succeed in the present Legislature. Advertising Agencies Our attention has been arrested by the following statement of Rowell & Co. in a late.number of their Reporter. " We as advertising agents demand for our customers the lowest price which can be accepted.'' The admission here in contained that the advertiser rather than the neze6pap(r is the customer of the advertising agent is quite correct, and the only singular thing about this way of viewing the relations of the different parties is, that the newspaper, and not the " customer," pays the so called " agent " ids comtnission. The advertising agent of established char acter knows that lie can command the columns of ally newspaper, and It.s only solicitude is to secure advertisers who will confide their business to his charge. 'l'o secure these customers he engages to get them advertisements in serted as cheaply as possible, and to watch the columns of the various news- I papers to see that !lie contracts entered into are fully complied with. Ile is thus' of great advantage to the extensive ad vertiser and fairly earns a good com mission from hint. To the newspaper the agent is of advantage in so fur as lie furnished a responsible party to whom advertisements may be charged, and saves the necessity of opening numerous accounts, and of depending upon the pages of Itradstreet ; he is of benefit fur ther in that in the prosecution of his business, he strives to make business men realize the benefits of advertising. But on the other hand the numerous agencies we now have arc of positive disadvantage to the newspaper, because in competing with each other for "cus tom," they undertake to insert adver tisements at too low rates. It may be said that newspapers can protect them selves against this injury by refusing to insert advertisements at less than their rates. And so they could if they would, but the large majerity of them went; many see a dollar so seldom that they will take its photograph its payment in full for aimost anything that is asked of them. These impecunious journals make it difficult for the better class of newspapers to get proper compensation for their work, since very few adver tisersknow the value and standing of many of the journals of the coun try, and the cunning agent, tak ing advantage of this fact, tills his contracts by sending his advertise ments to the " accommodating " news. papers and takes no business for first class papers, except from sharp ad vertisers who know enough mid are shrewd enough to make out their own lists of advertising mediums. This nearly all large advertisers do now, and they are getting more and more In the way of it every day ; so that all that a good newspaper now needs to do is to satisfy the advertisers of the country by direct communication with them, of its value, and it becomes master of the situation. This is to be sure doing at Its own expense, what it allows the advertising agent a large commission for doing, viz: soliciting business for It. But then no newspaper proprie tor is foolish enough to suppose that the agent does solicit busintss for him In particular, and It would bother him to tell what it Is that he allows him a com mission for doing for him. The agent In fact half the time don't get the com mission, since he concedes It to his principal to get his business, and the allowance is little else than a contin uance, whereby an agent Is enabled to take advertisements for first-class pa pers cheaper than the advertiser could get them taken at the counters of such Journals. Notwithstanding the good faith which these latter papers keep with the adver tising agent, by refusing to concede a discount to the direct advertiser, they are not in favor with him' he prefers the more "accommodating" class, who will empower him to fix these "rates," as a Baltimore agent of recent birth, indignantly assured us not long ago, they were empowered to do "by all the first-class journals of the country." A paper which wants to be Independent and to control its own business must strive to malee itself known to the indi vidual advertiser, who, if favorably im pressed, will either forward his adver tisements directly or will see that it is lorwarded by his agent. Row Carpet-Baggers and Negroes Bob the Southern People. Never In the history of the world were the people of any country robbed more persistently and shamefully than those of the Southern States have been by the mongrel governments which have been put in power and propped up by rederal bayonets. Take the ease of South Carolina as an instance. There a majority of the white population are practically unrepresented. The negroes have a majority of many thousands, and they are largely controlled by such car pet-baggers as Whittemore. Only a few of these negroes can read or write. They are field-hands, who were made voters without the slightest previous Preparation. Neither they nor the car pet-baggers who lead theth have any property except what they have stolen. The property of the State upon which I the taxes are levied is In the hands of the whites who are virtually disfran chised. A ring has been formed in the Lcizislature °which plunders systemati e‘uly. Its work Is shown by the follow tug authentic figures, which we find in that well-known Republican journal, the New York Poat : I ali. 1A64. Expenxem of I,eglslature Sil.ooo $1170,11u0 Executlvo exp uses ...... .... ~ . U0 411,00 U Civil expeuera 97,1400 218,0 , 0 'Pax ea 401,0 , 0 1,054.(00 , 'I axable value 400,900 000 14010,0;0 The Chicago Tribune, another Repub lican newspaper gives the following il lustration of the purity which prevails in the negro government of that plun dered State: "The Speaker of the House (Moses) re ceives his $6 per diem for every session, and this session includes four months. Be fore adjournment 81,000 were voted him as a present, extra, all from the State treasu ry. He is also Adjutant-General, and as such receives a salary of 52,500, with $l,OOO inure as a eoutingent fund, and $21,000 more for expenses I?) of the militia. He was also allowed $Ol,OOO to buy furniture for the limn, and $60,600 to buy arms, .s c . These are the figures which the records show. The Speaker's father is the Chief- Justice, with a salary of 54,000, and a rnn tingest fund in his hands of 56,500. The Speaker's father-in-law has 01;00 for one office, and $1,000• tor another. The Speaker's uncle is Circuit Judge, with a salary of ;33,500; and then follows a small army of the Speaker's kin who have what to them scents a liberal share of the pick iogs.•' That is fully equal to the mpotism of General Grant, and the negroes and carpet-baggers of South Carolina have shown that they can equal the achieve ments of the man who feeds all his re lations at the public crib. We would like to know how long the people of Pennsylvania would quietly submit to be plundered as the property-holders of South Carolina have been and still are. Why even the non-combatants of Lan caster county would soon be up in arms. They would beat their plow-shares into swords, and turn their pruning-hooks into spears with which to do battle against such despoilers. Is it any won der there is bad blood in the Southern States? Grant Opposed to Amnesty The amnesty act which was passed by the House meets with universal ap probation. The only regret seems to Ire that it was not made universal in its ap plication. Leading Republican news papers take the very sensible ground that to deprive any class of any of the rightsof citizenship, can only excite ani mosity without producing any compen satory advantages. 'fire general appro val of the Republican press may induce the Senate to concur in the action of the House. President Grant is reported to be opposed to granting amnesty. That has been his position ever since he be came President. He is a narrow-mind ed creature, without a spark of gener osity in his nature, and he lacks the sense to see that the proscriptive policy of Congress has injured the country without benefiting the Republican par ty. It remains to be seen whether the Serrate will listen to his advice. If the amnesty act fails to pass that body the blame will rest upon the President, and he will only sink himself still lower in public estimation. The Truth about ('arpet•tfaggers The conduct of the carpet-baggers who overrun the South has been so in famously bad, that Republican news papers in the North can no longer coun tenance their multitudinous villainies. The consequence is that the people of the North are hearing the truth from unexpected sources. Thousands of Re publicans who might have refused to believe the assertions(„9f Democratic newspapers, must be convinced when they read what they Intv'e been pleased to call "loyal" journals. In the last is sue of the Harrisburg ,17rde Journal we find the following editorial paragraph : It is a fact which cannot be successfully controverted, that the large majority or the Northern men who sought to settle in the South, went there, not to improve that sec tion, lout rather to search ihr speedy 'nodes of making money—of operating on the no cessitiesot the people living there, while of this majority, the greater portion were, per haps, among the worst men of their class in the lovality which they left. Such a population poured into regions ravaged by the fearful havoc of war, and coming in contact with men who were smarting un der the effects of defeat and htimiliation produced irritations of the nest powerful character, out of which have sprang bitter hate, hurtful broils, persecutions and as• sassinations. A com.k of revenue officers were badly beaten the other day while at tempting to break up some illicit distil leries in the mountains of Tennessee, and telegrams were straightway sent to a member of the United States Senate announcing this as another terrible Ku- Klux outrage. Revenue officers have been assaulted and some of them shot in Philadelphia and New York, but we never heard that it was proposed to nut Pennsylvania and New cYork under martial law on that account. Why should a different rule be applied to the South ? If the people of Pennsylvania are not held responsible for the shooting of Collector Brooks, neither should the people of Tennessee be held responsible for the doings of illicit distillers in that State. It is only the criminals who should be punished in either case. CHIEF JusTicE Cu ASE has so far re covered as to be able to take his seat on the bench of the Supreme Court. The country will be glad to learn of the convalescence of Judge Chase, not On his account alone, but because his presence is needed at tile head of the Court just now. If the legal-tender question is to be re•oprncd, it is eminent ly fit and proper that the man who is the father of the system should be heard, when an attempt is made to reverse the deliberate judgment which was render ed on a former occasion. TILE Election Committee has unani mously rejected the application which was made b by certain citizens of Ohio, for contesting the seat of Representative L. B. Campbell, who defeated General Schenck. This action of the committee encourages the hope that contested elec tion cases will be decided according to the evidence hereafter, and not accord ing to the politics of the parties. Tin: New York Legislature has been disposing of business without any indi cation of Interruption since the cessa tion of the dead-lock in the House, and is expected to be able to adjourn this week.'• The two per cent. Tax Levy bill, and the bill to reorganize the local government of New York city, passed the Assembly last night, Winans voting with the Democrats. THE Board of Arbitrators selected to determine the disputes in the coal re gions, met at Mauch Chunk, yesterday, and selected Judge Elwell, of Colum bia county, as umpire. The Judge is au honorable man, and hopes are enter tained that a permanent adjustment of the existing difficulties may speedily be arrived at. IT IS said that the Conference Com mittee in our Legislature are likely to agree upon an apportionment bill in a day or two, which will be satisfactory to a majority of the members of both Houses. That will end the dead-lock, and a speedy adjournment would follow Senator Trumbull on the Kel-Hlux. Bill. Senator Trumbull had sense enough to discern the many evils which are couched in the Ku-Klux bill, and suffi cient manlinetA to speak out boldly against a measure which had-tecelved the sanction of the Republican therab s ers of the Lower House of Congress. He very justly characterized it as intended to change the form and theory of our government, and therefore most danger ous in every feature; but especially In that which gave the President power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus at will. The following is the synopsis of his speech furnished by the Associated Press : Mr. Tfumbull opposed the amendments reported from the Judiciary Committee. as making the bill obnoxious to the objection made to it in the House, that it went to the extent of punishing persons for violating State laws without any reference to the Constitution or laws of the United States. He did not think that even the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Edmunds) would as. sume that Congress should pass a general criminal code fur the States of the Union. It was understood by the members of the House that the bill, as passed by that body, went no further than to protect persons iu the rights guaranteed to them by the Con stitution and laws of the CuiteslStates, and did not undertake to authorize one citizen of a State to assert his rights in the Federal Courts or in any other way against another in the same State. That such was the purpose of the bill, was now urged as the pretext for the proposed amendments. After referring to the extent to which the bill had been enlarged by the Committee, Mr. Trumbull went on to combat the theory that under tile recent constitu tionat amendments our government had become centralized and its principles fanged. lie denied that the fourteenth emolument conferred any rights of citi zenship not contained originally in the Constitution. While that amendment en abled Congress to protect a citizen from a discrimination against his rights by aState, ' it did not allow Congress to exercise police power to the destruction of State authori ty. Congress nad no right to substitute the Federal for the State courts. The latter were nearer the people, and the nearer the administration of justice between man find man was brought to the people them selves, the safer would lie their rights in person and property. When the Federal government took to itself the entire pro tection of the individual citizen of the State in his person and property there would be an end to the State government, resulting in an unwise change in our governmental system, lie then criticised each of the amendments, and alluded to the danger to he apprehended in unnecessary and un habrits j ustiliable suspensions of the writ of Republican Opinion of Amnesty The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, well known as a prominent Republican newspaper comments upon tl!e Ku• K us Bill and the rejection of the Am ne,ty act by the Senate, as follows : The Amnesty bill passed by the Hosso of Representatives, and which we believe is acceptabin to the best and moat influen tial people of the whole country, hangs tire in the Senate, and there appears to be adisposition among some of the prominent Republican Senators to delat it. We doubt the expediency of the Ku Klux bill, which will doubtless pass in substantial ly its present shape, and No are confident that so far from allaying the irritation and bad feeling at the South, it will only in crease them, unless it is accompaoled by an amnesty measure that will convince the intelligent people of the South that there is a real desire on the part of the Government to heal the wounds of the war, and to interfere as little as possible with the domestic affairs of the several States. Many of the best men of the South—those who are really disposed to be good citizens —aro strongly convinced that all the re pressive measures adopted by Congress towards the late Rebel States are mere ly for the purpose of maintaining the ascendancy of toe Republican party.— The time has most certainly come when a broad and liberal policy is necessary unless the irritation of the South is to be a source of trouble fir the future, and now is the time when a general amnesty which will restore the proscribed classes of the South to toll citizenship will be of avail. as an ap propriate finale to the reconstructive meas ures of Congress, to inaugurate a reign of peace and to put an end to the disorders that will continue so long as the proscription of the participants in the Rebellion is a part of the policy of the party in power.— Amnesty must come sonic time, anti it will be better now than next year or the year after. If we are to wait until every South erner is transformed into a quiet, law abiding citizen, we will have to watt for ever; and it is a serious question whether the outrages Which are reported as occur ring in some of the States will nut sooner cease if they are left to the care of States themselves than if the General Government attempts to take them in hand. I we must have a Ku. Klux law, however, by all means let it be acrompan ied by an amnesty measure which will put an end to all furth er pretext for the deeds of violence against which the former is aimed. The language of the l'