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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'<kgruph tallies
with the sentiments expressed by the
ablest Republican newspapers of the
country, and it is certain that there is a
strong feeling among the best minds of
the party against the action of Congress.
It required all the induence of the Presi
dent to induce the membeis of the lower
House to pass the Ku-Klux Bill in the
shape in which it was sent to the Sen
ate. In refusing to concur in the Sen
ate amendments the House showed a
proper appreciation of public sentiment.
Force 111121151111,4 1111(1 111WS tending to
centralize lower in the hands of the
President can no longer commend them
selves to the people of the North, and
are not calculated to increase the
strength of the party proposing and en
actingthem.
General E. Dumont, recently appoint
ed Governor of Idaho, died - at India
napolis yesterday.
Miss Mary Lee, daogliter of the late
General R. E. Lee, is said to be engaged
to Mr. Charles Upton, the cashier of the
First National Batik of Rochester, N. Y.
Manuel _Daniel, a Spaniard, was found
murdered in his cabin, at Los Angeles,
Cal., on Tuesday. Jealousy is believed
to have caused the crime. The supposed
murderer has been arrested.
During a violent snow-storm about
120 miles west of Omaha. last Monday,
a tnan named Henry was frozen to death.
An Indian woman also perished near
the same place.
Gen. H. H. Laurence, late Pension
Agent at New York, has been missing
since March 20, when he was at Chica
go. As his accounts appear to be cor
rect it is feared that lie has been made
away with.
It is estimated that it will cast nearly
a million of dull:vs to distribute the
speeches made on the Ku-Klux busi
ness in the different sections of the Uni
ted States where they will he needed for
political ellect.
A Ourderer, named Levi Farrington,
alias John Hastings, was arrested at
Memphis, nu Saturday. Sillee October
last, he has murdered three nien—one
in Missouri, one in Arkansas, nod the
other in Tehnessee.
A colored couple in Putnam county,
Georgia, whose combined age is one
hundred and eighty-two years, were
united in wedlock recently. They said
the reason they were so precipitate
about the thing, they didn't want their
partens to find it out.
Near Denver, Col., Win. I'. Orchard,
who had made .i-'3011,11011 Or i 5 4 ,10,0110
mining operations, is reported to hare
attempted to hang himself recently, be
cause he had not money enough to buy
his breakfast with.
Miss Morey, employed in the post
office at McGranville, near l'ourtland,
N., was arrested yesterday morning
on the charge if stealing letters contain
ing money, addressed to James Vice, of
Rochester.
The authorities of Jamaica have
seized 11.1 packages of arms and ammu
nition, which were clandestinely landed
and hidden in the bushes at Salt Hey.
They were Intended for exportation to
the Cubans, but will now be sold at
public auction.
Mrs. Alin le Breed, of Norwich, Conn.,
died a few days since, and left s2o,Oun to
a faithful servant, Abby Nilkey, for
twenty years of devotion. The domes
tic was so delighted with the legacy
that she actually died of excess of hap
piness In less titan two weeks.
It is reported that not lees titan seven
women have appeared In different parts
of Great Britain, each of them claiming
to be the lawful wife of the eccentric
Earl of Aberdeen. As the Earl was
always presumed to be a bachelor, these
wives are probably of the supposititious
sort.
The railroad and wagon bridge across
the Missouri river at St. Louis, was
completed on Tuesday. Its cost was
about 51,000,000. It has eleven piers,
and the largest draw-span In the world,
being 384 feet In length. In the centre
are two spans, 350 feet wide, for the pas
sage of rafts.
The idea of inserting a memorial win
dow for Alice Cary in the Church of the
Strangers has been abandoned, for the
reason, It seems, that she belonged to no
special denomination, and was a mem
ber of no church. Dr. Deem says that
the amounts already subscribed will go
towards erecting a suitable monument
over her grave.
Coal of t good quality has been dis
covered in Dublin township, Fulton
county.
Gov. Geary has appointed John B.
Hoke, of McConnellsburg, Associate
Judge of Fulton county, vicc J. W.
Porter resigned.
There were 267 deaths In Philadelphia
last week, being a decrease of 7 compar
ed with the mortality for the previous
week.
Mr. J. Keinhert's residence, in North
Middleton township, Cumberland coun
ty, was recently entered, and $530 taken
therefrom.
General Sheridan's lecture In Harris
burg, last week, on " Sherman's
March to the Sea," was a failure financi
ally; the attendance being very meagre.
President Grant has nominated R.
McKibben as postmaster of Middletown
and D. S. Gilger as postmaster of Sha
mokin.
Over $5,000 has already been Slit
scribed by the workmen in the Phamix
Iron Works towards the erection of the
monument to the late David Reeves, of
Phcrnixville, Delaware.
John Gibson, Esq., of York, and Capt.
Frank J. Magee, of Wrightsville, have
been selected to represent York county
in the next Democratic State Conven
tion.
Jesse and Jared Darlington, at Dar
lington station on the West Chester
Railroad, have in their dairy 102 cows
of superior stock. Within a few weeks
they have lost 17 by pleuro-pneumonia.
At the Democratic meeting in Kittan
ning, Armstrong county, on Tuesday
night, Hon. G. S. Putney was elected
Senatorial. and Col. Win. Sirwell Rep
resentative delegates, to the next State
Convention.
The excitement concerning the Fin
ley well, Milton farm, does not seem to
abate. The well is doing IN to I:Hi bar
rels per dqy. A number of leases have
been taken and considerable land
changed hands.
John Smearmanul, a young man about
21, years of age, who lent a billiard sa
loon and eating-house in Huntingdon,
committed suicide on Friday afternoon
last, by shooting himself through the
heart with a pistol:
An incendiary fire in New berg, Cum
berland county, on Monday last destroy
ed six stables, a number of hogs, horses,
cows, agricultural implements, &c.. be
sides damaging a number of neighbor
ing dwellings. The loss is about
The Treasury Department, last week
drew a warrant for :5137,522 to the order
of Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, to
pay that State in full for funds expend
ed in equipping troops Miring the late
rebellion. The check was paid to Mr.
Evans, the State agent of Pennsylvania.
One day last week the body of a man
named John Harper was found in the
woods near Harrisburg. It is supposed
he committed suicide, as a box contain
ing poison was found on him. Ile had
been under the influence of liquor for
six or eight weeks. The coroner's jury
found a verdict of death from poison.
Major Freas, of the t; erman town Tel
(graph, in this week's issue, says : Pear
trees were in bloom on Monday. On the
same day we , had our first dish of aspar
agus. This is ten days earlier than ever
before. Asparagus was up on the :411,
seven days earlier than we ever remem
ber it. Last year it did not make its ap
, pearance before the 2.5 th.
John Rich, an old man, residing near
Chatham's Rail, Clinton county, reeent
ly fell oil' a foot-log. while crossing a
stream called Plumb Run, near his resi
dence, and drowned before assistance
could reach him. The deceased was
about SO years old, and loKbcen a resi
dent of the county since the year 1:12.0.
He was at one time County Commis
sioner of Clinton county.
On Tuesday evening, D. 411 till., Ifni-.
Win. Hatfield, of Redstone township,
Fayette county, tnet with a very serious
accident, from which fears are apprehen
ded that he may never recover. He was
down in the bottont of a well at the
time of the accident, and haul tilled a
bucket and sent it up, when the rope
slipped fron the windlass, and the buck
et and its contents fell upon his head
and shoulders, fracturing his skull and
breaking his collar-bone.
The testimony of a witness called for
the Commonwealth in a Ilerks county
Court, a few days ago, was challenged
by the defence, on the ground that he
bad expressed sentiments detrimental
to judicial character. The witness was
permitted by the Judge to be interroga
ted only as to nis present belief, and not
as to the opinions he had professed on
any former occasion. He stated in re
ply, that he had rend Paine's Age of
Reason, but believed in the existence
of a Supreme Being, and in It future
condition of punishment, though not
eternal punishment. lie sots then al
lowed to be sworn.
• .
pestilential. The etimplaints had Leconte
Platform of the Con.erwathe Iteinahll-
so general that even l'ongress could not
emus.
disregard then]. General Garfield, chair-
ST. Louis, April N.—Twelve gentlemen, inan of the }louseConinlittee it I Currency
and Ranking, the other clay reported a Mil
who style themselves the " Liberal '• Be
providig tor the issue fes.
publican Executive Committee of St. General n Garfield, though a of
Itadicr es a h
l, not is es-
Louis, " publish an address, in which they
teemed 10. , a Irian of honor ;hut lie and his
explain the occasion oldie existence of the
(sampansr are altogether too flinch under
Committee, and the position of the move
the influence of the national bank interest,
went in which they are engaged, after
and the bill reported provided that the new
which they sum up the P"' iti " u 'I policy notes should be issued by the Treasury, „t
of the Committee in the ftillowing platform;
the , Mild 10 IVll,ll.`le, an injustit•ti so gross
First. A Democratic ballot-box equality
and flagrant that it is astonishing how a
of eitizenship as established by the consti•
num of GartielTs repiltation and intern
tutional amendment, and amnesty for all
genee conk] he !blind willing to father Itl
past political offences.
The moment the bill was offered. Nit . . I lob
Second. The supremacy of ('ori,Litirtion
inan, the Derilocratie Refirei,eiitittive of the
at government that the Executive shall not , et.t.htt tht.art„tot . I
~,,hatta,
moved what the
involve Lite Legislature, nor that either of
the two shall usurp the powers or the Ja-
tools of the binik ring, call '•a very olinox
dwiary.
ious amendment," providing that the banks
Third. We condemn President Grant's .
should pay the expense obi ssuing, the now
notes, an amendment so just that General
course in vornlnittiligacts of Waron a neigh- , „ , , , ,
I r.rill'll/ 120111. not refuse to accept. it, and
boring republic. its V iolative of the Constilli
that many Itt•publicans, nottlirectly limier
tion Which vests the Wartnaking power in
the inn Benet) of the bank ring, joined the
Congress. solid Democratic phalanx in Its favor. The
Fourth. We are opposed to all enact
amendment was carried by a liberal nue
"writs whereby- it is put within the !"."- ioritv. But when the vote on the bill itself
tion of the President, to declare martial law
( 'was taken, on a motion by Mr. Campbell,
or to suspend the writ of personal liberty, Cll ,
.main, the Dellloeratif . SUI'll'SNI,r of
even in an actual condition of war, its vim
Schenck, the bill was ordered Mid on the
lative of the Constitution in substituting
table by a very light vote, and this much
the will of the President in the place cdf the
needed Measure again postponed.
law of the land. It may not be so rt•adily apparent why
Fifth. We are opposed to any tariff which ~ „muss , , ,
the satin./ oppose the issite of new
is intended to loSter any one, or other class
notes, even at their own expense. 'rho
of industry, and thus tax one man or class
cost is not so great but that it would lie
for the benefit of another, and we 111111111 AM
amply Vonipensated for by the COnvenienuti
that all taxes should he levied, with limo of the banks themselves. The true reason
sole intent
to secure '"'"d" revenue with of their „hjeetion to the new ii„tei, is that
the le,,st possible burden to the politic as a
the old notes lire constantly wearing out,
whole.
I are destroyed and lost It requires only
Sixth. Believing that the tinte has come
one mointMCs thought to reeogniZe the fact
when thecondition of our country warrants
that a new, clean, crisp while wife is not
a resumption of specie payment, we favor
huffs,' easby lost and destroyed as an old,
a speedy return to the basis of gold and KO- ,lark, limp, and soft one; and, of course,
ver currency, and we deprecate any effort all
notes s,, lost and destroyed are a direct
to compel the present generation to pay
gain to the bank, as it is not called upon to
the principal cif the debt incurred for the ,
redeem thorn. :Now, the people k
a the
preservation of the Union, believing that,
United States pay the national bans an
as future generations, as toll a., tile pre
nuttily about twenty millions of dollars, for
sent derive the bent rid therefrom, limy .
should bear a proportionate share of the t he service which they are supposed to
render the public in they
it with
same. three hunched millions Or kink n ites,
seventh. Iteform in app,iiitinents to the which the fiublit• might have entirely free
usual service that personal qualifications
cif rust, if it lint e 1 1 ,,,, 10 say the word. Yet
and intrinsic merit shall he the standard, ' when the
1),,,,p, complain that instead 01.
and not Executive favoritism. a decent currency, for whir., they pay a
fabulous price, they are furnished with in
letsmt rags, ‘vt• are coolly told that we may,
l'rumbed 10 Death In a Cathedral Clark.
' .erliar .. have new currency! i - we, the pea
The hell ringer in the Cathedral of \\ * ll riz.
. 1 •':' ,
Li, pay for it ; that we certainly
burg has perished under very singular I ii,p lc,
: snail tent have it unless we do, but that
taint-48.11e5. lice church possesses a aplen- .
even it we choose to pay f.Pr it, it is by inc
did clock, with ponderous and complicated ,
IllOilllS certain that our . masters of the na•
works, white a p1 4 11(1.1111:11 of proportionate ,
tionabbank ring will allow us to have it,
length vibrates to and Ira with a dull irio- ,),...,,,, they
,aake in
lice
„ , , 4
ran a little
notonOlisi "thud.” Recently the clock
, additional per,•entage over and above the
needed cleaning, and the ringer was dept- twenty 1111111,1• 4 , by c,,,,1 ;wiling the people
fed to superintend the work, thoughlie I Ue
to use HIP tii,o4llStittg,li I thy rags whieli these
fully endeavored to, be excuser Prow Lhe ,
task. It seems that he never willingly ap-
1 impudent moimpotists tender us as a me
pa fr tt y mil
prioiela,l the belfry, from certain unpleas
lion erabu subndsidynt returnV. erily, Or
veth,•lrily w
, th en e worst
:nit afesa•iations. About tWellty 3,i11, ago ,
enemy to the national ban ks could not hurt
lie hall killed his predecessor i n ,mtee. ac- them so much in the [midi,. Ohtl.1•111 as their
causing hill) of e „,." 1 , on a ,„j„,/nal in•
trigue with his Wife. \\Aron brough t to V(. ~. ~,,
oon 111144,, Id.llf. il)11•4 rapacity does ,:very tlay
trial he vamped the gallows owing to a de
liciency of legal proof . .
'The patronage of one of the canons then
procured him the appollitnient Vitentit Tno .8 nlcrienn (Arts Hein an Stases In
through the death of his victim. 11ene..., it anises,
Is said arose superstitious dread hi cornice , The daughter% of in Southern planter are
thin with the belfry, which was supponeo now slaves in Brazil. The planter utirigra
to be haunted by the ghost of the murdered tad thither at the close of ilor war and wits
ringer. On the morning it wan to he unsilecessi nil. The Itricidlian laws are such
cleaned it suddenly stopped, and the bell• that when rr citizen becomes in debt, it he
ringer was no where to be nnintl. A work- I has no property, his elrildren are sold as
Man from the town was sent for, and as• ! spaces, the prices they bring going to the
eerirJed the tower, when he was horrdled to payment of the obligation, Our mend,
Illid the pendulum and lower works drip- saes tine leepublterin Ilanner,
ping with blood. Upon searching further, when he reached lirardl, Unwisely became
the body of the boliringer wan round en- naturali•r.ed and a ;south American entre'',
tangled in the works, frightfully mangled and stihject to the laws, thus by his owl)
and crushed, Otto supposition is, that he volition, expatriating himself from his Un
committed suicide by climbing up the pen- live vountry and its protection. 110
le
dulum and then pitching himself into the came involved inn debt to some Brazilians.
middle of the machniary of the clock. Him children were sold IN shave's, 'I Inlla,
But tire wonder loving gossips of the his two daughters, now grown Tennessee
place, with a thorouoli (Turman propensity young ladies, urn slaves, doing menial
for the horrible, declare that the guilty man work for unlettered inmters and mistresses
upon reaching the gloomy chamber where in Brazil, their price paying a devoted but
in the works revolve was horrorddruck by unfortunate father's debt. The amount
the apparition of his inurnered predecessor of the debt, wo understand, Is t‘l,'.:oo in gold,
sitting astride of the great balance wheel of i and steps hive been taken to have the
the clock, and had then been drawn into 11111001 a placed in the hands of the father.
the works by a species of horrible and ir
resistible fascination similar to that which
the rattlesnake Is said to exorcise over its
p:oy. There sat the !moan, rubbing his
goary hands with hldoona glee as thu vie•
tim was slowly drawn In among the cogged
wheels and rachota of the machinery. nn
agonized yell, a crushing or bonos and all
Dlanatrons Railroad Accident
JERSEY CITY, April 17.—At about two
o'clock yesterday morning a disastrous
collision occurred on the Erie Railroad at
Weehawken. A train from the cattle
yards at Fort Lee, headed by engine No.
58, met a train from the oil-docks, headed
by engine No. 150, on a single track just
this side of Weehawken. The engines,
together with four of the oil cars and three
cattle cars, were completely wrecked, en
tailing a loss of $25,000. Michael Hanlon,
one of the engineers, was terribly scalded,
and a fireman, in leaping from the train,
fell and sustained severe injuries.
The Senate and the Yoke° Bill
The following article froth fiat able and
indbentlal Republican journal the Xen•
York Evening Pont, so clearly expresses
our own views, and is so well-calculated for
this latitude, that we give place to it In
preference to any comments of our own:
The majority of the Senate have made
the Ku-Klux Bill of the House more severe,
and, if possible, more violently In opposi
tion to the Constitution than it was before,
and have passed it. But the debate has
brought out with great force the unconsti
tutionality and impolicy of the measure;
and quite destroyed any moral weight It
might otherwise have had with the public.
The people of the country look with ex
treme jealousy upon every act of the Na
tional Government which weakens the
guaranties of the fundamental law against
centralization; and the extent to which
this jealousy is now aroused is wed-shown
by the cold support given to this bill by
many of the most zealous Republican jour
nals and the intelligent opposition 01 others.
For this result the country is largely in
debted to the able criticisms with which
Senators Trumbull and Schurz have met
this usurping act of legislation. Those gen
tlemen have done a lasting service to the
country by their efforts to defeat the bill,
or at least to keep Its provisions within a
plausible interpretation of the Constitution ;
and, although they have failed in the
im
mediate object beiltre them, yet they have
succeeded in a higher object; and the in
! telligence and patriotism of the country
are gathering around them, in a growing
protest against the disposition to sacrifice
republican principles to partisan and tem
porary ends. The obnoxious bill will
dcu , tless, lnr a time, disgrace oor statute
' OK ; but attempts to en lbrce it can only
further illustrate the wisdom of its oppo
nents and the folly of its projectors. The
men who seek to set a faction in power
above all the restraints of the Constitution
tam hardly tail themselves to St's that an -
other sumo victory is all that is needed to
ruin them.
'l'he important amendments made in the
Senate are the following: The (louse bill
made it a high crime by threats or violence
to interfere with the person or property of
any ()nicer of the l ' ailed States, "on ac
count of his lawful discharge" of otliciul
duty, but the Senate makes it read "on ac
-I.llllllt of ur Irillit'ingnyed In the iaWr.i dis
charge of 'lllll duty; '' thus constituting
the men (vino may hull any commission
under the general government a privileged
class, any injury to %%Ilium in prrson or
property, is [4. to a higher a
similar injury to another eittz...n, and pun.
fishable by another tribunal. This clause
will apply to the whole army ut . United
Static marshals, deputies, cullectors, Hp
eighers and other oltice•rs
throughout the land; and has 111, analogy
to any legislation ever proposed in a thise
country before. 1 • or its parallel NVIt must
look to lands in it hien royal blood a
patent of nobility confers a peculiar sacred-
Ile, 11114111 the 10tT,1,11 and property oC cer
tain fortunate men. This is dunr , it mil,:
be remeni tiered, on the pretext of en forcing
the equality of all citizens before the law,
The same severe iumalties, i,v anothi•r
:mientlinent, are to be incurred by any
person who, by force jr thrt•Ats, uttempls
to interfere with the vote of owy voter, tor
President or l'or l'on4res,tien, or to injure
voter, in person or property, on account
of his vote.
.knother amendment aulhorim, the Pres
dent to interfere with the army rind navy
t hi. discretion, not only whenever lu•
cal di,orders or conspiracies in any
State shall deprive any part nil its peo
ple of their constitutional rivlits, but
is believer they "shall obstruct the equal
and impartial course of justiee." As ii,
trtbunai hut the l'resident's
is required to determine when such inter
ference is called fur, this clause leaves it Lo
at his toVn in,uutre, NV hielleVvr ho slip
laaios that any diree or more persons lust e
deprived any other person of "equal and
impartial justice," to use the army and
navy nil the 1 . 111(cd Mao's to enforce his
owl ideas of jninti,e against them. The
saii‘e seetwn adds to llr is that he laity trill
such 'other Means - 1111111 the nontary
limes ",ts he way deem Ileee.elitr' ler the
sliti[irt'S,liel" it such disorders or conibt•
Since tile Hotuan Senate der reed
that the Consuls should sett that the !tepid,-
lie sulTered uo tiara,. and so ma lo then,
absolute dice tor,, tin stielt pincers have
been conferred to,. any legislative body
up , u it.t Executive.
The time during which the President is
eta ISA, ere,' at his ilisoretion to suspend the
writ lit hrllto•ets ••,117,us and to declare ;par
tial lax when lie will. IA le the
end tits the next regular session nt Con
gre,s.- Twenty-three Senators voted ler
lorton's amendment to extend the
time to .Nlarcli -I, Itt7:l, so that martial law
'night Le used and Itn furred by the Presi
dent at his will during the election of Ni..
veniber, 1572; but Illiiiiirity of tilt it,,
publican Senators voted ugai nnl this
uudls
guised outrage.
The bill, substanti,lily as it 11.111' stands,
seems likely to be passed. The country
will then be, so far as the National Legisla
ture can place it there, in the absolute pow
er of the President ; and whatever of mu
nicipal liberty and civil order the people,
alike in Now York and in Iteorgia, may
enjoy Mr the nest year, will be due to the
nirbearatlee, moderittion of the
National Exeoutive rather than to that by
which these blessings bravo hitherto been
.enured—the principles of our government
alai the I.ttlitratitieS til tile CliliStalittell.
Oor Ragged Bonk-Note,
The national-Look ring in determined to
make mien odions. From 'marl, of lime
country eoine complaints of the bad I,llllli
lion of time national bank-notes. They 111
filthy, ragged, illegible, pestiferous and
111=1
Another Hogue Honored by Groot
The Washington correspondent of the
New York ifcroid says:
The appointment of James NV. Baker, as
Commissioner of Pensions, in place or :Mr.
A ernam, whose resignation, it is said, was
exacted from him in consequence of the
investigation instituted against Con
gressman Roderick it. Butler, of Ten•
for alleged frauds upon the Pen
sion 0111ce, has causeu some continent
hero storing those who are familiar with
the antecedents of Baker. Allusion Is
made to his haying been charged with
complicity in the embezzlement of and
fraudulent sale of Ohio State bonds in
1857. Similar charges were preferred
against hint reflecting upon his Wilt:lad
conduct as Register of the United States
Land Office, at Booneville, Mo., from 1897
to 18439, and which prevented his being sent
as Consul to Havre in the Spring or 1869.
Missouri Republicans are particularly op
posed to this appointment.
FRENCH REIGN OF TERROR
Efforts to Capture Paris
PARIS, Aprill3, via London, April 14.
Ashniers still holds out against the Ver
sailles forces, whose every attack is re
pulsed.
Engagements are In progress at Neuilly.
Shells trom.Fort Valerian are falling In the
Champs Elysees. Cannonading Is heard
south of the city.
- - .
PARIS, April 13 ( Evening ), via London
Aprill4.—The object of the Versailles
commander to-day was apparently to
reach Asnieres, and thereby relieve a de
tachment of their troops surrounded by
the Communists' forces on the island of
Grande Jotte. The Versailles batteries
cannonaded the villages of Levaillois,
Champeret anti Neuilly. There was infan
try lighting at all approaches to the vil
lages. The Communists gave way at eleven
o'clock, and General Dombrowski asked
for reinforcements. They were sent for
ward, and it is announced by to-night's
communist Journal that the Versaillt s
forces were finally repulsed.
Loma's, April It ho Tana special
from Versailles says: The arrival of Gru.
l•'abrice, German Administrator, a' St.
Denis,ts consequent upon the recent notifi
cation from the Versailles Government iti
the intention to make a supreme effort for
the capture of Paris.
A tivantity of guns hay° been seized in
rho shop of an American dealer. Two
American contractors have otlered to buy
the column of Vendome and east it iuio
The Tele,lt•ftvh*.v special front Versailles
says: 'rile loses of the insurgents in the
combats last week aggregate hilly nine
thousand. Some insurgenlnn
have proia...x.i, to the Versailles Govern
lo lelnver up the gates 01 Paris and
Forts ti'lssy and VitilyrTs MI the payment.
of two And at half 11.111,,m frunies. The eller
is declined.
The newspaper i.r
111.1110eti that . LllO , 111,11rgt•nts made 2,oiti
prisoners al.
A despatch front Paris yo.terthly
that twelve shell-. were tired I..irk, uud
eatuseil grent tlannize. Ishell.v Ire
to lull, mid it. Is reekunekl Llutl prepert)'
1, the Value t,I . : . .,11010111 Cranes wa,.(lestrey
t..l. The tightiniZ is still going
great attack is exported that, must be final.
A tit...putt - It tram Ver , ailles smiles that
the ,t..rics nC the g..oertnnent Irnnls hying
dereated ut Asnier.s unJ l'hun.l.rlo are un
true. The 11 - 0,1...1111y retreated I. thAsv
the iii•tirgent , out. .\ ulerlelin gentle-
Who ha , ju.l prt lilt Ireitt Peiri ,
that it is eetnunly truo that t l ,llllll
geel, are 1:111011, tieliteled nod
The ge,ertillielit e•eleivaverun4
the tile 11l the Prtis,an grin , I.hute.4
E1:5.,1 1.1 1,--The ,1.111.111e.ht
Thal the 111,11',1zelit. tre..ps hall make) 1 110
I.reivy eC NctilllV is net tme. The gee
erinuent. hlrres mama hull ire.,,,e11 el the
11l The e:hillelhele 1, 11 ,11,
"I . Clamart in , ' I
nnerly Ihein,Liv,.. the gill, et the Heel, -
14eIlls tieing 11111.1!y sorted.
=MEM
In the rill:tat Mr.
RuLen
nnn ;altered a tuuuen In attic,' the Inds,
Pt lu get
.\iljen ulna; it \sit-. ileferrial 1111111 in
day. Mr. SluirtnoiCa ~,,tno•t•
ing the Vslimiri• l'imituittro 1,, c,.11,1,h,
during the rect•.., the heal
ing laxalinnwaa
Spelt 4.14,1r,d has, the ;e
-ducing the taxes relent il, Ina Mr.
hull nitnietil, ni girder that the bills repeal
ing till' dune. "li
,•I, ;; ;, en laaiig acted
speeches nil the Ku-Klux hill ht' Meaara.
and Ilii‘ aril, the .-.11;111.
went 1110. 1 . 11 1 :1•0111, 1. ;111.1
fluently odpairilt..l.
Lt the Xleaars.
Its °ALOE', 1111•1111.0,1;.•10 t I ' l.llll 1 1 ..111114•111 ul
=lllllll
a tan th, ~.ttha,• tht.
Spdiati.Ftt rhiLtil.. 'I In 5.•1.1.. 11111,111i
-10 HIV 1)1.11C10111•y I.lli -1.11.1.11,•11111 , .
awl several t11,1.,,51.11 th, tak
tug I 4 It VClit II II ;11111.11.11i1,11. n•hul II
lii lII , ' ,of the 11,,54i
Till' April
In the I s,.„an. , on, \ 3 ,,3 0 1 3 3 3 0 ,i 3 3 03 t
y.I 3‘1,-3.r.. NV31,111 and 1 arl3olllrr
V4.111/1//// 1,, \\ . 10.1. 1:331u 3 r1.3.1311
gav3 3 11333131 3 that It,. ,53311131 313.6 V/111/ 111001
1110 11110•1011111/111. 1 , 1 11, 33rtl,
1i,t1 , 111 011 1110 .‘ 1111/I , ly 1/111 as
3.333311 as 1.111 , Fn/Flux 101 l aa. li' parne/1
//r. nn 11101101133 f r. Triil33l.lll Sel•re-
Illry 1/11110 Inlet / I , lr %,li/.1111/0011/11 Iu Itint,l , ll
sTalol3l3ll. /11 111 e 11/313i31a11 3 333 3,1 lIIr I'ltito , l
glyll 111 , 4 3 33, 3 1--1 3 ,133111 mid 11.1.11
133,33131aniiii iii 1,4 3 11 1 , 1:110 /.//1/.11,111/IV, /IS ;IS
-1,11a1111.11 1/y 11111 1114111 ,1 ,1.11.. 1 . 110 Il•
KIIIX 1011 tn.. 411/.011 , 00/11, 1 111L/11l 3 33, 3 ,313.r3
131•Iti, tcth 111, 3 tLai1, 3 3 , 11,311111.; that
the hill is t331(33111,13,3,11331133•3133y.
In the Iltouse, 8.1111111 . , 1111.111151.1 . -
elt•i•i. 11 . ..111 t 011111,t1011E, lippear,l ttml 1,114
sivttrut ui. 'l
lie It, Ili•11.111 - y hill \lll, .•..11,1iI
vreil and vat t1111..11111111•11IN ,Vl.lO .101
, llrred in. Tlit• 11111,1411111 . 111. tlir.
law xvlm•li rt , iiiirt,
meet an Nl:trill,
VllO ;0.1 tio \ :41!
the airleiillllll,ll, the I ic,tiso adj. 1.1111.41.
Vn4ii .Iprll 11.
In the [oiled States :senate, Air. flow.
Iliaill!.4,1114. I squarks ithdraw tsg us, asses..
Uon 501iieli tiff Made during the San
debate, that >I r. Simmer "had been
speaking in the interest ..1 sirs. iii . llll , llLit .
" r. Sumner, I rely mg, said
that he was :LI ways a faithful mein her of the
Itel.ulilican party, lint! toll lII.' o a.I .n r...
lerlOd Or sort, trying 1110 1 W1.41(11E1.1,
and the party' a.l 11111,11 Seinlit.a . from
NVisemisin. lux bill was then
talien up, and NI r. Schurz, in cnurisung 11,
poVisiolls, defined 111111So:I /...
1.111,1111111, \VIPs tvould firmly maintain the
Constitntional amendments. ' Fe lea
bill Islts then passed, W Ills 11111,1t11111•11i,,
extending be the end of the next ii . giit.tr
session of Ci/ligross the lfeuo 151 Willill the
President may suspend the writ sit 11 , 11,,,,
corpuß I 555e,,itig damages (is persons and
property upon lovalities %risers, outrages
may occur, uml ruing Molest-oath tor
United 1111115 juror :%lessrs. II ill, Rol.-
SIIIIII - 17., Ttilt/Ili, and '('runt bull
voted with tire Democrats against the 1.111.
' rise Senate then adjourned.
In the (louse, ' ,kir. Myers
bill, \Ouch was passed, giving twllVlf OM •
111.1111Ii•ti 11111111 Lin 1.110 ilitary Legion of
Philadelphia, riot' 010 erection of a imam
ment. their cemetery. .Ir. letley offered
resolutions, Ns 111111 ,vere adopted, asking
information of the State Department rela
tive to iron and usher ship building it
Sweden and Norway. The lieneieuey bill
was taken 1111, nod nn Il1111•11,11111 . 111,
adopted appropriating s2o,onif for the 1,-
I,lllllllllg of OM Catholic orphan Asylum ILL
Charleston, S. C., in consideration of ser
vices renderril I.v the Sisal'', or Mercy In
[ ' Mon soldiers during . the bombardment
of that city. The Senate amendment tor
the reissue of National bank notes was
concurred in, the proviso relpiii mg the two
sides "ill., man to be printed by slitteront
printing-houses 'wing stricken nit. Alt
amendment olrereil by \I r. Holman torts
also adopted. requiring the In:11110i to pan
the exliellS, Or printing their own notes.
The 11.. use adi , airned without dispOSllig lot
the bill.
111 the U. S. Serrate, Mr. Itobertmon, nl
S. C., made nu ellort logel up the Armies??
Bill, hutit:t
.er 4.1110 di,IISSI.,II It 11101.ii.1, to
go 111111 I.Xec•llliVe mosNion prevailed Ity a
vote of :ll and the Senate soon alter
adjourned.
In tlio llouse, the Deficiency bill %vas
VllllNidered, and the :Senate allielahlielit I r
a rwinsuo nt 'mink sw - reney previously
agreed to, Was rejected, with Mr. I lollllllll'm
ainendment placing the cost mein the
Lacks. A efalie relies seas ordered MI the
disagreeing votes. The I<u-is lux Lill ,vas
pa_ssed, the amendments extending the
President's right to suspend the a rit nI
habetil reorpit.l till the end of the next reg•
iffor ,etiSkal I/I l'ttitgresm, retaining the test
stilt for jurors and assessing damages upon
localities, having been rejected. AOM ler
eta,' Ivtiti ordered on the hill. Adjourned.
NiON Y, April 17.
In the I S. Senate the I ti-Klux lull was
received t rom the House, and Mr. Trum
bull moved that the Senate ria•cile from tin•
ainendinenlm nomconeurrial in by the
!louse. The 'notion won rejected—yew+,
17 ; nays, 33. Nlessrs. ! • 11111 well, 11111, Ito
liertson, Schurz., and ‘Vright,
oh•d with the lieu to recede jplig,
the innetalnieni , . A committee Id 4 . onter-
Nice 11:14 thcn appoilued lin tile bill, and
alms on the Deficiency .\ iipropriation
The j oint resolution untie. czing l'roiessor
Henry, of the Nolitli.oolao Institute, to
-
'opt a title and decoration Iron. the }<ingot .
Sweden, wits ; also, the lions° hilt
giving condemned 1111111011 In the Nlilltary .
Legion of l'hiladelphia for a monument.
M r. Stewart offered a resolution prr,poNllll4
111,1111StIlliln.111.1 }lllll . lllllllollt 1 , 4 1 / 1 1111111g the
giving .If federal, State or Jl uuieijew 11141
to denominational schools, but objection
being inado by \I r. Ithilr, it W:4 , 1 WII1I•
drawn. Bills were introduced hy r, liar
lan, relating to the rights lir nom.' ?11.11.11,1
011 1.1111 I.lorl/1, 111111 :11r. SI/I'lll,r or
the protection life find property 1111 1.11.11.
i.rolng vesmels. A recesm won taken to
await Om action of the conference commit
teem, but on re.ammembling the Senate .1 •
joll ruled.
In the Ironsn it number of bills were in
troduced. The resolution offered last week
by :qr. Bell, of N. 11., declaring that the
11010.3 thloapproVvn the 1110 rd
to pay otr 11111lielino collie of the untlowil
.101 g, and would Inuit the ennui for the
principal or ',alit debt lu f.°..1.),...5.),(100, came
rip. Mr. Cox, We author of the need Meet,
In ord e r to test the Celle° of lhu house,
1110Ved to lay It on the (aide. The motion
was lost, the yeas being only :rand the nays
FOP. Tire House relused to second the pre
violin question, however, the yeas bcitig
and the nays 71, and the resolution alit
over. Mr. Butler, of Nlass., introduced IL
Joint resolution requesting Wu President to
cause to bo submitted to the Joint lllglt
l'otrimimmiutt the claims of American cit
izens for dattrazes for imprironment in
British prisons. 'rho vote on Ito adoption
was lurt to 3—no quorum, and it call or the
House was ordered, When a quorum
had answered the mornitig hour ex
pired, and thin resolution Weill over.. Mo
tions to suspend tine rotes anti pass hills
for the determination of ther north
western boundary line; for 11111e11(1111011t
of the revenue law taxing dealers In leaf
tobacco; for exemption of ferry boats front
payment of entrance foes ; untt requesting
We President to have We cam, of the Fenian
prisoners in Canada brought to the atten
tion of tile Joint High Commission, were
lost for want of the necessary sere-thirds
vote. Resolutions wore adopted request
ing the President to appoint live Commis
sioners to examine Into the propriety of
removing the Brooklyn Navy 1 ard ; re-