HOYT'H INAITH'RAL.
Gentlemen qf the Senate and ltouse of
jßepresentatives , and Fclloso-Cltuens ; We
are associated to-day, in observance of a
s time-honored custom. To you, the
occasion which convenes us is merely
ceremonial in its character. And yet
not only to you who are gathered uu
mediatelv wiihin the sound of my voice,
but to all the citizens of the state it is
nn occasion of serious import. You and
they are to witness a change in tho
chief magistracy of your commonwealth.
To myselt, it is more significant. While
I gratefully accept my share of the
pleasure incident to a pageant like this,
it is suggestive of delicate duties and
grave responsibilities. Elected to be
chief magistrate of the slate, my official
life begins here and now.
You have witnessed in my assump
tion of tho oath of otlice, a sacred an
peat to Almighty God, and a solemn
pledge of fidelity in the discharge of my
official obligations. "The supremo exec
utive power shall be vested in the gov
ernor, who shall take care that the laws
bo faithfully executed." This is the
language of our state constitution. It
briefly, simply and adequately define*
my principal duty. 1 lully understand j
these words—l fully comprehend the
dath I have just taken. The people of j
Pennsylvania expect me to keep that !
oath. By tho help of their prayers, nnd I
by the favor of Divine Providence, 1
expect to keep it.
It will be a common pleasure to us,
to be exempted from giving special at
tention, at this time, to matters of pub- ■
lie business. The conspicuous ability,
and the long and varied experience of
my distinguished predecessor, has per
mitted nothing to escape his attention
which concerned thq public good, or
was of sufficient importance to bo com
mended to the special action of the
general assembly, or which might chal
lenge the consideration of the people.
His last annual message is a document
nt once so judicious, timely and com
prehensive in its reviews of public af
lairs and its recommendations, as to re
lieve me, (or the present, from all core
in respect to that branch of the execu
tive duty. 1 may, therefore, regard
myself as at liberty to glance at some
topics, not inappropriate to the occasion
in which all good citizens feel a deep
concern.
j'he question uppermost in the mind
of the country relates to the revival of
business. The last five years will be
memorable in our national history as a
jx-riod of industrial depression and con
sequent social distress. These five years
have disclosed the causes of our trou
bles, and their experience should lead us
up to tho true methods of recovery.
They will be found to lie in the moral
forces of society and not in legislative
enactments ol executive interference.
I shall otfer you no discourse upon the
financial theories which have vexed us
during these years. We have come,
with great unanimity, to recognize the
actual lacts which lie at the bottom of
ibis whole subject. A generation of
yimnger business men bad come upon
the stage at a period of excitement fol
lowing the war, and of speculation,
fairly reaching the degree of gambling.
The vastly expanded credit which men
gave one to another in all forms of bus
iness, the result of an inflated currency,
led to unnatural values, as measured in
such currency. The temptations for
contracting debts were great and not
easily resisted. Wo (pent more than
we earned, we forgot that "the extrava
gance of the rich was not the gain of the
j>oor"—"that profusion and waste wore
not for the good of trade"—and that
everything consumed and destroyed
was so much lost in the labor which had
produced it. Circulating capital was
locked up in fixed property. The
wages fund was impaired. We aban
doned the maxims of experience and
t'.hesimplest truths in political economy.
\y,- measured values by a standard not
comn-'on to the civilized world with
whom we were in daily and necessary >
commercial intercourse. We failed to
remember that the issue of paper mon
ey, whether greenbacks, national bank
notes, bills ol exchange or checks, did
not add a dollar to the wealth of the
nation, and that while Indispensable as
n circulating medium, it could only
have a representative value. We did
not advert sufficiently to the present
physical and financial fact, that by the j
tacit agreement of the nations, the
precious metals are the only standard of
value, the only current money with the
merchant." We did not seem to know
that the instincts of a practical, shrewd
and enterprising nation of business men
must finally and forever reject the use
of an irredeemable currency. At the
last, pay day came, as it always must,
and bankruptcy came with it, as it al
ways will under like causes. (Air ca
pacity to consume was destroyed. The
producer was without buyers for her
merchandise. Debtor and creditor alike
hail to pause for the day of settlement.
A system of economy and saving waa
forced upon us, and it was the one pro
cess to restore us. It cost us a hard
struggle, self-denial and suffering, but
the result was health, moral and finan
cial. The rirtues of sobriety and in
dustry. renewed In practice, give us die
cip'ine and strength. They widened
nnd deepened our manhood and wo
manhood. Discarding the cheap devices
of mere theorists, the dishonest propo
sals of mere agitators, and the charlatan- _
ry of a political economy which under
took to teach us how to create wealth
without labor, we are now ready to go
forward. Henceforth we are to produce
and exchange actual things, and not
gamble in merely fictitious values. Re
sumption has taken place, confidence is
restored, and business will flow in
healthy channels so long as values are
stable and their measure honest. Penn
.ylvania is an empire in its resources,
•tad her people in the oast hare devel
oped and used them only by the virtues
of labor and economy. For the future
we mud accept the same conditions. It
is possible that within our border- thepe
may be required some readjustment of
our population to the centres of Indus
try some re-4i*trt button of labor and
capital. Your bureau of labor and sta
tistics. when adequately organized and
administered, will furnish abundant
data upon which the intelligence of the
people will act. ♦
I desiro here to bespeak the freest
and fullest co operation of the people
HI ritb their chief magistrate. It I* equally
i A dJi
their privilege and their'duty to miiko
their interests and their wishes known
through their legislative representatives,
by committee, by writing, or by direct
personal interview with the executive.
•Such careful, special, intelligent, unre
served expression upon the part of the
people, would enable both the legislative
nnd executive branches of their govern
ment to act with a clearer appreciation
of their necessities. I speak now for
myself alone, but I am at the same time
confident that 1 express the sentiments
of every gentleman who is oflicially re
lated to the State administration.
Wo are 'renewing, in part, the person•
nel of our state government, at a period
of momentous interest in our national
affairs. Tho one great question yet to
bo solved is: State government by the
ballot be maintained in this country,
with equal political rights for all legal
voters. Pennsylvania's attitude on that
question is known wherever her name
is known. That she will insist on the
enforcement of tho authority of the na
tional constitution, in every state of the
national union, is ns certain us that her
mountain peaks point toward heaven,
and her rivers roll to the sea. Under
no circumstances can she ever recede
from this position. Strong in herself,
stronger in virtue of the constitutional
relationship to her sister states, she
will be magnanimous, conciliating and
patient. But justice, in the end, must,
with her, be paramount. Upon this
high ground she will demand that the
provisions of a constitution made for all
shall be conformed to by all. This
question goes not only to her political
convictions, to her estimate of the worth
of ourcivili/atioti, but to the consciences
of her imputation. Pennsylvania bows
in unalterable devotion to tho grand
ideas of the supremacy, perpetuity and
glory of the nation.
I have detained you, fellow citizens,
beyond my intention, and will therefore
claim your indulgence lut a moment
longer for n personal allusion. I should
be guilty ol insincerity if I affected in
difference to the honor of the tru-t
your suffrages have confided to me. 1
ntn incapable of expressing my heart
felt sense of its value, of the strength of
my purpose to prove that it has not
been misplaced. So much, in brief, to
those to whom I directly owe ny elec
tion.
< >no word to my fellow citizens who
preferred and supported my honorable
competitors. It is worthy of a free peo
ple that they bear themselves with pro
priety nnd self-control, through the
contentions and excitements ot a gen
eral election. It is gratifying to my
self, and doubtless equally to all who
were actively engage! in the late can
vass, that there was so little manifesta
tion of bitterness. The greale debate
was conducted with calmness, as it was
also with earnestness. For the kind
ness and courtesy extended to me by
my political adversaries, I have to say
that if they had voted for me from the
samo sense of duty which gave their
ballots to my opponents, 1 could not be
more firtnlv resolved than I am, to be
impartial and faithful in discharging
the obligations 1 owe to them as chief
executive of tho commonwealth. My
political views and convictions will and
ought, unquestionably, to influence and
shape some of my official recommenda
tion* ; but in protecting the constitu
tional and legal rights of the citizen,
no party distinction can ever for one
moment be recognized.
In conclusion, fellow citizens, permit
me to remind you of the individual re
sjionsibility of each citizen, for the ng
gregate well-being of the community.
Each of us owes the highest measure of
fidelity to the justice, the power and the
right embodied in the state. Under
the peace and protection it secures, all
our traffic is prosecuted and all our
prosperity is shielded. Under it the
social principle is allowed *coj> to
found asylums, lodges, seminaries and
churches, and to perfect the common
wealth itself.
There can be no right citizenship
without an intelligent understanding of
tho principles which the government
organizes nnd of the ideas which it rep
resents. Each citixen should ho able
on his own information and not do
pending on any interested jobber or
meddler to tell when there is a depart
ure from rectitude, where a wrong ten
dency sets in, and where a peril con
fronts us. It is a cardinal principle un
derlying the political creeos of all self
gorflrning people which affirms each
citizen to be as fully responsible for the
welfare of the state as he is for his own
personal safety and happiness. Private
citizen and magistrate are equally under
this fundamental law of the republic.
As you have heard me bound by an
oath to obey the laws of the common
wealth, so have I, in turn, the correla
tive right to hear the voice of the thou
sands of freemen !n Pennsylvania pledg
ing themselves to obey the laws whicli
they themselves have made. No strength
of soldiery, no wealth of farms and fac
tories, of railroads and coals, no perfec
tion of government mechanism can
save a faithless people from perishing.
At the conclusion of the address the
senators and members then returned to
their respective chambers.
In the senate Lieutenant Governor
Lalta informed that body that the time
for administering the oath of office to
Charles W. Stone as lieutenant governor
had come.
Senator Ilerr moved that a committee
be appointed to bring Mr. Stone to the
aenate, which waa agreed to, and a com
mittee, of which Mr. ilerr waa chairman,
shortly afterwards appeared with the
lieutenant governor elect. Judge E.
M. I'axaon, of the aupreme court, then
administered the oath of office, and
Lieutenant Governor Stone waa con
ducted to the chair. In a few remarks
he said that eoming from the floor of
the senate be knew the requirements of
the high position to which he had been
called, alluded briefly to the mission of
the republican party, and expressed the
wish that hie relatione with the senators
: would be pleasant.
A salute of 100 guns waa flred by
the arsenal battery on capitol bill dur
ing the ceremonies.
. 'A ,
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Defending State flights.
THE VIRGINIA I.KUISLATt RE SETTINCI roRTII
ROME OLTSDOKEN RESOLUTIONS,
RICHMOND, January 18. —The Senate
Hjtecial Coniiuittew and the House Com
mittee on Ft-derul Relations, acting
jointly, to-day submitted n lengthy re
port and a series of resolutions in regard
to alleged usurpation of state right* by
Federal Judge Hive* of the We-itern
District of Virginia. The resolutions
declare :
First—That the constitution of the
United States is in as lull force und rigor
as when adopted and ratified.
Second—'l hat Virginia, in re-entering
the union after the civil war, resumed
all lier relations to the government on
perfect equality with every other state,
and is entitled to the same rights and
powers, and is bound by the same du
ties and obligations as each other state ;
and that her citizens are equal in every
respect under the constitution with ail
other citizens of the United States.
Third—That the United States can
only exercise the powers delegated to
thorn in the constitution. Within the
scope of these powers the government is
supreme ; beyond theui it has no exist
ence.
Fourth—That the preservation of the
states and the maintenance of their
governments are as much within the
design and care of the contitution a*
the preservation of the Union and
maintenance of the Federal Govern
ment, and separate and independent
autonomy of States is necessary to
the Union under the Constitution.
Fifth—That the essential and funda
mental right reserved by the people of
the -States is t, organize each State as a
separate and distinct political society,
to constitute therein such government
as best suits their will and pleasure, and
to change the same whenever their
convenience requires it, subject only to
the Constitution of the United -States
and laws and treaties mudo in pursuance
thereof.
Sixth—That the necessary and in
herent condition of this reserved right
of local self-government is the right
and duly of the State to protect life,
liberty, and properly within Iter juris
diction by law* of her own creation and
by olficers of her own selection.
Seventh—That the Constitution of
the United States grant* certain power*
and int|>o*cs consequent duties upon the
United States which they are bound to
execute and perform, and that the
rights reserved to the States int|*o*eon
them certain other function* and du
tic-s which they are equally bound to ex
••cute and perforin, and the United
States can no more rightfully interfere
witn ami attempt to execute the powers
and perform the functions of the States
than the States can thoe of the United
States, and any attempt by either to in
terfere with the rights of the other will
bo usurpation and unconstitutional and
void.
Eighth—That the United States have
only the right to prevent the exercise
by the States of |iwers prohibited to
them, by the Constitution, by pronounc
ing such forbidden action void through
the judicial power, but in no esse ran
the United States undertake to perform
any duty which it is incumbent upon
the State to perform.
Ninth—Thut therefore all act* of Con
gress, and particularly those known as
the Civil Bights bill and the Enforce
ment act, which attempt or profess to
attempt to provide for the |>erformanco
by the United States of duties and obli
gation* belonging to the Slates, ore un
constitutional and void.
Tenth—That, therefore, the action of
the Judge of the District Court of the
United States for the Western District
of Virginia, in assuming jurisdiction of
the raea of I.ec Reynold* and Iturwcll
Reynolds, parties charged with critne
Against the law* of the comnionwealth
and held to answer therefor, is an at
tempt to execute the law* of this com
mopwealth and to regulate her internal
|>olicy in the courts and by officers of
the United States, is unwarranted by
the Constitution, is destructive of the
rights of the i>eople of each State to
protect life, liberty, and property in
their own way, by their own courts and
officers, and ought at once to be rem
edied by proper judicial action, and any
recurrence of the same prevented by
appropriate legislation.
Eleventh—l hat proper provision by
law ought to bo made for the prompt
and effective supervision by the Su
preme Court of tho United Sutea of all
proceedings of the Judges of the infe
rior courts of the United States.
Twelfth—That the flovernor is in
structed to direct the Attorney-General
to institute proceedings in the name of
this commonwealth before the Supreme
Court of the United Slates, and demand
such protection and redress as that tri
bunal can afford in the premises.
Too Ulr Now,
"Mr. Ilayes," said Senator Conkling,
in his late attack upon the fraudulent
Administration in executive session,
••ha* shown this committee no consider
ation, and is entitled to none." Where
upon Mr. Wheeler, the legislative half
of the fraud, promptly called the New
York senator to order for omitting to
use the title of "the President." "1
am not out of order," re*|K>nded the
New York senator, "because when 1
speak of Mr. Hayes I am not speaking
of the President." This is inadmissable
and indecorous in Henator Conkling
for many reasons. It is perfectly prop
er for The I'ott to st>e*k of the acting
Executive as Mr. Ilayea, because we
have never scknowledged that he has
been fairly elected, and never by any
set of ours have contributed to his
successful usurpation. With Mr. Conk
ling the case is different. Mr. Ilayes
iis Au President, because, having the
|>ower to seal tha honest claimant, he
: refused to do so. More; it was his
sworn duty to see that Mr. Hayes wsa
! not seated, If, as he now declares, he
j believes he was not elected, and that
. sworn duty he deliberatly, either from
| cowardice or unworthy Interest, violet
; ed. For him, two years after the con
i summation of the fraud, to dispute a
j title which, when be might have pre
vented. he consented to, Ta not only in
decorous and unparliamentary, but base
to the lowest degree. There'is neither
money nor power enough to make The
I'oel recognize or acknowledge the fraud
ulent incumbent of Mr. Tilden's seat,
but it seerus that this proud senator
from Now York, who unpacks his heart
like u drab or a scullion when behind
the sure protection of an executive
session, always carefully harnesses up
his passion to his interest. There is
but mighty little to choose between the
fraudulent President and the senator
who contented to the fruud—Washing
ton Post.
Was Hubert W. Murkey Married I
CONTEST or IIIS M l 1.1, IIV ONE WHO CLAIMS
TO UR IIIS WIDOW—TWO CHILDREN.
[Prom the I'itUihtirg PHU.)
The public will no doubt be surprised
at the announcement that the will of
the late Kobert W. Mackey is to be con
tested and will certainly be greatly
startled U# learn that the contestant
claims to be the widow of the deceased
politician. Mr. Mackey was everywhere
believed to have died a bachelor, but
we have it from reliable authority that
there is now a lady in this city who
claims to have been married to him
some twenty years ago. The lady has
two children, the oldest a son aged
nineteen years and the younger a
daughter, whose age was not learned by
the reporter. The lad is pronounced
by those acquainted with Mr. Mackey to
be the exact image of the deceased jol
itician, the resemblance being so close
as to strike the ordinary observer at
first glance.
The reporter learned yesterday that
the woman has entrusted her ease to
Messrs. Hampton A Dzlzell. It was also
asserted that on Thursday last Mr.
Hampton called on Mr. Wilson Mc-
Candle**, cashier of the Allegheny Na
tional Hunk, who is an executor of the
Mackey estate, to notify him that the
will will be contested, ilr. I'alzell, the
rumor bos it. explicitly stated to Mr.
McCandless that the woman bos the
documents to prove beyond the shad
ow ofa doubt that she was lawfully wed
ded to Mr. Mackey and that her claim
for a dower is as strong as law and evi
dence can make any claim. The re
porter called on Mr. Dalzell yesterday
afternoon to learn the facts, but that
gentleman firmly though politely de
clined to say anything whatever About
the case. "I would gladly give you any
information,'" said Mr. Dalzell, "but 1
ain not at liberty to speak." Mr. Mc-
Candless, the executor, was also dili
gently sought, but that gentleman '
now in Philadelphia on business COL
necteil wiih the estate.
While searching about in other quar
ters for fuller information the reporter
met two different gentlemen, unknown
to each other, who bad heard that the
lady in question wo* the lawful widow
of Sir. Mackey. They both believe the
rejHirt to l>e true. They slated that the
intelligence came to them several weeks
ago shortly after Mr. Mackey'a death,
and that the rumor has been more or
It-* freely circulated on the streets for
several day* past. Mr. Mackey'a will
was made two years before bis death.
The document provides that the prop
erty and money shall be divided equally
among the deceased's three sister* and
one brother : Mr*. Oalway. Mr*. Brock
••tt. Mr*. McGregor and William It.
Mackey. Wilson McCandleas and Mr*.
Galaway are made executors. So defin
ite information has iieen obtained yet
about the value of Mr. Mackey'a prop
erty, though it is believed that it is
worth between $ 1 50,000 and $2110,000.
If the contestants establish the validity
of their claim they may obtain all this
wealth, the children two third* and the
widow one third, and they will at least
secure one-third
While the marriage of Mr. Macker
waa not kc.own, the claimant to his
property states that be freely called to
see her r.hile she lived in this city, and
also thr.t she lived in Philadelphia for a
time. The woman is at present resid
ing here. The reporter yesterday learned
her name, but could not locate her, so
that her story could not be obtained
further than tho few points we have
given. Whether there it anything in
the claim that the woman it the widow
of Mr. Mackey we can not state, but we
do have it on reliable authority that
Messrs. Hampton and Halted have
given Mr. McCandleaa the notice stated,
and also that the attorneys claim they
have a sure thing.
PiTTSBi ao, January 24.—The name of
the woman who claims to hare been
married to Hobert W. Mackey is Agnea
Murray. She lives in (lay alley, Alle
gheny City, which runs from the East
park to the diamond. Her father it a
tailor, who came from Scotland many
years ago. waa married to a soldier, who
was killed in the late war. She seems
now to be knows as "Miss Murray,"
apparently having dropped the names
of both her husbands. Her boy is said
to be 16 years of age and her daughter
two years younger, both of them attend
ing school and intelligent children.
Misa Murray and her family seem to
live comfortably, and are said to have
some property. The most intimate
friends of Mr. Mackey are quite positive
in their assertions that they do not be
lieve Mr. Mackey ever married any one.
They think they certainly would have
heard something of it if it were otherwise,
and they all express the opinion that
the counsel for the claimant have been
imposed upon.
Tnt result of the Blaine investigation
into the conduct of the Southern elec
tions is likely to prove a water haul.
Messrs. Garland and Bailey, the Demo
cratic members of the sub-oommiUee,
who have conducted the inquiry in
I,outsiana. according to a correspondent
of the New York HWrf, sum up the
evidence as follows: "The population
of looislkna ia between 800.000 and
900,000 people. The subcommittee
found that of this number leas than one
hundred persons committed acts of
cruelty ana violence in connection with
the elections. There are fifty-seven
parishes in the Slate, and outrages
which the minority of the committee
agree to be perfectly unjustifiable were
committed previous to and upon the
days of election in only three parishes—
Natchitechce, Point Coupee and Ten
sas. After the election one or two dit
tutbancee occurred in parishes where
the defeated candidates attempted to
obtain possession of the election returns.
In Tefsss parish events previous to tha
election led to mutual distrust on both
sides, and an insurrection was created'
The negroes and whites each armed
themselves, and two or tbreo murder*
were committed. The conservative ele
ment of both parties in the .State did
all hi its {tower to prevent these out
rages. The offending persons were law
less characters who for years post, under
carpet-bag rule, have been accustomed
to see the laws violated with impunity,
and might nverq-ower right with a ruth
less hand."— Philadelphia lUcvrd.
The Ntute Treasurer's Iteport.
The annual report of the .State Treas
urer shows an empty Treasury—a fact
wo stated last week. The preliminary
statement is:
1u1.i,., Tr-u.urj I*r. I, 1*77 JHjVItWXI
Total r.*H| I- lor joar , i,.1.1,4
No*. 00, I*7* „ 5.411,417.97
T "l r.lTi.eiiAl
Out of this during the same peiiod
has been paid $6,663,933,58, including
1d,068,103.4.1 for the loans redeemed.
There was in the Treasury on I>. rctu
ber I. I*7B, *1,021,631.26. all but $.70,-
4N1i,.;8 of which belonged to special ac
counts. The fifty thousand in the gen
eral account lias since been reduced,
'lhe public debt on December 1,1878,
was $21,686,200, having been reduced
during the fiscal year to the extent of
$1,068,193.46. To offset this are the as
sets of the sinking fund, amounting to
$8,604,899.86.
Treasurer Noye* make* some inter
esting explanations to show how the
revenue has fallen short. He say* :
A large number of countie* in the
State have contested the authority of
the Hoard ol Kovctiue Commissioners,
under act approved May 24, IH7H, to
change the amount of tax on i>ersonal
property a* returned by the Commit
siouers of the several counties, and
have, so far, been successful. This will
materially decrease the amount of rev
enue that would otherwise have been
received from that source. This ques
tion should, by projK-r legislation, be
settled, for as the law now stand* the
burden of taxation is unequally tome.
Hie question of the pay inetit of license
taxes by the county ol Allegheny is
still jtending in the Supreme Court.
I here has been paid during the present
year, claims on account of the riots of
duly, 1*77, $554,81 1.63, and I ant in
formerl by the Adjutant General that
the claims have almost all been settled
and paid. The receipt* of the Treas
ury for the year have fallen $1*9,882.03
lrelow the estimate of my predecessor
in office and the expenditure* have ex
ceeded the estimnte $261,9.(3.58.
Thp appropriations statement is a
particularly interesting. For what is
called the appropriation year, from
•'une ], 1878, to May 31, 1879, there
wero appropriated by the legislature
sums aggregating $6,595,841.66. and
there are undetermined appropiiation
be met within that time estimated at
enough more to bring the whole ac
count up to $7,502,472.*0. Some $130,-
000 of this w ill go over to future years,
leaving 87,072,472.60. <>f this, $1,025,.
556.3.1 has been paid, and $644,000
more is provided for by the revenues of
the sinking fund, leaving to be paid out
of the general fund, before the first of
, June, $3,40-1,006.27. To meet this, there
wo* in the general fund on Itecember,
$50,486.38, and it is estimated that the
general fund receipts will amount to
some $1,600,000 by the end of the ap
propriation year, which will leave a de
' licit of $1,752,519.89 on the thirty-first
of May, 1879.
The estimated revenue for the fiscal
year ending November, 30, 1879, is :
' Mr,kiss f<i .......
i Wersl futrd
T<**l U,±t*l,l*
The estimated expenditure* ore di
vided as follows:
sinking fans— ji.orofrio
Usnsrsl food ...... 4.<su.<io
T-ut ff Tl.m
It will thus be seen that the estimated
revenues for the general fund, for the
fiscal year ending the 30th of Novem
ber, 1*79, will fall short of meeting the
expenditures $697,000, if the appro
priations are kept within the estimatea.
The estimates of the sinking fund ex
penditure* were mode with the expec
tation that the legislature would pass
an act diverting from the sinking fund
to the genera] fund a part of the tax
on capital stock, as has been found
necessary for several years past.
It must be apparent to any that with
a deficit of $1,700,000 staring the
Treasurer in the face for the first of
June, and an excess of expenditure*
over receipta for the fiscal year of near
ly S7OO, something will have to bo done.
Ir would be a violent admonition to a
state for the Senate to remand Senator
Conkling back to New York with in
structions Uiat the state must obey its
own fundamental law in selecting its
legislature to insure representation in
the Senate; but it may sometime be
come a necessity to arrest this spirit of
partisan lawlessness that ia now toler
ated. The constitution of New York ia
mandatory that the Legislature shall
reapportion the state into Senatorial
and Representative districts at stated
periods, hut the Republicans of New
l'ork, under Mr. Oonkling's lead, have
refused to do so because e Itemocratic
Governor would not sanction a partisan
gerrymander such as now exists. In
i order to secore the legislature even
against a popular majority, the Itepub-
I licans have persistently refused to dis
trict the state as required by their
supreme law, and the logical result is
shown ia a Republican Legislature
I chosen at times when the Democrats
polled a decided popular majority.
True, Mr. Conkling would have can-tad
the Legislature last fall even with an
honest apportionment, as hi* party
elected its ticket by a large majority ;
but it is no excuse for the studied disre
gard of tha highest law that the result
would have been the same had the law
been obeyed. It would be measurable
St but by no means wise for the next
mocratie Senate to halt Mr.Conkling
at the door of the chamber and instruct
him to return to hi* state and have its
law* obeyed; but it would be well for
the senate to settle the question for the
fature, by declaring that Senators chosen
bv Legislature* which are elected In
Elain violation of the constitution and
ws of their states, will be refused
admission to the first legislative body of
tb nation.—Pfofa Ttmm,
The Prime** Marie.
rnx rcaiocs niMToar or iies un.
[trim LB Kmw T-rk Timm )
ihe death unounrml by ruble ytn
terdsy of the Prince** Marie of Licbten
stein recall* a rcry curious episode.
The lute and last Lord Holland died
leaving no issue by hi* wife, who sur
vives him, hut at hi* death there had
for sometime been domesticated in his
family a child known as Marie Fox.
lx>rd Holland, although for some year*
riot on particularly liapt.y term* with
hi* wife, left her at his death hi* whole
j fortune, including Holland House and
| Charles Fox's delightful retreat, Kt.
| Ann'* Hill, in Stlrrey, absolutely. The
j little girl Marie continued with I-ady
, Holland after ber husband'* death, and
j it came to be generally supjxiwd that
j *he would inherit most of the properly,
i Lady Holland, some twenty year* ago,
joined the communion of the Church of
Home, and the child was brought up in
the same laitli, and so it came to pa*
that the young Marquis of Bute, who,
almost immediately after quitting Ox
ford, joined the urne communion, was
very much at Holland House, and pres
, ently was credited with a desire of
! making Lady Holland's very attractive
protege a Marchioness. There is good
leason to suppose that he did at one
time fceiioudy entertain this intention,
hut found an insurmountable obstacle
j in the refusal of Lady Holland to give
j him any precise and satisfactory infor
. mation as to th" parentage of hi* pro
posed bride. Meanwhile, Miss Fox
! was presented at court, and it was
. averred that t*-fore the presentation
j took place Lady Holland had in strict
confidence informed the Queen all
about her. Shortly after. Lady Holland
gave publicity to a statement that Miss
j Fox was the daughter of the Marquis
de Montague, a French nobleman of
lofty lineage, whose wife had died in
; giving birth to this child, and that in
consequence the Marquis could not en
endure ever to see her face. This ac
count was more or leas accented, though
it occasioned great astonishment, until
there apj>earc-d a letter in the London
<Sttuu/arif from the Marquis, dated from
France, in which he utterly and entirely
repudiated, in vigorous term*, the whole
story. On learning this. Lady Holland
burst into tears, and said she had been
deceived. From that time no one has
ever heard more about the matter, and
a few years ago a husband was found
for the young lady in the person of a
semi-royal German Prince, who, in view
of the personal attractions and large dot
of his wife, was content to ask no oo*i
tion. but to rest and be thankful. Lord
Holland left one sister, Ijsdy Lilford,
who has several sons, but they are not
usually regarded as being "in the run
ning" for their late uncle's property.
The elder branch of the Fox family is
still represented in the male line by the
Karl of Ilchcster. His ancestor and
I/ord Holland's were descended from
the second wife of the celebrated Sir
Stephen Fox (who rose from the ranks,
and dies!, at the ago of I*9, in 1716), and
were born when their father was over 77.
Pen Portrait of Pennsylvania's Favorite
Son.
[ Fro* lb# Cblcftgn Trii-ilß* ]
Senator lon Cameron's personal ap
jtea ranee it more remarkable than hu
mental characteristics. He it five feet
eleven inches in higbt, but looks to be
an inch or two taller. He is a* straight
as one of Cooper's Indians and poetic
ally slim. His step is firm and quick-
His features are Scotch, florid and well
developed. His hair and moustache arc
' the color of a fox-squirrel. He is in love
with his moustache, which he triea hard
to domesticate or civilise, but the ob
durate appendage will not respond to
hi* affectionate caresses, and grows up
and down and crosswise, very like the
hair on a cat's back when it is absorbing
wrath for a battle on the roof. But, as
it it a very good moustache of the kind,
no one has a right to criticise it; besides,
it has nothing to do with his brains.
He is a silent man. He never made a
speech in bis life—we were going to say
he never will, but look at General
Grant since he went to Europe ! That
Ihi'olin speech astonishes two continents.
But it is safe to aay that Hon Cameron
will never surpass the ex President in
the graces and profounditiea of oratory.
He seldom smiles. In this he resembles
Napoleon. At his marriage in Cleve
land a few months ago, he was provoked
to a mild sort of laughter, which in
duced a friend to ask nim if he was ill.
He has not attempted to laugh since.
General Jackson and the Frenchman,
(VleW Ul W ill*ftoB a*T|'.j
On the morning of the fith, just be
fore the commencement of the fighting,
as Gen. Jackson was surveying the line
of battle, a wealthy French merchant of
New Orleans drove up to the line and
requested an interview with the Gen
eral. <>n reaching his pretence Jackson
demanded of the Frenchman the object
of his visit.
"I come," said he, "to demand of you
the return to the city df my cotton
which you have taken to make your
breastworks'*
"Ah," said Old Hickory, "can you
point out the mrticular bales that'are
your property ?"
"Oui, Monsieur, certainemeot, sat is
my ootton and tat is my cotton," point
ing to many bales in the near vicinity.
"Well," said Old Hickory, "if that is
your property you have just come in
time to protect and defend it," and
calling to a Corporal he ordered him to
bring a spare musket, and, giving it to
the Frenchmen, be told him to stand
and defend bis property. At the same
time be gave the Corporal an order to
shoot the fellow down if he attempted
to run. There is no doubt but that the
Frenchman was glad that the cotton
was there to screen hint from the Brit
ish bullet*.
Font Congressmen have died since
the opening of the session on the first
of December last, vis i Alpheus 8. Wil
liam*, of Michigan ; Beverly B, Doug
las*. of Virginia; Julian llartridgc, of
Georgia—all representing the first die
trie! in tMI respective State*—and
GuMave Schleicher, representing the
Sixth district of Texas. They were all
Itemoersts, and among the ablest men
rf their party in the iopular branch of
voofren, *